The Sony Alpha A6000 Digital Camera with 16-70mm Zeiss lens builds upon the success of the NEX-6 and offers the performance and creative options of a full sized DSLR in a compact, ergonomic and stylish body. The A6000 with Sony E lens mount is built around a new 24.3 megapixel APS-C HD CMOS sensor with Fast Hybrid AF tracking system and a powerful BIONZ X image processor, that together ensure detailed image capture for both stills and movies. Users can enjoy stress-free, intuitive operation as they view scenes through the OLED Tru-Finder (with 100% frame coverage), which features a new optical system with four double aspherical lenses for enhanced visibility, a wide viewing angle, high contrast, high resolution and a clear view from corner to corner. Further to the above, the Alpha A6000 also features a built-in flash, multi-interface shoe, a 3.0" 921k-dot tiltable LCD screen and Wi-Fi and NFC functionality to simplify sharing and connectivity with mobile devices.
Get incredible detail and gorgeous enlargements thanks to the newly developed 24.3 megapixel Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor. It has higher resolution than most DSLRs and adopts the same gapless on-chip lens structure as the a7R for ultimate image quality and light sensitivity.
The new BIONZ X image processor faithfully reproduces textures and details in real time via extra high-speed processing capabilities delivering true-to-life images - as seen by the naked eye. It enables greater natural detail, richer tonal gradations, lower noise and more realistic images whether you shoot stills or video.
Capture the perfect moment – the a6000 realises 11 frames per second continuous shooting with AF (Auto Focus) tracking by making the most of the wide-area 179-point phase-detection AF sensor. Even when dealing with a moving subject the a6000's superb moving-subject tracking performance ensures you get the shot during still or video capture.
Despite its small size, the a6000 gives you full DSLR control and immediate access to the functions you need to shoot like a pro. Two dials on top and a rear-mounted control wheel allow quick selection of shooting modes and camera settings. In addition to the Fn button, there's seven customizable buttons, which can be assigned any of 47 functions.
Wi-Fi connectivity allows you to control your camera with your compatible smartphone or tablet and the PlayMemories Camera Apps. Frame your shot on your device's LCD, snap the shutter, and then transfer the images directly to your mobile device for quick editing and uploading. And with NFC (near field communication) technology, connecting has never been easier. Simply tap the camera to an NFC-enabled device, and you're ready to shoot and share without wires or hassles.
With 20% higher sensitivity than the NEX-7 due to the newly developed Exmor CMOS sensor and BIONZ X processor, you get stunning detail in in low light from ISO range 100 – 25000. And for an additional burst of light, the a6000 features a pop-up flash and a standard hot shoe for additional flash accessories.
Capture Full 1920 x 1080 HD uncompressed clean-screen video files with external recording devices via an HDMI connection in 60p and 60i frame rates. Selectable in-camera AVCHD codec frame rates include super-smooth 60p, standard 60i or cinematic 24p, while MP4 codec is also available for smaller files for easier upload to the web.
View every scene in rich detail on the high contrast 1.4M dot Tru-Finder OLED EVF. It delivers 100% frame coverage with an approximately 33° viewing angle for corner-to-corner visibility. Not only that, the viewfinder displays what will appear in your recordings, including the effects of your camera settings so you can fine-tune focus and preview your shots before you take the picture.
Personalize your camera by adding new features of your choice with PlayMemories Camera Apps. Find apps to fit your shooting style from portraits, detailed close-ups, sports, time lapse, motion shot and much more. Use apps that shoot, share and save photos using Wi-Fi that make it easy to control and view your camera from smartphone, and post photos directly to Facebook or backup images to the cloud without connecting to a computer.
Snap shots high over crowds or down low to capture a pet's eye view with the tiltable 3.0" (921k dots) Xtra Fine LCD Display that boasts a range of movement of approximately up 90° and down 45°. Easily scroll through menus and preview life thanks to WhiteMagic technology that dramatically increases visibility in bright daylight. The large display delivers brilliant-quality still images and movies while enabling easy focusing operation.
Enhanced Fast Hybrid auto focus combines speedy phase-detection AF with highly accurate contrast-detection AF, which has been accelerated through a new Spatial Object Detection algorithm, to achieve among the fastest autofocusing performance of any full-frame camera. First, phase-detection AF with 179 densely placed phase-detection AF points swiftly and efficiently moves the lens to bring the subject nearly into focus. Then contrast-detection AF with wide AF coverage fine-tunes the focusing in the blink of an eye.


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Tears Run Rings is an American shoegaze band consisting of singer/bassist Laura Watling, singer/guitarist Matthew Bice, guitarist Ed Mazzucco, guitarist Tim Morris, and drummer Dwayne Palasek. They have released three albums.

History
Ed Mazzucco, Laura Watling, Tim Morris, and Dwayne Palasek have been collaborating various incarnations since the mid-90s. In 2007 they released their first EP as Tears Run Rings called "A Question and an Answer". They later teamed up with Matthew Bice of Shelflife Records to produce a full-length album entitled Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never, which was released on Florida's Clairecords in April 2008. The album was well-reviewed (4/5 stars) and drew strong comparisons to shoegaze bands of 20 years earlier: "may be a dead ringer for Slowdive, right down to their torrents of cascading, distorted, and delayed guitars and ubiquitous male-female cooing, with slight seasonings of Moose, Chapterhouse, and Kitchens of Distinction".

Their second album entitled Distance was released in 2010. A third album was released in 2016, entitled In Surges. In December 2016, American webzine Somewherecold ranked In Surges No. 8 on their Somewherecold Awards 2016 list. In 2018, Tears Run Rings contributed an exclusive song to the Somewherecold Records Various Artists compilation Resistance: In Support of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

References

External links
 Tears Run Rings official website

Musical groups established in 2006
Dream pop musical groups
American shoegaze musical groups
Alternative rock groups from California
Alternative rock groups from Oregon
Somewherecold Records artists

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Q: iOS JavaScript Video - webkitCancelFullScreen(); does not work I'm trying to exit full screen after playing a video in Xcode simulator through web view from html page using JavaScript but it does not work.
I'm using below code
<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<script type="text/javascript">

    function finishVideo() {

       var myVideo = document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0];

        myVideo.webkitCancelFullScreen();

    }

    // add listener function to ended event -->

    function myAddListener(){

    var myVideo = document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0];

    myVideo.addEventListener('ended',finishVideo,false);

    }

  </script>

 </head>

<body onLoad="myAddListener()">

  <video controls

  src="http://homepage.mac.com/qt4web/A-chord.m4v">

   </video>

</body>

</html>

A: try:
document.webkitCancelFullScreen();

instead of:
myVideo.webkitCancelFullScreen();

this works for me...

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"The actors are all chiefs of their craft. It is a delight to watch every single cast member in action—not one is a disappointment .Watching Greenberg and Wirth argue like cats and dogs is a treat."
"Kimberly Faye Greenberg plays a very convincing antagonist in the role of Lilian Hellman."
"Kimberly Faye Greenberg who delivers some of the best lines and even looks a little like Hellman.."
"The actresses make an unusually strong and convincing ensemble."
"Three cheers for the seven ladies who give first rate performances: Kimberly Faye Greenberg, the now and future Fanny Brice, as the bossy, bitchy Lillian Hellman..."
" Astute casting brings out differentiated characters with distinct voices and commendable acting... Greenberg is suitably obnoxious as Lillian."
"Each actress brings an honesty, vulnerability and chemistry to their role that makes you want to know more."
"Each actress brings her own strengths and vulnerabilities to her role, showing that there is more to the caricatures we normally see of these famous women. Kimbery Faye Greenberg nails Hellman's no-nonsense disposition, and proves to be a perfect sparring partner for Gertrude Stein."


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ABOUT Ayesha
Research links:
✉ a.tulloch [at] uq.edu.au
Ayesha is a conservation biologist with a passion for the ecology of birds and mammals, who began her career in Australia working with the National Parks and Wildlife Service in Royal National Park, New South Wales, to measure the response of small mammals including the threatened eastern pygmy possum to the devastating bushfires of 2001. She spent several years working as a zookeeper then as a landscape restoration project manager for the non-government organisation Greening Australia.
Ayesha returned to academia in 2009 to complete a PhD with Prof Hugh Possingham and Dr Kerrie Wilson at the University of Queensland's School of Biological Sciences, focussing on cost-effective and efficient resource allocation and decision-making processes for monitoring and management of threats to biodiversity. She then took up a one-year research fellow position with the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, exploring ways to account for uncertainty and risk in conservation planning and monitoring decisions.
In 2013 Ayesha joined Dr Jonathan Rhodes at the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management as a National Environmental Research Program (NERP) research fellow, to deliver a project in collaboration with the Australian Department of the Environment, the South Australian Government, and Dr Ascelin Gordon at RMIT University, investigating cumulative impacts of threatening processes on species in the arid zone of South Australia. She developed a new frameword for strategic assessment of infrastructure development scenarios on threatened species.
In 2014 Ayesha started as a research fellow with Prof David Lindenmayer in the Fenner School at ANU. She is working on understanding variability in species responses to threat management actions to inform better conservation decisions, with a particular focus on teasing apart bottom-up versus top-down effects.
Ayesha's long-time interest in learning about birds and how best to mitigate their threatening processes has led to her involvement with ongoing citizen science programs such as Eremaea eBird, an online bird survey database, and with BirdLife Australia's State of Australia's Birds report.
Ayesha is currently working with the Wildlife Conservation Society on land use planning to protect human livelihoods and biodiversity in the Congo Basin and Madagascar. This project integrates mapping of anthropogenic processes such as timber harvesting and bushmeat hunting with priorities for carbon storage, human subsistence and biodiversity conservation, and forecasts likely scenarios of declines in biodiversity under future scenarios of human land use.
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Home News & Events Media Releases New access to low-interest loans for councils – a win for regional Victoria
New access to low-interest loans for councils – a win for regional Victoria
Wednesday 4 September 2019
Regional Cities Victoria has welcomed the Victorian Government's announcement that it will provide Councils access to $100 million at low-interest rates to help build vital community infrastructure.
Regional Cities Victoria comprises the 10 largest regional cities in Victoria – Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Horsham, Latrobe, Mildura, Shepparton, Wangaratta, Warrnambool and Wodonga – which more than 600,000 people call home.
Chair of Regional Cities Victoria, Cr Margaret O'Rourke, said the Community Infrastructure Loans Scheme will encourage more investment in local infrastructure projects.
"Access to low-cost finance will support a growing Victoria. This is a massive win – and a huge opportunity – for the regions," Cr O'Rourke said.
"Being able to borrow funds at lower rates means Councils will pay less interest. It means we will be able to build more infrastructure, programs and services that our communities want and need – more airports, more community centres, more public libraries."
Under the scheme, Councils will be able to borrow between $500,000 and $10 million at lower interest rates from a $100 million fund over the next year for community infrastructure projects. Individual Councils will be able to apply for one or more loans, up to a total of $10 million.
Cr O'Rourke said RCV had called for improved finance options for local government in its latest advocacy platform, Investing for Growth in Regional Victoria, which outlines its key priorities for the regions for 2019-2022.
"Our communities already enjoy a high standard of living – and with initiatives like this that encourage and enable regional investment, we can make sure we keep it that way," Cr O'Rourke said.
Media contact: Nadia Wu – 0418 355 982


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Foreign Secretary meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing
Published Date : 4 July, 2016 9:56 pm
KATHMANDU, July 4 (Nepal Foreign Affairs)–Foreign Secretary Shanker Das Bairagi held a bilateral meeting with Chinese Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Kong Xuanyou, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Beijing Monday afternoon.
During the meeting, both sides extensively discussed matters of bilateral relations with particular focus on status of implementation of various agreements and understanding reached during the official visit of Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli to China in March this year, the Nepalese Embassy in Beijing stated in a press release.
Both sides underlined the importance of having high level exchanges to enrich the substance of bilateral relations. Substantive views were also exchanged on further promoting cooperation on trade, investment, tourism and people to people contact, connectivity and infrastructure development for mutual benefit of both countries.
The progress made in post-disaster reconstruction in Nepal also figured during the meeting. The two sides reviewed cooperation between the two countries on regional and global issues of mutual concerns.
Following the meeting, Kong hosted a dinner in honour of the visiting Foreign Secretary and his delegation.
Foreign Secretary paid a courtesy call on Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Wang Yi at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The discussion covered the major aspects of Nepal-China relations and ways for further strengthening them, the embassy said.
"China desires to see a peaceful, stable and prosperous Nepal," the Foreign Minister said. Foreign Secretary had conveyed sincere thanks for China's continued support in Nepal's development endeavors.
Joint Secretary Jhabindra Prasad Aryal, Head of North East Division in the Ministery of Foreign Affairs, Binod Bahadur Kunwar, Joint Secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, Charge-d-affaires a.i. in the Embassy of Nepal Nirmal Raj Kafle, Binod Acharya, Minister (Economic), Harishchandra Ghimire, Minister Counsellor, Sabitra Oli, Second Secretary and Suvanga Parajuli, Section Officer were present on all occasions.


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BlogHer is a venture funded online publishing network for women and has grown to more than 40 employees, and they're looking to add to that number.
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Yesterday we took a look at a performance marketing firm called Prospectiv that specializes in helping brands reach women online. Today we're going to continue with the female focus and take a look at BlogHer, a Belmont, CA based community and media company for women. In fact, they're the "largest community of women who blog" with more than 23 million unique visitors per month. The company was founded in 2005, and since then its vision has been to "create opportunities for women who blog to gain exposure, education, community and economic empowerment." Believe it or not, blogging is a big business, and BlogHer is leveraging the size of its community to create amazing opportunities for all of its members.
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There are a number of pieces that make up the BlogHer business. One of the big pieces is their conference business which brings together the BlogHer community in real life. In fact, they put on the world's largest conference for women in social media. In addition to the conferences, BlogHer also runs BlogHer.com, a content site, and the BlogHer Publishing Network, which is made up of 2,500 blogs. All of this adds up to a lot of pull with advertisers who want to reach women, which is why BlogHer is venture funded and has grown to more than 40 employees. They're adding to that number, and you can learn more about those opportunities on BlogHer's Jobs page. Right now they're looking for a hybrid Sales Operations Analyst/Sales Planner in their New York City office. It's a contract position, and it does require some prior experience, but it looks like it could be a great fit for a new or recent grad.
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Lukashenko: Ukraine offered Belarus a Non-Aggression Pact
Ukraine | January 24, 2023, Tuesday // 16:18| views
Alexander Lukashenko
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said that Ukraine has offered Minsk a non-aggression pact, reported the BeLTa state news agency reported, as quoted by Reuters.
Lukashenko shared the alleged proposal at a meeting of government and law enforcement officials, where he also accused the West of arming militants in Ukraine who could potentially destabilize the situation in Belarus.
According to BeLTa agency, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that Ukraine has proposed to sign a neutrality pact between the two countries, while noting that Kyiv continues to train "militants and extremists".
"I don't know why the Ukrainians are doing this. On the one hand, they are asking us not to go to war with Ukraine in any way, so that our troops do not move there. They suggest that we sign a non-aggression pact," Lukashenko said at a meeting on the socio-political situation and the state of crime in the country, according to the Belarusian state agency.
However, he has stressed that all internal threats to the country will be dealt with "severely", saying that all extremists "have been warned".
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What the 21st Century office of the future looked like in the 1960s
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Furniture, Technology, Workplace design
We're used to hearing people predict what The Office of the Future will look like. It's been going on for a very long time now and each new generation of commentators on the subject comes up with its own forms of wishful thinking, wild generalisations, distorted conclusions and failures to account for the inherent unknowability of future disruptive technology. The best way of reminding ourselves of these pitfalls is not to look forward, but back. Only then can we see how an image can be refracted and make allowances.
In the following broadcast from 1967, legendary US newsman Walter Cronkite reports on how people saw the future of work and technology. While some of it was prescient, some of it was inevitably wide of the mark, not least by actually underplaying the impact of technology. Cronkite was not alone in envisioning the future of work, of course.
Two years later the BBC was to get things hopelessly wrong, not only with its tired, morose existentialism, but also with its vision of a future which was clearly just a slightly mechanised plasticky version of the present. That's often the problem with futurology. It tells you more about the time in which people are making their predictions than any real vision of what is to come. This is just as true for visions of the office of the future as any other domain of forecasting.
The Beeb didn't always get things so badly wrong, especially when they left things for more sober scientists to explore. Some people accurately foresaw the virtualisation of work, flexible working and the erosion of the workplace over 50 years ago. Scientist and author Arthur C Clarke appeared on the BBC's Horizon programme in 1964 to apply his foresight and clipped vowels to the question of what future technological advances would mean for the way we work and the makeup of the world's cities in the 21st Century. More self-aware than others, he is also absolutely correct in his vision in some ways and way off in others, even allowing for his talk of 'transistors' rather than microchips.
Main image: David Dixon
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import * as React from 'react';
import {OutputFile, State} from '../../state';
import {connect, Dispatch} from 'react-redux';
import * as selector from '../../selectors';
import {SelectComponent} from '../common/SelectComponent';
import {Button} from '@blueprintjs/core';
import * as path from 'path';
import {
    generateAndRunCompareOutputs,
    generateAndRunInspectOutput,
    launchNotebook,
    updateSelectedNotebook
} from '../../actions';

interface IAnalysisPanel {
    dispatch?: Dispatch<State>;
    notebookFileNames?: string[];
    selectedNotebookFileName?: string;
    selectedOutputFiles?: OutputFile[];
    outputDirectory?: string;
    currentWorkspaceDirectory?: string;
}

function mapStateToProps(state: State): IAnalysisPanel {
    return {
        notebookFileNames: selector.getNotebookFileNames(state),
        selectedOutputFiles: state.control.selectedOutputFiles,
        outputDirectory: selector.getOutputDirectory(state),
        selectedNotebookFileName: state.control.selectedNotebookFileName,
        currentWorkspaceDirectory: selector.getWorkspaceDirectory(state)
    }
}

class AnalysisPanel extends React.Component<IAnalysisPanel, any> {
    private constructOutputFilePath(outputFile: OutputFile) {
        return path.join(this.props.currentWorkspaceDirectory,
                         'configs', outputFile.config,
                         'outputs', outputFile.name);
    }

    private handleInspectOutput = () => {
        const outputFilePath = this.constructOutputFilePath(this.props.selectedOutputFiles[0]);
        this.props.dispatch(generateAndRunInspectOutput(outputFilePath));
    };

    private handleCompareOutputs = () => {
        if (!this.props.selectedOutputFiles || this.props.selectedOutputFiles.length < 2) {
            this.setState({
                              isOutputFileNotSelectedAlertOpen: true
                          })
        } else {
            this.props.dispatch(generateAndRunCompareOutputs(
                this.constructOutputFilePath(this.props.selectedOutputFiles[0]),
                this.constructOutputFilePath(this.props.selectedOutputFiles[1])
            ));
        }
    };

    private handleOnChangeNotebookName = (event: React.FormEvent<HTMLSelectElement>) => {
        this.props.dispatch(updateSelectedNotebook(event.currentTarget.value));
    };

    private handleLaunchNotebook = () => {
        this.props.dispatch(launchNotebook(this.props.selectedNotebookFileName));
    };

    render() {
        return (

Inspect output

                    Select an output file to generate and initialise a Jupyter Notebook to inspect this file.

Only available when one output file is selected.

                    <Button iconName="pt-icon-search"
                            className="pt-intent-primary"
                            onClick={this.handleInspectOutput}
                            disabled={!this.props.selectedOutputFiles || this.props.selectedOutputFiles.length != 1}
                    >
                        Inspect
                    </Button>

Compare outputs

                        Select two output files to generate and initialise a Jupyter Notebook to compare the results
                        between
                        these two files.

Only available when two output files are selected.

                    <Button iconName="pt-icon-comparison"
                            className="pt-intent-primary"
                            onClick={this.handleCompareOutputs}
                            disabled={!this.props.selectedOutputFiles || this.props.selectedOutputFiles.length != 2}
                    >
                        Compare
                    </Button>

Launch notebook

                        Select a generated notebook file from the dropdown list below and then click the Launch notebook
                        button.
                        A Jupyter Notebook server will be started with the selected notebook file.
                        If no notebook files are available, create one by running Inspect output or
                        Compare outputs above.

                        <SelectComponent items={this.props.notebookFileNames}
                                         fill={true}
                                         defaultValue="Select a notebook file..."
                                         selectedItem={this.props.selectedNotebookFileName}
                                         onChange={this.handleOnChangeNotebookName}
                        />

                        <Button className="pt-button pt-intent-primary"
                                style={{margin: '10px 0'}}
                                iconName='pt-icon-play'
                                onClick={this.handleLaunchNotebook}
                                disabled={!this.props.selectedNotebookFileName}
                        >
                            Launch notebook
                        </Button>

        )
    }
}

export default connect(mapStateToProps)(AnalysisPanel);

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package com.touwolf.mailchimp.data;

import java.util.List;

public class MailchimpErrors {
    private String type;

    private String title;

    private Integer status;

    private String detail;

    private String instance;

    private List<MailchimpDetailErrors> errors;

    /**
     * An absolute URI that identifies the problem type.
     * When dereferenced, it should provide human-readable documentation for the problem type.
     */
    public String getType() {
        return type;
    }

    public void setType(String type) {
        this.type = type;
    }

    /**
     * A short, human-readable summary of the problem type.
     * It shouldn't change based on the occurrence of the problem, except for purposes of localization.
     */
    public String getTitle() {
        return title;
    }

    public void setTitle(String title) {
        this.title = title;
    }

    /**
     * The HTTP status code (RFC2616, Section 6) generated by the origin server for this occurrence of the problem.
     */
    public Integer getStatus() {
        return status;
    }

    public void setStatus(Integer status) {
        this.status = status;
    }

    /**
     * A human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the problem. Learn more about errors.
     */
    public String getDetail() {
        return detail;
    }

    public void setDetail(String detail) {
        this.detail = detail;
    }

    /**
     * A string that identifies this specific occurrence of the problem. Please provide this ID when contacting support.
     */
    public String getInstance() {
        return instance;
    }

    public void setInstance(String instance) {
        this.instance = instance;
    }

    public List<MailchimpDetailErrors> getErrors() {
        return errors;
    }

    public void setErrors(List<MailchimpDetailErrors> errors) {
        this.errors = errors;
    }
}


5 Romantic Movies to watch this Valentine's!
Valentine's Day has become a popular day to celebrate, express, enjoy amorous interludes, poetry, parties and everything that makes you feel mushy on the inside. Well, not that this is the only day to do so. Popular culture and recent times have added to the enthusiasm and charm of this day turning it into a celebration and even a sought-after holiday the world over.
So whether you're single, with someone, committed, enjoying a courtship, married or just together – here are 5 romantic films that are sweet, spicy, saccharine, and everything in between to give you a new perspective on love and all its wonderful dimensions.
An offbeat film that stole all hearts at coveted movie festivals around the world, The Lunchbox is an Indian art film about finding love in the most unexpected places and moments. Its perhaps the only film where the couple never really meet face to face or even straightforwardly confess their feelings!! All that they know of each other are the raw, honest, sentimental words they exchange through letters lovingly sent in a lunchbox. Set against the busy backdrop of Mumbai city's cosmopolitan life & work culture, this film will make you laugh through your tears. Exceptionally well-crafted, watch out for the non-verbal cues of the actors, the intuitive camera-work and also the renowned dabbawallas who unknowingly played cupid. The end stays with you as it really makes you wonder about all things serendipity.
An anthology of love triangles & affairs of a close group of friends & colleagues, He's Just Not That Into You is like a mirror into relationships. You're sure to see yourself, a friend or family member in each of its characters as they go through a roller-coaster of emotions and experiences. At times happy, sad, funny or tragic – each frame captures a hue of love's multi-dimensional canvas. Watch it till the credits roll out to perhaps realise – love is so much more than the limited definition we're trying to give it. Maybe its about finding your self & purpose, about pursuing a passion, about letting go, giving second chances and also accepting unexpected surprises. The commentary of the side-kicks in-between adds to the realistic feel of the film and gives you fresh & humorous perspectives on family, friendship and more.
Charles Schulz's treasury of comic strips comes alive in Snoopy & Charlie Brown – The Peanuts Movie. The globally loved characters come alive on celluloid – Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock & gang, Sally, Lucy, Schroeder, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Marcie & Pigpen. The plot revolves around Charlie Brown's multiple attempts to win over the attention and make a good impression on the Little Red-haired Girl who's new in school. The humourous quality of the comic is well-captured in the film and makes you nostalgic about childhood. Certain scenes make you laugh out loud even as you root for Charlie to accomplish … something! By the time it ends, you are left with the renewed hope and optimism that nice people do end up first and that Love is also in the sweetness of innocence & friendship.
An off-beat story of two strangers who meet on a train whilst on a trip in Europe, Before Sunrise is both stimulating & sensual. The spontaneous chemistry between the leads and the naturalness of the locales is the highlight of the film. The conversations between the characters, the way their friendship & love blossoms, the world passing by, the exotic strangers they meet – all add up to the whimsical vibe of the story. Watch the Sequel 'Before Sunset' to see how the story evolves and how life mysteriously unfolds for the couple. The ending of the sequel is open-ended and is sure to keep you guessing — what happened next?
Wishing you a very Happy Valentine's day and a fun movie marathon!
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NATHANIEL P. HITT, a fisheries biologist, on religion's role in addressing climate change.
How many ways does a biologist manage to get THIS wrong? I am going to point to just two.
Climate change is nothing but a question of the continued survival of the human species – as well as a few thousand other species we'll likely take down with us. Do you need an appeal to extra-scientific concepts of morality for this? Do you think there's a difficult philosophical debate here? Hmmm… should we choose a course that allows our species to continue to exist longer than two or three more generations?
If that question is your struggle how do you possibly think religion will help with it? Name one moral question religion has ever gotten right. Slavery? Nope. Treating women as if they were human? Nope. But a Pope gets on the bandwagon thirty years too late and everyone swoons.
That's not dealing with the question. That's abdicating it to "the mystery of the universe." To me the greatest mystery of the universe is this: Year after year, these fuzz-brained faith-based lunatics, who obviously don't give a damn about evidence as a way to answer important questions, get awarded science degrees. How do they continue to fake it long enough to pull that off?
And if you think I am being harsh on Hitt and the quote might be taken out of context, the full article is much, much worse. It's as if a NY Times editor said, You know what this major USA newspaper really needs? An article sucking up to Christianity! Yeah, baby! That's courage! Oh, Pulitzer committee….
Religious freedom: Only for privileged religions, if you follow the Christian conservative rhetoric in the USA. Here, the privileged religion is Christianity. Over in most of the Middle East, it's Islam.
They have more in common than you'd think, and could benefit well from comparing notes. Here's America's Best Christian, Mrs. Betty Bowers, with a summary.
These are the kinds of stories that you read or hear and then you never really seem to feel like putting in the effort to verify. They may be short on specifics or they may cite the teller's friend, or friend's cousin. They may be very specific and quote the police chief of a certain town in California. When told on the East Coast. Or Massachusetts when told out west.
I think these stories tend to be at their strongest when they reinforce fears we already have. Gang initiation rites spun out of thin air because of some driver randomly clicking his brights. Or spiders spilling out of cacti because… Ewww! Spiders!
If you see a story that gives you that little chill of fear you just felt reading "Spiders!" and it manages not to cite a source you're familiar with, then please o please! Before resharing or retweeting or reposting or even Liking, please do a quick search for it on www.snopes.com . You too can be that guy.


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In looking through the full list of NAMM TEC Awards, we couldn't help noticing that a significant number are partner brands that support us here at Production Expert to enable us to deliver so much of what we do here free for you to use. So we wanted to say thank you to Audio Technica, Avid, EastWest, Eventide, iZotope, JBL, Neumann, PreSonus and Universal Audio for all they do to help us help you.
Here is the list with a summary of each of the winning products with links to learn more about each winning products from our partner brands.
Computer Audio Hardware - Universal Audio Arrow. Much like its slightly bigger brother the Twin, Arrow features two Unison mic preamps allowing real-time processing of your microphone or instrument input with fantastic sounding Universal Audio conversion. This portable 2 in 4 out bus-powered Thunderbolt 3 audio interface ships with a generous collection of UAD plug-ins in the form of the Realtime Analog Classics bundle to record album-quality vocals, guitars and more at near-zero latency with the built-in SOLO core UAD-2 DSP processor.
Microphones – Recording - Neumann U 67. These mics are very popular and we have had trouble in getting one to try, but with some help from our friends at Blackbird we were able to compare the Neumann U67 Reissue against the TLM107 as Mono overhead mics and ask, how much difference does a tube and a transformer make to the sound?
Musical Instrument Amplification & Effects - Universal Audio OX Amp Top Box. First of all, OX is a reactive load box. In short, this means that you can run your super loud 100-watt guitar amp at full tilt to get all that lovely tone without causing you to go deaf or your bandmates wanting to kill you. The second trick OX has up its electronic sleeve is as a speaker, microphone, emulator and effects unit. You can choose to turn off your real-world speaker cabinet and play through dozens of different cabinets, be those 1x10, 2x12, 4x12 the list goes on. Couple that with 2 microphones per "Rig" then add room mics and master effects and you have thousands of amazing sounding tone options for every style of music.
Musical Instrument Software - EastWest Sounds Hollywood Choirs is a sample library of beautifully recorded choirs in virtual instrument form from Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix who have produced some of the most popular sample libraries for the EastWest collection. Featuring blockbuster female and male choir with unprecedented dynamics that will instantly transform your next project into a cinematic masterpiece.
Production Essentials - PreSonus FaderPort 16. This Mix Production Controller connects via USB 2.0 to provide precise tactile control over your favorite DAW's mix and automation functions, including complete transport control. The new control surface offers full level, solo, and mute control over 16 channels at once, with 16 touch-sensitive, motorized, 100mm faders, and 89 buttons covering 102 different functions. Quickly zoom in on audio files for editing, adjust a click-track tempo with a simple tap, modify plug-in parameters, manage aux mixes—and, of course, control track levels with the touch of a finger.
Signal Processing Hardware - Eventide H9000. This is a powerhouse featuring x8 the processing power compared to the current Eventide H8000. It also feature MADI, Dante, Ravenna connectivity. The H9000 comes loaded with 1600 unique algorithms from recreations of beloved classics to Eventide's latest and greatest effects. The H9000's quad-core ARM processors reside on four upgradeable modules. In the future, as new, more powerful ARM chips become available, the H9000's DSP modules can be upgraded. The H9000's remote control application called emote will enable users working 'in the box' or over an audio network to control the H9000. emote is a standalone app for Mac and PC, and as an AU, VST, and Pro Tools AAX plug-in.
Signal Processing Software (Dynamics/EQ /Utilities) - iZotope Ozone 8 Mastering Suite. With the Advanced version of Ozone 8 iZotope have added a ground-breaking technology, including the ability to communicate with each other through the new Tonal Balance Control plug-in. This new level of inter-plug-in communication is designed to put more power in users' hands, allowing you to produce tonally balanced, professional mixes and masters that sound great in any listening environment. Ozone 8 now features machine learning technology with the introduction of Master Assistant, allowing you to reach an optimal starting point for your master in seconds. Version 8 also includes Track Referencing, a Spectral Shaper to tame problematic frequencies, improved signal processing, and refinements to the user interface and workflow.
Studio Monitors - JBL 3 Series MkII. First impressions are very good indeed, there is a pleasing impression of detail at the top end and an impressive amount of genuinely deep bass from this medium sized two way design. Listening through some well known references confirmed that, as promised, the sweet spot was wide and even. The 306 is lighter than I expected, probably due to the use of class D amplifiers in a not too heavily built wooden cabinet. They are bi-amplified with two 56W amps each. The gloss black baffle, while striking might not be to everyone's taste. The bass/mid driver is a 6.5" long throw driver which, in this generously sized rear ported cabinet, is good down to 47Hz (-3dB). The soft dome tweeter is surrounded by the large, visually striking Image Control Waveguide and between the two there is a silver JBL logo which contains a white LED power indicator.
Workstation Technology/Recording Devices - Avid Pro Tools Ultimate. Pro Tools Ultimate is the new name for what until recently was always known as Pro Tools HD Software. Until Pro Tools 12.6, Pro Tools HD software was only available as part of a bundle comprising of the Pro Tools cards that went in your computer, the Pro Tools HD software and the Pro Tools HD interface which connected to the card via a DigiLink cable. From Pro Tools 12.6, it is possible to buy each of the elements, an HDX card, and HD Native unit and the Pro Tools HD software now called Pro Tools Ultimate separately as well as bundles in different combinations. Check out our article Pro Tools FAQs - How Much Does It Cost To Buy Pro Tools?
These are the features that come with owning Pro Tools Ultimate software that don't depend on having Pro Tools HD Native or HDX hardware. Check out or article Pro Tools HD Native And HDX Hardware - Do We Still Need Them? to see which features are tied to the hardware and which come with the Pro Tools Ultimate Standalone software.


Halloween derives from the ancient festival of Samhain. Samhain was one of the main ancient Irish festivals that marked the beginning of winter and of the dark half of the new year.
In 1066 the Irish annalists recorded a precisely dated observation of Halley's Comet.
The festival of Beltaine (also known as Lá Bealtaine, Beltany, Bealltainn, Beltain, Beltaine, Boaltinn, Boaldyn, Belotenia and G?yl Galan Mai) celebrated on May Day the 1st of May marks the beginning of summer in the ancient Celtic calendar. A ceremonial site associated with Beltaine is the great stone circle at Beltany, Co. Donegal.
In 1892 a pair of House-shaped Shrines were hooked by a fisherman in Lough Erne.
One of the earliest surviving metalwork images of St. Patrick is on the cover of the Domhnach Airgid.
The Irish word dún refers to a fort or a King's residence.
Bally is the anglicised version of the Irish word baile.
Although Ferns, Co. Wexford was the site of a Cathedral from the early twelfth century the religious use of the site is much older.
The Tamlaght, Co. Armagh hoard opens a window into Ireland's network of European-wide trade relations in the Late Bronze Age.
On Good Friday the 23 April 1014 the High King of Ireland Brian Bóruma defeated the Dublin Vikings and their allies at the battle of Clontarf but was killed in the battle.
The Faddan More Psalter was spotted during mechanical peat cutting in a bog by a sharp-eyed machine operator in July 2006.
Músaem Chorca Dhuibhne is situated in Baile an Fheirtéaraigh (Ballyferriter), 13 km (8 miles) west of Dingle, in the West Kerry Gaeltacht.
The death and burial of St. Patrick.
A crannóg is an artificial or partly artificial island built in a lake.
A common institution in medieval Ireland was fosterage.
Clonony Castle, Co. Offaly, Near Shannonbridge.


POST MORTEM COMMENTS FROM TAYLOR MALI: "Maybe because this was the first pairing of the new season after a long summer? Or maybe because I was part of the lineup and I twisted the arms of all my family & friends all summer long to attend? Or maybe because my partner Faith Shearin was and is amazing? Or maybe because of all of the above, but we broke some records at Page Meets Stage last Wednesday! Faith and I had met the previous day when i took her with me to read poetry to some old folks on the Upper East Side, and over lunch we had pretty much planned out our entire set, poem for poem. I've been doing this long enough that I know each poet only gets to do six or seven poems in the fist "half" and four in the second (one of which SHOULD be a poem by the other poet!). We both did poems about storing things, and all of our poems were, as Faith likes to say, ABOUT things. We don't write pretty about otherness." Guest host and former curator Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz did an amazing job keeping the night moving and asking good questions ("What do people SAY about your work and what do you WISH people would say about your work?"). Here is the video I made of me reading Shearin's poem "Shackleton's Decision." I lay awake at night thinking of how I would do it, figuring I would just film myself talking about how awesome she is and then read the poem. How boring would that have been? Then it occurred to me that I could easily find archival photos of Shackleton and his ill-fated expedition on the internet and produce a narrated slideshow instead! Spent a day in June creating this. Click here.
FAITH SHEARIN is the author of three books of poetry and has been read aloud by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac.


Three people were killed in a single-vehicle crash early last Wednesday morning in Las Colinas, Texas. The accident is believed by the Irving police department, who is heading up the investigation into the crash, to be alcohol related. According to NBC 5 News, if alcohol is to blame, the bars that over served the driver could be held responsible for the accident.
The night started as a young couple from Austin, Texas, went to a Dallas Stars hockey game. After the game, they went to the Hilton Hotel bar, where they met a 41-year-old local attorney.
The attorney was in the midst of a divorce from his wife and had been living in the hotel.
The group got acquainted and by 1:00 AM, all three were seen leaving the Hilton in the attorney's Porsche sedan. They soon arrived at a local gentleman's club, where the driver was served one final drink. The group left by 2:45AM.
Ten minutes later, a neighbor reported hearing a sound similar to "a dumpster being smashed." Investigators determined that speed was a contributing factor to the Porsche leaving the road and crashing into a canal.
Investigators say toxicology reports will take approximately eight to ten weeks to complete. They say if the driver was over served, the bars and bartenders may be haled accountable for the accident.
The Texas auto accident attorneys with Ferrer, Poirot & Wansbrough ask that motorists watch their speed and refrain from drinking if you are going to get behind the wheel.


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Rowan, Thanks! I wanted to say there is one special song is played every day, of course they have other songs are played in the radio.
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To unify Impressionism throughout the Missouri River Valley region by connecting artists who are consistent in their pursuit of the rural, urban, and historic beauty of our unique geography, while embracing the various approaches unique to each artist in this representation of beauty and truth.
Artists who are currently 2019 MVIS members are allowed to submit pieces for this show. To become a member and become eligible, please visit and complete our Membership requirements located on the Join page. Membership is open nationwide.
MVIS directors are ineligible to receive any awards.
All work must be matted and framed, and wired for hanging: clip frames will not be accepted. Plexiglass is required on all shipped work. Eligible work includes paintings and pastels of representational art. No sculpture, drawing, illustrations, photography, video, film, installations, computer generated art or giclées are accepted. Original Art Only. 2-D work may not exceed 10 feet in height and 10 feet in width including the frame. Works on paper must be framed in glass or plexiglass. Any piece juried into any of the 2012 -2018 MVIS Shows are ineligible in this and future MVIS shows.
Three (3) digital images in jpg format may be submitted at a submission fee of $35. Only paid 2019 MVIS members are eligible. Incomplete entries will not be accepted.
Digital images shall be named with last name, first initial, and then title as in this example: DoeJ_PrairieMeadow.jpg.
A 30% commission will be retained on any sold work. All work must be for sale—no NFS or POR. All sold artwork must remain in exhibition until the conclusion of the show.
All shipped works need to come to: Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art, 2818 Frederick Avenue, St. Joseph, MO 64506, (816) 233-7003. All should have a return call tag with them in case they do not sell. They need to be received the week of Sept 2, 2019. Shipped work can not come in wooden crates or use packing peanuts. All shipped work must arrive in a reusable container and include a prepaid computer-generated UPS or FEDEX return shipping label. No U.S. Postal Service returns. Do not send stamps, cash or credit card information for return of work.
Artists are responsible for insuring their own work prior to and after the exhibit and while in transport.
ABSOLUTELY NO PACKING PEANUTS PLEASE.
All shipments MUST BE sent "SIGNATURE REQUIRED" in order to be safely received by the AKMA.
AKMA and MVIS ARE NOT responsible for any lost packages left with no signature required.
Shipments that appear to have major damage upon receipt will not be opened and the artist will be contacted immediately to assist in assessing the damage and determining how to proceed.
The artist will also be contacted immediately if any major damage is discovered once a painting is unpacked.
Minor scuffs and scratches to frames as well as typical wear and tear will not be considered "damage" and will be deemed acceptable at the discretion of AKMA.
If shipping, please email the tracking info beforehand to mbenitz@albrecht-kemper.org.
Artists may also arrange for other individuals to deliver/pickup their works but they must contact AKMA beforehand.
All unsold work will be returned via shipment or local pickup, just as it was received.
Paintings being returned via shipment will be packed and returned in the same packing materials they arrived in.
The artist is responsible for arranging the return shipment of their painting(s).
Pre-paid return labels may be enclosed in the original shipment or emailed to AKMA once the show has ended.
Return shipment will be around Nov 18, 2019.
Any work being picked up locally must be picked up on Nov 3rd or Nov 4, 2019.
Nov 18 - AKMA will ship back work.


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The Action Elite - Karate Kill Review
By Kirk Geiger on Jun 09, 2017 at 12:18 AM in Karate Kill, Kirk Geiger's Press
Reviewed by: Eoin Friel
3.5 / 5 - High Octane!
Plot: When a mysterious loner and Karate master Kenji's little sister goes missing in Los Angeles, whoever stands in his way of finding her will face the wrath of a lethal KARATE KILL!
Review: All Hail Capital Messiah! Kurando Mitsutake's latest movie Karate Kill is in the vein of 70's/80's exploitation movies with the right amount of humour, strangeness and graphic violence. There isn't anything particularly offensive or shocking about the movie as it's really just over the top, cartoon bloodshed but it is occasionally disturbing and mostly just a lot of fun.
As with many of the 70's/80's exploitation flicks some of the acting isn't the greatest but that's really what adds to the film's entertainment factor.
Our hero Kenji (Hayate) is a new badass on the block with an impressive set of skills providing us with some massively entertaining fight scenes. He doesn't say much and lets his fists and feet do the talking and that's just fine by me. I can't wait to see what he does next and I hope he becomes a big star.
Mitsutake makes the best of his low budget and even gives us plenty of blood squibs and I can confirm that a lot of blood is indeed shed in this movie but more importantly there's nudity galore too which is always welcome. There is the odd bit of CG but for the most part it's practical FX all the way.
There isn't all that much to the story and frankly there doesn't need to be; it's all just an excuse for Kenji to bring the pain to anyone who gets in his way and reminds me of some Sonny Chiba style movies. It's got a bonkers tone to it all and a suitably deranged villain who is unpredictable and pretty nasty.
It's never dull with action and violence galore keeping the pacing tight and interesting.
Overall, Karate Kill is the best kind of blood-soaked mayhem with a new star in Hayate and lots of limb snapping goodness. If you're a fan of 70's/80's exploitation martial arts movies then you'll have a blast.
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With all the new products on your grocer's shelves, it can be difficult to decide which items to buy. Every week, while clipping grocery coupons, you will be introduced to the latest, greatest food creation. While reading magazines and newspapers you see countless advertisements for new foods. With all the new product offerings, how do you know what to buy?
On any given day, a visit to your local grocery store can include a visit to a sample table, offering samples of food and/ or drink. While these tiny samples are helpful in determining your enjoyment of a product, you never know when the samples will be there. Additionally, you don't know ahead of time what the product will be, and if you will have grocery coupons for it. Thankfully, more and more companies are finding new ways to get free food samples to consumer to give them a taste of their products. The grocery coupond and free sample coupons found on the internet and in your local paper offer a more flexible solution .
While enjoying your Sunday paper and clipping grocery coupons, you will find many coupons for free food samples. These coupons can be redeemed immediately, and generally offer a regular sized product for free. They can expire anywhere from thirty days to never (just like other grocery coupons), so make sure you always check the expiration date. Sometimes, the manufacturers even print additional grocery coupons for the same product on the same page so you can enjoy it again- after your sample.
The internet has ushered in a whole new treasure trove of coupon opportunities. There are many online sites that not only offer printable grocery coupons, they also offer coupons for free food samples. Some coupons allow you to get the item for free directly from your grocery store. Other offers ask you to mail in a copy of the receipt for the product and they send you a refund.
However you find your free sample coupons- they are certain to make your life easier.


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Our websites integrate with a number of third-party systems, such as Google Maps, MailChimp (and other newsletter services), FixFlo, WorldPay, Sagepay, Stripe and others. We can integrate our SME Professional property module or, as one example of a form submission, allow your tenants to enter their details into your website to be passed directly to our software, saving you valuable administration costs. We can also provide bespoke integrations. This means your customers can find everything they need in one place, gives them an efficient and streamlined experience and keeps them on your site.


A professional, well detailed brand launch is vital for businesses to succeed. Knee jerk solutions to rectify mistakes in mid flight, usually crash land, with crores of rupees down the drain. Seagull Rookery's 'Fledgling to Flight' 6-month program is a complete ecosystem dedicated to growing businesses. The programme consists of a detailed blueprint with well-defined processes to plan, nurture and mentor brands on the path to growth, powered by a team of domain experts and service providers. Seagull Brand Launch Centre's Team works shoulder-to-shoulder in implementation of the brand launch plan.
Seagull Brand Launch Centre's confidence in this program means that participating brands need to pay only 50% of our fees, with the rest payable on the brand achieving a mutually agreed SMART objective.
The program spread over a period of 6 months helps nurture, mentor and empower brands to set them on a path for further growth.
As a part of the programme, every brand team will work closely with a shared resource CMO & Sales Director, who will act as the marketing advisor of their brand. This team will serve as the nucleus collaborating with a variety of different service providers and experts, focused on helping brands grow.
Brands Participating in the Brand Incubation Programme will get access to a host of different partners that can add value to these brands in different ways. Here is a snapshot of some of the strategic partners on the Seagull Brand Launch Centre platform.


I am surveying another beaver flooding, crunching over thin ice formed where the raised pond water just covered the trail before freezing, stopping where the trail makes a sudden drop. Its just above freezing but a Taku wind pattern has set in to make walking uncomfortable on more exposed trails.
Clear, windy days are best spent in relatively unmolested spruce forests that touch a beach where looking up offers a view of blue sky crowded with the tops of hundred foot tall Evergreens. Shafts of light radiate small patches of forest green, Wind driven surf sighs while breaking on the nearby beach. I'd sigh with the surf to release beaver frustration if the ice layer over their newly flooded territory did not glow with beauty where struck by sunbeams.
Its a rare and puzzling thing—this arrival of Taku conditions before forest understory plants could send the last of their summer energy to root or the snow could insulate them. Most plants look shocked by sudden onset, leaves cringing, surprised by the killing frost while stretching out with confidence that time would allow weeks more to top off the mother's tank.
Leaving the beavers to their flooded world Aki and I move to the forest edge where high tide covers most of the beach. Normally a cold weather sanctuary for sea birds and eagles, we find none today. Only two stunning white dots floating the swell between Outer Point and Shaman Island suggest life. They are big enough to be swans.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on October 27, 2012 by Dan Branch.
The cold wind storm that started yesterday morning continues to blow down the streets of Chicken Ridge. Hoping for quiet air in the Troll Woods we head out to the glacial moraine only to find the wind blowing even harder. Early morning sun illuminates the glacier and the Mendenhall Towers it flows through so the turbulent air now buffeting us might have been driven off glacial ice by the first touch of sun.
The wind has knocked all the alder and cottonwood leaves to the ground where they lay outlined by frost. Other smaller bushes still retain their yellow and orange leaves. When backlit by the rising sun they glow with rich fall color. One still clinging to the green draws my attention, confirming that this wind driven cold came early to the moraine.
Not wanting to cross new ice formed on a beaver flooded portion of the trail Aki stops at its edge and gives me a "if you expect me to walk through icy water you should give me shoes" stare. Looking around to make sure no one will see, I carry her to dry ground.
Ice formed last night over most of the first lake we pass but not the second, which being deeper into the Troll Woods offers a perfect reflection of the glacier on its calm surface. Seconds after I take a picture of it the wind reaches even here to ripple the refection.
The woods' mushrooms were caught out by the sudden freeze, Pliable as flesh last week, they now form swollen statues, a few no longer resembling the mushrooms they once were.
Turning for home we find that two new beaver dams have flooded a trail that once offering a comfortable path back to the trailhead. The small dams, simple collections of gnawed sticks, only raise the lake level a foot or so. I could destroy them in minutes but don't. Aki and I retain neutrality in this man versus beaver battle for the moraine even at the cost of wet boots and paws.
This entry was posted in Aki, Beavers, Dan Branch, glacier moraine, Juneau, Nature, Southeast Alaska on October 21, 2012 by Dan Branch.
Aki waits at the edge of a meadow covered with tan clumps of tough grass now bending to the north wind. She doesn't want to dottle in the cold breeze. I wait too, for the sun to break from its cloud cover and add some color to this monotone landscape. We are about to cross the Gasteneau Meadow and then climb to the Treadwell Ditch trail.
This week's new snow still covers the top halves of Mounts Juneau, Sheep, and Jumbo, all appearing to rise at different compass points from the meadow, their beauty softened grey light. We move quickly up the meadow trail and climb into the protection of second growth woods. Soon we reach the 10 mile long treadwell ditch that immigrants dug by hand in 1888 to provide water for the the Treadwell gold mines. Washouts and invading plants have all but obscured it but you can still make out the railroad ties that once formed part of the ditch covering.
I want to walk to the Mount Jumbo trail and then drop down to the old Treadwell mine ruins but a washout has made one of the stream crossing too dangerous. We turn back to the car, ready to face the wind and the winter that will soon follow.
This entry was posted in Aki, Dan Branch, Juneau, Nature, peaceful isolation, Southeast Alaska on October 20, 2012 by Dan Branch.
The first snow always catches nature unprepared. We see submerged lilly pads, still in the process of fall die back, through a pond surface made opaque by snow. A blue berry bush still in high fall color struggles to shake over its new white coat. They were unprepared for the flick of God's wrist that brought this early taste of winter.
We stay longer than originally planned, knowing that our fickle weather will soon bring a cleansing rain to this world of white. Aki, not yet toughened to winter cold is happy to hop back into the car. She is just as happy to hop out of it at the Fish Creek trailhead. Here surprising shafts of sunlight break through cloud cover to enhance the beauty of fading fall color. I spot a porcupine, upper back almost devoid of spines, gnawing the bark of a willow bush. Aki, distracted by some dog's pee mail, doesn't spot the little guy.
If allowed to get too close to a porcupine, a dog can end up with a mouth and face full of quills. Aki, who seems to think of them as slow moving dogs, has managed many close encounters with these spiny guys without picking up a quill. Not wanting to tempt fate I pick her up and we walk past the feeding porcupine.
The thick woods along Fish Creek are still holding off winter. Most bushes are in fall color while some skunk cabbage still sport green leaves. Almost bored after experiencing the snowy drama of the mountain meadows we spend little time in the old growth, finding the strongest beauty in a yellowing leaf apparently too stubborn to join his fallen neighbors now covering the forest floor.
This entry was posted in Aki, Dan Branch, Juneau, Nature, solitude, Southeast Alaska on October 18, 2012 by Dan Branch.
As dwellers of the rain forest we rarely hear the sound of dried leaves crackling beneath our boots. We recently enjoyed a stretch of dry weather but it ended before many leaves had reached the ground. Rain came with a vigorous wind that stripped the tall cottonwoods lining this trail. Today dead leaves cover this trail but do not crunch underfoot. Then the rain strengthens to thick drops that strike the leaves with force to reproduce the sound of a crackling fire.
Aki, closer to the sound than I, ignores it. She concentrates on that squirrel streaking arrogantly across her field of vision. Once a squirrel caught Aki's attention like this and then stopped at the edge of the trail as if waiting for her to catch up. Squirrel and dog faced each other for a moment, the dog's tail indicating a willingness to play. Squirrel broke for the woods with Aki in half hearted pursuit. They always get away.
With the rain beating a tattoo on the carpet of leaves we move deeper in the forest where dead yellow and brown ferns collapse against still green brush. Its a scene dominated by autumn browns but punctuated with individual shows of yellows. oranges and reds. The hugging sorrel show the strongest red even when submerged in sections of flooded forest. A few thin trunked cotton woods still display bright leaves, candles of yellow light in a grey and brown place.
We find the riverine meadow nearly covered by a great high tide. Only the tallest grass stands above the flooding river to form watery islands now haunted by Canada geese. I had timed this visit in hopes of seeing birds driven close by the high water. They usually squat on the sand bars that can reach almost a mile into the sea at low tide. The ebb has forced them here where we can watch them search for food. One raises its closed beak skyward as it seeking a rinse. Another opens her wide while looking with purpose at another goose. Is she telling a great story, or simply telling?
This entry was posted in Aki, Dan Branch, Juneau, Nature, peaceful isolation, Southeast Alaska on October 14, 2012 by Dan Branch.
Yesterday winter paid this mountain meadow a visit, lowering temperatures and visibility, painting everything white. The possibility of mountain snow drew me here even through a heavy rain storm that kept the car's wiper blades working at full speed until we arrived at the trail head. A man stands with arms resting on ski poles and feet encased in rigid downhill skiing boots. Looking the heavy metal skis strapped to his back I asked, "did you find any." "There was a ball someone made of snow yesterday; yesterday would have been great." I could only honor his devotional hope. We both long for winter.
Without a chance for snow Aki and I drop onto a trail leading through a series of meadows to old growth forest. The rain, which had stopped for a few minutes slowly returns, its heavy rain drops creating concentric rings on the meadow's pocket ponds. Aki waits patiently as I watch the rings spread evenly out until intersected by others. When the rain thickens into a downpour it will be chaos on the water's surface but now each drop keeps a respectful distance from it's brothers.
Lily pads that had almost covered each pond's surface now disintegrate near it's bed. Faded in color but not shape they form a ghost garden distorted by rain drop rings. I'm surprised by the forked stalk of Labrador Tea rising from the water. During the heady days of summer it's mother plant sent it out into the pond to gather light without competition from it's crowding neighbors. Now leaves showing the bright red of death illuminate the mother's foolishness.
This entry was posted in Aki, Dan Branch, Juneau, Nature, Southeast Alaska on October 13, 2012 by Dan Branch.
I am trying to ignore the voice that rises up the mountain from the mouth of a woman heading this way with at least one friend. It never stops or slows. Aki looks forward at a small family ahead of us on the trail. They stop, having just crested the saddle so their toddler can ride a diminutive bicycle around them. The mountain turns in a Fellini set but without nuns or umbrellas. We have left it too late.
Normally early risers, Aki and I would have been climbing up this mountain slope at daybreak but for errands and an appointment in late morning that could not be missed. We pass the family, nice folks with quiet voices, and continue to a mountain ridge said to offer a view of Admiralty Island. The voice and her friend pass the family and continue apace with Aki and I. Showing no sign of weakening it fills the air with stories of things that happened far from here and that mean nothing to me. The voice will follow us to the top.
Seeking the smallest solitude I lead Aki off the dry gravel road and onto a wet downward curving muskeg meadow. In minutes we hear only a tiny wind. I'd meant to come up here on the sunny weekend day in late September that we spent in the Fish Creek woods. This meadow would have been a persian carpet of colors that day. Today only low bush blueberry brush and free standing deer cabbage leafs offer some red drama to go with a few grass clumps still showing gold and yellow beauty. Most everything else has faded to early winter brown.
We walk where the wind strikes hard at the mountain shoulder before bending downslope to the sea. Few plants can grow more than a foot off the ground. Only wind sculptured mountain hemlocks and the stripped carcasses of gnarled spruce reach high enough to bother the wind.
Have I mentioned that the ground and all its plants carry a heavy load of dew drops that soak Aki and my shoes. At first I accepted it as the price of escaping the voice then saw the dew drops sparkle with sunlight turning the brown corpses of skunk cabbage into works of art.
We find a patch of low growing blueberry bushes that still hold fruit. While I take a picture of the berry forest Aki the brat invades it, knocking over ripe berries as she goes then gobbles up the ones that caught her eye. I manage to find the two or three berries that escaped her pillaging and pop them in my mouth. They taste faded as the colors that surround them. We left it too late.
This entry was posted in Aki, Dan Branch, Juneau, Nature, peaceful isolation, solitude, Southeast Alaska on October 10, 2012 by Dan Branch.


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Physically, humans and animals seem similar. Mentally, humans seem so superior. What's so special about human nature? Language? Culture? Compare brain structures and functions of humans and animals. Human brains have advantages, in complexity and capacity of association for example, but are they sufficient to account for the vast superiority of human mentality?


What is Prop 64 and what does it mean for the marijuana industry?
The regulation of the marijuana industry in California changed in January of 2017. Proposition 64 allows for recreational cannabis to be legal for consumption. Other states that have legalized recreational marijuana are Alaska, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, and now in California. This turn in in the legislative environment for marijuana will be a huge change for the culture for those that live in these legal weed states. Now cannabis users can partake in getting high without needing a medical marijuana recommendation from a doctor. Many of the states in America currently have legalized cannabis at least for medicinal purposes and are also working on similar regulations to legalize marijuana for recreational use.
After Prop 64, will Los Angeles cannabis capital of the world?
Due to these new regulations, Los Angeles is expected to be the marijuana capital of the world. Denver was the highest in marijuana usage and sale until Proposition 64 in California was passed. Although you're able to smoke marijuana legally in California, there is no place to legally by cannabis. Cannabis users that do not have a medical marijuana card are expected to grow their own weed until 2018 when retail licenses will be granted for cannabis dispensaries.
You can imagine the investors that are looking to get into the marijuana recreational markets. This legal shift has brought many investors looking to get into marijuana-related industries. They are looking to gain financially from Proposition 64. A big problem for investors is that the federal banking system does not allow for cannabis-related income. This is due to the federal drug regulations in which marijuana is still deemed illegal on a federal level. The state treasurer of California is attempting to address the banking challenges of the cannabis industry. Those looking to venture into this recreational marijuana market would need to do so through cash endeavors.
How big the cannabis industry in Los Angeles?
The medical marijuana market in Los Angeles is thought to be near $1 billion. When recreational cannabis sales become legal, this number could easily triple. The city of Los Angeles is expected to have local ordinances pertains to the sale and use of marijuana. These will be enforced through a commission that regulates recreational marijuana. This will include zoning, licensing, and the enforcement of Proposition 64.
When will be recreational marijuana be available for sale?
The goal of recreational cannabis regulation is to curb the illegal market that has been seen with medical marijuana. Another goal is to raise money for the state with a higher taxation on recreational weed. One could see how there could be a substantial underground market in 2017; due to the fact that the various recreational cannabis licenses for marijuana cultivators, processors, and dispensaries will not be available until 2018. Recreational marijuana sales should be open starting in 2018.
With our cannabis search engine you can currently browse medical marijuana dispensaries, cannabis delivery services, medical marijuana doctors, and lawyers specializing in cannabis laws, and nutrient stores for folks wanting to grow marijuana. If you are seeking access to buy your weed legally, the only way to do so right now in California is to have a current medical marijuana prescription from a doctor in order to go to a dispensary. Proposition 64 allows for recreational users to grow their own marijuana, up to 6 plants without being visible to the public. With the new regulations playing in this year, Los Angeles will soon emerge as the biggest cannabis industry in the world.


Last Thursday, I was giving a guest lecture at University of Indonesia about Security in SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). It is nice to be back in campus and meet students. I arrived a bit early to prepare everything and just to make sure my presentation went smooth.
I used to be a penetration tester and breaking stuff, but now I am building the application. Having a security in mind while developing application is not easy. Why I should care about security while the main functionalities is not working yet?
At first, I explained the theory of security in SDLC. Where the penetration test position in SDLC and told them that even a penetration test cannot ensure that our application is secure.
Some people said a penetration test is like testing your car security with front-impact crash only, while you do not care about the side-impact or the back-impact or event the top-impact crash.
But in real life, I said people still asking for penetration test. Why? Because penetration test is the easiest way to have a security snapshot from your application. Reviewing code or audit all the components will take too much time and costly. The correct way based on text-book, you should include security aspect on every aspects of the SDLC.
Now, the programmers should have security in mind while developing application. They should write test code! Yes, writing test code is hard. But once you start developing with TDD (Test Driven Development) your application will be more robust and you can do development better and faster. If the programmers write the code securely the chance of having a security vulnerability will be lesser.
Write test code not only the expected case, but also the alternate case. What if the username contains single quote, dash, or any other special characters. Try to think out of the box. What if someone attempts to login 1000 times with wrong password? What should our application do?
Of course, within 2 hours is impossible to explain all the details. The objective of this lecture is to build security awareness for students that is important to write a secure code and have enough test while building the application. We do not want to build an application which leaks our customer personal information right? And when we build an application which includes financial transactions, security is a must.
As usual, I gave small present to students who were asking questions. There is one good question which I do not have an answer yet. I shared my experience while doing network forensic to investigate a SQL injection attack. Then this student asked me, is it possible for us to know in real time that we have a SQL injection vulnerability or our database might already have injected? A WAF (Web Application Firewall) might be helpful to inspect the traffic coming to our application, but I do not know for sure yet.
At the end of session, I quickly asked students what programming language they use for developing application. Surprisingly PHP still popular! While only few students use Python.


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Commentary - Africa: A Continent of Opportunity
By Dan Glickman
Dan Glickman is Vice President of the Aspen Institute and Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center. He is a co-chair of The Chicago Council's Global Agricultural Development Initiative.
I recently returned from a conference hosted by the Aspen Institute in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with a number of scholars and members of Congress. Over a period of several days we did an in-depth exploration of the myriad issues encompassing U.S. relations with the 54 nations of Africa.
One thing became clear: Africa is a land of opportunity and promise for its people and for the people of the United States. First, there is incredible economic potential waiting to be or already being unleashed across the continent. The IMF predicts that by 2017 11 of the world's 20 fastest growing economies will be African. As economies grow and opportunity spreads the potential for U.S. businesses is astronomic. As President Obama recently said, "The world is investing in Africa like never before... So I see Africa as the world's next major success story."
Some of that success is attributable to US investments in health care from HIV/AIDs prevention, malaria and tuberculosis treatments as well as maternal health. Particularly in HIV/AIDS the establishment of PEPFAR, a bipartisan Congressional accomplishment led and administered by President Bush, has saved literally millions of lives and changed the demography and future of numerous African nations. President Bush may be viewed as a polarizing figure in the United States but he is beloved by many African people for his commitment to health and the fight against HIV. This story of bipartisanship and the federal government often goes overlooked outside of African development professional circles but the tremendously positive impact US taxpayer dollars had on the lives of HIV positive or at risk Africans has been a resounding success.
Dan Glickman accepts friendship bracelet at middle school in Ambo, Ethiopia
One experience in Ethiopia that particularly affected me was a visit to a Peace Corps site in Amboo, a town of some 80,000 about two hours from Addis Ababa. Three Americans were working there as volunteers teaching in the local school, helping a health clinic treat disabled children and assisting subsistence farmers to increase their yields and have more success with their crops. There is an emphasis in the Peace Corps that volunteers bring their skills to bear where they serve to build lasting capabilities that will continue to improve the lives of the community where they serve. Americans from across the U.S. sign up for two-year commitments (though many often extend their stay to complete their work) and are totally cut off from their families and from amenities and comforts we take for granted in this country. Peace Corps volunteers are model citizens for their peers back home and excellent ambassadors of the hope, dedication and kindness that embody the spirit of the American people.
Seeing these volunteers commitment to service and to improving the lives of their fellow man was a refreshing reminder that, even though our system of government may be limping along and the mood in Washington is weary and bleak, out in the world the United States can still be a force for tremendous good.
This commentary originally appeared on the Huffington Post's Impact Blog.
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May 28, 2010 Post general tips and specific hints for monsters, but please censor out what monster it is to avoid spoilers. I'll start. Everyone knows you can panic dive to avoid damage, but did you know you can also panic dive to avoid roars.
Take note of this when facing certain monsters, as wearing an armour set with a negative elemental resistance can make fighting certain monsters dangerous (e.
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Shed pounds the healthy way with these tips that are proven to work. Oct 02, 2010 re: Best way to Destroy Rathalos and Barrioth?
? ? Thanks guys, full Ingot Armor(and 10x Mega Potions, 10x potions, and 10x herbs) and it being gemmed for guard helped me kill Rathalos.
Last up, the Barrioth. battle tips: use pit falls and shock traps for cutting tail or capture, flash bombs for attacking about any where, combonation books if combining stuff during quest, but if harvesting stuff like wings or somthing rare save one pit fall or shock trap and tranq bombs 2 tranqs is needed for 1 monster, and if rathalos is using his flying claw attack You'll naturally lose weight fast without pills where at that point you'll need the 'Lose Your Last 10 Pounds' plan andor 19 tips to lose weight 3x This makes fighting Rathalos and Rathian extremely easy because you never have to leave that area.
AKA Stop following Rathian and Rathalos around the map. Unless you are on the map (forgot name) where their fireballs can change the inclination of the stage.
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San Francisco Bay Area based electronic musician Rich Brodsky, aka Atomic Skunk, will release a new album entitled Alchemy on Earth Day, April 22, 2011. The album features 7 all new original tracks, including an epic drone piece, over 24 minutes in length entitled, "Temple of Stars." Alchemy is Brodsky's third album, following on the heels of his first two critically acclaimed releases, Binary Scenes and Portal.
Atomic Skunk made a splash on the ambient electronic scene in 2009 with the release of Binary Scenes, garnering high praise from electronic music fans, bloggers and ambient music stalwarts such as Hearts of Space producer, Stephen Hill and Echoes Radio producer, John Dilberto, who described the music as "note perfect ambient, full of mood, unusual dreamstate shifts and psychedelic edges." Echoes Radio listeners voted Binary Scenes one of the "Top 200 CDs of the last 20 Years." Portal was a featured album on numerous, legendary ambient music radio programs such as Hearts of Space, Echoes Radio, SOMA FM, Musical Starstreams and Radioio Ambient. Echoes Radio listeners voted it into the Top 25 for the "2010 Best of Echoes Radio" listeners poll, while the staff of Echoes Radio featured Portal as one of their "25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2010."
Alchemy was funded entirely by Atomic Skunk fans through a partnership with Pledge Music and like Portal was produced as a gapless album. "I fell in love with the gapless album listening experience while producing Portal and as I got deeper into production on Alchemy, I began to sense how it wanted to head in the same direction." says Rich Brodsky. "In fact, as time went on, I began to see Alchemy almost as a bookend to Portal. The tracks on Alchemy all flow very seamlessly together and like Portal, take the listener on an immersive journey, culminating with a 25 minute meditative piece called, "Temple of Stars."
Like Portal, Alchemy will be released as a limited edition 6-Panel Digipak CD on May 2, 2011. Pre-orders with immediate digital download are available now at http://atomicskunk.bandcamp.com. Alchemy will also be available as a digital download at iTunes, Amazon and others beginning April 22, 2011.


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Ситуация: хочу написать обобщённую функцию типа std::make_unique(), для того чтобы создавать объекты библиотеки Qt одинаково со стандартными объектами, т.е. в деструкторе для обычных объектов вызывать delete, а для объектов Qt -- нет. Так вот, для проверки, является ли объект объектом Qt, хочу проверить имеет ли он родителя QObject.

A: Для этого существует специальный трейт std::is_base_of<QObject, Derived>::value


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