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It's not just hype if you understand compound interest. In today's episode, I tell you why most content marketers could have been successful if they'd just kept going. We also discuss what to do in order to earn $$ earlier in your business and what to focus on while you wait for your audience to grow.
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Misty: Hello friends and welcome to episode #8 of The Goodness Squad podcast. Today I'm going to be showing you how it is realistic for you to earn $200,000 from your online business in the next two years.
I am Misty Marsh. I have built and sold a profitable online business, and now I'm on a mission to lift you and increase your influence for good online. If you're already subscribed to the show, give me an elbow bump during Covid-19. And if you are here for the first time, but would like to turn your blog or your podcast into a full-fledged online business where you can share goodness and light online, but without sacrificing your home-centered focus, then welcome.
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All right, let's get started. I want you to think about what would happen if your family suddenly needed some extra income? That might be a reality for some of you right now, while we're facing Covid-19 and all of the fallout from that. But even if it isn't, I want you to imagine what you would do. Would you go get a job at Target or at McDonald's? Maybe? If you did that, what would you get paid?
Let's say that you were able to work about 20 hours a week and you were paid $20 an hour, which is definitely on the high end for McDonald's or Target, you would earn around $20,000 a year.
But there are some issues to that. You'd be outside of your own home. You wouldn't be able to set your own hours. You might be able to request certain hours that you can't work, but still, they're going to give you assigned shifts that are not super flexible and you're not going to be seen by as many people. You know, if you've been following me for any period of time, that I am all about being seen as distinct and different by as many people as possible, and that's exciting.
That's something that can happen online. So what if instead, you started a content marketing business? What if you started a blog or a podcast. What's that gonna look like? What's the reality of what that looks like to start one from scratch? Before I jump into that, I want to talk to you about compound interest.
This is probably something that you have some familiarity with the stock market, things like that, and how compound interests works. But let's talk about how long it actually would take to earn $1 million. If you were to double just $1 every month. So month number one, you have a dollar. Month number two, you have $2.
I'm going to pull up on a spreadsheet here really quickly so I can give you these numbers. So month 10 you have just over a $1,000. You're 10 months in and you only have a $1,000. You started at one, but when we're trying to get to a million, you're really not that close, right?
So let's go three more days into the future. You have about $8,000. Up to day 15 you're at about $33,000 15 days in. Still, there's a lot bigger gap between 33,000 and a million than there is between one and 33,000 but let's jump up to day 20, 25 days later, and you have earned a million dollars.
That's how compound interest works. It grows very slowly at first. It feels painfully slow and it's, it's frustrating and it's why so many people give up. It's why not everybody becomes millionaires in the stock market. So when I tell you something like, if you were to start a content marketing business, you could earn $200,000 over the next two years. Most of you would probably laugh at me. That sounds absurd. It sounds outrageous. It sounds like one of those hyped-up claims that people make because they want you to follow them. Now, there is some truth to the idea that this is hyped up. It is possible, but it's hyped because not everyone is willing or even understands what it takes to get to that point.
So what it takes is an understanding of how compound interest works. Okay? With a content marketing business online, it is going to work just like compound interest. It will feel painfully slow at first and you will feel like nothing you do works. But the problem is, with most people who start this, they freak out at month one or two or three or four. Just like somebody who is trying to double to get to a million dollars from one, they double it in month two and it's only at $2 and they double it again and it's only at $4, and they think I am doing something wrong. I am not cut out for the stock market thing.
That's what content marketers do. They jump ship and they think I'm not cut out for this. So let's talk about what it would take to earn a million dollars. If you had that job at Target and they gave you a 5% raise every year, guess how long it would take you? 26 years, which is 312 months. That is a really long time before you can earn a million dollars.
I want to talk to you, how you can get to the point where you are in $200,000 in the next two years, from a content marketing business, and eventually can earn a million dollars much, much faster than 26 years or 312 months.
So I want to give you some parameters here. You have talked to some friends and family, put it out there on your Facebook page and your Instagram page. You said, Hey guys, I'm starting this business. It's all about journaling and if you want to learn how to journal, you know you can join my list right here. And through all of that, you get about 45 people who decide to sign up on your email list. So this is basically day one. You're going, you're just getting started. Hopefully, you've taken my course The Good Start Game Plan all about building the foundation. And now you have, you're ready to hit the ground running and you have 45 subscribers. If your email list were to grow at a rate of 5% for the first year, 4% for the second year, and 3% for the third year, and you were to earn $1 for every person that is on your email subscriber every month. I'm not getting into how you're earning that yet. You might be earning that through ads. I hope not. But maybe. You might be earning that through your own products or through affiliate sales or through sponsorships. I'm not going to get into how you're earning it. But on average content marketers earn about a dollar per email subscriber per month. So that means in this first month, you would earn about $45.
I want to give you some totals here. The hourly wage for your very first month, if you're working 20 hours a week, you would make 77 cents an hour at. That's not even close to the $20 you're making a Target, and this is your average for the first six months.
So that first month, that's probably even less. This is where you start to freak out and think, I am not cut out for this. This isn't going to work for me. But some people, they decide to push through it and they make $3 an hour for month 7 to 12. I keep going, months 13 to 18 they're now making $9 an hour. Months 19 to 24, they're finally making $25 an hour. The last six months of this two years, months 25 to 30, they're now making $59 an hour. And the last half of year three, they're now making $127 an hour.
So the total, if you were to total up the total amount of income that you'd earned over those three years, you would make $144,000 as a content marketer. And you would make $62,000 if you're working at Target at $20 an hour. You're making more than double in the same amount of time.
So, if I told you you can make a $100,000, nearly $150,000, in the next two years if you just work 20 hours every week, would you do it? Even though at first you're only earning 77 cents an hour?
You'd be making $37 an hour on average over that entire three years. So, right, it started at 77 cents, and then it went up to $60 an hour. But on average, you would have made about $37 an hour. At Target, your average is around $21 an hour, cause they give you that 5% raise. Now, you might be saying, but Misty you told me $200,000 in two years, you're not delivering on your promise here.
If you go back to the podcast episode called Double Your Income, if you have not listened to that yet, you need to go listen to that podcast episode. But there, I talk about how there are a lot of ways to double our income.
And isn't this doubling our traffic? If you were to double your traffic, then yeah, your income is going to double, right? Because you have twice as many people coming in. You're gonna have twice as many people coming out purchasing on the other end. But there are other steps along the way that you can double.
So let's say we double the number of people who opened the very first email you sent them. If right now, you have 20% of people who open your first email and 10% of people who opened your second email, but you take this first, let's say a hundred people. So say you have a hundred people, you send that email to. That means 20 people are opening it. And of those 20, one is now opening the second one, cause 10% right? But what if you double this one to 40 now you're automatically doubling this one to two simply because more people are opening the first one.
So if you were to double just that one conversion, look at what your three-year total would be. It would jump from $144, 000 to $292,000, or $75 per hour. And I know I'm still not quite to that two year, $200,000 mark yet. I will get there. Let's say we double one more conversion, so we double the number of people who click on your first sales email.
So now we've doubled one more conversion. It's going to continue down the line and you're going to double the number of people who eventually purchase that product. So now you have doubled that again, and now your three year total is $583,000, or $149 per hour.
Okay, you double one more conversion. The percentage of people who actually buy once they land on that. So you have twice as many people clicking to the sales page now and now they're on that sales page and you double the percentage of people, from maybe 2% to 4% who actually purchase, by tweaking the sales page and playing around with it and testing it and figuring out what actually converts these people into buyers.
So now you're three-year total is $1.2 million or $300 an hour. Also, what's interesting here is when you actually focus on conversions instead of just traffic. Look what happens to those very first six months. So remember the very first six months you were earning 77 cents an hour. That equated to $500 total for those six months.
So just over $100 a month. But if you were able to double just three conversions, three conversion points in your business, you would now earn $4,000 during that first six months. Doing this, focusing on your conversions, can take away some of that panic and fear, right? That we feel when we're investing in the stock market or when we're starting a content marketing business. We think I'm not cut out for this. It's not growing. But if we can't control our traffic, it's hard to grow traffic. We can control it indirectly. We can build up our SEO, but those things, they take time. But we can control our conversions. We can change a conversion almost overnight by studying it and thinking about it.
So if you've focused on those conversions early in the game before you have lots of traffic, you can still earn money as a new blogger. Are you going to earn hundreds of thousands or millions? No. Not in your first month, but you can earn more than $500. You could earn $4,000 in those first six months, right? A few hundred dollars? That's going to bring in some decent income into your home so that you feel like, okay, I can still move forward with this.
Let me tell you about where I'm getting that $200,000 a year or in two years number. If you were to double three conversions, so let's just say the three I talked about, the number of people who open an email, the number of people who click on that email and the number of people who then purchase that email or purchase the product that that email is selling.
If you were to do just those three things, you would earn $100,748.26 cents in your first two years. If you started with 45 subscribers and you increased your email list by 5% the first year, 4% the second year, that is so exciting and it is realistic. It is absolutely realistic. Let me throw you a reality bomb here, okay? So that you understand that this is realistic. In the first six months, you'd run around $4,000. I mean, that's not a ton of money, right? We're talking, if I go $4,000, I'm raking about $650 a month or about $155 a week.
If you were working at Target, you'd be making $400 a week, so it's still less, it's still less than you would make at Target. You're still going to have to push through some of that. But, in months 7-12, you would earn $15,500. So total in your first year, you'd earned just under $20,000, which is about what you would earn at Target.
The first half of the second year, you'd earned about $46,000 and in the second half of the second year, you would earn about $130,000 so combine those four numbers together and you're earning $200,000 total in that two years.
You can do this. You can absolutely do this. I promise you, you can. Early on in your business, I want you to focus on three things. Number one, I want you to be patient. I want you to understand compound interest. It works like compound interest. The first few months are going to be painfully slow, no matter what you do.
Number two, I want you to build a good foundation before you start your business. If you want help with that, please join The Good Start Game Plan. If you have a good foundation, you can hit the ground running and you can hit these numbers.
And number three, I want you to focus on conversions while your business is small. I really want you to test and figure out what works and what doesn't. Change the copy in your emails. Do A-B testing where you send one email to half your list and another email to the other half of your list, which one gets more opens?
I want you to focus on the conversions of your sales page, the conversions of your opt-in page for your email list. Maybe, instead of growing your email list at 5% rate, you could grow it at a 7% rate. I want you to focus on those micro conversions in your business. In particular at the beginning, where you don't have a lot of customer service, you aren't serving thousands of people. You're only serving a couple hundred maybe, and you can really dig in deep and figure out how you can serve them best. That's what you spend the first 6-12 months of your business working on. If you do that, you can earn $200,000 in your first couple of years. You can do it now.
A quick caveat, right? These numbers are not going to be your exact numbers. A lot of this is going to depend on your market. Absolutely. But, you can earn a significant income within a couple of years as a content marketer and you can earn it even quicker if you are willing to focus on those micro conversions.
Your assignment today is twofold. Number one, I want you to pick one micro-conversion. It's the same assignment I gave in the Double Your Income podcast. One thing you are going to focus on testing and improving. And number two, I want you to at least go to the sales page for The Good Start Game Plan and see if it's what you need. Read through what it does. Send me an email, ask me questions about it. I don't want you to join. If you already have a foundation, I don't want you to join. I don't want to waste your time or money. But, if you need a foundation so that you can hit the ground running, then I want you to look into that. Email me and ask me questions about it.
That's it for today. If you are not yet subscribed, make sure you do because, in the next episode, I am going to be giving you my number one tip for building what people sometimes call super fans, loyal fans, people who truly love you and will continue to buy every product you put out because they know, like, and trust you.
You're going to love this tip.
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To use a building to change how people experience their lives, their neighborhood and their city by purposefully creating unexpected connections.
Early in the morning on August 27, 1927, a skyscraper, ten stories tall and the size of a fifteen-acre farm, was unveiled to the public. Sears Crosstown, the latest structure in the Sears mail-order empire, was a new regional distribution center that anticipated the advent of Memphis as the nation's distribution center.
More than thirty-five thousand Memphians gathered that day at this formerly vacant lot to see the grand opening of the Sears Crosstown building. Across the Bluff City, thousands of other Memphians were in virtual attendance for the event thanks to WMC Radio, which was broadcasting the opening
Chamber of Commerce president Phil Canale spoke, comparing the new building to the pyramid of the original Egyptian city named Memphis. He added that while the pyramid of ancient Egypt was a tomb for the dead, the new Memphis structure was giving the world "a living thing for the living." Finally, Mayor Paine introduced the featured speaker, Julius Rosenwald, the chairman of the board of directors of Sears, Roebuck & Company.
Rosenwald was not just a businessman; he was the nation's leading benefactor of public education for African American children across the South. Rosenwald became the leading contributor to Washington's Tuskegee Institute and also Fisk University. He poured millions of dollars into education for Black schoolchildren in the South, helping build nearly five thousand schools and even homes for African American teachers.
On that hot August day in Memphis, Rosenwald was a visionary for all Memphians and Mid-Southerner. In his speech, he prophesied to Memphians, "Your city will learn in time that the opening this morning of a Sears Roebuck & Co. plant is an epoch-making event." That turned out to be an understatement. From that day forward, the Sears Crosstown building has been a symbol of many Memphians' hopes, wishes and dreams.
Long before Graceland became the nation's second most-visited residence (behind only the White House), there were three places that became the destination spots for tourists coming to Memphis: the Peabody Hotel, the Zoo at Overton Park and Sears Crosstown.
And then, in the 1980s, Sears went into a precipitous decline in the face of a new generation of competitors that ironically used the very techniques that Sears, Roebuck & Company had created, applying them in the emerging internet age. Sears began closing many of its older buildings across the nation.
By 1993, the Sears Crosstown building had become vacant. The surrounding Midtown neighborhood that had once been the site of restaurants, stores and one of Memphis's earliest and largest movie theaters went into a state of decline. Soon, Sears Crosstown was not the only vacant building in the Crosstown neighborhood.
Then, in the second decade of the new century, an eclectic group emerged that shared a vision for Sears Crosstown. The first visionaries included an art historian, an artist and a local businessman with a long history of philanthropic investment in the city. They were later joined by a development team, a minister-doctor and several local, well-respected institutions in arts, education and healthcare. These very different people, businesses and organizations eventually came to share the same vision: that Sears Crosstown could be resurrected as a vertical urban village populated by physicians, artists and musicians, educators, entrepreneurs, residents and scores of others coming to take part in the community.
For decades, millions of people had flocked to Sears Crosstown to grant wishes for themselves, their families and friends. It was affectionately known as the "Wish Building." These new visionaries now saw Sears Crosstown as a place where people would gather again, this time for healing, learning, creating, shopping and living.
That vision would become a reality as Crosstown Concourse opened in August 2017, ninety years after Mayor Paine cut the ribbon for the opening of the original building on August 27, 1927. What was once a national hub for the distribution of goods was on its way to being transformed into a local heart for the cultivation of well-being, shifting focus from products to people, from commodity to
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• 3,200 window panels were replaced but were meticulously fabricated to match the originals.
• The mortar between all 7 million exterior bricks was replaced by 120 workers over the course of 14 months. If you lined every brick up end-to-end, it would span the distance from Memphis to New Orleans!
• Workers installed 15 miles of HVAC duct and 32 miles of sprinkler piping through the course of renovation.
• Concourse contains a state-of-the-art central plant capable of heating and cooling 730 3-bedroom homes.
Fitwell certification: NY—The Center for Active Design (CfAD), operator of the Fitwel
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2020 TN Governor's Environmental Stewardship Award: Pursuit of Excellence Awards, which recognizes past award winners who continue to demonstrate a high regard for environmental stewardship.
2019 Best of the South: Preserving Southern Architecture committee for the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH)
2019 ULI Global Awards for Excellence, finalist (one of 14 finalists)
2019 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Architecture National Honor Award in Education: Crosstown High
2019 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Architecture National Honor Award
Best Mixed-Use Community Award and Multifamily Community of the Year Award: Pillars of Multifamily Industry Award program.
Crosstown Theater, Best New Construction, Building Memphis Awards 2018, Memphis Business Journal
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Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (Gold Medalist)
National Recognition Award, American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) 2019 Engineering Excellence Awards
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Finalist, 2018 National Association of Home Builders Multifamily Pillars of the Industry Award
Multi-Housing News' Excellence Award
2018 USGBC Tennessee Leadership Award for Exceptional Leadership
Multifamily Executive – Adaptive Reuse Grand Award and Editor's Choice for the Parcels Apartments
ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) 2018 Outstanding Project of the Year for Tennessee
BD+C's 35th Annual Reconstruction Awards, Platinum Award Winner (one of two nationally)
Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Award, National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Awards: Grand Prize
Tennessee Governor's Environmental Stewardship Award (Building Green)
AIA Memphis: Honor Award of Excellence
U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC): LEED Platinum Certified
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Memphis Business Journal's Building Memphis Awards: Project of the Year 2017
Thomas W Briggs Foundation: Community Impact Award
Architecture Review's New into Old Awards: Shortlist
Trane National Energy Efficiency Leader Award 2015
MAAR (Memphis Area Association of Realtors): Community Impact Award
Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits: Community Development Qualified Low-Income Community Investment of the Year Award
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Citizen science is a powerful tool for environmental management that has the potential to inform an increasingly complex environmental policy landscape and to meet the growing demands from society for more participatory decision-making. However, the evidence that Citizen science can successfully contribute to environmental policy development, implementation, evaluation or compliance remains scant.
In this sense, the aim of this study was to provide the European Commission with an evidence base of citizen science activities that can support environmental policies in the European Union (EU).
Develop policy recommendations on better integration of citizen science in the different phases of the environmental policy cycle, in particular for monitoring, reporting and regulatory compliance.
Citizen science can underpin environmental policy.
Environmental SDGs are unevenly represented by the environmental citizen science.
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How Many Reps Is Best for Muscle Building?
Everyone seems to have different thoughts on the matter of how many reps is best when you want to build muscle mass. If you ask 10 different trainers at your local gym what they think is an ideal rep range, I wouldn't be surprised if you got 10 different answers, most simply based on bro-science.
But you'll be pleasantly surprised to hear that there IS indeed an answer to this conundrum, backed by good-old science, and something you should implement in your muscle building workouts if you want an effective routine that leads to maximum muscle gains.
In this short and sweet article we'll explain what the ideal rep range for hypertrophy (read: muscle gain) is, and more importantly why this is so. The amount of reps you perform in your weight lifting sets will dictate what type of results you get from your training. Doing a low amount of reps is the most effective way to build muscle, period. Higher rep ranges won't stimulate your muscles as well for muscle growth, and are more suited to gain muscle endurance with only a little bit of muscle gain. But you want the biggest and best muscle gains possible, so low reps are the way to go. So how many reps is ideal for results?
How many times should you pick up and lift this generic piece of metal? 5? 7? 8? 10? 15? 20? 100? 1000?
Without beating around the proverbial bush, the best rep range to build muscle as effectively as possible is 5 - 7 reps. Why? Performing 5-7 reps per set has been proven to be the most effective range for muscle stimulation and growth. So, this means you need to use a weight that is challenging for you to reach 5, 6 or 7 repetitions. If you are able to do more than 7 reps on a particular exercise then you need to increase the weight, and on the other hand if you can't reach the 5th rep you need to lower the weight a little bit. So put simply, if you can do more or less than 5-7 reps on one of your lifts, you don't alter how many reps you do. What you change is the amount of weight you lift so that you fall back into that effective 5 to 7 range.
Why is 5-7 reps an ideal range to build muscle? There are a few solid reasons, and this isn't just my own subjective opinion but based on extensive research and I advise you to do the same and not to just blindly take my word for it.
Firstly, doing less reps in each set will allow you to use all of your energy and strength in those reps. The more reps you do then the more you will lose focus on performing them with everything you've got. Using a low rep range will cause the most muscle growth because you are training as hard as you possibly can, with the heaviest weight that you can use.
More importantly though, a lower rep range is proven to be better for muscle growth thanks to some basic human biology. There are two main types of muscle fibers in your body, slow twitch fibers and fast twitch fibers.
Slow twitch fibers are used the most during endurance type exercise, but they don't have a lot of growing capability. On the other hand, the body taps into fast twitch fibers for shorter and more intense movements. Fast twitch fibers have much more capability for gains in muscle size and strength than slow twitch fibers have.
You see where I'm getting with this? Using low reps such as 5-7 will use the most fast twitch fibers because for these reps you need a short burst of immense energy to perform them. That's what you want, the most fast twitch fibers utilized in your workouts. This is sure to cause the most muscle growth possible.
On top of all that, there's another good reason why 5-7 reps is ideal. Using this amount of reps for your sets will decrease lactic acid secretion in your muscles. Lactic acid is metabolic waste produced by the body, and the less of it you produce in your muscles the better.
Should you stick to the rule of using 5-7 reps for every single exercise you perform? No, as with most things in life, there are some exceptions. For example, the following exercises should be done with a higher rep range: abs, forearms, calves, and upper traps. How many reps is effective for these exercises?
I recommend using perhaps 8-12 reps for these particular muscle groups. This is because they're mostly made up of slow twitch fibers, so you will need to use slightly more reps to stimulate them fully. But this applies only to the muscle groups I have listed, and all your other exercises will build more muscle with 5-7 reps.
Now you understand why 5-7 reps is an ideal rep range to use for your weight training sets, so if you hear the old argument of how many reps you should use for the best muscle gains, you now know the honest and truthful answer based off aggregate experiences of many seasoned lifters and professionals in this field (not me).
In other words, you know the safest bet in terms of how many reps is best for muscle gain. Sure, you can get size gains using other rep ranges, but stick to 5-7 if you want maximum hypertrophy results from your hard work in the gym. Yes, 8 reps is fine...doing an extra rep isn't going to change much...but it's when you creep into 10+ that you're not really being as effective in your strategy as you could be.
Don't get me wrong, you can still get results and build muscle with higher reps, but it's not the most effective way to promote hypertrophy (scientifically speaking) and you'll be spinning your wheels a bit with high rep workouts (at least for building muscle, that is). Hope that helps, and stay strong.


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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - The provincial court case of a woman accused of causing the death of two infants has been adjourned.
The matter of Shannon Dawn Rayner has been rescheduled for Feb. 6.
A P.E.I. judge had granted an extension for the mental health assessment of Rayner in December with the case set to return to court Monday.
Rayner is facing two counts of infanticide in separate incidents in 2014 and 2016, as well as two counts of failing to seek assistance in child birth and two counts of disposing of a child's body with intent to conceal the fact it had been delivered.
Court documents say the offences allegedly took place between Nov. 16 and 18, 2016, and between Feb. 1 and 28, 2014. The documents allege that, in both cases, Rayner put the bodies in bags before placing them in a waste bin.
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Windows 8 tips and tricks for dealing with the Desktop/Metro minefield	October 29, 2012 at 10:45 am
It may seem awkward that the first thing you'll want to do with Windows 8 is make it more like Windows 7, but for many of us who rely on our desktops, that's exactly the case. In this article I'll give you a head start on creating a usable Windows 8 desktop for yourself.
Microsoft kills off Metro — but, alas, the Start Screen lives on	August 3, 2012 at 7:34 am
Before you get too excited: No, the Start Screen is still there — but due to a trademark claim by Metro AG, a massive Eurasian retail chain, Microsoft can no longer call it the Metro Start Screen, and those bold, preschooler cubist apps can no longer be called Metro-style apps.
With OS X Mountain Lion, Apple and Microsoft's strategies grow further apart	July 25, 2012 at 11:54 am
With both Microsoft and Apple releasing major updates to platforms this year, who's strategy is the right one?
I touched Windows 8, and I liked it	June 5, 2012 at 10:27 am
You may have heard that I'm not the biggest fan of Windows 8 — or, as I've recently begun calling it, given its 1980s-loving innovation of the one-app-per-screen Metro interface, "Window 8." But then I tried the Release Preview on a touchscreen device… and I actually rather liked it.
Windows 8 may drive me to Linux	March 5, 2012 at 1:42 pm
I have been a Microsoft defender for decades — but have I been as horrified by one of the company's products as I am by Windows 8.
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In the Remote Desktop Connection dialog box, click Options to expand the dialog box and view settings.
On the Advanced tab, under Connect from anywhere, click Settings.
Automatically detect RD Gateway server settings (default). If you select this option, the Remote Desktop Services client attempts to use Group Policy settings that determine the behavior of client connections to RD Gateway servers or RD Gateway server farms, if these settings have been configured and enabled. For more information, see Using Group Policy to Manage Client Connections Through Remote Desktop Gateway.
Use these RD Gateway server settings. If an RD Gateway server or RD Gateway server farm name and a logon method are not already enabled and enforced by Group Policy, you can select this option and specify the name of the RD Gateway server or RD Gateway server farm that you want to connect to and the logon method to use for the connection.
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Bypass RD Gateway server for local addresses. This option is selected by default.
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If your system is on a LAN, but you want to test connectivity through an RD Gateway server or RD Gateway server farm, clear this check box. If this check box is selected, the client will connect directly to the RD Session Host server and will not connect through the RD Gateway server or RD Gateway server farm.
Do not use an RD Gateway server. Select this option if your computer is always connected to the LAN or if it is hosted inside the internal network firewall. This option is appropriate if you know that you do not need to use RD Gateway to traverse a firewall.
To save the settings and close the Remote Desktop Connection dialog box, click Save, and then click Cancel. The settings will be saved as an RDP file to a default location (by default, the file is saved to Drive:\<Username>\Documents).
To save the RDP file to a specified location (you can customize and distribute the file later to multiple clients as needed), click Save As. In the Save As dialog box, in the File name box, specify the file name and location, and then click Save.
To proceed with a connection to an internal network resource, click Connect, and then enter your credentials when prompted.


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At the time of WW2 there were at least 50 distinct British dialects, some with derived names such as Cockney, Brummie, Scouse, Smoggie, Janner and Geordie. A dialect denotes the pronunciation (accent), vocabulary (slang) and some aspects of grammar used in speech in a particular area, while standard English is generally adhered to in writing, unless an author is including true-to-life dialogue in a novel.
Today, with social mobility and the advent of radio and television channels with nationwide coverage, the differences have been softened and the language has evolved, resulting in broader groups of dialects. Nevertheless, there remains a whole host of niche dialects, some belonging to specific cities, such as Sunderland, or "Mackem-land", as the young man in this video refers to it. You may need to watch it a few times to catch every word he says!
Professor Harold Orton (1898-1975) from Co.Durham was a dialectologist who realised that some dialects were melting away or changing over time. While at the University of Leeds he conducted an extraordinary 11-year survey of 313 localities, which he published in 1962-72 in 12 volumes. It was his life's work. The British Library website has a selection from the survey in its 'Accents and Dialects' section.
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Street Fighter II Champion Edition in Father Ted
Today I was reading over the Pac Man Fever entry over at TVTropes, wherein TV shows improperly show video games being played, usually by using generic 70s arcade game over sound effects in a game that looks like Halo, or some such. It reminded me of an episode of the mid 90s British (well, technically Irish) sitcom Father Ted (which was created by Graham Linehan, who more recently did The IT Crowd. Both are excellent shows, I definitely advise hitting up Netflix for both.) In the fourth episodes of season two, two characters are playing a video game.
Note that, in keeping with the trope, they're just randomly mashing buttons and appear to be using Atari-ish joysticks. This is weird because the game in question is shown briefly to be Street Fighter II:
...but wait a minute. Isn't there something odd about that shot? Note the solid black background on the status bar. That's right, this is the beta of the Genesis version of Street Fighter II Special Champion Edition, shown to the press in early 1993 and delayed until later in the year to retool it to more closely match the arcade (and SNES) game. (I spent an entire summer between seventh and eighth grade grieving this, because I wanted it so badly, but only had a Genesis.) I couldn't find any pictures of it out there, and my scanner is so badly broken that I can't put up any shots, so you'll have to trust me on this.
So the question is: how on earth did a sitcom get a beta copy of a video game that was only ever shown to the press? Was it just a video tape? They obviously aren't played it for real. The only place I ever read about this was in the Retro section of an old issue of British mag games(tm), wherein they were equally as perplexed. Furthermore, the episode had aired around 1996 or 97, long after the official version had been released. I don't know if anyone ever figured this out - anybody know?
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Seth Christenfeld November 14, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Is it possible that the footage came from a UK computer port? (Granted, games(tm) probably thought of that.)
In unrelated news, man do I love Father Ted.
Discoalucard November 14, 2009 at 1:04 AM
I checked the Mobygames SFII screenshot page, and all of them have the proper (transparent) status bar, so I'm 99% sure this was the Genesis (or rather, Mega Drive in this case) beta.
Sketcz November 14, 2009 at 6:52 AM
I seem to recall that GamesTM ended up having one of the guys involved with the show write in and explain it - though I can't recall the answer and don't have access to my back issues. I have a vague feeling the mystery was solved.
Graham Lineham is a huge games fan though, as noted by his appearance in... I think it was Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe? Plus all the obscure game references in The IT Crowd. So I wouldn't be surprised if he did that for kicks.
KaL November 17, 2009 at 1:38 AM
Well if I remember correctly there's an equally bizarre appearance of Sonic 1 Beta in Wayne's World (You can see the Space ships in Marble Zone).
Retr0gamer May 17, 2012 at 6:35 PM
Possibly it was preview code given to Gamesmaster that they used since both were Channel 4 shows??
I know Lineham has been asked about the version of Street Fighter in the show multiple times and he hasn't a clue so no help there either.
GonoManiax August 1, 2015 at 11:45 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqWcZODDVcs


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Q: Slow update with OrmLite I have a simple structure and i noticed that updating records in my database takes too long to execute.
This is how my data class is defined:
public static final String TILE_MAP_UNIQUE_ID_FIELD_NAME = "tileMap_unique_id";
@DatabaseField (uniqueIndexName = "unique_tileMapCache", canBeNull = false)
int tileMap_unique_id;
public static final String TILE_MAP_LEVEL_ID_FIELD_NAME = "tileMap_level_id";
@DatabaseField (uniqueIndexName = "unique_tileMapCache", canBeNull = false)
String tileMap_level_id;
public static final String COLUMN_FIELD_NAME = "column";
@DatabaseField (uniqueIndexName = "unique_tileMapCache", canBeNull = false)
long column;
public static final String ROW_FIELD_NAME = "row";
@DatabaseField (uniqueIndexName = "unique_tileMapCache", canBeNull = false)
long row;
public static final String IMAGE_DATA_FIELD_NAME = "image_data";
@DatabaseField (dataType = DataType.BYTE_ARRAY, index = true, canBeNull = false)
byte[] image_data;
public static final String IMAGE_DATA_LENGHT_FIELD_NAME = "image_data_lenght";
@DatabaseField (index = true, canBeNull = false)
int image_data_lenght;
public static final String DATE_CREATED_FIELD_NAME = "date_created";
@DatabaseField(index = true, canBeNull = false)
Date date_created;
public static final String DATE_LAST_ACCESSED_FIELD_NAME = "date_last_accessed";
@DatabaseField(index = true, canBeNull = false)
Date date_last_accessed;
public static final String ACCESSED_COUNTER = "accessed_counter";
@DatabaseField(index = true, canBeNull = false)
int accessed_counter;

And this is the update statement somewhere in my application:
Dao<TileMapCacheData, Integer> updateTileMapCacheDataDao = dbHelper.getTileMapCacheDataDao();
UpdateBuilder<TileMapCacheData, Integer> updateBuilder = updateTileMapCacheDataDao.updateBuilder();
updateBuilder.updateColumnValue(TileMapCacheData.DATE_LAST_ACCESSED_FIELD_NAME, new Date());
updateBuilder.updateColumnValue(TileMapCacheData.ACCESSED_COUNTER, record.accessed_counter + 1);
updateBuilder.where()
.eq(TileMapCacheData.TILE_MAP_UNIQUE_ID_FIELD_NAME, tileMap.getUniqueId())
.and()
.eq(TileMapCacheData.TILE_MAP_LEVEL_ID_FIELD_NAME, tileMap.getLevelId(tileImage.tile.level))
.and()
.eq(TileMapCacheData.COLUMN_FIELD_NAME, tileImage.tile.column)
.and()
.eq(TileMapCacheData.ROW_FIELD_NAME, tileImage.tile.row);
updateTileMapCacheDataDao.update(updateBuilder.prepare());

The SQL looks like this:
UPDATE `tilemapcachedata` SET `date_last_accessed` = ? ,`accessed_counter` = 11 WHERE (((`tileMap_unique_id` = -1902272760 AND `tileMap_level_id` = '5' ) AND `column` = 24 ) AND `row` = -6 )

Does any one see where the problem is?
The .update() takes several seconds and it should be executed instantly.
Any idea would be great.

A: The only thing that I see is the byte[] image_data; field may hold some huge value that is slowing things down.  But the update you show is not even touching the image_data field so I have no idea why it is taking so long.
I would recommend enabling some of the logging in ORMLite to see if you can figure out where the time is going. See http://ormlite.com/docs/logging
Also, you have a lot of indexes in this table including and index on the byte[] image_data.  You might consider removing some of these indexes unless they are truly necessary.

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Perspectives: Practitioners Weigh in on Rising Housing Construction Costs in San Francisco
It is no secret that producing new housing in California is an expensive endeavor. Our Cost of Building Housing Research Series recently launched with the goal of understanding why this is the case, breaking down the elements of the housing development process to identify key cost drivers and potential private and public sector solutions.
Today we are releasing our first brief of the series, which examines rising housing construction costs in San Francisco from the perspective of non-profit and market-rate housing developers, architects, and other practitioners on the ground. The brief shares findings from a series of interviews and focus groups in which practitioners discussed the factors that have most significantly affected housing development costs in recent years, and identified potential interventions at the local level that could help to reduce these costs in the future.
Interviewees and focus group participants cited lengthy and complex city processes as perhaps the best opportunity to reduce rapidly rising costs for both market rate and affordable housing developments in San Francisco. Building codes and design requirements, workforce and procurement rules, and environmental regulations were all discussed as other aspects of the development process that, though necessary and important, in certain current applications, may ultimately incur more cost than benefit.
Participants offered a number of prospective policy interventions that could be implemented at the local or state level which would meaningfully help to reduce the time and real costs of housing development, and increase the pace at which supply of new housing at all income levels can come on line. While not all of the drivers of construction costs are locally controlled, the proposed interventions suggest that localities like the City of San Francisco could make a significant impact in supporting a more cost-effective building process.
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I used to envy people who travelled a lot, but good God, flying these days is a nightmare. On Sunday my mom and I had an 8:15 AM flight from Dulles to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Utilizing my home computer, we checked in, printed our boarding passes, and paid to check one bag the day before departing. In spite of that, we still felt it necessary to arrive at the airport by 6:00 AM on Sunday.
We entered the terminal and saw four employees behind the United Airlines counter. A short line of passengers waited for assistance, but things seemed manageable. There was no reason to feel stress or angst. A woman from United calmly asked how she could help us. Mom said we needed to check one bag. Upon inspecting our boarding passes and ascertaining that we are not Premier Access members, the woman told us we should go to the ticketing counter "around the corner". Around the corner. The message was clearly received. "Around the corner" is code for "you belong with the heathens on the other side".
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When we returned to Dulles last night, I was the last person off the airplane. By the time Mom and I got to baggage claim, all of the other passengers had retrieved their bags and moved on to their next destination. I circled the carousel until I found the bag I needed. Several remained, but only one was ours. It's black and has wheels, and its resemblance to so many others prompted Mom to concoct a clever and inexpensive way to make it stand out. When I finally saw it, I immediately recognized the strips of blue painter's tape on the sides and the hot pink duct tape wrapped around the handle. I guess maybe I do belong with the heathens in the mosh pit.


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Boronia Bushland Reserve provides a range of facilities and activities including bushwalking, picnic tables, toilets, barbecues, children's playground, water, bikeways, walk the dog (on a leash), wheelchair access and bird watching.
Eastern Grey kangaroos can still be found in Boronia Bushland Reserve, one of the last large remnants of natural bushland in this area.
As you meander through the park, look for some of nature's signposts, such as bandicoot diggings and scratch marks on trees from goannas, possums and koalas.
You'll also find many magnificent Scribbly gums, identified by a multitude of scribbly lines covering the smooth grey trunks. These markings are often referred to as 'Nature's graffiti', and are formed by the larvae of a Longicorn beetle burrowing under the bark's surface.


With the Nevada population already up to nearly 3 million (2.998 million) crime rates have never been higher.
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Town trivia: Mesquite was settled in the 1880's.
Town trivia: Winnemucca is the only city in Humboldt County, Nevada.
Town trivia: Elko is the county seat of Elko County, Nevada.
Town trivia: The band 'The Killers' is from Las Vegas.
Town trivia: Lovelock is known for having a Cold War-era gunnery range.
Town trivia: North Las Vegas is the fourth largest city by population in Nevada.


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A Guide to Dubrovnik's Museums
Discover Dubrovnik's top museums for a culture filled vacation
While Dubrovnik Old Town may feel like a huge open-air museum as you walk its stone streets lined with beautiful buildings dating back to the 17th century, the city also offers travelers a good selection of actual museums that will provide any vacation in Croatia with a shot of culture and brilliant insight into the remarkable figures and moments in Dubrovnik's history. Here's a rundown of Dubrovnik's best museums, open all year round and just waiting to be explored.
MoMA Dubrovnik is housed in one of the city's most impressive buildings a short walk from Pile Gate. Its large terrace has its own living painting thanks to the incredible views over Lokrum island and the Adriatic as well as Dubrovnik's Old Town. On the terrace, you'll also find a selection of sculptures by one of Croatia's most famous artists, Ivan Mestrovic. Indoors, explore a mixture of modern art pieces dating from the late 19th century to present across three floors. Renowned local artists featured include Vlaho Bukovac, Antun Masle and Ivo Dulcic. Temporary or guest exhibitions have included photographer Ahmet Ertug's Vanishing Point and Irish artist Francis Bacon's The Boundaries of the Mind.
Cultural History Museum
For an insight into the life of the ruling class during the Dubrovnik Republic, a trip to the Cultural History Museum is a must. Housed within the Rector's Palace, the museum gives a brilliant insight into the luxurious life led by the Rector with original artefacts and rooms decorated in the period style. Visitors will see a collection of ceramics, glassware, paintings and even arms that will help bring the period to life. Guest exhibitions at present are In the Photography Studio of Antun Miletic and Orlando -Symbol of Freedom. Don't miss the chance to pick up a brilliant souvenir from the museum's gift shop which has its own specially designed collection of Dubrovnik-themed items. There's everything from jewellery to books and decorations.
For the little ones, a trip to Dubrovnik's Natural History Museum will break the monotony (if you can call it that) of days at the beach. Located in the Old Town, the museum is spread over four floors and has the city's most innovative display: Freddie Mercury as a fish. Visitors will also find a brilliantly decorated room with seashells suspended from a ceiling and displays covering mammals, birds and algae among others.
Red History Museum
The newest addition to Dubrovnik's museum offering and probably one of the best in Croatia, Red History Museum takes visitors back to life in the former Yugoslavia between 1945-1992. An incredibly well thought out interactive display depicts everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia as well as providing political and historical context. Visitors can step inside a Yugo car, take a seat in a typical Yugoslavian living room and discover the dark side of the regime too. A free app allows visitors to learn additional information as they tour the museum and there's an eco-friendly museum gift shop where you can pick up a retro souvenir.
Museum of Homeland War
Photo: Museum of Homeland War archive
If you're interested in learning about the aggression on Dubrovnik during the Homeland War of the 90s then you should take the cable car up Srdj hill to Fort Imperial. Dating back to Napoleon's rule, the fort was a key defense location for the local fighters attempting to stop the JNA backed forces from entering historic Dubrovnik. Within the fort you'll find the Museum of the Homeland War with a mixture of photographs and film footage to help explain the attack on Dubrovnik and how local fighters fought to protect the city.
For more information on travel programs and shore excursion in Dubrovnik that include museums and galleries, contact the friendly and professional team at Adriatic DMC.


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In many parts of the country, summer is synonymous with backyard barbecues, a practice that began in the 1950s as many Americans celebrated their newfound leisure time through casual outdoor dinners. After the frugality of wartime living, postwar home cooks invested in grills and other accessories for their suburban backyards.
As many Americans enjoyed greater prosperity after World War II, meat took center stage on the plate. At the same time, men assumed a new role in many households: grill masters. While cuts of fresh beef were prized, many of the recipes we found in 1950s recipes from the Product Cookbooks Collection called for more affordable or convenient canned deli meats. Nanci, our brave team member who volunteered to make Barbecued Bologna, had a memorable experience asking for a three-pound loaf of unsliced bologna from her local grocery store. But once she had it in hand, she glazed it with a mixture of currant jelly and mustand, studded it with whole cloves, and grilled it over hot coals.
While men socialized and tended to the grill, women still had domain over the indoors. In well-equipped, increasingly all-electric kitchens, they prepared salads and sides to accompany an outdoor meal.
One cookbook we looked to for our 1950s potluck is titled Let's Get Acquainted with Your Hotpoint Electric Range. Not just a recipe book, it also serves as an instruction manual for the Hotpoint oven and stove. Furthermore, dishes are organized into entire menus for ease of cooking. The "budget oven meal" includes four dishes that all cook at the same temperature in the oven (including the Crown Roast of Wieners that we boldly taste-tested). The menu, which provides "dinner for eight," even gives instructions on how to situate the oven racks and where to place each dish.
Swanson debuted frozen TV dinners during the 1950s, and the tagline "Just heat and serve!" became a hallmark of convenience. As more women worked outside the home—but were still assumed responsible for cooking—they turned to TV dinners that required little effort to prepare and serve.
Of course, canned foods were the "original" convenience food and they continued to play a role in 1950s cooking. While selecting recipes for our 1950s potluck, we noticed that some of the dishes were made by simply combining two types of canned soup, or even a can of carrots with a can of pineapple.
In recipes designed as much to sell canned soup as to result in tasty meals, canned tomato soup found its way into a cake, and condensed milk was used in a smoothie-like beverage called Carnation Fruit Flip. The Steak Stroganoff wouldn't have been complete without a can of condensed mushroom soup, and the base of a mock Hollandaise sauce was condensed cream of chicken soup.
Some closing 1950s observations from the Taylor Foundation Object Project team? "The recipes are steadily getting better!" "Dessert is still the best." And, in stark contrast to the 1930s, "There's nary a radish rose in sight."
Caitlin Kearney is a new media assistant for the Taylor Foundation Object Project. Previously, she has blogged about mid-century cooking and Tupperware parties.


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Christie's bosses are facing a lawsuit over a £1.3million ancient clay tablet after it was seized in the US amid suspicion it was looted from Iraq after first Gulf War
Posted byBoanerges	 May 21, 2020 Leave a comment on Christie's bosses are facing a lawsuit over a £1.3million ancient clay tablet after it was seized in the US amid suspicion it was looted from Iraq after first Gulf War
The tablet carries a fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh, a 4,000-year-old poem
It is preserved in an early writing system, where dents are made in wet clay
The auction company said any 'illicit activity' pre-dated Christie's involvement
By ANDY DOLAN FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 20:02 EDT, 20 May 2020 | UPDATED: 20:08 EDT, 20 May 2020
The ancient clay tablet carries a fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh, a poem composed more than 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Pictured: Gilgamesh in a statue from 700BC
Christie's is being sued over the sale of an ancient clay tablet that bears part of a poem regarded as the world's oldest surviving work of great literature.
The US Department of Homeland Security seized the 3,600-year-old artefact eight months ago, after investigations suggested it had been looted from Iraq after the first Gulf War.
The Hobby Lobby, a Christian-run retailer paid £1.3million to have the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet in its Museum of the Bible in Washington DC.
It filed a lawsuit in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday against Christie's and the unidentified seller of the antiquity, accusing the auction house of 'deceitful and fraudulent conduct'.
The tablet carries a fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh, a poem composed more than 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia – most of which corresponds to modern Iraq.
It tells a story of male tyranny, friendship, heroism and grief over its 12 tablets.
The poem is preserved in one of the earliest writing systems, named after the 'cuneiform' or wedge-shape dents made in wet clay with reeds by the scribes who wrote it.
US prosecutors are now seeking to return the 6in by 5in section, which tells of Gilgamesh's dreams, to Iraq.
The office of the US attorney for the Eastern District of New York said it was imported illegally to the US in the 2000s.
According to court documents, the authorities traced the tablet's ownership back to 2003, when an unnamed American antiquities dealer bought it from the family of a Jordanian dealer in London.
After the tablet was imported and cleaned, experts in cuneiform recognised it as a portion of the Gilgamesh epic. In 2007, the US dealer sold the tablet, claiming the tablet had been inside a box of items purchased in a 1981 auction in San Francisco, the court papers said. +2
The poem is preserved in one of the earliest writing systems, named after the 'cuneiform' or wedge-shape dents made in wet clay with reeds by the scribes who wrote it
A subsequent owner provided that letter to Christie's, but 'advised that the provenance would not withstand scrutiny and should not be used in connection with a public sale', the US Attorney's Office said.
Through its London office, Christie's sold the tablet to Hobby Lobby in 2014, but when, three years later, a curator at the bible museum tried to find out more about its provenance, the auction house withheld information, the authorities claim.
The Hobby Lobby suit claims 'fraud and breach of express and implied warrant', and seeks the return of what it paid.
Christie's said: 'This filing is linked to new information regarding an unidentified dealer's admission … that he illegally imported this item, then falsified documents over a decade ago.' It said the 'illicit activity' pre-dated Christie's involvement.
US state attorney Richard P Donoghue said: 'A major auction house failed to meet its obligations by minimising its concerns that the provenance of an important Iraqi artefact was fabricated, and withheld … information that undermined the provenance's reliability.'
Prosecutors said the bible museum had co-operated with the investigation. The tablet is in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security.
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23rd Annual Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Movie fans are in for an entire box of treats October 10 – 19 when the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival presents its 23rd annual program of the world's best documentary films.
Dozens of great movies, beginning with the opening night screening of music legend Glen Campbell's biography, "I'll Be Me," and personal appearances by stars George Takei, Greg Louganis, Joey Lauren Adams, James Keach, Tess Harper and Luke Wilson, will be featured.
The Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa will be the headquarters for the festival, with other showings at Low Key Arts.
Admission for single films will be $5, but numerous other ticket options available at the festival website, http://www.hsdfi.org/tickets-passes/.
Here is a brief list of just a few of the festival highlights:
• Glen Campbell...I'll Be Me will open the festival on October 10, 2014. Directed and produced by James Keach (Walk The Line) and produced by Trevor Albert (Because of Winn Dixie, Groundhog Day), this powerful portrait of the life and career of great American music icon opens to the viewer the world of the singular talent who created hits like Rhinestone Cowboy, Wichita Lineman and Gentle on My Mind.
• Join actor and activist George Takei on his playful and profound trek for life, liberty, and love as To Be Takei closes the festival on October 18, 2014. Special guest Takei will take part in an exclusive Q&A at the conclusion of the film. Over seven decades, George Takei boldly journeyed from a WWII Arkansas internment camp, to the helm of the starship Enterprise, to the daily news feeds of hordes of social media fans.
• In a unique expansion of the festival's shorts programming, HSDFF will showcase a sidebar of mockumentary shorts in addition to its many top short documentary offerings. Actor and filmmaker Luke Wilson will pay a visit to Hot Springs along with his mockumentary short Satellite Beach, following the unique journey of the Endeavour space shuttle as it travels through the streets of Los Angeles to the California Science Center, and the final move of the Atlantis space shuttle to the Kennedy Space Center.
• The Apothecary, winner of the top Student Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short Subject, a film that takes audiences to an impoverished former mining town in the American Southwest where a beloved druggist runs the community's main hub: the sole pharmacy within 4,000 square miles.
• The Last Days of Peter Bergmann, Sundance and Sheffield Best Doc Short nominee, takes us back to the summer of 2009 when a man calling himself Peter Bergmann arrived in Sligo Town. Over his final three days, he would go to great lengths to ensure no one would ever discover who he was or where he came from.
• When writer and director Debra Granik ventured to Missouri to make her feature Winter's Bone, she discovered the subject of her next film: Ron 'Stray Dog' Hall, a biker and Vietnam vet with a big heart. Granick's new documentary feature Stray Dog follows the burly biker and his family along the open road as this warrior in the heartland brushes up against perilous aspects of contemporary American culture while balancing his commitments to his fellow combat veterans, family, and neighbors.
• Meet the Patels is a laugh-out-loud real life romantic comedy about Ravi Patel, an almost-30-year-old Indian-American who enters an awkward love triangle between the woman of his dreams and his parents, Champa and Vasant, as they navigate the traditions and tribulations of arranged marriage. Parents Champa and Vasant Patel will attend and participate in a post-screening Q&A session.
• James (The Amazing) Randi has been wowing audiences with his mind-blowing illusions, escapes, and tricks for over 50 years, charming Johnny Carson's Tonight Show audiences, then later taking on self-proclaimed psychic Uri Geller and publicly declaring him a fraud. In An Honest Liar, Randi reveals the fact that we all maintain complicated relationships with the art of deception, even 'The Amazing' Randi himself. James Randi will attend a Q&A after the screening.
Dozens of other amazing films await festival-goers.
Check it all out at www.hsdfi.org.


It's fitting that in 2016's San Sebastian is European City of Culture, I chose to take a photograph of the Biblioteca Municipal.
July 2016, panorama from 5 vertical images, additional exposures for highlights, focal length 24mm, aperture f/8, shutter speed 2.5 seconds, ISO 64, tripod.
I walked to the area in early morning, with the first tentative rays of sunlight beginning to break through the night sky. In the quiet of an early morning, with the area mostly to myself, the structure made a striking picture.
It is also fitting that in a city known for its abundant and energetic nightlife, nearby nightclubs were still bustling, even at this early hour. The nightclub on the left was particularly busy, with revelers still spilling out into the street. In the stillness, I spotted a man alone on a bench, his head in his hands. I couldn't help wondering if he was one of the club's patrons, a man whose party had come to an unpleasant end. I imagined he must have quite a story to tell.
Looking away from the clubbers, I focused the photograph on the library, with the city hall in the foreground. Waning darkness and the soft glow of streetlights lent the shot a soft, subdued quality. As the last of the night's partiers trickled into the street, I packed up my equipment, pleased with the shot and silently amused by the man on the bench.


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New airstrip in Cambodian jungle sparks fears over China's military ambitions: Report
A runway is being designed at Dara Sakor International Airport near the southwestern coast of Cambodia by a Chinese company, with a close turning bay. A design that fighter jet pilots often use. The question that arises is China planning to use the country as a military base? #Cambodia #CambodianJungle #ChinaMilitarybase
The New York Times report indicates that China may have lured the south-east state of Cambodia into its South China Sea ambitions.
According to the New York Times, massive construction work is underway at the Dara Sakor international airport in the southern tip of Cambodia aided by China.
The new airstrip has a peculiar feature - a tight turning bay which is usually seen in a military base, not a civilian airport. The New York Times report indicates that China may have lured the south-east state of Cambodia into its South China Sea ambitions.
The report states that adjacent to the airstrip is a deep sea port both built by a politically connected Chinese company. The company reportedly has a 99-year lease that effectively gives it control of 20 per cent of Cambodia's coastline.
China's 'String of Pearls' Photograph:( WION Web Team )
The company in question is called union development group, the report indicates. NYT says it has no other operations anywhere in the world. The report quoted a Pentagon spokesperson being concerned about the twin projects.
However, the Cambodian government claims it is a civil aviation authority project. In fact, China has more military designs in Cambodia. Fifty miles from Dara Sakor is the ream naval base - the largest base in Cambodia.
There was reportedly no open bidding process for the land and the company was allegedly granted a concession that was three times the legal limit.
A Wall Street Journal report in July had hinted earlier that an agreement had given China exclusive rights to operate the port for 30 years. The report is further bolstered by the fact that Cambodia rejected American help to refurbish training facilities on the port.


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Avoiding Risks in Waterproofing Underground
Recently, a mass transit railway received press no one wants to have – news coverage of a lengthy service disruption. Water seepage in the underground area caused electrical components within the system to malfunction, resulting in service being stopped for nearly a full workday. The costs to railway were exorbitant: Repairs in excess of $325,000, not to mention the revenue lost from delayed commuter service.
This is not an isolated incident. A major hospital recently encountered a similar problem when leaks occurred in the basement wall. In a healthcare environment, preventing moisture is critical, to safeguard the structure from deterioration, to prevent mold from impacting the health of staff and patients and to protect expensive medical equipment housed in the facility from damage. Nuclear chemistry, radiation therapy and diagnostic equipment is often housed in basements, as the hospital is using the earth underground to act as a natural shield to prevent the public from being exposed to excess x-ray radiation. Water leaks can cause serious damage to such expensive equipment and may even result in contamination, since this water will carry with it any pollutants that are in the soil.
Water leaks are a common issue in deep underground projects that include heavily reinforced soil-retaining walls or diaphragm walls, which traditionally have been difficult to waterproof due to the extensive detailing. Often contractors use waterproof concrete to attempt to waterproof these areas, but they are prone to failure and require repeated visits to patch cracks in the wall.
To help building owners from facing these issues, GCP Applied Technologies has developed a specialised waterproofing system called the AQUELLA™ system, which sprays on to form a long lasting, high-performance membrane that seals around rebar, which are typically the weakest point for water penetration. This enables those who are constructing tunnels, transit systems, high rises, as well as other structures with deep basements to mitigate the risk and high cost of water leakage. Following this approach helps save on material costs and helps avoid the hassles of repairs that are common with waterproof concrete in these environments.
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Horner "totally relaxed" about Verstappen's future
motorsport.com 31 July 2019
While 's current contract runs until the end of 2020, there are performance clauses that could allow him to leave earlier if certain targets are not reached.
The exact details of those performance marks have not been revealed, but it is likely that it relates to Verstappen being in a set position in the drivers' championship by the summer break.
Should that requirement be for third place, then Verstappen is currently in it and 21 points clear of – meaning only a freak set of circumstances would prevent him from being in that slot after this weekend's race in Hungary.
But even if Verstappen may still have a theoretical way out, Horner says that, with the Dutchman taking his second win in Germany last weekend he has no worries about 2020.
That is a much more confident stance than the outfit had prior to Verstappen's win in Austria, when Red Bull's motorsport advisor Helmut Marko confessed to being 'worried' that the youngster would leave.
Christian Horner, Team Principal, Red Bull Racing, Helmut Marko, Consultant, Red Bull Racing, and Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing, in the garage
Christian Horner, Team Principal, Red Bull Racing, Helmut Marko, Consultant, Red Bull Racing, and Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing, in the garage Mark Sutton / Sutton Images
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