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Crypto-currencies in the workplace
Joe Svetlik
Despite some early hiccups, crypto-currencies like Bitcoin are gaining traction. Should your business start accepting them?
Crypto-currencies burst into the public consciousness about a year and a half ago, when bitcoin – the most well-known of them all – surged to a value of $1,150. It didn't last, but crypto-currencies still have many advantages. But are they worth considering from a business perspective?
What is a crypto-currency?
Quite simply, it's a virtual currency that doesn't physically exist, but nonetheless can be traded for goods and services. Just like a standard currency with an exchange rate, its value fluctuates.
It works through a peer-to-peer network of machines connected over the internet. These maintain the ledger, which is a list of every historical transaction ever made using the currency. While bitcoin is the most famous, there are hundreds of crypto-currencies, each with its own ledger, which is known as its 'block chain'. This monitors the balance of every wallet address, as well as transactions to and from them.
In order to use a crypto-currency, you'll need a wallet client, which lets you send and receive currency much as you would emails from an email address. Unlike credit cards and other forms of payment, the transactions to and from each wallet address are available for anyone to see.
The advantages for business
There are a couple of big advantages that make crypto-currencies attractive to businesses. One is that the transaction fees are a fraction of those of a credit card. While credit cards typically charge about 2.75 per cent per transaction, crypto-currencies charge as little as 0.01 per cent. On top of that, they don't allow chargebacks (whereby the consumer reverses charges, making you incur a loss and a chargeback fee). They could save you a small fortune.
Because they're not bound by the rules and status of any one country's currency, international transactions made using crypto-currencies also tend to be much smoother and quicker.
The other main advantage is that they're practically impervious to forgery. Because the ledger lodges every single transaction ever made, no one can create an address on that ledger with an amount of crypto-currency without having received that money from another wallet on the same ledger. Of course your wallet account is susceptible to being hacked, but so is your email address and online bank account. As long as you're careful with your security, you shouldn't have any problems.
The downside
However, it's not completely foolproof. Back in 2013, Mt. Gox, one of the world's biggest bitcoin exchanges, filed for bankruptcy after losing $400 million (€350 million) of its customers' bitcoins due to a hack. It claimed some of these bitcoins were kept in an old wallet.
Some are put off crypto-currencies because of their fluctuating value. Many businesses are waiting until the currencies are more stringently regulated.
Of course, it's notoriously hard to predict what the future holds for any technology. But steps are being taken to make crypto-currencies more attractive for legitimate businesses and more hostile to illicit users.
In the 2015 budget, the UK government set out plans to launch a new research initiative to find out the opportunities and challenges for digital currencies. The government will increase training and develop existing techniques to identify and prosecute people using crypto-currencies for illegal means. It will also apply anti-money laundering and know your customer regulation – so you'll have to show ID and proof of address before you can buy or sell any of the currency – to digital currency exchanges.
Indeed, the Isle of Man has incorporated bitcoin into its anti-money laundering laws thanks to the Designated Businesses Bill. The Bank of England has hailed crypto-currencies as having the potential to "reshape the mechanisms for making secure payments". But it's not just in the UK. Members of the French and German governments have asked the European Commission to regulate crypto-currencies.
Greater acceptance
More standardised regulation will mean greater mainstream acceptance as the bugs are ironed out. Though crypto-currencies are already accepted by businesses as diverse as taxi firms, pubs and e-gaming companies, alongside household names like Amazon, Microsoft and Virgin.
While they're not perfect, crypto-currencies are slowly becoming more widely accepted. One day, they could be as commonly used as websites and online transactions. Do you really want your business to miss out?
Crypto-currencies are becoming more mainstream. Is it time your business considered accepting them?
2016 is said to be the year of bitcoin 2.0. Here's why your business should consider accepting it and other crypto-currencies.


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General Tabletop Discussion
D&D Older Editions
D&D 4E 4E: What we think we know
Thread starter MerricB
MerricB
4th Edition is Coming
* D&D 4e has been in development since 2005.
* Specific 4e forums have been created at the Wizards site:
4th edition discussion
D&D Insider article discussion
* Also see www.dndinsider.com
* Yes, there will be a "Player's Handbook", "Dungeon Master's Guide" and "Monster Manual" in 4e.
* There will be at least 7 books of D&D 4 on 2008. (source: this post)
* Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 4e (this post by thormagni) in August 2008.
* "One new campaign setting per year"... vague plan. Dragonlance? Ravenloft? Greyhawk?(this post by thormagni)
Wizards of the Coast will release two 4th Edition preview books in December and January — Wizards Presents: Classes and Races and Wizards Presents: Worlds and Monsters. The first live demos of 4th Edition will happen at the D&D Experience gaming convention in Washington D.C. in February 2008. The full scope of 4th Edition books, miniatures, and adventures will be available in the spring and summer of 2008.
General Changes:
* Still a d20 game!
* 30 Levels: Levels 1-10, 11-20: Paragon, 21-30: Epic.
* D&D products released between now and the launch of 4th Edition will fall into three groups. Edition-proof products (which are mostly story) will not include mechanics that are edition-specific. Some products will be "enhanced" to 4th Edition mechanics after release through DnDInsider, and a couple of series will end as 3.5 products.
* The setting for the core books are campaign neutral. Forgotten Realms will be the first campaign setting to be updated (in August 2008). Other campaign settings will be updated at a rate of one per year.
* Seems likely that attacker rolls dice against target number for everything - attacks, spells, etc. as in SW: Saga Edition.
Philosophy of the Change:
Design game elements for their intended use. Secondary uses are nice, but not a goal. Basically, when we build a monster we intend you to use it as a monster. If we build a feat, it's meant as a feat, not a monster special attack. If we also want to make it a playable character race, we'll design a separate racial write up for it. We won't try to shoehorn a monster stat block into becoming a PC stat block. The designs must inform each other, but we're better off building two separate game elements rather than one that tries to multiclass.
As an example, the a theoretical minotaur PC race write up draws on and evokes the feel of the minotaur monster, but it doesn't simply copy over the rules. - Mike Mearls
In Fourth Edition, we've totally revamped the math behind the system, and that's a big part of the way that we've extended the sweet spot across the whole level range. When PCs fight monsters of their level, they'll find that the math of the system is more or less the same at level 30 as it is at level 1. There will always be variation with different PCs and different monsters, but that variation won't be so great that monsters are either too deadly or too weak. - James Wyatt
* Races will grant abilities at levels other than first - most of the abilities will be gained in the first 10 levels, but there will be some gained at higher levels.
* Dwarven Resilience (1st level)
* Elven Evasion (1st level)
* Half-Elven Inspiring Presence (1st level)
* Racial Feats to improve racial abilities
* Racial-specific Powers for class, accomplishing what Subsitution levels did. Example: Dwarf Fighter with "Friend of Earth" power at 10th level
* An 8th level power (or spell) is a power you gain at 8th level. (Thadir's FAQ)
* "We are doing something different with hit points. It's not exactly what you described, but characters will be more likely to survive a single hit at low level. I like to say the changes we've made make it so you won't go down in one hit at low level or high level." (Thadir's FAQ)
* All classes let you do a little of all three. At-will powers are there so you never run out of options. Per-encounter powers are there so you can always take it up a notch. Per-day powers are there so you can really bring down the thunder when you need to.
* There are 8 classes in PH1, but more will come out later in other books and the magazines. Think of it this way: There are many classes, but each will fit into one of the four roles. This way you have plenty of variability, but you can always be sure that the class is filling a basic function it's expected to. (Logan Bonner)
* Four roles: Striker, Defender, Controller, Leader. All classes fit one of those roles, with some hybrids.
* Cleric, Fighter, Rogue and Wizard are definitely in. Other classes are up for debate. Likely: Warlord, Ranger, Paladin, possibly Monk... but possibly not.
* Healing power triggered by striking a creature in melee
* The cleric doesn't give up his attacks just because he can heal—it's part of his role. (Thadir's FAQ)
* "Martial" power source being non-magical, as will manuevers. Non-anime.
* That being said, at high levels, the fighter does push beyond the limits of human (or elf or dwarf) ability. Also, if someone wanted to make their fighter more magical-feeling, they could muck about with the flavor of the powers to make them less mundane. (Thadir's FAQ)
* The rogue (for example) still has plenty of social focus. The thing is, we don't take away his combat ability because of it. (Thadir's FAQ)
* Fireball doesn't do 1d6 per level any more.
Multiclass
* Multiclass wizards (gish) will be more balanced from the beginning. (Dave Noonan)
* Statblocks will be simplified, and not the same as for PCs.
* A very enjoyable part of this work is designing sample encounters for the monsters. We talked just today about whether that would be better on D&D Insider, but we agreed that it's important to reinforce the message that an interesting encounter consists of multiple, different monsters grouped in interesting ways. - James Wyatt
* [In 3e, we] end up jumping through dozens of hoops set up by the rules of monster design. If I don't use all the monster's skill points, it's "wrong." If I give it more than the "correct" number of feats, I have to explain that it has a bonus feat. And don't even think about putting that ogre in full plate without advancing it enough to gain the Armor Proficiency (heavy) feat. Good grief. I want to design a cool monster, not wrestle with the system for hours. Thankfully, 4th edition is doing it completely differently. Monsters are being designed for their intended use: as monsters. We're not shoehorning them into the character system and hoping what comes out works in the game. Of course, they look alike in many ways and use the same game system, but now the results matter, not the rules for minutiae. - Matt Sernett <- read this entry!
Digital Versions of Rulebooks
* Each paper product will include codes to unlock digital versions on the site for a "nominal" activation fee.
Wizards Presents: Classes and Races
* December 2007
* An introduction to the changes of 4e.
Wizards Presents: Worlds and Monsters
* An introduction to the changes of 4e
Keep of the Shadowfell
* April 2008
* Adventure for 1st-3rd level PCs
* Includes pre-generated characters
* Will include a set of quickstart rules for 4E.
* Quick-start rulebook; adventure booklet; player booklet; 3 poster maps.
* Additional content on D&D Insider.
* The adventure is designed to show off all sorts of 4e stuff. It serves as a quick start guide, but while parts of it are there to teach rules, it's a full-blown D&D adventure. You'll need to roleplay, figure out puzzles, out-think the bad guys, and everything else you need to do in D&D. Oh yeah, and there's tons of monsters to fight. - Mike Mearls
Player's Handbook 4e
* May 2008
* 288 pages, done in a more "magazine" format - i.e. lots of diagrams and pictures.
* Levels 1-30
* Includes Magic Items
* Many complex rules eliminated or simplified (Grapple!)
* New page layout; new character options
* Character advancement is meaningful at each level
* High level play as fun and meaningful as low level.
* Character class roles are going to be more tightly defined within the rules.
* New power sources will be introduced for the other classes.
* Resource Management overhauled. Game will keep going even when the caster
is out of spells.
Monster Manual 4e
* June 2008
* 288 pages.
* Full colour illustrations; easy-to-use format.
* Simplified Statblocks (NPC and Monster, I guess)
* Monster rules are being redefined - DM will have easier time finding right
monster for the right job.
Dungeon Master's Guide 4e
* July 2008
* Helps DMs run great games, create exciting adventures, and weave their own D&D campaigns.
* Game will be easy to DM.
D&D Insider
* Players will also be able to use DnDInsider tools and access regular new content similar to the material that was previously released in Dragon and Dungeon magazines for a monthly fee greater than the old subscription price, but less than a MMORPG subscription.
* Monthly fee $10/month (source: PDF handout)
* Magazine-style content will be added to the site three times a week and compiled into digital "issues" monthly.
* This is the "D&D Online" section of Gleemax
* It contains a "Dungeon Master's Kit" that includes the following:
- dungeon builder (map tool)
- adventure builder
- PC generator
- other things (Source: Wizards forum post)
* "Character Generator"
- character sheets
- character visualizer (Source: Wizards forum post)
* "My Campaign"
* "My Character" (source: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=905809)
* "D&D Game Table" (source: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=905805)
* "Dungeon & Dragon Magazines" (source: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=905804)
D&Di Game Table
* It will not adjudicate game rules.
* Like your normal games it will be up to the DM to share his or her house rules for his or her players, and enforce them using the voice interaction provided by the VOIP, the text chat window, and the DM's settings. (Thadir's FAQ)
The Dungeons & Dragons Insider Package
Become a Dungeons & Dragons Insider and gain access to exclusive content designed specifically with D&D players in mind. As part of your monthly subscription, you gain access to features designed to enhance your D&D experience, including:
D&D Insider Magazine, online magazine with new content updated daily, including:
-Product Previews (articles showcasing upcoming D&D products)
-Class Features (articles expanding existing character class options and debuting new character and prestige classes)
-Strategy and Tactics (articles relating to D&D roleplaying combat and spellcasting, and to D&D Miniatures Skirmish play)
-Design and Development (articles and columns exploring the many facets of the D&D experience, written by game designers in D&D R&D)
-D&D Humor (comic strips devoted to the D&D experience)
D&D Product Enhancements (expanded content for D&D products you bought, including interactive content such as searchable indexes, extra features, behind the scenes articles, game designer and developer commentary, and more)
Exclusive Content that expands your favorite campaign world
-Eberron and Forgotten Realms ongoing content
-Interactive maps
-World events and adventure hooks
D&D University
-Rolling six-week course to help make you a better D&D player
-Course message boards
-Player tip of the week from D&D R&D
- MyCharacter.Com pages that you can design and populate, with a Premium Customization Kit that includes D&D art, frames, and icons
- Private Message Boards that give you a direct line to D&D R&D
- Premium RPGA Membership Card mailed to you
- Fast Lane Registration at all RPGA events (online and in the real world)
- The Magic Shop, a virtual shop where you can outfit your D&D character
D&D Character Builder, a program that helps you create and manage your D&D characters. This program allows you to create a character for any D&D game, walking you through the process of rolling the dice and assigning your game statistics, as well as creating a visual version of your character using "paper doll" models and "drag and click" selections of armor and weapons. At the end, you can save your character and print out a character sheet, as well as go to any D&D tournament and call up your character for use, or use the character at the Virtual Gaming Table (see below). With this package, you get to create and store up to 10 different characters or up to 10 different versions of one character (your character at different levels), or some combination of the two.
-Exclusive D&D-related novels and short stories written by your favorite authors
-Real-World D&D Search Engines (find D&D gamers, game stores, tournaments, and events in your area)
-In-Game D&D Search Engines (find feats, spells, magic items, and other D&D-related topics)
Digital Gaming Table, a program that allows you to play D&D using the Internet as your kitchen table, with a viewable play surface, dice rolling, virtual miniatures, and voice chat. Now you don't have to wait for your home gaming group to get together to play a game of D&D. You can still play your weekly face-to-face game, but now you can also play two or three more times a week by finding a game at the virtual table. Or, you might want to reconnect with your old gaming pals who long ago moved away-now you can all play together again on a regular basis! With this package, you get to play at the table 3 times per month.
Source: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=181281&referrerid=4046
Open Gaming Licence
* 4th edition will be OGL
* There will be a new SRD
* Details on the new d20 System License (or equivalent) are still being worked out. It seems unlikely there will be a fee.
sukael
I'm getting a "sukael, you do not have permission to access this page." message on all of those links. EDIT: The gleemax ones, I mean. The ENWorld link works fine ;D
Charwoman Gene
sukael said:
It's a LOCKDOWN!
Xyxox
Wow, no OGL. That will mean a definite forking of D&D.
takasi
It's interesting that the forums had a listing for 4E Eberron and 4E Forgotten Realms, but no mention of Greyhawk, Dragonlance, etc.
Korgoth
Interesting times. If it's old school, I'll probably buy it (at least the core). If not, I'll remain a bitter grognard playing C&C and my out-of-print Gygax-era stuff.
BiggusGeekus
That's Latin for "cool"
Xyxox said:
The fan stuff kinda-sorta sucks, but it keeps people from reprinting 100% of the released material on their geocities site. And it only sucks for the publishers if WotC is real tight with the license. So far they've been pretty cool with their IP (mind flayers, beholders, etc).
What it does is allow WotC to avoid a Book of Erotic Fantasy 2: The FATAL Edition. And game stores won't get screwed with a d20 glut.
takasi said:
Not that surprising. They did have "other settings" as an option. Currently Eberron and Realms are the only two supported 3e settings (and have been the only two throughout Wizards' 3e run, not counting one-off books).
Hjorimir
I'm not entirely convinced that's a bad thing, depending on how hard/expensive they make it to licence 4E. There are some great 3rd-party publishers to be certain, but (over the years) there has been some very, very bad ones too.
Maybe requiring a licencing fee will keep the quality up from the very beginning. Just a thought.
Eridanis
Bard 7/Mod (ret) 10/Mgr 3
Thanks, Merric.
It may also allow a 3rd party to do an adventure with... mind flayers...
BiggusGeekus said:
Well, to be honest, it's already forked. Green Ronin forked with True20 as a means to avoid 4E and new licensing.
Bacris
Hjorimir said:
I'm reserving judgement until I can read the full details of the 4E licensing structure. I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised.
trancejeremy
Eh - personally, the reason I liked 3.x so much was the 3rd party stuff from the smaller guys/startups. The vast majority of the bad products were shovelware from the larger established RPG companies looking to cash in (AEG/FFG/Avalanche). There were exceptions like Mongoose and Fast Forward (a new company make up of industry vets) that also glutted the market, but I bet those 5 companies accounted for 90% of the bad material.
Granted, the presentation from some of the smaller companies was bad (like early Mystic Eye products), but the actual content was quite good, I thought.
Moon-Lancer
so is this for real? 4e is coming out this gen con?
if thats true, that kindof sucks imho. I was working on a really awesome 3.5 campaign setting. Probably still going to go through with it, and maybe convert to 4e if i can get a license.
think their will still be a big market for 3.5 in a few years?
Moon-Lancer said:
We only know that WotC is only announcing 4E, not when it is comming out. My guess is GenCon 08, but that's pure conjecture on my part.
Nonlethal Force
I imagine. There are going to be plenty of people who have invested so heavily in 3.5E that they won't want to turn around ... or they'll want to do both until the sources for 4E are varied. Think about it. After being used to playing a sorcerer/fighter/spellsword/Eldritch Knight ... would you want to go back to a core only game for a while? Yeah, it'd be fun to try out the new rules ... but there will be a while while people still want the options.
Once 4E has an opportunity to build up its resource books, though, the 3.5 market will probably diminish. Those who stay with 3.5 will do so because they already have more than they need in a lifetime of gaming.
Mouseferatu
Nope. As best we can tell, the announcement will officially be made at GenCon. That suggests, to me, at least six months to a year before it's actually out.
Nonlethal Force said:
Actually, I'm pretty excited about the thought of the game downsizing...at least for the time being. Then again, I'm in the camp that wants 4E to be STREAMLINED.
Less Work, More Fun!
I love D&D, but hate the work it requires.
DaveMage
Slumbering in Tsar
Mouseferatu said:
So much for using the D&D Experience to make major announcements about D&D.
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C What's On: The Criterion Channel's October 2020 Lineup
Take a trip to the '70s for your scares!
By Sam van der Meer October 4, 2020
It's the most, spookiest time, of the yeeeear… October, the Halloween season always seems to have an extra special connotation for movie-lovers: It's the time of year where they can convince anyone and everyone that a binge of blood, guts, and terror in the form of excessive consumption of horror films is normal! Well, look no further than the Criterion Channel for all of your creepy cravings, as their programming wizards have brought a terrific slate of classic (as well as some slightly-hidden) horror from the 1970's to your sleep-deprived eyeballs this month.
Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers and, of course, the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre are absolute must-watches.
For me though, the single-biggest film here is actually Kim Jee-woon's 2000 film The Foul King, starring Song Kang-ho as a luchador-masked amateur wrestler whose style is one marked by cheap moves and dirty play. Hence, "the Foul King." I've wanted to see this movie for years, and been unwilling to outright buy a poor DVD, missed the few theatrical opportunities where it screened, and so on. I'll finally get to give it a go, all thanks to the Criterion Channel.
So this October 2020, in a year marked in particular by our own fears and anxieties and stresses, cozy up for the impending cool weather, pour yourself a hot beverage, and turn off the lights, and tune in to some Criterion selections.
October 1st
Directed by Pedro Costa
Casa de lava (1994), Ossos, (1997), In Vanda's Room (2000), Colossal Youth (2006), Vitalina Varela (2019)
October 2nd
Double Feature: Prying Eyes
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960) and Odd Obsession (Kon Ichikawa, 1959)
Saturday Matinee:The Yearling (Clarence Brown, 1946)
'70s Horror
Trog (Freddie Francis, 1970), The Vampire Lovers (Roy Ward Baker, 1970), Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kümel, 1971), Let's Scare Jessica to Death (John D. Hancock, 1971), The Nightcomers (Michael Winner, 1971), Dracula A.D. 1972 (Alan Gibson, 1972), Images (Robert Altman, 1972), Death Line (Gary Sherman, 1972), Season of the Witch (George A. Romero, 1972), The Crazies (George A. Romero, 1973), Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973), Ganja & Hess (Bill Gunn, 1973), Sisters (Brian De Palma, 1973), Theater of Blood (Douglas Hickox, 1973), The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973), Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974), Deathdream (Bob Clark, 1974), It's Alive (Larry Cohen, 1974), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974), Shivers (David Cronenberg, 1975), The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)*, The Witch Who Came from the Sea (Matt Cimber, 1976), The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven, 1977), Rabid (David Cronenberg, 1977), Coma (Michael Crichton, 1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978), Long Weekend (Colin Eggleston, 1978), The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979), The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara, 1979)
Directed by Barbara Kopple
Harlan County USA (1976), American Dream (1990)
Short + Feature: Chaos Reindeers
Deer Boy (Katarzyna Gondek, 2017) and Antichrist (Lars Von Trier, 2009)
We Need to Talk About Kevin** (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)
Watching the Polls
Primary (Robert Drew, 1960), The Best Man (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1964), Shampoo (Hal Ashby, 1975), The Last Party (Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin, 1993), The War Room (Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker, 1993), Election (Alexander Payne, 1999)
Criterion Collection Edition #248 Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
Criterion Collection Edition #833 Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
Double Feature: Slime Time
The Blob (Irvin S Yeaworth Jr, 1958) and Beware! The Blob (Larry Hagman, 1972)
Saturday Matinee:The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (Nathan Juran, 1958)
Starring Joan Crawford
The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927), Our Dancing Daughters (Harry Beaumont, 1928), Our Modern Maidens (Jack Conway, 1929), Possessed (Clarence Brown, 1931), Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932), Dancing Lady (Robert Z. Leonard, 1933), Sadie McKee (Clarence Brown, 1934), Love on the Run (W. S. Van Dyke, 1936), The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (Richard Boleslawski, Dorothy Arzner, and George Fitzmaurice, 1937), Mannequin (Frank Borzage, 1937), The Women (George Cukor, 1939), Strange Cargo (Frank Borzage, 1940), A Woman's Face (George Cukor, 1941), Above Suspicion (Richard Thorpe, 1943), Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945), Humoresque (Jean Negulesco, 1946), Possessed (Curtis Bernhardt, 1947), The Damned Don't Cry (Vincent Sherman, 1950), Harriet Craig (Vincent Sherman, 1950), Sudden Fear (David Miller, 1952), Queen Bee (Ranald MacDougall, 1955), Autumn Leaves (Robert Aldrich, 1956), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962), Strait-Jacket (William Castle, 1964), Trog (Freddie Francis, 1970)
Criterion Collection Edition #1039 Town Bloody Hall (Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker, 1979)
Short + Feature: Someone's Watching
Influenza (Bong Joon Ho, 2004) and Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
Films by Jenni Olson
The Joy of Life (2005), The Royal Road (2015), with the shorts Blue Diary (1998), 575 Castro St. (2009), and In nomine Patris (2019)
Criterion Collection Edition #170 Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
Double Feature: Twisted Sister
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962) and Sisters (Brian De Palma, 1972)
Saturday Matinee:Buck Privates (Arthur Lubin, 1941)
Race, Sex & Cinema: The World of Marlon Riggs
Ethnic Notions (1986), Tongues Untied (1989), Color Adjustment (1992), Black Is . . . Black Ain't (1994), I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs (Karen Everett, 1996), with the shorts Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues (Marlon Riggs & Peter Webster, 1981), Affirmations (1990), Anthem (1991), and Non, je ne regrette rien (No Regret) (1993)
Inspired by Marlon Riggs
Walk for Me (Elegance Bratton, 2016), 100 Boyfriends Mixtape (Brontez Purnell, 2016), A Drop of Sun Under the Earth (Shikeith, 2017), The Labyrinth 1.0 (Tiona Nekkia McClodden, 2017), A Guide to Breathing Underwater (Raven Jackson, 2018)
Criterion Collection Edition #789 Burroughs: The Movie (Howard Brookner, 1983)
Short + Feature: Let's Talk About Sex
Dirty (Matthew Puccini, 2020) and Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
Women Filmmakers of New World Pictures
The Student Nurses (Stephanie Rothman, 1970), The Velvet Vampire (Stephanie Rothman, 1971), Humanoids from the Deep (Barbara Peeters and Jimmy T. Murakami, 1980), Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Holden Jones, 1982), Suburbia (Penelope Spheeris, 1983)
Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues
O Fantasma (2000), Two Drifters (2005)**, To Die Like a Man (2009)**, The Ornithologist (2016)**
October 23rd
Double Feature: Woman on the Edge
Christine (Antonio Campos, 2016) and Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene, 2016)
Saturday Matinee:Kirikou and the Sorceress (Michel Ocelot and Raymond Burlet, 1998)
The Quiet Family (Kim Jee-woon, 1998), Nowhere to Hide (Lee Myung-se, 1999), Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong Joon Ho, 2000)**, The Foul King (Kim Jee-woon, 2000), Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook, 2000), Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2002), A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Jee-woon, 2003), Crying Fist (Ryoo Seung-wan, 2005), Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2005), The Host (Bong Joon Ho, 2006)**, Mother (Bong Joon Ho, 2009)**
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kurt Kuenne, 2008)
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It's Not Just You, Murray! (Martin Scorsese, 1964) and The Public Enemy (William A Wellman, 1931)
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Nosferatu (FW Murnau, 1922) and Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)
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Writing a book is no easy task. Especially, when you are time pressed during your MBA. The feeling of letting go comes often that not. You somehow keep moving on..
Finally, you announce to the world, this milestone of your life. Congratulatory notes make the journey worth while. Your friends stand by you..
Inside your heart, you are nervous as hell..What if people do not like your book. What if it doesn't sell even ? How can you sell beyond your own network of friends? How about reviews? You see newspaper articles on book and dream about being there some day.. But amidst so many books being released, for them, you are just another. They ask you to give them a copy..The long wait continues..


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If you are interested in street photography, you surely read a lot of advice aimed to help beginners. According to specialist Charles Nucci, most of the advice that is offered is wrong. While there are various different things that can be used to help you out at early career stages, most of what you hear will limit you. Charles Nucci recommends that you never believe the following advice often said to beginners street photographers.
Many photographers will tell you that you have to get really close and personal in street photography. There is this belief that when you use the telescope lens you are not close enough. This is completely incorrect. In reality, when you first start doing some street photography, it is a very good idea to use telephoto lenses because of the fact that you will be nervous about getting close to people. At the same time, capturing natural images is much easier if subjects have no idea they are photographed.
The number of people that recommend monochrome street photography is really high at the moment but just as everything in photography, the majority does not dictate the best outcome. Shooting in a monochrome setting does not mean you will automatically get better shots. In fact, you are much better off if you shoot in color and convert to a monochrome photograph with the use of the computer. Also, if you shoot in color you can easily decide if the image is better in monochrome or as the original.
Most street photographs are highly artistic but this does not mean all street photography is art. Charles Nucci says he often sees San Francisco photographers that believe everything they shoot on the streets is art. In reality, he says many street photographs are incredibly bad. Just as with every niche you might want to learn more about, in street photography you need to practice. Most of the photos you shoot will be bad or will not have anything that makes them special.
A really large portion of street photographs are purists and say the best photos are always shot on film. They recommend avoiding digital cameras but Charles Nucci believes this is incorrect, especially when referring to beginners. Shooting film is not a bad idea but the reasons highlighted by street photographs are not at all realistic. There is no rule that has to be followed in this case. If you are more comfortable using digital cameras, it is something that you can always do. All this is just personal preference.
Leica is the one camera brand that is mostly associated with street photography so many aspiring photographers end up thinking they need this particular brand. Just as with all photography styles in the world, if you want to take pictures in street settings, there is a huge possibility you can use any possible brand.


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WebNov 28, · Liberalism is a philosophy that starts from a premise that political authority and law must be justified. If citizens are obliged to exercise self-restraint, and especially if they are obliged to defer to someone else's authority, there must be a reason why. Restrictions on liberty must be justified. Against Plato, Montesquieu and Rousseau, Arendt argues that liberal freedom is best protected not by limiting governmental power, but by augmenting and. "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" – but of He was a Liberal Catholic and a distinguished historian, and his vigorous. open transparent government" "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise. What are the assumptions of Realism and Liberalism? How is power measured? What are the relational Relative power is more important than absolute power.
Origins of Western Democratic Liberalism. In this section During the s and s, the royal families of Europe enjoyed absolute power and wealth. WebJohn Locke. liberalism, Political and economic doctrine that emphasizes the rights and freedoms of the individual and the need to limit the powers of government. Liberalism originated as a defensive reaction to the horrors of the European wars of religion of the 16th century (see Thirty Years' War). It turns out he didn't need to win a majority of the seats in the House of Commons to get the absolute power he wanted, because the NDP has now abandoned. France was no longer characterized by the king's absolute power; it was ruled by opinion. Whose opinion? Society's. And what is society? It is inequality. This article examines Lord Acton's famous assertion, "power tends to corrupt and absolute power, to corrupt absolutely," including the suggestion that. Shortly after Charles was executed, an English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes. (–), wrote The Leviathan, a defense of the absolute power of kings. The title.


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Just when I think I have parenting down, I find out how much I still don't know anything. I have 7 children ranging from 22 years down to 7 months old. There is literally a different generational gap between the older ones and the younger ones that I am already experiencing.
As much as I try to shield my kids from the effects of too much electromagnetic radiation, they are growing up in an age where technology rules. They have an intrinsic interest and knowing of electronics that almost seems to be hard wired into them. My older kids refer to people they have never met as "friends" and they would much rather text than talk on the phone. Even employers will send texts about job applications.
Most communication in teens and early 20 year olds happens to be in the form of pixels. This caused a lot of growing pains for me as I tried to maintain the interpersonal relationship with the kids that I grew up with. We had a lot of power struggles before I gave into the times we are in. I now will even text them from another room because I know I will get a much faster and happier response.
My younger ones will zone in on any electronic device within their range and work a phone like it was part of them. They are not as socially reclusive as my older ones were. In fact, they have no qualms about being social, even to the point of ignoring the sacred personal space bubble that each person has; which is turning out to be a whole other learning curve for me!
Whatever comes I now know to breathe (a lot) and have superhuman patience knowing they will turn out just fine.


WENHAM, Mass. — It was the first night of a preseason training camp at a retreat in the Adirondack Mountains for the Gordon College cross-country teams.
Dinner dishes were cleared. Runners gathered in one large room. Normally, this would be the time for one of the captains to share a personal story, following the example set by Coach Patrick Rich the previous evening back on campus.
Instead, it was an 18-year-old freshman from Falmouth who took the lead.
Abbey Mitchell looked around at the unfamiliar faces and tried not to appear nervous. Six months earlier, the possibility of competing in college athletics had seemed absurd.
"I have cystic fibrosis," she said.
The room got quiet. It's a disease, she explained, that primarily affects the lungs and the digestive system. When she catches a cold, it takes her longer to recover than most people.
About 30,000 children and adults in the United States have the genetic disorder, according to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. In the United States, it strikes once in about 3,500 births.
Very few of those babies grow up to become college athletes.
Because of a defective gene and its protein product, patients with cystic fibrosis develop thick, sticky mucus in their lungs that can clog airways, inhibit breathing and lead to bacterial infections that may require hospital stays and can permanently damage lung tissue. Pancreatic mucus interferes with natural enzymes that help break down and absorb food.
Common symptoms include persistent coughs, wheezing, shortness of breath and stunted growth. Some patients, Mitchell included, develop cystic fibrosis-related diabetes.
In the 1950s, according to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, few children with the disease lived to attend elementary school. Not until 1962 did the predicted median survival age reach 10.
Over the past quarter-century, however, new treatments, better drugs (inhaled antibiotics, medications to thin mucus) and an increasing emphasis on exercise have helped to extend life spans and improve the quality of life for those with cystic fibrosis. More than half of those with the disease in the U.S. are now older than 18. The predicted median survival age rose from 28 in 1992 to 31 in 2002 to 41 in 2012, according to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's National Registry of Patients.
Dr. Jonathan Zuckerman, director of the adult cystic fibrosis program at Maine Med, said some of his patients are close to retirement age. In 2012, the oldest person with cystic fibrosis in the national registry was 82.


==Review== Mupen64Plus lacks a GUI, so it may be difficult to use without using a front-end. It is run either directly from the command line with arguments or by dragging and dropping ROM files onto the executable. Unlike every other N64 emulator, Mupen64Plus uses its own plugin spec, so it is not compatible with any plugins except those specifically ported to its spec. By default, Mupen64Plus applies a ton of audio buffering, causing extremely delayed audio, more so than most other emulators. This can be mitigated by lowering the buffer settings in the mupen64plus.cfg file, though putting it too low will cause audio crackling. For improved audio latency and sync, consider using mupen64plus-libretro through RetroArch.


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Q: Why are place names in some old books a capital letter followed by dashes, and what is this phenomenon called? This is something very odd I have noticed in some older books, most recently in "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoyevsky.  Place names, when not specifically essential or well-known, are made up of one letter followed by a line of underscores (i.e. "X_____").  I think I recall reading something similar in another older work, possibly by Jane Austin?
Apologies if this is a duplicate; I've searched quite extensively and can't seem to figure it out.  I don't know a name for this, so can't search easily for it.

A: It's censorship. The notes in one edition say:

The omission of part of the names here, as elsewhere in the text, was done by Dostoyevsky in order to placate the censor

(See also Why are place names obscured in Charlotte Brontë's The Professor? for a fuller explanation about the use in literature.)
Much like how we now usually use asterisks, older works typically used em dashes (not underscores, which are lower on the line).
The New English Dictionary (1887), predecessor of the Oxford English Dictionary, says this of "bloody":

[...]now constantly in the mouths of the lowest classes, but by respectable people considered 'a horrid word', on a par with obscene or profane language, and usually printed in the newspapers (in police reports, etc.) 'b——y'.

Because (or in spite of?) the subject, Grose's Classical Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue also has plenty of examples. Here's one where "turd" is censored:

Honey Moon. The first month after marriage. A poor honey; a harmless, foolish, good-natured fellow. It is all honey, or all t—d, with them; said of persons who are either in the extremity of friendship or enmity, either kissing or fighting.

Further down on the page, "**** hooks" is defined as "fingers", so asterisks were also sometimes used, particularly when all the letters were censored as to prevent it from looking like a regular em dash. (The omitted word here is "cunt".)

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Patty is the first pig I loved. A decade ago, I became a caregiver. During breaks, I trekked to the pig barn searching for "the oreo pig". I settled next to her and read. She would grunt and lean into me. Those moments spent together are unforgettable. I cherish them now.
If you visited Animal Place in the past four years, you met Patty pig. Iconic black and white Patty loved visitors, stretching languidly out for belly rubs. Last week, we said goodbye to the oldest porcine resident. She died surrounded by an immense amount of love, passing peacefully after a battle with cancer and infections.
It is hard watching the "old guard" pass. Patty was one of four "diva" pigs - Flower, Susie, and Valerie. They were a clique of pigs, spending naps together, fighting over food, tussling playfully in the pastures. Patty was the sole survivor. The herd is now without a matriarch.
For two days, Patty could not stand up. She could not move from her stall to urinate or defecate. I scooped poop from beneath her back - she elevated her hips enough for me to get it out. We moved wet straw out, replacing it with dry. Patty suffered from hoof infections for the past two years. She beat those infections back and surprised us with her strength. It could only take her so far, though. The infections and cancer caught up with her, rendering her immobile. Pain medications stopped working. She could not turn over onto her left side to alleviate the stress placed on her right. Prolonging her misery and suffering was a cruelty we would not inflict upon her. There is a sense of unfairness in that decision making. We hope it is forgivable.
The veterinarian came with the sedative. Patty chomped down vegan lemon cookies, apples, and bananas. She fell asleep in her water bowl. The veterinarian returned for the final injection into an ear vein. Patty's breath slowed, then stopped. Her long, glorious life ended with four Animal Place staff - dedicated Patty fans - by her side.
I do not know what, if anything, is after death. I am unsure of what I experienced in the moments after Patty's death.
Everyone left. I stayed by my friend's slowly cooling body. I sobbed. I became selfish and greedy and so genuinely human - I demanded she returned, I asked why she had left, I cried tears for myself and for the loss of Patty's great light in this every dimming world. When you cry in sorrow, panic fills up your chest and stomach. It is sadness mixed with fear. As I asked why she had left, I felt what I can only describe as calm, loving energy flow through my body. While I had not cried all my tears (more would come later), I felt peaceful. There may be a perfectly scientific, rational explanation for what I experienced.
I choose to believe it was Patty.
Patty will be missed, but I don't think she missed out on living life to the fullest. If you met Patty, consider it a great honor. You met the flesh and body that held a great soul.
You were always there; awake, alert, excited, hungry, happy, sweet, feisty, comforting and loving. Gentle but so strong, you never gave up. As soon as you heard me coming your way, you would jump up and try to make your way to me, but most of the time you would just roll to your side and expose your belly for me to rub. You never said anything to me, but every day you showed me you were there for me, you didn't mind me. I felt comfort with my hand against your skin. Through the past three years I built an incredible friendship with you, and I know you felt the same way; at least I think you did. I looked forward to caring for you, feeding you, kissing you goodnight. Over those three years you were there for me in more ways than you know; through dark days, broken hearts, anger, frustrations, and I could always talk to you. I knew where to find you and you always listened, and never seemed annoyed with me.
I knew you were in pain, but you never acted out or complained. You had the warmest soul I have yet to encounter, and I only wish you lived longer. I wish I spent more time with you, and gave you more treats and snuggles. You taught me a kindness I will never lose; because of you I stopped consuming all animal products and learned a more compassionate way of life. I stopped being ignorant and in denial of an unnecessary need. I cried over you many times, and was judged for even loving you and sticking up for you. I was mocked, laughed at, and had parts of flesh similar to yours waved around my face as if it was some kind of joke.
But no matter how big, small, quiet, loud, aggressive, friendly, peaceful, upset, intelligent, useful, beautiful, and important, you always matter to me. To some you are just a pig, a meal that lasts no longer than a moment; something to profit off of or be entertained by. Everyone has their excuse, and each time I could argue a million points because I had the pleasure of spending so much time with you; and I only wished everyone felt the same. I hope you know you were never seen that way by me or those who worked hard to save you, and keep you safe.
We put you on a pedestal; we worked over time, and tried to think of a hundred ways to keep you comfortable and happy. We cherished every time you reminded us of how strong you were and only thought highly of you. You brought smiles to thousands of faces young, old, vegan and non-vegan. You taught more people than just me about love and kindness, you taught happiness, gratefulness. I love you, and have never felt a deep sadness from losing a loved animal like you. I am forever grateful for knowing you, and know you feel no more pain in your body. I will never forget you, I will love you forever. Rest in peace Patty the Wonder Pig, thank you for everything.
I first met Patty on 4th of July 2006 during a volunteer orientation. She was the first pig I ever met. What I'll always remember about Patty is her gentle, caring soul. Her maternal instincts shined whenever there were piglets. When Owen first arrived as a baby, before he could interact with the other pigs, he was put in a stall with Patty. She mothered him like he was her own. They took long naps nestled together and she put up with, and I think relished, his play behaviors. Owen would jump on Patty's head and chew on her ears and she was perfectly content. I witnessed the same mannerisms with Hazel. Patty never got to raise her own babies, which it seemed she longed for, but she was able to develop a maternal bond with her adopted piglets at Animal Place. It was beautiful to witness. She had a wonderful life at Animal Place and will be sorely missed.


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Abstract: The primary objective of this research was to provide detailed accessible pedestrian signal (APS) product information specifically focused on the interfacing of APS devices and traffic signal controllers. Information on the various traffic signal controllers used today is also provided. The information is intended for traffic engineers, traffic signal technicians, and others who are implementing APS technologies. This report addresses the following information:...
Securement Wheelchairs and Other Mobility Aids on Transit Vehicles
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Excerpt: In increasing numbers, disabled and older Americans are overcoming physical limitations by using a wide variety of mobility aids to extend their range of travel. The golf carts of the sunbelt neighborhoods are being augmented by personal 3- and 4-wheeled vehicles that can be seen daily on our city sidewalks and public transit systems. As a public or private transit authority, the responsibility of safe, efficient service now is enlarged to affording ridership to...
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Acknowledgements: The authors wish to thank the numerous organizations and individuals who graciously provided their time, knowledge and guidance in the development of this report. Our sponsors at the Architecture and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board have been supportive. We owe thanks to many in the Coast Guard who responded to our inquiries and contributed their time, their knowledge, and their experience. They include Mr. Tom Jordan and Mr. Al Penn (Coast Guar...
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Excerpt: FY 2004 Annual Report. The Access Board is an independent Federal agency committed to design that is accessible to persons with disabilities. Created over 30 years ago to ensure access to federally funded facilities, the Board is now a leading source of information on accessible design. The Board is structured to function as a coordinating body among Federal agencies and to directly represent the public, particularly people with disabilities. Half of its members...
Acknowledgements: The author wishes to thank the numerous organizations and individuals who graciously provided their time, knowledge and guidance in the development of this report. Our sponsors at the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board have been supportive. We owe thanks to many in the U.S. Coast Guard who responded to our inquiries and contributed their time, their knowledge, and their experience. They include Captain Raymond Petow, Mr. Tom Jord...
Guidelines for Aircraft Boarding Chairs
Excerpt: Aircraft boarding chairs, wheelchair-like devices used to transport disabled passengers onto airplanes, have been cited for safety and other problems. The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (ATBCB), in an effort to gain more information, distributed a survey on boarding chairs through the Federal Register (49 Fed Reg 36210, September 14, 1984). Passengers using aircraft boarding chairs responded by reporting complaints regarding safety, c...
Aircraft Stowage Procedures for Battery Powered Wheelchairs
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Excerpt: The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center at the Lexington School for the Deaf was charged with recommending performance standards for Assistive Listening Systems (ALS) to the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (the Access board). Included in this charge was the preparation of a State of the Art paper that would describe the current status and major issues presented by ALS. The recommended standards were to be based not only on the r...
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Abide with Me è un cortometraggio muto del 1914 interpretato e diretto da William Wolbert. Wolbert, un attore che aveva cominciato a lavorare nel cinema l'anno prima, con questa pellicola firmò la sua seconda regia.

Il film è un racconto morale di espiazione e pentimento che ha come interprete principale Henry King quando questi faceva ancora l'attore prima di diventare - come regista - uno dei più famosi nomi di Hollywood.

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Produzione
Il film fu prodotto dalla Balboa Amusement Producing Company. Venne girato a Long Beach, la cittadina californiana sede della casa di produzione.

Distribuzione
Distribuito dalla General Film Company, il film - un cortometraggio in una bobina - uscì nelle sale cinematografiche statunitensi l'11 marzo 1914.

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Collegamenti esterni

Cortometraggi drammatici
Cortometraggi muti statunitensi

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A significant span
On the hundredth anniversary of an incredible bridge over the St. Croix River, I join a small pilgrimage.
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This is the second post for my new StarTribune.com blog. All historical photos are from the Minnesota Historical Society's John Runk collection, used with permission.
The bridge was built simultaneously from each end, and had to line up in the middle. 1911.
On June 1, 1911, construction was completed on a half-mile long, 185-foot tall railroad bridge near Stillwater. Two days later, the first train crossed the bridge. About four still do so every day.
A small group of people visited the bridge on the Minnesota side Wednesday evening, its 100th birthday. The gravel pull-off on the road where the trail leads down to the river was otherwise empty; no other well-wishers had come. But the bridge sees plenty of revelers — mostly 80 or more years younger than itself — on a regular basis. They make circles of rocks in the woods and light fires inside them, then they drink beer and leave the cans as offerings to the bridge or the river or their own self-centered youth.
The place was quiet Wednesday evening, but perhaps the bridge didn't want a party.
Looking from the Wisconsin side, 1910.
The walk down the bluffs to the foot of the bridge follows an old road that was once a driveway for some cabins, which the bridge has outlived. Stretches of concrete and asphalt reveal its history, but today it is just a scenic trail through thick green woods.
Wayside rests include a stand of cedars overlooking a deep ravine with a spring-feed creek at its bottom; a massive white pine, which probably has the bridge beat for years; and a short set of stairs from the road to the site of a former cabin, where a small ring of rocks encircles charred logs.
When the trail reaches the bottom of the bluff, it crosses the spring-fed creek on a little wooden footbridge, which was askew when we walked across it, tilted at a precarious angle toward the water. That bridge was probably only 10 years old.
The St. Croix River was still up high — the normal pebble and gravel beach underneath the bridge was submerged. A muddy flat spot on the banks featured a circle of rocks with the remnants of a fire inside. And there it was.
The High Bridge was designed by C.A.P. Turner, six years after he designed Duluth's Aerial Lift Bridge and 15 years before designing the Mendota Bridge over the Minnesota River. It rises out of the wooded islands of the river as if to inspire the trees.
The bridge was there during both World Wars, during the Depression, during Prohibition. Many generations of teenagers have come here to drink beer and make fires, to see the broad valley painted in moonlight, and to look down on eagles soaring over the river.
The most authoritative page on the Web about the bridge is probably John Weeks' site. Weeks has documented in photos, history, and statistics all of the bridges on the St. Croix, as well as on several other major rivers, including the Mississippi. He is fond of the High Bridge:
"The Arcola High Bridge was added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1977. Experts have called this bridge the most spectacular multi-span steel arch bridge in the world. Others compare the magnificent steel work to that of Eiffel's creations in France."
Wednesday night, nobody sang "Happy Birthday." Everyone pulled out cameras or phones with cameras and snapped photos exactly like the ones we have all taken there before, the bridge identical to itself all these years. The only changes are the color of the trees, the clouds in the sky.
Looking from the Wisconsin side, October 2006. Photo by Jim Brekke, used with permission.
The walk back up to the car was a good reminder of our own years — or at least our years of sedentary living. One's legs burn climbing those 200 feet back to the top of the bluffs. You try to conceal how hard you are breathing.
Later, over Burgermeisters, French Fries, and 12 oz. mugs of cold, light beer at Meister's on the South Hill, a disagreement erupted about whether a new restaurant in town was going for a "Colonial" or "Revolutionary" America feel. The two holding conflicting opinions were once students of Advanced Placement U.S. History at Stillwater High. Their teacher, my mother, would have been very proud.
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LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, the global information solutions provider, has launched a Customer Due Diligence (CDD) guide to help law firms respond to the growing global issue of money laundering.
The Solicitor's Regulation Authority recently announced a crackdown on legal firms who aren't implementing adequate anti-money laundering controls, and an initial review of 59 firms highlighted a quarter were not conducting effective due diligence on Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs). The SRA is now conducting a broader review, writing to 400 practices asking them to demonstrate compliance with the Government's 2017 Money Laundering Regulations. The crackdown comes amid a climate of heightened regulatory scrutiny and follows the publication of a report by the Office for Professional Body Supervisory Authorities which highlighted anti-money laundering supervisory failings in the legal and accountancy sectors.
In response to this announcement, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions has prepared a Customer Due Diligence Guide to showcase how law firms can apply more robust anti-money laundering (AML) controls to their everyday operations, including checks against PEPs and sanctions lists. Further helping law firms understand the lengths they must go to for compliance, LexisNexis Risk Solutions has also published FAQs about PEPs to give quick insight into this area.
Michael Harris, Director, Financial Crime Compliance and Reputational Risk at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions says:
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Recent scrutiny over solicitors' roles in identifying and reporting suspicious activity has once again shone a light on the controls that firms need to have in place to prevent dirty money entering the system. Money launderers are continually becoming more sophisticated in their methods, and organisations need to do their utmost to keep up. Without robust compliance the sector will be left vulnerable and at risk of tarnishing its reputation."
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Shhhhh B4L in August
Let's keep this on the low people, Bat For Lashes is playing the Parish Room in August and if you want to go, you better get your ticket now. Ironically, the show is sponsored by local "modern-rock" station 101X the irony being that 101X rarely, if ever, plays Bat for Lashes. Mainly because these days "modern rock" radio consists of mostly Candlebox, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots and other 15-20 year old tracks mixed in there with some mall-punk for the tweens. I feel sad for radio these days, but they don't seem to be trying very hard to stay relevant. Do you ever listen to your local radio stations anymore?
Bat for Lashes - Pearl's Dream video via YouTube
I predict lots of googly-eyed indie-rockers at this show. The recent St. Vincent show at the Mohawk was full of love-stricken youngsters in American Apparel. There's something about Natasha Khan (B4L) that's so mesmerizing, I'm sure she will put everyone at the Parish into some sort of Stevie Nicks voodoo-trance. I'm excited about the trance.
Bat For Lashes - Daniel video via YouTube
Hopefully, you've already heard Daniel before, that's sort of the U.S. "breakout" "hit". However, the first Bat for Lashes album, Fur and Gold earned the performer a Mercury Prize nomination for best album.
Bat for Lashes - Horse and I video via YouTube
I have to link you to this last video because it's anti-embedding but I love it. It's sort of an homage, shall we say, to Donnie Darko.
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The beautiful moonrise last night was followed 10 hours later by this spectacular sunrise. Life is good.
I'll admit it, we had trouble tearing ourselves away from Copan Ruinas. After all, it shares the same valley with the amazing Mayan ruins; as a matter of fact it's not far to walk or just hop in a tiny three wheeled tuk-tuk. Google Maps says it's only a four and a half hour drive to Antigua so we were up for a spot of exploring on foot. We mercifully left the Little White Cube parked in the hotel courtyard figuring we could play until one o'clock and still get to Antigua before the Cube turns into a pumpkin with the dark. What a great town but we really didn't want to get caught driving in the dark and the map looked like it snaked over some serious mountains.
It didn't take long before the familiar pattern returned…SPEED BUMP! BAM…meep meeeep. I guess the horn didn't fix itself over night. We were not returning by the same route but so far we're making good time on decent roads.
It didn't take long before we crossed into Guatemala and began to climb up into the mountains. Suddenly the pavement dropped out from under us and it was dirt and rocks with maybe a 15 mph top speed. M said this can't be the right road and it really did look like it was petering-out on us but this is Central America and the pavement tends to come and go with no rhyme or reason. Google suggested three routes over the mountains and this one was the fastest and the shortest so I was inclined to persevere. Then we started seeing tour buses coming down the mountain loaded with luggage piled on the dusty roofs and I knew this had to be the pass road. I fully expected the pavement to reappear. It didn't. Not by a long shot. Hour after hour we bounced along over the rocks, ruts, and choking dust, realizing that hope of an early arrival was fading fast.
Finally the Guatemalans must have found some asphalt and my first thought was we'd better make it count because we don't know how long this will last SPEED BUMP! Bam…meep meeeep. Very funny. Other than the occasional grizzly looking accident we did well but could not overcome the hours spent at 15 mph in the mountains. As dusk set over Guatemala City we got real serious about our options and didn't like any of them so we locked our doors and entered rush hour gridlock traffic at night, Guatemala style. No lines, no movement, in a sea of cars, trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles. Right in front if us two guys weaving around the stopped cars on motorcycles started banging on a woman's side window motioning for her to wind it down. She wisely declined. Hour after hour we crept through Guatemala City in the dark, violating rule number one, I believe. Like all bad scrapes, if you live through it, things will get better.
We entered Antigua in the dark but couldn't help but notice the cobbled streets which jostled our tired brains like a car full of bobble-heads. Tuk-tuks, cars, and people were everywhere. M had done a lot of research but found she couldn't book a hotel room online so we were on our own. We stashed the LWC and started to do an on foot search for two nights in this beautiful colonial city. It was getting late and the best we could find was one night at Casa Rustico and the second at Casa Antigua with a tri-fecta of the LWC stashed in an off-street car parque across town. On the way back to where we thought tonight's hotel was we realized that we were totally lost and with all our luggage we looked more like pack-mules than people.
Marce sat down on the curb and said she could go no farther. The problem was that we had one of those brochure "maps" showing street names but there were virtually no street signs so when we'd happen upon the ruins of a church, well which church? With the help of some kind random strangers I found our place in the world and with bells ringing all over the town, lugged our stuff to our hotel. M collapsed on the bed and announced that she would need to be fed from this position.
Back out on the street I found out what all the ringing bells meant. It was closing time in Antigua. I came back with Pringles — she likes Pringles and they're apparently available the world over — some cheese preenas and a juice box. No bonus points for your long suffering skipper. On the plus side M, the wizard, found a month old David Letterman, in English, on our room Television. I can't remember anything except the animal guy was a guest and he brought a snake on the show and David doesn't like snakes. I remembered all the carved snakes and monsters in Copan, and then it was lights out for Yr. Humbl Svt.


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One of the most important lessons I've learned in business
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I never went to business school. My business education was a startup accelerator called Momentum.
Patterned after TechStars, Momentum gave entrepreneurs a $20,000 investment and placed them in a 12-week bootcamp, which was intended as a crash course in everything needed to start a tech business and raise venture capital. As a part of that bootcamp, every Thursday night all the entrepreneurs would gather around for a "fireside chat", where we would have the opportunity to listen to a business leader tell their story. Out of 12 of those chats, one moment sticks with me to this day.
We'll call the business leader Bob, although that's not his real name. Bob was the type of guy who flies a helicopter to work, and so obviously had a different perspective on life and business than I had. Bob was incredibly successful, but also went out of his way to be accessible in that conversation, which I really appreciated.
Someone asked him: "If there was one lesson you'd hope that these entrepreneurs would learn in starting their businesses, what would it be?"
Bob thought about it for a moment. He took a beat longer than normal as, we had learned that evening, was his way.
"I've worked with companies all over the spectrum," he said at last. "From Fortune 100 companies to pro sports teams to two-person startups. And across all those companies, there's only one thing that all of them have in common.
"Nobody knows what the hell they're doing," he said.
"The difference between successful companies and unsuccessful companies, is that with the successful companies you can't tell."
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.@VonMiller started building his own chicken farm back in college.
Meanwhile, University of Louisville football coach Bobby Petrino is under fire for his ineptitude in the closing minutes of a guaranteed win against conference rival Florida State. Oops.
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If you're replacing the floors in your home, you might have trouble deciding between hardwood flooring and laminate flooring. That's okay. You certainly aren't alone. There are pros and cons of both materials, and you need to understand what they are before making your final decision. This way, you don't end up wasting money on floors that you end up hating. This article will help you learn more about hardwood and laminate flooring so you can make an informed decision.
Hardwood and laminate flooring can be pretty similar in cost, depending on the type of material used. However, unless you get low-quality wood flooring, you should expect to spend more on installing hardwood flooring than you would installing laminate flooring. On average, homeowners spent between $2583 and $6475 to install hardwood floors in their homes in 2017, and the average cost to install laminate flooring in 2017 is between $1043 and $4028. Additionally, laminate flooring can often be installed over the current flooring in your home, which saves you a lot of time, hassle, and money. When considering costs, you should also keep in mind that real hardwood flooring often increases your home's overall value.
Both hardwood and laminate flooring also lasts a long time, but you should expect hardwood flooring to last a bit longer. Engineered hardwood flooring typically lasts between 20 and 50 years, but real hardwood floors can last upwards of 100 years if cared for properly. The average lifespan for laminate flooring is between 15 and 25 years. Additionally, hardwood flooring can be refinished when the surface dulls, but once laminate flooring gets worn down from normal wear and tear, you have to replace the entire floor.
Many people opt for laminate flooring over hardwood, because hardwood flooring does scratch easily. However, what most people don't realize is that it's harder to repair laminate flooring. If you accidentally scratch or scuff your hardwood flooring, you can repair it by sanding down and refinishing the damaged area.
Laminate flooring can also get scratches and scuff marks, and you have to completely replace the damaged area to fix the problem. If you have laminate flooring laid in sections, it is easier to repair — you can simply replace one section instead of the entire floor. However, to do this, you'd have to store extra laminate flooring in the same pattern. Also, if your laminate flooring is worn down or has areas that have faded in the sunlight, replacing a portion of it with a new section of the laminate will be noticeable. If your laminate flooring was laid in a sheet, you would have to replace the entire floor to repair damage.
Laminate flooring is really easy to keep clean — you just need to sweep and mop the floor on a regular basis. Additionally, when you have laminate flooring, any accidental spills can be wiped up using a damp rag.
Hardwood flooring is a bit harder to maintain, but the process isn't even remotely difficult. To keep a hardwood floor clean on a day-to-day basis, all you need to do is sweep and dry mop your floor. However, when you mop the floor with a wet mop or you need to clean up a spill, it's important to use cleaner that's specifically designed for use on hardwood floors so you don't damage the floor's finish.
Both laminate and hardwood flooring are great options, which is why it can be difficult to choose between the materials. If you're looking for a cost-effective option that's easy to maintain, laminate flooring is probably your best bet. However, if you want the look and feel of real hardwood floors and you prefer spending a bit of extra money on quality materials that will last longer, hardwood flooring is the right choice for you.