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Just a few quick twists and you can turn citrus fruit into beautiful spiral strips for garnishing foods and cocktails. This spiralizer also cuts neat citrus wedges; it's a great tool to have on hand when infusing water with vibrant citrus flavor.
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Sarkar director AR Murugadoss applies for anticipatory bail: Reports
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By: Express Web Desk | Chennai | Published: November 9, 2018 1:10:56 pm
AR Murugadoss directorial Sarkar came under the scanner after AIADMK found certain scenes objectionable.
Sarkar director AR Murugadoss on Friday morning moved the Madras High Court seeking an anticipatory bail. The court will hear the matter later today.
On Thursday night, Murugadoss had tweeted that police officials visited his house at night and banged the door several times but he was not present at his residence. Before the polices arrival, Murugadoss had confirmed the deletion of controversial scenes from Sarkar.
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Sarkar, which has been breaking box office records ever since its release on Tuesday, came under the scanner after ruling party AIADMK found certain scenes objectionable. The members of the political party protested outside theaters that were screening Sarkar and also allegedly tore down posters and banners of the Vijay starrer.
Police had come to my house late tonight and banged the door several times.Since I was not there they left the premises. Right now I was told there is no police outside my house.
— A.R.Murugadoss (@ARMurugadoss) November 8, 2018
Also read | Sarkar row: Police visits AR Murugadoss residence, Kollywood biggies lend support to makers
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On Thursday evening, the makers confirmed to indianexpress.com that they have decided to modify the controversial scenes. They said references to Varalaxmi Sarathkumars character Komalavalli will be muted. Komalavalli was the original name of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa. The makers will also remove a scene which shows director AR Murugadoss throwing state-provided freebies into the fire.
Also read | Beyond Sarkar, its hard to miss Tamil cinemas influence on state politics
Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan have come out in support of the filmmaker and condemned the protests by AIADMK. Haasan in his tweet mentioned, "Its not new for this state government to put pressure on filmmakers who have obtained the censor certificate before releasing the film. A government that cannot accept criticism will definitely derail. Only people will win." Rajinikanth wrote on Twitter, "After a film is cleared by the censor board for the release, vandalizing cinema halls, tearing down posters demanding particular cuts in the film is against the law. I condemn it."
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We handpicked a host of lovely and powerful cyborgs to illustrate Annalee Newitz's essay on pop-culture fembots, but film and TV history has blessed us with many, many more. Who did we miss? Which 'bot in this gallery is your favorite? Next week I'd like to crown one fembot with a People's Choice Award. Personally, I think Kelly LeBrock (Weird Science) portrayed the hottest fembot ever. What do you think? Tell us in the comments section below.
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While skipping just the occasional meal can be beneficial, cycling periods of fasting (usually in the morning) and feasting (usually at night) can aid detoxification, encourage fat burning, and improve immune function.Learn More
Dr David Perlmutter: Grain Brain, Eating Fat Makes You Smart, and Why (Brain) Size Matters
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Mark Sisson: The Carb-Loading Myth, How to Fuel Athletics with Fat, & Advanced Heart Rate Training
Why are so many runners and endurance athletes overweight? If you've struggled to maintain low body fat during training (or even in your everyday life), this show is about to blow your mind.Learn More
Todd White: How to Drink Without a Hangover, Proper Dosage of Alcohol, & Biohacking Cocktails
If you want to know the truth about what's hiding in our wine, beer, liquor, and other boozes, this show is for you. My friend (and wine guy), Todd White, is here to show us how to make hangovers a thing of the past.Learn More
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Welcome to this week's Survival Buzz with an update on my own preps and announcements from the Backdoor Survival blog.
Most of this week was spent working at my J.O.B. (only part time these days), although I did take a little time out to work on my Preparedness Planner a bit. It sure feels good to get organized! Speaking of getting organized, the month of January is a great month to find deals on storage tubs.
There was a ton of stuff and if the items work out, I will share them with you later. One item of note is that I purchased this extra large, extra heavy emergency blanket which should come in handy while waiting at the ferry in this cold weather.
The real news this week is that I embarrassed myself by rounding up and counting all of the flashlights I had on my desk. This happened quite by accident as I was talking on Skype with Todd over at the Prepper Website. The conversation got around to flashlights so I poked around my desk and came up with all of these.
One is this upgraded version of the Mini-Cree I like so much. It is slightly larger and more powerful. You can never have too many flashlights, right? (Or rechargeable batteries for that matter.)
One significant prep this week is that we have decided to set aside one day a week as bread making day. Last Saturday we made three loaves of English Muffin bread plus a pan of English muffins. I will be sharing the recipe later this month.
That about covers it for me this week. Now for some announcements.
The Survival Buzz #151
Barbara passed on this tip. It is a good one.
I got tired of repurchasing one-time use cheesecloth for straining herbs. I tried several other fabrics and found that large squares of voile fabric do very well in straining and can be washed out and reused again and again. And I used my JoAnn 40% off coupon to buy several yards to stock for future use. It isn't organic but I think it's a good substitute when cheesecloth isn't available.
The following tip is my own. TP takes up a lot of room; here is one way to store it in a more compact form:
One idea is to remove the inner cardboard roll, then scrunch it down using a FoodSaver or other type of vacuum sealer. That is how I store TP in my B.O.B. – works great and saves a lot of space.
Last but not least, here is an important tip from Marilyn for those of you with vehicles that have keyless locks:
Most of us keep our to go bag in the trunk of our cars. Be sure you can open that trunk if your car is "dead".
My car could not be opened as there was no key entrance and if the electric opener would not work, there was no way to get at my important things in the trunk. I have an opening into the 2nd seat to allow me to insert a 2×4 or such through the trunk into the car.
I attached a wire to the safety opener inside the trunk, ran the wire through the small opening into the back seat and secured it on the head rest in the middle of the back seat. Now, I can just pull the wire and the trunk will open. Hope this helps someone else.
The following article includes a giveaway for a copy of the book, 5 Acres & A Dream The Book: The Challenges of Establishing a Self-Sufficient Homestead by Leigh Tate. Note that the deadline for entries is 6:00 PM Pacific next Tuesday.
BDS Book Festival 7: 5 Acres & A Dream – The Book + Giveaway
As a reminder, all winners are notified by email and have 48 hours to claim their prize or an alternate will be selected. Once selected and verified, the names of winners are displayed in the Rafflecopter on the original giveaway article. This usually happens on the Friday following the end of the giveaway.
There were two cheaters this week. They were disqualified because they indicated they left a comment but did not. I really do check!
In the beginning, something that was confusing to me about the use of essential oils was "how much should I use". Typically you will see dilutions mentioned. Although I will be getting into this more thoroughly in a blog post and in my new, not done yet, email series, EO dilutions work like this:
1 teaspoon carrier oil to 1 drop essential oil = 1% dilution
1 teaspoon carrier oil to 2 drops essential oil = 2% dilution
1 teaspoon carrier oil to 3 drops essential oil = 3% dilution
. . . and so on.
Typically, for healing purposes, I will use a 5% dilution but sometimes, such as in Shelly's arthritis formula, I will use a 10% or higher dilution.
All that being said, often I will take a dab of plain salve (also called "naked" salve) into the palm of my hand and add a drop or two of essential oil. I don't get real scientific about it, I just use it. Here is a link with instructions for making plain salve: Plain Ole Salve – An Alternative to Petroleum Jelly
Mostly, however, I will take a teaspoon of plain salve and put it in one of those little 1/2 ounce jars . Then, for a 5% dilution I will mix in 5 drops of oil or combination of oils. Usually, 5% is enough but sometimes I go as high as 10% which would be 10 drops per teaspoon.
BTW, I measured the actual volume of the jars and they hold 3 teaspoons of salve. So I eyeball things and add my plain salve and oils accordingly. (1/3 jar of salve + 5 to 10 drops of oil.)
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That about covers it for me this week, What about you? what did you do to prep this week?
Enjoy your next adventure through common sense and thoughtful preparation!
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Today is all about flashlights as I continue to feed my thirst for more! Plus, a great all weather emergency blanket. This one is going into the car.
Grabber Outdoors Original Space Brand All Weather Blanket: I read all of the reviews and settled on this emergency blanket to supplement the wool blanket in our vehicle. The nice thing is that it can be used for a lot more than as a blanket. I know for sure it will come in handy when we want to have a make-shift picnic and the ground is damp.
LSD Newest UltraFire 1600lm CREE XM-L Q5 LED Torch Adjustable Zoomable Flashlight Light Lamp: It will be heavier because it uses three AAA batteries instead of just one but on the other hand, it is a lot less expensive than my Duracell and MagLite (which is very heavy).
FordEx Group 300lm Mini Cree Led Flashlight: This is my current favorite. It is super mini sized, bright and waterproof. Plus, it uses a single, standard AA sized battery. Pictured is one that I own in green but they come in basic black as well as some other colors.
Blocklite Ultra Bright 9V LED Flashlight: I now own six of these little gems. There is a similar flashlight called the Pak-Lite (which is more expensive) but it does not have a high-low switch like this one. These little flashlights just go and go, plus, they make good use of those re-purposed 9V alkaline batteries that you have recharged with your Maximal Power FC999 Universal Battery Charger.
Panasonic eneloop AA New 2100 Cycle Ni-MH Pre-Charged Rechargeable Batteries: In my opinion, without question, these are the best rechargeable batteries out there. I use eneloop's exclusively.
White Plastic Jar with Dome Lid 2 Oz (12 Per Bag): I sometimes chose to use these small ointment jars rather than Mason jars for my salve. I also have similar jars in the 1-ounce size and 1/2 ounce size (my favorite for mixing up various salve and e.o. concoctions).
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Considering that a UX designer is often required to carry out different roles within a UX team, does it also imply that a UX designer need to play multiple team roles. I find this rather conflicting because generally people of complementary personalities/behaviour trait work best in a team environment, and if a UX designer has to fill multiple roles then it can be in conflict with their own personality. In a company where there is no UX lead or manager (just UX designers) do they normally fit into the role of having to 'lead' or 'coordinate' between design and development or do they just end up trying to fit into the development process. I don't think that UX designers can just be a cog in the development cycle/sprint, but generally someone with a strong personality tend to upset the balance in the team.
My experience with UX designer roles is that they tend to either fit into a sprint cycle (as part of a step/process) or that they provide a deliverable for a particular sprint. I haven't seen UX designer that define the sprint process because they usually have to work with the scrum master or development lead.
The question is, in a UX team of more than one (including at least one UX designer, developer and graphic designer) and no lead role assigned, is it typical for the UX designer or developer to take the lead if the project relates to redesigning or refreshing the user interface (regardless if Agile methods are employed in the development process) or does it depend on other factors?


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Today I went to Sissinghurst via Staplehurst. There was a 30 minute wait for the bus so I walked into Staplehurst proper from the station first. It's a nice little town, small enough to think of itself as a village, with some attractive stained glass in the church and a pub I considered going into on the way back but ultimately didn't. There's also a memorial to five people - four of them women - killed in the Marian Persecutions. I'm unclear why a memorial was put up in the early 1900s for deaths in the 1550s - perhaps they had surviving relations.
The bus from Staplehurst to Sissinghurst was a double decker with about three people on it. I imagine it gets very busy at the weekends, but on a Friday at twenty to twelve in the morning I had the whole top deck to myself, so I could sit at the front and admire the glorious Kent countryside. It's a beautiful part of the world at this time of year, with trees almost meeting above the road and then dropping away to reveal sweeping views across green fields.
The bus stops at Sissinghurst village and then there's a walk - a mile to two - to the gardens.
More glorious views, including my first sight of Sissinghurst Castle - framed below by hedges, sky and sheep.
The gardens seem tended but untamed - everything spilling over the paths and reaching for the sky, and the roses dropping petals. It's not quite of this world. I didn't take too many pictures - I wanted to soak it up - but I stopped to smell every second rose and sweet pea.
The whole place shimmers with light and life, martins or swallows in the gatehouse roof, swooping in and out and calling, and bees swarming around the chimney of one of the garden buildings.
I was also amused to see that one of the books on their extensive shelves in the main library was a yellowing hardback of The Anatomy of Murder by the Detection Club, which I recently read myself in a reprint.
Vita's smaller library and writing room in the tower can be peered into from the stairs - a wonderfully cluttered and cosy spot - but not entered.


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Would it be feasible to move the wiki to Mediawiki software instead, and host it independently? I think it'd have a lot of benefits: most of all, control over every aspect of the wiki by the community. It wouldn't suffer from the bloat and advertising of Wikia (their editor doesn't even work for me half the time!), and though I'm not very familiar with Wikidot, that website is probably less familiar to most wiki editors.
All we'd need is someone to host it. Like I said in my post on the "forums" on Wikidot, perhaps we could persuade Stoic to host it? All it'd cost them was bandwith, if a knowledgeable user had direct access to the software.


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Meth bust on Four Oaks Ranch Road in Orange County
Orange County Sheriff's deputies arrested one man for methamphetamine possession while investigating a suspicious vehicle parked on Four Oaks Ranch Road in Vidor on Sunday, March 23 at approximately 2 a.m., Chief Deputy Clint Hodgkinson reports.
According to a news release from OCSO, a deputy on patrol in the area of Four Oaks Ranch Road noticed a suspicious vehicle parked vehicle in the 500 block with a male and white female occupant. When the Deputy approached the vehicle, he noticed the subjects shuffling around inside. It appeared to the Deputy that they were trying to hide something in the front floorboard or under the seats.
When the Deputy walked up to the vehicle, he noticed a small plastic baggie, which is commonly used to contain narcotics, in plain view on the console. The Deputy said he could also smell a strong odor of what smelt like a chemical burning. When the male who was seated on the driver's seat was asked to step out of the vehicle, the Deputy saw him drop a plastic baggie that contained a crystal like substance, recognized by the Deputy to be methamphetamine.
The driver, Darryl Bergeron, a 31-year-old white male of Vidor, was placed under arrest for Possession of a Controlled Substance. The female occupant was not arrested.
Bergeron was booked into the Orange County Jail for Possession of a Controlled Substance, a third-degree felony. Bergeron was arraigned on Sunday, March 23 and his bond was set at $5,000. Bergeron was able to bond out of jail and is no longer in custody.
According to the news release, Sheriff Keith Merritt said the Orange County Sheriff's Office will continue to aggressively seek out and arrest those who use and sell illegal drugs in our community.


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In a recent year, there were almost 8 million injuries attributed to falls in the United States, and over 21,700 people lost their lives in fall. For senior citizens older than 72, falls rank number one for injury-related fatalities and come in second as the cause of death for those age 60 to 72. There were 275,000 occupational injuries caused by tripping, slipping and falling on job sites across the nation in 2008.
When a slip-and-fall accident occurs, in order to determine liability, both the individual's behavior and the site of the accident are scrutinized closely. Factors that can influence this decision can include the environmental design of the area, as paths leading to and away from the accident site should be clear and unimpeded.
Safety codes, whether municipal, state or federal, have to be upheld in order to maintain safe premises and job sites for all. Some code violations are immediately observable, but hidden hazards can lurk in the layout and design of a building or business.
It's important that business owners and supervisors account for usage patterns in the placement of ramps, stairs, handrails and in the selection of the surface flooring. It's important to review past reports of injuries and accidents to determine whether the area is a design hazard.
Below are just a few construction and design red flags that can indicate potential hazards on stairs.
-- Doors that open onto stairways
-- Single steps
-- Not having intermediate landings
-- Open railings
-- Bad lighting
-- Stair surfaces made of smooth marble, terrazzo, unmarked bricks or waxed treads
-- Loose padding or carpeting
A key issue in workplace accidents involving trips, slips and falls is that our brains don't perceive a change to the surface or the elevation. Our gait is predicated on a uniform distance once the first step has been taken, so subsequent steps mimic the first stride. Any deviations can cause a person to stumble and fall; 85 percent of accidents that occur on stairs happen with the first or the last trio of steps.
That's the reason why one-step changes to the surface level are particularly hazardous — our brains do not expect or readily perceives these geometric changes. Because human brains seek uniformity, environmental cues should be very visible and evident to ameliorate the danger.
Seeking compensation for work-related falls may be necessary via workers' compensation benefits or civil litigation.
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, "Slips, Trips and Falls: Bad Design or Careless Behavior?," Randy Atlas, Ph.D., AIA, CPP, accessed Aug. 19, 2016


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Stimulating fun and excitement in playful environments is the focus of water attractions.
They offer enjoyment for all ages and have become essential attractions for theme parks and resorts.
Water attractions possess extensive infrastructure demanding a detailed approach to ensure they possess the necessary elements to create safe and immersive experiences. The development of systems and procedures is an integral part in the design and delivery of water attractions to ensure environments can be easily managed by operatorsand owners.
Burling Brown has worked with clients to develop various types of water attractions, including water slides, splash pads, lazy rivers, flow riders and pools.


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iPhone 8 Massive Disclose Leaks, iPhone 7S and 7S Plus & Details :- Apple is creating a buzz in the entire tech world since the forthcoming iPhone 8 is rumored to be launch very soon and it is all set to get settle too in the earliest. Now the technology is having a huge number of the leak collection for Apple iPhone 8 and on seeing the launch of iPhone 8 going viral we can take this news seriously now!
These latest leaks of iPhone 8 are coming from Reddit Apple thread where Foxconn employees filled the thread with some of the iPhone 8 gazettes and that is an almost leak.
The design of iPhone 8 is looking promising and it is having the bezel-less display which we earlier saw in Samsung S8 Plus.
iPhone 8 Massive Disclose Leaks
Few of the promising leak for new iPhone 8 are as follows:
iPhone 8 can be named as iPhone X, although the real code name has not been disclosed yet.
Rear Camera alignment is now changed from horizontal to vertical, which is not good.
The rear Fingerprint scanner is just a hoax, Apple still sticks to the Fingerprint scanner.
There will be some introduction of Facial Detection and Iris RAM remains 3GB as seen in iPhone 7 Plus for the scanner for security on iPhone 8.
Composite Glass would be seen as a replacement to Aluminium body.
No Type C port would be available; rather Apple has decided to stick to its old Lightning port.
No wireless charging would be seen in the new iPhone 8.
Apart from these interesting leaks, one can also expect the release of iPhone 7S and 7S Plus with the same aluminum body with the increase in features.
APPLE'S iPhone 8 looks is all set to come in September and these latest leaks may reveal the reason why this time the iPhone 7S can be bigger and thicker than the current iPhone7.
Apple's iPhone 8 released date is now yet to announce but grapevine and craze for the phone are apart. We're expecting the US technology giant to lift the lid on the new iPhone 8 and this will be having a giant edge-to-edge display.
The new iPhone 8 is also likely to include a faster processor and dual cameras with support for augmented reality.
Now a new report from iDrop has revealed more about the size and dimensions of the new smartphone and it appears the iPhone could be bigger than the current iPhone 7.
The report, which claims to have come from "factory workers with intimate knowledge" of Apple's next smartphone, claims that the iPhone 8 will measure in at 143.59 x 70.94 x 7.57 mm.
Apple's current iPhone 7 measures in at 138.3 x 67.1 x 7.1 mm, which means the iPhone 8 can be simply bigger and slightly thicker.
However, if the rumors are true the new iPhone would actually be smaller than the iPhone 7 Plus but features can be larger in the Apple iPhone upcoming model.
This is due to Apple's rumored AMOLED edge-to-edge display.
Though right now we will have to wait to see the announcement, Apple will have some big news coming later today.
The major event usually sees Apple unveil its latest iPhone, Mac and Watch software updates but this year the product will be taking into the stage by San Jose.


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23. October 2015
His Master's Voice attracts almost 17.000 visitors at La Panacée (Montpellier)
From 18 June until 20 September 2015 the exhibition "His Master's Voice", produced by HMKV, was on view at La Panacée, Center for Contemporary Art, in Montpellier: It attracted almost 17.000 visitors! Presented at HMKV in 2013 it was one of HMKV's most successful shows to date.
14. October 2015
Opening of the exhibition "(Artificial Intelligence) Digitale Demenz"
Opening of the exhibition "(Artificial Intelligence) Digitale Demenz" on Friday, 13 November 2015, 6:30 pm. More information here!
08. September 2015
Save the Date: Conference "Every Step You Take"
From 12-15 November 2015 medienwerk.nrw's 2nd international conference will take place - this time in Dortmund! It is entitled "Every Step You Take" - Art and Society in the Data Age, and deals with the utopias and dystopias interconnected with new technologies of automated collection, storage and analysis of vast amounts of data. More information here!
02. September 2015
Extension of the exhibition Digital Folklore
Hartware MedienKunstVerein is pleased to announce the extension of its exhibition Digital Folklore until November 1st.
31. July 2015
Great media coverage of Digital Folklore
So far Digital Folklore was covered by ZDF, Deutschlandradio Kultur, WDR 3, WDR 5, Deutschlandfunk, Radio 91.2, Westfälischer Anzeiger, kulturtussi.de, Ruhrnachrichten and Monopol Magazin ... you can find links to all the media coverage here!
20. March 2015
Evil Clowns invited to Kunstpalais Erlangen in 2016
Funny characters, scary villains and 9000 visitors! Last but not least the exhibition Evil Clowns has attracted interest from various institutions and will travel to the Kunstpalais in Erlangen from 22 April until 26 June 2016.
16. January 2015
We are looking forward to an exciting programme 2015 at HMKV!
HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein) presents a thrilling exhibition programme in 2015.


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Scotland is the windiest country in Europe, with around 25% of the continent's wind resource. Onshore wind farm developments have grown steadily over the past decade, and with an installed capacity of over 2GW wind now accounts for more than half the installed renewable generation capacity in Scotland. The price has been radical changes to the skyline in many areas, and opposition from local groups and some councils to windfarm developments is mounting year on year. Ironically, many of the 'big guns' on the objectors' side are brought to bear by environmental organisations, to the usual crys of 'NIMBY'.
Attention is now increasingly turning towards our offshore wind resource. Scotland's offshore engineering skills gained from from decades of oil and gas exploration in the North Sea are perfectly suited to the manufacture, installation and maintenance of offshore renewables projects. Plans to build 10 wind farms off the coast of Scotland moved a step forward in February 2009 after the Crown Estate gave companies the green light to explore the sites. These offshore wind farms have the potential to generate 6GW of power if approved.
Offshore wind is not without its opponents however. 'Offshore' in some areas seems to mean turbines almost on the beach, and there is concerted local opposition to developments in the Solway Firth and off the Mull of Kintyre*, with considerable opposition to the Argyll Array off Tiree as well. The Scottish government is however taking an interest in Statoil's floating turbine 'Hywind' project, designed for deepwater deployment, and it is possible that finally an offshore wind solution wil be found that raises no objections from anyone. All that remains then are issues of distributing and/or storing the electricity from a variable source.
*Scottish and Southern Energy abandoned their plans for the Kintyre Array on March 1st 2011, saying the location was too close to local communities and Campbeltown airport and would disrupt recreational sailing.
|Offshore Wind Scotland
|Developed by HIE, Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Government in consultation with others, it includes a DVD, case studies, news stories and an interactive map showing the offshore wind sites, key infrastructure and current projects.
|Scotland's Offshore Wind Route Map
|The culmination of the work undertaken by the Offshore Wind Industry Group, setting out the opportunities, challenges and the priority recommendations for action for the sector to realise Scotland"s full potential in offshore wind. PDF.
|The Growth of Wind Power
|HIE article on the growth of windpower in Highland region, including details of the Beatrice field offshore turbines, deployed in deep water and currently the largest in the world.
|Whitelee Wind Farm
|Whitelee Windfarm is Scotland's largest onshore windfarm and is located on Eaglesham Moor just 20 minutes from central Glasgow. The windfarm has 140 turbines which have a total capacity of 322MW.
|Community and Co-Operatively Owned Wind Development
|Community windpower means most of the power is used locally with a modest surplus being exported to the grid. Many see this as the best use of windpower, with fewer problems than those posed by large scale development.
|UK power generation by fuel type
|This table is an extract from the BMRS website, which provides near real time and historic data about the Balancing Mechanism which is used by the National Grid as a means of balancing power flows on to and off the grid.
|Wind power in Scotland
|Wikipedia article, somewhat limited in scope.


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Rebounding from a post-Panda decline in organic traffic
TEN, The Enthusiast Network, is the world's premiere transmedia network of enthusiast brands including Motor Trend, Automobile, Surfer, and many others. TEN engaged iProspect to identify the cause of declining organic search traffic for their flagship Motor Trend brand. iProspect determined that there were two primary factors. First, Motor Trend's cornerstone Buyer's Guide content had been negatively impacted by Google's Panda update. Second, TEN was seeing specific issues with load times for mobile pages, which was primarily caused by third-party advertisement server load - an element of the site that is critical to their business model.
YoY increase in SEO visits
YoY increase in SEO traffic to Buyer's Guide
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In addition, the Motor Trend brand overtook key competitor Autoblog for in-market share of voice.
While this integrated pilot project required a substantial investment of time and resources, its success has resulted in TEN moving forward to secure additional editorial resources in support similar initiatives across their full portfolio of automotive sites. The TEN/iProspect team is also collaborating on scaling the "simple" AMP solution across additional TEN brand sites along with other mobile experience enhancements around branding, engagement features, and ad units.
The solution to TEN's Motor Trend traffic challenge was a multi-disciplinary approach that included an ambitious content initiative, a comprehensive AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) implementation, and a host of more than a hundred technical and editorial/UX optimization sub-projects over the course of the larger effort.
The work began with a six-month overhaul of Motor Trend's Buyer's Guide content. This intensive redesign required the Motor Trend team to create unique content for hundreds of core site pages. To support and guide TEN's subject matter expertise and editorial resources, iProspect provided the content framework including optimal word count, keyword trends, and development priority for makes and models based on search opportunities.
Complementing this enormous content effort, the team implemented AMP for all editorial content and also invested in redesigning the Buyer's Guide templates into a mobile-first format. This time-intensive effort required the addition of specialized developer resources and AMP training for existing TEN team members. iProspect worked closely with the expanded team to clear several implementation hurdles including an early failed ad-test validation, developing an effective pre-check process for third-party content assets, and improving performance by identifying opportunities to increase engagement.
TEN: The Enthusiast Network has multiple SEO challenges. We need to effectively optimize our site's performance in today's mobile-first world, keep the search engine's quality scores up for traffic reasons, and deliver the experience our customers want - all while maintaining our monetization and engagement levels. When a Google algorithm update caused declines in our organic traffic, iProspect audited our site, provided specific recommendations, and put a swat team on the case. Within three months we began to see SEO recovery. Eleven months later, our SEO traffic is up more than 130% year over year. iProspect's SME portfolio approach helped us to uncover every opportunity, size the effort and impact, and achieve all our intertwined and complex goals.
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text: David Smith, MD of Interactive Selection, found himself live in front of BBC News anchors Simon McCoy and Carrie Gracie at 10.43 today for an interview about the games industry and the topic of start ups and jobs. For a full 3 minutes he fielded questions on the state of the games industry today, how it may fare providing new jobs moving forward and how the unemployed may want to find a job within computer games. He pointed out how the games industry had grown from nowhere to 30000 jobs in the last 20 years but this growth may not necessarily continue. He made it clear that the government needed to create the right fiscal environment for the sector to thrive and create new jobs. McCoy was familiar with the tax breaks awarded by the Canadian government and Smith commented that the industry needed similar breaks if it was to compete with other countries on an even playing field. The result of no investment in the UK games infrastructure would be the UK slipping down the international league table of games production. Already 4th behind Canada, the UK was shortly to be overtaken by China to go into 5th place. On unemployed games professionals, Smith reassured Gracie that almost all would quickly find jobs with other games companies. On the the subject of the UK unemployed, Smith encouraged everyone to look at the games industry as an option. "Everyone had to start somewhere." Advice was also given on universities and training and the option of starting a career as a professional games tester. "It was fun to meet Simon and Gracie", commented David Smith "and a great opportunity for viewers to learn more about the games industry."


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Two little words: THANK YOU! I am so grateful for all of you who have signed up to follow my Discovering Me blog. I have more than doubled my followers in the last week! Well on my way to meet my year-end goal of 100 subscribers.
For all my new followers, I generally blog about once a week, twice if I am on fire (figuratively, not literally). I am in the middle of an Influenced series (okay, not middle because I have only written one of five in the series). And in between Influenced, you get random entries that are relevant to either Discovering Me overall or just my thoughts of the day. I think my next random blog, Battle of the Bulge, should be fun and revealing!
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Markets, Music and More — Oh My!
August 4, 2016
With so many things to do, the choice between music and markets, parties and splashes, can be tough! That's because something fun is always happening within minutes from Southshore. So take a minute to scan events and activities from now until next week and have a blast! Get Ready for Markets and Music This Weekend …read more


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Anti Aliasing with LEGO – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I provided some simple examples of Anti-Aliasing (AA) with LEGO. Today I will look at how the proper shade for each brick can be determined, for both standard and AA mosaics. I will use the letter 'A' mosaic to demonstrate these processes.
In the image above, the red outline is the shape of the letter 'A' to be built as a LEGO mosaic. The first step is to superimpose the outline over a grid of the desired size. The smaller the pitch on the grid, the more accurately the 'A' can be represented, but the more bricks and effort it will take to complete the project. For this example the 'A' will be positioned inside a 9 high by 11 wide grid.
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Disney Magic Castle: My Happy Life 2 [New Nintendo 3DS Bundle Pack]
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- Plays Japanese 3DS games only
- Improved stereoscopic 3D than previous devices
- Backward compatible to Nintendo DS and DSi
- 4" screens and analog 3D stick and C-Stick, extended battery life, better Wi-Fi support
- 3D Camera included
- 3DS uses parallax barrier LCD from Sharp
- new ZR and ZL shoulder buttons
- SNES color scheme A, B, X and Y buttons
- Micro SD card slot for additional data storage
The New Nintendo 3DS features a better CPU than previous models allowing for faster eShop browsing and downloading.It comes with a built-in NFC on the bottom touchscreen forthe amiibo NFC models, while sliding custom covers comewith the device, allowing owners to customize the hardware.
The deviceis based on a custom Pica200 graphics processor from a Japanese start-up Digital Media Professionals (DMP). It has two screens; the top screen is a 3.53-inch 5:3 3D screen with a resolution of 800x240 pixels (400x240 pixels per eye, WQVGA) that is able to produce a stereoscopic three-dimensional effect without 3D glasses, while the bottom screen is a 3.02-inch 4:3 non-3D touch panel with a resolution of 320x240 pixels (QVGA). The 3DS weighs approximately 8 oz. and, when closed, is 5.3 inches wide, 2.9 inches long, and 0.8 inches tall. The system features several additions to the design of the original DS, including a slider on the side of the device that adjusts the intensity of the 3D effect, a round nub analog input called the "Slide Pad", an accelerometer, and a gyroscope. In addition, there is an infra-red communicator port situated on the top of the unit. The 3DS has two cameras on the outside of the device, capable of taking 3D photos and capturing 3D video, as well as a camera positioned above the top screen that faces the player; both cameras have a resolution of 640x480 pixels (0.3 Megapixel). The system also has 3D movie playback capability. Compatible with both Nintendo DS and DSi games, and a new generation of 3DS games.
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Acting captain Adam Rossington made a battling half-century to secure Northamptonshire a draw with Sussex at Wantage Road.
Set 394 in 90 overs, Northants were struggling at 162 for 5 with more than fifty overs remaining but Rossington helped share two fifty partnerships to save the game.
Rossington's 69 from 168 balls earned Northants 11 points from a third draw of the season ahead of a week off. Sussex were denied a second victory and were forced to settle for 13 points as they head home to play Glamorgan on Monday.
Skipper Ben Brown said: "We're a bit disappointed, we tried everything but ultimately our skill with the ball wasn't quite there and we didn't get enough balls in areas to force the result. Apart from Mir Hamza we weren't on it as a group with the ball this week and we didn't give him enough support. Our attack isn't at full strength and that probably showed here.
"After all the work we'd done in the game, we didn't want to give it away so I felt we needed the extra runs this morning. 90 overs was enough to win the game and the pitch was still helping our bowlers but we just didn't bowl well enough."
But mid-afternoon, Sussex were moving swiftly towards victory as Northants lost 4 for 50 but the middle order resisted and the visitors were left wondering whether they declared too late.
After Ricardo Vasconcelos was held at third slip in the third over of the fourth innings, Josh Cobb and Ben Curran moved Nothants comfortably to 112 for 1 with a stand of 99. But, as on the second afternoon, a loose shot paved the way for a collapse.
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Curran wafted lazily outside off and was caught behind for 36 before Cobb shouldered arms and lost his off stump for 68 - both wickets to Hamza. Cobb's innings was his second half-century in the game but again fell short of a match-changing contribution.
Rob Keogh was then pinned on the crease by Chris Jordan, was given out lbw, and a calamitous run out of Temba Bavuma saw Northants collapse. Bavuma, lightning between the wickets, pressed down the ground for a single that Rossington refused, and running back from half-way down, Bavuma was short when David Wiese threw down the striker's stumps.
Rossington and Luke Procter managed to steady the situation and calmly played out 17 overs in a stand of 52. 187 were needed in 37 overs after tea - an equation that became an irrelevance when, seventh ball into the final session, Hamza moved one away to take Procter's outside edge and the home side's hopes were tased again.
But Hutton, who only entered the game on day three as Northants' second concussion substitute, stubbornly knocked back 104 deliveries for an unbeaten 25 to help secure a draw with his acting captain.
It left the question of whether Sussex had given themselves enough time. After Phil Salt slammed 122 from just 104 balls on the third afternoon, the visitors looked like pushing for a declaration before the close. But a calm end to the day meant Sussex needed to come out again on the fourth morning to make their lead safe.
It took only four overs - where Ben Brown and Stiaan van Zyl added 47 - but seemed like runs that could have been made the previous evening. As it transpired, Sussex needed more time with the second new ball.


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Waste No More: Eileen Fisher's Latest Endeavor Turns Discarded Clothing Into Art
Apr 05, 2019 | By Sidney Morgan-Petro
May 10, 2016
Print and Graphics play a large role here at WGSN and influence everything from fashion to lifestyle and interiors. Recently we headed down to London's Pick Me Up Festival, a festival held at Somerset house, dedicated to celebrating print and illustration talent. We met up with Felicity Marshall and she even did a printastic WGSN Instagram takeover for us.
Post takeover we grabbed some time with her to ask about her #career goals, distinctive illustration style and how she uses her social media platform to get more gigs.
Hi Felicity, so tell us, just how did you become an illustrator- were you drawing since you were a kid, or did you take a career change later on?
I've been drawing since I was really young. My Dad was a draftsman and a really good artist so he always encouraged me and taught me from a fairly young age. I started off my career as an illustrator but then got more into graphic and print design as the years went on; I like to keep it all fairly diverse.
How did you develop such a distinctive style?
Firstly, thanks! Secondly, it happened naturally over the years to be honest. I've chopped and changed my style quite a bit but there are certain themes that I always seem to come back to: female form, foliage, palm trees and so on.
What method(s) do you use when creating your imagery? Are you addicted to Photoshop/illustrator?
It depends on the job or image. I'll usually start off with a drawing and scan it in to digitise it through the means of Photoshop or Illustrator.
Why do you love being part of Pick Me Up Festival?
It's a great event, you get to meet loads of interesting people and see some amazing work. It's a good platform for artists and designers to showcase their work and gain some more exposure. It's a fun, relaxed atmosphere too and the interactive workshops and talks separate it from a lot of other graphic/art fairs.
How much of a role does social media play – as a means of getting your work out there?
In my opinion, social media plays quite a big role in exposure these days…there are so many outlets for people to have their work on (Instagram, Facebook, websites, Tumblr) that the catchment of people seeing/viewing it is so large, resulting in a higher probability of people buying prints or commissioning you for a job.
How does the city of London inspire you?
In so many ways. It's such a diverse city that seems to constantly be changing and evolving, it's hard to get bored here. There's so much to offer in the way of inspiration: galleries both big and small, the amazing libraries, cafes, The Barbican, the architecture, the people. I have lived here for twelve years now and I'm still not fed up of it.
What's next for you?
I'm currently working on some prints for the SS17 Topman Design show, which will be in June. Then I'm heading to LA for an extended holiday to see some friends, go on a road trip, see the Eames house, go to the LACMA, go to the beach and potentially get some new ideas for an exhibition I want to do at the end of the summer in London.
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8 CEs $160.00
Lancaster – November 17, 2018 9:00am – 5:00pm CLASS IS FULL
The purpose of this course is to teach the massage therapist/bodyworker the basic knowledge of working with Tuning Forks, Essential Oils, and the Lymph System. We will use this knowledge of sound passing through objects and apply them to the use of Tuning Forks on our own bodies. Because our bodies are solid, sound waves pass through the skin, organs, tissues, right down to the very cells of our bodies. The first part of the class will include learning about the lymph system, sound therapy and essential oils. The second part of the class will be spent learning how to perform the session, which will start with Lymph Massage, followed by placement of select essential oils, and ending with using the Tuning Forks on the reflex points and acupuncture points of the body.
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AlexandAlexa create a 'no rules' approach to dressing for S/S 19
Dec 24, 2018 | By Rose Garrod
Jun 30, 2014
It's time to kick off our S/S 15 coverage! We're starting out with one of our favorite shows – Pitti Bimbo. Taking place in Florence, Italy, from June 26-28, the show opened the season with around 10,000 visitors.
A zesty citrus palette emerged at the show for both boys and girls as designers gravitated toward tangerine, lemon and lime. Luxe materials moved towards everyday items, imbuing tees and dresses with a sense of occasion. Tactile touches included colorful poms on knit vests, candy dots on hi-top sneaks and heavy beading and floral applications. The season's inspiration moved toward sports, with a decided emphasis on varsity influences. Floral motifs mixed with athletic themes for a feminine take on sporty styles.
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This is not funny but it is a hard reality. Many new sys admin prefer to login as root.
FTA, "There are over ten million businesses in America that support fewer than 20 employees, each. Many are start-ups or otherwise minimally capitalized, and Linux fills a networking need without straining the budget… especially when they don't bother hiring professional help."
Kurt manages the office for one of them (via).
As an experienced admin, I do not recommend running anything as root:
- Take advantage of this – most services are able to drop root access/rights as soon as they go into background
- Do not grant root access to anyone use sudo
- Do not grant shell access to everyone (e.g. FTP and email users). Also consider securing and auditing the shell access with Enterprise Audit Shell
- Default firewall policy – close all doors open required windows i.e. only open or filter required ports
- Run critical services in chrooted jail
- Run only required network servers or services
- Take advantage of LDAP and/or PAM to implement more advanced authentication security schema
- If possible bound service to only loopback device 127.0.0.1 (for example MySQL should always bound to 127.0.0.1)
- Monitor logs using logwatch or other automated softwares
- Subscribe to your distribution security alert mailing list
- Restrict access using iptables/PF, acl, user rights etc
- And most important backup regularly
Always remember that no computer system can ever be completely secure, you can make crackers job hard only 🙂
Other www tutorials
- Tons of HOWTO and FAQ documents for Linux and other aspects of Security
- Linux Security HOWTO
- Securing Linux Production Systems – This article is a practical step-by-step guide for securing Linux production systems.
Recommended books
- Secure Architectures with OpenBSD
- Building Firewalls with OpenBSD and PF
- Real World Linux Security
- SELinux: NSA's Open Source Security Enhanced Linux
- Linux Security Cookbook
Hope this small list helps someone to secure Linux/UNIX box.


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Parents again have to be educated to know that they are a part of the learning process and retention is going to be poor because concepts and information have to be reinforced at the home environment in order to ensure retention. In Latino children, these choices being made, whether for convenience, over protectiveness or lack of information, directly affect their development and social skills and put them behind when compared to other kindergartners their age (Rivera, 2008). It is important for a parent to be directly involved in their child's growth and development, but they must also receive information from educators that encourages the importance of a structured learning environment that allows children to face challenges to help them thrive both academically and developmentally. The questions being answered with this information is why parent involvement at home is so important for the overall quality early care Environment.
Miquela Rivera (2008) supports the importance of early childcare programs by providing program essentials that she called "Straight A's" that she felt were essential for a successful quality childcare center. They are Availability, Accessibility, Affordability, Accountability, Credibility, Advocacy and Aspirational. This quote supports the questions what makes quality care important. Miquela Rivera (2008), clinical psychologist who works within the Latino community, observed, in her article that parents often times limit their child's intellectual growth and academic achievement by not stressing the importance of continuing the learning conducted within the early childcare programs into the home environment. They base this information on the premise that "they are just kids" and they will learn when they attend school, preventing them from experiencing social challenges outside of family. Parents often place much of the weight for learning on early childcare programs.
Parents must realize they play a significant role in that learning process as an extension, and must take responsibility to continue learning into the home environment from the early childcare program. Parents again have to be educated to know that they are a part of the learning process and retention is going to be poor because concepts and information have to be reinforced at the home environment in order to ensure retention.
Rivera, M. (2008). The Importance of Quality Early Childhood Education. Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, 18, 13-15. Retrieved from: www.eddigest.com


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Thai Massage Valentine Workshop
February 14th, 4:00-6:00PM
Give Yourself and your partner a dance for the senses followed by chocolate! Share your heart and your mat to experience new ways to playfully connect. Deepen your stretches with the help of a partner. Experience gentle therapeutic AcroYoga (flying massage). Learn to give simple, relaxing Thai Massage. Please bring a partner. No experience necessary!
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New York, Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 1885
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a good copy in the original brown cloth, a little worn at the top and foot of the spine. internally clean apart from a little light pencil marginalia, though one gathering beginning to work loose
a seminal American canoeing title, recounting a cruise in the 15-foot cedarwood canoe 'Aurora' from Lake George in New York state to the Gulf of Mexico, via the Champlain and Erie canals, Lake Erie, the Ohio canal, and the Ohio and Mississippi rivers


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The injured doctor
May 27, 2016 – Saudi Man Shoots Male Doctor For Assisting Pregnant Wife Deliver Baby, Says Female Gynecologist Should Have Been Used
A man has been arrested for shooting a male Gynecologist who assisted his wife to deliver their baby in Saudi Arabia.
The suspect argued that a female doctor should have overseen the baby delivery before opening fire on Dr Muhannad Al Zabn at the King Fahad Medical City in Riyadh Saudi Arabia.
The man reportedly invited the doctor for a coffee under the guise of showing him appreciation before opening fire on him.
He attempted to run away but Saudi police later caught up with him.
The male doctor is currently in a stable condition at the hospital's ICU.


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Paul founded Persuasive Communications in 2005. He is a business and marketing communications strategist with more than 25 years of experience. Paul understands that companies need to market cost-effectively. He delivers on a strategic and tactical level to help clients fill the waiting room chairs, increase customer traffic, sell more product and get recognized in the media. Paul is resourceful, customer-focused and results-driven.
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Michelle is our lead on all things marketing, creative and client related for the agency. She has more than 15 years of experience as a marketing and web strategist, account supervisor, client relationship manager, art director, copywriter and even dabbles a bit in graphic design. Michelle has the knowledge, the know-how and the street savvy to author your advertising game plan, execute the tactics and provide a level of service that exceeds your expectations.
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Kendra is our go-to person for all things digital. She keeps her ear to the ground on what's trending in digital marketing, web design, social media, and local search. Through collaborative coaching and content creation, Kendra helps clients bring personality to their online brand and gain traction in the digital space. With programming and graphic design experience, Kendra has the expertise and knowledge to help deliver healthy results.
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Missing Reels: A Novel of Silent Movie Love
Posted by R. Emmet Sweeney on November 25, 2014
Repertory cinema regulars can be off-putting types. They log their screenings like kids with baseball cards, reducing art to a collectible. This is the stereotype, at least, of shut-in cinephile obsessives. And these people exist – head to any Friday night screening at MoMA, where the rustle of plastic bags replaces human interaction. One might say this is not a promising milieu for a novel, but then they might not have the effervescent prose of Farran Smith Nehme's Missing Reels. Smith Nehme is better known as the Self-Styled Siren, classic film blogger extraordinaire, undoubtedly familiar to readers of this site. A contagiously enthusiastic writer, she also has the rare talent of focusing in on performances – from the elaboration of star personas down to the minutest detail of their fashion choices. Missing Reels is her first novel, and it faithfully recreates the repertory movie scene in late 1980s NYC, focusing specifically on the silent movie nut crowd. It begins as a bittersweet screwball romance about being young and poor in the city, and develops into a shaggy dog mystery involving a lost silent feature that may yet be found.
Ceinwen (pronounced KINE-wen) is a young escapee from Yazoo City, Mississippi, scraping by as a sales assistant at a vintage clothing store. She is something of a film obsessive, but not so much of the collector kind (always more of a sweaty male pursuit). She embraces it as a lifestyle, trying to model her behavior and fashion off her favorite stars (Jean Harlow, especially) in order to distract herself from the daily grind of her existence. She lives in a flat on Avenue C with two gay roommates (Talmadge and Jim), who tolerate her particular strain of movie madness. Things start percolating when Ceinwen becomes fascinated with her buttoned-up old neighbor Miriam, whom she is convinced has a Hollywood past. Then Matthew enters her clothing store. A British mathematics postdoc at NYU, he ambles in looking for a gift for his Italian girlfriend, and an on-and-off whirlwind romance ensues. Ceinwen pursues both Miriam and Matthew, though when she discovers that Miriam did star in one forgotten silent, The Mysteries of Udolpho (invented for the book), she is hell bent on finding a surviving 35mm print. Both the print and Matthew seem to be equally elusive.
The book's early stages take time to establish the precariousness of Ceinwen's existence. She often doesn't know where her next meal is coming from. Chapter two begins:
Afterward is a precise breakdown of how she can stretch that cash – with a coffee cup and a buttered roll, and the possibility of a handout from Jim. Ceinwen has loving names for all of the elements in her discounted life. There is the "Smelly Deli" (self-explanatory) as well as the "Busted" coffee, a pseudonym for Bustelo, a particularly gritty coffee familiar to underpaid New Yorkers. But though she can barely eat, she is able to maintain a glamorous vintage wardrobe, partly through the help of Talmadge's light fingers. Nehme is adept at describing the materiality of her clothes, their texture and fit. Here is a descriptive passage of a dress she is to wear with one of her first dates with Matthew:
The clothes allow Ceinwen to traverse different worlds, to a feel a part of something outside the Smelly Deli, and connect to a lineage that runs through Harlow's stockings.
Though Ceinwen had watched classic film since she was a child, she is no match for the obsessives she meets in her journeys. The most generous is Matthew's department head, Harry, who has the enthusiastic generosity of a true believer (and who would make an ideal blogger). Here he is making rapid-fire recommendations for Ceinwen's viewing schedule:
Nehme lovingly details these real and long-gone rep houses, from the shoddy rear projection at Theater 80 to the wobbly floors at the Thalia. They were landmarks for Nehme's heroic age of moviegoing, and all had disappeared by the time of my arrival in New York City. I can't help but feel deprived. The book is as much about the death of a certain kind of moviegoing in NYC as anything else. There are still wonderful rep houses in NYC, but just not nearly as varied or cheap or disreputable.
The central thread of the book deals with Miriam's secret life in film, and the ultimate fate of her doomed feature The Mysteries of Udolpho, an erotic melodrama directed be self-destructive German by the name of Emil Arnheim (a nod to early film critic Rudolf Arnheim). During the search Ceinwen uncovers an entire production history, the kind of original research necessary for any kind for film history or criticism, or in this case – narrative. Nehme skillfully balances the film plot and the screwball romance one, bouncing them off each other as equally tangled mysteries. Both the existence of a film print and Matthew's emotions are impossible to gauge. The plot curlicues are never less than crisp and engaging, but I value the book the most for its evocation of a time and place – and the rather understated way in which it states how film history, and especially the effort put into discovering this history, has an intrinsic value. It recaptures a past – one that Miriam may want to forget – but a past that would have disappeared without Ceinwen's efforts. And now those efforts can be built upon by future fictional scholars, wackos and obsessives, in the novels hopefully in Nehme's future.
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Posted By george : November 25, 2014 9:15 pm
Having read the Siren's blog for years, I definitely plan to read her book. Hope it's as good as Theodore Roszak's "Flicker," still my favorite novel about movies.
Posted By swac44 : November 26, 2014 1:04 pm
Sounds most intriguing! Having attended classic film fests, with some of these sorts of characters lingering over tables and tables filled with 16mm prints of obscure gems, I think I recognize the type(s) that Ceinwen finds herself among.
I wonder if one of her minor characters is based on that most eccentric (and tragic) NYC film buff of them all, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre?
Posted By Max Frost : November 26, 2014 4:28 pm
Love her blog, too. And having worked at the Thalia for ten years, I'm most anxious to read this. As a side note, I wonder if Nehme (or anyone who ever frequented the Thalia in the 80s) realizes that a young ticket taker there was Viggo Mortensen?
Posted By george : November 28, 2014 9:00 pm
"MacIntyre reviewed dozens of older and silent motion pictures,[26] including a large number of lost films which he claimed to have seen under circumstances the details of which he could not reveal. Some silent film critics and fans believe the reviews to be elaborate jokes; others have accused MacIntyre of muddying the historical record by publishing fake reviews."
You have to beware those fake "reviews" of lost films posted at the IMDb.
Posted By george : November 28, 2014 9:21 pm
Ah, I see that MacIntyre was the guy posting reviews of lost films at IMDb. You can read hundreds of his "reviews" there. The last one was posted the day before he took his own life.
Here's more about him:
Posted By swac44 : November 29, 2014 3:41 pm
At one point, McIntyre famously claimed to have hauled a Steenbeck editing machine up to a loft somewhere in Italy to view some precious purloined print. Of course, anyone who's ever seen a Steenbeck (slightly bigger than your average kitchen stove) knew immediately this was complete nonsense.
Posted By george : November 29, 2014 9:30 pm
Even when he reviewed a movie that actually exists, like METROPOLIS (his last review), he made suspect claims — writing that an old stagehand he met in Vienna told him Brigette Helm got her role because she was flat-chested, which meant she could fit into the robot costume.
Nobody knows what motivated him to "review" movies that nobody has seen in 80 years or more. (He's not around to ask.) Maybe he enjoyed fooling people, or enjoyed provoking film buffs who called him on the hoax. My red flags went up when he reviewed the long-long W.C. Fields version of TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE.
Or maybe he was so delusional he thought he actually had seen these movies. As one commentator wrote, MacIntyre's reviews were written in the style of film journalism from the '20s and '30s. Maybe he buried himself in old newspaper reviews and ancient issues of Photoplay and the Motion Picture Herald (perhaps at the New York Public Library), and came to believe he had lived in that time.
He clearly had mental issues, as you know if you've read about his last days.
Posted By george : November 29, 2014 9:41 pm
Oh, yeah, MacIntyre also claimed to have seen Fields' HIS LORDSHIP'S DILEMMA in Belgium (with French intertitles) and another lost Fields movie, FOOLS FOR LUCK.
No surprise that he had a career as a writer of fantasy and science fiction stories.
Posted By george : November 30, 2014 1:24 am
In more cinematic weirdness, here's an AP story:
Sober directors fears he won't make more films
Provocative Danish director Lars von Trier says he fears he won't make any more movies since sobering up, because his award-winning films were made while intoxicated.
In his first interview in three years, von Trier told Saturday's edition of Danish daily Politiken that he no longer drinks a bottle of vodka a day or takes "narcotics" that had helped him enter "a parallel world."
Because of sobering up, von Trier says: "I don't know whether I can make more films. And that haunts me."
In 2011, the director of "Nymphomaniac" and "Breaking the Waves" was ejected from the Cannes Film Festival after expressing sympathy with Adolf Hitler. He later said he had been joking, and said he would no longer speak in public.
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"The hard-core lifeguards return decade after decade, like the swallows to Capistrano," Greg Donaldson, who worked as a lifeguard at New York's Jones Beach for twenty years, wrote once, in an essay for New York. The same is true of the photographer Joseph Szabo. An avid chronicler of American youth, Szabo began taking pictures at Jones Beach in 1960, and returned year after year to capture the diverse human menagerie that gathers every summer: the evolving styles of swimsuits, the near-naked bodies in their limitless variety, the jubilance and intimacy of a day at the beach. Floating above it all, in Szabo's scenes, is the figure of the lifeguard, on a high perch, upright and vigilant amid the languid bodies and umbrellas below. Sometimes they are a taken-for-granted part of the landscape, their chairs blending into a wide-angle view of the crowd; sometimes they're godlike, on a literal pedestal and shot from the ground.
Lifeguarding at Jones Beach is not like lifeguarding at the local pool. The beach occupies a six-and-a-half-mile stretch of the coast on Long Island; according to the Parks Department, it hosts six million visitors a year, and on hot days beachgoers pack the sand shoulder to shoulder. In his "Lifeguard" series, which is collected in a new volume from Damiani, Szabo captures the strenuous physicality of the lifeguards' work—the muscles glistening under sun-baked skin, the workouts to maintain such fitness. But he also captures the sensation of endless summer days and, somehow, of endless youth. The images in Szabo's book span the past three decades, but they have a timeless quality. It's hard to place toned bodies and sea-tousled hair in any particular decade.
Lifeguards occupy a peculiar cultural niche, at the intersection of "Baywatch" and beach bum, of battle-hardened hero and teen-age wastrel. Those who work on busy beaches, such as Jones Beach, often have backgrounds as élite competitive swimmers, yet much of their job entails sitting, and tanning, and watching and watching and watching. "Unlike guards at most California and East Coast beaches, who almost always sit alone, Jones Beach veterans recline on elaborate tiered main stands that accommodate seven or eight guards at once," Donaldson wrote. "While the newcomers and weekenders ride the wing stands solo, the full-timers with seniority sit together, study the water, and kibitz. When they're on the clock, they alternate an hour on the stand with an hour off to exercise or surf."
But then there are moments of action, sudden and high-stakes. Szabo's photographs of rescues are continually surprising—when the funny-looking flotation devices and the golden limbs have snapped into action and entered the waves, rushing into the froth while everyone else just stands and stares. It suddenly seems like an absurd and dangerous thing to throw oneself into the ocean for fun.


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Much has been made of Lean Startups, A/B testing and building data driven cultures. In order to be data-driven you need to have a culture of instrumentation and measurement, but building out the pipelines, client side instrumentation and an analytics warehouse from the ground up can be tedious, hard and time-consuming.
To address this problem, I'll share a roadmap to successfully evolving a web analytics pipeline that starts by leveraging third party and open source tools for speed and time to market, but is still robust enough to evolve to owning your own warehouse. For context, I'll walk through my experiences of introducing A/B testing and building out web analytics integrations at Bazaarvoice, expanding HomeAway's A/B testing program to nearly 1000 tests a year, and now helping to architect data.world's analytics pipeline.
- Do's and Don'ts for front-end instrumentation:
- Do use exception track (Sentry) as well as event tracking
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Baroness Omnino was a female Venan who was the ruler of Vena during the waning years of the Galactic Republic.
Rise to powerEdit
Circa 57 BBY, the rise of Baron Kindoro and Baroness Omnino to power on Vena changed the historical isolationist position the system always maintained. Due to the fact that Kindoro and Omnino had been both ambassadors to Coruscant and Alderaan, this contact with outsiders motivated an economic deregulation and active foreign policy, including trade agreements, in order to make goods accessible to the Venan royal family.[1]
This radical shift angered many Venans, who resented the fact that only the royal family was benefitting from the economic opening. The commoners called for a return to isolationism and the old-fashioned values. The regents, unwilling to give in to popular demands, imprisoned the movement leaders and sent them to labor camps. This move aggravated tensions and motivated the emergence of terrorism and sabotage against Venan nobility.[1]
This conflict was worsened with the death of Kindoro, as Baroness Omnino proved herself even more unmerciful than her husband, and waged bloody war for years against her subjects.[1]
Kindoro's deathEdit
- "Twelve years ago, her husband died while traveling in Republic Space. I was his escort. The inquest proved the Baron's heart had failed, but the Baroness blamed me."
- ―Qui-Gon Jinn
Her husband's death 49 BBY left her with a son, the would-be Baron Sando. Master Qui-Gon Jinn was responsible for escorting her husband while traveling through Republic Space. The baron's heart failed, and Omnino blamed Qui-Gon for his death; since then, she distrusted the Jedi.
Several years later, the Baroness attempted to defame the Jedi and take control over the Republic. She first used an arcane mind control device to perform a false-flag assassination attempt on herself when she arrived on Coruscant to commence membership negotiations for Vena. This garnered her support within the Republic and discredited the Jedi, tasked with her protection.
Years earlier, she had provided the minor con-man Taxer Sundown with a similar device and dispatched him to rule over the Ten Mile Plateau on Ord Mantell in her service. With the power granted by the mind-control device, he posed as a Jedi, alienating them from the local populace. Together with Baron Sando, he was also tasked with overseeing the deportation of sentient Mantellian Savrips, which the Venan nobility favored as exclusive food.
The Baroness, feigning romantic affection for Qui-Gon, sent him on a quest to rescue her son, who was missing after a pirate raid. Unbeknownst to her, the ship he traveled with also carried captive savrips. Entirely unintentionally, she thus also planted Qui-Gon and his Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, on the trace to her Mantellian activities, which they swiftly put an end to. Meanwhile, she used her artificial mind control to influence Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, effectively controlling him.
Shortly after the death of Sundown and the breakdown of her Mantellian organization, she arrived at the Ten Mile Plateau to personally put an end to the Jedi interlopers. However, it appeared she had developed some real affection for Qui-Gon, since he was able to persuade her into allowing him to join her side. The feeling was not mutual, however, as the Jedi used the first opportunity to deceive her and sever her head. With all the major conspirators dead, what remained of her scheme quickly unraveled.
- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: Last Stand on Ord Mantell 1 (First appearance)
- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: Last Stand on Ord Mantell 2 (Mentioned only)
- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: Last Stand on Ord Mantell 3
- "Before the Rise" on Wizards.com (original article link, backup link)
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 10 (KEN3-4, Obi-Wan Kenobi)
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 131 (ORD1-2, Last Stand on Ord Mantell)
- Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
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"It falls on deaf ears and here we are."
War of words in WHL playoffs: Blades coach Love accuses Raiders of head shots
Mitch Love is on the defensive.
The first-year Saskatoon Blades head coach admits he is becoming sick and tired of all the accusations of so-called "embellishment" by his team in the Western Hockey League playoffs.
He had heard it from Moose Jaw Warriors head coach Tim Hunter in Round One and now he's hearing it from Prince Albert Raiders head coach Marc Habscheid in the second round.
"I'm going to defend myself, I'm going to defend the (Blades) organization and I'm definitely going to defend the players I coach," Love said during a media conference Monday afternoon at SaskTel Centre leading up to Game 3 of their WHL Eastern Conference best-of-seven series Tuesday night (7 p.m.) in Saskatoon, which sees the Blades trailing 2-zip.
"I've tried to take the high road until this point in terms of there was a bit of a narrative written about this series, or myself or this organization leading up to this series, about us embellishing penalties. I really chose not to say too much about it up until this point, but after watching two games in which I felt there were several incidents — especially (Sunday night's) hockey game where there was a lot of contact towards players' heads — I know our league stresses player safety, so I think the real story here is how people have turned a blind eye to that kind of thing, based on comments that were made previously, prior to the start of the series."
Love said he would rather draw attention to the number of head-shots he sees happening on the ice.
"I'm tired that we've had 11 minor penalties in two games to their six," he said. "They're not that innocent of a hockey club, plain and simple. It starts with the guy in charge on their bench and it goes right across the bench. I get playoff hockey: it's gritty and it's tough and you have to battle with some stuff. I'm all with that. That's the way I played the game. Look at my (crooked) nose — I played the game that way.
"But, at the same time, it's about player safety out there and it's not being monitored and it needs to be. Is that coming from the bench over there? I'm going to have our players' backs, as our league should have our players' backs when it comes to player safety. But when players are targeting certain players' heads, that's an issue for me and it should be an issue for the league."
During Sunday's game, Habscheid was seen on national TV, and later on Twitter, making a diving motion with his hand after a tripping penalty was assessed to a Raider player. Love agrees a penalty should not have been called on that particular play, but he stressed that it wasn't an embellishment or dive, either.
"Our guy kind of lost an edge and went down. I don't think he was trying to embellish a penalty if you look at the replay and slow it down," he said.
"It was a miscall by the officials."
Love said he would like the officials to focus on real head contact deemed to be far more dangerous.
He listed five situations in the game where either hands or elbows or sticks made head contact and were not called.
"We had 60 less minor penalties in the regular season than our opponents right now. That's their style of play. That's how they feel they need to play to win hockey games. That's not our style.
"But when it's getting overlooked by the officials in the game to their (Raiders') advantage, I have problems with that. It's unfortunate that is where this has gone so far, but hopefully make some changes for the rest of the series."
Love says he has expressed his thoughts on this to league officials, but to no avail thus far.
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About ten years ago I started the book quite a few people told me I should write. Ten years later it is still the two pages I started with a decade ago! I have a friend in Idaho who can produce that much before breakfast. Since SHR publishing puts up any trash I generate, I thought I would throw this out there and see if it sticks. Next year will mark the half-century mark since the events began to occur…..guess I better get busy!
……..My ideas are redneck ideas. The kind of ideas expressed by charlatans running for an office of some kind. Not that THEY meant a word of it. I meant it! Sometimes I meant it to the detriment of myself and the world at large.
No one will know the exploits and heroism of MIKE"31". MIKE Company, Third platoon, First squad-now there is a bunch of characters! Not immortalized in song and story. No it is my duty to tell the story. I can't live with myself if I don't find a way to tell that story. It is a tale inspiring – as exploits of honor, courage, and love can be. The heroes are courageous and pathetic at the same time. I just lost the brass. Yep right there. Blew my chance to make the story fit the plan. Don't really matter though. Our war, you see, was a sergeants war. No shit man the whole thing was run everyday by kids! Corporals and sergeants, squad leaders. These guys who were pressed into service, so very briefly trained, and sent to perform splendidly under the worst conditions.
Let me tell you about 31. You got teen agers running around with machine guns, you got a problem. There were generally five of us. Yeah I know, a Marine squad is a dozen plus a Corpsman. We didn't get a medic for each squad. Hell, the Navy was short handed too. "Doc" P, our USN Corpsman, was as badass a Marine as any in the Corps. Many times he would stroll with us back to our platoon position, after an act, and then turn right back around and head out with the next squad. Doc carried his Unit One (medical) bag and an M-16 with a full combat load! Red Crosses did not mean squat in the areas we operated in.
At the point was GREENMAN. A dedicated bush Marine (and rear area screw up!) who could sniff out the unusual. The unusual or the usual could strike you dead. Sniff out the unusual and you were halfway home.
Next walks RABBIT. Wound real tight. I loved him man but he was a nuclear reactor with the rods pulled. High strung. Wheel and shoot! I saw RABBIT take out two Chuckars that burst out of a bush behind him. He whirled and dropped both of them, "Quick Fire – Quick kill", with an M-16 on semi-auto. We didn't fire on automatic. As the Rifleman's Creed says….. "It is the hits that count, I will hit."
Next in the order is me, BUDDHA, squad leader, command and control. Not really, this squad was so good that it ran on auto pilot. About all I had to do was hand out the mail. BUDDHA was always in the tunnels looking for a MAKORAV pistol. Over six feet and like a snake under the ground.
Next up is MAC, married man. Got razzed for it but good natured razzing….Mac was nobody to screw with when it came to his family! Some times someone would take the risk and say something like, "Hey MAC……got any nude flicks of your wife?" You think that's nasty? When you are living in the mud like an animal, quotes from the Bhagavad Gita aren't usually the first things that come to mind.
At the Tail End Charlie position, Bahl, a decorated Marine from Fargo ND. Nobody made me feel as good about my "six" as Bahl. Tough, savvy, and high strung, the man would go hungry if he couldn't find chicken with rice. With the exception of peaches and pound cake, I never saw that man eat anything else. Hell, I liked it too, but the word in first squad was, you eat the CWR you are eating Bahl's chow!
A great bunch of blue collar warriors. Is that an oxymoron? Hell the more blue collar/ redneck a state the more they are represented on that SACRED BLACK WALL in DC. Do your homework. If you are tired start with West Virginia. By the time you finish there I think you will be ready to buy into my theories.
We ranged the Que Son Valley and Mountains out of LZ Ross. Marines had worked that area for years. "Ol Chuck" (VC/NVA) was down but by no means out. He was still capable of massing more than we could, if he so chose. We hurt him, but he was definitely capable of hurting us back. Old Charles was keeping most of his guys in Base area 612, in Laos. Intelligence knew the Second Division was out there. We didn't go over there to get them. Out of bounds! Can you believe we bought that shit? Somebody should have been charged and hung for that. In those days a man was executed, not put down like a dog….
Yep, thats all folks! At this pace I'll be elected pope before the rough draft is done. My boys deserve better…….No excuse Sir!! There are more men I am very close to who I haven't mentioned yet. (I'm talkin to you Martin!) When and if I make a little progress on this it will be my honor to introduce them to you. For now…..
Sparrowhawk6 out.