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Just what the world needs — another end-of-year list! I decided to go with my favorite 20 instead of 10 because I think it was a pretty good year for the movies, but there should obviously be a huge asterisk at the end of that title that stands for "of the movies I've seen." There were certainly plenty of great films that I missed and, other than Boyhood, which was the biggest standout of the year for me by far, I will probably want to shift and change the films on this list every time I look at it. But, for what it's worth, here are 20 films that moved me in 2014.
20. Locke. Directed and written by Steven Knight; starring Tom Hardy. When I heard that this entire film consisted of Tom Hardy in his car on a real-time drive from one location to another, I worried that I wouldn't be able to sit through it. But Hardy's performance as a construction manager whose personal life is crumbling around him is a true tour de force, aided by the off-screen voices of Ruth Wilson, Olivia Colman, and a few others. Miraculously, this film never seemed claustrophobic — I was riveted throughout. I spoke with writer/director Steven Knight last April.
19. Venus in Fur. Directed and written by Roman Polanski (based on the play by David Ives); starring Emanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric. David Ives' 2011 play was set in New York and featured a stellar performance by Nina Arianda as actress Vanda Jordan. When I heard that Roman Polanski was directing a French movie based on the play, I was skeptical, but I thought he nailed this provocative, emotionally gripping, and agonizing story. Polanski's wife, Emanuelle Seigner, gives her best performance ever as Vanda while Mathieu Amalric, looking shockingly close to a young Roman Polanski, plays the obsessed playwright.
18. The One I Love. Directed by Charlie McDowell; written by Justin Lader; starring Elisabeth Moss, Mark Duplass, and Ted Danson. I was very intrigued by this odd and unique film about a couple (Elisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass) whose marriage is in serious trouble. Their questionable therapist (Ted Danson) sends them to a vacation house for the weekend, but what they find there creates a life-changing dilemma for the couple. I'm looking forward to more from post-Mad Men Elisabeth Moss.
17. Edge of Tomorrow. Directed by Doug Liman; written by Christopher McQuarrie and Jez and John-Henry Butterworth; starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Who am I? A big studio Tom Cruise film as one of my favorites of the year? That probably hasn't happened since Born on the Fourth of July 25 years ago! But, unlike many, I was a big fan of this clever sci-fi flick about a military officer (Cruise) who suddenly has the ability to relive the same day over and over again. He pairs up with a Special Forces warrior (Blunt) to try to win the war against an extraterrestrial enemy. I've always admired Emily Blunt and it's fun to see her KICK ASS in this film.
16. Maleficent. Directed by Robert Stromberg; written by Linda Woolverton; starring Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, and Sharlto Copley. Speaking of kicking ass, who can do that better than Angelina Jolie — despite the slander directed at her in those hacked Sony emails? This Disney film provides a much darker look at the tale of Sleeping Beauty and gives Jolie her most delicious acting role in years. The movie got mixed reviews but I thoroughly enjoyed it, especially the chemistry between Jolie's Maleficent and Elle Fanning's Aurora. And yes, Jolie's daughter, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, was adorable as five-year-old Aurora.
15. We Are the Best! Directed and written by Lukas Moodysson; starring Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, and Liv LeMoyne. If you haven't had a chance to see this Swedish film about three girls in 1980s Stockholm who decide to form a punk band despite the fact that only one of them knows how to play an instrument, you are in for a real treat. I had the chance to chat with writer/director Lukas Moodysson in May. He based the film on a graphic novel that his wife, Coco Moodysson, had written about her own childhood.
14. Two Days, One Night. Directed and written by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne; starring Marion Cotillard and Fabrizio Rongione. I've always admired the Dardenne brothers, but this is my favorite of their films. Note: this is not a "feel-good" movie! Sandra (Cotillard), a young Belgian mother, tries to convince her blue-collar colleagues to forego a significant bonus so that she can keep her job. Marion Cotillard continues to prove that she's one of the greatest actresses of her generation — and, despite the extremely unglamorous nature of this film, one of the most beautiful.
13. Ida. Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski; written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz; starting Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, and Dawid Ogrodnik. Anna (Trzebuchowska), a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, encounters an aunt (Kulesza) she didn't know was alive and discovers a deep family secret that dates back to the Nazi occupation of Poland. This gorgeously shot black and white film is devoid of sentimentality and yet I found it extremely moving. I was surprised to see that part of the film took place in my family's old shtetl, Staszow, Poland. I sat down with writer/director Pawel Pawlikowski last May. Ida is currently on the short list for the Best Foreign Film Oscar.
12. Pride. Directed by Matthew Warchus; written by Stephen Beresford; starring Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, and Bill Nighy. This winning film tells the true story of a group of gay activists in 1980s London who supported the coal miners in a small mining town in Wales during the National Union of Mineworkers strike. I defy anyone to see this film and not be deeply moved. In September, I had the chance to talk to writer Stephen Beresford and Jonathan Blake, the real-life person who Dominic West plays in the film. They agreed with my assessment that Imelda Staunton needs to be in every movie coming out of the UK.
11. Birdman. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu; written by Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo; starring Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Ryan, and Andrea Riseborough. Michael Keaton gives a remarkable performance as a washed-up actor who was once a major star in a series of superhero films (art imitating life?) who attempts to reclaim past glories by mounting a Broadway play based on a Raymond Carver short story. Mexican director Iñárritu gives the story a supernatural edge and all of the actors deliver great performances. I'd be very surprised if Edward Norton doesn't nab an Oscar nomination for playing a talented but crazy method actor.
10. Obvious Child. Directed and written by Gillian Robespierre; starring Jenny Slate, Gaby Hoffmann, and Paul Briganti. A wonderful, uncompromising film about a young comedian (Slate) who gets pregnant and is forced to take a hard look at her life and future. I hope this is the first of many films starring the insanely funny Jenny Slate. It's always a pleasure to see Gaby Hoffmann in any film, as well as supporting actors such as David Cross, Richard Kind, and Polly Draper. I talked to Jenny Slate and Gillian Robespierre in June. At the time, both of them were wincing at the film's label as an "abortion comedy."
9. Guardians of the Galaxy. Directed by James Gunn; written by Gunn and Nicole Perlman; starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, and Lee Pace. A Marvel film in MY Top Ten list? Who knew? I loved everything about this crazy tale of a group of intergalactic criminals who are forced to work together to stop a crazed maniac from taking over the universe. The film has earned close to $800 million to date and, for once, I think that is well deserved. We have a long wait until the May 2017 sequel is released but I'm certainly looking forward to it. I am Groot.
8. The Imitation Game. Directed by Morten Tyldum; written by Graham Moore; starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, and Matthew Goode. I talked to Norwegian director Morten Tyldum a few years ago when his excellent Headhunters came out, and I'm glad he's now being recognized by the international community. I thought this was a fascinating look at how troubled mathematician Alan Turing (Cumberbatch) tried to crack the all-important Nazi enigma code during World War II with the help of a small group of fellow mathematicians. This is the best version of this story to date and I think Cumberbatch and Knightley give great performances. Of course it's not a documentary and some historians dispute several aspects of the story, but it's still very much worth seeing.
7. The Skeleton Twins. Directed by Craig Johnson; written by Johnson and Mark Heyman; starring Kristin Wiig, Bill Hader, Luke Wilson, and Ty Burrell. I though this moving film should have gotten a lot more acclaim than it did. It tells the story of estranged twins (Wiig and Hader) who reunite after both have attempted suicide and try to help each other. I've always loved Kristin Wiig and Bill Hader but still found myself surprised at their dramatic acting chops in this film. They get a chance to be funny, too, but they really reign it and give two poignant and measured performances. Luke Wilson and Ty Burrell are also excellent, as is Joanna Gleason in a short but powerful appearance as their mother. I talked to director Craig Johnson and writer Mark Heyman in the fall.
6. Dear White People. Directed and written by Justin Simien; starring Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Kyle Gallner, and Teyonah Parris. This is another film that I thought deserved a lot more attention than it got this year. I found this story of a group of black students at a fictional university moving, provocative, and thought-provoking. I was especially impressed by Tessa Thompson (who is also in Selma) and Teyonah Parris and can't wait to see what they and first-time director Justin Simien do next.
5. Selma. Directed by Ava DuVernay; written by Paul Webb; starring David Oyelowo; Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Tom Wilkinson, Lorraine Toussaint, Common, and Oprah Winfrey. DuVernay knocks it out of the ballpark with this intimate look at the historic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery. Though he looks nothing like Martin Luther King, Jr., Oyelowo inhabits the character and is utterly convincing as the civil rights leader. What I love most about the film is that it doesn't canonize any of the participants, it shows them as the complex, flawed human beings that they were. I recently talked to Common about his role as James Bevel and will soon be posting interviews with Ava DuVernay, David Oyelowo, and Lorraine Toussaint.
4. The Theory of Everything. Directed by James Marsh; written by Anthony McCarten; starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones. When I heard that British heartthrob Eddie Redmayne would be playing Stephen Hawking in a movie, I couldn't believe it, but I have to say that Redmayne gives one of the best performances of the year as the theoretical physicist who suffers from ALS. The film focuses on the relationship between Hawking and his first wife, Jane (Felicity Jones), and chronicles Hawking's work and his physical degeneration from the cruel motor neuron disease. As far as I'm concerned, Redmayne is the one to beat for the Best Actor Oscar.
3. Life Itself. Directed by Steve James; starring Roger and Chaz Ebert. Documentaries really belong on a different list but I was so moved by this wonderful look at the late movie critic and journalist Roger Ebert that I had to include it. The documentary was filmed during the last months of Ebert's life (unbeknownst to all) and shows the challenges of Ebert's disfiguring cancer that left him unable to speak. It also chronicles the entirety of Ebert's career including his famous rivalry and decades-long work with Gene Siskel, his friendships with various filmmakers, and his mentorship of young people, including Ava DuVernay who met Ebert when she was a young girl. He encouraged her over the years and I only wish he were here now to give DuVernay's Selma an enthusiast thumbs-up. Ebert's wife, Chaz, is featured prominently in the film and their relationship is one of the doc's most poignant elements.
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel. Directed and written by Wes Anderson; starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan, Jude Law, Adrien Brody, and Tony Revolori. I know there are some people who don't like Wes Anderson's films but I'm definitely not one of them. I absolutely love the unique worlds that Anderson creates in every film and The Grand Budapest Hotel is the best of the lot. The story revolves around Gustave H (Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous hotel in the fictional Republic of Zumbrowka between the first and second world wars, and Zero Moustafa (Revolori), the lobby boy who eventually becomes his most trusted friend. But you can't really describe a Wes Anderson film in a few sentences, you have to experience it. I so enjoyed talking to the great Jeff Golblum, as well as Saoirse Ronan and Tony Revolori about this wonderful film.
1. Boyhood. Directed and written by Richard Linklater; starring Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltraine, and Lorelei Linklater. As I mentioned, while I might switch and move around every other film on this list depending on my feelings at any given moment, nothing could budge Boyhood from my top spot. Shot over 12 years with the same actors, I think this is one of the most powerful and moving films I've ever seen, even though, according to some insane critics, "nothing much happens." If you haven't seen this nearly three-hour film, you really need to let it wash over you. You'll be thinking about it for a long time afterward. We were excited that my brother-in-law, Jeff Tweedy, has two songs in the film, including one that's used in a pivotal scene between Hawke and his son, and my favorite interviews of the year where the ones I got to do with Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, and a slightly traumatized Lorelei Linklater (the director's daughter).
If anyone needs me, I'll be sitting here cringing in agony at the films I forgot to include on this list — and possibly at a few that I did include. Looking forward to another great year at the movies!


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When you are involved in any industry whether it's mining, medicine or accounting you find there is language unique to that field. ( If you eavesdrop on three town planners it is my belief there will be so many acronyms used you may find yourself wondering if they're speaking another language). Once you understand that field or industry the language becomes common place and you forget that others don't know what you're talking about.
Since I've embarked on my journey to write and to get published I have learned all sorts of terms and phases that are used in contexts I would not previously have understood.
Some examples:
What does it mean when someone 'requests a partial'? A publisher or agent wants to see part of your manuscript more than likely the first three chapters.
What is a 'beta reader'? (It is not a fish). It is someone, usually not a writer, who reads your book in its draft stage and offers feedback.
What is a 'crit partner'? This is a person who critiques your writing and you critique theirs, so usually another writer.
So then we come to authors. Authors used to fall into two categories published and unpublished - simple right? Well not in the 20th century – we have another category – indie, and that's what I am.
So now when I say I'm an indie author, people very often don't know what I'm talking about. Most of the time I have to take a moment to explain, so I thought I'd do that here.
What is an indie author?
That's an author who is independently published...you know how musicians have indie records (which everyone thinks is mega cool and is pretty standard in that field) same thing really! I'm like that guy in the garage band. (Maybe I can become writing's answer to Silverchair!)
Lets' do another Q&A.
Are indie authors just people publishers won't publish?
Sometimes they are. Sometimes they aren't. These days lots of traditionally authors also do some books as indies – by the way those authors who are both indie and traditionally published are knowns as hybrid.
Sometimes if a book isn't in a popular genre or is cross-genre traditional publishers don't believe they can sell a book – publishing is a business so they need to be sure they can see a book before they publish it. These books often do quite well as indie books. Some later get picked up by traditional publishers and lots don't. Wool by Hugh Howey is a great example of an indie book that later found a traditional publisher.
Why would anyone be an indie author?
Some people like control of their work - choosing covers, setting prices and controlling how their books are marketed. For example I've enjoyed creating distinctive brand for myself and choosing how and when I would release my books. When you're indie you can release books to your own schedule as well, which really suits some authors.
Don't you make more money going through a publisher? Not always. These days with Amazon, Smashwords etc you can often do better on your own than with a small publisher, especially a publisher who is only offering you e-publication and not print. In fact you can make a pretty strong case lots of authors make less money with that approach. That's not to say authors with small publishers don't make money or big publishers because every author is unique and everyone's journey is different.
Do indie authors make money?
Well authors generally don't make a fortune to begin with – that is another misconception about authors. In Australia (where I live) the average author makes around $10,000 a year from their writing regardless of the method of publication. Of course that's an average so lots are making more and plenty are making less. That's true for indie's as well. So some indie authors make a lot of money and lots don't but then that's true of authors in general.
In summary - an indie author is just someone going it alone in the writing world. Of course, that's a pretty loose definition and not true really because I have a writing group, beta readers, cover designers, editors and of course readers so I'm not alone at all.
As a reader of course much of this doesn't matter. What you are looking for is a well-crafted story that you can't put down.
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John Marty understands the need for a fair, responsible state budget. His work is grounded in common sense and fiscal responsibility. The way to save money in the long term is: (a) don't spend money on things you shouldn't spend it on, (b) fight waste and abuse at every level, and (c) identify and take advantage of public programs and services with a high return on investment – services that help people reach their full potential.
Over the years, John has been fighting against mismanagement, one-time shifts and accounting gimmicks, and working for real solutions to Minnesota's budget problems. Marty seeks to put the long-term interests of the state ahead of short-term political gains and engage in an honest conversation about what is required to reclaim a healthy budget process. The people of Minnesota deserve a respectful discussion of tax and fiscal matters, where public officials talk openly about the costs and benefits of various programs and services, without pretending that public services are free or that taxes should always be cut.
We can reverse the effects of former Governor Pawlenty's shifting of the tax burden to city, county, and school districts and property taxpayers. We can reverse the short-sighted tax policies of the past that caused budget problems. We can once again invest in schools, public safety, and public health, which create and sustain productive jobs with good wages, stimulating the economy and strengthening communities.
Long-Term Planning.
Unfair, regressive tax policies have hurt families who are struggling to make ends meet. It is time for a fair, progressive tax policy where those who have benefited most from the economy pay their fair share, so that middle income families are not over-burdened.
Inadequate budgets have aggravated social ills, left dilapidated infrastructure unattended to, hurt vulnerable people, and failed to take advantage of public investments with long-term returns. This failure to invest in physical and human infrastructure has ultimately driven up the state's expenses. Economists agree: (a) using cuts as an economic development model has failed, (b) Minnesota will again face budget deficits unless we have a structurally responsible budget, and (c) Minnesota has been missing a focus on long-term planning and investment.
John Marty's legislative strategy has always had one key consideration at its core: Do what is in the best long-term interest of Minnesota. Whether the issue is crime, health care, education, infrastructure, or the environment, John Marty knows that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Minnesota has a rich tradition of shared accountability and taking the long-term view. John Marty will continue working to maintain that proud heritage by making smart choices that offer the public a strong return on its investment. We will build a better Minnesota and ultimately, reduce costs to taxpayers.


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Google is ending integration between Google Photos and G-Drive
Google has long offered syncing between Google Photos and Google Drive, but it's putting an end to that in the name of simplicity. "We've heard feedback that the connection between these services is confusing, so next month, we're making some changes to simplify the experience across Drive and Photos," Dan Schlosser and Jason Gupta, product managers for Drive and Photos respectively, wrote in a blog post today. There's also an article for G Suite customers, since this decision affects all end users.
When the change takes effect in July, photos and videos you add to Drive won't automatically appear in Photos and vice versa. Additionally, file deletions won't sync between the two. "This change is designed to help prevent accidental deletion of items across products," Schlosser and Gupta wrote. Indeed, the current system provides ample opportunity for users to screw something up and unknowingly lose important photos if they're not careful. Here's how it works as of now:
Google will offer a way for people to copy images or videos from Drive over to Photos with a new "upload from Drive" option coming to the Google Photos website. However, you'll then have two versions of the same file without any link between them. Google warns that this might cause headaches when it comes to your cloud storage, since if the copied item is original quality, it'll eat up space in both places. Not great. (Photos uploaded at "high" quality do not count against your storage.)
If you still want some content in both places, the best workaround seems to be using Google's Backup and Sync app for Windows or Mac. The company notes that "items uploaded using Backup and Sync in original quality to both services will count only once towards your quota."
Google stresses that nothing will be automatically deleted in July when it cuts off this cross integration. "Any photos or videos from Drive in Photos that you have uploaded prior to this change will remain in Photos. If you have a 'Google Photos' folder in Drive, it will remain in Drive, but will no longer update automatically," Schlosser and Gupta said.
But this shift is still likely to inconvenience some people. For example, say you like the peace of mind of retaining a physical backup of your Google Photos library through that synced Drive folder on your PC. Well, that just won't be an option anymore. This might spell trouble for those of you with elaborate workflows to keep photos synced across various services and cloud platforms.


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an's access to virtual world besides mundane world is unfathomable in this modern civilization. To grasp the world within one's fist is only a click away on a button and this could be done with information technology. There is no alternative to being competently ahead keeping pace with the modern era. The use of information technology with the advancement of Chittagong Port College to dictate the youth towards golden future with the slogan 'Good citizens through quality Education' is a milestone.
This college is conscious of using information technology to materialize the long-cherished dream of Port locality since its establishment. I feel really glad to know that a website enriched with all information, aim and success of our college as well as various branches of knowledge is going to be opened for all. My special thanks and gratitude to the present honorable chairman of Chittagong Port Authority for remaining beside us as a pioneer in this journey. I am grateful to all those who contributed to the development of this website from the very outset and hope that they will continue this to keep us updated. At the end, I expect the co-operation of all stakeholders so that this website will present Chittagong Port college as a role model not only in Chittagong but also throughout the country.
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Jared Fogle gained 30 pounds in prison from overeating, report says
Former Subway pitchman-turned-prisoner Jared Fogle has gone from selling six-inch sandwiches to adding six inches to his waistline.
Fogle, three months into a 16-year sentence for possessing child porn and having sex with underage prostitutes, has gained about 30 pounds already by snacking on sweets, a prison insider told In Touch Weekly.
"Jared's breakfast is usually Frosted Flakes with fruit or oatmeal with cake," the source said. "He loves 'cake day' in the dining hall twice a week, and he buys Honey Buns by the box, as well as other pastries, in the commissary on his weekly shopping day. He's been known to eat an entire box of eight at one sitting."
The insider told In Touch that Fogle is often taunted for being a "dirty child rapist." His attempts to speak up for himself allegedly have not gone well.
"The inmate slapped him across the cheeks several times and made his face red," the source said. "Jared just stood there stunned, then ran out of the gym."


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For the past three years, I have had the privilege (and fun!) of taking the photos for a series of sewing and crafting books for young girls. It has been an absolute BLAST, and the second book is now available for order! We love to Sew- Bedrooms is such a sweet and creative book, and it's filled with ideas for the tween girl in your life. I absolutely LOVE working with Annabel Wrigley (you can read about our first collaboration HERE), and it's so delightful to see my images displayed in such a lovely book. The projects are so much fun! If you have a creative little girl in your life, definitely pick up a copy of the book. And while you're at it, sign her up for a class at Annabel's studio!
Lucky for me, I've been able to work with Annabel for the past three years during my slowest season for weddings… which explains why my blog has been a little quiet these past few weeks! Stay tuned because I have some amazing weddings coming soon to the blog!


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Michael Kors celebrates American classics for S/S 20
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Milan: For S/S 12, Raf Simons recalled various fragments of post-war sartorial codes and reworked them back together for a hyper-modern collection that suggested it was more about the process itself, rather than the results. The designer chose not to focus attention on his seasonal hybrids, instead letting clashing elements fight for attention on the garments. Tailored clothing was suctioned close to the body or hung off it entirely. Shorts allowed for more leg than usual to show, but were worn under thick sweaters and the oiled surfaces of eel-skin blazers or plastic and nylon rainwear. With slicked-back hair and sporty bags worn around their necks (that Simons called "urban scout gear"), the models looked like British schoolboys from the future caught in a summer downpour. The palette moved away from the bold color of seasons past — the designer used blackened brown, aubergine and an ultra-dark green that read as black. Pops of optimistic hues came from marled sweaters, and printed woven shirts had a shiny techno appeal. The collection's proportions continue to look new and innovative, and the intellectual pastiche behind the designs help to move the brand forward for many seasons ahead. —Michael Fisher
Color: Techno black / Aubergine / Bottle green / Raspberry / Copper orange
Key Items: Nylon rain coats / High-waisted and pleated shorts / Three-button blazer / Boxy woven tees / Marled sweaters / Openworked sweaters
Materials: Plastic / Nylon / Cotton / Exotic skins like python and eel / Silk
Details + Trim: Boxy silhouettes / Transparent layers / High button stance on tailored jackets / High-waisted shorts and pants / Relaxed and cropped fits / Contrast collars
Accessories + Footwear: Snakeskin bags / Plastic "urban scout gear" neck-bags / Chunky sole lace-up Oxfords
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Metaphysics and Metaphysicians
The term metaphysics was first used by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle as the title of one of the volumes of his massive philosophical corpus. Metaphysics was literally the volume after Physics. What were the subjects contained within Aristotle's volume Metaphysics? All sorts of topics which involve a higher level of abstraction than physics itself or, if you like, dig more deeply into the nature of reality than even physics.
Over the many centuries since Aristotle, metaphysics has come to mean philosophical speculation of a nonempirical type, of intrinsically nonobservable phenomena. One example is causation. We don't observe causation. We observe what appears to be a cause, and what appears to be an effect. Are they joined causally, or are they merely coincidentally connected? This is a big question for philosophers interested in metaphysics. They have also speculated about such things as tropes and possible worlds.
To skeptics, all of this is well and fine, but an elaborate fantasy is, at the end of the day, still a fantasy. For obvious reasons, then, metaphysicians are not that keen on skeptics. When confronted with a meticulously woven metaphysical tapestry, rather than complimenting its maker, the skeptic points out all of its flaws, and reveals that even the metaphysician's most cherished theories are incapable of being demonstrated as anything more than figments of his imagination. To metaphysicians, skeptics are like an annoying kid at a party who pops everyone's balloons.
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Where does metaphysics fit into the perfume picture? One question which has arisen lately is the status of perfumery. Is it art? Does it matter? On the one hand, this seems to be a simple conceptual question. Define the term art, and then examine perfumery and see whether it fits the definition. I've noticed a tendency on the part of the "Perfume is art" crowd to conflate art and aesthetics.
Beauty stopped being a necessary condition to art more than a century ago, so there's definitely a conceptual confusion in the minds of those who infer from the resplendent beauty of some perfumes that they are works of art. When people begin exalting perfumes as masterpieces, or "one of the ten greatest perfumes of all time," there seems to be something more going on. When such claims are made with quasi-religious fervor, then one can only suspect that perfume has become some kind of surrogate for a higher purpose or power. Perfume seems to hold some sort of metaphysical significance for such enthusiasts, a value beyond the pleasure derived from the experience of perfume.
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Many people appear to wish to believe that great perfumes have an eternal aspect to them, despite the obviously evanescent quality of the real liquids which go by the label perfume, and despite the fact that perfumes arise in very particular cultural contexts, and despite the dependence of our tastes in perfume on highly contingent cultural factors. Being skeptical by nature, my distinct impression is that the people who fall into the "Perfume is art" camp are making sweeping generalizations based on their own love of some perfumes. Obviously, all perfumes are not artworks, just as most texts are not literature. So right from the beginning there is a problem with the "Perfume is art" thesis.
Surely any thoughtful person would distinguish great perfumes from vat-produced chemical soups created solely in response to marketing data amassed about the preference of current consumers. There is something of a vicious circle in all of this, because the perfumes thought to be market-worthy end up on the shelves, and then consumers buy and wear them. They may in this way become habituated to those sorts of scents, and then when they are surveyed, they will express in complete sincerity an interest in wearing more of the same. Homogenization is inevitable in such a scheme.
Returning to the question of metaphysics, one may ask whether there are transcendent perfumes, which attain a higher level. Plato would say that, if so, then they participate in the Realm of the Forms, specifically, The Form of the Perfect Perfume. Now there is a metaphysical theory, if ever there was one. But in order to understand Plato's theory of reality (his metaphysics), we'll need to think a bit more about empiricism, a term yet to be defined. Stay tuned...
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One of the mysteries of the game of baseball is the origin of the term bullpen, the name for the area in which relief pitchers warm up. Several competing theories vie for the origin. About all we know for sure is the earliest recorded use of the term to refer to the pitchers' warm-up area was not until 17 August 1913 in the Washington Post:
He corrects the faults of the youthful trajectory hurlers and takes them to the "bullpen" in the afternoon and keeps them warmed up.
And next season the same paper had this to say about the Chicago White Sox on 12 April 1914:
Read the rest of the article...
At this juncture Manager Callahan crooked his index finger and "Butcher" Benz ambled in from the "bull pen."1
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Quaint one bedroom cottage in the popular and picturesque village of West Ayton.
The property has its own parking space, outside storage and comprises kitchen/dining room, large conservatory/lounge, bedroom and bathroom. This delightful cottage is a must see for many – first time buyers, those looking to downsize or those seeking an investment opportunity.
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Lucan Biddulph is an incorporated township in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was formed on January 1, 1999, by amalgamating the Village of Lucan with Biddulph Township. The township had a population of 4,338 people in the Canada 2011 Census, and covers an area of 168.76 km² of land within Middlesex County.
The land in the area is almost entirely agricultural, with relatively fertile soils used for crops (grains, tobacco) and livestock. Many of the township's residents are employed in the same industries.
Comprising 40,000 acres (160 km2) of Middlesex County, the Township of Biddulph was surveyed by agents of the Canada Company in 1830. The township took its name from John Biddulph, one of the earliest directors of the Canada Company.
Until its incorporation in 1872, the village of Lucan had been known as Marystown, named in tribute to the wife of John McDonald, who was the original land surveyor of the area. When a duplicate Marystown was found to have already registered with the Post Office the name Lucan was put forth and accepted by the postal authorities. Lucan was named in tribute to Lord Lucan, a prominent landowner in Ireland.
Despite being more than 500 km (310 mi) to the North, in 1829, the area became a refuge for a group of free African Americans from Cincinnati, Ohio, who were under threat from riots and restricted employment opportunities. This group of roughly 200 disenfranchised blacks were granted refuge and land by the Canada Company and duly set up a colony named Wilberforce. This was one of the earliest, if not the earliest, settlements connected with the American Colonization Society (which was established in 1816 to settle free blacks in an African colony) in Upper Canada, and existed before emancipation. The flight of blacks northward into Canada beginning around this time was part of the Underground Railroad.
Most of the Cincinnati blacks came from city life and did not adapt well to the harsh farming environment. Large lots of land were cleared (logged) and efforts were made to sustain the colony, but much of it dwindled through the 1840s and many of the original colonists moved on to larger, growing urban centres such as Detroit, Cleveland or Toronto to obtain wage-based employment. A small number remained on to work the land through subsequent generations.
The area was then further logged and settled by whites, many from Ireland, some of whom purchased farmsteads from the departing blacks or new lots sold to them cheaply by the Canada Company. Nowadays fewer than 40 descendants of the ancestral blacks remain.
After this time, about 1850, the majority of the township's landholders were Irish Catholics, a large number originating from then-meagre farming lands in County Tipperary, Ireland.
An important railway route belonging to the Grand Trunk Railway opened in 1856, passing through the village. The village and surrounding township prospered as a result of quicker access to larger marketplaces, such as Toronto farther to the east, and new immigrants settling the area.
Biddulph Township is also known for being the site of the brutal February 4, 1880 massacre of five of the Black Donnellys, an immigrant Irish family caught up in a long-standing local feud. This story has been written about many times and is etched into the criminal history of rural Ontario and is also known throughout the rest of Canada and the United States.
A record snowfall (aka "Snowmaggeden") occurred between Dec. 4-8, 2010, affecting Huron and Middlesex Counties. A total of 177 cm (68") of snow fell during a 102-hour period (it snowed on 98 of those hours).
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Lucan is home to the Lucan Irish, a junior hockey team that plays in the Southern Ontario Junior Hockey League. Lucan was the home of the Lucan-Ilderton Jets Senior AA hockey club, a member of the Western Ontario Athletic Association Senior Hockey League until they moved to Komoka Ontario and became the Komoka Classics in 2011.
Lucan FC represents Lucan in Ontario Soccer Association play in the Elgin Middlesex Soccer Association.
Alexander Noble Garrett, born on the homestead, lot 11, South Boundary, Biddulph, August 13, 1862, was an outstanding player in many sports. In particular he was the goalkeeper, on the Canadian soccer teams that toured Britain in 1888 and 1891. Later he was the sports editor of the Toronto World newspaper for many years. His son Dudley Mark Garrett played football for the Toronto Argonauts, and grandson, Dudley Morine Garrett, played hockey for the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers. A.N. Garrett, died in Toronto January 17, 1941.


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Jose John August 12, 2015 No CommentsA DAY IN A SICK BED One morning when I woke up, I found that my whole body was aching. I had severe headache. I had a vomiting sensation. I called my mother. She took temperature and found that I had high fever. She gave me crocin tablet and asked me to take rest. She sent an application to my class teacher through one of my friends who lived nearby. After an hour my temperature came down. I vomited twice and felt very weak. I slept for two hours. When I woke up, I found that my temperature had again risen. My mother called the doctor. The doctor came and gave me an injection. He also prescribed some tablets. I again fell asleep. I woke up in the evening. My temperature was now gone. My mother gave me a glass of orange juice. Just then the doorbell rang and I saw two of my class fellows enter the room. I felt very happy to see them. They chatted with me for an hour. My mother gave them tea and biscuits. I felt better now. I also had some biscuits. After they left, I read some books. My mother gave me early dinner and I slept. Next morning, I was... read more


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Not a day goes by without the importance of image management being evident in a small or big way. One such telling event is the training in image management that we at the Image Consulting Business Institute (ICBI) are imparting to the trainee jewellery designers at VOW (Very Own Wish).
An undertaking by Varuna D.Jani, the VOW initiative is aimed at offering twelve young aspiring designers with the skills and education required in jewellery making and building a successful jewellery brand through training in jewellery design, improving footfalls, visual merchandising, image management, brand building and maintaining public relations. VOW is a first-of-its-kind endeavor that will benefit generations of designers and provide the industry with trained talent to carry forward what the initiative has begun.
We are happy to state that, with a ready understanding of the importance of image management, VOW has engaged ICBI to provide training related to the various elements of image management to young jewellery designers. The ICBI training covers the communication of clothes, grooming, body language, etiquette, image management for enhanced sales and to enhance customer delight in addition to related subjects.
Jewellery is an essential component in projecting one's image. It complements one of the core elements, clothing, in helping the customer project the desired image. As such, knowledge of image management is an integral part of jewellery design.
Secondly, each jewellery designer is unique in his or her work. It is necessary for designers to project this uniqueness through their image for greater recognition and success in their profession, particularly in their interactions with customers, media and other audience. Further, it is a reflection of how well they understand the customer's need to project a positive image.
Hence, an integral part of ICBI training is to guide them through the art and science of first impressions and image management with additional focus on enhancing customer delight and sales.


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happygirl165: I think that sometimes film adaptations can stretch your imagination, especially if you read the book before watching the movie.
This can show you how others view the book and other points of view. I found that if you really enjoyed a book it can also extend the book and make it last longer. On the other hand, if it is a bad interpretation then it can ruin what you thought of the book or can gives good books a bad reputation. I think the most important thing, though, is to read the book before watching the film.
SaiWish0221: The adaptation also ruins your mental picture of the character.
Film adaptations ruin the book for me. I really think the whole story is altered
to please the audience. For example, in the film adaptation ''Harry Potter and the Half- Blood Prince'', the details of the story are jumbled and omitted. To give an instance, such an important scene as Dumbledore's funeral is omitted in the film. This scene is the basis for Harry leaving Hogwarts and not returning for his seventh year.
The adaptation also ruins your mental picture of the character. It gives a feeling that masterpieces are being put under the guillotine by the screen. I understand that it is pretty hard to bring out the original details in an eight hundred page book. However, when the story line gets modified it is a great injustice to the book.
thelisabee: Do Film Adaptations Ruin The Books For You? It depends.
I read Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief before I saw the film, and got really angry with the film, because it didn't stick to the story. The person who recommended the book to me agreed, but my friend who hadn't read the book, really enjoyed it. So really, that film adaptation ruined the film for me, because I had the book fresh in my mind when I saw it and kept on thinking about how different it was.
owever, watching the most recent Harry Potters, I reread the books and really enjoyed the them, but I can only imagine Harry looking like Daniel Radcliffe. The same applies to the first in the His Dark Materials series.
When we read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in class, my English teacher also showed us the film, which I think ruined it a bit. Also, we had to write an essay on how clothing is a symbol in the book and some people thought we had to write an essay on the film!
What I like with some adaptations is when it's a sequel to the book (like Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton style (2010) or a prequel to the book (like Finding Netherland, 2004) or when they make classics into something more modern like She's the Man (an adaptation of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare) and 10 Things I Hate About You (an adaptation of Taming of the Shrew) because the screenwriters only use the basis of the story as a guideline and have to use their originality.
So, do film adaptations ruin the books for me? Not ruin as such, they more affect the book in various ways for me.
Conqueror_1337: books are better for the imagination
Film adaptations usually ruin the book, as the filmmakers edit the storyline and remove most of the imagination, whereas with a book you can imagine the landscape to be anything that matches the description. When I was nine I started reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and I found it a suitable book, as it was just fantasy. When I watched the film, however, I found it more disturbing to see real actors playing the parts of the characters. Since then I have tried to read the book or an eBook before seeing the film. On the other hand, I recently read The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, and found it rather hard to follow. But when I watched the movie I could follow it perfectly.
Alexander: the book is more true to the story
I have read the books and watched the films of both Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes. The earlier Basil Rathbone film series of Sherlock Holmes was brilliant whereas the newer ones I don't think are realistic to Sherlock's character as I find him in the books.
I really liked the Harry Potter series and adaptations, they were excellent. I don't always read a book first before seeing a film but I prefer to read the book first if I don't know the story already. I think reading a book first is a good idea because the book is more realistic to the true story and sometimes in films they skip bits, which I don't like at all.
Tara: why rehash a novel when you could create an original screenplay?
Watching your favourite book being slaughtered on screen provokes the same feeling of dread that washes over you as you watch a hopeless X Factor contestant screech a song you like in entirely the wrong key. Having been captivated by the story of The Great Gatsby as part of my English course, and then forced to sit through the 1974 film adaptation of the book, I can safely say that the written word isn't always enhanced by transition to the silver screen. Robert Redford, in the title role, was about as wooden as a pine furniture set and, unfortunately, the memory of his star turn has rather hindered my enjoyment of the novel upon repeat readings.
It is by no means an easy task to strike a balance between appealing to fans of the novel, and involving those members of the audience who haven't read it. Invariably, some material will have to be cut, yet this may prove to be either a blessing or a curse; separating the wheat from the chaff, or missing the point of the novel entirely. In an era of cinema where drama is primarily used to provoke an emotional response, rather than to stimulate thought or engage one's capacity for imagination, the finer subtleties of a novel are often lost in a dizzying haze of bright lights, fast cars and CGI upon transferral to film, Andrew Adamson's The Chronicles of Narnia being just one of a cornucopia of examples of this that come to mind.
The quality of a novel is dictated by the talent of its writer, yet when the idea of a film is discussed, many more factors come into play. Not only must the adaptation be helmed by a competent director – a skilled script writer and talented ensemble cast are also necessary to ensure a movie's success. With that in mind, some argue that a film adaptation of a novel can only ever be as good as its source material, yet this isn't necessarily the case. Danny Boyle's remarkable, vibrant Slumdog Millionaire was among a handful of films which proved that, in the right hands, stories can come to life on screen in a way they don't in print – scenes that simply wouldn't work on paper take on a new dimension once they reach cinemas. The vitality and colour of daily life in Mumbai was conveyed by the film, yet wasn't evoked by Q&A, the book upon which it was based. While Boyle's story is as rare as it is inspiring, there have been a handful of successful adaptations in the past few years. The recent Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (Part One) defied convention, in that, hyped as the novel was, the film lived up to its reputation. This franchise also displays the power of cinema, in that often it reaches an audience far greater than the original book – now even those who may have walked past the novel if they saw it sitting on a bookshelf have found themselves enchanted by the story of the boy from Hogwarts.
Yet, for the most part, I'm inclined to think that cinema and literature work best independently of each other – why rehash a novel when you could focus your efforts on creating an original screenplay? Despite the fact that the financial incentives for both filmmakers and novelists are vast when it comes to considering book to movie adaptations, one must remember that it's not always the best books that make the best films.
Charlie: characters are brought to life in front of you and you are gripped by the story unfolding, unable to look away
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was a truly haunting book but it was nothing compared to the film; which is the best adaption of a children's book I have ever seen.
The book was brilliant in the sense it overflowed with the naivety and innocence of Bruno. Bruno is the main character in the story and is only nine years old. The book is set in the second world war and surrounds the events of the Holocaust, the events are all seen through the eyes of a little boy which is what makes this book so different. All Bruno knows is his father, who is Commandent in the German Army, is taking them all to a place called Out-With to live. He feels lonely and isolated in this very boring place where there is no-one to play with. However, he befriends a boy on the other side of a strange wire fence who appears to wear striped pyjamas. There are scenes in the book which are quite upsetting but the magic of cinema is that everything is much more real and so much more emotive as these characters are brought to life in front of you and you are gripped by the story unfolding, unable to look away. This is why I love film adaptions so much. The film stays loyal to the book throughout, though the ending is changed slightly to make it more dramatic and I agree with the change as the message of the story is made much clearer and stronger.
The book, while not an easy subject to read about, and the film, which was not at times easy to watch, portrays a strong and worthwhile message and is one that should be compulsive reading in secondary schools – it stays with you long after you leave the cinema or put the book back on the shelf.
Joe: if I know that there is a book of the film I will always try to read it before I see the film
I love film adaptations from books but I prefer to have read the books first. My favorite film adaptions are Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part one and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Film adaptations don't ruin films for me unless I haven't read the book before I have seen the film. If I know that there is a book of the film I will always try to read it before I see the film. The one things I hate about film adaptions is when they cut out exciting main parts. Most film adaptations are brilliant and live up to my expectations. The one that disappointed me mostly was Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban. It wasn't very exciting and it missed out some of the scenes that I like.
OlivahJami: more often than not I'll prefer to read the book version of it and let the events play out in my own head
One of my favourite books it seems has been turned into a film more times than I can count with each different director having a new spin and taking it in a new direction. The book which I am talking about is Alice in Wonderland.
Ever since I was little Alice in Wonderland used to be a book that amazed me and baffled me all at the same time. The story of Alice's journey down the Rabbit Hole, meeting the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts and all of Wonderland's cast has enchanted me always, to the point I regularly tried digging to Wonderland in the garden, convinced every time that I'd get there eventually.
I've seen quite a few of the adaptations ranging from the popular Disney version, the version with Whoopie Goldberg as the Cheshire Cat and the most recent adaptation directed by Tim Burton. The last one has to be my all time favourite, as when I watched it and saw Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen I thought to myself "Well, why hasn't anybody thought of this before?
Wasn't it blindingly obvious?"
It may have something to do with my slight obsession of Tim Burton's films but I find that Alice in Wonderland (2010) is the most realistic interpretation of the novel. Parts of it are altered and some new parts added in all together but I found it to be a very enjoyable movie and one that I will count as the few true adaptations of Books to Films.
I've found that the majority of film adaptations of some of my favourite books have become something of a let down. When I heard that Phillip Pullmans His Dark Materials were becoming a film I was ecstatic however the resulting movie, the Golden Compass was one of the worst I've seen. If enough time is spent on adapting books and enough effort put into it I believe that they can sometimes create something truly spectacular, such as Lord of the Rings, but more often than not I'll prefer to read the book version of it and let the events play out in my own head, instead of someone elses.
thetaggerung123: it is a terrible thing to see your favourite book being massacred on the big screen
Yes, when I first read the book I will always be very excited for the movie to come out, but most of the time, when they do come out, I get a huge disappointment, because the film producers always leave out crucial bits and pretty much change the whole story line. For example, The Percy Jackson and The Olympians book series was awesome but when the movie came out they had left out, such as, Clarisse, the Ares cabin girl who Percy "accidentally" sends a wave of toilet water at ( Percy being the son of Poseidon).
I really think it is a terrible thing to see your favourite book being massacred on the big screen. Plus, the movie will probably alter your thinking of the book, for better or for worse.
Penguin: I find films spoil the book for me because they leave a bad taste in my mouth
Most of the time I don't like seeing my favourite books made into films because they usually change the sequence of events and miss out what I think are key parts.
I find films spoil the book for me because they leave a bad taste in my mouth and make me less inclined to re-read the book. I especially did not like The Golden Compass as it differed hugely from the book (even the name!). Two exceptions are Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings because they follow the plots and characters carefully.
pinkbookworm: I think film adaptations really do ruin your imagination
Once you have seen the film adaptation, the book is no longer fun to read because you can't imagine what the characters are like, such as the way they look or the way they behave. Reading a book, to me, is like being in the story with the characters and sharing the moments with them, but watching the film is just watching someone else's version of the story. Don't get me wrong, there are some great film adaptations, but I always prefer to read the book first.
lilybelle: I like reading books before watching the film
I like imagining the pictures in my head and if I watch the film before, it ruins all that.


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261 Spartan Ave
Forks, WA 98331
Some of the items to be auctioned
2019 Quillayute Valley Scholarship Auction
This two day event is a fundraiser for Forks High School students featuring a live auction of hundreds of items.
Items like cookies, pies, hand-made items from OCC, firewood, hunting trips, gift baskets, gift certificates and many more items. This is one of Forks' most loved events!
This scholarship auction has been a tradition for the last 40+ years and has raised over a million dollars.
Auctions items can be view at:
If you would like to bid on an item, call number provided on the website.
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Sunday, September 2nd, 247 square team is up at seven in the morning. On our way to Abey, as we are listening to blasting music in the blue honda, we start spotting the posters for the event. Then banners. Then even bigger banners.
|Banners in context "WE ARE FREE" and "أنا حرّ"
|Banner in context "I AM BEAUTIFUL"
|President of the municipality of Abey giving a speech
|Representative of Women's spring | Online TV and magazine giving a speech
|A child holding up the "I AM BEAUTIFUL" slogan
|A child holding up the "EVERYBODY LIKES ME" slogan
|Banners in context "I Am Beautiful | Everybody Likes Me | We Are Free | أنا حلوة | أنا حرّ | الكلّ بحبّني | صحتي حديد"
|Banners in context "We Are Free | الكلّ بحبّني"
|Children participating in the bike race
|Children playing with the Right to Play Parachute
|Children playing with the Right to Play Parachute
|Writing thoughts on smoking
Packed with many pictures and a lot of fun, we are on the move, heading back to beirut. We were seven people sitting in one car. so the ride was loud, fun, not void of complaints about injured limbs and blasting music, and surely not void of laughter. We make a stop at the matte factory to have a milk matte pause. The drink was tasty, the pause refreshing. Then we moved on to our next stop.
|247square team members present: (left to right)
alaa kabalan | azza hajjar | izzat kreidieh | layla smaili | zeina shaaban | anastasia matar
to be continued.
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Welcome to The Robert W. Patterson House, a stunning historic brick Colonial set in the East Side's sought after neighborhood of Freeman Plat.
Following a brick walkway up to the dentil portico entrance, you are welcomed into a classic center hall.
The home's lovely study offers a wood burning fireplace for quiet reading, while the elegant living room with crown moulding has a pair of French doors leading into a formal dining room flooded with natural light.
Accented with hardwood floors, stone counters, and professional grade
appliances, the gourmet eat-in kitchen features a large center island with bar seating, as well as a bright breakfast area for casual dining.
Both the kitchen and dining room provide beautiful atrium doors leading out to an amazing travertine and granite terrace designed with the entertainer in mind. Enjoy al fresco dining while overlooking the city garden and water fountain, or take part in a friendly game of bocce on your own private court.
Heading upstairs, the spacious second floor master suite includes a walk-in closet and an en suite bath with a marble, double sink vanity and a glass enclosed shower. This level also supplies a custom walk-in closet with laundry, another full bath, and two more bedrooms – one of which steps out to a rooftop deck overlooking the terrace.
The upper level of the home provides two more additional bedrooms with an adjoining closet area containing a tiled full bath.
This unparalleled property includes a two-car garage and is conveniently located within a few blocks of the Blackstone Boulevard path, and is just a short walk from the cafes and boutiques of Wayland Square. Visit all the shops and restaurants along nearby Hope Street, or enjoy the playground and farmer's market at Lippitt Memorial Park. Just minutes from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, this home is only two miles from the arts and entertainment of Downtown Providence, while easy access to the interstate and train station simplify further travel.


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Download>> Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf v.0.9.2 Apk | 310 MB | Resumable Links | Requires : Android 1.6 and up |
An epic campaign, spanning hostile environments on a distant planet.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf
Game review:
While your troops for your army are based off of the cards you have, when it comes time to fight you are presented with a play field where your troops are rendered in 3D visuals. This is where you will be moving your troops, trying to take out your opponent in turn-based combat that resembles Chess in some ways. If you don't want to fight other players, there is a single-player campaign available as well.
• Combat the Word Bearers – fanatical and deadly traitors who serve the chaos gods.
• Grey Hunter, Wolf Scout or Wolf Guard – select your main hero for each mission, to best match your own style, strategy and tactics.
• Unlock all five companions and choose two to take into battle with you.
• Level up your party and unlock numerous perks.
• Lead your Space Wolves into fierce battles in glorious, interactive 3D environments.
• Hundreds of weapons and abilities with various mechanics.
• Customise your decks to fit your unique strategy and tactics.
• Victories unlock powerful new weapons, bonuses and tactics cards.
• Evolve your cards at the Iron Priest's Forge to further enhance your killer deck!
• Fierce, 3 v 3 close-quarter battles. Use each turn to inflict massive damage on your enemy!
• Rating. Here's your chance to become the top Space Wolf. With each stage, battles get tougher – but the rewards get better.
• At the start of each season, leaderboards are reset. But prove you're the best – and reclaim your leadership status!
- Install Apk
- Copy 'com.herocraft.spacewolf' Folder to sdcard/Android/obb
- Launch the Game


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C + S Basics – Go Dot Go – Park Bench
$20.00 /meter
Fresh new basics from Cotton + Steel are here and they are sure to please. Great little simple prints in a palette that covers all the bases. Watch out for a rotating cast coming through the store.
Print name: Go Dot Go
Color: Park Bench
Collection : C + S Basics
Manufacturer : Cotton + Steel
Width : 44" wide
Content : 100% Cotton
Substrate : Quilting Cotton
1/4 meters of quilting cottons will be cut as fat quarters unless otherwise requested


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A Rootkit virus is a stealth type of malware that is designed to hide the existence of certain processes or programs on your computer from regular detection methods, so as to allow it or another malicious process privileged access to your computer. Sometimes a rootkit may even fool your antivirus software and avoid being detected. It is at such times, that you may need to take help of special Rootkit Remover or Removal Tools.
Rootkit Remover
Here is a list of a few Rootkit Removers, most of which we have already covered on this site.
Kaspersky TDSSKiller
Kaspersky Lab has developed the TDSSKiller utility for removing malicious rootkits. It is among the better rated anti-rootkit tools and can detect and remove most rootkits.
Bitdefender Rootkit Remover
The Bitdefender Rootkit Remover removes all known Rootkits. It is a portable tool that can be launched immediately, without needing to boot into Safe Mode first- although a reboot may be required for complete cleanup.
McAfee Rootkit Remover
McAfee Rootkit Remover is 'command-prompt-look-alike' tool that can be used to detect and remove complex rootkits and associated malware. To run McAfee Rootkit Remover, navigate to the folder that contains the downloaded RootkitRemover.exe file. Run the tool as an Administrator for best results. The tool has no UI.
Malwarebtytes Anti-Rootkit
Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit is also a stand-alone portable tool that will help Windows users to detect and remove the nastiest malicious rootkits from their computers. Once you have downloaded the tool, you will have to extract the contents of the zipped file, and from the folder run mbar.exe.
Sophos Rootkit Removal Tool
Sophos Rootkit Removal Tool scans, detects and removes any rootkit that is hidden on your computer using advanced rootkit detection technology. Rootkits can lie hidden on computers and remain undetected by antivirus software. Although new rootkits can be prevented from infecting the system, any rootkits present before your antivirus was installed may never be revealed. You can download it here. This tool requires an installation.
Oshi Unhooker
Oshi Unhooker is a free rootkit scanner that scans and removes any hidden rootkit from your computer. Simply start the executable file and click on Start scan. With just a single click, Oshi Unhooker can identify and remove all the rootkits found on your PC and prevent them from stealing or sharing your private information.
avast! aswMBR Rootkit Scanner
avast! aswMBR is a free rootkit scanner that scans for TDL4/3, MBRoot (Sinowal), Whistler and other rootkits too.
Trend Micro RootkitBuster
Trend Micro RootkitBuster is a free portable tool that scans hidden files, registry entries, processes, drivers, and the master boot. Trend Micro RootkitBuster can find rootkits by checking the Master Boot Record (MBR), Files, Registry entries, Kernel code patches, Operating system service hooks, File streams, Drivers, Ports, Processes and Services.
Also take a look at GMER Rootkit Detector and Remover.
Do let us know if we have missed mentioning some other free rootkit removal tools.
Need a second opinion about the security status of your computer? You might want to check out these Free Standalone On demand Antivirus Scanners for Windows. If you are looking for a a free anti-executable security software to protect your Windows PC from malware, have a look at VoodooShield.


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Kameron Hurley has written an excellent article over at Fantasy Magazine, at http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/new/new-nonfiction/language-and-imaginative-resistance-in-epic-fantasy/.
She's talking mostly about women writers and epic fantasy, but she also talks about how people form images of "cheese" or "police officer" or "nurse" from their earliest exposures to those things, and thereafter, everything cheese-like has to be measured against that first experience of cheese to see if it fits.
So, her first experiences of writers were of white men, and this affected how she thought about writers for a long time.
Which got me thinking.
I never had the thought that I couldn't be a proper writer because I was female, because most of the writers I became aware of as a child were female. Enid Blyton was a massive influence - as a child, I desperately wanted to be George from the Famous Five, and go camping in the woods with my faithful dog. I didn't have a faithful dog until much later in life, but George's dog Timmy was the reason I always wanted one.
Later, I discovered historical fiction through the medium of Rosemary Sutcliff, and to a lesser extent through Henry Treece and Geoffrey Trease - so I was aware that men wrote books, but I wasn't excluded because women wrote books too. The other great favourites of my early teenage years were Mary Renault and Mary Stewart.
As a Star Trek fan, I was aware early on that DC Fontana's first name was Dorothy, and that she had written two of my favourite episodes, Friday's Child and Journey to Babel. So women could clearly write good science fiction. Among all the Asimov and Clarke and Zelazny and Silverberg, there was also Ursula Le Guin and Marion Zimmer Bradley and CJ Cherryh and Anne McCaffrey. And fantasy didn't just mean Tolkein and his many imitators, it meant Joy Chant's Red Moon and Black Mountain, too, and Gillian Bradshaw and Mary Gentle and Andre Norton.
Which makes it strange to me that a new generation of readers seem to be unaware of the women writers who have always been there in SF and fantasy, and who inspired me to write.


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On a Saturday afternoon in April 1952, two days before his ship would leave for duty during the Korean War, Joseph Torrisi dashed off a two-page letter to his older sister, Rose, on embossed U.S. Navy stationery. A three-cent stamp brought it from Charleston, S.C., to the 400-room Hotel Douglas in Newark, where she was living at the time.
A week earlier, he had sent a note to his mom in Bloomfield, proudly announcing he had found, in Charleston, a Catholic church and, more miraculously, a restaurant that served homemade ravioli.
In tidy penmanship that would have made his grammar-school nuns beam, the 32-year-old wrote that he was spending more money than he had planned, but he wasn't sweating it. Thanks to a payday aboard ship, he would be flush when he reached Spain, France, Italy, Sicily and Greece.
His destroyer, the USS Hobson, was scheduled to visit 20 Mediterranean ports — a cushy assignment welcomed by Torrisi, a career Navy man who, curiously, disliked life on the sea.
"The next time I write will be from some place I haven't been to," he told his sister.
But he never made it.
Five days after his final letter arrived in New Jersey, Joseph Torrisi was asleep in his lower-tier bunk at 10:21 p.m., when, during a deadly war-games blunder, the Hobson was sliced in two by the 40,000-ton Wasp, a U.S. aircraft carrier.
Seven hundred miles from the Azores, in cold, turbulent North Atlantic seas three miles deep, the Hobson sank in four minutes or less, taking 176 men with her. Only 61 survived.
Thursday marks the 60th anniversary of the largely forgotten disaster and one of the most ironic days in U.S. military history: After surviving Nazi torpedoes, D-Day at Normandy and Japanese kamikazes, the storied Hobson was lost in arguably the country's most infamous naval mistake.
Seven men from New Jersey were aboard the Hobson. Lost at sea were Torrisi, a pharmacist's mate, seaman John Clements of Audubon Park and machinists mate Loring Kline of Bayonne.
Survivors, and their hometowns at the time, included Russell Archer of Point Pleasant, Richard Boller of Union Township, Raymond Wasilkowski of Carteret and Lloyd Keleher of Red Bank — four men who lived within the same state for decades and agonized over the terror of that night. But, with records sketchy, they never knew about the others' location.
Many of Hobson's crew were trapped below decks, their escape cut off by the ship's severed underbelly, rushing waters and the panic of many men who had never been at sea. As the sailors fought the freezing torrents, desperately searching for a way out — screeching sounds of twisted metal around them — their darkest fear quickly became reality:
They would drown at sea.
"There appeared to have been no chance for frantic rushes up the steel ladders from the ship's bowels," wrote Lawrence Dame, a Boston Herald reporter aboard another escorting destroyer. "Many aboard had gone down without a chance to know what happened."
Some survivors, lucky enough to be near the top of the ship at the time, clung to railings and rode the ship down, then jumped into the icy waters. Twenty or so were blown to the surface when sailors, already under water, unlocked a pressurized mini-hatch with only seconds to spare.
Covered in foul-smelling fuel oil, they gasped for air on the surface — surrounded by the wreckage (which threatened to take them down with it), empty life jackets, bags of oranges from the Hobson's food lockers and a body or two floating in the water.
Except for miscellaneous flotsam and jetsam, the only piece of the Hobson to survive was a length of propeller shaft embedded in a 75-foot gash in the bow of the Wasp.
Lloyd Keleher, scheduled to go on watch at midnight, was asleep in his stateroom when the jolt awakened him. He snapped out of his slumber — and immediately knew something was wrong. As he sat in his Red Bank condominium recently, he stared off as he recalled the night, six decades ago, when he instinctively outsmarted death.
"The ship keeled," he said, "and it didn't return. When a ship rocks, it always comes back to center — unless it's sinking. The ship rolled to its side but stayed there.
"Something told me, 'Go!' I don't know what it was. But if I had hesitated, even for a second, I wouldn't have made it out alive. I passed people who were just standing around, talking. They didn't realize how serious it was. They didn't make it."
Sprinting, Keleher reached the deck of the destroyer in "less than a minute, probably 40 seconds" — and it still almost wasn't fast enough. He rode a severed half of the ship into the water, then jumped. The wreckage sucked him under, but he fought his way to the surface.
By then, he said, the Wasp had trained every available light on the water and had tossed hundreds of life jackets and rafts overboard. Ken Bonine, in a statement the next day, described a rescue he made from the Wasp: "Someone held my feet as I leaned over the side and grabbed hold of his trouser belt and one leg and we pulled him aboard … and wrapped him in a blanket."
Within minutes, Keleher — dazed and disbelieving — was in a lifeboat. Soon, he was transferred to the Rodman, another destroyer, a cup of coffee and a shower awaiting as he tried to fathom the unfathomable.
"It happened so fast," he said. "It was surreal. You don't expect to get run over by a carrier in the middle of the ocean when you're not in battle. I knew it was bad, but I didn't know how bad until the morning."
Raymond Wasilkowski, a boatswain seaman, stood on the bridge, next to the captain, when chaos broke out. He was relaying distances called from crew members below as the Wasp bore down on them — "1,300 meters … 1,000 meters … 850 …" The crew waited for the captain to take evasive action, but it never came.
"What the hell is going on up there?" someone shouted.
Wasilkowski looked up and saw nothing but dark, angry steel.
"I froze when I saw this big-ass ship headed right for us," he recalled in his Millville living room. "It was 200 feet away, this huge aircraft carrier. The captain got out of there. He dove overboard, right into the path of the Wasp.
"I was a kid. I was 19. I thought, 'He knows what he's doing,' so I was about to follow him. But someone grabbed me and said, 'Don't go there. He's finished. This way!' "
Clinging to the side as the bow rose high into the air, Wasilkowski went down with the ship. He grabbed a line thrown from the Wasp, but he and the rope were coated with oil. He tore both biceps, slipped back into the water and was taken under by the sinking wreckage.
"As I went down, my life really did pass before my eyes," he said. "I said, 'I'm too young to die.' I swam as hard as I could to the surface and was pulled into a lifeboat."
The crews narrowly avoided more deaths: One of the small boats plucking men from the water was lifted by a large swell and thrown into the gaping hole in the side of the Wasp. Somehow no one was hit by the jagged edges of steel.
Aboard the Wasp, electronics engineer Dick Becker, now a Lakewood resident, watched the front half of the Hobson float past. He tossed life preservers into the water, then remembered: The Wasp had roughly 20 planes, perilously low on fuel, still in the air.
"We had to leave people in the water and get the aircraft back," Becker said. "Eventually, everyone was rescued."
Becker pulled from his scrapbook a Navy press release from April 28, 1952: "All survivors are now resting comfortably in the medical ward," it read. "They were literally showered with gifts of clothing, reading matter, cigarettes and lighters by members of the Wasp crew."
Two days after the collision, Hobson survivors were reunited in the Wasp sick bay. Hugs and tears "were not out of place," a press dispatch reported.
This wasn't the first time Wasilkowski cheated death: As he slept in the same room, three family members died in their sleep because of a gas leak in their Linden home when he was 9; and his convertible skidded off a South Jersey bridge after he was discharged.
"They say I'm a guy with nine lives," he said. "Maybe I've used 'em all up."
Half a world away, America waited for news. Wasilkowski's father, a New Brunswick baker, listened to the radio, hoping for word about his son. As a newsman read the survivors' names, George Wasilkowski agonized until the last one. He didn't realize the list was alphabetical.
Maria Torrisi, frail and 73, had received a telegram declaring her son lost at sea, but she wanted to make sure. So, two weeks later, she traveled to the Naval Receiving Station in Brooklyn — dressed in black — to greet Hobson survivors and hear the details of her son's death.
But before the crew arrived, the chaplain of the receiving station convinced her to return home. He would put shipmates in touch with her, he said. Torrisi's family doesn't know whether she ever received that closure.
Torrisi treasured the letters her son wrote during two wars, and occasionally she slipped onto a turntable a recording he sent home on Mother's Day. On the scratchy record, in Italian, he said he loved and missed her and thanked her "for being the best mom in the world."
The record, letters and telegrams were discovered by great-granddaughter Suzanne Papa, of Bloomfield. She has spent hours with them.
"I feel really close to him now," she said. "I feel like I know him."
While researching family history, Papa learned tragedy stalked her great-uncle's family after his death. A daughter, 2 months old at the time of the tragedy, committed suicide at 35, she said, and Joseph Torrisi's son, 3 years old in 1952, died in his 30s.
A weeklong court of inquiry, convened in Bayonne in May 1952, determined that Lt. Cmdr. James Tierney, the inexperienced captain of the Hobson, was to blame. Testimony about complicated maneuvers revealed Tierney — possibly confused because the ships were operating without lights as part of the exercise — had turned left, into the path of the Wasp, not right as he should have. The Wasp had been positioning itself to receive aircraft.
Tierney had been in command for five weeks and had been at sea a total of seven days. A court never heard his explanation, however. Some crew members believe his dive into the sea was essentially a suicide in the split-second he realized what he had done.
Don Cummings, of Bethlehem, Pa., who was on the Hobson bridge minutes before the collision, said the crew had no faith in Tierney, who had screwed up several times before that fateful night. Minutes before the crash, Tierney argued with his lieutenant about the risky maneuver, witnesses said.
"The book, 'The Caine Mutiny,' had come out that year, and we used to joke about tying him up and throwing him in the brig," Cummings said. "In hindsight, we should have."
For decades, the crews of the two ships held their own reunions — separated by guilt and resentment. Finally, as age claimed them one by one, some gathered last May in South Carolina. They hugged and shook hands, asked for and received forgiveness.
Reunion organizers believe only 14 Hobson survivors remain alive. Russell Archer, one of the New Jersey survivors, died in 2005. Another, Richard Boller, couldn't be located.
The men of both ships, who have visited a Charleston memorial erected to the Hobson's lost seamen, now embrace their historic link to honor the lost.
"I always felt guilty because I was on the Wasp," said Ralph Romano of Allentown, Pa. "Those men never got to see a newborn, never got to be grandfathers, never saw a son or daughter get married. Almost every day since then, I've thought about them."


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We're always looking for ways to create a better workflow and team environment, which is why our new Plan Reports feature is such a game-changer. With this new feature, you can share upcoming drafts with your client, co-worker, or boss in an easy and efficient way. This feature has also been requested by many of our social media managers and agencies so we're excited to add this to Planoly! Now, let's dive in a bit more about how you can use this feature and improve your planning and increase productivity.
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This feature is only available on the desktop version of Planoly, so you'll need to be on a computer to access it by signing into your account on planoly.com. Plan Reports are accessible on your main Calendar/Planning Grid under the 'PLAN' tab. Once there, you'll see a blue icon with an image of a clipboard to the right of the 'Add New Media' icon. By hovering your mouse over the blue icon, you'll see that it switches to a pink icon displaying the words 'View Report' on it.
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Once you click on the 'View Report' icon, you'll be redirected to a new window. There are a few different viewing options once you're in the Plan Reports window. You can filter posts by unscheduled, scheduled, or both. The 'unscheduled' display option will show you all of the uploaded media on your grid that are not scheduled; the 'scheduled' option will show you all of the media that are scheduled to post, and the 'both' option will show you both scheduled and unscheduled content. Select which type of posts you want to share with your team.
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Now comes the best part – sharing your Plan Report! For instance, if you want to share scheduled posts with a client for them to review and approve, you have two options. First, you would click 'Share,' which copies a link to the Plan Report that lasts for 48 hours. Once clicked, it will say 'Link Copied!' and you can then paste it into an e-mail or message to share. The other option is to click 'Email Plan Report,' which opens a tab that allows you to enter in multiple email addresses to share the Plan Report.
Your Plan Report will re-adjust itself based on what you have scheduled or posted as you go so make sure to re-share when you make any adjustments. We find this feature to be very helpful when it comes to bettering communication with coworkers and clients. The benefits are being able to share your upcoming posts and ideas without having to add them as team members, giving login information, or screenshotting your posts to share. Share your Plan Reports to get feedback, and you can adjust content or captions accordingly. Easy, right? Planning should always be this simple!


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It's time to get creative with the camera that is with you every second of the day. Your cell phone camera! It may not be the best quality, or the fastest, or most versatile, but what it is, is available. It is rare you go anywhere without your cell phone, and it is even more rare that a cell phone does not have a camera. That being said, let's get into it!There are tons of apps out there for various platforms that are awesome for doing filters and effects on your camera phone photos. The problem is that no one app is available for everyone. What is available to everyone is a physical filters placed in front of your cell phone camera.
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Hello everyone and welcome on my blog.
My name is Judith, I just turned 18 and I live in Italy (in a small city in the north; it's called Bolzano).
For my 18th birthday I recieved a Canon camera (EOS 700D) and that's why I decided to open up a blog. I love taking photos when I'm on trips and I always wanted to open a blog to share my pictures.
You should know that I love fashion (my friends say I'm the biggest fashion freak they have ever seen). My biggest dream is to be invited at a fashion show by Michael Kors or any other great designer one day. I'd like to sit in the first row and be a famous blogger.
My inspirations and idols are international bloggers like Kristina Bazan, Julie Sariñana (sincerelyjules) and Chiara Ferragni.
I also get inspired by local known bloggers like Vicky Klieber (www.thegoldenbun.com) or Verena Lazzeri (www.thildasworld.com).
My motto for life says: "The world is a book and those who don't travel only read one page."
I love traveling and I'm so glad I've already seen so many places.
Last summer I was in Paris, Venice and Florence.
Paris was the most beautiful, unforgettable trip in my life. I'm gonna tell you more about paris in another post.
Enjoy my blog
Yours Judith
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Linferiority Complex
"Because it's good to be hard-working, smart and humble. Why not?"
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I agree with the person who said "but that's ok". Jeremy Lin has done a twofer. First, he breaks the stereotype that says people of Asian ancestry aren't great athletes. Just as importantly, he breaks the stereotype that says you can't be smart, humble, hard-working, a team player and love your mom and be a great athlete and stud.
While there might be some negatives associated with positive stereotypes, the positives outweigh the negatives. People in the US are constantly harping on the lack of positive black role models. Why would anyone want for people of Asian ancestry to give up their positive role models and have a negative role models? Certainly when you become a parent, you want your children's role models to be positive!
Rather than being upset about a positive role model, you should be focussing on eliminating negative role models. Yet another idiot who snorts stuff off a Kardashian's darker regions would be a negative for whatever race the snorter was and indeed for humanity in general.
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The title may sound strange but with the evolution in technology, it is better to believe whatever comes out way. The South Korean phone maker is the one surprising the fans this time. It has claimed to come up with a foldable tablet the next year. It is the first time that some phone maker is making a similar attempt at a foldable screen.
Samsung had earlier made an attempt on flexible display with Galaxy Round. However, it did not garner much news in the media and it could not raise the temperature of its fans. But, the South Korean phone maker did not stop there, it vowed to make something more interesting and if everything goes in place, it may showcase a new tablet with foldable nature. This is one of the most anticipated projects of the South Korean phone maker. Samsung is eyeing on the year 2015 to release its foldable tablet. This would be the first commercial release of the technology that Samsung has been improvising with for a long time now.
According to Android Authority, Samsung already registered patents on this technology and hence, we can expect the company to roll out the device that will consist of three different panels and they would be able to fall on each other in order to make the full tablet out of it. When extended to fully, the display could measure somewhere between 8 to 9 inches, which is commendable. It is supposed to fall in the mid sized tablet category comparing with the likes of iPad mini and a standard iPad. Now, we will have to wait and see if the reports surrounding the foldable tablet will actually materialize or not. We just hope for the best.