'Richard Hamilton: The Late Works' opens this month. Plus Edmund de Waal on Monet, and the perils of painting royals.
We start this month with our new exhibition: Richard Hamilton: The Late Works. Famous for being the founder of Pop Art, the designer of the Beatles' 'White Album', and Brian Ferry's art teacher, contemporary British artist Richard Hamilton was also – perhaps more surprisingly – a life-long devotee of the National Gallery.
He was fascinated by Old Master painting, and in 1978 – in a bid to make visitors feel at home with such works - created an installation at the Gallery that placed many of the collection's best-loved masterpieces in a room alongside easy chairs, a TV and an ironing board. When he died in September 2011 at the age of 89, he was working on a new exhibition for the National Gallery with curator Chris Riopelle. Chris spoke to Leah Kharibian in advance of this month's opening – and began by describing Hamilton's early experiences of the Gallery.
Chris Riopelle: Hamilton was coming here frequently, really from childhood but he himself recalls that as a student as the Royal Academy Schools he was sent here to copy things and in some ways that copying, that having to pay very, very intense attention to specific works of art was his real initiation into the National Gallery.
And in his final decades he was even much more explicitly returning to Old Master themes, so you'll see one painting that very much references the Christian iconography, the Christian tradition, of the Annunciation to the Virgin. Other works evoke Dutch painting of the 17th century – he was really aware of the entire European painting tradition.
Leah Kharibian: And can you tell me a little bit about how these were made because these were again a sort of a sign of a way in which he was always pushing boundaries.
Chris Riopelle: Among British artists, Hamilton was among the first to really intuit the implications of the computer and how computer technology as it improved was going to offer artists possibilities for doing things. In the last decades of his life almost all of his paintings began on the computer and then they would be printed out from the computer and over-painted, so that they were many of them true paintings, but underneath them were these computer generated images so it was a very interesting first take on what you could do with computers.
Leah Kharibian: And the whole exhibition sort of culminates or leads towards three works which were sort of still in progress when Hamilton died. Can you tell me a little bit about those?
Chris Riopelle: For the last two years of his life, Hamilton became obsessed as many artists had done before him by a short-story of the 1830s by Honoré de Balzac called 'The Unknown Masterpiece' and as Picasso had done before him, he began to make a painting based on this.
That painting originally generated on computer remained unfinished at the time of his death. And what we are showing are not three paintings, not three works, but three versions of that unfinished painting. None of them complete in themselves, but showing various stages, various possibilities for this final unrealised work.
One is almost a drawing and shows an initial stage in the process. Another he's blocked in large areas of colour, so you see where he was going in that direction and the third shows the actual canvas he was working on, showing how far he'd gotten on it when he died.
Leah Kharibian: And so there's so much to come and see here – there's something very new, still very vibrant. This was an artist still really firing on all cylinders.
Chris Riopelle: Hamilton remained incredibly inventive, up to the end of his life and incredibly fascinated with how his works were seen and so when we invited him to show here he immediately jumped in, not only deciding what pictures to show but absolutely how they would be seen – what the room would look like, how he could create a total work of art out of the paintings, but out of the space as well.
Leah Kharibian: Wonderful, thank you very much.
Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): Thanks to Chris Riopelle. And that exhibition - Richard Hamilton: The Late Works – opens on the 10th of October. Admission is free.
Visitors to galleries often day-dream about what it might be like to have their favourite painting by Rembrandt or Turner on their wall back home.
For artist and author Edmund de Waal it's a fantasy born of more than idle curiosity – since one of the works in the National Gallery once belonged to his ancestor, the celebrated collector, Charles Ephrussi. Monet's Bathers at La Grenouillère hung in Charles's study in Paris in the late nineteenth century, alongside many other beautiful objects, including the collection of miniature Japanese sculptures that Edmund himself would inherit five generations later – and write about in his award-winning family memoir, 'The Hare with the Amber Eyes'. I met up with Edmund beside Monet's painting – a summery scene of a popular spot for boating and bathing on the Seine.
Edmund de Waal: Each time I come and stand in front of this picture I get goose-pimples. It revives me. I mean not only do you look at these wonderful people in the river and feel this wonderful chill and excitement of plunging into the river, but it actually is an incredibly alive painting and it makes me feel alive every time I see it.
Miranda Hinkley: This painting was in the collection of one of your ancestors, an art collector called Charles Ephrussi who lived in Paris in the nineteenth century. Tell us a bit more about Charles.
Edmund de Waal: Well, he was a wonderful man – I rather fell in love with him. He was part of this extraordinary Jewish dynastic family that I'm part of, the Ephrussi, and he'd ended up in Paris with his banker brothers and he had nothing to do. He had lots and lots of money and nothing to do and a great artistic temperament so he started to put together this incredible collection.
Part of the collection that he put together was this amazing collection of Japanese objects that I inherited – these little netsuke that I spent these years trying to trace, but the majority of his collection was renaissance embroideries and bronzes, and – and this is such a big and – Impressionist paintings.
This was the new art – the sort of dangerous, fissile, exciting art of the day, and I think he was drawn towards it because it was so energetic and so exciting and so you can trace this excitement through – I have to say – rather heated prose as he starts to discover Berte Morisot and then Renoir and Manet and Degas and of course Monet, so he writes about these people and falls in love with these artists.
Miranda Hinkley: And you researched Charles quite extensively for your book, 'The Hare with the Amber Eyes', and in it you imagined what Charles study, what his rooms in Paris might have looked like.
Edmund de Waal: Lots and lots of paintings hung from floor to ceiling, jostling with embroideries… great kind of lavish maroon Renaissance embroideries with golden thread… a Donatello sculpture somewhere – over the fireplace… a cabinet of Japanese curios, these netsuke, and also – I just love this – a yellow arm-chair – and then – and this is the kind of killer thing – you've got people. You've got an incredible quantity of people coming to talk in this room. That's why I kind of fell in love with him really. Because I got the feeling that this was someone who invited different kinds of people into his life and was very, very open to the kinds of things that were talked about.
For instance, he was the first, Charles was really the first writer and collector of Berhe Morisot, who still is ridiculously neglected amongst the Impressionists. And he had a huge talent for different kinds of friendships. Lots and lots of friendships with women and lots of friendships with very peculiar and slightly impoverished writers as well as these great artists. You have to remember of course that these artists weren't famous then – they were complicated people who were very much on the forefront of art.
And Charles is not only a rich collector who is going to go and buy their work, but is a great patron and fighter on the barricades for these artists, so you imagine all that excitement in this room.
Miranda Hinkley: I think what I really love about this work are these boats in the foreground, that look so carelessly arranged, but we know from detailed analysis of the painting that he took a lot of time over the positioning and I just really love the way that you can imagine yourself using them as stepping stones to cross the river and get onto that bridge and go right into the scene. I wonder what Charles loved about this picture. Why did he buy this and not something else by Monet?
Edmund de Waal: Do you know what? He did buy lots of other things by Monet too – but if you look at all the paintings of this period that he's buying there's a completely common thread and it's here in this amazing painting. And he talks about it in a beautiful essay about the Impressionists. He talks about the 'fugitive moment' – the moment which is there and then it's gone.
So the pictures he buys are pictures where you just see the wind in the poplar trees in a Sisley or a Pissarro painting, or a moment in another beautiful, beautiful Monet which he bought ten years later where the ice is just cracking on a river – you can feel it's just about jostling away – and here in this painting, you can feel that those wonderful figures are trying to work out whether to jump in or not… whether to get into this river, so there's this fugitive feeling – this feeling of the moment, just held there, crystalline… and then gone.
Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): Edmund de Waal talking about Monet's Bathers at La Grenouillère, which is on display in Room 43.
And now imagine getting your first break – and blowing it. That's what happened to 20-year-old Thomas Lawrence – back in 1789. Talked about as the next big thing in British portraiture, Lawrence was invited to Windsor Castle to paint the portrait of Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III. It should have been a moment of triumph for the young artist. But thanks to a first-hand account by a certain Mrs. Papendiek, we know the encounter between Lawrence and Charlotte didn't go well. Leah Kharibian met the portrait historian, Kate Retford, in front of Lawrence's portrait of the Queen and asked her to explain who Mrs Papendiek was.
Kate Retford: Mrs Papendiek is a rather wonderful character. She's the daughter of Charlotte's hairdresser and she is a member of Charlotte's household retinue, she's an intimate at court, and she leaves us these wonderful chatty journals. And Mrs Papendiek is a wonderful source… you always have to be slightly careful with her because they are written towards the end of her life, so she is looking at things with the considerable benefit of hindsight and the other thing we have to remember is that Mrs Papendiek appears to have had quite a crush on Lawrence. She says he's elegant and handsome and very attentive.
Mrs Papendiek: The great prodigy of the day had now arrived at Windsor and everyone was anxious to see the self-taught wonder. The Queen was to sit to him for her portrait and he was to have an apartment in the castle for his work and accommodation. Her Majesty was rather averse to sitting for him, saying that she had not recovered sufficiently from all the trouble and anxiety she had gone through to give so young an artist a fair chance. It was however settled that it should be tried.
Leah Kharibian: Now Mrs Papendiek says that Queen Charlotte is not very happy - that she's been under stress of some sort. What's been going on for Charlotte?
Kate Retford: Charlotte has had I think what can only be called her annus horiblis – I mean, she's had an absolutely appalling year. Lawrence paints Charlotte in the September of 1789. The previous year George has had his first major illness; his first serious mental and physical collapse, probably from poryhria.
And it's the period wonderfully described in Alan Bennett's 'Madness of King George' of course. And it's terrible for Charlotte. Her previously devoted husband is being very hostile to her… he's declaring himself in love with one of the ladies of the bedchamber, the Countess of Pembrook, and it prompts the Regency crisis, which is awful for the Queen because her eldest son is basically trying to get as much power as he can while his father's ill.
She's had a terrible time – people are talking about the toll it's taken on her appearance. And people say that her hair goes completely grey over that period, and the grey hair we see in this portrait is really the result of this awful year she's had.
Leah Kharibian: Well, poor Queen Charlotte. And obviously here comes Lawrence – twenty year old – and she really isn't in the mood for this. And things seem to go from bad to worse. Lawrence tries to jolly the precedings along and this is a mistake, isn't it?
Mrs Papendiek: Lawrence requested the Queen to converse now and then with the princesses to give animation to the countenance but her Majesty thought that rather presuming and continued to listen to one of them reading. The poor young fellow was naturally inexperienced in the ways of a court. And the manner in which Her Majesty treated him was not with her usual kind commiseration.
Kate Retford: The really sad thing is that Lawrence is at Windsor Castle for some months to do this portrait and he gets one sitting. That's it. She doesn't sit to him again.
Leah Kharibian: And yet he creates this absolutely fabulous portrait. I was just wondering if you could briefly take us through what he does because he seems to be able to mix two different types of portrait together.
Kate Retford: Yes, because in some ways we have a very formal portrait – it's very large, it's very imposing… you've got the drape, you've got the view through to Eton College Chapel to tell us we're at Windsor… we've got the fact the Queen is raised on a step. I mean these are all stock aspects of royal portraiture that come from Van Dyck.
But it's still remarkable… She's in this very informal dress. The dress was the source of some argument, but actually the way he's painted it in the end – it's this wonderful shimmering blue, silver, lilac affair. But there's no crown, there's no ermine, there's no sceptre – there's really nothing to tell you that she's the Queen of England.
But I think the most extraordinary thing about the portrait is the face. She looks like a woman in her mid-forties… she looks like a woman who's tired. She's got puffy eyes… they're shadowed… and it's an incredibly sensitive portrait. And we know actually from some x-rays that the Gallery did that he had a bad-time painting her face and kept changing her mouth particularly, but in the end he captured this wonderful wistful expression that does seem to convey something of what she's been through.
Leah Kharibian: And so what was the royal reception of this portrait when it was finished?
Kate Retford: They didn't like it one bit. George is reported as saying it was disgusting. The biggest problem seems to have been the fact that she's not wearing anything on her head. They didn't buy it; they didn't pay for it; and it stays in Lawrence's studio. For Lawrence it's actually not a bad thing. He shows it in the Royal Academy exhibition of 1790, where it goes down very well. He gets some very good reviews. Gainsborough's just died… Reynolds is going to die two years later… and this is very much the start of Lawrence, the grand manner portraitist, the great portraitist of the early nineteenth century which is how we know him today.
Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): Thanks to Kate Retford. And if you'd like your own audience with Queen Charlotte, she's on display in Room 36 .
That's it for this month. Next episode we'll have news of our big autumn exhibition, which opens on the 31st of October. Called Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, it's the National Gallery's first major exhibition of photography.
That's it for this month - if you're visiting, don't forget the National Gallery is open from ten till six daily, and till nine on Fridays.


Smirking social-media pundits knock the new host for her controversial views on vaccines.
Twitter is needling Jenny McCarthy.
Soon after the announcement that the outspoken TV personality was joining the panel on ABC's The View, the micro-blogging site became swarmed with snark from entertainment industry jokers and media mavens alike.
Why WOULDN'T parents take vaccination tips from somebody whose favorite joke is "I paid for my fake breasts" (LOL)? Congrats Jenny McCarthy!
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Giving Thanks at Sukkot
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Among Jewish holidays, I think Hanukkah gets more than its fair share of attention. It's a relatively minor festival that most likely owes its elevated status in the United States to its proximity on the calendar to Christmas. As a secular Jewish kid in an overwhelmingly Christian neighborhood, I was far more enthralled with the trappings of yuletide—Christmas carols, brightly lit trees and egg nog—than with reciting a Hebrew prayer over a menorah. Sure, latkes were good, and so were the presents, but those nine little candles seemed a little lackluster when compared to the neighbors' Griswoldian Christmas light displays.
On the other hand, I think another Jewish holiday gets short shrift—Sukkot, which starts tonight at sunset and lasts for seven days. Although my family never observed it (I only learned about it from a book of Jewish holidays my parents gave me), I wish we had; it sounds like fun. It follows soon after Yom Kippur, one of the most solemn days on the Jewish calendar, a day of reflection, atonement and fasting. Sukkot, by contrast, is a purely joyous occasion.
The celebration has two purposes: to give thanks for the harvest and to commemorate the 40 years the ancient Hebrews wandered the desert following their exodus from Egypt. A main feature of the Sukkot observance is the sukkah, a temporary hut built outdoors to remind Jews of their ancestors' nomadism. (Sukkot observance also used to include a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, during which the pilgrims stayed in temporary shelters.) The sukkah is often elaborately decorated—sometimes with palm fronds, corn stalks or other natural materials—and all meals are eaten inside it; if the weather is nice, some people even sleep in it.
Speaking of meals, because Sukkot is also a harvest celebration, food is a big part of the festivities. Friends are often invited to dine in the sukkah, and, according to Reform Judaism magazine, some Jews follow the tradition of including less fortunate people at the sukkah table.
Stuffed foods and casseroles are especially popular, because they represent the bountiful variety of the harvest and are easy to transport to the sukkah. These can include stuffed cabbage, or holishkes, such as a sweet-and-sour Polish version from the Second Avenue Deli Cookbook (via Epicurious); dolmades, or stuffed grape leaves; or, for a twist on the root vegetable and dried fruit casserole called tsimmes, try Joan Nathan's southwestern version, stuffed in chilies. On the final day it is traditional to eat kreplach, a meat-filled pasta similar to ravioli or wontons and served in soup or fried for a side dish (Chabad offers a simple recipe).
Stuffing foods? Giving thanks for an abundant harvest? Sound similar to a certain American holiday? In fact, some sources claim the American Pilgrims modeled their first Thanksgiving after the Sukkot festival they were familiar with from the Bible.
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Lisa Bramen was a frequent contributor to Smithsonian.com's Food and Think blog. She is based in northern New York and is also an associate editor at Adirondack Life magazine.
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Recently, I celebrated 28 journeys around the sun.
Even though our society doesn't seem to value getting older, I find myself enjoying the process more and more. I feel excited to be another year older. With each passing year of my twenties I have found more peace and ownership of my imperfections, more clarity with what I want in life, fuller intention in my everyday actions, more protection of my time. I even feel more prepared to take on the uncertainty of the future, and the in betweenness of getting where i want to be. It is widely believed in the practice of yoga that we never arrive, but we are always moving through something; I've been trying to remember this in particularly impatient times.
Life is certainly not getting any easier, but I'm finding more and more ways to find joy in each day.
I've been trying to distill my life down to only the things that are in service of my goals and values, and eliminating anything that takes energy away from that. I think it' s in our nature to feel the impulse to hang on to things out of habit, so it can be a challenge to work against this, but I've been treating it as an ongoing practice.
My hope is that the next year will be filled with good friends, meaningful connections, fulfilling projects, more volunteer work and bike rides and yoga, good books and lots of travels. It's exciting to start 28 living in a new city; it has been such a joy to explore this place and to make it home.
How do you feel about getting older? Are you enjoying the process?


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'Archer' keeps audiences watching
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Combine a spy agency, dark humor and a lot of dysfunctional relationships to get an amazing show to watch during the down time this semester.
The sixth season of "Archer" aired on Jan. 8 after much anticipation from fans of the show. Archer is an animated dark comedy/action cartoon with a rating of TV-MA.
Archer is an obnoxious, misogynistic, troubled man who just so happens to be an amazing spy. If it was left up to him, he would spend his time just enjoying the perks of his star agent statues, but his coworkers are there to keep him on track.
With its combination of clever humor and a strong group of supporting characters, it is no surprise the show gets an average of two million viewers according to accessatlanta.com.
Some of the supporting characters include Lana, Archer's ex who is also a top spy with a strong, witty personality, and Pam, the straightforward Human Resources lady who happens to be the office's main target for teasing.
Some of the main focuses of the show include Archer's strained relationship with his mother and boss Mallory Archer, his ex-girlfriend and coworker Lana Kane and the dysfunctional interactions between the supporting characters.
All five seasons are on Netflix, and the episodes average around half an hour each, which make them ideal to watch during a quick study break.
The lack of seriousness is why this show is good for those days where one just needs a laugh. The show's mixture of wittiness and ridiculous humor also helps to keep the episodes from feeling repetitive and stale.
With all of the different personalities there is a character for everyone to love.
The episodes can stand on their own unlike other series. If the audience misses an episode or two, they can just fall back into watching without having to worry about catching up on the missed episodes.
In the season premiere, star spy Sterling Archer has to face yet another sticky situation.
Season six has the promise to be just as interesting and full of humor as the previous five.
"Archer" airs on Thursday nights at 10 p.m. on FX. Whether one needs a show to unwind or wants a new show to watch with friends, "Archer" would make a great addition to anyone's weekly line up.
This show gets a grade of: B


On March 13, 2019, in a case of first impression, New York's Appellate Division, Second Department ("Second Department") issued a decision holding the reinstatement provision of a mortgage does not prevent the acceleration of the loan prior to entry of a foreclosure judgment. In Bank of New York Mellon v. Dieudonne, 2019 WL 1141973 (2d Dept. Mar. 13, 2019), the Second Department affirmed the Kings County Supreme Court's decision granting defendant Dieudonne's ("Defendant") motion to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(5) because the foreclosure action was barred by the expiration of the statute of limitations. Specifically, the Second Department held that "the extinguishment of the defendant's contractual right to de-accelerate the maturity of the debt pursuant to the reinstatement provision of paragraph 19 of the mortgage was not a condition precedent to the plaintiff's acceleration of the mortgage" and, therefore, acceleration occurred upon commencement of the prior foreclosure action.
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Nigeria's Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has disclosed that the Federal Government would require $40 billion to finance the ongoing rail projects in the country.
He added that government was negotiating with contractors handling the Lagos-Ibadan railway to raise funds for the projects, stressing that everything would be done to finish the projects this year.
The minister revealed this on the sidelines of the commissioning of 10 railway coaches and two locomotives at Rigasa Station, Kaduna State.
He said: "We need between $36 billion and $40 billion. Only God knows where we are going to get it. But I may apply what I did as Rivers State governor. When there is a project, we put on the table how much we have. We will just award the contract, believing that God will do it for us. You will say that it is naive but at the end of the day we got money to pay the contractors. The government will also focus on Kano-Kazure, Daura, Katsina, Jibya and link Maradi in Niger Republic, as part of regional railway inter-connectivity of the ECOWAS sub-region."
He said the procurement of the locomotives and coaches would ease movement on the Abuja-Kaduna rail service.
He said: "This is indeed a clear demonstration of this government's commitment to accomplish a functional and efficient national rail transport. Such commitment has brought us into tangible ongoing rail project.
"It would be recalled that the President commissioned and flagged-off commercial rail operation, the first Nigerian standard gauge rail, which runs from Abuja in Idu to Rigassa in Kaduna in July 2016. This service has continued to be a success story and a first, as evidence that this government is committed to developing an efficient rail system that will meet the expectation of Nigerians."
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Get crystal clear on what worked, what didn't work, what you get to add and shift for this next year. Then be guided in a powerful meditation to invoke your highest goals and dreams so you can declare and manifest them in the new year. Have fun crafting an action plan and collaging this new vision and leave with a beautiful piece of intentional art that can be a constant reminder of what you are committed to creating.
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A great paddle brush will be able to help the hair dry faster during the styling time because it creates added air flow that some other hair brushes do not. The shape of the paddle allows for more hair to be spread out and reached by the heat at once. Most traditional paddle brushes are solid and do not have vents in them, but we do have a couple options on the list that do. Some people find the vented paddle brushes can help to speed up their blow dry time, while others prefer the sturdy nature of the vent free brushes.
Choosing the right hair styling products to use with a paddle brush is going to be ideal as well. Since the intention for styling with a paddle brush is generally to get the hair smooth or straight, they pair well with oils or smoothing serums. If you apply oil to the hair for any kind of leave in or rinse out treatment, the paddle brush is a good way to evenly distribute the product throughout the hair. The more evenly distributed the product is, the better the desired outcome will be. Hair care is multifaceted and we want you to have access to the best options for treating the hair from start to finish, day in and day out.
The paddle brush from Agave has a wooden handle and back that is made from bamboo. For some people this is a plus since it is a more natural alternative to a plastic hairbrush. It is priced at $25 from Amazon and other retailers. The brush claims and delivers on smoothing, polishing, and detangling the hair. Women with thick or curly hair will do well with a brush like this since it can detangle even the tightest curls after a good night's sleep without creating any additional frizz. In fact it might even be able to reduce the frizz.
Agave suggests that user of the paddle brush also use their oils to make the hairstyling process even more efficient. A few drops of their Agave Oil can be used for help with detangling dry hair, or a little more can be used to completely style wet hair from start to finish. Many people are drawn to the appeal of natural products as opposed to using harsh chemicals on their hair, and using oils to treat and style the hair is one great way to accomplish that.
Agave's healing oils are lightweight and non greasy so they aren't going to weigh down the hair as you style. The oil is made with the sugar of the agave plant, which is nourishing to the hair and extremely light. It can help increase the strength of the individual hair strands, as well as make the overall hair color appear more vibrant.
The ghd paddle brush is only $19 but works great. This version of the paddle brush us made with plastic as opposed to wood, and it comes in a sleek black color. The brush has a non-slip handle that makes it great for detangling. It's nearly impossible to properly get out major tangles if every time you hit a snag the brush handle flies out of your hand and leaves the brush hanging in your hair. None of that nonsense with this paddle brush, you will be able to hold onto it for the duration of the hair dry.
This brush is nice for styling the hair into a sleek and straight shape during blow-drying. The brand ghd suggests that users dry their hair 80 percent with their hair dryer before continuing the use of the brush while drying. One reason for this is that it is sort of a waste of time to try and style the hair while it is still wet. Another is that you can save some time with a normal blow dry. Once you hit the 80 percent dry mark however, bringing in the brush to dry sections of hair is going to create a great smoothness and sleekness minus any of the static. Using the paddle brush for the remaining 20 percent of the hair dry is also going to make that portion go more quickly than it would have if you were using a different type of hair brush during that process.
Aveda's wooden paddle brush is similarly priced to the other wooden paddle brush we mentioned at $27. The brush does not snag or tangle the hair, which means that it is great at untangling both wet and dry hair. The better a brush is at detangling the hair, the less stress there is to the hair shafts as well as the scalp. Brushing the hair might only take a few minutes each day, but after days on end it can start to have a negative effect if it's causing extra stress on the head. This is why choosing the right hairbrush can not only make the hair look better in the moment of styling, but also down the line as well.
Some customer reviews about the brush have pointed out that the brush is easy to hold onto which is key when you're trying to get in there and brush things out. Aveda's version of the paddle brush is considered salon quality, and it has extended bristles, which increase its effectiveness over some non-salon quality paddle brushes.
Aveda also sells hair styling products, so they have some suggestions when it comes to that. Being a long standing and trusted hair care brand, you can be sure that their suggestions are safe and sound no matter what your hair type is. Their Smooth Infusion Style Prep Smoother is a best seller thanks to its ability to prevent frizz for up to 12 hours after application. The smoothing quality of the product also increases the speed of brush styling time. It's $25.
The Tangle Teezer full paddle is known as a blow dry styling tool. The brush looks and works a bit differently than the other paddle brushes that we've mentioned. The design of this brush and its teeth makes blow-drying the hair incredibly easy and free of tension. It does not tug the hair at all and it allows for the space that the hair needs to flow through the brush while still having plenty of space for the air to go through as well. This helps to speed up the hair drying process. Less time spent blowing heat the head means less damage done to the hair.
The bristles on this brush are made from a thick plastic and are a bit stiffer, which is an intentional design so that they grip onto the hair and hold it suspended in place as you work your blow dyer through the hair. This might seem counter intuitive since it would seem like the thicker bristles would make it harder to get the tangles out of the hair, but however they managed to make all of that work, they certainly did. The design is intentional for creating an above average drying experience, and it manages to do so time and time again.
Drying the hair with the use of this styling brush can make the hair look sleek or voluminous depending on what sort of style you're going for. It works most effectively on medium to long hair, especially if the hair is thick. It generally costs $35.
More expensive than the other options.
Verb's blow dry brush is one of the more highly vented options out there. It's around the same size as the other paddle brushes on the list, but in this case there is going to be a lot of airflow going on. The more air that can flow towards the hair during a blow dry styling, the quicker the drying process will be. For people with thick or long hair that can be a huge consideration. Shaving a few minutes off the drying time regularly can meet more time to sleep in each morning, or more time to do whatever else you might be doing.
Since the brush is made with plastic and has so much venting it is going to be the lightest brush on the list. This might not matter to some people, but for those who find the heavier wooden brushes to be a bit unwieldy during styling then this can be a huge plus. This brush still delivers in the department of detangling and adding shine even without using a smoothing product at the same time. Added bonus: this brush is only $16.


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Perhaps that extra margarita sounded too good to pass up or you couldn't say no to just one more episode of Stranger Things, and now, in the light of day, your skin—puffy, inflamed, and tired—is bearing the consequences. Coming to the rescue is the jade roller, an age-old tool that has been an integral part of Chinese beauty regimes since at least the 7th century. For Dr. Lamees Hamdan, whose skin-care line, Shiffa, incorporates the healing properties of precious stones like emeralds into its products, the discovery of the pale green wands while on a visit to China resulted in the addition of a powerful new weapon to her anti-aging arsenal. "There were jade face rollers in the museum dating back centuries, so that got me very interested because I always thought of jade as being decorative and protective but not as a beauty tool." Soon afterward, she issued her own gold-accented version of the roller, which uses gentle pressure to assist in the sweeping away of toxins and the balancing of excess fluid in the tissue.
And Hamdan isn't the only one who swears by the method, which is refreshing in the hot summer months. New York facialist Ling Chan, who grew up in Hong Kong, regularly uses the tool on her black book of model clients (think Behati Prinsloo, Dree Hemingway, and Miranda Kerr)—starting at the center of the neck, then moving outwards and upwards along the planes of the face before finishing at the hairline. "Just as exercise can tone your body, the jade roller can tone your face," she explains of its ability to clear fluid, boost circulation, improve elasticity, and promote cell turnover for a brighter, healthier look. At her namesake spa in Union Square, she also glides the roller over skin after applying a mask to help the product to further penetrate—a process she says can be re-created at home, whether in front of the TV or while lying in bed.
"Just a few minutes of massage is very anti-aging. We overuse the muscles in our face—whether we bite our teeth or stare at the computer for too long. The roller can break through the blockage." And unlike the high-tech but equally high-maintenance DIY light devices and at-home lasers of recent years, Chan says that making it part of a daily routine is a no brainer: Simply put, "you just roll it," she says with a laugh. Consider us sold.


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Maher Abdelaziz, an engineer for the pro-opposition channel Orient TV, was injured in a rocket attack on February 19, 2018, in the rebel-held eastern Ghouta area outside of Damascus, according to his employer and the Syrian Journalists Association.
Threats to Al-Jazeera in Jordan; journalists released in Syria
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New York, April 5, 2011–Al-Jazeera staffers in Jordan have received anonymous threatening phone calls warning that their office and correspondents would be attacked, Al-Jazeera's Amman bureau chief told CPJ. Journalists in Jordan have been facing mounting dangers while covering pro-reform demonstrations, CPJ research has found.
Syria cracks down on press; attacks in Libya, elsewhere
New York, March 28, 2011–Facing the nationwide spread of political unrest, Syrian authorities barred three Reuters journalists from reporting, blocked journalistic access to a hotbed of political dissent, censored a critical satellite station, and detained a political blogger. The widespread repression in Syria came on the same weekend that Libyan security agents forcibly barred a…


The morning was cold. Probably around 40°. I got up, struck camp, loaded up the FJ for our final run home. I ate a couple of Oreos (very healthy) and said goodbye to Alpine meadows, one of my long time favorite places to come.
Tioga Road was still partly closed from that storm earlier, but the CHP was leading cars up and around the landslide that had closed one lane of the highway.
I headed out of the valley towards Lee Vining and Hwy. 395 to get gas. As I left Lee Vining, I waved good bye to Mono Lake as I ride south towards home. Past June Lake and Mammoth - down the grade to Bishop and a stop at an old friend's photo shop to say hello.
John was very surprised to see me. We talked and laughed for at least an hour then walked down to the bakery for some wonderful fresh bagels. Back at the shop and more laughs over coffee and bagels. Remembrances of times past - Producers Workshop, etc. We hugged goodbye - promising to keep in touch more often.
Firing up my trusty FJ, I headed out of town. Next stop, Lone Pine and fuel. After that the long drive through the desert and home.
I didn't stop in Mojave for gas. I figured I had enough to easily make Acton, or maybe even the San Fernando Valley, which turned out to be the case. I stopped for gas at the station just before hoping on Hwy. 118 for the last 10 miles of the trip.
Pulling off the Freeway at Rocky Peak, down Santa Susanna Pass Road to Box Canyon and home. It felt great to pull up the driveway and home. Being greeted by an old friend I hadn't seen in 15 years. Bob E. Not to mention Oscar, Pepper, Margie and Skylar. Oh yea - and Eddie!! It's good to be home.
Now for a shower. In my own bathroom, some clean clothes and then we all were off to our favorite restaurant - El Patio for some good food, margaritas and some more laughs.
My vacation wasn't over just because I got home.


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Inside Out for Social Workers
A year or so ago, I remember reading an article on The New Social Worker by Addison Cooper about 'How Movies Can Help in Working with Kids'. If you haven't read it, I recommend you do. It won't take very long. Basically, she talks about how 'movies can provide an excellent and easy way to connect with clients' and 'provide them with understandable analogies'.
I think most Children's Social Workers draw upon popular culture in their work. Cbeebies characters provide a universal conversation starter for most pre-schoolers and The X Factor is usually good with Teens. But we can also, as Addison points out, use them to help children understand their own emotions and circumstance.
This summer's movie Inside Out has received fantastic reviews and looks like a brilliant resource and tool for Social Workers. Take a look at the trailer if you haven't already seen it.
An article in The Guardian calls it a crash course in PhD Philosophy of self. It tells the story of 11 year old Riley, who moves to a new city and tries to make sense of her environment. The central characters Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust live in Headquarters, the control centre inside Rileys mind. Of course, in reality, there are more than just five emotions but that would have made the storyline a little too complicated. Whilst initially viewers may perceive most to be negative emotions, as the movie progresses we see how they work together and play an important role in keeping Riley safe. A message that Social Workers will understand and be able to relate to in their practice.
During one scene Joy tells Sadness, drawing a small circle around the blue character, "your job is to make sure that all the sadness stays inside of it". I find this quite profound as it is often what we see children encouraged to do when they are struggling with their emotions. Sadness and Anger can manifest in all sorts of ways that society perceives to be negative. Schools and classrooms aren't always set up to deal with the individual emotional needs of a pupil when their behaviour is seen to be impacting upon the learning of others around them. So, they are encouraged to 'behave', 'be quiet' and 'calm down'.
Hopefully Inside Out will help others to interpret children's actions and foster empathy. It might also resonate with parents struggling to understand their child and how they can best support them.
I've put together a couple of resources that you might like to use. Please feel free to download and share. Amazon also sell figures that could be incorporated into direct work or you can print off some of the colouring pages from the Disney website.
Family, What Family? Unpicking the tangled knot of human rights in child protection practice
Last night I attended a seminar hosted by BASW and the University of Wolverhampton. It was called 'Family, What Family? Unpicking the tangled knot of human rights in child protection practice' and delivered by Allan Norman. You might have heard of Allan before. He qualified as a social worker in 1990, and as a solicitor in 2000. He specialises in the law relating to the practice of social work, representing both social workers and service users through his own legal and independent social work practice Celtic Knot. He's also an Associate Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and now works as BASW's lead on Policy, Ethics and Human Rights and International matters.
The seminar was fascinating and I came away with a greater clarity regarding the impact child protection processes have on both the rights of the child and family. Allan started by saying that Social Work as an international profession is fundamentally about human rights. The International Federation of Social Workers say just that in the Global Definition of Social Work. But for those working in areas of safeguarding that commitment to both positive and negative rights becomes complicated. We also find that absolute rights always trump qualified rights. So, a child's absolute right under article 3 ("No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment") trumps the parents qualified right under article 8 ("Right to respect for private and family life"). Allen questioned whether low level neglect was sufficient for article 3 to be engaged. No doubt the impact of austerity and the increasing threshold for support and preventative services will muddy these waters even more.
Earlier today I read that all four UK Children's Commissioners have called on the UK Government to stop making cuts to benefits and welfare reforms in order to protect children from the impact of its austerity measures. Tam Baillie, Commissioner for Children and Young People Scotland, said "For one of the richest countries in the world, this is a policy of choice and it is a disgrace. It is avoidable and unacceptable."
It is right that children are safeguarded from significant harm, but removing them from their family is a hugely draconian step which should be reserved as an absolute last resort. How many families might still be together if the government prioritised funding for welfare, support and preventative services? In individual cases it may be that there are no other support options; but as a society do we not have a moral duty to make that support available? As a society are we failing in our duty to meet the positive rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? It's food for thought...
Allan has written prolifically on the subject of Human Rights and child protection. If you're interested in reading more, take a look at some of these:
'Working Together 2013 ignores human rights and we must act on this'
Disappearing act
Dealing with the inconvenient human rights of others
You might also like some of these (Not by Allan!):
We Are All Born Free: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures
I Have the Right to Be a Child
Ethics and Values in Social Work (Practical Social Work Series)
BASW Human Rights Policy (Sort of by Allan!)


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Q: Activity Diagram Timed Event I'm trying to model the following: When filling out a submission form, the system automatically saves the users progress every 5 minutes.
This is what I tried, but I don't think it's correct.

In my case the condition is asked only after the "fill submission" activity is finished. Also I don't want to indicate, that the user is starting the "fill submission" activity again.

A: You would use an interruptible region represented by a dashed line box:

The timer interrupt appears independently and intrerrupts the current action. Auto save is executed and comes back with Fill form. Resuming Fill form need a bit of thought since usually you have some entry code which must not be executed in case of a continuation. That might be a bit more tricky as you would likely need a mutex for that.
UML 2.5 has a detailed description in chap. 15.6.3.2 Interruptible Activity Regions on pp. 405.

Just a word about your approach. The save is only executed when the form is closed. So if it takes longer than 5 minutes you end up in your form again which is likely not desired :-)

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WESTON, Mass. - Brandeis University senior midfielder Sarah Jasak scored two goals and assisted on a third as the Judges defeated visiting MIT, 3-2, in the season opeber for both teams, at Gordon Field.
MIT (0-1) scored its first goal of the campaign in the fourth minute of Saturday's match as senior forward Amy Ludlum knocked home a pass that rookie Erica Little chipped by a defender deep in the back.
Brandeis (1-0) evened the score in the 26th minute when Jasak fed senior reserve forward Tzlil Castel, who chipped the ball over the outstretched arms of netminder Stephanie Brenman. At halftime, the score remained knotted at 1-1 despite a 13-3 shot advantage for Brandeis.
In the second half, Ludlum gave the Engineers the lead just over eight minutes in. Supplying her second goal of the tilt, the reigning NEWMAC Player of the Year rocketed a feed from sophomore midfielder Katie Pesce to the far side of the net.
Brandeis answered with another equalizer just seven minutes later. Sophomore forward Melissa Gorenkoff took a free kick from 40 yards out that Jasak collected and knocked home for her first goal of the game. The Judges added the game-winner with less than five minutes remaining in regulation on another free kick. Senior Lizzie Bremner slotted a pass beyond the edge of an MIT wall, allowing Jasak to break free alone on the goal and enabling the Judges to secure the come-from-behind victory.
Despite the losing effort, Brenman made a fine showing in net for MIT, making 12 saves, including eight in the second half. Sophomore Hilary Rosenzweig had one stop en route to the victory for the Judges. Brandeis outshot MIT, 28-8, and owned a 7-2 advantage in corner kicks.


Home Self Help Self Esteem & Confidence Looking for help!
I am posting because I am looking for help, as I hit a point in life where I am at my lowest. I am hoping some people read this throughout (Lol) and can relate to me wants to talk about these common issues. I am not suicidal, but I don't really want to continue life if that makes sense. I care about myself a lot, but I just feel hopeless... I don't think there's anything that can fix my current situation. Self esteem is something that has been a weird issue for me as it has ebbed and flowed. Please let me explain.
Growing up, I thought the world of myself. I thought I was good looking and intelligent and nothing ever bothered me. Mainly because I had great parents who nurtured me and made me feel good about myself. Then my teens hit. I had girls call me ugly to my face and mock me saying they'd never date me. This didn't effect me as much as you think it would at the time. Still had pretty good self confidence. Then one time I had asked a girl if she was interested in going to homecoming with me. She said yes, only to ditch me the day before for her crush. That's bad in itself but the next day her and her friend started drilling me about how "I am the definition of goofy/goofiest guy in the world." This was freshman year of high school and I am about to be 25 now.
Ridiculous to let something like that in high school bother me? Right? That sent me into a deep depression for a while. I didn't look into a mirror for almost two years (no exaggeration) It sticks with me still. But at that time I forced myself out of the depression by forcing myself out of my comfort zone my junior and senior year. I am naturally outgoing, and it can be easy for me to make friends. I eventually found a girlfriend, and that restored my confidence fully. I did a full turnaround and felt great about myself and was genuinely happy again.
I was doing ok for a few years after that, went to college, had kids make fun of me about my appearance, calling me frail and goofy etc. I went through the same thing as I did in high school, deep depression freshman and sophomore year, then found a GF who I loved for the next two years. I absolutely loved this girl and she just had a different path in life after school and we mutually parted ways.
I have been single since college, haven't had a girl take any notice in me since. Literally not even in the slightest. I think back at how people have treated me, then look at the way I appear on video, mirror, and photos and realize that they are right. I am actually the weirdest looking guy I know by FAR. I wince when I see myself. The sole reason I've won girls over in the past is because of my personality, without a doubt. One side of my face is actually really attractive, but the other looks almost fake and looks like I was hit by a shovel. My mouth is very crooked, my head is an odd shape, I have a pretty big nose, and I am as skinny as can be.
However it is hitting me way harder then ever before that I am definitely one of the ugliest dudes out there. I was able to deal with it before, but I just can't anymore. It makes my stomach churn. I see my reflection and I want to vomit, which sounds super vain I know. I spend hours everyday taking photos and videos of myself from all different angles and lighting (which is embarrassing as hell) only one confirm the fact that I am horrifying to look at.
The worst part is, this realization is taking away from my personality. I am so irritable now with this realization and and less social. I don't want to go out because I am hyper aware of my appearance and it's preventing me from living life. I have a good job, live on my own, have a nice car, and am very financially stable, but I am so damn unhappy.
I simply don't want to accept the fact that I'm ugly. I don't know how Accept this. I am scared I'll never find a girl again. It's even worse when you've had girls in the past and long for that feeling of love again. My looks are preventing me from getting girls and making friends. People treat me like sh** and it's because I'm not normal like them. I am some type of character to then. People have said I look like cartoon characters, and really hurtful sh**.
My current state of mind is terrifying to me. I have always been relatively mentally stable, but I do fee like I am losing my sanity slowly. The older I get the more I become aware of the truth. I am just not good enough, and never will be. I'll always be known as the weak ugly guy, who is strangely social. I want to die, but I know for a fact I couldn't EVER go through with it. I just wish I could hit the stop button. Or I wish I had the ability to change my looks and learn to enjoy life like I used to. I am absolutely miserable and in such a deep dark put it is so hard to even put into any words. I really view myself in an extremely dark light. My appearance is just so off putting it's hard to believe. I just want to be normal.
Have you seen Howard Stern? Have you seen Seal? Have you seen Mick Jagar? Have you seen Lyle Lovett?
And don't tell me it was because of their money that they married Heidi Klum and Julia Roberts. Hogwash! Those women don't deserve that kind of disrespect. They are successful, attractive women that married confident men.
Hey man. I've been in your same position. Understand that looks only means so much to women. They're more into personality. You need to work on your inner self and be more confident.
I have a lot of knowledge on dating.pm if you need some insight.
Lets play a hypothetical here to see if we can get you on the right path to thinking about this the right way. Let's say you're sitting at a really nice restaurant eating with family. Someone comes up to you and pours a drink on your head and starts laughing at you. What does your instinct tell you about this action? Hopefully that the person doing this is utterly indignant and out of their mind just for starters. And in that moment I'm sure you would feel inclined to get up and defend yourself.
Lets use another one. You're standing in the park talking to your mother and a girl you know walks up without warning and kicks you square in the crotch. As you are crumpled to the ground, she squats over you and pisses on your head. She wishes your mother well and walks off. Do we really need to discuss how you might react to that? That person is an absolute idiot and treated you with complete contempt for your dignity as a human being. A pretty common sense consensus, yes? Okay, now lets move into the world you have written about.
You have some idiot walk up to you and say you're ugly to your face and claim she would never date you. THANK YOU! I would have looked at her and said, " I appreciate that! Because I don't date people who speak out of the same hole they flagellate from. "
And then you had someone in COLLEGE essentially make fun of your appearance and comment on you being goofy?! Really? What college is this and what kind of immature morons attend this university? That is so idiotic it doesn't even warrant a comment. You've allowed yourself to be defined by people who don't even have good ole fashion horse sense to censor themselves at the most inappropriate times. Yet the people that have recognized you and put their time and attention to you get no recognition in your identity code! My friend, that is seriously arse-backwards.
Appearance is not your problem. If that actually meant something then Gene Simmons, who looks like he wears a Brillo pad for hair, would not be worth $350 million. What you're lacking is self-confidence and you've tricked yourself into believing that because someone says something bold (by your definition), that means there must be merit in it. Well you're completely wrong. When someone acts like an idiot, you should define them as an idiot. People who are filter-less are not normal people nor people you should value in life.
Go back and read those hypotheticals again. Is that normal behavior? Of course not. And neither is the behavior of these people in your examples. You have no sense of identity in yourself, so you allow people you barely know to judge you unfairly and with quite ridiculous expressions. What if they had told you you're a golden God? Would your head be too big to fit into a normal sized room? Those notions would be of the same making as well.
I have two rules in life - I only control myself and never others define me. You need to take control of your life by sitting down and deciding what it is you want out of life. Because only through knowing who you are can you define the people around you and decide who belongs in your life and who you need to distance yourself from. I wish you all the best. Make it happen for yourself.


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Countries With Biggest Penis
The USA has an average size of 5.1″, Europe overall flying high with an average of 5.7″. The biggest average penis size can be found The Democratic Republic of Congo, with a slightly concerning 7.1″. Countries also attractive for people looking for large penises are Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, Venezuela and Lebanon. Ladies, it's time to pack. Top 10 Countries with the smallest penis size. The Philippines officially the Republic of the Philippines is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Situated in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The capital city of the Philippines is Manila and.
An adult penis with an erect length of less than 7 cm or 2.76 inches but otherwise formed normally is referred to in a medical context as having the micropenis condition. The condition affects 0.6% of men. Some of the identifiable causes are deficiency of pituitary growth hormone or gonadotropins, mild degrees of androgen insensitivity, a variety of genetic syndromes and variations in certain.
Countries with biggest penis. World penis size map by Mandatory.com charts the average sizes for 80 countries in the world. Congo stands tall at 7.1 inches while North Korea finds a soft spot at 3.8. Guess where India is on. The title of biggest penises in the world goes to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the average is 7.1in, while North Korea comes bottom of the pile with an average penis size of 3.8in. South America is comfortably the most well-hung continent, with an average of 6.36in. All studies done on the measurement of the penis have a strong indication that the average penis size worldwide is in the range of 12.9 to 15 centimeters or 5.1 to 5.9 inches. The shortest average size being 10.7 centimeters and the longest 19.1 centimeters (4.23 in. and 7.53 in.)
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Over all countries the average size of a penis is about 13.58 cm. "The longest one" is 17.61 cm long and carried by men in Ecuador. In Cambodia, the average length is only 10.04 cm, which is about 6.2% of the body height. The average breast sizes are also available at Worlddata.info. Penis sizes by origin. Rank Likewise, an erect penis of 3.94 inches is in the 5th percentile, meaning that only five men out of 100 would have a penis shorter than 3.94 inches. Other studies have produced similar results. New study shows which country has the biggest penises in the world. Global ranking of Wang sizes. Out of the 80 countries the Canadian BodyRock researched, the average penis size is 5.5 inches. South America is the most well hung continent at 6.36 inches. While North Korea, at 3.8 inches, takes home the booby prize.
A MAN who claims to have the world's biggest penis says major celebrities, including Oscar winners, have sought him out for sex. Marnie O'Neill. news.com.au June 14, 2018 6:03am. But whatever your preference, a new study has tallied up the average penis size of countries around the world to see how they all measure up. Flying high in the list were the Congo, which boasted. These measurements are according to a study done by BJUI (British Journal of Urology International) and several other studies. Currently, the countries with the largest average penis size, 7.1", are Congo and Sudan.. The country with the smallest average size, 3.7", is South Korea.
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Q: Efficient way to convert a 16-bit short array to a 32-bit int array? What is the most efficient way to convert an array of unsigned short numbers (16 bits per value) into an array of unsigned ints numbers (32 bits per value)?

A: Use std::copy in C++:
#include<algorithm> //must include

unsigned short ushorts[M]; //where M is some const +ve integer
unsigned int   uints[N]; //where N >= M
//...fill ushorts
std::copy(ushorts, ushorts+M, uints);

And in C, use manual loop (in fact, you can use manual loop both in C and C++):
int i = 0;
while( i < M ) { uints[i] = ushorts[i]; ++i; }

A: Here an unrolled loop accessing in 64 bits chunks. It might be a little bit faster than the simple loop, but testing is the only way to know.
Assuming that N is a multiple of four, that sizeof (short) is 16 bit and working with 64 bit registers works.
 typedef union u {
     uint16_t    us[4];
     uint32_t    ui[2];
     uint64_t    ull;
 } u_t;
 ushort_t src[N] = ...;
 uint_t dst[N];

 u_t *p_src = (u_t *) src;
 u_t *p_dst = (u_t *) dst;
 uint_t i;
 u_t tmp, tmp2;
 for(i=0; i<N/4; i++) {
     tmp = p_src[i];    /* Read four shorts in one read access */
     tmp2.ui[0] = tmp.us[0];   /* The union trick avoids complicated shifts that are furthermore dependent on endianness. */
     tmp2.ui[1] = tmp.us[1];   /* The compiler should take care of optimal assembly decomposition. */
     p_dst[2*i] = tmp2;  /* Write the two first ints in one write access. */
     tmp2.ui[0] = tmp.us[2];
     tmp2.ui[1] = tmp.us[3];
     p_dst[2*i+1] = tmp2; /* Write the 2 next ints in 1 write access. */
 }

EDIT
So I just tested it on SUN M5000 (SPARC64 VII 2.5 GHz) with GCC 3.4.1 in 64-bit mode on a 4,000,000 element array. The naive implementation is a bit faster. I tried with SUNStudio 12 and with GCC 4.3, but I haven't been able to even compile the program because of the array size.
EDIT2
I managed to compile it now on GCC 4.3. The optimized version is a bit faster than the naive one.
              GCC 3.4          GCC 4.3
naive         11.1 ms          11.8 ms
optimized     12.4 ms          10.0 ms

EDIT3
We can conclude from that, as far as C is concerned, don't bother with an optimized version of the copy loop, the gain is so low that the risk of error outweighs the benefit.

A: What about
unsigned short src[N] = ...;
unsigned int dst[N];

for(i=0; i<N; ++i)
    dst[i] = src[i];

For a C++ version Konrad's or Nawaz's answers are surely better suited.

A: Copy it.
unsigned short source[]; // …
unsigned int target[]; // …
unsigned short* const end = source + sizeof source / sizeof source[0];
std::copy(source, end, target);

std::copy internally choses the best copying mechanism for given input types. In this case, however, there's probably no better way than copying the elements individually in a loop.

A: *

*Initialize an int[] with the same length as the short[].

*Iterate over the short[], assigning the ith element of the short[] to the  ith position of the int[].

A: On many architectures a decrementing do-while may be faster than the for and while loops proposed here. Something like:
unsigned short ushorts[M];
unsigned int uints[N];

int i = M-1;
do{
    uints[i] = ushorts[i];
    i--;
} while(i >= 0);

The compiler can take care of most optimizations such as loop unrolling, but generally the above is faster (on many architectures) because:

*

*You get the first iteration for free in a do-while vs. a while or for

*The loop ends when i = 0. Checking for 0 can save an instruction because the zero flag is set automatically. If the loop incremented and ended when i = M then it may need an extra compare instruction to test if i < M.

There may be faster ways as well, such as doing it entirely with pointer arithmetic. This could turn into a fun exercise of disassembling the code and analyzing to see which appears faster. It is all architecture dependent. Fortunately others have done this work for you with std::copy.

A: Just copy the address of the short array to access each element of the short array, like pTp32[0...LEN-1].arr[0..1]:
unsigned short shrtArray[LEN]; //..
union type32
{
    short arr[2];
    int value;
};
type32 * pTp32 = (type32*)shrtArray;


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{
    public class AdminAreaRegistration : AreaRegistration
    {
        public override string AreaName
        {
            get
            {
                return "Admin";
            }
        }

        public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
        {
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Nice vedio, thanks for sharing!
Not a problem. Thanks for commenting.
Did u test the motionlapse?
looks like it going stairs.
I have not been able to get motion lapse or timelapse working at all.


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Have A Nice Life – Deathconsciousness
Invisible Oranges Staff Published: November 21, 2014
At six years old, Have A Nice Life's debut album, Deathconsciousness, is anything but new, save for its recent repressing courtesy of Enemies List and Flenser Records. The album secured an enduring fanbase in 2008 that has continued to unearth collections of alternate recordings and B-sides, amounting the debut's reissue and subsequent revisitation here. Songs like "Earthmover" even find their way into setlists for Giles Corey, an acoustic project of Have A Nice Life co-founder, Dan Barrett. Barrett, along with the band's other half, Tim Macuga, create a gloomy yet bright exercise in genre-melding, channeling aspects of post-punk, electronic, industrial, shoegaze and black metal. The collection is adept in its eccentricity, with the duo's songwriting knack lending each song its own sense of being.
Deathconsciousness is massive, clocking in at nearly ninety minutes, shifting schizophrenically from meditative to berserk, without being jarring. The opening track, "A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut," is a seven-minute instrumental of acoustics swimming within dreamy synthesizers. "Bloodhail" is, stylistically, one of the album's more straightforward songs, a post-punk anthem that takes cues from 1980s post-punk with its boisterous bass lines and echoing beats. The guitars exist simultaneously in a realm between life and death, imbued with a forlorn melody compounded by the mournful croons of Barrett and Macuga. "The Big Gloom" is defined by its elegant bass lines and vocal patience, waltzing those complementary elements to the tune of wavering static.
In LP format, Deathconsciousness is meant to be a double album, with the first seven tracks forming the more organic The Plow That Broke the Plains, while the six remaining, electronic-heavy tracks comprising The Future. At the precipice between its halves, the album doesn't fully shed its flesh in favor of metal or vice versa, rather streamlines them into a single, horrifically-perfect entity. The humorlessly titled, "Waiting for Black Metal Records to Come in the Mail," is the bridging point between discs, with the briskly-paced post-punk being drowned out by distortion and synthesizer by its end. "Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000" segues from the prior track with a gentle melding of ukulele, twinkling electronics, piano strokes and vocals that exist behind a warm, muffled fuzz. "The Future" moves furiously, at times even boisterous when its choruses explode with spastic pop influence.
"Earthmover" is an epic of a sad song, with its eleven minutes paying homage to the palette that makes Deathconsciousness the unique creature that it is. Opening with strident riffs, the ground quickly gives way to a booming drum machine and intermittent wisps of piano while Macuga and Barrett wail tenderly. At its midsection, the song offers a moment of respite, with the vocals calling to each other from phantasmal peaks that ascend to angelic heights. As if exhaling for the last time, the song bursts into a tremolo-picked exaltation that suddenly, almost miraculously, burns away the existential woe that Deathconsciousness brings on.
While Have A Nice Life are adept at channeling their varied influences into their unique sound, similar to conceptual peers Planning for Burial and Lonesummer, what sets them apart is what their sound evokes: Deathconsciousness is a work of loneliness, apathy and paranoia, and while it wallows in them, it is unafraid to embrace them. Given the reissue, now is the perfect opportunity to revisit this album, a piece that drains as much as it replenishes.
—Bruce Hardt
Have a Nice Life's reissue of Deathconsciousness is out on The Flenser and available here.
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Number of A-segment LPG car registrations in Italy 2014-2018
Published by Statista Research Department, May 11, 2020
The sales volume of A-segment cars fueled by liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Italy peaked in 2018 at roughly 28.3 thousand registrations. That year, the number of LPG A-segment cars registrations was higher than the number of diesel cars registrations belonging to the same segment.
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Leading car model registered in Italy 2020
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I think I've had this set for over a year and never inked it up. So sad!! Doing these One Sheet Wonders is so fun for me because I am using so many things that I rarely use or haven't used.
I used the reverse side of the designer paper to paper piece the bear's scarf.
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