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Synecdoche, New York
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Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 American film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. It premiered in competition at the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2008 and went into limited theatrical release in the US on October 24, 2008.
The film marks the directorial debut of Kaufman, who is known for his screenplays for the reality-bending films Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Adaptation..
Theater director Caden Cotard finds his life unraveling. Suffering from numerous physical ailments and growing increasingly alienated from his wife, Adele, he hits bottom when Adele leaves him for a new life in Berlin, taking their daughter, Olive, with her.
Shortly afterward, Caden unexpectedly receives a MacArthur Fellowship, giving him the financial means to pursue his artistic interests. He is determined to use it to create an artistic piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can pour his whole self. Gathering an ensemble cast into an enormous warehouse in Manhattan's theater district, he directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives. As the mockup inside the warehouse grows increasingly mimetic of the city outside, Caden continues to look for solutions to his personal crises. He is traumatized as he discovers Adele has become a celebrated painter in Berlin and Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. After a disastrous fling with the woman who mans the box office, Hazel, he marries Claire, an actress in his cast. Their relationship ultimately fails, however, and he continues his awkward relationship with Hazel, who is by now married with children. Meanwhile, an unknown condition is systematically shutting down his autonomic functions one by one.
As the years rapidly pass, the continually expanding warehouse is isolated from the deterioration of the city outside. Caden buries himself ever deeper into his magnum opus, blurring the line between the world of the play and that of reality by populating the cast and crew with doppelgängers. For instance, Sammy Barnathan is cast in the role of Caden in the play after Sammy reveals that he has been obsessively following Caden for 20 years, while Sammy's lookalike is cast as Sammy. Sammy's own interest in Hazel sparks a revival of Caden's relationship with her.
As he pushes the limits of his relationships personally and professionally, Caden lets an actress take over his role as director and takes on her previous role as Ellen, Adele's cleaning lady. He lives out his days in the model of Adele's apartment under the replacement director's instruction during which some unexplained (and likely in-universe) calamity occurs in the warehouse leaving ruins and bodies in its wake. Finally he prepares for death as he rests his head on the shoulder of an actress who had previously played Ellen's mother, seemingly the only person left alive in the warehouse. As the scene fades to gray, Caden says that now he has an idea for how to do the play, when the director's voice in his ear gives him his final cue: "Die."
- Philip Seymour Hoffman as Caden Cotard
- Catherine Keener as Adele Lack
- Samantha Morton as Hazel
- Hope Davis as Madeleine Gravis
- Tom Noonan as Sammy Barnathan, Caden's double
- Emily Watson as Tammy, Hazel's double
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Maria
- Dianne Wiest as Millicent Weems (who plays Ellen Bascomb and another of Caden's doubles)
- Michelle Williams as Claire Keen
- Deirdre O'Connell as Mrs. Bascomb
- Robin Weigert as Olive Cotard, Caden's adult daughter
- Sadie Goldstein as 4-year-old Olive
- Josh Pais as Ophthalmologist
Miniature paintings and the impossible warehouse
- Both Caden and Adele are artists, and the scale on which both of them work becomes increasingly relevant to the story as the film progresses. Adele works on an extremely small scale, while Caden works on an impossibly large scale, constructing a full-size replica of New York City in a warehouse, and eventually a warehouse within that warehouse, and so on, continuing in this impossible cycle. Adele's name is almost a mondegreen for "a delicate art" (Adele Lack Cotard). Commenting on the scale of the paintings, Kaufman said, "In [Adele's] studio at the beginning of the movie you can see some small but regular-sized paintings that you could see without a magnifying glass ... By the time [Caden] goes to the gallery to look at her work, which is many years later, you can't see them at all." He continued, "As a dream image it appeals to me. Her work is in a way much more effective than Caden's work. Caden's goal in his attempt to do his sprawling theater piece is to impress Adele because he feels so lacking next to her in terms of his work," and added, "Caden's work is so literal. The only way he can reflect reality in his mind is by imitating it full-size .... It's a dream image but he's not interacting with it successfully."
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Former "The Bachelor Winter Games" couple Courtney Dober and Lily McManus are still friends… with benefits.
Courtney, 32, opened up about his relationship with Lily, 21, on Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti's podcast "Almost Famous."
He admitted they made the mutual decision to break up in August for various reasons, including, "My visa, her visa, her age and my age, and what we were hoping and planning for the future…"
Since the split, they have stayed friends and "the pressure from the outside world has completely dissipated."
They are "good friends," and Dober said, "We hang out probably more than we did when we were actually in a romantic relationship."
The reality star added, "We're both leading very separate lives and we're not looking into the future because we're not in a relationship. So we're just living in the present moment and we're just enjoying each other's company far more than I suppose I think we were previously, so it's a strange dynamic. There have been moments of romance, I'm not gonna lie."
He confessed, "We slept together since the breakup."
Courtney isn't sure what the future holds, but said that regardless, "We are very, very, very good friends."
Lily recently opened up to Us Weekly about her friendship with Courtney, saying, "We are still best friends. After all, we moved to this country together. Just because our timing as romantic partners wasn't right, that doesn't mean we have to lose that friendship."

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Blue Carbon: Methane Emissions from Managed Saline Ponds in the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, San Francisco Bay
Haley J. Miller, Glenn E. Woerndle, Steve Crooks, and Jason K. Keller
This data set reports net methane (CH4) emissions from managed saline ponds and a restored salt marsh associated with the South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project, San Francisco Bay, CA, USA. Associated biogeochemical and physical data are also reported. Data were collected on five sampling dates over the course of the study: November 2016, January 2017, March 2017, June 2017 and August 2017. Logistics (e.g., weather and road conditions) and nesting birds did not allow us to sample all locations during all sampling events.
Methane emissions were measured using static chambers and biogeochemical data were measured on porewater associated with the static chambers. Data from one flux chamber (Pond A1; November 2016) were removed as an outlier because the measured emissions were more than 20-times higher than the average of other fluxes in the same pond during the same sampling event.
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Data collected since 1993 in Oneida County, Wisconsin, on the breeding and territorial behavior of the common loon, Gavia immer. This study population is marked with USGS metal bands and colored leg bands for individual identification. It includes many individuals banded as chicks, whose life histories are known thoroughly. Data are collected from April through August of most years on this migratory species.
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Femtosecond x-ray laser pulses are used to probe the CO oxidation reaction on Ru initiated by an optical laser pulse. On a timescale of a few hundred femtoseconds, the optical laser pulse excites motions of CO and O on the surface allowing the reactants to collide and, with a transient close to a picosecond (ps), new electronic states appear in the O K-edge x-ray absorption spectrum. Density functional theory calculations indicate that these result from changes in the adsorption site and bond-formation between CO and O with a distribution of OC—O bond lengths close to the transition state (TS). After 1 ps 10 % of the CO populate the TS region, which is consistent with predictions based on a quantum oscillator model.
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The 68-year-old man, who was staying at a hotel on West Bay Road, was crossing the street in the vicinity of Peppers Restaurant when the pickup truck struck him around 7 p.m.
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A new foundation which will enable practitioners to join together to provide multi-disciplinary specialist services for children with special educational needs is being launched next month - and could transform the present fragmented and bureaucratic system.
The Clarity Foundation hopes to attract health and social care providers, as well as education specialists, to join as members who can be referred to families and local authorities as approved providers meeting statutory guidelines.
The foundation is the brainchild of speech and language therapist Janet O'Keefe and Robert Ashton, best selling business author, social entrepreneur and campaigner, who are passionate about providing a new joined-up efficient system which supports children and their families with educational support, while at the same time eliminating unnecessary duplication and bureaucracy.
It will be launched at a conference entitled, Towards a Positive Future, aimed at parents and professionals, to inspire, share experiences and discover how they can achieve more for children with special needs. The conference is being held on October 14-15 at Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury, which is based at the Mary Hare School for deaf children.
There are currently 1.7 million children with special educational needs in England who require support for wide ranging conditions, from dyslexia, dyspraxia and Down's syndrome, to autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Janet says: "We believe that having a one-stop shop is the best way to enable parents and local authorities find all the support services desperately needed by children with special needs, and that our foundation is the most practical and efficient way of ensuring that those services are integrated and coordinated. We need to bring practitioners from health, education and social care together and plan for the future while the present guidelines for new contract arrangements is under review. Our foundation will be a valuable database of all heath and social care providers, as well as education specialists.
"Additionally, we can streamline time consuming and expensive administrative processes. For example, we can help with criminal bureau checks and professional indemnity insurance. At the moment, if a practitioner is not directly employed by a school or local authority, every school they visit should conduct its own CRB check. Many practitioners regularly visit 20 schools a week sometimes in several different counties and are therefore checked 20 times."
Robert says it makes good sense to become more efficient during the present shake up of these services:
He says: "However you feel about the Government's "Big Society" agenda, the fact is that the worlds of education, health and social care are undergoing massive change. The Clarity Foundation is being formed to help parents make sense of those changes, and in parallel to help practitioners create their own enterprises. That way both groups can connect, create opportunities and meet the needs of young people striving to overcome disadvantage."
Specialist speakers include educational psychologist and former head teacher Charlie Mead, who has worked with children with severe emotional and behavioural problems and special needs for 20 years. He has grave concerns about the present system and highlights failures he has observed, leading to neglect in some cases for vulnerable young people.
He says: "Charities are afraid to stand up for their clients in case their funding is withdrawn. Academies are afraid of further failure by taking on exactly those students who would benefit most from their resources. Children and Family Services have neglected the vulnerable due to bureaucratic inertia and a lack of consistency. All these situations can be changed if the interests of the child are put first.
"When working with highly vulnerable children in care, many of whom have been sectioned, it is clear that the recession is having a considerable impact on the young people and their families – especially those who cannot cope emotionally, are addicts, are sexualized early and have been abused. They need expert consistent provision – not piecemeal services from organisations who are threatened by lack of funding."
Other key speakers are Kevin Geeson, CEO of Dyslexia Action, who will highlight the impact of the SEN Green Paper; speech and language specialist Prof Heather van der Lely, who will highlight her simple test for an early diagnosis of specific language impairment; and both Sandy Burbach and Alex Kelly, who will describe the importance of developing social skills and self esteem in children.
Janet is also launching a book she has edited at the conference also called Towards a Positive Future which includes stories, ideas and inspiration from children with special educational needs, their families and professionals.
Full details about the conference can be found at their website, Towards a Positive Future:http://towardsapositivefuture.wordpress.com/
There is a range of ticket prices: parent £90 (one day) £155 (both days); second parent £60 (one day) £120 (both days); professionals £200 (one day) £385 (both days).
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There's a fresh wake-up call to go easy on those holiday cookies — and any other junk food that comes your way in the New Year.
Americans are getting fatter and shorter, according to a report out Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics, which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Women's waistlines have expanded more than two inches, from 36.3 inches in 1999-2000 to 38.6 inches in 2015-16. The waistlines of men grew a little less, just just over an inch, from 39 inches to 40.2 inches.
When it comes to weight, men have ballooned eight pounds on average from 189.4 pounds in 1999-2000 to 197.9 pounds in 2015-16 was. Women widened about seven pounds in the same time period, from 163.8 to 170.6 pounds.
Oddly, height is going down. Men have shrunk from 5 feet, 9.2 inches in 1999-2000 to 5 feet, 9.1 inches in 2015-16. Women went from 5 feet, 3.8 inches in 1999-2000 to 5 feet, 3.7 inches in 2015-16.
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I am a qualified and experienced Speech-Language Pathologist. I also hold the OCT Certificate for Primary, Junior, and Special Education. I graduated from Minsk University, Belarus. I earned my Master's Degree in Special Education and Speech-Language Pathology in Shaanan College and University of Tel-Aviv, Israel. I have extensive experience providing assessment and treatment to clients with various communication difficulties including articulation and phonological disorders, language delay, fluency, hearing impairment, aphasia and neurological disorders. I also work with children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Down Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy. With my strong background in Special Education and Speech Language Pathology and experienced knowledge in various implementing therapeutic techniques such as PROMPT, PECS, Hanen, AAC and Applied Behaviour Analysis, I am able to identify and accommodate different treatment needs, emphasizing the uniqueness of each client. I am fluent in Russian and Hebrew and have extensive knowledge and experience in providing assessment and treatment to culturally and linguistically diverse population. I continue to expand my knowledge in various fields through continuing education, professional conferences and workshops. I provide speech therapy in Barrie, Bradford, Newmarket, Aurora, Richmond Hill, Woodbridge, Maple, Vaughan,North York and Markham.
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|Mont Blanc// (c) 2011 Wikipedia
Ulrike Koltermann, DPA, August 16, 2011
Climbing Mont Blanc is the dream of many climbers but even hiking around Europe's highest mountain is a real challenge and requires thorough preparation.
The Tour de Mont Blanc, known as TMB by hikers, is one of the classic long-distance hiking trails in the Alps.
The route, which takes approximately 10 days to complete, circles the Mont Blanc Massif covering a distance of roughly 160 kilometres and passes through parts of Switzerland, Italy and France.
The ski resort of Les Houches, located six kilometres to the west of Chamonix, is a favoured base for walking the TMB. It is also the starting point for the annual TMB mountain marathon, where top endurance athletes complete the 160km mountainous circuit in less than 24 hours.
Most people tackle the TMB at a more respectable pace, making a leisurely ascent of the Col de Voza. It's important to warm up correctly.
It's early morning and the massif is covered by a blanket of cloud with no sign of the high mountains. However, as noon approaches there is a break in the cloud cover, offering a first glimpse of the snow fields.
The 4,810-metre-high peak of Mont Blanc is still not visible from this side but the summit of the 4,052m Aiguille de Bionnassay rises majestically into view.
The village of Bionnassay consists of a handful of wooden houses with geranium-filled balconies and it was from here that the first expeditions to Mont Blanc started out.
The early pioneers carried long sticks to maintain grip on the snow fields, while the first women to tackle the mountain wore several quilted skirts over each other.
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We happily progressed with the help of telescopic walking sticks and functional shirts until reaching Les Contamines in the early evening.
The hiker's hostel serves up a healthy portion of spaghetti bolognese before we all settle down and try to sleep through the international snoring concert going on in the sleeping hall. Anyone who goes on a hiking tour without ear plugs has only themselves to blame.
The route to Col du Bonhomme on the following day leads through pine forests before the track becomes rougher and rockier. The trail narrows during the ascent and our lungs fill with fresh Alpine air.
Cows peacefully graze in the meadows, even though it can still snow in the pass during high summer.
The Col de la Seigne, which marks the border to Italy, is tackled the next day and finally offers a view of the Mont Blanc summit after days walking around the massif.
The cappuccino served in Rifugio Elisabetta, the first mountain refuge on the Italian side situated near a huge glacier, tastes as good as in any Roman cafe.
The TMB offers hikers a variety of routes, with the trail over the 2,758m-high Mont Fortin especially recommended as it takes in views of mountain lakes in which the snow-covered peaks are mirrored.
After a couple of days, some of the faces encountered become familiar as the same hikers are passed each day and also stay in the same hostel each night.
Just like the GR20 in Corsica, the TMB runs the risk of being a victim of its own success. The hostels are full to the seams during the summer and reservations are highly recommended even though no-one is turned away who could not make it to the next hostel.
The downhill walk to Courmayeur is tough on the knees and thigh muscles, and is followed by a 2,000m ascent to the Rifugio Bonatti, named after world-famous Italian climber Walter Bonatti.
Black and white photos of Bonatti climbing ice walls in the Andes and in a canoe on the Congo during the 1970s adorn the walls, while there are hooks for walking sticks, slippers and a heated drying room for wet clothes.
The homemade pizza bianca and the four-course evening meal on offer are simply the icing on the cake.
Switzerland is reached by the Col Ferret, which offers another view of the Mont Blanc summit. Hikers wanting to circumnavigate the entire massif still have the Ferret valley ahead of them.


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IMSU: A Message To 100L Students In The Thick Of Exams
Imo State University (IMSU) Monday 3rd June commenced examination for 100L students barely 3 weeks after returning students completed their exams and Comr. Promise Chimaobi who is fashionably called ACTIVE, a senior student has issued a message wishing the fresh students the very best of luck.
Esteemed 100L students of the 2018/2019 class. On behalf of every concerned student, the University Management, we seize this medium to wish you all success and best of luck as you sit for your first semester examination.
Much more than any other examination, the University degree exam is not only a test of your academic knowledge, it is a test of your calmness, stability and courage. And we hope that you all will exude these qualities throughout the period of your examination.
We also pray that the Almighty reward your weeks of hard work with 100% pass rate.
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Georgia Tech added the 19th and 20th members of its 2018 signing class Wednesday morning, with hopes of a third to be added later in the day.
Parkview High running back Christian Malloy and Rome High defensive lineman Ja'Quon Griffin signed letters of intent with Tech on the first day of the late signing period. Malloy committed previously to Florida International. Griffin chose Tech over Tulane and Appalachian State.
"We got on (Malloy) a little bit late, but we always kind of followed him," coach Paul Johnson said Wednesday. "He had a knee injury early on his junior year, and I think that limited his recruitment a little bit early, but after we watched him play this year, it was pretty clear to us that he had regained his speed and mobility, especially toward the end of the year."
Johnson said that Malloy, a three-star prospect (247 Sports composite) who is listed at 5-foot-10 and 200 pounds, will begin as a B-back.
Griffin, 6-0 and 275 pounds, is projected as a defensive end in new defensive coordinator Nate Woody's 3-4 defense. A three-star prospect, Griffin is a two-time all-state selection who helped Rome win back-to-back state championships as a junior and senior. Johnson described him as explosive and strong.
"Our defensive staff feels like he can come in and compete right away for some playing time, and that's an area where we want to build some depth," Johnson said.
Johnson said that he was expecting a third letter of intent Wednesday evening. That would bring Tech to its 85-scholarship limit for the 2018-19 academic year.
It is not Pike County running back C'Bo Flemister, who committed to Tech in December, but did not sign in the early signing period. He signed with Notre Dame on Wednesday.


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Jang Young-nam is a South Korean actress. She works under BH Entertainment, alongside several notable actors and actresses such as Jin Goo, Han Ga-in and Han Hyo-oo. Do you wanna know more about her? Here is the complete profile of Jang Young-nam!
Jang Young-nam's Profile
- Name: Jang Young Nam (장영남)
- Profession: Actress
- Birthdate: November 25, 1973
- Birthplace: South Korea
- Height: 168cm
- Bloodtype: O
- Star sign: Sagittarius
- Education: Seoul Institute of the Arts majoring in Theater
- Occupation: Actress
- Years active: 1995-present
- Talent agency: BH Entertainment
She began her career as an well known actress in theater. She later transitioned to supporting roles on television and film, most notably in director Jang Jin's works. She regularly appears in his films and theater company productions. She became one of the original cast members of the live sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live Korea when Jang Jin brought the show to South Korea. Alongside her acting careers, she was a member of Korea's prestigious theater troupe, Mokhwa Repertory Company.
Jang Young-nam is known to have the flexibility to jump from one medium to other such as theater, television and films. She is known for her skill in both comedic and dramatic roles, and her ability to easily transition between different genres. Some notable supporting film roles include A Werewolf Boy, that also staring Song Joong-ki and Hello Ghost which she played with Cha Tae-hyun. She has also made memorable cameos in dramas Pinocchio and Moon Embracing the Sun. In 2013, she played her first lead role in the revenge crime thriller Azooma, which won her the Best Actress Award from the Director's Guild at the "17th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF)."
Jang Young-nam's Husband
Jang Young-nam married her current husband, Lee Ho-ung, in December 2011. She married a theater and film university professor, who is seven years younger than her. They married in a private ceremony. Some famous stars attended their quiet wedding, including fellow actresses Han Chae-young and Kang Ye-won. She and her husband welcomed a son in April 2014.


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How to Hang A Quilt, Tapestry or Rug
An Easy Guide for Quilt Wall Hanging
If you own one nice quilt or a collection of them, a vintage tapestry or an old rug that you think might look better hanging on the wall instead of on the floor, then here is an easy guide for hanging a large fabric piece on the wall. It is easier than you might think.
You are going to make a sleeve for the back of your quilt, tapestry or rug. With a quilt or fabric tapestry the sleeve can be made from almost any material. For a rug, strong canvas should be used in order to support the weight of the rug.
The sleeve is basically an opening sewn on to the back of the object that you intend to hang. It works like the sleeve on a curtain or drape. The intention is to slide a rod or piece of wood from a quilt wall mount kit through the sleeve for support.
Before you sew the sleeve, you should have purchased the wall hanging kit, quilt rack or rod to hang your wall art. The rod or rack should be longer than the width of the quilt or tapestry and include instructions for hanging it on a wall. You can hang the wall rack or rod mount before sewing the sleeve or afterwards, it does not matter. Make the opening of the sleeve wide enough to incorporate the rod or wooden slat.
Creating the Sleeve and Hanging Your Art
You must measure how wide your tapestry, rug or quilt is and cut a strip of fabric or canvas if hanging a rug to match this measurement. The opening of the sleeve should be wide enough to incorporate the rod. Add an extra inch to the opening to allow for seams.
For example, lets say you quilt is 36" wide and your rod is 2" thick. Cut your sleeve 36" x 3". You are going to seam the length of the sleeve with a 1/2" seam. This can be done quickly on your sewing machine and can be basic. Remember, the sleeve will not be seen so it does not have to be perfect.
After sewing the two seems you will hand stitch the sleeve to the reverse side of the rug, quilt or tapestry. I know, this is time consuming but it can't be helped. Sew on the sleeve with a thread that will match and blend into the color scheme of whatever it is that you intend to hand on the wall.
You are now ready to hang your quilt, tapestry or rug. If you have already mounted the wall bracket or rod supports then just slide the rod or wood rail through the sleeve and hang. Otherwise, mount your kit to the wall by following the enclosed instructions. Remember to use a level when hanging your rack so that your tapestry, quilt or rug do not hang crooked.
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Amish quilts are a craft that financial supports the Amish community. Amish quilts are handmade and collectible. They are crafted in a simple style and are quite beautiful additions to a quilt collection. Learn what to look for when buying an Amish.
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Hawaiian quilts have a rich history and beauty surrounding them. Monarchs of the islands made them and they are sold as tourists souvenirs. Antique Hawaiian quilts and flag quilts are quite valuable. Learn more about this amazing island work.
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Great hub on hanging rugs and quilts. I learned a few things here. Thanks for writing and voting up.
Great Hub, I have a handmade rug my Grandmother made for me and I have often thought of making it into a wall hanging. Now I know how! Thanks!
Great hub and very useful. I love the idea but never knew how to do it. Thank you for the great info, Voted Up!
That's the way I hung my quilt. Good information. I'm trying to get back to quilting and get some quilting done that I need to get done. I have many started but need to finish them. Voted Up.


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Leaky Buckets, Death Stink and True Love
The past 8 months has been a whirlwind of action for me. In October I acquired Sprintly – an agile project management tool for startups, along with the original founder, Joe Stump. It's been an incredible experience so far and definitely the most fun project I have worked on in my career yet. As part of getting Sprintly re-started, I've been out doing some talks and podcasts about my experience in running the business so far and I thought I should share those here for folks that have been wondering what's new.
Different, Better – We're Writing a Guide to Practical Positioning
Anyone that knows me knows that Positioning is one of my favourite marketing topics. For startups in particular, figuring out how to define a unique piece of the market that you can claim and dominate is really important. Today I'm announcing that Alistair Croll and I are working on a book – Different, Better – A Practical Guide to Superb Positioning in Noisy Markets.
Your B2B Startup Needs a Buyer's Guide
One of the big differences between selling to businesses vs selling to consumers is the buying process. Most Consumer products are lower priced and purchased quickly because if you make a poor choice, you aren't out much more than beer money. In B2B not only is there more money on the line, buyers often have to justify a purchase to their boss. A poor choice can cost the company big dollars and (often more importantly) damage the buyer's reputation.
This is precisely why a Buyer's Guide is such a powerful piece of marketing content. It is designed specifically to meed the needs of a prospect that has been tasked with making a purchase decision. It's a piece of marketing content aimed directly at the hottest prospects in your pipeline.
Marketing Strategy Hacks Presentation
If growth is stalled and all of your marketing metrics kinda stink – it might be time to look at your underlying strategy. How you would test the underlying assumptions around which buyers you are targeting and what market you are positioned in.
Components of a Startup Marketing Plan
Startup marketing plans contain 3 key components: The inputs to the plan (Positioning and Messaging), the tactical work plan, and the results/revenue model.
Marketing Strategy Hacks for Startups
Is it possible that your marketing strategy is killing your startup? It could be. Here are 4 marketing strategy hacks to try to get your startup unstuck.


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I am requesting that the Ministry of Health consider extending polyclinic hours to 10pm on weekdays and to 5pm on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
As polyclinics are located in HDB estates, they serve many residents who need affordable medical care after office hours and on weekends.
It is expensive to seek treatment at private 24-hour clinics located in HDB estates after midnight and on Sundays and public holidays.
Extending polyclinic operating hours would certainly help ease the workload at the accident and emergency departments at hospitals, and reduce waiting times at polyclinics. It would also benefit working residents, who would be able to seek affordable treatment after work.
If the proposal is successful, perhaps the Health Ministry could consider operating regional 24-hour polyclinics, one in each of the northern, southern, eastern and western parts of Singapore.
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For background on how these settings could relate to the performance of the Bark for Kids app, see here.
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- Settings > Advanced Settings > Battery Manager > Power plan is set to Performance
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- Settings > Apps > Bark > Battery > Power-intensive prompt [x] and Keep running after screen off [x]
- Settings > Apps > Advanced (at the bottom) > Ignore optimizations > Tap Allowed > All apps > Find Bark on the list and set to Allow
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Huawei P9 Plus:
- Settings > Apps > Settings > Special access > Ignore battery optimization > select Allow for Bark.
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Crossover: Pinky and The Brain (Voices) read Pulp Fiction
This is a clip from San Francisco Sketchfest of Rob Paulsen (Pinky) and Maurice LaMarche (The Brain) performing their lovable cartoon character voices while reading an excerpt from Pulp Fiction. I think this was probably a lot better if you were actually in the audience but it's still always fun to see voice actor's perform their characters live. Enjoy!


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Just some ramble-y thoughts, and/or existentialist wingeing I'd like to know if other people feel the same way about.
I've heard, and experience, that it's a part of the human condition that you always feel like you have less free time now than you did in years past, but you're sanguine about managing to have more time in the future. Right now I'm feeling that most with Indyish games; I'd like to get really entrenched in a game writing (and playing) community (even beyond the fun I have at Glorious Trainwrecks) but I"m not sure where to go, how to find the right time and place to do that. In fact, I find it hard just to keep up with the cool stuff coming out, and where to go for that. AuntiePixelante has a fairly nice pace to it, but then there's stuff like TIGsource and GSW etc etc.
And of course with other people's indy stuff, so often there's that case of "oh, damn, they go to my idea first", like recently with omniludicon... or in general other developers seem more able to raise the ante in terms of sounds and graphics and level design.
I wonder if this is how people who are fairly serious about, say, poetry feel... unsure of their talents, wondering if even the other great stuff that's out there will really strike it big. There's SO MUCH STUFF! You kind of hope to be able to develop.... I dunno, some bit of microfame, but really at best it's nanofame (i.e. "on the Internet, everyone is famous to 15 people") You think of the games that just rocked your world as a kid, the Marios or Sonics or whatever, and you wonder if there's any way in hell to have *anything* at ALL like that in an indy vein...
Then again there's that feeling of Make the Game You Want To Play, but of course your standards are probably going to be higher than that... like, my manspider game, that's one of the few titles I have where I might actually come back to it, it's fun to see how well you can do. ANd when I think of what games I REALLY highly regard, like Fantastic Contraption--- that was great intense fun for a week or so, but now I'd at most skim other people's stuff, and most games are lucky to get even that kind of attention.
Which is where other aspects come into play: i"m poor as a level designer, I tend to want to make fun w/ mechanics and "novel interactions", and too often all I do is these little 2 or 3 hour game jams -- and most of those are "game gets gradually harder and harder 'til you die" retro setups... no new playable content comes out as a reward. Possibly some games would just be better broken up into Waves or something, a less-fine-grained quantifaction of "how far the player got" than mere score or timer value.
And then there might even be some unrecognized issues , where the "Indy game" community uses games factory or whatever for downloadable games, but maybe my thinking (both in gameplay and audience reach) is in casual and/or browser based games. And I don't know if my core go-to language, Processing, is up to the task, or if I should push harder and learn Flash etc... and if I should get a Masters degree in Digital Media. Which is a whole 'nother kettle of fish.
So, thats it. I know this is a whole spew of semi-coherent and whiny and self-obsessed stuff, but I'd love to hear any suggestions on where to take this...
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:10 pm
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Maybe this should be in the development forum?
In any case, I do wonder why there aren't more indie game collectives. Not in the Glorious Trainwreck sense, where people get together to make a bunch of individual games; rather, I'm thinking something more like an actual game development studio, with a team of people working on a single title.
The answer that seems to make the most sense is that indie games do tend to be attached to the idea of Making a Name for Yourself, in that this is how people realize an unsullied version of their personal vision (and as you mention, the notion of "fame" plays some role in this). It's also a lot more difficult to work as a team than people first think and often requires somebody who specializes in production or management, which doesn't fit well with the ethos of the DIY videogame, especially if the person doing the product management isn't the main programmer.
Sorry to focus on team vs. individual development; I really feel though that this is an interesting dichotomy and I would really like to see more demo scene-style groups operating in game development.
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:56 pm
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Scratchmonkey wrote:
Maybe this should be in the development forum?
Yeah, I was on the fence about that... in part, there is this matter of catching up with the games that are out there (and also I wanted more interested people to see the thread) Should we move it? (Can I do it or is that a moderator function?)
In any case, I do wonder why there aren't more indie game collectives. Not in the Glorious Trainwreck sense, where people get together to make a bunch of individual games; rather, I'm thinking something more like an actual game development studio, with a team of people working on a single title.
Yeah, it's a cool idea!
A few thoughts:
1. getting people to collaborate is hard work. Coordination, communication, egos, slackers... I suspect the complexity increases exponentially with additional people, especially if they're collaborating online
2. It seems like there is a fair amount of collaboration, but it's usually with 2 or 3 personal specialties... artwork and sound in particular.
For 2, a while back I asked, but didn't get a solid answer, what specialties are in large or short supply in terms of collaborations... it seems like there would be
A. big concept people
B. coders
C. level designers
D. artists
E. musicians
I'm ok at A, pretty good at B (though again I"m using odd tools -- my fondness for doing, say, engines from scratch might be holding back the other parts), I think totally raw at C, passable (in an indy way) at D, and have some interesting ideas on how to do E.
I think personally I might be too shy about C... Ilike how for school (I think) Dess did some levels in Smash Bros, that seemed like a fascinating exercise. I should hunker down and, I dunno, do stuff in omniludicon and the like, and not worry if I'm treading old ground, just learn what makes a compelling game with an existing engine. It's probably constraining that I think almost only in terms of Processing and Klik N Play...
Sorry to focus on team vs. individual development; I really feel though that this is an interesting dichotomy and I would really like to see more demo scene-style groups operating in game development.
What sites seem most likely to foster something like that? TIGsource? Poppenkast? Glorious Trainwrecks? Here?
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:34 pm
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I have been dying to assemble a motley crew of ambitious game-people for awhile now. I have made numerous failed attempts at getting one started, with the intent of pushing the envelope with as little resources but as much passion as possible. I want to be part of a group that really believes in what it's doing and can work together to create a cohesive style and approach.
I am not a programming man so much as an idea man. I am certain that with enough time and effort I could struggle to get my own game off the ground, but with a collective, it would have a much healthier incubation, and these ideas could actually be put into action, worked over and over again, bounced around, and transformed until we had a solid concept. I am not, for example, too shabby at some pixel design, but bringing my creations to life (animation) has been a wall I've run into over and over again. If there were a team I could work with to call upon for help, I know this could actually happen instead of being a distant fantasy of mine*.
So to facilitate all this I would suggest swapping e-mails, starting an e-mail list, whipping up a site and probably an irc channel. Then we talk and talk and talk and get to know each other and hope something happens.
*in that sense an interesting approach would be individually-driven games, where team members are solicited to help (so there might be multiple concomitant projects in this vein), and full team efforts which involve everyone.
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:33 pm
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If you need a designer, Purplechair has a million good ideas for game designs.
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:29 am
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so is the issue (at least in some cases) a lot of chefs and not so many line cooks?
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:20 am
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I dunno.
Other than Trainwrecks, most of my online experience with developers comes from the Atari 2600 scene, which had WAY too many people with ideas and not enough programmers.
The best were the would be idea-men with screen mockups that were often vaguely atari-like but probably not actually possible given the hardware limitations.
The situation there has shifted somewhat, since there's this nifty program called Batari BASIC that is essentially really clever Basic->ASM macros, along with some precanned "kernals" and other API-ish things, so now you don't need hardcore assembly skills to make up something, though it's limited.
I'm still trying to get an idea of what it's like for artists and musicians as contributors...
I was also musing a bit on what's different about garage bands and super-indy film makers and smallscale indy game designers. I think there are two big areas of distinction:
1. amount of "stuff"... most movies are of a standardized-ish length (either full length or a short), most songs fall in a certain length range. A game is a game, but can have a lot more or less content in it. (Kind of similar to the "hours of gameplay" metric issue)
2. size of barrier to entry -- it's kind of low, at least for certain kinds of games. But very high for fully fleshed out, 3Dish games...
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:54 pm
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Harveyjames wrote:
If you need a designer, Purplechair has a million good ideas for game designs.
If you need a cook, I can help out there too.
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At this point I don't know enough of what purplechair has posted to know if this is serious or kind of a teasing joke. Do you have any links full of game idea goodness?
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:02 pm
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There's a link under each of my posts, but it's not full. I'm working on it, though?
Ack, I feel like I should say something insightful now! I guess, if you were feeling generous, you might say that I design indie games, but I don't have a much to say about actually
them. I've never had the tech or art skills to make something worthwhile on my own, and I've never had the patience to explain to people why they should shut up and do what I say, so making it big on the indie scene has always appeared... unrealistic for me. It's not something I've ever cared much for, because I'm too much of a realist.
As far as I'm concerned, it's an organisational issue. If people are going to get together and do things for free, or whatever, they usually expect to have an equal share in the power, and stuff - especially in the whole 'free software' communal culture that indie game-makers are kinda part of. I don't know about other people, but I can't really work like that. Somewhere down the line, I need some kind of agreed-upon 'command chain', just so that arguments can be settled without people acting like babies.
Regarding the original post, I can't say I'm ever unsure of my talents. The worst that happens is when I have a few little ideas bouncing round that can't quite fit together, but since my designs will never be made, it's no big deal to just put them aside and start on something totally different instead. Of course, the cost of this freedom is that I have almost nothing to back up these arrogant pronouncements, which makes me sound like a dick. Hi!
I have a few other vaguely-related things to say, but they'll have to wait another week or so. It's potentially quite embarassing.
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:32 pm
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And really, when it comes to making a game that has the kind of impact that Mario or Sonic had, you've got to bear in mind that those games are positively ancient now, and the bar has been raised a lot since then. So if impact is your goal, you need something that innovates without being too complicated, and can fight its corner graphically (and musically, etc) as well. Otherwise, assholes like me will just say "Yeah, it's okay, but [WEAKEST PART] is pretty weak!"
You're competing for people's attention... not just against other indie games, but huge companies that throw millions of dollars on this stuff. It's not impossible, but you have to be focused and punchy.
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Come to think of it, none of that was terribly insightful.
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:56 pm
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I'm not really sure how to directly 'answer' the original post because as you said, it's just a mesh of ideas.
But in terms of working in teams at least, I see the most success with people who each have very definite roles. There can be flexibility and a discussion of ideas, but ultimately, this person is writing it, this person is programming, this person is doing music. I think this applies to every area, really. It's difficult to have two creative types both trying to work with the same level of power.
I think it's
, if two people have good people skills, a good pre-existing knowledge of each other, and even then, concede their power in certain ways. Even within the same basic role, after all ideas have been discussed and thrown into the pot, it's only going to work if the people are genuinely prepared to step down and let the other make that particular decision.
This is all amplified by doing things online. Without being able to be physically in the same room with each other, the idea of having very clearly defined roles is even more necessary.
But, ultimately, I think any game-making team has the best results with each person having clearly defined functions and roles to begin with, with perhaps a good attitude for flexibility and suggestions during times of discussion.
I'm not terribly experienced at all this myself, I've only actually finished ONE game and that was my first. I've half made a couple more since then however ALL of this has been working on my own. I prefer the idea of doing most things myself, but at the same time, I have a good idea these days of what I can accomplish on my own and which games are just too ambitious/large to be completed without getting other people to do things like music/animation for me.
But I do think this idea applies to all things. You cannot have 8 people steering a ship.
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Post subject: Re: Indy Games
Making any game is a hard task. Bringing a group together, especially over the net can lead to an instant breakdown in the project. I've worked on projects before where the original creators have brought in external staff to make the game and then they've run off with the source code and released it first.
The easiest way is to follow the examples of the pioneers of gaming and form a small trusted team of no more than five people and make your game in flash or mmf. This allows you to quickly prototype your concept and publish it to the wider internet community to judge. If it succeeds, you can make a more complete version for the sequel ; p.
To make a good game, all you really need is an artist, a coder and a lot of free time IMO. Even if, as kirkjerk says, you make a simple game based around a mechanic which get's harder and harder towards the end, it's experience and a strong proof of concept. I wouldn't expect to make the next Bangai-O in a week, so don't try.
What would be interesting would be if someone made a major website for the development and progression of indie games. It seems there's very little out there for indie game designers to put forward their ideas to a community and have them developed, similar to moddb but without the mods. Anyone fancy a project?
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This should really be in the development forum!
Also we need some coders for our game Dirty Larry.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:31 pm
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Harveyjames wrote:
This should really be in the development forum!
Also we need some coders for our game Dirty Larry.
mea culpa! can someone move it?
and what about dirty larry?
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Gene and I went to reddit's Aurora game night tonight. We spent 6 hours there! The time went by so quickly and I only played three games.
We didn't leave until 10pm, which is way later than normal for me. Thus I have not written a decent blog post but I promise I'll start writing good ones again!
Hope everyone had a nice weekend, see you tomorrow.


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Three Hungarian cities – Debrecen, Gyor and Veszprem – have been shortlisted in the competition for the title of European Capital of Culture 2023. The bid of Szekesfehervar has been rejected, according to the mayor, he was told the clip is "propaganda of the white, Christian Europe".
Seven cities submitted applications for the title – Debrecen, Eger, Godollo, Gyor, Szekesfehervar, Szombathely and Veszprem -, and according to the European Commission's website, "the applications were examined by a panel composed of 12 independent experts, ten of which were appointed by the European Union institutions and bodies, and two by the relevant Hungarian authorities".
At a press conference on Thursday, Szekesfehervar major Andras Cser-Palkovics congratulated the shortlisted cities, but also expressed his shock regarding the committee hearing. The Fidesz politician stressed he urges the whole hearing to be made public.
According to Cser-Palkovics the hearing was "anything but expert", the members of the committee focused on current political and ideological issues. One of the experts, called their promotional clip "Full of life" the "propaganda video of the white, Christian Europe where every white is happy and dances on the streets". Cser-Palkovics said according to the experts there weren't enough poor people and migrants in the video. They also found it problematic that "there were many crosses and churches and that we think it's a value". Cser-Palkovics pointed out that the experts didn't ask about their application, the programmes and investments, they only "made political and ideological accusations".
"The hearing was European neither in style nor in content, it had nothing to do with the diversity the European Capital fo Culture programme was about in the beginning",
he added. Cser-Palkovics said that the "white propaganda" accusation came from a "Belgian politician", whom he didn't name. The mayor was most probably referring to Alain Hutchinson, Commissioner of the Brussels Government in charge of relations with European & international organisations and Deputy Mayor of Saint Gilles in charge of education, the only Belgian member of the committee. Hutchinson was delegated by the Committee of the Regions, he used to be an MEP of the Belgian Socialist Party (PS).
German political activist Tatjana Festerling started a solidarity campaign on Facebook with the hashtag #jesuisszekesfehervar.
Hungary will host the European Capital of Culture for the second time in 2023, after Pecs in 2010.
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This year has seen major changes in the forex and binary options industries. However, most of the changes have still not been implemented – that happens next year, come 2018. Already, the forex brokers' trading volume has shifted somewhat in light of the changes to come, a jostling for position so to speak. There is definitely going to be a shift in trading volumes in 2018 as the retail FX industry seems to be as unstable as never before, and here is how and why this is going to happen.
How do regulatory changes affect forex brokers' trading volume?
Here, you can see the list of top Forex brokers here sorted by volume transacted daily. Besides the volume, you can also see the change experienced within a year. The first thing you notice is how there has already been a shift in trading volume based on location.
Forex brokers' trading volume rose significantly in Australia, moderately in the US but dropped in the UK. As this is where the changes in financial regulations are taking place, we can predict that there may be even further decreased in trading volume within this region. It is, therefore, possible that the share of forex brokers' trading volume will shift away from the UK, although gradually at first.
Besides the shift in trading volume, a few new names have been included and others excluded. FXCM, which used to be among the top 3 is now absent, replaced by new brands. Come 2018, it is likely we shall see new names on that list as there continues to be a shift in forex brokers' trading volume onwards.
How forex brokers shall cope with regulatory changes
Unfortunately, there isn't a single solution to regulatory changes that shall work for everyone. However, we can look to the past at how the most successful forex brokers have been handling these changes for possible predictions on the shifts coming in 2018.
Seeking a different category of clients
Many of the changes in regulation seem to attack the largest client demographic – the amateur trader with little capital. These traders were initially attracted to the forex market by lucrative options such as high leverage and welcome bonuses. As these offers are eradicated under new regulations, this type of trader will be less inclined to trade. Since there is nothing the brokers can really do about that, they are shifting their ideal client target. Rather than the typical retail trader, forex brokers shall instead focus on high net-worth traders.
This strategy has already been seen to work based on IG Group shares early this year. Despite the new rules negatively affecting the majority of their clients, the company's share price still rose. Apparently, about 80% of their non-US revenue comes from less than 10% of their client base. These are traders to whom the regulatory changes don't apply, after all, they don't even receive 500:1 leverage or welcome bonuses. Besides, they are responsible for the most forex brokers' trading volume. Therefore, we may see a conscious drive by forex brokers in 2018 to try and attract the high net-worth client over the newbie.
Mergers and consolidation
With such stiff competition, it takes muscle to get noticed, and that means marketing and advertisement. For smaller brokers, the challenge can be enormous compared to their more established competition. Nevertheless, together they may actually benefit from one another. As the regulatory climate seeks to squeeze out the smaller brokerages, do not be surprised to see more mergers and acquisitions happen in 2018. Even with negligible forex brokers' trading volume, together two or three startups can become just big enough to put up a fight.
Going beyond borders
According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), 5 regions in the world accounted for 77% of the total forex brokers' trading volume. The UK is still the most active region, and so was the US, but their share was declining. In the UK, its share declined from 41% in 2013 to 37% in 2016; while there was no change in the US at 19% in 2013 and 2016. Meanwhile, the share of trading volume from Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo rose from 15% to 21%.
This would explain why forex brokers' trading volume in the US and UK remained largely the same. In the US, Oanda did not experience any growth, and Gain Capital's growth was only due to the acquisition of FXCM US clients. In the UK, Saxo Bank and IG Group also did not see any real growth in trading volumes. Whereas forex brokers' trading volume for companies that ventured out rose. XM, Hot Forex, IC Markets all showed tremendous growth in trading volume from their exploits in Asia and Africa. For brokers trying to stay in the game longer, they are going to have to look beyond the established forex market hotspots.


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In an article in the TES, 07/06/13, HMC's General Secretary, Dr William Richardson responds to reports that a new tougher 'I level' exam will replace GCSE's in England.
The long saga of reforming England's most widely taken school exam, the GCSE, took another twist this week as proposals emerged for yet another name change, along with details of how much tougher the qualification could become.
A report in The Times newspaper, neither confirmed nor denied by the government or the exams regulator as TES went to press, said that GCSEs (sat by students aged 15-16) would become Intermediate Levels, or I levels for short.
In the reformed qualification - to be introduced in English, mathematics, history, geography and the sciences from 2015 - lettered ABC grades will be replaced with a numerical system. The top grade will be an 8 - allowing room for grades 9 or even 10 in later years if needed - with grade 1 at the bottom. The bar is to be significantly raised, with many current A*- and A-grade students expected to achieve only grades 6 or 7.
That is likely to increase pressure on students, schools and teachers to perform, although it could make life easier for universities that use GCSE results to help them decide which students to admit. That could include the University of Oxford, which said it has "found GCSEs to be an important way to measure a candidate's ability and a good predictor of students' performance in university final examinations".
But Mike Nicholson, the university's director of undergraduate admissions, warned: "There are some clear concerns over the timetable for introduction of the new qualifications in England, with both A-level and GCSE reforms taking place in parallel for a 2015 start date, and the growing dislocation between English, Welsh and Northern Irish qualifications."
William Richardson, general secretary of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, which represents elite private schools whose students might be expected to benefit from a system of tougher top grades, gave the idea a qualified welcome.
"It will only work if the exam boards change their approach to marking," he said. They would need to abandon rigid safety-first tactics and allow examiners more discretion in the way they award top marks, particularly in essay subjects, he added.
The UK's other countries are not following the exam reform agenda, begun by England's education secretary Michael Gove a year ago. Since then, he has proposed that the reformed exams be named English Baccalaureate Certificates, before reverting to the GCSE title in February this year. It now appears that he has changed his mind again, apparently to differentiate I levels from the GCSEs that will remain in Wales and Northern Ireland.
Mr Gove has also abandoned his plans for an exam franchising system that would have put single exam boards in charge of individual subjects, and the latest leak suggests that he has admitted defeat on his previous insistence that the qualifications would be single-tier. It was reported that the foundation and higher-level papers will remain in mathematics and science.
But coursework will largely disappear in the first I levels, restricted to 10 per cent of marks for practical experiments in science, according to this week's report. And resits will be drastically reduced and confined to the summer, apart from additional mathematics and English sittings in November.
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Tampines' Asian ambitions hindered by S.League's new rules
Teams can field up to four imports in AFC competitions, but S.League clubs can sign only two
S.League giants Tampines Rovers can't help but feel handicapped ahead of their AFC Champions League first preliminary round match against Indonesia's Bali United on Tuesday.
The S.League's new youth-centric policies, while well-intended, could end up inhibiting their Asian ambitions.
As part of the new rules, the six senior local S.League clubs are required to have at least six Under-23 players in their S.League squad.
Of these six - or more, depending on the size of the squad - three must be in the starting line-up.
The number of foreigners has also been capped at two, which puts Tampines at a clear disadvantage as clubs competing in AFC competitions can field up to four imports - three non-Asians and one Asian.
Tampines' bemedalled skipper Fahrudin Mustafic feels that the new rules will hinder them in their mission to do Singapore proud on the continent.
The 36-year-old told The New Paper yesterday: "We have one fewer foreign player in the team now.
"When the rest of the countries in Asia have the rule of four foreigners, we have only two.
"That's already a disadvantage to us at such a high level of football, where it is much more difficult than the S.League."
They should play because they have the quality, and not because they are young. That's not right. Tampines Rovers coach Juergen Raab, on the S.League's rule changes that stipulate clubs must start with three Under-23 players in every match
The ruling that clubs must have three U-23 players in their S.League starting line-ups - and each of them can be replaced only by another U-23 player - was meant to rejuvenate the ailing S.League.
But Stags' veteran defender Daniel Bennett feels that having to inject youngsters may compromise the squad's quality.
The 40-year-old told The New Paper: "There's quite a lot of expectation at this club and these young players have got to step up and then they'll get their chance.
"Obviously, the quality of the team has been reduced but that's what it is, and these young players have to know that when they are good enough, they'll play.
"But I think from the friendly matches, everyone is capable of playing."
While Tampines coach Juergen Raab supports the idea of youth development, he feels that players should earn their place in the team on merit, and not because of their age.
Raab said: "I'm not too happy that they made a regulation that young players must play. They should play because they have the quality, and not because they are young. That's not right.
"So since the start, I've been telling my young players that they have to prove to me that they want a place in the team."
However, Raab is not ruling out the possibility that his young guns may get a start with the team.
He believes that some of his U-23 players have proven themselves in training and their two friendly matches - last Saturday's 2-1 victory over Johor Darul Ta'zim II and yesterday's 2-0 win over Geylang International.
He said: "I usually give them playing time, especially in friendly matches, and they must show me that they fought for a place in the line-up.
"I must say that I'm very happy with how these young players have fared in the last three weeks... so I think they're on the right track."
He added: "For the AFC (competition), I will use the players whom I think are best and ready for this first match and I cannot say that it's only for experienced players.
"Players like Amirul (Adli) and Zulfadhmi (Suzliman) have convinced me in matches, so I think I will play them. It's a question of whether they want to show their quality or not."
Fahrudin also believes that the Young Lions should be disbanded so that the best youngsters can be distributed among the clubs.
He said: "I know they (FAS) are trying to change local football but maybe we should disband the Young Lions, and then (clubs can) choose them because they are probably the best young ones in Singapore.
"But since they decided to stick with the Young Lions, then the young players need to train hard and prove themselves." - ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY KIMBERLY KWEK
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text: "I had done independent gym training for a few years before starting at Breakthrough, and have since cancelled my old gym membership, which is something I never thought I would do. I had a workout plan that I followed but didn't make much progress in the years I went. I enjoyed going to the gym, but now I enjoy going here more; we have more variety and I'm actually making quicker gains than what I used to. I think that the way Kati and Caleb perfect your form directly correlates with your improvement. Technique is always important but it's never been stressed as much as it's been stressed here, and I've noticed a difference because of it."


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Whilst the programmers fix the glitches we're still having plenty of fun with the design of the app. Martin, who is undertaking most of the design work, seems to know little about maths but is a hugely talented designer, due to spending most of his school days doodling in his books – ideal preparation for this project!
Martin has prepared a number of possible icons for us, which I have whittled down to the three below:
From what I understand from my research, an app icon needs to:
- communicate what the app is/does without the use of words
- incorporate simple design
- have consistency with the design of the app
- stand out from the crowd
I think we are addressing most of these. Personally I think it impossible to communicate everything the app can do through the icon alone; that said, it needs to be high quality design to reflect the quality of the product. I'd be interested in readers comments!


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As the World Cup gets under way two of the UK's most successful commercial ice sculptors have a very unusual reason to celebrate every four years. In 2002, young Sunderland student Mat Chaloner created a life-sized Subbuteo model of England legend David Beckham and his then baby son Brooklyn – and changed his life forever.
Mat Chaloner and Matt Foster launched Glacial Art in 2006, four years after they both graduated with degree in Model Making and Design at the University of Sunderland. Their business, ice sculptures for corporate events, birthdays, wedding and even film sets, has been phenomenally successful, with clients including Bentley, Jaguar, Sony, Gucci, Rolex and Adidas – they even created a life-sized Iron Throne for HBO"s Game of Thrones.
Matt Chaloner, 38, said: "We both loved making things. We dreamed of working in Film and TV doing model making and special effects – and that dream did come true.
"It all started with my Degree Show at the University of Sunderland, when I created a life-size Subbuteo David Beckham as my main piece in for the final show. At my first (and only) job interview after the degree show, I showed the interviewers a clipping from a newspaper, and that secured me a job as an apprentice ice sculptor in London."
Matt Foster, 37, added: "Without that happening neither of us would be where we are today. We both ended up working in London, Mat as an ice sculptor, me doing model-making and liquid effects. Over the next years we learned an incredible amount of skills and knowledge from some of the masters of the trade.
"We decided to take a year out and go backpacking around the world. It was on our travels that we decided when we got back to the UK, we would set up our own business. At Ayres Rock in Australia we came up with the name 'Glacial Art'."
That was 12 years ago now Mat and Matt have never looked back. Their day to day work involves mostly ice sculptures for weddings, birthdays and corporate events, but, Mat Chaloner admits, it's the big PR events where they have the most fun.
"We have carved a life size horse with an ape on its back for War for the Planet of the Apes. We've made lots of ice sculptures for TV shows. Creating a full Ice set for a Game of Thrones episode over in Belfast was a great highlight. And we still have a lot in the pipeline right now. This winter is looking very exciting."
As a new class of students graduate from the University of Sunderland this summer, with their Degree Show launching this Friday (15 June) Mat and Matt have some advice for them as they put the finishing touches to their final show, and prepare to move on to the real world.
"Just keep going. You can't work too hard, but like any commission you will get in your future career, once it's finished, put it behind you and move on to the next. You can always do better and you can always learn more. So give this everything, then let it go and find something else to sink your teeth into.
"Let's see how good you can really be."
Degree Shows 2018: When and Where:
The shows have their launch night on Friday 15 June for invited guests.
They officially open on Saturday, 16 June (10am to 4pm) and run until Friday 22 June (weekdays 10am to 5pm). No shows on Sunday 17.
They take place at:
Priestman Building: Fine Art and Photography
CitySpace Studio: Animation; Advertising; Games & App Design; Fashion, Product and Promotion; Graphic Design; Illustration.
National Glass Centre: Glass and Ceramics (9-18 June).


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Please, if you go, reply about it on this blog next week we want to hear all about your experiences.
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The space Gateway is the next structure to be launched by the partners of the International Space Station.
During the 2020s, it will be assembled and operated in the vicinity of the Moon, where it will move between different orbits and enable the most distant human space missions ever attempted.
Placed farther from Earth than the current Space Station – but not in a lunar orbit – the Gateway will offer a staging post for missions to the Moon and Mars.
Like a mountain refuge, it will provide shelter and a place to stock up on supplies for astronauts en route to more distant destinations. It will also offer a place to relay communications and can act as a base for scientific research.
The Gateway will weigh around 40 tonnes and will consist of a service module, a communications module, a connecting module, an airlock for spacewalks, a place for the astronauts to live and an operations station to command the gateway's robotic arm or rovers on the Moon. Astronauts will be able to occupy it for up to 90 days at a time.


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"One Small Step" To Reduce Toxic Talk
September 11, 2019
Over the next few weeks, WUSF will be sharing stories produced for One Small Step, the latest project from StoryCorps. Each segment features two strangers, with differing political beliefs, sitting down together and having a conversation. The idea is to take "one small step" toward getting people to emphasize with one another and to bring down the cultural temperature. This week on Florida Matters we give you a behind-the-scenes look at how the project came together.


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DJ Maphorisa has been saying he's the greatest there is as far as SA music is concerned and, finally, Mzansi agrees.
Known for his versatility and as the man behind many hits, Maphorisa's name made it on the trends list, the producer getting a resounding nod for making sure people enjoy 2019 with all the hits he and Kabza composed this year.
Though he's lapping up the praise now, Maphorisa has received his fair share of criticism from people who said he was riding Kabza's wave and "overworking" him.
Seeming unfazed, in July Maphorisa shared on Twitter that the hate would not stop his shine.
"Everyone wants a piece of Scorpion Kings. Haters want it down on platforms. Guys are jealous (of me), saying I am using Kabza.
Why all this hate while everyone loves this project? Since Kabza started working with me has he ever missed a gig? So we don't deserve it?"
Everyone wants a peace of Scorpion Kings 💔
Haters want it down on platforms
Guys are jealous saying iam using Kabza
Why all this hate while everyone loves this project
Since Kabza started working with me has he ever missed a gig?
So we dnt deserve it?
— LawdOfTheHits LOTH (@DjMaphorisa) July 22, 2019
It might have taken Mzansi a long time to recognise Maphorisa for the hits he makes, but like the good old saying goes, "Better late than never", right?
Here is what some people had to say about Lawd Porry:
This guy is responsible for production on a MINIMUM OF 10 SONGS that are played in every event(parties, clubs, get-togethers, etc.) that is taking place in South Africa this December 2019!
His name is DJ MAPHORISA! #LivingLegend 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 @DjMaphorisa pic.twitter.com/5RYe3LFdBE
— Sizwe_Ntanzi (@Czwe_mdk) December 26, 2019
Maphorisa's back must be so sore from carrying the whole music industry. Mans had no off days this WHOLE year. 😭 Yo fave could never. ❤
— Retired Rebel (@TsholoRabotsho) December 26, 2019
Any song with Maphorisa and Kabza Da Small on it.. https://t.co/HT51j0k7wx
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