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I found some examples on how to do the opposite but I couldn't reverse-engineer them to what I want.
Is mod_rewrite what I need, and if so can someone clue me in?
PS Arrgh! :)
# Redirect www.mysite.com to mysite.com: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mysite\.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [mysite.com...] [R=permanent,L]
# Redirect anything except mysite.com to mysite.com: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mysite\.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [mysite.com...] [R=permanent,L]
<added>The second version is useful if you have multiple TLDs, like .com and .org, pointed to the same site and you want to redirect them all to the same URL, as well as removing the "www."</added>
More details here [httpd.apache.org].
Both examples throw up an Internal Server Error :(
Back to the drawingboard, I'll dig through the Apache link you sent and see if I can make heads-or-tails out of it.
Thanks again.
Make sure you've got symbolic links enabled, and that the rewrite engine is enabled. And before even checking that, make sure that the rewrite module is installed and that you have priveleges to use it!
Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mysite\.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [mysite.com...] [R=permanent,L]
This code has worked for years on my site. If the above hints don't help you, then you may stickymail me your actual code if you think there's some subtle typo in your version - it does have to be letter-perfect.
I'll follow all the advice when I get the time, looks like I may need to get my host's admin on the line.
Tell them you need "AllowOverride +Options" in the directory level above the directory your .htaccess file is in. If your .htaccess is in your site's top-level directory, then they will need to add this option in the server config for you. Actually, you might want to ask for "AllowOverride All" at first, and see if they'll go for it... :) (See the Apache Core docs for AllowOverride.)

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Starting with a 45-minute movie, the Blood: The Last Vampire franchise now includes a TV series, manga series, and novel series, as well as a novel adaptation of the original movie.
Blood: The Last Vampire is a franchise made up of two anime films, four game adaptions, five light novels, five manga adaptions, one live action film and two anime adaptions. The manga adaption Blood C which began in May of 2011 is still on going.
Blood: The Last Vampire story is set in 1966 following a girl named Saya, who hunts bat-like creatures called chiropterans and gets orders from her American contacts or handlers as she infiltrates a high school near the American Yokota Air Base to find and defeat the chiropterans.
Blood+ follows Saya Otanoshi as she has no memory of before she was adopted by George Miyagusuku suddenly when her school is attacked she meets Hagi who tells her she must wake up and fight now. From there Saya is taken on a journey not only towards her future but towards the memories of her past.
Blood C follows Saya Kisaragi who was a happy absentminded student loved by all during the day but by night she is a katana - wielding demon slayer. The series follows Saya as her night and day lives collide will she be able to keep her promise to protect everyone?
Main characters only for full character list please visit the Character Page.
Saya (小夜 Saya) Voiced by: Youki Kudo | |
Saya hunts chiropterans using a katana. It is implied that she is the last remaining vampire and called "the only remaining original. She is unaffected by sun but religious items or mentioning god distresses and angers her. | |
David Voiced by: Joe Romersa | |
David is a man working for the U.S. government organization called the Red Shield. He relays missions to Saya. He is the only human Saya shows some kind of respect for. |
Main characters only for full character list please visit the Character Page.
Saya Otonashi (音無 小夜 Otonashi Saya) Voiced by: Eri Kitamura Kari Wahlgren | |
Saya Otonashi is a high school girl living in Okinawa who was adopted a year ago by George Miyagusuku though she appears to be a normal teenager, any injuries she sustains heal almost instantly and she must receive regular blood transfusions to remain healthy. She is reunited with her chevalier Haji, though she doesn't remember him, and learns that her blood can kill the chiropterans. | |
Hagi (ハジ Haji) Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi , Crispin Freeman | |
Hagi is Saya's first, and only living, chevalier. He is fiercely loyal to Saya only awaiting her orders. He plays the Cello and only his hand transforms. | |
Kai Miyagusuku (宮城 カイ Miyagusuku Kai) Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino Benjamin Diskin | |
Kai Miyagusuku is Saya's adopted older brother. Once a popular student at school and a star athlete, he quits playing baseball shortly before Saya's arrival and has been getting into more fights at school. At first he is somewhat childish but promises Saya to always be by her side. | |
David Voiced by: Jurouta Kosugi Christopher Nissley | |
David was the sole survivor of a chiropteran attack on his special forces squad before joining the Red Shield. he also assumes an unofficial guardianship of Kai and Riku while using Saya against the chiroptera. |
Main characters only for a full character list please visit the Character Page.
Saya Kisaragi (更衣 小夜 Kisaragi Saya) Voiced by: Nana Mizuki Alexis Tipton | |
Saya Kisaragi is well liked and a bit spacy she often sings as she walks and is easily distracted which is the cause of her being late or close to late every day. At night though she is given a sacred sword and slays Elder Bairns, demons that feed on humans. | |
Fumito Nanahara (七原 文人 Nanahara Fumito) Voiced by: Kenji Nojima Robert McCollum | |
Fumito Nanahara runs the Guimauve, a coffee shop near Saya's home. He regularly chats with Saya as she comes in to eat and have coffee daily. | |
Dog (犬 Inu) Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama Todd Haberkorn | |
Dog a mysterious dog that roams around and is often seen by Saya who can talk and tells Saya he would stay by her side as someone once made a wish in his shop that involves her. |
Production I.G originally created Blood: The Last Vampire as a 45-minute standalone film. It took place in the 1970s at a school near the American army base in Osaka, Japan and revolved around Saya, a young-looking, katana - wielding vampire hunter-- and the titular "last vampire" herself, destroying the peon vampires she finds.
The anime film titled Blood-C: The Last Dark which was backed by the Japanese government as a part of the International Film Production Support Project of the agency. Production I.G will receive 50 million yen ($650,000) from the Japanese government. The film was released after an 8 min teaser was released four days prior on June 2, 2012. It was directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani and written by Clamp, Nanase Ohikawa and Junichi Fujisaku.
The game titled Blood the Last Vampire a horror, adventure game developed by Production I.G was released on December 21, 2000 and again on the PSP on January 26, 2006.
The game adaption titled Blood+: Sōyoku no Battle Rondo an adventure game developed by Sony Entertainment for the Playstation2 was released on July 27, 2006.
The game adaption Blood+: One Night Kiss an action shooter game developed by Namco Bandai Games and Grasshopper Manufacture for the PlayStation2 was released on August 30, 2006.
The game adaption titled Blood+: Final Piece a Adventure RPG game was developed by SCEI and published by Sony Entertainment on September 7, 2006 for the PSP.
The light novel adaption titled Blood: The Last Vampire: 闇を誘う血 written by Junichi Fujisaku and published by Kadokawa in January 2001.
The light novel adaption titled Blood: The Last Vampire: Night of the Beasts was written by Mamoru Oshii and published in July of 2002.
The light novel adaption titled Blood: The Last Vampire: 上海哀儚 was written by Junichi Fujisaku and published in December of 2005.
The light novel series titled Blood+ written by Ryo Ikehata and illustrated by Chizu Hashii was published by Kadokawa Shoten starting May 1, 2006 and ran until May 1, 2007 the series consisted of 4 volumes.
The light novel series titled Blood+ Russian Rose was written by Chougastsu Karino and illustrated by Takagi Ryou and published by Kadokawa Shoten beginning on May 1, 2006 and ran until September 1, 2006 the series consisted of 2 volumes.
A manga written by Ranmaru Kotone and illustrated by Clamp was published by Kadokawa Shoten on may 26, 2011 and is still on going.
A manga adaption titled Blood+ written by Asuka Katsura and published by Kadokawa Shoten had its original run starting December 26, 2005 and ran until April 26, 2007 and consisted of 5 volumes.
Blood+ Adagio another manga adaption was written by Kumiko Suekane and published by Kadokawa Shoten starting April 26, 2006 and ran until December 26, 2006 the series contained 2 volumes.
The manga adaption titled Blood+ Yakōjōshi or Blood+ Kowloon Nights was written by Hirotaka Kisaragi and published by Kadokawa Shoten on April 26, 2006 and consisted of 1 volume.
The manga adaption titled Blood C written by Ranmaru Kotone and illustrated by Clamp was published by Kadokawa Shoten beginning May 26, 2011 and is still on going.
Blood: The Last Vampire a live action adaption directed by Chris Nahon and written by Chris Chow was released on May 29, 2009 and had a run time of 91 minutes. The movie is in English and was released in the US, France, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.
Blood + an anime adaption directed by Junichi Fujisaku and produced by Katsuiji Morishita was released by the studio Production I.G starting October 8, 2005 and ran until September 23, 2006. The series consisted of 50 episodes.
A 12 episode anime adaption of the on going manga written by Ranmaru Kotone and illustrated by Clamp was Directed by Tsutomu Mizushima. The series began on July 8, 2011 and ran until September 30, 2011. No second season aired.
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Saya Otonashi first in First Kiss |
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Hagi first in First Kiss |
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Riku Miyagusuku first in First Kiss |
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Solomon Goldsmith first in After The Dance |
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James Ironside first in I Want to Pursue! |
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Joel Goldschmidt |
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Van Argeno first in First Kiss |
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Amshel Goldsmith first in Siberian Express |
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Friday, May 31 2013
Chick Corea and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: 16 May 2013 - New York
Chick Corea's performance with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra was the kickoff to the festival named after him, and a masterful evening.
Thursday, January 19 2012
Chick Corea / Eddie Gomez / Paul Motian: Further Explorations
Nineteen choice tracks from a live week at New York's Blue Note -- a loose tribute to pianist Bill Evans
Wednesday, February 9 2011
Chick Corea / Stanley Clarke / Lenny White: Forever
The Return to Forever trio puts out a hodgepodge of live acoustic music and preview material for an upcoming tour, as the RTF machine continues to produce new product.
Monday, September 13 2010
Chris Massey's Nue Jazz Project: Vibrainium
Chris Massey leads a slinky outfit through original compositions as well as covers of Henderson and Corea.
Monday, March 30 2009
Return to Forever: Returns
The 1970s fusion juggernaut on a reunion tour, sounding more mature for sure.
Sunday, August 3 2008
Return to Forever: Return to Forever
The four electric sessions by the fusion juggernaut, coming back at you with screaming precision.
Tuesday, June 24 2008
Jazz giant Chick Corea tours with his classic fusion group for the first time in 25 years
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Anne Ducros: PIANO, piano
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BioMarin Provides Preliminary Data On Ongoing Phase 1/2 Trial For BMN 673 For The Treatment Of Solid Tumors At 2013 American Society Of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., June 3, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (Nasdaq:BMRN) today announced an update on the ongoing Phase 1/2 study for its poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor BMN 673 for the treatment of solid tumors. BMN 673 has exhibited substantial single-agent anti-tumor activity in deleterious germline BRCA ovarian and breast cancers in the trial. The data were presented during a poster presentation at the 2013 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting.
In the 28 gBRCA ovarian cancer patients, the RECIST response rate was 44% or 11 of 25 evaluable patients, the CA-125 response rate was 70% or 19 of 27 evaluable patients and the clinical benefit response rate was 82% or 23 of 28 patients. In the 18 gBRCA breast cancer patients, the RECIST response rate was 39% or 7 of 18 patients and the clinical benefit rate was 67% or 12 of 18 patients. Of the 18 gBRCA breast cancer patients, there were six partial responses (three yet to be confirmed) and one complete response. Four ongoing patients have had stable disease for less than 12 weeks. Treatment is ongoing in 12 of the 18 breast cancer patients in the study.
"Patients with germline BRCA-associated tumors have no targeted treatment options. There is a need for therapies that target specific molecular defects in tumors, and PARP inhibitors offer that potential in BRCA-related cancers. We have seen excellent anti-tumor activity in some of our patients treated with BMN 673. Continued study of this molecule will be meaningful for advancing the care for patients suffering from these cancers," said Professor Johann de Bono, Professor of Experimental Cancer Medicine at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
BMN 673 was generally well-tolerated. The dose-limiting toxicity was Grade 3 thrombocytopenia. Myelosuppression, most of which was moderate in severity, occurred in 10-20% of patients with chronic dosing. Fatigue, nausea and alopecia were observed in 20-30% of patients. Signs of activity were seen as low as 100 µg/day, and the maximum tolerated dose was 1.0 mg/day, which is the expected dose for further development. BMN 673 also has good bioavailability and a long half-life which supports once daily dosing.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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The Embassy of Bangladesh in Kathmandu observed the Shaheed Dibas and International Mother Language Day on February 21, 2014 with solemnity and pageantry. The Mission organised a day-long programme to commemorate the day which began with the hoisting of the national flag at half-mast at the Chancery by the Ambassador in the morning, says a press release.
In the evening, the Mission organised a cultural programme, attended by the Ambassadors and other diplomats in Kathmandu, senior Nepalese dignitaries, civil society members, representatives of the Nepalese print and electronic media, officials of the Mission and SAARC secretariat, and expatriate Bangladeshis. The programme began with the recitation of verses from four Holy books. The Officer-in-charge, UNESCO, who attended the programme as chief-guest, made a short statement highlighting the significance of the day and outlining UNESCO's plans for commemorating the day. The Nepal Bhasha Parishad, a cultural group which promotes the local Newari language, participated in the cultural programme by reciting Newari poetry, singing Newari songs (including a Newari translation of a Nazrul geeti). A Nepalese artiste also sang a Nepali song followed by recitation of Bangla poetry. The highlight of the evening's cultural programme was a performance by. Sharmin Sathi Islam, Bizon Chandra Mistry and Ibne Khaldun Razon from Bangladesh who rendered several Bangla patriotic songs which were greatly appreciated by the audience. The programme concluded with a short speech on 21st February by the Ambassador.


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COLCHESTER Two members of the Vermont National Guard are being recognized with awards as part of the 2012 Air Force Media Contest.
Staff Sgt. Sarah Mattison and Tech. Sgt. Daniel DiPietro of the 158th Fighter Wing Public Affairs office have together won eight awards in the contests Air National Guard round.
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Plaza Theatre Ranks on Global Ticket Sales List
EL PASO — The mid-year Pollstar reports rank El Paso's Plaza Theatre 58th in wordwide theatre ticket sales, according to the El Paso Convention and Performing Arts Center. This is the second time in 2012 that the Plaza Theatre has been a distinguished venue on this worldwide list.
All figures calculated were for tickets sold worldwide as reported to Pollstar for shows played between the first six months of 2012. During this period the Plaza Theatre hosted a distinguished line up of shows, some including Willie Nelson, Mamma Mia!, Dave Koz, and Straight No Chaser.
Tickets sold also included the unforgettable 16 sold out performances of WICKED.
"It is an honor to once again be ranked amongst the top theatres in the world. Due in large part to the success of Wicked, we continue to have a very strong overall attendance this year," Bryan Crowe, Assistant General Manager said.
Pollstar maintains the world's largest database of international concert tour information and has the most reliable and accurate worldwide ticket sales results. Carol McNeal, Director, Facilities Sales and Marketing for the El Paso Convention and Performing Arts Center said, "To be recognized as a leader worldwide will continue to bring positive attention to the El Paso community."


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Jesus On The Cross And The Mackems Get Relegated!
Gus Poyet acknowledges the time frame is narrowing on Sunderland's Premier League survival bid ... and they could be relegated by EASTER!
Yes ... Jesus, Easter eggs, the Easter bunny ... and the Scum hit the trap door.
Gus Poyet: "Closing the gap between us and the teams above us is one of the things I keep looking at.
"There is going to be a time when it becomes practically impossible.
"But the only thing we can do is to believe in what we do, to make sure we play like we did on Saturday, and we will start winning games.
"Sometimes it's not in your hands, there are decisions that go against you, other factors.
"But the two games we've played away from home that were normal – West Ham and Aston Villa – we got a point in each.
"The other ones were abnormal – two own goals, two sendings off, a wrong decision from the referee, always something happened.
"So I'm not asking for a lot, I'm asking for normal games, and that will give us a chance."
A failure to beat West Ham means that regardless of what happens elsewhere, Sunderland will spend Christmas Day bottom of the Premier League pile.
That of course sparked talk of the Curse of Christmas – the fact that apart from West Brom in 2005, every Premier League team which has been bottom on Christmas has been relegated in May.
Eeeee I tell you what ... I'm enjoying Xmas already!
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The best-paid women at S&P 500 companies earn 18% less than men.
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Push to improve central-bank transparency results in airing of conflicting views and increased volatility in the U.S., Japan, and the EU.
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Fed moves into uncharted territory by tying its rate outlook to unemployment and inflation.
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As balance sheet gets bigger, the risks in unwinding it increase.
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Short-term rates inch up in Fed twist to lowering long-term costs.
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When the DNA replisome falls off the DNA there are other proteins called "restart replication proteins" that come in to help get it back on track. Although this ensures that DNA replication can continue, it can potentially increase the risk of mistakes occurring during the copying process, particularly if such restart replication proteins are malfunctioning. In some cases these mistakes can lead to problems e.g. if the mistake causes a genetic malfunction that can lead to a cancer developing.
Describing what happens to the DNA replisome in areas of DNA where there are many RNA Polymerases working on genes that are in high use, Professor Soultanas said: "We are now realizing that when there are a lot of slow moving trains close together on the track, the fast moving train is faced with a huge obstacle and any failure to safely negotiate these areas could easily result in significant errors. Therefore, replication restart mechanisms are of vital importance to ensure accurate copying of the genetic material"
Professor Douglas Kell, Chief Executive, BBSRC said "This is exciting news and an excellent achievement. Biological sciences as a discipline is unique because there are a collection of key ideas, tools, techniques and processes that are applied across an enormous range of topics. The interplay between gene expression, DNA replication and the prevention of DNA damage is an example of just such a tenet of biology and so this result has the potential to touch on research right across BBSRC's portfolio and beyond."
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Clip Of The Day: Halldor Helgason Gatorade Pond Skim
Haldor goes for a swim in a pool of Gatorade back when he was still "Eiki's little brother" for today's Clip Of The Day.
Read MoreHaldor goes for a swim in a pool of Gatorade back when he was still "Eiki's little brother" for today's Clip Of The Day.
Read MoreWas this the craziest Big Air contest ever? Did freestyle snowboarding just change? More triple corks went down in one night than probably all of last year combined, watch the video and see for yourself.
Read MoreHere's the full length movie from the craziest snowboarders we know to come out of Iceland. Eiki and Haldor Helgason along with Gulli Gudmundsson have followed up their 2011 hit "Sexual Snowboarding", with another raw and funny look into snowboarding and their lives through the lens of the one and only Johannes Brenning. So sit back and enjoy "Pepping"
Read MoreOur favorite Icelandic shredders just dropped the teaser to their new video "Pepping". Recently when senior editor T-Bird asked Haldor what exactly that meant, he looked at him and laughed saying "you'll know soon enough......."
Read MoreSuperpark 15 is kicking off next week at Mt. Bachelor, Oregon, so to get you prepared we figured we would bring you all of last year's edits in one convenient post.
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Harnessing Local Capacity:
U.S. Assistance and NGO in Pakistan
By Nadia Naviwala
The motivating question for this Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE) is: How can USAID spend the new $7.5 billion development assistance package for Pakistan more effectively by engaging local NGOs and leaders?.
The challenge for USAID is to work with Locally Funded NGOs without converting them into foreignfunded NGOs. This PAE suggests that USAID can achieve this by following principles of "non-distortionary" and "demand-driven" assistance...
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Dangerous Correlations
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Vol 36, Issue 11, Nov 2008, Pgs 2297-2313]
Based on a country-wide survey of 40 civil society organizations in Pakistan, this paper demonstrates that the policy of channeling development aid through NGOs in the South in the name of generating social capital and strengthening civil society is having a reverse impact: organizations reliant on development aid have no members. The survey indicates a strong correlation between receipt of international aid and absence of members; it further demonstrates a strong correlation between aid and rise in material aspirations among leaders of NGOs and lower organizational performance. The paper raises possibility of a causal relation where aid leads to material aspirations among leaders of NGOs, which in turn result in lower performance and an inability to mobilize members...
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he influx of $7.5 billion in development aid to Pakistan over the next five years has raised a critical and contentious question: how can local NGOs be best engaged?
"Dangerous Correlations" and "Harnessing Local Capacity" suggest that the best NGOs in Pakistan are locally-initiated and locally-funded. However, USAID is not structured to work with these organizations because aid amounts are too large, reporting requirements too burdensome, and projects are too heavily USAID- rather than locally-defined. To work with Pakistan's most effective local actors, U.S. assistance must be "non-distortionary," meaning that funding amounts and processes should not distort NGO budgets and structures. U.S. assistance should also be "demand-driven," meaning more support for existing and locally-defined work. In sum, USAID will need smaller, more flexible grants to support the existing or self-defined work of reputable local actors.
Surprisingly, neither USAID nor Pakistan's top-performing NGOs seem inclined to work with each other. USAID prefers to work through the Government of Pakistan to achieve national scale impact, while the best NGOs are flush with millions of dollars in local donations and find that USAID is not worth the trouble. However, USAID needs local NGOs to achieve maximum effectiveness, and should pursue innovative public-private partnerships with the government to achieve scale of impact.
More importantly, reputable, local NGOs can lend credibility and visibility to U.S. efforts. This is badly needed given the controversy surrounding current and past U.S. assistance, high mistrust of the government, and the saturation of NGOs in urban areas where public opinion is formed.
"Harnessing Local Capacity" summarizes what is known about the composition and funding of Pakistan's NGO sector, describes specific potential local partners, and provides illustrative anecdotes from Pakistani NGO and civil society leaders. It also describes the experience of The Citizens Foundation, likely Pakistan's largest schools-building NGO, when it tried to apply for U.S. assistance.
There is one critical piece missing from this research: how can projects and organizations that depend on aid perform better? "Dangerous Correlations" demonstrates that foreign-funded NGOs are weaker organizationally than locally-funded ones, but does not compare their project performance. "Harnessing Local Capacity" also suggests that USAID can reliably channel a small portion of the $7.5 billion aid package to locally-funded NGOs, with relatively high impact, but does not resolve how USAID can fully define and fund work locally. If USAID wants to channel large amounts to local organizations to fulfill its priorities, it should learn what distinguishes effective aid-dependent NGOs from ineffective ones and build both local and its own capacity accordingly.
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Desire - Have you seen the commercials wherein you just have to get out of your house and get the product? Perhaps a car, an ice cream or a house. The same has to be done by the sales person in personal selling.
Desire Competitors - all companies and organisations offering a product that the consumer desires immediately. See Competitors.Desk Jobber - see Drop Shipper.Desk Research - see Secondary Research.
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objectives The desired or needed result to be achieved by a specific time. An objective is broader than a goal, and one objective can be broken down into a number of specific goals.
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A link which does not lead to the desired location. Links may Browser: Client used to view the world wide web. The most popular browsers are Microsoft's Internet Explorer,Cache: Copy of a web page stored by a search engine.
MAND Money, Authority, Need and Desire -- the requisites of a qualified lead. Market Penetration The percentage of buyers you have as compared with the total households or businesses in the area you have selected as your market.
Collectibles A type of premium that consumers may desire to have as a part of a greater collection of similar goods. Color proof An early full-color print of a finished advertisement, used to evaluate the ad's final appearance.
AIDA model of communication: A communication model which aims to obtain Attention, Interest, Desire and Action. Advertising objective: The objective of your communication strategy. To inform of a new development, persuade or remind.
Currently, the desire to avoid aiding the enemy may result in laws that make it more difficult for American firms to export goods to other countries.
All strategies, tactics and activities involved in getting the desired marketing messages to intended target markets, regardless of the media used. MechanicalA term for camera-ready paste-up of artwork.
Lisa knows that at the heart of all technological advancement lies a true desire for deeper and more effective communication.
A keyword phrase is generally two or more words that are used by advertisers in search engine optimization, or by visitors who are using search engines in a desire to find information based on that particular phrase.
The web allows us to match producers' desire for economies of scale, and consumers' desire for variety of choice to satisfy a set of needs.
A conversion is a desired client or customer action and is one measure of the success of a web site or advertising program. Successful conversions can be either online or offline.
Incentive Marketing A program designed to incent specific behavior to achieve desired results. Incentive programs are typically used to motivate employees, customers, sales reps, resellers, etc. Incentive More.
Conversion Rate - The number of visitors who convert (take a desired action at your site) after clicking through on your ad, divided by the total number of click-throughs to your site for that ad.
Quota Sample - A sample in which desired sample size or quotas are established for various universe subclasses (controls).
The Internet has created new challenges and opportunities for anyone who desires to deliver information to readers.
The number of visitors who convert (take a desired action at your site) after clicking through on your ad, divided by the total number of click-throughs to your site for that ad.
As quoted by the Associated Press, Overture spokesperson Jennifer Stephens attributed the casino ban to a "lack of clarity in the current environment" and a desire to conform with its parent company's policies.
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PageRank is the most intense point of focus, speculation, observation, and desire in the Webmaster and optimization communities. More than any other single marketing factor, PageRank has the power to determine a site's visibility.
Conversion Rate: The number of visitors who completed the desired action. For example: signing up for news letter, buying your product, downloading a trial version of a software, etc.
Attention, Interest, Desire, Action. This is a traditional model of the purpose and flow of marketing communications and direct sales efforts:1. Create attention;2. Generate interest;3. Develop desire;4. Initiate action.
For Web sites, the conversion rate is the number of visitors who took the desired action divided by the total number of visitors in a given time period (typically, per month).
The process by which a website visitor completes a process that is desired by the website owner. In B2C (Business-to-Consumer) sites, a conversion is typically an online sale.
The process of discovering and then communicating the desired brand image.
Esteem Needs - the desire to feel important in the eyes of others.Evaluative Criteria - features of a supplier, product, etc. considered by a buyer when choosing between alternatives; evaluative criteria may be objective or subjective.
The marketer (a company like Procter and Gamble) offers goods and services desired by the market (the pool of potential customers). In return, the market (the customer) gives back something of value to the marketer, generally money.
Attention, Interest, Desire, Action. The four standard steps of direct marketing.analyticsThe art of using traffic and sales statistics to understand user behaviour and improve the performance of your site ...
Attention, Interest, Desire, Conviction, Action: a model describing the engagement model that marketing communication is intended to initiate in the mind of a prospective customer.Ambient Media ...
Here are a few common example desired goalsa product sale completing a lead form a phone call capturing an email filling out a survey getting a person to pay attention to you getting feedback ...
A-I-D-A: Shorthand for Attention, Interest, Desire, Action (the four key components of direct marketing copy).BRC: Business Reply Card. A postage-paid costcard used to place an order, ask about a product, or request additional information.
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How easy it is for customers to perform the desired actions.The structure and formatting of text and hyperlink based calls to action can drastically increase your website usability, and thus conversion rates.Usage Data ...
AIDAS: "Attention, Interest, Desire, Action, Satisfaction" - elements of a sales campaign that establishes and sustains the prospect's momentum from initial contact up to and beyond the "close".
The percentage of visitors to a website that perform a desired action, such as making a purchase or filling out a form. For example, if 30 visitors out of 100 subscribe to a newsletter, the conversion rate is expressed as 30%.to the topCookies ...
Sampling Formula: A formula based on the desired number of completes, the incidence, the acceptance, and the type of sample that Decision Analyst uses to calculate the number of sample records needed for a survey.
Attention, Interest, Desire, Action - the stages of the original sales / purchase funnelAmbient mediaCommunication via media which surround us in everyday life ...
Conversion rate - the percentage of visitors who take a desired action prompted by a messageCookie - the information that is stored on a website visitor's computer by a website so preferences are remembered on future requests ...
Double or Verified Opt-in - The process of having subscribers confirm their desire to receive your information by clicking on a confirmation link sent to them via email.
Cost-Plus Pricing Occurs when a retailer adds its costs to desired profit margins to derive selling prices.Credit Management Involves the policies and practices retailers follow in receiving payments from their customers.
T (Back to Top)Target AudienceThe audience most desired by advertisers in terms of potential product/service usage and revenue potential.Television HouseholdsAn estimate of the number of households that have one or more television sets.
Value-driven marketing requires a deep desire to serve ... a deep love of your customers. It requires a daily commitment to seek "more ways to add value to your clients' lives/businesses.
Pre-testing: showing an advertisement to a sample of the target audience during its development to check whether it is conveying the desired message in the desired way with the desired effect.
As this story discusses, Campbell Soup is facing tough times and this appears to be attributed to consumers' desire for fresher products.
Collating - The process of arranging your printed and/or other materials into a desired sequence and packing them for despatch.Colour mode - Refers to the way in which the colour is created in the document, an example could be CMYK or RGB.
Conversion - When a user takes the desired action. Perhaps signing up to an email list or buying a product, that user has 'converted'.
CR (Conversion Rate) - Percentage of site visitors that take a desired action.CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) - A text data format used to separate style from structure on Web pages.
Conversion rate - The percentage of recipients of an email who take the marketer?s desired action whether it is to purchase a product or provide information (can be multiplied by 100 to express the result as a percentage).
Qualify: Screening prospects to make sure they have the need, desire, and -- most important -- the vast fiscal reserves to buy your product or service.RFP: Request for Proposal.
Affiliate marketing allows advertisers to pay affiliates who link to their sites based on performance, and only when a desired action or sale occurs.
Goals may include driving targeted traffic to a Website and features on the Website to create a desired call to action.
Conversion:A site visitor completes a desired action. Generally a download, signup, purchase, etc.
In some cases it is appropriate for packaging to present an extremely abstract, emotional or creative context, particularly when the product itself is difficult to represent as an object of beauty or desire.
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The process used by marketers to create 'relevant differentiation' for a product, service or company and generate the desired positive marketplace perceptions relative to the competition.Product Differentiation ...
Frames are often used to aid navigation. Sometimes they're used because the designer or site owner thinks it's the only way to get the desired look or functionality. In some cases, they may be correct, but not always.
(n.) advertising space made available by publishers and operators, which directly and accurately targets a desired audience. Premium inventory is often sold as a CPM campaign as opposed to a CPC campaign.
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Abbreviation for cost per action. Type of advertising in which a web site gets paid each time an end user performs a desired action.CPC ...
The delivery of relevance-targeted text ads as part of the search experience. Intended to satisfy users need for relevant search results, and the advertiser's desire for qualified traffic to their website.Spot ...
AIDA model - A model that depicts the successive stages a buyer passes through in the personal selling process including: attention, interest, desire, and action.
Some basic techniques include focusing on benefits rather than features, using attention grabbing headlines, making effective use of testimonials, providing credible guarantees and addressing the copy to the desires of the reader.
If you look at almost every media around you, from the front page of USA Today to the evening news to the sitcoms on TV, you'll see this is what the American public wants, desires, and craves.
It doesn't matter if you are a high-school graduate, or you're completing your third trimester of your second year in Chiropractic School. Any person with the desire to work from home can start an online business....
Demographics: Specific populations broken down by commonly shared characterisitics such as age, sex, income, education, household size, home ownership status and more for the purpose of allowing marketers to study the trends of a desired ...
a pricing model based on delivering sales or something else that can be directly attributed to the bottom line. Contrast this with traditional banner advertising which is based on impressions, a chunk of which come from people you have no desire or ...
advertising pricing model by which advertisers pay for each conversion completed as a result of a click on their advertisements. Determined by dividing the investment by the conversions, with a conversion defined as the completion of the desired ...
video, or flash on a web page meets generally accepted standards of semantics, style, and grammer. 2. From an SEO perspective, whether or not the content on a web page follows best practices for getting high search engine rankings on the desired ...
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My 2x Great parents were Robert and Miriam. Our family are descended from Robert and Miriam's eldest daughter, Rosa.
I have information on the Family in England I'd love to share with you. Also courtesy of one of Francis Jnrs great grandaughters, lots of information on the family of Francis in USA.
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I'm looking for someone by the name of Jeffrey T Smith born 1961. He had a sister named Patty and other siblings as well. He is my ex-husbands biological father and I'm trying to find a family line for him. I know his last known residence was in Columbia Station. If anyone can help please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com , thank you.
his fathers name was Charles Smith
The family Smith from Bocas del Toro, Panama looking for some information concerning their ancestor, Charles Edgar Smith Rogers borned on 8/03/1857 and dead on 27/10/1929; his fathers was Edgar Smith, 30/05/1820--23/03/1871 and Mary Elizabeth Rogers.
Is possible between the years 1870 and 1880, he leves in North Carolina, nearby a uncle by the name of Charles Smith,we interested in know some more details, for example, who was his grandfather, in what school he realized his studies,at what church he was assisted, where he was working etc.
The history we had abaut his daily living in the U.S.A During that period of time is very little, since his relates lost on the time ; if any family or any private person of the United States knew of the theme, we can exchange information.
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I was the very embodiment of everything our society worries could go wrong with a little boy, and in my small Midwestern town in the early '80s, I was every father's nightmare awoken and menacingly mincing my way through our local mall's food court.
Texas lawmakers are gunning for the judge who let two lesbians to get married. Meanwhile, homophobic lawmakers celebrate the 10th anniversary of the state's marriage ban. There's just one problem -- the law will probably be overturned before it actually turns 10.
Now, perhaps more than ever before, black people are joining forces and standing up for their rights and recognition. Yet, there is still disharmony within that same united front when it comes to accepting our transgender brothers and sisters.
Coaching with a clear mind has allowed me to be better at my job. It has allowed me to open up to my team and share experiences. It has made us closer. I have friends that I truly could not live without. We are a unique family that exists from similar experiences. I coach boys high school basketball and yes, I'm gay.
One can't help but wonder: Are these magazines for straight men only? I am unaware of their average reader's sexual orientation, however, at least statistically, surely conjecturally, a portion of the readership must identify as gay or bisexual.
It wasn't that I didn't know how to date girls, it was that I didn't know how to date anybody. Before this year, I had been on three real dates, and all of them were with boys I had previously spent time with in group settings. I didn't know how to go on a first date.
As mothers, you aren't just teaching your children. You're teaching fathers, and dads-to-be, and dads-in-waiting. Men like me, like my husband, men that neither I nor you will ever meet, men in faraway places and men around the block, who have everything to offer a child. So please, if you don't mind, keep teaching.
Before kids, we went to Turkey, South Africa and Thailand and even contemplated Lebanon. But after two adoptions and the current state of LGBT rights worldwide, our safe zones have become greatly reduced.
We know that countless numbers of men and women have been, and continue to be, persecuted simply for being who they are. We understand how fortunate we are just to be able to raise our children and to glimpse the possibilities in store for them.
What would make you renounce your homosexuality? An all-expenses-paid Caribbean cruise? A sleek new Jaguar? A million dollars? For one gay Chicago baseball fan, it was tickets to a Cubs game.
There are far fewer hate comments than there are love comments. As Ms. Swift said, haters gonna hate. But it may be nice to know that lovers gonna love, too. I'm serious.
Many parents thought the song should be an anthem in every elementary school in the country. But others refused to let their child sing on the song, or even sing on the recording, if we were going to include this song.
With very little national attention, transgender victims (especially those of color) are forgotten while their cases grow cold and their murderers often walk free, as in the case of Deshawnda Bradley.
Growing up kinky, queer, non-binary, and non-heteronormative is a mixed bag that often includes struggles and self-doubt. But you grow up, and chances are that you will find that person or those people who don't just accept you but are grateful for who you turned out to be.
There are aspects of ourselves that we are encouraged never to reveal; but I'm not a unicorn. I'm a man. I'm a black man. I'm a black male teacher. I'm a good, queer, black male teacher who is not quite as good when I feel it must be kept a secret.
Religious extremism is alive and well in the Duggar household, and its ugly tentacles extend far beyond the reach of the family's matriarch, Michelle.
Failure to adequately protect transgender students means that transgender people and their families often face hostile, unsafe, or unwelcoming school environments. Harassment and violence make it difficult for transgender students to obtain the skills and education they need to succeed.
No dear, I don't know why the guy you're into won't text you back. (I still haven't figured that out for my own purposes.) And, for the love of all that is good and HOLY: I am not -- repeat, NOT -- an honorary girl.
At the very least, you can make a movie next year about white women and gender inequality and have the Oscars rally around you. It is never the same for gay people and people of color, as evidenced by the lack of color in this year's Oscar movies.


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Treasure Tool is the name of magical objects which can provide special abilities or even an Unrestricted Spell. A Treasure Tool is created when a single Denizen and a human, each representing their own world, has the same desire to one another; if worked out with the right Unrestricted Spells and physical materials, a Treasure Tool for the sole purpose of fulfilling that desire will be created. For example, Reiji Maigo, which is sought by many for its ability to replenish its owner's Power of Existence at midnight every day, was originally created by the Lord-Mystes lovers, Pheles and Johann, under their desire of "being together forever", using a single whole clock tower for the physical material part. Most Denizens, Flame Hazes, and even humans who aid them possess one or more of these, and would try to acquire as many as they can for many reasons, like getting an upper hand in critical time during battles. The most famous Treasure Tool collector is the Hunter Friagne.
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I don't know if any of you have seen Catfish, but it was really interesting. I watched it the other day and found it to be mildly creepy and I certainly did not expect the ending.
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This is a topic where you can say which documentary has really impressed you, and why people should see it. Can be a recent one or an all-time favourite. Can't be your own though, sorry...
We also have a Documentary Films topic for our Professionals where the debate is private and possibly more controversial. This topic here is for recommendations to the documentary-interested public.
This topic is for praising the work of others, not your own. If you want to beat the drum for your own documentary, please don't do it here. Enthusiasts use our Public Classifieds, and Professionals have their own Shameless Self-Promotion topic.
I saw several great docs at SF Int'l this year, but the one I was moved enough to come here to post about it was BUCK, Audience winner at Sundance. I think it's getting a release soon. Don't miss it.
SIFF is showing Buck June 8 (SIFF Cinema) and June 9 (Kirkland).
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Heart-breaking, but great work. Any plans to do a feature length doc on this subject?
Academy-Award nominated filmmaker (and long time member of The D-Word) James Longley (IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS) has made his 2002 documentary GAZA STRIP available for free online in its entirety:
great little film about the Salton Sea and the strange community that used to surround it and what's left of it.
Working on a crash course with a motivated student, I noticed how many great docs are on Netflix streaming these days. Thought I'd share a sample here:
Harlan County USA
Last Train Home
Man on Wire
When We Were Kings
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The Oath
In reply to James Longley's post on Sun 10 Apr 2011 : I agree. It muckracks to the point that it glosses over some of the real story. but, too, i wonder how else it might have been done.
I tend to get on a high after seeing a great movie – but Last Train Home was a masterpiece.
In reply to Kurt Engfehr's post on Tue 17 May 2011 :
Some gorgeous footage in there... I've seen several docs popping up about the Salton Sea lately... Here's one I'm eager to check out:
Just finished "Genghis Blues", re: Paul Pena and Tuvan throatsinging (netflix). It is great! I swear I put it on my queue because of something I recently read here, but can't find the posting. I read Fyneman's "Tuva or Bust!" years ago. I'm sure I have the companion record somewhere around the house.
Thoroughly enjoyed Page One. Caught it recently at a special screening at a brunch event for Film Forum supporters. David Carr and Brian Stelter are brilliant. As a lifelong journalist, it thrilled me. Two of my favorite docs this year take place behind-the-scenes at The Times– this one and Bill Cunningham NY.
Barbara, the trailer reads like a fiction. The soundbites are phenomenal.
here's a newfangled 'interactive documentary' supported by our good friends from the north, the NFB. it's a look at a small town in Canada that was closed! http://pinepoint.nfb.ca/#/pinepoint
it's part photo album, documentary and oral history. real interesting stuff.
In reply to Kurt Engfehr's post on Tue 14 Jun 2011 :
how interesting! thanks for the rec!
Hi everyone,
Not sure if I should ask here or somewhere else. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a "first person" documentary film? Meaning, the film is about a person but it is filmed from their perspective. For example, I'm the director, the film is about my story and I film everything from my view.
There's a whole slew but a seminal work in this genre is Ross McElwee's Sherman's March.
In reply to Reid B. Kimball's post on Sat 18 Jun 2011 :
Hi Reid, I know this isn't the place for self-promo, but in answer to your question, my film A Lot Like You is a first person doc...
Yay! Thank you Ramona and Eliaichi, I will check both of these out today.
Well, most of the films directed by D-Word founder Doug Block are first-person docs...
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WHOA! Indiana DHS Is Now Regulating 'LIVE' Entertainment
Submitted by emalvini on Fri, 07/26/2013 - 11:53WHOA! Indiana DHS Is Now Regulating 'LIVE' Entertainment
Indiana DHS demands restaurant owner get permit to play live music
Paul Joseph Watson
July 26, 2013
Despite being created ostensibly as a response to the terror attacks on 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security has now expanded its role to include issuing permits without which restaurant owners are barred from playing live music.
Unbelievable as it sounds, in the state of Indiana, the DHS, which was supposedly founded to protect against and respond to terrorist attacks, man-made accidents, and natural disasters, now regulates live entertainment.
Read more: http://www.infowars.com/homeland-security-is-now-regulating-...
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This article refers to the Indiana Dept of Homeland Security, which is the name of Indianas state safety code enforcement agency, NOT US DHS! Completely different entity. Please retract this article quickly to avoid any possible embarassment or loss of credibility.
move along...
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Even the best of writers:
Can't make up 32 pages for a disaster plan for a rabbit. I can write the recipe out in just a couple of lines though.
This story is yet another example of government bureaucracy running wild. Earlier this week it emerged that the U.S. Department of Agriculture busted a stage magician for not having a license for his rabbit.
"A small-time magician from Missouri that does magic shows for kids was absolutely horrified when he learned that the Obama administration is requiring him to submit a 32 page "disaster plan" for the rabbit that he uses in his shows," writes Michael Snyder. "Yes, this is actually true. His name is Marty Hahne, and he thought that it was bad enough when the U.S. Department of Agriculture busted him for not having a "license" for his rabbit. He went out and acquired the proper "license" for his rabbit, but he never dreamed that eventually he would also have to submit a 32 page "disaster plan" for the same rabbit."
Mike Martin is set to attend a hearing at the Indiana State House on Friday August 2nd during which a judge will hear his appeal against the DHS permit demand.
I love my country
I am appalled by my government
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Disaster Recovery Plan = Rabbit Stew
Nice... :) That was funny.
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We are gonna kill it this weekend at Brewfest Saturday night and then rock some tired asses early Sunday morning to finish off the Relay For Life event in Rainier, Washington. Then we head up to Woodinville. Wanna come along? We'll take you up for free, no cover and you can rock with us on a great adventure. Let us know, you know the drill... See ya soon rockas!
Stick it in your iphone, pholks! Aug 3, 1-9 p.m. or so. It's the Oly Brewfest on the Olympia Washington waterfront. Here's the link for tickets: www.olybrewfest.com We are the closing act and go on at 6 p.m. This is a possible sell out event so getting your tickets early saves you money and hassle. The breweries are first rate, the Northwest's finest. The music on the bill is sick. You'll love it. We'll have special edition souvenir t-shirts, limited quantity, specifically for the festival. See YOU THERE!!
We rolled out our new song Believe for it's first public performance Thursday night. Well received. We like rock, but we don't like to write downer songs. Fun is where it's at. Catch us at a show soon and hear them. Hope your summer is coming in HOT n HEAVY! Jake James Cody Colin
Hi Silver Bullet Nation! Right up front, we have tickets to sell for our show at El Corazon, June 20. Yeah we know it is a Thursday night. Yeah we know it could be a long drive for some of you. Yeah we know it's not Adler, like you wanted, but the headliner isn't why you should come anyway, right? Come to support US! We promise you two things: A- A F#@&!$ GOOD TIME B- FREE SHIT For all the people who buy a ticket, we'll pick two the night of the show and give them their ticket money BACK!! plus free shit.
Honestly? This is our first gig at El Cor and we'd love our fans to show the love so we can go back. Rock on, James, Jake, Cody, Colin
What's up SB Nation!
This is Cody, finally getting a chance to update you on all things new in our world! In case you haven't heard yet, Steven Adler had to cancel his tour after he checked back into rehab. Our El Corazon show is still happening though! Dizzy Reed of Guns N Roses has agreed to play the dates instead and we will be one of the opening acts. Tickets are only $15 bucks, so hit us up if you want to buy them!
This past weekend, we had the privilege of playing two amazing parties this past weekend, one in Eatonville and the other in Tumwater. The party in Eatonville was a joint birthday party for Donny and Jordon, a father and son tandem that just so happen to really love our music. Donny was more than accommodating, making sure that we had everything we needed for the actual gig and then making sure we ate and had a good time before we had to leave. Those jalepeno poppers were so awesome, but damn were they spicy! Thanks for having us out Donny, can't wait for next year!
Our second gig of the day had to be the most unique venue we have ever played at. Our good friend Mike invited us out to his 60th birthday party at the Olympic Flight Museum. I think I can speak for the entire band when I say that it was more than we expected it to be. The crowd was even more surprised as we took the stage and were loving everything we played from our originals to our covers of ZZ Top, Tom Petty, and ACDC. The birthday boy begged us to play more after we had finished our set, so after convincing the sound crew to turn everything back on we ended the night with "Animal" by WASP. Mike, thanks again for booking us to play your party, it was an absolute blast. Stay tuned for more updates from myself and the rest of the band about new gigs and new music!
Yup. We played Uncle Sam's and as usual, we had a damn fine time. Our pals Sea of Misinformation came over from Bremerton to play some new stuff and we met Party Sound Ensemble, a handful of wowie talented musicians/soldiers who can cover anything you can think of. they rock the house and we thank them for starting the night off with a bang.
We have two private parties on Saturday and then Jake heads of to OK to visit his family. He better hope they recognize him without all his rock n roll hair!
It's going to be a hot summer in the northwest, so wherever you are, roll down those windows and crank up the tunes. Hopefullly, you'll throw in a few of ours while making your road trip play list. Rock On! James, Jake, Cody, Colin
We have some hot shows coming up this summer and a new rig to drive to them that holds us and most our gear! Thanks to Jake for that, we'll post a photo here soon. We play Uncle Sam's in Spanaway WA May 10 with Sea of Misinformation, our pals from out Bremerton way and another band, kickass army rock band we hear. We'll update you when we know for sure. IF YOU WANT tickets to see Adler, and us plus three other bands, they are $15 from us, $20 at the door. This is a 21 plus show. email, call, message, limited tickets available. You can get enter to win them for free by leaving a comment in our guestbook. Don't forget to send us your email info. Rock on!
James, Jake, Cody, Colin
We don't want you to think we have neglected our fans. We have a new song in the can and more coming. James is playing the guitar and Colin broke his drum. Rock on! Silver Bullet ^++^
Jake here! Went into Joe's Studios to start the recording on our new, yet-to-be-titled single. Mixmasta Jared Dines of Joe's Studios is excited to have us back because he's been doing some renovations in his studio, and is looking forward to testing them out. Quick side note. If you're in a band, or are a solo artist, and are looking for a very chill environment to record your music, check out Joe's Studios (Jared Dines Recording Studio) on facebook. He's affordable, professional, and a cool dude. He'll give you everything you need to get your music recorded, polished, and ready for the masses.
Anyways. Back to the new music. This new song will blow you away. It'll infect your ears and it won't ever leave. It's that catchy. That rockin'. And we're excited to get it out there.
So be on the lookout. You'll be hearing a lot from us in the very near future...
Cody here to give you some great news from the Silver Bullet camp. With 2012 being an absolutely fantastic year for us, we decided that we needed to make 2013 better. We're working on getting some new pictures and logo to go with our recent line up change, along with looking for gigs in different cities and clubs around Washington. But the information you're all wanting of course, is that Silver Bullet will finally be heading back into the studio! For the past couple months,we've been putting the work in on a handful of new songs and we're ready to record them so we can share them with you all. Stay tuned for some studio updates from us, as well as some new gigs for us coming up as well!


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mx 440 xtacy dual head and cli
I was wondering if any one knows how i can get my slak box to use move tty3-6 to my second monitor or if i can even do that.
Ive tired to get it to work with the fbset programs but that didnt work. I also want to be able to have X on my larger CRT and a concole on my smaller CRT. Ive tired a couple of different setups but i have not been able to get it done. Thankx in advance. Squid |
Twinview cli is impossible atleast on nvidia hardware. The only cards I know that support it are cards from Matrox. (not 100% sure)
ok so you are saying that haveing X on one CRT and my concole on the other is not possible or using both monitors for CLI?
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Those things aren't possible. The only case you get two screens is in X. (on nvidia hardware)
Well there are some things that can be done is software to emulate this, but thunderbird is right, in a traditional sense, you cannot have X running on one screen and a console on the other.
But if your use a program like ggiterm on the second monitor, and tell your window manager its a dead zone ( thats a goofy thing many popular windowmanagers can do), then you have the same affect :) - r0gu3 |
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The Blob | |
Original film poster | |
Directed by | Irvin Yeaworth |
Produced by | Jack H. Harris |
Written by | Kay Linaker Theodore Simonson |
Story by | Irving H. Millgate |
Starring | Steve McQueen Aneta Corsaut Earl Rowe Olin Howland |
Music by | Ralph Carmichael Burt Bacharach |
Cinematography | Thomas E. Spalding |
Edited by | Alfred Hillmann |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures Umbrella Entertainment |
Release dates | September 12, 1958 |
Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $110,000[1] |
Box office | $4 million[1] |
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The Blob | |
Original film poster | |
Directed by | Irvin Yeaworth |
Produced by | Jack H. Harris |
Written by | Kay Linaker Theodore Simonson |
Story by | Irving H. Millgate |
Starring | Steve McQueen Aneta Corsaut Earl Rowe Olin Howland |
Music by | Ralph Carmichael Burt Bacharach |
Cinematography | Thomas E. Spalding |
Edited by | Alfred Hillmann |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures Umbrella Entertainment |
Release dates | September 12, 1958 |
Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $110,000[1] |
Box office | $4 million[1] |
The Blob is an independently made 1958 American horror/science-fiction film that depicts a growing alien amoeba that crashes from outer space in a meteorite and eats and dissolves citizens at the small community of Downingtown, Pennsylvania. In the style of American International Pictures, Paramount Pictures released the film as a double feature with I Married a Monster from Outer Space.
The film was Steve McQueen's debut leading role, and also starred Aneta Corsaut. The film's tongue-in-cheek title song was written by Burt Bacharach and Mack David and became a nationwide hit in the U.S. It was recorded by studio group the Five Blobs – actually singer Bernie Knee overdubbing himself.[2]
The film takes place during one long night in a small rural Pennsylvania town in July 1957. Teenager Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) and his girlfriend Jane Martin (Aneta Corsaut) are kissing on a lovers' lane when they see a meteorite crash beyond the next hill. Steve decides to look for it. An old man (Olin Howland) living nearby finds it first. When he pokes the meteorite with a stick, it breaks open, and the small jelly-like blob inside attaches itself to his hand. In pain and unable to scrape or shake it loose, the old man runs onto the road, where he is nearly struck by Steve's car. Steve and Jane take him to Doctor Hallen (Stephen Chase).
Doctor Hallen is about to leave for a medical conference, but anesthetizes the man and sends Steve and Jane back to the impact site to gather information. Hallen decides he must amputate the man's arm since it is being consumed by the growing Blob. Before he can, however, the Blob completely consumes the old man, then Hallen's nurse, and finally the doctor himself, all the while increasing in size.
Steve and Jane return to the office in time for Steve to witness the doctor's death. They go to the police station and return to the house with Lieutenant Dave (Earl Rowe) and Sergeant Bert (John Benson). However, there is no sign of the creature or its victims, and Bert dismisses Steve's story as a teenage prank. Steve and Jane are taken home by their parents, but they later sneak out.
In the meantime, the Blob consumes a mechanic at a repair store. The Blob grows in size every time it consumes something. At the Colonial Theater, which is showing a midnight screening of Daughter of Horror, Steve recruits Tony (Robert Fields) and some of his friends to warn people about the menace. When Steve notices that his father's grocery store is unlocked, he and Jane go inside. The janitor is nowhere to be seen. Then the couple are cornered by the Blob; they seek refuge in the walk-in icebox. The Blob oozes in under the door but retreats. Steve and Jane gather their friends and set off the town's fire and air-raid alarms. The townspeople and police still refuse to believe Steve. Meanwhile, the Blob enters the Colonial Theater and engulfs the projectionist before oozing into the auditorium consuming an unknown number of people. Steve is finally vindicated when screaming people flee from the theater.
Jane's young brother, Danny (Keith Almoney), fires at the Blob with his cap gun before running into the nearby diner. Jane, Danny, and Steve become trapped in that diner, along with the manager,and a waitress. The Blob–now an enormous red mass from the people it consumed–engulfs the diner. Dave has a connection made from his police radio to the diner's phone, telling those in the diner to get into the cellar before they try to bring a live power line down onto the Blob.
When it sounds quiet over the phone line, Bert shoots the wire, it falls onto the Blob, but the Blob is unaffected and the diner is set ablaze. The manager uses a CO2 fire extinguisher on the fire. Steve notices that it also causes the Blob to recoil, then remembers that the creature also retreated from the freezer. Shouting in hopes of being picked on the open phone line, Steve manages to tell Dave about the Blob's vulnerability to cold. Jane's father, Mr. Martin (Elbert Smith), knows there are twenty such extinguishers at the school, and leads Steve's friends to the high school to retrieve them. Returning, the brigade of extinguisher-armed students and police first drive the Blob away from the diner, then freeze it, saving Steve, Jane and the others.
Dave requests an Air Force heavy-lift cargo plane to transport the Blob to the Arctic, where it is parachuted to the ice as the film ends with a question mark.
The film was originally titled The Molten Meteor until producers overheard screenwriter Kay Linaker refer to the movie's monster as "the blob."[3] Other sources give a different account, saying that the film went through a number of title changes (even the monster was called "the mass" in the shooting script) before the makers settled on The Glob, then hearing that cartoonist Walt Kelly had used The Glob as a title for his children's book, and mistakenly believing that they could no longer use it as a title, they changed it to The Blob.[4]
The Blob was directed by Irvin Yeaworth, who had directed more than 400 films for motivational, educational, and religious purposes. Though the budget was set at $120,000 it ended up costing $110,000.[1]
The Blob was filmed in and around Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The primary shooting took place at Valley Forge Studios, and several scenes were filmed in the towns of Chester Springs, Downingtown, Phoenixville and Royersford, including the basement of a local restaurant named Chef's. (The setting is apparently Downingtown Pennsylvania itself as the one policeman identifies his department's office as "Downingtown HQ to East Cornwall HQ" over the two-way radio during his chess game, and the final scenes take place in a restaurant that is clearly labeled "Downingtown Diner".) It was filmed in color and widescreen.
For the diner scene a photograph of the building was put on a gyroscopically operated table with cameras mounted. The table was shaken and the Blob rolled off. When the film was run in reverse it appeared to be oozing over the building.
McQueen received only $3,000 for this film; he had turned down an offer for a smaller up-front sum with 10 percent of the profits because he did not think the movie would make any money and he needed the money immediately to pay for food and rent; it ended up grossing $4 million.[1]
Though legend has it that the opening novelty song was composed by a young and unknown Burt Bacharach (along with Hal David, Burt's famous songwriting partner), Bacharach had already achieved some measure of success by the time the film was released, and the lyrics to the song were composed by David's brother Mack.
The background score for The Blob was composed by Ralph Carmichael. It was one of just a few film scores that Carmichael wrote. Carmichael is best known for his musical associations with Billy Graham and for arranging The Magic of Christmas for Nat King Cole. Carmichael also composed the original theme for the film, entitled "Violence" on the soundtrack album, which started the film on a serious and frightening note. It was against the director's wishes to replace the original theme song with that by Bacharach/David. However, because the latter encourages audiences to view The Blob as campy fun, it has contributed to the film's enduring popularity. Both Carmichael's score and Bacharach/David's song were released in 2008 by the Monstrous Movie Music soundtrack label.
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes records that modern critics give The Blob mixed to positive reviews earning an approval rating of 69%.
In a discussion with biologist Richard Dawkins, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson stated that among all Hollywood aliens, which were usually disappointing from a scientific perspective, The Blob was his favourite. [5]
Written and produced by Dan Kehde and Mark Scarpelli Featuring Songs "Duck and Cover" "A Boy To Hold Me" "Midnight Monster Marathon" "It Ate Nurse Kate" "Too Young To Ever Fall In Love" "Rocket Route Forty" "Little Moon"
A sequel, Beware! The Blob, was made in 1972, directed by Larry Hagman. Home video releases used the tagline "The Movie That J.R. Shot", in reference to his character's near-demise in the television series Dallas.
In 1988, a remake of the same name was made, and directed by Chuck Russell. In August 2009, it was revealed that musician turned director Rob Zombie was working another remake,[6][7] but is no longer working on this project.[8]
The film has been released as part of the Criterion Collection on three formats. First in 1988 on Laserdisc, then in 2000 on DVD and in 2013 on Blu-ray.
The Blob together with Son of Blob was released on DVD in Australia by Umbrella Entertainment in September 2011. The DVD is compatible with all region codes and includes special features such as audio commentaries with Jack H. Harris, Bruce Eder, Irvin Yeaworth and Robert Fields.[9]
Since 2000, the town of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania – one of the filming locations – has held an annual "Blobfest". Activities include a re-enactment of the scene in which moviegoers run screaming from the town's Colonial Theatre, which has recently been restored.[10] Chef's Diner in Downingtown is also restored, and is open for business or photographs of the basement on weekday mornings only.
The Blob itself was made from silicone, with increasing amounts of red vegetable dye added as it "absorbed" people. In 1965, it was bought by movie collector Wes Shank,[11] who has written a book about the making of The Blob.[12]
According to Jeff Sharlet in his book The Family, The Blob was "about the creeping horrors of communism" only defeated "by freezing it – the Cold War writ small and literal."[13] Rudy Nelson, one of the scriptwriters for the film, has denied many of Sharlet's assertions, saying "What on earth can Sharlet say about the movie that will fill 23 pages – especially when what he thinks he knows is all wrong?"[14]
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Family: Rosaceae (ro-ZAY-see-ee) (Info) Genus: Rosa (RO-zuh) (Info) Cultivar: Tropicana Additional cultivar information: (PP1696, aka Super Star, TANorstar) Hybridized by Tantau; Year of Registration or Introduction: 1960 One vendor has this plant for sale. 16 members have or want this plant for trade. Class: Height: Spacing: Hardiness: Bloom Color: Bloom Shape: Flower Fragrance: Bloom Time: Habit: Patent Information: Other Details: Pruning Instructions: Soil pH requirements: Propagation Methods: | Click thumbnail to view: By Todd_Boland By JodyC By TexasCarrie By Gindee77 By alicewho By TBGDN By TBGDN There are a total of 27 photos. |
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