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Free Twitch Overlays & Alerts by OWN3D Pro
Where to get streaming tools and plugins from
Using the right sources
Sometimes you can get lost in the abundance of different software solutions, smaller and bigger tools and OBS plugins. Many of the offered options are good, some are better or even perfect and others are unstable and useless. That's why we did some research and gathered the best tools and plugins.
Online tools for streamers
Streamlabs (formerly TwitchAlerts) provides a particularly comprehensive support for your stream. Starting as a simple solution for alerts and notifications, the company gradually purchased other tools (including the AnkhBot Chatbot for Twitch) and now offers a great all-round solution for donations, moderation, alerts and much more. Furhtermore, there is also an interface available to integrate other portals such as Patreon or Tipeeestream and targets can be defined that can be added to OBS as overlay elements in addition to alerts and notifications. The startup isn't only interesting for Twitch streamers, because you can easily connect to other websites and get their statistics. How you set up alerts and notifications with Streamlabs we explain in our big Twitch Guide.
Similar to Streamlabs, StreamElements also offers an all-round solution. The company is still quite young, but does a lot of things right. So it is quite easy to create an overlay with donations, followers and alerts, which means that you only have to add a single element in OBS. This means that you won't be affected by changes that might otherwise occur with an OBS update.
OBS Plugins
Input Overlay
With Input Overlay it is possible to display pressed keys on keyboard or gamepad live in your stream. This is especially useful if you want to show your viewers certain techniques or keyboard shortcuts. You can create your own layout and only show the keys you really want to use. Therefore, Input Overlay is perfect for Tutorial Let's Plays and Live Coachings on Twitch. You can download the plugin from the resources on the OBS homepage.
With InfoWriter you can use shortcuts (you can define them in advance) to save a timestamp in a predefined text file during a recording. This allows you to record specific moments at the touch of a button, so that you can find them more quickly later when editing your recording. You just had four kills in a row during an eight-hour stream and didn't have time to look at the clock? Just press the shortcut and you will definitely find the position again later. You can download InfoWriter for OBS Studio here. An OBS Classic version you can find here.
OBS Studio Status Overlay
With the OBS Status Overlay it is possible to show the status of your stream or recording with an overlay above the game. It displays data on the status of OBS, the duration of the current stream or recording, bit rate, frames per second and lost frames. You can download the plugin here.
TwitchSwitcher is one of the most useful tools we have been able to find. Especially advanced streamers will find themselves confronted with the problem that the played game and the title of the stream have to be changed during a session. The tool automatically does that with the change of the scene (e. g. from the game to a talk screen) in OBS. You can download TwitchSwitcher here.
Of course, this was just a small selection of tools and plugins, the choice is simply too large for us to reproduce here. If you want to look around on your own, you will find a lot more addons for OBS Studio and OBS Classic on the OBS homepage under "Resources". If you are also interested in hardware for streamers, our Streamer Gear Article or our other Hardware Articles might help you.


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Down, my novel about a rock band that survives a plane crash only to face something much worse, is now available from Amazon. I'm not kidding when I say this is probably the best work I've written to date. There's a balance between mood and scares that I don't think I've managed to pull off before. All wrapped up in a tight package, Down is a weird, slightly cosmic kind of story. I hope it catches you by surprise.
"A sleek and nasty tale, Southard continues to carve a name for himself with Down." – Laird Barron, author of Occultation and The Croning.
Injured and stranded in a seemingly endless forest, The Frequency Brothers now find themselves fighting for survival. Everywhere they look, they see signs that they are not alone, that something waits in the darkness. They can hear it, and it sounds angry. There's something else out there, though. Something much worse.Â
And it wants to drag them Down.Â

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New Filters – I am glad to see that there are more filters to choose, but I cannot give two thumbs up just yet (I'll explain later).Black & White Filter – Thank God they changed it! The old filter was good if you had no other option, and here is why. The filter was harsh to skin tones and reds. Eyes would darken and give a sick or sinister look to the person, and red cars would turn white. Now we have a true black and white filter. Off hand it looks comparable to my favorite editing app, Snapseed. We will see. Image Rotation – I think this is an excellent addition to the editing process. It was frustrating when an image used was sideways. Correcting it meant taking it into another app. Now for the things that did not excite me. The filters (except b&w) – I think all the filters have been reengineered. They do not have stark changes between the original and altered images. It could be my eyes, but I don't think so. I used an image to test from this morning, and I tested the 2.0 version. I can see some subtle changes, so the jury is still out. Filter Toggle – It's still new, but it was annoying me. I did not like the filters changing the image every time I moved the carousel. I did notice you could press a filter to move them, but it was still frustrating. Not Saving Images – Instagram 2.0 does not save the images to my picture folder! I like having that option. I have to jump through hoops if my wife wants to post an actual image to Facebook and use it as a profile picture. What happens if (God Forbid) Instagram ceases to exist or my account gets deleted? What will happen to all my images? I think they need to rethink that change. (*The images I tested did not save, but the follow up images did. Check your Instagram in Settings on you iPhone, iPad, or iPod, and make sure your options are correct.) Overall I think there are good changes to Instagram. Most issues will probably be forgotten, but there will be many who will complain. I hope there is not too much of a noticeable difference between first and second generation images. I wonder if they would bring back the first generation filters as an option? Till then we will see. If you want to follow me on Instagram, my handle is @josephferreira
My Thoughts On Instagram 2.0
September 20th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Why You Should Not Throw Images Away
September 5th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
We get so wrapped up in mega pixels and glass that we forget that there are great images that have been lost or put away because they came from 'inferior cameras'.The truth is that the camera cannot take great images by themselves, and photographers are not limited by their equipment as much as they think they are. The myth that better equipment makes better images will frustrate many people. The greatest photographers from history created works of art from inferior equipment by our standards. I think there are many photographers who need to put down their DSLRs and pick up a 3 or 4 mega pixel camera. Are you up for the challenge? I am. If you want to follow my journey with my iPhone and point & shoot images, you can follow me on Instagram or twitter. Instagram: @josephferreira Twitter: @ferreirajoseph
Combining Single Image HDR
August 14th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
A Single Image HDR takes enhanced images from a single image and combines them for a HDR image.
I took pictures at a car show Saturday. It was overcast which turned the sky into a giant softbox. The image below of this old Hudson was taken with my iPhone. It is not a bad image, but it is lacking some depth.
I loaded the image info an iPhone app called Dynamic Light, and it created the HDR image below. This is still a great image, but HDR can give a cartoonish look to an image.
Another application I use is called Pro HDR. I combined the image above with the original one. By adjusting the levels, I created a base image (below) that will be darker than the HDR image.
Dark images have details light images do not and via versa. With Pro HDR, I combined the HDR image with the base image to add a little more realistic look to the image.
There may not be a whole lot of change, but all I wanted to do is add clarity and realism to the image.
Why I'm On Twitter…And Other Thoughts
August 8th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
For years I avoided Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites. But first, let's go back 12-15 years to when I avoided email, pagers, and cellphones.
When I was in high school, in the mid 90′s, pagers were very popular. Cellphones were in existence, but they were typically used by doctors and others who could afford that technology. Pagers were the cellular of the masses.
I remember everyone, my age, jumping onto the pager bandwagon, and I tried to avoid it. My parents forced me to carry one because I started working and they needed a way to get ahold of me. Pager code was a popular way of communicating (an art form in itself), and it birthed text messaging. People were finding new and easier ways to communicate, and today we can thank them for the innovations we have.
Why did I usually avoid these innovations? Mostly because I did not understand nor value them. Email was one of those innovations. Most people I knew did not have email, so why should I have one? Would it not be easier to pick up the phone and call them?
Today, I have more email addresses than I really want, and I would not know what to do if I did not have them. I find myself still avoiding trends that pop up mainly because I have not found the value that will benefit me and my time.
This year I got a Twitter account, but I was unsure on how to use it. I did not want to be like many who would broadcast every waking moment of their lives (simply because I did not care – example: what they were eating and what their stool looked like afterwards), so I decided to limit it to photography.
I first started searching for photographers who's podcasts I followed. I would read their articles and thoughts, and if I thought they were good, I would retweet them. If they asked questions, I would try and participate. This is a great way to learn from the best and enter into their community.
The second thing I did was find a way to contribute to twitter. Many people tweet or retweet interesting articles, blogs, and tips, but I wanted to be original, not a Johnny-Come-Lately. I search articles (about 600-800) all day long for content that I am interested in, and what I think others would be interested in also. The title needs to catch my attention first before I read it, and if it is worthy I will tweet it.
My latest step is to create my own content. As I learn and participate, I find it easier to contribute. I do not want my feed to be The-Stool-Sampling-Broadcast, but I do want to have valuable news, tips, and information. And, hopefully I will find new innovations to avoid and talk about.
Bowater Line
July 29th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
I have been playing with my apps, and it has produced a few majorly processed images. This one looks like a photo from the 19th century when they use to color the monochrome prints.
Dynamic Light App
July 28th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
As you can see, I post processed the image for the background and not the foreground. My goal was to direct the viewer to the bridge.Dynamic Light took that image and created a HDR image.
I purposefully took the image to the extreme to show you the detail of the applications potential. A great HDR image should leave your audience wondering if it is HDR or not.Dynamic Light is going to be one app that I will keep in my arsenal. I highly recommend this app.
How To Aviod Spam And Hackers
July 10th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
My blog gets spammed all the time, so I approve the comments before they are posted. Here are some simple tips to avoid being spammed or hacked, but first, let's define what spamming and hacking is.
Spam is a term that is used to describe unsolicited email or comments. They are used to distribute hyperlinks of whatever they are selling or promoting to a large number of emails.
Hack is a term that is used to describe the action of someone or something that is trying to illegally break into a secured computer or account. The purpose is to steal personal information to sell, and or use the contact information to perpetuate the process throughout the contact list on the computer.
Hacking is very different than spamming because spam is usually not as destructive. Spam can be the vehicle that delivers the hacking software, but most are links to pharmaceutical or health products.
Who is being affected? Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Email, and other social media users. Let's look at these for a minute.
I have seen many of my friends get hacked in their Facebook and email accounts. Facebook messages will be addressed to you as if they were specifically written for you, but you may not have spoken to your friend in a while and it seems out of the blue. The message will also seem a little too enthusiastic as if to try and catch you off guard.
Email is another medium that has been hacked. The symptoms usually include (no subject) in the subject line and one sentence accompanied by a hyperlink.
How do you avoid being hacked? Don't click on links you are not familiar with! Before you click, (Facebook) check the senders wall. Did they only address you or did they send the same link to everyone on the planet?
If you are the victim (sender) of a hacker, the first thing you should do is change your login (if applicable) and password. The hacker has used that information to access your address book to spam others. The last option is to close the account.
Twitter and blogs are a little different. Twitter does not have email addresses that are hidden from view. Followers and those you follow are public knowledge. Most blogs do not have email lists contained in them unless they are sharing a database with a list messenger service.
I receive spam messages to my Twitter and blog accounts daily. You can view my Twitter messages (@ferreirajoseph) by searching the @ sign. The senders usually has no one following them and they are not following anyone. Their accounts are usually a couple hours old, and they already have sent hundreds of messages.
Most of what I am telling you is coming from experience. I personally have not been hacked, but I did have to clean up an account, that I was managing, who had. Use these simple suggestions and you can avoid being spammed and hacked.
Corona Silent Typewriter
July 10th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Delightful Past
July 2nd, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
What Are The Odds?
June 20th, 2011 § 2 comments § permalink
What Are The Odds?
Saturday was just the start of another day like all others. I am an amateur photographer, and everyday I try to go through hundreds of articles related to photography. This helps me personally so that I can learn, and I pass on information, that I feel is important, via Twitter and my blog.
One headline caught my attention, so I decided to read it. The photoessay was by a photographer, from the Netherlands, named Erikjan Koopmans. I usually do not go to articles that are about specific places, but this one about San Francisco was an exception. I was born in San Francisco, and it is one of my favorite places to visit when I go home to visit my family.
As I was scrolling down through the photo essay, I was pleasantly shocked to recognize two people I knew. It was my wife's grandparents. I could not see there faces because they were shot from behind, but that did not stop me from fully recognizing them. I have often had to try and keep up with them whenever we were in the city.
I was the only one up that morning, so I sent my father-in-law an email and my sister-in-law a text with the link of the website. I did not tell them what I saw, but asked them to let me know what they saw. They both, along with my wife, recognized them right away.
What are the odds that a photographer, from the Netherlands, would photograph my family in San Francisco, and that I would find the site?
I decided to contact Erikjan, and let him know what I found. I explained who I was and who he had captured in his photograph. I asked him for permission to repost the photo on my blog along with this story, and he agreed.
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In and out of sad… In and out of inconsolable… In and out of numb.
I think it's all of the possibilities? I would expect that it's not like a terminal cancer diagnosis, where the doctors explain exactly what part of the body is failing that's killing your loved one and give you a window of time to expect to have left with them. It's not like our daughter has any one thing that physically, internally, the doctors can pin-point and say: "That's the thing that she's going to die from." She's just… going to die.
Her body's just going to stop.
It's in her DNA. To die…
I mean, we all die. I guess, technically, it's "in all of our DNA" to die at some point, because we're all human and all humans die. But for most of us, when we're born, our death has yet to be determined by our bodies. We're born into endless possibility, into our future, into hope.
Avonlea is being born into death. Certain and yet so uncertain…
For many, death seems to be determined by one or more choices that act as butterfly-effects, that lead to tipping-points, that eventually, via the twists and turns and ups and downs of life, lead to the end. The decision to drive through a yellow light rather than stop… or that first cigarette.
Avonlea's end is already written out in black and white on my medical records: "Fetus with Trisomy 13." She hasn't done anything to bring this upon herself… yet her cause of death already exists, embedded into her. There's no treatment, no cure… According to the doctors, it's like she might as well already be dead. It's just a matter of time… the amount of which cannot be determined.
We had a follow-up ultrasound on Thursday, to measure Avonlea's growth and have Dr. Shaver, our perinatologist, look at all of her anomalies (enlarged ventricles in her brain, her misshapen heart, and her echogenic kidneys) and hope that he could give us more… just more. More information, more of anything really.
This whole thing is so hard to wrap our minds around- it really is. Dr. Shaver said that, to look at each of her anomalies individually, he wouldn't necessarily suspect any one of them to indicate a terminal diagnosis on their own. Some babies have enlarged ventricles in their brain and are born healthy and live completely normal lives… some live full and happy lives with a mental handicap. Some babies have one side of their heart that's bigger than the other, and depending on the cause, can usually receive treatment and go on to live normal, healthy lives or the defect can heal itself with time. Some babies have echogenic kidneys that, although they appear abnormal, function normally and turn out not to have any affects on the child's health after birth whatsoever... they just don't look normal on ultrasounds.
But our baby has Trisomy 13.
None of her anomalies, in their own right, are considered deadly. None of her anomalies are necessarily THE thing that is going to kill her. Each of these anomalies are a simply symptom of the real deadly issue.
Trisomy 13 is going to kill her. That deadly little chromosome present in every cell of her body is what's going to be the death of her, and nothing else. That stupid extra 13th chromosome, the one that caused the ventricles in her brain to swell, caused her heart to form incorrectly, makes her kidneys appear "too bright" …that thing is going to cause her body to fail her. To just, give up. She will "fail to thrive."
Dr. Shaver assured us that it truly is impossible to predict when this will happen. He says he's seen Trisomy 13 babies with anomalies similar to hers survive birth and live as long as 30-60 days… some, in extremely rare instances, have been known to make it several months or even a year. But the simple fact that she has Trisomy 13 means that the possibility of her dying suddenly, for no other reason than that her body just fails her, cannot be excluded. "Failure to thrive" is just as likely to happen to Avonlea before she is born than it would be for a Trisomy 13 baby with far worse anomalies or more deadly symptoms. The fact that none of her anomalies are considered "immediately life-threatening" means nothing because the anomalies are not the real problem. The real, underlying problem is that evil extra 13th chromosome.
What all of this basically means for us: we're going to lose your daughter, but we will never know when. It could be anytime between tonight and her second month of life. It would be unreasonable to assume her to live any longer than that, given the statistics. Your guess is as good as ours as to when. Our lives, our careers and all of our plans will have to be put on hold so that we can simply sit and wait.
All of this leaves me feeling all sorts of different shades and variations of grief.
There are moments when the weight and reality of Avonlea's imminent death washes over me and leaves me sobbing uncontrollably, gasping for air, traumatized by its certainty. There are moments when I feel her move and I only have to try a little to hold back the tears as I think about how much I will miss that… the knowledge that she is alive.
And then there are moments when I can't feel anything. I hate those moments more than anything.
Sometimes it brings me peace to think about the fact that my own death, though my mind or body cannot predict it, is already known by my God. That He has always known how Avonlea would die and that He created her this way for a purpose, even though He knew it would also bring about so much pain.
And then sometimes it throws me into a panic of rage to think about how we begged the Lord for this baby. We sat in our spare bedroom and prayed for a baby for whom we could turn that room into a nursery. We planned… we tried. We yearned for her! But then God gave us a terminal baby. He knew how ready we were to be parents and He gave us six shimmering, beautiful months of joyful expectations of parenthood. And then He took it all away. It makes me angry, and then the guilt brought on by that selfish, depraved anger humbles me just enough to bring me back down to numbness.
Oh friends… this is a tough one. This is the real deal. This is hard.
Please pray for us… I can't speak for the emotions Brian processes through or the way he processes through them. I can only tell you what I am feeling these days. I feel heavy, cold, and afflicted. I want to feel the Lord near me but right now I just don't… I'm tired of people telling me that the Lord will never leave me nor forsake me, that I'm his child and that He "favors" me... and of course my all-time favorite cliche and, let's be blunt here, LIE: the Lord will never give you more than you can handle.
Really? Find that for me in the Bible, please, because I CAN'T HANDLE ANYTHING.
(and no, 1 Corinthians 10:13 does not count. If you were going to cite that one for me, you're pulling it out of context)
I am feeble and weak. I CANNOT handle this. I'm NOT handling it!
I know in my head that any ounce of faith I do have is a a gift from God (Ephesians 2:8). But that faith is worn and trembling right now. It is not being challenged by temptation to doubt Him... It is just tired from grief. It needs some adrenaline and I can't think of anything that I even want to get that adrenaline from right now other than for my baby to be healed.
Friends, please continue to join us in prayer for Baby Avonlea. Please, please pray for the Lord to do an awesome miracle in her and prove the doctors wrong! We know that He can restore her body and give her the life we've always dreamt of for her: a long, full life of glorifying her King. We don't expect a miracle, but we do have faith that He can perform one.
Lord, God… in the name of Jesus we beg you to draw near. We beg to be reminded of your love as we are constantly reminded of your sovereignty. We beg you to heal Avonlea… She is our child, Lord. Your word tells us that you can sympathize with us in every weakness, and we do draw near to the throne of grace, God that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. This is our time of need, Father… grant us grace to sustain us in our season of sorrow, and grant us mercy by healing our baby girl. Please heal our daughter… please, Jesus, heal Avonlea.
You fill our hearts with love and faith
You fight for us, You make us brave
You are God, You are God
You walk with us, You lead us on
Faith, hope and love wakes up with dawn
You are God, You are God
And life flows from God, it flows from God
~Charlie Hall


text: AMMONNEWS - The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) condemned the recent adoption of Article 23 (A draft law for the Authority of Anti-Corruption presented by the executive power) by the Jordanian Parliament, which criminalizes publishing information about corruption with a fine of 30,000 to 60,000 Jordanian Dinars (approx. US$42,000 to US$84,600). The article was approved by 56 members out of the 96 who attended the session, which was held on the morning of 27 September. Under Article 23, "Whoever unlawfully spreads, publishes, refers or helps in the publication of news by any public means about any person accused of the crimes of corruption which is mentioned in Article 5 of this law and that leads to defamation, impacts on his dignity or targets his personality, will be punished by a fine not less than 30,000 Jordanian Dinars and not more than 60,000 Jordanian Dinars." This means that journalists, bloggers and activists in Jordan will risk prosecution and a steep fine for publishing any news or information about corruption. ANHRI pointed out that "the adoption of this article by the Parliament is not only considered to be an attack on freedom of expression and gagging of journalists, but is also a violation against the rights of citizens to circulate information on corruption, which must be shared with public opinion as it affects all classes of people directly." "This oppressive article that was adopted by the Parliament is considered to be an endorsement for corruption in Jordan. It does not provide any benefit to the people in Jordan. On the contrary, it aims to protect some people in power and could provoke suspicions of corruption against them," said ANHRI "The adoption of this article by the Parliament is shocking, particularly since the main role of the Parliament is to represent the people and express their interests, limit corruption and curb it. This legislative addition makes us wonder because by adopting this article, it went from guarding against corruption to condoning it. The Jordanian authorities must reevaluate the issue of adopting and applying these arbitrary legal restrictions," ANHRI added. * IFEX


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Christian Lacroix Paseo Gold Notebook - Medium
This notebook is embossed with an all-over Paseo design on beautiful faux leather. Includes a striped elastic closure and ribbon marker with a lay-flat construction for ease of use.
Since its inception in 1987, the House of Christian Lacroix has electrified the fashion world with its collections inspired by Gypsy and Provencal traditions, and by the flamboyant Haute Couture scene in Paris and London during the Swinging 60's. Today, with the Christian Lacroix Papier collection you are invited to share in this celebration of the singular French joie de vivre. The Paseo Embossed workbook includes 152 ruled ivory pages. All-over Paseo design, embossed like an old Moroccan leather folio. Black and white chevron striped elastic closure. For men, for women. For any occasion meetings, planning, or quick sketches on a train ride through the countryside. A book you'll never leave behind. End pages printed with Paseo in black-on-black varnish. Lay-flat construction for ease of use. Gold foil belly band with hot-stamped Christian Lacroix Papier logo. Express yourself with classic French flair with the Christian Lacroix Papier Collection.
- Paseo design, embossed silver like a beautiful leather folio with gold hot-stamped Christian Lacroix Paper logo
- End pages printed with Paseo in silver foil and black and white chevron stripped elastic closure
- Size: 6" x 8"
- 152 ruled ivory pages
- Item Weight: 9.6 ounces


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Arsenal will offer Per Mertesacker a new contract to keep him at the Emirates for the next three years.
At the end of this season, the Germany international will have one year left on his deal.
Manager Arsene Wenger wants to ensure that the central defender prolongs his stay, and talks about an extension are imminent.
Mertesacker — who is 29 on Sunday — has been in commanding form during the last nine months and is a key man in Wenger's plans for the Gunners .
He has settled at Arsenal and has now been joined by Germany team-mate Mesut Ozil, a £42.5million arrival from Real Madrid.
With another Germany representative in Lukas Podolski also at the club, Mertesacker is at ease on and off the field.
He is showing the form that prompted Wenger to invest £9.9m to bring him from Werder Bremen — and he will have the perfect chance to show how he has developed at the Emirates on Tuesday night in the Champions League, when he will be up against the transfer target that got away — Gonzalo Higuain.
The striker was on Wenger's wanted list for more than a year and he was confident he had landed his man during the summer in a £23m deal.
AC Milan were also keen on the Argentina international, but he chose Napoli and linking up with former Liverpool and Chelsea manager Rafa Benitez.
But Wenger knows the threat posed by Higuain and Mertesacker will be aware of the danger.
"We were working on two or three targets and Higuain was one of them," said the manager as he looked forward to Tuesday's clash.
"It didn't come off in the end but that doesn't take anything away from his quality.
"Napoli took advantage at the right moment.
"As we know, Real Madrid sold two great players. One of them went to Napoli, one to Arsenal. So it is 1-1 on that front."


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By Eugene S. Robinson
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Unnecessary Roughness?
EUGENE, SIR: I just got out of a 10-year relationship and in the past 12 months of being single I've had sex with five different men. What I noticed after 10-plus years of not noticing sex with other men at all is that it's gotten a lot more forceful. Within the first three times of having sex with the five men I've been on the receiving end of hair pulling, slapping, name calling and choking. I'm not saying I objected to any of this; I'm open to experimenting. I just want to know what happened over the last decade that I missed out on that made the average one-night stand so unquestioningly … rough? — Shi
Dear Shi Town: A friend of mine used to review porn for a porn review website. Like anyone buying porn is making a decision informed by an "adult" "film's" mise-en-scène. Anyways, there was one whole line he kicked back and refused to review. It was a so-called gonzo line of porn. No plot. No story. No music, pacing or any prelude really other than "couch meet sex." Frequently very rough sex. Abuse sex. Which, while intellectually, you'd understand as being a documentation of the acts and actions of two or more consenting adults, the point seemed to be very much other than sex, or even sexual release.
The note my friend sent to the production company that provided him review copies acknowledged all of this, gave a nod to their inalienable First Amendment rights to do what they were doing, but ended, "If you guys hate women so much, why don't you just make gay porn?" Although he never heard back from them, they didn't stop sending him review copies, which gathered dust on his desk, unwatched. By him. But watched by someone else. Lots of someone elses. The zeitgeist has indeed shifted to where what was porny 10 years ago is what people are doing on red carpets at film premieres now.
None of which is a real critique. My critique starts with the death of imagination in the face of monkeys seeing and monkeys doing. None of which I am in a position to decide. But you are. Does the sex feel canned? Lifted, borrowed? Or does it seem organic? It could have all come from the same place, but one version gives voice to the players' innermost desires, desires that pre-existed the sanction that occurred when they first saw them. ("I always wanted to choke someone I was having sex with while having sex with them and I thought I was alone, but now that I've seen Max Hardcore do it, so can I!")
The other? Shameless mimicry. And therefore much less interesting.
I may be wrong in laying this all on porn's front steps, but what other forum presently exists and functions like a clearinghouse for our most secretly held fantasies? But good that you're mindful of what's swirling around you. An examined life being worth living and all of that.
Driving Hard Bargains
EUGENE, SIR: My fiancee — we've been engaged for a little over a year and are getting married this fall — said that she'll let me have anal sex with her on one condition: I let her use a dildo on me first. She thinks it's necessary for me to appreciate exactly how it should best be done. I think it should also be said that she likes anal sex. So this is not a conditional thing. She wants to do it but needs me to have it done to me before she'll let me do it to her. Nonnegotiable. Thoughts? — FZ
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EUGENE, SIR: We're into bondage. But the other day my man tied me to a chair and left. He didn't come back for four hours. I was beyond angry. He says I'm being unreasonable; I say he's being an ass. Am I right? — John
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When I finally saved up some cash and got my first good chef's knife, I vowed to do everything by the book: clean it properly, hone it regularly, sharpen it faithfully, stand by it in sickness and in health, blah blah blabbity blah.
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VIDEO: Bad Wolves Give Dolores O' Riordan's Children £250K
21 June 2018, 12:32 | Updated: 21 June 2018, 13:16
The band have given the family of the late Cranberries singer a cheque of the proceeds of their Zombie cover so far.
Bad Wolves have presented the family of Dolores O'Riordan with a cheque for £250,000 following the singer's tragic passing.
The Cranberries frontwoman was tragically found dead in London on 15 January, aged 46, on the day she was set to re-record her iconic vocals on the band's cover of Zombie.
After releasing the single and pledging to give the royalties from the cover to the children of the late Irish singer, the band have come through with their promise, by presenting them with what they've earned so far.
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Bad Wolves frontman Tommy Vext said: "Our sadness the day Dolores passed was nothing compared to that of her children and her family. In light of the tragedy, donating our proceeds to her children was the only thing that made sense. The ultimate goal is to present them with a $1,000,000 cheque – and the fact we're a quarter of the way there is beyond incredible.
He added: "The connection that people have to this song, the stories, the memories and the kids who are hearing this song through Bad Wolves for the first time - it's a true testament to the timelessness of their mother's songwriting that will live on forever, and we are so grateful to be able to do this for them."
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Despite the success of Ishaqzaade, the pair Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra did not get to work together for a long five years. But in recent updates, both the actors have been roped in for the Namastey franchise along with the director Vipul Shah. The latter has been quite keen and excited about taking up the success of the Katrina Kaif and Akshay Kumar starrer Namastey London which was released back in 2007. Though there were speculations that Akshay might do the sequel of this family drama, but they all are put to rest with this update.
After it was confirmed that the pair will be coming together for Yash Raj Films' Dibakar Banerjee directorial 'Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar', they will be seen in this one too, stepping in the shoes of Akshay-Katrina. The director unveiled the title to be Namastey Canada and has told everyone that it's not a sequel to Namastey London. He is clearly excited to work with the young and energetic pair and is quite grateful to Akshay for lending the name.
Here is Parineeti's tweet about it:
A desi film with a videsi heart!! ✈?❄ my kind of film ? Dying to start NAMASTEY CANADA!! @arjunk26
— Parineeti Chopra (@ParineetiChopra) July 25, 2017
Both the actors have worked hard in the recent year and have made their own fan bases. Arjun Kapoor has done some good movies like Half Girlfriend, 2 States, and Gunday and is coming with this comedy drama along with Ileana D'Cruz in Mubarakan. Whereas Parineeti has done some good movies like Hasee Toh Phasee, Meri Pyari Bindu and Kill Dill. She will be seen next in Golmaal franchise alongside Ajay Devgn and Arshad Warsi.
No matter what the past records say about the lead pair, Vipul Shah has worked with big actors like Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar in the past and definitely knows how to bring out the stars' best performances. The fans can rejoice as this is going to be a full family comedy drama and can prove to be the best of the lead actors' careers. Stay tuned for more as the plot of the movie unfolds and brings all the interesting things to our notice.
Arjun-Parineeti come together for Vipul Shah's next Namastey Canada which will not be a sequel to Akshay-Katrina's Namastey London which came out in 2007.


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Allergic reaction
Environmental conditions can cause itchy skin as pores open during exercise. Biking through fields full of pollen or swimming in a highly chlorinated pool may cause an allergic reaction. Trying new laundry detergents or lotions also can cause problems. If you suspect an allergic reaction is making your skin itch, taking an over-the-counter antihistamine just before exercising may help. If the skin continues to itch long after your workout is over, you should contact your doctor.
Exercise-induced cholinergic urticaria
Some people show short-lasting hives, called uticaria, when their body temperature increases. These hives usually appear during sweating following exercise or bathing. It is not completely clear why these hives form, but some researchers suspect they occur when people have a reaction to their own sweat. Taking antihistamines after exercise can be helpful for cholinergic urticaria. Cooling down rapidly also may help. Your doctor can help you determine what treatment may be best.
When skin rubs against skin or clothes, chafing can result. According to a 2004 study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, chafing was reported by up to 16 percent of marathon runners who reported to medical tents. Treatment can involve drying the areas thoroughly and applying a drying powder and topical steroid. Athletes can often prevent chafing by wearing well-fitting clothes. Petroleum jelly also can protect areas of skin that rub together.
A common infection that may cause itchy skin in athletes is tinea cruris, commonly known as jock itch. This is usually seen in men, and occurs around the skin of the genitals. Athlete's foot is another infection that is common to both men and women. Swimmers or other athletes who share a locker room can contract athlete's foot, because the organisms responsible thrive in warm, moist places. Athlete's foot includes dry itchy feet where the skin of the feet sometimes cracks open. If you suspect you have an infection, your doctor may subscribe an antifungal cream for treatment.
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Netflix Strikes Unique Deal for Alex Garland's 'Annihilation' Adaptation
A peek into the future of film releases.
Netflix has struck a groundbreaking deal with Paramount Pictures and Skydance to receive the international rights to the Alex Garland sci-fi thriller Annihilation. The terms of the partnership will allow Netflix to bring Annihilation to its overseas streaming operations 17 days after the movie debuts in the U.S. market. As other outlets have noted, Netflix entered a similar agreement with New Line for the next iteration of the Shaft series. This move will drastically shrink the time between theatrical release and at-home viewing and streaming, and could be a sign that the entertainment industry is starting to rethink its approach to the way it rolls out films.
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Your Guide to International Design Events This February 2018
Don't miss out on these exciting events
February is breezing past and that means there's a whole new line-up of international design events we can attend to soak up all things architecture and interior design. This month, we travel from all the way up north in Finland to South Africa to discover innovative design, and gain new perspectives on building homes, furniture as well as creative expression. Here are three international design events you should keep an eye on this February.
Modernism Week, Feb 15 – 25
Palm Springs, California
Celebrated annually as a platform for mid-century modern architecture, interior design, fashion, art and culture, Modernism Design Week takes place every February and hosts around 350 events – including trade shows, home tours, immersive films, lectures and parties. With so much history of modernist design in the region, the Modernism Week is a must-attend for designers and enthusiasts alike.
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Arctic Design Week, Feb 19 – 25
Rovianemi, Finland
Known as the Arctic Design Capital, Rovianemi opens its door to host the international design scene for a 7 day festival featuring design talks, workshops, exhibitions, pop-up stores and gastronomic delights. Discover what it means to make homes livable in cold climates by participating in all Arctic Design Week has to offer.
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MISHMASH, a contemporary conference that offers entrepreneurs and design professionals from all over the world a chance to connect through an opening night, inspiring seminars, activities and workshops that give you the authentic Arctic experience, and a mentoring session for entrepreneurs.
Design Indaba Festival 2018
Feb 21 – 24, Cape Town, South Africa
Design Indaba gathers the most creative individuals in Africa and the rest of the world in a four-day event filled with opportunities to innovate, express creativity and celebrate social impact design. With a mix of music, conference talks, exhibitions and performances, Cape Town comes alive to welcome established brands and design professionals from around the globe.
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- Award-winning film-maker, Afrofuturist and director Sunu Gonera's discussion on the creative representation of Africa and its stories
- A talk by renowned product designer Tom Dixon
- Live music performances and exhibitions at the Artscape Piazza
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The Apache Mahout PMC is pleased to announce the release of Mahout 0.8. Mahout's goal is to build scalable machine learning libraries focused primarily in the areas of collaborative filtering (recommenders), clustering and classification (known collectively as the "3Cs"), as well as the necessary infrastructure to support those implementations including, but not limited to, math packages for statistics, linear algebra and others as well as Java primitive collections, local and distributed vector and matrix classes and a variety of integrative code to work with popular packages like Apache Hadoop, Apache Lucene, Apache HBase, Apache Cassandra and much more. The 0.8 release is mainly a clean up release in preparation for an upcoming 1.0 release, but there are several significant new features, which are highlighted below. To get started with Apache Mahout 0.8, download the release artifacts and signatures at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/mahout or visit the central Maven repository. In addition to the release highlights and artifacts, please pay attention to the section labelled FUTURE PLANS below for more information about upcoming releases of Mahout. As with any release, we wish to thank all of the users and contributors to Mahout. Please see the CHANGELOG [1] and JIRA Release Notes [2] for individual credits, as there are too many to list here. GETTING STARTED In the release package, the examples directory contains several working examples of the core functionality available in Mahout. These can be run via scripts in the examples/bin directory and will prompt you for more information to help you try things out. Most examples do not need a Hadoop cluster in order to run. RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS The highlights of the Apache Mahout 0.8 release include, but are not limited to the list below. For further information, see the included CHANGELOG file. - Numerous performance improvements to Vector and Matrix implementations, API's and their iterators (see also MAHOUT-1192, MAHOUT-1202) - Numerous performance improvements to the recommender implementations (see also MAHOUT-1272, MAHOUT-1035, MAHOUT-1042, MAHOUT-1151, MAHOUT-1166, MAHOUT-1167, MAHOUT-1169, MAHOUT-1205, MAHOUT-1264) - MAHOUT-1088: Support for biased item-based recommender - MAHOUT-1089: SGD matrix factorization for rating prediction with user and item biases - MAHOUT-1106: Support for SVD++ - MAHOUT-944: Support for converting one or more Lucene storage indexes to SequenceFiles as well as an upgrade of the supported Lucene version to Lucene 4.3.1. - MAHOUT-1154 and friends: New streaming k-means implementation that offers on-line (and fast) clustering - MAHOUT-833: Make conversion to SequenceFiles Map-Reduce, 'seqdirectory' can now be run as a MapReduce job. - MAHOUT-1052: Add an option to MinHashDriver that specifies the dimension of vector to hash (indexes or values). - MAHOUT-884: Matrix Concat utility, presently only concatenates two matrices. - MAHOUT-1244: Upgraded to use Lucene 4.3 - MAHOUT-1187: Upgraded to CommonsLang3 - MAHOUT-916: Speedup the Mahout build by making tests run in parallel. - The usual bug fixes. See JIRA [2] for more information on the 0.8 release. A total of 218 separate JIRA issues are addressed in this release. CONTRIBUTING Mahout is always looking for contributions focused on the 3Cs. If you are interested in contributing, please see our contribution page, https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/how-to-contribute.html, on the Mahout wiki or contact us via email at email@example.com. FUTURE PLANS 0.9 As the project moves towards a 1.0 release, the community is working to clean up and/or remove parts of the code base that are under-supported or that underperform as well as to better focus the energy and contributions on key algorithms that are proven to scale in production and have seen wide-spread adoption. To this end, in the next release, the project is planning on removing support for the following algorithms unless there is sustained support and improvement of them before the next release. The algorithms to be removed are: - From Clustering: Dirichlet MeanShift MinHash Eigencuts - From Classification (both are sequential implementations) Winnow Perceptron - Frequent Pattern Mining - Collaborative Filtering All recommenders in org.apache.mahout.cf.taste. impl.recommender.knn SlopeOne implementations in org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.hadoop.slopeone and org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.recommender.slopeone Distributed pseudo recommender in org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.hadoop.pseudo TreeClusteringRecommender in org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.recommender - Mahout Math Lanczos in favour of SSVD Hadoop entropy stuff in org.apache.mahout.math.stats.entropy If you are interested in supporting 1 or more of these algorithms, please make it known on email@example.com and via JIRA issues that fix and/or improve them. Please also provide supporting evidence as to their effectiveness for you in production. 1.0 PLANS Our plans as a community are to focus 0.9 on cleanup of bugs and the removal of the code mentioned above and then to follow with a 1.0 release soon thereafter, at which point the community is committing to the support of the algorithms packaged in the 1.0 for at least two minor versions after their release. In the case of removal after 1.0, we will deprecate the functionality in the 1.(x+1) minor release and remove it in the 1.(x+2) release. For instance, if feature X is to be removed after the 1.2 release, it will be deprecated in 1.3 and removed in 1.4. [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/mahout/trunk/CHANGELOG?revision=1501110&view=markup [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20MAHOUT%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%220.8%22]
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