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Hi everyone! What are the perfect conditions for planting a banana tree? And also, can I plant one in my flat? As in, inside? Or do you think that is a recipe for disaster? I have grown many things indoors already, I find it easier to regulate the temperature for example. But I'm completely new to banana trees! |
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Not knowing where you live, it is hard to say. Bananas like heat and water. Plenty of both. Frost and cold are not your friends. With that I would plant in Spring when it is warm. Indoors is pot luck but as a first timer I would wait til spring. Good luck. Brian |
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Hey guys, i'm new to this forum, obviously since this is only my first post. I don't know where to actually post this so if a forum mod would like to move this feel free.
But i'm looking for a way to crash a Windows 7 computer, using a batch file. I know a decent amount about DOS/Batch files, but i don't know exactly how to crash a windows 7 computer using a batch file, because there was only one way i really wanted to do it, but with Windows 7 security fail safe, i can't take control and delete my "c:\windows\system32" folder. You're probably asking me why i would like to do this, and the reason is because it's a school project. My instructor would like us to crash one of this lab computers using a batch file, which all i can do is Right-click>Run As Administrator. He wants it done with a lot of stylish stuff, and etc. But i'm not here for that, all i'm curious about is some different, unique, cool ways to crash a Windows 7 computer.
Is everything i'm allowed to do, plus i can use hardware damage. Feel free to flame, etc, i'm just a new comer on this forum so i don't know how you all work. But i would hope you would/could help me. Thank you in advance, SkinCells/Layne |
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Personally I don't think such things should be posted. We are here to help fix computers not dream up ways to destroy them.
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Granted I am breaking a computer. And whatever problems do happen to it, they will be completely fixed and nothing will actually be done to the computer unless hardware damage is done.
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Actually you are not breaking a computer. You are trying to break the operating system.
As to how I have no idea. The one thing I do know is that you can't cause any real hardware damage to the computer by running any program. Yes you can corrupt the hard drive but all that can be fixed. There are no key combos or programs that can cause the system to self destruct, burst into sparks and flames. That is a Movie thing. Not real life. |
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You could execute multiple random number requests using the random number generator and execute this in parallel many times for an infinitely long random number.
Either one of two things or both will happen: 1) Windows runs out of allocated RAM 2) Resources on the CPU will be so high that windows will not be able to poll the CPU for commands anymore. This does not actually "destroy" the computer, just lock up the OS due to a lack of available resources. Either way just a warning: is that you should not use any of this for harmful intent! |
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I made the bolero just by using a basic puffy sleeved top pattern, shortened it, cut the front in half and reshaped it. But i will concider uploading the pattern some day.
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I spent a good part of the weekend avoiding this Los Angeles Times column by Tim Rutten headlined "Setting the price of a free press."
I have my blood pressure to think about. Here's the subhead: "If the 1st Amendment is to mean anything, Congress has to suspend antitrust rules for the newspaper industry so publishers can determine as a group how much to charge for online content."
It's been making the Twitter rounds in Future of Journalism nerdland because it's another piece in a major daily encouraging Congress to suspend antitrust laws so that newspapers can form a cartel and collude on pricing.
Usually the argument is that newspapers must be saved because they're important civic institutions and their reporters play a vital watchdog role in society. Rutten's innovation is to argue that without newspapers the First Amendment would be meaningless. He also separates from the pack by freely using the word "collude."
I'm going to borrow a format from the late, lamented Fire Joe Morgan because it's the closest I can come to forming a coherent argument while foaming at the mouth.
I don't want to be accused of stealing content so I'm only going to copy parts of Rutten's piece. I also don't want to be accused of quoting him out of context, so I'll wait here while you go read the whole thing. That link again: Here. By Tim Rutten in the L.A. Times. OK? Here we go.
[Rupert Murdoch] understands that what's required for serious -- which is to say expensive-to-produce -- journalism to survive is that all the quality English-language papers and news sites agree to charge for Web access and then mercilessly sue anyone who makes more than fair use of their work without paying a fee.
The business plan, then, is to "mercilessly sue" the people who are giving your customers, former customers and potential customers what they want. And, in this confusing new-media world, many of the people you will be mercilessly suing will be your customers, former customers and potential customers. Not only is that the plan, it's the only possible plan. It's required. Because it's worked so well for all those other industries that have done it.
American papers had combined revenues of $34.7 billion from the advertising in their print editions last year and just $3.1 billion in advertising from their online sites, despite the fact that, on average, 67.3 million people visited them each month.
My dad, who is not a journalist, pointed something out about sports reporting when I was a kid. He said that newspaper writers think that how things are going now is how things are always going to go. If the local nine has won six straight, you get stories filled with optimism and dissections of all the reasons the team is so great. Let them lose the next three and the papers will be filled with stories about the flaws of the team -- same exact bunch of guys -- and how steps must be taken before it's too late. Written by the same writers, of course.
Two-year-olds are the same way. Try explaining to a 2-year-old that you're taking something away, but you're going to give it back in a few minutes.
And Rutten suffers from the same problem. Because newspapers have higher revenues than their online sites, that will always be the case. It's not possible for online revenue to catch up to print revenue. And advertising revenue? It's the only important revenue source -- and therefore it always will be.
Notice also that Rutten only talks about revenue from newspaper sites, as though that were the whole Web. In fact, that's a subset of the Web that has been notable for its incompetence and the indifference and cluelessness of its owners.
Congress needs to move quickly to grant the newspaper industry at least a temporary exemption from antitrust and price-fixing laws so that publishers and proprietors can, in essence, collude for survival. The question that naturally arises is why the government should have any interest in supporting newspapers -- unhealthy or otherwise.
Funny you should mention that. I was gonna say.
In fact, U.S. authorities have used their regulatory powers to support a free press -- whose foundations were and remain newspapers -- since the Colonial era.
Next we get a history lesson about colonial deputy postmaster Ben Franklin setting cheap or free postal rates for newspapers, a policy that survived independence.
That was crucial to the free flow of information because it allowed the foreign and financial news that aggregated in the port cities to pass uninhibited to the printer/publishers of inland papers, while events in the hinterland were transmitted back to the major cities.
What Rutten's doing here is confusing newspapers with communication. In Ben Franklin's day -- and, in nothing new under the sun news, let's not forget the conflict of interest printer/publisher turned policy-maker Franklin had going -- that was largely true. So the cheap postal rates fostered the free flow of information. Today, newspapers are a fraction of communication.
Even Rutten doesn't try to claim explicitly that newspapers are the entirety of a free press. He uses mushy language to say that newspapers are the "foundations" of a free press, then argues as if he'd made the point that newspapers are the free press.
What Rutten is arguing for here would do exactly the opposite of what he says it would do, which is a neat rhetorical trick. It would hinder the free flow of information. If you want to hinder the free flow of information for business reasons, say so. Don't feed us a line of bull about how you're standing up for freedom.
More important, if Congress acts as it should, it will do so not on behalf of newspapers but for their readers.
Rutten! It's like you can't even hear me! What did I just say?
The press, after all, does not assert 1st Amendment protections on its own behalf but as the custodian of such protections on behalf of the American people.
Oh, on behalf of the people. So it's just a happy coincidence that Congress lifting antitrust laws for newspapers would pull newspapers' crispy butts out of the fire. It's not about that. It's about the people.
Have you met the people, Tim? I hear they're lovely once you get to know them. They're the ones who have been saying for years, with their actions, "If you charge us for online news, we will abandon you. We do not support newspapers or anyone else charging for online news except for news that's highly specialized. We have signaled this consensus by not paying for general news in huge numbers. What we're saying here, Tim, is: You are not seeking government protections on our behalf. We are against what you are trying to do. Also, we like dogs. Not really relevant here, but we, the people, just freakin' love dogs."
The framers wisely judged that a healthy democratic government required people informed by a free press, acting according to the dictates of their own consciences, speaking their minds without inhibition in the free associations of their choosing.
And you agree, unless they don't choose your product.
If the unlooked-for consequences of technical innovation somehow threatened religious freedom -- which is to say, liberty of conscience -- or inhibited free speech or intimidated people from assembling, there's no doubt Congress would act expeditiously.
Right! Like, for example, if someone tried to inhibit the free flow of information to protect their own business interests, Congress ought to leap into the fray, if necessary, to make sure it doesn't happen.
So it now should on behalf of a free press.
So far, it is. By not listening to you and other newspaper guys posing as free-speech advocates by demanding the right to shut up other publishers.
Newspaper proprietors with as serious an interest in their readers' interest as their own bottom lines ought to follow Murdoch's unlikely lead into a consortium of pay-to-view news websites or adopt one of the other proposed models as quickly as practical.
Newspaper proprietors with a serious interest in their readers' interest as well as their own bottom lines ought to listen to their readers -- that is, their customers, former customers and potential customers -- instead of threatening to "mercilessly sue" them, or anyone who gives them what they want.
Fixed that for you, Tim.
Unless our lawmakers empower the newspaper industry to act on its readers' behalf, it's only a matter of time until there are too few serious sources of quality -- or "premium" -- journalism to guarantee the reality of the free press on which all the 1st Amendment's indispensable liberties depend.
This is true only if you operate under two assumptions, both false. The first is that only newspapers can provide quality, or "premium" journalism. The second is that the way things are today is the way they will always be.
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Reading assignment for next time: "High-quality journalism isn't 'free'" by Benjamin J. Marrison of the Columbus Dispatch.
I particularly like your Dad's thought about sports writers who "think that how things are going now is how things are always going to go."
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to find your link in my blog, try searching google for comradity and you'll find my blog. Go to Comradity Comments Index and the relevant post is entitled "What should the government do to help the press?"
And yet. It would be nice to be paid for the journalistic writing I'm doing online. I'm not worried about the quality of "free" journalism; the many town hall blogs that are evolving seem to be adding to the neighborhood news quotient rather than causing anomie.
And yet. It does cost money to do full-length, investigative feature reporting. Even Ida Tarbell, who was fairly obsessed with getting John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil at the turn of the 20th century, was getting paid by McClure's magazine.
We writers need some help here. But ditching antitrust laws--worse, being beholden to government interests that help unravel said laws and create news monopolies--is antithetical to good investigative reporting. Unless you're a premium (gold-plated) reporter, I guess.
This highlights a problem (which others have probably written about more extensively, but which I have some small personal experience with). The problem is this: No one can figure out how to pay for anything besides running ads. Ads in magazines and newspapers have survived because no one can be sure how well they're working. Ads online can be tracked quite closely and what we've seen there is advertising doesn't actually work. Therefore paper ads sell for enough money to support large scale endeavors -- magazines, newspapers -- while online ads sell for enough money to support a small coffee habit, if you don't go to Starbucks.
I've been on the Web putting up content of one kind or another since 1993. At the beginning no one worried about how to make it pay but it rapidly became clear that we content providers would like to get paid for what we were doing. It became clear somewhat later that there was simply no way we were going to get paid, especially not in relation to the numbers of viewers we were getting.
We've all tried subscriptions and ads but basically the only really sustainable model for paying for online content is subsidy: A day job, government grants, foundations, and so forth. Mostly day jobs. Because the consumers have spoken: We want -- expect and demand -- online content to be free. What we haven't figured out is that someone always pays. Either Coca-Cola runs ads and you pay more for your Coke, or you pay your subscription, or you pay your taxes and they get filtered down to some non-profit or other.
This problem hasn't been solved yet and it's been fifteen years. And neither Tim Rutten shouting that we all need to start paying pronto or King Kaufman's shouting that that's clearly insane will solve it any time soon.
Online news is 20 years old. During that entire period, there has been nothing preventing the traditional press from embracing new media and finding new ways to balance the same old journalism/business dichotomy with which they've always wrestled. In fact you'd think that news people would regard it as the very essence of their profession to get involved as early and often as possible with new modes of communication and information exchange.
Instead the traditional press sleepwalked (sleptwalked?) through two decades, spending what creative energy it had on figuring out new ways to consolidate and monopolize rather than to, you know, publish.
Today the press, shocked to discover gambling at Rick's, acts as if the challenges of the internet age emerged fully formed out of the mist sometime in the last few years. And of course their thinking still goes no further than finding some new way to monopolize their way out of the problem.
As famous philosopher of journalism Yoda once said, "That is why you fail."
Yes, it's silly to suggest that newspapers are the ONLY form of journalism, but I don't think that's what he's really arguing. He's saying it's a crucial component of journalism in our current system, and there's nothing on the horizon to replace it, so we'll be screwed without it.
He's right.
You can try to box him in on individual points all you want, but big picture, that point is solid, and most of the people familiar with the business agree with it.
Yes, the corporations pushing this are big corps and have a vested interest too, and are not doing it just for the public good. But it's a logical fallacy to suggest that because they have a vested interest, they can't also share the public interest. Here, the two coincide.
I sure hope Congress acts. What has taken so long for the cries asking them?
The only question I have is whether it's ten years too late, and whether it can actually work.
Martha is right, after all - quality investigative reporting costs money. You gotta pay the reporter for his work days and expenses. Ain't no way around it. You also gotta pay for the editorial staff that takes the reporter's work and prepares it for consumption. Not even talking about your necessary legal and admin. department etc.
Once the medium is widespread enough, the problem will be obviated. Print (as in hardcopy) is just a medium, and a very costly one at that - materials, production and distribution. Eliminating it will reduce costs across the board.
And having said that, a little sour grapes kvetch - You know I love your writing, King, but is it really fair to have your item on the mothership take up the OS promotional spot? I mean, when it happens with David Sirota (another wonderful writer and journalist) it's kinda pushing it, cause his stuff also appears (or used to) on the mothership itself. But you're a senior Salon writer and editor. This should have gone up on the mothership in red, leaving the once weekly blue spot to promote one of us not-yet-broken-through schlubs (and I'm not talking about myself in this instance, since I don't have any fresh posts that woulda contended for the honor this week). Just my opinion.
On the first point, you're right, but there's also a lot of crap masquerading as premium. You work for Slate, which is good, but perhaps you've been breathing your rarified air for too long; you might not understand that there are other bad bloggers out there purporting to be good bloggers. There should be a measure by which people can trust what they read online and newspapers offer that. And it's THEIR news, and I think most people agree that stealing is bad.
One the second point, your dad is also right. My mother used to say, "and this too shall pass," but it won't pass without forward trajectory, and so I think the effort being put forth by Ruttan shouldn't be thrown out wholesale without looking at the real ramifications. Maybe the anti-trust laws need tweaking. I don't know, I'm not a lawyer. But you're using the word "collude" like the anti-health care nuts are using "death panels" — as a scare tactic.
It might not be as scary as it sounds, but we should at least be allowed to examine the potential without getting yelled at.
First, King of course works for Salon, not Slate.
Second, there is no similarity between King's proper use of "collude" and the false "death panels" meme. It is NOT a scare tactic. Anti-trust was invented specifically to prevent what this LAT dude is suggesting. Furthermore, there is no "scaring" here because the point is we're already not buying the product. What's the scare? Not buy it more?
If you allow competitors in an industry to set the prices between them - that's the dictionary definition of "collusion". That's what the word actually means. It's not a scare tactic to point that out.
It is great to see your thoughts on journalism extend beyond Coin Aficionado and I've been happy to see you in type again recently. Collusion won't do for journalism what more folks like yourself can do; make readers contemplate a topic they really didn't care about before.
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o) I find it absolutely hilarious--in a grim kind of way--that the poll associated with Rutten's article gives you two choices to select from: "Should newspapers charge for contents on the internet? 1) Yes, so they can stay in business. 2) No, all content on the Internet should be free." Talk about your textbook definition of "false dichotomy."
o) One of the links off of Rutten's screen is to an LA Times article on the recent prevalence of the number 9 in film titles (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-nine22-2009aug22,0,921060.story). It's a reasonably-amusing article, I guess, but it's no more or less interesting than any 10 blog posts that I can find here on Open Salon, and it certainly not worthy of suspending anti-trust laws to support. Should we be charged for opinion content and fluff that we can easily get somewhere else, Mr. Rutten?
And one of Murdoch's properties, the Wall Street Journal, has been doing it right for a long time. They give you access to some stuff for free. If you want more, you've got to pay. It's not that expensive. It's only $60 a year for the online edition.
I wouldn't be against people across the industry setting a consistent rate for access to individual articles (say a buck or so) or access to their entire sites. I'd be fine with that.
The question to be answered is what is the definition of "the press".
Over time courts have had to make rulings that interpret the Constitution. The press eant one thing at the time of the Constitution and evolved over time. Now, in the Internet era, what constitutes the press is nebulous because people who act as reporters may not work for a traditional news organization nor even get directly paid for their work.
So the question that arises is what is the specific definition of the press?
What we call 'good journalism' is what we agree with. If we agree with the editorial, then we think it's first class.
And so it goes.
1) Clearly, newspapers are too big to fail...except those that have, well, already failed.
2) Most of us very much lament living in our own era, and not Ben Franklin's. I mean, fuck penicillin. Gimme a newspaper!
3) Government MUST intervene here, or there will be no free press...only Wordpress, which is....free.
I find the greatest thing about this whole Future of Journalism debate is that it shows just how many self-important, lame-brains are still employed in journalism.
this is a good thing. war, politics, reporting, and sex should all be done by enthusiastic amateurs.
As Martha Nichols points out, investigative journalism costs money. So does routine, day-to-day journalism. Reporters get paid for doing a certain job; some do it well, some don't. But quality, believe it or not, is a constant standard at the newspaper I work for. And I know (even though my paper's owned by Murdoch) mine isn't the only paper that turns out the best "product" possible every day.
I put that word in quotes because I don't do product. That's an industry term. I write stories for a living. I gather information from sources friendly and otherwise, cajole or complain my way into facts and fallacies, and I try to recognize the difference. I listen to and try to capture for readers (be they plain citizens or advertisers, politicians or princes) the pain and pleasures of living in a particular community at a particular time. My name goes on everything I write, along with my e-mail address. I'm listed in the phone book. If I get it wrong -- a name misspelled, a tax rate wrongly computed, I'm mortified for days and I stand corrected in the next day's edition. I rarely hear my stuff praised, more often see it criticized. It's my job and I do it as well as I can. And for that, I get paid. I don't get paid a lot, but I make a living. And I'm just a single reporter, with dozens of colleagues, editors, and support staff making it all possible.
If I didn't get paid, I wouldn't be able to do write or report much of anything worth publishing or posting. A corporation stands behind me, making it possible for me to write stories. It's not a noble corporation. No corporation is. But it pays the mortgage (just barely) and I do the job and the stories get told -- in print and online, good news and bad.
Rutten's proposal strikes me as dicey. It has the taste of panic and looks backwards for its questionable comforts. If he sounds desperate -- and I think he does -- I'm glad he's at least standing up for newspapers, however benighted his proposal may be. In fact, I would say that rather than smugly predicting newspapers' demise, the presumptive "alternatives" to newspapers could use a dose of desperation as well.
The country's cadres of "citizen journalists" have yet to produce anything comparable to what I've outlined above. Blogging has not been able to professionalize itself to any appreciable extent. It hasn't attracted enough big money to staff and maintain reliable local news outlets that can regularly match or surpass what local dailies or weeklies do every day. The various "new media" won't amount to much at the local level (which is where most readers live and breathe) until and unless they can find a way to pay salaries for people willing to make the effort to inform and entertain readers. Just as newspapers are adapting to and using the Internet, the "citizen journalists" I keep hearing about need to find ways to make their "product" something more by attracting big money investors and adopting professional standards of fairness, disinterested inquiry and finding ways to present both the facts of the matter and as well as the heart of that matter.
For all their well-known faults, newspapers still do this better than anybody. After years of ignoring the Internet, I see newspapers adapting to meet readers' needs and expectations, and, ultimately, making more adventurous and innovative changes, spurred by need and greed. I'm betting that when the paywalls start dropping, people will be willing to pay for careful, professional online reporting and writing, just as they have long been willing to pay for the morning paper.
I still subscribe to the Arizona Republic. However the paper has gone downhill, relying on AP and others for much of the content. The Valley & State section is the only reason I haven't left, simply because that is my best available source of local news. But, that said, I've thought about dropping my subscription because the value that the paper has represented is dropping.
I would consider an electronic copy of the paper at a reduced subscription price, but I suspect that their advertisers wouldn't be happy with electronic distribution.
The other issue that citizen reporters and bloggers lack is press credentialing. There are simply some stories that a citizen reporter/blogger doesn't have access to without a press badge. That also will need to be addressed in the future and I am not sure how it will be resolved, especially if the newspapers continue to close and there are less options for obtaining news.
Thanks for your post.
The country's cadres of "citizen journalists" have yet to produce anything comparable to what I've outlined above. Blogging has not been able to professionalize itself to any appreciable extent.
Great comment, Jeremiah. You make a lot of good points.
But I'm going to bring up the obvious Internet-centric problem with what you wrote: "comparable to what I've outlined above". That's a definition of journalism, not the definition of journalism. Your assumption is that a healthy free press informing the public on issues important to them must take the form of a centralized organization with copyeditors, proofreaders, fact checkers, power to issue press badges, and so on. Your proof of the need for newspapers is that blogs haven't managed to do this. Well, of course not.
But that doesn't mean newspapers can't be replaced by blogs anyway. Wikipedia is something of a good example: When I first saw Wikipedia I didn't understand the big deal. An encyclopedia that anyone can edit? What good is that?
But it turns out it's very good in a lot of ways. Because anyone can edit it, falsehoods and rumors don't survive long -- any and every subject out there has experts who care about it, and some of those experts care enough to make sure Wikipedia entries are correct.
The same could be said about local news. Who knows better about local news, a reporter sniffing around or the people actually living the news?
There's a trade-off, naturally. Wikipedia's had some high-profile disasters (listed on Salon yesterday, for example). And they're moving to a more hierarchical system there, getting closer to what we'd expect from a "real" encyclopedia.
But Wikipedia has huge advantages over a paper encyclopedia. My copy of Grolier's was never very useful when I wanted to know about the Rolling Stones, for example. Or Avril Lavigne, for that matter. Or more serious current events, like the controversy over gender testing in the Olympics. Or, heck, even basic knowledge, like the borders of neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
The depth and detail available on Wikipedia dwarfs free access to even the best-stocked library in the world. And it's searchable!
Why can't a similar model work for local news? If there's anything we've learned over the past fifty years, it's that nothing stays hidden for long. Investigative reporting is great and all, but it's just one way of getting at the truth. Why couldn't it be replaced?
I'm playing devil's advocate here to some extent. Whenever writing up stuff like this it's de rigeur to point out that newspapers fill an important niche and aren't going away and investigative reporting is vitally important in our daily lives and so on. Mindless platitudes. Would I miss newspapers and their reporters? I'm not sure I would. Won't know until it happens.
Reporters should be paid and supported; newspapers, I (and many others, I suspect) could give a rip about. We have to have a new model to support *reporting*, not newspapers. In my opinion as an online doc nerd with nearly 20 years of online doc experience, anyway. (Yes, predating the web.)


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A platinum-blonde Ke$ha looks sexy and glam on the cover of the magazine, where she talked about her process recording her new album, and the transformation she's had over the brief trajectory of her career — as well as some details about what to expect from Warrior (and several more sexy shots).
One new bit of info was about album track "Crazy Kids," which was helmed by will.i.am. The magazine writes that the song features "yodeling, acoustic guitar, and heavy booty bass, and strangely works," built around the following hook: "Haters gonna hate / And this is all we got and then it's gone / So call us the crazy ones / We gonna keep on dancing till the dawn."
If that lyric sounds predictably Ke$ha, her take on overcoming hateration continued on that same note: "The first record, people tore me a new asshole, and were fucking steady on my balls, and tried to make me feel like I was such a piece of shit," she said. "I did some soul-searching, and realized nothing I'm doing is negative, it's actually super positive. You can change peoples' mood in a three-and-a-half minute song. So why not spread positive energy and be funny? Let [the haters] be miserable. Anyone who wants to have a good time, let's fucking do this."
But despite her scabrous delivery, turns out K$'s all about love and unity. Her statement about GLBT rights was pretty touching: "It can't be said enough: be yourself, love each other," she told the magazine. "I've had to deal with scrutiny [in Nashville] that probably isn't even comparable to the kind of scrutiny people from a place like that face being gay or lesbian. A lot of my fans struggle with that, and it breaks my heart that people haven't found out how to be nice to each other." Wise words, K$.


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Armed men in the Saudi capital launched coordinated car bombing attacks against the interior ministry and a troop recruitment center and exchanged fire with Saudi security forces.
Seven armed men were killed in the gunbattle with police in a northern district of Riyadh, Al-Arabiya television reported. The clash broke out about the same time as the the two car bombings - a remote control blast near the Interior Ministry and a suicide attack on the recruitment center.
One bystander was killed in the ministry blast near the ministry, Saudi TV said.
The damage to the Interior Ministry was minor.
The attacks sparked a jump in oil prices in New York.
The clash started with a blast at about 8:35 p.m. in central Riyadh near the Interior Ministry. Two armed men activated a car bomb by remote control in a traffic tunnel near the ministry, police said, according to the AP. A limousine driver was killed, Saudi TV said.
A half hour later, a second blast rocked the city. Two suicide bombers tried to drive a troop recruitment center about five miles away, but they came under fire from police and set off their explosives prematurely. The two bombers were killed.
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We are building a single level house and the length of the house is 73' which includes (from the front view) the double garage, dining room window, front door, and two bedroom windows. The size of the dining room window is 72"x6 which is fine but the two bedroom windows are also 72"x60" each which too me seems really big for bedroom windows. I would like them to be smaller but I am not sure if this would make the exterior look funny. I wish I could attach a photo but can't seem too.
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- Posted by HomeSealed (email@example.com) on Tue, Jan 24, 12 at 16:34
Its big but not totally out of the ordinary... I assume that is a twin window, so each would be 36 x 60. 36 x54 is a very common size, so again, you are not far from that at all. Once you get over 101ui (w+h), then you're looking at a pretty big unit. As far as looks: as GBW said, it is really your personal preference. |
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Get a photobucket or other online photo storage account. You can post links to the pictures at that point. |
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It would really help to see the elevation of the home to say for sure, but I agree with the other posts above--those sizes sound just fine. I would definitely rather have a larger window than a smaller one for 3 reasons: the view, the breeze & the escape. Step by step how to post photos: Setup: Now your pics are ready for posting on sites like GW! Posting pics in a GW message: Your pics will appear in the preview so you can ensure they appear properly before the final submission.(I know, this looks like a lot of potentially confusing steps, but trust me, once you copy the pics into your posts once or twice it's a piece of cake!) |
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Theater Plays the Wrong Guardians Flick Three Times in a Row
A number of films have the word "Guardian" in their titles, I can see how someone might get confused. At the same time, Rise of the Guardians really looks and sounds very little like Guardians of the Galaxy.
While Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy film is blowing up the box office right now, the animated Rise of the Guardians movie didn't do all that great and is a kids cartoon. Plus, it came out nearly two years ago. Those facts haven't stopped at least one theater from accidentally playing Rise of the Guardians instead of Guardians of the Galaxy.
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And if doing it once wasn't enough, one Regal Cinemas theater in Virginia reportedly played the wrong movie three times in a row. This is the perfect opportunity for a theater to Rickroll some people.
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These were a favorite of my grandma, Mom & me. The recipe originated with my great-grandma - her name was Daisy. She was born in the 1880's and the story is it was an old recipe when she came across it-it is suppossed to go back to the Civil War.
servings12 (Our family of three and the neighbors!)
COOKIES:1 c. shortening
2 c. brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
1 c. heavy sour cream
2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. cinnamon
4 c. flour
1/2 c. nuts (optional)
1/2 c. butter
1 c. brown sugar, packed
1/4 c. canned milk
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1 c. brown sugar, packed
1/4 c. canned milk
1 3/4 to 2 c. powdered sugar
COOKIES: Sift flour, salt, soda, cinnamon and nutmeg all together. Cream shortening, add brown sugar and cream together. Add eggs, sour cream and put nuts in the mix or on top. Add flour. Chill in refrigerator for 1 hour. Drop by teaspoon on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes.ICING: Melt 1/2 cup butter, add 1 cup brown sugar packed. Boil over low heat for 2 minutes stirring constantly. Stir in 1/4 cup canned milk. Stir until it comes to a boil. Cool to luke warm. Gradually add 1 3/4 to 2 cups powdered sugar. Beat until spreading consistency. If icing becomes stiff add a little hot water. This icing is good for cakes too.


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The UK has committed to meeting some extremely challenging renewable energy targets by 2020 and as such has introduced a number of initiatives to encourage the adoption of renewables. Solar grants have already been successfully introduced by way of the Feed-in-Tariff which has seen a huge rise in the number of properties photovoltaic (solar PV) systems. Heat Pump grants have also been introduced by way of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) for domestic users which launched in Aprilr 2014 and will provide much larger Heat Pump grants more in line with the solar grants provided by the Feed-in-Tariff.
The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is a scheme which is administered by the energy regulator Ofgem and is designed to provide long term support for a range of renewable energy products including ground source heat pumps and air source heat pumps. Payments will e made quarterly over seven years and will be tax-free and index-linked. To find out more click here.
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October 4th in the US: Linsanity arrives.
October 11th in Taiwan! Linsanity spreads.
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I have been meaning to blog for many many months. Really.
No excuses, but I guess I kinda now know what it means too busy to do thing such as blogging. I've always looked at blogging as an extraneous activity. Fun. Downtime. Downloading. People who have a lot of time on their hands can do such things. The last, uh, 8,9 months? Time has been a commodity!
I finally logged on tonight as a I've been doing some cleaning up of bags, envelopes and biz cards. I found a card belonging to Frederic Ambroisine whom I met in LKF in HK in March around midnight when he did an impromptu interview with Evan Jackson Leong, the director of Linsanity, which has kept me plenty busy the last year or so...I looked up Frederic and found an AnD page on him and, voila, here I am blogging real quickly...
So. The last 10 months in a nutshell?
1) Linsanity the Movie has pretty been keeping my team and I pedal to the metal on hyperdrive. I could dedicate a semester to this, but let's just say Park City, Austin, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Honolulu, San Diego, and tomorrow LA are the cities we've been hitting since January. More to come...
2) A lotta Oahu living. Hawaii 5-0 has continued and we just wrapped S3. It was an amazing season and we'll see what's in store in the future!
3) NY/LA/Asia - I've been bouncing around still to these spots for various projects. I snuck in a little London trip for a commercial shoot last month and the rest of this year looks like some NY time, Asia, and more Europe, including Berlin(!). I'm glad I chose my field. Despite the constant hustle and insecurities it can bring, it does take me to places far and wide that I would otherwise only be saving up 2 weeks each year to see.
Okay - gotta keep it short. Hope to get on here more often...truly. If you aren't already following thing that I'm involved with, I'm gonna pause a sec here and download. Please follow or like all the following things! As we say in Hawaii --- MAHALO!
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Exactly a year ago, I was wrapping up a trip in Singapore and heading over to Shanghai. A couple months later, I went out to Taipei, but since then I haven't even had a sniff of being in Asia! Ugh, I don't like this feeling. I was just finding my Asia groove, but this past year, work in the US of A has been too good to leave this joint. Curse this country!
I kid of course. I'm grateful for what's been going on here in America, but damn, I miss Asia. I hope I get to go at some point in this back half of the year. Maybe it will inspire me to write more blogs!? Already, I will be missing my first Shanghai International Film Festival in the past 4 years. A bit sad, but I just simply can't get there this go around.
No way I can let this whole year go by without a trip out there. No way! It's all for good reason I guess and hopefully soon I'll get to explain more of what's been going on here, but until then, Asia, I miss you.
It should have been Kang. Really, it should have.
I didn't mean to, but last night, while driving, I got on the phone with a producer friend of mine whom I have the utmost respect in the world for. My friend is a very accomplished individual with a heart of gold. With her crazy schedule, she always still finds time to give advice to those who ask and, trust me, I have found myself asking her for much advice in the past.This week, my friend wrote a very important letter to the Producer's Guild of America that has started to generate what I think is a healthy dialogue that has long needed to be discussed. Check it out: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PGA. While the PGA's response doesn't exactly rectify the situation, the acknowledgment, and lip-service to examine the situation at least is a start.Somehow, we started talking about the topic of producing in general and, basically, by the end of our conversation, she had talked me down from the proverbial ledge. That is so KC - putting out letters to help American producers who do foreign language films and then talking to this still-aspiring producer back to sanity.I have had one of the most challenging experiences of my life this year - and yet, most rewarding. I agreed to executive produce and act in a film this year that somehow turned into me becoming the lead producer. For those who don't know, in film, an exec producer (EP) is someone who sits at a very high level on the project. He/she finds funding for the project, maybe has some say on hiring/casting, providing basic foundational resources like locations or sponsors, and perhaps down the road helps with some festival and distribution stuff as well. Usually, it's just the first thing - providing money.Without getting into specifics, somehow as the project went along, I found myself becoming the main producer. By definition, a film's "producer" (not EP) is such:I've functioned in this capacity on some short films before, and I've long thought about doing this on features, but for the most part, with our small shingle 408 Films, I've served only as an EP helping to shepherd a project with financing and some festival and/or distribution strategy. I guess I saw myself as a higher level kind of person who connected people and things, but stayed out of the way when it came to day to day stuff. Well, like it or not, here came my first feature where I would throw on the producer cap in addition to the EP cap. Not what was intended on this particular piece, but WTH, right? Life throws you lemons, you make wine from it. Whatever the saying is.In discussing what had happened here with my friend on the phone, I found myself barfing out several thoughts and asking several questions - all of which she thoughtfully answered in ways that made me feel infinitely better about what I have been going through. It's not just me who goes through these things!!! It's always good to hear other's experience and perspective and to know that you're not alone.Everything she said rang so true in my mind...- Post-Production (where we are now) is the part of a film. You think physical production is, but it's a piece of cake in comparison. It's physically the most taxing for sure, but during this period, you have everyone around you and there is a sense of camaraderie, as if you are going to war together. We definitely had that. In pre-production, there is the anticipation and everyone involved at that point is excited and chomping at the bit and really doing their share of the lifting. In post, as the producer, you are left by yourself. Often, it's just you and the filmmaker. Everyone else has gone home and is onto their next thing and just waiting for the email one day to announce a screening. It's up to you to pull everything together at this point. It's an isolating experience, but it's here where the wheat is separated from the chaff as far as who is a good producer and who may not be.- Going into a film is like an arranged marriage. You are often thrust into a position with a team of people you don't know. You might be brought in by one source you do know, but there is a host of others you've never met and, like the poor woman whose parents just force her to marry the man so not of her dreams, you have no choice at that time but to roll with it, hoping for the best. Sometimes, it works out great. Other times, it doesn't. My friend shared a story of a 60-year old accomplished producer who is still scarred from his most recent project after having worked with people he didn't know beforehand. This sort of surprised me because I'd been thinking that the further along you get in your career as a producer/director/whatever, the more you know who you want to work with and the more you will surround yourself with old hands you trust with your life. Why would Wong-Kar Wai always have Christopher Doyle as his cinematographer? Why do certain producer-director tandems work together time and again? You find people you mesh well with, and you stick with them. Simple as that. It's like any relationship in life. Branching out with new folks is risky. Sometimes you find gems and will want to always work with them again. Sometimes you find people you will never want to work with ever again. No one ever said all arranged marriages are bad, I guess, but I'll be damned if they are all good.- No matter what, as a producer, you have to keep your eye on the prize. Keep your vision for the film and keep your passion to deliver it. So long as you still believe in it, of course. All the muck that happens along the way, it's part of the process. All producers go through it, and all producers will have their moments of doubt or weakness. It's perfectly normal. It's what makes us human. Keep your nose to the ground, make your deliverables, be responsible to your fiduciary duties, and put the best film you can out there. You gotta have faith. I'm sure Serge and Larry had their doubts about certain things as they built a little company called Google.It was a bit of a wake up call I happened into last night. A check-point, if you will. I truly appreciated the discussion. And, as I mentioned earlier in this post, despite a set of challenges so high, this year has been rewarding in a very unsuspecting way: don't tell my acting agents/managers, but I am so very eager to move forward with a producer's cap on in life that it almost hurts. Literally. I feel a yearning to continue to be a producer because I feel that I'm suited for it. I want more projects and I want to keep learning. Most importantly, I want to do it with like-minded people who share the same vision and passion as me.
This has been a pretty non-stop year. Until now. I'm in LA and I'm finally getting a chance to pause as no projects are actively shooting at the moment. My docu-series picks up again this weekend, but the last couple of weeks have been relatively quiet. It feels weird. And I think I've come to realize that I don't do well with not being engaged on a project or working on something. I just wrapped a feature film, but it's now in the hands of an editor so as much as I want to move it along to help it get finished and then introduced to the world, there is nothing I can do. I must let it breathe. (I need to learn how to edit.) I think the fact that this year has been full of so many things has created a monster in me and now, every moment, I feel like I want to use my energy towards making something meaningful, in whatever capacity that may be.
I'm actually really really itching to return to Asia at the moment. LA is ... when nothing is happening, it's a stagnant place. It lacks the energy that I feel when I'm in NYC, Shanghai, or Hong Kong. I love the beaches, I love the weather, and when minds come together in LA to create art, it can be awesome, but when minds are miles apart, there is something so vapid and dry about this place. The energy I feel in other places is literally pulsating beneath my feet. I've been thinking long and hard about relocating to base myself here and it looks like it's going to happen, but I am so fearful right now of doing that and having it be a big mistake. I have become such a city person that I feel like I need it to feel alive. The constant connection I feel to a vibrant place that is 24 hours 'round the clock feels as if it were my heartbeat. Alas, returning to LA has also always felt like it was in the cards as it's situated along the Pacific Rim which is what I think works best for me and not to mention it's not too far from my family up North who has always wanted me to come back West. In fact, the day I left LA eons ago, I always said, like Arnold does, "I'll be back."
Part of me thinks I'm just whining as once I get here and settle in, I'll feel better about it, but it is a fear nonetheless right now that to give up city living will suck the soul out of me. Yes, I can always go back and nothing is forever, but man, I'm tired of traveling around all the time too. I'd like to find a place called home. As I move on in life, I'll continue to make mistakes, but I'd also like to feel like I'm making the right decisions, especially on things that are big.
I'm going to try to keep a part-time life in NYC going, but we'll see how that works out. The timing to do this just feels right right now - and yet it doesn't. I'm a California boy at heart, but the world beckons.
Or does it...
On Hawaii Five-0:
Asia, we're wrapped! I kinda wish I had kept a daily production blog of our 16 day shoot, but it was just too grueling to do that. Hopefully one day soon I'll sit down and try to rehash on a daily basis what went down from memory, a calendar, and callsheets. I hope we are able to share this film one day across various regions, including that of Asia. It's an Asian American story, but a universal one at the same time. If you could do me the kind favor, please follow us on Facebook at our: Nightdreamblues page and on Twitter at: nightdreamblues.
More to come...but I leave you with this image that we essentially had on a daily basis. It truly was night, dream, and blues...
Personally, I'm going through an interesting transitional phase as of late. It seems I've barely been in NYC this year and that has continued. NDB has had me in LA for the past month and I have also been lucky to continue to shoot episodes of Hawaii 5-0 whenever they call me up. In fact, during production of NDB, I had to go out to Hawaii to do 2 episodes. 36 hours trips to the islands are brutal, but had to be done.
I signed with an LA manager this week and I guess this means that I'll be in LA more than I've been since I lived here in, gasp, 1997-1998. I've visited LA at least once a year since I've left so this place has always felt like home in a way, but the reality is starting to set in more that this could become my base now to jump from for work travels instead of NYC. I refuse to leave NYC entirely (me being stubborn), but I'll have to see how the next period of my life plays out. I still want to stay involved in Asia too. How? I want it all! I desperately miss Asia right now - China, Hong Kong, Taiwan. I've started to develop an itch to work in places like Vietnam, Thailand, and Singapore as well. So much up in the air, but I can only take this journey one step at a time and even though much is uncertain, at the same time, career-wise, it oddly feels like things are starting to make sense and fall into place. Good, but it's never time to get comfie and rest on any laurels. Onwards and upwards, one day at time, I try to go.
On a non-career note, I am really itching to go explore some other continents as well. I feel awful as I had to cancel on some dear friends' wedding a few days before we were about to start lensing NDB due to a crisis. They've gone back to Africa, so now I definitely have to go visit them there soon to make up for it. And Europe has been heavy on the mind as of late as well. I may just have to book a trip and go sometime soon. It's been a busy year and though I've been traveling a lot, it's primarily been for work. I kinda wanna just go somewhere, clear my head, and be. I'm afraid I can't just now, but hopefully one day soon. Taking all suggestions.
We're 7 months down already?
As I write this just before midnight from Honolulu, Hawaii, I am simply amazed at how quickly time has passed this year. And if there were ever really were a Jumper out there jumping from various time zones as if it were like we were moving through the Matrix, I would dare say this year I might have been the one.
I got here to Hawaii to start filming for season 2 of 5-0 (very grateful they called C Fong back!) from Taipei where I was in production for our NBA player docu-series. I had to jump from Taiwan a little early to make it here for my shoot date which put a little crimp in my plans, but really who am I to complain? I love Taipei - and my week out there was incredible in terms of production, exploration of partnerships, and just life in general. It's definitely my favorite place on Earth. Can I just put a plug in for anything Taiwanese director Shen Ko-Shang does? I met him in New York back in May and then had a chance to meet up with him in his hometown. He was ever so helpful in pointing me in the right direction with Taiwanese distribution companies, TV networks, and other potential allies. I'm not sure many established directors would do that sort of thing for a relative stranger. I was personally impressed by his piece in Juliets (茱麗葉) - an omnibus of 3 different director's takes on the traditional story of Romeo & Juliet and I really look forward to watching his documentary that was shot in a narrative feature fashion, Baseball Boys, that he personally gave me a copy of. (Director, any interest in working on a baseball movie together?)
With this docu-series, we have graciously generated the interest of some talented and well known Eastern artists who expressed an interest in going on camera to talk about the story of our subject. I'm ever so grateful, and I hope that we will be able to actually coordinate with some of these folks to make it happen in the near future - folks such as Daniel Wu, VanNess, Leehom Wang, and even Taiwanese actor Ethan Ruan ( 阮經天). Ethan was especially enthusiastic after I met him on the set of Love, Doze Niu's latest, after a scene he filmed with Shu Qi! (I really wanted to ask her if she'd be up for it, but in retrospect, I woulda been too tongue tied, as she's one of my favorites. .)
I also got the chance to mingle with some of Taiwan's better known basketball personalities. One in particular was very interesting. He goes by ' Blackie' and he opened up his Taiwan Beer basketball court for us to shoot and play in and then gave us each a copy of his documentary that followed his team's 2008 season, Attitude (態度). Can't wait to watch that as well!
It was all too short as I left unfinished business on the table there that I'll have to revisit to scoot on over to Hawaii. Taipei one day, Oahu the next. Actually, the same, as I left there on a Sunday to get here on Sunday, earlier than I left there. Weird. Something about the international date line and crossing it. All I know is that it's actually easier to fly to Hawaii from Asia than it is NYC. Interesting. Hmm...I'll have to keep this in mind as I figure out where I want to base myself out of down the road.
Monday, it was back to 5-0 base camp to shoot something with Mr. DDK, who I have to say is one of the most down to earth, chillest TV stars on the planet. It was an incredible pleasure playing with him. Happy to be "Cast" next to him anytime.
I'm getting a moment to breathe as I'm staying on the island for a couple of weeks until I shoot the next episode. I'm a little antsy as I could be in LA or NYC doing something, or even back to Taipei for unfinished business, but I gotta trust it'll be okay and I can make this my base for a bit and pump out work from here. Internet cafes around the island will be my friend (till they get wifi going on the beaches.) I'll be in LA soon enough to start production on Nightdreamblues (see my last post about dropping your coin into its bucket .) Some pretty exciting things are developing on that end that I can't wait to see through and then it looks like at least a couple more 5-0 eps are on their way again!
That'll get me through September (there's a wedding in Baltimore and a trip to Vegas scheduled in there somewhere.)
October, November, December, no idea what you'll bring exactly, but 2012, I already smell you.
Hi AnD World! I'm currently working away on a passion project that is very near and dear to me to be shot in Los Angeles this fall. I can't tell you how excited I am about it and how talented a director and team I'm working with. We're in need of a bit more funding to reach our finish line and I'm hoping that some of you out there will be willing to drop a coin, dollar, or whatever into the bucket to help us reach our goal! We're already off to a good start, but we need all the help we can get to get us there! We already have a nice info page set up on Kickstarter, so I'll spare all the details here, but click on over to the NIGHTDREAMBLUES KICKSTARTER PAGE to see how you can get involved. We'll seriously take as little as $5.00 or as much as you'd like to put in. Aside from your in-kind donation (but see what kind of rewards you can get as well on the info page!), it'd be very much appreciated if you could help spread word on this effort by "liking" our Facebook fan page, following the project on Twitter, and turning those around by announcing it to your friends on your different social networks! Thank you for taking your time to read this note and thank you in advance for helping this project lift off the ground. Remember to always stay Alive, Not Dead from Nadine Truong on Vimeo.
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Normally, when we swallow food, a little flap called the epiglottis blocks the airway (trachea) so that the food is pushed down the esophagus down to the stomach. But sometimes this process doesn't work and the food gets stuck resulting in a blocked airway. This is called choking. With young children, choking often occurs when they attempt to swallow a small toy.
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