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Nanophase Reports Third Quarter Revenue of $2.1 Million and a 57 Percent Revenue Increase for the Nine-Month Period
Oct. 26, 2010, 8:16 PM UTC / Source: GlobeNewswire
ROMEOVILLE, Ill., Oct. 26, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nanophase Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:NANX), a technology leader in nanomaterials and advanced nanoengineered products, today reported much improved financial results for the third quarter and nine-month period, ended September 30, 2010.
Nine-month 2010 revenue up 57 percent
Nine-month gross margin as a percentage of revenue increased 93 percent
Nine-month net loss decreased 32 percent
Nanophase CEO and President Jess Jankowski commented, "In an improving business environment and with the realignment of our marketing strategy, Nanophase has shown a significant improvement in sales over the past nine months. We continue to work closely with BASF, whose established presence and reputation for quality products within the personal care markets has made them a significant customer of our nano zinc oxide products for blocking UV rays in sunscreens and skincare products. Our strong relationship with BASF and other long-time customers in parallel with our customer direct strategy should generate revenue growth exceeding that of 2009 by 40 to 50 percent."
Revenue was $2.1 million, an increase of 21 percent, when compared to revenue of $1.7 million for the third quarter of 2009.
Gross margin for the quarter was $0.5 million, or 23 percent of revenue, compared to a gross margin of $0.5 million, or 27 percent of revenue, for the third quarter of 2009.
The net loss for the quarter was $1.6 million, or a loss of $0.07 per share, when compared to a net loss of $0.9 million, or $0.04 per share, for the third quarter of 2009. The 2010 net loss includes the one-time charge of $0.7 million for the termination of an exclusive supply agreement. Net loss excluding the one-time charge would be consistent with third quarter 2009.
The balance sheet is strong with approximately $6.7 million in cash and cash equivalents. The Company has no debt.
Nine months ended September 30, 2010
Revenue was $7.4 million, an increase of 57 percent, when compared to revenue of $4.7 million for the same period of 2009.
Gross margin was $2.2 million, or 29 percent of revenue, a significant increase from a gross margin of $0.7 million, or 15 percent of revenue, for the same period of 2009.
The net loss was $2.9 million, or a loss of $0.13 per share, when compared to a net loss of $4.2 million, or $0.20 per share, for the same period of 2009.
During the third quarter, Nanophase terminated a supplier exclusivity agreement with a long-term customer and signed a new, more traditional five-year supply agreement which will provide both companies more options and opportunities in their markets. With the termination of the former agreement, Nanophase recorded a $700,000 charge of which half was paid in cash and the other half in the form of product purchase credits.
Jankowski continued, "Our fourth quarter revenue is historically more difficult to predict as customers can make last minute inventory adjustments. With that said, we do project 2010 revenue growth of 40 to 50 percent higher than 2009 revenue – a strong growth platform expected to flow into 2011."
Shareholders and members of the financial community are encouraged to participate in tomorrow morning's conference call, where Mr. Jankowski will discuss highlights of the quarter and the company's exciting short and long-term prospects.
Third Quarter 2010 Conference Call
Nanophase has scheduled its quarterly conference call for October 27, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. CDT (11:00 a.m. EDT). The call will be hosted by Jess Jankowski, president and CEO. To participate in the conference call, dial 877.312.8776, or 408.774.4007 for our international callers; the conference call identification is 17924296. A webcast of the call may be accessed at the company's website, at , by clicking on the link under News Center and Calendar of Events.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information
Nanophase believes that the presentation of results excluding certain items, such as severance charges and non-cash equity compensation charges, provides meaningful supplemental information to both management and investors, facilitating the evaluation of performance across reporting periods. The Company uses these non-GAAP measures for internal planning and reporting purposes. These non-GAAP measures are not in accordance with, or an alternative for, generally accepted accounting principles and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies. The presentation of this additional information is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for net income or net income per share prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
About Nanophase Technologies
Nanophase Technologies Corporation (NANX), , is a leader in nanomaterials technologies and provides nanoengineered solutions for multiple industrial product applications. Using a platform of patented and proprietary integrated nanomaterial technologies, the Company creates products with unique performance attributes from two ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 facilities. Nanophase delivers commercial quantity and quality nanoparticles, coated nanoparticles, and nanoparticle dispersions in a variety of media.
This press release contains words such as "expects," "shall," "will," "believes," and similar expressions that are intended to identify forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements in this announcement are made based on the Company's current beliefs, known events and circumstances at the time of publication, and as such, are subject in the future to unforeseen risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company's results of operations, performance and achievements to differ materially from current expectations expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the following: a decision by a customer to cancel a purchase order or supply agreement in light of the Company's dependence on a limited number of key customers; uncertain demand for, and acceptance of, the Company's nanocrystalline materials; the Company's manufacturing capacity and product mix flexibility in light of customer demand; the Company's limited marketing experience; changes in development and distribution relationships; the impact of competitive products and technologies; the Company's dependence on patents and protection of proprietary information; the resolution of litigation in which the Company may become involved; and other factors described in the Company's Form 10-K filed March 30, 2010. In addition, the Company's forward-looking statements could be affected by general industry and market conditions and growth rates. Except as required by federal securities laws, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect new events, uncertainties or other contingencies.
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CONTACT: Nanophase Technologies Corporation Investor Relations Nancy Baldwin 630.771.6708


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Tenchu: Stealth Assassins
Posted on Nov 29th 2020 at 08:00:00 AM by (SirPsycho)
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Tenchu: Stealth Assassins is an action stealth game developed by Acquire and published by Sony Music Entertainment Japan in Japan, and Activision internationally. It released in 1998 and was Acquire's first developed game. 1998 was an insane year for the burgeoning stealth genre, it saw the release of both Metal Gear Solid on the Playstation and Thief: The Dark Project on PC. Tenchu would actually release before either of these other two classics, and as a result, may be a bit more forgotten.
Tenchu follows the tale of two ninjas, Rikimaru and Ayame. Both characters have distinct personalities. Rikimaru is an honorable warrior, respecting his adversaries if they show honor and skill with their weapon and combat style. Ayame is much less tactful than Rikimaru, often berating her enemies, which leads to some encounters throughout the game playing out differently. Both characters progress through the exact same levels, but their motivations and goals differ slightly. The game starts off grounded in reality, with both ninjas hunting down corrupt merchants, doing illegal border crossings, and going on rescue missions. In usual video game fashion this leads down the rabbit hole until the supernatural masterminds are revealed.
Tenchu features free roaming levels with enemies that wander along a patrol path. Each level will have encounters and feature in engine cutscenes, which was a rather novel feature at this time. Most level bosses will spawn after these cutscenes, but later levels will often feature multiple cutscenes. Players have a selection of items and tools to choose from at the beginning of each level. A score is given at the end of the level, and the game encourages replaying levels for higher scores, with Grand Master being the highest. Achieving this Grand Master score on a level unlocks another item to choose from, and these items are quite powerful.
The original Playstation's 3D graphics have not aged well. Tenchu looks fine for its time but its rough by today's standards. The art direction's style still stands out, and its still easy to make out what the developers were trying to build and show the player. The game's short draw distance is just a result of the Playstation's level of technology, mixed with Acquire's smaller budget to work with compared to larger and established studios. Because of these technical shortcomings the developers set every level at night, but the amount of pop in makes it to where enemies often see the player as soon as the player can see the enemy. Elevation can be used to the player's advantage, giving a bird's eye view. The level design does not always give that out as an option.
The audio design in the game is nearly perfect, items all sound tangible with some extra power behind the combat sounds. Slicing enemies open causes their blood to flow out and splash all over the ground, its a satisfying effect. The voice acting is mostly hilarious, but Paul Lucas, the actor of Rikimaru, is easily the best performance in the English release. The real standout in Tenchu is its soundtrack, composed by Noriyuki Asakura. Asakura's video game composition credits have been mostly attached to Acquire's releases, with Tenchu and Way of the Samurai being the major players on this list. The rest of his career has mostly been in the television and anime industry.
Tenchu is still a great game, sadly the technical shortcomings make it feel like its a bit ahead of its time in many aspects. Stealth works better with a higher draw distance, or at least with limitations to enemy detection like in the more remembered stealth classics of the same year Metal Gear Solid and Thief: The Dark Project. Acquire really made their presence known with their first game. They would develop the prequel Tenchu 2: Birth of the Shadow Assassins before moving onto the Way of the Samurai series. They would revisit Tenchu and develop Tenchu: Shadow Assassins in 2008, the last released game in the entire series. Despite the game's shortcomings, its still one of the best ninja games ever made.
Thankfully, Tenchu did sell very well on the Playstation, enough to get a Greatest Hits printing. Copies are quite abundant, but it seems like Tenchu is becoming the stealth assassin of video game collectors, and the price is hovering around $20 at the moment. This is likely the result of a total lack of rereleases. Activision bought the rights to the entire series from Sony Music Entertainment, and then later sold the rights to FromSoftware. However, Activision retained the rights to the games that they personally published. These games are Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins, and Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven.
Sadly, the quality of games went sharply downhill after these first three games, and the series has been dormant since the release of Tenchu: Shadow Assassins in 2008/2009. FromSoftware's 2019 release of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, was originally going to be a Tenchu revival, but the company decided to spin it off into its own intellectual property, perhaps to avoid the legal entanglement surrounding the Tenchu series. Sekiro was, interestingly enough, published internationally by Activision once again, perhaps because of the project's original goal.
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MetalFRO said on 11/30/20 9:21 AM
Good stuff! This is a game that I remember hearing about, around the time it was released, but for some reason, I never rented it, or checked it out. I occasionally see it at game stores, but I never see it at any of my usual game hunting haunts. The draw distance issue would definitely make for some frustrating game play, or at the very least, prompt you to be super slow with how you move, to try and reveal just a little of what's in the distance at any given time, so you can try to get a drop on enemies.
highspot said on 12/25/20 9:00 PM
I love Tenchu and still play it every once in a while. The music is fantastic, and I even got used to the draw distance limitations. The second in the series is a great technical improvement, but I still have very fond memories of many of the original's stages and cut scenes.
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Google's Chromebook - lost in the cloud? 08:44am on 23 Jun 2011 The data you keep on Facebook is trivia you're happy to lose. The stuff you keep on your hard-drive is far more personal and precious.
Loathe so much of what Google does because it does so many things badly. Tying you data up with Google for life is plain stupid.
Are we trapped in our own web bubbles? 08:29am on 23 Jun 2011 Advertising does keep content free.
A site with 500 visitors a day would make about £200 on click thru advertising if everyone clicked on one advert.
Advertisers want people to click on the adverts. That's why they are there.
So if you visit a site with ads, then "leave a tip" for the site owners to show your appreciation. It only costs you a mouse click, but that click feeds the internet.
All-action Button thrills in Canada 10:57am on 13 Jun 2011 Seb got lucky in Monaco with the red flag and tyre change.
Seemed only fitting that he shouldn't be so lucky again this time round.
Nice to have another winner.
Lewis is making a stream of dangerous rookie-ish mistakes.
Great drive by Mark given the start he had after being speared by Lewis.
And good drive by Michael.
Jenson was perhaps lucky not to be punished for the incident with Fernando.
Would have been good to have Fernando in the mix until the end.
King Arthur and Camelot: Why the cultural fascination? 12:09pm on 09 Jun 2011 The UK tourist board are championing the Camelot prog with a couple of special sites. Details here: http://gouk.com/camelot-%E2%80%93-the-magic-of-london-and-wales/1777/
Foursquare: Urban life as a game 12:25pm on 22 Dec 2010 Mayor of your own home? In your dreams: you're at the back of the line behind your partner, kids and the dog ;-)
Merry Xmas, Rory - you've been a constant tech guide over the last year, and I'm grateful for that.
Hope you and the family have a great 2011.
Android tablets: Big enough, smart enough, cheap enough? 8:38pm on 01 Nov 2010 #53 CarpCarp - why not sell the iPad. If its in good nick, I'll give you 100 quid for it.
Windows: Back in the mobile race? 7:02pm on 11 Oct 2010 Sick at the thought of all the years and money I have wasted on MS products.
I was a huge MS fanboi (writing programs, building and repairing PCs), but since switching to Apple just over 2 years ago, I just feel ill when I think about how badly I was treated by MS and its dreadful products. Computing with Apple is reliable, fast, efficient, intuitive and a pleasure. I will never trust MS again with a moment of my time or a penny of my money.
So fed up of Stephen Fry being proffered as the arbiter of taste: he's on the tv, radio, twitter, apps, in books, etc thrusting his views/life/wit/opinions on everyone all of the time. Enough. Save us from the relentlessness of Stephen Fry. Give space to other people and ideas.
Apple heats up living room TV war 12:49pm on 02 Sep 2010 £99 quid in the UK http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/apple_tv?mco=MTM3NTM1Nzk
Kindle or iPad: Which will change reading? 09:26am on 24 Aug 2010 Thanks for the article, Rory.
Different products can exist serving the needs of different markets, but there comes a point when a market gets too small for a product to survive.
You say that "Amazon's strategy is to appeal to people who simply want to read without any flashy extras, and I think it makes sense."
I am sure such a market exists, but is it a big enough market to sustain a mono-functioning device? I doubt that it is.
The Kindle starts at £109 and can only do one thing. The iPad at starts at £429 but can do an almost infinite number of things . . . limited only by the number of apps available.
At the very least is can be used for books, music, internet, email, video, maps, word processing, number crunching, presentations, managing contacts, etc. When the new models come out with cameras, iPads will also be able to make FaceTime calls and take photos.
I've listed 10 main things the iPad can do, before getting into the apps. That's £42.90 for each thing the device is able to do.
The Kindle is stuck at £109 for one thing.
The headline price of the iPad is greater than the price of the Kindle, but in reality it is a much cheaper purchase for those people who want to do more than just read books.
The iPad is also an object of desire: it looks beautiful and people enjoy using it. The Kindle looks dull and dreary. On one level, talking about looks is facile, but in the end they do matter to many users.
If the Kindle was a mono-function device costing £30 it would have a reasonable future. But at it's current price point, it just doesn't have enough to offer for the majority of people who aren't bookworms.
The Kindle app is good - working across devices.
I can see the Kindle app surviving and Amazon doing well on book sales, but it is hard to justify the expense of a standalone Kindle itself.
German Grand Prix shenanigans 4:20pm on 27 Jul 2010 It is a knee-jerk rule that was badly implemented originally and which (unless you are living in some weird fantasy land) has been completely ignored by all the teams ever since.
The outcry against Ferrari is ridiculous. Losing a championship because a team-mate takes away vital points would make a mockery of F1 having teams at all.
Ferrari were (deliberately?) clumsy, but good on them for doing what they did: (1) because it was the right thing to do, and (2) because this has focussed attention on how weak this rule is.
All the teams have orders or find subtle ways to manage their drivers. JB held station behind Lewis on Sunday . . . where was the racing there? There are countless times when teams have told their drivers to hold station after the final pit-stops. Getting in a huff with Ferrari is just immature.
Essentially, people are just annoyed with Ferrari for not being subtle. What they are saying is that they applaud subtle flouting of the rules, but not obvious flouting of the rules. That's an unsustainable, illogical and ignorant position for people to take. Do people want a championship to be won by the most ingenious deceit, or would they prefer to have everything open and above board?
I would suggest this change: if a team's drivers finish in consecutive places, then both drivers should be awarded the points of the leading car. On Sunday, this would have meant Massa winning the race, but both he and Alonso getting 25 points for a race win. Similarly, both Lewis and JB would have got 10 points for finishing 4th.
This would stop the need for teams to switch drivers' places and would even lead to racing where team-mates would try to nurse each other into the best possible position.
Yes, team-mates would not need to race each other for a single position, but it may even spur them on to overtake other drivers. For example, if Lewis needed to finish 3rd on Sunday to win the WDC and to stop JB (who, for the sake of the argument, is on identical points to him) then Lewis would know that he would have had to catch and overtake Vettel without JB also passing Vettel.
This is the only open and honest way of acting in the teams' best interests without having to switch drivers on the track/pitlane to manufacture a result.
It is open, honest and transparent.
The FIA should act now to scrap this rule before any more GPs place.
BBC News website redesign (5) 11:16am on 26 Jul 2010 What are the stats like for the new website? Anecdotally, people I speak to say they use the site less (read fewer stories and don't refer to the site as much as they did before).
Cameron: The first iPM? 09:34am on 13 Jul 2010 It's a utopian ideal . . . but we can't even deliver digital TV and radio services to parts of the country, and our mobile network is frankly non-existent in many areas.
Digital TV/radio/mobile phone services don't need cabling to be run. They face other technical challenges, but they don't necessitate the same physical upheaval that getting fast broadband to the whole country would entail.
Think that in another 10 years you'll be digging out this blog and pointing to another unfulfilled promise.
Nortel were working on delivering the internet over the existing power lines . . . using an existing network would certainly make things easier, though would not bring the speeds we are all going to demand in the future.
BBC News website redesign (1) 8:30pm on 10 Jul 2010 Very hard for commercial sites to compete with publicly funded sites like the BBC's. Distorts the market. BBC content should be available to be embedded by UK sites (credited back to the BBC).
The £105m website 5:25pm on 07 Jul 2010 See you've started a debate at:http://puffbox.com/2010/07/07/how-can-a-website-cost-35m-easily/
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Who is right in Question Time row? 10:41am on 28 May 2010 A lot of anti Cambell comments.
A lot of calls for QT to be re-jigged (Dimbleby really was terrible last night . . . much of the time was spent with several people talking at the same time and no one listening: totally ignoring the audience/viewers).
A lot of people fed up with BBC nepotism and cronyism.
A lot of people fed up with the left wing bias of the BBC.
All these comments and we can be sure of one thing: the BBC will ignore them all. Campbell et all will be back ASAP.
BBC staff will protect their own interests and their friends.
They will justify their decisions using their own warped logic.
They dig their trenches deeper and get more and more out of touch with the public: accusing the public of misunderstanding them. Self-deceit is rife.
They believe their own inane conclusions as they don't have the wit, foresight, will or skill to really change and develop the BBC.
"Blinkers on chaps and ignore the audience. This is all being done for us in our ivory towers."
Someone needs to chop the BBC up and give money to the public to make QUALITY programming.
Who is right in Question Time row? 10:27am on 28 May 2010 A panel of have-beens: Campbell who has never been elected and who shouldn't be given a voice on a pivotal programme like QT.
Kramer who lost her seat at the election.
Redwood who is yesterday's man in so many ways.
Morgan who is out of the country a lot of the time and a cheesy talent-show judge and nothing more.
Hastings who appears to be out of touch on so many levels that it beggars belief.
Shame on QT for putting together such a weak line up.
Only one elected representative and 4 self-aggrandising z-listers.
On Five Live this morning, Cambpell said they had him on QT as he has got things to say. Doh! So have millions of other people.
Why do we have to have the BBC's friends thrust on us?
Shame on the entire BBC for being such an inbred club.
WE own the BBC. In this day and age a good portion of the BBC budget should be given to ordinary people to make programmes and partake in shows, other than in dull reality TV skits.
BBC keeps on churning through the same old people as presenters of its TV and radio output and the same old guests. Life has moved on.
Will someone please shake the BBC up and drag it into the 21st century.
Who should the Lib Dems work with? 1:59pm on 11 May 2010 How thoroughly distasteful.
If there was an election tomorrow, the Lib Dems would be wiped out . . . . this tarting around looks deceitful, abject and desperate.
Gordon Brown resigns: Your reaction 2:23pm on 10 May 2010 The Lib Dems fiddle with electoral reform whilst the economy burns. Doh!
We face the political crisis of a hung parliament, for which the Lib Dem "solution" is to establish a new system that guarantees a future littered with hung parliaments. Doh!
Some electoral reform is needed, but the main issue is to change the voting in Westminster itself. If the country knowingly gives the largest party a mandate based on 35 percent of the vote, then that party should NOT need to get 50 percent of the vote when it is governing in Westminster. the country has spoken and we have to listen to it. Setting a higher hurdle in parliament is plain stupid. Doh!
Google search redesign 12:09pm on 06 May 2010 My Google changed about 10 days ago. Is this new news?
Gordon Brown's remarks: Your reaction 2:13pm on 28 Apr 2010 Why should he apologise. He gave an opinion on the woman - what's wrong with that?
This is a farce.
iPhone 4G intrigue 2:26pm on 20 Apr 2010 Steve Jobs on why some people choose Android phones:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/24882/
iPhone 4G intrigue 11:51am on 20 Apr 2010 To comment 9 . . . the iPad is a flop and the iPad is a poor man's Android . . . you're being ironic?
iPhone 4G intrigue 11:08am on 20 Apr 2010 You have to wonder if it was possibly a deliberate leak. All this publicity for virtually no outlay . . . what a joy for Apple.
It's a rather ugly looking thing . . . lacks the loving attention of Jon Ive.
Will it damage the iPad? Not a chance: people will buy both.
What has this Parliament meant to you? 3:25pm on 07 Apr 2010 To message 229:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/haveyoursay/2010/04/what_has_this_parliament_meant.html#P94600874
The problem isn't in the election process (proportional or first past the post), it is with parliament itself:
(1) It is an out of date solution to an out of date problem.
(2) If you keep parliament as it is, then you need to reform the voting rules in parliament. The governing party should not need to get a majority vote in parliament: it is incompatible with the initial election process and illogical for the democratic process.
What has this Parliament meant to you? 3:19pm on 07 Apr 2010 Parliament is wildly out of date and out of touch.
The country needs a new political system and to sweep away the anachronistic political parties.
The country needs to reinvent itself and to have the confidence to embrace a more realistic and egalitarian future.
We need to tap our true potential, but that requires vision and courage . . . qualities that are absent from all the parties.


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A Marshall Liberal Government will legislate to protect consumers by ensuring that all gift cards purchased in South Australia are required to have a minimum expiry date of three years.
"Consumers deserve to get what they've paid for and too often gift cards expire before they have been redeemed," said Shadow Minister for Cost of Living Corey Wingard.
"Few things are more irritating than finding a gift card after its use by date has expired.
"A three year life for gift cards strikes the right balance between protecting the consumer and placing a reasonable expectation on the retailer.
"Extending the validity of gift cards beyond the usual 12 months that is currently the norm will ensure a much higher percentage of the cards are redeemed.
"A Choice member survey in 2014 found 60 per cent of respondents had problems with gift cards, and premature expiry was the biggest issue.
"One in three of the respondents to the Choice survey had lost the full value of at least one gift card in the previous three years.
"Receiving gift cards for Christmas or on a birthday is often a trigger for remembering an unredeemed card is sitting in a draw.
"Unfortunately too often that recognition comes too late for the gift card to be redeemed.
"A gift card is a good substitute for giving someone cash and should have greater longevity than is currently the case.
"The gift card market is substantial, growing and in need of a tilt in favour of the consumer.
A Marshall Liberal Government will remove all ambiguity and give consumers a guaranteed three year window to turn their gift card into a gift.


At the Music Box this week is a beautifully restored version of Max Ophuls's 1955 masterpiece Lola Montes. Do not miss it. I'm tempted to go back and see it again every single night despite the inertness of Martine Carol's Lola, but think I may just settle for rewatching Ophuls's equally amazing The Earrings of Madame de . . .


Bhutanese people could be generally categorized into three primary ethnic groups. The Tshanglas, Ngalops and also the Lhotshampas. Another minority groups would be the Bumthaps and also the Khengpas of Central Bhutan, the Kurtoeps in Lhuentse, the Brokpas and also the Bramis of Merak and Sakteng in eastern Bhutan, the Doyas of Samtse and also the Monpas of Rukha villages in Wangdue Phodrang. Together the multiethnic Bhutanese population number a little more than 6,00,000.
Tshanglas: The Tshanglas or even the Sharchops because they are generally known are seen as the aboriginal occupants of eastern Bhutan. Tshanglas or even the descendants of Lord Brahma as claimed through the historians speak Tshanglakha and therefore are generally occupants of Mongar, Trashigang, Trashi Yangtse, Pema Gasthel and Samdrup Jongkhar. Besides cultivation of maize, grain, wheat, barley and vegetables, the Tshanglas also rear domestic creatures to supplement their living. Weaving is a well-liked occupation of ladies. They produce beautiful fabrics mainly of silk and raw silk.
Ngalops: The Ngalops who've settled mostly within the six parts of western Bhutan have Tibetan origin. They speak Ngalopkha, the polished form of Dzongkha the national language of Bhutan. Agriculture is the primary livelihood. They cultivate grain, wheat, barley, maize etc, amongst others. Within the parts of Thimphu and Paro apple can also be cultivated as cash crop. They are recognized for Lozeys, or ornamental speech as well as for Zheys, dances which are unique towards the Ngalops.
Lhotshampas: The Lhotshampas who've moved in the southern foothills would be the latest to stay in the united states. It's generally agreed they migrated from Nepal at first from the 19th century mostly arriving as laborers. They speak Lhotshamkha the Nepali language and exercise Hinduism. One will discover various castes of Lhotshampas including Bhawans, Chhetris, Rai's, Limbus, Tamangs, Gurungs, and also the lepchas. They basically rely on agriculture and cultivate cash crops for example like ginger root, cardamom, oranges, etc.
The Bumthaps, Mangdeps and Khengpas: Those who speak Bumtapkha, Mangdepkha and khengkha correspondingly inhabit the central pockets of Bhutan. The Bumthaps cultivate buck wheat, taters and vegetables. A piece of the population also rear yaks and sheep and convey fabrics of made of woll and yak hair. The Mangdeps rely on cultivation of grain, wheat, maize, vegetables, etc besides rearing domestic creatures. The khengpas also rely on agriculture like the Mangdeps. However, they're also noted for the bamboo and cane craft.
Kurtoeps: Kurtoeps would be the other group of individuals the east. They inhabit the district of Lhuentse and also the villages are located spread across the banks of Kurichu. Khoma women are expert weavers and provide skill in weaving the grandiose Kushithara.
The Brokpas and also the Bramis: The Brokpas and also the Bramis really are a semi nomadic community. They're moved in the 2 villages of Merak and Sakteng in eastern Bhutan. They mostly rely on yaks and sheep for livelihood. Residing in our prime altitude zones they hardly occupy agriculture. They speak another dialect and their very own unique dress that consists of yak hair and sheep made of woll. They're also experts in cane and bamboo crafts.
The Layaps: To the ultimate north would be the Layaps who speak the layapkha. Such as the Brokpas, they're also semi nomads whose supply of livelihood relies upon yaks and sheep these products which they barter using the people of Wangdue Phodrang and Punakha with grain, salt along with other consumables.
The Doyas: These would be the other tribal community and therefore are settled mostly in southern Bhutan. They are seen as the aboriginal occupants of western and central Bhutan, who through the years settled in our areas in Dorokha. There is a dialect that belongs to them and dress in their own individual unique style.
Monpas: The Monpas really are a small community in Rukha under Wangdue Phodrang. Along with the Doyas they're also considered the initial settlers of central Bhutan. They speak another dialect unique to their personal but one that's gradually ding as this type of person now being made available to the primary stream Bhutanese society.
The Bhutanese society is freed from class or caste system and then any inhibition that's harmful for any society to advance. Slavery was abolished through the Third King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck in early 1950s via a royal edict. Though, couple of organizations to empower women have been in existence a couple of in the past, generally the Bhutanese will always be gender sensitive. Generally ours is definitely an open along with a good-spirited society.
Residing in a Bhutanese society generally means understanding some fundamental norms like Driglam Namzha, the standard etiquette. This can be a norm that desires people from the society to conduct themselves in public areas. Putting on a shawl when going to a Dzong or perhaps an office, letting the elders and also the priests serve themselves first, offering felicitation scarves during events for example marriages and promotions, greeting elders or senior officials are a few simple manners that harmonizes and binds together the Bhutanese society.
Normally, greetings are restricted to saying Kuzuzangpo among equals. For seniors and elders, the Bhutanese bow their mind a little and say kuzuzangpola. But, the western methods for trembling hands is becoming an recognized norm.
The Bhutanese will also be fun-loving people. Dancing, singing, playing archery, stone pitching, partying, social gatherings etc. are typical stuff that one observes. Visiting buddies and relatives at any hour during the day with no advance notice or appointment clearly depicts the openness from the Bhutanese society.
Bhutan is really a Buddhist country and individuals think of it as the final stronghold of Vajrayana Buddhism. Buddhism was initially created by the Indian Tantric master Guru Padmasambhava within the eighth century. Till then people generally worshipped all types of nature, remains which continue to be apparent to this day in certain remote villages in the united states. The older type of religion was known as Bon and it was supported by choices of animal sacrifice and worshipped a number of deities invoking and propitiating them. They deemed in invisible forces and regarded them because the rightful proprietors of various aspects of nature. Mountain peaks regarded as abodes of Protector deities (Yul lha), the ponds as lived on by lake deities (Tsho mem), coves resided by high cliff deities (Tsen), land of the undercover deities (Lue), land lived on by (Sabdag), ponds lived on by water deities (Chu gi Lhamu), and dark places haunted through the demons (due) etc.
Using the visit of Padmasambhava, Buddhism started to consider firm roots and particularly brought towards the propagation from the Nyingmapa (the traditional or even the older) school of Buddhism.
The visit of Phajo Drugom Zhigpo's from Ralung in Tibet to Bhutan in 1222 marks another milestone within the good reputation for Bhutan as well as in Buddhism. He was instrumental in presenting another school of Buddhism – the Drukpa Kagyu that's today the condition religion of the nation. His sons and descendants were also instrumental in distributing it with other parts in western Bhutan.
Undoubtedly the finest contributor was Zhabdrung Nawang Namgyal. His arrival in 1616 from Tibet marks another landmark. He wasn't only in a position to bring under his domain the different Buddhist schools which had popped in many areas of western Bhutan but unify the nation like a one whole nation-condition and provide it a definite identity.
Buddhism continues to be vibrant and alive. The Dzongs, monasteries, stupas, prayer flags, and prayer wheels punctuate the Bhutanese landscape. The chime of ritual bells, seem of gongs, people circumambulating temples and stupas, fluttering prayer flags, red robed priests performing rituals, among many more are living situation in indicate demonstrate that Buddhism is a vital component of the Bhutanese existence.
Though known as the final Vajrayana Buddhist country, yet you can still encounter animistic traditions and beliefs being used by the folks. Nature worship and animal sacrifice continue to be an element of the Bhutanese worship. Every village includes a local priest or perhaps a shaman to preside within the rituals. A few of the common nature worship being practiced are the Cha festival in Kurtoe, the Kharphud in Mongar and Zhemgang, the Bala Bongko in Wangdue Phodrang, the Lombas of the Haaps and also the Parops, the Jomo Solkha of the Brokpas, the Kharam amongst the Tshanglas and the Devi Puja amongst our southern community. Each one of these shamanistic rituals are now being performed to help keep away the evil spirits, to usher in success, for stopping someone, in order to welcome a brand new year. Throughout these rituals a typical feature may be the offering of creatures varying from slaughter of the ox, fish a chicken or perhaps a goat.


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Konstantīns Raudive
(Redirected from Konstantin Raudive)
(1909-04-30)30 April 1909
Asūne parish, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire
2 September 1974(1974-09-02) (aged 65)
Bad Krozingen, Germany
Writer, parapsychologist
Zenta Mauriņa
Konstantīns Raudive (1909 in Asūne, Vitebsk Governorate – 1974), known internationally as Konstantin Raudive, was a Latvian writer and intellectual, and husband of Zenta Mauriņa. Raudive was born in Latgale in eastern Latvia (then part of Vitebsk Governorate) but studied extensively abroad, later becoming a student of Carl Jung.[1] In exile following the Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944, he taught at the University of Uppsala in Sweden.
Raudive studied parapsychology all his life, and was especially interested in the possibility of the afterlife. He and German parapsychologist Hans Bender investigated electronic voice phenomena (EVP). He published a book on EVP, Breakthrough, in 1971. Raudive was a scientist as well as a practising Roman Catholic.
1 EVP research
3 EVP characteristics
4 Cultural references
EVP research[edit]
In 1964, Raudive read Friedrich Jürgenson's book, Voices from Space, and was so impressed by it that he arranged to meet Jürgenson in 1965. He then worked with Jürgenson to make some EVP recordings, but their first efforts bore little fruit, although they believed that they could hear very weak, muddled voices. According to Raudive, however, one night, as he listened to one recording, he clearly heard a number of voices. When he played the tape over and over, he came to believe he understood all of them. He thought some of which were in German, some in Latvian, some in French. The last voice on the tape, according to Raudive, a woman's voice, said "Ve a dormir, Margarete" ("Go to sleep, Margaret").
Raudive later wrote (in his book Breakthrough):
These words made a deep impression on me, as Margarete Petrautzki had died recently, and her illness and death had greatly affected me.
Raudive started researching such alleged voices on his own and spent much of the last ten years of his life exploring EVP. With the help of various electronics experts he recorded over 100,000 audiotapes, most of which were made under what he described as "strict laboratory conditions." He collaborated at times with Bender. Over 400 people were involved in his research, and all apparently heard the voices. This culminated in the 1968 publication of Unhörbares wird hörbar ("What is inaudible becomes audible") [2](published in English in 1971 as Breakthrough).
Methods[edit]
Raudive developed several different approaches to recording EVP:
Microphone voices: one simply leaves the tape recorder running, with no one talking; he indicated that one can even disconnect the microphone.
Radio voices: one records the white noise from a radio that is not tuned to any station.
Diode voices: one records from what is essentially a crystal set not tuned to a station.
EVP characteristics[edit]
Raudive delineated a number of characteristics of the voices, (as laid out in Breakthrough):
"The voice entities speak very rapidly, in a mixture of languages, sometimes as many as five or six in one sentence."
"They speak in a definite rhythm, which seems forced on them."
"The rhythmic mode imposes a shortened, telegram-style phrase or sentence."
Probably because of this, "… grammatical rules are frequently abandoned and neologisms abound."
Cultural references[edit]
A sample of the tape was used by The Smiths in their song Rubber Ring.[3]
^ A student of Carl Jung, was a Latvian psychologist who taught at the University of Uppsala, Sweden
^ Electronic Communication with the Dead (English translation of "Unhoerbares wird hoerbar")
^ It May All End Tomorrow – Rubber Ring
Konstantins Raudive (1971). Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead. Smythe. ISBN 978-0-900675-54-6.
Specters of the Spectrum, by Jared Keane Feldman, New York Moon
Biography at the Wayback Machine (archived June 11, 2007) of Konstantin Raudive. Apparently a chapter of a book, Paraphysics and EVP: a mind over matter investigation 1984–2001, author unspecified.
Jolyon Jenkins (25 March 2013). "The people who think they tune in to dead voices". BBC News.
Calling Earth (completed 2017), a 95-minute documentary about the Electronic Voice Phenomenon and Instrumental Transcommunication, featuring Dr. Raudive and numerous other pioneers in the field of afterlife communication via modern electronics. Produced by Daniel Drasin. vimeo.com/101171248
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Once you've worked out your finances, picked a house and chosen your lender, you need to get down to the business of choosing the actual mortgage product for you.
There are several different types of mortgage you could take out when looking to purchase a house. Firstly you must choose between a repayment or interest only mortgage.
A repayment mortgage will see you paying off the interest you accrue on your mortgage as well as some of the capital cost with each monthly installment. Interest only mortgages deal solely with the payment of the interest on the loan. This means that at the end of the loan you will still owe the total cost of the house. Borrowers with these mortgages will look to take out a separate investment that matures at the end of the mortgage period and, at least, covers this cost. A repayment mortgage is the more common option.
Fixed rate: With these mortgages the interest rate you pay remains the same or the duration of the deal. This will typically be two to five years at one rate, after which you can negotiate a new deal. This offers certainty when planning out your finances but the deals are typically higher than those with a variable rate.
Standard variable rate (SVR): This is the normal rate charged by a lender outside of any deals or offers they have on. If you finish a fixed rate deal you will be transferred onto this. A rise or fall in the base rate from the Bank of England will directly impact on what you pay but you would have the freedom to leave or change your deal at any point.
Discount mortgages: This is an offer made by a lender, typically a percentage 'off' the SVR for a set period of time. So, if the lender's standard rate is 5%, they might offer 2% discount for two or three years. The trick is to consider both the SVR and the amount of discount as a larger discount from a higher starting point won't necessarily be the best deal. The important figure is the interest rate you'll be left paying after all. Rate rises and falls will impact on what you pay each month, making budgeting a little tougher.
Tracker mortgages: Tracker deals follow an interest rate that is usually set at the 'base rate plus a set percentage', normally for a fixed period of years. This gives you a very direct link to what the Bank of England does and your own repayments.
Capped rate mortgages: This is a mortgage in which the interest rate moves in line with the SVR but is capped at a maximum level. This allows you to budget for a 'worst case scenario' and removes some of the risk associated with variable rate mortgages. However, this does typically mean paying more than with some other deals.
Offset mortgages: Each month your lender calculates the total interest you owe based on the total you have borrowed minus the amount held in a linked savings account. So if you borrow £150,000 and have savings of £10,000, you will only be paying interest on £140,000.
On all of the above deals you must make sure you're aware of the exit penalties for leaving before the end, just in case.
There are lots of variations on the market, take the time – and advice – to make sure you fully understand a product and that you get the choice right to leave yourself on a sound financial footing. Weigh up the security and affordability of each deal and make sure you cost out a 'worst case scenario'.
When taking out a deal for a number of years make sure you think ahead. If your family or work circumstances are likely to change in that time, bear that in mind.


The Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 is perfect for those who demand more than 2 inputs, this compact interface gives you 2 combi XLR/Jack inputs on the front and 2 1/4 Jack inputs on the pack for recording multiple instruments at the same time. With the feature of 4 line outs (2 stereo outs) and two headphone jacks you are able to monitor your audio in a range of different ways to cover the most important listening methods. Scarlett 2nd Generation interfaces have lower latency than any other USB audio interfaces. Take a look at this short video to see for yourself how latency can cause problems when recording, and find out what you can do to overcome it.
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If you ever wondered what a HAROLD PINTER ACTION MOVIE would be like (and which of us has not?) this short extract from his screenplay VICTORY (adapted from Joseph Conrad for director Richard Lester) may provide the answer.
EXT. THE CLEARING Ricardo, standing, holding his head. Jones comes out of the shadows.
Guv'nor! I thought he'd done for you. He nearly had me just now.
No, it wasn't him. It was me.
He shoots him. Ricardo falls.
This project was set to go in the early '80s, at a modest budget, when another production company announced a version of the same (out-of-copyright) book. Lester's funding collapsed.
Mark Peploe made a version of the Conrad classic in 1995, but apparently thought he could do better than Pinter and wrote his own script. The film was barely released.
Well, now I know — pasting from Word into this blog really messes up the formatting!
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Target Comics emerged in the heyday of the Golden Age, featuring a credible lineup of masked heroes, comic strip-style adventure stories, and humorous filler. Leading talents such as Jack Cole (creator of Plastic Man), Bill Everett (Sub-Mariner), and Carl Burgos (The Human Torch) contributed to its pages, but Target is today best known as the showcase for Space Hawk, the classic, science-fiction strip by comic art genius Basil Wolverton. Space Hawk appeared in the first several issues, but by the mid-1940s, Target slipped back into the pack as an average-quality anthology title. In 1949, it was bought, along with Novelty's other books including Blue Bolt by L. B. Cole's Star Publications. Cole contributed a few of his lurid poster-painted covers, but reader interest continued to wane and Target folded before 1950.


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St Mary's Heritage Centre is based within the former St Mary's Church which dates from the 12th century and is a Grade 1 listed building. For many years, this building was the only church in Gateshead and has often been described as Gateshead's mother church. Adjoining the church is its graveyard which closed to burials in 1853. This houses a number of well carved and artistic 18th and early 19th century gravestones. The interior houses permanent and changing displays celebrating various aspects of Gateshead's history. A wide ranging programme of events takes place throughout the year and a dedicated family history corner enables you to search for that elusive ancestor.
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Here is the transcription of the interview with a former member of Costa Concordia crew, that prefers not to publish his name.That's why we're gonna call him "Mario".
Question: Mario, first of all I want to thank you for your time and your availability to share with us some information.Mario, where are you from?
Mario: I come from South of Italy, a small city not far from Naples.
Question: Which are your experiences on board of luxury cruise ships and in which role?
Mario: I have worked onboard Cruise Ships for many years. I was in the Hotel Department, my rank was 1st Purser.
Question: What do you think about the collision of Costa Concordia?
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Question: What could you say about the usual practice of near-shore salutes ("fare inchini")?
Question: Any other consideration about this story?
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This is a mortgage in which the capital borrowed is repaid gradually over the period of the loan. The capital is paid in monthly installments together with an amount of interest. The amount of capital which is repaid gradually increases over the years while the amount of interest goes down. Provided you make all your repayments up to the end of the mortgage term, you are guaranteed to clear the full amount borrowed. The majority of residential mortgages are on a repayment basis.
With this type of mortgage, you pay interest on the loan in monthly installments to the lender. Instead of repaying the loan each month, you can opt to pay into a long-term investment or savings plan which should grow enough to clear the loan at the end of the mortgage term. However, if your investment doesn't grow as planned or the property value falls, you will have an equity shortfall to fund at maturity. Opting for an interest- only mortgage whilst reducing servicing payments can therefore involve accepting a significant degree of risk. Buy to let mortgages tend to be on an interest only basis with the loan being paid off with the proceeds of the eventual sale of the property.
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Movies|Les Blank, Filmmaker of America's Periphery, Dies at 77
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Les Blank, Filmmaker of America's Periphery, Dies at 77
By Bruce Weber
Les Blank, whose sly, sensuous and lyrical documentaries about regional music and a host of other idiosyncratic subjects, including Mardi Gras, gaptoothed women, garlic and the filmmaker Werner Herzog, were widely admired by critics and other filmmakers if not widely known by moviegoers, died on Sunday at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 77.
The cause was bladder cancer, said his son Harrod.
Mr. Blank, who received lifetime achievement awards from the American Film Institute and the International Documentary Association, did not think of himself as a documentarian, his former wife Chris Simon said, but rather as a filmmaker whose work happened to be about real people.
And his films are hardly standard documentary fare, dominated by archival footage and interviews with talking heads; nor are they of the Frederick Wiseman-D. A. Pennebaker fly-on-the-wall exposé school. Rather, the films, most of them less than an hour long, are "brilliantly sympathetic, well-crafted essays," as John Rockwell wrote in The New York Times in 1979, rife with deftly framed portraiture, cunningly observed social scenes, beautiful nature photography and the poetic juxtaposition of imagery and sound.
"I think he's a national treasure," the director Taylor Hackford said in a telephone interview. "Although his films are not well known at the moment, they'll take their place. Films are great when they live a long time, and I think Les's will live."
Mr. Blank trolled for subject matter on the American periphery, in cultural pockets where the tradition is long but the exposure limited. His films often have a geographic as well as cultural specificity, and food and music are often the featured elements. His musical subjects included norteño bands of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, Cajun fiddlers of Louisiana and polka enthusiasts from across the country.
Les Blank, the documentary filmmaker, in a photo from the mid-1980s.Credit...Chris Simon
His films that are explicitly about food and drink include an almost evangelistic paean to garlic and garlic lovers, "Garlic Is as Good as 10 Mothers" (1980), which Mr. Blank sometimes screened in what he called smellovision, cooking up garlic-spiced dishes in the auditorium while the movie played; and "All in This Tea" (2007), which follows David Lee Hoffman, an eccentric American tea importer, as he travels to China in search of the world's most delicate, flavorful tea leaves.
"You could call him an ethnographer; you could call him an ethnomusicologist or an anthropologist," Mr. Hackford said. "He was interested in certain cultures that Americans are unaware of. He shot what he wanted, captured it beautifully, and those subjects are now gone. The homogenization of American culture has obliterated it."
A shy, quiet man, Mr. Blank achieved a kind of intimacy in his work — his subjects often seem almost impossibly at ease — that suggested the camera had been unobtrusive, or perhaps a welcome guest. Mr. Blank sometimes lived among the people he was filming for weeks at a time.
"I try not to make a big deal about the camera, to let it get between me and them," Mr. Blank said in 1979. "I've seen a lot of cameramen go in and treat the subjects like so many guinea pigs. I think the people pick up on my very protective feelings toward them, and they aren't self-conscious about what they do or say, and they try to show the inner light about themselves that I find so attractive."
Mr. Blank created revealing close-up portraits in "Dizzy Gillespie" (1965), about the jazz trumpeter; "The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins" (1968), about that Texas blues guitarist; "Hot Pepper" (1973), which features the zydeco performer Clifton Chenier; and "Sprout Wings and Fly" (1983), about the Appalachian fiddler Tommy Jarrell.
"He doesn't command attention or say very much to them," Harrod Blank, a filmmaker himself, said in an interview. "Now, he will eat their food and buy the drink, and I think that helps. He'll get involved in celebrating what they want to celebrate."
Perhaps his best-known films concern Mr. Herzog, the German director of films like "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" and "Stroszek." To encourage his student and friend Errol Morris to finish his long-talked-about film on pet cemeteries, Mr. Herzog had said that when it was done he would eat his shoes. The impetus worked: Mr. Morris finished the film ("Gates of Heaven") in 1978, and Mr. Herzog kept his promise, boiling his leather desert boots in duck fat (and stuffing them with garlic) at Chez Panisse, the celebrated restaurant in Berkeley, and consuming them — partly, anyway — onstage at a local theater. Mr. Blank turned it into a comic, and rather touching, 20-minute film about what artists do for the sake of art, appropriately titled "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe" (1979).
Two years later Mr. Blank was invited to the Peruvian wild, where Mr. Herzog was filming "Fitzcarraldo," his epic and star-crossed film about a man's outlandish, obsessive effort to build an opera house in the jungle, an effort requiring a ship to be hauled over a mountain.
Mr. Blank's feature-length documentary about the project, "Burden of Dreams" (1982), depicted Mr. Herzog himself as outlandish and obsessive as he persevered through the project's endless calamities. It is, The Times's Vincent Canby declared, "one of the most candid, most fascinating portraits ever made of a motion picture director at work."
Leslie Harrod Blank Jr. was born on Nov. 27, 1935, in Tampa, Fla., where his father was a real estate developer. He went to Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., and Tulane University in New Orleans, where he majored in English and aspired to be a writer. He briefly attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, and flirted with the idea of becoming a Navy pilot before he saw the Ingmar Bergman film "The Seventh Seal," which piqued his interest in making movies.
He returned to Tulane to study acting and playwriting and then went to film school at the University of Southern California. Needing money after two years of school, he took jobs making industrial and educational films, which essentially became his apprenticeship, teaching him the technical rudiments of nonfiction filmmaking under real conditions. He formed a production company, Flower Films, in 1967.
Mr. Blank was married and divorced three times. In addition to his son Harrod, whose full name is Leslie Harrod Blank III, he is survived by a daughter, Ferris Robinson; another son, Beau Blank; and three grandchildren.
In 2007 Mr. Blank received the Edward MacDowell Medal, presented annually since 1960 by the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the arts. Its previous winners included Thornton Wilder, Robert Frost, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and only two film directors, the avant-gardist Stan Brakhage and the animator Chuck Jones. Mr. Hackford was the chairman of the jury, which included the directors Ken Burns, Steven Soderbergh, Mira Nair and Spike Jonze, as well as Thomas Luddy, a founder of the Telluride Film Festival.
"We all met in New York City, and I was expecting that we'd be discussing names like Francis, Marty, David Lynch and so on," Mr. Luddy wrote in an e-mail. "Taylor Hackford spoke first and said we'd be talking about many of the obvious great names, but his candidate was Les Blank. He said that in 100 years his own films and many of the films by the big names may well be forgotten, but Les Blank's films will be revered as time-capsule classics. I said 'Amen,' as did all the other members of the committee. We never even discussed another name, and our meeting was over in less than an hour."


Micaela Greg is a knitwear label founded by sisters, Marie and Karen Potesta. They strive to design visually bold knitwear by combining modern geometric patterns, intermingling textures, and deceptively simple silhouettes. Their focus is to design quality, made to last garments with American manufacturing at the heart of the brand. The collection is proudly made in California, and constructed of the finest quality Italian yarns with the softest hand feel. A small number of pieces are made in Peru in Fair Trade factories with Alpaca yarns from the local vendors.


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Triple talaq bill tabled, transgender bill gets LS nod amid Rafale din
Author Gangtok Times Report Posted on December 18, 2018 January 21, 2019 0 Likes
After a complete washout of the first week of the winter session of Parliament, the Lok Sabha on Monday witnessed little business although it passed the Transgender Persons Rights Bill and introduced the Triple Talaq Bill amid din
New Delhi, Dec 17
After a complete washout of the first week of the winter session of Parliament, the Lok Sabha on Monday witnessed little business although it passed the Transgender Persons Rights Bill and introduced the Triple Talaq Bill amid din.
Throughout the day, the Congress, the AIADMK and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) members protested near the Speaker's podium over different issues and forced three adjournments before the passage of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016.
Soon after the House met for the day and then reassembled at noon after the first adjournment and during the post-lunch session, the Congress, the AIADMK and TDP members were on their feet.
The Congress members were demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Rafale jet fighter deal with France while accusing the government of lying before the Supreme Court.
The AIADMK members wanted Karnataka to take back its proposal to construct a dam across the Cauvery river at Mekadatu, while the TDP members raised several issues related to special status to Andhra Pradesh.
In the noon, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad introduced the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018, commonly known as the Triple Talaq Bill amid a ruckus and despite opposition from the Congress.
As the din continued, Prasad sought permission from the Chair to introduce the Bill.
Congress member ShashiTharoor opposed it claiming it was targeted at a particular religion and hence unconstitutional.
"The bill was based on the ground of a specific religion and it was violation of Sections 14 and 21 of the Constitution. This is a misconceived bill," he said.
His objections were rejected by Prasad.
"The Bill was brought in as per the direction of the Supreme Court to protect the rights of Muslim women. Several Muslim women suffered due to instant talaq.
"This bill is in the nation's interest and constitutional. The objection is baseless," Prasad said and then introduced the bill.
The government could not pass the bill in the Rajya Sabha during the previous monsoon session. Later it issued an ordinance on September 19 making Triple Talaq a criminal offence.
During the Zero Hour, ShiromaniAkali Dal's Prem Singh ChanduMajra raked up the High Court verdict against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that came earlier in the day while the BJP's Ganesh Singh demanded early construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan urged the protesting members to go back to their seats but they did not relent. She then adjourned the House till 2 p.m.
When the House again met post-lunch, scenes were no different.
Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment ThaawarchandGehlot sought cooperation from the opposition members and started discussion on Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2016 that provides for protection of rights of transgender persons and their welfare.
He said the Bill was important in view of the rights of the transgenders and urged the members to pass it.
The Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha in August 2016 and as per the demands of the members, the Bill was referred to the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment.
Gehlot said that as many as 27 suggestions made by the Standing Committee were accepted in the Bill.
Congress' ShashiTharoor, Biju Janata Dal (BJD)'s BhartruhariMahtab, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)'s SupriyaSule and Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s Kakoli Ghosh spoke and presented their concerns on the various clauses of the Bill including its definition. They also sought some amendments but were rejected.
During the discussion, when Kakoli Ghosh was speaking, some of the protesting members tore a piece of paper and threw it in the air.
"This is not the way," Mahajan remarked on the behaviour of the members.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Narendra Singh Tomar too, objected and said the behaviour of the members was not dignified and was contempt of the proceedings.
"The government is ready to discuss every issue including Rafale," he said.
But the opposition members did not relent and continued with sloganeering.
Amid the din the Bill was passed with voice vote.
While protesting, the Congress members were holding placards which read the "government which lies to the Supreme Court has no right to continue".
They were countered by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who demanded an apology from Congress President Rahul Gandhi citing the apex court's clean chit to the government in the case.
The BJP members also held up a printed placard mentioning "Congress party is a liar, Rahul Gandhi should apologise".
As soon as the Bill was passed, Mahajan adjourned the House for the day.


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La madrasa Cher-Dor o Sher-Dor (che significa che porta dei leoni). È una madrasa di Samarcanda in Uzbekistan. Si affaccia sulla piazza Registan ed è elencata come patrimonio mondiale dell'UNESCO dal 2001, con altri monumenti di Samarcanda. Esso costituisce un notevole complesso architettonico assieme alla Madrasa Ulugh Beg e la madrasa Tilla Kari che si trovano nelle vicinanze.

Storia

La madrasa è stata costruita nel 1619-1635/36 su ordine dell'hakim di Samarcanda, Yalangtouch Bahadour (vizir di Kouli Khan), dall'architetto Abdoullah Djabbar. La decorazione è opera del Maestro Muhammad Abbas.

Venne costruita sul lato est della piazza sul sito di un khanqa del secolo XV i cui materiali vennero utilizzati per la sua costruzione, ciò è confermato da scavi archeologici condotti nel 1956 dall'archeologo sovietico S. N. Yourenev. La Madrasa Sher-Dor è costruita in base alla modalità di "koch" assieme alla madrasa Ulugh Beg, secondo certe proporzioni. Il progetto dell'architetto prevedeva infatti che le facciate dei due edifici dovessero essere lo specchio di un'altra. Ma l'autore non ha previsto che duecento anni dopo il completamento della costruzione della madrasa Ulugh Beg, il livello del Registan si fosse sollevato di due metri. Per questa ragione mostra un aspetto più robusto rispetto alla Madrasa Sher-Dor.

Dopo il completamento, la madrasa ricevette il nome del suo architetto, ma questo nome non venne mai adottato dalla popolazione locale. Il suo nome attuale, "Cher-Dor", è dovuto ai mosaici del timpano del portale d'onore. L'arredamento è una scena di caccia con animali fantastici tra cui leoni, tigri e grandi felini sul lato con la testa circondata dai raggi del sole. Questa scena è uno dei simboli di oggi della Repubblica dell'Uzbekistan. La Madrasa Sher-Dor è famosa nel mondo musulmano da circa tre secoli, come scuola coranica di grande reputazione, ma oggi ha solo un'importanza locale, come del resto la madrasa Oulougbeg. Nonostante le dimensioni imponenti, la madrasa infatti ha ospitato a malapena una quarantina di studenti. Possiamo citare tra questi il sufi Sceicco di origine tatara, Chigaboutdine Marjani, filosofo e storico.

La madrasa subì diversi terremoti, tra cui due dei più gravi avvenuti nei primi anni del XIX secolo e alla fine del XIX secolo. L'edificio resistette, ma fu danneggiato assieme al portale principale che venne distorto assieme ai minareti. Nei primi anni del 1920, l'insegnamento coranico viene rimosso dai bolscevichi locali e la proprietà nazionalizzata. I lavori di restauro sono iniziati nel 1924. Le stanze vennero rimosse, gli archi del portale riabilitati, e il mosaico del timpano viene ripristinato, ecc. Gli scavi archeologici vennero condotti nel 1950 seguiti da nuovi restauri. Nel 1960-1962, i minareti sono stati smantellati, e il mosaico sopra il portale principale venne completamente restaurato e consolidato nel 1962, dopo il progetto di un artista N. V. Gorokhov e l'architetto I. A. Freitag.

Le stanze sono occupate oggi da commercianti di souvenir e tappeti.

Architettura

La Madrasa Cher-Dor è stata costruita secondo la tradizione medievale dell'Asia centrale. Ha una forma rettangolare, su una superficie di 70 metri x 57 metri. La facciata principale è divisa da un imponente cancello (pishtak) con un Iwan ad arco che raggiunge i 31,5 metri. Gli angoli della facciata sono affiancati da minareti con una altezza di 31 metri, coronati da cornici a forma di stalattiti (muqarnas). Su ogni lato del portale, vediamo due cupole scanalate che ricoprono ciascuno sale studio a bulbo.

La decorazione della madrasa utilizza abbondantemente mattoni verniciati e vetri, maioliche e mosaici di tipo kachina. La decorazione degli esterni è dominata da motivi geometrici complessi (a seconda del modello di ornamento girih) progettato per essere visto da lontano. Gli ornamenti dei fregi epigrafici decorano i minareti e le cupole dei tamburi.

Le maioliche del portale principale sono unici e rappresentano un capolavoro di arte islamica. I timpani degli archi delle stanze sono riccamente decorati. I gambi avvolti con boccioli rigogliosi e vi sono disegni di fiori delicati. Il pannello dei mosaici nella nicchia sul lato ovest è notevole: si tratta di mazzi di fiori pieni di sensualità su grandi vasi che simboleggiano l'albero della vita.

La decorazione degli interni è interessante, soprattutto quella della cupola darskhaneh. Le sue pareti e le volte sono decorate secondo la tecnica koundal, con motivi vegetali, mentre i medaglioni della cupola e gli archi sono realizzati con arabeschi complessi.

Note

Bibliografia
 Asia centrale, guida Le Petit Futé, edizione 2008
 Uzbekistan, guida Le Petit Futé, edizione 2012

Voci correlate
 Registan
 Architettura islamica

Altri progetti

Madrase di Samarcanda
Patrimoni dell'umanità dell'Uzbekistan

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On Oct. 14, the Alaska Conference and Arctic Mission Adventure will be hosting a Facebook Live 60-minute speaking and singing presentation by Inuk singer/songwriter, Susan Aglukark.
The presentation, "Healed Enough," is the story of how she used the challenges in her life to heal from sexual abuse.
The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. (AKDT).
Check here to read an interview about the sexual assault challenges in Native communities in Alaska.
To participate in the Questions and Answers time, click here to head over to Facebook.
Note: If the video doesn't start, click the image above to begin playing the video.


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Justin Melck (born 4 January 1983) is a South African born German rugby union player. He plays as a Flanker.

Early life
Melck was born in Cape Town and educated at Rondebosch Boys High School, Fettes College in Scotland and Stellenbosch University,

Career in South Africa
Melck has played for Western Province and the Super Rugby side Stormers.

Melck captained the Western Province side during the Currie Cup tournament in July 2007.

Munster
He has signed a three-month loan deal with European Champions Munster.

Saracens
Melck joined Saracens March 2009 and left at the end of the 2013-14 season.

Personal life
He got married on 6 February 2010 to Georgina Simpson.

Germany
Melck was eligible to play for Germany because of his German mother, was called up for their match against Sweden on 26 April 2014 where he represents the country for the first time.

References

External links
Stormers Profile
SA Rugby Profile

Rugby union flankers
South African rugby union players
Stormers players
Munster Rugby players
Western Province (rugby union) players
Alumni of Rondebosch Boys' High School
People educated at Fettes College
Stellenbosch University alumni
1983 births
Living people
German rugby union players
Germany international rugby union players
Rugby union players from Cape Town


Keira Knightley may well feel she has been permanently beached on the two Pirates Of The Caribbean sequels she has been filming back-to-back for most of this year - but she's due for a change of scenery soon.
The 20-year-old, who collected a Golden Globe best actress (in a comedy or musical) nomination for her role in Joe Wright's version of Pride And Prejudice, will continue to work through till early spring on the Pirates pictures - and will put in a couple of months more effort on Part Three at the end of 2006.
In between, though, she'll act in a much more intimate movie for director Francois Girard. The film is called Silk and it's based on Alessandro Baricco's novel - a gentle love story about Herve Joncour, a French silkworm merchant who travels to Japan. Keira would play Helene, the faithful wife Joncour leaves behind while he makes his trips.
Michael Pitt, who was so good in The Last Days and The Dreamers, could play the husband.
Meanwhile, Keira was still recovering yesterday from the lasagne she cooked for her and her flatmate. "It was my turn to cook and when I told my flatmate I had a nomination she said it didn't mean I was getting out of doing the cooking," Keira told me.
At least she had the good sense to wash the meal down with a glass - or three! - of Krug.


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Netflix Series 'Bloodline' Premieres in March
Posted Thu Oct 23, 2014 at 01:00 PM PDT by Steven Cohen
The new Netflix original series starring Kyle Chandler will start streaming next year.
Netflix has announced a March 2015 premiere for its latest exclusive show, 'Bloodline.' The drama series is produced and written by the creators of 'Damages' and stars Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, and Linda Cardellini.
'Bloodline' is a dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of his parents' hotel, he threatens to expose the Rayburns' dark secrets and shameful past, pushing his siblings to the limits of family loyalty. Check out the teaser trailer below.
An exact premiere date has not been announced, but all thirteen episodes will be available to stream sometime in March 2015. A monthly Netflix subscription currently starts at $7.99 for SD streaming and $8.99 for HD streaming. The service is available on a variety of smart TVs and media players, including the Fire TV, Roku 3, Apple TV and Chromecast.
Sources: Netflix, Variety


What are the top flooring designs for 2019?
2018 has passed in the blink of an eye and now you are here to face whatever is to come for 2019. This year could be a time of changes for you; a new office, a business venture, or even a new home. If one of these changes include designing your own house, you should keep an eye out for your desired tile design in the Philippines.
When you think of rustic, floors with wood planks that are strong yet that looks quite aged are the best fit for this design scheme. Now, tile centers are making it easier for homeowners to bring this ideal in their own living spaces with wood-inspired ceramic tiles. It is a more versatile flooring option that also comes in different finishes you can choose from such as rough (also known as rustic), matte, and glossy.
People, especially millennials, love the material because its natural look can be combined with a modern touch from lighting fixtures and other design elements in a room. Furthermore, the natural and earthy tones add to it sturdiness. Lastly, their color adds warmth to a living space.
If you want to have a rustic looking home, the best wood-inspired tiles for you would be those with a clean and crisp look like FC's [60×60] M62. With wood floors, the best rooms to place them are your living room, bedroom and even outdoor installations like the one found below.
Marble is well-loved by homeowners because it adds a simple yet luxurious elegance to their living spaces. In 2019, neutral colored marble tiles are one of the trends in flooring installations. You may find that ditching the loud red and blues for basic greys, beige, and white colors would be suitable. Designing your house can mean going back to the basics which will reward you with a sleek look like no other.
Luckily, now you can buy marble tiles without breaking the bank. For most structures, it is common to see designers adding marbles tiles to the home interior design. They add a relaxing atmosphere and make the residents feel at peace. If you want to make your home a tranquil place, the 59.5×59.5 RAK's Golden Marble Tile A06GZGMA-GY0.G0P would be perfect for this. The marble with golden streaks will be an elegant addition to your home.
Uniquely patterned mosaic floor tiles will continue being popular in 2019. No matter the geometric shape, all of these items will add a young feel and a sophisticated view of design in every facet of your home. These tiles are bright which is why guests will find them eye-catching.
The best areas to place a mosaic floor tile are your bathroom, walls, backsplashes or even the pool area. These unique patterns will add character to an otherwise plain looking space. Your home will look more interesting with a mosaic floor because it is a masterpiece of art in itself.
Vintage interior designs are perfect for those who love sticking to classics. The good thing about this floor design trend is that it has a subtle charm which works for every home.
Vintage is always making a comeback in terms of design and tile trends because it is striking to look at while having that timeless character. Additionally, it is easy to find different vintage designs.
Show your artistic side by mixing and matching tile types in this category. Doing this can help you achieve a creative touch to your retro-designed home.
Floors with a stone pattern simply add a more organic feel to any structure and this is the main reason why people will look for these type of tiles in 2019.
Every year, new flooring designs trends emerge and 2019 is no exception. Trends can act as inspirations for your new home because they show what is popular and what schemes will look the most beautiful. Make this year count! Whatever design trend you choose to go with, Floor Center has it all for you. Just click here.


Beautiful mini glass hurricane lantern with distressed stone effect base. Ideal as candle holders or just decorative pieces. Slight dome shape in the bottom of the glass, so you may need to add a little sand etc to balance the candle..


You can count on uncovering well-crafted pieces at atomi, all made and designed in Japan. The eight-year-old boutique's well-curated selection of tableware, kitchenware, trinkets and furniture bear a minimalist ethos – and paying testament to that is the sleek SONO Chest ($880). Its six drawers are individually plated with maple, walnut, teak, wenge, cherry and padouk wood, and it even doubles up as an excellent bookend. Don't forget to peruse the rest of the store, which carries such brands as hoshina, maruni and nissin.


After a miserable week City bounced back on Saturday 7th February 2015 to pull themselves back into the promotion hunt. Facing Bemerton Heath Harlequins at home, Manager Paul Masters did not make wholesale changes after two poor games but stuck with his squad and his confidence in his players paid off with the added bonus that all the clubs around City in the league lost.
City went ahead after ten minutes when a shot from Micky Hubbard was not cleared. Warren Bentley picked up the rebound and hit a shot from outside the box into the back of the net. From then on City dominated the match with Bemerton showing some promising attacks but coming up against City's best defensive display in a long while.
The new pairing of Hubbard and Jaimie Thoroughgood at the back and the return of Luke Dempsey to the defence certainly gave Bemerton very few chances and gave much wanted protection to 'keeper Gareth Barfoot which has been missing recently.
As City pressed Zak Glasspool put in a run but his shot went just wide and then Geoff Dunn worked the ball down the flank for a corner. Hubbard took the kick to Jaime Thoroughgood who put his header over the bar.
At the other end Barfoot was called into action when Bemerton's Scott Joyce had a good chance but the 'keeper made a diving save.
Adam Tomasso made a penetrating run into the box and beat the 'keeper from the bye-line and after two attempts to clear and at their 'keeper's instructed 'hooked it way'.
From this clearance Bemerton's Jack Evans tested Barfoot but again he turned a goal-bound shot away.
Geoff Dunn looked to put City further in the lead but as he shaped to shoot he stumbled and the chance was lost. Winchester went two-up in the 28th minute and it was Dunn who set it up. He left a couple of defenders flaying in his wake before squaring from the goal line for Bentley to slam home.
Tomasso looked to have won a penalty just before half time when he was pushed in the box going for a high ball teed-up by Bentley but the Referee waived aside the appeal.
In the 45th minute Bemerton had another chance to get back into the game but Aaron Cook put his header well wide.
Only three minutes into the second half, City went further ahead when Glasspool floated in a corner and Cope somehow bundled it home through a pack penalty area.
Glasspool was soon in action again putting in a cross which was headed wide by Bentley. Winchester were not to be thwarted, however, and Chris Mason chipped the ball into the path of Dunn who headed goal number four.
Dunn wrapped up the points in the 65th minute when he tapped the ball across the line after shots from Taz Roberts and Tomasso were blocked.
With the game won, the Manager gave Roberts a rest replacing him with Charlie Smeeton in the 70th minute and in the 78th minute Danilo Cadete came on in place of Dunn. The two newcomers, gave Bemerton a lot of trouble from the flanks as City decided not to settle for what they had already got.
Liam Robertson came on in the 81st minute for Mason and he added fresh legs to an already rampant forward line. Cadete from the right gave Bentley the chance of a hat trick but the 'keeper saved well and then Smeeton hit the crossbar in the next attack.
Cadete missed a good chance as the Referee was looking at his watch but the game was not over. In the next attack he created a chance for Bentley but again his shot was pushed away falling to Robertson on the edge of the box and he hit a screamer to bring up the sixth goal. There was not enough time for Bemerton to kick off before the final whistle.
Whilst the spotlight was on the strikers a lot of credit must go to the defence and midfield. Tomasso and Cope joined the attack but also defended well, Hubbard, Thoroughgood and Dempsey were imperious, especially in the air and moved up when not under pressure and Mason was at his usual creative best on the edge of the box.
City: Gareth Barfoot, Adam Tomasso, Micky Hubbard, Jaime Thoroughgood, Luke Dempsey, Adam Roberts, Chris Mason, Zack Glasspool, warren Bentley, Geoff Dunn, Charlie Smeeton, Callum Casson, Danilo Cadete, Ryan Holloway and Liam Robinson.


Agile's latest transition of a 70 person Architecture was a piece of cake. The people are wonderful, they invest in the right hardware and software, they understood our support process right off the bat (including our intra-triage system of shifting priorities as needed). We couldn't have asked for a better experience with a new client. As for the IT firm that we were replacing - that's another story.
While Agile was busy cataloging systems info, gaining admin control and preparing the staff for the cut-over - disaster struck, the internet went down. Well - it mostly went down. See - they had a backup line that was very slow at 5 megs that was only used for their phone traffic, and that was handling the entire traffic for the firm now - just nobody knew this.
The previous firm spent the next week sending technicians to review the issue, appliances were rebooted, the ISP was called and then there were the meetings, the endless meetings. Over the course of the next week, with the internet still limping along, this IT firm requested no less than 8 meetings to review the situation. In their last meeting, with the business owner, account reps and various technicians on the line - they finally conceded to providing Agile with the firewall credentials, said "YOU FIGURE IT OUT" and cut us from the call.
Now day 7 of the outage - after 1 hour of being able to dig around the firewall and then 1 phone call to the ISP, the line was up and folks could work again.
Over the next 90 days - Agile transformed this clients IT process from one of meetings and support queues, to that of a seamless IT partnership process. We're way past break/fix - we're creating efficiency beasts.
Since 2001, Agile has provided IT Services and Project Management to Creative firms (Architects, Designers, Advertising) with homogeneous and mixed PC and Mac environment.
If you're ready to upgrade your IT Firm to specialists that understand the AEC environment - call us.