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Welcome! I have a big issue this week as there were plenty of great iOS links to look through. The extra newsletter to Patreon supporters will be bigger too!. I was pleased to hear the news about the Mac Pro and iMac this week. Though I'm more of a laptop dev, it's great to see that Apple hasn't forgotten the pro market. I'm looking forward to using OSX for many years. On to the links! - @cdbeshore
I Had To Remove The Word 'Free' From My Last Update
As I was about to ship an update Monday, I remembered this link. The app in question is an older app, built when having a free and paid version was the way to go. The paid version still sells, so I keep it going. However, the free version has the word 'free' in the title and app icon. Based on recent news, rather than risking a rejection, I removed the word in both and the app was approved on first submission. It pays to pay attention to the news!
The Fastest Way to Safely Deploy Mobile Features
Accelerate development and minimize the risk of deploying new code with controlled gradual rollouts and analytics based auto deployment. Rollout is launching a new product for mobile dev teams that lets you release features at the speed your business needs without compromising on safety. Control feature rollouts, measure impact, and take action as needed, without waiting for your next app release. The "big boys" like Facebook & Uber already have a similar solution and now we're bringing it to everyone else. Sign up now for early access.
iOS Developers: Try Bugsnag, and Get a Free T-Shirt 👕
Automatically detect crashes in your iOS apps using Bugsnag. Whether you're writing your iOS apps in Swift or Objective-C, Bugsnag will capture all unhandled and handled exceptions and report them to you. For a limited time, get an ultrasoft t-shirt for trying Bugsnag when you create an account and send us an error. Learn more.
Simplifying Your Code With Closures
Bob shows us how to create objects with modularity and readability. Simplify your code with closures.
Reduce: The Quiet Workhorse
Nice post from Greg on why you shouldn't always turn to map or filter. Though reduce won't solve every problem, it's versatility is often missed by developers.
Map and filter get all the glory, but reduce is the quiet workhorse.
More Swift Gradient Fun
I linked to a post about how easy gradients are in Swift 3 a few weeks ago. This tutorial goes a bit further, including code samples.
How to Fade Out Content Using Gradients in iOS by Marcus Smith with Stable Kernel
Easily Check Apple API Changes
Awesome Xcode trick from Erica on how to quickly check out the new API changes between SDKs. This is an easy way to compare changes for different Xcode versions too. Cool!
Reviewing The New RxSwift Book
Adam digs in and gives us his review on RxSwift: Reactive Programming with Swift, the new Swift book that shipped this past week. If you are interested in reactive programming at all, check it out!
For now, it's the only complete source of knowledge about RxSwift
RxSwift: Reactive Programming with Swift The book review by Adam Borek
All These SDKs Are Driving Me Crazy!
If you go a few months between app updates, updating SDKs can end up being more time consuming than the actual app update, especially for simple bug fixes. Read this post if you have been frustrated with managing your third party frameworks.
So You Want To Sell Your App...
In this interview, Rob Caraway shares the secrets he has learned on how to sell his apps and make over $240,000 in the last couple years as an app entrepreneur. Good interview on how you can figure out what app to build next and what to do when you lose the desire to work on an app.
TAGP517 Rob Caraway : An Appreneur Making Apps That Actually Sell with Rob Caraway & Paul Kemp
Fix Frustrating Interface Builder Problems With This Tool
Who hasn't had a frustrating interface builder issue take up several hours. Sometimes cleaning the project or restarting Xcode is all that's needed, but what about when that doesn't work? This tool could end up being your third option as it can help pinpoint exactly what is causing the trouble.
Find common xib and storyboard-related problems without running your app or writing unit tests.
IBAnalyzer from Arek Holko
One More Thing
Downloading Xcode
This makes me glad I usually don't update on the first day!
The life of an iOS Engineer trying to install the latest Xcode by Shai Mishali


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A convenient mode of travel while commuting from Yerravaram to SriKalahasthi is by taking a bus. The time taken to complete the bus journey is dependent on traffic, roads and climatic conditions.The bus companies adopt safety measures while running their buses from Yerravaram and SriKalahasthi. The smooth availability of bus service creates travel convenience for many people travelling from Yerravaram to SriKalahasthi.

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Stowers Power Systems is now offering the new Toshiba 5000 Series Uninterruptible Power System for industrial and outdoor applications. Toshiba International Corporation launched the new series Oct. 16, 2016, which is available in 20 to 50 kVA ratings and offers double-conversion UPS protection for industrial markets such as chemical processing, mining, oil exploration, waste water treatment, pulp and paper, manufacturing, and heavy transportation controls. "The Toshiba 5000 Series UPS is purpose built for heavy duty industrial applications and includes one of the first available UPS models to meet the NEMA 3R rating," stated Greg Mack, Vice President and General Manager [read more…]
Caterpillar to Explore Strategic Alternatives for Certain Mining Products
Caterpillar announced Aug. 22 that it is making changes to its product line-up, including that it will discontinue production of track drills and is reviewing its room and pillar product lines, which serve a segment of underground soft rock mining customers. Caterpillar and Stowers Machinery Corporation remain committed to existing customers and will support those room and pillar and track drill fleets currently in operation. "These moves, which align with Caterpillar's ongoing restructuring, will allow us to focus resources on those areas of the business that provide the highest, sustainable growth and best long-term returns," said Denise Johnson, group president with [read more…]
Stowers' Machine Demo Day 2016
More than 500 folks turned out for Stowers' Machine Demo Day April 29 to experience machine demonstrations and get to know Stowers' people a little bit better. If you weren't able to make it, here's a little bit of what happened: 1. A Trimble machine control and guidance technology demo by SITECH allowed Demo Day attendees to operate excavators and dozers equipped with this technology. 2. We used ProductLink and VisionLink to monitor the performance of the machines that were operating on the yard just outside the exhibits tent, so attendees could better understand the value offered by equipment [read more…]


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This is also a story about why I never got very far in high school Spanish.
Spanish class was particularly boring because I had particularly dull teacher.
She'd do this annoying thing where she'd lean right against the first row of desks and sway back and forth on her feet. (In the picture below she's supposed to be rocking back and forth. Works on my preview, so I'm not sure why it isn't showing up on the post, but you can click the image if you want to see it play.)
I actually started to feel seasick once when I sat too close to her, so I started sitting at the back of the class, despite having a reputation for being a good and attentive student. A few of my friends who were less interested in the school experience also sat back there. One friend, whom we'll call Tina, was more of a daring character than me. After a week of especially boring conjugations, Tina brought in reading material for us.
It was Letters to Penthouse.
I had read a few sordid romance novels before, so I wasn't a completely naive virgin, but these letters took it to another level.
And that is why I can never think about Spanish without thinking of some really strange and perverse stories involving tigers. So make sure you read your "stories" in a safe environment this Valentine's Day or you may never be able to conjugate another verb again.


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Some ideas take more than 140 characters and a lot of multimedia to express themselves. Microblogs on platforms such as Tumblr have flourished over the past year enabling a entirely new class of creativity on the web by allowing creators to quickly share images, thoughts, quotes and videos. This award recognizes those who have used a microblogging platform in a unique, impactful and interesting way to the delight of its audience.
Winner: The Daily What
"The Daily What" is Tumblr blog that specializes in posting Internet news and pop culture. One of the most well-followed blogs on Tumblr, the site posts a variety of content, from humorous cat photos and viral videos to updates on protests in the Middle East. The blog posts dozens of times daily with the goal to only publish the most interesting material. While TDW is owned by the Cheezburger Network, which runs several blog sites, including "FAILBlog" and "I Can Has Cheezburger", it is written, edited, and operated solely by its founding editor Neetzan Zimmerman.
"Garfield minus Garfield" is a blog created by Irish tech manager Dan Walsh. His blog removes Garfield the cat from Jim Davis' original Garfield comic strips, leaving the cat's owner, John Arbuckle, talking to himself in an existential twist. The "Garfield minus Garfield" blog, which started in early 2008, publishes new comic strips on a regular basis. Walsh's comic has been written about in the New York Times and Washington Post, and was published alongside the originals as a book. Davis has embraced the cartoon, calling it "fascinating."
The "Let's Be Freaks" Tumblr blog is run by 22-year-old Hayley Williams, best known as the lead singer and keyboardist for the alternative rock band Paramore. Williams' Tumblr blog "Let's Be Freaks" has posts about everything that inspires her, both musically and in her everyday life. Subjects include fashion, music, and the charities that she supports. She also shares updates on the band, tour photos, and new music, bringing her young fans closer to the action. Last year Williams was a #music Shorty Award finalist.
"Soup" is a news-focused Tumblr blog run by Reuters Media marketing specialist Anthony De Rosa. According Compete.com, Soup ranked as one of the 25 most popular Tumblr blogs in December 2010. The blog posts a wide range of news, from sports and entertainment to international news. The blog doesn't aim to break news, but compile and present the best stories on the Web. Prior to launching Soup, De Rosa founded several other blogs, including HotfootBlog.com and Neighborhoodr.com. In 2008, Mashable named Soup one of the best Tumblr blogs.
"STFU, Parents" is a Tumblr blog run by a 28-year-old Brooklyn woman who identifies herself only as "B." Her blog posts screenshots of Facebook status updates from overzealous, overenthusiastic parents, with the identifying information blocked out. The updates often involve sharing private information about their children, and dwelling on how being a parent is the hardest job in the world. B's comments on the screenshots poke fun at Facebook-obsessed upper-middle-class mommy culture. This blog received a large number of Shorty Award nominations, driven by a dedicated campaign. One voter wrote, "She really takes the time to enhance each submission with her hysterical writing skills."
"Unhappy Hipsters" is a blog that pokes fun at hipsters using images of minimalist design and architecture from magazines. The blog, whose creators wish to remain anonymous, posts pictures from publications such as Dwell with made-up captions that satirize young and rich hipsters, and their choices for decor. Often looking unintentionally forlorn, the photo subjects are given new, humorous context. The blog, which accepts reader submissions and operates a Twitter account, has the tagline "It's lonely in the modern world."


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Stinson Services is an expert insulation contractor that has been serving the Twin Cities metro area since 2003. Stinson Services is a insulation contractor that wants to help you with your home insulation project. Sign up for our free attic consultation and we'll contact you to arrange a meeting about your insulation project.
Stinson Services offers a couple types of home attic insulation services. Each type of insulation has its pros depending on what you are looking for in your Edina insulation project.
Below are the two types of insulation used by Stinson Services:
Blow-In Cellulose Insulation: One type of attic insulation is Blow-In Cellulose, which is a combination of recycled paper fibers and fire retardant (85% recycled) goods. This combination is broken down into tiny fibers that are blown into your attic using a high-pressure vacuum. The positives of cellulose insulation are the cost and its ability to cover a large of area in a short time. It is also able to cover small gaps and cracks to provide a good barrier against the outside air. The only downsides of cellulose is the R-value isn't as high as the fiberglass insulation. Also, as an installer, it is extremely dusty to work with.
Fiberglass Insulation: Fiberglass insulation is a high-quality product designed to get into small areas. As it settles into cracks the fiberglass batts can't seal. This type of insulation is blown in just like cellulose insulation. The fiberglass insulation is able to seal the home's attic tightly, avoiding leaks to the outside. The downsides to the fiberglass insulation is it is not a recycled product.
Upgrading your insulation is a great way to boost your home's overall value. Whether it delivers a more comfortable living area or saves you money. An upgrade to your attic insulation can make you a happier person.
Below is a list of benefits you can expect with an insulation upgrade:
Works All Four Seasons: Whether it is winter, spring, summer or fall your insulation is working as a barrier to the outside temperature. The purpose of insulation is to provide a constant temperature inside your home. Think of insulation as a thermos rather than a warm winter jacket.
Saves on Energy: Attic insulation works 24/7, 365 days a year. With a professionally upgraded insulation job, you can expect savings on future energy bills. Whether you go with cellulose insulation or fiberglass insulation, your property can reduce your energy bills up to 25% off in the summer and up to 50% in the winter.
Provides Sound-Proof Barrier: New insulation not only offers protection from the outside weather. It also gives you a barrier that protects against sound. Whether you're trying to keep sound from leaving your home or trying to keep loud noises out, an attic with proper insulation can control the sound much better than before.
Holds Resale Value: When purchasing a home in Edina, many people aren't buying their first home. In this case, you should expect your potential buyers to have basic knowledge about buying a home. This means they'll look at both the shape of the home and the variable costs that come with it, such as utilities and energy costs. With upgraded insulation you'll be able to show them a consistently low energy bills that will help reduce their monthly costs. This perk can add value to your home when it's put on the market.
Attic ventilation is the flow of air through your attic. Attic ventilation is important for your home's life span as it helps regulate the temperatures in the attic that can cause damage to the exterior and interior of your home. Attic ventilation is key in Minnesota because temperature are always changing throughout the year. Without proper attic ventilation one can expect mildew problems due to condensation or premature shingle failure due to excessive heat build up.
Unregulated attic temperatures aren't only hazardous to your home but to the occupants of the home as moisture may carry allergens in the air. Make sure to check your attic ventilation or have a professional inspect your home to be sure your home is properly ventilated.
If your interested in a free consultation sign up here or call us at 952-933-4510.
You deserve a BPI certified insulation installer for your property. You'll be eligible for all MN Insulation Rebate programs and experience top-notch service on your insulation project. You'll notice a big improvement in your energy bills and comfort level!


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Vu spices up the wall décor at HedKandi Lounge
HedKandi Lounge Miami has opened the doors to the first location in the United States at 1200 Washington Avenue in South Beach. With a sister venue in Panama City, the ultimate gastro-lounge concept fuses its signature down-tempo dance music with molecular gastronomy, custom European fashion artwork and a paradise of modern vogue.
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String Curtain Rayon Fringe (Fire Rated) 36"x88" Sage Green
This string curtain is Fire Treated. This is a special coating added to the fabric to provide fire retardant protection. Some exhibit construction, special event venues, commercial spaces and retail spaces require this flame retardant certification.
This super soft and luxurious string curtain has 18 strings per inch and made of the highest quality rayon viscose! The string curtains you may see at mass market have 9 strings per inch and are made of cheap polyester. Our string curtain fringe panels are silky and elegant -- The finest quality you will see anywhere.
The panel has a matching rod pocket top to accept your own curtain rod or you can use drapery clips to hang. Hang multiple panels side by side for a seamless look. Use in a doorway, in a window, or as a room divider! Savvy designers are using our string curtains to create chandeliers, trade show booths, to highlight or to hide room features, and to create event backdrops.
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Bryant Heat Pump Overview
Heat pumps are dual function devices that cool a house in the summer and heat it in the winter. They transfer heat against the gradient along which it would normally flow. Heat pumps can thus be a good investment for homes located in climates with fluctuating weather.
What are the 10 Best Heat Pumps?
Consumer Reviews of Bryant
- 2.4 rating
- 72 reviews
Very Satisfied23
Somewhat Satisfied3
Somewhat Unsatisfied2
Very Unsatisfied44
- #12 of 71 Heat Pumps
- 36.11% of customers recommended
Reviews by Heat Pump SeriesEvolution Preferred Evolution Extreme
Bryant makes three different classes of heat pumps: Legacy, Preferred, and Evolution.
The Legacy heat pump has a SEER of 16 and an HSPF of 9.0. These numbers represent relatively high efficiency, even though this is the weakest of Bryant's models. At 76 decibels, the Legacy is relatively loud.
This model, along with the other heat pumps listed here, uses Puron refrigerant instead of Freon. This substance does not emit ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons, and thereby brings the air conditioners into compliance with federal regulations.
The Preferred Series heat pumps have SEERs of 16.5 and HSPFs of 9.5. It improves on the Legacy by adding, for one thing, a two-stage scroll compressor. All of these products have scroll compressors, which means they use a circular motion. The two-stage compressor is additionally helpful, because it prevents the heat pump from having to operate at full speed when the weather is not particularly extreme.
The Preferred, as well as the Evolution, is equipped by the DuraGuard® Plus Protection Package. This is a series of coatings and other interventions that decrease susceptibility to the elements.
Preferred Compact
The Preferred Compact is a particularly small model of heat pump, designed to fit into a space on a roof or a deck. As such, it's not quite as efficient as the other pumps. It has a maximum SEER of 15.5 and a maximum HSPF of 9.0. However, it is the quietest of all these units, producing only 66 decibels of noise.
The Preferred and Preferred Compact both use Duraflow design, which is partly responsible for decreasing the sound.
This is Bryant's top-of-the-line heat pump. It has a SEER of up to 19 and an HSPF of 9.25.
The Evolution heat pump is set up to integrate with the Evolution Control system. This is a thermostat that also controls humidity and allows for multi-day programming. This system can also be accessed remotely using phone or computer.
This model features the AeroQuiet® System II, which decreases the noise that it actually emits. This brings its average operating noise to 72 decibels.
All of the above products come with a ten-year limited warranty for their parts. This warranty is valid only for the original owner. Its span decreases to five years if the product is not registered within ninety days of purchase.


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At the Parallax View, Sean Axmaker sends out a DVR alert to TCM viewers in the US — this happens tonight:
The evening of Max Ophüls in Hollywood is followed by two of his greatest French films, La Ronde (1950) and The Earrings of Madame de… (1954), but while they are well represented in superb DVD editions stateside, the four American films showing Monday night — Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), The Reckless Moment (1949), Caught (1949) and the rarity The Exile (1947), his Hollywood debut — have still not been released on DVD in the US.
The films of Ophüls haunt the space between the idealism of unconditional love and the reality of social barriers and fickle lovers. Yet his greatest films are anything but cynical; ironic certainly, but also melancholy, sad and wistful, and always respectful of the dignity of those who love well if not too wisely. His fluid, elegantly choreographed camerawork and intimate yet observant directorial presence have resulted in some of the most delicate and beautiful films made on either side of the Atlantic, but his American films have never been as celebrated as his more overtly stylized and seductively romantic French films (Ophüls left Germany in the early 1930s for the same reason so many fellow artists did).
Farran Nehme: "I date my abiding passion for Joan Fontaine to my first viewing of Letter from an Unknown Woman, Max Ophüls's 1948 masterpiece, as pure an example of a woman's picture as exists."
Awards. "Michael, the debut directorial feature by highly sought-after Austrian casting director and occasional actor Markus Schleinzer, won the prestigious Max Ophüls Prize in Saarbrücken," reports Bénédict Prot at Cineuropa. "For the past 33 years, the award has honored promising talents of German-speaking cinema to see many of them go on to become renowned directors."
"What's the Worst Movie of 2011?" Vulture's asked a slew of critics. You can watch the slideshow, but the real fun is in the comment-laden individual ballots.
The 2011 Internet Movie Poster Awards.
"The International Cinephile Society has announced the nominees for its 9th annual ICS Awards," and Devin Lee Fuller's got 'em at indieWIRE.
In the works. "Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds are attached to star in the indie biopic Big Eyes, which is based on the true story of Margaret and Walter Keane, whose pop-eyed paintings became a sensation in the 1960s." Daniel Miller in the Hollywood Reporter: "Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski will write and direct the film, with Tim Burton set to produce."
Lawrence Kasdan will direct an adaptation of Stay Close, a novel by Harlan Coben (Tell No One) that'll be out in March, reports Simon Dang at the Playlist.
New York. Kim Ki-duk's Rough Cut (2008) screens tomorrow evening as part of a series of free screenings of Korean films at Tribeca Cinemas. Related reading: Grady Hendrix at Slate on why Koreans are flocking to deeply dark and cynical films about the war such as Jung Han's The Front Line. I never got around to a roundup on that one, but I'll point you now to reviews from David Fear (Time Out New York, 2/5), Ernest Hardy (Voice), Stephen Holden (New York Times), Noel Murray (AV Club, B), Peter Nellhaus, Michelle Orange (Movieline, 6.5/10) and Bill Weber (Slant, 2/4).
More reading. You may remember that, in October, I noted that Geoff Dyer had a book on the way, Zona, a reading of Tarkovsky's Stalker that blends fiction and criticism. It still won't hit shelves until next month, but the first reviews have begun to appear: Stuart Kelly (Scotsman) and Igor Toronyi-Lalic (Telegraph).
For news and tips throughout the day every day, follow @thedailyMUBI on Twitter and/or the RSS feed.


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Make Azure available in Haiti
Microsoft Azure should be available for developers and businesses in Haiti. This country lack of a power supply system you can rely on for business, so the cloud is our best options. Please consider adding Haiti in the list of supported countries while signing up for Microsoft Azure.
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Hugues E commented
Please we need your help because we can't find Haiti in the list of the countries.
Michael Oliver Stone commented
please do so,we really need it.thank you for your consideration


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We might be doing things a little bit differently this week, but it doesn't mean we're skipping out on our usual round of the week's best iPhone apps.
Google Search: This app got a lot of love this week-Google updated it to include the Knowledge Graph, meaning you can speak it a question and it will respond with a direct answer. And it kicks Siri's butt. Free
Beamr: The problem with uploading your iPhone pics to Facebook? It scales down the quality by a lot. But Beamr lets your snaps hold onto all their precious pixels, and shares them to your social networks in a lovely magazine-style format. Free
Threadlife: Tell people about your life in endless videos, or threads. Continue to stitch them together along with collaborations from your friends, so the story never ends. Free
HowDo: How do you properly fold a burrito? Change a tire? You can find instructional videos on HowDo, and then turn around and pay it forward by uploading how-tos of your own. Free


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Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art 37 Myrtle Ave Dover, NJ 07801 Phone: (973) 361-1327
General Information About Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art
It is the aim and purpose of this institution to add to the ranks of the cartooning profession those people whose work and attitude reflects the highest level of the art.
Institutional statistical data was gathered from the U.S. Department of Education - Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009-2010.
Institution Type
- 2-year, Private for-profit
Special Learning Opportunities
- None
Student Services
- Placement services for completers
Credit Accepted
- Institution does not accept dual, credit for life, or AP credits
Religious Affiliation
- Not applicable
Federal Aid
- Eligible students may receive Pell Grants and other federal aid (e.g. Direct Loans).
Degrees/Certificates offered
- 2-4 years certificate
Campus Setting
- Suburb: Large
Disability Services Student
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Admission Total Applicants 77 Percent Admitted 92% Men Admitted 97% Women Admitted 67% Full Time Retention Rate 100%
Student Demographics Total Enrolled 84 Native American 0.0 Asian 1.0 African American 3.0 Hispanic 13.0 Enrolled FullTime Undergraduates 78 Enrolled FullTime Graduates


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The road to Monument Valley
Monument Valley was never really on my radar, but thankfully my friend did a little more research. Actually, we were close on skipping it which happened to be a wise decision as it turned out to be one of the big highlights of our road trip. While driving down this road we could already see on the horizon what might be waiting for us, but it was way different that and simply outstanding once we arrived.
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From the creators of Talon – The Best of Eagles
Endorsed by Lionel Richie, this brand-new production features a stellar line-up of world class musicians and the awesome talent of Malcolm Pitt as the voice of Lionel Richie in this high octane show which includes all the greatest hits including Easy, Say You Say Me, Stuck On You, Dancing On The Ceiling, Three Times A Lady, Hello, All Night Long and many more.
Following his recent TV appearances on the BBC's Graham Norton Show and ITV's Sunday Night At The Palladium with the man himself, Malcolm Pitt delivers a powerhouse and breathtaking performance as the iconic Lionel Richie in this must-see theatre production.
"Brother Malcolm, keep it up" Lionel Richie
We're gonna' be Dancing On The Ceiling, All Night Long with a magical evening of pure Lionel Richie and the Commodores!
Running time: Approx 2hrs 20mins including interval.
Please note: If you want to dance, book a seat in the stalls. If you want to stay seated, book a seat in the circle where the rake is too steep for us to allow dancing. More details can be found on the Extra Info tab.
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Dancing in the Auditorium
We know that some of our audiences love to get up and have a dance when they come to see bands and tribute acts at the Belgrade, and that's fine by us as long as they're seated in the Stalls section of the auditorium, and are considerate of other audience members around them and not disrupt their enjoyment of the show.
For those patrons who want to remain seated we recommend that they book their seats in the Circle* where dancing is prohibited due to the rake of the seats making it unsafe.
For productions other than musical tributes audiences must remain seated throughout the production.
*Please note that for health and safety reasons this also includes boxes G and I.
Thank you for your co-operation.


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- Damsel in distress
For the novel by P. G. Wodehouse, see A Damsel in Distress (novel). For the 1937 film, see A Damsel in Distress (film).
The subject of the damsel in distress, or persecuted maiden, is a classic theme in world literature, art, and film. She is usually a beautiful young woman placed in a dire predicament by a villain or monster and who requires a hero to achieve her rescue. She has become a stock character of fiction, particularly of melodrama. Though she is usually human, she can also be of any other species, including fictional or folkloric species; and even divine figures such as an angel or deity.
The word "damsel" derives from the French demoiselle, meaning "young lady", and the term "damsel in distress" in turn is a translation of the French demoiselle en détresse. It is an archaic term not used in modern English except for effect or in expressions such as this, which can be traced back to the knight errant of Medieval songs and tales, who regarded the saving of such women as an essential part of his raison d'être.
The helplessness of the damsel in distress, who can be portrayed as foolish and ineffectual to the point of naïvete, along with her need of others to rescue her, has made the stereotype the target of feminist criticism.
Classic examples of the damsel in distress theme feature in the stories of the ancient Greeks. Greek mythology, while featuring a large retinue of competent goddesses, also contains helpless maidens threatened with sacrifice. One famous example is Andromeda, whose mother offended Poseidon. Poseidon sent a beast to ravage the land, and Andromeda's parents fastened her to a rock in the sea to appease him. The hero Perseus slew the beast, saving Andromeda. Andromeda's plight, chained naked to a rock, became a favorite theme of later painters. This theme of the Princess and dragon is also pursued in the myth of St George.
Another early example of a damsel in distress is Sita in the ancient Indian epic Ramayana. In the epic, Sita is kidnapped by the villain Ravana and taken to Lanka. Her husband Rama goes on a quest to rescue her, with the help of the monkey-god Hanuman.
The Middle Ages
European fairy tales frequently feature damsels in distress. Evil witches trapped Rapunzel in a tower, cursed the princess to die in Snow White, and put Sleeping Beauty into a magical sleep. In all of these, a valourous prince comes to the maiden's aid, saves her, and marries her (though Rapunzel is not directly saved by the prince, but instead saves him from blindness after her exile).
A number of tales in the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights) also feature damsels in distress. A particularly influential Arabian Nights tale of this type was "The Ebony Horse", which revolves around the Prince of Persia, Qamar al-Aqmar, with the help of his flying mechanical horse, rescuing his lover, the Princess of Sana'a, from a Persian sage and then from the Byzantine Emperor. This story appears to have influenced later European tales such as Adenes Le Roi's Cleomades and "The Squire's Tale" told in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.[1]
The damsel in distress was an archetypal character of medieval romances, where typically she was rescued from imprisonment in a tower of a castle by a knight-errant. Chaucer's The Clerk's Tale of the repeated trials and bizarre torments of patient Griselda was drawn from Petrarch. The Emprise de l'Escu vert à la Dame Blanche (founded 1399) was a chivalric order with the express purpose of protecting oppressed ladies.
The theme also entered the official hagiography of the Catholic Church - most famously in the story of Saint George who saved a princess from being devoured by a dragon. A late addition to the official account of this Saint's life, not attested in the several first centuries when he was venerated, it is nowadays the main act for which Saint George is remembered.
Obscure outside Norway is Hallvard Vebjørnsson, the Patron Saint of Oslo, recognised as a martyr after being killed while valiantly trying to defend a woman - most likely a slave - from three men accusing her of theft.
17th century
In the 17th Century English ballad The Spanish Lady (one of several English and Irish songs with that name), a Spanish lady captured by an English captain falls in love with her captor and begs him not to set her free but to take her with him to England, and in this appeal describes herself as "A lady in distress".[2]
The 18th and 19th centuries
She makes her debut in the modern novel as the title character of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1748), where she is menaced by the wicked seducer Lovelace.
Reprising her medieval role, the damsel in distress is a staple character of Gothic literature, where she is typically incarcerated in a castle or monastery and menaced by a sadistic nobleman, or members of the religious orders. Early examples in this genre include Matilda in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Emily in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, and Antonia in Matthew Lewis's The Monk.
The perils faced by this Gothic heroine were taken to an extreme by the Marquis de Sade in Justine, who, arguably, exposed the erotic subtext which lay beneath the damsel-in-distress scenario.
One exploration of the theme of the persecuted maiden is the fate of Gretchen in Goethe's Faust. According to the philosopher Schopenhauer:
The great Goethe has given us a distinct and visible description of this denial of the will, brought about by great misfortune and by the despair of all deliverance, in his immortal masterpiece Faust, in the story of the sufferings of Gretchen. I know of no other description in poetry. It is a perfect specimen of the second path, which leads to the denial of the will not, like the first, through the mere knowledge of the suffering of the whole world which one acquires voluntarily, but through the excessive pain felt in one's own person. It is true that many tragedies bring their violently willing heroes ultimately to this point of complete resignation, and then the will-to-live and its phenomenon usually end at the same time. But no description known to me brings to us the essential point of that conversion so distinctly and so free from everything extraneous as the one mentioned in Faust (The World as Will and Representation, Vol. I, §68)
From Victorian melodrama to movie serials
The misadventures of the damsel in distress of the Gothic continued in a somewhat caricatured form in Victorian melodrama. According to Michael Booth in his classic study English Melodrama the Victorian stage melodrama featured a limited number of stock characters: the hero, the villain, the heroine, an old man, an old woman, a comic man and a comic woman engaged in a sensational plot featuring themes of love and murder. Often the good but not very clever hero is duped by a scheming villain, who has eyes on the damsel in distress until fate intervenes to ensure the triumph of good over evil.[3]
Such melodrama influenced the fledgling cinema industry and led to damsels in distress being the subject of many early silent movies, especially those that were made as multi-episode serials. Early examples include The Adventures of Kathlyn in 1913 and The Hazards of Helen, which ran from 1914 to 1917. The silent movie heroines frequently faced new perils provided by the industrial revolution and catering to the new medium's need for visual spectacle. Here we find the heroine tied to a railway track, burning buildings, and explosions. Sawmills were another stereotypical danger of the industrial age, as recorded in a popular song from a later era:
" ... A bad gunslinger called Salty Sam was chasin' poor Sweet Sue
He trapped her in the old sawmill and said with an evil laugh,
If you don't give me the deed to your ranch
I'll saw you all in half!
And then he grabbed her (and then)
He tied her up (and then)
He turned on the bandsaw (and then, and then...!) ...
Another form of entertainment in which the damsel-in-distress emerged as a stereotype at this time was stage magic. Restraining attractive female assistants and imperiling them with blades and spikes became a staple of 20th-century magicians' acts. Noted illusion designer and historian Jim Steinmeyer identifies the beginning of this phenomenon as coinciding with the introduction of the "Sawing a woman in half" illusion. In 1921 magician P. T. Selbit became the first to present such an act to the public. Steinmeyer observes that: "Before Selbit's illusion, it was not a cliche that pretty ladies were teased and tortured by magicians. Since the days of Robert-Houdin, both men and women were used as the subjects for magic illusions". However changes in fashion and great social upheavals during the first decades of the 20th century made Selbit's choice of "victim" both practical and popular. The trauma of war had helped to desensitize the public to violence and the emancipation of women had changed attitudes to them. Audiences were tiring of older, more genteel forms of magic. It took something shocking, such as the horrific productions of the Grand Guignol theatre, to cause a sensation in this age. Steinmenyer concludes that: "...beyond practical concerns, the image of the woman in peril became a specific fashion in entertainment".[4]
The damsel-in-distress continued as a mainstay of the film, television, and comics industries throughout the 20th century. Character Ann Darrow, as played by Fay Wray in the 1933 movie King Kong, is among the most iconic instances. The notorious hoax documentary Ingagi in 1930 also featured this idea and Wray's role was repeated by Jessica Lange and Naomi Watts in remakes. As journalist Andrew Erish has noted: "Gorillas plus sexy women in peril equals enormous profits".[5] Imperiled heroines in need of rescue were a frequent occurrence in black-and-white movie serials made by studios such as Mascot Pictures, Universal, Columbia and Republic Pictures in the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. These serials sometimes drew inspiration for their characters and plots from adventure novels and comic books. Notable examples include the character Nyoka the Jungle Girl, who was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs for comic books and was later adapted into a serial heroine in Republic productions such as Perils of Nyoka. Another classic damsel in that mould was Jane Porter in both the novel and movie versions of Tarzan.
One of the earliest, and most frequently cited examples of a damsel in distress in comics is Lois Lane, who is eternally getting into trouble and needing to be rescued by Superman. Another is Olive Oyl who is in a near-constant state of kidnap, requiring her to be saved by Popeye.
Critical and theoretical responses
Damsels in distress have been cited as an example of differential treatment of genders in literature, film, and works of art. Feminist criticism of art, film, and literature has often examined gender-oriented characterization and plot, including the common "damsel in distress" trope.[6] Many modern writers, such as Angela Carter and Jane Yolen, have revisited classic fairy tales and "damsel in distress" stories or collected and anthologized stories and folk tales that break the "damsel in distress" pattern.[7] Often, such stories reverse the gender disparity by "empowering" the "damsel", or by placing boys or men in distress to be rescued thereby.
Whilst late twentieth century feminist criticism may have highlighted alternatives to the damsel stereotype, the origins of some alternatives are to be found elsewhere. Joseph Campbell's work on comparative mythology has provided a theoretical model for heroes throughout the history of literature, drama, and film, which has been further developed by dramaturgical writers such as Christopher Vogler. These theories suggest that within the underlying story arc of every hero is found an episode known as the ordeal, where the character is almost destroyed. By surviving fear, danger, or torture the hero proves he or she has special qualities and ultimately emerges re-invented to progress to ultimate victory. Within this theory the empowered "damsel" can be a female hero rendered powerless and imperiled during her heroic ordeal but who ultimately emerges as a strong figure who claims victory; yet the male and female versions of such ordeal and empowerment still differ at a fundamental level, in that when there is a character doing the rescuing (sometimes referred to as "help unlooked for"), he is almost invariably male.
Examples can be found in films that date back to the early days of movie making. One of the films most often associated with the stereotype of the damsel in distress, The Perils of Pauline (1914), in fact provides at least a partial counterexample, in that Pauline, as played by Pearl White, is a strong character who decides against early marriage in favour of seeking adventure and becoming an author. Despite common belief, the film does not feature scenes with Pauline tied to a railroad track and threatened by a buzzsaw, although such scenes were incorporated into later re-creations and were also featured in other films made in the period around 1914. Academic Ben Singer has contested the idea that these "serial-queen melodramas" were male fantasies and has observed that they were marketed heavily at women.[8] The first motion picture serial made in the United States, What Happened to Mary? (1912), was released to coincide with a serial story of the same name published in McClure's Ladies' World magazine.
Empowered damsels were a feature of the serials made in the 1930s and 1940s by studios such as Republic Pictures. The "cliffhanger" scenes at the end of episodes provide many examples of female heroines bound and helpless and facing fiendish death traps. But those heroines, as played by actresses such as Linda Stirling and Kay Aldridge, were often strong, assertive women who ultimately played an active part in vanquishing the villains.
C.L. Moore's 1934 story "Shambleau" - generally acknowledged as epoch-making in the history of Science Fiction - begins in what seems a classical Damsel in Distress situation: The protagonist, space adventurer Northwest Smith, sees a "sweetly-made girl" pursued by a lynch mob intent on killing her and intervenes to save her, but finds her not a girl nor a human being at all, but a disguised alien creature, predatory and highly dangerous. Soon, Smith himself needs rescuing and barely escapes with his life.
These themes have received successive updates in modern-era characters, ranging from 'spy girls' of the 1960s to current movie and television heroines. In her book The Devil With James Bond (1967) Ann Boyd compared James Bond with an updating of the legend of St George and the "princess and dragon" genre, particularly with Dr. No's dragon tank. The damsel in distress theme is also very prominent in "The Spy Who Loved Me ", where the story is told in the first person by the young woman Vivienne Michel, who is threatened with imminent rape by thugs when Bond kills them and claims her as his reward.
The female spy Emma Peel in the 1960s British television series The Avengers was often seen in "damsel in distress" situations. The character and her reactions, as portrayed by actress Diana Rigg, differentiated these scenes from other movie and television scenarios where women were similarly imperiled as pure victims or pawns in the plot. A scene with Emma Peel bound and threatened with a death ray in the episode From Venus with Love is a direct parallel to James Bond's confrontation with a laser in the film Goldfinger.[9] Both are examples of the classic hero's ordeal as described by Campbell and Vogler. The serial heroines and Emma Peel are cited as providing inspiration for the creators of strong heroines in more recent times. Ranging from Joan Wilder in Romancing the Stone and Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars to "post feminist" icons such as Buffy Summers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sydney Bristow from Alias, Kim Possible from the series of the same name and Veronica Mars also from the series of the same name.[10][11][12]
Reflecting these changes, Daphne Blake of the Scooby-Doo cartoon series (who throughout the series is captured dozens of times, falls through trap doors, etc.) is portrayed in the Scooby-Doo film as a wisecracking feminist heroine (quote: "I've had it with this damsel in distress thing!"). The 2009 film Sherlock Holmes includes a classical damsel in distress episode, where Irene Adler (played by Rachel McAdams) is helplessly bound to a conveyor belt in an industrial slaughterhouse, and is saved from being sawn in half by a chainsaw; yet in other episodes of the same film Adler is strong and assertive - for example, overcoming with contemptuous ease two thugs who sought to rob her (and robbing them instead). In the film's climax it is Adler who saves the British Empire, dismantling at the last moment a device set to poison the entire membership of Parliament.
In the final scene of the 2007 Walt Disney Pictures film "Enchanted" the traditional roles are reversed when male protagonist Robert (Patrick Dempsey) is captured by Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) in her dragon form. In a King Kong fashion, she carries him to the top a New York skyscraper, until Robert's beloved Giselle climbs, sword in hand, to save him.
A similar role reversal is evident in Stieg Larsson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", in whose climatic scene the male protagonist is captured by a mass murderer, locked in an underground torture room, chained, stripped naked, and humiliated when his female partner enters to save him and destroy the villain.
The figure of the damsel in distress is a feature of certain established fetishes within the field of BDSM. In particular, actresses playing damsels in distress in mainstream movies and television shows are often shown bound or restrained, resulting in images that appeal to some bondage fetishists.
There is a damsel in distress fan community supported through various websites and forums, which feature discussions as well as alerts for potential occurrences of scenes in forthcoming shows and movies. Enthusiasts post and share still images and video clips, generally editing the material to show only the parts where actresses are in some form of restraint. The term "Didcap" has been coined to describe a screen shot of this type. It is a portmanteau between DiD, for "Damsel in Distress" and vidcap, for "video capture".
Outside the mainstream, the fetishistic subculture of specialized bondage magazines and videos that has thrived since the late 1970s is a variation on the damsel in distress of literature, but with one major difference. Here, the helplessness of the bound and gagged victim is eroticized and celebrated as an end in itself, occasionally with no rescuing hero or hope of escape.
See also
- Muriel Bagge
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- Princess Zelda
- Portrayal of women in video games
- Feminist film theory
- Final girl
- Femme fatale
- Pearl White
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- Scream queen
- Missing white woman syndrome
- White Slavery
- Feminist science fiction
- Feminist literary criticism
- Target girl
- Women in Refrigerators
- Predicament escape
- ^ Ulrich Marzolph, Richard van Leeuwen, Hassan Wassouf (2004). The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 172–4. ISBN 1576072045.
- ^ "Spanish Lady". http://www.contemplator.com/england/slady.html.
- ^ Booth, Michael (1965). English Melodrama. Herbert Jenkins.
- ^ Steinmeyer, Jim (2003). Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible. William Heinemann/Random House. p. 277–295. ISBN 0434013250.
- ^ Erish, Andrew (8 January 2006). "Illegitimate dad of 'Kong'; One of the Depression's highest-grossing films was an outrageous fabrication, a scandalous and suggestive gorilla epic that set box office records across the country". Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles Times). http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/959395991.html?dids=959395991:959395991&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+8%2C+2006&author=Andrew+Erish&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=E.6&desc=Movies.
- ^ See, e.g., Alison Lurie, "Fairy Tale Liberation," The New York Review of Books, v. 15, n. 11 (Dec. 17, 1970) (germinal work in the field); Donald Haase, "Feminist Fairy-Tale Scholarship: A Critical Survey and Bibliography," Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies v.14, n.1 (2000).
- ^ See Jane Yolen, "This Book Is For You," Marvels & Tales, v. 14, n. 1 (2000) (essay); Yolen, Not One Damsel in Distress: World folktales for Strong Girls (anthology); Jack Zipes, Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Fairy Tales in North America and England, Routledge: New York, 1986 (anthology).
- ^ Singer, Ben; Richard Abel (editor) (February 1999). Female Power in the Serial-Queen Melodrama: The Etiology of An Anomaly in Silent Film. Continuum International Publishing Group - Athlone. pp. 168–177. ISBN 0485300761.
- ^ "Visitor Reviews: From Venus With Love". The Avengers Forever. http://theavengers.tv/forever/peel2-1vr.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- ^ Jowett, Lorna (2005). Sex and The Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. Wesleyan University Press. http://www.upne.com/0-8195-6757-4.html.
- ^ Graham, Paula (2002). "Buffy Wars: The Next Generation". Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge (Bowling Green State University) (4, Spring). http://www.rhizomes.net/issue4/graham.html.
- ^ Gough, Kerry (August 2004). "Active Heroines Study Day - John Moores University, Liverpool (in partnership with The Association for Research in Popular Fiction)". Scope: an online journal of film and television studies (Institute of Film & Television Studies, University of Nottingham,). http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/confreport.php?issue=aug2004&id=915§ion=conf_rep.
- Mario Praz (1930) The Romantic Agony Chapter 3: 'The Shadow of the Divine Marquis'
- Robert K. Klepper, Silent Films, 1877-1996, A Critical Guide to 646 Movies, pub. McFarland & Company, ISBN 0-7864-2164-9
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House insiders say a handful of House Republicans cursed Cruz in the cloakroom on Wednesday, and a leadership source says angry e-mails were exchanged among GOP staffers who consider Cruz to be a charlatan. "Cruz keeps raising conservatives' hopes, and then, when we give him what he wants, he doesn't have a plan to follow through," an aide fumes. "He's an amateur." Another aide says, "Nancy Pelosi is more well-liked around here."
Cruz, however, tells me House Republicans are wrong to be infuriated. In an interview, he says his goal was never to whip together votes in the Senate for a defunding bill; it was always to inspire a grassroots uprising that would rattle Congress and President Obama, and hopefully defund Obamacare.
"I'm convinced there is a new paradigm in politics — the rise of the grassroots," Cruz says. He cites Senator Rand Paul's filibuster on drone policy, and the debates on Syria and gun control, as recent examples of how an "overwhelming" number of phone calls and e-mails from constituents can force the president to buckle.
"And on Obamacare, I've said, from the start, that if typical Washington rules apply, we can't win this fight," he explains.
Rep. Tim Huelskamp, who has been a thorn in Boehner's side, said that the group of members who opposed Boehner's original plan to avoid a shutdown were becoming increasingly effective.
"This is what we said we were going to do and this will be the first time in two years and nine months that we are going to vote on defunding on a must-pass legislation," he said. "[Leadership] didn't want to vote on this, and that was pretty clear they didn't want to fight on it. We want to see them stand on some principles and give us assurance they'll fight. They couldn't even get the rule approved."…
"This is just math. We have 233 House Republican members. The majority in the House is currently 217," said the aide, noting that it is usually 218 votes but there are two vacancies. "That means a small group of members can gum up the works on any vote. There are fewer and fewer tools available to leadership. Earmarks are gone — which is a good thing, but it has consequences. Taking away committee assignments hasn't made members any likelier to vote 'yes' — and, frankly, no one has a plausible suggestion for what would do the trick. The world simply changed. It's made the House more open, more transparent, and more difficult to manage."
A shutdown now would have much worse fallout than the one in 1995. Back then, seven of the government's 13 appropriations bills had been signed into law, including the two that funded the military. So most of the government was untouched by the shutdown. Many of the unfunded agencies kept operating at a reduced level for the shutdown's three weeks by using funds from past fiscal years.
But this time, no appropriations bills have been signed into law, so no discretionary spending is in place for any part of the federal government. Washington won't be able to pay military families or any other federal employee. While conscientious FBI and Border Patrol agents, prison guards, air-traffic controllers and other federal employees may keep showing up for work, they won't get paychecks, just IOUs…
But won't voters be swayed by the arguments for defunding? The GPS poll tested the key arguments put forward by advocates of defunding and Mr. Obama's response. Independents went with Mr. Obama's counterpunch 57% to 35%. Voters in Senate battleground states sided with him 59% to 33%. In lean-Republican congressional districts and in swing congressional districts, Mr. Obama won by 56% to 39% and 58% to 33%, respectively. On the other hand, independents support by 51% to 42% delaying ObamaCare's mandate that individuals buy coverage or pay a fine.
"It's a great day for America," Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA), the author and principal sponsor of the legislative vehicle by which Republicans aim to take down Obamacare, added. "It truly is. We're on the eve of a historic moment here in Washington, D.C., as we take this vote in the House tomorrow. We're sending a very strong message to the American people that we as Republicans in the House and the Senate are united in a way that I haven't seen in a long, long time. We're united in the common goal of protecting the American people from the harmful effects of Obamacare. In turn, the question turns to the Senate and directly to Harry Reid. What will Harry Reid do? Will he continue to protect his friends, the president's friends, big business and members of Congress, those on K Street, or will he also extend protections to the American people? That's really what it comes down to: A simple question for Harry Reid and what will Harry do, is the question America will be asking over the next couple of days."…
"The Democrats want full implementation of Obamacare, and we want full repeal of Obamacare," Labrador said. "And we're seeing all we're asking for is a one-year delay. That is a minimum ground that we're asking Harry Reid to take. He's calling us all sorts of names like 'anarchist,' or 'terrorist' and all these names. And we're the ones who are actually taking a reasonable position with regards to this law and it's Harry Reid and the president who are willing to shut down the government if they don't get everything they want with a law they believe is going to be harmful to the American people."
In 2012, Obama won another term and Reid maintained an iron grip on the Senate. That is a reality that cannot be ignored as strategies are developed to prevent Obamacare from taking firm or permanent root…
Now is not the time for conservatives to turn a squabble over tactics into a circular firing squad. Now is the time to unite and fight to inform, persuade and win the argument, convincing the American people that Obamacare must be stopped…
Republicans should build on the support that House Democrats recently showed in calling for the delay of Obamacare. We should try to remove the most damaging parts and make sure that all Americans — including members of Congress and their staffs — are treated equally under the law. We should then make certain that Obamacare is the preeminent issue in the 2014 congressional elections.
In a radio interview with Andrea Tantaros earlier [Wednesday], for example, Cruz aimed most of his barbs at the GOP, despite House Republicans' decision only hours earlier to embrace his plan on the CR.
"Right now, I can tell you, the people who are fighting the hardest against our efforts to defund Obamacare are not Democrats, it's Republicans. It's Republicans who have been leading the onslaught, trying to stop this. Because they're afraid of the political risk. They're afraid of being blamed politically," he said…
But he also sketched out what can be a politically potent argument to put to Democrats: "We gotta say, 'no, we don't want to shut the government down. We have voted to continue the government running. President Obama has granted waivers from Obamacare to big corporations and to members of Congress. Why is President Obama threatening to shut the government down to deny those some waivers to hard-working American familiies?' Their position is indefensible."
"It's amazing to me you have leaders, none of whom — all of them know [shutdown is] a bad idea, bad for Republicans, they don't want to risk it," Todd asserted.
"Nobody seems to want it and yet I don't know how they avoid it, at least for a couple of days," he continued. "That's what I keep envisioning, some sort of 48 hour shutdown or 24 where there's some small version of this."
"I've had House Republican aides say this to me before in previous fights, sometimes they have to educate some of these members, how it will play out, how they would believe it, they don't have to see it for themselves," Todd revealed.
"I believe the Affordable Care Act is anything but affordable, and will have a negative impact on the economy of my state," he said, adding that he would have preferred for it to have been blocked by the Supreme Court. "But I don't extend that to the point that we should shut down the government over it."
"I support limited government," [Scott Walker] added. "But I want the government left to work."
There is a straightforward solution to address the current predicament, Walker suggested: put the question before the voters next year.
"The way to resolve this is through candidates making the case in the 2014 election," he said. "They can make a case they're going to come on in and put the power back in the hands of the people, not in the government."
What a shame all this melodrama is a mirage, a farce, a game…
For some the answer has to do with pent up fury in need of an outlet, and the effort to defund the ACA is that outlet. It also appeals to those who find it satisfying to turn every debate into an apocalyptic clash. And even if Republicans fail, at least they "fought the good fight." (Ronald Reagan referred to people of this mindset as those who enjoyed "going off the cliff with all flags flying.")
But there's also a tendency among some on the right—not all, certainly, but some—to go in search of heretics. They seek to purify the conservative movement—to eliminate from it the defilement, the debasement, and the corruption they see all around them—and they bring to this task an almost religious zeal. They are the Keepers of the Tablets. And they are in a near constant state of agitation. Living in an imperfect world while demanding perfection (or your version of perfection) from others can be hard.
This is not conservatism either in terms of disposition or governing philosophy. It is, rather, the product of intemperate minds and fairly radical (and thoroughly unconservative) tendencies. Such things have always been with us; and some of the uncontained passions and anger will eventually burn out. The question is how much damage will be done in the process.
Katrina Pierson is a good example. The Dallas-based tea-party activist, who volunteered for Cruz's Senate campaign, announced last week that she's challenging Representative Pete Sessions in his primary, and tells me that Cruz inspired her move.
"You see someone like Ted Cruz gets elected, and we're all skeptical, right?" she says. "We're all skeptical about what happens when people to go Washington, D.C. And when we see him standing up for what's right against the establishment, against the party, and it can be done — it's like, well, okay then!"
"He's still holding his campaign promises," she continues, "and the simple fact that he did it lets the rest of us know that not only can we do it, but we need to give him some backup, bottom line."
Pierson says Cruz's campaign functioned as a sort of boot camp for grassroots activists, who built a support network that's only grown since the campaign ended. And Cruz's involvement in the effort to defund the Affordable Care Act has spurred more Texans to volunteer, according to Pierson.
Meanwhile, as Obama lays the groundwork for the coming campaign, Republicans are fighting among themselves over an impossible quest to defund Obamacare. After that is resolved, they will fight among themselves over the circumstances of increasing the nation's debt limit. And then they'll fight among themselves over something else.
Every day the GOP is consumed with its internal squabbles is a day Republicans don't concentrate on the issues most important to voters. So now, amidst the feuding, some in the GOP are asking: What case will we make for ourselves in 2014? In the strategist's words, "What has a Republican Congress accomplished?"…
The point is not to dump on Obama. The point is to show what Republicans have done with power. "He's not going to be up for re-election again," says the strategist. "We better start proving to people that if we're given responsibility, we can do something with it. This isn't about him any more. It's about who we are."
Where this goes from here is not clear. The Senate will not accept the House bill, so it will send a "clean" funding bill back to the House stripped of the Obamacare poison. In the most optimistic GOP view, the "hello no" caucus will learn that this was a bootless effort and they will sign on to whatever Boehner cooks up to keep the government doors open. Is this group of conservatives really going to change their mind? What will cause them to do so? The constituents back home who have been cheering their fight to defund Obamacare? The increased condescension that the New York Times editorialists use when describing them? A stock market plunge?
If the loss doesn't get Boehner the votes he needs, he will then have no other choice but to turn to Democrats for votes to avoid a shutdown. That won't be pretty, because Democrats will exact a price against the backdrop of the ticking clock. (If you are counting at home, there are only 12 days until the government technically runs out of money).
A government funding mechanism that passes with Democratic votes will excite some sharp comments from the very group that Boehner is having trouble satisfying. And this is just the scrimmage before the big game. Republicans will need to be unified before the debt limit fight in mid-to-late October. If the government shutdown is bad for the economy, the debt ceiling fight is catastrophic.
"I think Sen. Cruz is free to do whatever he wants within the rules of the Senate," McCain said on CNN. "I will again state unequivocally that this is not something that we can succeed."…
"In the U.S. Senate, we will not defund ObamaCare," McCain said. "And to think we can is not rational."


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Nintendo is reportedly considering bringing cartridges back instead of game discs for the upcoming NX console. The move could dramatically improve performance if Nintendo can control costs.
A hacker has found a way to boot Linux on the PS4, fire up Steam, and play at least some titles. It's an interesting experiment in what Sony's platform can do, but we don't expect to see the company embracing Linux as it initially did with the PS3.
It's the end of an era — after ten years in production, the Xbox 360 is finally being retired.
Today, we'll walk through the process of backing up your files and how you can upgrade your console with little more than a screwdriver, a new internal drive, and an external backup. And if you're worried about losing your copy of P.T., this process will keep your game installations safe even if you suffer a drive failure.
Another day, another rumor about the Nintendo NX — but major design choices and product focus will determine more about how this console compares to Sony and Microsoft than the specifics of its CPU choice or GPU technology.
Earlier this week, rumors spread that Nintendo would kill the Wii U console this year as the NX came online. The company is denying those rumors, but its own history suggests the Wii U won't long outlive its successor.
Microsoft might be investigating the idea of opening its own market for used games, buying them back from people's accounts for a percentage of the original cost. It's an interesting idea, but would gamers (and publishers) bite?
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that the PS4 and Xbox One would be capable of cross-platform play. Is Sony going to turn this happy relationship into a threesome? It's complicated…
The head of Microsoft's Xbox division, Phil Spencer, is talking up the idea of a fully-upgradeable console that would evolve and improve over time.
Microsoft has released an updated version of their Xbox 360 compatibility emulation. There's another 16 titles supported in this new version, including some classics.
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Most Angelenos have that picnic blanket moment along about late April or early May.
The weather is boldening up and days are getting longer. Then, May Gray hits, and we think "hold on. We wanted to get outdoors, stretch on a blanket, and eat gelato. C'mon, May Gray. Don't hurt our feelings."
But a few local food fests are know no fear. They're going to start summer well before summer actually starts, and they're going to be great. Leading the pack? Taste of the Eastside, which lands at Barnsdall Art Park on the afternoon of Sunday, May 6.
The deal? A bunch of eastsideries -- think Yuca's, Auntie Em's, Silver Lake Wine, and Gingergrass, plus well over dozen or so others -- will be going up the big Hollyhocky hill to make grass loungers happy and full.
A general advance admission is $35, but that ends on May 5. If you show up, at the thing itself, on Sunday afternoon, $45 is what you'll pay. Oh, and fun for grown-ups who like adult beverages: Those prices get you a wine and beer flight, in addition to all of those little bites you'll be biting.
The kid ticket price, by the way, is just north of amazing: five bucks in advance or five bucks there. Taste of the Eastsiders, you're nice, and that's a fact.
And working on that nice theme? Profits from the day help non-profits in the Echo Park-Silver Lake-Eagle Rock-Atwater triangle. Quadrahedron? Yes. We want to call it that.
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|Domestic detritus, yesterday
I've always lived alone in Bangkok. Whilst I've lost count of the number of girls I've shared my bed with, they've never stayed for longer than a day or two. The endless influx of companions can take its toll on a simple apartment, beyond the simple need to throw away all those extra toothbrushes every week or two.
Indeed, my most recent clearing-out session (pictured) yielded a handbag, sanitary towels, a clockwork musical cherub, a wax mould of my hand clasped with that of a particularly over-keen young lady, a half-drunk bottle of something pink, a mini-dress, various cosmetics, a cellphone charger, three pairs of earrings, three toothbrushes and a bottle of fanny-wash. All offers considered.
And so onto the point. As far-fetched as it may seem, I recently found myself falling for a particularly tasty gogo girl. I came across her for the first time a week or so before leaving for my mercifully brief trip to the UK, and we found ourselves spending most of our time together until I flew to Europe.
I returned to Bangkok having taken a rather painful hit in the wallet, but went to see her in the bar whilst I waited for more funds to come through. She was visibly thrilled to see me, shooed away the pushy waitresses who were suggesting I should buy her a drink, and just draped herself over me as I sipped on a cheap beer.
In between spending time together, she'd been sending cheesy love poems to me by text message. They were obviously copied from a book, but it was still a touching gesture – especially considering the fact that all too many girls seem to consider an appropriate vocabulary of communication to be "you buy me drink", "I go with you", "two thousand", and "pussy hurt now. you finish soon please".
I'd tentatively approached the subject with her after a marathon session of naked twister, and asked what she thought about the idea of moving in. Her eyes lit up like the neon sign of the gogo bar from which I'd plucked her.
And, of course, if she was to be my live-in girlfriend, she wouldn't be working in a gogo bar any more. She could be housemaid, cook and concubine – in exchange for a modest allowance, of course. All that remained was to work out the details, and to make sure there weren't any last-minute hitches…
Part Two is here. Feel free to share your own tales of domestic bliss – or otherwise – with Bangkok's ladies of the night.


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S5S originated from a collaborative trip to Shanghai with the Altered Barbie show in 2005. There we found that traditional courtyard homes were replaced by a sprawl of high-rises. Similar to the phenomena of post-WWII suburban sprawl in America, the family clan was broken up into the nuclear family of today. The children are separated from the tutelage of the wise elders while both parents work, contributing to the loss of culture and tradition in modern society. The rise of monolithic buildings of condos and apartments coincide with increased consumerism as they embrace capitalism. The rapidly increasing Chinese GDP is followed by increased pollution. In recent years caught up with the greenhouse gas emissions of the U.S. economy. During our travels in Shanghai, we met many Chinese contemporary artists who are now questioning their parents era under the Mao regime, parodying corporate consumerism of today, and showing concern for the local environment. The reserved Chinese are now speaking up through the medium of art.
This is where Barbie sees the woman in the glass. She is the cruelest judge. She has been blamed for bulimia, crippled after years of strutting in high-heels, and in addition to the numerous face-lifts, she may consider removing her lower rib-cage to achieve her youthful figure. After a half a century, she chooses a silver gilded door leading to a rite of passage. Here she finds a renewed adulthood and breaks out of the mainstream American concept of beauty and social stigma. The new Altered Barbie metamorphoses and naturally blossoms into a diversity of attitude, social roles, politics and culture expressed through the medium of art.


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Something we often admire about classic cocktails is their simplicity. We suppose early recipes had the advantage of being first to attempt basic combinations. Such is the case, for instance, with the Daiquiri: rum, lime and sugar—a favorite of rum lovers everywhere, including at least one famous writer from the Florida Keys. It shouldn't surprise you to know that in addition to his reputation for enjoying such drinks, Ernest Hemingway also had a hand in creating a few. One of them is called Death in the Gulf Stream, and it is both easy and efficient.
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The technology has emerged so much these days, from telephone to mobile, Telegram to WhatsApp, Newspaper to e-paper and now charcoal to induction. There are countless changes has been happening on this journey of 20 century to 21 century in our lifestyle. So as in our food habits and cooking style has a huge difference by times. By the passing decade, our kitchen has seen a lot of changes & innovations in terms of cookware's and appliances. For which lots of new designing, inventions & modification have been done to attract and match to the requirement of new lifestyle and cooking pattern.
There were the times when our Grandmothers have the corner at kitchen made of mud Chulas and they were used to cook in big clay pots and copper utensils. Copper Cookware spans thousands of years, and for good reason. Copper cookery is an excellent conductor of heat, allowing for food to cook properly and evenly throughout. The look of copper cookware throughout history has both changed and stayed the same. Antique copper cookware is passed down through the generations. Even replicas and new designs can become the new family heirlooms, simply because of copper's beauty.
Food taste also differs as per our cookware and cooking pattern. And to match the same flavor as our ancient cookware is significant. For example, earlier we love to cook vegetables on Kadai or Handi kind of vessel but in 21 century we are using non-stick pans to cook, which minimized cooking period and it takes less oil to cook vegetable without burning it and most importantly without compromising of vegetable flavor. Between this evaluations of 20th century to 21th century, the best development on the cookware would be that we have countless designs, arts, with strong built of latest cookware sets available in our country.
The size and shape of a cooking vessel are typically determined by how it will be used. Cooking vessels are typically referred to as "pots" and "pans," but there is great variation in their actual shapes. The choice of material for cookware and bakeware items has a significant effect on the item's performance (and cost), particularly in terms of thermal conductivity and how much food can occupy to the item when in use.
In my view, the 21st century has seen the modernization of kitchen in various form including Modern kitchens with hotspots, innovative appliances & utensils to name a few. This up gradation is need of hour for efficient cooking and leverage the art of cooking. Sometime we may loose on the nutrition and taste in order to pace the cooking using microwave dinners and meals, but we can't deny the fact that in order to save time & become more productive we may lose some quality. But my friend as we know technology comes with it limitations and it can't replace the aura of good chef and cooking skills. The art of cooking can be better utilized with the new generation appliance, but can't replace the value of it.
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At the November Denver/Boulder New Tech Meetup Dick Hardt demo'd a prototype of sxipper 3.0.
Sxipper leverages your social graph (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc), and shows how it ties in to the larger web in general. For example, he showed how you might browse to a company's site, and skipper will call out to you that someone in your graph (friend or friend of friend) is somehow connected to the site. Very cool concept.
Seeing Dick also reminded me of seeing his Identity 2.0 presentation at OSCON'05—one of the best presentations I've ever seen, in terms of his style. Perhaps dated now, but worth checking out.


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Quantum sells Arkivio software with Lattus file-archiving appliance
Quantum signs reseller deal with Arkivio to add file-archiving application to Lattus object-based archiving appliance.
Quantum Corp. today said it would resell Rocket Software's Arkivio with its Lattus Object Storage archiving platform.
This is the second partnership Quantum has entered into with a backup software vendor for Lattus. In August, Quantum signed an agreement with CommVault to support Simpana 10's archiving capabilities on a Lattus appliance.
Lattus uses Amplidata's AmpliStor object storage as part of an OEM deal with the startup.
Mark Pastor, strategic business manager at Irvine, Calif.-based Quantum, said Arkivio's file archiving is a good fit for Lattus because it includes discovery, classification, reporting and data movement. It is also agentless and runs out of the data path, which makes it easier to scale.
Lattus customers can use Arkivio Auto-Xplor to assess information and Arkivio Auto-Stor to set policies for moving data from primary storage to Lattus. Auto-Stor automatically moves data through the Lattus-X gateway to the appliance, leaving file stubs on the primary storage.
The goal is to move infrequently accessed data off expensive primary storage. Lattus also eliminates the need to include that data in regular backups.
Quantum will sell Arkivio capacity licenses for Lattus-X, but the vendor hasn't released pricing.
There are differences between Quantum's partnerships with Arkivio and CommVault. Arkivio will be resold with Lattus-X, which uses a network-attached storage gateway to move data to the Lattus appliance; Simpana integrates with a Quantum Lattus-D appliance through RESTful interfaces; and the CommVault partnership is a meet-in-the-channel deal, which means common channel partners package Simpana with Lattus.
Pastor said the CommVault deal is primarily for customers using Simpana, while Arkivio "fills the gap" for customers who do not already have an archiving application.
"The software is moving data over to Lattus," Pastor said. "CommVault manages data from primary storage to the archive. For the rest of the world that doesn't have a specific application to do that, Arkivio fills the gap. "
Pastor wouldn't say if Quantum is looking to partner with archiving-application vendors, but added, "I wouldn't say we're locked into stopping here."
CommVault also finds new partner
Meanwhile, CommVault also extended its partner ecosystem this week. Appliance vendor StorServer said it will sell Simpana 10 on bundled appliances for branch offices and enterprises. The BA6000 model is for branch offices and departments with between 1 TB and 5 TB of data. The EBA800, EBA1200 and EBA2200 are enterprise appliances for organizations with up to 1 PB of data.
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Monday, June 05, 2006
Before photos
Things are moving pretty fast- faster than I can post. I thought I'd better get some "before" photos posted of the 2nd floor before time gets away from me.
Here we have the kitchen. The window at left will be raised for counter space. There will be a corner sink, maple floors, and all new everything. The radiator will be pulled and replaced with a Myson toe kick heater.
Here's the pantry, which will be made a bit smaller to enlarge the closet in the 2nd bedroom. Oak shelves, beadboard panelling and maybe decorative brackets.
Here's a view down the hall from the kitchen. Bathroom is on the left side of the hall. 2nd bedroom is on the right. Directly ahead is the dining room and then living room.
Here's the bathroom. The tile on the walls was in pretty bad shape and the window well was rotted. We are replacing the sill with a granite one and tiling the window well. The only thing that's staying is the tile floor and the tub, which will be refinished.
Here you can see the bad tile. There was mold on the ceiling. Our tenants had no sense and never opened the window to let moisture out. They also never opened the blinds-and had seemingly no sense of aesthetics at all.
There will be a Fantech exhaust fan added to the bathroom, subway tile, and period appropriate sink and hardware.
I can't get any more images to post so I will continue with the rest of the apartment later.
2 comments:
- Kristin said...
Thanks for the tour! I've been wondering what it looks like up there. It's going to be so awesome when you're finished!
- Christiane said...
What potential! Looks like a great space with good light. I can't wait to see the after shots!
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