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Over five years ago, Álvaro Hernández and his wife Maria Sierra saw an opportunity to blend their respective talents for filmmaking and cooking in the digital content world. They began filming cooking tutorials from their modest apartment as a passion project. Little did they expect to become an internet sensation. Hernández's little YouTube channel has now become the company La Cooquette. The channel has over 680,000 subscribers, with tens of millions of views on their videos.
"The internet has become a vital place for brands and businesses of all sorts, and video is a key component in their marketing efforts. From an audience perspective, online video has democratized the entertainment industry as we know it. A content creator can cultivate an audience of millions from his house, using a simple camera and a lot of creativity and ingenuity," said Hernández.
In addition to their YouTube fame, La Cooquette has over 43 thousand followers on Instagram and another 21 thousand fans on Facebook. These numbers most certainly do not happen overnight. It was Hernández's thoughtful filmmaking talent combined with sheer determination which allowed for the success it has become. It started as a hobby, and after three years of editing videos for other clients on the side, Hernández decided it was time to fully dedicate their lives to the business.
"The keys to growth on YouTube and any other social media platforms are: good quality content and constancy. Week after week we are putting new videos up and trying hard to make the new one better than the last. The audience appreciates our effort and our good spirits, we certainly provide plenty of entertainment value. It is important to be authentic and transparent with the audience and let them see that you're creating content from the heart. Whenever a video feels contrived or unnatural, the audience feels it," he said.
Working on La Cooquette is extremely stimulating for Hernández. As the show's writer and director, he is constantly looking for new fun ideas to include in their videos. Both he and his wife have a passion for food, as there is always something exciting to try. This allows for endless content for videos, whether it is a new trendy recipe to showcase or a foreign cuisine to explore, the possibilities are infinite. They seek inspiration from a variety of sources: from fellow content creators, hot chefs and restaurants, to cooking books and of course, their own traditions.
"We love diving deep into the world of gastronomy, from its most humanistic aspects to the quirkiest of oddities. Our audience is equally curious and celebratory of food." he said.
With the many hats he wears with La Cooquette, Hernández's primary roles are founder and director. The channel was his idea, and he produced all of the behind-the-camera work to get the videos out there. He focuses on the creative and storytelling aspects of the channel, leaving the actual cooking and on camera talent to his wife. Some episodes take a great deal of research and writing, which is Hernández's favorite part of making a video. He is in charge of organizing all the information he finds and puts it together in a neat and captivating script.
Hernández is also La Cooquette's photographer, shooting and editing all content that appears on their website and Instagram. The fun-filled, colorful photographs have also caught the interest of different brands, which reached out to propose lucrative collaborations, such as Tabasco, Pixar, Subway, GotMilk! and Dunkin Donuts. He has also had the chance to travel the world with Aeroméxico, Carnival Cruises and Western Union.
On top of all this, Hernández has recently begun to appear in videos as a co-host, and has even started a sister channel: La Parrilla de Matías, in which he explores the wonders of outdoor barbecuing and smoking.
"I like the creative freedom La Cooquette has afforded us, and it feels great that so many people love what we do. Every so often, little girls will recognize us on the street and be absolutely starstruck. Those encounters with real audience members mean the world to us, as we can testify that we are reaching real people, usually children. To know that we are being a big part of their childhood, to know that the parents are at ease letting their kids watch our family-friendly content, to see that our work brings so much joy and entertainment to so many, it's a great feeling. We know that we have a big responsibility in having such a large young audience, and for this reason we are always striving to make the content as great and enriching as possible," he concluded.
La Cooquette has reaped recognitions from prominent figures in the digital entertainment industry. The project has been lauded by YouTube's all-star player El Guzii, who has publicly stated it is one of his favorite channels on the platform. La Cooquette has also been nominated for two Tecla awards (2016 and 2018) and one Shorty award (2014). Be sure to subscribe to La Cooquette's English and Spanish channels to be constantly entertained and, of course, hungry!
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I am jealous! Seriously, can I get myself and Greg invited to this for next new year's eve? We get to enjoy three lawyers gossiping about other lawyers from other firms that we never heard of...ha!
Happy New Year! Of course you are welcome :) and you are right -- there is so much lawyerly gossip, from salary and bonus levels, to firm cultures, etc. It never gets old!


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2015 NFL Betting Breakdown Top Five NFC Playoff Sleepers
Written by Alex Murphy on August 9, 2015
Each and every season, a handful of teams in both conferences generally overachieve and exceed beyond even the most optimistic expectations while either finishing with an unexpected playoff berth – or a season that comes close to it. With the 2015 NFL betting regular season quickly approaching, this expert betting breakdown will highlight my top five NFC playoff sleeper candidates for the upcoming campaign. The only criteria for making this list are that each team not be considered a leading playoff candidate heading into the upcoming campaign. With NFL training camps starting to heat up everywhere, let's rock and roll.
NFL 2015 NFL Betting Breakdown
They could surprise if…The Adrian Peterson drama notwithstanding, the Minnesota Vikings are clearly a team on the upswing in my eyes. I love young quarterback Teddy Bridgewater and genuinely believe that head coach Mike Zimmer is the right coach to get the NFC North hopefuls transformed from annual doormats back into the perennial playoff participants they once were. Bridgewater proved he belonged in the league in a big way in 2014 after completing an impressive 64.4 percent of his passes for 2,919 yards with 14 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in a dozen starts. More importantly, the 22-year-old Bridgewater showed poise beyond his years by making smart, quick – and accurate – decisions with the ball. The no-nonsense Zimmer also showed me a lot last season, both strategically – and being able to coax the best out of his players. If Adrian Peterson doesn't 'dog it' in an effort to get himself traded (he won't) the Vikings could leap-frog Detroit in the race for second place, behind Green Bay, in the competitive NFC North. Minnesota added speedy wide receiver Mike Wallace in the offseason and a bunch of athletic young players via the draft, like cornerback Trae Waynes (No. 11 overall), linebacker Eric Kendricks (No. 45) and defensive end Danielle Hunter (No. 88). If all goes well, not only could Minnesota reach the postseason in 2015, but they could even pull off a playoff upset – or two. The likely scenario is… I think the most likely scenario for Minnesota in 2015 is that the Vikings take a slight step forward to…let's say….nine wins, which, I believe will get them thisclose to a postseason berth, but not in the door. However, let me also say that I fully believe the Vikings are going to be a legitimate Super Bowl title contender in 2016 if they simply stay the course and both, draft well and keep their most important core players.
They could surprise if… The New York Giants could surprise simply because they are….the New York Giants. I don't want to beat a dead horse, but New York's two Super Bowl titles in 2008 and 2012 show that nothing is truly impossible for the Giants, even if the cast of characters has changed over the years. Eli Manning had arguably the best season of his career in 2014 as he set new personal bests in completion percentage and quarterback rating while posting the second-best numbers of his career as far as touchdown passes (30) and passing yardage (4,410). Manning also threw the fewest interceptions he's had in five years. The return of Victor Cruz opposite explosive sophomore wideout Odell Beckham Jr. could make the Giants one of the more potent offenses in the league. It is on the defensive side of the ball that will likely define the Giants' 2015 campaign. New York's defense was butt ugly last season, finishing 29th overall, (375.8 ypg) while allowing a whopping 135.1 rushing yards per game (30th). The likely scenario is… Although the Giants won a modest six games in 2014, I think it's quite possible that New York could approach nine wins in 2015, though that figure likely won't put them in the postseason. The Giants drafted well in adding tackle Ereck Flowers and safety Landon Collins with their first two picks in the 2015 NFL Draft, but I believe they've got too many positions to upgrade all at once this season, not to mention, not enough quality depth behind their starters. On the positive side…an 8-8 or 9-7 campaign in 2015 would be a step forward for the Giants from the mediocre team they've been the last couple of seasons.
They could surprise if… I like Washington's offense – if they get some competent play out of scheduled starter Robert Griffin III that is. After making a modest seven starts and playing in nine games last season, Griffin III is getting what amounts to his final chance to prove he's Washington's long-term answer at quarterback. If Redskins head coach Jay Gruden is as smart as he believes he is, then he'll get underrated running back more carries in 2015 than he got last season. Morris has topped the 1,000-yard mark in each of his first three seasons in the league but his carries have declined in each of the last two seasons. I like Washington's offseason additions of veteran nose tackle Terrance Knighton and most recently, disgruntled former Saints linebacker Junior Galette and cornerback Chris Culliver, but this team still needs to prove to me they've upgraded a defense that ranked 30th in points allowed last season (27.4 ppg). The likely scenario is… I think Washington could improve beyond anyone's wildest imaginations in 2015, I just don't think that's the most likely scenario – unless RG3 suddenly returns to the play-making baller that he was as a rookie three years ago. No, I believe the most likely scenario is that Washington improves to win either seven or eight games in 2015, mostly because I no longer believe in RG3 – or any of the team's other quarterbacks for that matter.
They could surprise if… The Falcons still have one of the more potent offenses in the league with veteran signal-caller Matt Ryan under center and elite wide receiver Julio Jones his favorite target. The Falcons finished eight in total offense in 2014 and a solid 12th in scoring (23.8 ppg) so I suspect scoring won't be a problem for the Falcons in 2015. Defensively, the Falcons were a mess a year ago, finishing dead last in total defense and against the pass while also ranking 27th in points allowed (26.1 ppg). If new head coach Dan Quinn can get the Falcons to play any sort of competent defense, Atlanta could get right back in the postseason in 2015. I love the additions of linebacker Vic Beasley with the eighth overall pick in the draft and cornerback Jalen Collins with the 10th pick in the second round. Oh, and let me not forget to mention that Atlanta plays in a fairly weak division in the NFC South with a trio of teams that all look like they could be just so-so this coming season. The likely scenario is… I think the most likely scenario is that Atlanta improves dramatically on the defensive side of the ball and make a real run for the division title and accompanying playoff berth. Every team in the NFC South has blemishes thy have to deal with, even reigning division champ, Carolina. I'm expecting the Falcons to improve from the six wins they recorded last season to at least eight victories, which should be enough to at least give them a shot at the division crown.
They could surprise if… If Nick Foles turns out to be the real deal at quarterback (he will) and rookie running back Todd Gurley follows suit and proves he's going to be the star player that he was drafted to be, the Rams could improve beyond anyone's wildest expectations. St. Louis also added offensive lineman Robert Havenstein, Jamon Brown and Andrew Donnal in the draft to shore up an offensive line that didn't protect former quarterback Sam Bradford very well during his time with the team. The Rams have arguably the best defensive line in the league and have generally been solid on that side of the ball under head coach Jeff Fisher. If Foles plays like he did in 2013 when he threw 27 TD passes and just two interceptions and the rest of the Rams skill position players experience even modest success, St. Louis could stun. If not, another 7-9 or 8-8 campaign is the most likely scenario. The likely scenario is… It's pretty unfortunate that the Rams play in the same NFC West division as Seattle and Arizona, but hey, it is what it is. Having said that, let me also say that the Rams are fighting a losing battle against their own division opponents, mostly because they don't have enough talent on the offensive side of the ball. I'm thinking St. Louis needs at least one more year of upgrading their roster if they really want to challenge the Seahawks and Cardinals, two teams that I believe are going to be perennial conference title contenders as long as Pete Carroll and Bruce Arians are leading the way. I'm thinking somewhere in the neighborhood of eight wins sounds about right for the Rams in 2015.

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Having encountered and interacted with many singles, It is observed with some level of sadness their gross ignorance about COURTSHIP.
Therefore, today we write to explain and clarify singles on the subject matter.
Please this is a lengthy article, so accept our apologies.
Simply put, courtship is a period of time where two lovers having decided to marry, are working towards marriage.
At this level, a proposal would have been made signalling engagement or commitment by both lovers.
Of course, at this level, both families would have been informed too.
HOW LONG SHOULD A COURTSHIP LAST?
There is actually no time frame with regards to the length of a courtship.
However, a good courtship shouldn't be too short or too long.
Relationship and marriage counselors, coaches and experts advocate a minimum of 1 year and a maximum of 3 years.
financial reasons, long distance relationships, academics, delay of parental consent, illness, etc.
Christian leaders strongly disapprove of very long courtships so as to curtail some temptations that come with very long wait.
WHAT IS THE TRUE PURPOSE OF COURTSHIP?
The real purpose of courtship is to get to know the person more and discuss more on salient issues that will help a marital experience.
8. Discuss every other issue.
9. Pray often together for yourselves and your future together.
N.B: Please at this level of relationship, if you still had secrets that may affect your marriage in the future, reveal them.
reveal that to your partner. A true lover sent by God will never look don't on you, mock you, dump you, or insult you.
Rather, will be full of compassion, admiration and respect for you.
Don't be afraid of seeing your relationship come to an end. If they were meant for you, they won't leave.
10. Attend marriage counseling sessions with a counselor or coach.
7. No sleeping in the same room and on the same bed.
In conclusion, courtship should lead to the altar. However, should that not happen, no problem, please move on.
Any courtship that seems to undermine your personal moral principles, religious beliefs and convictions should be discontinued. Any courtship where commitment is diminishing and love is waning by the day should be discontinued.
Any courtship where there are lies, distrust, dishonesty, fears, confusion and cheating should be discontinued because that can never be God's will for you. During courtship both of you should never compromise on the salient issues.
If you don't agree on most things, that is, you can't find a common ground, there is no need to continue.
If your heart is full of fears, you don't have peace of mind and assurance from God towards that person, please end that relationship.
God's will for you in marriage is restful peace of mind, personal conviction and assurance from God, provable love and commitment towards you from your lover.
Don't be afraid of losing them in courtship. Because a broken courtship is better than a broken marriage.


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Boko Haram has been 'decapitated': Chadian leader
August 12, 2015 August 12, 2015 by zahed
N'Djamena: Chad's President Idriss Deby has declared that efforts to combat neighbouring Nigeria's Boko Haram jihadists had succeeded in "decapitating" the group and would be wrapped up "by the end of the year".
Addressing reporters in the capital N'Djamena on the 55th anniversary of Chad's independence from France yesterday, Deby said: "Boko Haram is decapitated. There are little groups (of Boko Haram members) scattered throughout east Nigeria, on the border with Cameroon. It is within our power to definitively overcome Boko Haram."
"The war will be short, with the setting up of the regional force, it will be over by the end of the year," Deby added, referring to a new five-country force aimed at ending Boko Haram's bloody six-year Islamist insurgency that he said would be "operational in a few days".
Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria have all pledged troops towards the new force.
Deby further claimed that Boko Haram was no longer led by the fearsome Abubakar Shekau and that his successor was open to talks.
"There is someone apparently called Mahamat Daoud who is said to have replaced Abubakar Shekau and he wants to negotiate with the Nigerian government.
"For my part, I would advise not to negotiate with a terrorist," Deby, whose country has been spearheading the regional fightback against Boko Haram, said.
While claiming progress in the fight against the jihadists, who have repeatedly hit border areas of Cameroon, Chad and Niger, and wrought havoc in northeast Nigeria, Deby admitted that suicide bombers still posed a threat.
In the past few week, suicide bombers, many of them women, have staged several attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad.
The challenge, Deby said, was to "avoid terrorist acts and that's why we must organise at the regional level to prevent bomb-making materials and other explosives entering our countries.
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It's my second time in El Nido. Back in 2015, I did not have the courage to blog about it fearing that I might not give justice to the beautiful place through my words and photos. El Nido is too immaculately beautiful to describe, not to mention I only have a camera phone back then. And I know it would take guts again to pull-off a lengthy, chunky article about El Nido but it always deserves a story to be told.
Every year, I travel with my friends for my birthday celebration. Usually, the drill is going to a far-flung place at the end of August with Cath and Cass (my two besties) to conjoin our leaves with the holidays. This year, our destination was Palawan. My initial visit already prompted me to make a promise I'll go back again because the place's natural beauty is but timeless to get tired of. The place is entirely perfect for our love of the beach, new sights, and adventures.
The usual itinerary to Palawan would consist of visiting Puerto Princesa and El Nido to see both the world's famous Underground River and to enjoy the island tours. For us, we spent four days in El Nido and just a day at Puerto Princesa. I guess our love for the ocean explains that enough.
Decide whether you're going to put El Nido or Puerto Princesa first, because of the huge traveling hours in between the two places. Suggestively, go straight to El Nido so you'd have ample time to adjust your itinerary considering that it's farthest from the airport.
From Puerto Princesa, ride a van going to El Nido. Travel time is four hours, fare is Php 500 to Php 550. There are shuttle services parked at the arrival of Puerto Princesa airport that travel from 5AM to 6PM. However, if your arrival is beyond that time, you may check online the available shuttle services or ask help from your hotel if they can arrange that. Balay Paragua had that fixed for us.
You may also ride the Cherry bus from Puerto Princesa. You may check the full details here.
There are lots of lodging choices in El Nido ranging from 300 and above. There are hostels, dormitories, inns and posh hotels depending on your budget and preferred location and amenities. Beachfront hotels are popular but we preferred to avoid the crowd to we stayed instead at Balay Paragua which is just a five-minute walk from the beach. Take note that usually the cheap ones are only fan rooms. Air-conditioned rooms start at Php 1500 a night during off-peak and Php 3000 at peak season. Carefully check the reviews online specifically the surroundings, water and electricity supply so you know what to expect.
I highly recommend Balay Paragua for an affordable inn, with good amenities and guest services. They also offer island tours at reasonable prices.
Note that El Nido has rotational power outage hours so expect occasional brown-out. Some inns have breakfast, some don't; but worry not because there are too many food establishments around.
As I've said in my earlier post, El Nido has too many restaurants, food stalls and eateries to satisfy your gastronomic adventures. The cheapest meal is Php 100- 150 so prepare your wallet for the expenses. Since El Nido caters to mostly foreign tourists, the restau cuisines are international such as Italian, Japanese, Greek, American, French, Mexican, etc. and the prices range from Php 300-400 and above. What should you not miss? The popular pizza and pasta of Trattoria Altrove! Authentic Italian cuisine at its best! We've also tried Pinche's Mexican bestsellers such as soft tacos and enchiladas. We indulged in delicious seafood at Angel's Wish and tasted the heavenly gelato at Art's. There are just too many options, but the problem is the budget! Haha!
El Nido is primarily known for its charming islands. The full experience can be achieved in Tours A, B, C and D and are available for booking online, within the vicinity of El Nido, or in your hotel. Island tours are inclusive of buffet lunch consisting mainly of grilled chicken, fish, pork, vegetables and seafood which the tour guides or boatmen prepare themselves. You can combine island tours in one day such as Tour A and C for 2000, but expect shorter hours on each island. We took Tour A and C on two separate days so that we'd get the most out of each tour. Usually the trip starts at 8AM and ends at 4PM. The Eco-tourism Development fee is Php 200. The tour fees are also inclusive of life vest, snorkeling gears and towels. Rental of aqua shoes is Php 100.
Be wary of last-minute tour cancellations as there is a certain charge for that.
Remember to put tons of sunblock. Wear comfy aqua shoes or sandals because there are pointed, rocky parts of the lagoon. Secure your belongings in a dry bag and bring your underwater camera.
For serene, laid back beaches, visit Nacpan Beach or Las Cabanas. If you're up for the hike, check out Nagkalit-kalit falls.
El Nido has this peaceful, laid-back vibe. Show respect to the locals by greeting them and avoiding to cause nuisance to the place. I've also read that you cannot walk around in bikinis, which is actually true based on observation. (Except at the beach, of course). You may courteously ask for discounts, especially if it's low peak. Tour guides are friendly too. Tips aren't mandatory but this will help them and encourage them. Follow specific customs such as leaving your footwear at the entrance of some hotels and restaurants. (This was practiced in Balay Paragua and Trattoria Altrove).
Staying in El Nido especially for about 5 days to a week can be tough on the budget. We spent almost 8k in El Nido alone. However, you can choose to scrimp down on accommodation by staying at budget hostels or dormitories. We also found out that we can trim expenses by availing package tours inclusive of the room, island tours and transfers so you may want to check on that. DIY is more expensive. Always ask for discounts. Locals considerably give your haggled prices especially during low peak.


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Exploded Stories
Teaching Archive from MA Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art
Exploded Stories explores the multiple ways in which stories form the backbone of communication practices, including scripts, films, political protests, graphic narratives, play and more. MA Information Experience Design students were taught about using different modes of communication, media and materials individually and collectively to create and tell stories through representation, illusion and unlikely connections. They explored this in relation to a story, fiction or factual, of their choices to build in-depth knowledge of the narrative in their own work.
Each week students focused on narrative design in relation to the work of one medium or topic (see indicative examples below). Students were given a short presentation of strong examples from the field, along with key theories and research methods used. This was followed by a practical exercise to explore. Between each week students were given a rapid-fire brief to help inform the development of a narrative on their chosen topic. Finally, students attended field trips to explore multimodal amd multisensory narratives.
Each student was required to document their work each week and take part in an exhibition at the end of the unit of study. Examples of past student work are shown below.
Introduction to Narrative
This session outlined the importance of narrative design and the wide range of practices to which storytelling is a crucial element. A practical element focused on considering how the narrative in students personal work is altered by character, view point and visual medium. This was initiated through and introduction to the text 99 Ways to Tell a Story.
Brief: Split your story into five key stages then explore altering the following and documenting the impact it has on your narrative design:
• change the panel template, alter size, shape etc.
• point of view, i.e from first person to second person or to bring in the view point of a non-human aspects of your narrative
• forgery- draw in the style of a well known artist
• genre
• set yourself some constraints and redraw, i.e. add in exotic animals, remove any clothing, draw no objects, draw everything in ultra close up.
Explore changing the five stages in this way or by altering the materials and media youuse to represent the stages.
99 ways to Tell a Story by Madden, story embedded in the pavement of Judd Street, Unflattening by Souanis, Clothing by Junya Watanbe; Rory's Story Cubes, Workshop 2018
Graphic Narratives
This session presented an overview of the history of indie comics in the West from Robert Crumb and Daniel Clowes to DIY comics such as the Diaries of Miss Tassles and zines. This history was juxtaposed
with examples from Japanese comic history. Examples were also shared of comics that have included sounds, smells, and 3D set design. Students were introduced to comic theory and Scott McCloud's categories about the different way graphic novels can be structured and how these relate to culture.
BRIEF: Apply as many of McCloud'c categories for structuring movement in graphic narratives to your work as interest you. You can apply these even if you are not using drawing. Observe how your narrative changes depending on whether you progress it by 'moment-to-moment', 'action-to-action or 'subject-to-subject' etc.
Art Schooled by Coe; Here by Mcquire; Kitaro by Mizuki; The Life of Line by Ingold; Asterios Polyp by Mazzucchelli; The Photographer by Lefevre & Lemercier; Red Rackham's Treasure by Herge; Comics and the City by Ahrens; Understanding Comics by McCloud; The Nao of Brown by Dillon; Hedra by Lonergan
Material Narratives
This session explored how multimodal theory can produce narratives that engage an audience through a variety of sensory perception and materials.
BRIEF: During the exhibition (in our case one of the below) please choose at least one exhibit to document.When you document it make a note of the materials used and what you think these materials 'afford' (i.e.what is it possible to do with them) in relation to the overall narrative of the exhibit. What would happen to the narrative if each material was replaced by another? Think of concrete ideas and sketch it out. Choose at least one other exhibit and document the modes used (i.e. still image, moving image, sound, architecture, space, gesture, movement etc). Which part of the narrative is told in each mode. Try to isolate your experience of each mode and see what you discover. Are there any modes that could be removed from each exhibit or foregrounded more?
BRIEF 2: Bring an object, imaginary or fictional, that has witnessed part of your story. Prepare a witness statement in whatever form or medium you see appropriate.
The Design of Everyday Things by Norman; Thick Time by Kentridge; Multimodality by Kress;T hick Time by Kentridge.
GUEST TALK: Shona Heath, 2020
"Each material and each wall included in set design should be interesting in its own right, not just when art is added to the wall etc."
Playful Stories
Here we explored narratives in play and how to make stories playable. We split this into two sessions, physical and digital play. We explored how research can inform the design of play narratives which also included gaming mechanics. Students were also introduced to how to use a design summit format to establish their audience and core features that are essential to their work. As well as, how to involve key stakeholders in this process if desired.
This session will look at narratives in play and how they differ depending on changes in technology and the medium used for dissemination. It will draw on examples from board games to early and modern videogames. It will show how changes to narratives presented in play also mirror wider social and cultural narratives that have influenced a whole range of other materials that sit alongside these playful stories, such as interior design and beyond. Finally, we explored how VR requires new types of narrative to be written.
Game Seed Cards by Lizzie Wanders; workshop, 2017; lecture on the history of VR in Animal Crossing, 2020; Carcassonne Board Game; workshop, 2017
Information Experience Design Narratives
Through an exploration of past graduates final defree work students were asked to record the narrative and how it
connected to each of the senses (touch, sound, visual, taste, smell) as well to document the materials used. This was used as a basis for exploration of how, materials, modes and sense for the basis of all story design in IED.
Students were then taught how to reflect on this in relation to their own work.
Research Narratives and Non-Narratives
Led by Debbie Anzalone this session looked at how research themes and stories are used in her film work, in the genres of documentary, docu-drama and fiction. How Debbie's research for characters and back-stories inform her process when developing ideas, characters, narratives and themes. Students were introduced to key films that have influenced Anzalone's process with a focus on narratives and non-narratives in documentary and fiction.Students were also shown research and development of stories and narratives based on real testimonies (real people) and working with non-actors (real people), performers and actors within the moving image.
Narratives of Protest
This session drew on the narratives of protests for social change. It illustrated how often playful and fictional stories have been combined with political narratives to protest in playful ways to express strong opnions on serious issues. We explored how fiction can often be an interesting way to entice audiences into serious narratives. The session drew on a range of materials from the Greenham Common Peace Camp, the 1980s Miners' Strikes and the '90s Criminal Justice Bill. It also includes examples from the V&A's exhibition 'Disobedient Objects' that "demonstrated how political activism drives a wealth of design ingenuity and collective creativity that defy standard definitions of art and design".
Disobiedent Objects V&A Exhibition Catalogue; Lecture slide x3; Women of Greenham, The Guardian Magazine; The Mushroom at the Eng of the World, Tsing; Illustrated reading list by Yamada-Rice; Lecture slide; Peter Kennard; Lecture slide; Workshop 2020; Lecture slide
Wim Menders/ Photographer's Gallery, London
William Kentridge/ Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
Anno's Journey/ Japan House
PreGenesis/ Zohar Dvir
Artist Statement: PreGenesis is a story told through an interactive mirror. Warning: Plucking your eyebrows might lead to unexpected results
Pregenesis by Zohar Dvir, 2019 /Image: Bruce Atherton
Invitation au Voyage/ Alexia Charoud
Artist Statement: Invitation au Voyage, revisits the ideas behind Charles Baudelaire's eponymous poem through a modern, otherworldly instrumentation, invites the listeners to a shared spatial journey within their own imaginary landcapes, allowing for multiple unique narratives to coexist and expand freely as the music and sounds unfold.
See on the canals
Those vessels sleeping.
Their mood is adventurous;
It's to satisfy
Your slightest desire
That they come from the ends of the earth.
– Charles Baudelaire
This project explores how we create narratives through music and sounds. How these have the power to break walls, and transport us to new spacetimes. By traveling through space, saturating it, moving its tiniest molecules, music affords the presence of new universes, new realities; which coexist within the visible, but bend, suspend, replace its rules temporarily. This installation is an Invitation au Voyage. You are invited to come aboard the spaceship, and follow, as the music unfolds, its travel through spatial, imaginary landscapes.
This work is a reflexion on the power of sounds and music to reveal the existence of the invisible, to create layers of realities and allow us to tune ourselves to those, to return to a form of animism, of magic, by abolishing all hierarchy, all division between ourselves and what surrounds us. In an age of replicability, where music, split in genres and categories, has become as much of a disembodied good of consumption as a form of art, how can we use phonographic technologies to highlight the importance of these questions and remind ourselves of the magical, haptic aspect of music in all its depth?
Chewing Gum on the Central Line/ Anna Tuhus
Artist Statement: Two beings meet and set out on a journey together, approaching obstacles to reach a common aim.The story is told through a handwoven piece that responds to touch with sound, and offers an interactive method of storytelling. It shows a row of figures read from left to right, each connected to one of eight chapters of a recorded dialogue. The audience listen to the story by touching the figures, and can construct the narrative in any desired order.
The tapestry is displayed still attached on the loom. Connected with electronics it shows an unexpected connection between traditional craft, modern technology and futuristic materials.
Table Loom, Electro Conductive Thread, Silk and Linen, Electronics
Wonder/ Akvile Terminaite
Artist Statement: An interactive story telling piece about a fictitious creation story and child-like wonder presented through objects and moving image. The project's narrative is about a bored child who is travelling in a car at night. Without much to do they start to look at the stars and wonder how they are made. The reader goes on a journey with the child to discover alternative "truth" to the birth of the starts which takes them to another dimension - a world where the stars and the world they belong in become a sphere held by a giant (creator) poking holes (that become the stars) with an awl.
Sketches for narrative storyboard and proposed exhibition design by Akvile Terminaite, 2019
GlitchStation/ Dimitri Menexopoulos
Artist Statement: GlitchStation is a generative audiovisual piece that explores storytelling through multiple minor faults in the medium. Ever-evolving audiovisual glitches unfold into an kaleidoscopic hallucinatory experience.
Experience Machine/ Juliette Coquet
'Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that you think and feel that you were writing a great novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book'
— Robert Nozick
Enter the booth. Would you eat the sweet and give up the spontaneity of experiences?
Loose Change Thief/ Arman Ataman
Artist Statement: The game follows the narrative of a thief who only steals the loose change left in the apartment and it has a very simple goal, to collect the money and get out of the house.
The complexity of the game comes from the players interaction with the game.
Ataman says he created a platform where the main feedback would be sound and divided the sound frequency spectrum into four and assigned a direction to each part. So the player must find the right frequency of sound corresponding to the right direction.Through this intervention the players ecosystem becomes intertwined with the ecosystem within the game. The uncontrollable ambient sounds that surround the player will always affect the game breaking the borders of the gamer and the game and the space. This also implies that the ambient sounds will affect the actions of the player. By combining the virtual space of the game via projection on top a real model, the game is then carried into the gamers environment.
Unpeelin' the Onion/ Julie Maurin
Artist Statement: He makes you buy things not just for need but to express your inner self to others. He brings a little plastic beauty to erase the shadows under your eyes. Chemical pleasure for your numbed brain. He invites you in with, like, a kiss, and then sucker-punches you in the face.
And may our lives seem like a perfect movie.
"If the common good has got to make up fairy tales, then it's not good for anybody." — Rust Cohle, True Detective
2019, Final work, prosthetic silicone, resin, bones
2019, Work in progress
Eating at (New) Gaia/ Miyuki Oka
Artist Statement: This work is based on an imaginary story of a girl who can feel the history of the universe, planet and organisms through food on a table. For her, eating was a ritualistic behaviour that she could feel connections with other living and nonliving things in the past and future.
2019, Final work, mixed media 2019, work in progress sketches
Surveillance Network/ Kyung Jin Jeong
Artist Statement: Panopticon, the centralized surveillance system could not control the current generation. Today smartphones allow us to post things online and band together against unfairness. Individual influence has grown such that even small events can spread. all over the world
2019, Mixed media
The Story of a Burning Desire/ Olfa Farhat
Artist Statement: Uncover the myth behind a mosaic from Tunisia's Bardo Museum. Experience a non-linear interactive story through the rearrangement of the mosaic, remade in acrylic. This piece invites indididual playfulness or collaboative interaction in order to give viewers the ability ro remake an ancient work, unlocking different interpretations and establishing new emotional connections in the process.
10,000/ Kenneth Lim
Artist Statement: In the 1970s the US Department of Energy had a problem: as a result of nuclear tests they have a lot of radioactive waste that will remain dangerous for the next 250,000 years, the problem they posed is how can they signpost the site where they buried these waste as dangerous to humans for the next 10,000 years to come. This narrative explores this idea of communication to the future through the use of language and specifically how language change over time and how we cannot rely on it to communicate an idea to the future. This is a story about language disguised as a story about nuclear waste disposal.
The students who took part in Exploded stories in 2020 were caught in the initial pandemic lockdowns and as a result did not get to exhibit their work. These included:
Jason Chuang
Witness Statement: Midday on the 4th July 2002, a family drove and parked their car by my house. The parents seemed to be distracted by something which they walked towards, while their kid snuck off the other way. The boy was about 5 year old, he ran straight to the pond, and scared away all the frogs that were resting on water lilies. He started into the pond intensively, he then started splash the water around the pond repeatedly, each time getting a little bit more frustrated and vigorous. After the strange ritual went on for a while, I realized that he was trying to capture the tadpoles that were inhabited in the pond.
Finally he seemed to caught one within the palm of his hands, I could imagine him grinning at the poor animal from above, he raised his finger toward the tadpole, and I looked away for I couldn't stand seeing the fate of the poor creature. As I looked back some moments later, the boy had released the motionless tadpole back into the pond.
To my surprise, the tadpole wiggled its tail lightly when it was released, and all of a sudden, its head split into two, and the body, then they became completely detached and swam away as the boy kneeled down on the ground, supposedly amazed by the event unfolded in front of his eyes.
A cloud passing by.
Images: Early explorations of 99 Ways to Tell a Story, 2020
Spliting of the Universe, 2020
The Two Headed Calf/ Giorgia Grippa
Artist statement: My story comes from a poem by Laura Gilpin, part of a collection, titled: "The Hocus Pocus of the universe"
Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry him to the museum
But tonight he is alive and in the north
field with his mother. It is a perfect
summer evening: the moon rising over
the orchard, the wind in the grass. And
as he stares into the sky, there are
twice as many stars as usual.
Images: Retelling the story, 2020
Images: Material Witness, 2020
Images: Exploration of other modalities, 2020


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Jason G. "Jay" Mitchell
Jason G. "Jay" Mitchell, age 33 of 233 Indiana Ave., Shenandoah Heights passed away Thursday at St. Catherine Medical Center, Fountain Springs, Butler Township.
Born in Shenandoah on September 13, 1977 he is the son of Joseph R. and Barbara (Minarchick) Mitchell of Lower William Penn, Shenandoah.
He is a member of St. Michael's Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Shenandoah.
Jay was a 1995 graduate of Shenandoah Valley High School.
Surviving in addition to his parents are his wife the former Traci Stravinsky to whom he was married four years; two brothers, Joseph Mitchell, Jr. of Shenandoah and Michael Mitchell of Lower William Penn, Shenandoah; his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Thomas and Dianne Stravinsky of Zion Grove; a sister-in-law, Tonia wife of Shaun Jordan of Frackville; aunts, uncles, nephews, a niece, cousins and many friends.
Funeral and Parastas Services will be held on Monday at 11:00 am from Walukiewicz-Oravitz Fell Funeral Home, 132 S. Jardin St., Shenandoah. Msgr. Myron Grabowsky, Pastor will officiate. Interment will follow in St. Michael's Cemetery, Shenandoah Heights.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Monday morning from 9:00 am to 11:00 am. There will be no calling hours on Sunday evening.
Walukiewicz-Oravitz Fell Funeral Home, Shenandoah is in charge of the arrangements.
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Kenny & Peggy Harris says:
I had the pleasure of working with Jason at NAPA in Shenandoah. He was a wonderful young man who left a lasting impression with me. I always made sure to look him up when I came back to town to visit. I will think about him often. My thoughts and prayers are with family.
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Year 1512 (MDXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Millennium:
Centuries:
Decades:
1512 in various calendars
MDXII
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Assyrian calendar 6262
Balinese saka calendar 1433–1434
Bengali calendar 919
Berber calendar 2462
English Regnal year 3 Hen. 8 – 4 Hen. 8
Burmese calendar 874
Byzantine calendar 7020–7021
Chinese calendar 辛未年 (Metal Goat)
— to —
壬申年 (Water Monkey)
Coptic calendar 1228–1229
Discordian calendar 2678
Ethiopian calendar 1504–1505
Hebrew calendar 5272–5273
- Vikram Samvat 1568–1569
- Shaka Samvat 1433–1434
- Kali Yuga 4612–4613
Igbo calendar 512–513
Iranian calendar 890–891
Islamic calendar 917–918
Japanese calendar Eishō 9
(永正9年)
Javanese calendar 1429–1430
Minguo calendar 400 before ROC
Nanakshahi calendar 44
Thai solar calendar 2054–2055
Tibetan calendar 阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
1638 or 1257 or 485
阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
April 11: Battle of Ravenna
1.1 January–June
1.2 July–December
1.3 Date unknown
EventsEdit
January–JuneEdit
Mid-January – Following the death of Svante Nilsson, Eric Trolle is elected the new Regent of Sweden. He is, however, ousted after only six months in favour of Sten Sture the Younger.[1]
February 18 – War of the League of Cambrai: The French carry out the Sack of Brescia.
April 11 – War of the League of Cambrai – Battle of Ravenna:[2] French under Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours, defeat the Spanish under Raymond of Cardona, but Gaston is killed in the pursuit.
May 3 – The Fifth Council of the Lateran begins.
May 12 – Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, leads an English expedition into France and burns the port city of Brest.[3]
May 26 – Selim I succeeds Bayezid II, as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
July–DecemberEdit
July 23 – Sten Sture the Younger is elected new Regent of Sweden, deposing Eric Trolle.[1]
August 10 – War of the League of Cambrai – Battle of Saint-Mathieu: The English navy defeats the French-Breton fleet. Both navies use ships firing cannon through ports, and each loses its principal ship — Regent and Marie-la-Cordelière — through a large explosion aboard the latter.
Summer – War of the League of Cambrai: Ferdinand II of Aragon sends Don Fadrique de Toledo, to complete the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
October 19 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).[4]
October 21 – Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.[4]
November 1 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
December 27 – The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regard to native Indians in the New World.
Date unknownEdit
António de Abreu discovers Timor Island, and reaches the Banda Islands, Ambon Island and Seram.
Francisco Serrão reaches the Moluccas.
Francisco Serrao and other shipwreck sailors with permission from the Ternate Sultanate build Fort Tolukko. It is one of the earliest, if not the first European style fortress in southeast Asia.
Juan Ponce de León discovers the Turks and Caicos Islands.[5]
Pedro Mascarenhas discovers Diego Garcia, and reaches Mauritius in the Mascarene Islands.
Moldavia becomes a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, on the same conditions as Wallachia: the voivode will be designated by the Turks, but will be Eastern Orthodox Christians. Also, the Turks are not allowed to build mosques, to be buried, to own land or to settle in the country.
The Florentine Republic begins to be dismantled, and the Medici Family comes back into power.[6]
The word masque is first used to denote a poetic drama.
Possible date – Nicolaus Copernicus begins to write Commentariolus, an abstract of what will eventually become his heliocentric astronomy De revolutionibus orbium coelestium; he sends it to other scientists interested in the matter by 1514.[7][8][9]
BirthsEdit
Sibylle of Cleves
Gerardus Mercator
January 13 – Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela, General Inquisitor of Spain (d. 1594)
January 17 – Sibylle of Cleves, electress consort of Saxony (d. 1554)
January 31 – Henry, King of Portugal and Cardinal (d. 1580)[10]
February 3 – John Hamilton, archbishop of St Andrews (d. 1571)
February 22 – Pedro Agustín, Spanish Catholic bishop (d. 1572)
March 5 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594)
April 10 – James V of Scotland, King of Scots (d. 1542)[11]
April 23 – Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, Chancellor of the University of Oxford (d. 1580)
April 30 – George II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Count of Glatz (d. 1553)
July 5 – Cristoforo Madruzzo, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1578)
July 25 – Diego de Covarubias y Leyva, Spanish jurist, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cuenca (d. 1577)
August ? – Catherine Parr, English queen consort (d. 1548)[12]
August 27 – Friedrich Staphylus, German theologian (d. 1564)
November 4 – Hu Zongxian, Chinese general (d. 1565)
November 9 – Jon Simonssøn, Norwegian humanist (d. 1575)
November 11 – Marcin Kromer, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (d. 1589)
December 21 – Boniface IV, Marquess of Montferrat, Italian nobleman (d. 1530)
Robert Recorde, Welsh physician and mathematician (d. 1558)[13]
Gissur Einarsson, first Lutheran bishop in Iceland (d. 1548)
DeathsEdit
Sultan Bayezid II
Alessandro Achillini
January 2 – Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden since 1504 (b. 1460)[1]
January 30 – Reinhard IV, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1500–1512) (b. 1473)
February 2 – Hatuey, Puerto Rican Taíno chief
February 22 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and cartographer, after whom the Americas are named (b. 1451)
March 29 – Lucas Watzenrode, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (b. 1447)
Gaston de Foix, French military commander (b. 1489)
Asakura Sadakage, 9th head of the Asakura clan (b. 1473)
May 21 – Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena (b. 1452)
May 26 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1447)
June 20 – Goto Yujo, Japanese swordsman and artisan (b. 1440)
August 2 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
August 15 – Imperia Cognati, Italian courtesan (b. 1486)
September 15 – John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, Scottish peer (b. 1440)
September 29 – Johannes Engel, German doctor, astronomer and astrologer (b. 1453)[14]
October 5 – Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Polish princess (b. 1464)
October 31 – Anna of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg (b. 1437)
^ a b c Carl Georg STARBÄCK (1864). Öfversigt af riksföreståndarskapet i Sverige under unionstiden, etc. pp. 22–23.
^ Augustiniana. Augustijns Historisch Instituut. 1977. p. 202.
^ "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p28
^ a b Eric W. Gritsch (May 1, 2009). Martin - God's Court Jester: Luther in Retrospect. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-72522-571-8.
^ Turks & Caicos Islands: Report for the Years ... H.M. Stationery Office. 1961. p. 45.
^ Quentin Skinner (November 30, 1978). The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance. Cambridge University Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-521-29337-2.
^ Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 229. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
^ Gingerich, Owen (2004). The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus. New York: Walker. ISBN 0-8027-1415-3.
^ Koyré, Alexandre (1973). The Astronomical Revolution: Copernicus – Kepler – Borelli. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-0504-1.
^ Thomas Spencer Baynes (1880). The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. Samuel L. Hall. p. 671.
^ Lynch, Michael (ed.). The Oxford companion to Scottish history. Oxford University Press. p. 353. ISBN 9780199693054.
^ Queen Catharine Parr (June 30, 2011). Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence. University of Chicago Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-226-64724-1.
^ Gareth Ffowc Roberts (February 15, 2016). Count Us In: How to Make Maths Real for All of Us. University of Wales Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-78316-797-5.
^ Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas R.; Bracher, Katherine; Jarrell, Richard; Marché, Jordan D.; Ragep, F. Jamil (September 18, 2007). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 339. ISBN 978-0-387-30400-7.
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Gay-rights advocates try to set Barilla pasta straight
Gay-bashing proves an unsuccessful branding strategy
By Jennifer Abel
Gay rights advocates — many of whom, incidentally, are not gay — are calling for a boycott of Barilla-brand pasta after company chairman Guido Barilla told an Italian radio show that, "We won't include gays in our ads, because we like the traditional family. If gays don't like it, they can always eat another brand of pasta. Everyone is free to do what they want, provided it doesn't bother anyone else."
John Aravosis of the AmericaBlog first broke this news to the English-speaking world when he provided Barilla's remarks in their original Italian alongside an English translation.
After tasting the outrage inspired by his remarks, Barilla tried backtracking a bit, swearing he has "the greatest respect for gays" and that he only made his anti-gay comments because, "In the interview I simply wanted to highlight the central role of the woman in the family."
Yet another sterling example of marketing to women! At least he's not dyeing his pasta pink. Though if he really wants to focus on the central role of women in families, maybe he should try marketing his products specifically to lesbians: statistics show the average lesbian marriage contains twice as many women as marriages of the hetero variety.
When Barilla said that gays who don't like his attitude can always eat another brand of pasta, it apparently didn't occur to him that "gays" aren't the only people who might find such attitudes disturbing, anymore than "black Americans" are the only people wont to take a dim view of the Ku Klux Klan.
One Washington-area consumer (incidentally, a heterosexual woman with kids, as traditional a family grouping as one can hope for) told us: "It's not just gays who are offended by anti-gay rhetoric. Many of us 'straights' are the loving parents of outstanding children who happen to be gay. In many cases, we knew our children were gay long before they did, and have done everything we could to make their life a little bit easier. There's a lot of pasta in the world and I'll be sure to eat anything but Barilla from now on."
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<?php

namespace Ghostscript\Tests;

use Ghostscript\Transcoder;

class TranscoderTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    protected $object;

    protected function setUp()
    {
        $this->object = Transcoder::create();
    }

    public function testTranscodeToPdf()
    {
        $dest = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'gs_temp') . '.pdf';
        $this->object->toPDF(__DIR__ . '/../../files/test.pdf', $dest, 1, 1);

        $this->assertTrue(file_exists($dest));
        $this->assertGreaterThan(0, filesize($dest));

        unlink($dest);
    }

    public function testTranscodeAIToImage()
    {
        $dest = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'gs_temp') . '.jpg';
        $this->object->toImage(__DIR__ . '/../../files/test.pdf', $dest);

        $this->assertTrue(file_exists($dest));
        $this->assertGreaterThan(0, filesize($dest));

        unlink($dest);
    }
}

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RENOWNED crime writer Peter James stopped by Northbrook College last week to give a talk to a packed audience.
Mr James, famous for his series of Roy Grace novels set in and around Brighton, attended the dinner at the college's Durrington campus, in Littlehampton Road, and spoke to a packed audience of dedicated fans.
His first Roy Grace novel, Dead Simple, is now a play that is currently touring and will be visiting the Connaught Theatre in July this year.
Northbrook councillor Sean McDonald, a friend of the author, organised the event.
He said: "Peter spoke about his experiences from when he was a young novelist and film producer through to his first novel featuring Roy Grace. He was born in Brighton and grew up in the town.
"His novels centre around the homicide detective Roy Grace who is based on the former Worthing police officer, detective chief superintendent Dave Gaylor.
"The audience was entertained with a mix of personal experiences and stories from police officers.
The author's next novel in the 'Dead' series will be published on May 21.
Mr McDonald is featured in one of the books as a poker dealer, with the setting for the tales including Worthing, Brighton and the surrounding towns.
Mr James has seen his works published in a total of 36 languages.


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Google's Driverless Cars Could Have Airbags on the Outside
Google's ideas team has logged a new concept from its selection of comfy brainstorming bean bags, applying for a patent that puts the airbags on the outside of cars -- to protect pedestrians from having their legs bent backwards in the event of a collision.
The actual patent describes the invention as a "System for pedestrian leg protection in vehicle impact," before going on to explain that "a plurality of air sacs" on the car's bumper would protect pedestrians were, for example, a hacker to seize control of a driverless vehicle and plough it through a packed farmer's market.
Google is suggesting that these airbags are designed to pop upon impact too, explaining that: "...the bursting of some of the plurality of air sacs reduces spring back of the bumper on the pedestrian," meaning that the car crashes of the future could be accompanied by a manic popping sound, as if a million pieces of bubblewrap were popped at once.
It's an interesting move, as Google's previously suggested that it's more likely to license its driverless tech to existing automakers rather than go it alone and produce the vehicles itself -- so why is it patenting such niche safety features? [USPTO via Engadget]


For the first time since it became a major pro series with serious cash prizes, the Alpari World Match Racing Tour will be coming to the United States, in mid-July for the five-day Chicago Match Cup.
The event will feature 12 teams racing aboard the Chicago Match Race Center's (CMRC) fleet of Tom 28 keelboats for $100,000 in prize money and points toward the tour's overall championship.
Organizers describe Chicago as the "perfect venue," thanks to the CMRC and Navy pier, where the tour plans to create a "stadium-style" race village, complete with tents, vendors, live commentary and bleacher seats for spectators.
"We're very excited to have this opportunity to bring the tour to the United States," says Jim O'Toole, CEO of the Alpari World Match Racing Tour. "We have been watching the Chicago Match Race Center build its program into being a good fit with us, and very much look forward to having a great event in July."
"The center is great, the boats are great, the city is great, this is a fantastic place for match-race sailing," says 2011 World Match Race champion, UK skipper Ian Williams. "I know that Chicago has been a top choice among the other tour skippers for where they want to sail this year."
"There is simply no better venue than Navy Pier to showcase how exciting this game [is]," agrees CMRC founder Don Wilson. "We really look forward to having [everyone] come here and share our enthusiasm for this great place."
According to CMRC director Tod Reynolds, eight of the 12 teams taking part will be established tour programs, while two teams will be selected by the center and two other teams will be determined by a pair of qualification regattas preceding the Chicago Match Cup.
This year's tour, which boasts a total $1.75 million purse, kicks off with the Match Race Germany regatta May 23-28 in Langenargen, Germany, and includes stops in Korea, Sweden, France, Switzerland, Malaysia and Bermuda.
The Chicago Match Cup takes place July 10-15. For more on the 2012 Alpari World Match Racing Tour, click here or click here for more on the Chicago Match Race Center.


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Q: Rejected updates on branch tip when trying to rebase HEAD pointer I wanted to reset the HEAD pointer to my previous commit
$ git reset --hard HEAD~1

HEAD moved to previous commit, however, unable to push to my origin master
$git push origin master

! [rejected]        master -> master (non-fast-forward)
    error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/username/repo.git'
    hint: Updates were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind
    hint: its remote counterpart. Merge the remote changes (e.g. 'git pull')
    hint: before pushing again.

How do I move my pointer and tell Git to update the changes?

A: By default, Git does not allow you to push changes which do not have the most recent change on the server in their history. This is to avoid problems if someone else has already pulled your previous HEAD; then you pushing something that is not a descendent will mean that they will need to merge or rebase onto your new commit.
If you know that no one else is using your repo, or have communicated with everyone who is, then you can forcibly push your changes:
git push -f origin master

Some servers are configured not to allow forcible updates. If they don't, you may be able to get around it by deleting and recreating the branch:
git push origin :master
git push origin master

But only do these if you know that no one else is basing their work off of yours, or you can communicate to everyone who is and ensure that they properly reset to the previous commit in their local repos as well.

A: You have to tell git to force the push as this will lose a commit on the remote. This is a safety mechanism so you don't inadvertently erase work. It's also a convenience feature where you can just issue a git push and all branches that are set up for tracking will be updated on the remote with the exception of the ones that would end up erasing some commits.

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X-Ware is a terminal emulator and editor program that can communicate directly to compumotor's x language products.
Launch X-Ware.exe from the desktop. Make sure to turn caps lock on.
OPEN- opens an existing program and puts it in an editor screen.
NEW- opens a blank editor screen in which a new program can be written. A program may contain multiple sequence definitions.
SAVE/SAVE AS- saves the currently active editor screen as a prg file.
DELETE- deletes a program you specify.
PRINT- prints the contents of the currently active editor screen.
When text is selected within the editor the edit menu allows the user to cut, copy, paste and clear text within the editor screen. There is also a clipboard, which acts as another editor screen to paste portions of programs. The undo command takes back the last editor command executed.
The search menu can be used to locate and replace a certain text string within an editor screen.
You can open multiple editor screens and toggle between them in X-WARE.
ZOOM-opens the currently active editor screen to full size.
CASCADE-puts one editor screen behind another.
TILE-puts one editor screen on top and another on the bottom.
PREVIOUS-toggles back to the previously viewed editor screen.
CLOSE-closes the currently active editor screen.
The Terminal Settings window allows the user to select the COM port from the computer for RS-232 communications, the baud rate, and device address.
The checkout box tests to see if the communications setup is working.
PRODUCT- selects the Compumotor product you are using, if not listed use other x.
DOWNLOAD- downloads the contents of the currently active editor screen to the Compumotor product.
UPLOAD- retrieves sequences within the Compumotor product and uploads them to an editor screen.
COMMANDS- shows a list and description of commands for x-language products. Consult your product software reference guide for valid commands.
COLORS- sets X-WARE screen colors and menu colors.


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"Flesh and Stone" is the fifth episode of the fifth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Written by Steven Moffat and directed by Adam Smith, the episode was first broadcast on 1 May 2010 on BBC One. Featuring the Weeping Angels as primary villains and the recurring character River Song (Alex Kingston), it is the conclusion of a two-episode story; the first part, "The Time of Angels", aired on 24 April.

In the episode, the alien time traveller the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith), his companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan), River Song, and Father Octavian (Iain Glen) and his militarised clerics have escaped entrapment by the Weeping Angels, creatures who only move when unobserved by others. They take refuge inside the crashed starship Byzantium, but the Angels pursue them and Amy is on the brink of dying from the imprint of an Angel in her eye. Both the Angels and the Doctor's team face danger from a widening crack in space and time which has the power to erase persons from history.

Moffat wrote the two-part story as a more action-packed sequel to his 2007 episode "Blink", inspired by the relationship between the film Alien and its sequel, Aliens. The episode contains vital information concerning the main story arc of the cracks in time, and contains many instances which are character-motivated. "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone" were the first two episodes of the fifth series to be filmed; filming for "Flesh and Stone" took place in July 2009, with location filming in Puzzlewood and Southerndown beach. The episode was watched by 8.495 million viewers in the United Kingdom and received mostly positive reviews from critics, though many commented that it did not live up to the quality to the first part and disagreed about the decision to show the Angels moving.

Plot
The Eleventh Doctor, Amy, River, Father Octavian, and Octavian's surviving clerics escape the approaching Weeping Angels when the Doctor destroys the gravity globe illuminating the cave they are in, allowing them to jump up into the artificial gravity of the crashed starship Byzantium. They scramble inside as the Angels start to follow, and the Doctor directs the group to the ship's oxygen factory, a forest contained within the ship. As they pass the primary flight deck, the Doctor notices a crack in its wall just like the one in Amy's bedroom is leaking time energy from the end of the universe that the Angels are being drawn to.

Amy starts becoming more afflicted by the image of the Angel in her eye, and the Doctor instructs her to keep her eyes closed, preventing her from seeing it. Octavian has the clerics guard Amy while he, the Doctor and River make for a secondary flight deck on the other side of the oxygen factory. During this, the Doctor learns that River is Octavian's prisoner, and is promised a full pardon if she helps capture the Angel. Octavian is killed by an Angel but this allows the Doctor and River to enter and secure the flight deck. They analyse the crack and confirm that the leaking energy came from an explosion in time, and they narrow the date of the explosion's epicenter to Amy's home time.

Meanwhile, the Angels start to move away from the flight deck room. The clerics are erased from time by the crack as it grows wider. River teleports Amy to the secondary flight deck, rescuing her from the Angels. The Angels' energy drain of the Byzantium engines cause the artificial gravity to fail, and the Angels fall into the crack. The crack closes, as the Angels are a sufficiently complex event in space and time to do so. Because the Angel that infected Amy has been erased from time, she is no longer afflicted by it.

River is taken back into custody. Amy asks the Doctor to take her back to Earth on the day he took her, and she shows him that she is to be wed the next day. The Doctor believes the cracks are related to Amy herself, and he brings her inside the TARDIS to "get [her] sorted out".

Production

Writing
Writer Steven Moffat came up with the concept for "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone" when he was thinking of the worst possible situations to be in with the Weeping Angels and thought of the inability to see. His first idea was blindness, though this developed into the situation that Amy ends up in. Moffat designed the two-part story to be a more action-oriented sequel to "Blink", an episode he wrote for the third series that introduced the Weeping Angels. He was inspired by the relationship between the film Alien and its sequel, Aliens, which he referred to as "the best conceived movie sequel ever", describing it as being more "highly coloured" as opposed to Alien more low-key tone. He also intended for the Angels to have a plan that could become "almost like a war", in contrast to the way they were struggling to survive in "Blink". The title "Flesh and Stone" was suggested by Moffat's son.

The episode is also important in the main story arc concerning the cracks in time and space. The idea of the crack was inspired by a similar crack in the wall of Moffat's son's bedroom. As the crack reappears, several facts about it are revealed. In the episode, the Doctor speculates that they are connected to the fact that Amy could not remember the events of several previous episodes, as well as events in history that had occurred in "The Next Doctor". He also discovers that the time explosion that caused the crack is due to occur on 26 June 2010, which is also the original airdate of the final episode of the series, "The Big Bang". Before the Doctor, River, and Octavian leave Amy and the other clerics, the Doctor briefly returns to console Amy and to ask her to trust him and remember what he told her when she was younger; however, the Doctor in this scene is shown wearing his jacket, which he had lost to the Angels earlier in the episode, as well as a different wristwatch. It is revealed in "The Big Bang" that this was in fact the Doctor from later in his timeline, setting up events in Amy's past to try to help her remember him after he has rebooted the universe. River Song tells the Doctor she will see him again when the Pandorica opens; the Pandorica was previously referred to by Prisoner Zero in "The Eleventh Hour" and is revealed in "The Pandorica Opens", which also sees the return of River Song.

Many details of the episode were character-driven. The Angel's wish to torture Amy "for fun" sparked anger in the Doctor, but also gave him courage to defeat the Angels and save Amy. Moffat stated that, in the scene in which the Doctor must work out how to save Amy in a matter of seconds, he was "very basic ... very pure, simple Doctor", and did not have time to comfort Amy because any compassion would get in the way of his reasoning. River was also meant to understand this, and explain to Amy that he needed to think. Moffat believed that Amy was "passionate and a fighter and ... also really smart", which he demonstrated in the scene where Amy could not open her eyes for more than a second but was determined to do it for less than one. Moffat also believed that Amy's attempt to seduce the Doctor was consistent with the character he had built up from her first episode. It reflected the narrow escape from death and challenging experience the two had just shared, and Amy's tendency to do things "in the heat of the moment" – although Moffat later admitted he regretted the way he wrote the scene, saying "I played it for laughs, and it was so wrong". The Doctor's response was intended to be a typically embarrassed and flustered reaction to female behaviour of this kind.

Filming and effects

"The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone" were the first two episodes to be produced in the series. The read-through for "Flesh and Stone" took place on 15 July 2009 following the read-through of "The Time of Angels". The forest scenes in the Byzantium were filmed at Puzzlewood, in the Forest of Dean over nine nights in July 2009. The final scenes on a beach were shot at Southerndown, Vale of Glamorgan in Wales during 20–21 July 2009, the first filming done for the new series.

Most of the Weeping Angels are not statue props but young women wearing masks, costumes, and paint that took two to three hours to apply. Director Adam Smith called them "an absolute nightmare to film with" because it took a long time for them to get ready and they had to stand still for long periods of time. In the climactic scene Gillan had to walk with her eyes closed, which she said was difficult and challenging as the ground was uneven and muddy. She stated that "it was the most scary thing" when she had to trip over a step and fall, even though she was aware of the crash mat. As she was not able to express herself through her eyes, Gillan had to make herself more animated to convey emotion. The scene in which the Doctor, Amy and River are horizontal in mid-air when the gravity field fails on the Byzantium was achieved by using wires and powerful wind machines. The blue in Amy's bedroom was Adam Smith's idea, to show that it was inspired by the TARDIS from Amy's encounter with the Doctor when she was young.

Broadcast and reception
"Flesh and Stone" was first broadcast on BBC One and simulcast on BBC HD on 1 May 2010. Overnight figures showed that "Flesh and Stone" was watched by 6.87 million viewers; 6.53 million watched on BBC One, with a further 0.34 on BBC HD. This was a slight increase from the previous episode, but "Flesh and Stone" was still second for the night behind Britain's Got Talent. Final consolidated ratings showed that 8.495 million viewers had watched the episode, with 8.019 on BBC One and 476,000 on BBC HD, the fifth and first most-watched programme on each channel respectively. It achieved an Appreciation Index of 86, considered "excellent".

Critical reception
"Flesh and Stone" has received mostly positive reviews. Daniel Martin gave the episode a positive review on The Guardian guardian.co.uk, saying that it "can lay credible claim to being the greatest episode of Doctor Who there has ever been". He went on to declare: "It's just ridiculously good — so much that there's scarcely any point in picking out moments because there was an iconic sequence every couple of seconds." In particular he praised Father Octavian's death scene, noting how "despair creeps over Matt Smith's face as he realises he is going to have to leave him to die; Octavian's final speech weeps with honour and elegance". IGN's Matt Wales gave the episode a 10 out of 10 rating, saying it was "packed with huge, iconic moments" and stated, "by the end of it, we were left with more questions than answers and a far better sense of Moffat's meticulous planning".

Gavin Fuller, writing for The Daily Telegraphs website, described the episode as "a rollercoaster ride of thrills and spills". He praised the forest scenes, saying they were "easily the highlight of the episode, taking in a whole range of emotions as the nature and scale of the threat facing the Doctor, Amy, River and the clerics shifted as the episode progressed." However he expressed uncertainty over Amy's "attempted seduction of the Doctor", claiming that it "did seem out of keeping with the usual tone of the series", and that "Given the number of young children who watch, it may not have been the most appropriate of scenes to screen".
Patrick Mulkern, writing for the Radio Times, gave the episode a positive review, describing it and its predecessor "The Time of Angels" as "two episodes of Who that deserve 10 out of 10 in anybody's scorebook", although he felt that of the two "The Time of Angels" was "marginally more dazzling", as he found the Angels in that episode more "macabre", but he still thought that "Flesh and Stone" "bombards us with shudders and tension".  He also stated that he was "much amused by Amy's amorous antics at the end".

Steven Cooper of Slant Magazine called it "an exciting, action-packed roller coaster" and praised director Adam Smith's "top-notch visuals" as well the performances of Smith, Gillan, and Kingston. He noted the difference between Moffat's more obvious story arc as opposed to others in the revived series, believing it to be possibly a "long-overdue innovation" for the show. Though he praised the final defeat of the Angels for making use of what the viewer had forgotten, he thought that being able to see the Angels moving was "creepy and well-done", but made them "much less original and interesting" and the reason behind it weak, considering that the scene had "no significance at all" and was just to fill up time. SFX Magazine Dave Golder agreed, calling the scene "very creepy" and the Angels moving "effective", but feeling that "these once great monsters come across a bit wussy and stupid". He also thought that it did not live up to the "brilliant first part", feeling "a bit one-note" and lacking "a really good jawdropping revelation". However, he thought it was "a solid, exciting, pulse-pounding 45 minutes" that was "tense, action-packed, and stuffed with memorable one-liners and touching character moments", particularly praising Amy's countdown and Octavian's death, and gave the episode four out of five stars.

Home media
A Region 2 DVD and Blu-ray containing "Flesh and Stone" together with the episodes "The Time of Angels" and "The Vampires of Venice" was released on 5 July 2010. It was re-released as part of the complete series five DVD on 8 November 2010. The DVD also contains a cut scene set between "Flesh and Stone" and "The Vampires of Venice" where the Doctor tries to explain to Amy that he needs companions, not out of any ulterior motive but to help him see the universe with fresh eyes.

In print
Pearson Education published a novelisation of this episode and "The Time of Angels" under the title The Time of Angels by Trevor Baxendale for school literacy programs in May 2011.

Legacy
In 2017, Moffat said that he wished he could have changed the kissing scene at the end. He said in a Twitter Q&A, "...there's a brilliant scene to be written there, and I entirely avoided writing it. I played it for laughs, and it was so wrong."

Notes

References

External links

Fiction set in 2010
2010 British television episodes
Television episodes written by Steven Moffat
Eleventh Doctor episodes
Fiction set in the 6th millennium

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Q: Connector guide? Are there any guides for connector choices for home electronics projects?  I'm looking for basic stuff that anyone working with specific electronics might know already but others might not, like the voltage range associated with Tamiya connectors or similar questions.

A: You can partially rely on Wikipedia listings for the IEC standards: IEC 60320 and IEC 60309, or choose from full list.
But also, rather than specific guides targeted at connectors (which may not to be current or comprehensive), to the best of my knowledge, I would say a common method used is to instead use the spec filters and tables within the connector section of an online catalog/search-engine, e.g., from sellers like Digikey, Mouser, and Farnell. This should get you the most easily comparable, and likely also the most updated, information.
For instance, at Digikey, start with the Connectors, Interconnects index, then select a sub-category within that based on what you need.
Once you find a few specific connectors matching your generic spec-filter or category-search, then you can always open up the specific product's datasheet and see if the detailed specs match your requirement.