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The Seafarer (Irish Repertory Theatre)
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The Seafarer (Irish Repertory Theatre) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Great acting, Absorbing, Great writing, Entertaining, Funny
Irish Repertory Theatre's revival of this 2008 Tony-nominated play stars Matthew Broderick as Mr. Lockhart, a mysterious visitor to Dublin whose arrival turns a game of poker into a perilous gamble for one player's soul.
After losing yet another job, Sharky has returned home to build a new, sober existence with his cantankerous elder brother, Richard, recently blinded in a drunken accident. But it's Christmas Eve, and the drinks are flowing as old friends convene for an annual game of poker. This year, an immortal stranger from Sharky's past arrives, raising the stakes to eternal consequence.
Richard 6212
Disappointing, Great writing, Slow, Well acted, Edgy
See it if McPherson's dark, nifty Irish parable of a literal 'Hell on Earth' in a decrepit house w/ a bunch of drunk Irish bros Great ensemble & set
Don't see it if Star Broderick doesn't quite muster the needed menace as 'Mr. Lockhart' Merely competent not malevolent O' Reilly's direction a little staid
Disappointing, Slow, Confusing, Great acting
See it if you like small, intimate productions, or are eager to see Matthew Broderick on stage.
Don't see it if you have a hard time understanding thick accents or prefer some speed to your story. This one takes nearly an entire act before it starts.
Banal, Disappointing, Great writing, Slow, Overrated
See it if you want to see a play by Conor McPherson on stage.
Don't see it if you don't like slow plodding Irish plays. Read more
Young potatoe
Exquisite, Great writing
See it if You want to see a straight up Gritty drama
Don't see it if You are looking for a bunch of gimmicks. This is just great writing and great acting
AmyAmyAmy63
Ambitious, Disappointing, Intelligent
See it if you want to see Matthew Broderick play the devil with not much menace, and would enjoy a rather depressing slice of life with a twist.
Don't see it if you struggle to understand heavy Irish accents, and lots and lots (and lots) of drinking is a trigger for you. Read more
Dianne 2
Absorbing, Great writing, Entertaining, Great acting, Disappointing
See it if you like Mr. McPherson's stories, Irish stories that develop slowly, Irish craic (lively conversation), a wonderful Andy Murray as Sharky
Don't see it if you want the character Mr. Lockhart (played by Matthew Broderick) to be creepier or if you can't understand Irish accents Read more
ARDEN D
Riveting, Intense, Great acting, Edgy
See it if you've seen it before and were profoundly moved. You will enjoy this production very much
Don't see it if You have no patience with drunkenness and slovenly behavior.
Funny, Great writing, Absorbing, Resonant
See it if you like Irish plays (think McDonagh), unsettling plays, and/or lots of mixed emotion.
Don't see it if heavy accents, heavy drinking, or profanities disturb you. Read more
Ben Brantley
"O'Reilly's production is perhaps a bit too scrupulously realistic...But if you're willing to forgive the absence of miracles, this 'Seafarer' offers a lucid and straightforward reading of a play that seems to grow only richer with increased acquaintance...McPherson's dialogue continually coaxes poetry out of mundane conversation. And the cast here delivers such speech confidently and entertainingly...What's lacking is the sense of a surprising grace at work within these garrulous drunkards."
Helen Shaw
"Vivid performances, believable boozing and McPherson's gorgeous dialogue. But there's a hole just under the waterline, a single error that makes the play founder. In an otherwise strong company, visiting star Broderick is both too obvious to ignore and too wrong to right...Without a serious antagonist, the piece lapses into atmosphere...The play can't function without the Devil, and he's just not there: not in the broad strokes, not in the details."
"A solid, entertaining revival...'The Seafarer' slowly unfolds its murkier depths under a surface of deceptively casual banter. It's not a play where much 'happens'. Its characters' primary actions are talking and drinking...As Mr. Lockhart himself, Broderick is an interesting choice, compelling if not always viscerally effective...But Broderick still does right by the character...O'Reilly's production is a generous, well-told rendition of one chapter in that immortal gambler's story."
Frank Scheck
"O'Reilly demonstrates a clear affinity for the playwright with this authentic-feeling and well-acted production. The ensemble delivers fully lived-in performances, mining their characters' drunken bombast and foolishness for all its comic worth...The problem, sad to say, is Broderick...Without a true sense of danger emanating from the character, the play's dramatic urgency gets lost. It's hard to be intimidated by a poker-playing Devil who's so obviously bluffing."
"This being an Irish play, you can probably guess without too much difficulty exactly what the debt is and who has come to collect it, and it is the highest of tributes to Mr. McPherson's professional skill that he still contrives to successfully set off a firecracker of surprise at evening's end...Five performances that are as deeply rooted in felt life as it's possible to be...No company in America supplies it more regularly and consistently...What they do is what great theater should be."
"I'm sorry to say that Broderick's Mr. Lockhart doesn't have the faintest hint of brimstone...McPherson's writing is so powerful that at times the actor can't help making an impact...As a result, the focus shifts to Richard and the comedy of his appalling personal habits and nonstop drinking...Make no mistake: Ciarán O'Reilly has mounted a highly respectable production that is likely to please McPherson fans."
David Hurst
"Astutely directed by O'Reilly with a stellar cast of seasoned actors, this 'Seafarer,' which will amuse you and chasten you in equal measure...Broderick is giving a taught, understated performance as Mr. Lockhart... It's nice to see Broderick back in top form despite the observation his star presence throws off the balance of the ensemble-but only slightly... You may not think you want to see an Irish tale of alcoholism, loss and redemption, but you'd be wrong."
David Finkle
"A spectator may start thinking that abutting the realism with the surreal is awkward. I definitely have that impression. Somehow the juxtaposition keeps chipping away at complete enjoyment. None of that compromises what director O'Reilly has unfolding...Some of the best ensemble acting carrying on these days is hopping on the Irish Repertory stage. It's the kind of acting that defies acting and just is."
Michael Sommers
"It is a dark and entertaining tale that looks sordid in its messy circumstances of five middle-aged men getting sozzled on whiskey, beer and moonshine while playing poker in a squalid parlor. Yet it proves to be, finally, a story of amazing grace forged by the redemptive power of fraternal love...Ciaran O'Reilly, the director, achieves a unified sense of ensemble playing from the actors."
Darryl Reilly
"Mr. McPherson here offers a realistic premise with fantastical twists that perfectly join together. McPherson's earthy dialogue is an exquisite combination of exposition and character details that all propel the plot with an abundance mordant Irish wit...The accomplished physical staging includes a lot funny business, fight scenes and special effects. Mr. O'Reilly has fully realized the author's vison in a visually compelling fashion."
Marilyn Lester
"Just about every aspect of the production hits a thrilling high note, from the magnificent ensemble acting to O'Reilly's terrifically smart directing to the overall staging. McPherson is well-served by a dream team whose combined talent and energy have made this one truly not to be missed...The weak link in the piece is Broderick, who's miscast and is thus simply not up to the part. He lends star power to the work...but the role of Lockhart requires more than this."
Jacob Horn
"The script is sharp and witty, strengths that shine brightly under Ciarán O'Reilly's direction. Each of the four ordinary Dubliners feels like a genuine individual rather than a mouthpiece for the playwright's own voice...'The Seafarer' operates on both metaphoric and literal planes, leaving a satisfying whole ripe with complexity. And here, truly, the devil is in the detail."
Donna Herman
"Matthew Broderick is an unexpected, but brilliant bit of casting for the role of The Devil...The entire cast worked together like an ensemble that has been together for years. Andy Murray was perfect as the tightly wound, glowering and monosyllabic Sharky...The director Ciarán O'Reilly keeps the pace moving and the tension building until the surprise ending brings a Christmas miracle."
"Sadly, this production has some small leaks in it...The cast solidly makes an attempt to stay afloat, but mainly because of the not very rich or menacing portrayal of the mysterious Mr. Lockhart, a man of refined appearance but dark underlying temperament, played with a somewhat too tight control by the miscast Broderick the boat keeps taking on water no matter how much is scooped out by the others...Directed with a shaky eye for blocking and a lack of lyrical essence."
Patrick Maley
"The Irish Rep's vibrant production teems with life despite the consistent drag of its marquee name...McPherson writes his devil as a sharply dressed, arresting figure, oozing charisma...But Broderick gives as a satanic wallflower: low volume, low energy, low impact...Luckily O'Reilly and the rest of his team pick up the slack, allowing McPherson's script to buzz to life...Not even a flagging movie star can prevent O'Reilly and his cast from a compelling exploration of those mysteries."
"O'Reilly unravels the plot ever so slowly with precision enabling the actors to fully develop a character and allowing the audience to revel in the rich and often poetic dialogue...It is always a pleasure to see Broderick take the stage...but he has not taken full advantage of the menacing and malicious traits that usually accompany this persona. This diminishes the tension and the ability to realize the full potential of the suspenseful script."
"It was difficult to discern a single false note in Charlie Corcoran's solid-looking, photorealistic, two-level design of a shabby, junk-cluttered home…False notes, while not entirely absent, are rare in this exceptionally well-staged…and acted production… McPherson heightens his vibrant, if talky, play just enough to sustain credibility, making Mr. Lockhart's powers seem all the more potent…The feeling of inertia Broderick exudes deprives the character of any aura of enigmatic danger."
"Broderick delivers one of the finest performances of his career...Directed by O'Reilly with his usual unerring ability to shape an evening among sodden Irishmen into a superlative entertainment...Broderick imbues his character with a soft-spoken geniality...Broderick's dapper suaveness, and his naturally endearing stage presence, make his performance all the more spine-chilling. What better disguise would the Devil choose than to slip into the skin of a man with the face of a cherub?"
William Wolf
"The excellent actors make the most of McPherson's humor while we gradually learn about the pasts of the characters...To Broderick's credit he keeps his portrayal low key, making his dramatic pronouncement effective when he raises his voice like a thunderclap...O'Reilly keeps the banter intense, the pace fluid and gives the actors full rein to make the most of their characterizations...Isn't a very deep play, but it sure is an arresting one, especially as staged in this revival."
"Words can be intriguing, riveting, or like Act I of this play, just a barrage. All those strong Irish accents take a great deal of audience concentration...besides drunken chatter and character sketch, nothing happens...Act II improves with its axis now spinning around covert Satan. Except for parenthetic exchanges between Sharkey and Lockhart, dialogue, however, is inconsequential...O'Reilly handles manifesting intoxication well. Characters seem just enough out of control."
"A well-appointed revival of this fable, directed by Ciaran O'Reilly and starring a glaringly miscast Matthew Broderick alongside a finely nuanced troupe of mostly Irish and English actors...On stage, this production takes a long time to find its stride. While the non-Mephistophelian acting is richly engrossing, and the dialogue and setting so natural the experience feels almost voyeuristic, the simple plot falls victim to a slow boil and unfortunate casting decision."
"Directed with seasonal exuberance and also quiet foreboding...Broderick plays the villain with a delicate coldness...At moments his quiet, slightly muffled speech ill lends itself to his necessary explanations of who he is and what is going on. But you don't doubt for a moment the damage his character could do...The size of the Irish Rep means you very much feel as if you are there, with the wind howling and the tense drama rising—with natural and engaging performances from each actor."
"A disturbingly dark and devilish comedy...Delivers the mordant laughs, tragic pathos, and the possibility of hope and redemption...McPherson defines each of his flawed characters with a distinctive personality...Their speech is realistic, their jargon recognizably Irish, their very human characterizations range from thoroughly unlikeable to laughable, infuriating to heartrending to unexpectedly hopeful...'The Seafarer' is a sardonic celebration of the joy of being alive."
Carole Di Tosti
"In the able hands of O'Reilly and this excellent cast, we thrill to the suspense...Broderick portrays Lockhart with steely, understated menace and ironic poignance...Mesmerizes when least expected...O'Reilly and the cast are spot-on in solidifying the contrasts and ironies...Aided by the able skills of O'Reilly, a sterling cast, and a talented design team, the themes and overall message of 'The Seafarer' shine in the fullness of glory in this production"
Taraneh
"O'Reilly leads this ensemble through this really solid production. He deftly keeps them moving through questions of faith, being responsible for your actions, and what happens when you have to endure the hard knocks of life...The weakest part of the production was Broderick's performance as Lockhart. While he played an unassuming, odd-man-out quite well, he lacked the menace that should be radiating off a devil-in-disguise...The ensemble is a really well-acted machine."
Irish Repertory Theatre
Conor McPherson
Ciaran O'Reilly
Mr. Lockhardt


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If you want to buy a phone right now, and you're shopping based on quality rather than price, then you would probably want to gather more info regarding it before grabbing. During 2012 United States have witness few of the Smartphones launched that very year as the most searched electronic item. Corporate giants including Samsung, Nokia or Apple had dominated the global as well as the American Android market with their amazing phone innovations in 2012. These Smartphones were not only sold in millions but were also the most searched item on the searched. Browse through to know the names that have been included in the list of top 10 searched tech gadgets in US 2012.
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1. iPad 3
2. iPad Mini
3. Samsung Galaxy S3
4. Kindle Fire
5. Nexus 7
6. Microsoft Surface
7. Galaxy Note 2
9. iPhone 5
10. Nokia Lumia 900
Top Ten Searched Tech Gadgets in US 2012
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With many revolutionary updates such as a new camera, support for faster cell phone networks, new Retina display and so on, the iPad 3 was the most searched tech gadgets in US 2012. The third generation iPad was launched on 16th March 2012 in United Sates along with nine other countries. The tablet computer was developed and marketed by Apple Inc. and also provides a platform for audio-visual media, including electronic books, periodicals, films, music, computer games, presentations and web content.
News from the Apple Inc. which drove the tech passionate ones crazy once again was the release of iPad Mini on 2nd November 2012. Though the iPad comes with several pre installed applications, it has an optional iBooks application which displays books and other ePub-format content downloaded from the iBookstore. Even book publishers including Penguin Books, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan have committed to publishing books for the device.
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"For the love of money is the root of all evil."
"From now on, depressions will be scientifically created."
Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.
In 1990, when I published my book, Millennium: Peace, Promises, and The Day They Take Our Money Away, it created a sensation. In the book, I exposed the Illuminati elite's plan to destroy the American dollar and eventually replace the dollar and all national currencies with a new global unit, the phoenix. Of the Illuminati, I warned, "These are the men, despisers of America, who plot to take our money away and replace it with empty promises and deceitful lies."
The death of the dollar, I noted in Millennium, will signal a dramatic revolution in the everyday lives of American citizens, with financial misery, bankruptcy, and economic desperation stalking working men and women like some pale and apocalyptic death horse. I also named the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as the "kingpin" of the conspiracy against the dollar.
The Amero is on Drawing Board
Those who have read Millennium are not surprised, therefore, about new revelations that the CFR and its puppets
As I reported in my eye-opening bestseller book, Millennium: Peace, Promises, and the Day They Take Our Money Away, the Illuminati elite eventually will replace the Amero, Euro, and other regional currencies with the Phoenix. Indeed, the influential The Economist financial magazine out of Great Britain had the audacity to picture the logo of the proposed new global currency on its cover with the feature article entitled, "Get Ready for a World Currency."
in the Bush Administration now have on the drawing board a brand new currency, the amero. The amero is to replace the dollar upon the inauguration of the North American Union and the ending of U.S.A. sovereignty in 2010.
Eventually, of course, when the New World Order is fully realized, the phoenix will be required worldwide and all other currencies, national and regional, will be recalled. Until that bitter day of infamy, Europe will have its euro and the Americas will be saddled with the regional amero.
Love of Money is Root of all Evil
Why the emphasis by the Illuminati on money and currency? The love of money, the scriptures attest, is the root of all evil. After over 20 years of studying the men behind the global conspiracy and their aims, I have found this biblical principle most valid. True, the evil elitists also desire power, fame, sex, and other commodities, but above all, they lust after money. Indeed, they are persuaded that with enough money, they can buy all these other things.
That the Illuminati will scheme and murder—even commit genocide—to acquire more and more money is also a truism. Again, this is prophesied and explained in the scriptures, where James, the brother of Jesus, warned that in the last days the rich would gather for themselves heaps of gold, silver, and other treasures. Greedy and homicidal, they will not hesitate to defraud working men and women. These ordinary citizens who protest will be killed.
Paper Currency Not Real Money?
To fulfill their inordinate lust for filthy lucre, the rich have developed a banking and credit system that maximizes their return. A chief feature of this system is the employment of paper money. Of course, this is not real money; it is a pale substitute. Thomas Jefferson, one of our nation's most illustrious founders, scornfully noted this in a letter he wrote to a friend back in 1788. "Paper," said Jefferson, "is poverty." "It is only the ghost of money, and not money itself."
As a young child I readily discovered the wisdom of Jefferson's admonishment. Growing up in East Texas, a region passionately attached to the Confederacy during the War Between the States, a surprising number of Southern citizens kept their old worthless Confederate currency, somehow figuring that, someday, "The South Will Rise Again." The old Confederate dollars remain a mere museum novelty. The day General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant, the South's currency instantly became worthless, by Union fiat.
Lesson learned: Money is whatsoever value the government says it is. That and nothing more.
Magic in Currency Design
For some time now I have carefully investigated the design of currency, especially U.S. dollars of all denominations. I find that in every nation and society, the design of currency is of vast importance. It often has almost a magical connotation. Money reflects the spiritual understructure and the social aims of a nation's ruling class and can even reflect the prophetic goals of rulers, perhaps serving as a predictor of future events.
The design and art on it's currency notes is often very revealing of a nation's culture and the aims and beliefs of its ruling elite. Above is a Mexican peso. Observe the grotesque image of the Aztec sun god emblazoned on this peso note and recall that it was this pagan sun god to whom the cannibalistic native Mexicans annually sacrificed tens of thousands of human beings. Meanwhile, the U.S. dollar also has a satanic image—the pyramid and all-seeing eye of the Egyptian version of the sun god. One can only imagine what hideous design the new amero currency will incorporate!
Dean Grace, a researcher and friend who has spent many years studying the symbology of the U.S. one dollar bill, emphasizes that such symbols as the pyramid, the all-seeing eye, and the eagle of the Great Seal speak volumes about America's ruling elite and their conspiratorial aims. The color green has keen significance, and a message in occult numerology is also found in the art and design.
Meanwhile, the design of the Mexican peso also is of great interest because, apparently, the ruling elite of Mexico and the U.S.A. have every intention to soon replace both the peso and the dollar with the new currency, the amero. In March, 2005, in Waco, Texas, President George Bush, along with Mexico's President Fox and Canada's Prime Minister Martin, signed the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) agreement. As conceived
Professor Robert Pastor, of American University in Washington, D.C., influential member of the Council on Foreign Relations, co-authored the CFR report, Building a North American Union, in which he proposed a currency unit called the amero to replace the U.S.A. and Canadian dollars and the Mexican peso.
by the Illuminati's powerful organ, the Council on Foreign Relations, the SPP requires that by 2010, the three countries will be merged into one, the North American Union. Our constitution is betrayed, American sovereignty is coming to an end, and our dollar will be replaced by the amero, much the same as happened in Europe with the European Union's euro currency.
To the Illuminati, it is essential that the art and the design of the amero reflect the New Reality—the fact that the U.S.A. is forever to be ended as a functioning, independent entity. The unique heritage, history, and culture of the United States must be obliterated for the psychological and emotional conquest of the citizens to be realized. The amero will thus be a brainwashing tool, a constant reminder carried in the pocket, wallet, and purse of every resident of the late, great U.S.A., that we are no longer special, no longer a proud and separate people. We shall henceforth be only a regional entity, a subverted and conquered subdivision of the reigning Big Brother global colossus. This is the true meaning of the North American Union and the amero currency.
A Financial Crash Ahead?
Today, economic conditions are being prepared for the dollar to be shredded and devalued in world markets. A financial crash of the dollar is inevitable. Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, Iran, Germany and others are already beginning to go to the euro and are about to leave the dollar in the dust. No longer is the dollar king of world currencies. It has already, in the past five years, lost much of its value, and today, the U.S.A. is the world's largest debtor nation. Our country is drowning in red ink.
By the time the Illuminati and its bankers are through draining the dollar of every last vestige of value, the American people will be impoverished and frightened. Then will come our President, our Fed Chairman, and our banking and corporate chieftains, to reassure us, to win us over to the New Reality. The North American Union and its amero—that and that alone, they shall say, will save us from economic depression and money chaos. The amero is our future, our only hope.
Without the amero, our esteemed leaders will caution, you will be decimated, reduced to misery. With it, and with SPP and the North American Union, you will be secure and prosperous. Yes, maybe your savings and pensions and your social security funds will be gone—poof! Vanished in thin air!—your wages diminished and your economy reduced to Third World status. But you will at least survive and will subsist, if at a more "sustainable" level. The Amero: Don't leave home without it!
So, say goodbye, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Andrew Jackson and the others whose sober and trusty faces now gaze upon us from America's historical currency notes. It's been a grand 225-year long experiment in freedom and liberty, hasn't it?
NOTE: As Texe Marrs reported in his eye-opening bestseller book Millennium: Peace, Promises, and the Day They Take Our Money Away, the Illuminati will eventually replace the dollar, the amero, the euro, and other regional currencies with the Phoenix. Get your copy today
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Q: Incompatible types when using TransformControls with TypeScript I want to use the TransformControls addon from Three.js and I'm also using TypeScript for my project. I can include the corresponding files, but when I want to add the controls to the scene I get the following error:

Argument of type 'TransformControls' is not assignable to parameter of
type 'Object3D'.   The types returned by 'attach(...)' are
incompatible between these types.
Type 'void' is not assignable to type 'Object3D'.

How can I solve this problem?
Relevant code snippets:
import * as THREE from "../vendor/three/build/three.module.js";
import { OrbitControls } from "../vendor/three/examples/jsm/controls/OrbitControls.js";
import { TransformControls } from "../vendor/three/examples/jsm/controls/TransformControls.js";

const transformControls = new TransformControls(camera, renderer.domElement);
transformControls.attach(footScanObject);
scene.add(transformControls);

TransformControls.d.ts:
import { Camera, Object3D } from '../../../src/Three';

export class TransformControls extends Object3D {
  constructor(camera: Camera, domElement: HTMLElement);

  enabled: boolean;
  axis: string | null;
  mode: string;
  translationSnap: number | null;
  rotationSnap: number | null;
  scaleSnap: number | null;
  space: string;
  size: number;
  userData: { [key: string]: any };

  attach(object: Object3D): void;
  detach(): void;
  setMode(mode: string): void;
  setSpace(space: string): void;
  setSize(size: number): void;
  setSnap(snap: number): void;
  setTranslationSnap(translationSnap: number | null): void;
  setRotationSnap(rotationSnap: number | null): void;
  setScaleSnap(scaleSnap: number | null): void;
  dispose(): void;
}

The console states that

Uncaught SyntaxError: The requested module
'../vendor/three/examples/jsm/controls/TransformControls.js' does not
provide an export named 'TransformControls'

but at the end of the TransformControls.js file there's this line:
export { TransformControls, TransformControlsGizmo, TransformControlsPlane };

A: It seems to me the line
attach(object: Object3D): void;

is the issue and can't be assigned void.  You have to have a real object.  I would make a generic 3D object and assign it there to start off with.  According to the first error you showed me I would see how that reacts.
attach(object: Object3D): Object3D {
  this.add(object);
  return object;
}

or in your case, you just have the signature there...
attach(object: Object3D): Object3D

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The cover of the Official Austrian Coin Set 2021 alludes to a fascinating historical figure – Shlom, the first master of the Vienna Mint. Inside, each of the eight euro and cent coins currently in circulation are found in Proof quality. The fruit of the most advanced minting know-how, technology and craftsmanship, Proof quality coins are subjected to the most rigorous technical demands.
Not a lot is known about Shlom. We do not know his date of birth, nor where he came from, but we do know that he was appointed the first master of the Vienna Mint by Duke Leopold V of Austria in 1194. Mint master Shlom was also the first Jew whose settlement in Vienna was officially documented. Unfortunately, Shlom's sojourn in Vienna ended tragically in 1196. After one of his servants, a crusader, stole money from him, Shlom had the man put in prison. On the instigation of the felon's wife, crusaders then broke into Shlom's house and murdered the mint master and 15 members of his household.
The first Jewish community in Vienna
At the beginning of the thirteenth century, Jews began to settle in Vienna in and around what is now known as Judenplatz. They lived there in close contact with the Christian population for more than 200 years, during which the Viennese Jewish community became one of the most important in Medieval Europe. Its abrupt demise in 1420-21 was brought about by Duke Albrecht V, on whose orders the 'Vienna Gesera' led to the systematic destruction of the Jewish community in the Duchy of Austria and the expulsion or murder of its members.
The first woman ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, early 20th-century Austrian pacifist and novelist Bertha von Suttner features on the largest coin.
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The Horror of the Dolls
Jan. 01, 2010UK81 Min.
A corporation plans to develop a residential tower block into luxury city apartments. As the residents galvanise, the corporation sends in someone to 'shake them up'. The Horror of The Dolls features a strong ensemble cast, inter-twined narratives and an iconic piece of London architecture. The narrative is underpinned by the wealth divide, untouchable high-finance, malleable politicians and the resolve of a community under assault. All wrapped in a blood-soaked and stylised horror thriller set against the breath-taking cityscapes of contemporary London. The Horror of The Dolls is a terrifying, atmospheric and unpredictable journey. Influences on the project are The Shining, Blue Velvet, The Wild Bunch, Short Cuts and Antichrist.
Original title The Horror of The Dolls
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Kenneth Leslie Graham, was born at 22 Cheltenham Street, Armley, Leeds on 8 February 1900, only son of Thomas Graham, a schoolteacher, and his wife Lavinia née Waite, who married at Leeds in 1895. In 1901, living at 22 Cheltenham Street, Leeds with his parents, 33 year old Thomas and 30 year old Lavinia, and his only sibling, 4 year old Dorothy but by 1911 they had moved to 45 Kensington Road, Barnsley, Yorkshire where his father taught at Holgate Grammar School. Kenneth Graham was painting by the age of 7 and by the age of 16 was exhibiting and selling his work but, on leaving school, Graham trained as a Colliery Surveyor. After serving as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force at the tail-end of the Great War, he then started work at Wood Brothers Glass Company at Hoyle Mill, Barnsley becoming their Chief Designer. During the 1920s and 30s, he became widely recognised as a designer, painter and illustrator and in 1932 Graham's interest in Barnsley inspired him to produce forty-six pen sketches of the town and surrounding district which were published in the 'Barnsley Chronicle' in 1932. Throughout the 1930's Graham exhibited regularly with Barnsley and District Art Society and occasionally with both the Wakefield and Sheffield Art Societies, as well as at the Royal Academy in their 'British Artists in Industry' exhibition in 1934. In 1938, Graham qualified as a Designer in Industry and left Wood Brothers taking the position as Creative Manager at Coty's Perfumery in London, designing many striking perfume bottles. He married at Barnsley, Yorkshire in 1925 Lenore Lena Armitage (20 July 1903-1989) and in 1939, manager of the creative department at Coty, living at 16C Courtfield Gardens, Kensington, London with his wife Lenore. After serving in the Second World War, Kenneth was an Industrial Consultant Designer working from his studio office and opened the Da Vinci Gallery in Duke Street, St James', London. He also wrote for various magazines including 'The Glass Container' and 'The Glass Packer' also publishing his own magazine 'The Collector'. He lived at Melbury Cottages, West Kensington and in 1973 he retired to Suffolk where he painted a scene at Woolpit, Suffolk. He died at Melbury Green Road, Woolpit, Bury St Edmund's on 30 March 1979. The Cooper Gallery at Barnsley held an exhibition of his work in 2013 'Take a tour of Barnsley in 1932 through the eyes of artist Kenneth Graham'.


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What difference do two seasons make? Arsenal's average team age vs. Manchester City analysed
On September 24, 2012 December 12, 2015 By jamesgillespIn Arsenal
Arsenal have moved into a new phase of Wenger's tenure, with a fourth generation team emerging over the past two seasons.
The early games of this season have seen an altered Arsenal, seemingly rebalanced following the additions of Cazorla, Podolski and Giroud over the summer.
It is clear that the team and transfer policies have changed since losing Cesc Fabregas, but how does this reflect in the team's ages?
Much was made of the young team that Arsène assembled, built around a core of players such as Fabregas and Van Persie, who joined the club close to the middle of the last decade. Some might have predicted a successful future for that team, but successive failures led to their dismantlement.
The transfer market strategy for new additions over the last two seasons has not had the same emphasis on youth.
Comparing the line-ups: 2010 vs. 2012
In this light we've compared Arsenal's line-up age versus Manchester City on Sunday, with the team which lined up against City away, just two seasons ago, in October 2010:
Vito Mannone, 24 Lukasz Fabianski, 25
Per Mertesacker, 27 Johan Djourou, 23
Laurent Koscielny, 27 Sebastian Squillaci, 30
Carl Jenkinson, 20 Bacary Sagna, 27
Kieran Gibbs, 22 Gael Clichy, 25
Abou Diaby, 26 Alex Song, 23
Mikel Arteta, 30 Denilson, 22
Aaron Ramsey, 21 Samir Nasri, 23
Santi Cazorla, 27 Cesc Fabregas, 23
Lukas Podolski, 27 Andrey Arshavin, 29
Gervinho, 25 Marouane Chamakh, 26
Mean Age: 25.1 Mean Age: 25
Modal Age: 27 Modal Age: 23
The 2012 team has a mean age of 25.1 years. However, just three of the players were younger than 24, and the modal value is 27. This is indicative of the number of more experienced players in the squad.
Meanwhile, the mean age of the 2010 team is similar, at 25 years. However, five of the 11 players were 23 or younger, and the modal value of 23 reflects this. This is indicative of the focus on young players in the squad.
A More Mature Arsenal
In terms of mean age the sides don't look so different. However, the distribution of age groupings between the two line-ups are rather different, and this has an impact on the mean. In fact the age distribution pattern is almost the reverse for each match, as outlined in the graph below.
In October 2010 Squillaci, 30 and Arshavin, 29 were the two older players who skewed the mean score, which hides the fact that the team had five players either 22 or 23 years old.
Indeed, the Modal value for age is just 23 in 2010, which indicates that Arsenal started with a much younger group of players in general.
In summary, the key group of players within the current Arsenal squad consists of players around 27 years old, meaning that they have several years more experience than the team which started two years prior composed most frequently of players around 23.
In general terms it can be argued that players reach their peak around 28, meaning that this side consists of players closer to realising their full potential, but also with the ability to provide support to a smaller group of younger players existing within the side.
Squad Changes
In 2010 Arsenal won by three goals against a Manchester City side which looked more similar to the team which lined up today, though not without it's own changes.
To emphasize the drastic change that the squad has been through, not one of the players who started the match just 23 months ago played in the game yesterday.
Of those one is away on loan and four have now been sold, two of whom, Clichy and Nasri, went to Manchester City themselves, the other two to Barcelona – Cesc and Song, whilst Denilson is on loan at Sao Paulo.
In fact, only four of the players who started against City in 2012 had been at the club longer than one full season.
British Talent
A final thought regarding the patterns present here. None of the Arsenal players who started against City in 2010 were British.
Of the line-up yesterday there were three British players, these were also the only three players under 24: Ramsey, Gibbs and Jenkinson (though he has joint Finnish nationality).
This is another indication of the slow shift in selection. Though Wenger has always emphasised developing young players, this is the first time he has been able to bring a large group of talented British players into the first team.
Wilshere, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Walcott can also be included in this group of young UK talent, all under 24 years of age.
Ultimately, this exercise only provides a snapshot of the state of the team, however, the patterns are telling, and describe a group which has undergone a deep transformation. However, the start to the season has been more promising than expected given the summer departures of Van Persie and Song.
The dynamic has changed, but the information paints a picture for the future of the club. The more experienced players brought over the past two summers may well enable the smooth introduction of this core of young talent to sustain the club in the years to come.
How do you think Arsenal's team has changed? Get involved in the comments.
Related: How did Arsenal's deadline day transfers perform last season?
Into the unknown: Arsène's fourth generation
Arsenal vs. Blackburn: The return of the Cup
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Very interesting. Frankly, it almost feels good that Cesc, Nasri, Song and RVP left. The team is fresher, more eager, more focused and less big-headed. Thanks for leaving, guys.
I have a good feeling about this team. Large egos are out and hardwork and humility are in.


COLFAX, Wis. (Blugolds.com) – The No. 13-ranked University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire women's cross country team continued their exciting season this past weekend at the Blugold Invitational.
In a dominating performance, the Blugolds won their home meet, scoring 47 points and beating runner up UW-La Crosse by a 29-point margin. It was the first time the Blugold runners won their home meet since 2009—a year that ended with a national championship.
Similar to their previous race, the women's race plan was to be patient and run in packs during the first third, get into position the second third, and pass as many runners as possible the final third.
"They executed their race plan phenomenally well," said Head Coach Dan Schwamberger. "Almost from top to bottom people maintained position from 3K to the finish but most people moved up a lot. I was just really proud of them, and it was a really fun meet to watch."
Callie Fischer (Oneida, WI/Ashwaubenon), Melody Becker (Sr. – Osseo, WI/Homeschooled), and Annika Lerdall (Fr. – Plymouth, MN/Wayzata). Reiners and Becker ran particularly well, passing 30 or more runners each during the later part of the race.
The top five finished the 6,000m course in 6th (22:20), 8th (22:28), 10th (22:34), 15th (22:44), and 20th (22:49), respectively.
Rounding out the top seven were Hannah Lamack (Fr. – Kewaunee, WI/Kewaunee) and Karen Gomez-Ruiz (Chatfield, MN/Chatfield). The two runners finished 27th (23:00) and 42 (23:20).
Although the women began the season largely unnoticed in the national rankings, their two team victories have proven the Blugolds have a huge upside and are capable of running with the nation's best.
"I think it should have them to see what's possible for the rest of the season, "said Schwamberger. "It's no secret that they're for real."
The Blugolds will spend the next week training hard for their next big test, the Pre-Nationals invite at Principia College in Elsah, IL.


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I HAVE ABOUT A 32" TV AND I DON'T THINK THAY MAKE A 12v IN THAT SIZE.
BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SWICH MY COMPUTER TO 100% 12v.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ARY HELP WITH THIS ????
To the computer question. . . . . . The advantage of the 12vdc power supply is that your computer uses 12vdc, and normally has to convert 120vac from a wall circuit. . . . .
Older desktop power supplies had regulated +12 volts, - 12 volts, and +5 volts coming out. Newer computers run at +3.3 volts to the processor instead of +5 volts. Most of the computing is done at +5 or +3.3 volts, I think. If you open the cover on a desktop, the AC power supply should have a sticker with the output voltages and currents, or else get the OEM model number, and search the web for specifications.
Laptops I have seen usually charge the batteries from about +18 volts DC out of the charger, and would need a DC-DC step-up converter to run them on mobile DC. Getting a small (~100 watt) Radio Shack or similar inverter to power the AC charger is usually simpler and cheaper. Just turn off/unplug the inverter when not in use.
Providing the -12 volts for a desktop is the toughest, as you would need a DC-DC converter, and cannot just regulate down the positive battery voltage. But I think the -12 volts was only used in old serial and maybe parallel ports, where the digital ones and zeros were sent as plus and minus instead of on and off. A 9-volt transistor radio battery might be enough to supply the reverse polarity if you needed that for a port. The new USB ports have 5-volt power, but I don't know the signal voltages. I would suspect a desktop would run just fine on the +5 and/or the +3.3 volts, or maybe that plus the +12.
Building step-down regulators to run a desktop off of 12 volts is somewhere way, way down my list of theoretical projects for when I get a "round tuit." But if I get to it at all, I will likely only get as far as converting an ancient IBM Thinkpad laptop with a failing display that sits in my junk box. I would use it as a CPU with external monitor, as I know from experience that 12 volts to the battery clips will run one of these units. I can get an adapter that uses a camera memory chip to replace the ancient hard drive for storage.
I planned on powering the TV, lights and possibly computer off a small inverter. I know the POS Onan generator in the Class C wasn't smooth enough to power my desktop computer. Every time it surged slightly, the computer shut down.
You're not going to get away with a "small" inverter if you want to do all that. Be thinking 1000watts continuous or more depending on what kind of lighting you're talking about. You're better off running dc lights off your house battery bank (isolated via diode from bus batteries hopefully so you can always still start the bus) directly. Get some LED lighting, in many cases there are direct replacements for bulbs that fit the fixtures you probably already have in your bus, and you can run them damn near forever off a couple deep cycle batts.
The onan generator isn't a POS persay (maybe it is, idk) its just not designed to produce a pure sine wave that electronics usually require. When you're charging a laptop off 110v, most of that "dirty power" is hidden by the 110vac to ~14-18vdc step-down and the fact you're charging a battery not providing power directly to the cpu. If you want to power a conventional desktop cpu, you'll want a dc-to-dc power supply as they're more efficient than stepping up from 12vdc to 110vac then back to 5-12vdc. Check out mp3car.com for more info on dc to dc power supplies (as someone suggested above.) If you'd like to run whatever you want off your genset, you can run whats called a power conditioner. This will smooth out the irregularities in the power being generated. A standard computer ups will also do this to a degree.
You may have different experience, but I've yet to see a single laptop which would run off a 100 watt inverter. You'd typically need something in the 250-400 watt range. Make sure you test it out first or keep your receipt. You could do the math but these things are plagued by inefficiency and false claims, so ymmv.
Wait what? -12? Negative voltage doesn't exist, its just shorthand for saying the polarity is reversed. In a DC system you have positive direct current and ground. That's it. Ones and zeros have always been ones and zeros. They're either on or off, electrically speaking. Polarity only relates to how the wires are hooked up, and most modern electronics feature biased polarity, meaning they'll figure it out for themselves and either not work at all until you correct it or work just fine.
dc-to-dc power supplies already exist, and are designed specifically for the problems that vehicle computers face, namely remote switching by a key/aux switch, surviving low current states during cranking the starter and dealing with highly volatile power fluxuations. No sense reinventing the wheel when its been done elegantly already.
This howto is definitely in need of some construction :P Maybe I'll work on something later when I'm a little more solid on my pv knowledge.
All of the chassis/body grounds to the body. Should I also ground my house system to the body? Why or why not? If no, then where will it get its ground? Is there a risk of feedback between the two 12v systems?
IMHO the house dc system should have its ground side connected to the body rather than being kept floating. Even if you tried to keep it floating, inevitably there'll be some appliance built with its chassis connected to the negative wire and that's the end of the floating setup. Better to have the main connection in a known place with suitably-sized wire.
Whether the body is actually used as the ground return or not is a separate question -- one could run a ground/negative return line along with each supply. That could make sense when installing something in an area where the nearest structure is fiberglass, wood, or covered in foam insulation. It's probably easier to ensure clean reliable rust-free connections when they're wire-to-wire rather than wire-to-steel-frame. If the body/frame is used as the return, then be sure the connection back to the battery is big enough. A good way to check that is, with the loads operating, measure the voltage between the battery post and the frame (ie, include the cable-to-lug and lug-to-post (or frame) connections in the measurement). I don't know of any standard for this but to me less than 1% (0.1v in a 12v system) would be good.
I have an electrical/ac question. Has anyone done or think it would work to use a ductless split a/c unit? Mount the outside part on the back of the bus and one or two inside units- one above the back door and maybe one towards the front. Would this use too much power? Would a battery bank and solar panels be able to support running these day and night in hot climates along with the usual appliances? Most of ones I have seen are 220v, I have seen 12v to 220v inverters, would your batteries need to be setup as more than 12v to support the power draw- 36 or 48v?
Maybe a good place to start at least.
Would this use too much power? Would a battery bank and solar panels be able to support running these day and night in hot climates along with the usual appliances? Most of ones I have seen are 220v, I have seen 12v to 220v inverters, would your batteries need to be setup as more than 12v to support the power draw- 36 or 48v?
Mostly it depends on how much heat you want to pump from one place to another, which in turn depends on the target temperature, how many windows you get rid of, how much insulation you add, how many people are inside, and how much heat is produced inside by operating the usual appliances.
Most often, people work through the numbers to figure out how much power it'll need, how much solar panel and battery that'll require, how much that'll cost... and they choose a different way. Don't get me wrong: if you lose most of the windows, insulate heavily, keep internal heating low, keep the temperature setpoint on the warm side, and have a modest to generous solar budget it could be doable. But a quiet generator or campground with hookups are probably the most common answers to powering air conditioning.
If the hot climates are dry enough then evaporative cooling could be worth a look.
AC ground should only be bonded to the chassis / body in one location.
AC and DC grounds should both be bonded to the Chassis / body of the bus.
Number of DC ground bond locations is not relevant.
I'm ready to run wires to connect the rear lights and running lights, with conduit in place and lights installed...but I'm having a hard time figuring out what gauge wire to use.
I've replaced the stop/turn/running and backup lights with LED fixtures, so they'll use less amperage than the original fixtures. That said, during the interior demolition we noticed signs of MANY fires in the original wiring, which the school district fleet maintenance crew had replaced with new wires while leaving the burnt-out wires in place. My interpretation of these observations was backed up when I read the maintenance records for the bus, which include several electrical fires in the lighting circuits. So I know that the original wiring was not of sufficient gauge for the draw of the original fixtures: generally 14# wire was used, although wire as heavy as 10# was used in the beginning of some of the circuits with many parallel fixtures and higher power draw (red and amber flashers).
As I research what I should use to wire the new systems, however, I'm coming up with results that seem excessive by comparison. Most charts showing power drops in 12V systems and respective wire gauge requirements don't show distances longer than 50', although Amps and Wire Gauge - 12V Circuit goes up to 90', which is about right for getting a circuit "there and back again" on a 40' bus. This chart states that for a 5A Circuit, which is more than enough for any of the lighting circuits involved (the heaviest draw is for the turn/stop lights, at 0.21A each), an 8# wire is required for an 80-90' circuit.
I know from the physical evidence and the maintenance records that I don't want to directly replace any 14#, but sizing up all the way to 8# seems like overkill. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'll err on the side of caution and safety, but even using 10# would save a significant amount of money over the 8# and provide a much safer system than the original 14#.
Most buses ground their circuits to the steel body so your max run would be closer to 45' which would let you use the #14 wire with plenty of safety margin for your .21 amp load. You want low voltage automotive wire, not the heavier 120v house wire.
The factory wiring is usually more than enough to handle a given load. Burned wiring suggests some other problem, maybe shorted lights or someone tapping into a circuit overloading it.


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"New Book Selllers, Listen up!"
Be cheerful. Get to know others. Take their contact information, and work as many hours as you possibly can.
Pros: The coworkers are wonderful, the job itself is not immensely difficult.
Cons: If you apply for the bookseller position, be prepared to be sucked into the cafe at any minute, without training, because they're short staffed. The customers can be extremely rude, sometimes unforgivably so. The pay is not enough for the amount of hours they will schedule you for and what you're required to do, from shelving multiple v-carts to harassing customers for memberships to cleaning up huge piles of books on the floor from people who can't just take out one book at a time then put it back.


VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution, a Component or Plug-in for the Joomla! Content Management System.
It can be run as a Shopping Cart, or in Catalogue mode.
The building of eCommerce websites is a specialised service which we are pleased to offer to small businesses. An on-line shop requires the ability to add or edit products and prices on a regular basis, check orders etc, so is often complex in structure.
Our prefered way to build an eCommerce site is to use the Joomla! content management system with the powerful VirtueMart Store component installed. Using this we can offer a catalogue or store site which is relatively easy to manage, and can easily handle physical as well as downloadable products. View a sample VirtueMart store.
For smaller stores with just one or two products PayPal buy now buttons can be used on a static site, but these are not so easy to maintain.


You can use Excel to calculate an average. Picture this: You need to calculate an average from a list of numbers, using only numbers in the list that match a condition. In other words, calculate the average using numbers if they match a given criterion. Excel is full of surprises, and for this trick, you can pull out a great function named AVERAGEIF.
The following figure shows a list of employees, along with the years when they were hired, how many accounts they've opened so far in 2016, and (for some) a message saying that they're doing a great job.
At the top of the worksheet is the average number of accounts opened per employee in 2015. Below is the expected number of accounts to open in 2016. The average of 44 for 2015 is just a static number. 2015 is over, and this is the final average. It's so — last year! What about 2016? This is where it gets interesting.
To calculate the expected number of accounts to open in 2016, a calculation is used to derive the number as an average based on the number of accounts that have been opened so far for the year. This is a technique management might use to increase competition among employees. In other words, instead of just fixing an expected number, such as 48 (which would be 10 percent growth over 2015), the expected number of accounts to open is based on how employees have been performing so far for the year.
What this does is take the average of opened accounts from the list of accounts per employee, using only the numbers that are greater than the 44 opened in 2015. This is determined by the second argument in the function (">" & C3), which states to determine the average using only values that are greater than 44, found in cell C3.
For example, Julie so far has opened only 40 accounts, so her count is not used in the average. On the other hand, Yolanda has opened 48 accounts, so her count is used in calculating the average.
When you average only the numbers greater than 2015's 44, a higher number is returned for the expected openings for 2016. The calculated value for 2016 as of this point is 54. Next to each employee's name, the message Great Job! appears if that employee is beating the average. Only those who have opened at least 54 accounts receive the message.
The IF function tests a condition. If the condition is true, the first answer is displayed. If the condition is not true, the second answer is displayed.
So far, so good! At this company, the aggressive salespeople are rewarded, and the laggards are not given any praise.
It's time to level the playing field. One thing not considered in this example is year of hire. Some employees were hired in 2016, so in fairness, the number of accounts opened so far in 2016 should not be compared with the high average.
The following figure shows an update of the worksheet. The single IF function is replaced with a set of nested IF functions: The outer IF takes into account whether the year of hire is 2016 (the actual condition test is to see if the year of hire is greater than 2015); and, if so, the inner IF function tests whether the employee's number of opened accounts for the year so far is equal or greater than half of the overall average.
Keep cracking! The year is not over yet!
The Keep cracking! message appears for those hired in 2016 who have opened a number of accounts equal to or greater than half the average — it's a rewarding message for those who are new and doing a good job. The rest of the employees are either superstars or in need of some help!


Online internet buying is the quintessential pusher of this mass communication. The reason why the internet was invented has long been forgotten and all we know is products, knowledge and services for sale. We have our E-bays, Amazons, Buy.com, Buysell.com, BuyandSell.com ...etc. We are content consumers in using this medium to buy all the time. So why is there still a huge element of people out there who are scared of using the internet to advertise?
We could say that online internet buying gets too cluttered and many don't want to be lost in the shuffle, but non-virtual advertising is starting to look the same way. Or, maybe it is because of the big, behind the scenes fight between black hat and white hat marketing techniques. Even the citizens who don't know about the good vs. evil fight still know and believe there are too many shady aspects of internet marketing. Is this due to the brazen and constant spammers who don't care how inundating they can be by riddling inboxes with their pills and member enhancers? Are potential users of internet marketing being scared away because they are scared of becoming spammers?
I guess it is up to the legitimate, white hat, transparent and honest companies to turn the image of internet marketing around. We need to get the peoples trust back and show the non believers how internet marketing can not only be profitable but also doing a lot good for those who need and use it.


There has been a distinct (and sad) lack of coffee on my blog recently, so I yanked some embarrassingly old film shots of RBC from my archives that I've never shared. They have this super cool machine that makes a perfect concentric circle motion for all your pour-over needs (here, it is pictured with the V60 dripper). It results in a very clean tasting cup. No french press sludge there, for sure!
Also pictured is RBC's Vietnamese style espresso getting a good stir.
I've been feeling bleh this week because I didn't get any film developed. It's totally throwing me off!
love this, you have me craving espresso!
love the second to last shot. also, i need to try this vietnamese-style espresso.
Yeah. Interesting... would like to try the Vietnamese Espresso if I can find one in SF Area.
Yay! The return of the coffee picture posts! :D I love it!
Mornings are so relaxing when not at work.
Great shots, as always. Love the lighting. You always have such great lighting.
Oh yummy, sees it all delicious. I get an appetite for coffee. You know what? I am now going to cook me one.
Gorgeous photos! Have a lovely weekend!


The Royals have to do everything they can to prevent runs this season as they currently sit last in MLB with a 5.25 ERA. They resorted to a new tactic Friday to slow down the Indians No. 3 ranked offense as they flooded the field from their bullpen.
OK, Kansas City didn't really try to slow down the Indians by flooding the field, but the Royals' bullpen certainly did spring a leak at Kauffman Stadium as something went wrong and water started to flood out of the pen's gate and into the outfield.
The flooding was so notable the game actually needed to be delayed as the grounds crew worked to get the situation under control.
According to Fox Sports Kansas City, there was an issue with a drain valve in the fountains.
The delay lasted about 30 minutes in the fourth inning.


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Alsarah[SD/US]
↑Photo by Nousha Salimi
Sarah Abunama-Elgadi or Alsarah is a Sudanese-born singer, songwriter and ethnomusicologist. Born in the capital city of Khartoum, where she spent the first eight years of her life, she relocated to Taez, Yemen with her family to escape the ever-stifling regime in her native country. She then abruptly moved to the US in 1994 when a brief civil war broke out in Yemen. Alsarah started her musical training at the age of twelve and went on to study ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University.
Alsarah resides in Brooklyn and is a self-proclaimed practitioner of East-African retro pop. She has toured both nationally and internationally with critically acclaimed groups such as the Nile Project, whose debut CD, Aswan (named one of the top five must-hear international albums by NPR), featured her as a singer. She has also released one full-length album with French electronic producer Débruit titled Aljawal (Soundways Recordings), and a full-length album with her current band, Alsarah & the Nubatones, titled Silt (Wonderwheel Recordings). In between albums, Alsarah also works with the Sudanese artist collective Refugee Club Productions on a variety of projects, including the critically acclaimed documentary "Beats of the Antonov".
From Roots to Routes – How To Research, Document and Mediate Music Today
Kunstquartier Studio 1, Tue 02.02.2016, 15:00
Wendy Hsu, Christopher Kirkley, Sarah Abunama-Elgadi, Thomas Burkhalter. Host: Florian Sievers
Beats of the Antonov
Film by Hajooj Kuka, talk with Sarah Abunama-Elgadi aka Alsarah. Host: Theresa Beyer


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Letter to Julian Leeser MP
Posted on May 24, 2019 by Ian Stevenson
https://www.facebook.com/JulianLeeserMP
Julian Leeser MP
Member for Berowra
Pennant Hills, NSW, 1715
Dear Mr Leeser,
Congratulations on being re-elected to the federal seat of Berowra.
As the representative of my family in the Federal Government there are several issues of concern that we would like you to know about and act on in parliament and with your colleagues in the government.
Our three main concerns are: the avoidance of armed conflict, the progress of reconciliation and improvement of the lot of Indigenous Australians, and positive action on climate change and species loss.
Successive Australian governments have made rash, ill-informed and negligent choices in their response to the alliance with the United States through committing the lives of Australian soldiers and innocent civilians in other countries to death, physical and psychological injury and loss of livelihood. As our representative we demand that you use your influence, common-sense and moral power to help your colleagues avoid these decisions and their awful consequences.
We commend you for your work with the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. We were disappointed by the former Prime Minister's response to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but we note that positive action is being taken by government in progressing these issues. We encourage you to help your colleagues to speak in more positive and constructive language about their plans to make practical changes to the administration of Indigenous affairs in this country. Please do not be afraid to insist that Prime Minister Scott Morrison change his rhetoric of self-int
erest and help him to develop a more compassionate form of public discourse. It is essential that Government seeks advice from Aboriginal Australians and avoids adopting uniform measures that cannot be applied effectively in each community.
The Federal Government must stop attempting to second-guess opinion polls and start taking responsibility for the environmental impact of fossil fuels. Our family expects leadership from our leaders. This must include both a positive and constructive public discourse and firm and decisive action to support the development of a post-carbon economy.
We wish you the best of luck in taking our concerns forward and using your influence over your fellow parliamentarians. Please be a voice for compassion and reason amongst the less wise members of the federal coalition. For our children's sake help us to be proud of our Australian Government.


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Cinema/TV, Dracula, Film Notes
Your Daily Dracula – Peta Wilson as Mina Murray, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Posted by kimnewman ⋅ March 30, 2021 ⋅ 1 Comment
On Your Daily Dracula, I'm also covering spinoffs which feature characters from Dracula other than Dracula himself – quite a few of the supporting cast (Van Helsing, Mina, Renfield, the brides) have had solo adventures. Here's Peta Wilson as Mina Murray in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).
In Tarzan Alive (1972) and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (1973), Philip José Farmer used biographies of pulp heroes to imagine a world where all the famous adventurers of history, from Allan Quatermain to Leo Bloom, not only shared the same universe but were intimately connected by an extended family tree. It's an inordinately pleasing notion, and has encouraged many subsequent writers to fill in bits of secret history by pitting Sherlock Holmes against Dracula or Fu Manchu or to have the Frankenstein Monster knock about with Fagin's gang of young thieves. In their comic book limited series (sequelised to cover The War of the Worlds), writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill play a variation on Farmer's game, though they also see that nothing is new under the sun and recall that Sir H. Rider Haggard himself laid the ground-rules for the crossover genre by writing She and Allan in which his two famous series characters meet up. Moore, always frustrated by the dominance of comics by the superhero formula and yet fascinated by the same genre, intends his League to expand the notion of the superhero, co-opting characters from popular literature to subsume the costumed adventurers of Marvel and DC into the greater, more ambitious tradition apprehended by Farmer.
This big budget film version of the first League miniseries comes from creators who have some experience: producer Don Murphy shepherded the film of Moore's other Victorian fantasia From Hell, while director Stephen Norrington made the surprisingly sharp initial instalment in the franchise spun-off from Marvel's vampire-killing Blade character and screenwriter James Robinson has made inventive use of DC's back catalogue characters in the comics series Starman and The Golden Age. Sadly, the finished version suggests a great many compromises and misjudgements along the way – some tiny lapses are telltales of too many script drafts, like the kidnapped scientists who aren't mentioned until it's time for their rescue or the misunderstanding of the rules laid down by Oscar Wilde for the destruction of Dorian Gray (here, Mina kills him by showing him his portrait rather than by having him stab it). Other blunders just betoken too many hands trying to open up the appeal of a work that risks being seen as a collection of inside jokes for consoisseurs of Victorian popular fiction. Sean Connery is ideally cast as the ageing Allan, but in place of the drug addiction that is his major trouble in the comic (an apparently modern element actually established by Haggard) we are presented with a typical script-doctor's false arc, a man grieving over a son lost on an earlier mission who finds a replacement in a young American he decrees will epitomise the 20th Century in the way he did the 19th. Griffin, H.G. Wells's invisible man, is replaced in film because changes in international copyright mean he would have to be paid for, while Fu Manchu is doubly exiled on the grounds that the character is in copyright and would be politically incorrect for a contemporary audience. Tom Sawyer (the wrong generation for this crew) is introduced as an emblematic American hero, boringly played by Shane West, but the film makes nothing of his Twain-mandated background; indeed, he might more usefully have been Nick Carter or Tom Swift, characters Moore would have made something of.
The secondary characters, on the whole, come off best: Naseeruddin Shah makes a splendidly-bearded Captain Nemo, the first screen incarnation to remember that Verne's character is an Indian, using kabbadi martial arts moves and piloting both an unfeasably large white submarine and a fin de siecle version of the Batmobile; Stewart Townsend follows up his drippy vampire Lestat with an arrogant, elegant Dorian Gray worthy of a genuine Wilde adaptation; and Jason Flemyng makes something of the symbiosis between meek Jekyll and huge Hyde even as CGI steroids make Stevenson's nasty little creep into a huge-armed, hairy Hulk. Peta Wilson's Mina works only when incarnated as a flock of bats, and all-purpose villain Richard Roxburgh (soon to be Dracula in Van Helsing) makes a disappointingly standard master fiend, employing an ineffective cockney git reading of the role when required to incarnate Professor Moriarty and doing mad Russian as the Phantom of the Opera. While the comic establishes a continuity of heroism down through the centuries, the film tends feebly to cop bits from various superhero movies just to keep the action going. It relies so heavily on CGI that stretches seem like a cartoon, and all the movement on screen fails to obscure the fact that nothing much is happening as the plot traipses pointlessly all over the globe in defiance of geography (such as how to get from Paris to Venice in something the size of the Titanic while passing through wide open seas) and the dialogue falls listlessly flat.
First published in a slightly different form in Sight & Sound.
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How to play Picklive and join the Fantasy Football Revolution
by Football FanCast share
3/12/2010 | 04:08pm
Think you know fantasy football? Think again! We've all played fantasy football before and if you're one of the thousands of football fans who have become a bit tired of the same old format, then there's a brand new game that you'll love playing.
Picklive is a LIVE Fantasy Football phenomenon! It's fantasy football, but not as you know it. It's a game where every pass, tackle and shot counts. While you're watching live football, you can play against friends and other competitors and attempt to amass the most points. Points are won and lost in real time and soon you'll either be cheering or groaning as your players perform wonders or have a total mare!
First things first you need to sign up here and take advantage of the free trial for Football FanCast readers. Choose your team name and get ready to take on football fans from across the world. Then take a look at the schedule of matches that are running on the Picklive website, if a match is live on TV then you can be sure that Picklive is running a live fantasy football game alongside it.
When the match is live you can join the game room and pick your players to do battle with. There are then two types of game for you to play. The Big Game lasts for the whole match and requires you to pick five players, as you compete with an unlimited number of players. The Live Game lasts for just 7.5 minutes and you get to pick three players before kickoff, although you can make up to three substitutes per game. There will be between six and twenty five players in the game room and you'll need to come in the top three to finish in the prize pot.
Once you've selected your game and bet £1 to play you will join the Picklive Live Game Room with the rest of your opponents. Then as the game is taking place you will accumulate points in real-time, with 20 points for a goal, 10 points for an assist, 1 point for a pass and so on. However, you'll lose 20 points for a red card, 10 points for a yellow, 3 points for a foul and more.
At the end of the match the top three players win the prize pot and you'll gave fallen in love with this addictive game. You can ensure that no matter what the result is, you will be glued for the whole 90 minutes by playing this hugely entertaining live fantasy football game. You can play Picklive for free and it spices up any game, with the top players bagging the booty!
Play Picklive for free now and become part of this Fantasy Football Phenomenon!
Article title: How to play Picklive and join the Fantasy Football Revolution


U.S. Strategic Command officials formally declared initial operational capability of the Nuclear Command, Control and Communications Enterprise Center, or NEC, April 3.
The Air Force is experimenting to find out whether giving Airmen access to industry-provided network service, customer service and device management will improve their user experience.
The 55th Comptroller Squadron Financial Management Flight recently began testing a new scanning software, EPHESOFT. The software is used to send documentation to the Air Force Financial Services Center at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, responsible for the processing and payment of temporary duty and permanent change of station travel entitlements for travel performed outside of the Defense Travel System.
Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David L. Goldfein and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright visited Offutt Air Force Base, Oct. 18, 2017. Goldfein and Wright received a tour of the base, and learned more about the mission accomplished by the 55th Wing, U.S. Strategic Command and other partner units at Offutt AFB.
After severe weather left many with property damage, and even more without power, a patient missing an appointment might have been easily overlooked. But for Senior Airman Taylor Scherff, 55th Medical Group Pediatric Clinic medical technician, something didn't sit right. She knew she couldn't wait for the normal call-back to happen, so she took it upon herself to reach the family.
U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) and the German air force (Luftwaffe) signed a memorandum of agreement June 1, 2017, to assign a German liaison officer (LNO) to Joint Functional Component Command for Space.
A combined team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a single test re-entry vehicle April 26, 2017, from Vandenberg Air Force Base.


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Guy Klinzing is taking his victory lap with Taste of Home. This fall marks Klinzing's final season with Taste of Home Cooking School. Klinzing said, "It has been a wonderful eight-plus years and I have so enjoyed cooking for each and every one of you and representing such a great brand in Taste Of Home. I have conducted more than 270 shows in 25 states on this grand adventure and I wouldn't have traded away a minute of it." Click here for the complete article.


Dear Nicole, I always end up giving my children the same foods as I know they will eat them. Can you give some tips for encouraging them to try new things?
As a child, all I ate was eggs. I have fond memories of my mother and our family friend Doris soft-boiling an egg, breaking it open with a fork on the plate and giving me a hunk of Maltese bread to soak up the yolk. I would eat all the soft bread, leaving the crust, and dip it in my egg for what seemed like hours on end.
I think I was a fussy eater until I became a chef. Needless to say, now I'll eat everything, from bone marrow on toast to ants at the restaurant Noma in Copenhagen. My favourite thing of all is smoked eel—not exactly an easily acquired taste.
What we eat tends to balance out for the vast majority of us as we become older; we still have our favourites as adults but most of us will eat more than we were willing to as children. What I do believe is important with children is building a good relationship with food, making it fun and exciting, teaching them a little of where food comes from and how it is grown and cooked.
I have found at school, where I now cook for 550 primary school children each day, that there are a few really good ways to introduce new foods and flavours to children. One of the ways is to learn about and taste foods in situations other than meal times. We have tasting sessions at the school where children aren't expected to eat things up but are just given the chance to try things and tell us what they think.
We have a kitchen garden now, so the children can be involved with growing, and of course if children can be involved in the preparation of food in any small way they become more excited to try the fruits of their labour.
I recently met Lucy Cooke, who works for Great Ormond Street Hospital and specialises in children's eating. After meeting Lucy, when we introduce a new food at school we will pair it with a favourite of the children's, so that they have something familiar on the plate and something new they might like to try.
It takes quite a few tries for children to really know if they like a food or if they are just saying they don't like it because it is unfamiliar. That's why we give stickers to children who are willing to try it five times, and then they can give us their verdict!
I have been at the school over a year now, and although there are lunches when I feel we haven't got it right, I can tell the children are generally more adventurous and open to different things. They are less scared of food, especially the 'green stuff'.
In terms of flavours and ingredients to try out, I have noticed lots of the children like olives, miso, mild spices and the taste of anchovies blitzed into pasta sauces (just a little). They enjoy the different marinades we use for chicken, such as honey and brown rice vinegar; soy sauce, orange peel and star anise; and coconut milk with a little red Thai curry paste.


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Q: Twisted port 80 requiring manual port 80 and not working Throws no errors, yet silently there are problems.
When I run the usual server with python
python -m http.server 80

It works fine and I may access the server with localhost or 127.0.0.1, but when I try running a secure twisted server with
twistd -no web --path=. --https=80 --certificate=../cert.pem --privkey=../key.pem

and try to access via a browser with localhost or 127.0.0.1 my browser can't connect and I must use https://localhost:80 or https://127.0.0.1:80 to connect.
Here's the server startup output:
twistd -no web --path=. --https=80 --certificate=../cert.pem --privkey=../key.pem
2016-11-14T17:41:47+1100 [twisted.application.app.AppLogger#info] twistd 16.5.0 (c:\python35\python.exe 3.5.0) starting up.
2016-11-14T17:41:47+1100 [twisted.application.app.AppLogger#info] reactor class: twisted.internet.selectreactor.SelectReactor.
2016-11-14T17:41:47+1100 [-] Site (TLS) starting on 80
2016-11-14T17:41:47+1100 [twisted.web.server.Site#info] Starting factory <twisted.web.server.Site object at 0x03028E50>
2016-11-14T17:41:47+1100 [-] Site starting on 8080

But I also can't get the normal http to server on port 80.
Here is my question now.
1) How can I allow a client to connect without the trailing :80?

A: HTTPS defaults to port 443, whereas HTTP defaults to port 80. The two are different protocols. Note that your HTTP server is running on 8080 as per the shown output. Since you are using a non-standard port for HTTPS, you have to specify the port explicitly.


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Segue una lista dei crateri d'impatto presenti sulla superficie di Callisto. La nomenclatura di Callisto è regolata dall'Unione Astronomica Internazionale; la lista contiene solo formazioni esogeologiche ufficialmente riconosciute da tale istituzione.

I crateri di Callisto portano i nomi di divinità ed eroi delle popolazioni nordiche. Fanno eccezione i crateri Lycaon, Arcas, Dia, Nyctimus, Orestheus e Dryops dedicati rispettivamente a padre, figlio, sorella, due fratelli ed un nipote di Callisto, nonché il cratere Mera dedicato ad un'altra ninfa anch'essa sedotta da Zeus come Callisto.

Inoltre, si conta anche il caso di un cratere inizialmente battezzatto dall'IAU e la cui denominazione è stata poi abrogata.

Prospetto

Nomenclatura abolita

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Collegamenti esterni

Callisto