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TAMPA - Community news Wallenda to walk wire today in Sarasota Aerialist Nik Wallenda's plan to walk a wire across U.S. 41 in downtown Sarasota today is sure to attract crowds and will close the road for about an hour. At 11 a.m., Wallenda plans to walk along a wire 180 to 200 feet above the road, from a crane platform near the "Unconditional Surrender" statue of a sailor kissing a woman to the roof of the Marina Tower condo.Wallenda, who walked above Niagara Falls last year, is a six-time Guinness world record holder for aerial feats. U.S. 41 is expected to be closed from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. between Ringling Boulevard and the John Ringling Causeway. Traffic will remain open to and from St. Armands Circle and the barrier islands. Public parking in the area will be limited, and spectators are being encouraged to walk to the event or park in the Palm Avenue Garage. From 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., a free shuttle will haul people to and from the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall parking lot, at 777 N. Tamiami Trail. Hillsborough, Pinellas' Swiftmud seats at risk A bill filed by two Sarasota legislators would reduce the power of Hillsborough and Pinellas counties on the governing board of the area's main water control agency, the Southwest Florida Water Management District. The legislation, by state Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, and state Rep. Ray Pilon, R-Sarasota, would reduce the board from 13 to nine members from the district's 16 counties. It would cut the Hillsborough and Pinellas representatives from five to two and the Polk representatives from two to one. Todd Pressman, of Pinellas County, a board member and former chairman, said the legislation is part of an ongoing attempt by the smaller counties to wrest power from the two big, urbanized counties, a move he said has had some success. The second Polk representative was added a few years ago. Law and Order USF police investigate man's report of rape University of South Florida police are investigating a sexual assault that occurred in a public restroom at the Marshall Student Center. A man filed a report Friday saying he was raped by a man on Jan. 18 in a unisex restroom on the second floor of the building, USF police Lt. Charlotte Domingo said. Both the victim and his alleged attacker are affiliated with the university. Domingo declined to say what the affiliation is, saying police don't "want to risk identifying the victim in any way." "They're not students," Domingo said. "They do know each other." No arrests have been made. This is the first sexual assault reported on campus this year, coming four months after two were reported at residence halls. In October, officers were called to the university's Epsilon Residence Hall after a woman there reported she was raped by someone she knew. On Sept. 19, police investigated a case in which a female resident of the Kappa Hall dormitory was sexually battered. A man attacked her in the vending area of Room 124A on the first floor, police said. Four sexual assaults or sexual batteries were reported to university police in 2012. One was reported in 2011 and nine in 2010. Missing man's boat found near Egmont A boat belonging to a Bradenton man was found Monday at the mouth of Tampa Bay a day after he was reported missing by his wife, officials said. Patrick Mullins, the media specialist at Palmetto High School, was reported missing Sunday evening along with his 16-foot boat, deputies said. Mullins' unoccupied boat was found Monday morning near Egmont Key, deputies said. The search for Mullins was still under way. Anyone with information should call deputies at (941) 747-3011, ext. 2260 or 2274. Inmate charged with killing Tampa woman Hillsborough County detectives say DNA evidence led them to a 34-year-old state inmate who now faces a murder charge in the death of a Tampa woman. Otano Anton Leggett, 34, will be escorted to Hillsborough County from the medium-security Liberty Correctional Institution outside Tallahassee to face a charge of first-degree murder. Nancy Grooms, 52, was found dead in her bedroom at 920 122nd Ave. on Feb. 12, the sheriff's office said. The medical examiner's office determined she died from multiple stab wounds. Video surveillance from two convenience stores showed Grooms accompanied by a black man later indentified as Leggett, and she was wearing the same clothing in the videos and on the day she was found dead, the sheriff's office said. Detectives learned from witnesses that Leggett was seen leaving Grooms' residence, but she had not been seen or heard from until her body was found. DNA evidence linked Leggett to Grooms before her death, the sheriff's office said. Homicide detectives got an arrest warrant Friday charging Leggett with first-degree murder. He is serving two years on drug charges. Fire destroys vacant mobile home in Mango Firefighters extinguished a blaze at an unoccupied double-wide mobile home Monday in Mango. The owner of the trailer at 210 Cherry Lane told officials there was no electricity. She also said she checks on the vacant trailer regularly and found no evidence of anyone occupying it, officials said. Hillsborough County Fire Rescue was at the scene about 7 a.m. Firefighters say the unit was engulfed by flames when they arrived. Plant City Web sting yields 14 arrests Fourteen men ranging in age from 18 to 56 were arrested during the weekend after going to Plant City to have sex with youngsters, or so they thought, they had met online, police said. The men went to a house from Friday through Sunday to meet 14- and 15-year-old boys and girls for sex after online encounters but instead were met by detectives, Plant City police said. This was the second operation of its kind in recent years, and more will be conducted from time to time, Sgt. Trey Towles said. Operation Last Minute included detectives and agents from the Plant City Police Department, Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Polk County Sheriff's Office working with prosecutors from the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office. Undercover detectives posted fictitious ads or profiles on various websites, posing as children or parents of children, police said. Numerous men responded and proceeded to chat online, email, text and talk on the phone with detectives posing as children, police said. The men solicited sex acts, sent pornographic pictures of themselves and asked for nude photos of the children, police said. None of the people arrested has a criminal history of this type of crime, police said. They are Shannon Paul Beasley, 35, Valrico; David B. Bigelow, 43, Massachusetts; Peter Joseph Ciaverelli, 30, Tampa; Brian Daniel Dahlberg, 26, Tampa; Toby Paul Hebert, 41, Holiday; Spyros Kouvaras, 18, Spring Hill; Donald Joseph Langford, 56, Alturas; Pedro Manuel Leon, 18, Plant City; David James Letchworth, 22, Tampa; Vincent Lamar Lewis Jr., 19, Wesley Chapel; Chuck Elof Lindeen, 53, St. Petersburg; James Douglas McGinnis, 46, Dover; Nathan Donald Warren, 23, New Port Richey; and Joseph Frank Malventano, 23, Odessa. He was also charged with 14 counts of transmitting harmful materials to a minor, use of computer services or devices to solicit, and use of a child in a sexual performance, jail records show. Woman charged with DUI-manslaughter A Clearwater woman faces a driving under the influence manslaughter charge in an October crash that killed her passenger, troopers said Monday. About 3:15 a.m. Oct. 27, Veronica Herrera, 32, was driving a 2006 Nissan Altima south at the south end of the Bayside Bridge, which connects Clearwater and St. Petersburg. After leaving the bridge, just north of State Road 686, Herrera failed to navigate a curve and her Altima left the road, striking landscaping in the median, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The car rotated and passenger Noi Pinheiro, 45, of Bartow, was partially ejected, troopers said. She died Oct. 30 at Bayfront Medical Center. Court burglar likely was Gasparilla reveler A shirtless man, apparently intoxicated and wearing Gasparilla beads, broke into and damaged the Hillsborough County Courthouse annex Saturday night, officials said. The man was caught by security guards but broke free as he was being led away for medical attention, officials said. Just after 7:30 p.m., the man smashed a glass door at the annex, 801 E. Twiggs St., and was found by guards a short time later, investigators said. He escaped while being led from the building to get him medical attention, officials said. Video footage showed the man acted alone. Authorities say he did about $500 damage. The man is in his 20s, about 190 pounds, fair complexion, large build and short brown hair. The burglary occurred shortly after Tampa's annual Gasparilla parade and during a street festival on Ashley Drive, several blocks away. Anyone with information should call the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at (813) 247-8200. Florida news Democratic Party vote closer than thought Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Allison Tant's margin of victory in her bid to lead the party got closer after a ballot was found and tallied. The party announced Saturday that Tant beat Alan Clendenin, of Tampa, 587 to 448. But a ballot from Miami-Dade County was stuck to another ballot. The final result, once it was counted, was 587 to 507. The ballots are weighted based on the size of the county the voter represents. 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The Royal Free has completed its takeover of hospital services in Barnet and Enfield in a multi-million pound deal.
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals now make up part of the Royal Free London NHS Trust, which will now oversee healthcare provision at all three sites.
David Sloman, chief executive of the Royal Free, said in a statement: "I am delighted. We believe that by bringing our two organisations together we can provide the very best healthcare for patients across all our sites.
"This is the biggest development in the history of our organisation for 40 years and it is a hugely exciting time for everyone at the trust.
"I wish to welcome all Barnet and Chase Farm staff to the Royal Free and I want to thank everyone who has worked so hard to ensure this transaction went ahead as smoothly as possible."
The takeover has been more than a year in the planning and will include the redevelopment of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield.
The Royal Free board has also pledged that "almost all patients will continue to be seen in the same location they were seen before", with notifications being sent to those affected by any changes.
Chipping Barnet MP Theresa Villiers became the first politician to publicly welcome today's announcement.
The Northern Ireland Secretary said: "I have sought assurances that services at Barnet and Chase Farm will not be negatively affected by the transition and repeatedly I have received those positive assurances.
"The Royal Free is a centre of excellence with many highly impressive specialist clinicians. I believe that this link-up means that my constituents will get greater access to that expertise.
"I will continue to press the new merged management of the two hospital trusts to ensure my constituents get the best possible care."

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Literacy for All: Adult Literacy @ your library - Know your Community
Know your Community
Like libraries, adult literacy programs are deeply rooted in the community, working with faith-based organizations, school districts, community colleges and universities, and libraries. Community-based literacy programs provide 1:1 tutoring and small group instruction and rely on a cadre of trained volunteers to provide these services.
A recent survey reported that 74% of public libraries partner with their local community-based literacy programs to serve adult learners.
To make your library a key community adult literacy resource, be the convener and reach out and invite community stakeholders to the library for a literacy brainstorming session. Include representatives from:
- Community-based literacy organizations
- Local literacy coalitions
- Social service agencies, such as Boys and Girls Clubs, the local YMCA and YWCA, Rotary Clubs, job training facilities, senior citizen groups
- Faith-based organizations including churches, synagogues, and mosques
- Community colleges and local universities
- School districts serving grades K-12
- Local PBS station
- Businesses and national corporations with a local presence
- Private foundations
- Elected officials
- Adult learners to tell their stories and advocates for action
During the session, emphasize the library's role as a resource provider. Showcase and promote the library's services, resources, and staff. Conduct an informal, asset-based survey of your community's current literacy programming and identify what's missing. Determine reasonable next steps, such as:
- Scheduling another meeting
- Conducting community interviews
- Reaching out to additional potential partners
- Offering to host occasional or regular literacy
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- Build action-oriented partnerships with achievable literacy goals and strive for long-term collaborations that will create a multifaceted literacy coalition
"Libraries have a vested interest in assuring that adults are able to read, speak, and understand English. Adults who learn to read at their library, love their library!"
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YASH Technologies , a leading technology services and outsourcing partner for global companies, announced today the availability of ChemOne and PeopleOne, qualified SAP Business All-in-One rapid-deployment solutions. Both solutions, developed by YASH, combine prepackaged software and services to provide essential ERP functionality, quickly and affordably. Customers who deploy a rapid-deployment solution benefit from reduced risks and costs as it is delivered with a fixed price and scope.
Rapid-deployment solutions are typically ready-to-use combinations of best-in-class, pre-configured software, packaged with fixed-price implementation services, content and end-user enablement that have been specifically tailored to industries or line-of-business needs, delivered in weeks. They are designed to offer a quick, cost-effective method for standardizing processes with fewer migration risks. The average timeframe for a typical deployment is eight weeks or less, which helps customers lower the cost of implementation and speed time to value, while retaining the flexibility to extend the solution according to individual needs.
"More customers are seeking to reduce the level of customization and are implementing prepackaged solutions that address specific business challenges," said Janaki Ram Cheruvu, vice president, YASH Technologies. "Using the integrated functionality in the ChemOne and PeopleOne solutions, users can support their company's strategic business initiatives with fast implementation of defined SAP prepackaged solutions that save an average of 20-40 percent in deployment costs. It's a huge win for customers wanting functionality quickly, but may want to adapt the solution to meet future requirements."
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Jewish stores, factories, offices and schools were closed today throughout Argentina in protest against increased anti-Jewish violence which culminated in the abduction here of a 19-year-old girl by three terrorists who carved a swastika on her body with a razor. Signs reading "Closed in Protest Against Nazi Aggressions in Argentina" were displayed in front of every Jewish establishment.
The nationwide Jewish stoppage, which began at noon, was called by the DAIA, central representative body of Argentine Jewry. The stoppage was carried out with perfect discipline throughout the entire country. Many non-Jewish businesses in the Jewish sections here joined in the stoppage in solidarity with the Jews.
Police were ordered on the alert to combat the possibility of clashes from neo-Nazi reactions to the Jewish demonstration of protest. Many Argentine newspapers appeared with articles supporting the DAIA protest. The National Committee of the Union Civic Radical de Pueblo, one of Argentina's largest parties, published a statement demanding severe repressive measures against the perpetrators of the anti-Semitic attacks. Statements of support by students and teachers associations for the DAIA stand also were published in the newspapers.
Acting on an appeal from the DAIA, President Guido of Argentina summoned police chief Horacio Green for a report on the assault of the Jewish girl, Graciela Sirota. A radio broadcast later reported that the police chief had resigned however, he promptly said that the report was false.
The police chief met with reporters after his 35-minute meeting with President Guido and said he had informed the President about "the problem" presented by the DAIA. Green said he had also "exposed" to the President "the risk represented by the manner in which this Israelite organization presents things, together with the decision they took to make justice in their own hands, adopting measures of force."
He was asked if the police had reached the conclusion that the conditions which the Jews were protesting did in fact exist. He replied: "I have not the slightest doubt about that since the girl has the marks of it on her. What needs determining is in what manner this mark was made." Under further questioning, he said that the police had not come to any conclusions as to the persons responsible for the attack on Miss Sirota.
The police chief said that the girl had not been able to identify any of her assailants "from pictures we showed her." He added that her description of her assailants "is so difficult it is impossible to identify anybody."
Yesterday, ten of Argentina's most important daily newspapers published a statement by the DAIA in the form of a paid advertisement, describing the reasons which led the organization to call on the Jewish community for today's strike protest. The statement said that the brutal attack on Miss Sirota brought to a climax violence promoted by "Nazi terrorism." It pointed out that the instigators and executors of the criminal acts remain free "thus creating conditions for the worst excesses."
The statement noted that the Government had replied "without delay" to the DAIA protest but the DAIA added that "the extreme gravity" of the situation "cannot be solved merely with statements, as may be gathered from the reiterated attempts at distortion" by some sources. This was a reference to the broadcasts of two radio stations which had sought to minimize the anti-Semitic violence.


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Animation Breakdown 2015!
With its ability to create enchanting new realities and to tickle our ganglia with its limitless imagination, the animation realm is the most powerfully distilled out of all cinemagical forms. We're pleased the world over to give you Cinefamily's week-long slate of mind-expanding international animation, old and new, shorts and features: Animation Breakdown 2015.
BUY TICKETS ($12 – $20/free for members. Showtimes subject to change):
Thurs 12/10, 7:30pm: Opening Night: Animation Breakdown Roundup!
Thurs 12/10, 10:00pm: An Animated Evening with Lance Bangs
Fri 12/11, 7:30pm: Rick & Morty Live!
Fri 12/11, 10:00pm: Belladonna of Sadness (L.A. Premiere of the Brand New Restoration!)
Sat 12/12, 12:00pm: MOUSE-TERPIECE THEATER: The Art and Artists Behind Disney's "Mickey Mouse" (2015)
Sat 12/12, 4:30pm: Karel Zeman: Adventurer in Film + Inspiration
Sat 12/12, 7:30pm: Loren Bouchard Show & Tell
Sat 12/12, 10:30pm: Outrageous Video Games III: My So-Called Second Life
Sun 12/13, 12:00pm: High Five!: Creating Nickelodeon's "Pig, Goat, Banana, Cricket"
Sun 12/13, 2:00pm: Invention for Destruction aka The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
Sun 12/13, 4:30pm: HBO's Animals (w/ The Duplass Brothers in person!)
Sun 12/13, 7:00pm: The Ace of Light: The Films of Sky David
Sun 12/13, 9:45pm: Undervolt & Co's Experimental Animation Mixtape
ANIMATION BREAKDOWN 2015: Undervolt & Co's Experimental Animation Mixtape
Live set by DJ Nanny Cantaloop!
Experimental label Undervolt & Co.—run by Yoshi Sodeoka, Johnny Woods and Rea McNamara, and aiming to make accessible the vibrant world of video art—brings us a rapturous mélange of the latest in inventive animation, culled from the portfolios of the label's impressive roster of video artists. Expect spirited gems from Yoshi Sodeoka, Sabrina Ratté, Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Adam Ferriss, Andrew Benson, Johnny Woods, Suzy Poling, Rick Silva, Eva Papamargariti, and Javier Galan Rico, with several of the artists here in person for our big closing night afterparty on the back patio!
See Undervolt artists' work on the small screen too, in a special 9-screen installation on the back patio, revolving around techniques of analog video synthesizers!
ANIMATION BREAKDOWN 2015: The Ace of Light: The Films of Sky David
Prints & Restorations (Ace of Light, Sonoma and A Hard Passage) courtesy of The Academy Film Archive.
Prints (The Green Child, Sky Heart, Luma Nocturna, Aura Corona) courtesy of the iotaCenter Collection at the Academy Film Archive
Co-presented by The IotaCenter and Cinespia Salon. Sky David in Person!
In the latter half of the 1960s, 18 year old Dennis Pies headed off to Vietnam to serve with the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army. He returned home, as all men did, a different person. One with stories and visions to share. He bought a '46 Chevy school bus and departed his hometown of Lubbock, Texas for a commune in the Santa Cruz mountains. But a fateful pitstop on the way at Cal Arts' notorious (and recently San Fernando Earthquake-rocked) Villa Cabrini campus altered his life's course. It was there that the Pies, armed with absolutely no prior artistic training, began his path to becoming the man and artist known as Sky David. Mystical, dreamlike, and otherworldly — watching a Sky David film is like stumbling into the pages of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Popol Vuh or I Ching. They unfurl as symbolic, dreamlike narratives of shifting landscapes, both physical and mental, each frame leading the viewer further into uncharted optical realms. Endlessly inventive, David employs techniques ranging from delicate pencil and airbrush drawings, to computer animation, to (in the case of this evening's jawdropping titular film Ace of Light) "hand drawn art on paper, filmed in negative, projected via an aerial image projector into a tank of water, then filmed frame by frame"—all to create visuals striking, haunting and utterly singular. Join us as we celebrate the incredible career of ABD's 2015 honoree and marvel at his films with the premieres of new 35mm and 16mm prints, lovingly restored and graciously loaned by The Academy Film Archive.
Watch the Cinefamily original trailer!
ANIMATION BREAKDOWN 2015: HBO's Animals
Live set from DJ Jenny Nono!
Join creators Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano along with executive producers Mark and Jay Duplass as they offer a sneak peak into the world of Animals.
Animals is an animated series that focuses on the downtrodden creatures native to Earth's least-habitable environment: New York City. Whether it's lovelorn rats, gender-questioning pigeons or aging bedbugs in the midst of a midlife crisis, the awkward small talk, moral ambiguity and existential woes of non-human urbanites prove startlingly similar to our own.
ANIMATON BREAKDOWN 2015: Invention for Destruction aka The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
Co-presented by the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles, Czech That Film, and Screen Novelties
Jules Verne, novelist and chronicler of undersea fantasies, provides the subject material for what is not only Zeman's most popular film but the most successful Czech film of all time, famously screened simultaneously in 96 theaters in New York City upon release, and recipient of the Grand Prix at Expo '58. Invention for Destruction AKA The Fabulous World of Jules Verne is based upon several of Verne's works, especially Face au drapeau (Facing the Flag), a suspenseful and nautical adventure, which in Zemans hands also manages to act as a fairy-tale-like parable on the potential dangers of science (read: atomic energy). As usual, Zeman constructed an astoundingly inventive and immersive universe—on a shoestring—situating his actors firmly in Verne's immense and beautiful world. Using a process dubbed "Mystimation", a combination of live action, animated drawings and lithographs, the screen pops with stylized line-etched, living illustrations in a way unseen before or since. Visually jaw-dropping, poetic and bubbling with imagination, Invention is an incredible big screen experience—and this beautiful new restoration makes it one not to be missed!
Dir. Karel Zeman, 1958, 35mm, 83 min.
Watch the trailer for Invention for Destruction!
ANIMATION BREAKDOWN 2015 - High Five!: Creating Nickelodeon's "Pig, Goat, Banana, Cricket"
Cast & Crew in person!
On paper, Pig Goat Banana Cricket seems too strange for TV, but isn't that always the case with the best kids' show? The newest member of Nickelodeon's toon family has hit the airwaves — and it's bold, adventurous and totally awesome! Born from the brains of renowned indie comic book artists Dave Cooper and Johnny Ryan, the show doesn't hold back on any of their singular giddy weirdness. Harnessing more than a little of the anarchic, gross-out glee of its progenitor Ren & Stimpy, each episode unfurls in a Pulp Fiction-esque cut-up narrative structure, tightly interweaving the titular characters' surreal storylines until their absurdist exploits chaotically collide. The results, both in aesthetic and storytelling, are not quite like anything seen before in a cartoon for wee ones.
Join us as Ryan and award-winning executive-producer David Sacks (The Simpsons, 3rd Rock from the Sun) take us behind the scenes of this deliciously bizarre kiddie confection, followed by a live table read by series voice actors Candi Milo (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) as Goat, Paul Rugg (Freakazoid!) as Cricket, and Thomas F. Wilson (Biff from Back to the Future!) as Banana, AND an exclusive sneak peek of a brand-new episode!
Bring the kids and join us on our back patio after the show for a signing with the cast and creators!
Watch the trailer!
ANIMATION BREAKDOWN 2015: Outrageous Video Games III: My So-Called Second Life
Live DJ set from Miles Monroe!
Today, more people experience animation through video games than any other medium. No animation fest in the year 2015 would be complete without some game animation, so ABD is bringing back Most Outrageous Video Games for this year's fest!
Join us as we survey the wildest and weirdest online virtual worlds—where people don't just watch animation, they live it. We've got it all—from the early innovation of vector avatars of NASA's Maze Wars, to the first official virtual world of Lucasfilm's Habitat; from Kool-aid Man's sublime tours of Second Life to the strange addiction of Onlive Traveler, where players continued to live on for over 10 years after the platform failed.
Our rare glimpse into these bizarre worlds will feature excerpts from Avatara, the Vernon Florida of Online Worlds Documentaries, and many surprises!
ANIMATION BREAKDOWN 2015: Loren Bouchard Show & Tell
Live set from DJ White Rainbow!
Join us on the patio afterward for a Bob's Burger Bar featuring recipes created by Loren Bouchard!!! Come hungry!!
Get your butts some tickets, guys! This month, the 'family is bringing you a Show & Tell Special with some Animation Breakdown flavor – Burger flavor – in the form of nerd genius Loren Bouchard! The producer/writer/animator/voice actor/everything-er behind American animation sensations like Home Movies, Dr. Katz, and Bob's Burgers is here with some as-yet unseen, behind-the-counter gems from the brain that's created some of TV's most memorable characters to date (butt-crazy 13-year old Tina Belcher, anyone?). Be sure not to miss it – past Show & Tells have featured the deep/dark secrets of our favorite creative minds, and knowing Bouchard, this one will be wild.
Whether improvised or scripted (or both!), Loren Bouchard's oft-laureled (Burgers has an Emmy) and always cult-favorited (Home Movies lives on!) cartoons are iconic for their tack-sharp wit, lysergic animation and earnest yet sarcastic portrayals of American family angst. So let's celebrate our familial ties this holiday season by gettin' a little boozy, laughing our asses off and tuning in to one of animation's contemporary legends for this edition of Show & Tell!
ANIMATION BREAKDOWN 2015: Karel Zeman: Adventurer in Film + Inspiration
Live set from DJ Jasmin Blasco!
Co-presented by the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles, Czech That Film, and Screen Novelties
Join us on a Journey to Prehistory… the prehistory of special effects! Before CGI, before there were entire teams of post-production technicians, before the endless barrage of high-budget fantasy films, early animator Karel Zeman was creating technically astounding visual masterpieces, using the kind of masking and in-camera editing that is arduous enough for a still photographer; for a filmmaker it was painstaking (and high-stakes!) labor. We are so excited to introduce the Cinefamily audience to Zeman, who is heralded and beloved in the Czech Republic and among hardcore animation fans, and is too little known outside these niches! Untrained as a filmmaker, Zeman taught himself how to animate by studying film prints of Felix the Cat cartoons, and hired artisans and craftsmen, not filmmakers, to aid him in creating immersive fantasy worlds, rife with "analog" special effects, and a contagious playfulness and conviviality. In this charming documentary portrait, Zeman's former collaborators and fans (filmmakers Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton among them) speak of the mythical life and work of this impossibly innovative director, artist, magician, and perfectionist force.
Dir. Tomás Hodan, 2015, DCP, 80 min.
A sparking, splendorous, 35mm strip of joie de vivre, Inspiration is perhaps Karel Zeman's most dizzyingly impressive work. With unimaginable precision, Zeman tells a story in a fragile, miniature world, animating hand-blown glass! He's master of this delicate universe, like a painter, sculptor, and dreamer all at once. You've got to see this one to believe it.
Dir. Karel Zeman, 1949, 35mm, 10 min.
Watch the trailer for Karel Zeman: Adventurer in Film!
ANIMATION BREAKDOWN 2015: MOUSE-TERPIECE THEATER: The Art and Artists Behind Disney's "Mickey Mouse" (2015)
Co-presented by Saturday Morning Cartoons
Believe it or not, the funniest, most visually exciting/most cutting edge cartoons made for television today star a well-known corporate icon who dates back to 1928. Yes, the Mouse – the one originally voiced by Uncle Walt himself, though you might know him better as the Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Brave Little Tailor or simply as Mickey. The characters has been given a complete make-over for the 21st Century – and in case you haven't seen the latest series of Disney's Mickey Mouse shorts, Animation Breakdown will bring you up to speed. And "speed" is the operative word here – these colorful 4 minute cartoons are fast paced and funny, and insanely imaginative. This is not you great grandfathers "Mickey Mouse". You'll see Mickey and the gang (yes, with Donald, Goofy, Minnie, Daisy and Pluto) run rampant in episodes taking place in different locales, in different languages, and beyond international time zones. They even play havoc with classic characters in Disney history. We'll be screening the best of this new batch, inter-mixed with classic pre-code 1920s-30s Mouse cartoons to demonstrate how the new generation didn't fall too far from the original tree. M-I-C… See these on the big screen with moderator Jerry Beck (Animation Scoop) and the producers, directors and artists behind this once-in-an-80-year reboot. K-E-Y – Why? Because we love you! M-O-U-S-E. Mouseketeer caps: optional.
ANIMATION BREAKDOWN 2015: Belladonna of Sadness (L.A. Premiere of the Brand New Restoration!)
Co-presented by SpectreVision and Cinelicious
One of the great lost masterpieces of Japanese animation, never before officially released in the U.S., Belladonna of Sadness is a mad, swirling, psychedelic light-show of medieval tarot-card imagery with horned demons, haunted forests and La Belle Dame Sans Merci, equal parts J.R.R. Tolkien and gorgeous, explicit Gustav Klimt-influenced eroticism. The last film in the adult-themed Animerama trilogy produced by the godfather of Japanese anime & manga, Osamu Tezuka and directed by his long time collaborator Eiichi Yamamoto (Astro Boy and Kimba The White Lion), Belladonna unfolds as a series of spectacular still watercolor paintings that bleed and twist together. An innocent young woman, Jeanne (voiced by Aiko Nagayama) is violently raped by the local lord on her wedding night. To take revenge, she makes a pact with the Devil himself (voiced by Tatsuya Nakadai, from Akira Kurosawa's Ran) who appears as an erotic sprite and transforms her into a black-robed vision of madness and desire.
Extremely transgressive and not for the easily offended, Belladonna is fueled by a mind-blowing Japanese psych rock soundtrack by noted avant-garde jazz composer Masahiko Satoh. The film has been newly restored by Cinelicious Pics using the original 35mm camera negative and sound elements – and including over 8 minutes of surreal and explicit footage cut from the negative. On par with Rene Laloux's Fantastic Planet and Ralph Bakshi's Wizards as an LSD-stoked 1970s head trip, Belladonna marks a major rediscovery for animation fans. If Led Zeppelin had a favorite film, this would be it. In other words, Stairway to Hell. (Dennis Bartok, Cinelicious)
Dir. Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973, DCP Restoration, 93 min.
ANIMATION BREAKDOWN 2015: Rick & Morty Live!
Live set from DJ Jimi Hey!
Season 2 is over, the wait for season 3 seems eternal, and you need more R&M in your life STAT… well you're in luck—The Cinefamily has got you covered! Join creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, along with writer Ryan Ridley, for an improvised episode of Rick and Morty!
Armed with a Cintiq tablet, Justin will accompany the improvised insanity with live drawing and general drunken high energy madness. Then join us for a Q&A with with creators and special guests, Beth and Jerry (Sarah Chalke and Chris Parnell)—Wubalubadubdub Motherfuckers!
ANIMATION BREAKDOWN 2015: An Animated Evening with Lance Bangs
Lance Bangs hosts an animated evening, featuring a curated mix of his work over the years, and the world premiere of animated stories from his new Viceland television series Party Legends!
Lance will show us gems from the course of his career, sharing stories along the way, including: the Kanye West music video for Heard Em Say (animation by Bill Plimpton), the stop motion video for "White Stripes Hardest Button to Button" for Michel Gondry, and the hand drawn on 35mm film animation Marissa Paternoster did for the Screaming Females song "Hopeless."
Plus, we'll indulge in a marathon of Party Legends episodes, featuring Jon Daly, Bushwick Bill, Earl Sweatshirt, Eric Andre, Kid Ink, David Pajo, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Margaret Cho, Sean Patton, Dennis Rodman, Lizzo, and Ryan Sickler! Chris "Party Boy" Pontius and Jon Daly will be here in person!
ANIMATION BREAKDOWN 2015 Opening Night: ABD Roundup! 3
Hey kids! It's baaa-aaack! Animation Breakdown's Alex McDonald and Kevin Sukho Lee (Yo Gabba Gabba!'s animation producer) have curated another assortment of eye-poppin' awesomeness for ABD's signature program of animated shorts from around the globe, most of them never before screened in LA. Roundup's mission is to showcase the state of contemporary animation – from the silly to the sublime, the surreal to the stupid, and everything in between. This 2015 edition delivers a made-to-order feast for the adventurous Cinefamily filmgoer who's hungry for strange Simpsons tributes, inter-galactic inter-species sexual encounters, body part rebellion, animal love, and cartoony crime sprees, to name but a few of the delights served up. So hang on to your butts and say it with us: Tune in, Turn on, and ROUNDUP!
- Deep Space (dir. Bruno Tondeur)
- Life with Herman H. Rott (dir. Chintis Lundgren)
- Swap Meet (dirs. Various Artists)
- First Date (dirs. Joseph Bennett, Matt Furie)
- Cody's Positive Affirmations (dir. Joseph Bennett)
- menagerie (dir. Julian Gallese)
- Bartkira the Animated Trailer (producer Kaitlin Sullivan)
- Sports Nuts (dir. Marc M. / Sick Animation)
- Apple Pie (dir. Marc M. / Sick Animation)
- Loop Ring Chop Drink (dir. Nicolas Ménard)
- Bath House (dir. Niki Lindroth von Bahr)
- Pentimento (dir. Remy Schaepman)
- Amaro and Walden's Joyride (dirs. Tim McCourt, Max Taylor)
- Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit (dir. Wesley Louis)
- An Emo Nose (dir. Wong Ping)
- Weird Simpsons VHS (dir. Yoann Hervo)
- Candy Power Dorothy (dir. Yong Hoon Joe)
Watch the Cinefamily original trailer!


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The Marin Literacy Program will offer an orientation session for interested volunteers on Jan. 14.
Volunteers must attend an orientation prior to enrolling in a training. A session is set for 6-7 p.m. at the San Rafael Public Library, 1100 E St.
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Articles about reggae music, reviews, interviews, reports and more...
Zimbabwe-born British producer Paul Hussey is still puzzled. The 7-inch he released a little over a decade ago had never done anything, really, until he made a video for it last year and exposed its excellence to a youtubed world that couldn't fathom it had missed such a gem, for such along time. "Not done anything", as in: "We pressed 200 copies I believe," Paul –who has no links to singer Winston Hussey- reminisces today, "but only maybe 70 got circulated at the time. I gave some to Jet Star, some to Blacka Dread in London. It was hard to get thing moving back then, an I had other things going on in my life as I hade just moved back to London from Jamaica." A scarcity that helped, later, other people: in 2012, his Harry Chapman/Ragnam Poyser tune reaches regularly the 100-pound mark on Ebay… And it's not only the rarity thing: for once, this cult is totally deserved on a musical standpoint : lead by the one example of perfectly balanced electric guitar riff/UK stepper crossover riddim, Chapman lets his Garnett-like voice take the tune towards higher heights, all beefed up by a solid Ragnam Poyser deejay section.
It all came together sometime in 1999 on the Jamaican North Coast, where Paul was then running UB40's studio. Rightfully thinking his brother had the necessary talent to record, Harry Chapman's sister introduced him to Paul. Upon first hearing the Maypen singer -whose stage name is a nod to Tracy Chapman-, Hussey knew. After all, he had been in Jamaica for seven years on a long-term vacation, courtesy of his former boss at Falconer studio in London, so he knew when talent was worth recording. Good thing he did. Chapman had the lyrics ready, went for a voice test. It ended up being the one Hussey used on Must Go Down : "It was so good. I knew any other attempt would have sounded different." Chapman was reluctant at first. But after hearing Hussey's final mix, he loved it and Must Go Down was ready to go up to the pressing plant…
It did. It came out. It sorta bombed. Only to reach, today, this cult status that has been juicing up Paul Hussey to go ahead and start his label Jambila Music. Besides new tunes with the loyal Harry Chapman, he recorded Father Culture, and contemplates, maybe some day, to fully reissue Must Go Down –this time with its dub counterpart. In the meantime, he's just enjoying the ride… "It's a funny business," Paul marvels at his 7-inch's extraordinary destiny. "Part of it is luck. Or you have to create your own luck, I guess".
|Posted by Sug on 06.09.2012
|Bought this for £3 in 2001.
|Posted by Adrian on 08.28.2012
|Hey does anyone have Swade - Show Your Love in mp3?
B-side from that vinyl?
Would be nice to listen full tune if possible.
Thank you. :)
|Posted by Adrian on 12.14.2012
|Hey Sug, do you have Swade - Show Your Love tune in audio/mp3?
I would like to listen that tune if possible.
Can you help, please?
Thank you for info and help.
|Posted by DrRiddim on 05.18.2013
|Check out Harry Chapman's full biography here: http://djkaas.com/harrychapman.htm
Interview: Things you didn't know about Derajah
By Angus Taylor
Interview: Ken Boothe in Kingston (Part 1)
By Angus Taylor
Interview: Kabaka Pyramid in Kingston
By Angus Taylor
Interview: Marcia Griffiths in Kingston (Part 1)
By Angus Taylor
Ras Zacharri - Love Over Hate
By Erik Magni
Mad Professor meets Jah9 - In The Midst Of The Storm
By Erik Magni
Africa Unites the Wailers and Bombino at the Reggae University
By Angus Taylor
Dean Fraser - Melodies of D.E.B.
By Erik Magni
Gentleman's Dub Club - Dubtopia
By Erik Magni
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Where Can I Get Something For A Cake To Go Over A Fountain?
Decorating By mommyinaprilx2 Updated 29 Aug 2013 , 9:49pm by celiazumbach
HI, You can still get the tall pillars from Wilton..They are the crystal ones though instead of the
white ones.....
Is there not a kind of kit for over a fountain? I thought I had read that somewhere.
Columns are upside down in pic (arched columns came with arches pre-glued to the correct top end).
With plates:
Thanks! In the picture it looks like there is only 4 pillars holding up the plate above the fountain. But they sell them with 6. Does the 18 inch plate that comes in the kit need 6 pillars? Or am I figuring that wrong? I am kinda nervous about this since it is my first of these kind!
Awesome, thanks! So the fountain is 13 inch high and the pillars are 13 3/4 inch, right? Do I have to buy a cascade kit along with the fountain kit? )looked it up and saw that.
So the fountain is 13 inch high and the pillars are 13 3/4 inch, right? Do I have to buy a cascade kit along with the fountain kit? )
No, the only way you'll need the optional cascade is if you want water to flow over the cascade instead of through the holes in the pieces that are included w/the fountain.
OK, I think i am almost finished with all my questions! So I can get 2 18 inch plates and 6 13 3/4 pillars from wilton, or do I have to buy the kit with it all?
AI used tall crystal candle stick holders for the pillars of my daughters wedding cake. They were beautiful.
AI looked around and bought them at a shop that specialises in vases, candles and candlestick holders and other home wares. I am in Austratia. Can you send me your email address and I can send you a photo. I work from my iPad and haven't worked out how to post a photo from that.


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MSI Announces New AMD And Intel Motherboards With USB 3.1
Subject: Motherboards | March 14, 2015 - 12:33 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: usb 3.1, msi, FX, atx, asmedia asm1352r, amd, am3+
MSI recently announced a torrent of new motherboards that feature USB 3.1 ports. The refreshed lineup includes ten Intel models and, in an interesting twist, two AMD motherboards. MSI's new motherboards support USB 3.1 by using an Asmedia ASM1352R controller that interfaces with the system via two PCI-E 2.0 lanes (PCI-E 2.0 x2). The controller is rated for the full 10Gbps USB 3.1 speeds.
It is worth noting that the boards use the traditional USB Type-A connector with one exception. The MSI Z97A Gaming 6 features the new reversible Type-C connector in the form of a single Type-C USB 3.1 port on the rear I/O panel. The other boards have at least two USB 3.1 ports on their rear I/O panels.
The new USB 3.1-supporting lineup is listed below:
- AMD (970 chipset):
- SLI Krait Edition
- AMD (990FX chipset):
- 990FXA Gaming
- Intel (Z97 chipset):
- Z97A Gaming 9 ACK
- Z97A Gaming 7
- Z97A Gaming 6
- Intel (X99 chipset):
- X99A Gaming 9 ACK
- X99A Gaming 7
- X99A Xpower AC
- X99A Mpower
- X99A SLI Krait Edition
- X99A SLI Plus
- X99A Raider
These new boards are all essentially minor refreshes of previous versions that add the Asmedia controller and faster USB 3.1 ports. You can expect all the multi-GPU and overclocking-friendly features to remain present on these new motherboards.
MSI's X99 Xpower AC (left) and Z97A Gaming 9 ACK (right) now support 10Gbps USB 3.1 ports.
AM3+ is still technically AMD's enthusiast platform, but it is still somewhat odd that MSI chose to add USB 3.1 support to AM3+ motherboards with AMD's aging 990FX and 970 chipsets rather than FM2+ boards with the newer A88X chipset. On the other hand, you can now add much faster external storage to your AM3+ system to give it a bit more life.
There is no word on pricing but expect the USB 3.1 models to come at a slight premium over the older models in each respective series.
Podcast #340 - News from GDC 2015, FreeSync Release Date, Vulkan and Mantle, and more!
Subject: General Tech | March 12, 2015 - 02:09 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: western digital, vulkan, video, SSD 750, Re+, raptr, r9 390x, podcast, nvidia, Mantle, Intel, imagination, gtx 960, gsync, gdc 15, freesync, Broadwell, amd
Join us this week as we wrap up news from GDC 2015, FreeSync Release Date, Vulkan and Mantle, and more!
You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still access it directly through the RSS page HERE.
The URL for the podcast is: http://pcper.com/podcast - Share with your friends!
- iTunes - Subscribe to the podcast directly through the iTunes Store
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Hosts:Ryan Shrout, Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath, Allyn Malventano, and Paul Heimlich
Program length: 1:42:16
Who the hell is this guy? Paul from Paul's Hardware
Week in Review:
0:18:45 ASUS X99-A Motherboard Review
News item of interest:
GDC 2015 Wrapup
1:09:40 More 4GB GTX 960s
Hardware/Software Picks of the Week:
Ryan: Samsung Gear VR
Jeremy: PrintScreen
Allyn: Corsair K70 RGB Keyboard
Josh: 3 ports are tooo much...
Paul: Klevv Memory
Subscribe to the PC Perspective YouTube Channel for more videos, reviews and podcasts!!
It has been a rough quarter for the tech industry
Subject: General Tech | March 10, 2015 - 12:36 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Q1, gigabyte, earnings, msi, TSMC, amd, Intel, nvidia
There is quite a bit of news on how various component manufacturers have fared at the beginning of 2015 and not much of it is good. Gigabyte has seen revenues drop almost 20% compared to this time last year and a significantly higher overall drop and while MSI is up almost 4% when compared to this quarter in 2014, February saw a drop of over 25% and over the total year a drop of nearly 8%. TSMC has taken a hit of 28% over this month though it is showing around 33% growth over the past year thanks to its many contract wins over the past few months. Transcend, Lite-On and panel maker HannStar all also reported losses over this time as did overseas notebook designers such as Wistron, Compal and Inventec.
Intel is doing well though perhaps not as profitably as they would like, and we know that NVIDIA had a great 2014 but not primarily because of growth in the market but by poaching from another company which has been struggling but not as much as previous years. The PC industry is far from dead but 2014 was not a kind year.
"Gigabyte Technology has reported consolidated revenues of NT$3.216 billion (US$101.93million) for February 2015, representing a 39.31% drop on month and 26.75% drop on year.
The company has totaled NT$8.515 billion in year-to-date revenues, down 18.47% compared with the same time last year."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- The SHOCKING storage truth: Everyone's buying spinning rust @ The Register
- iOS 8.2 shoves a non-deletable Apple Watch app onto your iPhone @ The Inquirer
- Ouch! Google crocks capacitors and deviates DRAM to root Linux @ The Register
- 2015 Hackaday Prize: Build Something that Matters @ Hack a Day
GDC 15: Upcoming Flagship AMD Radeon R9 GPU Powering VR Demo
Subject: Graphics Cards | March 5, 2015 - 04:46 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: GDC, gdc 15, amd, radeon, R9, 390x, VR, Oculus
Don't get too excited about this news, but AMD tells me that its next flagship Radeon R9 graphics card is up and running at GDC, powering an Oculus-based Epic "Showdown" demo.
Inside the box...
During my meeting with AMD today I was told that inside that little PC sits the "upcoming flagship Radeon R9 graphics card" but, of course, no other information was given. The following is an estimated transcript of the event:
Ryan: Can I see it?
AMD: No.
Ryan: I can't even take the side panel off it?
AMD: No.
Ryan. How can I know you're telling the truth then? Can I open up the driver or anything?
AMD: No.
Ryan: GPU-Z? Anything?
AMD: No.
Well, I tried.
Is this the rumored R9 390X with the integrated water cooler? Is it something else completely? AMD wouldn't even let me behind the system to look for a radiator so I'm afraid that is where my speculation will end.
Hooked up to the system was a Crescent Bay Oculus headset running the well-received Epic "Showdown" demo. The experience was smooth though of course there were no indications of frame rate, etc. while it was going on. After our discussion with AMD earlier in the week about its LiquidVR SDK, AMD is clearly taking the VR transition seriously. NVIDIA's GPUs might be dominating the show-floor demos but AMD wanted to be sure it wasn't left out of the discussion.
Can I just get this Fiji card already??
Podcast #339 - NVIDIA SHIELD and Titan X, AMD Mantle, OpenGL Vulkan, and much more from GDC!
Subject: General Tech | March 5, 2015 - 03:22 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: vulkan, vive, video, valve, titan x, strix, Silverstone, shield, Samsung, rv05, re vive, raven, podcast, nvidia, Nepton 240M, liquidvr, Khronos, Intel, htc, gtx 960, glnext, coolermaster, amd, 750ti
Join us this week as we discuss the NVIDIA SHIELD and Titan X, AMD Mantle, OpenGL Vulkan, and much more from GDC!
You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still access it directly through the RSS page HERE.
The URL for the podcast is: http://pcper.com/podcast - Share with your friends!
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Hosts: Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath, Allyn Malventano, Scott Michaud and Ken Addison
Program length: 1:22:13
Week in Review:
News item of interest:
Hardware/Software Picks of the Week:
Jeremy: Um, I don't know, SteamOS sales I guess?
Allyn: A handy thing to have for cloning mobile SSDs (and this option)
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AMD To Release FreeSync Ready Driver on March 19th
Subject: Graphics Cards, Displays | March 5, 2015 - 11:46 AM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: freesync, amd
Hey everyone, we just got a quick note from AMD with an update on the FreeSync technology rollout we have been expecting since CES in January (and honestly, even before that). Here is the specific quote:
AMD is very excited that monitors compatible with AMD FreeSync™ technology are now available in select regions in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). We know gamers are excited to bring home an incredibly smooth and tearing-free PC gaming experience powered by AMD Radeon™ GPUs and AMD A-Series APUs. We're pleased to announce that a compatible AMD Catalyst™ graphics driver to enable AMD FreeSync™ technology for single-GPU configurations will be publicly available on AMD.com starting March 19, 2015. Support for AMD CrossFire™ configurations will be available the following month in April 2015.
A couple of interesting things: first, it appears that FreeSync monitors are already shipping in the EMEA regions and that is the cause for this news blast to the media. If you are buying a monitor with a FreeSync logo on it and can't use the technology, that is clearly a bit frustrating. You have just another two weeks to wait for the software to enabled your display's variable refresh rate.
That also might be a clue as to when you can expect review embargoes and/or the release of FreeSync monitors in North America. The end is in sight!
Liquid...get it?
As GDC progresses here in San Francisco, AMD took the wraps off of a new SDK for game developers to use to improve experiences with virtual reality (VR) headsets. Called LiquidVR, the goal is provide a smooth and stutter free VR experience that is universal across all headset hardware and to keep the wearer, be it a gamer or professional user, immersed.
AMD's CTO of Graphics, Raja Koduri spoke with us about the three primary tenets of the LiquidVR initiative. The 'three Cs' as it is being called are Comfort, Compatibility and Compelling Content. Ignoring the fact that we have four C's in that phrase, the premise is straight forward. Comfortable use of VR means there is little to no issues with neusea and that can be fixed with ultra-low latency between motion (of your head) and photons (hitting your eyes). For compatibility, AMD would like to assure that all VR headsets are treated equally and all provide the best experience. Oculus, HTC and others should operate in a simple, plug-and-play style. Finally, the content story is easy to grasp with a focus on solid games and software to utilize VR but AMD also wants to ensure that the rendering is scalable across different hardware and multiple GPUs.
To address these tenets AMD has built four technologies into LiquidVR: late data latching, asynchronous shaders, affinity multi-GPU, and direct-to-display.
The idea behind late data latching is to get the absolute most recent raw data from the VR engine to the users eyes. This means that rather than asking for the head position of a gamer at the beginning of a render job, LiquidVR will allow the game to ask for it at the end of the rendering pipeline, which might seem counter-intuitive. Late latch means the users head movement is tracked until the end of the frame render rather until just the beginning, saving potentially 5-10ms of delay.
Continue reading our first impressions of the new AMD LiquidVR SDK for virtual reality!!
GDC 15: Khronos Acknowledges Mantle's Start of Vulkan
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards, Shows and Expos | March 3, 2015 - 03:37 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: vulkan, Mantle, Khronos, glnext, gdc 15, GDC, amd
Neil Trevett, the current president of Khronos Group and a vice president at NVIDIA, made an on-the-record statement to acknowledge the start of the Vulkan API. The quote came to me via Ryan, but I think it is a copy-paste of an email, so it should be verbatim.
Many companies have made great contributions to Vulkan, including AMD who contributed Mantle. Being able to start with the Mantle design definitely helped us get rolling quickly – but there has been a lot of design iteration, not the least making sure that Vulkan can run across many different GPU architectures. Vulkan is definitely a working group design now.
So in short, the Vulkan API was definitely started with Mantle and grew from there as more stakeholders added their opinion. Vulkan is obviously different than Mantle in significant ways now, such as its use of SPIR-V for its shading language (rather than HLSL). To see a bit more information, check out our article on the announcement.
Update: AMD has released a statement independently, but related to Mantle's role in Vulkan
GDC 15: AMD Mantle Might Be Dead as We Know It: No Public SDK Planned
Subject: Graphics Cards | March 2, 2015 - 02:31 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: sdk, Mantle, dx12, API, amd
The Game Developers Conference is San Francisco starts today and you can expect to see more information about DirectX 12 than you could ever possibly want, so be prepared. But what about the original low-level API, AMD Mantle. Utilized in Battlefield 4, Thief and integrated into the Crytek engine (announced last year), announced with the release of the Radeon R9 290X/290, Mantle was truly the instigator that pushed Microsoft into moving DX12's development along at a faster pace.
Since DX12's announcement, AMD has claimed that Mantle would live on, bringing performance advantages to AMD GPUs and would act as the sounding board for new API features for AMD and game development partners. And, as was always trumpeted since the very beginning of Mantle, it would become an open API, available for all once it outgrew the beta phase that it (still) resides in.
Something might have changed there.
A post over on the AMD Gaming blog from Robert Hallock has some news about Mantle to share as GDC begins. First, the good news:
AMD is a company that fundamentally believes in technologies unfettered by restrictive contracts, licensing fees, vendor lock-ins or other arbitrary hurdles to solving the big challenges in graphics and computing. Mantle was destined to follow suit, and it does so today as we proudly announce that the 450-page programming guide and API reference for Mantle will be available this month (March, 2015) at www.amd.com/mantle.
This documentation will provide developers with a detailed look at the capabilities we've implemented and the design decisions we made, and we hope it will stimulate more discussion that leads to even better graphics API standards in the months and years ahead.
That's great! We will finally be able to read about the API and how it functions, getting access to the detailed information we have wanted from the beginning. But then there is this portion:
AMD's game development partners have similarly started to shift their focus, so it follows that 2015 will be a transitional year for Mantle. Our loyal customers are naturally curious what this transition might entail, and we wanted to share some thoughts with you on where we will be taking Mantle next:
AMD will continue to support our trusted partners that have committed to Mantle in future projects, like Battlefield™ Hardline, with all the resources at our disposal.
- Mantle's definition of "open" must widen. It already has, in fact. This vital effort has replaced our intention to release a public Mantle SDK, and you will learn the facts on Thursday, March 5 at GDC 2015.
- Mantle must take on new capabilities and evolve beyond mastery of the draw call. It will continue to serve AMD as a graphics innovation platform available to select partners with custom needs.
- The Mantle SDK also remains available to partners who register in this co-development and evaluation program. However, if you are a developer interested in Mantle "1.0" functionality, we suggest that you focus your attention on DirectX® 12 or GLnext.
Essentially, AMD's Mantle API in it's "1.0" form is at the end of its life, only supported for current partners and the publicly available SDK will never be posted. Honestly, at this point, this isn't so much of a let down as it is a necessity. DX12 and GLnext have already superseded Mantle in terms of market share and mind share with developers and any more work AMD put into getting devs on-board with Mantle is wasted effort.
Battlefield 4 is likely to be the only major title to use AMD Mantle
AMD claims to have future plans for Mantle though it will continue to be available only to select partners with "custom needs." I would imagine this would expand outside the world games but could also mean game consoles could be the target, where developers are only concerned with AMD GPU hardware.
So - from our perspective, Mantle as we know is pretty much gone. It served its purpose, making NVIDIA and Microsoft pay attention to the CPU bottlenecks in DX11, but it appears the dream was a bit bigger than the product could become. AMD shouldn't be chastised because of this shift nor for its lofty goals that we kind-of-always knew were too steep a hill to climb. Just revel in the news that pours from GDC this week about DX12.
AMD is avoiding the heat in Carrizo
Subject: Processors | February 24, 2015 - 06:18 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Puma+, Puma, Kaveri, ISSCC 2015, ISSCC, GCN, Excavator, Carrizo-L, carrizo, APU, amd
While it is utterly inconceivable that Josh might have missed something in his look at Carrizo, that hasn't stopped certain Canadians from talking about Gila County, Arizona. AMD's upcoming processor launch is a little more interesting than just another Phenom II launch, especially for those worried about power consumption. With Adaptive Voltage and Frequency Scaling the new Excavator based chips will run very well at the sub-15W per core pair range which is perfect for POS, airplane entertainment and even in casinos. The GPU portion speaks to those usage scenarios though you can't expect an R9 295 at that wattage. Check out Hardware Canucks' coverage right here.
"AMD has been working hard on their mobile Carrizo architecture and they're now releasing some details about these Excavator architecture-equipped next generation APUs."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- AMD's new Carrizo: The x86 notebook processor that thinks it's a GPU @ The Register
- AMD Carrizo APU Details Revealed @ TechARP
- AMD FX-8320E Performance On Linux @ Phoronix
- Intel Broadwell HD Graphics 5500: Windows 8.1 vs. Linux @ Phoronix
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I still dislike Xtina, but I have to give her her due. After the announcement that Tessanne won, Xtina immediately came on stage and told Tessanne that she deserved the win. Good for her!
I still dislike Xtina, but I have to give her her due. After the announcement that Tessanne won, Xtina immediately came on stage and told Tessanne that she deserved the win. Good for her!
The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it.
glad Tessane won...she was perfect every week. I hope they do something and make her a star...
so disappointed our area was terrupted with a darn football game...I just read who won the finale recorded but I feel like I have missed half of the show...
She has been my favorite from the moment I heard her speak! Very happy she won.
I hope Shakira comes back with confidence. Her constant reminders of being new didn't help her team. 2 seasons so close together is not good though. As it is I watch the blind auditions, skip a lot and refocus when the numbers are way down. I watch, but do a lot of FFing.
Congratulations to Tessanne on her win! She certainly deserved it. In fact all three were deserving. Jacquie seemed to be happy for her. I wish they had just a second to congratulate Jacquie on being runner up.
I thought the finale was very entertaining. LOVED Wagon Wheel. Best song pick of the night, IMO.
Have any of you been to Will's website? Just curious. Seems he has written quite a few songs. Not sure how many, if any, have made it into the hands of the right people. I really do hope this show helps him get to the "next level" in his career.
The Wagon Wheel performance was by far my favorite song of the night. When left on his own, Will showed how creative and talented he is without Adam's undermining ways! Great win for TC. Nobody can argue that she is a talented lady and definitely ahead of the other contestants in her professionalism and stage poise. I hope she can take this win and make it into a career. Glad Adam got the win over Christina but really couldn't stand Adam's favoritism this season. Obviously he wanted TC to win and he is enamored with her talent but it's almost like favoring one child over the other and not becoming at all.
Did everybody get that Will is the son of a member of the band Chicago? I didn't realize that until recently.
Here's a link of him singing a song he wrote, but didn't record. After the Love is Gone. Great song.
Bill Champlin - After the Love is Gone (Bing Lounge) - YouTube
Here's a link of an interview with Will's parents.....he's says he going to add Will to the band. This was done awhile ago.
Interview with Tamara & Bill Champlin - Part 1 - YouTube
I think Will may have gotten his mom's personality. He's not personable like his dad, IMO.
Last edited by Debb70; 12-18-2013 at 07:34 PM.
Yeah he mentioned in the auditions.
Tessanne uploaded a video thanking us on her FB page. I like hearing her voice.
I also looked her up on Google.
TC with longer hair. Good photo.


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Mariucci looking to instill confidence
Updated: June 20, 2003, 11:22 AM ETBy By Ryan Early
When Lions general manager Matt Millen took the job two years ago, his ideal choice as the new head coach was then-49ers top man Steve Mariucci to come in and install the prolific West Coast offense. Mariucci wasn't available then, so Millen settled for Mariucci's offensive coordinator, Marty Mornhinweg. Two years later, Mariucci left San Francisco and Mornhinweg had gone 5-27 without winning a single road game. Exit Morhninweg, enter Mariucci. The move to Detroit is a homecoming for Mariucci, who grew up in Michigan and played quarterback for Northern Michigan University. Throughout his coaching travels, he has retained links to the area, mostly through his high school classmate and college roommate, Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo. The connection to Michigan is deep for several assistant coaches as well. Receivers coach Bobby Williams was the head football coach at Michigan State where he coached top draft pick wide receiver Charles Rogers. Offensive coordinator Sherm Lewis played for the Spartans and spent fourteen years there at the start of his coaching career. As a head coach, Steve Mariucci has made a name for himself as one of the best in the business after having success with the 49ers, going through a salary cap caused roster purge and rebuilding project, and emerging on the other end with another playoff team. In six years with the 49ers, Mariucci went 57-39 with four postseason appearances. He inherits a Lions team that was stripped bare by Millen in 2000 and is slowly putting the building blocks of a contender back together. After two horrific seasons, just giving the players a sense of confidence that they can be competitive will be a good achievement.
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The new 60,500 SF Mount Nittany Elementary School, built on the site of the existing Panorama Village Elementary School, was designed to house 400 K-5 students and allow for future expansion to accommodate 500 students. The overall design of the learning spaces focuses on having a centrally-located learning resources center surrounded by large group instruction areas which in turn branch into the classroom learning areas. The classroom cluster structure presents opportunities for several levels of social and academic interaction for the students, providing individual and group learning as well as typical classroom settings.
The school, which is one story at the entrance, expands to two stories linked by a series of ramps centrally located within the facility. The multi-story design follows the slope of the existing topography and consequently minimized the amount of site work required.
The planning process for the project included a Community Project Touchstone Dinner, a day-long goal-setting workshop, and two days of design charrettes that brought together over 200 members of the school community, administration, faculty, staff and student body.
As a result of the community-based planning process, the design team became aware of issues of great importance to the community. As such, a portion of the building is available for public use every evening and weekend. A continuous trail connects the surrounding neighborhoods with the facility and the building is situated in a way that creates an open playground environment for community use. Further, the new bus loop serves as a walking /running track during non-bus hours. The placement on the site also helps to promote a true campus environment around the new facility and existing neighboring middle school.
Designed to function as a teaching tool, the building features a 'Building Dashboard' that helps students to be aware of how much energy is being used by the building; rain gardens and butterfly gardens visible through windows; and a building compass built into the floor surfacing.
Sustainable features include a ground source heat pump, gray water system, solar hot water heater system and reflective roof systems. Roof monitors allow for bilateral daylighting within classrooms and greatly reduce the need for artificial lighting. Rain gardens were created to aid with storm water control. Also, the project utilizes high value wall insulation systems, low flow fixtures, exterior light shades and shelves, as well as reused, renewable and recycled materials. The School District is pursuing LEED certification.
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I'm just starting to work with Uncle Cheese's Event Calendar module in my first SilverStripe site. I have a couple of questions about how to do what I want with the module.
1) Repeating events
I've created a couple of events, and in the CMS I see a checkbox "Repeat this event". When I try to check the box, I receive the notification "To repeat an event, you must specify a date first." The events I am working with have dates assigned already. I'm curious about how to properly set up an event to be a repeating event.
2) Categorizing events
I want to create my own class of events that facilitates categorizing events with a hierarchical category structure. For example, I want to have categories like this:
-- Algebra I
-- Algebra II
-- Trig
-- Chemistry
-- Physics
I want to assign a single category from either level to each event, and will then set up a filter so that if the user chooses to just see "Algebra I" courses they can do that, or they can choose "Science" and see all events in the "Chemistry" and "Physics" categories.
The last couple of sites I've built have been with Ruby / Rails and I can immediately envision how I'd implement this there (create a model for CourseCategory that has a self-join so another CourseCategory can serve as the parent of the current category, and then set up a CourseEvent model that has_one CourseCategory). Being new to SilverStripe, I'm interested in any advice about the "SilverStripe way" to do something like this. If I create a CourseCategory model that isn't a subclass of Page, is there any scaffolding that will make it easy enough to fill in values in the db for this class in the CMS? Or should I simply store the valid categories as private variables within my CourseEvent class and maintain them that way? Ideally there would be a way in the CMS to manage the categories, but I'm not sure with SilverStripe of the best way to go about this.
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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain reveals his pulling secrets in Arsenal web video
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has been handed his very own web show by Arsenal, where he offers fans advice on everything from what name to get on the back of their shirt, to chatting up women in nightclubs.
The England and Arsenal winger proves a bit of a natural in front of the cameras, and dresses up especially for the segment entitled: 'Ask Dr Chambo'.
Here the 19-year-old answers questions sent in by Gunners faithful, who were desperate for tips from Oxlade-Chamberlain on how to be a hit with the ladies.
The pacey winger shows his quick-wit by replying: 'A little problem I have is that I'm not the tallest (5ft 11ins).
'When the heels are on the girls it causes problems for Chamberlain with their height.
'So, for anyone who's short out there, wait until 4am when the heels come off and you can really make your mark and really make your presence felt so that you don't look like a hobbit.'
One youngster asked the former Southampton star if Theo Walcott is actually Lewis Hamilton , and Chamberlain couldn't resist the chance to have a dig at his team-mate's driving.
'I remember at one point last season he came into the dressing room with Lewis' helmet on his head, which was a bit of a surprise.
'So judging by that they could be the same person but then again, although Theo has some fast cars, he drives them like a grandma.
'He's not the same in a car like he runs, he drives slow so I don't think he's the same person as Lewis.'


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Favourite Team: Béziers Angels
Favourite Players: Ludmila Da Silva, Osmokrovic,Svetlana Dukule, Aleesha Deesing,Nootsara Tomkom, Fe Garay
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Favourite Team: M: USA, Serbia, Italy,Russia, Perugia, PGE Skra, Taubate W: Brazil, Japan, Serbia, wherever club Queen Sheilla is at...
Favourite Players: M: Maxim Mikhaylov, Murilo, Serginho, Aaron Russell, Otavio,Micah Christenson, Simone Giannelli, Ivan Zaytsev, Tsvetan Sokolov, Michał Kubiak, Mariusz Wlazly, Pawel Zagummy W: Sheilla, Zhu Ting, Natalia, Fe Garay, Fofao, Gabi, Thaisa, Foluke Akinradewo, Haruka Miyashita, Wei Qiuyue, Ding Xia, Carli Lloyd, Fabi, Natalia Goncharova, Yuko Sano, Saoris Kimura and Sakoda
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This is not a suggestion about the game rules but about statistics, particularly for "Best setters statistics. It looks quite unfair when they use a formula based on only running sets, still sets and number of setting errors. Number of running sets highly depend on how your team receives. I think there will be a very fair number and order if they simply add Excellent receives as percentage to the formula.
In an example, imagine that setter A got 10 points and settter B got 5 points today, however Team A has %60 excellent receives and Team B has only %10 excellent receives. With these percentages added, setter A will very likely have a lower point than setter B.
Favourite Team: USA Men NT, USA Women NT, Japan Women NT
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ASBURY PARK, N.J. (TheStreet) -- To hear Cliff Galbraith tell it, he might just be the only guy ever to conceal a business text behind a comic book -- an act that turns a time-worn cliche on its ear, even as it reinforces the fact that the New Jersey-based comics creator keeps up with the latest titles by Gladwell and Ben Horowitz "like they were Game of Thrones."
With two self-published Crucial Comics titles in circulation, and lordship over a pair of buzz-generating commercial Web sites, Galbraith could already be said to have enough on his drawing board. But it's his newly minted status as co-founder of a growing empire of ComiCon events that's got the veteran cartoonist hitting the books over such topics as subcontracted security, guest accommodations and the sweet science of customer service.
Cliff and his partner in the Con game -- fellow Red Bank, NJ resident and "popculturist" authority Rob Bruce -- recently wrapped a successful fourth edition of their Asbury Park ComiCon, a "relatively small" two-day extravaganza that drew some sought-after star talent and thousands of fans to this salty Jersey Shore resort. Just weeks from now, they'll be doing it all again, during a first-ever New York Comic Fest that commandeers the Westchester County Center in White Plains, N.Y. for a single Saturday on June 14.
Sponsored by the pair's online outlets 13th Dimension and Monsters and Robots, the spring 2014 events represent a quantum leap forward from the "microscopic" bowling-alley origins of the first Asbury Park gatherings. At the same time, they remain manageably scaled affairs designed to "promote the people who create comics," in an age when the major conventions have been effectively hijacked by the entertainment conglomerates behind the top titles, publishers and properties.
"The corporate shows are like multiplex blockbusters, and we're like the endearing indie film," says Galbraith. "If you're booking William Shatner, the cast of The Walking Dead or Twilight, that's fine . . . but when the creators don't have top billing, at what's supposed to be a comics convention, then it's something else entirely."<P
To be sure, there exists a certain degree of star quality attached to the event promoters. Bruce, the consummate collector and liaison to the shows' base of vendors and dealers, has become a nationwide cult celebrity courtesy of his connection to multi-media mogul Kevin Smith, and recurring appearances on the Smith-produced AMC Networks (AMCX) AMC TV series Comic Book Men. This fall, he spins off into his own, as yet untitled, cable series project. That fame could make him, quite possibly, the only TV star who can still be found on Sunday mornings, in any kind of weather, manning a table at New Jersey's near-legendary Collingwood Flea Market.
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Galbraith, for his part, is well known as the creator of the book Rat Bastard and its genetically altered private-eye protagonist Rosco Rodent -- a property that was optioned as a prime-time animated series for the former UPN network in 2001, and which made it as far as a completed mini-pilot episode before executive-suite turnovers pulled the plug. Lesser known -- but perhaps even more significant from a business standpoint -- is the fact that back in the 1980s, young Cliff created the Saurus Gang, a collection of instantly familiar dino characters (Partyasaurus, Rockasaurus, Shopasaurus, et al.) that appeared on countless t-shirts and gift items; produced by a Galbraith-owned screen printing concern that at one time employed as many as 40 people.


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When you grow from a small group to a larger tribe of professionals working towards a common goal, you have to start agreeing on procedures and protocols to hand over tasks between individuals and groups.
Whether you work in parallel, or in serial with other groups; whether information is exchanged frequently (agile), or handed over to another group (waterfall), you need to have clear communication standards established.
There exists a pertinent need for documented standards, which everyone involved understands and agrees to. And…it's the agreement to standards where conflict often arises. Imagine working on standards, without the consent from all the stakeholders. Or worse, implementing standards without getting input from all parties involved or affected by the change.
One thing is clear, it is better to have some sort of standard than none. It is equally problematic to have more than one standard, with every group having one for themselves. In those situations, its a challenge for groups to adhere to a common standard, since they are already attached to the one that they created.
Yet, a common standard would eventually make it easier for all groups to work in sync, and reduce the transaction cost of information exchange. People will spend less time translating the data and/or reworking it. Consistency in information format, when coming from any group, will help make the final output look cohesive to an external agency consuming the output.
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These property transactions were filed with the Saratoga County Clerk's Office from June 5 to June 12. Property transactions list seller, buyer and transfer tax. Specific addresses are supplied when available. The following are listed by town in the form of seller, buyer and purchase price.
o Donna Brooks sold property at 22 Buell Ave. to John and Lauren Grygiel for $146,300.
o Heritage Builders Group Inc. sold property at 11 Forestbrook Drive to James and Lois Myers for $305,339.
Clifton Park
o Mary Ann Keegan, Rita Aiken, John Aiken and Rita Aiken Family Trust sold property at 24 Hemlock Drive to Joseph Osso Jr. and Tara Stanko Osso for $225,000.
o Brian and Marlene Filsinger sold property at 6 Talbot Court to Brian and Danielle Wright for $365,000.
o Cartus Financial Corp. sold property at 61 Spruce St. to Walter and Micah Gray for $358,440.
o Jeffrey and Bonnie Campion sold property at 61 Spruce St. to Cartus Financial Corp. for $358,440.
o Marie Girard sold property at 84 Stoney Creek Drive to Beatrice Christopher for $153,900.
o Daniel and Diane Seiter sold property at 23 Crestwood Drive to Robert and Nancy Bense for $285,000.
o Thomas and Linnea Dandrea sold property at 8 Barcelona Drive to Alex and Kristina Smith for $283,500.
o Joan Parmateer sold property at 2 Connecticut Court to Edward and Tammy Brys for $359,900.
o Masullo Brothers Builders Inc. sold property at 48 Tipperary Way to Amit and Janet Bhusri for $479,275.
o Tina Massa sold property at 5 Via Da Vinci to Karin Lopez for $295,000.
o Erin Driscoll sold property at 4011 Foxwood Drive South to Amanda Montanino for $148,500.
o Leo Palmer III sold property at 3 Baltusrol Drive to Jacquelyn and John Danek III for $235,000.
o Kerry and Kelly Blanchard sold property at 4 Maurice Lane to Matthew Zimmer and Marina Grosman for $299,900.
o Amedore Group Inc. sold property at 8 Skybrook Circle to Shiao Jong Hu and Hsui Lin Peng for $464,513.
o Betsy Schalk sold property at 3 Strawberry Court to Erin Driscoll for $232,000.
o Dorothy Knowlton and Maryann Slocum O'Brien sold property at 5C Deer Creek to Todd Jerome for $132,500.
o John Lobos sold property at 619 Englemore Road to Ronald Van Patten for $40,000.
o David Gurney sold property at 51 Hollister Road to Ellen Mitchell for $32,000.
o Robert Hummel sold property at 605 Palmer Ave. to Joshua and Kayla Butler for $155,000.
o Vicki Davis sold property at 27 Degolia Road to Gerald Bowers and Amy Serzel for $61,500.
o Robert and Elisabeth Moll sold property at 16 Hilltop Drive to Gaylord and Irene Abbott for $175,000.
o Diane Kriser sold property at 1697 Hermance Road to Matthew Gurdineer for $170,000.
o Marini Homes LLC sold property at 8 Shelbourne Drive to Hildon and Josephine Cabrera for $494,290.
o Windsor Pointe LLC sold property at 32 Chester Drive to Marini Homes LLC for $85,000.
o Nancy Morris sold property at 18 Flintlock Lane to Lynne Theune for $142,500.
o Fannie Mae, Federal National Mortgage Association and Rosicki, Rosicki and Associates PC sold property at 95 Church Hill Road to Teeka Lachman for $81,500.
o Michaels Group LLC sold property at 13 Bedford Circle to Wendy Soroka for $363,263.
o Adirondack Rolling Hills LLC sold property at Lot 61, Ridgewood Drive, to Jeremy and Michelle Erndt for $319,900.
o A and M Holdings LLC sold property at 13 Bedford Circle to Michaels Group LLC for $74,649.
o Marini Homes LLC sold property at 10 Chester Drive to Kyle and Lindsay Guay for $375,057.
o John Gambino sold property at 51 Covington Drive to Jacob and Dorothy Theisen for $299,900.
o Pamela Jerome and Francis Kowalczyk sold property at 842 Hudson River Road to Komal and William Miehls IV for $115,000.
o William Mattfield sold property at 90 Arrowwood Place to Thomas Killian III for $167,000.
o Anthony Zielinski sold property at 107 9th St. to Mark and Andrea Strait for $65,000.
o Elizabeth and Marilyn McEvoy sold property at 8 Surrey Drive to Carrie Demane for $368,000.
o John and Patricia Spoor sold property at 5 Plum Poppy South to Ryan and Jennifer Hogan for $315,000.
o Tina and James Marzano Jr. sold property at 691 East Line Road to John Rose for $315,000.
o Elton Lee and Stacy Lee sold property at 21 Thistle Drive to Debra Schmidt for $300,000.
o Jennifer Plisko sold property at 8 Wake Robin Road to William Stanton for $141,000.
o Bella Home Builders Inc. sold property at 6 Sophia Marie Lane to Brianna and Carmine Decrescente for $550,000.
o Lois Myers sold property at 8 Arrowwood Place to Danny Varone for $158,000.
o Olivia Barone sold property at 113 South St. to Sheila Parkert for $172,500.
o Jeffrey Laross sold property at 7 Meadow Lane to Derek LaDuke for $164,000.
o Ballston Associates LLC sold property at 39 North St. to Elliot Building and Remodeling LLC for $45,000.
o Ifiginea Brown sold property at 2 South St. to Rakeshkumar and Tejal Patel for $475,000.
o Glendall Larkin III and Karin Larkin sold property at 703 McCrey Drive to Matthew Milligi for $300,000.
o Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Co. sold property at 7 Clark St. to Kylle Baker for $165,000.
o Karen Austin sold property at 29 Bluebird Road to Christopher Stark for $139,000.
o Deborah Cornell sold property at 2 Maple Ave. to Sarah Eggleston and Jeffrey Prendergadt for $138,000.
o David, Christopher and G. Neil Roberts sold property at West River Road to MPJ Builders LLC for $43,000.
o George and Deborah Powell sold property at 204 Jewell Road to Michael Bannon for $203,000.
o Eva Santelli sold property at Lot 2, Barkersville Road, to Teresa Cerasia and Todd St. Louis for $313,000.
o Kathleen Hyneman sold property at 7326 Fish House Road to Robert and Jeannie Forland for $67,144.
Saratoga Springs
o Redemptorists Fathers of New York sold property at 5-7 Benton Drive to Paul Sattler and Jennifer Gordon for $330,000.
o Laguna Homes Inc. sold property at 4 Mokasha Square to Niladri Ghoshal for $292,000.
o Margaret Hylant sold property at 116 East Ave. to Kathryn and Robert Massie for $293,000.
o Ellen Gruben sold property at 22 Magnolia Drive to William and Ashley Millar for $525,000.
o Sharon Duval sold property at 260 Caroline St. to Diane Leske for $420,000.
o Charlew Builders Inc. sold property at 5 Ericson Way to James DePasquale for $517,175.
o William Dagostino sold property at 2 America Way to Brooke and Kevin Roberts for $535,000.
o Carlos and Cynthia Suarez sold property at 61 Newton Ave. to Gadus and Sons Enterprises LLC for $90,000.
o Michael and Christine Levy sold property at 111 George St. to Phyllis Torpey for $410,000.
o James and Kimberly Sheppard sold property at 93 Ash St. to Cartus Financial Corp. for $472,000.
o James and Vicki Slade sold property at 63 Sarazen St. to William and Mary Hogan for $329,000.
o Diane Dimiceli sold property at 19 Wedgewood Drive to William and Amoreena O'Bryon for $315,000.
o Hotel Square Development LLC sold property at 120 Division St. to EB Alliance LLC for $2 million.
o Cartus Financial Corp. sold property at 93 Ash St. to Ruth Horton for $472,000.
o Monica Berry, Gregory Dilisio and Leonard Dilisio Irrevocable Trust sold property at 361 Caroline St. to Christopher Johns for $314,000.
o Eric and Kara Rosettie sold property at 7 Whitney Road to John White for $260,000.
o Peter Morgan Sr. sold property at 325 Route 423 to Mark and Lauren Trudeau for $190,000.
o Anna Durocher sold property at 742 New York State Route 9P to Nancy Baker for $275,000.
o Dean Taylor sold property at 230 Ballard Road to Henry Klersy Jr. and Klersy Revocable Trust for $353,692.
o George and Linda Belch sold property at 47 Hopeful Lane to Steven and Meghan Bunio for $215,000.
o Michael and Tracey Constanza sold property at 239 Northern Pines Road to Raquel Romero, Marcano Romero and Rodolpho Romero Marcano for $292,500.
o Kristen and Walter Hogan III sold property at 3 Sarazen Way for $395,000.
o Lucille Kilbara sold property at Old Gick Road to WJ Morris Family Enterprises LLC for $80,750.
o Lucille Veitch sold property at 424 Northern Pines Road to Justin Wilcox for $156,383.
-- Compiled by Christine Molluso