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1. The opening credits are layered across scenes of Tobe Hooper's 1974 original as filtered through an Instagram filter, which I presume was meant to get the audience into the atmospheric state of dread that the original dwelled in to such powerful effect. I imagine the filmmakers thought doing this would give them a leg up, allowing Hooper's film to do the work that they knew they were incapable of. Sadly, it just lays the groundwork for disappointment by so overtly referencing how great the original was. Even in these near context-free snippets it's genuinely hard not to be creeped out. Shame the director seemingly hadn't even seen the original to figure out what the hell made it so creepy.
|Introducting Tremaine 'Trey Songz' Neverson as... Terry McMinn's butt?
2. I'm sorry, but what is a "Trey Songz"? Okay, I'm being facetious - I know that Trey Songz is a singer of some sort, although I wouldn't be able to recognise any of his songs if you asked me to. Apparently he has five albums under his belt, which is news to me. But, then, I don't generally listen to the radio anymore so I wouldn't have the slightest idea what the hell he even sings.
3. Their plan to revitalise the memory of Hooper's film fails them dismally the moment they cut to the new film proper. This movie has been filmed in appalling unattractive digital that performs a complete 180 to the intent, aesthetic, and effect of Daniel Pearl's cinematography of 1974. Where the original worked so hard and yet looked so effortless in creating its sense of realistic, sun-drenched terror, this sequel's camera work by Anastas Michos is incredibly unforgiving to the creation of mood as well as to the sets in general which never look anything other than fake.
4. I guess given the film's problems with such concepts as time and logic (which we will get to soon) I'm surprised they even remembered to have the empty semi-truck on the road, the swing in the front garden, and the saw marks in the front door. I do question whether this small, hick-filled Texas town would have an African American sheriff. Anyone?
5. Not sure where all these Sawyer family residents came from, but wouldn't it make sense for them to lay low until the "Texas chain saw massacre" stories have subsided before then carrying on the family tradition that they're all so very proud of?
6. Bad visual effects, bad.
7. This is Paul Rae as "Burt Hartman". When he appears again later in the movie you will notice that he hasn't aged.
Just one of many moments where it becomes obvious Texas Chainsaw exists in a universe where time doesn't exist in the same way as it does on Earth.
8. See this? This is a baby. This is a baby in a flashback set in 1974.
9. See this? This a woman. This is a woman set in a film that takes place in the present day who was that baby.
This is a woman who is most definitely not on the verge of 40 years old like the timeline suggests. I can't make head or tails of this. Actress Alexandra Daddario is 26 years old and, given the rule of Hollywood and horror, we must assume she's portraying a character, "Heather", who is no older than 21. That positions that film very squarely as being set in the mid-to-late 1990s, but it's very clearly not.
10. Oh, and did I mention she's a butcher and makes artwork out of animal bones? LOL! Also: I hate you, screenwriters. Seriously. Could you signpost the final act any louder? And is wearing a knitted beanie really appropriate butcher acquire? I think so. I mean, he hair is still just hanging there waiting to fall onto food for everyone to eat. I find that infinitely more grotesque than cannibalism (okay, maybe not, but it bares noting).
11. Hicks are a Texas Chainsaw staple. These two were in the flashback prologue and were the ones who stole the Sawyer baby to raise as their own. She has a "defective uterus" (these writers sure do know how to get the mood going, huh?) and warns Heather not to go to Texas to get her inheritence going there will "bring trouble." They actually make the most sense of the picture: they left the town where it happened and they have no intention of going back. Smart move. "Texas is the last place you want to be." Still, they should've thought about this before Lynching the Sawyer family and stealing their baby after kicking the mother in the face. Maybe.
12. Anonymous crunk track on the soundtrack just further cements its modern day setting. It's a song so bad that the song credits on IMDb don't mention it and Shazam doesn't recognise it. Well done.
13. I actually like this shot, which is a rare moment for this film, but I query what modern day teenagers would go on a road trip in a minivan? There's only four of them and they'd fit easily inside a regular car, which they all surely have. None of them appear to be pot smokers or wheelchair bound, so... but, I did forget that this isn't set in Modern Day Earth, so...
14. The Chainsaw prerequisite hitchhiker isn't a victimiser (like Edwin Neal in 1974) or victim (Lauren German in the 2005 remake), but rather a hot studly guy (Shaun Sipod) who is allergic to buttoning up his shirt in the rain and basically belongs in a season-long stint on Hart of Dixie as Wade's cocky cousin who the audience thinks is going to try and steal Zoe away, but instead falls for Lemon! Umm... yeah. My mind drifted away several times during this movie, so I apologise.
15. The "horny babe who likes sex, rowr" of Texas Chainsaw is Tania Raymonde. They're... not really trying, are they?
16. Yes, if you had just inherited a house (so big you call it a "mansion") full of expensive stuff would you leave it and all of your luggage with the hitchhiker you just met? I mean, it's rare to come across a situation that deserves a "duh!", but this deserves it. Duh!
17. This is Paul Rae again at whatever undetermined moment in the future this is set. He hasn't aged. He hasn't aged 39 years like release dates and in-film technology suggests, not as he aged 20 years like the grown up Heather would suggest. This movie is stupid.
18. Not much of these images can really show off how bad Texas Chainsaw looks. It's the sort of film that looks ugly in movement, when the bad digital can really work its, ahem, magic. This particular set, however, is uuugly. Gharish green and pink (!!!) colours and photography that makes the set look like nothing but, well, a set. Yet again, comparing to the original is just mean, but we have to. The original was so lived in, This is just created with little thought put in to continuity.
19. The first sighting of Leatherface outside of the prologue is so dark I can't even take a screencap of it. I guess there's nice symmetry in his first kill being with a mallet like in the original, and I actually really like that he's dressed up like an older man. I mean, depending on what timeline you think this film exists in, he could be anywhere near 60 years old! He's not, because the film is fucked up with its continuity, but it's fun to imagine it don't you think?
20. Oh look, it's Scott Eastwood, Clint's son, in the role of deceptively attractive lunkhead police officer who's actually bad. I'm justifying including pictures of him because, er, the character is stupidly written? I dunno. I just want to include these pictures of Scott Eastwood in a police uniform.
I think this is enough of a segue to include this image I once mocked up. Because I have mad skillz with Photoshop, y'all.
|Does this not amaze?
21. On-screen blood splatter is a 3D horror flick classic, but apart from this and two scenes involving chainsaws being directed directly at the camera the 3D seems to have not been used in a novelty way. That's most refreshing and disappointing. If your movie is called Texas Chainsaw 3D then I want limbs flying at the screen. LIMBS!
22. Leatherface has clearly let his masks of skin go down hill. Where's the make-up? Where's the freshly-filleted flesh? This is just kinda gross, no? In that top picture he kinda looks like Hoggle from the Labyrinth with a bad skin condition.
23. I think the differences between "Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" and "John Luessenhop's Texas Chainsaw 3D" is in this scene right here. Whereas in Hooper's original the character of Pam gets popped on a hook with relatively little blood (the whole film has relatively little blood), Luessenhop's sequel features Karem Malicki-Sanchez' character getting splattered onto a hook and then chainsawed in half!
Curiously, Marcus Nispel's remake had a scene similar to this, and then had to take it out because Jonathan Tucker's innards were just too much for the MPAA. Hmmm. Maybe the ratings board was taking pity on this film by letting it pass with an R.
24. Yes, hiding in an empty coffin in an open grave in a small family cemetery is by far the wisest decision Heather could make in this situation.
25. Say what you will about Marcus Nispel's "remake" (it's really not a remake at all, but we've been through this before) but it didn't quite revel in cliches like having character fuck just to get them out of clothes. It got away with having them in skimpy clothes by actually having the vibe of a Texan summer. Remember Mike Vogel in his white tank top? MmHmmm. This movie doesn't have any of that, just typically horny teenagers that fuck in barnyards. But, hey, Trey Songz without a shirt?
Er... a little lower, Mr 'face.
|"Welcome to Texas, motherfucker!"
28. Given that this house was only inherited to Heather because her grandmother died and nobody else lives there other than Leatherface in the basement, I have no idea why there are so many lights on including in the barn. This property is illuminated by floodlights, it would seem. As are the woods around them. You'd be forgiven for forgetting these scenes are set at night since they are so heavily lit by artificial light. It's distracting and the opposite of scary.
29. Yup. This makes sense. Escape via ferris wheel. Because it's not like they go in a circle or anything like that. I'm impressed they didn't give her underboob.
30. The most ridiculous scene in the whole film should have been the best. "Leatherface goes to the county fair" really should have been a great bit; Leatherface entering the real world and all of that. Unfortunately, apart from the aforementioned ferris wheel ride (quite humorously, there are people in the cart she grabs a hold of!), I found myself in hysterics - I had to rewind and watch it several times - over this bit where Leatherface throws his chainsaw at the screen and waddles away like Dr Zoidberg. I tried to make it a gif, but I am seemingly incapable of doing even the simplest of tasks. :( amirite?
31. Look, when I used to purchase newspapers, I could barely keep them in order for one day. Somehow, these newspapers from 1974 have remained perfectly in tact. Because being stored in the evidence locker of a small Texan town is entirely conducive to remaining in mint condition with crisp, white paper. And nothing about "they chainsawed my paraplegic brother" isn't funny.
|dun dun duuuuunnn!
Look, I can't even get proper reception on my iPhone in the middle of Manhattan without a cloud in the sky, so how are these guys getting perfectly clear video phone reception in a Texan basement that's clad in brick and steel? This shit is stupid.
33. Longest bloodtrail in history, for sure. It goes from the road all the way through the grass, down the long driveway, up the steps, through the house, down the stairs, through the basement and into the lab. Fairly certainly the body doesn't even have that much blood to drain out of plain ol' wounds. Even those made by chainsaws.
35. Boobs. And very carefully covered boobs at that.
|"We saw your boobs."
37. "Do your thing, Cous'", says Heather as she throws her cousin his chainsaw. Seriously. Somebody actually wrote this nonsense and was convinced that inventing a catch phrase for this girl was the right way to go. Everyone loves a spunky chick who leaves her hick family to take over care duties of her long lost cannibalistic relative. Bless.
37.5 Bad visual effects, bad!
38. So, after the Sheriff lets Leatherface kill the guy that started the lynch mob on his family's house, he apparently just lets them both go. Also: Clint Eastwood's son was left and just isn't heard from after he ties Heather up. Who the fuck knows what the police of this town are telling everyone. It then dissolves into some sort of tender family drama as Heather begins to take care of Leatherface. Family heals all wounds with this lot.
39. Well, except these two who show up in a post-credits spot of wacky comedy. I hate this movie, it is so bloody stupid.
Say what you will about all the other Texas Chainsaw Massacre films, but none of them ravaged the corpse of the original quite as much as this one did. The nerve of them to hail themselves as the only true genuine continuation of the 1974 original may have come through for the filmmakers if they'd really tried. But this is little more than a rehash of numbers 3 and 4 in the franchise. I know I am a rare fan of the 2005 "remake", but surely anybody can see that one was trying for tension and a sweaty, slick take on the franchise that hadn't been done before. Pretty much everything in this edition has been done before and done this way before. It's ridiculous, but never ridiculous enough (hi Matthew McConaughey in The Next Generation), and ultimately a dreadfully sloppy film that lacks any sort of horror movie necessities. It misses out on an outright F because I got such a laugh out of that stupid carnival sequence. D-.


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Using Eric Barger's STRETCH and Revisionist Technology and Todd Friel's Subliminal Brainwashing microwaves Ken Silva and his loyal band of Discernmentalists have found a way to hit the Preteen/Tween and Teenage television markets. The first of their fruits is:
Weekends at 9:30AM
All times ET/PTThat's So Discernmentalist is a new live-action situation comedy starring Raven (formerly credited as Raven-Symone, The Cosby Show) as Reagan "Marxist" Basher, a winsome Capitalist-loving teen whose ability to glimpse flashes of the future and know all through perfect osmosis cause trouble whenever she meets Emergent and Red-Letter Christians. Helping her out (or sometimes into) these predicaments are her best friends Eddie Silva and Chelsea Barger, whose loyalty can be counted on whether Reagan's escapades involve hilarious disguises, hostile government overthrows of corporations by God's Only Inerrant/Republican Party, exploitation, discernmentalism or a hint of danger. Allowing her flights of fancy — yet eager to keep her feet on the ground — are Reagan's parents, Victoria and Todd "Emergent" Basher. And then there's precocious kid brother Cory, who is both an annoyance and invaluable resource to his big sis. Cory not only idolizes Final President Reagan and Capitalism, but the love of money is his total root motivation with all his wacky "get rich quick" business schemes. Watch with the whole family and learn these Discernmentalist values: arrogance, greed, haughtiness, Capitalist Materialism, divisionism, knowing by osmosis, condescending selfishness, avarice, revisionism, strawman arguments, how to listen to only yourself when you yell and scream at your opponents and much much more…©GOIP ProductionsLength: 00:23
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This macro determines whether the system supports the poll I/O event interface. A neat usage example would be:
AX_HAVE_POLL( [AX_CONFIG_FEATURE_ENABLE(poll)], [AX_CONFIG_FEATURE_DISABLE(poll)]) AX_CONFIG_FEATURE( [poll], [This platform supports poll(7)], [HAVE_POLL], [This platform supports poll(7).])
Some systems – most notably Linux kernel 2.6.16 and later – also have the variant ppoll(). The availability of that function can be tested with the second macro. Generally speaking, it is safe to assume that AX_HAVE_POLL would succeed if AX_HAVE_PPOLL has, but not the other way round.
Download the latest version of ax_have_poll.m4 or browse the macro's revision history.
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\nIt's no surprise: Superhero movies are waaay popular, especially among men — just look at The Dark Knight, which is breaking box office records left and right. And while most dudes like all comic book capers, they usually have a favorite. The superhero a man prefers reveals the strengths and qualities that he would like to have or develop more of, says Krista Bloom, PhD, author of The Ultimate Compatibility Quiz. We got Bloom to weigh in on four of the most popular costumed adventurers and explain what it means if your guy is a fan.
Who he worships: Superman
What it reveals: Superman is the quintessential "nice guy" — he's loyal, believes that people are inherently good, and is always ready to save the day. A guy who digs the Man of Steel usually has the same traits. So, while you may not need your man to save you from a burning building, he'll love it if you ask for his advice or help in mini-crisis — whether it's changing a flat or settling you down after a fight with a pal. In other words? Score! But his desire to rescue people might not stop with you. He's the type to fill his days helping his mom and doing favors for friends. If you feel like his time is monopolized by being a little too good to others, just pipe up and he'll be responsive.
Who he worships: Spider-Man
What it reveals: Spider-Man is the underdog of all superheroes. As Peter Parker, he's sensitive, completely responsible, and a bit nerdy. And his Spidey alter ego is pretty much the same — except for the fact that he also swoops from building to building to rescue damsels in distress. If your man relates to this cobweb-flinging fella, chances are he's emotionally open, never late, and always feels the need to the do the right thing. The only downside: Just like Spider-Man, your guy may get so caught up in being responsible that he has a hard time being carefree. You'll just have to show him how to loosen up…
Who he worships: Batman
What it reveals: Batman — aka Bruce Wayne — drives a badass car, dates supermodels, and is rolling in dough...so, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why he appeals to your dude. But the Caped Crusader also has a darker side — his parents were killed by criminals, and that's why he has set out to fight the bad guys. Batman avoids getting close to most people and is sort of a loner. So, your guy may share his dangerously dashing appeal, but you may also have to work a little harder to get him to open up.
Who he worships: The Hulk
What it reveals: This superhero goes from the quiet, reserved Bruce Banner to the big, green Hulk whenever he gets pissed off. Scary, right? But no worries; this character means well, he just lets his feelings overwhelm him. A guy who tells you that The Hulk is his favorite is likely to be the type who gets caught up in emotions and may even have the occasional outburst. Here's the bright side: You'll never have to guess how he feels. That said, if you do sense him getting worked up, it may be best to give him some space until he calms down or figures out his emotions.
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InDesign is complex! Shortcuts make things simple when the work gets heavy. Imagine being able to keep your mouse and writing hand honed in on the creative aspects of your work, taking care of rote functions literally single-handedly.
Take a look at the shortcuts below to become an InDesign Superman (substitute "Command Key" for "Ctrl" if you are working on a Mac):
Shortcuts You Will Recognize from Word Processor Norms
You will probably recognize these from word processing, but these time savers are worth a review.
|Creates a new document
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Important Functional Commands
Get your demos and revisions out with lightning speed with these two shortcuts under your belt.
|Export your document outside of the native InDesign format
|Places graphics and text
Window Commands
Set up your screen for optimal viewing using the shortcuts here, and change your perspective when needed on the fly.
|Zooms screen in
|Ctrl+ -
|Zooms screen out
|Fits the entire page in the window
InDesign Object Shortcuts
InDesign is based around objects. Master them, and your productivity will go through the roof.
|Alt [Option] +Ctrl+0
|Fits the entire spread in the window
|Displays the document in its actual size
|Shows or hides the document rulers
|Shows or hides the guides
InDesign Text Shortcuts
The text stuff should be easy, and with the command list below, it will be.
|Return text to normal
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|Alt [Option]+Shift+Ctrl+=
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|Align text to left
|Align text to right
|Align text to center
|Justify text left
Commit one block of shortcuts to muscle memory per week and take note of how much faster your work moves. Don't worry if you forget a few up front - taking a bit of time to invest in these shortcuts will pay dividends.


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Herb Lubalin's name is missing from the masthead of U&lc Volume Nine. He art directed all the previous issues up through the first in Volume Eight and lent a hand with the second – but passed away while it was being printed. Lubalin was a brilliant, iconoclastic advertising art director. Typography was always at the center of his work. It is where you start with Lubalin and what you eventually come back to. "Typography," however, is not a word Lubalin thought should be applied to his work.
"What I do is not really typography," he said. "I think of typography as an essentially mechanical means of putting characters down on a page. I design with letters. Aaron Burns calls it, 'typographics,' and since you've got to put a name on things to make them memorable, 'typographics' is as good a name as any for what I do."
Lubalin was followed by a series of luminary "guest" designers who built on his powerful foundation, adding their own chapters to the story of U&lc. B. Martin (Marty, to friends) Pedersen was the first. His design brought newfound grace and elegance to the pages of U&lc. Pedersen also used color for the first time in the publication. It's pretty amazing, when you think about it, that a publication about type, typography, calligraphy, photography and illustration could get by for eight years just printed in black and white. The cost of color printing was the obstacle, but as more and more articles cried out for color, aesthetics (and the persistence of Pedersen) won out in Volume Nine Number One.
Pedersen's feature article "The Dream of Flying," in Volume Nine Number One, is a design and typographic tour de force. If you look at no other article in the four issues of Volume Nine, spend some time with this one.
Four typeface families were also announced in the pages of Volume Nine: the ITC Cushing™, ITC Modern No. 216™, ITC New Baskerville® and ITC Caslon No. 224™ designs. ITC Cushing and ITC Modern No. 216™ are revivals of early twentieth century typefaces, the former from American Type Founders and the latter from the British foundry, Stephenson Blake. ITC New Baskerville was originally a Linotype® typeface but was licensed to ITC on an exclusive basis, and ITC Caslon No. 224 was designed as a text companion to the very successful ITC LSC Caslon No. 223™ display design.
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George Zimmerman, his attorneys raising money off murder trial
Trying a case in the court of public opinion is nothing new. But the use of social media in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February 2012, has broken new ground.
Zimmerman's media-savvy attorneys don't just give news conferences and show their faces on cable news networks. They have a Twitter feed @GZLegalCase, with more than 6,500 followers, and a website devoted to their client's case.
On the website, they acknowledge they are onto something new:
"We understand that it is unusual for a legal defense to maintain a social media presence on behalf of a defendant," they write, "but we also acknowledge that this is a very unusual case."
"We are not surprised to discover that our decision is controversial," they add. "Some have called it unethical, and some have called it brilliant…Using social media in a high-profile lawsuit is new, and relatively unprecedented, but that is only because social media itself is relatively new …. Social media in this day and age cannot be ignored, and it would be, in fact, irresponsible to ignore the robust online conversation."
Robust is putting it mildly. It's like a war out there. Though lead defense attorney Mark O'Mara doesn't come right out and say it, he's fighting fire with fire.
Social media, and public relations savvy, played a big part in getting Zimmerman indicted in the first place. After police in Sanford, Fla., declined to charge Zimmerman with a crime, Martin's parents and attorneys launched the campaign of outrage that stirred the media and civil rights activists, leading to Zimmerman's indictment by a special prosecutor.
Though the website is used primarily to collect money for Zimmerman's living expenses and legal costs — estimated at $30,000 a month — it also serves as an information clearinghouse on the case, with court documents, trial updates and a media request form.
The site is also used to bludgeon public figures and commentators who dispute Zimmerman's innocence.
In one instance, Zimmerman supporters were invited to bombard Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) with protests after she introduced a resolution honoring Martin on what would have been his 18th birthday. In the resolution, she also called for an end to Florida's "stand your ground" law. (Zimmerman's lawyers are not relying on that statute; they are arguing a more straightforward self defense.)
In another, nearly 2,000 words were devoted to disputing the work of Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart, who is sympathetic to Martin and critical of Zimmerman.
What's most interesting to me, though, is the amount of space devoted to explaining how Zimmerman has spent the hundreds of thousands of dollars that have flowed to him in donations since he was charged in May 2012.
Maybe it's because they are defense attorneys, but they really sound defensive as they outline Zimmerman's expenses for the eight-month period between last May and January:
"If $61,747.54 sounds like a lot of money for living expenses for 8 months — you are right. It's more than most people earn in a year. Most of George's living expenses for the first several months were allocated to providing a safe, secure place for George and his wife Shellie, to live."
(Shellie Zimmerman is in trouble of her own. In April, she was arrested on suspicion of perjury after telling a judge at her husband's bond hearing that they were broke. Prosecutors say the couple had raised $130,000 in the previous two weeks. Her case has not yet gone to trial.)
Zimmerman, they said, also spent some $56,000 on security, $76,000 on legal costs, and another 10 grand or so on miscellaneous expenses. O'Mara and his co-counsel, Don West, note in several places that they have not been paid at all.
If you think a defense fund for a man who provoked a confrontation with an unarmed teenager is a little -- I don't know -- unseemly, allow Zimmerman's attorneys to explain why the fundraising is in the public interest. They sounded this note of desperation on May 29, when the fund was out of money:
"Had we declared indigency, George's defense would end up costing Florida taxpayers more than $1,000,000," the defense wrote. "As it stands now, with a little extra support, we're going to get through trial for less than half that figure, and we'll have done it, not with tax-payer funds, but with money generously donated by people from across the country who believe George is innocent and that he is being wrongly prosecuted."
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"Facebook Changes – Why"
by Gregory West
Cyberspace is alit with flareups from all of us using Facebook this past while. People are screaming that they are quitting Facebook and going to Google Plus (many are doing just that) while others have already switched to other social media spots such as Twitter and LinkedIn. I personally believe, even though the Internet is amass with complaints about Facebook's new changes, people will stay with Facebook. They will click their way into learning the new Facebook and any other changes they may throw at us. Why?
The adage of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" doesn't hold water anymore, at least not in the online world where many of us now reside much of the time. Like it or not, we necessitate change online. We demand things work faster, easier and are activated from anywhere, anytime, and by anyone. Plus, these online companies are no different than "brick and mortar" businesses: they all need to make money to survive. Facebook is moving into a new arena where they can make even more money. "The company is expected to bring in $3.8 billion in worldwide advertising revenue this year and $5.8 billion in 2012, according to research firm eMarketer." (Washington Post)
While discussing Facebook, people admit that it is the first website they check when going on the Internet in the morning, even before any news sites or email programs – Facebook is many people's first choice for keeping up; keeping connected is very important to many of the 800 million users who now use Facebook. The Post says that, "Facebook is a technology company that wants to keep improving its products so that people keep using it and it doesn't grow stale."
I remember reading a book in college by Alvin Toffler: "Future Shock" wherein Toffler described how people would not be able to accept the rate of change. Toffler wrote, "too much change in too short a period of time". I believed this would happen, but it never did. The book was written before the Internet was born, although ironically, Toffler "popularized the phrase information overload" (wikipedia).
We are a connected society now. One just has to look to the streets, to the malls, along sidewalks and in grocery store lineups. What is it you see? People staring at their smart phones, connected in a "brave new world". These are the people who are learning to tolerate and navigate through the rough seas of change, be it a computer, a tablet or a smart phone. It is so much part of our lives today that these devices, once called "toys" are now a major necessity. We are, and we will, continue to live with change – I believe deep down we must thrive on change, otherwise Alvin Toffler would have been correct back in 1970.
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Good morning from Berlin! We are finally getting a bit of sun….which we need given the Euro2012 match results last night (Glückwunsch an Spanien und Italien!). So — since my Day of Archaeology post last year, I've started a Marie Curie COFUND fellowship at Freie Universität Berlin, in association with the Dahlem Research School and TOPOI. My research project is entitled: A Comparative Study of Scribal and Artistic Spaces in Early Egypt and the Ancient Near East: Integrating micro- and macro-scale analyses. More information can be found here and I am also keeping a blog on my progress. (In fact, in addition to posting here I really need to update said blog, but that will probably happen Monday now since today is already chock full!)
So here is a bit about what I am getting up to today. I am in the course of planning several museum research visits for this summer. I need to document 100 ancient art- and writing-bearing objects dating to the early period of graphical development (c.3200-c.2500 BCE) in both southern Mesopotamia and the Nile Valley. I am documenting and examining both portable objects (e.g. cylinder seals, impressed sealings, cuneiform tablets, labels) and fixed image-bearing surfaces (e.g. stelae, tomb relief, rock art), using Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI).
Although I am an Egyptologist first and foremost, I did dabble a bit in Near Eastern archaeology and languages (e.g. Akkadian) as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. With this project I am finally getting back to this side interest which is quite exciting. But it means coordinating museum research with both the Egyptian and Near Eastern curators and other staff at each museum. This morning my goal is to get my object list and research permission request sent off the the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology before lunch.
This afternoon several other post-docs and I will be participating in a peer coaching session at the Dahlem Research School, with the help of a successful grant applicant, on drafts proposals for funding we've been preparing for a follow-on research projects. My COFUND fellowship is for 15 months, and in addition to completing a research project this year, I am tasked with bringing in funding for a follow project (Note: details for the next COFUND application should be posted soon at link above. Do consider applying!).
It's great to be in a fellowship programme that is emphatically about training and career development. Many fellowships / post-docs focus resources on completing of a particular piece of research. Fair enough I suppose, but having more advice, time and support thrown in my direction to help ensure the next gig is lined up is great. The level of regular contact, mentoring and–yes–deadlines that the DRS provide both for achieving our short-term goals and hammering out a longer-term career plan and getting it funded is super valuable. I need to take even more advantage of this in fact.
Anyway, I'd best finish sorting out this museum object request list and reading my colleagues' funding proposals for our peer review session.


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Institute emerged the overall winner and spent the last weekend ( July 23-24) with her partner Mr. Nasser Ssemakula in Queen Elizabeth National Park, south western Uganda. While on her all expenses paid sojourn, Ms Nabunya stayed at the famous Mweya Safari Lodge, enjoyed a boat ride on the Kazinga channel where she marveled at a variety of mammals, birds, reptiles and unique scenery before the game drive that took her to Kasenyi kob mating grounds where she was lucky to sight a pride of lions, Katwe salt mines and vantage points for viewing the beautiful crater lakes.
In an interview with the media personnel who accompanied her, a visibly excited Nabunya revealed that she has always had passion for Wildlife conservation, adventure and culture which helped her to answer the questions on heritage and cultural diversity with ease. She pledged to be a reliable partner in conservation and a tourism ambassador.
The other winners of the quiz were Mr. Lumu Alex who scooped a fully paid trip to Lake Mburo National park while Charles Kikomekko and Simon Sseruyange tied in the third place winning themselves permits to track the amazing mountain gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
Earlier on July 22, ten finalists were hosted to a unique dining experience at the Carnival Restaurant where various types of meat and drinks are served. The function that attracted the Buganda Kingdom second deputy prime minister and minister for Heritage, Royal Tombs and Tourism Hajji Mohamud Ssemambo Ssekimpi, Buganda state minister for Tourism Ms Florence Nakiwala Kiyingi, the chairman AUTO Mr. Bonfiace Byamukama and UTB's marketing and Public Relations manager Edwin Muzahuura, was presided over by the Permanent Secretary for the parent ministry, Ambassador Julius Onen.
The UWA acting Executive Director Dr. Andrew Seguya, who was recently recognized by the Buganda kingdom government for relentless support to tourism, commended the relationship between the kingdom and UWA in promoting conservation and culture. He said the tourism industry is Uganda's leading forex earner and pledged to further strengthen the linkages with all stake holders in spurring the sector to greater heights.
Mr. Stephen Masaba, UWA's acting director for Tourism and Business Development said the aim of the quiz was to raise the interest of the citizens to appreciate the linkage between conservation and culture .


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Ukraine's east still backs closer ties with Russia
YENAKIYEVO, Ukraine (AP) — In the Ukrainian president's eastern hometown, the buildings are grimy with black soot from the surrounding coal mines. The air is thick with pollutants. The men here die young, sometimes from industrial accidents.
And residents have about had it with the protesters who have besieged Kiev, the capital, and its central square — the Maidan — for three weeks.
"It's time to disperse the Maidan and force those sponges to work," said Alexei Dzhugastranskiy, a 46-year-old coal miner in Yenakiyevo. "While we are working at the mine and risking our lives, they are striking in Kiev and killing Ukraine."
The battle over Ukraine's future has deepened the divide between the western part of this nation of 46 million and its east, where most people still speak Russian, watch Russian television and see ties with their giant neighbor as essential for Ukraine's economic survival.
The protesters rose up against President Viktor Yanukovych after Nov. 21 when he spiked a deal for closer integration with the 28-nation European Union and decided to restore trade ties with Russia instead.
Hundreds of thousands have rallied in Kiev on the past two Sundays and some protesters have set up camp on Independence Square, known as the Maidan, to demand that Yanukovych step down.
Opinion polls show that the EU is more popular among Ukrainians than Russia, and many fear that the country's hard-won independence will be crippled if it moves back too tightly into Russia's orbit.
But in eastern Ukraine, the country's industrial heartland, most people are openly resentful of the pro-Western protesters, many of whom are students.
The Kremlin has exploited this deep east-west divide in its determined efforts to thwart the EU deal and keep Ukraine in its political and economic sphere of influence.
Yenakiyevo, a city of 100,000 in the Donetsk region, is home to nine coal mines, six of which are operational, along with a metallurgical plant and a coke plant.
Outdated equipment and poor safety standards make Ukraine's coal mines among the most dangerous in the world. At Dzhugastranskiy's Soviet-era mine, which is named after Karl Marx, a 2008 accident took the lives of 13 miners.
Pollution levels in Donetsk often exceed the officially admissible limit several times over. The average life expectancy for men in the region is 57 years, compared to the national average of 66.
The Donetsk region, which accounts for more than a quarter of Ukraine's budget revenues, depends on Russian markets and — most crucially — supplies of Russian natural gas.
"Depriving us of ties with Russia is like cutting off a leg," said 33-year-old Vladimir Toporov, a foreman at the Yenakiyevo metallurgical plant. "We won't be able to walk to Europe on one leg."
Ukraine's political standoff has been aggravated by its rapidly deteriorating finances. The economy has been in recession for more than a year, and the government is in desperate need of foreign funding to avoid a default. As talks stalled with the International Monetary Fund, Yanukovych has sought a bailout loan from Russia.
Nikolai Zagoruiko, the head of the Donetsk branch of Yanukovych's Party of Regions, claims the proposed pact with the EU would have forced some the region's biggest mines and industrial plants to close, with major repercussions felt throughout the country.
"We would have had an explosion in society," he said. "And the students from the Maidan in Kiev, who haven't earned a single kopeck yet, would have become the first casualties of the EU."
Donetsk is also home to Ukraine's richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, and other tycoons who have stood behind Yanukovych. Akhmetov funded the construction of Europe's biggest sports arena in the city of Donetsk, which hosted soccer games during last year's European championships.
Anti-government protests have taken place in many cities outside of Kiev, but in Donetsk, a city of 1 million, they have drawn only a few dozen people.
"We are isolated," said Volga Sheiko, a 38-year-old attorney who took part in a recent anti-government protest. "We are talking about freedom, democracy and integration into Europe, but no one hears us. Even if there are some who support integration into the EU, they are simply afraid to say so out loud. It's not quite safe here in the east."
Yanukovych had assured the EU of his firm intention to sign the political association and free trade agreement, but abruptly changed his mind just a week before the scheduled signing in late November.
This was seen as a victory for Russia, which had imposed import bans on some Ukrainian goods and threatened further trade sanctions to demonstrate the damage Moscow could inflict on Ukraine's economy if Yanukovych signed the EU deal.
Russia also promised Ukraine a rebate on Russian natural gas supplies and other privileges if it agreed to join the Russia-dominated Customs Union, a trade bloc of former Soviet republics that includes Belarus and Kazakhstan.
A meeting between Yanukovych and Russian President Vladimir Putin last week has raised fears that Ukraine is on the verge of joining the Customs Union, a step that would almost certainly enrage pro-EU Ukrainians and energize the protests in Kiev.
But in the east, most people see Russia as the partner of choice and heed the Kremlin's warnings that the EU pact would rupture trade ties with Russia and lead to economic collapse.
"Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan are our brothers. Why should we leave them?" said Yuri Galaburda, a 43-year-old miner in the town of Ukrainsk.
Unlike Yenakiyevo, where most of the mines and plants are active, Ukrainsk has just one mine in operation. With about 10,000 residents, the town is half the size it used to be. Many of its Soviet-era apartment buildings are abandoned, their windows broken. Packs of stray dogs roam the streets.
Galaburda said the town had seen even worse times after the 2004 Orange Revolution protests that led to a pro-Western government in Kiev.
"We are afraid that it could get worse," he said. "Under the Orange government, we weren't seeing any pay at all. Now life seems slowly to be getting better."


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Jim Mann doesn't need advance preparation for an interview.
"Don't waste your time. To be honest, I won't even remember," says the 63-year-old as he settles into a chair in his Surrey home.
He's not being rude. He's just forthright about the impact of his early-onset Alzheimer's, a disease he was diagnosed with in 2007 at the young age of 58.
It's a diagnosis that would floor many people. But Mann, a former government lobbyist with Canadian Airlines, remains active, optimistic and engaged: he now uses his public relations skills to advocate for the needs of people with dementia.
And part of that advocacy is telling it like it is.
"It's frustrating as hell," he says, describing life with the disease.
At first, he didn't want to admit he had it.
His mother, Margaret, had also suffered dementia as she got into her 70s. So when he started losing his memory, he covered up his symptoms for a few years. When he lost his way in the car, he would ask his wife which route she preferred. When he blanked on the job in an MP's office, he'd look for pictures of political leaders to remember which party the MP worked for. When he forgot the title of a video he'd gone to rent, he started at A and scanned all the tapes in the store before he found what he was looking for.
"You get creative," he explained. "I just wasn't prepared at that point to say anything, to admit it."
But repeatedly getting lost eventually got "a bit scary," so he took a piece of paper describing his problems to his doctor.
"I sort of laughed about the memory test he gave me," Mann recalled. "I knew who the prime minister was. I knew what city we were in. But then he ripped off a piece of paper and said, 'Draw a clock with a certain time.' And I couldn't do it correctly. So that was the start."
His diagnosis, he said, "was almost a relief because, you've been ... what is the word ... sort of struggling with it. So when you get the label, you think OK, at least now there's a reason. It has a name and it's not just going crazy."
You'd be hard-pressed to see anything amiss with Mann. He's a careful and precise speaker. But then he trails off, groping for the right word. When the phone rings, he loses his train of thought, and asks, "so what was your question?" It takes him a minute to remember how old he is.
But he's learned to cope with these lapses.
"You have to write everything down," he said.
He's got Post-its reminding him to clean his glasses, lists on the fridge of groceries to pick up and notes with voice mail passwords and his own address and phone number on his desk. He wears a MedicAlert bracelet identifying his condition in case he gets lost. His pills are organized in a container on the kitchen counter. He prints out TransLink trip routes and takes them with him. His Blackberry, programmed with his appointments and contacts, he says, has been a lifesaver.
"What I try to do is to adapt and combine the worlds, the regular world and the Alzheimer's world," he said. "You just try to make the best of it. You don't lock yourself away in a room, you try to get out there."
Mann doesn't deny his life has changed. He had to give up driving a few years ago. The once-avid reader struggles to get through a book. He enjoys cooking, but can't do it when his wife isn't home, as he's left the stove on. The former world-traveller who displays paintings from Thailand and figurines from Japan in his home doesn't travel much anymore. Clutter, noise and crowds overwhelm him.
"You're just not as free as you were. I'm not as adventuresome as I used to be. I used to be, 'Let's go here, let's go there,' and now there's more comfort here at home," he said. "You're happier to be where it's not as challenging."
But he's got new outings and pastimes: Attending Alzheimer's conferences and meetings, writing letters to the editor and speaking out on the issues. Taking daily walks with his beloved Labrador dog. Meeting for Friday morning breakfasts at the ABC Country Restaurant with his Alzheimer's support group.
And most of all, he says, "I laugh a lot. You just have to laugh about what goes on."
Once, for example, a woman asked for directions as he was out walking his dog in a neighbourhood he's lived in for more than 17 years.
"I stood there and thought, what street is this? I finally got it, and then I had to think, what was the cross street? I'm surprised she had the patience to stand there. It was just such a long time," he laughs. "Finally I got her going and then I just stood there because by that time I was just so befuddled, I had no clue how to get back," he says with a hearty chuckle at his own expense.
His wife, Alice, 62, says he's impressed by her husband's positive spirit in the face of his diagnosis.
"It hasn't really changed his personality. He's still a really upbeat person. He doesn't let any of that sort of thing get him down," she said.
"In many ways, I think Jim makes it look easier than it is for a lot of people. And it definitely isn't easy for him. He sees jobs in the paper and he knows that if it wasn't for the brain disorder he has, he could do those jobs. I think that's very frustrating for him. But I'm very grateful that he is not one of these people that gets bitter or depressed."
Both Alice and Jim credit the advocacy work he does, both with the Alzheimer Society of B.C. and the national society, as key to his sense of purpose.
"It's something I enjoy," Mann says. "With my mother having dementia and then myself, I've seen the need for advocacy, especially looking at issues of good dementia care. And unless you break the stereotype, attitudes won't change."
And his attitude?
"Life is good," Mann said. "There is life after diagnosis."


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Regardless of the results of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, the next four years will be a tough act to follow from Wall Street's vantage point.
The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 Index has rallied 66 percent since President Barack Obama took office — one of the most impressive runs ever for stocks under a single president. Admittedly, the timing of his inauguration just before the market hit a nadir in March 2009 is part of the reason.
The national polls show a tight race between Obama and his challenger, Republican candidate Mitt Romney, but leaning toward a win by the president.
"The market might like the fact of an Obama win since it would mean less uncertainty," said Ryan Detrick, senior technical strategist at Schaeffer's Investment Research, in Cincinnati.
Strategists have said the market's pattern of late also suggests status quo an Obama win. A "Romney rally" is a 1-in-3 possibility, taken betting site InTrade's odds of an Obama win at about 67 percent right now. Other prognosticators put his chances of re-election even higher.
The most recent Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll shows both candidates garnering 46 percent of the vote, but polling averages show Obama with small but critical leads in swing states Ohio, Virginia and Iowa.
There's a conventional line that says a victory by longtime businessman Romney would be better for the equity market, given his predilection for fewer regulations and lower corporate tax rates. Still, any move in the market, no matter the outcome, is likely to be limited. "I think the market has priced in an Obama victory, but no matter what, any knee-jerk reaction after the election will unwind over the next few days," said Joseph Tanious, a global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Funds, in New York. "The fiscal cliff is also on everyone's mind, but that will really take hold after the election, since the winner could indicate what happens."
Strategists at LPL Financial have been tracking two baskets of stocks to judge whether the market believes Obama or his challenger Romney will emerge with a win. The "Obama" stocks include health care facilities companies, food and staples, utilities, construction companies and homebuilders. The "Romney" stocks include financials, coal stocks, oil and gas drillers, telecom, and specialty retail names.
The Obama index peaked in early October, before the first debate, largely seen as being won by Romney. Yet in terms of "relative strength," the index still modestly favors the president.
The move in the market during Obama's administration was in part due to timing as the U.S. economy started to recover from the deepest recession since the Great Depression.
The U.S. Federal Reserve has used three rounds of asset purchases, one of which is under way, as a way to keep interest rates low and stimulate the economy as the recovery from the 2007-2009 recession has been painfully slow.
Romney has criticized the Fed's policy and is seen replacing Chairman Ben Bernanke with someone more likely to tighten monetary policy.
"With Romney, we'd expect a little more weakness off the gate. He might want to put a stop to the Fed's stimulus. That's where that uncertainty comes in," Detrick said.
The Fed's current policy stance is seen as helping Obama. Consumer confidence recently rose to a more than 4-year high, and housing prices are rising again. However, unemployment remains at 7.9 percent nationwide, and the lack of good jobs is constraining growth.
Regardless of the winner in Tuesday's election, the market will have one less uncertainty to deal with. It will shift its focus to the roughly $600 billion in mandated spending cuts and tax increases that could kick in next year and send the U.S. economy reeling — if a deal to prevent it is not reached.
The possibility of a new recession — if Congress fails to agree on how to avoid the cliff — has many market participants counting on resolution, with the election as a variable in terms of when any legislation will pass — not if it will happen.
The end result in both an Obama or a Romney presidency would be a deal. But the status quo would probably mean a more protracted solution and market volatility, according to Brian Jacobsen, chief portfolio strategist at Wells Fargo Funds Management, in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.
"From an investing standpoint, what I care more about is the likelihood of getting some sort of deal to avoid the tax increases and spending cuts at the end of the year," he said.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Southern California trafficker of counterfeit Bowflex and Malibu Pilates exercise equipment has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison.
Prosecutors say 36-year-old Stanley Kuo Jua Yang imported huge shipping containers containing nearly $1 million worth of counterfeit merchandise.
Federal agents served a search warrant at Yang's business in Fountain Valley in 2010 and found additional counterfeit equipment.
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Yang was sentenced on Monday to 2½ years in federal prison.


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I understand the importance of frequent status updates. If someone has a task estimated at a month, you don't want to find at 27 days that the task is off-course and will take two months to complete. These daily meetings are useful as articulation points.But that's not the point of daily standups. In an "out-of-the-book" sprint, the team has at the beginning of the sprint split the project into small tasks without deciding who is going to do what. Tasks can be in a small number of states: "not worked on", "being worked on", "blocked" (or impeded), "done". Many teams use a board with columns for the states, and sticky notes for the tasks. During the standup, people move sticky notes from one column to the other. The standup is important to avoid having the same people work on the same task, and to know which tasks can now be worked on because they first need other tasks to be finished. (For instance, if a project involves installing an OS and a database, the task for installing a database cannot be done before the task of installing the OS has finished (which needs to be done after taking the machine out of the box and into the racks (which can only be done after ordering the box (which depends on the task of securing funding, etc)))).
Note also that in out-of-the-box scrum, you don't estimate how long a project will last, then adjust the estimate during the development. It's the other way around. "We have a month (or 2 weeks, or 2 months, usually nothing longer), what can we do in that period". Traditional project management is usually "We want X, we have Y developers, hence we estimate it's going to take Z days", or "We want X, the deadline is in Z days, hence we estimate we need Y developers". Scrum is "We have Y developers, we have Z days. Product owner, split X into smaller X' features, and we'll estimate how many X's we can do". (Note I'm not giving any judgement whether this is a good idea, and I'm sure everyone can come up with at least one scenario where it isn't going to work - I'm just telling what the reasoning behind scrum is).
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I'm looking for a book, article, or lecture notes that does basic cohomology theory from a relative point of view (including the Thom isomorphism, the excision theorem, Lefschetz duality, the Gysin sequence, etc.) and uses the de Rham model for relative cohomology.
Bott and Tu does most of basic cohomology theory using the de Rham model and even has a brief section on how to define the relative de Rham groups, but they mostly avoid the relative groups when formulating and proving the main results. Hatcher uses relative cohomology groups all over the place but doesn't really do anything with de Rham cohomology. I've been trying to build a dictionary between these two languages but I've run into some trouble at various points and I was hoping that somebody else has sorted all of this out.


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I never got eggnog until fairly recently, when I started drinking it raw.
You see, when I was growing up, my father would pick up a carton or two of eggnog about once a year. We would drink it because it was fatty and creamy and that's what we boys did. But I could never shake the feeling that I was just drinking chemically-enhanced pudding. As I got older, and made the connection that my melted ice cream had a thinner consistency than the eggnog I poured into a glass, I got put off the stuff.
And so it was until I dared to try a version (like this one) made with raw egg yolks and a frothy head made possible by the addition of whipped egg whites. After I took a few sips, I topped it off with bourbon, and I understood—eggnog doesn't need to be, and shouldn't be—a slurpable pudding to be good. Long live froth and the uncooked egg.
But I get that some people aren't comfortable drinking raw eggs, what with the salmonella and other unfortunate side effects. For those who prefer their eggs cooked, but don't relish the thought of drinking pudding, enter eggnog ice cream: all the rich creaminess you expect from a cooked eggnog, but taken to its logical conclusion in scoopable form.
Though this ice cream is great on its own, it's even better with some cake or pie on the side. Ginger pecan worked out nicely, as would fruitcake.
Bourbon is my personal spirit for eggnog, but if you prefer rum, brandy, or Scotch, substitute freely. You can also reduce or leave out the booze altogether, but then you're just left with nutmeg ice cream, and where's the holiday spirit in that?
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CrystalBananas wrote:Ahhh, the black footed ferret! I used to have a pet ferret named Joey. So cute!
CrystalBananas wrote:They really are! Their energy is hilarious. Mine used to love to try to climb up the inside of my 90 year-old grandmother's pant leg! Needless to say she was never too happy about it. She'd try to scold him like a dog..."Bad Joey! No!"
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