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BGC Again Lauds Whistle To Whistle Ad Ban
A long-awaited England soccer season is officially ready to get underway, and the country's Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) is once again singing the praises of the August 2019-passed so-called Whistle to Whistle ban.
The Whistle to Whistle (WTW) ban has its focus on stopping children and under-age individuals from being exposed to any televised betting ads previously aired during live sports broadcasts before the hour of 9 p.m.
The ban will this year play an even more significant role than what it did last year, said the BGC in a recent tweet – this being due to the fact that over the course of the coming months, more English Football League and English Premier League games will be televised and aired than ever before in the history of English soccer. Since most (if not all) of the coming season's games will be played without spectators physically present in the stands, all big-league games will be televised and broadcast by all of the UK's most popular television networks.
New Season – New Beginning
BGC chief executive officer Michael Dugher could in a recent social media post be seen clearly hardly able to hide his excitement about the success achieved by said ban so far. Dugher posted on Twitter not only about his love for soccer and excitement over its imminent return, but also about his immense delight experienced over the success of the ban in terms of it having practically 100 per cent eliminated young people's ability to view betting ads during TV commercial breaks.
Dugher's excitement over the success of the ban is no overstatement either. This is after all the same ban that has reportedly slashed young children's exposure to betting ad content by an enormous 97 per cent. What's more, reports indicate that the ban during its first 5 months in existence, reduced the number of betting ad views by an estimated 1.7 billion – all of which translates to a 78% drop in terms of total viewing exposure.
The Road So Far
Introduced by the BGC on August 1 last year, the controversial WTW ban reportedly strives to improve an array of standards across the entire gambling sector – all standards, in fact, with the lone exception of the UK's National Lottery.
The ban furthermore helped launch a rule ordering at least 20% of radio as well as television betting ads to contain safer gambling messages. Other rules boosted by the WTW ban include more funds being channelled in the direction of gambling addiction treatment, education regarding gambling and gambling-related addictions, the implementation and carrying out of more thorough age and identification verification checks, lengthier gaming machine cooling-off periods, etc.
All of the above have also helped lead to all-new rules coming into effect on October 1, 2020. Upcoming new rules will reportedly mostly aim to lower the number of betting ads younger audiences are exposed to online – and in particular on social media platforms.
Dugher, for one, has been actively urging the UK Government to work more closely alongside the BGC – all in an attempt to ultimately slam down harder on illegal operators looking to lure unsuspecting victims into their non-tax-paying corners.
Not only do black-market operators fail to contribute to the UK's economy, but said operators are also not typically in the habit of protecting their customers from gambling-related harm.
Dugher said the organisation and its members hope to make a significant difference to the way black-market operators have been basically free to operate up until now


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Giant Squid 'Minoans' CD/DD 2014
Much like their namesake, the mysterious and somewhat elusive collective known as Giant Squid, strike from the depths once again with their first work since 2011's Cenotes and their first full-length album since 2009's incredible The Ichthyologist. Known for thriving in tales of loss and tragedy, the Sacramento-based group are none more so in their element, by illustrating the downfall of the Minoan civilisation, a multi-faceted tale told from the taste of an experimental sludge, doom and post metal cocktail.
The tale opens with its title track, slowly emerging through an otherworldly fog, with the entrance of synth then pulling the fog back much like a stage curtain. There is a sense of harmony from the guitar chords played shortly afterwards, almost as if an omnipresent narrator were soothing that there was peace among this historically diplomatic society. But this illusion is dashed immediately, with a piledriving riff and vocalist Aaron John Gregory's trademark haunted demeanour bursting onto the scene. Heavy enough to go toe-to-toe with the top of the doom food chain, yet saturated with an air of mystique and exotica that gives the album its distinctly Mediterranean flavour. Thera follows, subject matter placed on the volcanic eruption upon the island. The piano introduction, leading into Sabbath-esque riffs, bolstered by blasts of brass, build up grandeur and a sense of raw power in this track and the touches of string, in combination with the sludge is absolutely joyous to listen to. Even in the moments with individual instruments isolated, it showcases the attention to detail and only serves as a testament to Giant Squid's musical abilities. And the intricacy of their song writing only gets finer from this point onwards.
A shower of crushing chords introduce Palace Of Knossos, a strolling bruiser with a sprinkling of xylophone and in places, what sounds like the presence of an accordion. The guitar keeps this one moving but the layers of strings, percussion and vocals create a seriously compelling melancholy atmosphere, like the palace were under siege or being burnt to the ground through the eyes of the listener. Sixty Foot Waves brings the storytelling to the forefront, while a tense waiting game is played underneath it. Thunderous drums, backed by guitar that strays somewhere between musical theatre and Morricone territory dance across the landscape. The pace eventually quickens and in a sombre string interlude, the guitar crashes down violently, with furious double kicks from the drums, pulverising what you could forsee as the isle of Crete. The ending here perhaps sticks out as truly the most visual moment on the album, such care and craftsmanship going into bringing the imagery of the island being forced underwater to your senses.
A dramatic shift in tone comes in the form of the militaristic sounding Mycenaeans. More prominent heavier guitar introduces this new group, with stabs of organ accentuating their personalities. But interwoven is probably the best string section on the album, in terms of maintaining the threatening mood, yet still keeping within the same air of the Mediterranean is fantastic to listen to. To round this off, a monstrous riff unfolds afterwards, stacked upon more carefully crafted layers upon layers of unfathomably wonderful atmosphere, to carry the song to its conclusion. Which in contrast to its successor, The Pearl And The Parthenon, is a complete universe away from. What lies here is a blues-inspired ballad, with an aching male and female harmony in the vocals. It's almost as if you can feel the heartbreak and the turmoil rolling off every syllable and with the sole touch of strings, the effect is heart-wrenching. This song brings the apex of the album's sadness to a very fulfilling, emotional end. Up until two thirds of the way through, the introduction of guitar, creates a foreboding, unsettling aura, overshadowing this touching scene and paying off with more crushing chords, similar in nature to that of an ambush. But perhaps the most unique switch in tone lies with Sir Arthur Evans, the titular historian on the Minoan civilisation, although musically, the song sounds more like the dismantling of a character's sanity. The shovelling, the rumble of bass, the shimmer of cymbals, the gruff narration, all contribute to the assumed mental downward spiral of the song's protagonist.
This may be the shortest Giant Squid album on record, but be damned if it's not their most vital. They're often referred to as 'scientists' by fans and critics alike, but if they're scientists, then they're incredibly gifted storytellers also. The journey chronicled in Minoans is sonically spectacular, and the prominence of the strings on the album elevates it far, far beyond an archetypical sludge-doom album. Be forewarned, this is not an adventure you can simply dip in and out of, it is a true cinematic experience that demands the utmost attention from its listener, and such patience rewards with one of the most enthralling, immersive albums you will hear for the rest of the year and perhaps many years. Near-essential for fans of heavy, progressive music.
Label: Translation Loss Records
Band Links: Official | Facebook | Bandcamp
Scribed by: Jason Hough
Published on 14th November 2014 at 10:49 am and has the following tags:
2014, Atmospheric, CD, Digital, Experimental, Giant Squid, Heavy, Jason Hough, Minoans, Review, Translation Loss Records
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Two down, eighty to go. While Cleveland is still buzzing about LeBron taking down Chicago and redeeming himself for the home opener loss, the Cavs will start their opening road trip with a battle of backcourts in Portland tonight 10 pm ET. The Trail Blazers come in at 1-2, but despite losing to Sacramento and Golden State, they will be another early test for Cleveland.
Now, while LeBron is coming off a 36-point explosion in Chicago on Halloween night, this is a game where Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving are expected to shine. They both have the biggest matchups of the night, and even though LeBron (as usual) is expected to be, well LeBron, Irving and Love are due for big nights.
This early season challenge is a chance for Cleveland to grab another convincing victory on the road. While Chicago has been proclaimed as Cleveland's biggest threat, the Western Conference has their share of threats to Cleveland, including this young and talented Portland Trail Blazers team.
With Utah and Denver right around the corner, this Portland game will raise a lot of questions about the Cavs throughout the rest of their opening road tour of the year. Hopefully, the Cavs have answers tonight. Expect Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving to blow up, coupled with a well-rounded performance from LeBron. Bottom line, this is going to be a star-studded battle of backcourts and the post; but in the end, if they play similar to their performance in Chicago, Cleveland should leave Portland with a victory.
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Three killed in Honduras protests as army deploys
Police said looters had raided and torched businesses in the capital, Tegucigalpa
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Riot police allow traffic through during a day of protests in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Friday, June 21, 2019. Image Credit: AP
Tegucigalpa: Troops patrolled the streets of the Honduran capital Friday after three people were killed in violent protests against President Juan Orlando Hernandez, authorities and relatives said Friday.
The government deployed troops after thousands of Hondurans blocked streets across the Central American country demanding Hernandez's resignation amid tensions over strikes by police and truckers.
Police said looters had raided and torched businesses in the capital, Tegucigalpa, while others blocked streets with rocks and bonfires.
Two people were killed in street clashes in the capital, public ministry spokeswoman Isis Alvarado said, adding that their bodies had been brought to a hospital along with several wounded people early Thursday.
A 17-year old youth, Noel Corea, was reported killed in clashes by his family later Friday.
Danilo Corea told AFP his son was killed by the military late Thursday after taking part in a protest blocking a road in a village 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the capital.
Angry locals later set fire to the police station in the village, Yarumela, in the department of La Paz.
Ongoing protests against Hernandez intensified this week after beginning more than a month ago when doctors and teachers unions held strikes against health and education laws.
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'We must be ready to leave the NHS permanently'
The Northern Ireland GPC chair tells Sofia Lind plans are in place for GPs to start charging for appointments
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Dr Tom Black, dressed in a smart suit and pastel paisley tie and full of quick-witted banter, comes across every inch the smooth negotiator.
And he needs to be, because he is spearheading one of the most radical measures ever proposed by a GP leader – asking GPs to submit mass resignations from the NHS, a move that could result in them charging patients for appointments.
The plan has the support of an overwhelming majority of the country's GPs – around 97% – and is due to be ratified by the Northern Ireland GPC imminently.
The driver for all this is the parlous state of general practice in Northern Ireland, with practices funded even less per patient than those in England. In one town, Portadown, the profession is in danger of extinction – a situation that recently saw Dr Black apologise to a patient on live radio.
And the Northern Ireland Assembly has just collapsed, jeopardising a potential GP support package that would have seen the GPC's action called off. Since it is the UK's only land border with the EU, it will also be uniquely affected by Brexit. All this means Dr Black will need his wits about him as he charts a new future for general practice in the region.
Are you going ahead with the mass resignations?
There was support for the move from around 97% of all the doctors who came to the roadshows we held to gauge opinion, so I would be surprised if the Northern Ireland GPC decided to ignore that clear opinion. [Ed: The decisionby NIGPC is due later today].
You reached an agreement with health minister Michelle O'Neill before Christmas. But the Assembly has since collapsed, so is that deal now off the table?
The words of the GP rescue plan had been agreed. But there's no timeline and there's no investment. The next step was that the budget would be set by the Assembly and it would give its allocation to the health minister, who would then decide whether general practice was a priority or not. But now there's no budget, no assembly. So there's likely to be no agreement for six months, which is not acceptable.
The permanent secretary has some leverage in what he can do with the contract, but he would not have the leverage to increase the funding by 35-40%, which is what we need. So I can't see any circumstances in which we would not start collecting practice resignations.
What did the rescue deal actually contain?
It's very similar to the GP Forward View. It's essentially 'help' in the form of pharmacists and increased GP training numbers, advanced nurse practitioners, physician associates… in other words, if you can't get enough GPs in the next three years then you would need help from other sources. Also, it would have sent a very clear message that the Government thinks general practice is a priority.
Once the resignations had been collected, would a new Government come in to find them already in effect, or would it get a chance to honour the agreement you reached?
I think what we have at the moment is a collapse throughout general practice in Northern Ireland. Some areas are collapsing faster than others – Fermanagh and Armagh for example. Portadown is a particular problem – there is a practice with no doctors, no contractor, and none in sight. Those practices will obviously be very keen to submit resignations. Other areas such as the big cities – Derry and Belfast – have a more secure workforce, and they would be less quick to put in their practice resignations.
So, we start collecting practice resignations; we wait until we get to a critical mass – decided by the NI GPC. A problem will arise if, say, 100% of practices in one county put in resignations; do we wait until the rest of Northern Ireland is ready to catch up? I think that county would make a decision to go private – to step outside the NHS – and I think we'd have to support them with the lawyers, the accountants and even the estate agents, because some practices would be in a health centre and may not be allowed to continue in it. We have a significant defence fund of £600,000-£700,000 for that.
How much do you think people could have to pay for a GP appointment?
It's set already by the Republic of Ireland. An appointment in Donegal, just a mile from my surgery, is €45. You go to Dublin and it's €55. So a £45 per consultation fee is to my mind the simplest way, rather than having to set up social insurance structures with all the complications that would bring.
Some might ask how people would afford that. And the answer is, there is £240m being spent on the GP service in Northern Ireland. If we step outside the NHS, we would not make any call on that £240m. In our view, that money would be available for the Government to give to patients for fee-per-item consultations.
What does it mean for annual contract negotiations – are there any in NI?
The next step, given the hiatus in the Assembly, is that we will look for a contingency plan from the permanent secretary and the civil servants. I've already made suggestions to them. The way to reduce workload is to take out bureaucracy and box-ticking. So, the QOF and enhanced services should be stood down or mitigated in some way to reduce our workload.
The thing that's really focused minds in Northern Ireland is the Portadown practice that collapsed. We tried to resuscitate it by bringing in a contractor but the contractor changed their mind about taking it on. I apologised to one of the patients on the radio yesterday, live, and said that I was sorry that we, the GPs, had failed to maintain a workforce that could provide him and his community with a service. But I think the blame for this, of course, should be served with the civil servants and the whole political arena.
All the other practices in Portadown have in excess of 2,000 patients per full-time GP. As a marker, that's too many patients and too much work. So they're all in a position where suddenly there are no locums and no other young GPs to over take their jobs; they're retiring or resigning. Back in the 1950s, in my town there was one GP for every 1,380 patients. And they didn't have all the elderly and all the chronic disease management we have. Aneurin Bevan would be turning in his grave at the current situation.
How long do you think you'd be outside the NHS before it gets settled?
Three hours. That's how long it'd last. Patients would go to A&E because I've no doubt they wouldn't want to pay for a GP appointment. It'll be a 2,000% increase in workload for A&E. It only takes two average-sized practices to close for an A&E to double its workload. So A&E would have to bring in a charge to manage demand – higher than that in general practice – around £100.
But we have to be ready and prepared to step out permanently. There is a view in BMA House that we're falling into a trap – that the politicians want us to go private, and they want it to be our decision and not theirs. Maybe we are. But if we stay inside the NHS with the funding levels and the workforce levels, we won't have a GP service, so it's not like we really have a choice here.
Do you expect Brexit to have any effect on general practice in Northern Ireland?
Yes. We've 1.94 million patients and 1.84 million citizens – so that's 100,000 more patients than there are citizens. Some of those are cross-border workers, so if you live in Donegal and work in Derry, you can get a medical card in Northern Ireland and be seen free as a worker. Some of it is the natural to-and-fro across the border. I presume that
under any new dispensation, those patients might not be allowed to access the NHS. You'd think reciprocal arrangements in health will be similar to those for trade.
There's also the issue of cross-border services; the cancer centre, radiotherapy services and paediatric cardiac surgery are all cross-border services. But I suspect that the politicians would actually just sit down and work that out. There are some EU workers, but for some reason it's not an attractive destination for people from Europe.
Are you ballsier in Northern Ireland than the rest of the UK?
We adopt a more tribal attitude in Northern Ireland. General practice is a tribe with a common purpose and solidarity. We also have a tendency as Celts to sort out problems with confrontation rather than discussion!
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A Woodall | GP Partner/Principal25 Jan 2017 10:45am
Well done Dr Black. A leader with courage
Vinci Ho | GP Partner/Principal25 Jan 2017 10:56am
This is for you,
'Stay hungry , stay foolish'
Salute.
'We also have a tendency as Celts to sort out problems with confrontation rather than discussion!'
What a statement !
''Do you know what leadership means, Lord Snow?
It means that the person in charge gets second-guessed by every clever little tw*t with a mouth.
But if he starts second-guessing himself , that is the end, for him, for the clever little tw*ts , for everyone.
This is not the end, not for us, not if you lot do your duty for however long to beat them back....''
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Saldoc | Salaried GP25 Jan 2017 1:06pm
Dr Black strikes me as an intelligent and shrewd GP. Lots of support from the rest of the UK. The English approach of lots of talk, negotiation and forward views has failed miserably.
watchdoc | GP Partner/Principal25 Jan 2017 1:21pm
have the politicians found their fall guy?
Up the Irons | GP Partner/Principal25 Jan 2017 5:45pm
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Few politicians really seem to give a fig for their public and even less for GPs. Do nothing and there is collapse, do something and there is a form of health service. Good man for having the balls to actually fight back. Not going to happen anytime soon in England.
Colin Malcomson | GP Partner/Principal25 Jan 2017 7:40pm
Can you come to England next please Tom?
Dr Sam Izdat | GP Partner/Principal25 Jan 2017 11:39pm
£240m for the government to dole out for item of service payments . The population of NI is 1.811 million . Enough for 3 consultations each. How can anyone be that politically naive ? Fechinijits
Council of Despair | Locum GP26 Jan 2017 11:14am
Best news for the last few years - this sort of action is the sort many of us have been asking for and it will hopefully wake up the public and politicians re: NHS funding.
Well done that man !
Spuds | GP Partner/Principal26 Jan 2017 12:44pm
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package com.sherazkhilji.videffects.model;

import android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever;

import static android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_BITRATE;
import static android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_VIDEO_HEIGHT;
import static android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_VIDEO_ROTATION;
import static android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_VIDEO_WIDTH;

/**
 * Class for extracting metadata from video file.
 * Default implementation work with videos from file system,
 * but class can be easily extended for working with any kind of data source.
 */
public class MetadataExtractor {

    protected MediaMetadataRetriever retriever = new MediaMetadataRetriever();

    public Metadata extract(String path) {
        retriever.setDataSource(path);
        return extractMetadata();
    }

    protected Metadata extractMetadata() {
        String rotationString = retriever.extractMetadata(METADATA_KEY_VIDEO_ROTATION);
        String bitrateString = retriever.extractMetadata(METADATA_KEY_BITRATE);
        String widthString = retriever.extractMetadata(METADATA_KEY_VIDEO_WIDTH);
        String heightString = retriever.extractMetadata(METADATA_KEY_VIDEO_HEIGHT);

        Metadata metadata = null;

        try {
            int rotation = Integer.parseInt(rotationString);
            int bitrate = Integer.parseInt(bitrateString);
            double width = Double.parseDouble(widthString);
            double height = Double.parseDouble(heightString);

            if (rotation == 90 || rotation == 270) {
                metadata = new Metadata(height, width, bitrate);
            } else {
                metadata = new Metadata(width, height, bitrate);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        retriever.release();
        return metadata;
    }
}

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In this paper, we describe an incrementally generated fuzzy neural network (FNN) for intelligent data processing. This FNN combines the features of initial fuzzy model self-generation, fast input selection, partition validation, parameter optimization and rule-base simplification. A small FNN is created from scratch -- there is no need to specify the initial network architecture, initial membership functions, or initial weights. Fuzzy IF-THEN rules are constantly combined and pruned to minimize the size of the network while maintaining accuracy; irrelevant inputs are detected and deleted, and membership functions and network weights are trained with a gradient descent algorithm, i.e., error backpropagation. Experimental studies on synthesized data sets demonstrate that the proposed Fuzzy Neural Network is able to achieve accuracy comparable to or higher than both a feedforward crisp neural network, i.e., NeuroRule, and a decision tree, i.e., C4.5, with more compact rule bases for most of the data sets used in our experiments. The FNN has achieved outstanding results for cancer classification based on microarray data. The excellent classification result for Small Round Blue Cell Tumors (SRBCTs) data set is shown. Compared with other published methods, we have used a much fewer number of genes for perfect classification, which will help researchers directly focus their attention on some specific genes and may lead to discovery of deep reasons of the development of cancers and discovery of drugs.
© 2005 The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). This paper was published in Proc. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Data Mining, Intrusion Detection, Information Assurance, and Data Networks Security 2005 and is made available as an electronic reprint (preprint) with permission of SPIE. The paper can be found at the following official URL: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.603175]. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.


I figured it's time to do a new series on the blog that caters to my nosiness (how about let's call it inquisitiveness instead?) regarding what's inside women's bags – makeup, crumpled pieces of receipts, loose change et al. I've been playing with this idea for a year now — where I personally take the photos, chit-chat with the "victim" and then finally showcase them here on the blog. However, I didn't expect that my first subjects would be frikkin' top-billed actresses and It Girls in Manila. Talk about motivation to finally start on the project. Let's get on to it, shall we? For my first ever Beauty and Her Bag feature — I present to you current It Girl slash actress slash model slash newly-added to her resume – international magazine cover girl – Janine Gutierrez.
Janine Gutierrez is a GMA artist and one of this generation's newest It Girls. Check her international feature on UK-based magazine Suitcase here.
Fun fact: Janine and I were actually batchmates in college — having both gone to Ateneo de Manila. When I was introduced to her during this shoot, she tells me right away "You look familiar..". Yes, Janine, I was that long-haired girl wearing colored skinny jeans, vests and Chuck Taylors downing those Chinky Chicken nuggets and Kebab House kebabs in SOM Mall every day. I remember seeing her in campus then (she hasn't entered show business yet) and always had this thought that this girl is so uniquely beautiful, it would be a shame not to share her beauty to the world. True enough, when she entered the industry after graduation, she shot to fame in an instant and graced magazine covers left and right as if gurl don't need no sleep.
What are three items you won't leave your house without? Shu Uemura Lash Curler (all the makeup artists I've worked with swear by this), Mascara and Pressed Powder.
Share your off-duty no-taping work look. For daytime, I just use the three things I mentioned above – curl my lashes, apply mascara and top it with powder. At night when I'm going out, I usually just add lipstick and retouch with powder. That's it. Super simple! Right now since I've a long day of work-related meetings, I brought quite a lot of makeup with me! I still struggle to put on eyeshadow on myself, though. That's my weakness!
Are you a pink or a red lipstick girl? PINK! Right now, I always have two lipsticks in my bag – the Yazbukey matte pink and another Shu lipstick in a coral shade. It's a perfect daytime pink but since I don't really wear lipstick during the day, I wear it more often at night. Also, I find it tough to find pinks that will suit my skintone. This one is just right!
What's your signature scent? YSL Parisienne is my current perfume. I think I've gone through a few bottles of this already! I like that it's fruity with the right mix of floral and rose topped with a powdery and woody combination.
How do you remove all the gunk on your face at the end of the day? The Shu Uemura Cleansing Oil – hands down. I use the purple version, the Whitefficient one, which smells reallly good. I like that I just pump out the oil, slather it on and wash it off. And everything comes off. EVERYTHING. I even have a small travel-sized one with me all the time.
What's your skin type? I think my skin type is a combination of oily and dry. Depending on the weather – sometimes I can be extremely oily but then when I'm lacking sleep from long taping hours, I get really bad dry skin.
What's your skincare routine then? I always moisturize. Wash my makeup off completely and then put on moisturizer – even when I'm tired and just want to get some rest. I started using eye cream recently but I still have to make it a habit ha ha! My three skincare musts – facial wash, moisturizer and sunscreen!
Any beauty advice? I know it's cliche but really drink a lot of water. Water does wonders to the skin. Get enough sleep (!!!) and regarding makeup, don't try to change the way you look with makeup – just enhance your features.
Her eyes are so expressive that staring into them may make you reveal your deepest darkest fears and secrets. I found Janine easy to talk to — her smile was so contagious I found my jaws aching a bit after our talk because I was also subconsciously smiling as well. Doesn't matter if she was talking about a tube of lipstick or the brick wall background she also wanted to have done in her room. Her naturally arched brows may make her look unapproachable and masungit but again, just look into her eyes and you'll instantly feel her true sweet, simple and down-to-earth personality. Watch out for this lady, you guys. She'll be taking on more local and international projects in the months to come.
Would love to know what you think of this series! Let me know your thoughts below!
Great series, Shari!!! Can't wait to read the next ones. Janine is so beautiful, reminds me a lot of Mila Kunis!
Such a great series! Can't wait to see the others as well, but Janine really set the bar on this one. Haha. She is so beautiful, and her eyebrows. Gaaaah, major brow envy right here for someone who has nonexistent brows, lol.
I love your new series! I am nosy (ehem, inquisitive) as well so I love seeing "whats in my bag" kinds of posts LOL!
Yay a series! Very excited for this because this post was very interesting!
So pretty! Janine reminds me of Rachel Bilson, but with sexier lips 🙂 Great work on the series, Shari. Keep them coming!
Wow this is a good series Shari! And we have the same name. LOOOOL.
Oh wow, she is gorgeous!!!!
SHEEET ANG GANDA NIYA OKAY.
wow…great series…..she's so lovely….pretty face….Janine you're soooo gorgeous lady…..
I love your layouts, Shari! 🙂 Super nice!
Loved the series Beauty and Her Bag.. I was getting too attached and influenced to it until I felt these posts are biased to Shu Uemura. Probably a sponsored post? Sayang.. I do wanna know what's REALLY inside their bags.
Kahit galit maganda pa rin!!!


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the many adventures of owen, mason, and jack!: Heading to watch the Aggies at Granna and Granddaddy's house. All prepared with a backpack full of toys and a balloon.
Heading to watch the Aggies at Granna and Granddaddy's house. All prepared with a backpack full of toys and a balloon.


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– Your item(s) will be rolled up by packing condition, when you receive it. Please, the wall decals should be flattened out to attach closely wherever you want.
– Prepare for extra adhesive tape, soft towel, and scissors.
– Clean the surface to apply wall sticker. The vinyl wall decal's adhesive power might be weakened by the dust.
– If it is too large size, attach the sticker with the aid of someone.
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Rub by bits it with soft cloth from center of sticker with outward motion. If it is too large size, attach an edge area of wall sticker and peel off backing film.


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Dreamweaver adds HTML5 chops
Hey, did you hear the one about how Adobe hates hates hates HTML5, and how the only thing that matters to the company is the advancement of Flash (to the exclusion of everything else)?
I have, and the story is stupid, lame, and inaccurate–always has been. But honestly, talk in either direction is cheap, and I think people want to see "a little less conversation, a little more action."
To that end I'm very happy to see the Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack made available for download. According to the development team:
The HTML5 Pack extension includes new code hinting for HTML5 and CSS3 elements to enable Dreamweaver users to easily make use of new HTML5 tags.
The extension also includes WebKit engine updates and improvements to support video and audio in Dreamweaver CS5's Design View and Live View.
New CSS3 capabilities users can more easily design multiscreen web pages, with previews of how they will render across multiple browsers and devices.
To see the features in action, check out this demo from DW engineering manager Jorge Taylor:
You can also download a free 30-day trial of Dreamweaver CS5 here.
Posted by John Nack at 9:57 PM on May 19, 2010
≪ Talking JDI, CS5, and more on Martini Hour
Google brings Flash to TV ≫
Pedro Estarque — 11:35 PM on May 19, 2010
The multiple browsers and devices preview looks really nice.
But I'm really looking forward to this:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/10/sneak_peek_ai_fl_dw_canvas.html
JoeP — 3:07 AM on May 20, 2010
Is there any chance of this being back ported to CS4? As I am definitely going to upgrade to CS5 at some point, but I'm sure there are lots of people who'd love it for 4 in the mean time :/
[I can't imagine that happening. The whole point is to create features that are worthy of your upgrade dollars, not just stuff to give away. –J.]
Rich MacDonald — 6:25 AM on May 20, 2010
Is it possible to use HTML 5 to make Photoshop panels, or is Flash the only option in CS5 still?
[Photoshop and (I believe) all CS5 apps support WebKit. Exactly what you or anyone means by "HTML5" is kind of amorphous, as the spec is in flux, and I'm not sure which features are supported by the build of WebKit that we embed. I'll try to find out more info and share it here soon. –J.]
Glad to see this update to Dreamweacer. This is the single biggest reason I've ever had to want a new version of Dreamweaver. Then again, I'm more comfortable edditing in a text editor, so I'm probably Adobe's main target audience.
Michael Glasser — 8:19 AM on May 20, 2010
This all looks great. Wondering if there are any plans to add more CSS3 options to the CSS Rule Definition screen? At some point I think that needs to be updated, too.
With that said, I can see where it makes sense to wait until CSS3 is better supported… adding the options now would confuse many people. Maybe a CSS3 Category (or set of categories). That way it is added for those who want it, but not cluttering the current categories.
Ben Hansen — 8:30 AM on May 20, 2010
sweet! i remember something about html5 support in CS5 but couldn't find a thing in the promo stuff. thanks again for sharing j!
Robert Barnett — 8:43 AM on May 20, 2010
I don't think you or Adobe should be trying to claim the high road on this one.
I really doubt that DW CS5 would have seen these HTML 5 features had Apple not chopped Adobe off at the knees with flash.
In fact at the earliest CS6 might have seen this stuff. So don't try to pretend that Adobe has been on the HTML 5 band wagon and this support was planned from the get go.
[Yeah, you're right, Robert. Not only are we that deeply cynical, we're friggin' geniuses who invented a time machine with which to cover our tracks. –J.]
You know it is things like this that choke people. Had you and Adobe just been honest and said that because of Apple's actions we have decided to start rolling out HTML 5 support earlier than we had planned. We would have accepted that and it wouldn't have hurt you.
But, trying to make this out to be something it isn't just makes you look kind of sad.
[The sad thing is seeing every glass as half empty. –J.]
I for one had no doubt that HTML 5 support was coming from Adobe. None at all. However you did have to move the time table up a bit.
Now if we can just get the standards standardize before we all turn to dust. HTML 5 and CSS3 should have been done, standardized and in browsers by now.
foljs — 9:13 AM on May 20, 2010
Not, but I heard the one about how Adobe has heavily invested on Flash (promoting in for mobile, incorporating in Acrobat, even using it as a GUI extension tool in the suite), while in HTML5, not so much.
I also heard the one about Adobe thinking that while Flash is a viable platform now (with high penetration), HTML5 is not, at least until IE9 replaces the older versions of IE. The one that ends with Adobe fearing that a move to invest heavily in HTML5 tools (not just in Dreamweaver) will be premature.
I also heard the one about how Adobe didn't believe canvas should be in the HTML5 specs (or, at least, not yet).
Oh, and I also heard the one about the fact that while HTML5 development goes on for years, Adobe only added HTML5 support in DW as an afterthought, with this "Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack" that came out after the suite already shipped, and after all the hoopla about Flash.
Rich MacDonald — 11:19 AM on May 20, 2010
John, earlier versions of HTML would be fine, too, although I do prefer the video and audio tags. Is there documentation of how to use this new capability? My searches are still turning up the CS4, Flash only documentation.
Aaron — 12:16 PM on May 20, 2010
Man o man, too many sour grapes around here. Congrats John, much appreciated. I'm ordering CS5 tomorrow for my whole company and we can't wait to dig in and make some money.
Kai Howells — 3:40 PM on May 20, 2010
I'm not sure who to submit this to, but maybe you can point me in the right direction.
I run my personal machine with me logged in as a regular user, not an Administrator (I'm on Mac OS X) as this more closely replicates the enterprise environments I support.
I've got a fresh install of CS5, deployed with the AAMEE.
When I double-clicked on the downloaded zap file, the Adobe Extensions Manager comes up OK, but it gives me a lot of errors about extensions it can't install – I assume because I don't have administrative rights, yet there was no prompt for me to elevate my privileges.
Lee Lloyd — 4:08 AM on May 21, 2010
I just want to say I feel so sorry for you guys at Adobe. Really, no punchline, no snarky comment. I know most of you have really been quite fond of Apple over the years, and it has to suck to constantly be getting hell from these Macheads who have now decided you are the enemy, because Fearless Leader excommunicated you.
Look on the bright side though, as of today, the new story is them all turning on Google. As bad as you feel about all this, just imagine how mindbendingly confusing it must be for Google to have people telling them that Apple is a better champion of open standards than they are! You have to admit, that is some comedy there.
Anyway, don't let the bozos get you down, and thanks for a great release this time around. I had my doubts when you took over Macromedia, but I've really been pretty happy with CS4 and am loving the additions to CS5.
[Many thanks for the moral support, Lee. –J.]
John C. Welch — 4:25 AM on May 21, 2010
Did you hear about the full release of Flash 10.1 on all the platforms it's been PR'd on? Not a beta, but a full released version? And they did an enterprise dev program version of Flash, to show how it runs really well on the iPhone, which is an awesome way to prove their point! did you hear about that?
No one has.
something something talks, something something walks. For all the sturm und drang about how awesome 10.1 is going to be, y'all just can't seem to get it finished.
[I've said publicly several times that Flash Player will evolve or die. I'm not directly part of those efforts, but I see the hard work they're putting into improving the technology. We'll see what happens. As for the iPhone, I doubt it's realistic to optimize for the hardware without Apple's participation. –J.]
(waiting for standard interstitial reply about "oh yeah, well, we have a 64-bit cocoa video editor so nyah")
[Sorry, but that reality is not part of the Mac-fan-as-perma-victim narrative, so it'll be ignored. –J.]
John C. Welch — 3:27 PM on May 21, 2010
Coming from Adobe, who of late has been playing the victim card just fine, pointing that finger at anyone? Maybe you should reconsider that.
However, i'm not surprised that the Flash team hasn't even tried to show Flash running on the iPhone.
But, it makes no sense at all. Show the world that Flash can in fact, run as Adobe insists it can, and now, any and all technical reasons against Flash on the iPhone go away. 3.3.1 doesn't, but that's a separate issue.
i'm not saying it's trivial, or even *vaguely* easy, but real live running examples? That's heavy stuff.
And yet it seems adobe bends over backwards to avoid the best proof of their claims they could ever possibly have. Don't know why, only Adobe does. But it seems dumb to not do something so blindingly obvious.
Scott Valentine — 3:46 PM on May 25, 2010
You might want to go search for Flash on the iPhone. Add 'Terry White' into that mix and see what the search returns…
Heck, I'll even save you the trouble:
http://www.bestappsite.com/2010/05/25/finally-i-have-flash-on-my-iphone/
Peter — 2:15 AM on June 02, 2010
John, there are Flash-based apps in the iPhone app store right now. (For example, Chroma Circuit). This has been true for more than 6 months. These do not use interpreted/JITed code, of course, since Apple has never allowed that. But my understanding is that otherwise you're seeing exactly what a true Flash Player on the iPhone would do, were it allowed to exist.
Of course, these apps are in limbo right now… the authors have no idea of they will suddenly vanish from the app store overnight or if only their sequels will be banned forever…
Dave Green — 5:18 PM on June 11, 2010
Looking for a (hopefully) simple answer…
Will Dreamweaver (etc) CS5 make it as simple to build sites incorporating HTML5 as CS3 currently makes it?
Adrienne Adams — 12:12 PM on August 04, 2010
While support for HTML5 is welcome news, unfortunately it falls in the "lipstick on a pig" category. Dreamweaver CS5 on Mac is the most unresponsive, ugly, and godawfully clumsy application I have used in a very long time.
Adrienne Adams — 5:25 PM on September 20, 2010
HTML5 support in Dreamweaver CS5 = lipstick.
Dreamweaver CS5/Mac = pig.
Mark The Markie — 8:29 PM on August 13, 2010
I have to agree with the previous poster, putting Dreamweaver CS5 on a Mac is like putting lipstick on a pig.
[Don't call the Mac a pig. –J.]


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People with dementia supported to hang up the keys
CarFreeMe educates people with dementia, and their families, on how to stay active in the community without a car.
When people with dementia hang up their car keys, the sudden loss of mobility can have devastating effects.
The University of Queensland School of Psychology's Dr Theresa Scott said the CarFreeMe program was designed to help make the transition easier.
"Mobility impairments and loss of driving may lead to people becoming isolated and house-bound, and at increased risk of depression and anxiety," she said.
"Developing alternative transport habits and making lifestyle changes have the most benefit in the early stages of dementia, while people are still driving, to allow room for adapting to changes.
"Providing alternative transport options and emotional support for loss and grief are shown to lessen the negative effects of driving cessation.
"For people who have stopped driving, the study provides tailored information for alternative mobility support services so they can continue to be actively engaged within their communities.
"Care partners or family members can also receive education and support to assist them to manage this significant life change for their loved ones."
The program is being delivered in Canberra and surrounding southern New South Wales regions.
People with dementia aged 65 years and older who are still driving, or who have stopped driving, can participate in a seven week program.
Participants will be the first to trial innovative technology and use telehealth to meet with health professionals and develop tailored solutions to their individual needs.
Support will also be provided by a local occupational therapist.
"We hope results will contribute to the intervention becoming more widely available to people living with dementia, and their families, who are experiencing issues related to driving and driving cessation," Dr Scott said.
The team that developed the CarFreeMe program consists of researchers from UQ's School of Psychology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and Faculty of Medicine.
Find out more about the program on the CarFreeMe website or email Amy Nussio on a.nussio@uq.edu.auor phone +61457 779 766.
Media: Dr Theresa Scott theresa.scott@uq.edu.au, Kirsten O'Leary, UQ Communications, k.oleary@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 7436, @UQhealth.
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// Copyright (c) 2015 Ben Zimmer. All rights reserved.

// Main window and editor entry point.

// Holds several things:
//  - content directory and list of assets for easy loading
//  - global palette / palette window
//  - tile container

// Also has functions for wiring groups of editor windows.

package bdzimmer.pixeleditor.view;

import bdzimmer.pixeleditor.model.AssetMetadataUtils;
import bdzimmer.pixeleditor.model.ContentStructure;
import bdzimmer.pixeleditor.model.AssetMetadata;
import bdzimmer.pixeleditor.model.Map;
import bdzimmer.pixeleditor.model.TileContainer;
import bdzimmer.pixeleditor.model.TileOptions;
import bdzimmer.pixeleditor.model.Tileset;
import bdzimmer.pixeleditor.model.TileAttributes;
import bdzimmer.pixeleditor.model.Color;
import bdzimmer.pixeleditor.controller.OldTilesetLoader;
import bdzimmer.pixeleditor.controller.TileUtil;

import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.io.File;

import scala.collection.immutable.List;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JToolBar;

public class Main extends CommonWindow {

  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

  public final String contentDir;
  public final List<AssetMetadata> metadata;

  // private final int[][] globalPalette = new int[256][3];

  private final Color[] globalPalette = TileUtil.colorArray(256); // new Color[256];

  // private PaletteWindowOld paletteWindow = new PaletteWindowOld(globalPalette);

  private PaletteWindow paletteWindow = new PaletteWindow(
      "Global Palette",
      globalPalette, // new Color[256],
      6, null);

  private final TileContainer tileContainer = new TileContainer();

  /**
   * Create a new Main window.
   *
   * @param contentDir  Content directory
   * @param title       Title of the Main window
   */
  public Main(String contentDir, String title, String metadataFilename) {

    System.out.println("starting pixel-editor in content directory " + contentDir);

    this.contentDir = contentDir;
    this.metadata = AssetMetadataUtils.loadAssetMetadata(metadataFilename);

    build(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

    updateMemoryUsageDisplay();

    setTitle(title);

    packAndShow(false);

    paletteWindow.setLocationRelativeTo(null);

  }

  /**
   * Create a TileWindow / MapWindow pair that share the same tile set.
   *
   * @param tileFileName  absolute path of tiles file
   * @param mapFileName   absolute path of map file
   */
  public void createLinkedTileAndMapWindows(String tileFileName, String mapFileName) {

    TileAttributes tileAttrs = TileOptions.getOrQuit("Tiles");

    Tileset tiles;

    if (!"".equals(tileFileName)) {
      tiles = new OldTilesetLoader(tileFileName, tileAttrs).load();
      Tileset.modPalette(tiles.palettes().apply(0), globalPalette);
      paletteWindow.repaint();
    } else {
      tiles = OldTilesetLoader.fromAttributes(tileAttrs);
    }

    Map map;
    if (!"".equals(mapFileName)) {
      map = new Map(new File(mapFileName));
    } else {
      map = new Map();
    }

    TilesEditorWindow tileWindow = new TilesEditorWindow(
        Main.this.contentDir + File.separator + ContentStructure.TileDir(),
        tiles, tileAttrs, "Tileset", tileFileName,
        paletteWindow, tileContainer);

    new MapEditorWindow(
        contentDir + File.separator + ContentStructure.MapDir(),
        map,
        mapFileName,
        globalPalette,
        tileWindow.getTileSet().tiles(),
        tileWindow.getTileSet().properties(),
        tileWindow.getTileContainer());

    tileWindow.toFront();

  }

  /**
   * Create a TileWindow for editing sprites.
   *
   * @param spritesFileName  absolute path of spritesheet tiles file
   * @param tiletype         name of spritesheet attributes
   */
  public void createSpriteWindow(String spritesFileName, String tiletype) {

    TileAttributes spriteAttributes = TileOptions.getOrQuit(tiletype);

    Tileset spriteTiles;

    if (!"".equals(spritesFileName)) {
      spriteTiles = new OldTilesetLoader(spritesFileName, spriteAttributes).load();
      Tileset.modPalette(spriteTiles.palettes().apply(0), globalPalette);
      paletteWindow.repaint();
    } else {
      spriteTiles = OldTilesetLoader.fromAttributes(TileOptions.getOrQuit(tiletype));
    }

    TilesEditorWindow spriteWindow = new TilesEditorWindow(
        Main.this.contentDir + File.separator + ContentStructure.SpriteDir(),
        spriteTiles, spriteAttributes, "Sprites", spritesFileName,
        paletteWindow, tileContainer);
    spriteWindow.getDosGraphics().setPalette(globalPalette);

    spriteWindow.setLocationRelativeTo(null);

  }

  /// CommonWindow overrides

  @Override
  protected JMenuBar buildMenuBar() {

    // Menubar
    JMenuBar mainMenu = new JMenuBar();

    JMenu fileMenu = new JMenu("File");
    mainMenu.add(fileMenu);

    JMenuItem jmExit = new JMenuItem("Exit");
    jmExit.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
        System.exit(0);
      }
    });
    fileMenu.add(jmExit);

    return mainMenu;

  }

  @Override
  protected JToolBar buildToolBar() {

    final JToolBar mainToolbar = new JToolBar();

    // button to show the palette window in case it gets closed
    final JButton palette = new JButton("Palette");
    palette.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        paletteWindow.setVisible(true);
        paletteWindow.toFront();
      }
    });
    palette.setFocusable(false);
    mainToolbar.add(palette);
    mainToolbar.setFloatable(false);

    return mainToolbar;
  }

  @Override
  protected JPanel buildPanel() {

    JPanel panel = new JPanel();

    // Add buttons for spawning new windows and sets of windows
    panel.setLayout(new GridLayout(7, 1, 5, 5));

    JButton addTileMapWindow = new JButton("Tileset / Map Editor");
    addTileMapWindow.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
        createLinkedTileAndMapWindows("", "");
      }
    });
    panel.add(addTileMapWindow);

    JButton addSpriteWindow = new JButton("Sprite Editor");
    addSpriteWindow.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
        createSpriteWindow("", "NPC");
      }
    });
    panel.add(addSpriteWindow);

    /// /// ///

    JButton addTilesetListWindow = new JButton("Load Map Tiles");
    addTilesetListWindow.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
        new TilesLoadWindow(Main.this).setLocationRelativeTo(null);
      }
    });
    panel.add(addTilesetListWindow);

    JButton addSpritesheetListWindow = new JButton("Load Sprites");
    addSpritesheetListWindow.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
        new SpriteLoadWindow(Main.this).setLocationRelativeTo(null);
      }
    });
    panel.add(addSpritesheetListWindow);

    JButton addMapListWindow = new JButton("Load Maps");
    addMapListWindow.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
        new MapLoadWindow(Main.this).setLocationRelativeTo(null);
      }
    });
    panel.add(addMapListWindow);

    JButton addWorldWindow = new JButton("Load Script Files");
    addWorldWindow.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
        new ScriptLoadWindow(Main.this).setLocationRelativeTo(null);
      }
    });
    panel.add(addWorldWindow);

    return panel;

  }

  @Override
  protected StatusBar buildStatusBar() {
    return new StatusBar(20, 0, 0);
  }

  protected void onFocus() {
    updateMemoryUsageDisplay();
  }

  private void updateMemoryUsageDisplay() {
    System.gc();
    Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
    int mb = 1024 * 1024;
    long totalMemory = runtime.totalMemory() / mb;
    long freeMemory  = runtime.freeMemory() / mb;
    // long maxMemory   = runtime.maxMemory()  / mb;
    statusBar.update(
        (totalMemory - freeMemory) + " / " + totalMemory + " MB",
        "", "");
  }

}


"Bind" applications to a specific network interface?
Discussion in 'Mac OS X Server, Xserve, and Networking' started by nurfen, Jul 28, 2010.
I'm currently using dual ethernet connections (one of them a USB Ethernet adapter) on my Mac Mini, which I've chosen to forward different ports to, so one handles FTP, the other one handles the web server, etc.
Now I'm wondering if it's possible in OS X (10.5.8, unfortunately it's a G4) to "bind" a specific application to one of the network interfaces, so that it only utilizes that one?
For daemons, such as httpd, you can bind them to specific addresses. In Apache, you can use the Listen directive.
Of course, it's not really going to hurt anything to listen on all interfaces if DNS is setup properly so all requests go to a particular interface.
That's interesting. I suppose if you had 4 usb ports and a USB-ethernet convertor for every one, you could have 5 ethernet connections.
If you had 4 USB-ethernet convertors all connected to a USB hub connected to a single USB port, would that also work? (and if it was 4 x 100mb ethernet, they'd probably run at usual 100BT speeds if fed by something like a SSD anyway) Not quite sure how the interfacing software would deal with that though.
I'd figure they'd be limited to the bus speed of the host you have it plugged into.


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NY Mirror
by Michael Musto
The imminent Gods and Monsters is a bizarre little talky tango between faded Frankenstein director James Whale and a lawn worker who taunts him, admires him, and poses seminude for him. The film's use of flashbacks and monster symbolism is often contrived and the on-the-set stuff is not as magical as Ed Wood's, but there's some creepy fascination here, and Sir Ian McKellen is grand and touching as the beached
Whale, Brendan Fraser matching him all the way as the gorgeous gardening sprout with a brown thumb.
I caught up with the wryly elegant Sir Ian–who goes one-on-one with another rapt babe in Apt Pupil–at the Essex House, and the stage was set for fun when an assistant stuck his head in to ask him, "Did you have a nice sleep last night?" and McKellen deadpanned, "That's none of your business!" Well, it was my business to ask about Brendan Fraser and how great it was that he didn't condescend at all to his himbo role. Wasn't it, wasn't it? "Brendan's a proper actor," McKellen replied, with great dignity. "It would have been intolerable to him if he'd been just beefcake. The character's more interesting than that. You realize he's more complicated than just a fine figure of a boy." Oh, is Brendan a fine figure of a boy? I hadn't noticed.
Sir Ian's also a venturesome sort, but he's quick to point out that when he suggestively slides a distinctly phallic cigar into his mouth in the movie, "That's acting!" Whale's gay sexuality, however, was for real (and not done just with cigars) and he could get away with it by being open but silent–a delicate high-wire trick that some had to perfect more than others. As McKellen explains it, the press didn't give a crap about directors back then, "but actors had to work harder to keep their sexuality out of the papers. Still, Randolph Scott and Cary Grant were photographed over their kitchen table in their pajamas with their dog, and, this being a more innocent time, the fans could say, 'Oh I'm getting two cute men for the price of one in this photograph!' rather than wonder what the hell they were doing there!"
Today's closet cases can't rely on such blissful ignorance and are often coerced by managers to hetero it up, for the sake of their careers. "But I wonder what career is so worth having that you should spend your time living a lie!" said Sir Ian. He vehemently refuses to do so, and is even honest about his own sometimes eccentric career choices. He admits to having turned down the part of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood, but if you say, "So Martin Landau wouldn't have won the Oscar?" he grimaces and answers, "I don't think I would have, either." He also rejected the Alfred Molina role in Prick Up Your Ears because, "I thought it was very much a straight man's take on these two people's lives. I do regret that one."
He doesn't regret having been knighted in '90, "but that doesn't mean I'm a member of the royal family or go around wearing a suit of armor." He's not as pretentious as all that. In fact, Sir Ian's the kind of titled nobility who loved the scene in Woody Allen's Celebrity where Bebe Neuwirth teaches Judy Davis how to go down on a banana. But Sir Ian, it turns out, needs no such help. "If you notice, I have no bananas," he pointed out, gesturing to his potassium-free fruit bowl. Me neither–but only because I used them all.
Now let's go down, not on a banana, but to the chic new Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, where Audra McDonald just reestablished herself as performing royalty. In her Way Back to Paradise act, McDonald–on a night off from Ragtime–not only came off as a perfect singer with the right combination of precision and passion, but as a perfect lady who never rubbed in that she's won three Tonys. Her mission was to highlight the work of young musical-theater composers, several of whom joined her for exciting duets that attempted to stretch the medium. Naturally, some songs were better than others, but the refreshing sense of discovery made us feel far less squirmy to be in a cabaret than we generally are in those "My Funny Valentine"-type places. And McDonald was entrancing throughout, confirming her status as the unofficial offspring of Leslie Uggams and Shirley Verett.
The more traditional kind of material McDonald studiously avoids is typified by Footloose, which turns out to be like Stupid Kids without the irony, but not as bad as that sounds. When the movie version came out in '84, I remember thinking it was so quaint it made Grease look like a documentary (and at least Grease is spoofing the blandness). Now–in the post-Rent era–it seems positively from Mars, but the trip is actually not that painful, once you get over the Archie and Veronica characters and their knack for singing pop tunes at the Burger Blast. The show is studded with spunk and good feelings–and now I'm hoping for an all-male Dirty Dancing.
At the movies, Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful is an instant classic, and I'm tired of seeing Benigni have to defend it because it has humor, as if this was just some feature-length Springtime for Hitler. Benigni doesn't trivialize the Holocaust; his character heartbreakingly tries to protect his child from its horrors, and when the laughs come up, they serve to either inject more humanity into their plight or make wicked fun of the fascists. Anyway, the mostly overwhelming response has made Benigni's life beautiful. The last time I saw the guy, in '93, he was posing in a giant grounded balloon, trying to promote that Son of the Pink Panther bomb. Well, this time, he was floating on air at his movie's party at the Plaza, where luminaries lined up to kiss his ass, and were so into it that they probably would have pleasured his banana too, if asked.
I commiserated with Benigni about those critics who've put him on the spot, and he said, "I don't have to defend this movie because it's so vulnerable. It's like a naked kid–uno bambino nudo. It defends itself. The movie, he's defending me!" Real-life children–clothed ones–certainly get it, and in Italy they've responded to Benigni by embracing him as a sort of life-sized Mickey Mouse. "I'm well known in Italy as a cartoon," he told me, "and since kids are purity, they write me letters, with drawings on them." Which American movies does he embrace? "I like the classics by Scorsese, Tarantino, Woody Allen—he's not Italian–and William Wyler. Ben-Hur was my first movie, but I didn't have enough money, so I saw it backwards. I saw Ruh-Neb." Oh, that's the version where Charlton Heston was the walrus.
Finally, in the get-her department, you may have heard that Martha Stewart was in one of the vehicles held up by last week's protest march against antigay violence, and she didn't look too happy, especially when a few people started chanting, "What do we need now? New sheets!" I guess Martha shouldn't have left Connecticut–and by the way, she also shouldn't go to see Bride of Chucky, because bridey's big moment has her screaming, "Fuck Martha Stewart! Martha Stewart can kiss my shiny, plastic butt!" That's acting!
Michael Musto can be e-mailed at musto@villagevoice.com.
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My Minute of News: The qualities that made MLK's famous speech so famous
Jan 17, 2022, 4:24 PM | Updated: 4:52 pm
Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
(Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
BY JEFF CAPLAN
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This is an editorial piece. An editorial, like a news article, is based on fact but also shares opinions. The opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and are not associated with our newsroom.
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood behind a microphone at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963, he and more than 250,000 other people had peacefully marched from the Washington Monument.
It was just under a mile and represented the culmination of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The goal of the march organizers was to demand civil rights for Black Americans.
There were a dozen other speakers before Dr. King, and one after him. But it was his "I Have a Dream" speech that became intimately linked with the march. It's his speech that kids are taught about in school today.
What made it so special? As far as I can tell, it boils down to three things: time, place, and words.
It was 1963, and the height of the fight for civil rights, a battle that had been waged in America for years ahead of that tumultuous decade. It can be argued that the Black fight for civil rights began in the late 1940s when President Harry Truman issued an executive order to end racial segregation in the U.S. military.
Between that moment and King's speech in 1963 was Brown vs. Board of Education and the end of segregation in public schools. Then the murder of Emmett Till, Rosa Parks' refusal to sit in the back of a bus, a bus boycott, non-violent protests, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 ensuring voting rights, sit-ins, Ruby Bridges, and freedom riders.
Meaning Dr. King was riding a wave (and arguably, at the same time, in the mix creating the wave) that had decades of momentum with clear demands: civic and economic rights for Black Americans.
Nearly 250,000 Black Americans had peacefully and solemnly moved a little less than a mile, from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. Then, Dr. King took them on another trip, one through American history.
With his words, he reminded everyone there and everyone who would watch and listen later, of some of the most powerful words uttered by other American giants.
Like the Gettysburg Address, the greatest speech in American history. King's speech began with rhetorical flourish, using the same words as those used by the man sitting behind King in gigantic statue form. "Five score and seven years ago … " (except Lincoln said, "four score.")
He cited the powerful Declaration of Independence decree that all men are created equal.
And as he described the past, he pointed to the future, repeating the title of his speech as a chorus. As an exclamation point.
"I have a dream!"
Proof of the strength of this speech … each January… for 57 years… it's heard in classrooms… on TV…and leaves each listener to weigh …whether Martin Luther King's dream has … or ever will … come true.
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Borgen S2 E3+4
Posted on January 15, 2013 Updated on January 16, 2015
Contains spoilers for the two aired episodes.
I really don't intend to do a detailed week-by-week review of the entire season of Borgen, but this week's instalment of episodes seems to require it.
Put simply, I thought this was possibly the best and strongest two episodes of Borgen to date. Sometimes the show can be a little uneven and its parts disconnected, but "The Last Worker" and "Battle Ready" were as strong and well-written as anything the show has done to date, managing to tell effective and gripping stories in which the personal and emotional strands wove into the political and dramatic storylines and back again in the most perfectly integrated way. And having grumbled about BBC4 showing the series in double-headers when episodes are generally stand-alone instalments, here we have two stories that flowed seamlessly from one to another giving the whole evening the sweeping sense of a well-thought-out two- hour motion picture rather than a TV show.
"The Last Worker" featured Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen) trying to get a new social welfare policy agreed with her coalition partners (this coming spookily within days of Britain's real PM David Cameron unveiling something like the same thing for the UK – talk about relevance!) but the process being undermined by her coalition partners in the Labour Party having trouble with their union backers over the question of early retirement leading to the ousting of the sweet, honorable but in truth rather shambolic and effective party leader Bjørn Marrot (Flemming Sørensen).
If you wrote a serious drama about the British Labour Party, and its identity crisis between its past (as a movement for the workers) and its present (dominated by white collar career-professional politicians) then you couldn't have hit it any more on the nose than this Danish production managed. The moment when Marrot realised that his time as Labour leader was over after a ruthless palace coup by his own loathsome gang of deputies in the Cabinet was not only full of pathos as a character piece, it also made some spot-on points about how he was "the last worker in the party" and how with his passing it was the end of an era for Labour that left them diminished. And all because he didn't wear the right tie and misspoke while on a foreign trip – how many real-life politicians have we taken delight in seeing brought down by similar 'offences'? I think I'll take a little less joy in such political theatre after this, which dramatised us the human cost of such ruthless machinations.
"Battle Ready" pretty much continued the story on directly, with Marrot's successor and coup ring leader Troels Höxenhaven (Lars Brygmann) riding high on hubris effectively demanding that Nyborg stand down as Prime Minister now that the largest party in the coalition, Labour, had an effective leader capable of leading the country. The stakes had never been higher in the series so far: a direct threat and from a man seemingly capable of toppling Nyborg with ease.
That's when the more personal/emotional stories started to come into play. Birgitte was still reeling from the split with her ex-husband (and now having to deal with his having a 'perfect' new woman in his life) and from the loss of her loyal political mentor and ally in the previous episodes, and now found that harmless and dependable Marrot was also gone and replaced by a vicious snake in the grass. Lonely and abandoned on all sides, Birgitte had a moment of weakness that would come back to bite her at the end.
Meanwhile, the story of Katrine's (Birgitte Hjort Sørensen) and Kasper's (Pilou Asbæk) on-off doomed love affair dovetailed into the story of Katrine and Hanne's (Benedikte Hansen) investigation into the source of an explosive story about the new Labour leader that threatened to topple Höxenhaven even quicker than he had ascended. It was a challenging and difficult strand to the story, for me at east – absolutely not because it wasn't very well done, but because I didn't quite know where I stood on the issues being raised and really had to think about my own feelings and assumptions.
On the one hand, newspaper-engineered honey-traps and publishing compromising salacious paparazzi photos is simply everyday tabloid activity in the UK (or used to be, before Leveson and the closure of the News of the World) and not nearly as morally and ethically dubious as it appears to be in Denmark. I think that speaks highly of the Danes and poorly of us Brits, and left me thinking "Should I be as outraged about this story as Katrine and Hanne clearly are, or are they being perfectionist prima donnas and goody two-shoes?" The question was further complicated by the fact that even if we decided to be righteous and come down on the 'good' side of the argument, in dramatic terms we needed the newspaper's kiss-and-tell story to run because otherwise there was no chance of Nyborg retaining her post as PM. Talk about conflict of interest and loyalties.
There was, I have to say, a false note near the end of the episode that slightly undermined the excellence of the two hours that had preceded it. Höxenhaven goes to admit all to Nyborg, and despite the fact that he's recently declared total war against her and made no bones about wanting her to out, Nyborg's reaction is to say: "I'll stand by you and publicly support you on this." This, from the woman who was quick to distance herself from Höxenhaven's predecessor Marrot on far more spurious grounds? I don't think so. The most charitable reaction from Nyborg on the circumstances would have been to remain cordial, not to immediately dance on the table, and maybe – at a stretch – a promise not to jump on the media storm bandwagon when it broke out. But to try and get Höxenhaven to stay and moreover to support him? No, even a saint would have trouble there.
But her admirable words were necessary in order that Nyborg wasn't implicated in any way in what followed. She had to remain spotless in the tragedy that ensued. And I have to admit, the fact that Höxenhaven felt he had to take the action he did is a surprise to a Brit who sees Denmark as a tolerant and open-minded paragon of liberal values in an increasingly mean world. Would his transgression really bring about such unfaceable shame that Höxenhaven felt he had no alternative? That in itself is a disturbing sign that all is not as well under the surface in Scandinavia as we'd hoped.
It certainly made for a powerful end to a gripping and high-quality two hours of drama. Once again I was left marvelling at how Danish drama seems to say as much if not more about British society, politics and attitudes than most of the UK TV output these days, and for me the big question left hanging heavy over the end credits was: "Serious, why can't Britain make a programme as good as this dealing with real personal and political issues that matter any more?"
Currently showing on BBC4 at 9pm on Saturday nights, and available on BBC iPlayer. The DVD of season 2 is available from February 4, 2013.
This entry was posted in Television and tagged Borgen, Danish television, Denmark, Nordic Drama, Sidse Babett Knudsen.
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In Generation Y, we all believe that in order to keep leading our clients to success we have to give the opportunity to our professionals to learn about how to achieve it.
For this reason Generation Y's Head of Market Research traveled to Amsterdam, representing the company at this year's ESOMAR Summer Bootcamp.
During the 3-day event, Vicky Zachareli participated in workshops about creative insights, innovations and trends from the data, research and insights industry and learned from some of the sector's top global experts.