There aren't many changes inside Wrigley Field this year, including the Cubs' clubhouse, where Kerry Wood got his old locker back.
"It didn't cost me anything — yet," he said.
Wood's return to the mound figures to be an emotional moment at Wrigley, though he said it did not feel strange at all to be back at his old stomping grounds.
As for the prognosticators downplaying the Cubs' chances, Wood said: "The sun is going to come up and we're going to get dressed and go play a baseball game. All the experts are always wrong. Their early picks are never right. We focus on what we have to do, do what makes us good, and we'll be all right."
Barney watch: Manager Mike Quade inserted rookie Darwin Barney into his Opening Day lineup at second base, batting him eighth. Barney hit .340 this spring, while Jeff Baker batted .360.
"There are a lot of guys who had good camps," Quade said. "He and Baker had great camps. I think they both earned a chance to play. Barring something crazy, 'Bake' will play against the left-hander (Paul Maholm) the second day."
Getting comfortable: Matt Garza pitched off the Wrigley Field mound on Thursday to get comfortable with his new surroundings. Quade said he isn't worried about Garza's rough spring. The new Cubs starter had a 10.38 earned-run average, and opposing hitters batted .372 against him.
"The pitching coach (Mark Riggins) said the ball is coming out of his hand really good," Quade said. "Maybe his soft game is not where he wants it and getting up here, it'll be right where he wants it. But as long as I saw the velocity and hints of a great slider and really good changeup, that was good enough. How much emphasis do you put on averages and ERAs coming out of spring? I don't know. That's why we're all going to come out (Friday) and see where we're at with this thing."
Extra innings: The new grass at Wrigley Field hasn't had time to grow and is unusually short. Tyler Colvin noted Thursday that ground balls were flying through the infield. … Marlon Byrd's back stiffness was minor and he'll start in center on Friday.


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INTERVIEW: Breaking Bad Creator/Executive Producer Vince Gilligan
April 13, 2010 Jovana Grbic 4 Comments
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Last year around this time, ScriptPhD.com posted Breaking Bad, Chemistry Good, an in-depth article about AMC's breakout hit Breaking Bad, and its stunningly accurate science content. Walter White, the show's anti-hero, is a cancer-stricken high school chemistry teacher who starts cooking and dealing methamphetamine for financial security. In our article, we highlighted several clever uses of chemistry throughout the show's run that not only integrated brilliantly into the plot but had realistic real-world applications as well. What a difference a year makes! Last week, Editor Jovana Grbić sat down with Breaking Bad's delightful Creator and Executive Producer Vince Gilligan to talk about the show's origins, the science, and some behind-the-scenes secrets that will surprise even dedicated fans. We hope you enjoy reading our interview as much as we enjoyed chatting with him. The secrets of Breaking Bad, under the "continued reading" cut.
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ScriptPhD Roundtable: Naturally Obsessed—The Making of a Scientist
April 6, 2010 Jovana Grbic Leave a comment
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Society's unequivocal fascination with science and scientists, reflected by a growing presence as staples of film, television, and popular culture, has only been magnified by the enigmatic (and seemingly impenetrable) aura in which they are enveloped. Their studies decidedly abstruse, their coded language unintelligible, their habits quirky and eccentric, the world of the scientist has been an audiovisual shroud of mystery—until now. In perhaps the most authentic, unfiltered, extemporaneous portrayal of scientists in their environment ever recorded, new documentary Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist welcomes the lay audience into the laboratory as silent observers. No reservations, no restrictions, no preconceptions. The result is an emotionally stunning masterpiece that connects us to scientists as people, reaches out across professional divides, and places PhD students, the backbone of the modern scientific laboratory, under the microscope for the first time. ScriptPhD.com recently screened the movie with a group of UCLA PhD biology students. Under the "continue reading" cut is our review, along with an honest roundtable discussion that included reaction to the movie, its parallel to their lives, and the training of modern scientists.
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Science and Society: A Policy Analysis
March 20, 2010 Jovana Grbic Leave a comment
"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion." —Arnold H. Glasgow, American humorist
In today's modern, fast-moving world, large telecommunication and media corporations are playing an ever increasing role in shaping the collective consciousness of society. This development might lead us to ponder what role, if any, traditional pillars of learning such as law, science, medicine, literature and art have to contribute to society. How does society absorb these contributions during the ongoing media (and social media) blitz that has transformed how we obtain, process and share information. More importantly, what influence do these contributions have upon society, and what influence does society reciprocate upon these institutions? For our last (and best) post of Science Week, ScriptPhD.com examines the relationship between science and society, and extrapolates social policy and pop culture lessons that could shape and transform that relationship in the future. Please click "continue reading" for more.
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Guest Article: A Pop-Culture Science Lesson
All right class, settle down, settle down. My name is Mr. Ross, but you may call me BR. Welcome to Pop-Culture Science 101. I know what many of you are thinking: "Science is boring; I just don't get it." I can understand those sentiments. But that's only because of the ways you've been taught in the past. Today is going to be different. On this, the third day of the Science Week collaboration between ScriptPhD and CC2K, we decided to have a bit of silly fun and cover a couple of traditionally esoteric science topics from an angle I doubt any of you have considered before—pop culture icons. So get out your notebooks and pens, today's lesson begins now! Please click "continue reading" for more.
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Guest Article: From Science Fiction to Reality
March 16, 2010 Jovana Grbic 2 Comments
We are living in the time of science fiction. Literally.
Think about it: both 1984 and 2001 have come and gone. And while 2010 may be a disappointment to those of you who were expecting flying cars and time machines, many of the devices we take for granted now can trace their origins in science fiction of the past. Countless lists have been compiled of sci-fi inventions (a few excellent ones can be found here, here, and here), and Editor Jovana Grbić spoke about the topic during a recent UCLA School of Film colloquium. So in this post, for Day 2 of ScripPhD.com Science Week, I'd like to take a look at a few examples of the scientific inventions that science fiction has bestowed us—and the ones they're still perfecting for the future!
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INTERVIEW: Engineering Professor and Caprica Science Consultant Malcolm MacIver
ScriptPhD.com is extraordinarily proud to present our first ever Science Week! Collaborating with the talented writers over at CC2K: The Nexus of Pop Culture and Fandom, we have worked hard to bring you a week's worth of interviews, reviews, discussion, sci-fi and even science policy. We kick things of in style with a conversation with Professor Malcolm MacIver, a robotics engineer and science consultant on the SyFy Channel hit Caprica. While we have had a number of posts covering Caprica, including a recent interview with executive producer Jane Espenson, to date, no site has interviewed the man that gives her writing team the information they need to bring artificial Cylon intelligence to life. For our exclusive interview, and Dr. MacIver's thoughts on Cylons, smart
robotics, and the challenges of future engineering, please click "continue reading."
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Discovering LIFE on Planet Earth—Editor's Selection
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In 2006, The Discovery Channel, in partnership with the BBC, premiered the 11-part Planet Earth, the most expensive natural history mini-series ever filmed, and the first in high definition. It gave viewers a sweeping, intimate overview of the Earth's diverse natural habitats. Yet long before Planet Earth premiered, plans were already underway for its follow-up opus, LIFE, which would focus on the animals, insects, and creatures that call those habitats home. The result, four years in the making, is historic television—never-before-recorded mating rituals, survival scenes, and brutal savagery. For the naturalist and the nature-lover, LIFE will, quite simply, change your view of life. After the "continue reading" cut, we preview the first few episodes and offer a rare candid interview with executive producer Mike Gunton. We are proud to make LIFE on Discovery Channel an official ScriptPhD.com Editor's Selection.
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Video: ScriptPhD Interviews the Science Advisor of 'Fringe'
February 9, 2010 Jovana Grbic 1 Comment
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ScriptPhD.com's coverage of Comic-Con 2009 included an interesting panel entitled Mad Science: The Science Behind Science Fiction, which consisted of a panel of top science fiction shows Eureka, Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, Caprica and Fringe. There, we met Dr. Ricardo Gil da Costa, a neurobiologist who is one of the official science advisors to the writers of Fringe. We recently had the opportunity to visit Dr. Gil da Costa on location in his laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, CA. We sat down to talk about his science, what it's like to be "on-call" for one of the biggest hit shows on television, how the writers use his knowledge and integrate it into the show, and more broadly, how creatives in the entertainment industry can best utilize the skills of research scientists as they integrate more sophisticated material into their scripts. Watch the full video below.
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Guest Article: HBO's 'Temple Grandin' Biopic Honors Autistic Scientist
February 5, 2010 Jovana Grbic 2 Comments
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This was a remarkable week for autism science and publicity. In a stunning and rare reversal, medical journal The Lancet retracted the 1998 paper responsible for suggesting a link between autism and MMR vaccinations, incurring over a decade of acrimonious debate and frightened parents. Ironic then that this should be the week when HBO premieres their new feature film Temple Grandin, about the eponymous world-famous scientist. Dr. Grandin has written and spoken openly about her struggle with autism and how it's colored her view of the world and influenced the science she studies. ScriptPhD.com is extraordinarily honored to extend a warm welcome to friend and fellow blogger Susan Etlinger, author of the autism spectrum blog The Family Room, to review the biopic and interview the project's executive producer. For full content, please click "continue reading."
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REVIEW: Caprica (includes interview with head writer Jane Espenson)
January 19, 2010 Jovana Grbic 3 Comments
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No one has been more excited about the premiere of Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica than ScriptPhd.com. We eagerly joined the cast and crew of both shows last May during their joint panel at the Los Angeles Paley television festival. We were also one of the first sites to review the Caprica 2 hour pilot. And now, at long last, one of the most anticipated sci-fi prequels ever will premiere on the SyFy Channel this Friday. ScriptPhD.com's Bryy Miller reviews the first three episodes and talks about the show's early conceptualization and long-term promise. We are also extraordinarily fortunate and proud to bring you an Editor's interview with series executive producer and show runner Jane Espenson, in which she talks about what we can expect from Caprica. Please click "continue reading" for full content.
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Q: sed pattern matching, stop at first found character Take the string  "hello_world 1 2 3"
I want the output to be "hello_world"
My attempt is "s/\(.*\) .*/\1/g"
But I get "hello_world 1 2"
Instead of stopping at the first space after the sequence, it gets the last space on the line.
I want to take any length of characters \(.*\) followed by a space ' ' and remove anything that comes after it .*
How can I do it?

A: Could you please try following.
echo "hello_world 1 2 3" | sed 's/\([^ ]*\).*/\1/'

Explanation of above:
Using sed's capability of storing matched regex into a temp buffer. Which could be later accessed by variables like 1, 2 and so on(depending upon number of buffers you are mentioning).
In here we are capturing everything till occurrence of first space into 1st temp buffer and then keeping everything as it is .*. While substituting we are mentioning \1 here which means substitute whole line's value with first matched/stored value of 1st temp buffer(which is hello_world).
Why OP's code not working: Because OP using .* which is a greedy matched regex and capturing all the line in 1st buffer itself that's why when its used \1 its actually printing whole line there.

A: This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed 's/\s.*//' file

Matches the first white space character and everything thereafter and removes it, leaving whatever is in front of i.e. all non-white space characters.
Same as:
sed 's/^(\S+).*/\1/' -E file

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A Guide to Oral Research Presentations - a great resource on oral presentation content from James Madison University. This guide was developed for their institution's symposium, so details regarding available resources, etc. are not relevant outside of that context.
Talk to faculty who teach courses you enjoy and see if they can assist you with finding research opportunities in those areas.
Read faculty bios on departmental websites. Many departmental websites will also list adjunct faculty.
Read or observe articles, papers, publications, or creative works by the faculty with whom you are interested in working.
Note: It's a good idea to have more than one potential mentor in mind. There are several reasons why faculty choose not to enter into a mentoring relationship with a student: they might be on sabbatical, already have several undergraduates and don't have any more room, or their time is already fully committed.
Think about what you want. Are you only looking for a summer research experience or are you interested in continuing with the research during the following academic year? Identify what it is about the professor or his or her research that interests you. Be able to articulate why the professor should consider mentoring you. Have ideas for your research or creative projects proposal and be prepared to discuss it.
Know something about the faculty member's research or creative work. Better yet, read an article or something else he or she has written.
Be prepared—if the faculty member you meet with does not need/want to take on a student, ask who else he or she thinks you should talk to. Sometimes an conversation or email that begins, "Professor Smith suggested that I talk to you..." will get better results.


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Home Education Rahim Yar Khan's Exam Center Turns into Cattle Shed
Rahim Yar Khan's Exam Center Turns into Cattle Shed
By Waleed Khan
Buffalos can be seen tied to pegs within the premises of the Examination Center.
This is a scene of a Government Examination Center in the suburbs of Rahim Yar Khan, where buffalos could be seen tied to pegs around every corner. The Education Department was totally in the dark about what is happening there.
The Government Education Department run Examination Center in Bhutta Wahan, a Union Council in Rahim Yar Khan, has been turned into a buffalo farm.
According to the locals, some influential people have allegedly occupied Higher Secondary Examination and Cluster Center.
The school building has been rendered dysfunction for the last seven years, locals tell.
As soon as one steps into the facility, buffalos could be seen tied all around. The people in the area say that the Centre has been deserted for the last seven years.
The local children have to travel to distant Exam Centers as the center in their area is no longer functional because of the illegal occupation.
According to local people, the facility has been allegedly occupied by an influential.
Mohammad Naeem, a tenth-grade student told PakVoices that due to the closure of local Examination Center, they have to go to centers located far from their place. "A lot of our precious time is wasted in traveling which ultimately affects our performance".
The Students from Bhutta Wahan have to commute to Sadiqabad and their journey during exams causes a lot of distress.
When contacted by the PakVoices, Education Department's top executive in the district showed his ignorance about the issue plaguing the examination center which is run by his department.
When contacted by PakVoices, Mukhtar Hussain, the Chief Executive Office Education Department, expressed his ignorance about the alleged occupation of Examination Center by the influential mafia. He said, "I don't know about it but I will check it."
Waleed Khan is reporting for PakVoices as a citizen journalist from Rahim Yar Khan.
Translated by Tariq Mehmood
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Gillibrand to Appear at NCC Monday to Highlight Federal Historic Preservation Program
July 30, 2018 By WRFA Leave a Comment
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
JAMESTOWN – The National Comedy Center opens this Wednesday, Aug. 1 and all the last minute details are falling into place.
As part of the NCC opening, several special guests are expected to make their way to Jamestown this week, starting Monday with an appearance by U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who will announce nearly $89 million in funding has been secured in the Senate Interior Appropriations bill for the Department of Interior's Historic Preservation Fund. The funding supports historic preservation and economic development projects around the state, including the NCC, which is using Jamestown's Gateway Train Station as one of its buildings. The train station renovation relied on a variety of funding sources, including the one being highlighted Monday by Gillibrand.
Meanwhile, NCC Executive Director Journey Gunderson recently told WRFA the NCC staff has been in "sprint mode" for the past several weeks, working to make sure everything is ready to go once the facility opens on the first day of the 2018 Lucille Ball Comedy Festival.
This year's comedy festival will feature appearances and performances by Lilly Tomlin, Amy Schumer, Dan Aykroyd, Lewis Black, and many, many more.
Some of those shows are sold out, while tickets remain for many others, including those that specifically focus on the legacy and comedy of Lucille Ball.
To learn more about the NCC and the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival events, visit ComedyCenter.org.
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If you file a joint return with your spouse, you may find an unpleasant surprise around tax time. The Internal Revenue Service can take your tax refund to repay debts owed to federal or state agencies, such as old tax bills, child support payments or a defaulted loan. If the debt in question is the sole responsibility of your significant other, you may be able to win relief as an injured spouse. Doing so can protect your share of the refund from being seized.
A woman is bringing food to her injured spouse.
Qualify as an injured spouse. To do so, you'll have to show that the IRS is using the joint overpayment for a debt you're not liable for – such as a defaulted student loan debt incurred by your husband before you were married. You'll also have to prove you qualify based on the income, payments and credits reported on your joint return. If you don't have any reported income, make any tax payments or claim any refundable tax credits, your share of any refund would be $0 and the designation wouldn't qualify.
Download a paper copy of Form 8379 from IRS.gov if you're filing a paper return. Fill out the form completely, noting which income, deductions, credits and tax payments are from your revenue-producing efforts in the relevant tax year. Comparing that to what your spouse earned and paid helps determine how much of your refund you'll be able to save.
File Form 8379 along with your joint return. If you're filing by postal mail, send both documents to the IRS center that processes the return for your area. This information is found on your tax return instructions. You'll send it to the same address if you're filing it by itself after submitting your joint return electronically, or if you're filing it along with an amended return. If you're submitting it by itself and you filed your joint return on paper, send it to the same IRS address where you sent the original return.
E-file in accordance with your tax program's instructions. The specific path to the form depends on your program, and you likely won't be prompted to fill out the form by just going through the general process. Go to the "Miscellaneous Topics" tab and click on "Injured Spouse Relief," or go to the internal search function and type "Injured Spouse Relief" or "Form 8379." Once you're there, the program will ask the necessary questions to fill out the form. It will be sent along with the joint return at no extra cost.


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Reverse Shot's Best of 2014
In the decade-plus that we've engaged in the year-end activity of sorting out the U.S.-released films that best captured our imaginations and intellects over the preceding twelve months, we have seen films land firmly in the top spot that were both thrilling surprises even to us (Flight of the Red Balloon, Alamar, The Deep Blue Sea) and utterly, fabulously expected (Before Sunset, The Tree of Life). This year's selection, as you have likely already ascertained, belongs in the latter camp. The film in our premier spot falls pretty much in line with all the wide-ranging critics' polls and awards groups this year—and we couldn't be more pleased. We've been on-the-record Linklater lovers for more than a decade now, and it only seems fitting that the film that is widely considered this great American artist's magnum opus (though his Before trilogy is arguably that) should sit comfortably at the top.
As usual, we arrived at the final selection by asking for individual ranked top tens from all those who have written for us at least three times during the past year. As for the rest of that list? Well, to try and assign some sort of unifying conceptual framework to disparate films from various countries that just happened to be released over twelve particular successive months is always a fool's errand. (Perhaps a think piece on how three of the films just happen to begin with the letters "S-T-R-A"?!) We were excited to see Sergei Loznitsa, one of the great living directors, finally crack the top ten with his superb documentary Maidan, after hovering below in 2011 and 2013 with his brilliant fiction films My Joy and In the Fog; likewise first-time showings on the list by Alain Guiraudie, Joachim Pinto, and Ramon Zürcher were as welcome as the reappearances of perennial favorites Tsai Ming-liang, Jean-Luc Godard, James Gray, Wes Anderson, and the Dardennes, who all did some truly bold work this year. Of course there are disappointments: we editors wish there was room for all of our personal cinematic causes—Closed Curtain, The Missing Picture, Mr. Turner, and Only Lovers Left Alive, to name a few. But we needed to limit ourselves; otherwise all is chaos. —MK & JR
[Capsules below written by Julien Allen, Ashley Clark, Leo Goldsmith, Eric Hynes, Michael Koresky, Aliza Ma, Adam Nayman, Jeff Reichert, Andrew Tracy, Elbert Ventura, and Genevieve Yue.]
1. Boyhood
Without wishing to indulge in hyperbole, the real miracle of Richard Linklater's Boyhood—a moving, intimate family drama shot in small chunks with the same core cast over a period of twelve years—is not simply that its audacious concept was ushered through to completion. (Ellar Coltrane, who plays Mason, the youngster at the center of the film, could have at any moment decided the acting life wasn't for him, and effectively scuppered the enterprise.) Rather, it's the unshakable faith that Linklater has invested in stillness, subtlety, and—whisper it—banality, as a pathway to emotional resonance. Think about it: how many other directors would make a film over the same period and resist the temptation to shore up the intimidatingly diffuse timeline with dramatic clichés, coming-of-age touchstones (for instance, young Mason's hilariously perplexed reaction to a pair of locker-room douchebag bullies), and actorly pyrotechnics? Save for one spectacular, alcohol-fueled family blowout, Boyhood is comprised of hushed, beautifully observed interactions that cut across generational lines, performed with grace and restraint by underrated actors like Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke, who both shine as Mason's separated parents. Moreover, the film is structured with stunningly brusque ellipses—sometimes the only way to spot the significant passage of story time is in the unheralded alteration of a character's hairstyle, or the sudden appearance of an ill-advised moustache. Linklater's decision to shoot entirely on 35mm film lends the potentially patchwork project a rich, sun-kissed aesthetic unity, while simultaneously rendering it a gentle elegy for an ailing medium. Boyhood plays like some magical collapsed-time capsule: inherently nostalgic thanks to its production history and in the sense that it represents an extratextual commentary on the evolution of Linklater as a filmmaker. But with its implacable forward momentum and refreshing belief in the importance of living in the present, it is thrillingly now. —AC
2. Stranger by the Lake
That Alain Guiraudie's plein soleil thriller—about an urban innocent whose summer idyll at a gay cruising beach gets nasty (in all kinds of ways) when he falls head over heels in love with a hunky, no-maybes-about-it murderer—is a stunning formal accomplishment should be self-evident to anyone who sees it. What's more surprising is that a film that so insistently links sex and death can offer so much sheer pleasure—a pleasure absent either the masochistic moralizing of the Michael Haneke variety or the glibly nihilistic glee of Gone Girl. That pleasure, moreover, is most definitely plural: Stranger is, simultaneously, an almost anthropological study of the modes and mores of homosexual cruising; a creepily insinuating and gratifyingly gory psychological suspenser; a lyric ode to the corpus masculum, dangling undercarriage and all; and a dazzling transformation of a natural setting into an almost geometrical formal field. Pick the pleasure you prefer, but the genius of Guiraudie's design is that none of these, from the most (literally) nakedly sensual to the most rarefied and refined, are separable from their fellows—and it's this very cool, classical integration of elements that makes the film a white-hot vision of carnality as chaos. —AT
3. Stray Dogs
Film critics should thank God for Andrei Tarkovsky for many reasons, but mostly because of the concept of "sculpting in time." With a single turn of phrase, the great director ably described his own slow cinema while gifting writers with a handy go-to metaphor that could be applied to any and all duration-based works. Tsai Ming-liang's Stray Dogs surely illustrates Tarkovsky's dictum about cinema "expressing the course of time within the frame" via several static shots that last upwards of six or ten minutes, and yet the film's dragginess seems to belong to its characters: anybody looking for a definition of the theory of relativity should ask a man conscripted to work as a human billboard in torrential Taipei. The disparity between Lee Kang-sheng's character's impassionedly nationalist oratory (cribbed from a twelfth-century Chinese poet) and his sub-menial vocation is all the dialectics that Tsai needs to generate his (supposedly) final feature's subject—it's the economy, stupid—and pressurize all those ensuing long-take frames until they feel full to bursting with anger and compassion. Tsai's work has always straddled the line between critical cultural portraiture and pure aestheticism, and with Stray Dogs he's obliterated the binaries entirely. This film is concrete blocks and midnight rain: a brave and adventurous foray into surrealist neorealism. —AN
4. Goodbye to Language
When cinema's greatest luminaries dabble in the flimsy fairground trick that is 3D—to show they have its measure—they nearly always hone in on its fundamental drawback (it's more 2D than 2D) and turn it into a plus. So Hitchcock filmed a stage play with flat sets before a filmed backdrop of the street (Dial M for Murder), Scorsese recreated the concertina 2D confections of Georges Meliès (Hugo), and Spielberg adapted a page-turning comic book (The Adventures of Tintin). Godard, for his part, didn't need to look that far or try that hard. His cinema has always—figuratively and literally—been about overlapping and layering: images, ideas, sounds, musical cues, capitalized slogans . . . planes of thought. Goodbye to Language is his lyrical, philosophical, and occasionally scatological vision of cinema's possibilities. Shot with GoPro cameras and smartphones, enfant terrible-style, it is playful and aggressive (he assaults our optic nerves at times), but there is also melancholy in this tale of a couple, played by two couples, who meet, love, argue, and rediscover each other. Even in his intellectualism—which infuriates his detractors most—he shows restraint: the customary machine-gun battery of references, aphorisms, and slogans has been here replaced by an old man throwing such ruminations like skimming stones into Lake Leman, bouncing each idea off the surface, thus giving it more longevity and, eventually, depth. The couple's dog wanders through the film like a silent Tiresias, seeing the beauty of the world in all its clarity, whilst human eyes witness something more complex and troubled (via images that combine, clash, and blur, as when windscreen wipers on a night drive seem to oscillate across our corneas). JLG said his goodbyes to any concept of a common cinematic language two decades ago, and after a lifetime given over to cinema, he has created a genre that only he now seems to be able to practice. One might favor the less valedictory meaning of the French title, "Ah, Dieu, Oh, Langage" ("Oh God, Oh, Language"), for as he himself fades, Godard continues to give cinema new life. —JA
5. The Immigrant
I tried to tally how many times money is either mentioned or shown in The Immigrant, but had to stop after all my fingers, toes, and teeth were accounted for. James Gray's fifth film may assume an operatic shape and tone—it diagrams a deadly love triangle, brims with soul-bruising pathos, and strikes, via Darius Khondji's luminescent cinematography, chords of romance, nostalgia, and subjective memory—but it is crucially founded in and constructed of grubby, quotidian exchanges. Of all the 2014 films that purport to expose the dark heart of the American dream (Foxcatcher, Big Eyes, A Most Violent Year, to name just a few), this time machine back to 1920s New York's toxic melting pot is the year's most bluntly persuasive and humanely empathetic. Despite the guilt that the devout Ewa (Marion Cotillard) hasn't any choice but to confront, and the shame that the scheming, shambling Bruno (Joaquin Phoenix) rightfully shoulders, Gray and his late cowriter Richard Menello's story is not about good vs. evil, sinners vs. saints, but simple survival. Since everything is transactional—shelter, safety, employment, affection, even family—anything extra that arises between people is, like a flower from a crack in the concrete, basically a miracle. To wit, The Immigrant's mature, at times unsparing dramatic transaction with its audience yields miracles modest (Cotillard's knee-buckling eye work, Phoenix's morally complex mumble, and an aria echoing through Ellis Island's great hall) and, in its final scene, very, very major. Here Gray achieves an emotional, moral, philosophical, spiritual, and dramatic complexity rarely glimpsed in today's cinema. Bitter blows crumble into an embrace, a cowering limp opens into a chin-up stride, and irreconcilable degradation somehow yields grace. Yes, the final shot is Tarkovsky-level, file-it-away-for-the-highlight-reel masterful, but thanks to Gray's deliberately gradual, poly-themed build to crescendo, it's also entirely earned. —EH
6. Manakamana
In a year filled with films that gave us the gracious space to contemplate, meditate, and luxuriate in time (Boyhood, Stray Dogs, Closed Curtain, Maidan, National Gallery), Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez's leisurely ride to and from a sacred Hindu temple at the top of a Nepalese mountain was the most excitingly adaptable. Within its simple structural concept—eleven single takes, each a stationary shot, capturing a seemingly random assortment of individuals, couples, trios, and animals perched before the camera inside a gondola for the roughly eleven-minute glide up or down the mountain—it invites the viewer to consider such a multitude of things that it becomes almost a thought experiment: what do you see? Perhaps you're overwhelmed by the gorgeous vista itself, however obscured by the people blocking the panorama. Or maybe it's the landscape of the human face that steals your imagination. Maybe you're preoccupied with unspoken stories: why these latter-day pilgrims are making the journey at all, whether they are just tourists or locals with religious conviction. And you're likely, whether you know it or not, considering notions of filmic suspense, most explicitly in the exquisitely funny segment in which a woman and her elderly mother try to finish their rapidly melting ice cream bars before the ride's over. Or perhaps all of this is secondary to questions about what cinema—yes, even narrative cinema—is; common boundaries between documentary and fiction wither here, but more importantly, so do long-held standards of entertainment. Especially on the big screen, where we get a sense of being held aloft in the sky and where every pylon pass registers like a Richter Scale thump, Spray and Velez's wondrous film feels like a radically docile cinematic roller coaster. We never see what happens on Manakamana, but it doesn't matter because what happens in Manakamana is so thrilling. —MK
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel
One of the most quoted lines from The Grand Budapest Hotel doubles as something of an authorial manifesto: "There are still faint glimmers of civilization in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity." That's Gustave H., played by Ralph Fiennes, concierge par excellence and sentinel of good taste at the core of Wes Anderson's nested-doll narrative. The line that follows often gets lopped off: "Indeed, that's what we provide in our modest, humble, insignificant—oh, fuck it." That about sums up Anderson's latest creation: a valiant declaration against encroaching monstrosity, undercut by a flapping "who am I kidding?" white flag. The Grand Budapest Hotel goes into territory we hardly expected. Could the dollhouse choreographer of The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou really tackle fascism and the Holocaust? But the specter of real-world horrors, frequently out-of-frame or just hinted at here, deepens Anderson's art. Dismissed by skeptics as all style and no soul, Anderson's movies are in fact profoundly moving explorations of how people come to be who they are. No less than his other films, The Grand Budapest Hotel elevates as a fundamental value the refusal to let environment and circumstance determine identity. Idiosyncrasy isn't an indulgence; seemingly precious details are nothing less than bulwarks against the slow creep of twilight. That Gustave H., standing in for his creator, is aware of the futility of the effort makes this Anderson's most affecting movie yet. —EV
8. What Now? Remind Me
Perhaps it's his long career as a sound recordist, listening closely and attentively for the minutest of aural variations—under the likes of Manoel de Oliveira, Raúl Ruiz, and João César Monteiro—that makes Joaquim Pinto the director so attuned to that which is most necessary and evocative in his epic autobiographical nonfiction work What Now? Remind Me. Even so, while it takes skill and practice to sit, wearing headphones, keeping your ears open for stray sounds, it's something else entirely to pay attention closely enough to one's own life to construct it for a film while living it. This is the majesty of What Now?—that, even in the midst of a year Pinto spent fuzzy and addled by a cocktail of drugs meant to keep his own potentially fatal twinned infections of HIV and Hep C in check, he manages to be aware of his surroundings; empathetic in his dealings with others; fascinated and compelled by literature, art, and music; passionate with his hunky partner, Nuno; and to act as his own cameraman, sound person, director, and editor to document all of the fluctuations of his daily life. The result might be blandly labeled a "personal diary," but such a signifier, as applied in today's cinema, makes little room for the boundless curiosity and intellect, not to mention elegant aesthetic control, exhibited across What Now?'s broad length. (The work's closest cousin is something like the similarly personal, wide-ranging, and non-narcissistic The Beaches of Agnes). It's a film that's made of such simple parts, and that unspools so conversationally, that it seems anyone with a camera and a life could make something like it, until it finishes, the weight of the thing hits—hard—and you realize you've been in the presence of a uniquely great movie all along. Pretty much every other film in 2014, fiction or non-, came up short. —JR
9. The Strange Little Cat (tie)
A perfectly realized artisanal film of astonishing economy, originality, and beauty, The Strange Little Cat is the result of a collaboration by twin brothers Ramon (director) and Silvan (producer) Zürcher, made during an intensive seminar lead by Béla Tarr in their graduating year at the Film and Television Academy in Berlin. Described by the director as a "chamber piece with a minimal plot," it is a work that makes a cunning monument of the performative gestures and musical qualities of everyday minutiae. Set to striking static shots, almost entirely in a small apartment, the film unfolds over the course of a weekend afternoon as a family—an unnamed mother and father, their older children Karin and Simon, young daughter Clara, and pets—and their visiting neighbors prepare for a dinner party. Zürcher composes his intricate scenes of lived-in space and time with precisely choreographed movements that flow in and out of the apartment's many rooms, making the tightly delimited domestic space and the still frame of the camera—often obfuscating more than it reveals—the film's dominant structuring principle. Amidst all the household clutter, surreal flashbacks and pensive monologues furnish the film with rare moments of repose, droll humanism, and startling theatricality. Over a mere 72 minutes, private fears, unconsummated desires, imminent death, chaos, and entropy emerge within the film's carefully calibrated construction. Although the finished work bears no distinguishing similarities to its original point of inspiration, The Metamorphosis, it recalls Kafka's statement: "It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet." —AM
9. Two Days, One Night (tie)
Two Days, One Night begins with Sandra (Marion Cotillard) being roused from a nap by her ringing cell phone. Considering the events that follow, the opening recalls a line from Kenji Mizoguchi's Sansho the Bailiff, which locates that film in "an era when mankind had not yet awakened as human beings." Though the Dardennes' depiction of contemporary working class Belgium is worlds away from Mizoguchi's feudal Japan, much is the same: their inhabitants contend with hostile environments, endure the cruelty of others, and desperately seek kindness. Sandra has awoken to bad news: having taken extended medical leave from her factory job, she learns that her sixteen coworkers have voted against her return, each opting instead to receive a €1000 bonus. But Juliette (Catherine Salée), the friend on the phone, has negotiated a new vote to be held Monday morning. The deadline structure is set, and Sandra spends her weekend visiting each colleague to appeal for her job. Yet the film's drama lies less in the outcome than in the repetition of these individual encounters, which the Dardennes show in full. Each begins with Sandra speaking the same words, yet they end differently, with responses ranging from cold reprobation to violence to tearful gratitude. All are tense, unpredictable, and magnificent. At one point, Sandra calls her mission "work," and it's probably the hardest work she's ever done, not only because she runs breathlessly from door to door, or shivers from a panic attack, but also because she must confront the unjust conditions of her employment. The Dardennes' politics have always been enfolded in ordinary situations, less theoretical abstractions than blunt moral choices wrestled with firsthand, often in one's actual hands. Here it's done with Cotillard's eyes, which go from sleep and drug-induced dullness to clarity, vulnerability, and a hard-won dignity that shines as she meets the eyes of others. —GY
10. Maidan
Documentary filmmakers often construct their works according to the logic of fiction films: how to craft a story, develop a character, establish a setting. Maidan, perhaps betraying director Sergei Loznitsa's roots as a mathematician, seems more geometric in its composition. Its title means simply "square," referring to Kiev's Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, the locus of the protests that led to the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, but it might just as well hint at the significance of the film's frame. This simple title seems to pose a set of questions crucial both to politics and to cinema: who occupies this square, and how can it be transformed into a site of public discourse and real political change? With its metronomic editing and precisely angled lines of sight, Maidan is mounted less like an issue doc or work of agitprop, and more like a landscape film. But instead of mountains, valleys, and waterways, the film trains its attention on faces, bodies, crowds, swarms. Here, aesthetics and organizational logic are not simply effective media for a message, but political decisions: when to film; where you point that camera, and at whom; when to cut and, crucially, when not to. All of this is in the service of creating a collective image, an image of the people as a unit, a social body. What does democracy look like? It looks like an image as capacious as any that Bazin found in Wyler, Renoir, and Welles. The difference here is that we are no longer in the realm of mytho-cinematic construction, but immersed in the very immediate, very material mise-en-scène of the present. Here, Loznitsa reminds us thathow and where one points a camera—at a rally, at a soup kitchen, at a cop—is an aesthetic decision with profound consequences. —LG
Years in Review


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Birds and Boats: New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! take a new look at two SouthCoast favorites
Anyone in the South Coast exhibiting and/or selling artworks knows there is an affinity for boats and birds. This summer New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! (NBAM/ArtWorks!) will launch two new exhibitions that provide plenty of nautical and avian eye candy, a press release states.
The museum's exhibitions will bring a surprising and contemporary point a view to one this region's most popular subject matters.
First, to open in the Museum's Fiber Optic Center New Media Gallery is SEA [SIC] a video exhibition by Johannes DeYoung. DeYoung works in experimental animation and time-based media exploring themes of animism and human psychology. SEA [SIC] is a multimedia experience that draws inspiration from Théodore Géricault's shipwreck painting, "The Raft of the Medusa". DeYoung's practice frequently engages forms that blend computer animation with experimental processes in painting and drawing.
SEA [SIC] opens to the public on Aug. 8 with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.
At 7 p.m., NBAM/ArtWorks!'s Curator Jamie Uretsky will sit down with artists Johannes DeYoung and Murray McMillan for a community conversation about contemporary video art.
Murray is half of the collaborative team who is bringing another exhibition to the Museum's Skylight Gallery late this August. Along with his partner Megan McMillan, the pair create interdisciplinary projects that incorporate video, installation, photography, and performance.
Their newest video, titled SOME THINGS WE CAN DO TOGETHER, is just one of eleven videos, two larger than life Lillies, and enchanting explorations of interpersonal relationships. Drawing on their own experiences, having known one another since they were 15 years old; married for 22 years, the McMillans have been making art collaboratively for over a decade.
Their art practice exists in the space of constant conversation between the two. This bond is reflected in their art; and like the work, it is complicated, funny at times, magical, assertive, and most of all, it is kind.
SOME THINGS WE CAN DO TOGETHER opens to the public on Aug. 14, with a reception on Thursday, Sept. 12 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Also opening that evening is an exhibition in the Museum's City Gallery titled THE VISE1 PROJECT presented by SUPERFLAT NB. Superflat NB & the New Bedford Housing Authority invited Cedric "Vise1" Douglas, an internationally recognized street artist from Boston, to conduct a series of workshops with the families and youth of New Bedford's Ben Rose Gardens.
Together, they explored themes important to the community using the history and techniques of street art. The result? A number of inspired art-making projects and a two-story-high mural that furthers the mission of Superflat NB: to flatten barriers to the arts by directly engaging New Bedford's youth, artists, and its residents while beautifying New Bedford.
NBAM/ArtWorks! is located at 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. and noon to 9 p.m. on Thursdays.
For more information visit www.newbedfordart.org or call 508-961-3072.


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Home » Latest » $9.6BN P&ID DEBT: Reps to review all agreements and treaties signed by Nigeria
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$9.6BN P&ID DEBT: Reps to review all agreements and treaties signed by Nigeria
The House of Representatives Wednesday set up a 17-man ad hoc committee to investigate the circumstances surrounding the $9.6bn judgment recently secured by Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID) limited, in a court in the United Kingdom against Nigeria.
As a part of the investigation, the committee is to invite the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the federation, Abubakar Malami, and the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Timpriye Sylva.
The ministers are expected to give situational report on the matter and explain the lapse in judgement of time and due diligence in the (mis)handling of the case with a view to finding lasting solutions to the avalanche of extant and future cases.
Also, other officials of the ministries, saddled with the responsibility to negotiate the agreement with P&ID and the prosecution of the matter before the tribunal, will be summoned to the house.
The 17-man panel, which the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila set up was mandated to recommend appropriate sanctions where necessary "without fear or favour or preference for status" in line with Order 14 of the Standing Orders of the House.
Additionally, the panel would initiate a process of reviewing all agreements and treaties signed by Nigeria through the appropriate committees to create opportunities to discover anomalies and avoid a repeat in the future.
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The constitution of the committee, headed by Hon. Sada Soli (APC Katsina), followed the passage of motion of urgent national importance sponsored by a member, Hon. Julius Ihonvbere.
It was entitled, 'Motion for the Urgent Need to Investigate the Act of Negligence in the Handling of the Process and Industrial Development Limited's Transaction by the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Respectively.'
While moving the motion, Ihonvbere pointed out that the recent judgement debt of $9.6 billion (with daily interest accruing) by a commercial court in the United Kingdom against Nigeria, in a matter between Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Limited "leaves a very sour taste in the mouth."
According to him, for a country with a foreign reserve of only $45 billion and a sovereign debt profile of over $80 billion, the judgment debt is not only punitive but would devastatingly affect the Nigerian economy.
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Now reading: Watches that Made History in Hollywood Movies
Watches that Made History in Hollywood Movies
Watches have always been an alluring aspect of Hollywood films, captivating viewers with their ability to both complement a character's look and reflect the era and storyline of the movie. As a result, the watch has become a crucial character in its own right, with each timepiece style lending a unique depth to the stories being told onscreen. From the dependable toughness of a G-Shock to the timeless elegance of a Rolex, watches have been integral in helping to define characters and narratives. Join us as we delve into the history behind 4 iconic pieces and why they remain so memorable today.
Movies like Mission: Impossible, Apollo 13, American Psycho, and Back To The Future have all immortalised iconic watches in Hollywood, with the Casio G-Shock, Omega Speedmaster, Rolex Datejust, and Casio CA53W Twincept Databank all having left their mark in cinema history. These watches are more than just props, they are a testament to the art of storytelling and the critical importance of detail in filmmaking.
Mission: Impossible II
The second instalment of the acclaimed Mission: Impossible franchise features Tom Cruise wearing the iconic Casio G-Shock. This watch is known for its rugged durability and resistance to shock, making it a perfect choice for an action film. The G-Shock worn in the film is the DW-6900, which features a black and orange colourway and a digital display.
First image: scened obtained from the film. Second image: from Casio
The 1995 American historical drama film directed by Ron Howard chronicled the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970. Tom Hanks, who portrays astronaut Jim Lovell, wears the iconic Omega Speedmaster, nicknamed the "Moonwatch" for being the first watch worn on the moon, making it a fitting choice for a film about a lunar mission. The specific model featured in the film is the ST105.012, boasting a timeless black dial and stainless steel case.
First image: scened obtained from the film. Second image: from Omega
One of the most iconic American psychological thriller films, based on Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel of the same name, features an iconic watch - the Rolex Datejust. Worn by Christian Bale, who plays the character of Patrick Bateman, the watch's timeless elegance and refined style perfectly capture the essence of the character. The Datejust worn in the film is the reference 1601, boasting a steel case and a silver dial.
First image: scened obtained from the film. Second image: from Rolex
Robert Zemeckis' 1985 American science fiction classic tells the story of a teenager who travels through time to the 1950s. One of the most iconic watches in this film is the Casio CA53W Twincept Databank, worn by Michael J. Fox, who plays the lead Marty McFly. It is a digital watch with a calculator function and has a distinctive orange colourway, making it a fitting choice for a time-travelling teenager.
Wrapping up, these classic watches featured in films have been integral to the cinematic experience. Just as they made history, their conservation will be key to their preservation. Here at Rapport, you will find handcrafted and stylish boxes and winders to protect your watches in top condition for years to come.


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Get out your mittens: Here's what to expect from the nor'easter this weekend
Anna Sheffer
It may be March, but winter is coming. The East Coast is currently getting hammered by a nor'easter that started yesterday, March 1st. Here's what to expect from the nor'easter this weekend.
The storm, known as Winter Storm Riley has developed into a bomb cyclone, CNN reported today, March 2nd. The storm has already brought heavy rain and wind gusts of up to 50 mph, resulting in power outages across Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey. The Weather Channel reported flooding in the Boston area and 24 inches of snow in New York state as of this morning.
But the storm is going to worsen from here.
The National Weather Service has warned that if you live in the area affected by the nor'easter, the storm's impact should not be underestimated.
"Take this storm seriously!" the Boston branch of the organization tweeted yesterday, March 1st. "This is a LIFE & DEATH situation for those living along the coast, especially those ocean-exposed shorelines."
[COASTAL FLOODING] Take this storm seriously! This is a LIFE & DEATH situation for those living along the coast, esp those ocean-exposed shorelines; moderate to major flooding; locations becoming inundated, cut off for periods of time; expect structural damage, homes destroyed pic.twitter.com/vGLB09BFbW
— NWS Boston (@NWSBoston) March 1, 2018
The Massachusetts coast, including the town of Scituate, facing a severe impact from the storm, has been ordered to evacuate. Residents living along the New Jersey coast have boarded up their houses in preparation.
The nor'easter hammering the East Coast has officially morphed into a "bomb cyclone" and continues to strengthen. Follow live updates: https://t.co/Gm1ncMF69T pic.twitter.com/N2A9G9OWxz
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) March 2, 2018
Strong winds and coastal flooding are likely to continue. Although major cities like New York City aren't expected to see much snow piling up, parts of New York are expected to get 10 inches of snow or more. And New England could see as much as four inches of rain. The nor'easter is predicted to rage through March 3rd or longer, affecting areas as far north as Maine and as far south as Georgia.
If you have weekend travel plans, put them on hold.
Major airlines, including Delta, are waiving change fees due to more than 2,500 canceled flights. Amtrak has suspended trains between NYC and Boston due to downed trees and power lines. And road conditions in the region mean that you should stay home if you can avoid going out.
Service is temporarily being suspended between NYP and BOS due to severe storm related issues, flooding and multiple trees down impacting operations. Trains already operating between these cities will be proceeding with delays to their end points as of this time. Updates to come.
— Amtrak Northeast (@AmtrakNECAlerts) March 2, 2018
We've issued a travel waiver due to forecasted weather in the Northeast. For more information see https://t.co/It8RLSEalp
— Delta (@Delta) February 28, 2018
Our members are out on the roadways to respond to accidents and crashes, and answer calls during the duration of the storm.
Remember to drive slowly and with caution. Everything takes longer on snow-covered roads.
Also, if you really don't have to go out, don't.
Be safe! pic.twitter.com/qrPEKlU6Fb
— NewYorkStatePolice (@nyspolice) March 2, 2018
Conditions in the nor'easter this weekend are looking more and more dangerous. If you're on the East Coast in the next few days, make sure you keep off the roads and have plenty of food and water stocked up. Stay safe, everyone!
By Anna Sheffer


I'd just shut Tony's car door when a back-burner question suddenly demanded front-and-center attention. The last time Greta and I had been to a movie, we'd hardly watched the thing, and that was when we were just allowed to hold hands. Now we could kiss, and I really needed advice. Fortunately, the one person in the entire world who I could ask without possibly dying of embarrassment was here, so I pulled Eileen aside with an urgent request for brother-sister time as Tony and Greta waited for tickets.
She was smiling faintly, in her superior elder-sister way, and that was intimidating, but I blurted it out anyway, as there was no time to work up to it. "Eileen, I really need to know. When I kiss Greta, should I use my tongue?" I could feel my blush hit, but I forced my eyes back up to meet hers.
Aargh. I wanted to hit something. I'd been acting like a gentleman for months now, and I didn't see how that was much help.
I nodded, repeating her words over to myself. I hoped this was enough instruction because there wasn't time for any more. I gave her heartfelt thanks, and we rejoined the other two.
"What was that about?" Tony asked as we walked up to the door.
I owed Eileen big. I bought her and Tony a large buttered popcorn as a down payment, with another for Greta and me. We sat in back with an empty pair of seats between us. I was glad for that because I didn't think I could kiss Greta sitting next to my sister. I took the seat on the outside anyway, just to be safe.
Not long into the movie, Greta started giggling. "Eileen is really enjoying being with Tony," she whispered to me. I adjusted my arm around Greta's shoulders. Down, Callahan. She has no idea what whispering in your ear does to you.
Greta smiled as her lashes met. I spent a moment just looking at her and that helped. Then I spent a little time covering familiar ground before I added something new. Eileen was right; it did end up being something like a dance, only much more stimulating. It was a good thing we were technically in a public place—I could not afford to do this with Greta out in the barn. Dad had already told me to stay away from the hayloft with her, but the idea probably would've occurred to me anyway, since I was currently thinking it in a movie theater.
I spent most of the movie kissing Greta. Someone on the screen made up from a fight and they kissed, too, but they couldn't possibly be feeling as good about it as we were. We kissed some more to make sure, and then the movie was over.
When we got home, Tony and I stared at each other across a red haze of thwarted hormones. "Fight?" he asked.
"Oh, yeah." I got him a spare pair of shorts, and the girls went off to giggle and compare notes or whatever it was girls did to recover from kissing. Tony and I put on gloves and squared off.
Tony needed to hit, and all he had was me. I got whooped; that was a foregone conclusion. But I hung with him, and okay, he blacked my eye some, but I could still see because he hadn't been able to completely connect. I was definitely getting better at boxing. Then it reached a point where our punches lacked the sheer desperation we started with, and we were just a couple of guys sparring out in the barn. So we fought a little more for the joy of it, and then we changed to go back inside.
Greta and Eileen looked remote and untouchable, faerie queens graciously mingling with lesser mortals. Tony and I at least no longer looked like cavemen as we ate cake and cracked jokes about criminals running in fear once Tony finished the police academy.
Eileen drifted over, a knowing little smile on her face. "Congratulations, brother." I really didn't want the smile on her face to get any wider or Dad would be over here, and I didn't want to deal with that right now.
So I thanked her before adding, "So much," quietly enough that only she could hear. Okay, it was self-imposed torture, but it was completely worth it.
This is an excerpt from my novel, Patrick. book two in my Hans and Greta trilogy.
Thanks so much, Lion and Tess. This is a novel that has truly been an editing challenge–not so much the individual scenes, but making the whole of it cohesive. Learning to fix it has made me a better writer, and I'm grateful for the experience.
You are welcome.I know what you mean about cohesion. I'm experiencing that currently as well.
Worth the work in the end, though, right?
You caught the tenor of the time perfectly. Well done.
Oh the romance is blossoming!


According to this article, there's a right way and a wrong way to use your phone's autocorrect. The best way to avoid problems with autocorrect is to stop using autocorrect.
There's a right way and a wrong way to use your phone's autocorrect, says the person who invented it. Autocorrect has evolved since its first form, but it's still mostly based on the same fundamental factors.


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HR was in rare form and the band was tight. They played a lot of Human Rights classics and played Bad Brains Reggae song, I and I Survive. Opening act, The Upstarters had an excellent Ska-Punk-Rock-RB set. Upstartets are a great band.


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All tools and screws to attach your TV's are provided.
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option for us. Any alternatives?
> I did not know of the FuzzyRowFilter.. that looks like it may be my best bet.
> Anyone know what Sematexts HBaseWD uses to perform efficient scanning?
>> and use FuzzyRowFilter to find it!
>>> Any improvements in the row key design?
>>> the row key with the country to help with hotspotting?
>>> > Ok didnt know if the sheer number of gets would be a limiting factor.
>>> >>> 4K+ gets. Is that something that can easily be handled?
>>> >>> >> Gets a bit hairy when doing say a shitload of gets thought..
>>> >>> > I think you'll find a few sensible loops makes it fairly clean.
>>> >>> > Otherwise I'm not sure what you mean.
>>> >>> pre-store every level of aggregation you care about.
>>> >>> of gets thought.. no?
>>> >>> batch into one call.


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Cassandra Lee Morris Information
Cassandra Lee Morris
Cassandra Lee Morris is an award-winning voice actor who has brought over 100 characters to life for video games, anime and animation. Some of her fan-favorite roles include Morgana in Persona 5, Elora the Fawn in Spyro: Reignited Trilogy, Leafa in Sword Art Online, Operator 6O in Nier: Automata, Nami in League of Legends, Taiga in Toradora!, Kyubey in Madoka Magica, Kota in My Hero Academia and Edea Lee in Bravely Default. Other notable roles include Benio in Twin Star Exorcists, Nero in Fate/Extra Last Encore, Julia in Fire Emblem Heroes, Fie Claussel and Princess Alfin in the Trails of Cold Steel franchise, Atra in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans, and Cere-Cere and Calaveras in the Sailor Moon franchise.
Anime Convention Guest Appearances
Anime Impulse 2023 - January 14-15, 2023 in Pomona, CA, USA
Colossalcon North 2022 - November 18-20, 2022 in Baraboo, WI, USA
Tekko 2022 - July 21-24, 2022 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Actors Voice Over Expo 2022 - July 2-3, 2022 in Pasadena, CA, USA Convention Cancelled
Colossalcon 2022 - June 1-5, 2022 in Sandusky, OH, USA
Sakura-Con 2022 - April 15-17, 2022 in Seattle, WA, USA
Ichibancon 2022 - January 13-16, 2022 in Concord, NC, USA Cancelled Appearance
Ichibancon 2021 - January 14-17, 2021 in Concord, NC, USA Convention Cancelled
Colossalcon East 2020 - September 18-20, 2020 in Pocono Manor, PA, USA Convention Cancelled
Colossalcon 2020 - June 4-7, 2020 in Sandusky, OH, USA Convention Postponed
Sakura-Con 2020 - April 10-12, 2020 in Seattle, WA, USA Convention Cancelled
Con-Jikan 2019 - November 22-24, 2019 in Albuquerque, NM, USA
Anime California 2019 - August 23-25, 2019 in Burbank, CA, USA
Anime Expo 2019 - July 3-7, 2019 in Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lock City Anime & Comic Con 2018 - July 28, 2018 in North Haven, CT, USA
AkaiCon 2018 - July 27-29, 2018 in Lebanon, TN, USA Cancelled Appearance
A-Kon 2018 - June 7-10, 2018 in Fort Worth, TX, USA
Katsucon 2018 - February 16-18, 2018 in Oxon Hill, MD, USA
Ichibancon 2018 - January 11-14, 2018 in Concord, NC, USA
Youmacon 2017 - November 2-5, 2017 in Detroit, MI, USA
Animate! Florida 2017 - October 6-8, 2017 in Miami, FL, USA
ConnectiCon 2017 - July 6-9, 2017 in Hartford, CT, USA
Middle Tennessee Anime Convention 2017 - April 14-16, 2017 in Nashville, TN, USA
Shuto Con 2017 - March 17-19, 2017 in Lansing, MI, USA
Tsukino-Con 2017 - February 17-19, 2017 in Victoria, BC
A Taste of Animethon 2017 - January 20-21, 2017 in Edmonton, AB
SacAnime 2017 - January 6-8, 2017 in Sacramento, CA, USA
Anime NebrasKon 2016 - November 4-6, 2016 in La Vista, NE, USA
MegaCon Tampa Bay 2016 - October 28-30, 2016 in Tampa, FL, USA
FanExpo Canada 2016 - September 1-4, 2016 in Toronto, ON
MegaCon 2016 - May 26-29, 2016 in Orlando, FL, USA Cancelled Appearance
Animé Los Angeles 2016 - January 29-31, 2016 in Ontario, CA, USA
Ichibancon 2016 - December 31, 2015 - January 3, 2016 in Concord, NC, USA
Banzaicon 2015 - October 30 - November 1, 2015 in Columbia, SC, USA
Anime Weekend Atlanta 2015 - September 24-27, 2015 in Atlanta, GA, USA
Supanova Pop Culture Expo - Perth 2015 - June 26-28, 2015 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Supanova Pop Culture Expo - Sydney 2015 - June 19-21, 2015 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Anime Boston 2015 - April 3-5, 2015 in Boston, MA, USA
Kawaii Kon 2015 - March 27-29, 2015 in Honolulu, HI, USA
Animeland Wasabi 2014 - February 28 - March 2, 2014 in Denver, CO, USA
Animate! Miami 2014 - January 17-19, 2014 in Miami, FL, USA
Kraken Con 2013 - October 5, 2013 in South San Francisco, CA, USA Cancelled Appearance
Kumoricon 2013 - August 31 - September 2, 2013 in Vancouver, WA, USA
Florida Anime Experience 2013 - May 24-26, 2013 in Orlando, FL, USA
FanExpo Vancouver 2013 - April 20-21, 2013 in Vancouver, BC
Anime Conji 2013 - April 12-14, 2013 in San Diego, CA, USA
Ichibancon 2013 - January 11-13, 2013 in Charlotte, NC, USA
AVCon 2012 - July 27-29, 2012 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Anime Central 2012 - April 27-29, 2012 in Rosemont, IL, USA
Otakon 2011 - July 29-31, 2011 in Baltimore, MD, USA
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For Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari, the heat did prove to be a little too much, as smoke started to pillar out of the back of his vehicle.
Hamilton's championship rival Sebastian Vettel lines up in third with the Red Bull of Daniel Ricciardo fourth on the grid.
Mercedes' Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas celebrates after taking the pole position at the end of the qualifying for the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix at the Sakhir circuit in Manama on April 15, 2017.
Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas of Finland steers his vehicle during the qualifying session for the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix, at the Formula One Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain, Saturday, April 15, 2017.
Hamilton, who was seeking his seventh successive pole position and third in a row this season, gave his team-mate a generous hug after the session. It was the first pole in Bottas' career.
Hamilton and Vettel top the championship with 43 points each from the first two season races. I'll work on it for tomorrow, but Valtteri found some great pace through particularly the first sector.
"My previous vehicle (the Williams) behaved different mechanically, so I'm getting used to it now".
"Congrats Valtteri Bottas 1st pole!"
Bottas also denied Hamilton his 64th pole. "I think the gap's going to be even closer".
While both Hamilton and Vettel failed to improve on their final timed laps, Bottas delivered when it mattered most to beat Hamilton by just two hundredths of a second on this 3.4-mile circuit.
It could have been much worse for Vettel, who appeared in significant trouble midway through the second session after reporting a problem with his Ferrari. Felt I could extract pretty much the maximum out of the auto so that's always a good feeling and for sure it always takes a bit of time to get there. Tomorrow could be his first grand prix win ever. If I keep doing what I'm doing, and that is progress every single day with the team, I feel will be at a very, very good level very soon.
The 26-year-old Finn, who has replaced retired 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg as team-mate to the three-time world champion Briton, remained phlegmatic and practical after a close floodlit qualifying session. "Today he was just quicker, he did the better job, so hat off to him", Hamilton said.
"He's been working so hard and today he was just quicker and he did a better job", said Hamilton. Sergio Perez was another name not expected to feature in the lower reaches of the classification, with the Force India driver finishing 18th after yellow flags stopped him getting in a late lap.
However, temperatures will be considerably lower for Sunday's race, which starts in the evening and finishes under floodlights.
Melvin Adon (0-1) went 1 2/3 innings, allowing three runs and one hit while walking four in the South Atlantic League game. Tim Tebow hit another home run Sunday, but this time he didn't have to awkwardly stop at second base.


Security researchers have long been investigating potential attacks that undermine the foundation of modern software based defenses. For years this has remained a persistent issue without a comprehensive solution. Now, firmware and hardware threats have taken new significance due to recent research from ESET, which has uncovered one of the first UEFI rootkits being used by attackers in the wild (additional coverage).


Florence Henderson has done it all- Broadway musicals, hosted TV chat and game shows, written cook books and fronted a TV cookery show. She's even a trained hypnotherapist.
Most people would remember her as the enduring Carol Brady from The Brady Bunch which was filmed from 1969 to 1974 but is probably being shown right now on a TV station in every country in the world.
At the moment Florence is in Australia to promote Ardmona's new range of tomato pastes..(motto :"paste the difference"..gedditt) so Ardmona threw a small bash for about 50 guests and Flo at the hip new restaurant Concrete Blonde in Kings Cross.
The Shuttle has met Florence before, around 20 years ago in London. She doesn't seem to have aged one bit despite being a grand 76 years old but looking a good 20 younger. And up close and personal she hasn't had any nips and tucks, Flo is just one of those lucky people with great bones which the camera simply loves.
Florence told us about her early life as the daughter of share crop farmers in Indiana where her dad grew tomatoes so she reckons she's a bit of an authority on this wonder food which she eats every day of life. Perhaps that's her secret.
Clive James is still very much alive and not planning to leave this mortal coil any day soon and he'd like the world to know after the Shuttle (and the world's media) wrote him off last week.
We don't usually fall for tabloid beat-ups but we plead guilty to believing the UK Daily Mirror. Clive found out of his imminent demise when tributes started to flow in.


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Keyword:Anthroposophy - Relations - Taoism Laozi Tao Te Ching Taoism - Relations - Anthroposophy START Anthroposophy
Lao Tzu and Anthroposophy (2nd Edition) A Translation of the Tao Te Ching
with Commentary and a Lao Tzu Document
"The Great One Excretes Water"
By: SIT, KWAN-YUK CLAIRE, LAOZI
Publisher: United States, Lindisfarne Books: 2012
Binding: Paperback / softback
According to tradition, Lao Tzu wrote the eighty-one short chapters of his Tao Te Ching around the sixth to fourth centuries B.C.E. It became the foundational philosophical work of Taoism, significantly inspired early masters of Zen Buddhism, and, for more than a century, has been widely embraced in the West as an astounding work of universal truths. Through deceptively simple imagery, Lao Tzu gave us a guide to life, both spiritual and physical, that is no less valid today than when it was written more than 2,500 years ago. Claire Sit, the author of The Lord's Prayer: An Eastern Perspective, ...


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Q: selecting Max from a string and its uniqueness how do I generate unique FORM NUMBER
form_no column in my table has this records
YU13-23-0004
YU13-24-0025
YU13-24-0026

I just tested this
SELECT MAX(form_no) as latestapp FROM app_numbers
but it fetch YU13-24-0025 not 26 because im going fetch its substr(last 4 digit) then +1,
how do I get it and how to make sure other user of my form doesnt get the fetched max.
thanks

A: TRY This!
     select max(SUBSTRING_INDEX(form_no, '-', -1) ) from ;

A: select max(substring(form_no,'_',8)) from <your_table_name>;


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Soccer moms arrested in corruption probe
GLENDORA, Calif. — A year-long probe into the murky world of youth soccer has led to the arrest of more than a dozen hyper-involved moms in this affluent community nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. The soccer moms face charges ranging from serving unauthorized sports drinks to fixing game schedules to match the private school calendar.
Officers from the Glendora Police Department carried out the raid in the early hours of Saturday morning while a group of moms were in the middle of conspiring to rig the following week's snack schedule. In total, 14 soccer moms were arrested.
"These soccer moms are not as nice and rule-abiding as they appear," said City Attorney Lane Weech. "Sure, they dress in mom jeans and they never, ever say the f-word, but most of them will do whatever it takes to make sure their kid gets a trophy at the end of the season."
Although the Glendora Youth Soccer Association's motto is "play by the rules and have fun," for years rumors have circulated that the league's most prominent moms have been conspiring to get special treatment for their children. In 2012, one mom of a "shy but eager" third-grade girl was banned from the league after it was discovered she had offered to sew fun patches onto the entire team's uniforms in exchange for her daughter to be moved out of the goal box.
Many of the soccer moms who were netted in the operation are among the most prominent moms in the mom community, and some are also members of the PTA and scouting associations.
Real estate agent Christy Ashcraft, 36, whose twin nine-year-old sons Dylan and Aiden play in the league, stands accused of baking brownies for coach Tyler Walker, who went on to award the boys with extra orange wedges after practice.
Judy Younan, 41, who owns Bandit's Bar and Grill with her husband Don, allegedly used her personal contacts in the yoga community to secure a sponsorship package that put the restaurant's cartoon bandit mascot on all the league's uniforms for the 10-11 age bracket.
Stay-at-home mom Denise Bitburg, 26, is suspected of being the mastermind behind a carpooling scheme that allowed certain mothers to get out of driving their children to games and practices.
Perhaps the most shocking accusation is against Andrea Bottega, 32, who as a mom volunteers for her local school library and also leads a church youth group. Hundreds of hours of police surveillance video show her collecting shin guards left behind by the players of opposing teams. Over two years she collected more than 100 shin guards, police say, which she then took home, cleaned, and sold on the black market.
Weech says he believes that few of the moms will enter into plea agreements, even though doing so would allow them to get away with light sentences of community service.
"Soccer moms are a notoriously tight-lipped group," he said. "Many will prefer going to jail than admitting that they paid $10,000 for their kids to go to a month-long British soccer camp just because there was a photo of David Beckham on the flyer."


When we first started in business and blogging, we were totally confused by the buzz around social media for small businesses. What's a hootsuite? Should we be tweeting? Isn't Snapchat something post-millennials use for sexting? How do you even Pinterest?
We kept hearing that we should be on social media if we were serious about self-promotion, but we didn't understand which tools we should be using or how to wield them for maximum effectiveness. The only thing that felt certain was that we were never doing enough.
The thing is, once we'd calmed down and become a little more savvy, we realised that not all social media platforms are created equal. Each platform has different user demographics and enjoys a different type of engagement - and you don't actually have to use them all. We're big believers in simplicity in business, so we don't want you to bother with social media platforms that aren't right for you, or don't bring you enough business to be worth the time it takes to post and interact on the platform.
Everybody. And their mum. Literally.
Facebook has evolved to be so much more than the noisy newsfeed we're all familiar with. Facebook groups are becoming an increasingly popular way for small businesses to create their own engaged community or to show up and interact with groups of potential customers in their niche. For business users it offers engagement statistics and paid ads that can be targeted to show up in front of the people most likely to be interested in your services - by location, demographic or interests.
Everything - getting your brand in front of potential clients, building relationships, keeping previous customers engaged with facebook-exclusive offers, creating a community around your brand, targeted advertising, starting conversations and getting feedback…we could go on. Facebook engagement begets engagement exponentially, because every time somebody interacts with your Facebook page, it will become visible to their Facebook friends as well.
You don't want any business or you've already got more than you can handle. No, seriously - we consider Facebook the best all-round social media tool for reaching new clients and keeping them. If you were only going to use one social media platform, this should be it. But if you already HAVE plenty of business via word of mouth or loyal customers, why complicate things?
Instagram is most popular with teenagers and millenials, but its popularity drops off more with each successive age bracket. It's also used to great effect by celebrities and brands. Most people on instagram are there to be seen, and private users are far more likely to engage with the brands they follow on instagram than on other social media platforms.
At time of writing, Instagram only supports clickable links in the bio section of your profile page for unpaid users (paid advertising posts can include links, but you can't ever include links in your captions or comments). This makes it much harder for people to click through to your site or latest offering than from other social media platforms, and conversion rates (i.e. the number of people who actually click through and buy) from Instagram tend to be lower than from other traffic sources.
Building relationships with your business community. Give people a behind the scenes look at your business, so they really feel like they know you. Like, tag, comment and chat away - everyone on instagram is there to see and be seen, and the more often they see you, the more likely they are to eventually buy from you. Instagram also functions as a super-easy portable business card - you're chatting to somebody at a party, you get them to follow you on instagram on the spot, and you've just scored an invitation to show up on the device in their pocket on the daily.
Your photo editing skillz aren't up to scratch or you don't have the time to put into crafting catchy captions and hashtagging your little heart out. Curating a beautiful instagram feed takes time, and if your heart isn't in it, your energy can probably be better used elsewhere.
Ladies! More specifically, American ladies. 4 out of 5 users scrolling Pinterest are of the female persuasion, and over half of them are in the United States. It's also the fastest-growing social media platform as of right now, so these stats could be out of date already.
The most important thing to know about Pinterest, as a business user, is that it's a search engine masquerading as a social media platform. Users don't go to Pinterest to find their friends; they go to Pinterest to find ideas, inspiration and information. The user searches for what they're looking for, Pinterest spews out a bunch of pretty 'pins' (images or infographics which link back to the source), and the user clicks on the most visually appealing or relevant-sounding pins, saving their favourites to refer to later. Your job is to create pins that your target audience will click on. And where does the click take them? Right to your website.
Driving traffic to your blog or website. A LOT of traffic. If you're looking to increase your blog readership, or you have products, services or courses available for purchase online, you'd be crazy not to use Pinterest.
Your product is a local service and/or you don't have anything that can be purchased online outside your local area. Through Pinterest you can reach potential clients internationally and drive heaps of traffic to your blog or website - but this is useless if there's nothing they'll want to buy once they get there. If you don't have anything to offer international online customers, stick to local marketing like word of mouth and targeted Facebook ads instead.
Overwhelmed? We feel you. That's why we offer a 2-hour social media startup training session for absolute beginners. We'll go over the basics of each platform, answer all your questions and tailor a social media plan for maximum effectiveness with the amount of time and energy you personally have to give. Mention this blog post and receive your session for just $175 (usual price $200), available in person or via Skype.
Do you get a lot of business from a social media source that isn't mentioned here? Please comment and let us know how it works for you!