I took Ever to the George W. Bush Presidential Library on the SMU campus for one reason: They have an Oval Office and he NEEDS his picture, in a little suit, at the President's desk.
As you can see in this last photo, sometimes my hair gets in the photo frame.
Artopia was pretty awesome too! Dallas Observer did a fantastic job putting this event together! I loved seeing all the live paintings going on around me, and sampling all the food and beverages too was quite awesome!
I just kept going back to 500 Days of Summer in my head. You know how they go to IKEA on this weird date and play house and lay on the beds and just have a blast?
And then I ended the weekend with my roommates getting more ink!


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Gaspé is een stad (ville) aan de kaap van het schiereiland Gaspésie in de Canadese provincie Quebec. De stad Gaspé telt ruim 15.000 inwoners en omvat naast de kern nog negentien andere omliggende plaatsen. Het gehele grondgebied meet 1.343 km². De belangrijkste nijverheden in Gaspé zijn visserij, visverwerking, bosbouw en toerisme.

Geschiedenis
In het Mi'kmaq betekent  betekent gaspeg "het einde van de wereld", verwijzend naar de locatie als oostelijke kaap. In Gaspé nam Jacques Cartier bezit van Nieuw-Frankrijk (Canada) in de naam van Frans I van Frankrijk op 24 juli 1534. Een monument en een granietkruis zijn een gedenkteken hiervan.

Bezienswaardigeden
 Het Musée de la Gaspésie, museum over de geschiedenis van het gebied
 De Gaspékathedraal (Cathedrale de Gaspé), de enige houten kathedraal in Canada
 De vuurtoren van Cap-des-Rosiers, de hoogste vuurtoren van Canada

Geboren
 Pier-André Coté (24 april 1997), wielrenner

Stad in Quebec

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Behind the Bit: Does your horse have ulcers? Enter to win Seabuck Complete!
Does your horse have ulcers? Enter to win Seabuck Complete!
A few months ago I wrote about seabuckthorn and its use as an equine supplement to treat gastric ulcers and promote general health. I tested SeaBuck Complete (SBC) on Riley (see my blog post on SBC). While I was happy with the way Riley's coat looked on SBC, he didn't have a digestive, feeding, or ulcer problem so the main benefit of SBC was kind of lost on him.
A new research report on on gastric ulcers highlights the effectiveness of seabuckthorn. The study was led by Dr. Frank Andrews, Head of the Equine veterinary program at Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Science (pictured right). He describes seabuckthorn as a promising area for future research in treating gastric ulcers, and plans are under way for a new study on the use of SBC to treat ulcers. Dr. Andrews states, "We expect seabuckthorn-treated horses will have significantly fewer and less severe gastric ulcers on endoscopic examination than untreated controls." SBC is less expensive that the gold standard treatment, Gastroguard.
Is your horse plagued by ulcers? Enter this contest!
Here's your chance to get a free gallon of Seabuck Complete to try on your horse. Just leave a comment describing your horse's problem, how it affects your horse, how it affects you, and anything else you'd like to add. A photo of your horse, if you know how to upload to photo Web sites, is helpful. A winner will be selected one week to ten days from the date of this posting. Below are some details on the research -- and of course you can consult the Web site for SBC.
Reprinted with permission from the Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice, Vol. 25, Issue 1.
heal ulcers in these horses, it may prevent nonglandular ulcers from getting worse during times of stress or feed deprivation.
Still it does not seem to heal the ulcers. The idea of Gastrogard is to inhibit the production of stomach acid allowing the ulcers to heal. The drug works for 24 hours at a time which is longer than other antacids.
But this does maainly seem like a possible option for maintaining a healthy horse once the initial cure is completed.
Be thankful all the stress and medications of Riley's hoof problems didn't result in digestive trouble!
Thank you for a very interesting, knowledgeable post!You do such thorough research that many of us benefit from- thank you for your hard work.
Also, I want to thank you for the Behind the Bit logo items you sent me recently. I love the pen, have the magnet on my refrigerator, so yours will be the first blog I'll always read, thanks also for the calling cards (haven't decided where to put them yet) and the darling post-it note that says "After work, comes riding!" which I will take to work of course. They are wonderful items and thank you for sharing them! Also, it would be an honor to have you visit my blog sometime. Thanks again!
My horse is just on the edge of needing testing for ulcers, he looses weight and seems overly stressed when traveling. He is a nervous eater bolting and tossing any feed that is not SUPER SOAKED (like floating in water.) What interested me was that it might help my LGL horse. He get obvious stress lines in his feet after any digestive 'upset' they never cause true lameness but trying to micro manage his sugar intake even with other helpful supp. is hard in a board sit. Perhaps this supp might help with that?


In large pot, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion and cook, stirring often, until soft, about 5 minutes. Add garlic, curry powder, brown sugar and cumin and cook, stirring, 30 seconds. Add broth, squash and pears. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, until squash and pears are tender, 25 to 30 minutes. Purée mixture with immersion blender or transfer to food processor and process in batches. Garnish with cilantro. Serve warm.


So remember a few months back… that Portland indie video game that blew up? You know, the one where you play a black woman swatting folks away from uninvitedly touching your hair? No. You got that right. The whitest city in the United States was home to the launch of one of the most viral games of 2017. Which just happened to be one that focused on a common and annoying plight of black women.
What happens when one of the largest employers in the Portland partners with the largest group of independent video game developers in the area? Well, that's when you get awesome things like Intel Buzz Workshop for Game Developers. And you're invited.
When Portland's The Fullbright Company released its first major title, Gone Home, not only was it well received by players, it was heralded by critics for its immersive experience as well as the creativity of its approach. Long story short, it set the bar—and the expectations for Fullbright as a studio—extremely high. Now, nearly four years to the date of Gone Home's release, we get access to their next title, Tacoma.
It's like setting a tee time. But for Destiny. With less gaudy attire. Maybe.
There's a small but growing group of game developers here in Portland. Some of them have built awesome stuff. Some are in the midst of creating amazing games. And some have the potential to do something incredible.


In Maher Cup country Greek families, mostly from the small island of Kythera, contributed significantly to community life and to football. Pictured below is Vic Castrission owner of the iconic Niagara Cafe at Gundagai, and as the president of the Gundagai Rugby League Club, the holder of the Maher Cup.
George Minos of West Wyalong. Source: Wyalong & District Family History Group. Tales from the Grave.
This website/blog owes its existence to John O'Reilly. In the 1950s he made our small town football the dramatic heart of our lives. Women were seduced by his mellifluous tones, children were drawn in by his rich word pictures. No one has done it better.
My mother hated the drinking and gambling that she associated with many of the men of rugby league – but she loved listening to the calls of John O'Reilly on 2LF. On Saturday afternoons we would gather around the radio.
I'd grown up listening to John O'Reilly calling the Maher Cup. I still think he was the best footy caller I've ever heard on radio. He had a silky-smooth voice, and he was incredibly accurate. …… I wanted to follow John to the big smoke. I just hoped I'd one day be as good as he was.
The Maher Cup produced copious amount of poetry and probably just one family notice – this one published in the Tumut & Adelong Times 7 September 1923.
The Maher Cup inspired many stories, poems and at least one published song, The Maher Cup : March Song, written by W.H. Howard of Tumut and Junee many years ago.
Choir of the Southern Cross, Young.
The song has recently been recorded by the Choir of the Southern Cross on 10 November 2013 at the Young Town Hall. Listen to it.
My memories of the Maher Cup are through the eyes of a young boy and teenager.


Once again, political discussion has shifted to the travails of the American middle class. This will happen every once in a while, for two reasons. Since the distribution of income is roughly bell-shaped, the middle of the distribution is where you will find the most votes. Second, a plurality of Americans still consider themselves "middle class," so that's a big interest group.
The problem, as Vox's Ezra Klein recently wrote, is that the middle class is almost impossible to define. The obvious stumbling block is the variation in local living costs.
"[T]he amount of money needed to feel middle class varies sharply across the country. Making $50,000 leaves you struggling in Manhattan and wealthy in Detroit," Klein writes. "Some argue that our definitions of 'middle class' and 'wealthy' should adjust for local living costs. But maybe that's an adjustment too far: is living in New York City a necessity, or is it a luxury good, much like buying a fancy car or a huge house?"
There are other choices that don't get included in the income statistics. What if I want to work only 20 hours a week, making enough to live, and spend the rest of my time making art or playing video games? Am I poor because my income is low, or middle class because I can afford a life of leisure?
I've come to the conclusion that middle class is more of a state of mind than an income threshold. "Middle class" basically means a feeling of being in a similar economic situation to the people around you, combined with a sense of overall optimism and security about that economic situation. In other words, if you think "I'm doing OK, and most people around me are doing OK too," you're in the middle class.
That's why inequality kills the idea of a middle class, even if it improves people's standard of living overall. When everyone makes $50,000 a year, it's easy to tell that you're middle class. If half of those people suddenly start making $150,000 a year, it's no longer so easy.
For the half of people still making $50,000, nothing has changed in terms of their absolute material standard of living. But now they might think to themselves, "Have I failed in some way? Why am I still making $50K when half of the people in the neighborhood are making three times as much as I am?"
Actually, I suspect it goes much deeper than income alone. In the 1960s, we had an economic system where most people didn't just have similar standards of living, they also had similar economic prospects. Stable, long-lived corporations dominated the economic scene. You got a job out of high school (or college) and moved up the ladder. You could expect to have modest means as a young person, increasing steadily as you aged. Most of your friends, relatives and neighbors would be on a similar track.
Economic life now is more like a game of Super Mario, where you jump from platform to platform and grab whatever coins you can. And if you miss a platform, you fall.
Actually, I've lived in a middle-class society. When I was in Japan 10 years ago, it was still the case that many people worked in one corporate job for their entire life, and most of those workers were generalist "salarymen" instead of specialized employees. Instead of asking "What do you do?", as Americans do, Japanese people would ask "Who do you work for?" That was all you needed to know. There was a great feeling of economic sameness. That feeling of sameness defined the Japanese middle class.
Of course, that cozy, predictable world was already on the way out. A combination of technological change and increased competition from China and South Korea has forced Japan to adopt policies that look more and more like Ronald Reagan's. Corporatism is disappearing there, and with it will go the great Japanese middle class.
So the idea of the middle class is dead. There is no going back in our lifetimes. We need to find a new way of thinking about broadly shared prosperity.


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Espinosa-Olivares-Aguirre Expedition
Donald E. Chipman General Entry
The expedition of Isidro Félix de Espinosa, Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares, and Pedro de Aguirre of 1709 resulted from a combination of Spanish presence on the Rio Grande, international considerations, and continued interest in missionizing the Tejas Indians. In the early 1700s, a cluster of three missions and a presidio constituted the Spanish establishment west of the Rio Grande near modern Guerrero, Coahuila. San Juan Bautista mission and presidio, destined to become the "Gateway to Spanish Texas," were the staging area for this early expedition into Texas.
During the summer of 1707, the viceroy of New Spain received intelligence that the French in Louisiana were intent upon establishing trade with Spanish dominions. A war council in Mexico City recommended that contacts be made with Indian nations in Texas, and that they be dissuaded from accepting goods of French origin. As it turned out, official concerns about contraband converged nicely with the missionary impulses of fathers Espinosa and Olivares.
At San Juan Bautista the two padres were joined by Capt. Pedro de Aguirre, and the expedition left the gateway settlements on April 5, 1709. With Espinosa and Olivares serving, respectively, as diarist and chaplain, the entrada traveled to the site of future San Antonio, where the party was much impressed with the land and availability of water. From the San Antonio River, the expedition pushed on to the Colorado, for it was rumored that Tejas Indians had moved settlements there in order to be closer to the Spaniards. That report proved unfounded, and in fact the Spaniards learned that the old Tejas chieftain, Bernardino, was still ill disposed toward them.
The expedition returned to San Juan Bautista on April 28, 1709. It had increased familiarity with Texas and lent a favorable impression of lands along the San Antonio River. But it seems likely that the immediate effect of this entrada was to delay the reestablishment of missions in East Texas, for it convincingly dispelled the notion that the Tejas were eager for renewed contacts with the Spanish.
Carlos E. Castañeda, Our Catholic Heritage in Texas (7 vols., Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1936–58; rpt., New York: Arno, 1976). Donald E. Chipman, Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992). Robert S. Weddle, San Juan Bautista: Gateway to Spanish Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968).
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Donald E. Chipman, "Espinosa-Olivares-Aguirre Expedition," Handbook of Texas Online, accessed January 20, 2021, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/espinosa-olivares-aguirre-expedition.

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Midgely Corner: Excel spreadsheet madness
Here's a nice little story – with a topical recession/banking crisis theme – that's just been reported on Finextra. It also tends to suggest that when it comes to technology, lawyers are still about as safe as monkeys with razor blades…
Apparently an error in the formatting of an Excel spreadsheet left Barclays Capital with contracts involving collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers than it never meant to acquire.
Working to a tight deadline, a junior associate at Cleary
Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP converted an Excel file into a PDF
format document. The document was to be posted on a bankruptcy court's
website before a midnight purchase offer deadline on 18 September, just
four hours after Barclays sent the spreadsheet to the lawyers. The
Excel file contained 1000 rows of data and 24,000 cells.
Some of these details on various trading contracts were marked as
hidden because they were not intended to form part of Barclays'
proposed deal. However, this "hidden" distinction was ignored during
the reformatting process so that Barclays ended up offering to take on
an additional 179 contracts as part of its bankruptcy buyout deal.
The error was discovered on 1 October, after US Bankruptcy Judge James Peck approved the deal. Barclays has now filed a motion to amend the deal, excluding the scores of contracts it states were mistakenly included in the agreement. The motion is due to be heard on 5 November.


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So you are starting your jigsaw puzzle hobby and now you need some working space. How about a nice big wooden table? Can you build one of these?
Here's some photos of my homemade puzzle table. We don't have anywhere in our house to just leave a puzzle sitting out, and I like doing them in front of the TV, so a temporary table was the solution.
My first attempt was larger than this one, with just a flat surface, and I used a rolled piece of felt to store the partially built puzzles. But I discovered that building a puzzle on felt wasn't an enjoyable experience, since it was hard to slide the pieces around.
So I needed another solution, and came up with this - a folding table that has a cover that can be attached to keep the pieces from moving around.
It works well, and the only thing I would change would be to make it slightly wider. It's 30-1/2 inches wide, and there's been a few puzzles in the 31-36 inch range that had to be done in sections. An extra six inches wouldn't have made it too large, and it would still fit behind my couch.
Maybe next year I'll do a Rev. 3. Anyone else have some table ideas to share?
Table in it's open position. The work surface is 29" x 30.5" with about a 1/4" raised lip around the edges.
It stands 26.5" tall. It's made of pine 2x4's cut to six and a smooth particle board surface.
Top view with legs folded. Ready for storage.
Here's the table with the cover in place. The covers is attached to the table with 4 bolts which have wingnuts underneath. The brass handles are for lifting the cover.
This is the cover for the table. It's made of particleboard also, with pine supports on the top side. The bottom is covered with a layer of felt, stuck on with spray adhesive.
The felt prevents the pieces from sliding around when the table is put away in storage.
Close up of one of the bolts holding the cover in place.
Closeup from underneath, one of the 4 wingnuts used to attach the cover to the table.
View of the table on it's side showing the folding legs and the brace between them.
Closeup of bolt and wingnut holding brace to legs.
Brace removed and legs partially folded.
This sums up the Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle Table. Special thanks again to Shawn Wolf for sharing his idea and photos. Will you build one too?


Our agency is recognized in the community for the excellence of care provided to our families as well as the high qualifications and diverse skill set of our staff. We are a medium sized agency where supporting and professionally grooming our staff is a top priority. We are equipped to provide this level of support by having managerial staff that include highly skilled Board Certified Behavioral Analysts (BCBAs), a Clinical Psychologist, and a Marriage and Family Therapist. Individual and Group Supervision is provided on a regular basis to all Supervisors, and preparing individuals for taking and passing their BCBA exam is part of our agency's objectives. We are contracted with most Insurance Companies, as well as local Regional Centers and School Districts. As such, our supervisors are trained to be well versed in the requirements and service models of these various funding sources. We strive to provide our staff with the right balance of support, extensive resources, and autonomy to foster professional growth and fulfillment. Our primary commitment is to provide a comprehensive program for our clients using empirically supported positive behavior support strategies to foster a child's full potential.
Our Clinical Case Supervisors work with instructors and clients, providing ongoing monitoring of the Behavioral Instructor's ability to implement the WWA program effectively by conducting clinic meetings, engaging in data based decision making, and writing progress reports that accurately capture the clients' progress and ongoing areas of need. Supervisors attend IEP meetings, develop client goals, conduct school and home observations, consult with parents and team members, and assist with scheduling. Supervisors function with a high degree of autonomy and are supported to maintain a working knowledge of advances in the field.
This is a full-time position and the responsibilities include: provide behavior analysis, 1:1 with individuals on the autism spectrum, in both the school and home setting under the direct supervision of our BCBA Case Supervisors.


Much like a football team, every individual's contribution is crucial to the success of your party before or during the game. You could always put in the time to smoke meat for hours or labor over some other elaborate dish, but we've got a simple dip recipe that will delight everybody and make you a hero around your house or under the tailgate tent.
Seed and dice 2 of the jalapenos. Slice the remaining one jalapeno into thin rounds, set aside.
In a bowl, beat cream cheese, mayo, and garlic powder with an electric mixer on low until fluffy.
Add 2 cups of the shredded Mexican cheese blend, diced green chilies, and the diced jalapenos, mix.
Transfer mixture into a cast iron skillet or baking dish and spread evenly with a spatula.
Top with the remaining 1/2 cup shredded cheese and the sliced jalapenos rounds.
Bake at 375 F for about 15 to 20 minutes or until hot and bubbly.
Trying out this recipe for the next game? We'd love to see how it turns out. Tag us @kirklands with a photo from your tailgate!


Nice! Let's put into practice everything we've learnt so far. Are you ready? This example is going to be slightly more complicated, so make sure you remember everything from this part of the course.
Select columns title, production_year from table movie and columns name, birth_year from table director in such a way that a movie is shown together with its director.
Show the column birth_year as born_In. Select only those movies which were filmed when their director was younger than 40 (i.e. the difference between production_year and birth_year must be lower than 40).


The whole interview took place with a camera man filming me up close and personal at my writing desk at around 10:30 a.m. By early afternoon I had already been notified that the segment would appear at 5:05 p.m. that very same evening. (How precise, I thought, if not also quick.) It would be insincere to suggest that I was not intoxicated with heady excitement to see mine and Laura's efforts represented on television for all to see. By the same token, there was something unsettling in the quickly flashing images.
I fully expect emptiness to prevail once the writing, and the stitching, and the binding are complete. And while there are other projects waiting in the wings for The Serenity of Knowing, The Plain Bible has been my daily companion for about six years – give or take. Thankfully there are still months to go before the final covers will be applied, and the end papers chosen and set; for it has been nothing short of a relationship, if not actually a love affair. The words have often been passionate and filled with inspiration and awe. Other times I've experienced tumultuous storms and rage directed at the violence that seemed so casually presented on those gossamer pages. Nevertheless, I will miss the tempests, and the gentle rains, and the sunshine, once the rainbow has faded. But perhaps it doesn't really fade, for there are always my memories. I guess I'm counting on that.
So why be unsettled over two minutes of passing fame on television? Certainly I haven't felt that way over the piles of newspaper coverage that we've received. Maybe it's because with those I can mull, and pause, and ingest, at a pace that suits me. At the other end of the spectrum I'm barely able to keep up with the velocity of the information that just goes whizzing by at the speed of pixilated light.
Perhaps the fleeting TV images are too much like actual life.
I turn 63 this month and I hardly know how I got here. Yes, it's been great, and complicated, and fulfilling; and I'm banking on at least another 25 years. However, it seems that only yesterday I was an 8-year-old molding Easter Eggs made of dirt and twigs with my sister in a backyard mud puddle. The only siblings left now are brothers. A longtime significant other poses forever young in memoriam on a shelf that he himself had painted. I have no doubt that we will all rise to the eternal occasion asleep amidst a cluster of other beautifully framed markers of time on other shelves.
At this end it is not my intention to sign off on a maudlin note. I think what I'm saying is that it all goes by so quickly – the two minutes of televised fame, this project, as well as the project of life. The Channel 13 piece might only have been a microscopic blip in the entirety of my personal saga, but it gave me a moment to enjoy a modest accomplishment, and to be able to see myself through a lens that was not of my own invention. Ha! How cool is that?
As published in the March 2013 issue of "St. Peter's Press," the monthly newsletter of St. Peter's Presbyterian Church in Spencertown, New York.


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1:1 (d-0) (The title of this book, 'Isaiah'), Meaning, 'Salvation of Jah.' see Ps. 68.4.51:2 you; (a-11) Or 'that was in travail for you.' 51:4 nation. (b-12) Leummim, but here singular. see Gen. 25.23. establish (c-23) Or 'make to rest.' 51:6 manner; (d-40) Others 'shall die like a gnat.' 51:7 men, (e-21) Lit. 'man,' Enosh. 51:9 thou (f-27) 'Thou He' = 'The Same.' see ch. 37.16; Deut. 32.39; Neh. 9.6, &c. Rahab (g-31) i.e. Egypt. see ch. 30.7. 51:10 thou (f-4) 'Thou He' = 'The Same.' see ch. 37.16; Deut. 32.39; Neh. 9.6, &c. 51:12 man (h-16) Enosh, as in ver. 7. This is one of the passages in which its force, as 'mortal man,' is very clear. 'Son of man' in this verse is 'son of Adam.' 51:14 down (a-5) i.e. in bonds. 51:19 how (b-20) Or 'by whom,' but cf. Amos 7.2. 51:20 oryx (c-16) See Deut. 14.5.


Mdhuset has developed a well-earned reputation for contributing more than just Norway's broadest marketing platform as they routinely seek out and assist charitable organizations. It seems that they will be taking this a step further at the dawn of the New Year, announcing that they will feature fundraising and volunteer efforts on their site at no charge.
Beginning January 1st, 2014, Mdhuset will allow full-page advertisements on the front of their website, telefonkatalogen.biz. These advertisements will be open to select organizations that are working on fundraising or volunteer efforts for worthy causes, and will be offered free of charge.
In the past, Mdhuset has not sold full-page advertisements on their telefonkatalogen.biz website's front page. The news that they will not only allow for full-page advertisements, but will offer them for free may seem somewhat jarring, but the fact is that Mdhuset has always prioritized matters that involve charitable giving and volunteer efforts.
Mdhuset has frequently set the tone for other business in matters that range from corporate giving to environmental responsibility. The company is known to not only act in a way that is consistent with responsible business practices; it also makes a point to promote the use of those same practices to other corporations.


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Dream ship: This is how Tina Ruland experienced the much-discussed bed scene
Updated on 12/28/2022 at 4:48 p.m
In "Traumschiff: Coco Islands" Tina Ruland and Marek Erhardt had a bed scene.
Many viewers found it "a bit uncomfortable" or a "disaster".
Tina Ruland takes it with humor and comments: "Hilarious".
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The bed scene from Tina Ruland and Marek Erhardt in "Traumschiff: Coco Islands" on the second day of Christmas was not so well received by the viewers. Many made fun of it on social networks. The actress has since commented on it.
Even the 56-year-old couldn't remain serious when shooting the scene, as she revealed in the "Webtalkshow" moderator Nico Gutjahr. "We laughed extremely hard – especially in the scene, because it was really hilarious. And because he [Marek Erhardt, Red.] which also played with such a charm. So you could actually have fallen in love with him," Ruland enthused with a wink.
That's what the scene was about
To celebrate the feast of love together with his loved ones, Daniel Himmelberg (Erhardt) invites his blended family to a trip on the "Dream Ship". It quickly becomes clear that everyone in this family seems to have relationship problems.
Daniel asks his mother Ulrike Himmelberg (Gaby Dohm) for advice on his relationship with wife Sonja (Ruland), who may be dating her ex-husband Jan Kaminski (Jan Sosniok) again. "Bring Pepp into your marriage, yes, Pepp," says Ulrike. Daniel then surprises his Sonja in the dressing room. When this occurs, he is already lying naked on the bed in the semi-darkness and surrounded by rose petals.
"Like in a cheesy sleazy film. The only thing missing is that you say: 'Take me, baby'," Sonja states in the film. Then he: "Then take me, baby!"
The nastiest comments from the TV audience
However, the viewers found it more ridiculous than seductive, which they announced on the social media channels.
"Haven't we been through enough this year? One user tweeted. "It's a bit uncomfortable lying there in bed," reads.
Another viewer also writes about a screenshot of the scene that shows Daniel in bed: "Me when I watch the 'dream ship'".
"Really, this episode is a disaster," says another viewer.
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This week's guest blog is contributed by Deniz Olcay, Product Marketing Manager, Dun & Bradstreet.
Marketing and advertising technologies (MadTech) are transforming the agency-client relationship as we know it. 150 players back in 2011 have increased to a dizzying swarm of 3,500 companies, growing by 87% this year. But that's not the whole story.
The forces driving this change are in plain sight: B2B brands and their buyers.
Think of the last time you bought a TV. How many friends did you call? Did you visit a store? Marketers are confounded by the complexity of these interactions and how they're influencing buying.
Now take that journey and add 10 decision makers, 12 months, and about $200K and you have a B2B buying journey. Keeping this in mind (and that 58% of US brands will review their agencies in the next 12 months), agencies must drop B2C preconceptions and grasp B2B complexities.
Business audiences, influenced by consumer experiences, want buying experiences that enable quicker and more confident decisions. While it's known that 74% of buyers do more than half their research online before a purchase, what's elusive is what online and offline interactions say about the account as a whole.
Digital connectivity will continue to create scads of touchpoints to manage. This creates a tantalizing opportunity for agencies: Create a seamless online and offline buying experiences, and you'll attract B2B clients.
Marketers are tasked with more responsibility to drive organizational growth than ever before. This year, B2B marketing and advertising budgets will increase by 5% to $161 billion, with digital making up 52 percent (1). It's no wonder B2B marketers are laser-focused on driving results.
Case in point: the rise of Account Based Marketing (ABM). 71% of marketers rate ABM as one of their most important revenue-generating strategies. "Data and technology now allow B2B marketers to align with sales and execute ABM at scale. Since they're increasingly measured on revenue impact, they're more incentivized to drive higher-quality leads. But they need to prove their efforts through attribution," says Sean Crowley, Director of Product Marketing at Dun & Bradstreet.
Agencies must lift barriers to attribution by being fully transparent about data and tactics used. 90% of the top 200 US advertising brands are looking for agencies that can create a relevant strategy and deliver results. Firms that can't, risk losing business to B2B brands that will bring functions like programmatic advertising in-house for more control.
MadTech is growing in configuration complexity. The combination of various tech platforms are creating data and team-based silos for marketers who aren't executing a robust master data management (MDM) strategy.
Therefore, tech solutions are becoming increasingly integrated. Based on research from Luma Partners, Q1 of 2016 saw 72 M&A events in MadTech. Once these platforms are combined with maturing predictive analytics and machine learning capabilities, tech players will inch closer to providing marketers with a single customer view for intelligent decision making.
But marketers can't afford to wait. It's time for media-buying agencies to add strategic MadTech stack consulting to their service menus and start acquiring tech-savvy talent.
We shouldn't lose sight of the broader relationship between B2B brands and their buyers. Agencies must develop a deeper understanding of the complexities of the B2B buying journey and how data and technology fit into that picture. Those who do will steal the spotlight from MadTech by driving results for clients.
Deniz Olcay is a Product Marketing Manager at Dun & Bradstreet, a data partner for 90% of the Fortune 500. Deniz is a passionate ad tech thought leader and sales enablement expert tasked with educating the D&B organization on all things digital. His prior experience includes working for a global sales consulting firm, where he's trained thousands of sellers on how to better communicate value. He holds a MBA from Babson College, where he received his degree in Marketing with high honors.
(1) "Annual Advertising and Marketing Study 2016: B2B Advertising" Outsell, Inc. March 2016.


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Axcel began raising Axcel V in Q4 2016 and has completed a first closing with commitments of EUR 352 million. Axcel V has received support from existing and new investors, achieving approximately 65% of the fund's target of EUR 550 million.
Axcel V will follow the same strategy as Axcel IV, namely to invest in leading mid-market companies in Denmark, Sweden and the rest of the Nordic region. These might be family-owned companies needing a partner to implement a growth strategy, companies that need to be developed internationally, or companies that need to focus on and expand their core business. With this same strategy, Axcel's first four funds have made 46 platform investments, over 80 add-on acquisitions and 37 exits.
Its long history and strong network have created a unique position for Axcel, which has attracted a broad group of investors to Axcel V ranging from large institutional investors to a number of families, funds and company owners.
"We're delighted that we've managed to complete the first closing of Axcel V so quickly," says Christian Schmidt-Jacobsen, Managing Partner at Axcel. "It shows the trust in our team and in our ability to create an attractive return in the future. We're now looking forward to honouring that trust by investing in and developing a number of exciting companies."
"Having now participated in five fundraisings at Axcel, I can relate that the whole organisation has put in a huge effort to complete a first closing of this size," says Axcel's Executive Chairman Christian Frigast. "So I'm very pleased that we've come so far with our fifth fund in such a short space of time."
Christian Frigast
Executive Chairman
Christian Schmidt-Jacobsen
Founded in 1994 by a group of Denmark's largest financial and industrial institutions, Axcel is a Nordic private equity firm focusing on mid-market companies and has a broad base of both Danish and international investors. Axcel has raised four funds with total committed capital of around EUR 1,350 million. These funds have made 46 platform investments, more than 80 major add-on investments and 37 exits. Axcel currently owns nine companies with combined annual revenue of around EUR 1 billion and some 4,500 employees.


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Servitization: A contemporary thematic review of four major research streams
Chris Raddats, Christian Kowalkowski, Ornella Benedettini, Jamie Burton, Heiko Gebauer
Servitization describes the addition of services to manufacturers' core product offerings to create additional customer value. This study aims to identify the key themes and research priorities in this body of literature over thirteen years from 2005 and 2017, based on four major research streams (general management, marketing, operations, and service management). Prior multi-theme literature reviews have focused on operations journals, overlooking important work in other streams, particularly marketing. Informed by a systematic literature review of 219 papers, the study identifies five main themes: service offerings; strategy and structure; motivations and performance; resources and capabilities; service development, sales, and delivery. Within each theme, gaps in the literature are identified and eleven research priorities presented. The review shows that the literature has evolved significantly in recent years, becoming increasingly diverse. A recent noteworthy topic is the use of digital technologies, which indicates the increasing relevance of technological developments to manufacturers' service activities. Our review highlights that there are still some fundamental aspects of servitization that warrant further research, primarily the need to replace the focal-manufacturer perspective with a multi-actor perspective that highlights the important role of relationships with existing and potentially new actors as a result of technological developments.
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The unemployed and the moral case for benefit sanctions
Anne Daguerre
Brighton Business School
This article assesses the Conservative-led Coalition Government's (2010–2015) record on benefit sanctions and work-for-your-benefit (workfare) policies. It is argued that while the schemes largely built upon previous Labour Governments' (1997–2010) policies, the Coalition Government also switched back to a traditional Conservative discourse, according to which jobseekers are part of a "work-shy" minority who live at the expense of the "hard working" taxpaying majority. The crackdown on unemployment benefits was broadly popular with the public, which explains why the Coalition Government was able to implement a relatively harsh benefit sanctions regime. Work-for-your-benefit policies, by contrast, were faced with a series of political and legal challenges.
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Traditional Rights and Freedoms—Encroachments by Commonwealth Laws (ALRC 129 Summary)
This Summary Report provides an accessible overview of the policy framework and recommendations in the Final Report, Traditional Rights and Freedoms—Encroachments by Commonwealth Laws (ALRC Report 129), tabled on 2 March 2016.This publication is available for purchase in book format.
Traditional Rights and Freedoms—Encroachments by Commonwealth Laws (ALRC Report 129)
Tabled 2 March 2016.The ALRC was asked to identify and critically examine Commonwealth laws that encroach upon traditional rights, freedoms and privileges recognised by the common law. In this Report, the ALRC discusses the source and rationale of many important rights and freedoms and provides an extensive survey of current Commonwealth laws that limit them. The ALRC …
Traditional Rights and Freedoms—Encroachments by Commonwealth Laws (ALRC Interim Report 127)
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Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws (ALRC 124 Summary)
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Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws
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Final Report Family Violence—A National Legal Response was tabled out of sitting and launched on 11 November 2010.The Final Report contains 187 recommendations for reform.This extensive report is presented in two volumes with a Summary Report.This publication is available for purchase in book format.
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Self-doubt and Netflix: Composer and poet Dale Trumbore has accepted that both are an inevitable part of her writing process. So instead of fighting either, she has figured out how to incorporate them into her life in a healthy, productive, non-judgmental way. In 2015, self-doubt led to intense writer's block for Trumbore, who at the time was living and working as a resident in Aaron Copland's restored New York home.
She described how it felt to be creatively stuck during that residency in a 2015 blog post for NewMusicBox:
"I'd experienced writer's block… but never to this paralyzing degree, where I immediately rejected everything I wrote as trite and terrible. So I walked away from the piano, from Copland's Desk, to Copland's Living Room. I walked away from composing, and I watched TV."
Specifically, Trumbore watched Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley and Sex and the City.
"There may be no greater way to make yourself feel like a bad composer – the worst composer, really – than watching the fluffiest of all fluffy shows in the house of one of the Great American Composers while being paid, essentially, to live there and compose."
In her non-fiction prose essays and forthcoming book, Staying Composed, Trumbore is refreshingly honest about the challenges of navigating a creative life as a full-time composer. She is frank about the lessons she's learned through trial and error, like how to deal with the inevitable self-doubt that crops up during the composition process, or how to structure her day most effectively—for instance, a mid-day lunch and Netflix break helps clear her mind before afternoon composing sessions.
One thing Trumbore has discovered as she's sculpted her career is that she is passionate about choral music, a genre in which she also regularly receives commissions. In the coming weeks, her choral compositions are being featured in both Los Angeles and New York. First, the Los Angeles Master Chorale will sing How to Go On, her multi-movement "secular requiem" for a cappella chorus and soloists, at Walt Disney Concert Hall on March 17.
Then, in New York, Choral Chameleon – for which Trumbore is currently composer-in-residence – will give the world premiere of a new secular work for choir and organ, What Are We Becoming? The former National Sawdust ensemble-in-residence will present the piece first in St. James Memorial Chapel at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan, (April 27), then at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Carroll Gardens (April 28).
We recently sat down with Trumbore in the living room of the Los Angeles home she shares with her fiancé and two cats to discuss her writing process as both a poet and composer, her upcoming book, and the similarities and differences between the two works she is having performed in New York and Los Angeles.
NATIONAL SAWDUST LOG: Where did you grow up, and when did you begin composing?
DALE TRUMBORE: I'm from New Jersey: first Maplewood, then Chatham. My background is similar to most composers, I think. I started piano lessons and I sang in church and school choirs from the time I was seven or so. I started writing down my own music at around age seven. I would be practicing piano, playing what I was supposed to be playing, then I would start rewriting the piece and playing my own version.
In high school I composed a lot of pieces for piano, sort of imitating the composers that I really liked and was playing at the time. I imitated Chopin, who is still one of my favorite composers to play. And I imitated Bach at the age of 12. It didn't work and I failed horribly, but it was ambitious.
And then I started writing choral pieces, too. In high school I had a very small a cappella group that fluctuated between six and eight friends of mine. So I would arrange pieces for them to sing.
Do you come from a musical family?
My parents are actually both writers and editors. My dad worked as a cartoonist for the first part of my life. Then he started as a reporter at a local paper and worked his way up to editor-in-chief. My mom is now a children's book writer. She worked as a children's book editor for a very long time, and also worked in educational publishing. I have an aunt who was the poet laureate of Louisiana, and another aunt who was a magazine editor for years, although she's retired now. So growing up it felt like everyone was a writer or an editor.
So studying creative writing in college was a natural choice for you.
I actually knew I wanted to double major. I went to the University of Maryland, and from there I have a B.A. in English and a B.M. in music composition.
And then from there you moved west to study composition at USC. What led you there?
Part of the reason I wanted to go to USC was that it feels like a very welcoming place for vocal music in particular. I think as a composer it can feel sometimes like there's this big divide between the choral music world and everything else in classical composition. So part of my mission is that I would love to dismantle that schism.
But anyway, I moved to L.A. almost ten years ago now. I knew Morten Lauridsen was teaching there, and that I could specifically focus on writing choral music. And also, I knew that their faculty was so strong in general—that on the flip side of that, I could get a really solid education in writing instrumental music as well. And I feel like I did get that. It really it felt like a place where lots of different styles and techniques were welcome. That was something I was really looking for, that openness.
Did you make a conscious decision at some point to focus your career around choral music?
When I was in grad school I already knew that I loved writing choral music, and that I wanted to write it as much as possible. During those two years I was already getting paid commissions for my choral music, more so than my instrumental writing. I did both, and I still try to do both. But for me, writing for voice and writing for chorus in particular is the overlap of what I love doing, what other people ask me to do, and what actually will make a living.
Was part of the pull towards choral music the fact that you enjoy working with the written word?
Yes, very much. Recently I've gotten back in to writing poetry for my own compositions. But even before that, I think writing for chorus has always been a way of keeping that love of language in my life. With every piece I write, it's a matter of how do I take the words that exist already and how do I translate them into music? What is the music contributing. and how? You're not trying to make the words better, as much as allow them to take on a new or different shape. It's asking what music could possibly do to illuminate them and bring them to life in a new way.
I find that even when I'm writing for instruments, I still think in terms of narrative more so than the development of the theme. I tend to think in terms of what the plot of the piece is; even if I never articulate that aloud, it has to happen in my head. So language very much informs everything I do as a composer.
You regularly write poetry, non-fiction prose, and music. How different or similar are those writing processes for you?
I've actually found that my own personal process is really similar between composing, creative writing, poetry, or non-fiction writing. In the earliest stages, I'm just capturing fragments of tiny ideas. I try to catch them as they come in, without worrying about organizing them. Then it's a matter of sitting down and seeing what those little tiny fragments add up to and starting to flesh them out. That happens during a really messy first draft, and then I do multiple rounds of edits until it feels like things are done.
In addition to completing compositions for various commissions, you're writing a book right now. Where are you in that process? And can you tell us a little about it?
The publication date is June 4, and right now everything is on track to do that. The book is called Staying Composed, and the subtitle is "Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt Within a Creative Life."
I've chosen to self-publish it, but with a team of professional editors and designers behind me. I've been writing these essays about composing and making a living in music and overcoming anxiety, and I just think there's so much uncertainty in making a career in the arts. It's really hard, especially if you're, say, just coming out of grad school or undergrad and looking at the idea of a professional career as a composer.
The book addresses the idea of day-to-day creative struggles, like procrastination, and then it journeys through what you face over the course of a creative career. There's an abundance of this kind of book for writers. But there aren't really, at least that I have found, any that are specifically geared towards that anxiety and self-doubt and uncertainty for composers. So it comes from lessons learned from composition and from music, but the hope is that it will apply to anyone in a creative field.
I love how honest you are in your writing about self-doubt and writer's block—like when you talk about sort of giving up for a while and just watching TV at Aaron Copland's house.
[Laughs] Yes! Watching Sex and the City at Copland's house.
I think it's a common thing people experience. It's something that now I have incorporated as part of my daily routine. I usually end up watching Netflix or some TV show for like around half an hour while I eat lunch, and then sometime again in the evening when I'm done working. It's an example of taking something that's going to happen anyway and just carving out time for it, putting it in my schedule and not feeling guilty about it. It's mental rest.
Dale Trumbore (right) with Los Angeles Master Chorale 2018-19 artists
From left: associate conductor Jenny Wong, artistic director Grant Gershon, composer Shawn Kirchner, artist in residence Eric Whitacre, composer Reena Esmail, Trumbore
Photograph: Arnaud Pyvka
Let's talk about the performances you have coming up in Los Angeles and New York.
Yes! It feels really meaningful to work with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, having lived here for almost 10 years. I think we all just want to be loved at home. As an artist, that feels so much more personal than performances anywhere else. And then having grown up in northern New Jersey, for a long time New York City felt like my city. So being composer-in-residence for a group in New York City, and then having this huge Los Angeles performance—it feels like a really fulfilling time.
Tell us a little about How to Go On, the piece the Master Chorale will perform in L.A.
It's a 30-35 minute a cappella secular requiem for chorus and soloists—the soloists come into play whenever the text goes into the first person.
The text is by three living writers: Barbara Crooker, Laura Foley, and Amy Fleury. The eight movements of the piece can actually be performed in any order, so it was really fun working with [Master Chorale associate conductor] Jenny Wong to put it together for this performance, just seeing what order she chose. I didn't have a hand in it. I wanted elements of chance and unpredictability in the piece, so the movement order is one way that that presents itself.
Can you explain what, exactly, a "secular requiem" is?
I've been saying that this is a requiem with a lowercase r specifically because it doesn't use the Latin mass texts at all. But it does address all of the themes we associate with a requiem, like confronting grief, confronting our own death. Confronting the idea of moving on, if not specifically the afterlife.
The title refers to how to go on after a loved one dies. When I wrote the piece, I wasn't thinking specifically of any one person; I was drawing from various losses I've experienced in my life. I also was thinking very much about how we confront our own mortality, and how that can feel insurmountable whether or not you have a religious background. With or without the sort of scaffolding that religion provides, it's still terrifying to confront your own death.
Right. Because even if you believe in an afterlife, no one really knows what death is like.
Right, no one knows! I usually say I'm agnostic, or I say I'm an atheist who hopes I'm wrong—which of course puts me back at being agnostic, cause I'm admitting what I don't know.
The piece you've written for Choral Chameleon is called What We Are Becoming? and it will be performed in sacred spaces. How are the two pieces similar or different?
This was a commission for a secular piece for chorus and organ. It's kind of interesting that this season I keep getting performances of pieces that traditionally would have been sacred forms, but I've done in secular ways.
There are two movements, each based on a poem, and the title comes from the first movement. Both poems ask questions about how we move forward. The theme of the concert is "Deus ex machina," and so I was thinking about how that might translate, and also how do we acknowledge emotions that are really difficult.
Some choral music is one note, thematically" it's like, "we're sad because we've lost our lover." Part of the reason I love using almost exclusively contemporary texts is because there's so much room for nuance and more complex emotions. Like in How to Go On—maybe while you're in the throes of grief you're also experiencing moments of feeling the most alive you've ever felt. I think that as a composer writing now, it's important to acknowledge that things are usually complicated—like joy is not always an easy emotion, and even grief is not necessarily.
Whether it's school shootings or movie theater shootings or climate change – and both of these poems came from a place of trying to respond to those things – it feels important to me as a choral composer to stay away from the old texts that have been set to death, and to set texts that feel relevant. What works for me is finding texts that reflect everything that I'm really concerned about right now.
There are a lot of questions presented in the texts of both of these pieces.
Yes, and I don't want to impose answers with the music. These things are unanswerable. But I think even if we don't end up with answers at the end of a piece, there's something valid in asking those questions, and in moving through all of them and actually trying to find the answers that feel meaningful to us.
In these pieces, and in much of your music, you draw your texts almost exclusively from contemporary, living female American poets. Is that purposeful? Or just an affinity?
Yes, predominantly. Not always, but yes. When I started consciously seeking out works by living female poets, it felt like a way to sort of right an historical imbalance.
You write for the voice and think narratively about your compositions. Do you have any plans to write an opera?
I actually really want to write a musical, and I have an idea for that! It's so early in the process, so there's not much there yet. I used to accompany musicals in high school and all throughout college, too. I was like the go-to accompanist for any student production. I loved that music, and I don't get that so much anymore. So I will write a musical. It's just a matter of finding the right timing and the right people to collaborate with.
The Los Angeles Master Chorale performs How to Go On at Walt Disney Concert Hall on March 17 at 7pm; lamasterchorale.org. Choral Chameleon gives the world-premiere performances of What Are We Becoming? at Union Theological Seminary on April 27 at 8pm, and at St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Brooklyn on April 28 at 5pm; choralchameleon.com.
Catherine Womack is an L.A.-based arts and culture journalist who regularly contributes to the Los Angeles Times. Follow her on Twitter: @cewomackwrites
Classical music coverage on National Sawdust Log is supported in part by a grant from the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation. The Log makes all editorial decisions.
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Morel mushrooms are one the best and most-prized in culinary circles.
And that's the reason for the current mushroom rush north of Whitehorse, the capital city of Canada's northwest Yukon territory.
People have come from all over Canada, and some from other parts of the world, to collect the fungi, that go for as much as $12 a pound.
That's what Lorna Janas is paying this year, which is more than twice as much as what pickers were receiving a few years ago.
In an interview with CBC Janas said, "We're swamped," she says. "We buy right until 3 a.m., a couple thousand pounds a night." Some pickers can make upwards of $500 a day. And the days last forever at this time of year, in the land of the midnight sun.
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The Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation is having problems with the shroom-boom. Some of the delicacies are on their land, and many pickers are making a mess, and trespassing according to executive director Ed Schultz .
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Skyfall Heading to IMAX Cinemas
SPECTRE Premiere at Grand Rex Cinema in Paris – Léa Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, DAniel Craig, Christoph Waltz
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IMAX Corporation, Albert R. Broccoli's EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment today announced that the long-awaited next chapter in the famed James Bond franchise, Skyfall, will be released in IMAX® theatres simultaneously with the film's international release on Oct. 26, and its domestic release on Nov. 9, 2012. This is the first IMAX installment of the iconic Bond film franchise. In Skyfall, Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. Skyfall marks the return of Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007, as well as Judi Dench reprising her role as M. The film also stars franchise newcomers Ralph Fiennes, Javier Bardem and Naomie Harris. The film is directed by Sam Mendes from a screenplay written by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and John Logan. Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are producers.
"Skyfall will be the cool, must-see event release of the fall, and releasing the film in IMAX only reinforces that,"
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"It is an honor and a privilege to be a part of this legendary franchise, whose iconic characters and electrifying action will only be amplified in the IMAX format,"
said Greg Foster, Chairman and President, IMAX Filmed Entertainment.
"We are excited to rejoin forces with our friends at Sony Pictures Entertainment and MGM and so pleased to work with Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, and Sam Mendes to bring their vision to IMAX and Bond fans around the world."
The IMAX release of Skyfall will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® with proprietary IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The crystal-clear images coupled with IMAX's customized theatre geometry and powerful digital audio create a unique environment that will make audiences feel as if they are in the movie.
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Q: Why rotation doesn't work if more than 45 degrees I'm trying to rotate a wave on the axis but somehow if I'll pass to the sin and cos a value more than 45 the wave seems to get distortion or the function is not rotated with the proper angle.
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// ROtate
for (int i=0; i<300; i++){
    coordinatesX[i] = ((coordinatesX[i] * (float)Math.cos(60)) - (coordinatesY[i] * (float)Math.sin(60))) + coordinatesX[i];
    coordinatesY[i] = (coordinatesX[i] * (float)Math.sin(60)) + (coordinatesY[i] * (float)Math.cos(60)) + coordinatesY[i];
}

This is the whole code:
// define newpath
float[] coordinatesX = new float[300];
float[] coordinatesY = new float[300];
// wave
for (int i=0; i<300; i++){
    coordinatesX[i] =  i;
    coordinatesY[i] = (float)(20 * (Math.sin((-0.10 * coordinatesX[i]))));
    System.out.println(coordinatesX[i]);
    System.out.println(coordinatesY[i]);
}

// ROtate
for (int i=0; i<300; i++){
    coordinatesX[i] = ((coordinatesX[i] * (float)Math.cos(-10)) - (coordinatesY[i] * (float)Math.sin(-10))) + coordinatesX[i];
    coordinatesY[i] = (coordinatesX[i] * (float)Math.sin(-10)) + (coordinatesY[i] * (float)Math.cos(-10)) + coordinatesY[i];
}

// Translate
for (int i=0; i < 300; i++) {
    coordinatesX[i] = coordinatesX[i]+ (200);
    coordinatesY[i] = coordinatesY[i] + (300);
}

A: it's unclear from your code what you do exactly, but you mention 45 degrees
Math.sin() and Math.cos() work with radians
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Q: Add Watermark to an image just like flipboard in Android I want to add watermark to images just like flipboard does.
As you can see text is added at the bottom of the images with black transparent background. I want to do the exact same thing. Till now I've managed to write text on image but I am not able to make it's background black transparent just like the above picture.
Here's my code so far which I found from here.
public Bitmap mark(Bitmap src, String watermark) {
    int w = src.getWidth();
    int h = src.getHeight();

    Shader shader = new LinearGradient(0, 0, 100, 0, Color.TRANSPARENT, Color.BLACK, TileMode.CLAMP);

    Bitmap result = Bitmap.createBitmap(w, h, src.getConfig());
    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(result);
    canvas.drawBitmap(src, 0, 0, null);
    Paint paint = new Paint();
    paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
    paint.setTextSize(50);
    paint.setAntiAlias(true);
    paint.setShader(shader);
    paint.setUnderlineText(false);
    canvas.drawText(watermark, 10 , h-15, paint);

    return result;
}

A: I think it doesn't require gradient, you can draw it using simple color and using drawRect() method.
Sample code is below, i gonna take the black background size as 25% of whole image.
public Bitmap mark(Bitmap src, String watermark) {
    int w = src.getWidth();
    int h = src.getHeight();

    Paint bgPaint=new Paint();
    bgPaint.setColor(Color.parse("AA000000"));  //transparent black,change opacity by changing hex value "AA" between "00" and "FF"

    Bitmap result = Bitmap.createBitmap(w, h, src.getConfig());
    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(result);
    canvas.drawBitmap(src, 0, 0, null);
    Paint paint = new Paint();
    paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
    paint.setTextSize(50);
    paint.setAntiAlias(true);
    paint.setUnderlineText(false);

    //should draw background first,order is important
    int left=0;
    int right=w;
    int bottom=h;
    int top=bottom-(h*.25);
    canvas.drawRect(left,top,right,bottom,bgPaint);

    canvas.drawText(watermark, 10 , h-15, paint);

return result;
}