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A LONG-serving lollipop man was given a surprise present as he marked his 80th birthday yesterday.
Wilf Freeman has been helping pupils at Bournemouth School for Girls get to class safely for many years in all weathers, but yesterday morning's duty gave him a surprise he hadn't bargained for.
Headteacher Alistair Brien arranged for the school's Year 8 and 9 choirs to come out and sing 'Happy Birthday' to him.
Wilf, who has been a lollipop man since he retired as an engineer 20 years ago, said that his upcoming birthday was mentioned in an assembly at the school before Christmas.
He added: "This morning one or two of the girls remembered and said 'Happy Birthday' as well.
"The headmaster came marching across the road with 20 or 30 girls and some of the office staff were there as well.
"I kept my lollipop up as well so motorists were all watching. It was a nice surprise."
Wilf took up his role after retiring from Flight Refuelling at Wimborne.
He said: "It keeps you active rather than sitting at home and it's quite entertaining at times – I keep up with the latest girls' fashions.
"You get plenty of clothes, so I'm probably the driest and warmest man on Castle Lane."
Alistair added: "Wilf is a real trooper; he's out in all weathers to make sure that the girls are safe as they cross the road.
"I only hope that I can be as fit and active as Wilf is when I get to 80 years old."


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Homers haunt Gausman as O's fall to Nats in DC
Righty allows three long balls, seven runs over four innings in loss
WASHINGTON -- With a pair of rookies on the mound who just two weeks ago were traveling by bus at Double-A, Orioles manager Buck Showalter cheekily reminded reporters Tuesday afternoon that Kevin Gausman -- he of one prior Major League start -- was the veteran.
But the 22-year-old Gausman, who worked his nerves out in Thursday's debut in Toronto, didn't look polished or composed Tuesday night. Instead, the young right-hander was knocked around in a four-inning outing resulting in seven runs by a Nationals lineup missing superstar Bryce Harper. Gausman -- outpitched by 25-year-old Nathan Karns in his big league debut -- put Baltimore in a hole it couldn't get out of, resulting in a 9-3, series-evening loss in front of 35,664 at Nationals Park.
The defeat, which snapped a franchise-record 10 consecutive road games in which the Orioles had scored at least five runs, marked the fifth time in six games the team's starter has failed to go six innings. It also begged the question: Will Gausman get another chance?
"Sure," Showalter said when asked to confirm Gausman would make his next start.
"There's nights when guys who have been here for a while struggle. Pitching in the big leagues is hard. And he's got the talent to do it, and eventually he will. And I look forward to it being next time out. He knows mistakes get magnified here. But it's part of the process, both the young pitchers tonight. You can see why they like [Karns] and you can see why we like ours, and we'll continue down the process."
The highly touted Gausman, promoted from Double-A after just eight Minor League starts, has allowed 11 earned runs on 15 hits in his first two games. On Tuesday, six of Gausman's seven runs came via the homer, and he's now allowed four long balls over his first nine Major League innings.
"He's got great stuff. He's a great arm," catcher Matt Wieters said of Gausman, who was selected as the fourth overall pick in last year's First-Year Player Draft. "He's going to get where we want him to get. It's just not going to be a perfect plan."
Gausman's next start is lined up for Sunday against a power-laden Detroit team that entered Tuesday leading baseball in several offensive categories, including hits and runs scored, and Showalter affirmed Gausman will pitch against the Tigers.
"That's something that's up to them, but obviously it shows that they have a lot of faith in me," Gausman said. "My confidence is still there and I know that I have the pitches to be there. I just need to be more consistent with them and just try to get better, and just try to attack the bottom half of the zone."
Gausman couldn't keep the ball down consistently enough Tuesday and paid dearly for it. After allowing back-to-back one-out singles in the first inning, Adam LaRoche drilled a 2-0 fastball over the right-center-field fence to give the Nats a three-run lead.
Gausman issued a leadoff walk to LaRoche in the fourth and hung an 0-2 slider to Tyler Moore, who sent it into the Orioles' bullpen for a two-run homer. Three pitches later, Roger Bernadina followed with a solo homer.
Asked how he will go about getting back to ground balls, Gausman said: "I don't know. Right now, I'm trying to find that feel. That's something that I've kind of had my entire career. I've been able to get a lot of ground-ball outs and I've been really good pounding the lower half of the zone. That's something that, going forward, is something I've got to try to get back."
Kurt Suzuki singled following Bernadina and Denard Span doubled him in to complete the four-run fourth and spell the end of Gausman's night. The right-hander was lifted in the top of the fifth for pinch-hitter Steve Pearce, suffering his second loss in as many starts.
"This much elevation on a fastball is the difference," Showalter said, using his fingers to illustrate the miniscule margin for error on baseball's biggest stage. "When he got it down a few times, there were not very good swings off him. Command of the breaking ball wasn't -- the changeup wasn't as good as it's going to be for him. He'll get these two games under his belt, and smart guys and competitive people like he is, they sit back and take it in. And he'll get better."
"There's going to be a learning curve," added Wieters. "Everybody in this game, including myself are still adjusting every game that we're out there.
"This team, we're going to treat him just like everybody else and try and find a way to make him the best he can be, and the team the best it can be."
Karns didn't last much longer than Gausman, going 4 1/3 innings and allowing three runs on five hits and a pair of walks.
The O's got on the board in the second when Wieters doubled in Chris Davis from first and moved to third on J.J. Hardy's hit. But Karns struck out Yamaico Navarro and Gausman to strand runners on the corners.
In the fourth, Davis brought the O's within a run, launching a 1-2 pitch into the Nationals' bullpen for his Major League-leading 17th homer. Hardy followed one out later with a solo homer to tie the game at 3.
But that was all the Orioles would get, as Baltimore mustered up one hit over the next 2 2/3 innings after Karns exited. The offense threatened in the eighth with a pair of singles from Nate McLouth and Manny Machado off Tyler Clippard, but the right-hander got a trio of flyouts to keep the O's off the board.
Lefty Troy Patton, after a 1-2-3 seventh, surrendered a pair of runs in the eighth, while Rule 5 Draft pick T.J. McFarland tossed two scoreless frames following Gausman.
"I know that my stuff plays here," said Gausman, who indicated several times that he won't let the early struggles get him down. "When I came out, [fellow starter Jason] Hammel came up to me, he talked about his debut and all the struggles he's been through in his career. That's good to know these guys feel like I belong here."
Brittany Ghiroli is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Britt's Bird Watch, and follow her on Twitter @britt_ghiroli. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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The Little Havana Police Station is one of four Vice City Police Department stations located in the Bayshore Avenue, Little Havana, Vice City. It features in both Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. The police station is not accessible to the player. There's a Police Car and a VCPD Cheetah parked at the little garage in the west side of the station. It's the place in Vice City where the VCPD Cheetah is parked.
Players will respawn here if they're arrested within the south of the Vice City Mainland island.


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Greg Watson, ASQ past chair and professor, ESTIEM, admits quality is a word defined by the individual. In this video, he helps form a more universal definition by stating, "Quality is formed when form and function are brought together." Catch the entire series on the European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management (ESTIEM) YouTube page.
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Let us not forget Captain Thomas Earl Alderson, casualty of the Vietnam War. As a member of the Army Reserve, CPT Alderson served our country until October 3rd, 1968 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam. He was 26 years old and was married. Thomas died when his helicopter crashed into the land. His body was recovered. Thomas was born on October 9th, 1941 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
CPT Alderson is on panel 42W, line 065 of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. He served our country for 4 years.


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Blueprint Negev
JNF's major initiative to revitalize Israel's southern region is called Blueprint Negev. The Negev Desert represents 60% of Israel's landmass but is home to just 8% of the population. Blueprint Negev is a multifaceted, internationally recognized campaign to improve quality of life for all residents of the region and encourage a population shift away from crowded, expensive central Israel.The blueprint includes community development, housing, employment, environmental sustainability, agricultural research and development, water treatment, restoration and catchment, tourism and recreation, education and security.
JNF and its partners presented this plan at the Herzliya Conference in 2003. Since then, visible progress is being made on the ground every day. Read the latest JNF Blueprint Negev campaign update to see the work that has been done to date. JNF is your voice in Israel. See our vital work on your next visit to Israel and make your voice heard.
Featured project: Be'er Sheva River Park
Sixty years ago, this town had a mere 2,500 residents — a number many people thought would eventually dwindle away. But today, the town is a thriving metropolitan city of almost 200,000 people. JNF is playing a major part in further strengthening this city through the creation of Be'er Sheva River Park; an extensive water, environment and economic development project that will transform the region. Learn more...
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With overpopulation and high prices in Israel's central region, young families, young people completing their military service, and retirees are finding it more difficult to find housing. The Negev can play a crucial role in keeping Israelis from leaving the country to find an affordable lifestyle. To learn how JNF and its partners are creating attractive alternatives for these populations in Israel's southern region, click here.
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The work of JNF benefits all Israelis. Blueprint Negev looks to bring real change to the lives of the residents of the Negev, including the 160,000 Bedouin, most of who suffer from high unemployment and low levels of education. Learn more about JNF projects in the Bedouin community.
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JNF, with the generosity of Avrum Chudnow z"l and his family, has created a must-see tourist attraction in the southern Negev, outside of Eilat. What today is Timna Valley National Park was the oldest center of copper production in the ancient world. Visitors can experience the rich past of this ancient site. Or enjoy the many recreational offerings including biking, hiking through the magnificent natural sandstone structures, paddle boating and camping. Learn more
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I saw this recipe in our recipe section a few weeks ago and it brought back a lot of memories from my first year of living in Portland. It was also my first year working at Bob's Red Mill and my first year as a vegetarian. This was a recipe that I threw together a lot when I was struggling with how to cook tofu in a way that would appeal to my husband. I had recently discovered quinoa and wanted to use it in place of white rice. After all, I was hip-deep in learning about the benefits of whole grains and quinoa was quickly becoming my favorite grain (still is, to this day). Somewhere along the line, this recipe fell out of rotation. It's back on the menu tonight, for sure.
At the time, I just added cubed tofu. I really didn't know much about tofu and have learned a lot over the last few years. You can use baked tofu or fried tofu if you are not fond of plain tofu. You could also use tempeh or seitan in place of the tofu for a different protein, while still keeping it meatless. The truth is, though, that you really don't need any protein in this dish at all- the quinoa provides all that you need.
Peanut Sauce Vegetable Stir Fry with Tofu
- 1 Tbsp Oil
- 1 small head Broccoli, chopped
- 1 small Red Bell Pepper, chopped
- 5 medium Mushrooms, sliced
- 1 package Extra Firm Tofu, cubed
- 1/2 cup Hot Water
- 1 Tbsp Vinegar
- 2 Tbsp Soy Sauce*
- 1/2 cup Peanut Butter
- Cayenne Pepper (season to taste)
- 3 cups cooked Organic Quinoa Grain
Quinoa: In medium saucepan, bring 2 cups water to boil. Add 1 cup Quinoa Grain, return to boil. Cover and cook for 15 minutes over medium-low heat. Remove from heat, fluff, and let stand 5-10 minutes.
Stir Fry: Heat oil in large skillet or wok over medium-high heat. Sauté broccoli, pepper, mushrooms, and tofu for 5 minutes.
In a small bowl, combine peanut butter, hot water, vinegar, soy sauce, and cayenne pepper. (Don't worry if sauce is not entirely blended, heat will melt the peanut butter into a smooth texture when added to wok.)
Pour peanut sauce over vegetable-tofu mix. Simmer for 3-5 minutes, or until vegetables are tender and crisp. Serve over quinoa! Makes 4 servings.
* For a gluten free version make sure to use wheat free soy sauce, wheat free tamari or Braggs liquid aminos.
Read more about this amazing grain at World's Healthiest Foods.


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Alpine CDE-102 CD receiver
Our annual beach vacation includes a 10-hr drive back and forth and this is the first year we have iPhones rather than iPods. Previously we used the iTrip for music enjoyment, but not only was that not a fantastic solution (connection problems and finding stations can get annoying) it tends to add up when you have to buy a new one every time Apple changes the connecting port. So I compared prices for an iPhone compatible iTrip with just upgrading my car stereo and the car upgrade won out. I chose Alpine because of the great reviews and because the interface seemed more intuitive and less garish (I hate overwhelming red LED). My only complaint is that I thought I could recharge and connect via USB (in the front), and while I could connect via AUX, it wouldn't be controllable by the radio itself. I had to buy an additional iPod/iPhone cable that plugs in behind and that enabled me to control song selection via the radio controls as well as charge and access other features on my iPhone. Overall, I'm pretty happy.


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CHENNAI, India -- Manvinder Bisla and Jacques Kallis struck half-centuries to help Kolkata Knight Riders win the Indian Premier League on Sunday, defeating two-time defending champion Chennai Super Kings by five wickets in a high-scoring final.
Opener Bisla plundered 89 off 48 balls with eight fours and five sixes, while South African Kallis hit 69 off 49 balls, as Kolkata scored 192-5 in 19.4 overs in reply to Chennai's commanding 190-3.
Manoj Tiwary struck two successive boundaries off West Indian pacer Dwayne Bravo to help the visitors clinch a thrilling victory at the Chidambaram Stadium in their first appearance in an IPL final.
Wicketkeeper Bisla, who replaced New Zealand's Brendon McCullum, was effortless in his shot execution as he put on 136 for the second wicket with Kallis after skipper and batting mainstay Gautam Gambhir fell to Australian pace man Ben Hilfenhaus in the opening over.
"I'm feeling very happy I played my part," Bisla said. "Brendon is a class player, his record speaks for himself. "
Bisla was dismissed by South African Albie Morkel, whom he had previously hit for four boundaries in one over, with Kolkata needing 52 off 32 balls. Bravo sent back Laxmi Rathan Shukla for 3 and when India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin dismissed Yusuf Pathan for one, Kolkata were left needing 27 off 17.


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PyYAML is a YAML parser and emitter for Python.
YAML is a data serialization format designed for human readability and interaction with scripting languages.
PyYAML is a YAML parser and emitter for the Python programming language.
PyYAML features
- a complete YAML 1.1 parser. In particular, PyYAML can parse all examples from the specification. The parsing algorithm is simple enough to be ported to C or other language.
- Unicode support including UTF-8/UTF-16 input/output and \u escape sequences.
- event-based parser and emitter API (like SAX).
- high-level API for serializing and deserializing native Python objects (like DOM or pickle).
- support for all types from the YAML types repository. A simple extension API is provided.
- relatively meaningful error messages.
Note that PyYAML is still young and may have some bugs. Furthermore, PyYAML is written in Python and is slow comparing to C based parsers.
PyYAML requires Python 2.3 or higher.
Download and Installation
You may check out PyYAML code from the Subversion repository http://svn.pyyaml.org/pyyaml/trunk
$ svn checkout http://svn.pyyaml.org/pyyaml/trunk pyyaml-trunk
Install it by running
$ python setup.py install
Quick example:
>>> import yaml >>> print yaml.load(""" ... name: Vorlin Laruknuzum ... sex: Male ... class: Priest ... title: Acolyte ... hp: [32, 71] ... sp: [1, 13] ... gold: 423 ... inventory: ... - a Holy Book of Prayers (Words of Wisdom) ... - an Azure Potion of Cure Light Wounds ... - a Siver Wand of Wonder ... """) {'name': 'Vorlin Laruknuzum', 'gold': 423, 'title': 'Acolyte', 'hp': [32, 71], 'sp': [1, 13], 'sex': 'Male', 'inventory': ['a Holy Book of Prayers (Words of Wisdom)', 'an Azure Potion of Cure Light Wounds', 'a Siver Wand of Wonder'], 'class': 'Priest'} >>> print yaml.dump({'name': "The Cloak 'Colluin'", 'depth': 5, 'rarity': 45, ... 'weight': 10, 'cost': 50000, 'flags': ['INT', 'WIS', 'SPEED', 'STEALTH']}) name: The Cloak 'Colluin' rarity: 45 flags: [INT, WIS, SPEED, STEALTH] weight: 10 cost: 50000 depth: 5
For more details, please check PyYAML Documentation.
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If you find a bug in PyYAML, please file a bug report. You may review open bugs through the list of open tickets.
You may discuss PyYAML at the YAML-core mailing list.
Author and copyright
The PyYAML module is written by Kirill Simonov.
PyYAML is released under the MIT license.


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ORLANDO, Fla. - Authorities are investigating a double shooting at an apartment complex near the University of Central Florida.
Orange County deputies say 20-year-old Vincent Cruz and 19-year-old Antwon Ollis were both shot Monday night and drove themselves away from the scene. They later met up with authorities and were taken to the hospital.
The victims are students at Valencia College students. Their injuries are not life threatening.
WKMG TV reports the shooting happened on the first day of the new semester.
It's unclear whether the victims knew the shooter or if the crime was random.
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Distinguished Service Cross Citation
20 November 1943 — Makin Atoll, Gilbert Islands
Colonel James Gardiner Conroy (ASN: 0-185592), United States Army, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving with the 165th Infantry Regiment, in action against enemy forces on 20 November 1943. Colonel Conroy's outstanding leadership, personal bravery and zealous devotion to duty at the cost of his life, exemplify the highest traditions of the military forces of the United States and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.
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text: Chroma Gel 1 Step goes on like a polish and lasts like a gel. Just apply to the nail and freeze in LED (60 seconds) or UV (2 minutes) Chroma Gel 1 Step is the worlds most advanced gel nail polish, it gives full coverage for your nails and cures in LED and UV light. Plus it is quick and easy to remove with no sticky residue. It leaves a glossy finish that can last up to 21 days.


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Reebok Super Bowl XLIII Stacked Logo Short Sleeve T-Shirt
If you're not rooting for a certain team, you're still gonna need something to wear.
Well, since the Eagles are out to the Cardinals, I'm throwing my hat in the bag for the Steelers. If you're a big Steelers fan, you gotta get this for the big game!
For the more eco-minded Eagles fan, this tee shirt is made from 69% post-consumer recycled cotton.
BELIEVE IN GREEN. Seriously, cheer on the Eagles this playoffs season wearing this shirt. Because really, isn't that slogan just so smart?
The ultimate fan can rock out in this Eagles fan helmet. You'll be the hit of the party in this one. Actually, it'll depend on how much beer you bring, but hey, this could help too I guess.
Ladies, you can wear this hat to match your ugly satin Super Bowl jacket. You know you want to.
What woman doesn't want to wear an ugly satin Super Bowl jacket on game day? I can't believe this exists. It's just too ugly to ignore.
I personally will be enjoying the game in the comfort of Eagles gear on game day... EVEN IF THEY DON'T MAKE IT.


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Hello.I have things working fairly well in chrome. Of course.but I have done something that is taking the top horizontal navbar out of it's alignment.for example.http://thebigmeow.us/engineering/
it is actually supposed to remain in the green strip above it.
i run it trough validator and it indicates a possible duplicate for topnav, but I don't see it.thxD
duplicate ids:
(line 76) <ul id="menu-topnav" class="menu pull-right">
(line 78)
<ul id="menu-topnav" class="menu">
two other real error spots (#slide01 and #slide02):(lines 155-156) and (line 182-183)
<a href="#slide01">
<button class="btn primary readMore"><a href="<a href="http://thebigmeow.us/engineering-in-a-creative-work-place/">read more</button></a>
an odd number of open and close  tags. (3)
<button> and  tags improperly nested
<a href=" stray code
This isn't necessarily the fix you are seeking, but it strongly suggests that some of your positioning techniques could be improved. eg:
#logo {
padding-left: 20px;
position: relative; (delete me. I am not cool.)
top: -50px;
margin-top: -75px; (add me)
Hello Ronpat!thanks for the advice. oddly enough I added another menu (which is not even in use) and it seems to have fixed the prob. although I still get the dupe warning/error which of course i'd like to fix.
and for the positing. Thanks for the tip on that as well.Can you tell me why i was wrong, that way I won't do it again. I thought for best positioning & z-indexing elementes had to be given a "position: whatever;"
Post #2 shows the two duplicate id's. You fix that error by changing one of them to a different id.
Post #2 also shows two other real HTML coding problems that are triggering validation errors. Both are similar. Line numbers are given and the nature of the problem is described.
I used colors to highlight the specific items. If you are color-blind, I apologize and will choose another method to identify the specific code.
There is no "one method fits all" solution.
An object must be positioned (other than "static") to be given a z-index. {position:relative} is commonly used for that purpose.
However, using (position:relative; top:negativesomething} is very unlikely to be a "good" choice. Usually, {margin-top:negativesomething} is better (even if the object is already "positioned").
Why? Because {position:relative; top:-100px} does not empty the original space occupied by that object.{margin-top:-100px} moves the container up.{position:relative} allows one to add a z-index; also anchors nested objects that have {position:absolute}.
Again, if an object has been given {position:relative} so a z-index will work, usually {margin-top:-something} is still the appropriate method to use to move it... usually.
Everything depends on the context in which it sits.
Hello Ronpat thanks for taking the time to write all of that down. nope not color blind.but one of the probs is that the errors that show up are as of now a bit of puzzler, as to how to get to them.Being wordpress this is my code on the page.

<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'menu' => 'topNav' ) ); ?>
<?php get_search_form(); ?>
so there is no dupes there for me to get to.I am sure there is something insanely clear & it is staring at me...just have not gotten to it yet.I got one question about validator though. am confused as to why it says row & columns, rows of course make sense....but i don't have columns.
Well, color me perplexed. Now I understand why those colors and line numbers were meaningless to you. Wordpress is supposed to be fast and easy? This ties in with my "familiarity with your product (Wordpress)" nag in an earlier post :-/. Sorry, afraid I'm cluless beyond HTML and CSS. Maybe you'll find an answer in the Wordpress forum.
The "columns" number is the character position where the error starts. It presumes a monospaced font. Start from zero or 1 on the left and count each character position as one "column" to the right.
thx Ron. when I posted it here I thought it was more due to a css issue. Which in a way it is.
Wordpress is supposed to be fast and easy? not so much in my experience i think it is relatively fast & easy unless you get to customize add code & feature other than what is provided by the theme. & of course some chimps are smarter than others...thx for all the other info!
Yes, the problem you presented is very much a CSS issue. Unfortunately, Wordpress doesn't appear to make it easy to find the code that needs to be modified.
Well, I'm definitely not an astronaut-grade chimp :lol:, so I usually assume that "if I can do it, most anyone who wants to can do it, too, and probably do it better"
I think you would impress yourself if you took the time to "hand code" a page or two.
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My company processes 100-250 online transactions per day. Our payment processor gives us a certain element of address validation - it simply checks if the cardholder address provided in the transaction is correct for the account.
However, given the nature of our customer base (a lot of businesses and tradesmen), it's very common that even if the 'cardholder' address checks out, it won't be where the goods are being delivered, or even where the invoice is going. As such the cardholder address verification doesn't protect us against from fraud.
I've looked into other address/person checking services, and all any of them will do is tell you whether a person lives at a certain address. But consider the following situations:
How are you supposed to deal with these situations in any kind of automated or formalised way? Right now it's a person looking at it, using their judgement, researching the customer, maybe contacting them. It's a time-consuming process and we definitely flag up many legitimate orders as possibly fraudulent.
Ruling out 3d secure for the moment, I was wondering what processes or services other people are using because I'm sure it shouldn't be as hard as this?
This probably doesn't help at all, but I've encountered more than one company which stipulate that first orders can only be delivered to the card-holder's address. For subsequent orders, you can choose an alternative delivery address.
I've seen that before, too. But to be honest I think that would put a lot of our customers off.
use maxmind.com . It really really helped us in preventing fraud orders. There is an extension that allowed us to use it directly with our backend (magento).
Cheers. however I'm in the UK so I don't think they'll work for us.
Yes, our payment service will check if the card has been reported stolen. But fraud still occurs in the space between the card being stolen and theft being discovered/reported (otherwise the crooks wouldn't do it!), which lead us to other methods.
Yes, our payment service will check the address for us, but how about the scenarios above where goods/invoices are going to addresses other than the card address? Address checking only gets us so far and I wondered what other online sellers did to protect themselves against fraud while still allowing honest people to get their goods delivered to their work address? Let's assume that if an order is being shipped to an address that the bank confirms as the card address, that we accept the order. Now how about the others?
Are other companies making sure first orders are shipped to the card address? Are you allowing the order if the buyer at least knows what the card address is? Are you setting a value limit and allowing all orders below a certain value? Are you using services like max mind that monitor lots of card payments and ip addresses to identify fraud?
What sort of fraud rates are you currently seeing? In what category [electronics, household, apparel, etc]?
Well fraud rates are pretty low at the moment. But we're turning away a lot of orders because Of suspected fraud, as well as spending way too much time vetting the orders. So I don't know what the fraud rate would be if we accepted everything.
How about sending the cardholder an automated text to just let them know a transaction has been made, or a pin to authorise the transaction. You can get them quite cheap. www.cbfsms.com does it (fish2text or something)
Or maybe you can use automated phone verification systems?
We also use Maxmind. One thing that significantly lowers the fraud rate is by not having a payment gateway on your own website. That way, you are not the one who is in charge of the transactions. You are still responsible for the transaction itself if you use a third party payment option, but they do the fraud monitoring for you and block more fraud than any payment gateway that I had on a website, even when I used 3-D secured.
But 3-D secure remains extremely useful, why would you not want to use it?
Agree on Maxmind- they check the IP address as well as checking for proxies, high risk IPs etc. We partner with Maxmind to help our merchants.. .and I believe their database international- we've blocked IP from non-US locations before. I am not sure what datasources are available in the UK, maybe your best bet is to try to automate the processes as much as possible, instead of doing everything manually?
As for 3D secure- I've heard that it's a big hurdle that many customers just don't want to jump through. At least here in the US, the adoption rates have been pretty low.
I think any merchant who has his own payment gateway on his website must have 3-D Secure to avoid fraud, or else you can get targeted by fraudsters quite quickly once they find out your website is vulnerable. And I'm not really sure if there really is any problem with adoption rates, as it's written in the "3-D Secure Payer Authentication" thread.
Any step added to your shopping process is going to increase abandonment. Validation can be a minimal impact or a significant one just depending on the type of audience you have shopping and their response to the extra information request and very different style site.
All businesses experience fraud, that's just reality. You can reduce the rates many ways but the further you go the higher the impact will be to your sales thus the great question: how much business are you willing to lose vs how much you can save.
That's true, however online fraud is on the rise, as it could be expected.
That is, if merchants who have their own payment gateway have just a bit too much dispues/chargebacks, they are going to face fees and risk having their account closed. For all online merchants who have an abnormally high number of fraudulent transaction, the best decision might end up being to minimize the risk.
We use a software fraud detection service (MaxMind) but we review all orders for fraud manually as well, and we have not lost a chargeback in over 5 years. (we've had a few, but they were customers who didn't feel like following our policies, we disputed and won).
Here are some of the criteria we look for in our store, if you see any of these you should look for more information to further validate the order because there's a high probability of fraud:
If you notice any of these things, look at some of the others like IP address and phone number to try to verify further. When we have an order that has a high fraud score through MaxMind and also fails a few of the criteria above, we send the customer an email asking for them to call us. When they call we ask them for clarification.
If, for instance, their IP address doesn't match the billing or shipping city we'll simply say something like "our fraud detection software marked this order - is there any reason it might have done that?" or "is there any reason our fraud detection would say you're not where you live?" something like that.
After 13 years I've found that most "scammers" won't call you and explain - they're just looking for a quick and easy transaction. But if we're still uneasy we simply ask them to fax or email us a copy of their photo ID and credit card showing the same name - the one used on the order. They can snap it from their camera phone and blur or hide most of the number, as long as we can make out the last 3 or 4 digits and the name that's all we need.
It's a hassle but most customers understand... and it happens very rarely. And again, in all these years we've never had one slip through the process so it works! Hope that helps a bit...
Here in the US, I know at least one company that will insure physical goods shipped out (you send them all the info, then they'll tell you whether you'll insure or not). We have merchants who use them to insure international shipping (especially high ticket transactions). I am not sure if they are available for transactions originating outside of US, but maybe you can find a similar service in the UK.
Have you considered getting a phone verification service? It's an extremely powerful tool to protect e-merchants against online fraud.
I agree with Micheal. Phone verification will definitely protect you against fraud.
So will only taking orders by phone... or in person. You have to weigh the cost vs the return.


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Dudley Webb is charged with aggravated assault with intent and fleeing/eluding a police officer. Both charges are felonies and each carries a $50,000 bail. Deputies said Webb would likely bond out of jail Wednesday evening.
Deputies said they responded about 2 p.m. Monday to reports of a reckless driver in Clay County. They said a driver in a four-door vehicle led deputies on a brief pursuit following a hit-and-run crash on County Road 220 in Fleming Island and another hit-and-run crash reported shortly afterwards near Blanding Boulevard and Bear Run in Middleburg.
Webb was driving erratically and at high speeds in various locations, including on County Road 209 North, Knightboxx Road and Blanding Boulevard, deputies said.
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While not injured while committing the two hit-and-runs or during his capture, Webb's existing medical condition was such that responding deputies determined it was better to allow him to be hospitalized at Orange Park Medical Center for treatment, investigators said.
The drivers and passengers of the two cars the man hit were not injured, deputies said. However, minor damage was done to their vehicles, to the suspect's vehicle and to responding Clay County deputy vehicles that had to force him to stop, investigators said.
Webb has no previous arrests in Clay County, and responding deputies said they still have no explanation for why he committed the crimes.
Deputies said he not only endangered his own life, but also endangered the lives of innocent motorists, pedestrians and law enforcement.
Investigators said Webb tried to strike a deputy with his car at one point, resulting in the aggravated assault charge. They said he also slow down to 25 mph in an active school zone at one point, demonstrating that he was conscious of his surroundings.
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The Guardian blog site posted an entry about Harun Yahya's literary activities on 20 August, 2007. The site, the largest in the UK, described Harun Yahya's victory in his intellectual struggle against Darwinists in Turkey:
"... Harun Yahya, which is the pen-name of Adnan Oktar, is a sort of spiritual head of a vast Islamic apologist outfit in Turkey, which has reached Islamic publishers in London, Canada and the US. … he has made inroads with Muslims all the way from Indonesia to America.
His books cover topics including refutations of atheism and Darwinism, romanticism as a weapon of Satan, anti-evolution … science, affirmation of miracles, and attacks on Freemasonry, Zionists, Buddhists, and terrorism (Darwin"s fault). …
Since around 1998, Harun Yahya"s operations have focused emphatically on promoting Islamic creationism. Recently, his operations sent a glossy 770 page book about creationism to European and US scientists. …
Journalist Tony Ortega wrote a revealing piece in a local US newspaper about BAV [Bilim Arastirma Vakfi / Science Research Foundation]. It discussed … the defeat of evolution in Turkish schools:
But beginning in 1998, BAV spearheaded an effort to attack Turkish academics who taught Darwinian theory. … seven years after BAV"s offensive began, says Istanbul University forensics professor Umit Sayin, the battle is over.
'There is no fight against the creationists now. They have won the war,' Sayin tells the Pitch from his home in Istanbul. 'In 1998, I was able to motivate six members of the Turkish Academy of Sciences to speak out against the creationist movement. Today, it"s impossible to motivate anyone. …'"
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The 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Bill released by the U.S. Congress last night provides $2 million to further the Lupus Initiative, the lupus provider education program conceived by the Lupus Research Institute (LRI) in collaboration with the federal government. Expected to pass this week, the appropriation will bring total support to $6.6 million for the LRI's signature advocacy program initiated to meet the urgent need for better lupus care, particularly among underserved populations.
The new bill allocates funding to the Department of Health and Human Services to integrate the Lupus Initiative into the national healthcare system. Managed by the American College of Rheumatology, the Lupus Initiative was officially launched in 2013 by the Office of Minority Health, Office of Women's Health and the U.S. Surgeon General to improve diagnosis and reduce health disparities. As described in the report language accompanying the bill, the funding is "intended to engage healthcare professionals, educators, and schools of health professions in working together to improve lupus diagnosis and treatment through education."
"Lupus remains dangerously undiagnosed, underdiagnosed and misdiagnosed, especially in our minority communities," noted LRI CEO Margaret Dowd. "Our LRI patient advocates across America thank Congress for appropriating funds to train healthcare professionals, especially those on the front-lines, to spot this complex autoimmune disease early so patients can get appropriate care promptly."
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2010/11 In Color is a book depicting current work in color (see also 2010/11 in Black & White) by Santa Barbara digital painter R. W. Firestone.
Born near the ocean in Brooklyn, schooled by the bay at UC Berkeley, artist, psychologist and author Robert W. Firestone works in vivid and vibrantly colorful selections of faces, groupings, abstract constructions, cityscapes and nudes.
"The acid colors pulse with an unnatural energy, as though they might be about to engulf the dark forms. At times the digitized splatters of paint recall the electrified colors and patters of a brain scan. It is intense and visceral, like the traces of a memory that can be felt but no longer pictured." (from an January, 2007 essay by Edward Luce-Smith)
"It may seem paradoxical that his chosen vehicle is the very latest technology, since anything technological is so often dismissed as impersonal and lacking in true emotion. Like the Futurists, he seems to see in the machine a commitment to the future, rather than the past. There was a more practical attraction, which was the lightness and transparency of the effects he could obtain." (from a March, 2007 review in ARTnews by Meredith Mendelsohn)
"Life and creativity are the antithesis of cynicism and despair. As an artist, I have attempted to live a creative life, searching and striving for meaning and beauty. Working with the computer as a creative instrument, I have attempted to invent something feelingful, sensitive and beautiful out of an unfeeling machine, translating my feeling for people and their emotions into tangible works of art.
"I utilize a variety of images, impressions and approaches to address the fullness and complexity of my experience. In all of my work, I try to blend rich and bold emotional colors and composition into an enjoyable visual experience." (from Artist's Statement, 2005)
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Hampton - J.J. Sharpe, 78, oldest attorney in Franklin County, former County Attorney here, died suddenly of a heart attach at his home at 8 p.m. Wednesday. He had practiced law here since 1909, and was active in Masonic Circles. Survivors include the widow, a daughter, Mrs. Stanley H Vegors, Fort Wayne, Ind., son Lawrence of Milwaukee, Wisc., and Wilbur of Detroit, Mich.
There are 7 grandchildren. Mr. Sharpe was born in Pennsylvania Aug 8, 1873, and came to Franklin County with his parents. Mr. & Mrs. Moore Sharpe, in 1885. He was graduated from the State University of Iowa School of Law and admitted to the Bar 1898. Mr. Sharpe taught school for a time, then practiced law in Montezuma, then came to Hampton in 1906. He was married June 20, 1899 to Lillian Ehret of Iowa City.


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LONDON - London Fashion Week swings into star time with a debut fashion show from pop star Rihanna and other big design names, including Issa and Jasper Conran.
Rihanna for River Island is set for Saturday night, followed by an elaborate party in central London.
The five-day fashion spectacle will also include upcoming shows from Vivienne Westwood, Burberry, Temperley and — for the first time offering a full catwalk show in London — Tom Ford.
There also are dozens of smaller shows and presentation by a wide variety of up and coming fashion names as well as established draws such as Christopher Kane, Roksanda Ilincic and Erdem.
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LEISURE facilities in Burnley will be managed by a trust from tomorrow.
Burnley Council and Burnley Leisure signed the agreements for their new partnership arrangements last week.
The trust, known as Burnley Leisure, will manage and operate St Peter's Leisure Centre, Padiham Leisure Centre and the Mechanics Theatre.
In addition, the trust will provide arts and cultural development services, sports development and play services and healthy lifestyles programmes.
Councillor John Harbour, the council's executive member for leisure and culture, said: "The project to establish the partnership has gone extremely well.
"I am confident that Burnley Leisure will not only continue to provide excellent leisure services for Burnley residents, but will develop a wider range of services that will further improve the leisure and cultural offer in the borough."
Burnley Council believes the formation of a leisure trust will save it around £300,000 a year.
The trust, which will have charitable status, will also benefit from new freedoms and flexibilities around how it operates the service, and will be able to bid for grants to help with funding.
A shadow trust board has been in place for four months and has worked with the council in developing a range of agreements to reflect the agreed partnership provisions and key outcomes to improve the health and wellbeing of the local area.
Charles Green, chairman of Burnley Leisure, said: "It has been clear from the start that the council wanted to establish a successful trust, and we are keen to meet that aim and excel in inspiring active, creative and healthier communities and provide even more opportunities to enrich people's lives.
"The new trust board includes members with a wide range of experiences and interests and I am confident that along with staff within the trust, we will ensure that the services going forward will continue to be of the highest quality and focus on the needs of residents and visitors to Burnley."
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The amazing feature of the week is Sunday Creek Too -- a shop specializing in jewelry made from genuine bullet casings and sterling silver accents.
Sunday Creek Too was started in Spring of 2011, "My family and I are recreational shooters and always pick up our used casings (after all, it's our property we're shooting on!) and I began to think what could I do with what are essentially well-made uniform brass/nickel cylinders?" Also, she "listen[ed] to [her] husband when he [said] 'just try it, you never know'"
Being extremely busy, Sunday Creek Too's biggest challenge is time, "I have a full time job plus I make all of my own jewelry items, take the photographs, do the post production in PhotoShop and I designed and wrote my own website in addition to having a family and a productive hay farm with horses, cows, and dogs to take care of!"
Accomplishment is felt for her whenever she makes a new design that "develops into a unique piece."
Besides your shop what makes you tick? "My wonderfully supportive family and our rural life together."
A tip for other sellers: "There is a buyer out there for just about anything, you just have to help them find you, the internet has opened up the entire globe for sellers of handmade goods."
Also, don't let age stop you, "As someone who can certainly be labeled 'mature', I would like to encourage all 'ladies of a certain age' to take the plunge into selling their creations - I know it looks frightening but dip your toe in the water, it's not as deep as you think!"
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I just wanted to give a short testimony ***as a mother*** on my daughter's college study abroad program, in her senior year of college.
Our family comes from a small town in Iowa. I will have to admit the idea of my daughter going to Florence, Italy all by herself to live, and participate in a college curriculum was pretty scary for me. My daughter, Stephanie, is a very grown up, and sensible young lady. My only fears for her safety were from the unknown circumstances she would encounter in a foreign country.
The distance, and lack of immediate access getting to our "almost grown" children should something happen; is the most frightening part of this experience!
LDM's program does lend a tremendous amount of security to a student wanting to have this great cultural experience. We had several choices for living arrangements, so you can pick what makes you and your student feel more comfortable. I was very worried about communicating with her; however we were offered different options for the students to acquire international calls, which of course we did. Just knowing she could call us in case of an emergency was a great comfort in itself. Skype was also great; we could visit with her while seeing first hand she was still physically fine!! The school will organize several trips for weekend excursions that are supervised and very safe. Students can choose to go separately or with friends. The school is very helpful and I felt my daughter learned so much about foreign cultures. Stephanie has made some great, lifelong friends while in Italy. They share a bond that is only between them all having had the same experiences of a lifetime together.
My daughter is now a world traveler! She can navigate the metro train systems in several counties, get safely from foreign airport connections, transfer from bus to train, and back to plane yet again... I was fortunate enough to witness this myself as she took me for a tour of Florence and guided me to Barcelona, Spain when I came to visit on her very last week there.
I would recommend this experience to anyone that has a college student with an unquenchable thirst to experience the world's cultures. Your college student will come home so much wiser, and these experiences make great impressions on future employers!
With all said and done. I am sincerely glad that Stephanie did follow her dream and study abroad…
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Should your son or daughter study abroad if the opportunity presents itself? My answer, ABSOLUTELY! Both my wife and I studied abroad while we were in college…something she had always planned to do, while for me, I stumbled into it quite by accident. The college we attended had a well-developed study abroad program that was very much a part of the campus culture. I had never considered studying abroad before attending college, but as I began to hear the experiences of other students who traveled and participated in the abroad programs my interest increased. My wife (then girlfriend) studied in Wales for a semester and traveled throughout much of Europe. Following her European experience we studied together for a term in Mexico. During this time we were able to experience a new culture and interact with individuals from local communities. In a word, our study abroad experiences were TRANSFORMATIONAL!
Years later, our oldest son approached us during his sophomore year of college and asked us if he could study abroad in Wales during his junior year. Our answer…ABSOLUTELY! As a parent, the highlight of our son's study abroad experience was the opportunity to travel to Wales at the end of his term and spend time travelling as a family. We invited our son to plan out the itinerary and show us the highlights of his travels and experiences. He arranged all of our transportation, booked the majority of our accommodations, and shared with us his favorite sites. What we saw during this experience was how our son matured as a young man. He gained deep respect for different cultures and people as well as new ways of seeing and understanding life from a different perspective. He developed confidence and growth that comes from the challenges of navigating life and travel on your own.
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Students who participate in off-campus study programs develop marketable career skills beneficial to future job searches or graduate school applications, and are far better prepared for the demands of the twenty-first century than students who do not study off-campus. Participation in a study abroad or study away program can be a defining element to every student's degree and invaluable to your student's career aspirations. Off-campus study experiences enhance career preparation by teaching cross-cultural and workplace skills critical for students as they connect and work with people around the world. Key job skills of value to today's employers include adaptability, international awareness, leadership, and independence. These are competencies directly fostered by learning and living in another culture. Employers realize the extraordinary benefits of off-campus study programs and desire graduates with these experiences. The Office of International Studies offers a variety of internationally (study abroad) and domestically based (study away) off-campus study programs that engage students in opportunities to enhance their learning beyond the classroom and gain cross-cultural competencies.
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Living in another culture deepens intellectual and personal maturity, fosters independent thinking, builds self-confidence, and shifts global perspectives. During participation in a study abroad or study away program, students will encounter challenges that provide opportunities for increasing self-sufficiency and independence. As students successfully navigate challenging situations, they will learn how to adapt and make decisions quickly. Daily experiences may challenge your student's long-held beliefs as they discover many surprising differences and similarities between their native culture and that of the new community. These experiences provide an invaluable education as students gain a deeper understanding of themselves, the culture in which they are living, and the diversity of lifestyles and beliefs in the world. Participation in an off-campus program will be a time of challenge, growth, independence, and adventure, both academically and personally, that your student will remember for a lifetime.
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Among the information delivered bythe Prophet (saas) about Hazrat Mahdi (as), who is the Imam of the End Times and spiritual leader of the time, his physical features are also told in great details. One of these features is the fact that Hazrat Mahdi's (as) body is wide and majestic just like the Prophet's (saas). In the hadiths it is pointed out that Hazrat Mahdi (as) is broad shouldered and has a wide stomach. Besides it is also understood that Hazrat Mahdi's (as) eyebrows are close to one another, that he walks fast, meaning he has a lively creation.
He [Hazrat Mahdi (as)] is large of body. (Al-Uqayli, An-Najmu's-saqib fi Bayan Anna'l Mahdi min Awladi Ali b. Abu Talib Ale't-Tamam wa al-Qamal)
From Yahya bin Nufal, indeed Musa ibn Ja'far (as) raises his hands and supplicates after afternoon prayer, I inquire from him saying, "For whom did you offer prayer?" He said: "For Al-Mahdi (as) among the family of Muhammad (saas)" and continued: "HE IS HAVING WIDE STOMACH, HIS LEGS ARE VERY ENERGETIC, HIS SHOULDERS ARE WIDE … HIS NIGHT SHALL GUARD THE STARS BY HIS BOWING DOWN AND PROSTRATION TO ALLAH, HE WHOM THE BLAMES OF THOSE THAT BLAME SHALL NOT AFFECT HIM BEFORE ALLAH, HE IS THE LUMINOUS CANDLE, HE SHALL RISE WITH THE COMMAND OF ALLAH." (Bihar al-Anwar, 86-81)
His Eminence, Abu Ja'far, Imam Muhammad Baqr (as) through his forefathers has narrated from the chief of Ahl al-Bayt, His Eminence, Commander of the Belivers (as) that His Eminence proclaimed from the pulpit, "IN THE LAST AGE A MAN FROM MY PROGENY [HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] WOULD RISE, ... HAVING A CLEAR AND WIDE BELLY AND HIS THIGHS WOULD BE BROAD AND HIS BONES SHALL BE LONG (BIG) AND PROMINENT ..."(Allama Baqir Sharif al-Qurashi, The Life of Imam al-Mahdi (as), p. 47)
In another hadith, Hazrat Ali (as) again mentions about Imam Mahdi (as) in the following words: "HE SHALL HAVE A WIDE FOREHEAD… AND A CLEAR AND WIDE BELLY, BROAD THIGHS …"(Yanabee'-al-Mawadda, p. 423)
His [Hazrat Mahdi's (as)] stomach large, and the space between his thighs is open ...(Mari' bin Yusuf Karami Hanbali, Fawaid Fawaid al-Fikr fil Mahdi al-Montazar, p. 13)
His [Hazrat Mahdi's (as)] ... brow is wide. (The hadith indicates that Hazrat Mahdi's (as) head will also be large.) (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 22)


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Recently, User:220.127.116.11 has created several articles on characters from the Nintendo DS version of the Half-Blood Prince game, but a lot of the names seem as if they might be typos (Ogbouine? Moharnrnad? Thornas?). Does someone want to check verify these? ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 12:58, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
- I corrected some of the names. It seems that 220.127.116.11 was typing "rn" in place of "m." However, Ogbouine and Karaue still stand out as unlikely surnames, and although I couldn't confirm that Yavraj is an actual girl's name, I did find the boy's name Yuvraj. Anyone who's played the DS version of the game care to look into this? ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 14:42, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
- I've been cleaning up some of those articles, and just couldn't understand what the "Bereavement Club" is. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 14:48, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
- I have a feeling that 126.96.36.199 isn't very familiar with English. They probably write the articles in their main language, then run them through a machine translator like Babel Fish, which would explain confusing references like "Bereavement Club." "Bereavement" is probably an incorrect translation of Potions or Duelling given the clubs in the game. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 15:02, 20 July 2009 (UTC)


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Sad to say we have lost my wonderful Father today. CC is a beast and my Dad fought so hard. We love you Dad and will remember all the great times and celebrate your life as you lived every moment to the fullest.
Oh MsHopeful,
I'm so sorry to hear about your Dad. There is a very special bond between Dads and daughters. Your Dad leaves a wonderful legacy in you. You have been with him every step of this hard journey. You've been his advocate and cheerleader.
I know how hard it is to lose a parent to this monster.
Please know you and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers. We are all here for you as you start your next journey grieving for your Dad.
I too am so sorry to hear about your Dad. Keep him in your heart and memories and he will always be with you. Losing a loved one to this rare and aggressive form of cancer is devastating. Give yourself time to grieve and begin to heal. We are all here to help and support you as you travel this road of grieving. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
Love & Hugs,
Dear Ms Hopeful, please accept our thoughts and prayers for your loss, we are truly sorry about your dad. My wish for you is that you will still feel him all around you, as I do mine.
Like Pam and Darla I send my condolences Janet
Ms Hopeful
I'm sorry to hear of your Dad's passing and our thoughts are with you at this time.......................Gerry
Dear Ms Hopeful,
I am so very sorry to hear of your dads passing. Please accept my condolonces. I too know the pain of losing my dad to CC as passed away last December so I know how you are feeling right now.
My thoughts are with you and your family right now.
Ms Hopeful,
I am so sorry for the loss of your beloved Dad. I know just how you are feeling, my Dad died from cc last June.
To echo what the others have said, he will live on forever as your hero in your heart and your memories.
Thinking of you and your family at this terribly sad time,
I am so sorry for your loss. Keep his memories in your heart and know that he will be with you always.
Thinking and praying for you and your family...
Thank you everyone for your support and prayers.
Dear Ms Hopeful
My love to you, too, at this very sad time.
Julia x
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Gareth Evans
The Wales-born director talks to Screen about the challenges of working in Indonesia, the American remake and The Raid sequel Berandal.
Since its world premiere at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, where it picked up the Midnight Madness award, Gareth Evans' action title The Raid has been one of the most critically acclaimed and buzziest titles on the festival circuit, recently winning two awards at the Dublin International Film Festival - best film and audience award - along with a standing ovation at both that screening and its UK premiere closing the FrightFest strand of the Glasgow Film Festival.
Little surprise then that there's already an English-language remake in the works - Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper will oversee the project which XYZ Films will produce with Evans serving as executive producer - and Evans has already announced the sequel Berandal - which starts shooting in January next year - with rights sold to Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions for the US, Latin America and Spain, Alliance Group for the UK and Canada, Koch Media for German-speaking territories, Korea Screen for South Korea and HGC for China.
Ahead of its theatrical roll-out — including a US release on March 23 through Sony Pictures Classics and a UK release on May 18 through Momentum — Evans spoke to Screen about the origins of The Raid and his relationship with lead actor Iko Uwais.
Can you tell us a little bit about how The Raid came about?
We'd finished Merantau [Evans' first feature with Uwais] and I was developing something else which they wanted it to be bigger and more elaborate with more aggressive action scenes, but the financial situation in Indonesia, for film financing especially, was just shitty. We were trying to get this money in place but everyone kept turning us down, nobody wanted to do it. So we'd been spending a year and a half trying to get the money for a film we couldn't get off the ground and suddenly we're in a position where Iko [Uwais] hadn't done anything and I hadn't done anything and I was sick of sitting in the office waiting.
That's why we decided 'Okay, let's do this one, it's smaller budget, we can contain it all in one location so we don't get interrupted by the rain and we can just shoot and deliver it at, like $1.1m.' That was the impetus for it then and The Raid was a plan B, it was a back-up project and it's helped us a lot now obviously. The way it's performed and the response it's been getting has made it so now we can do the next film which was our previous project.
Your relationship with Iko started when you filmed him for a documentary (The Mystic Arts of Indonesia: Pencak Silat). Was it hard to persuade him to become an actor?
Actually it was a weird thing, it was hard for him to believe me. When we finished the documentary, I'd gone back to the UK to pack up and move to Indonesia, so I said to him 'Look, I'm going to come back out here and at some point, I'm going to make a film with you'. He just thought I was full of shit, lying through my teeth. When we got back out to Indonesia, I did a screen test for him where we did some choreography in a gym somewhere with a bunch of other fighters. If I look at it now, the quality of it was shit, but at the time it was reassuring, we didn't know why but we felt it could be good.
Then we just started developing it more and Merantau became a real project and we were in the situation where I was ready to do this film with him and said 'Look, come and work with us now, quit your job and we'll do this film'. He said to me today actually that he still didn't believe me until the first day of production so he must have thought the whole pre-production process was one big prank, an elaborate joke on him.
And did you notice any changes between Iko on The Raid compared to Merantau?
He's grown a lot more now. In Mernatau, we didn't do much to change his appearance, we just treated him as he was — all we did was just grow his hair a bit. On The Raid, we cut his hair short, so that's one thing we changed! We also made him bulk up and gain five or six kilograms in weight and go to the gym more and work on his upper body strength. So we pushed him in those different areas and we wanted him to look more mature this time. He still had to fit the bill as a rookie though.
For The Raid, it was this process of making him look more mature and give him a character who's less ideal, because in Merantau, he was an idealist little kid. This was someone who knew violence, who had to come into this world and would be more aggressive and direct in the choreography as well. There was a lot more challenges for him on this one than there was the previous one.
Were there any particular challenges when it came to production? Presumably the script written in English?
I write everything in English so when you read the subtitles, that's my script. It's the only time my script gets seen. It's devastating because I write that script for four or five months and then spend months working on it, trying to get the dialogue right, and I know then that somebody's going to translate it into Indonesian and it's not going to be my script anymore; it's going to be slightly different. Indonesian's much more direct as a language, we play around a lot more in English with the way we say things.
I tend to give the actors a lot of flexibility and freedom as well to make sure it feels right to them because I can't read the Indonesian script and know it's 100% right. It's only when I see it performed, I can raise questions about certain things. It's a weird process at the moment. I think it's one side of our films that an Indonesian audience will probably see as a negative because it's really hard to do an accurate translation of your work to another language.
I learned a lot more Indonesian with the guys but they all spoke English as well, they all accommodate me a lot and I felt guilty after the first film. So after that I was like 'I've gotta learn your language, I've got to be able to give instructions'. There'd be like a day on the shoot where for a couple of hours I'd say 'OK, I'm only going to talk Indonesian'. Then it gets harder and harder to do my job so I revert back to English again. I try to kind of be there for them.
How important was it to make sure Iko's character doesn't get it all his own way in the fight scenes?
The vulnerability is essential. It's something that connects the audience with that person and what they're going through. When you do these fight sequences, there are moments where Iko is facing off against people who are not as skilled as him and he just storms through them, like the knife fight and the stick fight, he doesn't get a scratch. When he faces the machete guys, they beat the shit out of him. He gives them as much as they give him but he's not coming out of it unscathed, so when we're doing that scene, once he's walking down the corridor and he's battered and bruised, anyone comes out, that's the end of the film for him.
When we're doing these films, it's important to have that feeling that no one is safe and even though everyone knows in the back of their head 'oh he's the hero, he's going to survive', it just puts that little bit of doubt in there and makes you side with him more. It's like the John McClane moment where he breaks down and cries, he's relatable and I think that's a large part is what makes Jackie Chan so great. He takes a beating, he's never fully in control of the fight scene.
Was there any room for improvisation during the fight sequences?
There's occasionally the odd shot or the odd movement where when we tried to execute it on set, it didn't look that good or we might come up with a better idea. There were a couple of moments in the Mad Dog two-on-one fight at the end where we were running out of time to shoot a certain amount of choreography, we thought 'OK, let's put a throw in there instead'; little things like that where we have this one throw where we improvise completely because we needed to get to another section of the choreography. What happens though is the pre-vis that we do in pre-production, that video storyboard is usually 90-95% as it is at the end of the film.
How involved in the post-production were you?
In terms of post-production, I do the offline edit myself. I edit the film and then the sound design, I worked with the guys closely on that. They would send me stuff and I'd come back to them with ideas and we always bounce ideas back and forth. The only aspect I don't get involved in much is the online digital effects because I haven't got a fucking clue how he does them, but my guy is really great and he works so hard to get all these shots done right.
There's a lot of CG [in The Raid]. We didn't have real blank firing guns at all, we were using BB guns with gas blowback stuff. So my guy - poor bastard - every time somebody fired a gun, he had to animate bullet shells. We prepared things to make it a little easier as well, like whenever people were shooting the AK47s at the cops, we had these welding guns that we could create sparks from so we had real light bouncing off the walls.
All these little DIY tricks, low-budget tricks which we knew we could do, but without it being DIY too much, it would be enhanced by our really good CG guy. He'd also do a lot of the blood effects like when the guy gets pushed onto the floor and he gets stabbed six times, it's all CG blood, he even had to do the stain on the t-shirt. He wanted to kill me after that because we gave him nothing to work with, no markers, nothing.
What was behind the decision to record a new soundtrack - created by Mike Shinoda (of American rock band Linkin Park) and Joe Trapanese - for the American release of the film?
Basically that was a decision made before we'd even finished the film. I had a phone call from [Sony] and one of the first things they said was we want to do a new soundtrack with one of our artists. It wasn't a case of they heard the original and wanted to change it.
I just finished the original version with my guys and we were pretty deep into that at that point and when I spoke to Mike and Joe about their version, they asked if I had any notes and I didn't want to give any notes because everything would have been the same as I told my guys. They gave me this outline of 'OK, we want to have more of a classical background to it, a real score, not a collection of songs' and everything they told me was just reassurance and I was like 'just go ahead and do this now because you sound like you're on the right page'.
I'm so proud of my guys and their work is brilliant and in a perfect world, for me, the best version of the score is a mix between the two. It sounds horribly diplomatic but there are certain things that Mike and Joe had done which are fantastic and there are certain things my guys have done where they nailed it. Mike's one is very reminiscent of '80s John Carpenter stuff, there's this retro feel to it.
Are you apprehensive about the American remake?
I'm flattered by it. It's like there are people in America that like the film enough to make them want to remake it and spend a lot of money doing it. There are so many original ideas out there but they chose to do that.
A lot of time when it comes to these types of deals, a lot of people tend to think of it as the evil studio that doesn't think of the original but that's not the case on this one. The original is getting pushed big, it's getting a decent release and they're really going out there to get it known in the community in all media. The guys responsible for [the remake], one of the things they demanded was that Iko and Yayan [Ruhian] do the choreography so that shows such a sign of respect for their work and the fact it'll contain elements of silat in it as well.
I'm involved as an executive producer on it but my involvement is minimal in a way and the reason why is that I feel that remake would benefit from having a fresh pair of eyes. I've done my 'contained in a building' film, I've got nothing new to give it, no more ideas to bring to the table but I'm super excited to see whoever they get to direct it, what they bring to it.
Can you tell us a bit about the sequel Berandal? Any major differences?
We're expanding the story, it's not contained this time. We're going outside of the building and we're going to meet all of the gangsters that allowed that boss to have that building. It's more about exposing the corruption as well and Iko's character becomes obsessed with capturing these guys and it's about that obsession potentially harming the relationships that he has. There's more of a moral complexity to Iko's character this time. In The Raid it's all about that one event, but now it's about a number of different moments that could change his life for the worse basically.
I'm being super vague about it but there's more at stake at this one as well. We've got much bigger action sequences on this one as well. The hardest one we're going to do is we have a four-on-one fight, Iko's going to fight against four guys but in a moving car on a motorway. Me and my DoP [Matt Flannery], my poor DoP, we're trying to figure out how we're going to shoot that.
Finally, what are you able to take from The Raid into Berandal?
Every project we learn a lot of different mistakes that we made and how to better those. We drew up a list of things that we wanted to do differently from The Raid for Berandal and we drew that up before we screened the film to anywhere. The key to it is to know that even though we've had a great response and a great reaction to the film, those problems that existed on the first film, they're still problems.
In terms of making the sequel, I'm trying to approach it without having that idea of too much pressure or expectation of how you follow the previous film and I said to Iko earlier, 'look it doesn't matter if people don't like the sequel as much as they do the first'. It would be almost ridiculously arrogant of us to expect the same reaction. There's a big chance people are not going to like it as much but the important thing is we continue to make that film the way we made the first which was to rely on our gut instinct and not think too much about what other people want to see in the film. As soon as we do that, then we stop making it for ourselves and as soon as we stop making it for ourselves, we're not the right people to make it.
I just hope that Berandal stays true to what I want to do and think about the consequences later.
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