The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) has announced that ABC1 and iView will broadcast two APSA Scene by Scene documentary programs back to back on Sunday December 12. The programs will also be broadcast through the Australia Network and International Channel Shanghai.
The fourth annual APSA Ceremony will take place on December 2 on Queensland's Gold Coast where 31 films from 15 countries and areas will compete for the region's highest accolade in film.
This year's APSA Jury President is renowned Academy Award-winning film maker Lord David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire, The Mission, Midnight Express, The Killing Fields) arguably one of the world's most influential producers. The first Scene by Scene episode, to be broadcast on ABC1 on December 12 at 4:30pm, will look at Lord Puttnam's prolific 30-year career and include highlights of his keynote address to APSA Nominees and Delegates.
Both programs will also screen through the ABC's online channel iView along with the APSA Ceremony in its entirety.
Highlights of the Scene by Scene programs include the story of New Zealand filmmaker Gaylene Preston and her poetic film memoir, Home By Christmas, based on interviews with her father about the wartime marriage of her parents, Ed and Tui; a tribute to women filmmakers from the region who are at the forefront of the industry, including interviews with Indian acting legend Shabana Azmi; the star of Brick Lane and Road, Movie, Tannishtha Chatterjee; and the woman they call the Queen of Sri Lankan cinema, Malani Fonseka. The program journeys to Iran, where its highly regarded film industry is facing escalating challenges to its independence from an increasingly hostile regime, and to China for interviews with the makers of the box office smash hits Aftershock and City of Life and Death; as well as to India where Marathi language cinema, the original cinema of Mumbai, is staging a spirited cultural renaissance.
APSA is an international cultural initiative of the Queensland Government and a unique collaboration with UNESCO and FIAPF-International Federation of Film Producers Associations. APSA acclaims films from more than 70 countries and areas; one third of the earth; and half the world's film output.
Winners in the fourth annual APSAs will be determined by the International Jury and announced at the fourth annual APSA Ceremony on December 2. Films are judged on cinematic excellence and the way in which they attest to their cultural origins.


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Q: Feeding arduino with ATX standby power I'm designing an Arduino shield to allow the Arduino to control, among other things, an ATX power supply -- I'm running GPIO pins to the PS_ON and P_OK pins of the ATX.  I would like to be able to run the Arduino off of the 5V_STDBY rail, with no risk of damage if the Arduino is plugged in via USB concurrently with the ATX power supply switched on.  I make mistakes; sooner or later I'll connect them both at the same time and I'd rather not fry my arduino, or worse still my USB port.
I'm designing as a shield, because so many devices these days support the arduino header footprint, that I can swap out for something else if I want down the line.
The basic idea is to wire ground to ground, and 5V_STDBY on the PSU to the arduino's 5V pin.  Now, because different regulators run at slightly different voltages, I don't want to short one to the other.
The fact that this is a a shield puts a new twist on an old problem.  There is no pin corresponding to +5V USB in, so solutions like those in this question OR-ing power supplies (diode or mosfet)  can't be used, because I have no direct way of knowing if the USB cable is connected.
My first idea is to take half of the diode solution from the question I just posted.  That is, put a diode with anode tied to 5V_STDBY and cathode tied to the Arduino's 5V pin.  At 16MHz, the ATMega can handle as low as 3.78V (http://www.atmel.com/Images/doc8161.pdf page 316), and a silicon diode would only drop about 700mV, so even if the PSU only delivers 4.75V, that still leaves me about 300mV of headroom. The hope is to leverage the turn-on voltage of the diode.  If the PSU's voltage is a bit lower, then even if the arduino is drawing no current, we're only dealing with reverse leakage current back to the PSU.  If the PSU's voltage is a bit higher, we'll still have a limited amount of current because the diode won't reach the voltage where it conducts significantly, even if both regulators are 5% off from 5V in opposite directions (500mV).  Hopefully what small effect the regulators have on each other won't hurt them.
Now, since we're talking about a USB port that I don't want to replace, is this a legitimate solution?  Are there any questions I should be asking that I'm not?
If so, should I be concerned about VCC on the ATMega328 being so low that a HIGH signal on the input pins is too high?  There are only a few pins that the Arduino reads, so I could use voltage dividers to shift them down.
Of course, another solution, which might ultimately be simpler, is to use a boost converter to bring the 5V_STDBY up above 7V, and feed that into the VIN pin, and let the onboard arduino regulator convert that back down.  It seems like a kludge, though.
Which solution, diode, boost converter, or other, do you recommend?

A: There are few things here so I will address what I can
For reference here is the UNO schematic (open in window for zoom)

As you mentioned there is a VIN pin that is designed to just what you are asking here. It is meant to be an external source of power. The VIN Pin is connected to the DC plug on the board and actually controls a p channel mosfet (T1) to turn off USB power to the cpu of the device (except USB power section) when a DC voltage is present across VIN, otherwise the 5V supply comes from USB.
If you were to simply plug in your standby power supply into VIN, it should be safe to mix with the USB power (but not DC in) using the existing circuitry. Unfortunately VIN is on the upstream side of a regulator, and while its not the end of the world to freewheel through the regulator (this model will saturate open and pass the voltage through unregulated but with an equivalent series resistance), what this means is that its not intended for 5V standby.
One solution I would suggest is to provide power both to VIN and to 5V. This takes advantage of the VIN lockout of the USB power, and since there is no reverse bias on the regulator it will basically just sit there clamped to 5V output and will likely work just fine (obviously test, but there is precedence in question like this. A schottky diode across the IC (Output to Input) can be used to prevent a large reverse bias from showing up across the linear regulator but this already exists in the IC. The existing MOSFET (T1) will prevent current from flowing back into the usb port, but you need a "high" voltage signal on the T1 gate to turn it off, without the VIN the gate will be biased to GND and the MOSFET will remain on.
There are plenty of rectifier diodes out there that you can use to OR the power as you probably know. Unfortunately without modifying the arduino (only on a shield) you are forced to either Kluge around the existing components, live with no protection, or bite the bullet and modify the arduino so you either have a sense pin on the 5V usb or
As for your last question. If peripherals connected to GPIO have their own power supply and could possibly drive the pin above VCC (worst case with your standby 5v) then there is a risk of damage if it exceeds it by some threshold. See this table in the datasheet Pg 313

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High percentage of Johnson County Jail inmates test positive for COVID-19
Nearly all offenders at jail in Franklin tested
FRANKLIN — A high number of inmates at the Johnson County Jail in Franklin have tested positive for COVID-19.
According to Johnson County Sheriff Duane Burgess, there were 104 positive results among the 231 inmates tested for the virus. Nine offenders refused to be tested.
Those numbers seem high, but Burgess said none of the 104 have show any "medical complications."
"While it is unfortunate that inmates are now being confirmed with the virus in the jail, it's important to remember that the vast majority of them are asymptomatic and the high numbers are simply a result of more testing being done," said Burgess. "Many facilities are still reporting zero known infections because there has been no testing done at those locations. The state Health Department officials have advised us the situation at the Johnson County Jail is not unique, it's just not being tested at other facilities at this time."
State Health Department employees spoke with inmates to educate them about the virus and gave them specific tips on infection prevention, the sheriff said.
"All jail staff are required to wear masks at all times while in the jail and are required to wear full PPE, including gowns and gloves, when going in the isolated cell blocks with known infections," said Burgess.
"Inmates who are confirmed positive are being kept in separate blocks from those that still have results pending and those that test negative. All inmates are issued surgical masks which are being replaced if they are damaged or excessively worn. Inmates cannot be forced to wear the masks but most are cooperating."
The sheriff said options for how to sanitize the entire jail building are being explored. "We are in discussions with a local company to add hydroxyl generators throughout the facility and considering other options such as chemical or bio-fogging. This equipment is difficult to obtain due to the current demand but our situation has been prioritized," Burgess said.
As for public visits to the jail, those are off-limits until at least June 1.

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Survival Lanterns may not be the most important tool in your kit, but they do have a place in your gear bag; for convenience, comfort, and safety.
Most likely, a lot of people have never even considered a lantern to be a survival tool. We believe that lanterns do deserve to be called "survival lanterns". Allow me to enlighten you. Pun intended.
For all around camp lighting, survival lanterns truly shine! For better safety, hang a lantern or two above head level and illuminate the whole area, not just what you are looking directly at with a headlamp, or pointing at with your hand-held flashlight.
If you have ever shared a camp meal with, or stood or sat around chatting and socializing with a few buddies, all wearing headlamps, all of them turned on? Every time you look at each other you are nearly blinded! Lanterns are by far the way to go here.
Even backpackers can enjoy the benefits survival lanterns provide, as there are some that weigh only a few ounces and very compact, requiring little room. some are folding or even collapsible with a credit card size solar panel built in, to power it. These smaller pack lanterns are great to illuminate the interior of your tent.
Battery powered and rechargeable type survival lanterns seem to be the preference of a growing number of outdoor lovers. And for good reason, as they are efficient extremely easy and convenient to operate, and are very affordable. Check out our selection of electrical powered lanterns and you will see why we like them.
The old standby liquid gas lanterns are hard to beat. The hiss of the old Coleman gas lantern is a fond comforting memory for many of us. Very reliable with a little common maintenance, it is the living epitome of survival lanterns, preceded only by the old kerosene lamps which have their place and useful function, as do oil and candle lanterns. Propane lanterns are ok for a night or two camping at the lake during summer, as they are very convenient and easy to operate, but not as reliable as others, and are nearly useless in cold temperatures. A valuable benefit of flame producing lanterns is the heat given off. These type of lanterns can help keep you warm, and with a little creativity, you can even cook over it!
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Movie Review: Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (2020)
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Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan ("Be Extra Careful of Marriage", SMZS henceforth) — Bollywood's first mainstream romantic comedy about a gay couple — is at its most effective when it leans into genre traditions.
Aman Tripathi (Jitendra Kumar) and Kartik Singh (Ayushmann Khurrana) are a dating couple living in Delhi. Aman's parents Shankar (Gajraj Rao) and Sunaina (Neena Gupta) don't know that their son is gay, but Kartik is sure they'll be accepting. The dating couple meets up with the family on a train on the way to Aman's cousin Goggle's (Maanvi Gagroo) wedding outside of Allahabad.
On route to the wedding venue, Shankar spots Aman and Kartik kissing. Shankar's dramatic negative reaction provokes the couple to kiss again, this time in the middle of the dance floor in front of all the wedding guests. Despite Shankar's and Sunaina's hilarious attempts to explain the kiss as some sort of family tradition, Goggle's fiance cancels the wedding, and the Tripathi's return to Allahabad.
Rather than embrace Aman as he is, his parents insist that he can be converted if removed from Kartik's influence. They go so far as to get Aman engaged to a cute young woman named Kusum (Pankhuri Awasthy), who is all too eager to marry him.
The rest of SMZS is essentially the second half of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, but if Raj was trying to save Kuljeet from marrying Simran instead of the other way around. In DDLJ, Raj's strategy was to convince Simran's family that he was the best person for her to marry. In SMZS, Kartik's approach is less personal and more about asserting Aman's right to choose who he wants to date and marry, regardless of gender.
Perhaps SMZS would have struck a stronger emotional chord had Kartik used more of Raj's strategy. This is a film about a family, but Kartik's aggressive tactics and the Tripathis' intransigence make it hard to see how he would fit in if he and Aman did marry. Scenes in which Kartik is emotionally vulnerable play as though they are meant to convince Aman of his loyalty — something that is never really in question — rather than prove his worthiness to the Tripathis.
Writer-director Hitesh Kewalya uses SMZS as an educational opportunity, focusing more on the moral and legal grounds for Aman's relationship with Kartik instead. This plays into some of the issues that hampered the film SMZS spun off from: 2017's Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, which Kewalya wrote but did not direct. Both stories periodically lose momentum as the plot gets bogged down in dialogue-heavy scenes.
The slow narrative pace is mitigated by the terrific performances by the entire cast. Awasthy is especially hilarious as Kusum, whose ostentatious shyness feels straight out of an old movie.
One of Kewalya's strong points is his ability to write humorously about adult topics (Shubh Mangal Saavdhan was about impotence) in a way that never feels vulgar. SMZS is family-friendly. If one of the goals of the film is to normalize the depiction of gay relationships in mainstream Hindi cinema, making it a movie that is accessible to all ages is a great way to accomplish that.
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan at Wikipedia
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan at IMDb
My review of Shubh Mangal Saavdhan
My review of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged 2020, 3 Stars, Ayushmann Khurrana, Be Extra Careful of Marriage, Bollywood, Gajraj Rao, Hindi, Hitesh Kewalya, Indian, Jitendra Kumar, Maanvi Gagroo, Movie Review, Neena Gupta, Pankhuri Awasthy, Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, SMZS on March 19, 2021 by Kathy.
Movie Review: Panga (2020)
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Even with only a few feature films under her belt, writer-director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari has proven herself one of the most skilled makers of feel-good films out there. Her latest, Panga, follows the everyday struggles of a sweet family whose matriarch returns to the athletic career she left to raise her child.
Retiring from India's national kabbadi team at age twenty-five wasn't Jaya's (Kangana Ranaut) plan when she found out she was pregnant. She had the full support of her husband Prashant (Jassi Gill) to resume her captaincy as soon as she was fit to do so. But when their son Adi was born premature and with a number of ailments, Jaya put all of her focus on raising her little boy.
Seven years later, Adi (Yagya Bhasin) is mostly fit and increasingly independent. Prashant tells his son about the life Jaya had before she became a mom — a history that Jaya has evidently never shared with the boy. Understanding what Jaya sacrificed for the family and excited by the prospect of having a professional athlete for a mother, Adi convinces Jaya to try and make a comeback.
Rather than manufacture a bunch of obstacles to put in Jaya's way, Tiwari and her co-writer Nikhil Mehrotra keep Jaya's journey realistic while mining the scenario for as much drama as possible. Doing so allows for an insightful examination of gendered divisions of labor within a household. Jaya threw herself fully into being a mom and a homemaker when Adi was born, but she still has a job outside of the house. Kabbadi teams in India are often sponsored by companies like railways, and Jaya kept her job selling train tickets even after her playing career ended.
As capable and helpful as both Prashant and Adi are, the house is still Jaya's domain. How is she supposed to transfer seven years of accumulated knowledge to Prashant in the days before she heads to training camp? While their lives obviously won't fall apart if the beds go unmade, it goes to show how we undervalue the effort it takes to make homemaking seem automatic.
Prashant's promotion to household manager also highlights how removed many fathers are from the social networks that make child-rearing easier. He learns to rely on his neighbor and his cranky mother-in-law (played by Neena Gupta). He asks to be invited into the WhatsApp group for moms at Adi's school.
A theme Tiwari introduced in her first feature, Nil Battey Sannata, and revisits in Panga is that of children coming to view their parents as individuals, not just their caretakers. Adi is mature enough to understand that playing kabbadi makes his mother happy, and that her happiness will require some inconvenience on his part. Yet he's not so mature that he's above throwing a tantrum when his dad screws up his makeup for the talent show or sulking when his mom has to sit on the bench during a game. It's solid character writing.
What the story wants us to appreciate more than anything is that this family is nice. They are helpful, quick with a joke, and willing to make sacrifices for each other. They have supportive friends, especially Jaya's former teammate Meenu (Richa Chadda) and her new teammate Nisha (Megha Burman). These strong bonds reinforce the feeling that this is a family that deserves happiness. The acting across the board is very good, with little Yagya Bhasin providing some great laughs.
Panga's kabbadi scenes are quite fun, emphasizing the teamwork required for success without feeling preachy. Selfishly, I would have appreciated a scene where Jaya explains the sport's rules to Adi, but there's more than enough context provided for kabbadi newbies like myself to understand the tension during the matches. This is a decent starter movie for Bollywood newcomers — and anyone in need of a cinematic pick-me-up.
Panga at Wikipedia
Panga at IMDb
My review of Bareilly Ki Barfi
My review of Nil Battey Sannata
This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged 2020, 3.5 Stars, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Bollywood, Hindi, Indian, Jassi Gill, Kangana Ranaut, Megha Burman, Movie Review, Neena Gupta, Nikhil Mehrotra, Nil Battey Sannata, Panga, Yagya Bhasin on January 29, 2020 by Kathy.
Movie Review: Music Teacher (2019)
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Music Teacher is a melancholy exploration of the consequences of blowing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Beni (Manav Kaul) is a middle-aged vocal instructor and part-time lounge singer in Shimla, where he lives with his mother Madhavi (Neena Gupta) and younger sister Urmi (Niharika Lyra Dutt). He dreamed of being a playback singer for the movies, but his father's death called him back from Mumbai years ago, before he could land any film gigs.
Adding salt to Beni's still-open wound is the success of one of his former students, Jyotsna (Amrita Bagchi), who herself is now a popular playback singer. Beni must confront his jealousy and anger toward her when Jyotsna returns to Shimla for a concert after eight years in Bollywood.
But is the story Beni's been telling himself about Jyotsna's fame and their falling out true, or does he view the past through a lens that paints her as the villain (corroborated by his mother's hostility toward her)? He reexamines the narrative as he tells it to his new neighbor, Geeta (Divya Dutta), a lonely wife who's been ditched by her husband and banished to Shimla to care for her ailing father-in-law.
The present and past timelines in Music Teacher are differentiated by the color of Beni's sideburns: black in the past, grey in the present. It's subtle and easy to miss at first. Beni himself was more upbeat when he first meet Jyotsna, as opposed to the terse curmudgeon he's become since she left. Their relationship was about more than music, but both had different dreams for the future.
Beni's challenge is to realize how his own actions led him to his present unhappy state, and then either chart a new course or find a way to accept things the way they are. He's spent his whole life waiting for his big break, thinking it could only come in the form of a show business career. He never considered that loving Jyotsna could be a life-changing opportunity in its own right.
Kaul plays Beni as more sad than angry, although the sense of having been wronged is what keeps him in stasis. Kaul convincingly portrays Beni as a decent guy who blew his big chance and never learned how to cope with it.
Bagchi is touching as Jyotsna, both in flashbacks as a young woman desperate for love and in an impactful present-day sequence in which she hints that the lessons she's learned have been hard won.
While Jyotsna embodies all of Beni's opportunities lost, Dutta's Geeta represents the idea of accepting life's hardships and finding pleasure where one can. Were Beni further along in his emotional journey, maybe he and Geeta could be happy together, damaged but at least not alone.
Though Music Teacher's story focuses on Beni's growth, there's an interesting theme about the lack of control women have over their own lives. Geeta is the most obvious example, fulfilling the edicts of a husband who lives in a distant city and no longer loves her. But Beni himself has undue influence over the lives of the women in his family. He selects a groom for his sister Urmi, and while we can assume that he wouldn't make her marry against her will, he clearly has veto power when it comes to groom choice. Beni's insistence forces Jyotsna to make a choice she doesn't want to, and the repercussions destroy their relationship.
The men in Music Teacher don't deserve the power they have. Geeta's husband — who doesn't even appear onscreen — is a bad guy for ditching her and offloading the care of his sick father onto her. Beni is guilty of myopic self-interest and a tragic lack of foresight, and loneliness is the consequence. Music Teacher is a big improvement over writer-director Sarthak Dasgupta's first film, 2007's The Great Indian Butterfly. There's a lot to relate to and appreciate about this cautionary tale.
Music Teacher at Wikipedia
Music Teacher at IMDb
My review of The Great Indian Butterfly
This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged 2019, 3 Stars, Amrita Bagchi, Bollywood, Diyva Dutta, Hindi, Indian, Manav Kaul, Movie Review, Music Teacher, Neena Gupta, Netflix, Niharika Lyra Dutt, Sarthak Dasgupta, Streaming Video on June 26, 2019 by Kathy.
Movie Review: Veere Di Wedding (2018)
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Veere Di Wedding ("Friend's Wedding") released to higher expectations than usually precede Bollywood buddy comedies, yet its four female leads rose to the challenge, turning out a warm, relatable, and very funny movie.
Well, relatable if you overlook how obscenely rich the characters are, driving around in cars that cost as much as a house (at least here in the Midwest). The only speaking character who isn't wealthy is a maid who appears in one scene, crying after being beaten by her abusive husband. Her wounds are addressed in a couple of lines before she's forced to participate in the excitement of one of the rich friends' upcoming nuptials. It's one of the film's few off moments.
The friend getting married is Kalindi (Kareena Kapoor Khan), one of a quartet of lifelong buds that includes stuffy lawyer Avni (Sonam Kapoor Ahuja), stay-at-home mom Meera (Shikha Talsania), and drunkard Sakshi (Swara Bhaskar). Reuniting in Delhi for the wedding gives the women a chance to cut loose, but also resurfaces buried conflicts, primarily between the adult children and their parents.
There isn't really a villain in Veere Di Wedding. The conflict is driven by complicated family dynamics, a boundless well that keeps the plot moving and gives everyone in the audience something to identify with. Kalindi became estranged from her father (Anjum Rajabali) following her mother's death. Avni's mom (Neena Gupta) is desperate for her daughter to wed. Meera married a white man named John (Edward Sonnenblick) against her dad's wishes. There's tension in Sakshi's household over demise of her short-lived marriage.
The family of Kalindi's fiance, Rishabh Malhotra (Sumeet Vyas), is the most colorful source of drama, often literally so. Eager to fill the void left by Kalindi's mother, Rishabh's dad (Manoj Pahwa), mom (Ayesha Raza), and aunt (Alka Kaushal) take over the wedding planning, their tacky, kaleidoscopic taste in decor and attire sending Kalindi into a daze. Kapoor Khan's glazed expressions as they parade garish garment choices in front of her are hilarious.
Yet Veere Di Wedding is careful not to make too much fun of the Malhotra family. Kalindi herself says that she knows how important the pomp and circumstance are to Rishabh's family, rejecting Rishabh's offer to tell his family to back off.
That's what's amazing about this movie: the characters are so nice. The four friends will do anything for one another. Rishabh and Meera's husband John are loyal and supportive partners, as are Kalindi's uncle Cookie (Vivek Mushran) and his boyfriend Keshav (Sukesh Arora). Conflict is borne from hurt feelings and stubborn grudges, not from any inherent malice. The resolution to a subplot involving Kalindi's well-intentioned stepmother Paromita (Ekavali Khanna) is especially touching.
That good nature makes Veere Di Wedding a joy to watch. Hype over the film's bawdy language and (tame) masturbation scene is overblown. It's important that female movie characters be given as wide a range to inhabit as male characters, and Veere Di Wedding does so in an uplifting, unthreatening way. It's a welcome change to see topics such as sexual compatibility and the changes that happen to a woman's body following childbirth discussed from a female perspective in a mainstream Bollywood film. Farah Khan's choreography of the song "Tareefan" — in which white men are treated as eye candy instead of white women — is noteworthy, too.
What gives Veere Di Wedding lasting appeal beyond its present cultural significance is that it really is charming, thanks to the performances by the lead quartet. Kalindi's bewilderment in the face of her in-laws stands in contrast to Avni's stuffiness, which is at odds with Sakshi's constant insobriety. Even maternal Meera goes wild on the dance floor. Kapoor Khan, Kapoor Ahuja, Bhaskar, and Talsania each bring something different to the table, and their efforts combine to make a movie that's a real treat.
Veere Di Wedding at Wikipedia
Veere Di Wedding at IMDb
The Indian Express: Farah Khan on choreographing "Tareefan"
This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged 2018, 3.5 Stars, Alka Kaushal, Anjum Rajabali, Ayesha Raza, Bollywood, Edward Sonnenblick, Ekavali Khanna, Farah Khan, Hindi, Indian, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Manoj Pahwa, Movie Review, Neena Gupta, Shikha Talsania, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, Sukesh Arora, Sumeet Vyas, Swara Bhaskar, Tareefan, Veere Di Wedding, Vivek Mushran on June 14, 2018 by Kathy.


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The case for the major performing arts framework
Yaron Lifschitz is partly right. He is asking the right question but focussing on the wrong answer. There has been a lot of upheaval and distrust in the Arts sector being born of disappointment, marginalisation and divides across financial, social, art form and art funding lines. But tearing down a structure that is proven to work does not help anyone and, in a whole of sector sense, would be very damaging.
How do we cope with an uncertain future? The available road maps offer few navigational certainties and the sense of danger and fragility has intensified. This question is not limited to the arts. They are being asked in business, in schools, in health networks and, while the terms 'agility' and 'innovation' have carriage, how do we collectively advance our future beyond this?
Can we lower our guards and interrogate value beyond our own viewpoints and interests? If we want a stronger future we have to. Yaron refers to dangerous questions, but is it a greater danger not to ask them? He outlines how ingenuity and risk taking has built Circa to where it is today and proffers the idea of opening up the MPA 'fund' for contestability.
Circa's story is exciting and inspirational and the company has been rewarded for success with Catalyst project funding, international touring funding, three year national touring status and four year Australia Council funding. Is this support enough for them to survive? Probably. Is it enough for them to thrive? Maybe. Could they do more with more support? Absolutely.
Risk is part of the Arts' 'toolkit'. It's wrapped within a bag of uncertainty and instability, but increasing the level of risk for the whole sector is not the answer.
The MPA Framework is a story told in 28 parts and of course there have been successes and challenges. To make sense of the challenges we must separate the issues. What does the MPA framework offer, do we have the right mix of companies, what is missing in the framework and how is it optimised for the sector and public good.
The boom bust rollercoaster of the large performing arts organisations in the 90s strained political support, overwhelmed contestable grant programs and undermined the sector as a whole. It is a warning of the disarray and chaos that can prevail.
The stability created in the MPA framework should not be confused with complacency. The MPAs also rely heavily on earned income and work to balance this need with access and market failure. Predictable funding certainty enables greater capacity to leverage and to plan. This learning further affirmed by the insights from the six year community art funding initiative also informed the Australia Council's plan for its six year funding program for the small to medium sector. It has been proved again through the National Touring Status initiative, where efficiencies and additional leveraging were possible because it provided companies with multiyear funding certainty.
The MPA Framework currently consists of 28 individual tripartite agreements negotiated between Federal and State government and the companies. They each incorporate specific KPIs. There is no central or singular fund. There are mechanisms available to governments to remove companies, just as there are to add new companies. Given the growth of Australia's arts and cultural environment over the last 20 years why aren't there new companies? There is no magic around the number 28.
That the MPAs were not cut last year is a credit to this framework that limits individual governments' capacity to make quick political or fiscal cuts. In the wake of change elsewhere, this framework offers structural assets and soft infrastructure for the sector that we must continually work to optimise. The defunding of an MPA company will not guarantee a release of those funds to the sector.
The 2015 MPA group turnover was just over half a billion dollars, leveraging on average $2 for every public dollar invested. Some MPAs' government levels of investment hover at around 10% of total turnover, others closer to 50%, and in some instances the value of rent or payroll paid by the company back to the state is about the same value as the state investment in the company.
The MPAs' main focus is to perform and engage within Australia – onstage and through performance broadcasts as well as education programs and workshops, but many also engage in strategic international activities.
For example State Theatre Company of South Australia's co- production with UK's Frantic Assembly Things I Know To Be True has just completed a UK season with virtually all performances having sold out and eliciting standing ovations. Sydney Theatre Company's production of The Present is previewing on Broadway in two weeks' time with a full season running until mid-March and Bangarra debuted at one of the world's most renowned dance festivals, Fall for Dance, in that same city earlier this year. Sydney Symphony Orchestra has forged incredibly important strategic cultural diplomatic ties in China, while earlier this year, West Australian Symphony Orchestra was the first Australian major performing arts company to tour to the United Arab Emirates, and Australia's first representation at the prestigious Beijing Music Festival.
Many of the MPA companies such as Musica Viva and Malthouse work with smaller arts organisations in the creation and performance of their work. It's core business. They, along with many other MPAs are also mentoring emerging artists and providing fellowships, residencies and attachments. Belvoir is working with a number of smaller performing arts companies to enable them to present larger scale work; the Queensland Symphony's partnership with the Camerata of St John's began with the provision of studio space and is developing into other practical operational support. Blue Roo gained greater stability in their own funding following collaborations with Opera Queensland and the New Breed showcase performed last week supporting emerging choreographers was facilitated and funded by the Sydney Dance Company with critical philanthropic support. This is support that these individual artists would struggle to access and leverage on their own.
Every MPA has multiple stories of working with artists and creatives from outside their 'walls', commissioning new work and providing professional opportunities and development for talented artists as well as drawing close their creative vibrancy and insight. In 2015 the MPAs employed 10,900 artists, creatives and arts workers – a growth of 47 % since 2012 with wages consistently making up around 58% of total expenditure. A significantly greater proportion of MPA earnings are spent on artists and creatives than the sums received from government. For example, Sydney Theatre Company's 2015 annual report states "146% of base funding is spent on actors' and creatives' wages".
Building audiences is something the MPAs are doing well. As the Live Performing Arts Ticketing Survey for 2015 demonstrates, MPAs' increased ticket sales went against the downward trend experienced across the sector as a whole. But the sector's needs and value should not be reduced to raw numbers alone.
The MPAs offer soft infrastructure, establish art form bases, ongoing presence in the market, ensure capacity for set building, props, space, facilitation, as well as their people. In turn they need to draw close to the incredible creative talent and experimentation from the broader sector. This symbiosis is essential.
Certainty and capacity improve outcomes. The collective impact of the MPAs is inarguably valuable. They are not there to compete with the rest of the sector but nor can they stand alone. They are part of one very complex and diverse performing arts sector.
The frustration, anger and disappointment triggered by the disruptions to arts funding are now matched with despondency. As Yaron says 'it is hard to hope'. Governments say there is no more money but it's simply not true. Governments find funds for things they want to do and for industries they want to support. The question we must ask is why not the Arts?
Greater long-term stable government investment for creative, dynamic performing arts companies and artists linked to high expectations would facilitate a multitude of valuable public good.
The pie is too small and increased government investment, as well as other forms of creative enterprise, can not only facilitate additional activity in the arts for their own value, they can activate collaboration across economic and social challenges delivering better outcomes for Australia. Public policies can advance or hinder such growth.
However, the political will and capacity waivers, the times are volatile, politicians are more fragile than agile. Joining the dots between creativity and innovation and the arts still has a way to go and we must work with what we have, maximising the impact of government support and earned income. Collectively, we nurture the art forms, our artists and our future.
No question is too dangerous. It's how we choose to explore the answers that can make or break us. Evolution rather than revolution offers us the capacity to build trust, insight and innovation in the sector and to carry forward our artists, audiences and supporters.
Read Yaron Lifschitz's original article in the Daily Review
John Irving, Chair – Australian Major Performing Arts Group
This article was originally published on the AMPAG website.
Image: Tim Walter, Paul Blackwell and Eugenia Fragos feature in Things I Know To Be True – photo by Shane Reid
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Sander Lutz
The world's No. 2 cryptocurrency exchange had just filed for bankruptcy, its boy genius CEO had resigned, and millions upon millions of dollars were disappearing from his company's wallets in real time with no explanation. But hundreds of miles from the noise of urban financial panic, in an old cattle feed mill in the West Texas desert, dozens of crypto culture makers bobbed their heads and waved their hands to a synchronized display of vibrating squiggles.
The squiggles were Chromie Squiggles, the second explosively successful generative NFT art project from Art Blocks. To the delight and apparent awe of the barn's occupants, these usually-static Squiggles were dancing for the first time, in sync with the ear-splitting tunes of English DJ Jamie xx.
"Squiggle!" one reveler next to me kept yelling, as he raised his hands towards the vibrating monitors, jumping in place. "Squiggle, squiggle, squiggle, squiggle!"
"Pray to the squiggle!" his friend yelled giddily.
It was November 11, 2022, and 500 admirers had descended on the tiny town of Marfa, Texas, for Art Blocks' second annual Open House—a gathering of collectors, artists, investors, and schmoozers involved in the company's growing ecosystem.
Art Blocks Open House in Marfa, Texas, November 2022. (Photo: Sarah M. Vasquez)
One might assume the vibes at an event centered around non-fungible tokens—which in the last two years have won obsessive devotees and furious haters in equal measure—would be deeply affected by the pulse of the crypto market. And yet, the FTX armageddon felt as far away from the gathering as any big-city happening back in the times when news was delivered by covered wagon.
That wasn't because NFT people feel immune to market fluctuations. According to the event's host, Art Blocks founder and Squiggles artist Erick Calderon (aka Snowfro), it was because the gathering, and his NFT company, have pretty much nothing to do with NFTs, and even less to do with crypto.
"I used to say that I want Art Blocks as a platform to transcend crypto—you drop the word crypto, you drop the word generative, you drop the word NFT, and you just have art," Calderon told me. "But we also want to transcend crypto."
As Calderon sees it, far too many companies in the crypto ecosystem hinge their value propositions on the novelty of underlying technology. Jogging—but earning crypto! Sweatshirts—but in the metaverse! Cat pictures—but make them NFTs! A mediocre TV show concept—produced by a DAO!
This fixation, he believes, only temporarily obfuscates the deficiencies of a company's product.
"Why are we betting our companies on nascent technology? Companies don't survive just on crypto," Calderon said. "They survive on culture, and they survive on their teams. We're trying to be an adult company. That means creating internal organizational culture, which is really hard to do in crypto, where everybody's remote and hinging on the price of a CryptoPunk. But we fought so hard to isolate ourselves from that."
Erick Calderon (L) at the Art Blocks Open House in Marfa, Texas, November 2022. (Photo: Sarah M. Vasquez)
Art Blocks is a 40-person company and growing, despite the devastating effects of the crypto bear market. It now boasts a full curatorial team that carefully selects and admits digital artists to debut their collections on the company's massively popular platform.
Calderon attributes Art Blocks' enduring success to its refusal to indulge in practices that became standard for most NFT projects at the height of the speculative bubble in early 2022.
"The worst mental health state I've ever been in was when Art Blocks was going crazy in October," he said. At that time, Art Blocks NFTs were selling for millions of dollars apiece. "People were like 'you need a token, reward your collectors, you don't care about your collectors unless you do a token, look what SuperRare is doing, look what Bored Ape Yacht Club is doing.'"
Art Blocks never offered a token, or exclusive perks, or any other vague gesture at that frequently fetishized but rarely realized principle of Web3: "utility."
It offered art, and publicly-accessible community spaces (both digital and physical) focused on art. It emphatically resisted the temptation to provide anything else.
If Art Blocks sees itself not as a crypto or NFT company, but as an art institution, nothing showcased this better than its three-day gathering in the fabled art Mecca of Marfa.
Marfa was founded in the 1880s, and for almost a century, looked no different from any other neighboring town populating the sparse Chihuahuan Desert; it rose to international prominence in the early 1970s, when renowned artist Donald Judd bought up a number of the town's buildings and transformed them into contextless "anti-museums" for his gargantuan concrete and metal installations, as well as the works of other artists. In the decades following, Marfa's artistic reputation and exotic isolation attracted thousands of disaffected city folk. Today, the town resembles some strange mix of Frontierland and Williamsburg, populated by barns, shuttered storefronts, art galleries, and matcha-slinging coffee joints alike.
Art Blocks opened its Marfa gallery in 2021. Some at the time colored the company's arrival in Marfa as unwelcome, and Art Blocks' crypto-tainted offerings as a marked departure from the town's esteemed artistic tradition.
I found no such tension in Art Blocks' presence in Marfa.
"I think they're a brilliant addition to Marfa, and I think they've integrated well to the scene," Rachel Beitz, owner of Rule, a gallery down the street from Art Blocks, told me. "I can't think of anybody who's spoken badly of them."
Beitz also dismissed the notion that an art collection's medium alone—including the baggage-laden blockchain space—could be determinative of a project's artistic legitimacy.
"The entire history of art is the next big thing not being considered art to the key holders of what 'art' is," she said. "Marfa is a place where a lot of people come to experiment. To me, it's almost a natural thing that this would be one of the places people come and try this."
Art Blocks' projects are most obviously distinct from traditional art in two ways. For one, they are NFTs, minted on the Ethereum blockchain and purchasable by anyone with an internet connection. For another, they are generative. Artists construct computer code that sets parameters for what an Art Blocks piece can look like; upon minting, the piece is randomly generated within those parameters, appearing in its realized form for the first time.
"The NFT part is not that hard to explain. But when you dive deeper into long-form generative art, that's when it starts to get a little more complicated," Plutonium F, a pseudonymous Art Blocks collector, told me about the hurdles he faces when discussing projects with outsiders.
Plutonium, along with two other Art Blocks collectors, were selected by the Art Blocks team to curate the collection on display at the November open house, which they titled Perspectives.
"I know that it's hard for traditional collectors and traditional artists to grasp the idea that you write a piece of code, and it can create essentially an infinite number of outputs," said Proper, another one of Perspectives' community curators. "But in the best examples of generative art, the art is the code itself. It's easy to be a painter. It's hard to be a good painter. It's easy to be a generative artist. It's hard to be a good one."
After a tequila-soaked weekend in Marfa, Art Blocks faithful flew back to their home cities, back to reality, back to a world that was finally, breathlessly paying attention to their industry—but for all the wrong reasons: bankruptcies, contagions, criminal charges, government investigations, and waves, upon waves, of layoffs.
Crypto winter kept getting colder. The new year has brought no relief.
But somehow, through the darkness, Art Blocks continues to soar. Friendship Bracelets, an Art Blocks project conceptualized by Calderon and realized by French artist Alexis André, was initially released exclusively to Squiggles holders in late October. When that free-to-mint claim window closed on Tuesday, the collection's value skyrocketed, becoming the top collection on NFT marketplace OpenSea within hours. Friendship Bracelets have, at the time of writing, generated over 14,300 ETH in trading volume (roughly $20.3 million).
That's a standout in an otherwise dismal market. NFT trading volume has plummeted a staggering 87% from last January's highs. Blue-chip profile picture (PFP) NFT projects that were once sure bets aren't looking so sure.
Why isn't Art Blocks suffering too? Calderon thinks the answer is pretty simple.
"If [Art Blocks holders] bought a piece of art, and they hung it on their wall, and that piece of art went to zero, they still have a friggin' awesome piece of art," he said.
How many other NFT projects can say the same? Strip away speculative value, the crypto marketing angle, the laden NFT acronym; what's really left? If seen as an NFT company, Art Blocks appears to be an aberration. If seen as an art collective that happens to use blockchain technology, things start to make a lot more sense.
Non-crypto companies using Web3 technology as a tool to realize larger goals—be they related to entertainment, commerce, fashion, or art—are chugging along just fine through the crypto bear market.
Art Blocks may be demonstrating that projects born out of Web3 don't need to be solely defined by it. Increasingly, that approach is starting to look like the path forward for crypto culture.
Written by Sander Lutz on 2023-01-14 14:01:02.
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Okay everyone, today we are going to take a step forward in my procrastinating blogger life and show you part of our current living room, with my new living room flooring. GASP! I know, I am patting myself on the back too! We've lived here for almost 8 months and while we have taken HUGE strides forward, BUT absolutely no space is finished. What can I say, we live in a perpetual construction zone and I can only do what is bothering me most.
I will liken myself to the princess and the pea… I may have 20 comforts in my home, but that one little pea, just digs at me until I fix it. Which means nothing is done in order. I bounce around from space to space and project to project. I have what you would call DIY ADD. I just can't wait to show you how good the flooring looks! Don't worry, I plan on going back and showing you all some of the steps it took to get to where we are right now.
Also, I am SO excited to tell tell you about how Metroflor is hosting a giveaway on their Facebook page for $2500 toward a new Engage floor for you! NEED NEW FLOORS? Go enter!
I will admit there is still a lot to be done in the space, including the fact that we haven't even painted the walls yet. However, even though our living room is not finished, I LOVE the space right now! It makes me SO happy! Getting a cohesive flooring is the foundation we have been waiting for, for months and months and months.
We started by removing a wall with the help of a contractor friend. I will tell you more about that later.
Removing all the furniture and flooring was a bit of a nightmare. And this was right when Justin and the kids first got the eternal cold that stayed with our family for like an entire month. so it almost killed us!
I found this little painting on the floor under the carpet. Since this is my family home, And this looks like my 12 year old style, I painted on everything… I think I might have done it. I am not quite sure what I was trying to say?!
Anyway. The installer came the next day and we left the house to be out of his way. It was a hard and boring day with toddlers… I can tell you that.
There was a lot of floor prep to be done, and our installer was heaven sent! He leveled and ground down the high spots it was a lot of work! And took most of the first day just to prep the floors.
The fireplace stone was the biggest concern because the flooring calls for a 1/4 inch gap around the edges of the room, but who wants to see some strange gap. So he cut out a small groove under the stone and slid the flooring under it.
Oh Looky! There may have been some dancing and shouting and generally crazy behavior! That followed at the end of the day!
Okay well I hate to admit that it took us about 2 weeks to get the living room back together, but who am I kidding, this is real life. We were all sick and the living room just sat there with it's beautiful flooring and almost nothing else.
It is commercial grade and very durable!
Totally Beautiful, this floor is downright HOT! I love the looks and style and width of the planks!
We will show you a little more of the room next Tuesday for National painting week.
Okay so tell me do you need new flooring?
Please hop over to Metroflor's Facebook page and enter the Engage with Metroflor Corp for a Chance to Win up to $2,500 Toward a New Engage Floor!
Thanks Metroflor for making this post possible! I was provided with flooring for this space but all opinions about the flooring are my own.
You're right, that floor is HOT! Great job on the selection and install. I'll have to put this on my To Do List.
THANKS Jackie! I hope you go enter the giveaway if you have the chance!
I need new floor badly. My dining area is cantalevered out. Our heat vent is in that bay, which underneath is just your soffit/facia board. I don't think they sealed it off because the floor around the vent is purple. When googling it, I found out it was mold. Now up here in WI, the winters are cold. So that extreme temp change caused some condensation and thus mold. Now the whole floor needs to come up. While I wanted the linoleum replaced… Like your old house, I have all natural oak cabinets and woodwork. So, we are looking at hickory hardwood floors. (something different to break up all the oak) Never installed them before. I know we will have to cut and pull up the 1/4″ luan under layment and pull the linoleum up. Other than that, I haven't the foggiest idea how to install.
Michelle, Not sure I can help you with a hickory floor install… but you can go enter to win this flooring and I am loving it! GOOD luck!
Your floor looks gorgeous. I was wondering if you could give any information about your sectional?
Rita, It is just the Ikea Karlstad sofa! A great price!
The flooring is just beautiful, I love it! I know you must smile every time you walk into the room now!
Oh you have no idea what a difference it makes to our lives. I feel so much better about living in our home day to day. It mot only is clean and consistent, it is just BEAUTIFUL!
Wow…your new floor is beautiful! I just love it. I'm going to enter for this giveaway right now. I sure could use it.
Gorgeous dear, love your choice!
Yes! We really do need to get together! Thanks Stacy!
Wow, that floor is beautiful! We just installed an exotic wood flooring in our home, and boy is it a task to maintain its condition! But it looks great, so we can't complain much.
Jenna! Thanks for asking, I got them at Kirkland's a year or so ago. I really love having them!
Your new flooring looks amazing. I love the colour scheme of the living room. I bet you're thrilled about the easier clean up!
I love your floors! I even contacted metro floors and they sent me a few samples of the flooring. Since you have your new floors for awhile, how do you like them? Are they cold since the subfloor is concrete and how do they feel walking on them? We have stamped concrete in our kitchen and carpet in our living room. It's an open concept living/kitchen/dining/hallway. I'm just concerned about how it feels under foot. I can't decide between hardwood or the metro floors. What do you think?
Amy, I personally love the floors, especially when our girls spill on the floor and I don't have to have a heart attach to rush and clean it up. It is water tight, and easy to clean. The floors are slightly cold, but that doesn't bother us. It does feel different than wood, but I do prefer it over wood for the ease of cleaning it up from spills.
It looks so beautiful…the whole room is fabulous. I really like the picture on the wall that looks like rustic boards with the word love on it. Where can I find out how to make one of those, or at least see it closer up?
Yes, we made that a few years ago! Here is the link to the tutorial: https://www.remodelaholic.com/2011/04/rustic-vinyl-wall-decal-art-tutorial/ I will say that the vinyl has not held up well, it might be better to paint it on there! But the tutorial explains exactly how I made it.
Love your floors! Can you give some details about them as I am interested in ordering for our bedroom?
They are Engage Select Plank Woodburn Hickory by Metroflor. I can't order them for you but there is the link! Good Luck!
What is the color name for the flooring?
Amy the color name is Woodburn Hickory and we love it.
So, we had a minor flood and need to replace some of the flooring in the house we have been in for a year. I have been panicking about what to put down. I have 6 kids and a dog. I'm on a snug budget, want something that will last and be easy to clean, (and water spills are an issue) but also would love it to look "real". I don't want tile in those spaces and have been leaning towards laminate. However, the vinyl plank has been suggested to me about a million times now. What do you think? Has it held up? Do you still love it? How "fake" does it look?
I would love your review. (or a link to where ever you already reviewed it) Thanks again. What an inspiring site!
The floor has held up great. We love it and we get a lot of good comments about the look of it when we have people over. It really doesn't look fake at all. They did a great job to make it look like real wood. we are still remodeling around the house and the floor has help up very well with all the projects going on. I hope that helps. We would have this floor in a basement again for sure.
Just picked up my Engage Plank Flooring in Brownville Oak. 24 cases was suprised how heavy a carton is with only 10 planks inside. Excited to get my kitchen and hall ways done.
That is great. We love that flooring sooo much. you will love having it. Especially in your kitchen.
i have a sample of this and love it, but your pics look lighter. Which picture of yours shows the true overall color of your flooring?
I would say that the last four pictures of the flooring are the closest.


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The developer of the MP3 player fixed it!! So it is all OK now, thanks a lot for your help!!!
Meaning, the portfolio looks fine, I am talking about the player. if you have any idea on how to fix it, it would be great.
Thanks a lot, I was able to fix it all, even number 1!! by reducing number of items in menu and menu font size.
The only problem that remains is number 5. The Portfolio media posts looks ok in desktop and in mobile landscape mode but not in mobiles or ipads in portrait mode.
I see that only happens in Ipads in landscape mode, in all other devices works fine. Is there a way to fix it without affecting how it shows in the other screen sizes?
1. Regarding the header issue at 992ppx can you send me a link of a screenshot to see the problem? I can't see it. I see the header working fine on my laptop, my desktop and my cell phone.
Did you managed to look at this?
I just sent you the login credentials. Please let me know if it works and if you need FTP access.
Thanks a lot. I will change the review now.
I am sure that after the update of WP Bakery, the padding in most pages stopped working correctly. So, I believe that is causing issues number 1, 4 and 5. And, once you get back to the previous version of WP Bakery and you test homepage in mobile and desktop.
I hope you are fine. Thanks for the offer of money back you made regarding my review. I do not think is fair for you and, ultimately, I want to use the theme.
I am sorry for the review, it may be that the update of WP Bakery created most of the issues.
Thanks!! and I did rate it!
One last question regarding this, what determines the order of appearance of the portfolios in the homepage portfolio grid? is it alphabetical? published date? How can I control the order?
2. Create a Portfolio Template with WP Bakery Page Builder? Do I need to publish this page?
One last question, for some strange reason, the child theme is not working although I believe is properly installed through the functions.php but somehow the changes I do in child css are not being applied at all.
1. I am trying to use the home page video background. I guess I need to enter the link in the CB slider video but I see only options to upload the video locally and not options to place a link to youtube or vimeo.
1. Can you use a Vimeo link for the video background for home page or just youtube?
2. I guess I need to place that video link in the CB slider Video Slide, but I only see options to upload the video and do not see options to place a youtube or vimeo link.
I ignored all of that and went through. And it works but somehow it does not look at all like the Demo. I thought that after importing the demo data, it was going to appear somehow like the Live Demo so I could change i easily.


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My father is a musician (McGuinness Flint, Ronnie Lane and the Slim Chance Band, Gallagher & Lyle) so pretty much grew up around it my house. From the moment I saw a string section being recorded in Air Studios Oxford street at 5 years old, I kind of knew what I wanted to do.... My father was surprised I even remembered it down to which way the Neve desk was facing. Fast forward to age of 9/10 I was recording with my father punching in on a Brennell 1 inch 8 track with acoustic guitars regularly. Two years later I was recording for his friends, one being Gordon Hunte the guitarist from Sade. Carried on doing a plethora of recordings with this equipment until we donated it to Brixton prison. Spent the only four hours I ever have spent in a prison setting it all up.
First recording outside of home was Billy Connolly "A Wreck on Tour" which was recorded off live desk with Malcolm Kingsnorth (Status Quo live engineer) at the Palladium in 1985 with a Sony F1 digital betamax. This was more assisting and didn't really engineer, outside of home setup, until getting a gig at demo studio in Acton called Triple X in 1986/87. Where I had the pleasure and opportunity to meet Yossou N'Dour, Bill Campbell doing Soca and Calypso, Glenn Matlock (ex sex pistols) , Kuljit Bhamra recording Bhangra albums and even a session with a minimalist musician with sea conches and glass screwdrivers being dragged across drum skins.
In 1988 I was offered the position of assistant engineer at PRT/PYE studios. The hours were extremely long but satisfying, I would be assisting Stakker "Humanoid" with both Brian Dougans (F.S.O.L) and John Laker producing and then be doing Michael Nyman recording Peter Greenaway film soundtracks with Michael Dutton or an album with Uriah Heep with Richard Dodd for four/five months solid using 2" tape pre Protools. It was a very diverse and varied time for me in music using an old Neve in studio 1 and a new Neve V1 in studio 2 at the time.Also used to work with Ray Prickett engineer on most of Kinks, Richard Dodd Producer/Engineer
In 1990 PRT/PYE closed it's doors and Peter Waterman bought the equipment so off I went to work at PWL studios as an assistant doing just about al the Boybands, Girlbands and pop artistes there were of the day. Worked with most of the production teams there at one point or another - Stock, Aitken and Waterman, Harding and Curnow, Pete Hammond etc. Some work was with Matt Bianco, Jesus Jones with Harding and Curnow or Kylie Minogue SAW. Phil Harding asked me to mix SFX featuring Alan Murphy (Go West, Level 42) with Felix Krish in the Bunker studio. Around this time I also engineered and mixed Zoë "Sunshine on a Rainy Day" with Youth in the Borough studio. If I recall correctly the automation went half through the session, computers don't you love them. Did various Ministry of Sound projects with Masters at Work both at PWL and later when freelance. Been freelance since 1994 doing various diverse projects and started doing orchestral recording again hooking up with Michael Dutton in 2006/2007 doing location recording.SIncve then have recorded over a hundred classical albums on location and in Abbey Road studios
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Remote control car repairs is one of the services we provide that no other repair company can compete with, not even a model shop! We're not only talking kid's toy kind of remote control car, as we fix those too, but the high end professional enthusiast electric motor, and nitro/petrol engine powered cars. They are sophisticated machines, very similar to a full size car, so they need mechanic-background experienced repairers to repair and service them.
Our two repairers who carry out these repairs are previously trained mechanics, who also have a passion for racing model cars, planes, helicopters and boats, so they brought those qualities to the company as we expanded Kitamura's service portfolio past the competition to the checkered flag!
Has your car got engine starting/running trouble? Damaged gearbox or differential? Steering alignment issues? Or do you just need some professional help and advice? We're here for all of those things, and much more!
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Kitamura Model Car MOT service!
We believe that a professional model car is a loved posession, much like someone's full size car is their pride and joy. It has the same components, such as engine, differential, steering, suspension, and brakes, so it needs the same kind of love. Being mechanics ourselves, we know how important it is to keep a car serviced, so we have introduced our super-duper out of this world Model MOT service. Like our CompServ computer maintenance packages, but for model nitro, petrol and electric cars. You bring your car to us every 6 months, or we come to you, and we'll give it a full MOT just like a real car, checking things like the emissions, steering, suspension and brakes, as symptoms from these areas indicate a need for repair. So what better way to show your car that you love it than to have it checked and repaired by professional mechanics?
No model shop anywhere has ever offered a service like this! We can honestly say we're the first! And we're mainly a computer shop! How cool is that?
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Hilary Kramer reveals four biotech unicorns that are more appealing to investors than Lyft. She also discusses why she's not currently interested in buying Lyft's shares after the company recently went public.
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Financial markets have been zigzagging with anxiety as investors have tried to divine whether the Fed will start phasing out the period of extraordinarily low borrowing rates it launched at a time of crisis in 2008. With the job market now considered essentially recovered from the recession, many economists say it's time to start edging toward normal rates.
Others argue that many other factors—from a sharply slowing China to the tumult in markets to persistently less-than-optimal inflation—raise serious concerns. They say the Fed should wait, until later this year or even until 2016.
When the Fed announces its decision Thursday, followed by Chair Janet Yellen's news conference, no one is sure what to expect. Economists appear evenly split on the likelihood of a rate hike.
"It's kind of wild that we still don't know what they are going to do so close to the meeting," says Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial.
Even if the Fed does raise its benchmark short-term rate, no one expects a sharp or rapid sequence of hikes. The Fed's vice chair, Stanley Fischer, has suggested that the first hike would be a modest quarter-point increase in its benchmark rate from a range of zero to 0.25% to a range of 0.25% to 0.5%.
The anxiety gripping investors stems in part from concern that once the Fed starts raising its key rate, other rates—for mortgages, car loans, business borrowing—will eventually rise. Some fear the economy might suffer.
Yet the Fed's influence on many consumer and business rates is only indirect. In the short run at least, those rates could continue to stay low, held down by low inflation globally and by a flow of money into U.S Treasurys.
Until turmoil struck markets this summer, a September rate hike seemed a lock. Then, China's surprise decision to devalue its currency ignited fears that the world's second-largest economy was weakening faster than assumed. Stocks tumbled.
At an economic conference last month in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Fed officials sent mixed signals about this week's meeting. Some indicated they were ready to raise rates if markets had settled and if the economy kept improving. The unemployment rate reached a seven-year low of 5.1% in August, while job growth, though solid, slowed a bit.
In July, when Yellen delivered a midyear economic report to Congress, she reiterated that the Fed would likely raise rates before year's end. But she wasn't specific.
Swonk foresees no rate hike this week. She notes that a hallmark of the Fed is to move cautiously when facing risks.
"There is more to be lost by being wrong and moving too soon than waiting a few months to see if China is just a ripple in the global economy or the precursor of a bigger storm," Swonk says.
But all the bond buying the Fed did to cut rates left banks swimming in reserves. So the Fed needs other tools to influence rates. A key plan is to raise the interest the Fed pays banks on their reserves. The idea would be to set a floor on interest the banks charge their customers: Banks wouldn't be willing to lend at lower rates than they're receiving from the Fed. This could have the effect of reducing lending.
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Victoria Wratten is the CEO and Founder of the Executive & Personal Assistants Association. A legally registered, government approved, not for profit professional body for Executive and Business Support Professionals in the UK.
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On June 8th, 2016, the Cohen Seglias volunteer team, consisting of Paul Thaler, Jeff Brydzinski, Matt Gioffre, Anthony Bottenfield, Matt Skaroff, Stephen Leighton, Lisa Moore, and our three 2016 summer associates, Katherine Piazza, Kimberly Saginario, and Christopher Reese, joined Habitat for Humanity at their Diamond Park build site. Our team worked hard throughout the day installing windows and framing partition walls and doorways in the partially constructed homes. At Cohen Seglias, we are committed to Habitat's mission of creating safe, sustainable, and affordable housing in Philadelphia and look forward to a continuing our partnership to Build-to-Succeed.
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Californians increasingly searching for limited monkeypox vaccines
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Eight of the top 10 metro areas searching online for nearby monkeypox vaccines over the last week were in California.
California cities — including Los Angeles, Palm Springs and San Francisco — are leading the nation in online searches for monkeypox vaccines, underscoring the growing challenge of finding and accessing the limited doses as cases of the rare virus continue to rise.
Eight of the top 10 metro areas searching online for nearby monkeypox vaccines over the last week were in California, according to Google Trends. The Jynneos vaccine, which has been approved for protection from monkeypox preventatively and post-exposure, remains in short supply across the nation. Clinics report long waitlists and lines snaking around city blocks when shots are available.
As #monkeypox outbreaks continue to occur both globally and nationally, people are searching for where they can get the vaccine.4 of the top 5 metro areas searching for "monkeypox vaccine near me" over the past week are coming from California. pic.twitter.com/n10WVzGOGo— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) August 1, 2022
San Francisco and Los Angeles together make up about two-thirds of California's almost 800 monkeypox cases.
Presumed or confirmed cases have almost doubled in L.A. County over the last week, climbing to 400 Monday. In San Francisco, 305 cases were reported Friday, up almost 55% from a week prior. San Francisco has since declared a state of emergency amid the growing spread.
The majority of cases in California have been confirmed in men who identify as gay, bisexual or part of the LGBTQ community, as the virus continues to spread mainly among men who have sex with men as well as transgender or nonbinary people.
While monkeypox isn't considered a sexually transmitted disease, it spreads easily during sexual encounters or other close skin-to-skin contact, experts say. It also can spread on towels or bedding that have touched the virus and through respiratory secretions, such as during kissing.
California health officials say the risk of monkeypox to the general public remains low as it spreads much less easily compared to an airborne virus such as the coronavirus. However, monkeypox can spread to anyone, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, and has been confirmed in two children and a pregnant woman.
In California and across the nation, the supply of monkeypox vaccines remains extremely limited, which has led many county health departments to limit access to those meeting certain eligibility requirements.
Health officials say such regulations will allow them to reach those most at risk of contracting the illness, but the limitations have created frustration among many, especially in the LGBTQ community.
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Will XBB.1.5, the latest Omicron subvariant, fuel another California COVID surge? What we know
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Q: 'ls' output timestamps different for files in /tmp versus in home directory I'm ssh'd into my university Linux servers (RHEL 7). Here's the deal. It has to do with 'ls' and "old" files.
Home directory:
$ touch -d '1918-11-11 11:00 GMT' wwi-armistice
$ touch now
$ sleep 1
$ touch now1
$ TZ=UTC0 ls -lt --full-time wwi-armistice now now1
-rw-r--r-- 1 tsai csugrad 0 2054-12-17 17:28:16.000000000 +0000 wwi-armistice
-rw-r--r-- 1 tsai csugrad 0 2018-05-04 22:07:10.743637000 +0000 now1
-rw-r--r-- 1 tsai csugrad 0 2018-05-04 22:06:59.992632000 +0000 now

tmp directory:
$ tmp=$(mktemp -d)
$ cd $tmp
$ touch -d '1918-11-11 11:00 GMT' wwi-armistice
$ touch now
$ sleep 1
$ touch now1
$ TZ=UTC0 ls -lt --full-time wwi-armistice now now1
-rw-r--r-- 1 tsai csugrad 0 2018-05-04 23:04:27.031485854 +0000 now1
-rw-r--r-- 1 tsai csugrad 0 2018-05-04 23:04:22.907373125 +0000 now
-rw-r--r-- 1 tsai csugrad 0 1918-11-11 11:00:00.000000000 +0000 wwi-armistice

I know the reason the first output shows wwi-armistice in 2054 has something to do with signed 32-bit to unsigned 32-bit conversion of Unix time. If someone could confirm that and perhaps explain why (something something nfs?), that would be great.
My second, bigger question is: Why when I do this example in the tmp directory, is wwi-armistice listed correctly?
Keep in mind I don't really know anything about networking, so a basic explanation would be helpful.

A: It might be helpful if you can identify the filesystems and their mounted options in play here.
mount will display the filesystem hierarchy, and mount-time options.
stat -f --format="%T" $file will print the filesystem type of the named file.  I suspect the results will be different for the /tmp versions than the ones in (presumably) your home directory.
Once you know the specific filesystem and its mounted options, you can research its timestamp limitations, but I think you've the gist of it: the first filesystem does not have sufficient numerical range in its timestamp byte allocation to represent the 1918 date, while the second one does.