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Essentially, the story starts with the appearance of two north French ceramic traditions:
- a Breton tradition, featuring Late Castellic and related pottery, which appears in the west of Scotland (at Achnacreebeag) as part of the 'Breton, Atlantic' strand of Neolithisation and
- a North-French tradition, constituting one of a variety of regional styles of 'Chasséo-Michelsberg' pottery and which is known in Britain and Ireland as 'Carinated Bowl' pottery . (The justification for using this term to describe a tradition that encompasses non-carinated forms as well as carinated forms is explained in 2007b; and note that there is still variability in other people's use of terminology, with some still using the obsolete 'Grimston' or 'Grimston-Lyles Hill' terms, or the over-vague term 'bowl (or Bowl) pottery'. This is to be discouraged as it leads to confusion.)
The origins of the Breton tradition lie in the Morbihan region of south-east Brittany, while the Carinated Bowl tradition is most likely to have originated in the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France, where excavations at Étaples have produced a close comparandum.
The distribution of these two traditions, in their initial form, does not overlap; the former is limited to the west of Scotland, while Carinated Bowl pottery use extends over much of southern and eastern Scotland, as far north as Caithness. As will be seen below, however, in its later variants there was 'cross-fertilisation' between the two traditions as potters shared design ideas. It should also be noted that there were parts of Scotland – the Outer Hebrides (and some of the Inner Hebrides), north-west Mainland, parts of western mainland Scotland and the Northern Isles – where pottery did not begin to be used until the late 38th or 37th century BC.
Breton-style pottery
The Breton tradition is characterised by the use of thin-walled, fine-textured bipartite bowls (of Late Castellic style) with distinctive decoration: the example from Achnacreebeag has a 'rainbow' motif above the carination and a fringe of short vertical lines below. Also present in the simple passage tomb at Achnacreebeag were sherds of two other pots of Breton style, more simply decorated with stab designs. The Breton parentage of this pottery is very clear, with comparanda, for example, from a simple passage tomb at Vierville, Normandy – a pot which represents the northward movement, either of the vessel itself or of the ceramic style, from Normandy (Cassen 2011 ) – and from the funerary complex at Locmariaquer in the Morbihan area of SE Brittany (ibid.). The development and dating of Late Castellic pottery is described in Cassen et al. 2011 , from which it is clear that the assemblage at Achnacreebeag dates to between c 4300 BC and c 4000 BC. This is therefore the earliest pottery in Britain and Ireland, standing at the start of a tradition of using decorated bipartite bowls in the west of Scotland and in Ireland: later examples of this tradition, showing clear stylistic 'parentage' from its Late Castellic origins, are to be found in the Clyde cairns of SW Scotland (where Jack Scott termed them 'Beacharra Bowls') and in the court tombs in the north of Ireland (where Humphrey Case called them 'Ballyalton bowls': 1961). The longer-term development of this particular ceramic style has been traced by Sheridan (1995; 2003b), where its persistence in Ireland to around the 36th century BC can be traced .
Petrological thin-sectioning of sherds from the Achnacreebeag pots (by Gwenaëlle Hamon, for Alison Sheridan), and comparison with Breton Late Castellic pottery, has unfortunately proved inconclusive in determining whether the former had been actual imports to Scotland; the fabric is so fine that there are too few lithic inclusions to allow a consideration of origins on that basis. However, further work on examining local clays may help in this enquiry. It seems likely, however, that it was the know-how to make this pottery, rather than the pots themselves, which moved from Brittany to Scotland. This will have been a totally new technology in late 5th millennium Scotland, and the skill with which the Achnacreebeag assemblage had been made means that it can only have been made by a skilled and experienced potter/s.
It should be noted that the objections that have been raised to the idea of a Breton ceramic tradition having been introduced to Scotland (Whittle et al. 2011, 808ff) are based on a misunderstanding of the ceramic sequence in Scotland, with the later versions of this pottery type (e.g. at Beacharra) being assumed to be the 'parent' of the Achnacreebeag pots. This is an error (as explained in Sheridan 2012), and in any case no plausible alternative explanation for the appearance of an entire ceramic tradition has been offered.
The Carinated Bowl tradition
This tradition features the use of carinated and uncarinated vessel forms, all undecorated (save for the occasional use of decorative finger fluting ). Sheridan has made a distinction between the earliest manifestation of this ceramic tradition, which she has called 'traditional Carinated Bowl [henceforth CB]', and subsequent developments, called 'modified (or developed) CB' (2007b; note the importance of using capital letters to distinguish between the tradition and the vessel form). 'Traditional CB' pottery is markedly consistent (in fabric, form and finish) over a wide area in Britain and Ireland, whereas 'modified CB' shows regional variation as the process of 'style drift' led to changes, in different ways, at different rates, in different areas.
'Traditional Carinated Bowl' pottery features carinated bowls in a variety of sizes and shapes , mostly (but not exclusively) fine-textured, and mostly thin-walled. Some are extremely thin – as thin as 4 mm in some cases – and the whole tradition is the product of skilled potters with over a millennium of experience in making pottery. As with the Breton tradition, its appearance in Scotland, probably during the 39th century BC, represents a wholly alien technology, and the skill with which this pottery was made shows that it was made by people who were used to making pottery, and who followed conventions in the 'recipe' and techniques of pot construction as well as in the shapes to be made.
The carinated forms range from broad, shallow bowls to deep-bellied bowls; one of the latter, from Auchategan, Argyll and Bute, is of classic Michelsberg 'tulip beaker' form while others would seem 'quite at home' in Chasseo-Michelsberg assemblages from northern France. Carinations are generally gentle, and in some cases the pots are S-profiled. The uncarinated forms comprise generally roughly hemispherical bowls and cups, and also large necked jars, with a deep-bellied, S-shaped profile. With all the pots, surfaces have been carefully smoothed, and in some cases the exterior (and sometimes interior) have been polished to a low to medium sheen, or even burnished to a high sheen. Lithic inclusions are sparse, often less than 3% in density, and often feature the use of crushed granitic stone, with tiny mica platelets giving the surface a slight glitter. Widespread technical details of manufacture include the marked thinning of the neck just above the carination, which is particularly prevalent on the wide shallow bowls; while this weakened the vessel – with many pots having broken at this point – it nevertheless helped in achieving the desired vessel shape. Once more, the widespread occurrence of this feature points strongly to CB pottery having been introduced by potters who shared the same ceramic tradition.
While some have accepted Andrew Herne's suggestion that carinated bowls had a special, ceremonial function, the evidence does not substantiate such a view. There is abundant evidence for the use of some carinated (and a few uncarinated) bowls for cooking, but they would also have been used for serving, and larger vessels for storage. This pottery has been found in the full range of contexts, from the domestic to funerary and other monuments.
The subsequent development of this tradition is, as indicated above, a story of regional diversification, with a process of style drift having operated in different ways, at different times, in different areas. In north-east Scotland, as Henshall had observed as long ago as 1983, a regional style emerged early on, featuring the increased use of fingertip fluting and of ripple-burnishing; the addition of lugs; and the addition of new forms, including baggy lugged bowls. This 'North East Carinated Bowl' (NECB) pottery finds echoes in the developed Carinated Bowl pottery of northern Ireland (in what Case called 'Lyles Hill ware: 1961), and this is no coincidence, as there are documented links between NE Scotland and NE Ireland, via the Great Glen (e.g. in the use of porcellanite axeheads from Co. Antrim). The early date at which this 'style drift' occurred is indicated by the assemblage from the so-called 'hall' at Balbridie, Aberdeenshire: built within a generation or so of the near-identical 'hall' at Warren Field, Crathes, just across the River Dee, its assemblage is of NECB pottery, whereas that at Crathes is 'traditional Carinated Bowl'. The Balbridie assemblage includes sherds from two sharply carinated bowls with decoration on their collars : these constitute the beginnings of what was to become the Unstan Bowl, and it is assumed that this represented innovation in pot design.
Other regional versions of 'developed Carinated Bowl' pottery include a general coarsening and thickening of the vessels, the occasional addition of lugs, and shape deviation from the earliest carinated forms.
In the west and south-west of Scotland, a fusion of the Breton and Carinated Bowl traditions can be seen, with decorated bipartite bowls occurring along with developed CB forms to constitute Scott's 'Beacharra' tradition, with its regional variability. Into this mix was added the use of deep baggy lugged bowls; as argued elsewhere (e.g. Sheridan 2004b), this may well represent the adoption of a south-west English style of pottery (formerly known as 'Hembury Ware', thanks to north-south interactions within the Irish Sea area from the c 37th century. Some sharing of styles between NECB pottery and that found in W and SW Scotland is clear from the distinctive pots formerly known as 'Achnacree Bowls' (and as part of 'Rothesay Ware' ): these have long, vertical necks, heavy, hooked rims and shallow bellies, and are decorated with vertical lines of either ripple burnish or incision. Examples have been found at Culduthel , near Inverness, in a domestic context; in the passage tomb at Achnacree ; in the Clyde tomb at Nether Largie in the Kilmartin Glen ; and in Clyde tombs in Bute. The example at Culduthel comes from a context radiocarbon dated to c 3600-3500 BC and this provides a reasonable estimate of the date of this pottery.
A recent attempt to use Bayesian modelling to characterise the dating of modified Carinated Bowl pottery in Scotland has been made by Whittle et al. (2011), but this has failed to take into account that defining an end to this process is difficult, since ceramic traditions tend not to end abruptly; instead, we can trace a gradual process of style drift as conventions change and as new design ideas are adopted, through local innovation and through links with other areas. For this reason the use of Bayesian modelling is flawed. (See Sheridan 2012).
The spread of pottery using to the Outer Hebrides and the Northern Isles
It was this fusion of Carinated Bowl and Breton-origin pottery that spread to the Outer Hebrides, parts of western Scotland and north-west Scotland, probably during the late 38th or 37th century BC. Jack Scott (1966) has termed this pottery 'Hebridean Beacharra', and examples can be seen from sites such as Northton (Simpson et al. 2006), Calanais (Ashmore forthcoming), Eilean Domhnuill (Armit 2003) and various chamber tombs (Henshall 1972). The repertoire includes both undecorated and highly decorated vessel forms, in a variety of shapes. The former include simple uncarinated bowls, bowls with flanged rims and deep lugged jars (with their 'Hembury/South-Western pottery' affinities) and the latter include large ridged jars and Unstan Bowls – a type of vessel shared with Orkney and north-east/east Scotland, and almost certainly adopted in the Hebrides thanks to contacts with Orkney and/or the north-east mainland. Decoration is almost exclusively by incision. The dating of this 'Hebridean Neolithic pottery' tradition leaves much to be desired, with the existing dates suggesting an implausibly long currency from around the 37th century (or even possibly late 38th century) until the early third millennium. Improvement of the dating is a key research priority.
As far as the earliest Neolithic pottery in Orkney is concerned, this too contains an undecorated and a decorated component, with Unstan Bowls possibly being present from the beginning. Close ceramic links with the north-east mainland are in evidence, and it may be that the farming communities who pioneered farming in Orkney came from the north-east Mainland. The widespread use of the term 'Unstan Ware' offers a misleading impression of consistency among the pottery associated with Unstan Ware, and should be avoided. Key assemblages for understanding the early development of pottery include the Knap of Howar (Ritchie 1983) and Pool (Hunter et al 2007).
The earliest pottery in Shetland consists of a handful of very small, undecorated, slightly coarse sherds from West Voe. While these are too small to be diagnostic, they are most likely to resemble the plainware component of the ceramic tradition of the Hebrides and western mainland.


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Whitworth AD will return to Illinois St.
Sat., June 15, 2013
It's back to Normal for Aaron Leetch.
After serving two years as athletic director at Whitworth University, Leetch is returning to Illinois State to become that school's deputy director of athletics, both schools announced Friday afternoon.
Leetch moved to Spokane from Normal, Ill., in the summer of 2011 after serving six years at Illinois State. While he said Friday that he has "not been looking for other opportunities," Leetch said his new job places him closer to family and gives him a chance to work with an old colleague, incoming ISU athletic director Larry Lyons.
Leetch said Lyons offered the job on June 7. That same day, Leetch informed Whitworth President Beck Taylor that he was considering the position, which puts him closer to family in the Midwest and puts him second in charge of that athletic department at a Division I school with an enrollment of more than 20,000.
On Monday, Leetch confirmed to Taylor that we would accept the job and resign effective June 30.
"It was a surprise – I had not anticipated that Aaron would be leaving so quickly," said Taylor, who this week named Melinda Larson as interim athletic director.
Larson, a Whitworth graduate who played basketball for the Pirates, has worked in the athletic department for 18 years. Currently she is the head athletic trainer and an associate professor.
"As our head athletic trainer, Melinda has an enormous amount of exposure to our coaches and athletes, and knows of the overall workings of the athletics program," said Taylor.
Larson will be considered for the permanent position, Taylor said.
"I am grateful for the opportunity to serve Whitworth in this role and I'm excited to work for such a supportive president as Beck Taylor," Larson said.
Meanwhile, Taylor said that he will meet "in the coming days and weeks" with coaches and other members of the athletic department, but added that no deadline has been set for naming Leetch's successor.
"I haven't constrained myself in that way, because I'm so confident in Melinda's leadership," Taylor said.
Taylor, the school's president since July 2010, also oversaw the hiring of Leetch in July 2011.
"I can certainly say that our athletic department is in better shape than when Aaron arrived here," Taylor said.
During those two years, Leetch oversaw the completion of three key facility upgrades: the renovated baseball facility – including the addition of a FieldTurf infield, the Aquatic Center locker rooms and the resurfacing of Boppell Track.
Leetch also hired head coaches for volleyball and men's soccer.
Finally, Leetch continued a standard of success established by his direct predecessors – Scott McQuilkin and Warren Friedrichs. Over the course of the last two academic years Pirates teams have won 12 Northwest Conference titles and extended the school's streak of NWC McIlroy-Lewis All-Sports trophies to six in a row.
"The student-athletes, coaches, athletic trainers and staff are responsible for the consistent level of success at Whitworth and deserve all the credit," Leetch said.
"Though my time at Whitworth has been brief, I will always cherish the relationships I have made and hope that I have been able to add value to the program."
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EXCLUSIVE-Iran missile tests were 'in defiance of' U.N. resolution -U.S., allies
By Reuters
By launching nuclear-capable missiles Iran has defied a United Nations Security Council resolution that endorsed last year's historic nuclear deal, the United States and its European allies said in a joint letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
Iran's recent ballistic tests involved missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons and were "inconsistent with" and "in defiance of" council resolution 2231, adopted last July, said the joint U.S., British, French, German letter to Spain's U.N. Ambassador Roman Oyarzun Marchesi and U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon.
The letter said the missiles used in the recent launches were "inherently capable of delivering nuclear weapons." It also asked that the Security Council discuss "appropriate responses" to Tehran's failure to comply with its obligations and urged Ban to report back on Iranian missile work inconsistent with 2231.


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'Phone quality wise, the device is strong, with calls coming through crisp. '
'The HTC Desire 601 is a phone that gets close to the sort of specs you'd get in a top-end One-series phone, but at a slightly lower price.'
'The viewing angles of this IPS LCD screen are also quite decent.'
'capable dual-core processor'
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This board measures 23cm x 15cm and has a stainless steel cutting wire.
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A new review supports what those of us who have worked in the area of chronic pain have long known - people who take opioids for real chronic pain problems rarely become addicted to them.
Meredith Noble, a senior research analyst at ECRI Institute, one of 14 evidence-based Practice Centers in the country under the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and her colleagues reviewed the findings of 26 clinical studies comprising 4,893 participants. "There is a lack of consensus that opioids are safe and effective for people with chronic severe non-cancer pain," Noble said. "We wanted to look at studies that treated people for six months or longer, given that chronic pain can go on for years. This review includes studies of individuals on opioids for as long as 48 months."
Patients in the studies had previously tried other treatments like non-opioid medications and physical therapy, but still had considerable pain. Clinicians prescribed opioids including oxycodone, morphine and methadone by pill, transdermal (skin) patch or intrathecal pump. Most of the patients in this review had chronic back pain following failed surgery, severe osteoarthritis, or pain related to nerve damage.
Among studies reporting abuse or addiction, only seven of 2,613 participants reportedly took their medicine inappropriately or became addicted. That's only about one quarter of one percent. The findings indicate that carefully selected patients with no history of addiction and abuse, who take their medications as prescribed, can experience good amounts of pain relief with a very small risk of addition.
Alex DeLuca, M.D., an independent consultant specializing in addiction and pain medicine, praised the thoroughness of this review and pointed out the very low rate of signs of addiction in treated pain patients.
A take-home message for physicians reading this review is that all relevant studies find that long-term opioid therapy improves the life of non-cancer patients experiencing chronic pain and is both safe and effective, DeLuca said, and there is zero evidence to the contrary.
A Personal Note
I was so pleased to see this review. Unfortunately, when it comes to opioids, most people still don't understand that there is a big difference between physical dependence and addiction. (For more information read: Opioids: Addiction vs. Dependence) Hopefully this review will give us more ammunition in our fight for appropriate treatments for chronic pain patients.
Noble M, et al. Long-term opioid management for chronic noncancer pain (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Issue 1, 2010.
McAdams, P. (2010, January 19). Used as Prescribed, opioids relieve chronic pain with little addiction risk. Health Behavior News Service.


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User Interface Administration
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- 1 User Interfaces
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User Interfaces
The default screen in "Administration" is "User Interfaces." It displays the name of the screen, the data type to which it applies, and the code for that screen.
In order to edit a user interface, click the edit icon to the far right of the screen. This will bring you to a screen that includes basic information, such as the name and code of the user interface, as well as a list of all of the screens within that interface. This list of screens, which details the number of metadata elements on each, is your tool for adding new elements, or fields, to your configuration.
Editing User Interfaces (Objects Editor)
To add a metadata element, scroll down to a list with two columns called "Screen Content." The first column contains "Available Editor Elements" and the second holds "Elements to Display on this Screen." In order to add new elements to your screen, drag and drop from the first column to the second.
Screen-based Type Restrictions
Screen Content (for Object Basic Info)
You will notice that not every metadata element in the system is an "Available Editor Element" for every screen. This is because "type restrictions" are applied to the elements when they are defined; in other words, some metadata elements could only be relevant to entities, and are therefore restricted to that type and won't be available for an object interface.
Creating New Metadata Elements
Lists, of course, are not the only element types in CollectiveAccess. To create a new metadata element, first select "Metadata elements" from the left-side navigation in Manage > Administration. You will see a list of all of the defined metadata elements in the archive, including each element's label, code, metadata type, the system Type to which it applies, and its usage in User Interfaces (UI).
List of Metadata Elements
To create a new element, select the green "+" from the top right. You will arrive at a form that may look complex at first, but is easily broken down.
- Name: Choose a name for your element that is descriptive and brief.
- Description: If you wish to see a description of this element's purpose when it is moused-over in a user interface, fill out this field.
- Element Code: the unique alpha-numeric identifier for your element. Should contain no spaces or special characters (i.e. "set_description").
- Documentation url: if you are using a specific content standard, you can place a reference in this field.
- Datatype: what form does the element take? Is it a text box? A date range? A list? choose from this drop-down.
- Use list (for list elements only) if your element is a list, choose from this drop-down of all the different lists defined in "Lists and Vocabularies." This will append the actual content of the list to the metadata element.
Top Portion of Metadata Element Form
- Datatype Specific Options: here you will define the look and function of your element. As you may recall, dataypes determine what data is accepted and normalized in a field. The options in this box will change depending on the datatype you've chosen. Many of the setting fields will be populated with default values, but you are free to alter these.
Datatype-Specific Options
- Type Restrictions: here is where you define whether or not your metadata element will appear in that aforementioned "Available elements" list. Although the term "Type Restriction" is used for both, this is distinct from screen-based type restrictions which determine whether an entire screen will be associated with a type. Click "add type restriction" and then choose a table from the drop-down (called "Bind attribute to") that appears. You can further refine this restriction by specifying subtypes; for example, you may wish to bind an element only to Photographs, in which case you would choose that from the second drop-down list after having chosen "Objects" from the first:
Table and Type Restrictions
You must also define the maximum and minimum number of attributes that must be associated with this item, as well as the minimum number of attribute bundles to show in an element form. So what does this mean?
- minimum number of attributes: in other words, do you want to be able to remove this field from a given screen? If you set this to "0," (which indicates that there is no minimum) there will be a small grey "x" to the far right of the field that will allow you to remove it if it's not necessary. If you set it to "1," there must always be at least one instance of the field visible on the screen when it's opened; if it's set to "2" there will be 2 instances present when the screen is opened, etc.
- maximum number of attributes: allows you to set a maximum number of repeating fields - if it would never make sense for a cataloguer to include more than three instances of a particular field, for example, then you would set this number to three.
- minimum number of attribute bundles: if you want a field to start off in the collapsed position when you first open a screen, then you can set this field to zero. If not, then it should be set to 1 (or greater if you wish the attribute bundle to appear more than once when the screen is first opened)
Min./Max. Attributes and Bundles
As you can see, there are several steps from the moment you realize you need a new list to the moment it can actually appear on a screen. To re-cap:
- Define the content of the list in "Manage > Lists and Vocabularies."
- Define the metadata element that will use the list in "Manage > Administration > Metadata Elements"
- Add the new metadata element to a screen in "Manage > Administration > User Interfaces"
Screen-specific Settings
Sometimes cataloguers find that the options set on a metadata element (as described above in Datatype-Specific Options) need to be overridden on specific data entry screens. For example, let's say you have a general date field and it's used on both Object and Entity screens. You may want the field to be called "Creation date" in the Object record and "Life dates" on the Entity record. To do this, you'll need to use the User interface bundle settings to change the label in each environment.
After navigating to Manage > Administration > User interfaces, select the specific user interface, screen and field you want to edit.
You'll see there are several screen-specific settings for each field, depending on datatype.
- Alternate label: Allows you to change the title of the field on this screen only.
- Alternate label for add: Allows you to change the language of the "add" button for repeating fields.
- Description: Allows you to change the description that is visible when this field is moused-over.
- Width: Sets a screen-specific field width.
- Height: Sets a screen-specific field height.
- Read only?: Prevents the field from being editable on the screen.
- Sort order: Sets the sort order of repeating attributes. Any field in a container can be used to sort (ascending or descending). The default sort is creation order.
- Sort direction: Ascending or descending.
- Use rich text: When enabled, a formatting toolbar can be used to style text.
- Restrict to relationship types: Restricts the relationship qualifier to one or more relationship types.
- Restrict to types: Restricts the look-up of the field to records of just the set type(s).
- Do not include sub-types: Treats type-restrictions as top level only.
- First item color: Allows the first relationship (set via sort order and direction) to carry an arbitrary color.
- Last item color: Allows the last relationship (set via sort order and direction) to carry an arbitrary color.
- Do not show delete button: Removes the delete button from the cataloging screen, when checked.
- Relationship display template: Layout for the relationship information on the screen (can use HTML). Uses the bundle display template syntax.


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Horror and mess creator is coming to Kyiv
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For two days, on November 16-18, the American director, artist, musician, the author of the cult series "Twin Peaks", and such well-known films in our country as "Dune" and "The Elephant Man", David Lynch is going to visit the capital of Ukraine.
The Director will take part in the opening of the representative office of the worldwide charitable foundation "David Lynch Foundation". Except that, Lynch is planning to meet students, officials and people of art profession.
"David Lynch Foundation" was founded in 2005. From the very beginning, it dealt with the promotion of Transcendental Meditation in educational institutions. Later the foundation was engaged in helping "at-risk" people such as the homeless, military veterans, war refugees and prison inmates.
David Lynch came to Kyiv in 2009, when he in particular met students of Kyiv National. Karpenko-Kary theatre, cinema and television University.
After Ukraine Lynch is going to visit Georgia, where he will take part in the opening of the International cinematographic University named in honor of him.
Surrealistic elements, horror and mess atmosphere, strange and ugly personages and original music characterize the Lynch's films. In many of his movies they investigate dark side of small American towns' life.


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Weaving exercise into the reality of daily life.
It is the most common excuse ever invented for why we can't start exercising: 'I just don't have time'. We all sense that life is busier than ever, yet how often do we manage to make time to watch TV, do our social networking, or make long phone calls. How come?
Psychologists believe that the 'no time' excuse is not simply an easy cop-out, but that it masks underlying negative feelings about exercise: that it will be dull and repetitive, that we may hurt or injure ourselves, that we might even embarrass ourselves in front of other people. [1]
Always try and think of being active and exercising as a really positive choice. You are making the decision yourself to do something that will benefit you both in the short and the long term. That can start to diminish any negative feeling straightaway. Now you just have to use your time wisely…
We all work in different ways. Having an exercise plan can be extremely valuable, but it is not always possible to be that consistent, with shifting daily demands, uncertain timetables, a work pattern that may change every week, sometimes every day (especially if you are working for yourself) or after-school clubs that mean irregular pick-up times.
So here are a few ideas which may help you blend exercise into the frenetic nature of 21st century life.
Take five minutes for a walk in between other commitments or meetings. Then let those five minutes grow to ten and be aware of the improvement, gradually building it up to thirty minutes, but still with the mind set to put just those five minutes aside if time is really tight.
Maybe think about trimming five minutes off your online time. Is there a TV programme you don't really have to watch? Or alternatively could you use that TV time to exercise while you are watching it, jogging on the spot or doing some easy exercises, or with a quick step workout on the stairs during the ad breaks. Maybe leave out dessert after dinner and swap it for a post meal walk? [2]
You might be able to carve out even more time by encouraging your partner and family to take on some of the chores you are used to doing just because you are the one who always does it. If they see they are helping you feel better and they know how much you appreciate it, they will know they are doing you a real service. Or share exercise time with them: it's great for children to see their parents actively enjoying exercise. It sends out a very positive message. [3]
Take a longer, different route back from the high street shops when you do a bit of shopping. If you commute to work, jump off at an earlier stop every couple of days and walk the rest of the way. The old advice about taking the stairs rather than the lift is a classic tip precisely because it does work. The same is true of walking the dog: it's excellent exercise because you're walking yourself at the same time!
If you love talking on the phone, talk on a headset and catch up on calls while walking. You will be concentrating on the chat and probably won't notice the fact that you are actually exercising (but of course do make sure you are not so distracted you forget to be aware of traffic).
You can use your time even more efficiently by combining two different activities together. Perhaps you have been meaning to get together with a friend who seems just as busy. Why not agree to meet up and walk round the park while catching up, or even explore trying new activities together – have a quick chat during or after a game of tennis, for example?
Keep up the good work even if you are travelling, for business or pleasure. If you are in a hotel with a fitness centre, make the most of it. Why not always pack some light exercise gear and running shoes as a matter of course, even if you don't know whether there is a gym where you are going to be staying? Another time-efficient idea is to always keep a bit of fitness gear in the boot of your car, to make the most of any time you find yourself with any unexpected time.
Enjoy the moments when you do get to be active and then watch those slivers of time grow larger - but as always easy does it. Don't expect instant results, and be patient as you start to see a rise in your energy levels and all-round wellbeing.
[1] Psychology Today: The Real Reason We Don't Exercise
[2] Cosmopolitan: 7 Ways to Get Toned While You Watch TV
[3] Component of Statistics Canada: Parent-child associations for physical activity and weight and projected body mass indexBack to post list


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How many people do you know have Sickle Cell Disease? Most likely a few.
In the United States, 90,000 – 100,000 people – mainly African Americans have SCD.The disease occurs among 1 of every 500 Black births and 1 out of 36,000 Hispanic-American births. The numbers don't lie!
During the early morning show today Dr. Freda Lewis Hall did a wonderful painting the picture of how sickle cell disease tears through the black community. One question that emerged from the conversation was, "Is the disease more prominent in the black community because of DNA?" The answer is: YES.
Although anyone can retain the Sickle Cell trait, most Middle Eastern, Indian, Mediteranean, and people of African heritage are frequently found with SCD because these regions are most to be prone to malaria. Sickle cell is related to Malaria, the fact that these regions are more prone has nothing to do with skin color!
In order to be diagnosed with the disease you have to be of two parents who carry the trait. What if only one has it? People who are born from only one parent with sickle cell are known to just carry the trait and should be cautious of potential partners with the trait who can potentially pass to their children at birth.
There are plenty of ways to enjoy a healthy life while having SCD. Visit http://gethealthystayhealthy.com to learn more about SCD and how to stay healthy as possible.


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There are really only two ways to live your life: with purpose or by chance. If we set out on a path with intention and expectation, we end up—maybe not exactly where we set out—but somewhere in alignment with what's important to us. Without this purpose or intention, we end up in a default state where we look around and wonder where we are.
A quick assessment: Think about where you are with your career, your life, your financial situation, your relationships. And then ask, "How did I get here?" Was it by confident steps in a specific direction with your eye always on the horizon? In other words, are you where you expected to be?
If so, fantastic! If not, don't fret. The thing about the future is that it's perfectly malleable and always out there, one step ahead. You can set that course today and begin walking that new path immediately. (One moment while I step down off my soapbox.)
The good news: We're living in a world where there are amazing tools available to help guide your way. Here are a few of my favorites:
• For getting control of your finances, there is simply no better tool than Mint (www.mint.com). Mint connects directly to all your financial accounts (banks, loans, credit cards, etc.) and pulls the information together in one place. You don't initiate any transactions here, but you can view everything. Create new goals for budgets or savings. Get detailed reporting on where your money is going and helpful suggestions on ways you can save money in each case.
Mint's website and smartphone apps are the best way to get a clear view of your entire financial life. Best of all, it's free.
• There's a reason the FitBit (www.fitbit.com) was Amazon's best seller in the personal product category last Christmas. This little wonder is part of the emerging "internet of things" and tracks your activity levels throughout the day (and your sleep at night.) The accompanying website and smartphone apps bring all the data to life with easy-to-understand charting. You can also track the food you eat (which is absolutely game-changing).
For better results, invite your friends to join you to turn fitness into a game with an ongoing leaderboard. Fun stuff (especially when you're at the top, not so much when you're at the bottom).
• I took three years of German in high school, and Mrs. Crone would have been much happier with my progress if I'd had Duolingo (www.duolingo.com) to help. Duolingo's website and apps are both free (yes, really) and provide a college-quality language education in Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and English. Duolingo enables users (you and me) to learn a language while translating documents online. It's cool, fun to use, and useful. What could be better?
• To help you build (and stay in touch with) your network, LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) has become the industry standard. With powerful tools to help you visualize your connections, you can quickly and easily see how the six degrees of separation work for you. Interested in meeting someone? Simply follow the chain back through their network to yours to find the common links. LinkedIn has also become the choice social network for business relationships, enabling the sharing of ideas and content with people who have similar interests.
• At some point, moving toward the future of your choice requires reflection. For that, you really need a journal. On the Mac and other Apple devices, you can't go wrong with DayOne (www.dayoneapp.com).
Selected as the App of the Year in 2012, it's continued to improve. Its aim is to help you easily record the moments of your life. To help, you can sync it automatically with your Twitter and Facebook accounts, making it work as a bit of a "life recorder."
If you want to use it in the traditional journaling sense, it's extremely easy to use, it takes only a second to add something, and your entries are immediately available across all your devices. If you haven't written in a while, the app nudges you to add something new.
Have I mentioned that we're a week into 2014? Time to get moving. Set a course for the future of your choosing! Go!•
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National Recognition for Transformative Design
The Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) has recognized two collaborative Page projects with Design Awards of Honor Awards, choosing them from submissions across the country. Page is proud to be represented among winners of this national annual award competition yet again.
Buffalo Bayou Park and The University of Texas at Austin Medical District Master Plan are two very different projects that make lives better for their users. The former is an urban park on the edge of downtown Houston that has transformed the area, attracting businesses, residential development and improving the desirability of the area. The latter created the framework for a partnership that has successfully implemented early phases of a medical school that is providing education through innovative methods and offering care for the community.
At the awards ceremony, the emcee shared that the jurors liked "the scale and the materiality of" the transformation of the section of the meandering waterway by restoring the natural landscape and creating architecture indicative of a landmark building. They noted how successfully the master plan by SWA Group and design of the built architecture by Page have resonated with the community, saying "this fun project invites you "in"!"
Additionally, the jurors were impressed with the resilient design of the built structures to withstand flooding. For more information about Buffalo Bayou Park, click here.
Jurors celebrated the medical district master plan described as a transformation of a 28-block area in central Austin from a motley collection of parking lots and stand-alone structures into a lively, health-oriented community that focuses on a prominent greenbelt and blurs the boundary between town and gown. The jury felt the plan had "a strong, cohesive concept." The project team included Sasaki and Page.
The vision for the district focuses on medical education that integrates healthcare, teaching and research within an interdisciplinary setting, taking full advantage of adjacent university resources. To learn more about The University of Texas at Austin Medical School District Master Plan, click here.
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Kevin Ware: Will He Be Able To Play Basketball Again? — Doctor Speaks
After Kevin's horrific leg injury, everyone is asking: will he ever play basketball again? Dr. Glashow, co-chief of sports medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively if Kevin will ever be back on the court. Read on for details!
After Louisville sophomore Kevin Ware broke his right leg during a game against Duke University, the basketball player was rushed to the hospital and underwent emergency surgery. After a successful surgery, Kevin is now focused on healing, but what does the future for his career hold?
Kevin Ware's Basketball Career: Will He Ever Play Again?
Dr. Glashow, the co-chief of sports medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively that not only will Kevin play basketball again, but he could be healed in time for next season!
"I think this will take about six months to recover, and he could be back on the court that quick," Dr. Glashow explains. "The rod may or may not be removed from his leg. They will probably keep it in for a year."
Dr. Glashow also adds that Kevin's game may be totally unaffected by the injury! "It is very possible that he will play at the same level that he has been at. A complete knee surgery would have been much more damaging and long lasting. So, even though he had a very gory injury, it is better in the long run."
Louisville Basketball Player's Recovery
Although Kevin will be able to play basketball again, he has a long road to recovery ahead of him before he'll be back on the court. After he's recovered from surgery, Kevin's next step will be physical therapy, according to Dr. Glashow.
"He will probably be in immediate physical therapy to move ankle and knee," Dr. Glashow says. "In this new picture he will be putting a little weight on it. And he is very lucky the fracture is not at joint, that would be much more problematic and this is a clean break."
HollywoodLifers, do YOU think Kevin will play basketball again? Vote below!
WATCH: Kevin Ware's Broken Leg — Injury Could Heal In Six Months
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I recently defended my PhD thesis in astrophysics on observations of physical processes in galaxy cluster cores at Michigan State University.
I am now in San Francisco looking to apply my analytical skill set to a wide variety of problems and data.
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Recovering from runway fatigue? We're here to sift through the best, the worst, and the weirdest looks from your favorite labels, and then distill that into things you can actually wear.
First up: Accessories!
The big accessories trend from the Spring Summer 2016 shows was the resurgence of the urban minimalist!
Shows from Marni to Louis Vuitton styled models in large, geometric, minimal statement pieces. The great thing about this trend is that you can wear simple clothes (even a shirt and jeans) and instantly make them pop with an hint of sophistication with just 1 accessory. That's pretty low maintenance!
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Every car guy I meet claims to be a God behind the wheel, but I rarely hear their "Fuck up" stories, which is likely for the best anyways, because it would require me to tell you mine... Which is exactly what I'm going to do today.
When I was a young guy trying to make his way through school selling cars, I cut a deal with a shady mechanic to buy a black 1991 Nissan Fairlady Z32, right hand drive, RWD Coupe. It was my second car, but the first car that I was going full on commando with (no parents help in terms of Insurance or Credit). I made the deal with the guy, and bought it outright for $3000.
I felt like I was very compatible with the car itself, despite the fact that the rear shocks had gone loose, and the rear brakes were off a 240SX (Previous owners cheap conversion - I guess he sold the Z32 brakes).
In any case, the main reason I felt like I was so compatible with it was due to the moderate power, RWD, front engine layout with the 5 speed manual transmission... which is ironic, because those were all the things, plus the advent of weather, that lead to my very "incident".
I would often take it out drifting, or up the mountains at a decent rate of speed, which retrospectively, was rather reckless in and of itself. This lead to a very quickly almost erased set of rear tires. With little to no grip, I decided (like the idiot I was) to head out to Montreal from Ottawa one day with it and pick up the new tires which I had found for cheap... in the pouring rain.
Halfway through the journey, I stopped for gas. As I was done filling it up, the rain started to come down hard. I could see people scrambling for cover, so with a bit of urgency, I clambered to get out of the gas station parking lot, and onto the highway, while everyone else was stagnant. There was (at that time) nothing I loved more than driving in the rain.
I started the car, and headed for the exit back onto the main road that lead to the highway. As I came out of the lot, the rear wheel rose up and over the curb. As it hit the curb, I prodded at the throttle just a bit too much, and when the car landed on it's rear wheels again, in a large puddle, the rear wheels were spinning at a higher RPM than the speed. I'll never know what lead me to prod the throttle to get over the curb... I assume I had seen it jutted out, and my immediate thought was that I would need to get some throttle to get over it. I dunno. I don't remember. I know I must have been about 2000-2500RPM over what was necessary though, because as the cars rear wheels hit the ground, with my steering wheel pointed left, the rear of the car spun out rather quickly. Rather than allowing the whole rear end to spin out and hit the curb or even worse, go over the curb, I gassed the throttle and quickly counter steered, which in turn produced a very sudden shift in rear pendulum direction, now to the left. I modulated the throttle out in a straight line, and more than a little startled, I pulled over into a parking lot for a few minutes of cool down time. I remember thinking that I was glad that I had powered out instead of braking or letting go of the throttle, because I would have damaged the car, possibly hurt myself, or been in someone else's way.
As I pulled back onto the road, I saw the lights.
The OPP Officer was not going to accept any excuses. He was certain of what he'd seen, and immediately scolded me for being reckless and endangering myself.
"You usually drift out of parking lots?"
"Sir, I swear on my life. You see, my car has no traction control and my rear tires are almost bal..."
"So the car's not safe for the road?"
"I was going to purchase new tires today, I didn't th..."
"Listen, I know what I saw. I saw you drift out of that lot. That's reckless driving. Minimum, $600 fine. 6 months suspension."
"Insurance and Registration, and License please."
With that, I handed it to him. When I went to court to dispute the ticket, he was there to counter me.
Thus, my license was suspended for 6 months. That was 3 and a half years ago now.
But I learned from it, and I've learned to be more respectful of my car and the road conditions, and to more properly maintain my vehicle.
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Lily Allen likes her men to be smelly, sorry, manly. It's difficult to distinguish between the two here.
The Air Balloon singer admitted she isn't attracted to guys who take too much care over their appearance and loves that hubby Sam Cooper isn't vain.
Lily explained in her guest-edited edition of Shortlist magazine: "I like that when my husband gets up in the morning he spends about 12 seconds looking in the mirror and then leaves.
"I'm not into men who are vain, or even wearing aftershave. Men should be men. Go out, earn some money, come back and look after my children."
Either that's the quickest shower in history or he just prefers to go without.
Whatever floats your boat Lily.
The singer, who has two-year-old daughter Ethel and 13-month-old Marnie with Sam, also admitted her life has changed since she had children.
Now, apparently, she never brings her problems home with her and is good at dealing with the fallout from her numerous Twitter spats.
Of course by that we presume she is referring to THAT online war with motor-mouth Katie Hopkins.
The 28-year-old told the magazine: "My husband doesn't do social networking. Of course he gets p**ed off, but he knows I can handle it, so it's not something we bring to the dinner table...
"My drive last time I released an album was very different."
She added: "I mainly wanted to go to festivals and see who would be interested in sleeping with me, and how drunk I could get. That was my drive.
"It's very different now. I get home now and I'm very thankful if I've got an hour and a half with the kids before they go to bed.
"And no one wants to hear me come in and go, 'God, I hate Katie Hopkins'."
Well, actually, we would.
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If you have nine minutes, watch this video from the Gartner Data Center Conference from earlier this month.
Josh Oelrich, of the Strategic Solutions Lab, narates a demonstration of building a VCS Fabric using a single tool, a cable. It doesn't get much easier than that.
Toward the end of the demonstration, when a cable is removed, nothing happens to the live application traffic. It just continues to run. This is the compellilng difference between VCS Fabric technology and classic Spanning Tree for layer 2 networks; a VCS Fabric is auto-healing with automatic traffic rerouting in less than the blink of an eye.
In a similar vein, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion about Software Defined Networks (SDN) last Friday by one of our partners, Vista Solutions. There were some 60 people from companies in the metro-Denver area. Steve Smoot, CTO at Riverbed, gave a talk about the data center of the future and the role SDN can play, and then the panel convened to take questions and discuss this topic. I asked the audience how many were responsible ONLY for the network? There was only one hand. Everyone else in that room had to manage networks AND servers or networks AND storage, or all three.
I asked how many thought their network had an architecture, or did it now look like an ad-hoc assembly of parts? There were a lot of smiles and knowing chuckles. They all had experienced the increased entropy common to any physical infrastructure. Although entropy is a thermodynamic property, it is commonly associated with the tendency for disorder to increase in a system. Steve pointed out that reducing entropy requires putting energy in, which meant you had to have time available to do the necessary housekeeping. Ah, but to another question about how many of them had time to think about the future, there were only about 10 hands that haltingly went up.
In his talk, Steve pointed out that a benefit from SDN was the dramatic reduction in time to complete not only initial provisioning, but the ever present move, add, change (MAC) activities where a lot of time goes. Time spent on MAC activities means less time spent on planning or engaging with the business owners so you can stay one step ahead. I pointed out that minimizing time spent on repetitive configuration tasks requires taking a step back and looking at the assumptions underlying network architecture. Changing a few fundamental assumptions can change everything. SDN changes assumptions about how you configure networks using abstractions such as services and OpenFlow instead of physical configuration of every port by hand using a CLI. Similarly, a VCS Fabric is a great example of how simple network management is when you change some fundamental assumptions and thereby eliminate complexity.
I think you could say Brocade VCS Fabric technology keeps network entropy from increasing so frames keep flowing smoothly and you have more time to plan and anticipate what the business owners are going to want next. BYOEF Baby.
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Just a little reminder, I'll be doing one of those talking to a group of people things tomorrow in Summerville, SC. I try talk good. Here's the info:
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
or call 843-376-0142 x2003
Distinguished Speaker Series
Wednesday, December 8
7:00-8:00 p.m.
Pinewood University Wing's Smith Hall
1114 Orangeburg Road, Summerville
See you there!


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Did you find time to wander through Madison Square Park this year? You may have seen the vivid spring blooms, the great oak and elm trees, and our staff working hard to keep it green and clean.
Madison Square Park Conservancy raises 100% of the funds to care for your Park, and we are entirely responsible for maintenance and programs.
Every day, you'll see Gardener Steph and her team planting flowers, sweeping paths, emptying trash cans, repairing fences, or shoveling snow – critical work that continues year-round.
As we care for the Park this winter, will you help us prepare for the future by making a year-end gift to the Conservancy?
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Nowadays there's a big use of virtualization; tools like VMware, VirtualPC and others are daily used. There are some differencies between the original and the virtualized environment, but to study a malware under a protected blackbox it's very comfortable. You can study their behaviour without any problems.
Just today, while I was running a malware, I got this foolish idea: can I identify hidden files using VMware's snapshots?
Under VMware you can save the current state of a virtual machine taking a snapshot of the running guest system. The snapshot is stored somewhere in the guest's OS folder, it simply needs some files. I'm interestered in one file only, the one containing the guest's memory. The memory is saved inside a file with .vmem extension.
The idea is to take two snapshots (a virgin and an infected system), and then compare the two files. The main problem is that a single snapshot needs a large amounts of bytes, around 260 Mb on my system. Comparing the snapshots using an hex editor is madness. I decided to write a simple application able to compare two files string to string. Why only strings?
Well, how can I identify an hidden file simply looking at a "memory dump"? The answer is simple: the only thing able to reveal a trace is a string containing the name of the hidden file, nothing more. So, I extract all the strings from the virgin snapshot and then I compare them with all the strings from the infected snapshot. Yes, it's a foolish idea but it helps me to pass a boring afternoon.
The program is pretty simple and easy to implement, here's the program in action:
The upper listbox control shows all the strings inside the virgin snapshot. To fill the second listbox control I simply search for all the strings inside the snapshot displaying the ones which are not inside the upper listbox.
The most important part of the program is the internal "search engine". To speed up the program you have to search for specific strings. To view the results in a quick way I simply search for strings with extension ".sys", ".dll" or just ".exe". That's because these are the file extensions of the files that are always hidden. You can improve the search engine adding some more rules (i.e. string must have "system32" or "windows" inside) but the result won't change: you can always see some interesting strings.
I tried the program running two malwares: Lager and Nailuj.
Lager malware hides a file named taskdir.exe and Nailuj hides videoati0.sys/dll/exe.
In both cases, I can see some strings referring to the hidden files. Here is a screenshot for Lager:
The string is somewhere in the memory, I'm not interested in its position but in the string itself: it exists!
There are some good tools out there able to show hidden files but sometimes they fail. When they fail you can try with this approach.
I'll test this approach with some more malwares in the next days. If you want I can share the "Compare snapshots" program, just drop me a mail or write a comment right here.


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Kim herself confirmed the news on Tuesday, when she told E! News that the family card won't be a thing this year, mostly because Kris Jenner is no longer on board.
"I have to say, thanks to last year's Christmas card, that really did just f— us over," she said. "That was so dramatic. Kris Jenner has given up. She's just like, 'I don't have the energy to wrangle all my kids anymore and their kids.'"
In case you forgot, last year's Christmas card was the spark that ignited the months-long feud between Kim and her older sister Kourtney, which led to the now-iconic quip from Kim that Kourtney is "the least exciting to look at."
Between that and wrangling dozens of family members, it's no wonder this year is on pause. And if Kris Jenner, momager extraordinaire, is calling it quits, obviously the whole crew will follow suit.
Time to bid adieu to this (very extra) tradition.
This article originally appeared on InStyle US.


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In the event you've been looking for it, you could have seen lots of privacy insurance policies change previously few months. However in lots of instances, it is still simpler to split off EU information, which could lead to European users seeing a meaningfully different internet from the remainder of the world. The net clinician ought to outline the services offered and the charges. Wi-Fi provides wireless entry to the Internet by way of native laptop networks.
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Table of Contents
SDKs for OS X
General Intro
- Mac OS X is the trademarked name for a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc.
- Mac OS X is a Unix-based operating system based upon the Mach kernel.
- Mac OS X has its roots in Nextstep → so it has the same roots as BSD.
- Mac OSX was released in 1999. At that time Apple used PowerPC processors - from 2005 Apple announced that it will start to use INTEL™ CPUs in their computers.
- Since that time Apple pushes developers to deliver their applications as "universal binaries" - so that they run on both processors.
- With Mac OS 10.6 (August 28, 2009) Apple dropped the Power PC support for the operating system.
ABBYY SDKs
ABBYY offers an OCR SDK for Mac OS, additionally the Mobile Capture and Mobile Webcapture SDKs are available for the iPhone OS.
- FineReader Engine 12 for Mac - lastest ABBYY toolkit for Mac OS


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The Inner and the Outer hold a key to secrets sought
Through maze of alleys leading to the circled temple court,
Where wingéd horse lends flight to feet and horses carry two,
And sleeping knights bear witness to a wisdom found anew.
What stories do the faces see, what stories could they tell?
Of knights whose sought enlightenment and death through living hell?
Within the oldest temple, where an older faith was hailed,
Sophia from Baphomet ever more her faced unveiled.
Now disembodied heads watch over age-old secrets found
And keys are hidden in plain sight to knowledge underground.


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New comics every Tuesday and Friday
Gaia in German/auf Deutsch
Sandra and Woo (our comedy comic)
|Our comic is supported by our patron BlissfulDarkness. Thank you very much!
Now where did he get that spear?
This… THIS is something I have been searching for for a really long time. The story, the people, the setting. I love everything so far, looking forward to more!
i really liked the story, because i read anything with fantasy or magic involved.
BTW, why no one said anything about the fact that this was posted an week ago and nobody warned
I feel sorry for the monsters
A most interesting comic, I shall subscribe this to my Google Reader!!!
Wow, this comic is fantastic so far! I am definitely subscribing!
And holy crap those backgrounds (and the rest of the drawings, for that matter) are beautiful. TT____TT *bows down to Powree forever*
I hope you change the theme. At least the quotes at the top of the page, if nothing else. They're great, but they make the page look exactly like some other site you may be familiar with. A complete redesign would be even better, if you could manage it.
I love your comics. The writing and art is always engaging. On top of that, I never have to worry about opening one of your pages while in public because you do not post some of the smut that is elsewhere. Please keep up the great work!
Awwww yeah, they're like a dream team or something.
I like this webcomic. It very interesting.
I am a fan of sandra and woo, I read it with ink outbreak. Do you have plans to have Gaia on there as well?
And here I was, ready to watch some awesome REGULAR sword-work! I didn't even think of the guys being some kind of sword-mage… that just brings them up to a whole other level of awesome.
Great fights, Woot! 😀
Nightmare: can they cast magic?
Shade: i think they can't.
Oblivian: the covering of the cyclops' eye was smart.
Shade: yeah!
Zone: these humans are faring beter than i thought…. they are not wastes of flesh… YET.
Enoz: S*** Zone is scheming again…. *gulp*
@ Sal:
It is not a spear.
Shade: just part of the arena.
Phantom: Yeah, only a shaft of wood…
Zone: A SHARP shaft of wood thank you.
Enoz: that was implied!
@ Frank:
Gorgon: please don't, i revive them after the event ends…
Like many, I've been looking forward to this comic coming out for some time. I can't help but wonder how often it might get updated.
@ Counter parts:
Monster: Yeah, but it still hurts
Badass. 'nuff said.
Dual techs function very much like those in Chrono Trigger here. First one could be a version of x strike and the second antipode.
Awesome. I love magic swords! 😀
Though I must confess, I have NO idea what that thing is that Ryn is holding in the first panel. It looks like a baton of some kind, maybe a stun baton or something. Can somebody tell me what that is?
Oh, wait, I guess that's just a switch or lever of some kind to open the door. NEVER MIND!! 😀
I love your comics (particularly Sandra and Woo) but you seem to be playing a lot of stereotypes with Gaia;
1) Lovely and talented girl dates a jerk or otherwise unfit boyfriend while carefully ignoring/enjoying the playful advances of one of her friends.
2) This friend is the obvious "Mr. Right"–the guy said girl SHOULD be dating
3) Mr. Right comes with a wisecracking sidekick
I think Gaia could be great, the story seems really interesting, but characterization is really hindering the plot development. I can already predict the future relationship of Ilias and Lithia, after the dramatic downfall of her current boyfriend, of course.
Overall, Gaia has tons of potential! Good luck with the strip! 🙂
*Lilith@ Hmmzam:
Not normally my style of comic, but Sandra and Woo dragged me in. Now that I'm here, I kinda like it.
Now, I can't wait to see what comes next.
Thanks. This story of yours has given me a few campaign ideas. As a Dungeon Master it's nice to read other people's stories because they give you ideas, inspiration, or at times just remind you of ideas you had put off. I am so far liking the comic and I hope to see more of it in the future. ^,^
LOLZ love the almost brofist at the end there XD That is epic ^^.
@ Hmmzam:
Those arn't cliches, those are tropes. Not all tropes are bad as the website tvtropes.com explains. (go their at your own risk) Unfortunatly I don't have time right now to look up exactly which tropes those are. Besides, we don't know if Gaia is going to play them straight or not at this point.
Someone said that they've been waiting a long time for this webcomic. I thought it was recently posted
Defeated by battlefield wits and tricks = that's alright.
Defeated because they use elements that favor against you = You put a good fight.
Defeated by a piece of wood = disgrace for the monster kind!
@ Hmmzam:
Are you sure about the stereotyping?
1) Said boyfriend, even though he sounds arrogant but he actually willing to fulfill the deal, even though Ilias attack him when he still talk.
2) Are you sure? he like her, but there are 10 or 20 people who can be close to her too. He got a bad trait shown before, and it was Envy.
3) Said sidekick is a comedy character, but something dark is looming…..
@ Frank:
Gorgon: i can reverse the pain…
Wow. Where did they get the adamantine swords?
The D&D geek strikes again! 😀
Okay, this page was pretty damn awesome.
Wow. I'm finished already.
Question: Where are these characters based off? I remember reading about it somewhere, but it'll be a challenge to scour the history for them.
Golems and Elementals and Zombies, Oh my!
looks kinda like Zero no Tsukaima… but still cool :^)
Huum, , seems insteresting by how far it's got. ^ ^
Okay, it's the 30th! This came out the 19th! More! More!
Sooooo good. I read Bittersweet Candybowl and Pixie Trix comics. Saw the ad for this a couple times but only now decided to click. I'm glad I did. The art is amazing. The story looks like it's gonna go somewhere for a long time. I'm hooked. Never gonna leave this comic.
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Okay, it's the 30th! This came out the 19th! More! More!
No, Gaia was published on 28 November. The dates of the cover and the first 18 pages are not correct for technical reasons.
Great work here!
Oka so far it looks AWESOME, there were some moments where I rose an eyebrow though, but I think I'm still gonna love this story so great job and keep it up. 😉
@ ekimmak:
correct me if i'm wrong, (and trust me, i probably am.), i think they are based of the Sandra and Woo characters.
@ Hmmzam:
1) Arrogant? yes, but dislikeable? we don't have enough evidence for that.
2) The problem is we still don't know Lilith very well, so we need to see her personality more.
3) Yeah, I think I just speculate too much on that part, because he reminds me of Romeo's friend in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet who died mid story.
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While I was prepping this post I got a nice little comment with a note attached that I had been tagged in a little questionaire. i NEVER take part in tags, but I thought what the heck?!
You can get to know me a little better, thanks ashlee!
2. What is one thing you could not live without? the internet, my husband will vow for that one :)
3. Favorite Nail Color? they always seem to be pink or a french manicure
4. Who has the biggest impact on your life? my husband
5. What were your wedding colors? pink & white.. and black
6. Your favorite thing to do on a date? dinner & a movie... or to a nba or mlb game
7. Do you have a horrid habit? I recently became aware that I can become a scatter brain & talk about a million different topics in one 5 minute conversation. My brain sometimes runs a millions miles an hour. Oh, and I was diagnosed with ADD in 5th grade, i like to think I grew out of it though! :)
8. What is your dream job? i'd love to be a Party Planner or Product Photographer
9. How long have you been part of the blogging world? I started our own personal blog back in 2007.. some day I may give a little sneak peak and let it be un-private for a week for people to browse around into our real world.
10. What is your favorite dessert? candy, chocolate chip cookies, or a chocolate covered strawberry.
11. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? In a city where it's safe, warm, and has lots of good food and shopping.


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What Motivates You?
I was at the gym earlier and there was this guy who hasn't seen me in 3 weeks.
Upon seeing me arrive at the gym, he shouted, "Man, you've lost some serious weight!"
You could imagine the grin in my face. I must be doing something right.
Last week, my boss told me during our meeting that I was doing a fantastic job and that we are seeing some great results over the last few months.
As the head of the marketing team, I also thought I must be doing something right.
These comments and gestures of appreciation are the very things that motivate me and keep me going.
Because someone noticed (and appreciated) that I have lost some weight after more than a month at the gym, I am more motivated to make workout a lifestyle.
Because my boss appreciated what I do and recognized my effort for the company, I am more motivated to work harder and be the best marketing person for the team.
Maybe we just need more people who know how to appreciate and recognize other people's effort. Imagine a perfect world where every person does just that.
The world will be a better place.
How about you? What keeps you motivated?


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