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In Which We Iterate Upon Ourselves
To Think Of While Writing
Setting it down is a difficult part, but not the difficult part for the writers who speak below. There is a world that surrounds what we read, and our inquiries into is are so often completely inadequate. Not the how and why of the creative act, but what remains after the writing has been consumed and forgotten like any other artifact.
In a sense there is an existence beyond the page, but it could never really compare.
Vernor Vinge
It was 1962. I was a senior in high school, and I wanted to write about the first man to have a direct mind-to-computer link. I even thought I might be the first person ever to write of such a thing. (In that, of course, I was wrong - but the theme was rare compared to nowadays.) I worked very hard on the story, applying everything I knew about writing, I put together a social background that I thought would make things interesting where the story sagged: cheap fusion/electricity converters had been invented (that worked at room temperature!), trashing the big power utilities and causing a short term depression. And of course, there would be experiments with chimpanzees before the IQ amplifier was tried on my human hero.
Having thought things out, I described the plot to my little sister (a tenth-grader). She suffered through my endless recounting, and then remarked, "Except for the part about the chimpanzee, it sounds pretty dull." What a comedown. Still… she had a point.
Diane Williams
Very early on, I had a vision of excellence and a sense of responsibility of monstrous proportions.
It is best if no one ever sees me again. (You will thank me.)
I will not go to see someone just because he or she is inconveniently located.
And, if you do that thing again, evil people will be ruined completely. Good people will feel great. Springtime will span the year because that's my decision. Anyone who would have preferred some other season may feel a not-so-serious mistake has been made.
When the good people begin their lavish new life, they will be especially indebted to Ira, who will provide everyone with a set of easy instructions to follow so everything turns out all right for them. Oh, they will be indebted to Ira.
I used to see a lot of this one woman. Ira will take care of her, because I've had it up to here.
Now, do you understand?
Hart Crane
For some time past I have been seeking employment in New York, but without success so far. It's the usual problem of mechanical prejudices that I've already grown grey in trying to deal with. But all the more difficult now, since the only references I can give for the last two years are my own typewriter and a collection of poems.
I am, as you probably recall, at least avowedly - a perfectly good advertising writer. I am wondering if you would possibly give me some recommendations to the publicity department of The Metropolitan Opera Company, where I am certain of making myself useful. I was in New York two days last week, trying to secure emplyment as a waiter on one of the American lines. I found that I needed something like a diploma from Annapolis before hoping for an interview.
A few years ago I registered with the Munson Line with reference to my qualifications for a particular position which every ship includes - that of "ship's writer" or "deck yeoman": but I always found that such jobs were dispensed to acquaintances of the captain or to office workers, and that my references were never taken from the file. I am not particular what I do, however, so long as there is reasonable chance of my doing it well. The Aeneid was not written in two years, nor in four.
Robert Creeley
You know the way people say we all have a story within us - something specific in our lives that would, if we could only get it said, be something worth hearing. That may well be true but I don't think art is particularly involved by it. Writing, for example, is an activity dependent on words as material. It may be felt that it matters what they "say" but far more decisive is the energy gained in the field or system they are used to create. In like sense, the "Chef's Special" may sound good to you - but it may be awful to literally eat, and you won't know what it is until someone who does know tells you.
Time is either an imagination or else a phasing inherent in the system, organic or inert (including abstractions). What is your life that you're going to write it down, or make films of it, or whatever it is you had in mind. The one thing clear about your life is that you are living it. Whitman was quick about it, saying, "Who touches this book touches a man."
Mavis Gallant
I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child's play, an extension of make-believe - something one is frequently assured by persons who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a racing bike over the Alps? Perhaps the cultural attaché at a Canadian embassy who said to me "Yes, but what do you really do?" was expressing an adult opinion.
The impulse to write and the stubbornness needed to keep going are supposed to come out of some drastic shaking up, early in life. There is even a term for it: the shock of change. Probably, it means a jolt that unbolts the door between perception and imagination and leaves it ajar for life, or that fuses memory and language and waking dreams.
The first flash of fiction arrives without words. It consists of a fixed image, like a slide or (closer still) a freeze frame, showing characters in a simple situation.
Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait.
Mario Vargas Llosa
If the words and the structure of a novel are efficient, and appropriate to the story that the novel intends to make persuasive, this means that its text is perfectly balanced; theme, style and points of view are so perfectly harmonized, and the reader is so hypnotized and absorbed by what is being told, that he completely forgets the way it is being told, and is under the impression that technique and form have nothing to do with it, that life itself animates the work's characters, landscapes, and events, which seem to the reader nothing less than reality incarnate, life in print. This is the great triumph of technical skill in novel writing: the achievement of invisibility, the ability to endow story with color, drama, subtlety, beauty, and suggestive power so effectively that the no reader even notices the fabrication exists; under the spell of its craftsmanship, he feels that he is not reading, but rather living a fiction that, for a while at least and ad far as he is concerned, supplants life.
Harry Mathews
Unless I am hopelessly mistaken, it seems to me perfectly possible to write well in French simply by writing correctly - by writing well I obviously do not necessarily mean elegantly or brilliantly; I mean only that there exists a normative written language available to anyone who takes the trouble to learn it that will enable its user to write prose than can be universally read without objections. Such a "correct" language does not exist in America (or in England for that matter). Left to itself, merely correct American English tends to go flat. American writing of any kind has a kind of ad hoc quality about it, a quality of having been improvised for the occasion; and good writing invariably involves the admixture of a particular individual manner.
Gene Wolfe
At this point it is traditional to state dogmatically that every short story must show a beginning, a middle, and an ending - the lash employed by editors and other critics to flog writers. And it is true enough that every story should, although it is not of much use to know it. Authors (and they are very rare) who commit stories lacking one of the three necessities always believe the missing element present; and the truth is that a good story must have much more than that.
You are both a woman, amused by men, and a man, enthralled by women. You realize that is is only in our own time that life has become easy enough to permit a handful of us to abrogate our ancient alliance. Your lively imagination is governed by reason; you find it difficult to make friends, though you are a good friend to those you have made. At certain times you feel you are insane, at others than you are the only sane person in the world. You are patient, and yet eager.
How and Why To Write
You can find the first five parts of this series here:
Part One (Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Levine, Thomas Pynchon, Gertrude Stein, Eudora Welty, Don DeLillo, Anton Chekhov, Mavis Gallant, Stanley Elkin)
Part Two (James Baldwin, Henry Miller, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Margaret Atwood, Gertrude Stein, Vladimir Nabokov)
Part Three (W. Somerset Maugham, Langston Hughes, Marguerite Duras, George Orwell, John Ashbery, Susan Sontag, Robert Creeley, John Steinbeck)
Part Four (Flannery O'Connor, Charles Baxter, Joan Didion, William Butler Yeats, Lyn Hejinian, Jean Cocteau, Francine du Plessix Gray, Roberto Bolano)
Part Five (Rosmarie Waldrop, Joyce Cary, Fernando Pessoa, Martin Amis, Lewis Carroll, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Leguin)


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HiddenMission writes: God of War Ascension's MP an Epic Mess is what I would be saying if I was a complete fool and a total tool.
Wow, a far from stealthy flamebait title and they even go to point it out in the description. smh
EPIC is not used commonly in regard with God of War, don't even go there. There is no point in your title, idk what the hell you're talking about. A title is a title, you can't expect another reader to instantly say "OH, I get exactly what he's saying!" Lol, doesn't work that way buddy. Plus, like I said above, this is horribly written, and after the third paragraph I found no reason to read any further.
The title is the first thing people see before anything else and helps them decide if they choose to read an article or not. Sometimes a title is the whole point of the article in one sentence.
In reading the actual article... I think there are some valid points of concern but ultimately we have to just wait and see.
I know the N4G crowd just can't learn to actually read a post and live off of a title...yep 4 years on here and the audience never changes.
Thank you crowd it's always fun.

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Murfreesboro Store Fired Employee for Protesting Sexual Harassment, Federal Agency Charges
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – HHGregg, Inc., a retail chain for consumer electronics and home appliances, violated federal law by firing an employee for protesting sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed on September 14, 2010.
The EEOC's suit (Civil Action No.3:10-cv-00861 filed in U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division) alleges that hhgregg, operating a store in Murfreesboro, Tenn., fired the employee, an assistant manager, because she complained about sexual harassment by the general manager. The employee was then disciplined 12 times in the next three and a half months and terminated for "continued poor performance." Before she complained about sexual harassment, the EEOC said, the employee had been given positive evaluations and had never been disciplined during her approximately four and a half years of service. The EEOC asserted that these "disciplinary actions" were clearly pretexts for retaliating against her because of her complaints.
Retaliation for complaining about sexual harassment violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
"Title VII and Supreme Court precedent provide that employees have a right to complain about practices they believe are unlawful without repercussions," said Katharine W. Kores, director of the EEOC's Memphis District Office. "The former employee sought to assert that right and was discharged less than four months later, even though she had worked for more than four years without any problems. Retaliation cases like this remain a concern for the EEOC, and we will keep fighting this kind of unlawful conduct by employers."
According to company information, hhgregg, Inc. is a Delaware corporation and specialty retailer of consumer electronics and home appliances in 15 states at 168 locations.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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The Florida Chamber of Commerce is asking Sen. Bill Nelson to beef up government spending at Miami International Airport in order to address a problem of delays and missed flights.
Gov. Rick Scott sent a letter to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano last month asking for more customs officials at MIA, and the Chamber backed him up this week with a letter to Nelson and other members of the Florida Congressional delegation.
"As Gov Scott noted in his letter, the customs problem at MIA makes Florida less competitive on the international stage," Florida Chamber president David Hart wrote. "More than 30,000 international travelers missed their connecting flights at MIA after waiting for customs in August 2012."
It's not clear if the Chamber sent similar requests to Sen. Marco Rubio, or the other Republican members of congress who are from South Florida, where MIA is located.
Update: The Florida Chamber said it sent similar letters to other members of the Florida congressional delegation.
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Bourne Legacy (US - BD RA)
Gabe thinks this sequel was Bourne out of monetary need, not creative energy...
When Jason Bourne exposes Operation Treadstone at the end of The Bourne Ultimatum, he sparks a bonfire that threatens to burn down decades of research and development into the building of better spies and warriors. It turns out that there are actually a variety of covert intelligence programs – all of which now feel the threat of exposure. On the verge of having their conspiracy revealed, members of the government's intelligence community will stop at nothing to erase all evidence of their top-secret programs. With his life in jeopardy, agent Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) must use his genetically engineered skills to survive the ultimate game of cat-and-mouse and finish what Jason Bourne started. (From Universal's official synopsis)
The Jason Bourne series is interesting on a couple of levels. Each of the original three films, all starring Matt Damon, are generally the same movie and each of these movies end in a way that satisfactorily ends the journey of the Bourne character. Every time a new film in the series was announced, I questioned the need to recycle the formula yet again, especially when the last two movies, Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum, featured the same director, eliminating the 'fresh, new voice' factor of the modern James Bond series (at the same time, the vast difference in directing style between the first film and the second two makes for a creative fissure in the series that is noticeably awkward when watching all three films in a row). However, upon actually seeing each film in the Bourne series (I ended up waiting for video on all three, sadly) I realized that each film is better than the last one, or as my friend Phil Nobile Jr. recently wrote, 'Collectively [the Bourne movies] often felt like someone practicing the same song over and over, finally nailing it on the last try.' When I heard yet another unneeded Bourne film was coming down the wire, this time not based on one of author Robert Ludlum's original novels and not starring Damon, I was, once again, entirely uninterested in the prospect. But, I had to remind myself that, up to this point, the pattern of this series is that of slightly better versions of the same formula. Perhaps the new lead Jeremy Renner would be the juice these movies needed. Perhaps the 'there's another super-secret agent' hook wouldn't be as hackneyed as it sounded.
Co-writer/director Tony Gilroy has now written or co-written the screenplays for all four Bourne films, which, I suppose, makes him something of an expert on the process. I tend to consider the acting and directing to be the stronger elements in these films, but, clearly, Gilroy knows how to put the character in the proper context and also knows how to not lose the plot in spy-movie mumbo-jumbo. His directing credits include the multi-Academy Award nominated Michael Clayton and Duplicity, both of which share general heist and political thriller elements with the Bourne series, but neither of which feature much in the way of memorable imagery. Up until this point, it would be pretty easy to refer to his brand of direction as 'cool' and 'slick,' which would seem to put him more in the Doug Liman/ Bourne Identity category, rather than the much rougher, cinéma vérité category Paul Greengrass pushed for his two entries in the series. Greengrass has a lot to answer for, considering the glut of shaky-cam action that he inspired, but his patented imagery really does define modern action movies, at least those that aren't depending on a lot of special effects. Gilroy tends to follow Greengrass' lead in terms of colour palette and pseudo-vérité shake, but there's no mistaking that Bourne Legacy is just as much a stylistic follow-up to Michael Clayton as it is to The Bourne Ultimatum. Occasionally, things are a bit over-cut (the human eye just doesn't work that quickly) and the 2.35:1 frame seems cramped, but for the most part Gilroy's direction makes geographic sense and his action scenes feature some thoroughly taut suspense beats (though nothing approaching Greengrass' edge-of-your-seat nail-biters). 'Effective, but entirely generic' would be a good way of summing it up.
The problem here, besides a general lack of new ideas, is a weak script. Gilroy and his brother Dan try to set up a new character while reminding us of the events of the previous film, which apparently have either just taken place or are currently taking place. This sort of apes the narrative structure of Greengrass' movies, but so much of it feels like old news (even when it's new news) that vast expanses of film time are genuinely boring, rather than the intended windup to more action-packed break-aways from plot. The story merely meanders into further action set-pieces, most of which carry little emotional or narrative weight and more sequences of a roomful of people in suits trying to track our heroes (all the while re-explaining the plot to us). The time-line overlap with Bourne Ultimatum might sound like a good idea on paper, but makes it impossible for this new movie to stand on its own. I've seen Ultimatum two or three times, but was still left confused by the places the two films cross each other. It also makes it feel like Universal and the producers are biding their time on Renner until they can get Damon back for a fifth film. The sad thing is that the best scenes in the movie tend to involve strictly new characters, which kind of makes everything Bourne about the film moot. The whole movie probably would've worked better entirely divorced from the other films. Perhaps being accused of being too similar to the Bourne series would've been better than being tangentially (not to mention boringly) attached to it.
I'm glad Renner has found fame. His guest roles in films like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and 28 Weeks Later were always pleasant, and his Hurt Locker Best Actor nomination was well-earned. But the world should be his oyster and he's already typecasting himself into an early B-movie oblivion. His last three performances – Hawkeye in Avengers (with a cameo in Thor), William Brandt in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, and Aaron Cross here – are basically the same performances with slight differentiations in levity and realistic environments ( Avengers is the only flat-out sci-fi film here, but all three are pretty unrealistic, action-based thrillers). Aaron Cross may be the least amusing character I've ever seen him play (even his Jeffery Dahmer was good for a few smiles), which makes him the least interesting of Renner's special agent trifecta. The other cast newcomers include Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, and Stacy Keach, all of whom are just as typecast as Renner. Norton and Keach sleepwalk through the film charmingly enough while Weisz gives her best shot at something a little deeper. It's obvious that the Gilroys are trying to recreate the relationship between Damon and Franka Potente/Julia Stiles from the original films and, for the most part, the thematic reestablishment works. The film tends to waste their talents on long-winded arguments and mouthfuls of exposition (poor, poor Weisz is given the absolute most boring dialogue to spew), but they're fun to watch together. Because of timeline overlap with Bourne Ultimatum there's a lot of returning cast, most of which are antagonists (in some form or another), including Joan Allen, David Strathairn, Albert Finney, and Scott Glenn, but these are cameos at best.
The Bourne Legacy was shot on Super 35mm and this 1080p, 2.35:1 Blu-ray transfer shows only minor signs of the format's usual grain levels. In fact, this whole movie is so clean looking that I'm not sure why it wasn't shot digital HD. Only during the absolute most sterile indoor shots does grain really appear, while other common 35mm artefacts, like edge enhancement, are practically non-existent. The film stock does come in handy in terms of texture and despite a generally crisp look the rough qualities of skin, hair, and clothing contrast nicely against the mostly smooth backdrops. Complex wide-angle patterns and details are very sharp and eclectic, including Yukon mountain ranges, de-saturated DC sky-scapes, and brief, advertisement-caked street scenes from non-American countries. Gilroy and cinematographer Robert Elswit (who, besides working with Gilroy on Michael Clayton and Duplicity, also worked with Renner on Brad Bird's Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol in 2012) have a pretty clear colour palette and general look set from frame one. In general, we're talking more of the old orange and teal, but with a slightly more natural tint to the skin tones. Early, daylight scenes of Renner in the Yukon wilderness, along with final act shots of the streets of Manila offer some vestiges of a natural palette (specifically in the browns missing from the rest of the film), but Gilroy and Elswit more commonly stick us with a whole lot of cool tones, which is in keeping with both of Greengrass' Bourne films (the constant cool lighting also makes the characters appear to be prematurely graying). Reds and yellows tend to pop nicely without any bleeding effects, and the base green and blue (to make teal, you see) tints the mix smoothly without banding or blocking effects.
The Bourne movies have been aurally defined by wide dynamic ranges throughout two different directors so far and it makes sense that The Bourne Legacy would continue the trend. This DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 soundtrack is full of sharp, effective noise and, yes, the emphasis is set upon dynamic ranges. There are sequences featuring general ambience, but the more regular practice is to almost entirely encapsulate a scene in silence with only dialogue and the most basic, actor-controlled sound effects. This helps set us up for the more aggressive action punches, like drone fighters, drone fighter missiles, gunshots, and explosions, all of which sound plenty punchy. The final act's extensive foot, motorcycle, and car chases also offer up a bounty of revving engines, squealing rubber, and crunching metal. Equally impressive are surprising little directional additions during the non-action moments, such as times when characters wander from super-secret CIA room to super-secret CIA room while hydraulically enhanced doors click and hiss around them. Composer James Newton Howard, who worked with Gilroy on Michael Clayton, takes his first crack at the Bourne series here, following in the footsteps of John Powell, who moved away from techno to more single-minded, driving string scores as the series went on. This soundtrack moves a bit back into electronica arena and doesn't feature much in the way of memorable themes, but as far as ambient musical noise goes, it certainly does its job, especially when it's moving montage sequences along their way with percussion. The musical sound features a nice stereo spread, effective rear channel echo, and throbbing LFE enhancement.
Extras begin with a commentary track featuring co-writer/director Tony Gilroy, co-writer Dan Gilroy, editor John Gilroy, cinematographer Robert Elswit, second unit director Dan Bradley, and production designer Kevin Thompson. Tony rules the track pretty thoroughly and is a 'just the facts' kind of guy. The basic M.O. of the track goes something like this: Tony says something about the behind the scenes process, stumbles over something that someone else in the room may know more about, then asks that person to elaborate. At worst, it sounds like he's pressing people that don't really want to talk, but more often than not, the effect is informative, if not a little too low-key. Any breakaway for laughs is very welcome.
Up next is ReBourne (6:10, HD), a fluffy behind-the-scenes EPK/featurette including scenes from the film, raw set footage, and interviews with producers Frank Marshal and Patrick Crowly, both Tony and Dan Gilroy, and actors Renner, Norton, Weisz, and Shane Jacob. Enter Aaron Cross (7:10, HD) further explores Renner's character, specifically comparing and contrasting him to Damon's character and praising the actor's physical prowess. It includes more interviews (this time including second unit director Dan Bradley and stunt coordinator Chris O'Hara) and behind-the-scenes images. Crossing Continents: Legacy on Location (8:20, HD) covers the production's worldwide location shooting, which included trips to Canada and Manila. Man vs. Wolf (4:40, HD) briefly covers the process of filming the movie's random wolf fighting sequence, including wolf casting, wolf training, and animatronic wolves. This is followed by footage from the wolf sequence test reel (1:40, HD). Moving Targets: Aaron and Martha (6:10, HD) continues the fluffy EPK/featurette thing going with a look at the relationship between Renner and Weisz' characters. Extras are completed with Capturing Chaos: The Motorbike Chase (7:50, HD), a look at the extended motorcycle chase, three deleted scenes with optional commentary (6:40, HD), and trailers for other Universal releases.
The Bourne Legacy is inoffensively unremarkable and clearly exists just to keep the franchise moving. The climatic parkour chase over Third World country tin shacks is sort of the final nail in the 'no original ideas left' coffin, despite being a decent example of the trope (of course, it leads into a motorcycle chase). Then it just kind of ends – half-leading into a sequel and half simply running out of steam. This Blu-ray release looks and sounds fine, but the extras, which appear plentiful on the box art, really don't amount to a whole lot more than brief EPKs.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
pitdeadite Member Join Date: August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 662
Jeremy Renner is my hero. Ten years ago, he had no money and was living in an apartment with no electricity. Now look at him.
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,835
I liked the movie even though it wasn't as good as the other three films and the movie just doesn't seem to have a really good way to wrap things up (it feels like two acts and a unfinished third act). It does feel like a 1970s conspiracy spy film at times
mlcm Member Join Date: November 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 947
Inoffensively unremarkable is the exact phrase I would've used if I'd thought of it. Spot on review. It's a shame, because I'm quite a defender of the original "trilogy". Alas and alack
Russell78 Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 84
I saw this at the $2 theater near me not too long ago and while entertaining in some sequences, it felt entirely unnecessary. Jeremy Renner is watchable and I liked seeing some of the other actors from the previous films show up, but having this take place during the same time as The Bourne Ultimatum was unoriginal because it was already done with Saw IV which took place at the same time in parallel with Saw III.
mlcm Member Join Date: November 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 947
Russell78 wrote: but having this take place during the same time as The Bourne Ultimatum was unoriginal because it was already done with Saw IV which took place at the same time in parallel with Saw III.
Surely though, originality in form/content isn't the most important yardstick of quality? After all, some of our most treasured cultural artifacts are pastiches and/or parodies (eg Star Wars is a pastiche)
Surely though, originality in form/content isn't the most important yardstick of quality? After all, some of our most treasured cultural artifacts are pastiches and/or parodies (eg Star Wars is a pastiche)
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Disc Details
Release Date: 11th December 2012
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD MAster Audio 7.1 English, DTS 5.1 English, French and Spanish, DVS 2.0 English
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Director/Writer/Editor/Cinematographer/ Second Unit Director Commentary, Re-Bourne, Capturing Chaos: The Motorbike Chase, Enter Aaron Cross, Crossing Continents: Legacy on Location, Man vs. Wolf, Wolf Sequence Test, Moving Targets: Aaron and Martha, BDLive Extras, Deleted Scenes, DVD Copy, Digital Copy, UltraViolet Copy
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Tony Gilroy
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Since the dress is now gone, I'm obviously not wearing it to the Little Black Dress Event. Did I make the right decision to swap it away?
We're now one week out from the Little Black Dress Event. If you can't make it in person, send me a picture or link to a blog post of you wearing your little black dress and I'll post an LBD round up on June 3.


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Duo de Boeuf, Bone Marrow-Crusted Tardivo, Sweet Potato Dauphine From 'Daniel'
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This duo of beef is a signature dish at Daniel Boulud's eponymous restaurant. It changes with the seasons, but the pairing of braised and seared beef stays the same. As could be expected from a high-end signature dish, the recipe is far from simple. The recreation, in Boulud's new cookbook, Daniel, is a challenge, taking at least two days to prepare in its totality. There is a pot of short ribs to braise, bone marrow to procure, a few sweet potato dauphines to fry, and a filet to sear, among other things. But, as the case has been all week, the effort pays off. This is an epic dish, one to cook for those you love.
Why I picked this recipe: I wanted a challenge, and I wanted beef for dinner.
What worked: Boulud's duo was indeed a wonderful representation of beef and its complementary flavors. Each component was strong on its own, and equally good smushed together on the plate.
What didn't: The most challenging aspect of this dish is the last-minute assembly. The recipe doesn't lay out a terribly clear method of tackling the task of searing steak, frying potatoes, broiling radicchio, and reheating a purée all at the same time. I recommend tackling each component separately while keeping the finished elements warm at the back of the stove. Unless, that is, you have a brigade of chefs helping you out in the background.
Suggested tweaks: My favorite elements of the dish (the short ribs and the sweet potato purée) are both pretty easy to make and taste great on their own. If you're looking to pick a few pieces to make, choose those. That said, the sweet potato purée recipe doesn't make very much, so you'll want to scale it up by at least double if you want to serve it as a side dish. Many of the components can be made ahead of time, so feel free to spread out the work over a couple of days.
I also ran into trouble buying marrow bones (pro tip: try to order them more than a few days ahead of time), so I had to cut them out of the dish at the last minute. I made the crust with just butter, shallots, and breadcrumbs, cutting back on the amount of breadcrumbs to compensate for the lack of marrow. Finally, I couldn't bring myself to spend close to $20 on a jar of piment d'Espelette, so I used a mixture of smoked paprika and cayenne instead.
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The Science That Uncovered J.K. Rowling's Literary Hocus-Pocus
The literary world is still abuzz over the revelation by London's Sunday Times that J.K. Rowling of "Harry Potter" fame secretly wrote the well-received crime novel "The Cuckoo's Calling" under the pen name Robert Galbraith. In chasing the scoop, the reporters called upon two experts in the field of authorship attribution to determine if "Galbraith" was really Rowling. The experts ran the texts through software programs designed to spot stylistic similarities, and the results were compelling enough for the Times to confront Rowling, who confessed to the pseudonymous work.
In the past, scholars have carried out such literary sleuthing on everything from The Federalist Papers to the 1996 political novel "Primary Colors," revealed to be the work of Time columnist Joe Klein. This time around, the analysis of "The Cuckoo's Calling" was done remarkably quickly, thanks to the automated methods used on the texts. But neither of the experts commissioned by the Times turned up a "smoking gun" that clearly gave away Rowling's identity. Instead, they could only determine that it was more likely that Rowling was "Galbraith" than some other novelists. Their high-profile investigation provides some insight into the strengths and limitations of computerized authorship analysis, which has applications not just in the literary world but in legal inquiries as well.
In pursuing the Rowling bombshell, freelance writer Cal Flyn, who worked with Times arts editor Richard Brooks on the story, contacted two academics who have developed software specifically to examine questions of authorship: Peter Millican, who teaches philosophy and computing at Oxford University, and Patrick Juola, a computer science professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Flyn provided them with machine-readable texts of "The Cuckoo's Calling" along with Rowling's previous novel, "The Casual Vacancy," and novels by three British women who specialize in crime fiction: Ruth Rendell, P.D. James, and Val McDermid.
Millican's program, known as Signature, and Juola's Java Graphical Authorship Attribution Program (JGAAP for short), didn't take much time to yield an answer: "Cuckoo" was stylistically more similar to "The Casual Vacancy" than it was to the work of any of the three other novelists. Millican requested an additional book by each of the writers, and he found that Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," despite being in a genre far removed from detective fiction, came in second place, ahead of the six non-Rowling novels he analyzed.
I asked Juola to sketch out his research findings for a guest post on the linguistics blog Language Log, where I am a contributor. His post offers a fascinating glimpse into the nuts and bolts of "forensic stylometry," the machine-based method of extracting features from different texts and calculating their similarities. Juola fed the texts into JGAAP and ran them through four different tests. He looked at the distribution of word lengths in each book, an easy way to generate potentially useful data. He also looked at the distribution of the one hundred most commonly occurring words in the language, which mostly consist of lowly "function words" like prepositions, conjunctions, and articles. Even if you are trying to mask your usual writing style by choosing different vocabulary, it's hard to fake your typical palette of function words.
Two other tests that Juola conducted focused on the authors' word selection. One used a feature known as "character 4-grams," which simply refers to every string of four adjacent characters in the text. Though that would seem like a rather "dumb" feature to examine, since it doesn't even take into account word boundaries, some recent studies have shown that it can be used to identify authorship with surprising accuracy. Finally, the program looked at pairs of adjacent words, and on this metric "The Cuckoo's Calling" proved to be far more similar to Rowling's known work than the other tested novels.
So what did it all prove? Both experts were careful not to make grandiose claims. "Nothing in the analysis constituted 'proof' of Rowling's authorship," Juola wrote in the Language Log post. "It was at best 'suggestive' or perhaps 'indicative.'" Millican, for his part, told the BBC that "it's not like fingerprinting" because "texts are too individual." Millican also said he wasn't able to pinpoint any particular phrases that were distinct to Rowling. "I'd have need a lot more text, probably, and a lot more time to do that," he said.
Still, with the time and text allotted to them, Millican and Juola had found enough suggestive similarities for the Times to reveal Rowling as the hidden author – or to "rumble" her, in the British slang used in the newspaper's exposé. The evidence might not have stood up in a court of law, but the experts weren't facing the same burden of proof that they might in a criminal case.
In the legal sphere, differing schools of thought on authorship attribution can get rather testy. Some purveyors of "forensic stylistics" contend that no software is needed to determine if a text was written by a particular author, instead relying on a connoisseur's eye to spot telltale features. But that approach has been giving way to the computer-driven methods favored by Millican and Juola. The uneasy shift was evident at a workshop on authorship last October hosted by Brooklyn Law School (where I first met Juola). The workshop's organizer, law professor Lawrence M. Solan, framed the tension as one of "intuition versus algorithm," but he argued that the computational and stylistic approaches can fruitfully converge.
In "rumbling" Rowling, the Times reporters fashioned their own convergence. After an anonymous tip via Twitter, they relied on their intuition to look for clues in "The Cuckoo's Calling," picking up on the use of Latin phrases and descriptions of women's clothing that seemed Rowlingesque. But then they turned to algorithmically inclined experts for corroboration. That's the kind of detective work that Cormoran Strike, the private investigator that Rowling-as-Galbraith created, could surely appreciate.
Ben Zimmer, a linguist and lexicographer, is executive producer of Vocabulary.com. His column "The Word on the Street" appears weekly in the Review section.
Update: And now the identity of the anonymous Twitter tipster who set off the Times's investigation has been revealed. According to the Associated Press, it was Judith Callegari, who heard the information from her best friend's husband, Chris Gossage, a partner at the entertainment law firm Russells. In a statement, Russells has "apologized unreservedly" to Rowling.


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Massachusetts and the eight other states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative have reached an agreement to cut the allowable carbon dioxide emissions from power plants essentially in half by 2020.
Massachusetts and the eight other states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative have reached an agreement to cut the allowable carbon dioxide emissions from power plants essentially in half by 2020.
The cap would be cut from 165 million tons to 91 million tons in 2014, then be further decreased by 2.5 percent per year through 2015.
The new 91 million ton allowance matches the amount actually emitted in 2012.
"This agreement means lower greenhouse gas emissions for the region and increased growth and opportunity in our clean energy economy, a major driver of job creation here in Massachusetts," Gov. Deval Patrick said in a statement.
"It is also a strong statement that this region, which comprises nearly 20 percent of the national economy, is serious about being stewards of our environment and addressing climate change."
Cutting the allowance "is not only good environmental policy, it's great economic policy as well," said Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Rick Sullivan, who predicted that lowering the cap will generate an estimated $350 million in additional revenue for the state through 2020. That revenue will be invested primarily in helping businesses and residences become more energy efficient.
The changes will boost revenue by raising the price of allowances, officials said.
Kenneth Kimmel, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Protection, said the changes will have a "very modest" effect on electric bills, boosting a monthly bill of $72 by 39 cents.
A spokesman for Dominion Energy of Richmond, Va., which owns the coal-fired Brayton Point power plant in Somerset, said the company had not yet reviewed details of the agreement.
"This is all new to us," said Dan Genest. "We need time to delve into it and see what it might mean to us."
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently named Brayton Point No. 1 in the state and eighth in New England for toxic emissions, with 617,567 pounds released in 2011.
The agreement must be ratified by each of the nine states — Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont — before it takes effect.


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Shimano's M520s are affordable clipless pedals that are easy to enter and exit, and built to last. They boast dual-sided Shimano SPD bindings, which make them perfect for mountain bikers or roadies who prefer wearing walkable shoes with recessed cleats. The bindings are adjustable for dialing in the perfect entry and exit tension, and they have an open, mud-shedding design that prevents clogging. Chromoly axles and sealed bearings add tons of durability.
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I have been using these pedals for the last 5 years without any problems whatsoever. My bike originally came with Attack pedals which I hated. I'm currently on my second pair after the first pair finally wore out. The design is rock solid. I've beat the heck out of these pedals and they never failed me.
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I've ridden these pedals for approximately 4,000 miles over the past 2 years and have had no problems. At some point I will upgrade to lighter pedals with a wider platform. These pedals are a bit tricky to clip into since you have to position your cleat just right to clip-in. You get the hang of it after several rides.
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Great pedals for a beginner, solid clip-in and secure hold, but not too hard to clip out of.
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After my first pair were exchanged because the body separated from the axle I tried a new pair. Big mistake, after maybe + - 200 miles these pedals started to squeak. At first I thought my bottom bracket was contaminated but after putting back the platform pedals the creaking stopped. I ride mostly on the road and some walking paths so there were no hard impacts or rough landings to cause the creaking.
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I've used these for 2 years on my mtn bike. Through mud, grit, and whatever terrain I've been through, these have worked well. As an entry level pedal, it gets the job done. I'll keep using them until they go out, then upgrade to a nicer set. Lightweight isn't expected at this price, so I'm ok with that.
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Although not the lightest pedals, they are lighter than the stock platforms my bike came with. Clipping in and out worked as expected(no problems).I never "unclipped" by accident and I always felt secure in these pedals. They worked great until the right pedal body separated from the pedal spindle 9 miles from home!(Only three months old and about 250 miles).I never heard of this kind of failure so I guess it was a manufacturing defect. I brought them back to my LBS and they were replaced on the spot. Thank you Danny's Cycles [...]
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Just got into riding and all of my buddies were hounding me because I was riding on standard platform pedals. Finally, got around to buying there pedals (trying to keep it cheep too) and they were a good buy.
Having no one teaching me how to use the clipless system it took me 5 minutes to learn where and how to clip in and I was off on a 12 miles ride. Got about 1.5 mph just from the pedals so it was worth the money and the one fall as I forgot to unclip both feet when ending my first ride.
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I generally go out for an early morning 20 mile fitness ride every Monday through Friday. I have found these pedals easy to learn and use. And when I have had to unclip quickly because of an unexpected road hazard, I have always been able to do so quickly and easily.
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I'd have to say that this was the perfect system to learn with. They are perfect for commuting when tied into shoes that have the recessed cleats so I can walk around relatively comfortably.
I'm looking foreward to getting a dedicated racer and outfitting them with clipless pedals of a higher grade. But for now these are perfect for my needs!
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As Warwick High graduate Michael Vick walked off the field after his first day of training camp with the Atlanta Falcons, teammate Doug Johnson dropped off some shoulder pads.
"A little gift for you to take," Johnson admonished.
"Oh, it's starting already," Vick said, rolling his eyes.
He may be the $62 million man and the savior of the franchise, but Vick is still a rookie. That means he has to carry a veteran's pads after practice, in addition to his own.
"I'm trying to keep myself humble," Vick said after Thursday's two-hour workout. "It's very important that I show people I'm no different than anyone else."
Of course, Vick is much different. Several hundred people showed up on a cloudy day at Furman University to watch his Falcons debut. The only jersey on sale at a concession stand above the practice field was No. 7 -- Vick's number.
Coach Dan Reeves is so eager to see what Vick can do that he's already bumped his prized rookie to No. 2 on the depth chart, behind veteran Chris Chandler. That's a significant development considering the Falcons also have Eric Zeier and Johnson, who both have started NFL games.
"We've got to get Michael ready as quick as we can," Reeves said. "The only way we're going to get him ready is to get him involved."
The coach also is looking into keeping three quarterbacks active for regular-season games, rather than designating a third QB just for emergency duty. Such a move would cost the Falcons use of a potentially valuable special teams player on an already tight 45-man roster.
"I'm checking with the league to make sure it's OK," Reeves said. "I've never done that before."
Vick looked a little shaky in his first practice, understandable for a 21-year-old quarterback who played only 22 games at Virginia Tech before entering the NFL draft. He overthrew passes, double-pumped while trying to pick up open receivers and let the play clock run out a couple of times before getting off the snap.
"I was a little rusty," Vick said. "But I'll get better and better every day. If I make a mistake one day, I shouldn't make the same mistake the next day.
The rookie didn't get a chance to show off his speed and elusiveness. First, he must learn Reeves' playbook, which is well-known for its convoluted terminology.
"He had good command in the huddle for a young guy," Reeves said. "He's working very hard at it. We're doing everything we possibly can to expose him to as much as we possibly can."
The coach did stamp out any speculation he plans to use Vick at other positions to get him on the field more often.


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DOTHAN, Ala. (Mar. 8, 2007) - The ETSU women's basketball team made sure they did not have a repeat performance from last year's A-Sun Tournament as they defeated Lipscomb, 83-69, on Thursday evening inside the Dothan Civic Center, moving them into the semifinals with Jacksonville on Friday night.
ETSU has now won five straight games and improved to 19-10 overall, while Lipscomb ended its season with seven consecutive losses, finishing at 8-23. The win marked the Lady Bucs' first conference tournament victory since upsetting Chattanooga in the 2005 SoCon tournament.
Four ETSU players finished in double figures as junior Jenny Norman (Peachtree City, Ga.) led the way with a career-high 19 points, on 8-of-10 shooting. Michele DeVault (Columbus, Ohio) netted 14, senior Brooke Wilhoit (Sevierville, Tenn.) chipped in 12, and Devin Thompson (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) added 11. The Lady Bucs are now 11-0 when scoring over 80 points this season.
The Lady Bucs came out focused to start the game as their suffocating defense forced Lipscomb to turn the ball over six times in the first four-plus minutes, giving ETSU an early 11-5 lead. Back-to-back threes by Dana Carrigan and Catie Woods cut the Lady Bucs' lead to 13-11; however, a 15-2 run quickly cooled off the Lady Bisons as ETSU extended its lead to 28-13. Another Woods three stopped the run, but an 8-0 run gave the Lady Bucs their largest lead of the game, 36-18, when Wilhoit drained a deep three at the 7:20 mark. ETSU never let its double digit lead go away as they took a 45-34 lead into the locker room.
Norman was perfect in the first half, going 5-of-5 from the field, including 3-for-3 from the free throw line and led all scorers with 13 points. As a team, the Lady Bucs were a blazing 61.3 percent (19-31) from floor, while Lipscomb was 46.4 percent (13-28). ETSU's defense forced 18 turnovers during the first 20 minutes, but three-point shooting kept the Lady Bisons in the game, as they were 6-of-12.
In the second half, Lipscomb cut the lead to single digits for the first time since the 12:35 mark in the first half, when Penny Jones hit a jumper with 19:09 left in the contest. ETSU quickly pushed the lead back to double figures as they posted a 9-2 run, giving them a 54-38 advantage with 16:50 remaining. The Lady Buc lead would remain above double figures for the next five minutes, until Lipscomb's Julie Martin sank a three, cutting the ETSU lead to, 62-53. Lipscomb would get to within eight points three times after, but ETSU would not let the sixth-seeded Lady Bisons get any closer.
Hot shooting led the Lady Bucs to victory as they shot 55.9 percent for the game, compared to only 40.7 for Lipscomb. ETSU dished out a season-best 22 assists and forced 25 turnovers on the night. In the five games against the Lady Bisons, the Lady Bucs have forced 141 total turnovers (28.2 per game).
Wilhoit moved into second all-time in the ETSU assist list when she found Siarre Evans (Griffin, Ga.) open for a lay-up at the 15:31 mark in the first half, and now has 429 career assists as a Lady Buc. Thompson tied her career-high with eight rebounds, while Norman set a new career-best with four assists.
Katie Woods tied her career high with her 22-point effort, she also accomplished the feat in the 57-52 win over ETSU back on Feb. 3.
The Lady Bucs will now face Jacksonville in the second semifinal game on Friday. Tip will be 30 minutes after the first game, which is slated for 7 EST p.m., between No. 1 seed Belmont and the winner of the four-five game between Gardner-Webb/Campbell.


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Makes one 900g (2lb) loaf
200g (7 oz) self-raising flour
3 large very ripe bananas
Grated zest of 1 lemon
75g (3 oz) dried ready to eat apricots, chopped
50g (2 oz) mixed dried fruit berries (blueberries, cranberries, golden sultanas)
25g (1 oz) glace cherries, chopped
2 large eggs
125g (4½ oz) caster sugar
100g (4 oz) butter, softened
You will need a 900g (2 lb) loaf tin, greased with a little butter and lined with baking parchment.
Preheat the oven to 170°C/fan oven 150°C/325°F/gas mark 3. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy in appearance. Add one egg at a time and beat into the mixture until fully combined. Add the dried fruit and lemon zest and fold through the mixture. Mash the bananas and fold through the mixture. Sift the flour into the mixture in the bowl and carefully fold in. Place all the mixture into the prepared tin and gently level the top with a spatula. Bake for about 1 hour in the preheated oven, but check after 50 minutes to see if it is ready. The banana bread is ready when a skewer inserted into the centre comes out completely clean. Leave in the banana bread in the tin to cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes before turning out to cool completely. When cold peel away the baking parchment. Keeps well stored in an airtight tin for up to 5 days.
Lastly, pour yourself a lovely hot cup of tea and cut a slice of fruity banana bread. Relax and enjoy the world go by whilst you take pleasure in your little slice of banana nirvana!


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Bottom line: If you've got a growing franchisor as a client, they need to know the benefits of a franchisee advisory board and how to put one together. It can help them grow smarter and faster, while increasing communication and giving more ownership in the brand to franchisees.
If a franchisor wants to streamline operations, grow business or simply improve communication with the operators in its system, then the restaurant should consider building a franchisee advisory board. Boards should include four to six franchisees and typically meet at least quarterly to provide a sounding board for the franchisor. If you think a franchisee advisory board could help your client's concept, pass along following pointers:
Wait until the concept is ready
Establishing an advisory board means the franchisor is going to hear lots of suggestions about potential changes large and small. If the operator has limited capacity for meetings—let alone instituting any improvements that come out of them—it may not be the right time to start a franchisee advisory board. "Don't rush to establish a board until you are ready to use the members' talent and listen to their input," says Michael Seid, a West Hartford, Connecticut-based franchise consultant.
Seek diversity
When selecting board members, franchisors should look for a range of experience. For example, recruit owners of single-restaurant franchises and those with multiple restaurants. Consider geographic diversity as well as both large and small markets. The operator may want to include one or two relatively new franchisees, but to get the most from a board, most members should be relatively experienced.
Prepare for tough questions
As the head honcho, the franchisee may be surrounded by people who agree with his every move. Don't expect that attitude from franchisees, who typically relish the opportunity to second-guess franchisor decisions. "Owners fall into the trap of honestly believing that they understand everything about unit economics or how a location works with consumers. Working with a good advisory board changes that paradigm," says Seid.
Respect the fact that board members have skin in the game
Whether your operator is introducing a new design or revamping the menu, expect franchisees to spot unexpected consequences and costs in a heartbeat. "Franchisees tend to be far more skeptical than corporate staff when it comes to ideas that put their money at risk for uncertain gains," says Jeff Elgin, CEO of FranChoice, which helps match potential buyers with franchise opportunities. "This is one of the best reasons to have an advisory board."
Keep it in perspective
Any advice gleaned from a franchise advisory board is just that: advice. It's not a vote or a command. "The reason I like advisory boards is that, at the end of the day, you don't have to listen to them," says Tim Bryant, a Maine-based attorney who specializes in franchising.


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EIG EUMETNET runs seven Programmes related to meteorological observations. Using a variety of different meteorological instruments it is possible to get reliable information on the state of the atmosphere. The EIG EUMETNET Programmes, together with the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, provide the relevant observations from Europe which are indispensable for missions such as numerical weather prediction.
Observations programme
The Observations Programme offers a framework for EUMETNET activities in the field of Observing Systems. The main objective of this Programme is to coordinate the activities of the integrated Operational Services and Projects (E-AMDAR, E-ASAP, E-GVAP, E-PROFILE, E-SURFMAR and OPERA). These services and projects themselves have the primary task of delivering observations in the atmosphere and near the earth 's surface, particularly at sea. Furthermore, the Observations Programme has to design and coordinte the evolution of the ground-based EUMETNET composite observing system (EUCOS) to be optimized on a European scale with a view to improving general weather forecasting (e.g numerical weather prediction and nowcasting) and climate monitoring over Europe without increasing to overall cost, in line with the EUMETNET strategy defined by the Assembly. The Programme Manager is Stefan Klink from DWD.
The two strategic goals for the EUMETNET Observations Programme are the following:
Goal 1 classifies the observational requirements at three different horizontal scales. Global and especially regional requirements have been studied and dealt with by EUMETNET since its establishment, but consideration of 'kilometric' (1km horizontal scale) requirements has started only recently in relation with the development of operational convection-resolving models, mainly for operational NWP. In the past, several numerical studies have been carried out on observation requirements of global and regional NWP, leaving now similar studies to be carried out to define observation requirements of kilometre-scale NWP.
Goal 2 stresses the importance of quality, quality control and quality management for two important meteorological application areas: NWP and Climate monitoring. The current situation is highly variable across the different observing systems. Some of them require many more developments and progress to be made in the field of homogeneity and quality to achieve this goal. This is particularly the case with observing systems, such as Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) networks which have been developed by several public or private actors outside the meteorological community and present a huge potential for meteorological applications, but have only recently begun to be used in operational NWP.
Radar activities, standardization of surface weather stations and the improvement of vertical profile measurements of the atmosphere are of highest importance for Members. Especially the latter item has several aspects: improvement of vertical resolution, improvement of horizontal coverage and a general investigation of new upper air observing capabilities.
Hence, the key priorities for the Programme are:
– To foster the OPERA developments in order to be able to produce quantitatively usable 2D radar products and to exchange single site 3D volume data (reflectivity, Doppler winds) by the end of the programme phase;
– To further expand the E-AMDAR Operational Service by trying to extend the horizontal coverage over the EUCOS area and by considering a further roll-out of humidity sensors on board E-AMDAR aircraft;
– To extend the remit of the former E-WINPROF, now E-PROFILE Operational Service with the aim to include Lidar/Ceilometer observations for the main purpose of volcanic ash monitoring and
– To improve the user consultation process with data users from the Climate and Forecasting Programmes and Members via the central Observation Programme and its Scientific Expert Team.
A few important milestones of the Observations Programme are:
– Finalization of a first set of data impact studies on all various ground-based observing systems.
– Full end-to-end provision of humidity observations from 9 aircraft for the humidity trial within the E-AMDAR Operational Service, to routinely monitor the new observing system from 2015 onwards, to consider a further roll-out of humidity sensors and eventually to re-design the entire EUCOS upper-air network.
– The finalisation of OPERA's development of an operational data centre will play an important role for the entire Observations Programme, because the availability of quality improved 2D composites and single site 3D volume data will allow the Observations Programme Management to initiate new data impact studies with the aim to assess the importance and impact of radar data on NWP on all modelling scales. Members will be in a position to better exploit Europe-wide radar data for modelling, general forecasting and precipitation monitoring purposes.
The general objective for the Observations Programme is to provide EUMETNET Members with observations from the integrated operational services and projects:
– E-AMDAR (aircraft based observations),
– E-ASAP (radiosoundings from merchant ships and some research vessels),
– E-GVAP (deriving humidity related observations from Global Navigation Satellite System networks),
– E-PROFILE (wind observations from weather radars and dedicated wind profilers and Lidar/Ceilometer observations),
– E-SURFMAR (surface marine observations from ships and buoys),
– OPERA (collection and processing of data from national weather radar networks).
Further objectives are:
– To design and coordinate the evolution of the integrated ground-based EUMETNET Composite Observing System (EUCOS) and
– To monitor and control EUCOS performance.
The current phase of the Programme started in January 2013 and will last until the end of 2018.
The Coordinating Member is Deutscher Wetterdienst. Programme Manager is Stefan Klink.


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By ADAM LAPIERRE
News staff writer
July 1, 2006
The Hood River Valley Aquatic Center has a variety of summer activities planned for its waters. From the Hood River Ospreys and the Hood River Masters swim team practices to kayak roll sessions, a kids' triathlon, open swimming and birthday parties, the pool will see plenty of use during the hot summer months.
Of course, there is nothing new about that; the pool has been a cooling-off hot spot since it was constructed in 1948.
What is new, however, is pool users will soon be sunbathing and swimming in waters heated by what will be the largest solar hot water array in the Northwest. The existing natural gas heating system will, once the project is completed in a couple of weeks, be the secondary heating source for the pool from about March to September each year. When the sun is out this summer, the 281,000 gallon pool will be heated to its 83-degree temperature entirely by solar energy.
"The system should pay for itself in about 10 years," said Hood River Valley Parks and Recreation Assistant Director Scott Baker. "This project is a perfect example of a win-win situation. It is very environmentally friendly and it makes great economic sense. I think it's important for public agencies to do projects like this so people can see positive alternatives in action. Hopefully this project will be an inspiration to others and solar energy will spread to the rooftops of Hood River."
The system is simple. Each of the four solar panels consists of about a mile of black plastic tubing. The panels will be connected to each other and a new pump system will push the pool water through the tubes. The system will circulate the entire volume of the pool through the panels in about six hours. From March through September the natural gas boiler will be used only as a secondary source. The panels will then be drained and flushed clean before the first freeze of the fall.
The price tag for the panels, the pump, piping, a new control panel, a new high-efficiency boiler and installation is about $273,000. The successful bidder for the project was a company called Enertia Energy, Inc. Hood River Valley Parks and Recreation District received about $90,000 in grants and tax credits, leaving the remaining balance to be paid by the district. With a 23 percent increase in natural gas prices this year alone, the long-term benefits of the project are clear. The lifespan of the plastic tubing in the panels is 20-plus years, which means after the first 10 years of paying for itself, the system will save the HRVPRD at least $273,000.
"The payback for solar heating is so fast," Baker said. "We also want this to be an educational tool for students and the public. I hope people will see the system and realize it's an incredibly simple and feasible alternative for use in homes. It's so simple, in fact, it's almost ludicrous that they aren't on every rooftop in the U.S."
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From the people who brought you Hamlet the Vampire Slayer (no, really) comes Romeo & Juliet vs. The Living Dead. On Friday, March 13, Guild Cinema will host the premiere screening of this locally shot horror comedy. The film is directed by Ryan Denmark and stars Hannah Kauffmann, Jason Witter, Mark Chavez, Kate Schroeder, Kevin R. Elder and a whole host of familiar Albuquerque actors. Screenings will be at 7 and 9 p.m. and are absolutely free. Seating is limited, though. If you haven't already sent your RSVP, you might be SOL. Give it a shot, though, by sending a request for tickets to email@example.com. If you can't get in, you can at least scope out the trailer by logging on to thirdstarfilms.com. Congratulations, by the way, to all involved for another successfully completed local indie feature!
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Who watches the watchmen? We do!
In the years since its publication (1986 to be exact), writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons' groundbreaking graphic novel Watchmen has become something of a holy writ of illustrated lit. Referred to as The Catcher in the Rye of comic books, Watchmen has become a necessary right of passage for anyone who claims to love the superhero genre and arguably the most important point of reference (Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns being the other contender) among nerdy intelligentsia. So it is with both crushing trepidation and manic anticipation that fans have awaited director Zack Snyder's filmic adaptation.
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Not a fan? These are not the droids you're looking for.
Arriving a full three years after it was shot here in New Mexico and with all the attendant timeliness of a Jennifer Wilbanks joke (oh, how quickly we forget), Fanboys finally stumbles into Albuquerque theaters. Aimed squarely at the titular demographic, the film is a genial love letter to Star Wars geekdom disguised as a mildly raunchy road movie.
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"Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" on NBC
The late-night airwaves are going through a major sea change, at least on NBC. After a run of nearly 17 years on "The Tonight Show," Jay Leno is making a rather surprising move, bringing his mainstream-America style of chat show to NBC's prime time lineup five nights a week. That means that Conan O'Brien is getting bumped up a slot, abandoning "Late Night" and taking over Leno's old gig as host of "The Tonight Show." (That's scheduled to take place later this summer.) Of course, that historic changing of the guard leaves a power vacuum back on David Letterman's former "Late Night" haunt. As a result, NBC executives have reached into their network talent pool and plucked Jimmy Fallon from "Saturday Night Live" (a gig he gave up in 2006). Fallon debuted on "Late Night" last week to generally solid numbers (his first show beat time slot rival Craig Ferguson by 35 percent) and kind (if not exactly glowing) reviews.


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March 5, 2010
A quick fix leather bracelet
I mentioned it yesterday, that I actually had time for two crafts while the girls were playing. So, here's number two - a quick fix leather bracelet. And while I was at it I wrote down some instructions for this quick fix.
Leather and leather jewelry seem to be everywhere lately, but that's not where I got my inspiration exclusively. While I was going through my reader, I came across these absolutely gorgeous booties (with free pattern - found through CraftGossip). Too bad my girls are too big for these now. The part I like best about these booties is the strap with button. They remind me of the strap and button on my wedding shoes... Well and the rest you can see here...
You'll need:
- a piece of leather; mine measured 22 by 3cm, for a loose fit. Measure your wrist and adjust accordingly, taking into account whether you prefer a loose or tight fit as well.
- a button
- scissors or a rotary cutter (I should get me one of those...)
- (heavy duty) thread
- a leather sewing needle
- pen and ruler
Use the template below. Mark the cutting lines on the back with a pen. I made three incisions length wise, 0.5cm apart, and about 17cm long. And one small vertical incision, the size of the button, for the button hole. To make sure the button passes, rather than making the button hole longer (and hence too long to hold the button still), cut a small "v" at each end of the incision.
Sew on the button.
To get the twisted look, pull one end of the bracelet through the incisions a couple of times, while holding on to the other end. There's no order or limit in doing so, just play around with it until you get a nice twist and are satisfied with the way it looks...
I'm definitely satisfied with how mine looks, and I can totally picture myself wearing this bracelet with a simple white outfit, a nice leather belt, cute strapped sandals, on a bright sunny day...
Oh, why can't spring just begin and then summer would be next...
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leuke "craft" en vooral zéér mooie foto's, allemaal zijn ze mooi gebracht, en een plus punt voor de foto met uitleg hoe dit " hebbedingetje " te maken!!
- March 7, 2010 at 10:28 AM
- Baa-Me Kniits said...
Pascale that leather bracelet is divine! It would go perfectly with the chocolate brown dress I am just finishing. I need to find a little leather shop like yours, not much chance of that in the country where I live....Pity, it looks like lots of fun to work with. Jenni :-)
- March 7, 2010 at 12:37 PM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
That is so, so pretty! I just love it. How perfect for the tanks and jeans I live in all spring. Thanks so much for this! I'll be making one (or five) and linking as well.
- March 8, 2010 at 8:11 PM
- Pascale said...
Thanks, Rachel, for linking and good luck with the bracelets!
- March 8, 2010 at 9:00 PM
- valerie said...
linked to ya
- March 12, 2010 at 5:23 PM
- doro K. said...
i love this idea.
i used your tutorial as an inspiration and made a bracelet myself.
thanks a lot.
- May 21, 2010 at 11:03 PM
- vintage jewelry said...
I loved your idea of making bracelet your self. Your tutorial are very good. I used it for making my bracelet. Thanks for post.
- October 29, 2010 at 1:47 PM
- HJC Editor said...
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- January 22, 2011 at 8:48 AM
Leather lasts for a very long time, which is why it is an awesome fashion accessory for kids and adults alike. As a lover for arm accessories, I always wear beads, chains, rope, leather, studs, and the like on my wrists. Also, last week I buy silicone wristbands which is a fine addition to my collection.
- January 26, 2011 at 5:08 AM
- girls jewelry boxes said...
I like the leather bracelet :) a unisex bracelet, 'can be worn by anybody. I love it. I'll make one of this for myself follow your instruction here, thanks.
- March 28, 2011 at 10:52 AM
- Ooverhaul said...
Check out our DIY belt bracelets made from your old belts!—http://operationoverhaul.com/2011/09/belt-bracelets-tutorial/
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- February 13, 2012 at 11:09 AM
- AUjewel said...
I LOVE this. The genius is in it's simplicity! Thank you!
- September 24, 2013 at 1:33 AM
- Hema Sharma said...
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3/23/2014 | Van Meter State Park | Miami, MO
Tom Hartline, president of the Sedalia-West Central Chapter of the Missouri. Archaeological Society, will discuss the bannerstone and the theories of how it was used with the atlatl, a hunting tool that was used for thousands of years before the bow and arrow. Hartline will be available after the lecture to identify artifacts for those attending. Click here to read the news release.
Event time: 2 p.m.
Associated activities
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