Vitex, a large deciduous shrub, grows 15 feet tall and 15 feet wide. It thrives in USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 7 to 11, and prefers well-drained soil. Vitex, also known as Chastetree, does not grow well in a wet or boggy location. Although the leaves produce no fall color, they have an attractive blue-green look during the summer. Vitex produces tall spikes of purple or lavender flowers during the growing season on new wood. To encourage more blooms, the shrub is often pruned several times a year after each bloom period before seeds begin to form. If the blooms are allowed to go to seed, the plants will spend energy making seed rather than new blooms.
Prune your Vitex in late winter or very early spring when the weather is beginning to warm. If you prune the Vitex in the dead of winter, the Vitex may lose moisture from the pruning wounds and freeze to death if there is a hard freeze.
Decide how you would like the Vitex to grow. If the Vitex has a strong central leader growing from the middle, it can be shaped into a small tree. If it has several branches coming from a low point near the ground, it can be trained as a large shrub.
Locate the longest branches first that need to be removed and cut them back to a main stem or trunk. This helps the Vitex retain a natural shape rather than trying to shear it all back to the same level. Keep locating the longest branches and cut them back to a main stem until the correct height and width is desired. The branches you remove will get smaller as you work.
Trim off all old blooms and seed heads by cutting at least 2 to 3 inches below each seed head. Cut back to a point 1/4 inch above a leaf node. A leaf node is the swollen area located on the stem from where the leaves grow. Cut all the old blooms back to a level where the plant is evenly pruned and has an attractive shape.
Wait until all summer blooms have faded before deadheading, or trimming the old blooms off, to encourage another bloom period on the new wood. The following winter or spring, prune the Vitex as needed to retain shape and repeat the deadheading process in the summer to produce more blooms.


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Apple butter is a bit of a misnomer. There is no butter in this recipe. The term is used to describe apples the have been cooked into a marmalade consistency. It is great for spreading on toasted bread in the morning. It is also great to add to muffins and cookies. I added the port to this recipe to make it a little less sweet for a savory style. You can substitute water for port and add more sugar to give the apple butter a sweeter taste.
Start with a shallow, large-diameter pan. Over high heat add the port and bring to a simmer, next add the vinegar and water. Add the apples. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 30 minutes. We want the apples to be nice and soft but not falling apart. Run the apples through a food mill and add the pulp and the liquid back in to the pan. Add the sugar and spices, turn on low heat and cook for 9 to 11 hours (low heat is key). We are looking for the constancy of a nice preserve.


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Robert Butler was originally an Okeechobee, Florida, artist who painted apart from the rest of the Highwaymen. He was tall, good-looking, well dressed, and charismatic. Jeff Klinkenberg, who writes for the St. Petersburg Times, interviewed Robert several times before he died. Much of what we know about the artist and his work can be taken from his writings as well as a 2012 book Butler published with Sheila R. Munoz titled Highwaymen Artists: An Untold Truth.
Robert was born in Baxley, Georgia, a small timber and farming town. He moved to Okeechobee with his mother, Annie Tolifer Butler, when he was four years old. They had very little money when Robert was growing up. He spent much of his time exploring nature and became well acquainted with the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee. As a boy, he hunted rabbits, hogs, and deer. Reflecting on these activities, Robert recognized the similarity in the two activities; both artists and hunters need to pay attention to their environment. As a young child, he learned to "read" the land.
Robert graduated from a segregated high school, and because his employment choices were limited, he mowed lawns and did maintenance work at dairies. When one of his lawn clients saw his drawings, he gave Robert an $11 oil painting to encourage his talent. This same customer also helped him get a job as a hospital orderly. Working in the hospital as the sun went down, Robert would look out the window and have a strong desire to paint the sunset. His hospital position gave him proximity to potential customers and he was able to sell work to doctors and other hospital personnel. One discerning doctor commissioned him to paint a prized Appaloosa horse. Robert had to repaint the picture forty times, a lesson that taught him patience and the importance of detail.
To give more visibility to his art, Robert set up his easel by a mall in the center of town. Word spread and Butler's sales increased. When an Okeechobee librarian saw his work, she paid a $25 fee for him to take a correspondence art class. Remarking on the area's reputation as a racist town, art promoter and early Highwaymen collector Jim Fitch explained to Klinkenberg, "Okeechobee, some folk will tell you, might be the heart of Florida's redneck belt. But many who helped Robert along the way were white." In fact, Robert claimed he didn't remember racism in the 1950s and 60s, or maybe, he said, he didn't want to remember it. In spite of the racial tensions of the times, the town helped him succeed.
In 1969, Don Herold, then Director of the Polk Museum of Art, saw Robert's work and offered him a show. After the 1970 exhibition at the museum, his sales increased substantially. Robert Butler was on his way to becoming an established, marketable artist.
Robert credits his mother, who worked three jobs, with his strong work ethic. She picked tomatoes, waited tables in restaurants, and cleaned hotel rooms to make ends meet. Butler told Jeff Klinkenberg "She was one of those people who believed you could accomplish anything if you worked hard enough." In 1995, a white businessman who believed in her work ethic, loaned her $5,000. She invested in a boarding house and with the profits she purchased a restaurant. She bought cast-off lumber from demolition sites at low prices and used it to build other boarding houses. Determined to save money where she could, she laid the foundations herself.
Once Robert's work was selling well, he quit his job as an orderly. He knew he had to take a risk. He explained to Klinkenberg, "I was swimming in this fantastic psychological soup at the time; I came from this poor background and yet this door was opening wide for me, to this universe that could be explored forever. I wanted to paint as much as I could and never looked back."
Butler married and eventually had nine children. Keenly aware of his responsibility as a father and a husband, he knew he had to sell his paintings if he was going to support his family. He explained, "I'd put the paintings in my station wagon and $10 in my pocket for gas. It was a one-way ticket. I had to sell some paintings to get back [home]."
His early paintings were done quickly. He took to the roadways in 1968 and sold his paintings for around $35, much like the other Highwaymen. He stayed on the road until every landscape was sold. He was a smart salesman, often targeting ranchers who had an affinity for the land. He'd ask for referrals, remembering how well that system of selling worked at the hospital. If he didn't have just the right painting for someone, he'd make a sketch and return later with a finished landscape that might be more to the customer's liking. His best selling works were turkey paintings, which were particularly prized by hunters. When a landscape didn't sell, he'd quickly paint a turkey in it and it would readily please a customer.
Butler had a longtime friendship with Jim Fitch, the man who later named the Highwaymen. Their friendship began in Okeechobee and they bonded over their love of the Florida landscape and the Bible. Jim helped Robert in the early years by building frames for his artwork and giving him marketing advice. Jim purchased his first painting from Robert in 1967. He sold Butler's work in his Okeechobee arts and crafts store and gallery and later in his Sebring art gallery. Robert also taught classes in Jim's Sebring classroom that was part of the gallery.
Butler's lifestyle changed as his paintings improved and his reputation grew. In 1965 he drove a beat up Oldsmobile Catalina 50,000 miles a year. When it broke down once in Haines City, he paid for a new rear wheel bearing with a turkey painting. By 1995 he was one of the best-known landscape painters in Florida and was driving a prized 1972 four-wheel drive Chevy Suburban. He spent less time on the road as he had more opportunities to sell his work.
When he traveled, he could be gone for days. He'd often stop to sketch a striking landscape or study something particular that he wanted to remember and incorporate into his work. His goal was to document correctly. Sometimes when he'd stop at a motel for the night, he would paint what inspired him on the trip. The quiet of the motel space was appealing. He told Klinkenburg: "Creativity, by its very nature, is about exploration….You have to have at least the illusion of being free to explore your ideas. For me, that means going to a place where I can shut out all distractions. Nobody can call me. I don't watch TV and I don't listen to the radio. I paint."
Eventually, Butler started making prints and advertising in outdoor magazines. He moved his family to Lakeland and opened a gallery. At first, money was the primary motivation for his painting, especially as his family grew. He explained, "Listen, there's nothing in the world like nine children to get you up on your feet and out the door painting and selling." But as success came, and he was sometimes making $7,500 for a painting, he concentrated more on the quality of his work. Still, he traveled frequently and lamented the time away from his family. He wrote in his book, "A special tribute goes to my wife Dorothy and the rest of my family for the support they gave under sometimes difficult circumstances. Many are the hours, days, and sometimes weeks they have suffered the lack of my presence amid the family circle."
In the summer of 1993, Butler took a cultural exchange trip to Africa hoping to establish a connection with his ancestors. A hired tour guide took him to Tanzania. Here, he painted in a small Masai village in the high plains. He painted ostriches, stone huts, the village people, and the dry and dusty plains of the area. The trip changed the way he saw the world, and especially the way he experienced light.
In February 2008, a fire destroyed more than 200 of his early paintings. Luckily, he had photographs of many of these works, which he was able to reproduce in his book. In this publication, he gives credit to other Florida landscapers who gave him inspiration. He also comments on the Civil Rights Movement and the Highwaymen's paintings: "Not created to replicate the turmoil of our time in protest, our art recorded the things positively affecting our humanity and reflects only the best of our world….While it is clear that living amid the racially charged environment of the Civil Rights Era theoretically challenged our dreams of deriving wealth and prosperity from our art, once on the streets we were thrilled to discover that the love of art transcended racial discord."
Robert Butler's life was filled with a deep love for Florida's wilderness. On March 19, 2014, Robert Butler died in Lakeland from complications related to his thirty years as a diabetic. His marriage to Dorothy lasted over fifty years. Eight of his nine children paint or painted at some time during their lives.
It is best to understand Robert's relationship to the land in his own words. In 2012, he wrote: "Strikingly beautiful, the Kissimmee River was my source of constant inspiration, just as the beaches were for the coastal Highwaymen during all the years that I lived in the region. Its windswept, black waters sparkled at midday, evoking visions of timeless vistas where droves of birds sailed the warm winds above. I would often take long walks before or after work and fish along the levee that contained the river after the early 1960s. My favorite time was at daybreak when I would imagine myself suspended in a Salvador Dali world where huge flights of white egrets silently passed overhead as if steered to some mysterious destination known only to nature."
Although Robert met other Highwaymen on the road, the Fort Pierce and Gifford group of artists didn't directly influence him. His artistic beginnings were different. Robert claimed Bean Backus was a strong inspiration, but there is no evidence that they ever met. His skill came from hard work and careful attention to his environment.
Robert was so attuned to making his landscapes an accurate representation of Florida's flora and fauna that he interviewed biologists, botanists, and zoologists for details. Jim Fitch remembers a time when "he was commissioned to paint a bear hunt for the cover of Florida Wildlife magazine. He researched for days, finding out that many hunters used dogs, and that sometimes the dogs were branded with the initials of the hunters." So Robert branded the dogs in his painting. But after he turned in his artwork, he thought that animal rights activists might be disturbed by the branding. So, according to Fitch, he drove back to the company and painted out the brands. Overnight he rethought his decision and drove back to Miami and painted in the brands once again.
Working from sketches drawn from time spent in Florida's landscape and field notes he made whenever he learned anything new, Robert could work eighteen hours without a break. He once painted twenty paintings in four days.
Robert concentrated on painting wildlife more than other Highwaymen. His paintings might include cowboys, cattle, hunters, hunting dogs, deer, wolves, wild hogs, and turkeys. In keeping with his focus on depicting the landscape accurately, his palette was more restrained than most of the other painters in the group. While Robert may not have been as prolific as other Highwaymen, his attention to detail and his intense love for the landscape he depicted made him one of the better artists in the group.

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Hungarian sausages are sausages found in the cuisine of Hungary. Hungary produces a vast number of  sui  sausage types. They may be boiled, fresh or dried, and smoked, with different spices and flavors, "hot" or "mild". Many were influenced by their neighbors and brethren.

These sausages may be eaten like a cold cut or used in a main course. Hungarian cuisine uses these different types of sausages in many ways such as in stews, soups, potato stews like "paprikás krumpli" (paprika-based stew with spicy sausage and potatoes), bean soups like Jókai bableves, some goulash soup variations, pastry dishes, or even in salads.

The smoked sausages may contain bacon, ground pork, beef, boar or lamb, paprika, salt, garlic, black pepper, allspice, white pepper, caraway, nutmeg, zest, marjoram, cayenne pepper, sugar, white wine or cognac. Sausages may have additional ingredients like liver, mushroom, bread, rice, lemon juice, eggs, cream or milk.

The meat is coarsely ground and salted. If garlic is added, it is mashed in water to produce a slurry and added to the meat along with spices. The sausage is then stuffed into natural casings in 1-foot links - usually using the small intestine of the pig. This traditionally took place outside on the fall day when a pig was slaughtered. The sausage is then hung overnight to allow the flavors to meld and some of the grease to drip out. It is now ready to be used fresh and unsmoked. The unsmoked sausages are typically roasted with sauerkraut or red or green cabbage, and served with mashed potatoes.

The dry sausages are cold smoked and hung to cure before consumption.

Sausages

Kolbász

Kolbász is a traditional Hungarian smoked sausage seasoned with paprika. The best known and most popular versions are:

Gyulai sausage is named after the Hungarian town of Gyula, and has PGI protection. It is slow cooked while being beech wood smoked. It is made from pork, 'szalonna' (Hungarian bacon fat), garlic, pepper, caraway, and a Hungarian red paprika. At the World Exhibition of Food in Brussels 1935, the Gyulai kolbász  was awarded a gold diploma. The sausage may be cut into thin slices and eaten alone or with bread. They are also added to many Hungarian dishes including lecsó and potato/egg casserole (rakott krumpli).
Csabai sausage is made in the town Békéscsaba, and also has Protected Geographical Status (PGI) protection. It is similar to Gyulai, but somewhat spicier. There are several variations in size and type, but it is a spicy sausage with a lot of paprika.
Csemege kolbász is an mildly spiced cooked smoked sausage
Cserkész kolbász is a cooked smoked sausage made from beef and pork.
Debreceni kolbász is usually unsmoked or more mildly smoked, with a strong paprika flavour and used for cooking.
Lecsókolbász, a spicy cooked smoked sausage made specifically for serving as part of the dish lecsó, a vegetable stew with peppers and tomatoes.

Hurka
Hurka are boiled sausages that come in two main types "májas" (liver sausage), and "véres" (blood sausage). The main ingredient is liver and rice, or blood and rice.  Spices, pepper and salt are added.

Other cooked sausages

Virsli, a hot dog–like long and thin sausage, consumed boiled with bread and mustard.
Párizsi  (Parizer or Paris sausage), is a much larger, thicker version of virsli. It is very similar to the Bologna.

Szalámi

Hungary's most famous salami is téliszalámi (Winter salami).

See also

 List of dried foods
 List of smoked foods

References

 Csabai Kolbász

External links
 Hungarian sausage, (Kolbász)
 Hungarian sausage
 A compilation of sausage recipes

Dried meat
Smoked meat

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Agama (znanstveno ime Agama) je rod drobnih žužkojedih kuščarjev z dolgim repom. Sem spada vsaj 31 vrst, ki živijo po vsej Afriki.

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V rod Agama spadajo naslednje vrste:
 Agama aculeata
 Agama agama (selska ali navadna agama)
 Agama anchietae
 Agama armata
 Agama atra
 Agama bocourti
 Agama bottegi
 Agama boueti
 Agama boulengeri
 Agama caudospinosa
 Agama cornii
 Agama doriae
 Agama etoshae
 Agama gracilimembris
 Agama hartmanni
 Agama hispida
 Agama impalearis
 Agama insularis
 Agama kirkii
 Agama mehelyi
 Agama montana
 Agama mossambica
 Agama mwanzae
 Agama paragama
 Agama persimilis
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Teatro Alberto Maranhão – Is It Worth a Visit?
Is it worth visiting the Teatro Alberto Maranhão? This very famous landmark in the state of Rio Grande do Norte is a preferred destination for history and cultural enthusiasts because of its rich contribution to Brazil's cultural heritage. For this reason alone, case it deserves more than a visit.
Because Portugal had the longest and strongest impact on Brazil's art and culture, diagnosis it is no wonder that its influence can be clearly seen almost anywhere you go in the country. Take the city of Natal. Many people would think that it is all about beautiful beaches and sand dunes. The truth is there are many historical and cultural attraction in this city as well.
Tourist Center of Natal
Let's start at Natal's Tourism Center or Centro de Turismo de Natal which used to be an orphanage and, sickness later on, a jailhouse. Today, it houses a lot of tourist facilities like handicraft stores, an art gallery, a restaurant and a club. A short walk from the Tourism Center will bring you to Natal's Historic Center.
The Historic Center is composed of a group of historical buildings. Included in this interesting structural collection are:
Natal's city hall, the Palácio Felipe Camarão
the trapezium-shaped Catedral Nova or Catedral Metropolitana
the baroque-style Igreja de Santo Antônio church which was erected in 1976
the Câmara Cascudo Memorial and Museum, built in honor of the state's most popular folklorist
the French-style Teatro Alberto Maranhão
Of these great edifices, perhaps the most impressive building would be Teatro Alberto Maranhão, which is Natal's oldest theatre. It is listed as a national monument by the prestigious Historical and Artistic Heritage of Rio Grande do Norte. While Portuguese in design, there is a heavy influence of 19th century French architecture as well as some element of Belgian art involved.
Construction Begins on Teatro Alberto Maranhão
The theatre was designed engineer José de Berredo. Construction under the supervision of Major Theodósio Paiva begun in 1898. In 1904, the newly-constructed building was inaugurated under the name of Teatro Carlos Gomes or Carlos Gomes Theater.
By 1910, the Carlos Gomes Theater still maintained its original measurements of 78.60 meters long and 18.30 meters wide, and three doors. By the stairway on the building's façade stands a statue named "Art" which was sculpted by Mathurin Moreau.
Theater Renovation and Re-Opening
Teatro Alberto Maranhão
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During the second term of State Governor Alberto Maranhão, between the years 1908 and 1914, the theater was closed to undergo renovations. Additions were made to improve the buildings look. These included an upper deck, iron railings, and steel gates from France (Val de Casting Osnes). Artwork was added on the façade as well as seats, desks and other furniture.
In July 19,1912, the theater reopened under the new name Gran-Campañia Española de Zarzuela, Opera y Opereta Pablo López. It's opening presentation was Leo Fall's operetta "Princesa dos Dólares" ("Princess of Dollars").
Restoration and More Renovations
In 1957, then Natal Mayor Djalma Maranhão changed the municipality theater's name to Teatro Alberto Maranhão, and that's the name it keeps until the present.
Recent Improvements on Teatro Alberto Maranhão
Below are some of the renovations done to the theater over the years.
The theater was closed for renovation in 1959 and re-opened on March 24, 1960.
The theater's air conditioning was centralized in 1977.
In June 1988, further restorations to the building were made under the initiative of the José Augusto Foundation. These included audience and stage section, meeting hall, garden, and dressing rooms. The restoration work went under the supervision of the Coordinator of the Historical and Artistic Heritage of Rio Grande do Natal.
2004 marked the centennial of the Teatro Alberto Maranhão. New changes were added since the first ones in 1960. The improvements gave the theater better accessibility as ramps leading to the theater square from the street were constructed. Improvements were also done on the theater square and new bathrooms installed.
A new air conditioning system was installed in the entire building, primarily the auditorium, administrative and audience areas.
The theater was repainted and professionals restored the furniture, flooring, lighting, and mosaic to its original form. A new coffee shop, toilets, and shops were added. The flooring was replaced with a new one and the inner courtyard was extended.
Much of the theater's foyer, auditorium and facilities were restored to their original glory.
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Singularities: Exploitation Cinema
Written by Caitlin Denny
Singularities is a new blog by Caitlin Denny hoping to start a new trend in discussing film with enthusiasm. She'll be doing interviews with filmmakers, reviews of screenings and films, listing upcoming events film related, and letting you know about some interesting findings of hers.
It's really hard to find any interesting on-line writing about cinema. Practically every other art form has a plethora of wonderfully obsessive and insightful blogs and web zines (with a few exceptions which I'll list at the bottom of this entry). Singularities hopes to start a new trend in discussing film with enthusiasm. I will be doing interviews with filmmakers, reviews of screenings and films, listing upcoming events film related, and letting you know about some interesting findings of mine.
This week's theme is: Exploitation Cinema
Anger's gay biker in Scorpio Rising
Usually seen as a low-quality degredation of art, exploitation cinema is probably the best thing to happen to film. Exploitation allows "offensive" humor and ideas to be expressed in the midst of repression (then and now). In Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising we find gay culture being represented through occultism and bikers, a dramatized metaphor for homosexuals' place in society at the time. But was Anger exploiting the gay population - why is it called exploitation? Simply because the films represent archetypes of our world - who in turn don't believe they are archetypes and would rather not be depicted in this way- being exploited.
Muybridge's Woman Walking Down Stairs
Artists like Eadweard Muybridge (he made "photographs in motion" or sequential photographs of nude people doing various activities) were able to work in this field of exploitation until it stalled from 1930-1968 because of the Production Code that was put into effect to wipe any sign of public indecency from cinema. The 1970's saw a huge resurgence of the genre, and this when some of the best classic exploitation films were made. It is famous for having sub-genres such as blaxsploitation, sexploitation, teensploitation, biker flicks, zombie films and spaghetti westerns. Your favorite filmmaker is probably an exploitation filmmaker of some kind or another. Obvious members of the genre include John Waters (Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble) and Ed Wood (Plan 9 from Outer Space, Glen or Glenda?), but also includes Larry Clark (KIDS, Wassup Rockers) and Todd Solondz (Happiness, Welcome To The Dollhouse).
left: Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse right: Clark's KIDS
Exploitation cinema allowed uncensored critiques of society come to fruition, inspiring artists of all mediums. It gave rise to lowbrow art in all it's glory. Dawn and her family in Welcome to the Dollhouse are exaggerations of the suburban family; the subtle approach to cliché through class and youth sexuality mark the current take on exploitation - a cinema for for those with euphoric attachments to surfaces and cynics of cultural organization. The archetypal teenagers in Larry Clark's KIDS are just being themselves, or rather acting like versions of themselves, therefore parodying what it is to be a teenager living in the Bronx in the mid 90's. Exploitation is all around us, you smell it in your morning coffee and see it ievery time you look in the mirror; use it as inspiration to change something or not change something.
Interview: Julian Vargas
Local Bay Area filmmaker Julian Vargas makes films about love. However, his roots as a Catholic schoolboy in Bogota, Columbia have definitely given him a bizarre outlook on the subject. It's no wonder he began making films about repressed sexuality and cultural abnormalties- those nuns are harsh! Vargas makes new classic exploitation films, meaning, he borrows aspects from the older films such as love in turmoil matched with nudity, and brings his own version of pop songs and family drama to play. See how floating crystals, happy endings and Nancy Sinatra fit into this unique artist's vision.
Caitlin Denny: Filmmaking, as most people know, takes quite a long time even with the help of others - what is your process of working?
Julian Vargas: I usually start with a feeling or a narrative that comes from whatever is going on in my personal life and whatever is surrounding me and influencing me at the moment, it has to begin with the need of expressing something. The goal is always to find the correct amount of abstraction without losing the initial emotion. After this creative process, the production process is pure organization and focus. I tend to make my films [through] the priority of my life, if other things are distracting me I always feel that there is something wrong with me. It can be challenging when your personal life is so attached to your creative work but I don't see [any] other way to do it.
CD: Can you talk about the titles of your pieces and the origins of those titles?
JV: I come up with them as if I was going to title a song. I like to think of my movies as pop songs. I intend to make something that is delicious from start to finish and keep you wanting for more. Great pop songs are catchy, unique and somewhat strange and they always make you feel something inside.
CD: Why use cinema to translate your thoughts? What has cinema got to offer that, say, sculpture can't offer? Would you be interested in working in another medium?
JV: Cinema is the most open and accessible art , it's the only one that allows you to integrate as many other art forms as you please.
I grew up with TV and film, and this influenced me from an early age. In my adolescence I had to fight this influence, especially when [I] started caring about finding love, it was really painful to realize that life doesn't work like the movies, you have to learn that life can be a real shit and that what ends in a happy ending after 2 hours of torture can take forever in real life and the happy ending might never come. This kind of conversation with cinema, really made me realize the impact it can have in our lives, and how comforting or damaging it can be. Cinema is the art form that I feel more passionate and obsessed about. I tried photography for a little bit, but I was too impatient, I wanted moving images. I believe I found what I love and I'm still not sick of it to drop it.
CD: Some people are shocked, and sometimes offended by your films. How do you respond to this?
JV: I think it's a good thing. I've never been fond of playing it safe, I don't like things to be static, I get bored easily, I think that things need to change and nothing will change if everyone is being tame. I believe on putting yourself out there and humiliating yourself a little or a lot if you have to, and don't see a lot of people doing that, and it frustrates me, I don't mind taking on the "dirty" work, somebody has to do it- plus, it's really the [most] fun job. Most of the work that I admire is not easily digestible. Causing someone a massive diarrhea can be something to be proud of. I think that art should challenge, provoke and produce some kind of change.
CD: Your work could be categorized in many different genres, experimental, drama, comedy, exploitation, gay; how do you describe your work?
JV: At the moment my work is going through an experimental stage within narrative. Currently I'm interested in the appropriation of film genres for the purposes of personal expression. A lot of the work has a tendency for sexual deviance, more than promoting a particular sexual orientation, I intend to create a space of freedom where anyone is welcome.
CD: Your work illuminates the human drama of living, what are your thoughts on your work as a philosophical mode of representation?
JV: I'm don't know if it works as a philosophical mode of representation, in fact I'm not even sure what that means. If anything it is an abstraction of human drama and fantasy.
CD: Who and what are the biggest influences on you and your work and why?
JV: I feel like every piece has a different set of influences, and some influences tend to come more often than others. I tend to be influenced by artists who manage to capture a balance between self-expression, humor and artistry, filmmakers like Kenneth Anger and George Kuchar come to mind. Recently I had the chance to see the work of Gilbert & George , another example of expert provocateurs who work in a similar vein. I'm also very influenced by the work of Ingmar Bergman, especially in films like "The Silence" and "Persona", he is a master on communicating sexual tension, his cinematography is always impeccable. Well-crafted pop songs are of great inspiration for creating narratives, the works of Nancy Sinatra come to mind.
CD: How would you like you and your work to be remembered in 100 years?
JV: I don't really care. That's a long time.
CD: What's the last film you saw?
JV: I saw "Showgirls". You know they were planning to make a sequel. I think I would like to make it. Nomi Malone needs a comeback.
Review: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Dir. Russ Meyer
(20th Century Fox , 1970; released 2006)
genre: hippie sexploitation blood bath
you might like: Multiple Maniacs, Showgirls, Sleep Away Camp
fact: Groovy 60's band, The Strawberry Alarm Clock wanted their scene removed from this film.
Nothing's like screwing in a Bentley- except for watching BtVotD! I felt like two leprechaun hookers were making love to me as I watched the teen? rock band The Kelly Affair move to Hollywood, become sluts, alcoholics and paraplegics and get shot in the face all within the span of one week. However, the best word to describe this film is "cute". Everything is bright and fluffy, even the decapitation scene! One of the most exciting things about this film, besides the abundance of titties, is the Roger Ebert commentary available on the newly remastered DVD. YES I SAID ROGER EBERT! Ebert co-wrote the script of this outrageous film with director Russ Meyer. In the commentary you will hear Ebert note more than once on his influential and legendary writing spawning infamous sayings such as "This is my happening and it freaks me out! ", and "You will drink the black sperm of my vengence!" Within the scope of exploitation films BtVotD is one of the tamest, but also one of the most enjoyable for it's quality, a hit or miss trait in the genre.
Filmmaker of the Week: Doris Wishman
As one of the only, and certainly the most popular, female exploitation filmmaker, Doris Wishman is my filmmaker of the week. She began making nudist films in the 1960's and continued making films in other exploitation genres until her death in 2002, aged 90. Her cult following is for good reason, as Wishman's films are seen as proto-feminist for their strong female leads using tits and ass to their advantage. The Queen of Sexploitation, The Female Ed Wood, Wishman is a controversial film icon you should know about.
News of the Week:
John Waters lectures at the European Graduate School. He mentions a bad Elizabeth Taylor film titled "Boom!" as an inspiration. Watch his lecture, then watch part of "Boom!" below.
Film Moment of the Week:
Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor". A scene depicting an attack by insane asylum nymphos.
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package org.deri.iris.queryrewriting.caching;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
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import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
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	private static Map<Pair<Set<ITerm>, Set<ITerm>>, Set<Map<IVariable, ITerm>>> cartesianCache;

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Take a look at the evolution of three generations of Apple headphones using CT scan images
In September 2016, Apple unexpectedly removed the 3.5mm audio jack from the iPhone 7 and introduced the all-wireless and popular AirPad headphones. It was a move that, despite criticism, greatly influenced the popularity of all-wireless headphones and somehow revived the industry; Millions of such headphones are sold each year, and Apple is the undisputed ruler of the market with the popular AirPad headphones.
In fact, we can mention the first generation of the AirPod as the inspiration for the design of many wireless headphones and even the AirPad Pro, and now the third generation of the standard AirPod is based on the same design. Now, interesting CT scan images of the first generation of AirPad, AirPad Pro and AirPad 3 have been released, which can show a complete view of their changes.
The pictures show that the internal battery is the largest component used in the first generation of the AirPad, which occupies the entire space of the long stem. In the case of the phone, there is an Apple-specific H1 chip and at the bottom, there is a microphone. This is while we see a lot of changes in AirPad Pro. In fact, the AirPad Pro was the first major redesign of Apple's wireless headphones, forcing the company to completely overhaul the internal structure and placement of parts. Perhaps the most obvious change is the location of the battery.
Apple shortened the design of the long stem of the AirPod and the classic EarBud in the AirPad Pro; But naturally, installing a battery to charge enough in a smaller stem could also be a major problem. You can clearly see in the pictures that Apple has put the battery in the AirPad Pro phones to deal with this issue. Apple also downsized various components on a PCB or printed circuit board to make it smaller. Also, the AirPad Pro had an Adaptive EQ, which was made possible thanks to a new, new microphone built into the handsets.
Not to mention that removing the battery from the base of the AirPad Pro allowed Apple to install force-touch sensors in the area, allowing users to push the AirPad Pro to pause music, call Siri, and more. However, it seems that Apple has also changed the placement of the AirPad 3 microphones compared to the original AirPads and has now raised them.
As mentioned earlier, the third generation of standard AirPads is inspired by the design of the AirPad Pro; But there are also components from the first generation of these headphones. In fact, this is the most important upgrade of the standard AirPads since the launch of the first generation in 2016. This means that the new Cupertino headphones have a smaller stem; But unlike the AirPad Pro, it lacks silicone pads.
Unlike the AirPad Pro, which has mostly uncut stems, the CT scan shows a third-generation AirPad full of components and several sensors similar to first-generation AirPads. Like the AirPad Pro, the battery sits next to a new skin contact sensor. It is interesting to know that the images of the mentioned CT scan are provided by the "Scan of the Month" website. This website lists popular products under a CT scan to reveal how they are designed and built.
The images come as Apple looks set to make a number of changes to the next-generation AirPad Pro. The new AirPad Pro could have a rounder design that would make it more like Bates' latest wireless headphones; But Apple will have a hard time embedding powerful hardware in a small round chassis.
In addition, it is said that prototypes of the AirPad Pro are equipped with temperature monitoring sensors to monitor the user's body temperature from inside the ear, which is likely that the temperature sensors inside the ear can work simultaneously with a similar sensor in the Apple Watch 8 Series. The AirPod is based on health-oriented features and also uses motion sensors to monitor the user's overall condition and send a notification to users in the event of a problem. In addition, it is claimed that future AirPads can be used as hearing aids.
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In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at two open source companies getting funding, the FDA open sources app code, Barcelona upping its open source investment, and more.
In the last two weeks, IBM's acquisition of Red Hat led the open source business headlines. But two other companies that develop open source software also made some bold financial moves that filled their coffers quite nicely.
Hashicorp announced it has raised $100 million from two venture capital firms. The maker of tools for managing cloud applications plans to use that funding "to boost its open-source and commercial product development roadmaps, accelerate hiring and step up customer-facing activities such as training." That funding also helped push the company's valuation to $1.9 billion (USD).
Neo4j, which develops open source graph databases, didn't do too badly, either. The company pulled in $80 million (USD) in investments, which doubles the amount of funding it's managed to attract. According to Neo4j's CEO Emil Eifrem, the company will use that money to "grow its developer tools and support popular use cases." Eifrem add that the infusion of cash also provides "Neo4j with the resources to serve our new and existing customers with the best graph platform to harness connected data for AI."
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States has open sourced the code for its MyStudies app. The app, which is available for Android and iOS, enables medical researchers to collect patient data for use in clinical trials and studies.
The source code and documentation for MyStudies is available on on GitHub and the FDA hopes that "developers or hospital and academic medical center researchers can customize and rebrand MyStudies for their own purposes."
The city of Barcelona has reach an important milestone. This year, almost 80% of the city's IT budget is devoted to open source. On top of that, Barcelona has made eight of its projects available on GitHub, with seven more to follow.
Xavier Roca, Barcelona's director of IT development, says the city intends to link almost all of its IT spending to open source by 2020. Until then, Roca says, Barcelona will "continue to work with proprietary software solutions, as we have systems in place that require maintenance."
Machines are getting closer to better recognizing human emotions, thanks to open source software developed by a team of European researchers. Called the MixedEmotions Toolkit, the software can learn to recognize "emotions through text, audio and video processing."
Mixed Emotions is made up of several modules that analyze text and multimedia and relationships in social networks, and does machine translation between several European languages. The researchers also developed a Python package called Senpy, "for developing and publishing emotion analysis services and tools, mainly focused on text processing."
The source code for the toolkit is available on GitHub.


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Q: Implementing 3 blocks with CSS I want my page to have 3 blocks: LEFT CENTER RIGHT. I want block LEFT and RIGHT is about 150px wide, and block CENTER just fill up the rest of the space. There are 10px gap between the each block. Here is my attempt:
#left {
    float: left;
    margin-top: 2px;
    padding-left: 3px;
    width: 150px;
    height: 800px;
    color: black;
    background-color: #cccccc;
}

#right {
    float: right;
    margin-top: 2px;
    padding-left: 3px;
    width: 150px;
    height: 800px;
    color: black;
    background-color: #cccccc;
}

#center {
    margin: 2px 160px 0 160px;
    padding-left: 3px;
    height: 800px;
    background-color: yellow;
}

If I dont have the #center, the block LEFT and RIGHT (gray color) look great. But when i try to fill the white space in the center with a Yellow block, it mess up. I cant see my RIGHT block anymore.

A: I believe what you're describing is known as the "Holy Grail layout" (for good reason!) See http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail for a good article on it or google "CSS Holy Grail Layout" for more.

A: This solution will work in all standard browsers (IE7 and later, firefox, chrome, opera, safari). (If you must have IE6 support, I can provide a updated example)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

 <title>Example</title>
 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" />

This is the left panel

This is the center panel

This is the right panel

A: The easiest way to do this is with absolute positioning:
#left
{
    width:150px;
}

#center
{
    left:150px;
    right:150px;
}

#right
{
    right:0px;
    width:150px;
}

Note that the parent of all the boxes must have position:relative, as absolute positioning is relative to the first position:relative ancestor (or body if there isn't one...or actually maybe html. I'm not sure. The browser window, at least). There are reasons not to use absolute positioning, though, so this may not work in your particular case. For example, the columns will not all be equal height (unless you explicitly bind the height), so if you want different backgrounds on the columns this will probably not look right. Also, cross-browser compatibility is definitely an issue.

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U.S. soldier gets 3 years for killing Iraqi
Dec. 10, 2004, 2:08 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
A U.S. soldier was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to killing a severely wounded Iraqi teenager, the military said Saturday.
Staff Sgt. Johnny M. Horne Jr., 30, of Winston-Salem, N.C., also received a reduction in rank to private, forfeiture of wages and a dishonorable discharge.
Horne, attached to Company C, 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, based in Fort Riley, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of unpremeditated murder and one count of soliciting another soldier to commit unpremeditated murder.
The charges relate to the Aug. 18 killing of a 16-year-old Iraqi male found in a burning truck with severe abdominal wounds sustained during clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City, an impoverished neighborhood that was the scene of fierce fighting between U.S. forces and Shiite rebels loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
A criminal investigator said during an earlier hearing that the soldiers decided to kill him to "put him out of his misery."
The military said in a statement that a jury-like panel of seven service members issued the sentence Friday night after about four hours of deliberations.
Horne is among six Fort Riley soldiers charged with killings in recent months — two for slayings in Kansas and four for deaths in Iraq. Staff Sgt. Cardenas J. Alban, 29, of Inglewood, Calif., is charged along with Horne in the teenager's killing and is awaiting a court-martial hearing.
Two other soldiers from the same unit this week faced Article 32 hearings — the military equivalent of a grand jury hearing — over a Sadr City killing in August.
An Article 32 hearing was held Thursday for Sgt. Michael P. Williams, 25, of Memphis, Tenn., on charges of premeditated murder, obstruction of justice and making a false official statement. Also charged is Spc. Brent May, 22, of Salem, Ohio, who had a two-day hearing and is awaiting a ruling on whether he will be court-martialed, receive a lesser penalty or be acquitted.


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Die Trommelralle (Habroptila wallacii) ist ein mittelgroßer flugunfähiger Rallenvogel, der nur auf der indonesischen Insel Halmahera, einer nördlichen Molukken-Insel, vorkommt, wo er unzugängliche Sagopalmen-Sumpfgebiete in Waldnähe bewohnt. Sein Gefieder ist überwiegend dunkel schiefergrau, während die Haut um die Augen, der Schnabel und die Beine leuchtend rot sind. Sein Ruf ist ein tiefes trommelndes Geräusch, das von Flügelschlagen begleitet wird. Da es schwierig ist, den scheuen Vogel in seiner dicht bewachsenen Umgebung zu beobachten, ist über sein Verhalten nur wenig bekannt.

Die Trommelralle, die zuerst von dem englischen Biologen George Robert Gray 1861 beschrieben wurde, ist die einzige Art der monotypischen Gattung Habroptila. Ihr Lebensraum wird unter anderem durch die Umwandlung von Feuchtgebieten zu Reisanbaugebieten eingeschränkt, von der Weltnaturschutzunion (IUCN) wird sie als gefährdet (Vulnerable, VU) eingestuft.

Beschreibung
Die Trommelralle ist ein kräftiger, mittelgroßer, 35 bis 40 cm langer, flugunfähiger Vogel. Bei erwachsenen Tieren sind Kopf, Nacken, Mantel, der obere Rücken und die obere Brust dunkel schiefergrau, wobei Kopf und Nacken am dunkelsten gefärbt sind. Vom unteren Rücken bis zum Schwanz sind sie kräftig tiefbraun. Rücken und Bürzel, die Schulterfedern und die Oberflügeldecken sind von verwaschen olivbrauner Farbe, zu den Schwanzdecken und Steuerfedern geht die Farbe in ein schwärzliches Braun über. Die Oberflügeldecken neigen zu einem verwaschenen Schiefergrau am äußeren Rand, die großen Handdecken sind dunkler, tiefbraun, mit dunklerer Mitte. Handdecken, Handschwingen und Armschwingen sind sehr dunkelbraun, die Schirmfedern sind etwas heller. Die Achselfedern und die Unterflügeldecken sind dunkel schieferfarben mit braunen Federzentren. Die untere Brust bis zum Steiß ist dunkel schiefergrau, durch die dunkelbraunen Federzentren erscheint der Bereich manchmal undeutlich gebändert. Die Unterschwanzdecken und die Beinbefiederung sind sehr dunkelbraun bis schwärzlich.

Die Iris ist rot-orange, die nackte Haut um die Augen, der lange kräftige Schnabel, der Stirnschild sowie die Beine und Füße sind leuchtend rot. Es ist eine kleine Flügelklaue vorhanden. Männchen und Weibchen unterscheiden sich nicht im Erscheinungsbild. Das Gefieder von Jungvögeln wurde nicht beschrieben.

Verbreitung und Lebensraum
Die Trommelralle ist ein Endemit Halmaheras, der größten Insel der indonesischen Inselgruppe der Molukken. Zwischen 1950 und 2003 wurde die Trommelralle von einem geschützten Gebiet von West Halmahera Regency aus gesichtet, das am Anfang der westlichen Halbinsel liegt, aber vor 1950 wurde sie bis zum südlichsten Punkt der Insel gesehen. Neuere Daten zeigen, dass sie noch immer in einem erheblich größeren Bereich lebt, der auch den Nordosten der Insel umfasst und Inselbewohner behaupten, dass sie auch in den Sümpfen nahe Kao im Nordwesten vorkommt.

Die Trommelralle bewohnt dichtes, unzugängliches, sumpfiges Dickicht und Sumpfwald, insbesondere Sagopalmen-Sümpfe. Sie kommt in Gebieten mit Mischbeständen von Schraubenbäumen und Sagopalmen an Sago/Mangrove Übergängen, an Sumpfrändern am Übergang zu Vorberge-Laubwald und auf Schwemmland, bevorzugt auf Halbinseln die in Schwemmland ragen, vor. Berichte über lokal häufige Vorkommen in Grasland gehen auf Verwechslungen mit der Rotsteiß-Kielralle (Amaurornis moluccanus) zurück.

Der deutsche Vogelkundler Gerd Heinrich, der sich auf seine Forschungsreise vorbereitete, indem er sich in Brennnesseln wälzte, beschrieb in den 1930er Jahren:

Nahrung und Verhalten
Zur Nahrung der Trommelralle gehören Pflanzensprossen und Insekten. An gefällten Sagopalmen nimmt sie Sago oder sucht nach sonstiger Nahrung. Sie schluckt auch kleine Steine, um die Zerkleinerung der Nahrung zur fördern. Die Vögel sind anscheinend monogam, doch ist wenig über ihr Balzverhalten bekannt. Das einzige bekannte Nest, das 2010 in einem vermodernden Baumstamm gefunden wurde, war mit Holzspänen und trockenen Blättern ausgelegt. Die beiden jungen Küken waren vollständig von schwarzen Daunenfedern bedeckt, wie sie für Nestflüchter typisch sind.

Der Ruf des Vogels ist ein tiefes Trommeln, begleitet von einem Geräusch wie tuk, tuk, tuk, das mit den Flügeln erzeugt wird. Nach einer örtlichen Legende wird das Geräusch dadurch erzeugt, dass der Vogel mit den Füßen auf einen hohlen Baumstamm oder Zweig schlägt. Gerd Heinrich wies auf den lokalen Namen Soisa (Trommel) hin und beschrieb den Ruf als ein gedämpftes Trommeln purre - purre - purre - purre - purre, das manchmal in einem lauten Schrill endet.

Gefährdung und Schutz

Das Verbreitungsgebiet der Trommelralle ist auf die Insel Halmahera beschränkt, der Bestand wird auf 3.500 bis 15.000 Vögel geschätzt. Die größten Bedrohungen für die Art sind die Zerstörung der Sago-Sümpfe durch die kommerzielle Sagogewinnung, das Anlegen von Kanälen und die Nutzung von Flächen für den Nassreisanbau. Flugunfähige Vögel sind darüber hinaus durch eingeschleppte Räuber gefährdet. So wird die Trommelralle gelegentlich von Hunden bei der Jagd auf Hirsche und Schweine erbeutet.

Aufgrund der geringen und wahrscheinlich weiter abnehmenden Bestandsgröße sowie der Fragmentierung ihres Lebensraum durch anhaltenden Habitatverlust wird die Trommelralle von der International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) als gefährdet (Vulnerable, VU) eingestuft.

Über laufende Schutzmaßnahmen ist nichts bekannt. Für Halmahera wurde zwischen Lalobata und Ake Tajawe ein 3.550 km² großes Schutzgebiet vorgeschlagen, das alle Landschaftsformen umfasst. Es ist allerdings unklar, ob für die Trommelralle geeignete Landstriche oder ihre Verbreitungsgebiete beinhaltet sind.

Literatur

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 [ Invisible Rail · Habroptila wallacii · Gray, GR, 1861] xeno-canto.org
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