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Benefits cheat given £135,000 because she was 'too frail to open a bottle' is caught scuba diving on holidays around the world
- Rose Jones, 53, claimed she was battling a spinal condition, which left her unable to move, and suffering from the effects of a stroke
- But she was brought to justice after she was photographed scuba diving in exotic locations including the Maldives and Indonesia
- She and husband Reginald, who was also claiming benefits dishonestly, enjoyed holidays in Canada, Mexico, Romania, Bulgaria, Jamaica and Spain
- The couple, from Kent, broke up after Mrs Jones left her husband for her diving instructor
A benefits cheat who claimed she was so frail she couldn't even open a bottle of wine was caught out after she was pictured scuba-diving at exotic foreign locations.
Rose Jones, 53, pocketed more than £135,000 of taxpayers' money after convincing benefit chiefs she was unsteady on her feet and bedridden most of the time.
She claimed to have a spinal condition which left her immobile and on a variety of painkillers, and to be suffering the effects of a stroke which left her unable to sit in a chair or climb stairs.
Her husband, former Paratrooper Reginald Jones, 53, told authorities he was struggling to set up a dog grooming company and needed working tax credits to help meet his bills.
But the couple were living a lavish lifestyle travelling to exotic hideaways, including the Maldives and Indonesia for scuba-diving courses.
Canterbury Crown Court heard the Joneses had joined a yacht club and gone on golfing and skiing trips to Canada, Mexico, Romania, Bulgaria, Jamaica and Spain.
It was funded by Mrs Jones claiming Incapacity Benefit and Disability Living Allowance and her husband claiming Carer's Allowance and Working Tax Credits over a 16-year period.
The couple, from Ramsgate, Kent, whose marriage has now broken down, also owned a motor home and had a personalised number plate – B1G REG.
Mr Jones told the jury his wife went on secret scuba-diving and skiing trips behind his back to Abu Dhabi, Egypt and Panama with a scuba-diving instructor who had become her lover. She now lives with the man in Germany,
Far from being unable to work, Mrs Jones was employed from March 1996 until February 2000 by a care homes company in Margate.
She then held down two full-time jobs at the same time, one as a caretaker and one as a concierge.
Helen Guest, prosecuting, told the jury that from 1994 to 2010 the couple kept up the pretence to officials that Mrs Jones was unable to work because of her crippling condition.
In one official document Mrs Jones wrote: 'I cannot bend or kneel or pick up a piece of paper from the floor.
'Have problems sitting in a chair for five minutes and back tends to lock and it hurts to get up. I am bed-ridden... my back condition is deteriorating... I cannot walk for more than 50 metres without stopping or feeling severe discomfort.
'I have problems with stairs and am also unable to open a bottle of wine.'
The court heard Mrs Jones told authorities she could not wash and dress without the help of her husband 'because my back locks'.
In 1997 she claimed she had 'a severe back/spinal and nerve pain' and had had spine operations.
After being caught out Mrs Jones alleged she was forced into signing all the benefit applications by her husband, who she claimed bullied her and wanted money to fulfil his dream of a luxury lifestyle.
She said she had a genuine degenerative spinal condition but her 'violent and controlling' husband had forced her into working.
She said: 'He told me that I was not fit for anything. He said I would never reach his level.
'He liked money. He liked big things, expensive cars like Range Rovers, with personalised number plates, hi-fis, a nice house, everything we could not simply afford.'
Mrs Jones claimed her husband kept all their mail and passports locked away and refused to allow her access to their bank accounts.
In 2010 she walked out on their marriage after having an affair with her scuba-diving instructor.
In total Mrs Jones fraudulently claimed around £117,000 in benefits. Her husband claimed £5,351 in Carer's Allowance and £15,975 in Working Tax Credits.
Mrs Jones was convicted of six counts of furnishing false information, four of obtaining money by deception and two of dishonestly making false representation.
Mr Jones was convicted of four charges of obtaining money transfer by deception, one of furnishing false information and two of dishonestly making false representation.
The couple were given bail and are due to be sentenced next month.
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IRVINE, Calif. -- Authorities found ground-up castor beans with trace amounts of the poison ricin in two jars of baby food that had been tampered with, officials said Wednesday.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials who tested the baby food said the ricin was not in the purified form that can be deadly. Rather, it was a less toxic, natural component of the castor beans.
"It's unlikely there would be serious injury with the level of castor bean found in those two jars we tested," said Dr. David Acheson, chief medical officer with the FDA's Center for Food, Safety and Applied Nutrition.
Small amounts of the food was eaten, but the babies had no symptoms, he said.
The FBI and Orange County District Attorney's Office were investigating the discoveries as cases of food tampering. No injuries or arrests have been reported, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.
Authorities have not disclosed a possible motive. In Washington, two federal law enforcement officials speaking on condition of anonymity because of agency policy said there was no evidence of any widespread ricin contamination of baby food.
Ricin is made from castor beans and can be fatal if swallowed, inhaled or injected. A dose about the size of the head of a pin could be enough to kill an adult, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On June 16, a man told Irvine police that as he was about to feed his son, he found a note inside a jar of baby food warning that it had been contaminated. A similar case was reported by an Irvine couple May 31 involving the same baby food, Gerber Banana Yogurt, police said. A note was also found inside that jar.
Investigators were testing Gerber Banana Yogurt removed from the store where both jars were purchased. Authorities did not disclose the contents of the notes but said they referred to an Irvine police officer.
The Gerber Products Co., based in Parsippany, N.J., is working with investigators. Authorities told the company the contamination "absolutely" occurred after the food was manufactured, said Gerber spokeswoman Terry Boylan.
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I have a situation where a few Windows 7 based PC's are basically experiencing a power cut every day, in other words they don't get to shut down - the power simply cuts.
With XP there was never an issue, it would reboot when needed and everything was fine. With Windows 7 however the systems lose any grip on reality, forgetting USB devices which are plugged into it (requiring unplug, restart, plug back in), drive corruption, monitor resolution switching etc. Is there anything in Windows 7 which is that different from XP that it would cause these issues?
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I snorted pixie dust and it just happened. Everyone is more than welcome to use my set up. :p
Still rocking the out of box look, I was more worried about unlocking the bootloader and rooting. Tomorrow will be when I get creative with this...
I read it's quite good considering the fact that it's a 4G device. Once custom kernels are released for it you'll see much better battery life.
I played with one last night for about a half hour here is what I thought of it.
That's what I was hoping to hear! :woot:
Sync it to your Gmail account, backup sdcard to computer, wipe it(including sd card), box it up, go out to your car, drive to the store, get out...
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Synthesist / Composer, Steve Roach has been around for along time producing rather stunning work that is often known for it's massive sound largely devoid of rhythm and melody. What is left is a kind of music that exists as giant sheets or clouds of pure colour, or timbre in musical terms. This double album is a prime example of Roach at his best in this mode. Some of his other more well known work has been largely percussion based, like "Halcycon Days" and "Trance Spirits". "Mystic Chords" goes for the more timbral sensibility and seems to be where Roach is mostly focussing his work recently.
Shimmering waves of sound overlap each other here and wash in and out like movements of the tide or like the ins and outs of breathing. Only in Roach's case it's as if he were following the breath of the planet or the universe. I wouldn't be surprised it his inspiration for his working method was pranayama, or breathing, meditation. The music works remarkably well in that context. There is a lot of infinitely small, finely and subtly placed detail on the "Mystic Chords" albums that are sometimes missing in Roach's other "beatless" works like "Dynamic Stillness". That addition of small flourishes or glints of light, little motifs and patterns makes this particular release a more satisfying listen than some of his other work in the same genre.
This two disc set is really just the first half of a larger suite of music that's been released as two double CD's, "Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces" Parts 1 and 2. This is Part 1. Each disc is one piece, broken in to "movements". Disc 1 is the title track, Disc 2 is called "Labyrinth", comprised of 5 and 10 movements, respectively. Of the two double CD packages I prefer the second release best. Those two pieces, "Recent Future" and "Infinity" really stand out as magnificent achievements. Part One is very, very good, but Part Two is astounding.
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Within You Without You (Audio CD)
Woodwind master, Gary Stroutsos has achieved something quite wonderful with this album. While this is the kind of music that you would hear at your acupuncturist or massage therapist's clinics it is definitely not the kind of sanitized wash of gushy synthesizers, harps and pretty tinkling that often gives ambient music a bad rap. This is music. And that entails, as Brian Eno once proffered, the use of tension and release, of a pas de deux between major and minor modes, and, at times, skillfully placed discordances. Stroutsos's playing and his sense of arrangement is the work of a true musician. Skill and technique serve the music, so in that regard one could say that Stroutsos's work has a bona fide integrity to it.
All this is not say that "Within You Without You" doesn't work as relaxation, meditation music, it actually succeeds rather beautifully on that front. I heard it first in my massage therapist's office, while "on the table". It engaged me right away because as I lay there I realized, " I know this, I know this, what is this?" as I searched around in my music memory for the 'hook'. I recognized it and then realized that it was an arrangement of George Harrison's "Within You, Without You" from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band". Being instrumental and more loosely constructed than the 4 minute original, the title track here unfolds out into a much longer, more spacious "variation on a theme".
But for all the rich, Indian instrumentation and raga-like arrangement of the title track "Within You Without You" isn't just "New Age" Pseudo-Indian music. Stroutsos beautifully touches in with several other world music traditions as well - Japanese shakuhachi stylings, koto, cello, Nigerian udu drums, Chinese bamboo flutes and Brazilian berimbau. Stroutsos weaves it all together seamlessly, creating a gentle flowing river nonetheless rich in variation and invention that works beautifully OFF the massage therapist's table as well. "Within You Without You" stands quite well on its own as a pure listening experience.
Garibaldi's Lovers [Import]
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A Bittersweet Song for Lost Italy
Feb. 15 2014
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Director Silvio Soldini's wonderful film, "Garibaldi's Lovers", distributed by New York's Film Movement, is one of those, small European films that is such a breath of fresh, very human, air in our Hollywood dominated culture, with it's status quo moralizing and insidious conditioning. Yet, "Garibaldi's Lovers" is not without its ideals, either. Soldini has done a perfectly tasteful job of his jerermiad on the loss of the heart and soul of his beloved Italy. But instead of coming from some large, corporate mindset, this is a very personal film about ideals, purpose and human values.
The film begins with wide pans of an unspecified Italian city. ( Florence? Milan? ) Contrasted against modern buildings and structures are several statues of historical figures, Garibaldi, of the the great founders of modern Italy, being one of them. The images set up the philosophical underpinning of the film. We finally come to stop at the statue of Garibaldi as he observes a group of women physically fighting over a parking spot and a youth vandalizing a wooden public bench with his lighter ... and no one seems to care or even notice. Garibaldi's voice moans and is saddened by what he sees, a formerly great country, once one of the foundational pillars of Western culture, reduced to banal and insipid infighting, corruption and a total loss of ethics or a moral centre. He wonders if it had been better if "we had stuck with the Austrians", to his disappointment.
Having established the theme of the film, Solini 'comes down' from Garibaldi's lofty perch and begins a delightful story comprised of the lives of few people that will eventually cross and intersect. We begin with Diana ( Alba Rohrwacher ), a waifish, wan artist who is in a desperate position, being behind on her rent and unpaid by a corrupt corporate monster who's just been arrested for fraud. She is about to explode with all the rage she can muster, yet her efforts for all their bluster, amount to nothing. She is being oppressed by her fatuous, pompous, hypocrite of a landlord, Amanzio ( Giuseppe Battiston ), who we see quoting great philosophers as if he was a great, misunderstood man of wisdom himself. In reality though he is a dead-beat loser who has amassed enough wealth to retire early and does nothing but moralize and chastise the general public for their "stupidity" as much as he can. He is obsessed with money and finds it perfectly justifiable that he steals and cheats others while roaring on about the injustice Diana brings down on him with her late payment of rent.
Enter Leo ( Valerio Mastandrea ) the dissolute father of two, Maddalena, a typical, mouthy teenage girl who's raging hormones are about to get her into some very serious trouble, and Elia, a small, thin boy of some talent and intelligence who seems lost in his own obsessions and never quite connecting with reality. He brings dead frogs to a stork in a field that he has named Agostina. Their mother, Leo's wife, died in an boating accident and appears to Leo when he is alone. She comforts him and prods him, often stirring him to move out of his self-involvement and get back to being vital and in touch with reality.
As the plot moves forward, hilariously, tragically and quite naturally, the lives of these characters are set to intersect all because of Maddalena's sexual indiscretion which ends up visible to all, on the internet. Solini crafts a wonderful, explosive, comic and thoughtful human comedy that acts as a metaphor of the current state of Italy. We come back at key points to Garibaldi, seemingly overseeing the proceedings of all human beings in his city and in the country in general. He bemoans the condition of the nation but is taunted by other statues of historical figures who attack him, Cazzaniga, a seemingly pragmatic socialist, being the worst of the lot. Cazzaniga heaps scorn on Garibaldi's idealism, acting as the modern voice of "common sense". Later, something very interesting and appropriate happens to Cazzaniga. Even the great Leonardo Da Vinci has his say.
Lives entwine, blunders and unforeseen windfalls happen and the story very nicely comes to a thoughtful and quite acceptable resolution. The actors in this film are all quite committed, a testament to Solini's ability to be quite real in his understanding of human nature. Yet as much as the film is deeply critical of his culture, Solini is in love with people for all their contradictions, obsessions and blindness. "Garibaldi's Lovers" is a marvellous, thought-provoking and delightful film. Highly recommended for lovers of smart, well done independent film.
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A Brillant Japanese comedy with Shakesperean Profundities
Jan. 16 2014
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Japanese Director Kenji Uchida's TIFF award-winning film, "Key of Life" is about as perfect as a film can get. While steeped in the culture, nuances and even sensibilities of it's home country, it nevertheless is immediately accessible and completely 'available' to the Western mind. People are people underneath their cultural 'clothing' and this film has it's very sensitive and astute finger on the pulse point of the human condition. "Key of Life" is a comedy with some very real but hidden teeth that grips you from the moment it starts right thought to its conclusion. Uchida's impeccable direction never loses sight of the delicate balance of hilarity and profound lesson telling that GOOD comedy actually is.
It starts off with a destitute, out of work actor ( Sakurai ) failing miserably at trying to off himself. All around him are the visible signs of his desperate and miserable life situation. His home is total wreck, and well, so is he. While this may not seem all that funny, remember those hidden teeth. Life can be pretty brutal to those who don't achieve. The actor's utter hopelessness sets up the situation that's required to get the film moving in the absurdity it revels in. Next we meet the tight, proper, super-efficient and totally lost in the ideals in her head, Kanae, a young woman so completely naive as to think that she can PLAN to marry by a certain date. She isn't even seeing anyone. In her editorial office, which she runs, she announces her decision to be married to her staff. She is resolute and certain. Yet IF she actually understood Life, moved IN it instead of trying to administrate it like her office, she wouldn't be trying to force it's unpredictable hand like she does. She is sweet enough and principled enough for us, though, to like her, despite her being completely out of touch with reality. Next we meet Kondo, a chillingly dangerous gang hitman. We see him do his shocking dirty work with perfect coldness and almost scientific precision, outside of a house, on a street at night. And it is Kondo who turns out to be the richest and most surprising of the films three main characters.
Their worlds collide and set up the ensuing narrative when Sakurai, after failing at suicide, goes off to a public bath house, a very Japanese institution, to try to relax. Kondo goes there too and Fate is sealed when he enters the bathing area only to slip on an errant bar of soap and fall violently, cracking his head on the wet tiled floor. Sakurai's actor's quick instinct for improv, perhaps, clicks in quickly and he seizes the opportunity to snatch Kondo's dropped keys, switch them with his own and take on the gangsters identity, assuming perhaps that Kondo has died. He now has a big car and the appearance of affluence. Sakurai has nothing to lose. An hour ago he was trying to end his life, so he goes for broke. Only .. he doesn't realize that he's taken on the identity of one of the most feared and respected hitmen in the Japanese underworld, with all its connections, benefits and ... commitments.
Kondo does not die, but, he completely loses any sense of who he is. In the hospital he 'accidentally' meets Kanae, our ludicrously idealistic bride to be, who is there to visit her ailing father. He appeals to her. He is kind, well spoken, respectful, even vulnerable. She thinks she's met the right match. We cringe wondering what might happen to this innocent, somewhat daft little flower should she realize she's 'designing' her relationship with a deadly hit man. Kondo has NO memory whatsoever and is led to Sakurai's miserable shack of a home and told that he lives there. He slowly pieces his life ( Sakurai's ) back together. Realizing that he is an actor, and finding Sakurai's books on acting method, Kondo adamantly sets out to "re-learn" how to be a great actor. While Kondo has a seriously compromised identity, his underlying sense of commitment to excellence still exists and he takes on the responsibility of perfection in acting with ferocity and focus. His acting skills will stand him in good stead later in the film ...
Sakurai is riding high on his new identity ..... until Kondo's gang life catches up to him. He does his best acting ever, now that he realizes he's in SERIOUS trouble. Where once there was nothing but the grey haze of desperation and hopelessness in front of him, he's riding high improvising his way through gangland, his zest for life re-ignited by the intense adrenalin rush of clear and present danger. From here, the film follows in the best absurdist tradition with some of the most startling, apropos, and radically novel plot twists I've ever seen. Sakurai's brilliant improvising is both hilarious and precarious. Kondo though, has the greatest surprises as he slowly, slowly begins to remember who he was and joins in with Sakurai's tenuous deception. The interaction between them is both hilarious and profound as Kondo 'plays' his part too, making it unclear if he's acting too, or if he's beginning to remember himself.
Uchida does brilliant work at shocking and surprising the viewer on his narrative rollercoaster as much as he does his characters. Things do NOT go where you think they will as each new bluff, mistake, accident, deception, turn and twist the plot in rapid fire succcession. Uchida's deep understanding of the unpredictability of Life along with a profound understanding of human nature truly approaches the Shakesperean with this brilliant, absurd, comedy. It grabs you from it's opening and holds you on the edge of your seat to it's very last second. I could see someone in Hollywood wanting to do a re-make of "Key of Life" in English but I would still prefer this film for essentially, as universal as it is, "Key of Life" works extraordinarily well because of it's very Japanese sensibility.
Absolute DYNAMITE !!!!!!!!
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A Wonderful Dutch Film with Clear Wes Anderson Influences
Dec 2 2013
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This quirky, funny, satirical and sometimes tragic film bears an odd title. Called the "Deflowering of Eva Van End" in English, it might really be called the "Deflowering of the Entire Van End Family". It begs the question of what the title is in Dutch.
Eva is that silent, awkward, not so terribly good-looking and horrifically ignored child in a very dysfunctional Dutch family. The Van Ends seem to be running on momentum and not on the supportive vitality of a loving family. Their meals, the only time they are together, are fraught with confrontation, rebellion and a curious, insularity to the emotional energies that each member is wanting to convey to the others. No one is listening to anyone. The mother is frigid and emotionally cut off from her somewhat ineffectual and non-descript husband. The oldest brother, at first, seems like the one person who has it all together - a good job for his age, a fiancee and his own new apartment. But he himself is awkward due to having a very bad case of acne. Manuel, who is the only one of the children without an "E" name, is a bitter, pot-smoking, nihilistic teen-ager acting out his rage on everyone and everything. Then there's Eva. Life goes on as it always has until Eva announces that she has invited a German exchange student to come and live with them for two weeks as part of a school program. Not a soul pays any attention to her. Oddly enough he is to be there to learn how to speak better English and the Van Ends are forced to dredge up their knowledge of it. So there's a fair bit of English spoken in the film.
Enter Veit. Much to Eva's consternation and a kindling of her teenage hormones, Veit is beautiful ... in every way. Not only is he classically beautiful, almost like a blonde Greek statue, he is VERY 'Ne Age' in his life. He seems to radiate inner peace, love, respect, sincerity and a deep concern for the well-being of each of the Van End family members. He takes an active interest in each one of them, speaking to their needs and laying them bare to them. He tells Etty, the mother, that she needs more time to herself and deserves to be treated with a special touch. It melts her and her bitter, tough heart. She is the first to transform. For that is what Veit's beauty and his almost Christ-like manner sets in motion, a complete and radical transformation of the Van Ends. But although one would think that such "light" and sweetness would be a healing balm to this very troubled familly, it sets in motion very powerful transformations in every one of them. And not all of those transformations are New Age peace and light. For example Veit literally "destroys" the oldest brother by being lovingly close to him. It begins a very emotionally violent and cataclysmic questioning of his sexuality and he breaks horribly from his fiancee, literally hiding in a tent when he realizes his latent homosexuality. Manuel is the prime mover. He does NOT respond to Veit's kindnesses. He actively abuses him and feels like the German lad is stealing his mother away from him, with whom he has a very complex love/hate relationship. Eva now has her own transformation as well. She is smitten with Veit and wants him to see her as a sexually attractive woman, which she is not. She tries everything to do so and not a soul notices, including Veit. When her "moment" comes it is quick and actually rather callous, revealing another side of Veit that speaks not of his perfection, but his failings. Indeed, eventually, Veit's integrity and ostensible 'perfection' is called into question as he gradually reveals behaviours that put a prick to his colourful balloon and one begins to wonder if the German lad is the 'saviour' that he first appears to be, a 'home-wrecker' or catalyst for deep personal 're-creation'.
The movie is several stories all combined. Each of the transformations of the Van End family members is followed through and how eventually, through crisis, of course, they come altogether. So, really, the film is not about one awkward girl's transformation, although that narrative is in there, as it is about an entire group of people and the deep inner changes they experience because of one powerful figure. In this regard I was a bit disappointed as I kept waiting for Eva's story to really begin and it turns out to be no more unique or special than anyone else's in the film. I had to "re-set" my expectations derived from the film's title. Once I stopped seeing the film as being about her and more about her AND her family, then I was much more able to enjoy the film.
Director Michiel ten Horn is young and in some ways it shows. Not badly, but he seems to be still discovering himself, still working through his influences, as yet to arrive at his own signature. Wes Anderson comes to mind in the styling, and dialogue of "The Deflowering of Eva Van End" with it's almost Warhol-esque dead-pan observation and delivery. The two supplementary shorts by ten Horn, "Basta" and "Arie", feel like they come from another director, their difference from "Eva" being quite striking. "Basta" in particular has the unmistakeable stamp of "Delicatessen" and "City of Lost Children" directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, right down to the absurd and exxagerated behaviour, prominent vocal noises and the close up, fish eye shots. I think ten Horn shows great promise as "Eva" is a well crafted film, both funny and thought-provoking. Give him a few more years of experience though and I'm sure he'll be making films of considerable note.
Vol. 12-La Vie Electronique
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Unrestrained, Avant-Garde Schulze
Dec 2 2013
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Vol. 12-La Vie Electronique (Audio CD)
Schulze's "La Vie Electronique" series is a soon-to-be 15 volume set of some of the most uncompromising and experimental music by the Berlin electronic master. Whereas Volume 11 showed Schulze in a very modern classical style, using instrument sampling to create an almost traditional classical, orchestral set, volume 12 is an entirely different animal. Still sporting a basically classical framework, Schulze goes heavily for experiment, effects, mood and texture. And a good lot of it is stunning and unprecedented in his previous work. This is one of the series that is definitely NOT to be missed.
2 of the 3 discs are filled with one very long piece called "Picasso geht Spazieren" ( Picasso goes for a walk ). Not just long, but his longest ever, 2 and a half hours, according to K.D. Mueller Schulze's manager, producer and archivist. It was originally written in 1992-93 as a soundtrack project that never saw the light of day. "Picasso" is in the top 10 of all-time favourite pieces among Klaus Schulze fans, as tallied on his website. Set in 3 movements, Disc 1 houses the first movement and Disc 2, the 2nd and 3rd. Schulze seems to have gone for an unusually "programmatic" approach to the piece, creating a structure that reads like a narrative. One can imagine good 'ole Pablo going for a walk and translating every raw element that he sees into his own cubist and surrealist inner world. Schulze's music conveys the artist's inner world, as he "re-pictures" it with his own great power and imagination. Rushing frantically along, all kinds of human vocal samples, wild metallic percussion effects and animal-like sounds all mix and permutate over top of the driving music to create a highly visual and atmospherically evocative piece. I've always wanted to hear Schulze make more use of his remarkable 'effects' and with "Picasso geht Spazieren" you get it in wild abundance. Yet as wild as it all gets, Schulze is careful to keep the musical structure complex, yet discernible as the main body of the piece. I have never heard him rush so headlong into such fearless and joyful experimental abandon. It's very powerful stuff !!!
"The Music Box", a more restrained piece, returning more to a basically classical flavour, displays the same taste for a fast paced complexity as "Picasso", but with a more restrained effects palette. It takes up the entire 3rd Disc.
Well worth the price, a MUST for Schulze fans, Volume 12 of "La Vie Electronique" is a rare and rewarding look into the electronic master's' more mould-breaking, avant-garde experimentalism than anything else so far.
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The Savaging and the Savagery of Childhood
Nov. 5 2013
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One seemingly innocuous act of a child, simple, absolutely characteristic of that time of life, detonates a massive explosion that ripples out in shock waves shattering and transforming the lives of an entire small neighbhourhood in an English sub-urb. A curious, badly behaved girl in a broken home rife with psychological and physical violence sneaks into her teenage sister's room, going through her drawers. She finds a condom and runs out, taking it with her. Her father, Bob Oswald, played to violent, ignorant, explosive perfection by Rory Kinnear, finds it in her room and attacks her with all the power that hypocritical self-righteousness usually displays. She is rightly terrified and tells a vicious lie to defend herself. Rather than snitch on her older sister, she answers her father's over-the-top questioning by saying that the neighbhours' meek, awkward, nervous son, Rick ( Robert Emms ) was the culprit. Oswald immediately over-reacts, thinking immediately that Rick has been inappropriate with his pre-teen daughter. The girl, ironically named Sunshine, out of sheer terror of her father, does nothing to protest or change her story .... or his twisted interpretation. Rick is outside of his own house washing the car. He is talking to Skunk, another small girl in the neighhourhood whom he seems to adore for her guileless innocence and loving good nature. She is certainly in great contrast to the foul-mouthed, vicious Oswald girls. Skunk barely parts company with the young twenty-something boy when Oswald rushes into the street, ripping his shirt off ( why? ) and savagely attacks and beats the defenseless Rick, leaving him a shell-shocked bloody mess on the ground. She witnesses the entire, nauseating spectacle and we can see it as the first blow to her innocence. Now the story begins ...
Skunk, played by the extremely talented Eloise Laurence, becomes the centre-point and fulcrum around which the shock waves ripple out. Also from a broken home but one that stands in stark contrast to the animalistic Oswald house, Skunk lives with her loving, very proper father, Archie ( Tim Roth ), her older brother and their Nanny, Kasia ( Zena Marjanovic ). While their house is stable and safe, there is also an underlying current of deep unhappiness. Skunk's mother, Archie's wife, abandoned them all for reasons never expressed. But Archie has done a magnificent job of protecting his children and gives them an ordered stability that buffers the cruelties of the world from touching his children. But the monstrously dark side of childhood, never idyllic in reality, is about to break through and savage the light-filled sweetness of Skunk and her world. It's the end of summer and she's about to graduate into a higher school form ( high school in North America ) and is told of the brutalities of that world by her brother. He is not wrong. Skunk is then brutally and shockingly treated to the savageries of sweet, little Sunshine Oswald and her older sister. She is rescued by her teacher and Kasia's boyfriend, Mike ( Cillian Murphy ). Mike in turn is attacked by Oswald, in the classroom no less (!) as little Sunshine again wreaks her lying little magic after being disciplined by Mike for her attack on Skunk.
Rick is taken into custody by the police, to everyone's shock and dismay because Oswald has accused him of raping his daughter. Rick's psyche collapses under the cruelty and the mild-mannered, nervous lad begins to slowly turn into something quite foreign, even to his parents. His is institutionalized in a mental facility to his ineffectual and equally mild parents' dismay. They soldier on as best they can but they have no idea what they are dealing with. Even though later Rick is exonerated by a Police investigation it is too late for him. He collapses inward and slowly morphs into something his parents and his doctors, dangerously, have no conception of. His innocence and his capacity for innocence is utterly destroyed. Skunk is the one ray of light in his world and indeed in everyone's world except for the despicible Oswalds, as she keeps attempting to see him and be good to him.
From here the story fans out into the lives of each of the characters and reveals a festering mess of unresolved and dysfunctional emotions and situations in their adult world. It's a world utterly apart from the universe of childhood, seeking reason and conformity, even in the psychopathic Oswald, to order the world according to their own ways of seeing it. Skunk's and all the other children in the film have a simpler world to navigate but one that is also fraught with unspeakable cruelty, terror and existential confusion. Everything seems so simple and obvious yet the emerging complications of adult emotion with all it's hypocrisies, double standards and self-justification is slowly poisoning their "straightforward" world. Skunk is acted on in various direct and indirect ways, none of which are healthy. We see her collapse into confusion and finally rage as the complicated mess that ensues from Rick's beating titanically shatters and alters the world around her. Horrors, one after another occur and the mess of them becomes ever more complicated until it all culminates in a shattering way when Rick returns home from the mental institution. These horrors almost get to the point of becoming unbearable and the byzantine mess of this hurricane of circumstance and dysfunction brings the viewer to the brink of turning the movie off. It gets that bad. And then, something utterly unforeseen happens. And as unexpected and utterly surprising as it is, in a flash we "get" why it happens. It gets right to the common core of all these families' lives, carrying the simple truth of the love of parents for their children. The tragedy of "Broken" is that there seems to be an almost unbridgeable gulf between the adult world and the world of children. And yet it would seem that there should be some common understanding for the world of children is just as harrowingly brutal and full of cruelties as that of adults.
Director Rufus Norris has crafted an emotionally powerful film based on the novel by Daniel Clay. The performances of his actors are pristine, especially that of Laurence's Skunk ( Emily ). While primarily a stage director, Norris has entered the film world with a resounding success. True and resonant to the point of being deeply disturbing, "Broken" is quite an achievement for him. Not only is the screenplay by Mark O'Rowe beautifully real and crisp the cinematography is creative and inventive, using various cinematic effects and styles to enhance the narrative of this powerful film. This is what independent filmmaking is all about and I would urge anyone who loves good, brilliantly crafted, narratively solid film to get this into their collection. Produced by the impeccable Film Movement group out of New York, it's yet another marvellous, striking film that they've taken under their esteemed wing. 5 Stars.
The Lost Civilization of Lemuria: The Rise and Fall of the World's Oldest Culture
by Frank Joseph
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Now the Definitive Book on Lemuria
Oct. 8 2013
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With this exhaustively detailed, heavily researched book, Frank Joseph has finally put together the most credible statement on the lost civilization of Lemuria in print. While Colonel James Churchward's 1926, "The Lost Continent of Mu" , started it all off that book now reads like the fantasies of a pompous, nineteenth century, condescending white man by comparison. Churchward committed the unforgivable error as a non-fiction author by publishing his study WITHOUT including any references or a bibliography. It was as if the reader were supposed to have swallowed his very personal account whole, without question because of WHO he was and not for the rigour or discipline of his material. That only makes his book's credibility questionable at best. And, as it's been noted, the very thinly disguised racism ( he uses the term "degenerates" a lot ) of his talk of pan-pacific cultures only further pushes Churchward's original study into the realm of the questionable and the unpalatable. Joseph, on the other hand, has written a very detailed and painstakingly thorough volume, backed on every point, by an impressive set of notes and quite scientific analyses. He also blessedly avoids the smarmy condescension of Churchward, thereby publishing a book that very much suits a savy, 21st century readership.
Joseph begins a circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim in Micronesia, on an island called Phnom Peh and the mystery of the construction in gigantic basalt beams at Nan Madol. Here he posits the purpose of the construction, which you can clearly see on Google Earth, as being beyond the knowledge and skills of the current inhabitants and of anyone else that has lived there in memory. Deductively he examines all the many possibilities as to how that structure got there, what it's purpose was and how it was probably built. His evidence is compelling and it sets the tone for the rest of the book. Micronesia, Polynesia, Indonesia, The Philippines, Easter Island, Peru, The South Western United States, Western Canada, Alaska, China, Japan, Thailand, India, Ancient Egypt and Tibet - all are investigated and found as having traces, here and there, of an ancient, ante-diluvian world culture that is referred to by all of these countries and areas as the Parent culture, the source, the root, the origins of their own. Chapter after chapter, country after country Joseph accumulates a growing body of evidence that becomes very hard to dismiss, even becoming outright convincing. The creation stories of all these cultures are examined, all of them, without fail, paying hommage to a Mother culture from which they originally sprang. Commonalities in language, terms and the names of figures from the past are also reviewed, showing remarkable connections to what must've been a larger, pan-global culture that was centred in the Pacific Ocean. How Lemuria, or Mu, met it's end is also examined and it's unnerving indeed, especially when we look at the recent earthquakes and tsunamis in the "Ring of Fire" and Japan. While some of it may not be correct, and it is very hard to be absolutely "correct" when dealing with a culture so unimaginably old, Joseph's conclusions do seem to be strongly cogent. He convinces by weight of factual evidence and not at all because of his personality. He acknowledges Churchward's contributions where it's deserved and he takes his foibles and outright distasteful, racist utterances strongly to task as well. In order for a study like this to be worth even a pinch of credibility any author would have to make quite sure that they've done a LOT of meticulously recorded and acknowledged research. Frank Joseph, here, excels at that.
The writing style is personable, as if the author is talking directly to you, yet he is clearly erudite and informed to a very high degree. Joseph's text is never dry. As a reader you don't suffocate in a mountain of dry facts, nor are you subject to wild flights of fancy. The author keeps his tone readable but absolutely informed and authoritative. It is a very stimulating book and one that has you thinking a lot for a very long time afterward. The book closes with an examination of Atlantis, which at first may seem spurious, but indeed turns out to be strongly apropos. There is a point to be made here and Joseph delivers it with great power and the 'authority' of the cumulative weight of all that has gone before in this study. There is a message to be delivered here and it is one that we need to hear.
A fascinating, stimulating, challenging and at times even harrowing look at a subject that conservative academia is quick to derisively dismiss. Joseph's cool-headed tone and his exemplary, voluminous research make this a book WELL worth reading, even if you don't agree with him fully. It is a book that asks more extremely pertinent questions than it offers up pat answers. With the subject at hand, this is absolutely the most appropriate take on a subject that, if true, and I'm convinced by this book that it is, will not go away. Allay your fears if you think that "The Lost Continent of Lemuria" might be yet another piece of batty, saccharine, New Age fluff. It most assuredly isn't. Tremendously impressive !!!
Phoenix Rising
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A Powerful Rock / Psy-Techno Fusion of Extraordinary Beauty
Oct. 8 2013
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System 7's Sept, 2013 release "Phoenix Rising" is a major, quantum leap for the 24 year old band. Always leaping ahead and covering new territory has been a hallmark of the psy-techno band. Only this time the leap is gigantic. Having spent many years playing live in Japan, where they are immensely popular, Hillage and Giraudy have teamed up with Japanese, progressive-techno-jam band ROVO to produce an album that is tremendously rich, powerful and FULL of spectacular musical imagination. In the liner notes Hillage speaks of the success of blending System 7's electronica and electronicly based beats, SEAMLESSLY, with the standard instrumentation of the rock band. Yet, as much as this album is a marked departure from any official System 7 albums, the closest of which was 2008's "Phoenix", this kind of fusion is not without precedent for Hillage and Giraudy.
In 2009, they teamed up again with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Didier Malherbe for the 3rd of the second Gong Trilogy albums, "2032". Both Hillage and Giruady were in the "original" Gong band back in the 70's and played on "Flying Teapot', "Angel's Egg" and the legendary "YOU". "2032" was a powerful rock driven album of exceptional musicality and absolutely, perfectly GONG. Hillage lent his signature lead guitar and some of the guitar effects techniques that he uses in System 7 to Allen's musical genius and Smyth's poetic madness. Giraudy took the place of old Gong synthesist Tim Blake to add her distinguishable synth lines and effects and it was all done over a solid rock format. You might say it prepped them for this new work with ROVO.
"Phoenix Rising" was so named to refer to the legendary, Japanese myth of the Phoenix, but this time, unlike the 2008 album that celebrated the myth itself, the theme of this album uses the metaphor of the phoenix to honour Japan after the horrific tragedy of the 2011 earthquake and massive tsunami. Japan is still rebuilding and here there is an offering to the re-birth of the country and a testament to the beautiful spirit of the Japanese people.
There are 7 tracks, all longish in nature, but the music is so transporting, so complex and imaginative that the album finishes with a fulfilling completion, yet seeming as if only a short time has passed. There are 3 pieces penned by Hillage and Giraudy, 2 by ROVO musicians and one by Giraudy herself. Another track is a cover of Mahavishnu Orchestra's "Meeting of the Spirits". It's a fantastic cover, with Yuji Katsui's very electric violin featured along with some classy guitar work from Hillage. It's a favourite piece of Hillage's, something he's wanted to cover for a long time and the wait is worth it. It becomes clear that this song was the inspiration for the movement in Hillage's "Solar Musick Suite" called ""Hiram Aftaglid Meets the Dervish". The piece stands out for it's complex structure and jazz flavourings but rounds out the rather rich spectrum of styles and tempo that make this extraordinary album such a pleasure to listen to.
Fans of Ozric Tentacles will love this. Fans of Gong's "YOU" will love this as well. It could be said that "Phoenix Rising" is a beautiful blend of say "Jurassic Shift" and "YOU's" more expanded instrumental inspiriations. So this is not a psy-techno album, a typical System 7 release, it is a sparkling, powerful, light-filled bit of divine inspiration, a fusion of rock and techno performed with breathtaking skill and imagination. Some System 7 fans may not like this. But if you were a fan of Gong and the Steve Hillage solo albums, this will be a very special treat for you. This album may just mark the beginning of a trend that could blossom into some spectacular possibilities. It's a bona fide masterpiece, without a doubt.
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The Ties That Bind: An Impeccable Film on the Bonds of Relationships
Sept. 22 2013
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Aliyah (DVD)
Elie Wajeman's first feature length film, "Aliyah" is a insightful, honest and skillful examination on the bonds that hold people together and the need, sometimes, to sever those connections. Alex ( Pio Marmai ) is a young man drifting through life without a purpose. He has no goals, no direction or plan and he seems almost stupefied by the sheer weight of existence itself. He deals drugs for money but hardly seems the criminal type. A quiet, inward, even taciturn man, he goes about his life not interfering with anyone else's and not being a part of anyone's either. He is beginning to question what he is doing with that life. Alex is weighed down heavily by the oppressive and constant presence of his deadbeat, loser of an older brother, Isaac ( Cedric Kahn ). Isaac is a rash, ignorant, selfish, self-absorbed, self-pitying mess of highly talented self-destruction that is literally, financially and emotionally sucking away at Alex's life. Isaac is jobless and constantly getting himself in debt for thousands of Euros through a complex mess of questionable activities, none of which do anything to make the wreckage of his life any better. Alex is constantly bailing him out of all manner of trouble, even to his own personal endangerment. Yet Alex continues, because of the bonds of blood and family to feel compelled to be there for his brother. It may just be that this is so because, as we find out, the only family that the brothers have is each other. Their mother is dead and they have a father who's had nothing to do with them for years. Alex's best friend, Mathias ( Guillaume Gouix ) is also a dealer but he hasn't a single thought of questioning his place or purpose in life. He is a drug dealer and he is thrilled by the risk and adrenalin of it all, the "glamour" of being a monied bad boy. He calls Alex his "brother" and this too has a both a supporting effect on Alex but it is also a becoming a weight that he is becoming increasingly aware of.
Alex attends a birthday party at his cousin's one night only to find out that his cousin has decided to return to Israel to open a restaurant. It is the bright light of chance that Alex sees to get himself out of the dull, grey oppressive loop of a life that is becoming increasingly suffocating. He is growing tired of his drug dealing and he wants out. Alex shocks his cousin by returning after the party to discuss a partnership with him. His cousin is sharply cynical about Alex's sincerity and lays down the law for him as to what he must do in order to make good on this. One of he most important requirements is that Alex will have to do "Aliyah", the process non-Israeli Jews have to undergo to "re-patriate" to the homeland. It is an expensive, lengthy procedure but Alex seems newly galvanized and inspired by a new sense of purpose to see it through. All he has to do is come up with the money. This he does by returning to his dealer, bite the bullet, deal a last lucrative supply of drugs and there by come up with the funds that he needs to see his new dream through to reality. But there are complications .......
Isaac's reckless behaviour continuously threatens to drain Alex of any money he raises. The older brother's bottomless appetite for self-punishing trouble has Alex constantly veering off course as he rescues Isaac again and again. Alex begins to question the limits of fraternal bonds as well as the bond of family altogether. How much more does he have to be strangled with a family situation that has nothing for him, really, but suffering? In this we relate to Alex, an essentially good man, confused as he is, but beginning to awaken to the possibility of something better. We find ourselves in sympathy with him and wanting him to succeed. We are very much behind him.
To further complicate matters, Alex spots a girl at his cousin's apartment, who is also attending the party. He becomes interested. He succeeds in meeting Jeanne ( Adele Haenel ) and they begin a sincere yet shaky relationship that brings an element of intimacy and warmth into his life. Jeanne wants to hold on to Alex, finding his existential crisis and his quiet, wounded manner, attractive. Even though she knows of Alex's plan to leave France and do "Aliyah", she, naturally, tries to hold on to him, to convince him through understanding at a gut level, Alex's need for some kind of personal relationship that is fulfilling. Yet Alex seems resolute, even though he enjoys Jeanne's company. His mind is quite set, which upsets Jeanne. When Alex takes her to meet Isaac, who of course, asks Alex for more money, she slyly tells Isaac about Alex's plan to leave move to Israel, WITHOUT, informing him. She deeply and intuitively grasps the brothers' destructive relationship and realizes that informing Isaac of Alex's plan will sabotage any efforts of Alex to abandon his brother. A harrowing mess ensues and a fantastic tension is created for the viewer as we see the very real possibility of the failure of Alex's plans. With each person with whom he has a relationship, Isaac, Jeanne and Mathias, Alex is violently pushed into a position of having to make a decisive move that either retains those bonds, or, shatters them.
Wajemen's very realistic and insightful understanding of human interaction never falters and his characters are each very real. We understand them and their motivations for what they do, even when they are dysfunctional or outright destructive. We inherit or create deep bonds with people and no matter how close they may be, there comes a time when no matter how deeply rooted these relationships might be, we might have to question them. How far does filial loyalty go? How far intimate relationships with friends or partners? Are we eternally bound to others with whom we have deep ties? This is the theme of Wajeman's brilliant film. The director, not having a brother, looked to the Biblical story of Cain and Abel and to "The Brothers Karamazov" for an understanding of the relationship between brothers. Seeing their relationship almost as a deeply rooted and dysfunctional love relationship. Wajeman wanted to craft a story about "departures" and the need for self actualization, even at the cost of love.
"Aliyah" is of that breed of quiet, crisply real film that strips away anything distracting to tell a story of some aspect of human relationships that is complex and involving. Wajeman's film succeeds beautifully on all fronts. It was selected at several international film festivals and is WELL worth seeing. It's an excellent, even quietly exquisite, independent film that is beautifully crafted and intelligently told.
The producers of this disc, Film Movement, have, as usual, included a short, 15 minute film as a bonus in the package. These 10 to 15 minute films get some much needed and deserved exposure when included in these sets. With "Aliyah" we get an extremely timely and emotionally explosive short called "On the Road to Tel-Aviv", directed by Khen Shalem. It's in Hebrew with subtitles. After a brutal and shocking terrorist attack on a civilian target, a city bus, the city is taught with fear, the radio constantly speculating about further, possible attacks on civilian targets. The air is electric with tension. A young couple starts their morning with the young woman having to take a bus to Tel-Aviv to return to university. He sees her off on a small commuter bus and walks away, getting on with life, despite all the fear. As he leaves the scene, he spots an Arabic woman, carrying a large bag, get on to the same bus he just left his girlfriend on. He runs back to tell her to get off the bus. This sets off a panic as an overly dramatic and ignorant woman sparks off on this and literally drags her two daughters off the bus, screaming like a banshee. The Arabic woman sits in her seat, staring stoically ahead but clearly deeply afraid as chaos ensues around her. An Israeli soldier is pulled into it as the screaming woman escalates demands that the bus driver search the woman. Threats and accusations fly and the paranoia is excruciatingly high. Even the young couple get dragged into the panic and things look like something bloody, almost vigilante is about to happen. Does the woman have a bomb? IS she a terrorist? What does this possibility elicit in the passengers .... and in the all-important driver, around whom this fantastic and electric short revolves. An extremely powerful, intensely pertinent and emotionally rich film, "On the Road to Tel-Aviv" is a fantastic, cannon cracker short that feels like a full-length film.
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hi aysha
oh I loved this os. It was so awesome
just having the guys was so much fun.
Abhay is a little devil winning all that money. He sure got every1s attention.
Ive always liked angad. He's a pure soul, am glad he went to talk to Abhay.
Jeh was awesome doing that limbo dance but god neel fell down, that was hilarious.
Even Kabir enjoyed himself.
Aww Abhay donated all the money to the orphanage.
Am glad the guy's spied on him, atleast they know he's not the person they think he is.
This was a real entertainer hun, loved it soo much.
U should do another 1 wid the boy's again
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- Picking a parent theme
- Creating and activating a basic WordPress child theme
- Using the developer tools
- Changing the header image size
- Using conditional statements for customized effects
- Adding custom menus to the child theme and/or a template
- Changing the default footer content
- Adding featured images to posts
- Changing the display of meta content (such as date, author, category, etc.)
- Excluding categories from the front page with custom queries
- Including functions from external files
- Identifying and fixing common mistakes
Skill Level Intermediate
Sidebars are most often used to provide links and further information about the site to your visitors. This is normally done through widgets, but in some cases you may want to add some permanent static content to the sidebar as well. There are many reasons for this, but one example is if you want to add social media links at the top of the sidebar permanently. As you can see, in my site right now I have some links to social media here. They're just regular text links and they're added in through a widget. So I can go into my Widgets and show you the actual links.
They're right here, under Main Sidebar in the Text widget, and here is some standard HTML that creates those links. What I want to do is put this code into my sidebar.php template instead so it's there permanently, no matter what the widgets do, and I also want to restyle it so that it looks a bit nicer, with some icons instead of just text. The first thing I need to do is get the sidebar.php file over in my child theme, so I'll go and find sidebar.php and copy it over and then I can make changes to it.
Now, this gets a little bit tricky because I know that when you add a widget in, a lot of the styling that's coming into the widget is actually coming from the functions file. Now, before we start pasting content directly in here, it's important to understand how the widgets are inserted into the page. If you look at the function that creates a widget in the functions file--I can go to the functions.php in the parent theme and go to register widgets--you see that the function inserts code before and after the widget, and also defines code before and after the title.
So it's really important that we match this code when we add new code into our sidebar.php file. You see the new widget starts with an aside that has the ID of the widget and then the class of widget, and then it also has an h3 with the class of widget-title. So we have to duplicate this where we want to create our widget. So I'll start off by inserting a new side directly above where the sidebar is going to appear. I'll give it the ID social-icons, and I'll also give it the class widget and clear.
I'll explain the clear part in a second. Then I'll close my aside and then go back to functions and take a look, just to make sure I have the same stuff, and then I also need this h3 class widget title. so I'll put that in, and I will say, Connect with us! So that's going to be the title of my widget. Now I can copy in the code from my original widget. It's right here, so I'll copy all that in, paste it in, and then I just need to do some quick cleanup here, because I like all my code to be nice and clean.
And now when I save this in the new sidebar.php file and I open my site I see I now have Connect with us! with these links, and then I have the widget directly underneath. So now I can get rid of my widget, so I'll go and remove the widget. I'll dump it down here in inactive widgets. And when I reload the page again, you see we now have the widget we want up here, but it's permanent.
Now I want to style this code so that it looks the way I want it to. Now before I started this I went online and I found some social media icons I want to use. They're here. Now I want to place these inside my child theme so that I can use them to style. So I'll go to my child theme folder and I'll create a new folder called images and then place these four icons inside that folder. Now I can go to my style sheet and call them.
So first I have to find a logical place to put my code. I'd say it's right here before pagination. And now I need to style that content that I put in. If you look at the code I created, you'll see that I actually added in a lot of extra code so that it's easier to style, and I'll explain what I did here. We start off with an aside that has the id social-icons. That's just so we can know what all this content is. Then you see that each of the items is actually a link that is inside a list item, and each of the list items has a class that defines what that link is: in this case social-twitter, social- facebook, social-flickr, and social-contact.
I do this so that I can associate the correct image with the link without putting the image into the link itself. In other words, I'll use CSS to replace the text here--Follow Red 30 on Twitter-- with an image or the Twitter logo. This requires a fair bit of explanation, so to make it a little bit by quicker I've created code snippets for you that you can use. If you go to the codesnippets file and you go to chapter 5.7, you'll find all the code I already pasted in, as well as all the style sheet.
So you can copy out the code here and paste it into your sidebar.php file in your child theme and then you can copy out the style code below and paste it into your child theme style sheet. Now that I have the code, I can explain to you what happens here. First, I define all the links that are found under the social-icons ID to be displayed as a block, to float to the left, to have a width and height of 32 pixels, and to have a margin on the right and the bottom of 10 pixels.
I also indent the text by 9,999 pixels. That way you don't see the text. Then below, I target each of the individual links that are found under each of the individual classes. So I say the link found under the social-twitter class uses the twitter image, the one found under the social-facebook class uses the Facebook image, and so on. And you see that I'm linking the URL for the image to the images folder in the child theme and then in the file in question. When I save this, when I reload the page, you see there's a significant difference.
Instead of having the list of links, I now have usually the icons stacked nicely next to one another and if I click on them, I go directly to that service. But the trick here is I didn't put the images into the HTML; I put text in the HTML and then I used CSS to hide the text and display a background image instead. This is a very common technique used to create buttons that are completely understandable for a browser. So the browser and anyone who doesn't use a visual browser and can't see images will still understand the links without having to mess with the code.
Now, there's one more important thing I have to point out. Remember how we made a custom sidebar for certain pages? Well, if I go to a page now, you'll see that my connect with us links no longer appear. That's because since we already created a custom template for the sidebar widgets for pages, if we want to add these new icons to that template, we have to actively add it into sidebar-page.php as well. Static content in a sidebar is usually reserved for things that shouldn't be changed, and this technique should be used sparingly.
However, in the right circumstances adding static content--whether it be links, images, ads or something else--makes a lot of sense, and now you know how to do just that.
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Current Scenario: I have a NAS Box, and a Windows 2003 Server that our recording software is on (Security Cameras). The software stores the data on the NAS box. Currently someone has to be logged in with valid credentials in order to keep the drive mounted (e.g. domain admin). I know you can mount the drive with a batch file, but this stores credentials in clear text and is not a good solution. I am looking for another way to get the drive to mount on startup without someone having to be logged in. I do have a generic account setup that has access to read/write to the drive but can't log-in interactively, this is the account I would like to use to mount it if any. Any suggestions?
What is the reason that you need to map a drive? Is it just so that you can store the user credentials? If the security PC can save to a UNC path (\\servername\share), then you could try running the service as a different user, one that has permission to access the share.
Let me know if I am on the right track here:
\\nasbox\SecurityFootage is where the files must be saved to, but they do not permit anonymous read/write access. So, at the moment, you map a network drive, (let's say M:), using credentials, and tell the security cameras to record there.
Because the security software runs as a service, you would prefer it if could just start automatically with the system, and write to the M: - but at the moment it can't because there's no anonymous access to \\nasbox\SecurityFootage
IF the scenario I've just described is accurate, then there is workaround:
This will mean that when the recording service starts it will be run under the account specified, and will thus have permissions to save to \\nasbox\SecurityFootage
Wesley, I suggest you learn the actual meaning of the word 'Schizophrenia' before you so loosely use it in a sentence.
If the NAS box supports iSCSI, you could mount the remote storage as a local drive.
Have you tried telling the software to store on a UNC path instead of a drive letter?
Use the batch file and a scheduled task. Protect the batch file with NTFS permissions and the scheduled task using permissions as well.