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Simpson & Marwick announce latest appointment of new Managing Director
Lewis Robertson
A SCOTTISH property firm has announced its latest appointment of a new Managing Director.
Simpson & Marwick have appointed experienced businessman Malcolm Cannon who will take up the new role as Managing Director Property Services with the firm.
Mr Cannon, 58, says he is relishing the opportunity to deliver the next stage of success for residential property, estate agency and conveyancing.
Experienced business leader Malcolm Cannon has joined Edinburgh residential property firm, Simpson& Marwick.
Mr Malcolm said: "What a privilege it will be to be part of a name like Simpson & Marwick. Highly-respected in the property market and with a committed and experienced staff, it has the opportunity and ambition to expand geographically and through its range of customer services.
"The scale and infrequency of the transaction makes selling a house different from any other personal business, and it is vital that every customer feels reassured by the experts handling their affairs.
"Clients expect a different relationship nowadays, and we will use state-of-the-art technology to engage better throughout the sales and purchasing journey while keeping our sellers and buyers better-informed."
Rob Aberdein, Managing Partner of Simpson & Marwick said Malcolm's appointment was a major step in its planned development.
Mr Aberdein said: "In the Scottish business community Malcolm is widely recognised as an effective change agent. He has worked in five different sectors, including food and drink, the legal sector, fashion, property, and sports, and has held CEO roles in four of these.
"His credentials are unrivalled and those are the skills he will bring to helping us successfully navigate the changes which are coming to the residential property market.
Malcolm Cannon's most recent role was as National Director for the Institute of Directors Scotland, where he oversaw a complete restructure of the 115-year-old institution.
Mr Cannon was previously the CEO of Scottish Cricket for four years as well as having four years as CEO of ESPC.
Mr Cannon is known for one of his successes for wellington boot maker, Hunter.
With a small budget Mr Cannon was said to able to reposition it from a functional product worn either on farms or while fishing, to a high street fashion brand of today.
Simpson & Marwick Chairman, Richard Loudon added "We have a very talented team in place and they will all benefit from Malcolm's insights and wisdom.
"We are understandably delighted to have him on board as the firm readies for significant growth and development."
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Last week's summit of EU heads of government ended in teeth-clenching amity. EU27 leaders jostled each other to declare that "no deal" was unthinkable; Merkel spoke of her hope to "reach the second phase (ie, trade talks) in December"; and May agreed to revisit the EU's financial claims "line-by-line". Three explanations are in the air.
May's hints in Florence and subsequently of a concession on money have eased relations.
Her weakness is alarming Brussels which fears she won't be able to deliver concessions.
The talk of "no deal" in the UK has concentrated European minds.
The only sensible thing to say is that none of these explanations excludes the others and all played their part. And the last of these is more than just the talk of Brexit zealots.
It's all about timing. The intersection of the date of Brexit with the annual cycle of company operations is shown in the graphic below.
The date of Brexit and the corporate cycle
A company's fiscal year may run as it inclines, but most choose the quarter days shown in the graphic. Although the largest fraction follows the calendar year, a sufficient number chooses other periods for the front of the queue to vary according to events. The graphic illustrates that it is June year-enders who first must budget for the post-Brexit period and that they will be doing so with the turn of the year.
Since the referendum result, institutional investors have been willing to see public companies follow their house views on capital expenditure and M&A activity - some defensive, some opportunistic, many simply stalling. Now however, we are reaching a confluence of crunch-points. Investment banks are looking overseas for operations likely to be regulated from Europe. This combines with the prospect of a government inspired by Wedgwood Benn and Hugo Chavez to spook mobile professionals, upsetting the supply of skilled labour. And the threat of Corbyn is leading proprietors to realise flight capital from private companies and real estate.
In such fractious times, public company chairmen will be mindful of the risk of shareholder suits, leading them to nudge their Boards toward stances that are definite and defensible. Between now and Christmas, one of three alternatives will emerge as action-guiding:
Brexit talks move on to trade amid credible political assurances which Boards take as justifying budgets assuming general levels of continuity.
A Standstill Agreement (for a planning or implementation period) is made or strongly signalled, also warranting budgets based on continuity.
Neither of the above, calling for budgets which recognise the de facto outcome of no deal.
In the absence of clarity, fiduciary responsibility will be construed as obliging Boards to assume the worst, flowing through to CEOs instructing their finance directors and head offices schooling their divisions. Policy will then herd, as budget decisions flow through to suppliers of goods, services, labour and capital, amplified through the investment community back to other companies, and ultimately coming to govern HMG's own planning. M Macron may well huff and puff that,
"At no moment has Theresa May ever raised a 'no deal' as an option. If there are noises, bluff, false information by secondary actors or spectators to this discussion, that is…just life in these matters, or in the media. But in no case is it part of the discussions."
But this is to affirm what he denies. For 'no deal' is not a matter of bluff, but a consequence of the inexorable timetable of the corporate calendar and directors' appetite for certainty, coming to a head in three months' time.
So let us channel Thomas Paine, steeling ourselves for the times that test men's souls between now and the arrival of the jolly greybeard in Coca-Cola livery (that's for those of us still able to find reindeers in the sky). For the next eight weeks, the stakes will be at their highest. As this morning, lobbyists will weigh in with ponderous warnings; parliamentarians will be at their most fractious and opportunistic; polemicists at home and abroad will attain climaxes of fury; and journos will dial up the heat to temperatures which melt iron. And for those of an apocalyptic cast of mind, there is a further possibility: May herself may trip or her government may fall. On 22 November, it must present its own budget, with Hammond under pressure from all sides and neither he nor his boss with much of a record on gala occasions. Testing times indeed.

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Arkansas carried out its first execution in nearly a dozen years despite a flurry of legal challenges that spared three convicted killers, but courts still could scuttle the remainder of the nation's most ambitious death penalty schedule since capital punishment was restored in 1976. Ledell Lee was pronounced dead minutes before midnight Thursday.
Arkansas first wanted to put eight inmates to death before the state's supply of midazolam, one of three drugs used in its lethal injection process, expires at the end of April.
Three of those executions were canceled this week because of court decisions. Another inmate scheduled for execution next week has received a stay. But Arkansas wants to put two other inmates to death Monday and another one next Thursday.
Ledell Lee, 51, was put on death row for the 1993 death of his neighbor Debra Reese, who was struck 36 times with a small wooden tool her husband had given her for protection. He was arrested less than an hour after the killing after spending some of the $300 he had stolen from Reese.
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Ledell Lee's execution went ahead after the US Supreme Court rejected last-minute appeals from his lawyers. But at least one high court justice expressed serious reservations about what critics have called Arkansas' rush to the death chamber.
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Thirty-one states currently administer the death penalty, and lethal injection is the primary means of execution in all of them. The number of executions carried out in the United States fell to a 25-year low in 2016.
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Elizabeth Warren Unveils Plan To Fight Election Disinformation
She said more needs to be done "to truly stem the spread of damaging false information."
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a plan on Wednesday to fight the spread of election-related disinformation.
In her proposal, Warren said more needs to be done "to truly stem the spread of damaging false information," and that the U.S. is still unprepared to combat foreign election meddling. She called on tech companies "to take real steps ... to fight disinformation," including creating "clear consequences" for users who try to interfere with voting and taking "meaningful steps" to tell users when they've interacted with "fraudulent accounts."
She also pledged that her campaign "will not knowingly use or spread false or manipulated information" about any of her competitors. She said: "I'm sending a clear message to anyone associated with the Warren campaign: I will not tolerate the use of false information or false accounts to attack my opponents, promote my campaign, or undermine our elections. And I urge my fellow candidates to do the same."
If she's elected, Warren said she would endorse "tough civil and criminal penalties" against anyone who knowingly spreads false information with "the explicit purpose of undermining the basic right to vote." She also said she'd reinstate the cybersecurity coordinator position on the National Security Council, as well as consider sanctions for countries that try to sway elections using disinformation.
Last year, Warren's campaign bought a political ad on Facebook that intentionally included the false claim that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had endorsed President Donald Trump's reelection bid. It was part of an effort to show how easy it was for "politicians to run ads with known lies." She criticized the platform for "[throwing] its hands up to battling misinformation in the political discourse," alleging that "when profit comes up against protecting democracy, Facebook chooses profit."
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Back in June, Chelsea legend Didier Drogba left the club and officially signed for China's Shanghai Shenhua, which was owned by MMO publisher/ developer The9's CEO. Roped in to promote the upcoming PlanetSide 2 as well, the fee paid to Didier Drogba for his upcoming effort was officially revealed by The9 earlier today (below), which is Euro 3.1 million (soccer/ football salary is another amount). A hefty fee no doubt, but it seems The9 is just happily bleeding cash in its marketing and investment departments.
The9 Limited Signed up Didier Yves Drogba Tebily for Endorsing and Promoting Planetside 2
Shanghai, August 10, 2012 – The9 Limited (NASDAQ: NCTY) ("The9"),an online game developer and operator, announced today that it has entered into an endorsement agreement with Didier Yves Drogba Tebily ("Drogba"), a top soccer player in the world, for endorsement and promotion of Planetside 2, a MMO shooter game licensed from Sony Online Entertainment LLC, in Asia.
Under the agreement, Drogba will participate in various advertising initiatives for promoting Planetside 2. Drogba has also granted The9 certain other rights relating to the promotion activities, including the use of Drogba's name, photos, voice and likeness. The endorsement agreement is for a term of one year. In consideration for the endorsement services provided by Drogba, The9 agrees to pay Drogba a sum of Euro 3.1million.
Shanghai Shenhua Liansheng Football Club Co., Ltd. ("Shenhua") has signed up Drogba as its player. Because Mr. Zhu Jun, the Chairman and CEO of The9 and a major shareholder of The9, is also a major shareholder of Shenhua, the endorsement and promotion transactions with Drogba would constitute related party transactions. The Audit Committee of The9 engaged an international independent valuation firm to advise it in connection with these transactions. Based on the analysis by the valuation firm, which studied, among other things, the relevant market data for similar transactions, and taking into account the commercial value these endorsement and promotion activities is expected to bring to The9, the Audit Committee of The9 on behalf of its board of directors approved the endorsement and promotion transactions with Drogba. Mr. Zhu recused himself from any discussion among the board of directors regarding this matter.
Chris Shen, The9's VP of Marketing, commented, "in the competitive Chinese online game market, it is more and more important to implement an innovative and cost-efficient marketing solution to promote a new title among the target users and attract their attention and interest. Anelka's endorsement for Firefall has proved to be a great success in building up recognition of Firefall among the gamers. By leveraging Drogba's popularity and high media exposure in the coming year, and implementing various cross-marketing programs with Drogba's endorsement, we hope to effectively enhance Planetside 2's coverage on various media and significantly increase the brand recognition and popularity of the game among our target users."
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part I (2011)
The Lady is a Vamp
We're down to the business end of the Twilight series now and there's no greater indication of this than Breaking Dawn's poster. As posters go, the transformation is heavily perceptible, startling. Whereas Bella (Kristen Stewart) has been the shrinking violet before, now she sports sensuality and curves as she leans into beau Edward (Robert Pattinson). Interestingly, the other tangible in this otherworldly threesome, Jacob (Taylor Lautner), is now posed alongside the couple, his animalistic appeal evident even though fully clothed.
If last year's Eclipse broadened the reality of the sexual tension among the three then this new film deals perpetually—and a bit too stupendously—with its dire consequences. Jacob has resigned himself to the fact that Bella has chosen Edward to be her mate and husband. She however starts to feel jitters as the wedding day arrives. The not-so subtle panic spreads yet it seems no one realizes how deep it is. Thus, the wedding is not the fairytale Bella hoped for but she goes through with it, her face showing the emotional range it lacked before now. Stewart has the requisite nervy-angst mix pat but the writers of Breaking Dawn continue the trend of reinforcing her importance to the plot while limiting her reality greatly.
What it eerily achieves though is capturing a young woman balancing love and lust amid a precarious situation. For all the static that perforates Breaking Dawn, it's the simple moments that resonate clearest: the glorious long-shot of the camera lens as Edward and Bella stand together or the close-up of their intimacy. This extends to when Jacob finally emerges to wish her well. The moment is softened by Edward's acceptance of the part he plays in Bella's life. Whereas the truce is uneasy, it is also necessary. Bella's face comes alive around Jacob whereas it creases with her husband because in that bond, she is carrying both of them. Their honeymoon to Brazil, where they 'do it' for the first time, proves her utter femininity too…the silliness of bidding for time to brush her teeth and shave her legs. This is clearly nerves but, more deeply, is also stubbornness that Bill Condon cannot navigate through or connect a deeper meaning with. This is no surprise as he isn't known for emotional depth but more a technical gift for portraiture (Dreamgirls, Chicago).
And so Bella toils with her inner struggles over mortality and her real feelings about Jacob in a self-suffering way that drags the film into what feels like a dirge, from half-way throughout. Sadly, it is the latter half that gets most affected, most imbued with ridiculous instances. After their love-making, Bella ends up with bruises and the fastest pregnancy ever on film. The former proves to be interesting fodder but the latter is too absurd to ignore. Or simply too huge because it ends up overshadowing the point where Bella's maternal instincts begin to empower her, beyond the point of reason.
Breaking Dawn, split into two parts to match trends of other famous film series, thus is caught between stalling for the inevitable outcome and some fad to cling to. The problem is that it meets failure at every turn: Edward's attempt to kill only sleazy criminals at his initial vampirism comes across clumsy. Bella's pro-life stance proves a point for exactly the opposite because, like everything here, it lacks real conviction or scope beyond the personal. Even the CGI-wolves talking among themselves at one point prove utterly irritating.
Which, surprisingly, leaves us with the only worthy cause hammered home: family. Bella may not readily see the love surrounding her through real and extended relatives but Jacob does. Breaking Dawn is really his epiphany about the true nature of love and the messiness it can create. Here he becomes willing to take on his own clan just to have Bella's life spared before her baby can be born. It's much more too but only now can he articulate it to others, not just to himself, her or Edward. Their world and circumstances are changing and baby (Renesmee) makes four, an unusual number in such an equation. When, in the very last scene, Bella's bloodshot eyes fly open, he knows things have changed yet again. So too Edward and everyone other supernatural being that populate the town. She's the new thing around yet, at least for now, she still has time to merely wake up and be just fine.
Last year, AMC unveiled a six-episode drama about a zombie-attack world that, on the surface, was to achieve one thing only: lure conspiracy theorists and post-apocalyptic world geeks into one big fan-base. Given the plethora of gore-fest films that horror fans have been exposed to of late, the task was more than feasible. Indeed, we're experiencing such an overload of senseless, dull zombie films at theatres that it achieves the opposite of the intended shock: numbness. Ironically, the best of the current crop hasn't even hit local theatres or DVD stores much (REC, REC 2, Don't Let the Right One In) but rather—and there is rancor on my breath to say this—they've been adapted instead. Apparently the likes of Spain and Sweden do horror better than North America and with more intricate layers, i.e. more plot, less blood.
Americans though need to see the carcasses on screen being ripped to shreds by the mindless hoard and when death comes then it must be spectacularly in the head. So while the best parts of foreign zombie films get lost in cinematic translation, the guarded skepticism that met this project-- developed by Frank Darabont—was justified. Yet, when the series premiered in October 2010, it was sheer poetry because it easily found a palatable middle-ground. Season I of The Walking Dead has been rightfully lauded as the best thing television had to offer last year, with its no-holds barred look at how surviving humans deal with incomprehensible loss and their own mortality. It was justly rewarded with the Emmy for Best Television Series Drama in January. Like LOST before it, the fascination lies not with the obvious cat and mouse game with death, but with the examination of the survivors themselves. Darabont is no stranger to directing tense psychological thrillers: he did bring adaptations of Stephen King's The Shawshank Redemption & The Green Mile to theatres and critical acclaim. Here he worked seamlessly with material originated by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore, which itself was inspired by George A Romero zombie films.
The series revolves around former deputy sheriff Ricky Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) as he guides a small band of survivors, which include his wife and son, towards any hope of life across the zombie-filled landscape. Each new episode brings some new pulsating twist that tests the group's sense of loyalty to each other. Season II opens with Grimes reflecting with his walkie-talkie on what CDC scientist Edwin Jenner (Noah Emmerich) whispered in his ear before the entire compound was obliterated. The group heads to Fort Benning but get stalled by a barricade of cars on a highway. In a terrific sequence, they hide under vehicles while the zombies swarm past them, not without incident. Both surviving children have been most affected so far: Sophia (Madison Lintz) gets lost in the woods and Carl (Chandler Riggs) gets accidentally shot.
The season so far has built upon its impressive beginning, while embracing newer elements. When Grimes and Daryl (Norman Reedus) dissect a 'walker' (name used by the survivors for the zombies) it echoes the forensics on CSI, albeit crudely. There is even a little black humor; the group breaks into a Church only to find four walkers apparently worshipping. Not only do they slaughter them but then turn around and pray to God in the same building. As we're progressing, the walkers become less of an obvious menace and the personal tumult among the group is taking over. It's a risky move and one that clearly highlights AMC's own tumult after firing Darabont. With new writers come newer directions. While the quality of the show has not dipped, there are some stretches that need closing quickly. The disappearance of Sophia is one and the inevitable clash between Ricky and Shane (Jon Bernthal) for alpha-male supremacy and, alas, the woman caught between them, Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) is another. We've only skimmed the surface of this uneasy love triangle but slowly it is building to a bitter end. Lori remains the most fascinating character and Callies plays her with deft touches of sadness, rage and subdued emotion. Indeed, the female characters all seem to be fighting mysterious, tragic pasts. Whereas the men stereotypically now assume a heightened sense of awareness. Here, Darabont's vision is missed most because we're in divisional territory of making the storyline utterly original. The character development is multifaceted yet copious…even the walkers are slightly nuanced.
How it will unfurl is anyone's guess but as The Walking Dead continues to push more moral issues, the characters become more of a collective shell, especially the women. They are indeed, mother, wife, fantasy and target all rolled up into one. Before now they only had the walkers and their children to worry about. Now, however, with rapt tension building, their faces eye the men more wearily and themselves too. RATING: 8/10
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Q: GWT: Disable middle mouse button scroll for firefox I made in GWT custom modal message box. It has also bottom layer. This means that I expect restriction of any user action at the page except clicking 'Ok'.
I made something like this (click on the 'show dialog box').
I have made bottom layer that covers all bottom controls. It has style:
.glass {
    background-color: #000;
    opacity: 0.50;
    -moz-opacity: 0.50;
    filter: alpha(opacity = 50);

    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
}

But the problem that in firefox user can click middle mouse button and scroll away, to the area that bottom layer will not cover.
In GWT i disabled scroll. It helps in IE, but not in FF.
Window.enableScrolling( false );

How to disable middle mouse scroll for short time?
Or i can make CSS for panel that will cover also hidden page area?
Thanks for any help!
and Sorry for my english.

A: There's a GlassPanel in the Google Web Toolkit Incubator - you might get some ideas from there (they didn't solve/restrict the middle button, just extended the panel to cover the whole page, including the hidden area).

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If the charitable work involves a member shooting an event the time donation should not be communicated to the organization as officially "sponsored" by OPPA.
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Based on member submission of mentorship activities.
The Awards Committee shall make a selection of the most worthy candidate, based on information provided by the members and research/discussion by the committee.
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Mentorships can be in the form of time or services offered for free or at deeply discounted rates. There are no fixed criteria other than it must be photography-related, with mentorships involving 1:1 parings between a "mentor" and "mentee."
Time spent in classroom/workshop settings is generally not considered to be mentorship.
Please complete the application form, which includes a brief set of questions. Either electronic or paper submission is acceptable. The form must be submitted by November 18.
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by Pedro Z. Malavolta March 31, 2005
Brazil's Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socio-Economic Studies (Dieese) dismisses the possibility that last year's salary increases may be contributing to inflation.
Clemente Ganz Lúcio, technical director of the Dieese, points out that since the inception of the Real Plan, in 1994, workers' income has lost a third of its real purchasing power, that is, after discounting the effects of inflation.
Yesterday, the Dieese issued its annual report on union salary negotiations. The report showed that in 80.9% of the 658 negotiations that were examined, salary increases were greater than or equal to the IBGE's (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) INPC (National Consumer Price Index) for the 12-month period prior to each category's reference month for salary readjustments.
Ganz Lúcio's explanation is that workers' income has not increased, despite the drop in unemployment and the good readjustments obtained last year.
He refers to data from the Ministry of Labor and Employment's Annual Social Information Report, which, according to Ganz Lúcio, indicates that the mass of workers' income fell 0.3%, despite the addition of 1.5 million new formal job posts.
In his analysis, "what is of interest in terms of inflation is this income mass, the earnings total, and this remains low." Without a growth in income, there would be no growth in demand or consumption, which is what influences inflation.
He cites the state of São Paulo as an example: "In the state of São Paulo, where the economy is more organized, there is a 30% turnover in the labor force each year. And workers always start off earning less," he explains.
The average salary in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area declined to US$ 375.90 (R$ 1,006.00) in January, the lowest level in the past 20 years, according to research carried out by the Dieese in partnership with the State Data Analysis and Statistics System Foundation (Seade).
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On my way to the dentist's office this week, I got in the elevator with a guy who saw my National Championship t-shirt. "Do you go to Carolina?" he asked. Without thinking twice, I smiled and said yes. (We wear Carolina gear around campus and think nothing of it, but outside of the Tar Heel state, it's an instant conversation starter for anyone with a connection to Chapel Hill.) The guy asked if I'd ever eaten at Artisan Pizza Kitchen (yes, of course) – as it turns out, his dad and brother own the restaurant! We chatted until we got to my floor, about to part ways, when I realized that I had a correction to make: I don't go to Carolina, I went to Carolina… and that's when it finally hit me.
Just as quickly as it became a part of me, life as a Carolina student was no longer mine to claim – quad chilling under a Carolina blue sky, skipping class to sample the new flavors at YoPo and play with puppies… Struggling to stay awake at the UL, only regretting that skipped class a teensy bit. Stopping to admire a spectacular sunset framing the Belltower, after a hair-graying battle for parking on Stadium. Running to your best friend next door for impromptu movie nights… or to borrow a dress, because eight closets is better than one. Waiting in line for literally everything, from free t-shirts and blue books to basketball tickets. Running into half the senior class on Thursday nights at CFD. Eating back all the calories you burned dancing, because… Linda's loaded sweet potato tots. All these things, and so much more, belong to the next classes of Tar Heels to live out. How lucky they are to have all of Carolina ahead of them.
In four short years, what was once a foreign place became my second home. A campus full of strangers became familiar faces and lifelong friends. I have learned and grown so much more than what my degree could tell you. I have lived, and laughed, and made memories I'm lucky enough to be able to taste twice through photographs. Of course it was far from perfect, and I know that the best is yet to come. Nevertheless, it's important to me to pause and appreciate the experience I've been given for all of its ups and downs.
Whoever said that you shouldn't look back or you'll miss what's in front of you, was wrong. You have to look back, to appreciate how far you've come. To remember what shaped you. Because while that Carolina life is no longer mine, what it has given me will always be part of me. I may not have been a Tar Heel born or a Tar Heel bred, but when I die I sure as hell will be a Tar Heel dead.


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There are several groups producing material under the name Equinox:
1. An Bulgarian band (consisting of Zhana Bergendorff, Georgi Simeonov, Vladimir Mihailov, Johnny Manuel and Trey Campbell) who represented Bulgaria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.
2. Norwegian thrash metal band formed in 1982 featuring Grim Stene - Vocals, guitars Skule Livsson Stene - Bass Jørn Wangsholm - Drums (1992-95) Espen Holm - Guitars (1992-95) Ragnar "Raggen" Westin - Drums (until 1992) Tommy Skarning - Guitars (1987-92)
They started out as Rebellion in 1982 and then changed their name to Equinox in 1987. They split-up in 1995.
Official Equinox Forum @ http://forum.originalgrim.com
3. US Progressive metal from Minessota. They only realeased 1 LP, (named Color of the Time" (1995)
4. Renowned drum & bass artist, real name Marlon Sterling. Runs Scientific Wax (http://www.scientificwax.com). His best known songs are "Acid Rain" & "Alpha Proxima". Keeping the original sound of drum & bass alive!
5. One of the many side-projects of Industrial band Front Line Assembly
6. UK based hard trance producer that also releases tracks under the name Expander.
7. Washington, DC, band whose 2000 release "Rise Up" combines elements of dub, dancehall, hip hop, minimal pop, punk, Haitian percussion, and funk. Equinox featured Hugh McElroy, later of Black Eyes, and Saran, later of AKA Harlot #1.
8. Rock band from Azerbaijan.
9. A rock band, from the midlands, UK.
they describe themselves simply as
'2 Guys with Instruments, Voices, and Emotions'.
10. A group from Cambridge, UK
11. Progressive metal band from Serbia
The band was created in the autumn of 2007 and it comes from the capital of Serbia,Belgrade.It is mostly influenced by the bands such as Pain Of Salvation and Dream Theater.During the period of one year,the band was working hard and as a result,a mini EP was recorded in the winter of 2008/2009.''Leaving Behind'' contains four songs which will justify the mention of above mentioned bands...Even though there were serious problems with stability of the line-up (a guitarist,a bassist and four keyboardists were replaced) the band is now in a stable setting and in an active search for a new keyboardist and adequate vocal.
12. A jazzcombo from The Netherlands, playing hardbop.
www.equinoxjazzonline.com
13. A United States black/death metal band from Florida.
14. An American DJ/Producer specialising in House and Electronic/Dance.
Equinox is a producer/DJ reigning from San Diego, CA who uses all aspects of musical influence to put songs together. Beginning as a drummer in a deathcore (metal) band, he slowly became interested in electronic dance music (EDM). With quick interests in dubstep, electro house, house, Equinox felt like this was something he could become apart of. With countless crappy takes on FL Studio, Equinox learned his way through it and got deep into the producing mode. With random melodies, basslines and rhythms stuck in his head, he brings them to life and shares with all listeners willing to press "play". (Abraham Laguna's words)
http://soundcloud.com/itsequinox
15. A United States black metal band (refers to their music as "dark metal" due to the inclusion of neofolk, martial, and drone influences)


Cool, another question that I thought I knew the answer to, should map 0 be limiting boost? I'm testing a new BEF and want to disable the JB4 for now (without unplugging everything) and it seems in map 0 I can't target above about 12psi.
If using map0 you'd have to also put the PWG conenctor (blue patch) back to stock.
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Cool, so to verify, just disconnect the wastegate control from the JB4 and put the stock connector back in place. I assume it's recommended to disconnect the battery while doing this?
I think I'm having two different issues. I recently started getting the CEL: 120308 "boost pressure lower than expected" BEFORE I switched to this ISO hex. Seems that my boost is limited (3 psi is highest I think I've seen).
On the regular hex, I had to use FUA 51 to get consistent logs (2011 F10). I attempted to use FUD 128 on this ISO, but it looks like the issue may be back. I think I read someone recommend using "10" for the remapped 6cyl timing logging. (mine is at 0 currently).
Some sort of logging issue although I can't tell what from this short log.
I see WGDC is at 100% and boost is low so also some physical issue. Maybe you damaged board cutting diode? Solenoid connector loose?
I was researching last night and double checked the solenoid connectors, all snug. I just did another log run. Looks more consistent now.
neejay, are you using the connect kit/app and are on an android phone?
Do the vacuum line test.
Yep, connect kit + android.
lol Yeah, I was just hoping it'd reveal or change with this updated log. I won't have time to do the vacuum test until later in the week.
It's really easy... If that tests out OK we know its a boost leak. If that does not test out OK we know its something on the JB4 end, vacuum system, solenoid, etc. So it's an important test.
After cutting the diode and installing the N55_FSERIES_OBDII_ISO_7_T6.hex firmware update, I keep getting a lot of DTC codes and engine light on.
one that sticks in while trying to delete codes with the JB4 software is code 1381.
On the dash settings, no mater how many times I set it (function 4) to auto delete trouble codes, once I set it, get out of the menu, have the two blinks, and go back to the dash menu again, function 4 it is back to 0 (not clear trouble codes).
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Select F series to read codes, they should be 6 digits!
So how is boost control working during longer 1/2 mile style runs? Boost creep in 5th? I'm going to turn back on the EGT FF correction and maybe make it adjust adjustable, if we need.
is this what you mean?
N55 - Doc race 6266.
I performed the JB4 board mod and installed the current ISO software.
3) I can't get a decent (no boost) log due to the Drivetrain Malfunction issue.
I have seen the Drivetrain Malfunction for a short period in the past and I believed it was due to the battery disconnection but I'm still getting it on the 3rd day after.
Any insight would be helpful.
For any fault you'd need to read it, and for any tuning issue you'd have to post a JB4 CSV log of it.
I was running my TMAP sensor unplugged but plugged it in about a week before installing the ISO, I will unplug it again.
Not sure about 108A10, I've never seen that before.
After installing the ISO T6 firmware yesterday and leaving the house today in the morning I got a warning on my F30 N55 335 BMW: chassi alignment/level issue or something like that... I just hit the ok bottom and off I went... Just to let you know. Never seen that!
I just upgraded to the T12 firmware but haven't driven it yet.
If you get a fault code and need help with it, you need to read the fault code first.
If im on t11 should i even bother with t12 since you only listed port injection changes?
If there is no DME code don't see how it could be related.
I was running my MAF sensor unplugged but plugged it in about a week before installing the ISO, I will unplug it again.
Update: I disconnected my MAF sensor and cleared my codes. So far no codes and no drivetrain malfunction so looking good so far.
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so it seems some of you guys might be having the same issue as me. At WOT my car pulls like a freight train, but during mild acceleration (maybe 60-70% of the time)I can feel the boost building but then it just stops building and the torque is gone, unless I push a lot further on the pedal, almost to WOT. im on T6 or T7, cant remember.
Ill update to 12 and see what happens.


The Met Office reports that the region will remain largely dry at first this evening.
However, cloud will quickly thicken and increase with outbreaks of rain spreading northwards, this becoming locally heavy and possibly thundery, especially in the south.
Some fog patches are likely. A mild night with light winds. Minimum Temperature 10°C.
Saturday will be largely cloudy with outbreaks of rain, this locally heavy, especially over hills.
But becoming lighter and more patchy later. Generally feeling on the cool side with a light northeasterly breeze. Maximum Temperature 15°C.


The official Japanese website for the theatrical Neon Genesis Evangelion anime remake has re-launched — thus confirming the tentative release window and English title of the second movie in the project. Evangelion: 2.0 You Can [Not] Advance will open in Japan in early summer of 2009. The first movie, Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone, opened in September 2007, earned over 2 billion yen (about US$20 million), and sold over 600,000 copies on DVD.
The website promises that the second movie will feature the fan-favorite character Asuka, the EVA-02 unit, "new Evangelions," "added items previously unknown to anyone," "a shocking new story, and new visuals."
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About Plovdiv
2019 European Capitals of Culture: Plovdiv and Matera
January 7, 2019 Nasko
As of 1 January 2019, Plovdiv (Bulgaria) and Matera (Italy) will hold the title of European Capital of Culture for one year.
European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, Tibor Navracsics, said: "The programmes for Plovdiv and Matera show how these cities envisage both their own future and that of Europe, whilst celebrating their extraordinary centuries-old heritage. The European Capital of Culture initiative brings people together and highlights the role of culture in building a European identity. Both cities will help ensure a long-term impact of last year's successful European Year of Cultural Heritage, which has demonstrated how culture can transform our cities and regions for the better. I wish Plovdiv and Matera every success in the coming year."
Plovdiv is the first ever Bulgarian city to be chosen as European Capital of Culture. With a full programme under the motto "Together", 2019 will bring new opportunities to the region and international visibility for the city. More than 300 projects have been organised in Plovdiv and the South Central Region of Bulgaria as well as in the cities of Varna, Sofia and Veliko Tarnovo. These activities include festivals and community-based projects structured around themes linked to the characteristic features of Plovdiv, its history, cultural heritage and challenges facing the city. From discovering the Cyrillic alphabet through various exhibitions to joint theatre productions with the Western Balkans and the Roma and Turkish communities, visitors will have an array of activities to participate in. The opening celebrations will take place from 11 – 13 January, with a series of indoor and outdoor events – including a music, light and dance performance on the evening of 12 January. Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society will attend the official opening ceremony on 12 January.
The programme for Matera has been organised under the motto "Open Future", and will have a special focus on social and cultural inclusion and collaborative innovation. Highlights include "Ars Excavandi", a contemporary look at the history and culture of subterranean architecture; "Re-reading Renaissance", a journey through the artistic past of Basilicata and Apulia; and "Poetry of primes", an exhibition on the central role of mathematics in the work of artists throughout the ages. In co-operation with Teatro San Carlo, Matera will also stage the first open-air performance of the opera Cavalleria Rusticana. 27 additional projects are also being developed with local creative communities and partners from across Europe. The opening celebrations will take place on 19 and 20 January and will gather 2,000 musicians from all the villages of the Basilicata region and many other parts of Europe. Commissioner Navracsicswill attend the official opening ceremony on 19 January.
Melina Mercouri, the then Greek Minister of Culture, took the initiative to start the European Capital of Culture in 1985. It has since become one of the most high-profile cultural initiatives in Europe. The cities are selected on the basis of a cultural programme that must have a strong European dimension, promote the participation and active involvement of the city's inhabitants and contribute to the long-term development of the city and its surrounding region.
Holding the title of European Capital of Culture is also an excellent opportunity for the cities to change their image, put themselves on the world map, attract more tourists and rethink their development through culture. The title has a long-term impact, not only on culture but also in social and economic terms, both for the city and the region.
In 2018, Valletta in Malta and Leeuwarden in The Netherlands were European Capitals of Culture. Following Plovdiv and Matera in 2019, the future European Capitals of Culture will be Rijeka (Croatia) and Galway (Ireland) in 2020, Timisoara (Romania), Elefsina (Greece) and Novi Sad (Serbia, candidate country) in 2021, Esch (Luxembourg) and Kaunas (Lithuania) in 2022, and Veszprém (recommended) in Hungary in 2023.
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Amnesty International Australia's ARTillery Comes to SALA Festival with 30 Rules to Live By
Local Adelaide residents are invited to get involved in defending and protecting human rights both at home and around the world this August!
By Brooke Klimek on Jul 08, 2014
amnesty.org.au
Local Adelaide residents are invited to get involved in defending and protecting human rights both at home and around the world this August, as ARTillery Adelaide presents 30 Rules to Live By as part of the 2014 South Australian Living Artist (SALA) Festival.
30 Rules To Live By will be a unique exhibition that sees Adelaide's Amnesty International Action Centre on Grote St transform into a gallery as local artists use their work to explore the essence of humanity and advocacy, through the lens of human rights.
Set to launch on 1 August, the exhibition aims to visually showcase the 30 Articles of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights through the work of local artists.
ARTillery Coordinator Rachel Kucera hopes the interactive and informative exhibition can raise awareness of critical international human rights issues.
"We have invited 30 local artists to participate this year to align with the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is the foundation for Amnesty International's work. We hope to bring a diverse exhibition that highlights the Declaration's core tenets of humanity that belong equally to every person, or as we like to call them- 30 Rules To Live By.
"The exhibition will showcase works from an array of mediums including works on paper, canvas, sculpture and film. Pieces will be for sale with 100% of the proceeds going back to local artists," she said.
ARTillery Adelaide is a group of young volunteers drawn together by their passion for action in the battle for human rights, inspired by their love of the arts. The new-look team is a mix of old and new members, each with their own skills and experiences, their own ideas and dreams but with a single goal – to make a difference in a way that is fun and creative for all. They interact with the local Adelaide community to shed light on larger national and international human rights issues. Born in Perth in 2008, ARTillery has become a national initiative as part of Amnesty International Australia (AIA) and all of their work is based on AIA campaigns.
Location: Amnesty Action Centre, Lower Ground Floor, 14 Grote St, Adelaide 5000
Run Dates & Times: 1 – 24 August 2014 Monday – Friday: 10am-4pm, Tuesdays: 10am-7pm, First and Last Weekends only (Aug 2-3, Aug 23-24) 10am-4pm
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Uthayakumar's bid to move sedition trial to High Court dismissed
| October 27, 2009 1 Comment
KUALA LUMPUR, 27 Oct 2009: The High Court today dismissed lawyer P Uthayakumar's application to transfer his sedition trial from the Sessions Court to the High Court.
Justice Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah said Uthayakumar's main argument that the case involved complicated issues in law held no merit.
He said Sessions Court judges had all the qualification and experience to handle the case.
"Furthermore, the applicant can appeal to or file for revision at the High Court on the lower court's decision later," he added.
Mohamad Zabidin said the court also disagreed with Uthayakumar's counsel N Surendran that words like "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide" in the charge itself should be interpreted as issues involving complicated matters.
Uthayakumar, 48, had claimed trial in the Sessions Court to posting on a website a letter with seditious tendency, dated 15 Nov 2007, which was addressed to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at No 10, Downing Street, London.
He is charged under Section 4(1)(c) of the Sedition Act which carries a maximum RM5,000 fine or three years jail, or both, on conviction.
The sedition trial before Sessions Court judge Sabariah Othman is set for 4 Nov 2009. — Bernama
Filed Under: News Tagged With: British, Gordon Brown, high court, Hindraf, Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah, N Surendran, P Uthayakumar, sedition, sessions, trial
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by Simon Parkin [Design, Interview, Console/PC, Indie, North America]
September 12, 2008 Page 3 of 6
When you were first designing Braid, did you have a metaphorical meaning in mind that... I guess you didn't want to push it on the player, but wanted to leave enough clues there to find that kind of thing?
JB: I did. Even before I wrote any of the code or anything, I had a full idea for the game. It would've been an okay game, both in terms of gameplay and in what the story was about. Then I started doing that, but even in the first day or two, it changed when I saw how the gameplay was turning out and as I saw how the mood of the game was developing. That kind of changed my idea of the story, and it went in a different direction.
I started the game with some very strong literary influences -- Invisible Cities is a book by Italo Calvino. It's a series of very short, three-to-four page pieces about different fictional cities that have different kinds of reality and different ways that they work.
Then there was another book written by Alan Lightman called Einstein's Dreams. He's a physicist, actually, and he wrote this book which was very much like Invisible Cities, but was about Albert Einstein thinking about... he still hadn't quite figured out relativity, and he was still working as a patent clerk during the day and was very busy, but he would go home and think about how time behaves in the universe. Like Invisible Cities, the way that he was thinking about time was linked to how people are in the universe. Because if the universe is a certain way, it's going to determine what's in it and if people are in that universe, what they're like. That was never quite a satisfying book for me, but it was definitely a strong influence on Braid.
But I wanted to take that and go in a different direction. The initial idea was to do something like that, but with gameplay. Go to different rules, have different rules of time, have that relate to humanity somehow, and just speak to what it means to be in our universe. I didn't know the details. I had ideas for details. Then I started filling in the details and that took the higher level idea further. So the game is still about that, but it has a lot more to it now.
I started out by stylistically imitating Calvino, and I moved away from that as I saw that there were better things for this work. There are a lot of details in the game that I hope that people notice or they at least feel at a subconscious level. There are a lot of things, even in screenshots and stuff on the web, that no one has noticed. I follow forum discussions about the game, and it's cool that nobody's noticing them, because that means that they really are not obvious, and I think once people start discovering those, they'll enjoy the game even more.
I was excited about the game when I started, but what I ended up with was much better than the original idea. I don't think that happens very often in game development. I got lucky there. Usually, you have a great idea for a game, and you can't do all of it. You can maybe do half of it. And it's still kind of cool, but it's not quite what you thought. This is way better than what I had originally written. I don't know if I'm going to be as fortunate in my next project, but I'll take what I can get right now.
You've talked about how when you've got like a gameplay potion that you've made up with those elements, as soon as you drop something else in there, then the meaning and metaphor changes. With Braid, I think I'm right in saying that the time travel came later? That way you could rewind and fast-forward -- was that always there?
JB: That was the very first thing in the game. What happened was I originally had the idea that it would be about time, but I had other ideas about what it would be. The rewind was something I wanted to try.
There was a mailing list discussion with me and a bunch of designer friends about Prince of Persia and Blinx and games like that. It was kind of cool that you could rewind, but they don't use it very well. I've given this thread in lectures before. So that was kind of in the back of my head. "Hey, I want to try out rewind."
But that wasn't even the major idea, since a couple of other games have done rewind, and I wanted to be Mr. Experimental Gameplay Guy. I want to do something totally different that nobody's ever done. So I had some ideas about... there was this idea in quantum mechanics about how time doesn't actually go forward at a small scale. It's called the arrow of time.
It's an obvious fact about our macroscopic world. You can remember the past, but you can't remember the future, and you can't predict the future. But on the quantum mechanic level, that doesn't exist. The rules go the same in both directions. So where does that come from? I wanted to explore the idea of what if that is actually illusionary.
So one of the worlds was going to be trying to conceptualize that somehow. Maybe I go through the level with whatever powers I have -- maybe it's just running and jumping and opening doors -- and then time reverses, and I have to follow the same path in reverse, and I hope that I did something that's actually possible to do in reverse. It can be a puzzle like, "Hey, if I went down somewhere that's too high to jump up again, then it was invalid somehow with the bidirectionality of time." That was one idea that I had.
The other one was, maybe I can do something -- it's a 2D game and has always been conceived as a 2D game -- where you run around a level that gets extruded into 3D. Like, you stack the different frames on top of each other, and you can see a cube from different [angles] and then you can maybe do something with that, to visualize this hyper-gameplay thing.
I tried both of those to various degrees, and other things too. The quantum mechanic thing or the bidirectional time thing, I mean, just on paper really, and I didn't come up with enough compelling... I thought the theme was cool, but the gameplay wasn't living up to it. I didn't see why that would really be compelling. I ended up programming the cube thing later, and it just didn't... that came later, and it was harder to program, after the rest of Braid, and it didn't add enough. It's like, "Okay, I'm rotating this graphical thing and I'm seeing the future and stuff." I was like, "The rest of the game is strong enough. It doesn't need that."
But the rewind was the first thing that I actually programmed. Because I'm the programmer and the designer, this is one of those things that might not happen with a bigger team. As the programmer and the designer, I instantly saw, because of the way I programmed it, that certain things were possible.
All of the ideas were mixed around in my head, and I had the idea without knowing where it came from, which is just, "Oh! I made it so you can rewind, which involves storing all the memory about where everything was in the world somewhere so that the game can go back later and retrieve it. Obviously, I can do that to only some of the objects. I can have some of the objects always go forward in time."
I didn't logically plan that idea out or brainstorm it. It just happened. From there, the rest of the game just exploded. Originally, it was going to just be rewind and a bunch of things unrelated to rewind -- maybe time-related, or universe or quantum mechanic-related things. But from there, as soon as I had that idea, the game was about rewind centrally, and everything else was as minimal possible changes as I could make to that core rewind that would still be very interesting.
There was just no end of ideas from there. It was like, "Oh yeah, I can do that. I can have time tied to your position in space." That idea happened within five minutes of the first one. The other ones came a little later, but right there, that was enough for a full game. I programmed those little levels, and I knew that this was the best game that I've ever been working on.
I don't know if I was just the designer and there was a different programmer if that idea would've happened. This level of idea mixture doesn't happen on a team. It might've happened. I don't mean to say that Braid is somehow a brilliant idea that only I could conceive. Given enough time, all ideas are going to get explored. But I don't know, it might've been a while before anyone made this game otherwise.
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