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I consider books and storytelling the backbone of my class. Without them kids just wouldn't grow as much, nor construct so much meaningful language and interactions.
I'm starting a series of posts about books that I love to read and to teach at school; books I absolutely MUST have and cannot go through the year without sharing them with my students.
I'll be posting ideas and links to resources in each of these posts.
This is the first in the series of posts, so let's get down to it:
"Go Away, Big, Green Monster"
By Ed Emberley
Why do I love this book? First of all…Who doesn't like books about monsters?
They have a universal appeal. A book has to speak to me first before I can read it to my class and this book has it all: Beautiful and funny illustrations, repetitive phrases, vocabulary, humor, and a great chance to dive into some Interactive Reading.
So I can start by saying that I really love books that empower children. In this book the monster slowly appears, each part of the face showing up in big colorful drawings. When the monster is complete, the children start imagining him away: "Go Away, Big, Green Monster".
As each part of the face "goes away"….PUUFF! Kids start cracking up and readily dive into the storytelling if you let them participate.
This is a great moment to have some Interactive Reading, let the children shout out each order: "Go Away Ears", "Go Away Mouth"… and go "Puuuf!" every time something disappears.
For English Language Learners (ELL) it's a great way to teach or review basic vocabulary and adjectives because it gives the children a chance to interact with words in a meaningful way. After working with this book, children will be much more likely to remember and be able to use these words later on in day-to-day situations.
You can order it from Amazon or find it at your local library
You can also link to KizClub for the free Story Prop so kids and teachers can reenact out the story in follow up activities. It's a great website full of free, downloads and activities.
An example of such activity I like to do with my 5-year-olds after reading this story is to have them create their own imaginary monster. I encourage theirs to be different to the one in the book, to have as many eyes, mouths and arms as they like and finally to name it.
They end up creating such amazing and crazy drawings that it becomes also a great way to have them laugh away their own bedtime fears and tell them to "Go Away".
I really hope you have to enjoy this book as much as my kids and I do.


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The EITC is a federal and state program that helps low wage working families make ends meet. State EITCs are calculated as a percent of the federal credit. Nearly half a million struggling working families with children receive this credit. For a parent raising two children working in a full time minimum wage job ($15,000 a year), Gov. Christie's budget proposal would reduce the family's state EITC credit by about $300. The total loss to these struggling households from this policy recommendation is a staggering $45 million.
The driving force behind the governor's proposal to cut the state EITC is budget savings-but those may be questionable because of the impact of those cuts on the amount of federal funds New Jersey receives to support low wage workers. The US House of Representatives has passed legislation that includes the extension of TANF Emergency Contingency funds. If this legislation becomes law, New Jersey would receive up to $120 million in new federal funds in FY 2011. With Senators Menendez's and Lautenberg's help, the Senate could approve these funds soon. But if the state EITC appropriation is cut in this year's budget, the state could lose money because the amount the federal government gives the state is based on how much the state has increased funding for benefits to low-income families since 2007.
Beyond budget savings, the administration is supporting its decision to cut benefits by saying, "New Jersey's benefit is one of the most generous in the country. At the reduced rate, New Jersey will be more in line with the average benefit in the 22 other states that offer the credit." Unfortunately this statement misses the point of the state EITC.
New Jersey's EITC is currently set at 25 percent of the federal EITC, making it sixth highest among the 23 states with their own EITCs. States calculate their credits as a percent of the federal EITC which is available to families and individuals with incomes up to $48,000 to reduce the taxes they owe. For most of these households the federal credit is also "refundable"-meaning that even if they do not owe taxes, they still receive a refund. The purpose of this policy is to compensate low-income families for the federal payroll taxes (social security etc) they pay.
States have enacted their own EITCs for a variety of reasons, including the impact of state and local taxes on low income families. More important than taxes, however, is how much it costs to live in different states. New Jersey's cost of living is fifth highest in the nation, exceeding Minnesota, Vermont, Maryland and New York even though all of these states have higher state EITCs than New Jersey. Parents in low wage jobs who have children cannot make ends meet with New Jersey's high child care, housing, health insurance, and transportation costs now-and most of these will become even less affordable when the effects of the cuts and program cost increases in Gov. Christie's budget take place.
The impact of EITCs is to encourage people to work. Without the subsidies provided by the EITC, it makes more economic sense for low-income families not to work and instead go on welfare. Welfare subsidizes many of the costs to raise children but it doesn't lead to a strong work ethic.
A recession–when people are struggling to make ends meet and are worried about losing their jobs–is the wrong time to cut supports to working families. Many families who were living a middle class life style have fallen on hard times been forced to take lower wage or part time jobs, and that's if they have been lucky enough to find them. But basic expenses, like housing, do not go away. These folks need public support from the state to maintain their independence until the economy improves and they can regain their standard of living.
It is the wrong time to cut the state EITC for yet another reason. Increases in the federal EITC that took effect last year in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will end this year unless Congress extends them. The expansion of the Child Tax Credit to the poorest working families is also scheduled to terminate. A parent working full time for the minimum wage and raising two kids, would have their child tax credit reduced from $1,725 to $250, causing increased hardship to that family.
The disparity between the wealthiest and the poorest in New Jersey has been growing at an alarming rate. The state EITC helps address New Jersey's rising income inequity which has been growing at the ninth highest rate in the nation for the last two decades. During this time, the wealthiest five percent of New Jersey households have seen their incomes grow by 91 percent while those in the bottom 20 percent have seen only a 10 percent increase. In 2008, households in the top five percent (who earned an average of $412,476), earned 26 times the average amount earned ($15,705) by the lowest 20 percent.
Despite this, the governor refuses to reinstate the 2009 tax rates on those earning over $400,000 at the same time as he is essentially proposing a tax hike for lower income working families by cutting the state EITC. If the legislature is unable to override the governor on this issue, the economic divide between the "haves and have nots" will only further increase in our state.


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Although volcanic activity has been identified with destructive connotations, a volcanic eruption can lead to an especially creative activity.
The beautiful island of Nisyros for example, is the result of an eight billion tonnes of molten rock explosion, which occurred 45,000 years ago, while the island took its final form 20,000 years ago, intervening another two creative explosions.
This island, part of the Dodecanese island chain, has a special character, which has been determined by the volcano. The flora and fauna are decisively influenced by its volcanic nature. Successive layers of lava and ash have given it a unique geological character that also creates unique scenery with colorful and unusual formations.
The caldera (a large crater formed by volcanic explosion) has been well preserved and makes it possible to observe the internal structure of the volcano. At the bottom of this there are craters with intense hydrothermal action.
Everything leads to the volcano
The ancient Greeks knew how the island was created. Strabo in his "Geography" reproduced the myth of the inhabitants, who considered that the trident Poseidon hurled against giant Polyvotis, broke a piece off the island of Kos thus creating the island of Nisyros.
So, they were aware that Nisyros and Kos came from similar formations, while the belief that the giant still lay under Nisyros symbolically implied its volcanic activity.
The Volcanological Museum of Nisyros
Interior of the Museum, earth's structure – magmatic rocks
The entire landscape from the smallest stone to the spectacular caldera can be considered a broader volcanological museum! More so when the museum is housed in an old school in Nikia, on the rim of the Caldera. The spot is ideal, since it offers a panoramic view of the interior of the volcano.
The main sections of the museum host the following topics:
● Genesis and structure of volcanoes.
● Volcanic processes and products.
● Volcanoes of Greece.
● The volcano of Nisyros.
● Other active volcanoes in Greece.
● Volcanoes – Environment - Man.
Field volcanic: Nisyros, Milos, Saronikos
In the areas of information, observation and experiment, visitors can observe rocks under microscopes. The library houses a fine collection of books and articles on volcanoes and other subjects. Experimental devices are available for younger guests and present simulations of volcanic eruptions. The scientific team that created the museum has made sure that the visitor navigates in an environment that transports him mentally into the volcano itself. The lighting also refers towards the same direction.
Characteristics of formations, maps, cross sections, diagrams, patterns of volcanoes, photographs, three-dimensional animations and computer simulations reveal the geological history, not only of Nisyros, but of the whole Aegean volcanic arc.
Τhe volcanoes of Greece
Enjoy a unique journey through time ...
The relativity of time is the basic feeling one immediately gets from a visit to such a museum. A sense of time that is very different from the one felt by visiting, for example, a historical or archaeological museum. The description on the website of the Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration for Nisyros refers to "recent" volcanic activity in Greece, and as such means the activity that began about 40 million years ago. Here you will have the opportunity to discover the secrets of time on Earth on a scale you've never imagined. The creation of successive geological strata measured, not by centuries, but by thousands and millions of years. Just relax and enjoy this unique journey through time …
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In 1963, few people would have imagined that an eccentric children's science fiction series – dreamt up by a group of outsiders in a BBC populated by grey-suited establishment types – would one day be celebrating its 50th birthday. Yet on the 23rd of November, Doctor Who's golden anniversary will surely become the TV event of 2013. A fact-based drama about the show's shaky origins has been written by Mark Gatiss, a collaborator on the series and lifelong fan. Meanwhile, a special anniversary episode is currently being filmed in 3D and will be screened in cinemas across the land.
So why has Doctor Who endured? The simple answer is regeneration. Like the Time Lord himself, the show has adapted to changing times. Jon Pertwee's jut-jawed, earthbound Doctor heralded a new format for the series as it left the monochrome Sixties. Script editor Douglas Adams's zany intellectualism was tailored to Tom Baker's unpredictable, otherworldly Doctor at the end of the Seventies. And, most significantly, Russell T Davies's beautifully masterminded reboot in 2005 (after a 16-year hiatus) took the original series's essence of wonder and adventure and stitched it into a big-budget, fantastical extravaganza. Davies understood that the beauty of Doctor Who lay in its versatile format. Epic space opera; historical adventure; human interest story. Doctor Who remains an ever-evolving pageant.
Last night's episode, The Bells of Saint John, the start of a new run, certainly showed no signs that Doctor Who is limping towards middle age. The show's current executive producer Steven Moffat (who also wrote this episode) has previously been criticised for making the storylines too complex for younger viewers, but he has (correctly, I think) argued that children don't want to be patronised, and that an imaginative, well-constructed script is enough to take them on an incredible journey. Moffat also recognises a crucial facet of being young: children love to be scared.
Viewers in search of thrills will certainly have relished The Bells of Saint John. Set in modern-day London, the plot concerned internet users who, if they clicked on the wrong wi-fi provider, found their souls being uploaded and their minds being harvested by a malevolent force. It was a witty, cautionary tale for anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by the internet. This was Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror for kids, a terrifying tale of information overload but without the grown-up, Dystopian despair.
Reassurance came with the arrival of Matt Smith's Doctor, inadvertently summoned from a monastery in 13th-century Cumbria by Clara (Jenna-Louise Coleman), the mysterious girl he has crossed many time zones to find. Smith continues to charm with his eccentric cool (we saw the Doctor dispense with the Tardis and roar across London by motorbike) and the extraordinary range of alien and human emotions he can convey.
But the critics' eyes were on Coleman in the pivotal role of the Doctor's new assistant, Clara. We've seen her twice before, of course, but this is the official start of her tenure. Clara is an engaging character: warm, brave, desperate for adventure. It's clear her sense of wonder will make her a favourite with children as she travels in the Tardis – or "Snogbox" as she christened it. She suspected the Doctor was flirting with her, and in these days when the Doctor/assistant relationship is usually imbued an emotional attachment, she might just be right.
Big-budget effects, a rapid pace, a sense of fun – there was much in The Bells of Saint John to enthral a 21st-century child. Yet, looking back over the 50 years of Doctor Who that led up to last night's return, it's hard to imagine children thrilling in quite the same way to some of the "vintage" episodes. Budgetary constraints aside, they would probably be left bemused by the theatrical configuration of scenes, the slow, even turgid plotting and the proliferation of technical dialogue. "We're being dragged towards a relative continuum displacement zone," declared Tom Baker's Doctor in 1977. Even physicists were left scratching their heads.
Neither should we pretend that Doctor Who has been on an upward trajectory of brilliance since 1963. In the Eighties, the series was frankly embarrassing. Even fans agree that it became tacky, poorly produced and too self-referential. Following the drama's demise in 1989, Doctor Who was little more than a fondly remembered relic. The only new episode was a misguided American co-production in 1996 starring Paul McGann. There has always been an essential Englishness to Doctor Who, a familiarity that's as comforting as cricket on a village green, and the McGann version failed because it was glossy, transatlantic and soulless.
Thankfully, Doctor Who's Englishness has survived in the "Gosh! Geronimo!" guise of Matt Smith. As does the Doctor's essential humanity – which is ironic considering he's a 900-year-old Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. Adults are in awe of his intelligence, kids love and relate to his open-heartedness and curiosity.
At one point last night, the Doctor reassured Clara with his usual wide-eyed zeal: "You can run away all you like and still be home in time for tea!" That's the beauty of Doctor Who. No matter how terrifying the encounter with the Daleks or Cybermen, comfy reassurance is never far away. Roll on the next 50 years.


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The Danger of Following Polls
Monday, May 18, 2015on
This month's British parliamentary elections were another nail in the coffin of political polling. Nate Silver fared terribly, after making his name by using amazing statistical analysis to accurately predict the 2008 and 2010 elections. Silver predicted the Conservative Party would grab 272 seats, but when the dust settled, Conservatives wound up with 329. This caused Silver to take to his widely-read blog to write The World May Have A Polling Problem: "it's become harder to find an election in which the polls did all that well." I'm not jumping on Silver. He has a difficult job that is getting tougher every year. I wrote a post on this blog back in October warning people that polls were becoming increasingly unreliable. In the decade that I ran political campaigns across this state, polling accurately told the story until 2008. After that, the accuracy fell off dramatically. One 2012 State House race I worked on has polling showing the race was within the margin of error only five days before. On election night, it was a 13-point landslide. This is important today not because of the British elections, but because the 2016 Presidential horse race has already begun. Every week, there's a new poll about not only who is leading the Republican race, but how those people will fare against Hillary Clinton. They're mostly bogus. Don't put any stock in them. Definitely don't pick a candidate because of them. Most of the candidates are complete unknowns at this point to most people. Perhaps they know who Bobby Jindal is, but most voters couldn't cite one of his positions. They only know Jeb Bush because he's the brother and son of another President. Scott Walker was a guy who faced down public unions in some Midwestern state. The same goes with most of the other 13 presumptive GOP candidates. Silver notes that Presidential Primary polls are notoriously awful. Since 2000, they have missed the correct prediction by 7.7 percentage points. Primaries are full of swing voters who change their minds often. They're also generally small groups, especially compared to a state-wide election or national general election. (In South Carolina 603,000 people voted in the 2012 GOP Presidential Primary and nearly 2 million people voted in the general election that fall.) The General Elections are easier since you can use statistical sampling to determine that X number will vote Democratic, X number will vote GOP, and you only have to predict the small number in the middle. As I wrote last October, polling is a reflection of a moment in a churning sea. "People lie to pollsters. Sampling a poll is increasingly difficult. Cell phones, the Do Not Call List, and other generational changes mean getting valid phone numbers is hard. They lie about things that are not socially acceptable ("Do you plan to vote this November?") and about things that could be embarrassing. There is also a distrust of pollsters by some conservatives, who believe it's the liberal media doing the poll, and older-generation minorities in the South, who vividly remember a day when you just didn't give someone your opinion over the phone." The polls are flawed, but the polling right now doesn't matter anyway. At this point in 2007, Senator Hillary Clinton had a 22-point lead on a certain Senator from Illinois. She built a 30-plus point lead in the fall. New York Governor Rudy Giuliani had a 14-point lead on Senator John McCain. In October, Giuliani was tied with Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and McCain was tied for fourth with former Senator Fred Thompson. Just a few months later, McCain would cruise to victory. Of course, that doesn't mean candidates don't get excited when they're in first place, even if it is a virtual 10-way tie. Listen to the candidates. Go to their Upstate events. Ask them questions yourself. Don't worry about the polls. They're probably not giving you the entire story.
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The Oculus at World Trade Center in New York is a genuine, honest-to-god tourist attraction, at the same level as the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty and to be honest, a couple of steps above the Brooklyn Bridge and Grant's Tomb. Visitors from around the world gather in its main concourse amid a chatter of hundreds of different languages, and look up in awe.
"It's amazing!"
"C'est merveilleux!"
"Alguna vez has visto algo así?"
"Das ist wie ein riesiges Raumschiff!"
The Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's vast design is certainly visually arresting; it was meant to be, to replace the fallen towers of the World Trade Center with a spiritual expression of – of something – in concrete and space. And at a $4 billion price tag it sort of had to be. So after eight years of construction, New Yorkers finally got another great landmark building on a site of profound public memory.
And it looked like… what, exactly? Before the cost overruns, the delays, and the inevitable changes of course, Calatrava said that he was inspired by the image of a bird released from a child's hand. That kind of poetic metaphor resonated with the planners at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and, seen from the perspective of the 9/11 Memorial Park, it actually sort of, kind of works.
But from any other perspective, the exterior of the building is an utter disaster. From some angles, it looks like the hulking figure of a Toho movie monster – a gargantuan porcupine, perhaps – about to pounce on Lower Manhattan. Others have opined that it resembles the skeleton of an enormous sea creature bleaching in the sun.
Whether a monster or fishbones, the structure is squeezed so uncomfortably into the New York cityscape that it almost looks as if its southern wing (spines?) had to be trimmed to make room for 3 World Trade Center.
Yet it is from the interior that the Oculus is simultaneously most impressive and most disturbing. It is almost as if this dialectic of sublimity was built into the concept event before the developers, the Port Authority, and the City of New York enlisted Calatrava to give it wings. This is, after all, meant to be both an place of spiritual power, and crass consumerism: a Sanctum Sanctorum beneath the vault of heaven, but also the stalls of the moneychangers. It is simultaneously a transport hub and a tourist attraction: a space both of transience and permanence.
Indeed, at rush hour, when the suburban PATH Trains from New Jersey converge with nine subway lines of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, commuters purposefully swarm through the central concourse. The transportation hub deposits 250,000 passengers from New Jersey into the MTA and onto the streets of Manhattan every day. In those moments when the lines align in perfect synchronization, bystanders can feel as if they are trapped in one of the epic migrations of the savanna.
At those times, tourists gaze heavenward to marvel at the soaring structure, only to risk being trampled by vast bovine migratory herds as they thunder by.
At its core, the Oculus is a space of commerce, or maybe a space of personal actualization through commerce. Indeed, the shopping options on offer promise to satisfy desires as elevated as Barney's and Bloomingdale's. The Westfield World Trade Center Mall – is it even appropriate to describe it in such plebeian language? – is an emporium de luxe. Breitling, Mont Blanc, Longine, Dior are the anima cradled in the Calatrava's embrace.
Relegated to the mezzanine level, the Apple Store, normally a destination unto itself, feels strangely commonplace in such patrician company. Yet, in another way it embodies the Oculus' spirit more completely than any other mere shop front. For it is here that the faithful congregate thirteen hours per day to commune with the Creator Spiritus and seek technological salvation from Steve Jobs, with a wide range of financing options.
For all of the promises of what Jackson Lears, in Fables of Abundance, calls a "magical transfiguration of the self" in the consumer market, the market at the heart of the Oculus is a cold, empty place; polished sterility under operating theatre klieg lights. It is an expansive landscape of alienation defined by the spaces between atomized consumers. Visitors are isolated in their own private spaces of consumption, demarcated by the space itself; couples and groups seem forced apart by invisible centrifugal forces.
It is striking how the space – open, empty, and illuminated in the stark light of a movie set – determines the gravity of visitors' social connections. Passageways and entry-points narrow to build tension like water pressure in a garden hose, only to release in consumer ecstasy in the main shopping concourse. This is Frank Lloyd Wright's principle of "compression and release" expressed in its purest form. It is a dramatic narrative etched into the built environment.
The space is carefully managed – "curated," to borrow a catchphrase from contemporary retail practice – to produce the desired response in visitors. The effects of the spatial environment on consumer behavior have been well-understood since Stanley Milgram noted in his seminal 1970 article "The Experience of Living in Cities" that human overcrowding creates a "system overload" of unprocessed stimuli. The answer, according to consumer psychology research in the generation since, is to manage the consumer's emotional state and retail expectation through spatial cues; curating, in effect, what Karen Machleit, Sevgin Eroglu, and Susan Powell call the "crowding–satisfaction relationship."
Yet the sheer emptiness of Calatrava's Oculus stops visitors dead in their tracks. One woman, anxiously pacing back and forth in the space between the luxury retailers in the main concourse, comes to a sudden halt and stands, staring into the vacant near-distance for several minutes before turning on her heel and decisively entering a jewelry shop.
Other shoppers, climbing and descending stairs, darting in and out of the emporia lining Calatrava's wings like feathers, collapse in exhaustion. Separated by a sea of emptiness from human interactions. They sit on floor as commerce and intentionalities flow by; they are suspended within and from the spatial reality… But only temporarily as they resume the process.
And this is the sublime triumph of Calatrava's Oculus: the eye of commerce and the eye of the consumer. It is the consumer market, that space of marvels and transfiguration. It is a skeleton, an empty body whose sterile void evacuates the social and psychological selves of its visitors to produce desire.
The Christmas tree in the main concourse, erected to celebrate the season of family and giving – but moreso a season of anxious consumption – is its symbol. Matching the bleached beams arching overhead, it is devoid of ornament, pine needles, color, or life.


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The scrutiny of Facebook's collection and use of consumer data in recent years has prompted the tech giant to repeatedly defend its efforts around transparency and privacy.
But about three-fourths of Facebook users were unaware that the company lists their personal traits and interests for advertisers on its site, according to a study published by the Pew Research Center on Wednesday. Half of the users who looked at the Facebook page with that data — known as their "Ad Preferences" — said they were not comfortable with the company's compiling that information. Pew conducted a nationally representative survey of 963 American adults with Facebook accounts between Sept. 4 and Oct. 1 of last year.
While consumers have learned more in recent years about how they are targeted for online ads, the study suggests that many still do not know how much of their behavior is tracked, where it is compiled or even that Facebook has a page that lists all of that information. Pew focused on Facebook, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, because it "plays an incredibly important role in the media ecosystem of the world," said Lee Rainie, Pew's director of internet and technology research.
"Privacy matters to Americans — it's a classic American value — yet when they're online and doing other things, they act as if their personal information is O.K. to harvest and analyze," Mr. Rainie said in an interview. "One of the theories on this inconsistency is that Americans don't really know what's going on. The fact that 74 percent of Facebook users didn't know that these lists were maintained on them cuts to the heart of that question of where Americans are, or are not, with these systems."
About 88 percent of the users had listings on their Ad Preferences page. The page says that it allows users to "learn what influences the ads you see and take control over your ad experience."
"Pew's findings underscore the importance of transparency and control across the entire ad industry, and the need for more consumer education around the controls we place at people's fingertips," Joe Osborne, a Facebook spokesman, said in a statement. "This year we're doing more to make our settings easier to use and hosting more in-person events on ads and privacy."
Targeted advertising is the core of Facebook's business, which brings in more than $40 billion in revenue each year. Through all the clicking, posting and article sharing, and activity elsewhere online, Facebook builds up an ad profile for each of its users. That includes information as basic as their age and location, as well as their hobbies, political leanings, family type and more. Advertisers use that information to direct tailored messages to users.
But questions around how that data can be misused to manipulate people — and how much they know about its collection in the first place — have put tech companies like Facebook on the defensive. Tech companies have responded by promoting tools that they say offer transparency around their business practices, including "Ad Preferences" and a similar product from Google called "Ad Settings." In December, Facebook created a temporary kiosk in Bryant Park in Manhattan to provide consumers with information about privacy and ad targeting.
Pew's survey also took a closer look at two of Facebook's more controversial user labels, which are determined by algorithms: political leanings and "multicultural affinities." (Facebook decides whether a user has an "affinity" for a minority group like African-American or Asian-American, which can then be used to target ads.)
Half of the survey's respondents were assigned a political label, while one-fifth said that they were given a multicultural affinity. Twenty-seven percent of those with a political classification said that the label was "not very or not at all accurate." With the multicultural affinities, 37 percent said that they "did not have a strong affinity or interest" in the group that they were assigned.
"One of the debates we've seen a lot is how do we judge the performance of algorithms?" Mr. Rainie said. "One line of thought in the technology community, and particularly the critics' community, is it ought to be 100 percent — if you're going to judge the way the world works, you ought to be pretty accurate. The counterargument is that the test for an algorithm is: Does it do a better job than human beings at figuring out the way the world works?"
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Noah, Sabotage, Cesar Chavez & Jodorowsky's Dune
There's a sequence in director and co-writer (with Ari Handel) Darren Aronofsky's Noah in which the title character (Russell Crowe) is relaying to one of his children the story of creation, pretty much word for word right as we know it from the Bible — six days, ending in the creation of man and woman. But the visuals that accompany this telling are what makes the sequence so magnificent, and in many ways, best explain Aronofsky's take of his version of Noah, his ark, the great flood, and the restart that humanity and civilization got as a result of said event.
What we see when being told the creationism version of life on Earth is actually the scientific version, including evolution — a creature crawls up out of the water, stands upright and takes on human qualities. It's all shown in an accelerated manner, but there's no doubt that Aronofsky isn't so much placating both sides of the discussion; he's attempting to find a way to see if both versions would exist in the same universe. It's as if he's saying, "Let's assume all of these events happened as written in the Bible. How would that be possible?" In some cases, the answer is simply, "It isn't." But in other cases, he attempts to find ways in which religious mysticism and hard fact work together to create circumstances and beings that might be easier to accept.
Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream) isn't dismissing the possibility that a divine hand (known as "the creator"; the word God is never spoken in the film) was at work in Noah's time, but he also wonders if hearing voices and receiving visions might have been a little less of a direct line from the creator and a little more wishful thinking on Noah's part. It's a fascinating and ambitious approach in this biblical work from one of modern cinema's true visionaries.
A few early reviews have poked fun at the rock giants known as Watchers that assist Noah in building his ark and protect him from King Tubal-cain (Ray Winstone); they seem to be right out of The Lord of the Rings, but in fact Watchers (said to be fallen angels who merged with the earth as a punishment from God for wanting to live among humans) were featured in the Dead Sea Scrolls (minus the stony skin), and having them as part of this story make a degree of sense since there's no way Noah and his family could have carried the massive logs to build the ark on their own. Sometimes being practical also amounts to good storytelling. I'm not saying it's believable; I just like the thinking behind it.
Crowe is especially good playing a man who is psychologically tormented on many levels. He believes he possesses knowledge about the world's end, and that weighs heavy on him. But he also thinks that he and his family will die when all is said and done (the creator wasn't real clear on that point), which seems to make sense since his oldest son Shem (Douglas Booth) is in love with Noah's adopted daughter Ila (Emma Watson), who is barren; and his other two sons are either too young or simply don't have women in their lives to make procreation possible. Logan Lerman plays the middle son, Ham, and he's just beginning to have slightly uncontrollable feelings about many things, including women, so much so that he openly defies his father more than once.
Attempting to hold the family together is Noah's wife Naameh (Jennifer Connelly), who must balance her husband's plan with her belief that the creator wants them to live and perhaps even multiply. As we already know from A Beautiful Mind, Crowe and Connelly form an interesting dynamic on screen. Noah is a strange combination of stoic and full-bore passion, while she is the grounding force in his life that allows him not to be consumed by this all-consuming task. Pitting Noah against Tubal-cain's army seems a bit too on the nose (apparently the king killed Noah's father before his eyes when Noah was a young boy), and a final battle between the two men borders on silly. But too much about Noah's conflicted nature works to quibble over an unnecessary fight.
I've somehow made it this far in the review without mentioning animals. What's perhaps most remarkable about Noah are the subtle ways special effects are used in ways I've never seen. The waves of paired animals that come to the ark makes for astonishing visuals, especially when the snakes, lizards and amphibians make their way through the woods surrounding it. That scene actually made me want to lift my feet off the ground for fear of feeling those creatures slide by them, and this isn't even in 3-D.
Tossed in almost more for humor and a touch of winking magic is Anthony Hopkins as Noah's grandfather Methuselah (that casting is almost too easy), but I won't lie, I loved seeing his interplay with his great grandchildren and how he turns a simple desire to taste berries again into some of the more important miracles on display in the film. And speaking of creaky older men, if you listen carefully, you'll hear the voice of Nick Nolte as the lead Watcher, Samyaza; I'm guessing no audio tricks were needed to make his voice sound extra gravelly.
I was told recently by the producer of another Bible-based film that when you stray from the gospel's dialogue, people get angry. And that may be true of the most devout believers. But it's difficult to imagine anyone taking issue with this version of Noah's story. It's faithful in spirit and often text to the source material, and the alterations and additional material are all in spiritual alignment with the Bible. Noah certainly isn't trying to strip away at a believer's faith — far from it. This is the story of a man of faith who was willing to sacrifice everything to adhere to what he believed were his creator's wishes.
The film works as both a sweeping testament to spiritual belief and a strong fantasy adventure story with religious undertones. The emphasis will depend on what an audience member brings into the theater with them, but it's all there, in all its power and glory. It saddens me to think that some believers and non-believers will dismiss the film for their respective reason, because this is truly a film that bows to neither side but should still satisfy all. See it because Aronofsky rarely disappoints, and this film is damn near a masterpiece.
It's big, it's dumb, it's beyond brutal, and it's way more complicated than it needs to be, but I'll be damned if I didn't sit and white-knuckle watch Sabotage as often as I was laughing in spots I'm pretty sure weren't meant to be funny. Believe me when I say I would never give this film a pass just because Arnold Schwarzenegger is the lead, as Breacher, the head of a tactical DEA team who essentially answers to no one. If anything, I'd be more likely to be an apologist for director and co-writer (with Skip Woods) David Ayer, whose commitment to keeping things authentic and bloody in such films as Training Day and End of Watch make his works exercises in peaking into some dark corners of law enforcement.
Breacher and his team open the film raiding a cartel mansion containing millions of dollars in drug money. Before they blow the place to hell, they hide about $10 million down a sewer pipe for pick up later, but when they go to pick it up, the money has vanished. The missing money doesn't go unnoticed by either the cartel or other law enforcement agencies, who disband the team for six months, interrogating them relentlessly before allowing them to reconvene and start kicking ass again. But the old team is rusty, suspicious and paranoid, all for very good reasons. And before long, team members start getting knocked off in very nasty ways that make it appear that the cartel isn't happy about having its money swiped.
A pair of FBI agents (Olivia Williams and Harold Perrineau) are trying to solve the murders while the team is looking to do the same but enact some revenge on whoever is killing them off. And there's a lot of shooting and blowing things up and stabbing and general nastiness. It's pretty great.
What I enjoyed most was watching the task force as a group. Familiar faces like Sam Worthington, Joe Manganiello, Josh Holloway, Terrence Howard, Max Martini and, most surprising, a drug-fueled Mirelle Enos as Lizzy, the team's only woman and possibly its most ferocious member. I'm still trying to figure out if she's one of the most kickass female characters ever in an action film or if she's setting back feminism 50 years with her portrayal of an oversexed redhead who would get just as much pleasure out of gutting you as she would fucking you. The time we get to spend just watching the team members hang out and tear each other to pieces with dark truths and gallows humor is fascinating and funny stuff. And watching them maneuver around a location, clearing room after room, mowing down bad guys reminded me of a sloppier, but equally precise version of what we saw in Zero Dark Thirty.
I like the way Schwarzenegger handles this role, as well, infusing his inherent toughness with charm and wit, with a touch of the vulgarian. He even uses his likability to manipulate the investigators into giving up information. But the same cannot be said of most of the team members, and as a result I found myself not really giving a shit who was going to die next or which one, if any, stole the money out from under them. While I certainly enjoyed watching the camaraderie on display, Sabotage doesn't give us enough of these soldiers to really care about their fates, and that's detrimental to the film as a whole.
Sabotage is far from a great film, but it's a highly watchable one that combines a high degree of entertainment value with just enough gore and tasteless behavior to keep those of us without twisted minds at bay for fear of contamination. It's a nasty piece of work, and I say that will all due affection. There's a sense that Ayer may have dumbed down some of the procedural and forensic details for mass consumption, and would have actually enjoyed watching these tough guys (and lady) actually show an interest in the investigative part of their job. But one cannot wish for everything. There's a level of shock value that the filmmakers clearly love delivering, and while I'm not necessarily a fan of shock for shock's sake, it fits in with the material that surrounds it. Sabotage is a smart film going deep undercover as a dumb movie, so much so that sometimes it forgets it's smart. Got it?
Cesar Chavez
The one thing that the biopic on the influential activist Cesar Chavez is not lacking is heart. The film Cesar Chavez is overflowing with passion and good intentions, as well as a handful of exceedingly strong performances. What it doesn't feature is balance. This is a film that spends its entire running time preaching to the choir. Not that there's a downside to treating farm workers fairly and allowing them to bring some degree of dignity to their backbreaking work, but the lines here are so distinctly drawn and the "villains" in the film are so cut-and-dry evil (thank you John Malkovich, playing the greedy industrial farmer Bogdanovich) that you don't feel like you're even being given a choice but to hate them all with all your might.
It may sound like too much of a good thing to some, but I guess I'm one of those people who likes to make up my own mind about a situation and not be told what to think about a person or a company. Cesar Chavez's saving grace is a spell-binding performance by Michael Peña (End of Watch, Crash) as the titular character, who walks into every situation and conflict with such a clear eye and serene disposition that people can't help but listen and agree with him and his idea about organizing. Chavez rarely raises his voice, except when speaking to large groups and never in anger. He was a fierce proponent of non-violence, and had a clear and simple idea about justice and equality. He also knew the power of the people he spoke on behalf of.
Cesar Chavez was directed by the great actor Diego Luna (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Elysium, Milk) and he clearly has a way of inspiring impassioned performances from the likes of America Ferrera as Chavez's wife, Rosario Dawson as Dolores Huerta, and Gabriel Mann as Malkovich's son, who is clearly moved by Chavez's pleas on behalf of the farm workers and asks his father to consider listening as well. The closest Luna comes to showing the downside to Chavez's life is making it clear that his wife and children often were forced to the back of his life so that he could lead and inspire tens of thousand of workers. But even that realization is glossed over a little too easily.
Sadly, Cesar Chavez is a classic example of placing a cultural hero on a pedestal and never letting him down. It's blanket hero worship without showing us the human behind the praise. Better films have been made about both human rights activists and tough times in the labor movement. What Chavez did for vineyard workers in the 1960s is undeniable. Unfortunately, this film is mostly empty words without substance or soul on the screen. Certainly, those who made the film had their hearts in the right place, but it's a missed opportunity not to place those hearts in the characters.
Jodorowsky's Dune
Perhaps the great unmade film of all time, certainly one of the best known, the version of Frank Herbert's Dune that director Alejandro Jodorowsky would have made in the mid-1970s would have rivaled the greatest science fiction films of all time, with its inspired take on the material and even more mind-blowing casting (Mick Jagger, David Carradine, Orson Welles, Salvador Dali) and music (one planet's soundtrack was to be composed by Pink Floyd) choices. Alas, accountants and less visionary studio heads shut the project down after so much of the pre-production had already been put in place, including storyboards by Jean "Moebius" Giraud and technology designs by an unknown (to Hollywood) artist named H.R. Giger, who went on to revolutionize science-fiction vehicles and creatures in Alien.
With all of this raw talent on display, you'd figure someone would green-light this sucker, and eventually someone did, only they gave the film to David Lynch, and it isn't especially well regarded my most. Director Frank Pavich has done something remarkable: he's gotten Jodorowsky to open up his Dune production notebook (apparently, only two exist and Jodo has one of them) and tells all the stories about the work done to bring Dune to the big screen. What we soon discover is that elements of these designs have never stopped appearing in science fiction films since the 1970s.
But barring the tributes and blatant rip-offs of Jodorowsky's team over the years, Jodorowsky's Dune is worth watching just for the stories, the mad vision on display, to listen to the passionate director talk about his thought process and ideas, and let your mind run free without thoughts of a world in which this film actually got made. (Jodorwosky did release a version of his Dune in comic book form years later.) There isn't a second of this film that won't captivate true cinephiles, including Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, who was one of the lucky few to have been invited by Jodorowsky to page through the book of Dune in Jodo's house after dinner one night. His account of that event opens the film and will fry your brain; if it doesn't, you don't love movies enough. There are more reasons to see this movie than whatever you were planning on seeing this weekend. The film opens today in Chicago at the Music Box Theatre.


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The North Korean deal has a very Clintonian character to it; I wish I were the first person to note that, but Ice Weasel beat me to it. Nonetheless, the fact that Bush is engaging in serious diplomacy, consisting of negotiating a food for nukes program, suggests that he's not so reckless as he seems when one looks only at Iraq.
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In situations like this, it's therefore a great boon for the relations with a country to be relatively out of the media spotlight. That way, politicians can learn from experience in dealing with it, leading to more Clintonian deals that emphasize pragmatism and fewer Bushite threats that emphasize grandstanding and self-righteousness.


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Yes, I know it's already March and it's not a celebration but still, it's the old saying of 'it's email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-20660239279235353432013-02-19T09:57:00.001+08:002013-02-19T09:58:46.174+08:00Chinese New Year GoodiesIf I live in Singapore or Malaysia, I may still feel the festive ambience of Chinese New Year but because this is not Asia, it's just another day of everyday routine. But I did worked towards a Chinese New Year mood by baking all my favourite goodies including pineapple tarts, kueh bangkit, almond cookies and included a couple of new cookies. It was nice to share around with friends and it email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-13526510299101719402013-02-19T09:00:00.001+08:002013-02-19T09:00:55.014+08:00Happy Chinese New Year I have been absent for too long and it's just hard to put in all the chronicles after a long break. It was a 6 weeks break in Asia then before I knew it, this is the fourth week of school term 1! Nothing much had changed except for a new 'baby' in the kitchen - my Philips Air Fryer! Oh yes, I have been experimenting lots of things with it and it's just a useful appliance to have at home. firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-20380455188549944772012-11-23T15:17:00.001+08:002012-11-23T15:17:10.921+08:00One More Week to Go...One more week and we are off for our long vacation. It's that time of the year where many people will be traveling so the air traffic will be busy. DH had left early this week and with one less person in the house, there seems to be a little lesser chores to do! I'm still doing some bakes and they are going out to neighbours and friends since there isn't anyone to eat the buns and cakes. I firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-44702316647467780952012-11-22T16:02:00.001+08:002012-11-22T16:02:24.290+08:00Paper Wrapped Cupcakes I was half way with my batter and just as I started to preheat my oven, it just stopped and I thought to myself, what timing it was! I have been spending so much time in the kitchen and baking is my current passion. So when you are in the midst of baking something and your oven decides to play up, it is frustrating. Well, I checked, troubleshoot and did lots of things but nope, it just wouldn't firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-90139874561344843782012-11-05T07:58:00.002+08:002012-11-05T07:58:43.343+08:00Bread Making and ....I finally know why bread making is addictive. It all started when I saw my blogger friend's bread roll photos in Facebook and I was hooked since. The only thing is, I can't eat them fast enough before I get my hands on the next dough. I had never hand kneaded a bread dough and it was quite an experience. The method I was keen to experiment was called the Tangzhong 65C method, aka water roux email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-18266351661711655162012-10-15T12:42:00.000+08:002012-10-15T12:42:05.674+08:00There's a time to say 'goodbye'It was the first time we had visitors since moving to this part of Brissy. DH's nephew and his family had visited us during the China golden week holidays and we were excited to see them again. Clayton was delighted as he hit off so well with the two girls and they had so much good fun together. They played hot wheels, Lego and he even taught the girls how to play Monopoly. I could see that he email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-80861009015778070352012-10-15T12:25:00.000+08:002012-10-15T12:25:12.252+08:00Spring is here to staySpring is here and the weather is warming up each day. Having said that, we had a few days of gusty winds with cool morning temperatures last week. It felt like winter for a while but I was glad it didn't last longer than 3 days. This is officially spring weather - nice cool breeze and the blazing sun... it's all good and I'm not complaining. I'm glad to put away my winter jackets and scarves email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-18590302128048049802012-09-21T20:30:00.001+08:002012-09-21T20:30:35.757+08:00Sping Holidays is Here!Finally, it's the last day of term 3 and school holidays is here! This term has ended faster than I think and I know that in the blink of an eye, I'm bound for my hometown. It's been an amazing term despite the ups and downs and I'm forever grateful to God's mercy and strength. His grace is ever so suffice for me and I am so thankful. I've been baking more often than before and my gas is using email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-82409792464713248342012-08-24T10:43:00.000+08:002012-08-24T10:43:44.951+08:00Bakes from the KitchenOne of the things I look forward to is to build a kitchen of my choice. Big marble or granite table tops, an island, a wide digital oven, a 6 stove and a walk-in chef pantry. I know it's a dream kitchen but it is possible! The oven is working overtime on some days and despite its imperfections, it had brought forth many goodies and treats. Not the best I want but for now, it serves my needs! email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-90505925991632068722012-08-24T10:30:00.000+08:002012-08-24T10:30:15.742+08:00A Big Week that Harder than Baking Macarons!The kitchen is filled with activities and I'm very busy, as always. Sometimes, I wonder why I'm so crazy... I can decide to bake a Japanese Kasutera cake at 10.30pm at night and I'm surprising myself with the outcomes of the bakes. This has been a macaron week. Yes... it's a finnicky cookie and I had failed enough attempts before seeing those little treats come out of the oven looking pretty firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-48566298234570709852012-08-10T08:47:00.000+08:002012-08-10T08:54:48.977+08:00The Last Weeks of WinterWe are into the last weeks of winter. Being our first winter in the new place which isn't insulated, snuggling on an electric blanket is a bliss. Brisbane has nice winters where the days are sunny and a little warmer compared to places like Melbourne and Canberra. I recalled having some sunny winter days in Perth but Brisbane winter is beautiful. You can still go to the weekend markets and firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-49046066759699425072012-08-07T08:52:00.000+08:002012-08-10T08:54:33.883+08:00Smartphone ConvenienceI was asked a question not too long ago. That is, can you rather not brush your teeth for one week or be without your smartphone for a week. I find it hard to answer to that question! The truth is, most of us are so used to having our smartphone with us all the time that it has become a very important part of us. When I have to get out for a short while, I'll grab my phone apart from my firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-27722282868325587782012-07-12T15:01:00.001+08:002012-07-12T15:07:31.564+08:00Oops... Seven Months Past!As a matter of fact, I had almost forgotten that this site existed until an old friend reminded me that I had not updated it for more than 6 months. Has it been that long? I blamed it on the pneumonia bug that took a toll on my health early this year, as the virus attacked me viciously, leaving me bed ridden before flying back to Brissy. Then came the move out of our Carindale townhouse into a email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-29054704958851341562011-12-07T09:50:00.004+08:002011-12-07T09:59:48.790+08:00Happy to be HomeI've been away for a long year and it's good to be back in Singapore again. Touching down to a place so familiar felt nice though I wasn't sure how I would like it after a long absence.Being away for so many years allows me to appreciate the sheer convenience this city brings and i am not about to take it for granted. I was already planning my appointments and updating my calendar. This is the firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-85008636820198356772011-11-14T20:53:00.002+08:002011-11-14T20:59:25.217+08:00Less Baking and More PackingThe week has been quiet but very busy since DH left for Malaysia. It's tiring doing the school and activity runs on my own but I'm coping well.In less than two weeks' time, school is out for 2011 and it's vacation time for most. It's been an amazing year and I'm so thankful for everything. Though I didn't like the idea of moving another time, I'm thankful that we found a nice place. Though I email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-76433511433998545662011-11-07T08:55:00.002+08:002011-11-07T09:01:42.323+08:00House Settled, Move will be NextAfter some stressful weeks of home inspections, we had finally confirmed our place for next year! What a relief! I was praying hard that it would all be settled before Alex leaves for his long trip.Looking back, God has opened doors for this house and I was very sure He would do the same for the next. He is faithful. I'm glad that I don't have to do anymore house inspections and though I dread firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-79823290014229893932011-10-26T11:20:00.002+08:002011-10-26T11:28:46.920+08:00Moving Again...I felt a little sad when I learned that we needed to move out of this place end January 12. We have grown to like where we are and it's just nice to be 8 minutes drive from school! No traffic jams, no highways.... the local area is beautiful and we enjoy the park.But we need to face the truth and move forward. I trust that God has a purpose in all things. So the house hunting starts and firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-84534697612253127512011-10-20T20:13:00.002+08:002011-10-20T20:19:15.286+08:00Holidays Are Coming!Just when I felt so settled, we got news that our rental lease won't be renewed. This isn't very good news for us as we will be away in less than two months' time.It did take me some days to accept the situation and I dislike being back to a 'square one' situation. But I know it happens for a good reason. I do hope that we buy a place next year but for now, I have to work on getting a place to firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-5710838211306750762011-10-20T08:41:00.003+08:002011-10-20T19:34:30.646+08:00Cooking, Baking... in brissySo many things have happened in the last month that I'm having difficulties recalling them one by one.In a nutshell, the little junior celebrated his seventh birthday last weekend, his first birthday celebration in sunny brissy. He was very happy to have his friends on that day and we decided to do it at Lollypops playland. It was a very simple and 'stress-free' celebration as there was a party email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20068837.post-67729100105727702692011-09-21T20:51:00.005+08:002011-09-21T21:01:09.852+08:00Durian Baking TimeMy baking adventures continue and this month, it's durian time!Well, I certainly miss my durians - Musang king, XO, D24 - whatever. When you are here and durians are sold in the chiller for $8/kg, it makes your craving grow more intense! BUT we were delighted to spot frozen durians in Yuen few weeks ago and I bought a pack to try out. For $8, I was willing to test it out. 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Adepticon 2016 has come and gone, I was there all four days but only played in the Bolt Action Nationals on Saturday and Sunday. The tournament was a personal let down for me, I wont dwell on it, other than to say I had host of things that bothered me, from my four epic "fubars" that cost me two games , to the bloody lack of space between tables, again, to the abysmal lighting, again. To allowing a super majority of players to bring Germans and not alerting everyone in the months before the event so some could have switched Armies. As a result and I am sure others German players clueless to this German glut, played 3 of our 5 games against Germans which was not very thematic in tournament that worked hard to promote theme. As as an example, at Operation Sting last fall the German player total was 8/25, so at least as local players we could not have expected this. It would be nice if they could split the sign ups 50/50 Axis vs Allies..many other events have done this in the past, asking you what army you are bringing when you register. ( please see below for an update on these original comments)
It was also super disappointing to see the Warlord Games staff not helping run their own "US Nationals" event (especially the set up/ tear down and judging!) leaving the local organizer ( a friend of mine) to do about everything single handed. While they did apparently run the other Bolt Action events, they were hands off on this one, which was too bad as they were physically present but not involved , As a result the event felt under staffed to me, having to run to scoring table for a ruling or having to see armies being appearance judged while a game is being played (which is huge pet peeve of mine going back to those massive WFB tourneys they used to have) One man can only do so much.
However It was nice to see that Warlord and Adepticon did step up with rock solid prize support this year after dropping the ball the last two. The event was extremely well organized from a T.O. perspective it was just damaged by it not really being a marquis event but a "Specialist Game" , that term -which Adepticon actually uses- is perfect if you equate how Games Workshop treated its own "Specialist Games" versus its Marquis games over the years, its the exact same relationship. And finally for 6th time now since 2010 I lost a maxed out "judged" Best Appearance score to the "player voted" Favorite Army tie breaker, and fondly remember the days when these both used to be separate awards.
As for the photo dump- the link is in the photo gallery side bar to left, its about 220 photos, just a heads of whats in there before you click..
Tons of Bolt Action, some of my game pics, and lots of the Armies
A few shots of the Crystal Brush heavy hitters..(Like the Orc Lord above)
A shot of my daughter standing in front of some 40K super titan with a building on its head asking me "how big do miniatures get?"
The freaking epic Warmaster game in 28mm!
A couple of shots of the Charity Raffle Armys..
Some pics of the Fist Full of Seamen Ships and Tables.
What you wont see..
Any Fantasy gaming
Any 40K gaming
Any Star Wars
Adepticon is a huge event now and an all year business for the guys that run it, and it couldnt run without the volunteers that I have a great respect for. Like any big convention, it now suffers the trappings of a big convention, you get the good with the bad, there are tons of options for gaming and a lot of stuff to see- but you can spend 4 days there and not see those old or "once a year" friends you've made because the thing is big enough, you are not just going to run into them unless you have the time to make the time. Alot of the old Adepticon camaraderie that used to exist between players of all stripes has fallen by the wayside as a result of the conventions growth. While I do like the Hotel its super expensive and oddly isolating due to the layout. I'm going to try to make time to go to Little Wars at the end of the month which is at the old hotel that Adepticon used to be at and I want to see how it compares to charm of Adepticon in say 2011 or 12 which I think were its banner years. This was my 11th year at Adepticon, I am sure I will be back in some capacity for 2017, for what I'll just have wait and see...
(Update 4/9), Upon further investigation it seems I got some bad information, its seems that Germans only fielded 13/40 spots or 32% which isnt terrible , when I asked about this I given a 70% number which was what bothered me, However that was in the Doubles that I didnt play in, So it seems no one "screwed this up" I was a mere victim of bad luck in the swiss pairings that is all. The problem did exist but not for me so I want to apologize for unjust criticism here pointed at event organizers. I still hope correcting some of my valid issues, particularly keeping forces paired to Axis vs Allies in future BA events is a goal I hope all TO's can event managers can work toward, as playing your own army 3 out 5 games in WW2 Theme event, even with the above caveats is not working for me.


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The Tenancy Deposit Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2011 covers tenancies which the landlord registration provisions in the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004 apply. This means if a landlord is required to register with the local authority, and takes a deposit from their tenant, that landlord must also protect the deposit with a tenancy deposit scheme.
This includes landlords of assured and short assured tenancies, university accommodation, as well as various other types of occupancy agreement.
However, not all deposits have to be protected. Landlords of the following types of property are not required to register with the local authority, so they don't need to protect their tenant's deposit:
- Lets to family members;
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It doesn't matter if someone pays the deposit for the tenant; unless a landlord is exempt from complying with the Regulations, the deposit must be transferred to a tenancy deposit scheme.
If a landlord fails to comply with the Regulations, a tenant can apply to the Sheriff Court for financial sanctions. If the Sheriff is satisfied that a landlord has failed to comply, they can order the landlord to pay the tenant up to three times the amount of the deposit. A tenant can apply to the Sheriff Court during the tenancy or up to three months after the tenancy.
SafeDeposits can only protect deposits for tenancies in Scotland. Tenancy Deposit Scheme protects deposits for tenancies in England and Wales, and Tenancy Deposit Scheme Northern Ireland protects deposits for tenancies in Northern Ireland.


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By Jason McDaniel
Like father, like son.
Three-time all-around world champion Lewis Feild won the bareback riding title at Houston's rodeo in 1982 — long before his son, reigning world champ bareback rider Kaycee Feild, was born.
Now — exactly 30 years later — Kaycee's name is with his father's on the long list of Houston champions after winning the BP Super Series Championship Shootout on Saturday at Reliant Stadium.
And dad probably never dreamed of a check this big.
With his victory in the $50,000, four-man shootout round — a lucrative payout that didn't start until the inception of the Super Series format in 2007 — Kaycee exited RodeoHouston with $53,650.
"This rodeo's been around forever, it's really prestigious, my dad's won it … and now I can put my buckle next to his," Kaycee said. "I've always dreamed of winning this rodeo, especially when I first started and they put the $50,000 up for us cowboys. It makes it that much better and makes me compete that much harder."
Reaches one goal
Kaycee, 24, posted the high score in the 10-man final, an 88.5, then executed a 93-point ride on MGM Deuces Night in the shootout to set a new Houston record.
Two-time Houston champion Clint Cannon set the previous mark at 92 in 2009.
"That's my goal everywhere I go — to beat records and set arena records, and hopefully someday beat the world record (94)," Feild said.
Adam Gray won the tie-down roping shootout in 8.8 seconds, which isn't close to the Houston record, but Gray, in his fifth appearance in Houston, set a personal-best here with $56,300.
"I hadn't won $5,000 combined in the first four years," Gray said. "It's always been one of those rodeos that seem to elude me."
Not anymore.
Gray couldn't pinpoint exactly what went right, except for drawing a herd of good calves, but he'll take it.
"This is a big win because of how much money it is at one time," Gray said. "A lot of people work all year to make $50,000.
'I won Houston'
"But more important for me — because the money will all be spent — I can look back 30 or 40 years from now, see the saddle and the buckle, and tell my kids or grandkids, 'Yeah, I remember that time I won Houston.' "
Barrel racer Lindsay Sears, the reigning and two-time world champion, won Houston again. Sears, who won her first Houston championship in 2008, claimed her second with a 14.13 in the shootout.
Sears edged out Stephenville's Carlee Pierce by one hundredth of a second, earning $59,900.
She won $61,500 here three years ago.
Beaumont's Beau Schroeder won the bull riding championship. He was bucked off in the final but advanced on a tiebreaker, then was the only rider to stay on for 8 seconds in the shootout.
His 84.5 in the short round earned him $56,200.
Two-time world champion saddle bronc rider Cody Wright, the oldest of six bronc-riding brothers, added a Houston championship with a Houston-record score of 91 points.


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The company had reported net profit of Rs 83.86 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago, it said in a BSE filing.
Marico said results are not comparable with corresponding quarter last year as its skincare business 'Kaya' was demerged in October 2013.
The company had also reported exceptional item of Rs 33.20 crore in the corresponding quarter of last fiscal.
Marico's net sales during Q4, 2013-14 went up by 7.27 per cent at Rs 1,069.81 crore, compared with Rs 997.25 crore in the year-ago period.
Expenses during Q4 were at Rs 939.33 crore, up 4.08 per cent, against Rs 902.45 crore in the same quarter last year.
Shares of Marico were trading at Rs 202 apiece in the afternoon trade on the BSE, down 0.49 per cent from its previous close.


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PaintingbyPublished on 29-09-2014 11:07 PM
You can never have too many tutorials on how to paint faces, right? Well, hopefully because here's another one...
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Hello once again! It has been some time since my last step by step. Last winter I painted up a great little miniature from Mannequin Miniatures, a goblin assassin named Gorerot. Here is a detailed step by step of how I painted him up.
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Hello guys and girls, today I am going to be covering how to achieve the winter white wash effect I created on my Dust Tactics Medium Assault Walker.
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One of the things I love to add to my figures is a design or pattern, something unique to make it stand out from the many other versions you may see around the web. This can take the form of a small detail like a line or pattern on a piece of clothing, an emblem on a shield or flag, ...byPublished on 06-05-2013 03:44 PM
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Texture is a type of contrast that has been used in the historical side of the hobby for many years and has started being used by more and more by painters on the sci fi and fantasy side of the hobby. Texture is about creating a random pattern, usually with sponges or paint brushes. ...byPublished on 14-02-2013 09:54 PM
Hello everyone, my name is John, most people will know me as Darkmessiah, for the last 3 years I have been attending many competitions and workshops around Europe, I have been learning many new skills, techniques and ideas from some of the best painters in the world, this has drastically improved my ...byPublished on 24-11-2012 02:21 PM Number of Views: 7949
Arwen is a model I painted this year and entered into GD Germany and UK. She got a finalist in both competitions. In this step by step tutorial Ill cover everything from prep, basing and painting of both the model and base. Im always happy ...