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NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1984) review
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For those of you not in the know, I'm generally not an anime fan. Not because I have something against the artform or anything, but rather it was just something I wasn't quite into as a kid. Sure, I enjoyed me some DRAGONBALL Z (1996 – 2003), ROROUNI KENSHIN (1996 – 1998), Pokemon (1997 – ongoing), a little bit of YU YU KAKUSHO (1992 – 1995), but very little beyond them. So with this in mind, it's a safe bet to assume that I'm not the biggest Studio Ghibli fan. In fact, the only one I've ever seen was MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988). Nope, I've never seen PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997), or SPIRITED AWAY (2001), none of them. But ever since watching Youtube's Nostalgia Critic dedicating a month of expressing his opinions of Ghibli's work, I've been more than interested in hopping onto the band wagon, if only because their films are so celebrated among the animation-junkie community.
As for this current film, it seems like this is somewhat a slightly debated film over whether or not it's truly a Ghibli film. Why? As I understand it, Ghibli was established in 1985, but NAUSICAÄ came out in '84. But if I had a guess, this film still had the same artists attached, specifically Hayao Miyazaki, considered to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest anime artists of all time, so even if it's not technically a Ghibli film, it's still considered one.
The story of NAUSICAÄ looks like it's about this young girl in the middle of a war between humans and giant insects vying for control over the last of this post-apocalyptic world's last remaining natural resources and she's trying to put a stop to the carnage. If I were to hazard a guess, it's a take on the whole "appearances can be deceiving" type of story, making the insects look like monsters, but learning that they're just beings trying to making their own way in the world, and the humans are the real enemies. Or because of this being a Ghibli production, maybe there won't be specific villains. I don't know, but it looks like it could be pretty good.
Directing and writing the film is the legendary champion of animation himself, Hayao Miyazaki, also known for THE WIND RISES (2013), PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997), and THE CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO (1979).
Overall, bring it on. Show me something great, y'all. I'm ready!
This is my honest opinion of: NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1984)
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, 1,000 in the future, covered in the wasteland known as the Sea of Decay. Nausicaä (voiced by Sumi Shimamoto) is the young Princess of the Valley of the Wind, a small, but peaceful land of farmers just trying to get by in their world. But the peace doesn't last long when a Tolmekian aircraft, a neighboring militaristic land, crashes, holding the fleshy pod of a developing Giant Warrior, a long dead ancient race believed to be one of the major causes of the end of the world. But the Tolmekian Princess Kushana (voiced by Yoshiko Sakakibara) and her army invades the Valley of the Wind for control of the Giant Warrior and intend to use its great power to wipe out the giant insects that live in the Sea of Decay and restore life to it's former beauty.
This was an impressive film and I really liked it. I can't say that I love it, but I am so happy I got to see this.
Already, this movie had me at hello. I'm a general sucker for post-apocalyptic stories. Even though this is a pretty… pretty apocalypse… weird, but whatever. If I give this movie any credit is that its beauty is worth the price of admission alone. The movie's animation is stunning, particularly the scenes when Nausicaä is flying on her glider, those are particularly breath-taking and fun to watch. It's kind of like watching the precursor to HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON's flying scenes. You just feel the speed and your heart drops like the sheer velocity is pressing into your chest, it's fantastic. Although, I might argue that this is more impressive because it's still hand-drawn animation rather than computers. Major credit for animation department.
But if there's anything that truly blew me away was the titular character herself, Nausicaä, herself. This is how you write a great character. She's interesting, she's sympathetic, and she's bad-ass. To top it all off, she's a princess. Why does that matter? Far too often, I see princesses hold the title, but do very little with it, making the title utterly pointless. But Nausicaä, she's active like it's nobody's business. Her opening sequence, when you really think about it, gives you a wonderful sense of her bravery right there and then. She's venturing into the Sea of Decay, collecting plant samples. By the way, I totally see it now, Rey's introduction in STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015) was totally inspired by Nausicaä's intro here. Masked, alone, venturing in a dangerous environment in the name of survival, though I think I prefer Rey's intro much better. Either way, that doesn't mean Nausicaä's is bad.
But back on track, she also collects pieces of Ohm shells for her village to use, and then almost immediately gets sucked into an action scene. An Ohm is chasing a wandering man and she's doesn't try to kill the Ohm. Rather, she tries to calm it down and give it incentive to go back to its forest and succeeds. While I can see some argue that she's a little too perfect because she loves everything, I think that's one of her most endearing aspects and what makes her journey all the more engaging and even heart-breaking. And when I say she loves everything, I mean everything. People, plants, animals, she loves and cherishes all of them, no matter how grotesque and monstrous they look, and yeah, these Ohms and other insects are freaky as all hell. Personally, I'd have killed them with violence without batting an eyelash, but that's why I'm not the star of a movie, or a particularly interesting character.
Having said how much she values all life, she's not an annoying pacifist either. Early on, Tolmekian soldiers invade her family castle and kill her father, the king, and she naturally goes into a rage and fights quite a few soldiers in her way. And she isn't really bested in combat either. They take their swings, but Nausicaä proves that she's a capable warrior herself. The only reason she stops is because her dear family friend Lord Yupa (voiced by Gorô Naya) stops the opposing sides from fighting, and later on, we learn how Nausicaä regrets fighting back, having let her rage get the better of her. And she never loses her determination or integrity as the story progresses. Even when Kushana forces Nausicaä and a handful of her people to be hostages… not quite sure I understood this subplot much… come under attack by an enemy gunship and their aircraft is going down in flames, Nausicaä refuses to let Kushana die and saves her life, even if it's against her better judgment.
And to cap off my gushing over her, Nausicaä is so quick thinking that no matter what situation she's in, she finds a way to either escape, or diffuse the danger. A couple times in the beginning, she manages to calm down several insects from attacking and creating a situation worse for everyone. But later on, her ability to survive several perilous situations is always awesome to watch. Several aircrafts go down with her on them and she barely gets hurt ever. Or, she's directing people to find shelter, never giving herself a second to figure out what's going on, she just commands people to go to safety and heads straight into danger. She's sure reckless, but it works for her character and it's hard to argue results when she comes out alive. Nausicaä might just be my favorite princess of all time. Hey, since Disney re-released Miyazaki's films with English dubs, does that make her a Disney princess? Because then I'm calling her my favorite Disney princess! I love her iron-will, her connection to everything and everyone around her, and I love her heart.
And the structure of the story, by God, this was beyond refreshing. Leave it to foreign cinema to school American storytelling in how to make a story that you can't predict. I mean, usually when I watch a movie, the story can be good enough to distract me from acting like a prophet and predicting how the scenes will go, even if it may be obvious if you took a few seconds to think about it. But this movie… I really had no idea what was going to happen. Who was going to die, what the world would reveal, what the characters were going to choose, this movie is beyond wow in that regard.
One of my favorite subtle things that I noticed was how many of the airships in the movie look like the flying insects of the world. I guess that makes sense since you don't see any birds in the movie, but… I gotta ask, why aren't they modeled after birds? They tend to be an insect's natural predator and they do reference birds in passing conversation, so… question mark, but whatever, still liked it. And speaking of designs, I kind of enjoyed the costumes the people wore. They seemed pretty reminiscent of medieval garbs and cloaks. I guess that makes sense. Princesses, kings, castles, I probably shouldn't be surprised.
Oh, and I want a fox-squirrel for a pet. If we can clone a sheep, we can splice the genes of a fox and a squirrel. Get on it, science! I has demands that must be met!
But as much as I can gush about this film, there are unfortunately some issues I take with it. Many consider this this one of the anime films you show someone who thinks that anime is just another cartoon for kids. And while I mostly agree with that, this movie is mature, dark, and intense, there are sadly a couple elements that work against that statement. It's probably not a good thing to dwell on them, but they stick out like a sore thumb to me: there's some obvious over-explainy dialog in the beginning and end of the film. In the beginning, when Nausicaä is in that cave with the Ohm shell, collecting the plant samples, and ripping out that eye socket thing, she has a line when she's talking to herself that goes something like, "The pollen is poisonous; would kill anyone in seconds without a mask." Um… I know she's just talking to herself, but it's not her first venture out into the Sea, so there's no reason to say that to herself. It's meant for the audience, yeah I know, but she's not talking to the audience, she talking to no one. And besides, the mask sort of gives the impression that anything in the Sea is deadly, including the pollen. So… not necessary to narrate out loud. I'll get to the ending bit that bugged me in the spoiler section.
And gunships are way overpowered in this world. I mean seriously, one tiny gunship manages to take down a huge airship, peppering it with very little ammo, jeez. I mean, sure, I give a single X-Wing fighter can take down the Death Star a huge pass, but then again, the Death Star had a weakness. A lame weakness, but a weakness. These airships don't.
And in the end, when Nausicaä is brought back to life by the Ohm, and Obaba (voice by Hisako Kyôda) watching it happen, she says something like, "The friendship, the connection they share, oh it's so beautiful." Ugh, come on! My eyes work, yo! I can see the beauty of her actions and what they meant to the Ohm. I didn't need that spelled out!
Oh, and that damned Giant Warrior. For such a huge build up for its awesome power, probably one of the major reasons why the world ended, and everyone's actions revolving around releasing it upon the Sea or leaving it dormant in its pod, this is probably the biggest letdown of the film. When Kushana unleashes it on the stampeding Ohms, the Giant fires two death blasts and then melts away. It probably has a grand total of five minutes worth of screen time. You could literally cut this out from the entire movie and it would have flowed much better. Leave it as some ambiguous part of the world's mythos, or save it for a sequel. The angry Ohms, the Tolmekian brutality, the film's enemies seem pretty well-defined without the use of a giant monster that ultimately serves no purpose.
***END SPOILERS***
Overall, this was a fantastic film. For Miyazaki's second film, this was ambitious and it pays off huge. Consider me a fan because I would love to see more of his work in the future. Fathom Events, don't fail me now. I want more. There's a few problems that I have with this movie here and there, but they don't cripple it too badly. I think if you've been averted from seeing anime films, give this a watch. Maybe it'll change your mind, maybe it won't, but it'll leave you with the impression that there's more to anime than stuff like Pokemon and Hello Kitty. It sure is a wonder to behold. Beautiful animation, a great protagonist, its giant scale, it's one for the ages and I couldn't recommend it more.
My honest rating for NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1984): a strong 4/5
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ASIAN REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (AREAA) IS LATEST INDUSTRY DIVERSITY GROUP TO PARTNER WITH LGBTQ+ REAL ESTATE ALLIANCE TO ADDRESS DISCRIMINATION
AREAA JOINS NAHREP & NAR WITH ALLIANCE AGREEMENTS
SAN DIEGO, CA & ST. PAUL, MN, June 23, 2021
The LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA) allowing for joint efforts to combat discrimination and hate against the LGBTQ+ and Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.
The Alliance also has partnerships with industry diversity groups such as the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP), dozens of State and local Realtor® associations and industry leaders like the National Association of Mortgage Brokers and the National Association of Realtors®.
The Alliance and AREAA will focus on raising awareness and supporting educational initiatives to foster safer housing environments for their communities while supporting each organization's core missions of increasing homeownership rates among their constituents.
"This is a proud moment for AREAA as we can now provide even more support for LGBTQ+ AAPI consumers and our members who may face additional cultural challenges while living their authentic lives," said Amy Kong, President of AREAA. "Additionally, diversity, equality and inclusion efforts are gaining momentum, but there is still much work to be done in our nation. There is an African proverb that says, 'if you want to go far, go together.' For AREAA, working with the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance is the beginning of an important journey that will in fact takes us far – far from today's climate of hate. "
But for many LGBTQ Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and their families, navigating the intersection between the two identities can become a balancing act between finding strength in their lived experiences and family tradition and managing the burdens that can arise from an emphasis on putting family above the individual."
Kong pointed out that Stop AAPI Hate recently shared there have been more than 3,800 anti-Asian hate incidents in the U.S. since the pandemic began while HRC predicts that 2021 will be the worst year for anti-LGBTQ+ government action with more than 250 bills introduced in state legislatures around the nation.
"Our collaboration with AREEA will leverage our shared experiences as victims of discrimination and hate to create powerful synergies that will effect change," said Ryan Weyandt, CEO of the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance. "It is well documented that homeownership rates for the LGBTQ+ community and the AAPI community are significantly lower than those for the general American population. This is largely due to housing discrimination, which often goes unreported and therefore unaddressed, along with a lack of understanding and education. "
UCLA's Williams Institute and the U.S. Census Bureau report that homeownership rates for LGBTQ+ and AAPI Americans are 49.8% and 59.5%, respectively, while the Census shares that the overall homeownership rate is 65.6% and 74.5% for White Americans.
Within the MOU, the organizations have vowed to support one another in advocacy, thought leadership, events and membership promotion efforts.
About LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance
The LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance is a 501(c)6 non-profit dedicated to empowering the LGBTQ+ community on the path to homeownership as we also advocate on behalf of the community on housing issues. The Alliance, founded in June 2020, is an all-inclusive organization that works to improve the professional lives of its members through a public-facing Alliance Referral Community. The Alliance began accepting members in October 2020 and has more than 50 chapters in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. For more information visit realestatealliance.org.
About Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA)
Founded in 2003, the Asian American Real Estate Association of America (AREAA) is a national nonprofit trade organization dedicated to improving the lives of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community through homeownership. With more than 17,000 members in 38 states, AREAA is the only trade organization that represents the diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander community and gives Asian real estate professionals a voice in the various policy and business discussions that affect the real estate market and Asian American consumers. For information, visit http://www.areaa.org/.
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Franklin Thomas (5 de septiembre de 1912, Fresno, California – 8 de septiembre de 2004, Flintridge, California) fue un animador y pianista estadounidense. Trabajó en el estudio de animación de Walt Disney, donde pasó a formar parte del grupo conocido como los Nueve Ancianos.

Biografía
Se graduó de la Universidad de Stanford - donde trabajó en la revista cómica Stanford Chaparral con Ollie Johnston -- luego entró a Chouinard Art Institute, y comenzó a trabajar para The Walt Disney Company el 24 de septiembre de 1934 como el empleado número 224. Ahí animó docenas de películas y cortometrajes animados, fue además miembro de la banda de Dixieland Firehouse Five Plus Two, tocando el piano.

Su trabajo en cortometrajes animados incluyen The Brave Little Tailor, donde animó las escenas de Mickey Mouse y el rey; Mickey y el oso en The Pointer, y las escenas con diálogo alemán del cortometraje de la Segunda Guerra Mundial Education for Death. También trabajó con Pooh y Piglet en dos dibujos animados de Winnie the Pooh.

En películas animadas, Thomas animó a los enanos llorando por la muerte de Blancanieves, Pinocho cantando en el teatro de marionetas, Bambi en el hielo, La dama y el vagabundo comiendo espagueti, las tres hadas en La bella durmiente, Merlín y Arturo como ardillas en La espada en la piedra, y el rey Louie en El libro de la selva. Thomas fue el animador de varios villanos memorables, como la malvada madrastra de La Cenicienta, la reina de Alicia en el país de las maravillas, y el Capitán Garfio en Peter Pan.

Se retiró de Disney el 31 de enero de 1978.

Thomas, junto a su compañero de Disney Ollie Johnston, escribió el libro The Illusion Of Life, publicado por Abbeville Press en 1981. El libro sirve como referencia para la creación de animación tradicional, debido a la importancia de sus autores. Frank and Ollie, documental de 1995 dirigido por Theodore Thomas (hijo de Frank Thomas), muestra su carrera, vidas privadas, y amistad.

La última aparición de Thomas en una película animada fue en Los Increíbles (dirigida por Brad Bird), aunque no animó al personaje, solo le dio la voz. Frank y Ollie Johnston usaron su voz para interpretar a dos ancianos que aparecen en la película.

El libro de 2001 Walt Disney's Nine Old Men & The Art of Animation por John Canemaker (ISBN 0-7868-6496-6) muestra una completa biografía del animador.

Otros libros (escritos junto a Johnston)
 Too Funny For Words: Disney's Greatest Sight Gags
 The Disney Villain (ISBN 1-56282-792-8)
 Bambi: The Story and the Film

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Sitio oficial de Frank y Ollie
 Leyendas de Disney
 Tributo a Frank Thomas de AWN
 Recordando a Frank Thomas''

Animadores de Estados Unidos
Fallecidos por hemorragia cerebral

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The Crystal City BID, in partnership with JBG SMITH, Consumer Technology Association, Gates Hudson, The We Company, and Eastern Foundry, is offering a free meal to federal employees (and a guest) with a valid government ID from 11:30am - 1:30pm at a different local eatery each day.
Jaleo is also offering free sandwiches every day at the bar from 2:00 - 5:00 pm with gov. ID.
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Company Ladder (1990) 0 Presentations DOS
Company Ladder is a budget oriented tool that specialized in making corporate organizational charts. It could handle large numbers of entries and print high quality graphs.
CompuServe Information Manager (1989) 2 Communications DOS
CompuServe Information Manager is the client software used for accessing the CompuServe service.
Conner Backup Basics (1993) 0 Utility DOS
Conner Backup Basics is a dumbed down version of Conner Backup Exec that only works with their tape drives. This software will not run at all without the appropriate tape drive attached.
1.1 (DOS)
Control Room (1990) 0 Utility DOS
Control Room is an all-in-one resident system information and configuration tool. It includes a number of disk utilities such as undeleting, wiping, and encrypting files. It can scan files and detect unwanted changes. Control Room can change system settings such as keyboard repeat rate and supports creating keyboard macros.
Copy II PC (1985) 0 Utility DOS
Central Point Copy II PC is a disk duplication program that can successfully copy many copy protected disks using only standard IBM PC hardware. It is generally considered the best software-only solution for duplicating such disks. "snatchit".
2.xx
Corel Presentations (1995) 1 Presentations DOS
Corel Presentations (which is often referred to simply as Presentations) is a presentation program akin to Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice.org Impress.
CorelDraw! (1989) 29 Graphics Publishing OS2
Corel Draw is a vector based drawing and illustration program. It is primarily a Windows application, but was ported to Mac OS, Mac OS X, Linux, CTOS and OS/2. It competed against Aldus Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, and Micrografx Designer.
Correct Grammar (1989) 0 Word Processor Utility DOS
Correct Grammar is a grammar checking and analysis tool for DOS. Correct Grammar incorporates technology from the Houghton Mifflin CorrectText system.
CorrectStar (1984) 0 Word Processor Utility DOS
CorrectStar, from MicroPro International, is an add-on spell checker for WordStar 3.3. It was sold both bundled with WordStar and separately. Later versions of WordStar integrated the spell checker.
Crosstalk (1983) 0 Communications DOS
Originally released in 1982, Crosstalk XVI, from Digital Communications Associates Inc of Alpharetta, Georgia, is a powerful telecommunications program for the IBM PC with many scripting features. "XVI" means "16", and refers to the powerful new 16-bit x86 CPUs found in IBM PC's and compatibles. It was followed up by the MK 4 and Communicatior products.
XVI 3.3x
MK.4 2.x
Communicator 2.x
Dan Bricklin's Demo (1988) 0 Presentations DOS
Dan Bricklin's "Demo" is a tool for creating tutorials, interactive application demonstrations, and interface prototypes. It has a powerful scripting system, with the ability to store and manipulate both text and graphics screens, and a redistributable runtime. author of VisiCalc. Demo was first released in 1985 by Dan Bricklin's consulting firm Software Garden. It was later sold under Peter Norton Computing, and then Sage Software.
II v2
DECTalk PC (1993) 0 Utility DOS
DECTalk was a text to speech system used in automated telephone, radio, and TV systems. It was notably used as an artificial voice by Stephen Hawking. Most DECTalk devices were standalone serial devices, however DEC did produce an ISA expansion card for the IBM PC that contained this functionality. This software is required to operate these ISA cards.
Deskman/2 (1995) 0 Utility OS2
DevTech's Deskman/2 is a set of desktop and system management tools for OS/2. It contains data compression tools, networking tools, performance monitoring tools, and desktop management tools.
DESQView (1984) 6 Utility DOS
DESQView, from Quarterdeck, was a DOS application multi-tasker and in later versions functioned as an X client for applications on remote UNIX systems. It competed against IBM Topview. The original DESQ was just a task switcher, but subsequent versions offered preemptive multitasking of well behaved DOS programs on real-mode 8088 PCs. It gained popularity when DESQView 386 added virtual x86 support. This enabled the ability to multi task many poorly behaved programs, and was often used on BBSes due to its excellent COM port handling. It was later overtaken by OS/2 and Windows.
DESQView X 2.x
Diagram-Master (1985) 0 Presentations DOS
Diagram-Master, from Decision Resources and later Ashton-Tate, is a graphics tool specifically geared toward making organization and Gantt charts. It can produce very high-quality presentation graphics using laser printers and plotters. Supports CGA, EGA, and the IBM Professional Display. This program was also bundled in the Master Graphics Presentation Pack.
Direct Access (1988) 0 Utility DOS
Direct Access is an easy to use menuing program designed to simplify access to applications on systems with many programs loaded on the hard drive. It is customizable, includes screen blanking, and includes password protection and usage logging. Later versions also detect common programs already installed on the hard disk.
Disk Technician (1988) 1 Utility DOS
Disk Technician, from Prime Solutions Inc., is a hard disk utility and surface monitor. It contains an interleave adjuster and pattern tester similar to Spinrite. The Gold version also includes a defragmenter and disk-level virus protection.
Advanced 3.x
Gold 1.x
DiskClone (1998) 1 Utility DOS
DiskClone, from Quarterdeck, is a simple, professional, small, powerful, and easy to use hard disk cloning tool. It can copy a drive to another internal or external drive of different sizes. It can be used as a backup, or a migration tool to a new drive. It all fits on a single floppy disk. "Corporate" editions.
DosFax (1992) 0 Communications DOS
Delrina DosFax is a DOS based program for sending and receiving faxes via a modem that has fax capabilities. This software was often bundled with modems or PCs. It was often accompanied by Delrina WinFax.
DoubleDisk (1991) 0 Utility DOS
First released in 1989, DoubleDisk was the first real-time drive compression product for DOS. It is a fairly no-frills program and sticks to what it does best. It was relatively low cost compared to its later competitors. and Expandz! Plus
DoubleDOS (1984) 0 Utility DOS
DoubleDOS is a simple and easy to use multitasking tool for DOS. It can preemptively run up to two DOS programs at a time. Its main advantage is that it requires very little RAM overhead compared to other multitasking or task switching environments. Because DOS programs can and usually do bypass OS calls, many programs must be "patched" in order to work. things at once, then this would have been a good choice. Reportedly, the first version may have worked with DOS 1.x.
DR Graph (1984) 0 Presentations DOS CPM
DR Graph is a business graphics creation program. It can create line, bar, pie, and scatter graphs and print them on a graphics printer. DR Graph is implemented using Digital Research's GSX graphics library, and can run on many different platforms.
DS Manager (1987) 0 Utility DOS
DS Manager is a menu and file management shell for DOS. It features password protection with the ability to display different menus for different users.
DS Optimize (1988) 0 Utility DOS
DS OPTIMIZE is a disk defragmenter tool. It has a few more options than its competitors, and has a "fast" mode that does not protect against interruptions. This tool competed against Mace Utilities, The Norton Utilities, PC Tools, and many smaller defragmenter tools.
DS Recover (1987) 0 Utility DOS
DS Recover, from Design Software, is a set of file utilities for DOS that lets you unerase files and directories, and unformat disks. It competed against the Norton Utilities, PC Tools, and Mace Utilities.


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In 2014, after seeing her mom's health transformation and newfound confidence, she decided to join a local Crossfit gym in Clarksville, TN. After the first class, she knew she had found something incredible. It was unlike anything she'd ever experienced.
After her husband got out of the army, they moved back to his home in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she found Crossfit Woodbury. That was the point where she really felt her confidence and technique start to really improve.
She soon started to realize that helping others in Crossfit had become a huge passion in her life and on her fourth anniversary of starting Crossfit, she took her Level 1 Certification to become a coach. To the present, she has loved every minute helping people improve and prolong their lives through Crossfit's prescription of fitness in the context of a supportive, engaging community.
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Sports Wagering in New York: What Can New York Learn from the 2018 New Jersey Experience?
When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget for the New York State 2019-2020 fiscal year was announced last month, it was accompanied by the news that the state's four upstate private casinos would be authorized to take sports wagers. Sports wagering would be authorized once the state's Gaming Commission finalizes its rules governing the subject.
The Gaming Commission took the first steps to promulgating these rules at its January 28, 2019 meeting, where it gave first passage to the sports wagering rules. These rules are now subject to the public comment and publication procedures established under the State Administrative Procedures Act. Final passage of such rules would be expected to come in mid-spring, and sports wagering would need to be approved at each facility.
Who Gets Sports Betting in New York?
Sports wagering was authorized for the commercial casinos under the Upstate NY Gaming Economic Development Act, which passed in 2013 as the accompanying legislation to the state's Constitutional amendment authorizing casino gambling. The 2013 legislation authorized sports wagering at casinos if federal legislation banning sports gambling was either amended or found to be unconstitutional. In May of 2018, the United States Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, which had banned sports gambling in most of the United States, outside of Nevada. Based on this decision, the states of Rhode Island, Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and West Virginia all began sports gambling in 2018. New York State did not need new authorizing legislation, since the 2013 legislation already legalized sports wagering.
The four private casinos in upstate New York that could be licensed to conduct sports wagering are del Lago in Seneca County, Rivers in Schenectady County, Resorts World Catskills in Sullivan County, and Tioga Downs in Tioga county. Besides the four privately owned casinos, there is the potential -- depending on the wording of the individual compacts -- for the New York tribes with casinos; the Seneca, Oneida, and St. Regis Mohawks, to operate sports wagering facilities at their casinos. Currently, there are seven tribal casinos in New York State, with the Oneidas and the Senecas running three apiece.
The experience in New Jersey should be instructive as to how the casinos in New York might fare. It is a neighboring state in the Mid East Coast region, which made the full dive into sports gambling in 2018. New York sports gamblers could reasonably travel and bet at the New Jersey facilities at the Meadowlands Racetrack and at Monmouth Park. New Jersey began sports wagering in June of 2018 and has sports wagering onsite at two racetracks and at seven of the nine Atlantic City casinos. Five of the casino licensees and the two racetrack licensees offer sports wagering to New Jersey residents through the Internet.
The tax revenue return to New Jersey from sports wagering in calendar year 2018 was $10.4 million. Using the December 2018 monthly numbers (which are more reflective of a more mature market and assuming based on Nevada sports wagering numbers that December wagering constitutes about 11% of annual sports wagering handle), the anticipated annual New Jersey tax revenue would be $21.8 million. The tax revenue numbers ought to be considered a disappointment. New Jersey officials have been using the number of $100 million as the estimated tax revenue from sports wagering for more than a decade, well before any thought had been given to the potential of Internet sports wagering. A $20 million number is hardly what was anticipated. While there clearly is room to grow, it is a long way from $100 million.
Sports wagering constituted 3.2% of the general casino wagering market in New Jersey for 2018. In Nevada, where sports wagering revenues increased by more than 20% in 2018, it only constitutes 2.5% of casino revenue.
62.5% of New Jersey's sports wagering handle in 2018 was placed through the Internet. In order to place a legal Internet wager, the bettor needs to be physically situated in New Jersey. In December of 2018, the percentage of Internet bets reached 75.5%. The Internet sites in New Jersey did not begin operation until August, with all sites in operation by the commencement of the National Football League season in the first week of September. It is certainly likely that in the future, the Internet handle will continue to be at least 3/4 of the total sports wagering handle. Starting in December of 2018, Pennsylvania began its sport wagering operation. Thus, bettors in the Philadelphia area no longer needed to travel to the to the Atlantic City casinos to place legal sports wagers.
Of the on-site gambling, much of it was conducted at the Meadowlands Racetrack, the site closest to New York City. In December of 2018, 58% of the on-site sports wagering wins were at the Meadowlands. 16.7% was at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey, leaving 25.3% to be shared by the seven Atlantic City casinos that conduct on-site sports gambling. Using the December 2018 sports wagering statistics as the basis for an annual projection for sports wagering revenue, on-site sports wagering annual revenue in New Jersey would be $14 million for the Atlantic City casinos, $9.3 million for Monmouth Park, and $32 million for the Meadowlands.
The obvious lesson for New York is to not anticipate much revenue for the casinos from sports gambling. The New Jersey onsite numbers are not particularly encouraging, and the New Jersey sites are generally in more populated areas than the four upstate casinos. Tioga Downs is in a rural area on the Pennsylvania border. Pennsylvania now has Internet wagering on sports. There is little reason to expect much sports gambling revenue there. The same should hold true for del Lago, which is located between Syracuse and Rochester. It is not a big population center, and if the Senecas and the Oneidas Nation offer sports wagering, del Lago could find itself in a difficult commercial environment.
Rivers Casino would not have much nearby competition, but it is not in a more desirable location than Monmouth Park in New Jersey, or Charles Town in West Virginia, both of which are doing modest in-person sports wagering business. Monmouth Park, as stated previously, could be presumed to have in-person sports gambling revenue of less than $10 million. Assuming that Rivers did bring in that much revenue, it would increase its current total gaming revenue by about 6% or 7%. It would be helpful, but not a game changer.
Resorts Worlds Catskills would be the closest sports wagering facility in New York to the New York City market, and it would have good access to the northern suburbs of New York City. However, it would compete with the Meadowlands for in-person gambling, and the Catskill region has proven a disappointing area, thus far both for video lottery gambling and for casino gaming. It could potentially perform better than Rivers, but it is unlikely to do much better than that.
The Seneca Nation has the best opportunity for in-person sports wagering. It has the greatest exposure to a population center, with a facility in downtown Buffalo. Its Niagara Falls facility is on the Ontario border and ought to be able to attract Ontario sports bettors as well. Currently, Ontario sports bettors only can legally wager on sports through the Pro-Line lottery offered through the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, which offers only parlay wagers and less than desirable odds. The Niagara Falls casino could attract Ontario sport bettors.
The Mohawk Akwesasne Mohawk Casino, operated by the St. Regis Mohawks, is near the Canadian border in northern Franklin County. While it is close to a potential sports betting market in Canada served by the sub-optimal Pro-Line game, it is basically not near any area that can be considered a center of population. Unless people will drive about an hour and a half from Ottawa, there ought to be limited St. Regis Mohawk revenue from sports betting.
The three Oneida Nation gambling properties are between Utica and Syracuse. Again, this is hardly the most desirable environment for sports gambling. The most interesting issue is whether the Oneida Nation will take wagers on games played by Syracuse University. New York law bans the private commercial casinos from taking bets on New York university and college sports teams, but the tribes would not be bound by this rule. If the Oneidas take wagers on Syracuse games, they could potentially have a market for sports betting in New York.
If one optimistically assumes that the four commercial casinos in New York would bring in at most $25 million in sports gambling revenue, the tax revenues to the state-- with a tax rate of 10% on sports wagering revenues -- would be $2.5 million. It is hardly a large amount of revenue and is actually half the amount that the state receives from daily fantasy sports.
What if New York Went Full New Jersey?
What would happen in New York State following the lead of New Jersey - besides allowing sports wagering at its four commercial casinos -- passed legislation allowing these casinos to use the Internet to take wagers from everyone residing in New York? One could assume that the state would claim that the situs of the wager would be a server located on the casino property and thus would be open to everyone geographically located inside the state.
New Jersey has 45% of New York's population and would (using December 2018 figures) likely have $187 million in annual sports wagering revenue. That number in New York State would equate to $416 million in sports wagering revenue. New York's current 10% tax rate would yield $41.6 million in tax revenue. Under the bills that have been introduced on sports wagering in the state in 2018 and 2019, the tax rate would be set at the lower rate of 8.5%. At an 8.5% tax rate, the yield to the state would be $35 million.
The initial $35 to $41 million dollar amount does provide some tax revenue. It is more than the $5 million that New York State receives from daily fantasy sports and the $15 million it receives annually from pari-mutuel taxes. Yet it is a drop in the budget -- not only compared to the overall state budget - but to the $2.4 billion the state receives from the traditional lottery and from the $950 million from video lottery terminals. To put this in perspective, it is considerably less than what the state receives from video lottery proceeds at the racinos at Saratoga Harness ($62 million in FY 2018) and at Finger Lakes ($48.7 million in FY 2018). A game changer, this isn't.
What ought to be most troublesome for New York is the potential claims from the Indian tribes. The most recent state budget indicates that the tribes, from their exclusivity fees -- the tribes pay fees to New York based on the state agreeing to keep areas near the tribe's casinos free from casino gambling -- are scheduled to pay about $212 million annually to the State. If there is Internet betting authorized in New York State, the tribes are certain to argue that a bettor placing a sports wager from inside their exclusivity zone to a commercial casino is violating their exclusivity rights. In the case of the Seneca Nation, the exclusivity rights include much of western New York, from the suburbs, to the east of Rochester, to the state's southern and western borders with Pennsylvania. The Oneidas have exclusivity in 10 counties in central New York. If New York authorizes Internet sports wagering, the tribes will certainly put that $212 million into question. The state might not be willing to take any action that would threaten the exclusivity payments. If New York sports wagering, even assuming significant growth in the wagering market, could produce a maximum of $100 million in government revenue, it will not come close to making up for a loss of the exclusivity payments. The state will need some arrangement with the gaming tribes before it can reasonably decide to make any significant expansion into the field of Internet sports wagering.
This issue should be a non-starter. New York is not losing significant revenue to New Jersey due to sports betting. It would be likely that the one site that New York bettors would be wagering at in New Jersey would be the Meadowlands. If New Yorkers constituted 1/3 of the in-person sports bettors in the Meadowlands in December of 2018, that would account for $1.2 million in gross revenue. Assuming again that December accounts for about 11% of overall sports gambling, that would equate to about $10.9 million of gross sports wagering revenue annually from New Yorkers. Under New York's current 10% tax rate for sports wagering, that would be a loss of $1.09 million annually. Under the bills that have been introduced on sports wagering in the state setting the tax rate at 8.5%, that would make the lost tax revenue $926,000. That is not a large amount of money that New York has arguably lost to New Jersey on account of sports wagering. It really should not merit any discussion. The share of toll revenue paid to the Port Authority from New Yorkers using the Lincoln Tunnel or the George Washington Bridge (with a $12.50 toll for EZ pass users in peak times) to get to the Meadowlands might by itself make up for this minimal loss of revenue.
In short, there ought to be one simple lesson to New York from the New Jersey experience: Don't get your hopes up too high. There will be no financial windfall for either the casinos or the state from in-person sports betting conducted at the four upstate casinos. Expansion of sports wagering to the Internet would be needed to make sports wagering a significant success. Even with Internet sports wagering, tax revenues to New York would not increase markedly, and the expansion to Internet sports wagering could lead to significant issues -- and potential revenue losses -- in dealings with the tribes that have gambling facilities in New York.
The one thing not to worry about is New Yorkers driving to New Jersey to bet on sports. This is probably not costing New York State anything.
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One thing I noticed about this bag is that it can carry vials unlike other crafting bags.
You need something to put the ink in, don't you?
and alchemists need something to put mixtures in. His point being that alchemists don't get this option with their bags.
why not just make netherweave bags, and get 6 more slots that can hold anything...?
I'm going to go out on a limb, and say that this bag is actually fairly useless. It contains only a few of the reagents that an inscriptor will use, a couple finished products, and has 10 slots.
Even as a lowbie bag, it doesn't make any sense, unless you get it for free from the prof. trainer at lvl 5.
I don't see many people at low levels with any profession bags, except bank alts, and why would you spend money or bag slots on this limited use/size item when you could just get a significantly larger bag, or more useful one.
The funny thing is that scribes do not use vials. At least, not from 1-350. I never used a single vial for anything.. so I can't imagine why this bag carries them.
This is mostly because the Ink's that are created are classified as vials.
Any chance that someone has found a larger bag sold in outlands?
Show one recipe that requires a vial.
No they are not, they are classified as "ink"
I logged in today, checking the auction house to upgrade my old, crummy 10-slot inscription bags, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that these bags are now 16-slot inscription bags. Now there isn't as big of a need to replace them since they have an extra six slots. Not sure when the change took place, however.


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U.S.: To Arm or Not to Arm Syrian Rebels, That Is the Question
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Samer Araabi and Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Feb 22 2012 (IPS) - Just days before the opening meeting of the new international "Friends of Syria" in Tunis Friday, the debate over whether the United States should provide more support – including weapons – to opposition forces is gathering steam.
Over the weekend, two influential Republican senators called for Washington to provide greater material and other support, including arms, to rebel fighters associated with the opposition in an effort to oust President Bashar al-Assad.
"I am in favour of weapons being obtained by the opposition," said Senator John McCain, who accused Russia and Iran of arming Assad, during a visit to Kabul, Afghanistan.
"People that are being massacred deserve to have the ability to defend themselves," he declared, noting that Washington could provide arms indirectly through "third-world countries" and the Arab League.
Has the U.N. Reached a Dead End in Syrian Crisis?
Renewed Push in U.S. to Arm Syrian Rebels
U.S. Weighs Options As Syrian Violence Intensifies
His appeal was echoed both by Sen. Lindsay Graham, who was travelling with McCain, and by an open letter to President Barack Obama issued by two right-wing pro-Israel groups – the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and the Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD) – and signed by more than four dozen foreign policy analysts and writers, most of them prominent neo-conservatives.
"Given American interests in the Middle East, as well as the implications for those seeking freedom in other repressive societies, it is imperative that the United States and its allies not remove any option from consideration, including military intervention," wrote the letter's signatories, many of whom championed the U.S. invasion of Iraq and have urged Washington to prepare for war with Iran.
But prominent figures, both in and outside the administration, are pushing back against the growing pressure from the right to intervene, particularly with arms, in what may well become a regional powder keg.
In the latest statement by a senior administration official, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, argued Sunday against any overt support for the still-untested opposition movement.
"I think it's premature to take a decision to arm the opposition movement in Syria, because I would challenge anyone to clearly identify for me the opposition movement in Syria at this point," said Dempsey in an interview with CNN.
"There's a number of players, all of whom are trying to reinforce their particular side of this issue. And until we're a lot clearer about, you know, who they are and what they are, I think it would be premature to talk about arming them," he noted.
In a policy brief published Tuesday by the Center for a New American Security, senior fellow Marc Lynch acknowledged that "military intervention will allow Americans to feel they are doing something," but warned that "unleashing even more violence without a realistic prospect of changing the (Syrian) regime's behaviour or improving security is neither just nor wise."
Lynch, a George Washington University Middle East expert who is known to consult frequently with the White House, said Washington should instead "focus on engaging in a sustained and targeted campaign of pressure against the Assad regime with the end goal of bringing key components of the ruling coalition to the negotiating table to devise a post-Assad political path forward."
His 13-page report called in particular for Washington to refer Assad to the International Criminal Court (ICC) if he refuses to step down, tighten existing economic sanctions against specific individuals in the Assad regime, and encourage the opposition to develop a "unified political voice".
Despite numerous attempts to unify the opposition into a single cohesive movement, significant cleavages remain between various members of the opposition, and between the various anti-Assad organisations they represent.
Even the Syrian National Council, often considered by the West and the Arab League as the official representative body of the Syrian opposition, has witnessed a number of fractious disputes over the question of foreign military intervention, with individuals such as Washington-based Radwan Ziadeh calling for direct foreign military involvement, and others, such as chairman Burhan Ghalyoun, arguing for a supportive, second-hand role.
Opponents of any foreign involvement have flocked to the National Coordination Committee, nominally led by Syrian dissident Haytham Al-Manna, which maintains a formal independence from the SNC.
Perhaps in response to the fractured nature of the opposition, and the continuing violence from American-armed Libyan rebels, U.S. officials appear to be reticent to support the military aspect of the opposition.
Recent reports of a growing presence by the Iraq-based Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia have raised new and complex questions about whether increased involvement by Washington would encourage or deter its spread into Syria. Bombings in Damascus and Aleppo earlier this year may well have been the work of Al-Qaeda, according to recent testimony by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper.
A statement today by State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland emphasised that "our position fundamentally has not changed. We believe that a political solution to this is the best way to go, that is what is needed in Syria, and that if Assad will heed the view of the international community or respond to the pressure that we are bringing to bear, that we still have a chance for a political solution, we still have a chance to get to the kind of transition scenario that the Arab League has laid out and that many of the Syrian groups support."
A panel hosted today by George Washington University's Project on Middle East Political Science echoed many of these concerns.
Steve Heydemann, a Senior Adviser for the Middle East at the U.S. Institute of Peace, warned that the "fairly decisive failure of U.S. policy toward Syria" in the past year is ill-equipped to manage the "unregulated, unchecked militarisation" of the current conflict, and called for a greater U.S. role in steering the armed Syrian opposition into a more cohesive, structured framework.
Other panelists, such as George Mason University's Bassam Haddad, director of the Middle East Studies Program and co-founder of the popular online news journal Jadaliyya, warned that increasing foreign military intervention could have disastrous consequences.
Haddad cautioned that U.S. military intervention in any form was likely to bolster the regime's domestic support, partly due to a perceived hypocrisy regarding Washington's silence on the repression of uprisings in Bahrain.
Many of the strongest advocates of military involvement in Syria have included a number of former George W. Bush administration officials, including top officials of Iraq's Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), Paul Bremer and Dan Senor; former undersecretary of defence for policy Eric Edelman; as well as Elizabeth Cheney, the daughter of Dick Cheney, who served in a senior State Department post, and John Hannah, the former vice president's top Middle East aide.
The "Friends of Syria" coalition is scheduled to meet in Tunis later this week, though Russia and China have declined invitations to join after vetoing a United Nations Security Council condemning the Assad regime's violence.
The meeting will likely set the parametres for international involvement in Syria, but with or without Washington's express support, it appears likely that Syrian opposition movements will receive significant military and logistical assistance from a variety of other state and non-state actors. With the death toll already surpassing 6,000, it appears unlikely that the situation will end decisively for quite some time.
*Jim Lobe's blog on U.S. foreign policy can be read at http://www.lobelog.com.
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Q: Can I dynamically place a breakpoint in the event of an exception in Ruby? I'd like to be able to set conditional breakpoints in ruby-debug, where the condition is "An exception was thrown."
What I'd like is the ability to land on a breakpoint whenever an exception is thrown on that line (a la MATLAB's ultra-convenient dbstop if error option illustrated here).
Thanks in advance.

A: the example you provided "debugger if XXXXX" should work fine.
if the statement debugger works for you, there is no reason
if some_condition
  debugger
end

would not, and that is basically what your line does.  I do this all the time and it works fine.
for breaking on exceptions, you can override the class Exception and put the debugger statement in the initializer method.

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