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Adam Vaughan: Earth has lost more than half a million square miles of forest between 2000 and 2012. Analysis of 650,000 satellite images, published in the journal Science, reveal the extent of loss and recovery
UN climate science panel's full report shows how climate change could pan out differently across the many regions of the world
A new report has found that conservation efforts have brought some species back from the brink. But is this part of an overall recovery?
Craig Bennett: Membership of the European Union has been a boon to the UK's wildlife and habitats – and human health is better as a result
Natalie Bennett and Caroline Lucas posts UK government's opposition to regulation is putting bees at riskCaroline Lucas: By failing to back EU proposals for a ban on pesticides, lawmakers have prioritised commercial interests over ecological wellbeing
Mary Creagh: The adulteration scandal raises important questions about how we as a nation trace, make and look after the food we eat
In South America and Russia respectively, Erika Cuéllar and Sergei Bereznuk's efforts have been recognised with a Rolex award for enterprise
Leo Hickman: Unanswered questions about Ukip MEP's researcher highlight lack of transparency and oversight over spending of EU public funds
Flora Malein: Political stunt? Maybe. But Russian president's glider guiding the birds on their migration route actually works
Bill Hemmings: As long as the coalition of the unwilling tries to stall EU measures, airlines will chase profit regardless of sustainability
Social and economic challenges persist but the transformation of cliffs and beaches is helping former pit communities' morale
John Vidal: Closed sessions, angry geo-engineers, US weather extremes and a plethora of NGOs
Natalia Antonova: WWF Russia reported fewer tiger tracks in their habitat this winter, but Vladimir Putin alone can't save this stunning animal
Cancún forests deal is 'wrapped up and ready to move' – or is it?Suzanne Goldenberg in CancúnSuzanne Goldenberg: Measures to preserve forests were supposed to be a done deal at the Cancún summit, but try telling that to Guyana
Jonathan Watts: Premier Wen's vague words at the tiger summit do little to inspire confidence in the country that drives a gruesome trade
John Vidal: Saudi name down the toilet, Yvo cooks a delegate, the World Bank gets a bashing and windy wonders
London, New York, Paris, Blaenavon: all over the globe, the wonders of the living world are being celebrated in cities and in rural locations
Leo Hickman: Climate sceptics' favourite theory that volcanoes produce more CO2 than human activity has exploded in their faces with Eyjafjallajokull eruption
Russia tries to hang on to its carbon credits, UK wins a fossil booby prize and US negotiator charms the Indians
George Monbiot's blog I'd choose nuclear power over a climate crash. But will the government grow up and clean its mess up?
George Monbiot: Unlike some Guardian colleagues I have no problem with shoring up a carbon price to make nuclear - or any other low-carbon technology - become viable
Suzanne Goldenberg: Brazil, Indonesia and Norway have made positive steps in the past few weeks, illustrating the value of a bottom up approach
In Norway there is no contradiction between eco-consciousness and eating whale meat


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others can,but for us to do it would mean paying to have it done. Each time we have to ask our people to "code" or "rework" something, is a bill for PSU to pay.
So far, the demand for colored pips on VB on a whole is almost zero, so no one else has done any work on it.
As far as I know, when he quit supporting his plug in, it went up for grabs.
We are trying to stay away from the hacked together 3rd party apps these days, since that is what caused all the plug ins to go away at the upgrade.
I'll pm my email address, send me the code.

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Toronto: John Carpenter's The Ward
Wed Sep 15 2010
To say that my love of John Carpenter burns hotter than the rage of Halloween 's Michael Myers is, indeed, to make a gross understatement. I feel no shame in admitting that I paid good money to see Escape from L.A. five times in theaters (L.A. !), and can only offer the caveat that I was avoiding an imminent breakup, plus coming to an appreciation of the director's use of widescreen cinematography. (The breakup might have been related.) Can't you tell I'm trying to avoid weighing in on the crushing disappointment that is The Ward, Carpenter's first movie in nine years? The man's absence from movie screens has pained me (I even asked him why once), and last night's chaotic midnight screening was supercharged with geeky excitement. But even with the goodwill of leggy stars in attendance, The Ward sank quickly into exactly what I should have braced myself for, a generic, deafeningly loud shocker with little of the signature I've been craving. What went wrong? Even if this had been a full return to form for the director, the story is set in a mental institution in the 1960s, thereby making The Ward a victim of unfortunate timing with Shutter Island. (This might be part of the reason why it still has no U.S. distributor.) At the risk of spoiling two movies, let me add that the similarities run deep. Granted, Carpenter's version of Shutter Island plays a lot like an episode of Gossip Girl —not intrinsically a bad thing—with gorgeous inmate Kristen (The Informers' Amber Heard) catting around with a bunch of other outrageously hot psychotics. A wrinkly former patient named Alice starts springing up behind folks and choking them. Who is this monster? And why do her appearances always come along with an ear-piercing crack? (These headache-inducing booms make the "stingers" in Halloween sound like sparklers.) Who goes to Carpenter movies for content, though? (I do, especially when it's They Live , but never mind.) The real heartbreaker here, as with Dario Argento, is the laxness of visual style. Where are JC's stem-winding long takes, his suspense-building montages, his quiet edits? Why is there a constant thunderstorm happening, lousing up the flow with bluish lightning flashes? (That's the oldest gag in the book.) There's no sense of proportion here; everything is hyperbolic and huge, making Carpenter seem really old. He's even farmed out the soundtrack to another composer, Mark Kilian, a tragedy. I was hoping for some of the old-school synth stuff.
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One scene of electroschock therapy is a real wincer, but this is not an especially scary movie. That's a problem. The director's return should have been accompanied by a suitable script and a major push to bring him more fully into the creative process. Is Carpenter just a victim of his own laziness? His fans have dreamed about this moment for nearly a decade; he owes us a more vigorous effort. And surely, those fans extend to the filmmaking community itself. Rehire one of your old DPs, Dean Cundey. Set up a call with Kurt Russell and Stephen King. Take your time. The next one will be better. Welcome back.


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Drake Bell Takes Aim at Justin Bieber on Twitter...Again
Hopping on Twitter to comment about the current condition of Justin Bieber, Drake Bell slammed the 19-year-old pop star for his recent transgressions.
Mocking the Biebs on Friday (January 24), the 27-year-old commented on Justin's arrest and mug shot, writing, "Arrested,vandalized property in multiple countries,Egged a house, busted for drugs, and he still gets endorsements!!"
The former "Drake and Josh" stud posted the "Baby" singer's mug shot next to a Proactiv Solution ad, with a caption over Justin's face that read, "I'm Proactiv."
Justin just so happens to be a spokesperson for Proactiv, and we are guessing he wont be very accepting of Drake's critique.
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Student organizations are the cornerstone of our community. There are more than 50 student organizations to suit a variety of interests. Don't see an organization you're interested in? Start a new one! Find your community, your place, your home here at Lesley University, right here.Each semester, the Office of Student Activities hosts the Student Activities Fair, where students can explore organizations, meet student leaders, and get involved!
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Hurricane Sandy Rescue Story: Our Home Is Destroyed, But We Are Safe
Last year, when Hurricane Irene struck the tri-state region, Warren and Kate Sherwood heeded the mandatory evacuation orders and left their Long Beach residence.
Fortunately, Irene caused only minor damage to their home. But they were not as lucky this time around.
"Even though we were in the evacuation zone, after last year wasn't so bad we decided to ride this one out and stay home," says Warren.
But Hurricane Sandy surpassed even their biggest fears.
"I've never in my life seen anything like it," says Kate. "We barely got out of our house in time. The water is at least five feet deep."
As a precaution, the Sherwoods had booked a hotel in a nearby town away from the flood zone; they managed to leave Long Beach Monday as the storm was at its worst and drive to the hotel. They snuck their two cats, Schwartz and Scooter, into the building, but had to bring them back to their Long Beach home after a few days--a decision that scared them to their core.
"Even though the cats were on the second floor, we couldn't bear the thought of them being in the cold and dark," says Kate. The couple also feared that they might be prohibited from visiting their home once electric and gas repair work begins.
On Sunday, November 4, the Sherwoods brought Schwartz and Scooter to the emergency animal shelter at Mitchel Field, where they know their beloved cats will be safe.
"The truth is, we feel very lucky," says Warren. "We all got out safely and are alive."
Five houses on their block were burned to the ground, which makes them feel even more grateful, despite the severe damage to their home.
"We cannot thank all of you enough," says Kate to the team of staff and volunteers as tears welled in her eyes. As she gave a big hug to one of the animal rescue workers, she adds, "Knowing that our cats are safe, warm and loved makes all the difference in the world."


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After a mishap involving bus tickets, Rwandan football prodigy Fabrice (Nsengiyumva), his makeshift manager Dudu (Ndayambaje), and Dudus sister Beatrice (Kintu) find themselves in the Congo rather than the trials for the World Cup opening ceremony. Aband
With a flush of multi-coloured credits, a cluster of urchins fending off an indifferent world, and an attempt to parlay Dickensian melodrama into an exotic setting, there's no missing the intention — it's the African Slumdog! Except that ten minutes into this sweet-natured but first-base adventure tale, it's evident it doesn't hold a scuffed trainer to Danny Boyle's Mumbai magic.
First-time director Debs Gardner-Paterson, who grew up in Rwanda, lacks the dramatic flair to match her enthusiasm to depict an Africa unclouded by genocide or colonial ruin. Her film is cheerful, pleasantly acted, in every sense sunny, but in its haste and sentimentality flits by without troubling our nerves. Her bright, personable cast trek through the vastness of the Congo, Zambia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa as if it were a jaunt to the local rec.
The structure is a road movie, but every threat — growling panthers, snarling border guards, ravenous food shortages and topically infused traffickers in child-soldiers and sex slaves — is evaded by dashing off in the opposite direction. Even when valiant Dudu (Eriya Ndayambaje) falls ill, there's a hospital around the next bend.
While the dated World Cup backdrop scrapes by as a context for these African dreamers, it does provide welcome shots of wry football dogma. At one roadblock, the gang are halted by a recalcitrant foe. "Arsenal?" he snarls at Dudu's Fabregas-emblazoned shirt, before pointing out the blue under his jacket: "Chelsea!" To cross the South African border, patrolled by the most unbending of gatekeepers, they play penalties against a fence with an inflated condom. Oh, how football unites the world!
You'll gather it is pitched very young. To add vitality to Gardner-Paterson's prosaic style (is Africa really so unchanging?) the film is cluttered with stop-motion animation, onscreen maps and restless montages. What it needed was slowing down, letting the tension tighten into genuine unpleasantness. Like the World Cup final.
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VPR Newscast: Monday, November 12, 2012, 7:35 a.m.
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Vermont dodged the ravages of Hurricane Sandy two weeks ago... But up and down the Eastern Seaboard many people are still suffering – and still worried about heat and survival. As VPR's Kirk Carapezza reports, Vermonters affected by Tropical Storm Irene are organizing to help survivors of Sandy.Green Mountain College in Poultney has euthanized one of its farm oxen. The animals were at the center of an uproar over the college's decision to process the animals into meat. Congressman Peter Welch is going to be talking about his priorities for the lame-duck session. A Vermont group that opposes allowing terminally ill patients to request a doctor's aid in dying says the Election-day defeat in Massachusetts of a similar proposal was the correct step. Vermonters who want to advise Governor Peter Shumlin's administration as officials draft next year's state budget have two chances to do so in the next two weeks.


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Hear The Runway Spring 2013 Fashion Show
Hear The Runway Foundation, Inc.
Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 5:30 PM (EST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Hear The Runway Foundation, Inc.
Is a non-profit 501(3)c organization that has a mission to increase the self-esteem, self-worth and self-image of teens who are deaf and hard of hearing, which will provide them with the strength and motivation they may need to lead productive lives after high school.
We are hosting our second fundraising event for our organization that will continue to serve as our Kick-Off to get the community buzzing about what we are up to and what plans we have to change lives here in Miami!
Our ultimate goal will be to provide mentoring programs, weekend/breaks workshops and camps to the deaf and/or hard of hearing children in an inclusive environment with their normal hearing peers, in order to help them develop the skill set they will need to become successful professionals in the working world!
Hear The Runway Fashion Show Event will take place
Doors will open at 2:00pm and the Show will start at 5:00pm
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Tickets will be available at the door for the following prices:
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Attention Graduates! Take Your Content With You When You Graduate
June 22, 2017
Graduation is an exciting time: You're packing everything up and starting your next chapter in life. Still, it can be stressful if you're trying to download and save all of your digital files before you leave school.
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All you need to transfer your content is a personal Google Account. Don't have one? Visit
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After you've provided your personal Gmail account address, copying and transferring your email and content is a snap -- just follow these four easy steps:
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We hope this helps you take your schoolwork and digital memories with you as you head into the wide world that awaits after graduation. Congrats — we look forward to hearing about all the amazing things you'll do next!
My Path to Google: Job Wiley, Director of Immersive Design
June 16, 2017
Welcome to the third installment of our blog series "My Path to Google". These are real stories from Googlers highlighting how they got to Google, what their roles are like, and even some tips on how to prepare for interviews.
Today's post is all about Jon Wiley. Read on!
Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
I'm a native of Austin, TX, where I received a degree in Theatre from the University of Texas. While performing improv and sketch comedy on Austin's famous Sixth Street, instead of waiting tables I honed my web design skills. Eventually that paid the bills better than comedy and, following several years of professional design experience, I convinced Google to hire me in 2006.
What's your role at Google?
I'm the Director of Immersive Design for Google. I lead the team of UX (user experience) designers, UX researchers, and UX engineers in creating great products for VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality). Our team is responsible for things like Google Cardboard, Tilt Brush, Earth VR, Tango, JUMP cameras, Google Expeditions, and the Daydream VR platform and Daydream View VR headset.
What inspires you to come in every day?
Time is our most precious resource and it's nearly impossible to get more. I think the ultimate goal of technology is to give people more choices about how they can spend their time. I see the work I do at Google as expanding that choice. For example, before working on VR I worked on Google Search. With Search, if we could provide a better answer, faster, we could give back a little bit of time to that person — time they could use for other important things. With VR and AR, I think we can (within a decade or so) dramatically improve people's productivity with computers, thus giving them back quite a bit of time.
Can you tell us about your decision to enter the application process with Google?
I'd been designing for Web for nearly a decade when I decided to apply to Google. It had never really occurred to me that I could work at a company like Google, but I realized it didn't hurt to apply.
Once I started going through the process (building up my portfolio and resume), I realized that I actually had a lot to offer. So I approached the interviews confident that I had what it takes, but also thinking it was a long shot anyway. I took the application very seriously, but I was pretty sure I wouldn't get it even so.
Part of my doubt was that I didn't feel strictly qualified. The role typically called for a degree in computer science or human-computer interaction. I had a degree in theater. I knew I had the skills and experience, but I lacked the degree. And I wasn't sure how strongly Google felt about that.
How did the recruitment process go for you?
Everything went about the way I expected from having read about it. Short phone call with a Googler, a design exercise, surprise at being invited to interview in person, interviewing with several Googlers.
Early on I was asked for my GPA. My GPA was not good (under 3.0) so I sent it along, but I also wrote what amounted to an essay on why my GPA was low. I'd spent much of my time in college creating and building independent and successful things. For example, I co-created what was, at the time, the world's largest improv and sketch comedy festival. I wanted to show that I was much more than a score.
I never heard if that essay made a difference or not. Probably didn't hurt. :) Today, GPA isn't nearly as emphasized as it was when I was hired 10 years ago because we've learned that there are much better signals.
One other thing — my last interview of the day was really difficult. The interviewer asked some very challenging questions. I left feeling like I'd done well right up until the end, then bombed. It was stressful. But then I reminded myself that I'd never dreamed I'd have gotten as far as I did in the process and I went and had a cheeseburger at In-N-Out and felt much better.
What do you wish you'd known when you started the process?
I read every single thing I could about the interview process before I went through it, so there were no surprises.
Do you have any tips you'd like to share with aspiring Googlers?
My very best interviews, both as the interviewer and interviewee, have always been when we get on a topic that the interviewee is very excited about (that's relevant to the role). Google is a good place for folks who are really, really interested/excited about a thing and can basically talk forever about it. I think that's what ultimately got me the job and why I've been successful - I'm just super excited about the details, tools, and challenges of user experience design.
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Announcing the 2017 Google Scholarship Recipients!
May 24, 2017
Since 2004, Google has awarded almost 2,500 scholarships to students from underrepresented groups in technology to inspire and help them become future leaders in the field. We are excited to announce this year's Google scholarship recipients in the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Africa!
These students come from diverse backgrounds, are passionate about technology, and have proven themselves as leaders and role models within their communities. By supporting these students with an academic scholarship and a trip to Google for the annual Scholars' Retreat, we hope to not only support their academic pursuits but also empower Scholars to encourage and inspire those around them.
We recently selected recipients from the following scholarship programs:
Women Techmakers Scholars Program
(US, Canada, and Europe, Middle East & Africa)
Generation Google Scholarship
for high school and university students from underrepresented backgrounds in computer science
Google Lime Scholarship for students with disabilities
(US/Canada) and
Google Europe Scholarship for Students with Disabilities
Google Student Veterans of America (SVA) Scholarship
for student veterans
Congratulations to the 2017 recipients of these scholarships who represent 88 universities in 19 countries. These students will join a community of Google scholars who are actively changing the diversity status quo in the tech industry. We can't wait to see what the future holds for these exceptional students!
Click here to see the full list of winners.
Stay tuned for our announcement of the Women Techmakers Scholars Program for Asia Pacific.
Black History Month Pay It Forward Challenge Winners
May 16, 2017
This spring we announced Google's annual
Black History Month "Pay It Forward" Challenge
as a way to recognize individuals who are making a positive impact in the Black community, while also remembering those who have paved the way in the past. We received many inspiring applications filled with personal stories and determination — a reminder that there's always time to make a difference (even as a busy college student!). We're excited to share the work of our three winners, and hope that you feel inspired too. On to the winners!
Meet Calvary Rogers
Calvary Rogers
Calvary believes that "we let injustice win the day when we conclude that there is nothing we can do about it." When confronted with an incident of on-campus threats targeting Black freshmen students, he knew that his only choice was to take action. As Co-Chair of UMOJA, an umbrella group that serves to unite all students that identify with the African Diaspora at the University of Pennsylvania
, Calvary planned a university-wide town hall where Black students voiced their concerns with administration, each other, and the nation as a whole. While documenting the administrative actions students wanted to see (and starting the conversation about what change would look like), Calvary and his peers realized that what they needed most was to learn from the past.
Through UMOJA and the Africana Department, Calvary is developing a database that will function to individually archive student activism initiatives and institutional/administrative feedback across universities in America in order to maximize social progress and institutional breakthroughs. By archiving Black history at universities and their surrounding communities across America, he believes that we can better learn how to ameliorate both the experiences of Black students and citizens across the world (and how they respond to them).
"When we step aside and hear the voices and stories of underrepresented groups to understand their circumstances on a human level, we dramatically shift the dynamics of our community… in doing so, we unify, gain courage, and learn new ways to advance our fundamental humanity in ways that work for everyone."
Meet Kielah Harbert and Wilglory Tanjong
L-R: Wilglory Tanjong; Kielah Harbert
Co-winners Kielah and Wilglory are also familiar with the importance of sharing and disseminating information as a way to empower marginalized students. After submitting their college applications, they realized that without the help of the Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA), they may not have been able to successfully apply to universities around the country. This led them to wonder: do students who do not have the help of LEDA (but were just as qualified and worthy) have the resources that they needed to prepare and apply to college?
, Kielah and Wilglory's new book, provides those resources. It offers information that is largely unavailable to socio-economically disadvantaged Black youth by serving as a guide that empowers, gives positive representation, and inspires readers to reach higher by providing them with the guidance they need to succeed. Additionally, the guide teaches students how to self-advocate, think critically, and navigate the many obstacles they will face as low-income students who care about education.
"In a world where Black youth are depicted as gangsters and thugs in mass media, and forgotten communities have little or no positive role models in positions of influence,
shifts the narrative. We show them, through positive representation, that they can be successful through education — we tell them, they can." -- Kielah Harbert
How can you help?
Calvary encourages you to join the conversation by sharing your stories and experiences with activism and how they have tapped into untouched areas of social justice by utilizing people and/or organizations who have walked their paths before them. If you'd like more information on helping UMOJA, head to
the request form
. Wilglory and Kielah urge you to
buy copies of
for youth in your community, spread the word to others, have the duo speak to students, and lastly,
support their summer "I Can Too" project
Together with Calvary, Kielah and Wilglory, we can give voices and resources to all students both now and in the future.
My Path to Google: Adriana Jara, Software Engineer
May 10, 2017
Welcome to the second installment of our blog series "My Path to Google". These are real stories from Googlers highlighting how they got to Google, what their roles are like, and even some tips on how to prepare for interviews.
Today's post is all about Adriana Jara. Read on!
Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
I grew up in a small rural town in Costa Rica called Candelaria de Naranjo. I grew up surrounded by coffee plantations and nature. I used to help my family during the harvests and always joke that in spite of knowing the coffee making process from bean to cup, I must be one of the very few software engineers who doesn't drink coffee! After high school, I moved out of my small town to go to the Universidad de Costa Rica for college, where I graduated with a Bachelor in Computer Science.
Besides being a software engineer at Google, I'm a dancer. I've been doing contemporary dance for 12 years, and I also practice salsa and West African dance. Dance has helped me see the world from a different perspective. It helps me clear my head and make better decisions as an engineer.
What's your role at Google?
I'm a software engineer. I recently transferred to the Shopping Syndication team, where I hope to make shopping ads outside of google.com more useful and less annoying!
What inspires you to come in every day?
The people I work with. I also thoroughly enjoy solving problems, especially problems that have impact on our users. It's rewarding to work with so many inspiring people to help make our users' lives easier. I'm excited about connecting people with opportunities, and sharing the advantages that our products bring to more users.
Can you tell us about your decision to enter the process?
It started with Gmail when I was in college. I very clearly remember opening my Gmail account and being so inspired by the people that changed how we do email (something that I thought was fine as it was). They made it so much more intuitive and effective that I remember thinking to myself "I want to work with people like that, people who don't take the status quo for granted, people who wonder how can we do better."
About 8 years later, I got the first email from an @google address (my recruiter's) and got so excited about the chance to work with the people I had always admired. I never thought I could make it from my small town to the Googleplex. I never thought I would end up working in a place where you can impact millions of users around the world.
How did the recruitment process go for you?
I was super excited to even be in a Google office for the interviews, but at the same time, I was scared to death of the possibility of having to move by myself to a whole new country and start a different life. I remember my first phone interview didn't go so well. At that point, I was losing hope, but got a surge of strength thinking "I'm a good engineer and I want to work at Google, but I'll be fine even if it doesn't work out." The burst of confidence seems to have helped — I did well on my second interview, came onsite for interviews, and now I work here!
What do you wish you'd known when you started the process?
I had the perception that Google was only looking for geniuses who knew everything and could come up with the best solutions in minutes. I wish I could go back in time to tell myself how wrong that perception is—it would've definitely removed at least a bit of the pressure of the interviews.
Now as an interviewer myself, I've realized that Google engineering interviews are basically just conversations about solving problems. Essentially, they go like this:
If we were to work on [x] problem together and given [y] set of tools, how would you approach it?
Had I known that this is the actual approach, I think I would've been more relaxed going into the process.
Can you tell us more about the resources you used to prepare?
Various coding exercises, an algorithm class (there are a lot of those on Coursera and other education sites), and a whole lot of practice. I knew several people who were also interviewing and we shared resources we found, did 'code reviews' on challenges, and did mock interviews together.
I also absolutely loved the
'How To' videos from the Life at Google channel
on Youtube.
To finish, do you have any tips you'd like to share with aspiring Googlers?
Don't be afraid to try! There is nothing to lose by trying. If you want to work at Google, go ahead and apply. Prepare yourself for the interviews by sharpening your knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and coding. If you try and fail, don't give up! There are many factors that might lead to a failed round of interviews—everyone has bad days—so prepare yourself and try again.
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My Path to Google: Bjion Henry, Associate Account Strategist
April 13, 2017
Welcome to our blog series "My Path to Google"! We'll be posting real stories from Googlers highlighting how they got to Google, what their roles are like, and even some tips on how to prepare for interviews.
Today's post is all about Bjion Henry. Read on!
Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
I'm from Luton, just north of London in the UK.
I studied Industrial Economics in the University of Nottingham, which was essentially a mixture between business and economics. I was active with Google while in college and also interned at Google.
What's your role at Google?
I'm in a full-time
Google Marketing Solutions role (I'm an Associate Account Strategist). Day-to-day, I work with digital marketing agencies advising them on how to grow their clients' businesses through online marketing and how to grow as agencies. It also involves a lot of data crunching and transforming insights into strategies that you then pitch to your clients.
What inspires you to come in every day?
In my role
the clients have to trust you enough to actually go ahead with your ideas! Sometimes I even travel to London to meet clients face to face.
The best thing about the role is that you're able to impact a lot of businesses and people, which is quite unusual for an entry-level role at a big company. That impact is special, and motivating. For example,
although I probably didn't acknowledge the gravitas of the situation at the time, as an intern I got to represent Google for a Q&A panel, and also for their
AdCamp program
. It was a bit intimidating at the start but it went really well (I think!).
Can you tell us about your decision to enter the process?
While studying for my undergrad in 2015, I was accepted onto
Google's Top Black Talent
program and as part of that, I also took part in the
Google Online Marketing Challenge
We were paired with a local business and I volunteered to be the team leader of my group. Over the course of about 2-3 months, we met-up numerous times at the Google London office — I guess that was my first time really experiencing Google.
After that, I applied for an
internship with Google.
How did the recruitment process go for you?
During my Google internship, I had conversations with my manager and recruiters regarding a full-time role and the recruitment process started then. I returned to university for my final year, and around January I had my first phone interview.
Once I had passed that, I then moved to face-to-face interviews where Google flew me to Dublin. I remember being stressed because it was at the same time as my exams, and it was difficult balancing the preparation for both. I also remember my first interview going pretty well — most of the questions just felt like small talk with the occasional business-related question. However, my second interview felt extremely hard. I left Dublin feeling as if I had lost the opportunity, but two weeks later I got a phone call confirming a full-time role.
What do you wish you'd known when you started the process?
That I could work on a lot of projects. I interned with the Global Customer Experience team here at Google, where part of my time was spent working with advertisers to overcome any issues or challenges they were facing whilst advertising with Google. We would troubleshoot, give them advice, and generally be the face of Google to those customers.
I had a great manager and was encouraged to work on other projects within Google that interested me. I decided to work on
Google Adopt
, a startup program mentoring startups from around Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) on their digital marketing. First I rebranded the program, and then I redesigned and coded the external website for the upcoming cycle.
I was also interested in working in sales, so when it came time to apply for a full-time role I decided to go for the Google Marketing Solutions job and was successful.
Can you tell us more about the resources you used to prep?
I started with learning as much as I could about AdWords and Google through articles and YouTube videos. Next, I picked out keywords and concepts from the job and interview brief and prepared questions for them. For example, if it said 'In your role you'll speak to marketing professionals managing relationships,' I'd prepare an answer to the question 'tell me a time when you managed relationships with marketing professionals.' When preparing the answers, I'd write them out in the
STAR format
, and that helped a lot in the interview.
To finish, do you have any tips you'd like to share with aspiring Googlers?
Learn everything you can about Google — the products, the ethos, everything! Unsurprisingly, the best way to do that is to get involved in as many Google-related things as you can find. That could be a Google networking event, university programs, online events, or internships. You can also sign up for programs like GOMC and get Adwords certified. Once you're through the door, you can network and you start to learn how the Google culture works.
My last take away would be to apply no matter what!
Some people think you have to be an academic, or a tech-head, or a successful entrepreneur. I wasn't really any of these and so when I applied it felt like I was playing the lottery. I honestly never thought I'd make it onto the Top Black Talent program let alone secure a Business Internship and then make it as a full-timer, so
anything can happen
Want to follow in Bjion's footsteps?
to learn more about life at Google and our opportunities for students. Be sure to check out
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, our program for students from Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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BreakInequality Hackathon: SMS technology and API integration bringing health information to developing nations
April 3, 2017
Today we're catching up with
— a team of University of Waterloo students who won Google's Grand Prize at the
Devs without Borders
BreakInequality Hackathon
which encouraged women through technology to
build scaling solutions for
Plan International Canada's
maternal health programming in Bangladesh.
(Spoiler alert: they built an app that bridges the communication gap between expectant mothers and community healthcare workers in rural areas of Bangladesh).
We invited the NatalNet crew to Google Waterloo to share their
hackathon story
and fill us in on how the future of their app is shaping up in partnership with
Plan International Canada
University of Waterloo students pictured from left to right, Victoria (a third year student in Systems Design Engineering), Namrata (a second year Biomedical Engineering student), Ashley (a third year Financial Analysis and Risk Management student minoring in Computer Science), Isabelle (a second year Software Engineering student), Mack (a second year Biomedical Engineering student).
Why did you apply to the BreakInequality Hackathon?
Our experience with hackathons is incredibly varied; a few members of our team had never been to a hackathon before, while others had competed in several. Despite our range of experience, we were all motivated to attend BreakInequality for the opportunity to make social impact. The chance to create a solution that could impact the lives of women on a global scale was an opportunity that we simply could not pass up.
How did you decide to build the NatalNet app?
We loved the idea of being able to connect women in rural areas of developing countries to health information and care through SMS technology. We narrowed our scope to pregnancy and newborn care information after learning that
Bangladesh has a 50% mobile phone proliferation rate and that 98% of these cell phones are 2G devices - meaning that many soon-to-be mothers have access to a SMS-enabled cell phone.
We built NatalNet as an SMS and web-based application to provide pregnant women
with access to information and
trained community health care workers. It's incredibly important to us to support a
solution that
empowers expectant and new mothers to take charge of their own personal healthcare.
What challenges did you run into with your build?
We were working with a lot of technologies that many of us didn't have experience with. Integrating SMS into a solution was something we hadn't tackled before. After digging through documentation on
and different APIs that helped us sort out the syntax that would bring our functions to life, we ended up with a solution that was "fully functional" (meaning it did exactly what we envisioned it to do!). Overcoming the different API integration challenges that arose during the project was a huge source of learning and pride for us.
What's the most important lesson you learned during the experience?
We all gained an immense appreciation for sleep after marathoning through 24+ hours of hacking! We also learned that having a shared passion for a specific goal, and working hard towards that goal as a team, leads to amazing innovations. It's easy to see how this lesson can be applied to the work world. Most positions, especially in the tech industry, require you to work as a member of a focused team. The teamwork skills we developed during BreakInequality are skills we will take with us into our professional careers.
What's next for NatalNet and your partnership Plan International Canada?
We've been working very closely with both the
Plan International Canada
and the
Devs without Borders
teams to research, budget and ensure logistics are in place to allow NatalNet to be realistically implemented in Bangladesh. From there, our database is built to scale. We plan to use
Google Analytics
Cloud Natural Language API
to send personalized, automated responses written by community health care workers to women in need of information, making access for them more efficient and accurate.
What advice do you have for other women pursuing careers in STEM who are drawn to solving complex real-world problems?
make time for things you find important. This experience proved to us how important it is to go out and get as much experience as you can. Don't know how to code? Get out there and learn! Want to solve a complex problem? Get out there and start solving complex problems! It may seem as if you're going at it alone, but you'll find so many other brilliant female minds surrounding you — we did! By making a space for yourself in the industry, you're using your superwoman powers to open the door wider for future generations to enter STEM roles, so don't be afraid to get out there and start learning!
With Google's Grand Prize support behind them, these UWaterloo students are working closely with Plan International Canada and Devs Without Borders to bring tangible social impact to women in Bangladesh through their app. Go team NatalNet!
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My experience backs up what forestrytodd says ie this concept is junk
It was put in the front tyres of my Scania 124 without me knowing and immediately on long haul work(smooth road- constant speeds) at 56mph there was a wobble on the front axle that would come and go at regular intervals(as the compound aggregated itself into one place and then would spread out again and the wobble would go away before repeating the cycle again . . .and again and again and again until it drove me so mad wondering what the hell could be doing this. I finally went to a proper tyre shop who asked if it had compound in the tyres at which point I said "has it got WHAT!" so after taking the crap out they balanced the wheels the proper way with weights and it's been silk ever since DONT GO NEAR THE STUFF anybody with high school physics will know its it cant work in a real world setting (on paper maybe)
So lets get this straight.
1.) You didn't put the "compound" material in your tires.
2.) You don't know what "compound" was used or how much?
Yet you can claim that all tire balance beads are total crap and can't work properly when like a million people have been using it for decades and claim it works. I personally have used them and they worked great in my application.
It's very simple physics and works just fine in a "real world setting". Ie smooth as glass at 137mph in a big *** slick. Did you look at the video above? A caveman could understand it. The fact that you cant scares me a bit.
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Monograph: Naoto Fukasawa
Located in the city-center of Maastricht, this renovated 15th century monastery of the Crutched Friars offers you a breathtaking synthesis of a veritable Gothic exterior with a sleek, dressed-down modern interior. Many innovative solutions for structural challenges (e.g. a glass elevator connecting the church to the monastery area) only confirm the notion that the sobriety of modern style forms a perfect match for a late-medieval architectural expression of religious virtue.
Kruisherenhotel Maastricht, The Netherlands, Chateau Hotels
Gaya, a new fireplace collection from Safretti. This wall mounted fireplace can be a focus for your room, and you can take it with you when you move.
Gaya, by Roderick Vos, for Safretti
Everybody deserves to work in an office like this. Located within a 1961 Charles Luckman building in downtown Beverly Hills, this interiors project consists of 63,000 sf of offices for nearly 200 people and an 80 seat screening room. Endeavor is the third largest talent agency in the world and the company represents a wide range of writers, directors, and actors including Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson. The main premise of the open office space was to allow for daylight to reach into the assistant's area. The sectional raise toward the perimeter and a band of clerestory glass creates natural lighting conditions that significantly enhances work life and the collective spirit of the agency.
Endeavor Office, Los Angeles, USA by NMDA
Door Handle 4928, by Buchegger, Denoth, Feichtner GmbH, for FSB
Light in Design, the B3 system by bulthaup is the measure of all kitchens; by focusing on ergonomics, task management and keeping it utilitarian, the visual aesthetics are not compromised here. The entire kitchen "floats" by using a supporting frame inside the wall that can bear up to one ton in weight per meter. This is ideal for architects and designers, providing them with an unprecedented level of freedom in design and the efficient use of space. The range of accessories and the way in which spices, tools and even cleaning supplies are tucked away compliment the design. You may never dine out again!
Bulthaup B3 Kitchen, by Herbert H. Schultes, for Bulthaup
The new D&G headquarters in Milan contains the showrooms for the collections, offices, a restaurant and a series of image spaces. Two buildings dating back to the 1920s and the 1960s, facing three streets, are combined in a complex with five floors above ground. The project is based on an architectural principle of great rigor, with the use of natural materials like white Namibia stone, glass and unfinished steel sheet.
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Alexander McQueen flagship shop is located on Melrose Avenue and is the latest in a recent expansion by McQueen, which has seen William Russell designed stores opening in Las Vegas, Moscow, Bahrain, Osaka and Vilnius.
Visitors to the store are greeted by the feet and legs of a large sculpture by Robert Bryce Muir, entitled 'Angel of the Americas', suspended through a skylight above the entrance. With his head and shoulders outside the store, the figure appears to be levitating.
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Be it mini bathroom or guest WC, in tiny areas there is no need to do without functional design. Now, Alape has added two new models to its range of tiny wash areas. XS has a rectangular basin, XXS is oval shaped. The basin, which in relation to its size is particularly deep, offers enough room for the user to wash his hands and a concealed opening on the left or right side panel; unexpected storage space for toiletries or guest towels.
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Beginning Monday, the Lower Bartonsville Road in Rockingham will be closed so workers can dismantle a temporary bridge and move the new bridge into its place across the Williams River.
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Health Issues that Can Impact Pregnancy: An Educational Forum
Buffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network (BPPN)
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM (EST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Health Issues that can Impact Pregnancy:
Community Health Forum for
Community Members with and without Prenatal Expertise
Attendance is FREE. Includes lunch.
Registration at 10:45am. Program starts at 11am.
Must register by December 2nd.
Please contact Denise Herkey-Jarosch at Buffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network, 884-6711 ext 279, or firstname.lastname@example.com with questions.
Mission: To educate the community on the difference types of diabetes and how it can affect a pregnancy, the impact of a woman being underweight or overweight before and during a pregnancy, and the benefits of a healthy nutritious diet both before and during a pregnancy.
Who Should Attend: Social workers, community health workers, case workers & managers, counselors, faith-based organizations, & neighborhood or block clubs leaders. Previous prenatal experience not required.
Program Agenda:
10:45am-11am- Registration & Welcome
11am-11:40am- The Impact of Diabetes and A Woman's Weight on Pregnancy
Sharon Wicks, Certified Diabetes Educator at Catholic Health System
11:45am-12:20pm -Lunch & Networking
12:25pm-1:10pm-Impact of a Nutritious Diet & Diabetes on Pregnancy
Kristen Seiz, Dietitian at Catholic Charities WIC Program and Janice Cipolla, Dietetic at Catholic Charities WIC Program
1:15pm-Closing & Evaluation
Supportedwith funding from:
NYS Department of Health, Division of Family Health &
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Templeton Landing Restaurant
2 Templeton Terrace
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM (EST)
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The mission of the Buffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network is to work with health and human service providers and consumers to develop and implement programs that focus on improving birth outcomes especially for populations who are at risk of poor outcomes. The Buffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network is a resource for those in Erie County who seek information regarding maternal child health care services and social services for women of childbearing age and their children. To learn more visit www.bppn.org .


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I was seeking a defamation count against the client on top of numerous other counts of tort. Would not defamation be appropriate if an unsubstantiated allegation was made, through the attorney, that met with the term "imputing to another a criminal offense amounting to a felony."?
Let me confirm something. IS THE CLIENT accountable for whatever harm his attorney does to another, while acting in his name?
There is no lawsuit. There was no court trial, at least not where the party in question is concerned.
The defamation was a felonious allegation made in a letter through an attorney, who then appeared in a non related court hearing and repeated that allegation without being a witness or having a cause for being there, and combined the two incidents defamed the first person's trust with his creditors, who were in the court, at a hearing for bankruptcy.
The charges were unsubstantiated, unfounded, and as a result the defaming party profitted by the loss of the first party's property in bankruptcy.
Defamation applicable? (Hypothetically speaking, :-))
Confidentiality wouldn't apply; as the letter was then used to undermine the Trustee (first person) with the corporation's bankruptcy attorney, who quit as a result.
The letter was never read in open court; but the co-counsel of the author appeared in open court (uninvited) and repeated similar allegations given by his client. Regarding the "punitive damages" issue, you might look at "Saunders Hardware Five and Ten, inc. v. Low, 307 So. 2d. 893 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974)" There is an interesting opinion there... "punitive damages may be awarded even though the amount of actual damages is neither found nor shown"
"...for in such a case, the requirement of showing of actual damages as a basis of an award for exemplary damages is satisfied by the presumption of injury which arised from the showing of libel or slander that is actionable per se."
I know. But they can be nearly nothing; only figurative. However, in the hypothetical issue we're discussing the numbers are in the high six figures, so this is just frosting on the cake. But deserved and justified. I don't know if you got to the judge's comments on the earlier case (Lawnwood Medical Center v. Sadow), but they were unprecedented from a century back rights to a man's good name being upheld. Citing "Thou shall not bear false witness against they neighbor." Adding that Florida is unmatched in how it sees the preservation of one's good name, and legal damnation for those who defame it.
If you google "slander per se, florida" you'll get some great citings.
Some is law firm P.R., but their comments and case law are valid.
Might I ask what state you're licensed in?
Supreme Court? Cool. That's great on the resume. Well, I appreciate your insight and time on this subject. I'm from Memphis, although now in Florida. Thanks a lot!
I miss it. But Memphis has changed a lot in the last 20 years. I'll look forward to your expertise again; and saved you in my arsenal of experts.
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Turtle Brownie Dessert
This recipe is for the confections lover!
- 1 pkg. (18.25 oz.) German chocolate cake mix
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter or margarine, melted
- 7 tablespoons NESTLÉ® CARNATION® Evaporated Milk, divided
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 cup (6 oz.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
- 20 NESTLÉ SIGNATURES TURTLES Candies
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COMBINE cake mix, butter and 5 tablespoons evaporated milk in large bowl; stir until blended. Stir in nuts. Spread half of cake mix mixture onto bottom of prepared pan.
BAKE for 12 minutes. Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes.
MICROWAVE morsels and remaining evaporated milk in small, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl on HIGH (100%) power for 1 minute; STIR. Morsels may retain some of their original shape. If necessary, microwave at additional 10- to 15-second intervals, stirring until smooth. Gently spread over cake layer. Place candy on cake layer; drop remaining cake mix mixture by heaping teaspoon between candy.
BAKE for 16 to 18 minutes. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Cut into squares.
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I love Turtles candy, this is so good and so easy, I can't make it too often or I'm likely to eat it all!
it is very easy to make
this desert is veryu good fofr the children to make they can even make them by themselves ass long as u are at least watching them
These are just the best combination of caramel, pecans and chocolate. My kids just loved them and they were gone quickly. Will definitely be making these again.
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These have to be the best turtle dessert brownies I have ever made!! You can even top them off with warm caramel before you serve them. Yum!!
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WOW!! These are wonderful. My family loved theses, now they want them all of the time. Thanks
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Serving Size: 1/20 of Recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 20
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 350
- Calories from Fat: 190
- Total Fat: 22g (33% of DV)
- Saturated Fat: 9g (47% of DV)
- Cholesterol: 30mg (10% of DV)
- Sodium: 250mg (11% of DV)
- Carbohydrates: 35g (12% of DV)
- Dietary Fiber: 2g (7% of DV)
- Sugars: 22g
- Protein: 4g
- Vitamin A: 4% of DV
- Vitamin C: 0% of DV
- Calcium: 6% of DV
- Iron: 6% of DV
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - - Indiana guard George Hill delivered the kind of last-gasp, game-winning basket Kobe Bryant is famous for to give the Pacers a scrappy 79-77 win over the Lakers in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Bryant shrugged off "flu-like symptoms" to score 40 of the Lakers' points, though he was disappointed to have turned the ball over 10 times.
The Lakers trailed for most of the game but looked set for another come-from-behind win when Bryant slotted a three-pointer to tie the score at 77-77 with 24 seconds left.
Hill had other ideas, however.
He milked the clock before driving hard to the hoop and his floating lay-up bounced on the rim in the last second before dropping through the net.
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Good morningGood morning my beautiful baby, I hope you slept better than me.
I missed you do much and longed for your touch, not one wink of sleep did I see.Â
Good morning my sexy baby, last night was so long and so cold,
Not having you there was so hard to bear, I need you to have and to hold.
Good morning my gorgeous baby, I love you so much I could weep.
I hope and I pray that maybe some day, that soon by my side you will sleep.
Good morning my ravishing baby, not being with you is so hard to take.
One day will come when this pain you will numb and be by my side when I wake.Â
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Now Marshall is back with The Descent, a much more sophisticated but equally nasty £3 million follow-up, which pits six female potholers against a race of unevolved, cannibal cavemen, the "crawlers", and against each other.
If it were an American film, at least two of the girls would have taken their tops off, but Marshall is in the vanguard of a new and original brand of British horror filmmaking. His excellent ensemble cast, including Spooks star Shauna MacDonald, shed their humanity rather than their clothes, regressing to a primal state.
"There's been a running joke that this film is about six chicks with picks, but that's simplifying it," Marshall says. "It is about six contemporary, adventurous women's physical descent into the depths of the earth, but it is also about a descent into madness. It's an allaction, brutal horror movie, shot in Scotland with an all-British crew with six meaty lead parts for girls. As far as I know, that's never been done before."
He points out that horror is a natural fit for the low budgets available to British film-makers. The genre requires isolated or confined settings, small casts, un-starry actors and imaginative thinking. Certainly, the British horror boom, begun a couple of years ago by Marshall's Dog Soldiers, Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later and Christopher Smith's Creep, shows no sign of burning out like the British "geezer" genre.
"The gangster cycle was a perfect example of bandwagon-jumping, where one hit spawned a string of bad movies," says Marshall. " Fortunately, that showed us how not to do it. After 28 Days Later we didn't get a flood of rubbish zombie films."
Marshall, a lifelong horror and action fan, learned his craft as a film editor and a (largely unpaid or unproduced) scriptwriter before he set out to make Dog Soldiers, and says he encountered a lot of resistance to his script in the industry.
"There was, and still is, a terrible snobbery about horror, and at that time a blindness to the way the genre had been reinvented in the States by the Scream movies, and in Asia," he says, "although that's changing now. In fact, at the moment, it feels like horror is sustaining the British film industry."
The relatively huge profits of 28 Days Later (which cost £4 million and made $10 million on its opening weekend in America alone) and of Dog Soldiers mean that sequels to both are in the pipeline, although neither original director is involved. And while Dog Soldiers didn't get a theatrical release in the US, The Descent has been snapped up for stateside distribution.
It should do well. Marshall has toned down the homages and injoky references to his favourite films (Deliverance, The Shining, Apocalypse Now) that were so apparent in his first feature, although they are still there for the film buffs. His script is taut, his direction brisk. Watching the film, the cinema starts to feel like an extension of the claustrophobic, oppressive cave.
Most importantly for British or US fans, though, The Descent contains more truly jolting shocks than any recent horror flick, which Marshall believes is the genre's vital function. "It's the same principle as a rollercoaster: it's a safe scare. We live easy lives, we no longer have to hunt for food. But we need something to get the adrenaline pumping, which I believe is a necessity of life."
The women of The Descent seek excitement in pot-holing and end up regressing into a primal state. "Fortunately, for most of us," Marshall concludes, "the most excitement we will get out of life is going to see a movie."
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I am in a university which has a wi fi network. It has good speed of upto 200 KBps. I play FIFA 13 game on my Macbook Pro mid 2012 13". I can sign in to origin account easily(origin is an ea sports online client software which is used to launch any EA's game). I launch FIFA 13 from my origin acc. When the game starts, "checking connection..." message is displayed for a few seconds and after that "Unable to connect to EA servers at this time. Please check your network connection or try again."
This message is a little different when I DONT have an internet conction.. Then it shows "The EA servers are not available at this time. Try again later"
There is no firewall problem because at home when I use my broadband connection there is no such issue....
So, what may be the problem. Is it that university administration has blocked the game connections...
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I have the same problem. I moved from where I once lived to another area. The first place I lived I could have played online without a problem. Now that I have moved i got another wi fi network I have the problem. I called my internet providers and they are coming to see about it. If the problem is fixed i promise i will come back and notify you on the situation.
I had this problem early boxing day and by the night i was wrongfully banned. Dont bother talking to EA customer service as they are an absolute disgrace. **bleep**ing fuming!!!!!!
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Incoming chief executive Leung Chun-ying may cause confusion with his plan to raise the profile of non-official Exco members, Executive Council convenor Ronald Arculli has warned.
Arculli, who is expected to leave Exco after seven years when Leung takes office on July 1, also warned that Leung's proposal to make Exco more active in policymaking could backfire.
He said mix-ups could arise if a non-official member spoke out on policy without consulting the official members - the 12 ministers heading policy bureaus plus the financial and justice secretaries and chief secretary.
'The role of [the non-official members of] Exco is clear. They have an advisory role,' Arculli said.
He is one of the 13 non-official members and succeeded Leung as convenor last year.
'If [a non-official Exco member] stands up and talks and the minister does not know about it, will the [non-official member] be acting against the minister?' he asked, in a veiled attack on Leung, who was criticised for giving views that contrasted with the government's stance when he was convenor.
On policymaking, Arculli thinks Exco should keep the status quo, where policy formulation is largely the responsibility of permanent secretaries and ministers. If non-official members took too great a role in the process it may create confusion.
Arculli also urged Leung to create an alliance with politicians to break the deadlock that often arose between the government and the Legislative Council - and not to be deterred by the failure of first chief executive Tung Chee-hwa to do so.
'If possible, he should build an alliance by bringing into Exco party leaders who share his ideas. If the party leader agrees to join Exco, then the government would have the party's vote in Legco,' he said.
A similar model adopted by Tung fell apart in 2003 when Liberal Party chairman James Tien Pei-chun quit Exco after 500,000 Hongkongers took to the streets to protest against the Article 23 national security legislation.
But Arculli said the previous 'nightmare' should not keep Leung from trying again.
Looking forward, Arculli sees an ageing population and widening income gap as the main challenges for Hong Kong. But he is optimistic the city will thrive because of the mainland's economic prospects.
'The place that C.Y. [Leung] likes to compare most with the Hong Kong economy is Singapore, but there are a few major differences,' Arculli said.
He cited efforts to attract immigrants, the opening of casinos to boost GDP and a less mountainous landscape as Singapore's distinctive features. '[Singapore state-owned investment company] Temasek and [sovereign wealth fund] GIC even give incentives to attract foreign investments. But if we do that in Hong Kong, it won't necessarily trickle down to benefit the people.'
Arculli was making an oblique reference to Leung's idea of finding social and economic investments to make better use of the government's HK$669 billion reserves, such as addressing the ageing population and promoting growth sectors of the economy.
He questioned whether the idea was feasible and whether it would create imbalances.
'[The government] may be good at managing the money, but if it invests in different industries and companies, does it have the necessary experience and competence to carry it off?' he asked.
But he believes Leung deserves the opportunity to try to put his ideas into practice.
'We have plenty of time to see whether he can succeed or not,' he said.


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A ship full of supplies is on its way to the International Space Station.
Orbital Sciences Corp. launched its unmanned Antares rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia., yesterday after a series of delays.
On board is a capsule packed with 3,000 pounds of equipment, as well as food and some ants for an educational project.
The spacecraft should reach the station Sunday. The delivery had been delayed three times since December, most recently because of a strong solar storm.


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Today is my DANA 8th Birthday!!! But because it's tuesday we are having her Birthday Party on Sunday. She asked me for a Monster High Birthday Cake and she´s going to have it…on Sunday!! But this morning when she wake up she asked me: "Mummy am I going to have a cake today?? A little one…please!!!!" I didn´t plan anything for today….And all the toys and dolls that she likes are not easy to do…then I remembered that she loves to play ANGRY BIRDS… AND!!! LOL I did a redvelvet cake for the weekend (I'll post the photos later) and I had some leftovers…Why not do a HUGE Pop Cake?? I have to say that this was the fastest cake I ever done…a little more than an hour…Ét Voilá!!!! An Angry Bird Girl…She hasn't seen it yet…I'll put it on the table for the afternoon snack…let's hope she likes it!!!! My very first Angry Bird Cake, hope you like it!!!! I'm in love with this little girl… TFL
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"Retronym" is a word coined by Frank Mankiewicz, George McGovern's campaign director, to delineate previously unnecessary distinctions. Examples include "acoustic guitar," "analog watch," "natural turf," "two-parent family," and "offline publication." Bob Woodward's new book, Bush at War, introduces a new Washington retronym: "kinetic" warfare. . . .
In common usage, "kinetic" is an adjective used to describe motion, but the Washington meaning derives from its secondary definition, "active, as opposed to latent." Dropping bombs and shooting bullets—you know, killing people—is kinetic. But the 21st-century military is exploring less violent and more high-tech means of warfare, such as messing electronically with the enemy's communications equipment or wiping out its bank accounts. These are "non-kinetic."
via "Kinetic warfare." – By Timothy Noah – Slate Magazine.
Can you think of any other retronyms? (There used to be no need for "two-parent family," since what other kind of family was there? Now we need a term for the distinction of a family having two parents. Now that we have "gay marriage," I suppose we'll need a retronym for "straight marriage.")
Can you think of any other uses of "kinetic" (involving action) and "non-kinetic" (not involving action) for a retronym other than for warfare? Say, for a program in its planning stage being "non-kinetic" and when it is implemented being "kinetic."


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[ On July 5-7, The Ekklesia Project will hold its annual gathering in Chicago, which will be on the theme of Slow Church. Between now and July, we will be running a series of lguest reflections here by folks connected with the E.P. We've asked guest posters to reflect on the meaning of Slow Church from their own local contexts. More info on the E.P. gathering. ] Today's reflection, the fifth in the series, is by Susan Adams.Read the previous post by Edwin Searcy.In our beloved and oh, so slow discussions on Sunday nights at Englewood, we often like to play with a … [Read more...]
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Posted by Dane Anderson on August 23, 2012
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Forrester's Asia Pacific team is working at a fast and furious pace preparing for our CIO Summits in Singapore, Sydney and New Delhi throughout September. As the content champion for the event, I have been working with about a dozen regional CIO speakers to prepare presentations on their journeys from IT to Business Technology, which is the focus of our summits.
Our distinguished line-up of CIO speakers provides an insightful cross-section of the countries, cultures and industries they span. As they all embark on their respective BT journeys, it has become clear that they must each chart their own course and sequence activities in a way that makes sense for their unique circumstances. Nevertheless, across these varied landscapes I have identified three key themes that are critical to the BT journeys regional CIOs will be forced to make:
- Taking Care of the Basics: Although innovation and the power of BT are alluring, the BT journey starts with some basic plumbing. All of our CIO speakers have emphasized that their BT journeys wouldn't have taken the first step without first ensuring they were doing the basic things well. They cannot convince the CEO that they deserve a seat at the table of business strategy without showing they know how to handle the basics first. In our Singapore Summit, Krishnan Narayanan, Managing Director and Head of IT at UBS will share his experience and provide recommendations for setting a solid foundation to enable the BT transition.
- Bringing the Situation to a Head:Another lesson I'm learning is that the BT transition in Asia Pacific is often sparked by friction and uncomfortable interactions. Sometimes these sparks are initiated by the CIO and sometimes they come from outside, but I've seen that the BT transition isn't for the feint-hearted. One CIO I recently interviewed in Australia provided this advice to his peers: if you are not working with an organization that will truly accept the value of BT, then look for an employer that does. Other CIOs have found that although it is often a challenge, breakthroughs can be made when they take a strong stand. Bo Frausing Christensen, the CIO of Courts Asia, will provide advice in Singapore on how to spark the right changes through effective and strong communication.
- Fundamentally Reshaping Skills:Once the stage has been set, regional CIOs find that successful BT transitions require a radical reshaping of the skills within their IT organizations. They all tend to find that some employees within their existing teams are willing and able to change, while others are not. Moreover, the creation of entirely new roles is usually needed and the infusion of external talent serves as the change catalysts they require. Grahame Coles, the CIO of the Department of Human Services in Australia, will explain how drastic budget cuts have driven him to adjust skill profiles to cope with uncompromising demands from above.
As is always the case, my discussions have reminded me that CIOs on-the-ground dealing with real-life issues are the best source of insight and guidance. I've been encouraged by the BT progress of our speakers and look forward to sharing their insights with over 250 CIOs across Asia Pacific next month.
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By Mike Collett-White and James Mackenzie
CANNES, France (Reuters) - Critics hailed the first French victory at the Cannes film festival for 21 years, after the acclaimed classroom drama "Entre Les Murs" (The Class) won the Palme d'Or for best picture late on Sunday.
The triumph marked another high point for French cinema, which has already celebrated a rare best actress Oscar for Marion Cotillard and a home-made box office hit "Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis," seen by about 20 million people.
Screen legend Catherine Deneuve won a special prize along with Clint Eastwood before the festival wound up and hundreds of journalists and industry executives left for home on Monday.
This year's festival had the usual blend of Hollywood glamour and hard-hitting independent cinema and, while studios were less willing to splash out in the expensive Riviera resort, there was plenty of late-night revelry despite unseasonal rain.
Big names such as Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Eastwood, Penelope Cruz, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford, as well as sports stars Mike Tyson and Diego Maradona trod the famous red carpet this year.
"The Class" is a naturalistic portrayal of a tough Parisian high school where a teacher battles to maintain discipline, and touches on hot issues in France such as overcrowded classes and immigrant youth, although the film is not overtly political.
The last-minute entry, shown at the very end of the competition, captivated audiences.
"I can never remember a clearer winner," said Mark Cousins, a film critic and Cannes veteran, adding that "The Class" had helped rescue an otherwise generally flat competition. Continued...