The only member of the public to show up at a series of meetings about plans to shake up local government in Leicestershire described her week at County Hall as a 'holiday'.
Jean Collins, 78, appeared on the Sunday Politics Show after she attracted national attention when she featured on Leicestershire Live.
She previously talked about being the only member of the public to attend scrutiny meetings about the county, district and borough councils being scrapped and a new unitary council being formed in their place.
Mrs Collins even stayed in the Premier Inn next door to the council's Glenfield HQ to ensure she could attend the meetings.
She said she stayed at the hotel - which charges £56 a night - as the alternative was to catch three buses there and three buses back from her Hinckley home.
Speaking on the show she said: "It was just so informative and interesting, it was amazing how quickly the time went. I don't regret a second.
"It was a holiday, it really was.
After Jean's appearance, East Midlands MEP and former deputy mayor of Leicester, Rory Palmer, joked that Jean would make a good Brexit secretary.
Appearing on the show alongside Nottinghamshire County Council leader Kay Cutts, he slammed the unitary proposal.
He said: "Isn't it interesting that Jean had to catch three buses from a village down the road from County Hall to get there?
"I think that underpins in a way the dangerous and over centralising nature of these super council proposals. Everything will gravitate around the all powerful County Hall at the cost of local decision making and local accountability.
Coun Cutts, who is heading up similar plans in the neighbouring county, defended the move towards unitary authorities in both counties and blamed austerity for proposing the change.


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By: Bohjalian, Chris
From the bestselling author of "The Double Bind," "Midwives, " and "Skeletons at the Feast" comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice.
"There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her that evening and then shoot himself. Drew, tortured by the cryptic finality of that short utterance, feels his faith in God slipping away and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about . . . angels.
Heather survived a childhood that culminated in her own parents' murder-suicide, so she identifies deeply with Alice's daughter, Katie, offering herself as a mentor to the girl and a shoulder for Stephen - who flees the pulpit to be with Heather and see if there is anything to be salvaged from the spiritual wreckage around him.
But then the State's Attorney begins to suspect that Alice's husband may not have killed himself. . .and finds out that Alice had secrets only her minister knew.
"Secrets of Eden" is both a haunting literary thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the inner complexities that mark all of our lives. Once again Chris Bohjalian has given us a riveting page-turner in which nothing is precisely what it seems. As one character remarks, "Believe no one. Trust no one. Assume all of our stories are suspect."
Title: SECRETS OF EDEN
Author Name: Bohjalian, Chris
Categories: Fiction,
Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books: 2010
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At the Technical Logistics College, for example, the Training and Doctrine Command G-2 recently briefed the faculty on emerging threats and changes to the operational environment. In turn, instructors will apply these concepts to classroom discussions on topics such as strategic overmatch and property accountability on extended battlefields.
As part of a larger initiative across the Training and Doctrine Command, Soldiers at every rank from private to general officer are seeing more discussion of large-scale combat operations in every lesson plan. At the Command and General Staff College, faculty members are adjusting the curriculum to focus on the Army's readiness to sustain decisive action. Changes will include more integration of logistics capabilities and limitations across warfighting functions and a renewed focus on supporting division- and corps-level operations.
ALU is continuing its ongoing shift toward a multifunctional culture. This effort does not seek to diminish the pride that students have in their basic branches. Nevertheless, our previous focus on functional training, especially among junior officers, failed to prepare them for service in an Army that assigns logisticians where they are needed, regardless of functional competency. BOLC will pilot a multifunctional approach later this year in which officers from all three branches receive exactly the same instruction.
As I mentioned, we are building better tactical leaders every day, but the institutional training and education that we provide is only a part of their leader development. Operational assignments offer the most valuable training that our Soldiers receive. During these assignments, young officers and sergeants deploy to training centers and combat zones, endure stress, failure, and hardship, solve real-world challenges, and learn the lessons that come only from being in charge.
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This emphasis on leader development probably sounds familiar. The challenges of large-scale combat operations resemble the Army's Cold War emphasis on AirLand Battle. Unfortunately, we no longer enjoy massive technical advantages over adversaries who challenge us across multiple domains, including space and cyberspace.
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Albert Dubois-Pillet, eigenlijk Albert Dubois (Parijs, 28 oktober 1846 - Le Puy-en-Velay, 18 augustus 1890), was een Frans kunstschilder. Hij wordt vooral gerekend tot de stroming van het pointillisme.

Leven en werk
Dubois-Pillet kreeg een militaire opleiding aan de École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr. Hij vocht in de Frans-Duitse Oorlog (1871-1872), waarin hij krijgsgevangene werd gemaakt. Na de Frans-Duitse oorlog begon hij te schilderen, aanvankelijk louter uit liefhebberij. Als autodidact bleek hij echter over bijzondere talenten te beschikken en al snel stapte hij volledig over op de schilderkunst. In 1874 trok hij naar Parijs, verkeerde veel met kunstenaars en schrijvers in het Café de la Nouvelle Athènes en raakte nauw bevriend met Georges Seurat. Samen met Seurat en Paul Signac richtte hij in 1884 de Société des Artistes Indépendants op, als tegenhanger van de Parijse salon. In 1888 en 1890 werd hij uitgenodigd te exposeren bij Les Vingt te Brussel.

Dubois-Pillet staat bekend als een van de eerste schilders die de werkwijze van het pointillisme hanteerden. Later ontwikkelde zijn stijl zich enigszins richting het neo-impressionisme. Hij schilderde vooral landschappen en genrewerken 'en plein air', vaak in waterverf, maar maakte ook portretten. Spraakmakend was een ruzie die hij in de salon maakte met Edouard Manet over naturalistische elementen in Manets werk.

Nadat Dubois-Pillets werk in 1880 werd afgewezen door de Parijse salon aanvaardde hij de functie van hoofd van de Republikeinse Garde, hetgeen hij de rest van zijn leven zou blijven. Aan het einde van zijn leven, in 1889, werd hij overgeplaatst naar Le Puy wegens sympathie voor de staatsgreepplannen van generaal Georges Boulanger. Hij overleed in 1890 aan de pokken, op 43-jarige leeftijd.

Galerij

Literatuur
 Peter H. Feist e.a.: Het Impressionisme (samenstelling Ingo F. Walther), Taschen, München, 2010. ISBN 9783836522908

Externe links
 Biografische schets
 Informatie over Dubois-Pillet
 Informatie over Dubois-Pillet op Europeanpaintings.com

Frans kunstschilder
Kunstschilder van het impressionisme

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Q: MQTT Android Studio app crashes when conecting to broker I am trying to publish a message to my MQTT broker(which is my Raspberry Pi) for the topic "anlage" via a simple button. When I press the button the app crashes and I get this error:
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: de.keule.contollerphone, PID: 16703
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Landroidx/localbroadcastmanager/content/LocalBroadcastManager;
    at org.eclipse.paho.android.service.MqttAndroidClient.registerReceiver(MqttAndroidClient.java:450)
    at org.eclipse.paho.android.service.MqttAndroidClient.connect(MqttAndroidClient.java:428)
    at org.eclipse.paho.android.service.MqttAndroidClient.connect(MqttAndroidClient.java:334)
    at de.keule.contollerphone.MainActivity.sendMqttMsg(MainActivity.java:43)
    at de.keule.contollerphone.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:32)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7144)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7135)
    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1297)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2944)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3099)
    at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:78)
    at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:108)
    at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:68)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1829)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:215)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6910)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:858)
 Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "androidx.localbroadcastmanager.content.LocalBroadcastManager" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/base.apk", zip file "/data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/split_lib_dependencies_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/split_lib_resources_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/split_lib_slice_0_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/split_lib_slice_1_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/split_lib_slice_2_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/split_lib_slice_3_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/split_lib_slice_4_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/split_lib_slice_5_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/split_lib_slice_6_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/split_lib_slice_7_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/split_lib_slice_8_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/split_lib_slice_9_apk.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/lib/arm64, /system/lib64]]
    at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:134)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:379)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:312)
    at org.eclipse.paho.android.service.MqttAndroidClient.registerReceiver(MqttAndroidClient.java:450)
    at org.eclipse.paho.android.service.MqttAndroidClient.connect(MqttAndroidClient.java:428)
    at org.eclipse.paho.android.service.MqttAndroidClient.connect(MqttAndroidClient.java:334)
    at de.keule.contollerphone.MainActivity.sendMqttMsg(MainActivity.java:43)
    at de.keule.contollerphone.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:32)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7144)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7135)
    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1297)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2944)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3099)
    at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:78)
    at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:108)
    at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:68)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1829)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:215)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6910)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:858)
    Suppressed: java.io.IOException: No original dex files found for dex location /data/app/de.keule.contollerphone-kCw6W4HAAaPrigb6bwXOQg==/split_lib_resources_apk.apk
    at dalvik.system.DexFile.openDexFileNative(Native Method)
    at dalvik.system.DexFile.openDexFile(DexFile.java:354)
    at dalvik.system.DexFile.<init>(DexFile.java:101)
    at dalvik.system.DexFile.<init>(DexFile.java:75)
    at dalvik.system.DexPathList.loadDexFile(DexPathList.java:394)
    at dalvik.system.DexPathList.makeDexElements(DexPathList.java:354)
    at dalvik.system.DexPathList.<init>(DexPathList.java:164)
    at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.<init>(BaseDexClassLoader.java:74)
    at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.<init>(BaseDexClassLoader.java:65)
    at dalvik.system.PathClassLoader.<init>(PathClassLoader.java:64)
    at com.android.internal.os.ClassLoaderFactory.createClassLoader(ClassLoaderFactory.java:73)
    at com.android.internal.os.ClassLoaderFactory.createClassLoader(ClassLoaderFactory.java:88)
    at android.app.ApplicationLoaders.getClassLoader(ApplicationLoaders.java:74)
    at android.app.ApplicationLoaders.getClassLoader(ApplicationLoaders.java:40)
    at android.app.LoadedApk.createOrUpdateClassLoaderLocked(LoadedApk.java:731)
    at android.app.LoadedApk.getClassLoader(LoadedApk.java:814)
    at android.app.LoadedApk.getResources(LoadedApk.java:1036)
    at android.app.ContextImpl.createAppContext(ContextImpl.java:2345)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:5956)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1100(ActivityThread.java:201)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1669)
            ... 6 more

Does I miss something or I have to add somthingelse?
I've imported the mqtt library paho org.eclipse.paho:org.eclipse.paho.android.service:1.1.1 and org.eclipse.paho:org.eclipse.paho.client.mqttv3:1.1.0 via maven. Is ther another way to implement mqtt in Android Studio or what can I do to get it work. I've already searched for the problem on the web but I didn't found any solution.
I've gave the app this permissions:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

<!--<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />-->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

and also added
<service android:name="org.eclipse.paho.android.service.MqttService" />

Thats the code:
public  void sendMqttMsg(){
        androidClient = new MqttAndroidClient(this, "tcp://192.168.178.41:1883", "phoneController");
        options = new MqttConnectOptions();
        options.setCleanSession(true);
        options.setAutomaticReconnect(true);

        MqttMessage msg = new MqttMessage("1".getBytes());
        try {
            androidClient.connect(options);
            androidClient.publish("anlage", msg);
            androidClient.disconnect();
        }catch(MqttException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
  }
}

Edit: build.gradle
    dependencies {
implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0'
implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3'
testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test:runner:1.2.0'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.2.0'
implementation 'org.eclipse.paho:org.eclipse.paho.client.mqttv3:1.1.0'
implementation 'org.eclipse.paho:org.eclipse.paho.android.service:1.1.1'

}

A: Because LocalBroadcastManager is deprecated
In the build.Gradle added implementation 'com.android.support:support-v4:4.4.1'

A: add this in build.gradle implementation'androidx.localbroadcastmanager:localbroadcastmanager:1.0.0'

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I'm located in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria) if the location matters.
Will be happy on something cheap and reliable.
EDIT: Thanks all. I've decided to use Amazon EC2.
Google app engine. Its free.
Amazon EC2. I'm using it for several years already. You can pay as much as you really consume. I like their recent addition - micro instances. They are small and cheap.
Big advantage (for me at least) - you have raw Linux machine - just install all you want, no limitations about this. Service is reliable enough (telling from experience) - I had some problems, but they are minor issues (especially if you have backup, which is very simple and fast with EBS snapshots).
Plus they provide a lot of other very useful services (that are elastic) like SQS/SNS for message queue and topics, S3, etc.
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Cinema Review)
July 18, 2018 By George Elcombe Leave a Comment
Starring: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Release Date: July 25th 2018 (UK)
It really doesn't seem that long since I saw the last Mission: Impossible film (Rogue Nation, 2015), and I praised it for its ability to utilise the tried and tested formula of its predecessors, whilst being a fresh and exhilarating entry to the franchise. That's something this series continues to do effortlessly with Fallout, which is without doubt one of the best entries. You can't say that for many other franchises six movies in.
Without going too much into the plot, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team have to retrieve three plutonium cores before they are turned into nuclear bombs, as well as foil the plot of a religious terrorist group called the Apostles, who want to reshape the world. On this mission Hunt is chaperoned by CIA agent Walker (Henry Cavill), and we have the welcome return of regulars Benji (Simon Pegg), Luther (Ving Rhames), Ilsa (Rebeccan Fergurson), alongside some new and memorable additions. [Read more…]
New Mission: Impossible Fallout Trailer – Henry Cavill's gonna keep Tom Cruise in line
A few years ago Tom Cruise was all set to leave the Mission: Impossible franchise, but then it became just about the only thing that guaranteed him a hit, so he stuck around. Now the latest instalment is on its way – Fallout.
Here's the synopsis: 'The best intentions often come back to haunt you. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team (Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) along with some familiar allies (Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan) in a race against time after a mission gone wrong. Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, and Vanessa Kirby also join the dynamic cast with filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie returning to the helm.'
The movie is due out in July. Take a look at the new trailer below. [Read more…]
ACTORS: Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan, Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, Vanessa Kirby DIRECTORS: Christopher McQuarrie FILMS: Mission: Impossible 6
Mission: Impossible Fallout Trailer – Tom Cruise is back & he's brought Henry Cavill along with him
February 5, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment
The movie is due out in July. Take a look at the first trailer below. [Read more…]
Crush Of The Day: See How Cute Henry Cavill Looked During His Superman Screentest
April 8, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment
It's easy to forget that only four years ago, Henry Cavill was just a guy who'd played supporting roles in The Tudors and Immortals, and whose first major lead role – opposite Bruce Willis in the underwhelming The Cold Light of Day – was yet to be released. However, that was the time when he was first brought in to test for the role of Superman in Man Of Steel.
Director Zack Snyder has released a pic over on Vero of Cavill during his screentest, where he wears a more Christopher Reeve looking super-suit than then one he finally ended up donning (indeed, it was a replica of Reeves' costume). He certainly looks cute and fresh-faced. It's also true that once he got the role, he must have spent an awful lot of time in the gym, and he's not the super-buff figure he became for the final movie.
Snyder comments, "If you can put on that suit and pull it off that's an awesome achievement… He walked out, and no one laughed. Other actors put that suit on, and it's a joke, even if they're great actors. Henry put it on, and he exuded this kind of crazy-calm confidence that just made me go 'Wow.' Okay: This was Superman.'"
Take a look at the full pic below. [Read more…]
ACTORS: Henry Cavill DIRECTORS: Zack Snyder FILMS: Man Of Steel
Henry Cavill Signs Up For Mission: Impossible 6
March 17, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment
Mission: Impossible 6 just got a little less impossible. After all, if you've got a man who can fly, stop speeding bullets and have x-ray vision on your team, it makes things easier. That said, although Variety reports that Henry Cavill has signed on to star, he probably won't be playing Superman.
Instead, he will apparently be 'would play some sort of a right hand to the head of Cruise's unit'. Alec Baldwin had the head role in the last film, but its not been announced whether he will return. It also leaves open the possibility that Cavill may actually turn out to be a bad guy.
Vanessa Kirby was recently announced as one of Tom Cruise's co-stars in the movie, with the likes of Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, and Jeremy Renner also expected to return in some capacity. The movie is due to start shooting soon, for release July 2018.
ACTORS: Henry Cavill, Tom Cruise FILMS: Mission: Impossible 6
Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice – Ultimate Edition (Blu-ray Review)
Starring: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Adams
Release Date: August 1st 2016 (UK)
As they say, 'The higher you climb, the further there is to fall'. That's a fair description of Batman v Superman, a film that you certainly can't fault for its ambition, but which can't reach the heights it strives for despite its best efforts. After an exceedingly mixed reaction at cinemas, the film comes to Blu-ray in an Ultimate Edition form, which adds in an extra 30 minutes of footage and adds back in some of the violence that US censors wouldn't permit to get it a PG-13 certificate.
Some hoped this new version would rectify all the flaws of the theatrical cut. It doesn't do that, but it does help a little, particularly with some of the subplots where the theatrical version had bits of them, but where they either petered out or didn't make a whole lot of sense. It does add a couple of extra problems though. [Read more…]
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Cinema Review)
March 25, 2016 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment
Starring: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jeremy Irons
Release Date: March 25th 2016
This film has been a long time coming and there are some great articles online chronicling the various attempts to bring Batman vs Superman and the Justice League to the silver screen. As you can tell from the subtitle, this film serves as an introduction to the Justice League films coming in 2017 and 2019, and the continuation of the DCCU (Detective Comics Cinematic Universe) which began with Man of Steel in 2013.
But in a film that is two and a half hours long I was concerned that they would rush the introduction to a wealth of new characters and backstories when it should just focus on the leads. Too many cooks and all.
DC and Warner Brothers are reaching for the financial success that Marvel has had with their cinematic universe (MCU), but the tone of their films set the studios apart. Marvel films are more light-hearted whereas DC's recent films have mainly been darker (excluding the Schumacher Batman movies). Despite the darker tone I enjoyed Man of Steel up until the finale, where it seemed like the production had $100 million left and spent it needlessly destroying Metropolis. But it didn't feel like a Superman movie and lacked the charm of Richard Donner's 1978 version. [Read more…]
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Final Trailer – What is the Caped Crusader's problem?
February 11, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment
It appears that Warner Bros. has decided that to really rev us up for next month's release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, we ought to know a bit more about Ben Affleck's take on the Caped Crusader. As a result the new trailer focuses on him, while not forgetting that the Man Of Steel is pretty important to.
Here's the synopsis: 'Fearing the actions of a god-like super hero left unchecked, Gotham City's own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis's most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it's ever known before.'
The movie is due out next month. Take a look at the new trailer below.
ACTORS: Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Adams DIRECTORS: Zack Snyder FILMS: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Henry Cavill & Zac Efron Want Us To Know They Look Sexy While Working Out
Did you ever doubt that Henry Cavill & Zac Efron were very sexy while working up a sweat in the gym? Well, in case you weren't sure, they film stars have both recently shared pics of them keeping fit, to show their progress for their upcoming movies.
Efron is due to start shooting the Baywatch movie soon, which will inevitably involve a huge amount of shirtlessness. However from the image Zac has shared, it would appear that it's having freakishly enormous biceps that's the star's main worry. Someone needs to tell him if he's not careful, his arms won't fit through the holes in his tops any longer.
Cavill meanwhile is back in the gym at the start of his workout regime for his next appearance as Superman. Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice is due out next month, but with Justice League due to start shooting this year, he's not getting any time off from working out. And we have to appreciate the fact that he took his shirt off so we could enjoy the furriness.
Take a look at the pics the duo shared below, and decide which you prefer.
ACTORS: Zac Efron, Henry Cavill FILMS: Baywatch, Justice League Part One
Batman, Superman & Wonder Woman Get Dawn Of Justice Character Posters
It feels like the summer blockbuster season is starting earlier and earlier each year. A couple of years ago a massive movie like Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice wouldn't have arrived until May at the earliest, but instead it's arriving in March.
That means that once Star Wars is out of the way, we're likely to get saturation hype for the film, as Warner Bros. has a lot riding on it. This isn't just the first time the Man Of Steel and the Caped Crusader have been in a live-action movie together, it's going to kick-off an entire interconnected DC Comics universe, and introduce us to the likes of Aquaman, The Flash and Wonder Woman, leading up to a two part Justice League extravaganza.
Wonder Woman is expected to play a major role in Dawn Of Justice, and to underline that, Gal Gadot'r lasso wielding superhero has now got a character poster, alongside Henry Cavill's Superman and Ben Affleck's Batman. You can see them below.
Here's the synopsis: 'Fearing the actions of a god-like super hero left unchecked, Gotham City's own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis's most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it's ever known before.' [Read more…]
ACTORS: Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot DIRECTORS: Zack Snyder FILMS: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice


Creator: Unknown. October 3, 1907.
Woodward County Democrat and Palace Weekly Pioneer. (Woodward, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 3, 1907, newspaper, October 3, 1907; Woodward, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc952094/: accessed April 19, 2019), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.


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Q: How to handle win32 services in windows 2000 platform I ve designed a win32 service in windows XP its working fine. but the problem i'm facing is that it's not working properly in windows 2000 platform. that is stopping the service restarting the service. is there any setting or need to change in code to be done.

A: Is it possible you have used an API that was new on WinXP?
For an interactive applications you would get a popup about an unresolved import, if I recall correctly for services these are recorded in the system event log.
If it is hanging, take process dumps and feed them into a debugger with symbols (both Microsoft's and yours) configured. That will show you the stacks of the threads, and allow you to check for deadlocks.


My Favourite Necklace Ever is Home!!
My all time favourite piece that I have ever made arrived at the post office yesterday after a two year tour down the east coast of Australia. It was a finalist in the award exhibition 'Contemporary Wearables 13' at the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, a competition that I try to enter as often as possible.
My favourite piece of all time.
Being a massive wildlife lover, I wanted to represent a horrible issue that is currently plaguing our oceans. Animals such as fish eat these tiny fragments of plastic, mistaking them for their usual diet of plankton, which is causing issues for them and other animals higher in the food chain.
To make this piece I traveled around to seven different beaches in Western Australia and collected hundreds of tiny pieces of plastic which are choking our wildlife and waterways.
Collecting at South Beach near Fremantle, Western Australia, with my beloved Molly Dog. This was the last beach collection we worked on together so it is especially meaningful.
Each collection was washed and refined to get rid of any nasties. This is a small part of what I came across in a short time which is pretty concerning.
I then sorted the collection and played around with the colours to get the right pallet for my piece.
A rainbow of discarded plastics.
I combined simplified silver versions of the plankton forms to house the tiny pieces of plastic and tangled them together with silver seaweed. I made every little component of the piece by hand and while it took me far too long, I think the results were definitely worth it.
I handmade each tiny little box to hold a precious plastic collection.
Close up of my favouritist necklace ever. I handmade each tiny little box to hold a precious plastic collection.


This week, we talk about four fairly disparate titles from Vertical, Inc, Viz Media, and Yen Press.
MICHELLE: Well, even though it feels like Tuesday, the calendar informs me that it's Wednesday. Which can mean only one thing!
MELINDA: Dawn's in trouble? No, wait… I have that wrong.
MICHELLE: Haha! You have beaten me to the Buffy reference! What is the world coming to?
MELINDA: No good, no good at all!
What's on your plate this time?
So, yes, books! Well, after last week's focus on manga for kids, I guess I must have felt the need to remember my age (or at least feel it). It's been all dark, broody shonen and dark, thinky josei for me this week. I'll start with the one I feel guiltiest about, volume ten of Black Jack.
I've had this volume for several months (with two more in the stack still waiting–hence the guilt), but despite the fact that everybody told me it would be no big deal to just jump in anywhere, "it's totally episodic, blah blah blah," I was determined to work my way up from the beginning (thank you, local library system), and honestly I'm glad I did. While I can see that it would not be at all difficult to catch on to the premise from any given point, there's really so much nuance to this series, and much of that I would have missed. Even some fairly major bits of characterization go all the way back to the first volume, like the origins of Pinoko (Black Jack's childlike companion) for one. Something like that, though it's not essential to the plot of this volume, is still a pretty significant factor when it comes to understanding Black Jack and his general worldview.
MELINDA: Perhaps even more importantly, going back to volume one gave me the opportunity to really enjoy falling in love with this series like everyone else already has. I've been hearing for a long time, of course, how great the series is, but the premise as I understood it wasn't particularly compelling for me. I'm generally uninterested in doctors as a subject for drama or entertainment, and I'm not a huge fan of episodic storytelling either. What finally reeled me in was my deep enjoyment of Ode to Kirihito. I figured that if Tezuka could get me interested in a story about a disease that turns people into dogs, he could get me into anything.
I wasn't wrong. Though Ode to Kirihito provides the kind of overarching narrative I generally prefer, the sheer length of Black Jack allows for a more intense study of a single character than you're likely to find almost anywhere. Black Jack is absolutely, gorgeously ambiguous in just about every way. He's the kind of character who, had he been a superhero, might have gotten me interested in superheroes. He's got the dark origin story and superhuman abilities, and though he's often quite compassionate, he's also capable of the emotional detachment of a dedicated mercenary. He's not really above anything, including lying, cheating, and outright revenge.
One of the most riveting stories in this volume, for instance, is one in which he's approached by his estranged father who begs him to perform a vital facial reconstruction on his current wife (the woman he left Black Jack's mother for). Black Jack agrees to do the surgery, but he wreaks his vengeance in a truly coldblooded fashion. Actually, that's probably a poor description. His revenge is far from cold. In fact, there's so much white-hot anger and genuine pain in it, it's surprising that he can remain calm enough to complete the task. In moments like these, Black Jack is a truly dark and fearsome character. Yet this chapter sits alongside stories so poignant they actually made me cry, like the later installment "Strangers at Sea," in which Black Jack treats a wounded dolphin that ultimately sacrifices itself to save the lives of the very same humans who injured it in the first place.
Though the two stories I just mentioned are quite different on the surface, they both reflect the overall tone of the series, which seems dedicated to revealing the deep injustice at the core of our world. That sounds incredibly depressing, and maybe it is, but where there's a sense of helplessness in a world like that, there is also the sense that, without the cozy security provided by some Cosmic Force of Justice, people are the only ones responsible for their actions and decisions, which is a view I can very much appreciate.
MICHELLE: I love ambiguous characters, and both of the stories you single out for mention sound extraordinarily awesome in their own way. I, too, have a lot of guilt associated with Black Jack, for though I own all the volumes currently available (including the limited edition hardcover editions of the first three) I haven't read any. I hope the details of his revenge aren't too icky.
MELINDA: No, not icky at all, actually, and… well, pretty freakin' satisfying. It's kinda hard not to get into the revenge. It's that good.
And speaking of good, wow, I have to laugh at the fact that there was once a time when I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get into Tezuka's "dated" artwork. Black Jack is visually striking, page-to-page, and I'm not just wallowing in aesthetics. Tezuka's visual storytelling is crisp and uncommonly vivid in both expression and narrative. I'll be saving my pennies to pick up this series for my own collection. You know, despite my complaints about episodic stories, it's probably one of the aspects of this series that makes it especially re-readable, and I expect to reread it often.
MICHELLE: Yeah, it's amazing how little time it takes one's initial reaction to Tezuka's style to completely wear off due to the power of his storytelling. As for me, I haven't been reading anything near as noteworthy as Black Jack, I'm afraid.
MELINDA: So, now that I've taken up half the column with just one book, maybe I should let you get a word in edgewise, eh? What have you been reading this week?
MICHELLE: The first thing on my agenda is the second volume of Library Wars: Love & War, a relatively new series in VIZ's Shojo Beat imprint. I didn't like volume one as much as I had hoped—I found the concept ill-defined (The censorious federal government wants to destroy offensive books so local governments have formed their own forces to protect libraries. Or something.) and the heroine, Iku, annoying—and I liked the second volume even less.
What bugs me the most is that Iku has been picked to be a member of some elite force but spends most of her time being fairly inept. She can't shoot worth a damn (It's a noteworthy occasion when she manages to hit the paper, much less the target.), nearly mis-shelves books, and demonstrates a profound lack of ignorance about a significant event in library history. She spends a lot of time thinking about her commanding officer (who says things like "Women shouldn't get all scratched up like you do"), unable to decide whether she likes him or hates him, as well as pondering why her antagonistic fellow enlistee has asked her out.
About the only time Iku shows competence is during a sudden raid on a library, when she instinctively does the right thing in the heat of the moment and is pretty much single-handedly responsible for saving some books. I actually found Iku's roommate, Asako, a lot more interesting. Not only does she put some clues together regarding missing books, she discovers that the library's temporary director is in league with the federal government. Plus, she finds all of Iku's romantic silliness "very entertaining," which puts me in mind of Tomoyo from Cardcaptor Sakura, the elegant best friend who enjoys observing the spazzy heroine. Asako really should get her own series and leave Iku behind.
MELINDA: What is it with clumsy, clueless heroines? Ugh. I'm completely with you here. I'd much rather read a story about a smart, capable girl than one who just stumbles into doing something smart almost by accident. Also, I'm especially irritated to see this kind of heroine at the center of a story about libraries. When I think of the real women who are protecting books in our society, I think (of course) of librarians, and there could not be a smarter, more capable group of women on earth.
I realize this story is not technically about librarians, but really. And now I'm getting all ranty about a series I haven't even read. Um. You rant more.
MICHELLE: Well, this isn't just about libraries, but about a military body. And what kind of military body has a commading officer who chastises one of his charges for getting scratches? Or is peopled almost entirely by bishounen, with the exception of the Major, whom they trot out on occasion to be leaderly. I think what irks me the most is that this really could have been good, but it's just sloppy and generic.
MELINDA: Do you think it's doomed to stay that way? Is there any kind of bright spot? Aside from Asako, I mean.
MELINDA: Well, that's just sad.
MICHELLE: Yup. So, why don't you cheer me up with some of that promised josei goodness!
MELINDA: As you wish! My second selection this week is volume four of Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Fumi Yoshinaga's exploration of an alternate version of Edo-era Japan. I've already raved about the series' first three volumes, but the fourth is probably my favorite so far.
For those not in the know, the series' premise rests on a fictional disease which wipes out the majority of Japan's male population, leaving women to take on traditional male roles in the society, up to and including that of shogun. Though a lesser storyteller might try to portray this as a simple role reversal, Yoshinaga recognizes the impossibility of that, especially within the time period.
Despite the fact that women vastly outnumber men in this alternate history, the society's patriarchal roots remain firmly in place. Even the country's first female shogun sees herself as little more than a placeholder for the family's rightful heir. This volume is especially weighted in the reality of this, which is part of what makes it so powerful. Though women are, by necessity, forced into male roles, the reverse does not occur. "…women took on all the labor in the land, from childcare and housework to the trades and farm work." Boys are coddled like priceless treasures, and though they are expected to sire children, they are certainly not tasked with raising them.
What's most striking about Yoshinaga's alternate world, however, is that she does not attempt to use it to create some kind of matriarchal utopia. There is nothing "soft" or just about this world. Its privileged leaders are as myopic and morally stunted as any of their kind, and the lives of everyone below them are just as brutal as they would be under the previous shogunate. This is part of the series' brilliance, because what it really reveals is the brutality of the time–its basic injustices and unavoidable realities. There's a scene in this volume where we're shown that elderly men represent such a burden to their families that it is commonplace for them to be abandoned in the hills to starve to death. This is the world the women inherit, and there isn't much movement to change it. The only revolutionary action in this entire volume is initiated by a group of men with no purpose but to restore male rule.
It's not pretty, by any stretch of the imagination (unless you're talking about Yoshinaga's drool-worthy artwork), but it's a fascinating study of the time period, facilitated by the AU.
MICHELLE: I am woefully behind on Ooku. I really have no good excuse, especially when I know how brilliant Fumi Yoshinaga is. I think I've been slightly frightened off by a warning I received regarding a "cat incident" in volume two.
MELINDA: I remember that cat incident. You're right to be frightened. It's… a very bad cat incident. But it's still worth it, I promise.
I should mention that though this volume doesn't provide as much to like in its characters (the newest female shogun is a horrid person, perhaps only eclipsed by a manipulative male character she eventually appoints to the office of Senior Chamberlain), it offers much satisfaction in terms of complexity and plot.
MICHELLE: That is a good distinction to make. Sometimes I'm in the mood for complexity and sometimes I just want to like people.
We certainly have been tough on our protagonists today!
MELINDA: That's true! Could it be… us?
Um. So. What else have you got?
MICHELLE: More of the same, alas, for I have ventured to read the first volume of Yen Press's latest YA adaptation, Gossip Girl: For Your Eyes Only.
I've never read the original books or seen the TV show, but I was intrigued that the story would be drawn and adapted by manhwa artist HyeKyung Baek, about whose series Bring It On! I have heard good things. Unfortunately, I despised most of the characters so vehemently I failed to pay much attention to the art.
This is the story of a rich girl named Blair whose boyfriend Nate slept with her friend Serena at some point before the story started. Rather than be angry at Nate, Blair resolves to get even with Serena by stealing Serena's new love, a rather dull guy named Dan whom she (Blair) uses mercilessly.
The only problem is, every time Blair launches a scheme to make Serena's life miserable, the latter's amazing luck ends up handing her something awesome on a silver platter. At various points, the narrator makes comments like "Poor S" or "Poor B," but I am amazed we are actually supposed to feel bad for these entitled brats!
It really was a struggle to get through this volume. The only character I liked even a little was Vanessa, whose tomboyish manner and appearance makes her the cast member who most resembles a manhwa lead. I also liked how her ambiguous sexuality was handled, but she's such minor character I doubt it's going to go anywhere interesting.
MELINDA: Is this a new trend in YA fiction? For all the girls to be genuinely hateful? I haven't read this, but I remember we both had a similar reaction to The Clique. Is it us? Are we old fogies who don't understand the values of today's youth?
MICHELLE: I actually liked The Clique more than this; at least there was evidence the rich girl at the center of that one had a heart. Here they're all just obsessed with revenge and/or throwing their money around in as lavish a way as possible.
MELINDA: What do you suppose is the appeal? I know the books are incredibly popular.
MICHELLE: Music, fashion, gossip, and all-night parties? I really couldn't tell you, other than some find it fun to watch rich people behaving badly. I can only assume there is more nuance in the books and/or TV show.
MELINDA: Ooooooh ho ho, you're clever, invoking the dreaded NANA copy! Dear girls: Read NANA instead!
MICHELLE: Seriously. It has rich hotties, too!
So, thanks to my early verbosity, we'll wrap it up at four tonight. Join us again next week for an all new Off the Shelf!
Although I love Ooku and enjoyed the fourth volume, it felt like the weakest volume in the series since it jumped around so much and it read like Yoshinaga was getting through the "boring" stuff to get to what she really wants to write about and I think the lack of a singular focus hurt the volume a little bit. When she does get to Tsunayoshi, the volume did pick up again though.
Personally, I was never a big fan of the jump back in time since I liked Yoshimune and while I did enjoy the parts with Arikoto and Iemitsu, I had kind of hoped the series would jump back to Yoshimune after the Arikoto/Iemitsu stuff. Everything in between Iemitsu's death and Yoshimune did seem kind of pointless to me and all of the interesting things seemed like set up for the next volume which made this one, as good as it was in places, feel like filler to me.
Speaking of all girls being genuinely hateful, doesn't that bring to mind Hot Gimmick and Gakuen Prince (also Imadoki)? Hot Gimmick had a lot of hateful characters, but probably the ugliest were the heroine's schoolmates. I mean, while she's getting manipulated by her boyfriends, her girlfriends should be there to support her, but instead she is snubbed, smeared, and left alone.
An accurate, and digestible depiction would be the Mean Girls film. The hateful females in Gakuen Prince are (surprisingly) easier to digest than Hot Gimmick, but still. Where is the love, girls?
PS. How rampant art the "thee"s and "thou"s in Ooku? Are they fewer? Annoying at all?
Yeah, I noticed it less and less in volume 1, too. I'm surprised you answered that over my comment about hateful females; was it sexist?
Ohmigosh. Dare I ask what the 'cat incident' was about? I know the character in Otoyomegatari (by Emma creator Kaoru Mori, to be pub'd by Yen later) shoots a hare, but is it worse than that?
I don't want to go into detail here (and my memory of specifics is a bit fuzzy anyway), but I will say it's an especially heartbreaking cat incident. *Though* for what it's worth, it didn't make me break down so much I had to (temporarily) stop reading the volume like the dog incident at the beginning of Pluto 4 did.
I get the gist, but it still wouldn't take away much from the series if I were to come across that scene. At least I know there are animal lovers out there who wince when animals are treated horribly.
Both Michelle and I are big wimps when it comes to animal abuse/death/etc. in fiction.
Yes, even though I try to tell myself, "Fictional cat! Fictional cat!" it seldom helps.
Well I agree with wimps over those who don't bat an eyelid over animal abuse.
Melinda, you had such a great couple of titles this week! I'm a huge Black Jack fan, and I agree that the more you read, the more interestinmg his character becomes. Volume 10, with the revelation of what his father did after he left BJ and his mother, is especially compelling. There was another aspect to BJ's revenge that occured to me in those stories: they are extremely childish in nature. I wouldn't expect Black Jack to forgive his father (I don't think anyone short of a saint could do that; he's not exactly a forgivable person), but BJ's special blend of revenge had an infantile "I just want Mommy & Daddy to be together again!" aspect to it, which revealed another layer of BJ's character to me: his growth and maturity were a bit stunted by his trauma, and inside he's still an angry little kid inside. Also, never get on his bad side :) I'm upset that there are *only* about 17 volumes of this series!
As for Ooku: squee! I loved Vol. 2 & 3 more than one. The relationship between Iemitsu and Arikoto, in all it's horrible dysfunction and beauty, really cemented the story in my mind. I'm curious as to how the world develops politically and socially with a female-dominated society. But I don't understand why elderly men, still potentially capable of conceiving, would be cast off. I also wish the volumes had historical endnotes so that I can better appreciate how Yoshinaga brilliantly meshes real historical events in her AU.


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Carl Adam Stephen Bolméus, född 10 februari 1981 i Askim i Göteborg, är en svensk gitarrist och låtskrivare. Han var medlem i den Göteborgsbaserade indiegruppen Bad Cash Quartet 1999-2004. Sedan dess har han varit aktiv medlem i Hästpojken tillsammans med Martin Elisson. Adam Bolméus spelade även gitarr på Broder Daniels avskedskonsert 2008.

Diskografi

Hästpojken

Album
2008 - Caligula
2009 - Från där jag ropar
2013 - En magisk tanke
2018 - Hästpojken är död

Singlar
 2007 – "Shane MacGowan"
 2008 – "Caligula"
 2008 – "Här har du ditt liv"
 2009 – "Gitarrer & bas, trummor & hat"
 2010 - "Jag e jag"
 2012 - "Samma himlar"
 2013 - "Sommarvin"

Källor

Fotnoter

Svenska gitarrister
Svenska indiemusiker
Musiker från Göteborg
Födda 1981
Levande personer
Män


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Making snowflake decorations is strangely therapeutic and I highly recommend it.
Fortuitously Archie had learnt in class about making these decorations and proudly showed Oscar and I how to do it. Apparently some in his class did very elaborate ones .... well we were happy with ours!
Have a look at How About Orange blog for a really good tutorial.
Ooh, ooh, this is on our list for next week sometime!


Now that the Xbox One and PS4 consoles are on sale, with only the European launch of the latter yet to come on 29 November, we can safely say that we've entered a new era of gaming.
The last two weeks have gone past like a blur and much has been said in the Xbox One versus PS4 battle. But ever since Sony announced its next-generation machine in New York on 20 February, and showcased a number of games as launch titles or beyond, gamers have been excitedly discussing the quality of the graphics, or the potential of both the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's rival.
Some have pointed to games such as Killzone: Shadow Fall, Forza Motorsport 5, or Titanfall as examples of why you should ditch your current-gen machine immediately. Some highlight Quantic Dreams' The Dark Sorcerer tech demo as to what we can finally expect our home consoles to be capable of. But we say, poppycock. If you think what you've seen so far is good, you'll eventually have your tiny minds chewed up, spat out, wrapped up in Semtex and blown. Mightily.
In seven or eight years' time, when we're possibly even looking towards the launches of the next-next-gen of consoles (the Xbox Two or PS5), games will be so many steps further on in performance and quality that it is hard to even fathom now what they will look like.
To prove it, we've taken a look at five top games that featured as launch titles for the current generation of consoles, either Xbox 360, PS3 or both, and their franchise equivalents at the tail end of those consoles' lifespans. The difference in quality is quite remarkable. And to think, we were blown away by the standards in 2005 and 2006. What would our younger selves have thought of the latest games?
The first FIFA game to come out for the Xbox 360 was a World Cup tie-in that many thought looked great and it was often touted as "the most realistic FIFA to date". Jump forward eight years and it's remarkable how different the latest chapter looks, considering it is using the exact same graphics hardware.
Definition, animation, just about everything has been improved. Even the gameplay is remarkably different, with the original feeling like it plods along in comparison. There's also a distinct air of automation about FIFA 06.
If this is an example, just imagine what FIFA 22 will look like on the Xbox One or PS3.
Er... This one really staggered us. We may have been wearing rose-tinted spectacles, but we remembered the second Call of Duty game - the first to hit "next-gen" - very fondly indeed.
But in comparison with later titles, even those that came just a few years after, it looks incredibly dated. It's almost as though it couldn't have been on the Xbox 360 at all.
When compared to Ghosts, the latest in the franchise, it's like seeing a Charlie Chaplin movie and comparing it to Life of Pi. That's also a great analogy in the respect that graphics aside, Call of Duty 2 is still quality entertainment. The gameplay seemed a lot less showy and more honest back then. And the World War II setting was a fave of ours.
There's a shorter gap between these two PS3 exclusive games, one a launch title and one coming out in 2011, but the difference in graphical quality is still there for all to see.
The original was touted as a real graphical tour de force at the time, but in comparison it looks far less detailed.
Also compare it to modern PS3 games like The Last of Us and Beyond: Two Souls, albeit with the latter being heavy on visuals rather than gameplay, and you can see just how much developers have eked out of the PS3's graphics capabilities.
Like with the FIFA comparison, EA Sports certainly found ways to get more objects and better textures in its games over the years.
We're just about to lose Tiger from the front cover and the title for next year's effort, so there's no more fitting time to consider the impact this franchise had made on gaming in general.
The one thing we will say about the 2005 game is that it came out in a much more innocent time in terms of money-making, with a buy and play what you bought model, rather than hoik all manner of paid-for content at you after you've already shelled out close to £40. We can almost put up with trousers that look like they've had too much starch added for that.
Our final example is possibly the one with the least impact as the original 2005 Need for Speed: Most Wanted - not to be confused with the similarly named game that came out at the end of last year - still looks more than half-decent.
Many driving games still look like that today.
But look at the more realistic detail on the cars in the latest entry to the franchise and you can see how much work and effort has gone into even the tiniest factors. It's scary to think how much more advanced car racing games can become if this is the leap in quality using the same hardware in just eight years. We bet there'll still be a Need for Speed game, that's for sure. The brand has now been going for almost 20 years.
To be honest, you can draw your own conclusions really. But when we found our first example in Call of Duty 2, rather than it making us look backwards in horror to what we thought was top-notch, A-one technology at the time, it instead made us look forward, to the potential of the new machines. We can only dream about the possible games that will be served over the coming years. And it has us very excited indeed.


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Teach Our Children Well
By Kathy Knotts
Help wanted: Must love kids, nature and the outdoors. Experience not required. Patience a plus.
Do you have what it takes to tackle the job? If so, Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary wants your help.
This spring, an estimated 1500 students will descend on this county-owned nature preserve in Southern Anne Arundel, and another 800 in the fall. From March to June it becomes an outdoor classroom, teaching the lessons of wetlands, ecology, wildlife and environmental stewardship.
But those lesson plans need help in the form of volunteer teachers to keep reaching these kids—and future generations of scientists, engineers, educators, artists, authors and leaders.
Sarah Kempfer, naturalist and education coordinator at the park, says that it's important to get children outside and interested in nature.
"Our main effort, especially with the younger children, is to just give them a chance to be outside and really immerse themselves in nature."
Kempfer is sounding the call for more volunteer naturalists to help her in this task, teaching children from preschool all the way through high school about our natural environment.
"Our hope, through these field trips, is that kids develop an understanding and an appreciation for nature. That they can translate that into becoming adults who can make decisions for the benefit of the natural environment," she says.
Through these field trips, called Classrooms in the Field, kids are allowed—encouraged, really—to get dirty, get wet and get up close to nature and wildlife. "It's surprising how many of these children don't have a lot of experience being outside," says Kempfer. The field trip experience can lead our next generation to be more inclined to protect and value the natural world, adds Kempfer.
While finding a dedicated volunteer corps isn't a problem Jug Bay typically has—there are around 120 active volunteers currently—it's important to the park to get fresh, new teachers in on the action.
"We are constantly being asked to offer more programs so we'd like to be able to fulfill those requests,' says Kempfer. "But we need more volunteers in order to do that."
Being a nature know-it-all isn't necessary either. All the training is provided and Jug Bay offers up all the 'nature knowledge' required. "It's not as hard as it seems," says Kempfer. "Sometimes people think they have to know everything about the environment – and they really don't, no one knows everything. We encourage the children to be curious and ask questions, but we don't have to have all the answers. It's good for kids to know that adults don't know everything."
Volunteers work in small groups of about 12 to 15 kids a day and guide them on a walk through the sanctuary. They often begin by walking along the boardwalk, looking for signs of animal activity or hunting for tree frogs. Perhaps they stop to look for the osprey nesting along the Patuxent River or discuss the rice paddies or point out the old railroad line that carried Bay-bound visitors from Washington, D.C. to Chesapeake Beach.
An exploration of the forest may include rolling over logs to see what insects are doing. "Some of the kids are squeamish about bugs, worms or frogs, so part of the volunteer's job is to help them have fun and get comfortable with these things. We want them to turn those 'oh, yuck' moments into 'oh, that's interesting' ones," says Kempfer.
A visit to the vernal pools brings a chance to look for frogs, tadpoles and other amphibians. "We also like to get in the water with a net and catch little fish and crawdads," says Kempfer. "And then we also talk about macroinvertebrates – the tiny insect larvae that can tell us so much about water quality. We usually find some cool stuff."
These outdoor adventures offer more than just a day out of the school building—they can offer older students a window into potential careers. Kempfer says she can see how a field trip may inspire jobs in law, science, education, engineering, water quality and more. "We believe in offering quality field trip programs at Jug Bay," she says. "So the older kids get to do more hard science with experiments and water quality testing."
By the end of the day, the lesson Jug Bay hopes to pass along is that everything is connected to nature. "It's all one big web," says Kempfer, "and we are a part of it. The things we do matter. We want children to know they can make a difference in the world, too."
Learn more about becoming a volunteer naturalist at Jug Bay's Open House, Feb. 27 10am-noon, McCann Wetlands Center, 1361 Wrighton Rd., Lothian, rsvp: [email protected]


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Drain the tofu. Wrap in several layers of clean paper towels. Let sit for at least 15 minutes, or up to an hour. If you want the tofu more dry, you can wait it with a plate and a heavy book.
Blend cashews with 1/2 cup water for five minutes. Add the salt, garlic powder, vegetable broth powder, onion powder, nutritional yeast, and turmeric.
Saute the onions, peppers, and chives (all or none) in a little bit of water in a nonstick frying pan. When the onions and peppers are soft, crumble the tofu into the pan. Pour the blended cashew mixtures over the tofu and mix well.
Heat until flavors are blended.
I like to cook it until it's a little dry. I also add a touch of black pepper and double the amount of garlic powder.
Very hearty and enjoyable, paired it with hungry jack hashbrowns you hydrate and cook from a carton, just didn't use the oil to cook them. I had to substitute the cashews for some roasted one due to I have a raw nut allergy, I just soaked the cashews in water to pull out any salt residue and then blended them, what salt was left substituted for the tps. that obmitted and didn't add. This is a very good recipe you can eat when ever you get the hankering for some egg-styled scrambled, two thumbs up!


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Natalie Kleinman
Chatting with Ros Rendle
September 9, 2021 UncategorizedNatalie Kleinman
It's my great pleasure to welcome another Sapere author to the blog. Thank you for joining me, Ros, and for agreeing to answer my questions.
The Warring Heart is the second book after Sisters at War. Did you always plan to write a series and is it something you've done before?
I did. The original series was three books featuring sisters and troubled times during the early 20th century. However, I decided to add to the series with this book set during WW1. I haven't written a series before and nor have I written historical fiction, but I've thoroughly enjoyed the intricacies of linking stories and characters, so I have embarked on another series but set in contemporary times.
I loved the touches where established characters from the first book are subtly included. Was it more difficult to incorporate them or was their familiarity welcome?
Thank you. I was loathe to leave some characters behind. As a writer, I become entwined with the lives of my characters. Since publishing the first book, other people asked what happened to some of them, too. That, in particular, influenced the next book in the series which should be coming out soon. However, in this one it's an opportunity to round off some characters, who did have a happy ending before, but as in life, it's always good to catch up and exchange news. I did have to watch timelines carefully, though.
You display considerable skill at moving your scenes between the relatively quiet life in England and the horrors of the frontline. How did you cope with two such different scenarios?
I wanted to maintain the momentum of characters in geographically different places but who have a deep connection. They each need to concentrate on what they have to do but always they have the other at the back of their mind. In real life we do this all the time, although fortunately for most, the circumstances of our lives are not so dramatic. I tried to show, even during those dire historical times, life for those at home was very dissimilar to those in the trenches but also very difficult and often stressful in a different way.
There is a saying 'less is more', and your battle scenes are gut wrenching but circumscribed. Nevertheless, it is patently evident that a huge amount of research has gone into this part of your work. How did you approach this aspect?
I did do a vast amount of research both geographically and through books and archives. Since we lived in northern France for many years, I have visited the areas of Belgium and France I describe many times and have attended ceremonies at the sites of battles. As a representative of the Royal British Legion, I've attended reburials of soldiers rediscovered during modern-day building works, for example. I've also used books, and documents of the day from Kew Archives Office. I read many reports from soldiers in the trenches but some of their circumstances were too traumatic to detail. I hope I've done justice to their experiences and sacrifices albeit through the medium of a novel.
How many more books do you have planned for this series?
There are three more books to come. Two are set during WW2 – one mainly in France about French resistance and the other featuring a prisoner of war camp built in the UK . They feature children of the characters in the first two books. The third is set before and during the Cold War as well as in the 1970s. The youngest sister from the original story is an old lady but remembers her time travelling to East Berlin after the wall was built. Her story reflects the emotions of her care-giver in a home for the elderly.
I know you write in other genres as well, and in different times. Will you be sticking with WW1 for the time being or are there other ideas in the pipeline?
Other than the books I've mentioned above, I've written three books, accepted but yet to be published and a fourth is coming. They're more contemporary and set in and around a rambling and ancient property called Moondreams House. One is a relationships story around eMotion School of Dance. Another is about a girl who discovers she is a foundling and a woman who had to abandon her baby. Tea and Sweet Dreams is the business established at the House for this one. A third features second time love, an enigmatic French gardener with a secret, and a rural rough sleeper. The most recent one is about a young ex-soldier missing a limb, who must find a new purpose. She comes to Moondreams House to start a flower shop and becomes involved with the meanings of the blooms she is arranging for others.
Readers are a nosy bunch (well I certainly am). What can you tell us about Ros Rendle when she isn't entertaining us with her books?
We love dancing and dog walking although not normally at the same time. We have been caught out practising on a farm track once or twice, however! When we came to live back in the UK, we took up ballroom and Latin dancing. Under normal circumstances we would either have lessons or go to dances two or three times each week. We're getting back into it again now. We met some very good friends through this, and they all said, 'you should write a book about it'. Now I have. Rhythm of Life at Moondreams House was born.
With dogs we walk each day. During the lockdowns we walked the Lincolnshire lanes and tracks and as my husband has health issues it meant we both, but he in particular, lost a lot of weight. He has benefitted directly from this. Having got into the habit we shall endeavour to maintain it. Both daughters and all four granddaughters are encouraging.
We still have a house in France and hope to return at some point. I have a feeling there will be a significant amount of work to be done in the garden and a DIY project to complete.
Thank you, Natalie, for this opportunity. I hope readers find my responses of interest. Your questions certainly got my brain cells working.
Thank you so much for joining me, Ros. I look forward to the next book, and the next, and…
When the man she loves deserts her, young Pretoria Redfern is left broken-hearted. Facing public embarrassment, she must become betrothed to another as quickly as possible to deflect gossip.
To her surprise, family friend Nathanial Moore — a well-off farmer — soon asks for her hand. Harbouring a secret love for Pretoria, he is eager to help protect her from scandal.
Sensing his kindness and honesty, Pretoria accepts his offer and tentatively settles into married life.
But with Britain at war with Germany, the newlyweds' peace is soon disturbed. Feeling duty-bound to serve his country, Nathanial enlists and leaves for the front line in France.
Though not yet in love with her husband, Pretoria is soon missing his warmth and companionship, and longs for his safe return.
But when a shadow from her past reappears, Pretoria must decide where her happiness truly lies…
Will Nathanial survive the war? Will Pretoria learn to open her heart to him?
Or will the distance drive them further apart…?
THE WARRING HEART is a breath-taking romantic military saga set in war-time England and France during World War I.
Website – www.rosrendleauthor.co.uk
Twitter – www.Twitter.com/ros_rendle
Facebook – www.Facebook.com/RosalindRendleAuthor
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4 thoughts on "Chatting with Ros Rendle"
Fascinating piece, thanks for sharing. Good luck Ros with all your books, and all your research and hard work bringing your ideas to life. Lovely book cover. xx
Natalie Kleinman says:
So glad you enjoyed the blog, Jane. It was lovely chatting with Ros xx
It showed. Good luck xx
'Chatting with' is a regular feature on my blog, Jane. It's good to know that you can tell I enjoy it and hopefully my guests do too xx
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A megafire is an extraordinary fire that devastates a large area. They are characterized by their intensity, size, duration, and uncontrollable dimension. There is no precise scientific definition.

Definition
The concept may vary by region or country. In Europe, they are characterized as beginning at 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres), in size, while in the United States and elsewhere, they may be classified beginning at 10,000 hectares (24,710 acres). Another figure used in the United States is .

A recent NASA study expands the megafire definition to include a variety of factors: "Between climate change and almost a century of fire exclusion, forest fires have become more extreme in size, severity, complexity of behavior and resistance to extinction. These fires are commonly referred as megafires and are at the extremes of historical variations."

Using one definition, only 3% of all fires reach "megafire" status, yet they are responsible for more than 50% of burned surfaces on the planet.

In recent years, some fires have burned over a million acres, becoming what has been dubbed as gigafires. These include the Yellowstone Fire in Montana and Idaho that burned 1.58 million acres in 1988; the Taylor Complex in Alaska that burned 1.3 million acres in 2004; the fires that burned 1.5 million acres in Victoria and New South Wales, Australia in 2020; and the August Complex in California in 2020.

A 2022 United Nations report used the term "wildfire" to distinguish "an unusual or extraordinary free-burning vegetation fire which may be started maliciously, accidentally, or through natural means, that negatively influences social, economic, or environmental values". This term was used in contrast to "landscape fire" which describes a natural, more ordinary, less harmful occurrence.

Operation of a megafire
These fires form pyrocumulus and pyro cumulonimbus, clouds which are also named "fire-breathing dragons". They cause giant thunderstorms, which often have little rain but with a strong potential for lightning, which can easily create and spread new fires. These huge fires are so intense that they generate their own weather.

A merger of fires can create a megafire, such as multiple fires during the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season in Australia, where multiple cases of many fires joining into a gigantic blaze were noted.

Causes

A megafire can be caused by various factors, such as high temperatures, drought, human activities, and poor health of forests. Almost all (96%) of the most disastrous 500 megafires in the past decade have occurred during periods of unusual heat and/or drought. The number of uncontrollable megafires is increasing.

Probability
A 2022 United Nations report said that, at the end of the 21st century, the probability of a major wildfire occurring somewhere in the world in any given year—an event "similar to Australia's 2019–2020 Black Summer or the huge Arctic fires in 2020"—will have increased by 31% to 57%.

Historic megafires
Megafires have affected multiple regions around the world, including Amazonia, California, Australia, Siberia, Greenland, Mediterranean Basin and the Congo Basin. They occur on all 6 continents that are permanently inhabited, including areas near the Arctic Circle.

In November 2018, the Camp Fire, a megafire in California, killed 85 people and ravaged .

By early 2019, in the Mediterranean Basin, the countries affected by such fires included Spain, Portugal, Turkey, and Greece.

At the end of 2019, Brazil, Congo, Russia, and the United States had suffered from megafires on a scale described as "unprecedented".

In Australia, during the 2019–20's bushfire season, numerous megafires erupted, with one consuming .

The August Complex Fire in Northern California surpassed one million acres during the 2020 California wildfire season.

In July 2021, the Bootleg Fire in Oregon overran chemical retardant firebreaks set by firefighters. It was so large and hot that it changed the local weather.

See also

 List of largest fires of the 21st century
 Firestorm
 Wildfire
 Fire
 Conflagration
 Firefighting

References

Wildfires


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Prime Minister Vajpayee Congratulates ISKCON Russia
Nov 1, 2001 | Uncategorized, Volume-35 Number-06
August 11, 2001 Indian Prime Minister Atal B. Vajpayee sent the following complimentary message on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of ISKCON in Russia.
"I am pleased to know that the International Society for Krishna Consciousness will be celebrating its thirtieth anniversary in Russia on August 12, which coincides with Krishna Janmastami. Over the last few decades, ISKCON has played an important role in popularizing the noble message of the Gita and the inspiring life of Lord Krishna in many foreign lands. It is a tribute to the resolute spirit of the followers of ISKCON that they have sustained their temple in Russia for so many years. This indeed shows that Krishna's message is eternal and relevant to all people at all time.
"I compliment ISKCON Russia for this achievement. I hope that, in the years to come, it will continue to serve the people of Russia and Lord Krishna with the same fervor as it has done so far. On this occasion, I send my best wishes to the devotees of Lord Krishna in Russia."


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Answering questions about consciousness by modeling perception as covert behavior.
Markkula, G (2015) Answering questions about consciousness by modeling perception as covert behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. 803. ISSN 1664-1078
Two main open questions in current consciousness research concern (i) the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) and (ii) the relationship between neural activity and first-person, subjective experience. Here, possible answers are sketched for both of these, by means of a model-based analysis of what is required for one to admit having a conscious experience. To this end, a model is proposed that allows reasoning, albeit necessarily in a simplistic manner, about all of the so called "easy problems" of consciousness, from discrimination of stimuli to control of behavior and language. First, it is argued that current neuroscientific knowledge supports the view of perception and action selection as two examples of the same basic phenomenon, such that one can meaningfully refer to neuronal activations involved in perception as covert behavior. Building on existing neuroscientific and psychological models, a narrative behavior model is proposed, outlining how the brain selects covert (and sometimes overt) behaviors to construct a complex, multi-level narrative about what it is like to be the individual in question. It is hypothesized that we tend to admit a conscious experience of X if, at the time of judging consciousness, we find ourselves acceptably capable of performing narrative behavior describing X. It is argued that the proposed account reconciles seemingly conflicting empirical results, previously presented as evidence for competing theories of consciousness, and suggests that well-defined, experiment-independent NCCs are unlikely to exist. Finally, an analysis is made of what the modeled narrative behavior machinery is and is not capable of. It is discussed how an organism endowed with such a machinery could, from its first-person perspective, come to adopt notions such as "subjective experience," and of there being "hard problems," and "explanatory gaps" to be addressed in order to understand consciousness.
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Markkula, G
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neural correlates of consciousness, first-person subjective experience, perception, action selection, covert behavior, narrative behavior, heterophenomenology
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