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It is illegal to trade onion futures in the United States due to the 1958 Onion Futures Act, after two traders in 1955 purchased 98% of the onions in Chicago and subsequently crashed onion prices while holding short positions on onion futures. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oni…
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Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in the southerns states, then returned again and again to rescue 70 more enslaved people. Then later, after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into Canada. During the American Civil War she helped the Union Army. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Har…
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Today I learned about Senator's Strom Thurmond's 24h 18min filibuster to delay and obstruct the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str…
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Horses can't vomit because they have a strong lower esophageal sphincter that acts as a one-way valve, preventing food from coming up. horseracingsense.com/hors…
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Simone Segouin was a French Resistance fighter in WWII that was only 18 when Germany invaded. She took part in large-scale missions, such as capturing German troops, derailing trains, and other acts of sabotage. And she is still alive and just celebrated her 95th birthday. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim…
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Wood ants practice chemistry, and will synthesize an antibiotic substance using tree resin and formic acid to protect the health of their colony. It is considered to be the most advanced act of evolutionary pharmacology seen in the animal kingdom youtu.be/vt7jGGroF0Q?t=14…
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A shoelace knot gets untied while running due to the foot striking the ground at 7G. As the knot loosens, the swinging leg applies an inertial force on the free ends of the laces, which rapidly leads to a failure of the knot in as few as 2 strides after inertia acts on the laces. news.berkeley.edu/2017/04…
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William Blount was the first federal officer removed from office for conspiracy to instigate an act of war in order to increase the value of his real estate holdings en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil…
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Today I learned about Frank "Cannonball" Richards, a carnival performer whose act involved being shot in the stomach by a cannonball. He lived to the age of 81. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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In the 2011 animation film Rango, there were more than 60 scenes depicting the act of tobacco smoking. Several advocacy groups at the time tried to pressure the film rating board to give the film an R rating. This came to nothing and the film continues to maintain a PG rating today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran…
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The Eureka Moment (also known as 'Aha! moment) refers to the common human experience of suddenly understanding a previously incomprehensible problem or concept. Some research suggests it acts as a memory advantage. It is unclear where exactly it occurs in the brain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eur…
During the invasion crisis of 1940-1941, the British tried making up for a shortage of armored vehicles with the "Bison", a truck with a concrete cover to act as armor. They were mainly used as mobile pillboxes to protect airfields from paratroopers. tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww…
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Pope John XII died on 14 May 964; one story relates that he died of a paralytic stroke suffered while having sex with a woman named Stefanetta. He may have died instead when the woman's husband defenestrated John or beat him to death with a hammer during the act. wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_…
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The Chimney Sweepers Act of 1788 was a British Act of Parliament passed to stop child labor, as boys as young as four were being used as chimney sweeps. The Act raised the minimum age to eight years old. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi…
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Today I learned about Evil Dave Letterman, a midwestern man who would appear on The Howard Stern Show that happened to sound EXACTLY like David Letterman. Stern would have him read off-color jokes about race, pedophilia and homosexual acts, forcing the real David Letterman to make several cease & desist orders. youtu.be/m6NPnsup-Iw
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Harry Houdini wanted to prevent people from copying his "Chinese water torture cell" trick, but didn't want to patent it, as that would require explaining how it works. So he gave a performance of the trick as a one-act play before an audience of one, and then filed for a copyright on the play smithsonianmag.com/smiths…
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The red stuff dropped from airplanes to put out forest fires also acts as a fertilizer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pho…
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Today I learned about highpointing: The act of ascending the highest point of every American state. Only 10 new people manage to climb them/year, making it more unique than climbing the Mount Everest! wanderlustpulse.com/highp…
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Today I learned about Kuru. a terrifying disease caused by eating human brains. Villages in Papua NG ate brains of the dead as an act of love and twisted brain proteins caused trembling and "the laughing death". People die within 2-4 months. npr.org/sections/thesalt/…
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According to the Philippine Civil Code (RA 386, Article 680) if your property has a fruit tree and some of its fruits fell "naturally" (i.e. acts of god) into your neighbor's yard, your neighbor is entitled with the ownership of said fallen fruits. officialgazette.gov.ph/19…
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The historical legacy of Christopher Columbus is not that he discovered America: he was not the first to get there. Columbus's voyages brought the Americas to the attention of Europe at a time ripe for Europe to act upon, thus initiating enduring association between the two continents. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chr…
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Today I learned about DOOMSCROLLING. The act of obsessively checking online news for updates, especially on social media feeds, with the expectation that the news will be bad, such that the feeling of dread from this negative. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo…
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Today I learned about Alien Hand Syndrome, a condition in which a person loses conscious control of one of their hands, and it seemingly acts as if it has a mind of its own. There is no known cure, although symptoms can be managed to some degree by keeping the alien hand occupied with something to play with. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali…
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Everyone in Singapore above the age of 21 is automatically registered as an organ donor. Opting out from this Act will result in you being put at the very bottom of the organ priority list, should you need an organ transplantation. moh.gov.sg/policies-and-l…
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At the new and full moon, the sun and moon are in syzygy (three celestial bodies in a straight line). Their tidal forces act to reinforce each other, creating the highest "high" tide twice a month. This is called the "spring" tide. sailingissues.com/navcour…
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The Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005 prohibits condominium associations and real estate management organizations from restricting homeowners from displaying the flag of the United States on their property en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fre…
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For decades, southern states considered Thanksgiving an "act of northern aggression." Pumpkin pie was seen as a "Yankee food" and a symbol of anti-slavery sentiment. atlasobscura.com/articles…
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Research shows that mirrors in public places like retails stores will improve customer behavior by increasing self awareness. You won't act like a jerk if you had to watch yourself doing so. behaviouraldesign.com/201…
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In the 1820s, French mathematician Joseph Fourier was the first person to think of the possibility that the Earth's atmosphere might act as an insulator of some kind. He calculated that an object the size of the Earth, and at its distance from the Sun, couldn't be warmed by solar radiation only. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos…
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ZZ Top's inspiration for "La Grange" was a Texas brothel named the "Chicken Ranch". During the Great Depression, the brothel got its name for charging live chickens in exchange for sexual acts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi…
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When people act like Frankenstein's monster, they often stretch their arms out in front of them because of the 1943 movie Frankenstein Meets the Wolf-Man. In the movie the monster is blinded and has to walk holding his hands in front of him. wikipedia.org/wiki/Franke…
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There was a paramilitary socialist group in Canada in the 1960s that wanted to overthrow their provincial government with an armed revolution. The only peace time use of Canada's War Measures Act was to stop them. The group was in contact with the KGB, and the top members were exiled to Cuba. thecanadianencyclopedia.c…
The United States made it illegal to discriminate based on an individual's DNA sequence in 2008, an act that was passed almost unanimously by the house, senate, and executive branch. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen…
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When Robert Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court, his rental history was leaked to the press. Bork himself had stated that Americans only had privacy rights as afforded them by direct legislation. The incident led to the enactment of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob…
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Today I learned of Alfredo Ormando who was a gay writer from Palermo who died as a result of setting himself on fire outside Saint Peter's Basilica. His self-immolation was an act of protest against the Roman Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf…
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Before modern refrigerators, Russian and Finnish people would keep live brown frogs in their milk to keep it fresh. It was found that the secretions made by the frogs basically act as antibiotics, killing bacteria, and keeping the milk fresh and safe to drink. discovermagazine.com/envi…
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Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr met only once in their lives in March 26, 1964, during Senate debates regarding the (eventual) Civil Rights Act of 1964. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal…
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Construction on the remote Galehead Hut in the White Mountains was once halted because the design was found to not be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The mountaintop hut, accessible only via a rugged hiking trail with 2,200' of vertical ascent, now features a wheelchair ramp. archive.bdnblogs.com/1999…
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Socialist Victor Berger was indicted/convicted under the Espionage Act. Despite this he was elected to the Wisconsin state Senate and returned to Congress in 1918. The House disqualified him; Berger ran in a special election and won again (eventually the Supreme Court overturned his conviction) heraldcourier.com/opinion…
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Today I learned about Clair Engle, the senator who had himself rolled into the senate with terminal brain cancer, so he could vote on the Civil Rights Act. He couldn't speak due to the cancer so, when called, he pointed to his left eye to signal his vote ('Aye'). He died weeks later. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cla…
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Caterpillars have structures at the tip of their walking legs called CROCHETS that act like velcro to keep them anchored to surfaces!! thecaterpillarlab.org/sin…
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Today I learned about Project Artichoke; the CIA's project designed to create subjects who would involuntarily commit acts of attempted assassination. Among other things. cia.gov/library/readingro…
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Today I learned about Russefeiring a norwegian celebration where highschool students engage in various dares before graduation known as "knots" which can involve illegal acts, such as public nudity or public sexual intercourse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus…
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There are "ghost islands" off the coast of Virginia that have been uninhabitable since 1936 as they act as a natural barrier to the coast during hurricane season. They are home to a feral horse population, a NASA flight facility, and the second tallest lighthouse in the United States. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vir…
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Today I learned of Chinese assassin, Shi Jianqiao. In the Warlord Era (1916-1928) when Shi was 19, her warlord father was defeated & executed by a rival, Sun Chuanfang. Shi spent her 20s tracking Sun down, killing him in 1935. Chinese society was so moved by her act of filial revenge that the court pardoned her en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi…
Sushi Parasites have increased by 238 times since 1970s according to the University of Washington. Scientists said this is likely due to humans recovering the seal, sea lion, and whale populations under Marine Mammal Protection Act which allows the parasites to fester. washington.edu/news/2020/…
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Foreign nationals of just 15 countries have a right explicitly conferred in law for making requests based on the Freedom of Information act. 25 countries are explicitly banned. The status of the rest is ambiguous gijn.org/2019/09/28/where…
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In 2013, Metallica performed in Antarctica just to break a record and be the first musical act to perform on all 7 continents. guinnessworldrecords.com/…
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Thanks to the National Labor Relations Act, an employer cannot prohibit their employees from discussing their salary or wage levels with one another. nlrb.gov/guidance/key-ref…
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The user agreement of a popular Japanese robot includes: the owner must not perform any sexual act on the robot, and the robot may not be used to harm humans or to send out spam emails. The company has also said that tampering with the robot to give it a sexier voice would be frowned upon theguardian.com/world/201…
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Reliable Leaker Casts Shade on PS5 Price and 4K Capabilities
If This Rumor Is True, The Xbox Series X May End Up Being the Better Console
By Jerry Martin
Aesthetic Gamer has a pretty good history of accurate leaks, but they are usually associated with games. This time around, he's claiming that not only with the PlayStation 5 cost more than the Xbox Series X but that it will struggle with delivering 4K – something Sony is said to be combating with "Fake 4K," whatever that means. With AG's experience in leaking Resident Evil information, with the most recent leak being that Resident Evil Village will be the longest of the series thus far. That said, it shouldn't be surprising that this leak about the PS5 is directly related to Resident Evil Village (RE8).
(2/3) But people are should get ready for the really real possibility that the PS5 is going to end up being the more expensive console between the two, I'm trying not to say much here as I was asked not to but prepare yourself, which does put Xbox X in a position it'll be the
— AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1) August 12, 2020
In this specific post, he claims that he's heard the same from other devs, not just those in charge of making RE Village. Unfortunately, he stopped short of giving us any other information, but if this really is the case, Xbox could have a big step up on the PS5. What I really want to know about is what exactly does "fake 4K" mean? It could be something along the lines of extra-sharp graphics or textures or scaled up images to 4K resolution. Chances are that if the rumor is true, we'll never hear it from Sony, and the proof will be in the pudding anyway.
The good news is that we won't have to wait for very long. Microsoft has confirmed that the Xbox Series X will launch sometime in November, with rumors saying it'll happen on November 6th. Sony has yet to give even a vague release date outside of holiday season 2020 for the PlayStation 5, but release of both consoles is on the horizon anyway. Now, if one company could just release a price, so we can decide which to buy first, that would be great.
SourceAesthetic Gamer via Twitter
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WJRO Concerned About Polish Government Decision to Return Property Law to Ministry of Justice; Urges Speedy Passage of Just and Fair Legislation
Home » WJRO Concerned About Polish Government Decision to Return Property Law to Ministry of Justice; Urges Speedy Passage of Just and Fair Legislation
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February 14 – The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) called on the Government of Poland to move forward quickly with improved legislation to address property confiscations. This came after the Polish Council of Ministers yesterday returned draft legislation to the Ministry of Justice for reconsideration.
"We are concerned that this administrative step will delay passage of this legislation. Elderly Jewish and non-Jewish claimants who have waited over 70 years for justice for their lost property cannot wait any longer," said Gideon Taylor, WJRO Chair of Operations. "We urge the Government of Poland to quickly pass amended legislation that is just and fair for all who lost property, including Polish survivors of the Holocaust and their families."
In October 2017, the Polish Ministry of Justice published draft legislation announcing that it would be passed by the end of 2017. WJRO expressed its disappointment that the Ministry's proposal would exclude the vast majority of Holocaust survivors and their families.
WJRO's position paper, as submitted to the Ministry of Justice, can be found here.
According to the text published by the Ministry of Justice, the legislation would:
Require that claimants currently be citizens of Poland today. In addition, it would require that they have been residents in Poland at the time that their property was nationalized by the Communist regime. These provisions would exclude the vast majority of Holocaust survivors, and their families, who left Poland during the Holocaust or in its aftermath and now live outside Poland.
Exclude heirs, other than spouses and first line heirs (i.e. children, grandchildren). This unprecedented exception to existing Polish succession rules would disproportionately harm heirs of victims of the Holocaust. Because of the devastation of the Holocaust, non-linear heirs, such as siblings or nieces and nephews, were often the only remaining heirs to Jewish properties.
Bar claims by foreign citizens if they were eligible for compensation under postwar bilateral treaties between their country and Poland – even if they did not file claims. Most survivors were not eligible to file claims under these treaties, but even those who were eligible often did not know to file claims as they sought to rebuild their lives after the Holocaust.
Prevent people from filing claims for their property if owned through shares in a corporation.
Establish a short one-year claim period after which property would be transferred to the Polish Treasury.
Eliminate the possibility of return of the actual property, or of substitute property and limit compensation to 20% of the value of the property in cash or vouchers, or 25% in government bonds.
The proposed legislation, in Polish, can be found at the Ministry of Justice website.
Since 1993, the WJRO has urged the Government of Poland to address the issue of Holocaust-era restitution in a comprehensive manner. Roughly half of the Jews who perished in the Holocaust were Polish – approximately 3 million Polish Jews were killed in the Holocaust, 90% of the Polish Jewish population. Poland is the only major country in Europe that has not passed national legislation for the restitution of property unjustly seized by the Nazis and/or nationalized by the Communist regime.
For media inquiries please contact pr@wjro.org.il
Tags: Poland, Property, Restitution
Statement of Gideon Taylor, chair of operations of the World Jewish Restitution Organization and co-chair of The Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODZ) regarding Jewish cemetery in WarsawNews, Press Releases
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I Love The Smell Of Napalm In The Morning; Smells Like...Parody!
TROPIC THUNDER (Dir. Ben Stiller, 2008)
The comedy fortunes of Ben Stiller have fallen a bit lately (THE HEARTBREAK KID, anyone?) so it's a certainly a treat to see him in the full-on mockery mode that worked so well in ZOOLANDER - taking on the industry that made him famous and bringing along a crew of above par talent (including Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Steve Coogan, Nick Nolte, and one unrecognizable Tom Cruise who buys back a huge chunk of street cred here).
Unless you've been locked in a sound proof vault with no windows over the last few weeks you know that this movie features A) Robert Downey Jr. in black face as an Australian Academy Award winner who is playing a jive talking African American. B) A group of actors (Stiller, Downey Jr., Jay Barochel, and Bradon T. Jackson) trying to achieve A-List status making a Vietnam war picture but get stranded in the jungle and have to become real soldiers in order to fight their way out a la ¡THREE AMIGOS! and GALAXY QUEST. C) The before mentioned Tom Cruise as a bald pudgy foul-mouthed executive who nearly walks off, that is hip-hop dances off with the whole film.
Steve Coogan as the frustrated frizzy-haired film maker of what Access Hollywood calls: "the most expensive war movie never made" (a line likely drawn from pop culture punditry response to Francis Ford Coppola's extremely over schedule production back in the late 70's: "Apocalypse When?") decides to deposit the actors into the jungle with only a map and a script and he'll film them with hidden cameras and rigged explosives.
This plan immediately derails, in a crude but hilarious moment I won't spoil, and they run up against a heavily armed gang called Flaming Dragon who have a heroin producing work camp. They capture Stiller and hold him for ransom once the leader (fiercely played by child actor Brandon Soo Hoo) recognizes the actor from his career damaging flop "Simple Jack". Meanwhile Stiller's hotshot agent, Matthew McConaughey in chilled "alright, alright" mode, fights Cruise's heartless exec character for TiVo to be contractually provided for his client before realizing the severity of the situation.
The real cause of the botched conflict is a grizzled Nick Nolte as the author of the book "Tropic Thunder" and the inspiration for Coogan's "Guerilla style" tactics. Nolte and explosive expert Danny McBride (fresh off almost stealing PINEAPPLE EXPRESS) also get captured by the Dragon gang and all the pieces are in line for a ginormous and outrageous shoot-em-up finale with every player getting his shot at glory.
Before the film proper of TROPIC THUNDER begins (before the Dream Works logo even hits the screen that is) there are funny fake trailers that introduce us to the quartet of protagonists.
They set us up to embrace Stiller as a high grossing action star in "Scorcher 6" - an obvious dig at big overblown unnecessary franchises, Black as a pandering fart joke machine comic superstar in "The Fatties: Fart 2" - yep, a beyond obvious swipe at Eddie Murphy's sad state of fat suit affairs, an ad spoof featuring Jackson as an "Booty Sweat" energy drink hawking rapper, and most amusing "Satan's Alley", complete with a FOX Searchlight logo announcing it as a prestige picture, giving us Downey Jr. and Tobey Macguire (who once shared a bed together in WONDER BOYS) as monks in a forbidden homosexual relationship.
These and the many other digs at Hollywood cookie-cutter commerciality are the heart of this overblown but surprisingly not obnoxious comedy. The in-your-face-ness of the self aware atmosphere keep it from having to live or die joke to joke.
Downey Jr. is undoubtedly the best part of this project, his unflinching take on Russell Crowe-esque maniacal method acting results in many of the movies biggest laughs like for one: "Huh! What do you mean 'You People?'" Downey Jr. angrily asks Stiller at a stressful juncture. Jackson, who is authentically African American says, with an even angrier tone to Downey Jr., "What do you mean 'You People?'"
For all its over-the top silliness TROPIC THUNDER has a great gritty widescreen look; it has shots that look exactly like the excess-riden war epics its parodying like, of course, APOCALYPSE NOW and PLATOON - the poster of which Stiller tries to imitate, with his pumped up arms raised to the sky, every 10 minutes it seems.
I experienced uncountable successions of giggles but not all out guffaws during this movie. It never lagged on the laughs but they're of the small smirking kind for the most part. Still, it noisily announces itself as the mega comedy you cant ignore with performances that will be talked about for years and lines that will be endlessly quoted I predict.
I have to say that Stiller himself as an actor is not doing anything we haven't seen before - with his wide eyed pathos and tampered ego posturing his character is basically Derek Zoolander as if he were an action star and not a super model.
But as a director and writer, Stiller is doing something I want to see more of, that is making comedies with a wide scope of inspired tangents and most importantly casts full of talented energized folk who aren't afraid to make wicked fun of themselves while taking crazy chances too.
Copyright 2004-2018 Daniel Cook Johnson at 3:09 PM
Labels: Ben Stiller, Danny McBride, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Coogan, Tobey Macguire, Tom Cruise
Robert Downey Jr. cracks me up... he's got a knack for not taking himself too seriously
hey, we even saw First Snow in the theater. We're big fans of his. I could probably name a bunch: Priscilla Queen of the Desert and The Time Machine are just a couple others.
Getting way off topic here, but I love Taghmaoui. I need to dig back into his older films; as it is, I love seeing him pop up, though it sucks when it's as a terrorist-type.
Damnit, Daniel - I thought I actually saw a "small" film before you. Where's your review? (I'm currently writing mine.)
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I think this is one of your best reviews. I didn't think Galaxy Quest right off the bat, but 3 Amigos came to mind.
I saw the director's cut off of itunes and i'm starting to get the feeling that the version that people saw in theaters is different than what i say. in my version, coogan's character put them all in the woods because Les Grossman said he needed to get his characters under control, but Coogan gets killed by stepping on a landmine within 30 seconds of giving the actors' their speech.
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The winter can be a lot of fun, but it can also cause a lot of damage to your home and community. It's important that before the winter weather hits, you get your neighborhood ready for bad weather. Check out these four tips to winterize your community.
If your area gets snow during the winter, you'll need to prepare the neighborhood. The association should partner with snow clearing companies before the snow hits, so there won't be an issue if roads need to be cleared. It's also a good idea to get some ice melt and encourage homeowners to do the same. That way, if there is a little ice, it can be treated without having to contact the snow clearing company, and everyone stays safe on the road.
In other parts of the country, rain is common during winter, so if you expect a lot of rain, get ready for it. If you are part of a multi-family building, such as a condo, the association should hire someone to clean gutters, which will allow them to drain properly and prevent leaks. If the neighborhood is single-family detached units, urge homeowners to clean their gutters. The HOA can even contract with a professional who can clean everyone's gutters at a reduced rate.
The HOA should also ensure that common buildings or multi-family buildings will stay warm during the cold months. This means checking the furnaces and boilers to make sure they won't break. Check the exterior for cracks or holes, including the roof, doors, windows and walls. Don't forget to add insulation where needed, such as around windows and doors. If the homeowners live in detached dwellings, the responsibility falls on them to ensure their own homes stay warm, but you can help by educating them about what needs to be done. The HOA should also remind homeowners with wood-burning fireplaces to have theirs cleaned and checked before use.
The colder weather can also bring about winter storms, which can be devastating for your community, especially if there are high winds. If there are damaged trees or weak branches within the community, have them removed before winter. Request that homeowners do the same. The board may even want to consider adding it as a requirement in the governing documents.
It's up to the association to ensure winterization is completed on shared areas of the community, but it's also important that homeowners are urged to follow these same steps to prevent damage or injury.


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Annual Tunnel to Towers run honors firefighter killed on 9/11
(Craig Ruttle)
By EYewitness News
NEW YORK (WABC) -- The 15th annual Tunnel to Towers run is being held Sunday in honor of firefighter Stephen Siller, who died in the September 11 terror attacks.
The race traces the heroic steps he took when he abandoned his truck in Brooklyn and ran to the towers of the World Trade Center.
Among the 25,000 runners are about 100 from last weekend's Seaside Park Semper Fi Marine Corps fundraiser in New Jersey, which was canceled after the pipe bomb explosion.
All the money raised in Sunday's event will be for the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, supporting first responders and wounded veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Many streets across Brooklyn and Manhattan are closed for the race.
Organizers say hundreds of security officers will be at the Manhattan race.
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Students who were ditching praised for rescuing woman from fire
SAN RAMON, Calif. — The 94-year-old woman covered in soot was difficult for Peter Kravariotis to make out. Garen Kissoyan could only see her arm. Kirill Yantikov, lost in the dense smoke that rose chest high, crawled on the floor, searching for his two friends.
Before the 17-year-olds carried her out of the burning home, they all heard the woman's shrieks: "I'm on fire. I'm on fire."
A day after the daring rescue, the three California High School seniors returned to the boarded-up San Ramon home to tell how they sneaked out of class intending to get McDonald's and returned as heroes, a story that reached national newscasts and caught the attention of talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres.
"There was so much black smoke, and all you could see was flames," Kissoyan said. "We couldn't even see the lady. She was covered in ash."
The woman was taken to a burn unit at a San Francisco hospital, where she was in critical condition Tuesday. Her daughter was also home but not harmed.
Kravariotis, a goalie for the school's varsity lacrosse team, said he only ate an apple for breakfast and was hungry. Having finished an assignment early during a morning class, the teens sneaked off campus around 9:55 a.m., piled into Kravariotis' car, and were on their way to grab a bite at McDonald's when they saw a plume of smoke ahead. Why not check it out?
"We had to do something," Yantikov would say later.
By that time, according to neighbors, smoke and flames were shooting from windows and vents, and loud booms — thought to be oxygen tanks exploding — shook the cul-de-sac of Scarboro Place. The next seven minutes were a blur for the boys.
Instinct took over as they rushed to a woman in the backyard talking on the phone to fire dispatchers. With a garden hose, they fought a losing battle against the growing flames until the woman said something about another person still inside.
Kissoyan and Kravariotis ran in through a door in the garage but could not get past the billowing smoke, so they ran to the front door. There, they met 76-year-old neighbor Bob Smith, who hollered that a woman was inside but he didn't have the strength to pull her out.
With little visibility, they pushed through the haze, found the woman still seated on her chair, and pulled her and her 18-year-old dog out. Kissoyan said the woman's burned hair stuck to his jacket. Yantikov, who lost sight of his friends, eventually crawled out.
Firefighters arrived, venting the roof and extinguishing the two-alarm fire 45 minutes later.
The teens, who Kravariotis said smelled strongly of smoke, returned to class, almost as if nothing had happened. They were soon called to Principal Mark Corti's office and shown a recording of them ditching school. But they also heard a voicemail from Smith, who pointed out their heroic actions and asked Corti to take it easy on them.
The teenagers said they have to serve four volunteer hours for the class they ditched, but they would do it again.
"It's better than them giving us a detention," Kravariotis said. "If that ever happened again, I know we would go into a burning house."
Added their teacher, Kathleen Seabury: "In a situation like this, the true caliber of your character comes through. I'm not surprised — they are good guys.
"They cut class but at the end of the day things happened for a reason. It was meant to be."


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Q: Почему не вызывается функция? Есть такой код:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Площадь треуголника по 3 сторонам</title>

1 сторона:<input type="text" id="one">

2 сторона:<input type="text" id="two">

3 сторона:<input type="text" id="three">

<input type="button" value="Считать" onclick="click()">

Площадь равна:

И у меня один вопрос: почему не вызывается эта функция click()? Я ничего не могу понять.
A: Плохое имя функции: переименуйте click во что-нибудь нормальное и тогда заработает.
A: Функция совпадает с именем события.
A:

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Slayer are suing the organizers of Iceland's Secret Solstice music festival, according to RÚV (the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service).
You can check out the entire report here.
Starr's song suddenly sounds a lot less upbeat.


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Das Idiom (von  "Besonderheit, Eigenart") ist die eigentümliche Sprache oder Sprechweise einer regional (Regiolekt) oder sozial (Soziolekt) abgegrenzten Gruppe oder die Spracheigentümlichkeit eines einzelnen Sprechers (Idiolekt). Nach Eberhards (1910) bezeichnet Idiom "überhaupt jede Spracheigenheit und Spracheigentümlichkeit, dann die Summe dieser Spracheigentümlichkeiten innerhalb einer Sprache, daher dann auch die Volkssprache, die Mundart in ihrer Eigenheit". Es ist "[…] lediglich ein technischer Ausdruck der Sprachwissenschaft und legt den Nachdruck auf die besonderen Spracheigenheiten der Volkssprache sowie im allgemeineren Sinne jede eigentümliche selbstständige Sprache".

Siehe auch
 Idiom – Begriffsklärungsseite
 Jargon
 Phraseologismus
 Redewendung
 Sondersprache
 Sprachgebrauch
 Sprachverwendung
 Transgression (Linguistik)
 Varietät (Linguistik)

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Q: Discrepancy between GTiff and MEM drivers I was expecting that both the drivers would behave the same way, except that 'MEM' will not create the file.
However, in this test 'MEM' pass, but 'GTiff' does not.
Can someone explain why?
class TestMEMVsGTiff(unittest.TestCase):

    @staticmethod
    def check(driver_type):

        temp_tif = tempfile.mktemp(suffix='.tif')
        data = np.array([[[4, 7, 7, 7, 2, 7.],
                         [4, 7, 7, 7, 2, 7.],
                         [4, 7, 7, 7, 2, 7.],
                         [4, 7, 7, 2, 2, 7.],
                         [4, 7, 7, 2, 2, 7.],
                         [4, 7, 7, 10, 2, 7.]],
                        [[2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.],
                         [2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2.],
                         [0, 1., 0, 0, 0, 1.],
                         [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2],
                         [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.],
                         [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.]]], dtype=np.float32)
        src_ds = gdal.GetDriverByName(driver_type).Create(temp_tif, 6, 6, 2,
                                                    gdalconst.GDT_Float32)

        src_ds.GetRasterBand(1).WriteArray(data[0, :, :])
        src_ds.GetRasterBand(1).SetNoDataValue(2)
        src_ds.GetRasterBand(2).WriteArray(data[1, :, :])
        # src_ds.GetRasterBand(2).SetNoDataValue()
        src_ds.SetGeoTransform([10, 1, 0, 10, 0, -1])
        src_ds.FlushCache()

        dst_ds = gdal.GetDriverByName('MEM').Create('', 3, 3, 2,
                                                    gdalconst.GDT_Float32)
        dst_ds.GetRasterBand(1).SetNoDataValue(3)
        dst_ds.GetRasterBand(1).Fill(3)
        dst_ds.SetGeoTransform([10, 2, 0, 10, 0, -2])

        gdal.ReprojectImage(src_ds, dst_ds, '', '', gdal.GRA_Average)
        got_data = dst_ds.GetRasterBand(1).ReadAsArray()
        expected_data = np.array([[5.5, 7, 7],
                                  [5.5, 7, 7],
                                  [5.5, 8, 7]])
        np.testing.assert_array_equal(got_data, expected_data)
        band2 = dst_ds.GetRasterBand(2).ReadAsArray()
        np.testing.assert_array_equal(band2, np.array([[1., 0., 0.5],
                                                       [0.25, 0., 0.75],
                                                       [0., 0., 0.]]))

    def test_mem(self):
        self.check('MEM')

    def test_gtiff(self):
        self.check('GTiff')

A: I have found the problem with the GTiff driver.
The problem is that I was not assigning a noDataValue to band2.
There is a difference between the GTiff and the MEM drivers.
When left unassigned, in the Gtiff driver assigns a nodatavalue for band2 to be equal to band1 noDataValue. However, the MEM driver does not.
This inconsistency should be fixed.
The following unitest will pass:
class TestMEMVsGTiff(unittest.TestCase):

@staticmethod
def check(driver_type):

    temp_tif = tempfile.mktemp(suffix='.tif')

    data = np.array([[[4, 7, 7, 7, 2, 7.],
                     [4, 7, 7, 7, 2, 7.],
                     [4, 7, 7, 7, 2, 7.],
                     [4, 7, 7, 2, 2, 7.],
                     [4, 7, 7, 2, 2, 7.],
                     [4, 7, 7, 10, 2, 7.]],
                    [[2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.],
                     [2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2.],
                     [0, 1., 0, 0, 0, 1.],
                     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2],
                     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.],
                     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.]]], dtype=np.float32)
    src_ds = gdal.GetDriverByName(driver_type).Create(temp_tif, 6, 6, 2,
                                                gdalconst.GDT_Float32)

    src_ds.GetRasterBand(1).WriteArray(data[0, :, :])
    src_ds.GetRasterBand(1).SetNoDataValue(2)
    src_ds.GetRasterBand(2).WriteArray(data[1, :, :])
    src_ds.GetRasterBand(2).SetNoDataValue(3)
    src_ds.SetGeoTransform([10, 1, 0, 10, 0, -1])
    src_ds.FlushCache()

    print src_ds.ReadAsArray()
    print src_ds.GetRasterBand(2).GetNoDataValue()

    dst_ds = gdal.GetDriverByName('MEM').Create('', 3, 3, 2,
                                                gdalconst.GDT_Float32)
    dst_ds.GetRasterBand(1).SetNoDataValue(3)
    dst_ds.GetRasterBand(1).Fill(3)
    dst_ds.SetGeoTransform([10, 2, 0, 10, 0, -2])

    gdal.ReprojectImage(src_ds, dst_ds, '', '', gdal.GRA_Average)
    band1 = dst_ds.GetRasterBand(1).ReadAsArray()
    np.testing.assert_array_equal(band1, np.array([[5.5, 7, 7],
                                                   [5.5, 7, 7],
                                                   [5.5, 8, 7]]))
    band2 = dst_ds.GetRasterBand(2).ReadAsArray()
    print band2
    np.testing.assert_array_equal(band2, np.array([[1., 0., 0.5],
                                                   [0.25, 0., 0.75],
                                                   [0., 0., 0.]]))

def test_mem(self):
    self.check('MEM')

def test_gtiff(self):
    self.check('GTiff')


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Venezuela: ¡Hasta la Victoria Siempre!
New York Times Corrects False Statement on Venezuela.
Written by Mark Weisbrot
CEPR Center For Economic and Policy Research
Kudos to the New York Times for correcting its error regarding TV media in Venezuela. I had written about this error here on Monday (Feb 24). It was an important mistake--the Times had led its Friday report with this statement:
"The only television station that regularly broadcast voices critical of the government was sold last year and the new owners have softened its news coverage."
The Times' correction reads:
Correction: February 26, 2014
An earlier version of this article referred imprecisely to Globovision. Before its sale last year, it broadcast more voices critical of the Venezuelan government than any other TV station, but it was not the only one to regularly feature government critics.
It sure wasn't, and it still isn't during the current protests, as documented here. This is important because the opposition leadership is trying to say that they are living under a dictatorship, and they are justifying their demands for the overthrow of a democratically elected government on this basis.
Many other news outlets have made the same error in reporting on the TV media in Venezuela. Hopefully they will be more accurate in the future.
Many thanks to Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy and the nearly 13,000 people who quickly signed a petition to the New York Times asking for this correction.
People often ask what they can do to change U.S. foreign policy, and one important thing that almost anyone with an internet connection can do is hold the media accountable for these kinds of misrepresentations. On the one hand, the mass media can play a huge role in legitimating terrible crimes, as in the run-up to the Iraq War, which cost more than a million lives and probably wouldn't have happened if the media had done its job. On the other hand, there are thousands of reporters and editors who are trying to do their job and adhere to basic journalistic standards of accuracy and balance. Readers and listeners can help them do this.
Now, what about the Committee to Protect Journalists? Their statement was more outrageously false than the one corrected by the Times: "Nearly all TV stations in Venezuela are either controlled or allied with the government of Nicolás Maduro and have ignored the nationwide protests."
Will they correct it? Ask them.
No Apologies (Venezuela)
Posted by AKHAN
Voice of América,Wednesday, February 26, 2014.
There is little more about Venezuela that I can offer my readers that has not already been said and can easily be found on the Internet. Most have probably definitively decided which side of the crisis they stand on - a Chavista or a "supporter of democracy" as if the two are mutually exclusive. I must confess - I am not neutral. I am biased. Unabashedly partisan and biased. Yet, for me, there is no option otherwise. Perhaps it is fitting I write this on the 2 year anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin, another case where there is not a grey area. In Venezuela, there is a battle going on - one that has been waged from time immemorial and has seen a recent pendulum shift in the past 15 years in the streets and countryside of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
The time has passed for turning back the gains that have been won by the people of Venezuela and, indeed, the world. It is true that challenges are still faced - there is no Utopia - but these challenges do not negate the successes. These successes have led Venezuela to a societal state where the debate among the working class is not survival or death, but rather elite-challenged stasis in a state of dignity or ultimate victory in a move to full socialism and ultimately a worker's state. The successes of the Bolivarian Revolution are not merely abstract, but concrete. Even the bourgeois international organizations that shudder at the thought of socialism and a lurch away from capitalism cannot fudge the data that shows the rates of poverty and extreme poverty slashed by more than half. Children going hungry is being eradicated. Health insurance is now the right of all. So too is secondary education - extended now to all the people of Venezuela and no longer a privilege of the light-skinned elite.
The Revolution has loudly proclaimed that one's skin tone will not determine whether one is respected in society. The late Hugo Chavez proudly announced his African and indigenous heritage to a country where elitist colorism was endemic. The masses of Venezuela were not respected as a class or as individuals. They were never forgotten before the Revolution. No, never forgotten. They were always remembered. They were remembered when the time came to find servants, laborers, buckshot fodder. The people of Venezuela - those who created the wealth of the nation - were never forgotten. Their economic value was known for without them the elites would have collapsed. It was the sweat and blood of the masses that gave rise to the prosperity of the nation of Simon Bolivar.
The time had come for change though - time for Revolution. The Revolution of the oppressed. It was a true revolution and one inspired not by hate, but by love of the people by the people as embodied in its leader, Hugo Chavez, a man who rose from the people, but never above the people. The Revolution began not as one to tell the masses what they must do, but rather one that served the masses as it came from the masses. No longer would the dictates of the few control the yearnings of the many. And so it was that the Bolivarian Revolution began and continued.
So galling is this Revolution though to those who previously controlled the reins of power for not only did the Revolution bring mental liberation and societal dignity to the people - something often found in movements of the people - but the Revolution took the gears of the economy and began to grind them for the people. Not only would the people have mental and social liberation but their liberation would be backed by economic control as consolidated in the revolutionary government led by the PSUV.
In the years before his death, President Chavez, who had transformed the nation, began to consolidate the power of the Revolution in the hands of the people setting out a path of popular control and elucidating the ideas of a present - not just a future - of the commune where the people would truly control their destiny. The State would stand as a bulwark against the reactionism of the opposition. Again, this putting control of the society in the hands of the previously oppressed was too much and the institution providing cover for this liberation would need to be vanquished. These attempts began early in the Chavez administration as seen in the short-lived coup of 2002 and later destabilization attempts egged on by the United States and Colombia. Yet unlike bourgeois reformist "revolutions", the popular masses were militantly in support of their government - a government of the people - and they refused to accept these attempts by the elite. The 2002 coup was reversed within 48 hours and the destabilization attempts merely hardened the will of the people.
Today...the opposition is back, still elitist, still angry, still on the losing side of elections. And still destabilizing. Under the guise of democracy and behind Guy Fawkes masks, spoiled children of the elites are protesting in their streets against the Revolution. Protesting against corruption (read: hiccups in nationalization), protesting against inflation (read: higher costs for their luxury cars), protesting against shortages (which their class is creating) and protesting against...the Revolution. But most of all, protesting against the people. Protesting against universal education and health care and community power and nationalization and workers' control in the service of the people. Protesting with the filthy lucre of the Empire to the North. Protesting with the support of governmental NGOs. Protesting for democracy as they refuse to accept the result of democracy. Refusing to accept defeat and decrying liberation of the people.
I am a partisan. I reject the machinations of the reactionary right. I reject their backers in Washington and Bogota. I reject their elitism. And their status as compradors of the Empire. I offer no apologies. I am a Bolivarian in the United States. But I am compelled not by rejection. I am impelled by the spirit of the Revolution as seen in the eyes of the people who have seized liberation and will not cede it. I am impelled by the example of the Revolution - by its successes and by the struggle of its militant supporters to rectify its shortcomings. I am impelled by the spirit of Tupac Amaru. And Bolivar. And Villa. And Castro. And Chavez. And the people. For it is the people that the Revolution is driven. It is for the people that the Revolution continues. It is for the people that errors may be made. But it is errors of passion and love. It is a Revolution that rejects both the reactionary Right and the laissez-faire liberalism of Western "humanitarianism". The people need their comrades, not mere words. The people need their power. Their power. The power of their government in the face of organized resistance of the traditional elites that are arrayed against this living, breathing Revolution of the People.
The answer is not compromise. The answer is not falling over and apologizing to those who never cared for us- the people - for mistakes. There is no perfection in the world. Perfection is God's. I offer no apologies. No apologies to the elite are needed for the Revolution and it is the elite that is attempting to topple the government of Nicolas Maduro, of the people. Constructive criticism is fair...and needed. Destabilization and rejection of democracy and people's liberation is not. A return to the past where freedom was a mere dream will not occur. No apologies. No apologies for stumbling. The only apology would be compromising the Revolution.
We, the people, will not turn back. We will admit mistakes and analyze our actions but we will not end this Revolution to please anyone. We will not be told to moderate ourselves. We will not be told to stop loving ourselves. We will not be told to negotiate our death. We are. We will be. Our Revolution began and will continue.
With one voice, our voice, the Voice of America, the voice of the people across the world, we militantly declare:
No apologies!
¡Viva La Revolucion!
#TwitterBolivarianArmy
KAHN1224 at 6:15 PM
Saturday, March 01, 2014 | Posted by Guanaguanare at 3:00 AM
Labels: Destabilisation, disinformation, self-determination, Venezuela
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Introduction: A foundry is where the elaborate metal casting process takes place. A metal foundry may specialize in making one particular item or a variety of products using different alloys. Based on the production requirement, there are small foundries that employ few people and large industrial foundries that employ thousands of workers.
History: Foundry operations of the present day is an outcome of thousands of years of experimenting with different metals and casting methods. Very little documented evidence of casting and foundry operations are available of the ancient time. The proof of castings are in the form of jeweleries, household items and religious times that were unearthed during excavations or preserved as historic relics.
The foundry process was first documented circa 1500 by Vannoccio Biringuccio who is know as the "father of the foundry industry". Rapid growth in the casting industyr took place in the industrialisation age. With the invention of machines and equipment in the industiral age, casting could be done on a large scale. The scientific revolution in this century increased the demand of casting products for automobiles, machines, weapons, etc. In the modern era, metal casting finds its application from kitchen wares to aircraft components.
Types of Foudries: Depending upon the type of end users, the wide variety of molding or the casting process can be basically divided into- Commercial foundry and Hobby foundry.
» Captive foundry: These foundries are part of a manufacturing company which uses the casted products to meet the companies own production need.
» Independent foundry: Here casting are produced as per the customers specification.
» Jobbing foundry: These are fully equipped foundry which does not have its own individual casting business, but undertake contractual casting for other companies. Mostly, production are taken up for small quantity only.
» Production foundry: In such foundries casting operations are done in bulk for one types of casting. The advantage in this method is that this fully equipped foundry unit can deliver flawless products at the most economical rates.
» Semi production shop: It is the kind of operations where the company operations follow both the jobbing and the production casting.
Hobby Foundries: These are small but fully equipped foundry units setup inside a house or in the backyards. Such foundries are set up by amateurs who loves tocreate casting products according to ones desire. The home foundries also serves other purpose like mending the worn our metal items and for casting special part or component that are not available in the market.
» Environmental: The environmental study is done to ensure that the foundry operations does not effect the natural surroundings. It is essential for the foundries to follow the standard guidelines for setting up the industry, so that the residential areas near the foundry are not affected in any way. While setting up a foundry care must be taken also to protect the flora and fauna, and the water bodies in the surrounding areas.
» Economical: The economic capacity of the foundry owners and the end-users is an important aspect while selecting the equipment and machines for the foundry operations. Cost effective and premium quality castings can be manufactured by selecting the appropriate metallurgical designs and making optimum use of alloys. Foundry operations can also be made cost-effective and convenient by avoiding patterns which are difficult to draw or molds . In addition, coring can either be eliminated or reduced for economic reasons.
Technicians: Mutual understanding and coordination between the professional working in different foundry activities is essential. Especially, the patternmakers and the molders should work in close coordination because patternmaking is an art whereas, molding is technical in nature. A pattermmaker can do simple molding and the molder can make simple patterns, but beyond a point they are dependent on each other for sophisitcated and innovative castings.
It is the vessel used to hold the molten metal before it is poured into the mold. The crucibles are made of the mixtures of graphite, silicon and clay, which have a higher melting point than that the metals that are to be melted in it.
Gas gun Instrument used to introduce gas triggers like CO2 into sand moulds.
Metals cast into blocks or other shapes so as to enable easy handling and further process of the metals. for eg. gold ingots.
When there is an inner and outer mold, the outermold may be designed to penetrate into the inner design, inorder to make the mold very tight. This prevents the mould from disengaing during the casting process.
A surface feature which is incoporated in the pattern, which forms a sharp overhang or deep pocket.
Master pattern Basic complete pattern that is designed by artist or designer.
Molding material Materials like sand, plaster, etc. used to pack around the pattern. When the pattern is removed it leaves a cavity in the shape of the pattern.
or parting surface These lines are the marks that will indicate where the different segments of the molds meet, when the mold is closed for casting.
Ramming up The act of compressing refractory sand medium around a master pattern or core box.
Fins Projections designed on a casting to extract heat, which are later removed while cleaning.
Thermal arrest During the thermal arrest the material is converted from a liquid to a solid.
Stripping The process of removing the master pattern from the flask after the mould has been set.


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CHENEY -- Needed maintenance work on Burlington Northern Santa Fe's main line through Cheney will close several railroad crossings next week.
According to BNSF and city of Cheney officials, the crossing at Lance Hill Road will be closed Wednesday, March 11 and Friday, March 13, from 5:30 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m. The crossing in downtown Cheney at F Street and Cheney-Spangle Road will be closed Thursday, March 12 from 5:30 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m. and again on Monday, March 16, along with the crossing at Pine Street from 5:30 -- 12:30 p.m.
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Tehachapi, a solo exhibition by French artist JR.
By Mark Westall • 25 August 2020
Perrotin gallery to present Tehachapi, a solo exhibition by French artist JR. In October 2019, JR received permission to work in a maximum-security prison located in Tehachapi, California. Initially, JR went there to meet twenty-eight prisoners and present an idea for a collaborative, artistic project in the central yard.
At Tehachapi, the majority of the incarcerated population has been imprisoned for nearly a decade, with many sentenced to life with no chance of parole. Due to California's Three Strikes law.
Today, nearly half of the inmates sentenced under the law are serving for nonviolent crimes.
JR photographed the men, one by one, from above, and they told their story in front of a camera. No specific questions were asked; they had the freedom to tell express themselves candidly. JR also photographed former prisoners and prison staff, collecting a total of forty-eight portraits and stories from the prison system. Two weeks later, JR returned with his team to paste 338 strips of paper to the ground. Under an autumn sun, in just a few hours, the prison's incarcerated populated worked with guards, former inmates, while members of JR's studio, equipped with push brooms and wallpaper glue, completed the prison yard collage. The strips of paper were numbered so they could be assembled side by side to form a giant puzzle. From the prison yard, the final installation image is indiscernible. Yet, from above, it becomes clear — incarcerated people, former inmates, as well as the prison staff, and victims stand shoulder to shoulder. The installation, naturally ephemeral, disappeared in three days under the footsteps of the prisoners.
In February 2020, JR returned to the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi to continue doing what he does best — creating powerful, largescale wall pastings that disappear over time. Inspired by the Tehachapi Mountains, which lie just out of view from the central yard of the complex, and working collectively with volunteers composed of the prisoners, JR conjured up a wheat-pasted mountain range across the surface of the courtyard's inner wall. The installation still remains today.
Anamorphosis
Anamorphosis is a visual technique that utilizes the reversible deformation of an image through an optical system or a mathematical transformation. In the case of Tehachapi, the viewpoint that reveals the image is accessible
only from above – here, using a drone. In the past, JR has frequently employed anamorphosis within his practice:
on a staircase in a favela in Brazil, a row of buildings in Marseille, and more recently, surrounding the Louvre's Pyramid. For this particular project, which took place in March of 2019, JR ideated a monumental collage across the Cour Napoléon at the Louvre. With the help of hundreds of volunteers, the final installation was composed of 2,000 strips of glued paper.
This monumental, ephemeral, and collaborative work was only visible from one of the Louvre's archive rooms where a camera was installed to document the evolution of the project.
In the same way that the Louvre collage would not have been possible without the participation of the general public, the two Tehachapi collages are collaborative works with the prisoners, former inmates, prison staff, as well as JR's team. Like the visual itself, the interactions between the various participants are an integral part of the project.
Working towards a common goal that – on the surface – has no useful function, becomes both a bridge and a pretext for a larger conversation. Since the completion of the project, a number of the inmates formed a working
group to begin art classes, and JR continues to stay in touch in order to maintain the long-term goals of the project.
The extraordinary and exceptional nature of this project, for the artist as well as for the participants, interrupts quotidian life. At its core, it is a disruption of a highly regulated system through the introduction of an artistic element
that hinges on collaboration, reflection and solidarity. Why introduce a large-scale art installation into the middle of California's desert on a concrete and sand yard? The majority of JR's installations have occupied unexpected spaces: A neighbourhood in Kenya, a container ship, across the US and Mexico border. We use art to ask questions — Can art be a vehicle for social change? Can it shed new light and raise questions about the correctional system in the United States?
To learn more about the project Tehachapi, you can download the free app for iPhone and for Android: explore the image and listen to all the participant's stories.
JR TEHACHAPI 29th August – 26th September 2020 Paris perrotin.com
"I have been continually interested in the prison system. After all, prisons are made of so many walls, which have formed the foundation of my practice. I did a project a few years ago at Rikers Island, and it was a fascinating experience because time moves slowly in a prison. When those inside are confronted with something new, it quickly becomes important and the community invests so much energy into each project. A friend called me recently to say there was a possibility to access a prison in California. At first, I thought it would be too much paperwork and too many constraints. Fortunately, a former participant from The Chronicles of San Francisco was able to facilitate. So, with Google Earth, I searched through all 35 of California's state prisons, and I chose Tehachapi without knowing it was a maximum-security prison. Seen from the sky, the concrete prison yard, architecturally, seemed to lend itself to a large-scale community installation.
The idea was to engage with men working through the rehabilitation process, formerly incarcerated men, family members, the prison staff, as well as those who sought reconciliation, including victims and their families. When I got there, I understood that most of these men were incarcerated when they were teenagers, between 13 and 20 years old, many of them for life. I told them about my project and made it clear that I did not need to know what they were accused of unless they wanted to speak of it. They had a trial and they were sentenced. I am not their judge. Nevertheless, a few left the room as they felt that their participation in the project would not be welcomed by their families or for the families of their victims. A number of them were in prison for life because of the three strikes law in California. Some will be freed because the law has changed since they entered prison. During the process, I was allowed to use my phone and I shared stories about the installation on social media. I received reactions from all around the world, from their families, from victims, from critics, as well as those shocked by what they saw, including tattoos of a swastika. I shared these reactions and we spoke about them. The families of the inmates also replied on social media and there was a connection between the inside and the outside for a brief moment. Once the piece was completed, we decided to wait for a couple of weeks so we could put together a platform for everyone to hear the stories. Why? Because we know that it is a sensitive subject and we wanted everyone to be able to listen to stories of hope and redemption, as well as hearing testimonies that are routinely silenced. What happened in that yard — when these men, alongside guards as well as victims, came together collectively for a singular vision — has to be seen. We wanted to share the process and embrace the complexity of human actions and feelings. These men have been judged guilty when they were young; some were forced into gangs and mistakes were made. They have paid the price; some are still paying.
The final image was captured with a drone. It includes a few formerly incarcerated men, as well as victims. They came together to paste a monumental image composed of 338 individual strips of paper. A few years ago I started a journey called "Can Art Change the World?" It is still an open question. And with this project, I want to raise another question: "Can a man change?" Before answering yes or no, ask yourself a question: Have I changed? Did I make mistakes, apologize and amend for them? And if I haven't, why haven't I been able to?" – JR
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The largest solo museum exhibition to date of the internationally recognised French artist JR to open in London.
This November, Saatchi Gallery presents JR: Chronicles – the largest solo museum exhibition to date of the internationally recognised French artist JR, featuring some of his most iconic projects from the past fifteen years. This exhibition will be presented at London's Saatchi Gallery from November 13th to February 9th, 2021.
Bharti Kher The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos
New Delhi based artist Bharti Kher has a new solo exhibition The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos opening in New York this week.
Perrotin invites 26 Paris galleries to show artwork in their Saint-Claude space.
From May 23rd to August 14th, Perrotin have invited 26 Paris-based galleries to present a selection of work from their artists. Debuting in their Saint-Claude space, the exhibition will be comprised of four consecutive two-week-long presentations, with each one inclusive of six to seven independent galleries.
Today, TIME publishes Finding Hope: A TIME 100 Special Report.
Today, TIME publishes Finding Hope: A TIME 100 Special Report. In the issue, members of the TIME 100 community—including leading doctors, scientists, politicians, artists, athletes and entertainers—address the coronavirus pandemic by sharing insights into how to navigate this new reality and offering solutions to the challenges we must all now face, through op-eds, interviews with TIME, and more.
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Professor Dr. Abdul Rahman Bin Mohamed
Professor Dr. Abdul Rahman Bin Mohamed has been appointed by the Ministry of Higher Education as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Industry and Community Network of Universiti Sains Malaysia for a term of three years effective from 1st of May 2016.
The former Dean of the School of Chemical Engineering USM and currently the director of "Sciences and Arts Innovation Space" or known as Sains@USM is taking over from Professor Dato' Dr. Susie See Ching Mey, who held the post since 1 February 2011.
A Top Research Scientist in Malaysia (TRSM) and an expert in Reaction Engineering and Catalysis, Air Pollution Monitoring and Control, Fuel Technology and Nanotechnology obtained his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Southern California, USA and later graduated with a master of science (Chem. Eng.) and PhD in the same field from the University of New Hampshire, both in the United States.
Professor Dr. Abdul Rahman Mohamed began his career at USM as a lecturer in 1993. He has served as the Director of the Industry Collaboration Centre as well as being among the main academicians heading the Research and Development Division of 'Collaborative Research in Engineering, Science and Technology', an initiative which mobilises collaborations with various partners to prepare an ecosystem and to intensify the involvement of the academia with the industry in the country.
He is well-known as a researcher and scientist with more than 80 grants awarded to him internationally, valued more than RM18 million, and having publications with high-impact citations included in the Scopus bibliographic database, in addition to hundreds of research papers in various well-renowned academic journals, along with academic and professional networks from various countries including Japan and France.
There was no doubt of his calibre when he was selected to be one of the seven researchers from USM to receive the Malaysia's Rising Star Award as a recognition in successfully producing articles with publications cited in the top 1% in the world, in reference to the data from the Web of Science (WoS) Thomas Reuters and Incites.


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Considering the length of time that has passed since graduation, the good turnout proved to be a pleasant surprise, with many making the effort to hop on planes or trains to attend the event. Informal and informative, the buzzing atmosphere was punctuated with laughter throughout the evening, as friendships rekindled and new connections were made. Memory games and a photo collage video helped to bring back the group's cherished recollections from NUS, covering everything from the awkward bell-bottom era to sleepovers with Saturday Night Fever.
Though many hadn't met for years, the atmosphere was jubilant as old acquaintances enjoyed the chance to reconnect. Pek Chong Koon and Ong Hoon Meng, who hadn't set eyes on each other since graduation, commented that nothing had changed since they last met. Ong Hock Ann remarked, "It's bo nus time to catch up. I make it to every reunion." Even those who couldn't attend were present in spirit, with Peter Lam, Yeoh Cheang Teik and Miiko Tan sending their well wishes from afar. Miiko reminisced about time bringing many changes and the precious nature of life and friendships; while Yeoh Cheang Teik issued a standing invitation to old classmates who visit Kuala Lumpur to hit him up for a drink.
Pheck Choo and her Global Alumni Network Office (GANO) team's mission to build relationships across networking events was made clear throughout the evening, with Mach Goh expressing his sincere gratitude for their hospitality. Other advocates for the event were overwhelming in their support. Besides contributing funds to the existing NUSBSAA – BBA/BACC Class of 1981 Bursary, many also put their hands in their pockets to supplement the collection towards a new bursary, the Tan Chwee Huat Memorial Bursary, in honour of their late professor. Others were encouraged to sign up for the NUS Bizad Charity Run in aid of Autism Research Centre, which is taking place 14 January 2017. There's still plenty of time to subscribe if you want to join in!
If you wish to donate to the Tan Chwee Huat bursary fund, please contact Kerry Tan of our Development Office at 6516 1545 / biztzk@nus.edu.sg.
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