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About Carl Th. Dreyer—My Métier
By Torben Skjødt Jensen
Carl Th. Dreyer—My Métier works on three aesthetic levels playing off each other.
Shot in 35mm black and white, the documentary's narrative is rich in content. The participants in these pieces are the actors, film crew, and colleagues who have worked with Dreyer: Birgitte Federspiel, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Lisbeth Movin, Axel Strøbye, Baard Owe, Henning Bendtsen, and Jørgen Roos. In addition, Hélène Falconetti, daughter of the renowned Falconetti, discusses her mother's role in The Passion of Joan of Arc.
The second level, consisting of clips from Dreyer's films, exemplifies the statements in the documentary.
I think of the third level as that of the expressive narrative. Running like a scarlet thread throughout are Dreyer's own statements on his vocation as a filmmaker, his passion, his aesthetic principles, and his language, intertwined with my own personal pictorial adaptation as an expressively symbolic explosion of images. Hypnosis, repetition, abstraction. My understanding of Dreyer is drawn from his concrete legacy of stills, sketches, letters, manuscripts, clips from films, etc., primarily derived from the Danish Film Museum collection.
At this point I am turning away from the history books and combining the myth with the present day. Here lies the film's applicability to both a sympathetic audience and present day artists. Here the legacy of Dreyer unites with our time and our world.The scarlet thread can be considered my "film political manifesto."


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For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, her bank manager is actually being nice to her, and when it comes to spending money, her new motto is Buy Only What You Need - and she's really (sort of) sticking to it. The icing on the brioche is that she's been offered a chance to work in New York.
New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera House! And Becky does mean to go to them all. Honestly. It's just that it seems silly not to check out a few other famous places first. Like Saks. And Bloomingdales. And Barneys. And one of those fantastic sample sales where you can get a Prada dress for $10. Or was it $100?
Is Becky too dazzled to care?
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This creamy lentil curry doesn't look the prettiest, but don't let that put you off. It's full of flavour, really easy and nourishing. Give it a try!
If you're looking to cut down on your grocery bill, then this is a great recipe to add to the mix – it's super economical! It also happens to be vegan – although if you're not into that, you could easily make it meaty by adding chicken.
As with most curries, the flavour gets even better over time – a big bonus if you have leftovers!
This creamy lentil curry doesn't look the prettiest, but don't let that put you off! It's full of flavour, really easy, economical, nourishing and makes great leftovers.
Dice carrot into small cubes and crush garlic. Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add cumin seeds and toast for about 30 seconds. Stir in crushed garlic and ginger and cook for a further minute, until lightly browned.
Add tomatoes, sugar, turmeric and coriander and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Stir in stock and lentils. Bring to a boil then reduce heat to medium-low, cover pot and leave to simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
After 30 minutes, remove the lid, increase heat to medium-high and simmer rapidly for 5-10 minutes, until sauce has thickened and lentils are soft. Stir in coconut milk (you may not want to add all of it – start with about two thirds and adjust according to your tastes) and spinach and cook for 2 minutes.
Just before curry is ready, microwave rice according to instructions on the packet. Roughly chop coriander. Serve rice topped with curry and a generous sprinkle of coriander.
WINE MATCH: A Riesling or Rosé.
GLUTEN-FREE OPTION: Use gluten-free stock.
INGREDIENT NOTES / SWAPS: If you can't find Indian-flavoured crushed tomatoes, use regular crushed tomatoes. You could add some extra veggies to the meal – try diced capsicum, or serve with broccoli or beans on the side.
MAKE IT MEATY: This curry would work well with diced boneless, skinless chicken thighs – try 400g / 14oz. You can use chicken in addition to the lentils and add at the same time as the garlic and ginger (brown for a bit longer – try 5 minutes).
BUDGET / REDUCED PACKAGING OPTION: Cook rice from dried instead of using the microwave pouches.
STORING AND REHEATING: Coriander can be stirred into curry before storing. Keep curry and rice separate and reheat in the microwave.


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There are some things better left in the past.
Office-based work is one thing that I could never picture myself going back to, and something that I will continue to strive not to go back to.
Since 2011, I found myself succumbing to office work whenever recession hits. Who can blame me, office jobs comprise almost all jobs available in the market! I never really liked the idea of being stuck in one place for the rest of my life, so the life of a researcher where I had the challenge of getting new and renewing my current contracts has always suited me. Sure, there were bouts of insecurity where I felt like I could lose my job anytime. However, looking back, I will never trade the freedom of time and space for the short-sighted idea of economic stability.
Having a permanent 9-5 job sounds stable; but, will it give me the time to explore the world, to book a flight on a whim, to enroll for language classes whenever I feel like it, to visit my grandma in the province on a weekday, or to strum my guitar in the middle of the day? The freedom that remote and contract-based jobs can give me is incomparable to any hierarchical title available out there.
Trying out jobs? Why not!
I've held a hodgepodge of jobs since I graduated in 2011 as an office-based researcher, editor, field-based researcher, thesis writer, events gifts supplier, travel agent, security camera dealer, truck investor, and stock trader, among others. To others, it may seem like I've been running around in circles; but to me, the process makes perfect sense. For every single job, I've learned a lesson that I otherwise would have known being stuck in one post. Experience is always the best teacher, and no amount of schooling or advice can cover for that.
I don't think it is healthy for anyone to feel like they must be stuck with one job for the rest of their lives. I think the only thing stopping people from exploring their options is the fact that others can be so judging when we start becoming kids again wanting to explore the world. Changing grounds is now correlated with fickle-mindedness and lack of focus, instead of this being seen as a sign of growth.
I've always had my doubts with myself, thinking whether my decision not to hold an office-based job, in contrast with the status quo, is the right choice. People never really understood what I was doing, thinking that I was an unemployed and unfocused kid for some reason. But then eventually I thought, should the lack of understanding really be an excuse for judgments?
Instead of hiding away, I've learned to stand up for my career decisions, not through words, but through actions. Since then, people started seeing through how happy and satisfied I truly am with my work. When people realize how flexible my work is, they always mention that they want to switch places with me. The first time I heard this comment, my heart almost melted. Never in a million years would I think that a hippie-like lifestyle would be a career goal for others, just like how it was for me.
Right now, I hold two remote jobs (one as a Research Editor, and another as an SEO Writer), and one field contract is coming. I manage a small dealership company with my partner, and I also get the time to help out my parents with their business. Despite the many misconceptions about my career choice, my partner and I got to purchase a condo unit, too, as we get ready for the next step of our relationship.
During the week, I get the time to groom and feed my dogs, play the guitar, drop by the grocery, clean the house, read books, learn to code (something that my partner and I look forward to taking an exam in this year), and curate content for my blog.
The best part? I get to watch the sunrise and sunset, listen to the birds, gaze at the clouds, stand by flowers as they get ready for the season, and feel the wind on my face. I get to bask in nature's gifts not because I live in the province, but because I made this choice. I chose my freedom over the status quo, and I could never be happier with my decision. The road to get here was winding with lots of "ifs" and self-doubt, but I can only look forward now. I'll never go back to an office job because I choose life—the breathing, growing, shimmering kind.
Why Are You Studying in the First Place?
Every so often I find myself looking for freelance writing jobs that I can add to my day job, especially for when I need to save up for an upcoming splurge. I never like the idea of purchasing something when I cannot afford it, so instead of using a credit card (which I've given up in late 2015, thank God!), I find ways to earn more when I need a bit extra.
For one, this person is offering a mere $50 for this job. I'm not sure if there is anyone THAT desperate to want to accept this lengthy and challenging job for a few pesos. Secondly, I'm not sure, too, if this person has any idea of the task he/she requires from the contractor. To research + write an entire thesis for $50? If he/she made the fee more acceptable, I'm sure more people would have wanted to take the job.
But I don't take these kinds of jobs. I don't like it when the client doesn't give at least a 5% effort on what is required on an academic requirement. I don't like it when all the client does is to take a photo of the assignment, to have you, as the contractor, figure out everything that he/she might want you to do, and for you to negotiate with the fee suggested. Based on experience, these super lazy clients never negotiate their prices and would be the first to ghost you out when you start asking for their data input. They simply go to school to get others do the stuff for them, something that I don't want to support.
When I started out taking online jobs in 2011, the market was dominated by clients who wanted to pay a cheaper fee to do technical and blog writing for them. It is disturbing that these days, more students are willing to shell out a chunk of their allowances to pay people to do the job for them.
Sadly, I never come across a client like this anymore. From typing their assignments, lazy students are now just taking photos of their homework, sometimes even straight from the whiteboard! I'm not sure if this trend is due to school being increasingly passé with now self-learning made easier by the internet; or, if it is because of students getting more distracted. Whatever it is, I hope these students don't make a habit out of it. If they think they can get through life by paying someone, then we, contractors, also have a role to play by choosing not to accept these kinds of writing gigs.
"Why are you studying in the first place?" You may get into moderators' and clients' nerves but asking this question to a potential client goes a long, long way.
Why is it that people almost always correlate "adulthood" with distancing from one's family? It seems to be a badge of honor for "grown-up" children to say that they are now living on their own (or with their partner), can't attend family events because of personal or work reasons, or hardly ever talk with their parents and siblings? And why does it seem to be a badge of honor for parents, too, to say that they don't give advice to their kids anymore because they now have a mind of their own, let them live on their own, or hardly ever talk with their children because they have their own lives now?
I accept all family dynamics and individuals in all forms and sizes, but what's bothering me is the lack of appreciation for the "Other," meaning, for whatever else does not fit into your truth. There is nothing wrong with being a 30-year-old living with your parents, not having savings, or not finding your path just yet. There is nothing wrong, too, with parents wanting to keep the camaraderie alive by going on weekends together with their "grown-up" children, or with controlling their children (I personally do not agree with this, but you will see below why I don't push my truth so impulsively). On the same note, there is nothing wrong with an 18-year-old wanting to live with his girlfriend, wanting to take time off school to find oneself, or to choose to work early without getting into university.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with living by one's truth. I personally strive to live day-by-day grounded on my truths, but I'm telling you it is hard work in the midst of this world of overinformation and overabundance of rules.
So to make my life a life worth living for me, I've said my goodbyes directly and indirectly to people who choose to run their lives around themselves alone. I've chosen to block people from my life who find satisfaction in stroking their superiority-founded truths at the cost of others' freedom, integrity, and happiness. I am being judgmental right here– and I accept that– for I accept, too, that life is so fragile and short. Every learning curve causes a lot of pain and self-doubt, and now I've chosen to only welcome people who are willing to go through the fire with me so we can both come out better based on our personal standards.
And you know what, I've never been happier saying goodbye to these people. Nothing has changed, except of course that now, I invite less people on get-togethers. Happier times well-spent with people I love.
On my way back to the Philippines, I've made a list of people whom I would love to be with all the time. These are the people whom I would not second-guess being in a party or outing with. And these are the people whom I will not be afraid to say and do what I want to say and do. I ran through the list again and again and asked myself if I am truly happy being with these people. I've crossed out some people, and added some more.
My total list came to just 120. Imagine, I currently have 1,000+ contacts, and I truly enjoy sharing my life with only 12% of these contacts.
Life shouldn't be THAT complicated, really!
The kind of happiness that you gain by surrounding yourself with people whom you love and love you in return 🙂 With my lovely cousins! Photo courtesy of Ate Aidni.
Yesterday upon waking up, I headed straight to our garage to jog on the treadmill a bit. Not so much of a routine; just something I thought of doing since I haven't done it for a while. The unbearable heat tempted me in every way to go inside our room again and enjoy the air conditioner, but somebody suddenly caught my attention.
I looked around: only Chippy, the family dog, was beside me.
I looked around the second time, then a drop of white paint fell innocently on my right arm—I looked up.
I seemed surprised but really, I was more afraid of the unaccountable calls earlier on.
Critics say the root of the problem is that Philippines' system of higher education follows the American model. Most universities and colleges are private and profit-driven. JC Tejano, the national spokesperson of the Student Council Alliance of the Philippines (SCAP), says: "All schools want to do is earn money." In the SCAP's view, they do far too little to ensure quality.
According to government data, there are 2,247 Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the Philippines, and 88 % of them are private colleges and universities. Of the country's 2.9 million higher education students, 1.74 million (60 %) are enrolled in private schools. Though they are smaller in number, public HEIs tend to be crowded, underfunded and overstretched.
The government's Council on Higher Education (CHED) currently estimates that, on the average, a student in a private school will pay 237,600 pesos (€ 4,200) for a four year course. On average, however, public schools, are not much cheaper. The CHED reckons that tuition for a complete four-year course will cost 233,600 pesos.
At a top tier university, however, the costs will amount to 400,000 pesos. The best and most expensive schools are in the private sector – but that is equally true for the worst and cheapest ones.
Compared with what a typical Filipino household earns, the costs of higher education are stiff. According to the official Philippines' 2009 Family Income and Expenditure Survey, the average family's annual income is a mere 206,000 pesos. The survey notes that for the families in the bottom 30 % the average is only 62,000 pesos.
HEIs tend to increase tuition every year. In the Philippines, college subjects are taught in small "units". In 2005, according to the online magazine Bulatlat, the average cost per unit was more than 330 pesos. By 2011, the average tuition per unit had risen to more than 500 pesos.
Tuition isn't the only financial worry of college students of course. The CHED figures do not include board, lodging, transportation and other expenses. These are not trifling outlays. For example, professors tell stories of students skipping classes because they cannot pay for transportation to go to school; there have also been reports of students who can't focus because they're weak from not having eaten properly.
Aggravating matters, HEIs are creative in devising ways of padding their bills. Among other things, they levy fees for "laboratories", "energy" and "development". Last year, Antonio Pascua Jr., an official of the youth group Anakbayan, claimed one school was charging a "restricted fee", the purpose of which was not clear to students. He says this is "completely baffling".
Patricia Licuanan, the CHED chairperson, wants "all HEIs to carefully study their tuition and fee increases each year". On behalf of the government, she insists that every HEI should "spend wisely and judiciously in order to lessen the costs to its most important stakeholders – its students".
The sad truth, however, is that many students discover at some point or another that they are no longer able to afford tuition and drop out of the HEI they have been attending. They either stop studying altogether or transfer to a cheaper HEI. The new schools are worse, of course, but they are also in the habit of increasing fees.
In 2005, the Bulatlat report stated the dropout rate was as high as 73 %. Today, student leader Tejano demands a freeze on tuition and other fees. His organisation wants the burden on ordinary people to decrease. It also wants to ensure that more youngsters get a good education.
Private HEIs respond by saying they have to raise tuition fees or go bankrupt. CHED's Licuana agrees and says that "quality education has a price". She points out costs for faculty salaries, laboratories, equipment et cetera. Therefore, she argues, tuition hikes are "necessary". At the same time she wants them to be "justified, reasonable and transparent".
Apart from the cost of education there is also the matter of quality. Among the private HEIs, there is a handful of top tier universities. Their graduates can probably compete with those of other elite schools around the world. Most other private-sector HEIs, however, basically seem to seek profits at the expense of substance.
A university faculty member, who asks not to be identified, says: "Some of them shouldn't even be schools at all – there's a proliferation of HEIs which are not qualified." This educator speaks of fly-by-night operations" and "diploma mills". While some do not charge high tuition, their quality is below standard.
Other teachers, who decline to be identified, tell disturbing stories too. One school, for instance, does not stock books in its library because its president argues that books are obsolete and everything can be downloaded from the Internet. A few semesters ago, another HEI was still using a textbook on international studies dated 1976. The world has changed since. 1976 was one year after the Vietnam War, 13 years before the fall of the Berlin wall and 25 years before September 11.
Another professor tells of a school that refuses to give faculty members money for photocopying exam papers. They either have to pay for copying themselves or write everything out on a blackboard.
The government of President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III is not blind to the problem of low standards in higher education. In fact, it has ambitious reform plans for the education sector. They include adding extra years to primary and secondary schooling.
There is indeed room for improvement, as CHED Chairperson Licuanan says: "The Aquino administration inherited a chaotic higher education system." In her view it is marked by too many higher-education institutions and programmes, a job-skills mismatch, oversubscribed and undersubscribed programmes, deteriorating quality and limited access to quality higher education.
For these reasons, the CHED is pursuing a Higher Education Reform Agenda. Among other things, it aims to improve standards and expand access.
At the same time, the commission's political clout is being tested at the ground level. For some time, it has been trying to close down a Manila school called the International Academy of Management and Economics. This school uses the acronym IAME, which sounds a bit like the vastly more prestigious Asian Institute of Management (AIM). The CHED accuses the IAME of "gross and serious violations, continued defiance and failure to comply with existing laws, rules and regulations". Nonetheless, IAME is still in business. It claims to have close ties to President Aquino himself.
Shady schools, however, are not the only challenge. Because secondary education tends to be poor in the Philippines, HEIs take off from a rather low level. The writer and scholar Isagani Cruz, who is a visiting fellow at Oxford University and has taught at various top-tier HEIs in the Philippines, asserts that first year college in the Philippines is really only equivalent to high school in other countries in academic terms.
All these issues prevent education from effectively contributing to economic growth and national development. The issue is well understood. Bill Luz of the National Competitiveness Council states: "Many in the business community have complained about our state of education. Indeed in global competitive indices, we have been rated poorly in terms of quality of basic education, quality of science and math education." He points out that cooperation between industry and academia must improve.
Indeed, many graduates lack the kind of skills and knowledge that employers expect of professionals. "A large number of college graduates are taking low productivity jobs," was the assessment of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in a country study of the Philippines in 2007. In the same document, the ADB bemoaned a "scarcity of skilled workers in industries such as information technology and business process outsourcing".
Earlier this year, the World Bank made basically the same point about the Philippines in a report on higher education in Asia. It argued that there was a disconnect between the education system, government programmes and private sector needs. Unsurprisingly, the report recommended improving the quality of higher education in order to boost the professional competence of graduates.
I'm sure I'm not the only one frustrated by this. But what can we do to be part of the solution?
If anything I'm not against education; just with the highly archaic system that puts a premium on tried-and-tested systems over innovation. Most of our schooling is based on grades and that one right answer; but when we go out we realize that there is more to life than getting straightforward answers. Life is not black and white, after all.
I'm not yet a parent but I think it's important that parents nurture their kids to treasure learning rather than formal education. It starts by leading by example. What's a degree when we cannot even stand up for ourselves when we lose our jobs, experience a state financial meltdown, or when conflict strikes?
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Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) and cell-to-cell communication in bone marrow stromal cells
Kotaro Sena, Siddhesh R. Angle, Arihiko Kanaji, Chetan Aher, David G. Karwo, Dale R. Sumner, Amarjit S. Virdi
Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) is an established therapy for fracture repair and has been used widely in the clinics, but its underlying mechanism of action remains unclear. The aim of the current research was to determine the effect of LIPUS on gap junctional cell-to-cell intercellular communication in rat bone marrow stromal cells (BMSC) in vitro and to determine whether the ability of BMSCs to communicate by gap junctions would affect their response to LIPUS. Single or daily-multiple LIPUS treatment at 1.5 MHz, 30 mW/cm2, for 20 min was applied to BMSC. We demonstrated that BMSC form functional gap junctions and single LIPUS treatment significantly increased the intracellular dye transfer between BMSC. In addition, activated phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and p38 by LIPUS stimulation was diminished when cells were treated with a gap junction inhibitor 18β-glycyrrhetinic acid (18β). We further demonstrated that 18β diminished the significant increase in alkaline phosphatase activity following LIPUS stimulation. These results suggest a potential role of gap junctional cell-to-cell intercellular communication on the effects of LIPUS in BMSC.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultras.2011.01.007
Published - 2011 Jul
Bone marrow stromal cells
Fracture healing
Gap junctional cell-to-cell intercellular communication
Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound
Sena, K., Angle, S. R., Kanaji, A., Aher, C., Karwo, D. G., Sumner, D. R., & Virdi, A. S. (2011). Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) and cell-to-cell communication in bone marrow stromal cells. Ultrasonics, 51(5), 639-644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultras.2011.01.007
Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) and cell-to-cell communication in bone marrow stromal cells. / Sena, Kotaro; Angle, Siddhesh R.; Kanaji, Arihiko; Aher, Chetan; Karwo, David G.; Sumner, Dale R.; Virdi, Amarjit S.
In: Ultrasonics, Vol. 51, No. 5, 07.2011, p. 639-644.
Sena, K, Angle, SR, Kanaji, A, Aher, C, Karwo, DG, Sumner, DR & Virdi, AS 2011, 'Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) and cell-to-cell communication in bone marrow stromal cells', Ultrasonics, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 639-644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultras.2011.01.007
Sena K, Angle SR, Kanaji A, Aher C, Karwo DG, Sumner DR et al. Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) and cell-to-cell communication in bone marrow stromal cells. Ultrasonics. 2011 Jul;51(5):639-644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultras.2011.01.007
Sena, Kotaro ; Angle, Siddhesh R. ; Kanaji, Arihiko ; Aher, Chetan ; Karwo, David G. ; Sumner, Dale R. ; Virdi, Amarjit S. / Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) and cell-to-cell communication in bone marrow stromal cells. In: Ultrasonics. 2011 ; Vol. 51, No. 5. pp. 639-644.
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Hundreds march over shootings of women during a protest last week as four people reported killed in Abidjan.
Hundreds of women protested on Tuesday in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire's commercial capital, over last week's fatal shooting of seven female demonstrators.
Seven women were killed by security forces as they took part in a demonstration against President Laurent Gbagbo, who has scoffed at calls to step down despite losing the November 28 election that the UN says was won by Alassane Quattara, his main rival.
Soldiers reportedly shot dead four people on Tuesday in an incident separate from the march.
The Associated Press said its photographer saw the bodies of three men and one woman inside a clinic where the victims had been taken for treatment.
The overwhelmed clinic had nowhere to put them, except on the floor where the blood of the dead pooled together, the photographer said.
Earlier, male relatives built a wall of burned-out cars to block the mouth of the freeway leading into Abidjan's suburb of Abobo where the female protesters, dressed in white and wearing red headbands, had gathered.
Mariam Bamba, 32, picked up a tree branch next to one of the blood stains on the pavement where the women were felled by gunfire.
"This leaf is all that they were carrying when they were killed," she said.
Many of the organisers of the deadly demonstration stayed home on Tuesday fearing reprisal by security forces.
But hundreds of others took to the streets in defiance on International Women's Day to express their disgust at the regime of Gbagbo.
Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow, reporting from Abidjan, said: "The problems are getting bigger here. And the concern at the moment is that there could be a re-ignition of a civil war here because both sides continue to dig in and there seems to be little hope for a compromise from either side."
Gbagbo, in power for more than a decade, has refused to step down in the West African country which is the world's leading cocoa producer, triggering violence that has killed nearly 400 people as his troops clash with pro-Quattara rebels.
The killing of the women protesters has drawn international outcry, with Britain's foreign office minister for Africa, Henry Bellingham, calling it "a deplorable and cowardly act ".
He called for the results of the presidential elections to be respected.
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, issued a stinging rebuke saying that "Gbagbo and his forces have shown a callous disregard for human life".
More than 200,000 people have fled the suburb of Abobo, the local UN peacekeeping mission reported, after Gbagbo's security forces entered the neighbourhood and began shelling it with mortars.
Antonio Guterres, the UN high commissioner for refugees, told Al Jazeera tens of thousands of Ivorians had sought refuge in neighbouring Liberia and many more had been internally displaced.
"We have already 70,000 people in Liberia and Liberia has been extremely generous hosting them, but this - as you can imagine - represents a huge burden for a country that is itself in a proces of transition and peace building," he said.
"The indications we have from Cote d'Ivoire are that more and more people are displaced. In the last three days 300,000 people have been displaced inside the country and that level of suffering that this population is enduring is absolutely appalling.
"Unfortunately - because obviously the Libyan crisis has occupied the centre of the attention of the international community - there been not enough effort; not enough commitment to support the Ivorian people in this very tragic situation."
The UN is preparing to deploy an additional 2,000 troops to beef up the 8,000-strong force of peacekeepers in the country.


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Let's start off these pointers on tipping with the most common place, a sit-down restaurant. According to EmilyPost.com, the standard is 15-20% but of course you can always tip more for outstanding service. If you're dining at a buffet, 10% is recommended by HowStuffWorks.com.If you used a coupon or received a discount, remember to calculate the tip based on the price without the discount. Remember that the server still did the same amount of work regardless of the discount!


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Bahamas first movie, big budget remake. The global impact of the Bahamian film market.
Who will make the cast of the big budget remake of the Bahamas first movie, "Paradise Intrigue''?
Before entering the movie business Jefford Curre' held what was considered to be perhaps the world's most dangerous job. For five tumultuous years he lived committed under "Bond style" conditions working the outer limits of the Bahamas as an English trained direct entry specialist, attached to the Royal Bahamas Defense Force. He Operated beyond the call of duty while managing multi-million dollar temptations in an environment that attracted some of the world's most beautiful women and deadliest of real life villains. In five and a half years Jefford Curre' racked up 37 successful highly classified missions to his credit. Trading on his reputation as a well liked no nonsense professional in the Royal Bahamas Defense Force, he successfully made an unconventional transition that enabled him to engineer the start of the Bahamas Film Industry. With the help of visionary resort operators, he established the Paradise Island base Megavision Pictures Ltd. (Bahamas first movie company) and kick-started the launch of the Bahamas first movie "Paradise Intrigue". As Megavision Pictures reloads for the much talked about big budget remake of "Paradise Intrigue", the original indigenous feature has made its way among the most creative classics of all time. In a world over run by sophisticated money launderers, murderous drug criminals and disgruntle weapons experts, Jefford's "Bond style" image takes an unconventional twist as he leads a crusade of courage, respect and rugged professionalism to save a peaceful playground from total destruction.
As "Paradise Intrigue" repositions itself for a global release, there may very well be a major change in characters, above and below the board. Critics express that new faces into the big budget game plan could add to the already excellent marketing edge the film has over its competition. The greatest concern is to plan against fallout in its indigenous interpretation or cultural value. It's the making of this Bahamas flagship movie, or perhaps the principles of the story itself that gives this project a rare distinction. You must understand the whole story or see the bigger picture of the obstacles that had to be overcome in order to make this project a reality. It's only then that you'll understand why Jefford Curre' is called the Bahamas leading man of action. Most important, you'll realize why he is such a huge inspiration to so many around the world who struggle to make impossible dreams come true.
24 new Bahamas film industry movies in line for distribution by Megavision Pictures.
The action kicks off
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The story follows a top secret government agent who finds himself at the center of a global crisis. He's a high target for underground recruitment, and the top priority of an international manhunt. It's a race against time and against all odds, as the Bahamas' leading man of action battles to save the peaceful playground from total destruction.
Stars In Paradise has learned through a spokesman for
bahamasfilmindustry.com that the nation's economic agenda could be in for a major remake, as local box-office entrepreneurs are seriously rethinking what may be outdated strategies and attitudes.
What does it really take to succeed full-time in the Bahamas film industry?
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The Megavision Network repositions for power opening as the Bahamas film market embraces advantages.
The Megavision Network repositions for power opening and expanded network affilliates in USA, Canada, Asia, Bahamas and South America.
Plus, ''Stars In Paradise'' the all Bahamian movie channel carried on The Megavision Network is retooling with the hiring of a new executive team.
The Megavison Network moves within striking distance, as executives brace to out maneuver fierce competition in the global market place. The company will increase staff by 64% to better manage growth over the next 18 months.
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congratulates the
Sir Sidney Poitier
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Jefford Curre' and the birth of the Bahamas movie industry
The call of an ingenious visionary to lead the forefront of a new era in cinema history, now known as the Bahamas movie industry.
Once upon a time, in a land not too far away called the Bahamas, there lived a little boy named Jefford Curre'. One day while out to the shopping center with his mother, he was intrigued by how much fun the little people were having inside the store T V set.Without hesitation he made his way to the back of the TV, to see if he could get inside.As he inquired about the little people, his mother explained that they were movie stars.His family was a part of a strict religious order and she wasted no time expounding that movie stars don't go to Heaven.Missing out on a little milk and honey did not exactly concern Jefford, because the family's refrigerator always had a great supply of milk.However, when his mother elaborated about the hell fire and brimstone, it almost scared the living day lights out of him. Jefford's desire to be in the movies never left, but all desire to qualify himself as a movie star was no longer a burning issue.In his child like mind, he devised the perfect plan.He won't be a movie star, he would just be a guy in the movies, pretending to be a movie star.Later on, as time went by, his parents had modernized their views on the world of movie making.
In 1990, Jefford Curre' decided to follow up on an earlier vision that was downloaded to him on the necessity to kick-start an indigenous movie industry in the Bahamas.He requested his parents to grant him advance access to his share of the inherited family property, in order to use as collateral for a bank loan.While most of his peers were busy using their money to stay in the latest fashion, updated motor vehicles or build houses, Jefford Curre's focus remained with a great degree of concern on the nerve dangling fact that his homeland was almost solely depending on tourism.He thought the nation was a sitting duck for an economic crisis, with little or no new industry of global proportion in sight. It did not look good, but it was obviously an issue few wanted to acknowledge as a potential problem.Driven by a sense of mission and destiny, Jefford Curre' decided that it was time to take action to develop a solution, to buffer potential future crisis.
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The expansion of Megavision Pictures and the rise of the Bahamas film industry.
Megavision Pictures has succeeded in improving the entry level protocol for box-office entrepreneurs. They have successfully engineered a level playing field that has positioned them to capitalize on the acquisition of key game changing infrastructures. With an open door invitation to more than 48 countries, Megavision Pictures industry power players could aggressively lead private sector funding of programs and initiatives that works well with local government, and the growing needs of box-office entrepreneurs.
Out of 86 proposals received over the past 24 months, only 20 have reached a point of consideration. Even fewer will make it to the finish line. All proposals are vigorously discussed and debated by Megavision Pictures review division. The grinding principle in their decision making process is to determine a core champion excellence that the company can support in the individual, as they explore the highest commercial potential within the submitted.
Stars In Paradise is set to launch new Bahamian channel on The Megavision Network.
Talks are on the way as Stars In Paradise (the Bahamas leading film industry magazine) makes ready to launch its first 24/7 channel. Powered by The Megavision Network, Stars In Paradise channel is expected to capitalize on a well established trail of excellence, as it will mainly focus on the work of the indigenous box-office entrepreneurs, while providing refreshing opportunities for savvy students, writers and career changing professionals.
The Megavision Network at megnettv.com is the product of ten years of breakthrough research and development, in the area of advance communication. With a finger on the pulse of global concerns and real time progress analysis, The Megavision Network is pushing the envelope in bringing attention to emerging business concepts with much success. The Megavision Network is driving the exploration of wide base, user friendly social media technology with a multiple satellite platform approach.
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Making your film a reality
If money is no object and you are well established you can make any kind of movie on any subject matter and you can do it on any continent.
if you are just starting out, the best way to make your film a reality without spending a lot of money is to:
1. Base it around the things that you already have.
2.The environment you are in
3.The people around you.
For example, don't try writing a screenplay that has to take place aboard a speeding yacht, unless you own one or can afford to rent or buy one. If you don't even know a friend who owns one, the film will never happen.
First, visualize your movie inside your head, shot by shot, cut by cut. Draw out those shots on a storyboard. Next, you'll need equipment, you don't have to spend a lot of money on a camera. Just ask a friend or someone you know that has a camera, to borrow their own. Some film schools and civic organizations offer year round training that includes equipment. Finally, there's post-production. When you have finished shooting your movie, you need to find a good processor to develop your film. Sometimes they give discount rates to students or low – budget productions. Lastly, you will need to edit. After it's changed to video format you can use a video editing system like: Final cut pro or Avid to do your editing.- starsinparadise.com
Hot chicks and tough guys are flocking the curse-free, drug free Bahamas movie set.
The Bahamas film industry has evolved as a royal culture of fun, frolic and discipline while making millions and attracting only the best from around the world.
Have you ever felt the urge to just drop everything and start living the life you know you were born to live? Well you are not alone and it may well be a clear sign that you may be forcing yourself to operate out of your element. It may simply not be your calling. Are you an entrepreneur, student, writer or career changing professional? Are you seriously looking for an opportunity to lighten up, reduce the mundane stress factor and have more fun while making a living? THEN WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Keep it simple, fulfilling and profitable. If you are not in the mood for smoking, cursing, drinking, doing drugs and you don't mind training with some of the hottest chicks and the coolest guys on the planet, we invite you to send in your resume or an introductory letter. It doesn't matter who you are, where you are or what you are doing. If you are ready to make a change, we would love to hear from you. There is a catch, you must be open for training or flexible enough to be re-trained into our success proven way of box-office career development. - starsinparadise.com
The Megavision Network repositions for power opening and expanded network affiliates in USA, Canada, Asia, Bahamas and South America.
Making it from script to screen and beyond in the Bahamas Film Industry
New development deals by
Megavision Pictures
Megavision Pictures has entered development deals with 15 box-office entrepreneurs in the Bahamas who are embracing a limited open window to take their story from manuscript to big screen. The major challenge among many is to make the transition to full time careers by the end of the year.
101 directing tips for filmmakers - Bahamas film industry.
5 directing tips for award winning moviemakers - Bahamas film industry.
It's ironic that Jefford Curre' has emerged as one of, if not the most influential figures in the Bahamas film industry. Considering the facts that before he began his first series of movie production training trips into the USA as an adult, he had never even stepped foot inside a movie theater. Of cause there are movie theaters in the Bahamas but that had nothing to do with Jefford's development toward his destiny. He was a shy boy who grew up under monk style conditions in a strict Christian home, and was not even allowed to venture outside the boundaries of his back yard. His friends, however, were allowed to come in to play and sometimes needed to borrow money. Jefford never spent his allowance, except for occasionally buying gifts for his mother. He kept a loaded piggy bank from which he made small loans to his friends, but there was one problem, he seldom got paid back. To solve the escalating problem, the thrifty 10 year old negotiated what could be considered his first pay-per-view distribution deal that was a sure win-win. For on quarter, his friends, who were allowed to attend the movies, would gladly re-enact the entire movie that they had seen. For an extra ten cents, they would even add music and sound effects with their mouth, leaving the rest to Jefford's imagination.
The cinema that took place in the sand pile went great until one day, while the boys were climbing the wall to demonstrate an ambush scene. Suddenly the newly built, fresh cemented walls started to shake, too many boys were on the wall. He tried to warn them, but things got out of control. After a leap, the entire top section of the wall came tumbling down. Everyone ran out of the yard as fast as they could. With the help of two friends, Jefford put the wall together piece by piece, using mud to cover the cracks. It was a great prop work, but did not survive the slamming of the gate that evening when his father came home. That evening, after a few dozen lashes on his bare bottom, he realized how difficult directing could be. He learned some very important directing lessons. Directing lesson no. 1. You are responsible for any and all out come, Directing lesson no. 2. Don't work with people who don't take directions or you can't control. Directing lesson no. 3. If something goes wrong be prepared, you'll take a good licking but don't stop tickin. Directing lesson no. 4. Always have at least two friends you can trust, who won't run when the going gets rough. Directing lesson no. 5. Remember there is an opportunity in every problem, find it and keep moving toward the goal.
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THE future of a key Gladstone project appears to be in the hands of God.
The Catholic Church of Australia's insurance fund could be a major key to the success of the city's steel project and thousands of local jobs.
The church's shareholding looks like determining the outcome of the shareholders' vote next week.
A majority negative vote would almost certainly lead to the liquidation of the company, which would result in a total loss to all shareholders.
But shareholders have nothing to lose by voting the company out of administration, according to those behind the scenes.
A number of shareholders are yet to vote, and have until 11am on Tuesday, September 2 to lodge their vote with the administrator.
Hundreds of small investors in Gladstone and Australia have supported the rescue group, which has become Gladstone Steel Pty Ltd, to save the project.
But before it can move forward the original company has to come out of administration, which requires the approval of the existing Boulder Steel shareholders.
GSPL projected 1800 full-time jobs and 5500 related jobs in Gladstone Steel, which would also provide a profitable outlook for existing Boulder Steel shareholders via the gifting of equivalent equity in GSPL.
Former rescue group co-ordinator, GSPL director Paul Sundstrom said they had stopped contributions to the project for the time being because of "unexpected uncertainty" the group was faced with to achieve the vote.
"We don't want any more money from these existing shareholders; we're just asking for their permission to keep going and doing what we're already doing," he said.
"It's a chance for the shareholders to get something back rather than seeing nothing after what they've put in."
Mr Sundstrom said if the shareholders voted the company out of administration, it would allow Otsana and Gladstone Steel's agreements to swing into play.
Gladstone Steel has already secured about 70% of the initial five million tons per annum capacity for the project from a Chinese steel processor and a processor in the Philippines, as well as getting the critical environmental impact statement re-started.
The work to save the project was being done by a dedicated team of 10 volunteers.
The Catholic Church did not return The Observer's calls before deadline.


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Principal Lecturer and Head of Animation and VFX, Ellie Serafin graduated in Fine Art and Music from London University in 1985. Following this she worked as an artist and freelance musician in educational and commercial settings in the UK and USA before completing an MSc in Computer Aided Graphical Technology Applications at Teesside University in 1997.
Ellie has extensive experience of curriculum development and leadership at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has also given guest lectures on the Creative Process Involved in Animation at universities and colleges in Malaysia, Thailand and Norway.


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The race car of driver Will Power, left, goes airborne during the IZOD IndyCar World Championship race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada October 16, 2011. (REUTERS/Barry Ambrose) Photo by REUTERS
The race cars of drivers Wade Cunningham, right, J.R. Hildebrand, second from right, and Townsend Bell, second from left, hit the wall next to Jay Howard, left, during the IZOD IndyCar World Championship race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada October 16, 2011. (REUTERS/Barry Ambrose) Photo by REUTERS
The race car of driver Will Power, left, hits the wall along with drivers J.R. Hildebrand, centre, and Charlie Kimball, right, during the IZOD IndyCar World Championship race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada October 16, 2011. (REUTERS/Barry Ambrose) Photo by REUTERS
Race car driver Wade Cunningham hits the wall during the IZOD IndyCar World Championship race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada October 16, 2011. (REUTERS/Barry Ambrose) Photo by REUTERS
Safety crews respond after a multi-car wreck during the IZOD IndyCar World Championship race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada October 16, 2011. IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon was air lifted to the hospital. (REUTERS/Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun) Photo by REUTERS
The race car of driver Will Power, left, hits the wall along with drivers J.R. Hildebrand, second from left, Charlie Kimball, second from right, and Paul Tracy, left, during the IZOD IndyCar World Championship race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada October 16, 2011. (REUTERS/Barry Ambrose) Photo by REUTERS
IndyCar drivers run tribute laps in honor of British driver Dan Wheldon at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada October 16, 2011. Wheldon died from injuries sustained in an horrific crash at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday, race organizers said. (REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus) Photo by REUTERS
The race car of driver J.R. Hildebrand, right, lifts off the ground next to drivers Townsend Bell, left, and Jay Howard, centre, during the IZOD IndyCar World Championship race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada October 16, 2011. (REUTERS/Barry Ambrose) Photo by REUTERS
The race car of driver Will Power, left, hits the wall along with drivers J.R. Hildebrand, centre, and Charlie Kimball, right, as flames from British driver Dan Wheldon's car burst (at far left) during the IZOD IndyCar World Championship race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada October 16, 2011. (REUTERS/Barry Ambrose) Photo by REUTERS
IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon of Britain watches his team work on his car in the pit lane during practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis in this May 8, 2009 file photo. (REUTERS/Brent Smith/Files) Photo by Reuters
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On Fat Tuesday is a day when everyone is a glutton. We all pig out on whatever we can find. Your background or family will determine how much exactly. My family is originated from lake Charles, Louisiana so naturally we pig out for dinner.
In Canto VI, the gluttonous are punished by living in garbage sine they only produced garbage when they were alive. Gluttony is a common problem in the United States. Many people are obese. A punishment for gluttony is poor health. Eating and drinking too much can cause many diseases including diabetes. It is important to give up something for Lent to show sacrifice in honor of Jesus. I plan to give up sweets. Most people are searching for something to fill them. They think material things will make them happy. Joy and peace can only come from Jesus.
To reflect on "Gluttony" in canto VI , I myself feel I haven't experienced it. I actually turned to the other end of the spectrum due to a traumatizing experience. I understand how one would get absorbed in greed though. It's easy to want to satisfy ourselves with food, drink or other things, but we need to remember what is really important to us, which is God. He will be there to help is not give in, keep our faith in him and that is a satisfying feeling to me.
Today we just celebrated fat Tuesday where we eat everything that we may not be able to eat during lent. During lent we are encouraged to fast and not eat as much as we would on a regular basis. In canto VI it talks about sinners with gluttony which is based on food and drink. These sinners would eat everything they have and never gave a thought about anyone else. I feel as if we all are gluttons at one point in our lives. We all live in nice homes and all have food and drink we need to survive. Meanwhile people in other countries are not as lucky as we are. We forget about the people that are suffering right now. We all are blindsided by their situation because we aren't in their situation, and we never give it any thought.
I think gluttony is a strange sin to talk about because it is a very subjective sin. We all can agree that to go to a restaurant and order one of everything and eat all of it by yourself is a gluttonous act. But that is a very extreme view of gluttony, and we can't seem to agree on when a hearty meal becomes a gluttonous feast. I don't think that it is okay to eat a huge amounts of food every night but it's fine to do that every now and then.
In Canto VI, we are introduced to a group of sinners called the gluttonous. The souls of the gluttonous spent their whole life eating a surplus of food and drinking more than they really needed. The Gluttonous are therefore punished by living in garbage since they only produced garbage when they were alive on earth. Gluttony is still a common problem in the world today, especially in the United States. One of the many punishments for gluttony we see today is poor health. Eating and drinking too much can cause many diseases. Something you can do to try and avoid these punishments is giving up something for Lent. Personally, I plan to give up pizza. Most people are searching for something to fill them. They think material things will make them happy. However, God's grace is the only thing that can truely fill you.
In canto VI we meet the gluttons. In my opinion we are all gluttons in our own way at times. Like a good example is Fat Tuesday. We all eat lots of food and drink a lot before lent starts. These people are here because they chased things that would fill them on earth, and never found it truly. So their punishment is fitted accordingly to their sins.
In Canto VI, Dante and Virgil meet the Gluttons. The Gluttons are people who fill there lives with food and drink. They think nothing about others only to pleasure themselves. I feel like many people are gluttons because they don't know how to control themselves. Most people give up sweets or soda for lent but are unable to last the 40 days because they are addicted.
In this Canto we are introduced to the Gluttonous. These souls have spent their lives being selfish in one way or another just like everyone else condemned to the Inferno. They show their selfishness through being greedy with food and drink. During Lent we try to be the opposite f the gluttonous. Many decide to make a sacrifice of food or drink. We make this sacrifice and offer it up to Jesus. During this time we as Christians agree to give up these things for our Lord and to guarantee a spot in heaven.
In this canto we are introduced to another batch of sinners, the gluttons. The gluttons were people on earth who just stuffed themselves with food and drink without giving anyone else a second thought. They are placed in the third circle of hell, guarded by Cerberus, because Cerberus slavers over the tormented souls; similar to how the gluttons slavered over there food on earth. We as Christians should eat, but not to the point where we don't consider everyone else in our lives.


George W. Farrar's was the promoter of the St Johns Stone Chinaware Company, the first whiteware pottery in Canada, established in 1873.
A Canadian family of potters of American origin. They were descended from English colonists and were potting in Vermont by 1795. They made two important contributions to Canadian pottery: they introduced stoneware potting and promoted Canada's first whiteware pottery. In 1840 Moses Farrar (bc. 1810) and Isaac Newton Soule built the first stoneware pottery in Canada in St Johns (now St Jean, Quebec), importing the necessary American clay for salt-glazed wares via the Lake Champlain-Richelieu River waterway. In the 1850s Ebenezer Lawrence Farrar (d 1857), proprietor of potteries in both Fairfax, VT, and St Johns, acquired the assistance of his brother George Whitfield Farrar (1812-81). When Ebenezer Farrar died, George Farrar remained in St Johns to make earthenware and stoneware and to enlarge the scope and nature of Canadian ceramics by vigorous promotion in 1873 of the St Johns Stone Chinaware Co. for white-bodied earthenware. Though only briefly connected with the final organization of this company, George Whitfield Farrar had been the prime mover behind it. In 1876, after a fire, his own yellow ware and stoneware factory, in which his sons joined him, was relocated across the river in Iberville, Quebec. The Farrars encouraged the ceramic industry in an area that became known as the Staffordshire of Canada and brought innovation to Canadian potting in general. George Farrar's son George Henry Farrar (1843-1927) eventually succeeded his father, but stoneware was being replaced by newer materials. He sold the pottery just before his death, and within five years it was closed.


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Q: Average of even numbers in a list Devise an algorithm to compute the following: given a list of numbers, find the average of the even numbers in the list, e.g., in [1,2,4,1,2,9,4], the even numbers are 2,4,2 and 4, and the average of them is (2+4+2+4)/4=3.

A: import statistics

l = [1,2,4,1,2,9,4]
result = statistics.mean(x for x in l if x % 2 == 0)

The core of this solution is statistics.mean() which calculates the mean value of an iterable of numbers and the list comprehension with an if.

A: One way to do it is the following:
l = [1,2,4,1,2,9,4]
even = list(filter(lambda elem: elem % 2 == 0, l))
result = sum(even) / len(even)

First you use filter to find all evens and then you calculate the average.

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Voynich manuscript, a mysterious book has been frustrating the code breakers and linguists over a century. This manuscript will be cloned to 898 copies to help solve other experts.
Siloe, a Spanish publishing company has secured the right to make an exact replica of the original manuscripts, which were locked in the Beinecke Library at Yale University.
Page of the book has been available online, but the touches are there in the manuscript can not we catch only via the Internet, said Juan Jose Garcia, director of the publishing house.
Siloe, which is specialized in producing a facsimile of the old manuscripts, will make 898 replicas of Voynich manuscript. The numbers to reproduce the manuscript as a mystery of code found there - 898, rows of numbers which if read will remain the same, even from the back or front.
The manuscript duplication process will take over 18 months and requires special paper that has been provided by the company. "We call it a Voynich challenge," said Garcia further.
He also added that Siloe's plans to sell manuscript duplicates was worth of US $7,800 to 8,900. And as much as 300 ordering of the manuscript duplicates have been accepted by the company.
As the most mysterious manuscript in the world, this book takes its name from the man who found it, Wilfrid Voynich. He found the book in 1912 in the Villa Mondragone, near Rome. He claimed that the manuscript belonged to the Habsburg Emperor Rudolf II, who lived in the 16th century.
The book is expected to have 250,000 garbled characters. Writings consist of a group of words and sentences that use Latin letters and Roman numerals. While other letters seem not of any known language.
There are drawings made by hand scratches as pictures of plants can not be identified, astrological symbols, a network of pipes, and naked girls who were bathing in a strange green liquid.
Finally, the researchers separating the theme of manuscripts in five parts: herbs, astrology, biology, medicine, and recipes.
"The purpose and content of the Voynich manuscript will reveal the deep mysteries," said Marcelo Montemurro, a theoretical physicists of the University of Manchester in England, and Damian Zanette of Statstical Physics Group in Argentina, write in a paper in 2013 which was published in the Plos One journal.
Initially, Voynich believed that the book was written by Roger Bacon, an English scientist of the 13th century, but his theory faulted in 2011 when the book turns known from the 15th century. But until now the original intent of the manuscript still a puzzle.
"Since the 17th century, many efforts to solve the script has generated a lot of success, but none of them are quite convincing," says Montemurro.
Many speculations are popping up saying that this manuscript was made by religious sects, who just wrote a document of a language that has been forgotten, unbreakable secret code, and the recipe for eternal life.


I actually have 2 questions. MANY years ago one of my daughters made a pendant for her grandmother, round, with her stone in the middle and children and grandchildren around it. I can't find something like this to make, but what I would like to make, if logical, is a cross with my stone in the middle and then children and grandchildren within the cross and perhaps a chain of the birthstones of the greats. Have to say I have 8 children, 20 grands and 24+ greats so far. The chain effect would allow me to keep adding to it. Is it cost or logistic prohibitive to do such a thing? Thank you for an answer.
We do carry cross pendants with stone mountings in a variety of styles. Use the cross pendant as your focal and hang it from a neck chain made up of gemstones/birthstones set in Wrap-Tite® settings intermingled with chain. A fantastic example of this type of chain is Design Idea B162.
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The Triquel Theater Inc. was recently formed, Chapter 3 Problem P3-8A help
You must complete all 4 parts (a, b, c, and d) of Problem P3-8A to earn full credit. You must submit your answers in Excel (only one Excel file will be graded – do not submit multiple Excel files). No Word document submissions will be graded.
Please read all of Chapter 3 before beginning this problem. The chapter will provide you with examples of T-accounts (part a), journal entires (part b), posting to the ledger (part c), and a trial balance (part d).
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P3-8A The Triquel Theater Inc. was recently formed. It began operations in March 2017. The Triquel is unique in that it will show only triple features of sequential theme movies. On March 1, the ledger of The Triquel showed Cash $16,000, Land $38,000, Buildings (concession stand, projection room, ticket booth, and screen) $22,000, Equipment $16,000, Accounts Payable $12,000, and Common Stock $80,000. During the month of March, the following events and transactions occurred.
Mar. 2 Rented the first three Star Wars movies (Star Wars®, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Return of the Jedi) to be shown for the first three weeks of March. The film rental was $10,000; $2,000 was paid in cash and $8,000 will be paid on March 10.
3 Ordered the first three Star Trek movies to be shown the last 10 days of March. It will cost $500 per night.
9 Received $9,900 cash from admissions.
10 Paid balance due on Star Wars movies' rental and $2,900 on March 1 accounts payable.
11 The Triquel Theater contracted with R. Lazlo to operate the concession stand. Lazlo agrees to pay The Triquel 15% of gross receipts, payable monthly, for the rental of the concession stand.
12 Paid advertising expenses $500.
20 Received $8,300 cash from customers for admissions.
20 Received the Star Trek movies and paid rental fee of $5,000.
31 Paid salaries of $3,800.
31 Received statement from R. Lazlo showing gross receipts from concessions of $10,000 and the balance due to The Triquel of $1,500($10,000×.15)
$1,500 ($10,000×.15)
for March. Lazlo paid half the balance due and will remit the remainder on April 5.
31 Received $20,000 cash from customers for admissions.
In addition to the accounts identified above, the chart of accounts includes Accounts Receivable, Service Revenue, Rent Revenue, Advertising Expense, Rent Expense, and Salaries and Wages Expense.
(a) Using T‐accounts, enter the beginning balances to the ledger.
(b) Journalize the March transactions, including explanations. The Triquel records admission revenue as service revenue, concession revenue as sales revenue, and film rental expense as rent expense.
(c) Post the March journal entries to the ledger.
(d) Prepare a trial balance on March 31, 2017.
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Helen Hoang (born 1982) is the pen name of an American romance novelist, best known for her best-selling debut novel The Kiss Quotient.

Career
Prior to being published, Hoang wrote paranormal and fantasy romances with a martial arts bent. She states that she wrote on and off for around ten years before The Kiss Quotient was published. Hoang says that the writers who influence her own work the most are Jayne Ann Krentz, Christine Feehan, Nalini Singh, Elizabeth Lowell, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kresley Cole, Eloisa James, Julia Quinn, and Lisa Kleypas.

Hoang's first novel, The Kiss Quotient, was published in June 2018. The romance novel follows Stella, an autistic woman who hires an escort in order to explore intimacy with other people. Hoang states that she initially wanted to write a gender-swapped Pretty Woman, but was stuck when examining why a "successful, beautiful woman would hire an escort." Later, her realization that she and her daughter are both on the autism spectrum led to the basis for the book.

A sequel titled The Bride Test, about Esme, a hotel maid who gets offered to accompany Khai, the autistic cousin of Michael from the first book who never had a girlfriend before to weddings, was published by Berkley in May 2019. Hoang says that she wanted to subvert the harmful tropes surrounding autism by writing an autistic character through protagonist Khai who is perceived by others as cold and heartless when this is not actually the case. The book was inspired by her mother's immigrant story, with Esme's story coming directly from conversations with her mom about what it was like to be poor in Vietnam and what it was like when she first came to the U.S. Hoang describes The Bride Test as "Green Card meets Four Weddings and a Funeral—but with autism." The Bride Test received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews.

Hoang's third book in the series, The Heart Principle, was published in 2021. Hoang describes it as "a cross between a gender-swapped Sabrina and Say Anything."

Personal life
Hoang was raised in Minnesota before moving to California. Her mother is a Vietnamese immigrant.

Growing up, Hoang struggled with social anxiety, which led to her turning to romance novels as an outlet that guaranteed a happy ending. During a meeting with her daughter's preschool teacher, Hoang found out that her daughter is on the autism spectrum. She researched autism and realized that she, too, is autistic. This influenced the development of The Kiss Quotient and her subsequent books.

She received an undergraduate business degree and worked in finance after college prior to becoming an author.

Hoang lives in San Diego with her husband and two children.

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American women novelists
Women romantic fiction writers
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Archive for the ATI Graphics card Category
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
Posted by: FanComputer in ATI Graphics card, Graphics card
Has there ever been a PC enthusiast product with as much anticipation as the AMD R600 GPU core? Probably, but right now it's hard to think of one. The R600 core (now officially named the AMD Radeon HD 2000 series) has been discussed even while the R580 (ATI's Radeon X1900 XTX) was in its infancy and that was in January of 2006. As you might imagine then in an industry where 6-month product cycles became the norm, ATI's stale product line was beginning to cause some concerns and raise some eyebrows. Had NVIDIA finally pushed them out of the graphics market for good with the GeForce 7-series and new 8-series of cards?
Of course we knew better, and AMD (who purchased ATI last year) tells us they are in the graphics market for the long haul, in enthusiast products and the upcoming Fusion products that combine the work of the GPU and CPU technologies. For today though, we are given the R600, a graphics architecture that was built well before AMD's acquisition of ATI and falls under the same GPU industry values – performance for gamers.
The R600 architecture is a major step beyond the R580 architecture we saw in ATI's X1900 XT graphics cards and lineup that jumps down the road of unified shaders, a route required by Microsoft's Direct X 10 and first implemented in the G80 architecture from NVIDIA. AMD claims that the new HD 2000 series of graphics cards will take the best features of the X1000 series (like dynamic branching and stream computing) and combine them with advantages from the Xbox 360's Xenos GPU (such as unified shaders and stream out) and add new technology (like DX10 support, a superscalar shader processor and updated dispatch processor) to make a truly amazing product.
At least that's what they claim.
Here is the very big, very complex diagram of the new architecture behind the R600, specifically the flagship HD 2900 XT card that we are reviewing here today. I'll attempt to break this down piece by piece with more detailed descriptions and explanations of what the various components we are seeing here actually do.
The ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT card (which again is the one shown above) includes 320 stream processors, 4 SIMD units, 4 texture units and 4 render back ends (ROPs). The modular design of the core allows the lower models like the HD 2600 and HD 2400 to have a subset of those units and run with the same features. We'll detail the product lineup towards the end of the detailed discussion.
The very first unit that data must pass through when entering the GPU is the command processor that is responsible for interacting with the stream of data from the graphics driver. AMD is claiming that the upgraded unit can offload as much as 30% of the CPU overhead in batch improvements from the driver thus allowing for better overall performance.
The setup engine is the unit responsible for preparing the data and organizing it for processing by the various SPUs (stream processing units). There are three functions that is mainly will do, one for each type of processing work the SPUs might do: vertex assembly and tessellation, geometry assembly and scan conversion for pixel shaders. Each of these can submit threads to the dispatch processor sitting below it.
The ultra-threaded dispatch processor is one of most complex parts of the new R600 architecture and has a lot of critical logic built into that the performance is dependent on. The main function here is to order and send to processing the various "threads" that have been created that include a list of instructions to be executed on some data (be in textures, pixels, etc).
The 320 stream processors are divided into four 80-SPU blocks that each depend on a set of arbiters and sequencers responsible for selecting the thread to submit. In connection with the SIMD arrays, the dual arbiters allow two operations at a time to be processed by the SPUs, thus indicating a superscalar architecture are work — mostly. Each of these threads can be "bumped" and their states saved in order to allow more critical threads to pass through and resume later at the dispatchers whim. In part to aid in latency hiding, the ability for a thread to be "bumped" keeps it from stalling the pipeline if it is waiting for memory access before it can continue processing.
You will also notice on the right hand side there that dedicated caches exist for shader constants and instructions to allow for unlimited shader program length. On the left hand side of the SPUs you'll find the all important memory read/write cache that is what allows for interthread communication and is a requirement of the new DX10 architecture. The stream out feature allows the shaders to bypass the ROPs and color buffer or to output sequential data instead of bitmaps; useful for that whole GPGPU thing.
The SIMD arrays of the R600 architecture are still a bit confusing to me. AMD claims that they use VLIW (very long instruction word) design to include up to six operations (5 math and 1 flow control) and all six can be performed in parallel on each data element in that current thread. Note though that the vertex and texture fetching is done separately and does not attempt to take advantage of these SIMD benefits.
Here is a detailed shot of a single stream processing unit. You'll notice that in the diagram above (the big one) that there are only 64 of these in there; so where does the 320 SPUs AMD claims come from? Well, there are five SPUs inside this block and 5 x 64 = 320, so there you go. Now, some people (namely NVIDIA) will claim that the comparison to the G80's 128 SPUs is unfair because of the amount of functionality they produce. It's a very complicated debate that goes deep into the theories of CPU design so we'll leave it at this: AMD claims 320 SPUs but performance results are what matters.
In any event, the arranged 5-way superscalar shader processor can issue up to five FP MAD (floating point Multiply-Add) instructions, IF the thread is able to fill that wide of a processing request. Each SPU is fully 32-bit FP but still supports integer operations (of course). The little branch unit on the right is there to handle flow control commands and just as with the R580 can eliminate flow control performance overhead. Finally, the general purpose registers store the input/output data to share their processing results.
AMD is definitely proud of their SPUs and mentioned to us over and over how it could achieve 475 GigaFLOPS (floating point operations per second). This table shows you how the 2900, 2600 and 2400 and a desktop processor line up in potential for raw processing power. This is exactly why the GPU Folding@Home and stream computing initiatives are gathering so much steam.
The R600's four texture units each have eight address processors that execute shader instructions to control their lookups, twenty texture samplers that can fetch a single data value per clock and four floating point filter units that handle 64-bit and 128-bit bilinear filters. The HD 2900 and 2600 feature a two-level texture cache design (256kb for HD 2900 and 128kb for HD 2600) while the HD 2400 uses a single level cache.
AMD's texture units can do 64-bit HDR texture bilinear filtering at full speed and 128-bit FP textures at half speed. Interestingly, users that preferred the "High Quality" texture filtering setting in AMD's previous graphics generation will like to know that in the R600, that quality setting is now the default. NVIDIA's G80 architecture implemented that as well last year.
The render back-ends as AMD is fond of calling them are known as ROPs to the NVIDIA crowd and are responsible for post-processing, anti-aliasing and depth tests among other things. These can handle up to 32 pixels per clock in the stencil tests on the Radeon HD 2900 while the 2600 and 2400 models will only get 8 pixels per clock. A neat new feature is that the MSAA resolve functions are programmable and allows for a custom filter AA — something that AMD was showing off later. We'll cover that on a later page as well.
The depth, stencil and compression functions on the render back-ends were improved significantly over the X1000 series:
This simple array of stencil shadow tests shows that the HD 2000 series is seeing a 25-95% gain depending on the application.
Overall I'd say that the R600 architecture is actually much more similar to NVIDIA G80 than I expected, but with the requirements of unified shaders and other features from DirectX 10, it's likely that being forced to meet them pushed both sets of engineers in the same general direction. AMD's R600 does feature a superscalar (versus the scalar architecture on the G80) and a new custom filtered AA option though that could help it be a success. We'll have to see the benchmarks first before passing out any congratulatory cigars.
Updated Ring-bus Memory Controller
The new R600 architecture is also sporting a new version of the ring-bus memory controller used on the R580 design. This time the interface is actually 512-bits, surpassing the 384-bit bus that the GeForce 8800 has. The larger bus width allows AMD to get more bang out of existing memory technology by giving more of the GPU access to it at the same time. Memory can also run slower and thus cooler and still maintain the same bandwidth values as previous generations, should they decide to go that route.
In this version of the ring bus, the controller is full distributed instead of having a central arbiter with crossbars as we saw in the R580. Because the design of these crossbars was not as a flexible as the ring bus design itself, they were removed in favor of a model that ONLY works on the "stop" of the memory ring.
The memory controller on the HD 2900 XT flagship card is divided up into eight separate 64-bit memory channels for a total of 512-bits. Each channel has access to portions of the frame buffer (64MB each in this case) and memory accesses are don by circling around the ring bus to each "stop" to find the proper location. While it may sound inefficient at first, the bus moves quickly enough that AMD's solution isn't suffering any kind of drawbacks and in fact may result in the largest memory bandwidth numbers we've seen.
From: pcper.com
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