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Hi John,I think one has too look further ahead. With the (certainly until recent) slowly developing HDR tonemapping functionality (32-b/ch TIFFs) things like the ICAM (Color Appearance Model) are becoming more important than strictly colorimetric color. Such a CAM (e.g. CIECAM02) allows to e.g avoid oversaturated shadow colors in a perceptually believable way, or tune saturation clipping and perceptually correct brightness changes.That may also be one aspect of the lack of response to Dan Margulis' supposed question, who tried to push L* a*b* processing, which is far from neutral even when switching (back and forth) to an RGB colorspace.Cheers,Bart
There is a post on here from a couple of days ago where the Digital Dog retells a story about Dan Margulis asking Thomas Knoll to implement a luminousity curve in ACR and he declined much to Dan's chagrin. This was a while back.
Charlie Cramer has a tutorial posted on the site expressly about this subject. It was about 3 months ago. Very informative.
As Ricky said to Lucy, "You got some 'splaining to do."Can you put that in horsey, horsey, duckie, duckie animal book terms.....that is, a bit simpler or detailed out so some, such as I, can better understand?
Simon Tindeman's definition of equalizing color and removing the characterization of the camera doesn't make a lot of sense from a creative standpoint.
As far as how you would know if the particular colour character of the camera were removed, that would be the work of a custom camera profile, no?
The individual controls in PV 2012 are image adaptive meaning the adjustment and range of the controls adapt to your image. By default, PV2012 retains much more highlight and shadow detail than PV2010. Fill Light and Clarity were the two image adaptive controls in PV2010 (not sure is Highlight Recovery was). But now all the tone mapping in PV2012 adjusts the controls to the image. So they are much more flexiblewhich is why it's so hard to try to convert from PV2010's non-adaptive controls to PV2012's adaptive controls. There's some addition info on the Lightroom Journal in this article; Magic or Local Laplacian Filters (note, it's pretty deep stuff).
But the images should be low in noise, right? That's the goal of using HDR, to maximise SNR and thereby reduce noise.
FWIW I'd probably disagree with Tindeman on one point and that's whether highlight recovery should be a part of the workflow to generate the scene referred image or whether that's a part of the creative side of the workflow.
Just wondering if all that scientific coding demonstrated in the provided links is engineered into current versions of Lightroom/ACR.
... you can't repair or recover a completely clipped channel in LR/ACR, Peter. At least I'm not aware of how it can be done. If a channel is clipped, it's gone and no amount of playing with sliders is going to bring it back.
Bart, that looks perfect.
What is SNS-HDR? Is it a stand alone app or Photoshop plug-in?
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A Meeting of Minds, in "Nature and Poetry: A Conversation with E. O. Wilson and Robert Hass," Thursday, December 6, at the Museum
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On Thursday, December 6, the eminent sociobiologist E. O. Wilson will join former U.S. Poet Laureate and MacArthur Fellow Robert Hass (below left) at the Museum for a discussion about the interplay between art and science—and how close observation of nature, whether in poetry or science, can inspire the conservationist in all of us. This special event, Nature and Poetry: A Conversation with E. O. Wilson and Robert Hass, is presented in collaboration with Poets House and will be followed by a double book signing.
This will be the third time Hass has shared the stage with Wilson, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning entomologist whose writings Hass puts in the canon of American environmental nonfiction alongside that of Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson.
Hass recently answered a few questions about reading Wilson's work, his own efforts to inspire young naturalists, and the role of the arts in the conservation movement:
You first met E. O. Wilson at a symposium in which he talked about animal perception of external reality—and you've said the meeting inspired a poem?
Robert Hass: Yes. Afterward, I dedicated a poem about a raccoon to him, "Iowa City: Early April": The raccoon stared down from the crotch of a tree. A dark night, icy in the early spring./"This naturalist I admire," I said, "says that every species lives in its own sensory world."/The raccoon stared down; he was silent…
How else has Wilson's work inspired you?
Hass: As a literary writer, his biography, Naturalist, should be on the classics shelf of American literature with [Henry David Thoreau's] Walden, Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, [Rachel Carson's] Silent Spring. I teach his writing in a course [at University of California-Berkeley], "Introduction to Environmental Studies," or as we call it "The Earth and How We Think About it." Wilson is a great watcher, a terrific observer of what's there in its strangeness and complexity, especially in the insect world.
This program is part of a yearlong celebration of the reopening of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial at the Museum, a tribute to TR's passion for nature and his legacy of conservation. TR, of course, discovered nature as a young boy—and you've worked to raise children's awareness of the environment. Can you tell us a bit about those efforts?
Hass: When I was poet laureate, I realized we needed to get the teaching of nature into the classroom so I started River of Words, a poetry and art contest, to teach kids they live in a watershed. We are stewards of the world we live in, and if you don't know the world, you won't love it. And if you don't love it, you won't care for it.
What do you see as the role of the arts in the conservation movement?
Hass: People talk about whether the arts, the imagination, or work in science ever penetrates public policy. The great heartening example is that Emerson read Wordsworth, Thoreau read Emerson, Muir read Thoreau, Theodore Roosevelt read Muir, and we got the national parks!
You've said that you've found Wilson's latest book, The Social Conquest of Earth, provocative.
Hass: He has this wonderful ambition to account for everything about the human condition in terms of evolutionary biology. I know this alarms some people because it seems to get rid of human choice. (And there are people who suspect he thinks we're just ants!) I love the ambition of this side of his work and I don't necessarily disagree with him. I do think there are a lot of different ways of describing the mystery of our being here. Some are quantifiable, like the angle of refraction of light that produces the color red. And some aren't, like the experience of color, which is maybe more in the poet's domain.
Click here to purchase tickets to Nature and Poetry: A Conversation with E. O. Wilson and Robert Hass, on Thursday, December 6, at 7:30 pm.
This program is part of the celebration of the reopening of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial at the Museum.

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Mike Kafka has been cleared to take snaps and could be a step closer to returning. No decision has been made on his availability for Thursday night's preseason finale against the New York Jets, Eagles offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinwehg said Monday.
Kafka fractured a bone his left, non-throwing, hand on Aug. 9 against the Steelers. He has not played since. In his absence, Nick Foles and Trent Edwards have played well, especially the former. Kafka, in the opinion of some, could be the odd man out when the Eagles trim their roster to 53 on Friday.
Andy Reid said recently that he will likely keep three quarterbacks.
"I think you can go two ways," Kafka said when he asked about having to watch from the sidelines. "The way I approach it was learning as much as I could. You can definitely get better by watching. I worked on that."
So does he feel any less secure than he did heading into camp when he was the certified No. 2 quarterback behind Michael Vick?
"I think right now I'm just worried about practicing today," Kafka said. "I can only control my opportunities I get today in practice."
-- Nate Allen said that the hamstring strain he suffered Sunday during Flight Night practice was minor. The Eagles originally said he "tweaked" it. Allen missed some time in camp and also missed the first preseason game because of a hamstring strain. He said he wasn't sure if he would practice this afternoon.
-- Mornhinweg recently said that the team had discussed the idea of using Chris Polk as a lead blocker, but he said today that the running back hasn't yet been used in that manner in practice. Mornhinweg said that he thought Polk was still capable of doing that job if the Eagles decided to keep the rookie on the roster rather than a traditional fullback.
-- The Eagles have to trim four from their roster by 4 p.m. today to get to 75. The lockers of guard Mike Gibson and wide receiver Jamel Hamler were ominously empty today. Rather than cut more players the Eagles may temporarily save a few roster spots by placing tackle Jason Peters (Achilles), defensive tackle Mike Patterson (brain surgery) or safety Colt Anderson (ACL)on the PUP list.


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Impacts of coastal development on hawksbill
However, of those hatchlings leaving lighted beaches that successfully escaped predation, a significantly smaller percentage (32.9%) were able to swim the prescribed distance seawards during the observation period.
Moonlight significantly improved the swimming success of hatchlings leaving lighted beaches, particularly when the moon was full, but also significantly influenced predation rates, which were highest during the full moon (12.6%).
Some hatchlings released from dark beaches were attracted by lights from neighbouring beaches, which only became visible after they were a substantial distance from shore.
Artificial light may override the effects of wave cues in the low wave energy conditions characteristic of leeward Caribbean beaches, making swimming hawksbill hatchlings especially vulnerable to the effects of beachfront lighting.


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Some of us can recall the helpless feeling of being in a vehicle driven by someone who is intoxicated. If you're like me, you don't want to cause a scene unless the driving is really erratic. But there comes a moment when you need to say: Stop the car. You're going to hurt someone. Hand over the keys.
Some of us can recall the helpless feeling of being in a vehicle driven by someone who is intoxicated. If you're like me, you don't want to cause a scene unless the driving is really erratic. But there comes a moment when you need to say: Stop the car. You're going to hurt someone. Hand over the keys.
We have a political system that is the equivalent of a drunk driver. The primary culprits are the House Republicans. They are so intoxicated with their own ideology that they are ready to drive the nation's car off the road. I don't know if the sequestration that began Friday will produce a little crisis or a big one; the sad fact is that the Republicans don't know either, yet they're still willing to put the country at risk to make a political point.
I'm no fan of the way President Obama has handled the fiscal crisis. As I've written often, he needs to provide the presidential leadership that leads Congress and the country toward fiscal stability. In my analogy, he should take the steering wheel firmly in hand and drive the car toward the destination where most road maps show we need to be heading — namely, a balanced program of cuts in Social Security and Medicare and modest increases in revenue.
Instead, Obama has chosen to be co-dependent, as the psychologists say about those who foster the destructive behavior of others. He double-dared the reckless Republicans by proposing the sequester back in 2011. And rather than stepping up to leadership since his re-election, he has triple-dared the GOP hotheads with a partisan inaugural address and weeks of what the Republicans rightly have called a "road show" of blame-game politics. Doesn't he see that the GOP is addicted to this showdown at Thunder Road? This is all the power the GOP has these days, really — the ability to scare the heck out of everybody and run the car into the ditch.
Much as I would criticize Obama, it's wrong to say that both sides are equally to blame for what's about to hit us. This isn't a one-off case of the Republicans using Obama's sequestration legislation to force reckless budget cuts. It's a pattern of behavior: First the Republicans were prepared to shut down the government and damage the national credit rating with their showdown over the debt ceiling; then they were careening toward the "fiscal cliff." This isn't a legislative tactic anymore, it's an addiction.
Where did this recklessness come from? Only a few years ago, George W. Bush was the compassionate conservative and John McCain won the GOP nomination as the Republican who knew how to govern across party lines. What happened to that Republican Party? Today's Republicans seem to suffer from what's sometimes known as Obama Derangement Syndrome, in which their hatred of the president blinds them to the country's interests. To be honest, this malady is eerily similar to the Bush Derangement Syndrome that afflicted Democrats during the previous decade. The Democrats were so incensed back then they stopped caring if America succeeded or failed in Iraq; the Republicans are so angry now that they don't care if the economy goes to hell.
So how can we get these incapacitated drivers to stop before they do any more damage? If this were really a case of chronic drinkers, the answer would be an intervention to keep them off the road. In politics, the public gets to intervene through elections. We just had one, and the Republicans lost, big time. Yet it didn't seem to make much difference. The House Republicans are still grabbing for the wheel and the car is rumbling toward trouble.
Obama tries everything to gain control — except a clear, firm presidential statement that speaks to everyone onboard, those who voted for him and those who didn't — that could get the country where it needs to go.
The weird thing is that, politics aside, there is every reason to be optimistic about America's future. The country's financial markets are resilient; the housing slump finally seems to be ending; a new era of low-cost shale oil and gas is beginning and, as a result, the U.S. is becoming a competitive manufacturing economy again.
There's one ruinously dysfunctional part of the American story, and that's the breakdown of our political system. It's time for an intervention, to take the keys away.


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1. Animator/ Video Editor
This position requires volunteer to produce videos for an environment website and show. Volunteer needs to be familiar with Jasc Animator Shop, Pinnacle Studio, Adobe Premier, Macromedia Flash or similar software.
2. Fundraising/ Advertising/ Finding Sponsorship
4. Computer Programmer
Volunteers in this position need to be familiar with html, style sheets, cgi script, Perl and some Java Script. Must know MS Access database.
5. Graphic Artist/ Designer
Volunteer is required to build educational maps, graphs and charts showing environmental change. Knowledge and experience using Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paintshop Pro or Corel Draw is essential. The project may involve some research but it is mainly computer based graphic art work.
6. Environment Centre Manager
My organization is based in Western Australia, Australia and i'm only looking for volunteers based in Western Australia. If you're interested in any of the positions, please send in your resume to firstname.lastname@example.com. Alternatively, you can call me by phone at 9444 7822. Thank you!


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This is a solid contribution to the Spycraft line, with plenty of 'core' rules material over and above the expected detail aimed particularly at Fixer and Pointman characters.
The Introduction spells out the rationale between the pairing of these two core classes in this book. The Fixer and the Pointman are the archetype 'spies' - the people who undertake infiltration missions, who conduct the essential tradecraft activities like dead-drops and brush passes, who play the Great Game through anything from threats through burglary to bribery. Suitably, then, the rules section concentrates on providing the necessary information to simulate the practice of tradecraft in your game. There's a lot of information to assimilate, and most should be read by both GCs and players - particularly those who have Fixer or Pointman levels.
The first chapter contains several new prestige classes, which are of use to any agent but particularly, of course, Fixers and Pointmen. The first is the Cleaner - a genius at clearing up, making things (and people) disappear. Then there is the Courier, a specialist in transporting information and small items across the most tightly-controlled borders. They are experts in international travel as well as in protecting the item he's carrying. The Forward is a scout, a 'forward observer' in military parlance, able to operate on his own deep in enemy territory to identify target locations for further investigation (or desctruction) by other members of the team. They are taelented in surveillance and in the use of electronic devices including unmanned drones.
The Goodfella knows his way around organised crime, having good contacts if not actual membership within Triad, Yakuza clan or Mafia family (organisation must be chosen when this Prestige Class is taken). They are good with smooth talk and more strong-arm tactics, using both with equal facility to achieve their objectives. The Grifter is also a criminal, but of a lesser order - his specialty is street crime and casual opportunist theft. They are good at quick searches of premises, finding whatever cash or information is there, however well hidden; and they are past masters at 'acquiring' useful items although it's wise not to enquire too closely as to where the Grifter obtained it! The Inventor is a cunning chap who can manufacture seemingly anything out of any old junk - the epitome of the old TV show "The A-Team" where you could lock them in a shed and they'd come out with an armoured car blazing away. These fellows will end up running your 'Q Branch' when they retire from active service. The Ninja specialises in stealthy infiltration and sheer physical violence. An Officer is a leader type, able to interact with the hierarchy of command and manipulate it to his advantage. They can inspire their team to great heights of achievement. The Provocateur is a more indirect sort of fellow. They are archetypal 'wasps' - small and irritating, able to sow chaos amongst the enemy often by indirect and sneaky means; and masters of psychological warfare ('Psy-Ops'). The Ranger is an expert in wilderness operations, able to survive and continue the mission in the most hostile of conditions. The Saboteur is the demolitions specialist, being able to create improvised explosive devices or disarm other people's bombs with equal ease. The Smuggler is another one good at moving stuff around, especially into and out of places he shouldn't. While you might think this sounds very much like the Courier, the Smuggler is better with large items, and he's also good at finding items and more unusual modes of transportation.
Chapter 2 is entitled 'New Rules' - and contains new departments and backgrounds, some new feats and ideas for new ways to use existing skills. It also looks at the existing departments from the standpoint of a Fixer or Pointman, explaining how such a character would fit in and explain his background.
The 2 backgrounds are a bit vague. One is 'Liaison' - taking this means that you have a reputation as a negotiator, the more points spent increases the importance and mutual hostility of the groups you are known to. It's not really clear how it can be used within a game, though, except possibly as a bit of flavour. The other is that GC's dream - the character is wanted for some crime, which they may or may not have actually committed. The more points spent, the more serious the crime, the more determined those hunting for the character are and the more severe the consequences if caught. That said, most groups I've run games for have developed their own list of crimes for which they are wanted very quickly without the need for expenditure of skill points!
The Departments section first runs through the existing (D0 to The Basement) ones from the core rulebook, explaining why each might be interested in recruiting potential Fixers and Pointmen to their ranks; and then moves on to a vast range of new Departments which a new character can choose from. Perhaps you are a Freelancer, an independent operator who has been recruited by whatever agency the game is built around, or at the other extreme some agencies adopt Orphans and raise them to be agents. Or you may be a Search & Rescue specialist, recruited for your expertise under hazardous conditions and talent for emergency medicine... or even a Thrill Seeker whose exploits have attracted attention. More detail is given on Organised Crime as a 'Department' (where you might have a background in the Mafia from one of a range of locations, a South American cartel, a street gang, a Chinese Triad or the Japanese Yakuza). More legitimate recruits may come from a Special Operations unit - examples given are the South African 1st Recce Regiment, French GIGN, Colombia's Lanceros, China's Special Operations Force, US Navy SEALs, the British SAS (who, despite the error in the core rulebook are an army regiment not part of the air force!) or the Russian Spetznaz. In the real world, it's unlikely that anyone from one of these units would join the intelligence services of any but their own nation; but you may decide that things are different in your game - or be forming an international unit in which such varying backgrounds only serve to add flavour.
The next section runs through some new uses for existing skills... such as using Bluff to pretend to be a law enforcement officer and so commandeer someone's vehicle for your own use! Or maybe your Craft specialisation is in the manufacture and safe use of poison. Maybe your Hobby is hypnosis (someone used this on my character very effectively in a Shatterzone game...) or a Professional Smuggler can use his skill and contacts to turn a few (dis)honest pennies on the side, or arrange to piggy-back his mission on an existing shipment of goods.
Two new Combat Actions are then presented: Threaten and Trick. Both are half actions. Threaten, if used successfully, has an adverse effect on your opponent's morale; while Trick enables you - the actual mechanism whereby this is accomplished as opposed to the rule is not clear - to deal subdual damage without striking your target.
Next comes the expected plethora of new Feats. There's a good range of covert feats like Aquatic Training (SCUBA, anyone?) or Firefighter Training (you don't suffer adverse effects from smoky environments, for example), or enhanced abilities at evading or setting security systems. There are gear feats relating to drones, electronic surveillance, explosives and poisons and new things you can add to the existing Safe House feat to make the place even more useful.
Scattered throughout this chapter there are sidebars on various things, like a few new equipment Bundles, rules for fencing stolen items, new ability options for Pointmen and Fixers and so on. However, after the Feats section, the main text turns to rules, the rules for running reconnaisance drones. This leads on to a whole array of new vehicle options, rules and gadgets; and then a collection of infiltration gear. I am not sure how all the devices are supposed to work in the real world, but their use as game abstractions of infiltration techniques could be useful!
The next chapter is possibly the most useful - Tradecraft! Herein are presented game rules for conducting ambushes, brainwashing people, harassment and even interrogation. While ambushes and harassment are presented as tasks that the agents can undertake, for some reason these rules assume that the PC agents are the targets of any interrogation attempt - they obviously haven't met my agents who are extremely fond of interrogating any of my NPCs that they can get their hands on! It's not too difficult to reverse the rules to cater for this, and the squeamish amongst us can be relieved that these are very abstract rules!
There's a very useful section on police operations, including likely agent actions that might trigger law enforcement interest as well as the resources and procedures available to local police officers. This provides some useful rules for conducting, for example, manhunts in search of the agents.... and like most of the rules, provide a quick means for abstraction if you do not wish to role-play events. There are also mechanics for making and using street contacts, cutting deals, etc.; but I feel that these are better role-played than abstracted.
The chapter ends with a useful collection of ready-made NPCs under the heading of Specialists and Street Contacts. Activists, athletes, con men, various experts, EMTs, journalists, lawyers and even a mistress can be supplied at the flip of a page!
The final chapter, Mission Guide, is aimed purely at GCs designing serials or whole campaigns. If you use the very mechanical Mastermind System to structure the opposition that the players will face, it gives you a whole range more options. If you don't, it's still worth a scan through to give you ideas for more 'artistic' plotting of your villains and their organisations. One useful bit is a selection of security systems complete with the relevant DCs for attempting to bypass, penetrate or defeat them... although I am not sure why it is easier to bypass a retinal scanner than it is to get past a swipe card reader! An oddity is a set of rules for 'streamlining' - read abstracting - an assault on an enemy facility. Surely that's the sort of thing that you'll want to play out in some detail, it's the core of any action game even if you want to skim through intelligence gathering and preparatory stages? Well, the option's there anyway.
Overall, the book is a useful addition to any Spycraft player's shelf, particularly for the additional classes, departments and feats. The latter parts run the risk of taking the ROLE-playing out of the game if followed too slavishly, but are good for ideas, particularly if you are the GC.


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Corporate Success Theme
A "go get them" motivational track for your company or business presentation, TV or Film project, podcast or video work.
Contains 3 seperate versions for additional flexibility:
Full version – Length: 2:59 – Starts at 0:00 on preview Edit version – Length: 1:53 – Starts at 3:00 on preview Logo version – Length: 0:17 – Starts at 4:51 on preview
The piece is based around a classic muted guitar figure, with piano taking the main lead and reverse synth/synth bass elements beginning the work. The galloping bassline, drumkit and string passage continue the build, before an outro section completes the form. A perfect underlay to allow your small business to grow. Developing through, we can also hear a glockenspiel doubling the main lead and a muted arpeggiated guitar.


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Greenfield State ParkApril 19. 2011 9:25PM
Tucked away in this 400-acre park in the southwest corner of the Granite State are ponds, bogs and a forest that extends to the shore of undeveloped Otter Lake. The park offers opportunities to swim, fish, walk, canoe, camp and picnic in a variety of settings. Walking paths lead to ponds and other points of interest in the park.
Location: Off Route 136, Forest Road, Greenfield
Phone: 603-547-3497
Activities: Camping, swimming, picnicking, fishing, hiking
Amenities: Bathhouse, boat launch, canoe/paddleboat rentals, picnic tables
Operation Schedule:
Weekends: Mid-May to Mid-June, 10am - 7:30pm
Daily: Mid-June to Labor Day
Camping: Early May to Columbus Day
Acreage: 401 acres
Waterfront: Otter Lake
NH State Parks Website
NH State Parks Pet Policy
Swimming, fishing, and hiking, as well as hiking at nearby Mount Monadnock, are favorite activities of campers at Greenfield State Park. A separate 900-foot beach for campers only, canoe and kayak rentals, a camp store, a dump station, and showers are available.
The 257-site campground includes 200 sites available by reservation only; 5 for youth group reservations; and 52 sites for first-come/first-served campers. Although hook-ups are not available, RVs are welcome in sites where they fit. Reserved camping will be available from late May to mid-October. Reservations for campsites may be made by calling the Reservation Office, Monday through Friday, from January through the end of the season. Campers interested in possible first-come/first-served camping prior to the opening of the reservation period should call the park directly in late April for further information.


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Hey all,
I'm looking for some recomendations for a good firewall log analysis application. I've played with eIQ's Firewall Analyzer and StonyLakes Firewall Reporter. I was wondering if anyone can suggest some other apps that I should take a look at. I would like to be able to see authorized and blocked activity based on total count and source/destination IP address. Along with that I also would like the ability to view/track bandwidth utilization per source/destination IP. I can and have been using MRTG to track the bandwidth utilization currently, but we would like something more robust, with the capability to see *where* the bandwidth is actually going. I did like the StonyLake solution and am leaning that way currently, but thought I would toss this out there and see if anyone can recommend another solution for me to check out. I currently only have one firewall to report on and that is shared amogst our clients, but that may change if any of our client decide that they want their own. We are a small company so budget is a concern and I'm not a developer so O.S. solutions are a bit tough for me to work with...even though I managed to get MRTG working and running on a win2k box. I'm not opposed to O.S. solutions, but they are harder to work with given I have no desire to become a developer.
StonyLake Solutions 'Firewall Reporter' - http://www.stonylakesolutions.com/sls/index.jsp
eIQ Networks 'Firewall Analyzer' - http://www.eiqnetworks.com/products/...analyzer.shtml


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Director Michael Bassett loves to blow stuff up. That's why Cinemax's "Strike Back" was the perfect choice for his first TV directing gig.
"I blow up an ambulance and it's one of the biggest indoor explosions I've ever seen," Bassett told me at San Diego Comic Con. "When the shockwave hits you—you're sitting at your monitors 50 yards or 100 yards away—and then suddenly you just feel this wallop of air. Your crew is like, '[gasping sound].' It's total excitement."
Viewers will see that explosion in the current season's eighth episode, debuting at 9 p.m. Sept. 28. (See at photo here.) It's the second of Bassett's two-episode arc that began last week with military ops unit Section 20 chasing the nuclear devices stolen by Conrad Knox (Charles Dance) to Zimbabwe, where Knox broke opposition leader Walter Lutulu (Eamonn Walker) out of prison to lead a coup against the regime of Robert Mugabe.
Knox's unpredictable moves have kept Section 20 operatives Stonebridge (Phil Winchester) and Scott (Sullivan Stapleton) in the line of fire throughout Bassett's episodes, which is exactly what the director had in mind when he signed up for the job.
"It's just relentless action," he said. "For a show in which two episodes shot in 24 days, it's more action than I've ever done."
When it came to pumping up the action, Bassett had a willing cohort in Winchester. The two had worked together previously on the film "Solomon Kane," which incidentally opens this weekend in theaters. Winchester suggested Bassett come onboard to direct "Strike Back," and he was pleased with the result.
"He had me doing things like jumping out of a moving jeep onto the back of another moving jeep. So I liked him because he ramped up my stunt quota quite a bit, and stuck me in a parking garage with an exploding van and things like that," the actor told me. "He single-handedly gave me more dangerous stunts in one episode than I had the whole year."
As much as Bassett, whose film "Silent Hill: Revelation 3D" opens Oct. 26, was living a "childhood dream" getting to blow things up, he was also happy to have the chance to work with acting greats Dance ("Game of Thrones") and Walker ("Oz," and currently in Chicago filming "Chicago Fire").
"I got to put Eamonn Walker and Charles Dance together and they're fantastic," he said. "[Watching] two heavyweight actors doing their thing, which is a real privilege."
Bassett and I talked more about filming the action and character moments and how his research and real-life events in Zimbabwe altered the scripts for his two-episode block.
How did you get involved with this?
I knew the [Sky TV] first season [which aired in the UK] and I knew Phil Winchester because I directed him in a movie I made called "Solomon Kane." He's terrific and I actually auditioned Phil for stuff years before, which was for movies that never got made. I always thought he was wonderful, so as soon as I got an opportunity to work with the guy, a role comes on that they're right for you cast them. Phil was in "Kane." I went off, did "Kane." Then I did a movie called "Silent Hill," which comes out Halloween. I finished that movie in Toronto and Phil and I were emailing over Christmas and I said, "What are you doing?" He said, "I'm doing a new series 'Strike Back.' What are you doing next year buddy?" "Nothing really. I'm going to take a bit of time off." He said, "No, no, come do 'Strike Back.'" Which I thought was a bit of a joke and I said, "All right, I'll do it." And a week later I got a call from the producers saying, "Would you come in for a meeting?"
Now, I had never done television before. I just did features, but I love the format of the show. I like the action, adventure. I like that it's strong military. It's kind of real and gritty and it's got these two great characters at the center of it, Scott and Stonebridge. My childhood in the UK there was a show called "The Professionals." Americans won't know this, but it was a similar kind of thing. It was about MI5 and two guys who go out and fight terrorists and criminals. To me "Strike Back" was like a modern version of that, so it's was my opportunity to kind of relive a childhood dream of making a show that was like that.
I met the producers. I pitched them what I'd do with it. I said I think we can make it cinematic and bigger and more action packed and more character driven. They seemed to like what I said. They said go to South Africa and we'll give you some episodes to do ... I signed up for scripts, which ended up getting changed. I thought I was doing a jungle adventure, which is what I really wanted to do. They got changed and ended up working into a different storyline, but it turned out that I get to work with Charles Dance, who is the principle baddie for the season. He's brilliant.
He's so scary in this.
Charles is brilliant because he brings gravitas and charisma and power to whatever you give him to say. If you give him good stuff to say as well then he's really good. And of course he's Tywin Lannister in "Game of Thrones," so to have that guy, you know? The first time I met Charles we had dinner and we talked about "Last Action Hero" and "Golden Child" and all those, the movies from the 80s when he was really doing stuff—"Alien 3." For me it was an opportunity to work with an actor I wanted to work with for a long time. So Charlie was terrific.
Then I got to cast a British actor called Eamonn Walker, who is very, very powerful. He was one of the leads in a show called "Oz," which was one of HBO's first original series. He played a Muslim leader in "Oz" and he's incredibly charismatic, terrifyingly charismatic. Again, as soon as I saw in the script there was an opportunity for this character and I thought I've got to get Eamonn Walker into this.
When you step into this thing do they—were you able to see the scripts for everything before, of the season before your episodes, so that you knew sort of the whole arc or did somebody explain it to you?
Yeah, I mean obviously they have a full arc for what they want to happen in the 10 episodes. I read the first couple of episodes and then I got outlines for the next two, three, four. You're supposed to know where you're picking up from. .... There is a kind of structure to build towards. I came at mine thinking I know what the boys have got and I know what the story is, but I'm treating mine like it's a movie, so I'm doing a 90-minute movie and it's just action for 65 of those 90 minutes. There is stuff happening all the time.
That's why they're doing blocks because you're doing these two episodes at once.
So I treat it like it's a movie. I treat the script like it's a movie script. And though it's a serial element, the boys know what they're doing with the characters and there is an overarching element of "OK, this is how the relationships are changing and developing."
I think it's a competition. I want to make the best blocks. I want the whole show to be terrific and we're all working together. I want people to sit down and watch mine and go, "Boy those stand out. This is good stuff; he's doing a great job." It's my job as director to come onboard and say, "Everybody right, OK, now you've done what you've done before; this is great and I'm very pleased for you. We've got to change gear. We've got to make it better. We've got to just keep making things work better and faster and more efficiently and more exciting."
There is no show like this on television—big budget U.S. TV stuff, the UK TV stuff, there is nothing which puts this kind of intensity of action on the screen and that's why it's exciting to do as a director. It's incredibly exciting. Coming off a slow 3D horror movie, which is very particular and there are lots and lots of special effects to suddenly kind of make a rock-and-roll action adventure military show it's wonderful.
And because of the shooting schedule too.
Yeah, you've got to know what you're going to do. But the great thing is that Phil and Sullivan are so well trained from the military point of view and we have fully professional military advisors on the show all the time. We have ace Special Forces guys standing next to me saying, "We would not do it like that."
So you go, "OK, how would you do it? Talk to me about tactics. The script calls for this bit of action." They say," We'd do this, this and this," and great, that looks even better. It's more realistic. Phil and Sully are all over that, the precision of the military stuff, how they hold their weapons, how comfortable they are with the guns and Rhona [Mitra] is like that and even Liam [Garrigan] and Michelle [Lukes]. They're all good with their firearms. They go off and do firearm training. ... They can say, "OK, this is how heavy this is. This is how long it takes to reload and this is how hot a bit of shell casing is when it hits." Just the reality of those little moments is great.
Did you find that there was just no way you could do some things the way the military advisors would do it because of filming constraints?
Sometimes. You'll ask a military advisor how they would do something and they'll say, "We would bring in 10 Black Hawks [helicopters]." You go, "Yeah, can't do that." [Laughs.] "Let's think about another tactic."
Some things won't work visually, so I'd offer another option and they'd say, "That's OK, we would do that." It's a question of picking the stuff which works visually. It's an entertainment TV show. That's its first job. It has to be credible because that's the aim of the whole thing, to make it real. It's really about a potential coup in Zimbabwe. It's really about how these boys would operate in military unit.
So if we can make those two things match and be the best version of that then you've got a show. I think you've got a show which is like nothing else. It's not "The A-Team." Bullets hurt. People get killed. It's violent and it's aggressive and there is lots of bad language and there are lots of naked girls.
Now this is like a perfect television show I just described and if it didn't exist I would want to invent it. [Laughs.] The privilege is just coming in, plugging into the show, basically doing a holiday for me. You get to go to South Africa for a few months. You get to do all the really cool things which you dream about as a kid. Working with actors who are great fun and they know their job. We're all having—it's not a great time in the sense that we're all laughing—it's intense. You're focused and you've got to keep the machine moving, but at the end of the day you're smiling thinking we did some good stuff, we blew up some big things and the truck chases and the gun fights and in the middle of that there are two great characters that you want to spend time with.
How much planning of yours is spent on the explosions?
Yeah, sometimes an explosion is written into the script and sometimes you go, "Oh I can get an explosion in here." Sometimes it will say "and there is a gunfight" and you go, "OK, well this is the environment; this is the number of people they're fighting; how would you do it?" And the military guys say, "Well we would throw some grenades in there" or "We would use some C4 here and you go, "Oh great, let's do a bang."
There is nothing better than doing a big explosion. It's the kid in me. When I was a teenager I used to empty out fireworks and steal the gun powder. In the UK that's a big deal. There are no guns. I would fill up little toy models with gun powder and blow them to pieces on camera and this is like a big version of that. It's a childhood dream come true.
The actors are right next to most of the explosions.
I put them as close as I can. [Laughs.] The idea is you say to the special effects guys, "OK, give me the safe distance and we'll do the most dangerous thing we can do as long as it's safe." Tthere is an incredibly fine line of pushing it, pushing it, pushing it and then you push it to the point where you go, "No, that's not safe, but by God it looks cool." So the idea is to find that optimum distance of what's great for the audience and safe for the actors. It makes me feel like I'm making the best show I can.
And they don't use stunt guys very often.
They try not to, but the boys are so physically capable. There's a truck chase at the end of my episode where Stonebridge's character has to jump from a moving vehicle to another moving vehicle. There are obviously safety rigs. He's not going to fall off and go under the wheel of a truck, but he's physically jumping from two moving vehicles. We figured out how we're going to do it and Phil was going to grab this bit and climb onto the back of the truck. The truth of the matter is, he jumped from the front of the moving Land Rover into the back of the truck without touching the tailgate because he's so damn fit. It was like, "OK, well, that happened."
They are fit. They do fight training. They come back black and blue from their physical combat training sessions. They all know how to look after themselves. ... You feel very confident handing stuff over. Pick up that gun, pick up that grenade launcher, pick up whatever, you're going to do a fight sequence now.
Did you have to do research on the real-life world events that the show covers?
What was interesting for me is that my episode revolves around a potential coup in Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe's regime being maybe taken over. You go, "OK how does a coup in an African country work? If you're bringing in Special Forces guys, mercenaries, freelance soldiers how would you do a coup?" So the first thing is you do research that, and there were writers on the show, but I want to know. I want to be able to have the input and make it work.
While we were doing it, Mugabe was supposedly very, very ill. There was rumor for a few days that he was dead, so that had a huge influence on how the show was going to work because we were using real-world politics as our basis. Then it was like no, no, he's not dead, he's OK. But there was a version of the script circulating for a few days where it was a post-Mugabe regime and how that would work. We found a document online describing how you would launch a coup in Zimbabwe. Somebody figured it out. It's incredibly hard to do.
We had to make sure our structure more or less hit that kind of reality. A few years ago, there was an English mercenary who was trying to take over a small African country. I read his book and I read about how he would do his coup and the weapons and the tactics. So you do immerse yourself in that world. I'm interested in the military aspect anyway, so bringing those things together is good.
Having said that, it's still an entertainment show and you don't want to get bogged down in that kind of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" aspect of how spooks work. These boys go out and kick ass; that's their job. That's the fun stuff, so it's about balancing the reality. Mostly in the real world things happen more slowly, not so many bullets get fired and there aren't such big explosions, but you use the foundation of a reality to make the fantasy exciting.
Do you find directing the action stuff more fun or the character moments?
The thing about this show is you don't want a quiet character moment. You want a noisy character moment in the middle of the action because that's when it's exciting. The characters are not reflective characters. They're soldiers. They don't stop and think about what they've done. In the middle of the action is when they are the most alive. For me as an audience member and as a director, I like the action. It's great fun to do.
But I absolutely love character-driven action because that's the best kind of action. It's driven by the characters in the middle of what they've got to do. You try and find a character in the action. The pause between the gunfights is when they're most human. To actually just stop the action and go away and have a quiet, thoughtful moment can be fun and it's a very good opportunity for the boys to do some good performances. But I would rather try and make sure that happens within the context of the action of the show itself and then just keep everything barreling along. The difficulty is you'll shoot that stuff and it gets cut in the edit because the show is about the energy and you don't want to stop and say, "OK, we're thinking and talking now." Let's make that contemplation happen in the midst of the chaos, which is the way I want to do it.
Right, which is I think the show does that.
I think it does and for me, and I can't speak for the other directors because I only did two episodes out of 10, that's what you want to find. That's what makes it work. It's not a stop-start show. It doesn't stop for, "Let's have a talk about what we've just done." It's "Let's keep doing the thing that we do."
The relationship between the boys is so strong that you kind of know how they feel about each other at this stage and that's great. There is a lot of unspoken stuff and if you shoot that well enough then you get a huge amount of character from a look or from a gesture or from how their body language is with each other as well. My job as a director is to make sure that happens and their job as actors is to do it right.
The action only stops for shagging.
[Laughs.] That's a character moment, too.
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FAYETTEVILLE (ArkansasRazorbacks.com) – Sophomore BJ Young scored 23 points to lead the University of Arkansas Razorbacks basketball team to a 112-61 victory over Longwood in the first game of the Las Vegas Invitational at Bud Walton Arena, Sunday.
Offensively the Razorbacks were paced by Young, who tallied his 23 points in 20 minutes of play. This was Young's seventh career game scoring 20 points or more. Freshman Anthlon Bell came off the bench to add a career-high 16 points on 6-of-12 shooting. This was the first time under head coach Mike Anderson that the Razorbacks scored 100 points. Anderson credited the scoring to the energy of the team.
"We played with great energy," Anderson said. "I thought that we had a great team effort and we paid attention to the little details."
"The Fastest 40 Minutes in Basketball" was in full effect from the opening tip as the Hogs started the game on a 10-3 run that included two Young layups. After the pace started to slow, the Lancers fought back into the game and made the score 14-10. As Longwood started to control the pace, the freshman scorer, Bell, started to catch fire, nailing a three to make the score 17-10. This led to a 12-0 Razorback run that included another three-pointer from Bell. He finished the half two-of-three from three point range. Anderson again talked about the ability of the bench to score points.
"The bench is the best component of our team," Anderson said. "Bell is ready to come in and play well. Our bench can put a lot of pressure on teams."
Arkansas used a swarming defense to force 16 turnovers in the first half. These turnovers led to easy shots on the offensive end as the Hogs shot a blazing 58 percent from the field. The scoring was led by Young who piled in 16 of the Razorbacks 55 points by the break. This was Young's 28th double-digit scoring game as a Razorback.
The second half started the same way that the first ended, with Arkansas scoring off of forced turnovers and missed baskets. Longwood turned the ball over four times in the first four minutes of the half and this led to a 21-6 run to start the half. During the run Marshawn Powell was able to establish his dominance in the paint. The junior used his size to score nine of his 16 points in the second half. Coach Anderson talked about seeing the improvement in Powell.
"You can see the improvement in each outing," Anderson said. "He is starting to show what he is capable of."
The game continued with a slew of fast break dunks as 11 Razorbacks scored points, including another seven in the second half from Young. The sophomore also tallied five assists and did not have a turnover in the 112-61 win.
"BJ had an efficient game," Anderson said. "You can tell that he was hungry to play. He is capable of scoring 15 or 20 points on any given night."
The Razorbacks continue the Las Vegas Invitational on Tuesday night when they host Florida A&M at 7:00 p.m. in Bud Walton Arena. The Invitational continues in Las Vegas on Friday when the Hogs face Arizona State at 6:00 p.m.


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Since Ember follows a 6-week release cycle, that meant frequent book updates, precisely 18 "minor book releases" in 26 months. These updates came free for all of my customers, no matter which package they chose. I'll follow the same policy during the road to Ember 4 and so I'll keep in sync with the latest stable version of Ember 3 and keep the content fresh.
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Just wanted to say thanks for the ongoing updates of the book. Even after finishing the book, it's becoming a great reference for the changes Ember is going through.
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On a grey, chilly February day in 2013 that I'll never forget (maybe it was January?) I got acquainted with Ember.js. Ember.js made that day bright and the ones that came after that. After learning the ropes I shifted gears and have been proselytizing for Ember since last summer.
I gave workshops at EmberConf and Eurucamp , and presented at EmberConf, EmberFest , AgentConf and Arrrrcamp . I started an Ember.js mailing list, made an introductory screencast series and have been sending Ember content to my dear subscribers on a weekly basis. I have also written guest articles for Safari Books Online , AirPair , Firebase and .
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For the SCI data set, we excluded categories which had more than 20% values missing. This resulted in a SCI data set with 200 ICF categories (79 categories from the component Body Functions, 81 from Activities and Participation, 40 from Body Structures and 0 from Environmental Factors). Since in the CHC data set missing values were much more abundant, we only excluded a category if it had more than 50% of missing values. This resulted in a CHC data set with 126 ICF categories (32 categories from the component Body Functions, 47 from Activities and Participation, 15 from Body Structures and 32 from Environmental Factors).
In both data sets, the problem of remaining missing values was addressed by using multiple imputation [ 13 ] assuming noninformative missingness. Multiple imputation generates m versions of the original data set, with varying missing value replacements in each version and using information from all other variables to generate the replacement. Simulation studies demonstrated that even with few generated data sets multiple imputation yielded valid results [ 14 ]. The SCI data was imputed ten times using multiple imputation (using the option "logistic regression"), while the CHC data was imputed five times (using the option "predictive mean matching"). Different options were used, since the SCI data (after removing category e ) consisted only of binary variables (see next section), whereas the CHC data consisted of categorical variables with many levels. In the next step, each of these imputed data sets was analyzed using common complete case methods as described below. For computations, we used the R-package "mice" which implements multiple imputation (see [ 13 ]).
Because the properties of the qualifiers are not yet evaluated sufficiently, we dichotomized the ICF categories. Each category of the components Body Functions, Body Structures and Activities and Participation was graded with the qualifiers 0 for "no impairment/limitation" and 1 for "any impairment/limitation" The categories of the component Environmental Factors were graded with 0 for "barrier/neutral" and 1 for "facilitator". In the original study generating the SCI data, only the distinction "no impairment" vs. "impairment" (in b, d, s ) and "barrier", "neutral" and "facilitator" (in e ) was made. Since category e was excluded as stated in the previous section, we didn't have to dichotomize the SCI data set any further.
Graphical models are susceptible to small changes in the data set leading to large variations and hence unstable results. A common method to enhance unstable procedures is to use bootstrap aggregation [ 15 ], which enhances the overall performance of the model building process. Bootstrap aggregation produces several models based on bootstrap replicates of the original data set. The multiple versions are then aggregated. Bootstrap aggregation can stabilize the outcome of a model and enhance accuracy [ 15 ]. We generated 10 bootstrap replications. These 10 replications of the 10 imputed SCI data sets and of the 5 imputed CHC data sets generated 100 re-sampled SCI and 50 re-sampled CHC data sets. Bootstrap aggregation was carried out using R-programs developed by ourselves.
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If the prosecutors' plan for convicting Aaron Hernandez of murder is to rely on Carlos Ortiz, they may need a better plan.
Via the Boston Herald, prosecutors disclosed during the bail hearing for Ernest Wallace (pictured) that Ortiz now claims that only Hernandez exited the car before Odin Lloyd was shot and killed in an industrial park near Hernandez's Massachusetts home.
Previously, Ortiz supposedly said that both Hernandez and Wallace got out of the car, and that Wallace later told Ortiz that Hernandez had admitted to shooting Lloyd. (That's an odd admission for Hernandez to make to Wallace, since Wallace presumably was aware of the shooting.)
The summary of evidence presented without testimony from Ortiz successfully kept Wallace behind bars subject to $500,000 bail. But the contradiction in Ortiz's testimony could help give Hernandez's lawyers enough ammunition to create reasonable doubt, via the Chewbacca defense or otherwise.
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A Scottsbluff, Nebraska man was the victim of a fatal lightning strike at Rocky Mountain National Park Saturday, the second person to be killed by lightning in two days in the park.
Gregory Cardwell, 52, died after a bolt struck him near Rainbow Curve, at 10,829 feet along Trail Ridge Road, according to a statement from park spokeswoman Kyle Patterson.
Three others were injured by the strike and taken to Estes Park Medical Center, where Cardwell was pronounced dead, Patterson said.
The woman killed in Friday's lightning strike was Rebecca R. Teilhet, 42, from Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Previously, the last lightning fatality that occurred in the park was in 2000, when a technical climber was struck on the Diamond on Longs Peak.
Saturday's incident occurred shortly before 4 p.m.
About 1:20 p.m. Friday, the park staff was notified of a lighting strike on the Ute Crossing Trail on Trail Ridge Road at roughly 11,400 feet, between Rainbow Curve and Forest Canyon Overlook.
Eight people suffered various injuries from that strike. They were hiking back to the trailhead when lightning hit, roughly 500 yards from the trailhead, Patterson said.
An air ambulance was able to land between bouts of severe weather but Teilhet died at the scene. She was hiking with her husband and a friend, who were taken by ambulance to Estes Park Medical Center.
The other five victims were part of a local hiking group and transported themselves to the Estes Park Medical Center, Patterson said.
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A judicial review on whether the Home Secretary was right to allow extradition proceedings against Gary McKinnon to continue despite his recent diagnosis with Asperger's Syndrome has been scheduled for 9 and 10 June.
Only the Asperger's Syndrome aspects of the Home Office's handling of the case will be considered during the hearing. Other aspects of the case and the merits of the charges against McKinnon will be excluded.
A decision by judges that the Home Secretary was wrong to disregard McKinnon's recently diagnosed medical condition in allowing extradition proceedings to continue has become the former sysadmin's final chance to avoid a US trial for hacking into US government and military systems.
McKinnon lost appeals to the House of Lords and the European Court of Human Rights last summer. These hearings focused on alleged arm-twisting during plea-bargaining negotiations and the conditions McKinnon might face in US jails post conviction. His medical condition was only diagnosed by autism experts in November, and wasn't part of the long running proceedings that led up to the House of Lords case.
The 43-year-old's fight against extradition suffered a further setback last month when UK prosecutors declined to commence a UK prosecution against McKinnon on the basis of a signed confession admitting computer hacking offences contrary to the UK's Computer Misuse Act.
McKinnon and his supporters have consistently sought a UK trial during a four-year campaign against extradition. McKinnon's campaign has taken off over recent months with the support of autism experts, who argue he doesn't deserve a custodial sentence anywhere, as well as support from politicians and celebs.
Eighty MPs signed an early day motion urging the Home Secretary to seek assurances that McKinnon, because of his health, would be allowed to spend any sentence in a UK prison, close to his family. London Mayor Boris Johnson and, more recently, Lord Carlile of Berriew, the terror-law watchdog, have also weighed in on McKinnon's behalf.
Entrepreneur Karl Watkin MBE and pop star Sting, the former frontman of the Police, also added their support over the weekend, The Free Gary support blog (which has been there from the start) says.
Ross Hemsworth, managing director of Glastonbury Radio and UK director of the International UFO Congress, tried to organise a concert on McKinnon's behalf back in November. Dusty old rock band Marillion have offered to take part in a gig.
Hemsworth also hoped to recruit musicians to take part in a charity recording of a song written by McKinnon, called Only a Fool, at London's famous Abbey Road studios. Not much came of either venture.
Other samples of McKinnon's musical work, such as the track Wanton Child (below), can be found on YouTube. ®


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Thilo Sarrazin
In August 2010 Thilo Sarrazin, a member of Germany's Social Democratic Pparty (SPD), former senator of finance for the state of Berlin and until recently board member of the German central bank (Bundesbank), published a book that has provoked a huge debate in Germany. By the end of October 2010 1.1 million copies of the book had been printed of which 750,00 had already been sold: "Deutschland schafft sich ab" ("Germany abolishes itself") looks at the effects of immigration, the shrinking birth-rate in Germany and the growth of a social "underclass". Above all, Sarrazin accuses Muslims in particular of being unwilling to integrate. German integration authorities, academics and politicians, he argues, are refusing to even discuss the problem:
"In Germany, a host of integration researchers, Islam scholars, sociologists, political scientists, interest groups as well as a flock of naïve politicians work hand in hand and intensively in belittlement, self-delusion, and denial."
(Deutschland schafft sich ab, p. 279)
In an interview with the weekly Die Zeit, Sarrazin summed up his analysis in "the rule of three":
"First: the natural population dynamic of our people is declining. Second: birth-rates are related to class the lower classes are having more babies. This asymmetry results in a contraction of the intellectual potential of society, even without immigration. Third: Measured by the deficits stemming from demography and birth-rate structure, the current immigration doesn't match. Especially immigration from Muslim countries poses a threat to the European cultural model."
Die Zeit: Sind Muslime dümmer? ("Are Muslims more stupid?"), 26 August 2010
Sarrazin is not a newcomer to the topic of Islam and integration. While senator of finance in Berlin, he repeatedly commented on the issue:
"I did not make up my opinion about Kreuzberg by going there and saying, ah, another headscarf or another pram. I looked at the Berlin statistics. As senator of finance, of course I thought to myself: how are we to pay for all this?"
Berliner Morgenpost: Thilo Sarrazin: "Ich bin kein Rassist" ("I am not a racist") (29 August 2010)
In 2009, Sarrazin clearly spelled out this line of thinking in a long interview with the cultural magazine Lettre International in a special issue on "Berlin on the couch writers and artists on 20 years the fall of the Berlin Wall":
"I don't need to respect people who live off the state, despise that state, don't properly care for the education of their children and constantly produce new little headscarf-girls."
"The lower the class the higher the birth-rate. The share in birth-rates of Arabs and Turks is two to three times higher than their corresponding share in the population. Many of them are neither willing to integrate nor capable of doing so. The solution to this problem can only be no more immigration; and those who would like to marry should do this abroad."
"A large number of Arabs and Turks have no productive function, except for trade in fruits and vegetables and in all likelihood there won't be any other perspective."
"The Turks are conquering Germany in the same way the Kosovars conquered Kosovo: by using higher birth-rates. I would like this if it would be Eastern European Jews who have an IQ which is 15 points higher than the one of the German population."
Lettre International: "Klasse statt Masse" ("Quality, not quantity"), 30 September 2009, issue 86
Sarrazin's statements on immigrants in Berlin caused an uproar in the media and among many politicians who called for his dismissal from the Bundesbank and his expulsion from the SPD. These calls were renewed after Sarrazin published his book in August 2010.
Two of his statements in particular drove politicians and journalists to the barricades. In his book he wrote:
"We have to assume that for demographic reasons the underclass section of the population is growing steadily. Among migrants we have seen that the birth-rate is highest among those groups of migrants with the lowest levels of education, in other words those from Turkey, the Middle East and Africa. Studies on the workforce have come to similar conclusions. These show that women who are poorly or not integrated into the labour market at all are more likely to have children or increase the size of their fold. But intelligence is 50 to 80 percent hereditary and thanks to the class-related reproductive rate, this unfortunately means that the hereditary intellectual potential of the population is continually shrinking."
And when asked in an interview with Die Welt whether there is such thing as a "genetic identity", Sarrazin replied, "All Jews have a certain gene in common. Basques have a certain gene which differentiates them from others." Sarrazin later apologised for the remark, saying that he had read about two studies (by Harry Ostrer and Doron Behar) which suggest that many Jews have shared genetic roots, the interview effectively sealed the fate of the book.
Most of Germany's politicians united in a choir of disapproval of Sarrazin's ideas. Chancellor Angela Merkel described them as "nonsense". Sarrazin's statements were "marginalising" and "contemptuous of entire groups of society...His language is socially divisive," she said in a TV interview. Shortly thereafter the chairman of the Bundesbank asked German President Christian Wulff for permission to remove Sarazzin from the bank's board. Only a few hours later the SPD filed for his expulsion from the party. While the procedure for Sarrazin's expulsion from the SPD is still ongoing, he has withdrawn from the Bundesbank board without waiting for the president's official decision.
Sarrazin and his controversial book have rekindled a debate on Islam and integration that has made headlines in Germany for almost a decade. Despite the claims made by Sarrazin and many of his supporters, the problems of integration have certainly not gone unnoticed or unmentioned for reasons of political correctness in the five years preceeding his book, as this website also shows.
Many mainstream media have also been critical.
"'Germany abolishes itself'" tells the tale of a nation's decline. And the Muslims who make up a mere six percent of the population are being held responsible. It begs the question as to what the remaining 94 percent have spent the past decades doing to secure the future of their country. Sarrazin's book is an attempt by a disoriented elite to exonerate itself. No wonder it is such a success."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "So wird Deutschland dumm" ("This is how Germany is becoming stupid"), 25 August 2010
The Frankfurter Rundschau concluded that the book's thesis is the work of a madman. The book "attempts to connect his statistically-grounded contempt for the overweight, welfare-grabbing underclass couch potatos with racist theories on cultural mentalities." And the Frankfurter Allgemeine on Sunday observed that the book is an attempt
"to establish a very different understanding of culture. One that links genetics with culture, on the basis of a word that Sarrazin (citing Darwin) drops as casually as Gottfried Benn once did: 'selective breeding'. Sarrazin is not talking about Goethe and Schiller, though his book does mention poetry. For him, culture is the reflex of a biological process. The fact that in Germany ever more children are being born to families from the underclass milieu automatically results in the dumbing down of society. Those who succeed in making a career for themselves in spite of their background do nothing to influence his findings. There is nothing new about this theory. On the contrary, it is based on the Enlightenment idea of education, school and upbringing. But Sarrazin's message is different: education, which he refers to contemptuously as a 'mantra', is powerless as a vehicle for intellectual advancement. Individuals and entire nations are limited by their genetic and ethnic dispositions."
At the Tagesspiegel, writers, Islam scholars, education and immigration experts spoke out more or less in unison. Feridun Zaimoglu explained:
"People like him are fire starters. He is handing over the Muslim as the boogie man to a frightened middle class, with the implication that the Muslim is also responsible for the bank crisis and for the collapse of the welfare system."
The publicist Hilal Sezgin wrote:
"In the US we have started to hear discussions about whether black people are less intelligent than whites. This is obviously racism talking. In Germany too we need to develop a sensibility for the kind of debates which upset the underlying moral consensus. It is pure negligence to define groups and stir up bad blood between them."
And the publicist Mark Terkessidis explained:
"It might be an insult to the intelligence that Sarrazin swears by to have to dwell for any length of time on the lengthy passages of utter nonsense in his book, but the debate it has triggered has clearly demonstrated that certain opinions are no longer tolerated in the political spectrum of the German republic."
There were also voices in support of Sarrazin, however. In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Necla Kelek asked why Sarrazin had been demonised when a proper discussion about his book was what was needed:
"All this fuss strikes me as somewhat staged and the racism argument smacks of a red herring. So he doesn't want to live in a Muslim Germany because he is suspicious of that sort of society. What's wrong with that? The economist in Sarrazin has calculated that the 750,000 Turkish immigrant workers now number almost 3 million and that 40 percent of the able bodied among them live off the state instead of working. This makes no economic sense for him and leads him to ask whether immigration, in its current form, is not a mistake. This is no reason to get upset at Sarrazin. Instead we should be asking the politicians who are responsible for this state for affairs whether or not they have really served the interests of the country."
For the writer Monika Maron, speaking with Die Welt, the public debate has missed the point:
"Why can't we leave aside Sarrazin's obviously potty ideas about genetic theory and start talking about something much more worrying: the growing confessionalisation of our society, the millions of euros we are doling out in welfare cheques, the education deficit and the criminality among Muslim youth? Government schemes and vast sums of money have done little or nothing to change a situation that has been well-known for many years. What else has to happen?"
The debate about Sarrazin's book was also picked up by the international media. In its online edition, the Economist wrote that
"In a way, the stir [Sarrazin] has created is a tribute to Germany's political culture. The mainstream parties are not blind to the problems he identifies but strive to be politically correct about them. The few openly xenophobic parties are marginalised. Mr Sarrazin has given voice to fears and resentments that have no political outlets. Germany has rightly worked hard to close them off. Now that Mr Sarrazin has prised one open, politicians will have to work doubly hard to prove him wrong."
The Washington Post refers to the fact that while the political elite and mainstream media refuted Sarrazin's arguments almost in unison, the picture among the ordinary population is not as clear. (According to some surveys, more than 40 percent support Sarrazin.)
"Yet Sarrazin's critique of Muslim immigrants has without question touched a national nerve. In the bars, taxis and offices of Berlin these days, it is the hottest topic of conservation, with his supporters feeling almost liberated by Sarrazin's willingness to throw caution to the wind and speak openly about their concerns. More than anything, he has tapped into German frustrations about the tendency of Muslim Turks who began large-scale immigration in the 1960s to help run German factories to live clannish lives, jealously guarding their language and religious traditions."
The New York Times places the Sarrazin debate in the wider context of Islamophobia:
"Mr. Sarrazin has set off a painful public discussion here that highlights one of the nation's most vexing challenges: how to overcome what is widely seen as a failed immigration policy that over decades has done little to support and integrate the nearly 20 percent of the population with an immigrant background. It is a policy that also stokes anti-Islamic sentiment and hostility."
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There are many glaring stats that help define a season. For the Mets, their 25-31 record at home is one of them. This was supposed to be a homestand where they could make up some ground, but they are a dismal 3-5.
Here's the line-up that will try to get it done today:
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Board wants to accept applications for fire chief job
A spirited discussion took place at the Portland City Council meeting Monday night after Council Steve Fabiano told council the Portland Area Fire Authority Board hoped to post the position of fire chief in December to be sure it has "the best person for the job."
Currently that position is held by Dave Brown, whose job, along with those of his fellow firefighters, was transferred to be under the auspices of the fire authority earlier this year.
Mayor Jim Barnes challenged the authority's considering to accept applications for Brown's job "when the ink is barely dry on the agreement that no one would be put in a worse position as a result of the agreement."
Portland has an intergovernmental agreement with Portland and Danby Townships for joint governance of the fire department. That agreement stipulated that City of Portland Fire Department employees, including the chief, would be transferred to and become employees of the fire authority, and that an employee will not, by reason of that transfer "be placed in any worse position with respect to workers' compensation, wages, seniority, or any other benefit that the employee enjoyed while employed by the City of Portland Fire Department."
Fabiano told council that Brown is "more than welcome to apply for this position," and that he was not being fired.
"Given the lack of process, especially in this day and age of transparency and accountability, the appearance is a thinly veiled effort to change somebody's position for someone else," Barnes said. "We have an agreement in place with specific language. I want to be sure it is adhered to, and it doesn't appear it is."
Fabiano explained the fire authority is attempting to create a new process.
"I think this is a good time to start it, as the new fire authority saying who is the most qualified," he said. "It's important that the top person in the fire department is the most qualified, because it is that person who drives fire coverage."
Council member Stacy Krause said she doesn't mind doing new things, "as long as it's not in conflict with the fire authority agreement.
"I support what the fire authority intention is: to improve its function, but it is also important to me that we uphold the contract," she said. "I feel like this is a breach of the contract."
Barnes told Fabiano he believes the authority wants to ensure that the best person for the job is serving in the fire chief's position, "but I don't think you can pursue that in a vacuum.
"We set out that no one would be harmed in the forming of the authority," he said. "Now there is some reasoning behind taking someone in a position who has not been given any kind of job performance review, and suddenly his tenure is terminated, and he has to reapply in order to retain that job."
Krause said she believes the intent is to get rid of "the person in that position (Brown).
"Follow the proper channels," she said. "We don't hire people in the city, and then willy-nilly decide they have to apply for their job. I don't think that is the spirit of the agreement."
"All we're saying is we deserve to be sure we have the best," Fabiano said. "That's all we're asking, to have the most qualified person in the position."
"I am asking we follow this contract," said Krause. "This is a breach of this contract, and I think we need to go through mediation. It's clear today there is a disagreement arising out of what (the language of the agreement pertaining to hiring and removal of authority employees) means."
Council member Steve Calley said he hoped the motivation behind the fire authority's proposed action wasn't animosity toward Brown because he was a Portland employee.
"I caution the (fire authority) board to be careful," he said.


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Lookie-likie stuff is one of my guilty pleasures, so it should come as little surprise that I got quite excited by the Electron Mili USB Rechargable LED lights set twin pack. However, while a pretty good marriage of form and function, in my opinion their quirky looking Pico cousins make better choices when negotiating unlit roads.
Ripping open the packet revealed two cutesy homages to a certain designer brand encased in supple silicone jackets. Ours were lime green but there are plenty of other options (black, blue, orange, red or white). Internally we've a single diode projected through 'focused magnified lens' technology, which supposedly optimises output, although lumens aren't specified, making direct comparison tricky for virtual consumers. Two diddy cables allow simultaneous, speedy fuel-ups - 2.25 hours apiece on average.
We're not supposed to access the internals, meaning they're bin fodder once the diodes/lithium ion cells finally cash in their chips. Aside from some initial teething troubles trying to persuade the USB bung to stay put, this keeps them pretty well insulated from Mother Nature.
The front features a strap with male/female interfaces designed to slip anaconda fashion around the handlebar's centre bulge. Sleek and arguably more secure than most, it precludes split second fitting/removal, especially wearing winter weight gloves. By contrast, intentional engagement's considerably easier thanks to a centrally mounted switch that's just stubborn enough to avoid unwanted power ups when lolling around in pockets.
There are three modes, 'constant hi', 'constant low' and our old friend flashing, which all looked decidedly impotent alongside an eighty lumen competitor. However their usefulness improved considerably after sunset, delivering a very pure white beam capable of pricking consciousnesses to around two hundred and fifty metres, nearer two hundred in steady. Less pronounced than my premium comparator, they were still very reasonable peripherally when perched atop bar saver type extension brackets.
The rear light is a curious barrel shape with a seatpost hugging indent and hook n' clasp closure. Again, this works very harmoniously with most diameters, round or slightly ovalised but can only be mounted horizontally. It was prone to occasional brushes with my inner thigh when positioned just atop the seat collar. However, the webbed click fix closure on a rack bag proved the ideal resting point, positioning the warm red beacon at eye level and amplifying to around three hundred and seventy metres in flashing on clear nights, dropping by fifty or so when skies turned murky.
Perky urban/back-up lights with reasonable output and run times but vertical rear mounting would be more practical
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Make and model: Electron Mili USB Rechargable LED lights set
Size tested: n/a
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
"Ultra flexible usb rechargeable silicon lights
A funky and stylish silicon encased set of bike lights
One super-bright, high lithium LED, using focused magnified lens technology front and rear to be seen and to see afar
Lithium-ion USB rechargeable battery with a quick 2.5 hour charge time
Incredible runtime - up to 11 hours
Pocket size compact, sleek design with multiple modes
Push button switch operation, is easy to operate even with winter gloves
Completely flexible water-resistant silicone design that can be mounted virtually anywhere on the bike
Low battery indicator
Red charging indicator, which will change to green upon full charge"
Generally agree, although not for seeing with.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
One super-bright, high lithium LED, using focused magnified lens technology front and rear Lithium-ion USB rechargeable battery.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
There's no doubt the milli grew on me over successive rides. The output is reasonable in all modes, albeit a little tame compared with others in rush hour gloom and has reliably returned 10hrs 23 (flashing)5hrs 15 lo constant and 2hrs 47 in hi constant from a full charge.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Funky styling, reasonable output & run times.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Rear could ocasionally brush against the rider's thigh when positioned low on the seatpost.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Possibly, although I've used similar and slightly cheaper homages with comparable performance.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Overall, yes but with the above priviso in mind.
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
Borderline seven since the market is awash with similar designs offering better output or smaller price tags.
About the tester
Age: 38 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
Citing Richard Ballantine and an Au pair as his earliest cycling influences, he is presently writing a cycling book with particular focus upon women, families and disabled audiences (Having been a registered care manager and coached children at Herne Hill Velodrome in earlier careers)


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