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Those of you who deal, annually, with the "foreign financial account" reporting rules will have yet a new form to deal with soon.
IRS recently released a draft of new Form 8938, Statement of Specified Foreign Financial Assets. For tax years beginning after March 18, 2010, the "Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act of 2010" (so-called "HIRE Act") requires that folks with an interest in a "specified foreign financial asset" during the tax year must attach a disclosure statement to their income tax return for any year in which the aggregate value of all such assets equals or exceeds $50,000.
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- Any interest in a foreign entity.
A pretty broad standard.
The draft Form 8938 was released on June 22, 2011 — without instructions (nice). Hopefully, instructions will be forthcoming soon.
On a favorable note, Part II of the draft form notes that specified foreign financial assets that have been otherwise reported on Forms 3520, 3520-A, 5471, 8621 or 8865 do not have to be included on Form 8938.
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Garden Windows: Advantages and Disadvantages
March 18, 2011
Examining Garden Windows: Advantages and Disadvantages
A garden window is a special type of window that juts out into a yard or other exterior area. It contains several shelves and is typically installed in kitchens over the sink or really, any room in the home. Besides versatility, garden windows have a number of advantages along with a disadvantage or two.
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- Creates shelf space. Garden windows are like mini-green houses. The shelves can be used to grow plants, flowers, or vegetables or they can be used to display vases or other home accessories.
- Additional light and fresh air. Although many garden windows are small, they allow extra light and air into the room. Garden windows typically open on the sides by turning a handle, allowing for ample air flow.
- Easy to install. Garden windows are available in easy-to-install kits that fit into an existing window space.
- Adds beauty and value to the home. Garden windows are constructed for beauty. They have four glass panes—one on each side, one in the front, and a slanted pane on top. Depending on the size, the window may have one shelf or multiple shelves. Any addition to the home, such as this, adds value to the property.
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Loss of a Pioneer
I was sad to hear that Sir Maurice Wilkes passed away in November. Sadder still to see that it didn't make nearly the news splash that some other early computer pioneer deaths have made.
If you don't recall, Dr. Wilkes was the brain behind EDSAC -- arguably the first "real" computer completed (although not the first designed). I know he was better known in the UK than the US, but if you really look at what Wilkes and his team did it is amazing. Wilkes pioneered the use of microprogramming, bit slices (if you are old enough to remember when that was important), symbolic labels, macros, and subroutines.
I was fortunate enough to correspond with Dr. Wilkes several times over the last few years and he was very gracious and clearly very sharp. I always thought I might recreate EDSAC in FPGA and thought it would please him to see such a project, but alas I have waited too late to do it.
If you want to see what it was like to program such an influential early machine, check out this simulator. I've written some code for it and its amazing what they were able to accomplish. You can find my code at the Yahoo group I maintain for EDSAC -- although it isn't very active with only 10 members -- clearly EDSAC is under appreciated!


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We are going to Paris in May for two weeks and will be staying in an apartment in the 6th arr. We are hoping to have fun shopping in the markets and preparing meals to save some $. I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for yummy bakeries, cheese shops, supermarkets etc. in the area. We will be on Rue de Seine. ALSO wanting to learn about any restaurants that are "typically" French and serve meals at lunch for aprox. 11 Euros or so per person. We are thinking about having our main meal then. The resturants do not have to be in the 6th arr, we will be all over the city at one time or another.
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Before you leave, get in touch with the Women of the American Church (WOAC) via the American Church in Paris. They have a website and you can look them up easily from home. On the website they have lots of info and you could probably email them and ask for suggestions. They are not just for Americans (I am Australian) but are there for all english speaking people in Paris.
Bring moisturiser as the water is very hard and I find that my feet get horribly dry and calloused walking around all day and showering in the hard water (I never had a problem with this in Australia where the water is softer)
There are so many restaurants and cafes and bistros in Paris. Eating seems to be a national passtime. I have no particular suggestion except to say that every cafe/restaurant will have a board outside with the days menu on it. You can order a la carte, a menu (which is a set menu of entree main and dessert for a set price) and some will have other "specials" such as fixed price deals. Just keep your eyes open as you walk around near lunchtime and you will find many options.
I was told that to save money you can eat standing up at the counter of many bakeries/cafes/bistros. Don't know about you, but when I am out sightseeing I just want to sit down at lunchtime as my feet are normally aching for a rest. If you walk slightly away from the main tourist sites you will find things a bit cheaper. I live near Sacre Ceour and the restaurants etc at the top of the hill are quite expensive compared to those near our house which is in a quiet street toward Abesses. Same thing near the Tour Eiffel and Champs Eleysee.
Make sure your apartement has tea and coffee making facilities and utensils/crockery which enables you to take food into the room. We stayed in places in Bordeaux and in Poitiers which did not and it was very difficult when we just wanted a cup of tea, soup and baguette for dinner.
The local supermarket will have milk (usually UHT in Paris) and butter etc. Try different bakeries as they will all have their own specialities. Fromageries can be expensive, but you can get quite nice cheese at the supermarket if you are on a budget. Fruit and veg are easy to find, but be aware that the shop/stall owner might not want you to pick up your own. Most fruit and veg are not self serve here. They may also ask when you want to eat the item and will pick one which will be ripe when you said you wanted to eat it. Cooked chickens and roast potatoes and other cooked veg and meat can be bought at the charcuterie and tratteur. You will smell them before you see them (the roast chicken smell calls you to the shop) and they can be bought whole or by peices.
Have fun and enjoy yourself!
If you cannot feel your arteries hardening, eat more cheese. If you can, drink more red wine. Diet is just "die" with a "t" on the end. Exercise is walking into the kitchen.
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Thanks so much for your advice. I appreciate all your tips. It is nice to learn things from an an actual person vs a book. After I posted this query here I realised that there were a few earlier posts that had quite extensive replies regarding restaurants. I am really looking forward to this trip.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the media, Wednesday, that Facebook is planning to "launch something awesome" next week, according to Reuters.
The Zuck was visiting the Seattle office of Facebook, which is the only major engineering center outside the Palo Alto offices, when he made the annoucement.
He said the project has been developed at the Seattle office, and did not say much else about the "awesome" thing.
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Right on the back of reports that Google+ will allow users to conceal their gender — or the entirety of their profile, if they so chose — comes word that said users mostly male. The ratios vary, but everyone agrees: Google+ is hurting for a feminine presence.
Mashables's Jolie O'Dell did some digging:
SocialStatistics, a third-party site that gathers data from select profiles, pegs the percentage of male users at 86.8%, while FindPeopleOnPlus, which curates information from about a million users, says men constitute 73.7% of Google+.
O'Dell then went on to add that the latter site "discovered that 95% of the Google+ users who say they are 'looking for love' on the site are male."
Great. This after the site has hit 10 million subscribers, to boot — a number sizable enough that you'd think there'd be more diversity.
While theories are flying as to why this is — from wondering if early adopters are predominantly male or if the nature of a beta means that it'll spend a few weeks getting the most interest from the male-heavy tech world — we want to kick this question to you. Guys, are the ladies in your life not asking for Google+ invites? Gals, are you not interested? Let us know in the comments below.
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Annual to subshrubs, fleshy
Leaves generally simple, generally basal and cauline, alternate or opposite, generally reduced upward
Inflorescence: generally cyme, generally bracted
Flower: sepals generally 35, generally ± free; petals generally 35, ± free or fused; stamens = to >> sepals, free or epipetalous; pistils generally 35, simple (sometimes fused at base), ovary 1-chambered, placenta 1, parietal, ovules 1many, style 1
Fruit: follicles generally 35
Seeds 1many, small
Genera in family: ± 30 genera, ± 1500 species: ± worldwide, especially dry temp; many cultivated for ornamental. Family description and generic key by Melinda F. Denton and Reid Moran.
Perennial, fleshy, glabrous
Stem generally caudex or corm-like, generally vertical, branched or not, generally covered with dried leaves or leaf bases
Leaves in basal rosettes, evergreen vernal and ephemeral
Inflorescence: cyme, axillary, 1-sided; bracts leaf-like, alternate
Flower: sepals 5, fused below; petals 5, fused at base, erect to spreading above; stamens 10, epipetalous; pistils 5, ± fused below
Fruit: follicles 5, erect to spreading, many-seeded
Seed < 1 mm, narrowly ovoid, brown, striate
Species in genus: ± 45 species: sw North America
Etymology: (W.R. Dudley, western US botanist, 18491911)
Reference: [Moran in Jacobsen 1960 Handb Succ Plant:344359]
Unopened follicles generally most reliable for posture (erect, spreading, etc.).
Stem: caudex simple to generally branched, cespitose
Leaf 1.511 cm, 520 mm wide, oblong-lanceolate or tapered base to tip, rarely elliptic to oblanceolate, generally glaucous, upper surface generally ± flat; rosette 26 cm wide
Inflorescence: 1° branches 0 or generally 23, generally simple, ascending; terminal branches 315 cm, 215-flowered; lower bracts 440 mm; pedicel 0.55(11) mm
Flower: sepals 25 mm, deltate; petals 813 mm, 1.53.5 mm wide, fused 14.5 mm, elliptic, acute, pale yellow, keel generally with fine, purple to red lines, margin often jagged
Chromosomes: n=17
Ecology: Rocky outcrops
Elevation: 502600 m.
Bioregional distribution: s Outer South Coast Ranges, s Western Transverse Ranges, San Bernardino Mountains, Peninsular Ranges, sw edge Mojave Desert
Distribution outside California: n Baja California
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Stem: caudex 1030 mm wide; branches fewmany
Leaf 311 cm, 720 mm wide, ± glaucous, oblong-lanceolate; upper surface ± flat; rosettes < 10 per plant
Inflorescence: peduncle 525 cm, 26 mm wide; lower bracts 1040 mm
Flower: petals fused 1.53 mm, purple-flecked throughout, keel purple
Ecology: UNCOMMON. Serpentine outcrops
Elevation: 120300 m.
Bioregional distribution: s Outer South Coast Ranges (San Luis Obispo Co.)
Horticultural information: DRN, DRY: 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24; DFCLT.


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More digital thinking at the Petrie Museum: evaluation sessionsClaire S Ross7 February 2011
Following on from the excitement about the Digital Think Drink at the Petrie Museum, which is now sold out, there will also be some one on one evaluation sessions for those who have missed out on the Digital Think Drink. We would like to hear your views on new digital technology that aims to support research and enhance the visitor museum experience.
If you wish to come along and in and share your opinions it would be very much appreciated. The evaluation days are as follows and your involvement will take no longer than 30 minutes:
- Thursday 17th February (10am – 4pm)
- Thursday 24th February (10am – 4pm)
- Thursday 3rd March (10am – 4pm)
- Thursday 10th March (10am – 4pm)
If you would like to take part in the evaluation or would like further information, please contact our evaluator Naomi Haywood directly and tell her what day and what time you are able to come and also your contact number.
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Multi-Asset Insights: Are emerging markets prepared for the eventual US rate hike?
Multi-Asset Insights: Are emerging markets prepared for the eventual US rate hike?
- Turkey and South Africa vulnerable to removal of liquidity
- Brazil and Turkey have most flexibility to improve domestic liquidity
- India and Brazil at risk from equity exposure
After nearly seven years of record low interest rates in the US, we remain of the opinion that the Federal Reserve (Fed) will raise the Federal funds rate by the end of 2015. Such action poses a significant risk to emerging markets (EM) given the reliance on US dollar funding.
External liquidity
The rise in the issuance of local currency debt by EM countries has, in isolation, reduced reliance on external funding.
EM Asia and Latin America (LatAm) gross external public debt issuance has decreased significantly in the aftermath of the Asian/EM financial crisis in the late 1990s.
While the reliance of external debt has fallen, the currency breakdown of such debt has become more concentrated in the US dollar, relative to alternatives such as the yen, euro or sterling.
Notably, over 70% of public external debt in LatAm and EM Asia is denominated in US dollars while EM Europe has greater external debt relative to GDP albeit with less US dollar reliance.
EM countries are vulnerable to the flight of hot money from foreign investors seeking higher yields.
Looking at the major economies within EM, Turkey and South Africa are the most vulnerable to a removal of external liquidity given their relatively low foreign exchange reserves, negative current accounts and large amounts of maturing external debt.
Malaysia, Indonesia and Mexico have become more vulnerable since the "Taper Tantrum" of 2013, while Brazil and India have seen some improvement (source: World Bank, 2013).
Aside from external debt, we also examined foreign ownership in local currency debt.
While the rise of local currency debt is expected to reduce the vulnerability of EM countries to currency fluctuations associated with a Fed hike, the sizeable increase in foreign ownership represents significant vulnerability to external liquidity, as shown in Figure 1.
In recent years, EM local currency debt markets have attracted flows as markets have opened to foreign investors.
However, higher US interest rates improve the relative yield attractiveness of US government bonds and leave EM countries vulnerable to the flight of hot money from foreign investors seeking higher yields.
Domestic liquidity
Next, we examine the potential for EM countries to raise domestic liquidity. Most EM policymakers have the flexibility to lower interest rates with current levels above the lowest levels during past crises.
Domestic and external liquidity are closely linked due to foreign investors' positioning in the EM carry trade.
Consequently, EM central banks will have to balance the need to reduce rates to provide domestic liquidity and support growth, while continuing to provide an attractive destination for foreign investors.
Brazil and Turkey have the most flexibility to cut rates given current levels of 13.75% and 10.75% respectively,
Debt dynamics of externally vulnerable economies give us cause for concern.
South Africa is the most constrained given that the current 5.75% rate is just 0.75% above the lowest rate over the past 15 years (source: Bloomberg, Schroders July 2015).
While the debt dynamics of externally vulnerable economies give us cause for concern, there is scope for domestic liquidity injections via interest rate cuts albeit to a varying degree regionally.
The Fed's communication of a gradual hiking cycle is therefore essential to ensure that the more vulnerable EM economies are able to adjust monetary policies to balance growth without the risk of capital flight.
Equity positioning
Our analysis suggests that some of the most vulnerable countries are among the largest overweights in global EM portfolios, particularly India, Brazil, and to a lesser extent, Turkey.
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I started foundationless this year and love it. That said, I never used foundation and wouldn't know if I would love that, too. I did put one frame of foundation in the box to help the bees make the other frames straight.
And virtually 'everything' within your frames is edible with a foundationless system. I just love taking a big chunk of honey-filled wax while its still warm during a flow and seeing it fully repaired w/in a few days. I also regularly dip a finger or two into honey-filled wax throughout the season for fresh taste testing ;). Mmmm-mmmm goood.thomas[/quote"A TASTE OF HONEY" Somebody should right a song about that! :pop:


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hope that politicians would find common ground to steer clear of the "fiscal cliff" boosted stocks on Friday, though the gains were not enough to offset the week's losses.
Stocks recovered from early declines after leaders of the Senate and House emerged from a meeting at the White House and indicated they would be flexible in efforts to settle fiscal policy differences.
Democrats said they recognized the need to curb spending and Republicans said they had agreed to put "revenue on the table" following a meeting with President Barack Obama.
For the week, the S&P was down 1.5 percent, its second week in a row of losses. The Dow lost 1.8 percent, down for the fourth straight week, while the Nasdaq was lower for the sixth week, also losing 1.8 percent.
"These are very small steps in the right direction," said Kate Warne, investment strategist at Edward Jones in St Louis.
"The more evidence there is that Congress will make a decision sooner, the more likely we are to see stocks rebound."
About $600 billion of automatic budget cuts and tax increases will start to take effect in the new year unless Washington reaches a deal. With memories of 2011's debt ceiling impasse fresh in investors' minds, many are worried this year's discussions could be drawn out or yield no agreement.
If all the changes go into effect, economists say it could tip the economy into recession. Investors have pulled out of stocks over the past two weeks, taking nearly 4 percent off the S&P 500.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI added 45.93 points, or 0.37 percent, to 12,588.31. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX rose 6.55 points, or 0.48 percent, to 1,359.88. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC gained 16.19 points, or 0.57 percent, to 2,853.13.
Shares of Penn National Gaming Inc (PENN.O) surged 28.2 percent to $48.23 on its busiest day of trading in more than four years, after the owner of gaming and pari-mutuel properties said late Thursday it will split its business into a gaming-focused real estate investment trust and a gaming operator.
More than 10 million shares changed hands, compared with average daily volume of 629,000 shares over the past 50 days.
Dell Inc DELL.O helped limit the Nasdaq's gains after lower PC sales hurt the company's profit. Dell slumped 7.3 percent to $8.86.
More violence in the Middle East also kept investors wary after Palestinian militants nearly hit Jerusalem with a rocket for the first time in decades and fired at Tel Aviv for a second day.
Sears Holdings Corp SHLD.O late Thursday reported a quarterly loss that was narrower than expected, but same-store sales fell on weak demand for electronics, sending shares down 18.8 percent to $47.49.
Volume is expected to be light next week with some investors away for the Thanksgiving holiday, and the market closed on Thursday and open for only a half-day on Friday.
The decreased liquidity could spell more intra-day volatility for the market, though fewer market participants could also mute action.
Volume on Friday was roughly 7.52 billion shares on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the NYSE MKT, well above the year-to-date average daily closing volume of about 6.52 billion.
Advancers outnumbered decliners on the NYSE by 2,258 to 784 on the New York Stock Exchange. On the Nasdaq, advancers also had the upper hand by 1,446 to 997.
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Dear Usual:
Re: @0715 Tyne — just to confirm trip to 51f is off. I'm still torqued, but Jill's email convinced me to "pick another battle"
Last night at midnight when I drove past the long gas lines, after I had read my shore neighbor's email during a rest break, I made a decision to wimp out. I send out "stand down" messages to the "patrol" that was going to "support" my assault on Seaside Heights. I was fully expecting to get arrested.
But somewhere inside my inner cowardice took over and, with a typical Oregonian attitude, "why bother"? Earlier in the day, after my shore plumber told me not to worry about freezing pipes (i.e., one of the big missions was to open the crawlspace main drain in a lame attempt to save the water pipes). He said the first hard freeze doesn't come until December and, with no pressure on in the house, damage was in his opinion unlikely). (He also as much as said that I could do more damage messing around with "his plumbing". LOL! It's everyone's house but mine.)
My shorts are still in knot because armed men masquerading as "the police" with orders from the gang calling itself the "town council of Seaside Heights" and "Ocean County" have stolen my property. That I've paid extortion called "property taxes" for more than 30 years. What do you call when men dressed in funny clothes with guns prevent you from getting to your land? Sorry but it's just another day in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee. Differs from North Korea only by degree.
Note the "gas rationing" by the supposedly Republican Governor of the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee!
Note that supposed rational of this "martial law" order is that it's "too dangerous". Look at the videos. Not to dangerous for TV reporters with their generators and truck. "Authorized workers". Owners of the boardwalk businesses. People who rode out the storm. And, various people seen in the background loading cars from their properties. Note the way the "Chief of Police of SSH" talks to an upset property owner. Like an arrogant ruler to a subject; not an employee to his boss who pays his salary.
Note that NO WHERE ELSE in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzeeare property owners denied access. Not Ac. Not LBI. Nowhere.
And, in my neighbor's email, she cites that they haven't been able to control looting. People are stealing boats in Toms River to go over and loot from the devastation.
I always knew that the Gooferment was oppressive. This time its boot came down a little too hard and a little too obvious.
When my 65th birthday came and went, I figured out that I could then sign up for the Free State Project. I did; now I'm really glad I did.
"Live free or die",
p.s.: I'll be opening up "email@example.com" to receive abuse and "I told you so's"! Argh!
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Are the DLC packages worth it in this game for the added stories/maps/chars? $6.50 seems a little steep for me (after recently purchasing Pokemon X&Y) so I'm playing conservative with my gaming budget at this point. I'm currently somewhere between ch. 20 & 21 so I know I don't have too many chapters left.
Wow thanks for the well-thought out post Aeolus. I think I'll definitely start with the Future Past pack since I do enjoy the kid supporting characters of the main cast -- then look at the other two you recommended. Funny, totally unrelated but when I read "Future Past" I immediately thought of the X-Men movie coming out later this year.
That may have been intentional on the part of the localizers (well not the movie per say, but perhaps the story arc the movie is based upon).


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From PetaPixel, The One-Gig Card Challenge:Originally Posted by Bruce Barnbaum
Somebody besides Bruce has noticed a problem.Originally Posted by Derek Shapton
LA Times: Movie Studios Are Forcing Hollywood to Abandon 35mm Film. But the Consequences of Going Digital Are Vast, and TroublingOriginally Posted by Bruce Barnbaum
Once again, somebody else has noted what Bruce observed.And even after the films are converted to digital, Jan-Christopher Horak, director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, calls the challenges of preserving them "monumental." Digital is lousy for long-term storage.
The main problem is format obsolescence. File formats can go obsolete in a matter of months. On this subject, Horak's every sentence requires an exclamation mark. "In the last 10 years of digitality, we've gone through 20 formats!" he says. "Every 18 months we're getting a new format!"
So every two years, data must be transferred, or "migrated," to a new device. If that doesn't happen, the data may never being accessible again. Technology can advance too far ahead.
LA Times:Originally Posted by Bruce Barnbaum
And yet another example of, yes, other seeing what Bruce has seen.The new format is called a DCP, or Digital Cinema Package. It is a virtual format, a collection of files stored on a hard drive. Roughly the size of a paperback novel, the hard drive is mailed in a lightweight, foam-lined plastic case to the theater, where it's inserted (or, in the lingo, "ingested") into a server that runs the digital projector. DCPs won't run on traditional film projectors, however. So if they want to play the new format, theater owners must update their equipment.
For this privilege, exhibitors can expect to shell out from $70,000 to $150,000 per screen.
Now, is Bruce really that far off base? He does state quite directly in his article, "I feel digital approaches are perfectly legitimate and wonderful." He has simply noted recurring problems with the digital process. Nothing more, nothing less.
"It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long." - Walker Evans
But my point wasn't that nobody would keep it going, but that Mr. Barnbaum would not be able to continue to extract prints from his negatives, including making new negatives, as conveniently as he has done in the past. This undermines his argument, it seems to me. The result is that he might have to make his own materials, or buy very expensive and inconsistent small-batch materials. These will necessarily affect his product and the time required to produce it, even the he presents it as a trustworthy constant. And the dimensions of digital photography are also dynamic.
Most of us will, at some point, have to come to terms with this. Right now, it isn't easy--the alternatives to the quality and control we have using sheet film (however we print it) are still quite expensive, prohibitively for some, in dollars and relearning time. I think this was motivating Mr. Barnbaum to make a statement.
Two things seem likely to me: 1.) Digital methods will get cheaper and better. I'm not sure they'll get better in the ways we want them to (big, affordable capture systems), but they will improve.
2.) The value of quality will go down, as the commercial clientele loses interest in it. Slick catalogs give way to web pages, etc. I think we will always stand for quality even if nobody appreciates it but us, but we may lose sufficient critical mass to sustain the required support industry.
Those who revere image detail and tonal depth in large prints are going to be faced with some hard choices, eventually. There are things to be afraid of: becoming irrelevant (maybe many of us don't care), not being able to afford the new technologies for a significant period of time after the old technologies lose viability in the market, or losing the value of the investment many of us have made in equipment and technique.
These things scare me, or more accurately, they depress me--several of the avocations I look forward to in retirement in 15 or 20 years are likely not to survive that long. I've spent decades (slowly) building proficiency--who wouldn't be a little depressed at having to start over?
So, we have divided into camps: those who hold on and those who throw away. The camps are often at war, but the fact is that most of us here are in both camps, if we are young enough to outlive what the holders are holding onto, yet old enough to have too much invested in what the throwers are more willing to abandon.
Surely there is a way to explore the transition without the bloodshed.
Rick "not ignoring the future" Denney
What does DCP, and its effect on costs of storing cinematic content, have to do with the cost of storing digital still photography images? Again, there aren't any digital file formats disappearing or anyone being forced to convert formats. Also, compare the cost of storing film in file cabinets, hanging systems, archival sleeves, cost of floor space, cost of climate control to the cost of replacing a hard drive every 2 or 3 years. Hard drives are ever decreasing in cost per byte, take a fraction of the floor space, can be stored in normal climatic conditions, and first generation copies can be stored in multiple locations thereby decreasing the risk of loss.
Regarding shotgun shooting, you could have made the same argument when roll film came out - I saw the exact same behavior in 35mm film photographers before digital ever became mainstream. You can also expect that people who use shotgun tactics are unlikely to improve as photographers regardless of whether they use digital or film. If someone lacks discipline and the motivation to learn how to see, then putting a film camera in their hands will not make things better. You can also make the argument that using the immediate feedback of digital allows for people (who are inclined to learn) to learn faster than with film, and become better photographers in less time. Using the anecdotal evidence of one photographer does not build a strong case. The better comparison would be to look a large population of serious new photographers, and see if there is any difference on their growth. Who cares about the hordes of snap shooters snapping away.
From cave paintings to canvas paintings, we gained some and lost some.
From canvas to photographs, we gained some and lost some.
From analog to digital, it's the same.
It's a zero-sum game.


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In the leather satchel:
uncommon,weapon (6): a drake dagger, a drake greatsword, a drakar-veined eonake lance, a leather-bound thick rowan runestaff, a steel-capped mossbark runestaff, a coppery brown mossbark runestaff.
box (32): a battered steel box, a shifting modwir box, a shifting tanik box, a sturdy mithril box, a shifting wooden chest, a scratched thanot chest, a shifting monir chest (2), a sturdy gold chest, a corroded gold chest, a corroded iron chest, a shifting silver coffer (3), a shifting thanot coffer (2), a shifting brass coffer (2), a shifting maoral coffer, a shifting fel coffer (2), a shifting monir coffer, a shifting gold coffer, a shifting haon coffer, a shifting gold strongbox, a shifting iron strongbox, a shifting steel strongbox, a plain maoral strongbox, a shifting steel trunk, an engraved tanik trunk, a shifting brass trunk (2).
32 boxes in one hunt.
Major loot boost and sign of wracking were used


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The Burger Bar at Mandalay Place is fun. The place is mobbed, but the tables turn quickly. It is owned by Hubert Keller – Fleurs de Lys San Francisco and Las Vegas.
Essentially you build your own burger – choosing what toppings you want from a huge list of options and what type of bread.
We started with an order of onion rings with 2 sauces – one barbecue and the other more or less a take on ranch dressing.
My husband had the Black Angus Beef with Cheddar, Bacon and a Fried Egg on a Ciabatta Roll.
I had the Snake River American Kobe with Oyster Mushrooms, Caramelized Onions, and Cheddar on a Ciabatta Roll.
There was too much roll vis a vis the beef and we both ended up eating the burger as an open-faced sandwich.
Sweet Potato Fries rounded out the meal.
A fun place with tasty food.


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It's actually happening--they're actually moving forward in the "Bourne" universe without Jason Bourne himself, Matt Damon.
Tony Gilroy, writer of the three previous "Bourne" films, has written a spin-off, "The Bourne Legacy," featuring a different hero, which he will also be directing. And now the search has begun for the film's lead.
Joel Edgerton, Josh Hartnett, Kellan Lutz, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire, Paul Dano, Michael Pitt, Oscar Isaac, Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Luke Evans, Alex Pettyfer, Taylor Kitsch, Benjamin Walker are on the "short list" of actors that Gilroy is considering, reported Deadline and Variety.The list is expected to be trimmed in short order.
U.S. & World
The day's top national and international news.
Gilroy is obviously a talented writer, and he did a great job directing "Michael Clayton," and even "Duplicity" was better than most of us remember it. If they're determined to continue the Bourne franchise without Damon, it's at least in the hands of the right guy, but we're still not happy.
Without getting into their schedules/availability, let's break each of the candidates down in 5 words or less:
Joel Edgerton: Great choice
Josh Hartnett: No
Jake Gyllenhaal: Good in "Source Code," maybe
Tobey Maguire: Already helped kill one franchise
Paul Dano: Love him, can't see it
Michael Pitt: Too pretty
Oscar Isaac: Never happen
Garrett Hedlund: Only if "Tron" dies
Michael Fassbender: Hell to the yes
Luke Evans: Interesting...
Alex Pettyfer: We'd prefer Hartnett
Taylor Kitsch: You sank my Battleship!
Benjamin Walker: Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Kellan Lutz: Can he act?


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Medical information
As soon as you have completed online enrolment, please ensure that you complete/update the online medical questionnaire. You will find the questionnaire at: https://s3.plymouth.ac.uk/s3 . Alternatively, you can scroll down on the induction web page where you will see a link for the Medical Questionnaire (You must complete online enrolment first). You may have previously completed the questionnaire but must still open and save this even if there are no changes. Opening and saving the questionnaire will be date stamped and we will know that your information is up-to-date. This will be checked by a member of the administrative team and if information is not updated you will be refused entry to laboratories and refused attendance on any fieldwork. The information is required solely to enable organisers of field courses, lab work and other activities you may undertake to be alerted to any special requirements or precautions which may be necessary.
Friday 20 September 2019
12.00 – 13.00 Stage 4 Meeting – Room 103, Marine Building
Graham Adnitt
This meeting is a very important one and all returning students should attend.
The session will be led by Mr Graham Adnitt, who will give details of the topics you may cover in the final year of the programme. It will also be used to make important announcements about any changes to University processes and procedures in 2019/20.


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TO the small group of photography experts aware of its existence, it was known simply as "the Mexican suitcase." And in the pantheon of lost modern cultural treasures, it was surrounded by the same mythical aura as Hemingway's early manuscripts, which vanished from a train station in 1922.
The suitcase actually three flimsy cardboard valises contained thousands of negatives of pictures that Robert Capa, one of the pioneers of modern war photography, took during the Spanish Civil War before he fled Europe for America in 1939, leaving behind the contents of his Paris darkroom.
Capa assumed that the work had been lost during the Nazi invasion, and he died in 1954 on assignment in Vietnam still thinking so. But in 1995 word began to spread that the negatives had somehow survived, after taking a journey worthy of a John le Carré novel: Paris to Marseille and then, in the hands of a Mexican general and diplomat who had served under Pancho Villa, to Mexico City.
And that is where they remained hidden for more than half a century until last month, when they made what will most likely be their final trip, to the International Center of Photography in Midtown Manhattan, founded by Robert Capa's brother, Cornell. After years of quiet, fitful negotiations over what should be their proper home, legal title to the negatives was recently transferred to the Capa estate by descendants of the general, including a Mexican filmmaker who first saw them in the 1990s and soon realized the historical importance of what his family had.
"This really is the holy grail of Capa work," said Brian Wallis, the center's chief curator, who added that besides the Capa negatives, the cracked, dust-covered boxes had also been found to contain Spanish Civil War images by Gerda Taro, Robert Capa's partner professionally and at one time personally, and by David Seymour, known as Chim, who went on to found the influential Magnum photo agency with Capa.
The discovery has sent shock waves through the photography world, not least because it is hoped that the negatives could settle once and for all a question that has dogged Capa's legacy: whether what may be his most famous picture and one of the most famous war photographs of all time was staged. Known as "The Falling Soldier," it shows a Spanish Republican militiaman reeling backward at what appears to be the instant a bullet strikes his chest or head on a hillside near Córdoba in 1936. When the picture was first published in the French magazine Vu, it created a sensation and helped crystallize support for the Republican cause.
Though the Capa biographer Richard Whelan made a persuasive case that the photograph was not faked, doubts have persisted. In part this is because Capa and Taro made no pretense of journalistic detachment during the war they were Communist partisans of the loyalist cause and were known to photograph staged maneuvers, a common practice at the time. A negative of the shot has never been found (it has long been reproduced from a vintage print), and the discovery of one, especially in the original sequence showing all the images taken before and after the shot, could end the debate.
But the discovery is being hailed as a huge event for more than forensic reasons. This is the formative work of a photographer who, in a century defined by warfare, played a pivotal role in defining how war was seen, bringing its horrors nearer than ever "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough" was his mantra yet in the process rendering it more cinematic and unreal. (Capa, not surprisingly, later served a stint in Hollywood, befriending directors like Howard Hawks and romancing Ingrid Bergman.)
Capa practically invented the image of the globe-trotting war photographer, with a cigarette appended to the corner of his mouth and cameras slung over his fatigues. His fearlessness awed even his soldier subjects, and between battles he hung out with Hemingway and Steinbeck and usually drank too much, seeming to pull everything off with panache. William Saroyan wrote that he thought of Capa as "a poker player whose sideline was picture-taking."
In a Warholian way that seems only to increase his contemporary allure, he also more or less invented himself. Born Endre Friedmann in Hungary, he and Taro, whom he met in Paris, cooked up the persona of Robert Capa they billed him as "a famous American photographer" to help them get assignments. He then proceeded to embody the fiction and make it true. (Taro, a German whose real name was Gerta Pohorylle, died in Spain in 1937 in a tank accident while taking pictures.)
Curators at the International Center of Photography, who have begun a months-long effort to conserve and catalog the newly discovered work, say the full story of how the negatives, some 3,500 of them, made their way to Mexico may never be known.
In 1995 Jerald R. Green, a professor at Queens College, part of the City University of New York, received a letter from a Mexico City filmmaker who had just seen an exhibition of Spanish Civil War photographs sponsored in part by the college. He wrote that he had recently come into possession of an archive of nitrate negatives that had been his aunt's, inherited from her father, Gen. Francisco Aguilar Gonzalez, who died in 1967. The general had been stationed as a diplomat in the late 1930s in Marseille, where the Mexican government, a supporter of the Republican cause, had begun helping antifascist refugees from Spain immigrate to Mexico.
From what experts have been able to piece together from archives and the research of Mr. Whelan, the biographer (who died last year), Capa apparently asked his darkroom manager, a Hungarian friend and photographer named Imre Weisz, known as Cziki, to save his negatives in 1939 or 1940, when Capa was in New York and feared his work would be destroyed.
Mr. Weisz is believed to have taken the valises to Marseille, but was arrested and sent to an internment camp in Algiers. At some point the negatives ended up with General Aguilar Gonzalez, who carried them to Mexico, where he died in 1967. It is unclear whether the general knew who had taken the pictures or what they showed; but if he did, he appears never to have tried to contact Capa or Mr. Weisz, who coincidentally ended up living the rest of his life in Mexico City, where he married the Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington. (Mr. Weisz died recently, in his 90s; Mr. Whelan interviewed him for his 1985 biography of Capa but did not elicit any information about the lost negatives.)
"It does seem strange in retrospect that there weren't more efforts to locate these things," Mr. Wallis said. "But I think they just gave them up. They were lost in the war, like so many things."
When the photography center learned that the work might exist, it contacted the Mexican filmmaker and requested their return. But letters and phone conversations ended with no commitments, said Phillip S. Block, the center's deputy director for programs, who added that he and others were not even sure at the beginning if the filmmaker's claims were true, because no one had been shown the negatives. (Saying that the return of the negatives was a collective decision of the Aguilar Gonzalez family, the filmmaker asked not to be identified in this article and declined to be interviewed for it.)
Meetings with the man were scheduled, but he would fail to appear. "And then communications broke off completely for who knows what reason," Mr. Block said. Efforts were made from time to time, unsuccessfully, to re-establish contact. But when the center began to organize new shows of Capa and Taro's war photography, which opened last September, it decided to try again, hoping that images from the early negatives could be incorporated into the shows.
"He was never seeking money," Mr. Wallis said of the filmmaker. "He just seemed to really want to make sure that these went to the right place."
Frustrated, the center enlisted the help of a curator and scholar, Trisha Ziff, who has lived in Mexico City for many years. After working for weeks simply to track down the reclusive man, she began what turned out to be almost a year of discussions about the negatives.
"It wasn't that he couldn't let go of this," said Ms. Ziff, interviewed by phone from Los Angeles, where she is completing a documentary about the widely reproduced image of Che Guevara based on a photograph by Alberto Korda.
"I think it was that no one before me had thought this through in the way that something this sensitive needs to be thought through," she said. The filmmaker worried in part that people in Mexico might be critical of the negatives' departure to the United States, regarding the images as part of their country's deep historical connection to the Spanish Civil War. "One had to respect and honor the dilemma he was in," she said.
In the end Ms. Ziff persuaded him to relinquish the work "I suppose one could describe me as tenacious," she said while also securing a promise from the photography center to allow the filmmaker to use Capa images for a documentary he would like to make about the survival of the negatives, their journey to Mexico and his family's role in saving them.
"I see him quite regularly," Ms. Ziff said, "and I think he feels at peace about this now."
In December, after two earlier good-faith deliveries of small numbers of negatives, the filmmaker finally handed Ms. Ziff the bulk of the work, and she carried it on a flight to New York herself.
"I wasn't going to put it in a FedEx box," she said.
"When I got these boxes it almost felt like they were vibrating in my hands," she added. "That was the most amazing part for me."
Mr. Wallis said that while conservation experts from the George Eastman House in Rochester are only now beginning to assess the condition of the film, it appears to be remarkably good for 70-year-old nitrate stock stored in what essentially looks like confectionery boxes.
"They seem like they were made yesterday," he said. "They're not brittle at all. They're very fresh. We've sort of gingerly peeked at some of them just to get a sense of what's on each roll."
And discoveries have already been made from the boxes one red, one green and one beige whose contents appear to have been carefully labeled in hand-drawn grids made by Mr. Weisz or another studio assistant. Researchers have come across pictures of Hemingway and of Federico García Lorca.
The negative for one of Chim's most famous Spanish Civil War photographs, showing a woman cradling a baby at her breast as she gazes up toward the speaker at a mass outdoor meeting in 1936, has also been found. "We were astonished to see it," Mr. Wallis said. (The photograph, often seen as showing the woman worriedly scanning the skies for bombers, was mentioned by Susan Sontag in "Regarding the Pain of Others," her 2003 reconsideration of ideas from her well-known treatise "On Photography," a critical examination of images of war and suffering.)
The research could bring about a reassessment of the obscure career of Taro, one of the first female war photographers, and could lead to the determination that some pictures attributed to Capa are actually by her. The two worked closely together and labeled some of their early work with joint credit lines, sometimes making it difficult to establish authorship conclusively, Mr. Wallis said. He added that there was even a remote possibility that "The Falling Soldier" could be by Taro and not Capa.
"That's another theory that's been floated," he said. "We just don't know. To me that's what's so exciting about this material. There are so many questions and so many questions not even yet posed that they may answer."
Ultimately, Mr. Wallis said, the discovery is momentous because it is the raw material from the birth of modern war photography itself.
"Capa established a mode and the method of depicting war in these photographs, of the photographer not being an observer but being in the battle, and that became the standard that audiences and editors from then on demanded," he said. "Anything else, and it looked like you were just sitting on the sidelines. And that visual revolution he embodied took place right here, in these early pictures."


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Maybe you are (or were) the star of a college radio show, or maybe you just like music a lot. And maybe you'd like to hear a lot of it live in a few dense days together. We might be able to help you out.
This year's CMJ Music Marathon is taking place in New York Oct. 20-24, in dozens of venues across the city, and The A.V. Club New York is giving away two badges to the whole thing. That means open access to clubs, panel discussions, screenings, and more shows than you could possibly attend, including some from the likes of Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Antlers, Pig Destroyer, Múm, Suckers, and loads more. Take a look at the current line-up, as it stands so far, here.
Now for the contest: If you want to win a badge, we'll need your best concert story. Doesn't matter when and where the concert took place, but if you want to take on the challenge—nay, the marathon—that is CMJ, we want to make sure you're up for it. Give us something from your own working version of Fargo Rock City or that first scene in Almost Famous when the kid waits to rock outside the arena.
Send your tale by e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com, with "CMJ Music Marathon" in the subject line and your full name and phone number in the body, by Friday Oct. 2 at 4 p.m. EST, and we'll pick the winner. Try to keep your story under 400 words. That should be enough for now.
Best of luck!


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Thats all I can say; and this is coming from someone who doesn't like the Yankees & an average @ best hockey fan but I do pull for the Rangers & enjoy hockey as a sport during the playoffs but for some reason... Could never play it, could never like it & could never enjoy being down 2 goals in the 1st with no hope as a fan.
At least the Rangers & Yankees have gave the NY sports world life or we'd be like the city of Cleveland which is sad. I'm 25 & never experienced my 3 teams win a championship. Knicks, Jets & Rays always come up just short or disaster seasons. I've seen the Jets lose 3 AFC Championship games against Denver in 98 & consecutive AFCCG loses to the Colts & Steelers. We lost to the Colts last year & beat NE & INDY this year & lose to PITT? Cursed. Seen the Knicks lose to Houston in 94 & Spurs in 99; UGHH. Sad.
Being a die hard sports fan hurts, but I guess it's part of being a man if you've loved sports since your childhood days. @ least some of you guys have enjoyed championships. I haven't.


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mod_hive comes with 5 options to make its deployment easier and to give more flexibility to its users:
- MaxLoadLimit
- DisableChroot
- DisableStats
- DisableLimits
- DisableSymlinkProtection
Maximum Load Limit
The Maximum Load Limit for the server is defined in the /usr/local/apache/conf/includes/1h.conf file.
For example:
<IfModule mod_hive.c> MaxLoadLimit 30.0 </IfModule>
The purpose of this option is to prevent execution of dynamic content when the average server load is too high. This way you are preventing server overloads.
Important: You can change this value according to your needs. However, please note that it is of utmost importance to not set the value too low. Otherwise you are risking to render websites on the server inaccessible. This value is low enough and it is advisable to consider only increasing it in case a server is temporarily keeping too high load and not lowering below the default value at any circumstances.
Disable chroot
In some cases, there are virtual hosts that are used for administrative purposes. These vhosts have to have access to the whole filesystem on the server. In order to achieve this, we have added the DisableChroot option, which can be used per vhost or for the whole server, to disable the chrooting of the executed scripts.
Here is an example:
<IfModule mod_hive.c> DisableChroot </IfModule>
Important: We do not advise you to disable the chrooting of Hive for the whole server. This option was introduced only to address the need to disable the chroot for a specific virtual hosts.
Disable statistics
There are situations where you have an internal/management virtual host which is accessed by all of your customers on the machine. Since this is a management vhost you don't want it to be affected by the Auto actions functionality of Hive. In order to achieve this you can simply disable the collection of statistics for that vhost.
Here is an example:
<IfModule mod_hive.c> DisableStats </IfModule>
You can also use this option for disabling the collection of statistics for the whole server, if you add the option to the global configuration section of your httpd.conf
Important: This option disables all statistics(CPU, Memory and I/O).
Disable user limitations
There are situations where you may want to disable the limitations for a single vhost or for the whole server.
Mod_hive offers a way to disable them by adding one simple option(DisableLimits) to the virtual host or in the general configuration of the server.
Here is an example:
<IfModule mod_hive.c> DisableLimits </IfModule>
Disable the symlink protection
When found in the httpd.conf file, this option disables the buildin symlink protection. This option can be used per vhost or for the whole server.
Here is an example:
<IfModule mod_hive.c> DisableSymlinkProtection </IfModule>
The symlink protection is actually a very simple check. If the file that is about to be accessed is a symbolic link, mod_hive checks if the destination file of this link is owned by the same user that owns the symbolic link. If they differ, it prevents the access to the file and returns Error 403: Forbidden.


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Nice to meet you, O Beautiful Not-Concrete-Or-Vinyl Floor. And hello to you swell people. I've been blogging less lately for a number of reasons:
- Mostly everything I'm presently (ha ha) making can't be shared because it will spoil the surprise for the giftees. I am making some sharable things, but gifts take precedence.
- I've been having a bit of a row with my new Mac Mini (now fixed, thanks Schmoopie dear), but now my elderly G5 looks like it might be tanking before I have transferred everything over. I think it might be angry with me.
- I've been on a little trip. I went to visit my BFF in Mandeville. I crashed her lovely Christmas ornament craft party and hung out with her. And I forgot to take pictures. So you'll have to use your imagination to see her beautiful home and Christmas decor. Make it really stunning, with handmade tree skirt and lovely woodland ornaments.
Back to the new kitchen floor. Oh, how I love it. My ever handy husband and my wonderful brother-in-law (we owe you BIG, Robby) installed it while I was away. We still need to put down the quarter round and finish the edges near the carpets, but we are getting close. Then hopefully we can get the trim work done under our countertops and the big stuff will be done.
I just received my timely January issue of Living that focuses on kitchen redos. I have a Pinterest board for my kitchen decor ideas, if you are interested in that sort of thing. Part of my Pinterest board has actually come to life:
This picture is for you, Robyn. Thank you soooo much for Mr. Winky on the left there. This row of owls brings some color onto the countertops and just makes me so happy every time I go through the kitchen. My kids have pronounced them way cooler that the previous boring non-avian canisters. I have had to school them on the proper way to open the middle owl cookie jar (Use Both Hands. Do Not Bang The Lid On The Granite. If You Chip My Owl I Might Have To Sell You To A Workhouse.) That sort of thing. I'm sure you do the same for your kids.