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Hocus Pocus / Kurt Vonnegut
What's the hurry, son?
Hocus Pocus tells the story of the life of Eugene Debs Hartke, a Vietnam War veteran and a former college professor who, while awaiting trial in prison and dying slowly of TB (cough, cough), considers the final tally of two activities he excelled at throughout his life; the number of people he killed during the Vietnam War, and the number of women he slept with throughout his life. Mild spoiler: the number is the same for both (and it's pretty high). In his confinement, he scribbles on hundreds of pieces of paper to form a fragmented narrative
The events that occur are always slightly eccentric, and stretch belief – I often find Vonnegut narratives are like fairy tales loosely grounded in reality. In Hocus Pocus, we hear of a prison riot (inspired by the Attica Prison riot in 1971), where the all-black inmates march across a frozen lake and begin opening fire on civilians of the town, taking the professors at a college hostage and even shooting and crucifying a member of the staff. There is a genetic craziness that affects Hartke's mother-in-law, and eventually Hartke's wife, and potentially any further women who share the ticking time-bomb genes. A computer program called GRIOT can give an approximation of what sort of life a person may lead based on an existing database of other people, with the variable information needed being: age, race, degree of education, and drug use.
It's bonkers, but this is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, so it should be expected. In his uniquely satirical way, Vonnegut points a finger at the wrongs, the injustice in the world. Hocus Pocus contains his views on the Vietnam War, the treatment of veteran soldiers, the careless destruction of the environment, the divide between the rich and poor, the state of America's prisons, and so on. Really, in this novel more than his others, it's difficult to prioritise one particular theme here. Vonnegut simply does what he does best – he preaches, with sharp humour and ominous warnings, without the patronising superiority and condescension.
That said, Hocus Pocus is not one of Vonnegut's stronger books. Unlike Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, The Sirens of Titan – I think Hocus Pocus, published in 1990 and Vonnegut's penultimate novel, is for the most part, forgettable. It's enjoyable, it's humorous, it's touching, but unlike the very best he wrote, I haven't spent a great deal of time thinking over the book since I finished it. Or maybe I have. The beauty of Vonnegut's stories is that, amongst the despair and suffering and sadness, there is hope and beauty. I like to think the impact of his books never truly leaves your subconscious.
All The Pretty Horses / Cormac McCarthy
God. Is that not just beautiful?
All The Pretty Horses is a departure from the Cormac McCarthy I'm used to. Having read Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Road, arguably three of his darkest works (excluding Outer Dark, which I am yet to read), I was surprised at how passionately I read this book, far more a tale of romance and growing up then the violence and depravity I've more commonly associated with him.
All The Pretty Horses tells us the story of John Grady Cole, a sixteen year old ranch hand who decides to leave his home of San Antonio, Texas, after the ranch he was brought up on is sold due to the death of his grandfather. Along with his friend Lacey Rawlins, they cross the border into Mexico with aspirations to become cowboys.
. . .he repeated what his father had once told him, that scared money can't win and a worried man can't love.
Along the way they meet Jimmy Blevins, a younger boy who claims he is older, riding an immaculate horse that John Grady and Rawlins know isn't his, despite the young boys' assertions to the contrary. Initially dubious of Blevins' intentions, together they continue to travel into Mexico, until one night a storm terrifies Blevin's and he loses his horse and his clothes and his distinctive Colt pistol.
You afraid of lightnin? said John Grady.
I'll be struck sure as the world…
It runs in the family, said Blevins. My grandaddy was killed in a minebucket in West Virginia it run down in the hole a hunnerd and eighty feet to get him it couldnt even wait for him to get to the top.
Blevins' takes his horse back by force, leading to the three being chased into the mountains by the locals and eventually the Mexican Rangers. Blevins splits from John Grady and Rawlins and leads the pursuers away. Grady and Rawlins travel further south and eventually discover a great ranch within the Bolsón de Cuatro Ciénegas where they are employed as ranch hands.
While initially their lives seem idyllic, trouble soon catches them. Upon noticing Grady's intentions on Alejandra, her great aunt has the two boys arrested and taken into custody by Mexican Rangers (who had previously been sighted near the haicenda, searching for the Americans) and thrown into a dismal and corrupted Mexican prison, alongside the beaten and near crippled Blevins.
Blevins shot and killed a man in retrieving his horse and Colt, and en route to a larger prison Grady and Rawlins can only watch helplessly as he is taken away and executed. While incararated, the two are beaten and savagely attacked by the other inmates until they are released on account of Alejandra's aunt-with whom Alejandra struck a deal to free the boys with the condition that Alejandra can never see John Grady again.
They do meet again – Grady persuades her to meet him in Zacatecas, for only one night. She refuses Grady's marriage proposal with regret, stating she must keep her promise to her family, and leaves heartbroken. Grady, devastated, makes his way back to Texas, but not before returning to the corrupt Mexican captain who killed Blevins, taking him prisoner as he retrieves the horses of Rawlins and Blevins and his own.
It's an enthralling story that allows itself to slow down and absorb the details, the nuances, the emotions of the characters, and dialogue is for the most part short and succinct. Yet McCarthy can still make it effortlessly clear what these characters are thinking and feeling.
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activities in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
John Grady Cole helps in this respect. The 16 year old protagonist is ruthlessly relatable. His calmness and sense and knowledge of the world he loves, and how it changes through loss and sorrow and heartbreak, is so engrossing. The rash decisions in the final act, a reaction to the cruelty and unfair nature of life, leading to a redemptive conversation with a judge after a trial for ownership of Blevins' horse, is just perfect.
I guess what I wanted to say first of all was that it kindly bothered me in the court what you said. It was like I was in the right about everything and I dont feel that way.
What way do you feel?
He sat looking at his hat. He sat for a long time. Finally he looked up. I dont feel justified, he said.
The judge watched him. Son, he said, you strike me as somebody that maybe tends to be a little hard on theirselves. I think from what you told me you done real well to get out of there with a whole hide Maybe the best thing to do might be just to go on and put it behind you. My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.
At sixteen John Grady Cole has fallen in love, become heartbroken, been arrested, watched a young man die, thrown into jail, been stabbed and nearly killed, killed a man in self defence. A loss of innocence, he crosses back across the US-Mexican border a man.
He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.
There will be people who won't like this book, nor McCarthy's polysyndetonic style. I've read criticism aimed at McCarthy for his over-the-top, verbose description, and slow moving plots. But it is a style that McCarthy does so well. I am utterly infatuated with his prose, and where others may see tedious, drawn-out inconsequential actions, I hang on every word.
All The Pretty Horses is a great American novel. The romanticism present is a change to the rest of his bibliography but it is still vintage McCarthy, writing so effortlessly on love and loss and what it means to truly grow up.
Note: I haven't been too happy with how I've dealt with quotes in my posts recently. You may have noticed the opening quote; I like the idea of using a standout quote as a graphic to start a post. I also think using blockquotes (see below) is better than my previous method of simply emboldening the quotes to separate them from my main text. Any feedback or advice would be greatly appreciated.
It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God-who knows all that can be known-seems powerless to change.
Is this surreal life? Is this just fantasy?
Design, General
A while since I last posted. Apologies, plenty more content on the way over the coming months. And sorry for that title.
For now I want to share a few collages I began working on a while back. They are crude, simple, and took very little time to make. First, some insight to my motivation and inspiration.
Pinterest link to a board containing Surrealist work and art that I really dig.
And another for more general collages. Cool stuff.
Collages can be a great way to throw ideas together and spark your imagination. They formed a key part of many design processes during my time studying architecture and I believe they can work for a variety of mediums, not least writing and literature. Forming thoughts in your head as you write is one thing, but to visualise something that you might normally just scribble down in note form and turn it into a piece of work itself, is something I see a lot of use in.
Even if these pieces are rather basic, they do serve a purpose. I have thought about the key themes from my story/work-in-progress and combined several throughout these collages. There are surreal aspects to all of them.
loss of innocence / identity / isolation / kudzu / wilderness
age / vertical city / skyscrapers / knowledge / looking back
reaching upwards / vertical city / the stars / overpopulation / technology / science
child / loss of innocence / violence / isolation
The Road / Cormac McCarthy
It's rare that a work of fiction can have intertwine inherent brutality and horror with startling and delicate beauty. The Road, the 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy, is a masterpiece indeed.
Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.
A man and his son travel through the wasteland of a charred and ruined America. A cartful of supplies and meaningless possession and each other. An unnamed catastrophe, some apocalyptic event has left the Earth a dead husk and McCarthy documents the man and the boy on their harrowing trek to the coast and further south, in the hope they will find less harsh winters, a source of food and more 'good guys'. On their journey they scavenge abandoned towns and houses for anything salvageable while making discreet fires at night to keep warm. The threat of starvation and the cold keep them moving while they attempt to remain hidden from cannibalistic bloodthirsty tribes that ravage near extinct life.
The cause of the end of civilisation and the death of the world is never explicitly stated or explained but subtlety remembered by the man and hinted at within his thoughts. An event at least a decade before the book takes place has destroyed the world as we know it. Animals are extinct, crops are dead and don't grow, the earth is strangled by ash that hides the sky and the sun. The vast majority of mankind is dead, left to rot in the cities or the countryside or wherever they fell. Those that survive are either good guys or bad guys.
The man and the boy, the father and the son. We never learn their names and apart from sparse understated and often tense interactions with other people on the road, they are the only characters in the book. They are the good guys. After a confrontation where a man pulls a knife and tries to take the boy, the man is forced to shoot him dead.
He sat there cowled in the blanket. After a while he looked up. Are we still the good guys? he said.
Yes. We're still the good guys.
And we always will be.
Yes. We always will be.
And they carry the fire – an expression for hope, for goodness and morality. They do not steal from or kill the living, unless they absolutely have to. They do not eat human flesh, no matter how starving and skeletal they become. They are moving south, away from the inevitable death of another winter, with no real motives other than surviving.
The man also has the unenviable task of trying to instill morals into a boy who has only ever known this hell. He has heard stories of what the world used to be like, of nature and beauty and love, but none of that he can visualise on this earth he walks upon. And while the man is keen to reinforce that they are the good guys, there are difficult moments where he must put their lives first. They are the good guys, but the man is also a hardened survivalist who will do anything and risk nothing. The boy always wants to help, he always tries to see the good in people. But the things the man has seen and done to protect the only thing he lives for have made him tough, and this leads to some heartbreaking moments between the two.
He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die.
He's going to die anyway.
He's so scared, Papa.
The man squatted and looked at him. I'm scared, he said. Do you understand? I'm scared.
The boy didn't answer. He just sat there with his head down, sobbing.
You're not the one who has to worry about everything.
The boy said something but he couldn't understand him. What? He said.
He looked up, his wet and grimy face. Yes I am, he said. I am the one.
The relationship between the man and the boy is the glue. They are one another. They rely on each other. The man lives because the boy lives.
[The boy]: What would you do if I died?
[The man]:If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?
Yes. So I could be with you.
Their dynamic is all of sweet, tragic, heartbreaking. Their dialogue is short and simple, and always flirts towards topics that the man knows they should not talk about, ideas that he does not want the boy to think about.
How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.
I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.
Nobody would know it.
It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.
The theatrical adaptation released in 2009 was a faithful adaptation. From pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/304767099759184167/
McCarthy has never shied away from violence. I wrote about Child Of God back in January, which focuses on a homicidal necrophiliac as a protagonist. Blood Meridian, certainly one of my favourite novels of all time, describes one violent massacre of cruelty and debauchery to the next.
The Road too, deals with troublesome times. It is not concerned with the apocalypse, the whys and hows of it. Simply put, that doesn't matter – it's not important. What McCarthy describes in horrifying beauty (a skill indeed) is a landscape dead and man, devolved to such a point where rape and cannibalism is the fear for the 'good guys'.
An army in tennis shoes, tramping. Carrying three-foot lengths of pipe with leather wrappings. [. . .] The phalanx following carried spears or lances tasseled with ribbons, the long blades hammered out of trucksprings in some crude forge upcountry. [. . .] Behind them came wagons drawn by slaves in harness and piled with goods of war and after that the women, perhaps a dozen in number, some of them pregnant, and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites illcothed against the cold and fitted in dogcollars and yoked each to each. All passed on. They lay listening.
Are they gone, Papa?
Yes, they're gone.
Did you see them?
Were they the bad guys?
Yes, they were the bad guys.
Avoiding starvation and freezing to death is only half the battle. Devolved monsters who have survived by carrying out despicable acts and ruling over the weak. The above quote hints at slavery, caravans that walk across the country looking for any other survivors to enslave.
He started down the rough wooden steps. He ducked his head and then flicked the lighter and swung the flame out over the darkness like an offering. Coldness and damp. An ungodly stench. The boy clutched at his coat. He could see part of a stone wall. Clay floor. An old mattress darkly stained. He crouched and stepped down again and held out the light. Huddled against the back wall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands. On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. The smell was hideous.
Jesus, he whispered.
And the insinuation the passage above gives is scarier than anything I've ever read, watched, hell experienced in any form of media. We are given a glimpse into what some people are willing to do, and perhaps think they have been forced to do, in order to etch out life and survive during these end times.
For me The Road is compelling and breathtaking. When a writer has a level of mastery of language and storytelling that McCarthy does, the scenarios covered can be violent and despicable, yet still a work of art and elegance. It just works. Their struggle is real.
Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee play the man and the boy respectively in the film adaptation. http://fanpix.famousfix.com/picture-gallery/viggo-mortensen-picture-14375239.htm
You feel the cold as the rain starts to beat down on their tarp. You feel their hunger as they rut around in the dirt and ashes of another abandoned house to find nothing but empty tins and rotting meat. You feel their fear as a party of cannibals rumbles past, wagons being pulled by slaves and victims destined to become their sustenance. It is depressingly bleak, and sometimes the brutality of this hopelessness winds you. As a reader, it can be punishing. Questions raised that one shudders to ponder and dares to consider answering.
I wish I was with my mom.
He didnt answer. He sat beside the small figure wrapped in the quilts and blankets. After a while he said: You mean you wish that you were dead.
You musnt say that.
Dont say it. It's a bad thing to say.
I cant help it.
I know. But you have to.
How do I do it?
The man is frequently forced to consider whether this suffering, this existence is worth it. His wife clearly did not think so. Having seen the horrors awaiting she takes suicide over being rape and murdered and eaten.
Will you tell him goodbye?
No. I will not.
Just wait till morning. Please.
I have to go.
She had already stood up.
For the love of God, woman. What am I to tell him?
I cant help you.
Where are you going to go? You cant even see.
I dont have to.
He stood up. I'm begging you, he said.
No. I will not. I cannot.
She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift. She would do it with a flake of obsidian. He'd taught her himself.
And she leaves him and the boy, alone. The discussion on suicide had been made, clearly. He had taught the wife and he had taught the boy on what to do. But he couldn't do it, not while there was hope and not while there was still the boy.
They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. They stood, their clothes flapping softly. Glass floats covered with a gray crust. The bones of seabirds. At the tide line a woven mat of weeds and the ribs of fishes in their millions stretching along the shore as far as eye could see like an isocline of death. One vast salt sepulchre. Senseless. Senseless.
Anyone familiar with McCarthy's writing will not be surprised how he makes the dead earth so believable. The way in which he glides through landscapes is metaphoric poetry.
Nights beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.
And while we spend the short days and long cold nights with these two survivors, through daydreams and nightmares the man recalls how the world used to be. The beauty that is now so long gone and forgotten it is a sadistic joke almost best erased from the mind entirely.
Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea's black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the pale surf appear all down the shore and roll and crash and darken again. When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.
Pain when the memory fades, and we are confronted with the truth, the here and now. All there ever has been replaced by the reality of all there ever will be.
And so you can understand and rationalise the reasoning behind the man when he tells the boy;
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Yes, there is a horrid bleakness to the so-called 'existence' that the boy and the man are living. It hits you like a tonne of bricks. It's like a living hell. It's easy to label the book as depressing. But it reaffirms how beautiful our world is, to appreciate what we have, and in retrospect gives true importance to our world. This is what McCarthy does so fantastically. He reinforces how beautiful our world is by creating something utterly terrifying, putting characters we care about and sympathise with in unimaginable situations.
There is an eloquent warning within. A post 9/11 plea for peace or a warning of the dangers of climate change? Or simply a book about faith, love, never giving up in the face of insurmountable odds. McCarthy is believed to have said that the book was dedicated to his son, a love letter to him so to speak. Perhaps that's what the The Road truly is. Not science fiction, or horror, but a love story.
You have to carry the fire.
I don't know how to.
Is the fire real? The fire?
Where is it? I don't know where it is.
Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.


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If you enter the phrase "bomb core arrives" into Google's image search engine, the first hit that pops up is this:
It's a faded, sepia-toned black and white photo of a small group of men carrying what looks like a heavy animal cage. It's not clear what direction they're walking, but they're between what looks like a scaffold, to the right; and to the left, a 1942 Plymouth. In this photo, you can't tell that the Plymouth is olive drab.
The story behind the photo is more interesting than any of the internet-generated nonsense about its origins.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico - one of the homes of the US nuclear weapons programme - publishes a web-based magazine called "Nuclear Weapons Journal", and in their March-April 2003 edition, the editors put the mystery of the men, the box, and the Plymouth to rest.
In the summer of 1945, the Manhattan Project was reaching its logical conclusion, with all technological paths converging on the Trinity Site in the New Mexico desert (at what is now the White Sands Missile Range), and the live test of the first nuclear explosive, scheduled for mid-July of that year. The device - which was only a bomb in the sense that it was something that was designed to explode; it could not have been carried by an aircraft - weighed more than ten thousand pounds, and was nicknamed "the Gadget". It was an implosion-type weapon with a plutonium core, the forerunner of the design that would later be used against Nagasaki under the code-name "Fat Man". The Project managers - principally US Army General Leslie Groves, and LANL Director Robert Oppenheimer - decided to test the implosion design first, as implosion-driven detonation was a much more challenging technical problem than the simpler gun-type, enriched-uranium-based "Little Boy", which was expected to work on the first try.
(Another reason was the slow production by gaseous diffusion and centrifuging of highly-enriched uranium, and the vast difference in the relative amounts of fissile material required - about 6 kg of Pu-239 for an implosion bomb, whereas the gun design required more than 60 kg of highly-enriched U-235).
The plutonium core for The Gadget was produced at LANL. This meant that it had to be driven 300 miles to the Trinity site, on a route passing through both Santa Fe and Albuquerque. The core made the journey in the small ventilated box that you see in the picture. The vents were necessary because plutonium has a very high radioactive decay rate, producing a significant amount of heat. The core would have been warm to the touch. Plutonium, which in its pure metallic form is hard and brittle, also has a number of odd and potentially dangerous physical properties. Unlike most metals, it is a poor conductor of heat and electricity. It oxidizes when exposed to air, and the oxides tend to flake, and are pyrophoric, meaning that they can spontaneously combust. Plutonium in its metallic form is an alpha emitter, and as such is not terribly dangerous; but combustion of plutonium oxides produces micrometer-sized particles than can be inhaled and ingested, and that can settle into the lungs and bone marrow, causing potentially fatal radiation poisoning. Finally, plutonium has six allotropic forms; it goes through phase transitions as it changes temperature, and changes density with each transition. Because criticality is a function of atoms per unit volume, a density change can cause sub-critical masses to suddenly become critical. The metal is usually stabilized by being alloyed with other metals, like aluminum, cerium or gallium. While this means that more material must be used to make a weapon core, it also improves the safety of the core, and makes the material easier to weld or machine.
And also easier to transport, as we can see in the original photo, which NWJ helpfully published (see page 22).
(Source: Nuclear Weapons Journal, March-April 2003, p. 21 – Back Cover)
To the right of the scaffold in the picture, you'll see a low rock wall. "Nuclear Weapons Journal" helped explain that, too. As the next picture shows, the wall surrounded the MacDonald Ranch, where the final components of the Gadget were assembled (in the master bedroom, which had been converted into a dust-free "clean room") before being driven the final few miles to Ground Zero at the Trinity test site. According to the Journal article, the scaffolding was not part of the original house; it had been constructed for the purpose of loading and unloading heavier components. The article also notes that the ranch had two water storage tanks, and that the Manhattan Project personnel used one of them as a swimming pool.
At 05:29:45 local time (Mountain War Time) on 16 July 1945, The Gadget was detonated atop a 100-foot-tall tower. The explosion generated 90 TJ of energy, roughly equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT (20 kt), created a glass-covered crater 10 feet deep and 1000 feet in diameter, and was felt over 100 miles away. The mushroom cloud reached 7.5 miles. Everybody remembers that LANL Director Robert J. Oppenheimer, quoting the Hindu goddess Shiva from the Bhagavad Gita, said, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Nobody seems to remember that he was responding to the test director, Ken Bainbridge, who, upon witnessing the explosion, had said, "Now we are all sons of bitches."
Sergeant Herbert Lehr, carrying the plutonium core for the Gadget.
(Source: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Photos/Trinity/image3.shtml)
The two guys carrying the box in the original photo - Sgt. Herbert Lehr, left, and Harry Daghlian, right - don't look like 'sons of bitches', do they? They look like regular guys. You wouldn't know from the photos that 44 years later, Daghlian would be used as the basis for a fictional character called Michael Merriman, who was played by John Cusack in "Fat Man and Little Boy". You probably remember what happened to Cusack's character in the movie, though; well, the same thing really happened to Daghlian. You see, about a month after he and Sgt. Lehr delivered the box containing the core for the Trinity test (you can see the handling case in Lehr's hand, above), Harry Daghlian suffered a lethal dose of radiation when he accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto another plutonium core during a criticality experiment.
Harry Daghlian
(Source: http://arnold_dion.tripod.com/Daghlian/)
He died 26 days later, 13 days after Japan's surrender, on September 15th 1945, from acute radiation poisoning. He was 24.
History is people.
NWJ: http://www.lanl.gov/science/weapons_journal/
Atomic Archive photo site: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Photos/Trinity/image1.shtml
Harry Daghlian: http://arnold_dion.tripod.com/Daghlian/
Posted by Donald A. Neill at 5:33 AM
Labels: Defence Science, Military History, Nuclear Weapons

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Doriane Vidal (Limoges, 16 april 1976) is een voormalig snowboardster uit Frankrijk. Ze vertegenwoordigde haar vaderland op de Olympische Winterspelen 1998 in Nagano, de Olympische Winterspelen 2002 in Salt Lake City en de Olympische Winterspelen 2006 in Turijn.

Tegenwoordig heeft Vidal samen met haar vader een wijngaard waar ze hun eigen wijn produceren.

Resultaten

Snowboarden

Olympische Winterspelen

Wereldkampioenschappen

Wereldbeker

Eindklasseringen

Wereldbekerzeges

Externe links

  Website van Domaine Doriane Vidal

Frans snowboarder
Frans olympisch deelnemer

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Arsenal defender Saliba speaks out after making loan switch
William Saliba has accused Arsenal of not giving him the chance to 'rediscover his rhythm' after he left to join Nice on loan.
The centre back was shipped out to the Ligue 1 side recently to regain confidence and pick up some form.
He's been reduced to playing with the Gunners' second team this season and is yet to make his first team debut.
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Speaking briefly about his situation with the club, Saliba said: "The coach immediately told me that I was not ready. I would have at least liked to have had a chance to rediscover my rhythm. But this is football, it's like that."
The 19-year-old joined from St Etienne in July 2019 for a £27 million fee.
He then spent the 2019/20 season on loan with his former club, making 17 appearances in all competitions.
Arteta was recently asked about Saliba's loan move in a press conference. The Spaniard said: "We signed a big project that we had some issues with because he hasn't played enough football in the last eighteen months.
"At that age and in the development phase he is at, that is crucial. I was very conscious when he came back. He didn't do the step that he had to do before joining us that to start a relationship with a new manager, with a new club, with new team-mates.
"The situation where he is not having any game time is really difficult and I think it's really damaging for the future."
The Gunners have previously been accused of 'illogical treatment' over the young defender. He was brought in as a future star in their team, but Arteta has refrained from giving him first team opportunities.
Saliba's spell with Nice could be crucial in getting his development back on track.
Neville explains Sir Alex advice he ignored in brief Valencia stint
'Man Utd felt completely in control against Liverpool' – Matic takes positives from Anfield reversal
Julie Gayet et Paolo Sorrentino récompensent la France


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Yehuda Benin, landscaper
"After the very, very early beginnings, kibbutzim weren't the spontaneous bodies that popped up. They very quickly became very keen tools in the Zionist movement toolkit to get a hold of the land. "
Yehuda Benin
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That evening, Yehuda came over for dinner. His family was on a visit to the US, so he was "batching" it.
Yehuda comes from a Hashomer Hatzair family. That's a left wing Zionist movement responsible for developing many kibbutzim, including Shumrat, so he was well within his family's tradition when he made aliya and joined the kibbutz.
It was a very interesting discussion that covered a lot of ground, but since I was relaxing and eating instead of paying attention to the camera, which I left running, mounted on a tripod, the video is pretty pathetic, even by my low standards!
In this brief segment, he gives an interesting perspective on the movement.
Transcription (edited) of video clip:
Yehuda: I think that to understand what the kibbutz is about, to understand things that happen on the kibbutz, I think it's important to understand about the background. After the very, very early beginnings, kibbutzim weren't the spontaneous bodies that popped up. They very quickly became very keen tools in the Zionist movement toolkit to get a hold of the land. To settle the land. And it was a very effective tool, because what happened is that young people with socialist ideals settled the land in places where no in his right mind would invest his money. And today everybody recognized that the borders of the state of Israel are defined by the line of the kibbutz settlements. Shamat was the first kibbutz founded in 1948 where the border of the partition plan was the Aqua Stava Road . And we're on the north side of that road. So as soon as the Sahah liberated the Galilee they popped in these settlements, including Shamat. So it was very mission oriented.
Peter: So, in the original partition this would have been Arab land, but after the War of Independence it became Israel ?
Yehuda: Became? They went and they conquered it. There was Jewish settlement in the upper Galilee and in the Jordan valley and there are a few pre-1948 settlements Naharia, and a couple of kibbutzim near the Lebanese border, but by in large, all the Jewish settlements in the western Galilee are after 1948. With the exception of Naharia.
So then you have the nature of the people who came to settle here. So, Shamat was settled by a combination of people some of whom were partisan fighters during World War II in Europe . The bulk of the people who came were concentration camp graduates. And still others were fighters of the Hamas (Haganah? -pr) . So this is the human material that the kibbutzim.
It would not be correct to define Shamat as a socialist community, but more of an anarchist community. Anarchist in the positive naïve sense of the word not the negative connotation.
Srul: In BOTH connotations!
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Secretary of War
Henry Knox
Continental Army general, chief artillery officer, first Secretary of War; 1750—1806.
Soldier, lawyer, Virginia governor, diplomat, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, fifth President; 1758—1831.
Virtually all modern accounts of the Revolution begin in 1763 with the Peace of Paris, the great treaty that concluded the Seven Years' War. Opening the story there, however, makes the imperial events and conflicts that followed the war — the controversy over the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act crisis — into precursors of the Revolution. No matter how strenuous their other disagreements, most modern historians have looked at the years after 1763 not as contemporary Americans and Britons saw them — as a postwar era vexed by the unanticipated problems in relations between the colonies and metropolis — but as what we in retrospect know those years to have been, a pre-Revolutionary period. By sneaking glances, in effect, at what was coming next, historians robbed their accounts of contingency and suggested, less by design than by inadvertence, that the independence and nationhood of the United States were somehow inevitable.
— Fred Anderson
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766 (2000)
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
— Samuel Adams, 1776


This might be a bit off topic, but one thing that bothers me quite a bit is that people whose children took clarinet instruction from a high school band teacher and were in a school band often sell the instrument if the student later loses interest or if the student advances and purchases a professional clarinet of greater value. These parents have no use for the student clarinet and post them for sale on places like Craigslist and ask extremely low prices for them. For example, a clarinet the parent purchased on a rent-to-own plan for $450 later advertise it for sale at a ridiculously low price such as $50 or $150 a couple of years later. I actually contacted one such person and pointed out that she is devaluing the instrument and making it very difficult for others who expect to sell a clarinet at fair market value. She replied saying she had no idea how much to ask and I told her to ask no less than $200 or preferably more.
During this past year I have become aware of a FANTASTIC clarinet – at a tremendous price – that certainly can be used for young players – but – an instrument that is good enough to take a student quite far. The famous German bassoon maker, Schreiber, had a collaboration with the Buffet company several years ago – and THEY made the E 11 for Buffet – in Germany – BUT – after Buffet severed the relationship, Shreiber continued making the clarinet – BUT – with their name on it.
The instrument is beautiful – silver Buffet keys, gorgeous wood, excellent pitch and quality – BUT – selling for a fraction of the cost of an E 11 Buffet! I had a student purchase one this past year and I'm constantly amazed as to how her horn, in many ways, is as good as my R13!!
Check out the Schreiber Clarinet! Not the old German system – the Scheiber copy of the E 11 – it's terrific!
I know very little, but I have a Vito Reso-Tone B flat clarinet and my teacher told me it was a nice clarinet for a beginner. It is plastic and was made in USA.
I started off on a regular ol' Selmer. It served me well for a good 8 years before I bought myself a Buffet E11 for high school, but I continued to use the Selmer all through marching band and since have donated the Selmer to my high school. An instrument like that is really built to take a beating, I've found, and as long as you take care of it, it'll last for a while.
As for the E11, it's just lovely and plays so well as long as you service it every so often and keep it clean and happy. Until I can afford something of a bit more professional quality, that's the horn I'm using and honestly, I'm very happy with it.
Long, long time ago, in band class one would have to carry this clarinet tip around with them for weeks at a time learning how to blow threw it.
Then one note at a time for a few days over and over and by the time the school year was over with we could march in a line and play bye, bye black bird.
All this did nothing for me in relationship to becoming a clarinetist.
All that took place many years later and putting the clarinet aside for many years as well.
That it really doesn't make a bit of bloody well difference.
Anything that is light weight, easy to blow through, and has small holes so that not much effort is needed to cover then up even with tense fingers, OH yes an easy blow threw tip that fits nicely, one that your lips can fit over evenly not one that is five times larger then the naturally form of your mouth.
Anything else well would just be a waste because you really couldn't have the experience to appreciate any kind of quality in a good instrument.
Now here's a real tip. When you can manipulate the tone and most keys your ready to look for a real clarinet and just because it is expensive doesn't really make it a match for you.
I thought I was really smart in selecting a good clarinet I don't have very many however I do have some of the most popular ones.
But the one I can tell you stands out the most is a 1962 Selmer Signet Soloist made in the USA, I picked up in a pawn shop in Marysville California in 1989. huh go figure!!


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Why does my AR have a side charge?
1 Why does my AR have a side charge?
2 Who makes a side charging AR-15?
3 What is the purpose of an AR-15 charging handle?
4 Do charging handles make a difference?
5 Is Bear Creek Arsenal mil-spec?
6 Where is Bear Creek Arsenal located?
7 What is the thumb button on an AR-15?
8 Is an ambidextrous charging handle worth it?
9 What happened to American Spirit Arms?
10 How is Bear Creek Arsenal so cheap?
11 What is charging handle on AR 15 rifle?
12 Does anyone make a bolt action AR upper?
13 What is a side Charger?
Unless the AR has been significantly redesigned, charging handles are a universal fit for any other handle on the market. A side charging upper assembly eliminates the need for a charging handle. Side-charging AR-15s are similar in action to the FN SCAR and AK47.
Who makes a side charging AR-15?
1. JP Enterprises PSC-12 Side-Charging Upper. JP Enterprises is known for their high-end ARs and accessories, and their PSC Series Side Charging Uppers maintains that reputation for quality.
What is the purpose of an AR-15 charging handle?
The cocking handle, also known as charging handle or bolt handle, is a device on a firearm which, when manipulated, results in the bolt being pulled to the rear, putting the hammer/striker into a spring-loaded ("cocked") "ready and set" position, allowing the operator to open the breech and eject any spent/unwanted …
Do charging handles make a difference?
Even the most basic Mil-Spec style charging handle can be well made and can stand above other Mil-Spec options. While the differences are subtle, once you start running the charging handle, they are significant. A textured grip is excellent for clearing jams when your hands are sweaty or if you are wearing gloves.
Is Bear Creek Arsenal mil-spec?
[Parts] Bear Creek Arsenal complete 16″ mil-spec uppers starting at $149 (add $79 for BCG/CH).
Where is Bear Creek Arsenal located?
Our state-of-the-art facility stretching over 340,000 sq. ft., employs over 500 employees, right in the heart of Sanford, North Carolina. With 300 of the latest industry standard CNC machines, Bear Creek Arsenal's firearm output covers a wide variety of calibers, finishes, and fluting.
What is the thumb button on an AR-15?
The forward assist on a firearm is a button found commonly on AR-15 rifle derivatives, such as the M16 rifle, and is usually located near the bolt closure. When hit, it pushes the bolt carrier forward, ensuring that the bolt is locked.
Is an ambidextrous charging handle worth it?
Ambidextrous charging handle: The ambidextrous version is often preferred for use as a tactical charging handle. You can use it with equal proficiency with either hand. The ample surface area enables fast and easy access from either side, making it suitable for both left- and right-handed shooters.
What happened to American Spirit Arms?
American Spirit Arms has ceased operations (it's about time!).
How is Bear Creek Arsenal so cheap?
How is Bear Creek Arsenal So Affordable? Our secret is scale. 450 Bushmaster to 5.56 NATO, BCA ships more direct-to-consumer barrels, upper assemblies, and rifles in more calibers and in more twist rates than any other manufacturer.
What is charging handle on AR 15 rifle?
What Is The Charging Handle. The charging handle is simply the component of the AR-15 that moves the bolt into the 'ready' position so the rifle can be fired. It also allows you to eject spent shells, to clear a stoppage, and to confirm that the weapon is either empty or loaded.
Does anyone make a bolt action AR upper?
Uintah Precision produces the only true bolt action AR rifle upper on the market. Made for precision, made in the USA. Manufacturer's warranty.
What is a side Charger?
Side Arm Charger is a rail mounted machine used to pull the loaded wagons along with the rake & push out the empty wagon from the tippler platform after tippling. Operation : The full rake of 58 wagons shall be brought in by locomotive and stopped with the first wagon within range of the Side Arm Charger.
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Founded after the invention of the finger wheel rake.
The creation of an entirely unique artificial fertilizer spreader, which even today is still produced and sold in America.
A uniquely designed tedder tine which turns crop faster and evenly is created.
The development of the Lelyterra power harrow marks the real breakthrough and internationalization of Lely as a company and an unprecedented growth in sales.
This cutter bar contains far fewer fears than any other cutter bar, which results in outstanding output and saving on fuel.
A prototype of the Lely Astronaut milking robot is introduced. Farmers acknowledge this as the most important invention of the 20th century for dairy farmers.
Lely brings to market the revolution of the dairy robotic milk system.
The tedder was the world's largest for decades in terms of tedding output and quality.
The world's largest 2-rotor central delivery rake is introduced.
Lely offers a state-of-the-art design with advanced milking robot technology to ensure greater reliability and flexibility with the Lely Astronaut.
Lely introduces a very simple invention ensuring a timely, easy and above all safe change of mower blades.
Lely provides an intelligent solution, which meets the growing need of dairy farmers for optimum hygiene in their cow housings.
Lely takes a major step forward in the automated supply of feed to livestock.
Lely launches the first fully variable baler/wrapper combination in the market place.
The Astronaut A4 is set up in modular concept. A central unit features a central vacuum and cleaning system for up to two cow units.
The automated feeding system for flexible and fresh feeding of cows is introduced.
Lely reaches milestone sales in robotic milking with the Lely Astronaut.
A prototype of the Lely Welger CB Concept is introduced. Farmers acknowledge its continuous quality, capacity and comfort.
The optional packages meet farmers' needs.
Strategic choice to focus on dairy farms worldwide and sale of our forage harvesting machines to AGCO Corporation.
The era of dairy automation truly took off when Lely started with robotic milking.


Determining the best way to visit Disneyland depends largely on what you hope to get out of your vacation. Consider a handful of questions before booking your trip, including factors such as weather, crowds, the amount of time you want to spend in the park and available attractions. Your travel budget will also play a large role in shaping your vacation, but you can save money without having to be overly frugal by following a couple of simple steps.
Decide which time of year you want to visit Disneyland, taking into account weather, crowds and park hours. The weather in Anaheim, California, is nicest from July through August, when average daytime temperatures hover in the mid-80s; and although hours vary, the Disneyland park is typically open later during the summer months. It is also the most crowded during this time.
Avoid popular travel periods, such as spring break and holiday weekends, unless you don't mind battling large crowds. For the best chance at smaller crowds, consider visiting Disneyland during a weekday in the fall or winter.
Navigate to the Park Hours and Schedule page on Disneyland's website to view the hours and events for the days you're considering. Park hours often vary by day, as do shows and show times. Click the "Day" tab to see a listing of rides that are closed for refurbishment on a particular day, which is an important consideration -- you don't want to show up at Disneyland when all your favorite rides are out of service.
Purchase multiple-day passes to the park to save money on admission. Park Hopper passes, which allow you admission to both Disneyland and California Adventure Park, are also available, with multiple-day options ranging from two to six days.
Snag a FASTPASS for Disneyland's busier rides once you get to the park -- these include Splash Mountain, Space Mountain and Indiana Jones Adventure. The FASTPASS machines are usually located near the ride entrance. Your pass will specify a time frame during which you can return and get in an expedited line, allowing you to do other things in the meantime.
Line up for Disneyland's most popular rides early in the day or during parade times. Since you can have only one FASTPASS at a time, you'll still have to wait in line for some rides, and the best time to do that is when large numbers of people are doing something else. You'll find daily parade and event schedules on the Disneyland website or at the park entrance.
Adams, Robert. "The Best Way to Visit Disneyland." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/way-visit-disneyland-33667.html. Accessed 20 April 2019.
Space Mountain in Tomorrowland at Disneyland at night. Cropped from the original (CC BY 2.0) licensed image.


Determining which Method of Instruction to use in a training program can sometimes be difficult, because there are many different instructional methods which may be used in a training environment. Each method has certain advantages and disadvantages, some are more suited for certain kinds of instruction than others. Each of the different methods require greater or lesser participation by students. One method, or perhaps a combination of methods, is usually most appropriate for most subject matter and objectives.
The common methods of instruction are the instructor-lead, lecturer, demonstrator, practical exercise, and the self-study, with each of these methods it will have someone doing something to teach whatever it is you there to learn, only exception is the self-study independent method.
Based on your subject matter, you will need to determine which instructional method's will best showcase the information you will be teaching.
This is the most common used method of instruction, where the instructor becomes the sole disseminator of information. The Instructor presents information to the student systematically in this method. This approach is consider the best method to use because the instructor interfaces with the students by presenting segments of instruction, questions the students frequently, and provides periodic summaries or logical points of development.
The lecture method is also a widely used method of instruction, with this method the lecture becomes the sole disseminator of information. Interaction with the students is often limited by the lectures when presenting segments of instruction, questions the students frequently have only the choice of listening to what is being presented.
The Demonstration method is one where the student observes the portrayal of a procedure, technique, or operation. The demonstration method shows how to do something or how something works.
The controlled PE is a form of PE where the student is guided, step-by-step through a procedure, technique or operation. It is characterized by two things: (1) Students participate as a class, (2) they are guided through a set sequence, and students generally complete each step and are checked by the instructor prior to continuing to the next step. A mistake is corrected before the student is allowed to proceed to the next step.
Students (alone or as part of a team effort ) repeatedly perform previously learned actions, sequences, operations, or procedures.
The student performs as a member of a group to solve a text book problem with a team solution or practice completing a sequenced task.
In this method, the student performs individually while being observed by the coach. The coach's responsibility is to ensure that the student performs the action or process correctly. When the student then completes a given task, he assumes the role of the coach and the coach becomes the pupil.
The student independently, applies prior skills or knowledge gained in either an actual or training situation. He practices by himself although he may ask for instructor advice if necessary.
Remember, as you consider which method or methods of instruction you are going use and incorporate into your instructional training program. You must pay carefully attention to developing your objectives and the development of your teaching points. They must be realistic, logical, and achievable by not only you but the students as well. And attempts to cut corners here could result in an ineffective training program, in other words a complete "failure."
During the course we will examine more closely the advantages and disadvantages of each methods of instruction, and how they can be used to reinforce your teaching points and reach your objectives effectively.
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Q: how to arrange form Hi I have a few buttons in a visualForce page that are connected to functions. Most of these buttons work fine, but for some, they won't refer to the Apex file. I believe it has something to do with the apex:form tag but I'm not sure how or how to arrange them to solve the problem.
This is the VisualForce page that is giving me the error (I cant seem to be able to upload the entire thing).
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The buttons under the second pageblocksection work like a charm but the ones under the first block don't fire thhe functions assigned to them in Apex. What am I doing wrong? How to arrange the apex:forms?
Thanks!

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Kimberly, thanx for being so positive. :smile1:You're right Sminu Minu about disregarding the financial package. I spoke with my RM today and he only wanted another updated paystub. I only gave 1 last time because I barely went back to work. I actually stayed up all night to finish the HAMP application like it was my homework assignment due the next morning only to not need it.
My next appointment is 4/24/13 so update u all then.
Juana, I am kinda in the same boat with the high income and debt, mortage a little different though. Anyway, I have appt on the 24th as well, been trying for in house, but they saying I am still under review.. When I spoke with the last they kept telling me if my income changes to submit another hamp, but I dont think that will happen, I just wish that they will tell me something positive, so me and my family can move on. I hope it works out for you..
Just got new email again. This time it ask me for recent bank statements. But I will just wait until my interview with my RM though before doing anything. I just wish they ask for these all at once instead of every 2 weeks asking for something new. I will also be 3 months late on the mortgage this coming week. I was thinking of making one mortgage payment or paying off some credit card balance so my bank account shows less money. I have 6k in one and 5k in other but thats because i just got my tax refund money and I havent been paying my student loans payment or my medical bills. I dont know if this is considered too much money.
Our loan was transferred from Homeward as well. We were approved for an In-house modification. We signed our papers and returned them back in February. Or first payment was due April 1. I had an appointment call today with Ocwen and they are saying that we need to make a down payment, and that are mod is a trial basis only. That is not stated anywhere in the loan mod paperwork that we signed. Any suggestions on who I can talk with? I don't feel comfortable making our payment till we get clarification. I can't make a down payment plus make another payment for April.
Are you sure you have to make a down payment prior to entering the trial period, or are they just requesting three trial period payments before a permanent modification can be offered? Keep in mind that virtually all modification will require you to go through the three month trial period prior to receiving permanent assistance. I'm not sure why they would schedule an appointment call with you on the 15th if the first trial period payment was due on the 1st of this month?.. Here try contacting the Ombudsman's office to see if they can figure out exactly what is going on with the mod..
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In addition to what Evan said, I'd consider making a mortgage payment (since you mentioned it) to avoid going 90 days past due. I'm sure you've already thought of that!
Turns out my interview with RM has nothing to do with my bank statements. My prior servicer had me turned in my home owners association annual budget to prove we had insurance on the town home. For some reason Ocwen thought I was the "owner' of my HOA company and that the hoa budget was my financial statement. HAHA I was like that worksheet had figures in the millions. If i had such a company I would not be in this mess...Lame.. So back to square one. Back to being in review.
So how important is it to NOT be 90 days late. I have only a few days to make a payment but i noticed a lot of people are more than 90s day and all late fees are waived once their mod is approved.
To me it's more that at 90 days they can start the foreclosure process. ( I don't know how it works everywhere or if you said what state you were in.) that's what I'd be looking at, though, if going 90 days would trigger that. It might not if you're in review for a mod. I don't know! I'd want to find that out.
Something interesting has happened to my account.
otherwise its not that good of mod. update u later.
This sounds great and the payment should be including taxes and insurance as well Juana! Once your account reflects new terms it's likely you have been approved and the trial period documents should be on the way shortly!
I waited anxiously all day until 6pm to talk to my RM to find out that I got approved!
Here are the new terms.
I asked if there was any kind of penalty for selling the house and the RM said no. So I dont think this is a SAM. RM did not mention anything about 25% share profit.
Congrats, Juana! Payment reduction and loan forgiveness! Awesome news.
I am back. I thought all my troubles were gone. So i am done with the 3 month trial period. My issue now is that my HOA 375 is not being paid by Ocwen. My relationship manager said that it was going to be part of my mortgage payment of 2265. Now it looks like i am responsible for paying it myself. But the HOA is supposed to be paid by Ocwen because my hoa includes my property tax. I faxed in all the paperwork in 2 weeks ago proving it. Today I just finish talking to the RM and there is still no updates. I have to wait another week. So I will let u all now what happens next.
So to others when the Relationship manager tells you that hoa fee is also include in the mortgage payment, be cautious.
Hi everyone, I am back. I thought all my troubles were gone. So i am done with the 3 month trial period. My issue now is that my HOA 375 is not being paid by Ocwen. My relationship manager said that it was going to be part of my mortgage payment of 2265. Now it looks like i am responsible for paying it myself. But the HOA is supposed to be paid by Ocwen because my hoa includes my property tax. I faxed in all the paperwork in 2 weeks ago proving it. Today I just finish talking to the RM and there is still no updates. I have to wait another week. So I will let u all now what happens next. So to others when the Relationship manager tells you that hoa fee is also include in the mortgage payment, be cautious.
Thanks for your post. If I were you, I wouldn't wait a week (probably more) for an answer from your clueless RM. I'd write a letter the Ocwen's CEO, explaining the siuation, and demanding that the problem be immediately rectified.
So got the call from OCWEN today to say that I am responsible for paying HOA fees myself. Today is the very first day they told me that it was my responsibility. So why did they not tell me this before. In fact they told me it was included in my new mortgage payment during trial period.
I am looking at my new Home Modification Agreement and it says... $1913 is monthly principal and interest payment amount and $352 escrowed payment amount for property tax.
All they have to do was tell me truth so i can budget my fiances. If hoa fees as not included in my mortgage then just say so. Dont mislead me.
Should I still contact OCWEN CEO or just let this one rest because HOA fees are normally not included in modifications anyways.????
Are hoa fees escrow into other peoples mortgage payments?


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is there a way to embed video file with a simple player into a post? I'm not talking about some external *tube but small video files uploaded to my hub?
Just click the paper clip attachment icon and select a video.
The post editor box is also a drop target.
Thanks! Still no go though, what am I doing wrong?
Neither a fresh attachment nor an existing file are shown as video.
Something missing in the hub setup? An App missing?
maybe 'cause is MOV ?
the player you see appears, after all, it depends on the possibility that the browser (with which you open the pages of hubzilla) has to "read" that type of file. and, for example, if firefox does not "read" the MOV files, then you will not be able to see the player (and therefore the video).
Hubzilla and Zap support mp4, mp4a, ogv, ogm, webm, and opus when using the video tag. If I recall, we actually check these types against the filename to make sure you don't link a video HTML5 element to a flash video. This has caused us problems in the past. Not all browsers support all these types, so you can still include videos that nobody in your audience can see. I would recommend using mp* or og* for the widest interoperability. There is not at this time a built-in transcoder or flash video player for viewing unsupported types.
would be good to be able to specify poster image. it may not be practical to build the functionality to 'user select' the frame from the video, but it's possible to do so. maybe as an optional plug-in?
I've added this in the gitlab repository. By parameterising it we can support additional options in the future. I can't access framagit from here so I'll push it to that repo tomorrow.
Probably need to extend the opengraph support in mod_linkinfo to automatically pull this from webpages. Most og:video elements on webpages will be pointing at YouTube flash videos so it may take a bit more work before this is actually useful. Still the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Thanks for the support and the improvements!
Just for completeness: Yes, with an *.mp4 I do get the video player! The *.mov files were examples straight out of the nikon camera.


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"This videograph is a glimpse of some of the most intimate, unrehearsed moments of the Picuris Indian people at the site of their ancient pueblo hidden in a 'Shangri-La' setting in a high mountain vallery in the Picuris Mountains of north central New Mexico. The mountains were named by the Spanish after this Indian tribe who occupied them. The people refer to themselves as the 'people of the hidden valley.' They speak an ancient language called Tiwa.
The village, occupied continuously for almost 800 years, consisted in early historic times of three great apartment buildings, recorded by the Spanish as being seven to nine stories hight, the tallest recorded by any Spanish in the Southwest. They were occupied by 3000 Picuris who today number less than 300 people.
The fact that Picuris Pueblo was not discovered by three early Spanish expeditions into the Rio Grande Valley remains an enigma to historians. The Picuris were finally, to their chagrin, discovered by Gaspar Castaño de Sosa on a freezing winter day (January 13), 1591. Having heard of prior Spanish treachery, the Picuris would not let him enter any of their buildings, driving him away with hurled stones.
The scenes in this videograph are not the usual dances viewed by tourists. These are dances and drum choruses performed in the vicinity of their sacred ceremonial room, the kiva, when few outsiders are around. The dances are done for the people in all their sacredness and enjoyment. In making this videograph the Picuris role was not a passive one as they guided the photographers to photograph important aspects of the ceremonies for future generation preservation.
This artful videograph is the result of hundreds of hours of recording over a period of five years. There is a special dividend for the viewer with a discussion of the 1776 Picuris adobe church, church construction, and the role of Catholicism by Harold Joe Waldrum, one of the foremost protectors and painters of ancient churches in New Mexico."
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Picuris Indians, 1988
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Navajo Artist R.C. Gorman
"When I started to make this videograph, I had intended to do a serious study of a beloved and famous artist who I believed was a consummate gentleman. The only thing, of which I was sure, was that it would be serious and not funny. Well, it did not work out. If you leave out the hilarious, fun-loving, gregarious R.C. Gorman, you miss the point of this wonderful human being. You miss the essence of Navajo. I decided to structure the story toward those persons closest to Gorman: his household manager, Rose Royball, his agent and gallery manager, Virginia Dooley, his personal secretary, Rosalie Talbott and his Aunt Mary who was with him during his formative years on the Navajo Reservation. Aunt Mary was his first sculpture teacher. Every time it rained, they would make sculpture from the mud. You will hear thoughts from his Aunt Marietta, who helped and lent him support while he was getting an education in Flagstaff and from his sister, Donna Scott who lives in Many Farms, Arizona. There are sensitive stories from his father, Carl Gorman, retired professor of the University of California at Davis and a statesman of the Navajo Nation.
This videograph is about work. You see Gorma working with his models in his studio just north of Taos, New Mexico. You see him working with his lithographer, Peter Holmes at Origins Press in Tucson, Arizona. You discover the complexity of lithography. You get glimpses of Gorman in his ceramic studio. You see him signing the molded paper pieces, the ceramics, the lithographs, and the prodigious out-pouring of work that it takes to satisfy the demands of his audience. It is narrated by Virginia Dooley. After experiencing the plethora of activity, I found it necessary to end this videograph with the serenity that no one can get close to except by viewing his work, the artistry of R.C. Gorman."
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Discussion in 'iPad' started by celo48, Mar 22, 2011.
Is your iPad your primary computer?
Do you use your iPad as your primary computer?
You could use it a primary computer - if you have something like a mini as your secondary computer to be your media server.
I have a Macbook Pro which I consider my primary computer, but my iPad gets just as much use if not more so it's hard to say which is 'Primary'.
No, but I do use it alot. Win' pc does some things, but browsing, email etc. done on iPad.
Primary access to the internet? YES. For general computing? NO.
That is my intention when I get it. I want to make it my main computer. I plan to use my other computer only when I need to add media or sync my media.
I think we are getting closer everyday in being capable of doing this. As more apps become available they will make it a smoother transition.
If by primary, you mean use more than my iMac. Then hell yes.
Don't you find it slow for internet use compared to a computer?
As an entertainment device - yes.
If you can use it as your primary computer, you didn't need a computer in the first place.
The iPad 2 loads pages pretty damn quick.
However, it's pretty much impossible for anyone that likes to use their computers to the fullest to have an iPad as the primary. I am considering having a setup as listed above though, where there's an always connected home system that you can access from anywhere with the iPad/iPhone. My question is, why have two devices (iPad and home PC/Mac) when you can just have one that's both portable and capable of full computing (MacBook)?
I use it primarily, but not as my primary.
Personally I don't think the iPad 2 is very quick for browsing on wifi, and 3g is even slower. It doesn't make it a bad device, but in my opinion you wait a lot for pages to load.
I'll definitely agree it's not as fast as an intel-based system, but still I'm impressed with its speed. You are right though, you will ultimately be waiting longer for some pages on the iPad. I actually saw a post recently where someone said try out www.msnbc.com, and compared to my mac, it loaded significantly slower on the iPad.
internet browsing, mp3, youtubing, apps/games, yes.
That was probably me. I actually had an iPad 2 completely freeze up loading that at the Apple store last night. I tested loading that site on several iPads and almost every Macbook in the store. The Air was much faster than the iPad, and the Macbook Pros were somewhat faster than the Airs. I thought it was a good comparison to try since all machines were on the same wifi network. Less complex pages loaded much quicker on the iPad.
Nope. It is just a content consumption, wev surfing etc device for me.
I need a full PC to do my work on.
Pretty much so, after I got my iPad i haven't even touched my MacBook pro. I love this thing.
I use the iPad almost exclusively daily!! Browse, gaming, reading, viewing,emailing, chatting on forums, etc. I rarely use my macbook pro.
You know, people do consume on the laptops as well??
It should be faster on the macbook pro which are going at 2 ghz with either dual core or quad. The Air is going at a higher speed, too. Duh! Bandwidth!! Word!
Sure. I just find tablets superior for things like reading the news, surfing the net on the couch etc.
But for now a tablet and a full PC/Mac are complementary devices. Something like the IPad can't be main PC for someone who uses a computer for work. Maybe if it's just straight writing. But not for someone like me who has to use a wide array of software packages to carry out my research etc.
I work on my PCs and play on my iPad mainly.
I use it for everything but writing code.
If it "docked" to a big screen and ran XCode, I'd sell my iMac.


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