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Pixel Scroll 10/12/19 "Have Fifth, Will Godstalk," Reads The File Of A Man, A Scroll Without Pixels In A Fannish Land
Posted on October 12, 2019 by Mike Glyer
(1) NYRSF READINGS. The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings presents "An Evening of 'Reckoning'" — creative writing on environmental justice – on October 14 with guest curator Michael J. DeLuca, featuring Emily Houk, Yukyan Lam, Krista Hoeppner Leahy, Marissa Lingen, Emery Robin, and Brian Francis Slattery. The event begins at 7:00 p.m. at The Brooklyn Commons Café, 388 Atlantic Avenue (between Hoyt & Bond St.). Full info on Facebook.
Michael J. DeLuca's roots are mycorrhizal with sugar maple and Eastern white pine. He's the publisher of Reckoning, an annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice. His fiction has appeared most recently in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Strangelet and Middle Planet.
Emily Houk's short fiction has appeared previously in Conjunctions, and she has just finished her first novel. She is coeditor of Ninepin Press, and she thrives in the shade of the library stacks of Western Massachusetts.
Yukyan Lam is based in New York, NY, and works for a non-profit on environmental health and social justice. Her scientific writing has appeared in various academic journals. She loves reading and writing creative non-fiction and short stories, and currently serves as a prose editor for Typehouse Literary Magazine. Follow her @yukyan_etc
Krista Hoeppner Leahy is a poet, writer, and actor. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Farrago's Wainscot, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Raritan, Shimmer, Tin House, Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy and elsewhere. Born in Colorado, Krista currently resides in Brooklyn with her family.
Marissa Lingen is a freelance writer living in the suburbs of Minneapolis with two large men and one small dog. Mostly she writes speculative fiction. She has a large collection of foliage-themed jewelry.
Emery Robin is an Oakland-born and New York-based writer, previously published on Tor.com and in Spark: A Creative Anthology. When not busy reading, Emery is interested in propaganda, marginalia, and rock 'n' roll, and can be found on Twitter @ emwrobin .
Brian Francis Slattery is the arts editor and a reporter for the New Haven Independent. He has written four novels and is currently on the writing team of Bookburners, a serial fiction project. He's also a musician and for a week out of every year, lives without electricity.
(2) JUNGLE CRUISE. Andrew Petersen, a student I met at Azusa Pacific University's Yosemite Semester in 2001, achieved his goal of becoming a driver on the Jungle Cruise Ride. If only he hadn't died last year – he would have gotten a kick out of this movie.
Inspired by the famous Disneyland theme park ride, Disney's JUNGLE CRUISE is an adventure-filled, Amazon-jungle expedition starring Dwayne Johnson as the charismatic riverboat captain and Emily Blunt as a determined explorer on a research mission. Also starring in the film are Edgar Ramirez, Jack Whitehall, with Jesse Plemons, and Paul Giamatti. Jaume Collet-Serra is the director and John Davis, John Fox, Dwayne Johnson, Hiram Garcia, Dany Garcia and Beau Flynn are the producers, with Doug Merrifield serving as executive producer. Disney's JUNGLE CRUISE opens in U.S. theaters on July 24, 2020.
(3) PRINCIPLES OF WARFARE. At The Angry Staff Officer, Matthew Ader exercises 20/20 hindsight in "Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory on Wakanda".
Captain Roger's performance at the Battle of Wakanda has been widely and rightly panned. But nothing has been said about the profound failures of his enemy, the Thanosians. Despite every possible advantage in manpower, materiel, and circumstance, they still failed. All students of the military art should examine how they so masterfully snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Terrain Analysis
The Thanosians had complete freedom in the approach to battle. Nevertheless, they committed two grievous and unforced errors. First, they failed to identify the large energy shield protecting Benin Zana and its immediate environs. This information would have been known with even the most cursory reconnaissance. The mistake cost them at least a battalion worth of troops, when their dropship smashed into it. It is generally agreed that losing a sixth of your force before battle commences is a bad thing. ..
(4) KRAMER PLEADS NOT GUILTY. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports "Judge, others charged in Gwinnett hacking case enter not guilty pleas".
All four defendants charged in Gwinnett County's convoluted courthouse hacking saga entered not guilty pleas Thursday afternoon.
Each of the defendants — including sitting Superior Court Judge Kathryn Schrader and DragonCon co-founder Ed Kramer — were present for a brief arraignment hearing, scattered across the courtroom gallery as attorneys spoke on their behalf. Their not guilty pleas mean the case against them will move forward. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for Nov. 7….
(5) IMPERIAL SPONGEBOB. Holly M. Barker's article for The Contemporary Pacific, "Unsettling SpongeBob and the Legacies of Violence on Bikini Bottom", asserts the cartoon series normalizes an array or moral and ethical problems. Most of the piece is behind a paywall. Here is the abstract:
Billions of people around the globe are well-acquainted with SpongeBob Squarepants and the antics of the title character and his friends on Bikini Bottom. By the same token, there is an absence of public discourse about the whitewashing of violent American military activities through SpongeBob's occupation and reclaiming of the bottom of Bikini Atoll's lagoon. SpongeBob Squarepants and his friends play a role in normalizing the settler colonial takings of Indigenous lands while erasing the ancestral Bikinian people from their nonfictional homeland. This article exposes the complicity of popular culture in maintaining American military hegemonies in Oceania while amplifying the enduring indigeneity (Kauanui 2016) of the Marshallese people, who maintain deeply spiritual and historical connections to land—even land they cannot occupy due to residual radiation contamination from US nuclear weapons testing—through a range of cultural practices, including language, song, and weaving. This article also considers the gendered violence of nuclear colonialism and the resilience of Marshallese women.
Campus Reform's post "Prof: SpongeBob perpetuates 'violent, racist' acts against indigenous people" elaborates on some of the issues, for example:
… While Barker admits that the show's creators likely did not have "U.S. colonialism" in mind while developing the cartoon, she calls it "disturbing" that they did not realize that "Bikini Bottom and Bikini Atoll were not theirs for the taking." Consequently, Barker suggests that "millions of children" have "become acculturated to an ideology that includes the US character SpongeBob residing on another people's homeland."
In this way, colonialism is supposedly "produced, reproduced, and normalized" through the cartoon
As if fictionally "occupying" nonfictional land was not enough, Barker also accuses the cartoon of being biased against women.
The professor complains that "all of the main characters on the show are male," except for Sandy Cheeks the squirrel, whom she suggests was only created in order to boost the gender diversity of the show.
"The name 'Bob' represents the everyday man, a common American male, much like a 'Joe,'" Barker observes, concluding that "our gaze into the world of Bikini Bottom, as well as the surface of Bikini, is thus filtered through the activities of men."
Barker concludes her article by insisting that even though SpongeBob's writers likely did not mean "to infuse a children's show with racist, violent colonial practices," the show is part of a larger issue, an "insidious practice of disappearing Indigenous communities."
(6) DANIUS OBIT. Sara Danius has died due to breast cancer. She was the permanent secretary for the Swedish Academy during the MeToo era and who was forced out from it due to her determination to get rid of its toxic patriarchal working culture. She was 57 years old. (Swedish language news article here.)
October 12, 1987 — Ultraman: The Adventure Begins. This Japanese animated film stars the English voice lead talents of Adrienne Barbeau and Stacy Keach. Jr.
Born October 12, 1875 — Aleister Crowley. Genre writer? You decide. But I've no doubt that he had a great influence upon the genre as I'm betting many of you can note works in which he figures. One of the earliest such cases is Land of Mist, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle which was published in 1926. (Died 1947.)
Born October 12, 1903 — Josephine Hutchinson. She was Elsa von Frankenstein with Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff in Son of Frankenstein. She was in "I Sing the Body Electric", The Twilight Zone episode written by Bradbury that he turned into a short story. (Died 1998.)
Born October 12, 1904 — Lester Dent. Pulp-fiction author who was best known as the creator and main author of the series of novels chronicling Doc Savage. Of the one hundred and eighty-one Doc Savage novels published by Street and Smith, one hundred and seventy-nine were credited to Kenneth Robeson; and all but twenty were written by Dent. (Died 1959.)
Born October 12, 1916 — Lock Martin. His claim to fame was that he was one of the tallest humans that ever lived. At seven feet and seven inches (though this was dispute by some), he was also quite stocky. He had the distinction of playing Gort in The Day The Earth Stood Still. He was also in The Incredible Shrinking Man as a giant, but his scenes were deleted. And he shows up in Invaders from Mars as the Mutant carrying David to the Intelligence though he goes uncredited in the film. (Died 1959.)
Born October 12, 1924 — Randy Stuart. She's best remembered as Louise Carey, the wife of Scott Carey, in The Incredible Shrinking Man. She was also Frances Hiller in "Anniversary of a Murder" on One Step Beyond which conceived as a companion series to the Twilight Zone. (Died 1996.)
Born October 12, 1942 — Daliah Lavi. She's in Casino Royale as The Detainer, a secret agent. In the same year, she was in Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon as Madelaine. She was Purificata in The Demon, an Italian horror film. If you're into German popular music, you might recognize her as she was successful there in Seventies and Eighties. (Died 2017.)
Born October 12, 1943 — Linda Shaye, 76. She's been an actress for over forty years and has appeared in over ninety films, mostly horror. Among them is A Nightmare on Elm Street, Critters, Insidious, Dead End, 2001 Maniacs and its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, Amityville: A New Generation, Ouija, and its prequel Ouija: Origin of Evil. She even appeared in The Running Man as a Propaganda Officer
Born October 12, 1965 — Dan Abnett, 54. His earlier work was actually on Doctor Who Magazine, but I'll single out his co-writing Guardians of the Galaxy #1–6 with Andy Lanning, The Authority: Rule Britannia and his Border Princes novel he did in the Torchwood universe as great looks at him as a writer.
Born October 12, 1968 — Hugh Jackman, 51. Obviously Wolverine in the Marvel film franchise. He's also been the lead character in Van Helsing as well as voicing him in the animated prequel Van Helsing: The London Assignment. One of his most charming roles was voicing The Easter Bunny in The Rise of The Guardians. And he played Robert Angier in The Prestige based off the novel written by the real Christopher Priest.
Rich Horton says about today's Dilbert: "I don't know if Scott Adams nicked this idea from Fred Pohl or Greg Egan or someone else, but I think of Daniel Galouye's Simulacron-3 (filmed as The Thirteenth Floor)."
(10) THE ANSWER IS. Heather Rose Jones replies to the latest question on the Alpennia FAQ: "Are the Alpennia books historical?"
The setting deviates from real-world history in two major ways. Magic exists. And the country of Alpennia does not correspond to any real-world place or nation…. [More at the link.]
(11) WITH RESERVATIONS. CNET: "Addams Family fans can book 'creepy, kooky' night in replica mansion". The "mansion" is in Brooklyn. Tagline: "Booking.com is offering a scary stay. Get a witch's shawl on and a broomstick you can crawl on."
…The exterior of Booking.com's Addams Family mansion doesn't look spooky, but the inside makes up for it.
The [3700 square foot] mansion rents for just $101.10 per night, but not everyone interested will get in. [It will be available for only four one-night bookings starting the 29th of this month.] Mark your calendars now if you want to try to be one of the lucky ones. Bookings open on Oct. 28 at 9 a.m. PT, and they'll probably disappear as fast as you can snap your fingers.
(12) KINGS AND MONSTERS. LitHub learns from Joe Hill, "When Stephen King is Your Father, the World is Full of Monsters".
We had a new monster every night.
I had this book I loved, Bring on the Bad Guys. It was a big, chunky paperback collection of comic-book stories, and as you might guess from the title, it wasn't much concerned with heroes. It was instead an anthology of tales about the worst of the worst, vile psychopaths with names like The Abomination and faces to match.
My dad had to read that book to me every night. He didn't have a choice. It was one of these Scheherazade-type deals. If he didn't read to me, I wouldn't stay in bed. I'd slip out from under my Empire Strikes Back quilt and roam the house in my Spider-Man Underoos, soggy thumb in my mouth and my filthy comfort blanket tossed over one shoulder. I could roam all night if the mood took me. My father had to keep reading until my eyes were barely open, and even then, he could only escape by saying he was going to step out for a smoke and he'd be right back.
(13) THOUGHT YOU SHOULD KNOW. Behind a paywall at The Wall Street Journal: "Streaming Is Killing Physical Media. Here's Why You Won't Miss It ". Tagline: "With Samsung's decision to stop making Blu-ray players, now even discs are going extinct. One writer reminisces about all we'll lose. Another looks forward to an all-digital future."
(14) FUTURIUM. Aa "house of futures" museum opened in Berlin last month called the Futurium, and their website is futurium.de. The home site is in German, however, they also offer an English language version.
Futurium celebrated its opening on 05 September 2019. Since then, the interest in the house of futures has exceeded all expectations. In the first month, 100,000 visitors already came to Futurium and devoted themselves to the question: How do we want to live?
Guten Morgen!??Und willkommen zum Abschlusstag unseres "Fest der Zukünfte". #futuriumnow pic.twitter.com/HSqc34KyLB
— Futurium (@FuturiumD) September 8, 2019
(15) NOSFERATU. [Item by Steve Vertlieb.] Every generation has its incarnation of the vampire mythos – Dark Shadows, Twilight, True Blood, and more. But it all cinematically began with F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent movie masterpiece Nosferatu. Ninety-four years after its inception, North Hollywood's Crown City Theater Company unleashed an astonishing live stage presentation entitled Nosferatu: A Symphony in Terror. In "Nosferatu", film historian Steve Vertlieb takes us aboard a dark yet wonderful cinematic time machine, delving into the creation of Murnau's seminal horror film, examining it's influence on generations (from Lugosi and Lee, to Salem's Lot, Harry Potter and more), then reviews the startling stage presentation from a few years ago.
(16) ONE LESS BRICK IN THE WALL. CNN says "You can feel good about ditching your LEGO bricks thanks to this new program".
…Gather the LEGO bricks, sets or elements that you want to part with; put them in a cardboard box; and print out a free shipping label from the LEGO Replay website. At the Give Back Box facility, they'll be sorted, inspected and cleaned.
"We know people don't throw away their LEGO bricks," Tim Brooks, vice president of environmental responsibility at the LEGO Group, said in a Tuesday news release. "The vast majority hand them down to their children or grandchildren. But others have asked us for a safe way to dispose of or to donate their bricks. With Replay, they have an easy option that's both sustainable and socially impactful."
(17) MUSHROOM MANAGEMENT. Car ownership and use are dropping, so they're "Turning Paris's underground car parks into mushrooms farms" – the BBC has video.
What do you do with an old car park that no-one wants to park in? Why not use them to grow mushrooms – or even salad?
Paris built too many underground car parks in the 1960s and 70s. Falling car ownership means many are standing empty, or finding new and surprising uses.
(18) VIDEO OF THE DAY. In "Lauren Gunderson Is Taking On J.M. Barrie" on YouTube, Lauren Gunderson discusses her adaptation of Peter Pan, which will be produced by the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington in December.
[Thanks to Nancy Collins, Andrew Porter, Michael Toman, Mike Kennedy, Martin Morse Wooster, Chip Hitchcock, JJ, John King Tarpinian, Karl-Johan Norén, Steve Vertlieb, and Cat Eldridge for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Anne Sheller.]
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65 thoughts on "Pixel Scroll 10/12/19 "Have Fifth, Will Godstalk," Reads The File Of A Man, A Scroll Without Pixels In A Fannish Land"
John A Arkansawyer on October 15, 2019 at 4:57 am said:
@Cliff: I've been precious before–I wouldn't open for Flat Duo Jets because they had a major label contract–so I sympathize. I bet just putting the story above a city and a large lighted area would've satisfied them.
I'm pretty bummed that, just when I've finally found people to play with, it'll take $75 or more just to have my Musicmaster Bass looked at for that buzz. I've had it for forty years and traded three good records–two of which I no longer own–to get it. I may have to relearn electronics in self-defense.
Cliff on October 15, 2019 at 5:23 am said:
Oh, that sucks about your bass. Good luck fixing it. I tried taking a soldering iron to the innards of one of my guitars. Never again!
What kind of stuff do you play?
Mike on October 15, 2019 at 7:21 am said:
@bill: as regards the archival quality of LPs, I can agree in theory but in practice have to go along with Xtifr's comments. I played my LPs a lot and boy did it show in the eventual degradation of the recorded sound. I have only one CD that no longer plays but I accept that they are nothing like as durable as was originally advertised. However, we can easily make exact duplicates of the files before this happens – not just mp3s of course – and the music just becomes another set of data to be safely backed up (with the advantage that, unlike, say, my photos, if I screw up the back ups I still have the physical copies to fall back on – unless the house burns down of course, which is why one has off site back up files).
As for the different qualities of digital and analog recordings, declining hearing as one ages pretty much means that I can no longer detect any difference. Given the pretty much universal movement of music reproduction to low-fi, hearing loss is not totally disadvantageous.
Chip Hitchcock on October 15, 2019 at 9:35 am said:
@John A. Arkansawyer: it sounds like you're talking about the advantage of tubes in PA amps, not hi-fi. I played bass for only a few years (before realizing I didn't have the background to be good at it) so never got entangled in gear debates, but I've heard lots about uses with electronic instruments; I've also heard hi-fi fans speaking of a "warmer" sound when the amp is supposed to be simply a medium rather than a part of the instrument.
John A Arkansawyer on October 15, 2019 at 11:56 am said:
@Cliff: I was ambiguous, wasn't I? It's a Fender Musicmaster Bass amp. I also have a buzz in my Rick. I'm willing to tear into it if need be–I've done the same on my best friend's Rick and lived to tell the tale–but the amp scares me. Anything running on 110/120 wall current scares me.
I haven't played much in years, but in 1980, I was in a band that played not one but three Lou Reed songs, if that gives you some idea. And "Stealin'" by Uriah Heep and "Nature's Way" by Spirit. So non-hits of the sixties and seventies? The last band I was in did a lightly-ska-ified version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". That sort of thing.
Right now, I'm wanting to accompany myself solo singing "Tower of Song". Love the song, hate the Casio, want to give it a latin feel by playing the backing singers' part.
God, I'm a weirdo.
bill on October 15, 2019 at 7:35 pm said:
WRT to the audio quality of digital vs analog, solid state vs tube amps, etc. I used to worry about those details. Then, as part of my electrical engineering curriculum, I took an elective that included speaker design and analysis of other audio components. It turns out that the distortions created by these features in a moderately well-designed system are on the order of 0.1 to 1.0%. They are real, and they can be detected on good equipment. But the distortions created by good quality speakers is on the order of 1.0 to 10%, good quality headphones a little less. So the distortions created by even crappy electronics are negligible once they go through your speakers, even if they are high-quality speakers. The rule of thumb, spend half your money on speakers, was created with this in mind, and realistically half isn't enough if you are optimizing for distortion.
This is not to say that you can't hear the difference between a good tube amp and a good solid-state amp. You may well be able to, and you may prefer the sound of a tube amp. That is your privilege — you like what you like. But it isn't really justifiable to say that the sound coming out of speakers driven by tube amp is objectively "better" than the sound coming out of speakers driven by a solid-state amp; all the measurable distortion at that point comes from the speakers themselves. The errors introduced by the speakers dominate everything.
30 or so years ago, I had a friend who used a betamax video recorder for audio purposes. He had done the analysis, and the THD, the wow/flutter, etc. were better than everything he could get except CD's, and they weren't too shabby compared to that. But blank betamax tapes were cheap (they were in the process of losing the VCR wars to VHS, despite having better technical specs), and he could record 6 hours at a whack, which tipped the scales in his mind.
@Mike — I agree that in principle, digital files don't degrade over time or with use. But practically speaking, digital files have a half-life just like analog media do. Nearly all of the digital files I have accumulated from the last year, I still have. The ones from five years ago, I still have most of them. From 10 years ago, it starts being less certain, and from 20 years ago, I don't have most of them. To keep a long term digital library requires a certain amount of scheduled maintenance, file duplicating, organized hardware and software back up protocols, off-site storage, etc. If you put the same effort and attention into maintaining a vinyl LP library, you will be able to keep it about as well (and by effort and attention, I mean using quality needles and turntables, keeping the discs in high quality sleeves, cleaning the discs when appropriate, etc.)
Chip Hitchcock on October 15, 2019 at 7:57 pm said:
@bill — as a former audiophile and radio engineer, ISTM that all of the steps you describe for preserving LPs require manual labor on a continuing basis (not to mention the difficulty of merely not damaging the discs for those of us with sub-average dexterity); the steps you list for digital data should be largely automatable with current tech (as I understand it — I'm grievously careless about protecting data on my home systems). I'll note that by simple sneakernet (over 3 jobs), I still have all the interesting data that I had on work systems as much as 40 years ago; dealing with it on a PC will be a pain, but that's because PC OSs think they know how you should do things.
Cliff on October 16, 2019 at 12:54 am said:
@John – very cool. I confess I haven't heard of any of those songs! But hopefully you'll be back out playing now you've found a new group of people to play with?
I did wonder at first whether you meant a bass amp, and then somehow convinced myself otherwise. I started out with a Rickenbacker bass myself (was a big fan of Rush) but switched to guitar after two or three years.
@Bill – I've heard the same thing said of guitar rigs. Even when the desire is to overdrive an amp to provide sustain and a clipped signal, the speaker still plays a large part in shaping the overall sound.
@Cliff: It's understandable confusion. Fender made a Musicmaster Bass, Guitar, and Bass amp. I never think of the Bass, because I've never knowingly seen one.
I do plan to start playing with people again. I've had such a hard time meeting folks in Little Rock. I have work friends, church friends, and bus friends, but hardly any of them are friends outside those contexts. And then the damnedest thing happened this weekend at church!
We (the choir) sang for a memorial service of an elderly member who'd moved here recently to be with her sons. After the service, a guy approached me and called me by a family name I thought no one in Little Rock knew! It was briefly unsettling, like the first time I was called by my punk rock name by a co-worker when I was a Wl-Mrt vendor.
After I closed my mouth and looked closely, I realized it was my ex-cousin-in-law! I seldom see him since the divorce. I like him a lot, but it was a contentious breakup, and the kids have lives that take them other places, so we've drifted apart. It turned out he was friends with one of the woman's sons.
And then it turned out that so were two musicians I'd known back in the day (as had the kid's mom)–like a quarter-century ago–in Fayetteville, who were also in attendance. So I got to talk with old friends, which led to deeper conversations with the sons than I normally might've had. One of the sons plays in bands locally.
And we're getting together to jam at our earliest opportunity.
It felt a little odd, because I've missed four memorial services in the last year I should've been at, two people who wrote for me, a fellow musician, and a dear member of the church. One death I didn't know about until literally the day of the service three hours away, so I give myself a pass there, but about the other three, I felt like a shitty person.
So it felt a little wrong that I was being rewarded for showing up to sing for a woman I liked but hardly knew. I know it's just chance, but that's not how I perceive it. On the other hand, I did do the right thing by showing up, so maybe I should just look at this as a fresh start. That's the meaning I'll try to impose on this chaos.
I was at a memorial service for my auntie recently. Not being a church-goer, I surprised to see so many members of the congregation there to sing who weren't family, and I thought it a really decent gesture on their behalf.
At any rate, it sounds to me that what happened to you is a good thing.
@John A Arkansawyer: I've heard it said that half of life is just showing up; sometimes that's true.
@Chip Hitchcock
I don't see the steps required as anything close to "manual labor" (for me, manual labor involves lifting heavy things, exertion, etc.). To play an LP at all, you take it out of the sleeve/jacket, place it on the turntable, listen, and replace it. The only additional step I outlined above would be to replace at purchase the factory paper sleeve with a better one, and occasionally run a cleaning brush over the surface of the record after you've placed it on the turntable; everything else is just being careful, which I've always done anyway. (My high school job was working in a used record store, so these steps come naturally to me.)
CD's also require care — keep them in the jewel boxes, handle by the edges, etc. But even so, sometimes they just die. At least, vinyl doesn't do that.
Keeping a digital library alive at a minimum means moving everything from one storage device to another at regular intervals (which should be less than the life of the device hosting them — I hope you estimate that correctly!) I upgrade laptops every few years, and the most cumbersome part of the process is moving 100's of GB of files from the old to the new.
It may be that your practice is automated in some way; you may have software that dumps your computer to auxiliary storage on a regular basis, and you upgrade/replace those hard drives regularly (or you subscribe to an online/cloud equivalent). If that is part of your routine, you may not see that as "extra effort" but rather as simply how one manages a digital lifestyle. Likewise, I don't see the steps involved in maintaining a vinyl collection as burdensome; they are just part and parcel of having and playing the records.
My point is that if all you do is acquire the music, and then do nothing else, someday you won't have it. regardless of the medium on which the music exists. The albums may wear out and become scratchy, or the device the files live on may crash (or the service from which you "license" them may go away). I don't see the level of effort involved with vinyl vs. digital as being significantly different from each other. It is more an attitude of "I will maintain this music", and once you've made that step, the actual work is not too onerous
Xtifr on October 17, 2019 at 2:43 am said:
@bill: I can't put my financial records on vinyl. I can't put precious family photos on vinyl. The last pictures I took of my mother aren't on vinyl. I can't put my books on vinyl. I can't even put all my music on vinyl: jam sessions with friends, or just recordings of friends' bands. I have no way to get that on vinyl. All that stuff is on my computer, and is precious, and much of it is irreplaceable–unlike pretty much anything I've ever owned on vinyl.
So keeping my data safe and backed up is already a top priority, and tossing the rest of my music into that mix is trivial. Easier than not, in fact. And thumb drives are dirt cheap these days. No reason not to make multiple backups. Regularly.
But if you're already backing up your data–all your data–then the steps involved in taking care of a collection of vinyl is always extra work.
That said, if you love taking care of vinyl–and it sounds like that's the case–then you should absolutely take care of your vinyl, and revel in every moment of it. Life's too short to skip the simple pleasures. 🙂
Chip Hitchcock on October 17, 2019 at 10:51 am said:
@bill: s/manual labor/exercises of dexterity/, if you must. And while I've only had one CD die (it was relatively new, made by an amateur, and possibly mistreated), vinyl dies by inches. As @Xtifr says, you do you — but don't think your solution wins for the rest of us.
The only solution I've offered is take care of your stuff, which applies generally.


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Satellite builder Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), owned by Maxar Technologies and its CEO Howard Lance, has confirmed that he has "a number of prospective buyers" in discussion to acquire SS/L's Palo Alto, California production facility.
Lance was speaking during Maxar's quarterly earnings statement where he reported that overall combined earnings for Maxar's Space Division were down 12 per cent for the three months that closed on September 30th, a $263 million (€231m) revenue fall has been experienced.
Maxar's y-o-y revenues declined 10 per cent to $886 million when compared to the firm's financials for the first nine months of 2017 — the GEO satellite business – now up for sale – is seen as a significant financial encumbrance, resulting in negative profit margins for the parent company's overall revenue picture, according to Lance.
SS/L financial slump — the company is down 31 per cent in revenues y-o-y — is that components for the firm's GEO satellites have been found to be highly problematic, with defective parts from an unnamed supplier having to be replaced and reintroduced into production cycles, thereby increasing costs and pulling profits down. Satellite completion times have increased and, as revenues have fallen, so has the workforce at SSL, with the necessary layoffs additionally impacting overall company productivity and delaying manufacturing activities.
SS/L's prospects are also not helped by a shortage of industry orders, not just for SS/L but the industry in general. The Spacecom cancellation of its Amos-8 satellite contract with SS/L was an additional concern for Maxar, leaving SSL with but a single order for the remainder of 2018, that being for Japanese operator BSAT.
Lance confirmed that Maxar's core business was solid, if GEO satellites were removed from the portfolio. Maxar has carved out a useful niche for itself in the small-sat market. NASA showing great interest in small-sat development, the agency selected Maxar as one of three firms to engage in such work, receiving a contract that is estimated to be worth $750 million. Another opportunity for Maxar rests with the $3 billion estimated value of a Telesat constellation contract and has teamed with Thales Alenia Space as the companies compete against Airbus to develop a complete plan for such a project. A decision on the final contract is expected to be announced in 2019. The Telesat constellation will comprise 300 satellites when fully executed, with the initial contract either for the entire constellation or a few initial smallsats.
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The Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) and the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) have teamed up to sell commissary gift cards at a NEX near you. Monday, June 4, marked the official launch of commissary gift cards at 43 NEX locations.
Retired Rear Adm. Robert J. Bianchi, chief executive officer, NEXCOM, and interim director and CEO, DeCA, announced this collaboration and participated in joint launch event on June 4 at the NEX on Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia.
The commissary gift card can be loaded with an amount range of $5-$300. These gift cards will be located at NEX registers at the front of the stores.
Note: To see a video related to the sale of commissary gift cards at Navy Exchanges, visit Facebook.


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Q: Effective way to perform image processing algorithms over Texture2D I have a situation where I need to apply some algorithm to my texture every time it's rotated.
My question is - what is the best approach to apply an image processing algorithms within XNA?
Now the texture is a RenderTarget2D and the algorithm performs some operation with it's pixels and sets them back to the RenderTarget2D. This approach causes termination of my app and it's performance is very bad.
I searched through the stackoverflow but have no found anything relevant to the subject.
I also read this article http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2008/04/14/stalling-the-pipeline.aspx and understand how bad my approach is.

A: Depending on the operations that you may require, then doing them through an HLSL shader would be a very good idea.
Shaders are really the right choice because you can take advantage of the multiple cores the GPU has AND you don't need to resolve the data in the rendertarget; the data gets process on its way to the screen without causing any stalling.

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The name of the 16-year-old girl, who is from Tokyo, is being withheld because she is a minor.
Seriously? So she can commit violent crimes (or help in some way), be a fugitive along with 3 older and horrible girls, but they're gonna treat her like a child? She made the conscious decision to go along with them to do what they were going to do.
While I don't have the inside information, I seriously doubt that the intention behind not releasing the name of a minor is not to assist them in committing violent crimes.
they're gonna treat her like a child?
Well yes, she's a child.
She made the conscious decision to go along with them to do what they were going to do.
Which is why she will be punished. Just not as an adult, since she's not.
The others were two dudes and one girl.
Adolescent. Unless you are the type that considers anyone much younger than you as a child.
So why are they suspects?
What will it take for an "under-aged" person to be charged as an adult? Because I've read some gruesome and muderous things people under the age of 21 have done but escape through the backdoor because "in the eyes of the law, they're seen as children!"


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CID Probe Points to Ekneligoda Being Killed
Believed to have been killed in Manampitiya transit camp run by Pilleyan; Body dumped in sea off Trincomalee;Made to disappear on orders of high ranking individual in defence establishment.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers conducting investigations into the disappearance of journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda have unearthed evidence to suggest that he may have been killed and dumped in the seas off Trincomalee. Police said Ekneligoda may have been taken to a camp in Soriwila in the Manampitiya area before being murdered and dumped in the sea off Trincomalee. According to sources, one of the suspects under arrest in connection with the case has said that Ekneligoda's body was first buried in Soriwila.
"The CID teams handling investigations found information to suggest that Eknaligoda's body had later surfaced due to the flooding of the pit and following this, the body had been removed from the site and had been dumped into the sea," a highly placed Police source told the Daily News.
Investigations revealed that Ekneligoda was abducted in 2010 by two Army Intelligence Division Officers, who are already in CID custody.
Sources revealed that the two Intelligence Officers were former LTTE members belonging to the Karuna faction.
It is believed that Ekneligoda may have been killed in a transit camp at Mannampitiya which was under control of Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman and Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pilleyan.
At that time Pilleyan had acted as the officer in charge of the camp.
Meanwhile, information has surfaced that Ekneligoda's disappearance was due to direct orders by a high ranking individual in the defence establishment during the time of the previous regime. Eknaligoda was abducted two days before the Presidential election in 2010.
At present, 11 suspects including several Army Officers are still in CID custody and investigations are ongoing.
The CID teams took the suspects to the Girithale Army camp last week, under the protection of the Military Police, to identify places where the abducted journalist was allegedly kept.
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About 757,000 immigrants took U.S. citizenship in 2012, a 9 percent increase from the year before. As of 2012, 46 percent of the nation's 40.8 million immigrants were naturalized Americans. This article examines the latest naturalization data available for the United States, including historical trends, data by country of origin and state of residence, as well as socioeconomic characteristics of the 18.7 million naturalized U.S. citizens residing in the United States in 2012.
As Immigration Reform Stalls in Congress, Activists Take a Page from the Civil-Rights Movement
While budget issues and the debt ceiling dominated the congressional agenda and public attention last week, thousands of activists in Washington were stepping up civil disobedience and mobilization tactics to pressure lawmakers into voting to overhaul the nation's immigration system. This article explores this growing trend and its possible implications for immigration reform in the 113th Congress. It also provides an update on other national, state, and local developments in immigration policy.
The High-Level Dialogue: Sizing up Outcomes, Implications, and Future Forms of Engagement on Migration and Development
The recent special session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, labeled the High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (HLD), was the UN's second-ever discussion devoted solely to international migration. This article examines the implications and outcomes of the HLD, identifies some of the issues that garnered widespread support, and assesses whether the international community is inching toward greater multilateral engagement on migration.
Mapping West Africa's Migration and Land-Management Crisis
Land is the basis of nearly all economic activities from farming to financial speculation on cotton production — in and along the periphery of an internationally protected park that spans parts of Benin, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Recognized as the "W" Transboundary Biosphere Reserve in 2002, this vast territory and surrounding areas are experiencing a land-management crisis in which seasonal and long-term migration has played a major role. This article examines these challenges through the use of reflexive maps, which capture data relating not only to migrants' paths and motivations, but also the social values and knowledge that they carry with them.
Immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region residing in the United States are part of a migration flow that dates back several decades. The highly diverse MENA immigrant population has grown from about 50,000 in 1920 to nearly 961,000 in 2012. This article examines the latest data on immigrants from the MENA region in the United States, including population size, geographic distribution, admission categories, and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
Globalization Transforms Trade-Migration Equation
Goods are passing through international borders with increasing ease, but people are not. Charles B. Keely of Georgetown University examines how this contradiction is hindering global flows of high-skilled workers
After Protests, France's Undocumented Community Hopes for Permits
In the wake of mass protests by their community and supporters, tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants in France are awaiting word on their applications for legal residency. Sylvia Zappi, of Le Monde, describes the current situation.
Refugees: Risks and Challenges Worldwide
The term "refugee," like the people it describes, can cover a lot of ground. Sharon Stanton Russell, Research Scholar at MIT, maps out out who qualifies for refugee status, as well as the most pressing issues facing the community of institutions tasked to protect them.


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Vancouver company's social network for condos, Bazinga, moving into Tridel homes
Michael Oliveira, The Canadian Press 06.25.2014
Bazinga is a little like Facebook — allowing condo residents to chat with each other and building staff.
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TORONTO - A Vancouver company is hoping condo-dwelling Canadians have room for one more social network in their lives.
On Wednesday, the company Bazinga announced it has inked a deal with Canada's largest condo developer, Tridel, to integrate its social media platform into the real estate company's new and existing projects.
Bazinga is a little like Facebook — allowing residents to chat with each other and building staff — and also lets users book amenities, access important documents, and receive news about their community.
"Think of it as your building's (Facebook) wall but it's very interactive," says Bazinga founder Joseph Nakhla.
"You can post things, there's alerts — like keep an eye open on this issue, did anyone lose a bag, is anyone looking for a car pool partner — information on nearby businesses. It's very specific conversations that are occurring on the platform, what differentiates it from other platforms is there's heavy utility in there.
"And it's private, it's secure, it has only the people who are owners or tenants, there's no such thing as an anonymous presence on the platform."
Before the Tridel contract, Bazinga was connected to more than 500 buildings, says Nakhla, noting that the social platform is also being used by builders of subdivisions and gated communities.
Securing the deal with Tridel, which he called "a blue-chip brand," is a huge win for the company as it works to expand the concept not just in Canada, but in the U.S. and abroad.
"The No. 1 thing is validation," he says. "And it gives us access to essentially the largest community developer moving forward in the country, which increases our home portfolio."
Developers are excited about the ability to start communicating online with homeowners before their building is even built, Nakhla says. Digital tools include an app to manage the pre-delivery inspection process on a mobile device.
Developers of new buildings pay a licensing fee to implement Bazinga up front, while existing properties that want the service will have the cost paid by the property management company or maintenance fees.
Nakhla says Bazinga costs no more than $2 per user per month, which he says compares well against the typical costs for photocopying and postage that condo boards pay.
"Just eliminating paper and photocopying and postage costs you pretty much save money," he argues.
"We're all about suppressing paper and killing that cost out of everyone's budget."
Nakhla says he eventually wants Bazinga to be free and monetized by selling other services on the platform. He imagines integrating the offerings of other companies — like insurance brokers, for example— into the website and taking a commission when users pay for services within Bazinga.
As for the social network's name, Nakhla says it is a nod to the "Big Bang Theory" catchphrase popularized by the character Sheldon Cooper and notes that it was legally cleared.
"We have an agreement with the show, we're not stepping on their toes and vice versa."


Violet Mbewe, m2m coordinator at Malingunde Health Center in Malawi mentors HIV positive mothers to help them start healthy families. Violet became part of m2m when she tested HIV positive and was not getting the information she needed.
In sub-Saharan Africa, countries have made tremendous strides towards the elimination of pediatric AIDS, tackling complex challenges such as the availability of health care services for HIV-positive pregnant women and persistent stigma and discrimination to reduce the number of preventable infant HIV infections. Founded in 2001, mothers2mothers (m2m) works to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding by providing education and support to local mothers living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
This year (2016) marks a decade of Johnson & Johnson partnership with mothers2mothers. The work over the past ten years has reached 1.3 million women in 9 countries with counseling and services.
The innovative and successful mothers2mothers Mentor Mother model is aimed at empowering HIV-positive women to serve as mentors and as resources to other HIV-positive women in their communities. Through its embedded community efforts that provide peer education and psychosocial support to HIV-positive pregnant women and new mothers, the Mentor Mothers program has proven effective in helping women access medical interventions that significantly reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, supporting them to lead healthy lives.
In Uganda, m2m's programs have contributed to large reductions in mother-to-child HIV transmission rates and provide a significant return on investment: US$11.40 is saved through averted HIV treatment with every US$1 spent on m2m's Mentor Mother program.
m2m also developed the Electronic Client Appointment Diary for m2m's facility-based services in 2014.
This new digital platform has been rolled out to all 82 m2m supported health facilities in South Africa. Working with partners such as Comic Relief and USAID, efforts are currently underway to scale the program to 100+ additional sites in 2016 across five countries: Swaziland, Lesotho, Malawi, Kenya and Uganda.
The UN Global Plan, in 2014, recognized m2m's monumental achievement of the successful elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV among m2m clients in the targeted countries. With continued support from Johnson & Johnson, this success has the potential to spread to more countries to eliminate the threat of HIV and AIDS to mothers and children worldwide.


In 1980 Faroe Islands issued its second set of Europa stamps engraved by Czeslaw Slania. the first being in 1979. The 1979 set was dealt with in a previous blog. Click HERE to read. The subject of the 1980 Europa set is famous Faroese people. This set was issued 6 October 1980.
Dr Jakob Jakobsen was born 22 February 1864 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. He is the first Faroe Islander to earn a doctoral degree in literature. His work focused on Faroese folktales and oral poetry. He believed that these stories were an important source for studying Faroese history.
Venzel Ulrich Hammershaimb was born 25 March 1819 in Sandavágur, Faroe Islands. He was a Faroese language and folklore researcher. He was also a Lutheran pastor.
Both portraits have been engraved with Slania's usual extreme attention to detail. The skin is alive and full of texture. The eyes of both men are so captivating and lifelike, one expects them to perhaps turn our way and give us a wink.


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Fulham defender Alfie Mawson has surgery on knee
last updated Wednesday 28th October 2020, 9:13 PM
Fulham defender Alfie Mawson on loan at Bristol City has had to have surgery on his knee and will now begin a period of rehab, though it is not yet clear just how long he will be sidelined for.
Bristol City have started this season in decent shape and will be hoping to challenge for promotion, or at least the play-offs, for the duration of the campaign.
Mawson seems on course to miss a fair chunk of the campaign now, though, with the Robins confirming that he is now on the recovery trail after having surgery on his knee.
The defender hasn't been at the club long having joined on loan from Premier League side Fulham and picked up the blow during the loss to Middlesbrough in the Sky Bet Championship.
The Robins haven't put a timeframe on things which is fair enough but it seems safe to assume that Mawson will be out for a considerable enough period of time, especially with how jam-packed the schedule is.
Source Gregor MacGregor at Bristol Live


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Mercedes-Benz E-Class ranked #3 in Luxury Midsize Cars, Cars.com
See how the Mercedes-Benz E-Class surpasses all its rivals in the luxury sedan market
Here at our Atlanta, GA Mercedes-Benz dealership, luxury comes in many forms. Whether you're out on a Sunday ride to Stone Mountain, or on a commute from Conyers, come visit us, you'll undoubtedly see that one of our most compelling models is the Mercedes-Benz E-Class.
The Mercedes-Benz E-Class is a luxury sedan that positively exemplifies the perfect marriage between power, design, and driver-focused technology. Clad from grille to tail lights in the finest materials, and tuned to performance perfection, the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class has exceeded the expectations of critics and Atlanta area drivers alike. However, it's not without competition.
The luxury sedan segment is brimming with rivals to the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class and like any savvy shopper, you want to fully explore them before making a commitment. That's why we've gone ahead and done our due diligence to show you how the Mercedes-Benz E-Class earned its spot at the top amidst a fierce field of competitors.
Mercedes-Benz E-Class vs. BMW 5 Series
Performance: While both the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class and BMW 5-Series are undeniably powerful cars, the former offers more muscle for Stone Mountain drivers seeking a more engaging on-road experience. With its 255-horsepower turbocharged engine, the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class handily bests the 248-horsepower BMW 5-Series.
Connectivity: With the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class, you'll have standard access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, which are absolutely indispensable for driving around Tucker while staying connected to your phone. Now, while the new BMW 5 Series does offer Apple CarPlay, but only as a one year subscription service, so after that period ends, you'll have to pay extra for the same features.
Body styles: If you're looking for a little more stylistic versatility, the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class can be had as either a sedan, wagon, convertible, or coupe depending on the trim. As for the BMW 5 Series, it's sedan body style is sadly the only option available.
Mercedes-Benz E-Class vs. Audi A6
Performance: While both the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class and Audi A6 have impressive pedigrees in German engineering, the former is markedly more muscular than the latter. Even the powerful Audi A6 Prestige tops out at just 335 horsepower, while the most powerful trim for the Mercedes-Benz E-Class, the Mercedes-Benz AMG E 63 S, boasts a hair-raising 603 horsepower.
Technology: Tech plays a big role in both the Mercedes-Benz E-Class and the Audi A6, and there's no better bellwether for both than the infotainment system. The new Mercedes-Benz E-Class Comes standard with the COMAND™ infotainment system, which features a crisp, high-definition 12.3-inch display. Compare that the Audi A6's infotainment system, which only features an 8.8-inch display and it's clear to see which of these two cars has the advantage.
Safety: Feeling secure on the open road is of the utmost importance to Atlanta area drivers. But while both the Mercedes-Benz E-Class and Audi A6 feature forward-collision warning with automatic emergency braking, only the former offers Mercedes-Benz ATTENTION ASSIST, which helps alert you to drowsy or distracted driving on long trips, prompting you to pull over and rest before driving becomes dangerous.
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Rates, Workers and Mergers. Canada's Rentals Industry from 30,000 feet.
Keeping up with technology advancements is a critical challenge for today's rental industry in the mind of Earl Ducharme, region vice president, Canada at Herc Rentals. Click below find out more.
Submersible Pumps Provide Environment Conservation at Cherry Dam, CA.
Upgrading a system at a dam while also protecting the fish and wildlife in an area can be a challenge. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) recently faced this dilemma at Cherry Dam, which is part of the Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System, located three and a half hours east of San Francisco on the border of Yosemite Valley, CA. Cherry Lake provides drinking water for the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Click here to check out Herc Rentals' solution!
For an outline of Herc Rentals' ability to step up to the challenges of natural disasters, check out an article featuring Northeast RVP Rob Cowing.
A nor'easter that ravaged North Jersey provided real-time examples of how Herc Rentals, the former Hertz Equipment Rental Co., is starting to regain its prominence in the rental space.
When the air conditioning broke down at an Ocean City, N.J., animal shelter this past July, a U.S. Communities cooperative agreement helped expedite installation of rented A/C units so a variety of stray pets stayed comfortable. As many as 30 dogs and 40 cats are housed at the Humane Society of Ocean City's shelter; those pets kept their cool thanks to Herc Rentals' speedy installation of two 5-ton industrial air conditioning temporary units under a U.S. Communities cooperative contract.
There's still a lot of work ahead, but Herc Rentals' first year as an independent company paved the way for long-term progress. This article is a good summary of our past year and a glimpse into where we are heading.
Herc Rentals CEO Larry Silber gave the keynote address at the 2016 Access, Lift & Handlers Conference & Awards in Miami, Florida. In this short video, he tells Murray Pollok, Managing Editor of International Rental News, about the company's plans to move to mobile technology within five years.
Herc Rentals has selected Infor CloudSuite Equipment Rental and Infor CloudSuite Human Capital Management to establish a more consolidated and flexible approach to managing mission-critical business processes.
Larry Silber, President and CEO, speaks with Business Observer (FL) about expanding the company's headquarters in Bonita Springs, FL, and the post-election market boost.
Chuck Miller, Vice President of Operations and Loren Carlson, North American Sales Manager discuss genset solutions and power contingency planning with Distributed Energy Magazine.
Watch a video recap of Florida Governor Rick Scott welcoming Herc Rentals to Bonita Springs, FL.
Senior Equipment Rental Industry Executives outline the benefits of going mobile, including insights from our President and CEO, Larry Silber and CIO, Rich Marani.
RENTAL MANAGEMENT reports Herc Rentals' separation from Hertz Global Holdings is complete. Larry Silber, President and CEO, outlines what is next for Herc Rentals, now an independent, publicly traded equipment rental company.
The South Miami branch, located in Cutler Bay, FL, celebrated becoming part of the Herc Rentals family in the end of July after being open for the past five months. The event featured numerous Herc Rentals vendors who set up demonstration tents around the yard. Guests in attendance made their way to each station and upon completion of their tour received a custom designed Herc Rentals Miami T-shirt. Among those in attendance was President and CEO, Larry Silber, who cut the ceremonial banner with members of the Cutler Bay Chamber of Commerce. The South Miami branch is a ProContractor Tools location as well as a ProSolutions branch, and is positioned to serve the expanding Southeast Florida market. The South Miami branch is located at 19380 SW 106th Ave, Cutler Bay, FL, 33157 and can be reached at 1-(305)-278-3940.
Watch a video recap covering Herc Holdings' first day of trading, courtesy of the New York Stock Exchange.
Herc Rentals completed its spinoff and is broadening its product offerings. Larry Silber, Herc Rentals President and CEO, sat down with Engineering News-Record to discuss the future of the business.
We are finally Herc Rentals! It's Time. We're Ready. Gear up.
Larry Silber, President and CEO of Herc Rentals, discusses the dawn of a new era for Herc Rentals on TheStreet.com with Rhonda Schaffler.
The new Herc Rentals business strategy was on full display with the spring 2016 grand opening of our new Downtown Chicago – South Loop branch. The new branch reflects Herc Rentals' goal of expanding our footprint into urban markets and diversifying our product offerings, including the new ProContractor Tools line to meet the needs of our customers. Chief Operating Officer Bruce Dressel confirmed that the new branch is a testament to our commitment of "providing customers with the most in-depth line and range of products." Our new location offers general equipment rental as well as ProContractor Tools and is located at 2424 South Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616 and can be reached at 1-(312)-842-7114.
Larry Silber, Herc Rentals President and CEO, spoke with RENTAL MANAGEMENT about his plans for the company, the challenges ahead and rebranding efforts.


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Home Actress Scarlett Johansson
November 22, 1984 (age 37)
New York City , New York , United States
How old is Scarlett Johansson: 37 years Female
🎂 Birthday: November 22, 1984
🔯 Sun sign: Sagittarius
🌍 Nationality: New York City , New York , United States
📏 How tall is Scarlett Johansson: 5′ 3″
Scarlett Johansson Spouse: Romain Dauriac (m. 2014–2017), Ryan Reynolds (m. 2008–2011)
Profession: Actor, Singer, Model, Voice Actor
Children: Rose Dorothy Dauriac
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Scarlett Johansson - Bio, Age, net worth, height, Wiki, Facts and Family
Scarlett Johansson About
Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 (age 37) in New York City, New York, United States. She is a celebrity Actor, Singer, Model, Voice Actor. Her the best movies are The Avengers (2012), Lucy (2014), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Ghost in the Shell (2017) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). She had 1 child Rose Dorothy Dauriac. Her spouse is Romain Dauriac (m. 2014–2017), Ryan Reynolds (m. 2008–2011). Scarlett Johansson's height is 5′ 3″.
Scarlett Johansson Biography
Ranked at number 12 on ˜Men's Health' magazine's list of '100 Hottest Women of All-Time', Scarlett Johansson was also named as the ˜Sexiest Woman Alive' by ' Esquire' magazine. This four-time Golden Globe nominated American actress is one of the most talented, versatile actresses in Hollywood. She has successfully made her way up the ladder, making her mark as a powerful performer and achieving a place among the ˜A List' actresses in the entertainment industry. Some of her well-known films include, 'Lost in Translation', ˜Match Point', 'The Nanny Diaries', 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona', 'The Avengers', 'Hitchcock', 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and 'He's Just Not That into You'. She is widely regarded as a ˜peerless sex symbol' and is much known for her powerful onscreen sexual persona and appeal. She has been featured in a number of prestigious publications around the world. With a seductive voice, drop-dead gorgeous looks and great acting skills, Scarlett Johansson is a brilliant young woman, confident to take her stride and deliver breath-taking performances. She was born in New York and graduated from the Professional Children's School in Manhattan.
She was married to Ryan Reynolds from September 2008 until July of 2011. She then married Romain Dauriac in 2014. She and Dauriac had a daughter named Rose together, then separated in 2016. In July 2017, she began dating comedian Colin Jost.
She made her film debut at the age of nine in the film North. In 1997, she played Molly Pruitt in the movie Home Alone 3.
She received a Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 2001 independent comedy Ghost World.
Scarlett Johansson - Net Worth
Scarlett Johansson's estimated Net Worth, Salary, Income, Cars, Lifestyles & many more details have been updated below. Let's check, How Rich is Scarlett Johansson in 2021-2022?
According to Forbes, Wikipedia, IMDB, and other reputable online sources, Scarlett Johansson has an estimated net worth of $165 Million at the age of 37 years old in year 2022. She has earned most of her wealth from her thriving career as a Actor, Singer, Model, Voice Actor from United States. It is possible that She makes money from other undiscovered sources
Scarlett Johansson is still Alive?
Scarlett Johansson is alive and well and is a celebrity actress
At the age of 37, Scarlett Johansson's height is 5′ 3″ .
She starred alongside Robert Downey, Jr. in The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Iron Man 2.
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Facts About Scarlett Johansson
● Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 (age 37) in New York City, New York, United States
● Her the best movies are The Avengers (2012), Lucy (2014), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Ghost in the Shell (2017) and Avengers: Endgame (2019)
● She had 1 child Rose Dorothy Dauriac
● Her spouse is Romain Dauriac (m. 2014–2017), Ryan Reynolds (m. 2008–2011)
● Scarlett Johansson's height is 5′ 3″


After decades of raising children, building communities and clearing the way for freedom and opportunity for our nation, the elderly among us deserve the opportunity for the final chapters of their lives to be lived with dignity.
The Lucy Corr Foundation's mission is to enhance the lives of Lucy Corr residents, participants and their families and to help meet the emerging needs of seniors in the community. The projects and programs funded by the Foundation ensure that the elderly in our community live the final chapters of their lives in a secure, caring and engaging environment with the dignity they deserve.
As a 501(c)(3) organization, the Lucy Corr Foundation depends on contributions from foundations, corporations, small businesses and individuals to support the provision and enhancement of programs and services at Lucy Corr, a non-profit continuing care retirement community in Chesterfield County.
The Lucy Corr Foundation generates public, private and non-profit support for services and programs that enhance the lives of Lucy Corr Village residents and participants and their families.
In 2021, the Lucy Corr Foundation and its volunteers will be effective advocates who enhance community awareness of and ensure sustained support for Lucy Corr Village as a premier provider of continuing care retirement housing, programs and services in the region.
For more information on the Lucy Corr Foundation contact dmarlow@lucycorr.org.
In 2018, the LCFDC provided a record breaking $301,742 in free dental services to Lucy Corr residents and community members who are uninsured and who are unable to afford oral health services which are a key component to overall health, especially for the elderly. Managed by dental clinic coordinator, Dr. Patricia Brown Bonwell, the clinic depends on 17 volunteer dentists, students from VCU Dental School and other local training programs and schools. Financial support from local foundations and individuals make it all possible. Since its renovation in 2012, the LCFDC has provided $1.366 million in free services.
Throughout Lucy Corr, residents are involved in art and music therapy. All residents of the Health Care Center and Assisted Living units as well as participants of the Adult Day Center are encouraged to explore their creativity led by art therapists from Lamb Center for Arts and Healing. Music therapy, enrichment and adaptive ensembles programming is provided by Healing Sounds of Richmond.
Using touch screen technology, Linked Senior provides access to unlimited, constantly refreshed, evidence-based content that provides online life enrichment and engagement through travel, art museums, occupations, hobbies, humor, games, music videos, educational lectures, and much more. The technology can be used by staff to engage residents in large and small group settings, and individuals can experiment with it across the campus.
In 2017, the Foundation received a grant from the Atria Companies Employee Community Fund (ACECF) to purchase a conversion van, enabling residents to be transported to medical appointments while in their own wheelchair.
A $30,000 challenge matching grant from the Mary Morton Parson's Foundation was met in December 2018, which will fund a 20-passenger bus to transport residents to off-site opportunities for entertainment and enrichment. The match was accomplished by donations from Foundation Board members, the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, Lucy Corr residents, area businesses, and a local church. The sweetest gift was a $10 contribution given by a ten-year-old out of his hard-earned allowance.
With nursing services in high demand, the Lucy Corr Foundation is partnering with Lucy Corr employees to provide the highest level of care for residents by sponsoring education scholarships for employees wanting to further their nursing education.
The first Jake Mast Nursing Scholarship was awarded at the December 2018 Board Meeting by Kay Mast to Jacqueline Gonzales to pursue her RN degree.