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My ex was Gay
I suddenly remember I have the old Zenit E of my Dad waiting for me patiently!!!!! So excited, I open it without any caution to notice there was a film inside!!!! I jumped into dark, managed to save a few to discover.... that was my crappy asshole mother fucker ex. Hum. Whatever. I got now the precious Zenit from my childhood! ;)
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008Seriously. I'm think I'm in love for the first time and this time I know it's for real. You see, last night my heartstrings were once again plucked as I witnessed a smorgasbord of electric-guitar and violin-touting hotties doing a dacnceable medley of blues-rock and upbeat soul. And while a prejudiced sexually deprived chav such as myself would love to say that Mama Know Nothing's front line of Sannie Fox (vox, electric guitar), Hagar Griaser (lead guitar) and Galina Juritz (vox, violin) are mere eye-candy, the sassy Cape Town girls everyone's learning to love have a tightness of sound that, well…damn, girlfriend!
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Bombay High Court Rules Astrology To Be a Science
Re:India isn't the only one, IDists think so too (478 comments)
And that was redundant. That will teach me to read the summary more fully next time.
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Re:India isn't the only one, IDists think so too (478 comments)
And that was redundant. That will teach me to read the summary more fully next time.
India isn't the only one, IDists think so too (478 comments)
As "cdesign proponentsist" Behe said during the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, any definition of "scientific theory" that would include Intelligent Design would also include Astrology.
Why not board games? (123 comments)
If the point is social opportunity, then these provide a good social opportunity that does not require sitting in front of a screen. It arguably also requires a bit more thinking than the average video game. I'm of course, talking about games like Puerto Rico, Small World, Tigris & Euphrates, or Battlestar Galactica. Not games like Monopoly.
Re:If I could do it, I would! (658 comments)
And people will just buy their goods and services from businesses in countries or states with lower consumption taxes instead.
Not to mention this will cause a shitload of damage on the poor who have to spend every cent they get (causing massive difficulties while getting very little actual tax revenue out of them) while the rich can just hoard their excess money as they see fit.
Want them to change? (279 comments)
Don't just vote with your wallet. Show them you did.
Mail them the receipt of the next game you buy telling them why the receipt does not have their game on it.
Alternative (209 comments)
They BOTH did it.
Re:Vocaloid? (261 comments)
This was my first thought from reading the summary as well. Vocaloids are only good for mimicing singers, but someone still needs to input the music and say how the song is to be sung. This is where the AI can come in.
If they want to appeal to educators... (492 comments)
The first thing they could do is not file a Creationism app under Education: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/answers-in-genesis/id353046149?mt=8
Violent games (673 comments)
Isn't this basically the same arguments people make to ban violent games? You get excited from killing fake people.
10 seconds to 10 minutes is acceptable lag? (253 comments)
I'm gonna say no on that. Eve only works because the combat is relatively slow and automatic compared to other games. Imagine playing with 10 second to 10 minute lag on skill activation in WoW.
And nothing new was said (130 comments)
They keep saying they'll still support L4D1, but all we see is stuff that was already going to be released. Everything else after that is "the users will do the work and we will claim credit for the additional content". Sorry no, the modding community has already stopped work on L4D1 content to focus making maps that will make use of the new features of L4D2 (and so far it looks like the compatibility is 1-way, otherwise we can easily just copy the new campaigns from L4D2 into L4D1). They have said exactly nothing about support AFTER L4D2 is released. They're still being intentionally misleading about "continued support", just like they were with that quote up there about new stuff for L4D when they really meant L4D2.
Re:Xiaonei censorship (84 comments)
So May 35 also gets blocked. Interestingly enough, 06041989 did get past the censors on Xiaonei.
Re:Xiaonei censorship (84 comments)
Urk, looks like I can't get Chinese characters onto Slashdot. The first word says "Chinese Internet Maintenance Day" from the article, while I basically said what the second one said.
Xiaonei censorship (84 comments)
So I was hoping to announce this to my Chinese friends, but looks like on Xiaonei, you're not allowed to write http://www.danwei.org/net_nanny_follies/chinese_websites_under_mainten.php, äå½ç½'ç(TM)çæS, tiananmen, or the link to the spreadsheet. If you do, it gives you the following error: "èäè¦å'åfæ"æææYå...å®ãèæf...å...å®ãåäsåå'Sæ-å...ä-äæå½"å...å®" (no politically sensitive stuff, porn, or ads, etc.)
There's a boycott group already (231 comments)
I think a lot of the anger will subside if they give a BIG discount to L4D owners.
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I remember the good old days when that was simply called a free demo.
Good old days (148 comments)
I remember the good old days when there were no such things as DLC. They were simply called free patches.
Mmm (252 comments)
Don't the Japanese in general already have better phones than the iPhones? I don't see the appeal of actually using the iPhone except as a tracking device to give to a friend.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't (387 comments)
They actually got slammed twice for Heroes. First people complained that no comic book geek would look like that swimmer store employee. So then they did the stereotypical comic book geek and the people complained again.
Simpler solution (286 comments)
The MPAA is required to furnish free DVDs to educators within a reasonable time frame (less than a week is good) on request.


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Half-Life: Source
Half-Life: Source | |
Developer(s) | Valve Corporation |
Publisher(s) | Valve Corporation |
Distributor(s) | Sierra Entertainment (retail) Steam (online) |
Writer(s) | Marc Laidlaw |
Composer(s) | Kelly Bailey |
Series | Half-Life |
Engine | Source |
Platform(s) | Windows, OS X, Linux |
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Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Distribution | Optical disk, download |
Half-Life: Source (shortened to HL:S or HL: Source) is a remake of the original Half-Life using the Source engine. Developed by the Valve Corporation, it was released for Microsoft Windows on June 1, 2004. Ports of Half-Life: Source for OS X and Linux were released in Beta on September 13, 2013 with full releases coming less than two weeks later on September 25, 2013.[1][2] Much like Half-Life, Half-Life: Source allows the player to assume the role of Dr. Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist who must fight his way out of a secret underground research facility whose research and experiments into teleportation technology have gone disastrously wrong.
While the game was a remake of Half-Life, its first release included only minimal changes to the physics engine and updates that took advantage of the Source engine's vertex and pixel shaders for more realistic water effects. Later updates attempted to rectify some of these issues by adding field of view options, support for the Oculus Rift virtual reality device, and a high-definition texture pack, among other improvements.
Half-Life: Source, being a remake of Half-Life, retains the majority of the gameplay aspects found in the original game. Being a first-person shooter, Half-Life: Source requires the player to advance through environments by performing various platforming, puzzle-solving, and combat tasks to progress through said environments. Half-Life: Source also lacks any cut-scene intermissions and instead relies on scripted sequences, allowing the player to continuously play from Gordon's perspective.
Players can toggle between the "classic" textures found in the original Half-Life and an updated set of high-definition textures through the Settings menu in-game.
Half-Life: Source's story-line remains wholly identical to its predecessor in its move from the GoldSrc engine to Source.
Half-Life: Source released with only minimal changes to gameplay and no changes in regards to graphics or plot. General reaction to this lack of change was negative, and even sparked the creation of a third-party remake of Half-Life, titled Black Mesa, after the setting which the majority of the game takes place in. The first part of the Black Mesa remake was released on September 14, 2012.[3]
- ^ a b "Half-Life: Source update released". Steam. Valve Corporation. 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2014-01-02.
- ^ "Half-Life: Source Beta released". Steam. Valve Corporation. 2013-09-12. Retrieved 2014-01-02.
- ^ "Black Mesa Community Forums". Carlos "cman2k" Montero. Retrieved 2014-01-02.
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Love this lotion. Typical Bath & Body Works quality/texture/feel. Great smell. Baby powder and lavendar? Love it. Need to switch it up however, I am not quite sure if it is too stong for the office.
This has to be one of my favorite scents from BBW! I've been a loyal buyer of BBW products for years, but i have to admit that lately I've been getting bored of the scent selection, and it's hard to find a scent that I'm absolutely gaga for, and once I find it, they discontinue it. Story of my life people. It's hard being me. But anyways, I discovered Moonlight Path and I'm so in love! It smells so light and powdery, with a slight floral undertone. The lotion is super subtle and doesn't gag me, and moisturizes just fine. Definitely a signature scent of mine. Will definitely be repurchasing!
This is a classic scent from Bath & Body works that is a nice, powdery and floral scent. It's a scent that I like to use during winter months. It's available in stores or online.
This scent is such a comfort. It reminds me of fleece pajamas and reading under the covers on a cold winter night (because I did that a lot when I first got the lotion two years ago). Moonlight Path is a musky floral, very powdery on the drydown, and does take some getting used to. However, given the right time and the right place (ie. under the covers on a cold winter night), it can prove to be a warm and comforting favourite. Highly recommended; it moisturizes well as long as you stay indoors. I will always come back to this, especially when it's snowing outside :)
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This is a lovely scent that smells clean, fresh, and flowery! I would describe it as a mixture of lavender and baby powder. I like to use this lotion at night before bed because it is relaxing and subtle, not over powering at all. It is not super amazing at moisturising , but it gets the job done. If you have very dry hands or are looking for a powerful moisturiser, this product probably isn't for you. I would repurchase if it was on sale or if I had a coupon because it was a bit pricey but I love the smell so much!
I'm on the fence with the lotion version of Moonlight Path. Sometimes it comes off flowery and overpowering (those are the times I like it but am not crazy about it) and other times it comes off soapy and fresh. Those times I love it! I like to wear it after I shower after a workout or being outside in the heat all day. It makes me feel really clean and fresh and is a relaxing scent. I prefer to use this at night because my sisters and boyfriend hate this scent so I usually don't wear it in public. I probably would buy it again with one of those spend $10 get a signature product free coupon (this being the free coupon). It's worth a try if you want something flowery and clean smelling. But I would recommend to get a travel size first since so many people don't like it.


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Micron puts large-capacity SSD in small package
Micron Technology has updated its RealSSD C400 series of solid-state drives for small mSATA packages.
Basically, Micron is delivering the same performance of previous C400 products but in a 1.2 x 2.0 inch (3cm x 5cm) mSATA size -- the size typically used in thin laptops.
SSDs are faster than the standard spinning hard disk drives found in mainstream laptops (and often a lot faster).
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PUBLISHED: 14 Jul 2010 15:19:26 | UPDATED: 14 Jul 2010 15:19:26PRINT EDITION: 14 Jul 2010
Shares in ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals surged after it announced a breakthrough with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the approval of a new cancer drug.
ChemGenex shares were 5¢, or 17.54 per cent, higher at 33.5¢ at 2.57pm AEST on Wednesday.
The company is seeking approval from the FDA for OMAPRO, a treatment for sufferers of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia who have failed previous treatments.
ChemGenex managing director Dr Greg Collier said the company had reached agreement with the FDA on a "regulatory path forward" for the approval of the cancer treatment.
Dr Collier said, based on the discussions with the FDA, the company would combine data from its two pivotal studies and submit a New Drug Application (NDA) for OMAPRO for patients resistant to treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs).
"We are pleased with the outcome of this Type A meeting as it provides another option for advancing the development timeline for OMAPRO," Dr Collier said in a statement to the Australian stock exchange on Wednesday.
"By pursuing this new indication for multi TKI-resistant patients, OMAPRO can potentially treat a significantly larger patient population in the United States, and we plan to submit our new NDA to the FDA by the end of the year."
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We just moved into a new house and the washer the prior owners left behind (Whirlpool Calypso) does not work. We have a 20-month-old child who generates a lot of laundry, so we need to buy a new washer ASAP. I need help choosing a good model for our family. The last washer I bought was in 1999. It was the top-of-the-line (at that time) Kenmore Elite top loader with Catalyst cleaning option. It did a very good job of cleaning clothes for 10 years, although we had a few electrical panel replacements along the way. I like the Catalyst function that premixes the laundry detergent with water before spraying the solution on the clothes. (Growing up, my mom always made us start running the washer with no clothes in it so the agitation would mix up the detergent and water before we added the clothes, to avoid the detergent causing spots on the clothes. The Catalyst option on the Kenmore let me avoid this annoying step.)
My MIL has the Whirlpool Duet washer and dryer with steam (older 9600 series) and swears it gets her clothes cleaner. I can see the advantage of having steam in a dryer to release wrinkles, and plan to buy a steam dryer when the current dryer dies to "freshen" my suits and sweaters without a trip to the dry cleaners. I am not sure having steam in the washer will do me any good if it is true that the steam just heats the water more. I wash most of my and my daughterÆs clothing in either cold or warm water, usually on the gentle or handwash cycle. I would like to buy a front load washer for the water savings, but am concerned about some comments I have read here that you cannot soak laundry in a FL machine. Soaking seems like a big part of getting clothes clean using the gentle cycle. Right now, we can purchase the Whirlpool 4.5 Cu. Ft. Duet Steam Front Load Washer (WFW9750WW) for $989 at LoweÆs with a 10% off coupon. MIL can buy Bosch machines with an employee discount if Bosch is better (although we would probably have to wait a lot longer to buy through the company rather than getting next day delivery from LoweÆs.) I would consider buying Kenmore again too. Basically, I just need advice on choosing a reliable washer, that is water and energy efficient, that can handle large loads on occasion, and that can get kid clothes clean using cold or warm water and the gentle cycle. |
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I think the Steam option on washers is just hype. It doesn't really do that much to help you. FL washers compensate for not having a soak option by running longer wash times. A lot of people have been happy with the Samsung direct drive FL washers. They appear to be well built. And they have some models around $600.00 that are much better than the Duets. |
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You might not have to use the gentle cycle on an FL, because they're inherently gentler. Hard to imagine that a 20-month-old's everyday clothes would need an FL's gentle cycle, which has a high water level so the clothes float more than they tumble. Our old Kenmore TL (same vintage as yours, but not as fancy) had a Gentle speed setting which used regular agitation speed, but slower spin speed. My wife used it for clothes marked gentle wash, but I never saw the point...the fastest spin speed wasn't fast enough to set wrinkles in anything, and how is it "gentle" to agitate at normal speed? (It did also have an "extra-slow" agitation speed). With the Miele we have now, we find very little use for the Delicates cycle. Brassieres go in on Handwash cycle, but most everything else, including the wispier women's stuff, goes in on a cycle with regular tumbling action. Maybe the Delicates cycle is appropriate for items with decorations that could be damaged by tumbling. |
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In Luke 19, Zacchaeus the tax collector was converted. He vowed to give back fourfold to anyone he had defrauded. Imagine a conversation he might have had when returning the money.
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When we really see and believe what God is for us by grace through Jesus Christ, the power of wrong desires is broken.
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EFCC: Enough Of This Amusing Diversions By Ribadu And Waziri By Senior Fyneface
It was very insulting on the sensibilities of Nigerians for Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the erstwhile former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to ascribe super star role to himself in bringing Chief Bode George to face the law of the land.
His comment on the recent landmark court sentence of Bode George and five others on the NPA scam to a jail term was definite in tilting the glory to his 'eagle eye investigations.'
Before scrambling for the glory in the matter, there are many questions Ribadu should answer. When did he investigate George? Why did he not arraign him immediately? Why did he take the report to Federal Executive Council meeting, and not directly to court? Why did he not shout the way he did when he was persecuted by the "new Pharoah who knew not Joseph" when Obasanjo threw out the report and constituted a panel to investigate the case? Why did Ribadu not cry out loud when the Obasanjo's panel which he cooperated with cleared Bode George of all wrong doings in the NPA scam?
How long can we continue to deceive ourselves as a people? A situation where mediocrity rides over sincerity and serious -mindedness can no longer be accepted in this country because we cannot continue on an indefinite deceit of ourselves as a people. There has to be a paradigm shift.
It is even on record (media reports) that there were several occasions including a public function at the Obafemi Awolowo University and at the Yar'adua Women Centre in Abuja during the reign of Gen Obasanjo where Ribadu viciously explained and defended Bode George's involvement in the NPA scam.
So who is the real Nuhu Ribadu? Is it this one on exile who want the whole world to see him as the only upright and sincere official of the Obasanjo administration that was determined to wipe out corruption from Nigeria? Or the one that packaged fictitious charges and investigation reports against opponents of the former president and anybody who ever dreamt of contesting the April 2007 presidential election against Obasanjo's failed attempt to run for a third term? Haba! Let's call a spade a spade.
The point has to be made and straight also that no single credit should be ascribed to Ribadu as the he failed woefully to perform his duties as mandated by the EFCC Act against the expectations of the Nigerian masses who were solidly supported his trumpeted campaign.
In the first instance, Bode George et'al were not convicted based on Ribadu's claimed eagle eye investigative report. This thing has to be put in proper context and place the glory where it rightly belongs- the court especially the honest judge, and the current leadership of the EFCC that garnered the will power to cooperate with request from the court without first seeking clearance from the President as was the case during Ribadu's tenure as the commission's boss.
But for Bode George's stupidity or rather too much wisdom in dragging the News and Tell magazines to court for digging out and publishing Ribadu's buried investigative report and his fallout with Obasanjo, he would have been as free as air based on Ribadu's compromise with his now not-relevant benefactor.
It is very unfortunate that in this country, people want to be perceived as heroes even when they are convinced that they are outright villains against the genuine corporate interests of us all.
Let's look at it: Ribadu submitted his indictment of Bode George to the Federal Executive Council (FEC). The question here is: which court is FEC? It would have even been better he submitted the investigative report to the Inspector General of Police rather than taken it to Obasanjo his benefactor. This was an outright contradiction because when he wanted to arraign the former governors (the one he widely trumpeted) he did not go to FEC?
Equally, when Ribadu wanted to arraign the former Inspector General of Police, Tafa Balogun, he did not first submit his investigative report to the Federal Executive Council? When he whisked Rotimi Amaechi as the then Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly on frivoulus charges, did he go to FEC first? When he arraigned some 419ers did Ribadu submit his findings first to FEC?
It was a big moral question which bothers on credibility, integrity and genuineness of intention. And the unfolding revelation flooding the internet about Ribadu selective application of prosecution processes directly contradicts his claims that as the EFCC chairman, he was free from political (especially Obasanjo's) manipulations in addition to his own inordinate ambitions. I'm sorry but this is the truth.
Why was it that he arraigned some persons in Obasanjo's FEC and certain others in courts of law? And now he wants everybody to believe that he
Truth be told, Ribadu as the former EFCC chairman was more of a politician of the PDP stock than an anti graft czar on a mission to sanitise the system. So he should not claim what he did not do. If he had carried out his assignment without prejudice, he would have been a very great hero of our land. But he allowed his relationship with Obasanjo and members of the administration's economic team compromised his integrity and bias in the entire anti-graft campaign.
Another interesting aspect of Ribadu's comment was that he glaringly failed for obvious reasons to do the right thing- ascribe the glory to EFCC as an agency and congratulate Waziri as the current overseer of the organisation.
It's time Ribadu advise himself to cut short this self- glorifying mentality because some of us who have been sympathetic with the way he was treated may become frigid. He is a young and vibrant Nigeria who has so much to still contribute in the development of this nation and should not just plunder the current goodwill he enjoys just because he thinks he is on a vendetta.
With all sincerity of purpose, Farida Waziri IS more deserving of accolades for the successful prosecution of the NPA case. The sensible thing Ribadu would have done was to congratulate his successor for achieving this feat.
It was sheer arrogance for Ribadu to keep saying (until this Bode George sentence) that after he left office, the EFCC went to sleep. And that he left office just because corruption was fighting back. The later assertion is right but for the simple reason that he failed to separate himself and his assignment from partisan politics. This is the truth.
And Farida Waziri's was blunt and frank in addressing such claims in her interview with Pointblanknews in New York. Her words: "I don't think so. I have done much better than Ribadu. I am not grandstanding, not going to the pages of newspaper to shout, I am not going to pick people before looking for evidence to charge them, its about the rule of law its not about grandstanding.
"Some Nigerians who are not so educated they want to see drama, they want to see people in handcuffs being dragged, they want to see people foaming in the mouth screaming blue murder, it doesn't work like that. My standards are perfect and in line with international standards. You can't judge me on the standard of Nuhu Ribadu.
"How many convictions did he have, three convictions based on plea bargaining. You know plea bargaining is not part of the Nigerian law. But I know that half bread is better than nothing, I also said instead of someone who looted the treasury to walk away with the money and enjoy it, because the judicial process is slow, I said yes lets take part of it. You steal your country's money and you use part of that crime/fraud money to negotiate your soft landing. But then he had only three convictions and they were based on plea bargaining for five years. I have had much more than him in two years."
It's time to move on and I believe this nation is making good progress though the current magnitude may fall short of our expectations as a people because of years of cumulative misbehaviour of past leaders and even the current gang in government.
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I have an old schefflera that has had small brown scales on the leaves for years & I can't get rid of them!! I have tried pyrethrin spray & wiping each leaf top & bottom with 70% alcohol on cotton balls to wipe those scales away as a previous posting has suggested but nothing seems to work!! I scrape off what looks like all of the scales & spray with alcohol only to see more in a day or two. Is there something else I could do to get rid of these things ... topical or in the soil? Am afraid these scales will get to other of my house plants. Are the plants infected when they are purchased? |
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Have you ever tried a horticultural oil? It's easy to mix up a small batch to spray your plant with occasionally. As with the rubbing alcohol spray, be sure to get the stuff on the upper AND lower surfaces of your plant, as well as the stems. You'll want to protect your furniture and floors from the oil sprays, but other than that, these products can be used inside. |
The method usually subscribed to is dishsoap, in water and rubbing alcohol. i.e. 1 tbsp dishsoap, 20 oz water, 4 oz rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle. Spray the plant top to bottom, bottom to top making sure to cover all surfaces. Scratch the soil and apply there as well. Wait 10 minutes then give a thorough rinse with tepid water, covering all surfaces bottom to top, top to bottom. This method is prescribed also be applied 3 times in a 20 day period. Today, in 10 days, again in 10 days. The use of petroleum oil as suggested above is also a rememdy as is lime sulfur. |
Thanks, Jeannie for the most welcome advise. I will take the whole plant out in the shade & try the 'recipe'. The combo you use on outdoor shrubs, trees ... would that hurt a houseplant? I also use it on outdoor things like our fruit trees. |
its good that you treat your fruit trees with the dormant oil/lime sulfur. Much what you apply in spring can often reduce or do away with using other insecticides later on. Whether such combination should be used on a houseplant I question the need or the best advice. Since the lime sulfur has such a strong odour and it must be kept in solution constantly, it might not suit your room the plant is in. I wouldn't subscribe dormant oil combo for indoor houseplants. At least, if you have tried other remedies without success, I would suggest you try using on a leaf or a branch and wait for a time to see if there is any ensuing dire result from its use. During treatment, because water is almost always a part of the mix, it can add to an already watered plant. You might put a cover over the soil so that too much is not given the plant. Or tilt it so that any excess runs off. For your fruit trees, have you looked at using another combo....dormant oil/lime sulfur/copper sulfur....the added chemical is becoming more and more used to combat bugs that don't react to the others. |
Let's put it this way, vieja: if you experiment with the lime-sulfur and horticultural oil combo, you won't have to worry about the scale problem any more. Ever. ;-) jeannie, your 'recipe' isn't what is 'usually suscribed to', I think it fair to say. Many people stay away from dish detergents entirely (except for washing dishes), for fear of causing plant damage. All of the chemicals used to make detergents do their job can be harsh on foliage. |
The lime sulfur spray I have used on the fruit trees does make the neighborhood smell like 'rotten eggs' but I find if I use either that or just a dormant oil spray once in late winter/early spring I usually don't have much of a bug problem on the apples. I do try (if I remember!) to spray malathion at flower drop. No, I wouldn't want that smell in the house! I never have seen the critter responsible for the scales ... are they microscopic? They don't (so far!) seem to favor any of the surrounding house plants thank goodness! |
Hi ;- I am one who often uses dish detergent to treat all of my plants especially in the garden. When should I start to seeing any signs of damage? What type of damage should I expect to see? |
There are many thousands of species of scale insects...over 350 in North America alone! Each are quite unique. The little brown bumps on your schefflera ARE the scale insect, the adult to be exact. Some scale species lay their eggs underneath that protective, waxy covering. When they hatch, they emerge from under the adult and search to find a feeding location. They are called crawlers at this point and will undergo several (at least 2) molts before they become adults. Most adult scale insects are immobile. Even those which have tiny legs under those 'shells' don't use them. Why should they? They have inserted a needle-like mouthpart into the plant so that they can suck out plant juices all day, every day. It's only those crawlers that move around. They can readily be seen with the naked eye, as long as you know what you are looking for. The alcohol misting should be helpful in controlling those fragile crawlers, while the oil applications can cause problems for all stages. As a matter of fact, horticultural oil is probably the number one treatment for most kinds of scale insects, including those that can be found on landscape plants, trees (including fruit trees), etc. As always, be sure to read the directions of the products you choose to use. There are some plants that you cannot spray with horticultural oils and damage could result. Know, too, that there are a wide variety of horticultural oils available. You might want to try a cold-pressed Neem oil, for example. Not only will it provide the physical smothering we're looking for, but it works as an anti-feedant, AND and insect growth regulator. It affects those insects that feed on plants (and juices). |
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David SilvermanInterview by John Murphy © Tyro, Summer '96 "D'oh!", "Eat my shorts!", "Don't have a cow, man!" and others have all entered mainstream America's vocabulary as familiar phrases from the ever popular TV show, The Simpsons. Last fall David Silverman, Supervising Animation Director for the Simpsons, was in Boston for a signing event at American Animated Classics on Newbury street. Tyro was at the event and interviewed David about his work on The Simpsons. David Silverman was born in New York, grew up in Maryland, attended UCLA, and got involved with "The Simpsons" when it was a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. He and Wes Archer were the two animators who worked with Matt Groening back then, starting in late March, 1987. They were both very instrumental in the creation of the characters, as well as giving them their final look, as per Matt's approval and specification. Also involved back then was Gyrogi Puluce, who, as color stylist, gave The Simpsons their distinctive yellow skin. ("Matt saw it and loved it", says David, referring to the color. "I can't say for sure why she chose yellow, but my best guess is because Bart, Lisa, and Maggie have no hairline. With yellow, you buy it as hair AND skin color. If they were flesh colored, the hair would be...eew, freak show!")
Tyro: How long does it take to create the show?
David: Each half hour show takes about six months to put animate. Now
this doesn't include how long it takes to do a script, or the post
production! There are two writer retreats six months apart. The last
one just happened in December. At these summits writers pitch out story
ideas. Sometimes it could be a one line idea, sometimes an entire
outline. There are usually 12-16 ideas pitched out. [This past fall
aired Dec. '94 ideas.] In January the scripts are written - not all of
them, of course! That is on going through out the season. A writer
will sit down and work over it, taking about three weeks to write one
script. Then other writers will then review [the story] and the writer
will take notes and write a revision, another couple of weeks. Now we have the table draft. On Thursdays, the voice actors will come to what's called a table reading. After the reading the writers will rewrite some jokes that need to be stronger and kill jokes that didn't work; every once in awhile they'll have to rework the script again. (An example of a this is in "Selma's Choice", where Selma gets artificial insemination. In the third act Marge was suppose to take the kids to Duff Gardens, leaving Selma at home to take care of a sick Homer and the baby, only to find out that she can't hack it. George Meyer said that that was splitting the ideas too much. The act was then rewritten so that Selma takes the kids to Duff Gardens, which opened the script up to more jokes.) Then the following Monday the actors will read through the script again, and then spend the day recording the dialogue. While they are recording throughout the day, addition rewriting of lines is done, as well as cutting of lines that seem unnecessary. Also on Monday, artists will begin working on the storyboard. It will take up to five weeks to produce a storyboard. In the old days a director would do the whole storyboard, but with scheduling and time constraints, that's not possible anymore. Different artists do different acts. Then five weeks are spent doing the layouts containing the key acting drawings, and all the background drawings. This is done by a team of 7 character layout artists. We then shoot an animatic, our term for a pencil test. This is our blueprint of the episode, you how the action and how the scene cuts work with the dialogue track, and how the jokes are playing. We then go through that with the writers, and go over fixes and changes. New jokes will be written; some discarded. Scenes will be edited out, since we don't have time to show all of them. Five weeks are spent on the sheet timing for the animations overseas. Then there are ten weeks of production animation, four to six weeks of post production (i.e. music, sound effects, and fixing mistakes made overseas and on our end). Additional scenes may be later added, so the whole process takes eight to ten months. Sometimes, when a writer comes up with an idea, they may not see it on the TV screen for a year or two. T: How involved is Matt Groening in the creation of the show? D: Groening acts as a consultant for the show at this point. He doesn't write or draw much for the show anymore. He was more involved in the beginning of ["The Simpsons"] but as time went on he couldn't do as much due to other commitments. He is involved with story sessions, storyboard and design notes at the animatic and color screenings. Matt developed the show with Sam Simon and James L. Brooks. However, it was Matt who created the concept and the "universe" in the first place. T: Who does the writing for the Simpsons?
D: There's a team of ten writers in house, and the head writers now are
Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein. They are also the Executive Producers,
also known as the Showrunners. The writers change occasionally, which is pretty much the nature of most comedy shows. I think what happens is that people burn out. People can burn out even if it's a great show. They're looking for submissions for possible replacements in the future. Some people got on staff because they knew somebody. If you don't know somebody you have to be very good. There's no lack of story ideas. There's a list of ideas that have yet to be realized, so there's never a lack of material. Eventually they get done. We have a very high writing budget for the show. No animated show has as high a budget for writers. This is because we do a lot of rewrites and we hire the best writers. T: Do you write any of the episodes? D: I don't get involved with the writing process too often. I wrote the M.C.Escher couch gag and about a dozen others; that's the extent of my writing. I mean, directing is enough of a job! T: How many people are involved in the show? D: I never counted how many people involved. There's about 50 people at Gracie Films. We have about 70 artists at Film Roman, Inc. (the animation studio). A lot more overseas in Korea. All TV animation has some aspect of production overseas in Asia. It's mostly because we don't have a crop of people who want to be assistant animators; they want to be animators! The painting of cels is also cheaper there, though I imagine as computer ink-and-paint goes down in price, more production will be done in this country. T: What are the best and worst parts of the job? D: The best part is working with the artists and actors. The worst part is going to meetings that deal with flows in production, price situations, and meetings that don't deal with anything creative. But it's not really that bad. What I enjoy doing most is drawing. T: What's a typical day? D: Start off with going over storyboards with storyboard artists, meeting with layout artists, watching retakes of shows, and going to production meetings. T: Do you receive fan mail? D: I do get occasional fan mail; it's nice to know that people do read the credits. I'm sure the show receives many letters. T: How did you get started in animation? D: I got started doing Saturday morning cartoons. I worked on Turbo Team and The Adventures of Mr. T. for Laser Media. Then I worked on One Crazy Summer, a Savage Steve Holland film with ten minutes of animation in it. Most of the animation I did on it hit the cutting room floor, but the experience led to The Simpsons. You see, one of the other animators was Wes Archer. He had previously worked out of a tiny studio called Klasky Csupo (which is now a BIG studio, with such shows as Rugrats and Duckman). Well, Klasky Csupo won the bid to do the animation on The Tracey Ullman Show, and Wes and I were hired to do the animation. Then when the half hour series started, we were made directors, and later I because Supervising Director and a producer. T: When did you get interested in animation?
D: I became interested in animation when I was six. Like many kids, I
watched a lot of cartoons, though I felt Bugs Bunny and the Bullwinkle
show were the only shows worth watching, along with some of the early
Hanna-Barbera stuff, like Quick Draw McDraw. I never really laugh at
Fred Flintstone, though I liked the show. It wasn't very funny. I
always thought the animation could have been better. I loved the Beanie
and Cecil Show; now that was funny. In the 60's a lot of young,
aspiring artists were inspired by comic strip newspaper cartoonists. I
think they have a less of an impact these days. I was inspired by Walt
Kelly's "Pogo", Charles Schulz's "Peanuts", (he inspired so many
people), and Mel Lazarus' "Miss Peach". I knew I always wanted to be a
cartoonist or animator. There's an interesting gap of people in the animation industry. Most professionals are 40 years old or younger, or 60 years old and older. There's a 20 year gap. The industry stopped hiring animators around 1965-1980. There wasn't a lot of work going on and only a handful of people in their '50s were able to sneak in here and there. There were very few professionals in that age bracket. T: Do you have any advice for people wanting to break into the field? Study life drawing, computer applications, and take some acting. You have to understand comedy. It's hard to learn and it's a very hard thing to teach. You either have it or you don't. One must be able to create funny drawings that have expressions and feeling which show what the 2-D character is feeling. T: What do you think makes something funny? D: Humor is done best when it's subtle. That's when its funnier. I don't think puns are funny, though there is an audience that they do appeal to. I like parodies, making fun of something that already exists. I like character humor. For me, satire is simple; it's making fun of existing material. It's much harder to come up with original material. One of my favorites, for instance, was in the episode "Lisa on Ice". Bart and Lisa are on opposing hockey teams and Bart tells Lisa that when he's on the ice de's going to swing his arms. "When I'm walking out the door, I'm going to swing like this." And Lisa adds, "While I'm standing here, I'm going to go like this," and starts kicking in the air. Later Homer warns the pie to lookout because he's going to be opening and closing his mouth "like this." T: What's your favorite Simpsons episode? D: I don't really have one. "Three Men and the Comic Book," where we meet RadioActive Man was a great episode. It was well written and well executed. Also "Blood Feud," showing the first time Homer went crazy. This was the first time Homer's Brain became a character: "Don't tell 'em your name. Give them a fake name." So Homer said, "Homer Simpson." "D'OH!" It's also the first time he was mocking Mr. Burns: "Hello, my name is Mr. Burns." "What is your first name?" "I don't know." T: Do you have a favorite character? D: Krusty the Clown, because he's so much fun to animate. He's has a lot of highs and lows and he's very expressive. T: Is there any end in sight for the Simpsons? How many seasons does Fox buy? D: Fox did a very unusual thing with the Simpsons. They bought three seasons in a row. That's unprecedented. Even for the best shows they usually renegotiate. We are in the second of three seasons now so we are all set for next season, though my guess is that they are going to want shows after that. Unless you guys stop watching it. Transcribed by Bruce Gomes |
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2078 - One entry per project in "digest" subscription update emails
Currently I have all of my subscriptions set to notify me on a weekly basis if each project's file is updated. Unfortunately for very active projects (BigWigs comes to mind) this means that my weekly "here is what's been updated this week" message has dozens of entries for the same project... and to make it worse, the updates are not necessarily in the correct order, so I can't just click the link in the first BigWigs entry (or the last).
To improve the situation, I would suggest that if a project has been updated more than once in the specified time period, only the most recent update should be included in the digest message.
Some way to specify whether I'm interested in -nolib zips or "regular" zips would be nice, but even if not, having just two entries per project would be a huge improvement.
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- Jul 24, 2013
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- Dec 19, 2009
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- Type
- Enhancement - A change which is intended to better the project in some way
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If this won't get your foot in the door, anything else will.
Yes they are.
We have all read the email from some widow or bank official from some country who needs your help to claim the millions of dollars of an inheritance. All they need from you is a few dollars and your social security number. Once they get the money, they will give you a few million dollars for your trouble.
Usually these emails have tons of spelling and grammar errors along with being from some type of free email service.
Most of us say to ourselves "Who is dumb enough to fall for this?" That is what these scammers are betting on. They reason these emails are kept so obvious is because only a complete idiot would fall for them. If someone does reply, they are an easy mark and will quickly be separated from their money.
If you really think how much time is wasted doing things that don't help you achieve your goals, it is depressing.
At the start of every day take10 minutes to really think about what you want to accomplish for that day. Make a point not to look at Facebook, Twitter or whatever "time suck" until you complete that list. There will be two things that you will notice pretty quickly. The first will be how much of your day is taken up with things that completely don't matter. The second is how your productivity begins to go through the roof.
I know it sounds extremely simple but so few actually do it. Give it a try.
You have worked hard for it and it is here, the day of the interview. Now what? A job interview is one of the most stressful situations you can find yourself in. But is you are prepared you will do great. Here are some tips to get yourself ready for success on the day of your interview.
1) Has a day planner or electronic organizer; it shows that you are organized.
2) Prepare a manila folder to bring to the meeting. Include in the folder
a. Company information (annual reports, sales material, Information pulled from the internet, etc.)
b. Extra resumes (at least 6) and any letters of reference you may have.
c. At least 7 well thought out questions for your interviewer
d. A blank legal pad and pen
Does someone want to pay you by a check and wire some of the money back to them? It's a scam that could cost you thousands of dollars.
There are many variations to fake check scams and there seems to be new ones almost every day. The scam starts with a person offering to:
The standard claim from the person operating this scam is that they are in a different country and it is too difficult to pay you directly, so they will have someone who owes them money in your country send you a check.
The amount of the check you will receive will be greater than what is owed you. You will be instructed to deposit the check in your bank account and then wirer the overpayment to the scammer. Another variation is that you need to pay a "fee" to get millions of dollars from a lottery you won in another country. There are other examples when the scammer offers to deposit the money directly into your bank account. You give them all of your account information for an electronic fund transfer. Instead of them electronically transferring the funds the scammer sends your bank a phony check to be deposited into your account, when you check your account balance it looks like the money has been electronically deposited.
However they trick you into transferring the money, the result is always the same, the check bounces and you are left owing the bank a lot of money. You also just committed a very serious crime.
You may be thinking to yourself "If the check turns out to be a fake, isn't that the bank's problem?" No it's not. It's your problem. You are the only one responsible for the checks you deposit into your account. When a check bounce, you owe the bank the money you withdrew. The bank can take from any other accounts you have with them our even take legal action against you to get the money back.
There is no legitimate reason for someone to give you money and then ask for you to send them a money order bank. That is a big red flag that it's a scam. If you are selling something online as for a money order for the exact amount or you can use a service like Paypal.
I think the term "anarchism" has a branding problem. How about the term "decentralization of decision making"?
I've been reading a lot about the topic lately and to my surprise found myself agreeing with many of the concepts.The reason I say "to my surprise" is because my whole life has been based around hierarchies. Plus I have thrived in them.
One of the concepts that I am working through right now is the idea that when people are given the responsibility to make decisions in a collective way and ultimately need to live with that decision, the result will be better than if the decision was made by some type of centralized authority. Plus the decision that is made will have overwhelming support because everyone participated in the decision making process.Who is better to know the best response and all the ramifications of that response to a situation than the person directly dealing with situation?
I agree with this completely.
This leads me to a question that I personally can not answer. Do people really want to participate in the decisions when given the opportunity?
Today's one of those days that has really been a challenge to get things done. That type of day were every task feels like a chore. Every person that I encountered for the most part was annoying to me. Luckily for me, these types of days are few and far between. But it led me to do some research into "Finding Your Passion."
To be perfectly honest I have no idea what my "passion" is. What I did learn today is the internet is a really horrible place to try to find it.
I have things that I am passionate about but I wouldn't call them my "passion". I will passionately argue politics with anyone that is willing to engage me but I am not going to quit my day job to be the next great political commentator. I am passionate about making sure that my son washes his hands before he eats and after he uses the bathroom. I really don't know what I would do with that.
But as I thought about discovering my "passion" and turning into a career a quote came to mind "Wherever you go, there you are."
Any career is only as fulfilling as you are willing to make it. We all have bad days at work. That is just part of being human. But overall, do you bring your "A" game when you come into the office? People who can honestly say "yes" to that question are probably very happy with what they do for a living.
The key to that answer is "honestly." There are people that I work with that would say they bring their "A" game every day but for the most part stare at the clock. Or every time they are asked to do something that is a little bit more than their job description or out of their comfort zone, do it but begrudgingly.
The bottom line, it is easy to be unhappy with your career, hop on the internet and do searches for "how to find your passion." But what are you bringing to your day? Put in some real effort and see what happens.
People love to talk about the advantages of having there very own home based business they start from scratch. The freedom. The ability to do what they love. Oh, don't forget the tons of money they are making. But the reality is that is a very small minority of the people that actually attempt to start there very own legitimate home based business from scratch.
There are many disadvantages of starting your own business completely on your own that many people don't even realize. Here are some disadvantages of starting your legitimate home based business from scratch.
Waitressing is a great way to make money for many people. If you work at the right place you can definitely make a good living. In the past you very rarely needed a resume to apply for a waitress position. But that is starting to change with the large amount of restaurant chains. Here are two examples of resume formats that are great for applying to a waitress position.
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This wasn't as spur-of-the-moment of a suggestion as it might sound. Even though he hadn't specifically met with MGM to sell them on the notion of a RoboCop remake (for one thing, he wasn't certain that they still had the rights), Padilha already had a mental outline of what a new version of the Verhoeven film might look like. "I had a take on it before that meeting," the 46-year-old filmmaker says, on the phone while scouting locations for an upcoming day-long shoot that will capture the final pieces he needs to complete the RoboCop remake he pitched to MGM roughly three years ago, which will finally arrive in theatres on Feb. 12, 2014, via Columbia Pictures. At the time, the studio was lukewarm to the idea, having already been through the development mill with a Darren Aronofsky-helmed RoboCop remake that ultimately went nowhere. "They said, 'RoboCop again? What's your take?'" Padilha remembers. And so the director spun them the following scenario: "We're in 2026 or 2030 and the drone issue—using drones for warfare—has escalated. Now, drones are everywhere and they're automated; they don't need drone pilots, the drones make the decision whether or not to fire based on software. So, for the first time in history, we have autonomous machines waging war—except in America, because Americans wouldn't accept a robot pulling the trigger. So they passed a law saying that in order for a law-enforcement entity to enforce life-and-death decisions, it had to consist of conscious human beings who know the value of human lives. Even though Americans are using drones everywhere else in the world, they can't be used in America itself."
Against this backdrop, Padhila's pitch continued, the profit-minded drone manufacturer OmniCorp (a subsidiary of Omni Consumer Products or OCP, the rogue corporation from Verhoeven's original) and its devious CEO Sellars (played by Michael Keaton) devise a unique end-run around the "no drones on home soil" stipulation. Namely, they'll find a way to stick a flesh-and-blood man (at least part of one) inside one of their machines, thus claiming that the drone is a conscious human being…or close enough, anyway. They find their unwilling volunteer in the form of Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman, occupying the role originated by Peter Weller), a Detroit cop who is almost killed in an explosion and has his remaining organic parts transferred into a cutting-edge OmniCorp-manufactured cybernetic suit that patrols the Motor City streets as…RoboCop. Unlike his '80s predecessor, though, this robotic cop is fully aware of his human identity as well as everything he's lost since forcibly donning the suit, including his wife Clara (Abbie Cornish) and the ability to do such basic things as feeding himself.
"The thing about this version of RoboCop is that Alex doesn't become RoboCop in a single leap," Padilha explains. "He doesn't die and wakes up as a machine. He is conscious that he's inside a machine and doesn't have a body. So how do you deal with that? Do you really want to be a robot and not have sex with your wife or hold your son? At a certain level, the movie poses the question, 'What does it mean to be a man?' So it's not your usual superhero movie: Kids want to be Spider-Man and Iron Man. They don't want to be RoboCop. Not even Alex wants to be RoboCop! It's more like Frankenstein than anything else."
Padilha credits Verhoeven's film with raising some of the issues he wanted to tackle in the remake, including the man-vs.-machine question and the potential automation of law enforcement in the near future. "The original RoboCop is very courageous and ahead of its time, the way it poses real issues in the context of an action movie. And we kept its satirical element, too. Remember those amazing, ironic corporate ads in the original film? Instead of using ads, we replaced them with the media. Samuel L. Jackson plays an over-the-top right-wing commentator on a Fox News-like network who is in favor of using drones in the U.S. That character captures what's going on in America right now, with the two political parties having very little common ground and the media reflecting that division."
On the other hand, the remake's incorporation of the drone debate is unique to this era and is an issue that Padilha specifically wanted to address. "Whenever you open a newspaper, there's a big article about drones and the Obama government is being criticized about its use of drones over and over again. It's a very sophisticated debate that Americans will have to deal with because of the position the country has in the world and the technological advances of autonomous machines. There are arguments in favor and against, because you can theoretically program a robot with the values of your society and the robot can then reinforce the law without any bias or the possibility of corruption. So that's an argument in favor of automating war and law enforcement, but there are also plenty against, the main one being that you cannot automate emotions and feelings and those things are needed for real policemen [or soldiers] to make a proper evaluation. Also, liability goes out the window because once a robot pulls the trigger and makes a mistake by killing a kid or something, who is to blame? Is it the robot? How do you punish a robot? Do you punish the guy who made the software or the guy who made the machine? Liability and accountability go out the window."
Beyond his own interest in the subject, Padilha put drones front and center in RoboCop in the hopes of encouraging a broad American audience to ponder an issue that will continue to loom large in the country's relationship with the international community for years to come. "Being a foreigner and a foreigner who really loves America, I always see the country's foreign policy in a different light, because those of us who live outside the U.S. see the interference America does in other countries. If I look at a presidential election in Brazil, there are never any debates about us invading any other country. There's just no conversation about that. But America, because of its position in the world, those issues are always involved. I'm not saying it's a good or a bad thing—it's just a thing. So I wanted to make a movie that talked about that, a movie that has a basic political debate being pushed and which has a philosophical side to it, because those issues are philosophical. In fact, some of the characters in the movie—like Sellars—are named after famous philosophers."
Lest you think this version of RoboCop will consist largely of the title character debating philosophy rather than hunting down bad guys, Padilha is quick to add that his movie packs plenty of firepower. "I like to make movies that are entertaining and will reach a broad audience. But I also figure that if I'm going to spend two or three years of my life doing something, which is how long a movie this big takes these days, I want to make something that's meaningful. Both of the Elite Squad films are very political, but they were also blockbusters in Brazil, so we wrote a screenplay for RoboCop that tries to do the same thing: Be a very popular movie that at the same time explores issues we care about."
Fans of the rugged, kinetic action sequences in the Elite Squad films will likely recognize Padilha's touch in RoboCop's set-pieces, as the director says that he tried to retain some of that handheld documentary feel (inherited from his time working in the nonfiction realm, where he helmed such features as 2002's acclaimed Bus 174), even with the new addition of elaborate special effects. "The visual effects were new for me, but to tell you the truth, I shot it [the way I wanted] and then gave the problem to the visual effects department to solve. And they did! I didn't do exactly the Elite Squad thing, because this is a different movie so I made some adaptations, but I remained true to the way I like shooting those kinds of scenes."
RoboCop does differ from the Elite Squad movies in at least one key respect: Compared to their jaded presentation of a law-enforcement system riddled with corruption and abuses of power, RoboCop's depiction of an embattled police department sounds positively sunny—even if it takes place in a dystopic version of near-future America. According to Padilha, that's reflective of a fundamental difference between Brazilian and American methods of policing. "Let me put it this way: Every year in Rio de Janeiro, about 1,000 people are killed by the police. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the police kill about 200 people. I'm not saying the American police are perfect, but compared to Brazil, it's so much better. We are corrupt, we are violent and we use torture over and over again. It's unbelievable what happens in Rio. There's a tradition of American movies about vigilantes—we don't have that in Brazil, because I don't see what a vigilante could do in Brazil that would make him more violent than the police! It just wouldn't make any sense."
Along with the bigger budgets and new technological toys that are part of joining the Hollywood blockbuster enterprise, Padilha has also had to adapt to the intense scrutiny that accompanies remaking a much-loved hit. The new RoboCop has been a regular topic of Internet movie board conversation since the project was first announced, and the (mostly negative) comments reached a crescendo when photos of the new suit—an all-black affair instead of the well-known silver ensemble that adorned the poster for the '87 film—circulated online. Although Padilha says he doesn't pay much attention to the chattering Web classes, he does hope that the skeptics withhold their judgments until February. "It's hard for anyone outside a movie to judge what that that movie is. A director creates a certain universe and story and character, which have to be internally coherent and have their own dramatic reality inside the story. There's been a lot of talk about the black suit, but that's talk from people who haven't seen the movie. Once they see it, they'll see that the black suit isn't exactly what they think it is—there's more than one suit in the movie. Having said that, I think it's fun that people are scrutinizing the movie, because it generates interest and once they see it, they can have an informed opinion about it and say what they really think. I just try to make the best movie I can for myself and put it out there. Once it's out there, it has a life of its own and people are entitled to think whatever they want."
As he prepares to put the finishing touches on RoboCop, Padilha is already planning a pair of follow-up projects that could keep him ensconced in the American studio system for some time. The first is Brotherhood, a true-crime movie he's developing with Warner Bros., and the other is Tri-Border, an original screenplay he's pitching to various studios about a DEA agent who journeys to the titular crime-ridden South American region where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay bump up against each other.
One thing that's not on his immediate radar is a second RoboCop 2 (Irvin Kershner directed the original—and widely lambasted—sequel in 1990), though he doesn't rule that option out. "I made a closed movie—I shot RoboCop," he says. "It's its own thing, but you can do a sequel to it, no doubt about that. You can do a sequel to anything!" Sounds like he's already learned one of the most important rules about making movies in Hollywood.


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Thursday, March 17, 2011
lighter and sweeter
We've had morning sun two days in a row. The extra light in the evenings this week has had a crazy effect on me. I've gone from being militant and structured down to the minute about the whole evening school night routine, to being totally laissez-faire. I think my subconscious has been tricked into thinking it's summer.
10 comments:
- Erin {pughs' news} said...
Me too! The boys were totally doing jigsaw puzzles in the living room at 7 o'clock! Normally they are upstairs, teeth brushed, pajamas on, ready for their bedtime story.
Oh summer... I'm so looking forward to it! - Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 10:40:00 PM PDT
- Jess said...
Spring Break starts today for my kids, and they were up until 9:15 last night! (my husband's doing)
I hope they sleep in today. - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 3:54:00 AM PDT
- Char said...
gorgeous color
- Friday, March 18, 2011 at 7:00:00 AM PDT
- A Day That is Dessert said...
Glad I'm not the only one :) and I'm hoping their teachers aren't struggling with tired kiddos. My boys have seemed fine with staying up a bit later - perhaps the light is energizing....
Thank you Char.
xoxo Lecia - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 12:12:00 PM PDT
- Denise | Chez Danisse said...
A little summer in March, nice, I like it. Another superb photograph.
- Friday, March 18, 2011 at 12:49:00 PM PDT
- KPiep said...
Meanwhile, I'm going into a spring cleaning frenzy! I think I fight SAD so much in the winter that I develop inertia...and as soon as there is light again I find myself coming back to action.
- Friday, March 18, 2011 at 1:41:00 PM PDT
- Deidra said...
I say go with it! :)
- Friday, March 18, 2011 at 3:33:00 PM PDT
- Nicola (Which Name?) said...
The time change is making me a little nutty and my preschooler is taking waayyyy too long to fall asleep at night!
- Friday, March 18, 2011 at 8:41:00 PM PDT
- Francesca said...
Daylight savings kicks in at the end of the month here, and right now it still feels pretty wintry.
- Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 1:59:00 PM PDT
- Sammi said...
morning sunshine is the best :)
- Monday, March 21, 2011 at 2:50:00 AM PDT


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Joe Tomlinson has written a very worthwhile article in the February 2012 Journal of Financial Planning called, "A Utility-Based Approach to Evaluating Investment Strategies." He will visit GRIPS on March 15 to present this research and subsequent advances he has made to it.
An area of research that I am getting more and more interested in relates to developing tools to analyze how to find the best allocation for a retiree's investment portfolio combined with single-premium immediate annuities (SPIAs), deferred annuities, and variable annuities with guaranteed benefit riders. This combines asset allocation with product allocation (as Moshe Milevsky calls the framework for choosing among different types of annuities).
How to analyze the appropriate asset allocation and product allocation? There are two basic ways. Are innovations for the framework to evaluate retirement income strategies best guided by using various criteria and risk metrics (such as failure probability or value of bequests) which allow direct retiree decisions for evaluating tradeoffs related to spending and bequests, or should the framework specifically incorporate the formal mathematical concepts of utility maximization to help guide retiree choices, perhaps under the recognition that the human mind is not equipped for making decisions among abstract and uncertain tradeoffs?
First let me give a brief answer to that. I think both approaches are useful and mutually reinforcing. Retirees should be free to choose as they wish to find the proper balance among competing tradeoffs. Most retirees will not be happy letting their decisions be guided by an indecipherable black box. They will want to feel they are empowered to make decisions. But with utility, their decisions can also be "double checked" to make sure they sufficiently understood the task of choosing among abstract and uncertain possibilities and found something matching a reasonable set of preferences.
In this article, Joe Tomlinson makes an important contribution. The article actually considers both approaches at the same time. Table 1 shows results for risk metrics (I'd like to come up with a better term for this – any ideas?), while Table 2 shows results for utility analysis.
He considers an inflation-adjusted SPIA with a payout rate of 5.05%, and he assumes that this matches the retiree's desired spending. He also considers other strategies which combine stocks, bonds, and partial annuitization in varying ways. In later research, perhaps he can work more toward finding an optimal withdrawal rate as well.
In Table 1, he shows how the different strategies perform across 1,000 Monte Carlo simulations based on the average value of the bequest left at death, the probability that the strategy failed to provide wealth for one's whole life, and the average amount of the losses in the cases of failure assuming that one could have kept spending into a hole.
In Table 2, he considers the matter of utility. He explained very well about the intuition for why he does this: "The problem is that three different variables need to be brought into the decision. This naturally leads to the question of whether a more informative decision tool could be developed by combining the measures. To do this we need to shift our focus from pure financial outcomes to the fuzzier concept of the satisfaction associated with those outcomes. We need to develop a utility measure."
He uses a loss aversion utility function, in which running out of wealth has a stronger negative impact on utility than the positive utility experienced by leaving a bequest. This approach makes a lot of sense, and it can also be thought of more simply as a way to judge how important leaving a bequest is, compared to not running out of funds. Defining parameters for utility functions can be complicated, but Joe Tomlinson also describes a small survey he conducted to get a better idea about the degree in which losses hurt worse than parallel gains.
What he finds is a stark cut off: 100% stocks are preferred by someone who is not so hurt by losses and/or is more interested to leave a bequest. Meanwhile, 100% annuitization is preferred by someone who feels great pain by running out of wealth and/or is otherwise not interested to leave a bequest.
The article is quite accessible, and it includes lots of interesting gems, such as his discussion of the danger of bond ladders with uncertain lifespans, the role of the equity premium in driving the results, and his ideas for how to make guaranteed benefit riders that would be more worthwhile ("could be very useful if it became available in a low-cost, index-funds version, with an inflation guarantee, but without the commission loads and the charges for active management."). I hear that, and hope we get there one of these days!


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