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An oasis in the city, Nan Ling Gardens is a Buddhist park open to the public, providing some of the most tranquil scenes in the city. It is attached to the Chi Lin Nunnery, which has more limited hours. Both are must-sees for any stay in Hong Kong longer than a few days. It is one of my favourite spots in the world....


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Number of the Week: Urban vs. Rural Spending
32%: How much more urban households' income was in 2011 than rural households'.
Many more Americans live in urban settings than rural areas, and there's a wide divergence in their spending patterns.
Some 92% of households are considered urban by the Labor Department, which includes any person living in a defined metro area, compared to just 8% of households that are considered rural.
Urban households on average spent $50,348 in 2011, the most recent year for which data are available. That was 18% more than the $42,540 spent by rural households.
Urban households spend more in absolute terms in most categories, with the biggest disparity in housing. Whether it's mortgages or rental payments, city dwellers pay more than their country cousins, due in part to higher demand and more limited supply.
But there are some areas where rural consumers spend more, such as health care and transportation. They tend to be older, which explains the health-care costs, and tend to have to drive more, which explains bigger outlays for gasoline and automotive maintenance.
One place that isn't so easily explained is entertainment. Rural households spent $2,652 on entertainment in 2011, $86 more than those in urban regions. City-based consumers spent a lot more on things like movie and museum tickets, while also shelling out more for A/V equipment and home entertainment. But rural consumers took the lead through spending on two other categories. One is a category just called "other supplies, equipment and services," which includes expenditures on things like boats and all-terrain vehicles.
The biggest difference between the two regions was in spending on pets. Urban households spent an average $484 on pet food; pet purchase, supplies, medicine; pet services; and vet services in 2011, compared to $716 for rural households. That difference likely has a lot to do with horses, not a particularly popular or practical pet in the city.


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Founded in 1999, Italian furniture manufacturer Domitalia produces Made in Italy products which are distinguished by their clear-cut design and comfort. Driving their fundamental values is the company's commitment to investing in research and development, focusing on new technology and using previously unused materials. Domitalia's belief in innovation and innovative design has opened up the platform for Italian and international designers; resulting in original, avante-garde pieces using groundbreaking materials.
With each season, Domitalia seeks to create new solutions in comfort and living. New materials such as polyurethane and plastic polymers like polycarbonate, methacrylic and styrene-acrylic nitrile are used together with finished wood, stainless steel, aluminum and glass. Material selection and usage are linked by the ideals of protecting the environment and promoting an expansion of eco-friendly manufacturing processes at Domitalia's state-of-the-art facility in S. Giovanni al Natisone, Italy. Recently, Domitalia obtained ISO 14001 environmental certification. All that research and development pays off: Domitalia consistently produces products which achieve excellence without compromise.
Alberto Werner Arter received his degree from the Venice University, Institute of Architecture in 1969. He has collaborated with the Laboratory of Arts and Costumes of Palazzo Grassi in Venice, developing his studies in the connection between architecture and photography. Afterwards he carried out for many years the position of professional architect and designer between Venice and Geneva. He contributed to numerous projects, including the office buildings and underground parking of Dupont-Nemour on the Geneva Lake. In 1971 he was selected at a competition of the Federal Government for project tasks. In 1975 he founded in Venice the work team ARTERCOM that is involved in the relationship between design and distribution. During this time he collaborated as a consultant and art-director of Department Store Companies. And in 1990 he founded Studio Arter & Citton with Fabrizio Citton promoting the creation of the Laboratory D.MOD for Design and Contemporary Art.View other products by Alberto Werner Arter
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Age: 22
Sex: Male
Race: Caucasian
Case Date: 09/04/1988
County: Daviess
Location of Offense: Oak Grove Rd., Washington, IN
Circumstances: In the early morning hours of September 5, 1988, the burned body of Rebecca Harvey was found in her boyfriend's burned home on Oak Grove Road in Washington, Indiana. Evidence indicated that Ms. Harvey had been doused with gasoline and set ablaze. Her boyfriend, Steven Hendricks was also reported missing and is believed to be a victim of foul play.
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Teeth can be fractured, dislocated, or lost from the socket. Injuries to the teeth and bones supporting the teeth are most commonly caused by accidents. Using safety belts, car safety seats, bike helmets, and mouth guards can help prevent injuries to the head, face, mouth, teeth, oral tissues, and jaws. Baby gates placed at both the top and bottom of stairs can prevent accidental falls by infants and toddlers. Baby walkers are frequent causes of oral injury and use of baby walkers is discouraged.
When children begin to engage in athletic and recreational activities, a mouth guard can be worn to reduce the chance of oral injury. It is estimated that mouth guards prevent between 100,000 to 200,000 oral injuries each year.
Oral trauma requires immediate medical attention. A primary tooth that has been completely knocked out is not likely to be replaced, as there is potential for damage to the permanent tooth. If a permanent tooth has been knocked completely out, the best treatment is to reinsert the tooth at the time of injury. If the tooth is not able to be reinserted, the tooth should be placed in milk and brought to the dentist immediately for replacement in the mouth.
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Baking | Wholewheat Almond Buttermilk Pound Cake … delicious topped with almond cream & fresh strawberries
"The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes… That's the magic right there."
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Wholewheat Almond Buttermilk Pound Cake … made on the trot the other day before dashing off to Bangalore. There was a young, enthusiastic photographer coming over to shoot my profile for a newspaper feature on The New Indian Express … It's a Feast For the Eyes. How could I not bake a cake?
There was plenty of stuff baked as I was going to be away for 2 days. Some Coffee Shortbread Cookies which I quickly turned into Coffee Shortbread Nutella Sandwich Cookies {absolutely divine}. Also on hand some recently baked Amaranth Oat Walnut Ginger Cookies {gluten free and eggless}, and a batch of Wholewheat Dark Chocolate Walnut Brownies. Of course, there is always GF Multigrain Granola at home too …Yet, what's a food porn photo-shoot sans cake? It was a mad rush that day so I had to keep it simple. Short on time, I reached for one of my most trusted recipes, a buttermilk pound cake which has evolved over the years. It's a basic recipe that works with infinite combinations; a recipe never short on ideas!
I've made a buttermilk pound cake a million times in many avatars, my to-go recipe that lives in my head! Some of my favourites versions are the Buttermilk Chocolate Pound Cake, Whole Wheat Coffee Dark Chocolate Pound Cake and the Tres Leches Wholewheat Lemon Pound Cake.
This one turned out to be a hit too. Light, full of flavour with a silky almond whipped cream topping. Fresh sweet strawberries added the right oomph to it; a burst of colour too. You can use any seasonal berries, actually any seasonal fruit for that matter. Mangoes, litchi, kiwi, oranges, plums … all fruit pair well with almond and vanilla!
Photography is sacrosanct and as vital as the written content for Deeba Rajpal, a celebrated food blogger from Gurgaon, who churns out scrumptious recipes and snaps their exquisite replicas for her website Passionate About Baking.
"We eat with our eyes first cannot be understated in today's increasingly visual and dynamic world. The photographs should complement the recipe and build a food connect with the reader," says Deeba, who banks on her aesthetic sense, eye for detail and Canon camera for desired captures.… read the rest of the feature on TNIE
Summary: A healthier & delicious version of the pound cake, one that works with infinite combinations; a recipe never short on ideas! The good thing about the Wholewheat Almond Buttermilk Pound Cake is that is made of whole grain only. Another plus that it doubles up as a tea time favourite, a snack box filler AND a light, healthy dessert too!
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour, 15 minutes
- Wholewheat Almond Buttermilk Pound Cake
- 150g whole wheat flour
- 55g almond meal
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 100g unsalted butter, room temperature
- 200g vanilla sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp almond extract
- 1/2 tsp vanilla bean powder
- 100ml cultured buttermilk
- Almond Whipped Cream
- 100ml low fat cream, chilled
- 30g icing sugar
- Few drops almond extract
- 50-75 fresh strawberries
- Handful fresh mint leaves
- Wholewheat Almond Buttermilk Pound Cake
- Grease and flour the sides of a 8″ ring tin, Line the bottom and sides with baking parchment.
- Preheat the oven to 170C.
- Sift the wholewheat and almond flour / almond meal with the baking powder, baking soda and salt. Reserve.
- Cream the butter and sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time, followed by the vanilla extract, almond extract and vanilla bean powder.
- With beater on low add the flour mix and buttermilk alternately in three lots.
- Bake for 50-60 minutes till golden brown on top, and the tester comes out clean.
- Top with almond whipped cream and fresh strawberries.
- Almond whipped cream
- Whip the cream, sugar and almond extract until medium peaks.
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The genre that began with the Iliad and the Odyssey now includes almost any quest story where two strong forces are working in opposition to each other, Land says. But a thriller's stakes run higher than the average whodunit; they often involve conspiracies, corruption, and a hero who doesn't just solve a crime, but has to prevent a bigger one from happening.
"[T]raditional mysteries appeal primarily to the mind and emphasize the logical solution to a puzzle," explains author and former ITW president, David Morrell, in CrimeSpreeMagazine. "In contrast, thrillers strive for heightened emotions and emphasize the sensations of what might be called an obstacle race and a scavenger hunt . . . in broad terms, the contrast is between emotion and logic, between an urgent pace and a calm one."
"Places that are all good or all bad are kind of boring," he says. "Where there's a real tension between corruption and people battling against it — those places are more interesting. And Rhode Island, I think, is one of those places."
The hub of the state, of course, has always been at the heart of this struggle. By the time Providence's longest-running mayor was compared to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde during his sentencing by a federal judge, the city's reputation was well established. Sure, it was a bastion of religious tolerance and a case study in colonial architecture. But it was also a blood-drenched, sleaze-smeared "petri dish" — a description from Geoffrey Wolff's 1986 thriller, Providence.
"The whole setup seemed like a condensed film noir diorama come to life," says Richard Dean Rosen, author of three sports-themed thriller/mysteries set in Providence in the 1980s. Rosen became obsessed with "pre-Renaissance downtown Providence's eerie emptiness," when he arrived as a Brown freshman in 1967, he explains.
The reasons for this obsession, he says, were legion: "[W]ith Haven Bros., the Industrial National Bank building, the Arcade, the snaking colonial streets, the feeling of a stunted metropolis stuck in time, also the contrast between the Hill's bucolic, red brick beauty and the grimy city below . . . also, of course, the tension between Brown's Ivy Tower and the New England mob's HQ on Federal Hill."
A decade after Rosen's 1984 debut Strike Three, You're Dead, local auteur Michael Corrente would capture that exact mood in a scene from his film, Federal Hill. The film's tinderbox of a plot is sparked when a townie from Federal Hill nicknamed "Freeze" sells cocaine to a Brown student named Wendy on the steps of City Hall. Freeze and Wendy fall in love, but only one lives to see the end of the film.
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Coming Attractions
Arnold Mesches
Arnold Mesches. Coming Attractions 18, 2007. Acrylic on canvas, 40" x 46".
This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The haunting operatic interiors and florid Floridian landscapes in Arnold
Mesches's work conjure the very human desire to seek refuge and, at the same
time, suggest the sometimes sinister forces conspiring to prevent one from
securing that state of being. Mesches is a native New Yorker, now eighty-five
years of age, who has lived and painted prolifically in New York, Los Angeles,
and now Florida. He has dramatically dissented from the status quo through a
lifetime of passionate artmaking. He energetically battles political and social
climates in large-scale gestural painting and drawing. Critic Robert Storr, in
his 2007 essay "By the Rivers of Babylon," describes Mesches as showing us "with
grinning irony" those "compound ambiguities" of "modern civilization on the
brink." Presented in Rhode Island for the first time will be selections from
Mesches's series of paintings Coming Attractions.
Also on display in the hall space gallery will be selections from The FBI Files, which comprise mixed-media collages derived from federal government surveillance documents that charted Mesches's activities for thirty years and that he gathered through the Freedom of Information Act (the artist knowingly describes these as contemporary illuminated manuscripts). His work can be sampled at his award-winning Web site: www.arnoldmesches.com.
This exhibition is co-curated by gallery director James Montford and guest curator Judith Tolnick Champa.
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Cornel West to speak at civil rights conference, April 12
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Cornel West will be among the speakers at "Civil Rights and Resolutions: How to Repair the Next Generation," a conference scheduled for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at the Frist Campus Center .
The conference will be preceded by poetry readings at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 10, at Cafe Vivian in Frist, featuring New Jersey poet laureate Amiri Baraka and Vanessa Hidary, as well as a student performance of African dance.
The conference, sponsored by the Princeton Justice Project, will focus on discussing, developing and proposing resolutions about civil rights issues, including reparations. Randall Robinson, founder of the lobbying organization TransAfrica, will be the keynote speaker.
In addition to West, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion, other speakers will include Howard Taylor, professor of sociology; Kiki Jamieson, lecturer in politics; New Jersey Assemblyman Craig Stanley; and Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, a civil rights activist.
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Asian markets were mostly up Thursday, with Australia finishing at its highest closing level since May 2011 due to continued relief over the fiscal-cliff deal, while sharp declines in car makers helped drag down South Korea.
Regional markets rose following Wednesday's global surge in stocks which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average post its best session since June.
Late night talks on Tuesday U.S. time, which resulted in a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, removed a major overhang for stocks, and continued to help markets push higher, especially in Australia.
The MSCI All Countries Asia Ex-Japan Index jumped 1.9% on Wednesday, outperforming the average 1.7% rise seen in the first week of the year since 2000. A recent research report by HSBC, which refers to the phenomenon as the "January effect," says that all Asian markets tend to rise in the first week of the year, though gains tend to moderate as the month progresses.
The next major data point will be the U.S. nonfarm payrolls, due out Friday, which will give investors a chance to gauge the state of the world's largest economy.
The region's strongest performer on Thursday was Australia's S&P/ASX 200, which was up 0.7% at 4740.70.
Dividend stocks climbed higher in Australia, as the search for yields remained in place despite the recent shift into cyclical stocks, due to fears that Australia could cut interest rates again next month. Commonwealth Bank of Australia was up 0.8% and Telecoms company Telstra Corp. climbed 0.9%.
In addition to the search for yields, mining stocks climbed, in response to an increase in iron ore prices: Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Groups both rose 2.4%.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was up just 0.4% at 23398.60, moderating after a 2.9% leap on Wednesday, and shaking off weakness earlier in the session.
South Korea's Kospi Composite was lower, falling 0.6% to 2019.41, with the market weighed by car makers. Hyundai Motor gave up 4.6% after the company forecast on Wednesday that its global sales growth for 2013 will fall to its lowest level in a decade. Affiliate Kia Motors was also 3% lower.
Singapore's Straits Times Index was last up 0.5% at 3218.12.
Several regional currencies took pause on Thursday following Wednesday's strong gains. The U.S. dollar retreated slightly against the yen to ¥87.15, eating into some of its 0.7% overnight gains. The Australian dollar was little moved at US$1.0498, down from its overnight high of US$1.0524, while the U.S. dollar was slightly lower against South Korea's won at 1,062.3 won.
Oil was lower Thursday, down 0.3% at $92.88 a barrel, pulling away from the three-month high that it reached in U.S. trade.
Markets in Japan and mainland China remained closed for public holidays.
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Marcsta (Marc de Jong) has been on the scene for over two decades and is recognised as a veteran member of a group of Australian artists well known for their skilful execution of the adbust as a way to actively participate with visual culture 'beyond the consumer drip-feed'. Marcsta's motivation for busting the mainstream media is to combat what he considers the 'unbearable, unsustainable terror of disorienting corporate messaging' with his own 'simple, non-violent counter-terrorism'.
By taking the logos of large companies and brands, such as Coca-cola, KFC, 7-Eleven and Cold Power which are 'designed and formulated commerce whose wasteful indulgence is a form of massively funded, distracting social brainwash', Marcsta has created a series of 'critiques, de/reconstructions and honest (re)appraisals of post-consumer life'. In his ReAdvertising stickers, the artist skilfully cannibalises the tactics of the mainstream media, disrupting the advertising message to effectively produce a corporate logo-implosion.
In the tradition of the mass-produced print, the creation of artworks that exist as multiples has gained popularity. Stickers, in particular, have become an obsession for many street artists as the perfect, lo-fi, viral means of saturating a city with images and messages.
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During the 1700's, the Reverend Thomas Bayes was a nonconformist minister at the Mount Sion Chapel in Tunbridge Wells, UK, about 40 miles southeast of central London. Having studied both theology and logic at the University of Edinburgh, he was also a mathematician and developed a strong interest in probability late in life. He was known to have published only one book on theology and one book on mathematics in his lifetime. A third manuscript he never published about the probability of cause made him famous. After his death, a good friend Richard Price recognized the importance of the paper and, after extensive editing, submitted it for publication. More than 20 years later, the great French mathematician, Pierre-Simon Laplace devised the formula for Bayes' probability of causes and acknowledged Bayes as the discoverer of what we now know as Bayesian inference.
Theodore Roosevelt, in his famous speech "Citizenship In A Republic" starts by saying "it is not the critic who counts;" What makes the speech poignant is that all too often it is the critic who counts because we see time and time again the media pointing out "how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better."
Too often we only hear about failures and waste in government, yet the contributions and success of government-funded science and technology are ubiquitous and often under-reported.
Wouldn't it be nice if your name were a unique identifier and nobody else had the same name as you? Unfortunately, most of us share our names with a number of other people, most of whom we have never met and never will. But we have all probably experienced the challenge and frustration of trying to find a specific person from a list of people with the same name. Remember when we used phone books? Trying to pick out the person you needed from a listing of multiple names? Actually, searching the internet doesn't make this process any easier.
At the legendary 1987 American Physical Society conference, sometimes called the "Woodstock of physics", thousands of physicists descended upon a New York Hilton ballroom to hear about the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) in ceramic materials.
The Randolph-Sheppard Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt in 1936. The act established a priority for blind vendors on Federal property. Nearly 77 years later, walking toward the snack stand operated by a blind vendor, the irony always occurs to me as I read an unusual brass plaque on the hallway that commemorates the origin of the Human Genome Project and its champion, Dr. Charles DeLisi. The irony is that Rick, the blind vendor who could one day benefit from that project, cannot see the plaque.
It takes individuals with an almost futuristic vision, able to counter criticism by those with less foresight, to take leaps of faith to establish such a far-reaching effort such as the Human Genome Project. Dr. DeLisi was apparently such a person.
Dr. DeLisi, then Director of the Office of Health and Environmental Research at the Department of Energy, recognized the available technology and came up with the idea to sequence the human genome in 1985.


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TIA is the not-for-profit trade association representing all businesses involved in creating and bringing toys and youth entertainment products to kids of all ages.
The webinar provided participants with a better understanding of how the revised Green Guides affect our industry.
The Toy Industry Association (TIA) invited experts from the law firm of Keller and Heckman LLP to review the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) recent revisions to the Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims (Green Guides) and discuss implications for the toy industry.
All toy industry stakeholders, recommended for those who work on toy marketing and advertising initiatives.
On October 1, 2012, the FTC finalized its much-anticipated revisions to the Green Guides after an extended review period that encompassed multiple public workshops and multiple requests for comments. The final Guides reflect a wide range of public input based on hundreds of consumer and industry comments gathered over the last five years, as well as information discussed at several FTC workshops and consumer perception data developed by the FTC or contributed by commenter's.
Topics covered during this session include:
The webinar discusses the FTC's new guidance on:
The webinar also highlights claims that the FTC declined to address, including "sustainability" claims.
Sheila A. Millar, Partner at Keller and Heckman LLP
Ms. Millar has extensive experience counseling clients on regulatory compliance and public policy issues. In addition to advertising and privacy matters, she advises clients on green claims, green chemistry, product safety and a wide variety of other regulatory and public policy matters. She is a Vice Chair of the ICC Marketing and Advertising Commission, and chairs the Commission's Working Group on Sustainability, where she spearheaded development of the ICC's Framework Guides on Environmental Marketing Claims. She has represented the ICC at international intergovernmental meetings discussing environmental marketing, including meetings of the OECD and UNEP, and is a frequent speaker on the topic of green advertising.
Crystal N. Skelton, Associate at Keller and Heckman LLP.
Ms. Skelton practices in the areas of privacy and advertising, environmental and product safety, and business counseling and transactional. Ms. Skelton's environmental expertise includes green claims, clean air matters, E-Waste, and use of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in consumer and industrial products. She advises clients on related compliance and enforcement matters.
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INPhO, the Information Network on Post-harvest Operations, was originally designed by FAO with the support and collaboration of GIZ and CIRAD in 1996. The site is currently undergoing a review and reformat to enhance the presentation and accessibility of the information available. This information resource is managed by the FAO Nutrition and Food Systems Division.
The principal objectives of INPhO are to promote good practice in post-harvest activities for agricultural products and to assist in the expansion of agribusiness by providing easy access to technical data and information.
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Potato is an important staple food world-wide, claiming fourth place after maize, rice and wheat. It is a good carbohydrate source in addition to other nutritional benefits. Potatoes are cooked before consumption which reduces the presence of the toxic alkaloid solanine. Developing countries now produce approximately one third of world production, which was 314 million tonnes in 2008 (FAOSTAT). Though commonly consumed in its fresh form, the tuber is versa...
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This section provides access to Cookbook, Videos and Food Processing Toolkit covering relevant issues on agro-processing and post-harvest activities related to fruits and vegetables, grains and cereals, roots and tubers, livestock products among others.
The information provided in this section is intended to be used as an efficient tool to assist in skill enhancement and development in post-harvest activities and small agro-industries development.
The provision of effective training is a key aspect in promoting best practice in post-harvest operations to minimise losses and reduce waste in the development of agroindustries and/or agro-businesses.


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Currants and mozzarella cheese give these golden brown bites an edge over your average wedge.
Imagine how a teeny-weeny dried seedless grape with its origin all the way back to Corinth, Greece, could be so readily available today at most grocery stores. Look for currants right next to the raisins.
Oops--forgot to pick up the buttermilk? No sweat; just add a scant tablespoon of white vinegar or lemon juice to 3/4 cup milk, and let it stand a few minutes. Or you can substitute 3/4 cup plain yogurt.
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Arturia Prophet-V
Prophet 5 Mode
Arturia's Prophet-V offers something no other major soft synth maker has with respect to the classic Prophet synth emulators. The Prophet-V offers two of Sequential Circuits most groundbreaking instruments in one complete package: The analog king Prophet 5 and the vector based ProphetVS synthesizers. What's even more delicious about the Prophet-V, is that these two divergent synthesis systems can be combined into a Hybrid mode allowing for Prophet-like sounds never before possible with previous software emulations or even the original vintage machines - at least not at this affordable price or in such a convenient and intuitive package! Available as a stand-alone and plug-in soft synth for Mac and PC, the Prophet-V supports VST, DXi, Audio Units, RTAS, ASIO and Core Audio.
First we'll examine the Prophet 5 emulation. Arturia uses their TAE (True Analog Emulation) synthesis to offer a true replica of the classic Prophet 5 - one of the first polyphonic programmable synthesizers of its time. The sounds are classic seventies analog: warm, gritty and unique. The interface looks nearly identical to the original, and offers the same basic subtractive synthesis that should be familiar and intuitive enough to any musician who's been around an analog synth. Like the P5, it has two oscillators (A: saw & square; B: saw, triangle, square) with pulse-width and noise and individual mixer controls. A 24dB/oct (self-oscillating) filter with cutoff, resonance, env amt, kybd tracking, and ADSR controls. An amplifier with ADSR. An LFO section with saw, tri and square wave shapes and a rate control. Sequential's Poly-Mod section, Wheel-Mod section, Legato - all 54 parameters of the original Prophet are here. Arturia tried so hard to remain true to the original that the Prophet-V ships with the original factory Prophet 5 patches - all 40 of them - loaded into its memory. Arturia's new features include just a monophonic Unison mode, a Sustain feature, plus Chorus and Delay effects (and of course, unlimited patch memory along with a bunch of additional patches programmed by renowned sound designers).
Sonically, the Prophet 5 emulation is spot on! The original P5 has a very unique sound, due to the age of its components and the nature of its chips that were available during its production. They sound warm but also, sometimes, a little thin or lacking in the meat department. But because of a P5's age, they are prone to having dirty or distorted artifacts, noisy pots, flaky buttons that may or may not work, dead keys on the keyboard, and a tendency to drift out of tune the more it warms up. All these may add up to "character," but in a real world scenario, they can be a burden. This is where the Prophet-V comes in, with a sound quality that is unmistakably Prophet, but without the "age" in its sound or interface. This is one Prophet that will remain in tune and will never let you down in the studio or on stage (unless of course your computer crashes). Due to the outrageous prices and rarity of vintage P5s, the Prophet-V is an excellent way to add the sounds and the feel of using and programming one to your synth studio - the Prophet 5 emulation alone is worth it, rivaling and in some ways out-doing competing soft synth replicas of the P5!
ProphetVS Mode
Next up is the ProphetVS emulation, one of the few places where you can find this form of synthesis in a software synth. Briefly, the ProphetVS was a ground breaking synth for Sequential that uses digitally stored waveforms in a table, which are freely selected and blended together (usually with a joystick) by the user. This synth came out right at the same time that Sequential went out of business, so the original machines are quite rare and sought after. Their technology, however, went directly into the Korg Wavestation series and also the Waldorf Microwave series.
So, back to the Prophet-V. Actually, the ProphetVS is not visually replicated here, in fact the Prophet-V looks almost nothing like the original. But that's a good thing, the original had a very primitive and counterintuitive interface, which has been remedied here, some 20 years later by Arturia. There are the same 96 digitally sampled waveforms of the original ProphetVS here, and you can choose up to four of them for your sound. You can see a graphic representation of each waveform as you browse through them while assigning them to each of the four oscillators. Frequency and tuning for each osc can be adjusted. Then there is the Vector-based joystick, which is basically the mixer that lets you adjust how much of each waveform will be heard - the interactions of the various waveforms you choose will yield interesting but almost entirely unpredictable results - experimentation is the name of the game!
There are few other basic synth functions including a filter which can be set to Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass, or Band Reject modes, with cutoff, resonance and env amount controls. The filter has a 5-point envelope that can be drawn for unique shapes. The amp section offers volume and stereo pan controls for all voices or each of the five separate voices independently (this can allow for some awesome stereo sounds). The Amp also has a 5-point envelope that can be drawn, just like the filter. All envelopes are shown as graphic representations of their shape. There's also two simple LFOs with tri, saw, square, ramp and random waveforms and a rate control. The complex modulation capabilities of the original ProphetVS are greatly simplified in Arturia's graphically displayed Modulation matrix section, where you can intuitively assign a Mod source (LFOs, pressure, velocity, envelopes, mod wheel) to a destination (osc frequencies, osc mix amounts, filter cutoff, env, LFO rates, volumes, panning, etc.). This allows you to create far more dynamic sounds that can move around in stereo, evolve over time, undulate, vibrate and morph - all in a manner much more easy to understand and execute than on the original machine. In addition, Arturia has added some new features to the ProphetVS such as chorus and delay effects, and unison and legato modes. Oh, and in case you have not already figured it out, the Prophet-V sounds as close to the original instrument as any modern day computer based software instrument can, thanks to Arturia's excellent TAE synthesis.
Prophet-V Hybrid Mode
For the low, low price of this software package, this is an unbeatable way to acquire pretty much everything the classic Sequential line of synths had to offer. And even though each of these two emulations are amazing on their own, let's not forget that Arturia has allowed us a Hybrid mode where you can join the Prophet 5 and the ProphetVS together into a monster synth! This is where sounds that you never thought possible from a Sequential start to emerge. While the two synths are still independent of each other, they are joined via the Modulation matrix and an audio mixer. So in the Mod matrix you can actually modulate P5 parameters through some of the PVS' mod sources, and likewise some of the PVS' parameters can be modulated by some of the P5's mod sources. The stacked hybrid also shares the same chorus and delay effects as well.
Out of the box, the Prophet-V comes with original factory patches for the P5 and the PVS. There are additional programmed sounds for each instrument and there are a bunch of programmed sounds for the Hybrid mode, for over 500 programs out of the box! Import of MIDI sysex from original P5 and PVS synths is also supported so you can load in your own custom patches from the real synths or from the plethora of patch files available from libraries and the internet. Patches are organized by synth type and sound type and there are convenient blank template patches to get you started programming your own personal sounds. The Prophet-V supports up to 96kHz for superior digital sound quality, and with no aliasing from 0.1 Hz up to 16kHz. Polyphony is also up from the originals (the P5 had 5 voices, the PVS had 8 voices) supporting from 2 up to 32 voices. For its price, the audio quality, intuitive interface, emulative accuracy, and expanded abilities and possibilities, the Arturia Prophet-V is an amazing instrument that belongs in every musician's computer, and is definitely worth checking out before choosing to throw down two times or more money on an unreliable original vintage version - unless of course "character" is all you're after.
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Audio Clip 1 - A little noodling with the Prophet-V. First is a Prophet 5 lead patch, then a ProphetVS bell sound, then a Hybrid Pad and Hybrid Arepggio.
Download Demo - Visit Arturia's website to download a free demo and try it out for yourself!
- Specifications
- Polyphony - From 2 to 32 voices of polyphony, and a Unison mode
- Oscillators - 2 VCOs per voice (saw, tri, square, noise) for Prophet 5
4 Wavetable oscillators (with 96 waveforms) for ProphetVS.
- Modulation - 3 LFOs with MIDI sync
- Filter - 1 resonating lowpass filter for Prophet 5
1 multimode resonant filter for ProphetVS (Highpass, Lowpass, Bandpass, Band reject)
- VCA/Envelopes - 2 ADSR envelopes and 3 five point envelopes
- Arpeg/Seq - Arpeggiation capability
- Keyboard - Virtual 61-note keyboard
- Effects - Chorus, Stereo Delay with MIDI Sync
- Memory - Ships with over 500 presets. Unlimited patch memory.
- Interfaces - Stand-Alone: ASIO, Core Audio.
Plug-In: VST, DXi, RTAS, Audio Units.
- Macintosh - OS X 10.2 or higher, 1.5 GHz, 512MB RAM
- Windows/PC - Windows 98 SE/2000/XP, 1.5 GHz, 512MB RAM
- Date Produced - 2006
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Dong Son culture
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Ceremonial daggers created by the Dong Son culture sometimes feature figurative hilts. This handle shows a standing man wearing a necklace and heavy earrings, with hands on hips and the patterned ends of his loincloth falling from his waist. His head too appears to be wrapped in cloth. The ancient weapon reveals the nature of male adornment more than 2000 years ago. It also confirms the longevity of dress styles in animist Southeast Asia where today men still wear loincloths and headcloths for ceremonial events.


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Fear of facing colleagues sober best way to curb office party excesses, says researcher
The trick to getting people to watch their drinking this Christmas is to warn them they will ruin the party rather than telling them it's bad for their health, an academic has found.
At this time of year office parties start kicking into gear and there is a traditional splurge of eating and drinking over Christmas and New Year.
University of Canterbury consumer researcher Dr Ekant Veer studied a group of about 250 people to find the best way to talk to someone about their drinking.
Half were presented with standard health messages that drinking was bad for them, while the other half were told that if they went on a binge they were more likely to ruin the social situation for everyone.
"We found that when the social situation was important, like a party, then the social message was far more effective when getting people to moderate their binge drinking compared to the health message. People really didn't care about their own health," he told the Herald.
Dr Veer said eating and drinking in moderation was definitely something that could get ignored at the office Christmas party.
But bad behaviour is not easily forgotten - especially when people have to go back to work and face their colleagues again, sober.
Dr Veer started his research with a group of university students - "because they're the group most prone to binge drink" - then extended it to the workplace environment.
As long as people had a "justifiable reason", such as an office party, personal health messages were ignored by the majority.
Some people tended to zone out after a few drinks, so having a frank discussion beforehand could help moderate their behaviour at the party.
Dr Veer also found that, as suspected, people threw their diets out the window during the festive season.
"Previous research has shown that people can eat as much as 3000 calories at Christmas, which is like eating six extra big burgers in a day.
"However, the ongoing effects of over-consumption of both food and alcohol can still be significantly detrimental to our health and wellbeing," he said.
Christmas tips
1. Stay hydrated
Alternate glasses of alcohol with water and have an electrolyte-type drink before you go to bed.
2. Don't drink on an empty stomach
Eat something nutritious before you go out drinking to slow the absorption of alcohol.
3. Don't overdo it
Play it safe and stick to one drink an hour.
4. Increase your B vitamin intake
Those low in vitamin B3 levels will find they can't bounce back after a big night as easily.
5. Dose up on vitamin C
A Vitamin C supplement will give the immune system an almighty boost.
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DNA testing will take place just before the Field Trial Welcome banquet on Monday night, 9/26.
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Salto Uruguay on the weekend
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While uruguay can be extremely quiet and sleepy on the weekdays it sure comes to live on the weekends. This small town of about 200 000 (uruguays second largest).
Has a night club area far out of the city about 15 min by the river.
Which is a new concept for myself coming from north america where the nightclub(disco) areas are usually in the center of the citys downtown.
Dinner In Salto like most spanish citys/countries is late anywhere from 9-11pm
Followed by drinks, Then you slowly make your way to the Club area, by now its already 1:30am And the scene looks like a massive tailgate party with everyone chilling at there cars pumpin tunes and drinking beer, No one actually goes inside the clubs until 2:30-3am
alright so hopefully everyones been enjoying my updates as of late, its been
well interesting to say the least, not to much new stuff has happend i have
switched citys and visiting more of my extended family, i have met 2 of my
cousins very nice young girls, i went to there fathers friends house today
for a feast huge meal bbq, not a canadian bbq, bbqs are huge in south
america, everywhere and the cuts are interesting for example, cow chin, yum
yum, i been tryin to cut back on the booze, but its difficult, coz they dont
ask they just poor, every morning theres a rye and coke waiting, at meals,
they poor you a glass, and constantly top you up, they are amazing hosts
very curtiouse, makes it difficult to say no
mentioned is all the road ways that are pathed here are toll roads, only
about a buck canadian, but to the locals who drive them everyday i guess it
adds up, and what happend was the govt couldnt affort to maintain or build
the roads, so the contract it out to forgein buiesnesses who then put a toll
on it. its been more or less a slow news day, haha considering how eventful
the past few weeks have been, i had a chair break on me, while suntaning,
and got to know my family in salto, as best as i could with the language
barrior. i think were going to be in salto for one more day and then its off
to the now infamous punta del esta, everywere i go in latin america,
everyone tells me i need to go there as soon as possible and how amazing it
is, and then montevideo for the last half of my journy, which i imagine will
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Practically Speaking
Kyle and her husband moved to Brookfield in 1986. She became active in local politics and started blogging in 2004. Her focus is primarily on local issues but often includes state and national topics, too. Kyle looks at things from the taxpayers' perspective in a creative, yet down to earth way, addressing them from a practical point of view.
Ron Johnson enters U.S. Senate race against Feingold
Oshkosh businessman Ron Johnson formally entered the GOP primary for the U.S. Senate today, a fact that makes conservatives like me breathe a little easier.
I don't know Mr. Johnson personally, but I have spoken to him on the phone and emailed him a few times. I have found him to be thoughtful, measured, responsive, and conservative.
In some respects, he reminds me of our first President, George Washington. Like Washington, Johnson is not seeking to be a career politician. Instead he is answering a call to serve as a Citizen Legislator. Being a Citizen Legislator was one theme Johnson touched on in his speech at the Madison Tea Party in April.
One of the things I asked Ron when I called to encourage him to run against Russ Feingold was, did he have any skeletons in his closet? I believe Choir Boy was the term he used to describe himself. That made me smile. (I don't think I was the only one to ask that question.) Character is a very important element of a candidate to me.
I believe Ron Johnson has a very good chance of winning in November against Russ Feingold. He certainly has a lot going for him.
From the ISTHMUS, The Scons,
"He [Johnson] apparently has money, which unfortunately often translates into legitimacy in politics. The parties love a guy with money, not only because he can contribute to his own campaign, but because it relieves them from some fundraising duties, especially in a race against Feingold, who may be vulnerable but certainly is not worth the GOP attention that the governor's race or the two House races up North deserve. He's still the favorite by a long-shot."
Being able to self-fund a campaign is very helpful, especially since it is a bit late in the game to be running. (I blame Tommy Thompson for that.) But money alone doesn't guarantee success. Terrance Wall is wealthy and has contributed to his campaign, but he has some baggage in that he has avoided paying income taxes because of depreciation allowances. He is also not as conservative as Johnson. (In the Governor's race, Mark Neumann is self funding, but he is not an ideal conservative candidate either with his pro ethanol/ renewable energy stance. Neumann also seems to be hedging on answering some very simple questions lately.) So self-funding alone does not an ideal candidate make!
The following factors do matter to voters, as pointed out by Craver, "Last but not least, Johnson doesn't have any ideological question marks on his record. He has not served in a Democratic administration or headlined a fundraiser for Democratic candidates, and he has not made any contributions to Democrats in the past, unlike Terrence Wall. Johnson actually spoke at the Tea Party rally, unlike Wall or Westlake, and he can apparently give an OK speech. All you have to do is read a few conservative blogs [hey, that's me!] to discover that many conservatives feel the current primary field is neutered, and desperately in need of some right wing testosterone."
I don't see Johnson as being just right wing, to me he represents American values like hard work and living within your means.
Whatever happens in November, I have to say a big, thank you, Ron Johnson, for entering the U.S. Senate race. Our country and state need someone like you in Washington. I appreciate the huge sacrifice you and your family are making on our behalf.
One bit of trivia, Ron Johnson is brother to Home Time's Dean Johnson.
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The city was a major European trading centre and Bryggen, the old Hanseatic wharf, is Unesco protected, its stone and timber merchants houses now dwellings for artist studios and seafood restaurants who buy supplies like king crab from the market in Torget. Walk through the narrow alleys to Nordnes peninsula and next to the Aquarium is a commemoration to the 350 witches who were burnt here. A funicular connects the city centre with Mount Fløyen above, where you can access an extensive network of hiking and cross country skiing trails that thread their way through the seven mountains, or enjoy truly spectacular fjordland views.
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2006 GTA Trilogy Pack Coming Out For Christmas
GTAGaming.com - General News | @ 07:46 PM MDT | By cyrix
Rockstar Games has announced that it will release its Grand Theft series in a Trilogy pack for the PS2 in time for Christmas.
Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will be released as Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy on 4 December in the US for $40.
So for those of you looking to replace your beaten up copies, or if you just want the nice box art that they'll most likely be packaged in, it looks like it's time to add another item to that wish list.
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Enfusion Live Belgium: Live Results
- Written by Rian Scalia
Enfusion Live's first event of the year takes palce today in Zwevegem, Belgium. The event features a four man heavyweight tournament, with the winner qualifying to the next Enfusion reality show in Las Vegas. As well, Andrew Tate fights David Radeff at 85kg and a women's 61kg title fight takes place between Ilona Wijmans and Anke van Gestel. Full fight card here.
The event gets started at 4PM ET/1PM PT in North America and can be seen live on Fight Network in Canada. I'll be providing live play by play on twitter at @rianscalia. Live results will be updated here as they happen.
HW semi final: Geatan Sautron def. Kirk Krouba by TKO in Round 1.
HW semi final: Thomas Vanneste def. Mohamed Achachbaun by unanimous decision.
70kg: Cenk Cankurtaranoglu def. Kevin Hesseling by KO (Left Cross) in Round 1.
85kg: Andrew Tate def. David Radeff by unanimous decision.
61kg Enfusion world title: Anke van Gestel def. Ilona Wijmans by unanimous decision.
HW final: Geatan Sautron def. Thomas Vanneste by unanimous decision.


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El Chuxter - nice find on Ravage!
Are you moving any closer to San Diego? We could hang out again and sniff Mouse Droids!
The Alts do get expensive when your primary collecting hobby is Star Wars, and then along comes a TF you want to buy.
Wheeljack is my next definite purchase. I'm not sure about Ravage and Shockwave, but they are the Decepticons I could see being my most likley until the $30 jets come out. Wished there were at least prototype pictures of Starscream!


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Reporter killed in third attack on Pakistani journalists in 24 hours
New York, September 9, 2015--The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the violence against journalists and media workers in Pakistan after three separate attacks in 24 hours. Former Geo News business reporter Aftab Alam was killed outside his home in Karachi today by two gunmen, according to media reports. The shooting came less than 24 hours after a Geo News technician was killed in Karachi when gunmen opened fire on a broadcast van belonging to the privately owned station. No group has claimed responsibility for either attack.


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So what I want to do is:
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I just want to fill the buffer I pass into the function with the CreateBuffer D3D11 function, which takes a reference.
Well, not much stuff. But it causes my graphic driver to crash.
Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?(My basic c++ sucks thought)
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text: going through the photos just now I found this very nice snapshot. I know it was taken in Maine at a NAHRA Field Test. It was at a upland hunting guide place but I cannot remember the year. The place only held a NAHRA test that one year. And I cannot remember the name of the place ether. But it is a great old photo, if we could get it back to the person in it that would be cool.


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VIDEO: Bat For Lashes, "Daniel"
"Hold on a sec."
I'm on the phone with British multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter Natasha Khan (better known as Bat for Lashes), but the background chatter in her London press office is a bit overwhelming, so there's a furtive rustle as she scuttles to a quiet spot. "Okay, that's better. Sorry about that."
No need for apologies. I'm getting a glimpse into a recurring motif for Bat for Lashes, that of escaping the fray for a secluded spot to think and create. For Khan this sort of forced seclusion has resulted in music rich with imagery and built on its own internal mythology. And it's all guided by her peculiarly beguiling voice, spiraling and rising, fading and enveloping. When she finds a nook in the offices and we're able to speak in relative quiet, I feel as if I were being let in on a secret.
I'm not, of course. Khan's 2006 debut, Fur and Gold (Caroline), was nominated for Britain's Mercury Prize, and no discussion of Bat for Lashes neglects to point out that her early supporters range from Björk to Yorke (who brought her on tour with Radiohead). But hype and famous fans notwithstanding, her musical world is often a solitary and strange place swirling with mythic and emotional tempests. "Trembling midnight lands/I travel with the wizard/Drink his blood and he's our leader" would be perfectly at home in the realm of Viking metal. But this particular verse is from Khan's debut single, "The Wizard," and it's got all her Bat for Lashy trademarks: the starkness, the seriousness, the crystal clarion calls of the vocal high points. She's like an R&B Joan of Arc with a toy piano tossed into the wilderness without her superproducer.
Khan's tangling of the otherworldly with the personal occurred through a strange confluence. "When I left university at 23 [she's now 29], I went to become a nursery-school teacher to kind of pay my rent and stuff. At the time, I was reading a lot of Carl Jung, as well as a lot of old fairy tales, and I just absorbed all of this information. I worked on songs when I would get home from work, and all of this stuff just kind of came out."
The result was Fur and Gold, a gorgeously bizarre effort that's as lush as it is raw. "I still think it's a small record, my personal baby — I feel that it's very pure and minimal and where I was at that point without any external interruptions. I was just living in Brighton, working, and indulging myself at that time with all sorts of instruments. That record, it's like a secret, almost to me. I suppose that one's first album is kind of imbued with the story of your whole life up to that point."
Khan's parents (an English Christian mother and a Pakistani Muslim father) split when she was 12. She has lived with both her father in Pakistan and her mother in England, but her hyperactive imagination ensured that wherever she was, part of her surroundings would always be of her own creation. "Growing up with religious parents, I think a lot of us can recognize symbols and metaphors and archetypal characters without even knowing. I think that mythology is extremely embedded in our culture, extremely important. If you look at the last 50 years, things have changed very quickly. Until then, you had the birth of the written word and storytelling and folkloric beginnings and pagan and religious stories, and I think there's something universal about them. The Bible might be fairly far-fetched, but the metaphors still make some sense, you know?"
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This week's deadly unrest in Mozambique became a global news story in part because reporters and citizen journalists used new media and social networking tools. Clashes between security forces and people protesting rising prices in the capital, Maputo, left at least seven people dead and more than 200 people injured, according to the latest news reports.
As the streets exploded with violence, one Maputo resident (@BarataJorge)
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observer closely following the Maputo twitterers (@giantpandinha,
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video is hard to believe: man shooting at rioters on the street below, from
office [of] the ruling party in #Maputo."
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As more tweets appeared in English, more international news media outlets began to express interest in the Maputo Twitterers. On Thursday, for instance, @JorgeBarata received a tweet from freelance journalist Amandine Schmitt on behalf of the Observers news blog of broadcaster France 24. "Hello, how can we contact you to talk about Maputo riots? Please come back to us," Schmitt wrote. Similarly, Chiaras received a tweet from Faith Karimi, a CNN International Wire news desk editor (@FaithCNN): "Are you in Maputo? Can you DM a phone. contact I can reach you for a story?"
Early this morning, Charas sounded the end of the riots. "After a 3hour round I can report that #maputoriots are no more. All roads are accessible, not blocked & no signs of trouble anywhere."
As noted by Global Voices blogger Lova Rakotolomalala, who reported on the unrest in Madagascar in 2009, accuracy and context are often missing from citizen reporting in times of crises. This view was reiterated by @giantpandinha, who wrote "Tweet and rumor equal." Nevertheless, the same user encouraged Mozambicans to tweet in many languages using the hashtag #Maputo. He added: "The world cares about you, Mozambique."
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It's a few days into a new year, but the movie review crew has old business to handle.
This is our yearly look back at the best and worst movies of 2012.
Bad flicks
We'll start with Wizard 106's "Roadkill" Bill and his bad picks. Admittedly, he didn't see as many movies as other crew members, so his list of "losers" includes a C plus and two B minuses.
He thought "Ted," which is about a plush toy that comes to life, was funny but filthy. He gave it the C plus.
He was a fan of the "Dark Shadows" TV show, and thought the movie version with Johnny Depp should've been much better. He also was disappointed with Julia Roberts' turn as an evil queen in "Mirror, Mirror."
"It was too goofy," he said.
Wizard 106's Kelli Karlson gave an F to "Cloud Atlas," which featured Tom Hanks and Halle Berry in a variety of roles.
"It was painful. It was beyond painful," she said. "I needed a shower after that movie."
She gave a D minus to "The Three Stooges" because she doesn't appreciate Stooge humor. "The Watch," a Ben Stiller film about an alien invasion, earned an I for incomplete because she couldn't sit through the whole thing.
I agree with "Roadkill" Bill on "Mirror, Mirror," and gave it an F because Roberts' overacting annoyed me. I agreed with Kelli on the "Watch," and awarded it a C minus.
I also couldn't stand "Joyful Noise," and gave it a D minus. I lost count of how many times I looked at my watch during this one.
Good flicks
On the good side, "Roadkill" Bill had good things to say about "Wreck-It Ralph." He gave the animated film an A, and also gave an A to "The Artist," a silent film that surprised a lot of viewers.
"I didn't expect to like 'The Artist,' he said, "but I loved it."
"The Avengers" is Bill's top pick. He gave the superhero film an A plus.
Kelli gave an A plus to "End of Watch," which featured Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as L.A. cops. She thinks Ben Affleck will rack up Academy Awards for his work as director and actor in "Argo," which she gave an A. She also enjoyed "Lawless," a gritty story about bootleggers during Prohibition.
I agree with "Roadkill" Bill on "The Avengers" and "The Artist." They were completely different films, but both delivered exciting moments, as well as intimate ones.
My other top pick is "Cloud Atlas." I know the movie was too long and too weird for a lot of people. Many, like Kelli, put it on their loser list for 2012, but I took Roger Ebert's advice and let it wash over me. I look forward to seeing this great big mess of a fantastic film again.
Those were the ups and downs. Visit us next week as we start working on next year's list. Happy belated New Year.
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By: Dr. Ricky Rood , 6:25 AM GMT on December 08, 2013
Cold Weather in Denver: Climate Change and Arctic Oscillation (8)
I've been living with this cold weather in Colorado this week. If you look around at the Wunderground personal weather station sites, we've seen a lot of about -10 F at nights. It's been causing a lot of grief for homeless people, animals and pipes. There have been a few record lows set. The whole Arctic air mass is starting to move east, which means it will get a lot more press. According to Jeff Master's blog 80% of the country will be below average.
I thought I had finished my series of blogs on the Arctic Oscillation a couple of weeks ago, but this cold air out break takes me back. It that series I wrote about cold air in the Arctic that is isolated because of barriers caused by streams of rapidly moving air that flows around polar latitudes. I described wobbles in the streams that caused cold air to move south and warm air to move north. Here is one of the figures that I used.
Figure 1: This figure is from the point of view of someone looking down from above at the North Pole (NP). This represents a weak, wavy, wobbly vortex displaced from the pole. The vortex encloses cold air, represented as blue. The line surrounding the cold air is the jet stream or the edge of the vortex. (definition of vortex)
Figure 1 shows an idealized schematic of the North Pole as viewed from above. This is the weak vortex case, when there is a large wobble. In this case, the point X is cold and the point Y is warm. In a case of a stronger, more circular vortex, then the case would be reversed, with point X warm and point Y cold.
Here is a figure from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), that I have marked up a bit. The colors are the temperatures at the 850 hecto-Pascal surface, which is about 1.5 kilometers above the surface. The 850 hecto-Pascal temperatures are a good indicator of where it is hot and cold at the surface.
Figure 2: This figure is from the point of view of someone looking down from above at the North Pole (NP). The contour lines on the figure are the height of the 500 hecto-Pascal surface, which is between 5 and 6 kilometers above the surface of the Earth. The colors are the temperatures at the 850 hecto-Pascal surface, which is about 1.5 kilometers above the surface. The 850 hecto-Pascal temperatures are a good indicator of where it is hot and cold at the surface. Figure from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
I drew a blue arrow showing that the cold air at the pole has wobbled off of the pole and it is pushed towards Colorado. To the west there is warm air, red arrow, pushing up towards Alaska. So while it has been cold in Colorado, it has been quite warm in much of Alaska. Though a less prominent signal, there has also been warm air moving up the East Coast of the U.S. The Alaska – Colorado contrast is a nice real-world example of what I showed in Figure 1. For completeness with my example, the big, black dashed line is the jet stream of air flowing around the pole.
There were several points in my series on the Arctic Oscillation. The first important point is that even in a world that is getting warmer, the polar latitudes become isolated as the Sun goes down for the winter and jet stream intensifies. In this isolation it gets cold, because there is no heating from the Sun and the polar latitudes have a barrier between themselves and the warmer lower latitudes. The second important point is this wobble, the pushing of air off of the pole in some direction. In this case the coldest air is over Greenland, Canada and the U.S. If there is sufficient wobble to push the air far to the south or if it gets pushed to some place it did not get pushed before, then it is even likely to have record cold. These points are all work together and are not correctly viewed as independent events. (I was recently annoyed by the parenthetical dismissal of global warming in this otherwise nice prediction of early strong lake effect snow in Michigan. The statement was essentially pockets of cold Arctic air should not exist.)
I will finish with the Arctic Oscillation. The Arctic Oscillation Index from the Climate Prediction Center is shown in Figure 3. The discussion in my Arctic Oscillation series focused on the positive and negative phases of the Arctic Oscillation Index. Much of the attention was on the eastern U.S. The negative phase was when it is likely to be very cold in the eastern U.S.
Figure 3: Arctic Oscillation Index for early August 2013 until December 7, 2013 from the Climate Prediction Center
In this measure of the Arctic Oscillation Index, the most recent times have been weakly positive, tending towards negative. (Perhaps suggesting movement of the cold air towards the U.S. east coast?) Perhaps more important Figures 2 and 3 together show that large undulations with warm air pushing far northward and cold air displaced off the pole can occur in other parts of the world when the index is weak. As pointed out many other times over the years of this blog, what goes on in the U.S. is not good instantaneous editorial content for climate change.
Previous entries:
Climate Change and the Arctic Oscillation 2
Climate Change and the Arctic Oscillation 1
Wobbles in the Barriers
Barriers in the Atmosphere
Definitions and Some Background
August Arctic Oscillation presentation
CPC Climate Glossary "The Arctic Oscillation is a pattern in which atmospheric pressure at polar and middle latitudes fluctuates between negative and positive phases."
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I'm holding out for the Helm's Deep Aragorn. He looks better that the previous figures.
This next year is gonna be a good one for LOTR figures.
I'm holding out for the Helm's Deep Aragorn. He looks better that the previous figures.
This next year is gonna be a good one for LOTR figures.
"Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. The ship you seek is nearby." -Boba Fett
The face of Aragorn sadly doesn't fit in. I nearly got caught up in this when the first wave of TTT hit my store - I had Legolas, Easterling and Gondorian Ranger ready to go, but the Aragorn didn't fit in well enough so I dumped them all. Regretfully, they were all gone when next I went to look. I think I will wind up with Legolas for sure, and the Easterling, and Saruman the White, and....well you get the picture. Now all they have to do is get them back in stock.
Yeah, the only figure I am disappointed in so far is Aragorn. Legolasis excellent!
Is the FORT Strider figure better than the TTT Aragorn?
"Roger Nasty Butler!"
It's not really that better. It has a sword swinging feature which is not really good. And you can't really pose him either. The likeness is a little better though.
"Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. The ship you seek is nearby." -Boba Fett
I compared the two and believed the head to be the same (if we're talking the single figures). My store had the old stuff on a 4.97CDN a figure, I should have scooped it all. The only change I could see on the face of Aragorn was a slight refinement to the paint application around his beard. The face just isn't right, and it's too important a character not to get right. I hope they fix it next go round.
I think between that characters figures, the Strider figure tops them all. He just looks alot better and has a better gimmick with the sword and he has that sweet torch! Just my .02.
"Woke up at 9.55am. Soon as I woke up, I looked at Suzanne and she looked at me. I said, 'Did I tell you about the immune system?' Suzanne starting laughing, I said, 'it's amazing.' She said, 'Not now.'"
I'm going to TRU tomorrow, and planning on getting my first, and definitely not last LOTRs figure. Between Treebeard and Sauron, who would you recommend? Just wondering what some of your personal opinions are. They had a surplus of both the last time I went, about a week ago.
"Ohnomyfriendthisisamistakeaterriblemistaketheyhav egonetoofarthisismadness!" -Count Dooku, AOTC
I still can't find Sauron at all.
"Roger Nasty Butler!"
Get Sauron first, but only because he will be gone soon.
As far as the most satisfying figures go, get TTT Legolas and the Easterling. They are the best of all of the figures followed very closely by the Gondorian Ranger and the Rohirrian Soldier.
I would like to know why Toybiz felt it necessary to add the -ian suffix to the names of those figures. Completely unnecessary and actually an incorrect use of English.
My wife treats me like an ATM machine. She pushes my buttons until I give her money.
I always thought the Rohirrian soldier name looked weird whenever I saw it.
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Muay Thai Weekly Recap: January 19
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January 14
Phetaik Kiatyongyuth def. Phetmai Lukboonmee by decision.
Phetmai Sitdejaw def. Lamlert Sitsorapit
January 15
Jingreedtong Seatranferry def. Aikrit Mor. Krungthepthonburi by decision.
Yothin Sakaetongresort def. Sarawut Pithakpabhadang by decision.
Seankeng KILA Sport def. Dejrit Sor. Prasobchok by decision.
Jamsak Sakburirum def. Nongmai Teded99 by decision.
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Kaimookdum Aikbangsai def. Sakmongkon 96Penang by TKO in Round 4.
Phetthaksin Sor. Sommai def. Surachai Srisuriyanyothin by decision.
January 17
Phanpayak Jitmuangnont def. Yodmanoot Phetpotong by decision.
Phetlamsin Kiatphontip def. Raktemroi Visootjaroenyont by decision.
Saksit Sritheevet def. Dej Sor. Ploenjit by decision.
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Phetsiam Jitmuangnont def. Phetbaankek Sor. Sommai by decision.
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Serbin Kiatcharoenchai def. Kaewkla Kaewsamrit by KO in Round 2.
Phetpatam Bermphudin def. Muansiam Sor Boongium by KO in Round 2.
This week once again featured solid action throughout. Though many of the bigger stadium names weren't in action, as always there were some ranked top ten fighters on hand.
The stoppages began to come later in the week. Last week saw some really nice, highlight reel elbow stoppages. This past week, most of the stoppages came by way of punches. In particular, Pitchichai's second knockdown of Silaphet was a combination of great evasion and quickness. He saw the left hook coming all the way, swiftly evaded it and came right back with a lethal straight right.
I was surprised that Sarawut lost, in his return fight after losing his Lumpini title to Sam-D in December. Yothin just seemed stronger at the weight.
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My pipe dream is to look good in a bathing suit. I'm not talking bikini, even. A maillot would be lovely.
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