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We are pleased to announce the arrival of our new Community Projects Coordinator, Katryna Lipinsky. Katryna recently graduated with honours from the Environmental Design program at the University of Manitoba and is a former summer student over at Artbeat Studio. Come by to Studio Central to say “Hi”, and introduce yourself to the lovely Katryna!
The opening reception for “Absolute Abstract”, recent works by Alumni Michael Turner, is happening tonight at the Artbeat Studio Gallery from 5-9pm. The show runs until May 20th, 2016.
“Breaking Barriers”, a photography exhibition on immigrant and refugee perceptions on mental health is still on at Studio Central. But hurry, the exhibit runs until May 13th.
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Green Baby Marrow
Quick growing staple with a hundred and ten uses, green baby marrows can be picked young or left to mature.
Baby marrow is a real space saver due to the bush like nature of the plants.
Approximately 12 seeds
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Raven Child and the Snow-Witch Paperback
Illustrated by Daniel Egneus
Anya lives with her mother and father in the shadow of the icy glacier where the Snow-Witch reigns.
Every spring, Anya's mother journeys to the glacier to pick the blue gentian flowers that grow there.
But this time, she does not return. She has been captured by the Snow-Witch and imprisoned in the ice. Anya and her father set off with the ravens to rescue her.
It's a treacherous journey, and there is no knowing what they will find; but the strength of Anya's love conquers all; the Snow-Witch is defeated and Anya's mother is saved. Linda Sunderland recently gained an MA in Creative Writing (Contemporary Poetry).
Raven Child and the Snow-Witch is her first picture book. Daniel is a hugely talented illustrator and has published many books including The Little Red Riding Hood for Harper Collins, New York.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 48 pages
- Publisher: Templar Publishing
- Publication Date: 06/10/2016
- Category: Picture books: character books
- ISBN: 9781783704194
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If history recalls John Paye as a political leader who prepped as an NFL quarterback like Jack Kemp, you will have read it here first, in Plastic Alto, the blog with 500,000 words but no readers.
Towards the end of my 55 minute jaw session with the former Menlo School and Stanford two-sport star — and a 49ers Super Bowl ring holder — I asked in a type of push-poll whether he had been approached yet about taking a run at Rich Gordon’s assembly seat. He said no. I said that it would take someone more in the know and more persuasive to get him to run, Democrat, Republican or Independent, but then later my mind was reeling about what might happen, and maybe he could take Anna Eshoo’s seat as well.
The local press speculated about which local hacks might be eying the job, with Gordon terming out. I am eyeing the job. I told John, who I first met when we were junior players at Dick DiBiaso’s Stanford basketball camp in 1978, that it would be an unusual leap if I got elected to State Assembly after losing in my three runs for Palo Alto City Council.
Minutes prior, and this was after 40 minutes of general old guy jawing and war stories and just a handful or less of actual journalistic questions — “is it ‘Ann a, n, n’ or ‘Anne with an e’?” — I also posed:
‘If president of stanford or athletic direct comes to you and says ‘David Shaw is going to the NFL, we think you are the best guy to lead our program — as head football coach at Stanford’ what would you do?”
He laughed and said he is content enough being a family man, running his business (Payes Place the San Carlos-based), coaching the Menlo High School girls varsity and one of his children’s teams to take on that much more responsibility as a football coach at a Division 1 (and sometime BCS) level.
“My sister Kate is assistant coach to Tara Vanderveer” he offered, as a consolation for we Paye-watchers and Paye-followers of the old school.
In the here and now my interview yielded something of a timely scoop: John Paye and Sarah Harbaugh (wife of a former Big Ten quarterback I forget his full name) are producing a benefit event, a fashion show, at Rosewood Hotel, April, 2015 called “Out of Anne’s Closet”. The first time event will honor Anne Paye, the former Foothill College teacher and administrator who died in 2012, John’s mother. Sarah Harbaugh had a brother who died of colon cancer, what felled Mrs. Paye, and the two decided to Do Something (in the Andrew Shue sense) to rectify that, so to speak.
I have to admit that the recent scuttlebutt about Jim Harbaugh (Sarah Harbaugh’s husband) and whether he is in or or out of pro football, and in or out of NCAA coaching, is what catalyzed my calling out Paye. Former athletes and fans of my generation think of Harbaugh or Paye as akin to baseball in the 1950s New York: Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays? It’s not a perfect analogy but you get the idea (and that would make my classmate Chris Strausser Duke Snider; Strausser was second team all-league for the 1981 Gunn Titans and is still in the game, most recently as an offensive assistant coach for the Washington Huskies).
Tonight is actually a big night for Paye in that his girls play crosstown rival Menlo-Atherton at 6 p.m. at the Menlo School “new gym”. There is a 4:30 frosh-soph boys game and a 7:30 varsity boys game — six games in all, with four run simultaneous and cross-court — although I may try to also zip down to Saratoga to watch my 4-1 Titans boys play Prospect in the finals of their tournament, John Reid not Paye of the Daily News tipped me to, or his coverage did.
John Paye mentioned three or four other local prospects that hoops fanatics might start tracking, high praise indeed. He also mentioned that he was in Los Angeles yesterday to see USC ladies featuring his former player Edelman versus an LMU team featuring the daughter of a Stanford football mate. It being Hannukah he added the detail that Edelman was the MVP of the Maccabai games and therefore the worlds greatest hoops Jewess.
I countered that I was briefly the top Jew in the Gunn cager crowd, succeeding Matt Fisk, but that Dave Feldman was probably, even as a Paly ’83 to my Gunn ’82 the all Palo Alto Dolph Schayes of the day. John Paye checked his watch and begged to tap out verbal-wise before I could add another war story about my teammate Kent Lockhart, the eventual Don Haskins protogee, who also coached Andrew Bogut down under, while acting as an official frosh-soph summer league coach chewing me oat for not kneecapping Feldy the fourth time time down the floor, or something.
That was 1980, although it feels like ten minutes ago.
I will try to get some actual work done, or do my laundry, in the five hours of real life until the multi-tip-offs.
Good luck to Coach Paye and his charges. Think about that State Assembly seat. Carpe diem, dude.
edit to add, about a month later, only 30 readers have seen this and I have posted another 100 items and stories: I am meaning to finish the next part of this, organizing my notes, posting photos I took that day, maybe seeing another game and talking to John post match. For now here is the rest of my notes, or copies of my notes:
More John Paye notes
(melinda gates?, someone he knows went to same high school as Doug Wall)
burns numbers Jim Har, Kent Lock, Brian Dib
Stanford basketball HOF
Stanford football HOF
Elway, Andre Tyler, Turk Schoenert (people he watched work out, or worked out with, as kid, his Dad would take him to see)
San Diego Superstars Camp
Harold Pressley, Villanova basketball
Reggie Rogers, U.Wash 2 sports, Cleveland Browns
Dave Davies of Santa Clara offered him hoops scholarship after junior year, or summer before junior year, and did not realize a) John was only a junior and b, he was also a football athlete
(Brian Wachhurst, SF music promoter)
Stanford coaches he knew, from summer camps: Dowhower, Christiansen, Nolan, Walsh, “Folonell”???, Wiggins?
somebody who was a star and went to DePaul
Ricky Lewis Silver Creek, point guard , injured shoulder
i played the Big Game on a Saturday, and Sunday I played basketball
John was 2 and 2 in the Big Game
4 Shoulder surgeries,
Rob Nen injury, dead arm
No NFL statistics, only pre-season, but earned a ring in 1988 as backup to Montana and Young
half-brother Josiah Paye, a jr at Stanford, has a Rose Bowl ring
Kate Paye, sister has an NCAA championship ring
his step-father, married to his Mom had an NFL championship ring
as a quarterback??
Tony Fenwick’s nephew is tall, (6’8) star for Sequioa, something about Tony’s sister being object of attention of Barry Bonds back in high school. Bene? (I actually have a screen capture of him, Tony Fenwick’s nephew from Channel 36 sports prep show — Tony played football and hoops with John at Menlo and I met him first at basketball camp then at Dartmouth,where he did crew)
Nichsboro, Jake or Jill?
Inside Anne’s closet
colon cancer “screening” or prevention?
April 25, 2015 at Rosewood on Sand Hill
Anne (John’s mother, the former long-time, 30-year?, teacher and admin at Foothill, died 2012?)
xhse thifalke g;htarwl;as (deleted part, off the record)
My parents were always there for me; I want to be their for my kids, and that’s my priority these days, for now. At least until I’m an empty nest-er.
Hannah Paye is a Junior at Menlo
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The Charlotte Independence were able to defeat Toronto FC II on Saturday night at the Matthews Sportsplex by a score of 2-1. This was the second meeting of the two clubs this season and the Jacks were able to capitalize in both matches.
The game was originally schedule to be played in Toronto, however, due to problematic field conditions the contest was switched to Matthews. The win gives the Jacks a 4-3-2 record putting them in sixth place in the 16 team Eastern Conference with 14 points.
The Jacks applied pressure early in the first half, but were not able to strike first until the 28th minute when the ageless Jorge Herrera scored his fifth goal of the season on a penalty kick for a 1-0 advantage. The first half ended with Independence in comfortable position in control of the game and setting the tempo of the match with time of possession.
In the second half the Jacks applied offensive pressure upon their opponent from the start. Suddenly all the hard work paid off at the 49th minute, rookie midfielder Mutaya Mwape found Eamon Zayed open holding his position by the net who promptly smacked a back-post header past the goalkeeper for the score, giving the Jacks a 2-0 lead. This was the rookies first professional assist of his young career.
With injuries to Cordell Cato, Caleb Calvert, and Bilal Duckett the Jacks had to turn to their youth to step up and they played exceptionally well to fill the gaps, especially defensemen Sam Vines who plays an attacking style. However, after the second goal Toronto started substituting and became desperate to score by applying more offensive pressure pushing the ball downfield. During this 17 minute period the visitors finally broke through with a goal at the 66th minute by Jordan Faria with 24 minutes remaining in regulation.
After the game Head Coach Mike Jeffries was pleased with the win and the 3 points, however, he expressed displeasure on how the team managed the game in the second half after Zayed’s goal, and not finishing strongly. “I thought we had some good opportunities to score a third goal and were not able to get it done,” said Jeffries.
However, coach had positive remarks about rookie Jake Areman who has been used as a consistent substitute this season. “Jake has entered a lot of games and done well for us, his work rate was excellent to close the game out, he won a few balls, kept possession pretty well for us,” said Jeffries.
The Independence begins a four game road trip next weekend in Richmond against the Kickers who currently are in eleventh place with 10 points. The team will then travel to Ottawa, New York and Atlanta before returning home to the Matthews Sportsplex on June 16th to take on the Charleston Battery. | <urn:uuid:c2aa7219-b6ab-4e40-94ca-c7a5f4a89558> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://www.weeklypostnc.com/sports/charlotte-independence-soar-past-toronoto-with-2-1-victory/ | 2021-04-12T15:07:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038067870.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20210412144351-20210412174351-00444.warc.gz | en | 0.983488 | 575 |
Parliamentary body hears opinion clash over protective gear procurement
Ljubljana, 7 July - The parliamentary Public Finance Oversight Commission discussed on Tuesday alleged corruption in the procurement of 22 million protective masks from the company Hmezad. The MPs of the three opposition parties which had requested the session, were critical, while government officials denied any wrongdoing.
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Katherine E. Jones, B.A. J.D.
Kate is a lawyer with a practice focused on various areas of property law including real estate, wills and succession planning, estate administration and corporate/commercial transactions. Kate also has a sub-practice in civil litigation focused on property law issues including estate litigation and real property disputes. Kate has appeared in multiple levels of Court in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Kate’s two areas of practice allow her to assist her clients in a holistic manner. Kate believes that remaining current and active in civil litigation allows her to help her real estate, estate planning and corporate clients by giving her the knowledge and experience to anticipate possible problems that may result in litigation down the road and reduce or remove them ahead of time.
Kate received her Juris Doctor (Law Degree) from the University of Saskatchewan in 2010. She decided to return to her home province, British Columbia, to complete her articles and was called to the bar and became a practising member of the Law Society of British Columbia in May 2012. In November 2012, Kate began working in Brandon and was called to the bar and became a practising member of the Law Society of Manitoba. Kate joined Paterson Patterson Wyman & Abel as an associate in February 2014.
Kate believes in being an active member of her community. Kate is the current President of the Western Manitoba Bar Association, a Board Member of the Brandon Women’s Resource Centre, a member of the Canadian Bar Association, a non-practising member of the Law Society of British Columbia and a practising member of the Law Society of Manitoba. Kate also plays outdoor soccer in Brandon as a member of the Westman Women’s Senior Soccer League and softball in Boissevain as a member of that Ladies Softball League.
Kate resides in Killarney with her partner Dawson. During breaks from work, Kate enjoys travelling back to British Columbia to visit her family.
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• Insurance • Trusts and Fiduciary Obligations
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Pokémon Go Deniliquin
Pokémon Go Deniliquin is steady on 179 members and has no new posts since November 24.
Pokémon Shuffle News
Past and present locals are still making progress on Pokémon Shuffle though it is getting harder to get somewhere.
As you know our two regular gamers Boony and Tiggy are racing each other on the mobile version of the game but have stalled in recent weeks with Boony up to Stage 192 and Tiggy has slowly moved up to Stage 214 and we will continue to follow the race as it progresses.
Stage 214 has the Psychic Pokemon Mime Jr as the challenge whilst Stage 192 has the Normal Pokemon Lickilicky.
Boony still has a narrow lead on Tiggy when it comes to totals of Pokemon caught with Boony boasting a total of 198 Pokemon to Tiggy’s total of 197 and it will be interesting to see who gets to 200 first.
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|BANDď MATAJ█Rď I|
Line number: SHODAI (I)
1695: he goes to Edo to perform at the Moritaza, where he takes the name of Uemura Sagenta (relation to the Uemura clan unknown).
1st lunar month of 1700: he becomes tachiyaku, most likely disciple of Band˘ Matakur˘ II, and takes the name of Band˘ Sawaemon at the Moritaza, playing the role of Hachiman Tar˘ in the new year drama "Kagemasa Ikazuchi Mond˘".
Fall 1705: Sawaemon goes to Ky˘to.
11th lunar month of 1705: Band˘ Sawaemon takes the name of Band˘ Matajűr˘ I in Ky˘to at Miyako Mandayű's theater.
Fall 1706: Matajűr˘ goes to ďsaka.
Fall 1715: Matajűr˘ goes to Ky˘to.
11th lunar month of 1717: Matajűr˘ plays the role of ďtomo no Kuronushi in Sakakiyama Kansuke I's kaomise drama "ďmu Gaeshi Momotose Gitsune", which is produced by Sakakiyama Shirotar˘ I at Hayagumo Ch˘dayű's theater; his stage partners are Shibazaki Rinzaemon I, Kirinami Takie, Yamada Jinpachi, Band˘ Hikosabur˘ I, Sawamura Otoemon I, Sakakiyama Koshir˘ I, Katayama Kozaemon, Matsushima Moheiji and Onoe Samon.
Fall 1721: Matajűr˘ goes to ďsaka.
11th lunar month of 1722: Matajűr˘ plays at the ďnishi no Shibai the role of Kumagushi D˘kan in the kaomise drama "Genji Moy˘ Ichimai Gushi", which is produced by Yamatoyama Jinzaemon II (who celebrates his shűmei).
Fall 1728: Matajűr˘ goes to Ky˘to.
Fall 1730: Matajűr˘ goes to Edo.
1st lunar month of 1734: Matajűr˘ plays at the Moritaza the role of Kajiwara in the new year drama "Harukoma Kan˘ Soga"; this is his last-recorded stage performance. We don't know what happens to him afterwards. His last ranking in the Edo hy˘banki, katakiyaku section, is j˘-(shiro)j˘.
Band˘ Matajűr˘ I was a versatile actor, who was active in Kamigata and Edo from the beginning of the 1690s to the middle of the 1730s. He was trained as an onnagata but switched to male roles in 1700 and performed either as a tachiyaku, katakiyaku or jitsuaku.
The Band˘ Matajűr˘ line of actors
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Nowadays most couples strive to have immaculate wedding photos that magically symbolize their love which was commemorated on that big day. It is only logical to want to have great photos, but the trick behind having perfect photos is far from easy. Judging by the fact that you will already be overwhelmed with the ceremony and reception itself, it will be utterly hard to pose for hours and follow your photographer to remote locations to get idyllic photos you desire. Luckily, there are a few rather nifty tips you can try to help you ease your worries and splendid results you are after.
Wedding Photography Tips (How To Look Good)
Do copycat poses
Search the internet, go through wedding magazines, or simply look at some celebrity wedding photos and try to mimic their poses. That’s right! Do the traditional copycat routine where you would (if necessary) spend hours posing in front of the mirror with your fiancée trying to look gorgeous. It is perfectly okay to practice celebrity poses and use some other people’s wedding photography ideas to have dazzling photos.
Strive to look flawless
One of the secrets to looking perfect on your wedding photos is to be satisfied the way you look. This means choosing the right wedding dress, doing up your hair to suit your gown, having sensational make-up, your nails manicured, and wearing your birthstone gem. Unique jewelry you own like the precious moonstone gem can make you shine more and look spotless on the photos. Discover all the details about it and ensure that the photographer takes the photo of your beautiful ring.
Get matching outfits
Matching outfits has become trendy nowadays, and they even make great concepts for a wedding photoshoot! Consider getting personalized satin robes for your bridesmaids. Not only do they look great in photos, but they’re also very practical. Your bridesmaids can wear the satin robes while having their hair and makeup done, and they can also take the robes home as a lovely souvenir. Even after the wedding, you have your personalized satin robes as a mark of your sisterhood.
Spontaneity is what distinguishes couples form one another and by being your real “self”, the photographer can capture amazing photos of your mutual love. Sometimes standing stiff and trying to follow some tedious procedure and unrealistic poses can be extremely daunting and the end result may be disappointing. Let the photographer take photos of you simply walking, holding hands, and talking to each other. Be natural, be yourself, and even step out of your comfort zone, and you will get five mesmerizing photos out of five hundred basic ones.
Select the ideal location
For a fabulous photo session, you should choose a spot where you both feel comfortable and which reflects the love you are feeling towards one another. For some that are a local pub, your backyard, family’s farmhouse, riverbank, or a city park. The environment and the location play a vital role in the portrait photo, so do your homework and choose some great locations with your photographer in advance for the portrait session.
Laugh out loud
A bride and a groom should never forget to smile, however faking a smile to get a good photo is a big no-no. Let’s face it, flake smiles are not flattering, plus if you don’t relax your face you won’t be able to avoid double chin and then you’ll have an even bigger problem. Loosen up, joke around and literally laugh your heart out and even smile with your eyes. The photographer will able to capture your real natural laugh when you have fun and ease up the tension.
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Welfare for the Rich
Never before in US history has such blatant criminal behavior been rewarded as it will be when the Bail-Out comes to pass. Bernake a Bush lackey has given Congress an ultimatum of sorts with tales of a grim financial future if Congress did not approve this latest act of extortion, the Bail-Out. King George was a very shrewd and manipulative task master as he led America down the path of financial ruin and you ask why.
From the very start GW has calculated every move that eventually bankrupted the nation. His callous and wrongful act of terrorism in Iraq has filled the coffers of his cronies ever since this war began while America was asleep at the wheel. Bush lied about the war, weapons of mass destruction and ignored the real cause of high fuel prices, the Enron Loophole that allowed for speculators to artificially raise the cost of fuel. It is funny how everyone forgot that tidbit of information already. The presidency has become nothing more than “The Liars Club” and all the new candidates are simply new liars.
So now John Q. Citizen will foot the bill for millionaires who’ve stolen billions from the American people already. Does not matter what kind of noble speeches all these criminal politicians make fore it is the corporate bottom line that will matter most of all. We will pay and pay dearly for generations while the mismanagers of the corporate world count their chips. “Crime does pay in America” will be the message we send out to the many budding democracies around the world. By our example leaders will follow suite and bankrupt their nations as well because it’s OK to lie to the public and it’s OK to steal from the public coffers. Thailand is already in a stalemate over Western Style Democracy and True Democracy. It is obvious Western Style Democracy is not actually Democracy but Corporatism in disguise.
Democracy does not exist in America as the founding fathers knew it. Though we claim to be free truly we are not fore we must pay just to sit under a tree. America was up for sale and no one had a clue as the architects of the New World Order sabotaged world economies and destroyed sovereignty in the free world. The current economical blocks around the world will soon blend into one as well. Already the main stream media is rallying for this One World Economy. The muse is that this will save the world from a recession. Hello McFly! We’ve been in recession for a long time now.
With millions of American jobs shipped over seas as well as Industries seeking environmental and labor law relief, there are few Americans who can afford homes. So who is going to benefit from this so-called Bail-Out? That’s a no brainer fore only the people who already have the money will benefit from the Bail-Out and they are the absolute minority. A select group of people and industries will reap the vast majority of the monies. John Q will be left in the dust while the rich get richer. All the eloquent speeches in the world will not cure the real suffering American’s will feel in the very near future. With both the Democratic and Republican leadership well into the pockets of the New World Order Americans have already lost and lost big time to corporate greed. In reality, it’s all over with, we lost and Fascist Corporatism won.
The American public has been duped and swindled in the most elaborate pyramid scheme in US history and it’s not done by a long shot. George will resort to starting another war if needed to distract the American public while the last remnant of the Constitution is obliterated. Welcome to the New World Order. The next round of handlers will undoubtedly enjoy GW’s executive orders giving them domestic and world wide power to do as they see fit. In all reality the lip service we hear from politicians who appear to be champions for the little guy are gleaning a handsome profit from the corrupt regime they claim to be fighting. They will say all the right stuff and endear the public with home spin ideologies and hope for America while pocketing the profits of corruption. How special. It’s a done deal eh, it’s part of the Earth Changes and there is no turning back.
Eventually there will be legislation restricting the flow of information. The reason will be for Homeland Security reasons. Journalists will be arrested for speaking against the state and the internet will be severely restricted. Civil liberties will have a price and the remaining journalists who are not tucked away on some island will become puppets of the state and part of the double speak multi-media propaganda machine. George Orwell was on target with his book 1984. Ronald Reagan was elected in 1984 and he planted the seeds of totalitarianism then began his assault on the poor. Don’t forget that it was Ronnie Ray-Gun who single-handedly destroyed Social Security. He also sent troops to Berkley to silence students of democracy or do you remember? Now his garden of corruption has blossomed into the New World Order. Ah but who is paying attention anyway? We will reap what we sow.
From an Indigenous point of view, it’s the same ole, same ole. The only difference is lines at the Food Stamp office will be much, much longer.
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EUROPEAN leaders should take adequate action to solve the euro-zone crisis to prevent its "relentless" spiral from becoming a larger threat to emerging markets and global economic stability, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said in an interview on Friday.
SA should not be "paralysed" by the crisis and should focus on promoting growth in a "bolder and more creative" way, he said.
There was real concern that the effect of the crisis on capital flows to emerging economies such as SA could become a destabilising phenomenon, he said.
He spoke as fear worsened that an untidy Geek exit from the euro zone would have far wider global implications, and as the Institute of International Finance said the cost of a Greek exit would be unmanageable and probably exceed its previous estimate of almost $1,3-trillion.
Separately, the co-CEO designate of Deutsche Bank, Juergen Fitschen, described Greece as a "failed state" on Friday while some of Europe's biggest fund managers have begun dumping euro assets owing to fear of a Greek exit.
Mr Gordhan said the crisis affected trade and the stability of the financial sector, currencies and capital markets of emerging-market economies.
In particular, he said, the effect on capital flows was a "real area of concern and at this stage no global institution has come with an adequate answer on how the impact on volatile currencies and capital flows can be better managed. This is a scary area that justifiably calls for urgent attention (and) it is a potentially destabilising phenomenon for emerging market (economies) such as SA," Mr Gordhan said.
Investec economist Annabel Bishop said the rand's recent weakness could be attributed to uncertainty about Europe.
"The concern lies around how markets would react (to a Greek exit and) clearly the imperative is a well-managed exit to avoid sovereign debt contagion," Ms Bishop said.
First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan said there would be "zero direct impact" on SA's banks as they were not exposed to Greek banks or bonds, and Nedbank CEO Mike Brown said the banking sector would survive as it did the last crisis.
"Any potential impact will be indirect - that is, if the Greek exit were to result in lower European GDP growth it would affect South African exports, especially if the euro weakens. However, this may be offset by the weaker rand," Mr Jordaan said.
Mr Gordhan said European institutions and leaders should not "fall behind the curve" as they had done previously to delay solving the crisis.
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I read an article in the last month that really rubbed me raw, it was this one:
Why you should never use MongoDB
Why does it bother me so much? Mostly because it’s bullshit, but I also feel that NoSQL solutions (and MongoDB specifically) are getting an undue bad reputation due to “MongoDB/NoSQL is bad” articles making great link-bait. Even more than that, people present themselves as experts when in reality they just make extremely broad claims about a lack of suitability without properly defining what their REAL needs are that make a technology so poor.
Why do I say that? Well this quote makes the point really well (emphasis mine):
Well, that’s the million dollar question. But I’ve already answered the billion-dollar question. In this post I’ve talked about how we used MongoDB vs. how it was designed to be used. I’ve talked about it as though all that information were obvious, and the Diaspora team just failed to research adequately before choosing.Is it really the fault of the database that a team didn’t research a solution they implemented first? I don’t think so. Especially when the crux of their problem was the fact that no one thought of how to model relationships within a document database before even beginning.
But this stuff wasn’t obvious at all. The MongoDB docs tell you what it’s good at, without emphasizing what it’s not good at. That’s natural. All projects do that. But as a result, it took us about six months, a lot of user complaints, and a lot of investigation to figure out that we were using MongoDB the wrong way.
Modelling relationships within MongoDB actually isn’t that hard, there’s a few options available and even I’ve been able to write about them before. The problem is that the team didn’t want to bake this part into the code (understandable, but that’s another unstated project need that isn’t a fault of NoSQL) and maintain in light of their familiarity with a traditional SQL backend. Again, that’s a personal choice based on project needs, not a major failing in a database backend.
So let’s look at the real needs again:
- Needs to be a solution that integrates with some type of ORM for database interaction so relational joining is not in application code
- Not duplicating data in the database (because hard disk space is precious? because it’s 1999 again?)
- Needs to be familiar enough that team members have prior experience in optimization and usage
The real lesson is that you should never decide on which technologies a new project will use without discussing your possible needs beforehand. This goes not only for new technologies, but also continuing to use existing technologies. Just like NoSQL isn’t for everything, neither is SQL. It’s just that either one can be forced to work as a solution and be painful to work with for the entire project lifespan.
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Australia’s leading science agency, CSIRO, apologized to the nation for not being able to fulfill a seven-year-old girl’s dream of getting a pet dragon for Christmas, and promised to accelerate their dragon R&D program.
In a handwritten letter to the agency, little Sophie Lester from Queensland said the dragon should have a black face, possibly referring to Night Fury from DreamWork’s animated film How to Train Your Dragon, and that she would name it Toothless if a girl and Stuart if a boy.
“I would keep it in my special green grass area where there are lots of space. I would feed it raw fish and I would put a collar on it. If it got hurt I would bandage it if it hurt himself,” young Sophie wrote.
Rather than ignoring the impossible request, CSIRO offered a classy reply on their website. It starts off with a short list of proud achievements before moving on to saying they are sorry they haven’t been able to create a dragon or dragon egg.
“We’ve been doing science since 1926 and we’re quite proud of what we have achieved. We’ve put polymer banknotes in your wallet, insect repellent on your limbs and Wi-Fi in your devices. But we’ve missed something. There are no dragons,” Vanessa Hill wrote on behalf of CSIRO.
“Over the past 87 odd years we have not been able to create a dragon or dragon eggs. We have sighted an eastern bearded dragon at one of our telescopes, observed dragonflies and even measured body temperatures of the mallee dragon. But our work has never ventured into dragons of the mythical, fire breathing variety.”
Over at the Lester household, Sophie’s parents were surprised and delighted with the unexpected response and the attention it’s been getting, not only in Australia, but also globally thanks to the Internet.
Mrs. Lester said Sophie was overjoyed with the feedback from CSIRO and has been telling everyone that dragon breath can be a new fuel.
“All her friends are now saying they want to be a scientist and Sophie says she now want to work in the CSIRO. She’s saying Australian scientists can do anything,” she said.
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New emergency communication system launched
Aug. 3, 2010
KALAMAZOO--Registration has been launched for a new Western Michigan University emergency communication system that is designed to place thousands of phone calls to students, faculty and staff within minutes after an extreme campus emergency has been identified.
WMU Alert, part of a Reverse 911 phone system purchased by the University, was formally activated yesterday and had more than 1,000 people register during the first day it was available. Any member of the campus community can register a phone number to receive notification of emergency situations. The registered phone number may be a cell, office or home phone number--the number of any phone at which the person registering is most likely to be found.
If an extreme emergency is identified, the system's mass call option will be activated, sending voice messages to all numbers registered to receive them. The system is capable of making approximately 4,000 calls per minute. Text messaging is not part of the system because text messaging has a lower delivery priority and is not considered appropriate for the extreme emergencies for which WMU Alert is designed.
To register for WMU Alert, members of the campus community should sign in to the GoWMU portal and click on the WMU Alert icon found at the top of the main page. The voluntary registration is only for the emergency call system, and phone numbers registered will not be used by the University for any other purpose.
"We're asking everybody to register their phone numbers, but except for periodic testing of the system, we don't want to ever actually use those numbers," says Lowell Rinker, vice president for business and finance. "We feel this is an important addition to our emergency notification capabilities, but it will only work if those who register know a call that comes to them through this system is urgent and requires their immediate attention."
Calls received through WMU Alert will reflect a caller ID number of (269) 387-0911.
A small number of administrators and public safety officials are authorized to activate the system. Messages can be quickly tailored to suit any emergency, but several pre-recorded messages are also in place to provide clear, concise notification covering several possible situations. The phone messages will offer immediate directions for responding to the emergency identified. In most cases, recipients will be asked to go to the University's home page or the WMU Hotline at (269) 387-1001 for follow-up information.
WMU Alert is the latest of a number of tools WMU has put in place to notify the campus when an emergency situation develops. They include a campuswide outdoor speaker system, interior speakers in many buildings, some 700 800-MHz police radios distributed around campus and Web, e-mail and phone protocols.
For more information about the new system, contact Cam Vossen, WMU emergency management administrator, at (269) 387-0678.
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JOHN FRASER’S new restaurant is doomed. It may make a splash at the start, but by this time next year it will be over, done with, kaput.
At least if you take him at his word.
For his follow-up to Dovetail, an elegant success on the Upper West Side, Mr. Fraser has chosen a project with a death foretold. He signed a short-term lease for a space in SoHo whose landlord cannot promise that the building, likely to be demolished, will be around past July. In return he received a rent of about $9,000 a month, well below market rate.
He was also freed from many of the little and big concerns that can turn the opening of a restaurant into such a protracted odyssey and the running of it into such an expensive one.
Because he’s not fashioning a keeper, he can — and must — keep his investment low. He’s not paying for, or bothering with, a proper sign out front. The dozens of chairs, used, were bought on eBay for under $10 each, and if they’re not so durable, no sweat.
The bar, a mobile cart, will be stocked with only one brand of each spirit, and on a given night there will be just two whites, two reds and one sparkling wine. “I want to strip things down to what’s really important,” Mr. Fraser said, “and figure out what’s really essential.”Continue reading the main story
That’s an impulse that more and more chefs are indulging. Uninterested in the old formalities, impatient with the conventional rigmarole and eager simply to put their food in front of people, they’re asking themselves how much they can toy with the rest of the equation. Which trappings can be jettisoned, which rituals abandoned, and what novel shapes can a restaurant take while still fulfilling its core mission?
Mr. Fraser’s novelty, scheduled to open on Jan. 25 for what he estimates will be a nine-month run, is one answer — an especially striking, even eccentric one. It’s called What Happens When, and if the thought were finished and the predicate filled in, it would mention rules being rewritten and assumptions challenged.
Diners, for example, will be expected to set and reset the cutlery on their tables with utensils from drawers beneath. That way Mr. Fraser won’t need as many servers. It will save him money, he said, and translate into fewer intrusions for diners. “You’re visited only at points of the meal when you really need help,” he said.
Rather than woo bigwig investors who might make big-time demands, Mr. Fraser has decided to solicit hundreds of what are essentially contributions, from $5 to $2,500, through a micro-financing Web site, Kickstarter, which helps raise money for creative projects.
It’s an improvisatory approach for an improvisatory time, when chefs are finding all sorts of ways to eliminate overhead, streamline operations, edit out distractions and focus on the cooking, which is the beginning, end and point of it all.
In Chicago, the chef Grant Achatz is preparing to open Next, where diners will buy tickets in advance for an appointed hour and a predetermined menu. The pinpoint planning that allows him will save money on service staff.
Some chefs are hatching pop-up restaurants, which squat for just days or weeks in locations already furnished and equipped. Some are giving meals on wheels a spin.
Will Goldfarb, a refugee from several flashy, failed Manhattan restaurants, has done both. From 2009 to 2010 he collaborated on a barbecue trailer in the financial district called Picnick Smoked. And in late November he and several assistants made desserts for two days in borrowed bar space in SoHo.
“We just walked in and cooked,” he said. “We didn’t have to do a whole launch.” Word of mouth brought in all the business needed for the pop-up’s fleeting existence.
And they’re extravagant next to Porchetta, which the chef Sara Jenkins spent $200,000 (not much, in restaurant terms) to open in the East Village in 2008. It occupies just 275 square feet on the street level, seats all of six people and, at the start, served three main items: a porchetta plate, a porchetta sandwich and a mozzarella sandwich. But it reinvigorated her career while satisfying a bedrock desire. “What makes me happy,” she said, “is cooking good food and seeing people eat it.”
All around the city — and, for that matter, the country — restaurants are assuming unfamiliar, impromptu forms. To bide time and drum up revenue between the closing of Cabrito last month and the construction, in the same Village space, of a successor, its owners are playing host to a rotating cast of guest bartenders, whose libations will be accompanied by a succinct menu of ham sandwiches, ham plates, ham-stuffed fried chicken, a burger and peel-and-eat shrimp.
A menu of small plates that the chef Ari Stern serves at the bar Culturefix on the Lower East Side is also succinct, but what’s more noteworthy is the setting. Culturefix is conjoined with an electronics store above it and an art gallery in the back. The painting commissions and lamp and clock sales relieve him of pressure to move a large quantity of food or wring a big profit from it.
As a result he can shop and cook himself. “This is my hands doing everything,” said Mr. Stern, 33, who worked in a populous crew as the executive sous-chef at Asia de Cuba. “I don’t have to manage employees.”
That sort of control is part of what Mr. Fraser said he craved. At Dovetail, he noted, the menu can evolve only incrementally, because around two dozen cooks have to be retrained.
At What Happens When, which will serve fewer guests from a menu with at most five options each for appetizer, entree and dessert, “I’ll have to convince five people,” he said.
It was early last week, and he was sitting in Dovetail’s main dining room. Nearby was a row of three service tables that had been custom made at a cost of $3,000 each. The scattered lamps within view had cost $450 apiece, not counting shades. There were bud vases on the tables, ornamented Christmas wreaths on the walls. Asked how much of this could be subtracted without diminishing a meal, he said, “Probably all of it.”
He is a principal owner of Dovetail as well as its head chef. To open it in 2007 took about 18 months and more than $2 million, what with the outfitting of a 2,000-square-foot kitchen, the acquisition of wine inventory and all the rest of it. Most of that money was rounded up via a process he disliked.
“There’s begging,” he said. “There’s pleading. It’s like you’re trying to talk someone into going on a date with you.”
Dovetail earned three out of four stars from the New York Times, three out of five stars from New York magazine and a Michelin star. But Mr. Fraser said that as proud as that makes him, the scale of the operation and the weight of its fans’ expectations made him feel shackled.
“It’s almost like death, to achieve your dream,” he said.
He was wondering what it might be like to have a restaurant he could fool around with and walk away from when, less than three months ago, he happened upon the SoHo space, on Cleveland Place, where Le Jardin Bistro had just closed. The landlord was willing to write an eight-month lease, beginning in December, with a likelihood of several month-by-month renewals until the building, mostly vacant, can be redeveloped.
In a certain death Mr. Fraser saw a certain freedom. He set an opening budget of just $100,000, about half from his own pocket and half from acquaintances making minor investments, and forced himself to be resourceful. He traded a fancy plancha that he had been awarded in a chefs’ contest, but had never used, for two less-fancy stoves, to be installed in a kitchen of about 200 square feet. He rounded up tables and even a walk-in refrigerator that were castoffs from other restaurants.
And he enlisted a graphic and industrial designer (Emilie Baltz), an interior designer (Elle Kunnos de Voss) and an avant-garde composer (Micah Silver) for little guaranteed money by setting up What Happens When in a manner that allows them to strut their stuff. Every month the restaurant will adopt a new theme, underscored not only by a new menu but also by new graphic icons, tweaked décor and a new multichannel soundtrack (crackling fire, swirling snow, synthesizer whooshes and whoops) in lieu of the usual play list.
“Sometimes no money is better than money,” said Ms. Baltz, referring to the creative risks allowed by the monthly reinventions. Those reinventions are why Mr. Fraser pledged to close the restaurant at the nine-month mark, even if the building is still standing. He won’t have the energy to go on, he said.
When the team met last week for coffee, Ms. Kunnos de Voss alternately described her challenge as “a financial disaster” and “a dream project.” She is trying to do a lot with black paint and artfully clustered light bulbs, and she will spend an estimated 80 hours upholstering all of those eBay chairs herself. What Happens When has a seat capacity of about 65, in comparison with roughly 115 at Dovetail. When Mr. Fraser said the restaurant would be closed only on Mondays, she chimed in that she might need more than a 24-hour pause for the monthly décor alterations.
“Overnight,” Mr. Silver, the composer, said, kidding. “You get overnight.”
“You’re not working hard enough if you can’t do that,” Mr. Fraser added, smiling.
They hope to raise at least $20,000 and as much as $45,000 through Kickstarter to help with continued expenses, including furnishing the back garden with more seating. As a reward, Kickstarter contributors will get, at the least, their names on a restaurant wall. Bigger contributions yield books of restaurant recipes, say, or dinner for two. If the money doesn’t come in, Mr. Fraser said, he’ll figure out something else. The restaurant is intended to be lean and nimble enough to adapt.
With little more than two weeks before the planned opening, he was still formulating the initial menu and pricing. For one appetizer he envisioned a Gruyère, leek and potato velouté; for another, Arctic char in aspic. For entrees he was mulling a pork cheek, a veal shank, Dover sole for two. These would probably be served as part of a three-course prix fixe for $58, he said.
Nothing too unconventional there. But beyond the plate, he said, anything goes. Although he’ll take reservations, he’s bypassing the Web service Open Table (too cumbersome). And he’s curious about having a marching band stomp through some night. Obligatory resourcefulness has given way to revolutionary thoughts.
“We don’t have to live up to certain expectations,“ he said. “We just have to be.”Continue reading the main story | <urn:uuid:6e3a0c45-3429-4e78-88f1-a0da57a0dd89> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/dining/05temp.html?scp=2&sq=kickstarter&st=nyt&_r=0 | 2017-12-11T09:40:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948513330.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20171211090353-20171211110353-00197.warc.gz | en | 0.963257 | 2,548 |
Back from almost a week in Boston, where I went to see and hear Tom Russell’s debut of his new Ballad of the West, The Rose of Roscrae; also to see my 90 year- old mother, whose birthday I had missed, my siblings– 4 of out of 8 of them still live there, as well as any number of splendid nephews and nieces: and to eat sea creatures, as well as have any other adventures possible for an impoverished 65 year old writer badly in need of brain surgery.
It was a success, from music to family encounters to food, and paid what may well be an unexpected dividend; my brother in law George Graham, avocational naturalist- localist and photographer,introduced me to his town’s restored herring (alewife) run, and our mutual fascination with it became my unexpected second theme for the visit- who knows what may come?
Tonight, a preview and glimpses; I have an assignment to write on Tom, and many herring photos too, all to come.
Coffee house nostalgia– I went to the predecessor of Passim, Club 47, (47 Palmer Street in Harvard Square) from about 1966 or 7 on. I saw Ian Tyson, who is now 82 and who I met when he played with Tom in Santa Fe, with his then wife Sylvia there, before 1970 anyway…
On the subway with K:
Sideman Thad Beckman; later, local singer Barrence Whitfield, who recorded more than a few songs with Tom back when… Cuban Sandwich!
My mother: “You look OLD”, she said to me. “And I am NOT convinced I’m 90, either!”
Sisters Alicia, Anita, Karen…
The blurred one below is, I believe, my sisters (and niece Stella) expressing solidarity with their geographically wayward brother, or something equally hilarious. Beware the Sister Posse…. (sorry for blur), and me with Wendy, closest in age to me.
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Our Patent 507 design is an understated version (without the iconic leaf image for a more conservative display) of our Cannabis 507 design, and it also reflects the irony of U.S. Patent No. 6,630,507, granted in October 2003 and held by the United States of America—whose very same government simultaneously criminalizes cannabis and lists it as a Schedule 1 narcotic, defined as “highly addictive” and with “no currently accepted medical use.” However, Patent 507 (its colloquial nickname) asserts that there are, indeed, “useful medicinal properties of cannabinoids” for “a variety of health symptoms and conditions” including relief from epilepsy, stroke, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, arthritis pain, inflammation, nausea, reductions in some brain tumors, and auto-immune diseases.
Medical cannabis, also known as marijuana (the Mexican nickname for cannabis) has not been easy to study, especially in the USA where its legal status is highly restrictive and any research is fraught with red tape. The varying state laws and selective enforcement of these laws adds confusion and a lack of motivation for scientists to study the subject further.
Yet, the federal government, with taxpayer dollars, has funded some of its own studies of cannabis. Working together at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the combined team of Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist Dr. Julius Axelrod, Dr. Alden Hamson, and Dr. Maurizio Grimaldi, all experts and pioneers in the field of antioxidants and neurotransmitters, was subsequently granted U.S. Patent No. 6,530 507 for the use of certain cannabinoid compounds found in cannabis for treating diseases caused by oxidative stress. The patent’s Assignee is the United States of America.
The crux of the entire matter is cannabinoids, the chemical components of the cannabis flower. To date, over 85 have been identified, with THC and CBD being the most well-known. These are the components that provide beneficial medical relief for an array of symptoms. While Patent 507 differentiates between the psychoactive THC and the non-psychoactive CBD, it also finds that a combination of both CBD and THC together can decrease the size of a stroke by 50%.
Whether benefits are anecdotal or science-based, the dichotomy of a government severely criminalizing something for which it, itself holds a patent (that cites the benefits!) restricts the clinical studies necessary to learn more. It is hoped that, through our Cannabis 507 design, a new awareness of this odd predicament can contribute some small steps towards change that ultimately includes marvelous—and universally legal—health benefits from a plant for so many of the unbearable human afflictions among us. | <urn:uuid:feeae29c-0a95-486b-b0f0-87a6b6452ec7> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | https://patentwear.com/shop/botanical/botanical-mens-t-shirts/patent-507-t-shirt-2/ | 2017-03-27T00:49:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189316.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00186-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94644 | 564 |
Progress Reports/Learning Journals
All Nursery children that attend J.E.Ts have their own learning journal which staff complete regularly to record your child’s milestones and achievements. Learning Journals can be viewed on Tapestry Software online using your individual password and PIN. Parents will be able to view photographs of their child at play, which gives parents a better understanding of what their child participates in, and the experiences they enjoy at the nursery.
You will receive two progress reports per year detailing your child’s progress and development and you are welcome to view your child’s portfolio at any time.
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The lights are on
Preorder bonuses have become routine at this point, so it should come as no surprise that that Microsoft and 343 Industries are dangling a few enticements in front of gamers. After all, how can they crow about the numbers of people who have preordered the game if they didn't bother giving anyone a reason to do so. Take a look at some of the skins and emblems that you can unlock by plunking down your cash early.
The gallery below shows off the announced bonuses, straight from Microsoft. As they mention in the post, retailers are responsible for making their own announcements, so these incentives are at least publicly homeless for the time being. Expect to hear more details as stores plead their case as to why they should be the ones you turn to when it's time to preorder Halo 4 in advance of its November 6 release.
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On Tuesday, Taiwan’s governing body passed new legislation that effectively bans the consumption of dogs and cats, and enforces stricter penalties on animal abusers. The new law—proposed by legislator Wang Yu-min—is an amendment to an existing animal protection act passed in 2001 that banned the sale of dog and cat meat and organs. According to Taiwan main news outlet Central News Agency, under the current law, those found consuming dogs or cats will be fined up to 250,000 yuan ($36,216), and those found selling these animals will face up to two years of imprisonment and a maximum fine of 200 million yuan ($2.9 million). The autonomous territory of Hong Kong also has a ban on slaughtering, selling, and eating dogs and cats, in place under the 1950 Dogs and Cats Regulations. Mainland China, however, will hold its annual Yulin Festival—where dogs are publicly tortured and eaten—this June.
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The EU has established a set of rules stating what you are allowed to carry in your baggage. The rules apply to all air passengers travelling from EU airports.
A significant proportion of the rules the EU has established are to do with the limitation of liquids in hand baggage. Following these, it is not permitted to carry in your hand baggage liquids or fluid substances of any kind within containers of over 100ml capacity.
Read more about liquids in baggage here.
In addition, the following items may not be carried in hand baggage:
- Pointed or sharp objects, e.g. scissors or knives
- Explosive or flammable materials, e.g. fireworks or gas containers
- Firearms or similar objects, e.g. starter pistols or harpoons
- Blunt objects which can cause injury or harm, e.g. golf clubs or baseball bats
Most objects can be carried within checked-in baggage:
- Containers of liquid, with a capacity of greater than 100ml
- Sharp objects such as razors
- Legally owned weapons and ammunition (must be reported at check-in)
- Toy weapons
What is never allowed within baggage?
There are some things which may never be carried within baggage - either in suitcases or hand baggage:
- Explosives, corrosives and flammable materials, such as camping gas or flammable spirits
- Oxygenated, poisonous or radioactive materials
- Magnetic materials
- Anaesthetizing agents
- Bleaching agents
- Paint or similar substances
Security personnel have a duty to refuse any objects which they feel might threaten flight security.
Questions about your baggage
It is important for security that you can answer ‘yes’ to the following questions:
- Is this your own baggage?
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One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
- ‘There is another prophecy, a mantra for the prophesiers in dark times.’
- ‘It's not impossible that you'll run into a necromancer or a prophesier along the way, not anymore.’
- ‘But to give me the edge I decided to enlist the help of a few psychics and prophesiers.’
- ‘Granted, there's not much a necromancer, a prophesier, and an excellent warrior can do against a sorcerer, but we were up to try.’
- ‘If not, the prophesiers might be able to help me look for her.’
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Samsung’s latest commercial is here, featuring James Franco, the ultimate multitasker, – actor, director, writer, artist and now photographer.
In the video, James takes us on a guide through the various hazardous pitfalls that threaten the unwavering eye of the budding photographer each day
Regardless of how you feel about the concept, Samsung’s Galaxy Camera is finally making its way to the United States. AT&T has just announced it will it launch the camera on November 16 (this Friday), and that it will cost Google-devoted photographers $499 — that’s with or without a data plan.
After announcing that they supposedly had the phone, the Korean paper ‘Seoul Newspaper’ has revealed specs on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note II, which will be officially unveiled later this week in Germany
After a leaked picture yesterday, Samsung were forced to announce their Galaxy Chat — the first smartphone to incorporate a full QWERTY keyboard along with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Samsung confirmed that the device will feature a 3-inch QVGA (320 x 240) touchscreen; along with 4GB of internal memory with a microSD slot, and will have a 2-megapixel rear-facing camera.
So it’s official. Samsung announced this morning that it’s own-brand quad-core processor will be the driving motor of it’s “next Galaxy”, the Samsung Samsung Galaxy S III.
The Exynos 4 Quad processor is …
The long-awaited Android Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Samsung Galaxy S II began its rollout in Europe and Korea yesterday. And this isn’t just another accidental news release from the electronics giant.
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Konduri SD, Singh M, Bobustuc GC, Rovin RA, Kassam AB. Epidemiology of male breast cancer. Poster presented at: Aurora Scientific Day; May 22, 2019; Milwaukee, WI.
Poster presented at: Aurora Scientific Day; May 22, 2019; Milwaukee, WI.
Background: Male breast cancer is relatively rare (less than 1% of all cases of breast cancer) and usually treated similarly to female breast cancer. There are a very limited number of studies for characterization of male breast cancer, and most studies are small and underpowered. We report the results of a retrospective study using national cancer database from years 2004 to 2014.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the survival and risk factors for male breast cancer in using a large study population in the United States.
Methods: In this retrospective study we included 19,795 patients with a follow-up period of up to 11 years. In this population, the majority of patients were non-Hispanic white (74.8%), 12.1% were black, 0.5% were Hispanic, and the remaining were other races.
Results: The rate of incidence was 7.2% in 2004 and increased to 10.3% in 2014. The significant predictors of mortality included cancer stage II, III, and IV vs stage 0 (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.5, 2.7, and 9.9, respectively), age (HR: 1.04), surgery (HR: 0.4), radiation (HR: 0.8), chemotherapy (HR: 0.8), hormonal (HR: 0.8), tumor size for every 10-mm increase (HR: 1.01), and estrogen receptor (ER)-positive and progesterone receptor (PR)-positive (HR: 0.8). Socioeconomic factors such as income, insurance, and facility type also contributed to the higher risk for mortality. Higher CharlsonDayo index resulted in higher mortality rate. Kaplan-Meier survival probability was higher in patients who underwent surgery (P<0.001), received radiation (P<0.001), received chemotherapy (P<0.001), or received hormonal therapy (P=0.0126). The patients identified with ER and PR positivity (P<0.0001) also had higher survival probability. In a subset of patients (n=7880), HER2/neu was available from 2010 to 2014). Survival probability was higher in patients with negative HER2/neu expression (P<0.001), whereas mortality risk was 1.7 times higher among patients diagnosed with positive HER2/neu expression.
Conclusion: This study with a large patient population showed that socioeconomic factors, cancer stage, tumor characteristics (size and grade), and higher Charlson-Dayo scores contributed to higher mortality among male patients diagnosed with breast cancer. Among treatment modalities, surgery was most effective followed by radiation, chemo-, and hormonal therapy. Patients identified with positive ER and PR had better survival probability. Biomarker identification followed by timely diagnosis of the treatment, irrespective of socioeconomic status, is likely to reduce the risk for mortality. A subset analysis showed that positive HER2/neu expression had higher mortality. | <urn:uuid:517e2f64-d5ce-45bf-a671-e7be6049cea9> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://institutionalrepository.aah.org/onc/118/ | 2021-07-23T15:01:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046149929.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20210723143921-20210723173921-00244.warc.gz | en | 0.934792 | 665 |
yesterday, to the combined horror of my fellow citizens, the United States Supreme Court approved what shall be historically and universally reviled as Obamacare.
that despite the letter I wrote, to you know whom.
I’m pondering how to explain both the logic and dire implications to my otherwise capitalistic and democratic-minded daughters. I am at once searching for good in the world, while I plan an Optimistic Gentleman-related revolution.
I must be, after all is said and done, an example.
so, thusly… it’s not just any day I choose to simplify my life or this Blog as a platform for perspective by cutting-and-pasting someone else’s words. however, Mr. Heinlin speaks to us all from proverbial grave with brilliant insight that also establishes a call-to-action.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” – Robert Heinlein
in reviewing that impressive list of potentially notable accomplishments, I can yet only aspire to die gallantly. however, that is certainly the plan, despite the lack of a currently considered strategy.
I’m resolute in my skepticism that Mr. Obama has read much Heinlin, or would value the components of that list. I don’t know from whence he draws his experience. but, I am confident none of it would be leadership, or good example.
allow it to be noted, here, that tonight I am cooking for Joanne.
“behind every great man, there is some woman rolling her eyes.” – Barbara Anne Cork
no caring Mother, and the man she inspires, would support, let fathom Obamacare.
the plan is afoot.
peace be to my Brothers and Sisters.
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In an interview posted recently at Big Think, Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, describes what he sees as the formula for creating winning teams. In this interview, he describes how Google held the hypothesis that in order to create great, productive teams you need to carefully curate who is a part of each team (i.e. - make sure that you have enough extroverts, balance personality types, etc.) The only problem was, after looking at data they were collecting on team effectiveness, they essentially found no correlation between who was on the team and how the team performed.
After this surprising revelation, Google began looking at how teams interacted instead and found that effective teams had two norms that they held sacred: (1) conversational turn taking (Does everyone at the table have a chance to speak up?) and (2) high social-sensitivity (Can I pick up on what you are thinking and feeling through non-verbal cues?) Duhigg goes on to explain that the goal of these norms is to create "psychological safety", the idea that even if I am not the foremost expert on something or may not have my ideas fully formed yet, it is safe (and encouraged) for me to share with the group.
In his New York Times Magazine article that expounds on this idea, Guhigg states that “[n]o one wants to leave part of their personality and inner life at home, but to be fully present at work, to feel ‘psychologically safe,’ we must know that we can be free enough, sometimes, to share the things that scare us without fear of recriminations.” This concept of others understanding who we truly are and accepting of our contributions is supported by other research on building effective teams. According to Gratton and Erickson (2007), major initiatives require “complex teams” made up of diverse individuals from across the organization. The only problem is that diverse teams are also extremely hard to manage and to help stay productive. Gratton and Ericsson recommend that in order to combat this a "strong sense of community” should be cultivated through things such as “sponsoring events and activities that bring people together and help them get to know one another”.
So, How Does this Translate to Education?
If we are to create "psychological safety" within our systems, schools, and classrooms, then we need to make room for individuals to share their personality and inner life with others in a meaningful way. This may be self-evident, but in the current environment of high-stakes assessments and ever escalating curriculum demands this often seems like it is the last thing on one's mind.
So what could this look like within the education field?
Within the experiences that we provide for educators within futurePREP'd, we create psychological safety for participants and model how this could be done within their classrooms by having them purposefully experience a couple of simple (yet powerful) tools and protocols:
Within their research and work around The Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner found that organizations that have shared values (employees know their own values, those of the organization, and how they overlap) foster strong feelings of personal effectiveness, caring and teamwork. We have found the same in our work with educators and students.
Within our work with educators we have them identify their own values through a set of "values cards" in which they select the top three that define who they are. They then talk with other educators about which three they chose and why they did not select others. This simple act of having individuals share who they are at their "core" helps engender trust and understanding within the group at a rapid pace. In addition, educators that have utilized this tool with students within their own classrooms have found similar results.
Personal Haikus and 6-Word Memoirs
Whenever we bring together a new group of educators, we like to have them share something personal about themselves with the group right from the get-go. This typically involves a crazy-tight constraint such as writing a Haiku about the craziest moment in their life or a six word memoir (Smith Magazine has a great site devoted to six word memoirs). We find that the imposed constraints of the task actually produce more creativity from individuals and help elicit memorable descriptions of who people are.
There are other protocols and tools that we use with educators and students including having individuals identify which of the 10 Faces of Innovation they believe they are most like and creating something (i.e. - a painting, poem, sculpture, etc.) that represents that and identifying and sharing what part of the Design Thinking Process they most identify with. Overall, we find this process of coming to a common understanding of who we each are to be essential to the work that we do.
How about you? What tools and techniques have you utilized to produce a "strong sense of community" and "psychological safety" within your team or classroom?
About Jason Pasatta
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Saturday December 28,2013 : ONLINE GAMBLING GROUP NAMED IN U.K. POLITICAL ALLEGATIONS
UK Opposition leader Ed Miliband accused of hypocrisy in accepting bet365 donations.
The British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has been attacked by the Daily Mail newspaper – known for its anti-gambling views – for alleged hypocrisy in accepting substantial political donations from the successful online gambling group bet365 founder, Peter Coates.
Miliband has recently been active in developing political capital from his vociferous opposition to Fixed Odds Betting Terminals in High Street bookie shops, and for his promise to empower local councils to restrict the proliferation of betting shops in British shopping areas
However, the Daily Mail claims, Miliband's party "….has had good reason to be grateful as more people are being lured into gambling online", citing over GBP 400,000 in donations from Coates since 2004.
The newspaper details the donations:
* GBP 10,000 to party leader Ed Miliband’s private office last year,
* In April GBP 5,000 to Tristram Hunt, the shadow schools secretary, who is the MP for Coates's area Stoke-on-Trent Central.
* GBP 50,000 in 2004; another GBP 100,000 in 2005; and GBP 150,000 more in 2007.
* In 2009, Labour received GBP 100,000 from Hillside (New Media) Ltd, which allegedly owns bet365.
"These figures leave Labour – and particularly Ed Miliband – open to charges of rank hypocrisy," the newspaper fulminates.
"For despite being given hundreds of thousands by the country’s biggest gambling tycoon, he went on the offensive last week about the pervasive influence of gambling in British life."
The Mail goes on to remind its leaders of how successful bet365 is as a company run by Denise Coates, daughter of the founder, noting that more than a third of bet365’s profits come from its Gibraltar-based subsidiary to avoid high British taxation.
"Between 2009 and 2011, it paid a 10 percent rate of corporation tax in Gibraltar – compared with 28 percent in the UK at the time – saving GBP 13 million," the Mail claims.
"Gibraltar Companies House records show one of the Coates family companies, Hillside (Gibraltar) Ltd, made profits there of GBP 36.5 million in 2010-11, yet still managed to receive a tax rebate of GBP 668,000.
"The family also has three non-trading subsidiaries in the tax havens of Malta, the Dutch Antilles and Alderney in the Channel Islands, which could be activated as new offshore arms in the future."
Peter Coates is described as an exemplar of a working-class boy who made good in the article, which recalls that he was one of 14 children in a family brought up in a mining community and headed by a hard working miner.
Coates left school with no qualifications at age 14, served his national military commitment as a paratrooper and then ran a fast food restaurant before making his first fortune selling fast-food to football clubs through his company Stadia Catering in the ‘Sixties and ‘Seventies.
He then switched to the gambling industry, building up a chain of 49 betting shops.
His daughter Denise persuaded him in 2000 to take advantage of the nascent online gambling business opportunity by mortgaging the shops and putting everything into founding and building the online gambling enterprise that is bet365 today – a company that offers a wide variety of gambling choices in sports and casino betting and can boast two million customers in 200 countries.
Last year, bet365 had a turnover of GBP 18 billion – up more than 50 percent on the previous year – with pre-tax profits of GBP 180 million. The family’s fortune has been estimated at GBP 925 million.
Head of the family Peter Coates, a life-long Labour Party supporter who has invested heavily in the Stoke City football club, is said to be unapologetic about his donations to the Labour Party. The Mail uses a 2009 quote from Coates to illustrate the point:
"I’ve supported the Labour Party all my life. I have been a member since I was in my 20s. I’ve asked for no favours for the gambling industry, and wouldn’t get any favours from the government.
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Many uninvited guests came to the West to explore, exploit, and
eventually shape the area that would come to be known as Alberta.
These are the stories of explorers, map-makers, surveyors, fur traders,
missionaries, and even whiskey traders who came to Alberta with
visions of the new opportunities that awaited them in the West.
The narratives of these Mavericks will facilitate student understanding
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By Tulis McCall
This is one of those shows whose premise you cannot make up. Scotland, PA is a musical parody of The Tragedy Of Macbeth.
What could possibly go wrong? Other than everything. Well THAT is not entirely true. The cast for this show is outstanding. Great acting chops, sublime voices, and a grit to get the job done. A total delight watching them. Except for the fact that they were in this show.
Follow me here. A mild mannered couple stuck in dead end jobs at the local burger joint get it into their heads (mostly hers) to do whatever it takes to get up a few rungs on the ladder that their present employer has denied them. An accident turns into one new burger joint named – wait for it – McBeth’s. There follows more murder, mayhem, death and destruction. Sort of like a car accident from which you cannot turn away.
Read my full review HERE
Scotland, PA – Book By Michael Mitnick; Based on the film by Billy Morrissette
Inspired by The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare; Music & Lyrics By Adam Gwon; Directed By Lonny Price
Choreographed By Josh Rhodes; Set Design by Anna Louizos; Costumes by Tracy Christensen; Lighting by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew; Sound by Jon Weston
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Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, must urgently accelerate plans to make roads safer for cycling, campaigners and politicians said yesterday after the deaths of five cyclists in the capital in just nine days.
Since the start of November, seven cyclists have been killed across Britain, with five deaths in London alone since last Tuesday, all hit by lorries or buses.
A young woman crushed by a lorry in East London on Tuesday was named as Venera Minakhmetova, 24, described by her former professor as a “bright, inquisitive and charming” technology entrepreneur.
Her sister, Dinara, described Ms Minakhmetova as a victim and said: “The things that we feel are not to be described. I believe that everyone who has ever been through the loss of… | <urn:uuid:52589b31-11ab-4681-85c4-bec7f30e1ea7> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-is-urged-to-act-swiftly-over-deaths-of-cyclists-dpn6k7jn92s | 2017-11-18T11:29:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934804724.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118094746-20171118114746-00223.warc.gz | en | 0.980751 | 166 |
StorageTek announces tape-based WORM
StorageTek last month announced VolSafe, reportedly the industry`s first tape-based write-once read-many (WORM) technology. VolSafe targets the securities industry--a market previously limited by SEC regulation to WORM optical.
The primary advantage of the new technology, says Scott Willis, a StorageTek solutions business manager, is low cost storage ($0.01 per MB versus $0.10 to $0.20 per MB for optical). Other advantages include virtually unlimited scalability and fast throughput rates.
VolSafe technology consists of new microcode and media. "The microcode of the drive has been changed so that it looks for specific VolSafe media," says Willis. "If VolSafe media is mounted, the drive goes into a different operational mode. The physical cartridge has a different type of notch or leader block on the outside of the cartridge, which the tape drive can detect. It tells the microcode it is a WORM tape and treats it accordingly."
Initially, the technology will be implemented in STK`s Redwood drives; however, next- generation Redwood drives and other STK document storage and archive tape systems are expected to include the VolSafe feature.
The media is currently in beta; shipments are expected this quarter. There is no charge for the microcode. Final pricing for the media has not been determined, but is expected to be around $95 per cartridge.
In a separate release, STK announced Extended High Performance Data Mover (ExHPDM) software for faster data backup and improved disaster recovery in MVS environments.
In essence, ExHPDM "virtualizes" tape drives. Explains David Osekavage, StorageTek`s enterprise Nearline product marketing manager, "Data is written to the HPDM buffer, where it is re-blocked into large data blocks. The individual data from the backup disk volumes is then interleaved onto a single tape volume, reducing hardware requirements and fully exploiting the capacity and performance capabilities of that drive."
The net result, claims STK, is significantly lower backup and disaster restoration times. In testing, STK reports a 50% decrease in the backup window for its Timberline drive and about a 60% reduction for Redwood. STK also claims about a 70% higher throughput for Timberline when using ExHPDM; about a 150% increase for Redwood.
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Super Formula: Lotterer and Sekiguchi winners at Okayama
The second round of the 2017 Japanese Super Formula Championship took place at Okayama International Circuit. The winners of two races are Toyota drivers Andre Lotterer (Vantelin Team Tom’s) and Yuhi Sekiguchi (Itochu Enex Team Impul).
Lotterer scored his 24th Super Formula victory in Saturday’s 30-lap Sprint race, Sekiguchi triumphed in Sunday’s 51-lap Main race. For Sekiguchi, it’s his third Super Formula win in a career.
In the first race, Sekiguchi started from pole but lost a lead from Lotterer. Their position remained unchagned until the end of 30-lap race. Lotterer crossed the finish line with 1.948sec advantage.
The rookie from New Zealand Nick Cassidy (Kondo Racing Toyota) grabbed his maiden SF podium, after starting from third place on the grid. Kamui Kobayashi (KCMG Toyota) finished fourth, ahead the best Honda driver Naoki Yamamoto (Team Mugen).
For the second race, Hiroaki Ishiura (P.Mu Cerumo Inging) secured the best starting position, beating rookie Kenta Yamashita (Kondo Racing) in the qualifying. Sekiguchi started from P3 and after 51 laps he cliched his third win in a career, 0.408 seconds ahead of Ishiura.
Andre Lotterer finished on a podium one more time, taking third place but also the leading position in the championship after two rounds. The next stop is Fuji Speedway on July 8-9.
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Here is another Photo Art application from the wonderful Russell Brown. Very rarely would I be posting about something that is different for CS6 from CS5, but on occasion this is happening – especially when it comes to Dr. Brown’s panels. I had previously downloaded Dr. Brown’s Painting Assistant Panel for CS5 and got some really nice results. I actually blogged about it in my Tidbits Blog Think Pink! Rally for the Cure Pink Rose a while ago. He recently came up with a new panel for CS6 that gives different results as it creates specifically an impressionistic oil painting look. I like both panel version’s results. The Fairfax County Courthouse cannon above was my first attempt at using the CS6 Painting Panel and to be honest, it is a little tricky to master. You definitely need to review the videos that he distributes with the download before starting. And he does make a major point that once you start, you cannot go back to a previous step. When you open the panel in either program, he gives you the brushes you need to complete your images. Here is the link to the Dr. Brown’s Scripts Page – there are two versions of the Painting Panel, you must scroll down a ways for the CS5 version – and as always with Dr. Brown, these are free downloads. To finish the image above a clean up layer was created, a Curves Adjustment Layer applied to add some contrast, and my Double Edge Frame Layer Style was applied. Also note that a Wacom tablet really helps with this panel and he recommends using the barrel rotation pen – I use a large Wacom Intuos 3 tablet (I cannot justify upgrading as it works great – if you cannot afford a new tablet, you might want to check out E-bay for one of these older versions), and I bought the pen a couple years ago from Amazon (I am not sure you must have this to get good results – they are quite expensive and do not come with the tablet when purchased).
Below I used the same Lightroom adjusted flower image and opened it up in both Photoshop programs. This first example is from CS6.The above is the final version after adding in some clean up brush strokes on a separate layer using a regular pastel brush and sampling color from nearby areas in image (ALT+click in image), adding Flypaper Textures Apple Blush Taster Texture (comes with Dr. Brown’s Paper Panel Texture download) using Pin Light Blend Mode at 66% opacity, and a Curves Adjustment Layer to adjust contrast. Below is what the image looked like after Step 4 of the Painting Assistant Panel.
There are seven steps to the Painting Assistant Panel. The first two go really fast – they involve opening your image, resizing it, and smoothing it using the new Oil Painting Filter in CS6. (You can see the filter texture in the border areas). The next four steps take a considerable amount of time. Step 3 is Create Rough Underpainting which goes fairly fast. Step 4 is the Intermediate Painting which takes the longest time to do as this is where the impressionist strokes are painted over the image. Step 5 is Finish Intermediate Painting where a few details are added back in. Step 6 is Detail Recovery using a provided History Brush which may take a while to do depending on how much smaller detail you want to bring back into your image. Step 7 is Add Finishing Touch which adds the High Pass Filter to sharpen and is quick. Other textures and filters can now be added to the image to finish it up. This whole process can be quite time consuming. Impressionism requires a lot of small strokes to get the look. (See my Tidbits Blog Digital Lady Syd’s Rule No. 6 – Try Something New! with links to Fay Sirkis who explains how to actually paint a stroke to create an impressionistic effect – check out the article link in the blog.) The wood boat image below is a more complicated image and took way too long to finish in one sitting. Even the cannon image took a very long time to finish so I would stick to images with simpler lines like floral or still life for use with this panel.
Now for the Photoshop CS5 Painting Assistant. The steps only number 6 but the panel works the same way. The first step is where you open the image. Second step Adds a Surface Blur filter to your image, Step 3 creates an Underpainting Layer where you use a supplied Mixer Brush, Step 4 is an Intermediate Layer, Step 5 Detail Recovery, and Finishing Touch that adds the High Pass Filter for sharpening. Only a Curves Adjustment Layer was added for some contrast and OnOne PhotoFrame (see sidebar for website at my Tidbits Blog) acid burn 07 was used to finish up the photo. Personally, I think that the Painting Assistant is CS5 is easier to use than Cs6’s, but you are not trying to create a particular style of painting as in the CS6 version. This image of Laupahoehoe Harbor on the Big Island in Hawaii was created very quickly in Photoshop CS5 – much faster than using the impressionist effect in CS6. The way I got the texture to look more painterly was to add a light gray texture created from an actual oil painting I own. I use it a lot and if you would like to download it, check out my Cat Painting Canvas Texture download link at Deviant Art. It was set to Overlay blend mode at 57% opacity. The Painting Assistant layer was slightly cleaned up on a separate layer by sampling in the document and using a low opacity Photoshop chalk brush to fill in. If you do not want to spend so much time on a document, the CS5 Painting Assistant seems to be the answer.
A couple quick tips: Dr. Brown says paint your image as a paint-by-number of old times when in the Intermediate Painting step. I discovered that at this point you can erase any areas you did not paint over in the outside border before going on to Step 5. Once in the Finish Intermediate Step 5, be sure not to overdo the detail – only place it where you want the viewer to focus in the image. It is easy to overdo this step. I used it to smooth out some of the indistinct lines in the image below. Step 6 is actually the History Brush and it is set to 4% opacity. I changed this to 22% as I could not see any changes occurring in my image. Step 7 adds a High Pass Filter set to Radius of 8 – you can always paint out areas that are too sharp in a layer mask if it seems like too much. For the wooden boats at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island in Hawaii, after the Painting Assistant was used, a clean up layer was created to fill in a few areas and a Levels Adjustment Layer was added to increase contrast. That is all!
As you can see, this is another great way to photo paint an image. Dr. Brown always has fun and interesting ways of doing things. He is in the process of creating a watercolor module for the Painting Assistant and I can hardly wait to try it. Give this panel a try and see if you like the results – some people are creating some incredible art using it. I think I need to work with it some more but it is fun to do!……Digital Lady Syd
Since I have reached this major milestone, I decided this week I would show a few examples of what I use the most in Photoshop and what is the most fun for me when using Photoshop. In some of these cases, I will be mentioning certain products or people but that is mainly because I really like what they do – they do not know me. Also, no external plug-ins will be discussed here.
- Photoshop’s Merge to HDR 32-bit ability that can be adjusted in Lightroom 4.1 (see my blog New Lightroom and Photoshop 32-bit Processing Capability)
- Photoshop’s Puppet Warp magic (see Straightening with Puppet Warp!)
Several things were done in Photoshop to process this image of a sailboat model of the USS Constitution located at The Casements in Ormond Beach, Florida. The most important is that a 32-bit tone-mapped image was created in Photoshop’s Merge to HDR, saved as a TIFF file, and then brought into Lightroom 4.1’s Develop module using the sliders to bring out all the details. This now makes Photoshop’s HDR processing on par with several of the other HDR software programs. The TIFF image goes back into Photoshop to finish up using another one of my favorite tools – Puppet Warp – to straighten out the extreme warping in the original image (it was actually applied twice). It was a difficult image to work on since it has a square glass encasement and the horizontal louvered blinds in the background. Just using the arrow keys is sometimes enough to push and pull the image pins the correct amount and Puppet Warp works much better than Lens Correction or the new Adaptive Wide Angle filters for me. Puppet Warp can be used in a Smart Object for readjusting later if needed.
- Russell Brown’s Paper Texture Panel for Photoshop CS5 and CS6 (see Russell Brown’s Paper Texture Panel Updated!)
I am slowly really getting into textures – they just do so much for a boring image. The texture above was created using one of the best panels you can apply to Photoshop and that is Dr. Brown’s (may be the top Photoshop guru of all time and works for Adobe) Paper Texture Panel – biggest time saver for anyone that likes to experiment with textures! This is one feature I use all the time and can’t believe I used to go through my textures individually to try them out. To really enhance this process, create a folder on your desktop that contains several sub-folders to place copies of your favorite textures. He recommends keeping these folders to around 20 textures as it takes a while to load if it is much bigger. I have sub-folder on textures I created, my favorite textures I use all the time, and a few on textures I have downloaded or bought. You can switch folders very quickly in the panel. This image used Paul Grand’s Scratches Texture and Gavin Hoey’s beautiful grunge frame 1. I am also putting a plug in here for my favorite texture guy, ShadowHouse Creations, who offers all kinds of beautiful textures for free, and I use them all the time. I reference his textures in many of my older blogs.
- Photoshop Brushes including the wonderful Mixer Brushes! (see Adobe Photoshop CS5′s Mixer Brushes)
Those wonderful brushes in Photoshop! My very first blog featured the above image where I actually used a Photoshop Mixer Brush to paint in the petals of the flowers. This is still one of my favorite painted images – the Oleander flowers in the original were not near as pretty. The background was a Karen Sperling texture called 08Sperling (I believe this now has to be purchased – not sure how I got it) that added was a very delicate complement to the image. She is actually a Corel Painter Master and does some wonderful things in that program.
- The Curves Adjustment Layer (see I Didn’t Know That! Curves Adjustment Layers)
Totally indispensable! The last step I always do before I save an image. A few months ago I viewed a short video tutorial at Kelby Training called Mastering Curves: Adjusting Tonality by Ben Wilmore, another great Photoshop guru, who teaches how to use Curves correctly. (I have found the Kelby Training tutorials to be the best you can find on every aspect of photography and photoshop.) The basic thing to know about Curves is that by selecting the hand tool in the top left of the adjustment panel and dragging straight up in the image it lightens it up, and down darkens it. If you get two dots close and rather flat on a Curve line, you will lose detail. A black layer mask can be created to target just the areas you want changed. It is a pretty simple technique but can improve an image quickly. Also you can save Curve settings if you want to apply them again. The image above of the beautiful birds in the Spring at the Rookery used several Curves Adjustment Layers to match the tones for the composite.
- Layer Styles to create simple framing effect (see Digital Lady Syd’s Free Layer Style Frames).
I have been using this Double Edge Frame layer style a lot on my images – gives a nice clean look with colors that can be sampled from the image. Also plain black borders can easily be created. To download this layer style for free or directions on how to create it, see my blog referenced above. There are many other uses for layer styles that I love, but I use the frames the most. Also a couple textures were added here with Dr. Brown’s Paper Texture Panel.
- Smart Objects (see Black and White Photo or Not? Give It a Try on That Difficult Image)
I love the way you can go back in and fix your settings if you do not like the way they look. Most of the plug-ins I use have Smart Object capability and this is why I use them. I can’t tell you how many times I have gone back into Nik’s Viveza 2 and adjusted my control points! Just another great Photoshop feature. The image above of the Hilton Time Share swimming pool on the Big Island in Hawaii used Smart Objects for both the Nik HDR Efex Pro using Granny’s Attic preset and Viveza 2. Also two Curves Adjustment Layers were used.
I could go on and on about all my favorite features I love. The above are some of the ones I use the most. I thought about writing on the new Defringe section in Lightroom 4.1 and Adobe Camera Raw that works wonders on this problem – better than any of the noiseware software available for controlling the ugly fringe problem. The new sliders in both are much improved and both now do a great job on reducing noise too. Also the Graduated Filter is much improved. Back in Photoshop I love being able to use LAB mode to sharpen some of my images selectively. Content-Aware tools cannot be beat but I still use the plain old Clone Tool the most. And the improved Sharpen Tool is fabulous for those little areas that need a detail boost. I even love the Color Replacement Tool that hardly no one uses! And all the blend modes just add so much to an image. Needless to say, there is a lot to like about Photoshop and so many ways to do things. I guess the real fun is learning new ways to use it and that is why I blog! Hope you have enjoyed some of what I have learned these past couple years!…..Digital Lady Syd
A few weeks ago I did a blog called “Russell Brown’s Paper Texture Panel-A Real Winner!” which gives the basic information needed to use this wonderful panel (which adds texture(s), resizes it to fit your image, and sets a blend mode for you all within a single click with Photoshop CS5 or CS6). At that time he was using 12 Flypaper Textures (which are absolutely fabulous if you have never used them). Russell has updated the script to include folders for your favorite textures so adding and experimenting with any texture is quick and easy. A white layer mask has been created next to the texture so you can easily paint out the texture effect where you do not want it. There are now 20 Flypaper Textures provided with the updated panel. All you do is click on the fly-out menu in the upper right corner of the panel (just like in Photoshop’s panels), click Load Texture Folder, and select the folder to open. I created a Texture folder on my desktop that contains both a My Favs folder (with textures I use the most) and a Flypaper Folder – that way it is easy to switch between them quickly. NOTE: The scroll bar on the right side of the panel does not show all the textures – you have to hover your mouse over the panel textures and use the mouse wheel to scroll through them if more than 10 textures are in the folder. To get the updated version, see Russell Brown’s Scripts Page and download the latest version. A word of caution from his website on this panel – “If you target a folder containing very large image’s or more than 20 images, then the loading process may take several minutes. Use smaller textures when ever possible.”
The above are African Violets (or agapanthas) growing in my front yard. To clear out the background, a couple virtual copies were edited in Lightroom 4 at different exposures and then stacked in Photoshop. A black layer mask was added (hold down the ALT key while clicking on the layer mask icon at bottom of Layers Panel) and the areas to keep were painted back in on the upper layers. Then ShadowHouse Creations You’d Be Surprised texture was added using the panel above. It was set to Lighter Color Blend Mode at 59% opacity. The flowers were painted over in the white layer mask using a low opacity black brush to remove the effect on the flowers. Voila! – no distracting background!
This image of a clock at Queens’ Marketplace on the Big Island in Hawaii needed a bit of a vintage feel so several textures were layered to get this effect. Using the Paper Texture Panel I was able to stack four textures and try out different combinations and blend modes very quickly. (This image stacked ShadowHouse Creations Clouds & Birds texture minus birds using Overlay Blend Mode at 100% Opacity, ShadowHouse Creations Painterly Effect2 with same settings, Caleb Kimbrough’s Summer4 texture using Soft Light Blend Mode at 81% opacity, and Flypaper Texture Creme Anglaise using Color Blend Mode at 48% opacity. A light green to white Gradient Map Adjustment layer was added on top at 17% opacity and OnOne PhotoFrame Grunge_07 – see sidebar in my Tidbits Blog for website link.) The textures can be added to landscape images and it gives just a subtle punch that some images really need. The original image had just a plain white sky.
This beautiful Hibiscus was growing on the grounds at the Queens’ Marketplace along with several other varieties. Great place to see hibiscus if you are on the Big Island in Hawaii. Only one texture was added using the panel but I really liked the results – it was ShadowHouse Creations Bokeh4 texture set to Overlay Blend Mode at 100% Opacity. The flower was painted over using a soft black paint brush on the mask. The final result lets some of the background through but adds the interesting bokeh effect to soften it.
If you enjoy using textures at all, or would like to start using them, give this panel a try and visit some of the texture sites linked above. You will not be disappointed!…..Digital Lady Syd
Digital Lady Syd Related Blogs:
Russell Brown Texture Panel Landscape Image
Tips for Flower Textures
Adding a Texture for Flair!
Using a Color Fill Adjustment Layer as a Spotlight
Soft-Look Flowers Using Textures
If you love Photoshop and you don’t follow what Russell Brown is doing, you need to start right now. I do believe a lot of people are Photoshop gurus but Russell Brown is at the top of the stack – partially because he works for Adobe and helps develop all these cool things we love. Well he is back again with one of his great scripts – this time one that creates a panel to add a texture, resize it to fit your image, and set a blend mode for you all within a single click! This is brilliant! Flypaper Textures has graciously supplied us Photoshop folks with 12 absolutely beautiful textures to try out on your photos in the panel, which is what you are seeing in all the images in this post. (For the above image, Paper Texture Touchstone using Overlay blend mode at 73% opacity, Paper Texture Creme Anglaise using Hard Light blend mode at 88% opacity and a layer mask to lightly paint out some of the effect on the flower details, and a Color Fill Adjustment layer using color dcdf91 set to Multiply blend mode at 11% opacity were used to create this look.) See my blog links at bottom for other Russell Brown creations.
Above is an example of a landscape type image that also does well with textures. (All blend modes were set to Overlay and stacked with Paper Texture Creme Anglaise at 63% opacity, then Paper Texture Dawn Grunge set to 56% opacity, and Paper Texture Muscatel set to 45% opacity. Next Topaz Simplify – see my Tidbits Blog sidebar for website – plug-in was used to get a more painterly effect.)
This version of the panel does not allow you to add your own textures, but Russell is promising it will soon. UPDATE: See my blog Russell Brown’s Paper Texture Panel Updated! which now allows other texture folders to be used. The link to download the panel, the Flypaper textures, and a short video on how to use this tool is at Russell Brown’s Website Scripts page – look for Texture Panel. Below is what the interface looks like after you load the panel (complete instructions on Russell’s website link above.) In case you cannot see it, the top field is for the blend mode you wish to select.
If you click the Randomizer button at the bottom, it will select two textures and stack them to give some combinations you might not have thought to put together. This panel only works with Photoshop CS5 and CS6 (the screen shot above is from the new beta Photoshop CS6 interface). These textures work well with flowers.
(This image used Paper Texture Creme Anglaise using Color Dodge blend mode at 36% and Paper Texture Apple Blush using Overlay blend mode at 100% opacity with a layer mask and lightly painting out the effect on the leaves.) I changed this same image and used a Hue Saturation Adjustment Layer and Photo Filter Adjustment Layer to get brown and pink tones. Very similar look but different colors – try it!
If you like textures on your images, this is going to be a major time-saver and will let you try some new combinations of textures very quickly. I am already loving this panel. And now Russell has created an update to add in your own textures (see my blog link above). There is plenty here to keep you busy!…..Digital Lady Syd
Digital Lady Syd Related Blogs:
Think Pink! Rally for the Cure Pink Rose – Uses Russell Brown’s Painting Assistant Panel
Edit Layers with ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) Script – Russell Brown’s great script that lets you place a layer back into ACR once Photoshop is opened
Adobe Photoshop CS5′s Mixer Brushes – contains link to Russell Brown tutorial called “Clone Painting Basics”
Tips for Flower Textures
Soft-Look Flowers Using Textures
Why I Love OnOne’s Perfect Layers!
The blog today is about a really fabulous new way to select separate layers in Photoshop and process them individually in ACR by using smart objects – they can then be edited as much as you want. Dr. Russell Brown, an Adobe Photoshop expert, created a script that allows you to do this – it can be downloaded here along with a video and installation instructions. (Try out some of his other tutorials at the download site – they are always excellent!) Below is a simple example of how to use this technique in an image. It was created using two smart object layers – one for enhancing the sky and the other for the rest of the image. A layer mask was applied to the sky layer to mask out all but the sky. An OnOne PhotoFrame was added to finish. Pretty easy if you like using Camera Raw.
In his download video Dr. Brown tells you what preferences need to be set inside Photoshop to make this script run correctly so be sure to look at this short video. I had no trouble getting this to work in Photoshop so it is pretty easy to install. Dr. Brown is a master at scripts! He discusses using this as a great way to process HDR images that are no longer RAW files, but were converted to a TIFF file. The script allows you to go into ACR and use the Fill Light, Luminance, Clarity, Sharpening and Noise Reduction sliders as if the image were a RAW file. Calvin Hollywood helped Russell Brown create this script and has an excellent video called “Edit a Layer in Adobe Camera Raw” on how to use it on portraits and landscapes. One of the reason he likes this technique is that the Orange Luminance and Saturation sliders can be used to enhance skin tones in portraits.
In the tulip image above, a composite layer (that consisted of a few adjustments layers and the image layer-just create a composite on top by CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+E) was brought into ACR by running the script to add the purplish toning. The tutorial followed is called “Enhancing Black and White Images with Photoshop and Lightroom” by Richard Hale at TipSquirrel and is very informative. I was trying out the split toning in Photoshop’s ACR instead of going back into Lightroom and got this result. The original image before tinting can be seen at my Flickr account here. It is felt that you can get more accurate corrections using the sliders in ACR than with many of the tools in Photoshop. Basically, by creating a composite layer after running other filters and adjustments in Photoshop, it is very easy to use this script to add ACR effects .
The final image is an HDR shot of Hana Highway in Maui – even though it was processed originally in Lightroom, the ACR script was very useful. First a Nik Color Efex Pro plug-in cross processing effect was applied to the image (but it could easily have been done in Lightroom) along with a Photoshop Photo Filter Adjustment Layer in an Orange Color at 50% (I wanted to get lessen the intensity of the yellow-green colors). A composite layer was created on top and then Dr. Brown’s ACR Script was run to add Clarity and Sharpening. which is superior to Photoshop’s tools.
The more I think about it, there seem to be many uses for this script – like using the Noise Reduction Tools or Grain Effect on an image (besides just the Sharpening Effect above or the Soft Tint Effect in the tulip image). This is easier than going into Lightroom every time you need to make a quick adjustment. Definitely a great plug-in! Since it is a free download, I would recommend trying it out and see what you think. Thank you Dr. Brown! | <urn:uuid:7e8d067c-25c4-4455-a7f8-8d2a9809ba41> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | https://sydspix.wordpress.com/tag/russell-brown/ | 2016-12-05T16:51:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698541773.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170901-00432-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940056 | 5,616 |
There are slightly more than 1,000 bots in use across the federal government, equal in scale to a robotic process automation operation at a large telecommunications or insurance company.
Deloitte Consulting works with agencies to identify the right RPA software for them, and every quarter principal Marc Mancher measures their bot counts.
The past 12 months Mancher said he expected agencies to move from a few bots to commercial scale, and so he was “a little disappointed” with only a 20 percent uptick between quarters. Instead, more often Mancher found agencies had scaled horizontally into new use cases.
“I’ve seen RPA solicitations on the street. So we’ve matured as a business from risk and compliance, security credentialing, innovation to having more places horizontally scaled,” he said. “And I’m hoping in the next 12 months — as I’m now seeing more in the marketplace — for us to get vertical scale in the federal government.”
Agencies didn’t rush to scale up because doing so requires putting controls in place via centers of excellence for reskilling and performance measurement, Mancher added.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Deputy Chief Financial Officer Lynn Moaney oversees a program that built the agency’s first bots and is now focused on reskilling employees moving from low- to high-value work and building out the digital labor ecosystem.
Digital labor must also be credentialed for agencies to track its actions.
“If you focus on ‘How do I do it with one bot?’ and not ‘when I get to 1,000 bots,’ then you might build your ecosystem wrong,” Mancher said. “You don’t need to put all the building blocks in place, but you do need to be cognizant when you scale.”
The Food and Drug Administration has been a “trailblazer” in the RPA space, he added. Drug-intake forms have been automated, as has some work within the CFO’s office.
Bots aren’t just about improved process or cost savings, Mancher said.
Deloitte was also involved with building a bot for the Department of Defense that maps keystrokes and creates morning reports in a Tableau dashboard. Previously DOD looked at such data once a month, and the bot only took six hours to make.
In May, Federal CIO Suzette Kent said agencies should reinvest their savings from RPA in other information technology projects via working capital funds. Those savings are now being tracked by an RPA community of practice created by the General Services Administration.
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The following statement from Secretary of Defense Hagel was released by the U.S. Department of Defense:
Today's shooting was a terrible tragedy for the Fort Hood community, the Department of Defense, and for the nation. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. And my sympathies go out to this strong and resilient community, which has experienced this kind of senseless violence all too recently.
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An urgent improvement of the effluent quality of the old existing WWTP of Yavne was required by the Environmental Ministry of Israel.
Effluent from the Yavne WWTP used to be discharged into a river which flows into the Mediterranean Sea. Years of inadequate treatment in two extensive ponds caused severe pollution. As a result, the Environmental Protection Ministry of Israel demanded an immediate upgrade of the WWTP.
The sewage contains an industrial component of about 20%, which was found to have an inhibitory effect on the biological treatment.
The AGAR FFAST system with a total volume of 720 m was installed. One of the two existing anaerobic ponds is still used for equalization, as well as primary settling. The FFAST process combines a one-stage biomass carriers Roughing Filter, followed by conventional activated sludge. The excess sludge is stabilized in the aerobic Pond.
Raw wastewater flows through a coarse mechanical screen into the equalization pond. The pond is equipped with a surface aerator near the outlet for re-aeration. Wastewater is pumped from the pond at a constant rate, through fine mechanical screens, into the AGAR reactor. The biological reactor is divided into 4 aerobic stages: The first stage is filled with biomass carriers for removal of about 50% of the BOD load. The rest of the volume is conventional activated sludge. Total HRT is 2.9h. The secondary effluent is filtered before discharge into the river.
Since the elimination of specific toxics at their industrial source, the plant operates practically trouble free. The biomass carriers indeed take off 45-55% of the BOD load, keeping the F/M ratio optimal for good settling in the activated sludge process. In fact, during the summer MLSS concentration has to be controlled to prevent nitrification. | <urn:uuid:6acc6c11-13c4-44a4-ab29-7e08f38ef854> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | https://www.environmental-expert.com/articles/case-study-municipal-wwtp-71910 | 2018-02-21T15:46:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891813626.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20180221143216-20180221163216-00179.warc.gz | en | 0.938008 | 369 |
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It’s been some time since the iconic Santos de Cartier received a fresh new update, the last major one being the launch of the Santos 100 in 2004 to celebrate 100 years of the very first watch created by Louis Cartier back in 1904. 14 years later, there are new additions to the family, the all-new Santos de Cartier watch line-up that was unveiled at SIHH back in January 2018.
The new Santos de Cartier watch will be made available in several versions. There’s one in steel and another in steel and yellow gold that’s reminiscent of the vintage Santos Galbee. There’s also a version in pink gold, yellow gold, as well as something called the Skeleton that comes in steel or pink gold versions. And while the watches are similar to its predecessors in terms of features (the square-shaped face, Roman numeral dials and eight screws on the polished bezel), the all-new version is optimised for comfort, being slightly curved at the back to give it a more ergonomic fit on the wrist.
PINK GOLD & YELLOW GOLD: MEDIUM (SGD46,300) & LARGE (SGD51,500), IMAGE: CARTIER
STEEL: MEDIUM (SGD8600) & LARGE (SGD9450), IMAGE: CARTIER
Available in 2 sizes, here’s what else you need to know about the new timepieces. The Medium comes in at 35.1 mm by 41.9 mm, while the Large is 39.8 mm by 47.5 mm, with the biggest difference between the two (aside from the size) being the fact that only the large sizes come with date display. In addition, if you’ve always found the Santos 100 to be too big and bulky, these new versions are also much thinner, coming in at 8.83 mm for the Medium and 9.08 mm for the Large.
Each watch comes furnished with a complementary Santos bracelet that’s identified by the iconic screw details. An additional calfskin (or alligator strap but there will be a top-up) will also be made available with each purchase of the watch, where you can choose from 17 different hues.
YELLOW GOLD & STEEL: MEDIUM (SGD12,600) & LARGE (SGD14,300), IMAGE: CARTIER
Now, on to the cool part (which Cartier describes as the defining element) of the new Santos de Cartier watch. Both the Santos bracelet and leather straps will come with the new QuickSwitch system, one that features a ‘quick release’ button tucked under the strap. Activating it allows the wearer to interchange the straps easily without the need for screwdrivers or fancy tools. In addition, the Santos bracelet is also SmartLink-equipped, new technology that allows the adding or removing of the watch links to be done in several simple steps. By yourself. In other words, you no longer have to troop down to the store; you can pretty much do it yourself at home.
Powered by an automatic caliber 1846 MC (an in-house movement by Cartier) that’s resistant to powerful magnetic fields, the new Santos de Cartier watch also comes with a power reserve of 42 hours and is water-resistant to 100 m, which makes it all-in-all a great everyday watch. Now on to the not-so-good news? You have to wait a tad bit longer as the watch is set to launch worldwide only in April 2018. | <urn:uuid:55c8c678-c875-4f9a-9622-b5d42f5b0cbf> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://bagaholicboy.com/2018/03/cartier-santos-de-cartier-sihh-2018-timepieces/ | 2019-06-24T16:18:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999615.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20190624150939-20190624172939-00335.warc.gz | en | 0.931483 | 745 |
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Gallery: Wapping win for Harpenden
PUBLISHED: 16:18 30 October 2008 | UPDATED: 13:43 06 May 2010
East Men s League Premier B Harpenden 5 Wapping 3 AFTER a disappointing draw against Bourne last week, Harpenden returned to winning ways with an impressive victory against Wapping. Harpenden s team performance was significantly improved
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Harpenden 5 Wapping 3
AFTER a disappointing draw against Bourne last week, Harpenden returned to winning ways with an impressive victory against Wapping.
Harpenden's team performance was significantly improved from the previous week and the win was well deserved, if not comfortable.
The Harpenden scoring was opened by Man of the Match Todd Baines when he followed up a shot from Lance Boyd-Clarke. Wapping soon equalised with a short corner but the home team regained the lead with a short corner strike of their own from the impressive Mike Emes.
From the next corner, skipper David Jeffrey followed up a Paul Davison strike to increase the lead to two goals before the interval.
Wapping pegged a goal back but Baines pounced for his second after a fine interchange of passing with Boyd-Clarke. Wapping pushed forward but Harpenden continued to threaten on the break, with debutant Simon Cain having a fine first game for the first team.
Wapping scored from a deflected cross but soon after Harpenden restored their two goal cushion and secured the three points when David Falk finished superbly to make it 5-3.
Harpenden Ladies drew 1-1 at Crostyx with Emma Lythgoe scoring the goal. The ladies travel to St Neots on Saturday.
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§ The “Comic shop killer” Michael George has lost a second appeal of his 2011 conviction for killing his wife Barbara George in 1990. It’s been a long legal road for George since he was charged with his wife’s murder in 2007—Barbara George was found shot in the head in the back of the comic shop the two owned. Michael George was convicted in 2008, had the result thrown out because of irregularities, was retried in 2011, convicted again, and has been appealing ever since. However this time the Michigan Appeals court ruled that George did not deserve another trial.
In its ruling, the appeals court stated evidence the jury considered showed George had both a financial incentive and a personal motive to kill her to end an unhappy marriage and allow him to pursue an extramarital relationship with another woman.
§ In happier news, here’s another overview of the growing comics market in India:
“Today’s readers demand a more realistic and contemporary storyline,” says Pratheek Thomas, co-founder of Manta Ray, an independent publisher of comics & graphic novels based in Bangalore. Thomas, also the brain behind the popular Hush comics, says today’s audience demands content and graphic that match standards of their international peers. “Internet and applications have made foreign graphic novels and comic books easily accessible. So, our readers demand the best,” explains the 32-year-old.
These picky readers will be at the Bangalore Comic Con June 1 and 2, and check out titles such as Julius Caesar ( Campfire Publishing), Mixtape 2, Twelve (Manta Ray Publishers), Aghori 3, Ravanayan Finale (Holy cow Entertainment), Tamas (Mrinal Rai), The Princely Buffalo (Trendy Toons), Butterfingers, Shikari Shambu, Defective Detectives (Tinkle Tall Tales).
§ Area man goes to a convention for the first time. He decided he needed more time and money to do it right.
§ In the Hollywood Korner, they are reviving TimeCop, one of the eldest of indie comic book movie properties! Originally a Dark Horse comic by Mark Verheiden, Phil Hester and Chris Warner, it was adapted by Verheiden and Dark Horse’s Mike Richardson as a successful vehicle for Jean Claude Van Damme, who was a movie star at the time. Ah, the Nineties. It was also a brief TV show and a direct to DVD sequel. Anyway, guess it’s time to bring it back. Since it worked once, why not again? But the world is all too short of Belgian kickboxers to star in it, so we’ll have to come up with something new.
§ Rob Salkowitz suggests that comics need to make more use of Big Data since everyone else does.
In the world of comics, we don’t know much about what kind of data is being collected or how it’s being used. Direct market sales figures remain a black box, with reader preferences filtered through the lens of retailer orders, then distorted again by the nature of the direct market’s self-selected audience. Diamond’s POS system provides information about what is going through the cash register, but not much about who is actually buying. Every so often, a publisher releases the results of a demographic study on readership.
§ This link has been going around, but it’s certainly worth remembering Mike Diana, a Florida cartoonist who became the first American artist to be convicted of obscenity 1994 when he comics were found to be obscene by a Florida court. He was forbidden to draw for three years. After years of staying away from Florida becuase of lingering legal troubles, Diana recently returned for an art show. Although little known today, the Diana case was a notorious one in the 90s, and his punishment for drawing admittedly violent but truly harmless comics was the most disturbing thing about the case:
But his troubles with Florida law enforcement didn’t end there. Diana was eventually convicted on three misdemeanor counts of obscenity for publishing, distributing, and advertising his works Boiled Angel #7 and Boiled Angel #ATE. He became the first artist in U.S. history to be convicted on criminal charges of obscenity. He spent four days in jail and three years on probation. “It was definitely a strange time,” he says, reflecting upon those days. “I feel that one thing that upsets me, that I think is obscene, is the jail and prison system. A lot of people are put behind bars who don’t need to be there.”
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On Friday, Frank Carter made a triumphant return to hardcore punk music with his new band, Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes. Blossom is an explosive debut record full of raw emotion.
The album opens with lead single Juggernaut, which when it was released was a great indicator of things to come. Anyone expecting the Rattlesnakes to sound anything like Carter’s previous band, Pure Love, would have had those illusions shattered by this powerful track.
Frank Carter is probably best known for his stint as the front man of Gallows, who were well known for their loud and volatile sound. While it’s obvious that the sentiments explored in Blossom come from a similar place, exploring anger, hatred and loss, The Rattlesnakes manage to make these feelings feel even more raw and visceral.
I wouldn’t want this entire review to focus on Frank Carter, though. Even though he’s the frontman of this incredible new band, without its fantastic musicians there wouldn’t be much to listen to. The guitars throughout, especially in single Juggernaut, are fantastically powerful, and the drumming is as cymbal-heavy and up tempo as you’d expect from an album of this genre.
Blossom is fast paced for the first half of the album, but towards the end the tracks slow down a little and become more moody and reflective. The change of pace forces the listener to pay attention, as it’s pretty difficult to predict where the record will go next. Most of the tracks clock in at under four minutes long, which helps them to pack a more significant punch – it’s surprising how much anger The Rattlesnakes managed to force into each track.
If you were a fan of Gallows when Frank Carter was frontman, then The Rattlesnakes will definitely be right up your street. If you’re looking for a brand new and explosive record to sink your fangs into (see what I did there? There’s a track on the album called Fangs and – oh never mind), chock full of human emotion with raw punk roots, make sure you get to a music store or online and pick up a copy of Blossom as soon as you can. I, for one, cannot wait to get my mitts on a physical copy of it.
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There's 19 models to choose from, available from £495 advance payment, including the Alfa Giulietta 1.4 TB MultiAir 150 hp, which comes with Climate control, Alfa D.N.A driving mode selector, Uconnect 5" touchscreen infotainment system with internet access and 16" Turbine design alloy wheels.
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King George: What Was His Problem? by Steve Sheinkin: A Nonfiction Book Study is designed for teachers of students in grades 5-8 reading Steve Sheinkin's nonfiction book about the American Revolution (published by Roaring Book Press in 2008).
Sheinkin is also the author of Bomb, The Notorious Benedict Arnold, and Lincoln's Grave Robbers. The Children's Book Committee of Bankstreet College of Education placed King George: What Was His Problem? on their list of Best Children's Books of the Year for 2009.
King George: What Was His Problem by Steve Sheinkin: A Nonfiction Book Study will help you guide your students as they read about the important events and personalities in the American Revolution.
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*A teacher's page with objectives, suggestions for using each section of the unit, and a list of online resources
*The seven-page Oral Reading and Discussion Guide, your map through the book, including a summary, discussion questions, and vocabulary words and definitions for each chapter.
*A twenty-five word glossary
*Crossword puzzle matching vocabulary words with definitions
*Vocabulary review using the vocabulary words in sentence context
*Vocabulary test with fifty questions matching words with definitions and using the words in sentence context
*A chronology of events in the American Revolution for students' reference
*List of all the discussion questions from the reading guide formatted for students to use independently
*A comprehension activity focusing on cause-and-effect
*Find the Details--a fifty-question comprehension activity
*Historical Figures Puzzle which contains twenty names to match with descriptions.
*Sequence of events activity in which the students construct a timeline with fifteen events of the American Revolution
*A research activity in which students find the source information for books about the Revolution
*Comprehension test with fifteen multiple-choice, three sequencing, and seven short answer questions.
*Answer keys included for all items.
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I am a hypocrite when it comes to games firing other games.
For the most part, I refuse to believe that a game can’t be superseded. In fact, when I find a game that I really like, I often wonder what the next step will be with that idea and concept. (I have never come remotely close to believing anything has successfully fired a regular deck of playing cards thought. When one thing can replace Poker, Rummy, Bridge, Whist, Euchre, Blackjack, Spades, Hearts (you get the idea), then we can talk)
And sometimes, games can fire games on pure concept as well. For instance, the Steam family completely fired the Crayon Rail games as far as I’m concerned. Yes, they are actually quite different mechanically but Steam made me happy and feel like I was run a train line and Crayon frustrated me and made me feel like I was trying to keep one train engine alive.
I have yet to be convinced that a game has fired Carcassonne. Other than maybe a different Carcassonne game. (I love me some Hunters and Gatherers)
I remember, when it came out, Isle of Skye being held up to me as the Carcassonne killer. And when I played it, I had thought it was a great game and one that’d I happily play lots more. If someone argued that Isle is a better game than Carcassonne, I might not agree but I’d listen.
But it’s a different enough experience for me that I can’t compare the two games in a way where firing comes in. (But you could for the Steam games and Crayon Rail games! Yeah, that’s because I really don’t enjoy Crayon Rail games)
But apart from personal preference and hypocrisy, what Carcassonne has that Isle of Skye or The Castle of Mad Ludwig or many other tile laying games don’t have is everyone trying to kick each other’s teeth in on a collective board. If you thought shutting down board sections with two-letter words in Scrabble was mean, Carcassonne is confrontation city.
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The Indus is one of Asia’s mightiest rivers. From its source in the northwestern foothills of the Himalayas, it flows through the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir and along the length of Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. The river and its five tributaries together make up the Indus Basin, which spans four countries and supports 215m people.
Yet fast-growing populations and increasing demand for hydropower and irrigation in each country means the Indus is coming under intense pressure.
India and Pakistan, the two main countries in the basin, divided up rights to the various tributaries under the Indus Water Treaty of 1960 (IWT). The IWT has survived various wars and other hostilities between the two countries, and as such it is largely considered a success. Today, however, the treaty is increasingly faced with challenges it wasn’t designed to deal with.
For instance, India recently fast-tracked approval for several major dams along the Chenab, a 900km-long tributary of the Indus that was originally allotted to Pakistan under the IWT. This follows several other contentious dams already being built on shared rivers including Kishanganga, on the Jhelum River, which was also allotted to Pakistan.
Under the IWT, India does indeed have a right to “limited hydropower generation” upstream on the western tributaries allotted to Pakistan, including the Chenab and the Jhelum. However, many in Pakistan worry that even though these proposed dams may individually abide by the technical letter of the treaty, their effects will add up downstream.
Because the treaty does not provide a definitive solution, the two countries have frequently sought time-consuming and expensive international arbitration. From time to time, Pakistan has raised concerns and asked for intervention on the storage capacity of Indian dams planned on shared rivers allotted to Pakistan under the IWT.
Basin countries have also not been forthcoming in sharing data and announcing planned hydropower projects ahead of time.
Other challenges are completely outside the scope of the treaty. First, global warming will raise the sea level and make Himalayan glaciers, the ultimate source of the Indus, melt ever faster. Dangerous flooding is expected to become more frequent and more severe.
Climate change is also expected to affect monsoon patterns in South Asia, and could result in less rainfall for India and Pakistan. This could be disastrous as summer monsoon rainfall provides 90% of India’s total water supply.
Moreover, the basin’s watershed area has suffered tremendous environmental degradation and massive deforestation on both sides of Kashmir, leading to a decrease in the annual water yield.
The IWT is silent on all this. Currently, there is no institutional framework or legal instrument for addressing the effects of climate change on water availability in the Indus Basin.
India and Pakistan also share an important aquifer – essentially a vast pool of underground water covering an area of 16.2m hectares across both countries. This “groundwater” helps support the huge population in the Indus region, accounting for 48% of all water withdrawals in the basin.
But far more water is being taken out each year than is replenished by rain and other recharge sources. One recent study said the Indus was the most overstressed major aquifer in the world, thanks to population growth and development pressures in both countries.
Despite this, the 1960 treaty also does not have any clause to deal with transboundary aquifers, and there are no agreed rules for the allocation and management of shared groundwater.
China and Afghanistan
As with most of Asia’s great rivers, the Indus ultimately begins on the Tibetan plateau, in Chinese territory. India currently has no treaty with upstream China on their shared rivers. How that relationship develops will determine India’s future water availability and in turn how India behaves towards downstream Pakistan.
Similarly, Pakistan and Afghanistan have no water sharing agreement for the Kabul River, an important tributary of the Indus which supplies up to 17% of Pakistan’s total water. As Afghanistan strives to develop its hydropower, with the help of Indian finance, this could instigate a whole new conflict on the Indus itself.
The authors of the Indus Water Treaty can’t be blamed for not anticipating climate change, huge population growth or modern hydropower issues. The treaty was drawn up in the 1950s, after all. The IWT does have a clause for “future cooperation” which allows the two countries to expand the treaty to address recent challenges like climate-induced water variability or groundwater sharing. But the historical trust deficit between the two countries has prevented meaningful dialogue.
But it is clear that these new challenges require all countries in the basin to acknowledge their dependence on each other and discuss joint solutions. Expanding the water sharing agreement to include Afghanistan and China would be a start. Including these two countries, especially China, would also help to address the power asymmetry between India and Pakistan and pave the way for a more holistic sharing agreement over the Indus waters.
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It has become part of the liberal common sense in the United States (buttressed by the publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century) that rising inequality is a top priority, with little discussion of poverty. Conservatives, of course, are pushing back—with the argument (currently being peddled by Deirdre McCloskey, basically a more libertarian version of the argument that more conventionally conservative Martin Feldstein was making in the late-1990s) that we really should be worried about poverty, and forget about inequality.
They’re both wrong. Poverty and inequality are, in fact, connected—both in the long term and in the short term. They’re connected in the long term in the sense that the period of rising inequality, beginning in the late 1970s (measured, as above, by the income share going to the top 1 percent) is also the period during which the poverty rate stopped declining and the number of Americans living below the poverty began a dramatic increase (reaching 46.5 million in 2012).
And, in the short term, we can see that the “recovery” that has been engineered to the benefit of those at the very top (again, measured in terms of the share of income going to the top 1 percent) has been accompanied by a dramatic growth in poverty (as measured in both monthly and annual rates).
Clearly, we can’t afford to choose between poverty and inequality. Current economic policies and arrangements, as they have been implemented since the mid-1970s and kept intact in the midst of the Second Great Depression, have led to growing inequality and consigned a growing segment of the population to living in conditions of poverty. Long live the rich, and to hell with the poor! Is it really so difficult to understand the following proposition: a society that lets a tiny elite capture an obscene portion of its income and wealth is also prone to force a large portion of its citizenry to try to survive in conditions of abject poverty?
Fundamentally changing the economic policies and arrangements of such a society—for example, by changing the way the surplus is appropriated and distributed—can serve to eliminate grotesque levels of inequality and, at the same time, the enduring legacy of massive poverty. | <urn:uuid:33911393-d597-4103-97d5-c581a673d6db> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | https://anticap.wordpress.com/tag/second-great-depression/page/2/ | 2015-05-28T13:58:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207929418.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113209-00075-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969933 | 467 |
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I have a HCL ME X1 for which I want to create a custom AOSP ROM. I downloaded the source code of Android 2.3.7 and built it without making any change. The build was successful and I got the out folder. How can I transfer the compiled code to my device? Should I be bothered about any device drivers? I checked /system for the vendor directory in the currently installed ROM but it didn't have any. | <urn:uuid:4aed72d9-7171-4c83-aec8-b4803c663cdf> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://androidforums.com/threads/creating-a-custom-rom-after-compiling-aosp.445925/ | 2015-01-30T18:15:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115856115.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161056-00230-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967789 | 91 |
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Outstanding customer care and service is at the very core of what we believe in.We strive to provide value for money insurance solutions allied to a personal and professional approach to all of our clients business needs.
Our team of Directors and staff are committed to providing a personal tailored service for all our clients. Our business retention rates, year upon year, illustrates the high level of satisfaction our clients have come to expect and enjoy.
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Posted on: July 13, 2017
In this last entry on common objections to hearing aids we will be looking at one we hear fairly often: my friend or family member has hearing aids, but they don’t use them.
There could be several reasons for this. With any new hearing aid there is an adaptation period. Most people have had hearing loss for years before they decide to get hearing aids. As a result the ears and brain need time to adapt to all the new sounds they will be hearing. The world in a noisy place and some people opt to put the hearing aids in the drawer. However, with some effort the brain will adapt to hearing again and the benefits to quality of life will far outweigh any challenges in the beginning.
Everyone’s hearing is also unique. Two people may hear sounds at the same level, but one may be more sensitive to loud sound, or prefer to listen at a different level than the other. As such, hearing aids often have to be adjusted a few times during the adaptation period to tailor them to each individual. If your friend or relative has not fully gone through this process or been back for adjustments then their hearing aids may not be set optimally for their hearing. The key here is to find a good provider that can work through your individual needs with you to set the hearing aids up appropriately.
Something else to consider is how old your friends hearing aids are. Technology is improving all the time. Current hearing aids can reduce or filter out much of the unwanted background noise in many situations, making listening easier. They are also more automatic than ever. Other’s are capable of wireless connectivity to your smartphone and other wireless devices. With all of these features there is a hearing aid that can meet just about anyones needs.
Finally, no two people are the same. No matter what reason, the fact that your friend or relative are having difficulty does not mean that you will too. The only way to know for sure is to try them yourself. You may open yourself up to a world of better hearing.
For more information please feel free to contact one of our clinics.
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Relics of Power Finalist: Deck of Hellish Delights
Welcome to the Relics of Power finals! Our third of ten finalists is the Deck of Hellish Delights. Remember, these entries are unedited so that you can have a similar experience to the one that the judges had while reading them. As a special treat, we are posting each one with an illustration that Chris McFann made for the item. Take a look at this artifact.
Deck of Hellish Delights
Aura strong conjuration and divination; CL 20th
Slot none; Weight —
The Deck of Hellish Delights was created by the mad self-styled master of ink magic, the archmage Caderyn. The wizard is said to have created the deck as an act of revenge after losing several powerful artifacts to a wager with an archdevil. The humiliated and irate wizard subsequently used his arcane mastery to allow others to travel to infernal planes and bind and control the creatures therein.
The deck is always found with 22 vividly illustrated cards, usually in a dark wooden box. Half of the cards depict specific devils or demons. The remaining cards each display a major area of the Hells. A card becomes grey and inert once used until a full year has passed, after which it regains its colorful appearance and can be used again. Any card that is separated from the deck reappears with the rest of the deck the following day.
Each creature card is associated with a specific type of devil or demon. The archmage captured the essence of a specific creature of the appropriate type in each card, creating a bond between the creature and card. The creature card types are barbed devil, bearded devil, bone devil, erinyes, glabrezu, hezrou, ice devil, handmaiden devil, nabasu, nalfeshnee, and succubus. The individual beings portrayed in the cards can take no direct action against the deck owner.
A card holder can activate a creature card to summon the portrayed entity as if the user cast gate as a 20th level caster and used the “calling creatures” feature of the spell, with the following difference: the card holder can demand that the fiend serve it for a particularly dangerous task or a period of one month, without offering compensation. At the end of the task or time period the creature is returned to its home plane. Only one creature card from the deck can be in use in this manner during any period of time; activating another creature card immediately ends the previous creature’s service as if the time period had expired.
Alternatively, a card holder can activate a creature card to bind a different entity of the same card type. For example, the succubus card could be used to bind a different succubus than the one currently depicted. Binding a creature to a card is a full-round action that does not provoke an attack of opportunity, and the target must be within close range. Taking this action dissolves any bond between the card and any creature that was previously bound to it, and the card displays the newly bound creature.
Each hellscape card shows a wide view of a major area in a plane of Hell. The card holder can concentrate on the card to activate an effect equivalent to greater scrying cast at 20th caster level, targeting the location the card shows. The previously static image on the card shifts to accurately display what is occurring in the depicted area. The card holder can focus on a specific section of the image to cause the scrying sensor to move to that location. At any point during this observation, the card can be used to create a gate to the observed location as a 20th level caster using the “planar travel” feature of the spell. If the card holder travels to the other plane, the image on the card changes to show the site the card was activated for 24 hours. A card holder can use the card to open a return gate to that location while the image persists. The card becomes inert for the full year whether or not the planar travel aspect of the card is used.
Rumors persist that the deck was actually created as part of the archdevil’s prize for the wager, and that its use ultimately advances an unknown diabolical design. Whatever its purpose, many beings seek the deck for their own reasons. Some, such as the creatures depicted in the cards themselves, actively seek to trick adventurers into freeing them or destroying the deck.
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Nonetheless, both sides went in at the same time, and a flashpoint erupted, with Owen Farrell and John Barclay reportedly involved.
After years upon years of agony against their greatest enemy, Scotland handed Eddie Jones only his second loss as England coach and pitched themselves right into the championship picture. Second half I was very proud of the effort of the boys.
Scotland had not scored a try against England at Murrayfield since wing Simon Danielli went over in 2004.
"Going over there, whatever we did today we'll have to up that performance".
The only other time it happened was in last year's Six Nations Grand Slam decider when, having already wrapped up the title, England were suffocated by Ireland at the Aviva Stadium. Like England, the Scots have two victories from three and can still win the title.
Greig Laidlaw kicked Scotland into an early lead with a penalty - the first of a worrying 13 concede by England - before Farrell replied in kind. Calls were growing for the introduction of promotion and relegation in the championship, giving the likes of Georgia and Romania hope of a spot in the Northern Hemisphere jamboree.
"I think in our last nine games we've lost one and that was a real close one".
GETTYScotland hadn't beaten England since 2008
"It gives an interesting approach to you guys and I think it's great for the game".
The first half saw Scotland score three tries - a tally made all the more remarkable given it was 14 years since they had last crossed England's try-line in a Calcutta Cup clash at Murrayfield. The Scotland fly-half was masterful as he orchestrated the end of his side's 10-year wait for victory over England, the highlight proving to be his long floated pass to Huw Jones that initiated Sean Maitland's try.
England came out for the second half 22-6 down - its largest halftime deficit in 136 meetings against Scotland - and scored its only try nearly immediately through center Owen Farrell. It didn't spark a comeback, though.
The visitors' chances of victory all but ended when replacement Sam Underhill was sin-binned for a no-arms tackle in the 66th, when the score was 22-13.
England worked deep into home territory and were rewarded by two Farrell penalties, but their whitewash was breached in the 16th minute when Jones hacked on Finn Russell's grubber and pounced when Jonathan Joseph failed to gather the ball.
"They were too good for us", Jones said.
She added: "We were at full capacity during the first game, so we had a queue stretching up the road, lots of people were trying to get in and have drinks before the Scotland match". It would also tee them up for a Grand Slam game against England, in Twickenham, on March 17.
Narendra Modi launches subsidised two-wheeler scheme in Chennai
The launch of the scheme was held to mark the 70th birth anniversary of former AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa . The " Amma " two wheeler scheme will go a long way in empowering women in the state, he added.
Dropbox Finally Makes It Public That It's Going Public
As tech publication GeekWire notes , the data center move help saved Dropbox about $75 million over a two-year period. Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Deutsche Bank AG and Allen & Co. are leading the offering.
Kansas City Chiefs trading CB Marcus Peters to LA Rams
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9 Sweet Succulent Ideas
Succulents are chic, easy to care for and inexpensive. They make wonderful gift ideas too. Here are nine Sweet Succulent Ideas (both real and faux):
Got a chipped teacup? Recycle it into a Teacup Succulent!
Here’s a fresh take on succulents: Faux Succulent Garden.
Make your succulents shine with this Lighted Woodland Scene with Succulents.
It’s a little magical scene: how fun is this Gnome Garden?
Teensy tiny cuteness… that’s what this Succulent Necklace is.
This little guy is ready for spring: Hedgehog Faux Succulent Garden.
A new pot can look vintage in a snap: Distressed Pot with Succulents.
This Mason Jar Succulent is yet another cool idea for Mason Jars.
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Typically, this error message is the result of just general connection difficulties somewhere between our servers and a player. Which unfortunately means there is usually nothing we can do about it. It usually goes away after a while.
Please eliminate possible problems on your end. For instance, try a wired connection if you're using a wireless one, shutdown other applications that use the net, etc.
Then open the Settings program in your Battleground Europe folder and choose a Connection instead of Use Best and try to login.
If that doesn't work, change the connection to use the other option. (This is choosing your path to our game servers). One might be better for you than the other (and is why we have two).
If this occurs on both connections and only after the most recent patch, please run a tracert to authdevng.playnet.com and post the results in a support ticket. To do this, open the cmd program (start menu and run, or google) and then type in tracert authdevng.playnet.com. | <urn:uuid:0d25dc51-5263-4058-ba29-752eb9a7fdb1> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://playnet.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/212029378-Error-Message-10057 | 2019-11-20T17:53:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670597.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20191120162215-20191120190215-00117.warc.gz | en | 0.928108 | 217 |
Private training schools – sometimes called ‘career colleges’ – offer post-secondary vocational training which is meant to prepare a person for employment in an occupational field.
Taken from the government of Prince Edward Island's website, the Maritime Yoga College is the only recognized yoga school on PEI. As such, we adhere to the guidelines as set out by the Private Training Schools Act.
This is good news for you since the the chief aim is to protect students, to ensure that:
The next step is to apply to Service Canada, so we can offer student loans to our students. In the meantime, we do offer payment plans.
Ready for that career change?
Register with confidence for the summer intensive program, July 15th - August 9th, 2014.
Maritime Yoga College is also registered as a RYS-200 (Registered Yoga School at the 200-hour level) as designated by the Yoga Alliance.
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Welcome. It feels a little strange to think someone might actually read my blog. This is my first blog EVER into the massive blog-o-sphere. I NEVER thought I would blog. I don’t see myself as a good writer, nor do I like to venture into new things. Well, here I am. Blogging.
Wine & Myrrh is already impacting my heart. I’ve had to come to a place where I felt like my opinions and stories were worth sharing. When I shared a part of my journey on Facebook a few months back and received so much encouraging feedback, I realized that it’s not ME on this journey… we are ALL on this journey together, our individual paths look a little bit different.
Why Wine&Myrrh? That’s a loaded question…
Mark 15:23 “Then they offered him (Jesus) wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.” Both the wine and the myrrh would have helped relax and numb Jesus’s pain while He hung on the cross, however HE REFUSED IT. Not only did it fulfill a prophecy that He would drink vinegar, but Jesus bore 100% of the pain for us, when He could have easily felt just a little bit of relief.
Wine has both positive and negative symbolism.
-Miracles: Jesus turned water into wine.
-Jesus: wine symbolizes His blood, which symbolizes many amazing things.
-Represents joy, celebration, and festivity, & the abundant blessings of God.
-Abuse or lack of self control – we need to be wise in our decisions.
-Beauty&Marriage – it was a popular custom to lay a bundle of myrrh on one’s chest while sleeping as a beauty treatment in preparation for a wedding. Esther was provided oil of myrrh before her wedding.— Song of Solomon 1:13
-Bitterness, suffering, and affliction. The Hebrew word for myrrh is Mowr which means “distilled,” and comes from the root word Marar which means “bitterness.” The baby Jesus would grow to suffer greatly as a man and would pay the ultimate price when He gave His life on the cross for all who would believe in Him.
-Christ’s Return: Revelation 8:3-4 tells us that the original altar of incense continues to be used before the throne of God in Heaven. Psalm 45:8 describes Yeshua’s (Jesus) garments: “All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia…”
-Myrrh is an essential oil – it has incredible healing properties AND essential oils have become my passion and purpose in this season of my life.
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This Flamingo hairpin card was produced in 1947, and even if the date wasn’t printed on the back it would be easy to identify the era. The woman depicted on the front of the card is wearing her side-parted hair in face-framing rolls, a style that was de rigueur for most of the 1940s.
I was drawn to this Flamingo card when I saw it in an online auction about ten years ago because of its vibrant color, the undeniable ‘40s vibe, and its pristine condition. I bought it for about $10. All of the pieces in my collection suggest a story to me, and this hairpin card brings to mind the iconic Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, which opened on December 26, 1946.
The Flamingo, if you’re not familiar with its history, was Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel’s project, financed by his associates in the New York mob. But the hotel wasn’t just business for Ben; it was a labor of love. He’d named the hotel after his mistress, Virginia Hill, whom he’d nicknamed Flamingo. A vivacious and headstrong redhead, Virginia was introduced to the mobster with movie star looks when she moved to L.A. in 1940, and in her, Ben found met his match. (When she discovered that Ben was lodging three other mistresses simultaneously at the Flamingo she confronted the one she hated most, the Countess Dorothy di Frasso, and nearly broke the woman’s jaw.)
By mid-1947 Siegel was in hot water with the mob. The Flamingo Hotel had opened to a handful of locals, not the crowd of wealthy Hollywood celebrities that Ben had promised. Ben knew that if the place didn’t show a profit, he would be expendable, so he fled Las Vegas and holed up in the house Virginia rented on Linden Drive in Beverly Hills.
On the night of June 20, 1947, Siegel was shot to death as he sat on a sofa in the living room reading a newspaper. Even though it was widely accepted that the mob had ordered the hit, no one was ever charged with the murder and the crime remains officially unsolved. Until her death in 1966, Virginia maintained publicly that she never knew anything about the mob, Ben Siegel’s criminal activities, or his murder.
Meanwhile, Morris Flamingo-Stephan, the 95-year-old manufacturer of Flamingo hairpins, is still in business today as a distributor of barber and beauty supplies. In fact, their logo remains virtually unchanged, except that the lovely blonde, along with her retro hairstyle, is long gone.
Joan Renner is an L.A.-based writer, lecturer, and social historian with an expert knowledge of vintage beauty products. She blogs at The Clutch once a week and writes about cosmetics and beauty history at her Web site, Vintage Powder Room. | <urn:uuid:b4a900ec-9674-4cdf-bb8c-3426d6c4ed7c> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://www.lamag.com/lastyle/vintage-powder-room-flamingo-hairpins/ | 2019-08-25T05:33:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027323067.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20190825042326-20190825064326-00399.warc.gz | en | 0.977091 | 624 |
April 30th – May 5th is National Small Business Week. Started in 1963, this week brings attention to the importance of small business in our country which account for more than 95 percent of all the business here. Small business is vital to our country’s economy and enriching our local communities. Despite how important they are, small businesses are often victimized by bureaucratic regulations and face intense competition from corporate chains. Let’s take a minute to appreciate small businesses and their owners, and talk about some ways for small businesses to stand tough in this environment.
How to Help Your Small Business and the Community
- Chambers of Commerce: Joining local chamber of commerce can help you stay informed on serious issues affecting your business community, bring your business more customers, and help you network with fellow business owners.
- Local politics: Local politicians will often be the ones making decisions that will affect your business community. Staying informed and voting can help benefit your small business community.
- Contact the Small Business Association (SBA): The SBA was founded in 1953, designed to help aid small businesses and strengthen the economy as a whole. They assist with federal small business contracts, access to loans, government contracting, and small business advocacy.
- Consumer spending: Your consumer choices affect how well local business can do. Choosing national chains, or the “bigger guy,” will often hurt your local small businesses.
Small businesses are one of the most important factors in our economy, and protecting their best interests is a very important issue. If your business is facing scrutiny from federal agencies or elsewhere, contacting a New Jersey small business attorney can greatly help your case. | <urn:uuid:59d9234c-2960-459c-bf04-9966eadf3001> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.kmrslaw.com/national-small-business-week-week-learn-helping-business-community | 2019-06-16T16:58:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998288.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20190616162745-20190616184745-00449.warc.gz | en | 0.955306 | 339 |
Wisdom Moving LLC
Wisdom Moving started in 2006 as a labor only business, essentially helping customers load and unload their own rental trucks. It has grown from there to being fully licensed, insured and bonded as a moving company with the state of IL and the Illinois Commerce Commission. We are here to serve your moving needs, whether they are local or long distance. We are also a member of the Illinois Movers & Warehouseman’s association. Please don’t hesitate to call or email with your questions, or if you want a quote on your move.
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Reliquary figures were made by the Kota peoples to serve as protectors of their ancestors’s relics and bones. This example is striking in its depiction of the human face in terms of geometric shapes, the use of two different metals, and its overall excellent condition.
Wood with brass sheeting, copper pieces
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Smiley (Cecilia Sahlman, class of 1950)
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Evidence for a High Slip Rate of the Calico Fault in the Eastern California Shear Zone
Fault slip rates provide important constraint on seismic hazard assessments. Geologic and geodetic estimates of slip rates across the Eastern California Shear Zone (ECSZ) reveal a discrepancy between the two data sets. Most studies attempting to reconcile the discrepancy have focused on off-fault deformation and the technique limitation of short-term geodetic measurements, while there is less concern about the relatively small number of cited geologic slip rates. The Calico fault is central fault in the Mojave Desert portion of the ECSZ, where published geologic slip rates are between 1 and 2 mm/yr. We determine new geologic slip rates of the Calico fault by dating two offset alluvial fans near the town of Newberry Springs, California. Correlation of the offset fans was based on geomorphic and soil development characteristics. Offset magnitudes are based on high-resolution topography and orthoimagery, and by cropping and matching the alluvial fans along the fault trace. Surface displacements of the two offset fans are ~80 m and ~1120 m. Surface exposure ages of alluvial fan samples are dated using the production of 10Be terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide (TCN). The fan with an ~80 m offset produced an age of ~40 ka, yielding a slip rate of ~2 mm/yr, consistent with previous studies. The fan with displacement of ~1120 m produced an age of ~290 ka, yielding a slip rate of ~4 mm/yr, indicating that the Calico fault likely had a much higher slip rate early and has decreased more recently.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Presented at AGU Fall Meeting on December 14, 2016 in San Francisco, CA
Scholar Commons Citation
Xie, Surui; Wetmore, Paul H.; Owen, Lewis A.; Gallant, Elisabeth; and Dixon, Tim, "Evidence for a High Slip Rate of the Calico Fault in the Eastern California Shear Zone" (2016). School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications. 1192. | <urn:uuid:c9afdaba-d1b5-43e4-a4c1-5e7b5d68dbe1> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/geo_facpub/1192/ | 2023-06-09T08:02:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655446.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609064417-20230609094417-00087.warc.gz | en | 0.880653 | 499 |
Makes 2 small serves
1 mango cheek
½ cup pineapple, fresh or canned in juice
200g reduced fat natural yoghurt
⅓ cup reduced fat milk
- Remove skin from mango cheek.
- Add ingredients to a blender.
- Blend for 1 minute or until smooth.
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June 29, 2009
The Haunted Drum
Perng Mang: Glawng phee nang manut
Nuttapeera Chomsri & Sranya Noithai - 2007
Tai Seng Region 1 DVD
Had I stayed in Thailand for another couple of weeks, I would have seen The Haunted Drum theatrically, mostly because it would have been the major release at the moment. The film recently was made available on DVD in the U.S., and turns out to be one of the more credible Thai ghost stories I have seen. This is one of the few films that plays it straight. If The Haunted Drum doesn't reach the artistic heights of Nonzee Nimibutr's Nang Nak or Wisit Sasanatieng's The Unseeable, it still proves to be a satisfying film for what it does achieve.
Being a period film, taking place in the 19th Century, The Haunted Drum does require some appreciation for Thai culture. The film delivers on graphic horror without dwelling on it, and at least on of the plot twists is not only not unexpected, but may seem like a requirement for Thai ghost stories. The visual gorgeousness of The Haunted Drum begins from the opening credit sequence of shots of a shrine decked with golden masks and incense, a series of pans and dissolves. The narrative introduces Ping, a young boy with the ambition to become a musician. It is later revealed that he is from a prominent family, yet chooses to be part of a musical group that is as prestigious as it is impoverished. While some of the musicians and dancers publicly agree to the vow, there is discontent regarding their financial and social standing, partially determined by the local government chief who sponsors a musical group of his own.
At the time that Ping steps into the courtyard where the musicians and dancers live, the group master, Duong, has everyone gathered while he makes a special vow. Those of the group who do not leave by the time a stick of incense has burned would be expected to remain as loyal members of Duang's group. Anyone who leaves the group after completion of the vow, or who causes discord in the group, would be subject to a horrible fate. Ping stays with Duang, in part because of the opportunity to move up from supporting drums, playing the taphon, to playing the featured perng mang, The perng mang is actually a group of tonally keyed drums that play different notes. The title instrument is said to host spirits who serve to protect Master Duang's group as long as it is revered. Strictly going by the synopsis, one might easily dismiss The Haunted Drum.
I could only imagine what it might have been like to see The Haunted Drum in a theater like the Major Cineplex in Chiang Mai. I would recommend this film based on the soundtrack alone. There is a scene in which Ping and another musician, Pai, compete on the perng mang. To put it in a way that westerners might understand better, it's like watching a face off between Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. I don't know how close to classical Thai music this is, but it is no surprise that the musical group Giant Wave had been nominated for their score. Maybe the biggest twists to The Haunted Drum is that it actually was a box office failure in Thailand, only to score several nominations in the Thailand National Film Association awards, also for the costumes, and actress Woranut Wongsawan, who plays the mysterious Tip.
Because the film was a critical, but not financial success, it will be of interest to see what opportunities are given for the filmmakers. Nuttapeera is also credited for cowriting the screenplay for the critically lambasted White Monkey Warrior. I would hope that Sranya will be heard from again, being one of the few Thai female film directors.
June 28, 2009
Willem Dafoe in The Loveless (Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery - 1982)
June 25, 2009
Paul Wendkos - 1961
Warner Archives DVD
Is there anyone who has the story on the making of Angel Baby? What is known for sure is that the film was begun by Hubert Cornfeld, and completed and signed by Paul Wendkos. There are also two credited cinematographers, Haskell Wexler and Jack Marta. There are parts of the film that appear closer to the work of Cornfeld and Wexler, mostly with some of the more dramatic lighting and unusual angles. In terms of any thematic and visual continuity, Angel Baby has more in common with Cornfeld's other films that I've seen, Pressure Point and Night of the Following Day. It could also be that Wendkos was hired to complete the film because someone remembered that his first film, The Burglar was about the robbery of a fake spiritualist. I found it interesting to discover that Wendkos and Cornfeld both made their debut films at about the same time, with The Burglar on the shelf for two years before being picked up by Columbia Pictures. Andrew Sarris considered Wendkos and Cornfeld interesting enough to mention them in his American Cinema. If nothing else, further study and interviews of those still with us would be of interest in discussing the kind of work that constituted independent filmmaking in the Fifties, when Wendkos and Cornfeld began their careers. Cornfeld's filmography is the skimpier of the two men because he managed to antagonize enough people to effectively cut short his time in Hollywood. Paul Wendkos proved to be more elastic in taking whatever projects came his way, yet Angel Baby is not uncharacteristic considering the scope of his very productive career.
Setting aside questions of authorship, Angel Baby is, on the whole, a film that seems to look better now than it did during its initial release. A mute young woman, Jenny, is dragged by her mother to the prayer meeting held by evangelist Paul Strand. With the audience members also praying for her to regain her voice, Strand places his hand on Jenny's throat. She regains the voice lost when she was a young girl, much to her own shock and amazement. Jenny decides to dedicate her life to spreading "the word", joining the itinerant Strand with his much older wife, Sarah, and their assistants, the less than secretively alcoholic Ben and Molly Hays. Sarah's jealousy of Jenny's youth and fear of losing her husband causes a rift, with Jenny going out on her own with help from the Hays couple. A small town businessman sees a way to make money promoting Jenny. While some critics have described Angel Baby as the smaller scale, distaff version of Elmer Gantry, this ignores both the issues raised by Angel Baby as well as its other merits as a film.
Even though the religion in the story is a form of Christianity, I think it would by short-sighted to think that Christianity is the subject of the film. Taking a broader perspective, I would argue that Angel Baby is actually about the role of faith taken personally, and used in any form of organized religion where hierarchies of any kind are involved. The characters in Angel Baby may be deeply flawed, and yet they are also guided by a sincere belief that they are acting on behalf of God. What makes the film work is that there seems to be a fundamental respect for the characters without making them the objects of derision or cheap humor, even though there is an abundance of opportunity.
One scene that would have surely tempted a lesser director involves Sarah and Paul. Imagining that Paul's feelings about Jenny are more than friendly, Sarah reminds Paul of their marriage vows, and offers herself to Paul, wearing a somewhat flimsy nightgown, exposing the upper portion of her breasts. The actress playing Sarah, Mercedes McCambridge, was never attractive in the conventional sense, and was twenty-three years older than the actor playing Paul, George Hamilton. Paul spurns Sarah's advances. While the scene could be read as one of the old Hollywood trope of there being something wrong with mature women having both sexual interest, and sexual interest in much younger men, the scene is played with greater sympathy for Sarah than would be found in a similar scene in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard which played up the relationship between Gloria Swanson and William Holden for maximum grotesqueness.
Salome Jens, as Jenny, never fit the conventional mold of Hollywood beauty. Her acting ability cannot be questioned in the first few minutes of the film, first by the body language she uses when she is mute, and then when she is healed by George Hamilton. When Jens first speaks, it is with the voice of someone who has not spoken in about ten years, mouthing the words but not being fully articulate, the sounds struggling to come out of her mouth. The film also marks one of top billed George Hamilton's early roles. Whatever limitations Hamilton has had as an actor, he is visibly better delivering fire and brimstone than playing innocent and earnest. His performance in Angel Baby suggests that not enough attention was paid to how much better Hamilton is when his character skirts the sleazy side of life. Peripheral to the story, but a moment worth savoring is a scene of the very drunk Ben and Molly Hays, played by the always dependable Henry Jones and Joan Blondell. Deciding that the need to see the Strands about the trouble Jenny is about to get into, Jones takes Blondell's feet to put on her shoes. There is a palpable sweetness to the scenes these two older character actors share. Angel Baby was also the inauspicious big screen debut of Burt Reynolds, playing a character not too different from the good ol' boy persona he would make his own almost ten years later. Reynolds appears only in a few scenes in the beginning and near the end, showing off the chest that would sell a million magazines a decade later. Reynolds also has my favorite line in the film, letting Jens know how much he feels for her: "You look so nice and sweet. I swear you give me the torments."
I'm not sure if I know exactly what "the torments" are, although I could probably make an educated guess. Still, it's a great line and one that is more imaginative than what passes for dialogue in more recent American films. For those whose church is the cinema, we can be thankful that Angel Baby is born again on DVD.
June 22, 2009
The Claude Chabrol blogathon: The Road to Corinth
La Route de Corinthe/Who's Got the Black Box?
Claude Chabrol - 1967
Pathfinder Home Entertainment Region 1 DVD
Road to Corinth is a perfect illustration of what Andrew Sarris meant when he described Chabrol as keeping his hand in the filmmaking process even when his heart wasn't in it. The last film made before renewed commercial and critical with Les Biches, it is easy to understand why Chabrol would think this is his worst film. This is not to say unwatchable or devoid of any rewards. If Claude Chabrol's goal was to be the French Alfred Hitchock, than The Road to Corinth is Topaz, filmed two years earlier and with fewer pretenses.
The black boxes are little electronic gizmos that are suppose to cause failure in N.A.T.O.'s radar system. The boxes are Chabrol's MacGuffin. Chabrol is less interested in cold war politics than he is in presenting Jean Seberg as his blonde damsel in distress, picking up where her murdered spy husband left off. Chabrol may have been glancing at Jean-Luc Godard by not only using the star of Breathless, but introducing his N.A.T.O. spies with a wall sized photo of Lyndon Johnson and a giant U.S. flag. If nothing else, these outsized props serve as notice to not take The Road to Corinth seriously.
What probably was of interest to Chabrol was the constant shifting of relationships. Seberg's goal is to vindicate her husband while everyone else wants to get in her way for their own reasons. Both characters and places are not always who, or what, they appear to be. The film begins with the appearance of a magician named Socrates, who is revealed under torture to be a spy. Michel Bouquet operates a small snack shop as a cover for his spy operation, while the chief villain has a lair inside the family crypt. Chabrol plays with sexual ambiguity presenting a male chambermaid, a portly hitman whose voice and soft features a feminine, and a dandyish hitman with an affinity for flowers and straw hats. The interest in duality within one person is also indicated when a piece of sculpture, the head of the goddess Artemis, is split in half, truly a girl cut in two.
Chabrol finds ways to be visually inventive with such scenes as the dandy spy climbing down a rope, filmed breaking into the movie frame, or Jean Seberg suspended in midair while hoisted from a crane. There is some humor involving spies disguised as Greek Orthodox priests, complete with sunglasses. Coming as it did, when the James Bond inspired spy cycle was tapering down, The Road to Corinth can't really be described as a spoof, but Chabrol is attempting to have some fun with both the genre and the Greek locations.
While thinking about the film, I had wondered it Hitchcock had ever considered Jean Seberg. Probably the combination would not have worked on a personal level, and Seberg was considered iffy at best in terms of Hollywood box office potential. It is also possible that Chabrol cast Seberg because she had a name that had some meaning beyond France, and if he couldn't make a movie with Grace Kelly, he could at least work with Otto Preminger's discovery. If you want to see Jean Seberg's best acting performance, see Lillith. In The Road to Corinth, it's enough that Jean Seberg is blonde and beautiful, and that every man in the film falls in lover with her. Even if one jettisons questions of Claude Chabrol's style and authorship, Jean Seberg's presence alone is enough to justify a view of this souffle of a movie.
For much, much more on Chabrol, visit Flickhead.
June 21, 2009
Jacqueline Bisset in La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol - 1995)
Le blogathon de Claude Chabrol commence a chez Flickhead.
Posted by peter at 12:28 AM
June 18, 2009
The Good Guys
Young Billy Young
Burt Kennedy - 1969
MGM Region 1 DVD
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
Burt Kennedy - 1969
Warner Brother Region 1 DVD
The revived interest in Budd Boetticher has in turn inspired me to watch, or in some cases, watch again the films by Burt Kennedy. Kennedy wrote the screenplays for what are probably the better of the Randolph Scott westerns directed by Boetticher, including the first, Seven Men from Now, and the last, Comanche Station. The eventual disappearance of westerns as a Hollywood staple was one of the causes for Kennedy's career to turn from theatrical films to television assignments. While I never saw Kennedy's films as consistently as I might have, those I did see usually offered a certain amount of pleasure. At his peak, Kennedy enjoyed working with bigger budgets and longer running times than allowed Budd Boetticher, yet Kennedy's film usually lack the vividness and punch Boetticher seemed to achieve with a few broad strokes. Still, what I like best about Burt Kennedy was that even though by choice or by circumstance, he was primarily involved with westerns, and he seemed to always look for some way to tweak the genre.
Kennedy also worked with some of the same actors in different films, and in keeping with his affinity for westerns worked with stars who were primarily associated with the genre, twice with John Wayne, a mentor early in Kennedy's career, and James Garner. One of the more curious collaborations is that 1969 saw the release of two films Kennedy filmed back-to-back with both Robert Mitchum and David Carradine. It isn't that surprising that neither Young Billy Young nor The Good Guys and the Bad Guys rated any discussions of Carradine's past film roles, these are supporting roles with not a lot of screen time. Reflecting on the films Kennedy wrote for Boetticher, I tried to imagine Carradine in Lee Marvin's role in Seven Men from Now, or taking the place of James Coburn in Ride Lonesome.
By extension, this means imagining Robert Mitchum instead of Randolph Scott. Both of Kennedy's films introduce Mitchum crouched down by a campfire, drinking coffee, the type of scene that would appear in Boetticher's films with Scott. The thematic concerns continue, primarily that of youth versus maturity, and the usually surrogate relationships between fathers and sons. Curiously, both Young Billy Young and The Good Guys and the Bad Guys begin with shots of old steam locomotives, as well as vocal versions of the title songs. As much as I usually like Robert Mitchum, he never had much of a singing voice, and what was passable for Thunder Road is painfully thin almost ten years later. The Good Guys and the Bad Guys boasts the then popular Glenn Yarbrough, a real singer, although for this kind of film, I would have preferred Frankie Laine. Young Billy Young, with a screenplay by Kennedy is more similar to the Scott-Boetticher films. Kennedy recycles the last name of one of Ride Lonesome's characters, Boone, as the family name for Carradine and John Anderson. Mitchum's character is named Ben Kane, possibly a combination taken from Will Kane of High Noon and Scott's Ben Brigade in Ride Lonesome.
Young Billy Young claims a book titled Who Rides with Wyatt? as its basis, but there is nothing in the film that resembles even a highly fictionalized version of the story of Wyatt Earp. Instead, two young outlaws, David Carradine and Robert Walker, Jr. sneak onto the train seen in the opening credits, shoot a Mexican officer and ride off, with Carradine soon abandoning the horseless Walker. Roping a jackass found on the trail, Walker comes across Mitchum, sitting alone, drinking coffee by a stream. Mitchum's past catches up to him in the Arizona town where he acts as lawman, with Carridine as the son of the man who killed Mitchum's son. Mitchum also clashes with Jack Kelly, the man who virtually owns the town, with Angie Dickinson caught between them. Unlike the Boetticher films written by Kennedy that take place in isolated outposts, Kennedy prefers more populated settings for his own films. Still the relationships between Mitchum and Walker, as well as Walker with Carradine, share common ground with such films as the aforementioned Ride Lonesome and The Tall T.
Thematic concerns are less to the point for The Good Guys and the Bad Guys. The film starts off as a seemingly traditional western with Mitchum riding foothills of New Mexico, and stopping off to make small talk with curmudgeonly, civilization hating, Douglas Fowley. The cut to Model Ts upsets any previous expectations, with much of the film taking place in the early 20th Century in a town pointed called Progress. The screenplay is credited to Dennis Shryack and Ronald Cohen, but there seem to be a few moments that indicate Kennedy's hand. Carradine's cigar chomping outlaw leader has more screen time. Like many westerns of the time, it is an elegy to the end of the west, although more comic in tone with Martin Balsam's pompous mayor leading the charge towards the future. Seen almost thirty years later, there is a sense of nostalgia not so much for changing times, as much as the pleasure of seeing Robert Mitchum square off against George Kennedy, John Carradine making a brief appearance as a train conductor, and perennial bad girl Marie Windsor as a bar hostess. It seems quite possible that unlike his heroes who have supposedly outlived their usefulness, Kennedy knew that his time as a genre specialist was limited.
Burt Kennedy conducted an interview with Sean Axmaker, primarily discussing his work with Budd Boetticher.
Posted by peter at 12:06 AM
June 16, 2009
Japanese Cinema Blogathon: Matango
Ishiro Honda - 1963
Tokyo Shock Region 1 DVD
While I can't really say that watching Toho Studios monster movies initiated my love for Japanese movies, it probably had a lot to do with introducing me to the idea of watching Japanese movies more seriously. If for no other reasons, I would consider the series a gateway that help generate an interest in Japanese film in general. Unlike some of my generation, I didn't see any of the films theatrically but waited for the television broadcast versions of Rodan and Mothra. At the time I first saw the film known to Americans as Godzilla, I was still unsophisticated enough to not realize that Raymond Burr was shoehorned into an all Japanese film by means of editing. Seeing the American edit years later, I've always wondered why no one has had the sense of humor to remake the film - Raymond Burr plays a character named Steve Martin, so why not have Steve Martin in a version as a character named Raymond Burr? I did finally see the original Japanese version on an Australian DVD, several years before the American DVD version of Gojira was available, stunned by how much grimmer Ishiro Honda's film was as was his intention.
That my viewing of Japanese films would segue from Honda to Akira Kurosawa might also be considered somewhat natural, as these two filmmakers worked at the same studio, made films that essentially defined Japanese cinema for American young men, and personally were the best of friends. The name though that meant more to me when I was a much younger film scholar was Eiji Tsuburaya, Toho's special effects wizard, profiled in a copy of "Famous Monsters of Filmland". I eventually felt myself too old to watch Toho monster films, at least theatrically, but would catch something on occasion on television. The special effects might not have measured up to Hollywood standards, and the synchronization of the dubbing would be off, but there was always a childlike fascination with giant creatures that would visit Earth to create panic and havoc, and remind people of the dangers of radiation. In their unique way, Toho monster movies would also create the notion of the world outside of America at a time when the U.S. was less culturally or racially diverse.
I'm not sure how much I would have appreciated Matango if I had seen it when I was much younger, but I can understand now why some of the actors say it is the favorite of Toho monster films they acted in. Unlike many of the other Honda films, there is no giant monster. That the monsters here are people are walking, stalking, human sized mushrooms is a loopy concept that originated from writer William Hope Hodgson. While unstated, as best as I can tell, from anyone associated with the film film, I would say that Matango reminds me of that favorite line from the Howard Hawks/Christian Nyby version of The Thing: "An intellectual carrot. The mind boggles!". There is a brief reference to the dangers of radiation, but the other film that Matango would remind me of, more than the giant monster series, would be Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Siegel's monsters were the "pod people", repeating the idea of people as vegetables, or vice versa, lacking human emotions. This, of course, could be a setup for a joke about the horror of carrots, peas and mushrooms. But what I think Honda was after, on a more symbolic level, was a critique of the conformist aspect of Japanese culture.
The film is told primarily from the point of view of the last survivor of a yacht that lands, after a destructive storm, on deserted island. Kenji, formerly a psychology professor, is himself declared crazy after being rescued. The first view we see prior to his hospital room is a view of Tokyo, almost an abstraction of neon signs. Kenji and the six other people, are on a pleasure cruise to escape from their lives in Tokyo, to relax without demands or expectations. The opening credit sequence could be from a musical or light comedy, with it's cheerful music and shots of the yacht in the open sea. Once the yacht's crew and passengers are stranded, the film shifts to being a discussion of survival with the conflicts concerning group needs versus individual desires, and shifts in who leads and who follows. An abandoned ship is discovered, one that looks almost like an alien planet, covered as it is with fungus and streaks of rust, or is that blood? Even though it is recognizably the remains of a ship, the surface colors make it resemble an alien landscape. The ship's log explains partially what happened to that boat's crew, yet the lure of the mushrooms proves too great. Obliquely, Honda is positing the question of retaining individual identity or surrendering to the demands of the group.
This particular dilemma might be lost on an American audience, particularly a younger audience who would have comprised Matango's primary viewers. Kenji talks wistfully of having stayed on the island, and states that both the unnamed island and Tokyo are equally cruel. One could liken the mushroom people as both standing in for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors who were horribly disfigured, or the more recent victims of Minamata. Kenji struggles both physically and emotionally to retain his human identity, only to find that while he has refused to surrender his sense of self to become a mushroom person, neither is there a place for him in human society. In the conclusion of Matango, the greatest horror is that of finding yourself alone.
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June 14, 2009
Scarlett Johansson in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen - 2008)
Posted by peter at 12:51 AM
June 11, 2009
Yan guang si she ge wu tuan
Zero Chou - 2004
Panorama Entertainment All Region DVD
Seeing Zero Chou's last two feature films proved enough incentive for me to see her debut narrative film, Splendid Float. Like her other films, Splendid Float is a meditation on love and loss, and an eventual coming to terms with life. Like Chou's other films, it is also about being gay in Taiwan. While some aspects of the film are culturally specific, it is a film that should be seen not only because it establishes Chou's thematic concerns but also because those concerns go beyond any drama about sexual identity.
Roy, a young novice priest, works on behalf of his family's funeral business, conducting Taoist ceremonies for the dead. Unknown to his family, Roy becomes Rose at night, a performer with a traveling drag troupe that sing and dance from their mobile stage. Beyond the performers actually singing, within its tiny budget and restricted locale, Splendid Float has deeper concerns than guys in dresses and make-up lip synching to "Shake your Groove Thing".
Roy is dealing with the death of his lover, Sunny. Sunny had been ambiguous about the extent of his feelings towards Roy. Roy has been asked by Sunny's mother to perform a ceremony for Sunny, unaware that the two were lovers. Roy's emotionalism during the ceremony causes concern both for Sunny's family as well as Roy's own, with those unaware of Roy as Rose questioning why he would act as a bereaved widow. The circumstances of Sunny's death are unclear, possibly accident or suicide. What is known, at least to Roy, is that the two made love, with Sunny leaving a letter of apology and a yellow rose.
While Splendid Float deals with Taoism as practiced in Taiwan, some general aspects to that philosophy can be appreciated. Most obviously is Roy's dual identity as seen by others, both designated by the wearing of clothing and the act of performance. The splendid float of the title refers to the brightly lit stage used by the drag performers, and by extension, where their audience sits or dances, introduced in the beginning of the show as a means to transport the audience to paradise. The mobile stage, the yellow rose, and Sunny's death could all be seen as illustrations regarding the transience of life. When Roy attempts to seek answers to Sunny's death, he tosses two I-Ching coins. Chou does not explain the cause for Sunny's death, although there may be a clue when Roy and Sunny first get together. When asking if Sunny thinks Roy and his friends strange, Sunny response that he thinks they are liberated. Indirectly through Sunny and more directly with Roy, Chou examines the dichotomy of society's expectations against personal identity.
This concern with duality can also been seen in Sunny's formal funeral. Three women, in very colorful dress, perform a dance as part of the ceremony. The scene might be read as a parody of sorts of the performance done by Roy and his friends. Duality is also at the core of the songs performed by the drag troupe so that the lyrics provide a form of commentary on the lives of the characters. Like Taoism, which might be generalized as being about finding unity within duality or two opposing aspects, Roy's journey is about finding a sense of unity within himself.
Splendid Float served to announce Zero Chou as a major talent, winning several Golden Horse awards including Best Taiwanese Film for 2004, with James Chen getting nominated for Best Newcomer for his performance as Roy. Certainly those expecting a Chinese language version of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert or To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, Chou's film might be a challenge with its elliptical story telling, shifting between past and present, comedy and drama, musical and ghost story. For a deeper examination of Splendid Float, there is this essay available from Film International.
Splendid Float is available from HK Flix.
Posted by peter at 12:15 AM
June 09, 2009
Irina Poplavskaya - 1969
Russian Cinema Council All Region DVD
The story of Djamilya is, at least on the surface, simple and familiar. In wartime Russia, a peasant family in a remote Kirghiz farm, harvests wheat to be used for soldiers' bread. The farms are staffed mostly by women, children and men too old to be drafted. The younger men that help farm have been injured seriously enough to be dismissed from service. Seit, the oldest remaining boy in his family helps with the farming and is also charged with protecting his sister-in-law, Djamilya. That Djamilya's husband is a soldier currently recuperating at a hospital does nothing to keep the men showering Djamilya with unwanted attention. An injured soldier, Daniyar, is assigned to help with the farming. He befriends Djamilya and Seit, but often finds himself the subject of teasing. Daniyar also lets Djamilya know his feelings for her. After resisting his advanced, Djamilya gives in, in part because of the neglect she feels has been expressed by her husband, who mentions her last in his uninformative letters to the family. Djamilya runs off with Daniyar. Looking back at his life, Seit recognizes that he was also in love with Djamilya, but at the time did not understand his sense of jealousy. He soon leaves the family himself when the opportunity is offered to study art away from home.
Djamilya is based on the autobiographical story by Chingiz Aitmatov. While inspired by his own experiences growing up in Kirghiz, Aitmatov's character grows up to be a painter, rather than a writer. Aitmatov wrote the screenplay and provides narration. The film is about about a way of life that probably changed drastically after World War II. Without there being any sense of conflict or contradiction is a life that has one foot steeped in cultural traditions of several hundred years, and another foot following the path and goals of Joseph Stalin. Even though the fighting is unseen, the effects of war are manifest by the actions of Djamilya and Seit, going against traditions of wives as the bedrock of the extended families, and sons growing up to replace their fathers in the fields.
i could find nothing about director Irina Poplavskaya, and I don't know how much of the film reflects what was specifically written in Aitmatov's screenplay, but there are many moments when Djamilya seems closer in cinematic expression to the French New Wave films and American Independent films that emerged in the early part of the Sixties. There are montages of herds of galloping horses and rustling wheat fields. When Daniyar chases Djamilya through one of the fields, it could well be a scene from a Soviet Truffaut. There is a moment for low tech special effects when Seit is out by a lake at night, the scene illuminated with sparkles that exist for no other reason than providing an otherworldly quality for its own sake.
The actor who plays Daniyar, Suimenkul Chokmorov, also provided the paintings that are presented as the work of Seit. The film opens with a man looking a group of the watercolor paintings, holding a stack while standing, letting them drop to the floor one by one. The watercolors act to inform the viewer that the story takes place in a past time, from the point of view of a child. A later montage of paintings, with shots of details, or using different angles, depicts Daniyar and Djamilya's escape from the village and Seit's imagined fate of the two lovers. The paintings are filmed in color, contrasting with the monochrome of most of the story. When color is used for a live action shot of some horses, the color is altered to appear as if in one of Seit's paintings with their red horses against a blue background.
Djamilya seems markedly atypical for a Russian film even forty years after its initial release. Even though there is a brief interview with director Irina Poplavskaya, she mostly discusses how she had to fight to do the creative color photography and credits Aitmatov for supporting her vision for the film. There is no mention of any role played by the more established director Sergei Yutkevich in the making of the film, or of her own career which appears to have had a lengthy lull following the completion of Djamilya. Aitmatov's story has inspired at least two other versions that emphasized the relationship between Djamilya and Daniyar. Undoubtedly reflecting the hand of its original author, the film Djamilya is about what is in spirit a romantic triangle, with the feelings of a young boy manifesting in the form of art that creatively documents a past life and its people.
Posted by peter at 12:34 AM
June 07, 2009
Rudiger Vogler in Lisbon Story (Wim Wenders - 1994)
Posted by peter at 12:48 AM
June 04, 2009
Jaran Phromransee - 1976
Saha Puntamit Sound and Film All Region DVD
Who's the guy in the blue leisure suit with the brown Panama hat who can kick your ass if provoked? Pherg, that's who.
Chumpae, also known as Choom Pae, was at one time the biggest hit in Thai movie history. The star, Sombat Metanee, was the top star of his day, and even looks a little bit like a baby faced Burt Reynolds. I got the DVD as a way of getting a little more understand into older Thai cinema. Chumpae is not the kind of film that lends itself to serious film criticism, it is more accurately an old film rather than a classic. What is greater than the film is that it provokes a host of questions regarding film preservation as well as film studies.
Film preservation as it understood in Europe and the North America is still in its infancy in Thailand. Just as in the U.S., Thai studios were not prepared for the fact that DVD consumers would be interested in movies that played more than ten years previously. While I have read about a number of older films, the substantial number of old Thai titles available on DVD with English subtitles are those films by Chatrichalerm Yukol. For the non-Thai speaking film scholar, there is the dual problem of seeing the film on DVD, or in many cases VCD, as well as having the film come with reasonably correct English subtitles. Chumpae provides a case in point because the film element used for the DVD was pretty well worn, if not quite as bad as Insee Tong, which I wrote about last year. Also, there is the question of subtitles with English being the common language used even for international film scholars. Nothing gets in the way of taking a film seriously when according to the subtitled dialogue, a bad guy tells a potential victim, "You're going to die like a frog."
Chumpae earned 30 million baht at the Thai box office, impressive for Thailand, but small change by U.S. standards, converting to around one million dollars. There is a lot of shooting and some very basic kick boxing. As far as Asian action films go, this doesn't have the polish of something by Cirio Santiago, the prolific Filipino director who worked with equally small budgets. Another question raised is how a foreign film critic or historian is to write about a film that was intended primarily for a domestic audience, and perhaps also for import within a specific geographic area. Some of the questions come to mind because I am currently reading Reading a Japanese Film: Cinema in Context. For a variety of reasons, Thai cinema is more "foreign" than Japanese film, a situation caused in part because of the more limited number of Thai films shown theatrically as well as available on DVD, especially older films made before the Thai "New Wave" of 1997, as well as the extremely scant writing available on Thai cinema.
As for the film in question, Sombat plays a crook named Pherg who shows up at the town of Chumpae primarily to avenge the death of his father. The town itself is in the middle of Thailand. A gangster named Tom has the police in his pocket, and has also promised his young daughter to be married to the police chief. It is later revealed that Tom makes a habit of offering his daughter's hand in marriage to anyone who can be of significant help in his schemes. Pherg decides to fight Tom and his gang, becoming a sort of Robin Hood in the process. Complicating things is another gangster who runs amuck with his mob, causing havoc, claiming that he is Pherg. Pherg's idea of flirting with a female cop involves the two aiming guns at each other. There is much shooting, tossing of hand grenades, a preposterous happy ending, and subtitles indicating a shaky knowledge of the English language and idioms.
There was no information to be found on director Jaran Phromransee. Based on what I have read about Sombat also being a singer, I am hoping someone will tell me if that is his operatic voice on the song heard during the opening credits. If nothing else, having Chumpae on DVD provides one example of the work of one country's movie star at the height of his career. But in another sense, Chumpae also illustrates how limited film scholarship is both in terms of the availability of films and information regarding many films, as well as the kind of obstacles faced by those whose interest in film history goes beyond the well worn paths.
Posted by peter at 12:06 AM
June 01, 2009
King of the Roaring 20s
Joseph M. Newman - 1961
Warner Archives DVD
David Janssen hardly looked like the real Arnold Rothstein. One isn't going to view King of the Roaring 20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein for much in the way of historical accuracy. This is a film to watch primarily for the cast generously stuffed with memorable character actors. Veracity matters less when Jack Carson, Mickey Rooney, William Demarest, Diana Dors show up for their few minutes of screen time. Maybe a truer film about Arnold Rothstein will be made. In the meantime, this film will do, as the entertaining story of the rise and fall of a gangster with the same name.
I haven't read the book by Leo Katcher that provided the basis for the film. The film marked screenwriter Jo Swerling's second whack at Rothstein, the first via Damon Runyon with the character of Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. The other telling compromise is that this is the story of a Jewish gangster that dares not speak its name. In her book, The Jew in American Cinema, Patricia Erens would note the existence of Jewish groups that pressured Hollywood to essentially censor this aspect of Jewish-American history. The clues are with the casting of Joseph Schildkraut as father Abraham Rothstein, and a couple of discussion about "our faith", without being specific. The biggest error may be in glossing over why Rothstein was important in the history of organized crime, and the extent of his power and ties with other mobsters. In King of the Roaring 20s, the impression is that Arnold Rothstein was simply a gambler who for a time was extremely lucky.
The film story seems to have been borrowed from the Warner Brothers template, even less surprising considering that one of the producers, Samuel Bischoff was one of the staff producers at Warners. One of Bischoff's credits was as Associate Producer for Raoul Walsh's The Roaring Twenties which stands as one of the classics of the genre. There was a resurgence in interest in the era in the early Sixties so that not only was there a television show that shared the title of Walsh's film (though nothing else), as well as a slew of moderately budgeted films.
The film begins with teenage Arnold Rothstein and his pal, Johnny Burke, busted by the neighborhood cop for organizing gambling out in the streets of New York City. Rothstein promises Burke that they'll be friends and partners forever. Anyone who can't guess where this is heading probably has never seen a movie, or at least not one with James Cagney or Humphrey Bogart (or both). The street cop, complete with Irish brogue, played by Dan O'Herlihy, rises in the ranks, while his take from the underworld increases. Rothstein and Burke grow up to be Janssen and Mickey Rooney. The friendship is forgotten when Rothstein starts working for Tim O'Brien, a politically connected operator with friends in Tammany Hall. O'Brien is played by Jack Carson in his last big screen performance. Carson's performance might be said to be a variation on the snake oil salesman some of us have loved in the past, albeit one with higher financial stakes and deadly consequences for those who cross him.
Joseph Newman primarily employs any visual flourish in conjunction with Rooney. Early on, dismissed by Janssen, Rooney's shortness is emphasized as he finds himself bumping into people and being summarily disregarded by the crowds. In a later scene, Rooney emerges from the shadows to for a near fatal meeting with O'Herlihy. Rooney is restrained, downbeat. As if to recall the live wire kid who was a star at MGM twenty years earlier, is the final glimpse of Rooney defiantly yelling at the gangsters he knows will shoot him down.
In it's initial New York City run, King of the Roaring 20s played second bill to Angel Baby. What cult interest has since developed could primarily be credited to Andrew Sarris who cited the film for the performances by janssen, Rooney and Carson. The film is not quite as good as I remember. The King of the Roaring 20s might best be described not as a classic gangster film but a filmed memory of classic gangster films.
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Former Finance Minister under the erstwhile Rawlings administration, Professor Kwesi Botchwey says although Ghana’s economy seems to be doing well, there is still room for improvement as it is yet to be stable.
Ghana’s sovereign credit rating has improved with Fitch ratings changing Ghana’s B rating outlook from “negative” to “stable” while S&P changed Ghana’s outlook from “stable” to “positive”.
The country’s debt to GDP ratio also declined for the first time since 2007, from 73% of GDP in 2016 to about 70% in 2017, with the rate of accumulation of Ghana’s debt stock also declining significantly.
Although Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia earlier this year stated that the country’s economy increased from 3.7% in 2016 to an estimated 7.9% in 2017, an achievement he described as the best annual real GDP growth for the first year of any new government since 1992, the former Finance minister barely moved by the figures, suggested that there was more to be done and said while various indicators shows some growth the vulnerabilities in the nation’s economy still exist.
“I have seen some improvement in the macroeconomic indicators, inflation is lowering, growth has resumed and we must acknowledge that, but this is not the time to celebrate. It is no time for a flourish of trumpets because the vulnerabilities in our national economy still exists. If we do not expand our revenue base, we will not be able to sustain the growth and the small surplus that we realize for the first time in many years,” Prof Kwesi Botchwey said, during an address at the Second Revolutionary Lecture Series organized under the theme “Revolutionary economic trend, Ghana in focus: Past, present and the future”.
He urged government to implement policies that will benefit the country by expanding its revenue base instead of taking on projects that will dig deeper into the country’s coffers.
“We must be able to expand our revenue profile instead of adding on to our expenditure profile new social programs that are permanent and cost us even more money. We shouldn’t celebrate the smallest jump in GDP when we are climbing out of a deep trap. We must remember that the East Asia countries that are now blazing grew at an average of 8% GDP every year for a decade or more before they crossed the line,” Prof. Kwesi Botchwey noted. | <urn:uuid:573e6f6f-83ec-4309-8db8-0a7ef973305b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.unityfmonline.com/i-have-more-on-my-chest-rawlings-warns-ndc/ | 2022-08-14T01:39:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00112.warc.gz | en | 0.956932 | 524 |
We love our front patio! It’s the perfect place to watch parades, like the Mardi Gras parade coming up on March 6, 2011. The parade, often referred to as the Joe Cain Day Parade, is an all-weekend event. It starts on Saturday, March 5, with the Masquerade Ball at the Miners Foundry and ends on Sunday with the parade where they have booths set up with Cajun-style food on South Pine Street. There are a variety of floats and performers that strut down Broad Street tossing Mardi Gras beads to the parade-goers. Kids always go home with handfuls of candy and a neck heavy with beads. This parade is fun for the whole family!
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Alias has released version 2 of SketchBook Pro, the developeris paint and drawing application aimed at users with pen tablets or Tablet PCs. The software is now available for purchase and download from the Alias Web site, with CD copies shipping June 29.
SketchBook Pro 2 offers several new features, including: better brush controls, with the ability to create and store up to 28 custom brushes; unlimited image layers, with the ability to import images into a layer stack and move, scale, mirror, flip or rotate them; the ability to save a layered file in PSD format for use in Adobe Photoshop; a floating brush resize tool; image and canvas resizing options; the ability to undo or redo up to 75 brushstrokes or actions; and more.
The downloadable version of SketchBook Pro 2 is US$179 while the upcoming CD version will be $199. Educational pricing is $89.99. A 15-day trial version is available. System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.3, a G4 processor, 256MB RAM, 32MB video RAM and a display capable of 1024 x 768 resolution with millions of colors. Alias strongly recommends the use of a pressure-sensitive tablet and pen. | <urn:uuid:f638bda4-348f-4cee-90f2-6709e86031ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Alias_Makes_SketchBook_Pro_2_Available_for_Download | 2013-05-24T21:19:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705069221/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115109-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87943 | 250 |
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Reus Certainly Is Giantshamanrebus | May 21, 2013 | Review of Reus
At first this game can only be seen as slow as it forces you in to a tutorial that can take from 40mins to just shy of an hour, this could be seen as damaging but in its fairness it teaches all the basic rules of the game very well. After the tutorial you will delve into a world of extreme strategy, at first it may seem very basic but as you become more confident with the game the strategy really comes to it own in a unique and fun way i personally haven't seen in a game. You have various choice to make like should i upgrade this giant or should i give this village more resources at the risk of making them greedy or other villages jealous. The longer the game is played the more options and powers you unlock making the strategy go even deeper for your next play through. The game has a quality polish that i would expect from a "AAA" game not an indie game, with such attention to small details like zooming in on your giants to reveal tired, battle scared creatures really does improve the experience. All in all this is a fun strategy game for all age groups and causal or hardcore gamers, and for the price your mad to miss out. | <urn:uuid:1140e094-d134-490f-9784-27e7954707b6> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.greenmangaming.com/customer-reviews/?by=shamanrebus | 2014-10-24T07:48:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414119645432.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20141024030045-00295-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980612 | 264 |
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Dr Mohamed Kenawi
Researcher and Training Manager
Archaeologist and Researcher of Hellenistic to Late Roman Egypt
I obtained my BA degree from Alexandria University, Egypt, Masters degree from Bologna University, and PhD from Siena University, Italy. I specialized in excavation and survey methodology. I taught at the American University in Cairo, as adjunct faculty, and at Alexandria University (Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, Bibliotheca Alexandrina), and Catania University. I collaborate on different projects with Padua University, Tübingen University, CUNY, New York, and Siena University.
My main research interests are:
- The archaeology of the Egyptian Delta and Fayoum
- Living archaeology in Egypt: interaction between past and present
- The economy of the Roman Empire: the Egyptian case
- Transformation of sacred spaces
- Survey and documentation of archaeological sites
Alexandria’s Hinterland: Archaeology of the Western Nile Delta, Egypt (Archaeopress, Oxford 2014).
Unearthing Alexandria’s Archaeology: The Italian Contribution (Archaeopress, Oxford 2018) forthcoming.
I have participated in fieldwork in Italy, Libya, and Egypt. Recently, I joined the large-scale excavation of Athribis (Sohag), where the last large Ptolemaic temple was discovered.
Landscape Archaeology, Economy of the Roman world, Fayoum, Egyptian Delta, Sacred Spaces
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BuzzFeed correspondent Sheera Frenkel tweeted this video with the caption "Time lapse shows entire neighborhood in Gaza being flattened by air strikes over the course of one hour."
It's unclear if the incident shows airstrikes or planned bombings over the course of an hour.
The explosions reportedly targeted the Shijaiyah neighborhood shortly before a 12-hour ceasefire on Saturday. Photos from the ground show the aftermath.
Here's a before-and-after:
Israel, which contends that Hamas hides weapons amid the civilian population of Gaza, carried out about 70 more airstrikes on Monday night. IDF airstrikes knocked out Gaza's only power plant and flattened the home of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Entire blocks have been targeted before. Beyond the specter of wanton destruction, the IDF may be targeting tunnels built by Hamas underneath the areas, or hitting weapons caches — secondary explosions can be seen in the video.
screenshotA secondary explosion (0:17) during the strikes, which could signal the explosion of a weapons cache.
Satellite images of areas including Gaza City, Shejaiya, Toffah, and Shaaf taken on July 6 and then on July 25 show similar destruction.
More than 1,110 Palestinians have been killed and more than 6,500 wounded since July 8, an official at the Hamas-run Health Ministry told AP. The U.N. has estimated that 75% of those killed are civilians. Israel has lost 53 soldiers, along with two civilians, due to incoming rocket fire.
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Solutions for Higher Education engages in deeper reflection of critical issues in the world of colleges and universities.
In Episode 34, President Scott L Wyatt and Professor Steve Meredith are joined by Dr. Michelle Vo to discuss mental health on campus. Dr. Vo is the director of the Student Wellness Program at the University of Utah medical school and is board certified in the specialties of general pediatrics, general psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry.
“We work in higher education and all of us work with students who are suffering from anxiety or depression, and we worry about suicides and the wellness of our students,” said Wyatt. “It feels like this is becoming a bigger problem than it used to be. We keep adding additional mental health professionals and the lines don't seem to be getting shorter.”
The need for mental health services is growing as rates of depression and anxiety continue to increase, but it is difficult to pin down what the root causes might be.
“I think the causes have been complicated and multifactorial,” said Vo. “There are probably influences at the micro level, such as the family and how the family interacts, but on the macro level, as medical and mental health professionals we have also gotten better at identifying depression and anxiety in young people. There is also a decrease in stigma of seeking help.”
One growing cause for anxiety and depression that Vo and Wyatt point out is the many ways people are isolated from each other. Technology increasingly isolates people by changing their day-to-day interactions. Social media, even though it connects people in many ways, has made human interaction less personal and can have a negative impact on people’s mental health.
“I often recommend that students turn off social media when they are suffering,” said Vo. “Social media can become another stressor, and when social media is a stressor it's probably time to delete that app, temporarily at least, from your phone. I often will do that in a prescriptive type way and I rarely hear that it was a detrimental thing.”
Listen to Episode 34 here.
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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800) 273-8255
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June 26, 2005
I have returned from the land of seashore frolicking to muggy, buggy Minnesota. The drive home was rather grueling, each of the two days taking 12-13 hours. It was Chicago that really did me in. We were stopped in bumper-to-bumper for several hours. There was some construction, but no road blocks or anything that would actually impede driving... except: Thumper III. What is this amazing device, you ask, that has the power to captivate the imagination and bring normally quite speedy drivers to a screeching halt? Well, I'll tell you. It is a large apparatus with a rabbit painted on the side that bangs over and over again on the pavement. I am sure that it is a wondrously labor-saving device. However, the only thing stopping traffic for fucking hours at a time were goddamned minivans full of kids (and who knows who else?) slowing down to crane their necks at the fucking Thumper III. But that is all over now. I can resume being a human being.
We got to use my father's digital camera. It was disorienting, since I am an SLR fan. I've never really gotten used to the parallax thing with viewfinders that don't line up and looking at some weird little screen instead of what I am photographing is even worse.
This weather is lethargy inducing. I am going to have to strip down to me skivvies and knit while watching video games. Then, ice cream.
Why can't I live at the beach instead of a tiny oasis in the middle of vast, vast nothingness? Goddamn you, Midwest.
Also, we saw Batman Begins today and I would just like to reaffirm that Christian Bale is the hottest. (next to J, of course) Katie Holmes wasn't quite as dopey as I expected. That's about all I can say about her. There were lots of shots of her hard nipples, but I suppose mine would be the same in proximity to such dark, seething sexual energy. Also, cheekbones.
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June 3, 2005
Well, I managed to block Cold Shoulder today. I wore it yesterday sans blocking and while J *loves* it (its his favorite thing I've ever knit?!?! next to the black/red sweater for him, of course) I think the sizing is off. I increased to my normal bust size; this somehow left the arm gapingly huge and a substantial fold of material in the bust area. When picking up stitches for the neckline, I had to freakishly decrease. It fits ok, but not *just so*. We went to The Yarnery and J bought me some more Sierra to make a second one. The new yarn is a lovely little blue; this time I will err on the side of slutty snugness.
Speaking of slutty snugness (one of my favorite topics) I just knit up a cute little tshirt from Loop-d-Loop. It took about two days and some stash yarn for which I had always planned some kind of sweet tank top on size 6s. Nope. 15s, baby. Nothing like instant gratification. It is in a beige and aqua color and looks just right with my new aqua blazer. I should buy a little camisole so that I don't get arrested for public nudity, but perhaps my tiny, flesh colored tube bra will suffice. Or, I'll get arrested. Either way it is a hot little number.
Also a hot number is the red halter in Calmer (gifted to me by an always-full-of-surprises J). It is molto stretchy and I may have to add a bit of elastic to keep my bra from showing. We shall see how much the blocking helps. Everyone seems to just loooove Calmer. I know its soft and all, but, I found it a bitch to knit with. It was stretchy at all the wrong times and thus my stitches are a bit uneven (pre-block, anyhow). Also, so expensive! I am such a bourgeois knitter: can't abide the acrylics but can't afford the swanky stuff. I have made a few things (like my Tempting, below) from aristocratic yarns, but they were all gifts. I am afraid that most of my projects wouldn't come out well enough to justify spending hundreds of dollars on them... So, middle-class I remain.
All of these things accomplished and the apartment (sort-of) cleaned, I embarked on my sewing sojourn. Nothing doing. Apparently when my needle attempts to descend, it gets stuck on the presser foot. It has even left a little dent. I tried bending it a bit and adjusting the foot, but it still gets hung up. I can do zig-zag alright, but I don't think that will work for the whole skirt. Damnit. Just when I thought I was getting somewhere.
In other news, I and a group of my nerdy friends are going camping on Sunday in order to bond and do nerdy things together involving dice and sometimes cards. It promises to be a good time, thought it also promises to rain for the duration. We return on Tuesday and then leave Thursday for the Virginia Odyssey. Actually, Delaware first. I know, I know: What's in Delaware? Everytime I think of it I am reminded of Wayne and Garth in front of the blue screen "Hi... we're in... Delaware...." The extended family decided it would be a grand idea to rent a house and cram a million people into it for a week! Delightful. At least the road trip down should be fun. That's right, we're driving from Minnesota to Delaware. I have done this several times by myself. It is long, but not too terribly difficult. The new challenge will be that this time J is learning to drive. Only the shadow knows why he never learned before. All that is certain is that this will be the big practice run before the license. It is about 44 or so hours round trip. I will have to work on things that don't require me to look at my hands so that I can be a Good Teacher. I'd rather sleep. Oh well. Time to got to AAA and get maps! So long...
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Sometimes when I look at equipment, I wonder who had to design its wiring harnesses. It seems like a nightmare of a job, because signals go in so many directions, and wire bundles carry low-level analog signals, high-speed digital signals, several power lines, and ground.
When I attempted to replace a power-window motor on my '96 Mercury I uncovered an amazing nest of wires that controls windows, door locks, and mirror positions, In addition, the wiring connected to several other points within the door and to a small audio speaker I removed. The image below shows what I was up against.
The wiring harness controlling the windows and door locks in the author's 1996 Mercury.
The wiring surprised me for several reasons. The number of wires seemed excessive. Engineers saw the debut of the CAN bus in 1986, CAN-capable chips in '87, and the CAN 2.0 spec in '91, according to Wikipedia. It can take a long time for electronic innovations to appear in products such as automobiles and trucks, which require a long design cycle. But the door and lock controls seem like obvious places to reduce wiring. Someone once said that it takes a special engineer to reduce vehicle weight by five pounds, and if you can cut it by 10 pounds, you're a genius and a hero.
The image below shows a vehicle-wiring harness manufactured by Delphi. I can only guess at the weight, and I bet additional cables connect this harness to components. Lower voltages need heavier wires to deliver the same current as higher voltages with smaller wires. So, why haven't car manufacturers used 24-volt batteries and smaller cross-section wires? Perhaps the cost of a larger battery and its weight don't offset the weight reduction. In either case, someone still must run a wiring harness, although a lighter one in a 24-volt vehicle.
A complete vehicle wiring harness manufactured by Delphi.
The wiring harness involved many connectors -- again, not all shown in my first image. Manufacturers must allow buyers choices of options, which means a variety of controls on door arm rests, front-panel consoles, and entertainment equipment. So some connectors remain "open" and unused. Given the harsh environment inside a vehicle door -- dirt, water, salt, and other chemicals -- the connectors looked good and had clean contacts. Good engineering there. The connectors were difficult to separate, which is good for reliability, but difficult for DIY repairs like mine. Perhaps there's a special tool to unlatch connectors. I'd rather have robust than easily separated connectors, though.
I haven't had a chance to look at a wiring harness in a late-model car, but hope engineers have taken advantage of CAN bus and LIN technologies to simplify wiring harnesses. They must face formidable challenges when they design them, even when they use design tools such as Capital and VeSys from Mentor Graphics. And the engineers must accommodate a variety of modifications for different vehicle models as well as conform with safety specifications. I salute any engineer who designs wiring harnesses. They have one of the most difficult professions.
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In a video making the rounds on social media, Tolani and Nana were walking on the streets of London after the incident as firefighters wouldn’t let them in as they are still putting out the fire.
Tolani who shared the video via her insta-story, didn’t state the cause of the fire but said she and her mother are okay. She explained that they were unharmed and thanked people who showed concern.
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The numbers are officially in: according to a report released Tuesday by the University of Calgary, the Alberta Government is losing over $7 Billion in oil revenues per year.
The culprits? Pipeline capacity and access to markets for heavy oil.
"Western Canada is experiencing significant pipeline capacity constraints which have dramatically increased this discount relative to historical levels."
The report goes on to say that with the government losing approx $6.60 on every barrel of heavy oil exported to the United States, the expansion of pipelines like the Trans Mountain project are paramount.
Earlier this week, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley indicated her government will be sending lawyers to Ottawa for discussion with their federal counterparts as they prepare for the National Energy Board (NEB) hearings on the Trans Mountain pipeline.
A link to the study can be found here. | <urn:uuid:e7ac67fa-0508-476d-8010-98cb6d8b2a63> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://www.energyjobshop.com/news/alberta-losing-7-billion-year-oil-revenue/ | 2022-05-24T05:22:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662564830.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20220524045003-20220524075003-00353.warc.gz | en | 0.940925 | 198 |
The AMD Ryzen 7 4700G is AMD’s flagship APU featured with 8 cores and 16 threads. Looking for recommended RAM for AMD Ryzen 7 4700G ? We have tested and reviewed latest RAM, and below are top recommended one for AMD Ryzen 7 4700G:
Corsair Vengeance LPX memory is designed for high-performance overclocking. The heat spreader is made of pure aluminum for faster heat dissipation, and the custom performance PCB helps manage heat and provides superior overclocking headroom. Each IC is individually screened for peak performance potential.
- 16GB (2 x 8GB) Capacity
- 3200 MHz Clock Speed
- 288-Pin UDIMM
Improve your system’s performance with the Ballistix 16GB Tactical Tracer RGB DDR4 3200 MHz Dual-Channel Memory Kit. With two 8GB modules and a combined capacity of 16GB, this kit operates at 3200 MHz with 16-18-18 timings for quick performance. Moreover, they’re equipped with customizable RGB lighting that can be synced with other compatible components.
- Customize your rig’s color scheme with 16 RGB LEDs in 8 zones on each module
- Select RGB LED patterns and adjust brightness
- Control LEDs with the Ballistix® M.O.D. Utility or motherboard RGB software
- Create your own custom light bar with your 3D printer and provided 3D files for the ultimate mod
- Speeds up to 3200 MHz
- Easily hit advanced speeds and timings with XMP profiles
CORSAIR VENGEANCE RGB PRO Series DDR4 memory lights up your PC with mesmerizing dynamic multi zone RGB lighting, while delivering the best in DDR4 performance and stability. Every module boasts ten individually controlled RGB LEDs, while wire free design makes installation simple. Take control with CORSAIR iCUE software and completely customize every module’s lighting to match your system, or easily synchronize lighting across all your CORSAIR products with Light LINK.
- Dynamic Multi Zone RGB Lighting
- Next Generation Software
- Custom Performance PCB
- Tightly Screened Memory. Maximum Bandwidth and Tight Response Times. SPD Voltage 1.2Volt
Ripjaws V series is the newest DDR4 memory designed for maximum compatibility and cutting-edge performance with the latest Intel Core processors. Built with the finest components, tested under the most rigorous conditions, and offered in five color options, Ripjaws V is the perfect choice for building a new performance system or for a simple memory upgrade.
- 16GB Dual Channel memory kit – two matched 8GB modules
- Full timings of CL16 (16-18-18-38) at 1.35V
- PC4-25600 specification, rated to operate at speeds up to 3200MHz
- 288-pin DDR4 memory, equipped with G.Skill Ripjaws V Black Heatsinks for improved heat dissipation
T-FORCE VULCAN Z is designed for complete protection and enhanced heat dissipation. The heat spreader is formed by the punch-press process with a 0.8mm thick, one-piece alloy aluminum to reinforce the body structure. In addition, coloring with an electrolytic anodizing process can enhance corrosion resistance and make it non-conductive.
- Simple design to perfectly protect the cooling module
- High thermal conductive adhesive
- Supports Intel & AMD motherboards
This memory model is specially designed for Intel CPUs. Featuring a completely exposed light bar with vibrant RGB LEDs, merged with the award-winning Trident Z heatspreader design, and constructed with the highest quality components, the Trident Z RGB DDR4 memory kit combines the most vivid RGB lighting with uncompromised performance.
- TridentZ RGB Series – 16GB DDR4 kit – 2x 8GB matched modules
- Timings of CL16 (16-18-18-38) at 1.35V
- Unique heatsink design with vibrant RGB LEDs
- Specifically engineered for the Intel based platforms
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We look forward to our next trip to Marbella with our 2020/21 winners.
Please note – The winner of Mr British Isles title is not required to
wear swimwear on the winners shoot if they would prefer not too.
The winner of the Mr Swimwear British isles competition will be required
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Numerical analysis of intragrain precipitate influence on the linear scattering behavior
Gruen, Daniel Nicholas
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Nondestructive evaluation using ultrasonic waves is commonly used to experimentally probe for the presence of defects (i.e. dislocations, precipitates, cracks) in complex metallic microstructures. Such defects and abnormalities are evidenced by monitoring the acoustic attenuation coefficient alpha. However, from a mathematical standpoint, the correlation between the microstructural behavior and the measured acoustic attenuation behavior is not yet explicit. The present work aims to assess the existence of statistical correlations between microstructural defects and acoustic attenuation. The effects of defect geometry, density, and geometrical arrangements (i.e. relative position) on acoustic attenuation are studied. To do so, the acoustic response of Fe-Cu single crystals containing 1% Cu precipitates with radii on the order of 2 nm is simulated by means of finite element analysis. Several thousand initial microstructures with random arrangement of precipitates are virtually tested using statistical methods, such as principal component analysis. Therefore, it is expected that a causal link can be made between the acoustic attenuation coefficient and the precipitates-induced microstructural behavior via the proposed numerical analysis. | <urn:uuid:adda83f7-8121-4421-b583-aa30ec58b369> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/56255 | 2023-01-31T05:02:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499842.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20230131023947-20230131053947-00420.warc.gz | en | 0.883969 | 272 |
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