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The big screen just keeps getting smaller.
Netflix, iTunes and Hulu users prefer to stream movies on mobile devices over personal computers, according to a new report from ForeSee.
The analytics firm surveyed 5,500 consumers over two weeks in June and found that mobile media scored a 77 in terms of customer satisfaction on an 100-point scale. The study has a margin of error of plus or minus one point.
In contrast, an earlier study in April of this year found that customers who accessed online video services on a personal computer rated the experience a 67.
"We have reached a tipping point," Eric Feinberg, Senior Director of Mobile, Media and Entertainment, said. "When it comes to the internet traffic the balance of power has shifted from desktops to smart phones and tablets, because mobile offers the screen of convenience.
Despite the portability that comes with an iPhone or an iPad, most respondents report that they are accessing films and shows in their own homes instead of in transit. Sixty one percent of those surveyed said they view content in their living room, 43 percent watch shows and films in their bedrooms and 32 percent hit play while they are out and about.
Customers are primarily accessing these services through apps. When it comes to providing the most seamless access to movies and television shows, Apple's iTunes scores the highest of any measured company in the study. ITunes users gave the retailer a score 80.
Right behind were two companies that bet heavily on providing original content. Netflix, which has invested heavily in exclusive programming like "House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black" scored a customer satisfaction rating of 79.
HBO Go, the digital delivery subscription service that Netflix views as a chief rival, was also a hit with consumers, scoring a 79 rating.
Feinberg said that Amazon's relatively late entry into the streaming game may have hurt it with consumers. ForeSee historically has found Amazon to be a leader in virtually all of its customer satisfaction studies related to e-commerce and other services, but its Amazon Instant video service was in the middle of the pack with a 78 rating.
"I didn't expect to find Amazon not winning the customer experience game because they're usually at the top of the leader board," Feinberg said. "This is a very competitive category and it shows that they are really just starting to get serious. There's so much change in this space though that over the next year we could see big changes in the rankings."


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Through over 30 hours of trial and error and testing, I've managed to get what I believe to be a feature-rich, overhaul heavy, super modified Skyrim experience that is both challenging and incredibly alive. Below you'll find the mod list for the series as of Stream #1. The first stream, you'll find embedded above.
For more information on this series, please see the previous post which discusses it further.
The mod list is NOT listed in alphabetical order. Instead, it has two columns which are referencing the two columns found when managing mods with Mod Organizer, a program everyone should be using to manage their mods, IMO. The left column is the install and load order found on the left side of Mod Organizer, and the right column is the load order for the esps which is found on the right side of Mod Organizer. Those wishing to use this mod list in their own games can follow this as a load-order guide to get them started, and if you believe you're smarter (which is completely possible), you may organize them differently from there, or add additional things. Keep in mind that there are LOTS of steps to installing mods and patching them properly. It's your responsibility to do so. I do not have the time resources to provide support for this mod list to YouTube viewers, so use at your own discretion, risk, and troubleshooting guidance.
I also recommend you watch the entire stream above for a reference for how these mods could be utilized, since there are a few in-game steps for these things to get them configured as well. Lastly I'll just say the standard "I am not responsible for any problems with your game or your system as a result of attempting anything with this mod list."
Okay so enough with the notices and disclaimers… here you go! (this will be updated if there is ever anything to update. The version number is 1.0 as of the start of this series, and the broadcasting of the embedded stream above).Skyrim Democracy Mods
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Everyone probably knows the theme song to the erstwhile teen drama Dawson's Creek, and maybe a lot of people know it was Paula Cole who wrote and performed the song, but did you know that the cast of Dawson's Creek rode to the set every day on the backs of blindingly bright white, stately unicorns? Probably not.
While up to one third of the above statement is untrue, what is true is that Paula Cole is the most unbelievably gifted singer I've ever heard. I've shot a good number of shows for Eddie's Attic, and like most people I've seen my share of music. But I was totally unprepared to hear what I heard when Paula Cole took the stage at Eddie's. At a couple of points early in the show, I actually found myself sitting there transfixed and completely forgetting to take pictures.
I don't want to sound curmudgeonly or out-of-touch, but I sort of don't get at all why someone who can express the most beautiful, honest, raw emotion with her voice the way Paula Cole can is not insanely famous and someone like–I'll say it–Lady Gaga is. Apparently it's all in the head gear. Or the meat dress.
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By Bob Eisenberg
Exact science is useful. The physics of X-rays is exact. Biochemists can trust X-ray crystallography, because the equations of X-rays are exact. But we rarely trust the equations that describe our own experiments, and that is for good reason. The equations fail so often.
Biochemists know that the law of mass action we use every day is not exact. The rate constants of that law change as conditions change. When we try to use that law, we must change parameters, but we do not know how. The law of mass action is not exact and not very useful, because we often cannot transfer it – parameters unchanged – from one set of conditions to another. This fact is known to every enzymologist, but sad to say, other scientists often are not aware of this reality.
Biochemists have tried to make their theories exact by increasing resolution. Our models of enzymes include thousands of atoms in cathedrals of structure. The hope has been that computing all the atoms of those cathedrals would produce exact simulations, if not exact equations. But as the calculations of molecular dynamics reach from atomic to biological scales, we face disappointment once again: Enormous resolution does not guarantee useful biological results.
We know very well that most enzyme reactions are controlled biologically by trace concentrations of ions like Ca2+. No atom simulations are large enough, however, to deal with the 55 M water that dissolves each calcium ion. The atomic resolution of simulations will have limited use if we cannot deal with the trace concentrations that control enzymes in health and disease.
I argue here that exact equations have not been possible because mathematics has not been available to deal with the interactions that occur in ionic mixtures like seawater. Biology occurs in modified seawater, and changes in ion concentration change the reactions of most enzymes. All the ions in seawater are linked by the electric field. Many are linked by steric interactions as well. Some are linked by orbital delocalization of electrons shared with water or other molecules (i.e., chemical bonds). Exact theories in biochemistry must use the mathematics of interactions.
Most biological ionic solutions, like seawater, are far too concentrated to behave like ideal fluids or electrolytes even without chemical bonding. They are, in fact, complex (not simple) fluids.
The free energy per mole (the experimental quantity called the activity of an ion, extensively measured in the literature) is the simplest property of an electrolyte. Activity plays a role something like height in a gravitational field and voltage in an electric circuit. In seawater, the activity of the bio-ions Na+, K+, Cl− and Ca2+ does not vary linearly with concentration (as in an ideal fluid) or even with the square root of concentration (as in extremely dilute solutions of NaCl).
Interactions and nonideality are not small effects, because ions are highly concentrated where they are most important: in and near active sites, ion channels, binding proteins and nucleic acids; near the working electrodes of electrochemical cells; at charged boundaries in general. There, concentrations are often more than 5 molar, and solution properties are dominated by interactions. The activity of one ion depends on the individual concentration of every other ion. Everything interacts with everything else. Some of the interactions usually called allosteric may in fact arise in the highly concentrated solutions in and near active sites of proteins.
The mathematics of interactions has been understood for a very long time when the systems involved are conservative and do not involve friction. Hamiltonians and variational calculus are the language of high-energy physicists when they build their bright X-ray sources.
Hamiltonians have not been used in most biological systems, because biology occurs in condensed phases where friction is always present. Until recently, no one knew how to use Hamiltonians in systems with friction. Friction accompanies all ionic movement and conformation changes in biology, because atomic collisions occur on a 10-16-second time scale in solutions. That is why solutions are called condensed phases, and only three or four collisions are enough to convert deterministic motion into the random motion we call heat.
Recently, mathematicians have developed a theory of complex fluids that generalizes Hamiltonians into an energetic variational calculus dealing with friction. The theory has had striking successes.
Variational methods deal successfully with liquid crystals, polymeric fluids, colloids, suspensions and deformable electrolyte droplets that fission and fuse including the interfacial properties such as surface tension and the Marangoni effects of oil on water and tears of wine. It is a little early to say the theory of complex fluids provides exact equations in general, but the theory certainly provides a productive pathway toward that goal.
The perspective the variational calculus offers is striking even if its results are immature. Complex fluids must be analyzed by variational methods, because everything interacts with everything else. If those interactions are not addressed with mathematics, the interactions are bewildering, and the results cannot be analyzed. A mathematics designed to handle interactions is needed to produce exact equations. Otherwise, interactions vary in so many ways that fixed parameters cannot deal with them.
Biochemical systems always involve ionic solutions in which the electric field links everything with everything else. Exact equations must be consistent equations in which all the variables satisfy all the equations and boundary conditions in all conditions.
In particular, the electrical forces and potentials must be computed from the concentrations of all charges present – in solution, in macromolecules and in layers near boundaries – because those electric forces can change qualitatively and quantitatively when charge changes anywhere.
The equations of electricity are global. The flow of charge at one location changes the flow everywhere. Flow must be dealt with consistently in biochemistry, because life does not occur without flow. Life at equilibrium is usually death.
The global dependence of the electric field is glimpsed in the cartoons of Kirchoff's current law used in computational electronics. But Kirchoff's law is so intertwined with Maxwell's exact equations of electricity that they are inseparable.
The key idea in Maxwell's theory is charge. Charge is abstract. Charge changes its physical nature as it flows through a circuit (see figure). It is electrons in a vacuum tube; it is ions in salt water; it is quasi-particles in a semiconductor; and it is nothing much (i.e., displacement current) in a pure vacuum. Yet the flow of current is the same in every element in a series circuit, although the physical nature of that current is strikingly diverse.
The global nature of electric flow prevents the law of mass action from being exact. The law of mass action – with rate constants that are constant – does not know about charge. Its rate constants do not depend on charge in a way that guarantees Kirchoff's current law (as shown in the
supplementary material).
The law of mass action is about mass conservation. It is not about charge conservation. The laws of electricity guarantee the current will be the same for all reactions in a series. The law of mass action does not.
How can we fix this problem and remake our laws so that they deal well with interacting systems and electric charge? I do not know a general answer, but I know where to look for help.
Physicists for years have used consistent analysis of flow and diffusion of charges to design transistors for devices. Those devices have increased in capability by billions in 60 years, and that striking success may have something to do with the exact laws that those devices follow.
I believe biochemistry can add to its own substantial successes of the past 60 years by trying to make its laws exact. If the spatial dependence of the electric field is built into a new version of the law of mass action, we surely will do better than we have done in understanding how enzymes, channels and nucleic acids do their work.
Giving up inconsistent treatments will be like giving up part of our intellectual heritage.
We can no longer look the other way when rate constants vary. We must use activities, not concentrations, to describe reactants in crowded active sites when studying allosteric interactions. We no longer can compute fluctuating concentrations of charge and assume electric fields do not fluctuate. We must learn to deal with fluctuating electric fields in our treatments of Brownian motion of ions so that results will not seem so anomalous.
We must incorporate boundary conditions and finite-size ions into the law of mass action. Algebra and ordinary differential equations must give way to field theories, partial differential equations and variational calculus.
We must even incorporate spatial inhomogeneities and electric fields into our treatments of covalent chemical reactions in ionic solution, because those spatial inhomogeneities are likely to produce very large local concentrations lasting long enough that reactions occur quite differently from reactions in a spatially uniform system.
We cannot just calculate models with higher and higher resolution. We must compute consistently with the electric field, on all scales, with theories appropriate for each scale.
Mathematics is finally available to deal with diffusion and electric fields in a consistent way, and the theory of complex fluids and simulations of computational electronics have shown that mathematics can describe complex fluids and devices (nearly) exactly. Now let's try that mathematics on the classical problems of biochemistry to see if we can construct a consistent theory of reactions that is exact and useful.
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The Prayer Spaces in Schools resource pack is now available, thanks to a load of work by Phil Togwell over the summer.
The pack brings together a bit of the story so far, case studies and examples of a whole variety of ways of doing prayer rooms in schools, advice on how to get things started, good practice guidelines and lots of prayer station ideas that have been tried and tested in secondary and primary schools. The aim is to inspire and equip churches and organisations who would like to offer to run a prayer space for their local school.
This whole prayer spaces in school seems to have taken off in an amazing way. We keep hearing of people who have simply got on and done it. It feels like a national movement, co-ordinated by no-one but the Holy Spirit, inspiring a simple idea in many places, catching a moment of extraordinary openness in our nation. Even so, it still feels like a beginning. The potential for more prayer spaces in schools seems to be amazing and we've already had a torrent of interest from people all over the UK (and some from as far afield as Australia!) who all seem to have had a vision for this kind of thing and are glad of a few ideas and stories to help them on their way.
And that's what this is all about… hundreds of people taking an experience of prayer to thousands of students up and down the country and developing this idea beyond any of our wildest dreams. We're all on a learning curve, including those of us who have been doing this for a while. Where might we be this time next year? How many prayer spaces will have been run in schools? How many students will have explored prayer in a meaningful way for the first time?
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28 May 2018
Memorial Day
https://www.battlefields.org/On this day, we take time to remember the men and women whose willingness to lay down their lives for our nation has not only shaped our history, but helped define who we are as Americans.
As you may know, Memorial Day traces its origins to the Civil War. After the war ended, Americans from both North and South began to commemorate the more than 650,000 fallen soldiers in communities around the country. First called "Decoration Days," these commemorative events involved placing flowers on the graves of Civil War dead, usually in the spring months of April or May. Though communities practiced their own unique forms of the holiday, and many towns claim to have held the first Decoration Day celebrations, we can be certain that the early efforts by common citizens to honor their gallant dead after the Civil War laid the foundation for one of America's most sacred memorial traditions.
You, friend, already honor the spirit of this special holiday each and every day by supporting battlefield preservation and education. One of the best ways to remember the fallen is to ensure that future generations can visit the hallowed ground where young soldiers fought and died to secure the freedoms we enjoy today.
This Memorial Day, we ask you to take a moment to reflect with humility on the sacrifices that Americans have made throughout our history. If you decide to honor our nation's heroes by visiting a battlefield, cemetery, or other historic site, we encourage you to do so. By preserving the sacred places where America's first citizens soldiers gave the last full measure of devotion, we offer our gratitude while ensuring that their sacrifices and legacies are never forgotten.
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Today's Flash Back Friday comes from Episode 131, originally published in March 2013.
Astrologer Jeff Harman is a second-generation astrologer with over 36 years of experience consulting with people from around the world on personal and business needs. Jason Hartman and Jeff Harman engage in a discussion of the world's possible economic future, and Jeff forecasts several future events based on global cycles, including a global electronic, cashless society by 2020. He says the next major alignment that is coming into play is 2020 and there is a big disruptive cycle coming up between now and 2015 that could bring a lot of turmoil in the financial markets that will lead to this cashless society. Jeff also explains how astrology has been used throughout history for advice on wars and other events, and the validity of ancient astrology versus the sun sign astrology that came about in the '60s. As Jeff explains, just like with physics, if an event or phenomenon is repeatable, it becomes something that can be relied upon or something that works, and it does have a very high degree of accuracy.
Jeff spent many years in Beverly Hills and has clients in all areas of the entertainment industry. He is a member of the Council on Vedic Astrology, the American Federation of Astrologers, and the National Center for Geocosmic Research. He utilizes Classical, Vedic, Kabbalistic, and Astro-location Astrology. Jeff has appeared on many radio shows including Veritas Radio with Mel Fabregas, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, as well as many other shows.
Besides being a life-long astrologer, Jeff Harman owns Conjunction Entertainment, a new motion picture company. Jeff has a diverse career in the entertainment industry and a technical background in the areas of audio forensics, audio engineering, electronic design consulting and acoustical consulting. Jeff has taught physics of sound and acoustics, electronics, and advanced acoustical design, testing and audio engineering. He has held classes at such places as the renowned Riverbank Acoustics Laboratory in Geneva, Illinois, which was involved in secret work for the military during WWI and WWII and Carthage College in Kenosha, WI. Jeff has worked in production, filming and recording with such diverse people as George Carlin, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Greg Morris from Mission Impossible and one of Hollywood's directors of classic westerns, Budd Boetticher, as well as many others. Jeff was once consulted as an analyst of the JFK assassination footage. He has also conducted forensics work in voice print analysis and other audio technical capabilities with many federal, state and local agencies.
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Character front door opens to the entrance hall with stairs to the first floor, the living dining room has been open up and is now a spacious through room, the extended kitchen is fitted in a light Oak fronted storage unit.
There are two double bedrooms, the front bedroom has fitted wardrobes. The bathroom is fitted with a white suite and there is a power shower over the bath.
The property has an enclosed front garden and a driveway for a vehicle, access to the rear garden from the front is via a timber gate. The rear garden is a good size, fully enclosed and not overlooked, mainly laid to lawn, at the rear there is a garage with a rear vehicle access.


text: i just ordered a nail stamping kit! i'm so excited. but in the meantime my nails are chipped like nobody's business. so i decided to do an inbetween. at first i just had it pink with glitter at the bottom. but the glitter barely shows up in real life so it was too boring. yesterday i added the stripes just to give it more fun. i've gotten so many compliments on this! it's so funny how some of the harder, more time consuming designs nobody notices. then i slap some polish on (this probably took me 10 minutes) and everyone loves it. i mean, it is cute.


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Next Generation Synthetic Influenza Vaccine to be Developed
HUNTINGTON, W.Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vandalia Research has been awarded a $1.04M contract with the US Department of Defense, titled, Flu Vaccine Technology Program. This program will focus on the scale-up and pre-clinical development of a pandemic flu vaccine manufactured by Vandalia's proprietary large scale PCR process using the Triathlon bioreactor. The contract is scheduled to run for 18 months and will be performed in collaboration with Dr. Richard Heller of the Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and Dr. Colleen Jonsson, Director, Center for Predictive Medicine at the University of Louisville.
The funds I obtained will help protect against pandemic outbreaks, keeping our families and our communities safer, and will create useful platforms for American industry to launch additional life-saving and sustaining products .
Vandalia Research is answering the national call to action for innovation in our manufacturing sector. As modern-day pioneers, blazing new trails with cutting-edge methodologies to keep us competitive and secure in the world, they strengthen our communities with job creation, said U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV). The funds I obtained will help protect against pandemic outbreaks, keeping our families and our communities safer, and will create useful platforms for American industry to launch additional life-saving and sustaining products .
Rahall secured the funding for Department of Defense (DoD) technology development by Vandalia Research in the FY 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act. Through this funding, the program would be able to create three to five highly skilled jobs immediately with the potential for additional jobs as the research progresses.
This contract lends validation to our efforts to develop a scalable new method to rapidly develop and manufacture vaccines, stated Derek Gregg, CEO of Vandalia Research. We would like to thank Congressman Rahall and his staff for aiding in our receipt of this contract, continues Mr. Gregg.
Vandalia Research is exhibiting this week at the BIO2011 Convention in Washington, DC as part of the West Virginia pavilion (Booth 2443).
About Vandalia Research, Inc.
Vandalia Research is the first company to successfully scale-up the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) from an analytical tool to a viable large-scale manufacturing process, enabling DNA sequences to be made more efficiently and cost-effectively. Vandalia is helping companies develop vaccines, diagnostics, bio-agriculture, and gene therapies for existing and emerging markets, and is well-positioned as a key supplier for the research, clinical, and commercialization stages of these products.
About the Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The mission of the Center for Predictive Medicine is to improve human health by conducting basic research that translates to the development of diagnostic biomarkers, vaccines and therapeutics for pathogens requiring BSL-3 containment. In support of these activities, the Center manages the recently opened Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, constructed and equipped through funding from National Institutes for Health and the University of Louisville. The facility provides state-of-the-art biosafety level 3 and advanced imaging technologies for the conduct of research for internal and external University and biotechnology partners.
About the Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics at Old Dominion University.
The Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics (CBE) at Old Dominion University is a global leader in advancing the field of bioelectrics. The mission of the Center for Bioelectrics is to increase scientific knowledge and understanding of the interaction of electromagnetic fields and ionized gases with biological cells and to apply this knowledge to the development of medical diagnostics, therapeutics, and environmental decontamination. Old Dominion University is a state-assisted, Carnegie doctoral/research institution enrolling more than 24,000 students, including 6,000 graduate students, both in Norfolk and at numerous distance sites throughout Virginia and beyond. The University's main campus is in Norfolk, one of the cities making up the Hampton Roads region of Southeastern Virginia, a major seaport and resort area with a population in excess of 1.5 million.
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While qualifying campaigns for the FIFA World Cup are always full of surprises all over the globe, the competition in Asia has proven a particular hotbed of thrilling drama and hardship. Iran's 3-1 loss to Bahrain, which cost them an automatic place at 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan, remains a bitter memory for the team and their faithful fans, while three-time Asian champions Japan will always remember narrowly missing out on a first-ever berth at the global showpiece thanks to an all-or-nothing meeting with Iraq ahead of USA 1994.
*Toughest groups * The Group A campaign in the second qualifying round for France 1998 will be remembered for producing many magic moments. Three Asian champions - Saudi Arabia, Iran and Kuwait - battled it out in a group also featuring the formidable likes of China and Qatar.
After the three-month marathon competition the Saudis finally topped the group to book only their second appearance at a FIFA World Cup finals, while second-place Iran were left to contest a play-off against Japan, which they went on to lose. However, it was the Iranians that shocked the watching world as they eventually went through to France 1998 after a two-legged play-off victory over Australia.
*Classic matches * Archrivals Iran and Saudi Arabia were drawn together again four years later alongside Iraq, Bahrain and Thailand. The Iranians looked likely to do better this time around as they entered the last game two points ahead of the second-place Saudis. But it was the Sons of Desert who kept their cool to round out their campaign with a 4-1 thrashing of Thailand while Iran inexplicably lost to Bahrain 3-1, a result that sent the Saudis through and condemned them to a play-off against the Republic of Ireland, which they went on to lose.
*Biggest upsets * Underdogs have had their day on more than a few occasions in Asia. China have found themselves on the wrong end of a good number of surprise results. Their first heart-breaking moment came on 19 May 1985, when they were knocked out of the preliminary stage by Hong Kong after a 2-1 loss. Eight years later, their qualifying hopes for USA 1994 were brought to a sudden halt after an expected 1-0 loss to Yemen, a result which enabled group rivals Iraq to eventually top the group by a solitary point. The old story was told again in the same qualifying stage for Germany 2006, when the East Asians were narrowly upstaged by Kuwait, who won the group by the margin of one goal.
*Familiar foes * Korea Republic and Japan are Asia's most frequent jousting partners, crossing swords in qualifying for an unbelievable 13 times. In their latest meetings in the qualifying second round for France 1998, the Taeguk Warriors came from one goal down to stage a classic 2-1 comeback win in the first-leg away game, a result that enabled Korea Republic to take the upper hand in the group. After a series of victories in the next games, the Koreans clinched the group's automatic place earlier with two matches remaining, leaving Japan's 2-0 victory in Seoul in the penultimate match nothing bigger than just a consolation.


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5- It's important to notice that rent fluctuate almost synchronously with interest rates : When there are high so is rent, when there are low so is rent. Housing price tend to lag by a few years as the amount involved are on different scale , same could be said to the psychology and demography components.
Further analysis or charts to do would be :
- rents vs interest rates
- rents vs M3 (debt growth taken by households)
- rents vs housing price
- rents vs income
- rents vs baby boomers (The demographic "tsunami" wave created between 1945-1950), wave that has created shock throughout the economical timescale (that's the one who disrupted the 1990 boom) and the one that are causing issues with mass retirements...
Feel free to provide some charts, links or analysis....


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Ten waiters at the bar, where 10 of the 166 killed throughout the city lost their lives, claim the bar is cashing in on their heroism that night but forcing them out of their jobs to avoid paying long service benefits.
They marked the fourth anniversary of the attacks on Monday by staging a protest outside the bar, which was established in 1871 and remains popular with backpackers. Since the 2008 attacks its popularity has soared further among those who want to sit at the tables where terrorist gunmen opened fire with AK47s.
Eyewitnesses later said two gunmen had been sitting among them in the bar and stood up to begin firing after a waiter saw one of them and dropped a plate in shock. Several of those shot and wounded were British backpackers planning long trips throughout India.
They spoke of how waiters at the bar had helped usher them out to flee the carnage inside, but their bravery and the stress they suffered that night has never been acknowledged or compensated by their employer.
Vishwas Utagi, of the All India Bank Employees Association, which is representing the waiters, claims the owner is forcing them out without cause when they have served long enough to earn higher benefit entitlements. They had been asked to sign blank papers which the owner has used to create 'resignation letters', he said.
"They did a novel job during the attacks and saved the lives of more than 40 people without caring about themselves but the owners do not care about their sacrifices and dedication. The owners ask them to sign black papers and later produce them as resignations letters. Since, the workers were not organised, we helped them to form a union and take on the cafe owners.
"The owners are reaping the 'benefits' of the attack, their turnover has increased manifold," he said. His union is demanding their reinstatement, compensation and a promise not to force them to buy their uniforms from their own wages. Staff had allegedly been denied overtime payments and forced to buy the trays they use to serve customers. Some complained they had been charged for dropping a clean paper napkin.
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Building a yardage screen printing table – part 3Posted: June 9th, 2013 | Author: Kathryn | Filed under: printed fabric, random making, screen printing, yardage | Tags: fabric printing, print table, printed fabric, screen printing, textile printing, yardage, yardage fabric, yardage table | 1 Comment »
This week has seen the most intensive week in building this table, mostly due the massive amount of measuring, levelling, checking and re-checking and then of course, welding. Aris has made 588 welds to get the table to this point and the surprisingly tedious aspect is that you can't just stay in the same spot and weld all of the joins at that spot. You have to spread it around, one weld on the 1st corner, one on the second, one in the third, one on the fourth and back to the first again. This is done in an effort to reduce overheating and warping of the metal. It is imperative that the table stays as flat and as level as possible so that when we lay the wooden surface on top, it doesn't roll and warp. Aris is trying his best to get the best possible printing surface which means being extremely conscientious in monitoring the metal and working it properly.
The good news is that the welding is now complete and I'm so proud and overwhelmed with how hard Aris has worked to get it to this point. He's done a beautiful job and it is extremely well made. We pulled out the measuring tape, held our breath and measured the length of each side of the table. We were both extremely pleased to see that both sides of the table are exactly the same length and only 1 mm short of the intended length. That's extraordinary considering that this is his first welding project!
So what's left to do? We now have to prepare the registration bars, attach them and then we will get painting.
I hope that everyone has a fabulous week. See you next week with an update.
Half of the legs installed:
All of the legs installed:
Verifying spacing between each leg segment:
The long process of levelling each leg using a water-level. We discovered that there is nearly a 10 cm gradient in the floor … thank goodness Aris made the adjustable legs long enough to compensate for such a discovery. Good thinking!
This is one of Aris's 'learn to weld' blocks:
And look how far he's come, beautiful weld:
More welding, a huge amount of welding:
You can see here between the first and second leg segments, we have welded in six horizontal beams, one on each corner and two in the centre, top and bottom. The third leg has been clamped and braced to the complete unit on the left and it is ready for welding:
Top view of the clamping:
Post welding, grinding the welds on the joins that sit under the table surface, they must be absolutely flat to ensure that the surface sits as flat and level as possible:
Making the final welds on the underside of the table, an awkward position:
And finally, after many hours and a great deal of work, the welding has finished. Isn't it fabulous?


text: Cultural Capital 24 February 2012 The art of portraiture William Ellis talks us through some his finest portraits. Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up What makes a great portrait is open to conjecture. The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, showcased at the National Portrait Gallery, is a fine example of the subtleties and nuances of a meaningful portrait. Each shot is not just technically well crafted, but comes with a deeper meaning -- an insight into society and the minds of the people in it. William Ellis is best known for documenting jazz. Based in Manchester, his photography has been exhibited internationally, including twice at the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City and extensively at galleries and festivals throughout the UK. He is one of the world's leading photographers in his field. His portraits, I think, are among his finest work. What does he think is the essence of a portrait? "It's peculiar for me to try and answer that question. A portrait can be more than memorable, it can be definitive. The face is a theatre -- drama, emotion and expression happening right there. A good portrait gets inside, behind the safety curtain. All the planning and the thought about how a portrait should be set up just provides a framework, but that's all it is. It's the intimacy and intensity during the shoot that makes it work." Stan Tracey This photograph of Stan Tracey, sometimes called the "Godfather of British Jazz", was taken in 2003 at the Guildhall in Bath and captures a true jazz legend in a relaxed, intimate atmosphere. "I've got to know Stan since then and I've often photographed him on stage. This was taken at the sound check for the concert to be given by him and his long-time collaborator Bobby Wellins. "Stan is one of those guys who came through, even when, as he dryly puts it, 'The phone never started ringing.'" Even for someone as experienced as Ellis, nerves still take hold before a shoot. "I couldn't sleep the night before thinking about how I would arrange this sitting. But when I meet the sitter I feel so relaxed, almost like we've already done the session." So, how was it taken? "It was natural light with a Hasselblad on a tripod -- five or six frames. I find having the camera on a tripod very useful. You can talk to each other face to face rather than having a camera covering mine." This image has recently been acquired for the collection at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Teofilo Stevenson In 2009, Ellis got the opportunity to photograph a sporting legend -- Teofilo Stevenson, a Cuban heavyweight boxer who is a hero in his homeland. Stevenson, a three-times Olympic gold medal winner, remained amateur throughout his career despite numerous multi-million-dollar fight offers, including a bout with Muhammad Ali. He disagreed with the way boxers were treated, their talent a "commodity to be bought and sold and discarded when he is no longer of use", claiming "the love of eight million Cuban's means more than the love of one million dollars". His stance and achievements made him a hero in communist Cuba. So how did Ellis getsuch an opportunity? "I was over in Toronto for the jazz festival where I met the CEO of a cultural tour company and over a couple of years I went on several assignments for them. He said he knew Teo and arranged for us to meet at Teo's home in Havana. I have never been in a room with someone with such presence -- an immense character. "We did some pictures and Teo began to tell me about his trainer who passed away. He said that, in his life, he felt like he had three fathers; his biological father, his trainer and Fidel Castro. You can see in the background a picture of Teo, his arm held aloft by Castro. Afterwards I photographed Teo with his family. It was quite a day." Miles Davis "This picture of Miles was taken in Manchester at the Apollo in 1989," says Ellis, reflecting on one of his first live shoots. "Frankly, I begged the promoter to let me shoot this concert -- I just had to be there. I turned up looking like Robert Capa, covered in Nikons and Hasselblads. Looking back I don't know how I knew which one to use!" This picture is from that night and shows one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, uncompromising and as large as the life he led. "To me, everything I've shot of artists on stage is an environmental or performance portrait." This image was captured on film -- shooting on which is a completely different experience to the digital world we operate in now where photographers seem to spend most of their time looking at the screen on the back of the camera rather than into the viewfinder. "There is just one shot -- nothing like it before and nothing like it after on the roll. This was my first big shoot and they don't come much bigger. I remember being very worried that I might have shaken the camera in excitement as I pressed the button. I didn't know it was OK until a few days later when the film was processed." It was the catalyst for the career Ellis has carved out since. "Miles Davis was central to the development of many musicians and he was certainly instrumental in my development as a photographer. It helped me to work with other major figures, including Dizzy Gillespie." Johnny Marr One of the most gifted guitarists of his generation, Marr will forever be remembered for his work with the Smiths, where his beautifully melodic guitar lines combined brilliantly with the mellifluous Morrissey croon. "This was taken at the Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester's Northern Quarter. I knew how revered he is across many genres; he has been a huge influence on modern musicians. We spent a long time together before the shoot, which was great. Turns out a guy at Fender he knows made my fretless bass!" "This was taken after I'd photographed and interviewed Johnny for my 'One LP' project -- where a subject is photographed with one of their favourite albums. I then record them speaking about why the album is so special to them. The project is ongoing and will be unveiled later this year. "I decided to use a wide angle tilt/shift lens adjusted to give great depth of field, and shoot from above producing a look that unsettles the eye. It was an awkward area to work but he could see that I had a clear idea of what I wanted to produce and went with it. As you can see, Johnny put a lot into it. I don't think you'll see another image like it." It is impossible to say definitively what the elements are that combine to make a great portrait. What's clear is that Ellis captures the warmth and personality of his subjects. So often, he manages to get a photograph that becomes the defining image of that person in my mind. 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My gift to you: bad pictures of me.
Merry Christmas.
For every picture I post about what I wear, there are fifteen bad ones I delete. Minimum.
Or, in this case, compile in one spot for your viewing pleasure. You're welcome.
Now if that doesn't make you feel better about yourself than I don't know what will.
I hope all of today's photos are picture perfect since you know they'll end up on facebook soon.
Merry Christmas, fools.


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For reasons it won't explain EMC has bought some of the assets of SourceLabs - what exactly it won't say - and hired some of its people - who exactly it won't comment on - for its opaque Cloud Infrastructure Business. That's the unit that'll be run by Harel Kodesh, the ex-Microsoft veteran EMC just hired a couple of weeks ago out of Amdocs, the telecom billing, CRM and order management ISV and outsourcer.
SourceLabs, which had Microsoft connections despite its open source bent, continues to operate as a standalone business, EMC said. However, SourceLabs CEO Byron Sebastian and its chief architect Will Pugh will apparently be joining EMC. What remains will still have SWiK.net, the open source project dedicated to documenting open source software, although a published report had the company trying to sell that too lately.
Blogs that don't bother checking have EMC buying all of SourceLabs (close but no cigar) and sticking it in its newfangled Decho operation where Mozy, its cloud backup service, now lives, making them wrong on both counts.
EMC described the purchase as "very small."
SourceLabs got $10.5 million from Madrona Venture Group, Ignition Partners and Index Venture in two rounds in 2004 and 2006.
Its stock in trade has been solving Linux and Java problems by automating diagnostics and troubleshooting complements of a knowledge base as well as management software for large open source environments, something a cloud infrastructure can surely use, especially if it was going to take on Amazon.
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Restaurants owned by Alice Cooper, Phil Lesh and KISS top Zagat's list of the top eateries owned by musicians. The restaurant guide has chosen eight establishments owned by eight different acts. In no particular order, they are:
Alice Cooper: Alice Cooperstown - Phoenix: "The shock rocker has built a place 'where jocks and rock meet,' a casual and largely sports-focused bar and restaurant. But his irreverent love for popular music shows up on the menu, which features items named after fellow legends, such as Lady Gaga's Hot Links, Devo's Big City Sliders and a Stevie Nicks Gardenburger."
Jon Bon Jovi: JBJ Soul Kitchen - Red Bank, New Jersey: "Jon Bon Jovi opened this unique, community-minded restaurant in 2011. It has a pay-what-you-can business model (the menu has no prices) and also offers the option of doing volunteer work in exchange for meal vouchers. We always guessed there was a big softie underneath all that hair."
KISS: Rock & Brews - El Segundo, California: "Music icons Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley want to open 100 locations of their franchise -- a burger and pizza joint that serves as a tribute to the love of rock music and craft beer -- over the next five years. Lofty ambitions, perhaps, but they've opened three in the past year (including one in Cabo). Stanley is an avowed foodie, and Simmons is nothing if not a master at merchandising the KISS lifestyle."
Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead bassist): Terrapin Crossroads - San Rafael, California: "Lesh uses his Bay Area restaurant and live music venue as a place to jam with friends and celebrate the legacy -- and the eventual opening of the outdoor music pavilion will make it an even richer experience. It's not quite dinner (or brunch) theater, but it is a special experience for fans of the movement."
Lady Gaga: Joanne Trattoria - New York City
Gladys Knight and Ron Winans: Chicken & Waffles - Atlanta and Lithonia, Georgia
Justin Timberlake: Southern Hospitality - New York City
Toby Keith: I Love This Bar and Grill - Oklahoma City
Among those noticeably missing from the list are Sammy Hagar and Jimmy Buffett.


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I came across this article yesterday that states almost all mainline Christian groups have grown in their acceptance of homosexuality. My question is, what happened?
Was there an addition to the Bible that I didn't hear about?
Is God's word not only relevant when we agree with it? (Check out this video for how I think of this idea!)
Thousands of years of Christianity has gone by where homosexuality was a sin. Is that something we just change because culture changes? Is our faith so shallow that we must blow with the winds of popular opinion?
If you're not a Bible based Christian that I totally understand your ideas "evolving" on this topic because you don't have a written standard by which your faith comes from. But for those of us out there who confess to believe in the Bible (as those in the study) then how is it that our opinions are changing so quickly?
Maybe we need to spend a little more time examining God's Word and a little less time examining what our neighbors opinions are…


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Bok Tower Gardens are situated in the middle of nowhere! There is very little else to do nearby, which makes it a bad choice if you have kids. If you don't mind driving far to see some pleasant gardens, then visit. If you don't have kids, it could be a nice place to sit on a picnic blanket, enjoy the breeze coming up off the valley, and look up at the wispy Spanish moss hanging from the huge oak trees. The towns around the gardens are basic and the landscape is ugly- dry, flat, with plenty of nothingness. So the drive out will not be a highlight. But once you pull into the road to the gardens, you are immersed in the most delightful smell- orange blossoms (come in spring!). I had no idea orange blossoms smelled so lovely! The scent is floral, not citrus. This was actually the best part of visiting the gardens and our kids loved the it!
At the entrance there is an attractive visitor's center with colorful flower plantings, fountains, and some creative, unusual planters. The visitor center has exhibits about Edward W. Bok's childhood in Holland and how he built the tower which has carillon bells just like those you hear in Holland! Kids can borrow a bag with binoculars, magnifying glass, and nature books, and my daughter enjoyed using these.
The gardens are located on Iron Mountain, which is really just a slight incline! It's nice though to walk on an incline for a change. There are plenty of huge trees, as well as some camellias, but not many other flowers. Window to the Pond is a little shed with a huge window looking out on a pond. This is a nice idea because you can sit there meditating on the view without worrying about an alligator leaping out at you! At the top of the path you come to the nicest part of the gardens, a huge lawn dotted with moss-hung oaks overlooking the valley with rows of orange trees. Here you find the gothic tower with a moat around it and some pretty ironwork gates. The gold door to the tower is gorgeous. The tower is so clean! How do they keep it spotless on the outside?! The colorful art deco design at the top is unique. There was a wedding taking place when we were there- a serene place to have a wedding.
Pinewood Estate is the Spanish-style house on the property. You can pay a little extra to see it. I didn't like it because it is dark inside, with imposing furniture and darkest wood and tile everywhere. The formal gardens in the front of it are nice, and can be seen without paying to enter the house.
The carillon plays every half hour and there are concerts daily at 1 and 3pm. I expected elegant melodies to ring out over the valley, but the carillon sounds jumbled, with too many notes, and no clear melody to follow. That was the case even at the International Carillon Festival, when I visited.
Plan to stay for lunch because the cafe is in a lovely outdoor setting looking out on a lawn bordered with bright flowers. When we were there, a violinist was playing while everyone ate. The prices for a sandwich are very reasonable and the food is delicious. Try the sweet potato fries!
I saw only one or two families with kids (there were mostly retirees) even though it was a Saturday when we visited.
If you stay in this town overnight, spend a fun day the next day at Legoland!
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Bok Tower Gardens are located at 1151 Tower Blvd, Lake Wales FL 33853, call (863) 676-1408.
Exit the Florida Turnpike at Hwy 60 west and drive for 43 miles. This is not nice scenery. Turn right on Buckmore Rd and drive 1.5 miles, then left on Burns Ave, and then right on Tower Blvd. You pay at the entrance gate and then drive to the parking lot.
Open daily 8-6, with last entrance at 5. Daily free carillon concerts at 1 and 3.
Pinewood Estate house open Mon-Sat 12-4, and Sun 1-4.
Admission to the gardens is $12 for adults and $3 for children 5-12 years old. It is $6 extra ($5 extra for kids) to enter the Pinewood Estate house.
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TAMPA, Fla. – Rising junior midfielder Nate Shiffman was recently named to the PDL National Team of the Week, after helping his squad the Fredericksburg Hotspur keep up its undefeated season with a 2-2 draw against the Carolina Dynamo last Saturday.
The Midlothian, Va., native converted a penalty kick early in the match to put his side on the board, before assisting on teammate Karel Manrau's stoppage-time equalizer to earn the 2-2 tie. The Hotspur are now 5-0-2 on the season.
Shiffman is the second VCU men's soccer student-athlete to garner PDL National Team of the Week honors, as Hotspur teammate and VCU rising sophomore defender Assane Keita received the distinction on May 31st.
In two seasons at VCU, Shiffman has played in 27 games while drawing 21 starts for the Black & Gold. The midfielder has produced five career points, on one goal and three assists.
The PDL is made up of over 70 squads across North America, playing in nine different divisions, featuring some of the best young players across the continent.


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Scarlett, Beckham And Schwarzenegger – Super Bowl 2014 Ads With Celebrity Presence
The benefits of being a celebrity and popular personality truly become visible when one gets paid big bucks to endorse brands that are extremely likable in the first place. This is even more true when your television commercial is airing during the Super Bowl. This feature takes a look at the best Super Bowl 2014 Ads which had a big shot celebrity presence.
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The annual championship game of the National Football League is popularly known around the world as the Super Bowl. Played every year on the first Sunday of February, this sporting event is the most watched American television broadcast of the year. Its a record that has never been broken. In fact the four most-watched broadcasts in U.S. television history are Super Bowls. On average, 80 to 90 million people from the United States are tuned into the Super Bowl at any given moment. It is for this reason that almost every major brand that wants to reach out to consumers in the United States chooses to showcase their latest advertisements during the Super Bowl.
Apple Computers launched their iconic Macintosh after advertising the same during the 1984 Super Bowl. The ability to imprint your brand on the minds of one-third of the American population in less than a minute is an incredibly difficult task but one that no major brand desires to miss. Even so, every year some advertisements come out on top and win the battle of brand recall. The Super Bowl 2014 ads that won this title belonged to Budweiser with its "Puppy Love" and "A Hero's Welcome" commercials that won people's hearts because of their high emotional quotient. Of the remaining ads that did well a large number had a celebrity presence associated with it. Lets have a look at some of these celebrity Super Bowl 2014 Ads:
Scarlett Johansson For Sodastream
Sodastream is an Israel based home carbonation product which allows its owners to make soft drinks at home. In 2013 they decided to use their limited marketing budget to make a big splash on the Super Bowl (see here). This was however not the original ad which they submitted for airing. The original ad spot, banned by the TV network encouraged people to ditch Pepsi and Coca-Cola. Their main selling point against Coca-Cola and Pepsi is that using its product doesn't lead to the collection of thousands of tonnes of metallic cans and plastic bottles which makes Sodastream more environment friendly. Sodastream was able to release the original ad on YouTube, making it a viral hit by claiming that the original ad was banned.
In 2014, the company decided to take things further by signing up the sexy and gorgeous Scarlett Johansson as their brand ambassador. They followed the same strategy as 2013 by mentioning Coca-Cola and Pepsi in their ad which again led it to be banned and made it a viral hit on YouTube. This time though the ad created a lot more controversy. Ms. Johansson had to resign from her position as brand ambassador for the charity Oxfam as people questioned Sodastream's ethics. The company has a factory in an illegal settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and having an American brand ambassador for an Israeli company was seen as an endorsement of Israel's view on West Bank.
All in all, this commercial brought a lot of attention to Sodastream and their seductive brand ambassador although not all of it was positive.
Arnold Schwarzenegger For Budlight
Actually speaking, Bud Light super hit Super Bowl 2014 ad featured a host of stars such as Don Cheadle (seen in Iron Man 2 and 3), Minka Kelly and boy-band One Republic in addition to the Terminator. Called "Ian Up For Whatever," the hidden camera-style commercial sends an average guy (Ian Rapaport) on a series of hilarious celebrity-studded encounters on what could only be the best night of his life.
The three minute forty four second ad was edited and shown in 90 second spots during SuperBowl 2014. Its tag line is rather long but one that would make you wish that you too would get to experience a day similar to that of Ian Rapaport.
Bud Light. The perfect beer for when you somehow find yourself in a limo with Reggie Watts and some bachelorettes, then get styled by Minka Kelly, before Don Cheadle, a llama named Lilly and the identical twin of the girl you just met take you to a party, where you defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger in a sudden-death ping pong match, that puts you onstage with One Republic.
David Beckham For H&M
H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) is a Swedish multinational retail-clothing company, known for its fast-fashion clothing for men, women, teenagers and children. David Beckham has been a brand ambassador for the clothing brand for many years and is the chosen face to appear for the company's expensive Super Bowl commercials. In 2013, he acted in a commercial produced by Guy Ritchie to promote the "David Beckham" line of Bodywear.
The Super Bowl 2014 Ad for H&M continued the same concept showing the athletic and attractive Beckham strip down to almost nothing. The spot was a huge hit with the female audience who are seen to have an equal hand in purchasing undergarments for men.
Ben Kingsely, Tom Hiddleston, And Mark Strong For Jaguar
Finally, the car manufacturer Jaguar's Super Bowl 2014 spot brought together a number of British actors as they tried to answer the question as to "Why many of the villains in Hollywood movies are British?"
Ben Kingsely (Iron Man 3, Sexy Beast), Tom Hiddleston (Loki in Thor, Avengers) and Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes) are the three main actors trying to answer the key question which ends with the expected response.
The above were among the most talked about Super Bowl 2014 ads which had a strong celebrity presence. There were also other commercials which featured famous American television personalities and characters from well-known movie franchises. These included John Stamos, Bob Saget and David Coulier for Danone Oikos. Laurence Fishburne a.k.a Morpheus from the Matrix Franchise for KIA Motors and Ellen DeGeneres for Beats Music.


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Walter Schatzberg, Ph.D.
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Department of Language, Literature and Culture
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Dr. Schatzberg received a B.A. from St. John's College in 1954, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1957 and 1966, respectively. He has been at Clark since 1966. He is adjunct professor of Screen Studies and is affiliated with the program in Comparative Literature. He co-directs the Leir Luxembourg Program at Clark University.
Current Research and Teaching
Dr. Schatzberg teaches courses in German language, German literature and German film history. His research interests include the relations of literature and science in the Age of Goethe, the culture of the Weimer Republic, German film history and the history of German-speaking Jews from Moses Mendelssohn to the present.
Selected Publications
Co-author with Uli Jung: Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. New York, Berghan Books. 1999.
Co-author with Uli Jung: Robert Wiene: Der Caligari Regisseur. hentschel Verlag, Berlin. 1995.


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Upcoming Fall Films 2017
Those that love and respect the Hollywood, are impatiently ready for Hollywood upcoming films so that they will spend their high quality time by watching them with their household and associates. To make sure we have now the movie you wish to see, please watch the Coming Sights on the bottom of our house page. A powerful movie and perhaps one of many all time best examples of film noire. It's essential to keep in mind that Bollywood movies will not be musicals within the American sense.
I stopped watching the Saw films three entries into the franchise, however I'm considering I ought to catch up earlier than the eighth movie hits theaters. A trio of New Yorkers saw the chance and shaped the Nationwide Display screen Service (NSS), an organization to handle the promotional issues and distribution efforts for the studios in change for unique access to the movies.
The movie is scheduled to begin filming sometime early in 2011 and set to be launched a yr after that in 2012, and is predicated on James Carlos Blake's 1996 novel The Buddies of Pancho Villa. Mark your calendars: it is a listing of upcoming 2017 films you will want …


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Olafur Eliasson: The Collectivity Project on the High Line in New York
The Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson's art is driven by his interests in perception, movement, embodied experience, and feelings of self. Eliasson strives to make the concerns of art relevant to society at large. Art, for him, is a crucial means for turning thinking into doing in the world. Eliasson's diverse works – in sculpture, painting, photography, film, and installations – have been exhibited widely throughout the world. Not limited to the confines of the museum and gallery, his practice engages the broader public sphere through architectural projects and interventions in civic space, such as his construction of four waterfalls at different sites along the East River in New York City. Presented by Public Art Fund, this public art project introduced a staggering juxtaposition of natural and man-made forces. In 1995, he founded Studio Olafur Eliasson, which today encompasses some 75 craftsmen, specialized technicians, architects, archivists, administrators, programmers, art historians and cooks.
For Panorama, Eliasson presents The Collectivity Project, an installation of white LEGO bricks that features an imaginary cityscape conceived and designed by the public. All visitors to New York's High Line from May 29-September 30, 2015 are welcome to play with the installation, building and rebuilding the structures over time. As the inevitable entropy of the piece begins to soften the hard edges of the designed structures, and mounds of loose pieces gather in the corners between buildings, a beautiful collective creation takes form. Installed in the growing shadow of the real estate development of Hudson Yards, the mutable, human-scale artwork provides a compelling counterpoint to the concrete-and-steel towers that form the project's backdrop. The Collectivity Project has previously been installed in public squares in Tirana, Albania (2005); Oslo, Norway (2006); and Copenhagen, Denmark (2008).
Friends of the High Line in collaboration with local non-profit organizations, will offer free weekly public programs and educational activities. These programs will further activate the installation, by inviting the public to interact with the project and learn more about topics of urbanism, architecture, and the growth of our cities. Kids and family programs, teens and adult workshops, and other public programs will animate the installation, generating a democratic public plaza where the community meets, learns, and exchanges ideas.
For the first time, and unique to the context of the High Line, a selection of architectural firms involved in current or ongoing projects in the surrounding neighbourhood – BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group, David M. Schwarz Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, James Corner Field Operations, OMA New York, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Selldorf Architects, SHoP, Steven Holl Architects – have been invited to collaborate by building one visionary structure or construction for the opening of the project. In the cooperative spirit of the project, these initial buildings will become part of the collective architecture that the public builds over the four months of the project's installation.
For more information, please visit http://art.thehighline.org/project/olafureliasson/


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As a remarkably productive Toronto wound down [19] Focus Features closed a deal for worldwide rights excluding several territories to Mike Mills' drama Beginners.
The distributor took all rights except Canada, France, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia and Benelux after negotiating the deal with UTA, which separately licensed rights to MK2 in France and Hopscotch in Australia and is in talks on the remaining few territories.
Meanwhile a rejuvenated Image Entertainment paid seven figures for US rights to Passion Play one year after the project was announced. Mitch Glazer directed Mickey Rourke and Megan Fox. ICM packaged Passion Play and represented rights in the negotiation.
On Friday [17] Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions acquired US rights from ICM and CAA to Everything Must Go, while IFC pounced on its third film of the festival, taking US rights to Barry Blaustein's Peep World, and Anchor Bay acquired English-speaking rights to Adam Wingard's Vanguard entry A Horrible Way To Die.
The Beginners deal concludes not only a prolific week of deal-making but a terrific festival for producer Leslie Urdang of Olympus Pictures. Lionsgate closed a deal on Thursday [16] for North American rights to Rabbit Hole, which Urdang also produced.
Urdang produced Beginners with Dean Vanech, Miranda de Pencier, Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy. Olympus Pictures and Parts & Labor are the production companies.
Ewan McGregor plays an illustrator who explores the honesty of his own relationships after his 71-year-old widower father played by Christopher Plummer comes out of the closet. Melanie Laurent from Inglourious Basterds also stars. Mills previously directed Thumbsucker.
Meanwhile Oscilloscope Laboratories acquired all North American rights to Jalmari Helander's Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, a darkly comical re-imagining of the most classic of the Father Christmas myth.
O-Scope is looking at December release and the Finnish and English-language film will receive its US premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin this coming weekend.
Canadian distributor D Films picked up exclusive Canadian rights in all media to Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte, winner of the Europa Cinemas Label for best European film at Directors' Fortnight in Cannes.
D Films will release the tale of anarchic goats and reincarnation in tandem with Kino Lorber in the first quarter of 2011.


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Past Grantees' Research Reports
Victoria Hasko (University of Georgia) conducted a psycholinguistic eye-tracking study to investigate cognitive and verbal aspects of bilingual processing of temporal, spatial, and motion relations by learners of Russian.
Olena Sivachenko (University of Alberta) examined the motivational profiles of students enrolled in domestic and overseas intensive Slavic language courses, while also interviewing language instructors to compare their perspectives with those of the student learners. Download research report, "Motivational profiles of learners of Slavic languages: An intensive language learning setting."
Rachel Stauffer (Independent Scholar) conducted a study of teaching methodology for the presentation and acquisition of Russian second-person pronouns, ty and vy, at the novice level. Download research report.
Sergii Gorbachov (University of Alberta) conducted a needs assessment for mobile/web applications and game-based language learning with students and instructors of East European languages. Download research report.
- Hope Wilson (Ohio State University) conducted a study on the effects of online ethnographic projects on the sociolinguistic learning and intercultural competence of students in an intensive summer Russian language program. Download research report.


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Coachella has been all over the news lately with releasing its lineup with Beyoncé as a headliner as well as these recent allegations that the owner of the festival is super anti-LGBTQ+. In another bizarre twist, a man has taken to Craiglist to find an eligible woman to take VIP to Coachella for free…with a few guidelines. They range from style choices to having your hair brushed by him, and all kinds of wacky things.
I love Coachella but this guy is tooooo much haha (Pt. 1) pic.twitter.com/tMEK7PDEab
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