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Hewlett Packard Company - 1/5/2009Splash!Events Expands Customer Offerings with HP Designjet L65500
HP today announced that Splash!Events, a full service exhibit design and fabrication company, has expanded
its capability to produce sustainable event signage with the addition of an HP Designjet L65500 Printer featuring
HP Latex Printing Technology. By integrating this printer into its workflow, Splash intends to offer "green" solutions
across all three disciplines that it services – trade show exhibits, corporate and retail environments, and branding
of large corporate events.
"With the HP Designjet L65500, Splash will be able to grow its business by offering customers an environmentally
sustainable option for printing indoor and outdoor signage," said Santiago Morera, vice president and general
manager, Large Format Printing, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. "At HP, we are dedicated to continued
innovation to provide solutions that help our customers expand their offerings and, ultimately, grow their bottom line."
Recently, Splash had the chance to put the HP Designjet L65500 to the test by producing marketing collateral
and signage for the Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco. In 2008, Nike began a multi-year process to
make their events greener and the Nike Women's Marathon was the first event to incorporate better printing
and recycling methodologies for race course signage, marketing collateral and expo tents.
Some of the signage for the event was printed using HP Latex Inks and a variety of recyclable media substrates,
including HP HDPE Reinforced Banner, HP DuPont™ Tyvek® Banner and HP Photo-realistic Poster Paper.
Splash expects that 90 percent of marketing collateral and signage for the 2009 event will be produced with
HP Latex Inks and other printing methods that have less impact on the environment.
"We are always searching for ways to provide more environmentally sustainable solutions for event branding
and exhibit graphics projects and HP Latex Printing Technologies seem to be the perfect solution," said Regan
Mahoney, general manager, Splash! San Francisco. "Our clients are very particular about color accuracy,
resolution and durability. More and more, they are also demanding green solutions. This is the most significant
development we have seen for large-format printing."
Splash also plans to use the HP Designjet L65500 to produce signs and banners for corporate event projects
with Cisco Systems, IBM and Charles Schwab.
The 104-inch wide HP Designjet L65500 Printer is the first of a new category of large-format signage printers
with HP Latex Inks and HP Wide Scan Printing Technology. Print service providers can expand their offerings
with this single, versatile printer that can produce a variety of applications while delivering quality and durability
at print speeds of approximately 846 ft2/hr and indoor-quality prints at up to 368 ft2/hr.
Prints produced with HP Latex Inks are odorless and emit extremely low levels of volatile organic compounds.
Additionally, no special ventilation is required to meet occupational exposure limits and there are no requirements
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Homeschool Spelling
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Homeschool spelling can be challenging. The curriculum you have chosen seems to make sense to you but you can't understand why your child does fine on a spelling test only to misspell the same words that afternoon in his writing. Or your child has trouble hearing the difference between short a and short e. You aren't alone. Many children have this problem and there is help and hope.
Maybe you have tried the typical spelling programs that consists of "heres the list, study it, write the words five times each, use each word in a sentence" type lessons. Your kids memorize the list and do great on the test but dont use correct spelling in their everyday writing, or they forget all the words that were on the test by the next day. This just isnt working for you (or them.) Homeschooling is about being flexible and being able to leave the worksheets behind.
Have your child:
Write spelling words in the sand with a stick.
Use a spray bottle full of water to spell words on the side of the house.
Build spelling words out of clay or playdough.
Fill a large Ziploc with a small amount of shaving cream and write words with their fingers by pressing on the outside of the bag.
Write the different syllables in different colors.
These modifications can help some children who are right brained thinkers. For others (like my kids) that help just is not enough. We tried all of these activities and while they had fun, the words just weren't sticking. They were still making common spelling errors. Every year, I would end up abandoning my spelling program altogether and would just pray that spellcheck or voice word processing programs would become so advanced that knowing how to spell would be a lost art by the time my kids were in high school.
When they were in 4th and 6th grades, I started to get a little worried. I hadnt really spent any time on spelling activities and it showed! My older child was getting embarrassed by her frequent spelling mistakes in letters to friends and family. I needed help! I found a program called All About Spelling that I decided to try. It was heavy on phonics and phonics rules but also had visual and kinesthetic elements. This homeschool spelling curriculum really worked for my kids.
One reason I think it worked is that the left sides of their brains werent quite ready for the phonics that is necessary for spelling longer words. Like I mentioned in the section on beginning reading, the left side of the brain isnt really ready for phonics until 7-9 years old (or even later for some). They were good sight readers, but often missed words that were unfamiliar because they couldnt sound them out. I had been beating my head (and their brains) against the wall trying to teach them something they just werent ready to do.
If you have a younger right brained learner, save yourself some heartache and teach homeschool spelling with an added dose of grace, or better yet, save it until they are in 4th or 5th grade. Once their left brains are mature, they will catch on to the phonics rules quickly and be able to apply them with more success.
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French Kiss | I'll die alone: a Danish fairy-tale
I tried wearing a short dress. I tried the clubs. I tried networking events. I tried the blonde bun on my head and the high heels on cobbled streets. I even tried the bodybuilding rooms at three different fitness centres.
The result? Not only do I still own the muscle structure of a sick slug, but seriously, where are the Danish men when you'd be up for some summer activities? (You know exactly what I mean.)
As the cliché goes, northern European guys only indulge in seduction when they're drunk. Well, the cliché is true (I had the same experience during my expatriation in Germany, where I had to hunt for boyfriends with harpoons and sausages).
No flirting before midnight
The unique rule for mating in Denmark is: before midnight, forget about it. Potential dates don't understand why women talk to them – no matter how much sugar we put in our voice. Try blinking and winking?
They politely ask if you're allergic to pollen. Try to steal a big kiss? They believe you're some kind of dentist.
After midnight, it's the opposite as they change from Mr Hide to Dr Party and start literally jumping into your bra, except for 1) people with a real job who are already asleep at that time, 2) the intoxicated Don Juan who can't walk anymore, or talk, or remember his name, so there's no good reason to believe he'd be able to carry out more complicated tasks.
(Again, you know what I mean.)
Cocky – not in a good way
Another reason why I can't date, at least after midnight, is that Danish guys borrow their seduction tips from American bestseller 'The Game' by Neil Strauss – a Bible for pick-up artists.
Unfortunately I read this book too. Unfortunately those techniques don't work on people with brains, but that still doesn't prevent local guys trying and trying and trying again to be 'cocky and funny'.
The problem is that the concepts of 'cocky' and 'funny' are quite different depending on where we come from. I have my French sensibility and don't intend to replace it with Danish sarcasm – a sense of humour that shares strong links with several crimes against humanity.
(I love it that people are so confident in Denmark that they can take any joke, but I prefer to have friends who call me 'Chérie' rather than 'Chewbacca'. Yes, this is a real-life experience.)
Crude or prudish
To summarise, Danish men are either sober and somewhat prudish or drunk and embarrassing. Both are funny. Both are friendly. I don't complain.
I just acknowledge the fact that I'll die alone, eaten by my 12 cats, which is sad because I'm actually the biggest fan of Danish guys.
They look wonderful and half of them, even dead drunk, could pass off as supermodels – have you noticed the cuteness of their nose?
I could start a religion dedicated to adoring those Nordic noses. So here is the conclusion: since Danish guys obviously are out of my reach, I have decided to consider our potential romance as one of those tragic tales in which lovers long for each other without any hope of proximity (you know what I mean).
My princes turn into pumpkins at midnight. And that only makes them more desirable. Also: it's a perfect excuse to buy little glass slippers.


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Amazon Offers iOS Users Free Ad-supported TV Episodes
June 24th, 2014
Amazon has rolled out a new ad-supported streaming TV feature that is different from what it offers on Amazon Prime. This new feature is available as part of the Amazon Instant Video app for iOS users.
In the new app update, users will find hundreds of free TV shows that have ads in them. Amazon says that iOS users will get to stream the first episode of select TV shows at no cost, as long as they watch a handful of commercials. Prime members that choose to watch those episodes won't have to sit through ads.
Some of the free TV episodes is from older shows like The O.C., Roots, Wonder Woman, Two and Half Men, V, Catfish, Invasion, Leverage, The Flash, The Hills, 21 Jump Street, Eight is Enough, though there are some newer titles like Duck Dynasty, Grimm, How I Met Your Mother, Orphan Black, and Sons of Anarchy.
The update also brings the HBO content Amazon recently obtained rights for.
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Rip is the star of a series of public service announcements from the WaterSense program and its three–time WaterSense Partners of the Year, Kohler Co. and Lowe's.
In the commercials, Rip shows up in people's homes when water is being wasted. He reminds them just how weird it is to use more water than you need. Appropriately, the announcements are called "Wasting Water Is Weird."
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Just a random question for a Wednesday morning. I was thinking about the gold jerseys that we wore for Mizzou last year. Will we wear them again in 2011? If so, when?
I can't imagine they would be worn for UNI or Iowa. Kansas seems like it would be a random game to do it for, so I think they're probably not it.
That leaves Texas, TAMU, and Oklahoma State. Texas is (obviously) Texas, and the conference opener. TAMU is the Homecoming game, and their primary color is red, which may (or may not) help. And Okie State is the last home game of the year, which would be like last season, and it's on national TV (which, again, may be a plus or minus).
Yes, I know this doesn't really matter, but I'm still interested in seeing what you think!
Or, will we get a new alternate uniform for this year??
count me as one that thought it was a cool idea until I saw it.
I hope so, maybe for OSU? I really liked the gold & red look last year and hope they bring it back. I know CPR is trying to build a blue-collar mentality at ISU, and doesn't like a lot of flash, but c'mon. A little uniform variety is nice.
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I hope not, unless it's gold jerseys and white pants. Gold jerseys and red pants is a terrible combination.
PLEASE NO, that look was horrible horrible horrible.
While on live TV, Ford used a vulgar term to describe a private part of the female anatomy, adding that he was happily married and got more than enough to eat at home.
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I hope not, unless it's gold jerseys and white pants. Gold jerseys and red pants is a terrible combination.
GO GOLD AND GOLD... :) that will get some attention...
As much as some posters didnt like the look/jerseys, the players and coaches do. That is all that matters.
You're all crazy. Gold on red is a sweet combination.
We are undefeated in the throw-back uniforms...let's dig them out. 0-1 with the gold.
If the players say they want to wear them like they did when they played Mizzou it will happen.
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You're all crazy. Gold on red is a sweet combination.
How does this not look good? I say it will happen again some time....calling the Texas game too.
Now when can we get yellow helmets rocking?
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You're all crazy. Gold on red is a sweet combination.
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You're all crazy. Gold on red is a sweet combination.
I liked them. I hope we bust them out again this year.
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If by horrible, you meant awesome, then I agree.
If by horrible you meant, "we should go back to the '76 unis", then I emphatically agree.
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A grid system with multiple trades open plus martingale plus zero SL to the broker.It would be safer to jump out of a plane with no parachute.I wish I was a broker. I'd give this EA free to all my clients and watch the money roll in.
New bot using grid strategy with news filterappears to be an optimized version of indorunSeems ok and is cheap 20$Link to the bot http://gridmeupfx.is-leet.com/what you think guys to risky?I think for that price , you should buy 2 !!..regards.
I have tested the free version using 99% tick data since 2007.It has lost half the account 3 times but hasn't actually blown it. It even survived the "big dipper" in late 2008.But I'd never personally run any EA with zero SL to the broker as I've said many times before.
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Jonathan Anthony Williamston Dunwith-Cable III was probably the most hetero guy you could ever hope to meet. Biddies? He's bagged 'em all. Cash? He's never strapped. Jonathan A.W. Dunwith-Cable III knows he's disarmingly attractive and often spends a good fifteen minutes each evening shooting finger guns in the mirror and repeating words of affirmation like, "Hey, congrats. You did a really good job looking amazing today."
So it's really no surprise that Jonathan Dunwith-Cable III, at seven o'clock on the dot in his drop top, cruisin the streets, considered it his right; no, his honor; nay, his duty to give a low whistle or a call of encouragement to every passing skirt, set of heels, thick thighs, and crop top, that he saw waiting on the corner for a bus, walking with a friend, eating from a bag of potato chips, or generally just minding their own business.
Some of Jonathan Dunwith-Cable's favorite words of affirmation to pass on were:
- "Damn ,baby, where are you headed? Want a ride?"
- "Those legs are good enough to eat."
- "Nice bedroom eyes, sweetheart!"
- "As long as I have a face, you've got a place to sit!"
And so on, and so forth. It didn't matter how few women he actually picked up with these tactics. At the end of the day he knew they liked it. He knew, behind the quick, silent glance away, the frowning smile and the eyes hidden by sunglasses, the headphones and the blank stare ("the bitch face," he liked to call it), he knew that they felt properly affirmed, for he was Jonathon D-C, the most hetero guy in the world, and biddies loved to be loved.
One day, Jonathan C's drop top was in the shop for its annual checkup, so he took the Orange Line subway to work, where he spent his days rewarding his coworkers with a fist bump for successfully managing other people's assets in monetary denominations so high that the average plebe couldn't even conceive of it. But Jonathan could. He was super hetero. He had stacks on stacks on stacks.
Usually he didn't like being surrounded by weirdos and strangers and the general malcontents (unless those malcontents were chicks with voluptuous bottoms), and subways were full of old dudes, kids in strollers, and bag ladies, but not tonight.
He slid into an open seat next to a brown-skinned honey with billions of tiny braids framing her face. She had a silver necklace that fell across her bosom.
Jonny drooled with appreciation (internally, of course).
"Excuse me," he said once.
"Excuse me," he said again.
"Excuse me, miss," he continued, "that's a beautiful shirt."
The young woman, who'd been staring out the window at the subway tunnel's graffitied walls so hard she nearly strained her eyes, hummed a simple thanks.
"Pleasure's all mine. Really, for it is a pleasure to sit next to such a–" Jon looked her body up and down, elevator style, while he searched for the right word, "beautiful piece of chocolate in the morning."
The young woman didn't respond. Or perhaps the silence was her response.
He continued. "I mean, it really warms me up. You're so…mmph. I hope your boyfriend keeps you on a tight leash." Jon laughed at his joke.
The young woman pulled a pair of earbuds from her messenger bag and plugged them into her phone. She put the other ends in her ears. Jonathan knew this move, this was a classic bitch face precursor.
Jonathan took out his custom-made gold-backed iPhone 7, so new that it had hardly been invented yet.
"Hey," came a voice from over his shoulder.
"Hey, excuse me, man," it continued.
Jonathan turned to face a clean-shaven, strong-jawed, young man.
Objectively, the man was quite nice to look at, but Jonathan was so strikingly hetero that the thought never crossed his mind.
"Sup, dude?" asked Jonathan, just a bit annoyed. He didn't like to be pestered on the subway.
"Hey," the man smiled wide. "I noticed you as soon as you got on," he said.
Jonathan frowned, unamused. The subway made a stop at 45th and the brown-skinned honey hurried off. Jonathan turned his attention to the tunnel walls.
"I mean, damn. The way you wear those pants, boy, how do you have space for your junk in there?" The man laughed, "Haha, I guess you don't really." He wiggled his eyebrows, sexually.
Jonathan glared at his reflection in the subway car's window.
"Hey, baby," the man tapped Jonathan insistently on the shoulder.
"Hey!" Jonathan whipped around, "Look man, don't touch me! I'm not…I'm not like that. Okay?"
The man frowned, confused.
"Look, dude, I'm not like, a hater or anything, but I'm not gay. I don't like dudes. I like chicks, okay?" Jonathan had let his voice rise without meaning and now half the subway car was studiously pretending they hadn't heard anything.
"Jonathan," the man said, leaning in and dropping his voice, "don't you know what this is?"
"What?" said Jonathan. How did this man know his name? What did he mean?
The man laughed. "Just take a look around."
Jonathan looked. He looked far down the car behind him. He looked to the front, where he could see through the glass door to the cars ahead. All around him there were men holding hands with other men. Women with their arms around the shoulders of other women. One old bag lady wearing a rainbow flag t-shirt kissed another old bag lady with a David Bowie button affixed to the front of her largest bag. Next to them, two dudes cooed at a baby in a stroller.
"This is your worst nightmare, Jonathan," the man said behind him, his voice still low, "Everyone is gay."
Jonathan, eyes wide in horror, jaw dropped in an O of surprise, turned back to the man who knew his name.
"You shouldn't leave your mouth like that," the man warned, "there's nothing more desirable to a man like myself than a heterosexual male."
Jon bolted for the closed car doors, banging his fists against them, screaming for help. How did they know!?How could the gods of fame, wealth, and heterosexual good fortune abandon him like this!
"You can't run, Jon!" shouted the man, "We'll be at every corner checking out your butt! Every time you wear a suit, we'll ask about the size of your penis! We'll pretend to be interested in your hair just to cop a feel of your shoulders! You can't escape us! This is your destiny!"
The subway sped past stop after stop as a mass of homosexuality ran after Jonathan Anthony Williamston Dunwith-Cable III, the most hetero guy you could ever hope to meet.
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WWDC Liveblog: New Operating Systems, New Hardware, and … One More Thing?
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It's that time again. Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference is set to kick off with a keynote at 10 a.m. PST this morning. We'll be there to share the exciting news and updates as it unfolds live.


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WMO recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., to enhance the development and use of geospatial standards. It is anticipated that this collaboration will support the implementation of the WMO Information System, which aims at providing a single coordinated global infrastructure for the collection and sharing of information in support of all WMO and related international programmes.
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The tenth session of the Consultative Meeting on High-level Policy on Satellite Matters (CM-10) will be held at WMO headquarters from 28-29 January 2010. The annual meeting, chaired by WMO President Alexander I. Bedritskiy, brings together senior officials from space and meteorological agencies around the world. This year, the focus of the meeting will be on improved international collaboration among major space agencies for a coordinated and sustained monitoring of Earth's climate. Senior officials from Brazil, Canada, China, the Cook Islands, France, Germany, Guinea, India, Japan, Korea, the Russian Federation, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States of America will join the meeting.
According to a recent review and evaluation conducted by a panel of experts in charge of global weather and climate extremes within the WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl), the new record wind gust, not related to tornados, registered to date is 408 kilometres per hour. This record occurred during Tropical Cyclone Olivia on 10 April 1996 on Barrow Island, Australia. The previous record was of 372 kilometres per hour, registered in April 1934 across the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire (USA).
Fact sheet on tropical cyclones
The international community is working within WMO towards the establishment of a Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW) to serve societal needs for weather, climate and water and related environmental information and services. At its next quadrennial session in 2011, the World Meteorological Congress – the WMO supreme governing body – is to consider how to develop and implement a GCW.
The Miami Office of the United States National Weather Service has created a weather support page to provide weather conditions and forecasts for Haiti and the surrounding Caribbean in the wake of the recent earthquake. According to the WMO Office for North America, Central America and the Caribbean, based in Costa Rica, meteorological operations in the Port-au-Prince International Airport by the national meteorological services are reported to be down. The airport is closed for commercial flights and the US Army is provisionally preparing the METAR and TAF messages for humanitarian flights. METAR and TAF are concise textual formats used for transmitting weather reports and forecasts for aviation purposes. This meteorological information is essential for flight safety.
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On 14 January 2010, WMO awarded the fifty-fourth International Meteorological Organization (IMO) Prize to Eugenia Kalnay (Argentina/United States of America), a leader in the field of global numerical weather prediction and analysis, including data assimilation and ensemble forecasting. The IMO Prize is the highest distinction of WMO. The award ceremony took place at the National Academy of Science in Washington, D.C. (USA), with the participation of Michel Jarraud, WMO Secretary-General, Alexander Bedritskiy, WMO President, and John L. Hayes, NOAA Deputy Assistant Administrator and Permanent Representative of the United States with WMO.
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The cold wave now affecting the northern hemisphere is a meteorological phenomenon caused by the large-scale blocking of atmospheric circulation on a major North-South corridor. The phenomenon is well known by meteorologists and is generally linked with atmospheric oscillations, such as the Arctic oscillation, which has been relatively powerful since mid-December 2009. The blocking episode is nearing its end, and the northern hemisphere winter is now reverting to its normal features from the West and South in Western Europe. Some severe episodes will no doubt linger in several regions of the world and during certain periods of the winter season, which is quite normal.
For more detailed information on the situation in any specific country, please contact the corresponding National Meteorological and Hydrological Service.
Representatives from more than 100 countries, as well as from non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations, met in Geneva, Switzerland, from 11 to 12 January 2010 to follow-up on the decision by World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3) to establish a Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) to strengthen the production, availability, delivery and application of science-based climate prediction and services. As mandated by WCC-3, the intergovernmental meeting, chaired by WMO President Alexander I. Bedritskiy, approved the terms of reference and endorsed the composition of a High-Level Taskforce of independent advisers, which the Secretary-General of the WMO has been requested to set up. The Taskforce will follow up with recommendations for proposed elements of the GFCS, as well as for next steps to develop and implement the GFCS. Its report will be published before the next quadrennial World Meteorological Congress in May 2011.
The text with the terms of reference will be posted on the WMO Website as soon as it is available in the six UN official languages. The composition of the taskforce will be made public once its members have notified their acceptance.
From 11 to 12 January 2010, the Intergovernmental Meeting for the High-Level Taskforce on the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) will take place at the Geneva International Conference Centre (CICG) in Switzerland. The meeting is convened in accordance with the Declaration adopted by World Climate Conference-3 (31 August to 4 September 2009). Its purpose is to approve the terms of reference and endorse the composition of a high-level taskforce of independent advisors, on the basis of proposals made by the WMO Secretary-General. This taskforce will follow up with recommendations for the development of the GFC.


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The Tsar's Bride (Царская невеста in Cyrillic, Carskaja nevesta in transliteration) is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto, by Il'ya Tyumenev, is based on the drama of the same name by Lev Mey.
Mey's play was first suggested to the composer as an opera subject in 1868 by Mily Balakirev. (Alexander Borodin, too, once toyed with the idea.) However, the opera was not composed until thirty years later, in 1898. The first performance of the opera took place on 22 Oct. (3 Nov.) 1899 at the Moscow theater of the Private Opera of S.I. Mamontov.
The Tsar's Bride is not part of the standard operatic repertoire in the West, although it is a repertory item in Russia.
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The action takes place in the Alexandrovsky settlement (in Moscow) in autumn, 1572.
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News: Stu Bickel signs with Minnesota
Stu Bickel has signed a one-year, two-way contract with the Wild. (Wild)
Stu Bickel has signed a one-year, two-way contract with the Wild. (Wild)
Alain Vigneault noted last night that the Rangers have one decision to make on defense and it is who will be the seventh defenseman.
As noted by the NY Post and Newsday, the battle is between Justin Falk and Stu Bickel while Conor Allen will be sent to Hartford on Sunday.
Bickel and Falk are both on one-year, one-way deals. Bickel is at $750,000 while Falk is at $975,000 and would cost a $50,000 cap charge if he was sent to Hartford since his salary is above $925,000.
The NY Post notes that Bickel brings a physical element to the Rangers, something that they need, and his versatility and ability to play wing may give him an advantage.
Prior to the game last night, Alain Vigneault told the team's website that he was hoping to have an answer on the seventh defenseman by the end of the night and that both Falk and Bickel played well.
Last season, Stu Bickel played 16 games with the Rangers before being sent to Hartford and playing ten games.
Bickel is in NY and skating as he tries to make the Rangers as a depth defenseman this season.
He told the Rangers website, "I'm really looking forward to it. It's a clean slate. I'm not looking to make excuses for last season. I'm in really good shape right now and I am happy for the opportunity."
"It was a difficult year for a lot of reasons but I am not putting any thought into what happened last year. "
He is a UFA after the season with a cap hit of $750,000 and has also played forward in his career.
For more on Bickel, CLICK HERE.
Yesterday, in the NY Post, Larry Brooks noted that the Rangers acquisition of Justin Falk and signing of Aaron Johnson spelled the end of Roman Hamrlik, Matt Gilroy and Steve Eminger's time with the Rangers.
Hamrlik was claimed off of waivers by the Rangers on March 6 and played 12 regular season games for the Rangers and two playoff games.
Eminger has played three seasons for the Rangers and signed one-year contracts with them the last two summers. He played in 35 regular season games and 11 playoff games.
Gilroy signed an AHL contract and played the first half of the season with the Whale before signing an NHL contract after the lockout ended. He played 15 games for the Rangers in the regular season.
Stu Bickel is also on a one-way contract for this season with a cap hit of $750,000.
12:24PM: Bob McKenzie says that Bickel will play for the Whale today.
12:10PM: According to Larry Brooks, Stu Bickel has cleared waivers.
The Rangers have 30 days to send Bickel down to Hartford before they need to place him on waivers again.
Bickel was placed on waivers yesterday.
Ken Daneyko said on HNL last night that he thought Stu Bickel had the potential to be a good 5th/6th defenseman.
Dave Maloney said he wasn't sure bout placing Bickel on waivers as he falls into the category of players who stand up for his teammates and could develop into a role player.
When asked about Bickel yesterday,John Tortorella said ,"it certainly isn't helping him to be bag skated every day. We will see what happens."
Elliotte Friedman notes that the Rangers have placed Stu Bickel on waivers.
Bickel has one more year on his contract with a cap hit of $750,000.
He has played under ten minutes in 14 of his 16 games this season. Bickel is averaging 5:31 per game this season.
He last played on March 8th against Ottawa. Bickel has three fighting majors this season.
If Bickel clears waivers the Rangers would have 30 days to send him to Hartford. After 30 days the Rangers would have to place Bickel on waivers again.
On Saturday, Stu Bickel played 5:32, had one hit and two giveaways to go with a fight.
On Sunday, Bickel played 14:15, had one hit, three blocked shots, a roughing penalty and was beaten by Joe Vitale on what ended up being Tyler Kennedy's goal.
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City seeks volunteer weed whackers for Washington Grove Forest
The City Forestry Division is seeking volunteers to remove plants like winter creeper, English ivy, black swallowwort and Norway maple shoots from the Washington Grove forest in Cobbs Hill Park. On Saturday, Sept. 10, volunteers are asked to meet at the Washington Grove trail entrance at the End of Nunda Boulevard, near the corner of Cobbs Hill Drive at 8:30 a.m.
From 8:30 to 11:30, they'll be asked to clear plants that block the growth of desirable shrubs and hard wood trees. "The Washington Grove is a magnificent old growth forest in the middle of an urban environment," City Forester Brian Liberti said in a press release. "Volunteers will gain a new appreciation for this unique gem and enjoy the feeling of making a difference in their community."
The city says that volunteers can participate for any span of time within the preservation activity and choose their own level of strenuousness. They should bring water, shovels, tree pruners, gloves, and dress for the weather and uneven terrain.
Other volunteer days are scheduled on Sept. 29, Oct. 8 and 26.
Visit www.cityofrochester.gov/washingtongrove for more information on the Washington Grove Preservation Project.


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Named as one of MovieMaker Magazines 25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee - Spring 2010 edition
BackgroundSince 1981, the mission of the Black Maria Film and Video Festival has been to promote, illuminate, and advocate innovation in the art of the moving image. The Festival has passionately embraced this mission for over thirty years, and is named after the world's first motion picture studio built by Thomas Edison, where he made all of his own short experimental films. Moviemaker's Spring 2010 issue lists the Black Maria Film and Video Festival as one of "25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee."
The Festival's annual competition is juried by noted exponents of independent work and results in 40 to 60 works chosen for the Festival's annual tour. The tour visits 65 or more diverse institutions in 20 or more states, starting with the premiere each season at New Jersey City University, in Jersey City, NJ.
The Festival has a long track record of commitment to short works. It encourages and seeks creative, insightful, sensitive, free spirited, expressive, poetic and experimental works in animation, narrative, documentary, and hybrid forms. All genres are welcome. The intent is to recognize, exhibit and reward uncommon work. For most of its history, the Festival has been able to offer cash awards and/or exhibition honoraria to the film and videomakers it has exhibited and, has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Association of Independent Film Animators. The Festival has been featured on National Public Radio and on NJ Network.
Every program presentation in the Festival tour is custom curated and drawn from the season's award collection. Programs are assembled in collaboration with each host venue. Programs vary widely, some focusing on animation or documentary, others on personal memoir or experimental narrative. Virtually every program is presented in person, by the Festivals executive director, artistic director, or other highly qualified Festival representative.
The Festival has presented work at institutions including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; the MoMA, NYC; the Des Moines Art Center; Millennium Film, NYC; the Capri Theater in Montgomery, AL; Rhode Island School of Design; Savannah College of Art and Design; University of Delaware; Princeton University; University of Colorado, the A. Harry Moore Laboratory School for children with disabilities; and many more venues across the United States. The Festival's gala premiere is held annually on the first Friday in February at New Jersey City University, our home institution.
It is the policy of Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium - Black Maria Film and Video Festival to maintain a working and exhibition environment free of all forms of unlawful discrimination. In recognition of the importance of good employee relations, all applicants are extended an equal opportunity to gain access to our office and employment. All employees are extended an equal opportunity to progress in their field of endeavor. Tour program hosts are required to be in compliance with ADA guidelines with impediment-free access to exhibition spaces. The Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium - Black Maria Film and Video Festival will not tolerate any form of discrimination or lack of access to programmatic spaces and will take action as determined appropriate by the ADA Committee in order to resolve and rectify any shortcomings including those of host venues, as may be determined to have tolerated discrimination or to have engaged in unlawful conduct under this policy. Our grievance procedure will be posted under the ADA/Global Insights banner on the heading of the Festival home page and is also available by emailing the Festival office ADA liaison at: email@example.com or by telephoning: 201-200-2043.
The Black Maria Film + Video Festival which is the primary program of Thomas Edison Media Arts, a non-profit organization, is supported by operating grants and / or the in-kind support of the following organizations:
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- The New Jersey State Council on the Arts
- The National Endowment for the Arts
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"Six trips to the ER?" exclaims my mom. "Six?"
"That's right," I assure her, proud that we've broken our family record. "And one involved an ambulance."
I hear a slight gasp.
"Alicia was having trouble breathing," I continue, regaling her with tales of my wife's medical woes, which included an unrelated heart episode. "And so was Max (my four-year-old), and both had fevers of 105, so I took them, separately, to the ER.
"Then Max and Alicia both got pneumonia, so back to the ER, and then everyone else got sick, and now it's six weeks later and the only time I've been outside is to shovel the sidewalk to avoid lawsuits from the postal carrier."
Yes, it was a typical holiday free-for-all, with three of our four kids — including two under the age of five — eagerly participating in that annual family smackdown known as cold season.
Things started in predictable fashion a few weeks before Christmas, as they do every year, with all of us trotting dutifully off to a local gymnasium for our flu shots, secure in the knowledge we would strengthen our immune systems and enjoy a blissful, virus-free winter.
"Right on, man!" I boasted as I rubbed my sore arm. "Now we're protected!"
Cut to two weeks later when, as has typically been the case, Max came down with symptoms that suspiciously resembled the flu — though I've been assured, silly goose, that would be impossible — which then spread to his little brother, and big sister.
And before you know it, I'm running from room to room with vaporizers and thermometers, trying to elevate heads and shove spoonfuls of honey into mouths too young to take cold medication.
And then the unthinkable happened: Mommy got sick.
I got sick too, I should point out, but no one really cared about this. It simply meant the garbage didn't get sorted properly and there was no one around to lick the crumbs off the cookie tray. Big deal.
But with Mommy flat on her back for five days — ay carumba — our already chaotic household started to resemble the Kurtz-in-the-jungle scenes from Apocalypse Now: hallucinatory, perceptually distorted, with bouts of random shrieking.
"Mommy!" shouted Max, still feverish as he groped for the family matriarch.
"Mommy!" shouted Sammy, two, sneezing up green goop as I forced saline drops up his nostrils.
"Mommy!" shouted Meghan, 12, whose hacking cough sounded like a portable generator clogged with potato chips.
"Mommy!" shouted — oh wait, that was me, hoping for some reprieve from my unsuccessful attempts to negotiate peace.
But nope, Mommy was down for the count, and with no solution in sight, I did the only thing any responsible dad could do: I panicked — and then I called the grandparents.
"Don't call my parents!" moaned Alicia, flitting in and out of consciousness in our attic bedroom. "They have a ton of pre-Christmas social engagements and can't get sick."
"What's that?" I muttered, pretending not to hear. "You want me to call your parents?"
"Don't call my parents!" shouted Alicia. "I'll never forgive myself if they catch our colds."
"The hell with that," I mused, frantically punching their number into the phone. "I'm over my head."
A few seconds later, I hear a reassuring ring. "Hello?" Alicia's mother ventures tentatively, unsure why my name has popped up on her call display during work hours.
"Joel, is that you?" she asks, hoping, no doubt, it's some unorthodox new telemarketing technique.
When they arrive two hours later, tentatively covering their mouths to guard against germs, our house resembles the scene in The Avengers where Mark Ruffalo turns into The Hulk and starts randomly smashing things.
Yelling, moaning, crying, sniffling, viscous fluids everywhere ... no Mommy in sight.
"Here, take them!" I command, handing over Max and Sam and — wait, a minute — take Meghan too. "Bring them back when they're better. Don't worry — we trust you."
I'll say one thing about my in-laws: they put up with a lot, they never flinch and they're troopers to the end.
"Best of luck," I mutter, trying to sound reassuring as I nudge them out the door. "Here's some shortbread cookies I got free at the gas station. Don't worry — Christmas will come again next year."
As the house falls blissfully silent, I collapse in a pile of dirty Kleenex, one thought percolating insistently through my brain: "Sure glad I got that flu shot."
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Organick Lecture Series
Elliott I. Organick served fifteen years at the University of Utah, tirelessly helping shape the Department's academic and research programs. In addition, he brought recognition and honor to the Department through his prolific writing, his unstinting professional service, and the warmth of his humanity.
Upon his passing in 1985 many of his friends, colleagues and former students established a permanent memorial, the Elliott I. Organick Endowment. This endowment enhances the Computer Science environment in Utah through a pair of lectures which are the highlight public events of each academic year.
2014 Lecture
- Ed Lazowska
- University of Washington
- April 7 - 8, 2014
Past Lectures
2013 - Peter Neumann, SRI International
2012 - David E. Shaw, D.E. Shaw Research
2010 - Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University
2009 - Ed Catmull, Ph.D., President Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios
2008 - Fran Allen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory
2007 - Jeannette Wing, Carnegie Mellon University
2006 - Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute, Inc.
2005 - Vinton Cerf, Technology Strategy, MCI Inc.
2004 - Jim Gray, Microsoft Research
2003 - David Patterson, UC Berkeley
2002 - David Gelernter, Yale University
2001 - Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2000 - Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University
1999 - Guy L. Steele, Jr., Sun Microsystems, Inc.
1998 - Richard M. Karp, University of Washington
1997 - Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University
1996 - John Hennessy, Stanford University
1995 - Robert E. Kahn, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
1994 - Butler W. Lampson, Digital Equipment Corporation
1993 - Ivan Sutherland, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
1992 - Dana S. Scott, Carnegie Mellon University
1991 - Carver A. Mead, California Institute of Technology
1990 - Donald E. Knuth, Stanford University
1989 - C.A.R. Hoare, Oxford University
1988 - John E. Hopcroft, Cornell University
1987 - Kristen Nygaard, University of Oslo, Norway
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Energy Resources Program
Hydraulic fracturing, informally referred to as "fracking," is an oil and gas well development process that typically involves injecting water, sand, and chemicals under high pressure into a bedrock formation via the well. This process is intended to create new fractures in the rock as well as increase the size, extent, and connectivity of existing fractures. Hydraulic fracturing is a well-stimulation technique used commonly in low-permeability rocks like tight sandstone, shale, and some coal beds to increase oil and/or gas flow to a well from petroleum-bearing rock formations. A similar technique is used to create improved permeability in underground geothermal reservoirs.
The Energy Resources Program (ERP) continually updates its oil and gas resource assessments for the United States and the world that includes the USGS National Oil and Gas Assessment (NOGA). NOGA provides information for a number of uses, including the development of domestic energy policies and the formulation of reasonably foreseeable development scenarios and resource management plans for multiple Federal land- and resource-management agencies. Here are just a few basins that include unconventional gas (shale gas, tight gas and coal bed methane) associated with hydraulic fracturing:
Shale Gas preview from the National Oil and Gas Assessment (NOGA) interactive map.
Researchers in the Energy Resources Program and colleagues are also actively engaged in examining several aspects related to characterization, use, and impact of produced waters. From the Energy Resources Program fact sheet (Fact Sheet 2010–3100):
"Development and production of oil and gas resources can also require and yield significant quantities of water. Produced water and fluids used and recovered during hydrofracturing (hydrofracing) are likely to play an expanding role in energy resource considerations because treatment and disposal costs for produced and hydrofracing waters vary markedly. Also, the potential beneficial use of produced waters is an area of expanding interest, particularly in areas with limited water resources. The USGS conducts research to provide information on the volume, quality, impacts, and possible uses of water produced during oil, gas, and coalbed methane production and development in the United States."
>> Produced Waters Website
More research on hydraulic fracturing is underway by a number of USGS offices including the Energy Resources Program, Water Resources, Natural Hazards and Environmental Health. This includes a major study conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The USGS has a large role in a recent Memorandum of Agreement among the Department of the Interior, the Department of Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency to improve our scientific understanding of the environmental issues related to unconventional oil and gas.
The accurate and unbiased scientific data provided by the U.S. Geological Survey are crucial to the Federal, and State resource managers to meet the challenge of balancing America's needs for unconventional resources and a clean and healthy environment.
Energy Program Inquiries
Top of Page
Introduction to Hydraulic Fracturing
Hydraulic Fracturing ("Fracking") FAQs
Earthquakes Induced by Fluid Injection FAQs
Environmental Health website includes USGS studies in Toxic Substances Hydrology and Contaminant Biology.
Estrogen and Androgen Receptor Activities of Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals and Surface and Ground Water in a Drilling-Dense Region
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Multi-Agency Collaboration on Unconventional Oil and Gas Research
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Study of Hydraulic Fracturing and Its Potential Impact on Drinking Water Resources
EPA, "Plan to Study the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources" (190 page PDF)
Department of the Interior (DOI) Press Release:
Obama Administration Announces New Partnership on Unconventional Natural Gas and Oil Research
Note: Includes link to recent Memorandum of Agreement among the Department of the Interior, the Department of Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency to improve our scientific understanding of the environmental issues related to unconventional oil and gas.
USGS National Geomagnetism Program (Oilfield Review, Autumn 2013): Geomagnetic Referencing–The Real-Time Compass for Directional Drillers
USGS Open-File Report 2013–1167 (9/4/2013): Dissolved Methane in Groundwater, Upper Delaware River Basin, Pennsylvania and New York, 2007–12
USGS Fact Sheet 2012-3049 (4/25/2013): Water Quality Studied in Areas of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development, Including Areas Where Hydraulic Fracturing Techniques are Used, in the United States
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2012–5273 (1/9/2013): Shallow Groundwater Quality and Geochemistry in the Fayetteville Shale Gas-Production Area, North-Central Arkansas, 2011
USGS News Release (11/20/2012): Measuring Landscape Disturbance of Gas Exploration in Greene and Tioga Counties
USGS News Release (9/5/2012): Measuring Landscape Disturbance of Gas Exploration in Bradford and Washington Counties
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Photography is available free of charge for exclusive use in editorial media, PR and partner promotions with Visit Lubbock as a destination for leisure, meetings/conventions, group travel and sporting events. All requests are subject to approval by Visit Lubbock. Images may not be used for advertising or commercial purposes.
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Monday Morning Motivation
Someday, these will be the "good old days."
Then, you'll appreciate your current circumstances. If that seems difficult or impossible to believe, it could reveal that you think your best days are behind you, not ahead of you. That's a decision, a choice and a mindset.
You control that.
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Null Nux X – a daily project in sound design – September 2013.
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Am working through about 40 new projects. A select few will make up the third ES Waves album. I cannot wait to finish these up and get things moving again. Unfortunately this won't be in the immediate future owing to other pressures. It will happen in 2014, of that I'm sure.
New podcast uploaded to soundcloud a few weeks ago – Es Waves – Podcast 10
1. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Kid-n-Play
2.Le Youth – Memories
3. B-Jam – Ever
4. Pedigree Cuts – Kumaras Sunrise
5. Malcolm McLaren – Madame Butterfly (Young Edit)
6. New Order – Touched by the Hand of Dub
7. Stefano Pulga – Burning Fire (Young Edits)
8. Hard Fi – Fire in the House (Planet of Sound Dub)
9. Junkie XL – Made for Each Other
10. New Order – Evil Dust
11. CJ Bolland – Obsidian
12. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – The Message
…was on TV yesterday. I find insights into how people work creatively like this to be truly fascinating. Michael effectively had a studio machine at his home with a team of workers to create 'demos' which would then be passed to Quincy Jones' team to create the final tracks.
One phrase idea that stood out for me was the notion of creating a 'sonic fantasy'. Definitely a goal.
Posted in Music, Other music
Tagged michael jackson, sonic fantasy
I caught the start of radio 4's start the week on Monday before work in which Andrew Marr discussed the role of creativity with several 'creatives'. The podcast is available now.
This discussion rang true for a lot of my creative life and I think anyone who is remotely creative in any part of their lives could find something they could relate to from one or several of the professional 'creatives' who formed the discussion panel. For some time I've tried to introduce a discipline to my work and happily there's some discussion of the importance of persistence in any artistic endeavour but also of the less definite aspects of 'creating'.
Posted in General, Music, Other music
Tagged bbc 4, creativity, podcast, start the week
I've posted yet another old remix I put together up on my soundcloud page. This is a mix of the brilliant 'Positive Light' (basically Marc Mitchell) mix of Marillion's 'Face 1004′ which is taken from the 'Tales from the Engine Room' album. I fell in love with this track, and several others, when I first heard it on Paul Oakenfold's first 'world tour' essential mix from Home in Sydney in 1999. I put this remix together again in 2003 (can you spot a pattern), September 2003 this time.
I'm not 100% on this mix but it's not all bad. Just really playing around with short snippets of the track with some pretty natty keys I've put in which seemed to be a feature of the tracks I was making at this point. Around this time I got chatting with Marc via the chat program 'ICQ' (is that still going? we were all over it at university, alot of the time because you could send free text messages from it to mobiles (my first one as well, which obviously dates me!). I never actually sent him this track, as like now I think I wasn't 100% on it but I can confirm that he came across as a really nice bloke. It goes without saying that he is just an amazing talent. Perhaps one of my favourite tracks of his being Human Movement's 'Love has come again'. Just beautifully produced and what an amazing voice.
I've uploaded another old remix I put together, this time from April 2003. I was using the PHatmatic pro on basically every track I was making at that time and was attacking quite a few tracks I loved with it. This is another track from that period. The arrangement is actually typically dance and is a bit out of character for me, it being pretty conventional and to my ears sounds a bit more coherent than you might normally expect to hear from a track of mine. It's a fairly straightforward production, but one that works well, especially at keeping it's energy up.
I first heard the original of this track on Jon Lisle's brilliant 'autobiography' mix. I met Jon shortly after I'd put this together but perhaps unsurprisingly he didn't like it because to his ear it had some 'euro' elements to it which I would have thought were the lead synth line towards the end. The original 'surreal' mix is a moody as they come trance break beat track which blows this mix out the water but I thought I'd put it up for people to hear as I recon it's got it's charms. I was really churning out the tracks at this point, riding a wave of enthusiasm.
Posted in ES Waves music posts, Music
Tagged es waves, jon lisle, katria, octavia, soundcloud
I've uploaded the latest podcast, ES Waves – Podcast 9 which I mentioned a couple of posts ago.
1. SOL – Cosmic Lines
2. Pete Lazonby – Humble Servant
3. Dove Beat – La Paloma
4. Doiing – Paradise Lost
5. Midi Rain – Always
6. St Melody – Qtopia (Pure Trance Mix)
7. Marmion- Shoneberg (Thomas Schumacher's Rumshakers Galore Mix)
8. DeJure – Do You Believe (Christian West Main Mix)
9. Spectrum – Amplification
10. Deluxe – Black Wax
Posted in ES Waves music posts, Music
Tagged classic prog, midi rain, podcast, progressive house
At the moment I'm putting together another podcast. It's going to have several old classics on there and I've got the tracks all planned out etc. At one point I had the idea of putting a track or so from another amazing album on it Freaky Chakra's 'Blacklight Fantasy'. The second half of this album especially is totally awesome. I love a lot of the tricks and ideas that run through the production. A lot of the tracks rely on relatively few elements with a lot of mix variations and effects keeping the ear interested. 'Dreams' 'Year 2000′, 'Hyperspace' all brilliant. However…I couldn't find my CD of it, doh, so none of these tracks are now on this mix. This post is to give them a little love!
Actually this track would go perfectly into the mix. Time to get searching!
Posted in Music, Other music
Tagged blacklight, dreams, es waves, fantasy, freaky chakra, podcast, progressive house
Boom block busters. This summer Alien 'Prometheus' is on the way and whilst the trailers don't look 100% convincing it's certainly attractive for several reasons, many of which are of course nostalgic.
One thing that has struck me is how the sound design is used in it's trailers. 'Hits' are used, for won't of a better word, creating atmosphere. I was thinking how the same kind of technique was used to create atmosphere in the trailers for the recent Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer. The Apes trailer I think created a moodier atmosphere and may have even been more appropriate for the upcoming Alien film. Both sound pretty good to my ears.
At around 2.04 mins (though alot more 'music' in the Alien trailer)
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Tagged alien film, block busters, prometheus, rise of the planet of the apes, sound design


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- If you catch public transport, try to read then.
- Read the contents, and skim the index of any books you are reading, then do a quick skim/speed read of the text. If you are reading a PDF, you can get Acrobat to flip through the pages real quick automatically. I do this a few times, as fast as I can, then settle down to read in more detail
- Take breaks every 45mins or so
- Write notes, highlight, mindmap, as you read, but don't worry too much about following a strict form, just doodle as you go. You'll want to go back an rewrite more formal notes or mind maps to reinforce your studying anyway.
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I've made a fair bit of progress on this goal, but more to go. I'm making more use of technology, but still need to follow up with firming the relationships in the 'real world
Steps I've taken
- Updated my LinkedIn profile, and added connections, especially with vendors etc. for work
- Become more active on Twitter
- Experimenting with FourSquare, and Sonar.me (awesome btw)
- Create additional basic profiles on about.me, and flavours.me
Just rediscovered 43things after a random email appeared in my inbox. Well, in the spirit of 43things, I thought I'd update some of my 'things' after 3 years.
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We were driving with our windows rolled down through a desert canyon with a shining, full moon overhead. A boxcar train raced next to us for miles. Jared rested his hand on my leg. Cat Power played softly as I held Sol's chubby, soft foot in his car seat behind me. I could see Lu in the back seat, looking into the wind and failing to hold her hair back from whipping her eyes with one hand.
Just for a moment my mind stopped racing. I stopped worrying about where we are going to live and business debt and how we're going to make it in the world. My head felt free and light. I sank down into the seat, breathed in the night air deeply, and squeezed Solomon's little foot.
I have everything I need.
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin... (Matthew 6:28)
{all photos via my instagram: @ellerowley}
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5 comments:
- zay said...
Lovely pictures! im glad u had a good time away from real life and enjoy your family! after all is the best and only thing we have in the world :)
- September 3, 2012 at 10:27 AM
- elizabeth kartchner said...
i love this post so much!
- September 3, 2012 at 3:05 PM
- ms. melissa said...
Amen- love this. :) a good reminder for me too
- September 4, 2012 at 10:45 AM
- Lexie Loo, Lily Boo, and Dylan Too! said...
Beautiful post and pictures!
- September 5, 2012 at 5:19 PM
- Marie said...
Good to "see" you guys again. Beautiful pics! Love you!
- September 8, 2012 at 11:14 PM
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President Nixon: Yes?
Operator: [National Security Adviser] Dr. [Henry A.] Kissinger, asking for you.
President Nixon: All right.
Operator: Ready, sir.
President Nixon: Hello?
Henry Kissinger: Mr. President.
President Nixon: Hi, Henry.
Kissinger: Sorry to disturb you.
President Nixon: It's all right. No, I'm not doing anything.
Kissinger: Well, two things. One, there's a lengthy article that [the Soviet state-controlled news organization] TASS distributed on this Chinese relation to us, which is very interesting. They're saying that what China is trying to do is to get the United States and the Soviet Union into a war with each other so that they could emerge as the great superpower, but we wouldn't fall for that—but they wouldn't fall for that. And, very hurt.
President Nixon: Very what?
Kissinger: They seem to act very hurt.
President Nixon: Yes? Very interesting, yeah.
Kissinger: And I just thought you might like to know that.
President Nixon: Well, it's—what do you think it means?
Kissinger: Well, I think, I still am fairly optimistic that the Soviets will be fairly forthcoming.
President Nixon: Mm-hmm.
Kissinger: If not that, they're going to go very tough. I mean, they've got to break out one way or the other.
President Nixon: Yeah.
Kissinger: Also, I've had a letter from—
President Nixon: Just a minute. Just a minute. [aside] Yeah?
Manolo Sanchez: It's raining, sir.
President Nixon: Raining? OK, we skip it. Fine. [to Kissinger] Yeah. Go ahead.
Kissinger: We've had-–I've had a letter from Sir Robert Thompson, [a British guerilla war expert,] which is very optimistic about how things are going.
President Nixon: Oh, good. What does he say?
Kissinger: Well, he says that he doesn't think that the North Vietnamese can launch any major attack through 1972. He considers Laos was a great success, and I have to take him seriously because he said the same thing last year right after Cambodia and I thought he was exaggerating. It turned out he was right. I'm having it summarized for you and sent to you.
President Nixon: Good.
Kissinger: And . . .
President Nixon: Well, he certainly is going give us his best judgment on this.
Kissinger: And I didn't even ask him for it. This is a volun—he volunteered it.
President Nixon: Mm-hmm.
Kissinger: Here it is. He says . . . well, he is very violent about our critics.
President Nixon: Is he?
Kissinger: About our critics.
President Nixon: What's he say about them?
Kissinger: Well, he said, they don't realize . . .
President Nixon: That it was successful?
Kissinger: "So many of the critics in the United States do not yet realize that we are not dealing with the ARVN [Army of the Republic of (South) Vietnam] of four years ago, but with a new breed. There are now good, professional soldiers and in combat command lower down who have the training, experience, and determination to match anything that the North Vietnamese can provide." Then he said—
President Nixon: Coming from him, that's quite significant.
Kissinger: Exactly. And . . . Well, about Laos, he says, "This brings one to the Laos operation, which has been the scene of some of the toughest fighting and worst reporting that I can remember."
President Nixon: "And worst reporting." Isn't that interesting?
Kissinger: "I certainly think that the operation has achieved its shorter-term tactical aim of cutting the trail in addition to destroying [ammunition] dumps already there during what should have been its peak operating period. Publicly, one may have to be a bit cautious, but I would say that there's no possibility of the North Vietnamese mounting or sustaining any offensive against South Vietnam right through 1972, except in the immediate vicinity of the DMZ [Demilitarized Zone]. It's going to be a case, just like Cambodia last year, of not seeing the real effects for several months."
President Nixon: I see. Well, it's good to get that kind of appraisal.
Kissinger: And [I] repeat, it's unsolicited.
President Nixon: That's right.
Kissinger: And he was there when it all happened.
President Nixon: He sure was. Yeah.
Kissinger: We are having this breakfast, Mr. President, with—
President Nixon: With [Defense Secretary Melvin R.] Laird, yeah.
Kissinger: —and he will hit you about pulling out the Koreans.
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Kissinger: And I also think that that is an unnecessary strain to put on him.1
President Nixon: Yeah.
Kissinger: They aren't very good, but they're at least holding some areas.
President Nixon: And they're there, yes, that's right.
Kissinger: Now, Laird has the argument that we can get South Vietnamese more cheaply. But that's a purely theoretical argument. There aren't more South Vietnamese to be drafted. And you don't have to rule on that, but we have a review going on of the whole strategy, and you could just defer your decision until that review is completed.
President Nixon: Sure. I'll do that.
Kissinger: I would just be careful not to say anything that he can use—
President Nixon: All right.
Kissinger: —to pull them out. Because we're pulling things out just about as fast as they go, now.
President Nixon: I'll say we are. Yeah. Yeah. How are the casualties running this week?
Kissinger: This week, they seem to be lower, Mr. President. These are incomplete daily reports, but they seem to be lower this week. They're above 50, actually—going to be announced tomorrow, I think, 56, for the week just concluded, and I think they'll be significantly lower next week. I know—
President Nixon: Fifty-six? Well, that's—why is that? Because of the—
Kissinger: Well, that includes those 11.
President Nixon: Yeah. Be 56, you say?
Kissinger: I've asked [Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Thomas H.] Moorer to give me some reason, some feel for why the casualties are running as they are. And of course, there are always some wounded that are left from a military operation.
President Nixon: They run 56, you say, next week. This week.
Kissinger: This week. In the follow—in the week after this, I think they'll be lower.
President Nixon: Well, we're in that week now. That's what I meant, that-–
Kissinger: Oh, in the week in which we are, they'll be much lower than 56, yes.
President Nixon: It would seem so.
Kissinger: Oh, yes. Well, we had—on Sunday, there were none at all. And I just have to look at the daily figures, Mr. President. I don't have them at my fingertips.
President Nixon: Well, we can't tell. Let's see, Thursday . . . we've got three more days yet.
Kissinger: That's right.
President Nixon: Well, the drop may occur next week, then, rather than this. Right. They won't, this week, of course, it won't be reflected, but next week, it might be.
Kissinger: That's right, Mr. President. So it would be announced the day of your press conference, which wouldn't be bad.
President Nixon: That's right. Well, good. Don't worry, we'll handle Laird with a great caution.
Kissinger: [Laughing] Right, Mr. President.
President Nixon: OK.
Kissinger: I'll be there in the morning.
1 According to the National Archives' Finding Aid, this is a reference to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. (↑)
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