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I'm a freelance cameraman and editor from Cambridgeshire. I have an MA degree in Media Production from Lincoln Uni. I like to dabble in all sorts of production areas as it's all experience at the end of the day.
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In recent months on two occasions I had 2 men in black SUV approached me in grocery store parking lot:
"Hey man, want a surround sound system for your living room? We've got one cheap..."
Not sure why I didn't on the first occasion, but on the second I called the non-emergency police # and reported the incident. They seemed uninterested at first and then resassured me they would send someone over to look into things.
It seems to me that either:
1. They are unloading something stolen/illegal.
2. Want to gain access to my home (2 of them, 1 of me) under the pretense of installing a home theatre system.
Am I paranoid, or being reasonable here? My friends think it was no big deal but I'm a little taken back by it all.

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The.Lua.Tutorial » Introduction. Judging by the fact that you have stumbled upon this document, I doubt you are actually wondering. However, to quote the official definition: Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. We'll just assume that the reader is competent enough to actually start Lua. Wiki: Lua Tutorial. Introduction About the tutorial This tutorial is aimed at all newcomers to the language Lua.
Programming in Lua : contents. Third edition · second edition · first edition · errata · online version · amazon · e-book · manual This book is a detailed and authoritative introduction to all aspects of Lua programming written by Lua's chief architect.
Programming in Lua gives a solid base for any programmer who wants to use Lua. It covers all aspects of Lua—from the basics to its API with C—explaining how to make good use of its features and giving numerous code examples. Wiki: Lua Uses. Here are brief descriptions of a few selected projects around the world that use Lua.
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Class of FedEx Ground independent contractors deemed employees in Kansas Supreme Court
FedEx response to the ruling expressed commitment to protect "the rights of thousands of independent business owners to continue owning and operating their own businesses."
The undeclared war on owner-operators
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JERUSALEM — President Barack Obama's vow to take his message to the public during his first presidential visit to Israel will be a tough sell with many Israelis who consider him naive, too soft on the nation's enemies and cool to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Overcoming this perception will require a major charm offensive and an uncompromising U.S. pledge to stand behind Israel, especially when it comes to stopping Iran's suspect nuclear program. Without a major initiative in his pocket for making peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the U.S. president will use his three-day visit, which begins Wednesday, primarily as a means to convey a close alliance with Israel.
Rather than address Israeli leaders in parliament, Obama will deliver his main speech at a Jerusalem auditorium packed with university students. Tickets for Obama's speech Thursday at a 1,000-seat convention center are in demand, and students are entering ticket raffles across the country.
"He could have spoken to politicians or tycoons, but instead he chose to speak to us," said Lotem Cazes, 25, a political science student at Ben-Gurion University in the southern city of Beersheba. "It's very moving. Even though he knows that not everyone likes him, here he is still coming and trying to help."
In another effort to woo the Israeli public, Obama granted an exclusive interview with Channel 2 TV at the White House.
"What this trip allows me to do is once again to connect to the Israeli people, and there is no substitute to that. The bonds between our two countries are so strong, not just shared values but shared families, shared businesses," he said in the interview, which aired Thursday. "And for me to be able to directly speak to the Israeli people and talk about our unshakable commitment to Israel, but also to talk about hopefully a shared vision of a more peaceful and prosperous future during a time when we know there is a lot of tumult in the area, it is a great opportunity for me. I'm really looking forward to it."
American flags are lining Israeli highways and an enthusiastic embrace of Obama would start a new chapter in his relations with Israel.
Disappointment has marked Obama's previous visits to the region. On those trips, he passed over Israel and stopped in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, where he delivered a landmark speech aimed at improving ties with the Muslim world. The speech, in which he criticized Israeli West Bank settlements, was seen in Israel as overly appeasing to the Arabs at their expense.


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PUBLISHED: 09 Feb 2011 00:01:40 | UPDATED: 09 Feb 2011 00:01:40PUBLISHED: 09 Feb 2011 PRINT EDITION: 09 Feb 2011NSW Premier Kristina Keneally's $913 million election promise to combat cost of living pressures could cause a budget blow-out and must be explained in more detail, shadow Treasurer Mike Baird says.
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Minnesota leads 1-0 (as of 8/17)
Game 1: Tuesday, August 17 | ||
NY Yankees | 2 | Final |
Minnesota | 8 | |
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Game 2: Wednesday, August 18 | ||
NY Yankees | 2 | Final |
Minnesota | 7 | |
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Game 3: Thursday, August 19 | ||
NY Yankees | 13 | Final |
Minnesota | 10 | |
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8:10 PM ET, August 17, 2004
Mall of America Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
W: B. Radke (8-6)
L: J. Vazquez (13-7)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Ever since he mangled a chair in a fit of frustration last the weekend, Corey Koskie keeps hitting. And his Minnesota Twins' teammates have noticed.
"I think I'm going to try that tomorrow," Torii Hunter said.Koskie drove in three runs, Brad Radke pitched seven solid innings and the Twins beat the New York Yankees in the regular season for the first time since 2001, an 8-2 victory Tuesday night.Koskie and Justin Morneau homered for Minnesota, which won for only the fourth time in its last 12 games and handed the Yankees their second straight loss.The Twins had lost 13 straight regular-season games against the Yankees. Minnesota won the opener of last year's first-round playoff series, then dropped three in a row."Now we're 1-13," manager Ron Gardenhire said. "Does that make us any better against the Yankees? I don't know."It did, however, give Minnesota a little more wiggle room in the standings. The Twins, whose AL Central lead had been cut to one game Saturday, boosted it to 3½ games over second-place Cleveland.Radke (8-6) won his first game in four starts since July 26. Coming off three straight no-decisions, he improved to 4-9 in his career against the Yankees, lowering his ERA against them from 4.92 to 4.68."He threw changeups, curveballs and breaking balls when he needed to and when he wanted to," Yankees manager Joe Torre said. "It looked like he had command of all his stuff."He's pitched seven-plus innings in four of his last six starts. Against the Yankees, he relied mostly on his changeup."It's an aggressive team over there," Gardenhire said. "If you keep throwing fastballs, they're going to whack it pretty good."Radke gave up six hits, including a homer to Gary Sheffield, and struck out five. Juan Rincon escaped a bases-loaded, no out jam in the eighth, allowing only Hideki Matsui's sacrifice fly. J.C. Romero worked a scoreless ninth.New York starter Javier Vazquez (13-7) gave up nine hits, tying a season high, and six runs in 6 2-3 innings. He allowed two homers, raising his season total to 26, fourth in the AL, one behind teammate Esteban Loaiza."I had nothing on the ball," Vazquez said. "I didn't think my stuff was good at all."Vazquez, who missed his previous scheduled start at Texas because of conjunctivitis, first got into trouble in the second inning when Lew Ford singled to third and advanced to second when third baseman Miguel Cairo's throw to first sailed high over John Olerud for an error. Koskie then homered into the upper deck.Koskie entered the game hitting .153 in his career against New York, including .239 this season. His frustrations peaked Sunday against the Indians when he struck out with the bases loaded. Afterward, he went behind the dugout and took a bat to a chair. Since then, he has six hits."It was an enough is enough type of thing," Koskie said.An inning after Koskie's homer, Morneau made it 3-0 with an even longer shot. Hunter added an RBI single in the fifth.Radke got out of a jam in the fourth after Bernie Williams and Matsui hit consecutive singles to put runners at the corners with two outs. But Radke got Jorge Posada swinging on a nasty changeup to end the threat.Sheffield hit a solo homer off Radke in the sixth. Then, with runners at the corners again in the seventh, Radke got Enrique Wilson to pop out to center."He made tough pitches, stayed ahead in the count and he challenged," Sheffield said. "Even the ball I hit out, it kind of got in on me, but that's the first ball I was able to get out in front of."Hunter nearly added a three-run shot in the seventh, but Matsui jumped and caught the ball just above the top of the left-field wall. Ford followed with a sacrifice fly that scored Stewart, and Koskie added an RBI single off C.J. Nitkowski.Luis Rivas doubled in the eighth off Scott Proctor and scored on Stewart's RBI single. Stewart then advanced to second on the throw home, went to third on Jones' groundout and scored on Hunter's broken-bat single.Game notes
Sheffield's homer gave him 407 for his career and tied him with Duke Snider at No. 37 on the all-time list. ... Vazquez allowed his first stolen base since July 28, 2003, when Hunter stole second in the fifth when the Yankees failed to cover the bag. Entering the game, Vazquez hadn't allowed a stolen base in 221 1-3 innings over 33 starts. ... Derek Jeter extended his hitting streak to 17 games, matching his career high. ... Mike Mussina, sidelined since July 6 because of a sore right elbow, is scheduled to start for the Yankees on Wednesday.
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Regular Season Series
Scoring Summary
2nd | C Koskie homered to right, L Ford scored. | 0 | 2 | |
3rd | J Morneau homered to right. | 0 | 3 | |
5th | T Hunter singled to right, S Stewart scored. | 0 | 4 | |
6th | G Sheffield homered to left. | 1 | 4 | |
7th | L Ford hit sacrifice fly to right, S Stewart scored, J Jones to third. | 1 | 5 | |
7th | C Koskie singled to left, J Jones scored, J Morneau to second. | 1 | 6 | |
8th | H Matsui hit sacrifice fly to right, K Lofton scored, D Jeter to third. | 2 | 6 | |
8th | S Stewart singled to right, L Rivas scored, S Stewart to second advancing on throw. | 2 | 7 | |
8th | T Hunter reached on infield single to third, S Stewart scored, T Hunter to second on throwing error by third baseman M Cairo. | 2 | 8 | |
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Game Information
Stadium | Mall of America Field, Minneapolis, MN |
Attendance | 38,766 (98.1% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
Game Time | 2:48 |
Weather | indoors |
Umpires | Home Plate - Tim Timmons, First Base - Kevin Kelley, Second Base - Bruce Froemming, Third Base - Mike Winters |


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Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
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Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge | |
Established | 1875 |
Head of Department | David Cardwell |
Location | Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom 52°11′54″N 0°07′18″E / 52.19827°N 0.121579°ECoordinates: 52°11′54″N 0°07′18″E / 52.19827°N 0.121579°E |
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The Cambridge University Engineering Department (CUED) at the University of Cambridge is one of the largest departments in the university. The main site is situated at Trumpington Street, to the south of Cambridge city centre. The department is the primary centre for engineering teaching and research activities in Cambridge, and is currently headed by Professor David Cardwell. It was founded in 1875 by James Stuart.[1]
Notable alumni and researchers[edit]
- Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine.
- Nicholas Patrick, astronaut.
- Alec Broers, nanotechnology pioneer.
- Ian Liddell, designer of the Millennium Dome.
- Andy Hopper, founder of Acorn Computers.
- Harry Ricardo
- Sir Bennett Melvill Jones, demonstrated the importance in streamlining in aircraft design.
- John Baker, developer of the plasticity theory of design.
- Carol Vorderman, former Countdown host and mathematical television personality.
Notable companies and projects founded by students and alumni[edit]
- Cambridge University Eco Racing, a student run team which designs builds and races solar electric vehicles.
- Innocent Drinks, best known for the Innocent Smoothie brand.
- Cambridge Consultants, an international technology development and consultancy company.
- Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, first manufacturer of the scanning electron microscope.[2]
- Turbomachinery, energy and fluid mechanics
- Electrical engineering
- Mechanics, materials and design
- Civil, structural and environmental engineering
- Manufacturing and Management
- Information engineering
Teaching of Engineering commenced in 1875 in shared accommodation in the New Museums Site in Free School Lane, but that site is no longer used by CUED, which now uses several sites around Cambridge:
- The main buildings are located at Trumpington Street and Fen Causeway on the Scroope House site, where most of the undergraduate teaching in the Engineering Tripos is carried out. The first new building on the site was the Inglis building. Its first phase was commenced in 1920 and the move from Free School Lane was completed in 1921 by the transfer of administrative offices to the original Scroope House building. Further phases of the Inglis Building were constructed prior to the Second World War. The final phase was completed as soon as post-war funding was made available in 1948, immediately followed by construction of the first phase of the Baker Building, completed in 1952. Further phases of the Baker Building followed, with Scroope House being demolished in 1961 to make room for the third phase. The whole building as originally planned was complete in 1965. However, construction work then immediately shifted back to the Inglis Building. In 1961, plans had been announced for "rebuilding" it in five stages, and the first of these was complete by 1967. Since then, both buildings have been modified on many occasions, to increase floor area and improve conditions. Mezzanines, loft conversion within the Inglis Building and a further storey on the Baker Building have been added, as the buildings have been adapted to suit the continual evolution of teaching and research requirements. Major parts of the building designs and redesigns have benefited from improved methods of analysis which have been developed during departmental research, sometimes demonstrating by re-analysis of earlier designs that greater loads can be taken by existing structural elements than were believed appropriate when originally constructed.
- Various sections which could not easily be accommodated on the main site have moved to the University's West Cambridge site, including the Whittle Laboratory (a turbomachinery laboratory, founded by Sir John Horlock, in 1973),[3] The Geotechnical Centrifuge laboratory (opened in 1987 and renamed the Schofield Centre in 1998), the Microelectronics Research Centre (1992), the Centre for Advanced Photonics & Electronics (CAPE) and the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) (opened in 2009). Some of these moves were associated with funding from industry. This was the second move for both the Microelectronics Research Centre, which had, under its previous name of Microelectronics Research Laboratory, moved to Cambridge Science Park in 1982, and the IfM, which had, under its previous name of Manufacturing Engineering Group, moved to the former Cambridge University Press building in Mill Lane in 1984.
- A few of the smaller buildings on the Old Addenbrooke's Site, in Trumpington Street opposite the Scroope House Site, have been used by the department from time to time. Currently, the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership is in the end building of that site, 1 Trumpington Street, having expanded and moved there under its previous name of Cambridge Programme for Industry in 1991. One of the other buildings was previously occupied by administrative offices of what had been the Engineering Department's Management Studies section, before generous sponsorship from Sir Paul Judge allowed it to become what is now the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, occupying the whole of the previous main hospital building.[4]
Undergraduate Education[edit]
The CUED allows undergraduates to take the Engineering Tripos and the Manufacturing Engineering Tripos and is a pathway into the Chemical Engineering Tripos. The department currently admit in excess of 300 students a year.[5]
Engineering Tripos[edit]
Teaching at the Engineering Department consists of lectures reinforced by examples, of which there are several provided every week, and labs, carried out in lab groups of two along with several other lab groups. At present the Engineering Department tries to maintain as few afternoon lectures and labs in the first two years as possible.[6]
The first two years of the Tripos (Parts IA and IB respectively) cover many subjects allowing for the general aspect of engineering to be taught. In the second two years (Parts IIA and IIB) undergraduates choose to specialise into more specific areas of Engineering or can move to the Manufacturing Engineering Tripos which starts in the 3rd year.
- ^ http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/125/1875-1900/stuart.html
- ^ http://www.leica-microsystems.com/fileadmin/pdf_uploads/Leica%20BrandBook_en.pdf
- ^ "The AOUG Sir John Horlock Award for Science". Association of Open University Graduates (AOUG). Retrieved 14 April 2014.
- ^ Cambridge University Engineering Department (2000). "University of Cambridge: Department of Engineering: 1875-2000: 125 years engineering excellence". http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk (This reference covers almost all facts within the Buildings sub-section). Cambridge University Engineering Department. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
- ^ http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/camdata/utengx.html
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Calls for tax breaks to commercialise research in Australia
PUBLISHED: 19 Mar 2014 12:18:11 | UPDATED: 20 Mar 2014 09:55:47PRINT EDITION: 19 Mar 2014Neville Mitchell, chief financial officer at Cochlear. Photo: Sasha Woolley
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Australia risks companies moving offshore if it doesn't duplicate tax incentives for commercialising research introduced overseas, says the Group of 100, representing CFOs at the top 100 sharemarket-listed companies.
Cochlear chief financial officer Neville Mitchell, new national president of the Group of 100, says the government should now consider tax concessions such as the UK's "patent box" tax breaks. "The G100 would support those types of initiatives," he told The Australian Financial Review.
"I think the UK is a good example, where they have got a very comprehensive suite of R&D tax concessions and it needs to be considered [here]."
He says incentives to keep intellectual property development would encourage manufacturing to stay here as well, especially when other countries are using their tax regimes to compete for intellectual property.
"It is really complex, getting that overlay of design and manufacturing – if you're all in the same area and work in the same areas, there is a huge advantage," he says. "But it is when you start getting distortions [due to tax incentives], which then encourage production to move."
The chief executive of cancer drug developer Biosceptre InternationalGavin Currie says the patent box legislation in Britain was one of the reasons it recently redomiciled there. The most important reason, though, was it will be able to tap funds from wealthy investors who can claim tax deductions up to £1 million ($1.83 million) for investing in risky, early-stage companies via Britain's Enterprise Investment Scheme.
Support service for knowledge economy
Compared to this boost, patent box was an "added benefit" for Biosceptre, but he urged the federal government to consider how such a reform might create jobs and broaden the future tax base. "For probably the past 20 years, both sides of government have talked about Australia needing to be developed into a knowledge economy," he says. "They don't seem to have thought through the support services that actually make that happen."
Australia already has a popular 45 per cent tax deduction on research and development. But tax experts and industry say turning that research into products and services that are made here and create jobs requires further tax breaks on the money spent on commercialising them.
After Britain's patent box regime started a year ago, GlaxoSmithKline says it would open a manufacturing plant there for the first time in 40 years.
AusBiotech and the Export Council of Australia are pushing for patent box deductions to be available here but have delayed their proposal – potentially until the 2015 budget – given that the Abbott government has promised a tough budget.
On Tuesday, a Coalition-dominated Senate committee issued a report backing changes that remove R&D tax deductions for big companies. The government didn't respond to a question on this matter.
The change is to restrict the 45 per cent R&D tax break to smaller companies with an aggregated assessable income of less than $20 billion. Telstra and Caltex in particular had railed against the change, citing the wider implications for innovation.
Presentation has to be taken seriously
Barry Thomas, the managing director of the Australian arm of medical device maker Cook Medical has led the move over the past 18 months to get patent box rules implemented here.
"We are making sure that when we do present it to the government, it is something they are serious about rather than having a look at a couple of things and then throwing it away," a spokesman for Cook Medical says.
Deloitte tax partner Helen Fisher says industry participants working on the plan would consider a revision in the next few weeks. They decided to limit a broad definition of intellectual property to only patented products and services after a meeting in February.
"The consensus was let's at least get the patents in, let's not be too ambitious and not get anything at all because it is going to cost too much and because it is going to be hard to administer," she says.
One of the stipulations will be that companies will have to "exploit" their patent. "You can't just get it and put in a drawer [to get the incentive]."
The British regime has raised the ire of Germany and the OECD, both of which have labelled patent box as a "harmful tax practice".
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This may be a concern for the Australian government as it hosts the G20 meetings this year. One of the priorities is to get an agreement on harmonising tax rules to prevent profit shifting.
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Appearing at his last annual news conference as president of Russia, Vladimir Putin repeated a threat to "retarget our missiles" at Poland and the Czech Republic if the US builds a planned defense shield there. Ukraine also could be targeted if it joins NATO and allows its soil to be used for Western military operations, he said. But Russia isn't "interested" in a return to cold war-style confrontation with the West, Putin said, contending that "the solution of social and economic problems" are "our main tasks." Russians are to vote March 2 on his successor. Above, a Moscow appliance store clerk watches Putin on a flat-screen TV set.
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When Monsanto is not being vilified for what many believe to be unfair pricing tactics, the company is being attacked for its genetically modified seeds, which have raised health concerns among consumers. This is even though the Food and Drug Administration and other agricultural bodies have certified these seeds as being healthy to eat.
Nevertheless, these issues have not swayed investors from appreciating that Monsanto remains a solid play on the anticipated rise in global food demand. But these shares, which have been up by close to 13% over the past three months, are far from cheap. And with the first-quarter report due out Wednesday, investors will be looking for confirmation that they've planted their faith in the right company.
The Street will be looking for 64 cents in earnings per share on revenue of $3.08 billion, which would represent year-over-year revenue growth of 4.7%. This is while profits are expected to grow year over year by a mere 3%. Will this be enough to drive this stock higher, given that shares are already expensive relative to rivals DuPont (DD) and Syngenta (SYT)?
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Review of a 3-disc box set of early Westerns, produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation with an NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant, from the Los Angeles Times.
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"400 Years Old and Ageless," The New York Times on the NEH-funded exhibition Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible at the Folger Shakespeare Library
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Reviews of Ken Burns' NEH-funded documentary Prohibition in the Wall Street Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Daily News, the New York Times, and Entertainment Weekly.
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Review of NEH-funded exhibition Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible at the Folger Shakespeare Library, from the Washington Times.
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"The Promise of Digital Humanities," a round-up of the 2011 NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants conference, in Inside Higher Ed.
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Mystic Seaport receives NEH grants to support public programming on whaling and American identity and a five-week institute for college teachers on American maritime history, from Norwich Bulletin.
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Professors and graduate students create "Desperate Fishwives," a video game that teaches about life in a 17th century English village, with an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up grant, from Columbia Free Times.
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An interview with the creators of the Mobile Shakespeare Scripts application, an NEH Digital Start-Up Grant project that documents theatre performances from script to stage, in InReads.
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When you look into the mirror in the morning, what do you see? Is it the past that you would rather forget? Or is it dreams that have faded or yet to come?
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DJ Mania provides a simple set of tools for recreating the world of the turntable expert. By breaking this elaborate artform down into a few simple functions, it makes the club scene accessible to all, but it's missing a few key ingredients of the actual experience.
DJ Mania's interface took a little work to understand, even thought it's a fairly simple layout. Without a Help file or instructions we were left to explore, but luckily it only took a few minutes to fully grasp the program. The basic function of this program was its ability to recreate the sound of two records spinning at once, which is accomplished by loading up two separate sides with MP3s. By playing both at once, they blended into a single tune. You can adjust the crossfade, volume, and speed of each song, too. DJ Mania is fun to use but a little disappointing because it doesn't allow you to scratch the records, which is a major component of DJing. Another frustration was the apparent inability to record your creations. The program does offer one neat feature that lets you insert sound effects and samples into your mix, which provides some color and unpredictability to the sound. Overall, this is a nice introduction to the turntablist's art, but it's a poor substitute for the real thing.
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Julianna Barwick's December performance at Philip Johnson's Glass House captured something elusive about that building. Singing alone, Barwick loops her voice over and over, creating a chorus. She isn't singing any words. The Barwick chorus is haunting, but not frightful. Her sound is vulnerable without being brittle. It's stark but not severe. "Glasarchitektur" might not be the first word I would use to describe Barwick's music, but it's not far off.

Video of her performance for "Night Sounds"—the first installment in a new performance series at the Canaan, Conn. modern monument is now available. Robin Hilton at All Songs Considered explains that Barwick's song is called "Offing," the opening track of a full-length record that she will be releasing next year.

The 'Night Sounds' performances complement "Night (1947–2015)," a rotating "sculpture-in-residence" series that places new sculpture with a connection to Johnson's life and work in situ at the Glass House. The specific piece that corresponds with Barwick's performance is Ken Price's Doola (2011), which caught the attention of The New York Times when the work inaugurated the "Night" series in September.

Doola shines in its own weird way alongside Barwick, in a video that is glossy without being a production. It all works. When has the Glass House ever looked so new?

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Students, faculty, and staff are celebrating their return to Pebble Hills Elementary School. A grand opening will be held at the school at 5:30 p.m. tonight. Pebble Hills closed last year due to a mold infestation. Students spent the last year at the former Parkland Elementary School.
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Posted by Vegas Bengal on 6/30 at 1:32 pm to Alahunter quote: You're still lying. Even if that group worked with this group, you're still lying. Obama is not backing the group that beheaded those Christians. You see this is why those of us who are on the fence with Obama's policies in Syria and elsewhere are driven to defend Obama because people like you lie. Blatantly lie. If you'd actually post a serious fact based criticism of our policy in Syria, one that is supported by the majority of Republicans btw, there might be some consensus here. But that's not our goal is it, troll? Reply Back to Top |
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Posted by Alahunter on 6/30 at 1:35 pm to Vegas Bengal quote: Then Obama's support goes to that group. Perhaps it is roundabout, but it's happening, and they know it's happening. quote: There have been multiple reports of the Free Syrian Army beheading Christians and murdering them by the groups. If you have evidence to disprove this, feel free to post it, rather than labeling someone as a liar, without anything to back it up. Or perhaps you would like to delve back into some race baiting. Reply Back to Top |
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Posted by Vegas Bengal on 6/30 at 2:06 pm to Alahunter Then I suggest you complain to Republicans in Congress who have been calling for Obama to do what he is doing now. LINKReply Back to Top |
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"You did what?!" Arthur shouted at Gilbert the following morning.
You had just barely sat down and started eating and Gilbert already told Arthur what happened the night before. You hoped you'd at least have a little time before he dropped the ball and told Arthur. But no such luck. Arthur looked from Gilbert to Ludwig to you and then landed back on Gilbert and he glared.
"Why would you do that? You promised me, Gilbert!" He said, clearly angry.
"Vunderbar, he's more angry then I vould have expected." Gil said, looking to the side, but he couldn't keep the grin from his face. "I told her because I couldn't keep up the façade that I wasn't related to her. The awesome me can only keep up an act for so long."
"Ya know, I'm right here." You said, annoyed that, once again, you were being talked about in front of you like you weren't even there again.
Arthur looked at you. "I'm sorry, love."
Gilbert raised an eyebrow at him. "Did you just call the sister of someone as awesome as me 'love'" he asked, grinning like a madman.
Arthur blinked. He himself didn't even realize he had said that. "It's a common English term." He said, trying to blow it off, you felt you're face fall with unexpected disappointment. Gilbert saw it and then narrowed his eyes at Arthur. "We have a more pressing matter at hand. You went against your promise to me and told (name) that you're both related to her. Why?"
"He felt that I should have known, Arthur." You said before Gilbert had the chance to respond and say something stupid, making Arthur more angry then he already was. "Which you didn't think I had the right to know." You add, your own anger at him showing through a little bit.
"I'm sorry I told them not to tell you, but you lived as an only child for all of your life. So as a gentleman, I wanted to try to protect you from that unnecessary shock two days after you first got here." He said, trying to justify why he, as he put it, protected you.
"But even so, I had a right to know. I would have found out sooner or later." You said, glaring at him. "Even if you wanted to protect me, you could have done it after I was told and helped me get though the shock of learning that I have two brothers whom of which I've never met."
Arthur stared at you wide eyed. Neither you nor him expected you to give a long speech like that. You were still that shy girl around him. He shook his head and looked at you blank faced. "I'm sorry, love. You're right, you should have been told the moment you met them."
"That's better." You say, and turn to your food.
You feeling your face heat up when he used the word "love" when addressing you again, despite the fact that he himself had practically said it didn't mean anything. You hoped no one would notice. Except, unknown to you, Gilbert saw it and planned to talk to Arthur at some point about him addressing you as such. But not in front of you.
Not long after you calmed Arthur down everyone finished eating and you all walked off to your respective classes.
As the days passed, you slowly broke out of your cocoon and became more sociable. You were able to keep up with Gilbert in banter and you even started teasing Arthur and Alfred. You and Eliza became a lot closer, too. You even considered her your sister at this point. Gilbert, however, forgot all about confronting Arthur about addressing you as love, but it didn't really matter, after the slips at lunch; those occurrences were few and far between.
One night a few days after you got to Hetalia Academy, just after dinner when you were walking with Arthur and Alfred, your phone rang. You looked at the caller ID. It was you're father. You looked at the two boys.
"Can you two wait here? I have to take this." You said and walked a little ways away from them. you answered your phone. "Hello?"
"Hey, sweetie, how are you tonight?" The familiar voice of your father came from the other end of the line.
"I'm all right, I guess." You answer.
"Did you make any friends?" He asked.
You almost nodded before you realized you were on the phone. "Yeah. A few."
"What are their names?" He was certainly being nosey, you thought.
"My roommates name is Eliza and I made friend with an Italian named Feliciano, a German named Ludwig, his brother, a Prussian named Gilbert, an American named Alfred and a Brit named Arthur." You said curtly.
"Ah. Well that sounds nice. I'm glad you made friends, sweetheart." He said. "I love you."
"I love you, too, dad. Send mom my love." You reply.
"That might not be possible." You father mutters before hanging up.
You blinked and stared at your phone, your father's words still ringing in your ears. "What could that have meant?" you said aloud without realizing it.
"What could what have meant?" said familiar British accent from behind you.
You turn and see Arthur. "Is that like you thing now? Walking up behind me and talking, almost scaring me half to death?" You teased.
He shrugged. "Maybe. I'm sorry to have scared you. So what were you just talking about?"
"Where's Alfred?" You asked, trying to change the subject.
"He got bored and went to go find Canada or someone else to annoy." He said. "So are you going to tell me what you were muttering to yourself about or not, love?"
You sighed; obviously Arthur wasn't going to let this go. "It's just something my father said. I told him to pass my love onto my mother, but he said, before he hung up 'That might not be possible.'" You mimicked your fathers voice the best you could.
Arthur looked past you; a thoughtful look clouded his eyes. Then he looked back at you. "It seems kind of vague. Maybe he just meant that your mother wasn't home or something?"
You stared at Arthur for moment, searching his face. Then you shrugged. "I guess. Though, I'm not completely convinced."
"Don't worry about it, love. If something was wrong, you'll find out eventually, right?" He said, trying to reassure you.
You nod. "Yeah
"Come on, I know just the thing to cheer you up." He held out his arm for you to take, just like he did the first day you came here, at the party he threw so you could meet some people and make some friends.
You take the arm and he leads the way. You don't know where you're going, but you trust Arthur. He walked you off of the campus and you thought now would be a good time to ask where you were going.
Arty?" he looked at you, one of his bushy eyebrows raised. "Where exactly are you taking me?"
He grinned at this. "Just trust me." Was all he said.
You, deciding to just let him do as he pleases followed him. You ended up at a small little tea and ice cream shop just outside of the ground of Hetalia Academy. It looked like it was run out of someone's own home, it was quaint and looked cozy. You walked up to the door with Arthur, which he opened for you.
"After you," he said, dipping into a bow and grinned, "my lady."
You walked in and you couldn't help but giggle a little bit. Arthur followed you in and you were greeted by a woman who looked to be about in her sixties. She looked cute for an old woman,
"Can I help you?" She asked and smiled sweetly.
"Table for two, please." Arthur said and returned the sweet smile with a polite one of his own.
The woman nodded and led the two of you to a table that was close to a window and was somewhat secluded. You looked around at the rest of the shop. It had few people in it, but not many. It seemed like a nice place to go and relax. Or get your mind off troubling things, which is what Arthur had in mind, you realized. You decided to play along. At least for a little while.
You turned back to Arthur. "So what are you going to get?"
"Probably a spot of tea." He said and shrugged. "Nothing fancy."
"Well, tea itself could be considered fancy." You tease.
He rolled his emerald green eyes. "Oh, shut it." He laughed. "So what are you going to get?"
" you looked at the menu. "Probably just a simple bowl of vanilla ice cream." You reply.
"That's all?" he said. "You certainly are a cheap date, as Alfred would say."
"Oh, so this is a date, now is it?" You say, trying hard not to blush.
"Hardly. Just trying to cheer you up, is all." He said, but you thought you saw the faintest blush on his cheeks.
You felt your heart sink, but you couldn't exactly explain why. "Well, then, thank you." You said.
The woman came back and you both told her what you wanted. Then Arthur looked at you.
"Thank me for what?" He asked.
"Taking me out to cheer me up." You said, and smiled a small smile at him.
He smiled back at you. "No thanks needed."
The two of you fell silent until the tea and the ice cream came out. You both smiled and thanked the woman.
She smiled at you. "I remember when I went on my first date." She said and walked away.
Arthur, who had been sipping his tea, started choking, his eyes as wide as saucers. You sucked in a breath, almost choking on the ice cream that happened to be on the spoon that you were about to eat. The two of you started coughing violently. You were the first to recover and got up and walked over to Arthur and started smacking his back, hoping that would help him. Eventually, he recovered and you took your seat again. The two of you were blushing ferociously, and neither of you spoke. You quickly finished your ice cream. And while you waited for Arthur to finish is tea, you stared out the window, thinking.
That totally could not have been more awkward. Just moments before Arthur had said that this wasn't a date. And then the woman comes by and said that it was. You felt your face heat up again. You quickly tried thinking about something else, forcing yourself to wonder what your brothers were doing so that you wouldn't blush.
While you were looking out the window, Arthur was looking at you, he saw you start blushing again. He wondered what you were thinking. He took another sip of his tea and he realized that he had finished it. He placed the teacup upside down on the plate, he had hoped to read the tea leaves, but you, not even looking at him, got up and walked out of the shop. He watched as you walked out and sighed. He paid the old woman for the tea and ice cream and thanked her. Before he walked out after you, the old woman spoke.
"I hope it wasn't something I had said that made her leave." She told him.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Well when she walked out, her face was as red as a tomato." She replied.
Arthur nodded and then walked out of the shop and found you on the lawn, just outside. He walked over to you and tapped you on the shoulder. You nearly jumped, squeaking a little. You turned and saw him.
"What were you thinking about just before you walked out of the tea shop?" He asked.
You started twiddling your thumbs and looked at your hands. "Oh. Um
I was thinking about my birthday." You replied. "It's coming up and I was just remembering something that my parents did one year. It was really embarrassing." You lied. You were really thinking about what that woman had said.
"Oh, your birthday is coming up?" He said.
You nodded.
"When?" He asked.
"Just a couple of months." You replied.
"Well then, it seems I have to plan another party." He said and smiled at you.
You liked his smile. It was sweet and it made his face look cute. And he so rarely did it, too. So every time he smiled, it was a sight to behold. Arthur looked at his watch and frowned.
"We should get back. It's almost curfew." He said and offered his arm again, like only a gentleman could.
The two of you walked back to Hetalia Academy. Arthur walked you all the way to the door to your building. You stopped at the door and turned to face him.
see you in class tomorrow?" You said, scratching the back of your head, looking away. For some reason, after you ran out of the tea shop, you couldn't look Arthur in the eye.
"Yeah. I guess that is so." He said. "Good night, (name). Pleasant dreams." He said before he turned around.
"Good night, Arthur." You said and you turned to the door and walked inside.
Arthur felt himself smile as he walked away from you. Tonight had been pretty good, in his opinion, even if there were a few slight hitches, some of which, were his own. You walked upstairs to your dorm and walked in. Once again, you saw Eliza sitting up on the bed. She grinned at you.
"So why are you so late?" She asked, the grin never leaving her face.
"Oh, ah
" You didn't really know how you should answer that question. You sighed. "Arthur took me out for ice cream after dinner."
Her face lit up. "So you went on a date, did you?"
no. Arthur said that it wasn't a date." You felt your face flush as you walked into your dresser.
"So you wanted it to be a date then?" She asked, a smile heard in her voice.
"N-no. I never said that!" You said as you pulled out some clothes suitable to sleep in. You quickly changed into them and laid down in your bed.
You saw Eliza, still grinning wildly. "You face doesn't tell the same story." She giggled. "You are so cute!"
You rolled your eyes.
"Oh, by the way, (name). What would you like for your birthday when it comes up? I have to start planning right away, or I might not get you the right gift." She said.
You shrugged. "I honestly don't know
" you looked up at the ceiling. "I'll probably love anything you get me. Just
don't go too over board, ok?"
She only nodded, and you thought you saw an evil grin tug on the corners of her lips out of the corner of her eyes. "I know just the thing."


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