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Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC
Fifth Revised Volume No. 1
Contents / Previous / Next / Main Tariff Index
Effective Date: 05/01/2008, Docket: RP08-268-000, Status: Effective
First Revised Sheet No. 811 First Revised Sheet No. 811 : Effective
Superseding: Original Sheet No. 811
Date:__________________________, Contract No.__________________
This AGREEMENT is entered into by and between Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC,("Algonquin") and
_____________________________________ ("Customer").
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants herein contained,
the parties do agree as follows:
1. Algonquin shall deliver and Customer shall take and pay for service pursuant to the terms of
this Agreement and subject to Algonquin's Rate Schedule AFT-4 and the General Terms and
Conditions of Algonquin's Tariff, which are incorporated herein by reference and made a part
2. The Maximum Daily Transportation Quantity (MDTQ) and Maximum Annual Transportation Quantity
(MATQ) for service under this Agreement and any right to increase or decrease the MDTQ or
MATQ during the term of this Agreement are listed on Exhibit C attached hereto. The Point(s)
of Receipt and Point(s) of Delivery, respectively, are listed on Exhibits A and B attached
hereto. Exhibit(s) A, B, and C are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof.
3. This Agreement shall be effective on ___________ and shall continue for a term ending on and
including ___________ ("Primary Term") and shall continue to be effective from ______________
to ______________ thereafter unless and until terminated by Algonquin or Customer upon prior
written notice of at least _______[not less than 1 year for agreements with a primary term of
more than 1 year; for service agreements with both a primary term and notice period of
exactly one (1) year, the notice must be submitted within ten (10) Business Days of the
beginning of the primary term of the service agreement, and at least one (1) year for
subsequent notices for such service agreement; and otherwise mutually agreeable]. This
Agreement may be terminated at any time by Algonquin in the event Customer fails to pay part
or all of the amount of any bill for service hereunder and such failure continues for thirty
days after payment is due; provided Algonquin gives ten days prior written notice to Customer
of such termination and provided further such termination shall not be effective if, prior to
the date of termination, Customer either pays such outstanding bill or furnishes a good and
sufficient surety bond or other form of security reasonably acceptable to Algonquin
guaranteeing payment to Algonquin of such outstanding bill; provided that Algonquin shall not
be entitled to terminate service pending the resolution of a disputed bill if Customer
complies with the billing dispute procedure currently on file in Algonquin's Tariff. Any
portions of this Agreement necessary to correct or cash-out imbalances under this Agreement
as required by the General Terms and Conditions of Algonquin's Tariff shall survive the other
parts of this Agreement until such time as such balancing has been accomplished.
If this Agreement qualifies as a "ROFR Agreement" as defined in the General Terms and
Conditions of Algonquin's Tariff, the provision of a termination notice by either Customer or
Algonquin, pursuant to this article 3, a notice of partial reduction in Maximum Daily
Transportation Quantity and Maximum Annual Transportation Quantity pursuant to Exhibit C or
the expiration of this Agreement of its own terms triggers Customer's right of first refusal
under Section 9 of the General Terms and Conditions of Algonquin's Tariff.


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Twenty-eight degrees and severe clear. The Cascade and Olympic mountains are startlingly beautiful in the clear morning sunlight. The USS Shoup is visible at anchor down the hill in the harbor. The ER is totally empty and I just bought donuts for the staff. (It's an apocryphal but long-standing tradition that the doctor has to buy donuts when the ER is totally empty.) Not a profitable shift for me but still a nice way to begin the day.
04 December 2009
My day thus far
Posted by shadowfax at 8:51 AM
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AT our L & D, the anesthesiologist has to buy breakfast in the morning if the night shift allows him 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep. I think I got my last free bagel in 2007.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12/04/2009 2:20 PM
What's going on? I work about an hour south of you and spent a good part of my shift last night trying to make money by checking behind the vending machine for spare change. Where have all the patients gone?ReplyDelete
Dunno. It's like a spigot was turned off. I even complained loudly that it was "too quiet" to no avail.ReplyDelete
At 1 pm there were three providers in the department and six patients, so I went home 2 hours early.
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Jarrod Fairclough Presents: Ramblings of a Muppet Nerd Part 7
Hello friends.
So I own something I think you'll all think is pretty amazing. It took me 2 months to make a decision to buy it, but I bought it. It was expensive. More than I care to admit. But it's amazing.
I bought a photograph hand signed by Jim Henson. Wanna see? Here ya go.
So that's what I bought. Against my mother's wishes. She was like "Come on, really?" And when I was asking opinions on Facebook, one person asked "Do you really want to spend that much on that?" And that's when I realized why I had to buy it. Yes I wanted it, because it was a hand signed photo from my long dead hero. Jim Henson is my hero. As I'm sure he's a hero to most of you. And I'm devastated that I'm never gonna get to meet the guy. I've met his friends. I've shaken the hands of people he worked with, including Kevin Clash and Marty Robinson. But I had the chance to buy something that he actually held in his hand, and signed. So I took that chance. And now, a part of Jim Henson is now on display in my bedroom.
Every day I look at that, and I find it incredible that this man, this brilliant man, did so much. And I have something he signed. Yes, I'm not the only guy in the world that has his hero's signature. But this man isn't some A-list actor, this guy created an institution, and created some of the most recognizable characters in the world. I may never get to meet the guy, but this is the next best thing in my book. And I will own it forever, proudly displaying it like the Muppet Nerd I am. You jelly, bro?
What's more illegal? Briefly inconveniencing Jack Black, or destroying The Muppets?
The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier, email@example.com
Apr 30, 2012
The Ramblings of Jarrod Fairclough, Muppet Nerd: Part 7
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The first thing to decide is who you are. Once you've done that, you will know where to find the best fuck possible. Below, a few categories to get going:-
· Miner. Current death toll in
· Patient. Now you're at the mercy of doctors who overprescribe expensive drugs to turn a fast buck. At the mercy of hospital administrators who'll let you die in front of them if you can't afford their fee. At the mercy of the crooks and thieves who (once more with rapacious CPC officials' assistance) produce vast quantities of fake drugs. Money! If you threw Zheng Xiaoyu a few dollars, when he was head of
· Farmer. Think you have any right to your land? Think again. Expect to be forced off it when the local party guy sells it to a developer. If he's a commie with a conscience you may get a few thousand yuan share of his millions before he sends in the police to beat you away – or maybe shoot you. Take the
· Student. Assuming you can come up with the bribe to get into university in the first place, there are plenty of ways to get a good fucking here, and the simplest of all is forced sex with your tutor if you're a cute girl. But how about if you live in northwestern
· Woman. You get some of the finest fucking
· 'Ethnic Minority' – or, as we might also call you, a colonized captive, a slave in your own country, a victim. You're from
· The environment. Ah, now you, dear darling environment, are getting the biggest shafting of all. No wine and roses for you, just straight up against the wall fucked. Oh, did you think the sweet words from
· A hooker. Now you might think you were getting fucked enough already, what with having to screw any guy with a handful of loose change and bored with his wife. But not so; if you were a hooker in Shenzhen, for example, you recently got fucked good some more when the police rounded a bunch of you up and paraded you in public, reading out your names over loudspeakers.
· A religious believer. Now, sure, if you believe in god you're deluded. But if your lunatic delusion is of the christian flavor, and prompts you to get together your own religious gathering outside a state-sanctioned church then you'll better break out the KY and condoms, since you're going to get it good. As, for example, the nine priests arrested recently for having the temerity to pray in a place that had not been designated as a church by the government. But better to embrace the absurdities of christianity rather than those of falun gong. If you adhere to that particular brand of lunacy, then you can look forward to arrest, a good beating, and then disappearing from site. And that's just the beginning, that's just the foreplay. What comes next? Having your organs removed in an army hospital to be sold to the highest bidder, that's what.
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· A journalist – But of course! The greatest enemy in
· A doctor with a conscience. Consider Doctor Gao Yijie. Under surveillance. Under house arrest. Monitored. Watched. Harassed. Why? Because she showed concern for
· A blogger. Want to write something anonymously? No way. You have to register with your real name and details. Chinabounder? Oh, they don't care about foreigners like me. I can do what I want. It's China's own people who get fucked by its government. The CPC doesn't care about me; I am no captive, no prisoner, no helot. I get all the freedom I want in
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Telluride at Dartmouth: We Need to Talk About Kevin
This post continues to chronicle my attendance at the Telluride at Dartmouth program at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. Days 1 & 2 can be found here.
I have not read the acclaimed novel by Lionel Shriver that We Need to Talk About Kevin is based on, and I was just about to read it when I heard about the film, so I decided to wait. I have seldom wished I had read a book before seeing a movie based on it, and so whenever possible, I don't read the book first. That turned out to be, it seems, an especially good decision here, because I had dinner after the film with friends, some of whom had read the book, and it was clear that that would have changed my viewing somewhat by adding more context to Swinton's character of Eva.
Ramsay is brave and nearly alone among narrative filmmakers in her willingness to subsume almost all exposition within image and sound -- to suggest, hint, and gesture toward exposition rather than state it. (It is no surprise that Tarkovsky and Malick are to her taste, and in Ratcatcher she even used some of the Carl Orff music from Malick's Badlands.) What we get in We Need to Talk About Kevin, then, is not so much a story as a portrait of a psyche. Things happen, certainly, and there's a major climax that the film works its way toward, but the movement of the film is associational, imagistic, musical. Meaning is created not through dramatic scenes, but through colors and sounds, camera angles, montage, repetitions. The story is not presented so much as unearthed -- this is filmmaking as psychic archaeology.
The film's slow revelation of the events at its heart is its most traditional feature, and one that creates tension and suspense. However, I don't know if it's a feature I much like. On one hand, it's good to have tension and suspense. On the other hand, it feels a bit like a cheat, because it puts the audience and the characters on very different levels -- in the present-time scenes, the characters all know what has happened, and so their behaviors are explicable, but the audience stays ignorant, though we certainly intuit early on that Something Bad Has Happened. Had the movie been solely concerned with Eva's mind and perceptions, it wouldn't have hidden so much information; obviously, then, the movie is not solely concerned with Eva. Or, to look at it differently, Ramsay and co-screenwriter Rory Kinnear thought we would be better able to experience and evaluate Eva's perceptions if we did not share her knowledge. (Or they may have just decided to stick with the book's structure; I'm told it is as slow to reveal the major events as the movie is, if not slower.)
In a traditional narrative, keeping the viewer (or reader) from knowing the climax of events is a standard method for creating suspense and tension. It's not a technique that much interests me (I generally read the last chapters of thrillers first to get rid of the annoyance of suspense so I can pay attention to more interesting elements), but it's certainly the most popular sort of structure, one that provides for many people a primary pleasure.
We Need to Talk About Kevin is not a traditional narrative, however; it's nonlinear, moving back and forth through time, with its main logic associational rather than causal. I need to see the film again, now that I know how it all turns out, to settle my feelings about its determination to keep the audience in the dark.
While the last fifteen minutes of the movie answer most of our questions, at least one is left hanging and, in fact, only exacerbated by the revelations at the end: Why did everyone seem to hate Eva so much? One of my friends at dinner said this is explained much more clearly in the novel, where there is a trial sequence that is not in the film. My friend feels that Eva is, in the novel, an unreliable narrator who has a persecution complex, and so her guilt about her failures as a mother gets externalized as a feeling that everyone is against her. This may be something the film was trying for, too, but it didn't work for me, because at the end Eva is shown to have lost much more than just her son. (In fact, she hasn't entirely lost him.) There's no reason that I saw in the film for her to be such a pariah. However, the narrative is entirely within her subjectivity, and if she feels like she is a pariah, someone hated by everyone she encounters, then we inevitably see things through her eyes with little ability to judge otherwise.
There's a difference in point of view between the first-person, epistolary novel and the very-much-within-Eva's-perceptions film. The difference is one of authoricity. The novel is presented as Eva's own writing -- she tells her story. It's extremely difficult to pull off such a point of view in a film without making it a film-about-a-film, and We Need to Talk About Kevin makes no attempt at that. This change in point of view also relates to the question (problem?) of the delayed revelations -- it makes plenty of sense that Eva wouldn't explain or even discuss the climactic events were she writing about it all herself, but it makes less sense in a movie that she is not authoring.
Despite my reservations about the script, I admire much about We Need to Talk About Kevin, and I am thrilled to see a narrative, almost mainstream film using something other than the most traditional, conventional cinematic grammar. The acting in the movie is exceptional, the cinematography (by Seamus McGarvey) elegant and affecting, the editing (by Joe Bini) lyrical and smart. Special mention must be made of the music and sound design by Jonny Greenwood and Paul Davies -- I can't think of another recent film that so fully benefits from its soundtrack from beginning to end. Perhaps a few too many of the songs have on-the-nose lyrics (much as I love Washington Phillips, his "Mother's Last Word to Her Son" seemed a bit heavy-handed), but that's a minor sin in a soundscape of such richness and complexity.
While Ramsay certainly has some traits in common with Tarkovsky and Malick, the comparison seems superficial to me because she's less enigmatic. (I could easily see those directors leaving at least part of the climax completely out of the film altogether, letting the meaning come from lack, forcing us to confront how we fill in the blanks.) A closer comparison might be made to a director she is more different from on the surface: Hitchcock. He was similarly sensitive to sounds and sights, and, like Ramsay, little interested in being subtle and ambiguous about it all. Vertigo remains a fascinating movie because (among other things) it is so ostentatiously about its colors. We Need to Talk About Kevin is also very much about color, and also ostentatious -- for instance, no sentient viewer could miss the symbolism of all the red in the visually striking first few minutes. That doesn't make the images any less striking -- their color, shape, and movement is far more evocative than the symbolism we inevitably attach to it. Like Vertigo, putting words to it all weakens it. This is a movie that needs to be a movie, a movie where the force of the effect, if not the meaning, comes from its cinematic qualities. It is, in its own way, the "pure cinema" Hitchcock advocated.
(For more on the film, see Jonathan McCalmont's excellent consideration of it, one which differs a little bit from my own.)


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R.J de Jong necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 151 design presentati da 43 designer.
Fish on Fire
We are a new internet services company in the netherlands. We are currently setting up the company and we need a logo asap so we can start promoting it.
We are targeting Consumers with our company. Currently our focus lies on making easy to use small websites for starting companies. Although we will extend this in the future.
Obviously the logo should contain the text " Fish on Fire ". Further the logo should contain the subtext "Internet Services" This should not attract to much attention though.
To keep it simple i will give a list of keywords of what we want and what we don't.
- Clean
- Eye catching
- Simple
- Recognizable
- Optional: Comedic ( not to obvious but something subtle)
- Corporate
- Chaotic
- Flat images
The sky is the limit, Go nuts who knows. We might like it. Just keep in mind the above mentioned and you should be ok.
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I have installed Ubuntu 10 last night and finished all upgrading stuff, in the time when updates are applied I downloaded a torrent file. As soon as download is finished I rebooted my system. As usual at start up it asked my login and I did the same.
After a successful login It should show me the desktop, or show an error message in case anything has gone wrong. But what I had is only a cursor and a blank wall paper.
Can anybody tell me what is the problem and how to resolve this?


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Japanese authority and the phxxking mass media have completely ignored what many people in the contaminated areas should learn from the Chernobyl victims. Instead, they are bringing trivial articles to spend out the valuable public waves and time just to make the people forget about Fukushima tragedy which is still going on of course, and the real danger is to begin in just a few years! They may think not each one has to be responsible for anything that will occur only they've left the office, but I'm one of those who strongly wish to make each individual responsible for increasing casualties go to prison for life sentences.
That said, hey, I can't believe why CNN making so light of Fukushima catastrophe? Chernobyl explosion was 14 times greater than Fukushima?? How so? It should be the comparison between the cumulative victims and the internal-exposed (not yet ill for the next few years) in Japan.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident was already "ranked" the worst such in history in many ways including the total amount of the fuel in the six reactors and fuel pools. Reactor #4 fuel pool is hung on the crippled building that could collapse any time if hit by another big earthquake. The building is tilted (80cm depth difference between south and north walls). The 30-40mil Tokyo Metropolitan residents are subject to serious internal-exposure to radiation surrounded by hotspot zones with hot particles everywhere.
That said, hey, I can't believe why CNN making so light of Fukushima catastrophe? Chernobyl explosion was 14 times greater than Fukushima?? How so? It should be the comparison between the cumulative victims and the internal-exposed (not yet ill for the next few years) in Japan.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident was already "ranked" the worst such in history in many ways including the total amount of the fuel in the six reactors and fuel pools. Reactor #4 fuel pool is hung on the crippled building that could collapse any time if hit by another big earthquake. The building is tilted (80cm depth difference between south and north walls). The 30-40mil Tokyo Metropolitan residents are subject to serious internal-exposure to radiation surrounded by hotspot zones with hot particles everywhere.
[Quote from CNN]
(CNN) -- Twenty-six years ago this week, a botched reactor safety test in a corner of what was then the Soviet Union set off the worst nuclear accident in history.live in the fallout zone.
The radiation effects of the April 26, 1986, reactor explosion were about 400 times more potent than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II, and nearly 14 times greater than the disaster last year at the Fukushima plant in Japan.
[<- don't believe this. The US wants to make it smaller for GE!] Fast forward to today, and even in the exclusion zone, plants have re-grown, animals are flourishing and Chernobyl has been opened to tourists.
But Chernobyl refuses to be relegated to the past. Indeed it may still be devastating the lives of millions who continue to
Aside from the potential health hazards of living in an area contaminated with radiation, domino socioeconomic effects have caused multiple problems in these regions.
Chernobyl Children International, or CCI, works to help kids in the region whose lives have been impacted by a disaster that happened years before they were born. Many suffer from physical problems such as congenital heart defects. Many kids have chronic illnesses or disabilities, and many live full time in institutions.
To help them, CCI sends surgical teams who in turn help train local doctors. CCI nurses teach institution staff techniques, and volunteers renovate facilities.
One of CCI's main goals going forward is a program they call "Home of Hope," which uses money from donations to place institutionalized kids with nearby families.
For many severely disabled children there, the future is uncertain. CCI works to build community centers in affected areas, in the hopes that there will be some support system for them after they are too old to remain in institutions.
Decades after the meltdown, the mission of CCI is complicated by the fact that there is no real consensus on how many of the region's current problems can be directly attributed to Chernobyl.
Only 30 people died in the immediate aftermath, either from the explosion or acute radiation syndrome. But the disaster sent a cloud of radioactive fallout over hundreds of thousands of square miles of what is now Russia, Belarus and Ukraine that would have an impact on the health of many more.
More than 200,000 people were evacuated, never to return. However, a 2005 report by "The Chernobyl Forum" (the most comprehensive to date) estimated more than 5 million remain in what have been termed "contaminated territories," and a quarter-million live in "highly contaminated territories."
Ten years after the explosion, a CNN team visited Chernobyl to ascertain the long-term effects of radiation exposure for those living near Chernobyl during the accident, for cleanup workers or "liquidators," or for those who continued to live in areas that were classified as polluted. They found more questions than answers.
Research funds were scarce. Economies of affected countries were decimated by the disaster and by the subsequent breakup of the USSR.
Years later, there aren't many more definitive answers than there were then, to the question of how exactly Chernobyl has affected the lives, not just of those who lived through it, but of subsequent generations still living in these "contaminated' areas"
Many of us have certain mental images that spring to mind when thinking of the effects of radioactive contamination: mutated animals, children with deformities and birth defects, for example. But the 2005 Chernobyl Forum report found scant evidence that this was the case.
In fact, other than a marked increase in thyroid cancers in those living near the exclusion zone, the report found few definitive links to increased instances of disease or birth defects.
Their conclusion; in the 600,000 people they studied, they might expect around 4,000 extra deaths that could be directly linked to Chernobyl.
The report created fierce debate among some who felt it grossly underestimated the impact of the disaster. A subsequent study titled "The Torch Report," commissioned by the European Green Party, put the number of extra cancer deaths alone at a much higher rate -- somewhere between 30,000 and 60,000.
Figures released by UNICEF in 2010 showed that more than 20% of adolescent children in Belarus suffered from disabilities and chronic illness. Belarus absorbed 70% of Chernobyl's fallout.
But the truth is, no one really knows where to lay the blame for these figures.
One of the main challenges for anyone attempting to ascertain the health effects of Chernobyl radiation is that there is so much background radiation in the atmosphere to begin with. But more specifically, Chernobyl was so much more than an explosion.
"When we think about Chernobyl, most people think about the medical consequences of living with radiation," said Kathy Ryan, a spokesperson for Chernobyl Children's International (CCI). "But it's important to understand that people are still being affected by the social and economic fallout."
After the Chernobyl disaster, millions living on previously prime farmland found that no one would import their "contaminated" produce. The high cost of cleanup from the accident, which cost Belarus alone well over $200 billion, is thought to have contributed to the breakup of the Soviet Union and further crippled affected region's economy.
With diminished ways to make a living, many were -- and still are -- forced to eat food and drink water from the polluted areas where they live. Whether radiation in produce is or is not harmful, what's certain is malnutrition is common, which often can result in illnesses and birth defects. Another factor is a sense of defeatism in Chernobyl-affected people, many of whom had to leave homes their families had lived in for generations.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says displacement, poverty and fear of radiation sickness have contributed to "suicides, drinking problems and apathy."
It's issues like these -- prenatal alcohol exposure for example -- that have led to birth defects and illnesses in many children. As a result, many children live in institutions; UNICEF estimates the number in Belarus alone to be nearly 10,000.
"The children in many cases were removed from their home ... because the parents might have had issues with alcoholism or with poverty," Ryan said.
According to CCI, many kids suffer almost as much from being in an institution as they do from their disability or illness.
Rebecca Fordham, communications officer from UNICEF, said that finding an alternative to institutions is a worldwide priority for them.
"It can be impersonal," she said. "They're not getting the dedicated services they need, not having enough access to proper food or physical activity."
The question now, is how populations can begin to move on from the specter of Chernobyl?
Reports by the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) and the World Health Organization claim that much of the land designated as "contaminated" by the former Soviet Union actually contains radiation levels not much higher than vast areas considered "safe." In fact, by the USSR's standards, it's not just the former Soviet republics that should be concerned..
"Some 45,000 square kilometers in Western Europe have measurable levels of radioactivity in the soil from Chernobyl above the criterion applied in the former Soviet Union to designate 'contaminated' areas," said UNSCEAR Secretary Malcolm Crick. And yet, those areas have experienced nowhere near the alienation and economic impact of much of Belarus and Ukraine.
How many areas are still "contaminated," and what does that mean? Does lingering radiation adversely affect the health of residents, and is there still a danger from eating food grown there? These are questions that many not have answers to for some time to come.
In the meantime, a priority for CCI volunteers is simply to spend time with the kids, hug them, show them some love, and help them look forward to some kind of future -- whatever their link to the explosion that so altered their past.
"We're not scientists; we're humanitarians," Ryan said. "We just don't want these people to be forgotten." [UNQUOTE]


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Executive Vice Provost for International Initiatives and Chief Global Affairs Officer
Krishnaswami "Hari" Srihari
Krishnaswami "Hari" Srihari was appointed executive vice provost for international initiatives and chief global affairs officer in June 2015. In addition to his vice provost duties, Dr. Srihari also serves as dean of the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University since June 2009. A prolific scientist, Srihari is known as an expert in many diverse aspects of electronics packaging and manufacturing. Over the last decade at Binghamton, he has also pioneered research focused on the use of systems engineering principles in enhancing efficiency in health care delivery.
Srihari joined the faculty of the Watson School in 1988 where he served most recently as chairman of the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering. He has played a key role in creation of University-industry partnerships as director of the Watson Institute of Systems Excellence (WISE).
Srihari earned his bachelor's degree with honors in production engineering from the University of Madras, India, and his master's and doctorate in industrial engineering and operations research from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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Twitch.tv is one of the more popular RTMP based streaming services offered. As Steam has a Linux client available, some people may be in search of solutions to stream their games or Linux desktop. As there are no well known Linux broadcasting programs just yet, most solutions at this point are CLI based. The info included here should serve as a list of such solutions.
Twitch streaming Guidelines
From Twitch.tv support:
Video Requirements
- Codec: H.264 (x264)
- Mode: Strict CBR
- Keyframe Interval: 2 seconds
Audio Requirements
- Codec: AAC-LC or MP3, Stereo or Mono
- Maximum bit rate: 160 kbps (AAC), 128 kbps (MP3)
- Sampling frequency: any (AAC), 44.1 KHz (MP3)
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Not listed on their page is a requirement of the Y'UV420p pixel format, as Y'UV444 is not widely supported just yet.
FFMPEG solutions
.bashrc script method
One method of streaming to twitch using FFMPEG makes use of a simple script that is placed in a user's .bashrc file located in your $HOME folder.
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streaming streamkeyhere
into a terminal. sound sources can be manipulated by using pavucontrol. The .bashrc script is as follows:
streaming() { INRES="1440x900" # input resolution FPS="15" # target FPS QUAL="fast" # one of the many FFMPEG preset STREAM_KEY="$1" # use the terminal command Streaming streamkeyhere to stream your video to twitch or justin URL="rtmp://live.justin.tv/app/$STREAM_KEY" #flashver=FMLE/3.0\20(compatible;\20FMSc/1.0)" ffmpeg -f x11grab -s "$INRES" -r "$FPS" -i :0.0 \ -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -vcodec libx264 -crf 30 -preset "$QUAL" -s "1280x720" \ -acodec libmp3lame -ab 96k -ar 44100 -threads 0 -pix_fmt yuv420p \ -f flv "$URL" }
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A winner was selected from 44 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Crowdfunnel is a performance marketing company who specializes advertising on social networks and other high volume websites. If you can produce high converting ads, we need you!
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Punchdrunk: The Drowned Man
Climbing on my hands and knees through a secret hatch I've discovered in the bottom of an old phone booth, I enter an eerie room filled with musty costumes, peopled only by a troubled-looking seamstress, who silently slips a fabric heart into my pocket. And the thought occurs to me: who could be anything other than blown away by the astonishing artificial world that immersive theatre pioneers Punchdrunk have made real in their new show 'The Drowned Man'?
And yet… as Punchdrunk's shows grow to such a vast size that any meaningful opportunity for the casual punter to work out what the hell is going on flies out of the window, I experience the peculiar sensation of being simultaneously overawed and a bit dissatisfied.
The hyper-detailed, spectacularly eerie environments that directors Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle and team have created over four enormous floors of an old building next to Paddington station are mindblowing. The so-called 'Temple Studios' is a creepy '60s Hollywood film studio of almost unimaginable scale that audiences are free to wander around at leisure.
In its shadowed recesses, there's a spooky old town, half Wild West, half '50s America. There's a monochrome, malevolent Lynchian dancehall. There's any number of candlelit shrines of ambiguous religious provenance. There is a bar, complete with its own band, in which you can slip off the mask you're required to wear at all other times. There is a whole desert on the top floor. Menacing electronic music and Spector-esque strings howl from hidden speakers constantly.
It is like being in the world's greatest haunted house… but am I being a total bore to wish it could be more than that? 'The Drowned Man' is very loosely based upon Georg Büchner's tragedy 'Woyzeck', and a pamphlet given to us at the start offers some hints about a plot that I vaguely recognised in meetings with the show's wandering actors. I didn't doubt that there was a plot. But it's simply impossible to get one's teeth into these cryptic, largely silent encounters, so atomised are they throughout the gargantuan structure.
Where previous shows like 'The Masque of the Red Death' or 'It Felt Like A Kiss' immersed you in a narrative you could get your teeth into, 'The Drowned Man' is like watching a blue whale glide by an inch from your face, simply too big to take in.
As pure spectacle, Punchdrunk are now operating on a level that makes criticism basically redundant. But in terms of straight-up theatre, they have made better.
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Totally compelling. Mysterious, disturbing, thrilling, frightening, erotic, adventurous, voyeuristic. A knowledge of the synopsis of Woyczek helped only slightly. But - do not worry about trying to understand, and certainly do not try to see everything. Just follow your instincts and go on your own private journey. At times run with the pack, at others go off on your own and explore the rooms by yourself. You won't find them all. I ended up in an amazing Narnia at the back of the seamstresses shop, but never found the secret room behind the cinema! The set design is highly detailed and breathtaking and you can have as much fun rifling through the secrets you find behind closed doors as you can trying to follow the characters. You can get really up close and personal with the actors - almost touching - and people do. If too many people are following your character, just switch to another. There are so many mysteries to unravel. Having read a lot of reviews of 'The Drowned Man', it clearly is a marmite love it or hate it experience. Well I loved it - and would go back again and again to find out some more about the parts I didn't see. If you allow yourself to get lost in the surreal world of 'The Drowned Man' it can change the way you look at the people around you. Emerging blinking on to the streets of Paddington at the end of the show, my immediate urge was to start following random passers-by to see where their stories went! If you're very lucky, as both my partner and I were, you may get chosen by an actor to go off and have your own personal one to one experience. My partner was spirited away by a blind woman in the desert and I had a thrilling ten minute subterranean chase with a strange young man called Conrad which ended in a very grizzly discovery in a disused part of the warehouse, and him feeding me a shot of spirits through a pipette! I just can't stop thinking about this show. Ordinary theatre is going to seem a bit 'vanilla' after this.
Surreal and thoroughly enjoyable. With such a huge space to wander around, and scenes often very short and quiet, I can completely understand how some might have not followed what was going on at all. But we heard one simple bit of advice on the way in; "find a story and follow it". I wholeheartedly agree with that, after finding a character of interest, following them through their various encounters with other characters will build the full picture, no matter who you chose to follow. If you lose them, just find another and carry on. Wandering around aimlessly and dipping in and out of bits of the story won't get you very far. Also the little handout at the beginning is definitely worth a read, just explaining the gist of the two main story lines, making the later character meetings make more sense.
With dramatic use of lighting, sound, and "sets" that vary from exquisitely detailed to vast and bare, it a very enjoyable and unique experience.
Best thing I've ever experienced!
Best show I've ever seen
The Drowned Man is very poor value for money. Punchdrunk and NT are just conning theatre-goers this time. The production website promises a progressive theatre experience, allowing open-hearted audience members a dynamic, interactive and non-linear plot within a creative set. I paid £37.50 to walk around an empty set an occasionally stumble across a half-baked expressive dance with some dialogue (drowned out by the poor sound effects). This is an example of concept before quality. There is simply no theatrical merit and NT are in complete denial about it. This show is piggy-backing off the success of similar productions (which were half the price and infinitely better) and is conning theatre-goers out of a lot of money. The only people that should be drowned are the production team. I have applied for a refund.
Where are the ten stars when you need them? The Drowned Man is an absolute drop-everything-and-go type of experience, one that you need to see to believe. An absolute all-encompassing spectacle, immersing you in cities within cities. Hint: Ditch your friends at the door and go it alone. Finally- embrace each and every encounter- If you're lucky, you may even have the pleasure of removing a moustached drag queen's stockings off!!
Best theatrical performance of my life. I´ve got my tickets for my third time in it. A good advice, stick up to an actor/actress and follow them until they stop you somehow. Really recommendable, hope the same company remains in the same venue with different stories.
compelling and amazing story and experience. The best theatre experience I have ever had. Go and see it and be free - walk around and follow a character. Jane
Dynamic, original, and thought provoking, this refreshing interactive performance offered something totally different to the norm. The sets haunt your mind with curiosity, and the splitting stories encourage you to (literally walk) to follow your own instincts and interest. An incredibly immersive, independent, vibrant experience.
I was looking forward to this so I was completely open minded going in. I spent the first 10 minutes trying to find some inkling of story line. I couldn't hear what the actors were saying and hadn't a clue who to follow. I kept getting caught up in hoards of people filing up and down the bottlenecks that were the stair cases. The story line is boring and the whole theme is utter nonsense. Having said that, the studio lighting, set and sound effects were impressive. This is not a cheap show either..save your money. Avoid.
the story may be hard to follow but i'm not sure that's relevant....in an ideal world, i'd dispense with all attempts at narrative and throw in some avant-garde music eg. Ligeti, Stockhausen but let's be thankful for what there is. only a few weeks left to see what is surely the most spectacular show in town.
I found The Drowned Man absolutely spectacular. The sets are so elaborate, the dancing and the movement of the actors beautiful and the entire feel of the production - Mind-blowing. I have now been to the production 3 times with 5 more booked. After my first visit I was unsure if I absolutely loved it or if I felt a bit lost. And I guess that might be the only criticism, that the story can be a bit hard to follow. My tip is to get lost in the space, look through the rooms, and you find an interesting character, follow!!! Maybe you´ll be as hooked as I am!
Quite the worst theatrical experience of my life. Utterly pointless twaddle. Amazed at the number of five star reviews. I tried, honest I did. It was their failure, not mine, really.
I cannot give justice to how dire this is. Room after room of am dram and dry ice while having to wear a cut price version of an eyes wide shut mask. Dull and silly wandering round in silence and in the dark after actors hamming it up in a very average whodunit. Avoid
For promenade theatre that has become popular in london this is weak. As always lots of amazing sets and money spent well but poor poor dialogue so dull that it could hardly be regarded as performance. Try harder punch drunk surely you can do better than this ?
A show you won't forget: similar to going to see a total solar eclipse and seeing total cloud. The show is so fractured that you have no idea who people are or what the plot is about. There must be about 20 actors who are performing short scenes in a huge warehouse on four floors which makes a soup of incoherent images. Indeed, the vast majority of time is spent looking for these short scenes, before being herded into the final scene hours after passing the boredom threshold. A show you won't forget for the wrong reasons. (1star is generous)
extraordinary show that gives you back what you are giving. only place where you can be lost alone in woods in london.
This was truly an incredible thing to be able to experience. I have never seen anything like the level of production, set design or totally immerse nature of the building. It was like a never ending labyrinth of story lines, dance, drama and emotion. At times the crowds forming around the actors were frustrating so if you do go i would encourage you to walk away from the crowds and find your own story. Apart from the unbelievable creativity; i think the actors did a great job at creating intrigue with an admittedly loose plot line. The dancing and fluidity of their movements both with the set and with each other made the performances seem spontaneous and unplanned. Everyone who goes will have a totally different take on the Punchdrunk style and no two people will have the same experience so i can accept its not for everyone. I would go if you are adventurous, open, brave and curious! For me being whisked into a darkened room, blindfolded, spun around and splashed with rose water by a Spanish witch chanting was a personal highlight.. why did that happen? I have no idea! But i'm definitely glad it did. I feel very lucky to have been able to experience it and i applaud everyone who has put their time into creating such an unbelievable show!!!
Amazingly immersive experience. At times when shadowing particular characters (notably the studio director) I felt as if I had fallen into and started wondering around the Half Life game-verse. The show was most satisfying when story-arc's linked....even when separated. One of the most enjoyable nights out I have ever had in London.
fragmental beauty in a sea bottom after titanic ,resembling the Artificial Intelligence by Kopola end in an immersed metropolis, looking for relics of human life, so following the steps of big storytelling but creating an elegy of what 21 century will look back at--
Not quite sure of the story and I hate masks too, which freaked me out a little, but I still had a good experience walking around looking at all the scenes and watching characters. We had been upgraded so we started off a little differently and also had access to the 'control' room...wasn't worth it as I still didn't understand, but that's just me...artistically at was amazing...but perhaps see it ten times and follow a different character each time....?!
I urge you to avoid this production but if you have bought a ticket don't go, save some money buy not getting there and save 3 hours of your life that you will never get back. This production is self-indulgent, incoherent, boring, unstructured and benefits only the money men and the egos of the director and actors. Actually I feel for the actors as being in this show must be like a living hell. There are two good points 1) The set(s) and 2) I will never have to go again.
If you want to watch something extraordinary go and watch it. But be aware that this is not a traditional theatre. I would suggest it to anyone . Try to live your own story don't follow the crowd running everywhere that the actors are going. Make your own way through explore the rooms and a story will unfold. Don't try to control it, this is not a detective adventure.
I had the pleasure of this "experience" last night, and I was completely blown away. That said, sympathising somewhat with this reviewer, I offer some tips to get the most out of the experience: 1) It pays to go off the beaten path. You're free to completely explore the "world", and the best comparison I can find is the experience of wandering through the open world of a video game, digging through the personal belongings of Non-Player-Characters (this includes unsealing letters, which are always a treat!) 2) That said, despite the temptation to flit from place to place, seeing everything, you need to occasionally pick a main character to follow for a good amount of time (at least 2 contiguous scenes). I have no idea how 90% of the other stories played out, but I at least saw enough key moments in the lives of two characters to piece their narrative together afterwards. Unlike Time Out, I'd argue that's one of the pleasures of the piece: the knowledge that it's a living, breathing world and that you're only getting a glimpse of it. 4) There are some obvious main characters (see #3 above), but it does pay off to occasionally pick a secondary character to follow. I'd argue against spending the whole night *just* watching secretaries, security guards, and seamstresses doing their thing, but if you do pick at least one such character to follow for a while, it could be interesting! Last rule: there are no rules! Whatever you put into it, is what you'll get out of it!
I went to see The Drowned Man last night. The sets were amazing and the attention to detail was spectacular. However quite what the 'performance' was about, I have absolutely no idea. Presumably there was some sort of plot that was not apparent to me, there was no dialogue and it seems that I was supposed to cobble together some sort of comprehensible story from the few bits of overacting and over-zealous interpretative dance that I bore witness to. I was relieved to eventually find the bar where thankfully I was finally able to remove the uncomfortable mask and I looked forward to a much needed break, sit down, and opportunity to talk briefly to my friend. However the bar it transpires is not a sanctuary for the audience but yet another 'set' and shortly after our arrival the Thesps once again arrived to 'entertain' us making conversation impossible. I remain utterly perplexed as to the purpose of this 'performance'.
The set was amazing, and immersive exploration of it was exciting and interesting for about an hour, after which the novelty wore off and I found myself tiring of going from room to room looking for storyline "clues". I couldn't relate to the characters as there were only snippets of the plot coming through. Without a cohesive storyline and character development, the experience was a fail in terms of telling a story -- arguably this is the key aspect of theatre. After three hours, a member of staff told me to go to the ending, which seemed curious because an ending requires a start, and a middle, neither of which were present in any meaningful way. Ultimately the experience was lacking but it was an interesting night out.
Having been 'immersed' in this production for 3 hours I desperately wanted to emerge with an experience to cherish. I did - it was the exit. To be fair, the set is interesting, if you like 1960s museum pieces and the music was atmospheric, although some of the better ambient stuff was loud like overhead thunder, rather spoiling the effect. I quickly gave up on the plotline and cast so that I could avoid boredom and observe the crowd, who get 5 stars for entertainment value. They broke down into 4 categories: those who know what they are watching; those who know nothing of what they are watching; those who don't know nothing of what they are watching; and, those who don't know they don't know what they are watching. You have been warned.
from the comments section underneath a rather tepid Guardian review, this is the viewpoint which chimed most with my own experience of this OUTSTANDING show: "I thought it was amazing - but we did spend most of our time exploring the world and avoiding the crowd (even though the crowd was where the action was, literally). I'd never been to a Punchdrunk production before and didn't know what to expect. And it felt something akin to this: 1) Like walking into a Mike Nelson installation except one in which he'd created a series of landscapes, rather than just a few rooms. We were completely absorbed in the detail and stories embedded in the sets, the trailers, the cabins, the letters and photos hidden in books and drawers. 2) Like being inside a film, but on the fringes of the all the important stuff (a mash-up of film noir, southern gothic and rosencrantz and guildenstern being dead), where the action was always going on elsewhere, so every now and then we stumbled upon some action, or it stumbled on us, and then it rushed off taking the crowd with it. 3) Like witnessing some momentous event, but only a part of it, and knowing that we had glimpses of a complete story, and that was enough. Like life then. Completely amazing. Couldn't tell you what happened though."
Very easy to see why people don't "get it".. This was my second Punchdrunk theatre experience, following The masque of the Red Death - where I too wondered round a building thrilling myself from the adrenalin rush of being a bit scared of the unknown. Had very little idea what was going on in terms of a linear story. But. At the beginning of The Drowned Man, you're given a piece of paper with the plot (that means story) written on it. The rest of the show is left for you to give meaning and relevance to. If you require spoon feeding in order to form the basis of a good evenings entertainment, perhaps this show isn't for you. Stay at home. Stick to Eastenders.
Stunning. The detail to essence and looped staging is amazing. Self-indulgent? Absolutely. It indulge's the individual audience's self, completely. Theatre of the future. Need to see it again. You have to surrender yourself and not stick to your friends. Read Buchner's Woyzek which you can find for free online before you go. It helps to frame the experience. The story of the building in which it occurs alone is intriguing. Gorgeous.
The biggest pile of pretentious, self indulgent bumfluffery I have experienced in a very long time! I would rather have been sick through my eyeballs!
"You waste a lot of time wandering around the terrific sets" to quote a review I read somewhere else. I beg to differ for the precise reason that the sets are indeed " terrific" and repay close attention. For example there was a charming book in one of the rooms entitled "Party games for Everyone" from 1962, and other rooms filled with evocative aromas, and an entire floor which i missed on an earlier visit to the show. As for the Woyzeck based narrative which some people complain they can't follow. I believe this is of secondary importance, bordering on irrelevant. Essential as a kind of backbone on which to mount this amazing spectacle but that's about it.
The set's the star - for its scale, detail and the things it makes you feel. I lost my friends at the crossing of two lines of masked people. I followed others blindly into a creepy doctors examination, then to a place where an actress can't bring herself to kill her adulterous husband; I followed a character downstairs to a lost dance that turns into an orgy. Then somehow I lost any sense of narrative and I made my way onto an empty floor that was just desert. A mourner in a funeral isn't made of straw after all, I'm lost and scared. A character comes in followed by a masked entourage, a setting sun becomes a beautiful murder. I became tired of being scared, a trannie in a tent is doing a routine I saw upstairs in a bar, and I can't be bothered to work out why... I'm tired of being scared and I follow the jazz to the real bar where I cowardly wait. I'm relieved to see my friends, glad to leave, yet this morning my head is full of it and I'm wondering if I should go back for more.
Three loves of my life came together in this amazing piece: Fringe Theatre, Great Bars and Cool Music. Punchdrunk have created something truly special at "Temple Studios". It won't appeal to all, and my wife would not give it the 5 stars I award. However, for me two and a half hours of discovery with occasional excerpts leading me eventually to a bar and band that I only wished existed outside this surreal fiction, made for a near perfect Friday night out.
It was like wandering around in some vast David Lynch movie set. Sometimes as if all your nightmares and dreams have been rendered in reality. The narrative side of the show didn't hold my interest so I focused on the endlessly fascinating set (the star of the show) and for this 'The Drowned Man' is one of the most riveting pieces of theatre I've attended. I shall certainly be returning. In-spite of polarized reviews, interest in this show has been considerable (Madonna, for what it's worth attended a performance) so i do hope that this level of publicity will ensure monumental funding for future shows, and raise the pay-packet (desultory on all accounts) of the wonderful artists involved.
First of all, I can understand why some people wouldn't enjoy this, and I imagine it's made slightly worse by the price from their point of view. I'm not a massive dance fan, and there's a fair bit of it here. I thought this was about as memorable as theatre can be, even though it probably isn't usually my kind of thing. The Drowned Man is worth a visit just for the set and the atmosphere alone. If you've ever enjoyed a David Lynch film, or want to experience the oppressive overhang of nightmarish surroundings, but in a lucid state, this should be the next thing you go and see. The story itself is fairly depressing (infidelity, jilted lovers and failing careers), and there are two very similar threads running concurrently. Admittedly it can be difficult to keep up with the performers, particularly if people get in your way. Forget going around with your friends because you won't really experience the production as it was intended, i.e. in a unique, personal way. You'll also probably lose the characters you're trying to keep up with. I can't over-emphasise just how vivid and saturating the atmosphere of dread, lies, and misery really is. Without going into too much detail, a good example was wondering into a bar and seeing a woman (one of the main characters) sinking shots alone before getting up, walking across the room to the mic and belting out a tortured and powerful song with despair written all over her, obviously spurred on by her failing relationship. It's chilling, and very difficult to get out of your head. The same can be said for most of the sound throughout the set; it doubles the impact of everything from the surroundings to the action taking place within them. Even though it costs £50 a throw I'll be going back to see more, and if I had the money I'd probably go again after that. A must see, even if only to confirm that you don't like this sort of thing (as I initially did).
The emperor is not wearing any clothes. This was a load of old twaddle. I like my stories to have a beginning,a middle and an end. I headed for the exit after two hours. Its always good to try these things out but not only was it not worth the premium ticket price I paid. Its just that I could have gone elsewhere to see a decent play. Just as well the audience was wearing masks so we could see each other expressions of WTF
A love triangle that leads to a murder in a film studio. Sounds like a fairly conservative story line. There is nothing conservative about this piece of theatre. We are asked to wear white masks and are led into dark spaces and suddenly I find myself witnessing a scene. As soon as this finishes I have to make my mind up real quick as which actor I'm going to follow to his/her next scene, somewhere in this dark maze (building), or when you lose him/her, the expressionless mass that seems to know where it is going. At the end you might find out you have missed a few scenes or are not quite able to sew the narrative together...it doesn't matter, it is certainly an interesting experience!
Amazing experience. Everyone should see and experience this. The sets and scale of the place is phenomenal. It stays with you for days after you have seen it. What ever you do explore all the floors, go it alone and explore. It is worth the price of the ticket. Go!
This was an amazing experience - you are taken into a completely different world where you can follow the story or imagine what the story might be - as you wander into a motel room a man leaves and the girl cries on the bed - or you find yourself alone in the basement and suddenly surrounded by beautiful dancers - there is nothing like this anywhere else. People - go an see this - the sets alone are things of great artistic beauty - a whole town created on one floor. It will stay with you for days. The dancing is truly beautiful and in fact beyond the show itself it is like you are watching some of the most moving and spellbinding contemporary dance. I cannot recommend more - you will not have a more interesting and unique night anywhere in London.
Floating from room to room, through hidden doors and David Lynchian light-scapes, I could've done anything behind the anonymity of my mask. Could've groped his bum, then run through the blue sand dunes into the red dance hall, where drowned bodies adorned the floor in the gloom. Incredible set but excruciatingly angsty and appeared to have been designed with the idea of creating as many make-out spots as possible in mind. Sweat trickled into my eyes...
Saw The Drowned Man yesterday and absolutely loved it. How can people give this one star? I'm certainly not 'into' contemporary dance but both myself and my partner really enjoyed this. I started 'upstairs' and found this storyline much easier to follow than the 'downstairs' one. I strongly recommend splitting up and exploring on your own, as you are advised on the way in - my partner was reluctant at first (!) but I can't imagine how you have any chance of keeping up with the story if trying to keep an eye on your friends as well. Given that you're not allowed to talk and the masks hide facial expressions there isn't any benefit to me from sharing the experience - we had much more fun comparing notes at the end in the bar! Also by being on your own you are more likely to have a one on one with an actor. Mine involved sharing a drink then being blindfolded and led on an intense journey through the 'wilderness'. I really want to go again to explore the film studio story in more detail. Go with an open mind and don't be put off by the overly critical reviews.
Self-indulgent dross. If you are happy to pay £50 to wander round a hot warehouse wearing a mask, being forced to listen to piped music and to watch intermittent and hilariously bad dancing (think drama school luvvie being given an electric shock), then by all means go. Pretentious and pointless. So bad.
One of the most surreal cultural experiences i have ever had in London. Watching the people watching what's going around them is a show of its own. Props and set are done in perfection. Amazing experience for everyone - i will definetely go again as every time is going to be something different and there was so much to take on.
Just been to see The Drowned Man - in a word - jawdropping (or is that two?). Scanning through the reviews this one has really polarised people; I'd say to anyone reading these Time Out crits - ignore the idiots who gave this one star, for the scale, beautiful set design, incredible soundtrack and seemingly infinite exploration possibilities this production deserves 5 stars - there must some horrifically cynical Londoners out there who take pleasure in trashing something like this. Admittedly the ticket price is high but for me it was worth every penny, and it was truly like entering a waking dream/nightmare. Yes there's dancing here - and at best it's wonderfully stylised and choreographed, at worst a series of fun semi/imporovved moves, most of the routines are slinky, sexualised and athletic - it aint ballet but so what the performers do very well - fact. People have complained about the lack of narrative - yes there's a story to this show but it's FAR more about building a bad-dream atmosphere than trying to tell a conventional narrative, if you're about to see the show go in with this in mind and you'll have an amazing time. Even if there were no actors the set alone is worth a healthy ticket price but of course that's not all you get, and wandering round on your own, following actors, drifting from the herd and discovering as many secrets as you can is all part of the fun. Immense fun. Punchdrunk bring to life the games of make-believe you might have played as a kid - only now it's real, catered for your adult self and more detailed and fun than you could ever have imagined.... Hats off (and everything else off judging by some of the performers) to the Punchdrunk company and its inspired leader mr Barrett, you're all legends and I for one am coming back for a second time - the Drowned Man definitely deserves to be a recurring dream.
I was squealing with delight internally (and sometimes loudly) the whole evening. I have been to Punchdrunk shows before, and they just work for me. The sheer scale of the clockwork of riddles gives me a real sense of freedom, as I know I am not going to run out of things to explore any time soon. The total physical commitment to a crazy vision, embodied by the enormity, complexity, and immaculate detail of the set, and the dancers/actors, just makes me happy (even though the heady mix of madness, jealousy, power, and murder isn't exactly cheerful). And while I very much enjoy the physical and sensory aspects of their work in a way that is anything but rocket science, the worlds-folded-within-worlds construct that I can pick away at with my mind for days thrills me. If you like riddles and physicality, and have a bit of a forensic mind, I hazard a guess that you might love this.
I certainly had a unique experience. It's the only time I have hyperventilated at a theatre show. This was brought on by a combination of having to wear an uncomfortable mask, the drenching stage smoke, the almost pitch black rooms without obvious exits (the lift was padlocked and the Fire Exits said they were alarmed), and the 'white noise' constantly playing. I endured an hour and a half of walking through dark rooms of woodchip, sand, water, 'dead' mannequins, etc and failing to see any acting that was not in the form of pretentious dance or self-indulgent displays of nudity (all the actors seemed to take their clothes off for no apparent reason.) The set was completely amazing but I suspect that all the money from the expensive tickets (almost £50) had gone on that ambitious set and there was nothing left for a plot, storyline or anything else. Nobody asked if I was okay when I left early and collected my bag, and nobody asked me if I liked it. It was really difficult to find the exit and the whole experience seemed like a lesson for me in trying to overcome my claustrophobia; a challenge which I failed.
I was so sure I would love it that I bought enough tickets to go twice, but I walked out disappointed the first time. The set is incredible - huge, detailed, carefully realised. Not a single item out of place. But there is nothing to do with the set - no interaction, no fun, no play. At least in other places like this you can pick up a pen and write, or play with a robotic machine, or walk into a tunnel of newspaper. Not here. You can only look, and walk around, like much of this play, from behind your white mask, always removed. Therefore you turn to the other option - chasing around the main characters. You're warned off doing this - but if you don't chase them, you lose any kind of action, and end up walking around in the dark for a while on your own. There simply aren't enough actors to fulfil the desire of a hundred stampeding white masked audience members. And there certainly isn't enough story. I walked and walked for three hours during this play but was often left watching a woman put on makeup, or sob, for fifteen minutes at a time. Every piece of action was either a lustful dance or an angry dance. As I was watching another pair of actors dance around each other, I realised that I was simply incredibly bored. There were symbolic moments that seemed to hold more promise, but without any real storytelling, you had no emotional investment or understanding of them. This is immersive only in the sense that you're there: there is no room to create your own story, or choose to interact with cast yourself. To top it off, it is incredibly hot in there and sweat constantly trickles down your mask. I believe in being child-like and wondering and curious, but this performance brought out none of those things for me. There was no play in the play.
Like shopping for a story in Abercombie & Fitch; painful. Beautifully set stage but I'm afraid I couldn't connect with the performance at all.
The (honest) truth about Punchdrunk's 'The Drowned Man'. It is deliciously dark. It is a beautiful and detailed set, within a very large space. You will walk far. There are performers, several themes, an audience and you. There are stairs and there are doors, some locked, some open, some not instantly recognisable. There are too many rooms to explore in one visit so don't try, don't rush. You wear a mask throughout the performance, unless in the bar. Your mask is magical; enjoy it, it will provide you with anonymity. Like a ghost you roam invisible, alone I suggest. Even though you may at times be within a crowd your mask emotionally isolates you, it allows you to decide for yourself your feelings without being influenced by 'the crowd'. While watching a performance, take a moment to view the crowd, a truly surreal experience. Your mask has another exquisite purpose; your emotional isolation means you get little or no eye contact, so when you do (hopefully) get a one on one performance, the eye contact is so intense, so rich, it becomes memorable like your first day at school, your first solo bike ride, your first kiss. Hopefully you will find the 'secret' tunnels, paths, doors, rooms, performances. The ploughed field through the trap door is bizarre, as is the cobweb covered dining room complete with aged butler and the classroom where it always rained is very strange. Hopefully you will be led very gently by the hand of a performer through a maze of soft velvet drapes into a private space, have your mask removed and experience whispered words from lips that brush your ears, receive mysterious messages or tokens, have your hair stroked menacingly by an old white haired crone, be tucked in bed by a clown and read an evil bedtime story, or wander onto a stage with a dancer frozen on the edge of a pirouette. Whatever your experience, give in to it and enjoy it for the gift it is. I wish the ticket price was less so I could go more often (my only gripe). That said it is well worth the money. Should you go you may have an experience that will stay with you for long time after the finale and colour your dreams and thoughts for many days and nights later. Buy a ticket or 2 and go with curiosity in your eyes, adventure in your heart and with the spirit of a wily old fox remembering, "..some days chicken, some days feathers.." Some of what you have just read is the truth, some my imagination, some a sweet cloudy mix of them both. Isn't that essentially what our own reality is when viewed by others?


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Stalker claims he got victims mixed up
New Zealand's most notorious stalker has appealed his latest prison sentence saying he got confused about who he was stalking and lavished undue attention on the wrong woman.
Glenn Green is serving a 30-month sentence for two counts of criminal harassment, offending he began three weeks after getting out of prison in 2011.
Green, 42, aka Glenn Corleone, Goldberg, Carlionne, Casellano and Holden, appealed his sentence at the High Court in Auckland yesterday saying the judge had erred by giving him the same sentence for both his victims, when he had actually stalked one of the women much worse than the other.
Crazy Amusement Park Ride Gives Women Orgasms & You Won't Believe What You're Seeing (VIDEO)
Have you ever been on a slingshot ride? I've always been way too terrified of trying one of those deadly-looking reverse-bungee spring-propulsion whatchamacallits that hurls you about fifty zillion feet into the air at the approximate speed of sound, but according to several intriguing YouTube videos, I might be missing out on a seriously good thing. Because there's something about the experience brought on by at least one of those nightmarish contraptions that's giving women orgasms left and right.


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This blog discusses current weather, weather prediction, climate issues, and other topics
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
KUOWGATE, July 4th Weather, and a Radar Animation
Tonight, I wanted to talk about the most serious aspect of the KUOW affair: the extraordinary willingness of the station to spread incorrect information to defend itself. But considering that some of you are not interested in this, I decided to put it into a separate blog:
This week the National Weather Service sent me a marvelous video of the construction of the new Langley Hill radar. Check it out here:
I love the part where they build the dome and put it on top of the tower!
July 4? Looking good! Tomorrow (Thursday) will bring lots of clouds and some showers, particularly in the convergence zone and along the western slopes of the Cascades. Friday and Saturday should be sunny and warm. Sunday--clouds and perhaps some showers...and then major improvement on July 4th... just in time for picnics, parades, and illicit incendiary activities.
But let me give you some good news, particularly since the front page of the Seattle Times on Thursday talks about the dangers of snow on our trails. It really looks that we are going to transition to true summer weather next week. Here is the National Weather Service 6-10 day forecasts for temperature and precipitation--higher probability of warmer than normal and drier than normal weather. More on this on Friday....
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- John McBride said...
I see this morning that the snow level is at 5500 feet. According to an article in the Seattle Times snow remains over all of the trails out of Paradise and Sunrise on Mt Rainier. July 4th is upon us. Since we're past the solstice, the days will begin to rapidly shorten and the nights and their coolness lengthen. I understand the mechanics of residual "heat" in August and September in normal years, but this isn't a normal year. I'm wondering if I'm going to be disappointed in getting to Indian Henry's Hunting Ground on Mt Rainier and miss out entirely on it's annual display of profuse wildflower glory... I may have to settle for viewing a grander Nisqually glacier this time around.
- June 30, 2011 at 6:43 AM
- Cliff Mass Weather Blog said...
John...don't give up yet....summer will start soon and melt out---although delayed---will occur...cliff
- June 30, 2011 at 7:21 AM
- Lindsey said...
Good weather on July 4? Surely that just can't be! . . . EVERYONE knows that we usually have bad Fourth weather in the Seattle area . . .
Except that that's simply not true. Seatac has recorded any July 4 rainfall only twice beginning with 1999 on July 4 (and one of those -- 2006 -- it still reached 75 and rainfall was quite minor). I suspect people have the 1990s in the back of their minds where in an anomalous seven year period (1992-1998) it rained five of those years on the Fourth and only reached the mid-60s on one of the times it didn't.
- June 30, 2011 at 8:07 AM
- Thomas said...
In The Economist of 18 June, page 87 they reported on the report from the National Solar Observatory (NSO)saying that the latest sun cycle hasn't started again as the immediate past would dictate and we COULD be going into a Maunder/Dalton minimum cycle. Have you seen any promising work about the north pacific decadal and the strength of our solar radiator?
- June 30, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- rangerbcb said...
As Cliff says, melt will happen but late of course. 1999 was the last really, really big snow year and the wildflowers in the Olympics were stunning, just a month or more late. In my 17 years working at Olympic NP, the big snow years have been really good wildflower years.
- June 30, 2011 at 8:45 PM
- DrLeoMorales said...
Hi Cliff-are there any UW extension courses or online courses that you can recommend to learn more about meteorology? Thanks,
- June 30, 2011 at 11:15 PM
- Kenna Wickman said...
Have heard that many have or are about to dig up their tomatoes and throw them away. Heard from one farmer who said all of hers turned white, after a night in the 30s last week.
I'm starting my Winter Vegetables this weekend. Cabbage family stuff and other greens.
- July 1, 2011 at 8:32 AM
- kimmie said...
Thank you for putting your KUOW stuff on another blog
- July 1, 2011 at 8:40 AM


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November 24, 2010
say NO to skinny
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We met this urban cyclist who told us he was en route to Critical Mass. Curious, I asked if they were a friendly bunch of Massers or tended towards violence and angry, punk youth. That question puzzled him, as he didn't understand how CM could be violent . . later we asked some locals who didn't know that Critical Mass even existed in Greenville.
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Hey, Hey, Mister Gabe, How Many Games Did You Make Today? The grass-roots protest outside Valve headquarters, demanding the completion of Half-Life 2: Episode Three, is not going away.
Sure Mr. Newell, it was cute when you showed up yesterday to pat their youthful idealism on the head and explain how the real world works, but that came off like Nixon talking football with Vietnam War demonstrators at the White House. Look man, they're serious. They're 18, man, they're old enough to carry a rifle, they want their game.
Imagine what happens if this sit-in is successful. The conversation of three generations at a Thanksgiving table, not far in the future:
"What'd you do in college, granddad?"
"Stopped a war."
"What about you, dad?"
"Got a video game published."
[h/t Travis]


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Consumers boosted spending in December for the second-straight month, but they had to dip into their savings because of stagnant incomes.
Consumer spending rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4% last month, the Commerce Department said. Economists polled by MarketWatch had forecast a 0.2% gain.
The advance in December follows an upwardly revised 0.6% increase in November. The pace of spending in the last two months of the year marked the strongest back-to-back gain since the first two months of 2012.
Yet the increase in spending came at a cost. Incomes were flat in December — the result of a slowdown in hiring — so Americans reduced their savings to finance their purchases. The U.S. savings rate dropped to 3.9% from 4.3%, only the second time it's fallen below 4% since 2009.
Consumers probably won't be able to maintain their current pace of spending unless their incomes rise a bit faster. Their aftertax pay adjusted for inflation, often referred to as disposable income, actually fell 0.2% in December.
Consumer spending is the main engine of growth for the U.S. economy. Americans have generally been cautious spenders since the end of the recession, but a steady increase in job creation, rising home values and, until this month, higher stock prices, may have encouraged them to spend a bit more freely.
The recent reversal in stock prices, however, might be starting to weigh on the minds of consumers. And a Jan 1. cutoff in extra unemployment benefits for some 1.35 million Americans could also curb spending a bit early on in 2014.
Still, most economists expect spending to rise at least 2% this year and probably higher, generating perhaps the fastest U.S. growth since the recession ended.
In December, Americans spent more on services like dining out and travel, but they bought fewer long-lasting items such as cars and appliances. Purchases of durable goods fell 1.4%, the first drop in three months.
Weaker October spending partly dampened the impact of the fourth-quarter's increase. The gain in that month was reduced to 0.1% from 0.4%, largely because the government initially overestimated how much was spent on gasoline.
Meanwhile, inflation as gauged by the PCE price index advanced 0.2% in December, or 0.1% excluding food and energy.
In the past 12 months the PCE index has risen a tame 1.1% overall and 1.2% on a core basis. The Federal Reserve targets 2% inflation, and the low rate will help persuade policymakers to keep interest rates at ultra-low levels.
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Engadget honcho Ryan Block got his techie mitts on a pre-release version of the iPhone 2.0 firmware, and here are the highlights (and lowlights!):
Exchange over Wi-Fi is not instantaneous (!). No contact search he could find. New button in Calendar don't do nothing for him yet. App Store error's out. Cisco branded VPN screen. Parental controls are good-to-go. Wi-Fi order can be specified in prefs. Calc has new widescreen scientific mode and icon. And his favorite new feature -- Multi-Select in Mail!
Head on over for a full rundown and gallery o' pics!