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Patti Warashina at Bainbridge Arts & Crafts
Before Bainbridge Island had a bridge to the Kitsap peninsula, it established its first non-profit arts organization. Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, as it came to be called, is still going strong. This mainstay of the island's arts scene celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, and it greets the milestone with a real splash: a showing of artwork by visionary ceramic sculptor Patti Warashina.
The term "visionary" gets tossed around casually, but surely it applies to Warashina: in 2020 she received the Smithsonian's Visionary Artist award. The occasion honored the Seattle artist for her five decades of ground-breaking work in ceramics, and for being "a defining figure in the West Coast Funk Art movement."
Warashina's influences include Rene Margritte, Hieronymous Bosch, and Louise Nevelson; she credits "the era of the Beatles" as another influence. What do those artists have in common and share with Warashina? The pursuit of a personal and often dream-like expression that frequently critiqued the broader culture or ignored its strictures entirely.
As a Japanese-American raised in Spokane during WWII, and as a single mother navigating the male- minated art world in the 1960s and '70s, Warashina saw much to resent and to resist. Yet a humorous, whimsical, absurdist take on reality characterizes her work. It is as if she takes too much delight in clay and paint to strike an overtly angry tone in the work itself. This dynamic shifted after the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the rise of hateful bigotry in its wake. Warashina's outrage is undisguised in polemical pieces like "Democracy on the Run."
Now in her eighties, the Seattle artist remains productive, engaged, and relevant. Consider her "Gossipmongers" tableau: figures in a circle gossip via tin-can telephones (you know, where the cans are connected by a piece of string). But at the figure's feet those same cans have been elongated to become sticks of dynamite, each with its string snipped short to form a fuse. Warashina is telling us about social media without telling us about social media.
In addition to tableaux, BAC has plenty of smaller ceramic pieces on display: tiny birds, a fantastical cat or two, painted plates, and cups that overflow with ridiculousness and obscure purpose. Two-dimensional works — lithographic prints and drypoint monoprints — round out the show.
With an internationally-renowned artistin the house, Bainbridge Arts & Crafts is stepping it up in its 75th year rather than resting on past laurels. Come out to celebrate, and learn more about Bainbridge Arts & Crafts's rich history and its plans for a bright future.
Tom McDonald is a writer and musician living on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Patti Warashina's art is on view at Bainbridge Arts & Crafts, located at 151 Winslow Way East on Bainbridge Island, Washington, Monday through Saturday from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. and Sunday from 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. For information, visit www.bacart.org.

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Ever wanted to grow grass in your cubicle? I did. But the grass kept dying. So I made a custom grow light out of LEDs, and now I have the nicest lawn on my block. Build photos, schematic, sourcecode, etc. are on the project page.
OMG I want one!!!! It really works!!!
You don't need a green led for plant growing.
Green light doesn't participate in photosynthesis.
The green LEDs give the light a more natural color. Before building my own light, I tried a commercial LED grow light which was mostly red with a little bit of blue. It worked very well, but the grass looked terrible.
At one point I considered adding a feature that shuts down the green and blue channels at night to save energy. But now that it's all built and the grass is growing, I'll probably never get around to adding it.
I'm wondering now what would happen if you put the leds just above the dirt, pointing up. Gravity vs. phototropism: FIGHT!
Wow….. the LED umbrella is really looking just awesome. And this one is really the great invention for the mankind. Because of this one really cuts our light bills. And the LED lights have really the longer life span. And this one is really the incredible thing for the indoor gardening. It's really looking fabulous. Thanks for sharing some authentic thing.


Getting shot didn�t hurt as badly as I imagined it would. In fact, on Tuesday morning I was taken hostage, shot at and blasted by a bomb.
Thankfully, it was all a part of an active shooter exercise planned by the Ocean City-Wright Fire Department, and my wounds were made from putty.
One of the perks of being a reporter is getting to do things that are out of the norm, like be a victim in a training exercise.
As soon as I got to the Okaloosa County Courthouse Annex in Shalimar, I stood in line to see what my wound would be. I hoped I would get something cool rather than a psychological problem.
One woman was assigned hysteria, a man in front of me had a gunshot wound to the head and two others ended up with black powder on their faces.
Clinchy put a glob of putty on the front of my leg and used a tool to create a hole where the bullet entered. After that, he dabbed on some sticky red liquid, and there was my gunshot wound.
Once my injury was complete, I walked to the room where the shooter would take me hostage. As I waited for the masked man to enter, alarms went off, smoke permeated the building and the sounds of yelling and shooting could be heard.
It was off-putting, to say the least.
The shooter came in, guns blazing, and ordered me to get up from my seat and lie on the floor. Soon, several deputies had been shot and the three hostages were told to form a barricade for the shooter.
As soon as the first hostage was shot, the shooter detonated a bomb and the SWAT team came in ready to take fire. I was dragged out of the room and carried outside.
While sitting on the curb trying to figure out how someone who just had been shot through their leg would act, firefighters approached me and asked what was wrong.
I was placed on a backboard and carried off for further evaluation a little away from the shooting and smoke.
I was hooked up to an IV, my leg was treated and I was decontaminated all while lying on the board. The hardest part for me was being buckled in and unable to look up at everything going around me, (although I continued to take notes).
I pray that this county will never have to deal with the situation simulated Tuesday morning, but if it does I�m happy to know that our emergency responders are prepared and willing to risk it all to save those in need.


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Q: segfault in a C garbage collector I'm building a simple garbage collector in C, with a void pointer linked list that collects the malloced pointers and frees them all at the end.
#include "linked_list.h"

#define MAKE_GC(NAME) \
MAKE_LIST(NAME); \
static void _throw_away_##NAME() { \
    ITERATOR(NAME) = &NAME; \
    do { \
        free(ITERATOR(NAME)->elem); \
    } while ((ITERATOR(NAME) = ITERATOR(NAME)->next) != NULL); \
    DESTROY_LIST(NAME); \
}

#define GC_ALLOC(TYPE, TARGET, LEN, GC_NAME) \
do { \
    TARGET = (TYPE *)malloc(LEN * sizeof(TYPE)); \
    PUSH(TYPE *, TARGET, GC_NAME); \
} while (0)

#define GC_FREE(NAME) _throw_away_##NAME()

The above is the garbage collector, and below is linked_list.h
struct linked_list {
    void *elem;
    struct linked_list *next;
};

#define ITERATOR(LIST_NAME) _iter_##LIST_NAME

#define MAKE_LIST(NAME) \
struct linked_list NAME = { NULL, NULL }; \
struct linked_list *ITERATOR(NAME) = &NAME

#define PUSH(TYPE, X, LIST) \
do { \
    ITERATOR(LIST) = ITERATOR(LIST)->next = (struct linked_list *)malloc(sizeof(struct linked_list)); \
    *(TYPE *)ITERATOR(LIST)->elem = X; \
    ITERATOR(LIST)->next = NULL; \
} while (0)

#define DESTROY_LIST(LIST) \
do { \
    struct linked_list *l; \
    ITERATOR(LIST) = &LIST; \
    do { \
        l = ITERATOR(LIST)->next; \
        free(ITERATOR(LIST)); \
    } while ((ITERATOR(LIST) = l) != NULL); \
} while (0)

When I test this code with the following,
#include <stdio.h>
#include "garbage_collector.h"

MAKE_GC(char_gc);

int main() {
    char *str;
    int i;

    GC_ALLOC(char, str, 11, char_gc);
    for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
        putchar(str[i] = i + '0');
    }
    str[i] = '\0';
    putchar('\n');
    puts(str);

    GC_FREE(char_gc);
    return 0;
}

It runs as expected, although the debuggers (gdb and Visual Studio debugger) keep on throwing segfaults in GC_ALLOC. It's a really short piece of code, and I'm quite annoyed that I still have no clue where it goes wrong.
I want to be sure where my program is broken and fix it before implementing elsewhere. Thanks in advance for any help.

A: In your PUSH macro, I don't think this line is correct:
*(TYPE *)ITERATOR(LIST)->elem = X; \

I think you want something like this:
ITERATOR(LIST)->elem = (void *)X; \

In your code, I get a seg fault here:
GC_ALLOC(char, str, 11, char_gc);

and it's due to the fact that GC_ALLOC does a PUSH, passing str as X.  Once str has been properly allocated by the previous line, you want to assign the pointer to elem, but your code attempts to dereference elem, and then assign the pointer to that dereferenced item.  dereferencing elem is illegal at that point, and seg faults, because it has not been allocated (and should not be at that point).
After that, you have a problem at the final GC_FREE in your code, because it eventually tries to free an unallocated pointer.  When GC_FREE attempts to DESTROY_LIST(gc_Char), it starts with the first item in the list.  But this item was not allocated via malloc (take a look at MAKE_LIST), so it cannot be free'd using free.  So we have to skip past this first item in the list when we want to DESTROY_LIST.  The following code has these items fixed and seems to work correctly for your test case:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

struct linked_list {
    void *elem;
    struct linked_list *next;
};

#define ITERATOR(LIST_NAME) _iter_##LIST_NAME

#define MAKE_LIST(NAME) \
struct linked_list NAME = { NULL, NULL }; \
struct linked_list *ITERATOR(NAME) = &NAME

#define PUSH(TYPE, X, LIST) \
do { \
    ITERATOR(LIST) = ITERATOR(LIST)->next = (struct linked_list *)malloc(sizeof(struct linked_list)); \
    ITERATOR(LIST)->elem = (void *)X; \
    ITERATOR(LIST)->next = NULL; \
} while (0)

#define DESTROY_LIST(LIST) \
do { \
    struct linked_list *l; \
    ITERATOR(LIST) = &LIST; \
    l = ITERATOR(LIST)->next; \
    while ((ITERATOR(LIST) = l) != NULL) { \
        l = ITERATOR(LIST)->next; \
        free(ITERATOR(LIST)); \
    }  \
} while (0)

#define MAKE_GC(TYPE, NAME) \
MAKE_LIST(NAME); \
static void _throw_away_##NAME() { \
    ITERATOR(NAME) = &NAME; \
    do { \
        free(ITERATOR(NAME)->elem); \
    } while ((ITERATOR(NAME) = ITERATOR(NAME)->next) != NULL); \
    DESTROY_LIST(NAME); \
}

#define GC_ALLOC(TYPE, TARGET, LEN, GC_NAME) \
do { \
    TARGET = (TYPE *)malloc(LEN * sizeof(TYPE)); \
    PUSH(TYPE *, TARGET, GC_NAME); \
} while (0)

#define GC_FREE(NAME) _throw_away_##NAME()

MAKE_GC(char, char_gc);

int main() {
    char *str;
    int i;
    GC_ALLOC(char, str, 11, char_gc);
    for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
        putchar(str[i] = i + '0');
    }
    str[i] = '\0';
    putchar('\n');
    puts(str);
    GC_FREE(char_gc);
    return 0;
}

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Q: setSelected in QTreeWidget I have a project where I need to change the selection of a tree widget in code. This needs to be done after I clear out the tree and populate it again.
I'm trying to mark the appropriate item as "selected" while I'm adding them. This works for root level nodes. But for child nodes, it doesn't. I need to store the QTreeWidgetItem in another variable and mark it as selected after the tree has been completely populated. Why does this happen?
This does not work:
def refreshTree(self):
    treeObj.clear()
    for item in items:
        temp = QTreeWidgetItem(0)
        for key, val in item.subitems().items():
            childTemp = QTreeWidgetItem(0)
            ...setup text, font, etc...

            if(condition1):
                childTemp.setSelected(True)
            temp.addChild(childTemp)

        if(!condition1 and condition2):
            temp.setSelected(True)

        treeObj.addToplevelItem(temp)

This does:
def refreshTree(self):
    treeObj.clear()
    for item in items:
        temp = QTreeWidgetItem(0)
        for key, val in item.subitems().items():
            childTemp = QTreeWidgetItem(0)
            ...setup text, font, etc...

            if(condition1):
                selTemp = childTemp
            temp.addChild(childTemp)

        if(!condition1 and condition2):
            temp.setSelected(True)
        elif(selTemp):
            selTemp.setSelected(True)
        treeObj.addToplevelItem(temp)

A: It is not specified in the documentation, but setSelected does nothing if the item hasn't been added to a view yet:
inline void QTreeWidgetItem::setSelected(bool aselect)
{ if (view) view->setItemSelected(this, aselect); }

So, you should either

*

*pass treeObj or temp in the constructor of your QTreeWidgetItem to make them part of the view from the start

*or call addChild/addTopLevelItem before calling setSelected (or other functions like  setExpanded...).

I don't know why your second code was even working.


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OFF-WORLD NEWS DIGEST | VOL. IV, No. 3
In regards to the Blade Runner sequel, as most of us already know, Harrison Ford and Ridley Scott have buried the hatchet, Scott, along with Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, have written the story, and the script is now completed -- "It's written and it's damn good," Scott says. In late November (2014), Ridley Scott decided that he wouldn't direct the sequel. At the same time, Harrison Ford signs on to the sequel, reprising his role as Rick Deckard. Then, a week later, Ridley Scott revealed that he might still direct the sequel despite recently ruling himself out of the gig. Additionally, Ridley Scott said that Harrison Ford said that the Blade Runner 2 script is the best thing he's ever read. As more is revealed, we'll pass the information along.
BAFTA honored 'Alien,' 'Blade Runner' Editor Terry Rawlings this month (December 2014).
Debbie Harry regrets turning down a role in Sir Ridley Scott's 1982 blockbuster Blade Runner. The Blondie star was the first choice to play rebellious humanoid Pris in the sci-fi classic, but she was forced to give up the part following pressure from her record label, who wanted her to focus on a solo music career. Daryl Hannah eventually landed the part, and Harry admits she's lamented the decision ever since. She tells Britain's Event magazine, "My record company didn't want me to take time out to do a movie. I shouldn't have listened to them."
Now for some articles, art, music, videos, a podcast, and some miscellaneous !
Replicants, Unite! by Barry Evans
Book vs Film: 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' vs 'Blade Runner' by Cath Murphy
Book Review – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Part I, the Simulated-Real Dichotomy by Erin Perry
Review – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Part II, the Human / Inhuman Dichotomy by Erin Perry
Review – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Part III, Mercerism by Erin Perry
Japanese androids take us closer to 'Blade Runner' future
The Paintings That Inspired The Movies -- How art classics informed film
15 Essential Director's Cuts That Cast the Originals in a New Light
Never-Before-Seen Alternate Movie Posters for E.T., Jurassic Park, The Goonies, etc.
8 ADAPTATIONS THAT MASSIVELY DEVIATE FROM THE BOOKS
Have You Ever Wondered How Replicants Are Made in Blade Runner? by Annalee Newitz
Economic study suggests we're heading for a Blade Runner future by Annalee Newitz
Interiors and Blade Runner, by Mehruss Jon Ahi and Armen Karaoghlanian
It's all in the details: these miniatures changed movies -- An ode to the golden days of special effects, from 'Batman' to 'The Fifth Element' by Thomas Houston
PHILIP K. DICK ON SEX BETWEEN HUMANS AND ANDROIDS by Paul Gallagher
17 Older Special Effects That Still Look Amazing by Kevin P. Sullivan
Ridley's Key: The Forgotten Influence of Joseph Losey in Blade Runner by Vincent Joseph Noto
12 "Futuristic" Worlds Where Everybody Uses Obsolete Technology by Diana Biller
Even more signs that fan fiction is driving our industry by Drew McWeeny
Raid71's Blade Runner Inspired "Don't Walk" Print Release Information
Video with brief article: Adam Savage Talks About His Obsession With Recreating Movie Props by Kyle Vanhemert
A video essay from #tic104's Steven Hartzell about AI with clips from Blade Runner, and more.
tic Future Artificial Intelligence from Steven Hartzell on Vimeo.
android dreams from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo.
WHAT IS NOIR? w/ Peter Labuza from The Critical Press on Vimeo.
QCine-Radio Nova-Prog 238-BLADE RUNNER Y SONRISAS Y LÁGRIMAS PARTE I
El Rey Network Gives Viewers a Chance to Experience Ridley Scott's Masterpiece "Blade Runner" in Spanish. Accompanied by Custom Language Tutorials
SOASTA Survey: 73% of Americans Have Never Heard of Internet of Things When Americans were asked which SciFi story most accurately reflects the promise of the next wave of technology.
The Blade Runner Blaster Replica You've Always Wanted by GEEK GIRL DIVA
Book-> The Art of John Alvin by Andrea Alvin
What if 'Blade Runner' Starred Bogart? Check Out These Great Imaginary Movie Posters
Book-> Postmodern Metanarratives: Blade Runner and Literature in the Age of Image by Décio Torres Cruz
A scientist's favourite film? 2001: A Space Odyssey: Poll reveals academics' favourite sci-fi movies of all time
Vuelve a escuchar 'Blade Runner', la última ficción sonora de RNE, con Antonio de la Torre -- Listen and download the mastered version of the new sonic fiction RNE, Blade Runner. The radio adaptation has been produced by Alfonso Latorre under the direction of Benigno Moreno, and performed by Mayca Aguilera and Miguel Angel Coleto. Download by clicking HERE.
Quiz-> Which Classic 80s Flick Should You Be In?
Blade Runner's Police Spinner gets an Adorable makeover for the Japanese release of the Final Cut.
"Do you like our owl?"
via Sean Young's Facebook page
As we welcome the new year, we embark on our 19th year as a newsletter -- keeping you up to date on all things Blade Runner.
Happy New Year, and always remember, "Have a better one!"
~ Kipple
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The Mystery Of Blade Runner
by Mark Kermode
Blade Runner - The Final Cut is about to get a big screen release by the BFI. Why does this movie continue to fascinate and intrigue audiences?
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In July's edition (301) of Empire Magazine, be sure to catch Geoff Hutchins' collection of Blade Runner products, original props and one-off memorabilia for the film. He wrote in the Propsummit Blade Runner Community Forum, "It was a shame that not all the screen used items were available, as they were requested by the Düsseldorf Movie Museum to be part of their Blade Runner / Metropolis exhibition that runs until August this year. They have got the Tyrell miniature office, elevator, VK manual, brass etchings and ground view cityscape as well as scripts, storyboards and dyelines."
I've been asked what ever happened to the BRMovie website. It had been offline. So I asked around and even posted the question at the alt.fan.blade-runner Facebook page. But no one had the answer. I only found out recently that he had died this last February. Known as Netrunner, (and BRMovie at BladeZone's Off-world Forums where he'd stop in from time to time), he left a fantastic website behind. And he will be missed. However, the Internet Archives' Wayback Machine has archived BRMovie. It may be viewed HERE.
by Philip K. Dick
Episode 1 of 2
BBC Radio 4 has produced a radio program featuring James Purefoy as the voice of Rick Deckard and Jessica Raine as the voice of Rachael Rosen.
AVAILABILITY:7 DAYS LEFT TO LISTEN
First broadcast: Sunday 15 June 2014
Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway
Philip K. Dick's cult sci-fi novel inspired the film Blade Runner. Set in a world devastated by nuclear war, a San Francisco bounty hunter is on a mission to retire a group of rogue androids. James Purefoy and Jessica Raine star in this new adaptation.
In post-war 1992 androids are becoming indistinguishable from human beings, even in their capacity to love, and bounty hunter Rick Deckard is tasked with locating and retiring a rogue group of escaped androids who have fled a life of slavery and returned to Earth.
Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.
You may listen to the first episode HERE for the next seven days.
My brief take on this episode is as follows. It is an interesting amalgamation of the book and movie Blade Runner. It's narrated like a hard-boiled detective story. Some of the lines just as corny and bad as the ones with the voice-over in the theatrical release. However, it makes some interesting modifications to the story, such as the Rosen Association only having a manufacturing license to sell androids on Mars only. The names remain the same as in the book. However, the program follows more closely to the movie. Iran Deckard, Rick Deckard's wife featured in the book, is not in this production. She has, like in the movie, run off to Mars with another man. And rather than Deckard being interested in an ostrich to replace his electric sheep, he is interested in purchasing a monkey. Don't know where that came from. And Christmas is mentioned a few times. There is no mention of the holiday in either the book or the movie. There is no mention of Mercerism. And there is no Buster Friendly. And J.R, Isadore has been reduced to having a cameo working, not at an artificial animal hospital, but at a garbage facility. And rather than Luba Luft being an opera singer, here she is a jazz singer. The hovercar, in the movie referred to as a Spinner, is called a prowler. But, with those changes (and others not covered here) aside, I still found it an entertaining listen. I'd recommend it to my fellow Blade Runner and DADoES enthusiasts. Stay tuned for the second half of the production next week, June 22, 2014.
Now for some articles, art, music, video, and some miscellaneous !
lluminati Symbolism In Blade Runner, What Does It All Mean? by Richard Thomas
Meditation on Blade Runner by Michael Martin (To be revised in July http://www.academia.edu/6990666/Meditations_on_Blade_Runner_revised )
A Comparative Essay for Leaving Certificate Curriculum
Blade Runner: Comprehensive Storyform
Blade Runner 3/4 by Bob Heatly
Blade Runner by Matt Ferguson
by James W. Cain
Blade Runner Cocktail
Blade Runner Love Theme Chords from Chordify
Have a better one!
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Harrison Ford Officially Offered 'Blade Runner' Sequel
Alcon Entertainment has made an official offer to Harrison Ford, asking him to reprise his role as Deckard in the new Blade Runner movie. "We believe that Hampton Fancher and Michael Green have crafted with Ridley Scott an extraordinary sequel to one of the greatest films of all time. We would be honored, and we are hopeful, that Harrison will be part of our project." -Alcon co-founders and co-CEO's Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson.
Back in April (2014), during a Reddit AMA, Harrison Ford said he would like to work with Ridley Scott again on a future Blade Runner movie. "I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for Blade Runner if in fact the opportunity would exist to do another, if it's a good script I would be very anxious to work with Ridley Scott again, he's a very talented and passionate filmmaker. And I think it would be very interesting to revisit the character."
Not much else is known about the project apart from the involvement of screenwriters Hampton Fancher (co-writer of the 1982 adaptation) and Michael Green and that the story will take place several decades after the conclusion of the 1982 original. Read the entire article HERE.
Moments Lost: A Blade Runner Tribute
In an article posted at Gizmodo, its title says that This Blade Runner Art Show Will Hold You Over Until the Sequel. On display starting at 7PM on May 31st at the Bottleneck Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Moments Lost will feature a brand new, beautifully composed extension to the classic Blade Runner soundtrack accompanied by a selection of art work. Read the full article HERE.
Philosophy and Blade Runner
by Timothy Shanahan
Philosophy and Blade Runner is the first book to explore a full range of philosophical issues in the classic science fiction film Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott. Through critical examination of the film's distinctive treatment of perennial philosophical issues including human nature, personhood, identity, consciousness, free will, morality, God, death, time, and the meaning of life, the distinctive philosophy of Blade Runner is explored and assessed. The result is an engaging philosophical exploration of the greatest science fiction film of all time and a unique contribution to the philosophy of film that invites readers to ponder questions of universal human significance: Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got?
Timothy Shanahan is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, USA. He is the author of Reason and Insight (2003), The Evolution of Darwinism (2004), Philosophy 9/11 (2005), The Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Morality of Terrorism (2009), and over two dozen articles in scholarly journals.
When I asked the author what it was that made him write this book, he replied, "What made me want to devote 4 1/2 years of my life to writing this book? I guess the short answer is that I was simply blown away by this movie in a way in which I've never been affected by another movie (with the possible exception of Enter the Dragon, but that was when I was a youth). I was struck by the fact that the film was so incredibly philosophically rich, and while folks seemed to recognize that it is "a philosophical movie" in some vague sense, I felt that there was far more to it than anyone had really identified and explained. So I set about mining some of the film's philosophical riches. Writing the book became a vehicle for me to figure out for myself and then to share with others what I think I saw in the film. I'm glad that I did it."
You can purchase the book at Amazon or directly from the publisher, Palgrave Macmillan.
Now for some articles, art, music, and videos!
Can you train your brain to be KIND? Blade Runner-style 'empathy workout' could make you more altruistic?
DYSTOPIAN LEGO CYBERPUNK CITY IS STRAIGHT OUT OF 'BLADE RUNNER'
Specs & The City: Death Scenes and 'Blade Runner' By: Brad Johnson
Blade Runner: Identity, Memory, Influences
Will a 'Blade Runner' sequel ruin the original? By Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
Everything I Know About Storytelling I Learned From Blade Runner By Tim Napper
Fascinating: Pioneer VFX Artist Douglas Trumbull's Masterclass (2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner)
NRH's Final Analysis: Blade Runner (Movie Review) By Nathan Hardisty
"Race, Space and Class: The Politics of the SF Film from Metropolis to Blade Runner" By David Desser
"Picturing the human (body and soul): A reading of Blade Runner" By Stephen Mulhall
Source: http://www.liveforfilms.com/2014/05/28/cool-art-blade-runner-2/
BLADE RUNNER GRAPHIC MOVIE POSTER BY ALAIN BOSSUYT
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Watch This Beautiful Tribute To "Blade Runner" With A Musical Score By Sigur Rós
Blade Runner and the Memories of Gaff
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The Recreation Advisory Commission is a nine-member body appointed by the mayor to review the current inventory of city parks, and assess their conditions and programming. They're tasked with producing short and long-range plans to promote parks and park programs, and to recommend a comprehensive fee schedule and phased Capital Plan.
The commission meets the third Thursday of each month at 5:30 in Room 209 of City Hall.


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Kroma Kolna Bruoliste (LV)
Kroma Kolna is an association of historical activists and reconstructors working with the popularization and imitation of the events and the cultural environment of Latgale's ancient history, mainly the 9th-13th century AD, before the arrival of Christianity. Latgale is the easternmost region of Latvia, north of the Daugava River. Kroma Kolns' members study Latgale's ancient history and culture, organise living history events and demonstrations. They also produce jewellery and gadgets, fighting equipment and tools for everyday life of the Latgalians of that time. There are about 30 members from different regions of Latgale operating in the batch of Kroma Kolna.
Under the leadership of Aleksandra Lubāna, the Kroma Kolna bruoliste has begun work on the reconstruction of the Latgalian tribal wooden castle in Puši Zundas on the Prince Mountain in the Dagda district. It is the place where bruolsters meet at least once a month to share current information, both in terms of historical research and the activities that are being implemented and planned. Kroma Kolna is ranked among 45 Latvian tourism pearls and is included in the list of 99 private museums and collections.
Each year, on the penultimate weekend of August, The annual Croma Column Party takes place, when all members, supporters and people of the community meet. During the festivities, the most active members of the society are honoured. Following special tests, new members are included in the association people.
Kroma kolna bruoliste collaborates with partners such as:
The Ludza Craft Center , whose mission is to promote the preservation of the ancient Latgalian traditions of crafts and crafts, to raise its prestige in society and to offer local people and tourists to get to know the Latgalian way of life through crafts and artists' works;
The Association "Malny Vylki" (Aivars Uspelis, Vēsma Ušpele), which actualizes the process of creating traditional Latgale black ceramic works - from turning with a downward lathe to firing it in the technique of reverence. Aivars Ušpelis uses the knowledge of the ancestors in the making of black ceramic dishes. Vēsma Ušpele is a ceramist artist and artist;
Local locksmiths, blacksmiths and other craftspeople as well as local folklore groups, the Dagda district municipality and other local institutions.
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Pušas Zundi, Andrupenes pagasts,
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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Scott Chacon on Git and GitHub
Scott Chacon on Git and GitHub
Scott Chacon is a Git evangelist and Ruby developer working at GitHub. He is the author of the Pro Git book by Apress, the Git Internals Peepcode PDF, and has presented at a bunch of conferences and a number of local groups and done corporate training on Git across the country. Find a lot of his projects at http://github.com/schacon
The Scottish Ruby Conference rebrands the successful Scotland on Rails conference. It is the same team organising the same event that ran in 2008 and 2009, but with a more accurate name and an exciting new venue: The Royal College of Physicians in the centre of Edinburgh.
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1. Scott, who are you?
My Name is Scott Chacon, I work at GitHub.com, which is a Git hosting provider platform. It's a social Git host and I've been working there for about 2 years now. Basically my whole life revolves around Git and GitHub and speaking about it and training and telling people about it and trying to get them to use it. That's Scott in a nutshell.
2. What's up at GitHub.com? What's new?
There are a number of things that we're working on. We have GitHub:FI, which is installable inside your firewall. For large companies that don't want to host their code on GitHub we've been working on that. We've been hiring some people to help us get that to be a better product. Basically one of my big goals for the last couple of months (and probably it will be through the next year) has been making GitHub work with other version control systems. Git is very nice as a tool because it has a very simple storage mechanism and so it's very generally applicable.
It's relatively easy to write a server that will have different protocols. Mercurial or Subversion protocol and because the goal of GitHub is not necessarily for people to use Git, it's for people to code socially. If people want to use Subversion or Mercurial I'm sorry, but I feel for them. Mercurial is actually a very nice tool as well. I feel mostly for the Subversion people. We do some Ruby meetups and conferences and GitHub is taking off in the Ruby community but we want all the communities to be able to work together because that's the strength. The real strength of GitHub is having people find your projects and be able to contribute to them very easily.
If your preferred tool is something else and you are a smart developer then we want you to be able to participate in everybody else's project as well. I did a project called Hg-Git, which is a Git Mercurial translation layer that's a plug in for the client where you can push to a Git repository and that was sort of the first phase to help Mercurial people participate in the GitHub community. Right now I've been working on a Subversion protocol, DAV Protocol Bridge.
You can run SVN check out SVN.GitHub.com, whatever the project is and has the same name space as any other project - it's just SVN.GitHub.com instead. That would do a checkout via SVN DAV with a Subversion client and you can work on stuff and submit a patch and things like that. Eventually I'd like to have a Mercurial translation layer in the server as well, so you can hg clone a GitHub repository.
On the server, everything is still kept in Git, so we can manage that and we can do the translation relatively easily, but we want as many people as possible to be able to collaborate together, no matter what tool they happen to like the best. I think it's a good thing for keeping GitHub relevant for the indeterminate future. If it is something newer and cooler and hotter than Git that comes around in 10 years or something we want to be able to support that relatively easily and incorporate early adopters eventually into the rest of the community.
3. You mentioned GitHub:FI. How similar is that to the server-based GitHub? Do you use the same infrastructure or do you customize?
It's basically identical. GitHub is a Ruby on Rails application generally. We also have some Erlang parts and we use MySQL and Redis as well and Memcache. Those are the main points of the system. GitHub:FI is very nice because it installs everything for you. For one, we run it on JRuby, so it's a Java app that's installable, so we package up the entire GitHub basically the whole GitHub source code that runs the site in JRuby on the JVM.
We package Memcache and MySQL and everything and run them on a custom port so you get one binary, you can install it on whatever server you want to internally and run GitHub and it's almost identical to GitHub.com. For any company that can, we prefer them to use GitHub.com because it's easier for us to update, they get updates faster. With the FI they do get updates, but we have to make sure that they work properly with installer and all that stuff.
It takes a little bit longer, but we want people to be also part of the community. If they had something that they want open source, we would rather they'd just be able to say make it a public project or push to the same thing that we use for work rather than having 2 separate instances of it. But, if they're a government organization and can't put private code on another server or they are a large company that has policies against that, then we want to be able have them use a tool that makes Git easy to use.
4. With GitHub:FI you install things like Erlang and MySQL? If you consider using virtualization for that, just shipping a virtual image?
Yes, we did, but we wanted it to be able to run on existing hardware. We want them to be able to reuse a server if they already have a server that they use for something. Providing a VM has a lot of infrastructure that they would have to do, they would have to run. If they are running Xen and we give them a VMWare image or vice versa, then they have to set up a whole other system for that and it might be a pain.
We've been talking about providing maybe a preinstalled server that you can do, but it just tends to be for the organizations that buy GitHub:FI, there is a licensing cost and there is a per seat license, so it's a little bit more expensive. But for the organizations that want to do that, that just cannot put code on GitHub.com, they tend to be large enough that they have corporate policies , they'll want more control than a VM would generally allow so we are just going to installer route.
5. You mentioned using Erlang. What do you use Erlang for at the moment?
Come to think of it, I don't think that we installed Erlang as part of the FI because it's all on one machine. What we use Erlang for is on the backend. We have a federated data store, so all of the Git repositories are on several different file systems and Erlang acts as the binary transfer, the RPC mechanism between the front ends that run Rails and the back ends that actually have the Git repositories on them.
When the Rails process wants some data, some log listing or tree listing or some specific content or something, Grit is the library that we use and we have split off the front end stuff actually calling the methods to the backend stuff that does the fork/exec calls and patch that with an RPC mechanism. That RPC mechanism is Erlang binary term format-based and Tom Preston-Werner wrote an extension of that so we can do more than just binary Erlang primitives. We can do all sorts of fun stuff, arrays and things like that. That's just the RPC mechanism.
It sends an RPC call back to the back end, it does routing, to figure out what backend that particular project is on, passes the packet over. It actually runs the command and sends the data back over and most of that is done in Erlang and with the BERT stuff. There is a Ruby component to that as well, so that Erlang can call Ruby methods on the backend and then translate that and send it back over. But that whole mechanism of the RPC is all done in Erlang and it's a great tool for the job. It actually works really well.
6. You mentioned using Redis. How do you use that?
We use Redis for exception handling and for our queue. We tried a lot of Ruby-based queuing mechanisms. Chris wrote an abstraction to the queuing mechanism. We used to use BJ and DJ and in the super early days we tried out Amazon SQS and a lot of queuing mechanisms and they all fell over at one point or another with the amount of traffic that we were doing on them and the types of queries that we were trying to get from them. Eventually we moved to a Redis space that Chris also wrote, called Resque.
That's open source, you can get that on GitHub, a couple of other companies you use it but it's Redis pack. We use the Redis list and stuff to queue up jobs and to pull the jobs out of that and it's been really solid. If you are using DJ or something and it's not working quite well for you, then you might want to check out Rescue.
7. You recently moved servers and you are now running on dedicated machines. What was the reason for that? What was the reason for moving from a virtualized service to dedicated machines?
The virtualized servers were at a hosting provider that only provided virtualized servers and there were a couple of different problems that we had. We actually solved 2 unrelated problems simultaneously. One was you get a lot more power out of bare metal than you do out of the virtualized services and it made a huge difference, especially in the file system because on the virtualized disk, the IO is not generally very high compared to raw disk access. That made a huge difference for our back end, because Git is incredibly IO intensive.
We run unpatched Git on a server if we want to continue to do that. We couldn't really optimize it for our specific needs of the Git server. Having it run on bare metal on real disks makes a huge difference in the IO throughput that we can get. That was probably the biggest thing. At the other hosting provider, we were actually using GFS like a global file system that was just not working with the amount of IO that we were putting through it and the number of shared systems that we had on it.
Federating it out with the Erlang-based BERT system and getting real hardware behind it that would actually run on unvirtualized gave us a huge performance increase. The impetus was that our file systems were falling over and we needed something else and we decided to go to bare metal instead.
8. You've been doing Git for a few years, are you getting tired of it yet? What's so nice about Git?
I'm not getting tired of it. The nice thing about Git is that it's very general. It's a very general storage mechanism that's behind it. That's actually how I learnt Git. At my previous job we were using it as a distributed content distributions system and we were actually using Perforce for source control. I learnt it as a distributed snapshot system where we would create custom snapshots for contents that we needed in a whole bunch of clients and then distribute them via the Git mechanism which is really good at that, at just sending deltas and only sending incremental updates and doing it very efficiently.
That's how I learnt it. That's how I continue to think about it. There is a lot of stuff you can do with Git it's not just version control that it's fun to play with. I never really get tired of it. It's very similar to POSIX-based file system model. Anything fun that you can think of to do with just normal files and stuff you can pretty much do with Git and you get distribution and you get versioning and you get a bunch of other stuff.
There are a lot of fun projects that you can come up with for it. The other nice thing is that at the heart of Git it's a key value store. You can re-implement the Git backend in any key value store. You can re-implement the Git backend in Redis. I did a fairly comprehensive one in Cassandra. That's always fun to play around with that.
It is general enough that you can do stuff like the Subversion front end, whereas making a Subversion frontend and a Mercurial frontend or Git frontend for a Mercurial back database I would think it would be a lot harder to do. Because it's file-based delta system and it's just not sort of generally abstract as Git is. There is a lot of fun stuff you can do with it.
9. You mentioned using Git as a storage format. Do you know any other projects that use that?
There are a lot of backup based systems where people use it like Apple's Time Machine because it's very similar in the way that it thinks about data to TimeMachine as hard links for files and for directories that are identical in content. I don't know how to say it but there is a project called BUP that actually does virtual machine backups relatively efficiently. There are a couple of backup based systems that are based on Git and that are interesting. They are actually really cool. I did a system called Ticket that has your ticketing data along.
Because you can have multiple branches in your project that are unrelated, they don't have a common base in them, so you can have branches that have nothing to do with each other. You can just have a ticket branch that has ticketing information that is along side with but not a subdirectory of your project, which is nice because it doesn't muddy up your actual project. You could do that with lots of stuff.
You can have a documentation branch that's just a documentation and isn't a doc subdirectory. The commits to add new documentation doesn't mess with the history of the project. In GitHub, one of the interesting things is if you create a specially named branch, DH-pages in your Git repository and you push it to us and you have static HTML in there we'll host that as a website for you, as documentation or a website for your project.
A lot of people use that on GitHub for their project homepage and they give you whatever static HTML they want and put it in separate branches, nothing to do with your main project history. It's pretty cool. There is a lot of neat stuff that you can do with Git because of its generalization.
10. What's the tool support for Git nowadays? Git is still mainly the main C-based binary or are there other implementations?
It's largely the C-based binary. There are 2 different ones: there are GUIs on top of the C-based binary so that's tools like Git extensions or Tortoise Git for Windows or Git X for example will do fork/exec calls to the binary and interpret the data. The nice thing about Git is that there are a lot of plumbing commands. You can run much more low level commands than just the "add" and "commit" and things like that.
The front ends will tend to call those and they can do a lot more low level stuff with them very specific stuff that is machine readable. That's one category. The other category is there is a fairly complete Java implementation called JGit that Shawn Pearce wrote from Google. The JGit project is incorporated to a lot of the Java-based IDE, so anything that's running Java. There is a Smart Git, it is a really good cross platform Git client that is in Java so you can run it anywhere and it works the same and it's very complete. It's actually a very nice project.
Then there is IDE integration. Eclipse.org is starting to move towards Git as their main repository format for all of their projects, so they are concentrating and Shawn as well is concentrating on the EGit project which is the Eclipse plug-in and that's getting really solid now. Any of the Java-based IDEs are using either the EGit tools or the JGit implementation to write their own plug-ins and stuff.
11. What's Git on Windows like today?
I'll find somebody that uses Windows, I'll ask them and then I'll tell you. There are a lot of people who use Git on Windows. I use Git on Windows if I do a corporate presentation or something that only has Windows machines available. It's doable and it works fine for all the stuff that is in the presentation or in the tutorial, which is a lot of the stuff. It does work; it's a little bit slower in some places because Git takes advantage of a lot of weird POSIX stuff to make stuff run fast.
You have to have POSIX simulation layer in Windows to make it run, but it's certainly doable. There are a lot of people that use it especially now with the Eclipse integration and the JGit project having more Java-based stuff and that runs fast as well. It sucked a year or 2 ago and it's pretty good now and I think it's going to be great in the next year.
12. I think you have a book out about Git. What's it called?
I do. It's called Pro Git and it's published by APress.
13. Should everybody read it?
Everybody should read it. The nice thing about it was that the fine people at APress allowed me to use Creative Commons License. The book itself is Creative Commons licensed. You can read it online, progit.org is the website and all of the content is available online and there is a blog that I write updates to it. The book itself is in Markdown. You can go to GitHub.com/progit and download all the examples in one repository and all of the Markdown for the book in another repository.
There are really cool things about it. One is that the GitHub community is great. They've really embraced it as being an open book and so there is a tone of translations of it. There are full translations I believe in Chinese, Japanese, German and Dutch. There are people working on Arabic and Spanish and a tone of other languages as well and they are doing a really incredible job. I incorporate that and I published that.
If you got to progit.org you can read it in any of these languages. You go down to the bottom and there are links to all of them. That's updated regularly as new translations come in. That's one of the cool things, that that's all Creative Commons License, it's all online to read for free. You can download it and create a pdf or something to put on your Kindle. It's been a really nice project and the blogs are for new features, stuff that I didn't cover in the book.
It was published in August so it's been 7-8 months. It's a sort of beginner to intermediate book, it gets into the advanced stuff, but not the really low level what I thought might be confusing stuff. I've been doing blog posts on that. If you want to learn stuff that comes out in the newer versions of Git or stuff that's a little more obtuse or esoteric, then there is a series of blog posts on that as well.
The reason why I wrote it is to supplement the training that I do, because if you want corporate training you can contact GitHub and I can come out and do corporate training. One of the things that I didn't like about it is that I only had a day or 2 to do that. I can cover a lot of stuff, but it's kind of hard to make everybody a Git master. What I like to do is cover a lot of stuff so that people know what's possible to do and then link to a chapter in the book.
It's free and online so they can read it in more depth. That was sort of why I really wanted to write the book, so that I could have for a one hour talk or 8 hour training, I could say "Here is all the stuff, but if you want to learn it in depth you can go to this website and read all about it." It's been really nice to be able to do that and not feel like I'm just abandoning everybody.
14. You mentioned Markdown. You have another project that uses Markdown for presentations. What is that?
It's called ShowOff and it's at the GitHub.com, schacon is my username and then ShowOff is the name of the project. It's really stupid simple it's just a Markdown-based slideshow like a Keynote type presentation style. I give a fair amount of talks and I have a lot of different presentations. There is a bunch of different thing in Keynote that are sort of frustrating for a programmer. I want to be able to extend it, I want to be able to do a lot of showing off, typing off in the command line and see what the output is or showing off highlighted source code.
All that stuff in Keynote is either impossible or difficult to do. I spend a lot of time wasted and trying to do that and keeping up-to-date and stuff. What this is, is just Markdown. I write out the slides in Markdown, you can put a whole bunch of slides in one Markdown, you can have different subdirectories for each section and it makes it easy to move the sections from project to project. It's all text-based; you can do everything in Git, which I like.
You can fork a presentation and change it a little bit and do your own presentation-based off of that or steal sections from some, or borrow , take sections from, copy sections from somebody else's presentation, if it's a really good section on something that you want to teach about. It's easy to upload the whole presentation in Heroku it takes 5 minutes to do that and you have it online on Heroku. All that stuff just saves me a ton of time.
I can write a really good long presentation and I don't have to deal with any of the stuff I don't need to. It's really stupid simple. There is no interface on it, you just edit it in TextMate or VI or whatever and then it's the Sinatra server that renders the Markdown and it's all JS-based.
15. I guess I can burn my copy of PowerPoint.
I would burn your copy of PowerPoint even before ShowOff and remove Keynote because it's PowerPoint and then Keynote and then ShowOff is what I like. I mean there are other HTML-based Java script-based ones that are nice as well. There are like Slidy and S5 and things of that nature, but I like it just because it's all text files, it's all one project. You just run showoff serve in a ShowOff directory and go to the port on your browser and full-screen it and that's it.
I actually had a presentation the other day where I had something wrong in one of the slides and I was able to switch over to my text editor, find it, delete it, reload the slide live just to make it look right. That would be difficult to do in Keynote especially if it's syntax highlighted code you have an image in there or something like that. That's why I like it a lot.
16. I take it ShowOff can be found on Sourceforge. Or is it on GitHub?
It's on GitHub, yes.
17. It's under your account, I guess.
Yes. Schacon/ShowOff. I have a lot of Git-based projects and presentation type stuff in there. In the "Read me" I tried to incorporate examples of a lot of different people that use it. I've actually been pleasantly surprised at the developer uptake. Because the developers like to tinker, work with text files and have stuff be as simple as possible. It's very developer-oriented. It does command line stuff well and it does syntax highlighting source code well and that's stuff that developers want and not necessarily business people or something.
But it also does PowerPoints and all the normal transitions and stuff like that. I have a list of a whole bunch of the projects that people have done. The other really nice thing, the reason I like it is because it loads any JavaScript and CSS files that you have in the project. Since most of it is JavaScript-based you can understand it very easily. Instead of having some plug-in system or something it's just you put in a .js file, anything that you want to do in JS and you load it and run it. I don't need to incorporate it into ShowOff. You can just use it in your own project.
There are a lot of little plug-ins and stuff that add functionality that is not necessarily generally applicable. A good example is there is a presentation format which is 20 slides with 20 sections each for a presentation and I forget what's called [Editor's note: Pecha Kucha]. Somebody wrote a JS file that just does that. It has an extra key binding in a button and it automatically does slide transitions for you.
Doing something like that you can time it like in Keynote or something, but it's really a pain. If the JS file exists and you know of a presentation that does it, you just copy it and you have it. It's really nice, I like it a lot.
18. We'll find ShowOff on GitHub. Thank you very much Scott.
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How do you know if your friendship is toxic?
Relationships are one of the gifts of being human—they support you, challenge you, and, in the best cases, show you something about life you would never have seen before.
But unfortunately there are some friendships that drag you down. There are some friends that you're just never that close to, but then there are friendships that can be destructive and hurtful. So how do you even know if you're in a toxic friendship?
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Any kind of abuse (emotional, physical, sexual) and controlling behaviour. Refusing to listen when you bring any of these points up are all traits of an emotionally immature person. And they're not proof that your friend is a bad person—everyone has blamed someone else for something they did or shamelessly gossiped to bad ends—but if they define the person, you're better off without them in your life.
Trash talking others, blaming others, manipulating people and situations. If you're constantly on the receiving end of being criticised, blamed, or manipulated, this can be a sign that you're in a toxic friendship. If the friendship is still in the early stages, you'll often hear them talk about others in this way, but over time, you'll eventually be on the receiving end of this behaviour.
Constant competition and comparisons with others. If your friend is setting you up to compete with other friends, or unfavourably comparing you to others, this is toxic behaviour that can leave you feeling bad about yourself and negatively impact your self-esteem.
You're constantly walking on eggshells. If you feel that you're constantly watching what you say how you say it, or are worried about how your friend will react to you being open and honest, this is not a good foundation for a strong friendship. True friendships allow you to be completely yourself in the presence of your friend.
It's all about your friend. If you find yourself being the one to constantly adapt to what your friend wants, or you find yourself the only one reaching out with very little or no reciprocity, this can be a sign of a toxic friendship. The opposite can also be just as disturbing if you find your friend is constantly making demands on your time and expects you to be at her beck and call.
If the friendship is important enough to save (maybe you've known this person for many years and they're going through a bad patch), set boundaries with your friend. Before you meet up for coffee, tell him or her that you're not willing to listen to three hours of gossip, criticisms, or blaming; you just want to relax in their company. And if they do start nattering on, gently call them on it.
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Sometimes friendships end abruptly because one person did something so cruel or thoughtless the relationship can't be salvaged. If you're on the receiving end of this kind of behaviour, it's not hard to know what to do. Protect your heart: firmly break off the friendship. But if you see them continually treating someone else really badly (and they don't respond when you ask them about it), ending the friendship may be the best course.
Unlike romantic partners, people usually don't share wealth and space with friends. So you have freedom to end the friendship on your own terms.
If you decide you want to end a toxic friendship, it's often best to address to person face-to-face. This way you can clearly and cleanly state why you've decided to end the friendship with integrity.
If it's too hard to do in person, you could write them a letter or, if you must, an email. But be aware that dumping anyone via email seems cheap, and if the other party is vindictive, they could forward it a hundred times.
Chances are, if the friendship is so toxic you're breaking it off you've already tried to talk to them about their behaviour, but if they need to hear it from you again, take a breath and explain why you can't continue this relationship. Emotional manipulators often don't face reality until they hit a brick wall.
Cutting off a toxic friendship is painful to be sure, but it's only way to clear space in your life for good relationships, those rare gifts of a human life.


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Editor's Log 12th May 2015
Editor's Log – June 2015
by Nigel Lawrence (Editor)
In last month's edition I commented on the increasing size of cruise ships but it is also worth noting that the size of container ships seems to be rising every month.
Only in 1996 the 81,488gt Regina Maersk became the world's first 6,000 TEU container ship when she was launched at the company's Odense Staalskibs yard at Lindo.
Ten years later the world was amazed to see the huge 170,794 gt Emma Maersk, able to carry 15,500 TEU, enter service. She was followed by seven identical sisters.
In June 2013 Maersk Line introduced the 194,849 gt Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller which can carry 18,340 TEU. The intial order was for ten ships but this was inceased to 20 vessels.
Recently China Shipping's 187,541 gt CSCL Globe became the largest container ship in the world with a capacity of 19,100 TEU.
Now we have the 192,237 gt MSC Oscar which can carry 19,224 TEU. MSC Oscar was built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering at Okpo is 395.4 metres long and 59 metres wide.
The new record-holder is one of three ships of similar size ordered for MSC. MSC's orderbook also includes another six of nominal 19,000 TEU capacity, while Emanuele Lauro's Scorpio Group is negotiating to order three 20,000 TEU ships that will be bareboat chartered to MSC.
Idan Ofer's Quantum Pacific Group recently took a stake in this project.
Japan's MOL is thought to be very close to placing an order for up to six of that size, through a lease agreement, for deployment within an Asia-Europe loop operated by the G6 alliance.
Another member of that consortium, OOCL, is expected to sign contracts soon for the same number of ships so as to complete the set needed for a service.
Evergreen has also said it is considering orders for ultra-large boxships.
Where will this end?
Obviously, the economics of running a large ship with a very small crew are attractive, and the green lobby will be pleased that the carbon emissions per container will be much lower on the larger ships.
The various environmental features on the Maersk Triple E class cost $30 million per ship, of which the Waste Heat Recovery System costs $10 million. Carbon dioxide emissions, per container, are expected to be 50% lower than emissions by typical ships on the Asia-Europe route and 20% lower than the Emma Maersk 'E' class. These are the most efficient containerships in the world, per TEU.
So it looks as if big will be beautiful for some time to come. The disadvantages of such large vessels may not yet be apparent.
One problem is the berth size at some ports and the port-side infrastructure to deal with vessels of this size. We will see what happens in the next ten years.
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The Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is an NHS Trust with an annual budget of about £121 million, and employs 1,900 staff. It manages Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford, Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, Erith and District Hospital and Elm Court.

History
A proposed merger with Medway NHS Foundation Trust was called off in September 2013.

Performance

It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015.  At that time it had 2593 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.68%. 78% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 76% recommended it as a place to work.

Darent Valley Hospital had the highest rate and number of MRSA cases for NHS trusts in England in 2015. There were 14 cases of patients being infected between 1 April 2015 and 29 February 2016.

In 2018 it forecast a deficit, for the fourth year in a row. It expected to make a loss of deficit of £20.4 million in 2018/9.

It signed a five year contract with  Medirest in 2021 for catering, cleaning and security services, with 300 staff members transferring to the group. The company provides a robot used for the cleaning of the main corridors.  There have been complaints that the contractor has cut supplies down "to the absolute basics" so it is difficult to get hand towels to fill the dispensers, bags to fill the bins or soap to fill the dispensers. The company denies this. It also says it has introduced free meals for all employees at Darent Valley who are able to access packed lunches.

See also
 Healthcare in Kent
 List of NHS trusts

References

Borough of Dartford
NHS hospital trusts

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Not everything was better back in the "good old days." Take dentures, for instance. Dentures have been around for generations and have certainly improved the lives of thousands of Toms River people who have lost many or all of their teeth.
However, Grandpa's conventional false teeth are not the prime tooth replacement. Traditional dentures can impede many vital oral functions: chewing, tasting, swallowing, talking, and smiling.
You may know denture wearers who have stopped attending social activities because they are embarrassed by dentures that are far from inconspicuous. Some have even stopped eating their favorite foods because their dentures cut down their power to taste and/or chew.
I have awesome news for Toms River residents with missing teeth: Dentures have evolved!
Removable implant anchored dentures have a locator attachment which allows the wearer to snap the appliance in place. Some patients prefer this type because they can remove them at night for cleaning. Countless Toms River patients who have traded in their traditional dentures report that their implant anchored dentures have greatly improved their life.
For more information about dental implants, call 732-691-4944 to schedule a consultation with Ronen Rotem. Rotem Dental Care is located at 355 Lakehurst Rd in Toms River. We have been providing quality care and personal attention since 1995.


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Senators urge Iowa Christians to address racial divide
July 12, 2019 By Radio Iowa Contributor
Speakers at The Family Leader conference.
Two U.S. Senators who may be Republican presidential candidates in 2024 say Christians need to be leading the nation toward racial reconciliation.
"I don't believe Washington changes the country. I think the country changes Washington," said Oklahoma Senator James Lankford. Lankford.
Lankford is among the speakers at today's (Friday's) Family Leadership Summit, an event hosted by The Family Leader, a Christian conservative group.
"There should be no prime mover stronger than the church for engaging the gospel throughout a community to show love and affection," Lankford said.
Senator Tim Scott, the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate from South Carolina, cautioned Iowans not to buy into the idea the country is as divided as it may seem.
"If you really think about the primary driver of this new division, I think it's people have figured out how to monetize conflict," Scott said.
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton and Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse are also speaking to the crowd of conservatives in West Des Moines today.
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Faith Evans Reaches Back & Celebrates Her Debut Album With 'Faith 20'
That Faith Evans is still snagging GRAMMY nominations 20 years after her recording debut is a testament to her talent and tenacity. The past two decades have been a roller coaster of joys/triumphs and sorrows/failures for the former First Lady of Bad Boy. And although it may have shaken her up a bit, she disembarked as a stronger artist, an accomplished businesswoman and an inspiration to both fans and peers. In other words, Faith "made it!" But rather than closing out the year with a focus on the aforementioned GRAMMY nod for "He Is" (from her 2014 project Incomparable), the R&B powerhouse pays homage to her humble beginnings with the EP Faith 20.
Solely comprised of remakes from her eponymous classic, the six-track album was a Christmas Day treat for Faithfuls and casual fans alike. We knew something great was coming after she teased us with a revamped "Fallin' In Love," and Faith does not disappoint on this musical jaunt through familiar territory.
Original producer Chucky Thompson puts his stamp on "Come Over," "Used to Love Me" and "Ain't Nobody," while J. Drew Sheard II, Lamar "MyGuysMars" Edwards and Patrick "Murphious" Murphy lend a hand for the remaining tracks. Despite the variety of contributors, the songs don't stray far from their original formula, a wise move that imbues the package with a nostalgic vibe. Yet meatier arrangements, interesting guest appearances (Joseline Hernandez, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Daron Jones of 112, Kelly Price) and a more seasoned vocal from the songstress herself make it feel like a well-thought-out present instead of a hasty re-gift. While there are some puzzling omissions (How do we revisit Faith without touching "Soon As I Get Home" and "Reasons?!"), this entertaining retrospective is a fitting conclusion to an amazing year for Ms. Evans.
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Upon reading the Bible this morning, I came upon verse 12 of Psalm 96, "Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice." I was reminded of a song we used to sing in Bible Camp. It is entitled, "When the Trees of the Wood Will Clap Their Hands." As we sung this kid's favorite, all would clap their hands at that part and sing out loudly. Being one of the adults there, I would wonder about trees clapping their hands-literally. Surely, I saw trees on the "Yellow Brick Road" engage humans in speech; however, this is not a fictional movie! But I did my share of wondering in awe.


On the third Monday in February, we honor all U.S. presidents on Presidents' Day. The day was introduced to honor George Washington and grew to honor all presidents and earn that apostrophe after the s. This year, we invite you to celebrate by going all the way back to the day's beginnings to study Washington – along with another long-ago honoree, Lincoln – and then consider how they might have handled presidential communications with modern technology.
Trace the history of Presidents' Day, a federal holiday held on the third Monday in February. Designated to honor George Washington, it is now a day that honors all presidents and all things presidential.
Presidents' Day has been expanded over the years to include all presidents. These resources focus on two of the early originals and the activity asks students to apply modern communication devices to historical figures and events.
Explores the history of Presidents' Day. Reveals how the meaning of the day changed over time, morphing into a holiday celebrating all U.S. presidents. Includes Q & A.
Highlights the life, legacy, and influence of George Washington, and focuses on his military and political careers. Emphasizes his accomplishments as the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and the President of the United States.
A virtual tour of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. to explore the life and legacy of President Abraham Lincoln. Experts lead the engaging and lively discussion.
WHAT IF THEY HAD MODERN TECHNOLOGY?
Washington and Lincoln used speeches and letters to communicate their messages and opinions. How would they have used today's popular technology, such as Twitter and text messaging? Use the strategies Tweet, Tweet! and Table Top Texting, from our Spotlight on Strategies series, to have students demonstrate their understanding of key historical events and the presidents' reactions to them via tweets and conversations. Bonus points for in-character hashtags! Share your students' most interesting communications on social media with #CelebrateWithDE.


The main street, Holyhead Road, has numerous inns and bed-and-breakfasts accommodation. Shops specialise in outdoor clothes and the tourist center provide maps and advice on day trips in the area.
At the railway station is a Museum with a miniature railway, shop and restaurant. The old 14th century church of St Michael's is one of the oldest in Wales and is worth viewing.
Thomas Telford's iron Waterloo Bridge built in 1815, which carries the A5 across the River Conwy, bears the cast iron inscription "This arch was constructed in the same year the battle of Waterloo was fought". Also worth visiting are the awesome Conwy Falls off the road to Pentrefoelas and the beautiful Fairy Glen off the A470 where the River Conwy flows through a narrow gorge.
Stone Age man lived in the area and was responsible for the Neolithic Burial Chamber at Capel Garmon. During the Bronze Age (at about 2000 BC) the Beaker Folk who originated from Spain sailed into Britain, bringing with them metal-working, although they did not penetrate into the mountainous areas which remained the preserve of the Neolithic people. The Celts arrived from Central Europe about 600 BC introducing the use of bronze and later iron-working. They developed tools bringing improvements in agriculture and during this period the roots of a distinctive Welsh life and culture can be detected. These Celts were known as the Britons.
The Romans invaded Britain in AD43 and by AD78 the conquest of Wales was complete. The lives of the Celtic peoples was not greatly affected in the area as the Romans were largely confined to their hill forts and roads. However the Romans left a legacy of improved agricultural practices (including the introduction of sheep) and mining technology when they left Wales in AD383, as well as introducing Christianity.
After the Romans left, much of Britain was overrun by the pagan Anglo-Saxons and others from the continent, and the Picts of Scotland and the Irish also attacked the Celtic Britons. This was the period of the Arthurian Legends, but the area around Snowdonia remained a Celtic stronghold, although the Welsh became separated from their Celtic cousins in Cornwall and Cumbria.
The area was part of the Kingdom of Gwynedd which covered north west Wales, although its borders changed depending on the fortunes of its ruler at the time. Although England was conquered by the Normans in 1066, Wales was not successfully conquered for over 200 years and it was during this period that many castles were built such as Dolwyddelan by the Welsh and Conwy by the Normans.
During this time Wales was perhaps at its strongest when Gwynedd was under the rule of Llewelyn ap Iorwerth also known as Llewelyn Fawr (Llewelyn the Great). He was born in Dolwyddelan, succeeded in uniting Wales when King John was on the English throne and had a lot of connections with this area.
With the final conquest of Wales by Edward I, and the death of Llewelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales (grandson of Llewelyn Fawr) in 1283, Wales was ruled by the English. This was the last Celtic rule until Merlin's prophecy came true and the Welsh Tudors took the throne of England.
During the Tudor period laws discriminating against the Welsh were repealed which led to the prominence of local families such as the Wynns of Gwydir.
The local economy was based on agriculture, and in the 19th century slate quarrying and woollen mills were developed. The slate quarries are now shut down, but agriculture continues to be the mainstay of the economy along with tourism which developed in Victorian times.
Up in the hills at nearby Capel Garmon there is a celebrated cromlech; a 5,000 year old Neolithic burial chamber. There are also spectacular views of the mountains of Snowdonia from Capel Garmon.
The Swallow Falls are considered to be one of the loveliest spots of North Wales. Here the river rushes down from the mountains. Crags and jagged rocks divide the stream into a number of foaming cascades. A mile further on are the famous Swallow Falls, where the Llugwy river hurls itself into a spectacular chasm.
'A long bike ride or hike in the chilly Welsh air, sometimes with a light drizzle as an accompaniment, will help diet-conscious tourists understand why traditional Welsh cuisine is heavily dependent on butter and cheese.
Welsh rarebit – a dish consisting of cheese sauce with a mustard tang poured over buttered toast – might sound like a heavy dish for a midday meal, but it seems natural in the Welsh climate.
You can try the rarebit at Tu Hwnt I'r Bont, a 15th-century stone cottage in Llanwrst, on the other side of the Gwydyr Forest from Betws-y-Coed.
The teahouse, which sits on a riverbank, its roof level to the road, is prepared for tourists: Its dark, low ceiling beams bear warnings for diners to "watch your head" in languages ranging from German to Arabic.
The Welsh cuisine, which locals concede once was heavy and laden with fatty meats, has recently become more refined.
The Glamorgan sausages at the Riverside restaurant in Betws, for example, are served with a light, chunky tomato sauce accented by leeks. Glamorgan sausages are touted as the original vegetarian dish, created by the Welsh out of vegetables and cheese for times when meat was pricey or scarce.
For those who haven't tired of dairy products, afternoon tea is served with buttered bara brith, a loaf bread similar to – but lighter than – fruitcake.
Visitors to Betws-y-Coed, as with other towns in North Wales, will hear the locals speak Welsh. This warm croeso, or welcome, is itself part of the Welsh culture – expressed through the bilingual signs that greet tourists in every small town.
In the past the English outlawed the Welsh language but it lived on through the singing, reciting and storytelling that are a part of Welsh daily life. The recent development of the National Assembly for Wales had produced a heightening sense of national identity, allowing foreigners a greater opportunity to experience Welsh culture .
At the very heart of the National Park, this rugged mountain village is the mecca for climbing and walking in Snowdonia. Ringed by the Glyders, Moel Siabod and the foothills of the Carneddau range, Capel Curig is the home of Plas-y-Brenin – the national centre for mountain activities. Also at Capel Curig is Ty Hyll (The Ugly House), so named because of the huge uneven boulders in its walls.
Dolwyddelan Castle must be the most dramatically sited castles in Wales, built by the native Welsh prince Llwelyn the Great. The views over Snowdonia from the castle are superb.


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Our brand-new app for iPhone is live. Our website is mobile-optimized, and we are working on an app for Android as well.
We enjoy stories about transformation big and small. We delight in watching home remodels on HGTV, seeing a chef transform raw ingredients into a finished dish, gawking at car restorations, applauding healthy weight loss and health turnarounds, and celebrating "little wins" like making your bed, organizing a shelf or getting a new haircut. We are a team of people who love great pictures and fun stories, and we want to help you share yours with our community and the world. SnapTwice has offices in Silicon Valley, Austin, and Shenzhen, China.
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Mackay commits to NCAA D1 Western Kentucky
Submitted By Matt Mills on Friday, April 3, 2020
The Ontario Royals organization would like to congratulate 18U INF/P Brodie Mackay on his commitment to play at NCAA D1 Western Kentucky University, starting in the fall of 2021.
Brodie's parents — Sue and Dave — are extremely proud of their son's commitment to WKU, and attribute Brodie's growth as both a baseball player and a young man to the Royals program and coaches.
Brodie joined the Royals as an underage player at the 16U age level, and has flourished as a standout infielder, hitter, and team leader. Last season Mackay also took his talents onto the mound, where he's turning into a dangerous right-handed pitcher.
Western Kentucky University, located in Bowling Green, KY, competes in the NCAA D1, Conference USA.
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This weekend is host to relaxation, healing and rejuvenation in a safe and sacred space with like minded souls.
We will be gathering our medicine on Friday evening and through Shamanic practices, yoga, meditation, Angels, our Ancestors and the wonderful crystal beings and Mother Earth, work throughout the weekend on our challenges and blocks that recur time and time again. This weekend will send you home with lots of tools to continue evolving on your wonderful and unique journey we call our life's.
A €100 non refundable booking fee is required to secure your place, a payment plan can happily be set up for your convenience. The balance is due two weeks prior to the start date.
Our numbers are kept cozy to allow everyone's own healing space and time with Margaret. We are blessed with many returning guests, and we are very grateful that you wish to share this time with us.
We will be set up on the lakeshore of a Lough in the beautiful Lough Lannagh Holiday Village, Co Mayo. Bountiful walks by the Lough with a few hidden "gems" which is a spectacular space to chillax.
Giving your time to yourself, be it, in one of our workshops and or roaming the walks and enjoying the scenery, Lough Lannagh has so much to offer.


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Ford County Stories
Author: Grisham, John
Contributor: David Thatcher
This title includes seven novellas of the American Deep South set in fictional Ford County, Mississippi, the location for John's seminal first novel "A Time to Kill", his later bestselling "The Last Juror" as well as scenes from "The Chamber" and "The Summons".
Subject(s): Subject Short stories, American
Original Publisher: Victoria Park, W.A., Association for the Blind of W.A.