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At first glance, the 2009 Chevrolet Traverse looks like just another SUV, albeit with surprisingly smooth body work. But the Traverse is actually intended as a crossover, its unibody design and independent suspension delivering a more comfortable ride than a truck-based SUV and a downsized engine intended to bring in better fuel economy. But in the case of the Traverse, crossover seems to mean an intersection between minivan and SUV, as it has ample room for people, with its three-row seating, and cargo. Although our model was a front-wheel-drive version, all-wheel-drive is available.
The Traverse is also an example of the new Chevrolet, showing the updated grille design originally adopted on the Malibu. It's a look we like. Inside, the navigation and music package is basically the same as we've seen in GM vehicles for the past few years, but it gets a few extra features to keep up with the competition.
Test the tech: Traffic avoidance
One of the most useful features adopted by GM for the 2009 Chevrolet Traverse is traffic reporting integrated with the navigation system. We saw a version of this system in last year's Cadillac CTS, but this is the first time we've seen it in a Chevrolet. The system gets traffic data from XM's Satellite Radio network and feeds it into the navigation system, showing traffic flow on major roads, along with incidents that might cause congestion, such as accidents and road construction. To test the system, we plotted various routes and looked at how it would help us avoid traffic jams.
For our first test, we drove to a location about 30 miles south of San Francisco, and entered a destination in Berkeley. The usual route for this type of trip would take us over the Bay Bridge, which can often become a choke point. We used the map to input a destination, which worked very well, then let the navigation system compute the route. When it didn't alert us to any problems along the way, we scrolled the map along the route and saw an area of slow traffic, indicated by an amber line, along the Bay Bridge. There are four colors for traffic flow: green, yellow, amber, and red. It seems that the system would let us drive into an amber area, which indicates traffic moving around 30 mph, but would probably avoid a red area.
With this route plotted, we touched the Traffic button on the screen, and it brought up a list of traffic conditions along our route, including the slow traffic on the bridge. Touching that item on the list brought up detailed information about the location and speeds, along with a button labeled Avoid. We hit the Avoid button, and the system recalculated the route, taking us across the bay on another bridge.
We canceled that destination and entered another one into downtown San Francisco. It calculated the route and we started driving. A few miles later a warning popped up on the screen showing a slow traffic incident. We hit the Avoid button immediately, and were given an alternate route. We also noticed that the system would flash traffic alerts even when we didn't have a destination programmed. If you're driving down a road where traffic information is available, the system looks ahead and alerts you to any nearby traffic problems. This feature is excellent, as you're not going to program in a destination for familiar locations.
In the cabin
Although we like Chevrolet's new exterior styling, the company's interiors leave a lot to be desired. The Traverse we had--the top-of-the-line LTZ trim--used a two-tone dashboard with black top and bottom and a beige waistband. This scheme is also taken up on the front doors, but the joint between front door and dash goes from graceful curve to sharp angle. Looks aside, though, we were impressed with the seeming quality of the build, and particularly liked the inset climate control buttons.
We like the onscreen interface for navigation and music, which uses a tabbed structure, making the process to find different music sources or switch to map display very intuitive. But this navigation system is DVD-based, and we often found delays before it brought up a map or computed a route. The maps themselves look pretty good, and entering addresses is easy with its onscreen keyboard. Beyond the traffic feature we looked into above, the navigation system is pretty basic, lacking features like text-to-speech, voice command, or a complete points-of-interest database.
Chevrolet supplements the in-car navigation system with OnStar, which takes the place of voice command and provides additional points of interest. If you want to find a business or other location not listed in the database, you can hit the OnStar button and ask an operator to find it. That operator can send the destination to the navigation system, which will take over from there.


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Omarion Talks Bowling, Fashion & Family
Tim Westwood caught up with Omarion at All Star Lanes in London. The former B2K member talked about being a long dong, bowling man pride, what he's got going on in the UK, how Tim got in the VIP room with Omarion on his last trip to Atlanta, what he's wearing, his thick stack of money, and not having a strong male persona around getting raised by his mother. "Fashion is such a big part of the musical culture right now," Omarion said. "If you're not looking above, then you're not representing your culture right." Watch the 2-part interview via YouTube below.


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Frye's Meat Guide [1923]
The front cover features the title "Frye's Meat Guide" in black lettering against a beige background. The Frye's logo is located in the center consisting of the colors red and black. At the bottom, the phrase "More than a hundred tested recipes" is stated. The back cover entails the Frye's logo in the center against a beige background. The inside pages begin with a table of contents plus recipe index and continue with helpful suggestions on how to cook your meat. The rest of the inside pages are dedicated to various recipes that utilize a form of meat. The categories of meat include bacon, beef, ham, lamb, lard, pork, poultry, sausage, and veal. Each recipe includes a list of all ingredients needed plus detailed directions on how to prepare the dish. There are different illustrations throughout the inside pages.
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Placebo returned to Australia to tour with Soundwave, for the first time since their appearance at the festival in 2010, to play us new songs off their latest album Loud Like Love.
They opened with 'B3', from their 2012 EP of the same name, and then backtracked to 2009 with 'For What It's Worth'. From the very start of the show, Brian Molko's voice rang out clear through the Enmore Theatre and pulsed its way to the very back of the room.
The band don't display their energy by moving around the stage or interacting with each other, but it could be felt with every guitar riff and drum beat. Molko waited until after 'Loud Like Love', their third song of the night, to address the crowd (albeit briefly) while the guitarist moved onto the keyboard, and the keyboard player moved to play violin. This is the only point in the night that the sound wasn't perfect. The Enmore need to be congratulated for this, they did a fantastic job of making sure every song was clear and every instrument could be heard when it needed to be. Well, except in this song. The violin and keyboard couldn't be heard over the drums and bass in some parts of 'Twenty Years', but everything came together at the end, during the climax "You're the truth not I." The passion in this song could be felt from start to finish.
Arguably their biggest hit 'Every You Every Me' made an early appearance, and was played so fast that it was over almost as quickly as it began. It felt rushed, like the band wanted to get it out of the way as fast as they could to concentrate on newer material.
Their newer songs got a mixed response from the crowd. Some were clearly happy to hear them but others were really hanging out for some old hits. There was a slight lull in the set during Loud Like Love's album tracks, but single 'Too Many Friends' was very well received. It was incredibly funny to watch people take photos, and for me to be taking notes during the line "My computer thinks I'm gay. What's the difference anyway? When all the people do all day, is stare into a phone?" Even when the band were poking fun at that very behaviour, no one could help themselves enough to stop and listen and put their phones away.
Those waiting for the hits were soon rewarded with 'Meds' – which was slowed down at first to confuse everyone, before it became frenzied and crazy from the second verse onwards – 'Song to Say Goodbye', 'Special K' and 'The Bitter End' appeared in quick succession. The band fed off the crowd's energy during these songs, and that period of the set was the stand out of the night. 'Special K' was one of the highest points and hearing the crowd yell "Ba da da da da da da da" over Molko, and seeing arms in the air along with a lot of head-shaking, really showed how important that song is to so many people.
The band walked off stage to deafening applause and cheers, and that continued until they returned.
They played a slowed down version of 'Teenage Angst', that took me right back to my high school years and a cover of Kate Bush's 'Keep Running Up That Hill'. 'Post Blue' had the crowd singing "It's between you and me" back at the band, and finished the night with an electrifying version of 'Infra Red'. Though they left out some of their biggest hits – 'English Summer Rain', 'Nancy Boy' and 'Pure Morning' to name only a few – Placebo's set was memorable. They brought emotion into every song and, as always, Molko's voice connected with everyone there.
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Schedules Matter.
The FBS division: 125 teams, 12 regular season games.
Harder Schedules are Harder:
For example, last year both LSU & Ball State finished 10-3. Which team is better?
Football seasons are brutal. Tough schedules have a higher accumulation of collisions bringing about injuries and fatigue.
Last year Georgia opened with Clemson on the road, lost a nail-biter by 3 and dropped from 5 to 12 in the polls. Oregon clobbered FCS Nichols State and leapt from 3rd to 2nd in the polls. Nichols State went 1-10 in 2012 against FCS competition; this was the test that boosted Oregon's poll standings.
Am I wrong, but wasn't Georgia's performance more impressive?
Georgia's idiotically scheduled Clemson, South Carolina (win), and LSU (win) in the first five weeks. The aggregate of violence led to a slew of injuries and a disappointing season.
Easier Schedules Are Easier:
Source - Phil Steele: http://www.fbschedules.com/2014/08/alabama-2014-schedule-key-another-national-championship/
Phil Steele made some interesting points regarding how easy a schedule is and how well a team does. While it's common sense, it's interesting to note that champions get there the easy way. Someone needs to tell Georgia.
Alabama has the EASIEST of all SEC schedules. And, "The only time Alabama missed out on a BCS appearance in the past four seasons was also the same year its schedule was the most difficult"
And, championship bound FSU had their, "2013 schedule at No. 64 coming into last season. That was No. 13 in the ACC and on par with UConn at No. 63 and Temple at No. 65."
Speaking of ACC, remember when Duke was an FSU victory away from a Division Title? "Which ACC team had the easiest schedule coming into 2013? Well, that was Duke, which ended up going 10-4, the most wins in the history of the program."
Easier Schedules Have always been Better:
Back in the days of Woodrow Wilson, a European War (America hadn't joined WWI yet), and no Breaking Bad, the deep south had the SIAA Conference (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association).
Vanderbilt finished the season 7-1, whilst Georgia Tech finished 7-0-1. They didn't play head to head; but GaTech clearly had the tougher schedule compared Vandy's wins over the likes of Henderson State, Sewanee, Cuberland, and Southwestern. Because of no head-to-head contest, Newspapers voted Vanderbilt conference champions. Why? They had a higher point differential.
Easier Schedules are more rewarding... Even for OSU
Nearly 100 years later, I still don't understand the notion of tough football schedules.
Back in 2005, I remember, before the season, wondering "Why did OSU and Texas schedule each other?" Defeating Texas would put them on the road to a national title, but so would a lackluster 17-6 win over Idaho.
OSU lost to Texas by 3 points and fell out of title contention. 2005 is possibly Tressel's greatest ever had; but, they lost a nailbiter. Still riding on the low, they lost another battle two weeks later at PSU. Had OSU scheduled, say, Idaho they may have played for the national title.
2007: Two years later a Boeckman led OSU was without Ginn, Troy Smith, Gonzalez, Pittman. It was one of Tressel's weakest teams, but somehow a toiletesque non-conference slate (Youngstown state, Akron, a 4-9 Washington, and Kent State) and 7-1 in a weak B1G yielded a National Title Shot.
Voters Still Don't Get It:
Oh Wisconsin: Last September an eventual 10 win Pac-12 squad bested them on the road at night (three time zones away) via officiating incompetence.
Pac-12 Manned Up: The officiating was so errant, the Pac-12 actually admitted fault. A rare occurance in major sports.
Aftermath: Arizona State, previously unranked, sprang to 23rd in Coaches & AP Poll. Wisconsin trekked into the desert 18th & 20th in the Coaches and AP poll, but frustratingly dropped to 24th in the Coaches poll and Unranked in the AP poll.
Unranked due to a close loss, on the road game, at night, where Pac-12 officiating admitted incompetence.
Yeah, there's rumblings the playoff committee will entertain a revolutionary notion of factoring SoS. But, voters haven't figured it out since WWI, 2014 is no different.
Big 10 Strength of Schedules
From Phil Steele: http://www.fbschedules.com/2014/08/phil-steele-2014-college-football-strength-of-schedule-rankings/
1 (19) - Rutgers
2 (23) - Minnesota
3 (26) - Indiana
4 (36) - Ohio State
5 (38) - Illinois
6 (39) - Maryland
7 (43) - Purdue
8 (45) - NorthWestern
9 (50) - Michigan State
10 (51) - Nebraska
11 (53) - Michigan
12 (54) - Penn State
13 (70) - Iowa
14 (72) - Wisconsin
Seriously, look at Iowa's schedule. You'll laugh because laughter will prevent you from crying. Save the tears for Wisconsin if they beat LSU in the opener; they'll be on easy street to the B1G Title Game.
Duke has a SoS ranked #79 out of 128: The lowest of all the Power 5. The 2nd & 3rd lowest? Yep, Iowa and Wisconsin.
Every coach talks the talk about challenging non-conference opponents and tough divisional cross overs... but, Bama (whose permanent divisional cross over is Unranked Tennesee) and FSU know better.
It would be a ratings bonanza if OSU tested their prowess against Bama and Oklahoma every September... but until voters wise up, why not schedule 4 games against Idaho? You won't be intrigued, but you won't care come playoff time.
Fun Trivia Fact:
The highest non Power 5 SoS is SMU @ #41. If they get 6 or 7 wins, they're basically a middle of the pack B1G team.
ps--Can someone explain to me why OSU closes out both 2015 & 2016 with MSU, Michigan, and then a potential B1G Title Game... Wisconsin is lovin' it.


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Go Behind-the-Scenes of Beyonce's Photo Shoot for Pulse NYC Fragrance [Video]
2013 is already shaping up to be Beyonce's year. From her high-profile (and much debated) national anthem performance at the inauguration to this weekend's Super Bowl halftime show to her fifth album on the horizon, it's all about Bey, Bey, Bey.
She also has a new fragrance to launch in the form of Pulse NYC.
"Now that I am a New Yorker, and I have learned about how I can accomplish anything in this city, I felt it was the appropriate energy for a new fragrance," Bey said about what inspired her to add another perfume to her booming portfolio of scents.
In this footage, which captures the behind-the-scenes happenings at the photo shoot, Bey looks gorgeous with her blonde-kissed locks and a silver dress hugging that enviable body of hers.
We see her in the wardrobe fitting, and watch the poses she strikes while being photographed — since the idea behind the scent and the shoot is being true to both the uniqueness of Manhattan and the uniqueness of Beyonce herself.
She states that she was going for edgy and sophisticated, and felt that they achieved their goal. They sure did.
Could she be any more gorgeous?
We love when she gets playful at the end, and teases that the bottle is her favorite color, which is blue and which is the name of her daughter. Even divas can be cute in B-roll footage.


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Review: Silicon Power Armor A80 Reviewed by: vroom Provided by: Silicon Power Taiwan Manufactured: in Taiwan
Our introduction to Silicon Power was already made, when I reviewed the Marvel M60 USB3 flash drive, and that first experience of their products was very impressive. You can read the review here.
As I said in my previous introduction, Silicon Power is a relatively new company which was founded in 2003 by a group of enthusiastic engineers and experts in flash media. They describe Silicon Power as a company that's passionate, creative, and hungry for success.
Silicon Power offer various storage products, starting with USB flash drives, memory cards, RAM, Solid State Drives, and external hard drives. You can take a closer look at their product line and also find out more about Silicon Power simply by clicking here.
Silicon Power was kind enough to provide me a sample of the Armor A80 external USB3 HDD. The Silicon Power Armor A80 series comes in various capacities, starting with 500GB and reaching the maximum size of 1.5TB. So let's start this review and have a closer look at the Performance of the Armor A80.
A first look at the drive and its specifications
Let's start with a visual inspection of the drive, and as we see the drive comes in regular packaging.
The front of the box is very simple, but also very informative and has a plain but stylish design. We can see the SP brand logo, and some more info, starting with the USB3 logo, then the info on the model and the size of the drive. Moving over to the right hand side we can see the hard drive, and on the bottom we can see some extra info on the drive. Starting with the Windows 7 compatibility, the fact that it's water resistant, and that it's shock proof. One other thing that gets your attention is the fact that the drive has passed the US military standard.
On the rear we get a more detailed view of the sizes that the Armor A80 is available in, and the OSs that it can work with. As we can see the drive is compatible with almost every major OS.
Looking at the contents of the package and what the Silicon Power Armor A80 comes with, we find the quick start manual, the 1TB hard drive, and two USB3 cables. One is a normal cable that allows more freedom as to where you can locate your drive, and the other is very small, as you can see from the picture above, which allows it to be stored inside the case of the drive.
The front of the drive is simple and only has the Silicon Power logo, it has a metal chassis and a blue colour.
At the back we see the size, various logos, and also the made in Taiwan.
A view of both sides of the drive, as we can see there is enough room on one side to hold a small USB3 cable, so that no matter what you will always have the cable with you. On the other side there is the USB3 port.
When I opened the drive, I found a Toshiba 2.5" hard drive inside and also an Asmedia chip to handle the USB3 connection.
A detailed view of the HDD
A close look at the Asmedia chip.
A first look at the specifications of the Silicon Power Armor A80 as they appear on the official website.
Some additional info from the Silicon Power Website.
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More traffic chaos was expected in Johannesburg on Thursday afternoon as a result of the incessant rain, and the load shedding announced early on Thursday morning.
Already several accidents have occurred in Joburg and Ekurhuleni, with increased traffic predicted as traffic lights will be off due to load shedding.
Since Eskom's announcement on Thursday morning that the national power grid was under severe pressure and it was thereby calling a state of emergency, Ekurhuleni has already experienced load shedding.
Power was cut off from the Germiston CBD and surrounding areas on Thursday morning. Parts of Edenvale, Kempton Park, Bredell, Rietfontein, Benoni, Tembisa, Olifantsfontein and Brakpan North have also been affected.
Gauteng traffic police spokesman Obed Sibasa said traffic lights were affected in Rosebank, Bryanston, Isandovale and Garsfontein.
"Quite a number of traffic lights will be affected because of load shedding across the city. The rule is simple: Where you come across lights not working, treat that intersection as a four-way stop," Sibasa said.
Load shedding across the country began at 9am on Thursday.
Eskom's declaration of a national state of emergency was the fourth in recent months.
The utility's spokesman Andrew Etzinger said that by 4am on Thursday the utility realised the pressure on power supply was "certainly serious", and saw no way out but to declare an emergency.
"The seven days of continuous rain has left our coal stocks wet in our Mpumalanga stations.
"Eskom has a certain level of resistance, but this rain has been abnormal and over this period, wet coal has been affecting supply," he said.
Consumers can look on Eskom's website, and those serviced directly by municipalities must look on those websites to access load-shedding schedules.
Eskom said they anticipated that they would be load shedding until 10pm on Thursday night.
City Power spokesman Louis Pieterse confirmed that several suburbs across Joburg were currently experiencing power outages.
These were Roosevelt Park, Emmarentia, Linden, Northcliff and Fairland.
This was due to a trip at one of the power stations and City Power was waiting for directions from Eskom on load shedding.
Meanwhile in the Western Cape areas first disconnected by the City of Cape Town in response include large parts of the southern suburbs from Kenilworth to Bergvliet and Muizenberg. Power was also down in Gugulethu and Somerset West.
eThekwini Municipality spokesman, Thabo Mofokeng, confirmed that several suburbs across Durban were experiencing power outages by mid-morning.
Areas first disconnected by the city in response include Ballito, Westville, Berea, Windermere, Umlazi, Bellair and the Durban CBD.
Businesses across the city were plunged into darkness and the Durban High Court was closed for the day.
Just two weeks ago, the power utility called on its 138 key industrial customers to cut 10 percent of power usage. On Thursday morning, Etzinger reiterated that call.
Commercial customers such as shopping centres were asked to switch off geysers immediately and adjust air conditioning.
Residential customers were asked to switch off geysers, air cons and any non-essentials.
"We've asked our industrial customers to reduce their usage, but it won't be enough. We're calling on all South Africans to reduce their usage," Etzinger said.
Etzinger urged consumers to look up the load-shedding schedules on their website to check the schedules for their areas.
The website, which had not been updated by the time of publishing, stated there was "no load shedding", but Etzinger said he was certain there was no other way to ease the pressure on the grid.
He explained that incessant rain had affected coal supply.
"The open-cast mines which supply our power stations with coal are exposed to the elements and suppliers are battling with providing dry coal. Secondly, our coal transportation conveyors are also exposed to the elements and that moisture affects the coal," he said.
Wet coal does not burn as well as dry coal, leading to less power on the grid. "I must say, there are coal stockpiles at our power stations, but after the incessant rain, those supplies have been depleted."
DA public enterprise spokeswoman Natasha Michael said the party would be writing to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Max Sisulu, to request that he urgently grant a debate of public importance on the Eskom power crisis.
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Thursday, October 26, 2006
14 Comments:
- Chi Hoang said....
Having an askus.fubar.com just won't be the same.
- SeanMacGC said....
Thanks Tom, but do the 482 changes, with the emphasis on availability and change management, really constitute a new version of the Oracle DBMS?
I have a suspicion, that since Oracle 8 (Oracle late, affectionately), where I suspect there was a serious underestimation of the actual effort involved in incorporating Object-Orientation within a relational DBMS, Oracle are sensitive on the version issue, and are just a little trigger-happy to roll out a new version, where only a sub-version [though not subversion, ;o)] might have done.
- said....
Be nice if Oracle didn't uppercase the password before hashing it. Make an initialization variable like case_sensitive_passwords = TRUE or FALSE. Ask on install if we want it or not or default it to FALSE so it won't break old things.
- said....
Nice podcast. But kind of disappointing to know that the work on next book has not started yet. :( Can someone volunteer for the askus testing so that Tom can start writing the book. :-)
- said....
*smile* ohhh with a tie
lucky one can see the Oracle logo otherwise one could ask if this one of these top guys from this tie-wearing consulting company
- said....
I talked to someone who worked for oracle for 25 years. He told me that Oracle actually works on the next 2 versions at the same time.
So while you are developing version 11, you guys are developing requirements and doing design for version 12. Is that true?
Where do you guys come up with ideas for new features?
- Adam M. Donahue said....
seanmacgc raises an interesting question: what does constitute a new version of any software package? Some of the things I've heard about 11g, for example, sound like some amazingly useful changes - things that might make a big impact on whether to deploy the product. Perhaps that warrants the new version: major addition of functionality. Change management and workload replay, for example, have the potential to be incredibly useful. I'm particularly excited about those given the environment in which I work: fast-paced, little formal change management, need to constantly tune.
- Kevin Closson said....
Nice podcast... I wish I could have been there for the whole thing. Say, wasn't SQL*Calc a part of Oracle Version 5? I can't remember...
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Say, wasn't SQL*Calc a part of Oracle Version 5?
It sure was. V5 was one of my favorites, especially the $199 (or was it $99?) license for the PC version of V5.1c
You got a whole box of floppies and just about 3 linear feet of manuals. What a bargain!
bybhdbsw bring your own bottle AND database software??
- said....
Hi Tom,
I just listend to your Podcasts, and found it very interesting. But I have to say, that the sound quality ist very bad.
Especially for a non native speaker (like me) it's hard to understand.
The mp3 are encoded with 48 kbps. I don't think it should be a big problem to use 96 or even 128 kbps.
Also if you are on the phone there is a lot of noise.
It's a pity, that such valuable information is announced in such a bad quality.
Regards Wolfgang
- Chi Hoang said....
FYI: your link to feed took me to register the RSS feed to Google Reader using Firefox, so I had to fire up IE to listen to the podcast.
- Alberto Dell'Era said....
FYI: your link to feed took me to register the RSS feed to Google Reader using Firefox, so I had to fire up IE to listen to the podcast.
Not in Firefox 2.0 - when I click on "OpenWorld 2006: Going to Eleven", Firefox saves the .mp3 that can then be comfortably listened.
- Thomas Kyte said....
Not in firefox 1.5 either, just clicked on it myself.
Here is the direct link anyway:
right to the mp3
- David Aldridge said....
>> Be nice if Oracle didn't uppercase the password before hashing it. Make an initialization variable like case_sensitive_passwords = TRUE or FALSE. Ask on install if we want it or not or default it to FALSE so it won't break old things.
I had an amusing conversation with a DBA last year in which he insisted that Oracle passwords were case-sensitive. I suppose that by coincidence he was suffering a typo when he wasn't fiddling with the shift key.
The recording of live workload sounds like a huge new leap -- very exciting, particularly in a heavily ad-hoc environment where predicting commonly executed queries is very difficult.


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Met expectations, and was a good value: Carnival Fantasy Cruise Review by live2vayk
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Met expectations, and was a good value
Destination: Bahamas
Embarkation: Charleston
Embarktion: We drove to the port of Charleston since we were in the Charleston area anyway. It was fairly easy, but the process was unlike any boarding process I have experienced in the past. We pulled in, had to provide our ID and paperwork, then went a little further and checked our bags right out of our car before we even parked. We parked in a parking lot outside of a huge warehouse where many others had parked (we got there a little late, the warehouse was full.) Then we boarded a bus to go get in line in another large warehouse type facility. We were onboard about More 90 minutes after arriving. I was with my two sisters and my adult niece, and having fun already, so it wasn't a big deal for us. But if you have an issue with standing around waiting, this process would drive you nuts. I would suggest getting there earlier than we did, we got there around 1:30, or purchase the FTTF pass. Also, one more note, there are no bathrooms that are convenient as you go through this process!
When we boarded the ship, we were late enough that we were able to go directly to our cabins. We had inside cabins. Our cabin attendant was great, he kept our cabin tidy, left towel animals and kept ice in our ice bucket. Note: no fridge in the room. We had brought some soda, as Carnival does allow a limited amount to be brought on board, and we were able to keep it cold each day with ice. I will mention that our carpet seemed pretty dirty, but that didn't bother me, we kept our shoes on.
The ship: I had prepared myself, as I know this ship is old, I believe it might be the oldest of the Carnival fleet that is in operation. It is fairly well maintained, and workers were always keeping the common areas clean. The pool is very small. We didn't use it at all. We did use a hot tub on the Serenity deck which is an adult only area, and by far became our favorite hang out since we were not traveling with children.
Since I just mentioned children, I will say that this sailing, to my surprise, had many children on it. School had begun for my children who stayed at home this time around, so I didn't expect to see kids, but there were a lot of kids. A lot of kids that were running around not being supervised. The only time it was an issue for me was one night when I was trying to go to sleep. I heard some screams that sounded like someone was hurt. I ran out into the hall, and when I did I realized the screams were being followed by laughter, and it was coming from kids in the cabin next door to us. I think they were bouncing on the beds. I could hear them well into the night. I was about to call the customer serivce desk, but they did finally quiet down.
Entertainment was lacking. We went to a production show the first night, and the entertainers where talented dancers, but they could not sing. It was awful! We went to two comedy shows, both family friendly, and those shows were really very good. We wanted to go to an adult only show, but we didn't get there early enough and they had closed the doors because it was full. I think Carnival needs to take a look how they are offering shows. They group the comedy all into one or two nights, and then one night there is not much to chose from, and other nights you only have one production option. The same thing happened on my last sailing with Carnvial.
Food: We found the food to be just fine. Nothing over the top, but I didn't go hungry! I spent time on the treadmill and still came home with an extra 5 pounds. There were a few meals that could have been served hotter, but with all they have coming out of the kitchen, I can't imagine how they would be able to keep my meal at peak temperature. We used anytime dining, and that went smoothly. We had different waitstaff each night, and they were all great. The buffet was kept stocked, and we always found things we enjoyed.
Ports: We walked around Nassau, and then did a snorkeling excursion that we had purchased with Carnival. That was fun. In Freeport, we took a taxi to a beach. Lucyan I believe it was called. It was a bit of a ride, but a nice beach. This beach did not have bathrooms however, so be warned. There are a few porta pottys, but if the outside appearance gave any indication of the inside, I don't want to use them! And the resort next door does not allow anyone to use their restrooms. Understandably.
Disembarktion: This was fast and easy. It was called a "silent disembarktion" because the folks in Charleston do not want to be disturbed with the announcements over the loud speakers. This was totally fine. The TV in your room lets you know when you can leave. We were off the ship and headed home by 7:30 am.
All in all it was an enjoyable cruise. Carnival provides a decent product for the money. Having said that, I am looking foward to trying other cruise lines as well. Less
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LG G Flex vs HTC One max
We recently had some good one-on-one time with both the LG G Flex and Samsung Galaxy Note 3, but there are still several other prized phablets in the space that needs to get a proper comparison against the intriguing curve designed smartphone. Next up on the list is none other than the HTC One max, a supersized maximum version of HTC's flagship smartphone. Our hands are naturally itching to see how these two fare against one another, in order to see which of the two can rise above the other in being a practical smartphone that'll adhere to our never ending quench for perfection.
We've said it before, we'll say it again. The subtle curve of the LG G Flex is absolutely unique and uncanny at the same time, especially when we haven't seen anything like it before. However, when it comes to class and premium, the HTC One max undeniably has more of it with its design – thanks in part to its choice of employing a mostly brushed aluminum casing. Despite having the more luxurious construction, we can't forget about the nearly indestructible nature of the LG G Flex, which is further made prominent by its ability to retain its figure even after being flattened out. Additionally, the self-healing property of its casing is something that does wonders to mask superficial scratches. Basically, the cool factor goes to the LG G Flex – whereas the HTC One max has the premium element.
160.5 x 81.6 x 7.9 mm
6.24 oz (177 g)
LG G Flex
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It's amazing how the G Flex's 6-inch 720p (245 ppi) P-OLED display is resilient in being able to withstand some minor pressure – making it shatterproof in the event the phone is dropped or flattened. For all of its sturdiness, that's basically the main drawing factor with its display. Unfortunately, it's not as sharp or as visible outdoors like the HTC One max's 5.9-inch 1080p (373 ppi) S-LCD 3 panel. To top it off, there's this distracting banding/blemished look with the G Flex display when the brightness is set to the 50% or below mark. In contrast, the HTC One max's display maintains its high level of crispness.
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1. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
The LG G Flex wins.
6. chocolaking (Posts: 495; Member since: 22 May 2012)
I read the first page of of articles and the screen performance of comparison.
Flex is clearly no match to the MAX.. how did it win?
7. chocolaking (Posts: 495; Member since: 22 May 2012)
Quote from PA review: Unfortunately, LG Flex is not as sharp or as visible outdoors like the HTC One max's 5.9-inch 1080p (373 ppi) S-LCD 3 panel. To top it off, there's this distracting banding/blemished look with the G Flex display when the brightness is set to the 50% or below mark. In contrast, the HTC One max's display maintains its high level of crispness.
2. itsdeepak4u2000 (Posts: 3718; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)
G Flex...
4. newbey123 (Posts: 636; Member since: 19 Mar 2012)
Max for the win!
5. sarge77 (Posts: 202; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
i still go for max just for sd card both are still quadcore and probably amazingly fast sure the lg flex is way faster but i always love backing up my photos and videos to sd actually choose sd as primary location for pics so if phone does somehow get corupted its all saved.


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Please choose which set of stamps you would like to view by scrolling down the screen and clicking on any of the listed stamp issues.
All stamps in this series contain photos from the wartime. Parts of the stamps are therefore photographic reproductions from that time, whereas the parts drawn by hand are the artist's own expressions
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Music plays an important part in Greenland's culture and history. It is therefore natural that we dedicate a whole series to Greenlandic music.
Part One of the "Sports in Greenland" set was issued in 2016. I (artist: Miki Jacobsen) am now continuing with an additional three stamps, for the second part of this series.


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Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Dental and Oral Health (Adults)
Inflamed roof of mouth
This is the second time the roof of my mouth has become inflamed. The last time I thought I had thrush but not even sure what that is! Anyway - it seems to start with burning the roof but even that seems to happen easily so not sure. This time it felt like I even had peelin skin up there. I can`t see what is going on but it is very sore and is taking a long time to heal - much longer than a normal burn to the mouth. Actually I think this one started after I sucked on some almond m&m`s and I thought that is what irritated it but why does it hurt so bad for so long? I thought it was better yesterday, but last night it got worse and this morningit is worse again. I just had my biannual checkup at the dentist last week and everything was fine - then this happened! Please help!
First I would contact your dentist and schedule a brief appointment for them to observe and possibly photograph the palate and surrounding tissues. There are multiple possibilities for what is occurring, and without first hand observation, I can only develop a tentative list (differential diagnosis) based upon your report. That is why I suggest you see your dentist while it is occurring.
1. You may be allergic to M&Ms - either the coating or the chocolate or the nuts or all of the above - and what is occurring is referred to as a 'Lichenoid reaction"
2. Very possible that you may have burned it such as what occurs after pizza (it is the sauce that burns you not the cheese)
3. Palatal irritations can be very painful in light of the nerve supply and location that avails it to continued trauma from mastication. Thus eating acidic or salty foods that come in contact with denuded palatal tissue can be very painful.
4. Do you have a history of sinus infections? That may precipitate irritation and pain associated with congestion.
5. Have you changed toothpaste, mouthwash, or anything in your diet? Again the possibility of contact allergy known as lichenoid reaction.
6. Do you have a history of cold sores (HSV)? Always a possibility if the vesicles coalesce and become ulcerated.
7. And finally, to address the first item, "Thrush" or Candida yeast infection or over growth. This can occur after a course of antibiotics or if you have an upper denture (Denture Stomatitis). Erythematous Candidiasis can be painful, it is ulcerative, and can feel like the roof of your mouth is peeling away.
Again, let me urge you to contact your dentist to evaluate and try to work you through this problem.
Richard J Jurevic, DDS, PhD
Formerly, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
School of Dental Medicine
Case Western Reserve University


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SIM card and memory cards
networkdood 22 Apr 2010, 19:47 posted on 0 0
PHONE ARENA writes..."Micro-SIM slot, instead of ordinary SIM ...." ok, why are we comparing a SIM and a microSD card in this instance - ordinary SIM?? What other SIM would it have??? LOL MicroSD card is for external and removable storage and has nothing to do with SIM...someone over there is a little confused...
3. sprntfanboi02 (Posts: 41; Member since: 25 Jun 2009)
it is a smaller SIM card so there is more room for other things in the phone
1. darkzar (Posts: 1; Member since: 23 Apr 2010)
just some info on the difference of SIM CARDS SIM cards were first made the same size as a credit card (85.60 mm × 53.98 mm × 0.76 mm). The development of physically smaller mobile devices prompted the development of a smaller SIM card, the Mini SIM card. Mini SIM cards have the same thickness as full-size cards, but their length and width are reduced to 25 mm × 15 mm. The Mini SIM card has the same contact arrangement as the full-size SIM card and they are normally supplied within a full-size card carrier, attached by a number of linking pieces. This arrangement (defined in ISO/IEC 7810 as ID-1/000) allows for such a card as supplied to be used in a device requiring a full-size card, or for a device requiring a Mini SIM card, suitable scorings manufactured along the outline of the Mini SIM card allow it to be cleanly broken out by hand. Even smaller device sizes have prompted the development of a smaller still card size, the 3FF or Micro SIM. Micro SIM cards have the same thickness and contact arrangement again, but the length and width are further reduced to 15 mm × 12 mm. The specifications for the 3FF or Micro SIM also include additional functionality beyond changing the physical card size. SIM card sizes SIM card Standard reference Length (mm) Width (mm) Thickness (mm) Full-size ISO/IEC 7810:2003, ID-1 85.60 53.98 0.76 Mini-SIM ISO/IEC 7810:2003, ID-000 25.00 15.00 0.76 Micro-SIM ETSI TS 102 221 V9.0.0, Mini-UICC 15.00 12.00 0.76 [edit] Development of the micro-SIM The micro-SIM was developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute along with SCP, 3GPP (UTRAN/GERAN), 3GPP2 (CDMA2000), ARIB, GSMAssociaton (GSMA SCaG and GSMNA), GlobalPlatform, Liberty Alliance, and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) for the purpose of fitting into devices otherwise too small for a mini-SIM card.[1][2] The form factor was mentioned in the Dec 1998 3GPP SMG9 UMTS Working Party, which is the standards-setting body for GSM SIM cards[3], and the form factor was agreed upon in late 2003.[4] The micro-SIM was created with backwards compatibility in mind. The major issue with backwards compatibility was the contact area of the chip. Retaining the same contact area allows the micro-SIM to be compatible with the previous, larger SIM readers through the use of plastic cutout surrounds. The micro-SIM was also designed to run at the same speed (5 MHz) as the previous version. The chairman of EP SCP, Dr. Klaus Vedder, said[4] "With this decision, we can see that ETSI has responded to a market need from ETSI customers, but additionally there is a strong desire not to invalidate, overnight, the existing interface, nor reduce the performance of the cards. EP SCP expect to finalise the technical realisation for the third form factor at the next SCP plenary meeting, scheduled for February 2004."


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Resident Meal Plans
New resident students are automatically enrolled in the 17 plus meal plan. All returning resident students will automatically have the same meal plan they had the previous semester. Meal Plan choices for residents, carry over from semester to semester and year to year until the student changes them on line. At the beginning of every semester, all new and returning residents on the Biddeford Campus will receive an initial $75 Board Flex. Once all meal plan changes are done, if your meal plan choice was something other than the 17, the remainder of the Board Flex will be issued. This is usually completed about two weeks or so into the semester.
If you're happy with the meal plan you had during your previous semester there is no need to change it, it will remain the same. At the beginning of the semester you have two weeks to change your meal plan. After those two weeks meal plan choices are final until next semester. The Board Flex is made available as a debit on your student I.D. and can be used for purchases at any dining retail unit on either campus or to bring a guest to the dining hall.
17 Meal Plan per week plus $75 Board Flex per semester
12 Meal Plan per week plus $125 Board Flex per semester
8 Meal Plan per week plus $175 Board Flex per semester
NOTE : For all returning Resident Students, if you're pleased with the Meal Plan you chose for fall semester, you DO NOT have to do a Meal Plan Change. It carries over from semester to semester and year to year. If at any time you do want to change it, you may do so at the begining of each semester for two weeks at www.unedining.com.
Nor'easter Dollars
How about a slice of pizza from the Hang or bringing a friend to dinner at the dining hall? The Nor'easter Dollars account enables you to supplement your meal plan with extra purchasing power for occasions just like these. You can open your Nor'easter Dollars account by making a deposit of $35 or more, and you can increase your balance as often as you like by visiting Decary Dining Office on the Biddeford Campus or Alexander Dining Office on the Portland Campus. You may also call Pat Grigware at 207-602-2836 or the best way to accomplish this in a timely manner is to email email@example.com. You'll never have to worry about not having enough cash in hand to pay for that snack-attack, just present your card at any on-campus dining facility.


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Keith Spry Pool Upgrade to Start On 13 June
23 May 2013
Keith Spry Pool Upgrade to Start On 13 June
Work on the $6 million upgrade of the Keith Spry Pool in Johnsonville will start on 13 June following the signing of a contract with Hawkins Construction.
Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says the start of work is an indication of the Council's determination to invest in facilities and infrastructure to serve the growing population in the northern suburbs.
And the Council is determined to keep the community fully informed about the project and its impact.
A series of initial briefings will be held to inform immediate neighbours and the local community. Hawkins Construction representatives will be at each of these briefings. Details of the two community briefings follow:
-Wednesday 29 May, 6.30pm at Johnsonville Community Centre
-Thursday 30 May, 6.30pm at Johnsonville Community Centre.
Letter-drops, email updates, community posters and press releases will also be used to provide updates on the project.
The Council's Sports and Events Portfolio Leader, Councillor John Morrison, and the Community Facilities Portfolio Leader, Justin Lester, both say it is great news that real progress is being made on the pool.
Cr Lester, also a Northern Ward councillor, says work on the pool was unfortunately delayed earlier this year when the Council's preferred contractor, Mainzeal, was placed in receivership. "However we're back on track now – and locals will see work get quickly under way."
Cr Morrison says the start of work on the pool is expected to be followed later this year by the scheduled start of work on a full-size artificial turf at nearby Alex Moore Park – the sixth such turf to be opened in the city since 2009."Alex Moore is well-known to sportspeople from all over the region – it's an accessible ground, close to the mall and close to public transport."
Northern Ward Councillors Ngaire Best and Helene Ritchie say they are also looking forward to the opening of both the pool and the revamped park.
Cr Ritchie says a decade of advocacy has at last borne fruit. "The additions and refurbishing of Keith Spry Pool will be a significant asset for Johnsonville and the northern and northwestern suburbs. Thanks are owed to many in the community, Council staff and the new contractors."
Keith Spry Pool – details
The existing pool building, dating from the early 1980s, will be expanded by about 50% in terms of floor area. It will feature:
· A new 11m x 12m learn-to-swim pool with depths between 750mm and 900mm.
· A new 11m x 14m play pool for children and infants with depths between 0mm and 700mm.
· A striking glass and steel building extension, designed by Architecture HDT, which will house both new pools.
· New changing rooms, cantilevered over the car park to the south of the pool
· A new steel roof to replace the existing asbestos roof on the main pool building.
Construction and effects on the
Keith Spry upgrade Project Manager Jim Warwick says the upgrade will have some impact on the surrounding area – especially in the initial stages when some 600 truck movements will be required to remove spoil from excavations for the two new pools.
Truck and construction access to the site will be via part of the adjoining Children's Memorial Park on the corner of Dr Taylor Terrace and Frankmoore Avenue. Jim says about half of the park will have to be fenced-off to allow safe access and removal of materials. The park's play equipment will be shifted so it can continue to be used while work is under way.
The park will be reinstated when construction is completed.
A traffic management plan has been drawn up. It will acknowledge the high use and narrowness of the adjoining streets and the number of school children in the area.
Some car parks on Frankmoore Avenue and Dr Taylor Terrace may have to be removed temporarily to make truck movements easier and safer.
The existing pool will remain open for as long as possible during the upgrade – prior to the replacement of the roof – however Jim Warwick acknowledges there will be increased noise and disruption at times for pool users


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Last Updated May 12, 2010 11:21 AM EDT
How badly did the Nexus One do? In the same time it took Apple (AAPL) to sell a million of the first generation iPhone, Google sold an estimated 135,000 Nexus Ones. Motorola looks to have sold over a million Droids in the same period. Both Verizon and Sprint (S) dumped plans to carry the Google phone. Here's a quick rundown of the issues Google had in the market:
- The product management was atrocious. Too many fundamental problems simply shouldn't have existed in a first attempt at a branded product.
- Furthermore, either Google never figured out how to handle the support issues or didn't care. The result: Many angry customers who couldn't get any satisfaction.
- Complicating the potential massive customer relationship headache for any carrier was the fact that Google wanted to sell an unlocked phone and potentially further tip the balance of power from carrier to handset vendor. To take on that type of risk, a carrier wants success.
- The launch even was a failure, largely because Google sucks at marketing.
- Given how badly the Nexus One did, Google proved that its brand doesn't have the reach or power that many thought, meaning that the company is more dependent on partners than it might have liked.
Currently there are few details -- no date of roll-out, no name of a hardware manufacturer. The fact that Verizon specifically named Google makes it sound as though the latter will have a more substantial role than simply providing an operating system. However, no matter what the exact configuration of the project, the potential routes to failure are many.
Google must overcome its systemic arrogance and understand how little it knows about the consumer device market, and how much it must learn to keep people happy. Sending off something even three-quarters baked won't do, and hosting a web site for complaints is far from real customer service. Verizon will have heavy lifting in marketing, even if a tablet is up to snuff, as Google has shown that it needs partners that know how to reach people.
Unfortunately, there won't be much room for error. Apple sold a million iPads in 28 days -- and many of those were Wi-Fi only models without a tie-in to a mobile carrier. If Google and Verizon don't want their tablet to be a Nexus One disappointment, they must deliver solid performance, smart features, and reliability, all at a price that will has to include the data plan that Verizon will require. It's a tall order, and it's not clear that Google, with or without Verizon, can deliver.
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Prediction by Partial Matching (PPM) is an adaptive statistical data compression technique based on context modeling and prediction. PPM models use a set of previous symbols in the uncompressed symbol stream to predict the next symbol in the stream.
Theory Edit
Predictions are usually reduced to symbol rankings. The number of previous symbols, n, determines the order of the PPM model which is denoted as PPM(n). Unbounded variants where the context has no length limitations also exist and are denoted as PPM*. If no prediction can be made based on all n context symbols a prediction is attempted with n-1 symbols. This process is repeated until a match is found or no more symbols remain in context. At that point a fixed prediction is made. This process is complementary to that followed by Dynamic Markov Compression (DMC) which builds up from a zero-order model.
Much of the work in optimizing a PPM model is handling inputs that have not already occurred in the input stream. The obvious way to handle them is to create a "never-seen" symbol which triggers the escape sequence. But what probability should be assigned to a symbol that has never been seen? This is called the zero-frequency problem. One variant assigns the "never-seen" symbol a fixed pseudocount of one. A variant called PPMd increments the pseudocount of the "never-seen" symbol every time the "never-seen" symbol is used. (In other words, PPM-D estimates the probability of a new symbol as the ratio of the number of unique symbols to the total number of symbols observed). PPMd is one of the "new" compression methods used in the ZIP file format and the 7z file format.
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PPM compression implementations vary greatly in other details. The actual symbol selection is usually recorded using arithmetic coding, though it is also possible to use Huffman encoding or even some type of dictionary coding technique. The underlying model used in most PPM algorithms can also be extended to predict multiple symbols. It is also possible to use non-Markov modeling to either replace or supplement Markov modeling. The symbol size is usually static, typically a single byte, which makes generic handling of any file format easy.
Published research on this family of algorithms can be found as far back as the mid-1980s. Software implementations were not popular until the early 1990s because PPM algorithms require a significant amount of RAM. Recent PPM implementations are among the best-performing lossless compression programs for natural language text.
Trying to improve PPM algorithms led to the PAQ series of data compression algorithms.
A PPM algorithm, rather than being used for compression, is used to increase the efficiency of user input in the alternate input method program Dasher.
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References Edit
- J.G. Cleary, and I.H. Witten, Data compression using adaptive coding and partial string matching, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 32 (4), pp. 396--402, April 1984.
- A. Moffat, Implementing the PPM data compression scheme
, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 38 (11), pp. 1917-1921, November 1990.
- J.G. Cleary, W.J. Teahan, and I.H. Witten, Unbounded length contexts for PPM, In J.A. Storer and M. Cohn, editors, Proceedings DCC-95, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995.
- C. Bloom, Solving the problems of context modeling.
- W.J. Teahan, Probability estimation for PPM.
- T. Schürmann and P. Grassberger, Entropy estimation of symbol sequences, Chaos, Vol. 6, pp. 414-427, September 1996.
External links Edit
- Suite of PPM compressors with benchmarks
- BICOM, a bijective PPM compressor
- "Arithmetic Coding + Statistical Modeling = Data Compression", Part 2
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PPMd compressor by Dmitri Shkarin
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Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr. Could Team Up for 'El Presidente'
by Ben Pearson
May 14, 2012
Source: Vulture
Here's a piece of trivia for fans of The Avengers: did you know that Tom Cruise was once set to play the role of Tony Stark? While the role eventually went to Robert Downey Jr., the two iron men might actually be teaming up in a movie of their own for Meet the Parents director Jay Roach. Vulture reports that Roach, who has dabbled in political films recently with Game Change and the upcoming The Campaign, is staying in the same realm for El Presidente, a comedy about a gung-ho Secret Service agent (Cruise) tasked with following America's worst former president, a sleazy mess (Downey). Count me in! More below!
Cruise and Downey are two of my favorite actors, so naturally I'm stoked to hear that they could be working together. It's still early in the process so we're not sure if this casting is going to pan out quite yet, but even if it doesn't, I'll still be excited about the movie because it's written by "Parks and Recreation" writer/producer Dan Goor, who had a great career writing for Conan and "The Daily Show" before writing some of the best episodes of one of NBC's funniest comedies. Apparently, the El Presidente script is getting a rewrite, but I hope this thing makes its way toward production sooner rather than later, because it sounds fantastic. Keep in mind that nothing is official yet, so stay tuned as this project develops.Interested?
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Baptists in the Philippines
Baptists in the Philippines dates back during the 1900's when American Baptist missionaries went to the country. The Baptists trace their roots to the Lord Jesus Christ.
The beginning of Philippine Baptist history is traced from the baptism of Braulio Ciriaco Miralles Manikan and the initial translation of the Bible into Hiligaynon language in Barcelona in 1898. By 1900 Braulio Manikan and Swedish Missionary Eric Lund went to the Philippines as Baptist missionaries with the support of the American Baptist Missionary Union (ABMU), now known as the Board of International Ministries of the American Baptist Churches. The American Baptist missionaries are also considered as part of the history of Philippine Baptists as they interacted in organizing churches, theological education, and politics.
Two years after the acquisition of the Philippines by the U.S.A. in 1898, Baptists from the U.S.A. opened a mission field in the country. Because of the work of numerous American mission societies and with division, there are at least eighteen different Baptist groups with a total membership of over 350,000 in over 4,100 churches.
From the early 1900's through 1934, the American Baptist missionaries and the Filipino Baptists were able to work together to organize local congregations in Panay and in neighboring Negros Occidental. In 1935, the Filipino Baptist pastors and church leaders formally organized the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches - an association of local churches in the Philippines.
Contributions of the Philippine Baptists
- Organizational Initiatives and Leadership - In the 1970s, the number of congregations has increased rapidly in different parts of the country including the islands of Mindanao and Luzon. This numerical and geographical expansion has been possible mainly through the leadership of the Philippine Baptists.
- Theological Education and Information - The translation of the Bible into Hiligaynon had played a significant role in spreading the gospel to the rural areas. Many had decided to join the Baptist church after reading the Bible in their own language. Women Baptists took the initiative in establishing a Bible Institute that was to flourish and to be known as the Convention Baptist Bible College. The Philippine Baptists slowly developed theological institutions to respond to the demands of the churches for theologically trained leaders.
- Development and Social Concerns - The initiatives in establishing institutions like the Family Christian Center in Iloilo City (1963), Health Aid to the Needy for Development (1970), Center for Education and Research (1974); New Frontier Ministries (1977); and program for children have raised the social awareness of many Baptists.
- Ordination to the Ministry - Although most baptists does not teach the ordination of women, baptists recognize women's contribution and leadership in helping the churches. Although more liberal churches shows a tendency towards a concept of ordaining women to the leadership(pastor/elders) more conservative churches allow women to be involved in a non-preaching capacity.
- Foreign Missions - The number of congregations supporting the program on foreign missions has been slowly increasing. This shows not only a growing interest in sharing the gospel in foreign countries but also that the Philippine Baptists, who were at first recipients of foreign missions, are now bearers of foreign missions.
- Baptists believe in the Holy Bible as the only authority on faith and practice
- Baptists believe that Jesus Christ is God's only Son, became a man, lived a sinless life and shed his blood on the cross to die for our sins, and rose again the third day. They believe that apart from Jesus Christ there is no salvation(John 14:6, Acts 4:12).
- Baptists believe that once a person believes in Jesus Christ, he is born again(John 3:1-7), born into the family of God(John 1:12), and lives a godly life as a result of that belief(Ephesians 2:8-10).
- Baptists believe in autonomy of the local church and the separation of church and the state.
- Baptists reject infant baptism, believes that baptism is for believers only - those who trusted Jesus as Lord as the prerequisite for baptism. Baptists beieve that baptism is not a means of salvation but a first step of obedience for the new believer. It is a symbol of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. Some churches will re-baptise those who were baptised as infants in another Christian tradition, others respect that various denominations do things differently. A believer's baptism is carried out by full immersion only.
- Baptists believe God created every individual with personal soul liberty. Baptists believe that Bible is the sole authoritative word of the God and he has revealed truth through the Bible. After the Holy Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is a favorite reading for Baptists.
See Directory of Bible Churches in the Philippines
- About.com. (accessed on January 26, 2008).
- Find Articles. (accessed on January 26, 2008).
- Baptist Churches in the Philippines Blog. (accessed on January 26, 2008).
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Actors Co-Op to Present THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD at the Crossley Theatre, 9/17-10/26
Actors Co-op announces its first show in its 2014-2015 season (and 23rd year of producing theatrical excellence in Los Angeles!) with an immersive and environmental production of the five-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "Whodunit," THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, book, music and lyrics by Rupert Holmes, choreography by Julie Hall, musical direction by Jake Anthony and directed by Stephen Van Dorn. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD will begin previews on Wednesday, September 17 and Thursday, September 18 at 8pm and will open on Friday, September 19 at 8pm and run through Sunday, October 26 at the Actors Co-op Crossley Theatre, 1760 N. Gower St. (on the campus of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood) in Hollywood.
Winner of Five Tony Awards including Best Musical and based on the unfinished novel by Charles Dickens, the raucous world of a Victorian era music hall will come to life in this environmental take of the classic musical and is the backdrop for this play-within-a-play. Follow the journey of a troupe of actors as they sing and dance through the unfinished story of Edwin Drood - allowing the audience, to vote on the ending!
RUPERT HOLMES (Book, Music and Lyrics) is a mystery novelist-playwright-composer-arranger-screenwriter-conductor-singer-songwriter. Rupert Holmes is the first person in theatrical history to solely win Tony® awards as an author, a composer and a lyricist. Twice presented with the coveted "Edgar" award (the "Oscar" of the Mystery Writers of America), his first novel, Where the Truth Lies, was nominated for the Nero Wolfe award for Best American Mystery Novel, was a Booklist Top Ten Debut Novel and made into an Atom Egoyan motion picture starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. A London Times Book Group pick, it has been released in six languages and on two different audiobook recordings.
His second Random House novel, Swing, reached #24 among all books at Amazon, and was the first novel to come with an original CD musical score. His short stories have been anthologized in such prestigious collections as Best American Mystery Stories and On a Raven's Wing.
He solely authored and composed the Broadway musical-comedy The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which won the Tony award for Best Musical and last year received a critically-acclaimed Broadway revival by the Roundabout Theater. His comedy-drama about the life of comedian George Burns, Say Goodnight, Gracie, earned him a Tony® nomination for Best Play and won the National Broadway Theatre Award for Best Play. His stage comedy-thrillers Accomplice and Solitary Confinement broke box office records for the Kennedy Center and the Pasadena Playhouse, both enjoying runs on Broadway, while Curtains starring David Hyde Pierce (and written with the legendary songwriting team of Kander and Ebb) won Holmes the Drama Desk award for Best Book of a Musical as well as two further Tony nominations. In 2012, Holmes collaborated as author and lyricist with musical giant Marvin Hamlisch for the award-winning premiere of The Nutty Professor Musical. "Hamlisch-Holmes" also contributed songs to the score of Steven Soderburg's 2013 Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra.
His script for Secondhand Lions premiered at Seattle's Fifth Avenue Theatre and is slated for the east coast in 2015. He recently adapted John Grisham's classic A Time to Kill for Broadway and is completing the first book in a series for Simon and Schuster: The McMasters Guide to Homicide: Murder Your Employer. For TV, Holmes created, wrote and scored the critically hailed AMC series "Remember WENN." He has arranged, conducted and written platinum recordings for Barbra Streisand, including her classic Lazy Afternoon album and his songs for the Golden Globe-winning, quadruple Platinum Billboard #1 LP score of A Star is Born. As a pop tunesmith, his work has been recorded by the leading vocalists of our time, from opera star Renée Fleming to pop star Britney Spears, from balladeer Barry Manilow to rapper Wyclef. Yet despite all the above, Holmes is still best known to the public as the singer-songwriter of several Billboard Top Ten hits, including his #1 multi-platinum smash "Escape" aka "The Pina Colada Song"...?... heard in such recent films as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,Grownups, Bewitched, Wanted with Angelina Jolie, The Sweetest Thing, Shrek, the TV shows "Las Vegas," "True Blood," and most recently performed by Jimmy Fallon and Blake Shelton with The Legendary Roots.
STEPHEN VAN DORN (Director) The Mystery Of Edwin Drood marks Stephen's debut main-stage production for Actors Co-op. Previous directing credits include, Much Ado About Nothing, The Freddy Wyatt Bixby Petroleum Variety Hour Christmas Spectacular Extravaganza Show, What Happened Was..., 27 Wagons Full Of Cotton, andThe Sweetest Swing In Baseball. Stephen has been a member of Actors Co-op since 1998, and has appeared in numerous productions, including Edith Stein, The Hasty Heart, The Foreigner, Bullshot Crummond, As You Like It, 1776, Tales Of Tinseltown, The Glass Menagerie, Sherlock's Last Case, The Philadelphia Story, The Learned Ladies, Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, and most recently as the Bellhop, in Lend Me A Tenor. In 2012, Stephen played serial killer Buffalo Bill, in Silence! The Musical, directed by Tony Award Winner Christopher Gatelli, at The Hayworth Theatre. Stephen is an LA Weekly Award-winner, as well as receiving several other awards and honors, including Stage Scene LA awards, and the Inland Valley Theatre League Award for Best Performance in a Musical.
JULIE HALL (Choreography) This is Julie's 11th production at the Actors Co-op, having previously choreographed productions of 110 In The Shade, The Learned Ladies, The 1940's Radio Hour, Big River, Trails, Leading Ladies, The Freddy Wyatt Christmas Spectacular, Elephant Man, Much Ado About Nothing, and Yours, Isabel. Julie is a graduate of the Florida University School of Music.
JAKE ANTHONY (Musical Director/Mr. Thomas Purcell, Maestro of The Music Hall Royale Orchestra) works as a composer, vocal coach, and musical director in the Los Angeles area. Some of his favorite LA theater work includes Snoopy! (McCadden Place Theater), Little Women (Sustaining Sound Company), as well as the West Coast premieres of Splendora and Songs from an Unmade Bed at Celebration Theatre. He serves as Music Director of the Performers' Workshop, and conducts the new "Theatrichorale" Perpetual Surrey. As a composer, Jake co-wrote the 15-minute musical Oh God, We're Gonna Die! with Jeff Marx (co-author of Avenue Q), and the three full-length shows Now and Then a Hero, Wanting Miss Julie, and New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD has assembled an award-winning design team. Set Design is by Sets To Go - Mark Henderson and Tim Farmer (Into The Woods, The Elephant Man). Costume design is by Vicki Conrad (The Matchmaker, The Learned Ladies). Lighting Design is by Mark Svastics (Hello, To Be Young, Gifed and Black) . Sound Design is by Warren Davis (Going To St. Ives, And Then There Were None). Make-Up and Hair design is by Krys Fehervari (110 in The Shade, The Miracle Worker). The Stage Manager is Philip Tyler. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD is produced by Kimi Walker.
The Cast of THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD will feature (in alphabetical order): Eva Abramian, Emily Armstrong, Greg Baldwin, Conor E.K. Dagenfield, Gina D'Acciaro, Catherine Gray, Tim Hodgins, Craig McEldowney, Lucas Moore, Brandon Parrish, Michelle Parrish, , Lauren Thompson, Selah Victor, Peter Allen Vogt and Issac Wade.
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD will preview on Wednesday, September 17 & Thursday, September 18 at 8pm and will open on Friday, September 19 at 8pm and run through Sunday, October 26 at the Actors Co-op Theatre, 1760 N. Gower St. (on the campus of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood) in Hollywood. Performances are Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2:30pm (with two Saturday Matinees scheduled for Saturday, September 27 and Saturday, October 25 at 2:30pm). Ticket prices are $34.00 for all Performances. Seniors - $30 and Students - $25.00. Previews are Free to the Public. Group rates are available for parties of 6 or more. Tickets may be purchased by phone at (323) 462-8460 or visit www.ActorsCo-op.org.


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Review: A gender-swapped 'Earnest,' in all but name
A decade or so back, a stage production that bent the genders of that most delicious boy-chases-girl comedy, "The Importance of Being Earnest," would have been laughable, but not just for Oscar Wilde's witty dialogue. The idea that two pairs of guys would chase each other down for marriage in a 19th-century play? Interesting concept—and outlandish.
Fast forward to now, and to Mauckingbird Theatre Company's current production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" in Center City. Here, buddies Algernon (James Ijames) and Jack (Chancellor Dean) still chase down Gwendolyn and Cecily with marriage in mind. But these objects of their affections are both guys (Brent Knobloch and David Hutchison). Not only that: A tutor, Miss Prism (Sarah Doherty), has more than a passing affection for the village pastor, Dr. Chasuble, in the play—and in this case, the pastor is a woman (Lindsay Mauck). And none of it seems far-fetched.
One thing more—Lady Bracknell, the dragon-lady doyenne who keeps all these people in line by the authority she generously grants herself, is played by a woman, Nancy Boykin, in this production. How refreshing, because it's popular nowadays for otherwise traditional productions of "The Importance of Being Earnest" to cast a male in Lady Bracknell's role, rendering her a long-suffering but very funny drag.
I couldn't help wonder how Oscar Wilde, who wrote "Earnest," would have reacted to Mauckingbird's production by Peter Reynolds, artistic director of the company that refracts its productions through a gay lens. Wilde, who gave us this uncompromisingly straight and piquant exploration of Cupid's playground in England's high-class neighborhoods, paid dearly for being gay in his time in Britain; it led to a hard-labor prison term that silenced one of our language's great playwrights.
And so there's a bittersweet quality to this particular "Earnest," but also a revelation: Doing the play this way nowadays makes perfect sense, at least as much as it does with the genders Wilde intended. I'm glad to report that in Reynolds' adaptation, he's changed references in the script to recognize the gender switches. All men on stage are called "he" and all women, "she," and women who become "like sisters" in dialogue are now men who become "like brothers."
Unfortunately, he didn't take the ultimate leap: changing Gwendolyn and Cecily's names. (Gwyn? Cicero?) Because he didn't, the production operates in two different intellectual time zones. Whenever the names Gwendolyn and Cecily are spoken, instead of presenting something real that we can buy into, this version is playing what-if.
Even so, the gender changes give us some new laughs where there were none before, and they put a new face on the way the play gleefully mocks class and just about everything else. Some of these laughs also come from the line readings, especially from Ijames and Dean as the pursuers. But Hutchison, who plays his Cecily as more of an innocent than a coquette, and Knobloch, whose Gwendolyn has a forceful side, also get their due in a famous garden scene (Andrew Laine's clever set) where the two characters use manners as masks until they just can't anymore.
Boykin's Lady Bracknell is the perfect contrast to all of this—she is the sleek, stylish (cool costumes by Marie Anne Chiment) adult supervision here, with all the good nature of a hanging judge. She's the sort of woman whose mere presence demands deference, and when Boykin delivers some of Wilde's most sanctimonious declarations, you can sense Lady Bracknell's inner dog, baring its teeth.
In one of those lines, Lady Bracknell avers that "in matters of great importance, style—not sincerity—is the vital thing." Mauckingbird's reinterpretation of "Earnest" has plenty of the former and a nice helping of the latter, too.
"The Importance of Being Earnest" runs through Aug. 25 at Off-Broad Street Theater, 1636 Sansom St. 215-923-8909 or www.mauckingbird.org.
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The Middle East Business Aviation Association (MEBAA) hosted the first Jordanian Regional Forum at the Dead Sea resort of Sweimeh on October 8. The agenda for the event, which was sponsored by the Ayla Aviation Academy, included issues such as local restrictions on airspace and airport access, enhancing safety audits, crisis management techniques and reducing so-called gray market, illegal charter activity.
"In the Seventies [1970s], Jordan introduced business aviation into the Middle East when the first operator in the region began flying with support of the late King Hussein, who was keen to make Amman a business aviation center for the region," commented MEBAA founding chairman Ali Al Naqbi. "Today Jordan is continuing that legacy and is equally pioneering thanks to a knowledge-based economy that is fueling a terrific entrepreneurial spirit."
The Jordanian Regional Forum was held in conjunction with the Fourth Global Humanitarian Aviation Conference, for which MEBAA was a sponsor. The Dubai-based organization is promoting support by the business aviation industry for the United Nations World Food Program. During the event F&E Aerospace, organizer of the MEBA show, was given the Aviation Safety Promotion Donor Award at the first WFP Humanitarian Aviation Awards. The company has supported the WFP's work since 2007.