text: Jon Burgess wrote: > cardboil wrote: > >> In file included from /home/mythtv/dvb-kernel/build-2.6/saa7146_i2c.c:1: >> /home/mythtv/dvb-kernel/build-2.6/compat.h:5:18: error: bttv.h: No >> such file or directory > > It is because the FC4 kernel-devel package only contains a subset of the > header files present in the kernel source tree. The headers in > drivers/media/video are missing and cause this problem. You could try > filing a bug with the Fedora bugzilla. Right you are! Thanks for responding to cardboil's email so quickly... Otherwise I would start to feel guilty about my compat.h "magic" ... Even without compat.h, he would have run into the same problem by the time make reaches the bt8xx stuff. > You could install the latest kernel from rawhide, this is currently at > 2.6.14-rc4-git6 which is reasonably close to the dvb-kernel CVS so you > shouldn't need to recompile the drivers. What a great suggestion! I'll forward this on to the other FC4 complainers ;-) > Alternatively, assuming that you don't need to use the particular > drivers that depend on these headers you could comment out all the ones > that you don't need in the Makefile. > > To fix the problem properly you'll need to add a couple of the header > files into /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/drivers/media/video/... > You could get these from the kernel-`uname -r`.src.rpm file. > > BTW - there is one incompatible change which prevents the cinergyT2.c > file from compiling on linux-2.6.14-rc4: > > CC [M] /home/jburgess/dvb/dvb-kernel/build-2.6/cinergyT2.o > /home/jburgess/dvb/dvb-kernel/build-2.6/cinergyT2.c: In function > 'cinergyt2_suspend': > /home/jburgess/dvb/dvb-kernel/build-2.6/cinergyT2.c:909: error: invalid > operands to binary > > > It seems this change is the cause... Yes... See below: > --- linux-2.6.13/include/linux/pm.h 2005-09-28 23:49:38.000000000 +0100 > +++ linux-2.6.14-rc4/include/linux/pm.h 2005-10-13 23:28:51.000000000 +0100 > @@ -186,7 +186,9 @@ > > struct device; > > -typedef u32 __bitwise pm_message_t; > +typedef struct pm_message { > + int event; > +} pm_message_t; > > Jon I have posted the fix for this in my post to the linux-dvb list on October 10th, sibject: [linux-dvb] [PATCH fix dvb-kernel for 2.6.14] swsusp: switch pm_message_t to struct ...I was waiting on Johannes to apply it. This patch seems to be the difference between compatability between 2.6.13.Y and 2.6.14-rcX Cheers, Michael Krufky


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Last night and this morning, I have been reading bits of Anders Breivik's fifteen-hundred-page manifesto, as well as Twitter, where a few intrepid souls are trying to identify all the many passages Breivik lifted from other writers, often without crediting. (They are using the hashtag #readingbreivik, if you want to follow along: the best single tweeter is @JeffSharlet.) Breivik states in the manifesto that he authored only half of it; the rest is taken from "several courageous individuals throughout the world," whom he sometimes declines to credit because, he writes, it's "easier to use and distribute the material" this way. Much has been written already about his lifting parts of the Unabomber's manifesto and his affection for many American anti-Islamic bloggers. In general, as Sharlet (who has written extensively on the American right) notes, Breivik appears to be an Anglophile, even Anglicizing his byline on the manifesto to "Andrew Berwick."
The manifesto is replete with literary references and it includes bibliographies on various topics, as well as lists of "dangerous" authors (notably the work of Adorno and the Frankfurt school). At one point, Breivik lists his favorite books:
George Orwell—Nineteen Eighty-Four, Thomas Hobbes—Leviathan, John Stuart Mill—On Liberty, John Locke—Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Adam Smith—The Wealth of Nations, Edmund Burke—Reflections on the Revolution in France, Ayn Rand—Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, William James—Pragmatism, Carl von Clausewitz—On War, Fjordman—Defeating Eurabia Other important books I've read (in random order): The Bible, Avesta, Quran, Hadith, Plato—The Republic, Niccolò Machiavelli—The Prince, William Shakespeare—First Folio, Immanuel Kant—Critique of Pure Reason, Homer— liad and Odyssey, Dante Alighieri—The Divine Comedy, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels—Communist Manifesto, Charles Darwin—The Origin of Species, Leo Tolstoy—War and Peace, Franz Kafka—The Trial, Arnold Joseph Toynbee—A Study of History
Last year, we blogged about whether or not Jared Loughner's reading list, which he'd posted on his YouTube profile ahead of his shooting spree in Arizona, could explain his ideology and be blamed for his violence. We agreed, with Laura Miller, that it could not. The same questions are being raised about Breivik. The American anti-Islamic bloggers who show up in the manifesto have waxed indignant at the suggestion that their work might have inspired him to violence; to which an ex-C.I.A. officer replied:
It would be unfair to attribute Mr. Breivik's violence to the writers who helped shape his world view. But at the same time, he said the counterjihad writers do argue that the fundamentalist Salafi branch of Islam "is the infrastructure from which Al Qaeda emerged. Well, they and their writings are the infrastructure from which Breivik emerged." "This rhetoric," he added, "is not cost-free."
It is true that a book can never bear full responsibility for an act of violence; also that hateful literature can put ideas, or at least justifications for those ideas, in someone's mind, and so cannot be absolved completely. Breivik's case is different from Loughner's and poses a different challenge to us, its interpreters, in that literature is not tangential to it. Literature, reading, and writing sit at the heart of Breivik's crime. During his years building his bomb and laying the plans for his attack, he was also working on his book, which is not simply his book, but a body of literature he wished to bring to wider attention through violent publicity stunts. Like the Unabomber, he fancies himself a writer-prophet, but he is much more community-minded than Ted Kaczynski. The difference between the two men's lifestyles—Kaczynski lived as a recluse in his cabin in Montana while Breivik seems to have split his time between a cabin and society—has been noted, and is evident in their writings as well. Kaczynski's manifesto adopts the revolutionary "we," but it has a lonely feeling. Breivik's, on the other hand, is a boisterous affair, a clip-job compendium for the digital age, cut and paste with relish and speed from communal blogs around the Internet and intended, as Breivik writes in the introduction, for his seven thousand Facebook friends.
Breivik notes that he could not reach out to the authors of the work he lifted for security reasons (or, it follows, put any part of it online), but one imagines that if he'd been able to, the document would be full of hyperlinks and would read, essentially, like a very long blog post, or like several posts on a blog that had been kept in beta for years. Breivik is asking us to read his actions not as the work of an individual consciousness but of a society of like-minded people. He elides the division between his voice and others' in order to claim the authority of the many, and to give his book the power of other enormous compendiums that decline to give specifics about their sources (like, for instance, the Bible).
But there can be no mystery these days and so no power: because this is the digital age, it is simple enough to pull the document apart, to trace down every single one of its sources, to dissemble it, via a plagiarism-checking program or just by dropping bits of it into Google, and to force it to give up its ghosts. Breivik, though, doesn't seem to know this. For all his embrace of technology and the Internet, he is strangely out of touch. "I chose to send the compendium as a Word file for the following reason[s]," he informs us:
1. MS Word is one of the most common and popular software formats
2. Significantly easier to edit the document compared to PDF
3. A Word file is significantly smaller than a PDF file (3,5 MB vs 8-10 MB)
4. The quality of the images are conserved a lot better than in a PDF
5. Distribution: it is easier to avoid spam filters with a file smaller than 5 MB
In the end, Breivik's manifesto is merely a compilation of moments like this one: instances of tidy-minded tedium that seems to speak not to insanity but to an obsessiveness that is both banal and boring. It's as if he has no idea what people care about.
Further Reading: William Finnegan on defending the Unabomber.
Louis Menand on books as bombs.

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Queen gives Canadian Museum for Human Rights a piece of history
Queen Elizabeth II is using the Winnipeg stop on her Canadian tour to unveil the cornerstone of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, which was crafted with a piece of British history.
Charles Brunet, a third generation craftsman with Brunet Monuments carved the cornerstone of the museum to incorporate a stone from the ruins of the St. Mary's Priory near Windsor, where some believe the Magna Carta was signed. The stone was a gift from the Queen.
Brunet has carved out piece of Tyndall stone to create a space where the St. Mary's stone rests, covered and protected by sandblasted and etched glass.
The local craftsman said he appreciates the work done centuries ago on the historic stone.
"What I really particularly enjoy seeing in this piece is the chisel marks the holes drilled here and there, you wonder what has gone on over the years," Brunet said.
Patrick O'Reilly, the chief operating officer of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights said that while the St. Mary's stone is literally a cornerstone for the new museum, it has symbolic significance as well.
"That her majesty has decided to grace us with her presence is one thing, but then to bring this incredible gift – metaphorically it's a cornerstone for human rights and that's amazing."
Brunet said the stone is tied to the beginning of human rights in the English-speaking world.
"This stone was present when King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215," Brunet said. "It's a real honour and a privilege to touch this stone. We realize how important this stone is for all of Winnipeg and Manitoba."
The stone will remain on public display at the legislature until the museum officially opens in 2012.
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'Winnie Mandela' singer Carlene Davis reflects on 'wow moment'
Singer Carlene Davis (left) meets Winnie Mandela (right) during the freedom fighter's visit to Jamaica along with her then husband, Nelson, in 1991. Looking on is then Minister of Labour and Sports, Portia Simpson. (Contributed)
Reggae singer Carlene Davis was simply awed by the occasion when in 1991 she met Winnie Mandela, the woman many South Africans have described as the "Mother of the Nation" and a champion of the black majority.
"It was a wow moment for me," Carlene Davis told Loop Jamaica reporter Claude Mills. "I was taken aback, to know that I had lived to meet and see her, and being able to touch the struggle. it was everything to me, the women who were there were elated and inspired by Winnie's work, and it was an empowering moment for us as women."
The opportunity came to meet Winnie Mandela during a shindig organised by the Bureau of Women's Affairs at a popular hotel in downtown Kingstown which allowed selected women to gather and share Winnie Mandela's story.
"I was honoured to have been invited. When I met her, we hugged, and I gave her a 12 inch vinyl copy of 'Winnie Mandela' with a photo of her on it, and she was very gracious, she said songs like these inspired her and gave her strength to keep up the fight," Davis said.
Davis had been inspired to record the track after reading the book, 'Part of My Soul Went With Him', a biography about Winnie by white South African writer Mary Benson.
"Tommy (her husband, Tommy Cowan) had bought the book while he was on tour, he penned the song, and he gave me the book which I read from cover to cover, and then inspiration took over," she said.
Known more for love ballads than for freedom fighter songs, Davis said that certain details included in the book touched her in a personal way and inspired her to use her platform as a singer to advocate for change.
"The book spoke of her life and marriage to Nelson Mandela and their early years together, their political work, her life after his final arrest and imprisonment to Robben Island and ultimately the release of her husband and a free South Africa. But the blow by blow descriptions of how she wasn't given a chance to eat her wedding cake, and how they took her stuff, and tried to banish her in some backwoods to silence her, it was severe and painful and speaks to how important she was in the struggle, " Davis recalled.
The song was one of several reggae songs released at a time when international pressure on the renegade South African administration intensified to end Apartheid and free Nelson Mandela who had been imprisoned since 1963. Winnie Mandela's own activism against white minority rule led to her being jailed for months and placed under house arrest for years.
The songs were a catalyst for change and eventually, in 1990 when Mandela was freed, he and Winnie visited Jamaica on July 24, 1991 at the invitation of prime minister Michael Manley. Manley's father, Norman Manley had challenged the cruelty of Apartheid in the 1950s when he was Jamaican premier. Carlene Davis was centre stage as she had released a song called 'Welcome Home Mandela' and she performed the song with a coterie of musicians and backup singers as the motorcade entered the National Stadium.
"I remember that there was an altercation at the time between the police and the people in the stand, and I remember Babsy (now Minister Olivia Grange) shouted 'sing Welcome Home Mandela' now and as I opened my mouth and started singing, the whole thing came to a halt and the crowd calmed down," she said.
The 'Welcome Home Mandela' song was also used on various political platforms on Mr Mandela's visit to the United States.
"Mayor Dinkins, the black mayor of New York City, used it on the platform to welcome the Mandelas when they visited New York," Davis recalled.
Winnie Mandela was the second of Mandela's three wives, married to him from 1958 to 1996, died Monday. She will be honoured by a state funeral on April 14, preceded by an official memorial service on April 11.
Davis said she was saddened by Winnie's death and praised her lifelong activism, and for being someone who "fought tirelessly for the future of a people and the future of a nation". Davis recorded two other Mandela tributes, one of which, 'Thank You Mandela' made it to her 2015 album, 'Dripping Blood'. The other, 'Rise Up' celebrated Nelson Mandela's presidency.
In the meantime, Prime Minister Holness said Mandela's death brings into focus the significant struggle of black people throughout the world against racism and in particular apartheid in South Africa.
"Winnie Mandela was a symbol of the black struggle against oppression and injustice. We here in Jamaica supported her in that struggle as she maintained the legacy of her then husband Nelson Mandela while he was locked away for 27 years," he said.
Holness said Mandela was a part of Jamaica, and the country "has lost a friend and inspiration."
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Amazon's Kindle App Gets Updated
Today, Amazon updated their Kindle app for Android to version 4.0. Of course with any major update, it brings loads of new features. Here's the changelog from the Play Store.
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Moody and intense, Organic Babies begins with a mix of industrial and post-metal soundscape intro and builds into abrasive keys and eerie yet angular guitars. Voivod's technical deterioration and fuzz can be heard in Dimensional Hoops but with a fresh perspective. Up to date and never techno really, it moves quickly into roots stoner rock and psychedelia territory.
The title track Organic Babies they drone in the pop sense, into Spacemen 3 territory but with a clear purpose of songwriting, a thoughtful piece turning it's ear worm screw into your brain plate. It's in the water... and it turns to Wheel, a cool classic song with radio appeal, if radio didn't stink like eggs that is. Bands like Aeges, Huge Rat Attacks and Baroness are writing smart relevant numbers that will be heard by a lucky few.
If you play pop metal ditties and you don't play some heavy songs you're just a pop band though so; Huge Rat Attacks drops the harmonies and replaces it with blues heavy power guitar and howls from the halls vocals and hammers it home with bone crushing drum nastiness. Heavy Jelly scores huge doom points (the most crippling of points). If you're lucky you like revivalist rock because the breadth of Organic Babies is of the barefoot variety. You can bask in the sunlit rays of One More Day Fades Away before jumping into a loud Chevy pickup and even louder stereo, burning down dirt roads, cranking Detonate until the tank runs dry.
Not a long but extremely satisfying album ends with Vision Quest: Gary. A title The Butthole Surfers might have come up with and a song that the Surfers would have been proud to have wrote. Cool riffs remind of Kiss and Thin Lizzy, an epic performance that scrapes the clouds with it's charcoal kisses and leaves us on a heavy, heavy note. Yet another great album that should be sitting in bins at all local record stores. You can find it at Bandcamp, iTunes and Amazon for now.
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It's impossible to completely dismiss Born to Win, a would-be comedy about heroin addiction, even though the film is a disaster from a tonal perspective and not especially satisfying from a narrative perspective, because the film's saving graces include gritty performances by several actors and a great sense of place. So, while Born to Win is laughable compared to the same year's The Panic in Needle Park, a truly harrowing take on the same subject matter, Born to Win isn't an outright dud. George Segal stars as J, a former hairdresser who has fallen into petty crime as a means of supporting his habit. Over the course of the story, J embarks on a new romance with Parm (Karen Black), a rich girl with a taste for dangerous adventure, and he gets into a complicated hassle with his dealer, Vivian (Hector Elizondo). The romantic stuff with Parm defies logic right from the beginning—Parm discovers J trying to steal her car, but instead of calling the police, she takes him to bed. Huh? The drug-culture material is more believable, especially when two cops (one of whom is played by a young Robert De Niro) coerce J into helping them entrap Vivian. In general, the seedier the scene in question, the more watchable Born to Win becomes. For instance, one of the best sequences involves J sweet-talking a mobster's wife by pretending he wants sex, when in fact he's simply trying to enter the mobster's apartment for purposes of robbery. Segal's not the right actor for this story—he's too charming and urbane—but it's interesting to imagine the circumstances by which a character fitting Segal's persona might have fallen into such desperation. Had Born to Win focused on J's descent (and had the filmmakers not opted for such a glib treatment of addiction), the picture could have had impact. Alas, director/co-writer Ivan Passer fumbles, badly, by attempting to merge black comedy with inner-city tragedy, and his undisciplined storytelling is exacerbated by a truly horrible music score. Predictably, De Niro (whose role is inconsequential) and Elizondo fare best in this milieu, while Black and costar Paul Prentiss barely register. Yet the real star of the movie, if only by default, is New York City, with the dirty streets of Manhattan amplifying the film's implied theme of lost souls getting chewed up by an unforgiving universe.
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Red Nose Day 2011!March 18, 2011 at 12:41 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Tags: blind Awareness, Chris Moyles, Comedy Dave, Comic Relief, Desert Trek, Lorraine Kelly, Peter White, Radio One, Red Nose Day
What a great delight that Radio One DJ Chris Moyles and his companion 'Comedy' Dave have endured their on air radio challenge and become new world record holders.
The pair have successfully managed to stay on the airways for a massive 52 hours and are now the proud owners of the title 'Radio Endurance Marathon' record holders.
Listeners have urged Chris and Dave on throughout their challenge and raised an enormous £2.4 million, which will go straight to Comic Relief!
Last night, charity supports tuned in to watch the Comic Relief Desert Trek, which saw a host of celebrities including Lorraine Kelly, Dermot O'Leary fellow Radio one DJ Scott Mills and Radio 4 presenter Peter White trek 100 km across the Kaisut Desert in North Kenya.
The trek saw the celebrities endure blistering heat, physical stress and sore feet! The celebrities meet African natives throughout the trip; many became a driving force of motivation for the trekkers who are raising money for Comic Relief and specially blind awareness.
Throughout the trip the famous faces got to see where the fundraising money really goes. It was fantastic, and quite emotional to see a blind man get his precious sight back with a simple and cheap operation with immediate results!
Here at Bath-Knight we are hosting a Pajamas Day, entering jokes into the Babybel Cheesy Smile All Round campaign and encouraging everyone to take part in our funny bath themed survey, where we will donate to Comic Relief for every completed survey.
From all here at Bath-Knight, have a wonderful Red Nose Day and most importantly get donating!
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The government is planning to sell its entire 51.11% stake in the HPCL to ONGC, according to people familiar with the matter but hasn't yet officially communicated its decision to companies.
Stock markets are concerned about the price ONGC may have to pay for acquiring the refiner. The transaction would also influence the status of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemical (MRPL), jointly promoted by ONGC and HPCL, the executive said. "After ONGC takes over HPCL, MRPL will be managed by HPCL. There is no logic for ONGC to have two companies in the same segment," said the ONGC executive. "HPCL is rightly placed to handle MRPL since both operate refineries." ONGC and HPCL own 71.63% and 16.96% respectively in MRPL, while the balance 11.42% is owned by the public.
HPCL has in recent days pitched for taking control of MRPL. The terms of the ONGC-HPCL deal are still being finalised but speculations abound, including on how much premium ONGC may have to pay the government for HPCL shares.
"HPCL is already fairly valued by the market. It has a very high free float and is very actively traded. In such a scenario, the question of premium just doesn't arise," the executive said. "Moreover, the point of control premium is not valid since the control of both companies would rest with the government after the transaction, as it does now," he said. Of the public shareholding of 48.89% in HPCL, stateowned Life Insurance Corp owns just about 2% while the balance stake is owned by numerous foreign and domestic institutions and retail investors.
To buttress his argument, the ONGC executive cited the sale of 10% stake in Indian Oil Corp in March 2014, when the government sold shares at 10% discount to then prevailing market price. Under its divestment programme, the government had then sold 5% stake each to ONGC and Oil India.
The speculation about HPCL shares likely to be sold at a premium has sent stock up 16% in ten days. The stock is up 63% in a year.
Paying a premium can drain away ONGC's resources already needed for its planned capex of Rs 30,000 crore in 2017-18. The company has just about $2.5 billion of cash reserve, half of which would go into paying for the acquisition of KG Basin asset of GSPC. Acquisition of government's 51.11% stake in HPCL would require ONGC to pay $4.7 billion at current market prices.


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Before you start building your EA you need to know exactly how it should trade – when it should buy or sell and when it should close the position.
The trading rule is in form:
IF (CONDITION is True) THEN ACTION.
The CONDITION can be any comparison, for example 'CCI > 0', or 'EMA(10) crosses above EMA(20)'.
The ACTION can be opening new order or closing an existing order.
So the trading rule can be for example:
IF (Current Hour = 8 and CCI(50) > 0 and No position is open) THEN Enter at Market with Stop Loss: 50 pips and Profit Target: 50 pips.
Once you know your trading rules you can easily define them in EA Wizard in the Trading Rules tab..
You can use unlimited number of rules, for example one rule to go long and second rule to go short.
Please check the other tutorials or watch the video to get an overview how to build your trading rules.
Don't be afraid, it is very simple.
Compilation Warnings Explanation
When you compile your new EA in MetaTrader4, you can see a number of compilation warnings, like on the image below.
This is normal, there's nothing wrong!
The warnings are there just because EA Wizard uses a library of functions that are copied to every EA, but not every EA uses all these functions.
The warnings merely mean that some functions are not used and won't be used in the compiled file.


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Jun 15, 2013 04:39 am
jeffrey said: D
been there - seen that.
Jun 15, 2013 05:06 am
Sandi said: B
best special effects in a long time.
Jun 15, 2013 10:08 am
Joe said: C
Excellence from Cavill-Adams-Lane, but too many loooooong CGI fight scenes w/moves that have been done. CGI works overtime, when there's a break it is great. This movie is LOUD, like it's screaming for two hours. Didn't buy the romance.
Jun 15, 2013 09:29 pm
Jared said: A
Awesome! If youre a true Superman fan youll love it
Jun 15, 2013 09:29 pm
Jared said: A
Awesome! If youre a true Superman fan youll love it
Jun 15, 2013 11:50 pm
Ronald said: A
Not your dad's Superman!! And, that's a good thing. Best superman movie a must see!!!
Jun 16, 2013 03:17 am
Chuck said: B
The Good: CG effects some of the best ever to date! Great believable Superman character kept as true blue as I grew up with (I'm 63) Very satisfying! The Bad: Earth carnage WAY over the top. Romantic connection to LL not authentic.
Jun 16, 2013 05:48 am
Waverly said: D
Superman-- like any man/woman-- has the power to be whatever he chooses. The film correctly depicts his noble choice to be a hero, but in no way, shape or form is murder a justifiable act of heroism. Even the most vile villains deserve a ch
Jun 16, 2013 02:12 pm
Ramiro said: F
Should have been Brandon R.
Jun 16, 2013 03:47 pm
W A Khalis said: A
Don't compare to Donner film....it reboot...just see it as reboot....
Jun 19, 2013 11:30 pm
Robin said: B
if you're into sci-fi and special FX, you will like this. the 3D was great. I am not a fan of sci fi.
Jun 20, 2013 06:10 pm
Charlie said: A
The special effects in the film were incredible. It felt like you were actually going to be hit with a laser, and superman was about to come out of the screen. I would recommend it anybody.
Jun 21, 2013 03:36 pm
Rocco said: C
If you wanted to see a pure action movie it was a B But if you wanted to see a Superman Movie true to original it was maybe a C. A fight scene that just kept going and going and going. And as one critic mentioned no one smiled.
Jun 21, 2013 09:20 pm
Stephen said: D
There are way too many holes in this movie to list! What were they thinking!
Jun 23, 2013 12:01 am
Angela said: F
This superman installation lacked any character development. All it was really about was one explosion after the other. If I wanted to see this type of movie I could have gone to Tranformers III.
Jun 23, 2013 07:36 am
Dimitris said: B
The story lacks originality,tension and character development. However there is plenty of destructive action, nice visual effects and excellent music. Cavill is good too. For a complete review look here: argonautis.eu/man_of_steel.htm
Jun 28, 2013 01:05 am
Jim said: C
I agree with the poster that said there were too many holes. Much of it wasn't sensible. CGI was OK I guess, but I found it a bit unoriginal. I was pretty let down. Could have used some humor to lighten it up a little. Too long.
Jul 07, 2013 08:37 am
Jenny said: C
See ..This Mov.ie online at T H E A T E R 1 5 . C 0 M.
Jul 08, 2013 06:03 pm
Shawn P said: A
Better film than the ones Christopher Reeve did and Brandon Routh...Hoping there are more Superman films coming out!!
Jul 09, 2013 02:47 pm
jim said: B
Shannon does a great job. keeps you interested the entire movie.
Jul 11, 2013 02:08 pm
Dimitris said: B
To be more exact: the first half has character development based on the comic and the previous movies (no surprises here, e.g. Clark falls in love with Lois) and the second half is full of action.
Jul 18, 2013 08:04 pm
WL said: B
I was not disappointed in this version of Superman and I think I have seen every Superman there ever has been including the original black and white TV shows. I did not care for those chosen to play Perry White or Lois Lane enjoyable anyhow
Jul 22, 2013 06:58 pm
Ken said: C
Was expecting more.
Jul 24, 2013 11:53 am
Alex said: C
i dun really like it...pointless fighting where both the good guy and bad guy injured-less...destroying the building for wat..
Jul 25, 2013 01:40 pm
Chen said: C
Thoroughly Mediocre
Aug 02, 2013 07:16 am
Denny said: A
Awesome movie! Lots of drama and actions!
Aug 19, 2013 12:53 pm
Farid said: B
Not bad, but would have been much better if they put some comical levity into the film.
Aug 27, 2013 04:53 pm
Andy said: B
May 06, 2014 07:16 pm
Dave said: A
Best Superman movie IMHO. The only downside is too many over-the-top, unrealistic action sequences. Great CGI though. Loved Russell Crowe.
Sep 22, 2014 11:42 am
BMEP said: B
nice movie.......
Dec 08, 2014 10:44 am
Riya said: B
nice movies for kids. packersmoversbangalore.in
Jun 25, 2016 11:28 am
Prime said: B
Jun 29, 2017 02:38 am
Lance said: A
Best Superman film ever...origin story and General Zod...what more do you want?True Superman fans know this is. Hans Zimmer score also excellent. Costner and Crow? Who wouldn't want them as your Dad and Adoptive Dad.
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The beginning of the history of a great figure is generally little known. The years of the glory have the tendency to efface the dark years.
The cadet of the school of artillery, classified 42nd on 58 students, doesn't let foresee the winner of Marengo and Austerlitz.
The friendship with Augustin Robespierre and with the political commissioner Saliceti give a sudden impulse to his career.
The fall of Maximilien Robespierre provokes a sudden standstill.
The alliance with Barras gives new rush to his military career.
The relationship with Joséphine Beauharnais politically inserts him in the more important political Parisian salons.
At 27 years old he is named commander of the army of Italy.
Place: Corsica - France
Epoch: 1769-1796
Carlo Buonaparte
From 1755 to 1769 Corsica was substantially independent under the government of general Pasquale Paoli.
On 15 May 1768 the Republic of Genoa, not succeeding in taking back the control of the island, assigned the island to France with the Treaty of Versailles.
The population, led by Pasquale Paoli, opposed French people, but was defeated in the battle of Ponte Nuovo on May 8 th 1769. Paoli ran away to England.
Carlo Buonaparte, whot had been close collaborator of Paoli, soon sided with the French having in exchange the acknowledgment of the nobility of his own family and the protection of the count of Marbeuf, governor of the island.
The Buonaparte were of Tuscan origins, probably of Sarzana, and they had moved to Corsica in the XVI century. Beginning from 1600 they were members many times of the Board of the Elderly of Ajaccio. The attendance to the Board was recognized by the French as equivalent to a title of minor nobility.
Napoleon Buonaparte
Napoleon was born in Ajaccio from Carlo Buonaparte and from Maria Letitia Ramolino on August 15 th 1769. The name of an uncle dead two years before was given to him.
Napoleon was the fourth of twelve brothers, second of the eight living. First-born was Giuseppe (1768). They would follow: Luciano (1775), Elisa (1777), Luigi (1778), Paolina (1780), Maria Annunziata, called Carolina (1782), and Girolamo (1784). In 1785 the father of Napoleon died.
Second lieutenant of artillery (16 years)
In December 1778 Carlo sent to France Giuseppe and Napoleon, just nine years old, to study at the college of Autun. At Autun Napoleon learned for the first time French.
On May 15 1779 Napoleon moved to the military college of Brienne, where at the king expense the children of the noble families were prepared. Napoleon was accepted owing to the recommendations of the count of Marbeuf. Napoleon remained at Brienne for five years.
In September 1784, at fifteen, he was admitted to the military school of Paris. After one year he got the degree of second lieutenant of artillery. He resulted 42nd on 58 students.
In November 1785 Napoleon was assigned to the regiment of artillery of La Fère. He was not very assiduous in the service of garrison: up to September 10 th 1791 he accumulated 38 months of discharge and 33 months of presence.
The Revolution and Corsica
At the outbreak of the Revolution the followers of Pasquale Paoli quickly accepted the new principles. The Corsican royalists instead sided in defense of the ancient regime.
On november 30 th 1789 the national assembly proclaimed Corsica integral part of France. It finished the military occupation begun in 1769.
In July 1790 Paoli reentered in Corsica and was elected commander of the national guard and President of the departmental Directory.
Captain of artillery and lieutenant colonel in second of the volunteers (23 years)
Between 1789 and 1793 Napoleon asked for numerous discharges to participate in the events of Corsica.
In April 1792 he was elected lieutenant colonel in second of the voluntary troops of the island. The degree among the volunteers allowed him to keep the regular military degree of lieutenant.
Meanwhile at Valence it was called a check of the regular officers. Napoleon obviously resulted absent and was cancelled from the staffs of the regiment. He went to Paris to claim his rights.
Napoleon left Paris on September 17 with the degree of captain of artillery, to which he had been promoted, and with that of lieutenant colonel of the volunteers. In October he was again in Corsica.
From Corsica to France
Napoleon established good relationships with Antonio Cristoforo Saliceti, deputy of the Convention in mission in the island.
In February 1793 Napoleon took part to the disastrous attack against Sardinia. Charged to conquer the Maddalena, because of a mutiny, he was forced to retreat.
Luciano Buonaparte accused Pasquale Paoli of treason in the action against Sardinia and to be a counter-revolutionary. In April 1793 the Convention decided to arrest Paoli, but his followers prevented the arrest and burned the house of the Buonaparte, forcing the family to escape to Toulon and then to Marseille (June 1793).
In June 1794 Corsica recognized as its own sovereign the king of England.
In 1796 the French regained the island and reconstructed the house of the Buonaparte.
From captain to general of brigade (24 years)
Once in France the captain Buonaparte took back service in the 4th Regiment of artillery at Nice.
Present by chance to the siege of Toulon, on September 16 th 1793 he was called by Saliceti, deputy in mission of the Convention, to replace Dammartin, commander of the artillery, been wounded.
On October 18 Saliceti promoted captain Buonaparte to the degree of commander of battalion, that is major.
Napoleon validly contributed to the reconquest of the city that fell on December 18 th 1793. On December 23 Saliceti and Augustin Robespierre, younger brother of Maximilien, proposed him for the degree of general of brigade. On February 16 th 1794 the promotion was confirmed by the Committee of public welfare.
Imprisoned and expelled from the artillery (26 years)
On the 9 Thermidor of the year II (July 27 th 1794) Robespierre and his brother were put to death. On August 9th 1794 Napoleon, general suspected of treason, was imprisoned at Nice by Saliceti. On August 20 he will be acquitted, always by Saliceti.
In March of 1795 he was expelled from the artillery and destined to fight in Vendée, but he refused the appointment and on June 21 he resigned his post. His marriage with Desirée Clary, younger sister of the wife of his brother Giuseppe and daughter of a rich trader of Marseille, failed.
Discharged by the army (26 years)
Disappointed, Napoleon submitted an application of recruitment to the Turkish army that verbally accepted him. But on August 18 1795 Napoleon was assigned to the Topographical Office and the Turkish project faded.
On September 15 th 1795 the Committee of public welfare decided to cancel Napoleon from the list of the generals in regular service for the refusal that he had opposed to the order to go to Vendée.
General of division (26 years)
On the 13 Vendimiaire of the year III (October 5 th 1795) the government entrusted Barras with the task to repress an insurrection, partly royalist, of the people in Paris. Barras addressed Napoleon who, shooting at grapeshot on the crowd with the cannons gathered by Murat, routed the rebels. The government was safe.
On October 16 th 1795, in consequence of the success of the operation, Napoleon was reinstated in the degree of general of division and the command of the home army.
Commander of the armey of Italy (27 years)
On March 2nd 1796 Napoleon was named commander of the army of Italy.
On March 9th 1796 Napoleon married Joséphine Tascher de the Pagerie, widow of the general Alexandre Beauharnais accused of treason after a defeat against the Austro-Prussians and guillotined on July 23 rd 1794.
Joséphine had been the lover of Barras, she had two children, Hortense and Eugene, and was older than Napoleon of five years. She dominated the salons in Paris.
On March 11th 1796 Napoleon, 27 years old, left for the campaign of Italy.
Buonaparte to Bonaparte
It was beginning from the 1796 spring that Napoleon and his family started to use the French form of his own last name: Bonaparte.
His brothers
In the 1806 Giuseppe became king of Naples and in 1808 king of Spain, he maintained the crown up to 1813. He emigrated in Switzerland, United States and England. He died in Florence in 1844.
Luciano, protagonist of the breakup with Pasquale Paoli, had a remarkable part in the coup d'état of the 18 Brumaire as President of the Five hundred. He was minister of the Home affairs, he broke up with Napoleon, he tried to run away to the United States, he was captured by the English. From 1804 he lived in Rome. In 1814 he got from the pope the principality of Canino. During the One hundred Days he was reconciled with Napoleon. He died in Viterbo in 1840.
Luigi married Hortense Beauharnais, daughter of Joséphine. He was king of Holland from 1806 to 1810. He had to abandon the crown owing to disputes with Napoleon. He died in Livorno in 1846. He was the father of Napoleon III.
Girolamo, after the marriage with miss Patterson, a rich American, in 1807 married the daughter of the king of Wurttemberg and in the same year he became king of Westfalia. He remained on the throne up to 1813. He ran away in Austria. He lived in exile in Italy. He returned to Paris in 1848. For intervention of his nephew Luigi Bonaparte (Napoleon III) he was marshal of France (1850) and president of the senate (1852). He died at Villegenis in 1860.
His sisters
Elisa married Felice Baciocchi, a Corsican officer, became princess of Lucca and Piombino (1805-1809) and then grand duchess in Tuscany (1809-1814). In 1815 the Austrians arrested her and they brought her to Brno in Moravia. She retired to private life and died in Bologna in 1841.
Carolina married the general of cavalry Joachim Murat. She was grand duchess of Berg and queen of Naples from 1808 to 1814. In second marriage she married the French general Macdonald. She died in 1839 in Florence.
Paolina, the first husband, the general Leclerc, having died, got married again in 1803 with the prince Camillo Borghese. She had the title of duchess of Guastalla. She died in Florence in 1825.
The beloved women
Desirée Clary, sister of the wife of Joseph, in 1798 married the general Bernadotte, who became king of Sweden in 1818, but he had governed the country since 1810 in all but name. Desirée died in 1860. Bernadotte died in Stockholm in 1844. The actual rulers of Sweden belong to his dynasty.
Joséphine, widow Beauharnais, in 1809 had to accept the separation from Napoleon who wanted to marry Marie Louise of Austria for political reasons. She died in Paris in 1814.
Joséphine's sons
Eugene of Beauharnais was adopted by Napoleon and in 1805 he became viceroy of the kingdom of Italy. After the One hundred Days he retired in Bavaria. He died in Munich in 1824.
Hortense married Luigi Bonaparte, with whom she reigned on Holland from 1806 to 1810. With the restoration she was exiled in Thurgau. She was the mother of Napoleon III. She died in Arenenberg in 1837.
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The Corsican Antonio Cristoforo Saliceti became ambassador at Lucca and Genoa in 1801. He was minister of the police and of the war with Giuseppe Bonaparte, king of Naples. He died in Naples in 1809.
Barras was isolated by Napoleon after the coup d'état of the 18 Brumaire (November 9-10 th 1799). He was obliged to retire in Belgium (1801) and in Rome (1810). He died in Paris in 1829.
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Three Orange County interior decorators open up about their sources of inspiration, latest Design Trends and what they love about their own homes.
By Suzette Lipscomb
After graduating from college with a fashion merchandising degree, Robin Strickler worked in the fashion industry for several years. When she moved from Los Angeles to Orange County, she attended the Interior Designers Institute and soon began working in model homes. With her builder contacts, she was able to transition to high-end residential homes and created her own firm, Design Works, in 1991.
Pacific Coast Magazine: What inspired you to enter this field?
Robin Strickler: I am fortunate to have built a very successful design firm and attribute it to my fashion background, which allotted me the talent to seek out new trends, as well as current colors and fabrics to incorporate into our timeless style.
PCM: What is one of your favorite rooms in your house?
RS: The great room because it is the heart of the entire home. It is warm and inviting and flows comfortably from the kitchen, entry and bedrooms.
PCM: What is a trend you incorporate into designs whenever possible?
RS: One of our favorite trends that really completes a room is to drape a Hermes throw over a chair or at the end of the bed. It adds warmth and sophistication to any room. Something more affordable is to add decorative pillows. We mix and match patterns and solids from West Elm, Pottery Barn and Williams-Sonoma, which can transcend any space.
PCM: Where is your favorite travel destination to explore?
RS: Paris. Many of our fabric companies have showrooms there and follow the latest fashion trends. I love the flea markets and beautiful architecture.
PCM: What would you be if you weren't an interior designer?
RS: If I ever retire from design, I would love to be a consultant for a furniture company or start my own fabric line. As long as I am connected to beautiful things, I feel alive.
Brooke Schneider's Santa Ana–based Source Recruiting + Design Inc., was incorporated in 1999 and is both a residential interior design business and a recruiter for the interior design and architecture industries. Schneider enjoys both sides of his business because the thread between them is "people." Recruiting, he says, "is about finding the right candidates for the right company—we are like matchmakers. With interior design, it is all about the client and finding the right selections to make it the right match for them, too."
Pacific Coast Magazine: What inspired you to enter this field?
Brooke Schneider: Again, for me it is about the people. It is so interesting to get to know a client and find out what they are looking for. This is a field that deals in aspirations—how people want to live or see themselves living.
PCM: What is one of your favorite rooms in your house?
BS: The bedroom, because it is my refuge. After a long busy day dealing with people (yes, they can be inspiring and exhausting) I love to be by myself in my bedroom. I don't have a TV in my bedroom because I really want it to be the place that is peaceful, calm and away from everything. I also love my office, which is on the first floor and faces the street. I love working and having people walk by—it feels very urban for Orange County.
PCM: What is a trend that you incorporate into designs whenever possible?
BS: I see two big trends in residential design right now: outdoor areas becoming more comfortable, a true extension of the indoor space, and the concept of a "manacle," or area devoted to a more casual living style. I am fortunate to be working on a project currently that incorporates both of these in one area.
PCM: When you travel, what is your favorite hotel to stay at?
BS: The NoMad [Hotel] in New York is one of my favorites because it feels Old World, but with all the modern conveniences. Having cocktails in the library in the afternoon is one the best things to do there.
PCM: What would you be if you weren't an interior designer?
BS: I think I would have liked to do something in the travel industry. I have such a travel bug.
From his home base in Laguna Beach, John Arnold Garcia, whose full-service interior design firm specializes in bespoke lifestyle designs of new homes and estates, has worked on homes from Hawaii to Manhattan. Projects have ranged from apartment duplexes in Soho to up to 20,000-square-foot homes on multiple acres in California. As a former American Society of Interior Designers chairman for the Orange County Philharmonic House of Design, he has completed more than 12 rooms for that project in recent years.
Pacific Coast Magazine: What inspired you to enter the interior design field?
John Arnold Garcia: My late father was a well-known custom homebuilder and developer in Orange County during the 1960s and 1970s. My parents were both modernists and I grew up in a large, midcentury modern, flat roof, glass box home, designed and built by my father, decorated by my mother and inspired by [architects Richard] Neutra, [Rudolph] Schindler and [Ricardo] Legoretta, which I still own. Art, design and construction were a part of my daily life, conversation and experience. My father gave me my own set of drafting tools and table when I was 6. It's who I am to my core.
PCM: What is your favorite room in your house?
JAG: In the new home my wife and I are building in Emerald Bay, my favorite room is the lanai. It has an up-close relationship with the adjacent tide pools. It's located on a lawn and pool terrace level with walls of glass that lift and slide. Weiland doors open it completely to the outdoors. [It is] my favorite place to be.
PCM: What is a trend that you incorporate into designs whenever possible?
JAG: This may sound mundane, but having a second laundry area in your master suite is incredibly convenient. I hide a stacking washer and dryer inside cabinetry within the bathroom or closet area. After all, what is more luxurious than something that makes a basic part of your life easier? On a more expensive note, integrated appliances make today's open kitchens look more like furniture than work areas. These new refrigerators and freezers can be hidden behind wood or glass panels in a completely seamless manner with the rest of the cabinetry.
PCM: What is a trend everyone can afford?
JAG: Practiced minimalism. Simplifying your surroundings is one of the quickest way to achieve luxury of space. Fewer larger things are more rewarding than many small things.
PCM: When you travel, what is your favorite hotel?
JAG: Hands down it's the Villa d'Este in Lake Como, Italy. It has the most amazing gardens. This past September, my wife and I drove there from Venice, stopping along the way in Vicenza to see the Villa Rotonda. We spent our days on the deck of the floating pool, and piloted ourselves across the lake on one of the hotel's motorboats to Bellagio.
PCM: What would you be if you weren't a designer?
JAG: I've been working on a series of humorist essays about home design, construction and planning based on my 30 years in the interior design and home building industry.


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by Michelle
I don't really know when my husband decided he wanted a Basset. We had always had hounds - blood, coon you name it, we had it. But up until that moment no Bassets. So that year my husband asked for a Basset for Christmas.
Well the search was on as there were only 6 weeks till the big day. I went to town to get groceries and saw an add on the community board, went home and phoned the number. As I was talking to the "breeder" I was getting a weird feeling. It started with the fact that she wouldn't let us come to look and pick out our own puppy. Then she wouldn't send pics of the male pups she had. As I was getting more frustrated, I finally said I wasn't interested anymore and thank you for her time. Two days later she called me back and said we could come out to look. So I got directions and popped the big surprise on my husband, three days before Christmas. Was he ever excited!
As we were driving out to her house, I related the past 5 weeks of dealing with her to my husband, who made the joke that it sounds like she had something to hide. Boy did she ever!
As we pulled into her yard i was speechless. The trailer that she lived in was in a concrete fence of dog poop. It was almost up to the windows in some areas. The window on the front of the trailer had dog kennels covering it on the inside and the smell in the middle of winter that hit as we stepped out of our truck almost knocked us over. The racket of barking dogs was incredible and made it almost impossible to speak.
As we walked into the yard I tried hard not to cry at the sight that greeted us. There was poop and dogs EVERYWHERE! They were tied up with everything from binder twine (this on the smaller breed dogs) to logging chain for the bigger dogs. She had Yorkies tied to the collars of Bassets and Rotties and they were being jerked and chewed on. When I asked what the heck was this supposed to be she answered a "breeding" kennel. Now it had been some years since I had seen a breeding kennel. My mom raised Beagles all my childhood and I know what hers looked like and this place was no where near that.
Fearing what we would see next I asked her where the Basset puppies where and she pointed to a shed at the edge of the yard. There was no roof on it and it was fenced with insulation sandwiched between two pieces of chicken wire. You could see where the puppies had chewed the insulation. I looked at this woman and said you don't really have the puppies out here do you? To which she answered, of course. There's nothing better for puppies the fresh air (it was -23 that day and the puppies were 3 weeks old). I asked her if they were with their mom as I could only hear the weak cries of the pups. She said they had been weaned for almost a week as the mom came into heat and she didn't believe it was healthy for the pups to nurse when the mom was in heat. It makes her milk sour she said. Ok so by this time i am 100 percent convinced that we are at a puppy mill and am feeling more then a little sick to my stomach.
To make a really long story short we paid 1000.00 dollar for our puppy, drove to the highway from her house, stopped on the highway and called the cops and reported her and her husband. The cops came out within 20 minutes. We showed them the turn to their yard and heard a few days later that they had confiscated over a 100 breeding pairs of dogs. These people where advertising these dogs as pure breeds but non had papers and they came with no health checks or anything.
When we took our pup home we had to treat for malnourishment, worms, and parvo, at 3 weeks old. We had fed him for another 3 weeks before he was big enough to start eating by himself and he came with a few issues like a grade 4 heart murmur and some deformed ribs which cause him some difficulties in breathing when he runs hard. Aside from these he is the most wonderful dog we have ever had. His personality is amazing as are his quirks. I know we paid an arm and a leg for him and no guarantee. But in the end I think we are the ones that won. No more puppy mill and we have an amazing family member.
We have had Copper for 12 yrs now and just found out he has lymphadic cancer. Even though this is soon to be the end of him as a family member, I feel that our live s have truly been blessed by him.
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The Woodland Hall
The Woodland Hall was designed and built in the summer of 2010 by Ben Law of Woodland House fame and funded by the kind generosity of the Mamie Mollan Trust. All of the wood, and most of the materials, were sourced from within a mile of The Sustainability Centre.
The main structure uses softwoods from our woodland that have little or no commercial value and the roof is made from sawn western red cedar shingles.
The Woodland Hall is partially earth-sheltered with cordwood walls to the north within which is a rumsford clay fireplace. The remainder is be open-sided, with canvas roll-down panels, which can be lowered to make the space cosy or raised to enjoy the beautiful woodland setting. The hall is furnished with folding tables and chairs, and circular benches made by final year coppice apprentice Peter Murray.
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Do you write the way you speak? Do you speak the way you write? Probably not. Although talking and writing are forms of communication, they're often very different. Writing is, in general, a more formal pursuit than speaking. When writing, we tend to take our time, add punctuation, re-read sentences, and think about our words. When speaking, we tend to rush forward without looking back, spend less time on word choice and sentence structure. Think about it this way: if you're debating someone in an email, you're likely to construct carefully crafted sentences that define and elaborate on your points; if you're debating in person, you're likely to quickly and passionately defend your cause.
The way we write is just plain different than the way we speak, and that's okay - for the reasons I outlined above, it's supposed to be.
But what about when you're writing something that's supposed to be spoken? Like a script? For your company's Message on Hold program?
That's where things get a little tricky. For the most part, a script that is going to be read by a professional voice over talent is going to be written with a more formality than colloquial use. If you're featuring content on your company's phone system, it's understandable to want it to sound professional, planned, and proper. But at the same time, it's going to be read out loud, and it needs to be listenable, so slipping in some colloquialisms and contractions can actually be useful.
Interestingly, people frequently use contractions and don't realize it. They're a normal part of our speech and thinking. Overusing them is annoying, but so is underusing them.
Here is an example. I am currently writing these sentences without using any contractions. Even while I am reading in my head, I cannot control the robotic-sounding voice.
But if I were to rewrite those statements with some contractions, it would have a more readable flow:
Here's an example. I am currently writing these sentences while using contractions. Even while I'm reading this in my head, it's a major improvement from the previous, full-worded version.
As you can see, it's all about balance. While writing has some universally accepted formal rules, speech is much more fluid, frequently changing, and relaxed. So even if you're writing and script, remember that it is ultimately going to be spoken - and don't be afraid to loosen up a little bit.


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Injury Insights | Temper Expectations on Justin Turner of Dodgers
Key and in-depth updates from insideinjuries.com
Nick Castellanos (3B/OF, Detroit Tigers)
Castellanos returned from a Grade 1 knee sprain and promptly hit is fourth HR of the season. His usual HR production is a bit off from last year, but he is hitting the ball well. However, Inside Injuries is still listing Castellanos as being at High Risk for further injury because he has returned about a week earlier than our algorithm's Healthy Return Date of May 23. Therefore, Castellanos is carrying a Below Average Health Performance Factor for the time being. Prior to the injury, Castellanos was slashing .321/.379/.500 and he's doing slightly better than that now. You can put him back in your lineups, but if you picked up another outfielder while he was hurt, you might want to hang onto him in case his knee becomes a problem again.
Ryan Braun (OF, Milwaukee Brewers)
Playing with injuries is par for the course for Braun, and as usual, he's been doing so for most of the season. He's had a calf strain and more recently a mid-back strain that has caused him to miss two games already this week. To date, he is batting .222/.368/.413, but his performance has declined in the month of May to .121/.167/.242. However, he's made the most of his at-bats in the clutch, where he is leading the Brewers with a .321 average, four homers and 19 RBIs. Right now, Inside Injuries has Braun listed at a Below Average HPF and at High Risk for further injury. Our algorithm indicates May 21 as his Optimal Return to Health date. He reportedly told the media he may be headed for a DL stint.
Justin Turner (3B, Los Angeles Dodgers)
The Dodgers welcomed the return of Justin Turner, their best hitter of last season. Turner suffered a broken wrist during Spring Training and has missed the first 40 games of the season. While Turner's return is good news for Fantasy owners, they must temper their expectations. Wrist injuries tend to sap a hitter's power, even after they've reached their Optimal Return to Health Date as Turner has. The most recent comparable player to compare to Turner is Atlanta Braves 1B Freddie Freeman. Last season, Freeman was tearing the cover off the ball at a torrid pace of .341/.361/.748 with 14 HRs in just 165 PA. After his return on July 4, Freeman batted just .292/.375/.515 with another 14 HRs over 349 PA. Therefore, you should expect a reduction in both batting average and power from Turner for several months and possibly the rest of the season.
Yoenis Cespedes (OF, NY Mets)
We hate to say we told you so, but our previous assessment of Cespedes has been spot-on. He played through a mild hip flexor strain. He's missed several games with the injury in recent days and went on the DL. To his credit, Cespedes has continued to produce when he plays, with a .324/.385/.588 triple slash over 11 May games. You may find it difficult to trade him now that he is headed to the disabled list, but if the opportunity strikes we recommend you get whatever you can for him.
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Doing a little bit of research on binary options on the web can go a long way. There is so much more information available today than you would have found years ago. It was considered to be a questionable form of marketing in the not-too-distant past, but today it is definitely one of the most lucrative ways to make consisting cash flow. Investing in the stock market can be profitable, and if you have the stomach for it, and a substantial amount of money, commodities can make you very well. However, the losses that you can sustain in either one of the previously mentioned industries can be substantial as well, something that you can avoid when you start trading binary options.
Why Trade These Options?
Although there are many reasons that trading binary options is a logical step to make, it's very important for you to realize how safe it is to do. There is a set amount that you can lose, and also gain, when you are trading in any of the industries where binary options can be traded. The amount that you pay to control the option is the amount that you know you will lose at the market does not go in the direction that you predict. A call option that is purchased in a bearish market means that you have only lost, and you can only lose, what you initially spent. This makes it so simple for people to budget how much they are going to spend every day, but if you really want to win, a diversified portfolio of binary option purchases should be predesigned and used so that you can feel confident that your profits are going to increase.
Why Diversification Is So Important
All traders understand that if you are going to way the odds in your favor, information and diversity are the keys to success. For instance, if you have an algorithm or system that is proven for making money on the web, you can diversify into multiple areas where you know that the system will work, weighing the odds in your favor for making a profit. If you are only investing in one or two binary options, you essentially have given yourself a 50-50 chance on each one, making it very difficult to feel confident about your investment. However, if you have researched multiple markets, and place orders for both call options and put options, you will know that your research, and the sheer volume of options that you have invested in, or simply going to make it easier for you to make money.
Trading these options is a fun and exhilarating way of making money, especially when you are trying to make money fast. As long as you have done your research, and you have the capital to do so, find a couple different proven systems for trading these options, diversifies much as possible, and start to reap the rewards of your efforts.


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On Sunday 26th March Carol Burdekin, Gordon Davidson and Morag Richardson were ordained into the Eldership of the Church.
A Prayer for Elders: – Grant them the gift of your Holy Spirit, that their hearts may be set on fire with love for you and those committed to their care. Make them pure in heart as those who have the mind of Christ. Give them vision to discern your purposes for the church and the world you love. Keep them faithful to the end in all their service, that when the chief shepherd appears, they may receive glory, a crown that never fades.


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TIENS Created Guinness World Record
On May 8, 2015, TIENS Group created the Guinness World Record for the largest human sentence on the azure coast of Nice, France, which pushed the large-scale international cultural communication activity of "TIENS' Dream Blooming in Nice – TIENS Group 20th Anniversary Carnival in Nice, France" to a new climax, with a grand marine, land and air show successfully held for celebration. Mr. Rudy Salles (Vice Mayor of Nice, France), more than 30 reporters of over 20 well-known French and European media as well as 6,500 TIENS members from over 50 countries and regions of the world witnessed this historic moment symbolizing the friendship between China and France. On that afternoon, the Azure Coast of Nice, France was filled with streams of people in a good order. More than 6,500 TIENS business partners from the world spelled the sentence of "TIENS' DREAM IS NICE IN THE COTE D'AZUR" (TIENS Dream Is Nice) with huge letters formed by human bodies, adding a bright view to the Nice in May. According to the authoritative on-site certification by the officer of Guinness World Records, the effective number of people in a specified time and specified place was 6,262, the TIENS members creating the world record of the largest human sentence. The activity of creating the Guinness World Record witnessed the historic moment of the Sino-France cultural communication, and it will attract the eyes of the world. The miraculous number of participants of over 6,500 will bring the health culture of TIENS and the cultural charm of Nice back to the world. It is believed that more people from China and the world will focus their eyes on Nice and come to the azure coast personally to experience the romance of the Nice people. With a large scale, the activity of TIENS Group creating the world record overseas involved a large number of countries as well as different ethnic groups, languages and cultures, with great difficulty. The municipal government and tourism bureau of Nice, France showed great emphasis on and support for the cultural communication activity by preparing the best place, providing sound facilities for TIENS, coordinating many facilitation supports, organizing great police strength for high-quality safeguarding and having the airport and air control of half an hour. Under the full cooperation and elaborate organization of TIENS Group and the municipal government of Nice, France, the activity was a great success, creating classical lines and unforgettable historical picture for the friendship between the Chinese and the French people. The activity happened to be held on the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the World Anti-Fascism War and the Day of Cease of World War II. Under the full support of the French government, especially the municipal government of Nice, a grand marine, land and air show for memory was creatively organized for TIENS on the day of that day. Chairman Li Jinyuan, President Bai Ping and VIPs of TIENS reviewed the activity by a motorcade consisting of the 70 antique military vehicles of the period of World War II and boarded the deluxe phalanx of yachts to sail along the coast of Nice. The covey led by P-51 sky-raiders arranged by the municipal government of Nice whistled by in the air to boost the serial activities of Sino-France cultural communication. When the planes drew out the picture of a heart symbolizing the friendship between China and France in the blue sky above Nice, the shocking scene made the people more deeply feel the theme of "Peace and Development" for the era.


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3 April 2014
Just what we've always dreamed of . . . a spider you can ride? One of the few dreams I think almost nobody has had is the one about "riding the wild spider." When I first saw an article about this, I cocked my head and just looked at the picture for a minute – involuntarily muttering, "Wha?"
But, ready or not, the ride-able spider is here. And just in time for . . . some holiday, . . . I guess.
Beginning in 2009, Matt Denton, founder of Micromagic Systems, undertook the building of what has come to be called a giant spider. But for those of us who are aficionados of spider factoids, spiders have 8 legs. The fact that the ride-able spider robot has only 6 legs is just a bit of a disappointment. The designers, also, recognized the credibility gap that would develop if their invention were actually called a spider. So, they gave it the formal name: mantis — naming it after the six-legged praying mantis.
By the way, if you ever get a close look at a praying mantis . . . Well, let's just say that, in terms of "looks," it can give the creepiest spider more than a run for its money.
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Anyway, reportedly, the construction of a giant walking robot that could carry around a human being was a long-time dream of Denton's. The finished product isn't just big, it's the biggest hexapod built "so far." At a height of over 9 feet with a weight of 4,188 pounds, it's "the biggest all-terrain operational hexapod robot in the world." A Perkins 2.2 liter turbo diesel engine is required to operate the hydraulics that moves its many legs.
And I wasn't kidding when I talked about riding the wild spider, either. Micromagic Systems is actually making the Mantis available for rent. It doesn't move fast, but it's quite sure-footed and capable of traversing terrain that would stop a wheeled vehicle. In fact, Micromagic Systems shouldn't be surprised if DARPA comes "a calling." The Mantis has clear military applications along the same lines as other robots being developed for the military by the defense industry.
The Mantis' rugged performance is all the more surprising because appearance, rather than performance, is the chief characteristic of the animatronic devices Micromagic Systems has always produced. "Animatronic devices" are machines that simulate the movement of living creatures and are most often built for the production of special effects for the film industry. It was Denton's team that created the six-legged turtle for a Harry Potter film.
Although the Mantis is a fantastic achievement, I can't help asking: It's always six legs with you at Micromagic? A six-legged turtle. Then, a six-legged mantis. We spider-lovers are waiting for the first, eight . . . (count 'em!) . . . eight-legged spider robot.


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Spectrum Control Names Brown Director of Channel Sales
February 26, 2004
Margo Brown has joined Spectrum Control, Inc. as director of channel sales for the company's Power Management System Group. She is responsible for developing and expanding the groups VAR and distribution channels. Prior to joining Spectrum, Brown worked as a consultant with Cisco Systems and served as director of distribution sales for Sonicblue.
For additional information, call (814) 474-2207, fax (814) 474-2208 or visit http://www.specpower.com.


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A couple of days ago I wrote a review on Friend Request and I couldn't help but notice how people kept comparing it with a movie called Unfriended. I started getting curious and decided to watch Unfriended and it turns out that it's much creepier than Friend Request. Unfriended doesn't contain any witchcraft, which I'm grateful for because I wasn't fond of that in the first movie. However, it's really disturbing…
Unfriended is about six high school friends chatting through Skype when they receive a message from Laura Barns who had committed suicide one year earlier due to bullying. The friends believe it's a troll who's messing with them but they quickly realize that it's something supernatural as a Skype account that belonged to the late Laura starts making threats. Suddenly their darkest secrets are revealed and they all get punished one by one because Laura wants revenge and she wants to kill everyone if justice isn't served. The creepiest part is the tension that is built up because you can feel something supernatural going on and you just expect Laura to be in one of the friends' room. To make everything even creepier, the entire movie is set on Blaire's computer and it works incredibly well because you literally become a part of the entire story.
Although I really liked the movie because it was truly messed up and scary, there are some things I have a problem with. First of all, I don't believe that ghosts can possess you even though they're in hell as Laura herself indicated once. If you're to be possessed, it's a demonic evil force that will possess you, not a ghost that used to be a good person. Second of all, Laura committed suicide because she was bullied but she turns out to be a bully herself although she isn't alive anymore. I'm against bullying but murdering your bullies is not the way to go, so I don't feel sorry for this Laura girl. If we forget about my nitpicking for a moment and get back to the actual happenings in the movie, I have to admit that I was scared but not so much that it interfered with my sleep.
The acting was on point and you feel so desperate watching the actors because you have no idea what's going on in their rooms and you have no idea when the next jump scare will occur. You're tense during the entire movie waiting for whatever is going to happen next, which makes it extremely unsettling and keeps you on the edge of the seat. The characters are clearly high school stereotypes and they become less and less likeable towards the end as their secrets are revealed. Unfriended deserves 4 out of 5 clapperboards as it is much better and scarier than Friend Request. It has its flaws but it's one of the creepiest movies I've seen in a long time and you should definitely give it a chance!


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