BEIRUT - A Syrian branch of al-Qaida on Tuesday claimed responsibility for what the group said were suicide attacks on security compounds in Damascus that killed at least five people, while troops fought rebels on the edge of the capital in the latest surge of violence in the Syrian capital.
The claim by Jabhat al-Nusra - the first in months - came as the U.N.'s special representative trying to end Syria's civil war said hopes for convening a peace conference next month are fading.
The Nusra Front has emerged as the most effective fighting force on the side of the opposition fighting to oust President Bashar Assad. The group has previously claimed car bombings and attacks on government soldiers and its fighters have been leading other rebels groups in battles for military bases in the north much of which is under control of the opposition.
The group's affiliation with al-Qaida, however, has significantly contributed to the reluctance of the opposition's Western backers to arm the rebels with heavier weapons.
More than 93,000 people have been killed since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011. It started as peaceful protests against Assad's rule but turned into a civil war after some opposition members took up arms to fight the government's harsh crackdown on dissent. Since then, radical groups like the Nusra front have gained influence on the battlefield as opposition's political leadership struggles to unify its ranks.
The conflict has taken increasingly sectarian tones with Sunni Muslims dominating rebel groups fighting against Assad's regime, which is predominantly Alawite, an offshoot sect of Shiite Islam.
Even the most modest international efforts to end the Syrian conflict have failed.
In Switzerland, U.N.'s special envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, told reporters he still hopes a second round of international negotiations to find a political solution to the conflict can be convened in Geneva - but not until later in the summer.
"Frankly now, I doubt whether the conference will take place in July," he said, noting that the Syrian opposition is not meeting until early July and probably would not be ready.
"Since our previous meeting here on the 5th of June, the situation on the ground in Syria has hardly improved. It is still relentless destruction, killing, more suffering, more injustice, and more uncertainty for the future of the Syrian people," Brahimi said.
Brahimi was mediating a meeting between the U.S. and Russia, which are at loggerheads over the conflict.
Russia supports the regime and Washington has backed the opposition, which insists Assad should relinquish power before any talks with Damascus can take place. Assad has repeatedly dismissed demands to leave power and said he has the right to run for another term in next year's presidential elections.
Jabhat al-Nusra claimed responsibility for Sunday's attacks in Damascus in a statement posted on a militant website, warning Assad that his "criminal regime" should know that its fighters "do not fear any confrontation with the enemies."
The group said it had sent seven suicide bombers wearing Syrian military uniforms to break into a police station in northern Damascus and a security compound in a southern district of the capital. The group also posted several pictures claiming to show the attackers. Their faces blurred, the men are seen wearing military uniforms and holding Kalashnikovs as they sit on the ground with Jabhat al-Nusra black banner hanged behind them.
"The criminal and traitor regime should know that Sunni people stand on solid ground and brave men who do not fear any confrontation with the enemies...and they are ready to sacrifice their blood in order to protect the souls and honor of their people," the statement said.


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Employees produce more, work more, stay at companies longer and will sacrifice higher pay if they find meaning in their work, reveals groundbreaking research conducted by BetterUp Labs, the research arm of BetterUp, the company that pioneered mobile coaching to help all workers live their lives with optimal clarity, purpose and passion.
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Microsoft, Motorola to debate implications of Google-MPEG LA agreement at Jan. 28 hearing
On New Year's Eve, Judge James L. Robart, the federal judge presiding over the Microsoft v. Motorola Mobility FRAND contract litigation in the Western District of Washington, scheduled an oral argument for January 28, 2013 to "address both the Google-MPEG LA license agreement and Microsoft's motion for summary judgment of invalidity". These two items were not discussed at the FRAND rate-setting bench trial that took place in mid-November.
I have reported on the Google-MPEG LA matter before. Two weeks ago it became known that Google signed the same standard license agreement with MPEG LA as more than 1,000 other companies, and I interpret the agreement as containing a definitive grant-back obligation covering, in conjunction with the agreement's definition of affiliate companies (which includes companies acquired after the conclusion of the license agreement), Motorola's allegedly H.264-essential patents. The Seattle FRAND case involves H.264 and IEEE 802.11 (WiFi, or WLAN) patents; the Google-MPEG LA agreement relates to the H.264 video codec standard.
Originally, Microsoft raised this contractual issue with a focus on injunctive relief. Even before the court took a closer look at the Google-MPEG LA deal, Judge Robart made a summary judgment decision barring Motorola Mobility from the pursuit and enforcement of injunctive relief against Microsoft over any H.264 or IEEE 802.11 SEPs anywhere in the world. The agreement still has a bearing on the rate-setting decision Judge Robart is preparing: if the court agrees with Microsoft, Google's Motorola Mobility will be entitled to a royalty rate corresponding to the MPEG LA AVC/H.264 pool rate, relative to the number of patents contributed. On that basis, the annual cap would be a six-digit figure, a far cry from the $100 million cap Google (Motorola) more recently proposed.
Here's what Judge Robart is now particularly interested in with respect to the Google-MPEG LA deal:
"At argument, with respect to the Google-MPEG LA license agreement, the parties shall address (1) the proper interpretation of the Google-MPEG LA license agreement under the law of the State of New York; and (2) the import of the Google-MPEG LA license agreement as it relates to H.264 standard essential patents held by Motorola Mobility LLC and General Instrument Corporation, as wholly-owned subsidiaries of Google. The parties may submit, no later than January 23, 2013, (1) relevant extrinsic evidence to the Google-MPEG LA license agreement, such as affidavits from MPEG LA regarding the purpose and intent of the grant-back provision (Section 8.3) of the Google-MPEG LA agreement; and (2) additional briefing, limited to 12 pages, addressing any proffered extrinsic evidence."
The fact that the judge wishes to take a closer look at certain subissues doesn't indicate in any way how he would rule based on the information that has been provided thus far. The only thing that can be concluded on a reliable basis is that this agreement, which Google (Motorola) claimed has no bearing on the case, is important enough to warrant an extra hearing and additional briefing.
I also venture to guess that any "affidavits from MPEG LA regarding the purpose and intent of the grant-back provision" are likely to support Microsoft's theory. The licensors contributing patents to the pool, who must have been comfortable with the terms because otherwise they wouldn't have joined (and no one could have forced anyone to join), certainly wanted to ensure that third parties, such as Google in this case, wouldn't be able to take advantage of the reasonable pool rates while demanding excessive royalties for their own patents allegedly reading on the very same standard. Just look at the collective sophistication of this group of licensors, most of whom are also implementers of the standard. Companies like Apple, Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Philips, Sharp and Sony are nobody's fools, especially when it comes to standard-essential patent licensing. Google (Motorola) now asserts that the license agreement has loopholes that allow Google to do what it's doing, but the "purpose and intent" was undoubtedly a reciprocal arrangement and I would be surprised if the extrinsic evidence supported Google.
Even if the Google-MPEG LA agreement was ultimately held not to apply to the Microsoft-Motorola contract issues, I believe Google would still be unlikely to persuade the court of a royalty rate anywhere near its most recent demand. The rate might be a bit higher if there's no contractual requirement for a grant-back on equivalent terms, but in any event the fact that dozens of major players, even including some high-profile licensing businesses such as Dolby, ETRI and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, made their patents available on those terms is a strong indication of a FRAND market rate. Maybe the court would consider the upper end of the FRAND range to be higher than the pool rate, but there can be no doubt that the pool rate falls within the range. In light of this, the whole discussion of the Google-MPEG LA agreement is an opportunity for Microsoft to prevail with respect to H.264, but even if Google (Motorola) could fend off this challenge, it would still have to deal with the relevance of the MPEG LA pool rate as hard evidence for what the market largely believes to be an appropriate royalty rate.
Judge Robart's order doesn't indicate how the need for another hearing affects the schedule for the rate-setting decision. The most efficient course of action for the court would certainly be to issue just one order, and in that case, the hearing needs to be held before a decision can be made. Theoretically, the court could also set a rate for IEEE 802.11 patents separately, or it could set rates for both categories of patents but reserve the right to modify the H.264 rate if the Google-MPEG LA agreement is interpreted according to Microsoft's position, but this court is so busy that in the summer it stayed the parties' mutual infringement claims pending resolution of the FRAND contract issues, so it's most likely that only one rate-setting order will come down, either at the end of this month or, more likely, in February.
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I've never been sure that I've actually experienced "sub drop". I'm still not sure. And I'm definitely uncertain about the pleasure/pain principle. You know the one: if I enjoy myself, somewhere on the horizon is a figurative slap in the face that will "balance the books".
But – the occasional "low" feeling after a play session, or even after a pretty intense D/s time, had nothing on the misery (yes, I've tried to find another less emotive word, but nothing else will do) for my feelings after what was very nearly a 28 hour "day" of amazing sensations and emotions.
OK, I am indeed greedy: i will grab sensations with both hands (assuming they are not bound) and throw myself in to experiences whole-heartedly.
I am also still a great believer in that synergy/vortex thing whereby I please him, he shows it, I try harder, he smiles, I try harder still.
So – I'm back on a more even keel now, and wondering: was it sub-drop? Or just a natural reaction to counter-balance the amazing highs? I may never know.


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BBQ Battle a big success
Published September 21, 2016 | By Olivia Allison
The Boydton Town Council met for its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday evening. In addition to attending to regular business, the group also discussed the success of the recent Big Bad BBQ Battle, which took place in the town on Aug. 27.
The battle, in its fifth year, was newly sanctioned by the Kansas City BBQ Society this year, which provided more than 30 certified judges for the competition and helped draw the largest number of competitors the event has ever seen.
"The event was very nice," said Boydton Mayor Tommy Coleman. "I was able to walk around during the event and even come in and talk with the judges. It was interesting to see how the judges handle their job. I welcomed them on behalf of the town."
Coleman noted that the judges seemed to really enjoy coming to Boydton.
"Hopefully they are willing to do it again," he said.
Boydton Police Chief Danny Fox, during the presentation of his monthly police report, noted that there were no crimes, issues or incidents during the event.
"There were no problems encountered at the BBQ Battle," he said. "I think it was a very successful event."
It was noted, however, that the extreme heat and humidity that day did affect several attendees and organizers.
"One lady got too hot and fell out," Fox said.
"Hopefully it won't be so hot next year," Coleman noted.
Boydton resident Mildred Winn, a regular council meeting attendee as well as Grand Marshal of the Boydton Day parade last year, noted that she won a grill that was raffled off at the event. She expressed her surprise and gratitude for the win, also commenting on what a nice event the battle turned out to be.
Winn also informed council that she spoke with some of the out-of-town competing teams, who complimented Boydton, saying it was "such a nice little town."
Coleman agreed, saying he heard a lot of "complimentary feedback" from attendees and competitors alike.
Coleman thanked all those who contributed to the success of the event.
Additionally, council and others noted on Tuesday night that officials and committee members were busy preparing for the town to host its annual Boydton Day. This event is slated for Saturday, Oct. 29, and is the latter of the town's two annual festivals/events.
In other business, council approved the purchase of a replacement root cutter jetter nozzle. The piece of equipment is used to clean out sewer lines. The one that the town currently has is an older model and not as effective or easy to operate as the newer model.
Council agreed the item was needed after a brief presentation from R.H. Park, the town's Public Works Director, and voted unanimously to approve the purchase.


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Achievements - St Paul's Junior N.S.
The school is proud to participate and compete in many different competitions and schemes. Below is a summary of just some of them.
We are proud holders of five Green Flags, the most recent awarded to us being Bio-Diversity. Other flags the children have earned include Litter & Waste, Water, Energy, and Travel. It has been lots of work but the children have learned so much and really enjoyed the Green Flag challenges and experience.
We take part in this every year, holding over a dozen separate awards for our participation in this scheme, which promotes and rewards excellence in Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics (STEM). We also received a special award to mark our tenth successive Science Foundation Ireland Plaque of STEM Excellence.
This is an important event to promote the role of friendship and fraternity in the school. Every year we raise money for those less fortunate than ourselves during this week, and take part in activities and discussions involving friendship and what it means to be a friend.
This year we are taking part in this in April, to ensure our local environs stay clean and attractive. This promotes and encourages pride in our locality and neighbourhood, and highlights the importance of working together to make our environment a better place.
Every child takes part in this and the top three from each class are chosen and their work displayed and commended.


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Robert Greig American/Australian actor
Robert Greig is a 78 years old American/Australian actor from Melbourne, Victoria. Robert Greig was born on December 27, 1879 (died on June 27, 1958, he was 78 years old) in Melbourne, Victoria.
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June 27, 1958 (age 78)
Robert Greig was an Australian-American actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1930 and 1949 usually as the dutiful butler.
Is Robert Greig still alive?
No, he died on 06/27/1958, 64 years ago. He was 78 years old when he died. He died in Los Angeles and buried in Holy Cross Cemetery .
He had one child, Camilla (88) . When his first child, Camilla Eliza Greig, was born, Robert Greig was 59 years old.
Robert Greig Movies (74)
There are 74 movies of Robert Greig.
His first feature film was The Lady Eve (1941, as Burrows). He was 61 when he starred in this movie. Since 1941, he has appeared in 74 feature films. The last one is Three Hearts for Julia (1943). In this movie, we watched him in the Cairns character .
The Devil-Doll (1936) As Emil Coulvet, he was 56 years old
The Tenderfoot (1932) As Mack, he was 52 years old
Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934) As The Duke, he was 54 years old
Tonight or Never (1931) As Conrad, he was 51 years old
Men Must Fight (1933) As Albert, he was 53 years old
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Robert Greig movie characters
Burrows The Lady Eve (1941) 61
Sir Thomas The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) 65
Man of Basra The Thief of Bagdad (1940) 60
Burroughs, Sullivan's Butler Sullivan's Travels (1941) 61
Ziegfeld's Butler The Great Ziegfeld (1936) 56
Lord Melville You Can't Take It with You (1938) 58
Mariette's Butler Jacques Trouble in Paradise (1932) 52
Mr. Borst Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) 59
Fat Man Mark of the Vampire (1935) 55
Town Crier I Married a Witch (1942) 62
Third Member Ale and Quail Club The Palm Beach Story (1942) 62
Biology Professor Horse Feathers (1932) 52
Hives Animal Crackers (1930) 50
Jules Unfaithfully Yours (1948) 68
Major Domo Flammand Love Me Tonight (1932) 52
Emil Coulvet The Devil-Doll (1936) 56
Brearley, Boulton's Butler Moon Over Miami (1941) 61
Chamberlain The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) 58
Captain Stowaway (1936) 56
Eunuch Arabian Nights (1942) 62
Prison Governor at Jean's Release Les Misérables (1935) 55
Algernon McNiff The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) 67
Judge Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) 62
Friar Cautioning John Wyatt Tower of London (1939) 59
Uncle John Theodora Goes Wild (1936) 56
Butler Easy Living (1937) 57
Giraux Algiers (1938) 58
Henderson The Unguarded Hour (1936) 56
Alison's Main Butler James Female (1933) 53
Tom's Butler Potter Midnight Mary (1933) 53
Mr. Pemberton Clive of India (1935) 55
Conrad Tonight or Never (1931) 51
Sir Robert Hudson's Bay (1941) 61
Vonce the Butler Earl Carroll Vanities (1945) 65
Lord Drayton Lloyd's of London (1936) 56
Alfred Lady Behave! (1937) 57
Hotel Manager Rose Marie (1936) 56
Chappel Beauty and the Boss (1932) 52
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1988) 108
Childers, Dakin's Butler Small Town Girl (1936) 56
Spevin - Cortlands' Butler Million Dollar Kid (1944) 64
The Duke Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934) 54
Baritone Bartender Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) 52
Gregory Summer Storm (1944) 64
Swami The Mind Reader (1933) 53
Hansom Cabby Born to Love (1931) 51
Marc Caldwell the Butler Upperworld (1934) 54
Robert No Time for Comedy (1940) 60
Nightclub patron I Live for Love (1935) 55
Judge Ravenal Way Down South (1939) 59
Harper Man Wanted (1932) 52
Crum Pleasure Cruise (1933) 53
Henri Folies Bergère (1935) 55
Explorer Meet the Baron (1933) 53
The Innkeeper Stingaree (1934) 54
Adolph The Gay Deception (1935) 55
The Major Domo My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937) 57
Mack The Tenderfoot (1932) 52
It's Great to Be Alive (1933) 53
'Diamond Jim' Brady Broadway to Hollywood (1933) 53
Tulliver the Butler Robbers' Roost (1932) 53
Albert Men Must Fight (1933) 53
Jarvis Peg o' My Heart (1933) 53
Andrews Easy to Love (1934) 54
John Ferguson, Brockton's Butler Three Live Ghosts (1936) 56
Fat Man Trouble for Two (1936) 56
Judd - Butler Easy to Take (1936) 56
Willetts, the Reitter Butler Midnight Intruder (1938) 58
Pedley It Could Happen to You (1939) 59
2nd Buther Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939) 59
Wallace Butler The Mad Martindales (1942) 62
Fields Girl Trouble (1942) 62
Cairns Three Hearts for Julia (1943) 63
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Men, again.
Film Elizabeth Wurtzel on Weinstein. Blistering:
"Men who do this sort of thing think they are just being friendly. They are just asking the girl out who — so what? — happens to work for them.
Asking again and again and again.
Cornering her.
Pushing her against the wall.
Threatening her — of course not meaning it, because that would be totally wrong.
Over and over again. But, no, not seriously, of course.
We're all grown-ups.
But asking again and again. And again.
Until it is unbearable and someone has to leave, usually her. No: always her.
She has to go."
Miramax, of course, distributed the Wurtzel disavowed adaptation of Prozac Nation, which I can barely bring myself to watch. Maybe some day.
Although that's not mentioned, Richard Brody has piece about how Weinstein was bad for films too especially his treatment of auteurs.
Molly Ringwald also mentions the treatment a British film which she was appearing in received, in a longer column about her treatment at the hands of various men on set:
"Thankfully, I wasn't cajoled into a taxi, nor did I have to turn down giving or getting a massage. I was lucky. Or perhaps it was because, at that moment in time, I was the one with more power. "The English Patient," Weinstein's first Best Picture winner, was still a few years away. The worst I had to contend with was performing new pages that Harvey had someone else write, which were not in the script; my co-star, Robert Lindsay, and I had signed off to do a film adapted and directed by one person, and then were essentially asked to turn our backs on him and film scenes that were not what we had agreed to. We hadn't even finished filming, and the movie was already being taken away from the director."
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Pizza Pizza - Ein Stück vom Himmel.
Film Mystic Pizza is one my favourite films from the 80s, the kind of diaspora based romantic drama which simply isn't being made or distributed by major studios now unless it has the words big, fat, Greek or wedding in the title.
But for years I watched the dvd of the film entirely unaware of the secret hidden on the German audio track until I fumbled onto the wrong button on the remote one night and realised that the music underneath was completely different to what I was used to.
The mix of standards and folksy guitar music, has been replaced with a range of fairly anonymous soft rock and a new title track by Hot Chocolate. Exactly why this is I haven't been able to uncover. Either the songs couldn't be licensed in Germany or the local distributor decided to turn out their own soundtrack cd which would necessitate messing about the music in the film.
International versions of soundtrack cds aren't unknown. Spider-Man 2 had numerous local versions and the English language dub of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon even has the theme song rerecorded to match. Perhaps there are more German Hollywood releases from the 80s which have had this done to. I'll keep an eye out.
In the mean time, let's look at the differences between the two. I'll offer this in the form of a rough synopsis of the film, scene by scene, not too much detail. Plus I'm focusing on the musical changes. I'll only point out the alternative foley work if it's especially notable.
English track: opens with what must be some of composer David McHugh score, a flute over guitar in a mediterranean setting the audience up for the cultural diaspora in which the film is set, across family and childhood shots of the three sisters (some more convincing than others).
German track: the soft rock has already begun across the Samuel Goldwyn logo. It's Julian Steinberg's Never Give Your Love Away. Steinberg has had a few of his tracks uploaded to YouTube, but it's not a uncommon enough name to actually find any biographical details for him.
Frankly I have no idea what this is supposed to achieve. Whoever created this soundtrack has just thrown on some generic rock, and not very well since unlike the English track which ends just in time for the wedding march, this crashes right into it and the ensuing opera singer, who is singing in Italian here with his own voice.
The opera singer and wedding march are identical. The echo on the German dub, voices and foley work are recreations.
Pizza Parlour
English track: Perry Como's Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes fills the restaurant
German track: What About You by Hot Chocolate which is key enough as a track that it's mentioned on the cover of the German soundtrack album. It doesn't seem to be on YouTube, but it is on Amazon Music (incorrectly listed as "various artists"
English track: While Jojo and Bill hash out their differences on the there's nothing until McHugh's guitar plays in again.
German track: Hot Chocolate can still be heard underneath right up until the end of the scene. Oh and there's a ludicrous amount of traffic which really doesn't match the kind of street they're on.
English track: Saxophone musak
German track: Disco musak which sounds a bit like Human League. Perhaps one of the ungooglable tracks from the album?
Street to docks to babysitting job
English track: Kat's moped pulls away to some orchestral spot music
German track: Haven't a clue. Begins acapella, man singing in a Jamaican accent, something about "smells so good" and "international neighbourhood" Gives way in time for the dialogue. The song begins again while Kat rides off to her babysitting job. Although oddly the folk music and score from the English track appears briefly before being submerged in whatever this song is. The song disappears abruptly when Kat reaches the door. It's a mess.
Bar #1
English track: The English subtitle has a fit of the production notes and tells us its Steve Tyrell's Serious on the jukebox.
German track: Sideway Look's Taming The Blade. Replacing some rock music with even less appropriate rock music which apart from anything else works against the scene which looks to have been edited against the Tyrell track.
Eclectically, Sideway Look is a British indie rock band from Edinburgh, but they seem to have had their greatest following in Germany. They don't seem to have an English Wikipedia entry but the German counterpart is fulsome.
English track: The subtitles helpfully tell us the next track is Is It Hot in Here by Rene Geyer with its big sax moves.
German track: Melanie's Racing Heart which is another inferior replacement. No one in the Mystic's bar would put this on the jukebox. Ruby Tuesday or Beautiful People, perhaps but not this.
Plus the scene is edited and punctuates Geyer's lyrics as Daisy draws Charlie into her pool playing.
Restoration house
English track: Spot music, synthesiser piano over Kat falling for her employer.
German track: The same. The original soundtrack emerges for the first time. I'm shook.
Dockside walk
English track: Piano theme
German track: The same. Again. So whoever prepared this did have access to the original audio (I was wondering) but has chosen not to use it.
Daisey's date
English track: Big sax across synthesiser rhythms.
German track: What About You by Hot Chocolate reprises (they're really getting their money's worth) and it's not entirely incongruous, rhythmically the two are quite similar, although because it's been dropped in it clashes into McHugh's score once they're in the restaurant.
No change between the two tracks. Same classical music.
There's then a long stretch without music until Kat's back in work.
English track: Louis Prima's Ain't Got Nobody which is peerless.
German track: Lian Ross's Feel So Good which is just sad and again doesn't fit the scene at all. Sub-S/A/W noodling.
Lian Ross looks to have had a long career across Europe. Feels so Good was released as a single in 1989.
Daisy's date
English track: Jazz piano.
German track: Something which sounds like Hans Zimmer circa Green Card or some kind of erotic thriller. Which then has to fade out abruptly in time for the bed scene.
Kat and the telescope
English track: String quartet
German track: Spanish guitar which sounds plausibly like it could be on the English track apart from being an utter cliche in relation to this scene.
No music for the ensuing JoJo and Bill falling out scenes then...
English track: Something rock which doesn't seem to be listed on the soundtrack.
German track: Your Love Is A Punch by Jacqui (which is about the only audible lyric since most of the song happens inside the bar.
Car Scene
English track: Aretha Franklin's Respect. Of course. Notice Annabeth Gish in the scene - entirely in character she's keeping her eye on the road more than singing along.
German track: Aretha Franklin's Respect. Boxed into a corner, the German producers have to include a song from the English track. Not only that they use the voices of the original actors, though full marks for continuing Franklin underneath the ensuing German dub without missing a beat.
JoJo and Bill again
English track: A reprise of the lovely flute themes from earlier in the film.
German track: A reprise of Julian Steinberg's Never Give Your Love Away from the beginning of the film which fades out when JoJo reaches the jetty.
The German audience finally hears a snatch of the guitar piece from the opening credits on the English track, which plays on both.
Kat and her employer
English track: No music.
German track: The cliche Spanish guitar music from the telescope scene.
English track: Accordion musak.
German track: Something sub-Madonna which doesn't seem to be on this list. Plays while Daisy's outside the parlour with Charlie.
The same Mozart string quartet across both.
English track: While Kat and Daisy are in a fight, something like Cole Porter in the background.
German track: Jill Colucci's These Are The Times To Remember which will eventually play over the credits. Given the temperature between the sisters, these are definitely not the times to remember. At all.
JoJo babysitting.
German track has Lili Taylor singing. It's beautiful.
Kat's date with her employer.
English track: Nothing until it gives way to some romantic score music in a minor key.
German track: The usual Spanish guitarist who seems to follow them around and considering how this storyline plays out feels really inappropriate.
Then the score music is the same across tracks.
Pizza Parlour.
English track: Frank Sinatra's I Got You Under My Skin.
German track: Frank Sinatra's I Got You Under My Skin. Because you can't replace Frank.
Daisy's dinner with Charlie's family.
Same dinner party musak across both. Oh look, it's teenaged Matt Damon in his first screen role.
Some of the big sax from earlier across both tracks. Until the sodding Spanish guitar appears for a final time on the German track replacing the film's piano theme on the English track. Which then cuts out with a bit of uncertainty when the review of the restaurant emerges on the television.
Wedding Scene.
The wedding music is identical across both.
Final scene & Credits.
English track: Soundtrack music giving way to Jill Colucci's These Are The Times To Remember.
German track: What About You by Hot Chocolate crashes in just as JoJo puts her champagne bottle down completely ruining the mood. The credits then include a listing of all the songs on the English track few of which the German audience have actually heard if they've been listening to the dubbed version.
I'm not sure what you can draw from this other than that the filmmakers original intent should always have paramount. Although it's fair to say that even while watching the German dub with subtitles and the wrong music, I found myself becoming involved in the story. I'll let you know if I see any others.
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Nature This Guardian piece about the appeal of unicorns somehow manages to reach the end without mentioning Blade Runner in how the beast has become central to modern mythologies. That what could be an artificial lifeform, the arguable pinnacle of human scientific and technological achievement could dream of something that exists purely in fantasy and magic is an extremely potent concept:
""The unicorn has been popular at various points for at least 3,000 years," says Dr Miles Leeson, director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre and a lecturer in English literature. "They were considered as real in the ancient world by the Greeks – they appear in books of natural history, not books about the gods. The Old Testament contains possible mentions of unicorns, and from there they have been incorporated into Western art and culture, surfacing at various times, including the Medieval period and the Renaissance. The unicorn also has a role to play in Chinese mythology.""
I've always thought the unicorn's appeal is that it feels like it could have existed. As the piece reminds us, the narwhal, a creature with just such a horn does exist, albeit in dwindling numbers, so it's not unimaginable that at some point there was a breed of horse with a similar piece of headgear but later became exist. At least it makes better sense than a pegasus. A horse with wings is just silly.
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Rick Wakeman won't reunite with Yes for their Rock And Roll hall of fame induction
Posted on January 1, 2017 by worldprognation
it is now confirmed that Rick Wakeman will not attend Yes' Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame long-awaited induction.
Yes, Pearl Jam, Journey and others, will be honored at the 32nd annual induction ceremony to be held on April 7. The recognition arrived too late for the band's stalwart co-founding bassist Chris Squire, who died in the summer of 2015.
"I have no idea if there will be any sort of reunion, but whatever happens under no circumstances will I be any part of it – neither will I be attending." The reason, is the timing. He says he can't accept the fact that many bands are inducted into The Hall Of Fame, when key members of the band are gone, referring to Chris Squire.
"if it had happened years ago, when it was really well deserved. I find it hard to come to terms with the fact that so many bands are inducted into the Hall of Fame too late in their careers after key members have passed away. Classic examples are the Who and John Entwhistle, Deep Purple and Jon Lord and now Yes and there will be no Chris Squire."
Yes has been eligible since 1994. It was already uncertain from the start-will the band be able to come together and reunite at this kind of occasion. guitarist Steve Howe has since expressed doubts on whether the band's different factions will be able to patch things up for the Hall of Fame ceremony. He's continued touring with Yes, while Wakeman mounted a well-received partial Yes reunion tour earlier this year with Jon Anderson and Trevor Rabin.
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Totally agree with his comments, but he knows without his presence the "group" will not be represented. I think the presentation ceremony would be the perfect venue to speak his mind about the faults of the R&RHOF and he can be certain the bulk of Yes followers agree with him! He's a genius, and not easily impressed by the award, but his ducking a possible reunion in spite of it gives it more credence!
As a Rush fan I understand Wakeman's pov. More accomplished/successful musicians need to rail against the Hall of Shame, an entity that does not own the right to canonize these great musicians.
Niel Marais says:
I think Rick is100% correct! Chris Squire deserved much better, but I am happy for Trevor Rabin.
EnderEd says:
Rick is absolutely right on this. Shame on (IMO, the obsolete) RRHOF for delaying the induction of probably the greatest prog band ever until it was too late.
DW says:
What he says and what he does are two different things. I'm sure we all agree they should have been in much earlier and before Chris passed. But does it really justify such a stance of defiance rather then say a celebration?
Ken Marx says:
It is not the Hall of Fame but more the Hall of Shame! Rap bands before ELP, Yes, Moody Blues, Jethro Tull!
Shame on them
Is he correct? Ask yourself this, what do you think Chris Squire would tell him to do? The answer is simple. He would tell Rick to attend the ceremony and honour the band that he was so much part of. By doing so, he honours Chris as well.
Such a move does not devalue his perfectly sensible criticisms of the R&R HoF. Always thought it was a questionable concept and I was disappointed when my own favourite band, Genesis, got voted in. To me, there was something much more R&R in not getting voted in!


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Microsoft Focuses on Developer Tools, Evangelism
By Thor Olavsrud
Microsoft Corp. Tuesday made delivering tools and
services to developers a core focus with the creation of the Developer and
Platform Evangelism Division.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said the new division will integrate
developer tools and evangelism efforts across the company, and enhance the
tools and technologies available to developers, partners, information
technology professionals and end users. The division will include the
Developer Division, Developer Marketing and Enterprise Tools, Content
Development and Delivery Group, and Platform Strategy and Evangelism.
"The goal of this new organization is to bring together the right people,
resources and experience from across Microsoft to provider developers with
the rich tools and services they need to create new opportunities within the
industry and for customers," said Senior Vice President Eric Rudder, who
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The division will be a part of the Platforms Group — which includes the
Microsoft Windows, .NET Enterprise Servers and New Media Platforms Divisions
— led by Group Vice President Jim Allchin.
"With Eric Rudder's leadership, the Developer and Platform Evangelism
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developers around the globe who share a commitment to providing customers
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any where and on any device," Allchin said. "Eric's technical expertise,
leadership ability and experience working with developers and independent
software vendors will ensure that the new division will play a fundamental
role in advancing Microsoft's XML-based Web services strategy."
Microsoft intends for the new division to coordinate the overall programming
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and foster synergies between Windows and the .NET Enterprise Server
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evangelizing the extended Microsoft platform through a variety of content
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developers, IT managers, business decision-makers and consumers. The
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Review: The Soldier's Tale
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By Amber Landgraff
When I went to see The Soldier's Tale I wasn't sure what to expect. Described by the Open Corps Theatre company as a spoken word opera, the piece uses the Casa Loma stables as a backdrop for an entertaining show combining dance, spoken performance and music.
The Soldier's Tale follows the story of Joseph, a soldier on leave, who meets the devil in disguise while on the road. Joseph ends up trading his fiddle for a book that promises untold wealth. Joseph eventually realizes that wealth doesn't equal happiness and he has to fight the devil to regain what he has lost.
The plot was a little bit hard to follow, but the creative staging, dance and music combined to make an incredibly entertaining show. The three main performers constantly switched roles, each of them taking turns portraying Joseph and the devil. While I enjoyed this artistic choice, my show partner Adam found it made the already confusing plot more difficult to follow. However, Adam said Tanya Charles' violin performance was so good it would be worth going to the show just to watch her play.
As a visual artist, I found myself drawn to their creative use of props. The fiddle that Joseph trades was a simple metal cutout that, when scraped along the pebbled stable floor, acts exactly like a tuning fork. Equally marvelous was the way that lighting was worked into the movement of the performance. Actors would stand still while the lights moved around them, casting beautiful and at times creepy shadows along the walls and ceiling of the stables.
During parts of the show, audience members are crowded into different stalls in the stables, which can make watching the action difficult depending on where you sit. But Open Corps makes creative use of this difficult and awkward stage.
I felt that Open Corps , a self-professed young company, was trying a little bit too hard to prove that The Soldier's Tale fit their mandate of providing a socially conscious theatre experience – particularly their choice to include a conversation series that invited different artists and performers to respond to the themes of the show.
While the evening's artistic guest, Madeline Leon's piano rendition of Sunday Bloody Sunday was enjoyable, and her version of Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth made me want to sing along, I'm not sure I understood the connection between her song choices and the play. However, each evening's performance will feature a different conversation, so some of them may have a stronger connection.
The Soldier's Tale is definitely worth checking out, and I am excited to see what this theatre company does next. If the weather is nice it also might even be worth going a bit earlier and taking a walk around the grounds of Casa Loma.
– The Soldier's Tale runs until June 27 at the Casa Loma Stables (1 Austin Terrace)
– Shows run Thursday through Sunday June 17-20 and June 24 – 27 at 8 pm.
– Tickets are $15 for students and art workers and $20 for adults
– To order tickets call Casa Loma at 416-923-1171, ext 205 or 215
– Photograph courtesy of Jason George
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In her important new book, Aquinas and the Market (Harvard University Press, 2018), economist and theologian Mary Hirschfeld draws upon the Thomistic tradition to critique the understanding of rational choice and human well-being that dominate contemporary economic theory. An economics informed by Thomistic thought, Hirschfeld argues, can lead us to a better richer conception of human happiness and a better understanding of how economic life can be ordered to promote genuine human happiness.
Mary Hirschfeld is Associate Professor of Economics and Theology in the Humanities Program at Villanova University. She holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and a PhD in Theology from the University of Notre Dame.


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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, with a cargo spacecraft on top, is getting ready for takeoff. It stands at the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Second launch attempt of the resupply mission to the International Space Station is scheduled for 5:55 p.m. EST on December 4.
A launch today will result in Cygnus arriving at the space station on Sunday, Dec. 7. NASA crew members Kjell Lindgren and Scott Kelly will use the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm to reach out and capture Cygnus.
Cygnus will deliver samples and equipment to the station for research investigations in the many science disciplines aboard the orbiting multi-disciplinary laboratory. Research equipment includes the Space Automated Bioproduct Lab (SABL), a single locker-sized facility that will enable a wide variety of fundamental, applied and commercial life sciences research, as well as K-16 education-based investigations. CRS-4 will also carry the Packed Bed Reactor Experiment (PBRE), an investigation studying the behavior of gases and liquids when they flow simultaneously through a column filled with fixed porous media. Another investigation launching aboard CRS-4 is the Burning and Suppression of Solids – Milliken (BASS-M) investigation, which examines the extinction characteristics of a variety of flame retardant textiles in microgravity when exposed to a controlled flame.
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Art Williams & Harry Wendt Aeronautical Engineering School
The Art Williams & Harry Wendt Aeronautical Engineering School provides training specifically for persons interested in building a career as an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer through vocational and academic studies.
Website www.aesguyana.net
Address CAMS Hangar, Ogle International Airport, Ogle, East Coast Demerara, Guyana
Telephone (+592) 222-2155
Guyana Civil Aviation Training School
The Guyana Civil Aviation Training School forms part of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and is designed to train its staff in areas of Aeronautical Information Management and Air Traffic Management, amongst other disciplines.
You generally have to be recruited by the GCAA in order to receive the training. Recruitment is done approximately once a year and to qualify, you must have passes in at least 5 subject at CXC or GCE which includes English Language, Mathematics and a science subject.
Website www.gcaa-gy.org
Address Control Tower Complex, Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, Guyana
There are currently no flight schools in Guyana, so any pilot training would have to be done overseas.
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John Fraser says:
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Will there be any flight school available in 2023
Wayne Farley says:
I do not have an answer for that question, but who knows? Maybe there will be.
What happened to ogle flight school?
I am not familiar with the circumstnces surrounding the closure.
Also what was the cost to attend ogle flight school?
I am unaware of costs.
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Navin Cadogan says:
Hi everyone my name is Navin Cadogan I am just 15 years of age, bet I just love the marvelous engineering of plane and I want to some day became a pilot but I don't know where to start. How can I become a pilot?
Hello Navin, your age suggests that you are still in high school so I would recommend that you master both Maths and Physics as these would be important for your training ans career as a pilot. There are currently no flight schools in Guyana, so depending on your budget, you would have to choose either Trinidad or the USA to go do your flight training. There is the option of joining the Guyana Defence Force as a cadet officer and then selecting the Air Corps where they will train you to be a pilot.
Hi my name is Nathan De Camp and i am 15 yrs old ,i have been fascinated by marvelous engineering that helicopters have . And ever since i was five yrs old i dreamt of becoming the pilot of one so it would be very good if I could get my licences . But first i would like to know ,"where the training would be done ,the cost of the training ,how long the training would take ,the subjects that i need to past in at CXC ,is there any specific age I would have to be ,how many examinations I would have to study for and if possible would i have to be recruited to do training ? These are questions that run through my head every time I think about myself as a beginner pilot sitting inside of the cockpit of a helicopter . So it would be great if you could enlighten me with the answers. Thank you.
Nathan, there are no flight schools in Guyana. You will probably have to go to the USA for flight training. English, Math, Physics and Geography would be the most important subjects for pilot training. The minimum age for the issuance of a Private Pilot Licence (PPL) is 17 years. There are several exams that you will have to take as part of the training. Full pilot training can run anywhere between US$80,000 and US$120,000.


In contrast to a block diagram or layout diagram, a circuit diagram indicates the genuine electric links. A drawing designed to portray the physical arrangement of the wires and the elements they associate is known as artwork or design, physical design, or wiring diagram.
Circuit diagrams are employed for its design (circuit design), construction (such as PCB layout), and also maintenance of electrical and electronic equipment.
You'll find a number of distinct tactics to create a circuit diagram. They can be created manually, however, the more efficient manner is to use diagramming applications including SmartDraw, that was created for this use.


5) Mortgage rates plummeted to record lows. It may be hard to believe that 30 years ago the rate for a 30-year fixed home loan was in the double digits, between 13 percent to almost 18 percent. Now? It's fallen below 4 percent, based on numbers from mortgage giant Freddie Mac. In fact, both the 30-year and 15-year rate in November dropped to their lowest levels in 41 years. Since then, neither have strayed too far from their all-time lows of 3.31 percent for the 30-year and 2.63 percent for the 15-year. Rates have consistently fallen throughout the year but received an extra downward push after the Federal Reserve said in September it would buy mortgage-backed securities to give the U.S. economy a lift. The plan is meant to keep long-term interest rates and mortgage rates down so more folks can buy homes and refinance their mortgages.
4) A $25 billion mortgage settlement pushes banks to help consumers. California Attorney General Kamala Harris and housing advocates called the deal between 49 states and five major lenders a historic deal that finally holds accountable the companies that have long been accused of wrongfully foreclosing on homes and failing to help property owners. Opponents say the effort was too little, too late, and a raw deal for consumers because the relief amount, when broken down by harmed homeowner, was minor. Critics of the mortgage settlement also point out that many states, including California, used part of their money to fix their budgets. Not quite the intended use. Still, banks have provided help to homeowners through the settlement. On the flip side, about two-thirds of that aid has been in the form of short sales, which some housing advocates argue is less desirable than a loan modification or other means of keeping the borrower in the home.
3) Speaking of short sales, they now make up a larger share of the housing market than foreclosure resales. Fewer homeowners are facing foreclosure, a result of a slightly improving economy and more alternatives such as loan modifications and short sales, deals where homeowners can sell their homes for less than what they owe as long as the lender says OK. In November, mortgage defaults sank to a 6-year low and foreclosures decreased 35 percent from the same time a year ago. Also, the mortgage settlement appears to have contributed to somewhat of a short sale frenzy. Almost 40,000 of them were completed in the state through the settlement, from February to November. Short sales not only can benefit consumers, they also benefit lenders because they tend to be less costly to complete compared to foreclosures, which take longer to process.
2) Housing inventory is super tight. If you're a buyer, especially someone who's not an investor, you may be facing slim pickings out there. It's not just in your head. There are about 5,300 active listings in San Diego County, half of what we saw just a year ago and the lowest level in at least three years, according to the local Realtors' group. Inventory has consistently fallen for the last 15 months and may keep dropping if consumer demand remains strong and would-be sellers stay on the sidelines. Why aren't folks listing their homes? Many are underwater on their mortgages and are waiting for prices to rise more.
1) Home prices and sales have stayed hot through the fall and winter. The median price for a home sold in November was $358,000, almost 14 percent higher than a year ago. And the number of transactions reached a seven-year high for a November. Keep in mind, that happened during a fall month, when homebuying typically cools down. The demand for homes remains strong especially among the investor crowd. That, coupled with limited inventory, has pushed prices up. This is not-so-great news for potential buyers. And possibly good news for potential sellers.


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Q: How to solve a 0x800401E3(MK_E_UNAVAILABLE) error with IIS? The preamble:
We are developing a REST interface that gets live data from an embedded controller. There is a UI that talks to the embedded controller and has a COM interface that provides access to pertinent data. The REST interface connects via COM to get the necessary data. This all works fine with IIS Express, but not with IIS.

    Guid myGUID = new Guid( "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX" );
    Object ppunk;
    nResult = GetActiveObject( ref myGUID, IntPtr.Zero, out ppunk );

The result with IIS is 0x800401E3(MK_E_UNAVAILABLE).
I understand that IIS is running in Session 0 and that the UI is running in Session # (typically 1). IIS Express runs in Session 1 with the UI so all is well. I presume that due to the different Session numbers, GetActiveObject() does not operate on the Running Object Table (ROT) in which the UI has registered its COM interface, hence my MK_E_UNAVAILABLE problem.
So, is there a way around the above situation?
Launching the UI from IIS in the user session is not an option. The UI should already be running and since it is connected to a single embedded controller, multiple instances would not be good.
Launching a process in the user session from IIS that connects to the UI appears to be a possibility, but adding another level of indirection is not desirable.
Sage advice on the path to a solution would be appreciated.

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My Close Personal Friend Moe Norman
Posted on January 26, 2013 by David Owen
Many golfers nowadays look blank when you mention Moe Norman, who died in 2004, but to those who were lucky enough to see him play he was a legend. Lee Trevino ranked him with Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson as one of the greatest ball-strikers of all time. Paul Azinger first saw him hit balls on a driving range in Florida in 1980, when Azinger was in college. "He started ripping these drivers right off the ground at the 250-yard marker," Azinger told Tim O'Connor, a Canadian sportswriter, "and he never hit one more than 10 yards to either side of it, and he hit at least 50." In 2005, Tiger Woods told Jaime Diaz, now the editor of Golf World, that Norman and Hogan were the only two golfers in history who had "owned" their swing, and that one day he hoped to own his, too.
Despite such accolades, Norman spent much of his forty-year competitive career in obscurity and poverty. He played almost exclusively in Canada, where he was born, and made only a brief attempt, in 1959, to play on the American tour. He sometimes carried his own bag in tournaments, because he couldn't afford a caddie, and he sometimes slept in bunkers on the courses where he competed. He often hitchhiked to and from tournaments, and he had to juggle his competitive schedule with a succession of dreary factory jobs, including one stitching rubber boots. He spent the winter before the 1956 Masters, to which he had been invited as the reigning Canadian Amateur champion, setting pins in a bowling alley for a few cents a line. For years, he supported himself partly by selling the prizes he won in amateur tournaments, and as his confidence increased he sometimes sold the prizes before the tournaments began. (According to friends, on at least five occasions he intentionally finished second because he hadn't been able to find a taker for the first-place prize and had been forced to sell the second.) In the late nineteen-eighties, he was so broke that only the last-minute intervention of friends prevented a bank from repossessing his car.
Moe Norman, 1950s.
I watched Norman hit golf balls on a practice tee at Foxwood Country Club, in Kitchener, Ontario, his hometown, in the fall of 1995, when he was sixty-six. He warmed up with a pitching wedge, although "warming up" doesn't really describe any part of his routine: the first shot was perfect, the second was identical to the first, the third was identical to the second. Then he switched to his four-iron. His swing—to all appearances, an effortless half-swing—was the same as it had been with the wedge. "How far you hitting those?" a spectator asked. "One-eighty," Norman said. The shots were within a couple degrees of dead straight, despite a stiff cross wind, unless he announced ahead of time that he was going to hit a draw or a fade. The divots were identical, and surreally shallow.)
He switched to his driver. If you had looked only at his arms and hands, you wouldn't have known he wasn't still swinging his wedge. He would watch each ball in the air a moment, then bend over and place another on the tee—and I mean place it. The tee never moved. "I hit balls, not tees," he said. On a driving range once, he hit 131 drives in a row from the same tee without having to straighten it. In tournaments, he sometimes entertained galleries by hitting a drive from the mouth of the Coke bottle from which he had just been drinking.
In December, 1995, I got to play a round with Norman and his friends Gus Maue and Todd Graves (who calls himself Little Moe and teaches Norman's highly unorthodox swing) at Royal Oak Resort and Golf Club, in Titusville, Florida. Royal Oak may no longer be a going concern—its website has been shut down for lack of payment—but in 1995 it was a favorite winter hangout of the Canadian P.G.A. The first hole was a 400-yard par 4, dogleg to the right. Maue, Graves, and I hit tee shots up the middle, and then Norman hit his over a row of trees to the right, toward a lake that ran the length of the hole. I thought, Hmmm—this is one of the greatest ball-strikers of all time? But it turned out that Norman always played the hole that way. There was a strip of grass, maybe ten yards wide, between the trees and the water, and from there he had an easy 9-iron to the green, while those of us in the fairway needed four-irons or five-irons.
Norman won his first tournament in 1949. "I didn't know anything then," he told me that day. "I didn't even have a full set of clubs. Only had a driver, three-wood, three-iron, five-iron, seven-iron, nine-iron, and a putter. Didn't even have a wedge. But one day everything fell into place and I shot a sixty-seven—four under."
I said I was amazed he had played with so few clubs.
"Oh, I couldn't afford them. Heck, when I was a kid you were lucky to have one club. And if you had a club your friends were always saying, Hey, can I use yours? Can I use yours? If someone had a driver we would hand it around—three of four guys playing together. If somebody had a nice putter, we all took turns putting with it. Goodness, back in those days, there wasn't a golf shoe in the foursome. And if the grass was wet your right foot would do a whirlwind, like a twist. But back then golf wasn't a sport. It was just an exercise game. In fact, I was called a sissy by my father and my brothers, right at dinner. They would make big ears at me and call me a sissy. 'Come on, play a man's game,' my father used to say. 'Play baseball, or hockey—do like your brothers.' I said, 'No, Dad, I'm too light.' I was a little skinny kid then, not over a hundred and thirty pounds, and I couldn't play any other sport and be good at it, so I kept playing golf. But I had to hide my clubs under the front porch. My father was fat and I was real skinny, so I could dig a hole that he couldn't get his head through but I could get my body through, and if I would push my clubs in far enough he couldn't reach them."
I wrote about Moe Norman in Golf Digest in 1995, and you can read that story here. The date in the opening anecdote is wrong, since Porky Oliver died in 1961. But other than that. . . .
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So, the long story first? My motherboard died, but I had a replica on a 2nd machine with a lower quality apu (dual core vs my quad core). I also went ahead and bought a RX460 4GB, thinking for the future since my APU is no longer supported in 16.04 LTS and ahead.
So, I grabbed the other motherboard, fit the RAM I had working, the APU on it and installed 17.04 on a SSD and then 14.04.5 LTS on another SSD. I use the mate desktop, because it uses the old way of showing the applications, which I liked much in Gnome2, and mate is also nice as it uses less ram. On 17.04 I noticed it didnt had the CPU scaling icon I used to have on my 'taskbar' so I could know the speed the cores are working and raise the performance levels (or downgrade whenever I wanted).
The ingame performance in 17.04 was surprisingly not surprising, keeping in mind that my A8-5600K graphics are like 2 generations (or more) below the RX460. EVE saw the GPU as an HD 2900 XT, and at interval inmediate... in station it would hit 120fps on ocassions in high details, but in space, it would be stuttering and then to max out at around 40-50fps.
Before installing the mate desktop, the details app showed I had a gallium 0.4 (the apu) with the polaris11 and LLVM 4.0.
Ok, so, then today I used my other SSD (exactly the same model/size) and installed 14.04.5 LTS, hoping to be able to use the cpu scaling options for the mate panels, and they were available even though they didnt work as they did in my other mate installations (now it asks for your admin password to execute them)( like from ondemand to performance). But it works.
On the GPU side, I have to say that I felt confused, I kept reading guides here and there but aside of mesa-utils I dont think I installed anything different. The additional drivers doenst show I need anything special at all, which I would think it should show that Im using which drivers at least, as it used to do. I got wine working, the eve installer and when I tried running it the first time... it would go very slow, and I can see that the 4 cores were at 100%, and that tells me that its not really using the new GPU yet.
Following different guides I was able to see that indeed the system sees my RX460 properly. The xorg thing shows that the amdgpu package is installed (has the cherkmark) but I think that Im missing something. The glxgears shows the gears animation and goes flawless.
I guess the part that Im missing to see is where do I enable it, as everytime I try to run eve.... cpu's go to 100% on all 4.
I love windows, but this is just the one thing that I dislike, not having a standard way to do things so that it works. I'm not switching to windows, thats for sure. Thankfully though, I know theres always someone ready to help :) and I'll wait patiently for that.
Update: I ended up installing 16.04 LTS and it started working.
I had read here that the RX460 could work, but Im not sure Im understanding it well.
all the others say: 'is already the newest version'.
That last bit I dont understand what it means.
If you have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with Linux kernel 4.4.0 (HWE stack Xenial), you can't install the proprietary fglrx/Catalyst driver. However the open source AMDGPU driver is available to install through the xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu package.
Which is my case, 14.04.5 with kernet 4.4. I, of course,didnt install the catalysts drivers, and upon checking the xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu package is installed, there I should understand that.... the amdgpu driver is installed (but not working somehow).
and executing this on terminal shows nothing, its just waiting for next terminal command.
The mesa-utils command is already installed and newest version.
And this list something I honestly dont understand.... but on the far right repeats "slow / none"
[     4.656] (II) UnloadModule: "radeon"
[     4.656] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
Software rendering I totally understand, which accounts for EVE running my 4 cores at 100%.
I should be able to run the RX460 with my current specs and version, but for some reason it doesnt.
So unless you guys have any other ideas, the only way to make this work is upgrade to 16.04 (ugh) and if it still doenst work well... then try the AMDGPU-PRO?
Upgrade to kernel 4.10. But 4.11 recommended for moar fps.
You need to google about "gallium nine" and "ubuntu" and be sure to install the latext Mesa and wine that are "gallium nine" enabled.
Also then once you have that, run the launcher, go in setting, choose the option to have your custom wine instead of the CCP one.
type winecfg instead of wine for the wine command line.
"run eve", you will get the wine configuration window, go in staging and enable "Gallium nine" or "Native D3D9".
Ok that window, go back in launcher setting and put "wine" instead of winecfg in custom wine.
I actually went and decided to go install 16.04 LTS and after doing 3 separate installs in different hard drives / SSD's, I got this one to work and I forgot to reply here about it.
I find confusing that the AMD GPU's arent listed on the additional drivers section as it used to, which made knowing if your GPU is set easier, but after 16.04 installed I could see that the AMDGPU driver was loading correctly and then after doing the wine stuff, I got EVE working again with the GPU hardware.
I think I will clone this install into another SSD and try the MESA part, which is still a tad confusing part, but I will try it.
Im a tad burned at the moment with all the install tries I did that weekend, so it will be something for a few weeks ahead to do.
I havent yet updated my eve firefox bookmarks and TS and other important eve stuff (mumble ugh), and completely forgot about this thread too.
I checked the other day my kernet and I am at 4.8.0.54.generic.
I remember you told me that it was best to have LLVM at 4 something. On this install its at 3.8.0.
I found a step by step guide on how to do the nine thing on 16.04, so I'll be testing that this weekend on my other SSD.


FCPA Compliance in China: An Oxymoron?
If your company does business in China, you need to conduct an anti-corruption audit. No ifs, ands or buts — and I am not one who would easily make this recommendation. But the picture in China is growing worse by the day.
If you follow the mounting number of disclosures, the pattern is unmistakable. Companies that operate in China are reporting more and more FCPA compliance concerns. Last year, at least one-third of all FCPA settlements involved violations in China. That percentage is growing and I would not be surprised to see the percentage reach fifty percent of all FCPA enforcement actions.
Some industries understand the risk and are taking precautionary steps — especially in the retail industry. Other industries, like high tech, are blindly assuming the enforcement bus will never hit them. The pharmaceutical and medical device industries are being hammered, one-by-one, with FCPA enforcement actions, and that trend is likely to continue.
Compliance in China is difficult but not impossible. Too often, I see companies entering the China market and either ignoring the issue or putting in place very weak compliance controls. If your company is already in China, you need to take immediate actions — in some cases, initiating an internal audit, an overall compliance review, or some affirmative action. If a company waits, or ignores these risks, you can bet they will find themselves behind the investigation and settlement eight ball.
1. State-owned enterprises: seventy percent of China's wealth is owned by the government. I have experienced a number of situations where company employees learn for the first time when trained that the customers they were dealing with are affiliated with state-owned enterprises. In other cases, it is difficult for non-Chinese partners to determine whether or not a Chinese partner is state-owned or privately owned. In one case, three consulting firms hired to conduct due diligence were never able to determine whether or not an entity was a state-owned enterprise. State-owned enterprises typically are organized and operate with a business culture which reflects past practices in which gifts, bribes and other compensation was part of the day-to-day operations. The old "black" market of bribery continues to exist in many industries in which state-owned enterprises are now operating.
2. Gift-giving: FCPA practitioners have written reams of paper on the difficulties raised by China's gift-giving culture. One specific area of risk that arises in every case is the use of "gift cards." These are not your typical "Barnes & Noble" $25 gift cards which we give our kids for birthdays or holidays. Instead, these are gift cards which can range from $50 to $5,000, and even higher. It is a standard practice for sales staffs in China to provide gifts to clients, not just "moon cakes (which can cost a few hundred dollars) but expensive and lavish gift cards. In many cases, companies have no controls in place to address this issue.
3. Joint Ventures: Most companies enter the Chinese market either by acquiring a Chinese company and establishing it as a Chinese subsidiary, or joint venturing with a Chinese partner which is often a state-owned enterprise. The acquisition of a Chinese company which has no anti-corruption controls, and frequently has engaged in bribery raises serious risks of successor liability and requires that the acquiring company conduct a thorough due diligence and put in place aggressive anti-corruption compliance programs. If entering the market as a joint venture partner of a state-owned enterprise, controls are needed for interactions between the company and the state-owned enterprise as an internal matter, and a whole set of controls need to be implemented as part of the joint venture entity's operations in the marketplace.
4. Third Party Agents: The FCPA enforcement actions against the pharmaceutical and medical device industries have painted an incredible picture of corruption risks involving the use of third party agents in China. Agents connect to sub-agents and due diligence reviews and controls can create massive compliance challenges. Some companies never are able to get their arms around the network of sub-agents, and doing so may bring the business operations to a halt. Often there are trade offs which have to be made between business realities and corruption compliance. This reality raises the risks of operating in China.
While the picture is bleak, companies in China need to act and need to do so immediately. A proactive audit does not necessarily mean a voluntary disclosure. To the contrary, a proactive audit can help to target compliance focus, result in compliance modifications, and in the long run protect the company from a serious enforcement action.


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Drag and drop JDAvatarProgress.h and JDAvatarProgress.h files into your project. Add #import "JDAvatarProgress.h" to all view controllers that need to use it.
JDAvatarProgress is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.