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Is more free space in win. installed drive incr speed
Is it true that the more space we have in windows installed drive will more increases the speed and performance of computer ????
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win 7 ultimate32bit, Win8.1pro wmc 32bit
well yes but over a period of time as the hdd fills, the system will take longer to find the files you need so having a knock on effect of slowing the pc down, so on a fresh install you have a fast pc
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Windows 10, Home Clean Install
The free space will help you even more, if you defrag every now and then.
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So If I increase 10Gb space (from 20Gb to 30Gb) to drive C then it will make my computer more faster .
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Windows® 7 Home Premium SP1 [x64]
The more free space, the better.
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Up to a point it matters. For example, if your computer hard drive is nearly at 100% capacity...so you will be dealing with a lot of extra fragmentation and such.
However, if you have a 500GB hard drive and are only using 35GB...It's not really going to change performance if you go from 460GB free to 430GB free of even 350GB free.
So, I would not go to any extraordinary lengths to keep my hard drive as clean as possible in hopes of seeing increased performance.
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Although I did purchase a 12g sample of this one today, I only tried it in store as the Tea of the Day. And, it was pretty darn good! I tried it iced, and where I usually find the in-store iced teas to be on the weak side, this one wasn't. And it did taste much like blueberry jam. I'm interested to compare it to 52teas Blueberry Cream Cheese Danish, because although one's mimicking a condiment and another a baked good, I'm not likely to stock two blueberry blacks. Wasn't in the mood to try this comparison tonight though.
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text: We've seen a lot of discussion lately on the memory controller. The RFC belowprovides a summary of the discussions so far. The goal of this RFC is to bringtogether the thoughts so far, build consensus and agree on a path forward.NOTE: I have tried to keep the information as accurate and current as possible.Please bring out any omissions/corrections if you notice them. I would like tokeep this summary document accurate, current and live.Summary of Memory Controller Discussions and Patches1. AccountingThe patches submitted so far agree that the following memoryshould be accounted forReclaimable memory(i) Anonymous pages - Anonymous pages are pages allocated by the user space, they are mapped into the user page tables, but not backed by a file.(ii) File mapped pages - File mapped pages map a portion of a file(iii) Page Cache Pages - Consists of the following (a) Pages used during IPC using shmfs (c) Pages of a user mode process that are swapped out (c) Pages from block read/write operations (d) Pages from file read/write operationsNon Reclaimable memoryThis memory is not reclaimable until it is explicitly released by theallocator. Examples of such memory include slab allocated memory andmemory allocated by the kernel components in process context. mlock()'edmemory is also considered as non-reclaimable, but it is usually handledas a separate resource.(i) Slabs(ii) Kernel pages and page_tables allocated on behalf of a task.2. Control considerations for the memory controllerControl can be implemented using either(i) Limits Limits, limit the usage of the resource to the specified value. If the resource usage crosses the limit, then the group might be penalized or restricted. Soft limits can be exceeded by the group as long as the resource is still available. Hard limits are usually the cut-of-point. No additional resources might be allocated beyond the hard limit.(ii) Guarantees Guarantees, come in two forms (a) Soft guarantees is a best effort service to provide the group with the specified guarantee of resource availability. In this form resources can be shared (the unutilized resources of one group can be used by other groups) among groups and groups are allowed to exceed their guarantee when the resource is available (there is no other group unable to meet its guarantee). When a group is unable to meet its guarantee, the system tries to provide it with it's guaranteed resources by trying to reclaim from other groups, which have exceeded their guarantee. In spite of its best effort, if the system is unable to meet the specified guarantee, the guarantee failed statistic of the group is incremented. This form of guarantees is best suited for non-reclaimable resources. (b) Hard guarantees is a more deterministic method of providing QoS. Resources need to be allocated in advance, to ensure that the group is always able to meet its guarantee. This form is undesirable as it leads to resource under utilization. Another approach is to allow sharing of resources, but when a group is unable to meet its guarantee, the system will OOM kill a group that exceeds its guarantee. Hard guarantees are more difficult to provide for non-reclaimable resources, but might be easier to provide for reclaimable resources.NOTE: It has been argued that guarantees can be implemented usinglimits. See http://wiki.openvz.org/Guarantees_for_resources3. Memory Controller Alternatives(i) Beancouners(ii) Containers(iii) Resource groups (aka CKRM)(iv) Fake Nodes+----+---------+------+---------+------------+----------------+-----------+| No |Guarantee| Limit| User I/F| Controllers| New Controllers|Statistics |+----+---------+------+---------+------------+----------------+-----------+| i | No | Yes | syscall | Memory | No framework | Yes || | | | | | to write new | || | | | | | controllers | |+----+---------+------+---------+------------+----------------+-----------+|ii | No | Yes | configfs| Memory, | Plans to | Yes || | | | | task limit.| provide a | || | | | | Plans to | framework | || | | | | allow | to write new | || | | | | CPU and I/O| controllers | |+----+---------+------+---------+------------+----------------+-----------+|iii | Yes | Yes | configfs| CPU, task | Provides a | Yes || | | | | limit & | framework to | || | | | | Memory | add new | || | | | | controller.| controllers | || | | | | I/O contr | | || | | | | oller for | | || | | | | older | | || | | | | revisions | | |+----+---------+------+---------+------------+----------------+-----------+4. Existing accountinga. Beancounters currently account for the following resources(i) kmemsize - memory obtained through alloc_pages() with __GFP_BC flag set.(ii) physpages - Resident set size of the tasks in the group. Reclaim support is provided for this resource.(iii) lockedpages - User pages locked in memory(iv) slabs - slabs allocated with kmem_cache_alloc_bc are accounted and controlled.Beancounters provides some support for event notification (limit/barrier hit).b. Containers account for the following resources(i) mapped pages(ii) anonymous pages(iii) file pages (from the page cache)(iv) active pagesThere is some support for reclaiming pages, the code is in the early stages ofdevelopment.c. CKRM/RG Memory Controller(i) Tracks active pages(ii) Supports reclaim of LRU pages(iii) Shared pages are not trackedThis controller provides its own res_zone, to aid reclaim and tracking of pages.d. Fake NUMA NodesThis approach was suggested while discussing the memory controllerAdvantages(i) Accounting for zones is already present(ii) Reclaim code can directly deal with zonesDisadvantages(i) The approach leads to hard partitioning of memory.(ii) It's complex to resize the node. Resizing is required to allow change of limits for resource management.(ii) Addition/Deletion of a resource group would require memory hotplug support for add/delete a node. On deletion of node, its memory is not utilized until a new node of a same or lesser size is created. Addition of node, requires reserving memory for it upfront.5. Open issues(i) Can we allow threads belonging to the same process belong to two different resource groups? Does this mean we need to do per-thread VM accounting now?(ii) There is an overhead associated with adding a pointer in struct page. Can this be reduced/avoided? One solution suggested is to use a mirror mem_map.(iii) How do we distribute the remaining resources among resource hungry groups? The Resource Group implementation used the ratio of the limits to decide on the ratio according to which they are distributed.(iv) How do we account for shared pages? Should it be charged to the first container which touches the page or should it be charged equally among all containers sharing the page?(v) Definition of RSS (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/10/130)6. Going forward(i) Agree on requirements (there has been some agreement already, please see http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/6/102 and the BOF summary [7])(ii) Agree on minimum accounting and hooks in the kernel. It might be a good idea to take this up in phases phase 1 - account for user space memory phase 2 - account for kernel memory allocated on behalf of the user/task(iii) Infrastructure - There is a separate RFC on that.7. 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Im having some issues getting a paracorr2 + camera up and running on my 10" f5.8. The stars are equally elongated across the frame, out of focus donuts are also elongated but with the secondary shadow perfectly centered and equal brightness all around. The direction of elongation doesn't coincide with ra so I don't think that it is due to tracking, besides it can be seen in a 10 sec or shorter exposures.
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It is now being reported that "Logan's Run" has tagged in a new screenwriter, Adam Baldwin. Baldwin has a couple of films in the works, including "The Outsider", a Yakuza movie, and "Red Asphalt" for Timur Bekmambetov ("Wanted"). It's not entirely clear how much work Baldwin will do on the script—which has already seen work from Will Beall ("Gangster Squad") and Alex Garland ("28 Days Later")—if he is up for a complete tear down and reworking or a quick tune up.
"Logan's Run" is a dystopian sci-fi story based on a 1967 novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson that was first adapted for the big screen in 1976. In a world where age is strictly regulated citizens are executed the day they turn 21 (30 in the film version). Occasionally folks who don't want to die try to escape their fate and make a break for it. These outlaws are unceremoniously hunted down. The plot revolves around Logan, a "Sandman" whose job it is to hunt these runners. I haven't seen "In Time" yet, but from what I know of the story, it owes a great debt to "Logan's Run".
The "Logan's Run" remake has had a list of big name directors attached to it—including Bryan Singer ("X-Men") and James McTiegue ("V for Vendetta")—and at one point Johnny Depp was slated to star in the Michael York role of Logan. But for the decade or so that this has been cooking, it looks like the Refn/Gosling duo is going to be the team that gets it done. They're supposedly planning to film "Logan's Run" directly after the pair finishes their modern Thai western, "Only God Forgives".
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Gordon Ramsay revealed as the celebrity who needs to 'chill out' the most
HE'S known for his bad language and fiery temper in the kitchen, so it's no surprise that Gordon Ramsay has topped a poll of celebrities who need to chill out the most.
The 46-year-old chef beat the likes of Lord Alan Sugar and footballer Luis Suarez to make it to the number one spot, but he had another famous face hot on his heels.
Former 'Apprentice' star Katie Hopkins, who is known for her outspoken rants, came in at second place on the Parrot Bay 'Chill Out' report which was commissioned by the new freeze and squeeze cocktail range.
The opininated businessman has angered the likes of TV presenters Holly Willoughby and John Stapleton in recent weeks when sharing her thoughts on subjects such as weight and children's names.
Katie's former boss on the hit BBC show, Sir Alan came in at third place due to his sharp tongue which gets put to good use in the boardroom on the popular reality TV show.
Other famous faces in the hot-headed line-up include Helen Flanagan, who recently couldn't sleep because she was in need of a 1am spray tan, and Kanye West, who is notorious for speaking his mind when things don't go his way.
None, however, are as deserving of the crown as Gordon, who scored 22% of the vote, but it's not just celebrities who are reaching boiling point.
Over a quarter (26%) of workers have admitted that they have struggled to do their job in the summer heat, and a fifth came clean about losing their cool with a colleague.
In fact, according to the 'Chill Out' report, it takes just two hours and eight minutes in the office for the average Brit to lose their temper.
Over half (53%) of workers claim what they wear has an impact on their stress levels in the office and 22% believe they would be more chilled out if they could wear shorts to work. In response, the makers of Parrot Bay are encouraging Brits to chill out and don their shorts over the bank holiday weekend and enjoy 'freezing a Parrot' with friends.
Top 10 celebrities that need to chill out:
1. Gordon Ramsay
2. Katie Hopkins
3. Lord Alan Sugar
4. Helen Flanagan
5. Justin Bieber
6. Luis Suarez
7. Kanye West
8. Lady Gaga
9. Bruce Willis
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Jeff Simon: Letterman needs to rediscover his creative spark
Only the timing was a surprise. When David Letterman announced his retirement Thursday night, he merely confirmed what many of us have been seeing – and saying – for several years now: Even when his heart was in it, his brain wasn't. To say that Letterman was "phoning it in" sometimes, in fact, would deeply dishonor all the intense phone conversations you've had in your life.
Letterman didn't need to precede Thursday's announcement with the explanatory story about spending an entire work day recently trying to identify the kind of eagle in a picture taken by his 10-year-old son Harry. When his wife asked him that night how his day had gone, she meant that night's show. And all he remembered from his day at the "office" was identifying the young bald eagle in the picture. It was, as the father explained mere days before his 67th birthday, the photo of that bird that occupied his head all day. Erased already was the memory of who had been on the show.
Of course it was.
We've seen those Letterman shows – or, in my case, sensed they were coming and switched over to Jay or one of the Jimmies or Arsenio (recently) or switched the set off entirely and went to sleep.
What we've been watching on CBS at 11:35 p.m. is, more often than not, a mediocre talk show hosted by the most important late-night talk show host that ever was. (Oprah wins that honor in the daytime.) We've been watching a game and professional cog in a machine – a man who's always ready, willing and able but whose brain has been elsewhere for years. It's that late-life son who now seems to occupy prime real estate inside his head. Who on earth could blame a 67-year-old man for feeling that way?
When he retires sometime next year, he not only will have surpassed Johnny Carson's late-night longevity (32 years, from the beginning of his NBC 12:30 p.m. show to his current CBS kingship), he'll have far surpassed Carson in national impact.
Carson's show changed American show business. But that's all. It was Jack Paar and Steve Allen before him who changed America's sleeping habits. Carson merely added to the population of television insomniacs.
It was Letterman, though, after 9/11 who led all of show business – and perhaps America – through the immediate cultural recovery. At an unprecedented moment in American history, in America's biggest city, one of its most famous residents gave America unparalleled public grace and continuity. In a business where nothing is more important than tone, Letterman found the perfect tone for what needed to be done during a terrible time.
And when confronted with open-heart surgery, Letterman had previously given America something Carson couldn't have given to his audience in two successive lifetimes: a true and moving portrait of the mortality we all share, whether we acknowledge it or not. The man who was virtually Carson's adopted showbiz son had moved into raw, bleeding intimate Jack Paar territory (where Paar was so comfortable that he sometimes made his audiences squirm).
And when his most ignominious professional moment came – when he was blackmailed over his secret affair with an office staffer (Stephanie Birkett) who had, in fact, turned into a very droll ongoing element in the show – he did what will henceforth be known in perpetuity a "Letterman." He openly and publicly admitted what he had done wrong in a way that not only destroyed his blackmailer's plan, but put him behind bars.
It was an amazing and typically revelatory shock to the American system in our media age – that if you come clean, people are avid to forgive. What the audience wants is a juicy story, plenty of time to disapprove and make Letterman-style jokes and then forgive the indiscretion enough to keep you around. What the audience requires is the POWER to decide who retains its allegiance.
When Dave invented doing a public "Letterman" for all time, he put the power in his audience's hands, which instantly found him guilty of being a lousy husband, a foolishly careless father, a hopelessly clumsy boss and then forgave him on the condition that he keep on being a contrite and very good talk show host.
Which he did, until his own monumental lack of interest in the talk show format Carson and his producer Fred DeCordova created became self-evident to everyone.
We may never know what effect lawyer Henry Bushkin's tell-all book about his client Carson had on Letterman's decision, but I suspect the book, and its dark ugly portrait of Carson at his worst, was far from immaterial. What Bushkin's unprecedented book gave us was an intimate portrait of an American legend drawn by an 18-year close associate entrusted with that legend's ugliest secrets. They are, at times, unbearably ugly to read about.
To many of the people who mattered most, it destroyed forever what residue remained of the Carson Mystique.
As the most important heir of the Carson Mystique, Letterman was fully confronted not only with his own alienation from the gaudy tedium of the job as Carson had defined it but with all the possible besmirchments of his own reputation when the 21st century's informational bottom-feeders take over.
There's no way the Green Room of his old NBC late night show will be immune, when the time comes, to the Tell-All squadrons of the 21st century.
At this point in the 21st century, Letterman is not just a misfit in his time but an awkward rear-guard action. Jimmy Fallon, a channel away, is not just a sweet kid, but he's technologically plugged in. Go to YouTube and watch Fallon sing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in a duet with Billy Joel. He gushes out his Joel fandom openly, then he uses our century's gadgetry to demonstrate his own sophisticated musicality with Joel in the most charming possible way.
Fallon is, without even trying very hard at the moment, remaking the talk show format he inherited from Carson and Letterman. It was Carson and DeCordova who discovered that the best way to "feed the beast" and supply a steady stream of "celebrity" guests for any show was to give publicists the opportunity to publicize their showbiz products with celebrities on those shows – new movies, records, TV shows, books, Vegas gigs, whatever.
We take all that for granted now, which is why it would seem insane to most of us if a 67-year-old man weren't intellectually alienated from the task of "interviewing" the latest human baubles thrust into the limelight by the National Entertainment State.
In doing some research into another matter, I found my 1980 review of Letterman's NBC morning show – that thing that lasted for 90 episodes of "say what?" television, which was being invented on the spot in front of its viewers.
The first thing Letterman ever told us about himself on a show of his own included this: "My favorite movie is 'Viva Las Vegas.' My favorite soup is lentil. My favorite restaurant trick is asking for more parsley."
What struck me back at the very beginning of Letterman's career is that when Letterman filled in for Carson on "The Tonight Show," the show was "like a huge closet with all the suits Johnny Carson's size. Anyone else hosting the show looks like a klutz wearing another man's clothes, a nervous perspiring imposter."
That, no doubt, is why Letterman never had regular fill-in hosts for his own CBS late night show. The result is that now, when we know he'll be gone sometime in 2015, there's no overwhelmingly logical candidate to attempt the impossible.
Letterman, as much as Carson if not more so, is irreplaceable. No late-night host has ever revealed more about himself at the most dramatic moments. Nor has anyone ever revealed more of what his fellow citizens needed at a moment of unthinkable national trauma.
My dearest hope is that for the next year, Letterman takes every opportunity to throw out what has now become the ossified late-night talk show Carson/DeCordova format and just do the show he wants to do, no matter what.
If he prefers, one night, to tell us at length about his all-day search for the exact species of eagle in his son's photographs, I'm more than willing to forego an interview with the latest C-list actress starring in the movie opening that week at your friendly neighborhood megaplex.
We know his heart has always been in it. That's why he's stayed on the air as long as he has. Wouldn't it be great, though, to watch him in his final year to do a show that somehow engaged his whole brain, rather than just the part that can run perfectly on autopilot?
How I'd love to see him go out as creatively as he came in.
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This is interesting. Wikileaks is claiming that recently deceased Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz was an ally and may have acted as a source for the whistle-blowing network.
Wikileaks sent out a series of Tweets explaining that Swartz has helped it out in some indefinite manner and that he was in contact with founder Julian Assange. The tweets also revealed that the whistle-blowing service was investigating allegations that the US Secret Service was involved in the investigation that led to Swartz' death:
Due to the investigation into the Secret Service involvement with #AaronSwartz we have decided to disclose the following facts (1-3)
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 19, 2013
1. Aaron Swartz assisted WikiLeaks #aaronwartz (1/3)
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 19, 2013
2. Aaron Swartz was in communication with Julian Assange, including during 2010 and 2011
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 19, 2013
3. We have strong reasons to believe, but cannot prove, that Aaron Swartz was a WikiLeaks source. #aaronswartz
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 19, 2013
The anonymous nature of Wikileaks' user base means that the organisation cannot be entirely sure that Swartz was a source. The Verge's suggestion that Wikileaks broke its own rules of anonymity because it believes that the investigation into Swartz was aimed at it (and that he died protecting the organisation) seems a little far-fetched. It seems a little less so however when you consider the perceived ferocity with which Swartz was being prosecuted.
It should be noted however that it only claims to suspect that Swartz was a source, just about keeping it within its own guidelines of anonymity:
As far as we can ascertain, WikiLeaks has never revealed any of its sources. We can not provide details about the security of our media organisation or its anonymous drop box for sources because to do so would help those who would like to compromise the security of our organisation and its sources. What we can say is that we operate a number of servers across multiple international jurisdictions and we we do not keep logs. Hence these logs can not be seized. Anonymization occurs early in the WikiLeaks network, long before information passes to our web servers. Without specialized global internet traffic analysis, multiple parts of our organisation must conspire with each other to strip submitters of their anonymity.
It's difficult to say exactly why Wikileaks would choose to implicate Swartz in this way. Anyone with a highly developed sense of cynicism would posit that it's just trying to ride the wave of publicity around Swartz' death. Doing so however would mean engaging in as much speculation as taking the story at face value.


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Nicholas Sparks is a good storyteller. His prose digs deep into the male and female psyches which makes his books intriguing and moving. Most romantic melodramas just favor the point-of-view of the female character so its quite refreshing that Sparks understands both sides.
Sadly, the film adaptations of Sparks work, with the exception of The Notebook, fail to match his fine writing style. Most filmmakers adapting his novels dive right into the story without much care for the characters. That is the inherent problem of the latest movie based on Sparks novel, The Lucky One.
Zac Efron channels fellow Sparks alumnus, Channing Tatum of Dear John, to play our hero, U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault. The actor bulks up and grows a beard to tell us he wants to be taken seriously as a leading man. Yes folks, his High School Musical days are long gone.
I was curious to see how director Scott Hicks (Shine) and scriptwriter Will Fetters (Remember Me) would adapt the novel. Shine was a well-told story with a great Oscar-winning performance from Geoffrey Rush while Remember Me was an underrated but effective movie starring a capable Robert Pattinson. Read More...
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"The Hunger Games" No. 1 for 4th Consecutive Weekend, "Titanic" Lives On, "Battleship" Off to Great Start
Not since James Cameron's "Avatar" has a movie been No. 1 for fourth consecutive weekends. That is, until, "The Hunger Games."
Moe, Larry, and Curly were beaten to a pulp, and Joss Whedon's "The Cabin in the Woods" was ultimately scared to the No. 3 position by the phenomenon known as "The Hunger Games."
Based on Suzanne Collins' young-adult novel, "The Hunger Games" stayed at No. 1 with $21.5 million. So far, the film has accumulated $337.1 million at the domestic box office and has earned $531.1 million worldwide!
Meanwhile, the re-imagined "The Three Stooges" from the Farrelly brothers, debuted at No. 2. Starring Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes and Will Sasso as Moe, Larry and Curly, "The Three Stooges" nyuked nyuked its way to No. 2 with $17.1 million.
At No. 3 was the fantastic horror film "The Cabin in the Woods" from producer/co-writer Joss Whedon and his partner-in-crime, Drew Goddard. The R-rated film, also from Lionsgate (the home of "The Hunger Games") opened at No. 3 with a solid $14.9 million. ("The Cabin in the Woods" interview with Joss Whedon and Amy Acker right here, with the scene-stealing Fran Kranz right here, movie review right here)
The other new film this past weekend was Open Road's "Lockout" starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace. From the producers of "Taken," the film opened at No. 9 with $6.3 million. (Guy Pearce talks about "Lockout" right here, Maggie Grace interview right here, and "Lockout" movie review right here)
But overseas, the rerelease of James Cameron's "Titanic" to coincide with the doomed voyage's 100th anniversary, grossed a huge $88.2 million for the weekend! And in China (the next home of the "Iron Man" franchise), it made a record-breaking debut of $58 million. And get this, since the film's rerelease two weekends ago, "Titanic" has made a very impressive global total of $190.5 million! Wow! Our hearts will forever go on and on and on for "Titanic." (Billy Zane talks about the good and bad of making "Titanic" right here)
Meanwhile, "Battleship" aka "Transformers on Water," did a respectable opening overseas. Universal decided to open it first abroad before its debut in the U.S. Taylor Kitsch aka "John Carter" seemed to have a better box-office chance this time with the film's $58 million debut. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Battleship" is pacing 75 percent ahead of "John Carter" and 78 percent of "Wrath of the Titans."
"Bully," the Weinstein Co.'s thought-provoking documentary, expanded to 158 theaters and has grossed $534,000. It's now rated PG-13, so kids can definitely see the movie. (Director Lee Hirsch talks about "Bully" right here)
Here's the estimated Top 10 domestic box-office films for weekend of April 13th:
1. The Hunger Games, 4/3,916, Lionsgate, $21.5 million, $337.1 million.
2. The Three Stooges, 1/3,477, Fox, $17.1 million.
3. Cabin in the Woods, 1/2,811, Lionsgate/MGM, $14.9 million.
4. Titanic 3D, 2/2,697, Paramount/Fox, $11.6 million, $44.5 million.
5. American Reunion, 2/3,203, Universal, $10.6 million, $39.9 million.
6. Mirror Mirror, 3/3,206, Relativity, $7 million, $49.5 million.
7. Wrath of the Titans, 3/3,102, Warners/Legendary, $6.9 million, $71.3 million.
8. 21 Jump Street, 5/2,735, Sony/MGM, $6.8million, $120.6 million.
9. Lockout, 1/2,308, Open Road/FilmDistrict, $6.3 million.
10. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, 7/2,122, Universal/Illumination, $3 million, $204.5 million.
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I salute Lee Hirsch! He created a documentary that is timely and much-needed. That movie, of course, is Bully. The Weinstein Co. film that was previously in limited release is slowly spreading across North America. So if its in your town, go watch Bully! ("Bully" Movie Review)
In this interview, we talked about:
*** The beginning of making the movie how did Bully come about?
*** How did he choose the brave kids to be featured in the movie?
*** Why Alexs story resonate the most
*** The MPAA battle from R to PG-13
*** The films hopeful message can we, as a society, really get over bullying?
But its all not dire seriousness in this interview, in the beginning, we were having mic issues, and Mister Hirsch blurted out that I have a lyrical voice, HA!
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Billy Zane Talks About the Good and Bad in Making "Titanic" Plus How You Can Buy His Artwork for a Great Cause!
Billy Zane rocks! Not only did he star in one of the biggest movies ever, hes also an artist and donating his work to benefit the Cancer Support Community. In Titanic, we all remember him as Caledon "Cal" Hockley, the rich guy who gave Kate Winslets Rose the heart of the ocean.
In this interview, we talked about:
*** How does it feel being a part of the huge, iconic Titanic?
*** When they were making the film, did they ever think that it would be this successful?
*** What was his most cherish memory in making Titanic?
*** What about the most terrifying moment?
*** Working with the Cancer Support Community?
*** I joked and told him I would love to see his painting of Kate Winslet as Rose, wink wink
To know more information about Billy Zanes Cancert Support Community, go to cancersupportcommunitybenjamincenter.org
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Two big films are opening this weekend, we have The Cabin in the Woods for horror buffs and Lockout for action fans. The Cabin in the Woods is from the brilliant minds of Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard and it stars Kristen Connolly (Dana), Chris Hemsworth (Curt), Anna Hutchison (Jules), Fran Kranz (Marty), Jesse Williams (Holden), and Richard Jenkins (Sitterson). (Check out my interviews with Joss Whedon and Amy Acker right here, and with Fran Kranz right here)
In Lockout, Guy Pearce stars as Snow, a man in charge to rescue the Presidents daughter (Maggie Grace) from inside a prison in space. Directors James Mather and Stephen St Leger crafted a simple plot (they co-wrote the film with Luc Besson) that is full of witty one-liners and features Pearce as an action hero. (Check out my interviews with Guy Pearce right here, and Maggie Grace right here)
So which one is my pick of the week? Lets take a look:
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09 Dec Bearfoot and CMT!!
Well this is exciting. The video that we did months and months ago, for Nashville-based band, Bearfoot, finally hit the scene at the top! For country, americana, folk or bluegrass there isn't a better place to get the word out than CMT.
This video, for the song Tell Me A Story, written by the band's new singer Nora Jane Struthers (see here for a video that Struthers and I did last year), premiered Wednesday on CMT and CMT.com.
After only 2 days it already has almost 2000 views. It is incredible to think about so many people seeing something that we all made. This was a collaborative process, working with all of the members of the band (who were all amazing) and our DP/camera operator, Craig Hill (whose work can also be seen on the videos for Willie and Oh No) to come up with the concept and themes for the end piece.
Each band member had 3 different costumes 1) traveling band 2) Gone With The Wind style old south and 3) fantasy world. Everyone had a lot of fun getting into character and playing around. It was a long shooting day, reaching about 9 or 10 hours, but when you like what you do working hard isn't so bad.
Unfortunately CMT is only able to play a shortened version of the video, which includes the entire song, but does not include the 1 minute intro that we shot. You can find the extended "director's cut" here as well as here, where you can also find live performances from the band.
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The Historic Architectural Review Board took only a few minutes Thursday to unanimously approve the relocation of the Plaza de la Constitucion's World War II Memorial at a site approximately 35 feet west of its present location.
Architect Les Thomas made the motion, adding a late request by Chairman Len Weeks to add a square-topped cypress fence around it.
The monument, built by the Pilot Club in 1946 to honor St. Augustine's fallen, contained 71 names of the casualties of World War I, World War II and the Korean War.
Kay Burtin, former Pilot Club president, said the club's board approved the move from its current location.
"We don't know if the monument will survive the move," Burtin said. "But if it does, I hope that new plaques with the names of those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan will be added."
Historian Karen Harvey said she currently was writing the stories about the warriors whose names are on the memorial.
"(But) there are people still concerned that it cannot successfully be moved," she said. "We need to give that monument more respect than we have."
She thanked Bob Jones of Tallahassee, a veteran who was raised in St. Augustine, for noticing how the memorial is being blocked by electrical boxes that were installed to run the traffic lights for the Bridge of Lions and first bringing it to attention.
Jones wrote a letter to the editor of The St. Augustine Record and, after that was published, sparked veterans organizations to get involved, along with others interested in finding a better site.
According to Jim Piggott, the city's director of general services, Col. Rick Erkelens of the local Military Officers Association of America chapter, suggested moving the memorial to the west side of Government House, where it would have a sidewalk around it and much more room for future ceremonies.
But after that idea was not accepted by the Pilot Club, Erkelens told them, "Anything you do, we'll support it."


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Yves Tommy-Martin came to Amherst in September 1956 as a French language assistant in the Fulbright exchange program. Having studied more than two years at the University of Paris, he was then admitted to the Class of 1958.
A strong student, he majored in English, wrote a magna thesis on Faulkner and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was also more cosmopolitan than most of us. Yves had traveled in England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and Tunisia. He was a skier, a swimmer, a horseback rider and a superb cook.
His personal charm was sincere and disarming, yet he was a reflective person who always maintained his own independence. The members of the French department held Tommy-Martin in the highest esteem, and his selection as a member of AD testifies that his fellow undergraduates – who often tended to overlook foreign students – regarded him just as highly.
Following graduation, Yves taught French and Latin in 1958-59 at the American School of Paris. But during that year he was hatching a much larger project. It was his idea to create a grand automobile trip from Paris to Africa, circumvent the continent, and then finish in Paris – the "Tour d'Afrique Franco-Americain."
He spent the year recruiting corporate sponsors (e.g., Citroen and Michelin provided equipment, Paris Match was granted exclusive rights for the story) and recruiting three other companions. But the idea of the trip was more than adventure. It was to explore a whole new realm of experience. Yves wished to know new people, new ideas and new places. Also, he wished to know a new role for himself, one of "action" as opposed to the role of observer, which he felt as a student.
One early recruit was Lou Eastman, who fortunately backed out at the last minute. Lou looked up Yves in Paris in the fall of 1958. He recalls, "Yves invited me to go on the trip. Quite uncharacteristically (then and now, given my preference for physical comfort), I accepted. Some time in spring 1959 I bought one of the two 2-CV Citroens. In May my dad visited me in Paris. He thought I might want to reconsider going given my distaste for camping (putting it simply). I talked to Yves; he was understanding. He bought the car from me."
Very well supplied – they carried 40 spare tires – the group of four (John Armstrong '54 was among them) left Paris on the 4th of July 1959. They first drove to Beirut, then traveled by ship to Port Said. The plan was to drive through Egypt into the Sudan, down to the Cape, then up the West Coast of Africa, to Gibraltar, Spain and back to Paris – by Christmas.
After they left Aswan for the Nubian Desert, the tale became shrouded in mystery. It remains so a half century later. Although they had hired a young boy as a guide for the roadless drive across the "boundless and bare" desert, they apparently became lost and ran out of water. And, according to an article in Time magazine, " the Nubian boy they hired had never been a guide before in his life."
The last message, penned by Tommy-Martin in diaries found later, was written in despair in early August. "We are approaching the end. Searched the entire area for water but found none.… We are all in bad shape. Nothing can save us from death except a measure of good fortune – a chance that would give life back to us."
By early October, when no word had been received since July, a United Arab Republic patrol found the bodies of four victims, including Tommy-Martin, near their vehicles. Yves was 24 years old – the first in the Class of 1958 to die.
The Egyptian authorities were uncooperative from the beginning. The Tommy-Martin family suggested foul play and a possible cover-up, although there were no initial signs of theft or injuries to the bodies. The family employed private detectives to research the case (France then had no diplomatic relations with the U.A.R.). They apparently found evidence that one of the cars had bullet holes in its side.
As late as 1979 Alumni Secretary Al Guest was in touch with Tommy-Martin's sister, still investigating the case. She had written Guest that an autopsy later conducted on her brother "revealed broken bones." So no one could say with certainty what happened. The sister told Guest, "Maybe the unknown is better."
Yves Marc Tommy-Martin died in the Nubian Desert in northern Africa, sometime in August 1959.
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I have two questions here. Formats and subtitles.
I've only just begun to start storing some movies on my Synology DS112 and am running into all sorts of problems with compatibility, playback, etc. So my first question is, what format should I be storing them in? I was putting them in MP4, but hear a lot about this MKV format and would like to try that. Ultimately, I want a standard method of bringing movies in that can play back on most every device. I only have about 10 movies and only add maybe 1 or 2 a year, so I wouldn't be opposed to storing in 2 formats if necessary.
My goal is to keep everything on my DS112 and then stream the movies to my Roku on our main TV (both wired). Second, it would be nice to be able to stream to our Android and Apple devices if desired (subtitles not important there).
On the main TV is where I get to the subtitles. My mother-in-law is staying with us to help with our newborn twins and her first language is Arabic, then French, and English not much at all. I would like her to be able to watch movies with us so my plan was to get a DVD from a library, rip it, add an Arabic subtitle (through hard code or srt file), put it on the DS112 and then play it through the Roku 3. I have tried both Plex and DS Video with marginal success. Not opposed to something else or paid program.
Long story short, I've tried every guide out there and on these forums and can't get the subtitles to play at all or when I do the Arabic shows as gibberish.
What am I doing wrong.
Thanks for the help.
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All I can do is guess and make suggestions.
I've found that SRT format for subtitles is the best supported. I know NOTHING at all about Arabic code pages. Generally what you have to do is find the right code page. This may involve a lot of trial and error. I'd suggest first just trying UTF-8 encoded SRT as that's the easiest thing to test. If that fails, then try various code pages for Arabic and see if any work with the Roku. Also, I would think that MKV would be supported better than MP4.
One of the sad realities is that devices sold in North America may not support non-European character sets. This happens with DVD/BD players when people try to play various video files and their subtitles don't work. For example, years ago Philips sold a DVD player in North America that could play subtitles if they were based on the Latin alphabet, Greek and Cyrillic and nothing else. We used to get a lot of posts from people in the Middle East who foolishly bought DVD players in Europe and then found out when they got home that their players couldn't display Arabic subtitles at all when playing Divx/Xvid files.
I did a quick search and I didn't find anything useful about Roku and subtitles other than some people have had unique issues with Chinese not working quite right, but what I found contained nothing really helpful, it was just complaints about ONE character not working in the entire Chinese character set. I see a ton of complaints about foreign language subtitles and the Roku and the Plex media server and I didn't find any solutions. Let us know if something I suggested actually does work.
Sorry for my late response, it's been hectic around here!
What do you mean by code page for Arabic? In VLC, to get the subtitles to work I go to Preferences > Subtitles > Default Encoding > Arabic (Windows-1256) Is it related to that?
My thought was, if I could get the subtitles added permanently from my computer then they would be as such "burned in" and remove any need for character support from the player, but that doesn't seem to be the case. So I don't understand how subtitles work then.
In the meantime, I might try French subtitles since it's a second language to her and should be easier to work with. Back to formats, it sounds like you're saying I should rip my DVD to MKV and then add a french.srt file in the same directory? If that doesn't work, should I follow this guide for permanent subtitles?
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It's that time again to take stock and review all the new super cool pet stuff and info we dug up this past February. Thanks for reading!
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On the strength of the Westminster Dog Show, we have been revisiting the site Cherrybrook Premium Pet Supplies, a leading supplier to AKC breeders and dog professionals since 1969. Not surprisingly, this site has a fabulous Shop by Breed feature, including bookends, clothing, dog art, dog collectibles, figurines, ornaments, snow globes, statues and much more for over 200 breeds.
Cherrybrook offers real expertise and a wide selection of products, including beds, crates, grooming supplies, toys, and gifts. It caters to cat owners as well. Here are a few deals to get you going at this great pet site:
Not sure why a Mother's Day special would end in March, but there it is.
Which is better--canned or dry pet food? Some pets may flourish better on a canned "wet" diet, according to Dr. Katy J. Nelson, an emergency veterinarian in Alexandria, Va. In Dog Daily she says that at least five types of dogs particularly benefit from canned or "wet" food:
1. Puppies -- Canned food is easy for them to digest and offers a concentrated source of protein.
2. Small breeds -- They too can have delicate digestive systems and high metabolism.
3. Dogs with food allergies -- Nelson often advises owners with food-allergic dogs to feed them a blend of wet and dry. This makes the food more palatable to the dog and minimizes problems from possible allergens.
4. Dogs with kidney and urinary tract conditions -- These dogs need good hydration, which they can get from the moisture of wet food.
5. Certain older dogs -- Senior dogs often suffer from health issues that are eased by wet foods. Dogs that have had teeth extracted, for example, might have difficulty chewing their kibble.
2. Small breeds -- They too can have delicate digestive systems and high metabolism.
3. Dogs with food allergies -- Nelson often advises owners with food-allergic dogs to feed them a blend of wet and dry. This makes the food more palatable to the dog and minimizes problems from possible allergens.
4. Dogs with kidney and urinary tract conditions -- These dogs need good hydration, which they can get from the moisture of wet food.
5. Certain older dogs -- Senior dogs often suffer from health issues that are eased by wet foods. Dogs that have had teeth extracted, for example, might have difficulty chewing their kibble.
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Does your pet get nervous due to separation anxiety, thunderstorm fears, car travel, veterinary visits? Or maybe you have a new puppy or kitten who needs some comforting.
As we all know, music for humans can change the mood and feel of an environment, so you can put this to work for you.
Pet Acoustics music has been specifically designed for the hearing sensitivities of your pet, in frequency, volume and rhythm, to calm and soothe your pet anytime, anywhere. The app is available at Apple iTunes.com
For your home, the Pet Acoustics sound system, My Pet Speaker, will transform your music library into pet-friendly tunes that soothe and relax dogs, cats, horses, as well as the people they love.
The Speaker limits the frequencies and plays a soft bass, so your pets will not be startled or disturbed by the jarring volumes and piercing sounds that instinctively put them on alert.
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February is pet dental health month. Actively brushing your pet's teeth should keep your pet's teeth in good shape. As you have probably figured out for yourself, it's smart to start early in life so your dog or cat gets used to it.
Other tips for pet dental care are feeding dry food and providing crunchy treats and dental chews such as Greenies.
We are admittedly, and probably not correctly, somewhat skeptical of the recent veterinary push towards professional dental work (anesthesia) to rid your pet's teeth of built-up tartar, as they reap a tidy sum for the procedure.
If you have a compliant pooch, a possible alternative is this Double End Pet Dental Tooth Scaler as a remedial measure. Use on dog's or cat's teeth to scrape off tartar, plaque, and bacteria-harboring calculus yourself.
Of course if your pet has red, swollen or bleeding gums, obvious gum erosion or foul breath, consult your veterinarian.
This Cat's Boat is an attractive Japanese version of the ubiquitous cat scratcher. It has a wooden frame with non-skid feet.
Super cool find via Modern Cat
Regardless of how you feel about Cesar Millan's controversial "pack leader" dog training technique, the man does live with a lot of pets. And so do we--roughly 50% of Americans live with a cat or a dog.
Cesar Millan is now promoting the affordable Swiffer Sweeper Vac. The combination of Swiffer Electrostatic Disposable Cloths with a rechargeable upright vacuum gives the harried pet owner the enhanced ability to quickly and easily remove fine debris like dirt, dust, and pet hair, as well as larger objects like leaves and crumbs. Clean house in no time!
Do you believe your pet has a soul?
Anywhere from 20 million to 40 million people in the melting pot we affectionately call the US of A are devout believers in The Rapture. To refresh your memory, in the off chance you find yourself excluded from this group, Jesus will return to Earth in the Second Coming. The righteous, both dead (what have they been up to in the meantime?) and alive, will ascend to a better place, while the unsaved remain behind on Earth. Hence, the Rapture.
But what will become of all the pets doomed to remain here on Earth, since these 20 to 40 million believe animals do not have souls and hence cannot partake?
Business Week reports that a new service called Eternal Earth-Bound Pets (219 comments on the article at this writing), all confirmed atheists, will step in to provide for the animals left behind by the 'saved'. Required qualifications of the reps: "animal lovers, are moral / ethical with no criminal background, have the ability and desire to rescue your pet and the means to retrieve them and ensure their care for your pet's natural life."
The service is limited to dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, and small caged mammals. For $110.00 they will guarantee that should the Rapture occur within ten (10) years of receipt of payment, one pet per residence will be saved. Each additional pet at your residence will be saved for an additional $15.00 fee.
Pet owners try to have their furball's best interests at heart and think they are providing them with nutritious foods. But are some of us unintentionally subjecting our cats to potential harm?
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For a guitar of this quality, £325.25 is possibly the best value for money imaginable. Even just the look of this guitar is incredible and compared to other products in the price range, this beats them hands down.
This guitar is a natural wood finish, black but still showing the wood grain making it look unique from the offset. Not only this but it is one of the lightest, thinnest and most versatile guitars I have ever played.
The hardware on this product, though not top of the range, which is understandable due to the price of the guitar, is very good for the money. The new style floating tremolo is fantastic as unlike most guitars with a tremolo bar the guitar stays in tune no matter how much the tremolo bar is used or manipulated.
I was considering replacing the pick ups before I played this guitar as I am usually not a fan of the standard pick ups which come with factory made guitars, but after playing this guitar the tone, again for the price paid is immense.
I would recommend this guitar to anybody, no matter what it is for, as it is suitable for a beginner right up to a pro guitarist.
There are other more expensive models in this series of guitars by Ibanez, though in my personal opinion this is the best looking and best playing of the lot.
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Gospel Artist Andrae Crouch on Influences, Journey
The name Andrae´ Crouch has a long musical history behind it. It may be familiar to those influenced by the '70s "Jesus Movement" or those who grew up loving Christian music with a contemporary sound. Either way, this Christian music heavyweight is ready to share his journey with today's audience.
The son of a pastor and now a pastor himself, Crouch at 69 years old shows no signs of slowing down when it comes to sharing the Gospel through music.
Credited as one of the pioneers of Contemporary Christian Music, which arose from the Jesus Music Movement, Crouch has been helping to change hearts for over 45 years.
Continuing his ministry, the Grammy winner has released his 10th solo album, Journey, a perfect Christmas gift for any music lover.
"The message is that I was reminding myself and informing others of the fact that God has always been good to me. No matter what you're going through, God is always with us. Life is a journey," Crouch told BREATHEcast.
Throughout Crouch's journey he has influenced many artists, secular and Christian alike, such as Elvis Presley who recorded renditions of Crouch's music.
Not only has he had an impact on artists but the artistry of Christian music, helping to revolutionize the urban gospel sound.
Many fans and artists have flocked to Crouch's music because of its unique blend.
With a sound that involves elements of tradition of black gospel, including blues and jazz, Crouch was also one of the first to blend an R&B sound with gospel music, attracting people who would not usually listen to Christian music.
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"When I meet with artists, I tell them, 'Make our lives difficult. Design something that you might think is impossible to do in marble, and let us do the rest. Because everybody can do the possible. So please try to imagine something that's really difficult to do.'" That's the directive from Citco founder and CEO Camiran Rasool, who cultivates a passion for collaborating with renowned designers to turn their inspirations into exquisite works of marble. Their concepts become finely sculpted reality courtesy of high-tech engraving machines and ultrapressurized waterjet-cutting equipment at the company's Verona, Italy, headquarters.
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Reed's classic album suite on the ears
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THE first of Glasgow's Classic Album Sundays for 2014 falls on Sunday January 26 when the disc under consideration will be Transformer by the late Lou Reed, the album that launched him as a solo artist, with a little help from fan David Bowie.
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The evening, in The Berkeley Suite in Glasgow's North Street, is hosted by Hi-Fi emporium Loud'n'Clear and will culminate in a playback of a pristine vinyl copy of the album on the finest Linn audio equipment, as manufactured in the custom built factory to the south of the city. From 5.30pm the listening will be music that informed the background to Transformer, including David Bowie, The Stooges and the Velvet Underground, with the disc itself being placed on the Linn Sondek at 7.30pm. Tickets are priced at £6.
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Scottish debut for young cellist
THE winner of the 2012 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, cellist Laura van der Heijden, makes her Scottish debut at the Eastgate Theatre in Peebles as part of the current season of chamber music club Music in the border town. The club, which is fast approaching its 70th anniversary, had a concert by violinist Jennifer Pike, the winner of the competition a decade earlier, in November. Laura, who is still at school and working towards her A-levels, will be accompanied by Japanese pianist Mana Oguchi in a programme the starts with Beethoven and Brahms and moves on to Schnittke and Britten after the interval. The recital is on February 18, at 7.30pm, and tickets are £13, but only £6 for adults accompanying a child under 12 and free to school students and club members.
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at the Tramway Renowned choreographer, and regular visitor to Scotland, Siobhan Davies, has recently made more work outside conventional performances spaces than for the dance stage. Table of Contents is "A Live Installation: Memory and Presence" which has been created by Siobhan Davies Dance with London's ICA, the Arnolfini in Bristol and Glasgow Tramway, where it will be seen from January 29 to February 9. Starting with her own history as a dancer and choreographer, Table of Contents is a collaboration with dance artists Andrea Buckley, Helka Kaski, Rachel Krische, Charlie Morrissey and Matthias Sperling which builds on their own embodied history and memory and creates work in which the audience intermingles with the audience in the style of an art gallery rather than the stage.
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Wind players given an airing
Athenaem Winds is a young quintet of wind players from the Royal Scottish Conservatoire who are current recipients of the residency development programme run by Enterprise Music Scotland. Formed in 2010, the group has been working with composer David Fennessy among other mentors, in the idyllic environment of Crear in Argyll. The results of those studies will be available to listeners in Ayr and Falkirk when the group plays Falkirk Town Hall on Friday, January 17 and Alloway Church Hall on Saturday, January 18. Both concerts are at 7.30pm.
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Nonprofit organizations strive to deliver mission outcomes, not superior financial performance. So even more than for-profit companies, these organizations need a comprehensive system of nonfinancial and financial measures to motivate and evaluate their performance. This chapter examines the strategy maps of the Boston Lyric Opera and Teach for America.
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Mumbai (IANS) Indrani Mukerjea, the prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, was on Sunday taken to her residence at Worli here in Mumbai in a bid to recreate the crime conspiracy and gather more evidence.
The Mukerjea couple — Indrani and her husband former media tycoon Peter — live in a posh bungalow inside the Marlow Cooperative Housing Society Ltd. at Worli, a prime locality in the metropolis.
A team of officers from the Bandra and Khar police stations escorted Indrani home.
The development came a day before Indrani (43), her former husband and Kolkata-based businessman Sanjeev Khanna (50) and driver Shyamvar Rai (43) were due to be produced before the Bandra magistrate court on Monday.
After the expiry of their third police remand on Monday, Mumbai police are likely to seek further extension of their custody.
Last Sunday, the accused trio were taken from Mumbai to Pen in Raigad district where Sheena's body was disposed of — to recreate the journey, which was a vital part of the police probe.
Sheena was murdered in the late evening of April 24, 2012, allegedly by Indrani, Khanna and Rai.
Later that night, they allegedly drove to an isolated spot near Gagode village, burnt her body and dumped it in the thick forests. It was found a month later, on May 23, 2012.
The accused trio were arrested in August, and the police were still attempting to unravel the exact motive behind the three-year-old murder.