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Aussie Junior Davis and Fed Cup teams selected
Australia's Junior Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams have been selected ahead of their Asia/Oceania qualifying ties in Bendigo on 24-29 April 2012.
Melbourne, Australia, 11 April 2012 | Tennis Australia
Sixteen-year-old Daniel Guccione (Bundoora, Vic) will be joined by Thanasi Kokkinakis (Seacombe Heights, SA) and Li Tu (Adelaide, SA) to represent Australia at the Junior Davis Cup by BNP Paribas Asia/Oceania qualifying tie in Bendigo, Victoria from 24-29 April 2012.
Guccione, who played for Australia in last year's world final in Mexico and who posted a very positive campaign over in Asia recently, will lead Kokkinakis and Tu in their first Junior Davis Cup event for the country.
Australian Junior Davis Cup Captain Mark Woodforde said he couldn't wait to be in Bendigo to motivate this young team on the sidelines.
"I'm looking forward to working with the boys," said Woodforde.
"Daniel achieved some excellent results at several ITF junior events in Asia in March and his experience competing last year for Australia will help the others feel comfortable on court.
"Thanasi was an orange boy for the Australian team at the tie against Korea last weekend, which will surely give him a boost in confidence.
"He and Li have been working hard on the Australian Pro Tour circuit in recent months and I hope they can bring their match play experience to Bendigo."
The Junior Fed Cup Asia/Oceania qualifying tie will take place in Bendigo together with the boys' event.
Fourteen-year-old Naithka Bains (Brisbane, Qld), a member of the AIS Pro Tour Program and who won three ITF junior titles in a row late last year, will play alongside Isabelle Wallace (East Bentleigh, Vic) and Zoe Hives (Kingston, Vic).
AIS Head Women's Coach and Junior Fed Cup Captain Nicole Pratt said the event will be exciting for the girls as they make their debut for Australia and look to qualify for the world finals.
"This will be the first time Naithka, Isabelle and Zoe will play for their country and they are keen to put Australia in a strong position to defend the 2011 Junior Fed Cup crown," said Pratt.
"The girls have all netted some good results lately, with Wallace particularly in form after winning her second national junior title at the Optus 16s Claycourt Championships in Ipswich, Queensland last week.
"Zoe was very pleased with being appointed to the team and her success in New Zealand in February has put her in good stead to compete in a couple of weeks."
The junior teams announcement comes fittingly after Australia's Davis Cup team secured a 5-0 win over Korea in Brisbane in a Asia/Oceania Zone Group 1 second round tie over Easter, and before the Fed Cup team head off to compete against Germany in a world group play-off tie in Stuttgart next week.
This is the second time Australia has hosted a Junior Davis and Fed Cup Asia/Oceania tie in regional Victoria, the last time being in Shepparton in 2009.
Daniel Guccione
Isabelle Wallace
Li Tu
Mark Woodforde
Naiktha Bains
Nicole Pratt
Thanasi Kokkinakis
Zoe Hives
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I considered my problem (iPhone 5 battery replacement) to be easy to solve by myself, especially since I've always liked to dismantle electronic devices. And while I'm not concerned about money so much, I thought it's cool to make this replacement cheaper, as well. So I took the challenge and I'm glad I did so.
It went awesome, exactly "as I have foreseen" (I'm a Star Wars fan). Well maybe not exactly, since I've lost one of the bottom screws in the process, but everything else was pretty flawless. The new battery made my phone feel young again. With the previous one, although only 18 months old, the phone was dying at 15% or even higher levels sometimes. The percentage was simply not reliable anymore.
The international shipping costs. For this order it was fine, but two days ago I wanted to order a battery replacement pack for iPhone 4S (my girlfriend's) and 2 bottom screws for iPhone 5 from the US Store and the cheapest shipping option was 50 bucks - twice more expensive then the products themselves. I partially fixed this issue by ordering the replacement pack from the European Store at a reasonable cost, but the screws are only available in the US Store and I gave them up.
My advice would be, either to make all products available in Europe as well, or to adjust the shipping costs between USA and EU to a more reasonable level. I still don't know why the shipping cost was ok the first time and then it increased so much the second time?


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The biggest billboard deal of the year has been the $2.5 billion sale of a 40-foot sign to a company that plans to use it as a location for a future entertainment facility.
A billboard company called DART said it would be able to make the sign for as little as $400,000 a pop, and it will be placed at a major shopping mall in Sydney.
The billboard will feature the company's slogan, "DART at a glance, our signature logo".
It will also be used by the company to market the company.DART is a new digital marketing firm based in the United States, but is also based in Sydney, which will be the headquarters for its advertising campaign, which is expected to run in about 20 cities in Australia over the next year.
Dart's website says the billboard will be visible at the intersection of Market Street and Parliament Street in Sydney's CBD, and will be positioned at the end of the block, just west of the Sydney Opera House.
It will feature DART's signature logo and the slogan, DART at an glance, its signature logo.
The new advertising campaign is expected the be released to a wider audience in the coming months.
It comes just weeks after DART announced it would acquire the advertising rights for a billboard at a busy shopping centre in the northern suburbs of Canberra.
Darth Vader has been featured on the billboards in Sydney since late 2016.
The city's major entertainment industry association said the deal would make DART the largest ad agency in the country, and would help increase its advertising footprint.
"It's an exciting time for our industry, with our billboard brand in prime position to capture the attention of the broader Australian public and grow our brand into a leading digital agency, with an unmatched portfolio of advertising services to provide our audiences with the ultimate online destination," association chief executive John McRae said.
The association said DART was already known for its signature billboard campaign, the "Darth Vaders" logo.
Mr McRee said Dart was "the poster child for digital marketing", and the company had also built a reputation for "high-quality, high-impact, highly branded advertising".
He said DARD had a global reputation for its creative advertising and marketing campaigns.
"The new DART billboard is a perfect example of DART taking its brand to new heights and positioning it for the future with a high-quality digital platform," Mr McRue said.
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Parliament to debate scrapping misdemeanour immunity for MPs
Slovakia's parliament will debate a proposal to scrap MPs' immunity for misdemeanours at its May session, Speaker of Parliament Richard Sulík (Freedom and Solidarity party) said after a Coalition Council meeting on April 26, the TASR newswire reported.	Sulík stated that the proposal does not envisage cancelling criminal immunity as a three fifths constitutional majority (90 votes), with opposition support, would be needed to change this provision. Sulík said he is not counting on any backing from the opposition.
Slovakia's parliament will debate a proposal to scrap MPs' immunity for misdemeanours at its May session, Speaker of Parliament Richard Sulík (Freedom and Solidarity party) said after a Coalition Council meeting on April 26, the TASR newswire reported.
Sulík stated that the proposal does not envisage cancelling criminal immunity as a three fifths constitutional majority (90 votes), with opposition support, would be needed to change this provision. Sulík said he is not counting on any backing from the opposition.
"As for Smer, they talk the talk but they don't walk the walk," he said, as quoted by TASR.
If immunity for misdemeanours is abolished, MPs will be possibly punished for exceeding speed limits or driving under the influence of alcohol.
A change in lawmakers' immunity was debated in parliament last autumn but the bill, which required a constitutional majority, received the support of only 75 legislators, with 59 voting against.


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Natalie Portman Net Worth: Showering Of Millions- Latest Update Is Right Here!
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Natalie Portman Net Worth: Natalie Portman is an American actress of Israeli descent who has starred in numerous blockbusters and indie films. She has garnered several honors throughout her career, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. In this post, we will examine Natalie Portman's early life, personal details, and way of living.
Natalie Portman Net Worth: Neta-Lee Hershlag was born in Jerusalem, Israel, on June 9, 1981. She was given the Hebrew name Neta-Lee after being raised in a Jewish family.
Her mother, Shelley, continues to represent Natalie Portman, while her father is a gynecologist. In 1988, her family moved from Washington, D.C. to Connecticut after initially relocating there.
Portman attended a Jewish elementary school and learned Hebrew in Long Island, where his family eventually settled.
Natalie participated in ballet and other forms of dance during her time on Long Island. She also began to study performing skills, and it quickly became apparent that she would pursue a career in the entertainment industry.
At age 10, she was discovered by a talent agency. She first declined the opportunity to become a child model, but later accepted to audition for acting parts.
Professional Life Escalated Her Net Worth
Natalie Portman began her career in 1992 as Laura Bell Bundy's understudy in the off-Broadway musical Ruthless! Britney Spears was Bundy's second substitute. After the conclusion of Ruthless!,
Portman booked her big role in Leon: The Professional. This was the first time she acquired her stage name, Natalie Portman. The 1994 French action picture starring Portman as the pivotal character Mathilda grossed over $46 million at the box office.
Some, including Portman herself in subsequent years, questioned the sexualization of Portman's role, despite the film's generally good reception.
Natalie Portman returned to the mainstream with 1995's Heat, after developing her skills in theatrical shows and short films. In the Al Pacino and Robert De Niro film, she portrayed Pacino's suicidal daughter.
In 1996, she once again demonstrated her acting abilities with a significant role in Beautiful Girls, before appearing in Mars Attacks! and Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You.
Portman made the leap to adult roles in 1999's Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, when she was still a teenager. The picture was rated negatively by critics, but there was no doubting its monetary success.
The Phantom Menace grossed a total of $924 million at the box office, making it the second-highest-grossing picture at the time.
Despite the fact that the Star Wars trilogy will consume much of Portman's time over the next years, she nevertheless found time to feature in films such as Anywhere But Here.
Portman had a subsequent appearance in the 2000 film Where the Heart Is before deciding to concentrate on College rather than acting. During the subsequent years,
she attended Harvard, pursued a bachelor's degree in psychology, and appeared in a few plays. In 2002, she reprised her role as Queen Amidala in Episode II: Attack of the Clones from Star Wars.
Attack of the Clones, considered the poorest of the prequel trilogy, grossed $653 million at the box office. Portman graduated from Harvard in 2003 and participated in the 2003 picture Cold Mountain.
Following her appearance in Garden State, Portman accepted her first sexually explicit part in the 2004 film Closer. Due to her terrible experience in Leon: The Professional, she had previously been reluctant to accept similar jobs.
Portman received acclaim for her performance as a stripper, and she even filmed naked scenes (although these were later cut). Closer was able to produce $115 million on a budget of only $27 million.
Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith marked her last appearance as Amidala in 2005. The picture grossed more than $848 million. Her subsequent films included Free Zone and V for Vendetta.
My Blueberry Nights, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Other Woman, Brothers, and Mr. Magorium's Magic Emporium were some of the other films in which Portman appeared.
Portman's second breakthrough came when she co-starred in Black Swan with Mila Kunis. Not only did the cheaply financed film generate more than $329 million at the box office, but it also earned Natalie Portman an Academy Award for Best Actress.
She subsequently co-starred with Ashton Kutcher in No Strings Attached and concluded 2011 with a role in the unsuccessful stoner comedy Your Highness.
Portman's subsequent major part was in the box office-successful picture Thor. She repeated her role in the sequel Thor: The Dark World. Portman directed her debut film, A Tale of Love and Darkness, in 2015.
Additionally, she produced and appeared in the unsuccessful film Jane Got a Gun. After starring in the 2016 film Jackie, she received multiple awards and acclaim from critics.
In 2018, she led an all-female cast in the science fiction picture Annihilation, for which she was again singled out by critics for appreciation.
Personal Sphere
In 2012, Natalie Portman wed French dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied. Together, they have two children as of now.
Real Estate As Per Her Net Worth
Natalie Portman listed her New York City condominium with an asking price of $6.55 million in 2008. The two-bedroom apartment is located in one of the city's most prestigious structures.
She ultimately sold the property for the asking price. Natalie Portman acquired a Los Feliz, Los Angeles property for $3.25 million in 2009. The mansion was constructed in the 1930s and contains about 4,866 square feet of living space and 18,000 square feet of gorgeous gardens.
Naturally, there is also a pool. A sophisticated security system provides the highest level of safety and security for any celebrity who may wish to move in.
In 2017, Natalie Portman purchased a holiday property in Montecito, California for $6.5 million. The property is situated on 10 acres and offers breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean. In February of 2021, Natalie sold this luxury residence for $8 million.
What is Natalie Portman's Salary and Net Worth?
Natalie Portman is an American actress of Israeli descent with a net worth of $90 million. Natalie Portman is one of the most well-known women in Hollywood, and she has been an integral part of the film industry ever since she was a youngster.
She made a seamless transition from child to adult roles in the 2000s and has since received several accolades for her many performances. She is among the world's highest-paid actors.
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Generation Ship Short Story Review: A. E. van Vogt's "Centaurus II" (1947)
January 19, 2020 Joachim Boaz	17 Comments
Preliminary note: This is the sixth post in a series of vintage generation ship short fiction reviews. All of the stories I'll review are available online (see links below). You are welcome to read and discuss along with me as I explore humanity's visions of generational voyage. And thanks go out to all who have joined already.
Next up: A far lesser known author and story! David Rome's "Bliss" (1962) in Science Fiction Adventures, No. 24, ed. John Carnell (story link)
Previously: J. G. Ballard's "Thirteen to Centaurus" (1962) in the April 1962 issue of Amazing Stories, ed. Cele Goldsmith
I've compiled a helpful list on the theme with links to all my reviews.
(Charles Schneeman's cover for the June 1947 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.)
4/5 (Good)
A. E. van Vogt's "Centaurus II" (1947)* (story link) first appeared in the June 1947 issue of Astounding Science Fiction edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Together with two later stories—"Rogue Ship" (1950) and "The Expendables" (1963)—it was "completely rewritten" as the fix-up novel Rogue Ship (1965). I read the original magazine version.
As someone who tends to dislike and actively avoid A. E. van Vogt's fiction, "Centaurus II" was the best of his visions I've read yet.* And yes, I am partial to generation ships….
"Centauri II" is an effective rumination on government and society in a spaceship increasingly distant from Earth.
Recommended for fans of generation ships.
Brief Plot Summary (*spoilers*)
A. E. van Vogt's tale, loosely organized around the captains of the generation ship Centaurus II, explores "man's inability to rule himself" once "the connection with Earth grew too vague" (41). The Centaurus II sets off to learn the fate of the Centaurus I. The story starts with Lesbee II, the son of Captain Lesbee. Lesbee II witnesses the mutinous rumblings of the second generation (i.e. those born on the voyage) led by Ganarette who want to return to Earth. He too sympathizes with the siren call of Earth but sees himself "as a person set apart" destined to repeat "his father's lonely existence" as captain (7). His father quells the mutiny by strategically replacing the standard motion picture shows (scenes of Earth) with historic court footage of the sentences dealt out to mutineers.
Arrival at Centauri brings a further crisis—the target planet is inhabited by an unknown alien species and dangerous planetary conditions. Ganarette plots again and is executed. The ship sets off for further systems. In the following vignettes the ship experiments with an elected captain, descends into authoritarianism, witnesses purges of the elderly, and the slow breakdown of traditional societal roles (Lesbee III murders his father and marries two women!)…. Goudry, a hydroponics worker, seizes power and is soon possessed by delusions of grandeur (he sees himself as the messiah of the machine). Lesbee IV attempts to right the ship but must fight Goudry's paranoia that he wants to reinstall the divine right of kings (39).
As the generation ship's extraneous materials (floors, walls, personal belongings, etc.) are fed into the converter to propel the vessel onward, a greater threat looms…
While van Vogt tacks on a positive ending in the epilogue, there's a relentless feel of fragmentation as the voyage limps on to planet after inhospitable planet. These sequences of fragmentation and generational strife are the highlight of the story. In the latter generations after experiments in democracy and aristocracy have failed, Goudry's dictatorship based on force invents pseudo-religious mechanical obsessions to justify its existence:
"The realization came that the ship was indestructible. Nothing that men could do mattered to a machine that had been built to survive generations of human beings. He dreamed about the ship in his sleep hour. He had visions of it hurtling through blackness at thousands of miles a second now, and it seemed to him wonderful beyond all his previous emotions. The first conviction that came to him finally was a commonplace enough revelation: The ship was more important than the human beings in it" (87).
The ship itself becomes a sacred site. The actions of the previous captains to maintain the voyage—the dismantling of the ship's interior—are transformed into acts of desecration rather than survival.
The story's structure, told over the longue durée as a series of chronologically organized vignettes, allows van Vogt to trace a society's evolution. Rather than using the common trope of a character placed smack-dab in the middle of a bizarre enclosed world (i.e. Harry Harrison's Captive Universe) or alive at Trip's End (John Brunner's "Lungfish"), van Vogt focuses on the interactions between generations of the entire voyage.
Over the course of the story, generational strife, fragmentation of desire and law, and paranoia increasingly grip the crew. While the aim of the voyage remains in the minds of the leaders, they are more susceptible to the mass delusions produced by generations enclosed. Perhaps fitting for the immediate post-World War II environment, van Vogt suggests that the violence of the past perpetrated by authoritarian and maniacal men can be avoided by future generations.
Note: Early in the history of the site I reviewed the following van Vogt novels:
Mission to the Stars (variant title: The Mixed Men) (1945)
The World of Null-A (1948)
Other Reviews by Read-Through Participants
James Harris reviewed it here.
(Peter Jones' cover for the 1975 edition)
(Greg Theakstob's cover for the 1980 edition)
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17 thoughts on "Generation Ship Short Story Review: A. E. van Vogt's "Centaurus II" (1947)"
Warwick Stubbs says:
So we can read the story without continuing on with the prologue? Does it explain anything more, or just solely there for the happy ending?
I meant to say epilogue — I changed it in the review.
It's a key part of the story. It explains important parts of the story.
Oh, haha. I actually thought you did say Epilogue, but my mind must have been switched on to writing Prologue.
Are you tempted by the story? Of the generation ship stories in this read-through it was middle of the pack — the Oliver, Ballard, and Brunner were superior.
Yeah I am. I just bought a collection of van Vogt – 1963 Panther edition of Away and Beyond but it doesn't contain this story. I always like the idea of van Vogt's novels – "vintage", interesting – but Null-A left me unenthusiastic for more. I wanted to try some shorter stories instead.
The story was never anthologized as he completely rewrote it for the fix-up novel Rogue Ship.
Expendable Mudge says:
Not reading your review until I read the story, hoping that'll be soon.
No worries! Let me know what you think.
As I mentioned in the review, I am generally not a fan of van Vogt's labyrinthine machination-type stories — this one is not characterized by endless illogical twists.
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antyphayes says:
I finally read Centaurus II. Like you, I am hesitant to give Van Vogt the time to rot my mind with his convoluted stupidities, having read various novels and shorts over the years (The World of Null-A I'm looking at you!). I agree that this story is more straightforward. But still… There is little that is critical in Van Vogt's depiction of the evolution of the rule of the ship.I find the casual misogyny and complete absence of any significant female characters increasingly hard to take in the fiction of this time (which, I might add, is not always the case in male writers of sf in the 1940s, for instance in hte work of Theodore Sturgeon). Additionally, I found the concentration on those at the top of the food chain (with at least one aside about the righteousness of those destined to command… blurgh) meant that we got little insight into the social structure of the ship (apart from the ready availability of women for the men!). A definite thumbs down from me.
Sorry for the anti-Van Vogt spray. It's been a hard week and maybe I just took it out on him. I don't think the Van Vogt is a great writer–maybe not even a good one. But I can see how he had a big effect upon writers in the 1940s and after (particularly the much much better Van Vogtian, Philip K Dick). And the problem of misogyny is a structural one that goes beyond any personal culpability (which is not to excuse individual instances of such). Looking over some of my notes I found that even Van Vogt has impressed me at times. His space vampire story "Asylum" (1942), isn't bad, even if its overly long and has a stupid ending. I found "Dormant" (1948) a much better story, both compact and with a neat end. "Far Centaurus" (1944) and "The Weapons Shop" (1942) I apparently liked, though I remember nothing of the former and precious little of the latter (apart from the cool doorway to the weapon's shop). Without a doubt, my general antipathy toward Van Vogt colours my approach and appreciation of his work.
I'm usually the one who rants about how unreadable van Vogt is! I'm in the Damon Knight camp of criticism most of the time… i.e. he creates labyrinthine plots with little point or logic. As my standard complaints about his work didn't crop up in this story, I perhaps felt relief when I should have been more critical. hah.
Thanks for the great comment.
"I found the concentration on those at the top of the food chain [..]"
Yes, van Vogt's primary interests in this story are those in command. We have no clear understanding of what the ship looks like, how it functions, basic sections of the ship (other than the bridge and hydroponics), etc. Many of the stories that focus on a rebel who understands finally understands his world are so powerful because they aren't about those in charge…. I found this to be a distinct but inherently problematic structural choice. As for those who rant about their destiny to command, is this surprising for a class groomed to command? I thought there was enough difference between the Lesbee characters—Lesbee IV doesn't want to usurp power despite knowing that the ship is in a crisis and Lesbee III, who in a fit of authoritarian desire murdered his father—to suggests that there are distinct modes of ruling. Perhaps it could have been more pronounced.
I do not have high hopes for 40s SF when it comes to women characters. That's why John Brunner's "Lungfish" (1957) and the works of Judith Merril feel SOOOO radical. This is what they are responding to!
It's pretty cool that you're reviewing stories that can be found online. I'm bookmarking this one to read later.
Thank you! There were better stories in this series on generation ship stories — for example, John Brunner's "Lungfish." I'd browse some of the earlier ones in this series of reviews — I enjoyed some of them more than the van Vogt.
markbaumgart says:
Are you going to read the rest of the stories in this series for review?
I am probably not. While I enjoyed this particular van Vogt, I'm not a big fan of his–at all. The story came in second (after the Ballard) in a popular vote I held on twitter — in an attempt to get more of my followers there involved in the site.


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The address on the business card directed the members to an office in Selisbury Centre in the Durban Central Business District. In the office there were four employees and when they were asked about the work they were doing they told the members that they were in real estate confirming what the suspect earlier told the police. When the premises were searched a money counting machine, money detector, documents and bank statements were found. With suspicions that there could be more counterfeit cash in the business premises Sgt Xaba and his Currency Detection dog were summoned to the scene and a thorough search was conducted with negative results. Upon further investigation members established that the business was not registered. All the four suspects were also arrested. On one of the documents the members spotted an address in Mayville. They took the suspect to the said address and upon arrival they found the suspect's girlfriend. When the house was searched counterfeit gold was recovered and the currency detection dog reacted positive to the bag underneath the bed. The bag was pulled out and $1.2 Million in counterfeit notes was recovered. The suspect's girlfriend was arrested. In one of the utility bills with the suspect's name had a Morningside address in which the members proceeded to search. A total of $300.000 in fake was also recovered. The members proceeded to one of the addresses in Victoria Street which belonged to one of the suspects arrested in the offices in Silisbury Centre; in his place they found a bag full of South African counterfeit notes.
All six suspects were arrested and charged with Possession of Counterfeit cash, Money Laundering and Racketeering. They will appear in the Durban Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, 02 December 2014.


Adobe Photoshop Lightroom provides users with ways to make their photos better. Two ways that Lightroom improves photos is via the Lens Corrections panel and Perspective Correction Feature. The Perspective Correction feature allows users to fix user errors while the Lens Corrections Panel corrects any issues with user's camera lens.
The Lens Corrections panel allows users to profile the lens that they are using and fix any abnormalities associated with that lens. Users can profile their own lens via Adobe Labs' Adobe Lens Profile Creator. Users simply need to download this free software and plug in the information about their camera lens. This way, the exact profile of the lens will be created in Lightroom.
Lens can be profiled in two ways. If a user's lens is already a part of the Lightroom's lens profile, then users simply need to check Enable Profile Corrections. Then, the image will be corrected based on the lens abnormalities (EXIF data) associated with that camera lens.
If a user, however, created their own profile data, the Adobe Lens Profile Creator will add that lens' EXIF data to Lightroom. From here, Lightroom will make the necessary corrections.
Photographers can also see how an image will look through other lenses if they wish. They simply need to change the Lens Profile information to the settings for other lenses.
Users can either allow the program to automatically adjust the quality of the pictures. Or, they can use the Amount Sliders to adjust the intensity of corrections. Modifications can be made to Distortion, C. Aberration and Vignetting.
Within the Lens Correction panel, there is a Manual mode. In the Manual mode with the Transform slider selections, users can further adjust lens problems. For example, using the Distortion slider, users can manipulate their photos until they bulge inwards or outwards. Images can also be rotated and scaled up or down. Users can also manipulate colors with the Chromatic Aberration sliders.
Within the Transform sliders, there are two other sliders, one for Vertical and one for Horizontal. These two sliders help users compensate for issues with lens perspective. For example, if a photo was taken at an angle, the subject of the photo could be crooked. Or, if a person didn't have a wide angle lens, and they had to take a vertical shot horizontally, they may want to flip that photo. This is where these two sliders come in handy.
Users can simply move the sliders back and forth until they correct the image's perspective. But, photographers should only manipulate one slider at a time since using both could cause the perspective to get worse, not better.
Users may have to do a lot of experimentation to get their photos in the right position and correct any issues. But, since this Lens Correction panel is located within the Develop Module, users don't have to worry about messing up their original image. Any corrections done within the Develop Module won't be applied to the original photo.


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The Wagner College Theatre celebrates the opening of its 45th season with a new production of the popular award-winning musical, "Little Shop of Horrors," running October 2 through 13 on its main stage in Main Hall.
Directed by Wagner professor and Tony Award-winner Michele Pawk, with music direction by professor Lauri Young, "Little Shop of Horrors" features a book and lyrics by Howard Ashman with music by Alan Menken.
This affectionate spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies centers on Seymour, a down-and-out Skid Row floral assistant who becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon "Audrey II" grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore who offers Seymour fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its growing appetite, finally revealing itself to be an alien creature poised for global domination!
"I saw 'Little Shop of Horrors' three times at the Orpheum Theatre when it opened," said director Michele Pawk from her Main Hall office. "I was mesmerized by how seemingly simple the storytelling, acting and puppetry seemed to be, when I knew how complex and intricate the process must have been. It's so much fun to revisit this gem of a musical with the Wagner College Theatre cast, who are exploring the 1960s for the first time."
The Wagner College Theatre production features senior theatre performance majors John Alati (Seymour), Lauren Wagner (Audrey), Tom Horvath (Mr. Mushnik), Bronwyn Whittle (Ronette) and Brian Falduto (Audrey II Puppet).
The production design team includes Phil Hickox (sets), Sara Bandurian (costumes), Vicki Neal (lights), and Richard Kroth (sound). Senior K.T. Sanders is production stage manager.
Based on the low-budget 1967 film directed by Roger Corman, screenplay by Charles Griffith, that featured a young Jack Nicholson, "Little Shop of Horrors" debuted Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in 1982. Directed by Howard Ashman, the production transferred to the Off-Broadway Orpheum Theatre, where it ran for 5 years and 2,209 performances, winning Best Musical from the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, Drama Desk Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene and Steve Martin were featured in the 1986 film version. Hunter Foster and Kerry Butler led the Broadway production, directed by Kathleen Marshall, in 2003.
Wagner College Theatre previously presented "Little Shop of Horrors" in the 1989-90 Season.
Located in Main Hall, the Wagner College Theatre box office can be contacted at (718) 390-3259 or boxoffice@wagner.edu. Box office hours are Monday through Friday, 12 to 4 p.m. Season subscriptions from $60 to $104 are available now. Single tickets are on sale for "Little Shop of Horrors," with price ranges for children, senior and adult tickets. Wagner College students attend free with current ID.
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How to use an iPhone's fingerprint reader to unlock a phone
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Updated June 11, 2018 10:35:26When you purchase an iPhone, you're entering a data-filled "passport" into the device.
That data is stored in your iPhone's RAM, a tiny piece of memory that stores your personal information.
As the name implies, it's all encrypted, and a user can only unlock an iPhone with that password.
There's no need to enter your passcode again to unlock an existing iPhone.
But if you have an iPhone that's not connected to Wi-Fi, like the Apple Watch, then it can't use a fingerprint reader on your phone.
This means you'll have to use a biometric lock to unlock the phone.
The fingerprint reader is the key to unlocking an iPhone.
And there are a couple different types of biometric readers on the market.
Apple's new iPhone 8 Plus, for instance, is powered by the company's new Lightning port, which can read your fingerprint and store it in a separate lockable memory.
The Lightning port also has a sensor to detect if your finger is on the sensor and unlocks the phone automatically.
There are also other biometric fingerprint scanners available on the App Store and other online stores, like that from Digitally Secure.
If you need to purchase a biometrics reader that's compatible with an iPhone without a lockable RAM, then you'll want to get one from Digi-Key.
This is an Australian company that sells its own biometics readers.
The DigiKey Touch ID Fingerprint Reader is a single-purpose device.
You can use it to unlock your iPhone using a single finger, or you can use the device to unlock multiple phones with a single fingerprint.
You'll need an iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, or later, and the Touch ID sensor on your iPhone.
You'll need a Bluetooth connection to connect the Touch Data Reader to your iPhone, and it has a USB-C port on the bottom.
It works with most Apple products.
Apple also has two Touch ID readers, the Lightning Touch ID reader and the Power Touch ID Reader.
Both of these devices use the same sensor, the same fingerprint sensor, and all of them come with a power button and volume rocker.
The iPhone X, the iPhone X Plus, and iPhone XS are all powered by an upgraded version of Apple's Lightning port.
Apple's upgraded Lightning port is the same as the iPhone 8, but it has an improved charging port.
It has a new power button, and new power rockers.
If the new Lightning-powered iPhone X and iPhone XL are more than a year old, you might have a different set of features.
These include a larger, faster battery, new cameras, and wireless charging.
If you're looking to upgrade your iPhone X or XS, here's what to look for.
If your iPhone isn't compatible with the Lightning port and you're still getting the same features, you'll need to buy a new iPhone from Digivision.
You won't be able to buy an older iPhone if it's not in the same family as the new iPhone.
Digivision sells the new iPhones in all of its US and European stores, and you can get them in both black and white.
If your iPhone is compatible with Apple's new iOS 11.2, you can upgrade to the new version.
If not, you may have to pay a monthly fee to upgrade.
If that's the case, then Digivider is offering a $100 iPhone X bundle, which includes the new models in black and blue.
If there's a new generation of iPhone X models on the way, Digivisions will also sell you a $200 iPhone X in its Black Series, which is the cheapest and most affordable iPhone X model.
If the iPhone 10S or 10S Plus comes out with the new A9 chip, you will also get the new model in the Black Series.
The most expensive iPhone X you can buy is the $1,100 model, which comes with the A9, which has the same A9 processor as the A8 chip that Apple has used on the iPhone 7.
If Apple releases an iPhone X with the iPhone 9X chip, then the price jumps to $1 of $1.
In that case, you'd get an A9-powered model for $1 more.
The $1 Apple Watch with Lightning port upgrade is also available in Black and White, but you'll pay an additional $150.
The new iPhones, however, aren't available in all countries.
The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8s are in only two countries: China and Brazil.
And the $150 upgrade for the iPhone 6s Plus is only available in China.
If a new model doesn't come to the US and Canada, Digi will sell you an iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which come with the same Lightning port as the $200 Apple Watch.
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I always try keep full project logs of my work, that you use to follow every step of my projects. I've been modding for quite a few years now so I've managed to squeeze in lots of different modding projects. I hope you enjoy my work.
These are the completed modding projects that I have done to date. As you can see they are quite varied and some of them have been magazine features which is always nice.
Having owned almost a dozen shuttles including the very first model, I've always been a fan of them, but I've never really done a full blown mod project based around one. This project will change that, having sourced a bare g2 style case I have set to work creating something that is a class above the normal shuttle.
In Project Bad Apple I took a standard Apple Powermac G4 case and converted it to pc use. Now I want to go down the apple route again. Taking the fabulous Apple Powermac Cube case I intend to convert it to pc use. The final aim is to have a small pretty file server for all my movies etc.
Inspired by Mashie's conversion of a Silicon Graphics O2 case I sourced a similiar case for a project of my own. These are very cool little cases but its a tight squeeze to fit a MATX sized motherboard inside. There have been three different versions of this project as I wasn't happy with the first two. After nearly two years in the making its now finished. The specs of the final system is a Pentium IV 2.26ghz cpu, 512mb of Corsair Ram, 160GB Seagate HDD, Sony DVD writer and a Sapphire 9600XT Ultimate.
MiniITX motherboards have changed the modding scene dramatically a motherboard this small means you can squeeze it into much smaller places. In this mod I took a Ford Focus Shell from a radio controlled car and fitted a full working PC inside. This project has featured in Custom PC magazine.
The Coolermaster ATC 110 is still by far the best case out there, I set to work on making this case even better along with being almost totally silent. This project has been featured on Hexus.net. This was my first proper project with a clear aim in mind.
Projects in this category are on hold as I haven't the time to complete them yet. I want to get back to these projects when I can.
Using a shuttle sb61g2 motherboard and other shuttle parts, I will be making a very small aluminium case to house it all in. This will be a quick project to keep me busy till I can get Project Little Devil back on track.
I've always wanted to dabble in watercooling and I've been a fan of the Coolermaster ATCS 500 case for ages. When I heard that it was going to be discontinued I had to get one for old times sake before they were gone forever.
I've recently managed to source two stunning new cases made by Hoojum, The Cubit 3 is a mini-itx case and the Cubit 5 is a replacement case for shuttle systems. Words cannot describe just how cool these cases are, stay tuned for some projects involving both these cases in the future.
This my old Shuttle SN95G5 v1 , with an AMD 64 bit 3200+ cpu, 1 gig of Corsair Ram, A seagate 200 gig hard disc, Sapphire X800xt oc'd to beyond PE levels. In short its a sweet rig.
Based on a Shuttle SB51G1 in black, mods include silencing the PSU fan by replacing it with a quieter ADDA fan , Main fan replaced with a Noiseblocker S2, Rear grill removed and replaced with a laser cut grill, front facia replaced with a clear perspex front backed with real carbon fibre, Combo drive stealthed, hdd led now white, Rheostat at rear for controlling the main fan.
Based on a Coolermaster ATCS 200 case , mods include stealthing , oval side window, plenty of lights , custom rheobus, internal lcd. This was my first case and modding project.
Based on a Coolermaster ATCS 500 case , mods include stealthing, side window, plenty of lights , and internal lcd.
The Shuttle SS51G2 is the first proper barebones unit that had full on specs. Before that they had been slighly limiting. This was my second shuttle that I had tried and it was an excellent little system, mods include stealthing clear front facia and lots of silencing.
The coolermaster ATCS 201 was one of the most popular cases of its day. I had this case only for a short while but did this bespoke case window featuring a triple hexagon design. A design I very much liked, due to its simplicity.
The Coolermaster ATCS 710 marked the beginning of the end of Coolermasters dominance of the high end case market. It was their first budget case and was very much the cheaper/nastier little brother or the rest of the range. My ATCS 710 feature custom window featuring the same triple hexagon design as my ATCS 201.


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"My body. My choice!" was the chant from a group of citizens, as they walked from Pleasantville to San Fernando this morning, to protest against mandatory vaccination.
Using a long PVC-designed syringe as their prop—and led by entertainer Trisha Hamilton and leader of the Kaisokah Moko Jumbies Junior Bisnath—the group sent a clear message to the Government that they strongly opposed forced vaccination for COVID-19.
"Today's walk is about my body, my choice. We believe that people shouldn't be losing their jobs," explained Tricia Hamilton, who is known as 'Sexy Trisha' in the entertainment arena. "We, as Trinbagonians, we need to be our brother's keeper. It is about time we say enough is enough. Too much is too much. We will not be forced to be vaccinated with something nobody really knows what exactly is going on."
Hamilton said it would be spitting in the face of the forefathers who fought for freedom and liberation to not fight for their rights.
"Even God give(s) us our own will to choose, so no government, no human being, should take that right from us," she reminded the churchgoers and leaders.
Noting that safe zones were not preventing the spike in cases, Hamilton said vaccinated people should not scorn those who are unvaccinated. She said today's walk was for all public servants including police officers and nurses, and every person who is being pressured to take the vaccine.
Junior Bisnath said his wife went to work a week ago and was sent home because she was not vaccinated. He called on people who are against mandatory vaccine to stand up and fight back.
Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has given public servants until the middle of this month to take the jab, or they would not be paid.
The anti-mandatory vaccination protesters outside City Hall in San Fernando, on Wednesday 12 January 2022. (Image by INNIS FRANCIS)


By Lisa Greene on Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 at 12:00 a.m.
Rudy Giuliani was seeking to make a point about socialized medicine by drawing upon his own experience of having been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
But his statement caused an instant controversy as medical experts disputed his statistics and declared his comparison unfair.
In fact, the numbers are wrong.
According to the National Cancer Institute, the five-year survival rate in the U.S. actually is above 99 percent. In the United Kingdom, it's nearly 75 percent, according to their Office for National Statistics.
Giuliani's campaign defends the numbers it used from City Journal, a quarterly magazine funded by the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank in New York.
"The bottom line is, the mayor is illustrating a point that you are essentially better off in the U.S. system than the European system,'' said campaign spokesman Elliott Bundy. "You are better off in a system of competition and choice rather than a government-mandated health care system."
Cancer experts say there are two big problems with the City Journal article. For one thing, the numbers quoted in the story are an extrapolation of statistics from the Commonwealth Fund, a foundation that supports health policy research, and that group says its numbers were misused in the City Journal article.
The Commonwealth Fund issued a statement saying that its study of incidence of cancer and mortality rates should not be used to compute survivability rates.
"The numbers basically aren't right," said fund president Karen Davis.
But a gap still exists in the five-year survival rate between the U.S. and the UK. Even if Giuliani's numbers are wrong, could his point still be right?
No, according to cancer experts.
The difference between the two countries comes down to a matter of medical philosophy, experts said.
U.S. officials believe in aggressive testing to find early cases of prostate cancer, while some cancer experts say that since that many cases of prostate cancer develop late enough in life that patients are likely to die of something else, screening everyone for cancer isn't worth the difficulties those treatments can cause.
U.S. men are more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer as men in the U.K. because they are more likely to be screened for the disease. That artificially inflates the survival rate, since many of the U.S. men treated would never have developed symptoms of disease.
A more accurate comparison would be to look at mortality rates, said prostate cancer epidemiologist Lorelei Mucci, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. In the U.S., about 15.8 of every 100,000 men die of prostate cancer, while in the U.K., the figure is 17.9 deaths.
"They're essentially quite similar," she said.
The statistics Giuliani uses are wrong. The Giuliani campaign insists that it's making a legitimate point about the merits of health care in the U.S. over Britain, but the statistics that say the chances of surviving prostate is higher in America also say the chances of having it are higher in the U.S., too.
We find his statement false.
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(l-r) Kimberly E. Jones as Dora, Nathan Granner as Morel, and Valerie Vinzant as Faustine in The Invention of Morel, Chicago Opera Theater, 2017. Photo: Liz Lauren.
A futuristic love story: The Invention of Morel
Described "without exaggeration, as a perfect novel", Adolfo Bioy Casares' The Invention of Morel is adapted into an opera by librettist/director Jonathan Moore and composer Stewart Copeland (as in, the drummer and co-founder of The Police). The opera, based on Casares' futuristic story about love and questioning reality, had its first successful run at Chicago Opera Theater last year, and this month sees the second part of its co-world premiere at Long Beach Opera (March 17-25).
We spoke with two singers from the cast of The Invention of Morel: tenor Nathan Granner, who sings the titular Morel, and soprano Jamie Chamberlin, who sings Faustine.
What do you think this story says about humans and their concept of "reality"?
Nathan Granner: Consider that this opera has a number of different timelines. Consider that at this point in our perception of humanity, science cannot rule out that we are a simulation. A simulation where we all must play our part. We must eat and drink. We must love, or we perish and cease to exist.
But what if that didn't have to be? What if our reality were different. Skewed by maybe just a few degrees. What if you could choose what your reality was, but in order to do so meant giving up part of our humanity? If the physical and emotive rules by which we co-exist, to a good or bad degree, were unnecessary would we remain human?
What does Stewart Copeland' s music have to say about this story?
Granner: Copeland's music is to me at once viscerally driven and percussive as well as being lyrical and poignant. It has that dirt and grit of punk rock while having the sophistication of progressive contemporary music … with a serious disjointedness of modern period music. It is a good blend of post-modernist sensibility.
This music in The Invention of Morel reflects all of the elements in the story. Also, like in [Tim Nolan's movie] Memento, scenes that are out of sequence in the timeline give you a real wrenching feeling. You, like the characters of The Fugitive and The Narrator, feel a little bit of the disorientation they feel. The interactive experience we look for now in today's entertainment is written into the opera itself.
The machinery of the invention, love and attraction… Copeland fleshes out this story with the flair of a romantic composer, who writes music which informs the scene-work, just as much as it accompanies the voices.
I love the fact that we have a person who quite literally learned the art of writing pop songs and anthems for stadiums. Don't for a second think it was only Sir Gordon Sumner - aka Sting - who penned the music for The Police. They all were writing. I can hear the influences of The Police and progressive rock contemporaries in Copeland's music. It is fascinating really. It is all so very… fascinating.
(l-r) David Govertsen as Stoever, Barbara Landis as Duchess, Valerie Vinzant as Faustine, Nathan Granner as Morel, Kimberly E. Jones as Dora, and Scott Brunscheen as Alec/Ombrellieri in The Invention of Morel, Chicago Opera Theater, 2017. Photo: Liz Lauren.
Can you tell us a bit about your character? (no spoilers, please!)
Granner: My character, Morel, is your typical super-genius. I think of him as the superimposed id of Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Dr. No (of Bond fame) and Robert Oppenheimer.
He is a super-genius who has created an invention that will change life as we know it. He is in obsessive love with Faustine. He has invited Faustine and the remaining characters (in the opera) to the island to woo Faustine. His gambit is to spend the rest of his days with her …which is kinda creepy on any level.
Jamie Chamberlin: Faustine is the vehicle through which we see the obsession and insecurities of both Morel and The Fugitive reflected. She is their mirror. Much like the silent film Pandora's Box, which starred Louise Brooks (the muse for the character Faustine), in this opera, she is the blank slate onto which men cast their own projections. Those projections include their hopes, fears, and fantasies.
In this sense, it can be a challenge as an actress. I have chosen to portray her not as she is merely seen by those around her, but rather as a fully fleshed out, complicated woman (all within the limited structure of the score and libretto of course!). In this way we draw attention to the idea of expectation versus reality. What is real? Who is this person to you and is that the same as the person they truly are? Or is the influence of your own expectation of yourself and the world around you clouding your vision?
So in short, yes… Faustine, both in reality and fantasy is quite a complex character.
Compared to all the works about myths and historical figures, why do you think futuristic stories are relatively rare among operas?
Chamberlin: In every art form, expansion takes time. Historically speaking, opera from the 17th century through most of the 20th century relied on tales of the distant past, or recent past at best. I think the industrial revolution needed to happen before these storytellers could even wrap their minds around anything "futuristic". With the onset of modernism, surrealism and science fiction, these tales have finally begun to emerge and take their place within the operatic canon.
It makes perfect sense to me that we now have a blank slate, where we can take a story, The Invention of Morel, written by Adolfo Bioy Casares in the 1940s, which is modern-surrealist, and apply it within the context of a contemporary piece of music (written by a rock 'n' roll superstar, no less) and it just works. We have entered an era where style and story goes into this melting pot with "the influence of the future on the past" to quote our Dr. Morel directly from Jonathan Moore's libretto. A new and exciting opera is created. It is fully immersive on every level, because it's not simply a futuristic tale, it's also science-fiction, surrealism and modernism, coupled with completely unique contemporary music.
It's good to be an opera singer these days, and especially to be involved from the early stages of development as many of us have been with The Invention of Morel.
Long Beach Opera's The Invention of Morel plays at the Beverly O'Neill Theater, Marcy 17-25. For details and tickets, click here.
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Making Muriel takes us behind the scenes as Aussie film classic 'Muriel's Wedding' is turned into a world-first stage musical. But with the starring role based on director P.J. Hogan's real sister, and immortalized by Toni Colette, the question is: who is good enough to be Australia's 21st century Muriel?
Making Muriel examines the enduring popularity of Muriel's Wedding, the origins of the story and characters and how – 23 years after becoming a surprise box office hit – the uniquely Australian female protagonist Muriel Heslop will be reinterpreted for the stage.
Directed and produced by Nel Minchin (Matilda and Me), produced by Ivan O'Mahoney (Hitting Home, Caged), and executive produced by Nial Fulton (Hitting Home, Matilda and Me) from In Films Pty Ltd., Making Muriel chronicles the full creative process up to the world premiere of Muriel's Wedding The Musical at the Roslyn Packer Theatre (Sydney) in early November 2017.
With unprecedented access to the STC production process, archival footage was pieced together with interviews from Hogan, the film's producers Jocelyn Moorhouse (The Dressmaker) and Lynda House, musical cast and a few surprise guests, giving audiences an exclusive look at the journey from screen to stage.
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The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, St. Louis Chapter (AAFA-STL), a United Way Agency, has been serving the asthmatic and allergic needs of the St. Louis community for over 30 years. AAFA-STL's medical assistance program, BREATH (formerly Project Concern), provides uninsured and underinsured children with life-saving asthma and allergy prescription assistance, equipment, education, and support. RESCUE (Resources for Every School Confronting Unexpected Emergencies) is AAFA-STL's school nurse program, which helps to provide asthma equipment to schools in our service area. Our educational programs and resources reach families, schools, and nurses all over the Greater St. Louis area. The organization is a proud member of the United Way of Greater St. Louis and Variety the Children's Charity.
Diagnose the Issue: The most important thing that a St. Louis allergist can do for you is find out why you are sick. The allergist will most often test a sample of your blood against known allergens and then tell you what you are allergic to. Knowledge is power, and in the case of allergens, it empowers you to avoid the allergen in the future. Persons who are allergic to pets can get rid of them, persons who are allergic to pollen can close the windows, and those who are allergic to foods can avoid those foods. An allergen's diagnosis gives you the power to avoid what is making you sick so you can live happy.
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Each of these symptoms can be a sign of allergies, and some of them can be quite serious!St Louis Allergies can be serious so if you are suffering from them, or suffering for an unknown cause, you should consider visiting an allergist. Many people have allergies they do not even know about so you might want to check into it. Importantly, if you have a severe allergy, a St. Louis allergist can save your life by giving you the knowledge and the medicine you need to avoid a reaction. While there are a lot of factors involved including how rare your allergen is and how serious your reaction, you might someday be very glad you went to your STL allergist.


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    var Vector = require('../../math/Vector');

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     *  A constraint that keeps a physics body on a given implicit surface
     *    regardless of other physical forces are applied to it.
     *
     *  @class Surface
     *  @constructor
     *  @extends Constraint
     *  @param {Options} [options] An object of configurable options.
     *  @param {Function} [options.equation] An implicitly defined surface f(x,y,z) = 0 that body is constrained to e.g. function(x,y,z) { x*x + y*y + z*z - r*r } corresponds to a sphere of radius r pixels.
     *  @param {Number} [options.period] The spring-like reaction when the constraint is violated.
     *  @param {Number} [options.dampingRatio] The damping-like reaction when the constraint is violated.
     */
    function Surface(options) {
        this.options = Object.create(Surface.DEFAULT_OPTIONS);
        if (options) this.setOptions(options);

        this.J = new Vector();
        this.impulse  = new Vector();

        Constraint.call(this);
    }

    Surface.prototype = Object.create(Constraint.prototype);
    Surface.prototype.constructor = Surface;

    Surface.DEFAULT_OPTIONS = {
        equation : undefined,
        period : 0,
        dampingRatio : 0
    };

    /** @const */ var epsilon = 1e-7;
    /** @const */ var pi = Math.PI;

    /**
     * Basic options setter
     *
     * @method setOptions
     * @param options {Objects}
     */
    Surface.prototype.setOptions = function setOptions(options) {
        for (var key in options) this.options[key] = options[key];
    };

    /**
     * Adds a surface impulse to a physics body.
     *
     * @method applyConstraint
     * @param targets {Array.Body} Array of bodies to apply force to.
     * @param source {Body} Not applicable
     * @param dt {Number} Delta time
     */
    Surface.prototype.applyConstraint = function applyConstraint(targets, source, dt) {
        var impulse = this.impulse;
        var J       = this.J;
        var options = this.options;

        var f = options.equation;
        var dampingRatio = options.dampingRatio;
        var period = options.period;

        for (var i = 0; i < targets.length; i++) {
            var particle = targets[i];

            var v = particle.velocity;
            var p = particle.position;
            var m = particle.mass;

            var gamma;
            var beta;

            if (period === 0) {
                gamma = 0;
                beta = 1;
            }
            else {
                var c = 4 * m * pi * dampingRatio / period;
                var k = 4 * m * pi * pi / (period * period);

                gamma = 1 / (c + dt*k);
                beta  = dt*k / (c + dt*k);
            }

            var x = p.x;
            var y = p.y;
            var z = p.z;

            var f0  = f(x, y, z);
            var dfx = (f(x + epsilon, p, p) - f0) / epsilon;
            var dfy = (f(x, y + epsilon, p) - f0) / epsilon;
            var dfz = (f(x, y, p + epsilon) - f0) / epsilon;
            J.setXYZ(dfx, dfy, dfz);

            var antiDrift = beta/dt * f0;
            var lambda = -(J.dot(v) + antiDrift) / (gamma + dt * J.normSquared() / m);

            impulse.set(J.mult(dt*lambda));
            particle.applyImpulse(impulse);
        }
    };

    module.exports = Surface;
});

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A large crowd of dignitaries and off-the-street spectators came together in front of the Saltwater Stage at the Fred Hall Long Beach Show Thursday afternoon to honor Guy Yocom, from Dana Point, owner of the El Suertudo, and his captain Greg DiStefano, from San Clemente, along with their top-notch crew—Oswaldo "Balin" Ortega, David Poling, Todd Clark, Daniel Alvarez and Jose "Pepe" de la Pena—for Yocom's remarkable record-breaking 427-pound yellowfin taken south of Cabo San Lucas on September 18, 2012.
Pat McDonell, Editor of Western Outdoor News, welcomed the crowd and duly noted that for the second time in two years, a record-breaking yellowfin had been weighed in.
The 388-pound, 12-ounce yellowfin caught April 1, 1977 by Curt Wiesenhutter aboard the Royal Polaris, (owned by the late Capt. Bill Poole) had stood for 33 years. Then, on Nov. 30, 2010 it was defeated by Mike Livingston's 405.2-pound yellowfin tuna caught on Capt. Mike Lackey's 80-foot sport boat, the Vagabond. Mike was present to congratulate and observe the passing of the torch to Yocom.
Presenting Yocom with the official certificates for both the All-Tackle Record of 427 pounds and the 130-pound line class World Record was Rob Kramer, President of the International Game Fish Association, who flew in from Dania Beach, Florida along with Conservation Director, Jason Schratwieser, and Development Director, Eric Combast, and Kelsey Johnson, Development/PR Coordinator. Also in attendance was locally-based trustee Michael Farrior.
An additional bonus for smashing Livingston's record is the largest promotional prize in the history of sportfishing: a remarkable $1,000,000 in increments of $20,000 annually for breaking the existing all-tackle record on a Mustad hook during the year-long "Hook a Million" World Record Contest.
McDonell thanked Bart and Ginny Hall and their entire show team as well as American Sportfishing Association, partners in the Hall Shows, for providing the ideal venue to recognize and honor Yocom's catch.
After playing a short video of the actual catch, McDonell introduced Rob Kramer and Farrior, along with Yocom, for the official signing and presentation of the World Record Certificates.
Kramer said that taking into consideration the 33 years that the record had stood prior to presenting World Record Certificate to Mike Livingston for breaking the Yellowfin record in 2011, he never dreamed that he and his IGFA team would be returning this soon to award another World Record for the same category.
"California is a hotbed of world record activity, with 310 IGFA World Records currently standing, second only to Florida in current world records by states. The top male saltwater and second place male All-Tackle Length anglers in 2012 are Steve Wozniak and IGFA Representative Pete Binaski, who both reside in California, as do 17 Regional Ambassadors of the IGFA, the largest number in any state," he continued.
When Jeff Pierce, Mustad US Sales Coordinator, stood to present the ceremonial $1,000,000 check representing the $20,000 annual payout for the next 50 years, he invited Guy and his entire crew to the stage to receive the check.
After the obligatory photos, a Q&A for the crew revealed how much preparation Captain Greg DiStefano and mate "Balin" had devoted before the trip. Questions included rigging tackle, verifying IGFA rules and even having all of the line to be used pre-tested by IGFA World Records' Coordinator Jack Vitek.
A reception honoring IGFA and the El Suertudo was hosted by Keesel, Logan & Young in the penthouse of the Union Bank building in Long Beach following the ceremony.
Combast welcomed the IGFA members and friends and acknowledged the three California IGFA Trustees. He noted that Californian Wes Davis was the youngest person ever to achieve a Billfish Royal Slam and also noted that 30-percent of all 10-pound bass club catches were caught in California.
Farrior briefly mentioned the IGFA Hall of Fame history and that 10 percent of inductees were from California. He introduced the IGFA Representatives in attendance and then introduced Jason Schratwieser who moderated an in-depth Q&A with Yocom and DiStefano.
At the conclusion of the session, Jason reviewed the significance and success of the IGFA Great Marlin Race with a total of 4,227 miles tracked in the first race year, the evolution of IGMR project with the support of Representative Bob Kurz and the value of the billfish data and research provided by the innovative undertaking.
Kramer reviewed the Billfish Conservation Act—effectively banning the importation of all billfish into the continental United States. After discovering the problem in South America, then developing an economic impact study and working for six years to raise awareness and push the legislation, it was finally signed into law.
An informative promotional video prepared by IGFA's Kelsey Johnson closed the program. The video can be seen below.


If you have an internet contract you will usually have the option for free web space. This has the advantage that it is free. The main restriction will be the name that you can call the site – it will be what is called a sub-domain of your ISP. Thus your ISP's name will be part of your main address.
There are three main negatives with using the ISP's domain – the first is that if you change ISP you will lose your domain name.
The second is less important – some people say that search engines like Google will tend to rank sub-domains lower than named domains, but in any event the site will be more difficult to remember and the URL or domain name will usually be longer.
The third is a technical one and depends upon the type of web space that your ISP gives you and what you want to do with your web site. In simple terms some types of site cannot be run from free space because of technical limitations, but if you want a simple 'static' html web site you should be fine.


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Sean Kutzko (L) and Jeff Machota (R) discuss the Nature's Table Archives Project on Machota's jazz show on WEFT-FM, July 31, 2019.
Jeff Machota, the host of the Wednesday Morning Prayer Meeting jazz show on WEFT 90.1 FM since 1991 and a former Nature's Table employee, interviewed Sean Kutzko of the Nature's Table Archives Project on his show on July 31, 2019. The 90-minute segment includes several selections of music recorded at the Table in the Archive, as well as conversation about ongoing efforts and why people are still talking about the Table almost 30 years after it closed.
Tracks included in the segment include:
The Jack Webb Band – "Tiger Rag" February 22, 1980
Jeff Helgesen Quintet – "Ah-Leu-Cha" and "I Remember Clifford," October 4, 1990.
The Quintet (w/Ray Sasaki & Morgan Powell) – "Willow Weep For Me" May 1980
Ron Dewar Quartet (w/Guido Sinclair) – "I Love You" September 28, 1980
Sorgum – "So What > Impressions > So What" April 5, 1986
All recordings are from performances already posted in the Archive.
Jeff Machota interviews NTAP's Sean Kutzko on WEFT-FM's Wednesday Morning Prayer Meeting jazz program, July 31, 2019.
Nature's Table Archive Vol 8: Russell Cheatham and Friends – May 24, 1990
Posted on January 1, 2015 January 25, 2015 by Sean Kutzko
I originally released this set (NTA Volume 8) on December 21, 2014 as "Mitch Paliga Quintet, May 23, 1990." It turns out that date and band is likely incorrect. Bear with us for an explanation.
This was originally thought to be a recording of the Mitch Paliga Quintet from May 24, 1990. The source tape came from Jeff Machota's collection and was labeled Mitch Paliga 5/23/90.
The recording sounded very well-balanced to me, and was a cut above the standard "boom box on the bandstand" recording a lot of our material comes from. The recording levels in Audacity were pretty even, the visual audio wave patterns looked remarkably even and well-formed in the audio editing software, and it sounded like the recording was a couple cassette generations away from the source tape. There was also approximately 60 minutes of usable material, with 30 minutes of very distorted audio on the remainder of the recording. It sounded like digital noise to me, the kind where a digital tape machine misreads the material. This digital noise, coupled with a very uniform, clean wave pattern on the recording, led me to believe it was recorded by Paul Wienke for airing on WILL-FM at a later date, and he'd had some sort of digital error when recording the second set.
However, a few weeks after posting the show, there developed two rubs:
1) Mitch Paliga had no recollection of this gig, which would be strange if he was the bandleader.
2) My theory of the source of the recording was questioned by Jeff Helgesen, who played on this gig.
Mitch, Jeff Helgesen and Scott Frillman are listed as personnel this night, and all agree that the lineup is correct. Jeff Machota found the monthly flyer advertising the coming shows, and saw that Russell Cheatham and Friends was booked on Saturday, May 24, the day after Paliga was headliner.
Then, a rather nice thing happened: Paul Wienke chimed in out of the blue, and stated he didn't record the gig. While it turned out my theory on the recording source was completely incorrect, it's far better to have concrete information.
The common accepted information among the musicians who played the gig is that this is the Russell Cheatham and Friends gig from the next night, May 24, 1990. The recording is likely what Jeff Helgesen speculated: a recorder of unknown origin set up on the front table. Jeff Machota had the source tape in his personal collection; it was likely he asked the original recordier for a dub of the tape, which was made shortly after the gig, and either he or the original recorder simply mislabeled it.
In any case, the statements I made at the time of the original posting are still true. We find Scott Frillman playing baritone sax. This is the first recording I've heard that has Scott on bari, and he's certainly doing a great job with it. Second is Russell Cheatham playing in a group that's not Sorgum. While I'm an unabashed Sorgum junkie and love the funk-jazz they made, it's great to hear him in a more bop and standards-oriented group, too. Jeff Machota told me this gig occurred when Sorgum guitarist Chuck Tripp was out of town, hence the different lineup.
So, my apologies for getting the info wrong the first time. Even with all of the collective brain power used to try and get as many of the details on these tapes correct, there will no doubt be some mistakes along the way.
Mitch Paliga – alto, tenor, soprano sax
Jeff Helgesen – trumpet
Scott Frillman – baritone sax
Russell Cheatham – organ
Danny Deckard – drums
Russell Cheatham and Friends – May 24, 1990 (NTA Vol 8)


Customer experience (CX) is fast emerging as a key competitive advantage in today's marketplace. In fact, according to Forbes' Blake Morgan, 75% of companies set improving CX as an objective for 2018. This is due largely to the way that technology can augment the relationship between businesses and customers, and the way that tech companies have disrupted industries by providing a superior customer experience. Industry leaders are now taking note and looking at how they can harness technology to create a more powerful customer experience. Sysco, the world's largest foodservice company, is one of those leaders and together with Sysco LABS, they are reimagining the foodservice customer experience.
Customer experience is the product of the interactions between the customer and the organization over the duration of their relationship. Traditionally, CX was relegated to interactions that happened in stores and with salespeople or products, but the explosion of the online marketplace has changed the expectations of customers. Along with being able to make purchases online, customers also expect organizations to behave more like their friends. For example, today an organization with a Facebook page will be expected to chat with customers through the messenger app, and most leading organizations will be expected to have mobile applications of their own to provide greater transparency and communication.
Today's CX improvements are numerous and diverse. Customers expect greater transparency on the supply chain and workflow of organizations – consider how it isn't enough to know that your Uber is arriving, you need to know exactly how many minutes away it is and see its location on a map. This practice is being adopted by more and more industries; from food delivery services to airlines, organizations are trying to communicate with customers in real time.
The customer service cloud is another emerging tool; using the massive amounts of data transactions produced, companies are able to not only save customers' time and effort, but also offer them fairer prices. In industries such as food supply, where the price of the commodity is prone to fluctuation based on supply and demand, cloud pricing allows organizations to use algorithms to assign the best price possible.
Another major area of innovation in CX is smart stores. The implementation of augmented reality in stores is increasing dramatically; driven by advancements in the technology and in the internet of things, clothes retailers like Rebecca Minkoff's are using smart mirrors to help customers virtually try on clothes, see if the item is available in other sizes, colors and much more. Amazon too is breaking into this space following their acquisition of whole foods. With Amazon Go they are creating grocery stores without checkout counters where customers are automatically charged for whatever they walk out with.
Sysco LABS is working on achieving this level of CX innovation in the foodservice industry. With a focus on Sysco's entire foodservice chain, 'from farm to fork', Sysco LABS is reimagining every relationship with technology; the farmer and the food storage team, the relationship between the food delivery team and the restaurant operator, and the one between restaurants and customers. The innovations of the teams will ultimately allow restaurants to run smoother and grow by providing their customers with a better experience.
In re-imagining this process, Sysco and Sysco LABS will be employing four core principles. The first is customer-centricity; bringing the customer into the room and having them weigh in on CX design decisions. Secondly, Sysco employs cross functional teams in the development of its CX; it isn't enough to ask the supply team about delivery, or the Marketing Associates about pricing, innovations are driven by bringing everyone together so that the entire journey can be reimagined from end-to-end. Thirdly, Sysco LABS boosts Sysco's culture of innovation with their Silicon Valley perspective and creativity; the team's DNA in working with leading edge technologies and constantly pushing the envelope of possibility will be directed at CX. Finally, 'pace over perfection', a core tenant of the leading tech companies of today; the philosophy of developing a minimal viable product, getting it into the hands of customers as fast as possible, and iterating based on its performance in the field.
It is this structuring for innovation combined with access to Sysco's unparalleled network of restaurants, that empowers Sysco LABS to be a leading force in re-imagining the foodservice industry.


I love talking about the customer experience; I could sit for days, answering questions and discussing the finer points of this topic.
How Can We Develop Strong Customer Relationships?
I hear you say that you (as an organisation) are customer friendly.
I hear you say that you (as an organisation) have a strong customer orientation.
Is the access to building meaningful relationships with customers merely a matter of improving the customer's experience of your organisation by making it easy for the customer to do business with you?
Over a third of customers say they would not be loyal to a brand if it weren't for the brand's loyalty program, according to Bond Brand Loyalty. Bond also reports 68% of Millennials wouldn't be loyal to a brand without a strong loyalty program.


Ryan Jenkins, the reality star whose slight brush with fame on television, killed himself after Southern California prosecutors filed murder charges for the death of his ex-wife. Just over one week ago the body of Jasmine Fiore had been found in a dumpster in Buena Park, California. The body had been mutilated with her hands and teeth removed. Then the rest of the body was stuffed into a suitcase and placed in a dumpster A well known top-notch Southern California criminal defense attorney indicated that by removing certain body parts, murder suspects are often able to slow down the identification of a victim. The slower the identification, the more time for escape.
This time there was a slight twist in the identification. While Fiore's limbs and teeth were removed, investigators were able to identify the decedent by the serial numbers on her breast implants. The quick identification resulted in the police naming Jenkins as a suspect before he could even leave his Southern California crime scene.
According to police experts, Jenkins was seen in an SUV heading north towards Canada pulling a boat. A few days later the boat was known to have left the United States and had docked in British Columbia.
Jenkins' body was found in the motel room where he had been hiding. He killed himself by hanging. This, after Orange County officials had filed murder charges against him for the violent crime of murder in the death of Fiore.
If you are under investigation for a Los Angeles arson crime, or have been charged with a Southern California violent crime please contact Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael Kraut for 24/7 assistance by phone at (323) 464-6453 or toll free at (888) 334-6344 or online.


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Unemployment and Ethnic Backgrounds: Statistics you might not know
Written by Zoe Cresswell
Last updated December 2, 2021
It is no secret that unemployment rates in the UK are not at their best, sitting at 4.5%. The numbers don't lie, and they can be found on news websites or the government's official website. What many people might not know, however, is how these unemployment rates differ depending on ethnic background within the UK. There are a few different groups of people with significantly different unemployment statistics: White British, White Irish, Black African-Caribbean, Pakistani Muslim and Bangladeshi Muslim, to name just a few examples. This article will examine some of those differences in more detail so you can understand why it is important for us to tackle this problem together as one society!
White Ethnicity compared to Ethnic Minorities
The unemployment rate was 4.0% for people from a White ethnic background compared to 8.0% for people from minority ethnic backgrounds. There was, though, a substantial variation between different ethnic minority groups.
Indian Ethnic Backgrounds
The unemployment rate for those from Indian ethnic backgrounds has decreased from 5.9% in 2020 to 5.0% in 2021. This makes them the ethnic minority with the lowest unemployment rate in the UK.
Bangladeshi Ethnic Backgrounds
Bangladeshi residents in the UK also saw the unemployment rate drop from 7.9% in 2020 to just 5.6% in 2021, making them the ethnic minority with the second-lowest unemployment rate in the UK and seeing them as the ethnicity with the most significant drop in unemployment since 2020.
Pakistani Ethnic Backgrounds
The other ethnicity to have seen a decrease in their unemployment rate is those of Pakistani backgrounds. They are third, behind only Indian and Bangladeshi ethnicities in terms of lowest unemployment rates, and have seen a decrease from 8.1% in 2020 to 6.6% in 2021.
Unfortunately, it's not such a great picture for other ethnic minorities living in the UK. Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian ethnicities are the only ones to have seen decreases in unemployment rates from 2020 to 2021. This includes people from white ethnic backgrounds who saw the unemployment rate rise from 3.3% to 4.0%.
Black/ African/ Caribbean/ Black British Ethnic Backgrounds
Unemployment statistics aren't such great reading for people from Black, African, Caribbean and black British backgrounds as they top the charts for unemployment rates in the UK. In 2020 the UK's unemployment rate for Black/ African/ Caribbean/ Black British residents was 9.7%. There has since been a 0.3% increase, seeing them sit at 10% in 2021.
Mixed/ Multiple Ethnic Groups
People from mixed or multiple ethnic groups saw a considerable rise in unemployment rates within their ethnicity, climbing from 6.6% in 2020 to 9.5% in 2021. This gives them the second-highest unemployment rate amongst ethnic minorities in the UK.
Chinese Ethnic Backgrounds
The most considerable rise in unemployment rates in the UK comes from those with Chinese ethnic backgrounds. In 2020 the unemployment rate of Chinese UK residents was just 3.5%. Now that rate has risen to a sizeable 9.2% in 2021, which sees them go from having the second-lowest unemployment rate, just behind white ethnicities, to the third-highest.
Other Ethnic Backgrounds
Other ethnic background groups also saw a leap in their unemployment rates as they climbed from 7.2% in 2020 to an inflated 9.0% in 2021.
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