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Volti is a GTK+ application for controlling audio volume from the system
tray/notification area. It supports ALSA, multimedia keys on the keyboard,
and desktop notifications on keys events.
This requires pyalsaaudio.
Maintained by: Steve Kennedy
Keywords: applet alsa volume control
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Ford Earnings Signal Car Maker's Transformation
Ford's strong second-quarter results illustrate the once-stricken auto maker's transformation into a growth company. Mike Ramsey looks at what's driving Ford's surprising top-line growth. Photo: Ford.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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With the average cost of a new vehicle now around $30,000, it�s no surprise that car loans are getting longer and longer, notes Consumer Reports Money Adviser. Some banks offer car loans with payback terms that run for as long as eight years. While long-term loans translate into lower monthly payments, they can cost you more in several other ways.
A longer loan means higher interest costs. That�s because you�re making payments for a longer period of time, and longer loans often have higher rates.
To find out how much more you might pay, the Money Lab calculated the difference between 48-month and 72-month loans on a $32,765 car, with a negotiated price of $30,520. The longer loan will cost you about $1,600 more, assuming a 10 percent down payment. If you put 0 percent down, the difference climbs to more than $1,800.
And longer-term loans are more risky. That�s because cars depreciate over time, with the quickest loss in the early months.
Another way people lower their monthly payments is by leasing. But if you think that makes leasing less costly, Consumer Reports Money Adviser suggests that you think again. The first thing you should understand about leases is that whether you acquire the vehicle with a loan or a lease, you�re borrowing the entire value of the vehicle, minus any down payment or trade-in. And you�ll be charged monthly interest on that amount reduced by what you pay back along the way. There�s the rub.
With leasing, instead of paying off the entire car, your payments are based on only the projected depreciation. That�s because, unlike with a loan, you�re not building equity in the vehicle, which you must return when the lease is over.
When bargaining over a new car, concentrate on the vehicle price, not the monthly payment. And don�t let the dealer sneak any add-ons into the contract. Concentrating on the price saves you money and shortens the upside-down period, since a lower price means having to borrow less to start with.
One way to make sure you won�t get distracted by monthly payments or anything else is to find out how much car you can afford before going to a dealership. You can do that by using an online loan calculator, such as the one you�ll find at Bankrate.com. (Click on �Calculators� at the top of the page.)
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�Amount borrowed. Figure out how much cash you can put down and, if you have one, the value of your trade-in. Of course, the larger your down payment, the better off you�ll be. You can research car prices and trade-in values in the Consumer Reports annual car issue each April and by going to such websites as ConsumerReports.org, Edmunds.com and KBB.com.
�Current loan rates. You can get current loan rates at Bankrate.com or by going to the websites of banks and credit unions or online banks such as Ally. The best rates are reserved for those with good credit scores. If you�re in doubt about yours, try prequalifying for a loan by contacting one or more lenders.
�Loan term. You might want to try entering different terms and variables into the auto-loan calculator you�re using to find out what the monthly payments will be and whether it fits into your budget. If you can�t afford to buy the vehicle without taking out a loan that�s longer than 48 months, you probably should consider purchasing a less expensive model.
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The maps
The maps
In several central bookshops and design stores of NY, maps have been displayed, similar to those you can find in the New York City Notebook. Everyone was invited to draw or write on these maps, highlighting their favourite discoveries and itineraries, conveying their unique vision of the urban experience.
From June1 to June 17, 2007 at Barnes & Noble, The Conran Shop, Dick Blick Art Materials, Flight001, Labyrinth Books, McNally Robinson, MoMA Design Store.


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schulty needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 74 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Someone else once said...
"I would like a creative, professional yet simple logo design for our software marketing company. Logo must be easy to use on any and all advertising, T-shirt, embroidery, website, etc. and something that may become an internationally recognized icon."
Yeah, what he said, except for the software marketing bit :)
Lunar Unit
We are a small outfit of really cool Rubyists doing web work. I am a big fan of the space program and astronomy, hence the name. I whipped up an example with a look that I like, of course I expect a real designer will quickly eclipse me. I cannot use this because the image is copyrighted.
Obviously not too creative, but what the heck, we write software :) I do like the font, and the lunar lander idea is kind of cool, but certainly there is room for other ideas... The fonts are called Space and Astronomy and APHont.
I had an idea for a tag line that read:
"Don't tell us the sky's the limit, there are footprints on the moon!"
Of course I saw how fricking lengthy it was and moved on. We might still use it somewhere else on our site, but for logos? Yeah, not so much. Anyhow, you probably get the idea of what we are trying to convey. I have high hopes and high expectations ;)
- graphic: moon, lunar lander, man on moon, first steps on moon, etc...
- colors: blues, grays, heck I don't have too much of a preference, I'll tell you if I don't like them :)
- format: winning artwork needs to be provided as a PSD
- too many colors, unless they are integral to details in the graphic
- stars
- stock graphics
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Before & After: Chris' Timeless Not Trendy Remodel
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- Name:
- Chris
- Location:
- Longmont, CO
- Division:
- United States
- About my kitchen reveal:
- The house is a 1949 ranch and the cabinetry in the before photos are original. I designed the new kitchen myself. The kitchen was very dark with only one overhead light and the window above the sink and had awkward storage with many cabinets too high for me to reach. The work triangle was efficient so I kept all the appliances in the same place which saved money. We removed the wall between the kitchen and the laundry room and also removed a walk-in pantry. With the wall gone, light now pours in from two windows and the back door. I ran cabinetry down the entire length of the "refrigerator wall" with pantries and a long stretch of counter for baking.
The goal was to create a timeless look with few trendy finishes. I wanted the space to look like it had been built that way back in 1949. But, the entire crew, and myself, remained flexible and the job got done on time. I learned to pick my battles — I was not going to give up my quartz counters or 5-burner stove!
- My best tip for a successful kitchen makeover::
- This will come as no shock to anyone having done a reno... stay flexible and keep that contingency fund handy. I remodeled the only bathroom at the same time so I didn't live in the house. I wish I was able to stop by the house more often to prevent little bouts of miscommunication.
- My favorite meal to cook in my kitchen::
- As a high-altitude cookbook author, let me make cake. Chocolate please!


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MW: Treasury notes draw âsafetyâ buying after U.S. airstrikes, pushing yields to November levels
Yields on the 10-year U.S. Treasury fell Friday to their lowest point since November, moving opposite of prices as investors fled riskier assets to haven investments in the wake of U.S. airstrikes on a Syrian airbase.
Yields for 10-year notes TMUBMUSD10Y, -0.84% moved down to 2.322% from 2.341% late Thursday. Yields fell as low as 2.289% on Friday, the lowest since November, in the wake of reports about the U.S. airstrikes in Syria.
Treasury yields for 2-year notes TMUBMUSD02Y, +0.64% were nearly flat at 1.246%, after touching a two-week low of 1.218% on Thursday. Yields for the 30-year bond TMUBMUSD30Y, -0.76% fell to 2.972% from 2.988% Thursday.
Bond prices and yields are inversely related, and one basis point is equal to one hundredth of a percentage point.
U.S. stocks were expected lower based on futures trading.
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the strikes late Thursday against the base controlled by Syrian President Bashar al-Assadâs forces in retaliation for a chemical attack, believed launched from the base on Tuesday that killed at least 70 people. Syria has been locked in a six-year civil war and the strike marks Trumpâs biggest foreign policy crisis of his young administration.
While U.S. allies including the U.K., Australia and Saudi Arabia, as well as Syriaâs opposition group, welcomed the move, Russia and Iran condemned the U.S. action.
The strike also comes at a time when Trump is holding diplomatic talks with China. Yields were already heading mostly lower late this week ahead of meetings between Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, which could set the tone for relations between the worldâs largest economies.
The important two-day summit continues Friday. Itâs set at Trumpâs Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and comes amid tough rhetoric on China from the U.S. president, which has helped to escalate fears of a possible trade war with Asia. Trump has accused China of manipulating the yuan CNYUSD, +0.0014% lower to give it an unfair edge to Chinese exporters. He has threatened to levy a 45% tax on imports from China.
Jobs on deck: Financial markets are also awaiting the Labor Departmentâs monthly employment report released Friday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern and its implications for the pace of what are expected to be additional Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes this year. Bonds continue to be tugged by expectations for higher short-term interest rates via the Fed, renewed demand for âsafetyâ amid geopolitical tension and uncertainty around President Trumpâs economic-growth plans, factors that have driven prices up and yields lower.
Fridayâs job report will follow strong readings in a private-sector hiring report midweek and a sharp drop in weekly jobless benefits claims reported Thursday. But the governmentâs snapshot may reflect some weather issues.
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Scanner Camera
aus Metalab, dem offenen Zentrum für meta-disziplinäre Magier und technisch-kreative Enthusiasten.
| Tessellated writes: "Scanner photography flashes(pun intended :) me since years. By building a photocamera with an old flatbed scanner and a photographic lens you may gain truly awesome pictures!!! For example I've seen the result where someone exposed such a beast to a band performing on stage, visualizing the vibes of the bass line.
Now that I have the ideal environment for tinkering at the Metalab I'd like to build one by myself and would very much welcome others to join me for this project.
The idea isn't new, one can quickly get the simple designs running. Almost immediate fun – and with the experience of the lab crowd the project may even advance technologically with more sophisticated hard- and software."
Project start:
first half of January 2011
"time is fleeting; madness takes it's toll"
Tue, Feb 8 2011
Tuesday, February 8th, 19:00, Metalab - first meeting ('neihacken)
- http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html
- http://home.roadrunner.com/~maccody/robotics/PanoramaScanCam/
- MAKE weekend project: Turn a Flatbed Scanner Into a Giant Camera
- How To Make a Scanner Camera
- http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2009-06/old-flatbed-scanner-50mm-lens-amazing-130-megapixel-scancam
Camera obscura
let's participate: Pinhole Day
- A pinhole. We've got an endless supply already!
- TomK32 has got some lenses from the 80ies
- Andreas Faerber is ready to donate one scanner by the end of January! Multiple thanks in advance :)
- Peter brought a "CanoScan LiDE 50" to dabble with! (which unfortunatetly seems to be broken for the time being, needs to be tested with another OS than Ubuntu 10.10, perhaps an Apple or a Windows box)
- ...
- Does anybody else have an unused flatbed scanner sitting around and is willing to donate for a good cause? (SANE-supported devices preferred, Supported Devices)
I'm interested
- Tessellated
- Carmen
- Chrisie
- Kathie
- ...
- maybe you?
Further information?
msg me: Tessellated: awarewater (at) gmail (dot) com


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Come one and all! Not to be missed!
The second evening to our reincarnation weekend is when we drop the black curtains and launch the all new Tattoo Theatre area of our space. Not only is this another chance to take in the art of Chet Zar and Craig Larotonda, but on this special night you can truly soak in the entire Last Rites experience…
And to really bring it home, appearing on our new performance stage, we have two of our favorite partners in crime making a special appearance: Jamie Kilstein, our favorite stand up comedian (you may have seen him on Conan O'Brien) and totally uncensored! And making a special trip all the way from Budapest, Attila Csihar, vocalist from the infamous band Mayhem, presenting his solo dark ambient project VOID OV VOICES. Together, these two artists truly represent the driving force of Last Rites philosophy. Along with a strolling funerary violinist. You truly DO NOT want to miss this!
But wait! We have yet one more special offering to complete our weekend! Sunday brings a great time to wind things down as we bring great painterly talent together from our family of artists to paint live at Last Rites. This is a great opportunity to witness these masters bring their stunning creations to life right before your eyes. Feel free to mingle and soak in an immense degree of creative energy and artistic inspiration.
Artists for Sunday's live painting event include:
include Shawn Barber, Kim Saigh, Chet Zar, Genevive Zacconi, Angie Mason, Fred Harper, Billy Norrby, Matt Rota, Martin Wittfooth, Paul Booth, The ArtFusion Experiment & more!
Events Schedule Below:
Friday July 22nd:
Last Rites Gallery Opening Reception:
Chet Zar and Craig Larotonda
Doors open 7pm until 11pm
No cover
Refreshments served
Saturday July 23rd:
The unveiling of the all new Tattoo Theatre
Doors open 7pm until real late!
$10 cover charge after 10pm
18 and over
Refreshments served
MC'd by our very own abomination… MINIcHRIST
Piles of cool give-aways and prizes from our awesome sponsors!
Schedule for evening's main events:
8pm – The unveiling ceremony of the new Last Rites Tattoo Theatre
10:30pm – Jamie Kilstein
Midnight – Attila Csihar / Void Ov Voices
Sunday July 24th
The Painting Lounge
Doors open 3pm until 11pm
No Cover
Refreshments served
So there you have it kids!
We know its a big weekend but be assured, if you appreciate the Last Rites
Aesthetic and the Dark Art Genres it is dedicated to. You surely will not be
We truly hope to see you all here! If you want to send someone to cover the event please contact me for press passes.
Brian Lima
Director of Apparitions
Last Rites Art Gallery & Tattoo Theatre
511 W. 33rd Street
New York City, NY 10001
Biz – 212-529-0666
Cell – 702-885-8659


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Why Palestine Feels Neglected by the Arab World
Monday, August 01, 2016
Egypt and other Arab states are finding that they share common ground with Israel. But as their relationship grows, the alliance between the Arab world and Palestine is shaken.
End of War: Peace Edition
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Live from WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. Watch the video here.
To wrap up the End of War project, we have a wide-ranging discussion about how we can accomplish peace. Conversations include:
The Veteran's Perspective
- Sead Suvalic, Bosnian refugee and Program Officer, U.S. Programs, International Rescue Committee
- Andrew S. Roberts, Iraq war veteran and director of Military and Veterans Liaison Services at North Shore LIJ
- Carl Callender, a program director at Black Veterans for Social Justice and an Iraq war veteran
Why Not A Department of Peace?
- Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Congressman (D-Ohio)
- John Horgan, science journalist and director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology and author of the new book The End of War
Strategies for Peace
- Manal Omar, director of Iraq, Iran, and North Africa Programs for the US Institute of Peace
- Lena Slachmuijlder, chief programming officer, Search for Common Ground


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Nancy A. Seaton
Nancy A. Seaton, of Richmond Dr., Warwick and formerly of Yorkshire St., Providence passed away April 30, 2012 surrounded by her loving family, at the Philip Hulitar Home and Hospice Center, Providence.
There will be a funeral service for Nancy who has battled MS for 25 years, May 4 at 10:00 a.m. in the Manning-Hefferen Funeral Home, 68 Broadway, Pawtucket. Calling hours will be Thursday 4-7 p.m in the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Home and Hospice Care of RI, Philip Hulitar Center, 1085 North Main St., Providence R.I. 02904 or the Tomorrow Fund, Rhode Island Hospital Campus, 593 Eddy St., Providence R.I. 02907 in Nancy's memory. For condolences please visit www.manningheffern.com
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Ryan Seacrest hosts "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2013," featuring an all-star lineup performing 15 No. 1 hits, including newly announced additions to the west coast party Justin Bieber, Jason Aldean, Greyson Chance, Ellie Goulding and The Wanted. In New York, Psy will join the recently announced 2012 American Music Awards winners Taylor Swift and Carly Rae Jepsen, as well as Neon Trees, performing live in Times Square, Monday, Dec. 31, on ABC.
Fergie, of the Black Eyed Peas, hosts the west coast party, which includes previously announced performers Brandy, Flo Rida, Karmin, One Republic and Pitbull.
The New Year's festivities kick off at 8 p.m. with "New Year's Rockin' Eve Celebrates Dick Clark," a two-hour look at the amazing life of Dick Clark, hosted by Fergie and Jenny McCarthy. The special celebrates, through clips and reminiscences, the legendary television personality and producer who rang in the New Year for four decades and launched and nurtured the careers of countless artists. Seacrest also joins the hosts for a special appearance in honor of Clark.
Beginning at 10 p.m., Seacrest will host "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2013" from New York, with McCarthy returning to interview the revelers in Times Square. Fergie returns to host the Los Angeles-based portions of the specials. The bicoastal celebration will include more than five hours of special performances and reports on New Year's celebrations from around the globe, with Seacrest leading the traditional countdown to midnight from Times Square in New York City.
The complete lineup Monday night, Dec. 31, on ABC is:
•8-10 p.m. - "New Year's Rockin' Eve Celebrates Dick Clark"
•10-11 p.m. - "Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2013"
•11:30 p.m. to 1:08 a.m. - "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2013, Part 1"
•1:08-2:12 a.m. - "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2013, Part 2"


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"The Big Sleepover/Dog for a Day"
"The Big Sleepover"--Emily is going off the Island for a night and asks Charley to baby-sit for Clifford. The day goes pretty well, but when night falls, Clifford really misses Emily. The whole town bands together to get the big red dog through the night, discovering that they can accomplish anything if they put their minds to it! "Dog for a Day"--Fed up with his "responsibilities," Charley decides he would like to lead a dog's life -- no chores, no school, no problems. D
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (US - BD RA)
Gabe can't quite get on board with the second Jack Ryan franchise reboot...
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan was among the perfect matinee heroes to closeout the Cold War era. In Hunt for Red October (1990), he appeared in the form of Alec Baldwin and helped a Soviet submarine captain and his crew defect. Then, he reappeared in the form of a grizzled, finger-waving Harrison Ford and reluctantly battled the Irish Republic Army ( Patriot Games, 1992) and Columbian drug lords ( Clear and Present Danger, 1994) – villains tailor-made for a period where the nation's enemies were not so easily defined. The character was rebooted again eight years later as Ben Affleck in Sum of All Fears (2002). Sum of All Fears served its purpose as escapist entertainment for an audience reeling from the effects of the 9/11 attacks, but the Nazi villains were irrelevant (the bad guys were Muslim extremists in Clancy's books) and Jack Ryan seemed insignificant following the newly dubbed War on Terror. Outmoded or not, Paramount Pictures was still committed to the franchise and struggled to bring Ryan back to the big screen for the next decade (including a false start under director Sam Raimi). They eventually settled on another reboot, entitled Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.
Shadow Recruit desperately attempts to reinstate the franchise's post-9/11 relevance by cramming the events into the pre-title sequence. The film opens with a young Jack Ryan seeing the September 11th attacks on television while attending school in London. Cut to 18 months later – Student Ryan was so moved by the attacks that he has joined the Marines. Then this compacted origin story really starts to veer into parody. While helping a new recruit fasten his seatbelt, Nice Guy Ryan's helicopter is hit by a missile and crashes in the Afghani desert. He's rushed to a MASH unit, where Exposition Nurse tells Exposition Doctor that Hero Ryan rescued his fellow soldiers despite a broken back. Cut to a rehabilitation clinic months later, where Sad Ryan struggles to walk without a cane. A fair but firm medical student (Keira Knightley) 'tough-loves' him through treatment, while CIA director Thomas Harper (Kevin Costner) looks on from a high vantage point. Harper discusses the former Marine's condition with Exposition Doctor #2 and eventually approaches Sad Ryan. Cut to 10 years later – Ryan has a job at the CIA and is dating the fair but firm medical student. Ultimately, almost none of this information is important to the film's plot – it's 12 minutes wasted on explaining why Jack Ryan is a good person and how he got his job in the CIA. In Hunt for Red October, Alec Baldwin's Ryan is introduced as an analyst that has fallen into a situation beyond his training. We don't need to know exactly why he decided to join the C.I.A., how he hurt his back, why his boss decided to recruit him, or how he met his future wife – we just need to know he's over his head.
Once we get past this worthless pre-credit exposition, Adam Cozad and David Koepp's screenplay falls more comfortably into a prototypical espionage story – something about Ryan uncovering a Russian plot to crash the US economy with stock trading and false flag terrorist attacks – one that fits the '90s-friendly mode the character was born into. They squander a lot of goodwill with an annoying subplot where Ryan has to lie to Dr. Girlfriend about his job (she assumes he's having an affair, because that's what all women in these movies assume, not because it's compelling), but does a good job selling a story that is just complex enough to keep the audience guessing without overwhelming them with convoluted subplots (and that Dr. Girlfriend stuff eventually serves a narrative purpose). It's not outstanding work, nor does it feature any surprises, but there aren't any major plot holes and the script feels like it is a proper modern extension of the original series.
Kenneth Branagh's place in the director's chair is confusing, especially since he was brought on as director before he agreed to star as the film's villain. Until he was hired to usher Thor to fruition by Marvel Studios, Branagh had almost never worked as a director for hire, but on personal projects that fed his artistic interests (these were, in most cases, Shakespeare adaptations). Even in cases like Thor, Dead Again, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, where he wasn't credited with any writing or producing, he had pre-production input from the start. Shadow Recruit went through much of its pre-production under director Jack Bender (most well-known for his television credits), who left when the film when production was put on hold for Chris Pine's appearance on Star Trek Into Darkness. Branagh was a last minute addition – an unenviable position for any filmmaker to be in and there's almost nothing about Shadow Recruit that relates to his artistic sensibilities. Not unexpectedly, his direction is route and detached from any of the passion seen in his best films. The look is flat, the technical achievements are undistinguished, and the artistic flourishes are few and far between. Branagh skates by until he gets to an action sequence; at which point he and his editors fail at a Paul Greengrass impression. The pacing of these scenes is pretty sharp (outside of the crappy opening, the film moves very well), but the shaking camera and quick-cut editing dulls the impact and, frankly, makes these likely expensive scenes look cheap.
Of course, being Kenneth Branagh, he does manage to pull good performances from his actors, but his gift for casting roles seems to have escaped him. Kevin Costner aside, miscasting is a major issue for the film (though I do have problems with Costner's casting, because his character effectively replaces James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman's characters from the other four movies and it would've been nice to have at least one minority in a leading role here). Chris Pine buckles under the expectations set by his other franchise figure, Captain Kirk, weighs heavily on this performance. Pine plays the two characters with different temperaments – Kirk is cocky and sardonic, Ryan is tentative and genuine – but there's no escaping the similarities in the two films' origin story structures and character arcs. Perhaps such comparisons will fade as Pine's career extends to more non-blockbuster material. Knightly does an admirable job with an absolutely thankless role that requires her to nag the hero, then act as damsel in distress when the film requires another action set-piece. Branagh himself is amusing as the big bad, Viktor Cherevin, but often for his 'moose and squirrel' Russian accent and has easy chemistry with Knightly during their scenes.
According to specs, Branagh and Thor cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos shot Shadow Recruit using both 35mm and Red Epic digital HD cameras. Based on the minor grain artefacts that appear on this 1080p, 2.40:1 image, it appears that the bulk of the movie was shot using film (wide shots of location settings seem to have been shot digitally), but the over-indulgent colour-grading makes me think they would've saved time if they stuck to digital. The orange and teal (sometimes yellow and ice-pack blue) extremes aren't as obnoxious as something, like A Good Day to Die Hard, but natural hues (specifically skin tones) are pushed out in favor of the glowing, weird colours. The contrast levels are hiked pretty high, creating some graying/bluing blacks and overblown highlights, but these, like the ugly palette, are stylistic choices, not issues with the HD transfer quality. Besides, the colours themselves are very nicely separated and quite vivid when necessary. The film source is relatively unaffected by digital augmentations. There's plenty of fine grain that increases and decreases based on lighting, along with other minor emulsion artefacts. In terms of detail and clarity, Zambarloukos' photography is divided between the occasionally muddy, diffused, and dark interiors (the darker, the grainier) and the super-sharp, complex exteriors. The darkest and orangest scenes have issues with blocking, similar to those that showed up on Paramount's Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Blu-ray. Shallow focus often conceals the backgrounds with blur, but close-up textures and establishing shot patterns are nice and crisp.
Shadow Recruit is presented in DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English. The sound design is spectacular during the action sequences (more on that in a tick), but is surprisingly centric during dialogue-heavy sequences. Ambient noise is either non-existent (the whole movie is pretty quiet) or situated in the middle behind the vocal effects. Only the vaguest crowd noise seems to escape the center channel vacuum (even rain effects barely bleed). Those action scenes are quite aurally vibrant, though. Highlights include the directionally busy opening helicopter crash, a punchy fist-fight that ends in a stylishly muted drowning, and the super-bassy van-versus-motorcycle climax, which itself features a very wet fist-fight and some very crunchy vehicular smash-ups. Composer Patrick Doyle's (a Branagh regular) music does its job without featuring any memorable themes. The music is occasionally overpowering during melodramatic sequences, but is very well-integrated with the punchier action.
- Commentary with director Kenneth Branagh & producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura – This is a relatively intellectual, full-bodied track that is strongly led by Branagh, who sometimes interrupts poor Bonaventura mid-thought. Branagh also has a habit of rambling through descriptions of on-screen action, but integrates it pretty well with the more valuable information about the movie's themes and technical processes. This is an enjoyable track with very little downtime.
- Jack Ryan: The Smartest Guy in the Room (13:40, HD) – A look at the long process of bringing the franchise back to the big screen with the cast and crew. It includes scenes from the other movies for the sake of comparison.
- Sir Kenneth Branagh: The Tsar of Shadow Recruit (9:50, HD) – An extended back-patting session for the director, including behind-the-scenes footage.
- Jack Ryan: A Thinking Man of Action (5:20, HD) – On the film's stunts and action.
- Old Enemies Return (21:10, HD) – A more in-depth look at the real-life politics that inspired the use of a Russian villain in the film. It includes interviews with the filmmakers and a series of experts on international relations and history.
- Deleted & extended scenes with optional commentary by Branagh & di Bonaventura (5:00, HD)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit recovers from its disastrous beginnings to be a relatively entertaining mediocrity. Fans of the previous films will likely enjoy its familiarity. Paramount's Blu-ray suffers minor image issues that seem to be the result of aggressively digitally augmented original film material, but has a solid 7.1 DTS-HD MA soundtrack and a decent collection of extras that include an informative commentary track.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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I was bored 45 minutes in and left. There's nothing technically wrong, but there's no passion or even relative excitement in the execution. I'm okay if Paramount doesn't make a sequel, but judging on the box office returns, it's not happening anyway.
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13
Disc Details
Release Date: 10th June 2014
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish, French, and Portuguese
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, and Portuguese
Extras: Director and Producer Commentary, Jack Ryan: The Smartest Guy in the Room, Sir Kenneth Branagh: The Tsar of Shadow Recruit, Jack Ryan: A Thinking Man of Action, DVD Copy, UltraViolet Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Kenneth Branagh, Keira Knightley
Genre: Action, Adventure and Thriller
Length: 105 minutes
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American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 26, 2010 - Afghan and international forces detained several suspected insurgents in Marja, Afghanistan, yesterday and found numerous weapons caches in recent operations, military officials reported.
Officials also provided details on two incidents involving civilian casualties.
In the Marja operation, a combined Afghan-international force searched a compound in the southeastern part of the town in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand province after intelligence information indicated militant activity. During the search, the combined force detained several suspected insurgents for further questioning.
In Ghazni province last night, an International Security Assistance Force patrol recovered a weapons cache after it was reported by an Afghan civilian. The cache contained a hand grenade, 62 mortar fuses and shotgun ammunition.
An ISAF patrol in the Maidan Shahr district of Wardak province last night found a weapons cache containing a 107 mm rocket, four rocket fuses, two 82 mm mortar rounds, two mortar fuses and nine Russian-made projectile fuses.
In the Bala Boluk district of Farah province yesterday, a combined Afghan-international patrol found a cache containing more than a half ton of suspected ammonium nitrate, a banned fertilizer often used in making homemade bombs.
An Afghan-international patrol in Helmand's Nad-e Ali district found a cache containing seven assault rifles, two shotguns, a rifle, two 9 mm pistols, various machine-gun ammunition, pressure-plate initiation devices and various bomb-making materials.
Another Afghan-international patrol in Nad-e Ali found a cache containing 15 82 mm mortar rounds, a rocket-propelled grenade and two fragmentation charges, each containing 25 pounds of homemade explosives.
In other news from Afghanistan, three injured children were brought to an ISAF forward operating base near Tarin Kowt today after ISAF soldiers had completed a training exercise involving live ammunition. They received immediate medical attention and were evacuated for further treatment, although none of the injuries initially appear to be life-threatening, officials said.
An investigation is under way, officials said, and compensation for injuries or property damage caused by ISAF activities will be offered according to local customs.
Meanwhile, preliminary investigation results of a March 24 incident in the Bak district of Khost province indicate that a combined ISAF-Afghan force accidentally caused the deaths of two civilians and injuries to four others when the force was returning indirect fire against an insurgent attack nearby.
The injured civilians initially were brought to a nearby military compound by villagers. Afghan commandos and coalition medics provided immediate medical treatment, and the injured people subsequently were taken to an ISAF military hospital for further treatment.
A boy later was taken to Bagram Airfield for more treatment, and three other injured civilians were treated at the hospital and released.
After the incident, Afghan and coalition leaders immediately met with village elders and relatives to help determine the cause of the incident. The governor and subgovernor also were notified.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of this terrible accident and their families," said Navy Capt. Jane Campbell, ISAF Joint Command spokeswoman. "We take accidents such as this very seriously, and we incorporate investigative findings into our operations to improve our procedures. We remain fully committed to the people of Afghanistan, and we take every precaution to prevent civilian casualties."
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Monday, November 11, 2013
Support Your Local Poet: Or the Importance of Supportive Friends In Your Writing Life
In the Artist Way they have a name for people you tell your best ideas and they are either unsupportive, doubtful, or just Debbie Downers on the subject-- The Wet Blankets.
The Wet Blankets is not a rock group, but are the people in your life who bring you down, who point out what's wrong with what you are creating, what you have created, how they would never do such a thing.
They ask if you're qualified, they raise their eyebrows in that concerned look, they shake their heads.
They are the takers of energy, faith, and confidence.
And you've got to watch out for them!
When I feel that someone in my life is becoming a wet blanket, the first thing I do is stop sharing my projects with them. If they get worse, or I lose too much trust in them, I start adding distance to our lives.
I have been known to burn bridges, just to stop the crazy people from following me home.
When I have a friendship with someone, the only thing I ask is that the friend wants the best for me,
(as that is what I offer to my friendships-- I'm only friends with people I want the best for.)
When I feel someone doesn't or no longer want the best for me, I move away.
I admit, I should have the talk before moving away, but I hate "the talk." With really good friends, I'll have the "the talk," but with more peripheral friends, I tend to just disappear or disconnect.
The people you keep around you should be your cheerleaders and ladders, they should hold you up.
They should be people with whom you can share your deepest fears, insecurities, weaknesses, crazy thoughts, mistakes, weirdnesses, and all your creative ideas without fearing that they will judge you or bring you down.
My group of friends right now are these people. I can confide in them.
I tell them the things that make me feel as if I'm alone and they tell me I'm not alone.
Getting to a point like this took awhile.
There were friends I invited over only to realize I could never invite them back into my home because of how they made me feel, or maybe not how they made me feel, but how I felt.
It can be hard to find your tribe.
You have to risk something. You have to ask them to hold your heart and hope they don't drop it.
But it's worth the risk. They are worth the find.
Today to finish off my support your local poet post, I'm going to share some things that are happening in other poet's lives that should be cheered and celebrated.
Celebrate this--
Martha Silano's new book: RECKLESS LOVELY is available on pre-order!
Help Jeannine Hall Gailey's book UNEXPLAINED FEVERS by voting for it on GoodReads! And she was on Reddit! doing "Ask Me Anything"
Julie Brooks Barbour has a beautiful meditation poem on anxiety at Sundog here.
Wendy Wisner's amazing book about motherhood and life MORPH AND BLOOM is out!
Matthew Thorburn's new book EVERY POSSIBLE BLUE about love & city life is out (gorgeous cover too!)
Daniel Nester edited a new book, THE INCREDIBLE SESTINA ANTHOLOGY, and Daniel Nester is just awesome in general.
Renee Saklikar (an amazing Canadian poet) has a new book called Children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections and here's an article about it.
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What's your good news for the week?
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5 comments:
What a wonderful post! I admire your honesty, and so many people will connect and feel supported and understood. What sweet pix, too, and what sweet generosity.ReplyDelete
I know exactly what you mean. I am very appreciative of the local writers who have become an important component of my world.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your message, so true, and your shout-out - and guess what? Unexplained Fevers is now on the semifinals page this round! Thanks again! https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-poetry-books-2013ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:04 AM, November 13, 2013
Good post about the wet blankets. I notice that a lot of us who are creative also struggle with depression--which isn't the same thing as being a wet blanket, but, can also be a kind of negative force field that spreads. How do poets support one another when we recognize this darkness in a peer? Or should we run? ~NancyReplyDelete
Yay, sestinas! But just a heads-up--your link leads to Matthew's book. Still, yay, sestinas! That there is the Good Kind of Crazy of the formal poetry world. Thank you for giving it a shout-out!ReplyDelete


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Football fan Ed Wood vows to break stadium-visit record
A football fan is taking four months off work in a bid to regain a record for attending a match at every English league ground in the shortest time.
Ed Wood, a Derby County fan, first set the Guinness World record in 1992 but was beaten a few years later.
Now he has set off to visit 93 grounds – all 92 in the English Premier and Football leagues, as well as English-based Scottish club Berwick Rangers.
The current record is 237 days, set by Ken Ferris in the 1994-95 season.
The loans manager, from Leeds, said he waited ten years to restart his quest because his girlfriend threatened "to dump" him if he did.
She has since relented and he has already visited 11 grounds this season.
Mr Wood, who did a "virtual" tour of the grounds last year to give him an idea of how it would work, hopes to finish in February but is not sure which ground will be his last.
He said: "Actually, getting tickets to the games isn't as easy as you might think – partly because fixtures can change.
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"I was worried I wouldn't be able to get tickets for the Man U game – I thought it might be was sold out."
Mr Wood, who is raising money for a prostate cancer charity, said he took on the challenge for several reasons, but mainly because he has just turned 50 and recently broke his arm in a cycling accident so he "was ready for a bit of a break".
He has budgeted £10,000 for his challenge, but said so far he has only had two tickets for free.
His most "manic" stretch is a series of eight games in nine days – and on a few weekends he is able to attend two games in one day.
Mr Wood said the challenge is "life-changing" and has quite a few advantages as he said he "loves travelling – and reconnecting with people who I haven't seen for ages".
He must arrive at each match ahead of kick-off and remain for the entire match.
The challenge started at Oldham in early August. He was treated to a free ticket and an interview with the team announcer at half-time.
A few of the 93 "extra" challenges set by his friends
- Take a football rattle to a game and get told to be quiet
- Meet the oldest fan at a game
- Use a Vuvuzela – a horn that became the unofficial symbol of the 2010 World Cup
- Attend a match dressed as Elvis
- Go to a match with someone with a title
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Skip to comments.Bishops say Pelosi misrepresented abortion teaching in TV interview
Posted on 08/26/2008 6:42:22 AM PDT by doug from upland
Bishops say Pelosi misrepresented abortion teaching in TV interview
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The chairmen of the U.S. bishops' pro-life and doctrine committees criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying she "misrepresented the history and nature of the authentic teaching of the Catholic Church on abortion" in a nationally televised interview Aug. 24.
Pelosi, D-Calif., who is Catholic, in an appearance that day on NBC's "Meet the Press," said for centuries church leaders had not been able to agree on when life begins.
A day later, a statement by Cardinal Justin F. Rigali of Philadelphia and Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., said the church since the first century "has affirmed the moral evil of every abortion."
The bishop with Laura said it is a scandal that Pelosi receives Communion.
This didn't take long.
I'm not surprised.
I posted this on another thread: "I think Pelosi, having made the issue very public, has challenged the Church on this. What remains to be seen is what the Church will do."
Can the Church stand idly by and issue mere "clarifications" of doctrine when, obviously, a member of that Church is so publicly beyond doctrine?
She is dancing on the trapdoors of HELL.
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Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of interest.
Is Pelosi smoking something?
Within one week she claims that God himself gave us Obama as a candidate and then she suddenly claims that the Catholic Church is 'unclear' on Life??
Is somebody spiking her botox with LSD?
That's the problem those Bishops they cannot not appreciate that her position is nuanced. Biden, Kerry and Kennedy appreciate the intricacies of Madam Botox's theology.
Catholics who promote abortion are not Catholics but are CINO. They are so bold as to demand and receive Holy Communion which has to be answered for when they go to their rewards such as it is. I would not want to be in their shoes.
I do not believe it is possible to be an honest Catholic and an honest democrat simultaneously. Honest as in true to their espoused beliefs.
"What remains to be seen is what the Church will do."
I hope the church excommunicates her for her arrogance and disobedience.
In the good old days, we could have burned her at the stake. sigh
Nope she's just a FOOL. She doesn't care one bit about her 'faith', or God's teachings. She believes in her feminist ideology, and it trumps everything else.
Well, she's certainly called them out in public on this. And now the Denver Archbishop has make public remarks about Biden's pro-choice beliefs and how it could affect his taking of the sacrament.
It would appear the Democrats have created a public challenge to the Catholic Church (and by extension, all Christian churches). I'm not Catholic so I will abstain from any comments on how they should respond. But it seems to me they have to respond with something beyond "clarification" of doctrine.
I made a call yesterday and today. Am awaiting a response from the communications department about any reaction they have to Pelosi's comments. Start calling. :)
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Don't hold your breath expecting a reply condemning Pelosi from the archdiocese of San Francisco. My practicing Catholic daughter and her Catholic non-practicing friend were visiting in downtown San Francisco for Easter weekend. My daughter talked the young woman into trying out attending church again in honor of Easter. Bad move. The "priest" saying the Mass was an insane liberal who was screeching nutty things from the pulpit during the homily, yelling about political stuff like immigration and giving to the "poor", berating folks who only came to church on Easter and Christmas, etc. My daughter was horrified and embarassed. Solidified her friend's desire to never set foot in a church again... They actually stood up and walked out. Bully for them!
I'll never forget the time I spoke to a young woman who I thought was a devout Catholic and who wanted to know why I didn't support John Kerry. When I told her I couldn't vote for a pro-choice Catholic she seemed truly confused and asked why. When I told her you couldn't be a Catholic in good standing and choose a pro-choice candidate over a pro-life candidate she told me she was pro-choice and a Catholic in good standing. I ended the conversation very quickly. She was a student and a minor and I figured I could take it no further. It is very dis-heartening to find Catholics who believe they are in communion with the Church when they are not. I blame their formation, where was her pastor on this one?
The abortion issue is getting huge coverage this year.
The Right to Life vote will defeat Obama.
Most Catholic education has been woefully inadequate the last 30 years. That includes Catholic high schools as well as high school CCD programs in most Parishes. They tend to concentrate on 'Social Justice' issues, and don't spend a lot of time on sexual morality issues. I don't know if it's because the writers of the curricula don't believe in the Church's teachings, or they just think the kids won't listen anyway, because the teachings are SO counter-cultural.
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Geithner running on empty
So it turns out the administration knew (video here, story here) about the AIG bonuses a week before Timothy Geithner claimed it did. So why is it that Barack Obama is "stunned" by them?
… the administration, according to Chris Dodd (who initially lied about his role in this amendment) to protect those very bonuses in the stimulus.
… and Democrats overwhelmingly voted for the legislation.
So now Nancy Pelosi gets to use this fabricated anger and push a 90 percent tax hike to punish people who have not broken a single law and, in effect, make legal contracts illegitimate through the unilateral power of the state.


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Vox Celebrate their 50th Anniversary
Since 1957 the indelible sound of VOX Amplification has inspired musicians around the world from the Beatles to modern artists such as razorlight and the Bravery and been a major force in defining the sound of the electric guitar and other musical instruments.
In celebration of the last 50 years, 2007 will see the unveiling of many new products including the AC15 Heritage Series and the Classic Plus range. Aswell as new products we will be holding some special events, competitions and producing a commemorative collectors catalogue.
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Individual Youth Accounts teach personal management not by a lecture but through life experiences.
|— Annual Budget Plan
Individual Accounts are bookkeeping ledgers, not separate bank accounts. Units "..using this method have traditionally had stronger programs with less turnover of youth..." - .scouting.org
When a Scout is successful in fundraising, his earnings can be first applied to his annual costs with remaining earnings going into the Scout's own Individual Youth Account.
Or the unit can take the money a boy has earned and split it up between the other Scouts in the unit by placing the Scout's earnings into the unit's general account.
Benefits of Individual Youth Accounts
Here are some of the benefits to allowing Scouts to have Individual Youth Accounts:
- Scouts learn self-reliance. Success should be from your own hard work not taking from taking a share of someone else's work.
- Scouts learn to plan for financial goals such as summer camp, trips, equipment, and uniforms.
- Scouts learn life skills of personal management through their work not lectures.
- A Scout is more likely to attend an he has paid event through his own work.
- A Scout is more likely to stay in Scouts if he has earned the funds he needs for the activities he wants to do.
Basic Expenses
Annual expenses for a Scout typically include:
- National Council Registration Fees are just over $10 a year.
- Boys' Life magazine subscription is about $12 a year.
- Optional Unit Accident Insurance is just a few dollars per Scout and protects you from medical bills from an accident in Scouting.
- Advancement and Recognition costs includes awards, ranks, patches, and more.
- Activities for active Scouts may include:
- Cub Scouts: Pinewood Derbies, trips, ball games, camping, and much more.
- Boy Scouts: Camping or other trips, equipment, and other fees and expenses.
- Summer Camp programs are also age-appropriate:
- Cub Scouts attend Day Camp and Cub Scout Resident Camp and Family Camping.
- Webelos Scouts attend Webelos Resident Camp tailored to their growing interests and abilities.
- Boy Scouts attend Boy Scout Summer Camp with even more opportunities for older boys.
- Program Materials includes books and supplies, flags, camping equipment, and more.
- Uniforms are an ongoing expense as Scouts grow through the ranks and sizes.
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Importance to Packs
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Importance to Webelos
Individual Youth Accounts are critical for Webelos Scouts to make the Webelos Transition into Boy Scouts. A boy who has learned to work towards his goals and save will be able to participate in more activities and is more likely to stay in. Also many Webelos Scouts earn enough to take their savings with them to Boy Scouts to pay for new uniforms, equipment, and their first year at Boy Scout Summer Camp. Packs send the boy on not just with money, but with personal management skills. Some packs instead take away the money earned by thrifty boys and use it to reward others in the pack.
Importance to Boy Scouts
Boy Scout Leaders have the greatest obligation of all to encourage Fundraisingand Individual Youth Accounts. The expenses for Boy Scouts include National Council Registration, Boys' Life, and Accident Insurance as in Cub Scouts. But there is so much more a Boy Scout can do. You will need backpacks and equipment and merit badge books. Your activities are better now: Climbing, Hiking, Canoeing, and so much more. Summer Camp adds Rifle Shooting, Shotgun Shooting, Snorkeling, and Wilderness Survival. The bigger the fun, the bigger the price, and the more important Individual Accounts become.
A Boy Scout leader has an even greater obligation. You set the example. You need to help the Packs you work with have Individual Accounts so that Webelos bridge money in their accounts. Otherwise new Scouts may not be able to go to camp and then drop out. Scouts who learn self reliance will go far.


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The Policy Center offers education for a change. Alumni and alumnae of the Policy Center are changing and improving conditions world-wide, in a wide variety of organizations and settings. They say that the knowledge and skills they learned in the Policy Center positioned them for the significant responsibilities they took when they finished their studies.
See a list of the positions they secured.
Read what some of the Policy Center's former students say about their experience in the Policy Center:
- Daniel Curtiss "Sharing 2 years of hard work with a group of dedicated people from around the world is what I reflect on most....the Policy Center influenced how I view my work and turn that into action based on theory, analysis, and practice."
- Brian Goercke the program "strengthened my writing skills and broadened my understanding of domestic and international issues. It also provided me the social science background I needed to pursue a career in HIV/AIDS research and communications in Southern Africa."
- Richard Johns "People at work are impressed with my research and evaluation skills. . . . ." Read more.
- Leah Kral "Both the degree and the fellowship opened up career opportunities in the policy world that I wouldn't have had otherwise."
- Jing Li "They made me feel at home. I was totally amazed by the professionalism and warmth of faculty and staff at the Policy Center." Read more.
- James Lutzweiler "[The] program launched me on my career and provided me the links to get out and back into international development. . ." Read more.
- Siraj Mahmudov, a Muskie Fellow, indicates the program "not only helped me find my current job, but also equipped me with the right knowledge and skills to perform this job effectively."
- Stephen McGinley "I believe the Policy Center and being a Fellow prepared me for a career with the Federal Government, first as a Presidential Management Fellow, and later as a Congressional Liaison."
- Mark Morrison "The Social and Public Policy Center at Duquesne University has provided both a positive social network and a very valuable academic experience."
- Lada Progunova "The majority of Policy Center faculty, students and alumni are experienced in peace and development missions around the world." Read more.
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As any pet lover will readily admit, the greatest attribute that pets have is unconditional love for their owners. Perhaps that is why it is so difficult when we must say goodbye to our pets.
As any pet lover will readily admit, the greatest attribute that pets have is unconditional love for their owners. Perhaps that is why it is so difficult when we must say goodbye to our pets.
Well-meaning friends and family may question the seriousness of grief that some experience following the loss of a pet. They may believe that while some level of grief is warranted, it should be a kind of reduced or secondary grief.
But J. David Bragg, who holds a doctorate in psychology and teaches at South University's campus in Virginia Beach, Va., says that the human mind does not experience loss that way.
"The human psyche can't differentiate between the kinds of loss that we face," says Bragg. "Whether it is divorce, your mother's death or any other kind of loss, our minds process it the same way, through grief."
Once pet bereavement is understood as being psychologically equivalent to other types of loss, pet owners should know that grief is expected and should follow the same course.
"Grief should improve with time," says Bragg."A good rule is that if two months pass and you're not feeling better, you should seek professional help."
Bragg adds that the circumstances of the pet's death may complicate matters psychologically.
For instance, pet owners who euthanized their pets may feel guilty about having made the decision to end the pet's life.
Recognizing the difficulty of the decision, some veterinarians have tried to make the process less traumatic for both owners and pets.
Instead of taking your ailing pet to a veterinary office, some vets will now perform hospice consultations and even euthanasia in your home. Dr. Azure Holland recently began offering the service in the Raleigh, N.C. area.
"It helps both pets and owners relax, making a difficult experience better for everyone," says Holland. "Instead of a cold, sterile office, pets are more comfortable and have less anxiety than they would at the veterinary clinic."
Holland decided to offer the service after comparing the euthanasia experience she was able to provide her clients in a vet clinic with her family's own experience saying goodbye to the longtime family dog under his favorite tree at her parent's home.
Bragg says that psychologically, it is helpful to have an independent opinion on when the right time to end a pet's suffering is, since it gives you reassurance that you're making the best decision.
"Getting a clinical assessment is important," he says.
"Sometimes we are so close to our pets that we can't see whether we're being selfish by extending a pet's life for our own comfort instead of thinking solely about what's best for the pet."


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Pulsar is any of a class of cosmic objects that emit extremely regular pulses of radio waves; a few such objects are known to give off short rhythmic bursts of visible light, X rays, and gamma radiation as well.
Pulsars are thought to be rapidly spinning neutron stars, extremely dense stars composed almost entirely of neutrons and having a diameter of only 20 km (12 miles) or less. A neutron star is formed when the core of a violently exploding star called a supernova collapses inward and becomes compressed together. Neutrons at the surface of the star decay into protons and electrons. As these charged particles are released from the surface, they enter an intense magnetic field that surrounds the star and rotates along with it. Accelerated to speeds approaching that of light, the particles give off electromagnetic radiation by synchrotron emission. This radiation is released as intense beams from the pulsar's magnetic poles.
These magnetic poles do not coincide with the rotational poles, and so the rotation of the pulsar swings the radiation beams around. As the beams sweep regularly past the Earth with each complete rotation, an evenly spaced series of pulses is detected by ground-based telescopes.
Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell, astronomers working at the University of Cambridge, first discovered pulsars in 1967 with the aid of a radio telescope specially designed to record very rapid fluctuations in radio sources. Subsequent searches have resulted in the detection of more than 300 pulsars. A significant percentage of these objects are concentrated toward the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy, the enormous galactic system in which the Earth is located.
Although all known pulsars exhibit similar behaviour, they show considerable variation in the length of their periods--i.e., the intervals between successive pulses. The periods of the slowest pulsars so far observed are about four seconds in duration. The fastest, the Millisecond Pulsar (discovered in 1982), has a period of 0.00155 second, or 1.55 milliseconds, which is considerably shorter than that of any known pulsar. It has been determined that the Millisecond Pulsar is spinning 642 times per second. This is close to the theoretical limit for a pulsar because a neutron star rotating only four times faster would fly apart as a result of "centrifugal force" at its equator, notwithstanding a gravitational pull so strong that the star's escape velocity is about half the speed of light.
Careful timing of radio pulsars shows that they are slowing down very gradually at a rate of typically a millionth of a second per year. The ratio of a pulsar's present period to the average slow-down rate gives some indication of its age. This so-called timing age is in close agreement with the actual age of the one pulsar whose time of birth is known independently: the Crab Pulsar, which was formed during a supernova explosion observed in AD 1054. The Crab Pulsar is the youngest known, followed by the Vela Pulsar that has a projected timing age of 11,000 years.
The Crab and Vela pulsars are losing rotational energy so precipitously that they also emit radiation of shorter wavelength. The Crab Pulsar appears in optical photographs as a moderately bright (magnitude 16) star in the centre of the Crab Nebula. Soon after the detection of its radio pulses in 1968, astronomers at the Steward Observatory in Arizona found that visible light from the Crab Pulsar flashes at exactly the same rate. The star also produces regular pulses of X rays and gamma rays. The Vela Pulsar is much fainter at optical wavelengths (average magnitude 24) and was observed in 1977 during a particularly sensitive search with the large Anglo-Australian Telescope situated at Parkes, Australia. It also emits X rays though it does not seem to pulse at those wavelengths. The Vela Pulsar does, however, give off gamma rays in regular pulses and is the most intense source of such radiation in the sky.
Older radio-emitting pulsars are slowing down at a lesser rate than the young ones and have long periods. Moreover, it has been determined on the basis of timing ages that pulsars "switch off" after about 10 million years when their magnetic fields have weakened appreciably. The number of pulsars detected relatively close to the Sun indicates that there must be some one million active pulsars in the Milky Way Galaxy. These two figures taken together suggest that an object of this kind must be born every 10 years, a rate which is inexplicably five times greater than the rate of occurrence of supernovae generally thought to produce neutron stars.
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Behind the Scenes of Citigroup's $7 Billion Settlement
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A $7 billion deal between Citigroup and the Justice Department expected to be unveiled Monday nearly fell apart one day last month.
Government officials, frustrated by months of back-and-forth haggling, warned the bank that a lawsuit would be filed the next day. But hours before the deadline expired, the Justice Department put its plans on hold.


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Best Kids Parties: Vintage Milk & Cookies
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For my daughter Eloise's first birthday we threw her a Vintage Milk and Cookies Party. I used lots of pretty mason jars as drink containers for three types of milk we had at the 'milk bar' and also used larger quart sized mason jars and filled them with coordinating blue and red candies.
I placed all the the cookies in large glass jars and decorated them with blue and red ribbons as well as coordinating name tags and tent cards.
The colors were aqua and red and I incorporated Bonnie and Camille's beautiful fabric line Bliss in the decor as well as I made my little girl a birthday party outfit and sunbonnet to coordinate her to her party.
Thanks Maggie! Readers, see much more of Eloise's party on Smashed Peas and Carrots.
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LOS ANGELES — Shane Victorino was suspended three games and fined by Major League Baseball for his actions in Friday's benches-clearing brawl at San Francisco. And he is the only player from either team to receive a suspension.
No Giants were reprimanded games for their actions. Both Eli Whiteside and Ramon Ramirez were fined an undisclosed amount. Phillies third baseman Placido Polanco was also fined.
Victorino's suspension would have begun Monday but he will appeal.
"Victorino's aggressive actions prolonged the bench-clearing incident between the Clubs," according to a release issued by the commissioner's office.
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But, will you and your data center embrace a software-defined storage offering? Right now the answer seems to be a resounding no.
What Is Software Defined Storage?
While the industry has not (and probably never will) settle on a single definition for software-defined storage, my working definition is that the technology abstracts storage controller functions away from storage hardware and moves them into software. This software is run on an appliance or as a virtual machine in a hypervisor. The concept behind software-defined storage seems very appealing: a single point of data services, like volume management and snapshots, form a single console while using practically anyone's disk hardware.
[ Learn more about EMC's ViPR. Read At EMC, Scale Out Storage Grows Up. ]
As I discussed in a recent article, while software-defined storage does provide new freedoms in hardware acquisition, it does not totally eliminate vendor lock-in. In fact, you could make the case that it locks you even tighter to a single console for storage services and delivery of those services. Unless vendors create a way to transparently move your storage from one software-defined storage platform to another, some vendor lock-in is reality.
Does Software Defined Storage Make Sense For You?
While it seems that everyone would want to use software-defined storage, at least right now, few do. Most data centers continue to buy integrated, purpose-built storage systems, a trend that we expect will and should continue. While the software has improved, the software-defined storage architecture has a "kit" element to it since drives and storage servers have to be sourced separately. For most data centers that are stretched too thin and have bigger priorities than creating storage servers, the integrated, purpose-built approach has a lot of appeal.
So who should consider software-defined storage? As we will discuss in an our upcoming webinar, "Designing Cost Effective, All Flash HyperScale Data Centers," ideal candidates are organizations where the data center is the core of the operation and where every dollar saved in the delivering of capacity and performance makes a big difference.
Software-defined storage is especially appealing when those solutions can run at the compute hypervisor level. This allows them to consolidate server compute and storage on a single tier. In essence what we are looking for is a data center with lots of compute, the ability to take advantage of local, high-speed storage, and the competitive incentive to invest in building the architecture.


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IRENE, South Africa – With striker Robbie Findley out of the US' game against Algeria on Wednesday due to yellow-card accumulation, Bob Bradley has an interesting lineup choice to make. Who does he pair with Jozy Altidore in the crucial group-stage finale?
Bradley said on Saturday he likes his remaining options, and that both Edson Buddle and Herculez Gomez -- who have seen limited minutes as substitutes in this World Cup -- are good choices up top. But the US coach seemed to intimate that he may have more faith in midfielder Clint Dempsey, whom he has often pushed up to the second forward spot to provide some extra bite.
In Friday's match against Slovenia, Bradley subbed in Benny Feilhaber for the ineffective Findley after halftime, moving Dempsey up next to Altidore as the US pushed to rally from a two-goal deficit. Bradley said he likes the Fulham star in that position because of the different dynamic he brings.
"I thought Clint did a good job there," Bradley said. "When we talk about in the right moments coming underneath, finding seams, helping win some balls in the air, I think those are things Clint has shown he does well when he plays in that role, whether it's for Fulham or for us."
Dempsey has had some good performances for the US when he has been moved to the forward position. Against Egypt in last summer's Confederations Cup, he scored three minutes after making the switch late in a 3-0 US win, then netted again after moving up top late in the semifinal upset of Spain.
For his part, Dempsey says he prefers to play the left midfielder position, where he's able to attack inside with his right foot, but has no issues with being deployed wherever Bradley needs him.
"I feel comfortable playing left midfield, right midfield, playing up top or being a withdrawn forward or even being the player that's behind the two forwards," he said on Sunday. I feel confident [that] whatever position I'm put in, I have an understanding of what I need to do on the field."
Whether he scores or not, the US will need Dempsey's contributions in Wednesday's tilt with Algeria. The Americans must win the match to ensure they advance to the knockout rounds. A tie can also see them through, but they'll be at the mercy of the England-Slovenia result.


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