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I have a custom carrier board with CM3 and LAN9514, PCB has been designed following an RPI official schematic with LAN9512 (essentially same than LAN9514 with less USB downstream ports), i use a 25Mhz crystal oscillator, the NRESET is pulled high and connected to GPIO6 of CM3 for reset control.
The LAN9514 is connected directly to the USB of CM3, it acts as ethernet controller and USB HUB, it has another HUB (FE1.1S) on downstream port 3 and a wifi card on downstream port 2 (not installed for test), port 4 and 5 have USB sockets, an USB key flash drive is connected to one of them. The FE1.1S feeds 4* CP2102 USB-UART bridges.
There is nothing special otherwise, the power sequence is respected, 5.0V LDO feeds 3.3V LDO which feeds 1.8V LDO, i used largely dimensionned LDOs (AMS1084).
The PCB is 4 layer, controlled differential impedance on high speed busses (USB and Ethernet), stacking conform to recommandations (1:high speed signals, 2:full ground plane, 3:power planes, 4:gnd/signal). For what i have tested so far the CM3 is apparently working fine, it boots and login normally, talks to I2C peripherals.
The problem : i dont see the LAN9514 recognized in boot log, nor any of the USB peripherals attached to it (the FE1.1S and the CP2104 chips, the USB key flash drive).
here is what i find related to USB in the boot log :
The image i used is CM3-170912.dmg, i also uncompiled the dt-blob.bin and found LAN_RUN seems to be on the right port (GPIO6), however i am not sure if the setup is right otherwise. The only change i made is the ACT LED moved to GPIO to 26, in config.txt.
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[ 0.788251] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: DWC OTG Controller
[ 0.790591] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 0.792953] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: irq 62, io mem 0x00000000
[ 0.795271] Init: Port Power? op_state=1
[ 0.797523] Init: Power Port (0)
[ 0.799899] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[ 0.802225] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 0.804528] usb usb1: Product: DWC OTG Controller
[ 0.806773] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 4.9.41-v7+ dwc_otg_hcd
[ 0.809041] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 3f980000.usb
[ 0.812126] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.814330] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 0.817307] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
Is there a way to test wether the LAN9514 is recognized? What could be the problem if it is not?
Below is a view of the LAN9514 part of the schematic, i dont show magnetics since it is not relevant to the USB / recognition issue.
If anyone has an idea of what i can do to get the LAN9514 recognize or if there is a flaw somewhere, please let me know, it will be much appreciated


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Alice Maroni is Chief Management Officer at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
Maroni came to PBGC in May 2011 after 10 years at the Smithsonian Institution, where she served as chief financial officer, with responsibility for the institution's financial integrity, including budgeting and contracting services. Before joining the Smithsonian, Maroni was principal deputy undersecretary of defense (Comptroller). In that capacity, she advised the Pentagon leadership on all budgetary and fiscal matters and management improvement programs. On a day-to-day basis, she directed the justification of the budget to Congress, managed departmental negotiations on the budget in the interagency process, and oversaw the execution of the annual budget. On an interim basis, she served as a special assistant to the secretary and deputy secretary of defense, functioning as the department's chief of staff.
Prior to her tour in the Pentagon, Maroni was a professional staff member of the House Armed Services Committee, advising and assisting the chairman and other committee members on defense budget, financial and economic issues. Before joining the committee staff, she worked in the foreign affairs and national defense division of the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress.
Maroni graduated from Mount Holyoke College and earned a Master of Arts in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is also a graduate of the National War College.
Maroni is a recipient of the Distinguished Federal Leadership Award given by the Association of Government Accountants. She is a certified government financial manager and a member of both the Association of Government Accountants and the American Society of Military Comptrollers (ASMC), serving as the national president of ASMC from May 1995 to May 1996.

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Phylum: Arthropoda - Class: Insecta - Order: Lepidoptera - Family: Cossidae
The Goat Moth is one of only three of the approximately 700 species of Cossidae moths (Leopard and Goat moths) to occur in Great Britain.
The wings of this moth are well camouflaged and resemble tree bark: they are brownish-grey in colour and have darker irregular markings which imitate the cracks found in bark. It is a large moth with a distinctive upright posture when at rest.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Members of the Indianapolis community came together Monday to donate blood in honor of a Kelley School of Business student recently diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Junior Megan Yoder is no stranger to medical challenges, having completed chemotherapy for leukemia just five years ago.
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Kraft is reported to be reviewing its Toblerone account, presumably as part of the restructuring which will see its snacks business (mainly confectionery) hived off into new company Mondelez next year. Its current agency is WPP's Ogilvy and before that it was Y&R, also now owned by WPP.
It's fair to say that Toblerone's advertising has failed to sparkle for, well, for ever. The only remotely memorable campaign was this jingles job from decades ago (at least there was an idea).
In the US Kraft has profited recently from hiring a series of smaller creative agencies to work on its business, most notably Droga5. Another such is Crispin Porter+Bogusky whose new European hub in London has been charged with reviving another big European chocolate brand, Milka.
Mondelez's biggest chocolate brand is Cadbury which Kraft bought for £12bn a couple of years ago. Cadbury is shared by Publicis Groupe's Fallon and Saatchi & Saatchi these days (effectively the same agency in the UK). Fallon produced the multi-award winning 'Gorilla' ad for Cadbury's Dairy Milk although that was five years ago now.
So Mondelez's choice of the new Toblerone agency will be significant. Will it take the US Kraft route of hiring a roster of creative shops or find one agency and stick with it? The US food business has also added Wieden+Kennedy to its roster, handling Velveeta, although its debut work has not been as warmly received as Droga5's. It would be strange if these two creative high-flyers were not part of Mondelez's Toblerone review.
Unless, of course, the new Kraft and Mondelez companies (current Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld is to head Mondelez) succumb to turf wars (not unknown in such circumstances) and force their favourite agencies to choose between them.


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Mary McDonnell talks about her new promotion on 'Major Crimes'
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Aug 13, 2012 in
With 'The Closer' coming to an end, Mary McDonnell becomes the new center of attention on the show's spin-off series, 'Major Crimes.' The former president on 'Battlestar Galactica' talks about the differences between the two police dramas.
With Kyra Sedgwick, and her character, Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, leaving the hit crime drama
The Closer,
Mary McDonnell (who portrays Captain Sharon Raydor on the series) is stepping forward to head-up Johnson's elite L.A.P.D. squad in
Major Crimes
-- a spin-off of
The Closer
. Although fans will still see a lot of familiar faces from
The Closer
on the new series, McDonnell confesses that, inevitably,
Major Crimes
(which premieres August 13 on TNT) will be a different series, but fans of
The Closer
shouldn't be worried.
"I think, inherently, it will change, because Brenda Leigh Johnson (Sedgwick) is gone," explains McDonnell, who spent five seasons portraying President Laura Roslin on the rebooted, phenomenal space opera
Battlestar Galactica.
"Brenda was the center of the show, and it was called
The Closer.
So right there, that is the biggest difference. The Major Crimes division continues as it would in life with almost all of the same people, so there is the sameness. We've got these really wonderful rich characters that we've been attached to and exploring life with for seven years. And they are still there, most of them, trying to solve crime in Los Angeles. So there is the sameness. How this particular division goes about solving crime now has to change, inherently, because they no longer have Chief Johnson. And, therein, lies the reality of the new show. That's where it begins."
Chief Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) with Captain Sharon Raydor (Mary McDonnell) on 'The Closer'
Warner Bros/TNT
James Duff, the executive producer and creator of both
The Closer
Major Crimes,
is ready to take television's favorite squad of detectives into bold new territory with the new series. Two-time Oscar-nominee Mary McDonnell (who was also nominated for an Emmy for her role on
The Closer
) will be joined on
Major Crimes
by fellow
veterans G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz and Phillip P. Keene. Additionally, Robert Gossett and Jon Tenney will guest-star in several episodes, and Kearran Giovanni joins the cast as Detective Amy Syke -- an ambitious undercover police detective and military veteran who served in Afghanistan -- who quickly becomes Captain Raydor's right-hand-woman.
"I think evolving is the key," admits McDonnell, when asked how the character of Captain Sharon Raydor is will be changing on
Major Crimes.
"What I'm saying in that is what we're doing is we're seeing a woman who was in a very specific professional role; through a very specific lens and as a character she had a very limited functionality within the ensemble of
The Closer.
And she was clearly brought in to be the antagonist. As we evolve into
Major Crimes,
his character is evolved into -- she professionally changes, she shifts. And we begin to view her through a different job, a different set of circumstances, and different things are asked of her. And one of the beautiful things about the writing is that it very organically allows her to grow in front of us because we're watching her in a different situation from a different point of view."
Major Crimes
opens, the detectives in the Los Angeles Police Department's Major Crimes division are still reeling from the departure of Brenda Leigh Johnson and the realization that Captain Raydor is now in charge. Unlike their previous chief, Raydor is determined to lead the department with a more team-oriented approach, sharing the credit with the people with whom she works. Raydor's hardest job, however, will be gaining the full trust and confidence of her detectives, who aren't quick to forget her long history of internal investigations targeting them and their previous boss. Especially troublesome is Provenza (G.W. Bailey), who has a difficult time taking orders from someone he doesn't think knows as much as he does.
Chief Johnson (Sedgwick) and Captain Raydor (Mary McDonnell)
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The Closer's
focus has been on the lead character's uncanny ability to secure airtight confessions from suspects,
Major Crimes
will center on what it takes to secure an airtight conviction. The show will explore how the police and prosecutors work together to build a solid case that will result in a suspect confessing, signing a plea agreement, or being found guilty in a court of law.
While Mary McDonnell (who has starred in the films
Dances With Wolves, Independence Day
Donnie Darko
) is being called the star of
Major Crimes,
the veteran actress sees her role a little differently. Will Raydor be the center of
Major Crimes
or will she blend in with the cast? "I don't think that there is a -- how do I put this?" she asks rhetorically. "It is both an ensemble series and she is both at the center and it is more of an ensemble in that. Raydor's position in the new show is, by it's very nature, forcing or asking of her to be more present for each and every other character in it, and there will be a deepening of the engagement between Raydor and the other people."
Mary McDonnell is Captain Sharon Raydor on 'Major Crimes'
MARY McDONNELL on
Initially, were you approached about doing the
Major Crimes
spin-off when you started on
The Closer
"No, I wasn't approached at the very beginning. I was asked to come on and do an arc of three episodes. And I was quite happy to do it. It looked like a lot of fun to come in and sort of stir the pot, as they say. And I really wanted to work with Kyra and (creator) James Duff offered it to me, and I thought I was coming on to do three episodes. And it just sort of evolved, and here we are. And, one of the reasons James wanted to talk to me about this is because he was a
Battlestar Galactica
What is the secret to Captain Raydor's success?
"The secret to her success? As a character? I think its commitment. I mean, I honestly feel like what I've learned from her is a kind of unabashed commitment to whatever it is she's doing, and she stays incredibly focused, and that can create many responses in many different people. And I think that's a lot of her fun."
Would you ever like to see her paired with another of the other detectives in the department to work a case?
"Oh absolutely, I'd love to see her paired with some of the other detectives, and I'm looking forward to seeing how she begins to engage when they have common ground."
Raydor (McDonnell) with Provenza (G.W. Bailey) on 'Major Crimes'
Since you mentioned
Battlestar Galactica,
you were brilliant as President Laura Roslin for so many seasons. How was the transition, initially, coming from playing the president of the galaxy on
Battlestar Galactica
The Closer
to play Raydor from Internal Affairs?
"The transition? Well, it was kind of interesting because having been, excuse me, the president of the universe on
Battlestar Galactica,
I did learn a little bit about a sort of solitary woman in power position. So I did a little bit of research about that when I was working on her. Roslin is no longer with us, but she was a great ride, for sure. And when I came into
The Closer
and I realized that this woman, the character that James (Duff) brought to me had an element of that, in that she had to have her eye completely, clearly on what the goal was. And not get mixed up in some of the other dynamics that quite often we do get mixed up in. So it was a little bit of that to tap into. That was kind of interesting. And it was also kind of interesting to be working in L.A. as opposed to Canada, and there's a lot of differences in the work environment, but in both case it was really strong exciting ensemble and great writing so I just felt kind of lucky."
Will we still see some of the kind of slapstick and buffoonish behavior from Detectives Flynn and Provenza -- that we saw on
The Closer
-- in some of the
Major Crimes
"Flynn and Provenza, their wonderful natures, those don't go away. Believe me. Oh my goodness, that's like precious gold. You will see plenty of Flynn and Provenza in that way that you described them as wonderful.
Captain Raydor was an antagonist for Brenda, as you had mentioned. Will there be a female antagonist for Raydor at all on
Major Crimes
"I'm not sure? I'm not sure the answer to that question. I do know that what we are slowly and very richly kind of carving out is beginning to understand how -- let's just keep looking at how does the crime get solved in the new dynamic, and what aspects does that bring out in this character that we have not seen in her other job. And how does that interact with these other fabulous actors and characters, and how they feel about things. And so there's absolutely room for antagonism on all sides and connection on all sides, and I think that that's what's really exciting about the exploration."
Captain Rador with Det. Flynn (Tony Denison)
How quickly will fans get to learn any of Raydor's back story at all?
"Yes, you will."
Okay, your character in
Major Crimes
is just going to be, initially, thrown into the fire. You have no allies, because you've basically targeted these people for one reason or another since she was part of IA. Initially, do you have an ally? Are you completely by yourself, and you have no one watching your back, or do you develop an ally among these people?
"This is how I would describe it without giving too much away. It's a great question. She begins this journey pretty much a woman alone. What I've found out doing it and what we all, we're finding out what James is writing and what everyone is that she has a deep commitment to whatever job she is in. And by necessity in the new show, the job dictates a stronger connection with her engagement, with the other members of the ensemble as it were. And that starts to create stories that take us in new directions. And it isn't that she develops one ally here or one enemy there, anything like that. There is a natural necessity for this group of people to figure out how to solve crimes together. And out of that comes a new show, a new story."
This is not something she's ever dealt with before, so it's a learning experience for her, too?
"Well, she hasn't been at the center of this particular -- she hasn't had this particular job, but she's been a professional running a captain in internal affairs for decades. This is not a woman who has not been in a corporate situation where she's a boss or had to have a lot of people working beneath her. We've just never explored her professional situation on her turf when we were in
The Closer.
And now she's on their turf, but this is a woman who knows how to be in the position she's in."
Captain Raydor with Detective Amy Syke (Kearran Giovanni)
Captain Raydor seems so focused -- does she have room and time for family? What's her relief when she goes home from being with these guys who don't want here there?
"This is such an interesting question. And it's like the kind of thing where I can't wait until the show has evolved more so that we can talk more about it. I can't talk about it yet, because of, you know, the spoiler thing. But I will say this. In a general sense, we're looking at a woman who actually has had a very full life. Whether or not it was perfect, of course not. But she has had a full life. And there are reasons why someone may or may not have chosen to go through the L.A.P.D. as an internal affairs person as opposed to a detective where you are on call 24/7. And there a question and an exploration there about how do professional women also raise children? How does it happen? What are the choices that a woman at mid-life has to make at a certain period of time in order to create the goal being balanced perhaps? You know what I mean? And so there's a little bit of exploring of that reality in there because that is what we are seeing with women who are my age who are now taking on positions in their professional life that are demanding more of them than ever before, and a generation ago these same women would have been retiring. So we have an opportunity, I think, to explore something that's happening all around us. And to have some stories evolve out of that. What is also interesting is the response of the people around women in our culture who are taking on these positions. I mean, I think I've said it a couple of times today, but I really mean it. This is the era of Secretary Clinton. And we are beginning to redefine how we are perceiving what women are doing once they turn the corner at mid-life. Are they taking on bigger jobs? Yes, they are. And had we been telling stories about that for the past 100 years? Not really. So it's a really wonderful thing to explore in my opinion. I feel happy about it."
The Closer
seemed to have kind of a balance between humor and drama -- some of the gritty elements were relieved by a joke from someone. What kind of tone will we see from
Major Crimes
"Well, what I can tell you is that this is still -- this is a new show based in an old show or an original show. This is a spin-off from the same incredible creative mind of James Duff. And he's a very funny man. And I think that the same responsibility that he felt during
The Closer
towards finding what is delightful and light, it will be his impulse in
Major Crimes.
You've got to find the balance. I mean, that is his style of writing. There is a tonality to his writing that also addresses the humor inside the dire, and I think that that will continue."
The Major Crimes Division at a murder scene
What do you find the most challenging -- acting-wise -- on the show?
"What do I find the most challenging? That's a good question. What I really felt was very important, was to be patient with the evolution of Sharon Raydor because I felt it was very important to not abandon the Captain Raydor that we got so used to getting angry with or upset by or whatever it is, frustrated by and how much we enjoyed that in her. I wanted to make sure that she came along and that what we end up doing is opening her up so that we begin to see other aspects of her but we don't suddenly change the woman."
I talked to Kyra a couple of weeks ago, so I had the privilege to view the last six episodes, including the finale. Kyra said she might come back, maybe to do some guest spots. How would you feel about her shooing up on
Major Crimes
"Absolutely. Of course, it would be great if Kyra came on. I mean, oh my God, it would awesome. I mean, there's all kinds of potential for a lot of things to happen in this situation."
Have you studied any kind of police work -- hands on research like ride-alongs -- since getting the part?
"I actually have spent some time with some lady female detectives at the L.A.P.D."
FBI Agent Fritz Howard (Jon Tenney) points out imprtant information to Captain Raydor
What was the biggest thing you learned from these female detectives? What was the biggest kernel of wisdom they gave you?
"One of the greatest things I found out about them is that they loved, and this is very helpful for me with Sharon Raydor, the two women that I spent the day with that I just absolutely loved them. They both commented on how difficult it would be for them to work the schedules that we work in Hollywood because things were so out of control. That their lives, and their jobs, had shifts and sort of a routine to them, that they found was easier than what we were explaining to them goes -- and I'm sitting there with these women who have gone after major criminals and had huge careers in the Los Angeles Police Department, and they're telling me that they would find it very difficult to be in the crazy floating kind of hours of what it is that we do out here, and I found them so wonderful and amusing and human. They were great. They were absolutely awesome. And very practical women, and very cool looking and very wonderful and warm and funny but really like focused when they needed to be. It was just a great wonderful thing to see."
Major Crimes
premieres Monday, August 13th at 10pm/9pm (ET/CT) on TNT, immediately following
The Closer
series finale.
Major Crimes
will then move to its regular Monday, 9 p.m. (ET/PT) timeslot the following week. (Check local listings)
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Warren Buffett speaks about philanthropy, state of the economy
On Thursday afternoon, Georgetown welcomed Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, for a conversation in Gaston Hall. The talk was succinct and efficient, focusing on just two topics: Buffett's philanthropy and the state of the economy.
This event was made possible by Bank of America and Global Social Enterprise Initiative at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, the same duo that brought Bono to GU in 2012. "Last year we brought you a rock star," Moynihan said, while introducing Buffett. "This year we brought you a real rock star."
Buffet spent a considerable amount of time discussing his most recent philanthropic project called The Giving Pledge. This campaign, a collaboration with Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was designed to invite the wealthy to pledge to donate half of their net worth to philanthropy.
To date, the effort has recruited 115 people. Profiles of those who have made the pledge are posted on the project's website, discussing the motives and purposes of the donations. Buffett hopes that these profiles and other publicity will help recruit more pledges to his campaign. "I call these billionaires up and sometimes they tell me how they can't do it," Buffett said. "I tell them I'm going to write a book on how to live on 500 million dollars."
"When I die all the money has to be spent within 10 years after the estate is closed," Buffett said, wrapping up his comments on The Giving Pledge. "I don't believe in trying to control things from the grave. I like to think I can think outside the box, but thinking outside that particular box…"
The conversation then shifted to the current state of the economy. Citing a favorite George W. Bush comment on the 2008 crisis, Buffett discussed how bad things really were, and how well business has recovered. Despite the recovery in the years since, Buffet still warned that there is still progress to be made. "The American populous as a whole has not come back," he said. "Inequality is getting wider."
He explained that no matter what, the human animal will always behave as it has in the past. There will be recessions and hardships, but prosperity is still attainable, he argued. "Don't ever worry about America," Buffett said. "You're in the right place."
This discussion of the economy was ultimately connected back to importance of philanthropy and social welfare in the world today. "The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind," Buffett said.
Buffett hammered this point home in his answer to the penultimate question in the brief Q and A section, leaving the room with a clear, resounding message. "We've gone significantly in the right direction in terms of behaving better as a society, and I think we've gone terrifically in the right direction in terms of turning out lots of stuff," Buffett said. "We have to address the question of 'how do you treat the people that are left behind in a system that maximizes the output of goods and services?' And that can only come from government."
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Funeral services celebrating the life of John Milton Deal, 86, of Lake Wateree, will be held at 2:00 PM, Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at Bethesda Presbyterian Church, Camden, SC. Rev. John L. Hallman III and Rev. Dr. Chip Summers will officiate. Family will receive friends following the service in John Knox Hall at the church. Memorials may be made in Jack's memory to Honor Flight, Inc., 300 E. Auburn Ave., Springfield, OH 45505-4703 or Bethesda Presbyterian Church, 502 DeKalb St., Camden, SC 29020 or a charity of choice.
Mr. Deal, husband of Patricia Hallman Deal, passed away on Monday, September 10, 2012. He was the son of the late Milton Harvey Deal and Mamie Mickle Deal McNulta. Born in Camden, he was co-owner of Deal's Marina on Lake Wateree for 25 years, with his wife, Pat. Jack was also known for his craftsmanship for building many retaining walls and piers on Lake Wateree. He also gave many area high school students their first summer job at Deal's Marina. Following retirement from the marina, Jack was employed by Duke Energy as a lake monitor. He served his country in the Merchant Marines and in the U.S. Army in Korea, having been honorably discharged as a Master Sergeant in 1956. Jack received the Bronze Service Star and the United Nations Service Medal. He was a member of Bethesda Presbyterian Church, American Legion Post 17, and the Lake Wateree Association. Jack was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather.
Surviving in addition to his wife of 51 years, Patricia Hallman Deal; daughter, Suzanne Deal of Lake Wateree; son, John M. "Johnny" Deal, Jr. (Annah) of Camden; grandchildren; Rachel Webb Elliott, 2nd Lt. James C. "Jimmy" Webb, III, Margaret Lane Deal and Emily C. Deal. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by brothers Bobby and Billy Deal.
Kornegay Funeral Home, Camden Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.
Online condolences may be sent to the Deal family by visiting www.kornegayfuneral.com.


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Volcano eruption, avalanche at Japan ski resort kills one
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A Japanese soldier was killed on Tuesday after a volcano erupted near a popular Japanese ski resort, sparking an avalanche that left several injured and scores stranded up a mountain, officials said.
Footage broadcast on Japanese television showed thick black smoke interspersed with falling rocks sliding down the snow-covered side of the volcano towards a ski slope.
"One of the six members of the Self Defence Forces (injured in the incident) has died after being caught up in an avalanche," a defence ministry spokesman told AFP.
The ministry had earlier said that six infantry personnel who had been on a training mission on the mountain were hit by the avalanche but had been rescued.
The falling rocks kicked clouds of snow into the air as they made impact.
"Black smoke rose from the top of the mountain and we were told to evacuate inside 30 minutes later," a man who was at the ski resort told public broadcaster NHK.
"About 100 people have evacuated," he said.
Japan's Meteorological Agency urged nearby residents to stay away from Mt. Kusatsu Shirane, northwest of Tokyo, after it detected what it said was "slight volcanic activity."
"Today an eruption occurred" at the mountain, agency official Makoto Saito told reporters.
He warned that the volcano could still spew more rocks and ash, and that there was a risk of further avalanches.
A local fire department official told AFP that 10 people had been injured in the incident.
"Five of them were seriously injured. We began sending the injured to a hospital," he said.
- Stranded in gondola -
Among the injured were four people hurt by shattered glass while on a ropeway gondola at the ski resort in Gunma.
The official said an earlier report that one person was missing in the avalanche was not accurate.
A local town official said that a total of 78 people, some of them suffering injuries, were stranded at a gondola station at the top of the mountain.
The gondola has been stopped because of a power outage.
"We're now discussing how we can evacuate them," the official said.
NHK said that eight of those stranded had already been rescued.
Japan, with scores of active volcanoes, sits on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire" where a large proportion of the world's quakes and volcanic eruptions are recorded.
On September 27, 2014, Japan suffered its deadliest eruption in almost 90 years when Mount Ontake, in central Nagano prefecture, burst unexpectedly to life.
An estimated 63 people were killed in the shock eruption which occurred as the peak was packed with hikers out to see the region's spectacular autumn colours.


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There's a lot in the news at the moment about the search for immortality. People are living longer, and they say that someone has already been born that will live to be 150-200 years old. In fact the main funders for the search for immortality are billionaires. When you stop and think and think about it, the reasons is obvious. They have more to lose when they die. You can't take it with you! The most you can do is bequeath it to your heirs.. and you won't be able to see them enjoy it. So billionaires want to live longer so they can enjoy their wealth for longer. That's why they spend so much on research, looking for the elixir of eternal life.
Was it always the way that the rich sought paths to immortality to longer enjoy their richness? Yes. But they got ripped off a lot more!
In ancient China many all-powerful emperors died from consuming mercury-based potions given to them under the promise that it would make them live forever. Mercury is indeed a strange-looking substance- a shiny silver liquid metal. Looks like it could be the elixir of life… but no. It gives a slow and agonising departure from this world.
Fast-forward to 1492. There on his deathbed was Pope Innocent VIII. Three 10 year old boys were paid a ducat each to donate their blood to try to keep the old god-botherer alive. The boys died. And of course so did the Pontiff- probably from blood poisoning. I wonder which of them went to heaven?
During the next two centuries centuries, it was the turn of thousands of European alchemists to hoodwink and swindle rich aristocrats with bogus potions for eternal life. These elixirs (which often included mercury and arsenic) often gave off noxious and poisonous vapours that would eventually kill the alchemist (as well as failing to prolong the life of the Aristo).
After World War I, thousands of rich old men (probably the donkeys who led the lions) opted for a more biological and glandular fountain of youth. They arranged for chimpanzee testicles to be grafted into their scrotums at Sergei Voronoff's exclusive medical clinic on the French Riviera. Ouch. Must have been an issue for the undertaker- whether to remove the clearly failed extra-testicular activity, or leave it for all to see as they lay naked in the coffin! In the picture below Sergei and his brother George perform their quad-gonads operation.
In 1971, researchers declared that science would unravel all the mysteries of ageing within five years. All you needed was the appropriate injection of finance… Alas, that didn't come to be. In fact five years later all we got was the San Francisco Chronicle reporting that "human life could be extended to 800 years." That same year, an outfit called Microwave Instrument Co. in Del Mar, California, said they'd have immortality drugs on the market within three years. They saw a connection between agitating the molecules of blood through microwaves and immortality. Oops. Next!
There's an interesting video from grizzled veteran journalist and conspiracy theorist Jim Marrs about Monatomic gold. Jim Marrs has written many books asnd papers on government cover ups on aliens, telepathy and 9/11, and his book Crossfire was a primary source for the screenplay for Oliver Stone's film JFK. Despite being a couple of years old, this unassuming lecture before an intimate gathering still gives you cause to pause and think.
In this 10 minute video: Monatomic gold Jim talks about future technology from the past. he says that there's a key reason why we want to invade Iraq. And it's not to do with weapons of mass destruction. Jim talks about evidence of an advanced ancient civilization and a farmer who found strange sparkling minerals in the soil. A chemist investigated the substance and it was a single atom element- a monatomic element.
Strange things began to occur. A white powder was distilled from the substance. But that powder can actual defy gravity and bestow weightlessness on a vessel containing it. It also could be made to disappear. But it came back in the same position, meaning that it must have temporarily shifted to another dimension! It was thought that if ingested, the monatomic gold powder could "clean up" your DNA. That might unlock the gateway to longevity or even immortality!
Monatonic gold is known by many names such as white powder gold, Ormus, the Elixir of Life, the Philosopher's Stone, and mana. It has been around for quite a while; the ancient Egyptians made it with gold leaf ground into pure desert sand and then boiled it in vinegar-wine.
The virtues of gold has been promoted by various alchemists throughout history; one of the best known is Paracelsus as is his production of what he called Aurum Potable. The Chinese called it "Kim" (Gold) and "Yeh" (Juice) becoming "Kimiya". The Arabic culture then added the definitive article 'al' (the) creating "Al-kimiya" or Alchemy. That instantly conjures up the popular myth that alchemists primary goal is to turn base metals into gold. However much of alchemical pursuit is the transmutation of gold into healing tonics, or substances to give a human special advantages.
Jim's not without humour. "They discovered recently that protons had mass… I didn't even know they were Catholic!"
I won't give any more away except to say that the video is intriguing and makes you want to see the others in the series to get the whole picture. Whether you swallow some of the suppositions and ideas, there is no way you can reject them all out of hand. And Jim delivers them in such a neighbour-over-the-fence way, that you sense he has no axe to grind here, or books to sell, just a story to unfold which is designed to challenge your basic concepts of history, life and our place in the universe. That's all then!!


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Pusha T To Def Jam
Clipse member Pusha T has signed a solo recording contract with Def Jam Records, according to KarenCivil.com.
"Solidifying my first solo venture, G.O.O.D Music/DefJam is my home. That machine with my creativity is gonna make for satisfied hiphop fans," said Pusha.
The Virginia rapper's mixtape follow up Fear of God 2 is scheduled to drop September 27.
He recently announced that he was nixing plans to release his first studio LP on Black Friday.
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It has never been entirely clear just who makes up the Republican establishment--businessmen? evangelicals? freepers?--but it is clear that they've never liked John McCain. A look at the coverage of McCain's 2000 presidential primary campaign reveals hundreds of instances in which the Arizona senator is depicted as waging heroic battle against the GOP establishment, and the establishment is depicted as fighting back just as hard, if less heroically. The establishment's efforts "to kneecap the hated McCain," wrote Joe Klein after McCain won the 2000 New Hampshire primary, "are likely to grow uglier as the South Carolina primary approaches." Indeed they did, and McCain went down.
Of course, in defeating McCain, the Republican establishment made a pretty good choice; it got a two-term presidency and all that goes along with it out of the deal. But now, as that presidency moves into lame duckhood--with no designated successor to George W. Bush--McCain is still there, and he's getting another look from some of the people who fought against him six years ago. Although, at this point, the 2008 polls reflect name recognition more than anything else, McCain is near the top of them, and he's also dominating what might be called the invisible primary of the activists and insiders who play key roles in the presidential primaries.
There are several reasons why GOP establishment types are warming to the man they once rejected--and who rejected them. First is the loyalty McCain showed toward Bush in the last election. Second is his stand on the war in Iraq. Third is his hard line on federal spending. And the fourth reason is not an issue, but the absence of one: In 2008, McCain, having won his fight for campaign finance reform, will no longer be showcasing a cause that most Democrats loved but most Republicans hated.
McCain campaigned like a workhorse for Bush in 2004, making more appearances for (and with) the president than he made for himself in his own reelection campaign. "I spent a grand total of three days in Arizona between the first of September and November," McCain tells me. "I thought it was a lot more important for him to be reelected than for me to be reelected." (That kind of it's-not-about-me humility is easier when you win, as McCain did in Arizona, with 77 percent of the vote.) McCain points out that he also campaigned for Bush in 2000 but got little credit for it, because "people wouldn't accept the fact that I had gotten over any real or imagined problems with the South Carolina primary."
But, in 2004, Republicans took notice. "People who were for George Bush in the Bush-McCain fight appreciated McCain standing up for the president," says Katon Dawson, chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. "We knew he didn't have to do it, and that will be a tremendous asset for McCain in South Carolina." Dawson makes it clear that he hasn't chosen sides and that other candidates--Senators George Allen and Bill Frist, in particular--have accumulated some significant political IOUs in South Carolina. But McCain has, at the very least, earned the credibility to go back to the state, not as a loser, but as a major contender.
More than any other issue, the war is the reason why Republicans thank McCain for standing by Bush. As the level of public approval for the war goes down, and some Republicans worry that they have to accommodate Democratic calls for withdrawal, McCain's hawkishness looks better and better to those in the GOP--still a majority--who want to stay the course. McCain is their man; he has a way of talking about the war that simply sounds right to Republican ears: stronger, clearer, and more direct than Bush himself. "We cannot afford to lose it," he tells me. "Just read Zarqawi. We lose it, and they're coming after us."
With his war hero credibility, McCain is able to dismiss the calls of some of his fellow lawmakers--and fellow veterans--who want to get out of Iraq. John Kerry, McCain says, doesn't have "the strength to see it through." And John Murtha is "a lovable guy," but "he's never been a big thinker; he's an appropriator." Using language that Bush never could, McCain tells me that Murtha has become too emotional about the human cost of the war. "As we get older, we get more sentimental," McCain says. "And [Murtha] has been very, very affected by the funerals and the families. But you cannot let that affect the way you decide policy."
A statement like that--sad, but, at the same time, coldly determined--would not be made by a man worried about how the war will affect his political fortunes. And McCain isn't. "We don't ever even talk about [the war] in political terms," McCain's longtime top strategist, John Weaver, tells me. "If John McCain and George W. Bush are the last two men standing advocating the exportation of democracy and the protection of democracy in Iraq, so be it. It's absolutely the right thing to do." There's no doubt McCain believes that, but it also happens to be, at least at this moment, the kind of buck-up certitude the Republican base, struggling with its own doubts about the war, wants to hear.
McCain is also aligned with the GOP establishment on the issue that, were it not for the war, would be the source of a bitter fight between Republicans and Bush: federal spending. In the last few years, McCain, who enjoys a longstanding reputation for opposing pork-barrel spending, voted against the exorbitant prescription-drug entitlement. He voted against the highway bill, and he was one of the noisiest opponents of its most notorious provision, Ted Stevens's Bridge to Nowhere. No other Republican candidate has a better record on the issue.
When Stephen Moore, the former head of the Club for Growth who is now with The Wall Street Journal editorial board, interviewed McCain recently, Moore couldn't find much to criticize on the question of federal expenditures. "More than any other first-tier GOP candidate in 2008, Mr. McCain has shrewdly tapped into the rage that conservatives are feeling" about big spending projects, Moore wrote. Of course, Moore couldn't abide McCain's opposition to some of the president's tax cuts, but, given the deficit, it's likely those votes will diminish in importance when compared with McCain's position on spending.
Finally, there is the issue that McCain doesn't have. In 2000, McCain based his candidacy on campaign finance reform, a cause almost entirely associated with Democrats. While that appealed to some independents, it had a piein-the-sky air about it that turned off Republicans, many of whom still believe Bush should have vetoed McCain-Feingold when it finally won congressional approval. And, at least in the view of the GOP establishment, it didn't work, either: McCain did all that campaigning so George Soros could spend $27 million on a personal mission to defeat Bush? That's not an accomplishment to boast about in Republican primaries.
The good news is that's over; McCain won't be making a big deal of it in the years to come. But he still wants to cast himself as a reformer. When I ask him about his inquiry into the Jack Abramoff scandal, he launches into a statement about the urgent need for lobbying reform. "We've got to reform lobbying," he says. "I don't think that would offend very many people, except those in the lobbying community." And, by the way, McCain--who, as his opponents will remind you, was once a member of the Keating Five--says he was stunned that the Abramoff mess is as bad as it is. "I had no clue that it would blossom into this," he says. "I had no clue."
In any event, McCain concedes that the reform agenda from 2000 probably won't be a major factor in 2008. "I think that the issues of national security will probably be transcendent for a long time," he says, "because I think the war on terror will be with us for a long time."
Even though McCain is in line with the Republican establishment on most of the top issues these days, there are still some instances where he might find himself on the outs with GOP primary voters. The biggest is illegal immigration. The party is split, with a lot of conservatives preferring a proposal sponsored by McCain's Republican colleague from Arizona, Senator Jon Kyl, and Texas Senator John Cornyn that would require illegal immigrants who are in the United States now togo home before they can apply to come back and work. McCain has a competing bill, co-sponsored with Ted Kennedy--it is generally not a great idea for candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination to be closely identified with the senior senator from Massachusetts--which would allow those illegals to stay here during the process. With some justification, McCain's opponents call it an amnesty bill, and McCain will undoubtedly pay a political price among voters who believe the real answer to the problem is stricter border enforcement. On the other hand, no other candidate will be able to please all sides on the issue, either.
Another possible problem is the question of judicial nominations. When I speak with a Republican strategist who is allied with one of McCain's potential rivals, he says McCain threw away much of the support he had won campaigning for Bush when he joined the so-called "Gang of 14" senators who reached a compromise on Democratic filibusters of Bush appeals court nominees. "The whole issue of judicial nominations is very, very important to Republican activists and Republican primary voters," the strategist says. "I think there was a sense of betrayal among Republican activists when they saw those seven Republicans join those seven Democrats to head off the nuclear option." The strategist is right about the importance of the judges issue, but wrong about the Gang of 14 compromise. Yes, McCain and others agreed to preserve the Democrats' right to filibuster. But, in return, they forced Democrats to back down on their most hated nominees: William Pryor, Janice Rogers Brown, and Priscilla Owen. And the GOP members reserved the right to break any future Democratic filibuster. That probably won't hurt McCain.
And, with so much of the political spotlight on national security, McCain's charisma and war record often allow him to bowl over even those Republicans who don't like all his positions. "While I disagree vehemently with him on many policy issues, it is thrilling to sit in his presence," wrote Moore. "He is a genuine American hero and patriot in an age when heroism and patriotism have gone out of style." More than any other senator, McCain seems like an executive branch leader; among the Republican field, his only real rival on that score is Rudy Giuliani.
One inside-baseball indicator of McCain's status with the Republican establishment is the fact that his campaign might--in a development that would have been unthinkable a few years ago--attract a few members of the Bush team. Media consultant Mark McKinnon, for one, leaves no doubt that he wants to work for McCain. "I consider myself a friend," McKinnon tells me. "I told the senator, as I told the president, that if anybody from the president's inner circle runs--that is, Jeb or Condi--then I would want to support them. But, if they didn't, then I would support him."
Of course, it's just 2005, and there's no way to know what issues will be most important in 2008 or whether those issues will be friendly to McCain. He's obviously betting on national security, which means a 2008 McCain campaign might look nothing like the 2000 McCain campaign. And that, for the Republican establishment at least, is a good thing. "If he comes in with the Straight Talk Express and the same stuff, I don't know if that will get him anywhere," says Dawson. "We're looking for what their vision is for America after President Bush." (Dawson apparently hasn't checked out McCain's new website, StraightTalkAmerica.com, where, among other things, supporters are invited to buy a tiny lapel pin replica of the Straight Talk Express bus. Just $25.)
Probably the biggest mistake McCain could make, after building up so much credibility with establishment types, would be to try to recapture the "maverick" image that so charmed the press (and some voters) in 2000. When I talk to yet another Republican strategist who is allied with yet another of McCain's potential rivals--nobody wants to speak openly about this yet--he tells me he'd love to see McCain thumb his nose at the party establishment again. "For his opponents, the more maverick, the better," the strategist says. "There are some folks who love the maverick, but are those folks likely to be Republican primary voters? Republican activists are looking for Republicans."
McCain seems to understand that now. But there is always the possibility that he will backslide. "I don't know of anything I have done recently that would anger the Republican base," he tells me. "But I cannot be positive that I won't think of one."
By Byron York


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posts on 2/12/2008 1:29:06 AM
I was a bit bothered that Pippa is basically going to be entombed forever in the Realms, but Circe, the murderer of Gemma's mother, is given a free pass to the Afterlife by none other than Ms. Doyle. Moreover, after the castle collapses, the girls shed a few tears, but pretty much forget that their friend ever existed the rest of the story. Don't seem fair.
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posts on 2/11/2008 9:01:16 PM
I KNOW she's not writing another book that has to do with Gemma, but don't you want one?! I mean maybe she'd travel to the realms and find a way to bring Kartik back (I wish,LOL) then they could be together in the U.S couldn't they? Hahah, anyways yahh. I absolutely love those books as much as you do, it's like when I'm done reading after awhile and when im done I feel all spaced out. HAHA :D
Rachel D.
posts on 2/11/2008 3:38:50 PM
Um... I would definitely pick up on about magicians, but probably not any of the others. Twilight put me fof vampires a lot.
posts on 2/11/2008 11:43:02 AM
I'd like a honest vote, raise of hands how many of you would pick up a book on werewolves, vampires, magicians or cupid.
posts on 2/10/2008 8:31:09 PM
i think in the dream she sees Kartik crossing over...thats my personal viewpoint though
sammm(antha) !
posts on 2/10/2008 5:44:09 PM
Not to be rude about you trying not to be rude,but you did sound rude, but I don't care if she's not writing another book, well I do, but still. HAH sorry, I was kinda hyper then :D And I know she's not writing another book.
posts on 2/9/2008 10:20:52 AM
When I got to the part where Kartik died, I just started saying: "NO! NONONONONO!!!" and cried. I probably looked like an idiot in front of my brother, but who cares. It's been 5 hours since I finished the book and I still feel like crying some more. I didn't quite understand the last part though; the part when Gemma is dreaming and Kartik said "I'm here."
Kathleen H.
posts on 2/8/2008 8:20:59 PM
I agree-there is not going to be another book. We can still discuss stuff from the books and look forward to the movie.
posts on 2/6/2008 2:56:03 PM
Not to be rude, but you were kinda rude, so I'm just gonna say it. She's not writing another book. The series is over. I know how you feel - I loved the books just as much as you, but you really have to get over the fact that three books is all we get. Go read fanfiction.
sammm(antha) !
posts on 2/6/2008 2:37:00 PM
Uhm, I PERSONALLY dont think people would mind another book. And I PERSONALLY dont think that it was tied together at the end, theres still a big gap of questions that i want answered. And I dont want to THINK of what happend to them, I want to KNOW what happend.
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Self-starting femtosecond Cr4+:YAG laser mode locked with a GaInNAs saturable Bragg reflector
Leburn, C.G. and McRobbie, A.D. and Lagatsky, A.A. and Brown, C.T.A. and Sibbett, W. and Calvez, S. and Burns, D. and Dawson, M.D. and Gupta, J.A. and Aers, G.C. (2007) Self-starting femtosecond Cr4+:YAG laser mode locked with a GaInNAs saturable Bragg reflector. In: Advanced Solid State Photonics Conference, ASSP 2007, 2007-01-28 - 2007-01-31.Full text not available in this repository.Request a copy from the Strathclyde author
THE quaternary semiconductor system Ga In N As has been the subject of considerable recent interest. The ability to vary the nitrogen (N) and indium (In) concentrations permits the bandgap energy to be tailored for applications in the important 1200-1600 nm spectral region, via strong band-bowing, while controlling the lattice constant to permit pseudomorphic growth on a GaAs substrate [1]. GaInNAs is proven for light emission from vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser and vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser devices operating near 1300 nm [2]-[4], but it is also a potentially important material for developing saturable absorber devices. Of particular relevance are the saturable Bragg reflectors (SBRs) and semiconductor saturable absorbing mirrors for the passive mode-locking of near-infrared solid-state lasers operating in the 1200-1600 nm region.
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Have you ever wished you've had better art supplies? Or blamed an artwork that didn't go very well on the lack of the newest, shiniest, more professional materials? Yeah, we've all been there. And I don't deny that many times it might be true. But lack of something is also an opportunity to play with things you've never considered, as I mention in this article.
Each material has its own unique characteristics and discovering them can be a lot of fun! Take these painting process videos as an example. Each one uses a different material that was not intended to make art, but that doesn't stop curious people from trying!
Chocolate is very interesting as it can be used as both a dry and wet medium. In this case, the artist uses both possibilities. In the next video, chocolate syrup is used, foregoing the need to melt it before use.
One thing many of these materials have in common is that they contain tannins, which have a strong staining power. The resulting artwork might not be archival, though, so you better protect it well once finished and don't expect it to last forever.
In any case, this proves you don't need expensive materials to create. Now go and see what's around you and find something to paint with. You might discover something new, get out of your comfort zone and have fun in the process.
What you end up concluding is that painting is painting. If you get your values right, it doesn't matter how and what you apply to your substrate. It might seem silly, but it is a bit mind broadening.
There are many more examples of unusual materials for painting to give you inspiration on the web if you care to search for them. I hope you enjoyed these, and I'll catch you in the next installment of unusual painting!
Barbara Din is a visual artist, graphic designer, painter, interior designer, crafter, musician and writer living in Argentina. Learn more about Barbara and her work at the following links:


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New in Theaters This Week for 06/01/18
Welcome to a recurring feature here at The Nerd Mentality. As movie lovers, we often scramble to find all the films coming out in a given week. We thought we would take some of the guesswork out of it for our readers. We'll be showcasing both wide and limited releases. So sit back watch some trailers and you might find something new to go watch this weekend. These films are what's New in Theaters This Week for 06/01/18, shown in totally random order, because why not? Showtimes are linked on the titles so you can see if it is playing near you.
American Animals (The Orchard)
American Animals is the unbelievable but entirely true story of four young men who attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history. The film centers around two friends from the middle-class suburbs of Lexington, Kentucky. Spencer (Barry Keoghan), is determined to become an artist but feels he lacks the essential ingredient that unites all great artists – suffering. His closest friend, Warren (Evan Peters), has also been raised to believe that his life will be special, and that he will be unique in some way. But as they leave the suburbs for universities in the same town, the realities of adult life begin to dawn on them and with that, the realization that their lives may in fact never be important or special in any way. Determined to live lives that are out of the ordinary, they plan the brazen theft of some of the world's most valuable books from the special collections room of Spencer's college Library.
Enlisting two more friends, accounting major Eric (Jared Abrahamson) and fitness fanatic Chas (Blake Jenner), and taking their cues from heist movies, the gang meticulously plots the theft and subsequent fence of the stolen artworks. Although some of the group begin to have second thoughts, they discover that the plan has seemingly taken on a life of its own. Unfolding from multiple perspectives, and innovatively incorporating the real-life figures at the heart of the story, writer-director Bart Layton (The Imposter) takes the heist movie into bold new territory.
Hooked (Breaking Glass Pictures)
Jack is an impulsive 18-year-old hustler with few redeeming qualities. Despite his unfavorable attributes, he and his boyfriend Tom are together, in love, and desperate to make ends meet in New York. When he meets Matt, a closeted married man, they set off from the city only to find the excitement of Miami nightlife can take a deadly turn.
Rodin (Cohen Media Group)
Paris, 1880. 40 year-old Rodin (Vincent Lindon) finally receives his first state commission, "The Gates of Hell," which will include "The Kiss" and "The Thinker," two of his most famous creations. Constantly working, he shares his life with his lifelong partner, Rose (Séverine Caneele) and his mistress, the young Camille Claudel (Izïa Higelin,) the gifted student who becomes his assistant and a talented sculptor in her own right during a decade of passion, mutual admiration and creative collaboration. Following their painful break up, Rodin continues to work relentlessly while facing both the rejection and enthusiasm provoked by the sensuality and originality of his sculptures. Rodin's statue of Balzac, long in the making and rejected during his lifetime, will become the starting point of modern sculpture.
Action Point (Paramount Pictures)
Everyone's favorite daredevil Johnny Knoxville is back to his hilariously painful antics in the upcoming comedy ACTION POINT. Knoxville stars as D.C., the crackpot owner of a low-rent, out-of-control amusement park where the rides are designed with minimum safety for maximum fun. Just as D.C.'s estranged teenage daughter Boogie comes to visit, a corporate mega-park opens nearby and jeopardizes the future of Action Point. To save his beloved theme park and his relationship with his daughter, D.C. and his loony crew of misfits risk everything to pull out all the stops – and stunts – making for another wild ride from the star of BAD GRANDPA and JACKASS.
A Kid Like Jake (IFC Films)
Brooklyn parents Alex (Claire Danes) and Greg (Jim Parsons) are lucky to have a kid like Jake. Their four-year-old is bright, precocious, creative—and just happens to prefer Disney princesses to toy cars and skirts to jeans. Jake's "gender expansive" behavior—as local preschool director Judy (Octavia Spencer) dubs it—is no big deal to Alex and Greg. Or so it seems, until the process of navigating New York City's hyper-competitive private school system opens up a parental quagmire: could Jake's gender nonconformity be just the thing that gives their child an edge in the admissions game? How young is too young to put a label on a child's identity? Is this just a phase, or is Jake truly transgender?
Split in their opinions on how to handle the situation, Alex and Greg find themselves navigating an emotional and ethical minefield with one patch of common ground between them: their fierce desire to do what's right for Jake. Transparent director Silas Howard helms this timely, honest, emotionally rich look at 21st-century parenting.
Veere Di Wedding (Zee Studios)
VEERE DI WEDDING is a high spirited and upbeat coming of age story revolving around the lives of four childhood friends Kalindi (Kareena Kapoor), Avni (Sonam kapoor), Meera (ShikhaTalsania) & Sakshi (Swara Bhaskar). Ten years later when these four best friends reunite, they don't realize how much life has changed from what they expected. The film is set against the backdrop of Delhi, where the girls are born and brought up, their trials and tribulations in modern day world, regarding family acceptance, marriage & societal perceptions.
Adrift (STX Entertainment)
Starring Shailene Woodley (Fault in Our Stars, Divergent films) and Sam Claflin (Me Before You, The Hunger Games films), ADRIFT is based on the inspiring true story of two free spirits whose chance encounter leads them first to love, and then to the adventure of a lifetime. As the two avid sailors set out on a journey across the ocean, Tami Oldham (Woodley) and Richard Sharp (Claflin) couldn't anticipate they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
In the aftermath of the storm, Tami awakens to find Richard badly injured and their boat in ruins. With no hope for rescue, Tami must find the strength and determination to save herself and the only man she has ever loved. ADRIFT is the unforgettable story about the resilience of the human spirit and the transcendent power of love.
Upgrade (OTL Releasing)
After his wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralyzed, Grey Trace (Logan Marshall Green, SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING, PROMETHEUS) is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental cure that will "upgrade" his body. The cure – an Artificial Intelligence implant called STEM – gives Grey physical abilities beyond anything experienced and the ability to relentlessly claim vengeance against those who murdered his wife and left him for dead.
Breath (FilmRise)
Based on the award-winning, international best-selling novel by Tim Winston, Simon Baker's directorial debut BREATH follows two teenage boys, Pikelet and Loonie (newcomers Samson Coulter and Ben Spence in breakthrough performances), growing up in a remote corner of the Western Australian coast. Hungry for discovery, the pair form an unlikely friendship with Sando (Simon Baker), a mysterious older surfer and adventurer who pushes the boys to take risks that will have a lasting and profound impact on their lives. Also starring Elizabeth Debicki and Richard Roxburgh, BREATH is an authentic coming-of-age drama set in an idyllic 1970s coastal Australia.
TNM Notes: Expands more next week (6/8) I assume the films social media will update to where. As of this writing it doesn't say how much it expands.
Nossa Chape (FOX Sports Films)
NOSSA CHAPE tracks the rebuilding of the Chapecoense football club in Brazil after an airplane carrying the team crashed on November 28th, 2016, leaving all but three of the players dead. With exclusive access to the new team, families of the deceased, and three surviving players, this documentary shows a team and a city divided about how to handle tragedy – should they focus on keeping the memory of the dead alive or moving on with their own lives? As the team flies the same fated route to play the final championship game that last year's team would have played, they must unite around a common identity.
Social Animals (Vertical Entertainment)
Zoe Crandle's life didn't exactly turn out the way she planned. She's facing eviction, her business is going under and she is resigned to a life of one-night stands. Just when it seems her whole world is unraveling, she meets Paul, a fellow loveable loser, and the pair have an instant connection. There's only one problem, Paul is married. With help from her best friend, Zoe devises a plan to save her business and salvage her love life.
All Summers End (Gravitas Ventures)
Peer-pressured by his two best friends to prove they're more important than a girl, Conrad Stevens pulls an innocent prank that has a disastrous impact on the family life of his girlfriend, Grace Turner. Racked with guilt, Conrad tries to make up for his mistake by doing everything he can for Grace – except tell the truth. What began as innocent summer love suddenly transforms into something more real than either could have expected.
Best F(r)iends: Volume Two (Summit Pictures)
The dynamic duo of Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero have reunited for a dream project, Best F(r)iends – Volume 2. As Sestero's drifter makes a run for it, he finds himself on an expedition across the Southwest, where he encounters wild and crazy characters through a series of twisted and dark foibles. While his misadventure teaches him a valuable lesson about friendship and loyalty, Wiseau's mortician carries the story home with more than a few surprises.
Discreet (Uncork'd Entertainment)
After years in hiding and struggling to control his demons, an eccentric drifter returns home and discovers that his childhood abuser, the center of his pain, is still alive. Armed with this knowledge, the drifter plots his revenge, all the while navigating the perilous land of masculine fragility in modern-day America.
The Doctor From India (Zeitgeist Films)
THE DOCTOR FROM INDIA is a meditative and immersive portrait of the life and work of Dr. Vasant Lad, the holistic health pioneer who first brought the ancient medical practice of Ayurveda from India to the west in the late 1970s. Integrating his gifts as both a healer and a mystic, Dr. Lad has dedicated his life to sharing what is considered the oldest healthcare system on earth in the complex medical landscape of the United States. This is the beautiful and inspiring story of a man who has for decades been quietly at the center of a revolutionary movement to change the way we care for our bodies and our spirits. Directed by Jeremy Frindel (One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das) with an elegant musical score by Rachel Grimes, and featuring Deepak Chopra, Robert Svoboda, David Frawley, and Claudia Welch.
How Jack Became Black (Man of Steele Productions)
The recent births of Jack and June, the third multiracial generation in filmmaker Eli Steele's family, coincided with a startling projection: by the year 2050, at least 20 percent of all Americans will self-identify as two or more races. What will this fate mean to a nation that has been tormented by race throughout its history? Born to a black father and a Jewish mother, Steele has long battled the forces of identity politics, from college campuses to places of employment.
One Sings, the Other Doesn't (Janus Films) Re-release
Agnés Varda's enchanting ode to female friendship and liberation is part blissed-out bohemian musical, part revolutionary cri de coeur. Spanning more than a decade, it traces the ups and downs—abortion, heartbreak, marriage, motherhood—of two friends, Pauline (Mairesse) and Suzanne (Liotard). Even as their lives radically diverge, they remain steadfastly devoted to one another while finding ways to empower other women: one as a traveling feminist folk singer, the other as a reproductive rights activist. Set against France's pro-choice struggle—of which Varda herself was on the frontlines—this tender and intimate epic celebrates the power of women to lift one another up.
A new restoration of ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T opens Friday, June 1 at BAMcinématek in Brooklyn before playing nationwide.
Hopefully, you found some interesting trailers and maybe plan to see a film you normally wouldn't have. New in Theaters This Week for 06/01/18 brought to you by The Nerd Mentality! Check back each week by bookmarking our Now Playing tag.


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A salesperson at Lights Fantastic shows a client a chandelier on Wednesday.
Juan Figueroa | Daily Texan Staff
Sam Goldman and Kiana Schmitt practice their poetry slam in the Turrell Skyspace on Wednesday afternoon. The University of California at Berkeley students are visiting UT to compete in this year's College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational this week.
Mariana Gonzalez | Daily Texan Staff
Beverly Okafor, Biology senior and President of Alpha Epsilon Delta, pies Arthur McDonald at the Pie a President event on Wednesday afternoon. Proceeds of the event were donated to Dell Children's Surgical Global Outreach to serve children in Guatemala.
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Norfolk town youngsters help stage Christmas party for pensioners
PUBLISHED: 12:15 17 December 2018 | UPDATED: 12:52 17 December 2018
A Christmas dinner and party for pensioners that has become a festive tradition for 43 consecutive years has again been hosted by Harleston Junior Club.
The popular annual party took place at Jays Green Centre hosted by young people and staff and was attended by 32 guests many of whom were transported to the event by Rotary Club members.
After welcoming drinks, the guests were treated to a full Christmas dinner with all the trimmings with some of the club's youngsters helping to wait at table.
Following the meal, some members and young volunteers put on entertainment and Father Chritmas paid a visit with a Christmas gift for all. The evening was completed with singing carols and Christmas songs accompanied by Chas Emmens on the keyboard and some local singers.
Funding for the event partly came from a donation three years ago from the now disbanded Harleston Lions group and 'pigs in blankets were donated by Pepperells. Before departing guests had coffee and a piece of Christmas cake donated by one of the guests Jack Whurr.
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The violence against Transgender Community is so common across the country specially in the region Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KP) where 1,133 incidents of violence against the persecuted community were reported from 2015 to 2017 most painfully at least 55 trans people were killed in the period. The community faced several type of violences such as sexual harassment, sexual assault, rape, physical torture, partner violence and etc.
According to a report the president of TransAction Alliance Farzana Jan these 1133 cases are only from just a few districts by adding that the transgender community in remote districts avoids reporting violence cases as there is no help available for them there, so many hate crimes go unreported the news further disclosed that the general secretary of the TransAction Alliance Arzu Khan shared that transgender people have been facing elevated levels of violence in KP since the last two years by adding that many positive changes have taken place but the violence and discrimination the trans community faces must stop.
It is believe that every individual has the equal right and needs to be treated equally. The epidemic of violence against transgender people is a serious crisis that demands immediate attention and the concerns authorities need to look in matter seriously.
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"Lack of insight into cash management across the procurement lifecycle can have long-term and negative financial impact on an organization." Jim Wright, Vice President of Sales, Corcentric.
McLean, Va. (PRWEB) August 03, 2015
Corcentric, a leading provider of Accounts Payable automation and electronic invoicing software, today released its latest sponsored research on improvements to the procure-to-pay cycle. The white paper, "5 Ways Senior Finance Executives are Improving Visibility Across the Procure-to-Pay Cycle", written by the Institute of Finance and Management(IOFM), addresses the problems of visibility into cash flow and cash management and the inefficiencies of manual processes. It suggests that a comprehensive, end-to-end, procure-to-pay automation solution can reduce purchasing costs by more than 50%.
According to IOFM, the prominent use of paper processes for cash management, including Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable, negatively impacts financial visibility for procurement, invoice processing, and payments. This is due to key information not being captured, data being poorly organized, lack of timely information, poor systems integration, and limited access to variables.
An automated solution for improving financial visibility and reducing costs consists of five components: electronic purchase orders, automated invoice processing, electronic invoicing, electronic payments, and ERP integration. The research shows that these combined capabilities improve reporting analytics for a better understanding of overall enterprise spending. There are added benefits of compliance with negotiated contracts and an increase in a competitive advantage.
"Lack of insight into cash management across the procurement lifecycle can have long-term and negative financial impact on an organization," said Jim Wright, Vice President of Sales, Corcentric. "This new research provides executives with a clear pathway forward to improve efficiency and reduce costs for enterprise spend, allowing for better decision making and regulatory compliance."
The paper can be downloaded by visiting http://www.corcentric.com/resources/iofm-5-ways-senior-finance-executives-are-improving-visibility-across-the-procure-to-pay-cycle.
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I was doing a withdrawal at the ATM yesterday when suddenly a smartly dressed old man came right up to a machine next to mine. I took notice of him because he had this strong asshole aura around him. From the first look of his attire, I reckoned that he must be either a vice president or a director from a nearby corporation. A 'winner' in the society. Like, who else wears a long sleeved shirt in the middle of a hot sweltering afternoon? Either a salesman or top management people like him. (and he's too frigging old to be a salesman)
Old man looked very focused. He was completely oblivious to everything that was happening around him. He looked like he was cracking his head thinking about some serious work stuff, but his body was in 'autopilot' mode – probably a routine which he had been through for so many years that he only requires half of his brain to get them going. And that was when the problem started.
You see, he was using only half of his brain, maybe less… to run his errands. The rest of the resources? Used up by some other important tasks. That was why he didn't realize that the machine he was trying to use was out-of-order. There was a sign on the screen of the auto-teller machine telling everyone that. I took a snap of the sign with my phone :
sorry for the poor quality. I was doing a walk-by shooting with my phone
As you can see, it was a big ass sign. But old man's half working brain failed to detect that sign. It was somehow beyond what his half brain power could process. Without suspecting anything, he shoved his card into the machine and the damn thing started to blink like mad. And when he was about to key-in his pin number, then WHAM! His brain bitch-slapped a fatal exception error screen across his vision and he started to panic. MACHINE NOT WORKING MACHINE NOT WORKING!!! He started to clap his hands repeatedly with a wide eyed expression (it was a rather odd reaction… I have to admit)
"SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!" – I could hear him cuss at himself under his breath.
Then he started to frantically press the buttons on the ATM, probably hoping that it would explode inside and spit out his precious card. Miraculously, it actually worked. The machine spat out his card (it didn't explode if you're wondering…) and he quickly grabbed it like what he'd do to a tit after being released from a 20 year jail term. He stood there for like 10 or so seconds, apparently unable to believe how screwed up it was of him for failing to see that sign. Man, what if the sign was not a harmless plastic, but a rampaging mad man wielding a cleaver? He'd be minced to pieces like a pig inside a slaughterhouse. What the fuck indeed.
It was then a young lad holding a helmet walked pass where he was standing and saw him pausing there like a stump, and gave him this weird look. Quick thinking old man noticed that, and in a split second, thought of an excuse to redeem his self esteem by thinking out-of-the-box, like what he had uttered millions of times to the bevy of employees under his leadership, and said to the young lad…
"This is not right. They should have covered the card feeder instead… so that people won't accidentally shove in their card to this defective machine…" [shook his head like a really smart champ]
I was compelled to chide the man "CAN'T YOU FUCKING SEE THE BIG ASS SIGN THERE TELLING YOU IT'S OUT OF ORDER, MORON??", but then, I didn't. That's because Penang is such a small place. Who knows… one day this motherfucker might become my boss or something. I chose not to provoke him…


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I've been cooking at home for a while since I closed my retail store
I'm more than happy to share my simple home cooking recipes that doesn't require 3 hands or 5 legs to prepare
& here's the first!
Cauliflower Rice
I've only heard of Cauliflower rice recently when I packed lunch from Do-Si-Rak at China Square Central
Cauliflower rice tastes much like rice and also fills you up without the actual guilt of digesting carbs
So I decided to try it out
in the light of losing some weight
The finished dish above (first picture) originates from this cauliflower which is relatively large
In a nutshell, this is the ingredient list:
Cauliflower – your preferred size
Chinese Parsley (aka Coriander)
Olive Oil
Salt to taste
Cut the whole cauliflower into smaller florets
3 ways of grating the Cauliflower:
1. Grate diligently with a grater
2. Use a food processor/hand blender works too
3. Mince up with a sharp knife
The Braun hand blender was a new purchase and florets this size WILL NOT WORK
I had to chop it up like garlic so that it can be minced into this texture:
Next, prepare the parsley
Super fresh Parsley from the wet market!
Wash and cut the parsley
Cooking the Grated Cauliflower
About 1.5 tablespoons of Olive oil
Stir Fry for about 8 to 10 minutes
Add salt to taste
McCormick Garlic Salt is my favourite alternative to just normal salt
So I use this instead~
Lastly, throw in the parsley
which doesn't require much cooking
Serve after 30 seconds


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