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7 Sharp Facts to Know on the Razer BLADE Pro Gaming Laptop (list)
We took the MacBook Pro Retina and locked it in a room with the new Razer Blade Pro gaming laptop. Both are deadly practitioners of their own specialized brand of tech Kung Fu. To find out the undisputed winner of that–one-side but–titanic bout, the curious will have to digest the whole piece. Find out if these are the best laptops.
This one is all about my initial impressions and a few notable hiccups I've noticed while thoroughly enjoying a myriad of gaming sessions with the Razer Blade Pro gaming laptop. This is Razer's flagship laptop offering–a refined and proven refresh from their initial BLADE lappy. The Blade Pro is a large laptop with a wide 17.3 inch LED backlit display capable of 1080p. It's rocking Windows 8 OS. The OS is post RT and pre-8.1. It's all powered by Intel's brand new i7 4700-HQ processor (Haswell).
The speed at which this machine gets things done is staggering. From a complete shut done it can boot to life in 6-secs. As I mentioned in the comparison, there's something about the Blade Pro that subconsciously beckons to be played with… It's a call I answer each and every time. Much of this has to do with the Spartan layout and the…
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I really like the majestic emerald-on-ebony theme. Yes, it's the ubiquitous color scheme from Camp Razer. But it looks great. The entire laptop is black with the emerald used only for the lettering on the chicklet style keys and the Razer logo emblazoned on the front cover. Aluminum is the pervading material used. It looks good but you'll want to wipe it down regularly. It's a magnet for visible fingerprints and smudging. There's not a lot unused fluff in or out. When opened you see the webcam and mic at the top of the display. Above the keyboard we have a large power button with another green Razer logo. The keyboard is large with the sizeable chicklet keys. They offer great response and sound nice when pressed. You don't get a traditional numpad. But one can be accessed as one of the included functions of the trackpad. It's positioned to the right and creates a familiar and semi-traditional keyboard and mouse setup. This layout and design is more natural for gamers. There's no fear of inadvertently hitting the trackpad which is typically found below a laptop's keyboard.
Improved Switchblade
What seemed like a novelty on the Deathstrike and the Star Wars themes keyboard before it, is now as commonplace to Razer as the company's slithering and scaly nomenclature. The Razer Switchblade is Razer's trackpad/capacitive touchscreen user interface. We've spoken about the feature several times in the past. But now it and the Synapse 2.0 programmable software work without a hitch. You can still use the trackpad to check email, browse the internet, view picture library, watch YouTube video, access a full numpad or secondary direction arrows. You can also use the 10 dynamic tactile keys positioned above for a number of multi-use functions both in and out of games. I have them set to launch programs and webpages. But it's packed with many customization options and presets for game profiled like Counter-Strike and Battlefield 3. Ever wanted to toss a C4 pack with a single button..? Oh yeah!
Some of the Switchblade supported apps available for download include GIMP to touch up images using the UI, Photoshop for a new tools window with a ton of functionality, Premiere Pro for editing movies, Maya autodesk app for animation tool sets on the UI, Unreal Developer Kit accessibility through the UI and a cool gamer-friendly feature called Mirror Mode. This lets you re-create a portion of your game's screen and interface right on the Switchblade. Place your RPG character's gear or item tool belt here for easy access from the Switchblade UI. As the dev kit for the UI makes its rounds to more developers we hope to many and more intelligent applications. I'm still waiting for a dedicated Teamspeak/Ventrilo/Mumble integration and some cool video capture functionality.
All the above just scratches the surface of the Switchblade. It's pretty slick now and functions as intended. Custom wallpapers features never worked on the Deathstrike. That and more have been cleaned up. It also lends itself more naturally to gesturing commands in Windows 8 and desktop applications. It's improved and moved from novelty to self-made necessity. Plus it's plain fun!
Gaming Performance
I won't spend too much time here. But the GPU and integrated graphics tech in this black clam is award winning. It's using a GPU from the brand new 700 series of Nvidia GTX solutions. With the GTX 765m paired with the included Nvidia GeForce Experience tool, I was able to play all the modern games tested at 1080p with approx 40-60fps. Somg game will dip below 40. But 30+ is wholly playable in most applications.
If you want more juice then you could manually tweak settings accordingly, reducing resolution and so forth. With the hands-on approach, GeForce Experience analyzes your hardware and sets game settings accordingly. That said, you won't get 60+ fps in Metro Last Light with settings maxed. This is the case for BF3, Max Payne 3 and BioShock Infinite. However, mid-range settings allow you to game smoothly and at 1080p on LED backlit display…. Life is good! I was able to play Bioshock Infinite while camping under the stars on 4th of July weekend. Fun times, to be sure!
Heat and Haswell
I'm gonna save the true temps for the review. But in 90+ degree-California after a good hour of gaming, I couldn't have the thing resting on my bare thighs anymore. It gets too hot. I recommend a solid laptop cooler. Still Razer is doing impressive things. It takes a good hour of hardcore gaming before you notice the heat. A Haswell CPU was a good choice in this regard for it's low energy consumption and reduced heating threshold.
Battery Life
Here's another bitter pill to swallow. The Razer Blade Pro gets some decent battery life, about 4-5 hours of general use. But things get intense quickly with high end games. Gaming from full batt-life to dead will run you approx 3 hours if you're lucky.
Connectivity Options
This too is an area I would love to see some improvement. There are 3x USB 3 ports. That's not bad but there are no other connectivity options. What this system is begging for is a SDXC card slot. It really needs this, or another trio of USB ports. I am much happier with a mouse, which takes up another USB (unless you use a Bluetooth mouse). So now you have 2 USB ports left to work with. The Razer Blade Pro just needs more holes!
Storage: Tight Pockets
You absolutely need an external HDD. The Samsung 841 256gb SSD is lightening fast in the realm of 500+mb/s a second. It's one of the best solid state drives on the market. Yet at this capacity, things feel highly constricting. The scenario reminds me of Aladdin "Absolute cosmic power in a itty-bitty living space." But seriously, that's a shallow pocket. You can get by for a while. But without a higher capacity secondary solution, get ready for a lot of drive content management and file shuffling.
That's it so far–a few bumps in the road. Things heat up a bit and it does need to sup power after a couple hours. Still, these are the facts. What the Blade targets, it hit square in the center. That's gaming. It's easy fun and handled with apparent ease. It can run all of today's most demanding games and on the go, to boot. There's also not much bloatware at all heaped atop the Windows 8 OS. Razer does toss in their new VoIP program for chatting while in-game. I haven't tested this out. But it's free so give it a go and you can tell us. There's the handy Nvidia GeForce Experience and Razer Synapse 2.0 programming software. It's all very lightweight and suits the reduced size SSD. We're going to dive back in and keep testing for our more formal review. But currently, I'm having a lot of fun with the Blade Pro. Is it worth your $2500? Until our review, that's entirely up to you.
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The support the WORST!!!
If you have problems with your Razer Pro, as me that my battery get damaged, you simply can't buy the battery.
You need to send the Razer Pro to his headquarters and wait they return again it.
If you get a simply cable damaged the same.
Don't buy Razer products because if you have some problem you can't buy the replacement part.
Take care!!!!
Star Citizen is so going to get its share of Razer products :D


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How quickly do you bale out of films you're not enjoying? (Inspired by Bridesmaids)
Probably differs by genre for me.
I'll bail out of comedies fastest because if I'm not feeling it after ten minutes then I'm definitely not going to enjoy it.
I gave Bridesmaids five minutes or so and was hating it, so I fucked it off.
Action and horror I'll give slightly longer. Up to twenty minutes.
Dramas I'll probably give longer, depends innit.
Subsidiary question:
What's the film you gave up on quickest?
Mama Mia for me. Switched off after two minutes. Later was forced to watch a further 18 minutes. Utter dogwank.
depends where you are
I wouldn't leave the cinema (although I considered it during both Gravity and Once Upon A Time In Anatolia).
On TV, a couple of minutes.
The past is another country, japes.
And I've lost my passport.japes this'd this
always keep going
i always want to watch it to the end
the only film I can think of that I haven't finished to the end is To Live and Die in LA, just because there's always something I want to watch over it. Oh and the Thin Red Line, but that's because its well long. I've forgotten it all now so will have to restart
ha, just realised I said exactly the same things in the previous thread
at least I'm consistent.
Bridesmaids was fucking shite.
Said that before on here and some people got upset.
Usually about an hour.
Last films I bailed out of were Die Hard 5, The Heat and Brick. That was a waste of three hours.
Totally agree on this
I read about how funny it was and watched about 45 minutes and I couldn't stand most of the characters, they were so annoying.imaperv this'd this
all dreadful films.
Think more of it as saving yourself 4-6 hours instead.
I thought I'd heard that it was one of those films that shouldn't be any good
but actually was.
Nowhere fucking near.
I couldn't get through the second scene, where they're talking about how awful it is to suck cock.
I wish I had stoppped
watching Die Hard 5. That was a total B type action movie and I expected so much more out of it. It was poorly written and Willis was just going through the motions.
can't remember the last film i bailed on
if i have ever done that. also pretty serious about watching films from the very start, same goes for never watching a single episode of a new tv series that isn't the first one.
i do, though, often find myself watching the first two episodes of a tv series and then just leaving it for an indefinite period of time if i don't immediately want to watch a third.
oh wait,
you said 'The heat', not 'heat'.
Not seen it, but the heat is prob better than heat tbf.
I'm probably kicking around about an hour
but it's not timed, just more a feeling of when I've had enough of a film. It doesn't happen that often and has only happened once at the cinema.
Brick is the worst film ever
and anyone who likes it is the worst human ever.ethricdouble this'd this
only one person likes brick?
i've met loads of them and they're all angsty blokes
Well done, warny.
Michael Mann is a prick and that's such an average film.
Everyone wetting themselves about Pacino and De Niro being on screen together. Both of them way past their best.
Yeah, I won't watch a film that's already started.
Same reason I won't start a book that's had the first few pages torn out.
cinema - stick with it to the bitter end
at home - 30 seconds?
I think Amazing Spider-Man 2 may hold the record
which was the opening sequence up until he appears as his normal self somewhere for graduation or something.
Although actually I Love You Man might have only stayed on for five mins.
These are films I tried to watch on planes. I have never walked out of the cinema although I have thought about it.
'Classic' films that I just couldn't get far with: Risky Business and some other film that might have been The Last Boy Scout.
It's in the thread.
To be fair to OUATIA it's very very long. I think it either happens to captivate you or sends you mental.
So overlong
and they have two scenes together
the big gunfight with the M4s
was sooo boring - literally fell asleep watching it
very long
mostly in the dark
sometimes the camera isn't on the person who's speaking
weird creepy bit where loads of old men lust after a young girl
10 minutes
if Mr S is enjoying it I'll give it 20 and then go to sleep (mainly sci-fi stuff)
only g to cinema once or twice a yr to see stuff with kids so we stick it out, even when it's Tarzan
Bridesmaids is great
Think I've watched it three timesPuds this'd this
You should have stood up
and walked out of the plane.Lucien this'd this
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"A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp on life." -Hugh Sidey
Good morning and a Happy New Year to all of you purveyors of hydrodynamic realities! It's a gorgeous morning here at the beach as the sun is up, albeit with a low-wattage, slightly hung-over smile laying low upon the horizon making the temperature tip-toe in at a sobering 40 degrees. There is still some big lumps coming through town this morning making the first day of the new year surf-friendly. However, again there is a huge, Shaq sized tide coming in, so PLEASE keep your eyes open, your head on a swivel and use the good judgment I know you possess when negotiating the boat ramp/sea walls for entry and exits. So, snap-on the heaviest rubber you have and glide, glide, glide.
CHANNEL: Even with this higher than Jeff Spacolli tide it's still in the waist to very occasional (set wave) shoulder high sets spitting through the Middle bar and inside Mali-Bo bar. Not super clean as they can and do section but it's all Windex glass. Better on the Sea Drift side yet the lemmings are all hunkered smack dab in the middle to the Groin Pole. Go figure. All logs this morning making it a Lumber jack fest.... maybe a pancake breakfast awaits afterword?
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"64% of bloggers say a reason they blog is to share practical knowledge or skills with others" and several other observations from Pew about bloggers. One word summary? Duh.
Kevin Tofel "I wouldn't trade [the Motion Lingo Adeo] for 3 Nike + iPod Sport Kits!" GPS logger + headphone passthrough for workout instructions, $149. Integrates with Google Maps to show you where you've been.
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"I've heard myself say that things can be both usable AND fun, but what if things might be more usable because they're fun?" — As always, a must-read post from Kathy.
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This closely describes a lot of what I'm doing inside of Intel – I've got what I feel like are "startups" around wikis, podcasting, etc. It's exciting and rewarding to see them grow! 🙂
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A Legislative Perspective on the Kentucky General Assembly with State Representative Rick Rand
FRANKFORT – Kentucky may not have yet been a state when our country declared its independence nearly 240 years ago, but as we prepare to celebrate that anniversary on Friday, it is worth pointing out we do have ties to this early period.
We were home to about a half-dozen skirmishes during the Revolutionary War, for example, including what is widely believed to be its last: The Battle of Blue Licks in present-day Robertson County.
Although the war's outcome was all but decided by that point, this battle was nonetheless a tough loss for many, especially Daniel Boone, whose son Israel was among the casualties. Two others who died that day include Stephen Trigg and John Todd, who were later honored by having two of our counties named after them.
More than a century-and-a-half later, Kentucky picked up a direct connection to the Declaration of Independence when federal officials decided during the dark days of World War II that the irreplaceable document needed to be stored somewhere safer.
As a result, Secret Service agents oversaw its transportation in late 1941 to Louisville, where a cavalry troop of the 13th Armored Division took over and covered the final leg to Fort Knox. It was returned to Washington, D.C., in 1944.
In late May, the Kentucky Historical Society highlighted another link the commonwealth has to the Revolutionary War when it unveiled a marker commemorating Daniel Morgan, a brigadier general who was one of the war's most important battlefield tacticians.
Like Trigg and Todd, Morgan's name continues to live on here in Kentucky, with Morgan County in Eastern Kentucky, Morgantown in Butler County and Morganfield in Union County all named after him.
His son-in-law, Presley O'Bannon, helped to design Morganfield, and O'Bannon called Kentucky home for much of his life, serving for a time in both the state House and Senate. He is most famous for being the first American ever to raise the U.S. flag over foreign soil during a time of war. That battle is best recalled in the second half of the opening line of the Marines' Hymn: "From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli."
Kentucky can lay claim to several other heroes who served our country with distinction. Franklin R. Sousely of Fleming County was also famous for raising our country's flag as one of the six photographed carrying out that duty in Iwo Jima; that photo became one of World War II's most enduring images.
Mary Edwards Walker, who spent time living in Louisville, was the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor, and she was also the first female surgeon in the U.S. Army.
Colonel Charles Young, a Mason County native, was another pioneer as the first African American to reach the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army; and G.A. Morgan of Bourbon County invented the gas mask a century ago, saving countless lives from chemical weapons in World War I and beyond.
Kentucky is blessed to have had many others who have done more than their fair share in protecting the values and freedom we pay tribute to on the Fourth of July, and many of them live here in our region.
There are also many others who paid the ultimate sacrifice serving our country, and we honor and remember them with memorials both here and across the country. A little more than a month ago, we broke ground for the newest: the Kentucky National Guard Memorial, which could have 450 names or more once complete. The General Assembly has authorized another one to recognize those whose lives have been lost while fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As we remember our fallen soldiers, our veterans, those still in uniform and the Founding Fathers who set our country on its course in 1776, it is good to recall the words of President Kennedy during his remarks at Independence Hall in Philadelphia 52 years ago this week.
"The theory of independence is as old as man himself, and it was not invented in this hall," he said. "But it was in this hall that the theory became practice; that the word went out to all, in Thomas Jefferson's phrase, that 'the God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.'"
At its core, that is what the Fourth of July represents and what our country has fought to preserve. It's something to think about as we ready for the holiday's fireworks and festivities.


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The Orphic Trilogy, which includes The Blood of a Poet (1930); Orpheus (1949); and The Testament of Orpheus (1959), is a fascinating set of films. After watching them earlier this summer and inhaling the essays and bonus features attached to the Criterion editions of the films, I began writing the following 1,000 words immediately. My goal was a) to organize my thoughts, b) to practice the process of watching, researching, and writing through one filmmaker's films (though I don't touch on all of them), and/or c) to present a somewhat introductory glimpse of a truly original filmmaker worth taking note of.
Plenty has been written about Cocteau in the 86 years since his arrival on the film scene. I didn't necessarily need to add to it, but I did. (Some of that writing was helpful in my research; I've listed those sources below.) My focus wasn't on concocting some new way of seeing Cocteau's oeuvre so much as it was on succinctly summarizing the history and ideas of the trilogy which took him his whole career to complete. I decided to split the writing into two parts: Part I is primarily about Cocteau's cinematic debut, The Blood of a Poet, and the circumstances of its release in 1930. Part II covers the other two films, one of which I believe is Cocteau's best. Part II is written and coming soon.
Jean Cocteau finished production on his film The Blood of a Poet in September 1930. The film would make its public debut two years later after a long struggle against those who interpreted the film's avant-garde surrealism as symbolism opposing Christianity. Such audiences were correct in assuming that there was an ideology guiding the dreamlike events, but they were wrong in criticizing the film as a statement against any institution. At this time, Cocteau cared little for making a statement on religion or politics. His was an artistic statement.
Cocteau was well versed in the arts long before he arrived on the then newly exciting film scene. He was the son of an amateur painter, published a book of poems at age nineteen, and became a close companion of Pablo Picasso and other prominent figures of the Parisian avant-garde during the 1910s. He became involved with the Russian Ballets Russe, wrote a few ballets and operas, and then he finally published a novel. By the time that the hosts of a dinner party proposed they would give him a million francs to make a film, Cocteau undoubtedly saw one more corner of the arts which was his to explore. His attraction to film was based on its ability to disguise the subjective as the objective. He saw potential in film "as a poetic vehicle to show things (he) couldn't say." In film, the mass medium which utilizes all of the arts (painting, theatre, literature, photography), Cocteau dreamed, as so many others had, that new ways of artistic expression could be realized through cinema.
Once Cocteau completed the film and rumors began to spread Paris that The Blood of a Poet included anti-Christian layers of meaning, the dinner party hosts, Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles, sought to salvage their reputations and forbade Cocteau from releasing the film for over a year. Cocteau has consistently denied the allegations against his film "The Blood of a Poet draws nothing from either dreams or symbols," Cocteau wrote and it is now clear that The Blood of a Poet aspires to something more ambiguous and subjective than subtly critiquing religious institutions. Cocteau crafted his 50-minute depiction of an artist's dreamlike journey as a half-reality, a kind of fantasy film in which the poet is constantly puzzled by the illusory nature of the present.
For a film commonly categorized as avant-garde and surrealist, The Blood of a Poet seems surprisingly interested in holding audience attention and maintaining narrative continuity. Cocteau's voiceover narration clarifies and links the film's four episodes into a unified story. When the protagonist walks through a mirror into a spacelike black void, Cocteau explains that the mirror led to a hotel before even showing us the halls of the hotel. In this way, Cocteau has taken care to inject logic in the illogical and to make the inaccessible art of surrealism accessible in a way that fellow surrealist Luis Bunuel refused audiences in Un Chien Andalou only a year earlier (that film also was the victim of many malicious rumors). Between the popular reactions to the two films, Cocteau's and Bunuel's, we see why both filmmakers viewed their art as something revolutionary and truly new.
According to Cocteau, The Blood of a Poet was not intended to be a surrealist film; in fact, he has denied that such a film existed before 1930. He was wrong. Bunuel's film (which came first) was one of a few films (Rene Clair's Entr'acte and Delay's The Seashell and the Clergyman) which established the movement of surrealism during the 1920s. Though Cocteau was always a boldly idiosyncratic filmmaker and icon of Wellesian proportions, there is no denying that he was a part of Bunuel and Dali's band of revolutionaries. It is intriguing to note that the revolutionary, anarchic spirit of the surrealist movement could be found outside of the cinema in the works of artists Cocteau called friends. Composers like Stravinsky, whose Ballets Russe production of "The Rite of Spring" nearly provoked a riot, and artists like Picasso and Dali, who would become pioneers and icons of cubist and surrealist art respectively, created work which inspired Cocteau (and Bunuel too: Dali was a cowriter of Un Chien Andalou).
So if The Blood of a Poet appears to be off its rocker, let the bit of history above assure you, it is not. The film was born into a context that was fiercely creative, in which artists were rebelling from old expectations and daring to produce works which confronted their audience and forced them to pick a side. Often an audience would be offended and protest, but for Stravinsky, Picasso, Dali, Bunuel, and Cocteau, that was the signal to keep pushing the issue. And they did. The Blood of a Poet was the result of Cocteau translating his incredible imagination, his artistic versatility, and Stravinsky and Dali's principle of "rejecting habits" to celluloid.
How does it play today? The film can be best regarded as a foundation to Cocteau's entire oeuvre and be worst regarded as a non-sensical, self-indulgent experiment; Cocteau would not be surprised by either response. Nonetheless, what is best and most idiosyncratic about his filmmaking can be found throughout his debut: His imagination, often visualized through refreshingly creative mechanical effects, is the audience's delight in any Cocteau film. His obsession with fantasy and the immortality of the poet (to which he dedicated himself to capturing in the Orphic trilogy: The Blood of a Poet, Orpheus, and Testament of Orpheus) is in plain sight from his first film to his last. Even though the films are clearly outdated technically, they remain technically impressive, or at least, they have retained their magic. A modern remake of, let's say, Orpheus using CGI would lose every ounce of the film's archaic poeticism; the black and white dates the celluloid but not the story or the work itself, which truly seems to stand outside of time just as Cocteau intended.
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Zog is the keenest dragon in school. He's also the most accident-prone, flying into trees and even setting his own wing on fire. Luckily, a mysterious little girl always comes by and patches up his bumps and bruises. But will she be able to help Zog with his toughest test: capturing a princess?
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by Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler
A wonderfully funny picture book from the creators of 'The Gruffalo'.
I grew up in a tall terraced Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him). Mary and I were always creating imaginary characters and mimicking real ones, and I used to write shows and choreograph ballets for us. A wind-up gramophone wafted out Chopin waltzes. I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I'm now married.
Before Malcolm and I had our family, we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country; the best one was in Italian about pasta.
The busking led to a career in singing and songwriting, mainly for children's television. I became an expert at writing to order on such subjects as guinea pigs, window-cleaning and horrible smells. "We want a song about throwing crumpled-up wrapping paper into the bin" was a typical request from the BBC.
I also continued to write "grown-up" songs and perform them in folk clubs and on the radio, and have recently released two CDs of these songs. One of these songs, sung by Malcolm and called "Cochon Blues" was played as one of my choices when I was on the Radio 4 programme, Desert Island Discs.
One of my television songs, A Squash and a Squeeze, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. It was great to hold the book in my hand without it vanishing in the air the way the songs did. This prompted me to unearth some plays I'd written for a school reading group, and since then I've had 20 plays published. Most children love acting and it's a tremendous way to improve their reading.
My real breakthrough was The Gruffalo, again illustrated by Axel. We work separately - he's in London and I'm in Glasgow - but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes.
I really enjoy writing verse, even though it can be fiendishly difficult. I used to memorise poems as a child and it means a lot to me when parents tell me their child can recite one of my books.
When I'm not writing I am often performing, at book festivals and in theatres. I really enjoy getting the children in the audience to help me act out the stories and sing the songs. When Malcolm can take time off from the hospital he and his guitar come too. and it feels as if we've come full circle - back to busking.
Other books by Julia Donaldson
Axel Scheffler is the best-selling illustrator of many favourite children's picture books, including the award-winning The Gruffalo, which has been translated into over 40 languages. He was born in Hamburg, but now lives in London, where his artwork is increasingly inspired by his young daughter. He works in an attic studio overlooking a peaceful garden with a walnut tree and a family of foxes.


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R in Insurance: Registration and abstract submission opened
The registration for the 4th conference on R in Insurance on Monday 11 July 2016 at Cass Business School has opened.
This one-day conference will focus again on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation.
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- Dan Murphy, President, Trinostics LLC.
The submission deadline for abstracts is 28 March 2016. Please email your abstract of no more than 300 words to: [email protected]
Attendance of the whole conference is the equivalent of 6.5 hours of CPD for members of the Actuarial Profession.
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Professional Experience
The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
Washington DC Research Director-2014 to present
- Oversee coordination of project management for ten ongoing and multi-method research projects, with findings cited in major research publications and international media
- Created and implemented institutional research protocols from ground up, with a focus on social scientific and evidenced-based approach to policy-relevant analysis
- Craft research strategy for new institute, expanding research initiatives across four countries, thematic areas, and scales of analysis, with direct influence on US and international policy discussions
- Directly supervise research staff of four, with oversight and coordination of six or more research fellows, including goals and objectives-setting, advisement on methodology, and review of research production
- Established internship program, now with participating interns from 12 universities, including outreach and promotion through networks and training and management of staff supervisors
- Conduct own research with regular engagement in the field, published and presented findings in scholarly venues and delivered directly to key policymakers
Washington DC Co-editor, Maghreb Page–2012 to present
- Coordinated with leading scholars and experts to develop an agenda with critical analysis of politics and society of Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritania
- Produced multidisciplinary discussion on Western Sahara conflict, the first of its kind to bring together scholars and activists from across the region
- Produced weekly roundup of most compelling stories on the Maghreb, with a particular focus to highlighting local perspectives
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA Teaching Assistant–2011 to 2013
- Delivered lectures for over 300 students on contemporary topics of political economy
- Developed instructor's manual to be published in seminal global studies textbook to be published by UC Press
- Nominated by students for a university-wide Excellence in Teaching award, with ratings in top 15% of over five hundred teaching assistants
- Led section groups of around 20 students for sociology and global studies classes, reviewed and graded students' work, and crafted lesson plans and exams in coordination with professor
EF Education
Denver, CO Account Manager–2007 to 2011
- Grew $3.5MM client portfolio with over one hundred accounts at twelve percent per year
- Selected to conduct national and international presentations and teacher trainings on the educational benefits of international travel
- Developed innovative approach to new leads sales by track new lead performance in sales pipeline and trained sales representatives on how to most effectively target leads
Pierce, Davis & Perritano, LLC.
Boston, MA Paralegal-2006 to 2007
- Maintained calendar of deadlines and organizing efforts within firm and with local counsel
- Presented over fifty pages per week of discovery requests and responses
- Conducted research on wide variety of materials, including deposition statements, industrial and architectural charts and graphs
Research Experience
Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
Principal Investigator, Egypt Security Watch
- Designed and executed multi-method research project providing most comprehensive data on political violence and state response in Egypt
- Project data has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and the Washington Post, among others
- Deliver project findings to relevant policymakers, including briefings at the Department of Defense and to Congress
Self-directed Research
Rabat, Morocco
- Developed funded proposal to conduct research in Morocco on character of political protest
- Independently established network of contacts with activists and members of political organizations and conducted interviews in English and French
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
Research Assistant- Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse
- Developed charting system for HDI and Gini coefficient indicators across regions and countries
- Credited for reseach: Nederveen Pieterse, J. (2012) Periodizing Globalization: Histories of Globalization. New Global Studies. 6:2. 1-25.
Research Assistant – Professor Richard Appelbaum and Worker Rights' Consortium
- Conducted economic evaluation of food basket relative to cost of living in Bangladesh across various employment sectors as member of a team of students and faculty to analyze wage data in countries dependent on textile industries.
- Credited for research: Worker Rights' Consortium. (2013) Global Wage Trends for Apparel Workers. Center for American Progress Working Paper.
- Organized multi-stakeholder workshop on corporate social responsibility
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara CA
Master of Arts in Global and International Studies–2011 to 2013
MA Thesis: Seasons in Morocco: Deliberative Street Politics and Sacralized Dissent (under advisement of Paul Amar, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, and Richard Falk)
Tufts University
Medford, MA
Bachelor of Arts-2003 to 2007
Concentrations: French, International Relations –Comparative Analysis France and North Africa
- 2016, April: Security, Insecurity and Prospects for Peace in the Middle East and North Africa, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom, Conceptualizing Security between Narrative and Reality in Egypt
- 2013, June: Global Studies Association North America Conference, Palos Verdes, CA, Contemporary Contours of Political Mobilization
- 2013, February: Santa Barbara Global Studies Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, Islam and Radical Democracy
- 2013, February: Workshop facilitator/presenter. UCSB Human Rights Week. Santa Barbara, CA, Human Rights Repercussions of the "Arab Spring."
- 2012, February: Santa Barbara Global Studies Conference. Santa Barbara, CA, Moroccan Judiciary in the Wake of the Arab Spring.
Fluency: English, French
Working proficiency: Arabic (Modern Standard and Moroccan Arabic)


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Darwin's tradition of open air cinema
Darwin's only outdoor cinema – Deckchair Cinema – was opened on 1 June 1994 by the Darwin Film Society. It started near Stokes Hill Wharf, but within nine years had outgrew its location. So in 2003 we re-opened at our current home on the Darwin Waterfront.
Early Cinemas in Darwin
Outdoor cinema has been part of Darwin for more than 100 years.
On 29 March 1912, the Northern Territory Times & Government Gazette reported that:
the Palace Picture Show concluded a series of Darwin entertainments on Saturday night. From Tuesday 19 to Saturday 23 March, Darwin residents were treated to a series of short films, interspersed with solo playing on the violin and singing by Miss Derde, daughter of the proprietor of Palace Pictures.
This seems to have been Darwin's first official film screening. No mention was made of where it took place. After staying for those five days, Palace Pictures and all involved with them left for Sydney by ship on Sunday 24 March.
On 22 February 1912, the first permanent picture-house, the Don Picture Theatre/Stadium, opened at the back of Gordon's Don Hotel, on the site of the current ABC studios in Cavenagh St. It was little more than four walls of corrugated iron open to the weather, with a screen at one end. It was also used for boxing matches. It screened films on Wednesday and Saturday nights and promised,
pictures romantic, pictures realistic and charming glimpses of the beauty spots of the world.
NT Times and Government Gazette, 27 February 1913
The holding of benefit nights for the various sections of the community was soon established with one example being on 7 April 1915, when the Don held a 'Benefit Night in aid of a new acetylene Gas Generator of Christ Church' (NT Times & Government Gazette, 1 April 1915), as well as making a donation to the Belgian Nuns Fund.
This kind of community support was later continued by The Star, and is now maintained by the Darwin Film Society with its weekly fundraising nights and involvement of various sections of the community in other events.
The Don closed in 1932 because of competition from the purpose-built Star Cinema, which opened in 1929.
Nights at the Star
The Star, managed by Tom and Heather Harris, became a well-loved part of Darwin. Heather Harris (nee Bell) played the piano while her husband operated the projector. An acrobat, dancer, and teenage owner of one of the first Harley-Davidson motorbikes in the Top End, she scandalised the small community with her pranks before marrying Tom in 1932.
Wednesday was 'Ranch Night' and it was particularly popular, not only with visiting stockmen, but also with the Aboriginal population who would come from everywhere, paddling from Mandorah and even the Tiwi Islands in canoes. At the time, the movement of Aboriginal people was controlled by the Aboriginal Ordinance Act 1918-1928. The Chief Protector of Aboriginals regularly placed ads in the local paper giving an exemption on Wednesday nights allowing Aboriginal people to be in town after 8pm 'on the occasion of the Moving Picture Exhibition to be held at the Don Picture Theatre …and the Star Picture Theatre.' (GN 77/30 Northern Standard, 7 March 1930).
The Star was a focus of community activities and events with parties for adults as well as children taking place there. Darwin's first talkie was shown at the Star in May 1933. The Star screened movies until it was severely damaged by Cyclone Tracey in 1974.
Other open-air cinemas
Apart from the Star, there were several other outdoor cinemas operating in Darwin during the 1940s, most of them rudimentary affairs operated by the Defence Department for the benefit of Defence Force personnel. Two venues further broadened the options for cinema-goers in Darwin:
- the partially open-roofed Parap Cinema, was also operated by the Harris family and local businessman Michael Paspalis and located in 36 Parap Road – on the site of the present-day Crust Pizza (2018) and the TAB;
- the Nightcliff Drive-in, also built by Michael Paspalis, which stood where Woolworths supermarket is now located.
All permanent open-air cinemas such as the ones listed above have since vanished. Oudoor cinema lives on in Darwin, however, not only with Deckchair Cinema but also pop-up or inflatable outdoor cinemas for hire, such as those operated by local companies including Outbush Pitchaz, Solar Cinema and Giggling Geckos. Temporary pop-up open air cinemas have become an increasingly common fixture of local culture, and you can often find screenings held at places like the Darwin Waterfront, Nightcliff Foreshore and George Brown Botanic Gardens.
… Words taken from Flix in the Tropix, Darwin Film Society's History Book. Purchase a copy here


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Inky Johnson – Will
In September 9, 2006, a ordinary college football game became not so ordinary for Inky Johnson, of the Tennessee Volunteers. A routine tackle turned into a life-threatening injury, and nothing has been normal for Inky ever since. Not with a paralyzed right arm. Not with daily pain. Not with constant physical challenges.
As a projected first round NFL draft pick entering his junior year, he had the whole world in front of him. All he had to do was play the next 10 games and then he would be a multi-millionaire.
His dream had always been to play professional sports. Growing up in a rough part of Atlanta, Inky set his sights on better. You might think his injury would have destroyed his motivation, broken his will and crushed his spirit. But that's only because you don't know Inky.
Who is Inquoris "Inky" Johnson? He could be described as the survivor of an underprivileged past. He could be described as a refugee of poverty and violence. He could be described as a success story stained by tragedy. But if you look deeper, you'll discover something else.
You'll see a man gripped by the promise that God has purposes and plans far beyond our own. And you'll be inspired by his relentless determination, which he loves to impart to others through his dramatic story.
"My arm may be paralyzed but my heart isn't, my spirit isn't and my mind isn't."
Inky's will to impact others has driven him to be the successful man he is today. He speaks all over the country to teams, colleges and businesses alike.
Inky is a believer that "…things don't happen to you, they happen for you." When your will is tested, you must not play the victim of circumstances but rather the victor.
Inky has a master's degree in sports psychology from the University of Tennessee. He devotes much of his time to mentoring athletes and underprivileged youth.
- What do most people do when tragedy strikes?
- What did Inky do?
- Do you view things in life as happening to you or for you?
- What areas of your life do you need a better perspective?


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Rakuten Eagles: June 3, 2010
by Gen on Jun.03, 2010 @ 2:16 pm, under NPB
...Tsuyoshi Kawagishi recorded his first lost of the season (in his 23rd appearance) last night. It was also the first time he gave up more than 1 earned run in an outing (he gave up a total 5 earned runs last night) and the third time this season he has given up at least one earned run during an outing.
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I'm an English professor. It's how I earn my living. Invariably, when I show up on the first day of any given semester and see a group of 30 or 40 college students staring at me as I prepare to introduce myself, I'm always struck by the same thought.
How did I get here?
I've been teaching English since the fall of 2006. While I like to think I'm good at my job, there was definitely a time when I knew I was terrible at it. Not for lack of effort, mind you. I just didn't know what I was doing nor did I know how to get any better. It's taken me these last five years to reach a point where I feel like I almost know what I'm doing.
It wasn't always my ambition to be an English professor—or do anything at all in the world of academia. In fact, growing up, I had no idea such a world existed. As a kid I was shy and timid, so the easiest thing for me to do was get lost in my imagination. I loved professional wrestling and comic books. My brother Greg had an impressive library of comic books that he collected during his own childhood in the seventies, so, for as long as I could remember, I had access to Batman and Superman and Spiderman and most every other superhero that came out of DC or Marvel.
It was never the words in the comic books that captivated me, but the pictures. I loved drawing pictures as a kid. Some of my earliest memories involve me hiding under my bed and falling asleep with a crayon in my hand and a coloring book pillowed beneath my cheek.
My love of art and drawing stayed with me through high school, culminating in an advanced placement studio art class during my senior year. But, by the time the class was over, I found I was burnt out with art. This should've been alarming, as art was the only vested interest I had in school, but I found that avoiding the idea of my post-high school life was a lot less stressful. Of course, high school did eventually end and I had nothing planned for myself, so I enrolled at Chaffey College.
I grew up five minutes away from Chaffey and, more importantly, I knew how to get there, so, obviously, it was my number one choice. While I went into Chaffey completely clueless as to how I was supposed to succeed in college, I had the great good fortune to end up in a freshmen composition course taught by S. Kay Murphy. It was Kay's first time teaching a college course and it was my first semester in college, so we were a perfect pair. More than that, Kay saw something in my writing that I had never seen before.
She spent the semester encouraging me and my writing and I, in turn, applied myself—really and truly—for the first time as a student, college or otherwise. With her encouragement I discovered a love for writing that seemed to come from the same place that my love for art and drawing had once come from. Interestingly enough, that same year I took a U.S. history class, which assigned, among other books, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
It's important to note that I was not a reader growing up. If it wasn't a comic book or Pro Wrestling Illustrated, I had no interest in reading it. So, when I was assigned to read The Jungle—which is around 400 pages with teeny-tiny font—and only given a month to do it, I was terrified. For reasons that I can scarcely articulate, something triggered in my brain soon after I began reading The Jungle and, without meaning to, I finished Sinclair's seminal novel in three days. So in just under a year, at the age of nineteen, I discovered a love for reading and writing.
A few years would pass before I decided to study English, but even when that time came, I didn't know what I would do with a degree in English. All that made sense was becoming a high school teacher. As I was preparing to graduate from Chaffey and transfer to Cal State San Bernardino, I went to see my counselor for a State-of-the-Union-type sit down. He asked what I wanted to do with an English degree and I told him I would teach high school.
"You don't want to do that."
"No," he said. "Just stay in school for an extra two years and get a Master's degree. Then you can teach in a community college."
"No kidding?"
I finished my Bachelor's degree with relative ease, as the enthusiasm and motivation I discovered in Kay's class was still going strong. Graduate school was another story altogether, proving to challenge not only my intellect but my will. It was tough and I'd love to tell you that I stuck it out for some noble reason, but the truth is I didn't have a backup plan. I had painted myself into a corner, so to speak. In the absence of any other reasonable options, I managed to earn my Master's degree in three years.
As I was finishing up my degree, I called the Language Arts department at Chaffey College to ask how I might get a job teaching there. A month or so later I was interviewing for an adjunct teaching position. About fifteen minutes into the interview, I was offered a couple of advanced composition classes to teach. Before I knew it, I was holding two textbooks and a set of keys. Classes would begin in three weeks, so I needed to start writing a syllabus. The fact that I didn't know how to write a syllabus was the least of my problems, as I didn't know how to be an English professor.
I took the job anyway.
That was about five years ago. I've learned a whole lot since then, much of it coming the hard way. While I'm far from an expert, I feel like I'm pretty good at my job. And, more than that, I also like to think I have some useful insights to offer college students and professors alike.
And that's why, from time to time, you can expect to read any number of posts here on Inside Martin regarding my life as a college professor. It'll be a chance for me to share my stories, talk about my experiences, fill you in on some of my personal victories, as well as some of my more demoralizing defeats. Even if you find that what I have to say here doesn't make you a better student or teacher, hopefully you'll find that you're too amused to care.


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I was aware that other planets had been discovered outside of our solar system, but the count is now in the thousands and the thinking is that there are likely more planets than stars in the universe. Detection methods include not only wobble of a star, but light blocking of the planet as it passes in front of the star (including the detection of atmospheres around planets). Amazing stuff. Lots of discussion of the Mars Rover accomplishments. The mission has been essentially about geology to date and what can be determined from that alone is fascinating. The next Mars mission (Curiosity Rover) will be in the news starting in August, 2012 (http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/) and it will have the ability to detect the building blocks of life. If life is confirmed on another planet and there are uncounted planets in the universe, one has to think that SETI (http://www.seti.org/) is going to find something eventually.
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Is Oprah the un-Trump, or the un-Clinton?
The metabolism of the media is such that we moved, within 20 hours, from the exhortation that Oprah Winfrey run for president (roughly 11 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Sunday) to the reading of rune stones about whether she'd be game (8 a.m. Monday) to the analysis of her chances of victory (2 p.m.) to the deconstruction of what it all said about America (7 p.m.).
Sometime Wednesday the speculation about what she'll wear to her inauguration should commence. By Saturday we'll be reviewing the campaign missteps that sent her poll numbers into free fall, and the pundits on the Sunday morning talk shows can bicker over which of her confidantes and handlers are to blame.
But I'd like to go back to the analysis-of-her-chances phase and to something that came up among the analyzers: Is Oprah too much a replay of Donald Trump, in that she's another unfathomably famous billionaire with no experience in government? Or do their differences far outnumber their similarities, in that she's a black woman as earnest about personal improvement as he is convinced of his superhuman perfection?
The answer matters, because there's a compelling theory that when voters change presidents, they want a departure, someone poised to correct many of the flaws and fill in many of the holes that his (or her!) predecessor had.
But the question misses a big player and big part of the equation. Oprah's ability to excite Democrats and independents doesn't hinge entirely, or even mainly, on whether she's the un-Trump. It has more to do with her being the un-Clinton.
Barely a day goes by when Trump's behavior doesn't fill most Democrats with despair, and they have spent the first year of his presidency torturing and berating themselves: How did such a spectacularly unqualified person with such a proudly offensive nature manage to win the Electoral College?
While there's a brimming grab bag of possible explanations (Vladimir Putin, James Comey, Facebook), nearly all of the Democrats I know maturely admit that one factor can't be dismissed, and their regret about it intensifies over time: The party put its chips on the wrong candidate.
Wrong not because Hillary Clinton is a woman – though that may have hurt – and not because she lacked seasoning, skills and a plan. Clinton checked all of those boxes.
But she was a terrible fit for the times, which were anti-elitist, anti-erudition, anti-Washington. To many voters, she was a career politician who had been pining and plotting for the presidency her whole life. And she had spent so much time at the center of so much controversy. She was exhausting.
On top of which, she had trouble connecting with voters. She acknowledged as much in her speech at the Democratic National Convention. It was smoothly delivered but nothing soaring. Nothing that gave goose bumps.
Oprah soars. Oprah gives goose bumps. That's her métier, and where Clinton wants for charisma, Oprah overflows with it. She's the Niagara Falls of charisma, and as warm to the touch as Clinton can be cold.
Over decades in public life, Clinton struggled to find the best, most poignant way to invoke her family background and tell her life story, but she never got it as right as Oprah did in the brief autobiographical parts of her remarks at the Golden Globes on Sunday night.
And no one can call Oprah a Washington insider.
None of this is an argument for her candidacy, which would be a mistake in many ways. How effectively could Democrats disparage Trump as a political novice who got in over his head if they were backing another novice, no matter how much more serious-minded she was?
Are we ready to surrender this fully to celebrity as a currency above all others? Do we not understand that as soon as Oprah entered into partisan tussles and made tough political decisions, she'd be Oprah no more?
I'm betting that she realizes it and won't run in the end, for that reason and another: She lacks Trump's shamelessness, which enabled him to transcend his unpreparedness for the office. He was happy to claim knowledge that he didn't possess and stake out positions to which he'd given minimal thought because, hey, he was Trump! Details and facts paled beside his majesty and his needs. Why worry about credentials when there's applause to be savored?
I don't think I'm idealizing Oprah when I say that she's probably too aware of what she's unaware of to follow Trump's lead, and that he rushed in where she'll rightly fear to tread.
But the Oprah hoopla is a lesson to Democrats and a clue to which of them might ultimately get the party's nomination. That person will be as brightly inspirational as Trump is darkly confrontational. That will person will radiate empathy.
That person may not be Oprah. But he or she will be Oprah-esque.


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Anyone who uses social media will pretty much be aware by now what a double-edged sword sites such as Twitter can be. Particularly if you're fool enough to follow a crowd of people who are just as greedy and food-obsessed as you are. Yes, these people are erudite, and witty, and helpful for instant cooking advice; yes, I've made lots of lovely, real-life friends with similar interests to my own; and yes, I've heard about all manner of interesting bars and restaurants that I wouldn't necessarily have known about otherwise. And yet, anyone who has ever been sat quietly at home, trying to enjoy a bowl of no-points vegetable soup and perhaps engage in some intellectual pursuit or other, will know the frustration of having a stream of what can only be described as FOOD PORN popping up on your timeline. GordoManchester is eating his own body weight in beef! Hungry Hoss is going back for seconds! The Hungry Manc has a sticky chin! And all of this accompanied by glistening, desirable, IRRESISTABLE pictures of quivering delicacies that you currently DO NOT HAVE.
This cruel phenomenon has perhaps never been more evident than in the steady stream of gastro porn emanating from SoLIta this week; this new, achingly fabulous restaurant and bar doesn't even open until tomorrow night, but a clever marketing campaign that has basically involved luring in all the biggest greed-faces that Manchester has to offer, feeding them, and then letting them tweet about it, means that SURELY there is no-one left in the North of England who HASN'T seen at least one picture of that pulled pork sundae. And if you can't beat 'em, join 'em - finally, FINALLY, last night it was my turn to be the porn purveyor.
But before the food, the location. SoLIta is on Turner Street, a slightly less well-known part of the Northern Quarter, and aims to establish itself as a friendly, welcoming, good-value local restaurant that combines the best of New York, Italy and Manchester - the name is short for "South of Little Italy", harking back to the days when Ancoats was home to a large Italian population. The venue is deceptively big - the ground floor bar is pocket-sized, offering just thirty covers, but there are two private dining areas upstairs and a massive, sound-proofed bar downstairs. SoLIta is also justly proud to be the only restaurant in Manchester with an Inka grill - basically a huge, indoor charcoal barbecue that had Mr Liz slavering with want and clearly mentally plotting how much floorboard reinforcement we'd need to have one at home (I'll save him some time here - NO).
Once we'd had our tour, the food began to arrive. They are still tweaking the menu ready for tomorrow's big launch, but this is the kind of thing you can expect:
- Rooster Scratchings: anyone who has ever roasted a chicken purely so they can pick off all the crispy bits of skin afterwards under the guise of helpfully stripping the carcass will need no persuasion from me that legitimising this practice by serving hot, crunchy, salty triangles of chicken skin in a restaurant is a most excellent step forward in culinary terms. You see them here with a saucy glass of Aperol spritz, which SoLIta is keen to see as the drink of the summer, if only the sun would come out.
- Salt Cod Balls served with salsa mayo: crisp on the outside; hot, soft fish on the inside, and all the while sitting nonchalantly astride a blob of the freshest, greenest sauce. It looked for a moment like Mr Liz wasn't going to get one of these; I will just say it was one of the saddest, most angst-ridden moments I have ever had to witness - I swear he almost kissed the waitress for sheer relief when his own perky ball appeared.
- Sourdough Toast with Bacon Jam: I have a fairly shrewd idea that bloggers across Manchester will have awakened this morning craving nothing more than a good big dollop of smoky-sweet porcine stickiness on their Warburton's - not since the Almost Famous Triple Nom Burger have I awoken with such an overwhelming desire to eat all over again what I ate the night before.
- Pulled Pork Sundae: obviously, this was the one we'd all been waiting for - tender sweet pork in a rich barbecue sauce under a crown of 60/40 mashed potato. The 40 relates to the percentage of butter in the mash, but as a responsible patron, head honcho Dom promises to alert your doctor if you eat this dish more than three times in a month *nods approvingly whilst secretly plotting a cunning disguise, perhaps involving a stick-on moustache, to circumvent cruel limit*
- After that little lot, we were on to the mains. We particularly enjoyed the Hanger Steak, which really showed off the full potential of the Inka grill: perfectly pink and moist on the inside but smoky and charcoal-infused on the outside. The Inka Grilled Vegetables had similarly benefitted from their brush with the grill, and we also loved the accompanying "house sauce", a salsa verde made with capers, parsley, olive oil and anchovies. The only dish we were less certain of was the Deep Fried Mac 'n' Cheese with Pulled Pork - we agreed as a table that the pork, lovely on its own, was too sweet with the rich macaroni cheese, which would have worked perfectly well on its own and didn't need to be jazzed up by being squeezed into into a brioche. Obviously, we still ate it all, in the interests of professionalism and all that.
- Lastly, we sampled the dessert that had been tantalising my timeline all week - the Deep Fried Coke. This inventive offering - coke syrup encapsulated in churros batter, fried until golden and then dusted with sugar and cinnamon - was delicious, and pretty much sums up for me the combination of innovation and tradition that informs the ethos behind this splendid new restaurant. Prices are extremely reasonable, quality is high, and the staff are lovely: there will no doubt be a massive queue when SoLIta opens its doors tomorrow night at 6pm - and I really suggest that you join it.
- SoLIta is on Turner Street in Manchester's Northern Quarter, tel. 0161 839 5600 - check out the full glorious, gluttonous menu on their website.


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Australian Medical Association expels Nitschke/
This article was published on the HOPE Australia website on March 12, 2015.
By Paul Russell, Director of HOPE Australia.
Never far from the news it seems the ABC Alice Springs reports today that the Northern Territory Branch of the Australian Medical Association has expelled Philip Nitschke from its ranks.
This news comes immediately after the death of Nitschke's legal council last week. Peter Nugent QC was, according to reports, suffering from stage four cancer but was not understood to be near death. Nitschke told Fairfax Media that Nugent "had options in place" for ending his own life. He also said that Nugent's death was 'perplexing' and 'a great loss'.
Nugent had been acting pro bono for Nitschke in the matter of the suspension of Nitschke's medical licence in July last year after questions were raisied about whether or not he (Nitschke) should have referred a suicidal Perth man for counselling when he had approached Nitschke via email and in person.
The suspension was heard in the Northern Territory Health Professional Review Tribunal in November last year. The suspension, upheld at that juncture, continues pending the hearing of a dozen complaints to the Australian Health Professionals Regulation Agency about the activities of Exit and Philip Nitschke (including one complaint from this writer).
Nitschke has lodged an appeal to the original suspension and that hearing is listed for the Supreme Court in Darwin in early April.


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Crestview Hills, KY
Founded: 1921
Acting President: Dr. Kathleen S. Jagger
Enrollment: 2,065 (1,881 undergraduate)
Student-faculty ratio: 13 to 1
Thomas More University is a values-based liberal arts institution that is proud to be one of 10 diocesan colleges in the nation. Located in Crestview Hills, Ky., just 10 minutes from downtown Cincinnati, it was originally founded in 1921 by the Benedictine Sisters as Villa Madonna College. Thomas More offers personalized attention and strong academic programs that allow students to have a distinctive and transformative experience. Thomas More is routinely named one of the best values in higher education by Money magazine's Best College Buys issue and recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching as a 'selective liberal arts college.'
Thomas More offers 39 outstanding majors and over 45 vibrant student organizations. As a member of the Presidents Athletic Conference, TMU offers a rich athletic tradition, which spans 19 highly competitive NCAA Division III sports teams. Exciting new initiatives for the 2014-2015 school year include: Academic major in Athletic Training, Marine Biology track partnering with the Newport Aquarium, formation of Marching Saints Band, addition of Women's Lacrosse, an experiential learning requirement for all students and the Saints Experience which provides textbooks to all students with no out-of-pocket costs.


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As a child, and even into my adulthood, I have always wanted to do Halloween "right". Elaborate decorations, a robust assortment of candy, and scaring everyone who dared approach for said candy. In one way or another I managed to accomplish all of that, except one thing. My parents and later on, myself, were always really really bad at carving Jack-O-Lanterns. Oh, they looked alright, but they were never particularly spooky or interesting. Well friends, TODAY THAT ENDS. This year? I decided to, with the prompting of my spouse, pick up the product that will solve all my pumpkin carving related problems.
|Pumpkin Masters: In Color.
|Isn't that spectacular? Hint: No.
My long suffering wife was actually the one to utilize the tools for their intended purpose. This was decided upon when I was required to put our own Little Monster to bed, in spite of the fact that said Little Monster wanted to stay up and run around. Luckily, I got to help with the clean up and did use all the tools at least once. I also took some pictures.
|The lucky
|My face! My beautiful face! Stare into my accusing eyes!
The pattern stayed on really well, surprisingly enough, though the cling wrap we had some problems with. It mostly worked as intended though, keeping the mess to a minimum. One slip up we had was that you are supposed to carve from the inside to the outside, but we ended up doing it the other way 'round. Oops. This caused a few problems with the final detail cuts, as the pumpkin did not have nearly the stability necessary for them.
|Sorry nifty belly feathers, you aren't getting cut today.
|All done! Doesn't look like much, does it?
|It's got it where it counts.


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FixIts | Mouldable eco-plastic, for when you're in a Fix
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FixIts can be moulded into any which way, shape or form. They are also endlessly reusable - just re-heat and re-mould! First conceived by author and materials designer Chris Lefteri.
How does it work?
FixIts sticks are quick and easy to use. They become soft and flexible when dunked into heated water (we recommend 60 deg. C or 140 F) and can be formed into any shape you may need. FixIts hardens as it cools so there's no curing time needed.
FixIts are incredibly tough and made to last. Once hardened, they can be drilled into, hammered into, screwed into, sanded down or cut to size.
Made a mistake or changed your mind? Simply re-heat to start again! You can also squish leftover bits together and save them for your next fix, or blend colours to form new hues and patterns.
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A glimpse of our packaging...
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We're looking for our early adopters and pioneers here on Kickstarter! We're aiming to get 1000 packs of FixIts out through this campaign, but we don't want it to stop there. We're hoping Kickstarter will help build the community that will allow FixIts to become the household emergency fixer.
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And now it's time for our Oscars thank you moment...
We'd love to take the opportunity to thanks all those involved in supporting us in the creation of FixIts!
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And of course, we want to thank our friends and family for their patience, encouragement and comfort over the past three and some year journey this has been. We know many of you are currently helping us spread the word about this project. You are our first brand ambassadors and we cannot thank you enough for your support.
Risks and challenges
We are materials experts who have taken this on as a studio project over the past 3 years. We've worked to deliver products to clients of our own but never have we done something like this for ourselves. So we've worked hard to address all foreseeable issues and delays that could be created.
We are glad to say that we have given this our fullest attention and are production ready as of the launch of this campaign! We didn't want to launch a Kickstarter campaign until we were absolutely sure we could deliver the product we had envisioned. Working with fantastic UK manufacturing we're proud to launch on Kickstarter.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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Finally found the place the other day on a cycling trip. It's in Building 18, the last on the edge of the village. It's like a barn and it fits in very well with the faux village feel. I saw it at 9pm, well after the crowds were gone. They also show live musical theatre for children as well.
I was biking by on my way out to Danielson from Killingly and you couldn't miss this. However, the pics that Roger Katz has on CinemaTour are drastically different than what I saw, some 5 years later. There are now no dilapidated buildings and trees have been cut down that were encroaching on the view of the screen.
Lots of grass and growth are everywhere and there are just scattered slabs of concrete with poles attached. The screen is big and fully intact and there are some trucks in the back left (abutting the trucking facility next door). The driveway slants down on a natural slant to the main area, maybe a drop of 10-20 feet.
Or…you can call up the paper and ask to speak to or email the reporter. Or write a letter to the editor. I'm a reporter and I constantly email and call other reporters when I see questions not asked or gaps in reporting.
Excellent article on the fate/future of the Palace. View link
I was cycling through this sleepy little town on the Hudson. The town's center has a map of historical buildings and each building/place like this theatre have their own plaques on the buildings entrances.
Anyway, the Hastings Theatre opened in December 1920 with Douglas Fairbanks in "The Mark of Zorro". The theatre was named after local architect, Foster Hastings.
I arrived just in time to see a worker opening one of the 2 main black gates at 2pm Sunday. The marquee is new looking and there's a vertical sign above the marquee saying "Hastings." The horizontal double-sided marquee says, "Moviehouse Mews" (look it up on dictionary.com) "Featuring the Good Things in Hastings."
Entering on the left there are 5 businesses with nice bay windows and accompanying doors, like a little plaza with trees and square benches against the retaining wall. The businesses are under a canopy with stilts so you can walk under it in shade.
The lady owned the children's consignment shop, Milkmoney, on the far left and said the theatre closed in 1988 when she was in college. The next place was a coffee and tea shop, jeweler, hair salon and nail salon. Some had drop ceilings, others didn't.
520 seats? It seems a heck of a lot smaller.
I finally went by this theatre on the way to a documentary showing at the Avon. I like how the 2nd theatre is behind the main in the stagehouse, with a stadium slant. Reminds me of the Latchis.
Anyway, to the left and down the ramp, it's rope off and the lower walls up to about 10 feet are taken apart and are vacant with blue tarps. I inquired inside and it looks like no additional screens will ever be built. There are already apartments above the lobby and these lower vacancies will be new basement apartments. Strange, but probably more lucrative.
Not to be redundant, but yes again. It dumbfounded me to see the way they split it up. I cocked my head in disbelief when I saw the auditorium intact and when I saw the balcony off limits with no movie showing, I was confused until I heard a movie and turned and saw it across from the balcony upstairs. Very strange and very nice.
I was passing through here last week on a cycling trip and loved the art deco touches of the marquee.
My friend told me the whole story. Basically, the former owner closed it down but didn't want to sell it. The owner of Amherst Cinemas wanted to buy it from him but he didn't want to sell, but didn't want to sit on it either. Local citizens raised $50,000 in a few days and over a few weeks upped it to $100k but it wasn't enough.
Finally, Amherst owner suggested buying it but not to compete, rather show some movies at his place and then showing them at other times in Northampton and different artsy pics too. Pleasant owner liked that and sold everything to them BUT the projection equipment and stalemated. Eventually, he sold everything.
Saps, I took over 20 pics and would be happy to email you some of them! Email me at
I was passing through last week and it looks like Spectrum did a great job of describing what I saw. I had always seen pictures of atmospheric theatres but to be inside one made me so elated and sad and humble. The seats were beat up but some were newer looking. The tile inlay in the lobby, the outside ticket booth, shiny floors, murals, large wooden poster holders and statues were very memorable -especially the zodiac in the lobby on the floor. The kid working had no idea about the place or what atmospheric meant until I explained it to him. He answered phones very uncaringly.
Facing the stage on the left corner under the Roman arches was a lifesize old man ticket taker behind a podium. Perhaps this was a former owner? Since there wasn't an adequate source of lighting in the center of the ceiling (although the house lights were on), I couldn't get a good picture of the proscenium but the zodiac above was beautiful.
The other 2 theaters were strangely placed, as I've never seen theaters do that before. One was placed behind the statue in the lobby facing down to the left. Apparently, they moved the wall back and got rid of many of the rows of seats from the back of the auditorium and it slopes down under the lobby. The other theater upstairs was across from the balcony in the former hotel space. The balcony was intact through the windows but it wasn't open.
Outside of the theater, from the bridge on the other side of the river, there were mini-murals in the boarded up windows, depicting inside theatre scenes. On the top was a window that read, "Latc Now Sh Latchis For The" and continued on the other window to its right continued with, "his Owing Center Arts." I thought that was cute. To the right of that on a separate piece of building was another pair of windows, much closer together that said "Latchis Theater" and below were the lobby doors. Above that were 2 more windows which depciting 3 sections of auditorium seats with the proscenium and blue background behind the proscenium. The last mural above that was 3 windows close together depicting the statue from the lobby with the curtains raised above it.
I was here last week on a cycling trip. Yes, the bike shop is in front and the other lobby store is "Save the Corporations for Themselves" clothing store and there's an elevator in the back with many offices upstairs. It feels modern and open now. The bottom floor's facade is a grey stucco and the top floor is a grey brick, the left side is red brick with fire escapes.
The mural in the back has the theatre on fire with a fireman in the watch. The marquee says, "Nightly 7" and "Dances with Wolves". The center of the mural has many rows of the auditorium seats and to the left another pic of the marquee that says, "The Fire April 30, 1991, 7&9".
I was passing through last week on a cycling trip. Long and wide main street and many families were going to see movies as it was dinnertime. I found it quite amazing that even though it was carved up, the marquee fills up the night sky and local unvacant storefronts and it doesn't feel like a multiplex. It is sandwiched nicely where it is.
But you can see much more than that. I was there on a cycling trip. The business that occupies this former theatre is the Rutland Food Co-op and Market since 1995 with a 2 floor lobby. The carved stone etching on the front says, "Day Beane, Inc."
Around the back on the left (accessed by going around the block) was a garage for a glove-making company using a portion of the audtorium. The auditorium's back abuts a nice cobblestone and sitting area pedestrian plaza and the Paramount's auditorium abuts the same plaza. The back of the Strand's auditorium has a cool outdoorsy mural on it for a small segment.
I entered and shopped and asked if I could see the auditorium. An annoyed worker said yes but I took the high road. It was huge in there and I could see all the remnants and small ceiling lights, pilasters and turquoise blue octagonal shape in the center ceiling.
Saw this theatre last week on a cycling trip. Great downtown and the theatre fits right in with all the filled up storefronts. The Indigo Girls were playing the night I was leaving.
I was recently passing through on a cycling trip. The address listed as 10 Merchants Row is wrong as there's already a 10 in the block of buildings down the street by the coffeehouse and bicycle shop.
There was a huge banner hanging in town about the theatre's reopening and town celebration and it was mentioned in many newspapers I picked up during my 10-day trip.
Was passing through on a cycling trip recently. The marquee looks playful, like an Art Deco lollipop. It was closed when I was there but was going to open up for movies at night, well after I was gone.
Oops. Dark red brick in front, red painted wood and red painted siding in back.
I was on a cycling trip here last week. The former theatre is in the very small and sleepy town of Swanton, not too far from Canada and Lake Champlain. There's retail on the bottom left, 2 vacancies and upstairs apartments. The theatre auditorium is in the middle but there's another building on the left corner, not attached to the auditorium but to the front stores and in the same color.
I went in last week to see the auditorium but it was closed. The folks in the ticket booth said I couldn't take pics since it was closed for the summer and their next show would be in early August.
Saw this theatre in a shopping mall in Burlington last week on a cycling trip. It was a box cinema and inside the clutter, it had a poster on the wall for Talladega Nights from 2006 and a sign on the front door saying, "Thank you for the last 25 years" so that means it was opened in 1981 and closed in 2006.
I was there a week ago. This is a cool theater as it blends in downtown on the corner and doesn't feel like it intrudes. The best part is the local artsy airbrush portraits all in a row at the bottom trim, under the posters and above the sidewalk. I have pics.
From right to left are Darth Vader, Batman, Marilyn Monroe, some guy in a WWI flight suit, Ray Liotta/DeNiro/Pesci from Goodfellas, I think Clint Eastwood, Malcolm McDowell from Clockwork Orange, someone and Hugo Weaving in V for Vendetta mask.
My friend just told me the new owners raised prices and not by a little. Everyone has been complaining for the last week and she urges them to complain with the suggestion box, and the owners are never there, so they workers have to endure the brunt of it.
Adult admission will remain at 9.50, but they raised senior citizens to 7.50! and students as well and matinees – student discounts are only during the week and not weekends. no more ladies nights and no more $6 all day monday.
The owner is the Prez of Focus Features and I chatted with him at length as have others and he says there are no independent films anywhere, which is what Bethel Cinema patrons want and love. He's the Prez! No indies, my butt. He was just at Cannes.
Update on the architects. A nice sign in the lobby says "Philip Sunderland and Edmund Watson" (The H. Wales Company, 1928-30).
I was there last week for Leatherheads. Haven't been there in some time but they have new seats! Very comfy.
I went there yesterday to see the 2nd showing at 9pm of young at heart. Unfortunately the movie was cancelled. The owner said that he needed at least 8 people to see the 9pm (his policy). Only 3 of us were there so he shut down and gave each of us 2 free passes.
Was there for the 8th annual Bicycle Film Festival and much to my surprise, they have new seats!!! The old ones hurt my butt and back and were too creaky. Went there yesterday and they look are bucket seats – they look like the kind for those seated racing car arcade games but they are comfy and provide great back support. Found out they were all donated!


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Cartesian coordinate system
of a Cartesian coordinate plane. Four points are marked and labeled with their
coordinates: (2, 3) in green, (−3, 1) in red, (−1.5, −2.5) in
blue, and the origin (0, 0) in purple.
A Cartesian
coordinate system specifies
each point uniquely in a plane by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances from the point to two
fixed perpendicular directed lines, measured in the same unit of length. (Our solved example in mathguru.com
uses this concept)
Each reference line is called a coordinate
axis or just axis of the system, and the point where
they meet is its origin.
The coordinates can also be defined as the positions of the perpendicular projections of the point onto the two axes,
expressed as signed distances from the origin.
The modern Cartesian coordinate system in two dimensions (also
called a rectangular coordinate system) is defined by an ordered
pair of perpendicular lines (axes), a single unit of length for both axes, and an
orientation for each axis. (Early systems allowed "oblique" axes,
that is, axes that did not meet at right angles.) The lines are commonly
referred to as the x and y-axes where the x-axis is taken to be
horizontal and the y-axis
is taken to be vertical. The point where the axes meet is taken as the origin
for both, thus turning each axis into a number line.
The point where the axes meet is the common origin of the two
number lines and is simply called the origin.
It is often labeled O and if so then the axes are called Ox and Oy. A plane with x and y-axes
defined is often referred to as the Cartesian plane or xy plane. The value of x is called the x-coordinate or abscissa and the value of y is called the y-coordinate or ordinate.
four quadrants of a Cartesian coordinate system.
The axes of a two-dimensional Cartesian system divide the plane
into four infinite regions, called quadrants, each bounded by two
half-axes. These are often numbered from 1st to 4th and denoted by Roman numerals: I (where the signs of the two coordinates are I
(+, +), II (−, +), III (−, −), and IV (+, −). When the
axes are drawn according to the mathematical custom, the numbering goes counter-clockwise starting from the upper right ("northeast")
quadrant. (Our solved example in mathguru.com uses this concept).
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