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Congo rebels start retreat from Masisi
Nov 28, 2012, 2:43 PM EST
(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rebels believed to be backed by Rwanda began retreating from the territory they seized last week and pulled out of the region of Masisi, their military leader said Wednesday, in the first concrete sign that international pressure has stemmed the advance of the fighters.
Gen. Sultani Makenga, the military chief for the eight-month-old rebellion known as M23, said that his fighters intend to abide by an ultimatum issued by neighboring nations that called for their withdrawal from Goma by Friday. He said he had ordered his fighters to retreat along the southeastern axis from Masisi to Goma, and they will then leave Goma via the northern route to Rutshuru.
"My soldiers began to retreat from Masisi yesterday. We will go via Goma and then after that we will retreat to 20 kilometers (12 miles) past Goma toward Rutshuru," Makenga told The Associated Press on Friday. "I think that by Friday we will be able to complete this."
The M23 rebel group is made up of hundreds of soldiers who deserted the Congolese army in April. Since then they have occupied numerous villages and towns in mineral-rich eastern Congo, culminating in the seizing of the crucial, provincial capital of Goma last week. Although they claim to be fighting because the Congolese government has not upheld their end of a March 23, 2009 peace deal, an in-depth report by the United Nations Group of Experts says that M23 is a Rwandan proxy fighting in order to control eastern Congo's lucrative mines.
Congo's government spokesman Lambert Mende, who is based in the country's capital over 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to the west, confirmed that they had received reports of troops pulling out of Masisi.
"Yes, there are reports of movements (of their fighters out of Masisi) but we won't label it a retreat until it's over. They have played this game with us before, where they say they are moving and then find a reason not to," Mende said. "There will be no negotiations with Congo until they are 20 kilometers (12 miles) outside the Goma city limit."
A regional bloc representing nations in the Great Lakes region of Africa had issued a deadline calling for M23 to retreat no later than Friday to 20 kilometers (12 miles) outside of Goma.
In Goma, there was skepticism over the rebels' claim and confusion, after the leader of M23's political wing insisted that the fighters were not leaving the city of 1 million that is the economic heart of one of Congo's mineral-rich regions.
M23 Vice-Minister of the Interior Theophile Ruremesha told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Congolese President Joseph Kabila's government needs to meet their wide-ranging demands for them to leave the city.
"Kabila has to meet our demands if we are to pull out," he said. "For humanitarian reasons we cannot leave the town in the hands of just anybody," he said. "Creating the neutral force will take some time."
While some fear M23, which in only eight months has a record of carrying out executions and of forcing children into its ranks, other residents of this lakeside city are afraid of the undisciplined Congolese army that was pushed out of Goma by the rebels on Nov. 20. Dozens of people came out for an anti-Kabila rally, holding placards and pieces of cardboard decrying the distant government's inept handling of the conflict.
"I want Kabila to leave because he hasn't helped the people and our country hasn't moved forward since he came to power," said one of the marchers, Augustin Katombo. "I think M23 should stay because we don't want the army to come back."
About 1,500 U.N. peacekeepers were in Goma when M23 attacked on Nov. 20 and government forces fled, but the well-armed U.N. peacekeepers did not intervene, saying they lacked the mandate to do so. One of their main missions is to protect civilians.
Many people expressed anxiety about a possible attack by the Congo army, which lies in wait several dozen miles (kilometers) to the south of Goma.
"This is a nerve-wracking situation. It fluctuates every hour and we cannot even plan for tomorrow," said Goma resident Ernest Mugisho. "The M23 needs to give a clear message because for us, the population, this is not good."
The rebel group has a large new cache of 1,000 tons of weapons, including heavy artillery, that were abandoned by the fleeing Congo army last week, according to M23 president Jean-Marie Runiga. Six flatbed trucks carrying crates of ammunition were seen Tuesday being driven by M23 soldiers north from Goma.
A U.N. group of experts said in a detailed report last week that M23 is backed by neighboring Rwanda, which has provided them with battalions of fighters and sophisticated arms, like night vision goggles.
Callimachi contributed from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press photographer Jerome Delay contributed to this report from Goma, Congo.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.

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Overview of Processed People
"Processed People" is a newly released documentary that was produced by Jeff and Sabrina Nelson. They are also the backbone of VegSource – a leading health and food website dedicated to promoting healthy plant-based eating. It features 9 highly regarded and highly progressive experts in the areas of nutrition, and real, natural health.
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Personal Review of Processed People
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Magic, Mystery, Love and Clockwork—The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern is a verbal scrapbook that brings to life a fantastical story of love and destiny so unlike every other romance novel out there.
It is a book that I would easily rate with an 8.5/10.
The circus arrives without warning.
No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not
Prospero the Enchanter puts his long-lost daughter Celia Bowen into a game against Mr. Alexander H's student, an orphan named Marco Alisdair. With no known reasons and no known rules, the game is set in a circus that comes unannounced and appears only at night, owned by a rich young man, Monsieur Chandresh Lafavré. Le Cirque des Rêves is the chessboard and everyone is just another piece.
What started out as a humble NaNoWriMo submission ended up as a bestselling debut novel for Erin Morgenstern, jumpstarting her career.
I dislike how often The Night Circus is compared to Harry Potter for the simple reason that it isn't similar to it in any way. The Night Circus is a Shakespearean tragedy set in a small dome of fantasy travelling in the real world in the dark. It is a story of the Hunger Games, with Love is Our Resistance playing in the background. It is not a story, but a poem in paragraph form.
Wine is bottled poetry.
He wonders if the poem of the circus could ever be bottled.
The usual downside that most reviewers have pointed out about The Night Circus is that it was too slowly paced, or All-Word-No-Plot, or that it was "the most boring circus ever." They've even compared it to Twilight. The difference, of course, that most people did not see was that it was the entire bottle of poetry, of every piece of imagery that was necessary, not only to make it magical, but to actively portray and paint a picture of the love shared by Celia and Marco. When one reads about the circus, about the design of the clock, or how the statues move at such a glacial pace, one could barely notice, every carefully laced detail should be read to interpret Celia and Marco's love story. They are the circus. They were destined to be together in this way, in a way so magical and so eternal and so artistically bizarre. Every one of their tents was a love letter: The Ice Garden, the Carousel, The Labyrinth, and the Wishing Tree where each wish gets lit up by someone else's. Compared to real circuses, yes, they do seem slow and boring. But it's poetry, and you're never supposed to take words for what they seem to mean at first.
Writing Style
Even the sex scene was so quietly, artfully, poetically portrayed.
Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue.
Though I have to admit, it's not your usual popular romance story, with the witty comebacks from the charismatic young lover who tries to charm his way through a million rejections, just to get her to smile and probably rethink that offer. It barely even touches on the romance, and takes half a dozen forevers before Celia and Marco even meet. And when they do, it's all the I Love You's and the I Can't Live Without You's stock dialogues, like the badly written Legend of Korra season finale. Even though I think TNC is trying to be poetic and symbolic, but it could try to be a bit more natural and creative. In this way, what TNC really lacks isn't plot, but character development. We look too deeply into the circus, all the tents and the cinnamon things and the spiced chocolate, but we see the characters too subdued, too quiet, that after some 400 pages in a journey with these characters, you'll feel as if you've barely known them at all.
But Erin Morgenstern knows how to keep you flipping through those pages, regardless. It didn't need to be fast-paced, witty and action packed to be interesting. Every single issue was shrouded in mystery, and our main characters don't even know what they're in until somewhere towards the end. And it will mostly be what gets you to continue reading: to try to uncover the mystery, when in fact, every flip of the page just adds another layer of it.
Another creative bit about the writing, after all the colorfully interwoven imagery, is the description of the attractions in the circus, used to separate chapters. Using second voice, it seems as if the reader himself steps into the scene. And, like good poetry, the ending was written to resonate with the beginning. Everything just seemed so polished and well-structured, that you can feel the amount of time and effort Morgenstern poured into the creation of this piece.
Book Covers
The artistry of the book covers is no exception. The covers come in black, gray and white with a hint of red.
Before The Night Circus even hit the market, the lucky critics who received advanced copies (like Reveurs getting free admission or something) had this stack of beautiful silver things to enjoy.
The US version showed a view of the tents of the circus with the clock above it, being held in what seems to be Tsukiko's hand. The hardbound version is lovely, but having this transferred to paperback doesn't seem as nice at all. Printed by Anchor Books, an imprint of RandomHouse.
The UK print from Vintage Books, another imprint of RH, looks much more elegant, especially in hardbound. The dust jacket is in black, with white silhouettes of Marco and Celia, which was also used for the online game.
The book itself is in red, with a golden clock face painted on the inside.
Look at the red ribbon bookmark and the black edged pages! Book publishing as an art form–it's definitely a good reason to buy this version as a sort of collector's item.
The inside cover has a pattern of top hats and bowler hats.
I found a Spanish Release cover, but I'm uncertain on whether or not it is the official one. Most of the other translations are the same cover as the UK release but change the title.
Rejected cover by Jessica Hische, perhaps because it was in black and gold–and there was no gold in Le Cirque des Reves.
Fan Art
The Night Circus is so visually indulgent that an artist just can't help but make something inspired by it. Here are some notable works I've found.
Laura Walter has a fan-made cover in a deep shade of teal.
Upcoming Film Adaptation
Summit has already claimed the rights to the movie production of this book, and I hope they won't mess it up the same way they did Twilight. Although, there seems to be a good thing about having David Heyman as the producer, since he also produced the Harry Potter films. Writer for the screen adaptation is Moira Buffini who previously wrote for films like Jane Eyre and Byzantium. There has no official date as of yet, and no cast either, so the film can be predicted to be out by mid-2013 or early 2014.
The book is just so visual despite the fact that the circus comes in Black and White, and I think it would be perfect as a movie. Costume designs, props and set would be perfect if we could get the team of people from the 2004 Phantom of the Opera, ala Masquerade, or Moulin Rouge on board.
What I want to hear: Music
It would be incredible to have Erin Morgenstern's personal writing playlist as an inspiration for the film's OST, just as Summit was able to do for Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga. It would be perfect to have at least one Florence + The Machine track in there, hopefully a new one, or perhaps Spectrum. And then Andrew Bird as well as Smashing Pumpkins. Other than the music from her personal soundtrack, a bit of Muse would do some good, especially something similar to Starlight or The Resistance. (Starlight because of the sound, Resistance because of the message resonating with the film.) And Birdy. And Coldplay. And Fun. And Panic! At The Disco. These last two choices seem out of balance with the rest of the track, but when I ask myself, "what music sounds like an old French circus?" then nothing would match it better than some PATD.
Who I want to see: Cast
I have no one in mind for the cast, to be honest, except maybe Lucy Liu for Tsukiko, but that was still a no for me. I definitely want to see Chloe Moretz in red hair for Poppet. Mila Kunis would make a great Isobel. But other than that, my thoughts on casting are really useless. I'd love to know who you guys think should play it though. I do think that it'd be great to have Cirque du Soleil be in the movie.
Here is a comprehensive list of the characters and themes of the novel. Do not read them until you've finished the entire book. Also to note, a good number of the themes or the personalities of the characters are my own thoughts and observations. They're not necessarily what Erin herself intended.
Celia Bowen
Celia is the daughter of the world-renowned magician. After her mother died, she is given to her father who uses her as a representative in the game because of her "natural talent", inherited from her father. During her childhood, she was thought to be strange, or a child of the devil, as she would tend to break things around her without touching them whenever she was upset. She was taught to heal herself, remake things she broke, and do illusions and magic tricks. She worked as an illusionist at the Circus, and wrote letters to the Revéur Herr Thiessen. She collaborated with the engineer Mr. Barris in creating the enchanted Carousel. She also made a vertical labyrinth of clouds, and took it upon herself to train the Murray twins. She acts very mature and motherly towards them.
Celia dislikes being treated like a child, or having to follow orders and rules that she don't understand. She continues to struggle to gain independence, to break free from every bond she's had, represented by the ring that was embedded into her skin. At some point, she mutters to herself, "I'm already married," declaring her unwanted engagement with a seemingly pointless game. She compared herself to Shakespeare's Hamlet once, saying that she was haunted by her father's ghost. And she has plenty of Shakespeare in her stack of books in the tent.
Her style of magic makes use of illusions and redirecting energy from places, something that seems natural and inherited. Her usual acts in the circus as the illusionist include the usual dove tricks, changing the colors of her dress, destroying watches and re-making them, etc.
Her character ends up as a very self-protective one, often finding herself not allowing Marco to love her. She tries to be in control of things, and tries to push away the people—especially Marco—who take away that control.
Marco Alisdair
Marco starts off as an orphan, taken by Mr. Alexander H. to represent him in the game. Marco Alisdair is not his real name, but one he used growing up, revealed only once he met Isobel. His magic is part of his studies for years, unlike Celia who was born a natural talent. His style of magic makes use of a lot of alchemic symbols and formulas which he keeps in notebooks with drawings of trees. He does not perform in the circus itself, but works for Chandresh Lefèvre, the main proprietor. Marco keeps the accounts and records, etc., and makes certain that the dinners and parties and events are organized. His contribution to the circus is the bonfire, which actually acts as a protector, shielding the people in the circus, so they won't be overpowered by the magic and would eventually go insane. Likewise, the protector also seems to prohibit the main people in the circus from aging. He also created the Ice Garden, Celia's favorite tent.
Personally, Marco's favorite tent was the wishing tree.
His romantic pursuits are often without Alexander's permission. His decisions on love seem impulsive and rushed. His usual way of courtship is by creating fantastical illusions and recreating the surroundings, which is what he did the first time he kissed Isobel in the rain, and what he continued to do for Celia. He never told Isobel that he loved her, but he never held back on telling Celia.
Hector Bowen (Prospero the Enchanter)
Prospero the Enchanter was a well-known magician, a student of Mr. Alexander. He challenged him in the belief that magic cannot be learned but a special talent accessible only be a rare few. This challenge between them two was what started the centuries of games. At some point, people believed that Hector Bowen had died, but in truth, he was suspended in a state of life with no physical body in a failed attempt at gaining immortality.
Esse Quam Videri is the Bowen family motto, which means, "To be, rather than to seem." According to Celia, Hector was "very fond of engraving it on things."
Mr. Alexander H.
Mr. A.H—as he is often referred to in the book is the teacher of Hector Bowen, Marco Alisdair and Tsukiko. He always wears grey clothes and does not have a shadow, which was noticed only by Celia in the first chapter, and by Widget in the last. Celia also notes that it's as if Alexander isn't his real name, as if "it doesn't fit." Mr. AH—believes that magic can be learned, that it is all around and for everyone, but only very few people make an effort to notice it. He warns Marco during the game to stay away from Celia, knowing the objective of the game and that the end result would only hurt Marco, as it did Tsukiko. Also unlike Hector, Alexander openly appreciates the value of death, a sentiment he only expresses with Widget in the last chapter. Although he is very old, he admits that he will eventually die and does not intend on seeking immortality.
[Immortality] is a terrible thing to seek. It is not seeking anything, but avoiding the unavoidable.
Alexander also believes in the power of stories, and makes a deal with Widget that the game will end and the Circus will be passed over to the hands of Bailey Clarke.
Circus Performers
Winston Aidan Murray (Widget)
Widget was born October 13, 1886, six minutes before midnight. He has striking red hair, always wears a black suit, and carries a white kitten with him. Other than his kitten act with his sister, Widget also has his own tent called Bedtime Stories which houses various bottles that release stories when uncorked.
He has a natural psychic talent of knowing people's past, and is tutored by Celia to develop his magical powers. His talent is attributed to the fact that he was born on the same night as the opening of the circus, and perhaps was affected by the enchanted bonfire lit by Marco. His favorite treat at the circus are the cinnamon things.
Widget, as revealed later on, is apparently the narrator of the entire novel.
Penelope Aislin Murray (Poppet)
Poppet was born October 14, 1886, seven minutes after midnight (thirteen minutes apart from her twin brother). Like Widget, she has striking red hair. She wears white dresses made of scraps of different fabric, and has a black kitten. The Murray's parents run the Big Cats attraction. Poppet ends up as Bailey Clarke's love interest, as well as the reason he comes to join the circus. Opposite her brother, Poppet has the power of foresight, and sees blurry images of the future. She also has the ability to read the stars.
Isobel Martin
Isobel is a reader of Cartomancy, Tarot Cards. She first appears as an unnamed wanderer, and ends up kissing Marco in the rain. Through the years, she tries to aid Marco to win the game, but ends up finding out that there is nothing she could do to hold things together. Her relationship with Marco ends up as a very one-sided love story. No matter how you put it, the only way to really describe it is that Marco cheated on her. Other than Tarot Cards, Isobel also makes use of charms.
Tsukiko is a Japanese contortionist who performs at the Circus. She first appeared at the Midnight Dinners. Tsukiko becomes the main inspiration of the circus. She reveals herself later on to be one of Mr. Alexander's student, and the one who previously won the game, or, in her words, "survived" it. She was in love with her competitor Hinata who lit a pillar of flame and stepped into it, to burn herself and let Tsukiko win. (This also means that Tsukiko is a lesbian.) On October 31, 1902, she claims to have won the game that ended "eighty-three years, six months, and twenty-one days ago. It was a cherry-blossom day." Approximately, that would be April 20, 1819.
Original Conspirators
Chandresh Christophe Lefèvre
Owner of Le Cirque des Rêves, Chandresh is a wealthy man of great ambition. His life spanned from August 3, 1847 to February 15, 1932, dying finally at the age of 85. He was 39 when the circus first opened. His character has this keen sense of beauty and a burning love for the arts. He has a lingering restlessness whenever he does not have work to do, which, other than the burden of the magical circus, caused his emotional and psychological unrest less than a decade after the opening of the circus. In that said moment of instability, he attempts to kill Alexander with a silver knife, but misses. Instead, Herr Thiessen gets stabbed. After he hands the circus over to Bailey, he creates a museum with Poppet.
Ana Padva
Often referred to as Tante Padva or Mme. Padva, she is a retired Russian prima ballerina. She acts almost like a mother to Chandresh and the Burgess sisters. She loves fashion most of all, and appoints Lainie Burgess as the heiress to her business.
Lainie & Tara Burgess
The Burgess Sisters Lainie and Tara are socialites who love secrets and stories. They feel uncomfortable being apart from each other, one of them acting as the eyes, the other the ears during social events, making them a complete set. Tara ends up committing suicide by jumping in front of a train, after being heavily affected by the overpowering magical influences of the circus, just as she realizes the grand scheme. Lainie, however, ends up inheriting Ana Padva's business, as Padva claims her to be reliable and responsible. Also, Lainie is the love interest of Ethan Barris, but initially refuses his proposal. Her argument was based on the fear that she was only chosen because Tara was already dead, making the choice not completely Mr. Barris's, but just a matter of consequence.
Ethan Barris
Mr. Barris is the engineer and architect that built the circus. Aside from Isobel, he was the first among the original conspirators to know about the game, and how the circus was being used as a stage. He seems to be always busy, but he has a reserved and secretive character. He does not take sides.
Bailey Alden Clarke
Bailey is just a son of a humble apple farmer who ends up as the main proprietor of Le Cirques des Reves. When the circus visits Concord, Massachusetts in September of 1897 but is closed due to inclement weather, Bailey gets dared by his sister Caroline and her friends Millie and the Mackenzie brothers to check it out. There he meets Poppet, who lets him keep her glove as a souvenir. He keeps it in the hollow part of his favorite tree, for years until he sees the circus again in 1902. He finds himself in a dilemma between choosing Harvard, by recommendation of his grandmother, or staying to take over the family farm, by the strict decision of his parents. When Poppet returns for him, she asks him to join the circus as if though his presence were essential for the preservation of it. Later on, Celia and Marco are trapped in the half-matter state of the circus and can no longer keep it operating under their own power, so they ask Bailey to take over.
Assuming that the internet became available in 1990's or 2000's, then the ending would hint that Bailey and the rest of the circus continued to live past a hundred years.
Friedrick Stefan Thiessen
Herr Thiessen (September 9, 1846-November 1, 1901) is a German clockmaker from Munich who creates the iconic timepiece that is displayed at the circus. After his first visit to the circus at Dresden, he develops overwhelming feelings about the magical performances and starts to write about them. Patrons of the circus see his articles on the news, and start writing to him. They begin to create a network of fans of the circus called the Reveurs(daydreamers). He had a great fondness for Celia and was often assumed to have a romantic relationship with her. He died by getting stabbed with a silver knife by Chandresh who was in a time of mental instability, trying to kill Alexander who dodged the attack. His and Chandresh's names are engraved on a metal plate installed on the great clock in their memory.
Victor meets Bailey on his way to New York and is the first to introduce him to the Reveurs. He offers Bailey to stay at one of the rooms at the Parker House, and even gives him a book of clippings and circus memorabilia. He is stubborn and does not accept rejections for his offers of kindness.
Victor's sister who chooses out Bailey's deep grey suit and puts a rose in his lapel. She seems very supportive of Victor and often finishes his sentence.
Elizabeth seems to have a hidden romantic relationship with Victor. She makes red scarves all the time for the Reveurs and gives on to Bailey as a gift.
We lead strange lives and chase our dreams from place to place. —Elizabeth, on being a Reveur.
Analysis of Themes & Ideas
What's in a Name?
In the first part, when Celia meets Mr. Alexander H., she asks her father if it was his real name, saying that it's as if it doesn't fit. Likewise, when Hector first meets his daughter, he says that it was a shame she wasn't named Miranda. And after various attempts at calling Celia as "Miranda" it never catches on. Later on, calling the Murray twins as Poppet and Widget, the narration includes that "the nicknames stick as all nicknames do."
So what is in a name? Does not a rose called by any other name smell just as sweet? Well it would, but if you called it a daisy, it wouldn't feel like a daisy. It would still be a rose. The thing is, names have their own definitions—not the type like those in baby name books. Words mean what they are meant to represent, and names mean the person they are meant to identify. To use a name for a person that isn't their name would be defying their own sense of identity, in some way.
"Why did you call that man Alexander?" Celia asks.
"That's a silly question."
"It's not his name."
"Now, how might you know that?" Hector asks his daughter, lifting her chin to face him and weighing the look in her dark eyes with his own.
Celia stares back at him, unsure how to explain. She plays over in her mind the impression of the man in his grey suit with his pale eyes and harsh features, trying to figure out why the name does not fit on him properly.
"It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants. Like Prospero is for you."
Destiny, Dreams, Defiance
Tarot Cards, premonition and foresight, the rings, the game, the circus, the umbrella, the bottle, the glove, the fire, the silver knife, the blood, Harvard and Apple Farms—there are so many things in The Night Circus that none of the characters could be in control of. In fact, the game wasn't one that you play, but one you survive. Marco and Celia aren't even players in this game, just two kings on the opposite sides of a chess board, while Hector and Alexander move them around, knocking other pieces over like worthless pawns.
She has gathered that the man in the grey suit whom her father called Alexander also has a student, and there will be some sort of game.
"Like chess?" she asks once.
"No," her father says. "Not like chess."
And maybe, even, that's why the entire circus is in black and white—because it's a chessboard. No matter how they try to end the game, they couldn't. They could try to win or to lose for the sake of the other, but there was no way to end it. Their love for each other was the resistance that they put up, their last act of defiance. It's the same way that Romeo and Juliet died for each other, or even how Peeta and Katniss took those berries at the end of the games.
But then, there's Bailey. He was supposed to either go to Harvard or take over the family farm. One of those was his predefined destiny. It's a nice thing to think that Bailey tried to go against destiny by running off with the Circus. But then, Poppet saw it happen first, that Bailey should come over to the circus so that it would continue to survive. If so, then wouldn't joining the circus be part of Bailey's destiny? Is there really ever an escape for it?
In the same way, Celia tried to not get Bailey involved—but he still did. And she also tried to not fall for Marco, but she still did. It was something out of her control, like her emotions and her powers. And at the end of the day, if you really think about it, nobody escaped their destiny. It's as if defiance and rebellion are just heroic illusions, when in fact, nobody ever really gets away.
Perhaps, even, love is just another way of giving up your freedom, like when Marco and Celia bind themselves forever into the soul of the circus, or when Bailey takes the contract and stays. It's as if the only way to truly rebel from life is to dream. Art is the purest form of defiance, it's the escapement, the maximization of the true sense of freedom.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – Oscar Wilde, 1888.
The book narrates back and forth from the beginning of Celia and Marco's game in 1873, jumping to Bailey in 1897, and takes them together until both parts of the story meet at 1902. This, and the fact that the narration was in past tense, only meant that there was already a defined past and future, and there was no way of changing it. Peculiarly enough, Widget started telling the story in 1902 to Mr. AH–, but was able to write at the end of a time with internet, even though he wouldn't have known about that in 1902.
"I am saying that you had a chance," Isobel says. "A chance to be with her. A chance for everything to resolve itself in a favorable manner. I almost wanted that for you, truly, in spite of everything. I still want you to be happy. And the possibility was there." She gives him a small, sad smile as she slides her hand into her pocket. "But the timing isn't right."
But likewise, it showed that destiny could be—or could have been—quite flimsy, flexible. An outcome of some event could be changed by the smallest factors, or in Isobel's terms, the timing.
Kiko, please," Celia says. "I need more time."Tsukiko shakes her head."I told you before," she says, "time is not something I can control.
The concept of immortality and how Hector tried to obtain it is briefly discussed directly, but in all truth, I think it's what the entire thing was about. Celia and Marco being forever part of the circus, with their souls intertwined with its existence is their piece of immortality. And Widget's account of the circus is the preservation of everything—Herr Thiessen lives, and so does Chandresh, and likewise every person in that circus.
Oddly enough, as the years progress, the people in the circus never seem to age. By 1902, Marco and Celia would have been at age 34 or so. And Bailey, who was born around 1886, same with the twins, lived long enough to reach the time of internet, as shown when "you" receive Bailey's business card with the website name and his email. That would mean they all lived past a hundred years. This might mean that the circus continues to pro-long and preserve their lives, making Celia and Marco, and everyone in the circus, in their own way, immortal.
The whole of Les Cirque des Reves is formed by a series of circles. Perhaps it is tribute to the origin of the word "circus," deriving from the Greek kirkos meaning circle. (…) They are set within circular paths, contained within a circular fence. Looping and continuous. – Herr Friedrick Thiessen, 1892.
So is the narration, and Marco and Celia's rings. Everything is like an orobouros and everything continues in circular motion, on and on, again and again, looping into forever, like a clock that never stops ticking.


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Joss Whedon spoke with MTV at the Critics' Choice Awards, giving more detail on his plans for "S.H.I.E.L.D.," the script for which should be done in a "couple of months."
"Don't go bigger; go deeper," Whedon told MTV News at the Critics' Choice Awards, talking about how he plans to follow up the first "Avengers" film. "All of these people have met, so you have that out of the way. Now you can spend your time just digging in -- and by digging in, I mean with a scalpel, to cause pain."
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Meanwhile, IGN spoke with ABC President Paul Lee at the Television Critics Association press tour about the placement of "S.H.I.E.L.D." in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
"There is no question that it is part of the Marvel Universe. In fact, the story takes place after the battle for New York," Lee told IGN. "This is S.H.I.E.L.D. They're following their own particular stories. There are characters in it, Coulson, who clearly come from Avengers. So it's part of the world, but we're going to be very, very careful that we don't tread on the toes of the features and build a whole new world. And that's what Joss Whedon does better than anybody else. He's built a world for us."
Speaking of new superhero shows, CW President Mark Pedowitz spoke with IGN and gave a brief update on the status of "Amazon," the CW's "Smallville"-eqsue Wonder Woman show written by Allan Heinberg.
"First off, we're waiting to see the script. Second off, we're busy casting for Diana as we speak," Pedowitz told IGN. "Hopefully the script works the way we want." He added that 'Amazon' is, "an origination story in the sense that 'Smallville' was an origination story."
The CW's other superhero show, "Arrow" will see a return of the Huntress, according to the show's producer Greg Berlanti.
"She's going to come back," Berlanti told TV Fanatic. "We're just writing that episode right now. We like to think of her as the crazy ex-girlfriend. So if you can only imagine the turns...her mission isn't done or complete yet. She wanted to kill her Dad and he's still alive."
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While speaking with MTV Jamie King revealed she's already shot her returning role as Wendy and Goldie in "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For."
"I was the first one to shoot on the very first day. I was like, 'So who else is going to be in the movie with me because I'm acting to five pieces of tape?' And they're like, 'Oh, they haven't been cast yet,'" King told MTV. "Literally, five pieces of tape and someone's hand. They're like, 'This is the other actor."
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Ain't It Cool News spoke with Anthony Mackie during the press tour for "Gangster Squad" briefly about researching his role as the Falcon in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier."
"It was funny; a lot of the research I found was online," Mackie told AICN. "My older brother was a huge comic book buff. So when the news came out online, he called me and just gave me the whole rundown. Luckily, I have a lot of friends who weren't cool growing up, but who are really cool now, so they read a lot of comic books. So I would just call and ask them, and they would send me all of this stuff online, and I got to read a bunch of the old comic books. It's fortunate, because it's a take off the comic book, it's not the exactly storyline of the comic book."
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The PreviewsWorld YouTube channel has posted this new trailer for "Ultimate Spider-Man" season two on Disney XD.
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Despite rumors to the contrary, there will not be more scenes featuring Channing Tatum's Duke in "G.I. Joe: Retaliation." Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura denied the rumor while speaking with Crave Online.
"That is a complete rumor. I don't know where that started," Di Bonaventura told Crave Online. "Literally, Channing shot for - if I have it wrong, I'm off by an hour - four hours, five hours? So it wasn't really about that at all."
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According to Production Week on Twitter, principle photography on Michael Bay's "Ninja Turtles" film is scheduled to begin this April. No other details were released.
Finally, IGN spoke with Melissa Rosenberg about the long-in-development "AKA Jessica Jones" television series based on Brian Michael Bendis' "Alias" comic book series. Rosenberg stated the project may be a better fit for cable rather than network television.
"I don't know if it's an ABC show," Rosenberg told IGN. "It might be a cable show, really. The graphic novel is the first one that Marvel did that was meant to serve an adult audience. I toned it down a little bit for network, but it's very, very easy to translate that into cable. Very easy. God I love that project, other than this one ['Red Widow'], it's one of my favorite things that I've ever written."
No other details were provided as to whether there is actually any further movement on bringing the project to life.
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A while ago I switched to an Apple. But since I am not running firefox on my Apple. I haven't been able to use the handy browser plugin that lets me blog.
No since OSX Tiger I can use a handy dashboard widget. Very neat. Very easy. Perhaps I'll blog a bit more now. 😀


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Montréal, le 8 juin 2015 - The moving period is approaching and Russell Copeman, member of the Montréal Executive Committee, responsible for housing, announced that the city is, again this year, implementing measures to help low-income households who will be without a home as of July 1. Montrealers who have reason to believe that they will be without a home as of July 1 may call starting today the referral service help line at 514-868-4002 for assistance in finding housing.
"Although the July-1 period emergency situation is less severe than in the early 2000s, we understand that families who find themselves without a home can go through hardships. The referral service will step up efforts between June 8 and July 3 to help households find a home. Large affordable housing units are scarce, and this service is aimed especially at low-income households who will be without a home this moving period. We urge them to call the help line for assistance," said Mr. Copeman.
In 2014, between mid-June and mid-July, 26 households received assistance from the city and its partners, 8 more than for the same period in 2013. The city administration works closely with the Office municipal d'habitation de Montréal and with community and humanitarian organizations, including Sun Youth, to provide temporary lodging to households without a home and to make sure that no one is left out on the street on July 1.
Although the situation has improved significantly, it is still difficult for vulnerable Montréal households to find large, low-rent housing in the city. Montréal continues to promote the development of affordable housing, including social and community units. Since 2002, close to 16,000 housing units of this type were developed in Montréal. Approximately 6,100 of those units are family-housing units, including a significant number of large units, 2,500 of which with three bedrooms or more. Projects that include hundreds of housing units are in planning.


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Just to clarify, the new Sonos One speaker will not have any voice support when it goes on sale in Australia UPDATE - We gather Google is promising Alexa to launch in Australia in "early 2018".
The Sonos One launches globally on October 24, and will be priced at $299 in Australia.
In the US, where the pre-tax RRP is US$199, plus in the UK (UK199), and Germany, all countries where Alexa is already available, purchasers will be able to ask Amazon Alexa to control Sonos One out of the box, with full voice support for Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora (where available), SiriusXM (where available), and TuneIn. Alexa voice control for Spotify will also follow.
Most impressive is that Sonos hasn't picked a single voice-control option – it aims to make the Sonos One controllable also from Google Assistant in 2018, and via Apple's Siri with AirPlay 2 as well. We imagine other Sonos units will eventually play along too -- the Play:5 had a microphone in there when the new design launched last year, unused then and designated "for future purposes"!
But in Australia, where Alexa is not officially supported by Amazon (though plenty of people have imported one), the Sonos One will not have voice support, the company's local PR confirming to us, "Sonos One's voice services will not be available until Alexa is available in Australia. As Amazon makes Alexa available in other countries, Sonos will work closely with them to enable the functionality on Sonos as soon as possible. This will be delivered to Sonos owners as a free software update."
While you're waiting, as Sonos notes, "Customers outside of the US, UK, and Germany will enjoy everything you'd expect from a Sonos speaker – great sound, multi-room listening, and access to multiple music services – which makes Sonos One future-ready for when Sonos and a voice service launch together in new regions."
In some ways this announcement represents a wholesale change for Sonos, opening its formerly walled garden to allow its speakers to be controlled via a number of key third-party apps, including Tidal, Audible, iHeartRadio and Kuke Music (this last a Chinese digital music library that is focused on the development of non-pop music; the app is in Mandarin). Again this appears to be a plan for the future, with Tidal control to be available "in the coming months" with Audible, iHeartRadio and Kuke Music "in 2018".
Key details of the Sonos One, then:
- it can play as a standalone mono speaker, with a single tweeter and one mid-woofer driven by two Class-D 'digital' amplifiers;
- two Sonos Ones can be digitally paired for stereo sound;
- two Sonos Ones can be paired with a PLAYBASE or PLAYBAR to act as rears for surround sound;
- the Trueplay tuning system can be used with Sonos One;
- a six-microphone array and an adaptive noise suppression algorithm is used to focus on voice instructions;
- voice capture technology with echo cancellation allows the speaker to hear you over the music, although as with Google Home the volume 'ducks' when you speak to it;
- those concerned about "always listening" privacy can disable the microphones, and this status is clear from a light on the speaker which will be illuminated if the microphones are active.
If you're now wondering what is different between the current Play:1 and the new Sonos One, well, so were we, so we checked the published specs. Here are the specs for the current Play:1:
and here are the specs from the new Sonos One
So the control system and microphones seem the main changes here.
Sonos One is available in all-white and all-black matte finishes, and pre-orders are being taken online (though we're sure Sonos dealers would like you to buy it from them) at www.sonos.com.au
Sonos was recently recognised as one of Sound+Image's Ultimate 30, as part of our 30th anniversary celebrations.


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Mary Bowman, local mom of four, had a vision over ten years ago to make a positive impact in the lives of teen girls. A graduate of the University of Findlay, Mary double majored in Western Equestrian Studies and Equine Marketing & Graphic Design. She originally envisioned creating a horse magazine that was in line with her studies but said that God put it on her heart to reach teen girls instead. Over ten years later, relatemag.com is an inspirational and robust website that serves as an incredible free resource for girls in their teen years.
Starting in print
In 2006, Relate started as a quarterly print magazine targeting girls in their mid-teens to those in their early college years. Articles touch on many relevant teen topics, from a Christian perspective. When asked why she chose to focus on teen girls, Mary explains, "I was involved in a youth group and I had a desire to encourage and motivate girls who were younger than me. Any time I saw a girl with low self-esteem or struggling to fit in it would just pull on my heart. Those are the kind of girls I had on my mind; those are the ones I wanted to help."
Moving online
Over the course of several years, the content from Relate was moved online where it is easily accessible and free. New articles are posted every week and a variety of writers contribute to the online content. From celebrity interviews to effects of peer pressure and positive views of body image, topics are selected to interest and encourage teen girls. Due to Mary's passion and hard work, teen girls and their parents can get inspired at relatemag.com.


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Using Google Image Search to Find LinkedIn Invitation Scams
I've been getting a lot of fake LinkedIn invitations to connect lately, so I thought I'd share this simple method of separating the real from the fake.
Of course, if your gut says it's fake, it probably is. That person you don't recognize who hasn't really filled in much of their profile probably isn't a connection you want or need.
Still, you can always validate by using Google Image Search to find out if the picture really belongs to that name. The other day, I received an invitation from Selina Mobley.
As you can see, she's a recruiter, so it's not that odd she'd be connecting with strangers. And there is something familiar about her picture. Here's how to validate:
1. Right click the image in the invite and choose 'Copy Image Location'
2. Go to Google Image Search
3. Click the little camera inside the search box
4. Paste in the image location you copied and search
In this case, Google has absolutely no problem identifying this as Sarah Silverman. It's actually an image from WikiQuote. The quote associated with this image is "You look like my friend Debbie. That's really weird … do you get that a lot?"
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- NSA Mobile Phone Surveillance: It's Only Metadata – So Far
- On Privacy, Anonymity and Data Use
- One in Five Believe Smart Meters Will Create a "Class Divide"
P.S. Have you met John Powers, supernatural CISO?
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Some things that caught my attention Tuesday night at the District 709 School Board meeting:
– Jefferson Elementary School supporters who are concerned that the district isn't doing what it can to repair and modernize the 85-year-old school's infrastructure should be happy to know that the estimated $350,000 cost of proposed summer maintenance and health life safety projects at the school is the most of the district's four elementary schools. Lincoln ($180,000), Lettie Brown ($73,000) and Grundy ($56,000) fall far behind. Of course, four new classrooms were added to the latter three schools last summer, and the traffic patterns at Grundy and Lincoln were improved as part of a $3.2 million project. Morton Junior High School ($314,000) and Morton High School ($960,000) are in line for quite a bit of work this summer. Installation of a new press box, lights and bleachers at Carper Field at the high school is estimated to cost $400,000.
– Superintendent Lindsey Hall proposed holding a district-wide town hall meeting in late March and offering building tours to the public in late spring or early summer. The town hall and tours were among the recommendations that emerged from the recently completed 709Connect community engagement program. The timing would be good for the town hall because a proposed 1 percent Tazewell County school facilities sales tax is on the April 9 ballot.
– After Hall discussed plans to form a Facilities Advisory Committee (another 709Connect recommendation), board member John Applen urged the district to make sure those who voted against a $12.5 milion facilties referendum in 2011 are represented on the committee.
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Yesterday, Telekomunikacja Polska signed a preliminary agreement with European Directories Group for the sale of 100% of Ditel S.A. shares NYSE Euronext reports. The company belongs to TP Group and is a publisher of White and Yellow Pages in Poland.
The sale of Ditel shares is a new step in the execution of the TP Group strategy for the years 2008-2010, announced in July 2007, in the area of optimizing the TP Group's scope of operations. Value of the potential transaction, on an Enterprise Value basis, is EUR 20 million.
- "The transaction represents a milestone in the implementation of TP Group "CORE" strategy, while providing additional flexibility to address the strategy for "MORE." It also gives Ditel the opportunity to expand as part of a new Group focused on directory services business. I'm convinced that European Directories is a good partner for the development of Ditel and we look forward to cooperating with them" - said Benoit Merel, CFO of TP Group.
Ditel S.A is the publisher of White and Yellow Pages telephone directories and provider of online directory service www.ditel.pl. It started operations in 2000 as a unit of Telekomunikacja Polska and was transformed into a company in 2002. Revenues of the company in 2006 amounted to PLN 98 million.
European Directories is a geographically diversified directories group, holding the number one or strong positions in several markets across Europe including The Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, Austria, Czech Republic, Sweden, Gibraltar, Slovakia and Poland, where it owns directory services company pkt.pl. Polskie Ksiazki Telefoniczne.Sp.z.o.o. European Directories Group has around 4,000 employees and over 700,000 customers.
Execution of the preliminary agreement is subject to consent of the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), which is expected within three months.


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I don't have an easy time cooking in the summer. It's hot, and sticky, and I don't really want to turn on the oven. I'm a freak of nature in that I'm not a huge BBQ fan, so that only hits the menu about once a week at Bunny's request (and he gets to cook). So, that leaves me with a stovetop, a microwave and a Foreman grill.
Which is great, except for the fact that there's only so much pasta we can eat, that I can only make fried rice so many times before we start getting sick of it. Most of my more complicated stovetop meals are of the heavier variety, and feel a little too hearty for the summer heat. I can make salads, but Bunny loves to tell me that he doesn't like eating rabbit food.
The real issue, though, is I've got a lot going on right now and I'm just not interested in food. I have no inspiration, and summer doesn't really lend itself to my favourite set-it-and-forget-it type meals.
Which is all to say that I need some help here. I'm desperately in need of some great summer recipes that can feed a woman with a little appetite as well as a human garbage disposal. So, I'm hoping you guys can help me out. What are your favourite summer foods?


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The PH Scale .
Neutralisation : the reaction between Acids & Bases ...
acid + base --> salt + water
H+ + OH - --> H2O (l)
When an acid neutrilises a base (or vice versa), the prouducts are neutral, i.e they have a PH of 7 .
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-indigestion is caused by too much hydrochloric acid in the stomach. Indigestion tablets contain bases such as magnesium oxide; which neutralises the excess.
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Kangaranga Do Street Party
September 1, 2020 @ 9:00 AM
On your way to the Birdsville Races? Then join in the fun at the annual Quilpie Kangaranga Do Street Party! From 6pm until midnight, this is a fun filled family night out!
This years event will feature the ever popular "get your rocks off competition", bath tub derby, wool bale rolling, great prizes, stalls, food and bar until late, kids activities and live entertainment!
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Junior Trainees pursuing a career in surgery are expected to be able to perform a range of basic surgical skills prior to commencing specialty surgical training. These skills are not specifically covered during their foundation or core training placements.
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The Basic Surgical Skills course has been running since 1994, with the involvement of all four UK and Ireland Colleges of Surgeons, and is designed to teach the essential basic technical skills required of a surgeon, instilling good practice at the early stages of training.
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On completion of this course, participants will be able to:
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AYWMC- Feb. 2, 2019
What a difference a week makes! We are now shooting in manual mode and I must say this class has explained the exposure triangle better than any I have seen in the past. It helps that Emma Davies was a schoolteacher. She has a way of explaining and simplifying to help us grasp the basics of what we need to know to get by and actually use the info provided. Now for the assignment. We are starting in aperture priority mode at f8 and will open up the camera one f-stop to f 5.6 for more light, so we will move the shutter speed or the ISO faster or higher to get less light to compensate and get the same exposure. It makes sense now, but I will pick up my camera and be back here. One thing to note is that my camera has three stops in between each of these settings…
This chart is the best! Simple, and useful!
So, here is the assignment.
Step 1 Select aperture priority mode, choose an aperture that is a full stop (i..e. f8) and take a photo.
Step 2 Write down what settings the camera picks.
Step 3 Go onto manual mode and dial in the settings that the camera picked, except change the aperture by 1 stop (bigger) to have a wider aperture, and a shallower depth of field.
Step 4 If you leave the rest of the settings as they were in step 2, your photo will be slightly over exposed, because you have a bigger aperture. So you need to change the shutter speed or ISO by a corresponding 1 stop in the opposite direction (less light). In this case use shutter speed, and change it to 1 stop less light (faster). Take the photo again. Keep everything the same between photos – where you stand, what you're photographing, how much light there is.
Both the photos should have the same exposure, if the light hasn't changed and you focused on the same spot. The only difference should be a slightly shallower depth of field in the second photo.
Have another go, this time on shutter priority. Try changing the settings by 2 stops, and by using a combination of both aperture and ISO to compensate
Started with f2.8 then went to f4 and shifted the triangle up ISO one fstop accordingly to achieve the same exposure.
More open aperture needs lower sensitive ISO or a faster shutter speed to have the same exposure. I had some trouble with the aperture locked and figured out my camera had a button that locked on it. Shooting in manual isn't comfortable for me yet–just need more practice. Have a great week, and catch some light along the way!
AYWMC – January 27
ISO – International Standard Organization
ISO refers to the sensitivity of the sensor to light–the higher the ISO, the more noise–so you want to use as low an ISO as possible to still capture the light. Our assignment this week was to go back to a previous week's photos and retake them using your camera's highest ISO and lowest ISO. I tried to recapture the scene as closely as possible but the light is different today (very overcast) so the settings are not identical.
I am spending more time with my camera and continue to read a lot about camera stuff on sites like Light Stalking and Digital Photography School and my Udemy class and my Creative Live class I bought years ago. I love gadgets also, so I ordered a timer remote that would be cool for a stationary time lapse shoot. I continue to investigate tripod heads that will support the weight of my 70-200 mm lens. Any suggestions are welcome here!
Here are the results of my shoot this week: (I'm not seeing a lot of graininess. I increased the ISO 100x. But as you can see the shutter speed had to compensate by being almost 100 x faster as well. And the aperture closed 4 -f stops down.
Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a great week. Catch some light along the way!
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Lunar Eclipse January 20, 2019–
I didn't plan on the moon being so high in the sky…my tripod setup was a failure. Plan location the night before to shoot better next time! Need to learn how to steady my tripod. Ended up taking the camera off the tripod and I got nothin'. Too much shake to steady the camera looking up at almost the zenith in the sky. Used the Looney 11 rule and the moon was pin size. I'll try to load some into Photoshop and see if I can salvage anything. I think I need a gimbel head for my tripod. Didn't plan on batteries going out so quickly. The cold and the exposure really drain them fast.
What did go well: I was dressed for a blizzard and am warm and happy to have the opportunity tonight. I stayed up and braved the weather. I had a camera in my hand. I learned a few things not to do. Little by little…
Conrad Earnest's notes from his spectacular shot on Facebook:
Conrad Earnest Rent a 600 mm telephoto or longer. 😂 I used a 200 mm lens with a doubling attachment (400 mm) and set my full frame lens to crop at 1.5 = 600 mm. 8000 ISO. I would have liked f2.8 and a lower ISO but the doubling attachment sort of killed that (f5.6). I focused manually on a nearby star in an attempt for better focus and them moved over to the moon. Under exposed by ⅓ – ⅔ of a stop so the rest of the night sky wasn't so prominent. Basic LR panel adjustments. Little bit of curves and noise adjustment. Little bit of cropping. That's about it. 🌕
A Year With My Camera – January 17
…is the year I finally make time for shooting photos that I am proud of. Working the program, A Year With My Camera, I will post photos here that will probably not impress but be more functional as I walk through the lessons.
"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."
— Marc Riboud
There are two types of talent. One is learned and one is natural. I don't have a natural "eye" for "making" a photo, so this must be a learned skill for me. The good news here is that, in my observation, the person that spends time learning a skill always (eventually) exceeds the natural talent. But this will require dedication and lots of practice.
So bear with me as I try to accomplish the learned type of talent. Believe me, when I get to a level that I am proud of the photo I take, I will be so excited. I so want to capture the grandchildren's expressions and personalities, and freeze some beautiful moments!
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So you are probably wondering why, yet again and for what seems like the 16th time, the Oakland Athletics and the Oakland City Council cannot figure out how to sign a piece of paper that merges their interests for up to ten years. You're probably baffled how two organizations that need each other more than they hate each other can't figure out a way to meet the needs while saving the hatred for later.
Well, it's easy. You have two competing sides of the dreaded Coliseum Lease misunderstanding their mutual interests by promoting their mutual antipathy. Put another way, each side believes it has leverage over the other when neither side has any.
Let's do this another way. The city is losing the Warriors, and is better than even money to lose the Raiders too. That's 51 dates, plus the odd playoff game, that the Coliseum will be losing within the next few years. The city needs the A's to stay, either at the Coliseum or somewhere else.
The A's, on the other hand, want to leave Oakland in the worst way but can't get anyone who wants to take them except San Jose, and San Jose is suing the A's parent company, Major League Baseball, so San Jose is essentially out.
So the A's know the city has to crack, and the city knows the A's have to crack. And they, of course, are both right while being spectacularly wrong.
[REPORT: City council members ordered to vote against A's lease]
Parsing out the little issues, like back rent, security, sewage and other little irritants is amusing, but it really boils down to this simple confusion over who's . . . well, you know.
Will this idiotic stalemate change? You'd think so, but you'd have thought so months ago, just as you'd have thought that MLB would have provided a definitive answer to the San Jose conundrum within five years. That's the third part of this sitcom – the other 28 owners do not sufficiently care about the A's, Giants or the Bay Area to have ever tried to pick a side or offer a solution.
This stuns locals – how could MLB not want to settle a problem in the sixth-biggest television market in the country? Isn't it logical for the company to tackle the matter of the Bay Area? Well, "how" doesn't matter, and neither does logic. MLB has been stridently in favor of inertia, and lack of action speaks far louder than mere logic.
In the power vacuum that created, you ended with the A's and Oakland pitted in a deathless struggle that would seem to be about a few paragraphs but is actually about whether mutual hatred can spoil an arranged marriage . . . and so far, hatred is kicking ass.
So it goes on. The A's say they have all the deal they intend to make, and the city says it wants to deliver a new proposal anyway. It is kabuki theatre only with puppies as the actors. They bark a lot, they piddle on stage, they even chew some scenery, but they never seem to advance the plot.
The two sides need a deal. They need to move on to the next spitting contest because this one has reached dry-mouth stage.
But here, in this squalid little corner of the Internet, where corporate chaos is always to be preferred to order and lowbrow entertainment is always better than mere commerce, we have a radically different view.
What we need, it seems to us, are more puppies. And maybe a few kittens for the puppies to chase, thereby wrecking the theatre.


text: The atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) undergoes substantial changes in its structure and dynamics in the course of a day due to the transient nature of forcing factors such as the surface fluxes of heat and momentum. The non-stationary nature of the mean wind and turbulence in the ABL, associated with the diurnal cycle, can in turn affect the structure of wind turbine wakes and their effects on power losses within wind farms. In this research, large-eddy simulation is used to study the evolution of the turbine wakes and their effects on power losses inside an idealised finite-size wind farm in the course of a full diurnal cycle. The simulation results show a strong effect of atmospheric stability on the wind farm wakes and associated power losses. During the day, the positive buoyancy flux and associated turbulence production lead to a relatively high turbulence level in the background ABL flow, which enhances turbulent mixing and wake recovery. In contrast, during the night, the relatively low turbulence intensity of the ambient ABL flow results in a relatively slow rate of entrainment of momentum into the wake and, consequently, a slow wake recovery. As a result, the averaged power deficit in the wind farm is found to increase with increasing thermal stability. In particular, the averaged power deficit increased from 28% under the most convective condition to about 57% under the most stable condition. It is also found that the low-level jet formed before dawn is weakened owing to the energy extraction by the turbines and deflected upward over the farm. In addition, strong vertical wind veer at that time, associated with the Coriolis force and shallow boundary layer, causes important lateral wake stretching effects, which in turn significantly impacts the performance of the waked turbines.


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Residents of Wausau, Wis., have filed petitions to recall five school board members who passed a busing plan designed to integrate Asian-American students from low-income families with their wealthier white peers.
Leaders of Families Approve Neighborhood Schools, the organization conducting the recall effort, claimed last week to have collected about 10,000 signatures to recall each board member, well above the 6,740 required.
If the petitions are certified, elections could take place any time after Dec. 14.
The Wausau board's integration plan, patterned after a similar plan that was implemented in nearby La Crosse, calls for three elementary schools with large numbers of Asian-American and low-income students to be paired with three elementary schools with relatively few such students.
Supporters of the plan, which was adopted by the Wausau school board this summer, have argued that it would help students from Southeast-Asian families learn English more quickly, while exposing white students to cultural diversity. (See Education Week, July 14, 1993.)
Opponents have maintained that the plan ignores the wishes of the community and calls for the unnecessary busing of students away from their neighborhoods.
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Kim Kardashian is about to launch a new fragrance in April. "Gold" is Kim's second perfume after her debut signature fragrance called "Kim Kardashian". "Gold" is a beautiful combination of amazing bergamot, grapefruit, pink pepper, jasmine, rose, violet, patchouli, sandalwood, amber, benzoin and musk notes.
Kim Kardashian plans to launch a
new fragrance in April 2011. Called "Gold", this is Kim's second
signature fragrance after the successful debut perfume "Kim
Kardashian", which was released in 2009. The new fragrance comes
with the tagline "Transcend Ordinary".
The "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" star describes "Gold" as "a luxury that stands the test of time, a universal symbol of sophistication and glamour. Like a stunning piece of precious jewelry, Gold lends everyday style a surge of seductive sparkle and timeless beauty."
Made by Claude Dir, "Gold" manages to perfectly embody the
various aspects of Kim's personality. Therefore, it is a
summer-appropriate scent, with a youthful feel, yet sexy and
feminine. Its amazing opening notes represent a rich explosion of
bergamot, grapefruit and pink pepper.
The core of the perfume includes captivating floral notes of jasmine, tender rose and dewy violet. The fragrance dries down with elegant, dazzling notes of patchouli, sandalwood, amber and creamy benzoin, and musk.
"Gold" seems to keep the box and the bottle design from her debut "KK" fragrance, but with a luxurious touch of golden shades. Kim Kardashian's new perfume will be available starting this May at Macy's in bottles of 50 ml and 100 ml and it will be $65 for 100 ml Eau de Parfum.


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Legal Question in Real Estate Law in New York
Is it legal for a landlord, in New York State, to ask for a copy of w2,tax returns, and a credit report?
Asked on 6/17/13, 4:59 am
1 Answer from Attorneys
Walter LeVine Walter D. LeVine, Esq.
Yes, to verify creditworthiness for the lease and employment.
Answered on 6/17/13, 10:15 am


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Girl's dreams interpreted through pics
PHOTOGRAPHER Jan von Holleben has one hell of an imagination.
Yes, he interpreted a request by German newspaper ZEIT to generate a series of images around the idea of dreams as an opportunity to delve deep into his inner-consciousness and give a new spin on his famous Dreams of Flying images.
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An ugly, dangerous storm is brewing out there. After a bout of rapid intensification last night, Hurricane Matthew has now achieved Category 3 status, packing 195km/h winds. It's first major Caribbean hurricane since Sandy, and the strongest to develop in this particular region since 2008. Hurricane Matthew forming in the Caribbean sea. Image: NOAA
According to the National Hurricane Center, the storm is expected to maintain its strength and possibly intensify further through the weekend as it rumbles toward Jamaica, reaching Hispaniola and eastern Cuba by early next week. Matthew currently sits about 765km southeast of Kingston and just 140km north of Colombia, where a tropical storm warning is in effect.
A hurricane watch may be issued for Jamaica as early as later today.
Image: NHS
Where exactly the storm is headed next, and whether the US will see any impacts, is not yet clear. There's a decent chance Matthew could pass Florida to the east. Or it hit the peninsula dead on, or track west into the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane Matthew has meteorologists all in a tizzy on social media, remarking on its impressive strength and sudden, dramatic intensification. You can be sure they will be paying close attention to the storm's development throughout the weekend, and if you live in a potentially affected area, you should, too.
With favorable atmospheric conditions, Euro gets #Matthew to a Category 5 storm in the northern Bahamas next week. Keep an eye on forecasts! pic.twitter.com/m4v89dpQXm
— Ed Vallee (@EdValleeWx) September 30, 2016
Latest (12Z) HWRF brings the center of Hurricane #Matthew into Kingston, Jamaica as a Cat 3. Catastrophic. pic.twitter.com/E6lCpVcC5W
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) September 30, 2016
Last frame or two shows a well-defined eye starting to emerge in #Matthew. Category 3 hurricane now. pic.twitter.com/5Ko98exvDU
— Becky Elliott (@wx_becks) September 30, 2016
The last time there was a hurricane this strong in this part of the Caribbean was 2007 (Felix)! #Matthew pic.twitter.com/3dOVAmu7VQ
— Brian McNoldy (@BMcNoldy) September 30, 2016
This GOES East imagery shows Hurricane #Matthew in the Caribbean, about 530 mi. east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica. https://t.co/Tv4rJ3IRah pic.twitter.com/zGM2osSEB5
— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) September 30, 2016
Meteorologists are speculating that Matthew might have already intensified into a Category 4 storm, although we'll have to wait for the next NWS update to be sure.
All evidence from the most recent pass and drop suggests #Matthew is now a Cat 4 hurricane w/ 130 mph winds pic.twitter.com/92bnHAF54k
— Michael Lowry (@MichaelRLowry) September 30, 2016