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Anti-angiogenesis effect of the novel anti-inflammatory and pro-resolving lipid mediators.
PURPOSE: Resolvins and lipoxins are lipid mediators generated from essential polyunsaturated fatty acids that are the first dual anti-inflammatory and pro-resolving signals identified in the resolution phase of inflammation. Here the authors investigated the potential of aspirin-triggered lipoxin (LX) A4 analog (ATLa), resolving (Rv) D1, and RvE1, in regulating angiogenesis in a murine model.
METHODS: ATLa and RvE1 receptor expression was tested in different corneal cell populations by RT-PCR. Corneal neovascularization (CNV) was induced by suture or micropellet (IL-1 beta, VEGF-A) placement. Mice were then treated with ATLa, RvD1, RvE1, or vehicle, subconjunctivally at 48-hour intervals. Infiltration of neutrophils and macrophages was quantified after immunofluorescence staining. The mRNA expression levels of inflammatory cytokines, VEGFs, and VEGFRs were analyzed by real-time PCR. CNV was evaluated intravitally and morphometrically.
RESULTS: The receptors for LXA4, ALX/Fpr-rs-2 and for RvE1, ChemR23 were each expressed by epithelium, stromal keratocytes, and infiltrated CD11b(+) cells in corneas. Compared to the vehicle-treated eye, ATLa-, RvD1-, and RvE1-treated eyes had reduced numbers of infiltrating neutrophils and macrophages and reduced mRNA expression levels of TNF-alpha, IL-1 alpha, IL-1 beta, VEGF-A, VEGF-C, and VEGFR2. Animals treated with these mediators had significantly suppressed suture-induced or IL-1 beta-induced hemangiogenesis (HA) but not lymphangiogenesis. Interestingly, only the application of ATLa significantly suppressed VEGF-A-induced HA.
CONCLUSIONS: ATLa, RvE1, and RvD1 all reduce inflammatory corneal HA by early regulation of resolution mechanisms in innate immune responses. In addition, ATLa directly inhibits VEGF-A-mediated angiogenesis and is the most potent inhibitor of NV among this new genus of dual anti-inflammatory and pro-resolving lipid mediators.


Last time I talked about using blockchain in elections, car sharing, education and charity.
I will continue to look at how blockchain can be used.
In light of the increase of autonomous vehicles and pet ownerships, I think that blockchain technology has been adopted in the fields of life insurance, accident insurance, reinsurance and pet insurance.
As insurance is an intangible product, certification and procedures require cost and effort.
By using highly transparent and tamper-proof blockchain, accurate and speedy confirmation can be made and required documents can be issued.
The music and entertainment industries have chronic challenges. That is the low influence of the copyright holder and the fact that the original artist has not been paid fairly for what they do.
Copyright occurs when a song is created, and the right is given to the creator. However, in the current music industry, a copyright management organization, rather than the creator, manages and determines music royalty fees etc., so this structure gives the actual copyright holders less control.
Also, this structure results in a small amount of compensation for the original copyright holder.
When it comes to distributing music in the media and in shops, there are agency and advertising fees, which means even less earnings.
By using the feature of blockchain that records transactions, the use of music and the charge will be kept systematically.
You can also search for copyright holders without hassle, and by disclosing rights, the administrator is protected.
In addition, the number of plays and purchases etc. are accurately recorded in blockchain, so the rights and compensation of composers and artists are protected.
Transparency can be obtained by not including brokers there.
Food related issues such as falsification of origin of food, food hygiene, ingredient labelling and food loss (mass production and mass dumping) are problematic. In order to improve traceability, blockchain is effective.
Anyone can easily manage and track food using blockchain. Document creation in origin of food and quality is automated and streamlined, and data tampering can be prevented.
Blockchain is the fundamental solution to all food problems.
Even for consumers, blockchain makes it possible for them to eat safe products as they need, and as a result it will help to reduce food loss etc.
I have repeatedly told you about the benefits of adopting blockchain regardless of the industry, but there is a reason why some companies and organizations are reluctant to do so.
The main reasons are the cost of implementation and the fact that the technology is not understood properly.
In Japan, in particular, as the infrastructure and finance are already operated with a reasonable level of quality, it is hard for many organisations to replace them with blockchain technology.
It may take some time to adopt the technology while considering the cost and the technical knowledge required, but blockchain will definitely become part of our life soon.


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Despite physical and electronic surveillance security, and a history of violence that includes one murder, the Globe Hotel Albury, can't seem to shake the patronage of dickhead's who think that a good night out has to include a violent altercation. In my friend's case, not only was she on the receiving end of an unprovoked assault, but at the hands of multiple assailants including at least one male. Many solutions have been proposed over time including curfews, increased security, early closing times, however until a cultural shift in attitude is realized violence will continue regardless.
UPDATE – 1/2/2006 : Brian Grenfell, Managing Director of Globe Hotel threatens deography.com with legal action.
UPDATE – 30/3/2007 : Globe Hotel refuses entry to patron in photo unless she requests that photo is removed. deography.com has obliged patron's request so you will only be able to see the photo in question at Goolge's cache – here and the Internet Archive here.
UPDATE – 4/4/2007 : After having spoken to Brian Grenfell today, Managing Director of Globe Hotel, I would like to express my impartiality on the whole issue. I am sure the Globe Hotel has done everything possible as a local business to improve the security and safety issues they have had in the past… you'll have to ask them. I'm just a photographer. As a supporter of a certain level of civil autonomy for bloggers and journalists I don't like being to self censor my website, but as a local citizen I believe Globe have done everything in their power to ensure your night out is a perfectly safe one. The Globe Hotel, Albury is not my personal choice for going out in Albury these days so maybe I'm not the best person to comment. Many patrons go there every weekend and have a great time. This is just a little photoblog with little to no influence on the world, its just unfortunate that my google pagerank throws up my site before their own official page.
So have fun and be safe everybody! – Dylan.
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The secret to hot internet dating success for men is understanding what women are looking for and also what women are afraid of when they think about online dating.
Most any single person, male or female, loves internet dating sites because they allow a person to go window shopping for a partner and see all that is available before they commit. A lot of people who join, especially as free members, just look at the pictures! In fact, there is often no point writing to a free member, because in most cases they cannot even read your message, and they are probably not seriously looking. Something you will want to concentrate on when you are dating online is not wasting time on women who are not looking for a real-life meeting.
This is also a problem with sites that do not have a paid membership at all but rely on third party advertising to make money. While some people may be genuine, a lot of the members will have joined just because it's free. They may not be seriously looking for anyone to date and you could waste a lot of time on them. A paid site is usually worth the small monthly investment for this reason alone.
When you have exchanged a couple of messages, you will quickly want to move on to arrange a date with the women that you like. Often, however, you will find the woman does not want to move so fast. There can be many reasons for this and it does not necessarily mean she is not serious. She may have told more than she intended and may be nervous of meeting someone who already knows a lot about her. More likely, she is afraid because she is constantly hearing about the scary things that can happen to girls who meet men they have gotten to know online.
A lot of women like the anonymity of exchanging messages on a dating site and the opportunity it gives them of getting to know a guy without revealing their name, address etc. Seems like the more you try to get them to give you their phone number, the more they pull away.
It is easy to become impatient but it is very important at this stage not to push too hard. Try giving her your number instead of asking for hers. If you can give her your home number, not just your cellphone, this is great because it will show her that you are not married or living with another lady.
You may still have to talk a couple of times on the phone before she will agree to a date. Keep in mind all the advice that dating sites give, and arrange the first meeting in a public place. Make it somewhere that you will have a chance to talk a little, like a restaurant or bar. She may prefer to meet in a place that she knows, so give her the option of suggesting the location. The place she picks out can tell you a lot about her, too.
Before the date, read her messages over again and be sure to remember any little things that she told you about herself. If you are in contact with a lot of women on the dating site, it's very important not to get them mixed! You may even want to take notes of phone conversations. Remembering little details is a great way to make the woman feel special on the date.
Make her feel safe, then make her feel special - these are the keys to hot internet dating success!


Somewhere I read that this was Steven's first project after wrapping 'Schindler's List'. He and his pals were in the mood for some levity. I just viewed it again after many years and found it far more delightful than the first time. Maybe this time I was just in the mood for levity. The ending was a train-wreck though. Why oh why didn't they cast Malachi Pearson for Kat's big date instead of the mannequin boy model stand-in? Huge mistake!
The design in the haunted house's floor is a dead ringer for the yellow brick road except yellow is brown.
The curtain blows inward toward the dwarf-beds. Breeze is always a defining moment of plot change. See Empire of the Sun, Catch Me if You Can, Hook, Twilight Zone the Movie Kick the can Episode, Joe Vs. the Volcano, Poltergeist.
"I'm melting Auntie Phlegm. What a world!" cry the ghostly brothers when sun shines on them.


Metal fabricators cut, shape, join and finish metal to make, maintain or repair metal products and structures. They may produce moulds or patterns for metal castings, apply coatings and work with a variety of materials.
With experience and further study, competent tradespeople can upgrade their qualifications to technician, associate, technologist or engineer level.
To become a Metal Fabricator you usually have to complete an Apprenticeship in Engineering – Fabrication Trade. Entry requirements may vary but employers generally require a minimum of Year 10. Training is usually both on and off the job. The off-the-job training is provided through Registered Training Organisations (RTO's), including Group Training Companies. Details of the training may vary depending on the needs of the employer and are finalised as part of the training agreement.


The Saddlers will travel to League Two side Cheltenham Town for a pre-season friendy on Saturday 28th July, kick-off 3.00pm.
Our last visit to the LCI Rail Stadium, traditionally known as Whaddon Road, came a decade ago and ended goalless.
We have never lost a competitive match against the Robins, who finished 17th last term, having won three and drawn three of the previous six encounters.


Meet U.S. Army Soldier Sgt. Janay Shoemaker, Hazard, Kentucky native, Human Resources Sergeant, assigned to Special Troops Battalion, 25th Sustainment Brigade, 25th Infantry Division. Shoemaker loves being a part of the team and helping Soldiers.
One of her future goals is to become a Drill Sergeant. "I believe the best way to implement change is to be the change you wish to see and the best way to do that is starting at the lowest level and making a positive impact," said Shoemaker.
Shoemaker sets the example for the Soldiers in her unit. She recently won the Brigade NCO of the Quarter and will go on to represent the Sustainment Brigade at the 25th Infantry Division NCO of the Quarter.


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Has Gabriel created a monster?
Something sinister lurks in the woods outside of Slade.
Gabe has seen it, or he thinks he has - a shadow standing at the tree line, watching Gabe's house with faintly glowing eyes.
Despite Gabe's misgivings, his new friend, Seth, relishes the creepy atmosphere of the forest. It's the perfect setting for his imaginary struggle against the Hunter, a deformed child-eating creature said to leave the bones of his victims in his wake. It's just a game, but it's all a bit much for Gabe, who quickly loses interest as summer ends and the days grow shorter.
But then strange things start to happen. Frightening things. And Gabe knows it has to do with the dark figure watching him from the edge of the woods.
Is Seth out to teach Gabe a lesson? Or is the Hunter more than just a myth? Gabe isn't sure which option is more horrifying, but he's determined to learn the truth before someone gets hurt . . . or worse.
Eleven-year-old Zoé Badger, imaginative, carefree and adventurous, lives a transient life, moving with her mother from one town to the next—except for summers, when she stays with her granddad in Tenby, Wales. But when she and her cousin Ian discover a glass puzzle that's been hidden away for decades, ancient forces are unleashed that threaten to change their safe-haven summer town in sinister ways.
Welcome. Have a seat. Let us tell you a story. But be warned. Home Sweet Horror isn't just any tale. This is a Scary Tale.
Meet Liam Finn, who's just moved into a new home with his father and sister. But this old house that seems empty, isn't . . . Bloody Mary is here. Called back from the dead by a game, she's just dying to talk.
A boy risks his life to save some very special children in this fantasy adventure, set amidst the rich backdrop of Renaissance Venice.
In Venice in 1487, the secrets of glassblowing are guarded jealously. Renzo, a twelve-year-old laborer in a glassworks, has just a few months to prepare for a test of his abilities, and no one to teach him. If he passes, he will qualify as a skilled glassblower. If he fails, he will be expelled from the glassworks. Becoming a glassblower is his murdered father's dying wish for him, and the means of supporting his mother and sister. But Renzo desperately needs another pair of hands to help him turn the glass as he practices at night.
One night he is disturbed by a bird—a small falcon—that seems to belong to a girl hiding in the glassworks. Soon Renzo learns about her and others like her—the bird people, who can communicate with birds and are condemned as witches. He tries to get her to help him and discovers that she comes with baggage: ten hungry bird-kenning children who desperately need his aid. Caught between devotion to his family and his art and protecting a group of outcast children, Renzo struggles for a solution that will keep everyone safe in this atmospheric adventure.


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Aerosol Analysis Technologies
-- Aerosol Test Equipment and Facilities
-- Biological Detectors
-- Collecting Airborne Particles
-- Integrated Biodefense Solutions
Unmanned Vehicle Systems
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** UPDATE ** CBRN Technologies and Products (17 August 2022) – Amtech, under the Amtech Military and Automation Systems (AMAS) Division, acquired the CBRN products and technologies of Dycor Technologies Limited (DTL) in 2020. This acquisition has moved the company into the CBRN technologies area with focus on biological aerosol detection and sample collection. As part of the acquisition, Amtech is supporting Dycor products deployed in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia; we have also launched several next generation product enhancement initiatives working with our partners in Europe and Canada. For more information on our CBRN products and technologies, see www.amasys.ca.
** UPDATE ** Aerosol Test Chamber Commissioning (2021) – Amtech's AMAS Division has re-commissioned the DTL Aerosol Test Chamber at Amtech's Operations Facility in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. This well-proven chamber is ideally suited for the measurement of biological aerosols in a controlled environment. The ATC includes systems for dispersing aerosols as well as state-of-the-art equipment for the detection of biological aerosols. For additional information, see www.amasys.ca.
Shirley Oshanek-Markov (31 March 2017, Updated 22 November 2017) - Amtech is saddened to announce the news of Shirley's passing on 2 February 2017. Shirley fought tenaciously with an aggressive form of ovarian cancer for six years before quietly passing away at the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital. With Alex, her partner in life and business of over 41 years, Shirley was co-founder of Amtech and was the heart of the company's administrative, human resources, and strategic planning activities for over 20 years before cancer slowed her down. Shirley was proud of the organization and of the accomplishments of the Amtech team and is missed by everyone whose life she touched personally and professionally. In no small measure because of the strong foundation that she built for the company, the company continues to prosper and grow and has had one of its busiest years since opening its doors 27 years ago.
A Quarter Century of Engineering Services (1990 to 2015) - Amtech opened its doors for business in the aeronautical engineering and certification area in 1990 as Amtech Consulting. Incorporated in 1991 as Amtech Aeronautical Limited, the organization has steadily grown into its three current core business areas of aeronautical engineering, defence, and automation / PLC's. Amtech proudly celebrated its first quarter century in business with a gathering of clients, employees, associates, management, suppliers, and friends in Medicine Hat, Alberta at a special dinner at the Medicine Hat Lodge and Convention Centre in December 2015. As we start our second quarter century, we look forward to continuing to serve the engineering needs of our current and future clients.
** UPDATE ** Announcement – Viking DHC-6 Series 400 Phase 2B Avionics Upgrade (2022) – Amtech's engineering and certification team is working closely with Viking Air Limited (VAL) (De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited) in the Phase 2B Avionics Upgrade of the legendary DHC-6 Series 400 (Twin Otter) aircraft. Modern avionics requires regular updates to add new capabilities and to meet modern requirements, the Series 400's Primus Apex integrated modular avionics suite is no exception. Certification of the Phase 2B Avionics Upgrade is expected in 2023.
** UPDATE ** Announcement – Amtech Facilities (January 2022) – Amtech has consolidated its aeronautical / aircraft certification operations by closing its Calgary engineering office and expanding our capabilities in our facilities in Medicine Hat, Alberta and in Victoria, British Columbia. Amtech maintains its aeronautical products distribution operation in Calgary. No matter where you are in Canada, and whether your requirement is an aircraft AOG situation or a planned design change, the company's team, with personnel located in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec, is able to quickly respond to aircraft certification, repair design, and continuing airworthiness requirements.
Viking DHC-6 Series 400 Super-Lite Avionics Upgrade (31 August 2017) - Amtech design and certification personnel working with Viking Air Limited (VAL) achieved Transport Canada certification of the Super-Lite Avionics Upgrade on the VAL DHC-6 Series 400 (Twin Otter). Super-Lite is a simplified configuration of the Honeywell Primus Apex EFIS that can be used by operators of the aircraft on operations and routes that do not require the full capability of the Phase 2A Avionics Upgrade. Work is ongoing with VAL for validation of the Super-Lite Avionics Upgrade in a number of foreign jurisdictions.
Amtech's Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) Design Approval Organization (DAO) (24 June 2016) - Amtech is pleased to announce the addition of four Designate's (DE's) to Amtech's TCCA DAO 02-C-02 as follows: Chris Pavle (DE 06) (Structures and Mechanical Systems and Equipment), Ian Fraser (DE 07) (Structures, Interiors, Mechanical Systems and Equipment, Flammability, and HIRF and Lightning), Garnet Karvonen (DE 08) (Mechanical and Electrical Systems and Equipment, Systems Safety, and Structures), and Leanne Elsliger (DE 09) (Flammability and Structures). Amtech's DAO now has seven active DE's with extensive design delegation for fixed and rotary wing Normal, Commuter and Transport Category aircraft.
Viking DHC-6 Series 400 Phase 2A Avionics Upgrade (6 January 2016) - Amtech design and certification personnel working as part of an integrated Viking Air Limited (VAL) engineering and certification team achieved Transport Canada certification of the Phase 2A Avionics Upgrade on the VAL DHC-6 Series 400 (Twin Otter). This upgrade includes upgrades to the Honeywell Primus Apex EFIS for integrated primary flight displays, a flight director and a three-axis digital autopilot as well as a number of other optional capabilities including dual flight management systems, synthetic vision, ADS-B out capability, SBAS GPS with LPV approach capability, and a 512 Word FDR. Work is ongoing for validation of the Phase 2A Avionics Upgrade in numerous foreign jurisdictions including the FAA, EASA, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and others.
Helicopter Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) (4 March 2015) - Amtech DAO personnel assisted Aero-Dyne Repair Services Ltd. of Olds, Alberta in obtaining a FAA STC as a validation of the Aero-Dyne TCCA STC for the HPMS installation on Bell 407 rotorcraft. Amtech has worked with Aero-Dyne in obtaining HPMS installation approvals on a variety of rotorcraft.
Sagem Integrated Cockpit Display System (ICDS) Installation on Bombardier CL-215-6B11 (CL-215T) Variant) Aircraft (27 February 2015) - Amtech's DAO has worked closely with Conair Group of Abbotsford, British Columbia to obtain a Serialized STC for the Sagem ICDS. The most recent update to the STC includes incorporation of updated Sagem software for the ICDS.
Flight Data Acquisition and Storage and Transmission System (FAST) (20 February 2015) - Working with Pratt & Whitney Engine Services, Inc. and Pratt & Whitney Canada, Amtech obtained a STC for the installation of the Pratt and Whitney Flight Data Acquisition Storage and Transmission System (FAST) on Agusta AB139 / AW 139 rotorcraft. Follow-on work is underway with Pratt & Whitney for adding additional functional features to the installation.
Searchlight Installations, Airbus (Eurocopter) AS 350 Rotorcraft (2 January 2015) - Working with Meeker Aviation of Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Amtech has a searchlight installation Transport Canada STC and associated installation kit for a variety of search light models on the Airbus Helicopters (Eurocopter) AS 350 rotorcraft (various models). The STC is validated in a number of foreign jurisdictions including the US Federal Aviation Administration, the European Aviation Safety Agency, the Mexican Aviation Authority and the Brazilian Aviation Authority.
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada (22 June 2020) - Amtech Aeronautical Limited (AAL) under Amtech's Military and Automation (AMAS) Division has acquired the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) detection and collection assets of Dycor Technologies Ltd. (DTL). The deal, which closed earlier in the year, moves the assets, including associated intellectual property and "know how" into the Amtech Group of companies. Assets acquired include expertise, software, detection / collection products, and an aerosol exposure test chamber.
President Alex Markov indicated that the acquisition is expected to leverage Amtech's existing systems integration capabilities, including expertise in test chamber development, integration and operation, and in advanced automation with the DTL technologies and expertise for the detection and collection of aerosols and vapours. We are excited to move these technologies into Amtech and anticipate growth in the military and automation systems business areas of the company will result in both the services and products areas. We are also pleased to note that as part of the deal to bring these assets to Amtech, we will have the support of a number of experts at DTL that will facilitate a smooth and orderly transition.
Defence R&D Canada Suffield Contracts (31 July 2015) - Amtech, since 1995, has supported defence R&D at DRDC Suffield (formerly Defence Research Establishment Suffield) in a variety of areas including explosive physics, CBW defence / protection, tele-operated and autonomous vehicle technologies, and counter-IED technologies. Recent contract awards include a contract for maintenance and operation of the SEEC Chamber and a contract for Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Engineering and Technical Services. Amtech works closely with Suffield's defence scientists and technologists in supporting these contracts from our Medicine Hat, Alberta office and Systems Integration Facility.
Explosive & Energetic Device Trials (15 July 2015) - Amtech, working with senior scientists and technologists at DRDC Suffield has been awarded a multi-year year contract for providing professional management, engineering and technical services in the conduct of explosive & energetic device trials. The work will be conducted at DRDC Suffield on the Experimental Proving Ground. The work supports a number of Suffield national and international commitments.
Test Support for Suffield Experimental Exposure Chamber (SEEC) (13 January 2015) - Amtech has been awarded a follow-on contract for test support at the SEEC at DRDC Suffield. Amtech has had several contracts supporting the operation of the SEEC facility. Amtech was the prime contractor for the design, development and commissioning of this facility.
AUTOMATION / PLC's
Accreditation and Dealer Accreditation (31 July 2015) - Amtech has extensive expertise in a number of automation and programmable logic controller specialized areas. We have pursued and obtained accreditation as Reliable Controls dealer in 2010 and as a Siemens Canada Talon VAP in 2015. We are also certified service providers for GE Fanuc systems and for LabView (National Instruments).
Water Treatment Plant (WTP), Canadian Forces Base Suffield (14 July 2015) - Working as a subcontractor for Amron Construction of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Amtech supports Amron water treatment automation controls work at the WTP and other facilities at CFB Suffield at Ralston, Alberta. Amron has recently been awarded a follow-on multi-year contract for this support through Defence Construction Canada.
Siemens Canada Talon Dealer (30 April 2015) - Amtech is pleased to announce that in April 2015 we became a Siemens Canada TALON Building Management System products dealer and service provider for Southeast Alberta.
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The 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup is the 17th edition of the FIBA Basketball World Cup happening in Spain (Barcelona, Bilbao, Granada, Gran Canaria, Madrid, Sevilla) on August 30-September 14, 2014. The tournament was previously known as the FIBA World Championship.
This will be the last time that this tournament is being held on a four-year cycle. The next FIBA World Cup will be held five years later, in 2019.
There are 24 teams from 213 federations taking part in this year's FIBA Basketball World Cup. The winner will automatically qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Please find below the complete schedule and score tally (with score breakdown per quarter). This will be updated daily.


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WATCH: Dad pays R19k and month on apartment for daughter's cats
London – Two cats are living together in a flat that costs their owner £ 1 167 (about R19 400) a month.
Troy Good could not look after his daughter's cats Tina and Louise because they did not get on with his dog.
So he's renting the flat in San Jose, California. Its owner David Callisch admitted it was "weird" but added: "They do not smoke." They do not play loud music.
The flat is also furnished with a couch and cat tree. Tina and Louise are named after the characters on the FOX animated show Bob's Burgers.
Good visits every day and sends pictures to his daughter Victoria at college. His decision has been mocked as "peak Silicon Valley" in an area that, despite his wealth, has a homeless crisis.
"Basically I've got two renters that do not have opposing thumbs," Callisch told Mercury News. "It's really great. They're very quiet, obviously. The only problem is they stink the place. "


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What's truly possible for the Pacific?
The World Bank have spent the past two years trying to work that out. Here are some of the answers.
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Highland Homes has just announced that they have begun pre-selling homes in Lawler Park – The Crossing. Located in Frisco, Texas this master planned community will have beautiful 75 by 125 foot home sites and Highland Homes will be introducing exceptional new floor plan designs. Home prices start in the $430's.
Lawler Park is a master planned community located just north of State Highway 121 off of Independence Parkway. The Crossings will consist of 199 homes ranging from 2900 to 4700 square feet. Prices will begin in the $430's.
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I have to write a letter to a very important person and would like to know if it's good o not. Please help me.
Thank you very much for your response. I am very interested in the history of video games industry since the first of them appeared. For many years I have an undiminishing interest in the "Company name" games development and I would like to know if I can hope for a straight talk with you. I would like to know if my suggestion about the "Company name" game of "Game name" success unlike the "Another game name" project obtained dominant position in the market for some time is right or not. As I understand it, "Game name" add-on development policy of the company as well as the success of the film with the same title had a great part in it. However, mass media does not always provide accurate information about the developers' official position, and I would like to discuss it with you. Can I hope for your honesty in the discussion? Please keep in mind that I am going to contact you via e-mail of "e-mail@email.com"
I used to work for a major gaming company and they created games to tie in with movies and TV as well as stand alones and I had a little trouble determining exactly what it is you want to speak with this person about. I did re-write the letter for you, but I still think it might be unclear.
Are you saying that you want to talk with them about the idea or thoughts you have that the main reason the game was a huge success was due to the fact that it was a tie-in or piggyback to a movie and that the success of that one game has in turn has made the company a dominate player in the market?
Also, an "official" position is not what you want, you want to know the real story and that would be more off-the-record. Most times when these folks speak to the media they have "scripts" they need to adhere to and can't or aren't allowed to say certain things as they are representing the Company. If he tells you "unofficially" or "chats" with you, that is different as he is not speaking on behalf of the company, he is saying his own opinion.
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Q: How to access specific row of multidimensional NumPy array with different dimension? I have a NumPy array with two dimensions so that first array are numbers from 1 to 50 and second 50 to 150:
a =numpy.array([[1,2,3,...,50],[50,51,52...,150]]).
I want to print only specified row for example second row by means of
print(a[1,:]),
to get [50,51,52...,150]  however it shows
    print((a[1,:]))
IndexError: too many indices for array

error. When I reduced second row to the same number of elements as the first one, it works. So, the problem is printing specified row with different dimension. If possible, could you tell how to deal with this, please ? Thanks!

A: With a different number of elements in the 2 parts, you don't get a 2d array:
In [15]: a1=list(range(1,6))
In [16]: a2=list(range(5,16))
In [17]: a=np.array([a1,a2])
In [18]: a
Out[18]: array([[1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]], dtype=object)
In [19]: a[1]
Out[19]: [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]
In [20]: a.shape
Out[20]: (2,)

Note the dtype.  It's object.  a is a 2 element array, containing 2 lists.  It is, for most purposes just a list of your two original lists, and has to be indexed in the same way:
In [21]: [a1,a2]
Out[21]: [[1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]]

If the 2 components have the same length, the np.array does construct a 2d array.
When you have problems like this, check the shape and dtype.  It's dangerous to just assume these properties. Print them out.  And be wary of mixing list or arrays of different length with numpy.  It works best with data that fits a neat regular multidimensional structure.

A: It does not make sense to have different number of elements in different rows of a same matrix. To work around your problem, it is better to first fill all the missing elements in rows with 0 or NA so that number of elements in all rows are equal.
Please also look at answers in Numpy: Fix array with rows of different lengths by filling the empty elements with zeros. I am implementing one of the best solutions mentioned there for your problem.
import numpy as np
def numpy_fillna(data):

    lens = np.array([len(i) for i in data])
    mask = np.arange(lens.max()) < lens[:,None]

    out = np.zeros(mask.shape, dtype=data.dtype)
    out[mask] = np.concatenate(data)
    return out

a =np.array([range(1,50),range(50,150)])
data=numpy_fillna(a)

print data[1,:]

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The neverending Brexit saga
Charles Richardson British Isles, Europe, Political issues 17 December 2020 26 January 2022
If Ian Dunt hadn't got to it first, I could have titled this "Oh sweet Christ not Brexit again." But yes, Brexit is back in the headlines, with the looming deadline of 31 December for the end of the transitional period that this year has preserved open trade between Britain and the European Union.
Last Sunday was supposed to be the last opportunity for the parties to agree on a trade deal that would keep things moving smoothly beyond that date. For several days beforehand, the word from both sides seemed to be that agreement was out of reach. But at the last minute they recovered at least a fragment of optimism – enough, at least, to decide to keep talking for a bit longer.
The British deny it, but it appears that they were the ones who made a key concession on aligning regulatory standards with the EU. But an agreement is still no certainty, with reports that significant gaps remain on several issues, including the emotionally-laden question of fishing access.
Ursula von der Leyen, the EU's head of government, said this morning that there was a "narrow" path available to a deal, and that the "next few days are going to be decisive." (Haven't we heard that before?) Even if ratification by the two parliaments cannot be completed before the end of the year, it may be possible to apply an agreement on a provisional basis.
One source of trouble for the negotiations, however, has already been removed, although at a possible future cost for the British. Prime minister Boris Johnson agreed two weeks ago to drop his threat to abrogate the provisions of the withdrawal agreement relating to Northern Ireland, ensuring that trade across the Irish border at least should remain relatively trouble-free.
The price of that is that there will definitely be some sort of customs and regulatory border in the Irish Sea, putting Northern Ireland in a different category from the rest of the country. That in turn can hardly be anything other than a step towards eventual Irish unity, although how exactly that will play out will depend on the complex politics of the province as much as on the future of the trade talks.
Despite their pose as unionists, it seems that for Johnson and the Brexiters Northern Ireland is very much an afterthought. So, for that matter, is Scotland, where an election in May is expected to give its government a mandate for another referendum on independence. A messy, "no deal" breakup with the Europeans on 1 January would be just the thing that might induce the Scots to jump ship.
But for all the differences in style and rhetoric, and for all that seems to have happened since then, Johnson is in the same fundamental position as was his predecessor, Theresa May, throughout her unhappy tenure. He is simultaneously trying to satisfy both the hard Brexiters on one flank and the demands of a practical working relationship with Europe on the other – and finding that it can't be done.
It can't be done because the hard Brexiters want the impossible: to build a prosperous trading nation while giving the finger to their largest trade partner. Johnson is intelligent enough to know that, but so far he has been closing his eyes to its implications. The reality may now be beginning to dawn.
Otherwise, if "no deal" is the outcome this time, there will be short-term chaos at the frontier. But it will not end the relationship; there will be more negotiations next year, and eventually agreement of some sort will be reached. But at each round, Britain's negotiating position gets worse. The Europeans can cope with the inconvenience for much longer, and have a strong incentive to not allow the British to undermine the rules of the single market.
Just like the post-election shenanigans at the same time in the United States, it's a lesson in what happens when those in charge of a political party decide that they are not bound by the facts of objective reality and can remake the world on their own whim. It's exhilarating for a while, but reality catches up with them in the end.
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Fisker Karma Plug-in Hybrid Makes Debut at Race Track
The 100mpg Fisker Karma Plug-in Hybrid saloon has made its public driving debut at a race track in America.
A prototype of the 403hp full size saloon reached speeds in excess of 100mph, in both Sport (hybrid) and Stealth (electric only) modes around Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
Fisker Automotive co-founder and COO Bernhard Koehler was driving the Karma, just 19 months after it was introduced as a concept vehicle.
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Although the Fisker Karma can reach 60mph in six seconds and a top speed of 125mph it can also achieve well over 100mpg. Carbon emissions are also much lower than today's hybrids.
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The Karma has a range of 50 emission-free miles on a full charge of its Lithium-ion battery, and a total range of 300 miles thanks to an on-board generator powered by a 260hp, four-cylinder petrol engine. Combined with two powerful electric motors, these components make up Fisker's Q-DRIVE powertrain.


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Q: SBCL: building a standalone executable How do I build a standalone executable in SBCL?  I've tried
; SLIME 2.20
CL-USER> (defun hullo ()
                     (format t "hullo"))
HULLO
CL-USER> (sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die "hullo" :toplevel #'hullo :executable t)

but that just produces the following error.
Cannot save core with multiple threads running.

Interactive thread (of current session):
  #<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {10019563F3}>

Other threads:
  #<THREAD "Swank Sentinel" RUNNING {100329E073}>,
  #<THREAD "control-thread" RUNNING {1003423A13}>,
  #<THREAD "reader-thread" RUNNING {1003428043}>,
  #<THREAD "swank-indentation-cache-thread" RUNNING
     {1003428153}>,
  #<THREAD "auto-flush-thread" RUNNING {1004047DA3}>,
  #<THREAD "repl-thread" RUNNING {1004047FA3}>
   [Condition of type SB-IMPL::SAVE-WITH-MULTIPLE-THREADS-ERROR]

What am I doing wrong?

A: What you are doing wrong is trying to save an image while multiple threads are running. Unlike many errors in Lisp the error message explains exactly what the problem is.
If you look up the function in the sbcl manual here then you find that indeed one may not save an image with multiple threads running. The extra threads come from swank (the CL half of SLIME). The manual says that you may add functions to *save-hooks* which destroy excess threads and functions to *init-hooks* to restore threads.
One way around all this is to not save the image when it is running through slime but instead to start sbcl directly at a terminal (note: no readline support), load your program and save from there.
Working with slime is different. In theory there is a SWANK-BACKEND:SAVE-IMAGE function but I'm not sure if that works. Also as saving an image kills the process you may want to fork (SB-POSIX:FORK) first, unless you are on Windows. But forking causes problems due to not being well specified and file descriptor issues (i.e. if you try fork->close swank connection->save and die then you may find that the connection in the parent process is closed (or worse, corrupted by appearing open but being closed at some lower level)). One can read about such things online. Note that due to the way sbcl threads are implemented, forking clones only the thread that forks and the other threads are not cloned. Thus forking and then saving should work but may cause problems when running the executable due to partial slime state.
You may be interested in buildapp.
If you want to be able to use slime with your saved application you can load swank and start listening on a socket or port (maybe with some command line argument) and then in Emacs you may connect to that swank backend with slime.

A: You have to run save-lisp-and-die from a new sbcl, not from Slime. Dan Robertson explains more.
It is cumbersome the first time, but you can put it in a Makefile and re-use it. Don't forget to load your dependencies.
build:
    sbcl --load cl-torrents.asd \
         --eval '(ql:quickload :torrents)' \
         --eval '(use-package :torrents)' \ # not mandatory
         --eval "(sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die #p\"torrents\" :toplevel #'main :executable t)"

The quickload implies Quicklisp is already loaded, which may be the case if you installed Quicklisp on your machine, because then your ~/.sbclr contains quicklisp loading script ((load quicklisp-init)).
However sb-ext is not portable across implementations. asdf:make is the cross-platform equivalent. Add this in your .asd system definition:
:build-operation "program-op" ;; leave as is
:build-pathname "<binary-name>"
:entry-point "<my-package:main-function>"

and then call asdf:make to build the executable.
You can have a look at buildapp (mentioned above), a still popular app to do just that, for SBCL and CCL. It is in Debian. http://lisp-lang.org/wiki/article/buildapp An example usage looks like
buildapp --output myapp \
         --asdf-path . \
         --asdf-tree ~/quicklisp/dists \
         --load-system my-app \
         --entry my-app:main

But see also Roswell, a more general purpose tool, also supposed to build executables, but it is less documented. https://roswell.github.io/
If you want to build an executable on a CI system (like Gitlab CI), you may appreciate a lisp Docker image which has already SBCL, others lisps and Quicklisp installed, and if you want to parse command line arguments, see https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/testing.html#gitlab-ci and (my) tutorial: https://vindarel.github.io/cl-torrents/tutorial.html#org8567d07


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Law and Childhood Studies: Current Legal Issues Volume 14
Michael Freeman
The Current Legal Issues series is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyses points of controversy in the use, and abuse, of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice. This book, the fourteenth volume in the Current Legal Issues series, offers an insight into the state of law ... More
The Current Legal Issues series is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyses points of controversy in the use, and abuse, of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice. This book, the fourteenth volume in the Current Legal Issues series, offers an insight into the state of law and childhood studies scholarship today. Focusing on the inter-connections between the two disciplines, it addresses the key issues informing current debates. Topics include cyber bullying, children's human rights, childhood in conflict-stricken areas, foster care, and parental discipline.
Keywords: legal thought, legal arguments, legal theory, law and childhood, children, bullying, children's human rights, foster care, parental discipline
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2012 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199652501.001.0001
Michael Freeman, editor
Professor of English Law, University College London
Inclusion and Democracy, Iris Marion Young (2002)
2 A State of Imperfect Transformation: Law, Myth, and the Feminine in Outside Over There, Labyrinth, and Pan's Labyrinth
Anne McGillivray
3 Towards a Sociology of Children's Rights
4 Why Judges Need to Know and Understand Childhood Studies
Mark Henaghan
5 Courts and the Construction of Childhood: A New Way of Thinking
John Tobin
6 Childhood, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and Research: What Constitutes a 'Rights-Based' Approach?
Laura Lundy, and Lesley McEvoy
7 Child-Led Organizations and the Advocacy of Adults: Experiences from Bangladesh and Nicaragua
Manfred Liebel
8 Transforming Children's Human Rights—From Universal Claims to National Particularity
Ann Quennerstedt
9 Modern African Childhoods: Does Law Matter?
Julia Sloth-Nielsen
10 The Age of Conflict: Rethinking Childhood, Law, and Age Through the Israeli-Palestinian Case1
Hedi Viterbo
11 Children's Participation in Court Proceedings when Parents Divorce or Separate: Legal Constructions and Lived Experiences
E. Kay, M. Tisdall, and F. Morrison
12 Children's Consent and 'Assent' to Healthcare Research
Priscilla Alderson
13 Children and Young People as Moral and Legal Actors: Findings from Studies Conducted in Northern Italy
Roberta Bosisio
14 Rights-Based Restorative Justice in Canada: From Silence to Citizenship
Shannon A. Moore, and Richard C. Mitchell
15 New Zealand Children and Young People's Perspectives on Relocation Following Parental Separation
Megan Gollop, and Nicola Taylor
16 Vulnerability, Children, and the Law
Jonathan Herring
17 'When the Kissing has to Stop': Children, Sexual Behaviour, and the Criminal Law
Heather Keating
18 Tackling Cyber-Bullying from a Children's Rights Perspective
Anne S.Y. Cheung
19 Exploring the Contested Role of Mandatory Reporting Laws in the Identification of Severe Child Abuse and Neglect
Ben Mathews
20 Domestic Violence, Contact, and the ECHR
21 Reframing the Practice of 'Son Preference' Through the Millennium Development Goals
Michelle Ratpan
22 Time to Grow Up: The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's Jurisprudence of the Right to Development
Noam Peleg
23 CRC's Performance of the Child as Developing
Ashleigh Barnes
24 Minding the Gap? Children with Disabilities and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Bronagh Byrne
25 'Special' Treatment, 'Special' Rights: Children Who Hear Voices as Doubly Diminished Identities
China Mills
26 The Child's Right to Privacy and Article 8 European Convention on Human Rights
Kirsty Hughes
27 Foster Care Partnerships in Finland 1990–2010: From Social Task to Ensuring Better Market Share?
Petra Kouvonen
28 Parental Discipline, Criminal Laws, and Responsive Regulation
Bronwyn Naylor, and Bernadette J. Saunders
29 Litigating the Child's Right to a Life Free from Violence: Seeking the Prohibition of Parental Physical Punishment of Children Through the Courts
Aoife Nolan
30 Discipline and the Ethics of Care—Constructing Caregiver Discourses from an Urban Poor Area in Tanzania
Sofia Johnson Frankenberg
31 Caring for Children: Risks and Responsibilities in the Law of Tort
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What Is The Definition Of Goaltending In Basketball?
1. This is a violation when a player interferes with the ball when it's above the rim, is in its downward flight to the basket and has the possibility of going into the basket. In an NBA and NCAA basketball game, goaltending is also called if a player interferes with the ball after it has already touched the backboard, is in a downward flight to the basket and has a chance to go into the basket.
If goaltending is called, then the team committing the shot is awarded the basket.
Examples Of How Goaltending Is Used In Commentary
1. The defense is charged with goaltending as the center swatted away the ball after it had already touched the backboard.
2. The block is waved off and the center is charged with goaltending as the ball had already reached its peak in flight and was on its way down.
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'Denmark will be attacked' says one expert, 'Denmark safe' says another
Security in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, was tightened after the attacks on London Thursday when 49 people were killed. Denmark supported the U.S.-led war on Iraq and fears of an attack are rising. "It's not a question of if we'll be attacked, but when" said security specialist Mikkel Vedby at the University in Copenhagen.
"This is how the world has become in the 21st century. There are people out there that want to harm us. They are at war with us and it seems we're in war with them. We might be safe tomorrow or the next ten years." said Mikkel Vedby. He later added that Denmark needed to get ready to face a major terrorist attack.
The group that has claimed responsibility for the attacks on London, the "Secret Organisation Group of Al-Qaeda of Jihad Organisation", issued a statement yesterday where attacks on countries that supported the "crusades" against Iraq and Afghanistan are threatened. Denmark is on that list. The statement has not been verified.
Denmark safe
Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen, a security expert from the Danish Institute for International Studies, disagrees and says Denmark is not in danger of being a terrorist target because radical Islamic groups there are too small to be able to organise an attack. "It is true we are in a similar position as the UK. The Danish government does work closely with the United States and the United Kingdom governments because of Iraq and Afghanistan."
As in other countries, security in Denmark has been stepped up at airports, rail stations, ports, borders, and other public places.
Lars Dahlager and Jacob Svendsen. "Ekspert: Danmark vil blive angrebet" — Politiken, July 8, 2005
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(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) – A Columbia couple whose home was trashed by partying teenagers while they were on vacation say they are still trying to repair the thousands of dollars in damage but they will never restore their sense of safety.
Steve Johnston and Kathy Keithley-Johnston's problems began last December, when they left their home in the care of a friend while they went on vacation. The friend's 15-year-old grandson stole the key and hosted a party that attracted 60 to 70 people – mostly Rock Bridge High School students.
Teens returned to the home several times during the week, causing about $70,000 in damages and destroying or stealing more than $300,000 in valuables and personal items, The Columbia Daily Tribune reported.
The tile, carpet, walls and furniture were damaged, with excrement and drugs left around the house. Thieves took art, baseball cards, designer handbags, 10 guns and personal mementos, Keithley-Johnson said.
Four teenagers, including the boy who took the key, were convicted in juvenile court of burglary and ordered to pay almost $10,000 in restitution.
The house's contents were insured up to $161,000 and repairs are scheduled to begin soon. But it will never feel like home again, Keithley-Johnston said.
"Things are just things, but this is where my memories are," she said. "I just feel like" the sense of safety "has been a façade. I don't believe it anymore. We are all in jeopardy."
Keithley-Johnston said she found photos on Facebook and Twitter of teens with her property and wearing the couple's clothes but only a few insignificant items were returned.
Columbia police Sgt. Joe Bernhard said Friday he could not speak about the ongoing investigation. The police department also denied the Tribune's request for reports relating to the incident, citing its ongoing investigation.
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Mineralogical Magazine (2002) 66 (3): 385-407.
Post-Variscan vein-type Co-Ni-Bi ores of the Bieber deposit, Spessart mountains, Germany, which are related to the Permian Kupferschiefer, have been investigated by ore microscopy, X-ray powder diffraction and electron-probe microanalysis. The samples contain a variety of ore minerals, notably skutterudite, native bismuth, cobaltite, alloclasite, niccolite, maucherite, gersdorffite, rammelsbergite/pararammelsbergite, safflorite, loellingite and emplectite. The ores display structures indicative of multiple brecciation and complex zoned arsenide assemblages. Three sequential stages of deposition are identified, which are (1) the Cu stage, (2) the main Co-Ni-Bi stage, and (3) the late stage. The arsenide minerals, notably skutterudite, diarsenides and sulpharsenides, show a large range of compositional variation in Co-Ni-Fe space. A relatively limited number of skutterudite and diarsenide compositions lie outside the compositional fields established in the literature. Skutterudite and diarsenides are characterized by a significant substitution of As by S up to 0.44 a.p.f.u. and 0.31 a.p.f.u., respectively, which is larger than the range previously reported for these minerals. Sulpharsenide compositions can be grouped into three populations, which conform to cobaltian arsenopyrite, cobaltite and gersdorffite. They display highly variable As/S ratios between 0.95:1.00 and 1.29:0.73, consistent with experimental data. Estimates of the formation temperatures, based on the presence of dendritic native bismuth and emplectite, are in the range 100–300°C, similar to different post-Variscan mineralization styles widespread in Central Europe. Comparison of the Co-Ni-Bi vein assemblage with the framework of available paragenetic information and radiometric age data for regional mineralization events indicates an age of mineralization of ~150–160 Ma for the Bieber deposit.


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Guy Ritchie Discusses 'King Arthur' + New Stills with Entertainment Weekly
Back in the days of yore — specifically July 2015 — EW brought you the first look at Charlie Hunnam as a gritty, wisecracking sovereign in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. A year and a half later, fans are still waiting to see the former Sons of Anarchy star pull the sword from that stone.
EW caught up with director Guy Ritchie, who's putting the finishing touches on the special effects for the film (set for release on May 12), to talk about the delay and how he planned to make King Arthur a hero audiences in 2017 will care about.
We last spoke about a year and a half ago. Where are you in the process right now?
As of five minutes ago, it was the last visual effects meeting I had, so I am at the end of it, as of five minutes ago. It has gone on for some time.
The release date shifted three different times. What was the main reason for the date changing?
The date kept shifting, I think, simply because of competition. We could have wrapped up a year, but since we didn't have to wrap up a year ago, you keep this visual effects things going on so that you can get the best out of them. But it's such a crowded market out there, trying to find a weekend that you stand half a chance in is tough. That's the only reason.
Did the shift allow you to do anything other than take more time with the special effects?
I quite like taking some more time because I can see the trouble people find themselves in by forcing a visual effect, which really does need more time. We've had the luxury of sitting back. If we did not have that luxury, your visual effects aren't going to be there. We've had a year, haven't we? We've have a year to improve them, and today is the last visual effects meeting. It's a year's extra work.
This King Arthur started as three different projects, including one you were developing. What was different about your initial project?
This is the one, essentially, except in this one we've got 300-foot elephants. Though really, that's the only difference. It's the same story, but this one has more of an element of fantasy in it, which is consistent within the tone, but other than that, it's pretty much the same story.
Your big idea was to bring this guy down to the street level, right?
Yeah. I quite like John Boorman's Excalibur, and I think Boorman touched on things that I thought, "Oh, I'd like to have a go at that." He did a pretty good job at some aspects of it. It's a genre that's hard to tackle, and I wanted to tackle it.
What makes it a hard genre to crack?
All genres are hard to crack if you're familiar with a particular genre. It's easy for a filmmaker to stay within the genre he's familiar with. It's more challenging when you get outside of that. You have to use reference points that you're sympathetic to. What is a reference point to King Arthur that you're sympathetic to. The only thing I could think of is elements of Excalibur. There wasn't anything to copy, right? I have opinions about what they got right, what they didn't get right. So now you're going, "Well, you have to run that gauntlet. Are you funny? Are you unfunny? Are you funny and serious?" All of that takes a while to find your tone and your voice, and it's challenging, like in Sherlock Holmes. That was a genre I hadn't tackled before, so you have to find a voice within that. So it's challenging, and you doubt yourself. Then you're confident and you doubt yourself and you're confident again. For me, I'm trying to think of a film in the genre that I really like…. And I'm quite quiet on that. There isn't too many. There are elements within different films that I really like, but as a whole film, there's not one I can think of.
Do you think audience expectations have changed in the last 10 or 15 years?
Yes. Film, like everything else, is subject to fashion. If you watch how films were made 15 years ago and watch how they're being made now, the tonality is totally different. We've moved toward technically exponentially, so you can get away with visual effects from 15 years ago. But you have a broader tapestry, which means you can be more ambitious about the visual effects. In turn, it affects everything else. Once you change the tone and rhythm of one thing, it affects the tone and rhythm of everything else.
What did having Charlie Hunnam mean for that task, of updating Arthur?
To be fair to Charlie, Charlie won the role because he paid for his own flight. I wasn't even thinking about Charlie. He wanted to be screen tested, and he won it, as did Astrid [Berges-Frisby]. They won it through the good, old-fashioned route.
What did you need from the guy who was going to be your Arthur?
I need someone who was going to understand my vision and have a similar disposition. I needed to realize that we were going to be on the same page, so that anything I said was going to mean something to him. I needed him to trust me. Those things were conspicuous in Charlie.
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As the economic recovery continues to hobble along, retailers are hoping to propel holiday spending by offering layaway programs again for the 2013 season.
Layaway began making a comeback during the economic downturn. "It spiked in popularity during the recession as people were cash crunched," says Todd Mark, vice president of education for the nonprofit Consumer Credit Counseling Services of Greater Dallas.
For example, Wal-Mart has eliminated its $5 service fee, making it more competitive with Toys R Us and Babies R Us, which again in 2013 have waived service fees for the holidays.
Last year, Wal-Mart charged a $5 fee for setting up a layaway purchase, but refunded it in the form of a gift card once the purchase was completed. Now the fees are on the back end, with Wal-Mart imposing a $10 cancellation fee if the transaction isn't completed. Last year it charged no cancellation fee.
Meanwhile, Best Buy has canceled its layaway program altogether after offering it for several years.
While retailers offering layaway aim to be customer friendly, that doesn't mean shoppers are flocking to take advantage of the plans. In a report this summer by the market research company Mintel, only 11 percent of the 2,000 consumers it surveyed said they used layaway for their holiday purchases.
With layaway, shoppers make a down payment on merchandise, then pay it off by a set date or within a certain time frame. Some retailers require payments every two weeks; others have no set payment schedule.
This year, retailers including Wal-Mart and Toys R Us rolled out layaway in September to try to get a jump on the holiday rush.
For retailers, the goal is to "get this limited pool of money into their store before someone else gets it into their store," says Sheri Petras, CEO of CFI Group, which gathers insights on customer satisfaction.
Those early holiday shoppers can be a boon for layaway. A CFI Group survey this fall found that by October, nearly one-quarter of respondents had already started their shopping. "That does bode well for layaway," Petras says.
"Layaway is a good budgeting tool," says Mark. By using such programs, you can start your holiday shopping weeks in advance, spread out payments over time, and avoid being walloped with hefty credit card bills when January comes along.
While layaway can be a helpful budgeting strategy, it isn't without critics, who fault the service fees and cancellation fees charged by retailers.
Yet layaway continues to take a back seat to credit cards for holiday purchases. The Mintel survey found nearly 20 percent of respondents use credit cards such as Visa and MasterCard, and 12 percent use store credit cards.
If consumers use credit cards and don't pay the balances off, "the interest could be way more than any fees associated with layaway," Mark says.
So far, consumers have continued to rein in credit card spending. According to the Federal Reserve, as of August, consumers had almost $849 billion in revolving debt, which primarily consists of credit card debt. In 2008, revolving debt topped $1 trillion.
According to the National Retail Federation, the average shopper will spend almost $738 on gifts and other holiday merchandise this year, down 2 percent from 2012. About 40 percent of shopping will be done online.
That could benefit Sears and Kmart, which both allow shoppers to make layaway purchases online or in the store, and allow you to make payments online.
Layaway is a good budgeting tool.
And online layaway sites such as eLayaway have cropped up in recent years, allowing you to buy everything from electronics to pet care products. Many items require a payment of just a few dollars each week. To ship in time for Christmas, final payments must be made on the site by Dec. 2.
Using layaway lets you lock in the hottest gifts of the season, rather than saving up for weeks or months, and then scrambling to find a Big Hugs Elmo or LeapFrog LeapPad Ultra as Christmas morning nears.
Do you plan to make a purchase on layaway this year?
No, the tried and true methods of cash, checks and credit cards work just fine for me.
No, but I am curious about how it works.
Yes, and it will be a first time for me.
Yes, I have bought on layaway before and I will do it again.
"If it's a hot item, it could be difficult to find around the holidays," says John Breyault, a vice president at the National Consumers League.
Doing shopping early also can help stave off last-minute impulse buying. "They get caught up in the hype of the season that money equals love," Mark says.
Then you could face the consequences as credit card bills start pouring in in January.
That's also the time consumers start pouring into consumer credit counseling services for assistance and advice as they worry about how they'll pay their holiday bills, Mark says. "Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the kickoff for our busiest time of the year," which runs from January to April, he says.
Whether you're making a layaway purchase online or in the store, it's crucial that you read the fine print before you sign up, and have all the details spelled out in writing, Breyault says.
Service fees for making a purchase on layaway.
The size of the down payment.
Which items are eligible for layaway.
Whether there's a minimum purchase price to be eligible for layaway.
If you get a price break if the item goes on sale.
If you have to make payments in person or can make them online.
What happens if you miss a payment.
Cancellation fees if you don't complete the purchase.
The deadline for paying off the purchase..