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Description: Mumford was born on January 31, 1987, in Anaheim, California. His family moved back to their native England when Mumford was six months old. He attended King's College School in Wimbledon where he met fellow band member Ben Lovett. He went on to study classics in the University of Edinburgh but returned to London to focus on his music career after his first year of study. It was in Edinburgh that he penned most of Mumford & Sons' debut album, Sigh No More. He began his musical career playing drums for Laura Marling on tour, along with the other current members of Mumford & Sons. It was through touring with Laur ... (more)
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On the way to Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, to the west of Glasgow. We took a chartered bus for about an hour, then a ferry for half an hour.
I don't remember the boat swaying that much... but the railing looks fairly straight, so I don't think I'm just holding the camera wrong. Hmm.
Looking back at the mainland. Note the Scottish clouds.
Rothesay castle! It has a moat! A weirdly-shaped moat, but it's still the first moat I've seen!
Hey, it's a fleur de lis!... oops, no, it's the Saltire.
A pretty puny main gate, but I guess it qualifies. I don't think it had a drawbridge, though.
More weirdly shaped moat.
Those wouldn't help much against archers! ... oh wait, it's construction scaffolding, not battlements. My bad.
The invading force against the castle. Speaking of security, the barbed wire would probably do more to deter an enemy than the moat.
Well, if it isn't going to be useful, the moat might as well be pretty!
Crumbly castle.
More crumbly castle.
The bottom-right sign says "The Serpentine Canada Hill 1M". It took me a few hours to realize that "1M" meant "1 mile". I knew it wasn't "1 metre", but I wondered if they'd forgotten the "k" in "km" or something like that.
Hmm, this didn't work. It's a fairly steep windy path. Cars drive up and down the way my parents ski -- mostly going horizontally across the slope. I ski by going down, of course.
You get more of a sense of the slope here.
Top of the windy slope (BTW, that's the "twisty" kind of "windy", not the "airy" type of "windy"), looking towards the mainland.
View of most of the town, right-hand side.
View of most of the town, center side.
View of most of the town, left side.
Canada Hill. Apparently in the 50s, you could immigrate to Canada for 10 pounds or so, and this is where the remaining family members would go to wave the immigrants away.
View from Canada Hill.
More view from Canada hill. And yes, this is a golf course. We exercised our Right to Roam to wander through the course.
More view.
We took a bus tour of the island; I think this is looking at the mainland (on the right) and some other islands (left).
Take a moment here -- I'm on top of an open-air double-decked bus, looking down at the beach. Note the clear water... is the Atlantic cleaner than the Pacific? I really don't remember the beach of Vancouver, Victoria, or Singapore being this clear.
More clear ocean water.
Sheeps. I hear them go "baaa".
Cows. I didn't hear them go "mooo".
Can you feel the love^H^H^H^H^H excitement tonight?!
That's "Queer lake" in the back. More sheeps going "baa" in the middle.
More clear ocean water from a double-decker bus.
Rothesay beach, looking towards mainland.
Rothesay beach, looking at the other side of the bay. The ferry docks on the right.
Back on the mainland, rocky beach. Ferry terminal is behind me.
Back on the mainland, looking towards the island.


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MMA: Clementi edges Sarnavskiy at Bellator 77
Sometimes, experience trumps talent.
UFC veteran Rich Clementi spoiled the promotional debut of Alexander Sarnavskiy in the Bellator Fighting Championships Season 7 tournament quarterfinals, as he captured a split decision from the highly touted Russian prospect in the Bellator 77 main event on Friday at the Sovereign Center in Reading, Pa.
All three judges scored it 29-28: Brent Colflesh and Brad Duruttya for Clementi (45-21-1, 2-1 Bellator), Kings Kao for the previously undefeated Sarnavskiy (20-1, 0-1 Bellator).
"That dude was shooting cannons; a tough, tough dude," Clementi said. "One thing about this ring, it does not lie."
The 35-year-old Clementi nearly finished in the first round, where he pressed for takedown, maneuvered onto the standing Sarnavskiy's back and fished for the rear-naked choke. After a lengthy struggle, the Louisianan slipped his arm underneath Sarnavskiy's chin, flattened him out from behind as he fell to the ground and tightened his grip. The end seemed near. However, the resilient Sarnavskiy withstood the choke for more than a minute and ultimately freed himself from Clementi's clutches.
Round two played out in similar fashion, minus the near-submission. Clementi again transitioned to the Russian's back, popped him with punches and tried to create opening for another choke attempt. Sarnavskiy defended well but found himself in a two-round hole.
Perhaps sensing his situation had grown dire, Sarnavskiy asserted himself in the third round. There, he clipped Clementi with a punch and peppered him with standing-to-ground punches. Seasoned by nearly 70 professional bouts, Clementi weathered the attack and settled for the decision on the scorecards.
"This sport is like everything else in life," he said. "It has its ups and downs."
Jansen guillotine dispatches Saadulaev
World Extreme Cagefighting veteran Dave Jansen submitted Magomed Saadulaev with a third-round guillotine choke in the Bellator Season 7 lightweight tournament quarterfinals. On the brink of going unconscious, Saadulaev (14-2, 0-1 Bellator) tapped out 41 seconds into round three.
Jansen (17-2, 4-0 Bellator) overcame a slow start to record his fourth consecutive victory. The 33-year-old Sports Lab product found another gear in the second round, where he struck for a takedown, passed the Saadulaev guard and ultimately battered him with standing-to-ground punches to the body and head. It took a noticeable toll on the promotional newcomer.
In round three, Saadulaev telegraphed a takedown and left himself exposed. Jansen locked up the guillotine choke, jumped into full guard and squeezed his way to the submission.
"I felt pretty confident [in the guillotine]," Jansen said. "I knew I had trapped his arm. It took me a while to wake up. I don't know why. I'm glad I got better at the end."
Held outworks, outpoints Machaev
Polish grappling prodigy Marcin Held extended his winning streak to four fights with a unanimous decision over previously unbeaten Russian import Murad Machaev in the Bellator Season 7 tournament quarterfinals. All three cageside judges scored it the same: 29-28 for Held (14-2, 3-1 Bellator).
Though he had issues employing his vaunted ground game, Held was the aggressor for much of the bout. The 20-year-old scored with a pair of takedowns in the first round and kept Machaev at bay with well-timed left jabs and stinging leg kicks in the third.
Machaev (9-1, 0-1 Bellator) did his best work in the second round, where he cracked the Pole with multiple left hooks. However, none of them did enough damage to turn the tide in his favor.
Tirloni choke submits Nazare
Ricardo Tirloni won for the 12th time in 13 outings, as he submitted fellow Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Rene Nazare with a second-round brabo choke in the Bellator Season 7 lightweight tournament quarterfinals. Nazare (10-3, 3-3 Bellator) conceded defeat 74 seconds into round two.
The two men battled to a stalemate through the first five minutes. In the second round, Nazare lit up Tirloni (15-2, 2-1 Bellator) with a series of left hooks and had the 29-year-old on his heels. However, Tirloni countered with a searing right hook, followed up with an attempted guillotine choke and drove Nazare to the ground. From there, he set up the brabo choke from side control and forced the tapout. Nazare had never before been submitted.
"I like fights like that," Tirloni said. "The public wants to see this."
Other bouts
In preliminary action, Lew Polley captured a unanimous decision over UFC veteran Carmelo Marrero in their heavyweight encounter, earning 30-27, 29-28 and 29-28 nods from the judges; Blackman MMA prospect Darrell Horcher kept his perfect professional record intact and knocked out the previously unbeaten E.J. Brooks 21 seconds into their Bellator Season 7 lightweight tournament reserve bout; Cosmo Alexandre forced a doctor's stoppage against Mike Bannon in between rounds two and three of their lightweight affair; Duane Batress took a split verdict (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) over Ariel Sepulveda at 185 pounds; and Brett Martinez submitted Eric Albright with a guillotine choke 3:28 into the second round of their featherweight tilt.
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Learn how to capture the night sky — in motion!
Ever since I can remember, I've had a fascination with the night sky. As a young kid I'd stare up at the stars. Later, I'd take my daughter out during meteor showers to see how many shooting stars we could count. And throughout, I've experienced an uncanny need to keep staring at the full moon for about an hour after it rises. Yet my fascination with the night sky grew exponentially about six years ago when I learned that my digital SLR had the capabilities to capture the brilliance of the night sky, including details that my own eyes weren't able to resolve. After capturing a sequence of photos, it's a simple matter to turn them into breathtaking time-lapse videos.
If you're an avid photographer it's likely you already have the tools you need to start capturing the night sky. Beyond the right tools, all you really need is the right camera settings. In the chart below I have listed the basics you'll need, as well as a list of the key settings.
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|Aperture value
|Wide-angle lens with f/2.8 or faster aperture
|Shutter speed
|Sturdy tripod
|ISO sensitivity
|Timer remote (intervalometer)
|Finding sharp focus
|Large memory card (16GB, 32GB Preferred)
|White balance
|Fully charged camera battery
|Sky conditions
Why Time-lapse Photography?
Time-lapse photography is an art form that allows us to see the world in a different way. Most of us have witnessed a star-filled sky, but the sky in motion is not something that happens fast enough for the naked eye to perceive. Up until the introduction of high-ISO capable DSLRs, there wasn't an easy or affordable way to capture the beauty of the night sky in motion.
To capture the night sky as a single photograph involves taking just one picture, but to capture the night sky in motion will require a series of pictures that, when assembled using software, will turn into a motion video; it's the digital equivalent of a flip-book. This tutorial will help you get started.
Let me first give a simple overview of the key settings that go into capturing the night sky.
RAW versus JPEG
All of today's digital SLRs have the ability to capture images in either JPEG or RAW format.
JPEG format applies in-camera effects, filters, and sharpening to an image before compressing and saving the image to a memory card. JPEG photos often look 'finished' right out of the camera but have much less flexibility when it comes to tweaking things later or bringing back blown-out highlights. Since JPEG is a compressed (lossy) image format, you'll also notice banding in areas of solid color, like blue skies. You can fit more images on a card using the JPEG format, but it comes with quite a few trade-offs.
RAW format actually saves the exact image — what the sensor sees through the lens — onto a memory card. By preserving the original scene and not altering or compressing it in-camera, the image becomes a true digital "negative." Since you'll need to post-process your still images in order to turn them into a time-lapse, capturing in RAW format doesn't really add complexity to the workflow. Of course, RAW images take up more space on a memory card, but this can easily be countered by shooting with larger cards. SD/SDXC memory cards are relatively inexpensive, so jumping from an 8GB to 16GB or 32GB card might only add $10–$20 to the overall cost of the card.
The real advantage to shooting RAW is an extra one to two stops of exposure latitude. Skies that are just a tad too bright can be "dialed down" in post, and shadow areas can be brightened up a bit without adding a ton of extra noise. Also, solid colors won't have the appearance of "banding" that's often visible in JPEG images, especially as you edit and re-save the images.
The aperture value (Av) refers to the size of the lens opening, which determines how much light makes it through the lens. Since aperture values (or f-stops) are represented as fractions, the smaller values actually provide a larger lens opening – and a larger lens opening means more light will pass through the lens. This is a very simple definition of course, but what's important to know is that a lens with a larger aperture will let a lot more light through to the camera sensor. To shoot the night sky it is highly recommended that you use a lens with a maximum aperture value of at least f/2.8.
Shutter Speed
Digital SLR cameras feature a mechanical shutter or "curtain" that sits between the camera's image sensor and the rear opening of the lens. This shutter opens and closes based on the settings you choose and ultimately determines how long the image sensor will be exposed to the light coming in through the lens. Faster shutter speeds (1/250th, 1/500th, etc.) are used in sports because their speed helps to freeze the action, while slower shutter speeds (1 second, .5 second) are often used to create silky images of flowing rivers, since a slower shutter allows the image sensor to be exposed to light for a longer period of time, blurring and softening any motion in a scene.
A slower shutter speed allows more light to reach the image sensor (great for night photography), while a faster shutter speed allows less light to reach the image sensor (great for controlling too much light on a bright sunny afternoon).
When shooting the night sky we'll be setting a very slow shutter duration of between 20 and 30 seconds. Because the sensor will be exposed for a long time, it is important to make sure that when framing the night sky you don't have any bright lights around the area you'll be shooting. Street lights, car headlights, and even a full moon may prove too bright for a slow exposure, and may ruin your attempt at capturing the night sky.
ISO Sensitivity
The ISO value is the digital equivalent of film speed. The higher you set it, the more light-sensitive the sensor becomes, with the trade-off being increased noise or "grain." Despite some noise at a higher ISO setting, today's cameras are still quite amazing. In fact, setting a newer model DSLR to ISO 1600 will produce less noise than a 4-year-old camera shooting at ISO 400. Not only have cameras become cleaner at higher ISO settings, software tools such as Adobe Lightroom allow you to clean up images even further.
Keep in mind that all cameras have a sweet spot and just because the camera claims its ISO can reach 52,000 or 102,400 doesn't mean the image will look good at those settings. The Canon 5D Mark III, a camera I've been shooting with for a couple of years, has a maximum ISO rating of 102,400 – yet the highest setting I'll shoot at is ISO 6,400. Any higher and noise really becomes a problem. Test your camera's limits before deciding how high is too high.
When shooting the night sky, you're asking your camera to record an image that even your eyes can't see all that well. To do that will require using a "fast" lens (large aperture), a very slow shutter speed (25 seconds), and a high ISO setting (1,600–6,400). When these three items (aperture, shutter, and ISO) are combined, your camera will be able to record images that you won't believe.
When shooting still frames for time-lapse, you don't want your camera to change focus every time it takes another picture, so it is important to shut off autofocus when shooting time-lapses. Many photographers have never used manual focus before, but don't let that scare you away. It's as easy as turning on your camera's Live View mode, switching your lens to manual focus, and turning the focus ring until the subject looks sharp on the monitor.
When shooting the night sky, focusing becomes a greater challenge. Since the camera is aimed into darkness, it's difficult to know when the scene is in focus. A trick to focusing on the night sky is to aim the camera at whatever the brightest star is at that time, use the Live View zoom and magnify feature to make this object larger, and then turn the focus ring until the star looks sharp. Now you can re-compose your shot, being careful not to touch the focus ring.
NOTE: You may also have to turn on your camera's Exposure Simulation mode, which makes it easier to view low-light scenarios on the camera's LCD display.
White Balance
When shooting in RAW mode, the white balance setting isn't really important; you can change it later. But you don't want your white balance to shift from frame to frame, so it's important that you do not set it to Auto. I usually set the camera's white balance manually to between 3,800 and 4,200 degrees Kelvin when shooting the night sky, as this gives the sky a bit more of a blue hue. But ultimately I make my final decisions about white balance during post-production.
Sky Conditions
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When I refer to sky conditions, I'm not talking about the weather. It's obvious that clouds will prevent a view of a star-filled sky, but less obvious is that there are better and worse times to shoot the night sky — and these change throughout the year. For example, as I write this article it's 12:19 a.m. on Saturday, March 29, 2014. If my goal was to capture the Milky Way, I wouldn't have much luck until after 2:00 a.m., since that's when the brightest part of the Milky Way starts to rise in the east. As spring and summer progress, that time will get earlier and earlier.
You'll also want to make sure that the moon has either already set or won't be rising until you're done capturing the sky. Most avid night sky photographers will wait for the days just before, during, and after a new moon.
How do you learn about sky conditions? Simple! Download one of many free or inexpensive apps. The ones I use are Sky Guide (iOS), Photo Pills (iOS), and Star Walk (iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows Phone), but there are plenty of great apps for both Android and iOS platforms. These mobile apps will use the device's built-in GPS and compass to know exactly where you are and will show you the sky as it appears above you at any given day and time.
A popular app for the desktop is the free Stellarium app for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Good Composition
This is a very subjective aspect of photography, so I won't go into what makes a good or bad composition. I will say that shooting the sky without anything else in the frame tends to be boring, so try to include something in the foreground. Photographs with layers tend to be more interesting than an image without.
Finding a Dark Sky Location
If you live near a major city (L.A., Boston, Houston, Chicago, Miami, Orlando, Salt Lake, Denver, etc.) you're not going to have any success capturing the night sky; the light pollution will wash out any attempt. Remember the high ISO and long shutter speeds you'll be using? These settings are designed to flood the camera sensor with as much light as possible — from the sky itself. Any ambient light from the ground will throw way too much light onto the sensor, thus washing out your attempts.
I teach night-sky workshops in Moab, Utah, because the sky there is so incredibly dark that you can see the Milky Way with just your eyes (after they adjust). However, you don't need to travel to southern Utah to capture spectacular night sky photographs. Just drive 60–90 minutes away from the brightest, largest towns in your area. The darker the sky, the more stars you'll see, but you don't need total darkness to still have a decent viewing and time-lapse experience.
In the Boston area, for example, this means driving west towards the Berkshires, northwest towards Groton, Mass., or north into New Hampshire towards the Lake Region or White Mountains (beyond Manchester and Concord).
In Salt Lake City you could drive up into the mountains near Solitude, Alta, or Snowbird, which puts you above much of the light pollution from the city. You can also drive south to places around Spanish Fork or further south to the national parks.
A free iPhone app called DSM Lite (Dark Sky Meter Lite) will give you a light measurement of the night sky above you. There's also a great tool online called the Clear-Sky Chart that will help identify the best time(s) in the next 24 to 48 hours to capture the night sky.
Okay, so now that you know where to shoot, it's time to jump in and set up your camera to capture your first images of the night sky. Here are some settings that will get you started. Once you've seen the results from your camera, feel free to tweak these settings to achieve the best results from your setup.
Set Up the Intervalometer
Now that your camera is set up and ready to shoot, it's time to connect the external intervalometer to the remote port of your camera. You can also use your camera's built-in intervalometer if it has one.
First, set the maximum number of pictures on the intervalometer to infinity ("- – "). If it shows a number (i.e. "99"), it is telling you at what shutter count it will stop taking pictures. The only other mode on your intervalometer that you'll be using is the Interval mode. This is basically a countdown timer that takes a photo each time the counter reaches 0:00. It then starts again, and will take pictures indefinitely until you stop it. When you set the Interval timer to 30 seconds, you're telling the intervalometer to keep taking photos every 30 seconds. Since you're setting the exposure time (shutter speed) of the camera to 25 seconds, there will be a 5-second delay between pictures. This 5-second delay should be enough time for your camera to write the captured image to the memory card and get ready to capture the next photo. If you find that your camera needs a second or two more, then change the interval setting to 32 or 33 seconds.
NOTE: If you've set a 25-second shutter speed but your camera seems to be taking 50 seconds for each still image, you need to turn off a feature called Long Exposure Noise Reduction or High ISO Noise Reduction. This noise-reduction mode will take a black image equal in length to your set shutter speed and compare it to the snapped image in order to reduce noise. Not only will this slow your capture process to a crawl, I've found that noise reduction is best left to more advanced desktop software instead of your camera.
How Many Photos Do I Need to Capture?
The photo above is one frame from a sequence. Since video plays 24 frames per second, a single picture would only stay on the screen for 1/24 second. However if you capture enough images, you can create a short time-lapse segment. In the final video (see below) I captured 408 photographs over a period of 2.5 hours.
Here's the full 17-second video (roughly 408 photographs captured).
Capturing night sky time-lapses is equivalent to watching paint dry. It's a slow process. The reason is twofold: You need to capture quite a few frames to make even a short video, and each frame can take 20, 30, or 40 seconds to capture. In order to figure out how many photos you'll need, you'll first want to know how many photos make up each second of video. At the theater most films are played back at a frame rate of 24 frames per second, while the TV standard is 30fps. In the field, when I'm figuring out how many frames I should capture, I usually use the TV standard of 30fps since it makes the math a bit simpler.
Don't make the mistake of believing that more is always better. In reality, most people don't enjoy watching any one scene for much more than 6 or 7 seconds. Why stay out all night capturing a one-scene time-lapse that lasts 30 or 40 seconds, when you'll likely end up trimming away more than half of the final product? Instead, capture enough for 6–8 seconds of video, then change the composition and shoot a second time-lapse if time allows. Put these two (or more) time-lapses together and you'll have a much more interesting end product.
How Long Will It Take?
Now the question is how long will this take? The answer is known once we take into account the interval between pictures. Since a new photo is being taken every 30 seconds I know that my camera will be taking 2 pictures every minute. If I need 180 pictures, I'll need to let the camera continue for 90 minutes.
Remember I said it's equivalent to watching paint dry? For me, that's not really true. I now have 90 minutes where I have nothing to do except gaze and marvel at the night sky. You'll see satellites move across the sky, you'll likely see a few shooting stars or meteors, and if you live in the northern United States and the timing is right, you might get to witness the northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis. It's a time when you're free from the stresses of everyday life. It's quiet, meditative, and a gift that you'll be thankful to have.
Now that you've captured your first batch of photos, let me step you through a simple but effective way of assembling them into a movie. The software I'll be using for this tutorial is:
Adobe Lightroom is a photo editing software package for PCs and Macs that allows you to import, catalog, and enhance photographs without actually making any changes to the original file. Lightroom does this by saving the edits and changes you make in a small "sidecar" metadata file in Adobe's XMP format. Anytime you want to re-edit a photograph, Lightroom looks for this sidecar file and loads in the series of changes you previously made.
LRTimelapse is a program designed to read and write the sidecar metadata files that Adobe programs create, to "ramp" the changes you make in Lightroom, and to assemble the final images into a video.
What is ramping? Let's assume you started a time-lapse before the sun set and ended it after the sun set. Your camera's white balance was preset to Tungsten. This might have been the perfect setting for the beginning of the time-lapse, but as the sun set the color of the ambient light changed, yet the camera was still fixed on Tungsten. LRTimelapse allows you to set key frames (stars) on your images and then make adjustments to just those key frames inside Adobe Lightroom. So now, instead of making incremental changes to every image, you just have to worry about two of them — the start and end key frames. You then make the adjustments needed in Lightroom and save the metadata changes to those two files. Reload the folder in LRTimelapse and it will ramp the changes you made in as many steps as there are photos. If you have a 180-frame time-lapse, LRTimelapse will change the color temperature over the 180 frames, making the change gradual and smooth. LRTimelapse can ramp virtually any setting in Lightroom, making it a powerful tool for time-lapse photographers.
Post-Production Workflow
This section is not really designed to teach you how to use Lightroom or LRTimelapse, but instead will take you through the basics that are needed to enhance your captured photos and turn them into a rendered time-lapse video sequence.
Capturing and creating time-lapse videos require a great deal of patience, but the steps do become secondary once you have done them a couple of times. There are other workflows that might make more sense when rendering multiple time-lapses sequentially, but for rendering one sequence at a time this is a popular workflow.
I encourage you to make the time to shoot the night sky. In photography it's often difficult to set yourself apart, but because of the time required to capture time-lapses of the night sky, most photographers don't bother. This means that you'll likely be one of only a few in your area doing it. It's a lot of fun and a great way to stand out in a crowded industry.
About Ron Risman
Ron Risman is an award-winning cinematographer and founder of Cinematic Stories Event Films and Timelapse Moab Workshops. Ron's client list includes Liberty Mutual, Restoration Hardware, Scorpion Helmets, Revit! Sports International, Berklee College of Music, FOX CT News, WFTV-9 Orlando, and some of his time-lapses can be seen in the 2013 HBO Documentary The Crash Reel.


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The seats, known as Skycouches and light-heartedly referred to as "cuddle class'', have been earmarked for launch on some Air New Zealand services from Auckland to LA in November.
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Peter of Subiaco Posted at 4:32 PM October 11, 2010
I see what they did there
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Do they discriminate against gay couples in "cuddle class"?
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Arts A Fantastic Script
posted by April 20 at 11:59 AMon
Why I hate big-time screenwriters:
The Shawshank Redemption filmmaker Frank Darabont has hit out at movie mogul George Lucas for preventing Steven Spielberg from shooting his script for the upcoming Indiana Jones sequel, claiming his efforts were "a waste of a year." Darabont wrote a screenplay for the highly-anticipated movie, which is still known by its working title of Indiana Jones 4, and insists director Spielberg was happy with it. However, producer Lucas didn't think it was good enough. Darabont tells MTV.com, "It showed me how badly things can go. I spent a year of very determined effort on something I was very excited about, working very closely with Steven Spielberg and coming up with a result that I and he felt was terrific. He wanted to direct it as his next movie, and then suddenly the whole thing goes down in flames because George Lucas doesn't like the script. I told him (Lucas) he was crazy. I said, 'You have a fantastic script. I think you're insane, George.' You can say things like that to George, and he doesn't even blink. He's one of the most stubborn men I know." He adds, "I have no idea if there's a shred of (my script) left. It was a tremendous disappointment and a waste of a year." And Darabont has no plans to reveal what his Indiana Jones script contains: "At this point, I don't give much of a damn what George thinks, but I wouldn't want to harm my friendship with Steven."
A wasted year? Primo, you'd think he'd written Ulysses or something. Secundo, he was certainly paid a mountain's worth of money for that year of very hard and earnest work.


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What do TP-LINK Powerline adapter's LED lights stand for?
Usually, TP-LINK powerline adapters have three LED lights:
1) First one stands for power;
2) Second one stands for powerline connection;
3) Third one stands for Ethernet connection.
Power LED:
It should be on all the time. If it is off, please change a socket to have a try. If still can't power on, please arrange to exchange a new one.
When it is in the pairing procedure or in power-save mode, the Power LED will flash. After the process is over, the Power LED will back to steady on. For homeplugAV2 like TL-PA8010P, TL-PA8030P,TL-PA7020P KIT it will be blinking every 15 seconds when power-saving mode is on. About how to pair them, please refer to the FAQ below:
Powerline LED:
After you have successfully made the powerline connection, the Powerline LED will be on. And when there is data transfer, the LED will flash. It will be off when it is in Power-save mode.
For TL-PA511/TL-PA551, there are three colors for this light.
For homeplugAV2 like TL-PA8010P, TL-PA8030P, there are three kinds of status.
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When any device is connected to the Ethernet port and be powered on, the Ethernet LED will be on. It will flash with data transfer. Only when the LED is off more than 5 minutes, it will be in power-save mode. For homeplugAV2 like TL-PA8010P, TL-PA8030P,TL-PA7020P KIT it only has on/off, which means the Ethernet port is connected or not connected.


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Policy Experts Propose Expansion to Montreal Protocol to Fight Global Warming
Emma Pullman | November 10, 2010
By Emma Pullman • Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 15:22
The widespread use of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) throughout a fifty-year stretch in the middle of the 20th century was one of the biggest environmental mistakes ever. As we came to learn the hard way, CFCs wreak environmental havoc by weakening the ozone layer, and some can persist in the atmosphere for over a century, making their legacy a long-lived mistake too.
The Montreal Protocol of 1987 was instrumental in phasing out CFC use, and is considered one of the most successful multilateral environmental agreements ever. The Protocol has phased out nearly 97% of 100 ozone-depleting chemicals, many of which contribute to global warming. The Protocol also prevented over 200 billion metric tonnes of global warming gases from entering the atmosphere – an astonishing five years' worth of total global emissions. Nothing to sneeze at. The Montreal Protocol's pollution reduction targets are mandatory, universally accepted and readily measurable.
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) scientists recently confirmed that the Montreal Protocol was a highly-successful solution - the ozone layer has recovered from CFC-induced damage, and the Protocol "provided substantial co-benefits by reducing climate change."
With energy legislation shelved in the U.S. and little hope for a global climate change agreement this year, some policy experts are arguing that, rather than reinventing the wheel, perhaps a solution is right in front of us.
International coalition takes aim at popular air-conditioner refrigerant in battle against climate change
Bill Miller | March 15, 2007
By Bill Miller • Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 10:14
Industrial and developing countries have joined forces to call for stringent limits on HCFC-22 , the world's most popular refrigerant for air-conditioners, amid mounting evidence it depletes the ozone layer and contributes to global warming.


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I think the title says it all, what I need to do is loop through all images in a directory on my Ubuntu vb, check for a prefix (for example 'ql_') if it already has the prefix, I want to leave it alone, if not I want to add the prefix to the filename.
If you have time to briefly explain what you've done I would be especially grateful as I am desperately trying to get my head into Linux. (e. G what the commands you are using do)


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Endurance exercise and metabolism are linked to transcriptional activation of human telomeres, researchers propose.
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< Lulu
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|Skins & Trivia
- Development
- Lulu was designed by Xypherous.[1]
- Lulu is voiced by Faye Mata.
- Lulu used to be called Waena while in production.[2]
- During her development, Riot designers commonly referred to Lulu as the "Suppordle".
- Lore
- Prior to the reveal of Gnar, Lulu was the oldest known yordle, being a couple of centuries old.
- Contrary to popular belief, Lulu is not immortal, she just stopped aging during her time in The Glade.
- Lulu and Annie are the only champions to have a place in which they are the only champions mentioned, in the The Glade and the Voodoo Lands respectively.
- General
- Lulu is the first champion to be announced directly through an Art Spotlight.
- Lulu is the first champion to be available for play on the Public Beta Environment before her official release.
- Lulu is the first champion to have a champion-specific login theme.
- Lulu is the first champion to utilize polymorph.[1]
- Lulu possesses the only two unit-targeted abilities in the game ( Whimsy and Help, Pix!) that can be used on all allegiances of champion - herself, allies and enemies.
- While Lulu's main skin is a whimsical fantasy piece, her alternate release skins are both references to recent trends in Dark Fantasy, adding disturbing imagery to her lighthearted kit.
- Casting Help, Pix! on an enemy will place a debuff on the target and the tooltip reads "Hey! Listen!" at the end of it. This is a reference to Navi from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
- Lulu grabs her hat and flies on her staff when she casts Whimsy on herself.
- Lulu can be a possible reference to Schierke, a young witch-in-training that is accompanied by a little elf from Berserk.
- Lulu's abilities when used on allies or enemies is aptly named x's Assistance/"Assistance". Victims of Lulu's magic also has a flavor text below it.
- Lulu is currently the last champion that has been released with 2 skins (+her classic skin).
- Quotes
- Lulu's movement quote "Yup, that tasted purple." is likely a reference to Philip Fry's quote from the episode "The Why of Fry" ("Did everything just taste purple for a second?") from the sitcom Futurama.
- In the Polish client, Lulu quote, "Po oczach ich, Pix, po oczach!" (Go for the eyes, Pix, for the eyes!) is a reference to Baldur's Gate 2 character Minsc who says the same thing to his hamster.
- Skins
- It is a possible reference to the German story of Hänsel and Gretel.
- It is the only skin in which Lulu's ears are not visible (though they can be briefly seen when casting Glitterlance).
- It is also the only skin where her eyes are heterochromatic.
- Whimsy turns her enemies into cupcakes.
- It is the only skin in which Lulu carries a small bag. She carries candy canes on it. Her staff also becomes a candy cane.
- It is a possible reference to the [1]character Magician of Black Chaos from the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise.
- It is most likely a reference to the movie How to Train Your Dragon.
- This skin turns Pix into a small dragon with design reminiscent of those in the How to Train Your Dragon movie.
- She shares this theme with Tristana.
- The small dragon that replaces Pix bears a resemblance to Spyro the Dragon.
- Whimsy turns her enemies into hatchling dragons.
- It is based on an idea of CelestialBird (=Cirath) [3][4][5][6][7]
- In the background of the splash art, you can see one of the Poros has a mustache. This was revealed to have been a teaser for Braum.
- Whimsy turns her enemies into snowmen.
- She shares this theme with Orianna.
- Her appearance may be a reference to the character Squid Girl.
- Whimsy turns her enemies into manatees.
- Pix is a pufferfish in this skin.
- Glitterance is shooting gusts of water.
- Wild Growth causes enemies to be knocked up by sand castles.
- She shares this theme with Zac, Dr. Mundo, Rek'Sai, Draven, Graves, Leona, Lee Sin, Ziggs and Renekton.
- According to the new beta site for League of Legends, Lulu is friends with Veigar as they are both magicians and yordle outcasts.[8]
- Lulu is friends with Gnar, as they will both befriend whoever is kind and playful. And they happen to fit that "prerequisite" better than any other champion.
- Main Theme
|Lulu's Theme
- Related Themes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 @Xypherous What type of CC is Polymorph?
- ↑ Grumpy Monkey reveals Lulu's previous name
- ↑ Original Thread of CelestialBird about Freezing Blizzard Lulu in NA server
- ↑ Original Thread of Celestialbird about Freezing Blizzard Luu in LAS server
- ↑ First picture of Freezing Blizzard Lulu
- ↑ Second picture of Freezing Blizzard Lulu
- ↑ Third picture of Freezing Blizzard Lulu
- ↑ Lulu's profile page in beta.na.leagueoflegends.com


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Geronimus says black-white differences in mortality "help silence black voices in the electorate"
Do universities need more conservative thinkers?
Starr critical of risk assessment scores for sentencing
Presentation on multilevel modeling using Stata, July 26th, noon, 6050 ISR
Frey's new report explores how the changing US electorate could shape the next 5 presidential elections, 2016 to 2032
U-M's Data Science Initiative offers expanded consulting services via CSCAR
Elizabeth Bruch promoted to Associate Professor
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Nicklett, Emily J., and Sarah Burgard. 2009. "Downward Social Mobility and Major Depressive Episodes Among Latino and Asian-American Immigrants to the United States." American Journal of Epidemiology, 170(6): 793-801.
The authors analyzed the association between downward social mobility in subjective social status among 3,056 immigrants to the United States and the odds of a major depressive episode. Using data from the National Latino and Asian American Study (2002-2003), the authors examined downward mobility by comparing immigrants' subjective social status in their country of origin with their subjective social status in the United States. The dependent variable was the occurrence of a past-year episode of major depression defined according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, criteria. Logistic regression models were used to control for a variety of sociodemographic and immigration-related characteristics. Analyses suggested that a loss of at least 3 steps in subjective social status is associated with increased risk of a depressive episode (odds ratio = 3.0, 95% confidence interval: 1.3, 6.6). Other factors independently associated with greater odds of depression included Latino ethnicity, female sex, having resided for a longer time in the United States, and being a US citizen. The findings suggest that immigrants who experience downward social mobility are at elevated risk of major depression. Policies or interventions focused only on immigrants of low social status may miss another group at risk: those who experience downward mobility from a higher social status.
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Ulster Unionist Michael Copeland has today welcomed the Children and Families Bill as outlined today in the Queens Speech as part of the legislative plan of the UK Government over the next year.
The East Belfast MLA said, 'Today in the Queen's Speech it was outlined that the Coalition Government will be taking forward a Children and Families Care Bill. The Bill will cover a wide range of issues such as speedier adoptions, more flexibility as regards parental leave as well as ensuring decisions of the family courts on whether a child should be taken from their parents and placed in care are taken within six months. Families will also get more choice on education for pupils with special educational needs. However, perhaps the most important change would be that the law will be strengthened to make sure children continue to have a relationship with both parents if it is in their best interests.'
'These proposals would only be applicable to England and Wales, however, I believe that family law in Northern Ireland is also in drastic need of a fundamental review. Family law currently resides within the Department of Finance and Personnel and a planned review has been delayed on number of occasions.'
'I have met with several interested groups and hosted legal minds from London who have all expressed concerns over many aspects of family law in Northern Ireland. It is my opinion that the Finance Minister Sammy Wilson should consider the implications of the measures within the Queen's speech and review the current legislation to ensure a two parent framework is recognised."


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Design of Robot Control Interfaces
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AbstractBoston Engineering"s Advanced Systems Group and Dr. Holly Yanco"s team at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell propose to develop a design science for robot operator interfaces and demonstrate its application through existing design tools and prototype systems that reduce operator training time, maximize the ability of an operator - robot team to maintain synchronization, and provide a baseline for the future execution of unmanned systems tasks at a normal military operational tempo. This science, named R-LUCID, leverages the fact that technology is providing sensors that can enable low-level autonomy but converts the art of interface design to a science by investigating and developing the metrics, techniques, and scenario-based approaches required. Additionally, this effort provides a unique method for generating a control ontology based on how humans are designed to perceive and use interface cues such that robot architecture could be developed to match, reducing the latencies and other operational tempo-slowing components of user and robot interaction further and further. This team is uniquely capable of performing this effort in a comprehensive and time-effective manner with valuable outputs available at stages of development considered to be far earlier than competitive efforts.
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I'm sorry I usually complain about my photo quality but I'm actually pretty happy with this one. I mean, like all tattoos it's better to see in person but in comparison this one is pretty much closer to life than some other tattoo photos. This one was really fun. The dimension of the picture was pretty small so I didn't try super hard to bring a lot of detail into the leaves and put more detail in the flower to keep it emphasized. The right leaf wasn't in the photo at all. Part of the body I like tattooing the least though haha.
another nice flower...nice tattoo, nice pic
Thanks. It looks better in person and I would have tried for a healed picture but she moved back to Kentucky haha.
Ehmmm just perfect
Like the realistic looking petals and that they're not shaded the same!althougt a well done backround!greetz


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ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
Source: The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
Contributed by: Zaady
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
The conception of perfect service is constantly expanding and must be handled by broad and liberal minded men who put equity and fairness above gain-who put a proper valuation upon a satisfied customer as an asset running into the thousands of dollars, and who love a job thoroughly well done and get a kick out of doing it.
Alvan Macauley
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Alphonse de Prat de Lamartine (1790 - 1869)
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers
War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited. Love will overflow every sanctuary given it. Truth will grow where the fertilizer that nourishes it is also truth.
Alice Walker (1944 -)
Mother loved the wind. When I was growing up, she would recite this poem to me. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I, But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. So it is with God.
Alice Steinbach
I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.
Alice Cary
He who loves best his fellow-man Is loving God the holiest way he can.
Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.
Algernon Swinburne (1837 - 1909)
Source: Love at Sea.
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I have version 3.0.02 of this app and am having issues with folks downloading large .zip files. Users have no issues initiating the download but in most cases the files never completely download.
- GoDaddy Server
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Sometimes newer isn't better,
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This review is from: Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W570 16.1 MP Digital Still Camera with Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 5x Wide-Angle Optical Zoom Lens and 2.7-inch LCD (Black) (OLD MODEL) (Camera)
I gave away my Sony DSC-W350 to a relative because she loved my camera (I had it for less than a month) and always wanted to replace it with the identical or similar model. I saw the DSC-W570 and thought it would be a slight upgrade in zoom and everything else would remain the same since the specs are practically identical. I ended up getting a great deal on it ($149.99) which was less than what I bought the W350 for. After less than a week with it, I'm not impressed. I can see why the W350 is still holding its value compared to this new model (priced less than $10 within each other brand new). It only has a slightly better zoom but the actual material of the camera is not as good as the W350. In fact, the front has a metal body but the back (the LCD side) is a lousy shimmery plastic. Also, the LCD is not remotely as crisp as the W350. Even though the W350 and W570 are supposed to be close relatives (in every aspect), I find the W350 a superior camera. Within a week of the purchase, I'm sending it right back for a refund and will be picking up another W350. Yes I'll sacrifice a bit in zoom, but the W350 is better in every other way. This product was a let down - Sony shouldn't have bothered releasing it.
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Week of prayer to be held for school children
Published: Friday, March 11, 2005 at 7:54 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 11, 2005 at 10:22 a.m.
Praying to Pass Partners announced its third annual Week of Prayer will be held Monday-March 18.
The Baton Rouge-based organization was developed by a group of concerned citizens in an effort to pray for the success of the children in the state of Louisiana as they take LEAP and GEE.
Each year, LEAP is administered to every fourth- and eighth-grader, while GEE is administered to every 10th- and 11th-grader within the public school systems of the state of Louisiana.
Although statistics vary from parish to parish, the Louisiana Department of Education stated in its May 7, 2004 press release that "public high-school students showed significant, across-the-board improvement and the state's eighth-graders improved overall," however "the passage rate for the fourth-graders decreased."
Praying to Pass supporters believe that their prayers have played a major role in the success of the students for the past two years, and they also believe that as they continue to pray, the students' scores will continue to improve.
"We haven't seen major improvement, but we are believing God that the best is yet to come," said Carla Christophe, one of the coordinators of the week.
She said the main goal of the effort's coordinators is to make Praying to Pass a statewide initiative this year. The past two years have been recognized mostly in the Baton Rouge area.
As a person raised in a Baptist church, she said she firmly believes that prayer is the only answer to change things.
"The Word tells us that if we would seek God, all the things we have been asking for will be added onto us," she said. "We want our kids to pass the test. We want them to be successful and from me being a strong believer in the word, I believe this is the only way we can be successful."
Organizers of Praying to Pass are asking for people to commit to pray for the students, teachers and the administrators of the state of Louisiana at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. daily during the week of March 14-18, which is the designated testing period for this school year.
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meh, bio needs to be 10 characters.
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Hi ~ I see you're currently watching Seitokai Yakuindomo OVA. What's your opinion of this anime so far?
You seem to be whipping through Gintama pretty fast xD
You have a favorite episode so far?
Happy holidays
Clannad ! :)


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But you guys get bit by the blackout bug.
Believe it or not, I feel ya. The owner of the great HOUSTON OILERS di the same thing. Therefore, they reside in Tennesee, and go by a stupid name of a race of mythical Giants that got slain by their children.
And in this neck of the woods, its quite contagious!
Hey fellas, I like the lolcat images and whatnot, but it's a little excessive to be taking every pic off the site and posting it here. Why don't you stick to posts with words, and only post images occasionally (like maybe 2-3 per page, max).
Post, I say! Post! *mimes cracking a whip*
O-we-O, We-O-OO-We-O, We-O-O(Any one know Song of the Volga Boatman?)
Yay, I can finally put to use my little book of Snapple facts.
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