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Q: How to make NVDA screen reader read the aria-label? Screen reader not reading this div:

It should read "Here be redundant or extraneous content"
Any help how to solve this problem with HTML?

A: A div is neither landmark nor interactive content. An aria-label will not be read by a screen reader (and rightly so).
Use an off-screen technique:

Here be redundant or extraneous content

The CSS might look like this (accounting for RTL languages too):
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  position: absolute !important;
  clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); /* IE6, IE7 */
  clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
  top: auto;
  left: -9999px;
  width: 1px;
  height: 1px;
  overflow: hidden;
}

html[dir=rtl] .SRonly {
  left: inherit;
  left: unset;
  right: -9999px;
}

There are other techniques, but their value depends on your audience and its technology profile.
Further, never use a positive tabindex value. And never use a div as interactive content (which the tab-stop implies is your intent).
In the future, your question might get more attention if you provide an example and description of the challenge you are trying to solve.


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Guest Column | January 20, 2019
System-Level LO Phase Noise Model For Phased Arrays With Distributed Phase-Locked Loops
By Peter Delos, Analog Devices, Inc.
For digitally beamformed phased arrays, a common implementation method considered for the LO generation is to distribute a common reference frequency to a series of phase-locked loops distributed within the antenna array. With these distributed phase-locked loops, a method for assessing the combined phase noise performance is not well documented in current literature.
In a distributed system, common noise sources are correlated and distributed noise sources, if kept uncorrelated, are reduced when RF signals are combined. This is intuitive to assess for most components in the system. For a phase-locked loop, there are noise transfer functions associated with every component in the loop, and their contribution is a function of the control loop, as well as any frequency translation. This adds complexity when attempting to assess a combined phase noise output. By building upon known phase-locked loop modeling methods, and an assessment of correlated vs. uncorrelated contributors, an approach to track distributed PLL contributions across frequency offsets is presented.
In any radio system, careful design effort is placed on implementation of the local oscillator (LO) generation for the receivers and exciters. With the proliferation of digital beamforming in phased array antenna systems, design is further complicated by the distribution of LO signals and reference frequencies to a large number of distributed receivers and exciters.
A trade-off at the system architecture level is to distribute the LO frequencies needed, or to distribute a lower frequency reference, and to create the LO needed in close physical proximity to the point of use. A readily available and highly integrated option to create the LO locally is through a phase-locked loop. The next challenge is to assess a system-level phase noise from a variety of distributed components, as well as centralized components.
A system with distributed phase-locked loops can be considered as in Fig. 1. A common reference frequency is distributed to many phase-locked loops, each creating an output frequency. The LO outputs of Fig. 1a are assumed to be the LO inputs to the mixers in Fig. 1b.
Fig. 1 — A system of distributed phase-locked loops. Each oscillator is phase-locked to a common reference oscillator. The LO signals, 1 to N, are applied to the LO ports of the mixers shown in the phased array.
A challenge for the system designer is tracking the distributed system's noise contributions, understanding correlated vs. uncorrelated noise sources, and making an estimate of the overall system noise. In a phase-locked loop, this challenge is compounded by noise transfer functions that are both a function of the frequency translation and loop bandwidth settings in the phase-locked loop.
Motivation: A Measured Example Of Combined Phase-Locked Loops
An example measurement for combined phase-locked loops is shown in Fig. 2. This data was taken by combining transmit output from multiple ADRV9009 transceivers. Cases for a single IC, two combined ICs, and four combined ICs are shown. In the case of this data set, there is a visible 10logN improvement as ICs are combined. In order to achieve the result, a low-noise crystal oscillator reference source was needed. The motivation to the model in the next section is to derive a method to calculate how this measurement would scale in a large array with many distributed transceivers, and more generally to any architecture with distributed phase-locked loops.
Fig. 2 — Phase noise measurement of combined two phase-locked loops.
Phase-Locked Loop Model
Noise modeling in phase-locked loops is well documented.1–5 An output phase noise plot is shown in Fig. 3. In this type of plot, noise contributions for every component in the loop can be quickly assessed by the designer, and the accumulation of these contributors leads to the overall noise performance. The model parameters were set to be representative of the data shown in Fig. 2, and the source oscillator used to create a phase noise estimate if a large quantity of ICs were to be combined.
To examine the effect with a distributed phase-locked loop, first, the reference contribution and the contribution from the remaining PLL components are exported from the PLL model.
Fig. 3 — A typical phase-locked loop phase noise analysis showing the noise contributions of all the components. The total noise is the combination of all the contributors.
Extending Known PLL Models To Distributed PLL Models
Next, a process to calculate a combined phase noise for a system with many distributed phase-locked loops is described. This approach is based on being able to separate the reference oscillator's noise contribution from the VCO and loop components' noise contributions.
Fig. 4 illustrates a hypothetical distributed example of a single reference oscillator to many PLLs. This calculation assumes a noiseless distribution, which is not practical, but can be used to illustrate the principles. The noise contribution from the distributed PLL is assumed to be uncorrelated and reduced 10logN where N is the number of distributed PLLs. As channels are added, the noise is improved at larger offset frequencies and, for large distribution systems, the noise becomes almost completely dominated by the reference oscillator.
Fig. 4 — Beginning the distributed phase-locked loop phase noise modeling approach: phase noise contributions of the reference oscillator and all other components in the phase-locked loop, except the reference oscillator, are extracted from the PLL model. The combined phase noise, as a function of the number of distributed phase-locked loops, assumes that the reference noise is correlated and that the noise contributors distributed among many PLLs are uncorrelated.
The example illustrated in Fig. 4 simplified assumptions on the reference oscillator distribution. In a true system analysis, it is expected that the system designer will also account for noise contributions in the reference oscillator distribution, which will degrade the overall results. However, a simplified analysis like this one is quite useful for gaining intuition on how architecture trade-offs may impact the overall system phase noise performance. Next, we look at the impact of phase noise in the distribution system.
Accounting For Phase Noise In The Reference Distribution
Two examples of distribution options are evaluated next. The first case considered is shown in Fig. 5. In this example, a wideband PLL, common for the fast tuning of the VCO frequency, is chosen. Reference signal distribution is implemented with clock PLL ICs, also common to simplify timing constraints for digital data links, such as JESD interfaces. Individual contributors are shown in the lower left. These contributors are at the device's frequencies, and are not scaled to the output frequency. The lower-right phase noise plot shows the system-level phase noise for varying quantities of distributed PLLs.
Fig. 5 — Distributed wideband PLL with a PLL IC in the distribution.
A few features about the model are worth noting. A single high-performance crystal oscillator is assumed, nominally at 100 MHz, and the central oscillator individual contributor is reflected on what is available in reasonably high-end crystal oscillators, although not necessarily the best and most expensive choice available. While the central oscillator output would be practical to fan out to a limited number of distribution PLLs, these would fan out again to some practical limit and repeat, to serve the complete distribution in the system. For the distribution contribution in this example, 16 distribution components are assumed, then these are assumed to fan out again. The individual contribution of the distribution circuitry shown in the lower left is the PLL components' noise, without the reference oscillator contribution. The distribution in this example is assumed to be at the same frequency as source oscillator, and noise contributors were chosen based on typical ICs available for this function.
The wideband PLL is assumed nominally at S-band frequencies, set to a 1 MHz loop bandwidth for fast tuning, which is about as wide a loop as is practical.
It is worth noting that these models were chosen to be typical of what might be practical and illustrate the cumulative effect in an array. Any detailed design may be able to improve a particular PLL noise curve, which is anticipated, and this analysis method is intended to aid the engineering decision of where to allocate design resources for the best overall result, and is not intended to make an exact claim relative to available components.
The lower-right plot in Fig. 5 calculates the total combined phased noise for the LO distribution. PLL noise transfer functions of each individual contributor are applied, which both scales to the output frequency and includes the effect of the PLL loop bandwidth. The system quantities also are included and assumed to be uncorrelated; thus, that contribution is reduced by 10logN. For the distribution quantity, 16 is assumed (as previously described), and the distribution contribution is reduced by 10log16. In practice, this would degrade further, as the distribution is repeated. However, the additional noise contribution is less significant.
For a fanout distribution in a large array, the noise will be dominated by the first set of active devices. In the case of a fanout by groups of 16, such that each active device is the input to 16 more active devices, the additional distribution layer of 16 degrades only by ~0.25 dB if all are uncorrelated to each other. Continuing the distribution will have even less overall contribution. Therefore, to simplify the analysis, this effect is not included, and the distribution 's noise contribution is calculated from the first 16 parallel distribution components.
The resulting curve illustrates several effects. Similar to a single PLL model, the close in noise is dominated by the reference frequency, the far-out noise is dominated by the VCOs, and the far-out noise improves as uncorrelated VCOs are added together. This is fairly intuitive. What is not intuitive, and the value of the model, is a large section of offset frequencies dominated by the choice made in the distribution. This result leads to considering a second example with a lower noise distribution and a narrower PLL loop bandwidth.
Fig. 6 — Distributed narrow-band PLL with amplifiers in the distribution
Fig. 6 illustrates a different approach. The same low-noise crystal oscillator is used as a reference. This is distributed through RF amplifiers, rather than retiming and resynchronizing through a PLL. The distributed PLL is chosen at a fixed frequency, which has two effects: at a single frequency with a narrow tuning range, the VCO can be intrinsically better, and the loop bandwidth can be made much narrower. The lower-left plot shows the individual contributors. The central oscillator is the same as the previous example.
Note the distribution amplifiers: they are not particularly high-performance when considering low phase noise amplifiers, yet considerably better than using PLL ICs, as in the previous example. The distributed PLLs are improved at higher offset frequencies by both a better VCO and narrower loop bandwidth, but the mid frequencies of ~1 kHz are actually worse than the wideband PLL example. The lower-right shows the combined result: the reference oscillator dominates the low frequencies. Above the loop bandwidth, the distributed PLL dominates performance, and is improved with increasing the array size and quantities of distributed PLLs.
Fig. 7 compares of the two examples. Note the wide range of differences in offset frequencies from ~2 kHz to 5 kHz.
Fig. 7 — A comparison of Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 illustrates the wide range of system-level performance dependent on the distribution and architecture chosen.
Distributed PLL Array-Level Considerations
Based on an understanding of weighted contributions to an overall system phase noise performance, several conclusions can be drawn relative to a phased array or multichannel RF system architecture.
PLL Bandwidth
Traditional phase-locked loop design optimized for phase noise sets the loop bandwidth at an offset frequency to minimize the overall phase noise profile. This typically is at a frequency where the reference oscillator phase noise normalized to the output frequency crosses the VCO phase noise. For a distributed system with many phase-locked loops, this may not be the optimum loop bandwidth. The quantity of distributed components also needs consideration.
For optimum LO noise in systems implemented with distributed phase-locked loops, a narrow loop bandwidth is desired to minimize the reference 's correlated noise contributions.
For systems desiring fast tuning of PLLs, the loop bandwidth typically is widened to optimize speed. Unfortunately, this by itself is the wrong direction for optimizing distributed phase noise contributions. One option to overcome this would be distributed narrow-band cleanup loops prior to the wideband loop, to reduce the offset frequency where reference and distribution noise is correlated.
Large Arrays
For systems employing thousands of channels, significant improvement can be gained from the distributed components if their contributions can remain uncorrelated. The primary concern may be selection of the reference oscillator, and maintaining a low-noise distribution system to the distributed receivers and exciters.
Direct Sampling Systems
With the proliferation of GSPS converters continually increasing in speed and RF input bandwidth, direct sampling systems are becoming realizable into the microwave frequencies. This leads to an interesting trade-off. The data converters need only a single clock frequency, and the RF tuning is done completely in the digital domain.
VCOs can be made with improved phase noise performance by limiting the tuning range. This also leads to a lower loop bandwidth for the PLLs creating the data converter clocks. The lower loop bandwidth will alter the noise transfer function of the reference oscillator to a lower offset frequency, thus reducing its overall contribution to the system. This, combined with improved VCOs, may in some cases have benefits in a distributed system, even if a single-channel comparison would appear to favor an alternate architecture.
A method for evaluating phase noise in a system with distributed phase-locked loops has been presented. The basis of the method is that every component can be tracked by its individual noise, the noise transfer function between the component and the system output, the quantity used, and any correlation between the devices. The examples shown are not intended to make a claim on available components or architecture capability. They are intended to illustrate an approach to aid designers in an educated assessment of array-level phase noise contributors in the LO and clock distribution networks servicing the distributed waveform generators and receivers in a digital beamforming phased array.
Peter Delos is a technical lead in the Aerospace and Defense Group at Analog Devices in Greensboro, N.C. He received his B.S.E.E. from Virginia Tech in 1990 and M.S.E.E. from NJIT in 2004. Peter has over 25 years of industry experience. Most of his career has been spent designing advanced RF/analog systems at the architecture level, PWB level, and IC level. He currently is focused on miniaturizing high-performance receiver, waveform generator, and synthesizer designs for phased array applications. He can be reached at peter.delos@analog.com.
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DAVIS HAS EARNED RESPECT AT FSU
Josh Robbins, Sentinel Staff WriterTHE ORLANDO SENTINEL
TALLAHASSEE -- Finally, Florida State linebacker Buster Davis is thriving.
Davis, a Mainland High graduate, has added energy and explosiveness to FSU's defense, and he will make his second start at middle linebacker Saturday when the eighth-ranked Seminoles host Clemson.
His position coach, Kevin Steele, often lauds Davis for his ability and his desire. Not so long ago, though, Davis felt miserable and unfulfilled as a football player.
"Coach and I were actually having a conversation a couple of days ago that I'm actually enjoying myself," Davis said. "I haven't enjoyed playing football in a long time."
In 2002, his first year at FSU, Davis didn't attend the Seminoles' second game that season and nearly transferred.
The problem, Davis recently revealed, was a personality conflict with then-linebacker coach Joe Kines.
Davis, admittedly "hard-headed," preferred to free-lance and follow the ball wherever it went.
Kines, on the other hand, preached discipline and a less-aggressive style.
"He's a great guy," Davis said of Kines. "It's just that me and him personally clashed.
"I didn't want to be here. And it wasn't because of the system. It wasn't because of the town or the school.
"It was because I had a hard time connecting with Coach Kines, and where I'm from, your position coach is the guy that you go to if you can't go to your family. . . . Me and Coach Kines just did not see eye-to-eye."
Kines, who left FSU after the 2002 season to take the defensive coordinator's job at Alabama, declined to comment for this story.
After his parents met with FSU Coach Bobby Bowden the day after the Virginia game in '02, Davis returned to the team, but coaches made Davis work to regain their respect.
It was not uncommon, for example, for Davis to drag a large weightlifting plate across a practice field or run up the Doak Campbell Stadium steps.
"We wanted a commitment, and he actually went through a process of trying to decide if the reward was worth the cost," defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews said.
"He probably paid as big a price in coming back as anybody we have ever had. We didn't make it easy for him."
Davis' career slowly turned around after Steele -- Baylor's former coach and a former linebacker coach with the NFL's Carolina Panthers -- arrived.
"I never doubted the fact that he'd get it," Steele said. "In 24 years, he's not the first hard-headed guy that I've ever coached."
Davis started to show improvement late last season, and his work during offseason conditioning drills and in the spring allowed him to compete for playing time.
Steele compares Davis, charitably listed at 5 feet 11, to Sam Mills, a 5-9 former All-Pro linebacker whom Steele coached at Carolina. Like Mills, Davis has "the ability to see something and take a chance on it and make it pay off for you," Steele said.
Davis' teammates have come around, too. When defensive tackle Travis Johnson and cornerback Bryant McFadden first met Davis, they reacted with skepticism.
"He's a linebacker?!?!" Johnson remembered thinking. "Why are we recruiting all these midgets?"
And now?
"Buster's a playmaker," Johnson said excitedly. "Me and the guys have been talking about that for the last year and a half:
"Buster needs to be on the field at all times."


The Anomic Age is a weekly web based program hosted by John Age. Each week will offer another piece to the puzzle, with compelling interviews from guests covering a variety of topics. No topics are off limits, but the mainstay of the show will be to examine far-ranging topics from Government Corruption, Conspiracy, Cover-ups, to Propaganda, Health, Wellness, Science, Christianity, and World Events.


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Barbote was a town and Village Development Committee  in Ilam District in the Province No. 1 of eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4,739 persons living in 876 individual households.

It was superseded by rural municipality in 2017.

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External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ilam District

Populated places in Ilam District

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Perfect for a day baking in the kitchen with the kids.
To make the biscuits, place the butter, flour, baking powder, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger and molasses in a food processor. Add ½ tsp salt flakes and pulse until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Turn out onto a lightly floured work surface and add ½ cup currants. Knead until combined. Enclose in plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes to firm up.
Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease 4 large baking trays and line with baking paper.
Remove dough from the refrigerator and cut in half. Working with 1 piece at a time, on a lightly floured work surface, roll out to 5mm-thick. Using the gingerbread man cookie cutter, cut men out of dough and place 3cm apart on trays, re-rolling dough as required. Repeat process with the remaining dough.
Bake in batches, swapping trays halfway, for 8-10 minutes or until a biscuit moves on the tray when being pushed gently with your finger. Set aside to cool.
Combine icing sugar and 3 tbs water in a bowl and stir until smooth, adding extra water if necessary. Drizzle icing over gingerbread men, sprinkle with extra currants and set aside for 15 minutes to set. Store in an airtight container.


A Migration Information Centre will be established in Lithuania next year and it will provide information to repatriates, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Tuesday morning.
"We decided to establish such a centre for emigrants returning to Lithuania. It will be established in early 2015. The aim of such a centre is to provide reliable information to Lithuanians living abroad on returning to Lithuania and all issues related to life in Lithuania," the prime minister told the national radio LRT.
The agreement on the centre's establishment is due to be signed between the Ministry of the Interior and the International Migration Organization shortly. Around 242,000 litas (over EUR 70,000) will be allocated for the establishment of the new centre.
Figures show Lithuania has lost around 30,000 residents every year on average since 2000. A third of the population loss was due to negative natural growth and two thirds due of migration.


Police have recovered priceless mementos stolen from a mum who lost her baby boy to a rare bone marrow disease and arrested a teenager over the incident.
Dayna Ritchie was left distraught after her handbag was stolen from Auckland International Airport's domestic terminal on Friday.
Inside were irreplaceable reminders of her boy Reef Paton, who died in September when he was 19 months old.
The mementos included a cellphone with more than 1000 photos of Reef and a prized rose quartz that Reef had held at the moment he died, which Ms Ritchie said was the "most special" of the lost keepsakes.
She provided a statement to police on Sunday and said progress had been made.
Ms Ritchie said two necklaces and some other possessions ditched in bins were retrieved, but it wasn't yet clear where her cellphone and Reef's prized rose quartz were.
Airport spokesman Simon Lambourne said the airport had identified CCTV footage of the moment Ms Ritchie's bag was taken and had provided those details to police.
Ms Ritchie said police had confronted two people of interest on Sunday.
"They went yesterday and arrested the two people for being in possession of them. They've given them an ultimatum overnight to retrieve everything because they said they'd sold it all."
Police this afternoon said they had also recovered a cellphone of interest to the investigation. However, charges had not yet been laid.
"Auckland Airport police are speaking with a 17-year-old woman from Mangere regarding the theft of a handbag from Auckland Airport," a Counties Manukau Police spokeswoman said.
"The woman and her immediate family are assisting police with inquiries."
Ms Ritchie said part of her actually felt sorry for whoever took the bag -- but that didn't change the fact her mementos should be returned.
She said there been a huge outpouring of public support since she told her story over the weekend.
"It's been pretty amazing really."
Ms Ritchie added she was grateful to the people of Mangere who let her put up flyers around the town centre about the incident.
She said anyone who had her phone should hand it in to a police station or message her or her partner Andre Paton on Facebook. The couple can be reached through the "Reef's journey" Facebook page.


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Autostacker re-envisions what your garage could look like from the top down.
Its sole purpose is to double the parking capacity of a single parking space, yet nothing like Autostacker has ever existed in home or commercial markets.
Why Autostacker? Smart homeowners look to get the most value out of their space. For instance, a family might use bunk beds to increase the value of their kids' bedroom. By having two kids share one room, another room is freed up for other purposes, thus maximizing the potential value of the house. Pretty simple, right? That same family might be looking to get more value out of their garage. Overnight, Autostacker will increase the value of a garage by "creating" additional square footage. That overhead space is just being wasted anyway, so you might as well use it! Autostacker is more than just a garage upgrade: it's a total lifestyle upgrade.
Sure, there are other ways to increase your garage's square footage and fit more vehicles, such as a property expansion. However, while an expansion will increase home value, it almost always costs more than it returns. Studies show that home garage expansions can recoup 63% of what you put into them, and an "average" garage build costs over $50,000. Luxury garage expansions cost significantly more. In comparison, Autostacker's costs are meager, yet the end result is equally effective.
Whether you're a high-end car collector or just need extra space for the family wheels, Autostacker barely takes up more room than a single parking space and does not require in-ground bolts or special flooring to install. With multiple lock positions, even tall trucks and SUVs are incredibly easy to park in the lower-level space. Autostacker's smart design also allows tricky, hard-to-stack cars like Corvettes, Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Porsches to drive on without risk of scratching the front end. Two short autos will stack in virtually every garage, regardless of ceiling height, so if you've always wanted to showcase your entire car collection without making an unsightly mess, there's finally a way. Autostacker saves an incredible amount of space while maximizing your parking. It's simply amazing.


Gore legends and pioneers Necrophagia have released a trailer for a DVD that they plan to release sometime later this year. It is being called Gospel Of Gore and being produced and directed by Toetag Inc.
Necrophagia are also currently working on their next release titled Whiteworm Cathedral. It is scheduled for release Halloween 2012 and we've included a demo version of the newish song "March of the DeathCorps(e)" along with the DVD trailer which can both be found here.


In June 2017, the ETMA jury distinguished two Neopac tubes – in the laminate category, the Polyfoil® Twist'n'use tube won with an ergonomic cap for Bravecto, a product for MSD Animal Health. The Stylo™, the tube with a precise applicator for liquid and semi-solid cosmetics, earned first place in the prototypes category.
Premium single dosing: In order to treat cats and dogs with a solution, MSD Animal Health was looking for a packaging which had to fulfill different requirements: shelf-life of up to 24 months, as well as precise single application using ergonomic handling. The Polyfoil® Twist'n'use turned out to be the perfect solution, especially since the standard cap could be optimized further after field tests in close cooperation with the client's packaging department. The result is a cap with four wings, which means it is very tactile and makes it easy to open the tube. This is a successful example of a user-oriented collaboration between manufacturer and customer for the benefit of the consumer.
The all-rounder: We developed the Stylo™ tube especially for liquids, serums and creams, which must be precisely and accurately applied. The Stylo Liner for highly precise applications, the Stylo Pipette for accurate drops, and the Stylo Bristle for gentle application. The filling material is only released when the user turns the adapter ring, which allows the product to flow. Yet the tube remains firmly closed even when under increased pressure. Handling is intuitively clear for the user using the arrow diagram. A transparent, conical head protects the applicator against external factors.


Paul Murphy laughs just before saying this. The Wintersleep singer recalls the early '00s, when the band's biggest crowds were counted in its Halifax hometown, and returns to 2016, when Wintersleep released its sixth studio album, pocketed its first number 1 Canadian single ("Amerika") and counted plenty of full touring shows, a David Letterman appearance and a Juno in between. But for Murphy, it's never not about the music.
Since its 2003 self-titled debut, Wintersleep has steadily brewed larger, breaking out with 2007's Welcome to the Night Sky (home of "Weighty Ghost") and coming out of a four-year recording silence — that some feared was a breakup — with 2016's The Great Detachment.
Most of the new album was written in Montreal and recorded in Halifax's Sonic Temple, with some vocals added in a cottage near Wolfville, N.S. Despite that, the band's Gridlock show this weekend is technically its hometown release: Wintersleep hasn't played the city since the album's March debut.
While Murphy says he still considers Halifax to be Wintersleep's hometown, he hasn't really lived there since 2008. There have been more recent changes: the band is on a new label (Dine Alone) and has new management, which makes it look more like Wintersleep is gently hitting the restart button with an album name that alludes to leaving something behind. But there are four constants on this new LP: Murphy, Loel Campbell (drummer), Tim D'eon (guitarist) and Tony Doogan (producer).
"There's absolutely no way I would ever say no to them," says Doogan, laughing, over the phone as he sits on a ferry taking him to his Scotland home. The producer, also known for his work with Mogwai and Belle and Sebastian, first teamed up with Wintersleep on its fateful Welcome to the Night Sky release, but this time around — his fourth album with the band — they decided to go for something bigger, more live.
"Amerika" was a single take, and when you hit play on that first album track, Campbell's drums open and there's no coming down until the song's over. The cut on the album is one of the first takes they did — "that mix that's on there is one of my rough mixes that they just tarted up a little bit," says Doogan — and it sets the tone for an album that captures the onstage version of Wintersleep.
There was one part of the album that did not fit in studio: a guest bassline from Rush's Geddy Lee.
So they did. "And he was super excited about it," says Murphy, adding that Lee sent along three or four takes over a couple of days, giving them the anchor they needed to make "Territory" what it is now. Later on, when Rush was in Montreal for a show, Lee invited Wintersleep backstage and they all drank wine and listened to Rush touring stories.
"It was all a plan to get into the Rush show and get backstage," jokes Murphy.
Backstage Rush meetings aside, Wintersleep is still three friends making music together.


We started off with a nice bottle of Gewurztraminer from Alsace andassorted oysters. Wine is light and sweet, playing along with the fresh and meaty oysters. A good way to start any meal in my book.
I wanted to end the year semi healthy and trusted they would do fish right, so I got the Broiled Halibut with Potato Gnocchi, Watercress, Sherry Wine & Hazelnut Oil Vinaigrette. Totally disappointed. Starting with the vinaigrette, there were no signs of hazelnut, in fact, I totally forgot about that while eating. The gnocchi was the exact opposite of al dente, a mess on a plate. The fish was dry and under seasoned. I know we had $100 to spend, but this alone was $33, are you serious?
Thank goodness for C's Venison and Foie Gras Pie, Celery Root, Sweet Potatoe & Red Wine Reduction and her willingness to share. I was afraid the venison would be too gamey, but the sauce and the foie took center stage instead. The venison meat pie was more like a meatloaf tucked inside buttery puff pastry, with a generous slab of foie built right in. A mouthful of moist, tender, melt in your mouth, buttery, flaky goodness. We all agreed, this was by far, the best dish of the night. At $35, it was the best option, but not something we would make reservations again for.
Ended our meal by sharing a Grand Marnier Souffle, Medley of Warm Red Berries & Clementine Sauce. .
Breaking in was the best part! I enjoyed the strong reminder of citrus in each spoonful. Great souffle, but not as fluffy nor satisfying as DBGB's. Regardless of how this measured to my favorite souffles in the city, this was a sweet way to end our last supper of the year.
Service was good, food was overpriced and unexceptional, but at least I had great company. The clientele was more of an older crowd of wealthy looking uptown folks, far off from the photos on their website. And trust me, I blinked and blinked, but one bite and I knew for sure I wasn't in Paris nor anywhere close (from the claim of their website).
One thing for sure, I'm glad this wasn't my "last supper", I wouldn't wanna leave with a meal like this.
To make the most of our last night of the year, dinner was followed by some impromptu karaoke at Top Tunes, meeting more awesome chubby friends at The Barrel and early morning Bon Chon korean fried chicken at Boka. With that, we welcomed 2011, full of hope for the new start.
HAPPY 2011 EVERYONE! Bonne année et bonne santé ! God Bless ya'll!!!
mmm, that souffle looks stunning. nyum nyum nyum, give me a piece of that!


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Salford student film selected for international festival
Categories: School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology
A University of Salford graduate has had her film selected for the Wales International Film Festival.
Ciara Rickard, who studied a BA (Hons) in Media and Performance, created ''Ble rwyt ti'n myned?: A Welsh Folk Story" which is a hybrid documentary that fuses features of the observational documentary mode with animation and archive.
The film explores how a group of musicians, and academic and contributors from 'Corona' - a Facebook support group for welsh folk music enthusiasts, revive a traditional Welsh folk song during a pandemic.
One critic, who has seen the piece said that "it was inspiring to be educated about welsh folk music and its place in welsh culture as a philosophy, as artistic expression, and as a vehicle for storytelling.
"Watching contributors engage ideas online, in-person where possible and slowly veering towards their completion of the resurrected folk song was a fascinating experience."
They added: "Ciara is a very talented filmmaker with an original and artistic way of expressing her views."
Ciara is currently working as a Travel Assistant on a major Sony Pictures/Blueprint Films feature which will shoot across Wales from early September. If you would like to find out more about the festival, you can do so here.
For all press office enquiries please email communications@salford.ac.uk.
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This is one of my favorite types of ways to serve chocolate in a cake: strong, bittersweet, and creamy-smooth with a soft, luscious melt-in-your-mouth texture that's so tender it practically evaporates seconds after you take a bite. But the intense chocolate flavors lingers on and on and on. Bliss.
I'm somewhat of a chocolate purist and like cakes with the clean, pure taste of good dark chocolate. That said, this creamy cake benefits from a jolt of coffee. But if you don't like coffee, or can't drink it, you could substitute decaffeinated. To go alongside, a scoop of vanilla ice cream is nice. But Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream is maybe even better.
This cake can be a bit tricky to slice into clean wedges, so I've given you a few strategies at the end of the recipe to help. But don't worry if you don't get picture-perfect pieces: The best tasting bits of cake are the ones that stick to the side of the knife that you eat yourself, don't you think? But for safety's-sake, scrape it off first with a spatula before licking it up. Remember what your mother said would happen if you cut yourself there?
1. Lightly butter a 9-inch (23 cm) spring form pan and wrap the outside of the pan with aluminum foil, to seal it watertight. Set the cake pan in a larger pan, such as a roasting pan, large enough to make a water bath or bain marie.
2. Preheat the oven to 325º F (160ºC).
3. Put the chopped chocolate with the cream and espresso in a large heatproof bowl.
4. Set the chocolate over a saucepan of simmering water, stirring gently until melted and smooth. Remove from heat.
5. In a standing electric mixer, whip the eggs, salt, and sugar and whip on high-speed until they hold their shape, about 5 minutes.
7. Fold half of the whipped eggs into the chocolate, then finish with the remaining eggs.
8. Scrape the batter into the prepared cake pan. Add warm water to the roasting pan so that it reaches half-way up the outsides of the spring form pan, creating a water bath.
9. Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour, until the cake is slightly firm, but will still feel soft in the center.
10. Remove the cake pan from the water bath and set on a cooling rack until room temperature.
To serve: Slide a knife along the outside edge of the cake pan to release it from the pan. Release the outside ring of the spring form cake pan. Can be served at room temperature or chilled.
Because the cake is delicate, I slice it with a thin, sharp knife dipped in very hot water and wiped clean before making the next slice. Or you can also use a length of dental floss (unflavored, please…) pulled taut and drawn across the diameter of the cake, to make wedges.
This cake can also be frozen and sliced icy-cold with a hot knife, right out of the freezer. It tastes pretty darn good cold with a scoop of ice cream or frozen yogurt—a great warm weather dessert for summer.
It's entirely your fault that I have most unelegantly drooled all over my keyboard at work. I absolutely cannot wait to try this out. Really, what better flavours could you imagine for spring? Or any season, really.
Looks delicious! You could also get an espresso to go at a coffee shop and use that, if you don't have an espresso machine. I'm guessing it could be cold and still be fine. I used to make a similar cake, served with a raspberry sauce drizzled over the top (divine.) An easy way to cut was to use dental floss, stretched tight. Clean cuts, no mess.
Just don't use the mint kind.
Shall I read to the bottom before I post?
I can blame this on 5 hours on the highway in the car yesterday, no coffee this morning, and a lack of sleep.
You put bits of that cake in some salted butter caramel ice cream? Genius I tell you.
I want some. I don't have my own espresso maker so Im just going to come over real soon.. Be prepared ok?
I will make this today instead of doing the things I was supposed to.
Frozen brownies, cut in small cubes and folded into cheesecake batter before baking make a beautiful slice of cheesecake. Your mousse cake frozen would, I think, give the same result and taste even better. Thank you for the recipe!
Ah, the problem of too much chocolate. The only problem I have of that sort involves not the cupboard but my waistline. And you've already got me eating the ice cream.
There's nothing like leftover chocolate to motivate you to make something with it. I recently used up my leftover chocolate on two kinds of chocolate gelatos . Unfortunately, this left me with a house devoid of chocolate (sorry, Easter bunny) so I just ordered 6 pounds last Friday.
Hi David, Thanks for the recipe. I'm always excited when you post a recipe here. It's like a gift from above!
David, speaking of left overs I have these chocolate covered nesspresso beans from Coffee Bean, what do you think, fold them into the caramel ice cream?
It was FABULOUS, by the way. I made half normal and half with espresso. I can't even begin to imagine how good it would be with chunks of this cake.
Then you could substitute another flavorful liquid of your choice, I suppose. Maybe try milk.
Melissa: For someone that doesn't have enough room in her apartment for a real ice cream maker, you sure have enough room for all that ice cream…where's it all going??
dddg: I guess I should correct that.
Just made a batch of Dark Milk Chocolate Ice Cream to fold more cake scraps in to. Gotta get rid of that milk chocolate before the heat blast arrives too!
I can just see you fanatically getting rid of chocolate before the heat ………but please you still eat chocolate in the summer.
oh and thank you for the recipe.
Uh, I don't think the cake is going to make it to being put in that fabulous ice cream…at least in my house it wouldn't. :D That looks delicious. Can't wait to make that and the ice cream.
Question — since it has espresso in it, it would be okay to eat this for breakfast, right?
should the eggs be separated; so whipping the whites, stirring the yolks in the melted chocolate (after it was removed from the heat) and then folding whites, etc.?
Nope. Just whip the eggs as indicated by the recipe.
Um, where do you think?? Into my belly! If you can figure out a way to fit an ice cream maker in there too, please do let me know.
In my world, "leftover chocolate" is an oxymoron.
And a kitchen where "leftover chocolate" jostles for space with "half-eaten cakes" and the freezer contains "several batches" of salted butter caramel ice cream?
I think if I lead a very, very good life, when I die I will find myself in David's kitchen.
Heaven! Pastry kitchen is not my forte, but this cake -or should I say mousse? But is it possible for a mousse to be cooked/baked and still retain that moussey feeling? – is heavens. Both to cook and to eat. Easier to serve when served from the fridge. Thanks. I will definitly be serving this in my restaurant.
Mr Lebovitz sir, I was hoping for a little culinary advice. I have been cheating on my Valrhona Guanaja recently with a Green & Black espresso chocolate and I was wondering if it might be suitable to use in this cake or would that be a coffee step too far? (I may be asking the wrong person here.) The bar costs the bones of 5 euro per 150g so it would be a costly experiment. Also, could you advise on a suitable ice-cream partner for a salted cashew nut caramel brownie? It's been feeling a little lonesome.
P.S. Amazon just sent me an e-mail recommending your new book I may have to treat myself.
Dude. YUM. And guess who just happened to get a bright and shiny little commercial espresso machine for her farmguy's birthday? Wait. That came out wrong. And guess who is thinking that now that she has found a source of milk right down the road that goes from cow to jar to her refrigerator (read: several inches of heavy cream floating on top of the milk) that she just might need that ice cream maker you recommended a while back for her birthday? Along with a copy of your new book of course. Tempting. Very tempting. All your fault of course. Well, I guess not the local milk (god that stuff is good).
I was browsing the Internet for an expresso cake in December. When I came across this chocolate mousse one, I knew it was a winner. And it was.
But there was a problem. I am only 12 (13 now) years old, so I had my parents help me.
We made the cake without much difficulty, and when it came out of the oven, I was dying to try it. But we let it chill for a while. That night I had some family over to come try this cake. The next day, I brought some to school, and the last slice of cake didn't even make it to my mouth. My friends ate it.
The next time I made it, I followed your advice and froze it. Boy – it was even better that time when it was frozen!
Loved this cake! I can't wait to make it again!


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Nicki Minaj continued to lambast Travis Scott after his Astroworld beat her Queen in the race for the Number One album this week.
Minaj used her show on Apple Music's Beats 1 radio on Tuesday to harangue Scott for what she claims were unfair promotional tactics that boosted his album sales: bundling albums with merchandise and concert tickets and using girlfriend Kylie Jenner's impressive Instagram following to raise awareness of those bundles. Minaj first unloaded her feelings on Twitter on Sunday; then as now, she failed to mention that she relied on some of the same techniques as Scott to help her own sales. She also added a non-album hit single to Queen halfway through release week.
During another wild, unpredictable, not-safe-for-children Beats 1 broadcast, Minaj presented a series of awards of her own invention, including "Cocksucker of the Day" and "Secret Hater of the Year." She wasted no time in handing "Ho Nigga of the Week" to Scott, declaring that he won it "by a fucking landslide."
"Travis Scott is out here selling fucking clothes, and he got y'all thinking he's selling fucking music," Minaj said. "Sit your stupid ass down!"
Later she added, "When [Scott] realized that Queen was about to [be] the Number One album in America, he and his label decided to have Kylie and baby Stormi put up a tour pass … He had her post and say, 'Hey, me and Stormi can't wait to see y'all.' How are you selling something that does not have anything to do with your album but it is being counted on Billboard as album sales?" (These purchases would only be counted towards sales if fans who bought tickets redeemed their download codes to obtain a copy of Scott's album. Minaj was also bundling tickets and album sales, according to Billboard.)
Minaj returned to this point again and again. "What we're not gonna do is have this fucking autotune man come up in here selling fucking sweaters and telling y'all he sold half a million fucking albums, 'cause he didn't," she said. (This week, Nielsen reported that Scott sold 205,000 album-equivalent units.)
Minaj suggested that she was duty-bound to expose the injustices of the chart rules that robbed her of the Number One album. "If I come to your job … and told you not to speak out about things that are unfair, that would be fucking crazy," she said. "People think that because you're rich and famous, you shouldn't be able to speak out about things in your own industry that are unfair."
"There's a lot of rappers behind the scene that want to talk about it and they're scared," she assured her listeners. "But sweetheart, I'm not scared."
At the same time as Minaj rained insults on the current chart rules, she took partial responsibility for them. "You know how many bullets I've taken for you motherfuckers to get streaming to count on Billboard?" she asked. "You motherfuckers is getting streaming because somebody took that bullet, because somebody was brave enough. Somebody had a big fucking dick enough, somebody had balls enough, to say, 'We are tired of having you steal our music and we're not getting credited!'"
Minaj suggested that her willingness to "take that bullet" linked her with heroes of the abolitionist and civil rights movements. "I don't mind taking that hit!" the rapper exclaimed. "Harriet Tubman had to shake shit up; Rosa Parks had to shake shit up. [On Monday, Minaj also mentioned Tubman on Twitter.] Rosa Parks probably had the worst day of her life when she said, 'no, enough is enough.' And y'all might laugh and say, 'she's comparing herself to Harriet Tubman.' Man, fuck you — I am going to compare myself to strong, black queens."
Just as Minaj did on Sunday after the album sales numbers were first announced, she threw a series of jabs at Scott and then claimed that all her insults were in good fun. "Please understand this is entertainment," she said. "None of this should ever have any of your panties in a bunch. Sometimes when I am tweeting and saying things, people really think it's angry black lady time — never."
A few minutes later, she turned her attention back to Scott. "You played your fucking self also for having your fucking friend come on the internet talking up for you," Minaj asserted. "You stupid fuck! You're a fucking man! You got your homeboy talking for you, your girlfriend posting tour passes saying you sold albums — stop it! Knock it the fuck off!"
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В 1973 году сток реки зарегулирован строительством плотиной Таши, воды реки используются для орошения.

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Ethiopian youth embrace tree planting, gardening for business opportunities
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As Ethiopia braces to realize its aspiration of building a green economy, desperate job-seeking Ethiopian youth embraced the once neglected commercial tree planting and gardening endeavor.
Plant seedling production and gardening, just like a typical farm work, had long been left for poor and rural Ethiopians, most of whom have little or no education and left out with no choice but to look for economic opportunities that are easily accessible and less-competitive.
In recent years, however, an increasing number of young Ethiopians, mainly those from urban areas, are engaging in gardening and landscaping works that involves mass production of plant seedling across makeshift greenhouse and nursery sites in street-sides of the capital Addis Ababa and other major Ethiopian cities.
Tigist Abebe, an accounting graduate, recalled her two years of unsuccessful stint in the Middle East's informal employment sector, where she illegally migrated shortly after her graduation with the help of human smugglers and petrified while crossing the dangerous Red Sea route.
Tigist returned home in early 2019 with almost nothing in her pocket after two years of stay in Saudi Arabia, yet with a broken hope and depleted ambition.
Despite the psychological impact that she endured from her distant past, Tigist along with three young fresh university graduates embarked on a plant nursery site in Bishoftu town, about 45 km from Addis Ababa, where they cultivate plant and flower seedlings for profit.
"I describe myself as a workaholic woman. I hate to sit idle and do nothing. It was this personal drive that introduced me to plant and flower seedling production and selling venture," Tigist told Xinhua.
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Tigist and her fellow workmates now operate a makeshift greenhouse built on a small plot of land in the Addis Ababa, where they put on sale a variety of plant and flower seedlings they cultivated at a nursery site in Bishoftu town.
"It has been a little over one and a half year since we started this venture. It is now paying us back as we recently put on sale the first batch of our plant seedlings," she said.
They sell a single plant seedling between 120 Ethiopian birr (ETB) to 500 ETB (about 3 to 12 U.S. dollars) depending on the type of plant species. Indigenous Ethiopian plants cost relatively higher mainly due to the shortage of such varieties in the market.
Now, Tigist and her three other workmates earn up to 15 U.S. dollars per day each from the sale of plant seedlings. For comparison, the median salary in Ethiopia is estimated at around 220 U.S. dollars a month, which is equivalent to about 7 U.S. dollars a day.
Amid the growing demand and interest among Ethiopians in planting trees as part of the national reforestation drive, the business trajectory for Tigist and her venture workmates seems bright.
Mekbib Megersa, a survey and construction graduate, started his business by producing and selling tree seedlings some six years ago. He later expanded his business into gardening and landscaping works amid a growing demand among his customers.
"In addition to significantly improving my family's livelihood, I was also able to send my two school children to a better private school and hire a private tutor to help them with their education," Megersa said.
Megersa presently manages 13 workers under his rank. He has now readied about 370,000 different varieties of plant seedlings for the imminent Ethiopian rainy season.
In addition to helping the East African country regain its lost forest resources and the apparent livelihood opportunities, the engagement of Tigist, Megersa and fellow others goes far beyond towards preserving Ethiopia's indigenous plant species.
"Our plant nursery sites are playing a vital role in preserving some of the endangered indigenous plant species, which would have otherwise left only for concerned government facilities," Megersa said.
The Ethiopian government frequently labeled the rising level of deforestation that was exacerbated by the cutting of trees for the charcoal burning and construction purposes as "a daunting challenge" to the country's green economy strategy.
According to the World Food Programme, the annual ambitious reforestation initiative is critical for Ethiopia which has lost billions of trees and forest resources over the years.
Aware of the impacts of climate change, Ethiopia in recent years embarked on an ambitious tree-planting initiative, through a project dubbed "Green Legacy."
As part of the initiative, the Ethiopian government had last month announced its plan to plant at least six billion tree seedlings in the coming months.
Via: Xinhua
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With the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD headed to the Wii U in North America this Friday, Nintendo of Canada is set to offer a free CD soundtrack promotion.
The special promotion is only available at the two Nintendo Kiosks, one of which is in Ontario and the other in British Columbia. Swing by the Nintendo Kiosk to get The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD Sound Selection CD* FREE with the purchase of any Legend of Zelda merchandise.
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Before Jason Aldean took 'My Kinda Party' into the Top 10 on the country singles chart, another Georgia boy claimed the tune -- singer-songwriter Brantley Gilbert. Brantley, who is the sole writer on the song, recorded 'My Kinda Party' for his 'A Modern Day Prodigal Son' album a few years back...
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There's a movie filming in town right now – it's called Smitty and stars Mira Sorvino and Peter Fonda. I'm sure you Manhattanites and Los Angeleans are quite unimpressed, but it's pretty unusual here in Des Moines. But not as unusual as it used to be – a couple of years ago Iowa approved legislation that gives tax cuts to filmmakers if they shoot on location here. I guess it worked – these days, it's not as weird as it used to be if you see Adrien Brody or Susan Sarandon wandering around town.
Anyway, we're just one of many towns to be excited when movie crews pull into town – here are 10 other fairly famous movies shot on location.
1. Roman Holiday. Obviously. It would be pretty hard to make a set pass as some of those scenes, particularly the Mouth of Truth part. In case you're not familiar with the Audrey Hepburn-Gregory Peck classic, Gregory sticks his hand in the Mouth of Truth, a stone carving with an open mouth, and tells her that legend has it that liars will have their hands bitten off. He pulls his arm back and reveals that his hand is gone, and Audrey screams. He has only hidden it up his sleeve, of course. The real kicker? She didn't know that was going to happen, and her shock was genuine. That part took just one take to complete.
2. The Birds. Yep, the Bodega Bay that is taken hostage by blood-thirsty avians is a real place, right down to the cute little schoolhouse. The schoolhouse is a private residence these days, but it still looks nearly the same.
3. Deliverance. Mmm. This is one location I wouldn't want to visit. I'm sure the Chattooga River in Georgia and South Carolina offers gorgeous views of the scenery, and I've got nothing against the Sumter National Forest. I just don't think I could tramp around on a hike without looking over my shoulder for hillbillies trying to kill me. Amongst other things.
5. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Like Roman Holiday, there's just no way some of that could have been faked. So, the cast and crew lived in Savannah for a while. You can even go and tour the spots mentioned in film and in the book – there's a walking tour that takes tourists to the Mercer House and through Bonaventure Cemetery, home of the famous Bird Girl statue that adorned the cover of both versions.
6. Dances with Wolves fans, boy are you in luck. The fort from the movie has not only been preserved, it's now a whole tourist attraction called the Fort Hays Chuckwagon Supper and Cowboy Music Variety Show and Dances with Wolves Film Set. But it's only the movie fort – the real fort was in Kansas. Some of it still stands, including the guardhouse and some of the officers' quarters. If you're more excited about the movie version, though, it's in Rapid City, South Dakota, just 15 minutes away from Mount Rushmore and 45 minutes from Deadwood.
7. Speaking of Mount Rushmore, parts of North by Northwest were actually shot on location. But probably not the part you're thinking of: the climax of the movie, the chase across the mammoth stone depictions of four of our greatest presidents, was not shot on location. Oh, Hitchcock wanted to, but the National Park Service denied his request, finding it disrepectful to shoot an attempted murder scene there (that's the fake Roosevelt in the picture). But the cafeteria scene just before, and all of the scenes shot of the parking lot – those were actually shot on location.
8. The most famous films ever shot on location were probably the Lord of the Rings movies, which were, of course, shot in New Zealand. Peter Jackson wanted to go for authenticity and actually shoot in Middle-Earth, but it would have taken production costs way over budget. (Kidding.) More than 150 locations in New Zealand were used, and afterward, some areas of Tongariro National Park were damaged enough that they needed to be restored by a conservation crew.
9. Giant, the classic James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor movie, was shot in Marfa, Texas. What was unusual about this one is that the film's director encouraged citizens to come by and watch the filming or be extras or stagehands. In recent years, parts of There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men were shot in Marfa. Marfa is also known for the Marfa Lights, unexplained colored lights that appear 10-15 times a year (I smell another post…).
10. Close Encounters of the Third Kind shot on location at Devils Tower in Wyoming, despite the fact that Steven Spielberg was originally against doing any location shots. Yeah… that might have been a pretty hard set piece to construct. Although it didn't stop Hitchcock when the real Rushmore was forbidden.
Has a movie ever set up shop in your town? And has anyone ever had any luck with being an extra? Tell me about your experiences in the comments!
And thanks to Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into Hollywood for some of the on-set locations!


Becuse of You I will never stray to far from the side walk!
Major Depression and Manic Depression — Any Difference?
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I felt cold, my body was stiff and my back ached. I was trying to open my eyes but nothing was happening. As I tried forcing them to open a dense colour of red blurred all the images. My eyelids seemed to be pilling of but at that moment I didn'd care if they did.
I was struggling so hard but all my efforts were fruitless. I couldn't give up but I knew I had been a cause of all this pain. With endless pressure from everyone and a broken heart. I had decided to come hear and settle things for good.
I was beginning to choke and I felt dizzy. I flung my fists vigourusly in all directions but I could feel nothing. I was bruising myself and fighting against nothing. The picture was becoming darker and the pain unbearable. I yelled out but that got more water down my throat. I felt relief and then I knew it was done. Someone was going to find my body floating underneath the thin ice.
I wouldn't say I never lived my life to the fullest but I had no one and nothing to lean on. I had drowned myself in self pity for too long it was time I drowned myself in something different. No one to stop me and nothing to hold me back. I had everything before me I just never appriciated it and my selfishness had healed no wounds helped no one. I had thought of these thing even as I took my last breath I felt a feeling of guilt but dismissed it immediatly. Closing my ears from that small voice,, but there was no turning back and my motives shall always remain a mystery.


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Would you like to divide one template position into many columns? It's not all, each column can be as wide as you wish!
You will be able to do it with bootstrap size option. Let's check it.
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At first check all template positions to have a global look at the template layout.
I'm going to use bottom module position to show you how it works.
Let's assume that we have not any modules assigned to this possition so we are going to create several custom modules.
I will create 3 different custom modules with some examples from typoghraphy article.
Let's navigate Extensions -> Module Manager and click New then the list of all avilable module types list will be displayed. Since I want to create my own HTML Module using a WYSIWYG editor I choose Custom HTML option.
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The Bad Christmas Movie Challenge: Bad Santa 2 [2016]
It pains me to put the sequel to one of my favourite Christmas movies on this list, but after all those years waiting for a sequel that was worthy of the original, I'm pissed off.
I watch Bad Santa every year, much like Die Hard (which has now been proven as NOT be a Christmas movie, but it ain't Christmas until Hans Gruber falls off Nakatomi Plaza) it's an annual ritual that has to be fulfilled. I recall one pre-Netflix Christmas when I was moving house, my Die Hard DVD had not made the journey along with a box of other beloved belongings (I was saving those plastic bags for something, honest). After many years, I was unwillingly parted from my trusty Die Hard DVD forever. I didn't have time to grieve, it was lunchtime on Christmas Eve, and I had to brave the shops to find a copy of Die Hard.
Having already completed my festive shopping weeks in advance, I prepared myself for the war that is attempting to go shopping on Christmas Eve. Twenty manic riddled minutes later I was out the door, at no time did I question my motives or think "does it really matter that much?". I was on a mission, a simple easy mission, and one that would be easier if I had a quick meal deal based lunch first. Nipping into the local Mega Supermarket Store that shall remain nameless, I'll call it Jestco, I swiftly grabbed a sandwich, a bag of crisps and a fruit-based soft drink. A fellow shopper had the same great idea to take advantage of this meal deal offer that the youngsters like, but what do I glance in her basket, a DVD of Die Hard.
Instinctively, I plot and scheme a scheme to swipe the DVD out of her basket by distracting her with some brilliant misdirection or strike up a witty conversation. Then I remembered that the only thing I'm worse at than misdirection is striking up witty conversations with strangers. Using my Sherlock Holmes level powers of deduction, I deduced that there is likely a fuckton of Die Hard DVDs in the DVD section of Jestco. Like a child at Christmas, I merrily skipped to the DVD section and started scanning the shelves for my intended purchase.
As my eyes frantically searched for Die Hard to no avail, my hopes quickly began to dwindle, could it be that I was going to skip watching it this year? I was pretty sure I had a copy of Die Hard 4.0 knocking around, but that's like watching Bad Santa 2 when you really want to watch the first one. Oh yeah, sorry, I got sidetracked there with the Die Hard story and forgot this was a Bad Santa 2 review.
Arriving 13 years after the original, Bad Santa 2 had been trapped in development hell for much of that time, and the movie that clawed its way into existence is a mean-spirited mess. The first film countered its mean-spirited nature through the wide-eyed optimism of young Thurman. Willie (Billy Bob Thornton) is a cantankerous drunk, but Thurman's goodness eventually causes Willie to do the right thing. Sadly, any shred of good-naturedness is mostly absent with Bad Santa 2 sinking to cheap laughs, cruelity, and trading on former glories. It's the Die Hard equivalent of A Good Day To Die Hard, the title suggests its a sequel to that film you liked, but the movie you watch has little in common with what came before.
Comedy sequels are a tricky beast to get right, and Bad Santa 2 fails its way onto the naughty list. Oh, and I found a copy of Die Hard at Jestco reasonably priced in case you wondered. Yippee ki-yay father snowman!
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