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Fan video shows Renault drivers tangling on final lap
2016 Spanish Grand Prix
17th May 2016, 23:49 | Written by Keith Collantine
Video shot by an F1 fan at the Circuit de Catalunya reveals the moment Renault drivers Kevin Magnussen and Jolyon Palmer made contact on the final lap of the Spanish Grand Prix. The incident was not seen on the world feed during the broadcast of Sunday's race.
Magnussen was attempting to pass his team mate for 13th place at turn 13 when the pair made contact. As the video shows, Palmer continued across the run-off and kept the position while Magnussen negotiated the chicane.
The stewards ruled in favour of Palmer, handing his team mate a ten second penalty. That dropped Magnussen to 15th place in the final classification behind Felipe Nasr. Magnussen was also given penalty points on his licence.
At the end of the race Magnussen was running on a set of soft tyres which were 22 laps fresher than the hard compounds on his team mate's car and caught Palmer at around three seconds per lap.
The pair have now finished ahead of each other twice in the four races where both drivers saw the chequered flag. Magnussen's seventh place at the Russian Grand Prix remains the team's only points finish so far this year.
An onboard video of the collision has also been released by FOM.
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Posted on 17th May 2016, 23:49 Author Keith CollantineCategories 2016 F1 season, 2016 Spanish Grand PrixTags 2016 f1 season, F1, f1 2016, formula one, formula one 2016, Jolyon Palmer, palmer, Renault, renault formula 1 team, tagmagn
16 comments on "Fan video shows Renault drivers tangling on final lap"
Atticus (@atticus-2)
18th May 2016, 0:55
"Hamilton's fault."
Nah, seriously, I get it that Magnussen had fresher tyres, but he was so messy in T12 in the first place, he also carried a huge flat-spot on his left front, but these things are not significant errors still.
But he was so far back that he would have never made the corner regardless of bumping Palmer out of the way or not. He divebombed him, he understeered into him, it's 100% his fault.
It's pretty much like how Ricciardo tried to pass Vettel, he also let his control of his vehicle go and was just a passenger intentionally as he understeered heavily inside the Ferrari.
Foolish, pointless move but boys are boys.
10 seconds race time added and a 2 points penalty? For this?
How much penalty was it that Rosberg/Hamilton got?
How much penalty to Vettel/Kvyat?
How much to… Yes, the list can go on and on.
If this is the level on where you receive penalties, then many more should be handed out at each race.
This case was indeed clumsy driving, but both cars carried on and Magnussen did not gain any track advantage.
bezza695 (@bezza695)
it's as I always say, different rules for different drivers, the only time front runners will get a penalty is if it's 100% guaranteed penalty, if Magnussen and Palmer did what Hamilton and Rosberg did there is a good chance they would've picked up a significant penalty for Monaco, but let's be honest the FIA don't want to hurt a championship contender going into the biggest race of the year.
I kind of agree. I can only see one driver who could have been penalised here, Rosberg, (but that's not the point) and if they'd have done that, a three- or five- or ten-place grid penalty, for example, it would have made for a pretty sure Hamilton victory in Monaco.
@bezza695
Yeah, the stewarding is outrageously inconsistent.
Paul Schofield (@tvr350)
Wow loads of empty seats in the stands – did they all leave when Alonso dropped out?
There's an onboard of this, and a few others, on the F1 website
http://www.formula1.com/content/fom-website/en/latest/features/2016/5/7-unseen-onboards-from-barcelona.html
Last paragraph dude :-)
Yeah, dumb move, but he owned up to it. So, I'll take that.
Certainly no more worthy of a penalty than the Merc cars.
Well, let's see. Palmer started to turn right in the middle of a straight, when Magnussen was already half the way alongside, and squeezed him off the track.
Rosberg started to move right immediately after the turn, at the time when Hamilton was still safely tucked behind him, so when Hamilton put his nose into a gap, it was a borderline gap that was steadily shrinking for almost a second by that time.
Magnussen got a penalty.
By the way, I am not suggesting Hamilton should have gotten one, I am fine with the official verdict. But one thing is the official verdict, another thing is what is being said behind closed door in team debriefing.
PJA (@pja)
After watching both the fan video and the onboard video my first reaction was is that it?
Seriously, am I missing something, Magnussen attempted an ambition move on his teammate which didn't work, neither car was damaged and there was no change in positions.
Yes it was a bit clumsy from Magnussen but the move didn't mean anyone retired or change the end result, if the manoeuvre had meant that Palmer had lost places then I could understand the penalty.
Given some of the moves that go unpunished I don't see why this was penalised and can I honestly say that now when incidents are referred to the stewards I have no idea what decision they will come to.
Csaba (@rapid)
That's the Magnussen I remember from the 2014 season. Plenty of talent, but overly and I have to add in this case also unnecessarily agressive on the racetrack.
Nice avoiding reaction from Palmer though, I think he's bit of an underrated driver. Don't really know why. I havent seen him in GP2, but he has shown some proper wheel to wheel racing skills this season.
This was actually the first time I've seen K-Mag lose control in a wheel-to-wheel situation since his debut in 2014. He's actually one of the best in wheel-to-wheel combat. (Many memorable moments from 2014.)
Now he lost it, probably because – for the very first time – Palmer was actually clearly quicker in terms of race pace on equal tyres (2nd stint or whatever, check the race chart) which must have frustrated him. The closest Palmer got was Melbourne where they had all but matched each other to hundredths of a second in quali and very likely in the race as well.
Which brings us to your second point: Palmer is actually not that good at all. No wonder they were rumours of Renault replacing him. They now don't need his money that much and he was mostly very very clearly slower than Magnussen (bar Melbourne quali, Melbourne race and Barcelona race).
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Facebook Has Opened Up A New Front In Its War With Google For The Future Of Advertising (FB, GOOG)
By Owen Thomas
Published 12:05 pm PST, Sunday, January 27, 2013
The cash register rings. Who gets the credit?
That's the crucial question in advertising these days—particularly in Internet advertising, where it's easy to track clicks and links but often hard to pin down exactly which view of an ad drove a sale.
Now Facebook is making it easier to show that an ad displayed on the social network led to a sale—even an ad seen days or weeks ago.
The technology is called conversion tracking, and after years of testing the idea, Facebook quietly rolled it out to all advertisers in a little-noted move last week.
The idea is pretty simple: Facebook creates a customized conversion pixel that advertisers place on a page—like a checkout page on an e-commerce site, or a signup page for a subscription, or an app-download page—where a consumer's taking the action they hoped their ads would prompt.
That lets Facebook link sales to ad campaigns, showing in aggregate which ads generated the most response.
Google has long had similar features, along with Google Analytics, a dashboard for doing deep analysis of users' actions on a website.
But Facebook has rolled out something far more powerful that can consistently track users across mobile devices and desktop websites.
It can do this because it has a single, unified identity for each of its users, who tend to stay logged in to Facebook far more than any other website.
Google has responded by rolling out Google+. Often misunderstood as a social network, Google+ has been described by executive chairman Eric Schmidt and other executives as an "identity layer" across Google products. Its social features provide an incentive for users to log in with Google accounts. But they have yet to do so with anything like the consistency and frequency that Facebook users do.
Facebook experimented with conversion tracking in 2010, abandoning it and then rolling it back as a service restricted to its biggest advertisers. More recently, it has been combining a limited test of conversion tracking with a feature called Optimized CPM, which automatically tunes campaigns to specific marketing goals like product sales or app downloads, rather than crude link-clicking metrics.
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Home Fossils First an alga, then a squid, enigmatic fossil is actually a fish
First an alga, then a squid, enigmatic fossil is actually a fish
New study suggests that Cretaceous fossil discovered 70 years ago is a large ray
A photo of the Platylithophycus cretaceus specimen. The scale bar is 5 centimeters. Credit: Mike Eklund
A fossil slab discovered in Kansas 70 years ago and twice misidentified — first as a green alga and then as a cephalopod — has been reinterpreted as the preserved remains of a large cartilaginous fish, the group that includes sharks and rays. In a study published in the Journal of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History researchers describe the fishy characteristics of the animal, which lived between 70-85 million years ago.
"There are many examples of temporarily misplaced taxa in paleontological history, including ferns that were once thought to be sponges and lungfish teeth thought to be fungi," said the lead author, Allison Bronson, a comparative biology Ph.D.-degree student in the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School. "In this case, the misidentification didn't happen because of a lack of technology at the time — scientists familiar with cartilage structure could easily see this was a chondrichthyan fish. The researchers used reasonable arguments for their interpretations, but didn't look outside of their own fields."
The enigmatic specimen, Platylithophycus cretaceum, is roughly 1.5-feet long by 10-inches wide and from the Niobrara Formation in Kansas. The Niobrara Formation is one of the most diverse fish-fossil sites in North America, preserving late Cretaceous animals that lived in and around the Western Interior Seaway, a broad expanse of water that split North America into two land masses.
In 1948, two paleobotanists from the Colorado School of Mines and Princeton University compared the texture of the fossil slab with that of green algae. They described two parts of a plant: surfaces covered with hexagonal plates, which they called "fronds," and supposedly calcium carbonate-covered thread-like filaments. In 1968, two researchers from Fort Hays Kansas State College studying cephalopods from the Niobrara Formation compared the specimen with a cuttlefish, based primarily on its textural similarities to a cuttlebone — the unique internal shell of cuttlefish. The reclassification made Platylithophycus the oldest sepiid squid then on record.
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In both of these earlier studies, the hard tissue was assumed to be composed of calcium carbonate, but no tests were performed. For the new study, Bronson and co-author John Maisey, a curator in the Museum's Division of Paleontology, applied a small amount of dilute organic acid to the specimen — a method that has been widely used in paleontology since the time of the initial description of Platylithophycus. If there is a reaction, the fossilized material is likely made from calcium carbonate. But if there is no reaction, which was the case when Bronson and Maisey performed the test, it is likely made from calcium phosphate, as are the fossilized skeletons of cartilaginous fish like sharks and rays.
The most obvious clue that Platylithophycus was a cartilaginous fish are the hexagonal plates on the surface of the specimen. After taking a closer look with a scanning electron microscope, Bronson and Maisey reinterpreted that feature as tessellated calcified cartilage, found on both extinct and living sharks and rays. The new study suggests that the "filaments" earlier described are actually part of the gill arches, made up of tessellated cartilage. Gill arches are cartilaginous curved bars along the pharynx, or throat, that support the gills of fish. The "fronds" are reinterpreted as gill rakers, finger-like projections that extend from the gill arches and help with feeding.
"We think this was a rather large cartilaginous fish, possibly related to living filter-feeding rays such as Manta and Mobula," Maisey said. "This potentially expands the range of diversity in the Niobrara fauna."
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But because this fossil only preserves the animal's gills and no additional identifying features like teeth, it cannot be given a new name or reunited with an existing species. So until then, this fish will still carry the name of a plant.
Allison W. Bronson, John G. Maisey. Resolving the identity of Platylithophycus, an enigmatic fossil from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous, Coniacian–Campanian). Journal of Paleontology, 2018; 1 DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2018.14
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Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning
Beyond Algorithms: Getting to the Heart of Successful ML Solutions
By Jeff Costlow, ExtraHop on June 23, 2019
Within the AI hype bubble, information security vendors sometimes make sensational claims about their technology, often suggesting unique algorithms that are smarter than those of rivals. However, these boasts play on the misperception that algorithms are the only thing that set successful AI/machine learning solutions apart, which is generally not the case.
In Singapore, AI is well established as a concept, and applications are becoming more widespread. In the public sector, Minister-in-charge of Smart Nation Initiative Vivian Balakrishnan recently said that the country will "double down" on its efforts to build up the AI sector, and equip its workforce to use these tools to "participate meaningfully" in a future where the economy is driven by the technology.
AI is also already gaining a firm foothold in the private sector. Mastercard, for example, is investing in AI innovations and law firm Rajah & Tann has set up a digital arm - Rajah & Tann Technologies (RTT) - that harnesses artificial intelligence (AI)-driven technology to deliver legal services digitally.
The risk is that AI becomes a lazy buzzword, too often conflated with machine learning (ML). It is essential that a distinction between these two terms is established and their relationship is understood, particularly in the cybersecurity field.
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It is, of course, true to say that an AI system can process large amounts of real-time, historical, structured and unstructured data much faster, and in more intensive ways, than humans. This speed and depth replaces manual efforts with the potential to make a rapid, accurate decision—again based on the training the system has had. But it is ML - which is a specific component of AI – that is "trained," and that uses that training to make sense of the data. AI adds on to this idea by letting the machine either suggest or take action based on its models and observations.
Imagine, for example, that a malicious user logs in to a network-connected PC with admin rights that immediately runs a tool to search for open file shares across the network. Then this user starts to copy several files from a shared volume to a new folder. Next, the user begins sending these files to a previously unused FTP server: this could be a perfectly reasonable activity, or it could be a signal that credentials have been hacked and a data breach is taking place.
In this scenario, each of these steps might only be noticed in hindsight after separate alerts and examination of the associated log files. Also, each step might take place days apart and may not even be correlated as a sequence. In fact, some of these actions are unlikely to be captured within logs or by agents.
And as Jisc noted, under the General Data Protection Regulation, the justification for retaining logs is that the benefits to users of detection are greater than the risks caused to them by retention. But the longer an intruder stays in your systems undetected, the fewer benefits there will be for detailed investigations. Once the intruder has taken all the data accessible from a system, backdoored it to give them full and persistent control, and modified applications and logs to conceal these activities, the benefit of all those log files is pretty small.
A machine learning solution could spot and recognize the risk of each of these events, generate a priority alert, and potentially automatically quarantine that PC from the rest of the network. For this automated process to be effective and be permitted in the risk-aware culture of security, the solution needs to have a high level of confidence that this is, in fact, an attack and not just a real admin going about their legitimate duties. Comparison of behavior against peer group behavior, roles, and rights can provide a secondary confirmation. These are all tasks that a machine can do well that humans cannot.
High-Quality Data is Crucial for Accuracy
ML models evolve over time, based on what they observe or how they are trained. Used on authoritative data sets, ML helps prioritize those indicators that are materially interesting and automate aspects of the investigation that slow and complicate the security operations center (SOC). The critical enabler for success is that the data available for building the ML model must be diverse, contextual, timely, and reliable.
Having more high-quality data for the machine learning to analyze allows the AI to make better judgments. High-quality data should start with accurate data about users, devices, systems on the network, and workflow patterns. So, in this example, if the models had been fed network device discovery information which made the AI aware that the 'PC' the malicious user logged in from is a print server, then tasks other than managing print jobs would be considered as highly suspicious.
Historical Patterns Valuable for Training
A historical understanding of user and device behavior along with real-time access to current network activity is also beneficial in training the underlying models. For example, if the "admin" account in our scenario had always logged in between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. and logged out mostly between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., but this activity was taking place at 10 p.m., this break from the established pattern could also cause a red flag. Or if this admin had never previously used FTP or had any interaction with this file server—again red flags aplenty.
To be able to gain these insights, you need both a broad array of baseline data and constant flow of real-time information beyond what is available from historical logs or agents, or scheduled scans. The last point is particularly critical as the next generation of IoT devices often don't have either logs or agents, and application owners really don't want agents or scans running on their finely tuned systems.
Avoiding Garbage In
What does this all mean in terms of practical application? Garbage in, garbage out. Quality in, quality out. Security operations now include many data and behavioral analytics applications, running with Security Information and Event Management software (SIEMs).
All analytics will be more effective when provided with rich, high-fidelity sources of data. ML liberates analytics from laborious rules maintenance, permitting higher resolution models that can help find real-time event correlations to identify anomalies and predict and prevent security issues. The more relevant the data, the better—not to drown the system, as alerts do today, but to facilitate the training and optimization of the system for maximum on-going accuracy and confidence.
Although this is a broad summary of the issue, the next time somebody tries to convince you that it's all about the algorithm, it's almost certainly the data that holds the key.
Jeff Costlow, chief information security officer, ExtraHop contributed this article.
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Q: Why do I see "The NPF driver isn't running. You may have trouble capturing or listing interfaces." when starting Wireshark? When I start up Wireshark, why do I see this message?
"The NPF driver isn't running. You may have trouble capturing or listing interfaces."

A: It's really best not to run Wireshark as Administrator. See here for an explanation - bugs in the dissector can do a lot more damage when it runs as administrator. A better solution (offered here) is the following:

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*Open a command prompt (cmd.exe) using the "Run as administrator" option

*Run the command sc qc npf
You will see output similar to this:

    C:\Windows\system32>sc qc npf
    [SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS
    SERVICE_NAME: npf
        TYPE               : 1  KERNEL_DRIVER
        START_TYPE         : 3   DEMAND_START
        ERROR_CONTROL      : 1   NORMAL
        BINARY_PATH_NAME   : system32\drivers\npf.sys
        LOAD_ORDER_GROUP   :
        TAG                : 0
        DISPLAY_NAME       : NetGroup Packet Filter Driver
        DEPENDENCIES       :
        SERVICE_START_NAME :

*

*If it looks like this, you will need to start the service using sc start npf
 so that it displays STATE   : 4  RUNNING.

*To start the service automatically in future, use sc config npf start= auto
(that space after the equals sign is important)

A: You need to run Wireshark with administrator privileges.

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*Exit Wireshark.

*Find Wireshark on the Start Menu.

*Right-click on it.

*Select "Run as administrator",

*Click "Yes" in the user account control dialog.

A: Run "cmd.exe" as Administrator, and go
cd C:\Windows\system32

then
C:\Windows\system32>sc qc npf start= auto

To make sure type  "sc qc npf", you will get the output:
C:\Windows\system32>sc qc npf
[SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS

SERVICE_NAME: npf
        TYPE               : 1  KERNEL_DRIVER
        START_TYPE         : 2   AUTO_START
        ERROR_CONTROL      : 1   NORMAL
        BINARY_PATH_NAME   : system32\drivers\npf.sys
        LOAD_ORDER_GROUP   :
        TAG                : 0
        DISPLAY_NAME       : NetGroup Packet Filter Driver
        DEPENDENCIES       :
        SERVICE_START_NAME :

To make it back type:
C:\Windows\system32> sc qc npf start= demand

A: RTI Protocol Analyzer with Wireshark uses the Windows Packet capture (WinPcap) driver called NPF driver when it starts to capture live data. Loading the driver requires Administrator privileges.
To cllear this error, you need to open the file called npf.sys which is located at
* C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\

in Windows 7. Follow the below guide to open the npf.sys file.
Firstly, make sure that you have installed winpcap, if you didn't install it, just go to its official site and download it for installation: http://www.winpcap.org
Next, find cmd.exe which is located at
* C:\Windows\System32

in Windows 7, right click and "Run as administrator". When it opened, input net start npf, then the NPF driver is successfully opened. That is,the file npf.sys is opened.
At last, restart Wireshark, it will be OK now.
Note:
If you are using  Linux or Ubuntu, after WinpCap is installed, use the common " >$ su Administrator " to switch to the highest authority account, then input net start npf .
If you are using Windows XP, login with administrator account then open cmd, input net start npf.

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Using the 'DS graphic styles' you can apply a saved setting to a selected path.
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We strongly advice to install the DS Libraries, saving you lots of time. You can keep all DS libraries for all times, they work in all Ai versions and languages. Also, feel free to use the DS libraries in any company and also share them with your colleagues. At the bottom of this pages is a link to the page to download and install the 'DS Libraries'.
Wij adviseren om alle DS bibliotheken te installeren. Je mag ze altijd blijven gebruiken, ze werken in alle versies en taal installaties van Illlustrator. Ook mag je ze onbeperkt meenemen naar andere werkgevers en delen met al je collega's. Onderaan deze pagina staat een link naar een pagina om de 'DS bibliotheken' te downloaden en te installeren.


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Q: Comparing asymptotics in the constant/nonconstant case for linear recurrence of order 2 Let $(u_n)_{n\geq 1}$ be a sequence of real numbers satisfying a (non-constant) linear recurrence of order $2$ :
$$
u_{n+2}+a_nu_{n+1}+b_nu_n=0 \tag{1}
$$
where $(a_n)$ and $(b_n)$ are both convergent sequences, with limit $a$ and $b$ respectively. Suppose further that any solution of the constant recurrence tends to zero (in other words, the two roots of $X^2+aX+b$ have modulus $<1$).
Question 1. Must $(u_n)$ converge to zero as in the constant case ?
Question 2. (independent of question 1) When $(u_n)$ converges to zero, must we have a geometric convergence $|u_n| \leq kc^n$ with $0 \lt c \lt 1$ as in the constant case ?
Update 12/09/2019 : The answer to both questions is yes when $|a|+|b| \lt 1$, because then there is a $r\in (0,1)$ such that $|a_n|+|b_n| \leq r$ for large enough $n$, say $n\geq n_0$ for some $n_0\in{\mathbb N}$. Then, (1) yields $|u_{n+2}| \leq r \times {\mathsf{max}}(|u_n|,|u_{n+1}|)$ for all $n\geq n_0$. Putting $k={\mathsf{max}}(|u_{n_0},u_{n_0+1}|)$, by induction we deduce that $|u_{n_0+p}| \leq kr^{\lfloor \frac{p}{2} \rfloor}$ for all $p\geq 0$.

A: The answer is yes for both questions.
The scalar recursion of order 2 is equivalent to the following recursion
of order 1 for vectors via $v_n=(u_n,u_{n+1})^T$.
\begin{equation}\tag{1}\label{one}
v_{n+1}=A_nv_n,\ \ A_n=\left(\begin{matrix}0&1\\-b_n&-a_n\end{matrix}\right)
\end{equation}
If $\lambda,\mu$ are the roots of $X^2+aX+b$ which satisfy $|\lambda|,|\mu|<1$ by assumption  then there is a constant matrix $T$ such that
$$\newcommand{\eps}{\varepsilon}T^{-1}A T= \left(\begin{matrix}\lambda&\eps\\0&\mu\end{matrix}\right)=:D
\mbox{ for }A=\lim A_n=\left(\begin{matrix}0&1\\-b&-a\end{matrix}\right)$$
where $\eps=0$ unless $\lambda=\mu$  and the eigenvalue $\lambda$ of $A$ has algebraic
multiplicity 1; in this case $\eps\neq0$ and it can be chosen such that
$|\lambda|+|\eps|<1$.
Putting $v_n=Tw_n$ transforms (\ref{one}) to
$$w_{n+1}=(D+F_n)w_n,$$
where $F_n$ is a matrix of elements tending to 0.
Using the maximum norm for vectors and the corresponding matrix norm, we find
$$||w_{n+1}||\leq\big(\max(|\lambda|+|\eps|,|\mu|)+||F_n||\big)||w_n||.$$
By assumption, the maximum is smaller than 1 and $||F_n||$ tends to 0. Therefore there
exist some $0<M<1$ and some integer $N$ such that the big parenthesis is $\leq M$ for $n\geq N$. This means that
$$||w_{n+1}||\leq M||w_{n}||\mbox{ for }n\geq N$$
and hence $||w_n||\leq ||w_N|| M^{n-N}$ for $n\geq N$.
Therefore $w_n$ tends to 0 and therefore also $v_n$ and $u_n$ tend to 0 and there
are constants $K,M$, $M<1$ such that $|u_n|\leq K M^n$ for  all $n$.


I was always told that Burning a Ouija Board was a bad idea, so I decided to try it...Watch as zozo ouija board demon is caught on tape leaving the ouija board!! This was a live show, and is completely unedited ! Enjoy!


Today we have a very special raffle for you as this is our 175th raffle we are doing in the history of Anastacia Fanclub! There are lot of lucky winners out there who have some specials in their CD's shelf, posters on their walls or also wear some of the rare stuff we raffled over the years! Maybe some of you want to send us some pics of the stuff you won throughout the years?
For this special reason this month we put a package together which includes some rare stuff again!
Raffle # 175 in 13 years of fanclub!
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Did you wear your green today, or orange? Or maybe you wore blue? Saint Patrick's Day is really a church holiday and was actually associated with the Saint's color blue, but in more recent history the American Irish happily turned it into a general holiday celebrating their Irish roots. Why green? Wikipedia blames it on the green shamrock that St. Pat apparently used to explain the Trinity to the unsuspecting Celts those umpteen years ago (try fifth century), but whatever the original reason green has become increasingly associated, by us not so Irish people anyhow, with being Irish, so on St. Patrick's Day, when everyone is Irish, the tradition has been to wear green. For those who more thoroughly understand Irish history, however (myself not really included), the color green is linked not simply with Ireland, but more specifically with loyalty to the Irish Catholic Church, while the Irish Protestants often identify more specifically with the color orange (see the flag, with its Catholic green, Protestant orange, and peace seeking white). Sadly, Ireland has a very rocky religious and political history, and for those who can claim Irish roots 365 days of the year identifying with their piece of that history, be it Catholic or Protestant, can be important; for many it's not a light matter. So before you go pinching anybody on St. Pat's day, take a closer look at their colors. I, for one, wore green today. Am I Catholic? No, but neither am I Irish Protestant; I am simply an American citizen enjoyng my one day to claim Irish heritage (remember, on St. Patrick's Day everyone is Irish), so I'm sticking to the commercialized, non-religious, Irish culture embracing version of the holiday, wearing my green and enjoying my Irish boiled dinner to the tunes of River Dance.
Calvin and I stumbled upon this lovely corner of flowering happiness this morning after music class and thought it extra appropriate to share due to its excellent green hue, with a touch of orange (okay, that's yellow, but just try to imagine them orange - they are a pretty promise of spring).


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Understanding Hearing Loss: How We Hear
The Central Auditory System
The central auditory system is made up of neurons that form the auditory nerve and several other nerve centers in the brain. These neurons are responsible for transmitting and decoding signals into meaningful entities. Speech is a highly complex auditory signal that could not be interpreted were it not for the sophistication of the central auditory system. Where the ear is said to permit the sensation of sound, the central auditory system permits the comprehension of sound. A lack of stimulation of the central auditory system, as often seen in cases of hearing impairment, has been shown to cause irreversible loss in nerve function and has also been shown to contribute to dementia-like disorders in certain patients. As such, a timely correction of hearing loss is recommended to avoid such serious conditions.
The Ear is made up of three main parts:
Outer Ear
Middle Ear
Inner Ear
The outer ear consists of the visible part of the ear (pinna), the ear canal and the eardrum. Sound waves are collected by the outer ear and are channeled toward the eardrum. The ear-drum begins to vibrate.
The middle ear is an air-filled space that contains the three smallest bones in the human body: the malleus, the incus and the stapes. These bones are attached to the eardrum on one side and to the inner ear on the other side. The middle ear is also connected to the throat via the Eustachian tube. Eustachian tubes stabilize the air pressure on either side of your eardrum and allow your ears to "pop" when you're flying in a plane or driving through mountains. When sound waves are channeled into the eardrum, the vibration of the eardrum causes movement of the three tiny bones in the middle ear. The movement of these bones transmits the eardrum vibrations to the inner ear.
The inner ear consists of the cochlea and the vestibular (balance) system. The cochlea is a snail shaped bone filled with fluid and thousands of tiny "hair cells" that process sound vibrations. Vibrations entering the cochlea create waves in the cochlear fluid, and the hair cells move in response. The movement of these hair cells sends electrical signals along the hearing nerve to the brain. The brain then processes these signals to interpret what we have heard.


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Killshot *1/2
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword **1/2
Kingdom Of Heaven *1/2
Kingsman: The Golden Circle ***
Kingsmen: The Secret Service ****
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang ***1/2
Kissing Jessica Stein **1/2
Knight and Day **
Knives Out ***1/2
Knock Knock **1/2
Knocked Up ****
Kong: Skull Island ***
Kramer Vs. Kramer ****
Krampus ***
Kubo and the Two Strings ***1/2
Kung Fu Hustle ***1/2
Kung Fu Panda ***1/2
Kung Fu Panda 2 **1/2
Kung Fu Panda 3 ***
La Dolce ***
La La Land ***1/2
Ladybird ***1/2
Larry Crowne *1/2
Lars And The Real Girl ***
Layer Cake ***1/2
Leaving **1/2
Leaving Las Vegas **1/2
Lee Daniels' The Butler
Legends Of The Fall ****
Les Mis **
Less Than Zero **1/2
Lethal Weapon ***
Liar Liar **1/2
Life Itself **
Life of Crime ***
Life of Pi ***1/2
Lights Out **
Limitless **
Lincoln ***
Little Man Tate **1/2
Little Odessa **1/2
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels ****
Locke ****
Lockout **
Logan ***1/2
Lone Star ***
Long Shot ***
Looper ***1/2
Love Actually ****
Love and Other Drugs **1/2
Lovelace **
Lucy **
Machete ***1/2
Machete Kills *1/2
Machine Gun Preacher **1/2
Mad Max: Fury Road ***
Madagascar 3 **1/2
Made ***1/2
Maleficent ***
Man of Steel ***1/2
Man of Tai Chi **
Man on Fire **
Man on Wire *1/2
Manchester By The Sea ***1/2
Margin Call **
Marriage Story ***1/2
MARVEL At the Movies
Masterminds ***
Match Point ***1/2
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl ***
Megamind ***
Men In Black 3 ***
Mermaids **1/2
Metropolitan ***
Michael Clayton ****
Mid Year Review: The Best and the Most Popular
Middle Men **
Midnight In Paris ****
Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil **
Midnight Special ***
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates ***
Miller's Crossing ***1/2
Minority Report ****
Mission Impossible ***
Mission Impossible 2 **
Mission Impossible 3 ****
Mission Impossible: Fallout ***1/2
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocal ***1/2
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation ***1/2
Moana ****
Modern Romance ***1/2
Molly's Game ***
Mommie Dearest **1/2
Money Monster *
Money Train ***
Moneyball ***
Monsters ***1/2
Monsters Inc ****
Monsters University **1/2
Moon ***
Moonlight **1/2
Moonrise Kingdom ****
Mortal Kombat ***
Mortal Kombat: Anihilation **1/2
Moulin Rouge ***
Movie 43 **
Mud **
Mudbound ***
Murder By Death **1/2
Murder By Numbers ***1/2
Murder Mystery **1/2
Murder On The Orient Express **
Muriel's Wedding **1/2
My Man Godfrey ***
My Neighbor Totoro **
My Week With Marilyn **
Napolean Dynamite ****
Narc ***
Nebraska **1/2
Neighbors ***
Neighbors 2 **1/2
Netflix Finds Its Niche
Netflix Vs Spielberg
New Han Solo and Where The Star Wars Films Are Headed
New York Stories **1/2
New York, I Love You **
Night Falls On Manhattan ***
Night Shift ***
Nightcrawler ***1/2
Nightwatch **1/2
Nine To Five **1/2
Ninja Assassin **1/2
No Country For Old Men ****
No Escape ***1/2
No Looking Back **1/2
No Strings Attached *1/2
No Way Out ***1/2
Nocturnal Animals ***1/2
Noises Off **1/2
Non-Stop ***
North Country ***
Now You See Me **
Nowhere Boy **
Oblivion **1/2
Observe and Report **
Obvious Child ***
Ocean's 8 **
October Sky ***1/2
Odd Man Out **
Office Christmas Party ***
Office Space ***1/2
Old School ****
Oldboy **
Olympus Has Fallen **
Once ***
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood ***
Once Upon A Time In Mexico ***1/2
Ordinary People ***1/2
Oscar Race 2017
Our Idiot Brother **
Out Of The Furnace **1/2
Overboard **1/2
Oz **1/2
Pacific Heights ***
Pacific Rim ***1/2
Pacific Rim: Uprising *
Pain and Gain **
Panic Room ***1/2
Paranorman **1/2
Parasite ***
Passengers **1/2
Patch Adams **1/2
Paths of Glory ***1/2
Patriot's Day ***1/2
Paul *1/2
Payback ***
Peggy Sue Got Married ***
Permanent Midnight *1/2
Phil Spector **
Pi ***
Pineapple Express ***1/2
Pitch Perfect **
Pixels **
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles **1/2
Planet Of The Apes ***1/2
Play It Again Sam **1/2
Politics: How Trump Leads to Black Panther
Pollack **
Poltergeist ***1/2
Ponyo **
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping ***1/2
Princess Mononoke ****
Prisoners ****
Project X **1/2
Prom Night *
Prometheus ***
Promised Land **1/2
Pulp Fiction ****
Pushing Tin **1/2
Quick Change **1/2
Rabbit Hole ***1/2
Rachel Getting Married **
Raiders Of The Lost Ark ***1/2
Raising ****
Ralph Breaks the Internet ***
Rampage *1/2
Rampart **1/2
Ratatouille ****
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan **1/2
Ready Or Not ***1/2
Ready Player One ***
Real Genius **
Rebel Without A Cause ****
Recent Great Movies
Red Heat ***
Red State **
Red State *1/2
Redbelt ***1/2
Reel Steal ***
Return To Oz ***
Return To Paradise ***
Revenge *1/2
Revolutionary Road **1/2
Revolver *
Richard Jewel ****
Rio Bravo **
Rise Of The Guardians **1/2
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes ***1/2
Road To Perdition ***1/2
Robin Hood **1/2
Robocop ***1/2
Rock N Rolla ***1/2
Rock of Ages **
Rocketman **1/2
Rocky ***1/2
Rocky II ***1/2
Rocky II ***
Rocky III ***1/2
Rocky IV ****
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ***
Roma **
Romancing The Stone ***
Room ***1/2
Room 237 **1/2
Rough Night **
Rough Night **1/2
Rumble Fish **1/2
Rumble In The Bronx ***
Run All Night **1/2
Runner Runner **
Safe House **
Safe Men **1/2
Safety Not Guaranteed ***
Salt ***1/2
San Andreas ***
Sausage Party ***1/2
Savages ***
Saving Mr. Banks ***
Scarlet Street **1/2
Scorcese Vs Marvel
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World ***1/2
Scream 2 *1/2
Scream 3 **1/2
Scrooged ****
Sea of Love ***1/2
Searching For Bobby Fischer **1/2
Searching For Sugarman **1/2
Season Of The Witch *1/2
Secret Window **1/2
Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World *1/2
Seven ****
Seven Psychopaths ***1/2
Sex Tape *1/2
Sex, Lies, and Videotape ****
Shakespeare in Love ***
Shaolin Soccer ***
Shazam ***
She Done Him Wrong ***
She's Out Of My League *1/2
Sherlock Holmes ***1/2
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows **1/2
Sherlock Jr. ****
Shock Corridor **1/2
Shoot 'Em Up **
Shooter *1/2
Short Circuit **
Short Term 12 ***
Shutter Island ****
Sicario ****
Side By Side **1/2
Side Effects ***1/2
Sightseers **1/2
Signs ***
Silver Linings Playbook ****
Silverado ****
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For *1/2
Sing Street ***1/2
Single **
Single White Female **
Sisters *1/2
Six Degrees of Separation **
Skyfall ***1/2
Skyline *
Sleepless in Seattle ***1/2
Sliver **1/2
Small Time Crooks **
Snake Eyes **1/2
Snatch ***1/2
Sneakers **1/2
Snow White And The Huntsman ***
Snowden ***
Snowpiercer **
Soapdish ***1/2
Solo: A Star Wars Story ***
Some Velvet Morning **1/2
Sonatine **
Sophie's Choice **1/2
Sour Grapes **
Source Code ***
Southpaw **1/2
Spectre **
Spider Man, Venom, and two studios NOT sharing well
Spider-Man: Far From Home ***
Spider-Man: Homecoming ***1/2
Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse ***1/2
Split ***
Spotlight ***
Spring Breakers *
Spy ***1/2
St. Vincent **1/2
Stand By Me ***1/2
Star Trek ****
Star Trek Into Darkness ***
Star Trek: Beyond **
Star Wars: Han Solo and the Firing of it's Directors
Star Wars: The Force Awakens ***1/2
Star Wars: The Last Jedi **1/2
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker **1/2
Stardust ***
State of Grace ***1/2
Step Brothers ***1/2
Steve Jobs ***1/2
Still Alice ***
Straight Outta Compton ***1/2
Stranger Than Fiction ***1/2
Stretch **
Stuck On You **
Suburbicon **1/2
Sucker Punch *1/2
Suicide Kings ***
Suicide Squad **
Sully ***
Summer Box Office
Summer Movie Preview
Summer Of Universal
Sunset Boulevard ***
Super ***
Super 8 ***1/2
Super Troopers **
Superbad ****
Superhero Movies
Superhero Movies Coming Soon
Superhero Movies of 2018
Superhero Movies, 2016
Swimming With Sharks *1/2
Swingers ****
Swordfish ***
Synechdoche New York *1/2
T2 Trainspotting ***
Tag ***
Take Me Home Tonight **1/2
Take This Waltz **
Taken ****
Taken 2 *1/2
Taken 3 **1/2
TAPS ***
Team America: World Police **
Ted ***
Ted 2 *1/2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ***
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles **1/2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows **
Terminator Dark Fate *1/2
Terminator Genisys **1/2
That's My Boy *
The 40 Year Old Virgin ***1/2
The A Team **
The Accidental Tourist *1/2
The Accountant ***
The Accused **1/2
The Adjustment Bureau **1/2
The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert ***
The Adventures of Tintin **
The Amazing Spider Man ***1/2
The Amazing Spider Man 2 **1/2
The American **1/2
The Apartment ***1/2
The Aristocrats **1/2
The Artist ***
The Avengers ***1/2
The Avengers: Age of Ultron **1/2
The Awful Truth **1/2
The Babadook ***1/2
The Bank Job ***1/2
The Beach ***
The Big Lebowski ****
The Big Short ***
The Big Sick ****
The Bone Collector *1/2
The Book of Eli ***
The Boondock Saints **
The Boss Baby ***
The Bourne Identity ****
The Bourne Legacy **
The Bourne Supremacy ***1/2
The Bourne Ultimatum ***1/2
The Boxtrolls ***
The Bride of Frankenstein **1/2
The Burbs ***
The Campaign **1/2
The Central Park Five ****
The Comedian **1/2
The Company Men *1/2
The Conjuring **1/2
The Counselor *1/2
The Da Vinci Code **1/2
The Darjeeling **1/2
The Dark Crystal ***
The Dark Knight ***1/2
The Dark Knight Rises ***
The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? ***
The Departed ****
The Descendents ***
The Devil's Advocate ***1/2
The Devil's Own ***
The Dictator **1/2
The Dilemma **
The Disaster Artist ***1/2
The Doors ***1/2
The Driver *
The Drop ***1/2
The Edge of Seventeen ***
The End of the Tour **1/2
The Equalizer ***
The Evil Dead 2 ****
The Expendables **
The Expendables 2 *1/2
The Fabulous Baker Boys ***
The Fate of the Furious **1/2
The Favourite ***1/2
The Fighter ****
The Fighter ***1/2
The Five Year Engagement **
The Foot Fist Way *1/2
The Founder ***1/2
The Gambler *
The Game ****
The Gate **
The General **
The General's Daughter ***
The Ghost Writer ***
The Gift **
The Gift ***
The Gingerbread Man **1/2
The Girl **
The Girl on the Train ***
The Giver *
The Godfather ****
The Godfather Part II ***1/2
The Good German **1/2
The Good Girl ***
The Grand Budapest Hotel ****
The Great Gatsby **1/2
The Green Hornet **1/2
The Green Lantern *1/2
The Grey ***1/2
The Grudge **1/2
The Guilt Trip **1/2
The Hangover ****
The Hangover II **
The Hangover III **1/2
The Hateful Eight ***1/2
The Heat ***1/2
The Help ***
The Hitman's Bodyguard **
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ***
The Hobbit: The Desaulation of Smaug **1/2
The Hospital **
The Host **1/2
The House ***
The Hunger Games **1/2
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ***
The Hurt Locker ****
The Ice Harvest ***
The Ides Of March ***1/2
The Immitation Game ***
The Immortals *1/2
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone **
The Incredibles ***1/2
The Infiltrator **1/2
The Internship **
The Interview ***
The Intouchables ***
The Irishman ***
The Iron Giant ***
The Jungle Book ***1/2
The Kid Who Would Be King ***1/2
The Kids Are Alright **1/2
The Killer **1/2
The Killing of a Sacred Deer ***1/2
The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters **
The King's Speech ***1/2
The Ladykillers ***
The Last Days of Disco ***
The Last King Of Scotland **1/2
The Last Of The Mohicans ***1/2
The Last Samurai ***1/2
The Last Seduction ***
The Last Stand **1/2
The Laws Of Gravity ***
The Lego Batman Movie ***1/2
The Lego Movie ***1/2
The Lego Movie 2 **1/2
The Lego Ninjago Movie ***
The Life **1/2
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou **1/2
The Life of David Gale **1/2
The Limey ***1/2
The Lincoln Lawyer ***
The Lion King ***
The Little Mermaid ****
The Lives of Others ***1/2
The Lobster ***
The Long Good Friday ***1/2
The Long Kiss Goodnight ***1/2
The Lookout ***
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ***1/2
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ***1/2
The Losers **
The Lovely Bones **
The Machinist ***
The Magnificent Seven **
The Man From Earth ***
The Man Who Knew Infinity **
The Man Who Wasn't There ****
The Man With The Iron Fists **1/2
The Man With Two Brains ***
The Martian ***1/2
The Master **
The Meaning of Life **
The Mechanic ***
The Mighty Ducks ***
The Money Pit ***
The Muppet Movie ****
The Naked *1/2
The Neverending Story ***
The Next Big Trend: Bad Vs Badder
The Next Three Days **
The Nice Guys ****
The Night Before ***
The Omen ****
The Other Guys ***
The Others **1/2
The Overnight **
The Panic In Needle Park **
The Peanuts Movie ***
The Perks of Being A Wallflower ***
The Pick-Up Artist **
The Place ***
The Place Beyond The Pines ***
The Polar Express ***1/2
The Post ***
The Prestige ***1/2
The Prince of Egypt ***
The Princess Bride ***1/2
The Punisher ***
The Punisher: War Zone **
The Purge ***
The Purge **1/2
The Quick and The Dead ***1/2
The Raid 2 **
The Rainmaker **1/2
The Raven **
The Red Violin **
The Ref **
The Revenant ***
The Rock ***1/2
The Rocketeer ***
The Rover *1/2
The Rules of the Game ****
The Running Man ***
The Sandlot ***
The Santa Clause **1/2
The Savages *1/2
The Secret **
The Sessions **1/2
The Seven Ups *
The Seven Year Itch **1/2
The Shallows ***
The Shape **1/2
The Shape of Water ***
The Shining ****
The Silence of the Lambs ****
The Sitter **
The Skeleton Twins **1/2
The Social Network ****
The Spanish Prisoner ****
The Spectacular Now ***
The Substitute **1/2
The Superhero Movie Game In 2019
The Tao Of Steve ***
The Theory of Everything **
The Thin Blue Line ***
The Thing ***1/2
The Three Amigos! ***1/2
The To Do List **1/2
The Town ****
The Two Jakes **
The Usual Suspects ****
The Vanishing ***
The Verdict ***
The Visit **1/2
The Walk **1/2
The Watch ***
The Way Back ***1/2
The Way Of The Dragon **
The Way Of The Gun **1/2
The Winter Roundup / Start of Awards Season
The Wizard of Lies ***
The Wolf ***1/2
The Wolfman **1/2
The Wolverine ***
The Worlds End ***1/2
The Year In Movies (Dec 2016)
They Came Together *1/2
They Live **1/2
This Film Is Not Yet Rated **
This Is Forty **
This Is Spinal Tap ***
This Is The End ****
This Is Where I Leave You **
Thor ***1/2
Thor Ragnorak ***
Thor: The Dark World **1/2
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri ***1/2
Three Kings ****
TMNT **1/2
To Rome With Love ***
Tomb Raider **1/2
Tomorrowland **
Too Big To Fail **
Top Five **
Top Secret **
Top Ten Animated Films
Top Ten Black Comedies
Top Ten By Genre
Top Ten Comedies
Top Ten Dramas
Top Ten Film Noir
Top Ten Gangster Movies
Top Ten Horror Films
Top Ten Kung Fu Movies
Top Ten Law Enforcement Movies
Top Ten Musicals
Top Ten Mystery / Thrillers
Top Ten of All TIme
Top Ten Romantic Comedies
Top Ten Science Fictions
Top Ten War Movies
Top Ten Westerns
Total Recall ****
Toy Soldiers ***1/2
Toy Story 3 ***1/2
Toy Story 4 ***
Toys **
Traffic ***1/2
Training Day ***1/2
Trainspotting ****
Trainwreck ***1/2
Tree Of Life *1/2
Trick R Treat **1/2
Triple 9 ***1/2
Triple Frontier **1/2
Trollhunter **
Tron **
Tron Legacy ***
Tropic Thunder ****
Troy **1/2
True Grit ***1/2
True Romance ***1/2
Trumbo ***
Tucker & Dale Vs Evil ***1/2
Twisted *
Two Joker Movies and How DC Lost Their Minds
U Turn ***
Un Chien Andalou **
Uncle Buck ***
Underworld **
Unfaithfully Yours **1/2
Unforgiven **1/2
Unknown **1/2
Up In The Air ***1/2
Urban Legend ***
Us ***1/2
Used Cars ***
V For Vendetta ***1/2
Vacation *
Valkyrie **
Van Wilder *1/2
Vanilla Sky ****
Venom ***
Venom: A Fantastic Cast Coming Together
Vertigo ****
Vice **
Vicky, Christina, Barcelona ***1/2
VIEWS OF THE PAST
W 1 1/2
Wag The Dog ***
Waiting For Superman **1/2
Walking and Talking **1/2
Wanderlust ***
War Dogs ***1/2
War For The Planet of the Apes **
War Of The Worlds **1/2
Wargames ***1/2
Warm Bodies **1/2
Warrior ***
We Bought A Zoo **
We Need To Talk About Kevin **
We're No Angels ***
We're The Millers **
Wedding Crashers ***1/2
Welcome To Collinwood ***
Wet, Hot, American Summer ***1/2
What We Do In The Shadows **1/2
What's Your Number? **
While We're Young ***
While You Were Sleeping **
Whiplash ****
White Palace *1/2
Who Framed Roger Rabbit ***
Why Him? *
Wild ***1/2
Win Win ****
Winter's Bone ***
Wish I Was Here **
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story **
Witness For The Prosecution ***
Wolfen **1/2
Wonder Boys ****
Wonder Woman ***
Wonder Woman and What it Means
Working Girl ***
World War Z ***
Would You Rather **1/2
Wrath Of The Titans **1/2
Wreck It Ralph ***1/2
X-Men ****
X-Men **1/2
X-Men and Fox
X-Men Days of Future Past ***1/2
X-Men III: The Last Stand ***
X-Men Movies Ranked and Reviewed
X-Men Origins: Wolverine **
X-Men: First Class ****
X2: X-Men United ****
Yankee Doodle Dandy **1/2
Year End Round Up (2015)
Yearly Movie Reviews
Yesterday ***1/2
You Can Count On Me ****
Young Adult ***
Young Guns **1/2
Your Highness **1/2
Zack and Miri Make A Porno *1/2
Zero Dark Thirty ***
Zero Effect ***
Zodiac ***1/2
Zombieland ***
Zombieland: Double Tap *1/2
Zootopia ***1/2
One Liner Review:
A movie that explores a somewhat familiar premise, yet does it worth a nice comedic touch and some pretty rich characters.
Brief Review:
A pretty good movie with some sharp humor and a realistic storyline. This is a film about a girl who has a one night stand and ends up finding herself pregnant. If that sounds like Knocked Up, that's because both movies have a similar jumping off point, but go in vastly different directions. Whereas that movie was about the pregnancy, this one is about the abortion. And while that might sound harsh, the movie isn't really about that. It's about this girl who was down in the dumps, and utterly miserable getting her life together. This is a black comedy, and most of the humor works in a way that shows off a new and interesting kind of energy. The film does get kind of generic by its end, but for the majority of the time, it's a success.
Obvious Child is a pretty good movie for most of the way through. Unfortunately it does peter out in it's final act or two, which leaves you thinking the movie was just routine in the long run. Only it wasn't. For three quarters of the way, this movie was the kind of fresh and original free spirited film that had the courage to find it's own way. That's not to say that there's some brilliant plot here, but just that a kind of familiar story is told with a new level of energy and humor, the likes of which, we really haven't seen before.
Jenny Slate, an actress best known for having some problems on Saturday Night Live, (throwing out an F bomb on her first episode, which was also the season operner,) before getting fired from the show, is the star here. Slate is an original comedic talent, who showed off exactly what makes her so special when she played Jon Ralfeo's brother on Parks and Recreation. Slate is a stand-up comic, and she might not be quite as red hot as Amy Shumer, (the biggest name in the world of female stand-ups right now,) but she has definitely got the potential to get there. This movie proves that.
It's the film about a girl who has a one-night stand with a guy she meets, when she is insanely drunk at a bar, and then finds out she has gotten pregnant from him. The movie is smart enough to not get anywhere near that situation for a while, knowing that once it gets started on it, there's only so far it can go. And so it plans it's time well, and spends at least the first quarter of the film just setting everything up. We meet Donna, (Slate,) as she gets on the stage to do a stand-up routine and ends up talking all about her boyfriend, who is in the audience. He looks incredibly uncomfortable as she talks about their sex life and his junk and how it all works.
No sooner does Donna get off the stage then does Ryan, the boyfriend, tell her that it's over. He's been cheating on her with one of her friends. This breakup scene ends up being funny for a number of reasons. One is that they are in the bathroom, having the talk, and men keep coming in and out of the stall behind them. Another is the idea that anyone using the bathroom right now is listening to their breakup. And then there's the way that Donna speaks of the woman who Ryan has been cheating on her with, claiming that Donna was always suspicious of her, but just thought she was being paranoid. Turns out that chick was "a slutty bitch after all". Something funny like that.
Donna gets pretty depressed and hung up on the guy who left her. In one great scene, she stands freezing, outside of his apartment, waiting for him to come out so that they can talk. Donna talks to herself about what will make her leave, saying things like, "if the woman with the black hat crosses the street, I'll leave," and each of these things on her list do end up happening. Only Donna stays and just makes up more things like that, hoping one of them won't come true so that she can stay. From here, Donna has her worst comedy set ever, where she gets insanely drunk and then goes on stage, spending the entire time talking about how lousy her life is. This naturally just depresses everyone in the audience.
When Donna gets off stage, she hits the bar in the other room and ends up meeting a nice guy named Max, who somehow didn't see her set. He's there with clients, and he missed the whole thing. Max and Donna hit it off, and the next thing you know, they are spending the night together. That includes both of them simultaneously peeing outside of a building, and doing some underwear dancing in her room, before they get down to business.
Pretty soon, Donna discovers that she is pregnant. She makes this discover while hanging out with her best friend, Nellie (Gabby Hoffman.) The thing to do, without question, seems to be to get an abortion, and Donna knows it. Still, she debates whether or not to tell Max, especially since she thinks she might never see him again. Only she does. He comes to her book store to see her and Donna ends up inviting him to one of her shows. But when he gets there, he finds that she has changed her mind about peforming that night, and is instead leaving with another comedian, to go and hang out. It's weird, because she's not going off to hook up with this older comedian, (played by David Cross,) but just to have fun in a way that clearly does not include Max. She is playing it safe, and not taking any chances with the new guy who she knows she likes, but who can also end up hurting her. Instead, she hurts him. We've seen storylines like this, about a character turning away any chance of love because of being afraid of getting hurt, going all the way back to movies like Breakfast at Tiffany's and stories like Great Expectations. That's what I meant about the movie not necessarily exploring new ground, even though it's humor level is certainly something we haven't seen before.
Aside from Donna's friend, we also spend some scenes with her boss at the book store, and her parents. The boss situation is that the store is going out of business, and for Donna it is just one more sign that he life is falling apart. The boss is a laid back, older guy. He's a hippie who has no problem putting the store behind him, and Donna can't believe how relaxed he is about all this. She wishes she could be that okay with it. And then there are her parents, who couldn't be more different. Donna has a playful and humourous relationship with her dad, (played by Richard Kind,) and a much more serious one wiht her mom. As it happens, her mom is also the professor of Max, and Donna and Max cross paths again one day when he comes to her mother's house to return a book.
By the final act of the film, there are two questions going on inside the viewers head. Will Donna get the abortion, and will she tell Max. I won't spoil either one of those, but to say that the answers are more than satisfying. In fact, they are maybe a little too satisfying. This movie could have benefitted from some major surprise scene here or there. Not so much a twist ending, or anything like that, but more of a scene that was just unpredictable and psychologically deep. Kind of like the scene at the end of Warrior where Nick Nolte starts drinking again and just goes nuts. It doesn't really effect the plot, about the two fighters, but it is certainly memorable. This movie needed more memorable moments, especially in its second half.
Obvious Child is a good movie because Jenny Slate is on her A game and shows that she is a very strong comedic talent, worth watching. The humor isn't always perfect, (the are more fart and poo jokes in here than one would expect,) but there's a whole lot that works and Slate is at the heart of all of it. It's always nice to find a movie that treads over familiar territory and does it with a new kind of energy or passion that makes the film still feel unique. 500 Days of Summer is another movie that did that same sort of thing. It's kind of sad that Obvious Child doesn't do enough to distinguish itself from the pack, and make it anything memorable. Still, for announcing Jenny Slate, and showing what she is capable of, if for nothing else, this movie is a real winner.
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Not only does project based learning motivate students because it is an authentic use of technology, it facilitates active learning, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. Projects begin with a driving question—an open-ended question that sets the stage for the project by creating interest and curiosity. Writing an effective driving question is surprisingly challenging. You want the question to be intriguing and irresistible to students, which makes it very different from the typical questions they encounter on tests.
Like many educators, I call the "mission statement" of a project a driving question. It captures the heart of the project by providing purpose using clear and compelling language. With so many different flavors of project based learning (including problem based learning, challenge based learning, student centered learning, exploration, student driven inquiry, and authentic learning), it's not surprising that we have a variety of other terms for a question or statement that is the project's driving force. These terms include essential question, challenge, prime question, WILD HOG question, focus question, and smart question. I'll stick with driving question, but do know that sometimes the driving question is not interrogative. It might be a statement, but I'll still refer to is as a question.
Driving questions pose simply stated real world dilemmas. They pose predicaments that students find interesting and actually want to answer. The question drives students to discuss, inquire, and investigate the topic. It should push them toward a production or solution. In the process of investigating the question and sharing their answers, students learn important content and skills.
Steve Jobs had the mantra, "Let's make a dent in the universe." He was on a mission to change the world. His dent in the universe is almost as big as the dent his company has put in my pocketbook (brief pause for chuckles). I think the best projects set out to make a dent. The dent might be big or small, but at least the project has made a difference in the universe.
If a student can ask Google, Cortana, or Siri a question and get the answer, then that question would not be a good driving question. Its answer is readily available. Answering it again as a project won't make a dent in the universe. It would be work that keeps a student busy but has little value in itself (also known as busy work).
Which comes first, the driving question or the learning goals? I think it depends. The most successful projects feed off of students' passions. Don't be afraid to tap into them. Take what they are interested in and find a way to connect that interest to learning standards.
What adventures would SpongeBob have during the Great Depression?
You are in charge of Nickelodeon. Propose episodes of SpongeBob that teach kids about finding common denominators.
How can we use SpongeBob to persuade our parents to protect Earth's resources and environment?
So, to develop a driving question, you can use students' interest as a starting point and then creatively connect learning standards. Alternatively, driving questions are often developed by first looking at learning standards. Some of them will most likely coalesce into a possible project. Considering where your standards are used in the real world may help you connect them with a problem, dilemma, or question you can use to drive a project.
Some of the learning aims my school had for students in math were working with decimals and graphing data. I also wanted them to learn about spreadsheets. These goals lead to the question, "How would you use $1,000,000 to help our community?" For the project, students had to account for every penny, categorize expenses in a spreadsheet, and construct pie charts. Language arts standards were also addressed because the end product required good writing and speaking skills.
So, you can start with a topic or you start with learning standards to develop a driving question. In the end, the driving question should require students to learn skills and content in order to answer an interesting question.
It's likely the teacher will be the one writing the driving question. A good driving question is challenging to construct, even for an experienced professional educator. The teacher will know best how to form a question that incorporates learning standards. To involve students, the teacher could get input from them about the potential driving question.
Driving questions written by students are certainly valuable (and an essential part of Genius Hour or 20% Time), but they can be very difficult to integrate into a prescribed curriculum. Don't worry, even if the teacher develops the driving question, students still have the opportunity to ask loads of their own questions (see the Branching Questions section below).
There's an art to developing driving questions, because there isn't a specific formula you must follow. Though, you can find some examples and structures to help you out. Below are some types of driving questions. Maybe some of these will be the spark that inspires you write your next driving question.
📐 Solve a Problem: There's a real-world predicament with multiple solutions.
How can we stop phantom traffic jams?
How can we beautify the vacant lot across the street for $200?
What's the best way to stop the flu at our school?
Design a better lunch menu for our school.
Design a safe and sturdy bridge to replace one in our city.
🎓 Educational: The purpose of the project is to teach others.
How can we teach second graders about helpful insects.
Create a campaign to teach senior citizens how to use an iPad.
What do the students at our school need to know about being respectful?
👍 Convince Others: Students persuade a specified audience to do something or change their opinions.
Create a public service announcement (PSA) that persuades teens to drink more water.
Drive yourself to define a question and then Prove It to your classmates.
Convince grocery shoppers to return their shopping carts.
How can we convince our principal that we should have a party in December?
🌏 Broad Theme: The project tackles big ideas.
How does math influence art?
How do writers persuade others?
How are good and evil depicted in different cultures?
💬 Opinion: Students need to consider all sides of an issue in order to form and justify their opinions.
Should pets be allowed to attend class?
Why has a woman never been a U.S. president?
What makes a good astronaut?
🚥 Divergent: Students make predictions about alternative timelines and scenarios.
What if Rosa Parks gave up her seat?
What if the world ran out of oil tomorrow?
How might your city change if the climate became an average of 10°F warmer?
What if the USA switched to the metric system?
🚀 Scenario-Based: Students take on a fictional role with a mission to accomplish.
You're a NASA engineer, and you are in charge of building a moon base. What are the ten most important things to include and why?
Imagine that you are King George. What would you have done differently to keep American part of England?
You are the CEO of a company that is designing a new social media app. Present a business plan to your investors that explains how your company will make money.
You've been hired to revamp your local shopping mall. Come up with a plan to increase business.
How would you spend $1,000,000 to help your community?
🚧 Scaffolded Around Framing Words: BIE has a tool to help you develop driving questions called a Tubric. It provides possible framing words, actions, audience, and purpose. If you'd rather not take the time to construct a tube, you could use Rhoni McFarlane's Developing Inquiry Questions chart, Amy Mayer's Scaffold for Writing a Driving Question, or TeachThought's PBL Cheat Sheet.
Driving questions are rarely perfect after the first draft. There are usually ways you can make them better. Talking a driving question over with colleagues, asking on social media, and putting it past your students can help you get insight into how well the question will drive a project.
A driving question shouldn't sound like a question students would find on a test. Instead of "Describe what organisms need to survive," the question could be "What if we had a chicken house at our school?" And, "Why did the American colonists declare war with England?" could be reworked into, "How could you have convinced American colonists to support independence using today's technology?" Making your question appealing to students is probably the most difficult part of crafting a question. Keep in mind, a question that is captivating to you might not be to your students.
Below is a checklist to help you refine your question. You might not be able to check off all the items, but the more the merrier!
‼ The question is appealing to students.
🗜 The question is concise.
💦 The question has no easy answer.
😍 The question taps into students' interests and passions.
💤 The question does not sound like a test question.
💗 The question leads to more questions.
🔀 There is more than one answer to the question.
🔰 The topic is personal or local.
🏡 Students can relate to the question in their daily lives.
🤔 Students will have choices for end products.
💬 There is an authentic audience for the project.
🕵♀ The question requires serious investigation.
ℹ Students will learn important skills and content.
💥 The project will somehow make a difference in the world.
Since you've probably attached a few learning standards to the project, you'll want to make sure that those are addressed. Learning goals don't have to be part of your driving question. In fact, mentioning them in your driving question will complicate it. Instead, the place to communicate learning outcomes is in your assessment instrument. Whether you use a checklist, rating scale, or rubric, you'll want to create it alongside your driving question. The criteria you put in your assessment will guide students toward the content and skills you want them to learn. You might even want to get their input before you finalize the project's assessment.
💡 Great Idea: Teacher Kristy Louden writes about how she delays giving a final grade until after students have read her feedback and conferenced with her.
A good driving question will lead to more questions. Students will generate these sub questions and their answers are important for the project. These sub questions branch off of the driving questions and each other. They are specific and can guide student research.
How often do they eat?
How large of a house do they need?
Does the house need to have different rooms?
Do chickens fight with each other?
Branching questions get students thinking about what they need to know to answer the driving question. Using a mind mapping app like Popplet can help students capture their brainstormed branching questions. Students can then group their questions based on similarities, by the kinds of resources that can help them answer, or for the purpose of assigning sub questions to different group members. Below is a Popplet map with branching questions organized by sub topics.
And, of course, paper or whiteboards can be used to brainstorm branching questions.
A driving question guides a project, which can take days, weeks, or months to complete. It's a big deal. You want to make sure your question is a good one. How do you know if a question will push students toward a quality project? Do the project yourself! If you do your own project ahead of time, you might encounter some bumps in the road that you didn't anticipate, giving you a chance to refine your question or modify your assessment instrument. If you do your project alongside students, you can model thinking skills and perseverance. By doing your own project, you're showing your students that the driving question is such a big deal, even you want to answer it.
Since your question is such a big deal, treat it like one! Make up rhymes, chants, poems, or songs. An app like Songify for iOS or Android can turn your spoken words into a catchy tune.
Plaster your driving question at the front of your classroom, post it in the hallway, put it on your website, and include it in your class newsletter. Heck, you can make stickers, banners, t-shirts, mugs, slippers, and water bottles with the driving question.
You can use your favorite design app to make a graphic or poster of your driving question. As a time saver, there are websites that can instantly make your driving question visual. Some good ones are Recite, Quozio, QuotesCover, and Canva.
As the leader of your classroom, you are in the best position to know what will work with your students. You know a lot about their interests and abilities. You know the amount of time you have, the resources available, your curriculum, and the learning standards. Considering all this and concocting a meaningful question that will spur students to investigate and learn is no easy task. But, since a driving question can make or break a project, it's very much worth the effort.
Phillip Schlechty says that teachers need to ask themselves, "What is it that I am trying to get others to do, and what reasons might they have for doing such things?" Answering a well-crafted driving question can be a terrific reason for learning!