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Consistent bedtime routines help children's sleep self-control
Posted by Reuters | Jun 11, 2019
By Carolyn Crist
(Reuters Health) – Using consistent bedtime strategies such as allowing infants to fall asleep on their own can improve their sleep, New Zealand researchers say.
Children whose parents used these strategies were more likely to sleep longer and have fewer bedtime behavioral difficulties, the researchers wrote in the journal Sleep Health.
"It's really hard being a parent, and we we'd like to be able to tell them which strategies to implement that will actually help," said lead study author Burt Hatch of the University of California at Davis MIND Institute in Sacramento.
About a third of infants experience sleep difficulties, such as trouble falling asleep or repeatedly waking throughout the night, the study authors wrote. These sleep problems are often associated with difficulties during later development, including anxiety, aggression and impulsivity.
"Although consistency around bedtime has always been thought to be important, there's not much data around parents implementing it or the long-term effects," he told Reuters Health by phone.
Hatch and colleagues analyzed data from a randomized controlled trial that was primarily designed to study ways to prevent infants from becoming overweight. As part of that study, parents were educated about appropriate ways to manage an infant's sleep with minimal interference. Emphasis was placed on putting infants down to sleep when tired but still awake, allowing them to fall asleep on their own without touching or feeding, providing a consistent environment for infants to sleep in, and minimizing parents sleeping with their infants on the same bed.
The research team surveyed parents during the fourth and sixth months after birth to learn how often they followed the strategies. Then, three and a half years later, they asked parents to rate difficulties with bedtime resistance, sleep initiation and nighttime waking.
About 15 percent of parents used the four strategies consistently, with younger moms more likely to use more strategies. At the same time, moms who experienced maternal depression were less likely to use the bedtime strategies.
Importantly, children were more likely to have sleep self-control by age 3 if more bedtime strategies were used and were more likely to have sleep difficulties if their mother had maternal depression. Consistent bedtime routines helped sleep duration as well.
"The most important message here is that parents can make simple changes that have both an immediate impact and long-term impact," Jodi Mindell of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, told Reuters Health by phone. Mindell, who wasn't involved with this study, researches pediatric sleep disorders.
A limitation of the study is that it lacked diversity, Hatch said. This intervention was focused on one maternity hospital in New Zealand that serves mostly Caucasian, college-educated parents. These programs should be offered to higher risk groups, including different socioeconomic levels and those with a history of depression, he said.
"We often find that expectant mothers are largely focused on the birth as opposed to the many challenges that come after that process," said Liora Kempler of the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia. Kempler, who wasn't involved with this study, researches maternal and infant sleep after childbirth, especially among first-time mothers.
Although most perinatal programs offer advice about pain relief, feeding and sleep after birth, the information is often brief or leaves room for questions, she said.
"I believe it's useful for pregnant women to educate themselves about parenting over time and how their behavior can impact their infant," Kempler told Reuters Health by email. "This not only helps them make informed decisions but gives them confidence in making those decisions, rather than being confused by the variable and often conflicting advice offered by Dr. Google and well-meaning family and friends."
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/2Wz5BUd Sleep Health, online May 20, 2019.
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Script Analysis with Kimberly Jentzen
December 16, 2012 /in Actors /by MTT
Script Analysis has so many important advantages for you as an actor. It's crucial to have a grasp on your character's internal life, as that will give you an edge in what choices you will be making for an original performance.
Understanding how to analyze a script, also known as, breaking down a script, applies to every aspect of acting, from auditioning to performance—from a small role, to a role that carries the entire film or TV series. Every time you invest in an intimate study of your character, you become prepared to deliver something exciting and special. You also learn about yourself and your own perceptions in the process, and in addition, you expand your understanding of others.
The job of analyzing the script plays an important role for each and every person that has a creative decision on your set or stage; from costumes to set design—and especially for the director, who will be breaking down and analyzing your character as well. The director will have ideas that he or she will be sharing, and you will need to add those adjustments to your performance. You will want to understand the director's input by doing your own preparation so your collaboration together is easy.
Every time you pick up a script, your approach will often change as the demands of every script differs and requires different ways of examining them. The biggest distinction is the difference between a comedy script verses a dramatic script.
Instincts and Your Preparation
When you invest time in an intimate study of a character, you calibrate your own instincts to the character's instincts. You begin to think "in character" and you begin to have a new perspective that is a little different than your own—and sometimes very different than your own. This gives your performance nuances and specifics that feed into your creative energy in performance. This is when acting is captivating—when the actor lets go and adopts the character's behavior, history and humanity.
Understanding the character allows you to make choices based on their motivation. The motivation is always found in the script—it's right in there for you to discover. Sometimes it's buried and you have to excavate it, other times it's more obvious. The motivation delivers the driving force of your character.
Playing the Love
Characters can be similar to the interest we have in a close friend. Think of the people you know and love. When you love someone, you've invested time with them… you have gotten to know them. You understand the things that are similar and the things that are different from you. When you care about a character, you "play the love" of knowing them. You also play the parts that are different than you because you have taken the time to understand them.
When you feel judged or disapproved of by a friend, the friendship often suffers. You might not feel like they understand you. You might not want to spend a lot of time with them, and most likely, they won't either. It's the same with a character—when we judge them, we shut down our willingness to empathize with them. It's so important to understand why a character behaves the way they do without judging them. It's so important to understand the character you will be playing—they must make sense to you—their behavior must add up and it is your job to discover how it does.
Flexibility and Taking Direction
When you're given direction, you'll want to make the adjustments to change and adapt a choice for the requested result. To release attachment to what is the "right" way to say a line, you must release what we call "line readings." A line reading is a rote way to say the line in which the actor becomes married to the speech pattern and inflection, and can't let go of it. So you will want to be flexible by keeping the lines alive and always seeking different ways of delivering a line by exploring the subtext. Keeping the lines fresh liberates you so you can respond in the give and take of your scene partner.
Saying Your Lines Differently
Go ahead and try it. Take a line of dialogue and say it 4 or 5 different ways. See what you discover. Did the subtext change at all? You'll know you achieved a new or more interesting reading when the subtext becomes reawakened by a new delivery of your lines. This opens the door to flexibility.
The exercise of saying your lines in different and unexpected ways is important also in discovering what lives under the surface of the words. I love to hear actors in class or on set, while working on their script, discover new meanings through playing with the words out loud.
Sometimes the director or producer will ask for a specific line delivery. You will want to be able to let go of your way of executing it and deliver the line of dialogue the way they requested it. Though an actor may dislike this kind of request, it can happen. Each actor is one part of the whole of a project. Part of being a team player is the willingness to give the production what ever they request without judging it. Often the director will ask for a specific result in the acting; know that this is part of the natural exchange between director and actor. What is important is to do your dialogue in such a way that it feels organic and natural. That's your challenge.
What is also important is to do your homework, which involves script analysis and the discovery of understanding your character.
For more tools on script analysis, owning your character and playing the love, check out my book, Acting with Impact, available at Samuel French Bookstore in Hollywood, at Amazon.com and at my website at kimberlyjentzen.com
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The Return of Preventable Disease
By sarajean | 4/03/19 10:07am |
And it's the fault of the modern skeptic
Everyone's clutching their pearls at the news of measles outbreaks in the United States, where the disease had been once eradicated due to vaccinations, but this has been happening for years. Mumps, whooping cough and chicken pox are also resurging, and I have heard so many arguments that scare me much worse than the tinfoil theories do. I'm fond of a conspiracy theory as much as the next person, but I know people who don't vaccinate but enter a car every day, which is much deadlier than the risks vaccines pose.
These same people will argue that our immune systems are "meant" to handle these diseases, but I happen to be glad when we can get rid of them and help decrease child mortality, myself. My kid did get chicken pox after being vaccinated, for example, but their experience was much easier than mine. In fact, my kid had such a mild case it was misdiagnosed as something else!
While these memes regarding those against vaccinating might make me chuckle, the freaky reality of parents choosing to not vaccinate remains an unsettling one which threatens everyone. I think in a lot of these cases, if parents understood what it was like to lose a child or to have kids all around you lost to disease, they might take matters more seriously.
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2015 is a new chapter in the story of our lives. We can fill in the pages however we choose. It's a good time to ask yourself, when was the last time you did something for the first time? It was easy to have lots of first times when we were younger–first steps, first day at school, first kiss, first job, first apartment. As we get older, we have to look a little harder to create new first times for ourselves.
Author Jack London said "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." So let's go after more—more laughter, more adventures, more creating, more fun, more trips, more sleep, more real food, more kindness, more love. This new year can be the beginning of anything you want.
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Addleshaw Goddard advises Spectris/VI-grade on the acquisition of IMTEC
Addleshaw Goddard advises Spectris
The international law firm Addleshaw Goddard has advised global Spectris group, operating in more than 30 countries in the fields of precision instrumentation and controls, on the acquisition of all shares in the German company IMTEC GmbH through its German group subsidiary VI-grade. The Seller was the founder of IMTEC who after the acquisition remains the managing director of the company.
Established in 2003 near Berlin, IMTEC has grown steadily and profitably by providing innovative automation technology and simulators to key transportation OEMs and industrial groups to reduce time-to-market for new products, while lowering risk and cost. With this new addition, VI-grade augments its R&D team, enhances its manufacturing and production capabilities, and expands its global distribution and maintenance operation.
VI-grade is a leading provider of real-time simulation software and driver-in-the-loop simulators. Spectris is headquartered in Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom; the Company employs approximately 9,000 people located in more than 30 countries.
IMTEC has been a key partner and supplier to VI-grade for many years and this move represents an excellent opportunity for VI-grade to combine forces to create a powerhouse in the vehicle simulator marketplace. The acquisition also comprised the business premises of IMTEC.
Advisers Spectris/VI-grade
Addleshaw Goddard (Hamburg): Dr. Hubertus Schröder (Corporate/M&A), Helge Heinrich (Antitrust), Dr. Jan-Oliver Schrotz (Regulatory), Jens Peters (Labour Law), Dr. Staffan Wegdell und Carolyn Krampitz (both Commercial); Associates: Dr. Natalia Ilyevich (Corporate/M&A), Yves Alexander Wolff (IP/Commercial), Dr. Eva Lotte Stöckel (Finance/Real Estate); Jemma Clarke (Corporate/M&A), Tim Carter (IP/Commercial) (both Manchester).
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Non-Review Review: The Informer
Posted on August 29, 2019 by Darren
The Informer is essentially three films packaged in one.
While it's hard to precisely outline these films without giving too much away, The Informer begins as a sleazy urban thriller about a police informer before morphing into a gritty prison drama before escalating into an elaborate hostage film. There's nothing inherently wrong with any of these central premises. In fact, as fodder for film making goes, they are very reliable. Each of those three basic premises comes with stakes built in, and would be ubiquitous enough that the audience can follow along without the need for too much exposition or context.
🎵Oh Kinnaman, where'd you run to?
Oh Kinnaman, where'd you run to?
Kinnaman… where you gonna run to?🎶
Unfortunately, The Informer never quite settles on a particular tone or mood as it breezes through each of these three set-ups. The film runs just under two hours, which is a respectable run-time, but it does mean that each of those three genres ends up compressed. The film arguably spends more time on the transition between that initial urban thriller and subsequent prison drama than it does in either setting, creating the impression of a film more interested in visceral movement than a larger journey.
None of the three genres get enough screen-time or development to truly work, instead feeling like rough drafts rather than compelling set-ups. The characters and the storytelling are similarly rushed, often feeling flattened or sanded down in order to ease the movie's transition from each type of story to the next. The result is a movie that only fleetingly engages, never holding its gaze long enough to deliver on any of its potential.
Poor (in)form.
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Obtain free-response questions from previous exams together with scoring guidelines, pattern responses from exam takers, and scoring distributions. Advise your students that, when beginning an essay, they need to keep away from partaking in a mechanical repetition of the immediate after which supplying a listing of literary units. As an alternative, get them to think of methods to combine the language of literature with the content material of that literature, making connections which can be significant and telling, engaging in analysis that leads to the synthesis of recent ideas. Stress them into using greater levels of essential pondering; have them go beyond the plain and seek for a more penetrating relationship of concepts. Make them see connections that they missed on their first studying of the textual content.
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For the first two essays, you'll be presented with an excerpt and directed to analyze the excerpt for a given theme, system, or improvement. One of many passages can be poetry, and one might be prose. You'll be supplied with the writer of the work, the approximate date, and some orienting info (i.e., the plot context of an excerpt from a novel).
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The A answer supports the thesis by qualifying the connection as unhealthy in the first sentence. Then the author consists of the quoted examples that contrast what one would expect characterizes a father-daughter relationship — joyous, blessing, support, praise — towards the reality of Henchard and Elizabeth's relationship: enigma", coldness", and open chiding".
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Cameron Park Lake is a popular destinations for residents and visitors. The man-made lake covers about 10 acres of picnic spots, boat rentals, tennis courts, and playgrounds. There is also a trail that circles the lake to hike in addition to a sandy beach area with a separate swimming spot.
Modern development accelerated in the area when Larry Cameron purchased 5,000 acres of foothill land in the 1950s for ranching purposes. In the years since then, the land has slowly been divided into lots of varying sizes, including ranch-sized properties and medium and high density residential neighborhoods. Today, Cameron Park contains a mix of large ranches, single family homes, apartments and businesses.
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Here's how you can make your windows systems resemble as different types of Operating systems using Skin packs, known as Transformation packs. We have covered mostly all the well known transformation skin packs for your Windows Vista/XP and the Windows 7.
Today we will talk about the Alienware skin pack 1.0 which can be used to transform Windows 7 into Alienware.
If you are a gamer, then you must be aware of the "Alienware" which is a desktop and laptop manufacturing company. The major part is it's a subsidary of Dell and mainly assembles hardware components in Desktop PCs, as well as Laptops. Alienware's main job is making high-end machines to provide high performance for gaming.
A Deviantart member has shared an awesome "Alienware Skin Pack" or also called Theme pack and called to be Transformation pack for Windows 7 Operating system, that's what we are now talking about.
The Alienware Transformation skin pack comes with two excellent light and dark themes for Windows 7 along with some amazing boot screen, login screen, will offer users the possibility to personalize their computers by adding Alienware-specific icons, cursors and wallpapers.
Alienware Skin pack has an easy and safe installation option. You'll need to uninstall any old or other transformation theme pack before installing a newer version.
In order to install, you need to disable AUC and close all running programs, after the installation complestes, restart your system.
Note : If you don't want to install the 3rd party toolbar said above, select "Custom Installation (Advanced)" type and uncheck all the three options given at the time of installation.
I had installed in Windows 7 Service pack 1, but without SP1, Alienware Theme pack supports both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Operating Systems.


I thought I'd take a stab at the method of trick photography levitation featured this week on the Digital Photography School (DPS) blog.
It was late at night and I was trying to meet my photo-a-day deadline by midnight. So there was little planning. The image to the right was my first attempt at it, and it came out pretty clean.
With the camera sitting in the same spot on pool table, I decided to use the same concept to create a illusion using billiard balls.
First, I took a picture of me without anything but the que ball. Since I'm not levitating, I'm just part of the "background".
Without moving the camera, I next balanced a few balls on Jenga game pieces, the took the same image, without me or the que ball.
I then imported both images into Fireworks, laying the "jenga" image on top of the other and aligning them. Using the simple eraser tool, I removed the jenga pieces and the area where I am, to reveal the background image.
The only thing missing is shadows. Oh well, it was my first try.


Everyone remembers their first and holds it dear to our hearts! How did I get my first telescope? Well, read on below.
I was nine. I was highly interested in science, and was leaning toward Astronomy.
1996 and 1997 saw two great comets, Hyakutake, and the much more widely remembered Hale-Bopp.
Hale-Bopp was very well publicized because of how easy it was to spot, and was the only comet I remember that was visible all night when it was at its brightest. I remember it having two tails, and being able to see the comet "move backwards" in the sky, thus learning that a comet's tail always points away from the Sun.
It seemed everyone had a telescope pointing at it, from the Riverside Astronomical Society, to my older sister's science teacher! It was almost impossible to escape the hype around Hale-Bopp!
Dad said, "okay." But little did we know that he wasn't going to go for the cheapest and easiest one to buy, he wanted a serious piece of equipment.
Most people get their first telescopes from department stores – which are often Christmas gifts for nerdy children. The cheap telescopes usually get used a few times before the user has had enough patience with the flimsy mounts and poor optics, and then the thing starts collecting dust before it's sold in a garage sale with missing parts.
Dad got ours from a camera store, and he says that it cost around $350.00 in 1997, the equivalent of around $500 today, which means this was no cheap telescope!
It was a Celestron 4.5 inch equatorial mounted Reflector. It may be considered "small" by telescope standards, but compared to the typical Christmas gift telescopes, it was huge! It came with working Right Ascension and Declination setting circles and a clock drive, and gave us the high tech feel that trash scopes do not offer.
Sure enough, when we first used it, we could see the cloud bands and Galilean moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, the phases of Venus, and the surface features on the moon. While the telescope's optics were working just fine, the moon and planets were pretty much all we saw. Dad almost never pointed at any stars, and didn't know where any deep sky objects were.
And there was another problem! Dad never learned how to properly use the scope.
He never learned how to balance it, nor did he he know that equatorial mounted scopes have to be polar aligned to track objects properly. He also never got the clock drive installed, so every time we used it we always had to manually adjust and HOPE we got the objects back in view. I remember watching him use this telescope like it was a chore, and seeing his frustration every time the objects got lost.
And there were also no Hale-Bopp caliber comets appearing, and thus without any big incentives, this 1997 Christmas gift was about to suffer the fate of all trash telescopes!
After the death of my oldest brother in 2007 (ten years after we got the telescope), I started looking towards the heavens again. The heavens in return gave me an incentive. Comet Holmes had an outburst that October-November, and it became a naked eye object… if we were under dark enough skies.
I simply decided on my own that in order for me to find it this comet, I needed to learn the constellations and how to navigate them. It also meant that for the first time in this telescope's lifetime, someone was going to learn how to operate it!
As a result, it became "my telescope." My knowledge grew fast, and my love for Astronomy got rekindled. Pretty soon, the telescope got new life, and because of my growing knowledge of constellations and deep sky object locations, it began to view star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies!
Yes, even the clock drive got installed!
It got taken out to the desert on a regular basis, and anytime there was a celestial event, it was assembled and used, and I became that guy in a public place talking to curious people and seeing them look through it.
It has been with me on numerous trips to my usual dark sky spot, as well as other dark places like the Hopi Reservation, and has showcased planets, stars, clusters, nebulae, and galaxies in the sky to family and friends, young and old; and I'd be lying if I said it didn't chaperone me on a few dates as well.
The 1997 Celestron is to the left.
When I purchased the Orion 8 inch telescope in June 2017, the old Celestron was retired after 20 years of service. However, I keep it in a location where I can easily get it and set it up if needed, and I am sure that it will make special appearances for outreach events where I need an additional telescope!


On the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti, one of the most sacred festivals of Sikhs, US President Donald Trump greeted Sikh-Americans and Sikhs across the world.
"Trump sends warm wishes to Sikh Americans and Sikhs around the world as they celebrate the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Devji, the founder and first guru of Sikhism," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement.
Trump is currently on a two-week tour of East Asia.
The Sikh community today exemplifies the fundamental values that all Americans share - peace, tolerance, compassion, and service, Sanders said.
"President Trump also recognises the many contributions Sikh Americans have made to our great nation for more than 100 years, including through military and public service," she said.
Bollywood celebrities like Sridevi, Ajay Devgn, Anil Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan and others have extended their wishes on the auspicious day. Sridevi shared a picture of herself at the Golden Temple, Amritsar and wrote, "Guru Nanak Jayanti."
Meanwhile, Ajay Devgn tweeted, "May the teachings of Guruji guide us all to a path of compassion and selfless service. Happy #GuruNanakJayanti to all."
May the teachings of Guruji guide us all to a path of compassion and selfless service. Happy #GuruNanakJayanti to all.
Guru Nanak Gurpurab, also known as Guru Nanak's Prakash Utsav, celebrates the birth of the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak. The festivities in the Sikh religion revolve around the anniversaries of the 10 Sikh Gurus. These Gurus were responsible for shaping the beliefs of the Sikhs. Their birthdays, known as Gurpurab (or Gurpurb), are occasions for celebration and prayer among the Sikhs.


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P!nk Blow Me (One Last Kiss) (The Truth About Love - Live From Los Angeles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73-Hlxcdhac
She's such a great performer on stage.
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P!nk - Try (The Truth About Love - Live From Los Angeles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivPEKaBHjYA
P!nk - S l u t Like You (The Truth About Love - Live From Los Angeles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTJjlDEodVo
P!nk - How Come You're Not Here (The Truth About Love - Live From Los Angeles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpeiMz_Qyro
P!nk - Are We All We Are (The Truth About Love - Live From Los Angeles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdjAvlkHCtI
I wish P!nk's Vevo Channel would just post the entire show instead of breaking it up into sections. What's the point in that? Ugh.
Well P!nk announced her 2013 concert tour.
Guess where she is going and where she is not.
Chip, I expect photo's, backstage access and maybe even a guest spot on stage.
Starts Feb 13 in Phoenix, ends Mar 28 in Boston
LA March 16
Quote from: Mac on September 22, 2012, 06:08:48 am
What? I gotta make ANOTHER p o r n with my girl P!nk?
Consider it done!!
P!nk - Blow Me (One Last Kiss) - Live The Daily Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GhE9qA1KRA
P!nk - Who Knew (Live The Daily Show)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD7KpuQY_jc
P!nk - iTunes Festival (09.13.2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oIOenad2V8
Are We All We Are
How Come You're Not Here
U + Ur Hand
The Truth About Love
Just Like a Pill
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
Dear Mr. President
F**kin' Perfect
Blow Me (One Last Kiss)
P!nk - Who Knew (Live SiriusXM The Pulse)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egcMGVbvmio
I love it when its just P!nk and an acoustic guitar. So good.
That was beautiful. I teared up a little
That was awesome. Unplugged and sounded so clear.
P!nk - Try (Live Performance at American Music Awards 2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FbN4L4SM8E
I ran across a live P!nk performance about a week ago and for the life of me can't place it. It was very intimate with a small crowd. She talked a lot between songs mostly about her, her song writing and her new family. It was good and hope to find out when, where, etc.
By the way, these posts are cool. Keep up the nice finds.
P!nk Stops Concert to Scold Women for Making Young Girl Cry
"Cut it out, you are all grown-ass women," the singer chided two attendees during a performance in Philadelphia.
Pink may be a rock star, but her mothering instincts were sharp as ever last Sunday night, as the singer stopped mid-song at a show in Philadelphia because she heard the sobs of a little girl in the crowd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MW4ddBNoV0
Hall and Oates Live
Started by Chiprocks1 The Concert Venue
Uriah Heep Live
Started by Mac The Concert Venue
Tears for Fears Live
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The Warning Live
568 Views July 10, 2018, 05:59:47 pm
Tom Petty Live


Actor Irrfan Khan who'll be turning 49 on 7th of January 2016, has gone through some major transformations on his looks for different films. He has not let his versatility limited to his acting but also appeared in various different roles in different looks, making it look more real.
Irrfan did a major transformation on his looks for his British-Indian film - THE WARRIOR. He played the role of a warrior in feudal Rajasthan who attempts to give up his sword. The actor grew long hair, dust-stuck face, and wore warrior outfit in the entire film.
Irrfan Khan played a Sikh Man 'Umber Singh' in QISSA. The film was set in the 1947's partition backdrop. Irrfan played a stubborn Punjabi man who wants a son to carry forward his legacy of a strong hunter. He carried the look to its authenticity. He made his character come real with his efforts and attire.
The actor played an investigating CBI Officer solving a mysterious murder case. He played the character so intriguingly - not just by the way he acted, but also by his looks. He donned shades (aviators) in the entire film. His look was quite different and added to his character in the film. Apparently the actor liked his shades so much that he asked the makers if he could keep with him.
In the biopic, Irrfan played an athlete who later turns a dacoit - both his looks were special and the efforts he put for his looks were visible in the film. Irrfan's body looked that of an athlete in the first half in the latter he was seen wearing a Khakee outfit and carrying arms as a dacoit.
Irrfan played the role of an about to retire, widower man, older than his real age. He had put on some grey hair to go with his acting of an older man. Irrfan played the character to its best, which definitely proved that the actor is capable of pulling off any role.


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Saddle the Wind
September 24, 2013 June 27, 2020 / Colin McGuigan / 92 Comments
It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have. – Unforgiven (1992)
I decided to open with the above quote to prove a point of sorts. It's a point about perception, the way cinema tricks us into believing certain things, or at least the way those who write about cinema shape our views. There are plenty of people who point to Eastwood's Unforgiven and hold it up as the ultimate myth buster. I like the movie well enough but it does bring a wry smile to my face when I hear it lauded as a film which highlighted the corrosive effects of violence on men who lived by the gun. It's easy to see how those unfamiliar with the genre, or even those with only limited exposure to it, could buy into the theory that Unforgiven is a bigger game changer than it really is. There is a tendency among some, probably fueled by the influence of the spaghetti western, to imagine the genre was all about cool, trigger-happy gunslingers prior to 1992. Somehow, the perception arose that the western shied away from or glossed over the consequences of violence and killing. Yet if one goes back to the golden decade of the 50s, it's clear that the genre had already faced such themes head on. Saddle the Wind (1958) is a film about killing, a painful and probing examination of the repercussions of pulling a trigger and taking a life.
The opening sees a stranger (Charles McGraw) riding into town. He's one of those bristly, hard-bitten types, the kind of guy who oozes insolence and aggression, who demands rather than asks. Men like this have a swaggering confidence born of the knowledge that they're tough, mean and fast enough to carry it all off. Anyway, he makes it clear that he's looking for a man, Steve Sinclair (Robert Taylor), and guys such as this don't come looking for men just to be sociable. Steve Sinclair is now a respected rancher but he has a murky past that he's trying to live down, having once been a famed gunman and killer. So what's new, you may ask. Thus far the scenario is one that ought to be familiar to anyone who's seen more than a handful of westerns. Well Steve is a man who has learned from the sins of his youth, he's become a reformed character and has rejected violence. However, Steve has a younger brother, Tony (John Cassavetes), who appears to have inherited the worst traits of his elder sibling. Tony is more than just a cocksure kid with a gun and a point to prove; he's a damaged human being, a walking stick of dynamite without a hint of remorse and a lust for killing. We first see Tony as he arrives home with a girl he intends to wed, former saloon singer Joan (Julie London), and a new gun. It's immediately clear that there's something itching away under Tony's hide: he deposits his betrothed in the house, introduces her to all, and then proceeds to indulge his real passion. Where a normal guy would fawn and fuss over his newly acquired fiancée, Tony instead gets straight to work honing his shooting skills with his new six-shooter. Not only that, but there's a manic, obsessive edge to his practice, rounded off by his blasting away at his own reflection in the water – which of course foreshadows the film's climax. And this, more than anything else, is what the whole movie is really about, two very different brothers and their attitude to violence. The more Steve tries to rein in the excesses of his brother, the more Tony strains against that moderating influence. What finally brings the conflict to a head is the arrival of a former Yankee soldier (Royal Dano) bent on claiming his family's legacy and stringing the dreaded barbed wire on the open range. Tony's overreaction and stubborn refusal to heed Steve's call for calm leads to a tragic confrontation. His neglect of Joan has already irritated Steve, but it's his determination to usurp the authority of the local land baron (Donald Crisp) which finally forces the two brothers into a situation where only one can walk away.
Robert Parrish isn't a director whose name will be familiar to many these days. However, he made a string of fine films throughout the 50s, culminating in the truly excellent The Wonderful Country. I recall reading somewhere that Parrish was unhappy that he wasn't given full control over the final cut of that movie; I don't know if that's true but the fact remains his career as a director appears to have slumped dramatically after hitting that peak. Anyway, Saddle the Wind (with its screenplay by Rod Serling of The Twilight Zone fame) comes awfully close to being his best work – I reckon The Wonderful Country just about pips it to the post but there's not a lot in it – with some memorable visuals and an extraordinarily powerful theme. Pitting brother against brother always makes for good drama. When you mix in the simmering resentment left over from the Civil War, and a scathing critique of machismo and the culture of violence then it all adds up to something quite special. It's that last point which I mentioned in my introduction, and I'd like to explore it a little further here.
Others have pointed out that the scene where Jack Palance gunned down Elisha Cook Jr in Shane was a pivotal moment in the development of the western, and I'm not going to argue with that. That proved that gun play and violence was a mean, dirty business. Saddle the Wind follows on from that and literally hammers the point home: apart from the heartfelt speeches delivered by Taylor and Crisp at various times, the killings that take place in the film, and there aren't actually that many, are grim and brutal. No-one dies easily; as the bullets tear into bodies, the victims clearly suffer, twitching, kicking and coughing to the bitter end. And then there's the aftermath, the consequences of taking a life. Two of the characters (Crisp & Taylor) bear the psychological scars of a violent past and their world view is shaped by that. For me, it's this mature consideration of the effects of violence on the souls of men that marks Saddle the Wind out as one of the great westerns of the greatest decade of the genre.
The more often I watch Robert Taylor's westerns, particularly those of the late 50s, the more I come to view him as one of the most significant figures in the genre. I didn't include him in my list of the top ten western stars which I compiled at the tail end of last year, and I tend to think now that it may have been a major omission. I guess Taylor is never likely to attain the status of Stewart, Scott or Wayne but his finest western roles made a big contribution to the genre. In Saddle the Wind he achieved a marvelously quiet dignity, a kind of pained courage that projected all-round masculinity as opposed to juvenile machismo. Taylor's calm awareness of his own strengths and weaknesses contrasts well with the strutting bravado of Cassavetes. Now there's a figure one wouldn't normally associate with the west. Cassavetes had a very urban and modern air about him, a guy who it's hard to imagine outside of a big city environment. Yet that otherness, that discomfort with his surroundings, works under the circumstances. Cassavetes' character is a young man at war with himself, and by extension with the whole world around him. If Cassavetes doesn't truly belong in this frontier setting then it's merely a reflection of the character whose psychological flaws and displaced morality set him apart from those around him. He honestly comes across as some unbridled force of nature, and Taylor's futile efforts to tame him could easily be seen as a fruitless attempt at saddling the wind. These two men unquestionably dominate the film but it's also important to mention the work done by Donald Crisp and Royal Dano. Crisp was always good in patriarchal roles and his benign presence in this movie is every bit as touching and influential as the rather different yet comparable part he played in Anthony Mann's The Man from Laramie. Royal Dano was one of those character actors who seemed to pop up all over the place, and his halting delivery and hunted look tend to stick in the mind. Saddle the Wind offered him a role to get his teeth into, a desperate man driven on by his private sense of honor and justice. And that brings me to Julie London. Her fame today derives from her singing (and she provides a beautiful version of the theme song of this film) but she also starred in three exceptional westerns around this time: The Wonderful Country, Man of the West and the film under discussion.
Saddle the Wind was an MGM production and so it was released on DVD by Warner Brothers a few years ago in their Western Classics box set. The film has been given a very good transfer to DVD, the anamorphic scope image looking bright, clean and colorful. The location photography in Colorado looks quite stunning in places and the audio is also strong with the gunshots packing a considerable punch, and Elmer Bernstein's brooding score sounding rich. The only extra feature offered on the disc is the theatrical trailer. I believe this is a very fine western, although nowhere near as well-known as it deserves to be. I see it as further proof of how far the western had progressed by the late 50s. However, the fact that thoughtful films like this are only infrequently mentioned can also be regarded as evidence of the regression the genre experienced through the following decade. Anyway, next time someone claims that a film such as Unforgiven broke entirely new ground in terms of its critique of violent lifestyles, you can simply point them towards this production and tell them it's not as new a concept as they first imagined.


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Rising Dem announces his 2018 run against Cruz, but recent history signals it'll be a tough road
March 31, 2017 | Michael Dorstewitz | Print Article
In a move reminiscent of a 2016 Florida challenge, a Texas Democrat announced his bid to contest Sen. Ted Cruz when his seat comes up for re-election in 2018.
U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a punk rocker-turned-politician, has represented his district that includes the border city of El Paso, the city he grew up in, since 2013.
Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas /. Source: Screenshot
Unlike Cruz, O'Rourke claims that a fluid border between his hometown and Juarez, Mexico, has benefited both cities.
His announcement has been anticipated for some time now.
O'Rourke, 44, told the TexasTribune earlier this year that "It's very likely that I will run for Senate in 2018."
He said in an interview earlier this month that "I'm very moved to do it,", adding that he'd already reached the "emotional decision" to make a challenge.
Last week his campaign announced that "On Friday, Beto O'Rourke has a big announcement to make."
Friday is here, and in an email to his supporters with "Let's go" as the subject, he wrote, "Today, in my hometown of El Paso, we made a big announcement: we're launching our campaign for U.S. Senate against Ted Cruz."
His message expressed a desire to turn away from the policies of the Trump administration and the ideals of his rival. He wrote:
There's an opportunity to do better for Texas and better for this country. To move past the anxiety and fear, the walls and the refugee bans, and strongly and confidently work together on bringing this state and this country together on jobs, on improving our immigration laws, and on ensuring that we have a Senator working full time for Texas.
Now for the similarities to a 2016 Florida contest.
In 2018 Cruz, who was a 2016 candidate for the Republican nomination for president, will be finishing his first term in the U.S. Senate.
In 2016, Marco Rubio, who was a 2016 candidate for the Republican nomination for president, finished his first term in the U.S. Senate.
Cruz will be challenged by O'Rourke, a Democratic congressman who has held his seat since 2013.
Rubio was challenged by Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Democratic congressman who had held his seat since 2013.
Things didn't turn out so well for Murphy. He only received 44.3 percent of the vote in a swing state against Rubio's 52 percent.
And O'Rourke will challenge Cruz in the deep red state of Texas.
It's been a few months since the Florida race, and today the name of Patrick Murphy is already being erased from Floridians' memories.
Cruz isn't taking anything for granted and wasted no time rising to the challenge.
A liberal Democrat is announcing a campaign today to try to turn TX blue.
Stand with us to #KeepTexasRed: https://t.co/EjzD0Wjgod #TXSen
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 31, 2017
I'm making my own political announcement today…. https://t.co/ca98Sa2X8y
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) March 31, 2017
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Cerritos College is a public community college in Norwalk, California. It offers degrees and certificates in 87 areas of study in nine divisions.
The college was founded in 1955. It was named after Rancho Los Cerritos, a local ranch in the 19th century. In turn the college was part of the inspiration for the renaming of the neighboring city of Dairy Valley to Cerritos. The district covers Artesia, Bellflower, Cerritos, Downey, Norwalk, La Mirada, and Hawaiian Gardens.
Originally, classrooms were rented in the now defunct Excelsior High School in September 1956. On July 24, 1957, the Cerritos Junior College District won the case against Dairy Valley (now Cerritos) to use the undeveloped land as an educational site. On September 1959, the college moved from Excelsior High School to the current site.
The founder was Ralph Burnight of Redlands and a resident of Bellflower and superintendent of the Excelsior School District. The current college president is Dr. Jose Fierro.
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A cyclist in his 40s has been injured in a collision with a truck in Gloucestershire.
The incident happened on the B4632 in Winchcombe at around 5pm on Monday night.
The 41-year-old injured man was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital where he was kept overnight.
His injuries are not thought to be life-changing or life-threatening.
The driver of the Nissan Navara truck that was involved in the collision was not injured.
Police are appealing for anyone who saw the collision, or who saw the bike of the truck before the incident, should call police on 101 or email 101@gloucestershire.police.uk quoting incident 317 of 4/12.


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Kielo Tommila (born 21 April 1950) is a Finnish film  actress and stage actress.

Tommila was born in Kiukainen. She began acting in film in 1982 making several appearances such as in the 1983 James Bond spoof Agent 000 and the Deadly Curves opposite actors Ilmari Saarelainen and Tenho Sauren and in the 2001 Timo Koivusalo film Rentun ruusu more recently.

Tommila has also appeared in the theatre in her home town of Pori.

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La rana appenninica (Rana italica Dubois, 1987) è una rana della famiglia Ranidae, endemica dell'Italia.

Distribuzione
È una specie endemica dell'Appennino, dalla Liguria centrale alla Calabria. Nella Penisola Balcanica (Jugoslavia centrale e Bulgaria meridionale) è presente la Rana greca, riconosciuta recentemente specie distinta mediante sia studi morfologici su adulti e larve sia biochimici.

Descrizione
Dimensioni fino a 7 - 7,5 cm, colorazione in genere rossastra, può variare da beige chiaro, marrone giallastro o verdastro. Gola di colore scuro con al centro una linea irregolare chiara, ai lati del muso dietro gli occhi ci sono due striature scure. Sul dorso possono esserci piccoli punti neri o a volte un disegno scuro come una V capovolta. Zampe lunghe ma che non superano il muso se distese in avanti, pliche dorsali ben distanziate, sulle zampe posteriori ventralmente sono presenti dei granuli perlacei.

Specie simili
È più piccola e con zampe più corte rispetto alla Rana graeca. Può venir confusa con la Rana temporaria. Le differenze sono nelle narici (la distanza tra loro è maggiore di quella tra narice e occhio), hanno inoltre zampe posteriori più "ruvide" cioè con più granuli biancastri e il timpano è poco distinto. Può essere confusa anche con la Rana agile Rana dalmatina. Un modo semplice per identificare la specie è il seguente: dopo aver catturato un esemplare stendere le zampe posteriori in avanti parallelamente al muso, la Rana agile ha zampe più lunghe che superano il muso ciò non avviene invece nella Rana italica.

Biologia
Si trova per lo più presso ruscelli freddi in collina o in montagna e in zone boscose ma anche in grotte umide, lavatoi, abbeveratoi o lungo i corsi dei fiumi. È solita restare nei pressi dell'acqua, pronta a tuffarsi in caso di allarme. Durante l'inverno molti individui vanno ad ibernarsi sotto le radici degli alberi: per questo sono anche conosciute come "rane di terra". Come tutte le altre rane, è un predatore opportunista, anche se la maggior parte della sua dieta è composta da invertebrati.

Voce
Il maschio vocalizza soltanto sott'acqua, perciò è generalmente necessario l'uso di un idrofono per udirne il canto. In rari casi, tuttavia, emette suoni udibili se si trova appena sotto la superficie. La rana appenninica ha un repertorio composto da tre diversi tipi di canto: un suono basso e prolungato simile a un "grongron" ripetuto, un suono modulato "squack" e, più raramente, emette un suono "uh" molto breve.

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Bibliografia
Museo civico di Storia Naturale di Ferrara Atlante on-line degli Anfibi e Rettili dell'Emilia Romagna  (visitato il 3/12/2007)

Arnold Burton Guida dei Rettili e degli Anfibi d'Europa Collana Scienze Naturali Muzzio Editore 1986
Bologna M.A. & La Posta S.,  (2004). - The conservation status of threatened Amphibian and Reptile species of Italian fauna. Italian Journal of Zoology, 71 (Suppl. 1): 183pp

Voci correlate
Anfibi in Italia
Specie animali endemiche dell'Italia

Altri progetti

Ranidae
Fauna endemica d'Italia


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Cork's new Gaelic games showpiece inaugurated
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The new home of Gaelic games in Cork, Ireland – Pairc Ui Chaoimh – has been officially opened.
Facilities for spectators include modern seating for 21,000, as well as two newly built terraces for 24,000.
The 13,000 seat south stand has three levels, including the 2,238-seat premium level. There are more than 30 food and beverage outlets in the stadium.
Wide circulation areas around the stands and terraces make it much more comfortable for fans outside the ground.
GAA Cork County Board chairman, Ger Lane thanked the design team and said they now have a magnificent resource for their players, with state-of-the-art dressing rooms, as well as a fourth generation all-weather flood-lit playing pitch. He said:
Sunday is a great day for all those who are involved in the GAA community and for everyone who has an interest in sport. It marks the culmination of the work undertaken by very committed people to give Cork a stadium that is state of the art and which has been receiving great praise from those who have used it up to now be they players, mentors or supporters.
It is a multifaceted venue, being both a stadium and Centre of Excellence. It will showcase Gaelic games with the best contemporary facilities and will be a massive resource for our County teams at all levels in years to come. The stadium has already been used by local business organisations and by multinational and indigenous companies who have been bowled over by the range and quality of the conference and other facilities. Pairc Ui Chaoimh is, in every sense, a "Win Win" for Cork.
Lane said Páirc Uí Chaoimh has always been a favoured venue for concerts and the stadium will host three sell-out concerts next May, which will provide a major boost to the local economy as well Cork GAA.
A rare fixture double header involving both the Cork County Senior Football and Hurling finals provided the backdrop to the official opening.
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There once was a teakettle that had a problem. Day after day he sat alone on the stove top, having driven all his friends into hiding through his incessant spouting off. No pot nor pan could stand the shrill whistle the teakettle made each time he heated up. What was the poor teakettle to do?
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If that were so, why was he the only one who spouted off, and did so every time? After all, who had ever heard of a pan whistling or a pot hissing? In fact, since he alone spouted off, the teakettle concluded that it must be in his genes to spout off. According to his therapist, the teakettle ought to accept who he was and to never expect radical change. It must be the fault of his nature.
Granted, both nurture and nature have a powerful influence, but did they necessitate spouting off every time? Surely there must be something the teakettle could do that would help him to resist spouting off. At an anger management class, he learned several techniques for corking his spout. Instead of regarding it as a virtue to always speak his mind, the teakettle learned diplomatic ways to smooth feathers and to avoid issues, even ways to contain the pressure through willpower alone. To be honest, this did cut down on the number of times the teakettle blew up, but when he did, the delayed response led to an even greater mess and one that the rest on the stovetop did not expect. Again, what was the poor teakettle to do?
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Pioneer Scout Plus G29f is released!
This new version, like the previous ones, is based on the latest version of Pioneer engine with the latest mergers considered reliable and useful for Scout+.
Following the mode of continuous improvement, are many and important the internal changes to improve performance of scripts and to avoid possible errors. The player experience is a priority here.
* Add a "time left" function for major accuracy in final of missions.
* "Exit this game" in the config screen, does not return to "start menu".
The same behavior on tombstone. This helps to avoid errors in saved games.
* Autosave to dock and undock includes the name of the space station.
* The function "discovery of unexplored systems" is active now.
There are many things to improve here; maybe in G30.
* Warning message of illegal jump distance, leaving the space station.
* Corrections of the false alarm in message "imminent failure hyperdrive".
* Message "Do not forget to visit…" random local stations, in Lobby screen.
* Hundreds of lines of code in internal modules were rewritten.
Pioneer Scout Plus is now more faster, more reliable, and more fun.
Everything works better in this version.
I have not encountered any serious problems in many hours of testing. But there are many ways to play that might not explored. If you have any problems, let me know; you will help to improve Scout.
It is a "big mod" that includes my best work in LUA modules, and the best model ships and space stations (according to my taste), made by @ potsmoke66 (Gernot), @ Marcel, @ Vuzz, and of course, those who collaborate in the development and construction of the core of Pioneer and make this possible.
This module generates exploration missions rocky planets, local, and "uninhabited systems" that are distant within 30 ly.
Only explore rocky planets, no stars, gas giants, or "porcupine asteroids".
You need to have installed in proper equipment for the mission.
You must deliver the scanned data to the person who hired him or who invoke his name. Sometimes, the computer can automatically change the delivery location at the end of the scanning process and according to the criteria defined by the client program, the data can not deliver anywhere. But be careful, you can be led into a trap, carefully analize the new destination and check belonging if another faction. The factions are often very severe with spies. If caught with data from your system to another faction, the punishment can be painful.
The scanning time is 10 minutes. Should be under fire from hostile ships, 10 minutes can be an eternity, you can not speed up the time in terms of "red alert".
The reward is higher, much higher. It takes into account that most of the missions require careful planning for calculating fuel needed for a round trip. Missions are not "easy".
Other complementary modules (and models) make the game more interesting. Veil yourself.
As always. Just drop the zip (without unzipping) Mods directory.
Hope you like like to me. I really enjoyed doing this.
For this time of year there are always problems with the networks. That's why the release came forward a few hours.
Although … may be able to escape without being shot down. I have little money in my account yet.
I went out and I reloaded the game. The fine was gone!
that's very original! Thanks a lot.
walterar… this is a great job!
Hey, old friend! When I saw you played with the old version, I knew I was going to like.
I've put a lot of work and some magic that gave me a galactic witch . :wizard: But I had so much fun doing it and playing it.
I have some things I should add to launch Alpha30.
The latest "nightly" introduced many changes and improvements in many aspects. One is in the code of coupling, is much improved but it still lacking polishing some things. The unintended effect of this is that, for now, have stopped working space stations, orbital and surface made by Marcel, and Gernot, included in my full mod. The solution should be simple and will be surely everything working shortly. By the time I removed the full version now because the stations just do not work.
But it if you feel a Scout and want to try, really worth it.
In the default stations, parking_distance has been set to 5000 (metres), and parking_gap_size has been set to values between 500 and 2000 metres.
ship_launch_stage should be set to match the launching animation. For open air ground stations, which have no launching animation, it can be set to 0, but check the current station models (e.g., nice_spacestation model in data/lmrmodels/spacestations.lua) to see how it's used there.
when a mod need to modify something on the models its cool for the modelers to find this sort of info in changelog .
You're right, I should have included a note about that in the changelog, I do normally. I'll add one later today.
John, you are the person I would trust my savings. 🙂 Thanks.
My wish is that everyone is committed with his work. We know that, in the state of Pioneer, being "up" with the changes that occur in the master can be frustrating. But those are the rules. Brianetta I went crazy with the changes introduced lately, but it was necessary and greatly enjoyed the results.
At the moment only modules and ships with fuel-scoop. "specials" space stations are being adapted to Alpha 30 by their authors.
Vuzz Hi, I was watching that changed the coupling system and the error message does not give any information. I have no time to see it now because I'm so behind on Scout, but I think you should work from the beginning with the new spacestations.lua and not trying to fix the old. They changed many things for the better, I think, and adapt to these changes is hard.
Anyway we have time, version Alpha 30 is released on January 11, I think.


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I'm tryna battle... ledge... not Loc.
Yall like the new dj?
Yep. You're killin' the game with these smilies!
But I want a grudge match with ledge.
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Loc when is the last time you actually did a battle? And how many battles have you accepted/showed interest for since then?
Dope. Wanna do 16 bars? Due a week from tonight?
I set one up with Blanco, but I had to postphone it a week. Then when I messaged him, he said that he's gonna take another battle.
I set one up with Prelec, but he already had a battle that week so we're gonna do it in the future sometime.
@ledge, is this going down? I've got a verse basically finished, but don't wanna submit it without some confirmation first.
i haven't been on the site since I accepted, luckily I'm off work for today and tmrw so i'll get something together.
how many bars you write?
That's cool. I haven't looked at what I wrote in a few days, so I'll probably end up tweaking some things, but I had around 16 bars. So, I'd like to do a 16 if that's cool. And I'm not trying to rush you or anything, so just let me know when you're getting your bars submitted. Since it's only a one off, I'm not too concerned about strict deadlines.
I sent my bars to both KBomb and Seanzo.