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The Vatican has been on a pop culture roll lately, giving belated blessings to the Beatles (some 40 years after the group broke up), "The Blues Brothers" (30 years after the movie's release) and "Harry Potter" (a dozen years after the first book series' debut).
Now, more than two decades after Matt Groening and Co. began putting the "fun" in dysfunction, L'Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, has declared – presumably somewhat tongue in cheek – that Homer Simpson is a Catholic.
Sunday's not-quite-papal pronouncement spurred many jokes and clever headlines (our favorite: The Washington Post Comic Riffs blog's "Is the Dope Catholic?").
The Vatican verdict on the lovable cartoon buffoon is fun, junk food for thought – but another sign the Holy See, while trying hard, remains behind the pop cultural times.
For every attempt at playing catch up, announcements like January's gem that "Avatar" is about worshiping nature set Rome back a couple giant steps. Even the slow yeah-yeah-yeah for the Beatles included implicit forgiveness for the band's supposed dabbling in the "satanic" (maybe L'Osservatore Romano was thinking about Black Sabbath – or Christine O'Donnell).
Whatever the case, the editors at the Vatican paper recognize the power of what folks in the news business call "a good talker" – but they risk, at times, coming across as a tad tone deaf.
The observation that "The Simpsons" is "among the few TV programs for children in which Christian faith, religion, and questions about God are recurrent themes," is sound enough (even if one of those questions was Homer's "Why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to hell?")
But the assertion that he's Catholic, based in part on an episode in which he flirts with converting, might come as news to holy roller neighbor Ned Flanders and the very married Rev. Lovejoy of Springfield's "Presbylutheran" church.
The show's executive producer, Al Jean, for the record, told Entertainment Weekly, that Homer is not Catholic: "I really don't think he could go without eating meat on Fridays – for even an hour."
Homer, whatever he believes, is more of a doughnuts-and-Duff guy than the bread-and-wine type. He's certainly guilty of nonstop sloth and gluttony (and occasionally greed and envy) in a town where the deadly sins are comically covered.
That Homer is an ultimately goodhearted oaf who cares about his family shouldn't necessarily link him to any specific denomination – or any religion at all (particularly, since, after all, he's animated).
Still, he has experienced crises of faith through the years: "And what if we've picked the wrong religion? Every week we're just making God madder and madder?" he asked in an early episode titled, "Homer the Heretic."
If nothing else, The L'Osservatore Romano piece will give Homer and lots of others something to think about while sleeping through Sunday services.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NY City News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Badasa v. Mukasey, — F.3d —, 2008 WL 3981817 (8th Cir. Aug. 29, 2008)
Illegal alien Badasa sought asylum in the United States. To establish her identity, she submitted to the Immigration Judge a "laissez-passer" issued by the Ethiopian government. Opposing the application for asylum, the Department of Homeland Security submitted a number of items, including a Wikipedia article, to show that a laissez-passer is merely a document issued for a one-time purpose based on information provided by the applicant. The Immigration Judge was not convinced that the laissez-passer established Badasa's identity, and denied the application for asylum.
Badasa appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals, which agreed that asylum should be denied. It soundly criticized Wikipedia's reliability to establish the meaning of the document at issue, but found there was enough other evidence to support the Immigration Judge's conclusion that Badasa had failed to establish her identity. But the Board of Immigration Appeals failed to discuss this other evidence, therefore running afoul of the administrative law textbook case of SEC v. Chenery, 318 U.S. 80 (1943).
So the Eighth Circuit sent the case back to the Board of Immigration Appeals to make additional findings. The court observed that the Board of Immigration Appeals found that "Badasa was not prejudiced by the [Immigration Judge's] reliance on Wikipedia, but [the Board of Immigration Appeals] made no independent determination that Badasa failed to establish her identity." In short, the Board of Immigration Appeals had focused only on why the use of Wikipedia made the case less "solid," and did not address the lack of solidity found in any of the other evidence connected with the laissez-passer used to establish identity.

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Programming project
For this project you are to develop an object-oriented program for an online mail order bookstore. The bookstore sells books, music CDs, DVD videos and computer software. The following information needs to be available for each of these products:
Books: title, author, publisher, year published, edition, volume, SCN and price.
Music CDs: title, artist, publisher, year published, volume, SCN and price.
DVD videos: title, director, publisher, year published, actor(s) and/or actress(es), running time, SCN and price.
Computer software: title, publisher, year published, version, SCN and price.
(SCN is the Stock Control Number, in the case of books ISBN numbers are used for the SCN while a barcode number is used in the case of music CDs, DVD videos and software.)
Customers can be either private individuals or retailers, the following information is needed for each of these:
Individual: e-mail address, password, name, shipping address, billing address, telephone number and credit card details.
Retailers: e-mail address, password, company name, shipping address, billing address, name of contact person, telephone number and account number.
Customers are uniquely identified by their e-mail addresses.
Addresses contain the following fields: street and number, suburb, city, county and postcode.
Each customer has a shopping cart as well as zero, one or more orders.
The shopping cart is a temporary list of titles the customer intends to buy. The list also includes the number of each title the customer intends to buy.
Orders are identified by an order number and contain:
List of titles (and numbers) ordered.
Date the order was placed.
Cost of all the titles ordered, postage, tax and total cost of the order.
Status of the order. The status of an order is not yet shipped or shipped.
Expected date or actual date of shipping.
A customer would typically go through the following actions when placing an order:
Logon if the customer does not have an id then (s)he would first create it.
Search or browse for titles.
While searching/browsing some titles may be selected added to the shopping cart.
Once the customer is done searching (s)he displays his/her shopping cart and makes some changes.
The customer then confirms the order, billing address, shipping address and bank details or account number.
The customer then logs off.
A customer can also do the following:
Change any of his/her details.
Check existing orders.
Save a shopping cart for a later date and return to that shopping cart.
You should aim to develop a tiered design where the three basic components:
Data component - that is the data in the data store,
Business logic - the application that manipulates the data from the data store,
User interface
are logically de-coupled. It is advisable to develop your project in the sequence: first data component then logic or application and only then user interface. Start of with a (simple!) text based or menu driven user interface and only when everything works change it to a GUI!
Guidance on Deliverables
All of your source code should have consistent indentation and a clear style.
Each class should have a method main that instantiates that class and tests all the methods of the class.
Detailed UML diagrams. Diagrams to be included are: use case diagrams, class and object diagrams, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams, state-transition (statechart) diagrams and activity diagrams. Class diagrams are to contain all relationships that exist between classes.
All program listings and UML diagrams are to go into the students logbook.
All source code and data files to be stored in a directory named bookstore on a disk or CD.
Marking Criteria for Programming project
The following are indicative evidence for achieving the corresponding level. You must meet ALL the criteria for a level (as well as for all the previous levels!) to have reached that level.
Missing: 0%
Printout and UML not given.
Does not compile or execute.
Method main of the different classes fails to instantiate objects of that class.
Method main does not test all the member methods.
No UML given.
Coherent sets of classes, which include derived classes, have been designed to fulfil the chosen project outline.
Method main of the different classes instantiates objects of that class.
Method main tests all the member methods.
Most of the methods are provided as requested.
Class diagrams, but no relationships, given.
Comments are relevant to the code
Single-tiered structure
A coherent set of classes, which includes derived classes, has been designed to fulfil the given project outline.
Polymorphic methods.
Class relationships given in class diagrams.
More, but not all UML diagrams given.
All functionality specified was implemented correctly.
Use of Javadoc to generate documentation.
Two-tiered structure.
Overriding of superclass methods (other than constructors).
Full UML diagrams.
File input/output is used with relevant data files.
Three-tiered structure.


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The WatchGuard Firebox® T Series appliances bring enterprise-level network security to the small office/branch office and small retail environments that matches the reality of today's distributed work style. They can be used as a stand-alone solution or centrally managed from corporate headquarters. Flexible management tools and WatchGuard's RapidDeploy™ technology enable administrators to quickly set up a T Series device at remote locations so businesses can ensure that they protect everywhere they connect. T Series appliances sustain up to 1.2 Gbps firewall throughput and come in wired and wireless versions. WatchGuard Dimension™, which provides real-time visibility into network activity and security events, is included at no additional cost.
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T30 and T50 models have a PoE port, so you no longer have to have AC power running to peripheral devices like security cameras or wireless access points.
Network Discovery
This subscription-based service preforms a complete network scan to generate a visual map of every connected device network so you can easily see where you may be at risk.
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Offer this metallic lip moisturizer stick and keep clients interested in what you have to give! It has a vanilla flavor and comes in gold, rose gold, or silver. This is safety sealed and meets FDA requirements. You can boost sales or interest in your business by offering this at beauty events, clothing stores, tradeshows, and much more. Add your pad printed company name or logo to finish the look and have people looking to you for more! Size: 2 3/4".
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Consider a Blog
What Are They?
Blogs (short for 'Web log') are Websites (or subsets of Websites) that allow for regular postings of information, news, events in text & graphics form by a person or team. The 'posts' on a blog are recurring; the newest post occurs above the last one posted.
Blogs are also interactive; they allow for visitors and readers to leave comments and interact with the author and themselves, enabling strong Social Media features and tools that can ensure you get more leads and interaction from your prospects/customers. Blog posts may be may be categorized into categories created by the author for retrieval based on topics such as industries (Medical, Aerospace, Automotive, Defense, etc.), technical processes (5-Axis Machining, Milling, OD Grinding, Wire EDM, Gear Hobbing, etc.), materials (Composites, Aluminum, Bronze, Steel, Plastics, etc.), or any other categories that match your business and its strengths or features.
Why Are They Important?
Blogs are tailor-made for small & medium manufacturing shops looking to maximize value while reducing costs. Whether building your primary Web presence as a pure blog or adding a blog to your existing site, there are many benefits that can specifically serve contract manufacturer:
they are relatively easy to set up
they are often free, or are extremely inexpensive to create
they offer a level of control that sedentary, traditional Websites usually do not – additions, deletions and changes are made on-the-fly
creating content is as easy as creating a document in Microsoft Word
they are well-suited for search engine optimization (SEO) – techniques that ensure your Website shows up prominently in search engines like Google
little to no professional assistance is needed
the industry leader in this space – WordPress – is also evolving into a sophisticated content management system, which allows for content to be easily categorized and stored topically (a tremendous advantage for discrete parts and custom manufacturers that serve many industries and provide many capabilities)
a very large collection of customized, free tools that are easily added to any WordPress platform/Blog, such as calendars, photo portfolios,
a substantial support network of contributors around the world & a collection of online tutorials are available for assistance via the WordPress Website
Here's an example of a contract manufacturer that has launched its Website on the WordPress platform: Potomac Photonics
Key Elements & Considerations:
If assistance is needed to create and begin a blog, assets are relatively inexpensive to acquire and east to find. Your existing Internet Service Provider (where your Website is hosted) or other local Web development companies often charge much less to create & launch blogs, including training you on how to maintain your own
Often overlooked resources to assist in building a blog are through friends, families and employees. For example, students (high school and college) are often well-versed in building blog platforms like WordPress and its code base (PHP). Ask employees, local colleges and schools, and friends for referrals to those types of resources, as they can give you a functional site/blog quickly and affordably
Blog posts can (and should be) based on all elements of your company – projects and parts you've made for others, new equipment purchased, new contracts/jobs/customers, training obtained for your shopfloor personnel, community support, new employees, trade shows attended, accreditations earned (ISO, corporation- or industry-specific, etc.), or any other business-related information that distinguishes your business in the eyes of a potential business partner. Examples include:
• new equipment purchases/additions
• training initiatives
• new projects
• new markets or processes
• completed projects
• product line information
• qualifications (new or updated)
• industry news
• personnel updates
• industry events your company will be attending
You don't have to be a 'writer.' Blog posts are intended to be short, concise and to-the-point – exactly what manufacturing professionals looking for you prefer. Flowery words and long-winded prose can do more harm than good. Keep it simple
Blogs offer an easy and effective way to share opinions. Your business blog should present your views on business, economics – whatever relates to your industry and those of your prospects. But don't rely too much on opinion – this blog is about getting more exposure for your business, not necessarily you as a person or pundit.
Think balance
Search Engines love blogs. They are updated regularly (or should be), including via reader comments. By adding posts with category tags (see above), search engines will recognize content being accumulated in those categories which will raise your relevance in them. And blog posts are easily shared between prospects – with each other directly or on Social Media channels, which can give you the benefits of Social Media exposure without the demands on resources
You don't have to post frequently (like, say, daily), but do post regularly. Once every week or two – or when you have something important to say, is sufficient
Blogs are very 'social' – they allow for comments from and interaction with readers. Posting comments on other industry Blogs can have strong search engine optimization (SEO) impact for your site (be sure to include a link!), and they are great 'channels' to work.


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Female Arab Students' Experience of Acculturation and Cultural Diversity upon Accessing Higher Education in the Northern Galilee-Israel
This qualitative study addresses the issue of the cultural transition of Arab women who for the first time leave their secluded villages and traditional society in the Northern Galilee to access Western-style Israeli institutions of higher education located in the region in which they will study in Hebrew, their second language. This study uses several models of acculturation in order to better understand these women's experience of acculturation, cultural diversity, ethnic identity and at times discrimination as they come into contact with students belonging to a diversity of Arab and Jewish ethnic groups. Content analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with 42 female Arab students of Druze, Muslim and Christian origin, revealed that parental and/or husband support, lower college admission requirements, and the geographical proximity of the colleges to the villages allowed gave these women the opportunity to access higher education without compromising their traditional values of modesty and virginity. Hebrew language proficiency, seldom spoken in the villages, and consequent academic self-efficacy perception were for these women key factors for academic success and integration in the dominant Israeli socio-economic structures. Lack of tolerance for cultural diversity, discrimination, and inter-groups conflict were at times, reported not only between Arab and Jewish but also between Druze and Muslim students and/or their instructors. Factors mentioned to be reducing cultural shock and acculturative stress were the presence of other female Arab students from the same or neighboring towns studying in the college and the going back and forth between cultures as these women returned every day back home to their villages. Exposed to other values and traditions these women sorted the values they cherished in their own and in other cultures while maintaining a strong sense of cultural identity.
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Songs Unsung
My dad was a "do it now" kind of guy. He was fond of quoting the German poet, Goethe. Whenever one of us kids would be late with homework or be guilty of putting off a household task, dad would fix us with those dark brown eyes and in his deepest voice, would impale us with the words of Goethe.
"What you can do or dream you can, BEGIN IT. Courage hath genius, power, magic in it. Only engage and the mind grows heated. BEGIN IT and the work will be completed."
The words were a verbal kick in the butt for us. My dad loathed procrastination with a passion. There was no way he would allow us to put off till tomorrow what we could do today.
Procrastination is one of our most common flaws as human beings. Who has not put off that appointment for dental cleaning? What student hasn't delayed doing his homework until the last minute?
But procrastination can go way beyond putting off fixing the leaky faucet or the gate that squeaks. I read a line from a Bengali poet the other day that haunts me. He wrote, "The song I wanted to sing never happened because I spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument."
Wow! His words reminded me of a deeper meaning to procrastination. There is waiting within each of us, deep within our souls, a song waiting to be sung, a song that only we can sing. I'm not talking about the spectacular talents of an Einstein but the humble gifts, unique to us, that we possess. To allow these "songs" to remain unsung is a tragedy. Our reluctance to use our God-given gifts is a loss, both for us and for the people with whom we share our moment of time.
In the "songs unsung" category, we need to think about the unique opportunities we have to make a difference in the lives of the people we meet on our journey.
Missing a chance to "catch" your kid doing something right is a song unsung.
Forgetting to say, "I love you" to your spouse or kid before going to bed at night… is a song unsung.
Putting off telling a friend you are sorry for the harm you did to him .is a song unsung.
Being so wrapped up in yourself that you don't even pay attention to the words or actions of others ….is a song unsung.
To close your heart to someone in need…is a song unsung.
In that larger sense, we are all potential songwriters. Our time is way too short to afford the luxury of stringing and restringing our instruments. The music lies within us, waiting to be written, waiting to be sung.


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BEERSHEBA, Israel, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Egyptian intelligence officials were trying to defuse the escalating violence between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants, Haaretz reported Sunday night.
More than 100 rockets had been fired into southern Israel during the weekend and the Israeli military countered with nine airstrikes that left five Palestinians dead, the newspaper said.
Haaretz said no deadline had been agreed to for a cease-fire since Egyptian mediators began talking with Israeli and Hamas officials, but that both sides said they would refrain from further attacks as long as the other side did.
Haaretz said three people suffered minor injuries Sunday morning when a rocket hit a factory in Sderot. Other missiles struck the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, where several building were damaged. Rockets continued to fly into Sunday night, with one hitting a house in Sderot. No casualties were reported in that strike.
Israel's Home Front Command ordered schools and learning institutions to shut down due to the rocket attacks. Israeli air force strikes in Gaza targeted weapons manufacturing facilities and rocket launching sites.
At the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Palestinian militants they would face retribution if the attacks go on.
"Terrorist organizations are suffering grave setbacks at the hands of the Israel Defense Forces. The world must understand that Israel will not sit idly. We are ready to escalate our response," Israel Radio quoted Netanyahu as saying.
"This is not North America or western Europe, this is a region where there is no grace for the weak. With open eyes, you must hit when the need arises, and sometimes you are hit, because that is what it is like in the boxing arena. We don't expect our neighbors to disappear, and our neighbors won't become Belgian or Dutch next week," Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Army Radio Sunday morning.
Air raid sirens warned residents in communities surrounding the Gaza Strip, as well as further north in Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gan Yavne, Be'er Tuviya, of the incoming rocket fire. Some of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system, the army said.
Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Resistance Committee in Gaza all claimed responsibility for the upsurge in violence. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum warned Israel would pay for its crimes against the Palestinian people, Ynetnews.com said.
The recent round of violence began Saturday evening, after Palestinian militants fired an anti-tank rocket at an Israeli military jeep patrolling near the Gaza border, injuring four soldiers, one seriously, the army said. The army fired artillery shells and executed a number of air strikes.
Israel's chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, called the incident serious, and on Saturday night conducted a meeting with the military echelon to assess the situation. Netanyahu met with Barak to discuss the situation and later consulted with Gantz concerning Israel's response, the Hebrew language daily Maariv said.


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Founded by immigrants from Fiji over 30 years ago, this purpose-built mosque now has a multicultural congregation that serves the South San Francisco area.
Services: 5 Daily Prayers Two Jumu'ah Prayers
- Name: Masjid al-Jami'e
- Type: Mosque
- Address: 373 Alta Vista Dr, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
- City/Locality, State: South San Francisco, California
- Established: Unknown
- Madhab (School of thought): Sunni
- Language Services: Arabic, English
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- Restrooms are available
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Writer Ronald Moore was a Star Trek fanboy long before he joined Star Trek: The Next Generation, just as the television show found its interstellar footing during its third season. A few dozen sloppy episodes had left the impression that the show was nothing more than a sad clone of the groundbreaking '60s sci-fi series.
See also: The Best and Worst of Star Trek: The Next Generation's Sci-Fi Optimism
"There was definitely a sense that The Next Generation was the Star Trek stepchild that nobody liked," the Emmy-winning Moore told Wired by phone in a warp-9 interview about the series' highlights and lowlights. "I'd go to conventions and see bumper stickers, T-shirts and paraphernalia basically saying that there was only one true Star Trek, and it wasn't us."
By 1994 – when The Next Generation capped seven seasons with the poignant, Hugo-winning series finale "All Good Things ..." – the show had become the Star Trek franchise's shining light, a critical and commercial television success.
With The Next Generation celebrating its 25th anniversary Friday, Wired talked with Moore about working with franchise creator Gene Roddenberry, how Trek movies differ from Trek TV shows, and why TNG would probably get airlocked today.
Wired: Reflecting on The Next Generation, how has the series affected you personally and professionally?
Ronald Moore: It's really an amazing thing to look back on. There are personally a lot of different resonances. I was very young when I started on the show. It was where I learned my craft, and where I was introduced to the business of television production. It was where I learned to work with senior writers, and watch them come and go with the show's politics. Those first few years held a big learning curve for me.
Looking back now on our workload, I just shake my head at our pace. Star Trek: The Next Generation was my first series, so I didn't know anything about that when I started. I just assumed it was normal to make 26 episodes a year on a seven-day shooting schedule. Sometimes we'd do a show in six days, and it wasn't uncommon for there to be days on the set where we shot nine or 10 pages. That was just our routine, but now I look back on it with horror. Doing that now would make me nauseous, especially since shooting for eight days is the norm out there today.
Wired: For fewer episodes.
Moore: Thirteen episodes is a good comfortable number now. It was difficult doing 22 episodes of Battlestar Galactica. In fact, it was a marathon. I don't know how in the hell we did 26 a year for The Next Generation. I do remember being exhausted at the end of every season, when we got two weeks off, which we had to beg Rick Berman for. The writers were always the first back in, and it was nonstop. But more than that, I'm touched and amazed to see the longevity of the show, and how many lives it has affected. I'm running into new and old fans in various parts of the business and in my personal life, because its characters in many ways have become as much a part of pop culture as the characters from the original series.
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Wired: How easy was it for The Next Generation to win over fans of the original series?
Moore: That took a while. It wasn't until the end of the third season – when the summer buzz over Michael Piller's "Best of Both Worlds" two-parter had people wondering what happened with Picard and the Borg – that the show's popularity started to exponentially grow. After that, suddenly we were Star Trek. We were true bearers of the torch. So it's really gratifying to see that, this many years later, there is real affection for what we did.
Wired: You're still carrying the Star Trek torch, as far as television is concerned. The Next Generation is the longest-running Star Trek TV series, which gives fans who didn't grow up on the original series far more points of entry.
Moore: Yeah, we got the biggest run. I mean, with the original series, it's three and out, and the third season is pretty shaky! [Laughs] When it comes down to it, there are really only two-and-a-half seasons of the original series, as the true fans will tell you. And the reverse sort of happened with The Next Generation: Its first two years were its rockiest. The show really found its footing and took off after that.
Wired: I remember that it felt like a literal passing of the torch, as Gene Roddenberry passed a couple years after The Next Generation finally found its rhythm and place.
Moore: I was there when he was still on the show, and even worked with him on a couple of episodes. He didn't pass away until, I think, the fifth season. When I came in during the middle of the third season, he was still coming into the office every day, throwing out scripts, insisting on changes and being the boss. Gene was the great bird, and we all respected that, but his health declined in subsequent years.
I only had one real story meeting with him, on the Season 4 episode "Family," which he didn't like at all. In fact, he wanted to can it. We were in a meeting in Gene's office with Rick Berman and Michael Piller, and he basically felt that in the 24th century, the quarreling Picard brothers would not have this kind of conflict. He thought it meant they had bad parents, and that humanity in the 24th century was just better than that. He thought it said something wrong about Earth and its people, and that Picard's family wouldn't stand for petty bickering. He just didn't buy the concept.
We all argued about it, and he was pretty adamant. I was pretty shell-shocked when we all walked out of the room, thinking, "OK, now what?" But Rick and Michael just kind of looked at each other in the hallway, as something passed between them, and then told me to just go write my script and they'd take care of it. Which is what happened. I have no idea what they did! [Laughs]
Optimistic Futurism: Where No Series Has Ventured Since ——————————————————-
Wired: It's funny you argued at all, because the benevolent optimism about our universe, much less our planet, that Roddenberry envisioned for Star Trek and our future is hard to find in today's sci-fi.
Moore: It was one of the defining characteristics of Gene's vision of the Star Trek franchise. I'd argue that in the last few decades in America, when people are asked what they hope the future will look like, they still turn to Star Trek. They hope we put aside our differences and come together as humanity, that we rise above war, poverty, racism and other problems that have beset us. They hope that there's a future where we set off into the galaxy to have peaceful relations with other worlds. They hope that technology is positive, that we break the speed of light, that we solve disease.
That's really Roddenberry's view of the future, and it really does stand alone. There is not a new hopeful, optimistic vision of the future that I am currently aware of. Certainly, not one that has penetrated pop culture awareness in the way Star Trek has.
Wired: Do you think Star Trek: The Next Generation would have a chance of getting the green light in today's environment?
Moore: That's hard to say. Because even back in the mid-'80s, The Next Generation didn't go the network route. Paramount made the decision to put it in first-run syndication, which was an emerging market at the time, so The Next Generation kind of created first-run syndication market for scripted programming. You had shows like Cops and even a few first-run syndicated programs, but really nothing with the budget and weight behind it like The Next Generation.
So right from the get-go, Paramount just decided that they were going to foot the bill on their own and then sell it to individual syndicated stations across the country, and that's what made it work. If they had to go to a traditional network, the development process probably would have killed it, or it would have gotten to pilot but would have been hanging on ratings every week. It was just a unique economic situation that allowed Paramount to put Star Trek: The Next Generation into the marketplace. And it succeeded wildly: The ratings were great and Paramount was making money hand over fist, although I'm sure they'll deny that to this day. [Laughs]
Wired: There's always more money to be made!
Moore: [Laughs] Whoever has a piece of the profits has yet to see a piece of the profits. But yeah, it did very, very well in syndication, although that market is not the same today as it was back then. If you were trying to make Star Trek: The Next Generation now, if you're Paramount you'd be looking at pay-per-view, or streaming through Netflix, Amazon or someplace where it wouldn't have to deal with network politics. They were wise enough to know that Star Trek had an enormous fan base and market, but that going the traditional market route just wasn't wise. I mean, you could argue that the original series failed at the network level.
Rebooting Star Trek Television Isn't the Movies ———————————————–
Wired: I know J.J. Abrams successfully rebooted Star Trek on film, and has a sequel in development, but it still stuns me that we have no new Star Trek series on television. What do you think it would take to make that happen?
Moore: People have to understand that the Star Trek films are a different animal. And that goes for the original series' movies, as well as those from The Next Generation, and from J.J. By their nature, the Star Trek films are much more action-oriented, with space battles, big villains, lots of running and jumping. The stakes for Earth and the universe are always enormous.
'To create Star Trek in the form that people are familiar with requires another television series, and I think it will be successful again in that medium.'But the lifeblood of Star Trek's television shows is its morality plays and social commentary. It's sci-fi that provides a prism on human society and culture. The movies are never really going to do what the episodes do, like split Picard into two in a transporter beam and then talk philosophically about the nature of humanity, which parts of our strength come from good and which from evil. The movies are never going to do that. Star Trek: The Next Generation was about those moral issues, about how societies grow and are differently affected. None of these are topics that the movies are going to tackle.
To create Star Trek in the form that people are familiar with requires another television series, and I think it will be successful again in that medium. You have to spend some time talking about its form and structure, and how to update it again for a new audience. You still want the "boldly go where no one has gone before" part with a ship, crew and ongoing mission. That's part and parcel of the franchise.
But you have to be able to tackle big ideas, which are larger than chasing the villain of the week. That's really not what the series was very good at. I mean, you could look back at the original Star Trek series or The Next Generation and find some cool action-adventure episodes with space battles, but the show is about so much more than that. If you were trying to do that flavor of Star Trek on television every week, it would just fail.
Moore's Law: The Best and Worst of Star Trek: The Next Generation (and Its Treknobabble) —————————————————————————————-
Wired: Speaking of, let's talk about some of your favorite episodes.
Moore: In terms of the episodes I worked on, "Tapestry" stands out as one that is very personal to me, because it had a lot of commonalities with my life. It talked about how we adults beat ourselves up over the many mistakes we made when we were younger, because we think they're horrible transgressions. But with perspective, we see that those past mistakes are what made our present lives possible, and grow from it. "Tapestry" was really important to me. I loved that episode.
"Yesterday's Enterprise" is another great one that I worked on. All of the pieces came together and it was a lot of fun. It was dark and interesting, and everyone had a ball making it. The Klingon episodes like "Sins of the Father" allowed me to explore another culture for the first time, and dig into how politics, religion and social mores would work in an alien culture, which was really a kick for me.
In terms of episodes from other writers, I really loved "Ship in a Bottle," which was our second Sherlock Holmes episode with Moriarty. I really thought that one was clever and interesting. I thought that "Frame of Mind" was interesting in how it used a play as a bridge to drive Riker between reality and madness. I thought it was great fun, with an interesting story structure.
And then of course "All Good Things...." The final episode turned out beautifully, and it had no right to! [Laughs] Brannon Braga and I didn't write it until the end, because we were really busy slaving away for a full year on the film Star Trek: Generations, trying to make that thing work. We didn't write "All Good Things..." until a month before it was shot, and only for a couple of weeks. We just banged it out, and it worked 10 times better than the movie did! [Laughs] It's such a wonderful end to the series. It just flowed. We didn't have time to second-guess ourselves. We didn't have time to go around and around about what it could be. It had to be good, and we had to get it right, and we did.
Wired: Which is another one of Star Trek: The Next Generation's feats. There aren't a lot of TV series whose last episodes offer lasting closure. I'm not naming names.
Moore: Endings are hard, especially for television, because expectations are so high. You're trying to deliver an episode for people who have followed a show for years, who want to see resolutions for all of their characters and stories. And yet you're also trying to tell a bigger and more interesting story than you have told before. We were able to bring all of that together for "All Good Things...."
Wired: Now let's talk about some of your least-favorite episodes.
Moore: Oh sure. In terms of the ones I worked on, "Aquiel" was a low point for Brannon Braga and I. We thought we were going to do this intriguing murder mystery patterned after Otto Preminger's film noir Laura, but it just misfired. We didn't know what the hell we were doing, when it got right down to it.
There were other stumbles, such as way too much Treknobabble overall in the series. It was always one of my chief criticisms, so much so that when I approached Battlestar Galactica I swore that I would never do endless scenes of technobabble to explain and resolve scenes. But yeah, there are definitely entire sequences that we could lose from the show and it would be much stronger.
Because we just had endless pages of Data and Geordi pressing buttons and speaking in gibberish. It was meaningless. I was just like, "What are they saying?" And of course I realize that what they are saying isn't as important as they rhythm in which they're saying it. Geordi says, "Set the deflectors to this," and Data says, "No, that won't work, Geordi, because the so-and-so polarity polaris won't sync up." So Geordi says, "Oh, but if we reverse polarity on the whos-it-whatsit, then maybe, just maybe, we might be able to push through the deflectors." And Data says, "There is a theory that if you use the positronics...." And I'm just like, "What?"
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Wired: Speaking of Brent Spiner's Data, he really stood out from beginning to end. Mostly because he, and not the other aliens and cultures of Star Trek: The Next Generation, was likely the closest any of the series' viewers were going to get to its benevolent futurism.
See also: The Best and Worst of Star Trek: The Next Generation's Sci-Fi Optimism
Moore: He was a great way to examine the nature, soul, emotion and logic of humanity. To have a character so close to us, but still puzzled by things that we consider so basic. It was just a wonderful character, and a great piece of casting. It's an example of great man and role, perfectly married.
Wired: It's quite impressive that the original series gave us Spock, and then The Next Generation gave us Data, who together lord over quite a bit of sci-fi influence. Do you have any favorite Data episodes?
Moore: I worked on two of them that I really liked. One was "Data's Day," whose concept I loved. A day in the life of the Enterprise, told through Data's eyes. I gave him a cat, and made him tap dance. I was really intrigued by the notion of what 24 hours on the Enterprise was like. I loved that episode.
Then I did one called "In Theory," which was when Data gets a girlfriend. The truth about both Spock and Data is that they have huge female fan bases with massive crushes who fantasize about what it would be like to be these characters' other halves. So we wanted to touch on that: What would happen to a woman that falls in love with Data on the Enterprise? Data would try to engage as best he could, but there might be limitations. I found "In Theory" to be a really interesting and bittersweet episode.
Wired: Speaking of interesting, I'm not sure what you're working on right now, but if you can talk about it I'd really like to know.
Moore: I don't have too much to tell you right now. I have a lot of irons in the fire, as they say, but nothing definitive. If I had something to say, I'd be happy to tell you!
Wired: I was interested in your reboot of the spy-fi Western The Wild Wild West. Or your detective Western Hangtown, but I wasn't totally sure if that particular one rode off into the sunset.
Moore: Yeah, ABC decided not to go with it. That was very frustrating. They made a strategic decision that they didn't want to do a Western, period. Because they said they loved the script and the characters, and said they bought three Westerns because they were so committed to it. But at some point, they just got cold feet and said they weren't going to do Westerns after all, which was really disappointing.
Wired: I read that you were working on other shows in the romance and fantasy genres, but there is something about Westerns. "A Fistful of Datas" is one of The Next Generation's coolest episodes. It's a genre that I don't think has been fully explored this century on television, although there have been some great merges like Firefly.
Moore: I completely agree. The Western is due for a renaissance. It's almost because it's not on television, and that it hasn't been done well in a while, that now is the time to do it.


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Over the past few months, along with shooting a lot of wet plate work of course, I have been delving into the wonderful world of daguerreotype photography. It has been a rough ride, but persistence is in my nature when it comes to photography, so I pushed on despite many failures.
First a few brief details for those unfamiliar with the history and technical aspects of daguerreotype photography.
Daguerreotype was THE first truly successful photographic technique and it is of course named after it's inventor, a Frenchman Louis Daguerre. He worked it out in mid to late 1830s and on August 19th 1839 disclosed the secret to the world after the French government agreed to purchase it and in return gave him a lifetime stipend. The whole concept of 'photography' took the world by storm of course and daguerreotype technique became popular very fast. It remained as the only commercially viable method of making photographic images through 1840s and into early 1850s - at that point it was overtaken by the new wet plate collodion method, which was faster, easier, cheaper and also let multiple images to be printed by allowing one to make negatives on clear glass. In historic writings one can find the way photographers of the time spoke of daguerreotype images. Even though the image is somewhat hard to see, due to the highly reflective nature of the plate, a lot of contemporaries write with deep love about little silver plates and sound nostalgic for the uniquely beautiful and almost dimensional look those images possess. Due to that some daguerrean artists remained true to the craft even into 1880s and 90s. Very few people practiced daguerreotypes through the 20th century and even today there is probably less than 50 people worldwide who work with the true method on any sort of regular basis.
Briefly the technique of making a plate can be summarized as follows. A plate of pure silver is polished to as near mirror surface as possible. Traditionally copper plates were covered with silver by cold-cladding, today electroplated method is also used. The plate is then first exposed to fumes of iodine, then bromine and then iodine again. Side note - originally Daguerre used only fumes of iodine, but within a few years American photographers discovered that bromine fumes made the plates much more sensitive to light and also gave a more pleasing contrast. After fuming the plate is placed in a camera for exposure - exposures of many minutes when only iodine is used turn into seconds or even less when bromine is introduced. After exposure the development is carried out by placing the plate over fumes of hot mercury (nasty stuff and one of the reasons not too many folks play around with this amazing technique). The way the mercury acts upon the halides of silver is still somewhat of a mystery (at least to me for sure...), but it draws up those particles exposed to enough light and creates a silver-mercury amalgam, which basically is what makes up the final image. Next step is to remove the rest of the silver bromides and iodides and that is done with good old sodium thiosulfate (commonly known as Hypo). The last step is to gild the plate. Gilding is done with gold chloride and heat and acts upon the image in a few different ways: brightens the highlights giving them a warmer golden tone, deepens the shadows, minimizes oxidation over time thus making the image much more permanent and also physically toughens the surface, before gilding the image is extremely fragile and a light swipe with a soft feather will take it right off the plate. Finally the plate is sealed in an air-tight enclosure (under glass with a mat to separate the two) to restrict air from coming in contact with it, again to make it last longer without oxidizing.
Small note - there is such a thing as Becquerel daguerreotype technique, which differs both in procedure and outcome. There the plate is only fumed with iodine (light sensitivity of those plates is A LOT less), exposed and then covered with red glass or plastic and placed outdoors. The action on UV light when passed through the red filter acts to bring out the image (form what I know this part is still completely unexplained by science). Though safer and easier (and because of that actually most people who make daguerreotype plates today use this method), Becquerel plates lack in tonality and have extremely high contrast with much fewer shades. Both high contrast and extremely long exposures make it almost unsuitable for portraits, scenes too look rather odd...
I've always been extremely curious about this historically important and visually stunning method of image-production, but my love for daguerreotypes was really sparked in 2012, when, while being on my first cross country trip aboard The Photo Palace Bus, I had the extreme pleasure and luck of meeting Rob McElroy in Buffalo NY. You can read about that incredible adventure and see some images HERE and then a followup HERE. Aside from being simply an amazing human being, Rob is one of the very best in the world when it comes to this form of art and I was truly astounded by his work and observing the whole process. The bug got it's bite and since then I have been dreaming about making my own plates. Daguerreotype equipment though is extremely expensive - the safety that must be factored into mercury pots and low demand leading to very small number of people producing this stuff all contribute to the cost factor, and that's not even to mention the plates - pure silver isn't cheap... So my desire to become a daguerreotype artist seemed far off and nearly unattainable.
In 2012 though I wasn't even doing wet plate.... Well in 2013 I learned to worked with collodion, got acquainted with the community and lo and behold - one of the folks who was living right in San Diego did both collodion and daguerreotypes! Race Gentry is now a good friend of mine and we hang out as often as his busy life and school schedule lets us. He has been kind enough to let me use his equipment to start learning and also shared a wealth of knowledge that he accumulated over the years both from experience and by reading historic literature on the subject. Right now I'm in the final stages of gathering up all my own equipment, but I know that Race and I will be friends regardless - he's just too much fun to hang out with.
So, with Race's help I started making becquerel plates last year. I made some good ones rather quickly as it's not all that complicated of a technique. Here are couple of my early Becquerel plates.
4x5in (staining on bottom right from gilding)
24x36mm (35mm format)
The lack of fine tonality and long exposures (25 seconds on the plates you see above) made me become rather bored rather quickly. Don't know why I took so long after that boredom set in to start pursuing success with real mercury daguerreotypes, but I only really dedicated myself to this task a couple of months ago. During that time there were periods when I made multiple images a day for a week or two straight and then there were times when discouraged I took breaks only to return with more force later.
I'm not going to try to make is sound like obtaining a decent-looking plate is the hardest thing in the world. I'm sure climbing Mt. Everest to the summit, running 100m under 10sec, truly understanding women or making a mentally challenged squirrel be able to teach calculus are all things that are harder. However daguerreotypes have their challenges and quirks and overcoming (or at least sidestepping) them have proven to be quite a feat for yours truly.
First there's buffing - that darn plate must be so perfect and so clean and so much like a mirror that sometimes it seemed that I'll never get it... Then there's fuming - it's done by visual inspection and there's only a small window of particular hues of pink that works best and to top that off the proportion of iodine to bromine that is used in achieving that hue reflects on both speed of the plate and contrast of the final image. Next there's development - that's relatively straight forward, one just have to find an optimal combination of mercury temperature and development time that doesn't go too long and lets mercury globs to accumulate in the shadow areas (like the ones you see in the below image of a box camera in the center - that one's under-exposed so in vain I tried pushing development, something that you just can't do with daguerreotypes). OH, and then, after you might have gotten the best results you have seen in your plates you have to gild that thing and THAT is one conniving and malicious step I tell you! The most perfect plate can go to being absolute garbage right in front of your eyes literally in a span of a few seconds and there's not a single thing you can do to stop that once it starts happening... To top it all off almost every single practicing daguerreotype image maker I have asked seems to have their own unique workflow that works for them - sometimes steps vary only slightly from one person to another and in other instance it made me wonder if they are even working on the same technique.... All advice was taken with stride and a grain of salt.
OK - time for some images.
All 5 of the good (and in the eyes of some that may be a stretch of the word 'good') images you see below are copied after gilding.
Here's a an image I did yesterday - I believe it's my best mercury plate so far and I was extremely excited when gilding didn't ruin it completely (some back spots in the sky did show up, but I have a faint hunch about what may have caused that, so let's see if in the next few sessions I can prevent them from occurring again).
Progress is evident, no? Here's a few more recent images made after last week I for one reason or another had what seemed like a breakthrough. This was the first one I made that wasn't awful - as I said above, it's about a full stop or maybe even two underexposed and I tried correcting that by pushing development time past where it should have ended, but in real life now it actually looks not too bad thanks to the amazing Carillo Method of brightening gilded images - this method was discovered very recently by Daniel Carrillo of Portland OR and if it works it does wonders to dull images. Let me assure you though it doesn't exactly work perfect every time though, at least it hasn't for me...
2.75x3.25in with vintage mat and preserver
Oh, and of course here's Fred - the wonderfully patient man of kind temper who resides across the stairs form my darkroom. In the compilation of failed images above you see how many times he posed for me and not once was he reluctant to do so. He is a true gentleman and a scholar. It is unfortunate that during gilding the stain on bottom right decided to appear, but otherwise I believe it's a solid plate in all respects.
2.75x3.25in with modern mat
And here's a still life composition - my little homage to the old-times, the photographers who came before me, the tools they used and the people who passed in front of their lenses.
3.25x4.25in with vintage mat and preserver
I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to not only the people mentioned above as being instrumental in shortening my learning curve, but to all those who may or may not read this, but have patiently helped me along the way by providing tips and sharing their methods online. There are too many of You to mention and I'm not even going to try for the fear of forgetting some of You, but I believe You know who You are - THANK YOU!
Things I now look forward to include but are not limited to:
• Transforming my portable wet plate dark box to be safe for daguerreotype production and going on location with this technique.
• Generally improving consistency with which my plates turn out to my satisfaction (for now I'm attributing the fact that 5 out of 7 of the last plates I did turning out well to some sort of a fluke wave of luck...)
• Taming the gilding step
• Possibly receiving commissioned work to sustain myself and the pursuit of the above three goals as all three require financial input...
Thanks to my readers as well!


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The Flowers Of War director tells John Hazelton about balancing the Eastern and Western elements of one of China's biggest-ever productions.
It seems fitting that internationally acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou first came across Geling Yan's novel 13 Flowers Of Nanjing while he was preparing to mastermind the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Flowers Of War, Zhang's epic film version of the book, turned into a $100m production — one of the biggest ever mounted in China — and was itself something of a meeting of nations.
Set against the backdrop of the 1937 Nanjing massacre, the novel tells the story of rough-hewn American John Miller, a group of Chinese schoolgirls (one of whom narrates the action) and 13 local prostitutes who together take refuge from the Japanese invaders of China's then capital in a Christian cathedral.
While plenty of Chinese films and TV shows have been made about the Nanjing massacre, Zhang says (through a translator) that he found this fictional story "truly unique, because it takes the perspective of a 13-year-old girl". He snapped up the rights to the novel before immersing himself in his Olympics work.
When the Games were over Zhang, renowned for a string of international award winners including Red Sorghum, Raise The Red Lantern, To Live and Not One Less, returned to what ended up being a marathon four-year preparation period.
He worked with screenwriter Liu Heng — who previously wrote Zhang's The Story Of Qui Ju and Ju Dou — to fine-tune a script with 40% of its dialogue in English and the rest in Mandarin.
Casting Chinese actors and actresses — some, like female lead Ni Ni, making their film debuts — was time consuming because the performers had to speak some English and be fluent in the Nanjing dialect.
For help in finding a Hollywood actor to play John Miller — and for an opinion on the project's viability outside China — Zhang and executive producer Bill Kong turned to David Linde, the former Universal Pictures chairman then in the process of putting together his new venture Lava Bear (which is not an investor in Flowers).
Together with Los Angeles-based Chaoying Deng, Linde became an executive producer. "We spent a lot of time talking about actors," Linde says. "Yimou was focused on getting a great actor. There was, as there is with any movie, a discussion about how whatever actor was cast would affect the commerciality of the movie. But that was never the driving force."
On the recommendation of his executive producers – and his friend Steven Spielberg – Zhang began looking at the work of The Dark Knight and The Fighter star Christian Bale.
'A lot of directors fall into the trap of bringing two cultures together on a very superficial level'
Zhang Yimou
"I realised Christian is extremely flexible because he's played so many different roles," says Zhang. "And when I met him, I realised he is extremely professional. When he read the script he made a lot of suggestions about how to make the character feel real, flesh and bones. And that kind of work continued throughout the whole shoot."
With Bale cast and funding secured from Chinese sources by producer Zhang Weiping — Zhang Yimou's regular collaborator since 1997 — through his Beijing New Picture Film Co, the film's five-month shoot began in January 2011.
Believing that "if you make a movie about a certain place you should go to that place", Zhang chose to shoot on sets specially constructed in Nanjing.
A seven-day working week — apparently standard in the non-unionised Chinese industry — was not a particular challenge for the 60-year-old director. And, in spite of the fact Zhang speaks only Mandarin, neither was working with an international crew including UK special-effects consultant Joss Williams and Japanese production designer Yohei Taneda, as well as frequent Zhang collaborators cinematographer Zhao Xiaoding, sound designer Tao Jing and film editor Meng Peicong.
What was a challenge was working around the schedule of a busy Hollywood actor. "Christian only had two months on the set," Zhang reports, "so we had to shoot all his dialogue first. Then, after he left, we shot the rest of the actors and actresses. But the emotions had to match perfectly so I had to know exactly how the emotion escalated. I had to be very precise."
Working with a Western star
Scheduling aside, Zhang says, the experience of working for the first time with a major Western actor was "really precious. In the past, foreign actors in Chinese movies have been almost like beautiful vases — pleasant to look at but without depth. For me it was a challenge to have Christian's performance combine very organically with those of the Chinese actors."
Shooting finished in late June and, thanks to the fact Zhang and Meng had been editing in the evenings throughout production, a final cut was ready less than three weeks later. By late September, the film was completed and ready to be submitted as China's contender for the foreign-language film Oscar (for which three of Zhang's previous films have been nominated).
Linde was called into action again when the time came to start presenting the film to potential distributors, a process which began with the screening of a 30-minute promo reel at Toronto last September.
The producers were keen for the film to be released in the US before the end of 2011 and in conjunction with the Chinese release, says Linde, and screening the promo reel was a way to "get the distributors thinking about if and how they could release the film at the end of the year. In addition, it allowed us to introduce the film to key press around the world, in advance of the release."
By early November a US distribution deal was signed with Wrekin Hill, which gave the film a three-city awards-qualifying run in late December and is planning a platform release early in 2012, with a marketing push aimed at both the traditional audience for specialty films and the Chinese-American community.
The film was released in China — after briefly becoming the focus of a dispute between distributors and cinemas over ticket prices and box-office shares — on December 16, the day after it was nominated in this year's foreign-language film Golden Globe category.
FilmNation is handling international and is set to start its sales push in the run up to February's Berlin festival, where the film will screen out of competition.
In the long term, Flowers could provide some pointers for the makers of future film collaborations that mix Eastern and Western elements in an attempt to appeal to audiences in both China and the rest of the world.
Zhang suggests the key to such collaborations is an organic mix of elements. "You have to have a script that actually needs those kind of East-meets-West elements," he says. "The elements have to make sense in order for a collaboration like this to be successful. A lot of directors fall into the trap of bringing two cultures together on a very superficial level."
Zhang also hints that after making The Flowers Of War he might be more open to directing a non-Chinese project.
"I will probably still focus on the Chinese market and making Chinese movies," he says, "but I will not refuse if a good script from the West or Hollywood comes along."


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A regular feature of our programme of events through the year, Quiet Mondays offer you a structure of prayer as well as space in our peaceful and beautiful house and gardens. Prayer resources and the option of half an hour with a prayer guide are available.
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Updating their official stance on the relationship between climate change and weather events, the American Meteorological Society (AMS), has now stated plainly that the warming world is a fact beyond reproach and that human activity—despite some natural variability—is the main force behind such changes.
"Warming of the climate system now is unequivocal," the group said in a statement on Monday. "Observations show increases in globally averaged air and ocean temperatures, as well as widespread melting of snow and ice and rising globally averaged sea level."
The dominant cause of the warming since the 1950s is human activities, they said, adding that their scientific finding is based on "a large and persuasive body of research."
"Due to natural variability," the statement noted, "not every year is warmer than the preceding year globally. Nevertheless, all of the 10 warmest years in the global temperature records up to 2011 have occurred since 1997, with 2005 and 2010 being the warmest two years in more than a century of global records."
"This statement is the result of hundreds of hours of work by many AMS members over the past year," comments AMS Executive Director Keith Seitter. "It was a careful and thorough process with many stages of review, and one that included the opportunity for input from any AMS member before the draft was finalized."
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Turning to the causes of such drastic changes, the AMS concluded that although the climate is always changing in some respects, the melting of the polar ice sheets, extreme flooding, intense droughts and the retreat of most of the world's glaciers "are beyond what can be explained by the natural variability of the climate."
They continue: "It is clear from extensive scientific evidence that the dominant cause of the rapid change in climate of the past half century is human-induced increases in the amount of atmospheric greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), chlorofluorocarbons, methane, and nitrous oxide. The most important of these over the long term is CO2, whose concentration in the atmosphere is rising principally as a result of fossil-fuel combustion and deforestation."
The AMS' new language follows pressure from some environmentalists and scientists who have criticized the meteorologist professionals for being ambiguous about the growing scientific evidence about the relationship between weather events and global climate change.
As the Summit County Citizens Voice explains: "The organization recently took some flak from environmental activists who want weather forecasters to discuss how climate change might be affecting what people experience in their day-to-day weather. One group, Forecast the Facts, publicly called out TV weather forecasts by name. The group also published a study suggesting that 27 percent of TV weather forecasters call global warming a scam, while half deny that global warming is caused by emission of greenhouse gases."
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"Astonishing. . . . Witty. . . . Tom Wolfe crossed with Tom Pynchon." —The Washington Post
"The Noble Hustle is fierce, funny and totally worth the buy-in." —New York Daily News
"Whitehead proves a brilliant sociologist of the poker world." —The Boston Globe
"The Noble Hustle, part love letter, part dark confessional, captures perfectly the mix of neurosis and narrative that makes gambling so appealing." —Mother Jones
"[A] trenchant, ruefully funny memoir of one man's attempt to dispel the banality of living with the anxiety of chance." —USA Today
"Fascinating. . . . Funny. . . . It's hard not to root for the underdog." —Chicago Tribune
"Mordantly funny from the first sentence. . . . Mr. Whitehead may not have gone home in the money, but he has a way with upstanding sentences." —The Economist
"Hilarious. . . . Equal parts philosophical and farcical." —The Seattle Times
"Clever and entertaining." —The Miami Herald
"[Whitehead's] reporting on the grimy glitz of casinos and competitive gambling has a funny, tragic, loser-chic sensibility." —The New Yorker
"A literary guide to the often bizarre world of casino-poker tournaments." —The Wall Street Journal
"Whitehead captures the sketchy and zombielike nature of poker tournament play well enough to leave you wishing this book came with a free bottle of Purell." —Entertainment Weekly
"A sly, shambling, self-appraising riff on how he—a fervent amateur (and newly divorced father)—braved a Las Vegas World Series of Poker tourney." —Elle
"From the first sentence to the last, Colson Whitehead never stops being clever. . . . If Whitehead played poker as well as he writes, he would have made the final table." —The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Part memoir, part satire, part meditation on the fractured state of contemporary culture." —Los Angeles Times
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Got Washington as Rebs and Richmond as Federals in the seeing the elephant scenario.
1.06d was the version that came in box with CD and manual.
I know a lot of changes have happened since to make it more realistic but this is more fun than playing 1.17 and getting draws all the time.


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When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown that exhibits the craft and precision of a nascent auteur, transforming a familial tragedy into something ominous and deeply disquieting, and pushing the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell.
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Opened June 8th, 2018
Rated R for horror violence, disturbing images, language, drug use and brief graphic nudityCastToni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Ann Dowd, Milly Shapiro, Alex WolffDirectorAri AsterWriterAri Aster


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All Golfers, All Levels, All Fun
At The Golf Learning Centers our goal is simple, to help you develop a passion for the game of golf and have fun doing it. Whether you are playing golf for the first time or an avid player simply looking to shave off a few strokes, we have a variety of programs and instructors to suite any need. Lessons are available in multiple locations and each has their own unique specialty. To view program details and contact information use the course links below.
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- Adult Golf Lessons
- Corporate Programs
& Discounts
- Junior Academy
& Camps (Excluding Summer)
- Junior Camps
(Summer Only)
Tee It Up 1 - The Front Nine For The NEW Golfer*
If you've never played golf, this lesson series is for you. You'll learn fundamentals for full swing, chipping and putting...plus golf etiquette, terminology, rules and on-course skills.
Tee It Up 1 - The Back Nine For The NOVICE Golfer*
Designed for the novice golfer or graduate of The Front Nine, this comprehensive program focuses on further developing swing and short game fundamentals.
Tee It Up 2 – Intermediate Instruction For The RECREATIONAL Golfer*
You'll work on swing technique, short game skills and strategy both on and off the course…and learn how to practice effectively to take your game to the next level.
Tee It Up 3 – Advanced Instruction For The RECREATIONAL Golfer*
We'll analyze your swing and work on short game technique on the driving range. Then we'll take your skills to the course and tie in strategy to help make you a competitive golfer.
Tee It Up 4 – Individual Instruction For The AVID Golfer
Enjoy advanced skill development with a teaching professional to hone your skills. Your individual coaching program will perfect your swing and teach you new strategies to assist you in the pursuit of par.
Practice With The Pro
These supervised practice sessions on the range allow you to work on your swing technique with an instructor on-hand to give advice and offer swing tips. *This session is included in Tee It Up programs 1, 2 & 3.
Play With The Pro
Play with the Pro sessions will help you make a smooth transition from the practice environment to the golf course. Each session begins with a supervised 30-minute warm-up session followed by discounted golf with a teaching professional. Our pros will play with you to provide tips and support. *This session is included in Tee It Up programs 1, 2 & 3.
To get more information, click on a specific course's "Program Details."
Free Lesson Discount Program
The Golf Learning Centers, would like to introduce your company to our Corporate Discount Program. This offer allows your company to receive a special rate for adult group lessons. The offer is good for your employees, their family members and friends.
There is no cost whatsoever to your company.
Deciding to participate is simple. All we ask is that you post our offer where other discounts are displayed. We can provide electronic copy for your internal web site or printed flyers for posting in break rooms if needed.
Once the discount is posted within your company, you will receive a Thank You gift from us
– 5 FREE rounds of golf at one of the Learning Center properties near you!
Health or Vendor Fair Booth
The Golf Learning Centers participate in many Health and Vendor Fairs each year bringing a FUN and INTERACTIVE booth to your event. We offer door prizes or will host our own raffle drawing for free clinics or lessons, rounds of golf or merchandise*.
*Each Learning Center will inform you of what their raffle or door prize will be prior to the event if needed.
Corporate Golf Day at the Course
We can hold a special day for the employees and their family members to come out and experience the game of golf together. You can work with the Director of Instruction at the property nearest you to design a day that fits your needs.
An example of an event could include:
- Golf instruction with stations that include swing, chipping, putting (putting games or contest can be put together as well)
- Facility tour
- Food options can include: BBQ, Appetizers or a Buffet
- 9-hole Golf Tournament (we have format types for all levels of golfers)
On Site Golf Classes or Clinics - We Bring Golf To You!
Our travel staff will bring all the equipment, targets, foam balls (for safety), and FUN right to your campus! Depending on your employee demographics and interests, we provide either 'Golf Classes', that start on-campus and move to our courses OR "On-Campus Only" clinics. We'll also offer a FREE Golf Day to get everyone excited, meet the instructors and get more information about the upcoming Classes or Clinics.
We provide mats to hit from or if your site has anything from a grass field to a grass strip, we can use that too! No site is too small! If your site has them, we even use large Conference Rooms!
*This session is included in Tee It Up programs 1, 2 & 3.
To get more information, click on a specific course's "Program Details."
Please contact Kim Stevens at [email protected] / (510) 589-1644 to set up your company with one of our Learning Center's booths for your next Corporate Event.
The Golf Learning Center's Junior Academy teaches juniors the game of golf in a fun, safe environment. Designed to let juniors progress at their own pace, the unique curriculum combines both golf skills and life skills. They'll learn technique, rules, etiquette, strategy and the Six Pillars of Character as developed by CHARACTER COUNTS!
The Junior Academy is open to all abilities and caters to ages 5-17. Included in every Academy are either eight hour lessons OR four 1 hour lessons, with clubs and balls provided onsite. Eight levels of instruction and a graduate program provide the perfect opportunity for junior of all abilities to develop the skills and build character one swing at a time.
Level 1
- Safety rules
- Elements of grip, stance and posture
- Half swing technique
- Character Pillars: Caring & Respect
Level 2
- Short and long putt technique
- Character Pillars: Trustworthiness & Responsibility
Level 3
- Elements of back swing
- Full finish swing
- Basic chipping technique
- Character Pillars: Fairness & Citizenship
Level 4
- Advanced chipping and pitching technique
- Review Six Pillars of Character
Level 5
- Review grip, stance and posture
- Ball positioning
- Full swing technique
- Rules of golf
Level 6
- Driving technique
- Fairway wood skills
- Advanced grip, posture & aim
- Rules of golf
Level 7
- Long iron skills
- Bunker shots
- Advanced full swing technique
- Rules of golf
Level 8
- Rules of etiquette
- On-course instruction
Graduate Program
After students complete Levels 1-8, they will attend a graduation ceremony and become a Junior Academy Graduate. They are then eligible for the Graduate Program, which is designed to develop the competitive junior golfer. Graduate students will enjoy a variety of programs including Practice with the Pro Sessions where they learn to develop effective practice skills and Play with the Pro Sessions that allow them to play on the course with an instructor. They'll also participate in competitive events and attend seminars and clinics.
Junior Camps
We are proud to offer weeklong golf camps during summer, winter and spring breaks. Our PGA and LPGA professionals deliver first-rate instruction for boys and girls of all skill levels from ages 7-15.
Full day camps provide three hours of instruction, lunch and nine holes of golf each day. Half-day camps treat campers to three hours of instruction each day.
*To get more information, click on a specific course's "Program Details".
Our Junior Summer camps provide an opportunity for young athletes to experience the wonders of golf in a fun and positive environment. These week long commuter camps are designed to create interest and foster development in beginners and intermediate golfers. For three hours each morning, campers sharpen their skills under the watchful eye of our Nike Staff, made up of PGA Professionals and collegiate players. In the afternoon for the full day campers, they take their newly acquired skills to the first tee for nine holes with staff on-hand.
Typical Daily Schedule *
Instruction: practice on skills and fundamentals, grip, stance, posture, pitching, putting, bunker play and full swing.
12:00 PM Lunch
Full day campers only, half day campers depart.
Course play with staff on-hand(nine holes). Staff provide instruction and guidance on club selection, course management, rules & etiquette.
* Camp hours will vary by location. Please request an individual camp brochure or visit www.ussportscamps.com for specifics on each location.
To sign up for any of our summer camps, please choose one of the course links below:
Bay Area Golf Learning Centers
Monarch Bay Golf Club
Summitpointe Golf Club
Tilden Park Golf Course
Southern CA Golf Learning Centers
Arcadia Golf Course
Dominguez Hills Golf Course
Lake Forest Golf & Practice Center
Rancho San Joaquin Golf Course
Vista Valencia Golf Course
Riverwalk Golf Club
The Vineyard at Escondido
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San Leandro, CA
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Arcadia, CA
Carson, CA
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15 Dumb Things You Shouldn't Say in a Men's Room
When it comes to being in a public restroom, the less said, the better.
Get in, do your business and get out. You don't need to strike up a friendship. Really, all you need to do is clean out your system and continue with your day. So, if for some reason, you're a loquacious fellow looking to form a bond, we recommend none of the following sentences ever leave your lips:
1. "I've never seen something that big. Or purple."
2. "They're out of paper towels. Do you mind if I use your shirt?"
3. "Can I have a hug?"
4. "Welcome to my one-man production of 'Urinetown.'"
5. "I took all the soap out of the dispensers and replaced them with Tabasco sauce."
6. "Do you have a pen? I'd like to let people know who they can call for a good time."
7. "I took the air out of the hand dryers and replaced them with snot."
8. "I'm about to release what I can only describe as a 'Swiss missile.'"
9. "I took the water out of the toilet and replaced it with battery acid, so don't splash."
10. "Wow, that burns."
11. "Can I spot you?"
12. "I just ate Mexican, so now would be a good time to clear out."
13. "Can you spot me?"
14. "You need to work on your aim."
15. "Let's play a little game I like to call 'Naked Plumber.'"


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ROCKLIN, Calif. (KTXL/CNN) - A parent sitting courtside at a California youth basketball game has been asked not to return to the tournament facility.
She's accused of unsportsmanlike conduct and appears to have been caught in the act.
Shocking video captures the moment she appears to stick out her leg to trip a player from the competing team.
Players, coaches and parents from the Cornerstone Basketball Academy, which is based in Vallejo, traveled from miles away to take part in the Hardwood Palace Tournament on Mother's Day weekend against the Folsom Elite Basketball Academy.
Eugene Solano, the director of the Vallejo team, said these kids are 10 and younger.
He said he was first told by his players of unsportsmanlike conduct from a parent sitting in the first row.
"One of the kids during the timeout had said, 'Hey, coach, there's a parent on the sideline, there's a woman wearing a pink hat, and she's telling their kids to elbow us in the face,'" Solano recalled.
He said coaches and parents often record video highlights to show back to their kids. The same footage also showed the woman in the pink hat, who appeared to stick out her foot while a 9-year-old Vallejo player dribbled the ball past her.
"This is a specific incident that occurred with this particular parent," Solano explained.
Both directors from the Folsom Elite Basketball Academy issued a joint statement in response to the footage saying,
"We have been made aware of the video and we have addressed the situation with the parent involved directly. It is our policy to manage all disciplinary matters in a way that is effective and productive so we can eliminate incidents in the future."
The general manager said both organizations are great teams that hold their members accountable.
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