2004-11-16 Assigned to 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY reassignment 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: HUNTER, THOMAS B. (DECEASED) EXECUTED BY DECEASED INVENTOR'S LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES, SAMUEL HUNTER AND THELMA HUNTER), KUHNS, DAVID W., HUIZINGA, JOHN S., HUMLICEK, LARRY D., KING, GREGORY F., STRAND, JOHN T., CARLSON, DANIEL H., DOBBS, JAMES N., DOWER, WILLIAM V.
An apparatus for casting a patterned surface on both sides of a web. The apparatus includes a first patterned roll; a second pattered roll; and a means for rotating the first and second patterned rolls such that their patterns are transferred to opposite sides of the web while it is in continuous motion. During this process, their patterns are maintained in continuous registration to within at least 100 microns, and preferably at least 20 microns.
The invention relates generally to the continuous casting of material onto a web, and more specifically to the casting of articles having a high degree of registration between the patterns cast on opposite sides of the web.
When the substrate is a discrete article such as a circuit board, the applicators of a pattern may usually rely on an edge to assist in achieving registration. But when the substrate is a web and it is not possible to rely on an edge of the substrate to periodically refer to in maintaining registration, the problem becomes a bit more difficult. Still, even in the case of webs, when the requirement for registration is not severe, e.g. a drift out of perfect registration of greater than 100 microns is tolerable, mechanical expedients are known for controlling the material application to that extent. The printing art is replete with devices capable of meeting such a standard.
However, in some products having patterns on opposite sides of a substrate, a much more accurate registration between the patterns is required. In such a case, if the web is not in continuous motion, apparatuses are known that can apply material to such a standard. And if the web is in continuous motion, if it is tolerable, as in e.g. some types of flexible circuitry, to reset the patterning rolls to within 100 microns, or even 5 microns, of perfect registration once per revolution of the patterning rolls, the art still gives guidelines about how to proceed.
However, in e.g. optical articles such as brightness enhancement films, it is required for the patterns in the optically transparent polymer applied to opposite sides of a substrate to be out of registration by no more than a very small tolerance at any point in the tool rotation. Thus far, the art is silent about how to cast a patterned surface on opposite sides of a web that is in continuous motion so that the patterns are kept continuously, rather than intermittently, in registration within 100 microns.
One aspect of the present disclosure is directed to an apparatus for casting a patterned surface on both sides of a web while keeping a much finer registration between the patterns that has been possible in the past. The apparatus includes a first patterned roll and a second patterned roll for applying the patterns to the web. Also included is a means for rotating the first and second patterned rolls such that their patterns are transferred to opposite sides of the web while it is in continuous motion, and their patterns are maintained in continuous registration to within 100 microns. In another embodiment, a registration accuracy of within 50 microns can be accomplished, and in yet another embodiment, a registration accuracy of within 10 microns is possible.
In the context of this disclosure, "registration," means the positioning of structures in a set location in relation to the edge of a web and to other structures on the opposite side of the same web.
FIG. 11 illustrates a block diagram of an example embodiment of a method and apparatus for controlling registration according to the present disclosure.
Generally, the invention of the present disclosure is a system and method for producing two-sided microreplicated structures with side-to-side registration of better than about 100 microns, and preferably better than 50 microns, and more preferably less than 25 microns, and most preferably less than 5 microns. The system generally includes a first patterning assembly and a second patterning assembly. Each respective assembly creates a microreplicated pattern on a respective surface of a web having a first and a second surface. A first pattern is created on the first side of the web and a second pattern is created on the second surface of the web.
After the first coating material is placed on the web, the web passes over a first patterned member, wherein a pattern is created in the first coating material. The first coating material is then cured or cooled to form the first pattern. Subsequently, after the second coating material is placed on the web, the web passes over a second patterned member, wherein a pattern is created in the second coating material. The second coating material is then cured to form the second pattern. Typically, each patterned member is a microreplicated tool and each tool typically has a dedicated curing member for curing the material. However, it is possible to have a single curing member that cures both first and second patterned materials. Also, it is possible to place the coatings on the patterned tools.
The system also includes means for rotating the first and second patterned rolls such that their patterns are transferred to opposite sides of the web while it is in continuous motion, and said patterns are maintained in continuous registration on said opposite sides of the web to better than about 100 microns.
An advantage of the present invention is that a web having a microreplicated structure on each opposing surface of the web can be manufactured by having the microreplicated structure on each side of the web continuously formed while keeping the microreplicated structures on the opposing sides registered generally to within 100 microns of each other, and typically within 50 microns, and more typically within 20 microns, and most typically within 5 microns.
Referring now to FIGS. 1–2, an example embodiment of a system 110 including casting apparatus 120 according to the present disclosure is illustrated. In the depicted casting apparatus 120, a web 122 is provided to the casting apparatus 120 from a main unwind spool (not shown). The exact nature of web 122 can vary widely, depending on the product being produced. However, when the casting apparatus 120 is used for the fabrication of optical articles it is usually convenient for the web 122 to be translucent or transparent, to allow curing through the web 122. The web 122 is directed around various rollers 126 into the casting apparatus 120.
Accurate tension control of the web 122 is required to achieve the best results the invention is capable of, so the web 122 is directed over a tension-sensing device (not shown). In situations where it is desirable to use a liner web to protect the web 122, the liner web is typically separated at the unwind spool and directed onto a liner web wind-up spool (not shown). The web 122 is typically directed via an idler roll to a dancer roller for precision tension control. Idler rollers direct the web 122 to a position between nip roller 154 and first coating head 156.
In the depicted embodiment, first coating head 156 is a die coating head. However, other coating methods can be adapted to the apparatus, as one of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate. The web 122 then passes between the nip roll 154 and first patterned roll 160. The first patterned roll 160 has a patterned surface 162, and when the web 122 passes between the nip roller 154 and the first patterned roll 160 the material dispensed onto the web 122 by the first coating head 156 is shaped into a negative of patterned surface 162.
While the web 122 is in contact with the first patterned roll 160, material is dispensed from second coating head 164 onto the other surface of web 122. In parallel with the discussion above with respect to the first coating head 156, the second coating head 164 is also a die coating arrangement including a second extruder (not shown) and a second coating die (not shown). In some embodiments, the material dispensed by the first coating head 156 is a composition including a polymer precursor and intended to be cured to solid polymer with the application of ultraviolet radiation.
Material that has been dispensed onto web 122 by the second coating head 164 is then brought into contact with second patterned roll 174 with a second patterned surface 176. In parallel with the discussion above, in some embodiments, the material dispensed by the second coating head 164 is a composition including a polymer precursor and intended to be cured to solid polymer with the application of ultraviolet radiation.
At this point, the web 122 has had a pattern applied to both sides. A peel roll 182 may be present to assist in removal of the web 122 from second patterned roll 174. Typically, web tension into and out of the casting apparatus is nearly constant.
The web 122 having a two-sided microreplicated pattern is then directed to a wind-up spool (not shown) via various idler rolls. If an interleave film is desired to protect web 122, it is typically provided from a secondary unwind spool (not shown) and the web and interleave film are wound together on the wind-up spool at an appropriate tension.
Referring to FIGS. 1–3, first and second patterned rolls are coupled to first and second motor assemblies 210, 220, respectively. Support for the motor assemblies 210, 220 is accomplished by mounting assemblies to a frame 230, either directly or indirectly. The motor assemblies 210, 220 are coupled to the frame using precision mounting arrangements. In the example embodiment shown, first motor assembly 210 is fixedly mounted to frame 230. Second motor assembly 220, which is placed into position when web 122 is threaded through the casting apparatus 120, needs to be positioned repeatedly and is therefore movable, both in the cross- and machine direction. Movable motor arrangement 220 is preferably coupled to linear slides 222 to assist in repeated accurate positioning, for example, when switching between patterns on the rolls. Second motor arrangement 220 also includes a second mounting arrangement 225 on the backside of the frame 230 for positioning the second patterned roll 174 side-to-side relative to the first patterned roll 160. Second mounting arrangement 225 preferably includes linear slides 223 allowing accurate positioning in the cross machine directions.
In the example embodiment shown, the tool roller 662 diameter is typically smaller than its motor 633 diameter. To accommodate this arrangement, the two tool roller assemblies 610, 710 are installed as mirror images in order to be able to bring the two tool rollers 662, 762 together as shown in FIG. 7. Referring also to FIG. 1, the first motor arrangement is typically fixedly attached to the frame and the second motor arrangement is positioned using movable optical quality linear slides.
Referring to FIG. 4, an example embodiment of a casting apparatus 420 for producing a two-sided web 422 with registered microreplicated structures on opposing surfaces is illustrated. Assembly includes first and second coating means 456, 464, a nip roller 454, and first and second patterned rolls 460, 474. Web 422 is presented to the first coating means 456, in this example a first extrusion die 456. First die 456 dispenses a first curable liquid layer coating 470 onto the web 422. First coating 470 is pressed into the first patterned roller 460 by means of a nip roller 454, typically a rubber covered roller. While on the first patterned roll 460, the coating is cured using an external curing source 480, for example, a lamp, of suitable wavelength light, typically an ultraviolet light.
Referring to FIG. 5, a close-up view of a portion of first and second patterned rolls 560, 574 is illustrated. First patterned roll 560 has a first pattern 562 for forming a microreplicated surface. Second pattern roll 574 has a second microreplicated pattern 576.
In the example embodiment shown, first and second patterns 562, 576 are the same pattern, though the patterns may be different. As a web 522 passes over the first roll 560, a first curable liquid (not shown) on a first surface 524 is cured by a curing light source 525 near a first region 526 on the first patterned roll 560. A first microreplicated patterned structure 590 is formed on the first side 524 of the web 522 after the liquid is cured. The first patterned structure 590 is a negative of the pattern 562 on the first patterned roll 560. After the first patterned structure 590 is formed, a second curable liquid 581 is dispensed onto a second surface 527 of the web 522. To insure that the second liquid 581 is not cured prematurely, the second liquid 581 is isolated from the first curing light 525, typically by a locating the first curing light 525 so that it does not fall on the second liquid 581. Alternatively, shielding means 592 can be placed between the first curing light 525 and the second liquid 581. Also, the curing sources can be located inside their respective patterned rolls where it is impractical or difficult to cure through the web.
To increase the degree of registration between the patterns formed on opposite surfaces of a web, it preferred to have a low-frequency pitch variation around the mean diameter of each roll. Typically, the patterned rolls are of the same mean diameter, though this is not required. It is within the skill and knowledge of one having ordinary skill in the art to select the proper roll for any particular application.
Because the features sizes on the microreplicated structures on both surfaces of a web are desired to be within fine registration of one another, the patterned rolls need to be controlled with a high degree of precision. Cross-web registration within the limits described herein can be accomplished by applying the techniques used in controlling machine-direction registration, as described hereinafter. Control of registration in the machine direction is required, which heretofore has not been achieved in two-sided microreplicated webs. For example, to achieve about 10 microns end-to-end feature placement on a 10-inch circumference patterned roller, each roller must be maintained within a rotational accuracy of ±32 arc-seconds per revolution. Control of registration becomes more difficult as the speed the web travels through the system is increased.
Applicants have built and demonstrated a system having 10-inch circular patterned rolls that can create a web having patterned features on opposite surfaces of the web that are registered to within 2.5 microns. Upon reading this disclosure and applying the principles taught herein, one of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate how to accomplish the degree of registration for other microreplicated surfaces.
Referring to FIG. 8, a schematic of a motor arrangement 800 used in Applicants' system is illustrated. Motor arrangement includes a motor 810 including a primary encoder 830 and a drive shaft 820. Drive shaft 820 is coupled to a driven shaft 840 of patterned roll 860 through a coupling 825. A secondary, or load, encoder 850 is coupled to the driven shaft 840. Using two encoders in the motor arrangement described allows the position of the patterned roll to be measured more accurately by locating the measuring device (encoder) 850 near the patterned roll 860, thus reducing or eliminating effects of torque disturbances when the motor arrangement 800 is operating.
Referring to FIG. 9, a schematic of the motor arrangement of FIG. 8, is illustrated as attached to control components. In the example apparatus shown in FIGS. 1–3, a similar set-up would control each motor arrangement 210 and 220.
In the example embodiments shown, each patterned roll is controlled by a dedicated control arrangement. Dedicated control arrangements cooperate to control the registration between first and second patterned rolls. Each drive module communicates with and controls its respective motor assembly.
Various options are available for co-coordinating the two axes such as master/slave-type and parallel configurations, which was used in Applicants' system.
The control arrangement in the system built and demonstrated by Applicants include the following. To drive each of the patterned rolls, a high performance, low cogging torque motor with a high-resolution sine encoder feedback (512 sine cycles×4096 drive interpolation >>2 million parts per revolution) was used, model MHD090B-035-NGO-UN, available from Bosch-Rexroth (Indramat). Also the system included synchronous motors, model MHD090B-035-NGO-UN, available from Bosch-Rexroth (Indramat), but other types, such as induction motors could also be used. Each motor was directly coupled (without gearbox or mechanical reduction) through an extremely stiff bellows coupling, model BK5-300, available from R/W Corporation. Alternate coupling designs could be used, but bellows style generally combines stiffness while providing high rotational accuracy. Each coupling was sized so that a substantially larger coupling was selected than what the typical manufacturers specifications would recommend. Additionally, zero backlash collets or compressive style locking hubs between coupling and shafts are preferred. Each roller shaft was attached to an encoder through a hollow shaft load side encoder, model RON255C, available from Heidenhain Corp., Schaumburg, Ill. Encoder selection should have the highest accuracy and resolution possible, typically greater than 32 arc-sec accuracy. Applicants' design, 18000 sine cycles per revolution were employed, which in conjunction with the 4096 bit resolution drive interpolation resulted in excess of 50 million parts per revolution resolution giving a resolution substantially higher than accuracy. The load side encoder had an accuracy of +/−2 arc-sec; maximum deviation in the delivered units was less than +/−1 arc-sec.
Preferably, each shaft is designed to be as large a diameter as possible and as short as possible to maximize stiffness, resulting in the highest possible resonant frequency. Precision alignment of all rotational components is desired to ensure minimum registration error due to this source of registration error. One of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that there are various ways to reduce registration error due to alignment of the rotational components.
Referring to FIG. 11, in Applicants' system identical position reference commands were presented to each axis simultaneously through a SERCOS fiber network at a 2 ms update rate. Each axis interpolates the position reference with a cubic spline, at the position loop update rate of 250 microsecond intervals. The interpolation method is not critical, as the constant velocity results in a simple constant times time interval path. The resolution is critical to eliminate any round off or numerical representation errors. Axis rollover must also be addressed. It is critical that each axis' control cycle is synchronized at the current loop execution rate (62 microsecond intervals).
The position command 1111 is subtracted from current position 1114, generating an error signal 1116. The error 1116 is applied to a proportional controller 1115, generating the velocity command reference 1117. The velocity feedback 1167 is subtracted from the command 1117 to generate the velocity error signal 1123, which is then applied to a PID controller. The velocity feedback 1167 is generated by differentiating the motor encoder position signal 1126. Due to differentiation and numerical resolution limits, a low pass Butterworth filter 1124 is applied to remove high frequency noise components from the error signal 1123. A narrow stop band (notch) filter 1129 is applied at the center of the motor-roller resonant frequency. This allows substantially higher gains to be applied to the velocity controller 1120. Increased resolution of the motor encoder also would improve performance. The exact location of the filters in the control diagram is not critical; either the forward or reverse path are acceptable, although tuning parameters are dependent on the location.
Minimization of external disturbances is important to obtaining maximum registration. This includes motor construction and current loop commutation as previously discussed, but minimizing mechanical disturbances is also important. Examples include extremely smooth tension control in entering and exiting web span, uniform bearing and seal drag, minimizing tension upsets from web peel off from the roller, uniform rubber nip roller. In the current design a third axis geared to the tool rolls is provided as a pull roll to assist in removing the cured structure from the tool.
The web material can be any suitable material on which a microreplicated patterned structure can be created. Examples of web materials are polyethylene terephthalate, polymethyl methacrylate, or polycarbonate. The web can also be multi-layered. Since the liquid is typically cured by a curing source on the side opposite that on which the patterned structure is created, the web material must be at least partially translucent to the curing source used. Examples of curing energy sources are infrared radiation, ultraviolet radiation, visible light radiation, microwave, or e-beam. One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that other curing sources can be used, and selection of a particular web material/curing source combination will depend on the particular article (having microreplicated structures in registration) to be created.
The liquid from which the microreplicated structures are created is typically a curable photopolymerizable material, such as acrylates curable by UV light. One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that other coating materials can be used, for example, polymerizable material, and selection of a material will depend on the particular characteristics desired for the microreplicated structures. Similarly, the particular curing method employed is within the skill and knowledge of one of ordinary skill in the art. Examples of curing methods are reactive curing, thermal curing, or radiation curing.
means for rotating the first and second patterned rolls such that their patterns are transferred to opposite sides of the web while it is in continuous motion, and said patterns are maintained in continuous registration on said opposite sides of the web to within 50 microns.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the patterns are transferred to opposite sides of the web in registration to within 20 microns.
3. The apparatus according to claim 2 wherein the patterns are transferred to opposite sides of the web in registration to within 5 microns.
4. The apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a first dispenser for introducing material capable of being patterned onto the web before the web encounters the first patterned roll, and further comprising a second dispenser for introducing material capable of being patterned onto the web before the web encounters the second patterned roll.
5. The apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a first dispenser for introducing material capable of being patterned onto the first patterned roll, and further comprising a second dispenser for introducing material capable of being patterned onto the second patterned roll.
6. The apparatus according to claim 4 wherein the first and second dispensers are adapted to dispense a castable polymer precursor capable of being cured to solid polymer.
7. The apparatus according to claim 6 further comprising means for exposing material adjacent to the first and the second patterned rolls to heat.
8. The apparatus according to claim 6 further comprising means for exposing material adjacent to the first and the second patterned rolls to radiant energy.
9. The apparatus according to claim 8 wherein the means for exposing material adjacent to the first patterned roll to radiant energy is disposed within the first patterned roll, and wherein the first patterned roll has at least a portion that is essentially transparent to the radiant energy.
10. The apparatus according to claim 9 wherein the radiant energy is selected from the group consisting of infrared, visible, and ultraviolet radiation.
MXPA06002714A MXPA06002714A (en) 2003-09-09 2004-07-20 Apparatus and method for producing two-sided patterned webs in registration.
Article: Sasagawa, "P.51: Dual Directional Backlight for Stereoscopic LCD," SID 03 Digest, (2003), pp. 1-3.
Dictionary Excerpt: Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., 1990, pp. 992 and 1169.


Ed Sheeran seems to be one of the hottest artists around right now. His second album x is, at time of writing, the longest running number 1 album of the year in the UK, taking a hugely impressive 7th consecutive week at the top.
1. Edward Christopher Sheeran was raised in the small market town of Framlingham, by father John, an art historian, and mother Imogen, a jewellery designer. Music clearly runs in the family, as his older brother Matthew is a classical music composer.
2. There's no denying that Sheeran has really worked for his success. In 2009 he played an impressive 312 gigs, and continued to get his name out there with constant touring.
3. Sheeran shot to fame with 'The A Team', a folk-ballad about a crack-addicted prostitute. It may have been Ed's breakthrough moment, but he only spent £20 on the video. What did that £20 go on? Fishnets and a crack pipe from Camden market.
4. He may have numerous awards and chart positions to his name, but Ed Sheeran judges his success on something completely different... the ownership of a Nando's black card.
It's no secret that Sheeran loves Nando's, and he even listed it alongside friends and family as something he misses when he leaves the UK.
For anyone interested, Ed orders hummus with peri peri drizzle, olives, nuts, a medium spiced chicken wrap, coleslaw and chips.
5. The award-winning star names all of his guitars, mostly after members of his team. Names include 'James the Second', 'Trevor', 'Keith', 'Lloyd', 'Nigel', 'Cyril' and 'Felix'.
6. He has over 100 tattoos, including a Heinz Ketchup Bottle and Pingu. He also has the logo of Taylor Swift's album Red tattooed on his arm, but I'll reserve judgement. He's even inked One Direction's Harry Styles.
"I mean, these are just crap. There are some that my friends have done and some that are just awful""
7. Sheeran, like most people his age, loves The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (obviously, he has a tattoo in honour of the show). He knows the whole rap off by heart and even mixes it in with his songs at gigs.
8. Turns out, Harry Styles is the lucky (or unlucky) owner of a video of a young Ed Sheeran playing Roger in the musical Grease. Styles has threatened to release the footage if Sheeran ever upsets him, but for now, we have to settle for a picture.
9. If you think Sheeran is solely a singer-songwriter then think again. His influence spans into the most unexpected genres. BBC Radio 1Xtra named Sheeran as the most important artist in the black and urban music scene during the last 12 months. Don't worry, I was also confused.


I finally did it. I went to the knitting night at the local yarn shop. I have been meaning to go for a few months, now, but it is easier said than done. But, last week, I did it. I waved goodbye to the happy brood and drove down the hill to meet some new friends. I spent the evening chatting, knitting, and laughing. On the way home I had a revelation.
I am a knitter with a few knitting friends. But most of the people I know don't knit. When they ask, "Oh, what are you making?" it is usually just a polite way to acknowledge that I am doing something with my hands while we talk. I learned long ago that they aren't asking for a long dissertation on the baby hat pattern that I am making. They don't really care what yarn it is or what my opinion of this particular stitch pattern and they really have no idea how the gob of yarn in my lap will be turned into a cute little baby bonnet.
I am blessed to have a lot more knitting friends than most, but this was a fantastic experience. Because of the distance I know it won't be a weekly habit for me, but I do hope to go back from time to time. Those people speak my language, the language of yarn. The language of fiber. The language of the knitter.


Armonk is a small town with little significant history. Yet, the town's locals hold pride in its one most memorable creation: Frosty the Snowman.
Our town is the inspiration for the song "Frosty the Snowman." Its writer, Steve Nelson, was a resident of the town, and seven years ago, Armonk started the Frosty Day Parade to recognize his beloved character. Since, it has grown from a local festivity to one that attracts people from all over Westchester.
Almost every business in Armonk is involved somehow in Frosty Day. In the afternoon, there are many activities including cookie and ornament decorating, face painting, crafts, and free snacks!
There were over 30 floats in this year's parade, each one representing different groups within the community. The Byram Hills Homecoming Court represents the high school with its own float. The students decorated a long truck with lights and Christmas decorations, with help from family and friends. This year's Homecoming King Nick Muhart said that decorating the float was such a fun time knowing that "we were doing it for the kids." The actual parade itself was charming. The court sang "Frosty the Snowman" while tossing out confetti and streamers. King Muhart described the parade to be really adorable, "seeing a crowd of kids with smiles stretching across their faces." as they waved and reached for confetti. Being part of the Homecoming float myself, it was definitely an amazing experience seeing the community come together with such great holiday spirit. Homecoming Queen Jackie Clarke also recognized the comradery, as she "never knew much about the parade until this year" and once she was a part of it, noticed how great it was to "see our community come together" doing crafts, eating, and just enjoying the holidays.


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La Coupe des nations de saut d'obstacles 2018 est la  du circuit coupe des nations organisé par la FEI.

Nations participantes
Pays participants par divisions :

Calendrier et résultats

Europe, Division 1

Europe, Division 2

Amérique du Nord, Amérique centrale et Caraïbes

Moyen-Orient

Finale

Équipes qualifiées

Résultat

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Coupe des nations de saut d'obstacles
 Coupe des nations de concours complet d'équitation 2018
 Coupe des nations de dressage 2018
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Q: Java Directory Path - Eclipse vs Windows CMD I have a directory - dir1 - that I want to write a file to and some other files I want info from. Running with Eclipse the directory and files are outside the bin folder and works well.
However, when using the command line outside bin it doesn't find the main class, and inside bin
java Main.MainClass

I can't acess them since it's looking for them inside the bin folder. Since I'll be wanting to run this in other pcs I suppose I can't use absolute paths.
Can I solve this from inside the program? If not, what are other alternatives?

A: You should pass the folder to you main class.
Either using arguments or using a properties file
Using arguments:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment/cmdLineArgs.html
Properties:
http://www.mkyong.com/java/java-properties-file-examples/
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Another possibility could also be to store files in the user home directory.
System.getProperty("user.home");
See also for common properties:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment/sysprop.html

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Westmatic - World Championship - Rally Sweden - Pontus Tidemand!
Tue, Feb 17th 2015 09:00 am
Rally Sweden finally got to see a Swedish leader with Pontus Tidemand - sitting in a WRC 2-car - he took a sensational overall lead after Rally Sweden's opening SS1 on Thursday. Pontus took every chance to show his speed and made the most of his position. The overall result was a fifth place and most stage wins in the class.
Overall, it was a full ten stage wins and seven second times for Pontus on the 21 special stages. He also made an impressive pickup at almost two minutes during the rallys last two days.
Westmatic are very proud to be a part of Pontus success and look forward to future competitions.
Did you watch the movie where Pontus visit Westmatic Swedens factory where we build truck wash, bus wash and train washes?
Check out the movie at this link:
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Admittedly, many Ukrainians repeat the mantra that no reforms have taken place, but that is not true. Hundreds of sensible reform laws have been adopted and their breadth is impressive.
Yet Ukrainians are right to complain. Output has slumped, while prices have skyrocketed as the exchange rate has plummeted. The country is much poorer. The dominant concerns are that corruption has not diminished and public services have not improved. Nevertheless, the previous achievements listed above indicate what remains to be done and what the country's priorities should be in 2016.
1. The main priority is reform of the prosecution and courts. Ukraine adopted a law on prosecution, but Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin managed to take control of the reform process, minimizing the change. Shokin has to go and the reform of the prosecution needs to start anew under new leadership. Similarly, the country's 10,000 judges need to be lustrated and new judges appointed in a reformed court system.
3. Ukraine's 1,833 state-owned companies are a den of corruption. The vast majority, 1,600, are of little value just extracting subsidies from the state. They should be sold off at a regional level and the payments given to the regional governments to motivate them to a faster selloff. The top 100 state enterprises, mainly in energy and transportation, have real value and their privatization should be open to foreign bidders whenever possible. These sales must be transparent and competitive aiming both at high prices and sound restructuring. About 120 armament companies belong to Ukroboronprom and need to be considered a separate national security matter. For such reasons, Russian entities need to be blocked from participation in privatization and foreign entities should have transparent ultimate beneficiaries.
4. Ukraine requires profound civil service reform, which has been legislated and will come into force in the spring. It is vital that it is properly implemented. Salaries of civil servants must be raised so that they can live on their salaries. A clear division needs to be made between political and civil service appointments. Entry into the civil service should take place through competitive exams. Promotions should be based on merit, not seniority. Standard rules against conflicts of interest should be introduced. The European Union has offered substantial financial and technical support and this is something that EU countries do well.
The vast administration of the cabinet of ministers of 700 people that traditionally has duplicated and hampered the work of the ministries should be dismantled and replaced with a limited apparatus for coordination. The system of requiring twenty to thirty signatures on each major decision must end, and ministries should obtain real responsibility.
5. The budget deficit has been brought under control and the most corrupt expenditures have been eliminated, but Ukraine needs to reform the budget process to make it fully transparent. This requires technical assistance from a Western country with a well-functioning budget system to render public expenditures efficient.
6. Ukraine carried out some deregulation in 2015, but far too little. Many inspection agencies persist and should be closed. Ukraine could rise sharply on the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Index, if it carried out possible deregulation.
7. Former Minister of Education Dmytro Tabachnik caused chaos in the school system 2010-13. Ukraine needs to establish elementary order in the school organization and curriculum. Poland offers a good example that could be copied. This would not cost much, but it is a matter of getting the proper administration into place.
This entry was posted in News & Views on January 30, 2016 by RomanInUkraine.


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Ben & Jerry's Adds Two New Flavors to Its Vegan Ice Cream Line
Both varieties are certified vegan, gluten-free, and tasty AF!
Every vegan's favorite mainstream ice cream brand is at it again with the vegan options! This week, Ben & Jerry's adds two new flavors to its vegan ice cream line—Non-Dairy Boom Chocolatta and Non-Dairy Bananas Foster.
Ben & Jerry's Non-Dairy Boom Chocolatta
Modeled after its dairy-based Boom Chocolatta Cookie Core flavor, Ben & Jerry's Non-Dairy Boom Chocolatta features a mocha and caramel vegan ice cream base with fudge flakes and gluten-free chocolate cookies mixed throughout. But that's not all! In the middle of the pint is a vegan, gluten-free chocolate cookie core. Consider us mindblown!
Ben & Jerry's Non-Dairy Bananas Foster
This next flavor is inspired by the classic New Orleans dessert, bananas foster. The traditional treat is composed of bananas and vanilla ice cream, with a buttery brown sugar cinnamon sauce with a hint of dark rum and banana liqueur. In each pint of Ben & Jerry's Non-Dairy Bananas Foster, you'll dig into a banana and cinnamon vegan ice cream base with almond toffee pieces, hints of brown sugar, and a salted caramel core. It's epic!
"We know that people who choose non-dairy frozen desserts love variety. They want to avoid dairy and still have amazing taste. These two new non-dairy flavors will satisfy their cravings for something different and delicious," said Dena Wimette, Head of Innovation at Ben & Jerry's.
Vegan Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Pints
With the release of these two new flavors, the number of vegan Ben & Jerry's ice cream pints in the US has risen to 18 in total—almost 40% of Ben & Jerry's entire flavor lineup. Some of the other recent vegan flavors added to Ben & Jerry's vegan ice cream line include Mint Chocolate Chance, The Tonight Dough, Americone Dream, Karamel Sutra Core, Phish Food, and Colin Kaepernick's Change the Whirled.
Boom Chocolatta and Bananas Foster will be available in major retailers soon. To learn more, visit BenJerry.com/Flavors/Non-Dairy.


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If the left really believes this mantra they would focus on the people who are in desperate need in this country. Once you have solved Americas homeless plague, then feel free to import the next batch of poverty.
The left always wants to move on to the next colored lapel ribbon, and pretend they care on the red carpet.
The rest of America does take notice, they are just quiet in the ballot box. They tend to mislead the left's mouth piece CNN.
What if I told you that caring for children in need doesn't have to be divided by borders? How about we take the border wall money and use it to care for the American homeless?
That difference is why they can get away with blaming Democrats, and it's one reason a lot of independents DO blame Democrats.
That used to surprise me, but not any longer. There is a certain tendency to believe what you're told by those you consider to be 'rightful' leaders, but both studies and simple observation indicate that that tendency tends to be a LOT stronger in conservatives. That's one reason so many discussions between liberals and conservatives boil down to liberals going 'but here are the facts and research!' with conservatives responding with whatever their accepted leaders tell them. It can be police violence against blacks, climate change, or whether or not Trump actually said what he said on live TV the week before, doesn't matter. American conservatives have reached the point that they will honestly believe what GOP leadership says no matter how blatantly false or idiotic it will be. We've seen that time and time again since Der Orangenführer got elected, and it's done nothing but get more and more widespread.
That it is. Hatred of Central and South American immigrants and support for the wall generally seem to go hand-in-hand.
But...but...they don't deserve it! They made their choices and chose to be poor and homeless!
Both common arguments used by conservatives to oppose every single freaking attempt at helping the poverty-stricken and homeless. Then those same people come right back and blame liberals for not magically solving those same issues that conservatives oppose solving.
Some interesting points there. Main one that I disagree with is that he's not fulfilling a promise because Mexico isn't paying for the wall. Not in any fashion. Saying that the funds will come from the trade agreement is just another lie.
Good luck getting any Trump supporters to see that.
You've had 8 long years to make that argument, the left has squandered their many chances.
Somebody needs to take care of these folks before importing more misery!
I have? How? Who's the left? Certainly not me.
I'm confused by your response. Are you saying immigrant children shouldn't receive food because we have other starving children in this country?
It's YOUR response that is tired and old and never makes sense. Saying we need to feed our own homeless children before feeding immigrant homeless children. What is the current administration doing for American starving children, then? What has the Republican party done for them besides trying to take away their benefits as well?
How much can $5B help non-immigrant children? What about the full $30B cost?
Refugees from South America who do not apply for refugee status at the first point of entry by definition have circumvented the system.
I appreciate your passion for these refugees, I really do. I just wish the liberals in this country cared as much about the average Joe, as they for people who walk 2500 miles past the first point of entry just because El Norte offers more.
According to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's Annual Homeless Assessment Report, as of 2017 there were around 554,000 homeless people in the United States on a given night.
Liberals? Since when do conservatives care about the homeless Americans in this country?
I care about both. I just wish the politicians, liberal and conservative, cared more about both, or even at all. If it doesn't serve their self-serving or corporate sponsor desires, they really don't care. Homeless people can't complete with big oil, big pharma, or the media.
I'm liberal on some issues and conservative on others. Above all else, I'm a humanitarian and personal rights advocate. You have to understand that the people that are trying to come here are in survival mode. It's easy to tell people to "follow the law" when we aren't fighting to survive.
Think of it like this... if the zombie apocalypse started tomorrow, would you be concerned about laws? What about 3 years later when all government collapses? Would laws mean anything to you? You'd be fighting for survival. It's not much different for them.
I get the impression there are a lot of homeless people in America.
Are these homeless people compounded by the illegal immigration of people from Mexico?
We have a growing homeless problem in the UK, but whilst some are genuine, many are "professional" homeless people who do it as a job and have a nice house and car etc all paid for by people who have sympathy.
Whilst I do have a little sympathy, I can't help but wonder if my donation to their little box pays for some petrol for their BMW so I don't bother to give to street beggars, I give to registered charities where my money is skimmed off by the so called volunteers and spent on prostitutes.
Will the wall cut down on homelessness ?
Unfortunately, a lot of what you describe as occurring in the UK also occurs in the USA but I don't have ready statistics for it. Yes, there are the "professional" homeless who will unabashedly reveal that they beg because they get more than they would get on a day job and it is "off the books" i.e. not subject to tax withholding. And probably is also totally not reported or is severely underreported.
We have those charities that end up having over 66% of their haul going towards support of a profligate lifestyle by the charity's executives, though there ARE some sites that rate the efficiency of given charities. My wife and I donate after consulting such sites. If they don't put at least 75% towards their focus group then they don't get a dime from us.
To be honest, I don't think the wall will cut down that much on homelessness because I am under the impression (possibly incorrect but it is what I have heard) that the illegals get together and pool their resources so that they have a roof over their heads but they probably exceed any reasonable level of the number of families living together. What I have heard is that a very large percentage of our "true" homeless people are borderline psychotic or at least extremely neurotic. I.e. to be a bit indelicate about it, mental cases.
Then again, I was not in favor of the wall anyway. I favor border control, yes. I favor action on illegal immigration. But I feel that the wall is the wrong answer. Static walls have not been effective throughout history. What makes them effective is the number of people patrolling the wall. Reduce that and you open the floodgates. If we are not going to increase the number of border patrol agents, then I think the wall is going to be a monument to governmental waste.
The Democrats have contend that they want enhanced border security. They do not believe that a wall is necessary as the border can be secured by today's marvels of technology.
Now emerging, as a concern, the Democrats want to limit the number of illegal immigrants that can be held in detentions centers. This has some obvious concerns.
Limited capacity means that some people will essentially have a free pass should facilities be "full". That does not enhance border security.
Limited capacity will mean that all those fancy tech gadgets that the Democrats pompously "sell" as the solution will be useless, just like the wall that the Democrats mock. If the detention facilities are "full", then all the border patrol people would be able to do, is watch (from their drones) the people wave to them as they cross the border.
Playing the limited capacity card means that the Democrats are not truly interested in enhanced border security as identified in point #1. Democrats are proposing to create a loophole to circumvent immigration law.
If the Democrats were truly interested in enhanced border security they would be promoting the ability of immigration officials to identify illegal immigrants, to house them, and to then deport those in this country illegally. Not frustrating the ability of immigration officials to manage the US border.
Of course negotiations are still underway. If a compromise is reached, what is achieved may be quite different.
Maybe not, but why add to it.
A proper census of the homeless in Los Angeles, I believe would reveal a certain percentage of homeless are latino migrants. Los Angeles is a destination for latino migrants, California pays some of the highest benefits in the country and to add insult to injury "we" are a sanctuary state. Not to mention the mild climate.
Obviously California has solved all of it's internal issues like infrastructure, high taxes, homelessness and the Veteran's issues. I guess the California taxpayers have the extra money to solve Latin Americas problems. Oops, what's left of the middle class just moved to Nevada, Arizona and Texas.
I've got a GREAT idea. Let's ship all of the illegals to Illinois. We can speed up the demise of that state, which is already on the way to bankruptcy anyway. Maybe California WON'T be the next state to try to secede from the USA. Maybe Illinois will be unable to withstand court challenges to their state constitution's "No Bankruptcy of a government" law. In terms of the entertainment value, it would make for MARVELOUS "theater of the absurd."
If the illegal border crossers thought they got a cold reception in the southernmost tier of states, they would LOVE Illinois in the winter.
Fortunately, since I don't speak the words that I type, I can type with tongue in cheek.
I don't fault these folks for wanting a better life, I would do the exact same thing. I do fault the two countries however.
The US is to blame for our drug addictions and our dependence on low wage workers, essentially slave labor.
Mexico has the same natural resources as the US and Canada, but they have chosen to mismanage it. Forcing their own countrymen to seek work elsewhere. This is an artificial crises created by mismanagement.
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Baton Rouge, La. - If you live in Louisiana, you probably either fish or know someone who does. It is important to spread the word to family and friends about the dangers of fishing, kayaking or participating in other water-based activities with open wounds.
"In most cases, swimming, fishing and other water activities are safe as long as you take the proper precautions," said Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Kathy Kliebert. "We don't want to scare people away from enjoying Louisiana's outdoors."
The main culprit to keep in mind when you have an open wound is Vibrio vulnificus, otherwise known as "flesh-eating bacteria," according to State Health Officer Dr. Jimmy Guidry.
"Vibrio vulnificus is more abundant in the summer. It normally lives in warm seawater or brackish water, and exposure is particularly harmful to individuals with chronic liver disease or weakened immune systems," said Guidry. "If you experience symptoms of infection after exposure to seawater or brackish water, seek medical care immediately."
Symptoms of infection include fever, chills, decreased blood pressure, blistering skin legions, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and fever. The bacteria invades the bloodstream and may cause severe, potentially life-threatening illness. In addition to seawater, you can also contract Vibrio vulnificus by eating contaminated raw shellfish.
DHH offers the following tips for reducing your risk.
- If you have open wounds, do not get in seawater, brackish water or other salty water.
- Check children for open wounds before allowing them to get in the water.
- If you experience chronic illness of the liver, kidney failure, other immune disorders, or have ever been through chemotherapy, used steroids for an extended period of time or use antacids, eat shellfish fully cooked.
- Avoid cross contaminating raw shellfish and its juices with other food.
- If you have an open wound, take care when handling shellfish.
There have been four cases of infection from Vibrio vulnificus so far this year. Louisiana typically reports between five and 15 cases each year.
To learn more, visit www.dhh.louisiana.gov. For up-to-date health information, news and emergency updates, follow DHH's Twitter account and Facebook.


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Review: Blade Runner 2049
I consider myself someone who takes cinema very seriously. But "serious" in this sense is a question of attitude and sensibility rather than tone. I take seriously the ability of cinema to plumb its inner-depths and expand its outer-registers, to twist and turn preconceptions about existence, to interrogate its own mortal coil and material medium as well as to dialogue with social context, to refresh itself, to treat every moment as a contingency rather than a certainty. But above all, I take seriously cinema's ability to play: with itself, with the world, and with its conception of the world. Play does not imply glib triviality or even humor but the giddy effervescence steaming off of even the most solemn and sober film as it treats its medium as an experiment in any tone whatsoever. Serious play incorporates thematic, intellectual, emotional, philosophical, visual, spatial, temporal, and aural play in all its registers, the excitement of a film that is gloriously unsettled in its always-roving, never-finished mental exploration of self. Seriousness, in this lexicon, does not entail giving a pass to so-called serious cinema, especially cinema which wraps itself up in its seriousness as a hermetic seal, as a shield from real self-interrogation, or as position of sacrosanct refuge.
Exhibit A: Awestruck with its predecessor's decorum, Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 is too totally and totalizingly reverent, too eager to appease its parental film and wrap itself up in that film's shell rather than dangerously dive out on a limb to tease out the frictions that earlier film knew so well. While Blade Runner questions, 2049 stabilizes. While Blade Runner slinks toward uncertainties with the reptilian negative energy of a B-picture, 2049 is too blown-away with its grand-scale cosmic queries and universe-conquering ambition to skulk or skitter or do anything surreptitiously or with more than one voice or mood at a time. While Ridley Scott's film found a home in the back-alleys not only of its neon-tinted physical world but in the back-alleys of the mind, exploring equivocal questions to fascinatingly ambiguous ends, 2049 pushes everything to the surface, including, ironically, its obvious, on-the-nose, calculated and unearned aura of ambiguity. This new film is certainly attentive to the aesthetic of the original, but it crucially misses that film's smoky aura. It's wonderful to look at, but it does not understand that part of the sublime is the sensation that something is lurking just beneath the surface, waiting not simply to twist the narrative order but to cross-examine our vernacular for understanding narrative or theme altogether.
Director Villeneuve's work, as it is always is, remains highly attentive and responsible to the rules about sequels, but its conscientiousness kills the curiosity of this cat. The film ultimately mistakes a glowering and self-serious import for the feline ferocity of the original film. Its precious few real eccentricities – character super-impositions, a spellbindingly pungent if too-short performance from Dave Bautista, a jittery, nerve-jangled Elvis hologram giving a facsimile of life to a decomposed casino – are breaths of fresh air. But 2049 is too transfixed with its lethargic beauty that it disables the possibility of other moods, immobilizing the ragged heart and mongrel energy ticking in Scott's original film. While that earlier work was imbued with a breathless affective charge, 2049 seems to occupy a state of unwavering, constant, bloated breath-holding. Impacted with its own pseudo-intelligence, this leviathan of a blockbuster crucifies itself on a cross of calculated depression.
While the original Blade Runner teases us about the bonafides of protagonist Rick Deckard's humanity, whether this human is actually an android replicant, 2049 questions whether the self-defined replicant at its center – a male-body-type indebted to American mythology, high on his own hip, so desperately wanting to be a genuine person – isn't the more human after all. This Bogart-figure is played by Ryan Gosling, an inspired feat of casting, allowing the character to wear Gosling's precious gift for looking silently flummoxed without succumbing to the kind of torpid largesse the rest of the film mistakes for self-questioning. His character, K, is a replicant – early on, there's no doubt about that, unless you want there to be – and like the character Harrison Ford played in 1982, and here again in 2017, K hunts renegade androids while himself being a form of slave for the man, here played by Joshi (Robin Wright).
K, incidentally, loves old-school cool. He needs no genetic biology proof to be human; he merely has to perform humanity. In the film's few pointed moments, it suggests that the "humanity" he adopts – like many flesh-and-blood American men – is the performative masculinity of the no-nonsense, emotionally-stunted, unreflexive masculine archetype who treats the world as a purely reactive agent to his masculine will. The film suggests that K's quest to be human is flummoxed not because he is composed of robotic tissue but because male humans aren't worth being in the first place. This android's definition of humanity – in other words, humanity's external definition of ourselves, the image we project – is not one of complicated, empathetic people but of personalities sublimated to bell hook's inimitable quote about masculinity: "the first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem". K wants to be an archetypical American male, but the film ponders, when it remembers to, whether that archetype really wasn't itself sucked dry of humanity to begin with.
This is surely superior politics to the original Blade Runner. But this new film sacrifices nuanced social commentary at the altar of an over-baked and under-written slavery allegory that analyzes nothing that dozens of analytical science fiction films haven't explored with more zest and thematic texture before. If you cannot miss the calculated beauty of this new film's too-curated visual energies, one would have to be non-existent to avoid the political perspective of this new Blade Runner. Androids are slaves, and the severity of the commentary on dehumanization – the film's willingness to just say what Blade Runner was either too cunning or to hesitant to – teeters between liberatingly matter-of-fact and too-pat, as though the film is name-checking its liberal credentials and self-appeasement with its politics. But if the original was cunning – which it wasn't always – this new one is clever, too much so for its own good. The smarts are distended so that they engulf the film in its own torpor, cauterizing any loose ends, stray dogs, or rough energies and molding them into a kind of museum exhibit to the original. Everything is safely packaged, far too cleanly, to fit the vibe of a 21st century "sci-fi-for-adults" Blade Runner sequel. The moments of inspiration start to feel like sudden, surprising portals to the unknown, final currents of leftover curiosity, lone tributaries away from (and, unfortunately, back to) the film's calculated mysteriousness. Ultimately, 2049 bathes itself in good intentions – corporations prey on slaves – and then washes away the itch to truly get lost in the dirt or explore the thickets of this particular observation.
Ultimately, 2049 also sacrifices the melancholic frissons and confounding instabilities of its vanguard predecessor, a more oblique work whose elusive and slippery opacity and relative minimalism suggested a malnourished world that 2049, with all its self-admiring showmanship, cannot even imagine. But that's the problem: it imagines too much and too little. Or rather, it imagines a great deal, but without contesting the terms of the "thinking person's" blockbusters of the recent century that are still hemmed in by the limited frameworks of intelligence accepted by Hollywood producers. While Blade Runner explored implications, unexpressed potentialities, and strange emotions dancing between half-presence and not-quite-absence, this new film's vision of "intelligence" only includes words, sentences, plot-points, and events. Much like Villeneuve's Arrival from last year, 2049 is given to the manicured brand of boldface ambiguity that art-pop directors love so much, creating the sorts of films that love telling us how much they're telling, and not telling, us. Within these films, weaving a seemingly-thorny but ultimately surface-level web of fancy terms, signifiers, and concepts takes precedence over plumbing the more subterranean undercurrents of sensation, perception, and human experience that complicate and befuddle those concepts. (I particularly hated some of the symbolic character names in this film, although not as badly as Arrival's "ask him what the Sanskrit word for war means" bit.)
All of this is intentional, but the film is too perfect for its own good. The smoky, combustible suddenness of the original has been replaced with a dripping self-consciousness about its own importance. 2049 is entirely neo-classical, bled dry of the messy instability and excitable energy of Ridley Scott's loopy cross-fertilization of world influences implying a swarming, faux-transnational melting pot compared to 2049's intentionally-stultifying homogeneity. Everything is in its place. The little off-hand moments of splintered human interaction in the original are now packaged into even smaller, more disaffected corporate slices; any dialectical nuance to the supreme misery, any human comedy or messiness at all, would be anathema to the one-size-fits-all-mood, so the film mostly cuts out human interaction entirely except when it is purely functional for the narrative. Solemn and sober, even sanitary, 2049 is – like most of Villeneuve's films – convinced of its commitment to ideas. 2049 isn't unlike K in this regard: lost in the past, a dead glaze in its eyes, convinced of its own importance, and ultimately hollow not because it doesn't try to question, but because it spends too much time thinking it knows what questioning really is. It's certainly never a bad film, but if it were, it might at least be more personal and welcome more messiness and imperfection to its name. As with so many of these sumptuous art-adjacent R-rated blockbusters of recent years compared to their artier antecedents – think how The Revenant banalizes Terrence Malick by replacing Malick's mood of meditative reverie and introspective transcendence with sheer, mere visual magnificence – 2049 wraps itself in its predecessor's divinity at the expense of its subtlety and shading.
Score: 6/10 (it sure looks good though, but I waver on the score)
Update: I still stick to the score I gave this film – maybe I'd up it to 6.5 – but a second viewing clarifies the very real strengths, or at least adventurous thematic failures, of this film. Plus, that Elvis scene – although it's an obvious metaphor, the scene is a breathtaking poem of negative space, visual half-presences, and audio-visual asynchrony, placing K and Deckard in bas-relief against a swarm of equally jittery, collapsed icons of America that can be perceived as either last bastions of truth or, more likely, deluded, artificial, pitilessly fading memories of a fictive truth trying to convince themselves there ever was a true "Americana" worth embodying – is worth a point or two all on its own. For a film that is too willing to wear its ellipticism like a badge of honor, the scene clarifies how elegant a meditation on the fragility of perception and identity this film can be when it gets out of its own way.
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Here's What Even the Most Absolutely Evil Boss Can Teach You
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By Katherine Reynolds Lewis
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Many of us can point to former bosses and corporate heads who inspired us to become more well-read, better at communication, or more engaged because of their shining examples. But what about those leaders who shaped our behavior and management style because of the negative example they have set?
"We learn from everyone we work with, whether they're good or bad experiences. They can be examples of things not to do," says Gay Gaddis, chief executive and founder of T3, an Austin-based digital agency. "All of us have had people who were obstacles, who were bad examples. Sharing that is just as important as going, 'Rah, rah!' "
So, what have Gaddis and other executives learned from misguided, wrongheaded, or simply evil bosses?
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When Gaddis was a marketing executive, her chief executive was overbearing, assumed he was always right, and failed to listen to others. During an economic downturn, Gaddis developed an idea on how to change the company's direction to recover from the slump. She wrote a business plan and, full of excitement, presented it to her boss and mentor.
"He said, 'I don't support your plan and I'm not going to be a part of it.' I was so shot down by that," she recalls, that she quit to pursue her idea. "I learned that is a very important quality: you've got to listen to the people around you."
Gaddis never would've thought to go out on her own if the door hadn't been slammed so firmly in her face by the CEO. Indeed, his refusal to listen was part of her motivation to hit the ground running.
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Plantation, Florida, May 6, 2014: DHL, the world's leading international express services provider, found an even better route for meeting urgent delivery commitments in the midst of traffic gridlock: through the air. A new helicopter service now provides early morning delivery services for several major banking customers in the downtown Los Angeles area.
DHL Express introduced the helicopter service into its Los Angeles operation as a way to ensure early morning 9:00 a.m. delivery service regardless of traffic bottlenecks. Used by specific financial services customers, this service will expand to include additional customers in the Los Angeles-area.
The DHL helicopter, a "Twinstar" Eurocopter AS355, is operated for DHL by Helinet of Van Nuys, California and can transport up to 800 lbs of letters and packages.
A DHL helicopter service is also used in New York, providing lifts from the DHL JFK gateway to prime US bank headquarters and Federal bank locations, making stops in downtown Manhattan and at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport to speed deliveries of important financial and legal documents.


Like most producers we have some beliefs bout sampling, and feel that youtube is cheating. Most folks these days don't put in the time to learn a piece of hardware, and miss out on the experience of finding that golden sample randomly in some cruddy dollar bin somewhere. We are proud to say that we are all vinyl, except for the occasional interview or vocal stab. With a nod to the golden era of hiphop and its birth place. Golden Coast is a tribute to our favourite local kick it spots all over the Golden Coast of California. Whether it be driving on a rainy day, hitting the slopes for a day of skiing, kicking back and getting some work done, or a cypher with the homies. These beats are for you.


The State of New York entered the union as the 11th state on July 26, 1788 . It has 62 Counties.
The State of New York is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Canada. It has a land area of 54,475 square miles making it the 27th largest state. The capital is Albany and the official state website is www.ny.gov/.
New York's 2010 population was 19,254,630 and the largest cities (2010) are New York City, 8,143,197; Buffalo, 279,745; Rochester, 211,091; Yonkers, 196,425; Syracuse, 141,683; Albany (Capital), 93,523; New Rochelle, 72,967; Mount Vernon, 67,924; Schenectady, 61,280; Utica, 59,336.
The State of New York was named by the Dutch as "New Netherland" in 1664, and when the English took over they renamed it New York to honor the Duke of York (York is a city in England) . New York's state nickname is " The Empire State " . The State Motto is " Excelsior " which means Ever Upwards.
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Here's a closer look behind the Jersey Shore landmark Pete & Elda's
It's been a Jersey Shore landmark for over 50-years and Carmen's Pizzeria, or more commonly known as Pete and Elda's, still has some history you may not know about.
It was in 1961 when Carmen Andretta joined forces with Pete and Elda at the restaurant on Route 35 in Neptune City.
Pete and Elda ran the bar while Carmen ran the pizzeria.
Carmen then passed down the business to his son George who kept Carmen, Pete and Elda's names on the building.
"I took over from him when I was 19 and then took the bar over at age 28, and at that time it was 31-years since it opened and I was thinking why change the name now, it's been both names for so long, and here we are today," Andretta said.
Another part of the family tradition George continued is having their thin crust pizza which he says wasn't popular when his father rolled it out, but is loved today.
"That (the thin crust) is what my father had started back in 1961 when he was here and we just stuck with it," Andretta said. "But, back in those days there wasn't really much interest in thin crust pizza but nowadays it seems more like people want to copy it and they think thin crust pizza is the secret to doing a good business."
Carmen's Pizzeria/Pete&Elda's owner George Andretta (C), his son Chris (R) and Vin Ebenau (L). (Bradley James, Townsquare Media NJ)
As the Jersey Shore has grown over the years so has the business he took over from his father in 1984.
"We're way, way, way busier than we ever were back in 1984," Andretta said.
When your family or friends come in from out of state, where do you go for food?
Would you ever challenge them to eat a whole double extra large pizza at Pete and Elda's?
Andretta says they have people from from both near and far.
"They've come here from Pennsylvania, New York and Florida," Andretta said. "People will come up and say 'we just got here, our clothes and everything is in the car and we haven't gotten home yet' and they'll come in and eat pizza."
Many of their guests come in to join the whole pie eaters club where if you eat a Double XL pie all by yourself you get a free limited edition t-shirt...and bragging rights.
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The idea for the double extra large pizza challenge came from a trip George Andretta took years ago to Cape May.
"They had a thing that if you drank a yard of beer, you got a t-shirt, so that gave me the idea 'hey, I wonder how that would work with pizza'. It started off slow but it's been moving along pretty good," Andretta said.
The whole pie eaters club has continued to gain popularity as well over the years.
"They (customers) love coming in, they'll call and ask we're on the new (t-shirt) edition yet and a lot of times you'll see them all the time anyway," Andretta said.
They're currently up to t-shirt edition #227, but it won't be there for long.
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Have you ever wondered what the Team Challenge is? Maybe you've been a long-time DI supporter/participant, but lost sight of the purpose and process when it comes to the Team Challenge. The video below, created by Destination Imagination Headquarters, provides an overview of the Team Challenge.


The amazing night wedding at Agave Road in Katy, Texas. We love photographing weddings at night. While it presents a host of challenges as a photographer to not make the images look "flashy" and to capture the ambient light of the scene, it is something we absolutely love to do. When Toni (the bride's mom) Keri (the bride) and Blake (the groom) and I met for the first time, I was over the moon to capture their New Years Eve Wedding. The wedding would begin well after sunset and all the pre-wedding photographs would be taken after dark. This would create an amazing look with the stunning backdrop of Agave Road.
It was an amazing celebration of love and joy of these two families. We are so honored to be the chosen photographer for this stunning wedding. Enjoy!
Professional Photographers of America each year has a series of Photographic Print Competitions. These competitions are judged by training judges and determine the images which are worthy of Merit and Loan. To see more about his visit my blog post on Print Competition Here.
Print competition is the single most challenging thing I do in my career and the ONE THING which continues to make me a better photographer for all of my clients.
With just a couple of exceptions, all of the images I enter are client images.
In 2016 I was honored with the Kodak Gallery Award and That image is now up for the Kodak Elite Award which will be judged at Imaging USA In San Antonio next week.
In addition, when an image receives the prestigious designation of LOAN, it is then judged one more time for the GRAND IMAGING AWARDS (GIA). This is the best of the best and in the photography world. it's like being nominated for an Academy Award.
For any competitor, the dream of being nominated for a GIA is the creme-da-la-creme. The best of the best of the best.
I am honored that I have been nominated for 2 GIA's this year in the Wedding Catagory. I cannot explain how excited I am about this! Both of these images were created for clients and I am over the moon that my client work is being recognized at such a high level.
I invite you to join me at the GIA's in San Antonio, via FACEBOOK LIVE. The show starts at 6PM Central Time. You can see it HERE.
I love it when my brides and grooms come back when expecting. There is no bigger compliment than to have lifelong clients. Jenna and Travis are expecting in early January, and we had an amazing maternity session this past weekend. The two of them are over the moon happy for their baby girl to arrive and I am thrilled to be able to photographer her when she gets here!
I met Megan's mom at a Texas School of Professional Photography. We sat next to each other for a week and got to know each other as we improved our skills. It was an awesome surprise when she called to ask if I would photograph her daughter's wedding. It is such a honor when a photographer ask you to photograph their child's wedding. Leslie shared her daughter with me and it touched my heart. So welcoming to us into their family and lives as they celebrated the marriage of their daughter and their new son-in-law. This family is just wonderful and I just fell in love with all of them. I feel truly blessed to have photographed this most perfect day. Enjoy this little sneak peek!


3407 Lithia Pinecrest, Valrico, FL 33596 Open-air fresh market with vendors selling fresh, local, homemade, handcrafted, and eco-friendly products Pet Wants will be there with our all natural cat and dog food, treats and chews. We have supplements, homemade essential oil products for dogs, homemade beef jerky and sweet potato chips. Check out our dog beers, dog wines, and cat wines - they make great gifts!


Quality assurance in the QS scheme for food you can trust is based on three interacting inspection levels: the first inspection level is in-plant self-assessment. At this level, the companies themselves ensure that they reliably monitor and conscientiously document all the stipulated requirements. QS supports them in this endeavour with clearly defined requirements and practice-oriented guidelines and checklists. You can download all the relevant documents from our website.
The second level of the QS scheme has two central elements: the independent inspection (audit) of businesses by qualified auditors and the participation of the businesses in the various monitoring programmes.
In addition, the companies and businesses participating in the QS scheme take part in various monitoring programmes. Systematic recording and evaluation of data allows detection and assessment of potential risks to food safety at an early stage.
Inspections in the QS scheme are carried out on a risk-oriented basis. This means that the period between two inspections depends on how a business performs in the audit. Businesses where nonconformities and defects are established are inspected more frequently. Businesses that perform extremely well in the audit receive visits from the auditor less frequently.
During their inspections, the auditors gain an overall impression of the business and assess a wide range of individual criteria using a checklist. For this purpose, they undergo regular training with the aim of creating uniform assessment criteria that are valid nationwide for the entire QS scheme. Assessment of the individual criteria forms the basis for calculating whether and how a business has passed its audit.
Criteria that are of particular relevance to food safety, animal welfare or the trustworthiness of the QS scheme are defined as K.O. criteria. Businesses that do not comply with one of these criteria do not pass their audit and cannot therefore be awarded eligibility to deliver for the QS scheme.


"Brizoli" is another specialty by my Mother in Law, and my husbands favorite food. Of course she would not teach me how to make them( I think it's in a mother in law rule book to never teach the daughter in law how to make your son's favorite food), and frankly I didn't ask her outright to teach me, too cool for school and all that jazz. From the little information she provided, and from many trials and errors, I have finally, after 19 years of marriage, found the right proportions of ingredients to match and maybe even surpass hers. Ha! The technique of making them, is my own creation, I perfected it by making inside out sushi rolls. It's the easiest and fastest out of all I found in the vast spaces of the internet.
I don' t know who invented "Brizoli", but I guess they are a "Soviet" rendition of the Italian "Braciole" – a rolled thin meat escallop with various stuffing. They were made for festive gatherings, a way to use ground meat in a festive form and wow the guests in an era of deficit. Surfing the net I found variations that stuff the "brizoli " with a mix of mayo and garlic, veggies, sauteed mushrooms with caramelized onions, I have stuffed them with a chunky cranberry and apple relish – the possibilities are endless.
Most of the recipes on the net, use flour in the eggs and flour in the ground meat mix, I do not. Omiting the flour provides for a cleaner taste, in my opinion.
Mix the ground meat, onion salt and pepper together in a bowl.
In another bowl lightly beat the eggs with water.
Prepare two flat plates and a sandwich bag or a piece of plastic wrap. I prefer sandwich bag, because it's much more rigid than the plastic wrap.
Make meatballs out of the meat, the size of a golfball. Add about 1/8 cup of the egg mix into a salad plate.
Flatten the meatball into a thin patty about 1/4″ thick, with your hands. If the meat is sticky – wet them with a little water. It will be easier to handle.
Using the sandwich bag, invert the patty on top of the egg mix.
Carefully remove the bag without disturbing the patty.
Heat about a teaspoon of oil in an 8″ pan. Carefully slide the egg and patty into the pan so that the egg is on the bottom and patty is still on top.
Cook until the egg is done and turn the patty over taking care not to break the patty. At this point you have time to get another patty ready for cooking.
Cook for 1 minute and slide onto a plate.
Roll the patty while it's still hot. If you plan to add stuffing to it – now would be the best time. Once the "brizol" cools it will become rigid, and stuffing would be harder to add to it.
Serve the patty hot or room temperature with a side of garlic mashed or roasted potatoes, buckwheat with mushrooms, salad or roasted cauliflower.
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Colorado to Address Unfinished Business From Civil War
Voters will consider changing state constitution to abolish all forms of slavery
An 1876 copy of the Colorado state constitution.
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By Erica Snow
Oct. 14, 2018 7:00 am ET
Colorado voters will decide in November on an issue that most people think was settled with the Civil War: the abolition of slavery.
The 13th amendment of the U.S. Constitution abolished most forms of slavery when it was ratified in 1865. But it allowed for slavery or involuntary servitude as a "punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."
Colorado voters will consider a proposed change to the state constitution that would shorten Section 26 of Article II to read, "There shall never be in this state either slavery or involuntary servitude." The Nov. 6 ballot proposal, known as Amendment A, requires a simple majority to pass.
Twenty-two other states have similar provisions in their constitutions allowing slavery or involuntary servitude for those who committed crimes, while most others make no mention of slavery. Rhode Island is the only state that prohibits slavery in all instances.
Colorado could be the first state to abolish slavery by amending its state constitution, said Nathan Woodliff-Stanley, executive director of the ACLU of Colorado.


-This is why Chinese can't have guns today!
In this pitch-black action-comedy, the legendary bandit "Pocky" Zhang violently crosses paths with the con man Tang, who desperately offers up an intriguing proposition: Zhang will become the governor of Goose Town, where he can make more money in a month than he would in a year of train robberies. But neither realizes that Goose Town is already under the iron rule of Master Huang (Hong Kong action legend Chow Yun-Fat), a ruthless and wealthy crime lord. Zhang and Huang begin a hyper-violent and hilarious series of escalating mind games in this witty, masterfully vicious film, China's highest-grossing of all time.