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When I was putting together this outfit, it felt almost hippie to me. Free love and dance in the flowers and that sort of thing. But hey, who couldn't stand a little peace, love, Simon & Garfunkel in their life on occasion, am I right?
I really like the Crochet Halters from Leri Miles Designs. They are pretty much on the skimpy side, which is perfect for the summer season. But if you wear something that bare on top, you need to wear something longer on the bottom so that you balance it out. Well, unless you're going for a whole different kind of look, I guess. I paired it with some Low.Rise Jeans from fri.day and wouldn't you know? The belt from the Navy Cords from [Tia] fit the look perfectly. I love when I can use other pieces to make whole new looks!
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Skin: Lustre in Glamour Puss 1 by Curio
Hair: Clementine in Swedish by Truth
Top: Crochet Halter B by Leri Miles Designs
Pants: Low.Rise Jeans by fri.day
Belt: Turnups Belt from the Navy Cords by [Tia]
Necklace: Glass Flower Necklace by Paper Couture
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As far as high-end graphics cards go, AMD's Radeon R9 290X is a pretty good value. The $550 sticker price is $100 lower than the going rate for the GeForce GTX 780, but the Radeon is faster overall. Heck, it performs better than the $1000 Titan.
The first Radeon R9 290X reviews hit the web yesterday, and cards were supposed to appear at online retailers right away. AMD even said so in its press release announcing the card. However, no one seems to have the thing in stock. Of Newegg's nine listings for the 290X, four are "coming soon," while the remainder are out of stock. None of the listings have availability dates attached. Amazon, NCIX, and TigerDirect don't even have the new Radeon listed on their websites.
Interestingly, Bottom Line Telecommunications has a couple of 290X cards in its catalog. This Sapphire variant is due to arrive November 6, while this Gigabyte version is expected on the 14th. Both are priced higher than the MSRP, though. The Sapphire card is listed at $570, and the Gigabyte is a whopping $698.
At Newegg, only one of the 290X cards is priced at $550. Four of the others are listed at $580, and those all include free copies of Battlefield 4. The other listings are devoid of pricing. Since all the cards appear to be reference models with stock coolers, I'd expect final pricing to closely match those two figures. Paying only $30 to add BF4 is a nice deal considering the game's $60 asking price.
Update: We asked AMD about the situation, and it told us that "all the etailers are getting stock daily." More cards are supposed to pop up at Newegg next week, the company said. A trusted source tells us that one major North American etailer is having trouble gettings its hands on the card, though. At least initially, it looks like Radeon R9 290X availability could be limited. AMD says demand for its new card is "massive." The supply apparently isn't.


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We were sad to hear news that a Beşiktaş institution – well, an Istanbul institution – faces closure. Pando Kaymak, a favourite breakfast spot that makes its venerable kaymak (clotted cream) on the premises has been given an eviction notice, as reported by Culinary Backstreets on Friday. The café – featured in our 'The Sultan's New City' guide in Cornucopia 51 and regular breakfast spot of the author Heath Lowry – has apparently been given until August 15 to close down. The café is operated by the 90-something-year-old Pandelli Shestakof and his wife, and 'Pando Amca', as he is affectionately known by the locals, has been sitting outside his blue-washed café, its windows adorned with jars of honey and fresh eggs, welcoming customers for over 50 years, having taken over from his father who had owned the shop since 1895.
The famous kaymak at Pando Kaymak (photo: Istanbul Eats)
Culinary Backstreets claims the reason for the eviction is that Pando's landlord wants to replace the café with yet another kiosk selling gum, cigarettes, newspapers and other bibs and bobs. In his column two days ago in Today's Zaman, Berk Çektir, a lawyer and journalist, says the eviction is justified under 'a revised code of obligations that allows the landlord to ask the tenant to vacate the premises if the rental agreement has surpassed ten years'. So instead of valuing a long-term tenant (said to have been there for 120 years), the landlord decides to evict him. There's loyalty for you. After receiving the news, Çektir immediately visited Pando and is now trying to find out whether he has any legal right to stay. Çektir thinks the best solution is for the landlord to 'co-operate with Pando to preserve cultural heritage' and is enlisting the help of a vakıf (foundation) which cares about food and cultural heritage. According to Culinary Backstreets, Pando's family's main concern is saving the 19th-century shopfront from destruction, rather than Pando's business itself.
A Harvard student and expert in Ottoman agricultural practices, Aleksandar Sopov, who has spent last summer and this one fighting the good fight for the preservation of the Yedikule bostans, shared this gem on his Facebook page: 'You will not read in the Culinary Backstreets article that Pando and his wife Yovana still speak the dialect spoken in the Macedonian village which their ancestors abandoned in the 19th century. Running away from economic hardships and exploitation, thousands of Macedonians settled in Istanbul at the end of the 19th century to work as gardeners, dairy-producers and bakers; cheap labour for a growing city that had to be fed. The descendants of those people are forced to leave again. Deep in that delicious clotted cream covered in honey there is so much bitterness.' He added a #savepando tag which already has numerous retweets on Twitter. Well said, Aleks. If the eviction happens, it will be a very sad day. We can get a pack of gum or a newspaper at any old news-stand, but Pando's kaymak is unparalleled. Isn't it worth saving?
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A novel shape-adjustable narrowband optical filter utilizing stimulated Brillouin scattering in an optical fiber is proposed and demonstrated. In this scheme, binary-phase-shift-keying modulation is applied to the pump wave to broaden and shape the Brillouin gain spectrum. By choosing an appropriate modulation data pattern, we realized a flat-top steep-cutoff optical bandpass filter with a 3-dB bandwidth of 1.5 GHz and a 10-dB bandwidth of 2 GHz is realized. In addition, a tunable optical notch filter is also realized by deamplification of the anti-Stokes wave.
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Longmont doctors Clint Flanagan and David Tusek of North Vista Medical Center took part of a panel discussion on health care held recently at the University of Colorado-Denver.
"Innovations in Health and Health Care" was held recently as part of the college's Levitt Distinguished Speaker Series.
Flanagan and Tusek were be part of a panel discussing "Alternative Practice Models in Primary Care." The two are the co-creators of Nextera Healthcare, a direct primary care program geared toward people with minimal or no health insurance or those with high-deductible health care plans.
Flanagan and Tusek operate clinics in Longmont — in Prospect — and in Firestone.
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Alex Proyas was raised in Australia and discovered filmmaking early in life. After entering the Australian Film and Television School in 1982, he wrote and directed the short "Groping," which led to a bountiful amount of music videos and commercial assignments. "Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds" was his first full-length feature. Entirely shot in Australia, it is best described as an aggressive, post-apocalyptic Western. The film did little to further Proyas's career in features, so instead he turned to music videos. His lavish video for Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over" brought him to the attention of American audiences and cemented his status as one of the top directors of music videos. His subsequent film "The Crow" (screenplay by David Schow and John Shirley, 1994), became a cult sensation and his feature breakthrough, but is sadly better known for the tragic death of Brandon Lee than its ironically laced poignant tale of love and death, delivered brilliantly by Proyas and the late actor. His next film, "Dark City" (co-written with Lem Dobbs and David Goyer, 1997), was his most personal story, a complex film that crosses genres to make a beautiful statement about humanity that somehow slipped by the cynics of our time. Known for the breathtaking visuals and dynamic storytelling of his films, Alex Proyas is a person of tremendous warmth and great sincerity, a rare breed of filmmaker who injects dept on the screen and off it.
For me, it's a great honor to present this 2000 interview to POP! readers. First, "The Crow" is my favorite on-screen comic book adaptation. The film is an unforgettable love story that's poignant from the second the late Brandon Lee emerges on-screen from the grave as the hero who seeks vengeance against those who murdered him and his beloved. Second, "Dark City" is one of the most important films to come out in the last dozen years of cinema. Not only is it an arresting visual fest, it stands tall as a compelling picture that stresses man's imagination and emotions can never be contained. 2002's lively "Garage Days" was the infectious feature about how just playing the music in a rock band is where the real heart of rock 'n roll is at. His last cinematic outing was the summer blockbuster "I, Robot" starring superstar Will Smith. All of these films are proof that Proyas is still one of a handful of film directors that constantly delivers unique and inspiring films to today's cinephiles.
George Khoury: Where did your passion for film originate?
Alex Proyas: I guess I was eight years old, maybe even younger, when I saw "Lawrence of Arabia." I mean I'd seen films before, obviously, but I remember that being the first cinema-going experience that had really blown me away. It was such a wonderful epic vision. I think that was the time I started thinking that I lusted to be doing that somehow; I think I went straight from wanting to be an astronaut and working for NASA to wanting to be a film director or something. Soon after that — and I'm probably confusing dates and timelines — I saw "2001: A Space Odyssey." That was an even more extraordinary experience for my young mind to handle and I really fell in love with this cinematic aspect of film.
Does your love for science fiction originate more from books or films?
I think "2001" was an early encouragement to be in the cinematic genre, but I didn't think of "2001" as science fiction because I didn't know what science fiction was because I was so young. It really came from picking up science fiction novels, a gift, when I was a little older back in my early teens. It was literature that made me really focus on the genre. I think those early novels that I read were what influenced "Dark City." I remember reading Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, and all these guys that kinda made me reevaluate things and excited me.
My film school work was experimental avant-garde films, but there was always this early influence of fantasy and science fiction, and I kept going back to it. "Dark City" is the direct result of it, of all these ideas that I was influenced with at an early age coming back to haunt me. I've always loved stories. That's why I wanted to make films, and commercials and music videos are a great training ground, to learn technical aspects. In commercials you tell stories. One of the hardest things to do is to tell a thirty- or sixty-second story. It's much more difficult in many ways more difficult than writing a novel. It's a very specific skill to do that well. I've always used my work in commercials as a way of understanding and telling a cinematic story more concisely; I have visual approach to storytelling, but I don't think it's any less relevant than characters talking in a theatrical manner. I like to tell stories in a visual fashion, and I've always been drawn to films that do that.
How did you learn screenwriting?
I'd written many scripts before — quite bad ones. Really, I still don't consider myself a screenwriter, I consider myself a director, first and foremost. I really use my writing abilities — or lack of writing abilities — as a way of bringing forth the emotion that I want to portray in a movie. To me, that's really the most important thing. When I examine how I want to make a film analytically, it really comes down to if there's an emotion I want to get across. I use the writing aspects as a way of trying to get as close to that as possible, and often from that point on, I am in many ways focusing in and finding the whole story. That's pretty much the way we worked on "Dark City." I wrote many drafts initially and then worked with Lem Dobbs and David Goyer to focus on what it was we were trying to do and to use them as a sounding board. The collaborative aspect is extremely important in that sense.
Was "The Crow" the first film that brought you to the United States?
I was pretty much living in Los Angeles making commercials and music videos for a while. It was an on and off thing, I was never there permanently. I had an apartment and all that sort of stuff.
Did living in Los Angeles — a city where no one knew you — serve as an inspiration for "Dark City"?
[Laughs] I don't know if that was so much the inspiration to "Dark City". I spent some time in New York as well and I think New York was probably much more an inspiration. I love wandering around cities at night when there's no one around. I remember wandering around some fairly dangerous parts of the city, where people were telling me I shouldn't be going there on my own. But I really enjoy that part of experiencing the city when there aren't people there. It's that kind of an emotion that I was trying to capture with the film.
What attracted you towards "The Crow"?
At that stage of my career, I was being offered sequels to bad horror movies and things like that. When I first got involved with "The Crow," there was a script which I didn't think was very good. I was more attracted to the original comic books, and I just liked this character. I bought this element of an avenger back from the dead. It was a really interesting character to explore. I also think it coincided with a number of ideas that I'd been playing with. I started writing "Dark City" way before "Crow." "Dark City" was the thing I'd always wanted to do, and there were some similarities between the two films. This whole thing with this guy coming back to his past had an amnesiac quality to the character in "The Crow" that I think was injected into the film because I was already dealing with those ideas with "Dark City." All those things added to drawing me to the material.
Did you play up the love story element in "The Crow"?
That was always there. That was very strong. In fact, part of the problem with "The Crow" is that I don't think it's as strong as it could have been. But no, that was there from the comic books. This guy is just obsessed with this lost love and this desire to get back to his sweetheart, and that is incredibly strong and bittersweet in the comic book. And that's one of the things that I enjoyed so much about it. I'm a real believer in romance in movies. I always try to inject that aspect into a film. I think it's extremely important.
Were there any other elements you injected to the story? I believe that you came in with a fully written screenplay.
No, not at all. When I got involved with the project, there was a draft done by one of the credited writers that I didn't think was very good. I worked with the first writer for a couple of drafts. I seem to remember all I was trying to do was get it closer to the comic books because the screenplay really went away from the ideas in the comic and I thought that was a big mistake, so I kept trying to drag the thing closer and closer to the comic. David Schow and I did the most work on the screenplay — we probably did twenty drafts together. He did all the writing, but I was involved quite extensively during that whole process; we were really trying to be true to the comic. I also really loved the artwork from the comic book. I wanted to make a comic book movie that for once actually looked like a comic book. We were trying to be as faithful as we could be to the source material.
The Eric Draven character of "The Crow" has many noir qualities — an innocent man turned vengeful as the result of what bad men have done. Was that (noir feel) intentional?
That type of comic book and the "Batman" comics and movies are all heavily influenced by noir films. In the case of "The Crow," I was influenced by comic book artists who were being influence by the original filmmakers that I happened to like. So it's sort of coming around in a strange way. [Laughs] But I can't say that I was specifically going for noir sort of conventions in "The Crow." I was aware of them, but I was much less concerned with that than I was in the case of "Dark City," which touched much more heavily upon noir conventions. "The Crow" really was more a question on the visual level of trying to be faithful to the comic book, and the comic book was permutated with his noirish thing, but that was inherited from the material.
Was there ever a possibility after Brandon Lee's death of the film not ever coming out?
Absolutely, I didn't want to finish it. All I could see was that a very good friend of mine had died in front of me. I was absolutely devastated by that and I didn't care at that stage. It was very hard to see beyond that tragedy, at that time, and see things clearly. But I'm glad that I was convinced to finish the film, and that really came from Brandon's family. If they hadn't wanted to finish the film, I would have been very happy to have walked away from it. In retrospect, I'm glad we did it because it served Brandon's memory well, which is all that I really cared about in that film; that Brandon will be remembered as the great actor that he was, primarily because of "The Crow." He really grew through the process of making that film. I knew he was doing good work; and that's exciting to be around when you're working with someone who's confident and coming of age in a way as an actor. He knew that film was going to be something special. He constantly surprised me with what he was doing on the set; there were really some wonderful moments that he achieved.
What has been your reaction to "The Crow" films that have followed your vision?
I didn't see the sequel. It would be very hard for me to judge it as a film because I have this underlying feeling that to make a sequel is just wrong. It was morally wrong to do that. "The Crow" was finished for Brandon, to honor him. To make a sequel really didn't gel with me. That was a bad thing. So I've never been able to watch the film for that reason. If I did, I would find it hard to judge.
After "The Crow," you actually began to work on "Casper the Ghost?"
I was pretty distraught, and I guess this opportunity came up to something that was different, in a far away different direction than "The Crow," that it really appealed to me. In retrospect, it was a big mistake. The fact that I didn't get through the film makes it clear that it was. [Laughs] I loved the idea of doing a kid's fantasy. One of my favorite films of all time is "Wizard of Oz." I would like to do something like that one day. "Casper" seemed to be an opportunity to do a really great kid's film with some real solid emotional resonance. Unfortunately, it started to move away from its potential at some point and that's the reason I politely bowed out.
Was there a screenplay?
There was a script, but it was one of those situations where things were rewritten at much too late a stage in the whole process.
So that makes "Casper" your first true Hollywood project.
It was. [laughs]. It's certainly being thrown off the deep end, let's say. I've been through the mill as much as anyone within the filmmaking process. What we went through on "The Crow" was certainly an absolute extreme of what filmmakers have to deal with, and I'm certainly prepared for that, that's part of the business. But for me, the rule you cannot break is that you have to have a script. You've got to be at the stage when you start preproduction where you are confident in the material, because if you don't have that — you're lost without a map. You're absolutely in an impossible situation. That's the one rule that I will never break again; I learned that the hard way.
How difficult a pitch was "Dark City?"
I'd say it was probably impossible to pitch "Dark City" to the studios. It came down to people having faith in me as a filmmaker, because I think it was something most people could not comprehend. And even having made the film, I still can't pitch it. [Laughs] It's an unpitchable story. I think that's what appealed to me about it. I was looking for people who would have the confidence to let me create this madness, and I was lucky to find those people.
Is it true that the story stemmed from recurring nightmares you had?
I wish I could dream entire screenplays up; it would certainly save a lot of time. But the only aspect that was inspired by dreams is the actual Strangers themselves; this idea of them altering things. But in my dreams it was depicted in a very intangible way and not really that much like the movie.
Were you ever aware that the words "Dark "and "City" are common in the lexicon of film noir?
Oh absolutely. To tell you the truth when I came up with the title "Dark City" I really thought I'd invented it. Then a couple of years later I came across the movie introducing Charlton Heston back in 1950, so I realized that I hadn't invented it. There's a book called "Dark City" by Eddie Muller. It's a wonderful little book about the history of film noir, and I guess he picked that title for reasons similar to my own. It summed up a genre in many ways. That's what I wanted to do with the film, I wanted a title that established a genre in people's minds, but when you start watching the film you realized that it's anything but that. Not even the genre is clear at a certain point. It's like we play that game with the audience so I just wanted that sort of stereotypical noir title. I guess other people thought of if for the same reasons.
How would you go about defining film noir?
I think it's about uncertainty. To me it seems to be about characters that don't really know where they fit into the world, and they're trying to find their place in it — usually fairly unsuccessfully.
Which noir pictures served as an influence on "Dark City?"
There's two streams of influences on "Dark City." One is the expressionist movies, the German expressionist movies like "Metropolis," "Nosferatu," "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and then, the noirs from the '40s and '50s which were actually influenced by German Expressionism. German directors like Fritz Lang specifically went to work in Hollywood and were instrumental in establishing that genre. In terms of the American films, I would say "Lost Weekend," "Double Indemnity" — very specifically, and "Asphalt Jungle."
Have you ever watched "Scarlet Street?"
Yes, a long, long time ago. I've seen most of these films but I haven't caught up with them for a while. Could you refresh my memory?
It deals with Edward G. Robinson's character, a guy who falls for the wrong girl and soon trouble begins to follow him as well. He's trying to run away from something he can't escape, because no matter where he hides, in the big city, he feels trapped; essentially there's no escape for him. The reason I mention it is because there were elements of your film that reminded of it.
All sorts of plot points from "Dark City" come from film noir. It's just taken to an extreme, and the extreme resolves itself in terms of science fiction. It's like once they discover the answers to their questions, they realize they're in an existential nightmare. In turn, it comes right back to German Expressionism. In many ways because that's mainly cinema fantasy, noir was this convention that dabbled in fantasy but was really trying to stay faithful to reality. Occasionally, you'd get films like "Kiss Me Deadly," which is a hard-boiled, gritty, realistic movie. It turns out that the thing they're all chasing after in the end is this suitcase with this light inside that is Pandora's Box and it destroys them in the end. To me, the convention was already dabbling with this blend of fantasy and film noir, and that really appealed to me and was something I especially aimed for with "Dark City."
Did you always want the city to have this claustrophobic feel to it?
Sure, I just liked the idea that I explained the noir convention. The insomnia is a noir convention. The idea that an entire story can take place at night is also a noir convention. What I tried to do is use the amnesia in the plot of the strangers. The feeling of a closed community, or not being able to escape, is a common theme in noir and is explained by the fact that you can't escape the city because there is a actually a limit to the city. You can't go beyond it. And the concept of the night never ending is also explained because the night never does end — it is actually an eternal nighttime. I remember seeing many noir films that were about this concept of someone just trying to make it through the night to survive, either from the mob or the cops or something. It always struck me as an appealing notion — suddenly the character in the movie realized that the night will never actually end, that there is no escape from darkness. [Laughs] All those ideas came to me while watching these movies. It's very much feeding off the genre.
Originally you wanted to base the story around Bumstead, the detective, making him more integral to the narrative, which would have give the film a definite hard-boiled feel. Why didn't you go in that direction?
I felt it was too convenient, and it's been done before. I also thought it was a less emotional perspective for the film. I thought there was an opportunity to invest the audience's emotions in a character that was emotional and less analytical. I also think it's more interesting to have the guy in the thick of it, the protagonist rather than someone who's off on the sidelines. Also the detective's angle is an intellectual one for me. I always imagined the three characters of Bumstead, Murdoch, and Emma, Murdoch's wife, being like three parts of the same character. I kept trying to structure the performances on that notion, which was that Bumstead was the mind: the brain, the analytical part of the character. Murdoch was the gut: the instinct and emotion. And Emma was the heart. So to me, it was which of those did I want to follow, and it seemed to me to be the instinctive part.
Was there anything you wish you could've fixed after you turned in the final cut?
Yeah. I mean the studio was very supportive all the way through and they're a great bunch of people. I don't think anyone else would have made the film, quite frankly. It was a great experience from that respect, but there was a certain amount of nerves towards the end of post-production. There were certain things that I actually was made to do, that I just don't agree with. One being the opening voice-over, which I think is kind of insane, quite frankly. I think it gives away too much of the mystery up from. To me, this was always a mystery: you want to let the audience unravel it, you want to just throw them into something and then have them unravel the pieces as they go, as the characters do. But then to start off the film with something that tells you who the bad guys are, and the fact that they're from another planet or whatever the hell we ended up putting in… the voice-over was a real mistake and I knew that at the time. One day I would love to go back and remove that voice-over and redo many scenes that we dropped for various reasons. [Pop! note: A director's cut of the film finally arrived to DVD in 2008]
That seems to be one of the biggest obstacles currently in films. Studios seem to think audiences can't figure things out for themselves without having to test-market everything to death.
Well the test process is a nightmare for filmmakers. It's nice to know what people are reacting to and what doesn't work, but at the end of the day, you have to be allowed to use your own better judgment. It's getting to the point where if two people don't understand, then it's the problem with the film. And it's not the case; the problem is probably with those two people. That a small number of people in a test screening can dictate what happens to films for a much wider audience for me is insane.
It seems crazy that one comment can have such power.
That's where we're at, where new sequences have to be shot. We didn't get quite to that extent with "Dark City" but we certainly had to make some alterations which I think probably meant absolutely zip at the box office. I can't imagine that these changes we made, made more people go see the film. If anything, it probably made few people go see the film.
Many critics, with the big exception of Roger Ebert, were quite harsh on the film. Do you think it's because they're just too cynical and can't see what the film is really about?
I don't know if most of the critics were; I think it was definitely a mixed bag of reviews but I'm used to that. I mean I think "The Crow" had that same sort of mixture of reviews. Some people just don't get it, quite frankly. I certainly felt there was a degree of not getting where the film was coming from. I can't begin to go into the bizarre ideas about what film "Dark City" was; I just think it's a very broad stylized fantasy. A lot people have a very hard time with that, it's not their cup of tea. But there were also some really terrific reviews where people understood the principle of it and went with it.
Do you think more realistic movies are being made in the sci-fi genre?
Yes, I think it's partly because studios like the principle of science fiction, and they generally do quite well. A lot of people don't really understand the genre, so they dumb it down as much as possible for the basic meat and potatoes version of science fiction. But I think there's certainly the potential to do a lot more with the genre in the movies.
In closing, what is the significance of Shell Beach?
(Laughter) The significance of Shell Beach. Well, I think it's this thing that everyone is looking for. It's this gate to the answer to life. It's still out there somewhere, that hopefully we'll all find eventually.
This piece is dedicated to Carolyn Gan of the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City for screening "Dark City" as part of their cool CabaretCinema" series. This writer regretted very much not being able to have introduced one of his favorite films back in March.
[Interview © George Khoury, 2008. Originally published in Creative Screenwriting #33 in 2000]


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So it's been a while – life and all that – but I've somehow found time to rekindle my love for the Tempest. Let's get back to the business of making sounds on this thing.
To start, a nice 'n' easy analogue take on the apito – the brazilian samba whistle – otherwise used world-over by your friendly local match official.
- Start with 2 Triangles – around F6 and F#6
- Apply extreme detuning to Osc 2 (fine +/-40)
- For the Amp envelope, use ADSR with a decent amount of sustain and shorten the default release time to around 30.
Sounds vaguely familiar, but needs some movement…
- Arm LFO1 with the random waveshape map it to Osc1 frequency – a high rate 126 but only a small amount 5.
- Map LFO 2 (square) to Osc 2 frequency and give it some welly with a rate of 120, Amount 83. This mimics the little ball inside the whistle.
- Try both filter slopes with lots of Filter FM and a slight envelope to emphasise the attack. Also, use the high-pass filter with a setting of about 50.
As always, not set in stone – play around with it. You can spice it up, perhaps by adding a little pitch envelope or noise to model referee spit. 😛
Plenty of bonus sounds open-up when played chromatically, especially at low and high octaves where Tempest's analogue character really shines through.
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CU women's coach Linda Lappe getting most from her team
Armed with a roster lacking frontcourt size and exceptional jump shooters, first-year Colorado women's basketball coach Linda Lappe sure has her team playing hard and smart.
Who would have guessed that a victory today in the 7 p.m. home game (FSN) against Kansas State would already match the Buffs' conference win total (three) of a year ago?
Colorado (11-7, 2-3 Big 12) ranks just 10th among Big 12 teams in scoring (63.7), 10th in field-goal shooting (.404) and dead last in free-throw shooting (.616).
But Lappe is getting the most out of her team's skill level with solid defense and scrappy effort. That should bode well for the future of the program as Lappe adds more talent.
Kansas State (13-5, 3-2) has been victorious in its past two trips to Boulder. But in an oddity, the all-time series between the programs is even: 33-33.


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Let's face it we have all met them! Of course I wouldn't be so cruel as to send this card without the greeting inside reading 'You always make me smile without me needing to push you down the stairs....Happy Birthday'
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Buying A House In Sweden
Buying a house requires a lot of time and effort, but these 10 steps can help make the home buying process manageable and help you make the best decisions possible. Some buyers will instinctively offer much lower than the asking price to begin with in order to test the water and will then work upwards towards a mutually agreed price, but much will depend on the circumstances of all parties in the process. For example, if you can afford to buy a house worth €250,000, your lender may lend you up to €225,000.
And best of all, it doesn't cost you anything to use an agent – they're compensated from the commission paid by the seller of the house. When I tried to set up the transfer, I was told I could not send the money electronically because my bank does not have a transfer agreement with my realtor's bank.
You'll need to hire a property solicitor or licensed conveyancer to handle the legal aspects of buying a property, known as conveyancing. A delay at the start of the chain causes problems further down the line, so expect a longer wait if the house is in a chain.
If you have to sell your own home before you can buy the new one, make your offer conditional on selling your current house by a date that you set. Part of your payment goes towards the principal (the amount the bank loaned you), and part of it is interest (the bank's profit from lending you money).
The 4th House or Cancer sign and planet Moon in the astrology chart represents Land, House, property and real estate. One of the reasons that I am given most (after credit) when asked why someone isn't buying their own home instead of renting is that the potential buyer doesn't have the funds for a down payment.


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Yesterday was the first time I'd heard the name 'high functioning depression.' I read a tiny bit about it and thought, this is exactly why my friends and even the nurses that used to be here didn't believe me when i said I'm depressed, I'm getting in deeper and feel like I can't take another step. What they saw didn't say clinical depression, it didn't say she's suicidal, she may need some help. I wonder if this is something like a functioning alcoholic where the personal life is falling apart but the professional side of things is sustained? I don't know but I do feel as though I'm falling apart.......and I do feel left and somewhat overlooked.
My behavior doesn't match my actions. I laugh. I joke, I roll with the daily punches like everyone else in the world. I don't measure my life by another's so that I think my life is worse than this person's life, or that person. I make people laugh and smile and they tell me that they appreciate me...total strangers...."I'm happy you came by the store today. I needed a good laugh." Yeah, me, too.
I'm not okay. I can hardly hold my head up or it takes everything I have not to burst into tears or roll over in bed and hope I don't wake up.
I'm grieving the loss of too many family members, too many friends all in a short span. I lost the fantasy that I'll ever be part of a family and that I'm going to have to be okay with the label 'friend' when I want more than that. If others are okay with 'family of choice' then so be it, I just needed to think that I'd belong....I can't keep that lie anymore. I know that eventually when I cycle through all this I'm going to have to put one foot in front of the other and move forward .. and I will, but right now my throat is tight, my head is low and my eyes are dark..and I'm tired. I want my mother......no I don't.no i don't. i don't even want the shredded fantasy that is so wrecked its no longer recognizable. I just want to stop hurting.
it's 15 min to tea time.
My Aunty S beat Hurricane Matthew and is back in the states. I would guess the aunt living in Florida is still okay bc there was nothing posted on Aunty S's FB page saying Aunty C was hurt. No one has called or texted, they won't. Aunty S has been back in the states and is planning another trip with clients. This trip feels like a slap in the face because it's somewhere my mother always wanted to go, Alaska. It seems a strange choice since my aunt only does tours outside of US territories. I wish she would keep her stupid self here. If Aunty S gets hurt, who will care for my sister? She's got 5 years max and then the question will really take center stage: who will care for my sister?
I just had the strangest thought. Why do I call her my sister? Why can't I strip her of identity the way she did me all those years? Why can't I call her the eldest sibling of three? The other bit of anger that flared said Aunty S should watch out in those mountains. I hear bears can be grumpy. . . . . . I don't want anyone hurt like that.. but she is plump. I hear dark meat is juicier than white meat....... just have a salad with her and it'll even out the calorie count. I do not want them harmed. I'm only kidding.
six minutes until tea time. Spiced apple chamomile and regular tea biscuits. I picked up a small pumpkin at the store the other day so I can make some pumpkin bread and scones. I'm looking forward to all the great harvest foods of this season. Baked apples, baked pumpkin, squashes, argh... zucchini, sweet potatoes, gracious!! In addition to tea there will be hot chocolate spiked with different fun stuff. It's a great season, my favorite... and it just put a smile on my face..
It's 8:01 pm now and I've given up a whole minute of tea time to the computer... gracious, it's 8:02, time's a ticking, tea needs to be poured ....then off to bed. I have therapy tomorrow....oh yeah, and Tony, you can't leave your gravatar blank. Put somethin' there. 🙂 You weren't expecting that were you?


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Named for the Cheraw Indians, Cheraw began as a small trading post at the head of navigation on the Great Pee Dee River. Joseph and Eli Kershaw were granted a part of what is now Cheraw in 1768, and shortly thereafter laid out the present wide streets and town green. This is now the nucleus of the 213 acre National Register Cheraw Historic District, rich with gardens and parks and the architectural legacy of more than 200 years.
Cheraw is a beautiful place in all seasons. Winter camellias give way to spring azaleas and fall leaves and residents have more time to enjoy their families, friends and outdoor adventures.
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It might have been nice if this performance comparison also tested DX11 mode though, since I know Nvidia's cards took a performance hit for DX12 back at the game's launch. I was also a bit surprised to see how poorly Nvidia's 2GB cards fared here though, while AMD's seemed to handle the lack of VRAM more gracefully. The 2GB GTX 1050 dropped below 30fps for an extended length of time even at medium settings, and all of Nvidia's 2GB cards plummeted to single digits at anything higher than that. Meanwhile, the 2GB Radeons stayed above 30fps even at high settings. It kind of makes me wonder how these 3GB GTX 1060s will fare a year or so from now, especially when you consider that the RX 480s and even 470s all come equipped with at least 4GB.
this problem might be isolated to AMD platform. because from tom's hardware GTX1050ti & GTX1050 initial review the GTX1050 2GB is nowhere near this bad in battlefield 1 using DX12. the test back then were using intel platform (6700K):


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Friday, December 30, 2011
Flatbush: Residents Divided Over Expansion Of Shaarei Zion
GRAVESEND - Plans to expand a Gravesend synagogue on Ocean Parkway have divided nearby residents on the issue as some say they're not bothered with the expansion, but others see the proposed structure as an eyesore in their neighborhood.
The Shaare Zion Synagogue hopes to expand the 60-year-old house of worship to six stories, angering some local residents. Some are concerned about its impact on neighborhood aesthetics, while others worry about how much worse parking could get.
Community Board 15 rejected the plan last week in a 19-13 vote, but the vote was only an advisory one, so the Shaare Zion Synagogue can still move forward with obtaining approval from the Standard and Appeals board.
Neighbors say the expansion will provide additional classrooms and prayer space for the nearly 700 families who are members of the large Sephardic Shul.
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Durban Does it Again!!
Our proud girl from Durban Roxi Wardman, train driver assistant who loves wearing leopard print has become South Africa's new MasterChef in a dramatic live broadcast from the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, when she narrowly beat Cape Town domestic worker Siphokazi Mdlankomo by just eight points.
All three MasterChef South Africa Winners come from Durban. First winner was Deena Naidoo, the IT specialist who won the title in an emotional nail biting finale.
Second was Kamini Pather, the quiet, unassuming contestant who shone from the start. Even though Kamini moved to Cape Town she was born and schooled in our beautiful city. And now our vibrant, colourful Roxi who takes the third title!
Sipho and Roxi battled it out for last time in the MasterChef kitchen for a marathon three-challenge showdown, cheered on by their nearest and dearest and all of their fellow Top 12 contestants.
First up was the final Invention Test of the season, in which the two finalists had 90 minutes to prepare a restaurant-quality dish featuring quintessential South African food.
Sipho prepared traditional samp, infused in saffron and coconut milk, which she served with mutton curry and a bean and cucumber sambal and a banana sambal.
Roxi presented individual little boboties with traditional yellow rice and date and apricot chutneys as well as two sambals: quince, and onion and carrot.
The second round was a Dessert Mystery Box containing butter, self-raising flour, milk, cream, amasi, castor sugar, basmati rice, sultanas, eggs, geranium leaves, granadillas, macadamia nuts, pumpkin seeds, fynbos honey, and white wine vinegar.
Sipho and Roxi had 60 minutes to come up with an impressive dessert using every single one of those ingredients in some way. "It's my worst nightmare," confessed Sipho. "I'm competing with the Dessert Queen."
Roxi presented a lamington made with rice flour, along with a fudge crumble and a passion fruit and amasi granita.
Sipho's dessert was a crème patisserie tart with granola and a passion fruit and amasi sorbet, which earned her rave reviews, despite a slightly runny crème pat.
And for the third challenge the judges had a surprise for the two finalists, as well as all the other aspiring chefs in the kitchen – a "cook-off" alongside one of the world's culinary legends: Chef Marco Pierre White.
Sipho and Roxi had to work alongside Chef Marco and follow his example step-by-step to cook a sumptuous dish of roast rump of lamb on the bone, with mussels in a white wine sauce.
At the end of a nerve-wracking cooking session all four chefs judged the finalists' finished dishes. Chef Marco thought Sipho's lamb was slightly overcooked "but that doesn't offend me", he said. "She's cooked her mussels well. She did a very, very, very good job."
He was similarly pleased with Roxi's effort. "I think her cooking of the lamb is very good," he told the other judges.
Social media networks were abuzz with excitement as the final scoring happened in secret. The show then crossed live to the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, where the final scores were revealed: 67 points to Siphokazi and 75 points to Roxi. It was a nerve wrecking wait for the announcement.
As South Africa's new MasterChef, Roxi walks off with R500 000 in cash from Robertson's, a brand new VW Tiguan, R100 000 worth of food from Woolworths, a trip to the French winelands for her and a partner, as well as a year's worth of wines from Nederburg, and a glamorous five night stay at the Maia Luxury Resort and Spa in the Seychelles, courtesy of Tsogo Sun.
Many wanted the domestic worker Sipho to win. Don't worry Sipho doesn't go home empty-handed, she takes home R100 000, courtesy of Robertson's.


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