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Apple iCloud: the essential guide
By Nik Rawlinson Saturday February 4, 2012
Poor old MobileMe. It tried hard, but never quite delivered. Expensive, sometimes slow and saddled with a clumsy name, it has long had the air of an unloved child.
Its development cycle was long and drawn out. And by the time Steve Jobs announced the end of its short and undistinguished life, just two years after its rebirth from the ashes of .Mac, few were inclined to shed any tears.
Yet it wasn't all bad. The email service was stable and largely dependable. It synced our contacts, so we didn't need to tap them all in on an iPhone keyboard, and the calendar tool always made sure we turned up on time, wherever we happened to be.
Essential iCloud guide: Getting started
Apple knew this as well as anyone, which is why it chose to preserve those parts, jettisoning the web publishing, photo gallery and iDisk, as it set about building iCloud.
Housed in a vast data centre in North Carolina, iCloud is Apple's next-generation online service. It syncs your iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod touch. It can track a lost device, copy your iPhone snaps over the web so they're safely backed up on your Mac, and synchronise your iWork files so that whatever device you're using, downtime is never wasted time.
Over the next few pages, we'll show you how to set up your Mac and iOS devices to use iCloud, how to sync your apps and data, and how easy it is to back up your documents to the web. You'll soon see that MobileMe's demise really was the iCloud with a silver lining.
Whether you're moving an existing MobileMe account to iCloud or setting it up for the first time, Apple has applied its trademark logic to the process to make it as simple as possible.
The most important step you need to take is to make sure all of your devices are up to date and running the most recent versions of each headline app. Here we'll walk you through the process, step by step.
Update your Mac
To take advantage of all of iCloud's features you need to be running OS X Lion. This is now well bedded in and although some older machines appear to run a little slower than they did under Snow Leopard, it's generally proved to be fault free and enjoys good compatibility with existing third-party hardware and software.
iCloud requires Lion version 10.7.2 or later, which is the version currently being shipped through the App Store (£21). If you upgraded to Lion when it shipped back in July and haven't touched it since then, run Software Update now to downloaded the latest revision before going any further.
Lion only works on Macs running on an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, i5 or i7, or Xeon processor. That precludes the earliest Intel Macs and anything running a PowerPC processor.
It requires a minimum of 2GB of RAM, 7GB of hard drive space and Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later. This was the first version of the OS released via the Mac App Store, through which the 4GB installer must be downloaded.
If you're on a capped broadband deal or you don't have broadband, then all is not lost. Head for a bricks-and-mortar Apple Store if you have one within reasonable driving distance and download it there using the free Wi-Fi.
Alternatively, order the £55 OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive from http://store.apple.com/uk/product/ MD256Z/A. It's over twice the price of the downloaded edition, but it does come on one of the best-looking thumb drives we've ever seen.
Update iPhoto/Aperture
One of the most exciting features of iCloud is Photo Stream, which automatically copies the 1,000 photos you've most recently taken over the last 30 days between your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, as well as backing them up to any Mac running iPhoto or Aperture.
Again, you'll need to ensure that you're running the very latest edition of either of these applications. In the case of iPhoto, that's iPhoto 11 version 9.2 or later, while Aperture users should be running version 3.2 or later.
Both of these are available through the Mac App Store (iPhoto 11 costs £10.49; Aperture 3 costs £55).
Update iTunes
iCloud has taken over from MobileMe as the main synchronisation conduit for all of your data on Apple's integrated ecosystem. That includes not only your contact, email accounts, calendars and so on, but also your purchases through the iTunes Store, iBook Store and Mac App Store.
That means that any purchase you make on any of your devices, or through iTunes on your Mac, will automatically be synchronised on each of your other devices. This works on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch as soon as you upgrade to iOS 5 and activate iCloud.
But to get the Mac side of things working you need to upgrade to iTunes 5 or later, again through Software Update.
Update iOS devices
iCloud is compatible with the iPhone 3GS, 4 and 4S, iPad and iPad 2, and the third- and fourth-generation iPod touch. Each must be running iOS 5 to gain access to options for enabling the integrated iCloud features that sit at the heart of the OS.
The original iPhone and iPod touch only support as far as iPhone OS 3.1.3, and the iPhone 3G and second-generation iPod touch, iOS 4.2.1. If you're updating several identical devices at one time, download the iOS 5 setup files manually so that you don't tie up your internet connection as iTunes retrieves them for each device individually.
Be aware that if you follow this route, the bundles differ according to which device you want to update. So while the OS underpinning your iPad 2, iPhone 4 and iPod touch might all be called iOS 5, they differ sufficiently for you to require a different setup file for each one.
The simplest route to updating your device, therefore, is to connect it to your Mac using USB and launch iTunes. iTunes will check Apple's servers for the iOS 5 update and patch your device. Click Download and Update to proceed, having already performed a manual synchronisation to ensure there's an up-to-date backup of your data in place should anything go wrong.
Once you've updated to iOS 5, all future software updates can be performed directly through the phone without plugging it in to your Mac. Tap Settings > General > Software Update to check for new releases.
You'll also need to update your Apple TV to take advantage of Photo Stream and access your previous iTunes purchases. Do this by using your remote to select Settings > General > Software Update. When Apple TV has located the installer, click Download and Install (or Download Now on a first-generation Apple TV). When the download completes on Apple TV 2, the update will have been applied. On Apple TV 1, click Update Now. Note that only Apple TV 2 is compatible with iCloud Photo Stream.
With all of your devices and applications up to date, it's time to take the plunge and set up your iCloud account properly. For existing MobileMe members, this is a simple matter of transferring your existing account. Everyone else, however, is starting from scratch. Turn the page to get started.
Essential iCloud guide: Setting up iCloud
iCloud for new users
Signing in to iCloud requires an Apple ID. If you've ever bought anything from one of Apple's online stores – music, apps, books, videos and so on – you already have an Apple ID.
If you can't remember what it is, point your browser at https://iforgot.apple.com, click Forgot Apple ID and enter your name, address and email address (or, if you can remember your Apple ID but you've forgotten your password, simply enter your ID in the box and click Next).
If you don't already have an Apple ID you can sign up for one for free without making any purchases at https://appleid.apple.com. Your selected Apple ID will take the form of an email address, but note that you can't use an existing MobileMe address here.
If you have one, it counts as an existing Apple ID, so you can use that to set up your Mac and iOS devices. So with your Apple ID registered, point your browser at http://icloud.com and sign in.
MobileMe users
As you already have an account set up, you need to convert it to iCloud. Open a browser window and visit www.me.com/move. You'll need to enter your MobileMe password to authorise the transfer.
There's no such thing as an iCloud family account, so master account holders of MobileMe Family Packs will have to transfer each user individually.
Data synchronisation
Like MobileMe before it, iCloud synchronises all of your day-to-day data, including appointments and contacts, between each of your devices. Again, setting this up is a two-step process conducted first on your Mac and then on your iOS device.
Open System Preferences > iCloud on your Mac and log in using the Apple ID and password tied to your iCloud account. Now check the boxes beside the data you want to synchronise, including Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks and Mail & Notes.
As with MobileMe, this latter option doesn't synchronise your email messages – just your account settings. However, it does synchronise jottings created using the Notes application on your iPad or iPhone, filing them neatly inside the OS X Mail application.
Now turn to your iOS device and add your iCloud account: tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account… and enter your Apple ID credentials, choosing iCloud as the account type. With this in place, step back to the overall Settings screen and tap iCloud, followed by the sliders beside the data types you want to synchronise. That way they match the ones you activated on your Mac.
Bear in mind that the more you synchronise, the more you'll eat into your storage allocation, with even Mail and any attachments in your inbox, outbox, drafts and folders counting against your limit. Photo Stream is the only synchronisation feature that Apple excludes from its calculations when working out how much you've used. And for good reason: it would be impossible for you to accurately judge in advance the exact size of each picture you take and how much space it will occupy on Apple's servers.
You should therefore avoid synchronising more data types than you need if you want to avoid having to upgrade to a paid account at some point in the future.
iTunes Store syncing
iTunes' status has been demoted slightly since the arrival of iOS 5 in that you don't need to use it to set up a new iPhone, or necessarily plug in your phone using USB to sync it. However, it remains a hub for your incoming data and an essential backup location for downloaded apps, books and music, so that should you lose your iOS device you won't also lose all your purchases.
Launch iTunes and click iTunes > Preferences > Store, then click the check boxes beside Music, Apps and Books to automatically download all purchases made on your iOS devices simultaneously to your iTunes library. This saves you syncing your device manually the next time you want to create a backup.
Setting up iTunes is only one half of the process, as you need to enable the same options on your iOS devices. Here, click Settings > Store and tap the sliders beside Music, Apps and Books to activate synchronisation.
On the iPhone and on 3G-enabled iPads you'll find a further option here to download your purchases over the cellphone network. Tap the slider beside Use Mobile Data to do this, but only if you're sure you're happy for your mobile 3G data allowance to be used in this way. If you are intending to take your device overseas, be sure to disable this particular feature. The excess fees you'll be charged for data roaming will make even a free app painfully expensive.
How to free up space on your iCloud account
1. Consider an upgrade
Every iCloud account comes with 5GB of free storage, which you can optionally upgrade by 20GB or 50GB for £28 and £70 a year respectively. You might consider doing this when things start to get tight. But before you do, how about clearing out some unused files?
2. Manage current storage
You can manage your iCloud storage from either your Mac or an iOS device. If you're at your Mac, simply open System Preferences > iCloud and click the Manage… button. On iOS, tap Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > Manage Storage.
3. Clear unused files (OS X)
On OS X, click through the various apps that are authorised to save data to your iCloud space to see which apps are hogging more than their due. Select the files you don't need any more and press Command+Delete to remove them, or click Delete All to clear out all files of that type.
4. Clear unused files (iOS)
On your iOS device, tap the name of each application in turn, followed by Edit, and then the red circles beside the names of the files you want to remove. This calls up a series of red Delete buttons. Simply tap these to confirm the removal.
5. Buy more storage
If you still need more storage, step back to Manage Storage on iOS, or click Buy More Storage… in OS X and select the amount of extra space you want to buy. Bear in mind that the specified quantities are in addition to your free 5GB account.
6. Downgrade options
Avoid paying for additional storage that you may no longer need when your account comes up for renewal by setting it to a more appropriate level. Click Downgrade Options… and select your new account quota. Note the billing details at the top of the pane.
Essential iCloud guide: Photo Stream
Photo Stream is like Time Machine for your iPhone snaps. Take a photo on any device running iOS 5 or later and it'll be synchronised to all of your other devices, and your Mac, without any input from yourself.
It's quite magical the first time you see it in operation, but how does it work, and how can you put it to use?
Set up Photo Stream
Enable Photo Stream on your iOS device by tapping Settings > iCloud > Photo Stream and tapping the action slider so that it reads 'ON'. You can now step out of settings and get on with using your device as usual.
On your Mac, Photo Stream helpfully synchronises with iPhoto 11 or Aperture 3.2. You can enable it through System Preferences by clicking in the Photo Stream check box on the iCloud pane. You now need to decide which application should act as the archive for your remotely shot images. (Apple doesn't allow you to send them simultaneously to iPhoto and Aperture.)
Open either application's Preferences and click the toolbar's Photo Stream icon, then tick the box to Enable Photo Stream, followed by either or both of the options to automatically import and automatically upload new photos. We would recommend at the very least enabling automatic import so that you maintain a complete archive of your iOS photos on your Mac.
Unlike the photos in the Photo Streams on your iOS devices, these will never be removed from your account, even after the 30-day limit.
Do you really need to enable automatic uploads? That depends on what your plans are. Are you going to be importing several hundred holiday shots when you return from your travels? It's better to decide now whether you want them to also be sent to your iOS device. If not, uncheck that option.
Photo Stream only works over Wi-Fi, so it won't hammer your 3G bandwidth and risk taking you close to your mobile contract's monthly cap. One less thing to worry about when you're on holiday!
Every time you take a photo on any iOS 5 device linked to your iCloud account, it's uploaded to Apple's servers when you quit the Camera app. From there it's sent back down to your other iOS devices and your Mac.
The next time you fire up iPhoto or Aperture (depending on which you have linked to your iCloud account) you'll find a Photo Stream entry in the sidebar containing a copy of each of your iOS photos. Your pictures will also appear on the second-generation Apple TV running software update 4.4 or later.
Photo Stream on iOS
Things work slightly differently on an iOS device to the way they do in Aperture or iPhoto. Images shot on any device are saved locally, as usual, to the Camera Roll in the Photos app.
Step back one level from here on the iPhone or iPod touch, or use the buttons at the top of the screen on the iPad, and you'll see a new library called Photo Stream. This is where you'll find your synchronised images, whether they were snapped on an alternative iOS device or synchronised through iPhoto or Aperture.
Any photo taken on an iOS device will remain on that device until you actively choose to delete it. However, items that appear only in the Photo Stream album will be removed from the device after 30 days. They will also be removed from the Photo Stream album on an iOS device one at a time if you add more than 1,000 during that 30-day period, with the oldest one in each instance being killed off to make way for each new addition.
It's therefore vitally important that you take an active interest in saving (and backing up!) your synchronised pictures. Fire up iPhoto or Aperture at least once a month to make sure you have a copy of your images on your Mac. And if you want to keep synchronised photos on any iOS devices other than the ones originally used to take them, copy them to your Camera Roll by following the instructions in the walk-through below.
Images downloaded to your Mac are saved at their native resolution, so for anything taken using the rear camera on an iPhone 4S that means the full 8 megapixels. This matches some compact cameras on sale just a couple of years ago.
However, images sent to Photo Stream on an iOS device are first reduced in size to optimise them for display on that particular device's screen. The exact resolution will depend on the dimensions of the original, but Apple currently uses 2048×1535 pixels (3 megapixels) as its benchmark.
Photo Stream is compatible with JPEG, TIF, PNG and RAW images imported from your iPhoto or Aperture library. These formats are in turn converted as part of the transfer process.
How to archive synchronised photos on an iOS device
1. Select Photo Stream
To save synchronised images from being expired and disappearing from the Photo Stream on your iOS device, you should copy any you want to keep to your Camera Roll. Open the Photos app and step back to the albums page, then select Photo Stream.
2. Tick images
Tap the shortcut button on the toolbar (it looks like a box with an arrow curling out of it) and select the images you want to copy by tapping on each one in turn. As you do, they'll be given a small red tick to show which have been selected.
3. Tap to keep
Tap the save button at the foot of the screen to store them in your Camera Roll. The images will be left in place on your Photo Stream and removed when their time is up, but the versions you saved will be kept on your device until you remove them manually.
How to delete your Photo Stream
1. Log in to iCloud
Although your Photo Stream contents don't count against your iCloud storage limit, there may be times when you want to delete the contents of the stream entirely. Log in to your iCloud account at icloud.com and click the iCloud icon in the top-left corner.
02. Delete remote photos
Click your name at the top of the screen to open your account preferences. Click the Advanced button and then, click Reset Photo Stream. This clears out the images on Apple's servers but leaves them where they are on your Mac and iOS devices.
3. Delete local photos
To remove the images from your iOS device, open Settings > iCloud > Photo Stream and tap the activity button so that it reads 'OFF'. You'll be asked for confirmation, after which all of the synchronised photos will be removed, leaving in place only original and saved snaps.
Essential iCloud guide: Backups and storage
As we've already discussed, iCloud takes care of backing up all of your iOS purchases on your Mac, and simultaneously installs any apps you buy on your Mac to each of your iOS devices. However, you can now go one step further and save your device backups directly to the cloud.
Previously, every time you synchronised your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with iTunes on your Mac it would create a local backup. That way, should the worst happen, you could easily recover your documents, contacts, appointments and apps. That's still an option, but in iOS 5 and iTunes 5 Apple has improved on this feature in two ways.
First, you can now enable wireless backups to iTunes so that whenever your device is plugged into a power source and connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your iTunes library, it will automatically synchronise the two. You can opt instead to save that backup to iCloud, so that should your Mac be damaged or lost your backup won't be lost with it.
To enable this, connect your iOS device to your Mac, select its entry in the iTunes sidebar, and click the Back up to iCloud radio button on the Summary page. Now your device will be backed up once a day whenever it's plugged in.
The final piece of the iCloud puzzle (at least until iTunes Match arrives in the UK) is Documents in the Cloud, which maintains a backed-up copy of all of your remotely edited Pages, Numbers and Keynote documents.
Synchronisation with iCloud requires the latest versions of the iOS iWork apps. These updates are free for all existing users, but if you don't already have them, the apps are sold individually at £6.99 apiece through the App Store. They're all Universal apps, so work on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
You need to opt in to use iCloud with each application individually. If you're firing up any one of them for the first time you'll be given the option to do this on the startup screens. But if you've already been using them in the past, you can activate them through the iOS Settings application where they appear among the third-party apps at the bottom of the menu.
Open the iWork app of your choice and create a new document by tapping the '+' in the upper left corner of the screen. We'd recommend ignoring the option to use iDisk as this will disappear over time, so it makes sense to get out of the habit as soon as you can.
Tap Create Document and choose a document type in the usual way, then start working. When you've finished, and you return to the document menu, you'll notice that its thumbnail has a small arrow on a turned-over corner. This is a warning that the document hasn't yet been backed up to iCloud.
Your documents will automatically sync to the same apps on any other iOS device the next time you start them up, and are also saved to your online iCloud account. Point your browser at www.icloud.com/iwork, and you'll see that there are individual tabs for Keynote, Pages and Numbers, with the relevant documents organised inside each one. Here, things don't work quite as smoothly as you might hope…
Apple has made great claims about iCloud's ability to synchronise your documents across all devices. It says you can shut down your Mac on your way out the door and finish working on your document, spreadsheet or presentation on your iPad on the way home.
Technically that's true, but only if when using OS X you manually copy your data to and from iCloud. To access the document created on your iOS device, click it in the web interface and select the format in which you'd like to download it. Choose from the native iWork formats, their Microsoft Office equivalents and PDF.
To send documents from your Mac to your iOS device, select the relevant application by clicking its name on the tabs at the top of the web interface; then drag the file into the document management area that fills the rest of the screen. A progress gauge monitors its passage onto iCloud.
We can expect to see more apps exploit Documents in the Cloud, as Apple has opened up the underlying hooks that will enable third-party coders to integrate the service into their own apps. But we would also hope to see iCloud integrated directly into the OS X iWork apps so that we no longer need to open a browser window to access our iOS documents.
How to manage iCloud files in your browser
1. Rename files
Click once on the document's filename and type a new name, pressing return as you would in the Finder to confirm the change. Filenames can be up to 255 characters in length and contain anything you like – so long as they don't start with a colon, dot or slash.
2. Copy a document
Click once on the document's thumbnail icon, followed by the cog icon, and then select Duplicate Document from the drop-down menu. The next time you check your iOS devices you will see that the file has been duplicated and is ready to work on.
3. Keyboard navigation
Now press Ctrl+Esc to activate the keyboard, then use the cursor keys to move around your files in the browser view. Pressing Shift+Esc has the same effect as clicking the iCloud icon – you will be taken back to the applications menu.
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Creditor Claims Against Estate- What happens if the estate fails to file timely objections to a creditor's claim in a Tennessee probate estate?
The court noted that the failure to timely file an exception to a creditor claim has consequences specifically, "failure to except to a claim amounts to an admission of its justness; and the claim becomes, in effect, a judgment against the estate at the end of the statutory period." Karesh at 4 (citing, Needham v. Moore, 292 S.W.2d 720, 723 (Tenn. 1956)). As a result, this is a very important requirement.
In this Karesh case, the estate only filed objections to a specific creditor's claims on the basis the claims were untimely but did not provide any specific objections to the actual merits of the claims. Karesh at 4, 5. The estate did send a letter to the creditor discussing some objections but it was not filed with the Court within the appropriate time frame required under the statute. As a result, the only objections timely filed with the Court were based on the alleged untimeliness of the creditor claim (which the court rejected). As a result, the Appellate Court found that a written letter of substantive objections that was not filed with the court until after the time period passed for objections is not sufficient to properly raise objections to the creditor's claims as required under the statute. Karesh at 5. As a result, the objections to the creditor's claim were barred by the statute and the claim was found to be valid.
This case shows how important it is to properly file substantive exceptions or objections to creditor claims against a Tennessee probate estate. It is not sufficient to rely upon minimal descriptions of the exceptions to the claims. Greater specificity and description of the objections must be provided in order to preserve the objections to the creditor's claims. In the Karesh case, the estate should have filed a notice of the objection to the claim on the basis of untimeliness, but it should have also, at the same time, filed specific substantive objections to the merits of the creditor claim.
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Instead, it installs a Windows service which you can use to manage InspIRCd.
InspIRCd's graphical interface on windows is a seperate program, which communicates with the server program over windows IPC. This allows you to close the InspIRCd Monitor program to save ram, but keep the server itself running. It also allows you to control other servers on the windows domain.
From the main window of the InspIRCd Monitor, you can start, stop, rehash and restart InspIRCd. You can send stop, rehash and restart signals to remote servers on the windows domain, where you have access rights to the servers you are sending the signals to.
When the window is closed, it will minimize to your system tray, and continue to monitor the performance of your server. By double clicking the system tray icon, you can bring the window back into focus.
When you attempt to start InspIRCd from the Windows GUI, any errors will be reported back to you in the log window. The last few lines of the log will be shown and the GUI will offer to open the configuration file for you. Note that for this to succeed you must have an editor associated with .conf files.
The system tray icon notifies you of various events on your server. While the monitor is running, the system tray can keep you informed. Note that the graphical interface for InspIRCd is a seperate program to the ircd itself, and therefore does not need to be running if you do not require it.
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Hydros is named as the Greek god of water in some ancient texts, although Hydros is just one of many Greek deities associated with water.
In terms of fame though, Hydros is well down the pecking order of aquatic deities, for whilst the likes of Poseidon and Oceanus are famous Greek gods, Hydros is hardly mentioned.
The reason for this lack of recognition is due to the fact that Hydros appears in the Orphic tradition whilst most surviving sources related to a tradition based around the work of Hesiod. This in essence means that the genealogies of the Greek gods and goddesses differ, and not all deities appear in both sets of genealogies.
In the Orphic tradition Hydros was the primordial god of the waters, and therefore a Protogenoi, one of the first born gods of the cosmos.
In this tradition at the very start there was only Hydros (Water), Thesis (Creation) and Mud (who solidified into Gaia (Earth)). Hydros may have therefore created Gaia, by withdrawing the water content from Mud.
From Hydros though did come Chronos (Time) and Ananke (Compulsion) when Hydros mated with Gaia, and Chronos and Ananke are two other important deities of the Orphic tradition, for they brought forth Phanes (Life) from the cosmic egg, and brought order to the cosmos.
Subsequently, Hydros appeared little in stories of Greek mythology, although a case has been made of equating him with Oceanus, the Titan god of fresh water, a life bringing god of the Homeric tradition.


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This year's San Francisco International Film Festival announced
March 14, 2018 March 14, 2018 ~ Lincoln Spector
Get ready for a massive injection of cinema. The 61st San Francisco International Film Festival opens April 4 and closes two weeks later on April 17. And you know what that means? For the third year in a row, the SFilm Fest conflicts with Passover. You would think that someone would check a Jewish calendar.
The festival opens with A Kid Like Jake, about a young boy who just might prefer to be a young girl. It closes with Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, a biopic about quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan, starring Joaquin Phoenix. In between, the April 12 Centerpiece will screen the locally-made Sorry To Bother You, Boots Riley's satire about rising in the corporation while black. This movie will screen twice (same night, different times) at the Castro and Oakland's Grand Lake. The Grand Lake screening is already sold out (there may be At Rush tickets).
A Kid Like Jake
Speaking about theaters, the New Mission will not be part of the Festival this year. And yes, this is because of Alamo Drafthouse's issues with sexual harassment. The Festival's Executive Director, Noah Cowan, hopes that the issues can be cleared up and that the New Mission can be part of the festival next year.
Venues that will be part of the festival include the Castro, Roxie, SFMOMA, Victoria, Dolby Cinema, and across the Bay, at the Pacific Film Archive.
SFFilm doesn't just present films. It also helps finance them. Four features and five shorts in this festival were made at least partly with SFFilm money. These include We the Animals, The Rescue List, and the above-mentioned Sorry To Bother You.
This festival has a tradition of screening silent films with unique and unconventional live music. Sometimes it works beautifully. Sometimes it stinks. This year, the silent film will be Yasujirô Ozu's brilliant family comedy, I Was Born, But…, with music by an alt-rock group called Blonde Redhead. I have no idea if this will work.
It wouldn't be a film festival if it didn't honor filmmakers. Both Charlize Theron and Wayne Wang will receive tributes. The Theron event will include a screening of her newest film, Tully. Wang's celebration will screen his 1995 film, Smoke. Nathaniel Dorsky will receive the Persistence of Vision Award. The George Gund III Craft of Cinema Award goes to Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, with a screening of their short documentary, End Game. The Mel Novikoff Award, given to someone who has enhanced the film-going public's appreciation of world cinema, goes to Columbia University Professor Annette Insdorf. I'm not familiar with her, but I like her choice for a movie to screen: Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be
(you can read my Blu-ray review). Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin will give the State of Cinema Address.
This year's festival has quite a few biographical documentaries, covering the lives of Robin Williams, Fred Rogers, Hal Ashby, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
In all, this year's festival will screen 183 films, including 57 narrative features, 37 documentary features, four new vision features (I'm not sure what that means, either), two episodic programs (in other words, parts of TV shows), and 83 shorts. The films will be in 46 different languages. Eight will be world premieres, and six will be US premieres.
Don't even think of trying to see all of them.
I'll be reporting on what to see and what to skip before and through the festival. Check my SF Intl 2018 category to see what I've written.
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The New Visions category has been a key part of the Golden Gate Award for short-form work for decades. It includes work that defies easy classification into narrative, documentary, and animation categories. Some of the work falls derives from the experimental film traditions founded by folks like Oskar Fishinger, Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, etc. or the video art & installation world, but some of it defies even those handy classifications.
For the last couple years the festival has carved out a category of form-expanding features in a similar spirit. The catalog this year calls it "vanguard" but I guess they interchange that with "Mew Vision" as well. This year's slate includes a collage work made up entirely of shots of outer space from other films, a documentary/fiction hybrid from a director whose past work tries to get the viewer to question the line between fiction and non-fiction, something called Carcasse I know nothing about beyond the program description positing it as the "first science-fiction documentary", and a political essay film that, if it resembles its director's prior work I've seen, will visually consist of depopulated landscape shots.

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Kamzík (, ) – szczyt nad Bratysławą o wysokości 439 m n.p.m. Znajduje się w Małych Karpatach i jest porośnięty buczyną. Tuż pod szczytem stoi wieża telewizyjna z lat 70., która zastąpiła starszą z 1956. W wieży znajduje się kawiarnia i restauracja z panoramicznym widokiem na całą okolicę Bratysławy, przy dobrej pogodzie widać nawet Alpy. Kamzík jest znanym ośrodkiem ruchu turystycznego, w pobliżu znajduje się hotel West, Koliba Expo, tor bobslejowy, wyciąg narciarski, różne chaty turystyczne i parkingi. Na Kamzík prowadzi od roku 1972 wyciąg krzesełkowy Železná studienka – Koliba. W rejonie tym toczyły się ostatnie walki w czasie wojny prusko-austriackiej w 1866 roku – żołnierzy w nich poległych upamiętnia pomnik stojący pod szczytem. Tu również monument zwycięstwa nad Turkami z 1683 r.

Na Kamzík możliwy jest wjazd samochodami albo linią trolejbusową bratysławskiej komunikacji miejskiej do przystanku Koliba, a stąd pieszo, albo do przystanku Lanovka (autobus) i stąd kolejką.

Nazwa szczytu pochodzi prawdopodobnie z niemieckiego Gemsenberg – góra dzikich kóz (niem. Gämse – słow. kamzík – pol. "kozica"), od zagubionych miejskich kóz, które żyły na zboczu góry.

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JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The women and girls leave the main United Nations refugee camp here during the day. The men do not. To exit is to risk death, they say.
Whether true or not, such claims show the level of fear that pulses through the main U.N. camp for internally displaced people here two weeks after violence broke out in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, and a spiraling series of ethnically-based attacks coursed through the nation, killing at least 1,000 people.
Some 25,000 people live in two hastily arranged camps in Juba, and nearly 40,000 are in camps elsewhere in the country. The government says those in the camps — who are mostly from the Nuer tribe — can leave and will be perfectly safe. The men here do not believe it.
They, in this case, are members of the Dinka, the majority tribe from which President Salva Kiir hails. In this camp the Nuer, South Sudan's second largest tribe, feel part of a targeted minority after former Vice President Riek Machar, a Nuer, was accused of a coup attempt on Dec. 15 and fighting — often ethnically motivated — broke out.
Although the violence here in Juba has largely quieted down, rebels control the oil city of Bentiu, and Bor, the capital of Jonglei state, remains under threat of attack from Nuer youth, though the government on Sunday said most of a column of 25,000 men marching on Bor have disbanded and returned home.
The Juba camp numbers swell at night, the facility's leaders say. Women and children may go out during the day to buy food. They return when the sun sets.
The camp is a U.N. military and logistics hub where many of the Nuer in Juba rushed for safety. As the numbers rapidly swelled to the thousands it became a mess. Trash lay everywhere. Open defecation took place. Things have improved: Trash is now collected. Latrines have been dug, but not quite enough yet, said Liny Suharlim, an official with the French aid group ACTED, which is now running the camp.
Makeshift tents are constructed out of towels, sheets and sticks. Wet clothes are draped on barbed wire fence. People sitting in plastic chairs sell pastries, water and a charge for a mobile phone. Dishes are rinsed in tubs of mud-brown sludge. Camouflaged military planes land at the airport runway only a football field distance away.
The government has visited here but the minister of information, Michael Makuei Lueth, holds some disdain for at least some inside the U.N. fence. "Those in the camps are actually those who decided to rebel here," he said. He blamed false rumors for spreading fear here.
It is clear that some here are traumatized. A man named John sat and stared into the distance, a blank expression on his face. Stephen Nyak, a fellow Nuer who was seeking help for the man, approached an Associated Press journalist in hopes of getting assistance.
Nyak, relaying John's story, said the man was caught in a group of Nuer early in the morning of Dec. 16, hours after the violence first erupted. Nearly all of the men in the group — said to number close to 300 — were shot and killed, though John survived. John says he survived the fusillade of bullets but was forced to drink the blood from a dead body near him, before the gunmen let him free, Nyak said. Whether the story was true, it was clear John was not well. Suharlim called for assistance from an aid worker from Nonviolent Peaceforce, a group working in the camp, who took John to somewhere private to talk.
Nyak said the men in the camp fear for their lives.
Another man approaches and tells of how he can no longer reach his friend, who left Juba by road but no longer answers his phone. He fears the worst.
At the medical aid tent run by Doctors Without Borders, medics treat diarrhea and severe dehydration. It's a sign people don't have access to safe water. The camp's population density is much too high, says a doctor here, Christine Bimansha. The aid group is not providing psychological services but the camp needs them, she said.
"I think they all need some mental support. Almost all have lost someone somewhere," said Bimansha, who said the U.N. death toll estimate of 1,000-plus appears to be on the low side.
Alongside the refugees are the U.N. military. White tanks manned by blue-helmeted Japanese drive through the camp's main thoroughfare. Rwandan, Indian and Bangladeshi troops are also here. Outside the wire, a military term for the fence line, Bith Kondok, a 46-year-old Dinka, was walking the streets of Juba on Friday. He said he had just been drinking tea with Nuer friends.


"Student A and I did grammar and spelling correction using her English workbooks. It helped for us to read the incorrect sentences out loud together so that she could hear the mistakes that needed correcting. Student B and I read and did a writing exercise inspired by her book in which I asked her to write about a time she or someone she knew told a really funny joke. We talked about syntax and practiced rewriting her original paragraph with different sentence combinations to tell the story. "
"Administered a 60-second oral reading fluency assessment using a grade 3 passage (76 words, 2 errors, 1 self-correction). The student was attentive to monitoring his reading aloud; improvement noted. Introduced vocabulary for a "Rhyming Animals" poem with attention on rhyming word patterns and sounds; focused on using the text to answer comprehension questions; and conducted an oral retelling of the poem. Concluded the session with written sentences using three vocabulary words and shared the information verbally. "
"The student's confidence seems to grow with each session. Today we focused primarily on 2 things: silent reading vs. reading aloud, and reading higher-vocabulary texts. We began with her reading homework from school. She read it silently to herself, then we talked about it and attacked the comprehension questions. The homework passage was conceptually more challenging that her regular homework has seemed, but it also appears that she has a little more trouble with the main idea and cause and effect when she's reading silently. She understood and remembered most of the key details, but had more trouble putting them all together than she's had in the past when we work on passages and she reads aloud. In future, the key will continue to be to get her to read actively when doing silent reading-and making sure she's just as focused on the main idea as she is on the details. We also looked at a very challenging passage that I brought in. Although geared towards 2nd grade, it contained a lot of science vocabulary and was quite long. She did a really wonderful job of sticking with it, reading both silently and aloud, and focusing on what she could understand more than on the few words she didn't recognize."
"The student did really well today! We finished up her homework for the week, so she is prepared for tomorrow! We started working on her big project that is due April 8 and we have a plan so that we can finish that up in the next couple sessions. She is doing very well, and with some more practice reading, she should be able to do her homework a little easier."
"We began this session with the student's math problem of the week -- if there are 60 coins in a jar and 1/5 are nickels and 1/6 are dimes, etc. -- which he devoured in about ten minutes. I expected it to take at least half the session. We practiced math for another half hour, practicing rounding and division, at which point we read from his book, and discussed character, motivation, and setting. The work was excellent all around."
"For the first half hour, the student read nearly a page of material while I read two paragraphs. He took notes while I read. I checked his notes as we went to make sure he was taking accurate notes. He accurately let me know what he'd read. Our second half hour involved worksheets with questions regarding materials I read to him. He took notes and answered the questions by looking up answers and referring to his notes. "
"During today's session, the student and I focused entirely on reading words and sentence comprehension, using books we selected from the children's section of the library. The student was notably proficient at reading today. He is getting better at distinguishing between unique letter sounds though, as he demonstrated during this session. Overall, I am pleased to observe the student's progression as a reader. During the next session, I want us to revisit writing exercises to make sure that he has retaining his writing skills over the past three weeks or so. "
"We started with discussing the student's homework, which was to read an article and answer 4 comprehension questions. I had him highlight the most important parts and also read the questions before reading the article. Then, we reviewed his math homework on equivalent fractions. Next, we continued reading Charlotte's Web, and I periodically asked him questions about the story as we read. Last, we read a Weekly Reader article, and I tested the student's comprehension of this as well."
"The student and I practiced critical reading at the first grade level, specifically going over the life of Steve Jobs and one age appropriate article. He was very enthusiastic and engaged and did a great job understanding some complex ideas from the readings. "
"In this session we continued to review sight words, as well as introduce new primer sight words. I helped to clarify the difference between "our" and "out" and "new" and "now"; so extra focus was put on those words. In addition, we began to focus more on correct letter formation and script when writing. We will continue to work on that more in future sessions."
"This week we began introducing a focus on writing, as well as reading. A concept the student's teacher wants him to focus on specifically is fact versus opinion, and organizing his thoughts regarding this topic in writing. We began by defining fact and opinion, and coming up with examples to classify in these categories in writing. We then focused on a book he was reading at school. From this book we were able to extract more opinions and facts and write them down. The student understands the difference between fact and opinion, but he definitely benefits from practice writing his thoughts down. That will be a continuing focus. "


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Can you believe that I was so sick and busy I was not able to bake a cake for my son's birthday? Yes, it is true, I probably deserve award Mom of the Year for not doing so. (not even bought him a cake). I was sick with the flu and had no energy was so ever.
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It is the luck of he Irish. My husband's birthday is on Saint Patrick's Day, and we were lucky enough to find out about the great deals available at Catalina Island when you visit on your birthday day. It was not only a less crowded time, because most people only thinks about visiting during the summer, but we also got great deals on food and tours.
Beauty And The Beast out in theaters today!
The classic tale of "Beauty and the Beast" – and its empowering message that true beauty comes from within – dates back to 18th century France and the first published version of the fairy tale, "La Belle et la Bête," by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Today, this message could not be more important and this movie could not be released on a better time.
I am always happy when I get and email inviting me to cover a movie junket but getting the email about the press interviews for The Beauty And The Beast was one of those emails that made me jump and and down with happiness. I loved the animated movie and I am super excited about this version.


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Xenogears orchestral album gets date, price, sampling
By Heath | February 14, 2011 at 7:28 am
Back in the fall, Yasunori Mitsuda told the world that the acclaimed Xenogears soundtrack would be getting an orchestral revamp. Now, there's a brief online sampling of the game's opening song that autoplays when visiting the album's official page.
Overseen by Mitsuda, the name of the album will be "Myth," and it'll go on sale in Japan Feb. 23 for 3,000 yen (like $30). It will likely be a required import for those that want it outside of Japan.
The original version of the above-mentioned song is the first trck on the original Xenogears OST — fitting, as it plays over the opening video of Xenogears. Below is said video for the curious or the nostalgic. (It's in Japanese though.)
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Q: Ruby on Rails - Using Float::INFINITY with where query, any drawbacks? So, I have a search method in my model as follows:
def self.advanced_search(name, min_experience, max_hourly_rate)
    where('lower(name) LIKE ? AND experience >= ? AND hourly_rate <= ?', "%#{name.downcase}%", min_experience, max_hourly_rate)
end

Now if the max_hourly_rate is blank then I'd get this error:
PG::InvalidTextRepresentation: ERROR:  invalid input syntax for type double precision: ""
LINE 1: ...IKE '%%' AND experience >= '5' AND hourly_rate <= '') AND (l...

Instead of using another boring if statement I set max_hourly_rate to infinity if it's blank
def self.advanced_search(name, min_experience, max_hourly_rate)
    max_hourly_rate = Float::INFINITY if max_hourly_rate.blank?
    where('lower(name) LIKE ? AND experience >= ? AND hourly_rate <= ?', "%#{name.downcase}%", min_experience, max_hourly_rate)
end

Does this method have any drawbacks? If yes, is there a better solution?

A: One obvious drawback is that every condition that you add makes your database query more complex and slower. Another drawback is that this approach doesn't work with all databases. It might work on PostgreSQL but SQLite for example would raise an SQLException.
I would just add several scopes and use them. Scopes are chainable and it is fine for a scope to have an empty condition.
scope :by_name, ->(name) { where('lower(name) LIKE ?', "%#{name.downcase}%") if name.present? }
scope :min_experience, ->(exp) { where('experience >= ?', exp) if exp.present? }
scope :max_hourly_rate, ->(rate) { where('hourly_rate <= ?', rate.present?) if rate }

With scopes like that, you can write your query like this and do not have to care about nil values
self.advanced_search(name, min_exp, max_rate)
  by_name(name).min_experience(min_exp).max_hourly_rate(max_rate)
end

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Yigong Shi received his bachelor's degree with highest honor from Tsinghua University in 1989 and his Ph.D. in biophysics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1995. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, he joined Princeton University as an Assistant Professor in 1998 and was promoted to Professor in 2003. He was named the Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology in 2007. He resigned from Princeton University, declined an Investigator's offer from Howard Hughes Medical Institute and returned to Tsinghua University in 2008. He is a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a foreign associate of the European Molecular Biology Organization.
Shi's research focuses on three distinct areas: programmed cell death, regulated intramembrane proteolysis, and pre-mRNA splicing. He has received a number of recognitions, including a 1999–2002 Searle Scholarship, the 2003 Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award from the Protein Society, the 2010 Sackler Prize in Biophysics, and the 2014 Gregori Amino Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.


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