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In this digital age, it is crucial that corporate documents, both electronic and physical, are governed to ensure that organizations remain fully compliant. As the mountain of information grows, so too does the burden to manage it. With the ever-increasing frequency of electronic communication in the workplace, information governance is a field that will continue to grow and evolve in the coming years.
2014 was a big year for information governance, with records managers embracing the need and driving the transformation from existing records management practices to full information governance in their organizations. Many of the information management conferences and organizations focused their efforts on information governance in 2014 including AIIM and ARMA, as well as the newly formed Information governance Initiative (IGI). AIIM focused one of its Executive Leadership Councils (ELC) on information governance and ARMA jointly staged with the Sedona Conference the first Executive Conference on information governance.
Moving into 2015, organizations must make understanding the value of their information assets a resolution. According to Bassam Zarkout, CTO, RSD, technology alone is not a solution; instead, it must be coupled with cultural changes within an organization in order to implement a successful information governance program. The following slideshow discusses key information governance trends to watch for in 2015.
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Bumpy Ride To Calaguas
We were hesitated at first, there were hindrances, but we planned this for more than six months and we couldn't wait for another months.
There was a typhoon. But we heard that it was leaving the Philippines and we are expecting a sunny weather already, or we are hoping at least.
We made several calls esp from people that we know that lives at Camarines Norte to know the status of the weather there. If its really possible to still continue the out of town. Though we know that calling our contact would give us bias answer just for us to continue the out of town, we still do anyway. Besides, I know they wouldn't risk sending us out there because still, their name will be put on the line when things go wrong. And they know it more than us for they are operating and been going to that destination a hundred times than us.
We did cast a vote to decide whether we are going or not. Since majority says yes, we still go. We leave Friday night and head to our meeting place with our contact person at SM MOA.
Kuya Sid is a very skilled driver. It was a smooth travel going to drop point where we are going to ride the boat going to Calaguas Island.
We did a stop at Daet where we ate breakfast at Jollibee and head over to the drop point. Little did we know, the real travel has yet to begin. Boarding the boat is easy. The place was like on the anaconda movie. Haha! I was thrilled, though. Because I am into that. I just don't know with the rest. Though everyone were laughing and throwing jokes about anaconda and crocodile, maybe its just a mixture of excitement. For its our first ever almost complete out of town trip. Only two were not able to join us.
Going over the river first is full of jokes and laughter but when we finally meet the ocean we were struck! Awaits us are a huge waves! Not one but many big waves!! We asked the boat man if its still safe to continue and they said yes. But I know most of my friends including me feel threatened but adding to that I feel thrilled. Though I am feeling guilty because I can see in their faces that some of them are scared.
I'm used to waves. I've been to a lot of oceans, from calm water to disturbed water. I've had a few shares of near death experience in the ocean but I don't consider it as bad omen but instead an experience to remember and treasured.
A bumpy ride it is. Waves here, waves there. But knowing my Team Friday? It was still full of laughter. We still joke about it, throwing different jokes from life-threatening to silly ones, but again, I know just to conceal what they are really feeling.
Though the water is not calm, the view is magnificent. Though a vast ocean, a never ending body of water with no land nearby, the water looks so beautiful still, with a few fish hopping on the waters. The sound of waves gives giggles to me.
Whilst of everything going on inside of me and being aware of my surroundings, we didn't see it coming, it was that fast, like a bolt of lighting, it was beyond our control. It was beyond our imagination, but it hit us hard.
Two big waves coming are coming from both sides of the boat. We are hit. We almost lost it. If you are a surfer you probably would enjoy the scene, but we weren't. Thank heavens for our good boatman for griping the "manibela" hard enough to pull as out to live and survive.
No laughter were heard since the hit. No jokes, no spirit of enthusiasm. One of us cried it its still possible to go back. Some of us panic, remembering our family back home. Some of us cried. Literally. I can see in their faces that they are all scared. Honestly, I don't know what I am feeling that time. Definitely not scared. I remember during the hit of two waves, I just closed my eyes and that's it. Total blackness. No flashing of your life in front of you. Just dark.
Anyway, so much for the big waves experience, life must move on. Actually, after that, the water never calms. We were up and down the waves. That was a total of 3 hrs in the waves. Wet and scared. We were so ecstatic everytime we saw an island, but felt disappointed immediately knowing that it's not yet the island of Calaguas. On and on the bumpy ride at the waves. The boatman on the other hand, continuously telling us that what we experienced is normal, that there are far more life-threatening big waves before that that they've experienced. Our contact? Kuya Sid? He was fast asleep (resting from the long drive) he was so calm sleeping, that he was awoken by my friends scream and calmly told us that it is again, for the nth time "normal" And we are like "define normal ba dito papuntang calaguas??"
We thought that's it. But there's more! Hindi na talaga kumalma yung tubig! Approaching the island was harder than we thought. The boat can't make it any nearer the shore because of the big waves splashing over it. If the boat gets any nearer and with that energy of the wave, The boat will be broken. We did a lot of tries but no luck. The boat man decided that from where we stop we jump out and we swim towards the island. Yes! Survivor peg! Remember that scene? Survivor Philippines! Where the survivors were asked to jump in the sea and swim through the shore? That is exactly what happened to us!
Most of us were no swimmers. SO what the boatman did is tie a rope from the boat to the nearest tree in the island and that will serve as our guide. One of his crew will be going to assist us.
I feel so excited! Imagine adrenaline rush all over my body! It was one of my favorite experience, though I got lots of bruises from that. And I am no swimmer! But this is one of those once in a lifetime experience and probably will not happen to all of us.
We all manage to reach the shore. All wet; including our things.
The rest of the hours were spent indulging on the fine sand of Calaguas. Too bad we didn't get to witnessed how serene it is because of the constant big waves. But we still manage to enjoy to the fullest! Pictures can justify it but I know not fully.
The night of our stay at the island we were talking about the big waves attack while having dinner. Exclaimed each experience and feelings and thoughts about it. It was really funny! And we laugh at it. Probably one of those memorable laugh we had.
It was a quick trip actually if you will think of it. We were leaving the next day and our boat man advise us to leave early to avoid big waves. But either early or not big waves never left us. Going to our boat was harder than from boat to the shore. We change to swimming attire since we will be soak in the water once again.
Since we've already experienced worst on our way to Calaguas we did not expect least that ride. We are still laughing, throwing jokes, bit ready for any waves. Imagine when it is my turn to go to the boat, a big waves comes to the shore, big enough that the boat disappear from our sight! Thank heavens I didn't swim right away or else where am I now?
It was my first time to see two different bodies of water that meet but did not joined. Its as if there were barriers that hinders them from joining together. Oh, how I love nature so much and the mystery behind it! Isn't it our nature so wonderful and full of mysteries? You can see the difference in their color. I've took a photo of it but it wasn't clear though, I guess investing to more quality camera should be on my list too, but I've seen a lot of those photos from different parts of the world and it was magnificent! I never thought that I will be seeing one in my life!
At last, on the drop point we were relieved and thankful that we are still alive. We changed clothes and prepare to leave and go home with so many stories and experience to share.
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Asin not suitable for Ranbir
South sensation Asin who took the silver screen with storm with her superb performance in 'Ghajini' opposite Aamir Khan is struggling for existancein Bollywood. News is doing the rounds that she has lost role opposite Ranbir Kapoor in Anurag Basu's 'Silence' for her height. Sources say that she is not tall enough for Ranbir. The film also stars Priyanka Chopra.
At first Katrina Kaif was approached for the role but later she walked out. Later the producer suggested Asin's name to the director but Anurag doesn't find her suitable for Ranbir. He wants someone 5.8 feet and so hunt is still on.
Asin's story of failure doesn't end here. Earlier John Abraham has also rejected her as he does not find her hot enough for Vipul Shah's 'KhaKha KhaKha'. It was also said that the rejection broken Asin's heart and she moved into tears.
Well, all this happens in the tinselville but Asin should not loose heart. Something better might be waiting her way.


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I'm sitting here in a hotel room in Chicago on my last night being a 30-something. Tomorrow, I'll be 40. I'll be honest, it kind of makes me choked up. But in a good way. Here's me, looking not a day over 39 after a visit to the fake nail and eyelash booth at the expo.
From now on, when I worry about what other people think or being judged, I'll just remind myself, "Hey! You're in your 40's. You're not supposed to worry about other people's opinions! Fuck off!"
When I worry about my derriere being an inch closer to the ground, I'll just think "Hey, Heather! You're a 40-something! It's ok for your body to change, and soften. It gets tiresome being so hot all the time. It's time to live on the down-low, out of the spotlight."
When I worry about not being able to take the fabulous European vacation because I up and quit my career at age 39, I'll remind myself "Hey, woman, you've had times in your life where you've been fortunate and times when you've had nothing at all. Stuff will come and go. It's your family that counts."
So, I took the liberty of recording a very rough video for my future self. I figured a video – taken at the end of a long day, with red eyes and frizzy hair – was a good way to capture myself as I entered my 40's.
Here's my little video. Happy 40's to me!
PS. WTF YouTube. It's like you demonically look for the most unattractive still to showcase. Whatev. I'm (almost) 40 now. Whodahell cares!


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Jonas Ott, a current student of the Master programme, just won the Prix European for student films at the Holland Animation Film Festival with his graduation film "Washed Ashore". From the jury report: We were impressed by the film's depth and surprising turns, its intensity, and its vaudeville perversity.
Congrats Jonas!
Also congratulations to Hisko Hulsing who recently held a workshop storyboarding at the Master: he received the Grand Prix Dutch Animation for his film "Junkyard".


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From Newton to Hawking
A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics
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Cambridge University's Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics is one of the most celebrated academic positions in the world. Since its foundation in 1663, the chair has been held by seventeen men who represent some of the best and most influential minds in science and technology. Principally a social history of mathematics and physics, the story of these great natural philosophers and mathematical physicists is told here by some of the finest historians of science. The journey begins with the search for a benefactor able to establish a 'mathematicus professor honorarius', and travels through the life and work of the professors, exploring aspects from the heroic to the absurd. Covering both the great similarities and the extreme differences in mathematical physics over the last four centuries, this informative work offers interesting perspectives on world-famous scientists including Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, G. G. Stokes, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking.Read more
- Places well-known scientists within the broad and complex history of the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics
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3. Making Newton easy: William Whiston in Cambridge and London Stephen D. Snobelen and Larry Stewart
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5. The negative side of nothing: Edward Waring, Isaac Milner and Newtonian values Kevin C. Knox
6. Paper and brass: the Lucasian professorship 1820–39 Simon Schaffer
7. Arbiters of Victorian science: George Gabriel Stokes and Joshua King David B. Wilson
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Do you find yourself worried about the divide in our country, but choosing positivity today in the wake of the election results? Me too. That's why I wanted to share The Intuitive Writing Project with you. There is no better way to do something positive for America than by donating to this beautiful cause to empower teen girls. We're going to need inspired, strong leaders to guide this country…your donation can help girls become those leaders, who can bust that glass ceiling once and for all…starting today. The Intuitive Writing Project is an educational nonprofit in the San Francisco Bay Area. They lead writing-based empowerment programs for teenage girls. They create a safe space for girls to tell their story, discover their strengths, and realize their capacity for leadership.
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I have been trying to make a tutorial to go along with every Project Run & Play entry, but I must admit last week's retro theme was beyond my capability (for now – lol). In order to get the snug fit that I wanted, I tailored it to fit my daughter exactly. That being said, I just couldn't find a way to make a universal pattern and tutorial that I felt comfortable sharing.
But life is about compromise – right?
What people seemed to love most about my outfit was the 'twirliness' – and who wouldn't?!! Lol
I know there are a million gathered skirt and/or circle skirt tutorials out there, what I wanted to teach you was how to put the 'wings' in the skirt, as my dress had with the large sectional pleats.
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Fujieda MYFC will be competing in the new J. League Division 3 next season after the club's application was accepted by the J. League.
The news means Fujieda will stay in Japan's third tier with the JFL now becoming the fourth tier. J3 will be a fully professional league with twelve teams competing in it.
Full list of clubs competing in J3 next year:
- The losing side of J2–JFL promotion/relegation playoffs – either Gainare Tottori (J2) or Kamatamare Sanuki (JFL)
- Blaublitz Akita (JFL)
- Machida Zelvia (JFL)
- S.C. Sagamihara (JFL)
- Nagano Parceiro (JFL)
- Zweigen Kanazawa (JFL)
- FC Ryukyu (JFL)
- Fukushima United (JFL)
- Fujieda MYFC (JFL)
- J. League U-22 team, composed of best J1 and J2 youngsters in order to prepare them to 2016 Olympics.
- And either Grulla Morioka, Renofa Yamaguchi or Azul Claro Numazu.


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This blog will will contain my rather pedantic ramblings on my experiences within the miniature war gaming hobby. There will be informative how-to's, thrilling battle reports and thought provoking editorials. I fully expect that history will one day view the contents of this blog on par with Homer's Illiad or Newton's Principalia. Or it's a complete waste of time.
Monday, January 31, 2011
More Robotics and another win!
I was very proud of the boys as our robots electronics had real issues and required extensive on the spot repairs. We'll need to replace or repair some of our electronic components before the next competition in March. The picture shows the end game of one of the finals matches (best two out of three) where our robot (3113) and our alliance partner managed to balance on the swing bridge with just 4 seconds to go in the match. The extra points from balancing swung the match in our favor.
This competition was very rough as the referees allowed a lot of contact. It's a good thing we built are robot to be both slow and heavy (like the coach!) as the ability to either withstand ramming or push robots out of the way was critical to winning. The boys also won a design excellence award which was really cool.
This week we'll be doing a full inspection and developing a repair prioritization list. I may never get my game room back!
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- jmezz382 said...
Congrats to you and your son's team !
- February 1, 2011 at 8:35 AM
- The Angry Lurker said...
Congratulations aswell, from what I see in the pictures those robots look brilliant.
- February 2, 2011 at 10:11 AM
- jmilesr said...
Thanks - this year has been very fun and I am very proud of the boys who, despite being coached by an economist, seem to be doing well!
- February 2, 2011 at 10:20 AM
Hey where was this competition at in south central pa? My son would love to start or be in a club in south central pa but there is no clubs around. would love to find someone close to start one.
- March 24, 2011 at 8:52 PM
- jmilesr said...
The competition is sponsored by a national group called FIRST. Their website has a search tool that can help you find local teams. Most are organized through High Schools or youth groups (my son's team is a Boy Scout troop). Here are a few links:
FIRST Home Page:
Team / Event Search:
Site for the groups that runs the PA Competitons for FIRST:
I hope the above information helps - robotics has been a lot of fun this year
- March 25, 2011 at 3:12 PM


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Committee members are practicing attorneys of 15-25 years of experience who are appointed to serve three-year terms. In addition, each year's recipient of the award serves on the committee for two years – the first year as vice-chair of the selection committee and the second year as chair of the committee.
The Joseph Branch Professionalism Award, which is given annually at the November luncheon meeting, is the highest honor granted by our local bar so that it is important for the committee membership to reflect a cross section of experienced attorneys in Wake County who are able to attend the annual meeting of the committee.
Anyone interested in a three-year committee membership term should submit his or her name to Whitney von Haam for consideration. The continued strength of the Joseph Branch Professionalism Award depends upon the membership and work of this committee as well as an inclusive nominations process. A nomination form is included in the Wake Bar Flyer for several months prior to the fall committee meeting.
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1997 Charles H. Young
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1995 James K. Dorsett, Jr.
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Children must earn adulthood by becoming both literate and well-mannered.
(p 88) The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman
…C. H. Waddington has hypothesized that "one component of human evolution and the capacity for choice is the ability of the human child to accept on authority from elders the criteria for right and wrong." Without such assurances children find it difficult to be hopeful or courageous or disciplined. If it is hypocrisy to hide from the child the "facts" of adult violence and moral ineptitude, it is nonetheless wise to do so. Surely, hypocrisy in the cause of strengthening child growth is no vice.
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Literacy Grows People
I'm eager to tell you: It's been a life-changer to read Neil Postman's The Disappearance of Childhood. I feel (he said in a stunned voice): "Wow."
I've been fond of Postman ever since I did a book report for college, back when my world was young and idealistic, on Teaching As a Subversive Activity (written with Charles Weingartner). Postman will always be best known for his books about TV, such as Amusing Ourselves to Death and (with Steve Powers) How To Watch TV News. Of course these books deserve their fame. Yet just as an art-house movie can be better and more memorable for you than a famous mainstream movie, can even become almost your favorite film, (Tree of Life) even though you just can't recommend that film to strangers, so too is The Disappearance of Childhood my favorite of Postman's work, although it's one of his less known books. It's Postman's favorite too, as he notes in the forward to the new Vintage edition.
Obscure, and perhaps too bookish: I don't even know who Postman's readers will be. From what I can see, even smart computer nerds seem to prefer their computer forums, such as reddit, to be just like TV: Valuing variety over complexity, quick emotions over depth, and with a pronounced distaste for anything lengthy. One Internet lady wrote with heated annoyance that if you couldn't make your point in 200 words then you shouldn't bother writing at all. (I guess she's not one of my fans)
Postman needn't apologize to nerds, although his thesis, step-by-step, chapter-by-chapter, requires more than a page each to cover things like: the long history of non-childhood; the super-swift spread of the "printing press with movable type;" the character-building effect on the reader of literacy; how childhood is a relatively recent social construct, we made it up; how childhood as we know it arose alongside printing; and, finally, the US cultural decline of the concept of childhood and innocence alongside the ascent of TV. That's a lot of pages. Just now, trying to keep this essay closer to 200 words, I am focusing not on childhood but on literacy… Although I've posted two quotes as prologue to get you started on thinking about children.
Although lately, as shown in my essays, I've been grasping how TV is "bad," especially TV "news," suddenly a new light bulb has turned on: Thanks to Postman, now I grasp how literacy is "good." More: From Postman, my new theory is that literacy is an achievement, and that adulthood is an achievement, and that literacy is a key to mature adulthood, as we have known it. (Although my favorite brother-in-law is both adult and less-literate)
It seems to me that in those dynamic Greek forums the citizens supported democracy as they gathered to talk, but the true sinews of power for their forums came from a populace who would go home alone to read and to reason. How seriously the Greeks took citizenship could be seen by their term "idiot" meaning one who could neither swim nor read.
I remember when "new, exciting" video computers first appeared, being used for teaching and gaming and TV, and a few people speculated that the skill of reading might one day become as rare as playing music. However—and this is serious—none of them speculated that literacy had an effect on the body politic: on people's character. Considering how even the nerds among us don't get it, I'm feeling glum. Considering the consequences, I'm aghast.
Oh well, I may be walking around in a dark cloud but there's a silver lining: At least I have a clue for the solution of a mystery. In one of the recent nonfiction best sellers, —It was either by the Freakonamics guys or Malcolm Gladwell— he had tracked how TV came to America in bits, with certain regions getting TV broadcasting earlier than others. He tracked the crime rates in these same regions. He was baffled, considering that children only watch kiddies shows, not ones on crime or violence, baffled at how those earlier regions suffered an earlier rise in the crime rate. Today I am wondering if those kids had a less innocent, more cynical childhood, followed by a less literate adulthood. Our ancestors, in their traditional oral society would of course communicate, but literacy means something upstairs, beyond plain communication.
Reading Postman (p. 76-77) I thought of strange far away young males in our war on terror: "When one learns to read, one learns a peculiar way of behaving in which physical immobility is only one feature. Self-restraint is a challenge not only to the body but to the mind as well…. In reading, one must wait to get the answer, wait to reach the conclusion. And while waiting, one is obliged to evaluate the validity of the sentences, or at least know when and under what conditions to suspend critical judgment… The literate person must learn to be reflective and analytical, patient and assertive, always poised, after due consideration, to say no to a text. This mode of behavior is difficult for the young to learn… the young reader is expected at first only to paraphrase, not criticize."
According to Postman, (p 101) "When the United States Constitution was written, James Madison and his colleagues assumed that mature citizenship necessarily implied a fairly high level of literacy and its concomitant analytic skills. For this reason the young, commonly defined as those under twenty-one, were excluded from the electoral process because it was further assumed that the achievement of sophisticated literacy required training over a long period of time… As Tocqueville tells us, the politics of America was the politics of the printed page."
You may think that in a month or so, with second thoughts, I will have reached a calmer, more critical balance… I hope so, but just now, under Postman's spell, and wondering if literacy builds character, I am feeling dark and thunderous. I see TV as images without language, without abstractions, and without a sense of time. I see "moving pictures" which don't allow any pause to reflect. I sense the futility of any "TV-now-time" liberal trying to direct our foreign policy and our savage peace making without having first woven together a personal philosophy of history. I envision the horror of Nineteen Eighty-Four replaced by the horror of Brave New World, censorship replaced by the "soma" of electronics. Later I will be calmer, of course, but just now I am trying on this new clothing, look at every mirror, trying to imagine if an entire society can suffer from a reliance on image over abstract language.
As regards society, I suppose people intent on politics are especially sensitive. Earlier this month, a backroom party worker and syndicated columnist, Warren Kinsella, wrote that image, emotion, has become more important than words. The hook for his column, which he must have been thinking about for some time, was about Bev Oda, the Member of Parliament we all loved to hate. Finally she's been turfed. It seems her fate wasn't just from the public contemplating her incredibly stupid and selfish actions, but was mostly from a single image of her dressed in black, looking sinister, sneaking a cigarette. Kinsella wrote, "Print folks —the ones who like to pour their souls into writing newspapers and magazines, the ones who craft profound essays for blogs, the ones who toil in government offices and conjure up grand speeches— like to believe that words matter still. But, mostly, they don't." To this, all I can say is "Ouch!" and "Too true." What's happened to us?
I guess James Madison's time has passed. Judging by the prevalence of electronic screens, Americans now prefer not to think. Last summer, when a nearby library was having a one-dollar sale, I overheard two young ladies in high heels. As a blonde reached for a fantasy her brunette friend asked, "Are you going to look at these science fiction books?" "No! I don't want to think!" …As God is my witness, I never would have thought to see, in my lifetime, the fantasy books at the big box bookstore, formerly a minority to be mixed in with, and outnumbered by, the science fiction books… now having their own separate gargantuan fantasy section, ignoring the withered little row of sf books. While hoping it is somehow coincidence, I am finding those two book sections awfully symbolic.
Often I despair. As documented in A Time to Start Thinking (A book I announced in my America Descending essay of June 2012) when it comes to US federal politics the experts have concluded, and I suppose Kinsella would agree, "to explain is to lose." And so "they" spout labels and slogans. I ask you: How much more unthinking could the American people be? When Postman discusses screens versus literacy he never comes out and says "post-literate age," but I think this term describes our timid new world. Longing for lush language, I am traveling across the desert, "a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made." Las Vegas initially looks attractive, with bright images of moving neon, but in the end, it is surrounded by desert.
… "And what is the use of a book," Alice thinks "without pictures or conversations?" Lewis Carrol is making the obvious point that the pictorial and narrative mode is of a lower order of complexity and maturity than the expository. Pictures and stories are the natural form in which children understand the world. Exposition is for grownups.
(p 117)
The often missed irony of the remark that television programs are designed for a twelve-year-old mentality is that there can be no other mentality for which they may be designed. Television is a medium consisting of very little but "pictures and stories," and Alice would have found it quite suitable for her needs.
(p 118)
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2 weeks ago, my sister told me about this nuffnang thing. And I think I should give it a try. The first week didn't go really well but this week shows a better progress. Hopefully there will be more good news after bad days for the last 2 weeks. I've lost my Cyber Shot handphone, money and Swatch Skin. And my Celcom Sim Card was terminated. I guess I ran out of luck. But this week seem better..A new day has come!!! lala~
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How to Schedule Posts on Facebook
Facebook lets social media managers schedule content on their pages up to six months in advance. Scheduling makes it much more convenient to both plan and manage content. It also ensures that your pages remain active even on days when you need to be away. 3rd party apps like DrumUp and Hootsuite can also be used for Facebook post scheduling – such tools come with additional features like content recommendation and multiple social media account management, which can overall make social media content management much easier.
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Scheduling posts on Facebook with third party apps
There are several free tools on the web that let you discover and schedule content on your social media accounts. As you can see above, scheduling posts on Facebook is extremely simple. Why then would anybody recommend using third-party tools? Here's why:
- Third party content discovery and scheduling tools give you an automated list of content recommendations, which means that you no longer have to spend tiring hours trying to find interesting stories to share on your page.
- Most of them also offer analytics, which lets you see how your posts are performing. Even if you aren't spending a lot of money on your social media campaign, you will be spending a reasonable amount of time and effort. You will have also set some objectives for the campaign, and it's important to ensure that these objectives are being met.
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It's true that scheduling posts on Facebook makes it much easier to manage your posts, however being careless in doing so could cost you dearly. Here are some mistakes you should avoid when scheduling posts on Facebook.
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- Don't schedule time sensitive content. News is just one example of a type of content that has a limited shelf-life; another example is surveys that are more than a year old. Always make sure that the content you are scheduling will be as relevant on the day it goes live as it is on the day it is scheduled.
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Frameworks became one of the hottest topics in Java community. Then, Microsoft adopted a similar development architecture and later the .Net platform was born (MS Enterprise Library). I am not going to describe what the framework is but try to frame the framework libraries. I think the Java Framework boom starter was EJB. Issues with EJBs lead to a new effort to find simpler and better alternatives. ORM libraries solved many problems of EJB while staying outside of the Java standard body. As time goes on, the standard body changed its own standards and started adopting these library technologies like Hibernate.
Frameworks provided many useful utilities, eased software abstraction and layering, providing the best practices of design patterns.
First of all, let me classify enterprise Java frameworks describing their functions (I think these are fundamental blocks and every enterprise application needs these frameworks):
Application Framework
The Application Framework contains functions and API's for enterprise applications. These frameworks provide a run-time (like a VM) for applications and hide the details of some services and functions. There are 3 main functions; User interface (View), server interaction-business logic execution (Controller) and persistence (Model). Some of them are complete application frameworks, such as MVC frameworks, whereas some provides functions only for one aspect of application like UI, persistence or controller. It is very hard to find a complete and fully-fledged application framework. Today these functions are scattered to many frameworks thus making integration more difficult.
Messaging Framework
A Messaging Framework enables communication between different process or servers in either a synchronous or asynchronous way with tightly or loosely-coupled manner. RMI and JMS are examples in Java. Depending on requirements, RMI or JMS could be used. JMS needs an implementation library as well. ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) is just a new acronym for this framework type. Web services and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) can run with this framework functions.
Reporting Framework
Reporting is the presentation of data for printing or publishing purposes. Reporting frameworks provide layout arrangement, paging and printing to different printers with different document formats. There are many open-source or commercial reporting frameworks with different capabilities. Many of them developed their own proprietary report writing script languages and XML formats with an API set.
Utility Framework
There are some special needs like XML parsing, String manipulation, source code generation, etc. These requirements are met by utility frameworks. A well-known example is Apache Commons.
All Frameworks have following aspects:
1- API: Every framework provides API's. Maturity and simplicity of these API's are very important. There are many other characteristics of a good API which will be held within another blog post. Frameworks are tightly-coupled application blocks and an API is the glue of these blocks. API is the most important aspect of frameworks which determines success.
2- Tools: Frameworks must be supported with tools. Sometimes frameworks are not usable in the absence of good tools. Tools depend on frameworks, any major code and API change brings many pains to tool writers. Tool support is one of the drawbacks of framework writers since no time remains from framework development jobs. One of the tooling misunderstandings is IDE dependency. Tools don't necessarily require an IDE, for example code generators can be independent applications.
3- Run-time Management: Frameworks haven't come to this level yet. I see only a few JMX support but this is not enough. On the other hand, JMX support is very hard for framework developers (Only Application Servers could use JMX). This job is left to profiler vendors but profiling in a production system is nearly impossible. Which job is running using which object through which connection can't be answered in a running system, I haven't encountered such tool yet. Session inspection, thread management and connection pool management do still not exist.
4- Standards: With so many options, a developer's toolbox is flooded with frameworks. Keeping standards and consistency across developer ecosystem is another important issue. If frameworks are utilized with careful planning, we can build and keep standards across programs and projects. Otherwise unmanaged development environment will be costly.
Frameworks boost developer productivity by encapsulating functions and dividing expertise. Framework selection is a key part of any development project. Frameworks should be evaluated very carefully with the above aspects. In some circumstances, "Build" decision may be taken if we have enough resources (time, expertise). This was our case and eventually our libraries matured meeting ERP application expectations. Our frameworks turned out to be an Application Operating System (AOS) for web applications.
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… the cozy feeling I get wearing these moccasins I picked up at Red Light Vintage for 9 bucks when we were in Portland. The sheepskin lining makes wearing them feel like walking around in slippers all day, which is something I can absolutely get behind, especially on these chilly Fall mornings.
...flipping through the Toast winter 2009 catalog for cool weather sartorial inspirations (thanks to Diana for reminding me to get my free copy!). Also, the short film they made during the catalog shoot is the best kind of dreamy.
Watching this delightful film. Maggie Gyllenhaal's character is beyond hilarious.
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Actually, I just enjoy watching her get annoyed with me as I take too many pictures of her ;)


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Tension-free satire (but the commentary is good)
Clare Quilty | a little pad in hawaii | 10/01/2007
(2 out of 5 stars)
"This is an airless, somewhat smug, fatally mild-mannered satire about the production process behind a doomed television drama. Duchovny plays a writer/producer whose autobiographical show is, bit by bit, compromised by Weaver's executive -- the casting, the tone, the plot and even the title are all eventually distorted by a suit who takes demographic readings from her teenage daughter.
This war between artistry and commerce isn't exactly breaking news, and in fact it was already tackled years ago by the smarter, funnier "The Big Picture."
"The TV Set" is pitched too loose. Though he has plenty of opportunities, Duchovny's character never really articulates any kind of vision, and the film loses a lot of tension because the story he wants to tell really doesn't look much better than the compromised version. Even when the final version of the show appears, he seems more angry over its implied failure than he does over the loss of his vision.
Ioan Gruffudd plays a supposedly ingenious BBC executive lured to America who seems to have Duchovny's back but he, too, never asserts himself in a realistic way -- his character seems like an incomplete thought, as does the go-nowhere failed courtship/feuding between the show's two leads. And Weaver's lines are all on-the-nose jabs at a corporate mentality ("Original kind of scares me," she says, surprisingly without the accompaniment of a rim-shot).
What's up with Kasdan? He made the wonderful "Zero Effect" followed by the sort of cynical teen comedy "Orange County" which wasn't nearly as funny as the films that inspired it. But I miss the wit and imagination that I thought "Zero" offered a promise of. Those qualities certainly don't arrive in "The TV Set."
One ammendment to my 2-star review: There's a commentary track on this disc between Kasdan and Judd Apatow that, to my mind, is far more enjoyable than the movie itself. They don't talk a lot about what's going on on-screen, but spend more time discussing the television work they've done that inspired the movie -- "Freaks and Geeks," "Undeclared," "Larry Sanders," "The Ben Stiller Show." I give that commentary 4 stars. Well worth listening to."
A Sitcom's Genesis Covered in Clever Though Repetitive and I
Ed Uyeshima | San Francisco, CA USA | 11/23/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Even though the movie's conscience, no matter how tattered, is carried by the well-intentioned characters played by David Duchovny and Ioan Gruffudd, it is Sigourney Weaver who easily steals this 2007 television industry satire as Lenny, the Machiavellian head of a struggling network. With her natural authority and scathing wit, she goes back to lacerating Working Girl mode and makes Lenny the complete embodiment of the decline of commercial television with her mantra, "Originality scares me." Acerbically written and directed by Jake Kasdan, Lawrence's older son and a TV insider himself, the film focuses specifically on the development of one sitcom pilot from its casting to the show's presentation to the network affiliates. Its creator is Mike Klein, a seasoned TV writer whose brother's suicide inspired him toward his autobiographical concept.
The story's scope is brief compared to what Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chavefsky already covered with visceral aplomb thirty years ago with the brilliant Network, but Kasdan treads familiar subject matter here. The interactions between Mike and the network suits, in particular, Lenny, are funny, but they begin to get repetitive as the plot meanders toward a rather abrupt conclusion. The other shortcoming is the erratic shift in the movie's perspective between Mike and Richard McCallister, a BBC-imported programming whiz who sympathizes with Mike but finds himself inextricably tangled with network politics. Both Duchovny and Gruffudd are fine in their rather curtailed roles, and there is a smart supporting cast that helps to propel the slim plot - Judy Greer as Mike's perpetually waffling manager, Justine Bateman as his grounded wife, Fran Kranz changing from doofus to egomaniac as the sitcom lead, Lindsay Sloane as the increasingly savvy ingénue, and Andrea Martin in a funny bit as a cynical costumer.
The film's wry tone reminds me of Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration, though Guest cuts a broader and deeper swath on the entertainment industry. Kasdan presents a more insular world in this movie, and the result feels less than resonant to the casual viewer. The 2007 DVD boasts two commentary tracks, which seems excessive for something so small-scale - the first is with Kasdan, Duchovny, Sloane and producer Aaron Ryder about the details of the production and the second again with Kasdan but with executive producer Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) to discuss more of what inspired the film itself. A deleted scene is included as well as a brief making-of featurette."
A biting satire that lacks teeth...
Cubist | United States | 09/27/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)
"The TV Set is a satire of television that wants to be the next Network (Two-Disc Special Edition) but opts for a much more laid-back approach. The film shows the inner workings of the T.V. industry and how a pilot episode is pitched, then produced, and, in this case, ruined.
The TV Set makes the very valid point that the networks care less about creativity and more about stroking egos. Anything that deviates from tried and true formula is questioned. This film seems to say that sex and broad comedy is what people, for the most part, want to see on T.V. - hardly a revelation. Making a T.V. show is often a series of compromises and it's a miracle that anything decent ever makes it on the air. The TV Set shows the physical and emotional toll the process takes on people, adopting a very low-key tone (that is sometimes so low-key, it's non-existent), quietly making its points. It is most definitely not a bad film, just not a very dynamic one either.
There is an audio commentary by director Jake Kasdan, actors David Duchovny and Lindsay Sloane, and producer Aaron Ryder. They all joke and banter with Duchovny's dry, deadpanned jokes being a real treat. Everyone recounts filming anecdotes in this fun, loose track.
Also included is a commentary with Kasdan and executive producer Judd Apatow. They talk about the nuts and bolts of making a T.V. show and recount some of their experiences working on shows like Freaks and Geeks - The Complete Series and Undeclared - The Complete Series. Clearly their experiences working in T.V. were fodder for the characters and content in the film. This is a funny, insightful track.
"The Making of The TV Set" is an above average electronic press kit. Kasdan started off in T.V. making pilot episodes for shows that never got picked up.
Finally, there is one deleted scene that spoofs the popularity of lawyer and medical dramas - the main competition for Mike's new show."


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Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A Russian man was arrested after stealing an armored personnel carrier from a secured facility and using it to ran his way into a store to take a bottle of wine.
CCTV footage from the store in Apatity shows the man ramming the vehicle, which operates on treads like a tank, into a store's window before climbing in to take a bottle of wine.
The man gets back into the carrier and rams it into the store a second time.
Police said the man, who was arrested after abandoning the vehicle in the store, was previously arrested for stealing a truck earlier this month.


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Pink. A color I don't wear often. It's bright and bubbly. But, that's not how I feel. Why? Because summer is ending. I hate that. I hate the cold. Sure, the fall is fine but once the end of November rolls around, you're freezing. You can't even picture it being warm because it seems like a distant past. I do not want that. I do not want any of that. I want the bright sun. I want to swear dripping down my back. I want the tan glowing skin. I want the running around with friends. I want summer. Please never end. PLEASE!
CosmoAugust 31, 2016
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September 2, 2016 at 11:07 pm
Gorgeous style and pictures, love that shirt!


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When we talk about men as a gender, we have this picture of hard masculine species of the human race, a group that does not wear make-up or accessories in order to look fancy. A deviation from this has often gotten the criticism of either being wimpy or borderline feminine. This has therefore prompted men to be choosy at what they wear even be very specific to their form of accessories, they must all work to accentuate the masculinity in them.
Some of the most common ornamental wears for men include; dog tags, pendants, bracelets, and rings among few others. In this article, we focus on rings, their type and how they should be worn to keep up with the desired manly demeanor. We have those rings commonly worn for personal reasons like good luck rings, typical with athletes that believe such pieces bring good luck with them. However, we have others that are designed just for the purpose of adding glamour to those fingers and those are our main concern in this article.
Skull Rings
These are some of the common rings that have skull engravings on them. They have been used since the ancient times and they are believed to be the epitome of masculinity signs in the accessory field. Skull rings can be used for so many reasons such as lucky charm rings, society and family kinship symbol, cult sign and also for fun like with the rock band fraternity.
How to wear a ring as a man
For a man, the choice of where and how to wear a ring should be very a well-thought affair. It is not so gentle for men to be wearing rings on every finger in their hand unless they are fashionably careless.
Choose well which finger or fingers… Read More


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The Next Web is reporting that a security hole in Skype's password recovery tool means that your account can be hacked using just your email address and username.
A team of Russian hackers discovered the flaw and posted details online. Since, The Next Web has confirmed that the technique works. The five-step hack — not linked to here — uses some nimble tricks to allow a password reset to be intercepted. The Next Web explains:
The reason this works is simple, but it's still worrying. When you use an existing email address to sign up with Skype again, the service emails you a reminder of your username, which is okay, since no one else should have access to your email. Unfortunately, because this method enables you to get a password reset token sent to the Skype app itself, this allows a third party to redeem it and claim ownership of your original username and thus account.
Voila — account hacked. In theory, this means that anyone who knows your email address and Skype username could hack your account should they wish. Currently, then, the only way to avoid the hack would be to register your Skype account with an entirely private email address. Chances are, though, that won't stay the case for long: Microsoft told The Next Web that it is currently conducting an internal investigation into the problem. [The Next Web via Verge]


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There was suprisingly little debris for such a busy area. We picked up what we could find and that amounted to about 4 full size garbage bags.
The pick of the day was a large warning buoy that we winched back up the hill with two pickup trucks.
Dam Warning BuoyAgain I would like to thank those that made it, as well as those who said they would like to attend but had other committments. Please watch for further cleanup announcements.


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Hunter Lang, DVM
Dr. Hunter Lang graduated from Michigan State University, College of Veterinary Medicine in 1981. He joined the Sauk Prairie Veterinary Clinic in February, 1982. He participated in the Dairy Health Management Certificate program through the UW School of Veterinary Medicine. He is currently the District 5 Director for the American Association of Bovine Practitioners representing bovine veterinarians in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. Hunter and his wife, Laura, have four children – Alex, Amanda, Aaron and Amy.
Lynae Schott, DVM
Dr. Lynae Schott is a 1992 graduate of Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree in Dairy Science. Lynae grew up on a dairy and swine farm near Earlville, Iowa. Dr. Schott joined the Sauk Prairie Veterinary Clinic team in 2001. Dr. Lynae and her husband, Tim, have two sons, Edwin and Brandon.
Ann Zielinski, DVM
Dr. Ann Zielinski earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. She graduated from the UW School of Veterinary Medicine in 2006. She participated in the Cornell Summer Dairy Institute. She has been part of the team at the Sauk Prairie Veterinary Clinic since August, 2006.
Eric Brummel, DVM
Dr. Eric Brummel joined the staff at the Sauk Prairie Veterinary Clinic in 2008 after previous stops in Cornell, WI (1981-1987) and Argyle, WI (1987-2008). Dr. Brummel is a PROUD graduate of Michigan State University, where he received his B.S. in Microbiology and Public Health in 1978 and his D.V.M. in 1981. Dr. Brummel and his wife, Penny, have three children: Zach (Class of 2012), Lexi (Class of 2013), and Hailey (Class of 2016).
Support Staff
Robin Pulvermacher
Robin Pulvermacher is a Certified Animal Technician. She has been with the clinic for 18 years. Robin and her husband, Dale, have a dairy farm outside of Sauk City. They have 2 children, CJ and Kaitlynn.


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text: I couldn't decide if I was a genie or MC Hammer today. I love wearing one pieces but not so much fun having to go piddly! Have a wonderful weekend lovelies, I've packed drag queen fake eyelashes and dresses that are a little too tight for my bachelorette in Montreal Au revoir, mes amis! jacket: h&m / one piece: in a london boutique / shoes: fergalicious / bag: ysl / necklace: nine west / bracelets: diy, hk market, thailand market, juicy couture / watch: michael kors / rings: marc by marc jacobs, durumi, house of harlow


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[First post in this Novel: Dedication]
[Previous post in this Novel: Chapter 3.2]
Paris 1932 – A fertile moment in time
Euphemia, la grande diva magnifique, continued to refine and redefine her own original, luxurious and unique creation: herself. As the best hostess in Paris, the sublime boho soirées that she held in her sumptuous pied a terre on Rue de Bucci in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, a stumble away from Les Deux Magots, were famous for being famous. Her constantly morphing gang included the moment's avante-garde who's who – from artists, writers, musicians, politicians, thinkers and poets to the always in your face, extremely decorative American socialites who were escaping their cultural sink of censorship, prohibition, increasing zenophobia and offensive puritanism that a particular brand of Americans do so well.
Eupemia's salon was notorious. Even the blasé surrealists blinked during the notorious night of "hysterical luxury" when Euphemia and Josephene Banana Danced, wearing only fruit, on a leopard skin rug.
News of Euphemia's salon significantly helped keep the French tabloids in business during the silly depression. It absolutely vexed Euphemia's financial sense and sensibilities when she thought about the current global economic situation. That a generation of grown men would invest their wealth in the stock market and focus primarily on trade rather than in tangibles such as real estate was rather bemusing. Indeed, the salon itself was a personal poignant modernistic artistic ode to the times.
From Tuesday through Saturday night, Chez Euphemia was a free island where the state didn't take things away and where those fortunate few who gained entrance could convene, have a simple breakfast of oysters and champagne, pontificate about the absurd, and pleasantly forget they existed. It became a badge of honor to have one's drawing, painting or poem placed on Euphemia's salon wall. "The Wall", as it was known around town, was covered with hundreds of items overlapping one another from floor to ceiling in a cacophony of artistic styles and subjects.
Sundays and Mondays were however another matter. They were about the hunt. Euphemia's passion for antiquities had become legendary in the upper echelon of European archaeological collectors. While rumors circulated, as rumors are meant to do, what Euphemia actually did with her alleged collection remained a mystery. There were whispers that Euphemia had converted the massive estate in an exclusive London enclave that she had inherited on the death of her father into a private club for archaeological adventurers.
It was on a particularly cold Monday evening in late December that Euphemia arranged a clandestine assignation in the back row of the newly opened Grande Rex Theatre with Porchey, a most uncompromisingly direct ladies' man with impeccably compromised connections. From the cradle, Porchey had learned to appreciate the aroma of strong self-centered women. Porchey's promiscuous and profligate mother, Almina Wombwell, the illegitimate daughter of the banker Rothschild, had taught him the art of ruthless callousness. His wife, Catherine Wendell, whom he had married to escape an arranged marriage to Princess Mary, while lovely, an exceptional chatelaine of Highclere Castle and a fine breeding mare, did not like playing musical beds with the abusive swine that was Porchey and was becoming a rather poor sport. Further, as a result of the economic times and his personnel narrative, which involved rather increasing time at the racetrack, Porchey had resorted to selling family treasures to maintain his lifestyle.
"Like what you feel there?" Porchey whispered as he slowly drew a cold object along Euphemia's inner thigh, lifting up the edge of her very fashionable Vera Borea rough heavy linen day skirt.
"Depends on what is touching me." Euphemia responded in a husky whisper.
"An ushabti. I found it just where you told me to look. The old bastard hid all the stuff in a cupboard between two rooms down below the cellars. But you already knew that, yah." Porchey said with a bit of a snark.
"Yowzer! Is it the one we discussed the other day, the one with the boy pharaoh wearing a gilded crown and holding the royal emblems, the Crook and Flail? I never thought I would see that one again." Euphemia purred.
"Yes it is. Why you want this old stuff is beyond me. But each to his own." Porchey responded, removing his hand and the ushabti to a cooler environ.
"Always a pleasure doing business with you. As agreed, I have signed over the papers for that lovely little Arabian mare you have been ogling since she was born. Given her impeccable parentage she should prove to be quite an asset. Time for you to beat it before anyone sees us together." Euphemia concluded, taking the ushabti from Porchey's hand and placing it in her purse which was lined with thick quilted silk specifically to cushion such acquisitions during transport.
Having been excused, Lord Carnarvon kissed Euphemia's hand and left.
Alone, Euphemia turned her eyes to the big screen to watch the rest of the German Expressionist cinematographer Karl Freund's new hit film The Mummy. Euphemia tittered out loud at the role of Helen Grosvenor / Princess Ankh-es-en-Amon, played by Zita Johann. Euphemia must have enchanted the writer, as Ms Johann repeated entire sentences uttered by Madame Tula a decade earlier.
[Continue reading: Chapter 5.1]


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The Drive-In Is Back, But With A Modern Twist
We all know there's no better way to watch a movie than going to a drive-in. Or at least, if you're old enough to remember those days, you'll think so. Parking your car, grabbing popcorn from food stands, hooking up your speaker and watching a movie under the night sky is just truly unmatched by today's movie theaters.
But a company in Nashville is preparing to let you do all that and a few extras, and it's set to open late 2017.
August Moon is an indoor drive-in theater under a large dome. You park your car outside, then walk inside to find a 1960s-themed "drive-in" finished with chairs that look like vintage vehicles.
The theater's architects went all out, including lots of small touches that truly make it feel like a good old drive-in. There are rock paths, real trees, fireflies, and even a projection of night time stars on the dome's roof.
If you don't feel like sitting in a vintage car, there is also normal seating, as well as private tree houses and there are also swings!
This grand project will cost more than 10 million dollars and will take up more than 40,000 square feet. It will also include the largest non-Imax screen in America! Isn't that amazing?
As for the movies, August Moon intends to play both classic movies that you can't see at any other movie theaters and new movie releases.


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Okay, so we all by now pretty much know who George Zimmerman is. Even if you don't, the media is definitely making sure that you soon hear about him. Not only was his case, which ended very disappointingly, publicized for the world to follow, but he recently made news headlines for having domestic issues with his girlfriend. He also recently made headlines for agreeing to fight in a "celebrity boxing match". Now, I've been saying that the media has been out to make a celebrity out of him since I first heard about the popularity of his case in court & hearing about the situation with his girlfriend & this boxing match just makes me even more skeptical, but if I say anything about propaganda, people will be quick to deny the claim. Thankfully, this boxing match was cancelled, but that still doesn't do away with the fact that numerous efforts have been made to make a celebrity out of a man who killed an innocent young man, as if he was doing the world a favor by doing so. His case & the murder of Trayvon Martin can even be read about on Wikipedia, as if he made history or something! I'm not even gonna get into how fake the pictures look on the Wikipedia page about the murder. He was even in the news for being stopped for speeding in Dallas, TX & giving only a warning. Personally, I wouldn't doubt that he was paid by U.S. government officials to find an innocent young black man to murder in order to have his case publicized & start a national uproar, followed by the stories about his girlfriend, him being pulled over, & the celebrity boxing match to make things more disheartening. But I'm just speculating & I won't bother starting another "conspiracy theory", but I can't be the only one who finds all of this a little too strange to be completely coincidental.
*The opinions of this article reflect on the author(s) it was published by & not the "What's The News?" organization as a whole.


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|I was still reeling from being collared as Mistress Luna sat back and smiled at her handiwork. 'I always knew I would have you submit to me' she laughed and deep inside I knew she was right. 'Now get up' I got to my feet and she walked behind me and untied my hands. 'On the bed Charles, and I want you all spread out for me, once set, don't move unless I direct you to do so'. I quickly got on the bed and spread my arms and legs wide, my heart racing as I did not know what to expect, except the fact that she had said my training was to begin and she never said anything without meaning it. She sat at my left ankle and quickly secured it to the bed with a length of cord, her motions were quick and efficient and I knew she had planned this for awhile. My right leg soon followed and then she moved to my right hand. She gestured for my hand and I meekly held it out to be secured to the bed. Getting up, she walked around the bed until she came to my left hand and again had me hold it out as she tied it to the bed. I was now more vulnerable to her than I had even been in front of anyone in my life. And my body quivered in that knowledge. She saw that involuntary movement and she smiled an evil wicked grin and said 'I see you have started without me' and she laughed a low evil laugh. Then to my surprise she started to undress, taking her time with each item and folding it before she put it on a chair. First her shirt then her shoes, her bra followed and then it was time for her to wiggle out of her jeans. She was wearing a black thong and she removed that and placed it by my head. Her naked and shaved body had the impact one would expect and my cock was hard by the time she finished disrobing. She sauntered to the bed and sat beside me. She leaned to me and kissed me, her tongue thrusting into my mouth as her hand fondled my balls. I responded in kind and briefly our tongues met. Once they did, she pulled back and slapped me across the face…not hard but enough to gain my attention. 'Charles, what part of don't move didn't you understand?' She grabbed my balls and squeezed them lightly. 'I think you'll find that you are in no position to disobey' and she squeezed them again lightly. She then leaned in and kissed me again, hard. Her tongue thrust and explored my unresisting mouth until she was satisfied. She sat back and said 'since you can not wait to use that tongue, I think we will start there'. She got up on the bed and straddled my chest and then moved up to my head. She stopped when her legs were pinning my arms down and her crotch was inches from my face. She grabbed my hair and pulled me to her and lowered herself onto my face. 'You know what to do don't you?' and I began to lick her pussy as she ground herself onto me. I pushed, licked, explored and caressed her pussy and reveled in the taste and smell of her. Finally, my tongue found her clit and I circled around it, rubbed it and sucked on it until she was moaning and rocking harder on my face. She then directed me to go faster or slower, and where she wanted my tongue. I willingly obeyed and soon I felt her thighs squeeze my head. My jaw was almost in spasm but I redoubled my efforts and then with a grumbling moan, she came. I was covered in her juices and as I continued to pleasure her until with a final moan, she lifted herself from me. 'Not bad for a first time Charles, we must give you a lot of practice so you don't need to be told what to do. But let's see what that cock of mine is doing. But first a little stopper.' And she reached over and grabbed her thong and pushed it into my mouth., holding it in place with a silk scarf. She then turned on my chest so her back was to me but she was still straddling me. I then felt her hands explore my cock and balls, her face so close I could feel her breath on it. 'I thought I told you I prefer my subs shaved? No matter, I can handle that later. For now, I want to see how you will respond.' I then felt the tip of her tongue trace around the head of my cock, down the shaft, over my balls, one at a time and then back. It was fantastic and I felt my body tense as she did it again. The second time she ended at the tip she slowly engulfed me in her mouth and I could not stop the gasp of pleasure she caused. She slowly worked back up and fingered the cock ring. 'I do like this ring but I think it is time for a real subs' leather wear'. She unsnapped it and tossed it aside. She then reached over for something but I could not see what it was and besides I really did not care because she also began to stroke my cock with quick sharp strokes while she swirled her tongue and lips over the tip. In what seemed like seconds, I felt the urge to climax start low in my balls. She let it progress until I was just about to climax and she stopped, dropping me from her mouth. She waited until I was limp and then repeated the process, and then again…and again..and again…and again…and again. It happened so many times, I lost count and I also lost myself in the pleasure and frustration she brought. My cock was so hard it was sore and my balls ached with the need for release. On the last, she leaned back and looked at me, 'shall I finish?' and I nodded my head vigorously. She smiled that now familiar wicked grin and turned back to her work. But instead of her tongue and hands, my cock felt hard cold metal and soft unyielding leather. A pull around my balls and a pressure there , a sliding of cold metal and the slap of leather and she laughed as she finished. 'At last my own gates of hell and its victim!' She unstraddled me and held my cock up for my own inspection. As she said it was a 5 ring goh and it was snuggly on my cock! And then from the end table, Mistress Luna took two small padlocks. The grin on her face was unreal as the first lock snapped and locked my balls in place, but that was nothing compared to the moan she let out after the second lock snapped at the base of my cock. I could not believe it but I will swear until the day I die that she climaxed as the second lock clicked in place. The look of lust on her face was frightening as she laughed and fondled me. 'I was right! This is so fucking hot!' Without another word, she sat on my thighs and as she fondled and played with me with her left hand as her right was frantically stroking her pussy! The joy on her face and the sexual intensity only crested when she reached her climax, pulling on my cock as she said, almost to herself ' One more step until you are finally and utterly mine Charles!'