Dear Ian, This week you turned 16 months old and there's no shutting you up! You even talk in your sleep!
You used to grunt and squirm for milk while we were lying in bed, but Saturday morning, you actually looked at me and said "milk?". How can I say no to that? And then when we finished on one side and I thought you'd fall asleep, you signed your hands together and said "more!". Ok, bud, we can do the other side.
I'm mindful of a friend who said she nursed her daughter well into her third year and it was fine other than her screaming out in the grocery store, "but I want the OTHER SIDE!!!" That will be us soon enough.
It's awesome to watch how your vocabulary grows. "More" and "all done" used to only be for food, but now they relate to anything. Daddy took you to the new playground and it was great to be able ask if you wanted to stay on that swing or try something else. More or all done was all we needed. And this weekend, we discovered you can squeeze yourself into the little wagon push toy so we can race you around the house. Daddy would start in the downstairs bathroom and tear through the house til you landed in my arms on the living room sofa, your head thrown back and squealing the whole way. As soon as you stopped you were immediately signing "MORE!". You're wearing us out, kid.
So now that we've taught you all this language it sometimes pains us to see you use it. We went to a toy store and you saw a toy with animals in it. You roared at the lion, then took it off the shelf and signed "help" wanting us to open it for you. Daddy had to remind you that despite your mother's bad influence we can't open packages in the store.
We also had our first episode of brand recognition in that same store. You saw a pull out couch with Sesame Street characters on it and blurted out "ELMO!" We didn't even know you knew who he was but apparently we weren't leaving that store without an Elmo couch. Thankfully it was on sale.
You're fascinated with music, so the whole family has been getting into it. Daddy has played the guitar more this last month that in all the years I've known him. And while I bought a ukulele for you to use as your own "guitar", I've been teaching myself to play after you go to bed. We've got xylophones and drums and radios and everything you can imagine. It's like an Ethel Merman show in our kitchen!
You mimic everything we do and that's awesome. We were doing the Charleston to some goofy song one evening and you kept rocking back and forth trying to do the same thing. I'm actually amazed at all that you can do!
Every month I say this is my favorite month, and again this one has been the tops. It's also been one of the most trying as we work through your mood swings and try to explain some of life's few restrictions (e.g. not playing outside in the rain when it's 35F). But those moments are few and far between compared to the dance parties, giggles and high fives.
I was getting you dressed for bed after your bath last night and you had an empty bottle you were messing with. When I sat you up to put on your shirt, you chucked the bottle and it hit me right in the face. It scared me more than hurt, but I frowned and said "No! We don't throw things. That hurt Mommy." and signed for hurt. Normally you laugh this awkward laugh but this time you got really serious and looked down at your toes in shame. You really did feel bad about it. I asked you if you could kiss my cheek to make it better and you beamed, lunging for my face and smacking your lips.
All is forgiven, little guy.


FilmLive.TV at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009.
Join FilmLive.TV at the second day of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where we chat exclusively with BAFTA award nominee Tom Harper, and find out from the pros how to get your film noticed.
We also spoke to Filmmaker Mark Smith and Dale Corlett, Director of Running in Traffic.
Produced in association with EIFF, Cameron Presentations, Audio Network, Mallard Productions and Lebowskis Edinburgh.


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Snaring Zombies, Memory Bots, NSFW Horror
Posted in Evil, Foreign Horror, Misc. Horror, Science Fiction, Slashers, Zombies with tags Argentenia, bondage, Cuba, Derelict, drum, Ernest Hemingway, Evil, Foreign Horror, Gene Simmons, George Romero, Havana, Havana Darkness, killer, KISS, machete, Manchester, Misc. Horror, nanobots, Nature Gone Wild, NH, Night of the Living Dead, psychopath, Reverb.com, Slashers, snare, Terror 5, torture, undead, Violentia, walking dead, Zombies on March 23, 2019 by Drinkin' & Drive-in
If you're a musician, you probably know about Reverb.com, a marketplace for people to buy, share and trade a myriad of music instruments, gear, accessories and broken rock dreams. It was here I found a custom George Romero/Night of the Living Dead-inspired snare drum, a novel way to pound on zombies.
This 6 lug, 14-inch "drum of the living dead" will set you back $149.99 plus $32.00 to ship it from Manchester, NH. Not sure if you play it with drum sticks or a machete or a machete shaped like a drum stick.
Before you go all marching drum on the undead, here are a few available now/upcoming horror/sci-fi movies that may or may not keep a beat…
DERELICT (available now)
"Three friends find themselves fighting for their lives when their urban exploration goes horribly wrong."
These guys go into an abandoned building covered in graffiti that looks like it was done by an artistic seagull with diarrhea. Then, for no reason whatsoever, they encounter a gas mask wearing killer with a hay baling hook and leather pants. Now we know what happened to all those law-breaking graffiti artists. Damn punks.
HAVANA DARKNESS (available now)
"Traveling to Havana, Cuba, to investigate the origins of a mysterious manuscript supposedly written by acclaimed American novelist, Ernest Hemingway, three friends are thrust into a terrifying game of cat and mouse when they find themselves trapped inside an abandoned building nestled in the center of the country's vibrant capital. With time running out fast the threesome must maneuverer through a maze of deadly traps to find a way out of the building before they're hunted down."
Other countries have abandoned buildings and serial killers, too? Who knew?
VIOLENTIA (available now)
"A nano-tech engineer finds a way to recreate memories using nanobots. But when his daughter is killed in a school shootout, he enlists in a secret government program to find a cure for violence using a psychopath's memories as testing ground. This leads him down a dark path where the lines between reality and memories begin to blur."
If that guy stuck nanobots in my head to extract memories, they better be outfitted with hip-waders.
TERROR 5 (April 5, 2019)
"While most of the residents of a small Argentinian town attend a funeral procession following a tragic building collapse, the few who do not will face terrors of their own in this mash-up of urban legends. Bondage, torture, zombies, governmental corruption."
The trailer shows a scene of a guy wearing Gene Simmons/KISS makeup while riding wildly on a motorcycle. It also shows some sex and bare naked nudity. Not sure which I like better.
Sea Ya Sharks, Mansion Ghosts, Farm To Market Cannibals
Posted in Fantasy, Ghosts, Misc. Horror, Nature Gone Wild, Science Fiction, Sharks, Slashers with tags Aquaman, beast, cannibals, Cartel 2045, Danny Trejo, Fantasy, Ghosts, Los Angeles, machete, Mexico, Misc. Horror, Nature Gone Wild, Old MacDonald, poltergeist, robots, Science Fiction, Seattle, Sharknado, Sharknado: Global Swarming, Sharknado: Oh Hell No!, Sharknado: The 4th Awakens, Sharknado: The Second One, Sharks, Slashers, specter, The Farm, Trejos Tacos, United States, wraith on April 9, 2018 by Drinkin' & Drive-in
On July 25, 2018 we'll be saying goodbye to the gooftacular Sharknado universe with the latest, as-yet-untitled Sharknado sequel. (They should call it Will The Last Sharknado Leaving The Ocean, Please Turn Off The Faucet? A bit wordy, but nail on the head.) Note to selves: I tagged this one on February 22, 2018. Then I washed and combed my hair for two hours.
The left-field hit series that started as a waterspout that pulls sharks out of the ocean and dumps them all over Los Angeles, started in 2013 with Sharknado, and successfully regurgitated the formulaic plots with endless celebrity cameos with Sharknado: The Second One (2014), Sharknado: Oh Hell No! (2015), Sharknado: The 4th Awakens (2016) and Sharknado: Global Swarming (2017). Even before the new/final one, this is like the movie version of Hokey Pokey.
While we cross our fingers that this will indeed be the last Sharknado, were are a few upcoming horror/sci-fi movies that may or may not belong in a watery grave…
CARTEL 2045 (May 1, 2018)
"The year is 2045, the continuing drug war has caused havoc between The United States and Mexico. Gear Side International, a robotics engineering company on the brink of bankruptcy, sells off their technology to the Cartel on the black market. With the advanced military robotics technology in the wrong hands the cartel uses it to their advantage; replacing their enforcers, hit men, and soldiers."
Who needs robots when you have Machete himself to take care of future business? (Note to reader: It's really Danny Trejo, who played the iconic badass Machete in previous kick ass films, though I'm not seeing much of a difference). I live in Seattle, but I have friends in Los Angeles who regularly eat at his restaurant: Trejos Tacos. Wonder if they chop up the taco fillings with a…machete? That's be SO cool.
WRAITH (May 8, 2018)
"After living in an old mansion for almost 10 years a family suddenly discovers a ghost-like presence trying to communicate with them."
I would like to live in an old mansion that has a ghost-like presence. But does the squatting specter chip in on the cable bill, scrub toilets every other month and chase other ghosts out of the cellar, you know household chores everyone has to do? Might have to bring that up during the next family poltergeist pow-wow.
BEAST (May 11, 2018)
"A troubled young woman in a small island community falls for a mysterious outsider who empowers her to escape from her oppressive family. When he comes under suspicion for a series of brutal murders she defends him at all costs and learns what she is capable of."
This one's being described as a "warped adult fairy tale." Works for me, though it seems like a really bad idea to a.) commit brutal murders, and b.) do it on a small community island. Unless you're Aquaman's cousin's brother's nephew and could swim away from the cops, you're pretty much dry-docked in the zip code.
THE FARM (2018/2019)
"A young couple gets kidnapped and treated like farm animals after stopping at a roadside diner to eat meat."
I don't hang out in barns (anymore), so I'm not sure how farm animals are being treated these days. If I remember the Old MacDonald literary works correctly, cows and chickens and beavers get three hots and a cot. Doesn't sound that bad to me.
The Horror of 2016
Posted in Aliens, Asian Horror, Asian Sci-Fi, Evil, Fantasy, Ghosts, Giant Monsters, Godzilla, Nature Gone Wild, Science Fiction, Scream Queens, Sharks, TV Vixens, UFOs, Witches, Zombies with tags 10 Cloverfield Lane, Aliens, Arrival, Asian Horror, Asian Sci-Fi, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, Batmobile, Ben Affleck, Black Phillip, Blake Lively, Cloverfield, creatures, Danny Trejo, Dark Knight, Deadpool. Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Stranger, Evil, Extraterrestrials, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, Fantasy, Frankenstein, Frisko Freeze, Ghosts, Giant Monsters, Godzilla, Godzilla vs. King Kong, Harley Quinn, Harry Potter, heavy metal, Independence Day: Resurgence, King of Monsters, Lauren Cohan, machete, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Monsters, Morgan, mutant, mythical beast, Nature Gone Wild, New York, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Phamtasm Ravager, Phantasm, Phantasm IV: Oblivion, Plymouth Barracuda, Rob Zombie's 31, Science Fiction, Scream Queens, Sharks, Shin Godzilla, Star Trek Beyond, Suicide Squad, Supergirl, The Boy, The Shallows, The Walking Dead, The Witch, Train To Busan, TV Vixens, UFOs, USS Enterprise, Witches, wizards, Wonder Woman, WWE, X-Men: Apocalypse, YouTube, Zombies on December 25, 2016 by Drinkin' & Drive-in
"Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?"
Best line in recent contemporary horror as whispered by the tempting, unseen evil thing in The Witch, one of the 2016's least conventional but deliciously grim horror movies. I haven't heard a line that good since "I know you are, but what am I?" from Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985).
The second best line of dialogue of the year comes not from a horror/sci-fi movie, but from the TV series Supergirl: "It's time to punch you in the face…" (Note to anyone not using glitter chapstick – Supergirl is faring far better under the CW™ tweener banner than it did with CBS™, who had no idea what to do with superheroes sporting abnormally perfect teeth and Clearasil Ultra Rapid Action™ complexions. This is CW's™ wheelhouse, man.)
In a year fraught with horror (politics notwithstanding), there were more than a few genre movie and TV stand-outs. And while I'm a world famous (ahem) blogger of horror/sci-fi, this e-offering is not even close to being comprehensive and I am by no means an authority on the subject. (I'm an expert at being NOT an expert.)
Of the ton of big/low-budget genre movie/TV crap I've watched all year long, the following represents a few chunks of interesting crap therein. You don't have to agree with me, though, just because I'm a world famous blogger [insert nervous cough here]…
This unforgettable chiller introduced horror's best new figurehead: Black Phillip, the Danny Trejo (or "Machete") of badass barnyard animals.
F-word amazing. They gave reboot G several insanely cool upgrades while holding true to Godzilla's original hairstyle, including his "one-blow-blows-up-all" destructo breath: purple-y AND flame-y. That's pretty sweet. Shin Godzilla, almost all filmed in broad daylight, shows Godzilla doing what he does best: making smash hits. I'd buy his album.
TRAIN TO BUSAN
A South Korean zombie movie that mops the floor with every other zombie movie released this year. So ridiculously intense is this thing (passengers trapped on a speeding commuter train while zombies board without passes), you don't need English translation. (I went legit and watched it without sub-titles. That's how I roll.)
Was this a sequel to 2008's Cloverfield? There are those who walk among us that say yes. Doesn't matter — while the movie climaxed with alien stuff (if you didn't already know that — ha!), it's the premise of several super tense characters in a rural underground survivalist bunker (two of which are there involuntarily) that brings the real horror.
ROB ZOMBIE'S 31
Like him or not, Rob Zombie always makes stomach-turning, gritty and gory horror movies. This one puts a group of traveling carnival white trash performers in a huge maze inside a huge warehouse-y type building, facing off in a brutal do-or-die obstacle course with highly colorful and pretty darn mean maniacs (Doom-Head, Sick-Head, Schizo-Head, Psycho-Head, Death-Head, Sex-Head), all wielding power tools. Make it out of the building, you live. Sort of.
PHANTASM RAVAGER
Does this final installment of the surreal and beloved Phantasm franchise deliver the groceries? Yes and not yes. Given that it's been nearly 20 years since the last one (Phantasm IV: Oblivion/1998) and brings back the original characters, all of which puts you in the zone, Phantasm Ravager still leaves a pile of unanswered questions, like what happened to Reggie's 1971 Plymouth Barracuda (second only to the Batmobile in sleek coolness)? But hey, those iconic flying death spheres, aka, gasoline-powered sharp things? All over the freakin' place.
DEADPOOL / CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR / BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE / SUICIDE SQUAD / DOCTOR STRANGE
Great year for great superhero movies. All of the above kicked ass to varying degrees of ass kicking. And Suicide Squad's dementedly drop dead sexy Harley Quinn ranks with Deadpool and Black Phillip as a top genre icon of the year. (Godzilla's already in the Hall of Fame, so giving somebody else a chance here.)
Honorary mention goes to Ben Affleck's Batman, who puts the dark in Dark Knight. (He drinks the hard stuff, two syllable swears, horizontally smooches the ladies, takes pill-shaped drugs, beats people like drums then tortures/shoots them, and socks Superman right on his justice-shaped jaw. On top of that, he drives really fast and crashes into stuff. Batman gives driving lessons, not takes them.)
A few thoughts on some other this and thats…
Not just a good movie, but a great UFO movie that doesn't rely on all out paranoid military warfare on our space brothers, who look a heckuva lot like seafood appetizers. P.S. to the Internet: I've seen nearly every UFO video on YouTube™ and they're starting to look fake. I'm beginning to think UFOs aren't real. But that's probably just crazy talk.
You can still be the most heavy metal, human-gulping shark with extra teeth in the ocean, but you still take second seat to Blake Lively's seat in a string bikini worn throughout the ENTIRE MOVIE.
An enthralling movie set in 1920s New York with wizards and a menagerie of off-the-hook mythical creatures and monsters, the likes of which have not been seen since the last WWE pay-per-view. Y'know, I bet Harry Potter fans might like this.
In my day a home for peculiar children was called "summer camp." A bunch of mutation kids with unique abilities: floating, projecting movies through eyes, starting fires by touching stuff, super strength, control of nature, and my fav, eating through a mouth on the back of your head. You could take down a Frisko Freeze™ double deluxe burger in one mouth while sucking down a chocolate shake with the other. I wouldst like to live deliciously.
Featured The Walking Dead's walking gorgeous Lauren Cohan. I wasn't aware of anything else in the movie. I think it had some sort of boy in it. I think he was a puppet, which is just plain weird.
A genetic experiment gone wrong — or right, depending on where you stand on a contemporary updating of Frankenstein (1931).
There were a few genre misfires this year, though, including Independence Day: Resurgence, (we need to issue a formal apology to extraterrestrials), X-Men: Apocalypse (yeesh, what a mutant mess) and Star Trek Beyond, which relied more on blowing up things than the story line. Speaking of, why do they have to keep exploding the USS Enterprise over and over? Man, I wanted to drive that thing.
So what do we have to look forward to from here? According to IMDB.com there's approximately 1,000+ horror/sci-fi/fantasy/superhero movies (Wonder Woman – I await you) slated for release in 2017. Butt — meet couch. Like Doctor Strange, I'm looking through space and time (and Collider.com) for Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Godzilla, King of Monsters (2019) and Godzilla vs. King Kong (hopefully before I croak). All the other stuff watched is what I'll do to pass time/pass gas/pass out until those movies come to enrich my life.
Religious Hammer vs. Religious Machete
Posted in Evil, Misc. Horror, Slashers with tags Evil, hammer, Hawaii, June 9, machete, Misc. Horror, religion, Slashers, The Blair Witch Project on July 14, 2016 by Drinkin' & Drive-in
Using the same hand-held camera filming technique as The Blair Witch Project (1999), June 9 (2008) finds a van full of spank-worthy teens filming themselves smoking pot, smashing mailboxes with baseball bats and trespassing on land loaded with marijuana plants, owned by religious zealots.
Of course they get captured, with each pulled out of the van by townsfolk wearing colorful shirts, which may or may not be Hawaiian in nature (but certainly style). The men are sporting sport hats.
The teens are smacked on the head with a hammer, which calms them down real quick. Then we see an edited scene of an arm being cut off by a machete. A little boy finds the still-running camera and keeps it rolling. He's not a very good cameraman, as we can hear the bodies being chopped up and put in a wheelbarrow, but we don't get to see it.
June 9 is mind-numbingly boring and incredibly slow to get to the point. By the time it does get there, you want the religious people to hurry up and dismember everyone so you can go back to watching quality TV.
Peculiar Kids, Space Infection and Directions to Hell
Posted in Aliens, Evil, Fantasy, Foreign Horror, Misc. Horror, Nature Gone Wild, Science Fiction, Scream Queens with tags Aliens, creatures, Death House, demons, Earth, Evil, Fantasy, Federal Agents, Foreign Horror, Freddy Krueger, Hell, I Spit On Your Grave, Italy, Jason Voorhees, Kosovo, machete, meteorite, military base, Misc. Horror, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Monsters, Nature Gone Wild, Pinhead, Poggie Tavern, prison, Science Fiction, scientist, Scream Queens, Tim Burton, Virus: Extreme Contamination, X-Men on March 25, 2016 by Drinkin' & Drive-in
Another batch of visual goodies gearing up to ransack your wallet/purse/fanny pack. (Note to my accountant – can I deduct the cost of popcorn, Peanut M&Ms™, red vines, Diet Coke™, hot dogs, and smuggled bottles of airline liquor from my taxes if I say that going to the movies is work related?
Anyway, the book-based Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, the upcoming (2016) Tim Burton horror-ish fantasy movie, goes like this: "When Jacob discovers clues to a mystery that spans different worlds and times, he finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. But the mystery and danger deepen as he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers."
I liked it better when it was called X-Men (2000).
Up next is the dork titled Virus: Extreme Contamination (release pending 2016): "An Italian scientist travels to Kosovo to study the impact of a meteorite that is the cause of strange events. Once there, he discovers that the object has been moved to a near military base where all the people were turned into dangerous weird creatures."
When doesn't a meteorite cause weird stuff /real estate damage? As if it needs to be said, when aren't people on the bus dangerous weird creatures? The fact that we all are is what's keeping aliens from colonizing Earth. And yes, they always have to wipe their space shoes after visiting this flat/round planet of ours.
Death House (release pending 2016) shows promise, if only for the stellar genre cast that stars the guys who played Freddy Krueger, Machete, Jason Voorhees, Pinhead, and that gal who starred in that legendary rape revenge movie I Spit On Your Grave (1978). Here's what happens in the house of death…
"Two federal agents fight their way through nine levels of Hell inside a secret prison known as the Death House. A facility-wide prison break turns their flight into a tour of horrors as they push toward the ultimate evil housed in the lowest depths of the earth."
Sounds like someone's been hanging out at the Poggie Tavern during "What Passes As Ladies" Night again.
Blubbering: The Horror of Whales
Posted in Classic Horror, Fantasy, Giant Monsters, Nature Gone Wild, Slashers with tags Arctic Circle, Black Sea, Captain Ahab, Chris Hemsworth, Classic Horror, Essex, Fantasy, Free Willy, Giant Monsters, gore, hammer, harpoon, Herman Melville, hockey mask, Imax, In The Heart of the Sea, machete, maniac, Mjölnir, Moby Dick, Nature Gone Wild, New England, ocean, pay-per-view, porn star, psycho, Sea-Doo, Slashers, storm, The Monster, The Pequod, The Whale, Thor, Victor Frankenstein, whaling boat on September 5, 2015 by Drinkin' & Drive-in
Even though it's universally considered to be an American literature classic, the 1851 Herman Melville novel Moby Dick (or The Whale) was in fact the first "nature strikes back" horror story.
You had the maniacal, revenge-seeking Captain Ahab, the original slasher (except he wielded a harpoon and not a hockey mask and a machete), relentlessly pursing Moby Dick (a name used by more than one male porn star), a gigantic whale that wrecked Ahab's Sea-doo™ and bit the crazy captain's leg clean off. (Reports are sketchy as to whether it was his right or left leg. Maybe it was both.)
Just like Victor Frankenstein psychotically tracking his creationist monster through the Black Sea and meeting up in the Arctic Circle for the ultimate pay-per-view, both stories did not conclude well for Ahab and Victor.
So the timeless horror classic is headed for the Imax™ screen in the form of In The Heart of the Sea (releasing December 11, 2015), a movie telling the story that inspired Moby Dick and features Thor (Chris Hemsworth) himself, trading in his Mjölnir (or "hammer") for a whaler's harpoon. Not really a spoiler, we kinda already know how this is gonna end up – humans will be recycled as whale poo.
Here's the plot: "In 1820, crewmen aboard the New England vessel Essex face a harrowing battle for survival when a whale of mammoth size and strength attacks with force, crippling their ship and leaving them adrift in the ocean. Pushed to their limits and facing storms, starvation, panic and despair, the survivors must resort to the unthinkable to stay alive."
One can only imagine what the "resorting to the unthinkable" stuff is to stay alive. If it's anything like Free Willy 3: Packed In Spring Water, I think we all know the gory conclusion.
Serial Killing Spuds
Posted in Classic Horror, Evil, Slashers with tags A Nightmare on Elm Street, Classic Horror, Driller Killer, Entertainment Earth, Evil, Freddy Kreuger, FRiday The 13th, Hannibal Lecter, Jason Voohees, Leatherface, machete, Mr. Potato Head, Norman Bates, pop culture, Poptaters™, power drill, psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Slashers, Texas Chain Saw Massacre on July 8, 2015 by Drinkin' & Drive-in
How the times haves changed. Just a few decades ago Jason from Friday the 13th (1980) and Freddy from A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) were graphically hacking up kids with razor sharp machetes and razor-fingered gloves. Now, thank to selective pop culture standards, both Jason and Freddy are soon available a Mr. Potato Head toys. Made for kids.
Poptaters™ has announced that they will be releasing both in October 2015 and are priced at $17.99 each via Entertainment Earth.
The reason I say selective is there have been hundreds of slasher after Jason and Freddy, and none are being made into Potato Heads. This is because the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises made a LOT of money over the years. Nobody cares about the Driller Killer (1979), who only did about $14 at the box office. Man, that guy was cool – but there was nothing besides his power drill that that screamed, "I, too, could be a potato!"
All of which begs the question – if we're gonna turn pop culture serial killer psychopaths into toys, why isn't here a Norman Bates potato head? Or a Michael Myers, Leatherface or a Hannibal Lecter potato head? I think they novelty market is really missing out by not making a comprehensive line of serial killing potato toys. And hey, you can finally hack them up for a change.

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Beautiful cute innocent Caucasian Hispanic baby face while sitting and covered between green knitted blankets, isolated.
A set of cute little baby ballerina stickers .
Newborn baby sleeping. Soft focus, shallow DoF.
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Toward the end of the semester in a Writing from Faith course that I regularly teach at my Christian university, a first year student voiced a revelation.
She was responding to a fellow student's personal psalm about her fear that, her missionary family being in far off Costa Rica, she wouldn't get to go home for the holidays. In the poem, the student-psalmist stares at the computer screen while, just beyond the thin walls, her dormmates' are goofing around and chattering about their holiday plans. The poet recounts the family traditions she'll be missing: getting ornaments out of dusty boxes, drinking hot chocolate with her siblings while Dad reads them all Christmas stories, holding hands to pray over the traditional dinner of arroz con pollo.
We all teared up as she read, and, when she finished, the whole class started scheming about collectively raising the money for her plane ticket. Within minutes of hearing that psalm, they were organizing a new ministry to do the same for every needy MK—as missionary kids are called—on campus.
It was a big moment for me, pedagogically speaking. Not only had one of their writings spurred them to action, but they were finally starting to understand the importance of concreteness instead of just thinking it another feat of dubious value that their teachers and now I demanded of them in lieu of explaining. The power of sensory data to persuade was a creative strategy I'd been trying to convince them all of from day one. I lectured about it, pointed out concreteness in whatever we were reading, and highlighted in yellow and commended instances of concreteness in their own writing. It's a simple concept, but somehow even advanced creative writing students struggle to grasp it.
Christmas is such a sensory holiday. Carols. Pine smells. Fruitcakes and sugar cookies. Snow. The sheer concreteness of Christmas crystallizes the joy-inspiring gospel it celebrates: that our invisible Creator sent us concrete evidence, in the form of his newborn Son, so that we might believe and have eternal life.If we can get, in our minds, to that baby in that feed-trough out in that barn—if we can really believe that good news—we have accomplished what Jesus will later say is the only work of God expected of us: to believe in the one he has sent.
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Yes, I learn so much from my students—much more, I'm sure, than I manage to teach them. The MK made it home—one of those stories of money appearing out of nowhere, making our contributions unnecessary, and I have left the campus ministry idea to my students, who created a Facebook on which to pursue the matter.
Apropos learning from students, I was rereading the beginning of the first chapter of John this morning—about how "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" and then this Word turns into "life" and then "the light of mankind" and so on (John 1:1-9 NIV)—hoping to resee the mystifying string of metaphors not as the philosophic conundrum it usually is for me but as a former student of mine recently did in a very moving Facebook post: as yet another nativity story.
I became convinced of her reading—that, in essence, the light is the baby Jesus—when I got to this line: "No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known" (John 1:18 NIV). The line also resonated with my own post on the connection between Jesus' concreteness and my own faith: That Jesus had not only seen God the Father but that that he himself was seeable gave "those who believed in his name . . . the right to become children of God" (John 1:12 NIV). I like that!


ASML's robot football team – the Falcons – is heading to Japan for RoboCup 2017, the annual World Cup of Robot football that aims to promote robotics and AI research with the ultimate goal of beating the human champions by 2050.
The Falcons showed significant steps towards maturity at the Portuguese Open 2017. This year's European championship featured a total of seven teams in the Middle Size League robot soccer competition. With surpassing their rival Carpe Noctem and claiming the third podium spot for themselves, the Falcons can look back on a very successful tournament.
Since the last World Championships in July, the team has shown sustained effort to improve both the hardware and software for the six soccer robots. For instance, a new world model (which keeps track of known objects on the field) has been developed, featuring enhanced localization and tracking of the robots, ball and obstacles. As the robots also drive more precisely, they are now able to properly pass the ball to each other autonomously. This proved necessary indeed, as a recently introduced rule obliges the robots to do at least one pass before being allowed to score.
Falcons returned from the World Championship RoboCup in Leipzig, Germany, where we put new software and hardware enhancements to the test against the top teams in the world.
One of the most encouraging aspects was how much ASML's robots had increased in reliability. In previous games two or sometimes three robots broke down, but we now ended most games with all five robots in the field. The new, built-from-scratch software had some hiccups during the setup days, but as soon as these were under control it turned out to be very stable and flexible. We now can change robot behaviors or strategy in the halftime breaks without a problem.
Friday 19th and Saturday 20th of May, the Falcons showed their skills during the Dutch Technology Week.
The Falcons head to Germany to participate in the Robocup World Championship 2016.
This year the event is held from June 27 th – July 3 rd at the exhibition grounds in Leipzig, where we expect to face teams from all over the world.


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Carbon-plated running shoes - are they right for you?
There are many running shoes with plates these days. Until recently, the plate was found almost exclusively in modern racing shoes, aka "supershoes", high stacks, next generation midsoles and rocker models, and is now widely used in marathons and half-his marathons. But plates are becoming a core component of short-distance racers, lightweight models, trail shoes, and even everyday trainers. And the plate-in-it trend could accelerate.
Is this a good trend for the average runner? Here's what the experts have to say about why it's happening and whether you should be running more in plated shoes.
Why and What Are Running Shoe Plates?
Running shoes with plates are nothing new. Sprint spikes have long included plates, with Adidas and Fira offering road racing shoes with plates over 15 years ago. Like modern versions, the plates on these shoes are designed to act as stiff levers that propel the runner faster through the gait cycle. Yes, it's designed to protect against pain-inducing footsteps, not for speeding on gravel.)
The popularity of the current plate began in 2016, when select Nike runners began competing in prototypes of what would later become the Vaporfly 4%. . A high-stack he midsole of lightweight, soft, energy-returning foam that nearly every brand offers today. A plate that provides stability and propulsion. A rocked shape instead of flat allows you to roll across the foam more quickly. The popularity of those shoes has led to the current trend of plates appearing in models designed for non-marathon purposes.
Before looking at the latest developments, it's important to remember two important things about the latest plated running shoes. First, just like there are many types of shoe midsoles, there is no one-size-fits-all plate.As runner's world Deputy Test Editor Jeff Dengate recently wrote: Some use partial plates, carbon fiber rods, or plates that make the shoe bend in a certain direction. A recent article on the plate details the variations offered by one of his carbon fiber his plate suppliers. Some newer models incorporate plates made out of non-carbon fibre.
Second, plates are just one of the three core elements of modern shoes that include them. The next-generation midsole that wraps around the plate makes a big difference in softness and height. There is also great variation in the shape of the plated shoes. Some have a large upward curve in the front of the shoe and a violent toe spring that starts past the ball of the foot, allowing for quick toe-off at a faster pace. , has a slight slope that starts near the midfoot for a smoother, more gradual transition through the gait cycle. Finding plated shoes that meet your needs and goals can be difficult.
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The elite women of the 2022 Boston Marathon and their plated shoes.
Derek Cole
If the prototype Super Shoe was made for marathon racing, one of the main variations the brand offers is a plated training companion. For example, Saucony's Endorphin includes Pro and Speed. The Pro is a carbon fiber plated racer, while the Speed is a slightly similar looking lightweight trainer with a slightly lower stack height and nylon his plates. This year we've also seen more trail shoes with carbon fiber plates like the Hocatekton X and plated low stacks aimed at 5K/10K outings like the New Balance Super Comp his Pacer and Nike Streak Fly his racing shoes .
But to see what really happens when it comes to plates, consider Skechers' current lineup. Of course, there are also plated racing shoes, most notably the Speed Freek. The Speed Freek is a high-stack marathon model with carbon fiber plates and a free-form spell. But there are also three training shoes with plates. The Max Road 5 is the brand's mega cushion model. The evolution from version 4 to 5 adopted his carbon-infused H-shaped plate. It's designed to give you more stability at slow paces and a little help on your toes at fast paces. The Razor Excess 2 also has a carbon-infused plate. The original version of this lightweight trainer had no plates. As you might expect, there is also persistence, a new daily mileage model with carbon-infused plates. Perhaps most importantly, it costs $115, about half the price of a regular Super shoe.
We expect to see more products like this from all brands, especially from 2023, said Joe Rubio, CEO of online store Running Warehouse.
"There are a lot of supercritical foam and plate shoes in China at ridiculously low prices," says Rubio. "Some stink, some are very good and cheap. My guess is that the next wave will be all the super foam and plates and rockers you see in regular old running shoes at an affordable price. If you can get super foam, rocker and plates in a $140 shoe from one of the big 7 brands, here's the big one: experience it once, almost every run. It will become the standard for shoes."
In other words, the line between "super shoes" and "regular running shoes" will continue to blur, if not completely disappear. Rubio says this next-generation shoe plate will be made of something other than carbon to keep weight and cost down without compromising performance.
Need to step up to the plate?
When considering whether to add one or more plated shoes to your collection, remember that running shoes are tools. Ideally, the running shoes you own should be designed for a specific task, even if that task is general work like everyday use. Historically, one of the primary uses of plated shoes has been to help you run faster. However, as the plate extends to models other than racing shoes, the plate's potential uses expand.
"Firm rocker-bottom shoes have been shown to help improve gait on many types of feet," says a physiotherapist who has worked with many companies in designing and testing shoes. "People with stiff feet, bunions, grass toes, or plantar fasciitis are better equipped with well-designed rocker than the 'standard' running shoe," says Geoffrey Gray, president of Heeluxe. You may have a better experience with plated shoes.
Andrea Myers, physiotherapist and Doctors of Running contributor, says: [at the base of the big toe] Due to the stiffness of the plate and rocker sole, you may benefit from training in supershoes, but this will depend on your specific shoe geometry. A shoe with a lot of forefoot rocker with a very upturned front of the shoe is not suitable for a shoe with a low initial MTP extension.
"Similarly, runners with limited ankle dorsiflexion range of [i.e., pointing your toes toward your shin] You may benefit from shoes with plates and heel bevels. This reduces the amount of dorsiflexion required during the stance phase, helping runners transition quickly from heel to forefoot," says Myers.
New Balance's Fuelcell Pacer features a carbon plate.
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How nice! However, Myers warns: Due to the interplay of plate, foam, and rocker geometry, platehi shoes may move runners into hip extension faster than shoes without these features. This can put a lot of stress on your glutes, hamstrings, and hip flexors. "
Gray recommends rotating multiple models (plated and non-plated) to provide a variety of stimulation and reduce the risk of injury. In his now-famous 2013 study, runners who wore three or more models had a higher injury rate in the 22-week study than runners who did nearly all their runs in one model. I found him 39% lower. Think of plated shoes as a potentially useful addition to your toolbox, rather than an excuse to throw away the designs and principles that have served runners for years.
Scott Douglas
Scott is a seasoned running, fitness and health journalist, having held senior editorial positions at Runner's World and Running Times.
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Higher rate tax payers are you missing out?
Do the following criteria apply to you? If so you might like to read this article…
Do you make payments into your own or your employer's pension scheme?
Do you pay higher rate tax, 40% or 50%?
Have you omitted to claim higher rate tax relief on the contributions you have made?
If your answer to these questions is Yes, or Yes and No, then you may be one of the estimated 425,000 UK tax payers that are failing to claim higher rate relief on workplace pension contributions.
You may for instance assume that your payroll department are dealing with this for you. Or, that the Government automatically channels any refunds due into your pension pot. This is often not so.
If you pay 'net' contributions the tax office will top-up your fund for the standard rate tax paid of 20%. The remaining 20% tax relief, (if you pay tax at 40%) or 30%, (if you pay tax at 50%) has to be claimed from HMRC direct.
Which pension schemes are affected?
Most money purchase pension arrangements are affected, including:
Personal pension plans (including Self Invested Personal Pensions – SIPPS)
Workplace 'contract based schemes' including group personal pensions, group stakeholder schemes and group SIPPS.
The following schemes are not affected:
All final salary schemes.
Money purchase schemes that operate through a salary sacrifice arrangement in which case pension contributions are made before tax is deducted.
Schemes where contributions are deducted from taxable pay.
If you are not sure what sort of pension you have check with your pension provider or employer.
You need to make a claim in writing to HMRC as soon as possible. Claims can be backdated for up to four years. We would, of course, be delighted to do this for you. You will need to provide details of the gross and net contributions you have made in the period of your claim
Winter Fuel Allowance
This allowance is paid tax free. This year the payment is worth £200 per household. If one of the persons eligible is over 80 this increases to £300.
Please note that to be eligible for this payment in 2012 you need to have been born before 5 January 1951. This particular allowance is linked to the current women's state pension age.
Consequently, men under their own state pension age but born before 5 January 1951 are eligible to claim. It will be necessary to make a formal claim in the first year. The claim form can be downloaded from the link that follows or you can call the help line on 0845 915 1515.
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Buying or bringing back goods from abroad
When travelling from the EU to the UK
You do not have to pay any tax or duty on goods you have bought in another EU country as long as:
tax was included in the price when you purchased the items,
the items are for your own use, and have been transported to the UK by you.
Own use includes gifts, but does not include any item that is intended to be used as payment or to be resold.
If you bring back large quantities of alcohol or tobacco, a Customs Officer is more likely to ask about the purposes for which you hold the goods – they will assume that they are not solely for your own use.
This will most likely be the case if you appear at the port or airport with more than:
800 cigarettes
400 cigarillos
200 cigars
1 kg of smoking tobacco
110 litres of beer
10 litres of spirits
90 litres of wine
20 litres of fortified wine e.g. port or sherry
EU countries currently include: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus (Greek part), Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Irish Republic, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain (but not the Canary Islands), Sweden and the United Kingdom (but not the Channel Islands). Gibraltar is excluded for this purpose.
When travelling from outside the EU to the UK
You are allowed to bring in the following, provided you travel with the items and do not intend to sell them.
200 cigarettes, or 100 cigarillos, or 50 cigars, or 250g of tobacco
4 litres of still table wine
1 litre of spirits or strong liqueurs over 22% volume; or 2 litres of fortified wine, sparkling wine or other liqueurs
16 litres of beer
60cc/ml of perfume
£390 worth of all other goods including gifts and souvenirs
Buying online or receiving gifts from abroad
Those buying online or by mail order from outside the EU will have to pay VAT if the value of the package is over £15. Customs duty may also be payable for goods over £135.
Those receiving gifts from outside EU will be charged import VAT if the package is valued at more than £40.
Cash in smaller pension pots
Changes to the present pension tax rules will allow over 60s to cash in up to two pension pots as a lump sum.
Changes apply from April 2012.
Pension pots of up to £2,000 in value can be considered for this treatment.
HMRC will allow 25% to be taken free of tax. The balance will be taxed at individual's marginal income tax rate.
Only two pension pots can be considered.
Tax changes this year and beyond
On 6 December 2011 HMRC published draft clauses for the 2012 Finance Bill. This will set the scene for tax changes in 2012-13 and subsequent tax years. Notable items include:
From 1 April 2013 companies will be able to apply a 10% tax rate on profits attributable to patents and other intellectual property.
Research & Development tax credits are to be improved.
The new statutory residence test is to be introduced from April 2013, a year later than expected.
A new scheme to encourage investment in new, small start up companies will be launched from April 2012. The scheme will be a variant of the present EIS scheme and will be known as the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme. Whilst reliefs may be greater, investment limits are more restricted.
The present EIS and Venture Capital Trust legislation will be more restrictive in order to focus on higher risk activities.
The UK tax position of certain non-domiciled individuals is changing from 6 April 2012.The good news is that non-doms will be able to bring in funds to invest in the UK without being penalised; the bad news is that for non-domiciles who have been resident in at least 12 of the previous 14 tax years, the present annual charge payable to secure more favourable tax breaks is to increase from £30,000 to £50,000 from April 2012.
The UK Controlled Foreign Company (CFC) rules are to be relaxed in certain circumstances. Not all of the expected changes in this area have been published – the remainder are expected to be made public shortly.
Interesting deduction
You may find the notes that follow useful if you raise money by increasing the lending/mortgage in respect of rental property.
The following factors need to be taken into account:
Loan used in property business
Generally speaking if the funds raised from refinancing are reinvested in the property business, for example to purchase new property or refurbish existing property, then any loan interest payable is allowed in full.
Funds withdrawn by property business owners (individuals and partnerships)
If funds are raised to enable the owners to withdraw money from the property business the following considerations need to be taken into account.
HMRC will seek to disallow interest on any loan in excess of the original cost of the property, or, the valuation of the property when first taken into business use. For example you may own a property that has been your own home for a number of years that you purchased for £100,000. You decide to move abroad and keep the property but let it out; the current value is £200,000. It would be possible to raise a buy to let loan for up to £200,000 (if the banks were willing!) and claim interest on the loan against your rental income.
A claim can only be made for the interest on the loan not the capital element repaid.
There are many pitfalls that can result in a loss of tax relief so it is important to obtain advice before refinancing.
Loans taken out by a property business run by a limited company
Where a property is owned by a limited company any additional cash raised by increasing loans secured on the company's business property belongs to the company. If directors wanted to withdraw the funds for personal purposes they would need to observe the usual rules:
Vote a dividend
Take extra salary or bonuses
Reduce the amount of any loans they have made to the company.
What seems on the surface a simple issue, 'Can I borrow against business property and get full tax relief on the interest charged', is far from a simple issue. Please get in touch prior to taking out such a loan to clarify the tax position, especially if you are relying on a tax deduction to make commercial sense of the loan.
Joint ownership of let property
Property, as with most assets, can be owned by individuals, jointly with other parties in partnership, or by a limited liability company or a trust.
In most cases the taxation of rental income derived from letting a property is straightforward. Individuals holding property in their own name or in partnership, companies and trusts all pay tax on the net income received.
The position of jointly owned property can vary and in particular that owned by married couples or registered civil partners who are living together.
Property owned and let by married couples or civil partners (who are living together)
HMRC will divide rental profits equally between spouses (civil partners), 50:50.
This division of rental income may not reflect the underlying ownership. For example property may be owned 10% by one spouse and 90% by the other.
If spouses/partners want the rental income split between them in accordance with the beneficial ownership they must make a formal election to HMRC. Once made the election cannot be revoked or changed, unless the underlying beneficial interest changes.
Interestingly, the above rules do not apply to property held in a business partnership or to property that is let as a furnished holiday let.
Property owned jointly by persons not married or in a civil partnership.
In this case the rental income will always be allocated between the joint owners in proportion to the underlying beneficial ownership.
Married couples and civil partners usually have a choice therefore, to split the rental income equally if this produces a lower joint tax liability or, split the rental income in the same proportion as their ownership of the property.
Fuel element of mileage rates from 1st December 2011
These rates apply to all journeys on or after 1 December 2011 until further notice. For one month from the date of change, employers may use either the previous or new current rates, as they choose. Employers may therefore make or require supplementary payments if they so wish, but are under no obligation to do either.
1400cc or less
1401cc to 2000cc
Over 2000cc
PLEASE NOTE: HM Revenue and Customs have changed the engine size categories for diesel engines.
Petrol hybrid cars are treated as petrol cars for this purpose.
For further information go to: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/cars/advisory_fuel_current.htm
To calculate the Input VAT included: Multiply the numbers of miles, by the pence per mile (above), divide by 6 (and multiply by 1). This calculates the VAT in pence.
Remember, to claim the VAT, you must have a fuel VAT receipt for at least as much as the Input VAT claim.
The rates are reviewed four times a year. Any changes will take place on 1st March, 1st June, 1st September or 1st December and will be published on the HMRC website.
George Osborne disclosed his plans to re-invigorate the UK economy yesterday and at the same time, stay focussed on debt reduction. The pundits were forecasting a range of measures including: increasing the bank levy, perhaps scrapping or delaying the January 2012 increase in fuel duty and tinkering with the lower threshold for stamp duty to encourage first time buyers. Additionally the coalition also disclosed additional measures to stimulate the economy. Here's a selection of the tax and other changes that were announced today.
For the business community:
Credit easing: National Loan Guarantee Scheme
The Government will make available up to £20bn of guarantees for bank funding over two years. This should encourage banks to lend at lower rates to businesses. In his speech, Mr Osborne speculated that this would reduce average rates by 1%.
Credit easing: Business Finance Partnership
An initial £1bn will be made available for investment in SME's and mid-sized businesses in the UK.
Youth employment scheme
As previously announced the £940m proposal to subsidise work placements for the young unemployed was confirmed. Branded as the Youth Contract it will target 18 – 24 year olds. Extra support will be provided by Job Centre Plus and will include provision of work experience or a Sector Based Work Academy place.
Those still in unemployment after nine months on Job Seekers Allowance will transfer to the Work Programme that was introduced to help in the government's key aims of fighting poverty, supporting the most vulnerable and helping people break the cycle of benefit dependency.
Additional incentives for employers include:
The provision of funding for an estimated 160,000 wage incentives, each payment to employers amounting to £2,275.
Further funding for at least 40,000 incentive payments to encourage smaller firms to take on apprentices.
Additional Government funding will provide £50m a year to support disadvantaged 16-17 year olds.
Small Business Rate Relief
The present relief will be extended for a further 6 months from 1 October 2012.
Additionally there will be an opportunity to defer 60% of any increase in business rate bills for 2012-13 as a result of RPI uprating. This will be repaid equally in the following two years.
Other boosts for the economy:
The government is launching a £30bn plan to improve national infrastructure. The first tranche of £5bn will be provided by the government during the current parliament and a further £5bn in the next. The Treasury is to seek a further £20bn in total from the National Association of Pension Funds and the Pension Protection Fund. It is also promoting investment from insurance companies and China. The Government's share, totalling £10bn will be funded from areas where there have been under-spends and from a crack-down on tax avoidance.
Schemes targeted for support include: the Trans Pennine Express line between Leeds and Manchester, the Tyne & Wear Metro, and improvements to M25, M3 and M56.
Mortgage indemnity scheme
On the 21st November 2011 the Government announced a guarantee for up to 100,000 new mortgages, at up to 95% loan to value, for new build properties in England.
Rail charges capped
The planned January 2012 increase in regulated rail fares to be capped at 6.2% not 8.2%. This effectively limits the increases for London and regulated rail fares to RPI plus 1% and not the expected RPI plus 3%.
Water bills in the South West
Government is to fund South West Water in order that bills for household customers are cut by £50 per year.
Free childcare places
Places for deprived two-year-olds are to be doubled to 260,000. This will involve Government investing a further £380m a year by 2014-15 so that 15 hours of free education and care on a weekly basis can be offered to those that need it the most.
Fuel duty change
The expected 3.02p per litre rise in fuel duty due to take effect on 1 January 2012 has been deferred to 1 August 2012. The further increase of 1.92p per litre due to take effect from 1 August 2012 will be cancelled.
Tax changes:
Bank levy increased
The promised increase in the bank levy is confirmed. In order to meet the £2.5bn target each year from 1 January 2012 the rate of Bank Levy will increase to 0.088%
Employers' pension contributions
Employers making asset-backed pension contributions to registered pension schemes will have tax relief restricted to accurately reflect the amount of payments made.
Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS)
This new scheme is to be set up to encourage inward investment into qualifying, new start-up companies. SEIS will provide income tax relief at 50% for individuals who invest in shares in qualifying companies. There will be an annual investment limit of £100,000 and cumulative investment limit for companies of £150,000.
There is also a capital gains tax exemption for investments realised in 2012-13 and invested through SEIS in the same year.
The existing Enterprise Investment Scheme
Changes include:
Relaxation of connected person rules and definition of shares qualifying for relief.
Tighten the focus of the schemes by introducing a new test to exclude companies set up for the purpose of accessing relief.
Exclude acquisition of shares in another company and exclude investment in Feed-in-Tariffs businesses.
Remove the £1 million investment limit per company for VCTs to reduce the administrative burdens of the scheme.
The annual exempt amount for CGT is to be frozen at present levels for 2012-13 at £10,600.
Capital Allowances: Enterprise Zones
Enterprise Zones in six assisted areas will qualify for enhanced capital allowances. In these areas, 100 per cent allowances will be available for plant and machinery investment incurred between April 2012 and March 2017. Zones are: the Black Country, Humber, Liverpool, North East, Sheffield and Tees Valley.
VAT low value consignment relief
As previously announced the VAT exemption for low value goods below £15 sent to the UK from the Channel Islands will be removed from 1 April 2012.
Gifts of pre-eminent objects
New legislation is to be introduced that will enable individuals and companies to receive a reduction in their income tax, capital gains tax and corporation tax liabilities in return for donations of pre-eminent works of art or historical objects.
Benefits and pensions:
Most working age and disability benefits will be increased in line with CPI from April 2012. The actual increase for 2012-13 will be 5.2%.
The child element of Child Tax Credit will be increased in line with CPI and will rise by £135 per year in 2012-13. The £110 above inflation increase that was planned for 2012-13 will not go ahead.
The disability elements of tax credits will be increased by reference to CPI. The couple and lone parent elements of the Working Tax Credit will not be increased in 2012-13.
The Government is standing by its triple guarantee. From April 2012 a full basic pension will rise by £5.30 to £107.45 per week. The full couple rate where entitlement is based on their spouse's or civil partner's pension will rise by £8.50 to £171.85 per week.
State Pension age change
The increase in the age at which the State Pension can be drawn is to be increased from age 66 years to 67 years in 2026.
Public sector pay
From the end of the current pay freeze, average public sector pay increases will be limited to 1% for a further two years.
Reminder of Furnished Holiday Lets (FHL) changes
The following changes will apply from 6 April 2012:
For a let property to qualify as a FHL the following tests will need to be met:
Accommodation must be available to let as holiday accommodation for at least 210 days (140 days 2011/12).
Accommodation must actually be let as holiday accommodation to the general public for at least 105 days (70 days 2011/12).
The accommodation must not be let for periods of longer term occupation (greater than 30 days) for more than 155 days.
A period of grace election can be made to smooth your lettings history if you have a property that reaches the required criteria in some years but not others.
And don't forget loss relief changes.
From 6 April 2011 it is no longer possible to set off FHL losses against other earnings or other non-FHL rental income. Losses can only be set off against income from the same FHL business.
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Update on the VAT reverse charge for building contractors
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Educational magazines
Born 1974.
E-mail—[email protected]; [email protected]
Journalist and writer. Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, reporter, 1998—, Middle East correspondent, 2005—, previously Moscow bureau chief. Previously worked at the Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and the Eastern Province Herald, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
AWARDS, HONORS:
National Newspaper Award (twice), Canada.
WRITINGS:
The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union, Random House Canada (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2007.
Also author of Mark MacKinnon's blog.
SIDELIGHTS:
Mark MacKinnon is a journalist who served as the Moscow bureau chief for Toronto's Globe and Mail before becoming the paper's Middle East correspondent in 2005. In his first book, The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union, the author draws on his experiences as a foreign correspondent in Russia and the former Soviet Union—which included covering Vladimir Putin and "managed democracy" in Russia, along with the bloody war in Chechnya—to examine the forces that have been and are reshaping the post-Soviet world. Writing in Maclean's, Paul Wells called The New Cold War "an ambitious … work, connecting the dots between a string of democratic revolutions in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan to demonstrate the Western money and organizational muscle that helped each of them happen."
In his book, the author explores the "promise" of democracy versus the reality of what freedoms the peoples of the former Soviet Union have actually experienced. According to the author, the democratic progress turned into little more than variations on the same old systems with Soviet despots replaced by new despots under different political guises. MacKinnon reports on how private organizations from the United States have played key roles in organizing various movements for democracy, including the Rose Revolution in Georgia in 2003 and the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine in 2004. Among the organizations he discusses are the National Endowment for Democracy, which is funded by the U.S. Congress, the National Democratic Institute of the Democratic party, and the International Republican Institute of the Republican party. He also writes of various organizations funded by George Soros, an American billionaire and philanthropist. Overall, MacKinnon examines these organizations' efforts as part of an ongoing struggle between the United States and Russia for influence in the area. MacKinnon also discusses what he perceives to be the most important struggle between the two nations, namely control over the oil and gas pipelines throughout the Caucasus and Central Asia.
In his book, MacKinnon writes of how a second wave of reforms, such as the rebellions in Georgia and the Ukraine and the Serbian rebellion of 2000, represent efforts and changes as monumental as those represented by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union's overall demise. The author notes that the people of Eastern bloc countries have been aided by Western money and advice to rise up and demand an end to autocracy. However, as the author points out, these efforts have been met with strong opposition from Moscow.
The author begins his book with a brief overview of the overall situation in the area and the key players involved in the politics of the region. He goes on to analyze the U.S. efforts to foster democracy in the region and examines the fall of Serbia's Milan Milosevic. Other chapters include a discussion of the Rose and Orange Revolutions and how the Kremlin has sought to strike back against American influence in the area.
Throughout, the author criticizes both Russian and American interests and operatives for many of their actions. For example, he describes how Vladimir Putin established a very authoritarian-like rule over the country by using the country's many national resources to exert dominance over the ex-Soviet republics and how Putin has been brutal in dealing with Chechen terrorists and Russian entrepreneurs. MacKinnon credits Putin's ability to exert this control and be accepted as a strongman president who has curbed liberties, to the instability the country faced following the quick privatization of the state-run economy. This privatization quickly left large portions of the Russian people living in a state of fearful poverty.
As for the American interests in the area, the author writes of how one foundation receiving U.S. taxpayer support, albeit indirectly, has as its leader the wife of the Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko. He also notes that the supposedly altruistic efforts of Western interests in reality are more associated with gaining some kind of control or access to huge reserves of national resources. "MacKinnon seems to harbour few illusions about the US exercise of power," wrote Dru Oja Jay on the ZNet Web site. "His overall thesis is that, in the former Soviet Union, the US has used 'democratic revolutions' to further its geopolitical interests; control of oil supply and pipelines, and the isolation of Russia, its main competitor in the region. He notes that in many cases—Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, for example—repressive regimes receive the hearty support of the US, while only Russian-allied governments are singled out for the democracy promotion treatment."
Several reviewers gave high praise to MacKinnon's examination of the ongoing geopolitical battle between Russia and the United States. "MacKinnon's provocative book will interest anyone concerned about the possibilities and shortcomings of democratic change and popular revolution," wrote a contributor to Publishers Weekly. A Kirkus Reviews contributor referred to The New Cold War as "a vivid, fact-crammed report on how the Kremlin's efforts to rein in the fourteen former Soviet republics has led to Cold War-like conflict with the United States."
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
Kirkus Reviews, July 1, 2007, review of The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union.
Maclean's, April 30, 2007, Paul Wells, "A New Cold War—where One Side Is a Lot Colder," p. 8.
Publishers Weekly, July 16, 2007, review of The New Cold War, p. 158.
Ukranian Weekly, September 4, 2005, Olga Andriewsky, "An Introduction of Award Winner Mark MacKinnon of Globe and Mail."
Mark MacKinnon Home Page,http://www.markmackinnon.ca (May 27, 2008).
Russia Journal,http://www.therussiajournal.com/ (May 27, 2008), Michael Averko, review of The New Cold War.
ZNet,http://www.zmag.org/ (June 1, 2007), Dru Oja Jay, "Mark MacKinnon's New Cold War."
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Home Music Nostalgia: The forgotten tunes of gramophone records!
JAYAKRISHNAN VU
In this age of hi-tech music, gramophones and records have become artifacts of the past. Once considered as a status symbol of the privileged and the earnest music enthusiasts, gramophones for decades had remained an inevitable item in the literati and society circles. Old timers still recall the nostalgia of the gold- plated gramophone players with their pointed pins, and the revolving records inching toward the next track after a delightful music session.
Introduced by the British into India, they became popular when the HMV company decided to cash in on the immense popularity of this new medium, and began to manufacture records of Indian classical and film music giants like Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Saigal, Noor Jehan and other singers. Thus, began a new chapter in the history of Indian music. Truly, music became the identity of Free India that finally found its voice in this melodious medium to communicate to the world, that finally and public life with optimism.
Gramophones fading into memory
However, the emergence of cheap cassettes in the 1980's put a sudden break on the sales of gramophones. The hustle and bustle of the MTV culture in the 90's was the last blow – since then, gramophone records had remained in a state of complete abandonment and rejection. While some reclusive old lovers of that time occasionally dust off their once priceless possessions, and occasionally listen to their favourite film songs, they were destined to. The young generation, with their ears plugged to latest gadgets view the gramophones with disdain. With no more records in production, and lack of spare parts available, gramophones are destined to fadeout of our memory soon!
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Q: If-else ladder not entering "else" when no conditions match I'm writing my first large awk script with an Ubuntu emulator, and I'm running into a strange problem -- my code won't enter the "else" in the following if-else ladder.
BEGIN {
  SECTION_RECORD=0;
}

/STATS_START/,/STATS_END/ {
  if ($0 !~ /STATS_START/) { SECTION_PRESENT="1"; }
  else if ($0 !~ /STATS_END/) { SECTION_FINISHED="1"; }
  else {
    SECTION_RECORD=SECTION_RECORD+1;
  }
}

END {
  print SECTION_PRESENT;
  print SECTION_FINISHED;
  print SECTION_RECORD;
}

I'm reading the following input file.
=== STATS_START ===
this is a stat
this is another
a third stat
=== STATS_END ===

I expect the output of this program, since the section was started and finished with 3 records, to be:
1
1
3

but instead, I get:
1
1
0

I have confirmed via a print statement (which I removed from this example for clarity) that the "else" is never entered. I ran this script with the "--lint" and "--posix" options, and it's running without warnings or errors.
I'm really scratching my head here. The code seems right, but I'm guessing that there's something about awk that I missed in the GNU docs that's causing this. Can any awk gurus help me figure out where I'm going wrong, please?
Thanks!

A: Any time you find yourself using any kind of not operator, stop and THINK if you can write the code using a positive instead of a negative condition. That will make your code clearer and avoid the chance of you ending up with a double negative (as in your code where if ! ... else ! ... - may actually be a triple negative!) which is extremely hard to understand and likely to produce a bug.
Also never use range expressions like /start/,/end/ as they make trivial code very slightly briefer but then require a complete rewrite or duplicate conditions for anything the tiniest bit more interesting, always use a flag variable instead.
Finally, don't use all upper case for variable names to avoid clashes with builtin variable names.
So, step 1 is to make all your variables lower case, get rid of all the redundant ;s, and format it to be more readable using GNU awks -o- to pretty-print the code:
$ awk -o- -f tst.awk > v1.awk
$ cat v1.awk
BEGIN {
        section_record = 0
}

/STATS_START/, /STATS_END/ {
        if ($0 !~ /STATS_START/) {
                section_present = "1"
        } else if ($0 !~ /STATS_END/) {
                section_finished = "1"
        } else {
                section_record = section_record + 1
        }
}

END {
        print section_present
        print section_finished
        print section_record
}

Now lets write it without a range expression:
$ cat v2.awk
BEGIN {
        section_record = 0
}

/STATS_END/ {
        in_section = 0
        section_finished++
}

in_section {
        section_record++
}

/STATS_START/ {
        in_section = 1
        section_present++
}

END {
        print section_present
        print section_finished
        print section_record
}

See how much clearer and simpler it is and how we only test the conditions once each? And now to run it on your sample input:
$ awk -f v2.awk file
1
1
3

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Q: Error when using SQLite: "sqlalchemy.exc.ProgrammingError: (sqlite3.ProgrammingError) Error binding parameter 1: type 'LocalProxy' is not supported" I'm trying to make a blog website with Flask, and SQLite to store the user data and blog posts.
The registration and login part works perfectly fine and the data is saved to the DB as expected. However when I try to generate a new post, I get to the form to write the blog post, but when I click the submit button, I get the following error:
sqlalchemy.exc.ProgrammingError: (sqlite3.ProgrammingError) Error binding parameter 1: type 'LocalProxy' is not supported
[SQL: INSERT INTO blog_posts (author, title, subtitle, date, body, img_url) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)]
[parameters: (None, 'Example Title', 'Example Subtitle', 'Example Date', '
Example text
\r\n', 'Example URL')]
> (Background on this error at: https://sqlalche.me/e/20/f405)

I've chcecked the documentation link and found out that the error probably occurs because of a disconnect, but I can't figure out how to handle it.
This is the code from my main.py. I think the relevant part is the @app.route("/new-post", methods=["GET", "POST"]) def add_new_post(), at least that's the function I defined for creating a blog post
import werkzeug
from flask import Flask, render_template, redirect, url_for, flash, request
from flask_bootstrap import Bootstrap
from flask_ckeditor import CKEditor
from datetime import date
from werkzeug.security import generate_password_hash, check_password_hash
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask_login import UserMixin, login_user, LoginManager, login_required, current_user, logout_user
from forms import CreatePostForm, RegisterForm, LoginForm

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = '8BYkEfBA6O6donzWlSihBXox7C0sKR6b'
ckeditor = CKEditor(app)
Bootstrap(app)

# CONNECT TO DB
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite:///blog.db'
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS'] = False
db = SQLAlchemy(app)

# CONFIGURE TABLES
class BlogPost(db.Model):
    __tablename__ = "blog_posts"
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    author = db.Column(db.String(250), nullable=False)
    title = db.Column(db.String(250), unique=True, nullable=False)
    subtitle = db.Column(db.String(250), nullable=False)
    date = db.Column(db.String(250), nullable=False)
    body = db.Column(db.Text, nullable=False)
    img_url = db.Column(db.String(250), nullable=False)

class User(UserMixin, db.Model):
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    email = db.Column(db.String(100), unique=True)
    password = db.Column(db.String(100))
    name = db.Column(db.String(1000))

# line below only required once to create DB
# with app.app_context():
#    db.create_all()

# initiate login manager
login_manager = LoginManager()
login_manager.init_app(app)

@login_manager.user_loader
def load_user(user_id):
    return User.query.get(int(user_id))

@app.route('/')
def get_all_posts():
    # returns all BlogPost objects inside DB
    with app.app_context():
        posts = BlogPost.query.all()
        return render_template("index.html", all_posts=posts)

@app.route('/register', methods=["GET", "POST"])
def register():
    form = RegisterForm()
    if request.method == "POST":
        with app.app_context():
            if User.query.filter_by(email=request.form.get('email')).first():
                # user already exists
                flash("This email already exists. Please log in.")
                return redirect(url_for('login'))

            else:
                new_user = User(
                email=form.email.data,
                name=form.name.data,
                password=werkzeug.security.generate_password_hash(password=form.password.data,
                                                                   method='pbkdf2:sha256',
                                                                   salt_length=8)
                )
                db.session.add(new_user)
                db.session.commit()

            return redirect(url_for('login'))

    return render_template("register.html", form=form)

@app.route('/login', methods=["GET", "POST"])
def login():
    form = LoginForm()
    error = None
    if request.method == "POST":
        email = form.email.data
        password = form.password.data

        # find user by email entered
        user = User.query.filter_by(email=email).first()

        # email doesn't exist
        if not user:
            flash("That email does not exist.")
            return redirect(url_for('login'))
        # password incorrect (check_password_hash method hashes the entered password and compares it to the hash saved
        # inside the DB)
        elif not check_password_hash(user.password, password):
            flash('This password is incorrect. Please try again.')
            # automatically fill in the previously entered email
            try_again_form = LoginForm()
            try_again_form.email = form.email.data
            return render_template("login.html", form=try_again_form)
        # email exists and password is correct
        else:
            login_user(user)
            return render_template("index.html")

    return render_template("login.html", form=form)

@app.route('/logout')
@login_required
def logout():
    logout_user()
    return redirect(url_for('get_all_posts'))

@app.route("/post/<int:post_id>")
def show_post(post_id):
    with app.app_context():
        requested_post = BlogPost.query.get(post_id)
        return render_template("post.html", post=requested_post)

@app.route("/about")
def about():
    return render_template("about.html")

@app.route("/contact")
def contact():
    return render_template("contact.html")

@app.route("/new-post", methods=["GET", "POST"])
def add_new_post():
    # create form from CreatePostForm class
    form = CreatePostForm()
    # when submit button is clicked, entered data is saved to DB
    with app.app_context():
        if form.validate_on_submit():
            new_post = BlogPost(
                title=form.title.data,
                subtitle=form.subtitle.data,
                body=form.body.data,
                img_url=form.img_url.data,
                author=current_user,
                date=date.today().strftime("%B %d, %Y")
            )
            db.session.add(new_post)
            db.session.commit()
            return redirect(url_for("get_all_posts"))
    return render_template("make-post.html", form=form, is_edit=False)

@app.route("/edit-post/<int:post_id>")
def edit_post(post_id):
    # search post by id
    with app.app_context():
        post = BlogPost.query.get(post_id)
        # fill in the form with current data from DB
        edit_form = CreatePostForm(
            title=post.title,
            subtitle=post.subtitle,
            img_url=post.img_url,
            author=post.author,
            body=post.body
        )
        # when submit button is clicked, data in DB is overwritten by the new data
        if edit_form.validate_on_submit():
            post.title = edit_form.title.data
            post.subtitle = edit_form.subtitle.data
            post.img_url = edit_form.img_url.data
            post.author = edit_form.author.data
            post.body = edit_form.body.data
            db.session.commit()
            return redirect(url_for("show_post", post_id=post.id))

    return render_template("make-post.html", form=edit_form, is_edit=True)

@app.route("/delete/<int:post_id>")
def delete_post(post_id):
    # search post by id
    with app.app_context():
        post_to_delete = BlogPost.query.get(post_id)
        # delete post from DB
        db.session.delete(post_to_delete)
        db.session.commit()
        return redirect(url_for('get_all_posts'))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(debug=True)

I'm confused because the DB exists and is in the correct directory. Also the user data (which is in another table of th same DB) is stored as expected. I've also tried deleting the DB and create a new one by using
with app.app_context(): db.create_all()
but it doesn't change anything.


Move the rack to lowest position.
Pat cut potatoes with paper towels to remove excess moisture.
Place cut potatoes in a large microwave safe bowl and cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap.
Pour 3 tablespoons olive oil onto a rimmed baking sheet and place the baking sheet in the hot oven for 5 to 7 minutes, until the oil is just beginning to smoke.
In the meantime, place 1 tablespoon olive oil in the same large bowl you used to microwave the cut potatoes. Add the cornstarch and salt and stir to combine.
Add the cut potatoes and toss gently until potatoes are coated.
Remove the baking sheet with extremely hot oil from the oven. Using tongs, carefully arrange the potatoes in a single layer on the baking sheet.
Return the baking sheet to the oven and bake for 15 minutes. Flip the fries and continue baking for 10 to 15 minutes longer until fries are golden brown.
Remove the baking sheet from the oven and transfer the baked french fries to paper towels to blot to remove excess oil. Serve crispy french fries while they're nice and hot!