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Can you tell if it's not an Aussie?
Tim Stackpool was kind to share some information on the Australian English dialect as well as some humourous video clips from YouTube.com that demonstrates what happens when a native speaker is not hired for the job!
Learn a whole bunch of interesting facts and watch some funny videos courtesy of Tim Stackpool, Australian voice talent.
A few months ago, I was in touch with Tim Stackpool, a voice talent living in Australia, chatting about what makes the Australian English dialect different from other accented English dialects.
This is what he shared with me:
The Australian Accent.
As with most countries in the world, there is no single form of the Australian Accent. In basic terms, academics who study language recognize three main types of the Aussie accent, being Broad, General and Cultivated. An example of the broad accent would be that spoken by the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin. The population that live in rural Australian often speak with an extreme version of this Broad accent, characterized by very little opening of the mouth when speaking.
This is colloquially described as œnot letting the flies in.
Movie star Paul Hogan could originally be described at having a broad accent, although his exposure to other international accents has now turned his regular speaking voice towards being General. Due to the obvious characterization of the Broad accent, it is the one most likely to be mimicked by non-Australian actors attempting the accent. It™s derived from cockney English, transported to Australia with convicts from the late 1700™s, but little of the cockney twang remains today.
The General Accent is the most easy to understand, but can be the most difficult to master.
Of all non-Australian actors, those from New Zealand and surprisingly South Africa appear to master this accent the best. Spoken mainly in cities (with variations across the country) it often includes affectations from other countries, due to the high level of cultural assimilation in Australian cities. Of the variation between capital cities, most surround the emphasis on syllables and vowels. For example, the town Newcastle could be pronounced either as œNew-Carrs-ell or œNew-Cass-ell depending on the speaker™s native town. The General accent is also commonly used by TV and radio journalists.
The Cultured accent can easily be mistaken for an educated British accent.
Most Australian™s can achieve this accent by ˜rounding the vowels™ and concentrating on speaking ˜properly™. It™s the native voice of actors such as Geoffrey Rush and Sam Neill, although it is an acquired accent for Sam as he originally hails from New Zealand. Many Australian actors find work in the UK using this accent to play native British speakers. This Aussie author has been mistaken for a Brit in the UK itself when using this accent.
It™s difficult to phonetically describe or teach the Australian accent without one-on-one tuition and exercises.The teacher needs to identify the underlying accent of the non-speaker and then tailor a phonetic guide specifically for the student. This is not required in all cases of course, as some actors do have a ˜knack™ for accents. Listening, repetition, recording and listening again is another way of mastering the accent. This is the next best thing to immersion, which would require the actor to live among the native speakers for a longer period of time.
Speakers from North America usually nail the Aussie accent after taking the journey via a New Zealand accent. The New Zealand accent is similar, but with some significant vowel alterations, which an Australian can spot a mile off. As a brief example, a New Zealander would say œthes instead of œthis and œeccent instead of œaccent.
Generally, only Australians will identify a phony Australian accent. Non-Australian speakers can usually be convinced of the accent, unless they have spent some time Down Under. Your best Steve Irwin impersonation might work in most territories around the world, but for any Australian or New Zealand market work, a native speaker is a must.
A recent popular TV campaign in Australia for orange juice made a point of this.
Ronn Moss from the Bold and the Beautiful is seen in the commercial dressed as a traditional Aussie horseman, touting the worst Australian accent ever.
The tag on the commercial says œYou can tell when it™s not Aussie. You can see the commercial here and learn more about what Ronn Moss thinks of his accent here.
Here are the two videos if you'd prefer to watch them here on VOX Daily:
You Can Tell When It's Not an Aussie
David Tench Show
Of course, using the Internet, a native Australian voice has never been easier to source. Many Australian voice-artists do significant International work at 24 hours notice from their own home studio.
Now, that ˜fair-dinkum™ Aussie voice for your kangaroo steak restaurant commercial is now dead-simple to source, mate.
Tim Stackpool


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BOWERS AND PINEY CREEK RAILWAY. The Bowers and Piney Creek Railway Company was chartered on March 28, 1889, to build from a point on the line of the Trinity and Sabine Railway in Polk County to the mouth of Piney Creek, on the Neches River in Tyler County, about ten miles total. The initial capitalization was $50,000, and the business office was in Bowers. Members of the first board of directors included A. W. Morris (president) and W. P. McComb from Montgomery; C. W. Putnam (vice president) from Kansas City, Missouri; William Wise of Beaumont; W. T. Carter of Barnum; G. H. Morris of Bowers; and William Dawson of Trinity. By 1890 the company completed thirteen miles from the junction of the Trinity and Sabine track to Piney Creek as a logging railroad. Its charter was revoked by the Texas legislature on April 1, 1891.
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Amanda Kaczmarek met her American government teacher, Debbie Adams, for the first time this week, months after the school year began.
That's because Kaczmarek takes classes through the Florida Online High School. In fact, Kaczmarek is enrolled in four classes online in addition to her full class load at St. Augustine High School, where she is a junior.
What began as a way to work one English class into her schedule has enabled Kaczmarek to graduate a year early. She takes two advanced placement English classes, economics and American government. She has teachers from across the state.
Kaczmarek works on her online classes at St. Augustine High School's computer lab and at her home computer.
As for Adams, a former St. Augustine High School teacher, she said she became an online teacher because it offered her flexibility, especially with her 18-month-old son, Matthew.
At the online high school, Adams said she doesn't deal with disciplinary problems, and she cultivates a close relationship with students and parents.
From St. Johns County, 32 students attend the online school and four teachers instruct.
Online teacher Tracy Melgard said she has more contact with students and parents than when she was in the classroom. Melgard taught at Switzerland Point Middle School for nine years.
''You definitely feel the different personalities,'' she said.
For online teacher Mary Linn, the cyberspace experience has been positive.
She receives 20 to 60 e-mails a day and makes phone calls to explain geometry lessons to her students.
''I presently have 80 students, which is quite a lot if you consider the individual attention I give each student,'' said Linn.
Linn had taught for 23 years in the high school classroom prior to joining the online high school six months ago.
''I feel I get to know my students as individuals. I enjoy working with them in a variety of learning styles,'' she said.
The online teachers say that students come to the online classroom for a variety of reasons. Some want to excel while enrolled at a high school.
Others are homeschoolers and some lead less traditional lives such as tennis players and aspiring singers and require a flexible class schedule.
Bonnee Sutherland, a part-time teacher, said she has back problems and underwent spinal surgery, so the online job allowed her to recoup while working.
Prior to teaching online, Sutherland worked at St. Augustine High School for four years. She enjoys teaching the SAT preparatory course and feels close to her students, especially with all the e-mails and phone calls.
The Florida Online High School, which is based in Orlando, began August 1997 as a public high school free to any Florida students. About 5,000 students across the state are enrolled on nine different servers with 15 school districts and 54 teachers, part- and full-time, participating.
The Florida Department of Education provided the startup funds.
The Florida Legislature continues to support the high school through a DOE budget allocation.
More than 50 courses are offered and, while a degree isn't available, all the course credits are forwarded to the student's high school.
Students also have a choice whether to take accelerated, traditional or extended pace classes. The school's model is ''Any time. Any place. Any path. Any pace.''
For more information, go to http://fhs.net or call (407) 317-3326.
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The wine industry is a fickle beast, never particularly stable, seldom predictable, always at the whims of the weather gods and often, victim of seismic shifts in fashion, political power-plays and exchange rates. Despite this, with our amazing team, from the hands that tend the soil, to those running from office to client, Du Toitskloof has managed to have a mostly positive 2013 and is looking forward to a promising new year.
We were fortunate to have had a decent harvest in early-2013. This is the cornerstone of our entire year. A failed harvest can make the following 12-months, waiting for the next income injection, an unpleasant experience indeed. Unlike most industries, one event predetermines the upcoming 12-months.
We have been blessed with a market that has been loyal to our brand. This enables us to bottle our wines in early-Autumn with confidence, knowing that most, if not all, of our cultivars will be sold-out by the time bottling takes place post-harvest in 2014.
Autumn came early, then late. Our rains arrived on schedule around Easter, but then stopped. We became quite concerned when some new vines attempted to bud in late-May. Heat suddenly surged in the late season and leaf-colouring was erratic. Luckily though, the seasons got back on track and in the last week of May, winter begun in earnest. Despite a lengthy hiatus of warmth in July, the remainder of our rainy season from August till late-September was cold and very wet.
We had two significant snow events in August and September. People outside the industry do not often realise how important winter is to us. Significant mountain snow means significant rest for the vines and we all know that great sleep makes for energetic wakefulness; this bodes well for the growing season beyond. Spring came very late, but rapidly; this has reflected in our later-than-normal season. Our Jacaranda's only concluded flowering in mid-December – in Gauteng, it's over by early-November.
Spring not only saw new growth on the vines. It saw the second annual Cape Cuisine Cook-off with Muratie Estate. A successful event that grows from year-to-year, bringing two cellars and the who's who of the culinary arts together in the Cape Winelands. This year's theme was Cape-Malay cuisine. We look forward to the fresh, new, endemic ideas for the 2014 event to be held at our cellar once more.
Soon thereafter, we announced the inaugural Wine Writer of the Year Award, in conjunction with Standard Bank. It was to have an esteemed panel of judges and outstanding auditing standards, ensuring objectivity and absolute credibility. We wanted to become synonymous with supporting free-thought and fresh ideas in the wine industry, becoming an incubator for our industry's creative talent.
The culinary developments with our brand didn't just stop with the Cape Cuisine Cook-off. In late-Spring, the announcement of the year came, Du Toitskloof Wines would become the official sponsor of South Africa's premier Afrikaans-language cooking competition, Kokkedoor. This would catapult the brand into more Southern African homes than ever before.
To complement this, we needed to think bigger when it came to distribution. If we were to be distributed digitally over satellite throughout DStv's footprint, to complement this, we needed our bottles to be distributed far-and-wide, from Kalahari to coast. The partnership between Namaqua Distribution and ourselves was born, taking our wines to more corners of the sub-continent than ever before.
In late-November, the first annual Wine Writer of the Year Award went to Tim James. Despite having few entries, the famous names in this arena were represented. Standard Bank recommitted themselves to 2014. It's certain, given the credibility earned, that the competition will continue to grow and new names will begin to enter in the coming years.
We had quite a scare in November, when a vicious Black Southeaster combined with a cut-off-low to bring the Western Cape some of the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in November. Some regions of our province, like Somerset West, experienced significant damage and some loss of life was even recorded. We were fortunate to come out relatively unscathed, except for some sporadic damage near rivers draining mountains to the south-west. Our harvest seems to have weathered the storm mostly unscathed.
Now as 2013 draws to a close, the summer heats up and the grapes ripen, our 2014 harvest is looking pretty good, despite the ups and downs. Plus, with our new partnerships and sponsorship deals, the new year is looking bright and hopefully, prosperous. We hope we can pass this prosperity on to our producers, our staff and our FairTrade empowerment project, as well as you, by continuing to provide exemplary wines at approachable prices.
Du Toitskloof wishes you and yours a joyous holiday season and a fun-filled new year; may 2014's challenges bear fruit and may you look back on this coming year in late-2014 with fondness. We look forward to being in your homes' and at your special occasions' in 2014 and in many years to come.


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Jim Benton, Ann M. Martin, and Dan Yaccarino are among the lineup of children's authors and illustrators who will participate in a fundraiser on September 24 to benefit the Children's Museum of the Arts' Artists-in-Residence program at Manhattan's PS 47, the American Sign Language and English Lower School. Launched in fall 2008, the partnership brings teaching artists into this public school to collaborate with teachers and librarians on a customized curriculum featuring a range of media and subjects. The goal of next month's benefit is to raise $40,000 to secure the Artists-in-Residence program, imperiled by recent Department of Education budget cuts, for the upcoming school year.
Spearheading the benefit is Kirsten Hall, managing agent of the U.S. office of Bright Group International, a children's illustration agency. Hall, who is also a children's book author, has a vested interest in seeing Artists-in-Residence continue. Her two sons attend PS 47, whose enrollment includes deaf children and those with deaf parents or family members from all over the city, as well as children – like Hall's – who live in the school's zone. "The CMA partnership is one of the main reasons we want our sons to attend this school," she says. "This is an exceptional arts program that encourages free-form artistic expression."
Hall and other parents sprung into action last spring, when slashed budgets jeopardized the program, and they collected enough money to continue it through the end of the 2011-2012 school year. Now, she is galvanizing the children's book community to help further extend the life of Artists-in-Residence. "It occurred to me that I work in the children's book world, where many of my friends and colleagues are artists who discovered happiness, and even their professional callings, through artistic expression as children," she says. "So I knew I could appeal to them for help protecting an important kids' art program in jeopardy."
She was right. Benton and Martin, both friends of Hall, jumped on board immediately and agreed to attend the September 24 fundraiser, which will be held at the Children's Museum of the Arts in Tribeca, and will include a silent auction, raffles, book signings, and kids' workshops. "I'm thrilled to be part of this event," says Martin. "I can't think of anything better than bringing the arts to kids." Benton agrees, noting, "The arts open your mind to possibilities and dreams, and it's dreams that we all want."
Hall, who is organizing the benefit with the help of several other PS 47 parents, also received "a very positive response" from authors she "cold-called." In addition to Benton, Martin, and Yaccarino, attendees to date include Peter Brown, G. Brian Karas, Bob Shea, Tad Hills, and Victoria Kann. Putting a personal spin on the importance of the fundraiser's cause, Yaccarino says, "Art in school enriches children's lives. It certainly enriched mine, and my career would not have been possible without it. So I'm happy to show my gratitude by sharing my books with children at an event like this."
At the benefit, kids can also mingle with the actress who plays the title character in the Vital Theatre's Pinkalicious: The Musical, based on the HarperCollins series by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann. Tickets to that production are among the items in the silent auction, which will also include baskets of books donated by various publishers, original art by children's book illustrators, and a lunch date with Martin. Visitors to an auction Web site will be able to bid on the silent auction items, make donations, and purchase tickets to the event.


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If I could just explain my situation and then request some feedback, that would be great. For my uni project I am creating two WinAPI applications. Each of these applications will be situated on a seperate computer running from the HD of that computer. Both of these computers will be attached to the university network, logged into the same user account, directly via a LAN card in each PC. This account has internet access. What I need is for the user to be sat at the 'user' computer with the 'user' application and to give commands to this application. Data corresponding to these commands needs to then be sent to the slave application on the other computer whereupon functions will be carried out by this application accordingly.
I realise that there may be more than one way of achieving. I could probably use TCP/IP or create a file on the network space ready to be read by the slave application. I would prefer however to have the data sent directly to the slave application if possible. I just need some info on what I could do to achieve this and some corresponding pointers as to what to research on MSDN. I have had a browse allready but MSDN is huge and I don't have a clue what to look for. Thanks for any help.


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8. Roberto Benigni
71st Academy Awards (1999)
Best Actor and Best Foreign Language Film – "Life is Beautiful"
Benigni famously climbed over all of the seats in the auditorium to get to the stage when his Best Foreign Language Film win was announced. Benigni then became the first male actor in a non-English speaking role to win Best Actor, and he appropriately said, "There must be some terrible mistake. I used up all my English," alluding to his previous speech.
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Dear Alex,
My boyfriend dumped me on Facebook without even giving me a proper explanation.
His status went from being 'In a relationship' to 'It's complicated' but when I commented asking what had happened, he just ignored me.
Now I know how Cheryl Cole feels - we have both been rejected and publicly humiliated without really knowing why.
Chloe, 13
I think we all feel sorry for Cheryl and her shifting fortunes.
However, the best thing to take from how she has reacted to public rejection is to do the complete opposite to her.
Hiding your face from those around you isn't going to help you.
Why? Because when you come back, your problems won't simply have gone away.
Instead, I would advise you to take the bull by the horns and let the world see that you are stronger than ever.
Anyone who dumps you on Facebook wasn't worth the effort in the first place.
Show him you are much better off without him - after all Cheryl Cole had a good career long before Simon Cowell and the X Factor came along.


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Turkish GP return depends on government
6 December 2012 – The future of the Turkish Grand Prix now rests in the hands of the country's Prime Minister. This is according to TOFSED President Demir Berberoğlu, who claims that approval and funding from the government is all that remains to be confirmed.
Bernie Ecclestone, CEO of the Formula One Group, met with Turkish businessman Vural Ak in Istanbul this week and has agreed basic terms for the event to return. On Wednesday, the FIA outlined July 21 as the date for an extra Grand Prix in 2013.
"Everybody knows that what is needed for its presence on the Formula 1 calendar for 2013 and following years is a guarantee and approval of the required budget at government level. This will develop according to the Prime Minister's decision."
Istanbul Park hosted the Turkish Grand Prix from 2005 to 2011. Although it was largely popular amongst teams and drivers, the venue failed to attract large crowd numbers.


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"A hollow voice is all I have / But this I tell you plain, / Marry come up! - you marry, Ma'am, / And I'll come up again."
"The difference between a shared web server and a dedicated one is that your provider controls the websites on their server, avoiding having the same IP Address as a spam website."
"This feels awesome. We didn't want to share the league championship with them. We wanted to show what kind of team we are after we lose. You have to come back and bounce back."
"At this point, it's more [a matter of] the three players grabbing share from each other. We're not expecting the market to grow substantially."
"When you collect your thoughts make sure you make time to share them. Because if you don't your thoughts will never become actions."
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Chuck Close. In the last few years, the Loveland Museum and Gallery has stepped up its game by presenting the work of famous artists. And the beat goes on with Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something. Close first came to the fore in the 1970s with hyper-realist portraits based on photos. As his work matured in the 1980s, he developed his own brand of pointillism to carry out his imagery (which still made obvious references to photography). In 1988, though, Close suffered a spinal artery collapse that left him mostly paralyzed from the neck down. But after only six months of physical therapy, he was painting again — first with a brush in his teeth and then with one strapped to his wrist! The Loveland show features his photos, including a set of works based on a series of 2004 daguerreotypes depicting his friends. There are also digital prints and amazing jacquard tapestries on view here. Through December 31 at the Loveland Museum and Gallery, 503 Lincoln Avenue, Loveland, 1-970-962-2410, www.ci.loveland.co.us. Reviewed October 20.
Robert Adams. Robert Adams: The Place We Live, at the Denver Art Museum, is made up of more than 200 black-and-white prints put together by the Yale University Art Gallery's Joshua Chuang and Jock Reynolds. But for its stop in Denver, DAM photo curator Eric Paddock, a longtime friend of Adams's, tweaked the traveling show, becoming a co-curator of sorts. The Place We Live forces viewers to realize that Adams did many other things aside from his famous and unforgettable images indicting humanity's destruction of the earth — though they are enough to ensure his place in art history. The show includes a number of revelations. First is how intimate his pieces are, owing to their small size. Second is his unexpected debt to the great survey photographers of the nineteenth century, notably Timothy O'Sullivan. Finally, from a technical standpoint, there is the incredible high quality of his prints, which likewise recall historic landscape photos. Through January 1 at the Denver Art Museum, 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, 720-865-5000, www.denverartmuseum.org. Reviewed October 27.
Touch the Earth. This duet deals with unusual takes on the landscape tradition. One half is made up of Anna Kaye's meticulous photo-realist drawings that depict Colorado wildfires in graphite and charcoal. These drawings often have a monumental quality that, in the case of some, is enhanced by their enormous size. In "Apex," a single burned-out tree, reduced to a vertical shaft, looks defiant in the face of destruction; in another, Kaye shows the fire as it's burning. Kaye also has created a video of the recovery of the Hayman fire area. The other half of the exhibit consists of paintings and drawings by Lorelei Schott that have literally been buried in the ground so that the stains of the soils and other elements become the basis for her all-over abstract grounds. She then further marks the canvases with lines that carry out nature-based forms. The show also includes three of her abstract drawings from the "Crimes Against Nature" series. Through November 19 at the Sandra Phillips Gallery, Santa Fe Drive, 303-573-5969, www.thesandraphillipsgallery.com. Reviewed November 3.
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What Is Modern? Department of Architecture, Design and Graphics curator Darrin Alfred has put together this large show dedicated to furniture and decor from the early nineteenth to the early 21st century. Alfred has included groundbreaking tables, storage units, lighting and — no surprise here, considering Alfred's specialty — graphics. Laudably, Alfred takes a chronological look at how technological advancements informed the development of modernism, starting with a bentwood chair from 1808 by Samuel Gragg. Its overall form is very sleek, with a gracefully curving back, but the details are very different, being almost precious, like the little hooves that mark the termination of the legs. One of the newest pieces in the show is "Roadrunner," a chair from 2006 by Colorado's own David Larabee and Dexter Thornton working together as DoubleButter. Made of a cheap synthetic, the chair is nonetheless elegant. In between the two chairs, Alfred has installed a wide assortment of classics from the annals of modernism. Through November 30 at the Denver Art Museum, 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, 720-865-5000, www.denverartmuseum.org. Reviewed December 23.


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Perfect. That was my initial reaction to the thought of the Winter Classic, featuring the Red Wings and the Maple Leafs at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, when it became apparent it was going occur months ago.
So it's official now with Michigan's Board of Regents giving its final approval. At $3 million, it's a bargain for the NHL. And it's a dream come true I've talking about for years.
It will be the hottest ticket imaginable for an NHL game. Not only because is it huge here, but it will pull in countless people from Canada. We are a border state, and an Original Six town. Nothing could celebrate that more than this.
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Ok i am doing a birthday cake for a friend of mine. I know i am going to use pink because that her favorite color. i am thinking 3 tiers kind of whimsical maybe a mad hatter design with butterflies. I need 2 more colors to go with pink. was thinking green but then couldnt come up with the 3rd color. We thought about purple green and pink but not sure how it would look. Please help we have to do this friday cause the party is on saturday.
My daughter's room is yellow walls with pink and purple in the bedding.
My other daughter's room is pink walls with green and pink in the bedding.
Each room looks great with those colors.
So I think what you have suggested would work!! good luck.
Found a cake using those colors. It's cute
umm the link you psted goes to a spiderman cake. are the colors bright pink purple and yellow or are the a pale color????
the colors in my daughters room are more pastel colors.
sugar: the link takes me to a motorcycle cake. i think something is wrong.
ok guys got it figured it out. doing white icing for the cakes and then doing pink and green decos on the cake
thanks for all the help guys
How about hot pink, orange and purple or aqua?


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"In an age where 140-character tweets have replaced talking on the telephone, where job and work and social life are multitasked between 19 open browsers, the idea that our attention spans are shrinking has become pretty well accepted," Jessica Bennett writes for The Daily Beast. "… If you believe the results of a new OkCupid survey, it turns out that attention doesn't just shape our ability to complete homework or work [efficiently]- it actually hinders romance, too. As part of its new trend report, Daily Beast partner OkCupid has mapped out relationship length, Twitter usage and age, as determined by survey questions. What they found? Just as with their 140-character musings, Twitter users seem to end up in relationships that are bite-size. 'Twitter users have shorter relationships,' says Christian Rudder, the site's co-founder and editorial director. 'How much shorter? Maybe not a lot … but the difference is measurable and consistent.' "
Will CEOs test for this?
"Researchers found coming to a decision often involves listening to two parts of the brain - one that relies on taking advice and the other on experience," The Daily Telegraph reports. "The brain weighs up the often opposing views and then comes to a decision to take an action. But the researchers at Brown University in Rhode Island discovered that some people have genes that skew the decision [more]toward one part of the brain than the other. They discovered the DARPP-32 genetic variation meant that individuals are more likely to do what [they are]told, even when it is contradicted by experience. The gene means that like a 'yes man, who is flexible to a fault, the brain is more likely to be influenced by what it is told than what its experience tells it,' the report said."
Can you speak Englishly?
"If you speak multiple languages, you might have multiple personalities," Scientific American Mind magazine says. "Reporting Oct. 15 in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, psychologists at Hong Kong Polytechnic University found that native Chinese students who were fluent in English appeared more assertive, extroverted and open to new experiences - personality traits often associated with Westerners - when conversing with an interviewer in English as opposed to Cantonese. The interviewer's ethnicity mattered, too. In either language, observers rated students as more extroverted, assertive, helpful and open to new experiences when speaking to a Caucasian interviewer as compared with when they talked to a Chinese interviewer. The authors argue that personalities are not fixed. Instead, the language a person is speaking - and with whom - can lead individuals to take on the personality traits of the culture associated with that language or person."
Humpbacks have a hit parade
"Humpback whales not only sing, they imitate the singing of other whales," The New York Times reports. "And some of their tunes turn into worldwide hits, with whales all over the Pacific Ocean picking them up. Several genetically different groups of humpbacks, separate populations with little interchange among them, live in the South Pacific. Researchers recorded 11 different song types in the region from 1998 to 2008. Their study, published online [today]in Current Biology, found that each year, songs spread from one group to another. … Why this happens is unclear, but the lead author, Ellen Garland, a doctoral student at the University of Queensland in Australia, said the reasons probably have to do with sex. Only male humpbacks sing, and each group of whales sings its own tune. 'If you change your song, you stand out,' she said. 'We could speculate that that could be more attractive to the females.' "
Drummed out of the monarchy
"Two castes of paper wasps are genetically identical," Smithsonian Magazine says. "Larvae turn into either workers or potential queens, depending on the behaviour of adults, say University of Wisconsin scientists. If adults drum on nest walls with their antennae, the vibrations inhibit fat storage and produce workers."
Werewolves don't get acne
"Humans are pimply. It's part of what sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom," Jesse Bering writes for Slate. Why us? "According to evolutionary theorists Stephen Kellett and Paul Gilbert, we probably owe these unsavoury blemishes to our having lost our apish pelts too rapidly for our own good. Although increasingly glabrous (hairless) skin evolved for adaptive purposes … the sure-footed pace at which genes for depilated flesh were selected posed some cosmetic problems. Kellett and Gilbert observe that the evolution of our sebaceous glands, which were accustomed to dealing with hair-covered flesh, lagged behind this change in our appearance. As a consequence, all that oily and waxy sebum, normally committed to lubricating fur, hadn't much fur to lubricate. So the sebum started to build up and clog our pores instead. (There are many issues that a person suffering from hypertrichosis - also known as werewolf syndrome - has to worry about, but acne tends not to be one of them.)"
Thought du jour
"I call 'journalism' everything that will be less interesting tomorrow."
- André Gide (1869-1951), French author and Nobel laureate


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Caloric Restriction and Body Weight in Adults
This study has been completed.
Vanderbilt University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First Posted: December 15, 2008
Last Update Posted: December 6, 2011
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Maciej Buchowski, Vanderbilt University
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|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|December 12, 2008
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|December 15, 2008
|Last Update Posted Date
|December 6, 2011
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|September 2004
|Primary Completion Date
|September 2006 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Fat in stool as a percentage of fat intake [ Time Frame: 3 months of diet ]
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|Same as current
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|Weight change [ Time Frame: 3 months of diet ]
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|Same as current
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|Caloric Restriction and Body Weight in Adults
|Official Title ICMJE
|Effect of Dietary Calcium on Body Weight Regulation in Adults
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The purpose of this study is to determine the role of
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Dietary Supplement: Dietary calcium
Dairy and non-dairy calcium provided as a part of diet in the amounts of 500 mg/day and 1500 mg/day. Diet contained 70% of daily caloric requirements.
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|October 2007
|Primary Completion Date
|September 2006 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
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The cross country calendar has been one of many sports to suffer at the hands of the wintry weather over the past week.
This weekend saw the postponement of the South of England Cross Country Championships at Parliament Hill, which have been rearranged for Saturday February 16.
Fortunately, several Vale of Aylesbury athletes headed to the London/U20 Indoor Games which were held at Lee Valley across two days.
It was a good weekend for Karl Goodman (U23) who ran the 400m on Saturday finishing third in an indoor PB time of 51:27. He followed this on Sunday with an 800m race which he won in a PB of 1:59:90, and he will be delighted to have broken the two-minute barrier having moved from sprinting to middle distance.
Lou Card was Vale's only lady 400m competitor finishing seco nd in a season's best time of 61.88 which also breaks her own Club Record.
Vale's other athletes both ran in the 800m races on Sunday. Mark Fallaize finished 2nd in 1:57:78; this was reported as a rough race and Mark came through well to finish as he did.
Last, but certainly not least, Andrew Rolt who runs in the V45 age category, put on a season's best of 2:12:26 which is not only a new indoor club record, but also beats the outdoor record by 1.5 seconds!


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Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes
The division is charged with the enforcement of Chapter 723, Florida Statutes, the Florida Mobile Home Act. The law applies to any residential tenancy in which a mobile home is placed upon a rented or leased lot in a mobile home park in which 10 or more lots are offered for rent or lease.
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text: Thakur K B P Sinha was born in 1941, at Gaya, Bihar. His interest in literature began in his school days, when he consumed all the books, magazines available at home. He also borrowed books from a local library all the time; the books could be of any genre – poetry, stories, novels, travelogues, satire, mystery thrillers and scientific fiction. In addition to writing ten English books in a variety of genres, the author has also published about fifteen Hindi stories, travelogues, and satires in reputed magazines. Besides writing, he also had the opportunity to broadcast four talks and some poems for children from Akashvani,(All India Radio), Darbhanga (Bihar). Even at seventy five, he is actively engaged in literary activities in both the languages. In future, apart from fiction, he also plans to publish a collection of Hindi stories and English poems.


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Flow Metering and Custody Transfer
Founded in 1975, Chemtrols traces its origins to the Control of Processes in the Chemical Process Industries. The foresight and vision of its founder coupled with the commitment of all those who believed in the potential and future of the company, has propelled Chemtrols to a leadership position in the Industry today. Chemtrols Industries Ltd. is a leading solutions provider in Process Analytics, Environment and Emission Monitoring, Flow and Terminal Automation, Process Instrumentation, Steam Engineering, and Utility Management Systems. As a specialized service provider we cater to various industries like Cement, Steel, Oil & Gas, Power, Fertilizer, Chemicals & Petrochemicals etc.


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December 17, 2012 BY Aaron Hope
Arriving early for spring training, the quintessential Ken Griffey Jr. colorway returns on a brand new silhouette sporting some of today's most advantageous technical specs. Something like a cross-training answer to basketball's Air Penny V, the Nike Air Griffey Max 360 picks up where earlier tech-updates left off, and just like Hardaway's signature series, this new Griffey signature seeks to capitalize on a legacy of established design language. Sweeping upper lines have a mixture of curves and angles that offers another representation of Junior's sweet swing, while Hyperfuse adds both breathability and graphical options to a Nike+ enabled Max Air platform you'll find available soon at select Nike Sportswear retailers.
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text: Does anyone else notice a difference between LF printed to 8x10, vs MF or 35mm? Sometimes I think I'm wasting my time printing 4x5 negs to 8x10 but I think they look better. I mean, 35mm enlarged to 8x10 will give very high quality results, even with a 400 speed film like HP5+ or Tri-X, but the LF 8x10's seem to have a bit of "magic" to them. I think I notice a difference when comparing it to MF enlargements also. I'm not sure if I'm imagining it because of all the effort it takes to shoot and process LF though. Does anyone else notice a difference at 8x10 between the formats or am I crazy?


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Highlights of the National Book Awards ceremony on November 19 included speeches by Young People's Literature Winner, Jacqueline Woodson, and Distinguished Contribution to American Letters medalist, Ursula K. Le Guin.
Jacqueline Woodson's 'Brown Girl Dreaming' Wins 2014 National Book Award
Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming takes the top prize at the 2014 National Book Awards. Finalists in the young people's literature category include Eliot Schrefer's Threatened, Steve Sheinkin's The Port Chicago 50 , John Corey Whaley's Noggin, and Deborah Wiles's Revolution.
National Book Award Finalists
And we have finalists! With yesterday's announcement of the National Book Award Finalists in the Young People's Literature category it's really starting to feel like awards season. Last month, Karyn wrote about the longlist, observing that social conscience seemed to be a common thread among the nominees. Now that we're down to five titles, her […]
Art Heist Capers, Super-Powered Fantasies, and Creepy Horror Tales | What's Hot in YA
With works by heavy hitters such as Scott Westerfeld, Gregory Maguire, Andrew Smith, Katherine Paterson, Jacqueline Woodson, and Maggie Stiefvater, this month's column is chock-full of upcoming YA and nonfiction titles that will have teens adding to overflowing TBR piles.
Inside Human Trafficking, a Natural Mystery, and a Classic Author's Memoir | Grades 5 & Up Nonfiction
Check out the latest nonfiction for older readers: Sandra Markle solves the mystery of the little brown bats, Alison Marie Behnke profiles human trafficking, and author Katherine Paterson provides an intimate portrait of her life.
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Review of the Day: brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
brown girl dreaming By Jacqueline Woodson Nancy Paulsen Books (an imprint of Penguin) $16.99 ISBN: 978- 0399252518 Ages 9-12 On shelves August 28th What does a memoir owe its readers? For that matter, what does a fictionalized memoir written with a child audience in mind owe its readers? Kids come into public libraries every day […]
Seen & Heard | SLJ Day of Dialog 2014
Check out scenes from SLJ's exuberant "Day of Dialog" event (May 28) where librarians, authors, and publishers came together at McGraw-Hill headquarters in New York City.
Pick of the Day: Show Way (DVD)
Show Way. DVD. 12 min. Weston Woods. 2012. ISBN 978-0-545-47811-3. 59.95. CD, ISBN 978-0-545-47810-6: $12.95; CD with hardcover book, ISBN 978-0545-47827-4: $29.95.
Gr 2-5–A Show Way was a quilt that had messages stitched into it showing the family's journey North to freedom, offering hope and a guide for slaves in the South. That theme of "leading the way" is a thread running through Jacqueline Woodson's carefully woven story (Putnam, 2005). Soonie's great-grandma was only a child when she was sold away […]
Jacqueline Woodson's 'Each Kindness' Wins 2013 Charlotte Zolotow Award
The Cooperative Children's Book Center has awarded Each Kindness, written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by E. B. Lewis, its Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book. The 2013 Zolotow committee also named Flabbersmashed About You, Me and Momma and Big John, and Sleep Like a Tiger as Honor Books. The awards will be presented on April 6, 2013.
Second Annual Picture Book Month Kicks off in November
Librarians, authors and illustrators are gearing up for Picture Book Month in November. Events and activities include daily postings to the Picture Book Month site by authors and illustrators like Chris Raschka and Paul O. Zeinsky. School libraries will be featuring Mock Caldecotts and author visits.
Interview: Jacqueline Woodson Talks About Her Picture Book 'Each Kindness'
SLJ catches up with Margaret A. Edwards Award-winner Jacqueline Woodson to talk about her latest picture book, Each Kindness (Penguin, 2012), which deals with empathy, the difficulty of human relationships, and regret.
Beneath a Meth Moon
Beneath a Meth Moon, Jacqueline Woodson
Nancy Paulsen Books, January 2012
Reviewed from final copy
Remember how we talked about stars and the way a book can deserve a star for reasons that in no way correlate to Printzliness?
Beneath a Meth Moon could be Exhibit A to illustrate the gap that can exist between stars and the gold. […]
Pick of the Day: The Other Side (DVD)
The Other Side. DVD. 8 min. Weston Woods. 2012. ISBN 978-0-545-44754-6. $59.95; CD, ISBN 978-0-545-44759-1: $12.95; CD with hardcover book, ISBN 978-0-545-44811-6: $29.95.
K-Gr 4–Clover, an African-American girl, lives on one side of the fence. Annie, a white girl, lives on the other side. Set during segregation, this story shows how the fence divides them. Yet, each is intrigued by the other and both are drawn to test those artificial boundaries that separate and classify. Jacqueline Woodson's deceptively simple, yet powerfully […]
Pick of the Day: Beneath a Meth Moon (Audiobook)
Beneath a Meth Moon. By Jacqueline Woodson. 3 CDs. 3:42 hrs. Brilliance Audio. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4558-5451-6. $49.97.
Gr 8 Up—Laurel celebrated her 15th birthday huddled against the rain and begging for money. The few precious coins tossed in her direction were spent chasing the moon, trying to forget the past. This wasn't always her life. She was happy during her pre-Hurricane Katrina days, but the drowning death of Mama and M'lady left her empty inside. Feeling displaced in her new home, […]


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PACE Lawsuits Up for Decision on December 2nd| Written by John Farrell | No Comments | Updated on Nov 23, 2010 The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at https://ilsr.org/pace-lawsuits-decision-december-2nd/
In mid-October, yet another municipality joined the growing list of lawsuits against the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac over the popular Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program. Arguments in the court case will be heard next week.
A federal judge will consider next week whether to dismiss lawsuits questioning the Federal Housing Finance Agency's decision to effectively shut down a White House-supported home energy efficiency program.
In a closely watched case, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District of California will hear arguments Dec. 2 over whether to dismiss several lawsuits against the agency, including one filed by the state of California.
I'm hopeful that the plaintiffs can win – PACE could really open the door to major improvements in home energy efficiency and expansion of distributed renewable energy.


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Review for Children's Outreach Project, Denver, CO, USA
My son, Tyler, attended Children's Outreach Project from 2005 through 2008. On the surface, he seemed like your typical little boy - fairly smart and sociable, and full of energy - but it quickly became obvious that he needed a little extra push. Ms. Alyssa was his first teacher in the Toddler room. My wife still has a cute Mother's Day project he made in that class, with his picture in the middle of a paper plate with a sentimental poem and lowers and ribbon around the edge. He progressed through the grade levels and by the time he reach Ms. Keitha's preschool class he was starting to exhibit some behavioral issues. His acting up in class, not listening to his teachers and getting violent with other students got progressively worse. It got to the point where the Program Director at the time, Ms. Penny said either I get him some help or he would no longer be welcome in the school. They put us in touch with Community Reach, where, through an early childhood grant, he received therapy, got a diagnosis of ADHD and Sensory Input Disorder and was prescribed medication. The counseling was free and the medication was very inexpensive, and the difference was immeasurable. Between the assistance from Community Reach, the dedicated work of the school's Occupational Therapist at the time, Ms. Lynn, and amazing patience from his teachers, Tyler successfully completed his time at Children's Outreach Project and was fully prepared for first grade in the public school system. By the time he finished Kindergarten in Ms. Barb and Ms. Ashley's class, he was reading books on his own and writing words by sounding them out on his own. Today, Tyler is in fifth grade and still doing very well. He's reading at an eighth grade level and doing better in math than I ever did. We're still monitoring and adjusting his medications, and he isn't always focused on his work as he should be, but I believe the start he got at C.O.P. made a world of difference and got him where he is today. Thank you C.O.P.!
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Daniel Craig had to get in bed with Rooney Mara "pretty much straight away" after they met on the set of 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'.
The actress admitted things moved fast on the set of the film, and she found herself practicing sex scenes with her co-star during their first meeting. She said: "I met him for the first time at a screen test. We had to get into bed together pretty much straight away." Rooney plays the gothic styled computer genius Lisbeth Salander in the film, and while she her look is striking in the film, she believes it is more about context than her dyed hair and piercings.
She added to OK! magazine: "I think the character, in her setting in Stockholm, is quite shocking because it's quite reserved there. If you put the character in New York's East Village, people wouldn't really look twice at her. "It definitely changed people's reactions toward me – they didn't pay as much attention to me and maybe their expectations were lowered, but there wasn't that big of a reaction."
- Kristen Stewart: Her was offered a job as a stripper
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Alabama Captains
• Alabama's captains for today's game against Colorado State were AJ McCarron, C.J. Mosley and Jalston Fowler. The Crimson Tide won the toss and elected to receive the opening kickoff.
Series Notes
• With the win, Alabama is 1-0 against Colorado State.
General Notes
• Alabama led Colorado State, 17-0, at halftime tonight. With the 31-6 victory, the Crimson Tide is 64-3 when leading at the half under head coach Nick Saban.
• With the win, Alabama improved to 27-3 against nonconference opponents under head coach Nick Saban. The Tide has won 21 in a row versus non-SEC competition and has outscored those opponents 1,176-339.
• With sophomore running back Kenyan Drake's 3-yard rushing touchdown in the first quarter, Alabama has scored in 159 consecutive games – the longest streak in program history.
• Sophomore linebacker Dillon Lee's 15-yard blocked punt return for a touchdown in the second quarter marked the 33rd non-offensive touchdown of the Nick Saban era. Since Saban took over in 2007, the Crimson Tide has garnered 14 interception returns, eight punt returns, five kickoff returns, three fumble returns and three blocked punt returns for a touchdown.
• Today's attendance was a sellout of 101,821. That marks the 59th sellout crowd in the last 60 games at Bryant-Denny Stadium dating back to the Auburn game on Nov. 20, 2004.
Offensive Notes
• Junior wide receiver Christion Jones set career bests for catches and receiving yards tonight. He hauled in a career-high 9 catches for 90 yards against Colorado State. His previous bests prior to tonight were 4 catches (40 yards) at LSU on Nov. 3, 2012, and 74 yards (on 3 catches) at Arkansas on Sept. 15, 2012.
• Junior wide receiver DeAndrew White caught a 30-yard touchdown pass from AJ McCarron in the fourth quarter tonight, the sixth touchdown reception of his Alabama career. White finished the game with 65 yards receiving, the second-highest yardage total of his Alabama career ranking behind his 82-yard outing last week at Texas A&M.
• Alabama rushed for 66 yards on 21 carries tonight, the fewest rushing yards by the Tide since Alabama rushed for 36 yards on 29 carries at South Carolina on Oct. 9, 2010.
• Redshirt freshman wide receiver Chris Black caught a 14-yard touchdown pass from Blake Sims late in the game, the first reception of Black's Alabama career and his first collegiate touchdown catch.
Defensive Notes
• C.J. Mosley has tallied seven or more total tackles in his last five games. He led the way for the Tide defense against Colorado State 9 tackles.
• Colorado State was limited to 279 yards of total offense tonight. In head coach Nick Saban's 84-game tenure at Alabama, the Tide has limited opponents to under 300 yards of total offense 55 times (64.3 percent).
• Colorado State was held to 6 points tonight. Under head coach Nick Saban, the Tide has held opponents to 10 points or fewer 42 times since the start of the 2007 season (50 percent in 84 games overall). It is already the second time this season Alabama has done so, also limiting Virginia Tech to 10 points in the season opener on Aug. 31 in Atlanta.
Special Teams Notes
• Senior punter Cody Mandell launched his seventh 50-plus yard punt of the season in the first quarter. Thus far, six of his attempts have been over the 50-yard mark in 2013. For his career, Mandell has kicked 147 punts for 6,157 yards and an average of 41.9 yards per punt.
• Sophomore linebacker Dillon Lee recorded the first touchdown of his Alabama career in the second quarter after returning a blocked punt 15 yards. It was the third blocked punt return for a touchdown since head coach Nick Saban arrived in 2007. It was also the first since Brandon Gibson took one 22 yards against Georgia State on Nov. 18, 2010.
Next Game
• Alabama continues its stay in Tuscaloosa, hosting Ole Miss in the Tide's SEC opener. The game will air on ESPN with kickoff set for 5:30 p.m. CT.


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At the center of this twisted little tale is India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska), a girl whose wardrobe is comprised mostly of grays and blacks and reveals little to no skin. Her idea of quality time with dad? Hunting little animals and later having them stuffed as 'proud of ya kiddo' trophies. She doesn't like being touched and has a reputation as 'the quiet one' at school, and this self-imposed isolation draws the ire of bullies who expect - but always fail - to get a rise out of her. Yes, she seems a little strange to those on the outside looking in… and boy, they really have no idea. And neither do we for that matter, not at first. A big question the film begs us to ask early on is if India is genuinely withdrawn, or just behaving like an oddball to make her mother look bad. At first the latter seems likely, because being that Evelyn Stoker (Nicole Kidman) is phony bologna in a prim and proper sort of way, a daughter that behaves in such contrast manages to melt away the façade she's worked so hard to maintain.
What you see isn't always what you get though, and that's the ideology Stoker embraces to the end. India's father dies on her 18th birthday, and right on cue, Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode) - who she's never even heard of before - appears and insists on getting to know his estranged family. This obviously causes some inner conflict for her, because she can't understand why her father - her only friend in the world - neglected to mention anything about an uncle. More than that, she's perplexed about the instant connection she has with him… because they're seemingly able to communicate without saying so much as a word. I don't think I would risk moving into spoiler territory by revealing he's bad news, as the trailers tell us as much. Invited into their home, he subsequently begins to seduce both mother and daughter, albeit in very different ways. Evelyn is attracted to his charm and good looks, but it's the darkness within him that India finds so alluring. This wedges mother and daughter even further apart… which was perhaps Charlie's plan all along. From that point on, shocking motivations are revealed through a strange combination of mind games, murder, and oozing sexuality. Without giving too much away, it's the sum of these parts that will increasingly disturb you the longer you think about them.
On paper, the concept seems pretty 'meh', so how was it able to be so damn effective? Well, it's no secret where Stoker drew a majority of its inspiration from. It takes a handful of Hitchcockian themes - from the likes of Shadow of a Doubt, Psycho and Rope - and tosses them in a blender with equal parts aggression and restraint. I would have been skeptical if I had known all this before screening the film, but now that I've told you, try not to let this knowledge bring a negative bias to your viewing experience. These puzzle pieces almost feel too familiar for comfort, but this film does what it sets out to do after all is said and done, and it does it extremely well. There wasn't a single moment where I wasn't compelled to keep watching, and Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode deserve much of the praise for keeping me on the edge of my seat. I know their performance flew under the radar, but I feel it's deserving enough to be nominated for some awards in 2013. I mean, their characters had serious potential to come off as yawn worthy stereotypes in the wrong hands, but these two managed to keep Stoker thoroughly haunting. My only complaint is Nicole Kidman - Although there's nothing I dislike about her performance directly, she pretty much plays the same character she always has. Is there a single role she gravitates towards that doesn't require her to whip out her 'serious and possibly scared' face in every scene? She's not the focal point of the film though, so her performance doesn't become much of a distraction.
But although the performances are (mostly) stellar - and honestly, Stoker couldn't have been as effective without them - they weren't my favorite part of the film. No, what I appreciated most of all was that it didn't try to spoon feed us everything it had to offer. Yes, the broad strokes are presented plainly for everyone to see, but I would argue at least half of the story is told through symbolic imagery. There are plenty of tiny details that appear mundane at first, but all inevitably prove to be vital in detailing India's transformation. Take for example an unsettling moment when India takes a hardboiled egg and slowly rolls it on the kitchen table, watching its outer shell crack ever so slowly, piece by piece - This signifies a time when she's about to begin the process of breaking out of her own 'shell', alluding to the emergence of something disturbing. Practically everything we see serves as a metaphor from this point on, from the orientation of our on-screen characters to the blood soaked pencil tip. Hell, even the name Stoker serves as a significant metaphor.
Stoker was an ambitious project, and I don't think it's going to be everyone's cup of tea. Some are sure to be turned off by the link between violence and sexuality, and I have a feeling that others will think the film was trying too hard to be clever. That being said, I always have more appreciation for films that are made for the right reasons, than those that are watered down to appeal to a wider audience. So, yes, Stoker was ambitious, but I think Director Park Chan-wook did everything right. Think about it - To wander in such dark territory without forcing yawns or laughter along the way is no easy task, but that's exactly what he did. He made sure everything was right, from the writing to cast selection, and the marriage of his ideas ultimately allowed this film to transcend the average thriller. Furthermore, the film will demand repeat viewings of those who enjoyed it - Some will try to catch any of the symbolism they missed the first time around, while others will find a rewarding experience in seeing them all in a new light.
The Fox Searchlight line of films have always impressed, and Stoker's 1080p, AVC encoded transfer (2.40:1) is no exception. This film obviously plays with imagery a lot, so I'm happy to report that there's nothing to botch the intended look of the film - A fine layer of grain and an stunning amount of detail are evidence of no digital scrubbing being done, and there's no digital anomalies such as banding, edge-enhancement or blocking. Sharpness is consistently sharp yet natural, the bleak and muted color palette is preserved maintaining the intended tone, and contrast does wonders in keeping white and black levels in line. In short, this seems to be 100% faithful to the source and fans should find nothing to complain about.
Stoker's 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track was a pleasant surprise for me. I understood going in that is likely to be a dialogue driven affair, but there's seemingly no end to the amount of detail that was paid to the sound design. Although most of the film is subdued in an attempt to provide a slow burn of sorts, there are moments that are purposely exaggerated to convey something. Again I refer to India cracking the hardboiled egg shell, or moments when India sort of gets lost in herself and sounds are either magnified or drowned out until we only hear breathing. As far as the rest of the film is concerned, there's always environmental ambience to make us feel like we're really in the film... not to mention, keeping the sound realistic at all times helps to make those exaggerated moments stand out that much more. This isn't a track that's going to show off the capabilities of your home theater or anything, but like the video, is faithful to the source.
-Deleted Scenes - Three scenes make an appearance, and there's not really much I can say about them. I feel the film was finely tuned in most every respect, and anything additional would have only served to hamper the final effort. Really, Stoker works as well as it does because the context is all brilliantly connected. Seeing these scenes, even though they provide a little 'before and after' context, do nothing for me in and of themselves.
-Stoker - A Filmmaker's Journey - There's no commentary on this release, but this half hour documentary does a great job at detailing everything you would want to know, from conception, to set design to working on the set. Not to be missed.
-Photography by Mary Ellen Mark - A hefty collection of on-set pics.
-London Theater Design - Some shots (stills) from Stoker's premiere, in which a London theater was decorated in accordance with the film.
-Theatrical Behind-the-Scenes - Five short blurbs about the film's production, but there's nothing new here except the presentation. Each of the five clips are material taken from the documentary listed above.
-Red Carpet Footage - We often see lots of pictures from the red carpet, but we actually get over 15 minutes of footage from the film's premiere here.
-'Becomes the Color' Performance by Emily Wells
Also included are a Theatrical Trailer and TV Spots, as well as an Ultraviolet code and invitation to download the Emily Wells song 'Becomes the Color' for free.
Stoker is a dark film that presents some incredibly disturbing ideas, which inherently means it won't appeal to everyone. That aside, there's no denying its gamble of embracing Hitchcockian tropes has paid off and then some, as it spun them into a package that's fresh and effective enough for a modern audience. Hollywood has become lazy in providing us with effective thrillers, but Stoker is able to maintain its uncomfortable air with captivating performances and layers of symbolic imagery to digest. Even you don't happen to think the film is all that great, the events that play out will surely linger on your mind and force you to think about them for some times to come. I hadn't exposed myself to Park Chan-wook's filmography before, but this film has certainly piqued my interest. If you're looking for an intriguing picture that both embraces and shatters the Hollywood mold, then this smart picture couldn't come more highly recommended, especially with such a fantastic A/V presentation that accompanies it.


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The California Inland Fisheries Foundation conducted its second annual Lake Oroville Coho Salmon Derby last Saturday. Tournament Director Gary Erck reported, "The extremely hot weather cut down on attendance somewhat. However, fishing was still very good, and we had over 100 cohos brought to the scales. Competitors were allowed to bring weigh-in their two best fish. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife was also on hand to collect the 'coded wire tags' from the fish to collect growth information."
Competitor and veteran salmon angler Bill Dunn of Vacaville finished in fourth place, and related: "Fishing was excellent on Friday for the pre-fishing, and we released over 30 salmon. It was also great on Saturday during the tournament. We caught fish all day long, with easy limits both days, and we released everything under 18 inches. The best depth ranged from 45 to 70 feet in the main body of the lake and some of the north fork. We trolled a 7-inch dodger and a 3-inch white hoochy with a piece of anchovy at 1.7 to 1.9 mph, and also got a nice 4-pound brown trout mixed in with the salmon."
First-place finisher Tim Collins of Sacramento had a total of 73.3 ounces for his pair of salmon, and also took the "Big Fish" category with a 40.2-ounce coho. The second through 15th-place finishers weighed in from 68.4 ounces down to 59.8 ounces for their two fish.
CAST for Kids
On June 22, the annual "Catch a Special Thrill" (CAST) for Kids fishing event on Lake Oroville is in need of additional boats, reported local organizer Don Reighley.
"We are in need of four or five of the large river-type or pontoon-type boats that can accommodate six to 10 people," Reighley said. "The larger boats are needed to allow room for the children and their handlers; we already have a sufficient number of the smaller bass boats. This event provides about 40 handicapped children an opportunity to go out on the lake and catch fish that is not available any other way. Anybody with one of those larger boats that can drive it from about 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on June 22 should call me at 533-8182."
This event is made possible by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, State Parks, Department of Water Resources, and Cal-Fire.
Chico Area Flyfishers
The Chico Area Flyfishers held their monthly fishout at Crater Lake, with excellent results. Some anglers released as many as 60 trout in just a four-hour period. Most fish were 8 to 12 inches, with the largest at about 16 inches.
Best results were on dry flies and beetle patterns fished on very light three-weight and four-weight rods. Float tubes, kayaks, and pontoons were used for access on the little 27-acre lake off Highway 44.
The club also operated the aquarium display at this month's "Hooked on Fishing" children's event at Horseshoe Lake. A variety of resident aquatic species including bass, bluegill, black crappie, white crappie and even crayfish were on display, drawing oohs and aahs from numerous children.
Club meetings are not held in the summer, with the next scheduled meeting slated for September 11 at the CARD Center, with keynote speaker Hogan Brown, talking about warmwater techniques. Call 570-1342 for more information.
Paradise Bass Club
The Paradise Bass Club held its monthly tournament at Lake Almanor. Fishing was good, with 52 smallmouth bass weighed in that totaled over 105 pounds. Competitors reported catching their fish on Luhr Jensen Speed Traps, swimbaits, and jigs. Final results: Robbie Merwin/Brandon Townsend- 14.29 pounds total; Jason Bubier/Allison Bubier- 13.65; Don Reighley/Robert DuVall- 11.15. Big Fish- Jason Bubier (3.30)
Trout plants
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife planted catchable-size trout this week in the following area waters: Shasta County- Baum Lake, Lower-Middle-Upper Bailey Creek, Hatchet Creek, Middle-Upper Hat Creek, McCumber Reservoir, Sacramento River, Whiskeytown Lake; Siskiyou County- Antelope Creek, Butte Creek, Cold Creek, Juanita Lake, Kangaroo Lake, McCloud River @Fowlers and Lower Falls.
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Become a Neilson Park Creative Centre Volunteer
Neilson Park Creative Centre is supported by its membership, programming, donors, and the City of Toronto. We also appreciate the support of our wonderful volunteers. NPCC is always looking for eager new recruits that have an interest in the arts and giving back to thier community. These are some of the volunteer jobs you could fill:
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If you thought big data was already big, you haven't seen anything yet.By 2020, 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet, says Cisco. Now consider all the sensors embedded in each of those devices as well as sensors contained in the objects that surround those devices -- think of sensor-packed smartphones, riding in net connected cars, on sensor-monitored streets and toll roads and all the analogous examples. Experts are predicting trillions of sensors in the coming years. All of them will produce data.
Sensors that get the most buzz are consumer product related. In San Francisco, sensors are used to alert drivers of available parking spaces. Accelerometers and proximity sensors are making gaming a multi-dimensional experience. Sensors are also revolutionizing the home security and smart home markets.
Introducing the Internet of Business Things
Less sexy, but equally important, is the ability of sensors to transform business operations.
According to a recent survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, businesses are slightly more likely to be using the Internet of Things (IoT) for internal operations and processes than in market-facing products or services.
In the coming years, business will augment their operations, adding connected sensors to people, places, processes and products to gather and analyze information to make better decisions. I call this phenomenon the Internet of Business Things (IoBT).
The IoBT will enable companies to collect real data about what's happening on a minute-to-minute basis across the enterprise. Instead of forecasting, sampling or surveying as they've done in the past, businesses will use live sensed data to prioritize and direct resources, improve workplace safety, reduce wasted effort, streamline product and people flows, strengthen relationships with customers and increase revenue.
Already, we're seeing companies use sensors to track the movement of customers and employees who serve them. Product and shelf sensors are feeding inventory algorithms so businesses can replenish supplies exactly when they need to. Machines are being developed to detect when an employee isn't properly trained and will shut down in response to an inadequately trained operator. Robots are coming to market to not replace workers, but to augment their work by sensing and assisting. Companies are even putting sensors on employees and in conference rooms to learn how to build better teams and to more efficiently balance real estate use between individual and shared space.
Getting Started With IoBT
As with any emerging technology initiative, you should start small with IoBT and have a purpose in mind. I suggest starting with some questions such as:
IoBT in Action
Let's consider the insurance industry as an example. Most claims take weeks if not months to process. Some insurance companies are enabling customers to upload pictures of a damaged automobile or structures to speed things along, which is helping, but what about empowering the insurance claim adjustors to rev up the process?
An augmented reality application could use connectivity, information and 3D sensors to enable claims adjustors to recognize car makes/models, show prior damage reported directly on the image of the car and the ability to mark damaged parts of the car to get repair quotes. Getting all of this information at the 'point-of-claim', assessing and adjudicating the claim would make the process relatively painless for the consumer, avoids fraud and padding substantially, and streamlines the claims processing immensely.
When considering the possibilities of IoBT for your organization, you shouldn't make a significant investment without first understanding the value of the data you can collect and its impact on better decision-making. Run experiments to explore trade offs, the timing, how frequently you need to access the data, how you will store it, process it and analyze it. Ask questions such as: how many sensors will I need and what kind? And, most importantly, be prepared to act.
Know this -- if this is the first you are hearing of the IoBT, it's real. It's not an exaggeration to predict that the IoBT will fundamentally change the nature of business operations and decision-making. The transformation is inevitable. Sensors are coming to your businesses -- or your competitor's. You can get ahead of the IoBT curve now with early exploration and fine-tuning as you go. Or you can wait, and possibly become your rival's digital prey.
Chris Curran is Principal and Chief Technologist for PwC's U.S. Advisory practice.
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