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Thierry BALASSE
A French composer, improviser, performer, sound engineer and sound director born June 25, 1964.
Thrust into the world of music and sound after listening to the music of Pink Floyd, Thierry Balasse taught himself drumming before following a course for sound technicians at ENSATT, the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre. Thereafter becoming interested in the relationships between text, spoken voice and music, he became involved in sound engineering for the theatre.See complete biography
Stefano BULFON
An Italian composer born June 26, 1975 in Udine (Italy).
A pianist by training, Stefano Bulfon studied in parallel Greek literature and composition. He took advanced studies with Sylvano Bussotti and Ivan Fedele at the Strasburg Conservatory. He took part in courses at the Centre Acanthes and Royaumont, where he met some eminent composers, notably Jonathan Harvey and Brian Ferneyhough. He also followed the composition and computer music course of Ircam.See complete biography
Coralie FAYOLLE
A French composer born August 3, 1960 in Lyons.
Coralie Fayolle followed musicology classes at the Paris-Sorbonne and continued her training at the Paris Conservatory. She won a first place for her music aggregation then presented a thesis on operas for children.See complete biography
Januibe Tejera: Crossing languagesFilmed interview Interviewed by: Arnaud Merlin See the filmed interview
Maurilio Cacciatore: A new conquest of spaceFilmed interview Interviewed by: Arnaud Merlin See the filmed interview
Mirtru Escalona-Mijares: Music and politicsFilmed interview Interviewed by: Arnaud Merlin See the filmed interview
François Buffet: The spiritual in musicFilmed interview Interviewed by: Arnaud Merlin See the filmed interview
Christine MENNESSON
A French composer born February 20, 1955 in Neuilly-sur-Seine.See complete biography
Dominique PROBST
A French composer born February 19, 1954 in Paris.
Born into the artistic family of the Casadesus, Dominique Probst studied at the Paris Conservatory and won the composition prize of the Fondation Nadia et Lili Boulanger. He was solo timpanist for the Orchestre Colonne (1973-2015) and teaches at the Levallois-Perret Conservatory and the Conservatory of the XVIth arrondissement of Paris.
Probst has composed works for the radio, television, stage and ballet (Homo ipse delet, 1972, premiered at the Cité Universitaire in Paris) and has worked notably with Maurice Béjart, Francis Huster, Jean Marais and Laurent Terzieff.See complete biography
Arnaud PETIT
A French composer born January 15, 1959 in Reims.
Arnaud Petit studied notably at the Paris Conservatory and trained in composition with Pierre Schaeffer, Guy Reibel and Luciano Berio. He also studied conducting with Pierre Boulez and computer music with Bénédict Mailliard.See complete biography
ANDRE Mark (1964)
ANDRES Bernard (1941)
ANDREYEV Samuel (1981)
ANDRIESSEN Louis (1939)
D'ANGIOLINI Giuliano (1960)
ANTIGNANI Luca (1976)
ANTUNES-BICALHO Lindolfo (1958)
ANTUNES Jorge (1942)
ANZAGHI Davide (1936)
APERGHIS Georges (1945)
APPLETON Jon (1939)
ARFIB Daniel (1949)
ARIZA Javier (1968)
ARNAUD Lionel
ARRACHART Jean-Marc (1945)
ARRIAGADA Jorge (1943)
ARRIGO Girolamo (1930)
ARRIGONI Danielle (1964)
ARROYO Juan (1981)
ARTAUD Pierre-Yves (1946)
ASCIONE Patrick (1953-2014)
ATHANÉ Pierre-André (1954)
ATHINODOROU Christina (1981)
ATTAHIR Benjamin (1989)
AUBER Chantal (1931)
AUBERTIN Valéry (1970)
AUE Thierry (1964)
AUZON Bruno D' (1948)


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General information about Cuba
General Data
The biggest island in the Caribbean, is located at the entrance to the gulf of Mexico. The archipielago is formed by 4 195 different sized islands and is 110 992 square kilometres wide. The Republic of Cuba is composed of 14 provinces, 169 municipalities and the Special Municipality of the Isle of Youth.
Over 12 000 000
Education in Cuba is free and compulsory. In 1961 Cuba carried out a national campaign against of illiteracy and today in Cuba every citizen knows how to write and read
Cuba's system of primary health care covers the entire country and is considered to be unique in Latin America. Health services are free for all Cubans. The infant mortality rate is 5.3 per thousand live births and life expectancy at birth is 75.2 years
A country of great artistic manifestations and world reknown creators
Cuba is a major world power in sports. It holds leading positions in events such as boxing and baseball. Every year the country hosts international sporting events.
National Symbols
The Flag
The equilateral triangle is a clear reference to the yearning for liberty, equality and fraternity. The color red portends the spilling of blood that would be required to win independence. The single star located in the middle of the triangle is a symbol of absoluted freedom. The three blue stripes represent the eastern, central and western provinces into which the island was formerly divided. The two white strips signify the purity and virtue of the Cuban people
This is gothic shaped. On the upper parts there is a golden ket that symbolizes the key position of the island, at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico and between the two Americas while the rising sun represents a new nation. Three blue strips in the bottom left section are a reference to the regions into which the country was divided during the colonial period. In the bottom right section, the royal palm (symbol of the nobility and steadfastness of Cubans), the mountains and the clear blue sky represent a typical Cuban landscape. A bundle of eleven staff that symbolizes the unity of the Cuban people in the struggle for freedom supports the shield, crowned by a Phrygian cap on which there is a white star. Bordering the shield, to the right there is an oak branch, and to the left, a laurel branch, representing strength and victory
National Anthem
The music and lyrics were composed by Pedro(Perucho) Figueredo, from Bayamo, at the start of the independence struggles. As a patriotic song, it was sung for the first time in october 20, 1868, by the inhabitants of Bayamo.
Butterfly lily (a type of white-colored jasmine that is exquisitely perfumed)
The Trogon bird (a native species whose plumage has the same colors as the Cuban flag)
The Royal Palm (Found in abundance)
Important Dates
January 1: Liberation Day. Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution.
May 1: International Worker's Day.
July 25,26 and 27: Festivities in honor of the july 26, 1953 attack on Moncada Garrison.
October 10: Beginning of the Wars of Independence.

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This is the second blog showcasing the artists taking part in Derbyshire Open Arts this May at Studio 61 Gallery, each year we aim to bring you a variety of styles by emerging and established artists, below are the artists statements and works by three of those taking part this year.
Helen Rhodes.
A love of textiles leads to it always being present in anything I do. I love of nature has the same result so to combine the two I create needle felted art. I 'paint' with pre dyed merino wool that I blend by traditional combing to create the desired shades and I then use a barbed felting needle to pin the wool to a background fabric.
Ellie Depp
A self-taught artist from Derbyshire, England. She creates abstract works in acrylic and watercolour, and is particularly known for her striking use of colour.
Depp draws a lot of her inspiration from the Peak District and works of other artists. After dropping out of University and suffering with depression for many years she decided to explore her creative side with painting. It became a great therapy for her mental illnesses and in 2013 she started her own business. She began to explore new techniques using palette knives and 'pouring' acrylic paint mixed with mediums to create fluidity and movement in her pieces.
Depp has exhibited in Leeds, York, Sheffield, Derbyshire and London and is now currently working on her next series of paintings and art events. She is hosting The Chesterfield Art and Craft Fair on Saturday 31st May and The Depp Pop Up Shop in Sheffield on 18/19/20th June.
Janice Allen
From 5' painted canvasses, painted glass panels to small glass and silver jewellery pendants and earrings all have a common theme, which is texture. With the flow of inks on the canvas or the different size pieces of glass which melt in my kiln I never know how a piece will turn out.
I enjoy exploring new techniques whilst working some of my new work will be with me at Derbyshire Open Arts g2g event at Studio 61 Holloway.
If you have seen a piece of artwork on my website you would specifically like to view please send me an email and if I have the piece in my workshop I will bring it along to the event.
Derbyshire Open Arts will take place 24th - 26th of May 10 - 5 pm all are welcome and refreshments will be available.


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Expertise: Macroeconomics, regional inequality, criminal justice, fiscal policy, race and ethnicity
Olugbenga Ajilore is a senior economist at American Progress. Prior to joining American Progress, Ajilore was an associate professor of economics at the University of Toledo. His research has focused on race and local public finance, peer effects and adolescent behavior, and police militarization. Ajilore's work has been published in numerous journals, such as The Review of Black Political Economy, Economics and Human Biology, the Review of Economics of the Household, and the Atlantic Economic Journal. As of 2018, Ajilore serves as president of the National Economic Association.
Ajilore received his Ph.D. in economics from Claremont Graduate University in 2002. He earned his B.A. in applied mathematics and economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996.


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One of the strengths of Max Payne Mobile for Samsung Galaxy, a part of history in which we live, is its incredible graphics, with physical effects and high resolution textures that take you to a level above the rest. Additionally, the game is optimized for the NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 quad-core mobile processor with additional antistrophic texture filtering and enhanced lighting effects.
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Brian98241 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 89 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
Orphan Brides
A lot of new wedding photographers are "shoot-and-burn" photographers and give the couple a disc of their images after the wedding to do with as they please. Orphan Brides creates professional wedding albums for past brides who never received an album from their photographer but received their images.
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I was enjoying a beer last night when something interesting occurred to me. As most people who enjoy nice beer know, the way you pour the beer and the type of glass you serve it in affect the taste greatly. I was pouring and drinking a fine Trappist ale (Chimay Premiere) which is best enjoyed in a Chimay glass, which looks something like an old style champagne glass; relatively shallow and widemouthed. It tastes much different, and I think better, when this beer is poured a little roughly into the glass and allowed to foam. You pour a little, let it foam, wait for the head to go down, and repeat until your glass is full. With all that CO2 outgassing, this must raise the pH considerably and I'll bet that's what makes the beer taste different/better. That's probably old hat to all you true connoisseurs, but to dumb old me it was a revelation.
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Julia and a cast of actors will be performing Room on the Broom and other stories and songs at Little Angel theatre. The performance will be streamed live across the internet with hit children's TV broadcaster Turner so that everyone can join the Halloween fun!
Watch the performance for free by simply visiting the Room on the Broom Day website which you can access from any computer, tablet or smart phone.
So make sure to tune in at half past ten on the 31st October and watch with your friends!
Don't worry if you miss it, the performance will be available on demand on the website from the afternoon of the 31st October until the end of the year!
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"The Oranges" is a comedy about two families in suburban New Jersey who have been lifelong friends. Married couples David and Paige Walling (played by Hugh Laurie and Catherine Keener) and Terry and Cathy Ostroff (played by Oliver Platt and Allison Janney) have their lives turned upside down when the Ostroffs' prodigal daughter Nina (played by Leighton Meester) and David begin having a torrid affair.
The betrayal cuts even deeper because the Wallings' daughter Vanessa (played by Alia Shawkat) is a close friend of Nina's, and the Wallings' son Toby (played by Adam Brody) has had a longtime crush on Nina. Here is what Laurie, Keener, Platt, Janney, Shawkat, Brody and "The Oranges" director Julian Farino said when they gathered for "The Oranges" press conference in New York City.
Was there any thought of casting Alia Shawkat as the daughter of Oliver Platt/Terry Ostroff, since they have more of a physical resemblance to each other?
Farino: I actually quite like playing music on set where appropriate, but I wouldn't say in this case there were any big party scenes or anything that was led by the music apart from the carol singers, frankly. In terms of the casting process, putting together two families, really you have to go to the essence of a part and character and everything else. Alia was always Vanessa for me because she had that sort of individuality and intelligence, that sort of point of view.
Oliver, as he told me, was comedy gold, so I felt obliged. I did have maps of pictures of would everybody fit in terms of likenesses and this that and the other, but really I went with sort of energies more. Once we had all of the correct characters in place then the cast went to work to sort of make the relationships feel like they had history and were plausible, and the friendships needed to feel like they dated back 25 years, which when you have half a day's rehearsal it's not that easy. But that's what the cast brought. I have no problem with Alia as the daughter.
What did you think of "The Oranges" soundtrack?
Farino: The hardest song and the most controversial in terms of debate, discussion, creative process, et cetera, was the Atlantic City montage song because it had such an editorial job to do as well. It was supposed to be both celebratory of Hugh and Leighton and at the same time just to have some bigger picture sort of shadow. And we had an enormous amount of variety of opinion on that, and ultimately that song was written for the movie by Ian Bennett from a band called The Grand Nationals.
And for me that was a big moment. In Toronto we didn't have that piece of music and we had a very, very last minute debate. We put in a song I liked but it wasn't correct on an emotional level. So that became the signature and the end title song was also written by Ian. He wrote two songs and they were both in the movie. It's a delicate thing, music. But that Atlantic City montage right at the center of the story, that was a key one.
What drew each of you to "The Oranges"?
Janney: Initially, I think the script spoke to me. I thought wow, what a crazy thing to happen to two families and how would I deal with something like that? An extraordinary, awful thing that happens and I loved the character's development through dealing with it, navigating that kind of event. And then the cast falling into place and meeting with Julian it was a no-brainer to me. I wanted to play with these people and they're all very willing to be silly and playful.
Farino: Maybe Hugh should answer that because you have an interesting character in the piece and you took the part on.
Laurie: Yeah, I've got an interesting character. I think we all share the same response. I read the script and I thought it was beautifully done. I thought it was very funny but I also thought it took people's lives seriously and it took people's feelings seriously and it did it in a way that wasn't condescending or judgmental in any way. It was very humane I thought.
It's a very delicate line to tread, and I think Julian has trodden it with elegance and grace. It is a tricky one. It could either be sort of "ha ha ha" and yet not really be believable or respectful portrayal of real relationships and real consequences to things. But I just thought it was beautifully done. And then once you hear the other actors' names and of course you begin to salivate in a slightly unseemly fashion. And it's an enormous thrill to be part of it. Go, Oliver, you're on.
Platt: For me, there's this wonderful tension in the movie in the narrative between how people think that they should respond to an event like this and then how they actually do. And as Hugh said, it's done in a very mysterious yet believable way. And it's constructed here you choose to have set the story in the time of year when there's so much pressure on everybody to be humane a loving and civil with each other because it's the holidays and what better environment to lob this sensational grenade of an event into and then watch the consequences.
But again it's this idea of this is unquestionably morally it's a taboo thing in our culture and I would imagine a lot of different cultures, and so there's how you think you should respond and then there's how you actually do respond. To me the brilliance of the script is that this event happens on page 30 instead of on page 90 because it's really about the consequences. It's about what happens to this little community that's created by these two families and how these mysterious things occur in their lives which are not necessarily named. They're shown. That's definitely part of it and then all the other stuff everybody else said.
Keener: I had a beautiful meeting with Julian and I'll always remember it. And then everything else was fantastic. We had a really, really fine time together. I care a lot about everyone here and I know they do for me. Where's Leighton? I'm just curious. Oh she's filming. Because we miss her because she was awesome. It was really kind of ideal. You probably can gather how warm everyone is from seeing the film because you can't hide that. So I think that was all in the casting, Julian, I really do. I know you were very careful about that.
Did any one of you draw from past experiences or from someone you knew to actually give you more motivation in your characters and in performing it?
Janney: Thankfully no, I didn't have this experience at all, I'm so glad. But it was fun to just imagine if something like that happened, and for my character, Cathy, who was so controlling, to have something like this happen made her apoplectic, and it was fun to live through that in an imaginary reality.
Keener: I've been in a situation where I think we all have, where we felt caught in something, and what do you do about that when kind of the truth comes crashing in and you have to sort of face it. That was a feeling that I had a lot on this movie. You learn that you'll come up again, you'll be all right. No matter what, there's another day that's going to happen and yesterday will pass and it will be OK. In terms of that I've had that experience. Kind of every day I have that experience.
Farino: I'm not from New Jersey. The whole reason for the thing for me was I thought this subject matter in the States today may be a tricky concept for an American audience. And as an outsider coming to America and experiencing, I've lived here seven years now, different sets of moral values to Europeans and so on. I thought that story may rub people up the wrong way, but the beauty of the story was that it's really about forgiveness and human frailty and weaknesses and the ability that we can all transcend those things that was the heart of the movie.
And the people that may object to the movie or the concept of the movie, they're actually the ones that you want to hit in a funny way. It is the most generous view, and that was a universal thing, it wasn't very specific, so I had no experience of a family cat among the pigeons like this, but that was what made sense to me.
Was there a bit of a "six degrees of separation" among this cast where people have worked together in some capacity in the past? Did that familiarity with each other help make it easy for you to attack this subject matter in a way that the actual characters themselves would base on their on screen relationships?
Laurie: It was a terrific help. Undeniably, it was a terrific help. Apart from anything else I knew that we could do it, that we could work together and we could play scenes together and I knew I liked Leighton a lot. She's an absolute hoot. We had a very good time doing it.
You made the earlier reference about being scared away by it. It's kind of weird that we're having to sort of explain or sort of nervously frame a set of circumstances that are actually considerably less difficult to digest than a film from 50, 60 years ago. It's a strange thing that we have reached that point, particularly in a story which is so palpably humane and compassionate and which nobody is acting malevolently. Nobody is seeking to dominate or exploit or make mischief.
These are the great foaming waters of the human heart. And after all, to tell stories about endless human perfecting is (a) dull and (b) impossible I think actually because there is no such thing that I know of. If anything it's the other way around, we are sort of drawn to the imperfection and drawn to the mistakes that human beings make, particularly mistakes that are made out of good intentions or at least kind intentions. But it's not to say that this is of no consequences.
Absolutely, as I said, it's one of the things that I think attracted us all to the script is that the consequences are taken very seriously and respectfully. I think the characters are treated with respect. But yes, I absolutely would agree that having known Leighton did two episodes of "House" so for a few weeks we were acting together, I think that was an enormous help. I'm sure if we hadn't known each other we would probably have jumped in and somehow found our way, but I personally was very relieved. I can't speak for her because she isn't.
Platt: Just to put it a slightly different way, the writers don't editorialize. They don't ask you to root for one character or another. They don't approve or disapprove of the behavior. They're laying it out there and showing us. There isn't any sort of happy ending. The movie ends in my favorite kind of way, which is suspended and ambiguous but somehow satisfying, which I think is very artful and it's also very truthful. This is not a movie that advocates or doesn't advocate for anything, except for humanity.
The lack of comfort in the subject matter is more about the closeness of the characters than the social mores around it. There's sort of a contradiction in the sense that you guys all sort of knew each other before. Did that make it easier to play people who were conflicted?
Platt: I think it always does. In my experience anyway.
Keener: I think, yes. And I agree with you that it's more about the manner definitely. Because really when you look at the other that's not really that farfetched, it happens all the time, but what's unique about this situation, which is also quite possible, is that our families are so tight and the crossover is really shocking.
Farino: I didn't know who knew who beforehand. I'd seen the episode of Leighton and Hugh together and I had a feeling that they could be chemically great, which is obviously crucial for the movie. I didn't know there was history for everyone else. But it became the job of the cast and the spirit in which the thing was made.
That was the quality of acting thing that everybody jumped into that and tried to engineer a situation where you felt that there was closeness and there was history and chemistry. It's the great unknown when you go in, especially in an ensemble, and even more so when you've got families involved. But that's the credit of the cast that they made those relationships believable. I don't think it relied on all them all being mates beforehand did it.
Keener: You do that on a hunch and sometimes hunches are good and sometimes they don't work out. But this one the hunches kind of worked out I think.
Julian, why wasn't "The Oranges" shot in New Jersey? Did you want to shoot the movie there at any point?
Farino: It was shot in New Rochelle [in New York], actually, so for me that's production money and budget and what you can allow and where you can be and New York tax breaks and fairly tedious stuff. How far out of New York we were actually able to go. So for me the main thing was to create somewhere that visually was believable to be a New Jersey story.
Beyond that, the only thing I was concerned about I didn't want the houses to be so big that it looked like a story about rich people, which it wasn't, I just wanted to be comfortable and welcoming and warm and so on, and to find a real spot where that relationship with the two houses was practically possible. Of course, the first thing I did when we started was go to West Orange, and where we ended up shooting to me seemed like it was believable. Certainly, no one in London won't know that we weren't in West Orange. That was my way of thinking.
Keener: But it was perfect proximity. It was kind of perfectly laid out. It made such sense. It just supported the story so much just the logistics of the location.
Farino: It was great to have two complete houses that we took over and that all the rooms were the rooms that we shot in. We always tried to shoot out with windows in the back where you would see the other house just to bed in that these two families are completely locked together.
This question is for Allison and Oliver. Having worked together on "The West Wing," was it easier coming to play a married couple in "The Oranges"? And also for Julian, can you talk about the inclusion of the Heifer International Charity?
Janney: When I heard that Oliver was going to do this, we just had fun together. And I think we even knew each other before "West Wing." I just know that he has a sense of playfulness that makes it really easy. He's very easy to be around and easy to have fun with, and this relationship with the two of them, I just knew that he was going to make it more exciting to do. So yeah, it helped and it definitely gave us, we had a common ground or something that we came in on, just our mutual love and respect for each other, that made it easy to jump off and be a married couple that was ignoring each other.
Platt: It always helps when you know each other. And if it's Allison Janney that you have to be married to then it's just, it's a very, when you like a person and you respect them tremendously as an actor that's two big boxes checked, especially when you need to create the illusion that you've been living together all this time. I also give a tremendous amount of credit to Julian for creating an environment on the set. And I don't think this is really something that you can teach a director, creating an environment on the set that brings out the best in people.
That is sort of playful but constructive and fluid but charged. It was just a really delightful day at work every day. They did another very enlightened thing which is that they, driven by economics, but instead of having trailers they put us in this house down the street. The doors were always open and Hugh had his piano and there was always extraordinary jazz wafting down. We took our clothes off and really lived a utopian existence.
Keener: I shopped at Target to put rugs in the rooms. It was really fun.
Farino: The barnyard thing. It was a feature of the script, and if anything I had just encouraged Jay and Ian to write a little bit more it because I liked it because it was a little eccentric, and it was that part for Keener's character where you don't really know what's happening to you. Making a movie I didn't have to give too many notes, this was a very easy cast to direct and embrace, but I do remember saying things.
The main thing for me was a lot happens in the present tense, it's not introspective, it's not dark, it's not brooding. You don't always know what's happening to you and that was a way of trying to keep it alive and support the story.
And the barnyard thing is a typical, Keener's character is in the absolute sort of depths of despair, sees this thing, it doesn't really mean anything at that moment, it's just a hunch. And in terms of the characters traveling through the course of the story, I love the idea that the worst possible thing, the breakup of a household, could happen, and yet her character ends up in Africa achieving peace of mind and a greatness that wouldn't have happened otherwise, which is many of the characters' evolutions and encompasses the message of the movie. You don't know where you're going to travel. Apparent disaster can lead to progress and improvement and redemption and all those things.
Do you think that this comedy could have taken place in England or Europe? What would have been the adjustment to the script?
Farino: We do comedy in England as well. You can ask Hugh about that. For me, personally, it was always meant to be suburbia anywhere, and the point of the story was to be as universal as possible. The relationships in it were very I thought universal. We all know of a friend that we grew up with because our parents were best friends. You spend many years and then something happens that takes you apart. And you know, mother/daughter relationships with the slightly smothering mother, that's recognizable. Dads as best friends.
The dynamics were absolutely universal to me, and to try to describe suburbia in New Jersey where the story was set was only really suburbia anywhere. For me it was suburban because the values were not urban. I never wanted a pastiche suburbia or anything like that. The film's not a dark film, nor is it edgy, and for that it's more an urban story, and this became suburban where there was a sort of lightness of spirit and a little less darkness maybe. So in answer to your question yeah, I would like to think anywhere families and human mistakes.
Hugh and Alia, can you talk a little bit about the thought and preparation that went into your scenes?
Shawkat: I thought it was interesting that she's the narrator. That's a weird choice I think so someone who's not necessarily at peace of mind naturally anyways. So I found that interesting. And she's kind of just reacting, as you said, as we all are in the film, but she's kind of just in her own, she kind of separates herself from everybody. I didn't really prepare too much, I was just trying to make her real and funny I guess. Funny and real. Real funny.
Farino: I think it had to have love between the two of you in the general terms of everything being positive about human behavior. The script always had that generosity about human beings. A terribly fractured moment between Alia and Hugh's characters had to come out of somewhere loving to really count. I mean I love the fact that the script had an apparent outside, or perhaps the one that had the least immediate sense of consequence, to be the narrator. The idea by the end of the movie that you understand this was a critical moment in Vanessa's life as well was for me sort of smart.
This question is for Allison. Have you gotten any reactions from people who have seen "The Oranges" about that the movie's most memorable line? And if any of the other cast members want to jump off of that, just talking about maybe some fun memories you've had of reactions from people who are close to you to something that you've done in your work.
Janney: I had some friends who for some reason saw it in Minnesota. Why was it playing in Minnesota?
Farino: It was a festival, I think.
Janney: So I didn't know that they were seeing it and they called me up afterwards and just sang the line into my phone. They loved it; they said it was their favorite moment to get to see me say that line. I'm going to screw it up if I try to say it because I don't remember exactly how it goes, but it's something about balls and old balls. It was very satisfying to say.
It was hard because as an actor you know something's going to have comic value and yet you don't want to play it for the laugh. I have to play Cathy is just completely undone and she is so angry and she's trying to be mature about the situation and it just comes flying out of her mouth. It was extremely rewarding to do right.
Keener: What's the line?
Janney: "How are you going to feel with David's old balls in your mouth," or something like that.
Keener: That is a funny line.
Janney: I couldn't wait to say it.
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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
I think I've established the fact that my mind is a bit warped on more than one occasion. My dreams are no different. I have the craziest dreams and the crazier things are in my life, the crazier my dreams become. Sometimes things simply do not make sense. So, the pictures above come straight from one of my dreams…partly because I often dream about Second Life, partly because I'm clearly crazy, partly because…well….just because!
I got these awesome poses from shi.s.poses at the You.Gatcha Event, right? Wouldn't you know I've been thinking about them a good bit…and used one the other day. Lo & behold they made their way into one of my crazy dreams…now it wasn't exactly like the pictures, but for me to try to explain why I was in a locker room changing clothes while inspecting a restaurant's kitchen area and discovering a hidden cooler full of meatballs….I figured I'd skip ahead to the part where I took a princess dog for a walk in the clouds and how various bits of ideas and concepts floating around in my head floated pass me much like the items in these photos.
Yeah, that's the kind of sleep I get when I get it…there…you see just a teensy bit more of why I'm such a weirdo! I admit it…but damn it if ChicModa and Blueberry can't make my avi look exceptionally cute while I'm doing it! Why yes, this post is complete nonsense! Why yes I have had way too much coffee! Did you expect anything less after reading that quote? Perhaps you thought it wouldn't be nonsense at all, but something very sensical instead. Yes, I did make up another word….you're welcome. Go shopping and create your own nonsensical world! Its fun, I swear! ♥
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The chasm in our nation's political divide widened considerably with the discovery of America's latest crisis: the crisis in American walking.
And as you might imagine, Texas, where walks take place exclusively between air-conditioned buildings and air-conditioned pickup trucks, is in whatever you're in when you've moved well beyond crisis.
It wasn't that Slate devoted four parts to proving the problem is not in the least pedestrian. It is the startling revelation today that prompts the website to ask "Why Don't Conservative Cities Walk?"
The evidence is there for all to see. New York, San Francisco and Boston, all liberal bastions, the three most walkable cities in America. The top 19 cities all in states that went for President Obama in 2008.
Houston, the top-rated Texas city, comes in at 23. Dallas follows at 30, Arlington at 37, San Antonio 40th, El Paso 44th and Fort Worth 47th.
But that doesn't begin to tell the whole story. The top five cities received walkability scores of 74 or more, with New York at 85.3. Houston mustered a lounging on a park bench 49.8.
Laredo, famous for a song all bound up in walking down its streets, got a 32.7. Killeen, which may have been designed to keep enlisted people from walking away from its military bases, got a 28.9.
Puffed up with pride, with Texas in our name, we took a little closer look at the findings. Is walking really one-tenth of a point better in Detroit than in Houston? Could a stroll through Newark (74) be 30 points more satisfying than through El Paso?
The analysis - and we're using this term while slowly withdrawing our tongues from our cheeks - suggests that because Houston is becoming more diverse and more liberal, walkability will follow.
This might be news to Houstonians, who have had no end of trouble with their mass transit system, Metro, another important walkability measure.
And get ready, Austin, for a blow to your reputation as the weird, perambulating blue dot in a brackish sea of red. Your walking score of 46.7 puts you 31st on the list, one slot behind that shining capital of Texas conservatism, Dallas.
Maybe if you just spent more on your MetroRail system.
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Innovation, disruptive innovation and market volatility 8: modeling and understanding change and innovation per se 7
This is my eighth posting to a series on the economics of innovation, and on how change and innovation can be defined and analyzed in economic and related risk management terms (see Macroeconomics and Business, posting 173 and loosely following for Parts 1-5 and Macroeconomics and Business 2, posting 203 and loosely following for Parts 6 and 7.)
My primary focus in this series is on market-facing products and services, and there primarily on tangible products that would be designed and developed, manufactured, distributed, marketed and sold and in specific targeted markets. And I have been developing this series with a focus on the economics of innovation and in terms of a four category taxonomic model for classifying innovations according to risk and timeframe parameters, as formally outlined in Part 3. (I recommend reviewing that posting as I use the classification terminology developed there, in this posting.)
I have also at least noted business process innovations in passing: innovations that would be developed for use inside of the manufacturing business, while pursuing the more market-facing innovations that are more directly discussed in this series. My goal for this posting is to explicitly shift focus to consider these internal-to-the-business innovations, at least as they create value relevant to this series. And I begin that with the fundamentals:
• Manufacturers, like any businesses, seek to effectively, competitively bring product offerings to their markets that their customers will preferentially seek out to purchase.
• I have in fact been writing this series on one of the key sets of issues that would go into determining what "effectively" and "competitively" mean in this context,
• As a business seeks to bring products to market that are innovatively distinctive enough so they stand out from what their competition is offering,
• That customers will want to buy, and at prices offered that will create sustainable profitability – and certainly when analyzed across the entire portfolio of products offered and as demand levels for individual offerings rise and fall.
• For Quadrant III (short timeframe and low risk) innovations (here using my Part 3 terminology), as exemplified by fads and fad-driven markets, the window of opportunity side to understanding timeframes, as discussed in Part 7 is a crucial consideration if any real profitability is to be obtained and with any reliability.
• A business that can move faster on identifying, developing, manufacturing and distributing, marketing and selling a potentially profitable fad product will do better than their less agile and nimble competitors. And they will be more successful in this because they will be better able to make more effective use of their windows of opportunity for doing business as they arise and while they last. The difference here is all in how a business can support its market-facing innovation opportunities with their behind the scenes business processes.
• For Quadrant IV (long timeframe, low risk) innovations, representing more established product lines that show slow and steady evolutionary change, most such products come to face competition from similar alternatives. So the points of competitive distinction that they offer cannot in general be expected to come entirely from these product offerings themselves.
• Customer supportive services can create an essential defining competitive advantage here: customer-oriented, market-facing business processes. And name brand recognition can too, that can for some businesses be developed and maintained as a legacy source of value. The Coca-Cola Company and its flagship same-name product comes immediately to mind here as a working example, with their capacity to maintain significant market share from how they market to consumers who view their colas as The Colas. And once again, internal business process differences can significantly serve to create a defining competitive advantage here too.
• For Quadrant IV products, consider how a more agile and responsive business is one that can capitalize more quickly and effectively on minor product refinement distinctions and on any marketing advantages that can be developed and maintained. These businesses can meet shifts in market demand more quickly and get their products on the shelf and then off of it as sales, and in marketplace-demanded volumes faster.
• In both my Quadrant III and Quadrant IV scenarios, the business that can innovate towards lean agility more effectively, through development and refinement of better and more innovative internal business processes and I add market-facing business processes too, can be more agile and effective in its marketplace and with its customers too.
• And as a matter of general principle, competitive strength might most directly come from what a business specifically, directly brings to market as its sellable products. But its overall strength comes from its operational processes that develop and bring those marketable offerings to market too.
I have made note of product portfolios a number of times in this series, this installment included. I am going to more explicitly delve into the economics of these suites of marketable offerings in my next series installment, and how the economics of individual products in a portfolio impact upon each other, and on those of potential innovations under development too. Meanwhile, you can find this and related postings at Macroeconomics and Business and its Page 2 continuation.


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Anzac day 2018
We had people flooding through the doors all day.
Thank you to everyone who made it down to either the dawn service or the main service as you can all agree is was a very big day at the rsl
thousands of people from all around the hills came down to pay their respects it was a very big day for upwey belgrave rsl
We had 3 outside can bars, our main bar inside, veterans morning tea,breakfast and lunch Available plus a live band outside.
If you missed this year dont you worry there is always next year
Once again thank you to everyone for your support.
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Last weekend NVIDIA's employees chose hammers and shovels over hors d'oeuvres and Champagne, forgoing a holiday party and instead taking part in one of Silicon Valley's largest-ever employee volunteer service events.
About 1,500 employees, their families, and other volunteers descended on the nonprofit Full Circle Farm in Sunnyvale Friday and Saturday to saw wood, swing hammers, shovel dirt, paint and more. The result was a huge boost to the farm's ability to provide nutrition education to students and fresh produce to the community.
On Saturday morning about 1,000 grownups, teens and children were busily tilling soil, building new structures and planters, and painting murals on the 11-acre farm located on land leased from the Santa Clara Unified School District.
"I think parties are kind of selfish and this is selfless," said Chris Pedersen, a content developer for NVIDIA, who was busy digging raised beds with his wife and two kids on Saturday. "I think it's awesome; you always go home with a really good feeling."
The technology company stopped having holiday parties 11 years ago, and had been doing annual community service on a smaller scale, until 5 years ago when employees organized under the banner Project Inspire, said spokesperson Tonie Hansen.
The Project Inspire events started with about 500 employees and other volunteers, but over the years has continued to grow, peaking at this year's 1,500 participants. [Read more…]


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Our church is going through a tough time financially. We only have a part time pastor and administrative assistant. We really need full time people. The church chairman says that we will keep going until we run out of money. It has been suggested that we borrow money from our denomination to hire a full time pastor. But doesn't the Lord provide what we need when we need it?
Our family's story shows that God does provide what we need. When our family was going through some hard economic times I told the Lord that if He wanted us to live in our car—it was paid for—I would be willing to do that. Chris was working in San Jose, CA, but not making enough to pay for an expensive apartment in the Bay area. So I had it all planned out how to live in our car. Our daughter was 11 and living with my parents and attending 6th grade. Our son was 4 and not in school yet. I figured I could drive Chris to work and then use the bathrooms there to shower and clean up. The little guy and I would eat at McDonalds and then spend the day at the library. But we never had to do that. Suddenly, through several coincidences, Chris was offered a job with a higher salary in Santa Rosa, CA. We were able to move farther north where the housing wasn't so expensive.
But now I'm spoiled. Would I be able to give up our life style if the Lord wanted me to? When I go to the store to buy some shampoo I have the choice of large numbers of different brands. When I go to the grocery store I have bins of fresh fruits, shelves of canned food, and dozens of different kinds of frozen pizza or anything frozen I want. But recently I've noticed that some of the choices have been declining.
It has happened a few times now. I went to the area where I usually get the brand of shampoo I like. They had every other kind for problem hair but none for normal hair. Strange. Then another time I wanted some Nature Made vitamins and they were all out. I checked back several times and the product still hadn't been restocked. Maybe vitamin companies phase out vitamins that don't sell well. Or maybe the transportation of some items has been held up because of weather. Or maybe America is turning into a third world country. Maybe we will no longer have a choice of anything we want. It could happen.
When we lived on our boat in La Paz, Mexico on the Baja we were amazed at the lack of products in the stores. In the main department store downtown there were wide spaces between washers, dryers, and refrigerators on the appliance floor. There were only about 2 or 3 different brands. The clothing department racks were not very full and widely spaced. (It is a lot different there now 20 years later.) One day I went shopping with a friend from church and she discovered Jockey underpants in stock. She said, "I need to buy these now as it will be a long time before any more come in." Then she said, "I love living in La Paz because there is nothing to buy!" I guess that includes underwear.
When we came back to the states I was overwhelmed at all the stuff in the stores. It was like a land of milk and honey—a promised land of sorts. So if the United States is devastated by some disaster or attacked in some way, will we be content with what God provides? If the Lord asks us to give up our church building will we be willing to do that? I hope so. There are always "House Churches." Our church pianist has offered her home if this should happen!


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CVS and Tekkotsu
From Tekkotsu Wiki
CVS (the Concurrent Version System) is the means by which the Tekkotsu source code is maintained and distributed. Several newer source control systems have become popular in recent years, such as subversion (svn), mercury (hg), and git, but Tekkotsu is sticking with cvs for now. There are many tutorials on cvs available on the web. This page focuses on information needed by Tekkotsu users rather than maintainers.
Setting Up Dot Files for CVS
The ~/.cvsrc file contains settings for cvs that work well for Tekkotsu. Putting the settings in this file eliminates the need to repeat them on the command line each time you do a cvs update. Creating an empty ~/.cvspass file eliminates a useless warning message. Both of these files should have already been set up if you followed the Ubuntu install instructions, but if not, you can set them up this way:
cd wget http://Chiara-Robot.org/download/dot-cvsrc mv dot-cvsrc .cvsrc cat /dev/null >~/.cvspass
Downloading Tekkotsu From CVS
A full Tekkotsu installation requires a bunch of packages. Follow the directions in the Ubuntu install instructions to get the packages, then follow the Tekkotsu install instructions to install and compile Tekkotsu. To get the source code, you will be downloading Tekkotsu from the Tekkotsu CVS server. For reference, here is the command that does that:
cvs -d :pserver:firstname.lastname@example.com:/cvs co -P Tekkotsu
The Project Directory
Tekkotsu is normally installed in /usr/local/Tekkotsu, and it is normally compiled from /usr/local/Tekkotsu/project.
The Tekkotsu project directory is intended as a template for individual users' project directories. Thus, you should not put your own code in /usr/local/Tekkotsu/project. Instead, copy /usr/local/Tekkotsu/project to /home/user/project and put your own code there. This keeps the original project directory in synch with the cvs repository and free of extraneous files that might impact other users.
Most updates to Tekkotsu occur to other parts of the directory tree and don't involve the project directory. However, robot-specific kin and plist files reside in the project/ms/config and project/defaults directories, so when changes are made to these files, users will need to update their individual project directories by doing:
cd ~/project cvs update
Updating Tekkotsu Through CVS
See the Software Updates article for complete instructions on how to update your Tekkotsu installation. The basic idea is to cd to the directory containing Tekkotsu, and then tell cvs to update the files from the CVs server:
cd directory containing Tekkotsu cvs update
For reach file that is updated, cvs prints a message beginning with a one-character code indicating how the update went. The codes you will see are:
|Updated the file
|Patched the file (a simple update)
|Merged the cvs version with changes you've made to the file
|Conflicts found during merge
|Unknown file: not part of this CVS repository
The C code is the only problematic one. It indicates that CVS could not figure out how to merge in the changes it detected, so it left both versions in the file, separated by markers that look like <<<<<<< and >>>>>>>. Depending on the type of file, the markers are likely to cause compilation errors, parse errors, syntax errors, or some other kind of unhappiness. They must be removed.
The easiest way to remove the markers is to just delete the file and do another cvs update. However, if the file contains changes you want to keep, then you will need to manually edit the file to merge the two versions and remove the markers.
When Updates Fail
There are several ways that updates can fail. First, if you're on a network that blocks port 2401, you will not be able to access the cvs server. Speak with your network administrator to get the block removed.
Second, you might encounter a file permissions problem. When updating /usr/local/Tekkotsu you must be root. Do sudo -s to become root. On the other hand, when updating /home/user/project you must be "user", not "root". You can do the update as root, but it will cause the files to have incorrect ownership information, so future updates done as user will trigger permission errors. See the Linux Tips article for instructions for correcting file ownership information.
Third, cvs might report conflicts (code C) when updating a file. If you're not editing the Tekkotsu source code yourself, you should not see any conflicts unless a file somehow becomes corrupted. In that case, simply delete the file and do the cvs update again to pick up a fresh copy.
Finally, if you failed to notice a conflict when doing an update, you will get error messages when you try to recompile Tekkotsu due to the conflict markers cvs inserts. See the Troubleshooting Guide for advice on how to diagnose these errors.
Browsing the CVS Repository At cvs.Tekkotsu.org
You can examine the CVS repository using your web browser by visiting cvs.tekkotsu.org. This will allow you to see not only the latest version of each file, but the entire revision history. You can also use the site to compare versions to see what changed.
Reverting to an Earlier Version Of A File
If a cvs update breaks something, you can revert to an earlier version of the file by specifying an explicit revision number. Since files are updated at different times, their revision numbers are not in synch. You will need to check the revision history at [http::cvs.tekkotsu.org cvs.tekkotsu.org] to find the revision number you want. You can find the current revision number of a file with the cvs status command, e.g.:
cvs status Point.h
Let's say the current revision number is 1.27 and you want to revert back to revision 1.25. You can do that by typing:
cvs update -r1.25 Point.h
After giving this command, you can use cvs status to verify the file's revision number, and you will see that it is marked with a "sticky tag" of 1.25. Normally this would mean that the file will stay at revision 1.25 until you explicitly clear the sticky tag. However, Tekkotsu's recommended .cvsrc file is set up to clear sticky tags by default, so the next cvs update will put the file back at the latest revision. To prevent this, you can override the .cvsrc file when you update the directory by doing:
cvs -f update
Clearing Sticky Tags
As mentioned in the previous section, Tekkotsu's recommended .cvsrc file automatically clears sticky tags, so if you want to return to the latest revision of a file, all you need to do is a cvs update. However, if you are not using this .cvsrc file, any sticky tag attached to a file will persist until removed. To clear the sticky tags attached to a file, use the -A flag with cvs update:
cvs update -A Point.h
Notice that the -f flag used in the preceding section appeared before the update command, while the -A flag must appear after the update command. That is because -f is a global option, while the -A flag is specific to the update command.


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Telescope 101 with the Tulsa Astronomy Club
It's hard to miss the array of telescopes when you walk into the Planetarium at Tulsa Air and Space Museum. Long Newtonian reflectors mingle with short and stubby Schmidt-Cassegrains in an assortment that any stargazer would be delighted to see.
"These have been donated to us over the last 10 years or so, and we just keep adding new ones," said Bryan Kyle, manager of TASM's Planetarium, located at 3624 N. 74th E Ave. near Tulsa International Airport. "A lot of times people donate them because they just don't know what to do with them or they lost interest."
Though TASM makes good use of the donated telescopes, part of their mission is to "inspire science-based learning through discovery." That's why Astronomy Club of Tulsa is partnering with the Museum for a workshop to help people learn how to use their own telescopes. On Saturday, Jan. 5, participants in the Telescope 101 Workshop will learn how to work their personal telescopes from the pros.
"We encourage people that have gotten a telescope for Christmas, or maybe they've had one sitting around and just didn't know how to use it—we have them bring it in, and we give them a mentor person to show them how to put everything together and explain how it works and answer their questions," Astronomy Club member John Land said. Land has been in the Astronomy Club of Tulsa since 1977.
"We try to set it up so that each person (or group) has at least a 30-minute session," he said. "That's something new we're trying this year."
The idea is for novice stargazers to get comfortable using their telescopes so they can stargaze solo. "We try to set it up and get them at least to where they can get it pointed at the moon or a star that they want to look at," Land said.
Sessions are available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., during which time the Planetarium is screening "Two Small Pieces of Glass," a 23-minute feature about Galileo and the history of the telescope.
Both Land and Kyle said after the workshop, the next cosmic event you won't want to miss will be the lunar eclipse on Jan. 20.
"This one is going to be pretty cool. It's going to be the first one at a really good height," Kyle said. "A lot of times they'll happen near the horizon or really late at night. The last one I got a good look at was at like 4 a.m."
During a lunar eclipse, the Earth's shadow blocks the sun's light from the moon. The moon has no inherent glow; we can only see it because light from the sun reflects off its surface—but during an eclipse, our planet's shadow is cast over the moon. Despite this impediment, the moon is still visible to us because the sun's light bends around the Earth, shining through our atmosphere. The moon often appears red, as some of the light from the sun gets filtered out. The longer wavelengths, the oranges and reds, are what reflect back to us.
If you want to break out your new telescope before the workshop and eclipse, Kyle has some essential advice. "First of all: Read the instructions. A lot of people make that mistake and think, 'I don't need that. It's just a tube. How hard can it be?'
"If you're going to take it out the first time, find a target that you know is easy to find," he said. "The moon is the best thing to try and see first because you can't miss it."
However, Kyle said before you go out, know that what you see through a telescope won't look like the high-definition images NASA puts out from deep-space telescopes like Hubble. Planets in our own solar system are the size of a pea, or maybe a dime if you have a high-power telescope. Kyle explained that galaxies look like milky blobs because our eyes can't make out some of the color coming from them.
For good planetary observation, Kyle recommended waiting until you can see Jupiter this summer. "Right now the only planet we've got that you can see with the naked eye is Mars—and technically Venus, but really early in the morning," he said. "Jupiter is the first thing I saw through my telescope that I got in high school, and it's kind of the thing that puts it into perspective for people because you can see the planet and its moons."
Right now from our perspective on Earth, Jupiter is close to the sun, so we can't see it well, Kyle said. The best time to view Jupiter next year will be starting on June 10.
You'd be surprised how much you can see with a small telescope or even a pair of binoculars, like the Andromeda galaxy. But according to Kyle, if you're looking to spot planets like Uranus or Neptune—both of which are currently visible—then you'll need a telescope with a six-inch diameter or larger.
"A lot of people, when they go get a telescope, they want to see nebulae, galaxies, and those are great, but if you're using a small telescope, a lot of those are going to be hard to see," Kyle said.
"I tell people to look for star clusters. Some of them you can actually see with the naked eye, but any of them through a telescope are really cool to see. There's one near Cassiopeia called the double cluster. It looks like a Fourth of July firework show."
When you're hunting for small or far away things, there is something Kyle said can be confusing: eyepieces. "Logic tells us that the bigger one would surely be the more powerful one, but it's the opposite. The smaller one is high-power."
Another bit of advice from Kyle: "You never want to look for something with a high-power eyepiece. You always want to start with a smaller one, find what you're looking for, get it in the middle, and swap [the eyepiece] out."
Regardless of the power of your eyepieces, or the focal length and aperture of your telescope, having anything to help your eyes see what's above can give you a new perspective, Kyle said. "Just about any telescope will give you a huge insight onto the universe."
You can RSVP for the Telescope 101 Workshop on the TASM website.
Where to stargaze around Tulsa
Light pollution severely limits what we can see when we look into the night sky. The more light there is near your observation point, the harder it is to see stars, planets, and other celestial objects. These maps will help you plot where to go for your stellar search:
Hello, Luna
The same side of the moon faces the Earth at all times thanks to a phenomenon known as tidal locking. The moon's position in the sky changes because it orbits our planet on a different axis than Earth's orbit with the sun. Depending on where the moon is during the month—it takes 28.5 days to complete a lunar cycle—light from the sun will be shining on different parts of it, which causes the moon phases.
Types of telescopes
Refractor telescopes are the type Galileo used. They use lenses to magnify far away objects. Reflectors are what Isaac Newton used, which is why you'll hear them called Newton reflectors. They use mirrors inside the telescope to reflect images into an eyepiece. A newer type of telescope is the Schmidt-Cassegrain—the short, stubby telescopes that often contain a computer interface. They're still reflectors, but they have a different design. They reflect light down through the center rather than off to the side, and they've got a filter in the front that blocks certain frequencies of light. "Those are the ones that professors like to use," Kyle said.


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Laura Smith, the new Labour MP for Crewe and Nantwich, who this week was sworn in at the House of Commons, led a campaign over school funding cuts before standing for the seat.
The 32-year-old was born in Leighton Hospital, grew up in Nantwich and went to local schools and then Manchester Metropolitan University in Crewe.
She says she set up a local tutoring business while a single parent and organised a campaign earlier this year against what she claimed were "unfair" school funding plans.
The local Labour party then nominated her as a candidate in May to fight the seat - she defeated the sitting MP, Conservative Edward Timpson, in this month's general election by just 48 votes.


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United Airlines has updated their pet traveling policy after the recent death of a 10-month-old French bulldog after the dog's family had followed all the previous rules. Now, United Airlines says that up to 40 breeds of dogs and cats will no longer be able to fly in their cargo bins. The new rules become effective June 18, 2018.
Dog breeds included in the change are pit bulls, bulldogs, Boston terriers, mastiffs, lhasa apso and many others. Exotic shorthair, Persians, Himalayans and Burmese cats are also included. If the animal is a mixed breed with one part being a breed affected by the change, it will not be allowed to fly.
Furthermore, United Airlines announced that no pet would be allowed to fly in the cargo bin of planes originating or landing in Las Vegas, Palm Springs, California, Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, from May 30 to September 30.
Most domesticated dogs, cats, birds and rabbits will be allowed to fly in plane cabins with their owners. In order to do this, however, owners must declare the animal ahead of time and pay $125 charge. Service animals will be accommodated without any additional charges.
In order to make the changes, United worked with American Humane. This may be the first of many changes in United's pet policy to be announced as American Humane continues to examine the company's policies. The nonprofit is currently examining United Airlines cabin policies.
The changes were spurred by the death of a family's French bulldog. According to witnesses on the flight, a United employee told the family that they would have to place their pet in an overhead bin for a three-hour flight. When the family went to retrieve their pet, the dog was dead despite being in an approved carrier.
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Classics Come Back?
Luis Miguel Correia reports today on his Ships and the Sea blog that four of the ships operated by Classic International Cruises (CIC) have been sold by creditors to 44-year-old entrepreneur Rui Alegre, who plans to start a new cruise line. A fifth ship, the 1955-built PRINCESS DAPHNE (ex PORT SYDNEY, DAPHNE, etc.) has gone to the Greek-based Potamianos brothers who still operate a branch of the now-defunct company.
In November, creditors seized the PRINCESS DAPHNE along with the 1955-built PRINCESS DANAE (ex PORT MELBOURNE, DANAE, etc.), the 1948-built ATHENA (ex STOCKHOLM, VOLKERFREUNDSCHAFT, etc.), the 1965-built ARION (ex ISTRA, ASTRA, etc.) and the 1960-built FUNCHAL when the Portuguese division of CIC collapsed. The FUNCHAL was in the midst of a stalled refit at Lisbon and the other ships were employed in charter service for various operators.
Hopefully more news will soon become available about the deployments of each ship but at least for now, it looks like several classics have been granted a reprieve from continued lay up or retirement.
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Men may be stereotyped to have egos the size of Texas, but there are those who actually agonize from the irregular rush of self doubt. It need not be a reason for embarrassment but you can make use of this delicate moment to contemplate if for some odd mistake of nature you might be the reason for your partner's discontent, instead of pondering whether your cheating wife or girlfriend is a devil's incarnate as most men often do.
Hey! It's an incredibly enlightened thing to consider but you can breathe again any minute now because that is almost certainly not the case. You see, she loves you a lot. She probably loves you more than you realize. She doesn't love just anyone. She loves you. She might even think you're the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were created or something just as wonderful.
She's not about ready to jump on over to some other man because you're not good enough. She's just managed to get you properly trained in the fine art of letting the seat down.
You see women generally cheat on their men not because he isn't good enough but because there is some need she has that isn't being met. It's not about the eyes or what she can see of you. It isn't about how much money the other guy is making (remember she's staying with you). It's about some deep need she has that isn't being taken care of at home.
That, however, does not mean you being not good enough unless of course you have that gift to read her mind.
Except when at the start of your living together as a couple, she informed you "yeah right, there's this thing that I just can't live without. If I can't have it; I'll most likely be unfaithful to you. And of course that is (whatever that thing would be)." I bet that you would say something along the lines of "that never happened" which leaves you off the hook.
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It's another thing actually if you are going through a relationship and waiting for it to crash because you are in a way not deserving of her. That is how good relationships go sour fast and be a complete and perfect recipe for relationship tragedy and clash. There is a need to understand your value in the relationship for you to make the relationship work between the two of you.
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Hi everyone,
New beta update 1.055 is now available. To try it out you'll need to choose 'Caribbean!' in your Games library, click on 'Properties', go to 'Betas' tab, and then select 'Public beta'. After this Steam should update your game.
Update notes:
– Added light sources for ships' lower decks on boarding locations.
– Contextual menu for giving orders to the player's governors. The menu appears upon clicking RMB on a party or a town on the global map:
When you right-click on one of your towns, you'll be able to select one of your governors to rule the selected town. Currently ruling governor won't be shown in the list. It's also possible to assign your character as that town's governor.
When you click on an enemy town, you'll be able to give an attack order to one of your governors, or all your governors at once.
When your governor receives an attack order, he won't be distracted by any other events happening nearby, including pursuits of superior enemy troops.
When you right-lick on enemy troops, you'll also be able to assign an attack order to one of your governors. In that case, both enemy army and your governor's army should be within player's sight. If there are no allied governors in sight, you'll see the standard contextual menu.
– Ship of the Line's cannons could damage the ship itself.
– Changes in relationships with factions after naval battles.
– Incorrect banners for allied governors' troops.
– Renaming of the player's governors.
– Added artillery and destruction system for land sieges.
– Added ability to give attack orders through dialogues with governors.
– Sound files were recoded into different format.
Hi everyone,
Small update today, but with at least one pleasant fix for many, we hope.
Update notes 1.6.1:
– Application's process still working in background after closing the game.
– Game freeze caused by choosing quick combat option with no limits during tactical combat.
– Text errors in French localization.
Hi everyone,
The latest update, that introduced new naval sieges and initial governor system, is now released from the beta and available for everyone.
In case you didn't have a chance to see how sea assaults currently work, we made a quick introductory video to them. Check out the new video devblog:
We should note that you can consider the current version of naval sieges as the first one, as we're going to further improve them based on your feedback. Other than that, enjoy the update!
Update notes 1.054:
– HP indicator for ships during naval sieges.
– Link for the game's guide in launcher.
– Shots and fire effects in naval sieges.
– Changed probability of fires on ships during naval sieges.
– Changed dialogue for lending captured towns between player's governors.
– Player's governors lacking their army.
Hi everyone,
The main addition in today's update is the ability to transfer progress of one of your heroes, as well as selected items and units, to the next shard.
Now, after you conquer a shard, the game shows a new menu, where at the expense of the astral energy you can choose whom and what you would like to take with you on. Units and items can be exchanged between your heroes, but remember: everything has a price, and most likely something will have to stay behind.
As you can guess, this feature has a bit of experimental nature, so please let us know if you happen to notice some worrisome balance issues.
There's another nice addition for players who value their time and don't like spending it on low-level enemies during late game. If you're sure in your army's capabilities, you now have the opportunity to choose the autocombat option in the province's attack dialogue, right on the strategic map — in this case the game will skip loading the tactical battle.
Update notes 1.6.0:
- New option to transfer units, items and one of the player's heroes to the next shard.
- New autocombat option in the province's attack dialogue on the strategic map.
- Tooltip display for item descriptions. Now additional information for items can be triggered with RMB, instead of mouse hovering.
Hi everyone,
The beta update for 'Caribbean!' is now up on Steam. To try it out you'll need to choose 'Caribbean!' in your Games library, click on 'Properties', go to 'Betas' tab, and then select 'Public beta'. After this Steam should update your game.
The update includes two new additions:
- Governors:
Some initial work has been done for one of the most wanted features. You can now assign governors for your faction's towns to help you deter possible enemy attacks.
To find out what candidates for the job are there, you'll need to talk a bartender in tavern. Then find and ask them yourself if they'd like to join your faction. With the next town capture, you'll be able to assign a man suited for the job.
- Naval sieges:
Another long-awaited feature. Naval sieges consist of two stages. First, your ships and enemy's fortress exchange cannon shots from a distance. Then, once your ships get closer, you can deploy your troops on boats and begin the fort's assault on foot.
Press 1-3 buttons to select one of the ships.
Press F1 – to change selected ship's position (sail closer to enemy fort or return to the initial position)
Press F2 – Deploy the selected ship's troops on boats.
Press F3 – Deploy the troops with you on board.
To initiate a naval siege, you'll need to have at least one ship with rank 3 or more. In the fleet menu three ships right of the player are chosen to partake in a naval siege.
We hope you'll enjoy the update and, as usual, look forward to your feedback.
Hi everyone,
As we took a little break from weekly updates, we thought we'd share some new screenshots with you:
The next update should arrive on Friday for the game's Steam open beta — just to see if there are any critical problems with it. The main build should be updated for everyone next week.
Hi everyone,
New update 1.5.6 is now available for download.
Update notes:
– Ability to check the unit's current statistics and medals with RMB during post-battle rewarding.
– Terrain staying unchanged on the city screen after constructing buildings.
– Description for creatures' eggs, that now mentions necessary building needed in order to use them.
– Buildings that should improve mood only in the capital also improved mood in all other player's provinces.
– Spider's web not dealing any damage.
– Players not getting the trophy after the battle during the "Adventurers returning home" event.
– Capital's name selected in the player's profile not being displayed in the game.
– Incorrect message reporting of one of the player's heroes being attacked, when two of his heroes go to the enemy capital in the same turn.
– "Lord of Bones" achievement's description.
– Conditions for getting "The Firstborn King" achievement.
Hi everyone,
New update 1.052 is now available.
Update notes:
– New set of flags and banners.
– Decrease in relationship with a faction / town when killing people in taverns.
– Gaining relationship bonus after retreating from sea battles.
– Lack of morality changes after sea battles.
– Main quest's disappearance from the log after surrendering in the storyline's sea battle.
– Bug that prevented the storyline's sea battle from starting when the player had good relationship with the pirate faction.
– "Tactics" skill description.
– Bug that prevented ship's artillery from reloading and shooting after boarding fights.
Hi everyone,
Along with the new update, today we also release our official guide for the game that we hope will prove to be quite useful both for new and experienced players.
Right now it can be viewed from the game's Steam store page and, for your convenience, in Steam guides as well (please upvote for visibility). So if you see fellow Caribbean players in need for some answers, we'd appreciate if you could refer them to this guide. Thanks!
Update notes 1.051:
- Crew not taking any damage when its ship is on fire.
- Starting distance between ships increased a little, to give all ships an opportunity to make a formation.
- Incorrect messages in the log.
- Captured ships with destroyed sails spawning underwater at the start of naval battles.
- Some weapons not being displayed as equipped.
- Incorrect damage type listed in the description for "Hand-crafted rapier".
- Sails HP decreasing after purchasing "Auxiliary sails" upgrade.
- The need to repair a ship's hull after upgrading its HP percentage.
- Several text errors in tips and localization.
Hi everyone,
New update 1.050 is now available.
Update notes:
– Updated material change system for destroyed sails.
– Reduced starting distance between ships in naval battles.
– Ability to repair sails on ships with destroyed masts.
– Incorrect display of masts and sails on ships with low HP.
– Removed out of date perks "Recruiter" and "Sea king".
– Ability to surrender to friendly troops.
– Some text errors.