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When Joy Mancinelli and her neighbours received a hand-delivered package from a land agent hired by Kinder Morgan, it was their first inkling that the proposed new twinned Trans Mountain Pipeline could rip through their backyards.
They got even more bad news on Sunday when the land agent returned and told them Kinder Morgan could take even more land than it had initially mapped out.
"It goes right across our backyard and then turns and goes around the side of our house, which is most of our property," said Mancinelli, who has lived in her Fraser Heights home since 1979. "They can just get a right-of-way and waltz across your land and say 'kiss my butt' and they're gone."
Such a scenario is being played out across Metro Vancouver, not only in Surrey but in pockets of Langley Township and Burnaby, as Kinder Morgan maps out its potential alternative routes ahead of a National Energy Board hearing for the $5.4-billion project.
But while the land agent is approaching individual homeowners, it isn't necessarily informing the city of its plans for proposed alternate routes. Surrey, for instance, said it was made aware of the situation after residents contacted the engineering department to complain, while Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan said he's heard of residents in his city also being approached by Kinder Morgan.
"It's quite secretive, it's not like they're telling us where they're going," Corrigan said. "It seems like they're hedging their bets. They're ignoring the fact that when they do this, they're causing a lot of concern in these neighbourhoods."
The pipeline-twinning proposal — which will nearly triple capacity to 890,000 barrels a day and bring 400 more tankers a year to Burrard Inlet — would create about 90 permanent jobs and employ 4,500 people at the peak of construction. But it has also seen opposition from environmentalists, First Nations, community groups and municipalities, many of which have applied for intervener status in the NEB hearings, with their chief concern being the risk of spills from pipelines and tankers.
Burnaby, which has fought any expansion of the pipeline, has asked its legal counsel to send a letter to the National Energy Board requesting the application to be rejected because it has "insufficient information" on an emergency safety plan and a clear route through the region.
Burnaby argues that contrary to what Kinder Morgan has told the public, more than 90 per cent of the pipeline route proposed for Burnaby is new, and does not follow the existing right of way.
"We're just guessing at what route they're going to take or what direction they may go," Corrigan said. "I suspect this issue is going to get a lot more attention now in the Lower Mainland as residents become more aware of the potential impacts."
Indeed, Kinder Morgan last December suggested the proposed route would skirt new neighbourhoods in Langley and Surrey — in Walnut Grove and Fraser Heights, respectively — by moving the pipeline closer to the Fraser River to utilize railway and road corridors. Mancinelli, who lives two blocks from the existing pipeline, said that's what she and her neighbours had expected before their visit from the land agent.
Louella Mathias said she was tipped off to the plan after the agent, Lori White, asked her to authorize soil samples on her 1.3-acre property. When Mathias questioned why, White told her that the twinned pipeline could come through her property, and showed her maps of the proposed easement in her backyard. She estimates eight to 10 residents are affected by the proposal.
"I was taken aback. You don't have someone knock on your door and say 'you're going to lose your land,'" said Mathias, who bought her home for more than $1 million in 2012. "From the (first) picture it didn't seem like we would lose a lot. But it's much clearer we're going to lose a lot more."
Residents argue a pipeline would have major consequences for their neighbourhood. Most properties affected are an acre or more in size and have septic fields and wells because they aren't yet connected to city services. Cheryl-Ann Archibald, who has lived in Fraser Heights for 30 years, maintains the proposed easement for the pipeline is also 30 feet wide, which would take up half her backyard, right to the back door of her two-storey house.
One of her biggest concerns, she said, is that Kinder Morgan isn't dealing with residents as a group. "It's the old divide and conquer thing," she said.
But Greg Toth, senior project manager for Kinder Morgan, maintains the land agent was hired to visit residents across Metro to ask for authorization to survey the land for environmental assessment. He noted the company has cited its preferred options for the pipeline, but will continue to work on the alternate alignments, such as the one through the Fraser Heights neighbourhood, to ensure the project goes ahead.
The route could possibly run through the Mancinelli's neighbourhood, Toth added, if that proves more feasible than diverting the pipeline through Surrey Bend Regional Park.
But there's a huge process that would have to be followed in such a case, he added, including reaching mutual agreement with the landowners, coming up with proper compensation and having the National Energy Board declare the project of national interest. Homeowners would also have the right to object, he said, and added the last resort would be to enact a "right of entry" should a landowner obstruct the process.
"We're continuing the work on the South Fraser Perimeter Road and the rail corridor but at the same time we're always exploring options where we get some negative feedback or where we don't have total control of the route," Toth said.
Kinder Morgan plans to hold open houses next month in Surrey, Langley and Burnaby, Toth said, while it will meet with the Fraser Heights Residents' Association. Toth maintains that Kinder Morgan has changed its alternative route around the Salmon River Valley, near Fort Langley, after listening to residents.
Tony Capuccinello, legal council for the City of Surrey, said the city is still waiting to hear what Kinder Morgan has planned for the pipeline before it can determine the potential effects on neighbourhoods.
"It's not clear what the alignment is and that's another reason we want to preserve all rights until that's crystallized," he said. "We want to know everything there is to know so we can assess that with our experts and protect the city's interests."
But the Fraser Heights residents aren't convinced that Kinder Morgan won't go ahead with its plans and put a pipeline through her backyard anyway. They have applied for intervener status in the National Energy Board hearings and have been in constant contact with the city.
"It came out of the blue," Mancinelli said. "They're going to get permission to do it and run it wherever they please."
The National Energy Board must review the application and accept it as complete before an assessment and public hearings could begin next year. Any decision would likely be delivered in early 2015 because of the federal Conservatives' new legislated, tightened time frame for a review and decision within 15 months.
If approved, construction could begin in 2015, and the pipeline would be operating in 2017.


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Annie Clark at the September 13, 2011, record-release party for Strange
Mercy in Hollywood. Photo by Danny Duarte
It's pretty rare for a bona fide guitar-nut—we're talking Berklee College of Music-level guitar-a-holic—to rack up interviews on NPR, rave reviews from indie music mags likeNMEandPitchfork, and guest appearances on the IFC's hit comedyPortlandia. But Annie Clark, the singer/guitarist who performs under the name St. Vincent, isn't your typical guitar geek. In fact, she's sort of a guitar hero for people who hate the whole idea of guitar-hero worship.
If that last statement—as well as the revelation that Clark dropped out of Berklee in her third year—inspires you to roll your eyes and start skipping to the next feature faster than you can mutter, "Oh, she's one of those artsy ' indie' guitarists," you owe it to yourself to visit YouTube and check out her harmonically captivating and ultra-badass playing first. Go ahead—we'll wait.
Back? Okay, now that you've witnessed Ms. Clark and her vintage Harmony Bobkat conjuring mesmerizing hammer-on riffs and corpulent 6-string glory, let's delve into the delicious details. Like how her uncle, Tuck Andress (from the jazz duo Tuck & Patti), inspired her to consider a career in music. Or how the multi-instrumentalist's love of harmony, Steely Dan, and Iron Maiden culminated in the rich compositional tapestry that has made this 29-year-old from Dallas, Texas, one of the most talked-about renaissance women in modern music. Or how her new album,Strange Mercy, was at No. 19 on the US charts at press time.
We recently spoke to Clark about all these things, as well as her reasons for quitting music school, her complex-yet-liberating MIDI-controlled pedalboard, and her thoughts on guitardom's gender issues.
What first got you into playing guitar?
I was obsessed with it from a pretty young age. I was, like, 5 years old and sawLa Bamba—the Ritchie Valens story—and I was captivated by that, and then I just started playing when I was 12. My uncle is an amazing guitar player, and we had some of his old guitars around. I was big into classic rock—Jethro Tull and these more guitar-y bands—and I thought, "I want to do that—I want to know how they're getting those sounds."
You probably get questions about Tuck all the time, but how instrumental was he in you getting hooked on guitar?
They were on tourforever—from, like, '88 to '96. So, he was this distant figure who I didn't see very often but who was a famous musician. I'd see himmaybeonce every two years, but I think even just having his spectral presence around was really powerful, because I saw him and thought, "Oh, I could do that."
Who were some of the first guitarists that you remember really getting into?
Probably the really obvious ones—Hendrix … the Doors … I really liked Jethro Tull … I really, really, really loved Steely Dan. To have that kind of harmony in your ears from a really young age—I mean, Steely Dan was my favorite band from age 8 until … well, I just saw them two nights ago here in New York!
Were you more into the bands as a whole or the guitar playing?
I was into the bands as a whole. I was really into lyrics and melodies. But some of the solos on the Steely Dan records are rock-solid. Denny Dias and Larry Carlton…that stuff is great.

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List of Santa Monica gunman's weapons, ammunition
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police in Santa Monica, Calif., said that a suspected gunman carried the following weapons, ammunition and equipment during Friday's rampage that left four people dead and several others wounded. The items were found at several crime scenes and many were displayed at a news conference on Saturday.
— AR-15 assault-style rifle.
— Spare upper receiver for an assault-style rifle.
— .44 revolver.
— Duffel bag with magazines that had about 1,300 rounds of ammunition.
— Ballistic vest.
— Knee pads.
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Run Run Shaw, a Hong Kong movie producer who created one of the most successful international film studios ever, has died. Although some reports state Shaw's age as 106, there are some outlets that reported his age as 107.
Shaw, born Shao Ren Leng near Shanghai into wealth, was one of six siblings. His older brother, Runme Shaw, was an early inspiration after he established the Unique Film Production Co., and the pair worked together.
Shaw and a third brother, Runje, traveled to Singapore in 1923 to promote films and eventually opened over 130 movie theaters across Southeast Asia region.The Shaw Brothers Studio was ambitious, but faced competition from other movie studios in Hong Kong and Singapore.
In the 1950s, Run Run Shaw moved from promoting films to producing them after a move to Hong Kong. By 1961, Shaw Brothers had the world's largest privately owned film-production outfit. Movie Town, the sprawling complex that Shaw erected in Hong Kong's Clearwater Bay, boasted 1,500 workers and produced 40 movies a year at its height.
In the end, the film house created well over 1,000 films, spanning Western-styled dramas, Triad gangster yarns, and Kung Fu movies. The studio tried to woo rising star Bruce Lee, but he instead joined rival studio,Golden Harvest after Shaw wouldn't budge on a better contract. However, Shaw Brothers still managed to find some success in the United States, with the film Five Fingers Of Death being one of the more popular.
Shaw's influence in the world of Hip-Hop was also notable, as many of his films formed the basis of music recorded by the Wu-Tang Clan and many others. The film The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin was prominently used in the Clan's earlier work. Director Quentin Taratino also credits Shaw's work as inspiration.
By the early 1980s, Shaw Brothers moved away from film production and instead moved to the world of television. In 1973, Shaw took over Hong Kong's most popular station to this day, TVB, and launched the careers of stars Chow Yun-fat, Stephen Chow, Andy Lau and many others.
Shaw was a generous philanthropist who didn't seek the limelight. There are several reports of his acts of kindness under strict orders to quell any publicity surrounding his actions. Shaw was awarded as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1974, and was later knighted in 1977.
After 44 years of work, Shaw retired from TVB in 2011 and later sold his 26 percent stake in the company for just over $6 billion.
No cause of death was given according to still developing reports, but there was news that Shaw passed away peacefully with his family
Shaw is survived by his wife Mona Fong Yat-wah, three sons, and two daughters.
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- " Caveat Smeltonia. Proudest moment of my life."
- —Vernon Dursley on Smeltings[src]
Smeltings Academy, sometimes referred to as Smeltings, was a Muggle public school that Dudley Dursley and Piers Polkiss attended in the 1990s. It was also the alma mater of Dudley's father, Vernon Dursley,[1] who once remarked that he found the portions of food served at the school to be very filling, but his wife Petunia disagreed.[2]
Its school motto seems to be Caveat Smeltonia, which is Latin for "let Smeltonia beware".
During the summer before Harry Potter began to attend Hogwarts, Dudley was set to begin at Smeltings, while the Dursleys intended to send Harry to Stonewall High - the local state school.[1]
The school's uniform consisted of a maroon tailcoat, orange knickerbockers, a straw boater, and a gnarled cane that students used to hit each other with when teachers had their eyes elsewhere. All this whacking with sticks was supposed to be greatly helpful in preparing students for the future.[1]
In 1995, Dudley Dursley was described as the "Junior Heavyweight Inter-School Boxing Champion of the Southeast."[3] Accordingly, it is likely that Smeltings is located somewhere in the region of South East England.
Known students
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- Nurse[4]
- Joyce Haddock (swimming examiner)[5]
Smelting is the process used to produce a metal from its ore. The name may be intended to suggest that its curriculum was centred on industrial skills.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 3 (The Letters from No One)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 1 (The Worst Birthday)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 1 (Dudley Demented)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 3 (The Invitation)
- ↑ Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey


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The day after Tumblr was hit by a "worm" that left many Tumblr websites defaced with an identical message by Internet troll group GNAA, a security researcher has confirmed there is Stored Cross site scripting vulnerability in Tumblr that allowed attackers to hack Tumblr.
According to Naked Security report, the worm appears to took advantage of Tumblr's reblogging feature, meaning that anyone who was logged into Tumblr would automatically reblog the infectious post if they visited one of the offending pages.
If you were not logged into Tumblr when your browser visited the url, it would simply redirect you to the standard login page.
According to some news report, the hackers behind the attack has warned Tumblr weeks ago about a vulnerability. But there is no response from Tumblr.
|Janne Ahlberg confirmed XSS vulnerability
"I created a temporary Tumblr account using different browser, submitted a public post with stored XSS payload and visited the profile from another PC & different account. The vulnerability seems to be valid." Security researcher Janne Ahlberg confirmed the xss flaw in his blog post.
"A new Tumblr worm could still be possible. See analysis by @JanneFI: http://janne.is/testing-tumblr-worm-root-cause/ … Good example on how XSS vulns are not harmless." Mikko Hyppönen, CRO at F-Secure tweet reads.
*Update* Tumblr is still vulnerable to stored-XSS Read the updated post here


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Department of Homeland Security:
Progress Made and Work Remaining in Implementing Homeland Security Missions 10 Years after 9/11
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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, led to profound changes in government agendas, policies and structures to confront homeland security threats facing the nation. Most notably, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began operations in 2003 with key missions that included preventing terrorist attacks from occurring in the United States, reducing the country's vulnerability to terrorism, and minimizing the damages from any attacks that may occur. DHS is now the third-largest federal department, with more than 200,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $50 billion. Since 2003, GAO has issued over 1,000 products on DHS's operations in such areas as border and transportation security and emergency management, among others. As requested, this testimony addresses DHS's progress and challenges in implementing its homeland security missions since it began operations, and issues affecting implementation efforts. This testimony is based on a report GAO is issuing today, which assesses DHS's progress in implementing its homeland security functions and work remaining.
Since it began operations in 2003, DHS has implemented key homeland security operations and achieved important goals and milestones in many areas to create and strengthen a foundation to reach its potential. As it continues to mature, however, more work remains for DHS to address gaps and weaknesses in its current operational and implementation efforts, and to strengthen the efficiency and effectiveness of those efforts to achieve its full potential. DHS's accomplishments include developing strategic and operational plans; deploying workforces; and establishing new, or expanding existing, offices and programs. For example, DHS (1) issued plans to guide its efforts, such as the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, which provides a framework for homeland security, and the National Response Framework, which outlines disaster response guiding principles; (2) successfully hired, trained, and deployed workforces, such as a federal screening workforce to assume security screening responsibilities at airports nationwide; and (3) created new programs and offices to implement its homeland security responsibilities, such as establishing the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team to help coordinate efforts to address cybersecurity threats. Such accomplishments are noteworthy given that DHS has had to work to transform itself into a fully functioning department while implementing its missions--a difficult undertaking that can take years to achieve. While DHS has made progress, its transformation remains high risk due to its management challenges. Examples of progress made and work remaining include: Border security. DHS implemented the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program to verify the identities of foreign visitors entering and exiting the country by processing biometric and biographic information. However, DHS has not yet determined how to implement a biometric exit capability and has taken action to address a small portion of the estimated overstay population in the United States (individuals who legally entered the country but then overstayed their authorized periods of admission). Aviation security. DHS developed and implemented Secure Flight, a program for screening airline passengers against terrorist watchlist records. DHS also developed new programs and technologies to screen passengers, checked baggage, and air cargo. However, DHS does not yet have a plan for deploying checked baggage screening technologies to meet recently enhanced explosive detection requirements, a mechanism to verify the accuracy of data to help ensure that air cargo screening is being conducted at reported levels, or approved technology to screen cargo once it is loaded onto a pallet or container. Emergency preparedness and response. DHS issued the National Preparedness Guidelines that describe a national framework for capabilities-based preparedness, and a Target Capabilities List to provide a national-level generic model of capabilities defining all-hazards preparedness. DHS is also finalizing a National Disaster Recovery Framework. However, DHS needs to strengthen its efforts to assess capabilities for all-hazards preparedness, and develop a long-term recovery structure to better align timing and involvement with state and local governments' capacity. Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats. DHS assessed risks posed by CBRN threats and deployed capabilities to detect CBRN threats. However, DHS should work to improve its coordination of CBRN risk assessments, and identify monitoring mechanisms for determining progress made in implementing the global nuclear detection strategy. GAO's work identified three themes at the foundation of DHS's challenges: Leading and coordinating the homeland security enterprise; Implementing and integrating management functions for results; and Strategically managing risks and assessing homeland security efforts. This testimony contains no new recommendations.
Nov 23, 2020
Southwest Border:Information on Federal Agencies' Process for Acquiring Private Land for BarriersGAO-21-114: Published: Nov 17, 2020. Publicly Released: Nov 23, 2020.
Nov 12, 2020
Coast Guard Acquisitions:Opportunities Exist to Reduce Risk for the Offshore Patrol Cutter ProgramGAO-21-9: Published: Oct 28, 2020. Publicly Released: Nov 12, 2020.
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TSA Acquisitions:TSA Needs to Establish Metrics and Evaluate Third Party Testing Outcomes for Screening TechnologiesGAO-21-50: Published: Oct 29, 2020. Publicly Released: Oct 29, 2020.
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Homeland Security Acquisitions:DHS Has Opportunities to Improve Its Component Acquisition OversightGAO-21-77: Published: Oct 20, 2020. Publicly Released: Oct 20, 2020.
Sep 30, 2020
Disaster Assistance:Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen FEMA's Individuals and Households ProgramGAO-20-503: Published: Sep 30, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 30, 2020.
Supplemental Material for GAO-20-503:FEMA Individuals and Households Program Applicant Data 2016 – 2018GAO-20-675SP: Published: Sep 30, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 30, 2020.
Supplemental Material for GAO-20-503:Select Disaster Profiles for FEMA's Individuals and Households Program 2016-2018GAO-20-674SP: Published: Sep 30, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 30, 2020.
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Chemical Security:DHS Could Use Available Data to Better Plan Outreach to Facilities Excluded from Anti-Terrorism StandardsGAO-20-722: Published: Sep 29, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 29, 2020.
Coast Guard:Improved Analysis of Vessel Response Plan Use Could Help Mitigate Marine Pollution RiskGAO-20-554: Published: Sep 29, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 29, 2020.
Disaster Assistance:FEMA Should Take Additional Actions to Strengthen Fraud Risk Management for Public Assistance Emergency Work GrantsGAO-20-604: Published: Sep 29, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 29, 2020.
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The Infrastructure Project will simplify and centralize the basic activities of the Indiana University Digital Library Program, with primary emphasis on the activities of collection creation and collection maintenance. The general need for an infrastructure is clear; this wiki details how we are building one. Specific goals include:
- Build a centralized repository system based on Fedora
- Support multiple types of search, including federated search
- Create a repository preservation systemutilizing HPSSfor master file storage and replication
- Build tools for creating collections in the repository
- General-purpose Image Cataloging Application, which is the GUI front end for a general-purpose Ingest Tool
- General-purpose validation system
- General-purpose delivery system
- Make all of these tools usable by departments other than the DLP
- Move existing/upcoming collections into the new repository
- Migrate content out of IBM Content Manager
- Move Hohenberger
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- Move Hoagy
- Maintain parallelism with Evia, even if the repositories stay separate
- Support development of IN Harmony
- Support development of the new IU Archives Photo Collection
- Migrate content out of DLXS
- Implement search/browse in the repository
- Move searching functionality for all collections that are in the repository
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With shutdowns beginning to ease, many Americans are thinking about what dining out, socializing, and being entertained might look like.
Millions of children are stuck at home because of the coronavirus pandemic, relying on their parents to function as part-time teachers in support of virtual classroom instruction.
The second episode of Path Forward explores the importance of COVID-19 testing to the short-term recovery of the United States. U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Suzanne Clark was joined by experts who shared their perspect
The role of business in society is at the heart of what we do at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.
We do our best work when we examine complex issues – and that's what we've been doing with Environmental, Social and Governance reporting.
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Actress Gauhar Khan, who won the popular reality show Bigg Boss - Saath 7 on December 28, says she will not lie about her relationship with her co-contestant and actor Kushal Tandon.
"My relationship with Kushal is what it is. I am not going to camouflage it or lie about it outside the Bigg Boss house," Gauhar said.
"We came on the show, we became friends and we fell in love, and I don't have to lie about it at all," added the actress who came across as a headstrong girl in the show and even walked out when she felt that Kushal's sudden elimination was unfair, only to return later.
The actress, who has been part of movies like Game and Ishaqzaade, spent 103 days in the Bigg Boss house and describes her journey as a 'roller-coaster ride'.
"My journey in the Bigg Boss house has been dangerous. It has actually been a roller-coaster ride.
"I gave more than 100 percent in the past 15 weeks and I am really proud of it. I did whatever I felt is right and stood by it," she said.
One thing that the 29-year-old did not like during her stay was when the other contestants became judgmental about her.
"The toughest part for me was being judged - people judging me for what I do, calling me fair and unfair. They even judged my relationship with Kushal and said that it was for the cameras," she said.
"Overcoming and struggling through that was a challenge for me. I was what I am," Gauhar added.
Bigg Boss - Saath 7 was not Gauhar's first stint on a reality TV. She had earlier participated in the third season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa and Khan Sisters. But after winning the reality show, she says she is on 'seventh heaven'.
"It's a dream come true. I feel lucky, honoured and happy to have won the show. The 15 weeks of hard work paid off and I feel on the seventh heaven right now," she said.
When asked what kept her going throughout the show, she said, "First of all it was because of Allah, then I will credit the way my family has brought me up and then my spirit to keep going.
It was also because of Kushal that I was able to survive for so long. He gave me strength when I needed it. I really appreciate what he did for me during the show."


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Once again Asrock has done some of us a favour and taken last year's chipset and made it compatible with this year's technology.
This relatively cheap motherboard is based not on any cutting-edge chipset, but on Intel's aging 965 platform.
Dodgy layout
Now that's not necessarily a bad thing, but an almost complete lack of overclocking control coupled with the worst board layout in living history really puts us off this one.
For some inane reason the main 20-pin power cable is situated not on the convenient edge of the board where you'd expect it to be, but right in the middle, where the cable is bound to get in the way of things more than ever.
This sort of cavalier attitude coupled with some really lacklustre performance sinks this Asrock offering to the bottom of the barrel.


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Francisco Liriano threw a no-no, and it feels like barely anyone's talking about it. Overshadowed by two sets of playoffs? The fact that it really wasn't a particularly dominant game?
Too bad if it's being overlooked, because it's a good story. Liriano was basically pitching for his job. Facing one of baseball's worst (or slumpingest) offenses with one last chance to stay in the rotation. What does the noted strikeout pitcher do? Loses his control and throws a "pseudo-masterpiece."
Even if we're burnt out on no-hitters in the Year of the Pitcher era, this one was an oddity among them. Two strikeouts, six walks. He got his double plays, but he felt so far from dominant that he didn't know he had a no-hitter until the eighth inning.
It was the "really good luck" kind of game that makes baseball so unpredictable, and probably shouldn't be indicative of future performance, fantasy owners(more on this later, actually) and Twins fans. The worst no-hitter before this was thrown last year by journeyman Edwin Jackson, who took the loss against Liriano last night. Circle of life.


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Ive been mentally ill from Developmental trauma disorder; never knew it was going to happen to me! never saw it coming! I spent years in the recovery process mentally ill; no interest in dating anyone; way to ill from Dissociative disorder! PTSD!
Now that Im getting better, a strange experience is happening! Ive had many women in the recovery process like me! but I never liked them! I liked the way they looked; I wanted to sleep with them, but not date them! Many people Ive seen in the world, I don't trust or like! many women from different walks of life; I don't trust; not after what I went through! I do not trust the general public, I do not trust people from the streets, I do not trust the rich and I do not trust the Government! I don't trust the churches; last place Im ever going to trust anything! Im learning to trust God! I do not trust the school systems of any kind! I trust nothing!
After spending a very long time studying women and how to interact and date again; I had amnesia; and could not remember! I could not remember anything; my nervous system and brain were in protect mode! I could not remember anything because my mind refused to allow it! I was 2 ill from the condition; so, I bought tapes and cd's and watch dating stuff on Youtube and relearned how to interact with women, how to attract women, what women look for in a man! and so on!
Ive attracted allot of women; but never went any further! I thought they were hot; but something was always wrong! Now I know what it is! I was never interested in them!
Ive not found the women Im interested in dating! Looking back at my life! it was broken and I was mentally ill; I was 2 weak to be around people! I just wanted to die!
Now, its different! Ive had women like me; Ive worked with the laws of attraction and attracted soulmates! something has been wrong! Ive not been around my group of people! The women Ive attracted; something is always wrong with them; wrong to the point that they are not my people! I realized lately, Ive never met my people! I realized; Ive never been around any women I want to date! I would sleep with them; many of them are hot! but I would not date them! Why?, they are not my people, I do not resinate with them; non of them! The people Im interested in dating do not have all this baggage and conditions!
I walk up to a women, and its 2 hard, to much work, or something is wrong! or Im having to compromise to much! something is not natural its contrived; 2 hard!
The kind of women I want are not hard! The type of women I want; we gel together! or connect! We don't "connect" and have conditions! we simply connect! I realized as I was waking up that the women Im around are making things 2 hard! It tells me we are not right for each other! Im trying to hard! it doesn't need to be this hard! Something is wrong! and I realized; I don't want any of them; these are not women that I would date; they are not dating women; not for me!
Ive been around several different circles in my life and not impressed with anything! most people scare me; Im scare more by their beliefs and way of life and cultures or groups they belong to!
Im learning now to ask source energy for what I want! What do I want?, I thought I knew what I wanted! Im not sure! I know what I don't want!
I know from my study of soulmate; she is an Asian-soulmate! Im attempting to hang on to this! Im not sure what it means, accept source energy God knows what it means! Im actually closing in on the gap of this! When I started my soulmate search, a large gap existed between where I was and what I wanted; with enough work, that gap is slowly thinning! That gap is slowly closing in and reattaching!
If you know what you want; thats half the battle! Im not used to knowing what I want in a women! I want to be loved and cared about, I want a soulmate, I want someone the genuinely wants me!
Most of the women I meet care only about their children and grand children and men are this strange secondary fantasy that will come along and sweep them off their feet and take care of their family! The women doesn't have to do anything! and she's going to be completely in love and the man is going to love her completely even tho this is her 3rd marriage and she takes no responsibility for the break ups! she knows she's involved somehow, each man has told her so, but she doesn't really care!
Im not looking for someone of the above paragraph! Am I looking for a porn stripper or a Astronomy prophesier; Im not sure! God knows! so, I work with God on this!
Im starting to wake up! Im waking up alone, meaning, the family system I came from is long gone; stollen all inheritance; mostly sociopaths and psychopaths of different backgrounds and natures! unfortunate! I did not know when young; I was slammed with it as I began to get older; older child, and was neglected out of existence and confessed about why I was being thrown away!
I had plans when young and growing up! I did not realize the scum I was with would kill me off!
The point being; when it comes to women, as I get mentally healthier, I realize that most of the women Ive been around have simply been present because this is a place of recovery, but non of them are dating material! nothing wrong with these women; they are someone else dating material, not mine!
So, who is my dating material, This will souly depend on God! Im with the understanding that I ask God for what I want and God delivers it! So, I have to know what I want! I know what I dont want! or whats not working!
I thought I could find a pretty girl and make it work; doesn't work that way! I had to compromise to much of my own beliefs or values; It could not work! I thought I could sleep with these women that had opposing beliefs! I could not! they are not people i trust! If I dont trust you, your not sleeping with me! and most of them, I dont trust, conflicting beliefs! I refuse!
Ive learned; I cant date everyone just because I like their bodies! I cant date or sleep with women just because they like me! They have to have the same beliefs or values! Ive never understood what went wrong! I was sacrificing 2 much! I dont have to sacrifice my worth or beliefs or values to be with someone!
I thought; if a women is cute and likes me; thats all it takes; wrong! doesn't work like that; not for me!
I have to connect with the person; she cant be good in bed and a stranger outside the bed; thats not a connection or relationship! whats the point; why would I spend time with someone like this!
So, things aren't perfect; but Im starting to wake up!
I never fit into the general middle class of people in society! I got rejected by them for no good reason! I did nothing wrong! they are as much murder's as any one in maximum section of the state penitentiary! I see them as no different!
I've been around allot of recovery people but not my people! Im getting better; I study success based coaches online and stuff like that; this is my new thang or way of life or hobby! its working to make me a positive person going after positive things!
When it comes to women; i know what I dont want; I dont want frustration anymore when dealing with them! I want women that are aligned with me! Im not interested in anyone else or their way of life or baggage!


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The Resurrection Project: Hollywood Prayer Leader on Movie's Executive Board
The Resurrection Project: Hollywood Prayer Leader on Movie's Executive Board
A Hollywood producer wants to make sure that he includes God in the creation of "The Resurrection," a film that he would like to see materialize as the sequel to Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ."
To help ensure that the project is divinely inspired during every step of the way, David Wood has not only brought together four other Christian men to co-produce the film with him, but has also assigned one of them specifically to lead the production's prayer team.
Pastor Tim Price is the CEO of the Center for Prayer Mobilization based in Idyllwild, Calif., and has had a heart to pray for Hollywood for several years. Rather than joining past movements of Christians boycotting Hollywood films deemed inappropriate, he decided to pray.
Wood met Price a few years ago and decided that if he was going to make a change in Hollywood as a Christian producer, including the making of "The Resurrection," he needed support from godly men.
"The overall concept of what we do is praying for God's will to be done in Hollywood," Price told The Christian Post. "Looking to get Hollywood back into a place where it will not only produce more godly films, but more family-orientated films. Through prayer, the moral aspect of Hollywood would change."
Price said he feels very similarly to the way Wood does in regards to wanting to see a film made that depicts the events surrounding Jesus' resurrection and the 40 days that followed.
"I saw 'The Passion' and really liked it. I felt it had a real big impact on the body of Christ, but felt a little bit let down," Price explains. "The church started with the resurrection of Christ. What drew me to 'The Resurrection' movie [project] itself is that the resurrection is where the Church started and the understanding that the Holy Spirit is inside of us.
"How we as Christians walk and intercede today is through the power of the resurrection. The power of the Church is directly related to the resurrection," he said.
Price said the prayer team for the movie, which coincides with a fundraising and creative effort called, "The Resurrection Project," consists of only a handful of people right now, but he expects the number to grow.
"We've been praying and interceding for how God wants to put 'The Resurrection' movie together … who God wants to be involved with it and for God to start bringing divine appointments for people to start connecting," Price said. "We are also praying for the unity of the body of Christ within the project."
Wood said another spiritual aspect of the project is that people interested in contributing towards the development and production of the movie can become "Spiritual Producers."
He plans to finance the film through a Christian community of believers before any creative talent for the movie has been hired, including any script writers.
"What God has shown us is that we are doing this in the opposite spirit of Hollywood. Normally, you go and raise the money from your investors. You get a script. You hire everybody to get you into production. You shoot your movie and do your sound and editing, and then you market it for five to six months, and then it's released in theaters and DVDs and so forth," Wood told CP previously.
"What God is showing us to do this time is that we needed to put a leadership team together that could steward this (project) because it is so sensitive and it needs to be done God's way," he explained. "We are actually starting the marketing first. So, the game plan for the coming months and the rest of the year is letting the Christian church and the world know that this movie is coming."
Price said he is most excited about seeing what God will do with the film project on a global scale.
"The opportunity to present to the world the power and authority of our Lord Jesus Christ is what I am looking forward to," he said. "To see that Christ was victorious … We need to understand that as members of the Body of Christ we are children of the living God. We are not orphans."
Executive co-producer Chuong Thai, who will oversee the film's unique distribution, said he was first drawn into the project because of his love for God. The five-member team of executive producers plan to release the film on the same weekend through theaters and pay-per-view applications on the Internet and smart phone network.
Thai said he was also attracted to the project by Wood's passion.
"Seeing what we think should be good for Hollywood is very exciting for me," Thai said.
Igbo Obioha, an entertainment industry lawyer who is on the executive board (also known as the Stewarding Council), said he was also impressed with Wood's vision.
"David is just a whirlwind of inspiration and energy and he's very good at motivating people and getting people to do more than what they do just nine-to-five," Obioha told CP. "I think the timing is right. The people that have been assembled as the stewarding council are people that are talented, skilled, and have their hearts in the right place. It's a great combination of individuals who can now put their collective resources together and get it done the right way.
"I think we are just all very energized about this," he said.
The movie project's fifth co-director is Ken An, who is a Christian business leader who will bring an international missions aspect to the movie, Wood said. An is also executive director of GMIT (Global Media & IT), the host of the annual Pan Pacific Film Festival, which focuses on producing high quality Christian movies.
Wood said he and his team are not only asking typical Hollywood film investors to help raise $40 million for the movie, but people simply interested in making "the most important movie this century, maybe ever."
"We're just all wanting to serve the Lord and it's really not about our agendas or anything about us. What's helped us mesh is that we've grown as friends first and we want to walk together," Wood said.
On the Web, http://www.theresurrectionproject.com/.


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TWO huge container stacking cranes are on their way to Southampton to boost the lifting capacity of the port's leading rail freight operator.
The £9m rail-mounted gantry cranes, made for Freightliner by Liebherr, will be the largest of their type in the UK.
Freightliner bosses said they will increase reliability and eventually nearly double container lift rates, spanning 13 railroads compared to the seven the existing cranes can span.
The investment by Freightliner comes as port owners ABP won consent for a major £80m upgrade of the container terminal to handle the world's largest container ships.
The new cranes will meet the demand driven by recent rail network improvements that have allowed super-sized 9ft 6in high containers to be hauled on standard wagons to the Midlands, north-west and Scotland.
Freightliner managing director Adam Cunliffe said: "Freightliner remains the only rail freight operator to provide and continually invest within its supporting port and terminal network.
"The replacement cranes at Southampton represent the largest and most efficient port or terminal rail cranes in the UK.
"The cranes again confirm Freightliner's unparalleled capital commitment to support its unique service offering, further enhancing the ability of our customers to reliably use rail as the preferred mode of choice for inland distribution."
Further infrastructure improvements are also planned for the rail terminal at Southampton docks, adding more roads and increased track length to coincide with ABP scheme to combine berths 201 and 202 and upgrade a 500m quay wall to create a new fourth berth.
Liebherr Container Cranes is shipping the cranes from Ireland to Southampton Port for installation in August.
The firm has an 80 per cent market share of container rail freight at Southampton, transporting more than 1,000 containers out of the docks every day.
It operates 14 daily round trip services from Southampton to ten inland terminals throughout the UK.


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The Internet Is Mad Nickelback's Metallica Cover Is So Good
By: Anthony Capobianco
Nickelback is that one band everybody just likes to pick on. They've been on the receiving end of many jokes for years and years, with no one entirely sure how it actually started.
Related: Hip-Hop Fans Listen To Metallica For The First Time And Get Hooked
However, video of their cover of Metallica's "Sad Bad True" has been circling its way around the internet and their performance has rendered the trolls speechless.
Check out Nickelback nail "Sad But True" below!
These hilarious reactions are some of our favorites. Why is everyone so hard on Nickelback??
looking to start a cover band that covers nickelback covering metallica— JESUS CHRIST (@elijahwitt) September 13, 2018
Fuck. Now I actually have to say I like something nickleback has done. https://t.co/EtCk53hp8c— RuineR (@x_LifeRuiner) September 8, 2018
I'm convinced Nickelback should release a cover album of Metallica songs.— Cody Paysinger [+> (@_cpay) September 9, 2018


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Junior boarding schools such as Randolph-Macon Academy Middle School allow students to become members of a diverse community, with students from many different states and countries. This situation makes the dorm a place where boarding students can learn about a variety of cultures, values, and beliefs. Close friendships are formed through shared experiences.
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A few weeks ago I posted a couple of photos of baby quilts. Do you remember those? I'd hung one from a clothesline and draped the others over a chair. Just wanted to share what I'd been doing during rainy spring afternoons that week. No big deal. Or so I thought.
It seems those photos have spawned (don't you just love that word?) a Cottage Business. You know, a home-based business. This one, I suspect, a product of less thought and intention and more serendipity than most. To make a long story short, I got inquiries about selling the quilts. So I did. After all, I hadn't made them with any specific use in mind; I'd just made them because I enjoy making them. When I was approached by buyers, I said yes. Hey, my mamma didn't raise a fool! ;-)
Still more amusing, at least in my mind, is the fact that I've got orders for more.
Go figure.
So here I have this little, completely unexpected cottage business...without a name. I mean, what should I call it? Nothing? Something? As an author I'm accustomed to having titles for things, right from the get-go. The instant I open a manuscript file and begin to write I title the thing--even if it's only WIP #so-and-so. Or Current WIP, that's a popular early stage book title around here. Sometimes it's Blasted Book! or--well, you get the idea. A title, always a title.
Cottage quilt business? Title-less. I've got to admit I'm unsettled by that. Really bugged. I've been mulling over business titles since I sold the last quilt and have come up with a couple, but none are, I don't think, The One. You know, the one that will make me smile, nod and say, "Yeah. That's the one."
I've got--and remember these are only ideas, not set in stone--these...Cottage Quilts...Quilt Du Jour...and Crazy Writer Quilts. I'm kind of leaning to the last one because really, I must be nuts to even consider this. What do you think? Any ideas? Suggestions? A large club with which to knock myself upside the head?
Hope you have a great weekend. Me? I'll be gardening, quilting, writing and, hopefully, dancing beneath the stars with my hero. Yeah, we had a clear, star-filled sky last night...summer dancing has begun around here. Let the calendar catch up to us for a change! Have a good one, friends!
Friday, June 13, 2008
Feeling Cottage-y
A few weeks ago I posted a couple of photos of baby quilts. Do you remember those? I'd hung one from a clothesline and draped the others over a chair. Just wanted to share what I'd been doing during rainy spring afternoons that week. No big deal. Or so I thought.
6 comments:
- Anonymous said...
I am so not surprised about this. Cottage Quilts, I like that name a lot.
And I love it that you dance in the moonlight. So romantic!
- Marianne Arkins said...
Cottage Quilts works for me, too! LOL... or maybe just call it "Serendipity".
- Dru said...
Your quilts were beautiful. I like Cottage Quilts.
Have a good weekend.
- Unknown said...
I wasn't fast enough! I wanted to ask if they were for sale. Taking orders?
- Unknown said...
And I like Marianne's idea. Serendipity is a cool name!!
- Diane Craver said...
That's amazing and congratulations on your new business. I like Cottage Quilts - it's perfect.


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To make the artwork, I started by tracing an acorn cookie cutter all over the card stock paper very lightly in pencil. Then after making a cup of tea we squeezed most of the water out of the tea bag and then pressed it and rubbed it all over our paper to make the background. You can see the effect in the top picture.
Once that was all dry (which only took a couple minutes) we traced our acorns very darkly with brown crayon. We also drew a line for the top of the acorn and colored them in, making sure to leave a little bit uncolored to fill in with green paint.
Last we got out the water colors and painted our acorns brown (Luke painted a couple red because it's his favorite color) and the tops green. I added some colors around the edge of my paper but the boys decided to paint over the tea background with fall colors. It was a little disheartening at first but as they got painting it looked so pretty so I really didn't mind. 🙂 I thought it kind of looked like the acorns were laying in a pile of fall colored leaves.
If you missed our Acorns Everywhere Craft you can read about it HERE. I have pictures in that post of the books we read to go along with our Acorn crafts but they were Acorns Everywhere by Kevin Sherry and Nuts to You by Lois Ehlert.
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Vancouver city council voted late Tuesday night to ban the handling, storage and trans-shipment of coal at its marine terminals and berths, though there are no existing coal facilities and it has no jurisdiction over Port Metro Vancouver — the No. 2 exporter of coal in North America which has caused controversy over planned expansion of its facilities.
The Vision Vancouver-dominated council voted 9-2 for the zoning and development bylaw amendment that a staff report said was in line with the Greenest City 2020 Plan, which aims to curb greenhouse gas emissions and set the air quality target to "breath the cleanest air of any major city in the world." There are no coal facilities currently within Vancouver's jurisdiction, though staff said the motion to ban any future shipments of coal was partly prompted by industry inquiring about possibility of shipping coal out of private lands on the city's northeastern waterfront.
Conservative MP David Wilks of Kootenay-Columbia flew in for the council meeting and spoke forcefully against the amendment, noting how Metro Vancouver's goal of "green" residential density can become a reality using steel made with metallurgical coal.
"There's a necessary natural resource, metallurgical coal, that we have to deal with and it's a world demand," Wilks said. "If anyone in that (council chamber) can tell me where the replacement for carbon is, I'm sure we'd be willing to do it."
"Until you find that carbon replacement, you need metallurgical coal," he said. "We have to work together, because if we start putting up roadblocks (to exports), then it becomes an 'us against them' and that isn't healthy for anybody."
Wilks said Teck Resources contributes $2.8 million in taxes to the District of Sparwood each year and about 90 per cent of the people there have jobs that are somehow related to the coal mining industry. The company has worked with the area to monitor air quality since 2005 he added.
Vancouver Coastal Health's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Patricia Daly also spoke to council, noting how Port Metro Vancouver and coal companies have so far ignored calls to implement industry-funded health impact assessments on proposed expansions to coal export terminals.
Vision Coun. Kerry Jang repeatedly voiced his concern over the fact that any coal shipments leaving Vancouver would most likely travel along the BNSF railway and close to schools in Vancouver's Strathcona, Renfrew and Collingwood neighbourhoods, as indicated in a staff report.
"So you make all the money and my daughter gets cancer. Thank you," he said to Wilks in chamber.
In June, Metro Vancouver, with the support of Vancouver, Burnaby and the City of North Vancouver, passed a resolution opposing new coal shipments from the Fraser River estuary, citing local airshed and global climate change concerns. Environmental groups want to stop the proposed $15-million coal-handling facility on the Fraser River in Surrey, which would ship thermal coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.
Kevin Washbrook, director of Voters Taking Action on Climate Change, said Tuesday's motion was part of a growing call for the port to consult with the citizens of Metro Vancouver before expanding coal exports.
"It may be symbolic because there's no coal ports here right now, but the pressure to export this American coal out of every nook and cranny and port is high so I wouldn't be surprised if there were plans out there to do this," Washbrook said. "We've had municipal governments, regional governments, MLAs, MPs and health authorities all calling on the port to slow down and conduct more regionalized consultation and do the comprehensive health assessment and they've so far ignored those calls.
"So I think it's appropriate for the city to use every tool it has at its disposal to protect its citizens if the port is not going to cooperate and consult with the region."
Fernie Mayor Mary Giuliano sent a letter to council opposing Tuesday's amendment, saying that the economic impact to her community and the entire Elk Valley "would be enormous."
"The coal mines in this Valley support over 4,000 direct employees as well as many supporting contractors," Giuliano's letter said. "The ripple effect of such a zoning bylaw amendment would negatively impact the entire province as it would not only affect employees and their families but also cause a possible loss of tax revenues to the potential decrease to coal shipments."
There are 10 coal mines in B.C., with at least another nine proposed. The existing coal industry provides 26,000 direct and spinoff jobs and a $3.2-billion boost to the province's economy in 2011, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report commissioned by the Canadian Coal Association. The average annual salary in coal-mining was $97,000 in 2011.
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In fact, he pledged to get that number down to zero.
And the de Blasio administration is making good on that promise. It quickly released a report detailing close to 70 different proposals to make the streets of the five boroughs safer, and then began implementing them.
The most recent is a plan to reduce the speed limit on the city's arterial roads, or long avenues and boulevards that cover big distances, to 25 mph. Arterials only make up 15 percent of the city's total roadways, but they account for 60 percent of traffic fatalities.
Reducing the speed limit is a great start. We're sure you have heard the statistic that your chances of dying from being hit by a car jump from 20 percent at 30 mph to 80 percent if that same car is traveling just 10 mph faster at 40 mph.
But reducing the limit is going to do little if drivers don't adhere to the lower speed. We have to imagine that reckless drivers who kill pedestrians have very little concern for posted speed limits, just like they ignore crosswalks and other traffic signals.
The real focus of the de Blasio administration's Vision Zero initiative needs to be on enforcement to let deadly drivers know that their actions won't be tolerated. That won't be easy, and the truth is we'll realistically never be able to get the number of pedestrian fatalities down to zero, but until we start cracking down on drivers, crossing the street is New York City is sometimes going to be like taking your own life into your hands.


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Hundreds Of Thousands Take To The Streets Of Taiwan To Protest Against Trade Agreement's Lack of Scrutiny
from the sound-familiar? dept
One of the key problems with both the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), is the lack of scrutiny. Both deals are being negotiated in almost complete secrecy, with very little information being released officially. The justification for this, such as it is, is that the public will have a chance to see the agreements once they are finished, and that this is the appropriate time for transparency. The emptiness of that promise has been shown by the Polish Ministry of Economy's reply to some questions from the Modern Poland Foundation:
all the information the EU member states obtained from the European Commission is classified and it is not possible to pass it on outside the state administration. This also concerns the Foundation's request to access the text of the chapter on IPR and the Polish stance in this matter.
As that makes clear, the public will only get to see TTIP after it has been signed, when it can no longer be changed. The European Commissioners' idea of transparency turns out to be a cruel joke at the expense of the public that pays their not-inconsiderable salaries.
In compliance with the EU practices, the text of the treaty will be made available only in the final stage of the negotiations, after the signing of the document by both parties.
However, TTIP and TPP are not the only trade agreements being negotiated behind closed doors. Another has been concluded between China and Taiwan, with a similar lack of scrutiny. In scenes that recall the demonstrations across Europe when people found that they had no power to change ACTA, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Taiwan's capital city, Taipei:
Large crowds of demonstrators took to the streets of Taipei to protest efforts by the government to approve a trade pact with Beijing and show support for the students who have occupied Taiwan's legislature for nearly two weeks.
As the New York Times article quote above explains, a key complaint is the fact that there would be no meaningful scrutiny:
Organizers estimated that at least 350,000 people were gathered, as of 2 p.m., on the streets around the Presidential Office Building to express discontent over a pact that would open up dozens of service fields to cross-strait investment. Police counted 116,000 demonstrators by 4 p.m., according to Taiwan's Central News Agency, while some television news stations put the number as high as 700,000.
While many demonstrators are opposed to the service trade pact, the most widely held complaint was that the measure has not been sufficiently examined. A poll before the occupation of the legislature indicated that more than 70 percent of respondents supported a line-by-line review of the pact.
That line-by-line review is precisely what granting "fast track authority" to the White House and USTR would make impossible for TPP and TTIP; instead, Congress would have a single "yes" or "no" vote on whether to accept one or both.
The ACTA demonstrations in Europe led to the agreement being rejected by the European Parliament two years ago; now it looks like the Taiwanese authorities have also admitted defeat:
On Saturday, [Taiwan's President] Mr. Ma attempted to respond to some of the students' demands, saying he would back an itemized review of the trade pact and a law that would allow the legislature to more closely monitor agreements with Beijing.
In the light of the massive protests that swept through Europe in 2012, and those now filling the streets of Taipei, both of which were triggered by the refusal to allow any meaningful scrutiny of trade agreements that would have major consequences for everyday life, the question has to be: do the USTR and European Commission really want to run the risk of repeating that experience by pushing through TPP and TTIP in exactly the same undemocratic manner?
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Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has some screenshots for the newest Ys game, Ys Celceta: Sea Of Trees—a remake of Ys IV that is slated for PlayStation Vita in Japan this September.
Looks pretty, no? Hopefully U.S. localization house XSEED brings it over to U.S. shores. They've brought over some of the other Ys games (including the recently-released Ys Origin, which is on Steam now), so maybe they have room in their stable for this one too.
Ys Celceta: Sea Of Trees [Famitsu]
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Frankly, Darksiders II is not going to help War's crisis of confidence one bit, because despite his imposing bulk and hefty frame it's apparent that he stands very much in the shadow of his lithe brother, Death.
Indeed, time spent with Death reveals him to be a more engaging protagonist, a more proficient combatant and an altogether more empowering member of this legendary brotherhood of riders. It's not that War was particularly lacking in Darksiders, more that Vigil Games has a clearer vision of who Death is and has gleaned a greater understanding of how to deliver on the key concepts of his being.
"One core thing was that we had more time to focus on what kind of character Death is," confirms lead designer Haydn Dalton. "Having that time at the start of development in order to think these things through was very important and meant that we ended up with a greater data-file on who Death is and have been able to sell him more as a character."
This deeper characterisation manifests itself in many ways; some incidental, some defining. The opportunity to customise Death's appearance via a vast array of weapons and armour offers visual variation, while numerous options for progression along the Harbinger and Necromancer skill trees allow for an individual's play style to be complemented by Death's abilities, both passive and active.
In combat, Death's lithe form, twin scythes and reliance on dodging, not blocking, see him adopt an altogether more fluid style than War, whose heavier, soldier-style combat often relied on a series of staggering attacks, sometimes lending a stop/start cadence to his combos.
Death's personality can be further inferred from his poise and bearing; from the way he runs, swims, climbs and even idles, through to his interaction with environmental furniture: where War flung doors open and caved-in chests, Death merely places a hand upon them and spectral arms appear from the ether to do his bidding. This is a horseman who disdains the mundane and, by doing so, becomes all the more compelling to play as.
All of these factors combine to make Death feel like a character of significant presence and a fully realised protagonist, in a way that War never did. In fact, such is the self-assuredness and borderline arrogance of Death's demeanour that he makes War, with his square shoulders, unrefined bulk and blocky durability look like a Fisher Price toy; the My First Horseman of the Apocalypse, next to Death's lethal grace.
According to game director and studio co-founder Marvin Donald, many of the improvements of Darksiders II are due to Vigil Games progress as a developer and the position that the THQ-owned company is now in, compared to where it was at the start of development on the original Darksiders, the studio's first project.
"We're better at what we do as a group. We've grown in our ability to produce this kind of title because we have a lot of people that worked on the original and we've been able to grow as a team.
"With the original, we built the studio and the team, created the IP and had to figure out all of this stuff at the same time. Now, we have the leverage of that past experience and an engine that works, which gives us time to come up with cooler things and be more likely to hit the mark."
It's a sentiment echoed by art director, Han Randhawa. "We're in a different situation from a company point of view now, especially in terms of skills and I certainly see that in the art team. We leveraged the best skill set that we could for Darksiders 1 but we always had an eye on training our artists to become the team that would create Darksiders II"
This more comfortable and assured position has led to a number of changes to Darksiders II that see the depth and breadth of the sequel far outstrip its predecessor. The single most defining change, beyond the overhaul of the experience system, introduction of loot and focus on customisation, is perhaps also the most fundamental: traversal of the environment.
With a play area approximately four times that of the original game, it's unsurprising that Death's mount, Despair, will be pressed into service much earlier than War was granted his own giddy-up, but beyond this it's also necessary for Death to be nifty on his feet. Flowing, horizontal wall runs and vertical wall bounces, the grapple-hook freedom of Death Grip and an acrobatic triple-dodge manoeuvre all serve to inform Death's personality but, furthermore, are also reflected in the level design and the identity of the game as a whole.
In distancing itself from knee-jerk comparisons to Zelda and God of War, Darksiders II invites consideration of its strengths on its own terms. Based on an afternoon's play session (and IGN's previous hands-on experience) this stands it in good stead for its June release and should see it capture a greater audience than its predecessor was able to court.
Like its protagonist, the original Darksiders was solid, earnest and capable but ultimately unspectacular. Fittingly, Darksiders II looks set to embody the qualities of its own anti-hero: edgier, more substantial, better defined and irresistibly confident.
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At the heart of Harakiri is an exploration of environmental economy, one that goes beyond a merely corporeal interpretation of the word and conceptualizes circumstance as if it were a physical state. Of course, the anxious, surveyingly supple frames of director Masaki Kobayashi adroitly caress the architectural impositions of the picture's Edo milieus—most notably the interior textures and ornate rigidity of the house of lyi, the samurai homestead from which the narrative threads unspool—but the story is as vested in where one stands situationally as it is in the agency of physical surroundings. Kobayashi exercises a mosaicist's hand in conflating these arenas, employing the hallowed innards of the castle as a foundation on which to lay his perceptionally piecemeal narrative.
Harakiri is a work of notable narrative conceit, as its story is bookended by Kobayashi showing its happenings being chronicled in an event log—a gesture meant to evince the story, as we'll eventually learn, with notions of historical censorship, factual perversion, and traditional favorance. At first this motif reads mostly as innocuous, with the journal's transcription acting as a device that accords the film's temporal slide into the as-stated accounts of May 16th, 1630. Though beginning as a day of an uneventful if not dogmatic tribute (it's stated that some trout caught within the lyi domain were subsequently presented to the clan as a gift—exciting stuff), the afternoon winds carry with them a suspiciously laconic and expressively distant ronin, Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai). The samurai wishes to commit the eponymous evisceration within a ritualistically suitable context; that is, the lyi castle is to be, he hopes, but decadent, spiritually acceptable frame for his mortal liberation, his suicidal centerpiece. But before the honorable final rite can be consummated, those native to this Edo backdrop wish to impart a cautionary tale on Tsugumo, a Hiroshima transplant. Eliciting a eulogistic tenor for violence—which, of course, is meant as a facetiously corrosive lamentation for the residual terrors bequeathed upon a nation in the shadow of the Second World War—Kageyu Saito (Kageyu Saito) warns the pitiful ronin that a surplus of masterless swordsman have recently infested the area, extorting those occupationally sound by requesting the honor of committing harakiri but balking when offered monetary or vocational compensation. Master Tsugumo is even regaled, in specific detail, the events of wayward warrior poseur, Motome Chijiiwa (Akira Ishihama), and how the lyi clan cruelly upheld its own honor in making him disembowel himself with but the blunt, bending tip of an—in a world where swords evoke one's soul—emasculatingly impersonal bamboo blade.
The functional heft of this parabolic recitation is far greater than its ostensible shell of exposition suggests, as it also blindly, not to mention expertly, tares the film's moral scale in favor of the tradition sustenance. To listen to Saito's account, during which he incessantly lobs rhetoric sleights to elide any inkling of the lyi party's misdoing, is to, in a manner analogous to Rashomon, only experience but a glimpse of totality . As apparent here, Kobayashi is a filmmaker with a grasp of the potential for the emissive fraudulence of storytelling—and by extension art—and he constructs his narrative currents with an insidiously humanistic riptide. In this, Tsugumo eventually professes a response to the story he's been told, by way of flashback, rhyming the gaps of the lyi delineation with his own perspective-granted details. (His initial utterance of the eventually-repeated line, "Motome Chijiiwa was a man of some acquaintance to me," leaves the lyi representatives noticeably agasp.) The force of such reveals, aside from establishing an effective tonal cadence, comes mostly from the subversion of the pre-established, and moreover, the underscoring of a critical burr aimed pointedly at convention. Effective in any sociocultural deconstruction is the apprehension of how precedent gave way to contemporary conditions; not only does Kobayashi exhibit an understanding of this approach, but he puts it to neat formal use by mirroring the presupposed prestige of still-active samurai groups with the concrete fortitude of unchecked political norms.
Though the feudalistic oppressiveness of a foregone epoch is the main injustice depicted onscreen, Kobayashi's film reads as a slyly acerbic look into the ordinal value bestowed on contemporary citizens due to barriers erected by class stratification. Tsugumo, in spite of his rare, centrifugal complexity, becomes a totem for the individual's struggle against an unfairly resilient society. "After all," opines the protagonist, "This thing we call samurai honor is ultimately nothing but a façade." Kobayashi's presentation seems to align with this hypothesis, but his work also espouses just how crippling of a façade it, and by extension our modern society, is. Both in our own world and in the filmmaker's vision cinematic, there's a transient nature to change, one that shows the sociocultural organism as a restorative being, an entity all-but immune to parasitic effects of the human self. Society, in particular the environmental forces akin to its blindly accepted elements, is something that, over time, grows in the way of both fortified institutionalism and personal disconnect. Kobayashi's picture is almost defeatist, reading as less a call for cultural subversion than as an elegy for individual worth. Just as Tsugumo's words evince the poetic futility of personal wars, Kobayashi's images impart the erosive effects of both time and cultural scale in communicating the impossibility of uptopianism within the confines our termite existence.
Simply put, this is one of Criterion's more stunning 1960's outputs, with cinematographer Yoshio Miyajima's imagery looking remarkably precise for the entirety of this 1080p presentation. The backgrounds within some of Kobayashi's more demanding setpieces, though not exhibiting incredible focal depth, display a certain dynamicism between fore-and-background objects, with the picture's chromatic nuance channeling a wholly realized pictorial of its 17th century milieu. Everything from the extravagant décor of the lyi clan's front gate to the porous, wind-whipped skin seen in unyielding close-ups suggests an attention to restorative detail that is nothing short of stunning. There's some mild variance in image softness resulting from differences in source prints, sure, but the overall visual feel is one of beauteous uniformity, as Criterion's clinical cleanliness germanely mirrors the lyi clan's own erasure of temporally-derived abrasions. The Japanese Linear PCM audio track is also an exactingly stable constituent to this impressive Blu-ray release, and the score and effects alike are communicated with wonderfully pronounced clarity.
Accompanying Criterion's excellently immersive transfer is a collective of extras that, while falling a bit short of commensurate, is wholly adequate nonetheless. Donald Richie's digital introduction elucidates some of the visual metaphors employed by Kobayashi, and also contextualizes the work within both epoch and oeuvre. I got slightly less out of Masahiro Shinoda's interview with the filmmaker for the Directors Guild of Japan, as the mediator comes across as more than a little tangentially gushing - at least we get to see glimpses of Kobayashi's personality and sense of humor. The video interviews of star Tatsuya Nakadai and screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto each allot some perspective to the proceedings, with the former supplying details of the "making of" variety—not to mention a handful of amusing anecdotes that I found more entertaining than revelatory—and the latter commenting on the ideological evolution of the work from script-to-screen-to-reception. Joan Mellen also does a fine job writing about the picture for the supplemental booklet, though some overlap of edification exists between her essay and her interview with Kobayashi that are housed within.


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Tuesday was too nice to not go paddling but the tide was out, so I thought it would be nice to try a trip on the Charles River Basin. Never paddled there in the spring. Figured there would be lots of rowing shells...and there were. With the short notice on the trip posting, I expected to paddle alone but was very happy when Pablo decided to join me.
Jumping on the Mass Pike from Southy was pretty quick for me to get to the put-in. Probably easier than getting to the gas tank in Dorchester. So, I got there pretty quick and got my boat unloaded and took a few pictures before Pablo arrived. The trees were blossoming nicely.
There are plenty of boats ready for rental at the Charles River Canoe and Kayak Rental kiosk.
The water was nice and calm.
Charles River water is much warmer than ocean water at about 60 degrees. I don't think its recommended for swimming with questionable water quality, but that didn't stop this guy from taking a swim while his buddy shot a video with his phone - maybe he lost a bet.
Pablo drifting past some geese.
The geese had a couple babies.
Rowers, rowers, rowers...
Entering the canals along the Esplanade.
There was an SUP board beginners class in one of the canal sections. I've never seen so many people on SUP boards wearing PFDs. It was good to see.
City paddling provides all kinds of entertainment, but I couldn't hear these guys with all the car noise from Storrow Drive.
Bicyclists stop on the bridge to take pictures with their phones.
Plenty of sailboats in use from Community Boating.
We turned around at the Science Museum.
After a short stop, sitting in our boats and having a drink, we headed back up river.
The duck boats seem to go further up the river in the spring than when I've seen them in the fall.
A classic Boston skyline picture.
Up the river, back into the rowers domain again.
Here is a Google Earth view of the area we paddled with our GPS track shown in blue.
A few specs from the trip:
Launch time: 4:04pm
Take out: 6:48pm Distance: 9.77 miles
Thanks for joining me on this evening paddle Pablo. I think I could make a habit of doing this paddle after work when the tide is out or the wind is strong in the bay. It turned out to be a convenient place to get to quickly without sitting in traffic.
Charles River Basin - Tuesday Evening - May 7, 2013
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Norm, Some GREAT pictures!
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Whoa! Could it be Spring??? Refreshing post!
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Great day trip, and lots of great shots!
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Great post, and even better pictures.
It looks like you had a truly enjoyable paddle.
I'm sorry to have missed it.
Great post, and even better pictures.
It looks like you had a truly enjoyable paddle.
I'm sorry to have missed it.
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- Williams again gains top ranking in liberal-arts category
- This year's methodology puts more emphasis on outcomes
- It gives less weight to high school rankings
Princeton pulled ahead of Harvard to claim first place in the "best national universities" category in U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of nearly 1,800 schools.
Williams College again claimed sole possession of the top spot in the Best National Liberal Arts Colleges category.
This year's methodology put more emphasis on student outcomes and less on where students ranked in their high school classes.
Also this year, the difference between predicted and actual graduation rates was applied for the first time to Regional Universities and Regional Colleges.
The magazine increased the weight given to graduation and retention rates in the National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges categories, meaning that outcome-related measures were the most heavily weighted factors.
When cost was weighed, Williams -- at an average of $19,251 per year after grants based on need were factored in -- fell to No. 3, behind Barnard (rated second at $12,282 per year after grants) and Amherst (rated first at $16,286 after grants).
Best-value regional universities were identified as Gallaudet, Carey, Creighton and Trinity.
Cited as best-value regional colleges were Cooper Union, John Brown University, College of the Ozarks and California Maritime Academy.
Clark Atlanta University won a dubious distinction among national universities. In all, 93% of its graduating students were in debt -- with an average of $43,727, according to U.S. News. That average does not factor in the 7% who had no debt.
In the category of least debt, Princeton once again earned roaring rights, with just 24% of students in debt, and an average among them of $5,096.
"U.S. News strives to provide students and their families with the most comprehensive data available," Bob Morse, director of data research, said in a statement. "Measuring outcomes is critical to understanding how well a school retains and educates its students."


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