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Furry grocery story thief known 'round the world
By John Hollenhorst | Posted - Feb. 4, 2009 at 10:15 p.m.
Murray, Utah -- On Christmas Eve, KSL News broke a story that was quickly repeated around the world. News organizations went nuts over the dog in Murray that went into a grocery store and stole a rawhide bone.
It wasn't just what he did; it was how he did it: straight to the pet aisle, grab a bone, get out. "Never been seen again. Disappeared. Rode off into the sunset with his bone," said Roger Adamson, store manager of the Smith's Food & Drug store in Murray.
When KSL broadcast the surveillance video on Christmas Eve, regular Smith's customers, like Sister Mary Joseph, started hearing about it from friends out of state. "[They] sent me an e-mail on it, and I laughed my head off," Joseph said.
They were laughing around the world too. KSL chief video editor Bob Brown made copies for a network in England. "A couple of weeks later, I got a request from a TV station, or a network, in Japan," he said.
The story really exploded on the Internet, jumping within hours from KSL.com to many other Web sites. "On YouTube, alone, there's almost 135,000 people who have seen it," said Graydon Johns, KSL.com news director.
Adamson became one of the few grocery guys ever to do a live interview on NBC's Today show, and his shaggy shoplifter is drawing fan mail from all over. "We're getting a lot of people that are offering to pay, to pay for the bone, sending us checks in the amount of $2.80," he said.
It's the kind of warm and fuzzy publicity that corporate public relations people dream about, and this time the dog did all the thinking for them.
"We estimated that there was probably over $300,000 of media value on the dog story alone. We were shocked at how far it spread," said Marsha Gilford, spokeswoman for Smith's Food & Drug.
"People call it a viral story. It spreads quickly," Johns said; and everyone has a theory why.
"Because everybody has a dog," Joseph laughed. "They're man's best friend, you know."
Brown told us, "I think we're just curious that animals have some of the same tendencies we do. If they want something, they just go get it."
"Yes, he was a thief, but we're going to let this one off the hook," Gilford said.
Smith's Food & Drug forwarded the donated money to the Humane Society of Utah. We still don't know whose dog it was or where he has gone.
E-mail: jhollenhorst@ksl.com
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7 Minute Toilet Breaks for 999 Operators
Conduit/BT, operators of Irelands Emergency Call Answering Service (ECAS) have introduced a new 'Toilet Break Policy' which seeks to monitor 999 operators visits to the bathroom. In essence, operators will now have to ask for management permission to use the toilet. That wonderful old Irish euphemism "An bhfuil cead agam dul amach" comes to mind.
According to this new policy it is proposed that only one operator will be permitted to take a toilet break at any one time across the three Irish call centres. Moreover, the policy states that no toilet break can exceed 7 minutes and workers have a maximum of 19 minutes per 12 hour shift. Staff are also banned from using the toilet for the first half hour immediately after clocking in and the last half hour before their shift ends.
The CWU has characterized this new policy as an act of retaliation by a management regime that chooses to ignore and disrespect their employees and an invasion of privacy. The employer denies the claim that the policy was introduced as an act of retaliation.
The question arises, "Do you have a right as an employee to use the toilet when you wish?" There is no such statutory right. The words "toilet break" do not appear in employment legislation.
The Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 which governs break time at work gives an employee in the right to a break of at least 15 minutes in any work period exceeding 4.5 hours and at least a 30 minute break in any work period exceeding six hours (which can be inclusive of the first 15 minutes break). There is no statutory obligation on an employer pay for break periods. If an employee wishes to use the bathroom during these breaks there have of course the right to do so.
Some employees may have a contractual right to take a toilet break if it is included as an explicit term in the contract of employment or if custom and practice over a period of time included scheduled toilet breaks. The employer cannot make a unilateral change to the employee's contract without agreement.
Even if there is no explicit right to a toilet break, employers shouldn't be "potty police". When an employee has to go, an employee has to go. An employee may suffer from a condition requiring them to go to the toilet regularly or suddenly and preventing such reasonable breaks could constitute discrimination. Neither would it be conducive to good staff morale or indeed to efficiency of production if the application of an employer's policy caused an employee to be "caught short" in the workplace.
Unless an employee is abusing bathroom breaks or where the breaks interfere with performance or with production process, there is little justification for the application of an overly rigid policy in this area.
Where a production process is continuous, as in a production line, or where an employee's absence from a workstation could lead to significant loss or damage then there may be justification for closer monitoring of toilet breaks and the application of a reasonable system designed to phase toilet breaks among staff.
Noel Doherty is a Partner with FitzGerald Solicitors based in Lapps Quay, Cork, specialising in Employment Law.
Please note the foregoing article does not constitute legal advice and you should contact your Solicitor for specific advice tailored to your needs.
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Endangered peafowl find haven in Phayao
Locals are building temporary homes for the rare creatures, conserving and promoting them as a symbol of ecotourism
published : 14 Dec 2019 at 06:31
writer: Saiarun Pinaduang
Peafowls have been listed as endangered, though their numbers are rising in a protected area of eastern Lanna such as Phayao's national parks of Rong Kham Luang, Phusang and Doi Phu Nang. (Photos by Luethaipat Pimonsree)
Human intervention is pushing the green peafowl towards extinction -- but it could also be key to the survival of these beautiful birds.
Locals in Phayao are building temporary homes for the rare creatures, increasing their numbers in one of their few remaining habitats in the country, and possibly the world, say experts.
The endangered species is being conserved and promoted as a symbol of ecotourism, adding to the attraction of Phayao and its neighbouring "Eastern Lanna" provinces of Phrae, Nan and Chiang Rai.
As populations shrink elsewhere, the cluster of provinces is being turned into a global nucleus of green peafowl conservation in an initiative led by the University of Phayao (UP).
UP President Supakorn Pongbangpho said the university has been in talks with Anek Meemongkol, deputy-secretary-general of the National Economic and Social Development, and heads of government offices in Phayao.
The plan involves stimulating the local economy through the "green peafowl route", a natural habitat which stretches from southern China into the Eastern Lanna cluster via the Mekong and Salween river basins.
Ms Supakorn said the ultimate objective of the route is to raise public awareness of the vital position that green peafowls occupy in the food chain and ecosystem and the urgent need to prevent the birds from going extinct.
Thailand's main habitat for peafowls is centred near Phayao's Rong Kham Luang national park, which is fringed by human activities and close to the University of Phayao.
Green peafowl were once found in abundance across Southeast Asia, India and China, but extensive hunting and encroachment of human habitation have taken their toll. As a result the birds are now listed on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species.
"The number of peafowls has dramatically reduced in countries such as China, where fewer than 200 peafowls are though to remain.
The birds are at serious risk of going extinct in Malaysia and Indonesia," Ms Supakorn said.
However, that trend is being bucked in Thailand where green peafowl populations are rising in the Eastern Lanna cluster, thought to be the birds' last breeding ground in the region.
The UP president notes that if the green peafowls are safe and propagating, it means their habitat is also free of threats to human health too.
The green peafowl species is found in the tropic forests of Southeast Asia. An adult peacock is around 1.8 to 3 metres in length, while an adult peahen is half the length at 1 to 1.1 metres.
Luethaipat Pimonsree, a UP lecturer who pioneered research on the birds, said green peafowl are interwoven with the cultural roots of Eastern Lanna. Strengthening the bird's status as a proud symbol for local communities could help drive regional and trans-border economic projects, she added.
Ms Luethaipat said her research on peafowls was sparked by reports that the birds were making a nuisance of themselves, raiding farmland near their forest habitat in search of food.
Local residents eventually came up with a solution that involved sharing their space with the birds. The Phayao locals planted crops for the endangered birds to eat and built them nests in tambon Huai Khao Kam, Chun district.
The birds quickly grew accustomed to the man-made surroundings and settled into their new homes amid fields of corn and other nutritious crops. The nests then began to draw tourists and the area was soon doubling as a green peafowl learning centre, she added.
Praison Rahurak, village head of tambon Huai Khao Kam, said the peafowl habitat has pulled in tourists eager to witness the birds habits up close, from nesting to foraging for food.
Before the breeding season, both male and female peafowls emerge from the nearby forest and begin their mating dances, he said.
The male peafowl, or peacock, unfurls his iridescent tail fan in a spectacle designed to lure a potential mate.
After mating, the paired off green peafowl return to the forest where each female lays three to six eggs in a nest built on the ground.
The males lead a solitary existence, although they are fiercely territorial when their "harems" of females are threatened.
When egg-laying season is over, flocks of peafowls leave the forest to look for food every day at around about 4pm, Mr Praison said.
"Some green peafowls are familiar with the sight of tourists. But we need to keep a reasonable distance between the birds and the people.
"We had to erect a barricade to prevent visitors getting too close to the birds. Otherwise the peafowls get scared and fly away," he said.
Phusang National Park chief Bantom Somsuwan said Phayao is now believed to boast the country's largest green peafowl population.
Apart of tambon Huai Khao Kham, the rare birds also make their home in the Phayao's national parks of Phusang and Doi Phu Nang as well as other protected areas in the province, he said.
The green peafowls are described as among the most majestic-looking birds in Thailand, he added.
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Airbnb puts on 'Meet the Experts' event to promote trust and safety
On Tuesday evening, Airbnb welcomed around 50 hosts to its London office where a "Meet the Experts" event showcased safety advice and resources from a number of trusted authorities. The event covered a range of topics, from fire safety to accident prevention, and was aimed at making safety resources available to help promote safe and responsible hosting.
Following a brief welcome from the UK Public Policy Manager, Natasha Mytton-Mills, each expert gave a ten-minute talk. With the presentations over, hosts were then able to network and engage with each expert in a one-on-one capacity, to gather additional literature and ask questions. The experts on hand included:
Rebecca Hickman of The Royal Society for the Protection of Accidents (RoSPA) — the national accident prevention charity — spoke to hosts about the importance of child safety in the home and ways hosts can ensure their listings are safe from that standpoint.
Tim Jack of Gas Tag spoke about the importance of gas safety at home and provided free gas tags — a smart device for boilers — to hosts so they can track and have trusted technicians service their appliances at home.
Michael Dewberry of London Fire Brigade ran through top tips for fire safety and ways in which hosts can communicate safety plans to guests.
Laura Dix from Women's Aid, a grassroots federation working to provide life-saving services and tackle domestic violence also participated. To increase awareness around domestic abuse, Laura spoke of how hosts can spot the signals and how to signpost people towards the specialist help they need.
Tony Neate, CEO of Get Safe Online, the UK's leading source of unbiased, factual and easy-to-understand information on online safety, spoke about the key ways hosts can ensure they're protecting themselves against fraud, identity theft and several other online problems.
Trust and safety remains a key focus for Airbnb so we can ensure that we are constantly helping to foster trust between hosts and guests. To learn more, visit the Citizen Responsibility hub.
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How to disable right click and cut/copy and paste options in user controls.
In this article,I will explain how to disable right click and cut/copy and paste options in user controls like text box ,rich text boxes etc in applications.This may be useful while developing security rich applications.
In this article,I have described how to disable right click and cut/copy and paste options in user controls.These may be used in applications which need more security while getting information from the user like password,PIN number etc.This would help us to double check whether the user has given the correct data.
1. The code given below describes how to diable right click option.
The code has to used in textbox mouse down event.
2.The code given below describes how to disable cut/copy and paste options( Ctrl+X,Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V) through keys.
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A track from TRON Legacy R3CONF1GUR3D that I under-appreciated at first.
I'm not exactly sure why, but it takes me months to give an album a really good listen. I'll usually go through it the first time and like a few tracks, but as the months progress and other tracks besides the ones I initially liked play randomly on my iPod I start to like them and wonder why I didn't like them initially. This was especially true of TRON Legacy R3CONF1GUR3D. There are tracks on their from Com Truise, Teddybears, and others that I completely glossed over — and I already liked Com Truise, but for some reason just wasn't feeling Encom Part 2.
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See Rebel and Genius: How Did It Fame the Great Dim Morrison? VIDEO – News – life
Posted on December 8, 2021 | Posted on john555
Eleven months after Steve and Clara Morrison were married, Dim was born that same day. Her father was a Conservative officer, while her mother was freer, the daughter of a Wisconsin lawyer.
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Dim Morrison, like most of the time, was a child of the baby boom of the late 1940s war.
After World War II, the family moved to Melbourne, Florida, where Steve was assigned. At that time, Dim and her mother will have to live with her husband's family in Clearwater, Florida.
Like his father, Dim had a very strict upbringing. At his grandparents' house, they saw him, but they rarely heard him. Because they were old people, they were very impatient with the child.
Things weren't great for Clara either. Steve's parents were very religious people who did not drink, smoke, or tolerate any strange behavior. She was a young woman who longed for the independence that her own home could provide. Having little freedom in her home, she longed for her husband's return, so in 1946 she was relieved to be reunited with him because of the end of the war.
Eventually, the family left Florida and moved to New Mexico, where Steve became an instructor on one of the military atomic weapons programs.
Once, while Dim, seven, was traveling with his parents on the highway not far from the city where they lived, they came across a dump truck carrying Pueblo Indians. They were thrown out of the vehicle and wounded and dying. This incident severely affected Dima and remained in his memory for many years. The incident would often be mentioned, claiming that one of the Indian duos entered his body at the time of his death.
When Dim became a teenager, his family moved again, this time to Alameda, California. Alameda is located near San Francisco and is known for its naval air station. the lifestyle was very different from what he was used to in New Mexico. Smoke had to move from rural highways to new social nuances in Northern California. It wasn't great to ride a bike to school anymore, not even the Lewis jeans themselves, so he had to tell his mom he didn't wash them every week.
To get the attention of classmates, he would do it stupidly just to be noticed. On one occasion he tied a rope around her ear and put the other end in her mouth. When asked if he was doing this, he replied that he had a small bucket in his throat and that he was collecting saliva for medical check-ups.
One of Dim's favorite pastimes was reading. He loved MAD magazine, but fell in love with Deca Kerouac's "On the Road." There he met a new term that would follow a new lifestyle: Bitnik. Luckily for Dima, sitting all the peaks was only forty minutes to North Beau. Dim and his friends often visited North Bee, visiting all the unusual shops and bookstores. He especially liked bookstores that sold censored books. There he once met a local poet in one of these bookstores. The poet greeted him and Dim fled.
Although Dim was slowly becoming a rebel, he always achieved excellent grades. Without much effort, he managed to maintain a high average and was twice on the honor roll. His IQ was 149. His first real knowledge of music was when he was a teenager visiting slimy bars on Route 1 near Fort Belvoir to listen to black blues singers.
His friend was at Christmas when he met his future keyboardist, Ray Manzarek. Dima was drawn to Ray's music and often listened to his band play. Rick and the Ravens, Ray's band, sometimes played in Santa Monica, in a bar on the nearby beach.
During his student years, Dim also devoted himself to another art form: he made strange little sketches of ghostly figures dealing with violence, pedophilia, sexuality, and so on. All of this led to an even more remarkable film career. He will soon leave all this behind to form a band with friends from college.
He left his career and became a rock musician
When Dim informed his parents that he would drop out of college to make his dreams of singing in a rock band come true, his father rolled his eyes. He quickly reminded Dima of the abandoned piano aces and the moment he refused to sing Christmas carols with his family. Dim's father was angry because he paid all that money for college, and now Dim was willing to throw it all away.
After all, Dim never wrote to his parents again. Shortly after graduating from UCLA in 1965, Dim joined the hippie scene. The smoke settled under the etalit near the beach where he spent some time drugging and drinking songs, until he bumped into a friend of Ray Manzarek, a former classmate. Ray was the keyboardist for a small local rock band that fought all the other bands in the area. To grow up, I needed a network or someone special to differentiate the band from the rest, and that was Dim.
Ray was very impressed after reading one of Dim's songs and suggested that they form a band. He convinced Dima that they could play his poetry and that he could sing his songs on stage. Dim already wanted to put together a band, but he didn't have the vision or the members to put it together. They hired two new members, guitarist Robbie Krieger and drummer Don Densmore, and began playing at Sunset Strip clubs. They soon received the recognition they deserved and moved on to the "best" clubs.
In early 1966, the band had about twenty-five original songs in their repertoire. One of them was "The End," a song not about death as most believe, but about faded love. They recorded their first album in 1967, "The Doors", which was released and quickly gained universal recognition. "Light My Fire" became the band's first major single and then released them at number one on the music charts.
Then, due to media pressure, Dim moved with his girlfriend Pamela to Paris. All the time Morrison was in Paris, he drank a lot. He loved bistros and cafes. That's when the problems with depression began.
Depression cost him his life.
That evening, when he died, his friends invited him to join them in a restaurant, but he refused because he did not want to burden them with a state of depression, but they finally convinced him. he drowned throughout the meal, then took Pamela home and went to the movies. He saw "Pursued" with Robert Miami in the lead role. It is rumored that he went home because he was not well, and when he arrived he went to bathe.
During the bath, he vomited a small amount of blood. This was common for him and his girlfriend Pamela didn't think anything was wrong. He soon went to bed and left her in the bathtub. She woke up later because he hadn't joined her, then found her. Her hands were hanging from the edges of the tub, her head was pulled back, her long hair was wrapped and wet. He had a grin on his face. At first, Pam thought she was playing another of her patients, but then she realized she wasn't dieting and called the intensive care unit. After them, a doctor and police arrived at the scene. It was too late, it was the end for Dima.
The funeral was held quickly and in secret. Pamela presented a death certificate at the US embassy, where she was identified as Deames Douglas Morrison. He also said he had no other living relatives. The official cause of death was cited as a shitty blow.
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How the knapsack of privilege impacts the daily lives of both those with and those without this privilege.
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Canadian Province - British Columbia
British Columbia is a Province on the west coast of Canada in a region called the Pacific Northwest. It is made up of about 223 million acres (364,800 square miles or 944,000 square km) with more than 17,000 miles (27,000 km) of Pacific coastline, including thousands of coastal islands. The tallest mountain peak is Mt Fairweather at 15, 298 feet (4,663 meters). The largest lake is Babine Lake at 122,317 acres (191 square miles or 495 square km).
The Provincial bird is the Steller's Jay, the Provincial tree is the red cedar, and the Provincial flower is the Pacific dogwood. The tallest tree is a sitka spruce called the Carmanah Giant, which is 314 feet (95.8 meters) tall.
The northern 2/3 of British Columbia is mountainous with some prairie (in the east). Northern British Columbia has few people and is relatively undeveloped. Most people live in the southern cities like Vancouver.
Forest covers more than 60% of British Columbia. This amounts to about 149,000,000 acres (about 60,000,000 hectares).
British Columbia has 74 million acres (299,000 square km) of boreal forest where more than 1,000 boreal woodland caribou make their home. It is the breeding ground for more than 170 species of birds. As many as 150 million birds breed there each year.
British Columbia has many kinds of wetlands including: bogs, fens, marshes, swamps, estuaries, salt marshes, wet meadows and scrublands. Bogs are wetlands with nutrient-poor soil and include peatlands, shrubs and some trees. These are acidic ecosystems where a water-filled basin, because of slow decomposition, gets filled in by peat and other vegetative matter over time. Fens are more mineral rich than bogs and form along floodplains or the edges of lakes and ponds. Marshes are wetlands with emergent (rise out of water) soft-stemmed plants (no trees). The water levels may vary throughout the season and they are mineral rich. Swamps are forested wetlands with varying water levels including flowing water. They are mineral rich. Estuaries are intertidal ecosystems that receive tidal flooding, so have salt-tolerant plant life (halophytes).
Wetlands are very important habitats, but until recently, they were thought to be of no use to man. Wet and buggy, they were considered wasted land. Developers drained them, filled them in with tons of soil and built houses, businesses, roads, farms, airports and parking lots. We now know that wetlands are actually very important natural communities. They stabilize shorelines and protect the land from storm surges and flooding. They act as filters for pollutants that run off the land from farms, towns and cities. They provide valuable wildlife habitat.
In British Columbia, wetlands are home to more than 300 species of birds, fish and other wildlife. The Pacific Coast is a vital flyway for millions of birds - shorebirds, waterfowl and others – as they make their way between breeding and winter habitats. Yet, wetland only cover about 6% of British Columbia. It is thought that since 1800, about 15% of Canada's wetland have been lost to development (this compared to the loss of more than 50% of the wetland in the U.S.).
Scientists break down British Columbia's natural communities into "Ecozones."
From the Pacific Ocean moving inland – including the coastal waters, rivers and fjords of the British Columbia coast – is the Pacific Marine Ecozone. The coastal waters are protected from Arctic temperatures by the Alaskan Peninsula, so the coast is relatively mild with some coral reefs, seaweed beds and coastal marshes. Sea otters, northern fur seals, northern sea lions, long-snout dolphins, right whale dolphins, pacific white-sided dolphins, Pacific harbor porpoises, Dall's porpoises, killer whales, sperm whales, gray whales, fin whales, minke whales, blue whales, and pacific right whales are all found here.
Along the Pacific coast, the Pacific Maritime Ecozone includes the coastal islands and inland about 125 miles (200 km). The coastal mountains keep the moisture generated by the ocean on the coastline, making this the wettest region of British Columbia with up to 130 inches of rain per year (400 cm). The ocean also keeps the climate more moderate (warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer), so temperatures throughout the year stay between 29°- 55°F (-1.5° - 13°C). This climate is good for tree growth and this region has the largest trees in British Columbia, including: western red cedar, yellow cedar, western hemlock, mountain hemlock, western yew, Douglas fir, grand fir, coastal redwood, Sitka spruce, lodgepole pine, western white pine , shore pine, Engelmann spruce, Garry oak, and Pacific dogwood. This coastal forest is considered temperate rainforest.
Moving inland, two Ecozones make up the central core of British Columbia – the Montane Cordillera Ecozone and the Boreal Cordillera Ecozone.
The Boreal Cordillera Ecozone includes the mountainous region in northern British Columbia. The spine of mountains on the western edge of this Ecozone blocks coastal moisture, making this a relatively dry region with only about 11 inches (30 cm) of rain per year. As you move east toward the Canadian Rockies, the rain and snow levels increase. This region is characterized by towering mountains, open plateau and forested valleys – all littered with glacial debris. The valley forests include: white, black and Engelmann spruces, alpine fir, lodgepole and whitebark pines, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, white, water and scrub birches, and willows. Up higher, forests give way to stunted trees, shrubs and rugged moss, lichens and herbs. These mountains support many mammals including: caribou, moose, Dall's sheep, mountain goat, bison, black and grizzly bear, lynx, wolf, fox, coyote, river otter, weasel, mink, marmot, marten, ground squirrel, beaver, lemming, pika, and snowshoe hare.
The Montane Cordillera Ecozone includes most of southern British Columbia between the Coast Mountains in the west and Rocky Mountains in the east. The region is driest on the eastern slopes of the Coast Mountains – which block moisture from the ocean. As you move east to the Rocky Mountains, the moisture increases. This is a very mountainous region with forested valleys marked by glacial debris. Forests include: alpine and Douglas firs, lodgepole, western white and Rocky Mountain ponderosa pines, quaking aspen, western hemlock, Rocky Mountain red cedar, balsam poplar, paper birch, black, white and Engelmann spruces, and western larch. This is a biologically rich region supporting caribou, mule and white-tailed deer, moose, mountain goat, California bighorn sheep, elk, black and grizzly bear, wolf, lynx, bobcat, mountain lion, coyote, red fox, marten, wolverine, badger, marten, mink, skunk, marmot, ground squirrel, beaver, chipmunk, lemming, and pika.
In the northeastern corner of British Columbia is the Taiga Plains Ecozone – a cold, dry prairie with some river canyons along the MacKenzie River. This is a region that experiences fires regularly, so supports fire tolerant species like paper and dwarf birch, willows, quaking aspen, tamarack, green alder, white and black spruces, balsam poplar, lodgepole and jack pines, and balsam fir. This region supports fewer mammals, but does include black bear, lynx, wolf, red fox, ermine, marten, woodland and barren-ground caribous, wood bison, moose, snowshoe hare, red squirrel, and arctic ground squirrel.
Below the Taiga Plains is a small region of Boreal Plains Ecozone with long, cold dry winters - much of the moisture blocked by the Rocky Mountains. This region was scraped flat by the glaciers and left with many lakes. There is forest of white and black spruce, balsam fir, jack pine, tamarack, white, water and Alaska birch, quaking aspen, willows, maple and balsam poplar. The region supports black bear, wolf, lynx, elk, mule and white-tailed deer, moose, caribou, bison, coyote, weasel, river otter, badger, striped skunk, muskrat, marten, fisher, beaver, woodchuck, Richardson's, Franklin's and thirteen-lined ground squirrels, chipmunks, porcupine, eastern cottontail, and snowshoe hare.
Bat (California Myotis) - Myotis californicus
Bat (Fringed Myotis) - Myotis thysanodes
Bat (Keen's Long-eared Myotis) - Myotis keenii
Bat (Northern Long-eared Myotis) - Myotis septentrionalis
Bat (Pallid) - Antrozous pallidus
Bat (Spotted) - Euderma maculatum
Bat (Townsend's Big-eared) - Corynorhinus townsendii
Bat (Western Long-eared Myotis) - Myotis evotis
Bat (Western Red) - Lasiurus blossevillii
Bat (Yuma Myotis) - Myotis yumanensis
Beaver (Mountain) - Aplodontia rufa
Caribou - Rangifer tarandus
Chipmunk (Townsend's) - Tamias townsendii
Chipmunk (Yellow-pine) - Tamias amoenus
Dall's Sheep - Ovis dalli
Deer (Fallow) - Dama dama
Deer (Red) - Cervus elaphus
Marmot (Vancouver Island) - Marmota vancouverensis
Opossum - Didelphis virginiana (Introduced)
Otter (Sea) - Enhydra lutris
Pika (Collared) - Ochotona collaris
Rabbit (Eastern Cottontail) - Sylvilagus floridanus - Introduced
Rabbit (European) - Oryctolagus cuniculus - Introduced
Rabbit (Nuttall's Cottontail) - Sylvilagus nuttallii
Rat (Black) - Rattus rattus - Introduced
Rat (Norway) - Rattus norvegicus - Introduced
Shrew (Black-backed) - Sorex arcticus
Shrew (Cascade Mantled Ground) - Spermophilus saturatus
Shrew (Common) - Sorex cinereus
Shrew (Common Water) - Sorex palustris
Shrew (Dusky) - Sorex monticolus
Shrew (Merriam's) - Sorex merriami
Shrew (Pacific Water) - Sorex bendirii
Shrew (Preble's) - Sorex preblei
Shrew (Pygmy Shrew) - Sorex hoyi
Shrew (Trowbridge's) - Sorex trowbridgii
Shrew (Tundra) - Sorex tundrensis
Shrew (Vagrant) - Sorex vagrans
Skunk (Western Spotted) - Spilogale gracilis
Squirrel (Arctic Ground) - Spermophilus parryii
Squirrel (Douglas') - Tamiasciurus douglasii
Squirrel (Eastern Fox) - Sciurus niger
Squirrel (Eastern Gray) - Sciurus carolinensis
Vole (Creeping) - Microtus oregoni
Vole (Heather) - Phenacomys intermedius
Vole (Long-tailed) - Microtus longicaudus
Vole (Montane) - Microtus montanus
Vole (Northern Red-backed) - Clethrionomys rutilus
Vole (Southern Red-backed) - Clethrionomys gapperi
Vole (Townsend's) - Microtus townsendii
Vole (Tundra) - Microtus oeconomus
Woodrat (Bushy-tailed) - Neotoma cinerea
Ocean Mammals:
Dolphin (Dall's) - Phocoenoides dalli
Dolphin (Harbour) - Phocoena phocoena
Dolphin (Long-beaked Common) - Delphinus capensis
Dolphin (Northern Right Whale) - Lissodelphis borealis
Dolphin (Pacific White-sided) - Lagenorhynchus obliquidens
Dolphin (Risso's) - Grampus griseus
Dolphin (Short-beaked Common) - Delphinus delphis
Dolphin (Striped) - Stenella coeruleoalba
Seal (Harbour) - Phoca vitulina
Seal (Northern Elephant) - Mirounga angustirostris
Seal (Northern Fur) - Callorhinus ursinus
Sea Lion (California) - Zalophus californianus
Sea Lion (Northern or Steller) - Eumetopias jubatus
Whale (Arch-beaked) - Mesoplodon carlhubbsi
Whale (Baird's Beaked) - Berardius bairdii
Whale (Blue) - Balaenoptera musculus
Whale (Common Minke) - Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Whale (Dwarf Sperm) - Kogia sima
Whale (False Killer) - Pseudorca crassidens
Whale (Fin) - Balaenoptera physalus
Whale (Grey) - Eschrichtius robustus
Whale (Humpback) - Megaptera novaeang liae
Whale (Killer) - Orcinus orca
Whale (North Pacific Right) - Eubalaena japonica
Whale (Pygmy Sperm) - Kogia breviceps
Whale (Sei) - Balaenoptera borealis
Whale (Short-finned Pilot) - Globicephala macrorhynchus
Whale (Sperm) - Physeter macrocephalus
Whale (Stejneger's Beaked) - Mesoplodon stejnegeri
For more details about British Columbia's Mammals: LINK
Birds:
albatross (black-footed)
albatross (Laysan)
albatross (short-tailed)
auklet (Cassin's)
auklet (crested)
auklet (least)
auklet (parakeet)
auklet (rhinoceros)
booby (brown)
bunting (little)
bunting (rustic)
bushtit
caracara (crested)
cormorant (Brandt's)
cormorant (pelagic)
cormorant (red-faced)
crane (Demoiselle)
crane (whooping)
crow (American)
crow (northwestern)
curlew (bristle-thighed)
curlew (far eastern)
dotterel (Eurasian)
dove (Oriental turtle-dove)
dowitcher (long-billed)
dowitcher (short-billed)
duck (Baikal teal)
duck (falcated)
duck (fulvous whistling)
duck (smew)
duck (spectacled eider)
duck (Stellar's eider)
falcon (peregrine)
fieldfare
flycatcher (Acadian)
flycatcher (Pacific-slope)
frigatebird (magnificent)
fulmar (northern)
godwit (bar-tailed)
goldfinch (lesser)
goose (Emperor)
grackle (great-tailed)
greenfinch (Oriental)
grosbeak (blue)
grouse (sooty)
guillemot (pigeon)
gull (black-headed)
gull (black-tailed)
gull (Heermann's)
gull (laughing)
gull (Ross's)
gull (western)
hawk (ferruginous)
hummingbird (broad-tailed)
hummingbird (Xantus's)
jay (western scrub)
kestrel (Eurasian)
kingbird (eastern)
kingbird (thick-billed)
kingbird (tropical)
kite (white-tailed)
kittiwake (red-legged)
knot (great)
knot (red)
lark (sky)
longspur (McKay's)
moorhen (common)
murre (common)
murre (thick-billed)
murrelet (Kittkitz's)
murrelet (marbled)
murrelet ((Xantus's)
nighthawk (lesser)
oriole (hooded)
oriole (orchard)
owl (boreal)
owl (spotted)
oystercatcher (black)
partridge (chuckar)
pelican (brown)
pelican (American white)
petrel (Cook's)
petrel (mottled)
petrel (Murphy's)
petrel (Solander's)
phoebe (black)
pipit (red-throated)
plover (piping)
ptarmigan (rock)
puffin (horned)
puffin (tufted)
quail (California)
sandpiper (red-necked)
sandpiper (rock)
sandpiper (spoon-billed)
sandpiper (Terek)
sandpiper (wood)
shearwater (black-vented)
shearwater (Buller's)
shearwater (flesh-footed)
shearwater (Manx)
shearwater (pink-footed)
shearwater (short-tailed)
shearwater (sooty)
skua (south polar)
sparrow (sage)
stint (Temminck's)
stork (wood)
storm-petrel (ashy)
storm-petrel (fork-tailed)
storm-petrel (Leach's)
swan (mute)
swan (trumpeter)
swan (whooper)
swift (Vaux's)
tern (elegant)
thrush (blue rock-thrush)
thrush (dusky)
tropicbird (red-billed)
vireo (black-capped)
vireo (eastern warbling)
vireo (Hutton's)
vulture (black)
wagtail (gray)
wagtail (white)
wagtail (yellow)
warbler (black-throated green)
warbler (prairie)
warbler (prothonotary)
warbler (yellow)
whip-poor-will (Mexican)
woodpecker (white-headed)
wren (Bewick's)
wren (canyon)
For more details about British Columbia's birds: LINK
Amphibians:
Ensatina (Common) - Ensatina eschscholtzii
Frog (Northern Red-legged) - Rana aurora
Frog (Pacific Chorus) - Pseudacris (Hyla) regilla
Frog (Pacific Tailed) - Ascaphus truei
Frog (Wood) - Lithobates sylvaticus or Rana sylvatica
Newt (Rough-skinned) - Taricha granulosa
Salamander (Northwestern) - Ambystoma gracile
Spadefoot (Great Basin) - Spea intermontana
Toad (Western) - Anaxyrus (Bufo) boreas
For more details about British Columbia's amphibians: LINK
Lizard (Pygmy Short-horned) - Phrynosoma douglasii
Rattlesnake (Western) - Crotalus oreganus
Skink (Western) - Plestiodon skiltonianus
Snake (Desert Night) - Hypsiglena chlorophaea
Snake (Gopher) - Pituophis catenifer catenifer
Snake (Rubber Boa) - Charina bottae
Snake (Sharp-tailed) - Contia tenuis
Snake (Western Yellow-bellied Racer) - Coluber constrictor
Turtle (Western Painted) - Chrysemys picta
Turtle (Western Pond) - Actinemys marmorata
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Bizarre plot to kidnap lawyer for ransom…
Bizarre plot to kidnap lawyer for ransom nets 20-year sentence for Illinois man
By Debra Cassens Weiss
May 3, 2013, 12:11 pm CDT
An Illinois man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in an alleged plot to kidnap a lawyer for ransom.
Brett Nash, 46, was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty in December to solicitation of a crime of violence, report the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Riverfront Times and the Belleville News-Democrat. He admitted he planned to hold the lawyer for ransom but denied plans to murder him in a faked accident or suicide.
The targeted lawyer has not been named. He has been described as a former corporate lawyer who lives in Granite City, Ill.
Nash was accused of enlisting a co-worker as an accomplice, who wore a tape recorder to document Nash's plot for the FBI. According to prosecutors, Nash considered various ways to force the lawyer to hand over his money. Nash considered kidnapping the lawyer and taking him home, where he would be forced write out checks for "labor," the post-Dispatch says. Nash also considered an idea he saw on TV's Discovery Channel in which the lawyer would be wired with fake explosives and told to go into his bank to withdraw all his money.
Prosecutors also claimed Nash planned to kill the lawyer and stage a hot-tub accident involving a cat knocking a radio into the water. Nash also implied he an had alternate plan involving guns and a staged suicide, prosecutors said.
Nash told the co-worker they could avoid shedding DNA by wearing gloves and using styling gel to keep their hair from shedding.
Nash's lawyer had argued the plot was too ridiculous to be real.
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The planning application for a waste transfer station on the Selco site – where Parcelforce used to be on the Edgware Road – is now available on Barnet's website, ref 17/6714/EIA, and open for online comments until Friday 01 December.
This would be just north of the new road bridge planned to cross the railway, between the new Thameslink station and the road/rail superhub for aggregates and spoil. It no longer includes the Bestway site where the Brent Cross Cricklewood developers planned to gasify and burn waste (the developers got very unhappy when residents called it an incinerator), because North London Waste Authority got the go-ahead to expand at Edmonton instead. In some ways, this new transfer station would replace the current site on the other side of the railway, reached from Tilling Road.
The application envisages up to 227 refuse collection trucks bringing waste in and 49 HGVs carrying compacted waste away every weekday and half that on Saturdays, with traffic lights being installed at the Geron Way / Edgware Road junction.
There's an article about it in the Brent and Kilburn Times and there are 90 objections on the application's web page already.
Tagged Barnet council, Brent Cross Cricklewood, Edgware Road, planning, traffic. Bookmark the permalink.
Thanks for alerting us to this! I will object. Does this mean that the previous aggregates / super hub element got ditched at least?
No, the aggregates-and-spoil road/rail superhub application is still live. DB Cargo have said they're not proceeding with their application to use the site for a temporary 18 months, but they're pressing on with their main application. There's a little bit more about it on our webpage https://www.northwesttwo.org.uk/superhub-one-application-withdrawn-objections/ .


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Q: ImageMagick how to -append output split in half I'm newbie, any help is appreciated. I'll keep it short.
What I'm doing now is "magick *.jpg -append a.png".
This merges 100+ of .jpg vertically into a .png. Problem is its long so I wanna split it in half so I get shorter a.png and b.png instead of 1 long .png.
I would like to have a single code that does it because there is hundreds of these folders.

A: You could use montage for that in ImageMagick.
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If you want space between files, then change +0+0 to use non-zero amounts for the spacing. Montage can also add file names under the images if you want using -label %f in the command

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Never mind Italy, France faces its own fiscal showdown
Only 18 months into his first term, French President Emmanuel Macron may want to lecture Italy on the merits of fiscal fastidiousness all he likes. But France's budgetary garden doesn't look that much rosier.
When French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire meets his Italian counterpart Giovanni Tria on Thursday, the more cynical of observers may ask what lessons Rome can draw from France's example of belt tightening, or more precisely perhaps, the lack thereof.
When he last visited Rome in September, Le Maire reportedly intended to tell the new government that Italy's budget deficit must not breach any prescribed EU limits. But he left with his tail between his legs, having had to reassure his Roman hosts that his own country's budget deficit wouldn't exceed those very same rules.
The European Commission rejected Italy's draft 2019 budget this week, saying it broke EU rules on public spending and asked Rome to submit a new one within three weeks or face disciplinary action.
Read more: Italy defies EU, sticks to budget proposal
But France's budget bill for 2019 unveiled last month has also been criticized for not being brave enough on cutting spending while targeting a deficit for 2019 at 2.8 percent, close to the 3 percent limit set by the EU's Stability and Growth Pact. In September, the International Monetary Fund estimated France's deficit will reach 3.2 percent of GDP in 2019.
Italy by comparison is in fact well within the 3 percent of GDP limit set by the EU rules. Its debt is, however, way above 60 percent of GDP, at 130 percent of GDP, the second-largest in Europe after Greece. France's debt was 97 percent of GDP at the end of 2017.
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EU rejects Italy's 2019 budget
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Fiscal deja vu all over again
The European Commission this week told France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal and Slovenia that their 2019 budget proposals did not meet recommended targets for cutting longer-term deficit cycles.
In its letter to the French Finance Ministry the Commission wrote: "The preliminary evaluation of the Commission indicates that France's trajectory does not respect the rhythm of debt reduction in 2019," referring to eurozone rules.
The Commission was not happy about the speed and depth of French plans to cut its structural deficits. The Commission wants cuts of 0.6 percent of GDP, while Paris is targeting 0.2 percent.
Meanwhile, slow growth this year has raised doubts that France can keep reducing its budget deficit. The economy grew 0.2 percent in each of the first two quarters, less than Italy. Le Maire said this year's deficit will be 2.6 percent or 2.7 percent "depending on growth."
Paris said it expected its debt load to peak at 97 percent of GDP in 2019. By comparison, Germany's will have fallen to 58 percent.
La plus ca change
But this is nothing new, analysts said. The critical difference is that France has much lower financing costs than Italy. "This makes a significant difference in its long-term debt dynamics," Antoine Bouvet of Mizuho International in London told DW.
Read more: French President Emmanuel Macron wins no-confidence votes
There is another material difference between Italy on the one hand, and Spain and France on the other. "The latter two are more likely to be eligible for an ESM [European Stability Mechanism] precautionary program, and so for European Central Bank support to their bond markets, whereas the current Italian government is much less likely to sign up to the sort of fiscal conditionality this would entail," Bouvet said.
"The Commission has got to take the wider political economy picture into account, without seeming to give the impression that France gets special treatment because it's a major economic player and net contributor to the EU budget," Brussels-based Robin Huguenot-Noel, a researcher at the European Policy Center, said.
France's Finance and Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire visits Rome on Thursday
Insufficient fiscal buffers
Macron has in fact slowed fiscal consolidation, putting off difficult spending cuts. Of the €80 billion ($98 billion) of planned savings over five years, Macron has piled the share allocated for the last two years of his term to 48 percent from what had initially been agreed at 28 percent. France is thus delaying to at least 2023 to achieve a structural deficit of 0.4 percent of GDP, as prescribed by EU rules.
France is also far from a frontrunner in building up fiscal buffers, as advised by the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank, to be better prepared for the next financial crisis.
"France is off budget track and Macron isn't even trying to pretend otherwise," said Francois Ecalle, head of the independent Paris-based fiscal-monitoring body Fipeco. "The government is axing taxes before spending; it's hard to see how this is going to work."
The IMF wants France to downsize its wage bill, consolidate local government budgets and reshape social, health and retirement benefits. The government says this risks street protests and argues that any more efforts on spending in 2019 would risk choking off a recovery that already looks fragile.
French finance minister talks down EU fiscal penalties on Portugal
France's Finance Minister Michel Sapin believes Portugal doesn't deserve EU penalties for fiscal overruns. This precedes a meeting of the bloc's finance ministers at which Lisbon and Madrid may see penalties imposed. (11.07.2016)
France urges Italy to stick to EU commitments
France's economy minister has warned Italy to respect its financial commitments to the EU under "whichever government." Bruno Le Maire said eurozone stability would otherwise be threatened. (20.05.2018)
Macron government shrugs off protests, vows to press on with labor market reforms
Even after some 200,000 people took to the streets, French PM Philippe said the government will push ahead with reforms the "French people asked for." The proposed changes were part of what got President Macron elected. (13.09.2017)
France: Tens of thousands rally against President Emmanuel Macron in Paris
Marking one year since the president's inauguration, the far-left France Insoumise (France Unbowed) called for rallies in Paris, Toulouse and Bordeaux to protest reforms. A carnival atmosphere dominated the events. (05.05.2018)
EU rejects Italy budget for breaching debt rules
The European Commission has for the first time ever rejected the budget of a member state, as it said the spending plans of Italy's populist government were violating the bloc's debt limit and needed revision. (23.10.2018)
French President Emmanuel Macron wins no-confidence votes
The French leader faced two no-confidence votes amid a political uproar over a former bodyguard and plunging approval ratings. The motions had been brought forward by both conservative and Socialist lawmakers. (31.07.2018)
France given more time to fix budget deficit
The EU executive has granted France two more years to bring its budget deficit below the bloc's limit of 3 percent of GDP. While avoiding a fine for now, Paris must now present new reform proposals. (25.02.2015)
Juncker: France should get special deficit rule treatment
The president of the EU executive has said France's extra spending to boost its security after the Paris attacks must not be treated as ordinary expenses. Hence, he added, it should be exempt from EU fiscal rules. (18.11.2015)
Italy defies EU, sticks to budget proposal
Italy's populist government is determined to stand by its plans to raise its already high deficit despite a formal warning from the EU. Rome has, however, promised to keep an eye on its sizable debt pile. (22.10.2018)
Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel meeting a test for EU financial policy
For months, French President Emmanuel Macron has been waiting for a response from Berlin regarding his EU reform ideas. Now Angela Merkel is coming to Paris as the re-elected chancellor. But he shouldn't expect too much. (16.03.2018)
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EU interior ministers seek compromise on Mediterranean refugee rescue 18.07.2019
Nothern and southern Europe have been at loggerheads over how to handle migrants crossing from northern Africa. Despite criticism, Italy has refused to open its ports to rescue vessels.
Tour de France 2019: Where do the riders come from? 12.07.2019
It's no surprise that France and other European nations dominate the Tour de France. What is surprising is that the number of riders from outside of Europe has declined in recent years.
Germany records all-time hottest June temperature 30.06.2019
The last day of June has beaten all previous temperature highs for the month. Heat-related deaths have been reported in several European countries.
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German police raid suspected Islamists' homes
The raids in the western cities of Düren and Cologne came after credible tip-offs were received by police. Two men have been taken in for questioning, according to German media.
German court reaches first verdict in campsite child sex abuse case
More than 40 children were sexually abused at a campsite in a small German town of Luegde over a years-long period. The case, one of the biggest abuse scandals to hit Germany in recent decades, shocked the country.


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and thank you by the way for yesterday, it's nice to visit I wish I kept up with it more.
Was it really 2 years ago? My god, so it was! That means that I've been at Listers for almost 3 years now! Blimey!
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I've been painting for as long as I remember and because of this I followed UNA. After several summers spent on the set as an assistant set designer, I continued with a master degree in CAV at UNATC. In 2004, I got a job as a telecinema colorist. I had the chance to witness and be part of a very interesting period because I was able to work on a few projects that mattered both in cinematografic perspective (4 weeks, 3 months and 2 years, etc.), as well as from technological developments. Practically there were the times when romanian cinema and advertising market got updated. We moved from coloring, which meant in 2004 the transfer from film to digital, with all the painting, to film / digital transfer in a format dedicated to movie theaters – DCP or film – with more and more responsible painting.
In 2012, I started a Phd theisis in order to share this experience with cinema and painting. I wanted to integrate what I had lived around the image. Meanwhile my area of interests has widened so much because the image and all this creative part is a major source of self-connecting for me. I followed an art therapy training program at the ARTE and Wiener Schule for Kunsttherapie (WSK) Austria and started working as a therapist. Color grading studio is a space where I can share my knowledge and experience about image, both as a painter and as a post-production professional.
For me, it is important that Cinetic has a dynamic and interdisciplinary structure in which I find the space to go beyond what I have gathered and to find the new, to discover, to explore the creative sides. I believe that learning experiences are rather research experiences and that they offer the chance to discover various resources.
In 2010 he graduated the film faculty, the sound montage department, within UNATC. The master's program was next, finalized in 2014 within CESI (Center for Excellence in Image Studies) with the thesis "Postmodern transformations and the fluidization of mediums", where he studied the development trends of trans-medial narration, the convergence of mediums and the participative culture. In his Ph.D. paper, entitled "Apocalypse and the films with apocalyptic plot", his focus was on analysing the relationship between the meta-narration of contemporary films with an apocalyptic plot and the present perception of the human being regarding the idea of apocalypse. From the professional perspective, he performed the montage activity for commercials, TV shows and short films, as an employee within post-production studios as well as freelancer. Within the CINETic center his focus is on developing a few scientific and educational research projects.
Grigore Burloiu has recently defended his doctoral thesis "Dynamic Music Representations for Real-time Performance" at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology within UPB. He also holds a MMus in music technology awarded by the University of Leeds. He is active in computer music design – augmentation of musical illustrations through generation and dynamic control. He collaborates with IRCAM Paris, where he also underwent a research internship, in the field of visualization of the dynamic processes for computer assisted music.
Stefan Damian is a sound designer, composer and audio programmer based in Bucharest. He has been involved in a vast range of projects including film sound, music production, music for motion picture, electroacoustic composition, multichannel diffusion, interactive sound installations, development of synthesis engines and DSP tools.
After graduating Film School at UNATC, where he received a BA in Film Sound and Montage, he pursued a Master's degree at the state of the art Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) at Queen's University Belfast, where he was awarded an MA in Sonic Arts. At the moment he is doing a PhD at UNATC researching new ways of interacting with sound in electroacoustic music. His main area of interests includes (but is not limited to): new media, electroacoustic and acousmatic music, psychoacoustics, sound synthesis, spatial sound and interactivity.
My name is Mihai Gheorghiu and I have been working for over 30 years in audio and more than 20 years in game audio domain.
I did the complete sound design and music mix and master for more than 20 big game titles including: Silent Hunter 3, 4 and 5, Blazing Angels 1 and 2, HAWX 1 and 2, Chess Master, Just Dance 4, Knights Arena. Also, I have been working on important audio parts for Assassin's Creed Rogue and Assassin's Creed Syndicate games.
I have mixed and mastered game music tracks by composer Jason Graves for Silent Hunter 5 and by composer Tom Salta for HAWX games.
I have strong musical knowledge, I play keyboards, guitars, bass guitar and occasionally percussion. I possess also strong skills in field recording techniques.
Matei Branea, the creator of OMULAN, is a visual philanthropist who grapples with the essential. Being an animation teacher at UNATC, he reveals everyday life in a satirical way, by adapting his style to various artistic mediums.
Vlad Ilicevici is the managing director of Animest IAFF and the founder of the Animation Worksheep, an eductional platform connected to the festival.
Worksheep is definitely his most accomplishing project so far. Among the 90 former worksheepers, more than 60 work now as animators or in animation related areas. With the help of trainers, partners and collaborators of the Animation Worksheep and also with the help of worksheepers themselves, Vlad is trying to create a solid animation community in Romania.
He is also a screenwriter, director & producer for his small animation studio, based in Bucharest. Last but not least, he is currently writing and shouting some Rock'n'Roll demented fairy tales with his progressive post traumatic blues quartet, Orkid.
Iulia Gherghescu, through her passion for rendering and painting discovered the absorbing and intense world of design. For her, CINETic is a frightening challenge and an opportunity to learn new things from modern perspectives. During her 10 years as a designer, she received a Master degree from Tulane University, a Ph.D. from UNATC and was selected for 3 editions of Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.
I started from environmental, space and industrial design and went into a direction where experiencing space in real or virtual life combined with technology makes it a unique and new experience.
My main focus is on new media installation design that can be perceived for many uses from art to film.
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My academic background is: in the present I am a Ph.D. student at National University of Arts, Bucharest, studying spatial relations with the object between real and virtual environments. M.A. in Interior and Spatial Design.
After graduating the Faculty of Theater and Television from Cluj-Napoca, Adrian Damian continued his studies at UNATC Bucharest, finishing scenography in 2010. Currently he is a PhD student at University of Arts in Târgu Mureș.
He signed so far over forty stage designs in important theaters from Romania, collaborating with famous national and international directors such as Roberto Bacci, Alexander Hausvater, Anna Stigsgaard, Peter Schnider, Radu Afrim, Alexandru Dabija, Radu Nica etc. A special place in his career is his collaboration with the director Mihai Măniuţiu with whom he conducted 21 performances such as Life is a Dream and Winter nominated by the UNITER Senate for BEST SCENOGRAPHY or Mr. Swedenborg wants to dream and Pirandello Coffe Shop awarded BEST PERFORMANCE – Oradea Theater Festival.
One of his major project was the collaboration with Robert Wilson, as an associated set designer for The Rhinoceros, by Eugene Ionesco, performed at the National Theater in Craiova in 2014.
He was awarded with Man of the year in Theater, Cotidianul Awards (2017), The UNITER Award for Best Scenographer (2016), Hungarian Theatre Critics' Association Award – Best Scenography (2016), Kisvarda Hungarian Theaters Festival Award- Best Scenography (2016), Romanian Artist Association – Best Scenographer (2015).
Vlad Constantin was born in Călărași, Romania, in 1984 and he came to Bucharest after the Revolution of December 1989. After four years of being a student of the Economic Management Faculty, Academy of Economic Studies and of the Political Sciences Faculty within the National School for Political Sciences and Public Administration, Vlad decided to become a student of the Staging Faculty of UNATC, which he graduated in 2010. He graduated the Master's Program in the field of Sound and Montage within the same Film Faculty and he was a student for three more years within the Faculty of History and Theory of Art – UNARTE. At present he is a student within the Master's Program regarding the Theory and Practice of Image within CESI and a post-graduate student in the second year within the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Bucharest.
In Oglinda Elodiei (2010) (short) (documentary), Cele trei Roxanici (2011) (short) (documentary), Si Eu (2011) (short), Cineva o sa va sune (2012) (short), Academicianul (2015) (short), Precum coralii care cresc sub apa (2016) (short); in the capacity of editor: Cele trei Roxanici (2011) (short) (documentary), Despre ea (2012) (short), Cineva o sa va sune (2012) (short), Academicianul (2015) (short).
Graduate of the Film Faculty within UNATC Bucharest, member of the Association of Photographers. He militates for training through specialized education and a correct perception of the audio-visual art. He is a partisan and a promoter of ideas that animate cinephiles and audiophiles alike, as well as a fan of home cinema.
Alexandra is passionate about people, psychology, neuroscience and movies. At the moment she is a PhD. student at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. Her main research interest is the study of emotion, cognition and the interaction between them, using electrophysiological (EEG / ERP) and behavioral measurements. Because of her desire to better understand how different theater and film elements give rise to certain emotions and how they influence our neurophysiological activity, she decided to collaborate with CINETic.
Associate professor Nicolae Mandea, Rector of the National University of Theatre and Film "I.L.Caragiale" in Bucharest and founder of CINETic. He has also been actively involved as either initiator, coordinator, consultant or member of various educational, artistic, scientific and research projects, the most recent of which being the unique Master's Program in the Art of Game Design. He currently teaches Theatre Directing and Stage Writing at UNATC Bucharest.
Alexandru Berceanu is currently the Director of CINETic where he also works as a researcher in the MET project. His interest in neuroscience started during his PhD studies when he worked on BCI interfaces in real time for detecting arousal changes in spectators, along other psychological aspects involved in the viewing of violent actions in theatre. Based on this interest, in 2013 he initiated the CINETic center for interdisciplinary research at UNATC "I.L.Caragiale" where he was teaching directing. He coordinated the grant proposal and later on worked as deputy director in the implementation phase of CINETic.
Alexandru Berceanu is also an independent director and cultural manager. He directed numerous theatre performances in both state and independent theatres which won national and international awards. He is a founding member of the dramAcum NGO. Starting from his interest in new playwriting and extending performance areas, Alexandru Berceanu has collaborated in interdisciplinary projects like Immersive and Subversive Installation 1958-1958, he wrote Mickey on the Danube, a graphic novel and he directed VR experiences such as Bucharest 41 and Touch.
Alexandru Berceanu's artistic practice combines documentary work with artistic intervention. His work is centered on discrimination, violence and the consequences of politics at individual level. During his performance entitled interface 3, music was generated in real time from EEG, through computing algorithms and emotion recognition approaches. He co-wrote and directed the play Skin Look based on his documentation of the Roma identity in Turkey and Romania.
She has a Bachelor's Degree in Philology and two Master's Degrees – one in British Cultural Studies at the University of Bucharest and one in Musical Theater with a full semester of studies at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, China. In 2017, she received her Doctoral Degree with a thesis investigating the comic ethos in the Western dramatic canon. The same year, she represented Romania in the International Leadership Visitor Program (IVLP) – Promoting Social Change Through the Arts, at the invitation of the US Department of State, with programs in Washington, New York, San Francisco and Denver.
She is passionate about the history of ideas, classical art and silence.
Dumitru Tanase (born February 5th, 1991) is a graduate of the Polytechnic University in Bucharest, Faculty of Energy and Energy Management. He has come to coordinate the administrative work of the CINETIC center due to his seriousness and perseverance. Employed since the project implementation period, he helped to complete the project by handling various management tasks.
Currently, he is Technical Coordinator at CINETic and handles the operation of the CNC Router and the 3D printer, providing technical support for other equipment as well. He provides support to UNATC students to use the CINETic equipment for their diploma and/or dissertation projects.
He is also involved in the MET research project – "Development of a Methodology of Therapy through Theatre with an effect at the Neurochemical and Neurocognitive Levels – MET", as an audio-video technician.
And to all those who supported the implementation of this project.