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Qblinks + Zapier = AUTOMATION
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SMT quality assurance
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Our works recently
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Revised Schedule
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Change of antenna design and schedule
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ESD test for Qmote
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Idowu has not competed since suffering a foot injury when he landed awkwardly while competing in Eugene, Oregon, on June 2, pulling out of the Bislett Games in Oslo, the Olympic trials in Birmingham 10 days ago and Friday's Diamond League meeting in Paris.
Van Commenee said the athlete was due to return at the Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace on July 13-14 but could offer no guarantee that Idowu would be 100 per cent healthy for the Olympics.
"There are no guarantees," said Van Commenee. "The athlete is injured. At least that's what we know."
The issue over Idowu's fitness has been clouded by the breakdown in communication between Van Commenee and the athlete since the Dutchman criticised him last year for using Twitter to announce he was pulling out the European Team Championships.
Idowu insisted that he had told UK athletics about his withdrawal in advance and demanded that Van Commenee apologise. He refused.
Van Commenee said he now kept in touch with Idowu's progress through his coach, Aston Moore, but added that he had been asked by Idowu's agent not to reveal any details of the injury on the grounds of medical confidentiality.
He said the last time he had spoken to Moore about Idowu was about a fortnight ago but he would be seeking a medical update this week.
Despite the injury concerns, Van Commenee said there had been no question of leaving Idowu off the teamsheet when he and his fellow selectors met on Monday.
"He's the former world champion and the No 2 in the world last year," said Van Commenee. "He's got a proven track record. His selection does not exclude any other athletes, so it's a no-brainer.
"There is room in the selection policy to deselect athletes who prove not to be fit. At the moment, it is silly not to select a man who jumped in early June when he injured himself."

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Canadian born Sarah Polley has had more than a distinguished career as an actress in both Hollywood and Canada. A professional actress since the age of four, Sarah Polley's diverse career took her from child star in her native Canada, to an acclaimed adult performer whose fiercely independent streak applied to both her demeanor and her choice of films.
Along the way, she impressed audiences in features ranging from Atom Egoyan's heart-rending drama "The Sweet Hereafter" (1997), to Zach Snyder's "Dawn of the Dead" (2005) – even finding time to make her directorial debut with "Away From Her," which earned rave reviews from critics around the globe.
Born Jan. 8, 1979 in Toronto, Canada, Polley's parents were both involved in show business – British-born father Michael and older brother Mark were actors, while mother Diane and half-brother John Buchan were casting directors (both also acted, and Buchan produced several films). Polley's interest in acting was sparked at age four after seeing her brother's work, and despite her parents' protests, landed her first role on the Canadian crime series "Night Heat" (CTV/CBS, 1985-89) in 1985.
That same year, Polley had a small but memorable role as a young girl whose family is too poor to buy presents in the light-hearted Disney fantasy "One Magic Christmas" (1985). The modest success of that film lead to more television work and features in Canada and the United States, most of which – "Hands of a Stranger" (1987) and "The Big Town" (1987) with Matt Dillon – were largely forgettable. In 1988, Polley starred as children's novelist Beverly Cleary's precocious heroine, Ramona Quimby, in the PBS series "Ramona" (1988), which, despite running for only 10 episodes, attracted a devoted following.
That same year, Polley landed a starring role in Terry Gilliam's epic fantasy "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988). Though visually impressive, the film ran perilously over budget and schedule, and Polley herself recalled being placed in harm's way throughout the production. The experience was so traumatic, that Polley swore to never appear in another big-budget Hollywood film, prompting her in 2006 to write an e-mail to Gilliam (which was printed in Toronto newspapers) that asked him to show more concern for the welfare of a young Canadian actress whom he had cast in his film "Tideland" (2006).
After the "Munchausen" ordeal, Polley returned to Canada and found consistent work on television. She earned a Gemini for her performance in the Disney Channel feature "Lantern Hill" (1990), which was based on a book by popular Canadian young adult author, Lucy Maud Montgomery. Polley's connection to Montgomery's work continued with the Canadian/U.S.-produced TV series, "Road to Avonlea" (Disney Channel, 1989-1996). As an 11-year-old heiress who is sent to live with her mother's family on Prince Edward Island at the turn of the century, Polley was top-billed in the period drama and both she and the series received overwhelming acclaim by its primary audience of pre-teen girls.
But a pair of tragic events in Polley's personal life helped to turn her away from the warm, apple-cheeked world of "Avonlea" and mainstream entertainment on the whole. First, Polley's mother passed away two days after her 11th birthday; later that same year, she underwent painful treatment for a case of scoliosis (which was corrected with surgery when she was 15), a malady that forced her to drop out of a stage production of "Alice Through the Looking Glass." Both situations opened Polley's eyes to a world beyond acting. She began growing interested in politics and culture instead – and this newfound curiosity did not sit well with her employers. After refusing to remove a necklace with a peace symbol at an event, Disney executives soured on her, and she eventually left "Avonlea" in 1994.
After "Avonlea," Polley departed from secondary school and pursued political activism with a vengeance – to the point that a police officer knocked out her front teeth during a rally in 1995 – only dabbling in acting. But a small role in a Canadian arthouse filmmaker's "Exotica" (1990) lead to a film that would reinvigorate her career and recast her as a mature leading lady with limitless potential and talent. Egoyan's "The Sweet Hereafter" (1997) told the story of a fatal school bus crash and the effect a court case has on its survivors and the families of the deceased.
Polley riveted critics and audiences as a wheelchair-bound survivor whose horrific family life has a dramatic impact on her testimony. The film also featured four songs performed by Polley and its composer, Mychael Danna. For her efforts, Polley won the National Board of Review's award for Best Acting by an Ensemble – which she shared with the entire cast – among other laurels.
Meanwhile, Polley was winning more accolades for her performance as a Goth-styled teen in the much-loved but short-lived Canadian TV series, "Straight Up" (CBC, 1996-98). Polley took home her second Gemini for her work on the show in 1998. Its early demise opened the door for the actress to make more features. From 1998 on, she appeared in a string of critically acclaimed independent features in her native country and the United States, including David Cronenberg's "eXistenZ" (1999), Doug Liman's sleeper hit "Go" (1999), and Audrey Wells' bittersweet romance "Guinevere" (1999) – the latter about the relationship between a middle-aged photographer (Stephen Rea) and a younger woman (Polley). Allegedly, both actors imitated their on-screen affair in real life for a brief period of time.
But the attention garnered by these films was not to Polley's liking – she famously vomited after being barraged by photographers at the premiere of "The Sweet Hereafter" – and turned her back on bigger fame by quitting Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous" (2000) after three months of rehearsal. Polley, who was cast as super groupie Penny Lane, returned to Canada and contemplated her future for several months, before exorcising her creative demons with her first effort as a writer-director – a short film called "Don't Think Twice" (1999). Pleased with the experience, she made several more shorts, including 2001's "I Shout Love." She also began a relationship with her "Don't Think Twice" editor, David Wharmby, whom she married in 2003.
Meanwhile, Polley's acting career continued to yield impressive results. She remained rooted in independent features from 2000 on, working with such noteworthy directors as Michael Winterbottom on the period drama "The Claim" (2000) and Hal Hartley in "No Such Thing" (2001), a curious updating of "Beauty and the Beast." Polley received some of the best reviews of her career as a low-income mother dying of cancer in the heart-rending "My Life Without Me" (2003) for director Isabel Coixet, with whom she reunited in 2005 to play a deaf factory worker who cares for a severely burned oil rig worker (Tim Robbins) in "The Secret Life of Words."
Polley made her most commercial film to date in 2004, starring in the colossal horror hit, "Dawn of the Dead," but in typical fashion, she returned almost immediately to the comforts of Canada and the independent world. In 2006, she appeared on five episodes of the much-loved Canadian TV comedy "Slings and Arrows" (TMN, 2003- ), which also starred her father Michael. That same year, she and husband Wharmby teamed for her feature directorial debut, "Away From Her" which finally begins iys theatrical run. This difficult, complex and moving film is based on a short story by Alice Munro. Polley skillfully directed her exceptional cast, which includes Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, and Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent, through a story about a man who struggles to care for his Alzheimer's afflicted wife, even after she falls for another man at her nursing home. The picture generated largely positive reviews and brought awards from several international film festivals – plus a lot of light on Polley as the whole package.
In this exclusive interview, the gifted actress and director talked to Paul Fischer.
Question: How personal a film was this for you to make? I mean did you come upon it through personal experience or was it just, you know, the story of this woman that you just loved so much?
Polley: Yeah I think it was really being, you know, completely taken and moved by the story. And it's a profound portrait of what unconditional love can mean in a long marriage and I think it. maybe it was personal in the sense that I was at the beginning of a long relationship and looking forward to what it was like at the end was really, really fascinating to me. And I think also the fact that, you know, I watched my father losing my mother to cancer when I was eleven and watching a man lose the love of his life I think was something that really spoke to me.
Question: Was it a difficult film for you to get made? I mean even though you've already got this extraordinary track record as an actor, how challenging was this for you?
Polley: This film actually happened relatively easily. I had actually been trying to make another film for about three or four years before this one which never happened and that one wasn't easy and then this script really, you know, I think there were people who helped finance the film who were really affected by their experiences with their aging parents or by Alzheimer's disease so they had a personal urge or need to see it made.
Question: You had worked with Julie just prior to doing this as actors. Was that the impetus for getting her involved as an actor for this movie?
Polley: It was in the sense that I wrote the story, or I mean I wrote the script based on the story really based on imaging her in this part and we had worked together actually before that even on a Hal Hartley film about six years ago. And it was right after I had worked with her the first time that I came across this short story and I think one of the main reasons for wanting to make it into a film was to see Julie play this part so it was pretty hard for me to imagine the film without her.
Question: How close to the short story is the screenplay?
Polley: It's very close actually. I mean there are things that are adapted, you know, structural changes and the relationship with Marian is very much more fleshed out in the screenplay than it is in the short story and there's also a lot of things I've added in the retirement home.
Question: Clearly being an actress must give you so much insight into directing, particularly the women in this and Julie obviously is a key. How vital was your background as an actor in getting her performance perfect?
Polley: You know I don't have anything else to compare it to but I do know that the best directors that I've worked with develop very specific languages to communicate with each actor and each actor needs something so fundamentally different from them. So I found it was a matter of getting to know what each actor really needed and it helped that I knew Julie already, I knew Olympia already in terms of, you know, finding out what our language was going to be.
Question: This is such an emotionally complex film. Was it hard to leave it behind when you were done?
Polley: It was. It's strange, especially now that it's getting released, it really is over. And that's odd because it's really defined the last few years of my life. But I feel like I've learned a lot and I feel like, you know, a lot of the reason I wanted to make this film was just to walk around inside this short story that I loved so much and yes, it was very hard to let it go. It was the best experience of my life.
Question: Has it inspired you now to focus your attention on directing?
Polley: I think ideally I'd do both equally. I mean I feel like I have so much to learn from each about the other so ideally I'd juggle both equally. But I'm very anxious to make another film, absolutely.
Question: You're married now right?
Polley: Yes I am.
Question: So has that impacted the way that you're going to look at what you're going to do. Because, you know, you've got this, I guess this whole new relationship and your family and all the rest of it. I mean, what are you looking for now that is different as an actor than you might have been when you were single or just dating?
Polley: I don't know if it's changed so much. I think the only thing that's changed is, you know, David is someone who really knows film and I think he's one of the main reasons I wanted to be a filmmaker. He really introduced me to a lot of the films I love and so if anything, it makes me more excited about what I'm doing.
Question: What are you looking for as an actress, now that you've put this baby behind you?
Polley: I think it's generally to work with filmmakers who I really admire and who I have something to learn from.
Question: Have you got anything in the offing?
Polley: I do. I'm doing Jaco van Dormael. He directed Toto the Hero. He's an amazing Belgian director. It's a movie called Mr Nobody and I'm really excited about that.
Question: Where is that going to be showing?
Polley: In Belgium and in Montreal.
Question: Is it going to be in French?
Polley: No, it's in English.
Question: Who do you play in that?
Polley: I play this character named Elyse who is very depressive.
Question: Oh it sounds like a barrel of laughs.
Polley: (laughs) Yeah it really does doesn't it?
Question: Would you like to do a comedy? I mean you seem to have a sense of humour about yourself.
Polley: I would at some point I think, if it was the right thing, absolutely.
Question: Are you pursuing something as a filmmaker? Are you actively pursuing …
Polley: I'm in the process of working on two screenplays. I'm just seeing which one makes sense.


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• People's Artist of Russia
• Recipient of the State Prize of Russia
• Recipient of the third prize at the International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers' Competition (St Petersburg, 1996)
• Recipient of the first prize at the All-Russian Glinka Vocalists' Competition (Moscow, 1993)
• Recipient of the Bambi Prize from Hubert Burda Media in the classical category (2006)
• Recipient of St Petersburg's highest theatre prize the Golden Sofit (1998-1999, 2000-2001, 2005)
• Recipient of Germany's Echo prize (2005)
• Recipient of the Casta Diva Russian music prize (1998)
Anna Netrebko was born in Krasnodar and studied music at the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of T. Novichenko). In 1994 she made her Mariinsky Theatre debut as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro).
Roles performed at the Mariinsky Theatre include:
Antonida (A Life for the Tsar)
Lyudmila (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Xenia (Boris Godunov)
Marfa (The Tsar's Bride)
Iolanta (Iolanta)
Luisa (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Natasha Rostova (War and Peace)
Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Amina (La sonnambula)
Adina (L'elisir d'amore)
Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Gilda (Rigoletto)
Violetta (La traviata)
Musetta, Mimí (La bohème)
Micaëla (Carmen)
Antonia (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro)
Leonora (Il trovatore)
Donna Anna, Zerlina (Don Giovanni)
Elsa (Lohengrin)
Adriana Lecouvreur (Adriana Lecouvreur)
among others.
In 1999-2000 Anna Netrebko appeared in the operas Le nozze di Figaro, Betrothal in a Monastery, Idomeneo and La bohème at the San Francisco Opera. In 2002 she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Natasha Rostova (War and Peace). This role, one of the finest in her repertoire, has also been performed at the Mariinsky Theatre, Madrid's Teatro Real, Milan's La Scala, Londen's Royal Opera House and the Moscow Easter Festival. Moreover, in 2002 Anna Netrebko made her debut at the Philadelphia Opera as Giulietta (I Capuletti e i Montecchi), and in summer that year she made her first appearance at the Salzburg Festival as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni). Following her triumphant Salzburg Festival debut, Anna Netrebko began to appear at the world's leading opera houses, among them the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Opera National de Paris, the Berliner Staatsoper and the Munich Staatsoper. She frequently returns to the home scene of the Mariinsky Theatre to work with Valery Gergiev.
In November 2006 she performed the lead role in I puritani (Metropolitan Opera), while in 2007 she made her debut at Carnegie Hall in a concert with Dmitry Hvorostovsky in addition to the traditional closing of the BBC Proms At London's Royal Albert Hall.
The same year Anna Netrebko performed at the Kennedy Center Awards Ceremony, and in 2008 she appeared at the Classical BRIT Awards ceremony together with Andrea Bocelli. She took part in a film version of La bohème (directed by Robert Dornhelm) together with Rolando Villazon, later appearing with Vilazon in the full version of the opera for Deutsche Grammophon. That year she made her debut at the Opéra National de Paris, performing the role of Giulietta (I Capulietti e i Montecchi).
Anna Netrebko performs with leading conductors such as Valery Gergiev, James Levine, Seiji Osawa, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Zubin Mehta, Colin Davis and Claudio Abbado at the world's leading opera venues. She can also be heard at such legendary concert halls as New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Barbican Centre and the Royal Albert Hall and stadiums where she sings for tens of thousands. Anna Netrebko's open-air concerts together with Plácido Domingo and Rolando Villazon at Berlin's Waldbühne at football's World Cup and at Vienna's Schonbrunn during the European Football Cup were broadcast on TV to millions of viewers throughout the world.
Anna Netrebko has a vast series of recordings, including solo albums as well as complete operas on CD and DVD. The success of her solo discs with Deutsche Grammophon – Opera Arias, Sempre Libera and Russian Album – surpassed all expectations and created a true furore, as did recordings of La traviata and Le nozze di Figaro and the DVD Anna Netrebko: The Woman. The Voice. Today in Germany and Austria, all of the singer's albums have attained platinum status. The disc Duets, recorded with her regular stage partner Rolando Villazon, took first place in the USA's Billboard classical ratings.
Anna Netrebko's other achievements include two nominations for a Grammy, the prestigious Bambi Prize and six Echo Klassik awards presented in Germany, the title "Musician of the Year", presented by Musical America, and the titles "Singer of the Year" and "Female Musician of the Year" in the United Kingdom (Classical BRIT Awards).
The coming year finds Anna Netrebko venturing into bold new repertoire and embarking on a new phase of her career. This summer, she sang act one of Verdi's Otello at the Verbier Festival, her first performance as Desdemona, and reunited with Plácido Domingo for her role debut as the eponymous heroine of Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco at the Salzburg Festival. Also at the Salzburg Festival, she joined Thomas Hampson, Ian Bostridge, and the Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio Pappano for a single performance of Britten's War Requiem, later recorded by the same artists and released on Warner Classics. In September 2013, she made history as the first soprano to headline three consecutive Metropolitan Opera opening-night galas, when she made her American role debut as Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
For more information, please go to the http://www.annanetrebko.com/


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Neal Pit Trip
On October 12, Marathon invited Second Grade from Washington Elementary School to visit Neal Pit. Neal Pit is a wildlife area reclaimed by Marathon. Members of the Marathon team provided educational stations ranging from renewable energy to identifying local flora and wildlife. Students had a wonderful time attending the event which has a new twist nearly every year. Washington Elementary wishes to thank Marathon for sponsoring such activites for its students annually.


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Once again, thanks for leaving your comments on the Go Big Read blog. Go Big Read is a conversation between members of UW-Madison campus and community, and we love to hear what you have to say about Enrique's Journey.
Here's just a few of the many thought-provoking comments you've shared:
On Ted Talks: Tan Lee's Immigration Story:
We must understand, that a person who has to leave his country, by
obligation, is a person who suffers, no one leaves home where he has
grown, for pleasure. We have to have more empathy and respect for
immigrants, who leave their country looking for a better place to live,
and sometimes only find contempt and indifference.
On Alabama churches lose Hispanic parishioners:
…Since the influx of illegal aliens into Alabama, teens as a group have been the most underemployed in the states history.
situation impacted close to home. In my own family, my just graduated
from HS teen was working two part time jobs to make ends meet and save
for college and a car. But when the immigration law passed in Alabama,
he was offered full time hours at one job, THE VERY NEXT DAY. He was
able to quit his second job and that job then went to another American
citizen who had been unemployed.
It's nothing against anyone.
It's not racist. It's just that we feel our sons and daughters and
friends should be working FIRST. But it is extremely hard to compete
with a labor force that will work under the table.
On Immigration and the State of the Union:
It's easy to overlook the contribution that immigrants make to our
society. I think we should make every effort to remove the threat of
deportation from people who have lived their entire lives in America.
Do you have a reaction to Enrique's Journey, or an immigration story of your own? Are you reading the book for a spring course? Leave a comment and let us know what YOU think!


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After a good stay in Brno for a night, we left for Prague in the morning. It was about 200km away which took about 2 hours.
It was the first health seminar held in Prague and surprisingly there was about 70 people turned up. Dagmar came for the second time and with her group of people, Anthony and his wife.
Family health is very important.


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"Well here we go again."
With next week's premieres of season two of Riverdale and the pilot of Dynasty, Luke Perry and Grant Show are back to back on Wednesdays once again, more than 23 years after Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place aired back to back on Wednesday nights. In this new promo, exclusive to E! News, the two stars meet up once again.
"Have we met? You look familiar," Show says as Perry joins him on a couch.
"I was thinking the same thing," Perry says.
"Where'd you go to high school?" Show asks.
"A little high school in Beverly Hills."


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AfriGeneas Brick Wall Forum
Re: Dobbins and Walker - UPDATE
In Response To: Re: Dobbins and Walker - UPDATE ()
On the contrary, Ed, your info about Allen J Dobbins and James Dobbins is very helpful. Sadly, the SC Dept of Arch. & Hist. replied to me 2/7/07 that their researcher " carefully checked Newberry County General Index to Estate Papers A-Z, 1785-1985, and could find no Dobbins with a given name beginning with or having an initial of A". Of course, they cashed my check. They also attached a long list of persons/organizations willing to do further research for a fee...higher fee, I'm sure.
Don't mind me. I'm just sighing all over the place over this because it's apparent by the further wording of their reply to me that they confused the black A. DOBBINS with the person I identified as the possible slaveowner, A.J. DOBBINS. Not sure if I want to go another round with them or not. Thanks, Ed.
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Here is a video of my performance at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre
Sunday, April 10, 2011
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I absolutely love using these glass domes from Melissa Frances for projects. Today I thought I'd share with you a fun and easy decoration for your table or mantle.
I used a page from an Attic Treasures Postcard Book as the base and placed a vintage rabbit sticker on the inside of the glass dome. Shredded tissue paper was used to cover the bottom of the inside of the dome. I glued the glass dome on top of the postcard and surrounded it with speckled eggs and bits of tissue garland. I then tied some fabric scraps onto the postcard. I finished it up by tying some ribbon around the top of the dome.
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Glass Dome
Tissue Garland
Spring Ephemera Sticker &
Attic Treasures Postcard Book- Melissa Frances
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Mariah stares suspiciously at Dr. Anderson.
Just as the ceremony is about to start, Dr. Anderson knocks on the door. While Sharon warmly welcomes her in, not everyone is excited to see her. During the reception, Mariah keeps her distance and tells Noah she's not convinced the doctor means well.


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Let's talk about why some developers, in some situations, are ten times more productive than others.
hint: it isn't the developers, so much as the situation.
When do we get that exhilarating feeling of hyperproductivity, when new features flow out of our fingertips? It happens when we know our tools like the back of our hands, and more crucially, when we know the systems we are changing. Know them intimately, like I know the contents of my backpack, when I packed it and I tuned the items in each pouch over years of travel. Know the contents of every module, both what they are and what we'd like them to be if we ever finish that refactoring. Know the edges, who uses every API and which changes will break whom, and we're friends with all of the stakeholders. Know the underpinnings, which database fields are indexed and which are obsolete and which have quirky special values. Know the infrastructure, where it runs in production and how to ssh in; where it runs in test and what version is deployed and when it is safe to push a new one. Know the output, what looks normal in the logs and what's a clue. We have scripts, one-liners that tail the logs in all three prod instances to our terminals so our magic eyes can spot the anomaly.
We know it because we wrote it, typically. It is extremely difficult to establish this level of intimacy with an existing system. Braitenberg calls this the Law of Downhill Invention, Uphill Analysis. Complex systems are easier to build than to figure out after they're working.
We know it because we are changing it. The system is alive in our head. It's a kind of symbiosis: we help the system run and grow, and the system works the way we wish. If we walk away for a month or two, begin a relationship with a different system, the magic is lost. It takes time to re-establish familiarity.
Except, I'm suspicious of this description. "We" is a plural pronoun. This depth of familiarity and comfort with a system is personal: it's usually one person. The one person who has conceived this solution, who holds in their head both the current state and where they are aiming.
If you are this person, please realize that no one else experiences this work the way you do. For other people, every change is scary, because they don't know what effect it will have. They spend hours forming theories about how a piece works, and then struggle to confirm this with experiment; they don't have the testing setup you do. They study every log message instead of skimming over the irrelevant ones, the ones you've skipped over so often you don't even see them anymore. By the time they do figure something out, you've changed it; they can't gain comprehension of the system as quickly as you can alter it. When they do make a change, they spend lots of time limiting the scope of it, because they don't know which changes will cause problems. They get it wrong, because they don't know the users personally; communication is hard.
If you are this person, please go easy on everyone else. You are a synthetic biologist and can alter the DNA of the system from within; they are xenosurgeons and have to cut in through the skin and try not to damage unfamiliar organs.
If you work with this person, I'm sorry. This is a tough position to be in, to always feel inferior and like you're breaking everything you touch. I'm there now, in some parts of our system. It's okay for me because the host symbiont, the author and manipulator of that software, is super nice and helpful. He doesn't expect me to work with it the same way he does.
If your team looks like this, here are some steps to take:
- Consider: don't change it. This really is the fastest way to develop software. One person, coordinating with no other developers, can move faster than a whole team when the system is small enough. Until! we need the system to grow bigger. Or! the system is crucial to the business (it's an unacceptable risk for only one person to have power over it).
- As the host symbiont who lives and breathes the system: strike the words "just", "easy," "obvious," "simple," and "straightforward" from your vocabulary. These words are contextual, and no other human shares your context.
- Please write tests. Tests give people who are afraid of unintentional breakages a way to test their theories. Experimentation is crucial to learning how a system works, and tests make experiments possible. They also serve as documentation of intended behavior.
- Pair program! By far the best way to transfer understanding of the system to another human is to change it together. (Or boost a whole team at once: mob program!)
- Make a README for other developers. Describe the purpose of the system briefly, and document how you develop, test, and troubleshoot the system. Specify the command lines for running tests, for deployment, for accessing logs. Describe in detail how to obtain the necessary passwords. Write down all the environments where it runs, and the protocol around changing them.
- Do you know your users better than anyone else? Remedy that. Bring other team members into the discussion. (There's a sweet spot of a single developer-type who works within a business unit. When the software becomes too important for this scale, it gets harder.) Let all the devs get to know the users. Have happy hours. Form redundant communication channels. It'll pay off in ways you never detect.
- Slow down. Like seriously, if one person is developing at maximum speed on a project, no one else can get traction. You can't move at full speed and also add symbionts. When it is important to bring in new people, don't do anything alone. Pair on everything. Yes, this will slow you down. It will speed them up. Net, we'll still be slower than you working alone. This is an inherent property of the larger system, which now includes interhuman coordination. There's more overhead than when it was just you and your program. That's OK; it's a tradeoff for safety and scale from sheer speed.
Distinguish between an experimental prototype, when speed of change and redirection is crucial, versus a production app which needs backwards compatibility guarantees and documentation and all that seriousness -- this requires a solid team.
Recognize that the most productive circumstance for development is a rare circumstance. Most of the time, I need to work on a system that someone else wrote. (that "someone else" could be "me, months or years ago.") The temptation to rewrite is strong, because if I rewrite it then I'll understand it.
There's a time for 10x development, and a time for team development. When you want to be serious, the 10x developer prevents this. If that's your situation, please consider the suggestions in this post.


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Expressing the sorrow of many Christians in the US at yesterday's killings in Virginia, the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches USA (NCC USA) has also renewed the NCC's call for 'meaningful' legislation to prevent gun violence.
"My pastor's heart breaks for the families of those who died today," said the Rev Dr Bob Edgar following the fatal shooting at Virginia Tech University.
"Faith leaders have spoken up continually about the epidemic of gun violence in our country," Dr Edgar said in a statement. "Despite repeated calls from faith and community leaders to Congress and presidents nothing ever seems to get done to stem the tide."
Dr Edgar, himself a former Member of Congress, lamented that the issue of gun violence seems to get such little attention from those who have the power to do something about it.
"How many more will have to die before we say enough is enough? How many more senseless deaths will have to be counted before we enact meaningful firearms control in this country? How many more of our pastors, rabbis and imams will have to preside over caskets of innocent victims of gun violence because a nation refused to stop the proliferation of these small weapons of mass destruction?," said Dr Edgar.
Edgar pointed to the NCC USA's 1967 policy calling for firearms control and a March 2000 interfaith campaign calling for an end to the epidemic of gun violence in the nation.
"The escalation of gun violence compels us to call for an end to the manufacture and easy distribution of such instruments of destruction," Edgar said in 2000 and reiterated that statement today.
Edgar invited people of faith and goodwill to send messages of support to a weblog set up by the Virginia Interfaith Center.
The NCC USA is an ecumenical voice of America's Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican, historic African American and traditional peace churches. These 35 communions have 45 million members in 100,000 congregations in all 50 states.


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|White-streaked Honeyeater
Following our stopover at Mt Carbine (see following post) we continued north to the iconic hotel of Lions Den, at the northern end of the coastal Daintree-Bloomfield Road, for a two-night camp.
|Annan River
|Lions Den Hotel
I've stayed here occasionally over the years and the place maintains its rustic charm, with a few rough edges.
|Orange-footed Scrubfowl
The camping ground by the Annan River is pleasant enough, with Orange-footed Scrubfowl scraping around the tents. The river cuts through this charming countryside of hills and valleys with its interesting mix of rainforest, eucalypt and health-like scrub.
|With Charlie & Lewis Roberts, Shiptons Flat
The highlight was a day spent in the Shiptons Flat area with brothers Lewis and Charlie Roberts - true bushies by any measure and third generation tin farmers and cattle ranchers. They were close friends with another friend of mine who lived locally, Jeanette Covacevich, who passed away recently. The stamina demonstrated by Charlie and Lewis, with his trademark bare feet, is something to behold.
|White-streaked Honeyeater
We spent most of the day going up and down rainforest gullies in an unsuccessful search for Bennett's Tree-Kangaroo. Some compensation was on offer with good birds, notably White-streaked Honeyeater; Shiptons flat is at the southern end of this Cape York endemic's range. We flushed a Rufous Owl but did not manage to track it down for a photograph.
|Graceful Honeyeater
Graceful Honeyeater is a tad more mundane but it was good to see one again after so long.
|Northern Fantail
|Yellow-breasted Boatbill
|Lovely Fairywren pair
|Grey Whistler
Grey Whistler showed nicely.
|Pied Monarch
The distinctive northern race of Pied Monarch put on a show.
Tropical Scrubwren
was also present; this species is at the southern end of its range
here. However, there is considerable debate about whether these are true Tropical or if this is a hybrid zone with Large-billed Scrubwrens.
|Tropical Scrubwren
|Black Butcherbird
Black Butcherbird was among other birds present. List of species found in the Shiptons Flat area can be seen here.
We had a look at Black
Mountain as we headed on to Cooktown.
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[Watch] Yuck - "Suicide Policeman" Live on Tunnelvision
Yuck's self titled debut was warmly recieved in most places and today you can take a look at an extended studio version of an album highlight, in the form of this recording of "Policeman" that was recorded for Tunnelvision. It adds a few extra ingredients here and there including extra riffs along with a slide guitar, which works nicely. Check it out above and if you missed out these boys doing a nice session earlier in the week for Daytrotter check it out over here. Via Pitchfork.


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Go to any forum on the Internet and you will see at least one or two threads started by someone asking for advice or a critique of a lean bulking cycle.
The first thing that needs to be realized is that the AAS you use have a very small part in how lean your gains will be.
Yes, I have heard the proposed tren/prop/masteron with var or winny type cycles. Yes, those will deliver a harder physique with a dieting athlete, but not when one is truly bulking. And yes AAS that promote more estrogenic kick back tend to make one gain a bit more bodyfat, but in the big scheme of things your not going to notice a big difference either way.
In fact the best thing AAS do so far as increasing ones ability to stay leaner, is 2 fold. One, the body grows more muscle tissue and this new tissue increases the metabolic rate and the tissue now adds a calorie burning effect, but this also means gains can halt if more of the proper macros are not added back into the diet. Two, some AAS promote a bit more secretion of IGF-1 from the liver and its effect on nutrient partitioning and body composition are well noted as promoting a leaner physique…however remember the standard life of your bodies natural IGF is 12 minutes or so, once again a negligible difference in the big picture.
The sad reality for any of us is, in order to gain size, we must gain some bodyfat…and to lose bodyfat we must lose some muscle.
But, there are some strategies we can employ and some guidelines we can use when attempting to gain offseason mass with out making it look like we are some sumo wrestler in training.
These strategies are centered around our diet, not our cycle. Quite honestly the AAS I use make only a slight difference in the types of fat loss, or muscle gains that I make.
What makes the biggest impact is how we eat, and secondly how we train.
In the past 3 years for diets and contest I have used a carb cycling approach.
Its actually very simple and its predicated on a system that our bodies use all the time anyway.
The two types of weekly cycles I have personally employed and had good success with are a 5 low and 2 high or 4 low and 3 high on a low carb system…alas this can be used in reverse when we bulk.
Lets look at a 4 high day 3 low day system for the purpose of keeping this simple.
With this type of carb cycling we will eat higher carbs and calories for 4 days of the week with another 3 being much lower.
So for example the first 4 days you would eat 1.5 grams per lb of protein based on your body weight, and 3.5-4.5 grams of mostly complex carbs on your high days, fats will come from your naturally occurring food sources (trust me there's more than enough) and EFA's.
Then comes the low days where protein will stay at 1.5 grams per lb and carbs will drop to 65% less. On these days we will eat more red meat and take in extra EFA's, this will be done mostly with the last 2 meals.
Now you may be scratching your head and thinking AJ has lost his shit, YES maybe, maybe a long time ago in fact, but this is science.
Those of you who have done hard contest diets know from experience what happens after a show? REBOUND. Most bodybuilders make fantastic gains after a show eating JUNK, and still look good for a good amount of time.
WHY? Well its all about insulin sensitivity…when doing a lower carb diet and cardio for that amount of time insulin sensitivity increases up to 3 times its previous mark, making the muscle cells have the ability to soak up glycogen and really kick start the growth process, while the body fat stores are low the body has a bit harder time storing excess calories as fat, it still does it but at a much lower rate than someone who has higher body fat concentrations.
So, when we apply this rationale to the off season we can see that on a much smaller micro scale if weekly we prime the body with lower carb days then flood the system again with higher carbs and macros we get a much sharper anabolic response to food intake that is independent of any AAS we are taking.
Its a simple cycle to follow, and it will work for most people, there are some nanomoles out there and there is no 100% sure fire one size fits all diet for everyone, but the strategy can be manipulated in to weekly cycles as well 2 weeks high one week low, be creative and experiment.
The other side of the cycle is during your lower carb days you get a bit of fat loss but since your 4 days of higher outweigh the low days in frequency you should see positive weight gains every week.
There is also the fact that when we attempt to straight diet (eat the same or more day after day) that our bodies lose the sensitivity to insulin and the carbs are easier and easier to be converted into body fat…not what we want here.
The cycle keeps the bodies homeostatic mechanism off balance allowing for increasing glycogen uptake and some slight body fat reduction all in one weeks micro cycle.
The days you are high on carbs the body is being primed for the low days by increasing leptin.
What is leptin- well heres wiki's definition:
Leptin (Greek leptos meaning thin) is a 16 kDa protein hormone that plays a key role in regulating energy intake and energy expenditure, including appetite and metabolism. Leptin is one of the most important adipose derived hormones.[1] The Ob(Lep) gene (Ob for obese, Lep for leptin) is located on chromosome 7 in humans.[2]
Basically its a hormone that can really determine alot of how are bodies utilize fat for energy, low leptin levels mean somewhat inhibited fat burning and conversely higher levels lead to better fat burning.
When the body is thrown into a fasting state or heavily reduced calories leptin production drops off sharply, when food intake is re-introduced the levels return to normal and in the on set become a bit higher than they were at baseline.
So, with your immediate return to higher carb days that were pre-empted with those 3 low ones your bodies leptin production is greatly increased and this carries through the next 4 days of high calorie and high carb intake.
As you can imagine this means greater uptake of nutrients but also less bodyfat being deposed, subsequently the 3 low days leptin is still remaining high into the second low day or so (individual genetics allowing) that there is more fat burning taking place on those 3 low days.
So in short by keeping the body in this un-balanced state we can allow for muscle gains and fat loss simultaneously.
But don't be fooled, mother nature isn't…YOU WILL STILL BE IN MORE POSITIVE SURPLUS CALORIE DAYS PER WEEK, AND YOU WILL STILL GAIN BODYFAT. The idea here is to gain LESS fat than someone who just goes about this in a linear fashion eating more and more as each day goes by.
I have some simple guidelines that I follow during this phase:
1)cardio- I still do 45 min of cardio about 4-5 times a week- try not doing it and when you start to get really heavy and find breathing to be harder see how it negatively effects your training, especially on leg days…great to be strong as an ox, but if you cant take the set to the max point without giving out from 02 deprivation you will never see peak gains.
2)You MUST eat clean- eating junk food will only throw a wrench in the program. Allow yourself a meal a week but nothing more than that.
3)Like rule #2 as much as possible- DO NOT MIX FATS AND CARBS IN THE SAME MEAL. Carbs, and especially higher carbs will promote the release of insulin, insulin has two functions, push glucose and nutrients into muscle cells, and push fat into fat stores, its very easy for insulin to do this with a lot of fat from a meal present in a high glucose environment.
Carbs+Protein=good…fat+protein good…carbs and fat BLEH!
4)You should approach your training in a cyclic fashion as well, just because week in and week out you feel the need to push heavier and heavier weights doesn't mean your connective tissues will. Allow for some weeks of joint recovery with lower weights, if you end up injured or in too much pain to train properly it will defeat the whole purpose of the diet.
The AAS I chose for this type of diet are a base of Test enanthate+test prop+deca…from their I may add 2 other ancillary compounds that I will switch during the bulk phase.
IGF can be used effectively during the bulk, along with GH.
If you use insulin it will enhance the gains but I recommend using the slin on your high days and then on the low days supplementing with 2-400 mg of r-ALA, Apple cider vinegar, and cinnamon. These supplements help enhance insulin sensitivity and prime your body for the higher carb days when insulin is re-introduced.
As you gain size your caloric needs WILL change-so from a weekly basis keep an eye on the scale and the mirror to see if you are gaining properly, as you gain each 1 lb of muscle it basically adds another 500 or so calories to the thermic effect, so that has to be accounted for as each passing week increases body mass…1lb of muscle gain not gross weight gain…1lb on the scale is nothing, I usually look and see 4-5 lb changes I can assume about 2lbs of muscle…if I'm lucky.
Try to eat as much whole food as possible, I know from my personal experience as the high calorie days go up you have to really be able to pound down the food and a gainer is just about a necessity…but if you can on your low days eat all whole foods. The therm effect of whole food vs supplement powders is close to a 5 fold increase in BMR- that's more calories you can burn as fat on those days so try, I know its not possible every day, but if you can do it most of the time this will really work in your favor.
That is about my cycle diet for gaining.
Try it or not, it gives us something to think about and possibly apply to our own off season goals, remember the holidays are right around the corner so GET HUUUGGE!


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Hong Kong Buffet
341 Boniface Pkwy, Anchorage, AK 99504
(907) 333-3744
(907) 333-3744
Phone: (907) 332-0556
Fax: (907) 332-0556
Wi-Fi: No
Bike Parking: Yes
Attire: Casual
Cuisines: Buffets, Asian, Chinese
Takes Reservations: No
Outdoor Seating: No
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The food is great! the lunch buffet is really cheap, but somewhat expensive to order off of the menu. The staff and owner are really friendly and service is great. My husband goes there all the time at luch and they are our go to for delivery orders.
This is the only place I order my Chinese food from. I only get my food delivered so I dont have to worry about food that has sat on a buffett line for too long. Food is great.
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Hong Kong buffet is the worst buffet I ever went to. When I walked in there, there was no one there at all. After a few minutes a young girl(the daughter i think) came to the cash register. Then we finally started eating. They have little variety of food and the food seems like its been there a long time. Through out the whole time we were there the young girl was on a laptop touching ""myspace"". The food is not worth the price. The only good thing I like about it is the pork-on-a-stick.
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I took my kids here for dinner because we order from them offten and like thier food, will never spend another cent there again. We got there and the resturant was empty so we made our plates. When I took a bite of the noodles it had sat on the line so long it had become crunchy. After trying to eat something on the plate I relized everything was sitting for far to long and told the waitress the food was disgusting and old she said that they were making more food but it was to hot to put on the line... I like my food hot? So after sitting there for another 20 minutes and only one item coming out and quickly being mixed with the old food I decided I was sitting there looking at the wall any longer so I asked for my bill for my sodas I only had 1 bite of food and my kids probably had 3 bites combined and the guy came back with a check saying I had to pay the whole amount cause I took the food off the buffet. There were people yelling in the back as well not a friendly place to take your kids at all. horrible service!!


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'Mobarak Hossain Khan: Musicologist, Music Researcher, Musician and Writer':
Mobarak Hossain Khan is a music researcher, music expert and musician of repute. He plays 'Surbahar', a string instrument, meant for classical music. He comes of the great family musicians of Bangladesh, which produces a galaxy of illustrious classical musicians, like, Ustad (Maestro of Music)
Dr. Alauddin Khan
Ustad Ayet Ali Khan
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Pandit Ravi Shankar
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Ustad Mir Kashem Khan
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Ustad Khurshid Khan
Ustad Shahadat Hossain Khan
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He has written more than 100 books, three of which are in English (published from India). His recent publications on music are: i. Sangeetsadhak Abhidhan (Dictionary of Musicians). ii. Amar Sangeet Swajan (My Music Kindred). Bangladesh Muslim Sangeetsadhak (Muslim Music Devotees of Bangladesh). He is the third son of Ustad Ayet Ali Khan and nephew of Ustad Alauddin Khan. He has been decorated with the highest State Awards of the country'The Independence Day Award' (
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)and '
Bangla Academy Literary Award
' for his commendable contribution in the field of music. He has also been adorned with quite a number of other wards. His article on 'Music of Bangladesh' has been published in the Swedish Encyclopedia. He has also contributed to the 'Banglapedia' (the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh) published by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. He is the former Director General of National Academy of Fine and Performing Arts (
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy
) and former Chairman of
Nazrul Institute
named after the Poet-Laureate of Bangladesh
Kazi Nazrul Islam
. He is also the President of the Bangladesh Chapter of International Council for Traditional Music (
), the headquarters being in the U.S.A. and also the President of Ustad Ayet Ali Khan Academy of Music. He has served
Radio Bangladesh
and former Radio Pakistan for long 30 years. He is also the Secretary General of the
International PEN
Bangladesh Chapter, headquarters being in London, U.K.
He has visited many countries including U.S.A, U. K. China, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, North Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, Kuwait, Iran, India and Pakistan as a leader of cultural delegation and also as an expert on Radio, Saarc and Unesco.
He is a visiting lecturer of College of Music and associated with the Department of Drama and Music of Dhaka University and Rajshahi University.
He is an M. A. in History.
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Pankaj Sachdeva on how the American story teller shaped Bollywood
William Sydney Porter was an American short-story writer. He is better known by his pen name O. Henry. His stories touch an array of themes, such as love, sacrifice, deception, and coincidence. In addition, his stories typically have a surprise ending. He lets the readers think that they have it figured out but then there is something waiting at the end of the story. He keeps the readers under suspense until the last sentence. His oeuvre is, thus, best suited to be made into films, and in fact, there have been quite a few Hindi films that have been inspired by his work.
One of the earliest adaptations of O. Henry's works in Hindi cinema was Bombai Ka Babu (1960). Directed by Raj Khosla, the film was inspired by Henry's story A Double-Dyed Deceiver. The film is the story of Babu, played by Dev Anand, who takes to crime from a young age. After coming out of prison, Babu decides to mend his ways. He goes to meet his associate, Balli, who tries to convince him to join in another heist. Meanwhile, the police raids Balli's hideout, and arrests all his associates. Balli is released on bail and suspects Babu of being a police informer. When Balli meets Babu again, there is a fight between the two and Balli dies on the spot. Afraid of being implicated again, Babu runs away to Shimla, where he gets entangled in another criminal racket. Bhagat, the leader of the gang, wants Babu to go in disguise as the lost son of a wealthy man, who had run away from home two decades earlier. Babu becomes Kundan, and is received with affection by the wealthy parents. His younger sister Maya has some doubts about her returned brother but never expresses it. Meanwhile, Babu falls in love with Maya. Bhagat continues to blackmail Babu to rob the family of their possessions. In the climax, Babu discovers that Kundan was no one else but his dead associate Balli. The romantic angle between the brother and the sister was not present in A Double-Dyed Deceiver but other events including the final twist were inspired by it. Bombai Ka Babu's ending is rare and unconventional with hints of incestual relations as the two lead actors with romantic inclinations end up as brother and sister.
A variation of A Double-Dyed Deceiver was also seen in Ravi Chopra's Zameer (1975). Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Saira Banu, and Shammi Kapoor, the film is about Badal, a small-time criminal, who is asked to impersonate the son of a rich farm owner Maharaj Singh. Badal is accepted by his new family. He falls in love with Sunita, but she is conflicted as he turns out to be her lost brother. Badal knows that he is not her brother but does not tell anyone. Circumstances bring Maharaj's real son Suraj into their lives. Years ago, a dacoit had abducted Maharaj's son to avenge the death of his own son who was killed by Maharaj during a robbery. After learning about Suraj, Badal takes up the responsibility of restoring Suraj to his family. Zameer has been cited as the remake of Bombai Ka Babu, but unlike that film, there is no twist in the end in this film. However, the theme of lovers as a possible brother-sister duo was present in Zameer, too.
K.Shankar's Sachaai (1969) is based on Henry's another famous story After Twenty Years. The film starred Shammi Kapoor and Sanjeev Kumar in lead roles. It is the story of two friends Ashok and Kishore who are roommates living together. Ashok takes to crime, while Kishore is an honest upright man. The two friends disagree on living life honestly. They decide to meet each other after a period of three years to see the effect that life has had on them. In the ensuing period, things change a lot. Kishore becomes a hardened criminal Baghi Sitara while Ashok realizes it is not worthwhile to pursue a criminal career, and becomes a police inspector. Ashok is assigned the task of apprehending Baghi Sitara. On the other hand, Kishore must kill Ashok in order to carry out his nefarious activities. After three years, the two men have an emotional meeting, unaware about the other person's changed circumstances in life, as it happened in the original story by Henry.
Noted actor Pran's son Sunil Sikand made Lakshmanrekha (1991) that was also a retelling of After Twenty Years. The film starred Naseeruddin Shah as Amar and Jackie Shroff as Vicky. Amar and Vicky are close friends. Amar is a police inspector, while Vicky is a criminal. At some point, Amar's father is killed before his own eyes by Birju. Amar attempts to avenge his dad's death by plotting to kill Birju as he had managed to escape conviction by producing false alibis. When Amar tires to finish Birju, he is confronted by Vicky, who has now become a police inspector. Vicky will not permit Amar to take the law into his own hands. The basic premise of two friends changing their belief in the criminal justice system over the years is inspired by After Twenty Years.
Priyadarshan's Vellanakalude Nadu (1998) is considered to be one of the classic films in Malayalam cinema. The film starred Mohanlal and Shobhana in lead roles. The film was remade in Hindi by Priyadarshan as Khatta Meetha (2010). The film's theme of the lead pair's changing opinion over the years about the ethics to be followed in life was again based on After Twenty Years. Khatta Meetha starred Akshay Kumar and Trisha Krishnan as the lead actors. It is the story of Sachin Tichkule, a small-time contractor, desperate to succeed in a society that is skewed heavily towards the corrupt. He gives up his Gandhian philosophy and becomes an immoral and corrupt man, ready to pay bribes to move ahead in life. However, a meeting with his ex-girlfriend Gehna, who is now an honest and upright municipal commissioner, brings a change in his conscience and he turns back to his ethical code of living.
Rituparno Ghosh's first Hindi film Raincoat (2004) was also inspired by Henry's story The Gift of the Magi. Henry's story is about a married couple, Jim and Della, and how they deal with buying Christmas gifts for each other, with their limited means. They both sacrifice their prized possessions to buy gifts to show their love for each other. Adapting beautifully to an Indian setting, Raincoat is about Mannu (Ajay Devgn) and Niru (Aishwarya Rai). They grew up in the same neighborhood and were lovers once. Due to Mannu's poor financial condition, Niru marries another guy. It is now six years later. Mannu has lost his job and needs money to start his own business. Niru, now a married woman, is dealing with her own financial problems as her husband suffered huge financial losses. She is also struggling to make ends meet. Mannu goes to visit Niru; they reminisce about the past, and make up false stories about their perfect life. In the end, like it happens in The Gift of the Magi, a surprise gift awaits the both of them, which becomes a testimony of their continued love for each other even after so many years.
Most recently, Vikramaditya Motwane made the poetic Lootera (2013). Set in 1953, it is the story of Pakhi (Sonakshi Sinha) and Varun (Ranveer Singh). Pakhi is the daughter of a rich zamindar of Manikpur. Varun is an archaeologist who wants to excavate some sites near her house. Pakhi falls in love with Varun, but he turns out to be a thief who steals all the antique jewelry and artifacts from her house. Devastated by his betrayal, Pakhi moves to Dalhousie. She does not keep well. Every day, she looks out at a big tree outside her window, and thinks that when the last leaf of the tree falls, she will die that day. Varun comes to Dalhousie for another robbery, but the police is looking for him. He takes shelter in Pakhi's house, and learns about Pakhi's last leaf theory. Varun had always wanted to be a painter, and in the end, he paints a leaf and puts it on the tree outside Pakhi's house so that Pakhi can live. In doing so, he not only paints a masterpiece but he also seeks redemption for his betrayal and proves his immense love for Pakhi. The second half of Lootera involving the leaf sequences is based on Henry's The Last Leaf, which was the story of an old artist Behrman who saves the life of a young girl Johnsy, suffering from pneumonia, by giving her the will to live. Johnsy thinks she is going to die when the last leaf on the ivy vine outside her window falls. However, the leaf does not fall, and she starts to get better. The same day she gets better, Behrman dies. It is discovered that the last leaf on the ivy plant was painted onto the window by Behrman, who died of pneumonia which he contracted while being out in the wet and cold, painting the last leaf.
Besides Lootera, Hrishikesh Mukherjee's directorial debut film Musafir (1957) has also been thought to have a few shades of The Last Leaf. The film is about a house and the lives of three families who live on rent in it for different periods. Musafir comprises three different stories related to the circle of life. The third story in the film is about a widowed mother Uma (Usha Kiron) and her son Raja (Daisy Irani) who cannot walk. Outside their house, Pagla Babu (Dilip Kumar) keeps on playing the violin. Pagla Babu is none other than Uma's ex-lover Raja, who had left Uma two days before their wedding, and after whom she named her son. A friendship develops between the young Raja and Pagla Babu. Raja tells Pagla Babu that he dreamt that there were big red flowers on the tree outside their house. Pagla Babu tells him that he will walk the day there are flowers on the tree outside. Meanwhile, it is found that Pagla Babu is suffering from cancer. Pagla Babu's health deteriorates and he dies. The day he dies, Raja starts walking and red flowers appear on the tree. Like it was in The Last Leaf, Raja walks on the same day when Pagla Babu, who had given him hope, dies. There is a contrast with Henry's story as instead of the last leaf falling, there will be flowers blooming in the tree.
In addition, commentators have also noted the themes of melancholy and waiting for death in Musafir to be similar to that in The Last Leaf. In his book Hero, Volume 1, The Silent Era to Dilip Kumar, Ashok Raj writes, "Although the film [Musafir] presented Dilip Kumar as Devdas reincarnated, there was a difference; the lover-sufferer, in this case, is not restless, but in a state of chronic depression, which finds expression not in self-indulgence, but in a kind of resigned sadness. He keeps on playing his violin as if announcing his inevitable death any moment. It seems that Hrishikesh Mukherjee took this idea from The Last Leaf, the famous short story by O. Henry. In his later highly acclaimed film Anand (1970), Mukherjee transformed this role of death-in-waiting to a highly spirited positive character (played by Rajesh Khanna), a cancer patient, who intends to take death merely as a way of life. Anand, unlike Devdas, lives every precious moment of life with full zest before accepting an untimely death."
For the sake of completeness, one of the episodes of Doordarshan's TV serial Katha Sagar was also based on The Last Leaf. Starring Supriya Pathak, Neena Gupta and Irshad Hashmi, the episode was directed by noted film director Shyam Benegal.
Henry had written, "There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands." His stories reflect that, and perhaps, that is what makes these films even more thoughtful as they help us discover the beauty of emotions in everyday life.
This story was first published on India Independent Films


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Much of the preview material for "The Doctor's Wife" features a prominent female guest star, and it's clear that the BBC want us to believe that she is the titular spouse. This is going to be a bluff, and the wife referred to in the title will be the TARDIS.
The Doctor's time machine is often referred to with female pronouns, and the TARDIS is the only companion constant enough to be considered a "wife". The message from the other Time Lord is a fake, intended to draw the Doctor to a specific location so that some force can steal his vessel, and I suspect that Amy and Rory will be trapped inside, resulting in a long-awaited explore-the-TARDIS episode.
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Career Development Often, it isn't until business professionals reach middle management that they contemplate going back to school for their MBA. But by then, the challenges and responsibilities are far greater.
Returning to school mid-career doesn't have to be intimidating—the key is finding a program that provides the flexibility necessary to balance work, life and school. Today's competitive MBA environment provides many choices for mature students considering returning to school. Prospective students should consider the delivery, the content and the overall experience they are seeking to achieve.
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Branch ROOT - contains Changeset 1, Changeset 2
Branch CHILD
Using Source Control Explorer, what would be the easiest way to roll back the changeset 2 for the branch CHILD and at the same time leave the branch ROOT intact?
When looking in the history of the branch CHILD, the history starts with the branching point, thus I cannot select the changeset 2 to roll it back.
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Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Wild food of the month October & a bloggy visit
This time she didn't only bring her husband Eric along, but her 4 children as well, which insisted on being introduced to all the animals around our village.
Here's her youngest trying to feed grass to a donkey's bottom...
So, if you were wondering why she hasn't posted anything on her blog for a while, here's the answer: She's been taken her family on tractor rides in Italy amongst other things.
On another note, it's time for the wild food of the month feature. For October this should normally undisputedly be the chestnut. However, I have in the past written extensively about this beautiful fruit (here for instance), and this year we have an exceptionally bad year for them
Initially I had put that down to the vagaries of nature until I realised that just a few km up the valley, they have an extremely good year for chestnuts. Due to the above average rainfall this year, they have grown to a larger size and the crop is particularly healthy. The area around and just above our village on the other hand seems to have produced hardly anything and on closer inspection the leaves on the trees have started turning autumnal at least a month ahead of normal.
A chance meeting in the woods gave part of the explanation: insects have spread a virus amongst the trees and helicopters have already dropped large quantities of predatory insects to control the harmful ones, but it may already too late to save the extensive woods for a few km around us.
Further research on the internet seems to suggest that we are suffering from a twin attack of chestnut blight, which has caused famines in some of the remoter valleys shortly after the war, and the Oriental chestnut gall wasp. Over in Arcola we have a tree on our land which has not been affected so far, but we do have to go further afield for our chestnuts this year. I hope they'll manage to control these outbreaks, it's one of the most calorie-rich wild foods we gather.
So instead I'll write something on the little blue myrtle berry.
It may be a bit of an exaggeration to call it a wild food. The main use for it is as an ingredient for a Sardinian liqueur called mirto. There are 2 versions of it mirto bianco, made from the extremely aromatic leaves, and mirto classico, a dark red liqueur made from the berries. I have made neither so far, but I've picked a mixture of the berries and leaves today to dry for later use. The berries are also said to be good used cooked with venison or wild boar. The leaves, as I have already found out can be used in these essential oil burners instead of essential oil to spread a pleasant aroma in the room. I imagine they'd be good as part of a stuffing for some rabbit or grouse for example, although again not tried yet. Anyboy knows of any other uses, I'd love to hear.
16 comments:
- Angela said...
The children really seem to have fun, meeting all the local animals. Sorry about your chestnuts. Due to an exceptionally cold and dry spring, we have hardly any apples this year, or pears, or plums. Good there are some supermarkets around, although I never like their apples.
It is rainy now, and I need to be uplifted.
- 19 October 2010 at 20:00
- Heiko said...
Angela, the weather really has been crazy everywhere this year. Due to chronic lack of cash, sipermarket usually isn't an option for us, but at least apples, pears and plums we had plenty of. May was cold, but not dry here. Hope the sun will shine on you soon again. :)
- 19 October 2010 at 21:12
- chaiselongue said...
I'm sure the myrtle berries would make good jam, but I love the sound of the berry and wild boar recipe.... is it a good year for wild boar? Very sad about they chestnuts because you can do so much with them. I've heard that in the Cevennes mountains, just north of here, during the war the people lived on chestnuts and very little else.
- 19 October 2010 at 21:29
- Jan said...
What a shame about the chestnut trees, hopefully they'll survive. I don't think they grow around here... at least, I've never seen one.
- 19 October 2010 at 22:08
- Stefaneener said...
To be fair, she knows which end eats. . . the baby was probably distracted by her older sister.
The berries look an awful lot like the huckleberries I'd blogged about last, lo these many weeks ago.
It was so very good to see you again.
- 19 October 2010 at 23:42
- Heiko said...
CL, I'm not sure about the jam. They are veryintensely aromatic, but maybe as an accompaniment to the likes of wild boar would work like that too... Here also the chestnut was THE staple food during times of famine. Many of the older generation won't touch them any more, because the associate them with war and poverty.
We are surriunded by chestnut trees, I don't think you get them individually. If the trees die it will mean an awful lot of forest around us disappearing and with it aforementioned wild boar and general wild life.
Stefani, thanks for coming to see us, it was a pleasure. I'm sure the little one is just having trouble attracting the right end of the donkey.
- 20 October 2010 at 09:30
- Mr. H. said...
Too bad about the trees we have issues with a certain type of beetle around here from time to time that destroys trees but nothing of late. It sounds like you had a good visit with your guests...perhaps some day I will see my picture on your blog.:)
- 20 October 2010 at 15:25
- Heiko said...
Mr.H, the frustrating thing is also to get any real information on what's happening with the trees. As far as I can tell it's fairly localised issue at the moment, but it could surely spread. I must ask a friend who works as a forester, if he knows any more.
I am also looking forward to the day I'll see your photo on my blog. :)
- 20 October 2010 at 15:45
- Ruralrose said...
Wacky things happened with some of my crops this year too. No cherries, 12 plums, no pears, . . . I think it is partly to do with the jetstream splitting. I loved seeing the myrtle as it is new to me. You could write a book about making liquors you sure are knowledgeable. Peace
- 21 October 2010 at 07:56
- Heiko said...
Rose, I.m working on a musical cookery book for wild food and frugal recipes. It'll have a few liqueur recipes in it as well. Watch this space!
- 21 October 2010 at 09:20
Down south myrtle is mostly used to flavour olives cured with caustic soda, but as a rule of thumb you can use the leaves as you would bay leaves and the berries as you would juniper berries or allspice.
Sorry to hear about your chestnuts and I hope they recover next year.
- 21 October 2010 at 15:46
- Heiko said...
Contadina, that's what I thought too, but I hadn't heard about the flavouring for olives before, in fact I haven't heard about them being cured with caustic soda. Tell me more.
- 21 October 2010 at 19:44
- Jan said...
Heiko, I've put some rough amounts on my post about the fig chutney for you.
- 21 October 2010 at 22:17
It's for green olives only and the bigger the better (down here the green rugby-shaped ones are favoured).
Wash and cover the olives with water in a container, which is not metal. Dissolve caustic soda in the water (20 g per each kg. of olives); the olives are left to soak till the pulp comes easily away from the core (about 2 or 3 hours). Be extremely careful while doing this because the caustic soda is strongly corrosive. Also, remove any that float.
The pickling water is drained and the olives are left in regular water for 4 - 10 days or until the water becomes completely clear and it stops discolouring. It needs to be changed a couple of times each day so that the olives can lose the taste of the pickling.
Then boil up a couple of handfuls of myrtle, about 30 bay leaves, a couple of handfuls of wild fennel (stems and flower heads), and 100g of salt per litre, in a big pan of water.
Leave for a few weeks before opening and they should have a very aromatic taste - a bit Christmassy.
I only usually make a few jars using this recipe as they don't last as long as olives cured in brine, but they are definitely a winner over the Christmas period.
- 22 October 2010 at 13:26
- Heiko said...
Thanks for that Contadina. Not sure if this is going to work for us. Native olives are very much on the small side here. I'll have a look out for some larger ones maybe. Is caustic soda the same thing as bicarbonate of soda?
- 22 October 2010 at 14:36
No it's lye, so very corrosive. You can make it yourself from the ash of hardwoods or buy it in a petrini/ferramenta type place. It's really cheap and lasts a long time. I buy a 300g tub every other year for the olives and to make soap.
Ask your neighbouring contadini though as I wouldn't be at all surprised if there isn't an olive they cure this way.
- 22 October 2010 at 15:23


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