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See Green, based at Clifton Moor, has taken on three new team members, and they're all women.
The new employees are web developer Emilie Brown, and project and digital marketing staff Katie Burnside and Evie Lees.
Director Anne Taylor said: "The digital sector is often seen as male-led, and in the past I have been the sole woman at the company.
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She said the company, which provides web services and digital marketing support to both businesses and the public sector and has regional, national and international clients., was formed back in 2008 at a very difficult time for the economy, but six years on it was expanding.
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Get out and about while you are here. Start with a visit to the Plaza Balikpapan.
It comes as no surprise that Balikpapan is a perennial favourite with with international and local vacationers alike; Kalimantan is an Aladdin's Cave of great attractions.
History lovers will adore Kalimantan 's fabulous ruins and traditional villages.
In this fast-paced world, the perfect holiday often means making time to breathe deeply. When it's time to unwind, do as the locals do and have a go at sunbathing or bird watching. Specialized tours are a good way to experience the places most visitors never see. Sign up for one of the guided nature walks and wildlife spotting tours.
There's no nicer approach to get to the heart of the place you are traveling through than sampling the local cuisine. Sample popular local dishes, for example kolo mee (dry tossed egg noodle salad) and midin (stir fried jungle fern with shrimp paste).
If you are visiting Kalimantan on the 17th of August, join the party during the nation-wide Independence Day celebrations.
A wise person once said: it is better to see a place once than to be told about it a million times. With its magnificent beauty Kalimantan will more than live up to your expectations.


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I am sorry that happened to you. How horrible. Feeling violated would be very normal. And after what you have been through, it is even more traumatizing.
To have this happen right in the middle of your recovery from another attack is awful. Were you able to report it to the authorities? Even if you could not provide much description information, just knowing there is someone in the area attacking people can help the police stay on alert. And reporting it can help you feel you have power in the situation. It puts the police on your side and helps you feel less alone.
It is good you see your therapist today. Let her know what happened just as you told me. There is no way you could make this bigger than it is. It is very traumatizing and you could not exaggerate something like this. Your therapist can help you cope with all the feelings this has triggered for you. Sorting out how you feel and processing this is important so you can continue your recovery.
Also, you may want to take some time today to treat yourself well. You need extra care and time to sort out how you feel about this attack. It may bring back some of the feelings you have about your previous attack so allow some time to process how this has affected you. Be sure to use any of the techniques that have helped you already and be sure to use any supports you have as well.
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We'll stop short of saying that Brett Favre announced his retirement at a post-game press conference in Detroit, but if any player other than Favre said what he said we'd probably use the "R" word without reservations.
Tom Pelissero of ESPN 1500 in Minnesota and Judd Zulgad of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune are both sending tweets from Detroit full of quotes from Favre that sound like a man walking away from the game.
"God blessed me from the start. I hope people appreciated the way I played."
"It's time. I know it's time."
"It's been a wonderful ride."
"One game, one season does not define me."
History tells us to be skeptical, but with the head injury he suffered against the Bears added to the equation that already featured such a disappointing season it is hard to believe that there's another season coming from Favre. He might change his mind, but it's difficult to imagine too many teams clamoring for his services.


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This month Redlands songwriter Jeff Ashbaker released his seventh full-length album of original songs, called "The Water in the River's Not Still," recorded at Studio 9 in Ontario.
According to Ashbaker, the album was originally conceived as a "greatest hits" LP, and 20 songs were to be chosen from his back catalog to create it. But that idea was soon scrapped.
"I was kind of starting to do that and then before I knew it I was writing songs again," said Ashbaker.
He said that the album was inspired by events in his own life and also related that he typically tries to keep his songs open to the listener's interpretation, especially on "The Water in the River's Not Still."
"They're all songs that have touched me. They're not just songs I made up just for making up, they're kind of my life," he said. "I tend to write with a little abstractness."
Accompanying him on the album is the West Palm Avenue Band, a local group Ashbaker has played with for 20 years. The band includes Alonzo Blackwell on drums, Darrell Ashley on electric guitar, Debbie Myers on vocals, and Joe Ashbaker on bass. They perform at mostly private functions around Southern California, and also have an album out.
"When we play, we're mostly doing classic rock stuff, but I throw in a few of my songs here and there," said Ashbaker.
The Ashbakers had a release party for the album in their backyard, which features a garden and stage area, and Ashbaker said that more than 100 people came to show their support.
Lcoal band Road to Ruin opened and then the West Palm Avenue band came on, playing the new album, some of his older songs, and a few covers as well.
Ashbaker said that music runs in his family, since his grandfather used to play piano in the '20s and '30s and some of his other family members played instruments as well.
"I grew up on rock n' roll and just wanted to play so I took some guitar lessons and it took to me, so I just kept playing," he said.
He is not a SoCal native, but has lived in Redlands since 1966 when his father, who was in the Air Force, moved the family here and Ashbaker just decided to stick around.
Ashbaker said his guitar playing progressed when he learned how to fingerpick and eventually began writing songs, and learned how to sing. He said he was able to become a pretty advanced guitar player, which has allowed him to flourish as a songwriter.
He has also been heavily influenced by folk singer John Prine.
He also said that he particularly enjoys the writing and recording as a musician since it allows him to go into his own world and play around in the studio during the process.
"It's kinda neat for me to see it from start to finish," said Ashbaker. "I just have a little idea with a little strummed-out melody and then it turns into a full song with the full band and next thing you know we're playing for people."
"The Water in the River's Not Still" can be found on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify.


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Employees within an organization are most likely unaware that there is such a term as Information Technology Infrastructure Library or ITIL®. It is also possible that it is currently being implemented within the organization but most people still do not have a sound knowledge about ITIL®. There are even companies that seek the importance of an ITIL® certification as a requirement for entry level employment or promotion, depending on what position is available. Though it is indeed a bit complex to understand the different processes evolving around ITIL®, there are also a lot of books available for everyone to read. However, it is still advisable to enroll in an actual ITIL® training course. Aside from the fact that only enrollees of ITIL® training courses are eligible to take an ITIL® certification exam, being on a classroom setting is still better because it is more interactive; you can participate in discussions with the facilitator and co-students and will eventually generate an in-depth understanding about ITIL®.
As beginners, there are also ITIL® process demos available in the internet. ITIL® process demos are good sources of information, giving you a glimpse of the basics of ITIL®, its functions and processes. You can consider this as a baseline in learning new things until you become an expert on ITIL®. Viewing these demos will also make it easier for you to understand the entire process when you are already eyeing for your ITIL® certification. With determination, coupled with positive thinking and a good working knowledge of ITIL® will make IT certification more than achievable.


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My research takes the position that listeners are sensitive to patterns of covariation in speech —that knowing these subtle patterns is part of what it means to truly know a language.
Which is great because if people sound the way we expect them to, we're able to understand them better (McGowan, 2015; 2012 LSA presentation)
even if our expectations are based on stereotypes rather than authentic experience (McGowan, in press).
So does all this knowledge and sensitivity only apply to social variation?
First, some quick background on how sounds like [p], [t], and [k] differ from sounds like [b], [d], and [g] at the beginning of English words like pit and bit. What word is this native American English speaker saying?
At least in American English, that puff of air is so important that cutting it out of pit (that first sound you played) results in a word that sounds a lot like bit —though probably with a funny [b], and that funniness is every bit as interesting and important as the change from [p] to [b]!
In fact, removing most of the VOT from [p], [t], and [k] words makes them less useful to listeners (shortest green bar) in slow (Citation) speech, but if the rest of the word is spoken quickly the short VOT sounds fine (Fast speech, on the right) (abstract).
Another covarying feature is the way vowels before nasal consonants in English tend to be nasalized. Listeners can use this as soon as it becomes available, not only a large distinction like bend/bed...
but also a much more subtle distinction like the difference in nasalization between these two sound files. Can you hear a difference?
In an eye tracking task we found that listeners can use nasalization as soon as it is present. Looks to the heavily-nasalized word were, on average, 60 ms faster —the same average difference between early and late nasalization in the recordings (Beddor, McGowan, Boland, Coetzee, and Brasher, 2013).
Whether the information is social, contextual, articulatory, or idiosyncratic, we humans have an astonishing ability to attend to it, remember it, and activate it during perception. This ability, my research suggests, is not irrelevant to linguistic competence or even peripheral to it, it is fundamentally and centrally part of what it means to know and speak a human language.
Thank you for reading! If you have any questions, please contact me via e-mail, twitter, or carrier pigeon.
And many, many thanks to my friend Markus Nee for turning me into this cartoon.
author = {McGowan, Kevin B.},
title = {Social Expectation Improves Speech Perception in Noise},
year = {2015},
doi = {10.1177/0023830914565191},
abstract ={Listeners' use of social information during speech
perception was investigated by measuring transcription
accuracy of Chinese-accented speech in noise while listeners
were presented with a congruent Chinese face, an incongruent
Caucasian face, or an uninformative silhouette. When listeners
were presented with a Chinese face they transcribed more
accurately than when presented with the Caucasian face.
This difference existed both for listeners with a relatively
high level of experience and for listeners with a relatively
low level of experience with Chinese-accented English.
Overall, these results are inconsistent with a model of
social speech perception in which listener bias reduces
attendance to the acoustic signal. These results are generally
consistent with exemplar models of socially indexed speech
perception predicting that activation of a social category
will raise base activation levels of socially appropriate
episodic traces, but the similar performance of more and
less experienced listeners suggests the need for a more
nuanced view with a role for both detailed experience and
listener stereotypes.},
URL = {http://las.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/02/03/0023830914565191.abstract},
journal = {Language and Speech}
author={Sumner, Meghan and Kim, Seung Kyung and King, Ed and McGowan, Kevin B.},
title={The socially-weighted encoding of spoken words: A dual-route approach to speech perception},
journal={Frontiers in Psychology},
abstract={Spoken words are highly variable. A single word may
never be uttered the same way twice. As listeners, we
regularly encounter speakers of different ages, genders,
and accents, increasing the amount of variation we face.
How listeners understand spoken words as quickly and adeptly
as they do despite this variation remains an issue central
to linguistic theory. We propose that learned acoustic
patterns are mapped simultaneously to linguistic representations
and to social representations. In doing so, we illuminate
a paradox that results in the literature from, we argue,
the focus on representations and the peripheral treatment
of word-level phonetic variation. We consider phonetic
variation more fully and highlight a growing body of work
that is problematic for current theory: words with different
pronunciation variants are recognized equally well in
immediate processing tasks, while an atypical, infrequent,
but socially idealized form is remembered better in the
long-term. We suggest that the perception of spoken words
is socially weighted, resulting in sparse, but high-resolution
clusters of socially idealized episodes that are robust in
immediate processing and are more strongly encoded, predicting
memory inequality. Our proposal includes a dual-route
approach to speech perception in which listeners map acoustic
patterns in speech to linguistic and social representations
in tandem. This approach makes novel predictions about the
extraction of information from the speech signal, and
provides a framework with which we can ask new questions.
We propose that language comprehension, broadly, results
from the integration of both linguistic and social information.}
author = "Beddor, Patrice Speeter and McGowan, Kevin B. and Boland, Julie E. and Coetzee, Andries W. and Brasher, Anthony",
title = "The time course of perception of coarticulation",
journal = "The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America",
year = "2013",
volume = "133",
number = "4",
pages = "2350-2366",
url = "http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/133/4/10.1121/1.4794366",
doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4794366",
abstract = {The perception of coarticulated speech as it unfolds
over time was investigated by monitoring eye movements of
participants as they listened to words with oral vowels or
with late or early onset of anticipatory vowel nasalization.
When listeners heard [CṼNC] and had visual choices of
images of CVNC (e.g., send) and CVC (said) words, they
fixated more quickly and more often on the CVNC image when
onset of nasalization began early in the vowel compared to
when the coarticulatory information occurred later. Moreover,
when a standard eye movement programming delay is factored
in, fixations on the CVNC image began to occur before
listeners heard the nasal consonant. Listeners' attention
to coarticulatory cues for velum lowering was selective in
two respects: (a) listeners assigned greater perceptual
weight to coarticulatory information in phonetic contexts
in which [Ṽ] but not N is an especially robust property,
and (b) individual listeners differed in their perceptual
weights. Overall, the time course of perception of velum
lowering in American English indicates that the dynamics
of perception parallel the dynamics of the gestural information
encoded in the acoustic signal. In real-time processing,
listeners closely track unfolding coarticulatory information
in ways that speed lexical activation.}
author = {McGowan, Kevin B.},
year = {2012},
title={Gradient Lexical Reflexes of the Syllable Contact Law},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society 45},
editor = {Bochnak, R. and Nicola, N. and Klecha, P. and Urban, J. and Lemieux, A. and Weaver, C.},
organization = {Chicago Linguistics Society},
address = {Chicago}
abstract = {The Syllable Contact Law (SCL) predicts a gradient
preference for syllable contact pairs in a language. However,
this law is most often implemented with strictly categorical
constraints. In this paper I argue that the gradience
underlying the SCL operates synchronically in the grammar
of a language. I examine CELEX corpus data for evidence
of gradient lexical reflexes of the SCL in British English
using pointwise mutual information (PMI). The evidence
appears to support a gradient hypothesis and to be inconsistent
with a strictly categorical model.}


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The national voucher reading scheme has its detractors, writes Caroline Milburn.
The national voucher scheme for poor readers is unlikely to help children overcome their problems, a peak literacy organisation has warned.
The 6470 Victorian children who failed the AIM literacy test in grade 3 in 2003 were eligible for the vouchers, which were launched last week by Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson.
Under the scheme, parents can apply for a voucher worth $700 for their child to receive private, one-hour lessons from a tutor over 10 weeks.
But the Australian Literacy Educators Association, which represents teachers and schools, has criticised the voucher system as a temporary solution. The group's president, Dr Jan Turbill, said benefits from the home-based tuition were unlikely to be sustained because most struggling readers came from disadvantaged families unable to impose good reading habits.
"The research indicates the majority of these kids come from homes, where, even with all the goodwill in the world, the parents are not necessarily going to implement reading strategies because many of them are caught up in the stress of their own lives.
"If you look at what's been happening in Macquarie Fields, the rioting that's been going on, you will find a very high incidence of poor readers in that area. Poor literacy is a very complex problem. It is linked to much bigger issues to do with the welfare and health of children, their families and their expectations."
Dr Turbill said the Government's $20 million budget for the voucher scheme would be more effective if it had been given to schools to boost classroom literacy programs.
"I worry that these kids being identified for the vouchers are not going to get the support they need back in their school setting," she said. "For a teacher with 25-30 other children in her class, what sort of support will that child get?"
A spokesman for Dr Nelson rejected the criticisms. "The Government is concerned that children are failing to reach very minimum reading benchmarks," he said. "This program is an attempt to see if one-on-one tuition will assist these children."
Nationwide about 24,000 primary school children, now in grade 5, who failed the national reading benchmark test when in grade 3, will be able to apply for the out-of-school hours vouchers.
The tender to provide the tutoring sessions in Victoria was won by a private NSW-based company, Progressive Learning. The 14-year-old company has 47 centres in Australia and New Zealand, offering student tuition from preschool to the final year of secondary school.
Under the terms of its contract, the company will hire qualified teachers as tutors, organise the educational material to be used, help parents apply for the vouchers and administer the payments. Progressive Learning spokesman Tony Hanlon acknowledged that 10 weeks of tuition was a short amount of time to turn around a failed reader. However, he said a lot could be achieved during the pilot project because the company used a phonics-based approach to reading. "This is not a fly-by-night operation . . . we've chosen products that will give the greatest long-term benefit in the time frame available," Mr Hanlon said.
After the tuition ends the tutors will give parents advice on strategies to help their children read and recommend children's books to borrow from libraries.
Mr Hanlon said the advice would not be used as an opportunity for the company to spruik its services because strict obligations in its government contract prevented it from doing so.
The contract also prevents the firm from keeping a database of voucher parents once the scheme finishes. The voucher scheme will finish at the end of the second school term this year.
Its effectiveness will then be assessed for the federal education department.
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I may get drummed out of the Republican Party and have my conservative epaulets striped off (and I've got several old friends who may not speak to me for years) for this but I second Gary's praise of John Drescher.
I met John so long ago I can't even remember when, but I do remember I had a sort of skeptical view since he'd married one of an old Jim Hunt crony's daughters. (Back then, I took politics a bit too seriously.)
At any rate I've – professionally – known John Drescher for a long time and as a reporter and editor he's been fair, honest and willing to listen. Besides, he does a job where the main prerequisite is being willing to make people mad at him by publishing facts about them they don't want to read in the newspaper. That takes a special kind of courage. And anyone who does that everyday deserves some praise.
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The novel way to holiday
Although we call them wigwams, our distinctive wooden holiday homes are inspired by the upturned boat sheds at nearby Holy Island. The upturned boats on the Island were once part of the largest herring fleet to sail from the east coast of England. Once they became unseaworthy they were turned upside down and used as sheds instead.
Here at Springhill our family has roots in the herring and sea fishing industry as well as farming.
Our Uncle Charlie was a real local character who used to fish the waters off the coastline here. We've named one of our wigwams after him, as a mark of respect and appreciation for what he did and as a nod to Springhill's fishing heritage.


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TRINIDAD- Residents are helping determine Trinidad's new short and long term goals.
At a special meeting recently, the Council collected community members' ideas and received more than 100 proposals. Now, city staff will work to narrow that list down. Officials say they are already working on some of the ideas and planning to incorporate others into the upcoming budget. Among those proposals are limiting the number of vacation rentals, preparing for sea level rise, adding more historic street lights and improving existing trails.
"This is a really important process because the people who live there and our neighbors in the outlying areas have a lot of investment in Trinidad. They built the library, they built the museum, they built the beaches and so this is a way for them to have something to say about what the community will look like and feel like in the future,"said Julie Fulkerson, the Mayor of Trinidad.


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The Silver City Public Library is pleased to host a free presentation on weaving, in celebration of the 2013 Silver City Fiber Arts Festival. Our speaker will be Ann Lane Hedlund, former director of the Gloria F. Ross Center for Tapestry Studies at Arizona State Museum and former museum curator and anthropology professor at the University of Arizona. Ann has written Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry (Yale, 2010), Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century (UA Press, 2004, Arizona Highways Award for Non-Fiction), and Reflections of the Weaver's World (Denver Art Museum, 1992). She was also editor/compiler of Joe Ben Wheat's prize-winning Blanket Weaving in the Southwest (UA Press, 2003).
Ann describes her presentation:
"I'll discuss the growing recognition of Navajo weaving as an art form by collectors, curators and the weavers themselves. Based on long-term field research since the '70s, I'll describe weaving's transition from craft to art, from household decor to museum display, and from curio to investment. Recent trends on and off the Navajo Nation are illustrated with my photos of people, places and artwork."
Lillian Galloway at the Silver City Library.
"Textures," explains Jeannie Miller, public information chair of the Festival, "was suggested by Joe Wade, a member of the Festival organizing committee." The "y Sabores," which in Spanish means "and Tastes" or "and Flavors," was a natural addition to the theme," adds Peter Garcia, Festival coordinator. "Together these words describe the wonderful atmosphere created when more than 50 writers, agents and publishers gather to participate in over 35 events."
The Festival was created to highlight writers who live and write in the Southwest. More than half the Festival presenters live in the wider Silver City area, while the rest are from Texas, Arizona, Colorado and other parts of New Mexico. Ann Hedlund, author and anthropologist, will participate in panel discussions on Friday afternoon and Sunday morning. All events are free and open to the public except where noted in the schedule of events.
The two keynote speakers, Ana Castillo and Denise Chavez, rank among the best novelists of America, according to Garcia. Their excellence comes in part because they remain true to their roots and the rich idioms in the Mexican American communities of New Mexico, far west Texas, and Chicago.
The two databases plus extensive background information and helpful guides are available on the ASM website at: http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/coll/textile/asm_southwest_textile_database/
Available at the click of a mouse are baseline data and images essential for understanding the evolution of three cultural textile traditions in the American Southwest—Navajo, Pueblo, and Spanish American. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, their history spans three major periods from the time of Spanish governance to 1821, the Mexican era until 1846, and the American and early reservation period since then. These groundbreaking resources represent the culmination of decades of research by two world-renowned textile authorities: the late Dr. Joe Ben Wheat of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Dr. Ann Lane Hedlund, who recently retired as curator at Arizona State Museum and professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. Of this capstone project, Hedlund says
These tools can be used by anyone to create absolutely new knowledge about the Southwest's Native American and European-influenced textile traditions. Most importantly, as an anthropologist who studies both living and long past artists, I want artists of all stripes to have access to this wondrous visual and technical compilation."
Other audiences that Hedlund lists include every museum curator with SW textiles in their collections; scholars interested in SW history and material culture; handweavers and artists seeking the roots of SW weaving; collectors and others who appreciate worldwide crafts, folk art, and art of all time. "And certainly students of all ages, I hope students will enjoy exploring the information and will get it to tell us things that we've never known before."
Though other online databases of museum collections exist, and there are certainly in-depth databases of ceramics and other media, there is nothing quite like these two new textile resources in terms of their detail and query-based interactivity.
It's also a first to have such stellar visual, technical, historical selections from so many museum collections gathered in one place for comparisons," says Hedlund. "I know of nothing that allows visitors as much access and ability to query the data as this incredible store of information does. We included nearly every SW textile in our collections, some 600 examples, and just over 1300 specimens studied by Wheat in 50 other public collections."
Joe Ben Wheat was one of the first two recipients of a PhD in anthropology at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Blanket Weaving in the Southwest, which Hedlund edited and posthumously published in 2003. Ann Hedlund's books include Reflections of the Weaver's World, Navajo Weaving in the Late 20th Century, Navajo Weavings from the Andy Williams Collection, and Gloria F. Ross & Modern Tapestry. She also is curator of many textile exhibits and has presented countless public lectures around the world. The online databases were engineered by ASM Webmaster Laura LePere and Applications Programmer Michael Ornelas, with contributions by David Hayden of Museum Data Solutions and many other valuable participants who are acknowledged on each website.]]>
The mission of the new GFR Tapestry Program remains identical to that of the original Center: to foster the creative practice and cultural study of tapestry, handwoven worldwide from ancient to modern times. The GFR Tapestry Program has remained devoted to research and public programming," says program director Ann Hedlund.
We extend our deep appreciation to the GFR Center's former Board of Trustees, who worked through the process of corporate dissolution and who were always ready to remind us of our most important goals—to continue sharing the wonderful world of textiles with as many people as possible. Thank you to Alice Zrebiec, Ramona Sakiestewa, Susan Brown McGreevy, and Margi Fox, outgoing (and outstanding!) trustees. Thanks also to Ann Bookman, Archie Brennan, Helena Hernmarck, Hal Einhorn, Lotus Stack, and Sue Walker, who were extremely helpful and encouraging during previous board terms. We are very grateful to our generous donors and past Associates, who supported our many programs through your membership during the GFR Center's many years of active programming and productivity.
Dr. Hedlund will present a richly illustrated talk about a unique series of handwoven tapestries designed by world renowned sculptor/collagist Louise Nevelson, orchestrated by Gloria F. Ross, and woven under the direction of Archie Brennan at the Dovecot Studies in Edinburgh, Scotland. The translation of Nevelson's torn paper collages into large-scale woven works represents an intriguing collaboration. Inspired by a visit from the East Coast artist to the American Southwest, the resulting artworks were evocatively named "Desert" (MFA-Boston), "Dusk in the Desert," "Landscape," "Mirror Desert," "Night Mountain," "Reflection," and "The Late, Late Moon." These are also illustrated and described in Hedlund's 2010 book, Gloria F. Ross & Modern Tapestry (Yale University Press).
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This program presented as part of the ongoing celebrations of Arizona State Museum's Many Mexicos exhibit.]]>
Where to begin and how to proceed with understanding an unknown textile from the American Southwest, whether a Pueblo, Navajo or Spanish-American blanket, poncho or rug? In this workshop we'll cover fibers, yarns and dyes; loom techniques; weave structures; end, side and corner finishes. We will offer hands-on analysis of varied museum textiles under magnification, coupled with digitally illustrated discussions of useful traits for identifying and dating Southwest textiles. Open to collectors, curators, scholars, artists, and others; no prior analytical experience necessary but appreciation and careful handling of textiles is essential."
In advance of publishing an online project called the Joe Ben Wheat Southwest Textile Database, Ann Hedlund and colleagues are offering a number of one-day workshops on Southwestern Textile Analysis. The first took place last March at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) during the Navajo Studies Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Taught by Hedlund and Museum of New Mexico registrar Cathy Notarnicola, with contributions from MIAC curator Joyce Begay-Foss, the workshop was deemed a success by its registrants, half of whom were Navajo weavers and the other half, museum curators.
The next is offered during the annual meetings of the Textile Society of America, on Wednesday, September 19, 2012, at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. Hedlund will teach again with Notarnicola and with NMAI conservator Susan Heald. There are still a few places open for participants and you do not have to register for the entire meetings. Click here for more information as this workshop will soon fill up.
Other opportunities occur in Tucson, Arizona, when Hedlund gives a free public lecture, "Where's That Textile From and When Was It Made? An Illustrated Talk on Textiles from Mexico and the Southwestern U.S.," at Arizona State Museum on Thursday, November 8, and follows with two one-day workshops on Friday and Saturday, November 9 and 10. Those belonging to the Friends of the ASM Collections, or ASM's membership group, or Tucson's Navajo Textile Study Group will be given priority registration for the limited enrollment. Click here for more information about ASM's member groups and contact Darlene Lizarraga at email@example.com to sign up for this workshop.
In early April 2012, Hedlund will offer a workshop at the University of Colorado Museum to members of the Boulder Handweavers Guild. Contact David Johnson at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information on this one.
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Russia is an increasingly attractive international market for expanding e-commerce companies. The country has continued to extend its lead as Europe's largest online population (over 80 million users as of June 2015, according to comScore), with rapidly-growing Internet penetration (61.4% in 2013, larger than Italy's and China's, according to the World Bank). Connection speeds are also peppy. (An average of 19Mbit/sec in Moscow.)
And since Russian is the proverbial lingua franca of many neighboring countries such as Estonia and Ukraine, companies can easily cater to those online markets, too.
But launching e-commerce sites in the Russian language for the Russian market isn't enough to generate sustained growth. An understanding and respect of the market is required—from culture to climate. This is especially prevalent in fashion e-commerce, and the critical aspect of "seasonality" in a market such as Russia.
Seasonality—regular and predictable changes that occur throughout the year—makes a meaningful impact on an e-commerce company's bottom line. Not understanding an international market's unique seasonality often leads to missed sales opportunities and alienated customers.
For over 10 years, MotionPoint has helped e-commerce companies enter the Russian market, and optimize their localized sites for optimum engagement and sales. Along the way, we've learned a great deal about the market and its buying preferences. Seasonality greatly informs Russians' shopping habits.
Let's look at some data and analysis we've collected from operating several Russian sites for fashion e-commerce clients.
Russian fashion e-commerce traffic peaks between late December and early January and again in July. Of the two, winter sees the biggest traffic bump, accompanied by year-long highs in transaction, revenue, and conversion rates. AOV tends to be higher during the summer months, however.
For newcomers to the market, this post-holiday shopping behavior seems counterintuitive. Why isn't there a robust pre-holiday spike in transactions, as seen in so many western nations? Russians celebrate Christmas on January 7; their holiday season usually lasts from December 31 until after January 7. Holiday shopping skews later in the year for this reason.
But why are AOVs higher during summer months, compared to holiday? The likely explanation: Russians have chosen to decrease the allocation of their holiday budget to themselves to only 13%, according to Deloitte's New Year Spending Survey 2015. At the same time, Russians tend to not buy clothing as gifts for others, and instead prefer cosmetics, chocolates, books—and increasingly cash.
The takeaway for fashion retailers: target Russian customers preparing for summer trips. These consumers are ready to spend more on themselves, and offer more affordable gift-type items during the winter.
Digging deeper, trends emerge on the timing of specific product purchases. Using data we culled from creating a hypothetical cart of our sites' Top 30 fashion items, we observed their performance over time. Highlights from the results:
Not surprisingly, shoes show extreme amounts of seasonality, with only one specific product (a sub-$20 canvas shoe) appearing in our sites' Top 30 carts between October and December.
Russians love buying shoes online, though. They certainly purchased a large amount from our sites between March and August (peaking in May), with an average of 7 shoe products always appearing in the sites' monthly Top 30. Another region-specific trend: Russian women strongly prefer flats, and Russian men prefer stylish brown leather dress shoes.
Shoes from Western brands are especially popular in the market.
Interestingly, boot purchases don't have a strong relation to the winter buying season. In fact, boots hardly made an appearance in our sites' Top 30 products at all. Why? Throughout most of Russia, winters are very cold and the combination of snow, dirt, and deicing chemicals are extremely harsh on shoes. Russian consumers may think twice before purchasing a pricey pair of boots online, knowing that they may be unrecognizable by the end of the winter.
Predictably, flip flops purchases spike in May, which is historically the time when Russians make their summer travel reservations. Are these Russian customers making clothing purchases in preparation for a holiday in Egypt or Turkey, perhaps? (These are two popular international tourist destinations for Russians due to among other things comparably relaxed visa regulations.)
Due to climate realities and cultural norms, it's unthinkable to brave a Russian winter without a hat. Indeed, our data shows Russians are extremely likely to buy knit hats in the fall and winter (between September and December, specifically), with the average of 5 different such products appearing in each sites' Top 30. Here's curious side note: holiday-themed hats are a big hit with Russians.
Russian shoppers also often buy inexpensive add-in items, with such products appearing in our sites' Top 30 an average of 4 times each month. Lip balm is the most common of these accessories. It's consistently one of the most frequently purchased items, regardless of season.
Here's an interesting plot twist: Russians show little interest in buying expensive winter jackets online, even in the cold months of January and February. Instead, they show a much stronger preference to buy sweatshirts between July and September, and light jackets between August and November.
Why aren't Russians keen to purchase winter coats from online retailers? Perhaps their higher prices are too steep for cost-sensitive consumers already choosing to spend less on themselves.
Further examination reveals that winter coats are among the most expensive products on these e-commerce sites. The ruble's currently-weakened purchasing power may make such high prices for a single item unattractive. There might be retailer-specific factors contributing to this dissonance, too. An example: for one retailer, the majority of prices for winter-styled jackets fell into what the European Fashion and Textile Export Council calls the "premium" pricing segment (15% of the market). This pricing is in conflict the rest of the retailer's offerings, which are positioned in the "medium" segment (25% of the market).
Alternately, shoppers could have trust issues with foreign products not proven for the colder Russian winters. This later point may be further strengthened by the growing preference for "Made in Russia" gifts (up from 62% to 68%, according to Deloitte).
As this market intelligence suggests, e-commerce companies aiming to launch Russian retail sites—and be successful in the region—must know such nuances of the market, and determine the proper times to promote the proper products. Special campaigns for trendy summer-style sneakers should be timed for the Russian summer. Campaigns for the fall and winter should also shift focus toward appropriate products (such as holiday-themed hats!).
And recall that Russians celebrate Christmas later than other countries, so time those holiday sales accordingly! (Note: We've seen that the Dutch and Germans do their holiday shopping the earliest of all Europeans.)
Companies should also optimize their conversion funnels to feature inexpensive add-in items throughout the checkout process. Special care should be made to make sure these products are also seasonally appropriate.
Many international companies have been successful in penetrating the attractive Russian market, with MotionPoint's help. Understanding the seasonality of this market—and other global markets—is part of the larger solution MotionPoint provides.
Eric Watson holds a Master's Degree in Finance from Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea). Prior to joining MotionPoint, he worked throughout Asia as a consultant. He completed his bachelor's degree with honors at Arizona State University in 2010 with a degree in Political Science. His non-marketing related research interests include the development of new manufacturing technologies, and the new national policies necessary to encourage their efficient and egalitarian adoption. He covers these topics on his website, The Policy Wire.
MotionPoint helps world-class brands grow by engaging and enriching the lives of new customers in markets around the globe.
Far more than the world's most effective website translation service, MotionPoint's turn-key platform combines innovative technology, big data, world-class translation and deep international marketing expertise. MotionPoint's approach guarantees the quality, security and scalability required to succeed in an evermore competitive global marketplace - both online and offline.


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This is my theory:
I'm a computer tech. Sometimes I notice weird things, other than people complaining that IE is slow when they have 20 toolbars and add-ons...then suddendly install google chrome and all is well and proceed to say that IE sucks when in reality they're the ones that suck. But I digress.
In '04, technology was more advanced than it is now. Laptops had a better screens, with full 24 bit color resolution, which had 8 bit color for each of the color channels. This enabled it to display 16.7 million colors, and as a result there was no need for an early 90's technology called dithering to be used to prevent the screen from pixelation due to lack of ability to display a separate color for each pixel. Dithering is a random scattering or movement of pixels to simulate the presence of a greater ability to display color.
But when Windows 7 came out, all of a sudden we forgot how to make a good display, and instead of advancing on to 12 bits per color channel we had to step backwards to six bits per color channel because we just could not produce a video chip for an LCD screen that could do it anymore.
There is one exception to this: And that is Apple. Oh guess what? Steve Jobs is dead. Wonder why? They have awesome screens btw.
They use dithering to control ur mind!! O_O!
Only in windows though.
Why would they willfully choose to have all displays take a quantum leap backwards (in this case approximately 12 years) when there was no economic reason to do it? LCD technology is old now, there is no reason to be stuck in the last century with it, unless, of course, you wanted to make an excuse and provide a venue through which a mind control effect could be added to any online content or offline program.
Oh hey, remember when everyone was illegaly forced to switch to digital television? Totally relevant.
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Lots of steps back in Windows 7, not quite as bad as Vista. I hadn't paid attention to your point, but you are correct and it IS curious that we've moved backwards. I think it has less to do with mind control conspiracy than it has to do with actors (black's law).
As for TV - Illegally forced? You're still watching TV and on here studying conspiracies? Quit watching, there is no truth on television - it's just confusing you. Focus on living a rewarding life and learning instead of running home from work to watch the idiot box.
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Entry by Ouroboros on Sat Nov 19 08:38:23 2011
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Oct 06, 2012
why is Yuki covered?
Jan 14, 2013
^ Yuki is transparently covered, unlike the rest of the other diary holders. But I think this picture represents the Yuno who became the God in the first world, where the first Yuki died. But since Yuno went to the second world, Yukiteru is alive, so he's covered like that.
Aug 09, 2013
Yuno looks cute here ^~^


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This is unusual. We'd try to explain it, but we'll just give you the youtube video instead. It's six minutes long, but you'll get sucked in.
Can you imagine being on the 70th floor of this thing with a hangover?
Laughing Squid has some great photos and videos of a recent power tool drag race. From the looks of it, the event was held in some sort of post-apocalyptic Road Warrior compound, but on further investigation, it's just San Francisco. We're not sure what Bondage Barbie has to do with anything, but.....
Check it out here.
We just got word about Blog Cabin, a DIY Network project that has a really cool concept behind it. The deal is that you, the internet savvy viewers, go to the DIY website and vote on the various aspects of construction and the cabin gets built according to popular vote. At the moment, the voting is open for paint colors and the landscaping.
There are all sorts of other cool things over at the website; videos, updates, the cabin cam and of course, the voting.
Vote at the Blog Cabin website.
Update: Looks like youtube yanked the video, but here is the original.
This is pretty satisfying...
Yesterday we told you about Scotts 20" push mower and while it may be nice, quiet, and all right for the Birkenstock wearers, there's one thing you'll never be able to do with it; strip it down and turn it into a high performance drag racer.
More after the jump...
We can't imagine that anyone would ever look at a blowing leaf pile and think, "I bet if I encased that pile in a crunchy corn syrup-like product, it wouldn't be able to blow away." We also can't imagine that enough people would approve of the idea in order for it to make it to market. But it's out there and it's called Toro's Leaf Lock.
This Old House has info on Leaf Lock and almost 20 other bizarre gardening products over at their site. Check it out here.
...And you thought that doing the bathroom renovation was difficult. Here's a guy who spends his time figuring out how to move 90,000 pound rocks around his yard. He does it all by himself with no modern technology whatsoever. The video is sort of long (over 6 minutes), but it's worth the watch.
Read past the jump for more Stonehenge video.
Here's one for the "don't try this at home" file.
Read past the jump for more.
Since we're feeling pretty lazy this morning, we're just going to glom onto the hard work and effort of others. Here's what else is going on around the tool blogging world:
Tool King has just released their own line of tools called TKTools. At the moment it looks like they've got a few cordless drills and a nice looking driver. Their blog, Toologics, has all the info here and here. Check out the bit case that comes with the driver. Whoa.
The Hardware Aisle, as always, has a ton of cool stuff to check out. There's the Fatal Funnel bug killer, a ton of info on sanding, and an article about a 50 year old circular saw that's still going strong.
Toolmonger did some research and found out when the Skeletool is going to be back in stores here. They've also got their Flickr Pool which is fun to browse through every one in a while.
CopTool has a good Milwaukee-Bosch-Compact-Driver-head-to-head here .
Is this for real? Either way it's pretty funny.
We love how one worker's reaction is to just start running away as fast as he can.


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data.segmentation.avg can serves as the counterpart to data.avg that works on intervals defined by segments instead of fixed times. Like data.avg it rectangularizes its input. In addition to the time data.segmentation.avg may also generate names for the segments, see below.
Command Line Usage
data.segmetnation.avg [--stddev=on/off | --nostddev] [--count=on/off] [--source=archive] [--contam] [--contam-match=X1,X2...] [--require-uncontaminated=N] [--decimal-format=FORMAT,MVC] [--remove=end=seconds] [--name=(Segment1)..(Segement2)] segment station records start [[end] archive]
start and end
The time specifiers for the data to be retrieved. Start is inclusive while end is exclusive, so all segments contained within the half open interval [start,end) will be returned. Any convertible time format is accepted. Note that only data within the start and end range is averaged even if there are segments in that range that extends beyond them.
The station identifier code. For example 'brw'. Case insensitive.
The cpd2 record type to be retrieved. For example: 'S11a'. Case sensitive. Multiple record types may be separated by ",", ";" or ":". May also be "-" to read from standard input.
The segment type to split based on.
--stddev=on/off --nostddev
Enable or disable (default enabled) standard deviation calculation for each field. A separate field for each field is generated that contains the standard deviation for that record.
Enable or disable (default disable) generating a count field for each variable (after cut splitting). The count field is the variable name with an "N" added to the end.
archive or --source=archive
Selected the source archive to request data from, defaulting to clean. Has no effect when working on standard input.
Enable averaging of contaminated data. The variables that are ignored during contamination are set either with the contam-match switch or loaded from contaminate.conf.
List of Perl regular expressions that define all variables that are affected by contamination. Any variable that matches one of these patterns will not be averaged when it is contaminated (assuming –contam has not been set). If this option is set then contaminate.conf is not used, instead these patterns are applied for all time.
Set the fraction of data required to be uncontaminated before any average is emitted. That is, if the fraction of data that is non-MVC but is contaminated in the input is less than N then the output is an MVC.
Set the format and/or MVC of all decimal numbers that are averaged. For example "–decimal-format=%0+10.3e,+9.999e-99" would cause all decimal floating point numbers to be output in scientific notation instead of their existing decimal format.
Set the number of seconds to subtract from the end of all segments.
Set the value for the NAME variable. Anything between parenthesis is interpreted as follows:
|'(' or ')'
|The literal value is inserted.
|The starting year.
|The starting DOY.
|The starting time in ISO 8601 format.
|The ending time in ISO 8601 format.
|The data value for the segment type 'Name' at this time.
|The sequence number for segment type 'Name' as a character (A-Z).
So to construct a name field like flight segment ID (YYYY_DOY_X_SITE_SEG) the switch would be:
To build a label with the start and end times of the segment, in ISO format, along with the data value for segment type 'F21_chemfilter' the switch would be:
If omitted the records will not contain a name variable.
Example Usage
Average all flights on a given day
data.segmentation.avg --name=(YEAR)_(DOY)_(DAY:flight)_(site)_(leg) flight aao S11a 2008:10 2008:11
Average a single flight
data.segmentation.avg --name=(YEAR)_(DOY)_(DAY:flight)_(site)_(leg) flight aao S11a `data.flight aao 201`
Filling data from a pipe to a file
data.get sgp A11a 2008 2009 raw | data.avg --fill > 2008_hourly
Calculate average scattering and absorption for filter samples
data.avg --interval=0 --nostddev --contam cpt S11a,A11a 2008 2011 | \ data.segmentation.avg --nostddev --contam --name="(F81_PM1_filter)_(sISO)_(eISO)" F81_PM1_filter cpt - 2008 2011 | \ data.edit.wl | \ data.export --mode=xl


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Priest Velimir Stojanovic, who lives with his family in the churchyard of the Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Sava in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, told Tanjug that the Greek soldiers protecting this shrine have forbidden the use of the church bells.
"Representatives of KFOR introduced this ban with the explanation that Orthodox church bells irritate the Albanians," says Father Velimir. "The last time the bells were heard was on Easter Sunday, April 15 of this year," he explained, adding that so far he has not publicized this ban because he thought it was temporary. "The church bells did not ring on Ascension Day (Spasovdan, May 25) and I think that this is not good for either the church or the people," said Father Velimir.
Every day, five times a day, the song of the muezzins from the minarets of three mosques in the southern, Albanian part of the town can be heard. A fourth mosque is open and undisturbed in the village of Zabari, near Kosovska Mitrovica.


text: Hi i have a keyboard and i got an adapter that is midi to usb. What apps should i use with it and how? I don't want to use jack as i tried so many times with so many apps over the years and it did my head in. I would go through long periods of times not being able to get sound for the simplest things and i don't want to go through that horror again. I do audio and video production and i use Artistx which is a distro from Ubuntu. Thanks would appreciate advice as i have never hooked up anything to the computer other than mics...i have a usb mic and it works fantastic


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Keep Your Online Profiles Private
By default, the only people who can view your Facebook profile are members of your school, region, or business network (similar settings are available in Friendster). As with MySpace, you can control who is able to access your Facebook page.
For a summary of who can see what about you, log in to your Facebook account and click My Privacy. Choose Edit Settings beneath a profile to indicate what content the network's members can access. You can prevent anyone--except people already accepted as friends--from seeing your profile at all; they'll see only your name and picture. Alternatively, you can allow friends of friends to see it, or you can open it to anyone in the network. Other options let you control who sees your e-mail and home addresses, phone numbers, interest groups, courses, visitor comments, and other individual profile elements (see Figure 4
Enter home addresses, phone numbers, and other sensitive information only when necessary. The more identity thieves, stalkers, and other criminals can find out about you online, the easier they will find it to locate you--so avoid listing your real city, age, and other vital stats.


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This years fundraising total for Relay For Life of Wilson County recently surpassed $106,600, resulting in a net contribution of more than $103,000 that ACS will use to fight the disease, search for a cure and help local cancer patients. The overnight Relay For Life event took place Friday, June 22, at the track on Castle Heights Avenue behind the Main Office of Wilson Bank & Trust in Lebanon. The 2012 fundraising campaign for teams kicked off in February.{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=95|imageid=643|displayname=0|float=right}
Besides assisting Wilson County cancer patients with services like free stays at the Hope Lodge during treatments, networking opportunities with other survivors and many forms of informational support, the American Cancer Society has funded more than $7 million in cancer research here in Middle Tennessee in the past year. That research has been performed primarily at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a facility that Wilson County residents with cancer often visit during the course of diagnosis or treatments.
Since its local inception in 1996, Relay For Life of Wilson County has raised about $1.7 million for the American Cancer Society. The worlds largest grassroots fundraising movement, Relay For Life helps support the American Cancer Societys mission to save lives by helping people stay well, by helping people get well, by finding cures and by fighting back.


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Rene' Seindal (email@example.com)
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> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 07:04:54 -0400
> From: Eric Poole <email@example.com>
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> Unfortunately, the problem with htdig hanging up in an endless loop on
> Linux machines, a problem that's been with us for over a year, has gotten
> to the point where something must be done.
This might be the problem I fixed about a year ago.
Get the patch from ftp://webadm.kb.dk/pub/htdig.patch and
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George Lucas Thinks The World is Going to End in 2012
During a conversation with Seth Rogen, the infamous child rapist – Or is it childhood rapist? Eh, close enough. – George Lucas revealed that he believes the world is going to end in 2012. Although looking at these photos of what his life has become, I'm going to assume that's more of a hope than a belief. Starpulse reports:
"George Lucas sits down and seriously proceeds to talk for around 25 minutes about how he thinks the world is gonna end in the year 2012, like, for real. He thinks it.
"He's going on about the tectonic plates and all the time Spielberg is, like, rolling his eyes, like, 'My nerdy friend won't shut up, I'm sorry…'
"I first thought he (Lucas) was joking… and then I totally realized he was serious.
In George Lucas' defense, I can't blame the guy for wishing the Earth blows up next year. I mean, Christ, the poor bastard can't even use the Internet. Every third or fourth sentence is a Star Wars joke, not to mention you've got a dude making 70 minute-long video reviews exposing the prequels as even bigger abortions than you realized by pointing out the characters only exchange dialog while sitting on a couch. (True story.) He probably can't even Google a recipe without one of the steps being "Dice three onions, then take a shit on George Lucas' face for birthing Jar Jar Binks." His life is a prison.
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Mars Matrix
Review by Kakihara
Whine if you must about the Dreamcast's lack of RPGs or Sega's penchant for porting virtually every arcade game of the time to their system, but you can shove it up your ass when it comes to its shooters. While not as expansive as the Saturn's or Genesis', the Dreamcast's line-up of blasters is absolutely phenomenal, made up of some of the very best the genre has to offer. Takumi, who released the worst of the bunch (Giga Wing 1 and 2), also happen to be responsible for perhaps the creme of the crop: the bullet-hell, vertical-scrolling nightmare simply known as Mars Matrix.
The lightly touched on story revolves around a shackled Mars revolting from its rulers, Earth. Earth deploys you to crush this rebellion, outfitting you in one of two ships, Mosquito 1 or Mosquito 2. The former is equipped with a fairly wide spread shot, the latter with straight forward gunfire and superior speed. Both also come strapped with a short-ranged, but very powerful, piercing cannon and the absorption barrier mosquito. When your gauge is full, using this mosquito technique will suck in all enemy fire and, with a bit of deft aiming, hurl them back toward those dirty rebels. You may also drain the gauge entirely to unleash the ruthless gravity hole bomb.
Takumi obviously has a hard-on for really ****ty names, but before you're even able to wrap your head around the nerdery of 'absorption barrier mosquito,' your ship will probably have exploded. There are absolutely no walls or meteor rocks to maneuver around in Mars Matrix, nor will touching enemies kill you, or even strip you of any weapons. Instead, you face off against bullets. Lots of bullets. Millions of bullets. Lines of bullets, waves of bullets, nets of **********ing bullets. The only time your TV screen won't be soaked with bright blue or neon pink enemy fire is when your score is being tallied up at the end of each level - and you'll only ever see that with a little miracle work.
Okay, so that's not entirely accurate - the first two levels only seem to spit a couple hundred thousand bullets in your face. But Mars Matrix does go ape**** on you, sodomizing you with bright-colored dots from beginning to end. (Your end.) The game walks that line of impossibility, and yet, it's not impossible. Hell, Takumi even includes strategy videos for you to unlock that display the talents of some super-nerd beating all but the last stage without dying once. It's absolutely nuts.
Most of this seems so overwhelming because the absorption barrier mosquito is much harder to use effectively than you'd think. You have to know when to use it, how much of the gauge to drain and to whom you'll make eat their own bullets. To call this demanding would be a serious ****in' understatement. But the stages are properly set up for you to take out a few tanks with your basic shot here, unleash the piercing cannon on a battlecruiser there and pull in gunfire when their dozens of replacements arrive. Your mosquito gauge fills up fairly quickly, too, so you're never really caught with your **** hanging out in wind. You're also given much leeway with your tiny hitbox, and though the later levels churn out more than enough bullets to frighten all the insurgents and soldiers currently in Iraq, you're able to level up your standard shot to respectable power by collecting enough of the gold cubes each destroyed enemy generates.
Mars Matrix takes very strict dedication to overcome, something even the more diehard shooter fanatics might not have the patience for. The bullet patterns, while not unfairly laid out, are cruel and never-ending. (And while you'll probably be too busy choking on them to notice, they are very carefully and stylishly presented - real detail and thought was put behind every web of gunfire.) But you do feel as if progress is being made with each play. Takumi implemented a shop, letting you purchase everything from strategy videos and extra lives, to the options of toying around with background and ship colors or the speed of your ship and its mosquito gauge. I might not be able to top some forum dork's obscene hi-score, but I still feel as if I'm accomplishing something.
And I'd really feel accomplished if I were able to open up an option that makes the game look attractive. While Mars Matrix has some super-slick menus and a nice, almost cold, atmosphere, it was still coded on an outdated arcade board. Bullets are colorful, but the rest of the game looks washed-out; some bosses fill up the entire freakin' screen, but animation is limited; explosions are expansive, but hardly detailed. The design suffers, too - no wacked-out characters, no intimidating enemies, no memorable backgrounds. Plenty of large machinery and tanks and warcrafts and every other space shooter staples you can think of. The laid-back techno soundtrack works wonders, though: subtle but still loud, with skittish synth keys and voice samples all over these tracks.
At six stages, the game does seem a bit brief, but you won't see the end without incredible skill (well, that or credit feeding), and with an arranged mode and options to tinker with the mechanics, the longevity is out of this world. Mars Matrix is a chaotic shooter, messy but concentrated, battering you with slab after slab of gunfire. But there's some great fun in this cruelty, delicately weaving through expansive fields of bullets, mastering the tricky absorption barrier mosquito and unlocking dozens of genuinely rad features. Mars Matrix will leave everybody's thumbs bleeding, no doubt, but it's a pain well worth tolerating for such excellence.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.5 - Outstanding
Originally Posted: 05/26/01, Updated 06/08/04
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Le Taxidermiste is an incredibly cute video about death and the preservation of life. The storyline may be relatively subdued, but the incredible visual detail and style is enough to keep my attention the whole time. Also, dat keyboard solo.
The adorable Le Taxidermiste was created by Paulin Cointot, Dorianne Fibleuil, Antoine Robert, and Maud Sertour.
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Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro is no more. As of yesterday, the entertainment law firm's once prestigious name has been changed to Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs & Shapiro. The reason is that Terry Christensen, who'd been the firm's managing partner since its formation in 1988, is now a convicted felon after a jury found him guilty of involvement in the Pellicano scandal. "I am very proud of the law firm we have built in the last 20 years and I am confident that the partners will continue to prosper and build a great firm. I will be withdrawing from the practice of law," Christensen said in a statement. Peter Weil and Barry Fink will assume the role of Co-Managing Partners. Patty Glaser tried to spin the news as if everything's just hunky-dory at the practice. But many feel that she hurt her own reputation by defending Christensen against charges of wiretapping and conspiracy even though she had no criminal law experience and would have been called as a witness in the trial herself. Plus, sources tell me that at least one major Hollywood client plans to drop Glaser as its lawyer on an ongoing case.
BIGTIME NO MORE! Terry Christensen Dumped By Longtime Showbiz Law Firm
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Anyone in need of a pibull will be clambering to hire Patty Glaser — she'll be just fine
The Christensen firm was one of the two main surviving pieces of the blow-up of Wyman Bautzer Kuchel & Silbert in the early 90s. All the loudest screamers and biggest pricks seemed to end up with Christensen's group; many of the others created an L.A. office for Chicago's Katten Muchin firm, or went to senior in-house positions in the entertainment industry. Scorched earth and take-no-prisoners has been the standard approach with Christensen's firm in everything it does.
So I'm not at all surprised to see this happen. It all fits in with the general culture of the firm.
Now we just need to see whether the next Pellicano shoe drops on Bert Fields.
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Terry should have stepped down 2 years ago, when he was indicted. His arrogance and selfishness has now not only destroyed his victims lives…it has impacted his Firm; his clients; his family, and friends. Justice was served; may he rot in jail!
That firm has plenty of talent left. Patty Glaser and Brian Lysaght are the two best trial lawyers in LA in my opinion.
RE: Terry Christensen: Is it true?? I can write a book about this guy –
I think it is true…
I've lived 70 years, and two of the three worst person-to -person encounters of my life were brief (less than an hour total)interactions with Christensen.
It is exquisitely fitting that nobody did this to him. His own arrogance brought him down.
Couldn't happen to a bigger prick. Actually, without his elevator shoes, Christensen is only a lil' prick with a big mouth.
Turns out "The Lion of Beverly Hills" was really a only kitten who cheated to get ahead.
Come on, Terry, give us one more "Roar!" on the way to the big house.
Good goin' terry
I think the Los Angeles Business Journal got it wrong in 2000, and they must have had a mis-spelling, the front page lead article
was meant to read "Lying" of Beverly Hills …not lion.
Well I see 'sour grapes' is alive and well in this audience. If you are going to be known as the 'go to guy' well then a small prick or a big one makes little difference. Terry Christensen and his team of 'peckers' have done well….alright so the mistake was dealing with a F%$n bird AKA The Pellican.
However, dont count Mr. Christensen out yet, my investigation has revealed that what we reported in August and the 'hijackers' who took control of the jury room have been discovered…and I called it 100 % correct….so lets see now what will happen to the conviction…the 'roar' may come from Ms. Glaser!
Funny how so many take shots at people when they are down on their luck AKA "getting caught"…..maybe not this time, we will see!
John J. Nazarian, Private Investigator – desperateexes.com
Mr Nazarian, how much social contact have you ever had with Terry Christensen?
Because if you think it's funny how people here are "taking shots at people when they are down", you really don't know Terry very well – he was the king of piling on. He took delight in the misfortunes of others and often reveled in it for his own enjoyment.
Having had the displeasure of interacting with that bellicose & belligerent midget several times on a social level wholly unrelated to legal matters, I can assure you that there is nothing he wouldn't say or do to "get one up" on someone else. I'm talking nasty, insulting, demeaning, and completely untrue things.
Maybe that's the type of person you like to suck up to, and maybe that's what is valued as an attorney, but it doesn't make for worthwhile member of society.
On top of that, there's nothing worse than a pudgey little 5'5″ turtle screaming his face off in public in an attempt to seem bigger than he is.
Pathetic, and he got his just desserts. Live life as a weasel, go out as one. And at his age, that's exactly what is happening.
Ha, Ha, Ha!
So third-rate real estate service partner Peter Weil and brain-dead, washed up, know-nothing ex-tax lawyer Barry Fink "will assume the role of Co-Managing Partners" Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! That's hilarious.
Everyone who has real dealings with this firm knows perfectly well that Terry Christensen remains its fully active and functioning managing partner, using the supposed "Co-Managing Partners" as his sock puppets – which is not exactly a big change in structure.
"I will be withdrawing from the practice of law," Christensen said. What a card! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Hilarious.
Now for the real question: Is Judge Fisher going to allow Christensen to remain free while he appeals his forthcoming likely mega-sentence?
OOOOOO! Exciting!
I did have some social interactions with the man for over a year. In my experience, as a member of of the society, he was a nice gentleman, I do not know him as an attorney. I feel sorry for him and his family and hope that he goes free
Anyone who believes that Glaser did a disservice in coming to the aid of friend has got to be a total nitwit. I was present and still feel if it was not for the strange behavior of the so called jury things would have gone as I stated….NOT GUILTY!
It went the other way, the other items I find very annoying is that people will post and say things and then not have the balls to put their name on it, is this a little scary for you no ball fucks?
Also remember this, Terry got caught, do any of you have any idea who walked away? I do, and that bunch would have been so much more fun than a guy who used the 'ultimate goombah' just once.
John J. Nazarian, P.I. Beverly Hills, California