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Francisco de Zurbarán
Francisco de Zurbarán
|baptized 7 November 1598
|27 August 1664 (aged 65)
Madrid, Spain
|Known for
|Philip IV of Spain
Diego Velázquez
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Francisco de Zurbarán (/ˌzʊərbəˈrɑːn/ ZOOR-bə-RAHN, Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko ðe θuɾβaˈɾan]; baptized 7 November 1598 – 27 August 1664[3]) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname "Spanish Caravaggio", owing to the forceful use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled.
He was the father of the painter Juan de Zurbarán.[4]
Zurbarán was born in 1598 in Fuente de Cantos, Extremadura; he was baptized on 7 November of that year.[5][6][7] His parents were Luis de Zurbarán, a haberdasher, and his wife, Isabel Márquez.[6][7] In childhood he set about imitating objects with charcoal.[8] In 1614 his father sent him to Seville to apprentice for three years with Pedro Díaz de Villanueva, an artist of whom very little is known.[9]
Zurbarán's first marriage, in 1617, was to María Paet who was nine years older. María died in 1624 after the birth of their third child. In 1625 he married again to wealthy widow Beatriz de Morales. On 17 January 1626, Zurbarán signed a contract with the prior of the Dominican monastery San Pablo el Real in Seville, agreeing to produce 21 paintings within eight months.[10] Fourteen of the paintings depicted the life of Saint Dominic; the others represented Saint Bonaventura, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and the four Doctors of the Church.[11] This commission established Zurbarán as a painter. On 29 August 1628, Zurbarán was commissioned by the Mercedarians of Seville to produce 22 paintings for the cloister in their monastery.[12] In 1629, the Elders of Seville invited Zurbarán to relocate permanently to the city, as his paintings had gained such high reputation that he would increase the reputation of Seville. He accepted the invitation and moved to Seville with his wife Beatriz de Morales, the three children from his first marriage, a relative called Isabel de Zurbarán and eight servants. In May 1639 his second wife, Beatriz de Morales, died.[13]
Towards 1630 he was appointed painter to Philip IV, and there is a story that on one occasion the sovereign laid his hand on the artist's shoulder, saying "Painter to the king, king of painters".[14] After 1640 his austere, harsh, hard-edged style was unfavorably compared to the sentimental religiosity of Murillo and Zurbarán's reputation declined. Beginning by the late 1630s, Zurbarán's workshop produced many paintings for export to South America.[3] Jacob and his twelve sons, a series depicting the patriarch Jacob and his 12 sons, seems to have been aimed at the South America market, but the originals were acquired for Auckland Castle in Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham, England.[15]
On 7 February 1644, Zurbarán married a third time with another wealthy widow, Leonor de Torder. It was only in 1658, late in Zurbarán's life, that he moved to Madrid in search of work and renewed his contact with Velázquez.[3] Popular myth has Zurbarán dying in poverty, but at his death the value of his estate was about 20,000 reales.[16]
It is unknown whether Zurbarán had the opportunity to see the paintings of Caravaggio, only that his work features a similar use of chiaroscuro and tenebrism (dramatic lighting). The painter thought by some art historians to have had the greatest influence on his characteristically severe compositions was Juan Sánchez Cotán.[17] Polychrome sculpture—which by the time of Zurbarán's apprenticeship had reached a level of sophistication in Seville that surpassed that of the local painters—provided another important stylistic model for the young artist; the work of Juan Martínez Montañés is especially close to Zurbarán's in spirit.[17]
He painted his figures directly from nature, and he made great use of the lay-figure in the study of draperies, in which he was particularly proficient. He had a special gift for white draperies; as a consequence, the houses of the white-robed Carthusians are abundant in his paintings. To these rigid methods, Zurbarán is said to have adhered throughout his career, which was prosperous, wholly confined to Spain, and varied by few incidents beyond those of his daily labour. His subjects were mostly severe and ascetic religious vigils, the spirit chastising the flesh into subjection, the compositions often reduced to a single figure. The style is more reserved and chastened than Caravaggio's, the tone of color often quite bluish. Exceptional effects are attained by the precisely finished foregrounds, massed out largely in light and shade.[14] Backgrounds are often featureless and dark. Zurbaran had difficulty painting deep space; when interior or exterior settings are represented, the effect is suggestive of theater backdrops on a shallow stage.[18]
Zurbaran's late works, such as the Saint Francis (c. 1658–1664; Alte Pinakothek) show the influence of Murillo and Titian in their looser brushwork and softer contrasts.[19]
Artistic legacy[edit]
In 1631, he painted the great altarpiece of The Apotheosis of Saint Thomas Aquinas, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville; it was executed for the church of the college of that saint.[20] This is Zurbarán's largest composition,[21] containing figures of Christ, the Madonna, various saints, Charles V with knights, and Archbishop Deza (founder of the college) with monks and servitors, all the principal personages being more than life-size.[14] It had been preceded by numerous pictures for the retable of St. Peter in the cathedral of Seville.[22]
Between 1628 and 1634, he painted four scenes from the life of St. Peter Nolasco for the Principal Monastery of the Calced Mercedarians in Seville.[23] In Santa Maria de Guadalupe he painted multiple large pictures, eight of which relate to the history of St. Jerome;[3] and in the church of Saint Paul, Seville, a figure of the Crucified Saviour, in grisaille, creating an illusion of marble. In 1639, he completed the paintings of the high altar of the Carthusians in Jerez.[24] Also in the 1630s he was commissioned to provide canvases representing the Labours of Hercules, the only group of mythological subjects from the hand of Zurbarán, which were installed in the Hall of Realms in Madrid.[25] A fine example of his work is in the National Gallery, London: a whole-length, life-sized figure of a kneeling Saint Francis holding a skull.[26]
In 1835, paintings by Zurbarán were confiscated from monasteries and displayed in the new Museum of Cádiz.[citation needed]
His principal pupils were Bernabé de Ayala, Juan Caro de Tavira, and the Polanco brothers; others included Ignacio de Ries.[citation needed]
Zurbarán was the subject of a major exhibition in 1987 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which traveled in 1988 to Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris.[27] In 2015, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid presented Zurbarán. A New Perspective.[28]
Selected works[edit]
- Christ on the Cross (1627), Art Institute of Chicago
- Hercules and the Hydra
- St Hugh in the Carthusian Refectory (1630–1635), Museum of Fine Arts of Seville
- Still Life with Pots (1650), Museo del Prado (autographed version)
Saint Serapion, 1628, Wadsworth Atheneum
Visión de San Pedro Nolasco, 1629, Museo del Prado
Immaculate Conception, 1630, Museo del Prado
The Death of St. Bonaventure (The Body of St. Bonaventure in the Presence of Pope Gregory X and James I of Aragon), 1629–1630, Louvre Museum
The Young Virgin, 1630, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Defence of Cádiz against the English, 1634, Museo del Prado
A Doctor of Law, 1635, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Santa Isabel de Portugal, c. 1635, Museo del Prado
Saint Luke as a Painter before Christ on the Cross, c. 1635–1640, Museo del Prado
The Annunciation, 1637–1639, Museum of Grenoble, France
Saint Rufina, c. 1635–1640, National Gallery of Ireland
The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1638, Museum of Grenoble
Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb, 1630/34, Milwaukee Art Museum
Saint Francis in Meditation, 1639, National Gallery
The Holy Family, 1659, Szépmûvészeti Múzeum
Christ, recovering clothing after flagellation c. 1661, Jadraque, Spain
Christ at the Column, 1661, National Museum, Wrocław
Saint Francis, c. 1658–1664, Alte Pinakothek
The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, MNHA Luxembourg
Agnus Dei, c. 1635–1640, Museo del Prado
- ^ Bussagli & Reiche 2009, p. 95.
- ^ Pérez 2004, p. 147.
- ^ a b c d Ressort & Jordan 2003.
- ^ "Two new paintings now on display". National Gallery. 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
- ^ Harris 2005, p. 208.
- ^ a b Gállego & Gudiol 1977, p. 135.
- ^ a b Baticle 1987, p. 53.
- ^ Rossetti 1911, p. 1056.
- ^ Gállego & Gudiol 1987, p. 13.
- ^ Gállego & Gudiol 1987, p. 16.
- ^ Gállego & Gudiol 1987, p. 73.
- ^ Gállego & Gudiol 1987, p. 127.
- ^ Gállego & Gudiol 1987, p. 18.
- ^ a b c Rossetti 1911, p. 1057.
- ^ "Zurbarán paintings : Art and exhibitions at Auckland Castle". The Auckland Project. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- ^ Goodwin 2015, p. 474.
- ^ a b Gállego & Gudiol 1987, p. 15.
- ^ Gállego & Gudiol 1987, pp. 60–61.
- ^ Gállego & Gudiol 1987, pp. 20, 67.
- ^ Gállego & Gudiol 1987, p. 82.
- ^ Mallory 1990, p. 116.
- ^ Gállego & Gudiol 1987, pp. 79–80.
- ^ Gállego & Gudiol 1987, p. 74.
- ^ Gállego & Gudiol 1987, p. 86.
- ^ "Hercules as a Symbol of the Spanish Monarchy". Splendor, Myth, and Vision: Nudes from the Prado. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- ^ MacKenzie (2018). "Write on Art:"Saint Francis"". Art UK.
- ^ Gilbert 1987.
- ^ "Exposición – Zurbarán. A New Perspective". Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- ^ "Santo Domingo in Soriano". artehistoria.com (in Spanish). 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- Baticle, Jeannine (1987). "Francisco de Zurbaran: A Chronological Review". In Baticle, Jeannine (ed.). Zurbaran. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Bussagli, Marco; Reiche, Mattia (2009). Baroque & Rococo. New York and London: Sterling. ISBN 978-1-4027-5925-3.
- Gállego, Julián; Gudiol, José (1977). Zurbarán, 1598-1664. Secker & Warburg. ISBN 9780436172205.
- Gállego, Julián; Gudiol, José (1987). Zurbará. London: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd. ISBN 0-88168-115-6.
- Gilbert, Creighton (December 1987). "Zurbarán, for the most part". The New Criterion.
- Goodwin, Robert (2015). Spain: The Centre of the World 1519–1682. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4088-4357-4.
- Harris, Ann Sutherland (2005). Seventeenth-century Art and Architecture. Laurence King. ISBN 978-1-85669-415-5.
- Mallory, Nina A. (1990). El Greco to Murillo: Spanish Painting in the Golden Age, 1556-1700. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-435531-5.
- Pérez, Javier Portús (2004). The Spanish Portrait: From El Greco to Picasso. Museo Nacional del Prado. ISBN 978-1-85759-374-7.
- Ressort, Claudie; Jordan, William B. (2003), "Zurbarán, de family", Grove Art Online, doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T093699, ISBN 9781884446054
- public domain: Rossetti, William Michael (1911). "Zurbaran, Francisco". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 1056–1057. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links[edit]
- Zurbarán, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF)

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Sep 29, 2013
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Unlike many other artists, JETHRO TULL have been very much consistent with their 40th anniversary reissue programme. Come 2018, it's time for "Heavy Horses" to move the land again, and indeed: February 9th will see a "New Shoes Edition" of this folk-rock classic hitting the shelves. As usual, it's a deluxe box set preceding regular formats; a typical book-like artefact which is to house 3CD and 2DVD. In it, Steven Wilson's remixes of studio material, and Jakko Jakszyk's handling of concert tapes some of which ended up previously on the "Bursting Out" set. At this time available for pre-order on American Amazon only, for a reasonable price, more details should transpire soon enough.
As for the tracklisting, it runs like this:
CD 1 – Steven Wilson stereo remixes:
1. ….And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps
2. Acres Wild
3. No Lullaby
4. Moths
5. Journeyman
6. Rover
7. One Brown Mouse
8. Heavy Horses
9. Weathercock
bonus tracks:
10. Living In These Hard Times (version 2)
11. Everything In Our Lives
12. Jack-A-Lynn
13. Quatrain (studio version)
14. Horse-Hoeing Husbandry
15. Beltane
16. Botanic Man
17. Living In These Hard Times (version 1)
18. Botanic Man Theme/A Town In England
CD 2 – Live In Concert In Berne 28th May 1978 – Jakko Jakszyk stereo remix:
1. Opening Music (Quartet)
2. Introduction by Claude Nobs
3. No Lullaby
4. Sweet Dream
5. Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day
6. Jack-In-The-Green
7. One Brown Mouse
8. Heavy Horses
9. A New Day Yesterday
10. Flute Solo Improvisation/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Bouree
11. Living In The Past/A New Day Yesterday (Reprise)
12. Songs From The Wood
CD 3 – Live In Concert In Berne 28th May 1978 – Jakko Jakszyk stereo remix:
1. Thick As A Brick
2. Hunting Girl
3. Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die
4. Conundrum
5. Minstrel in the Gallery
6. Cross-Eyed Mary
7. Quatrain
8. Aqualung
9. Locomotive Breath
10. The Dambusters March/Aqualung (Reprise)
DVD 1 – Steven Wilson remixes:
1-18 – same as CD1 – DD/DTS 5.1 Surround:
19-37 – same as CD1 – 96/24 PCM Stereo:
38-46 – album – 96/24 PCM flat transfer – original stereo master:
47. Rover (no strings)
48. Living In These Hard Times (version 2)
49. Beltane
DVD 2 – Live In Concert In Berne 28th May 1978 – Jakko Jakszyk remixes:
23-44 – 96/24 stereo
45. Heavy Horses
46. Moths
47. Bursting Out (TV ad)
48. Bursting Out & Madison Square Garden Show (TV ad)


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Emirati attorneys aspiring to be judges have been given a unique golden chance by Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts (ADGM), the authority responsible for governing laws in the financial zones. Attorneys with experience are eligible to be trained for the Emirati Judge program.
The decision was announced in a tweet by the ADGM. Candidates who are selected will undergo training programme under the auspices of the Chief Justice of ADGM and other judges. The tweet announced that the new plan was being taken with the support of the Scholarship office. The department comes under the Ministry of Presidential Affairs.
The selected candidates will undergo a comprehensive framework that will oversee their transformation to the country's justice sector. The 'pathway' to 'the highest level in the legal and justice sector' has been promised.
The training has been divided into four modules and spans judicial training related to common law. Overwhelming stress will be laid on commercial aw. The programme will also oversee practical training.
The entrance to the programme requires clearing of assessment, which has already been cleared by two Emirati lawyers. After the successful completion of the programme, the Emirati lawyers will be inducted into the judiciary of the ADGM courts.


text: This week, the City of Eagan published my book, Becoming Eagan. As recent history, it was a challenge in that almost all the sources were still alive — different than nineteenth century history! The project included more than a dozen oral history interviews with key people. The book tells the story of a rural community, south of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, that was swept up in a population boom. As I've mentioned elsewhere, the heart of the book comes down to the choices that were made by the city's leadership. The book, hardbound and lavishly illustrated, is available at the Eagan Community Center for $25.


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In a modern Wiccan's perspective, a familiar is a witch's companion in both the spiritual and physical realms, often chosen intuitively by the witch, and is commonly an animal spirit who has made itself known as a magickal partner to the witch. Because a familiar is a shapeshifter, they can go to places where the witch is physically incapable of, they can access things on a purely energetic level, retrieving energies, psychic impressions and messages from the spirit realm to bring back with them to be worked with magickally with their companion.
While they assist in the physical dimension by providing the connection to animal instincts, companionship, and protection to their partners, they are also believed to assist in the spiritual dimension with retrieving psychic information for the witch's benefit, which often aids with divination and spellcasting.
In some cases, historically familiar spirits were called demons and were considered to be evil, while in other cases, animal familiars were considered to be saints or angels looking after their respective owners. Records show that during medieval times, accused witches were associated with having familiar spirits do their biddings for them, and oftentimes the familiars were prosecuted alongside the witches for evil-doing in their village.
How Can Modern Wiccans Find Familiar Spirits?
There are many ways to find your familiar animal spirit and to begin working with them. The methods to finding a familiar will vary from person to person, but many witches find their familiars initially through astral projection, lucid dreaming, and deep meditation. The affinity you have with a familiar spirit is mostly sensed, and will most likely not be on a cerebral level. One of the most important methods of all is to follow your intuition if you have an affinity to a certain animal or pet, your intuition will give you a sign whether to initiate contact with that animal and to begin developing a relationship with it.
It's important to always remain open, even if an animal familiar presents itself to you in the least likely time or place, and gives you the impression that it wants to work with you as your familiar spirit, then that's most likely the case, but, always pay attention to what you sense from any encounters like this and go from there. Lucid dreaming is a method favorited by most Wiccans for meeting your familiar in the spirit realm.
Folklore about Familiars
There are many beliefs about familiars found in European folklore. Amongst them is the old folklore about the cunning-folk and white witches of Exmoor in Somerset, who reportedly mainly practiced magick with familiars in the wild. They would contact these familiars during the night of the full moon by listening to which animals sounds they heard first. Then they would make repeatable sounds while visualizing themselves entering the body of that animal and experiencing the world as them. It took much practice until they were able to draw the animal familiar nearer to them, but eventually they were able to look directly into the eyes of the animal, where they could feel what the animal was feeling, and share an instinctive sense with the animal and distinguish that animal as their familiar to work with magickally.
Animal Familiars and Their Personalities
The Dog is a witches companion in the earthly realm, they can teach about loyalty and protection, and will alert a witch of any danger.
The Cat can teach about independence and nurturing yourself. They are protectors of the home and guardians of the spirit dimension. They are easy companions to have and work in both day and night spirit realms.
The Goat is very sacred to the Greek God Pan, who was half-goat, half-man. They have very quirky personalities and can teach about maintaining your uniqueness, and can climb the mountains of life to show you farther perspectives.
The Hare/Rabbit is very sacred to a witch. They can teach about secrecy, quiet movements and solitude. They live in holes in the earth, and can help you travel underground or to the underworld.
The Spider is a good familiar to work with because it can hide easily, it can fit through the cracks of a doorway, and can be carried wherever you go without ever being noticed. It's an effective intuit, hunter, and spy.
The Ferret is a good domestic familiar to work with because it teaches about remaining skillful, playful and inquisitive in all types of domestic conditions.
The Bat can teach about our nocturnal instincts, our lunar connection, and they can help us access the unconscious and the darkness of the night.
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Key program functions
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"Excellent value for the money for learning the basics of kettlebell training. Taco presents what could be an intimidating topic in a warm, common-sense manner. Fundamental kettlebell training is broken down for the student in bite-sized pieces that can be easily understood and performed by a true beginner. The lessons follow a logical progression, taking you from grips to lifts to cleans, swings, and presses. Topics build upon each other, reinforcing what you learn along the way. There is enough material to review the course multiple times, yet you don't feel like you are drinking from a firehose. Particularly good are Taco's explanations of why certain movements are used for certain tasks, muscle groups utilized, the importance of mind-muscle connection, and the importance of progression. Taco shows you the safe way to perform kettlebell exercises and how to avoid injury and common annoyances for those new to the sport. All movements demonstrated are shown with scaling options for those with less flexibility and strength; it truly is a course anyone could take. This course will provide a solid base to begin your kettlebell journey and will serve as a great reference along the way." Jonathan Scheibly
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Taco's presentation style is clear and engaging and the videos are just the right length, giving you time to go over them if you need to or spend the time practicing on your own.
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April 2, 2016
During my first model ship build, I was using the kit's plans and instructions along with a practicum. The practicum was a 'course' that walked you through the whole process. It was fantastic.
But that great practicum ended up having an unintended side-effect. Since I was referring to it so much, I didn't spend enough time examining the plans.
Instructions and practicums are easy to flip through. They are often available as PDFs you can drop on your iPad. Printed, they can sit on the corner of your desk, open to the appropriate page.
Plans, however, are big. I don't have room on my bench to lay out plans. If I work on top of the plans (some people like this), I'd get glue and stuff all over it. Plus, my ship, tools, parts, etc. would be covering things up. I've often hung my plans on the wall behind my bench. But this means my plans are not easy to refer to. I only looked at them when I knew I needed to reference something.
For my second build, I decided to spend a week making build books. I know that I spend countless hours sitting on the patio, drinking coffee, flipping through the materials. So I decided to collect all the materials into two books. Both are printed as well as assembled into PDFs that live on my iPad.
Note: The practicum, instructions, plans, etc. are all copyrighted by their respective owners. So, I'm not going to show the actual contents of my books, because I think respecting copyrights is important.
The first book is thick. It is probably 300 pages or so. It contains:
I bound everything with a plastic 'comb' spine (available at any office supply store). I spent a few minutes and made nice covers.
Now all of my reference material is in one place. I can flip through the practicum and instructions, refer to the parts list when I'm looking for the part number of a particular item, or examine the photos for ideas on color schemes.
As the build has progressed, having the parts list in there has been incredibly helpful. Referring to the instructions or plans, I can see that I need a piece of wood that is some specific thickness, like 3/16″, but I've got 30-40 different bundles of wood lying around. A quick look at the parts list helps me identify that I've got 3 different options at 3/16″ thick. I find the one one want, note the last couple digits of the part number, then refer to the stickers I added when I inventoried the parts.
The second book is thinner, but still 100+ pages. This book contains the plans.
I scanned in the plans using the scanner on my printer. Obviously, my scanner isn't big enough to scan each plan sheet at once. I had to carefully scan the plans one section at a time. It took about 20 scans per sheet, and there were 6 sheets.
After each part was scanned, I brought it into Photoshop and adjusted the rotation and skew, and positioned it so it overlapped the other sections. I tried to get things reassembled as precisely as possible.
When scanning this way, it is important to pay attention to scale. DPI is a measure of dots per inch. Running a tech company that specializes in digital media and photography, I'm really familiar with this, but it confuses a lot of people.
Images themselves have no DPI. They just have dots – not inches. You only need to worry about DPI when you bring something into a computer (scanning) or when you take something out (printing). DPI is the magic value that determines the relationship between dots on your computer and inches in the real world.
How does this apply here? If you want your scanned plans to be the right size when you print them, you just need to make sure you're using the same DPI when you scan and print.
Just be sure you use the same DPI throughout the process and you'll be fine.
For my book, I separated the plans into 'chapters' by sheet. Each section starts out with scaled version of the entire sheet (obviously you can't see much detail). This is followed by actual size prints of the various drawings on that page. Big things, like drawings of the full ship, are cut and span multiple pages. Small detail drawings are arranged on the page so they fit nicely.
I also made an 'index' at the front that has all six of the plan pages so I can quickly glance and figure out "which page had the rigging plan?".
After printing everything, I did some checks to ensure the scale was right by measuring several items in the book and comparing it to the actual plans.
Worth noting – you may be able to go to a local shop and have the plans scanned for you on a large format scanner. Some FedEx/Kinkos or office supply shops have this equipment. It is very inexpensive to do it this way, much faster, and more accurate. However, the plans are typically copyrighted material (owned by the publisher of the kit), and not all places will copy something has a copyright.


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At last you can listen to a sample of the audiobook of Neptune Crossing, read by Stefan Rudnicki! I'm thrilled, and increasingly eager for the September 6 launch of the audiobook. Not that I want time to go by faster! Time is moving fast enough already, thank you! But I'm really psyched about this launch. Click the button to listen:
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As a researcher, (and also since I did nto have the luxury of learning programming in college, but rather have to teach myself from the past year or so), I do study others' code and I maintain a notebook (digital) wherein I copy and keep interesting snippets of code from various repos online, that could be later modified and re-used later in my own code.
It is not always possible to even remember where I got that snippet from since in nearly all the cases it would be HEAVILY modified to suit the work at hand.
Since Mr Exodia decided to make such a huge fuss over this tool that I created within a few minutes to suit just a certain specific purpose, I went back and tried to see what he seemed to be unhappy about.
Apparently, he seems to be unhappy about the snippet that was used in my tool, to run a command in a CMD shell without actually showing the black CMD window to the user (for asethetics). As he said, what I used was quite inefficient.
But hey, users are going to run my tool for a maximum of 30 seconds, to enable and disable the Windows Update. So I did not care about efficency so much.
Secondly, as he said, and also as I mentioned in thread about the distro, Powershell had been removed from the distro and hence I needed to run the commands without using PS. SO obviously, all the other code was different. And since there is no PS in my distro, I could not use the existing tool.
That is all.
Therefore NO mystery and the tool was NOT created to "steal" credit from anyone, as Mr Exodia's posts seem to imply. I only needed to create the tool as I wanted something that would not need POWERSHELL to run !
I am STILL waiting to see if Mr Exodia would give his permission for me to contact PAYPAL so that JUST AS HE HAD made my chat public, I also can make HIS details public.
Just a quick note : PAYPAL would not only FREEZE the existing funds, but also would not do any business with anyone who PUBLICLY purports to have earned money (and is still) earning money by cracking commercial protectors and aps
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Just to remind you:
x64dbg: http://x64dbg.com
My Blog: http://mrexodia.cf
You have all the answers in my post above. Please do read again
So here we have Mr Exodia confessing to the following :
He cracks armadillo software (commercial) for money, he paid "relevant" taxes on the ILLEGAL money thus earned by cracking armadillo protected apps, "he does not care about anybody pirating anything" ...
Further it seems he's tring to rake up a fight by bringing tsrh repeatedly into the picture (third time he mentioned them in this thread).
I am sure that PAYPAL would be VERY interested to know that Duncan Ogilvie is someone who not only cracks commercial apps and earns money but also PAYS "relevant" taxes on the ILEGAL money so earned.
Then he has no other work other than to go and to dig into someone's FREE tools and then try to start a fight while all the time HE is the one CRACKING and getting PAID for the illegal work.
Well, EVERYONE here is a witness to the fact that HE GAVE PERMISSION for me to contact PAYPAL and other authorities to expose his FRAUD.
I do NOT need any smokecsreen. See my post above to clarify regarding me "copying" snippets..
Guys, can't you just see HOW RIDICULOUS his statements are :
PAYING TAXES ON ILLEGAL MONEY EARNED BY CARCKING COMMERCIALLY PROTECTED APPS ! Seriously ?!
This is obviously getting ridiculous, just take it down a notch man. Nobody in their right mind would use PayPal for anything other than paying securely with their credit card. But feel free to report whatever nonsense you like.
x64dbg: http://x64dbg.com
My Blog: http://mrexodia.cf
It is disappointing to see our nice friends and talented members are fighting against each other every other week !
I believe no professional in the world works for free, or there is no profession at all !!! .... if there is no benefit, no-one will remain...
when you see no one is saying "Thanks" to your posts .... it means no one is happy with your post ....
I am deeply apologizing both of you and all other members for my post
there is much to write, ... I hope a moderator will clean this thread....
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I have only two things to say regarding this :
Someone who posts the ENTIRE and PRIVATE conversation database without permission of the other party on a PUBLIC THREAD is just not fit to be a moderator at all.
I am sure that anyone who values their privacy at all will agree with me.
Secondly, the PROPER way for mrexodia to deal with this would have been to POLITELY ask in a single sentence whether I'd used the code in the tool from somewhere else.
Then I would have answered in a polite manner.
There was NO NEED to spend hours digging in my github repo containing over a thousand repos [EDIT : Let me correct that - its actually 1800 Repos when I just checked).
Then devirtualize the tool.
Then even make a ZIPPYSHARE ARCHIVE (LOL) as if I was someone who would delete the repos in a hurry and then make a post as if he had caught a great wrongdoing.
You DO receive a lot of your funds through paypal and many a time they kept it on hold for ages.
Same for your CrowdFunding monies
Yes, I will keep my word since you said you gave me "full permission".
My job should be damn easy since you PUBLICLY wrote here that you got PAID for cracking commercial apps and also paid "relevant" taxes on that money
I am STUNNED that a MODERATOR of this forum can STOOP to this level.
As I said above, the PROPER way for him would have been to ask in a SINGLE sentence. And I would have answered politely.
Please do not say fighting against "each other".
It was the MODERATOR who decided to start a fight with that accusatory and arrogant post of his.
Also, I am sorry but I share all my stuff here for FREE. There ARE some people who do share stuff for FREE. I am one of them.
All in all, mrexodia's initial post clearly reeks of JEALOUSY towards me. Otherwise there wouldbe NO need for such accusatory remarks.
A note regarding my use of red fonts.
When readers (esp on mobiles) encounter a wall of text, they just skim over. The RED TEXT is only to draw their eyes to the most important facts.
No smoke screen or whatever.
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HI all
allow me my friends to interrupt this conversation which will not be acceptable for our community,and which will guide us to lose a professionals guys for just misunderstanding.
but here I have a small reproach on our friend TechLord , my friend even could be that mr.exodia has been mistake in some points (and he Apologize in some steps) , but using Threatening language "is someone who not only cracks commercial apps and earns money but also PAYS "relevant" taxes on the ILEGAL money so earned." is not a good way from a professional guy like you TechLord.
here we are a friends we are support each other, so no need to go in wrong path.
I hope nobody understand from what I write that I Biased to someone.
from me I like both and support them too,and we don't want to lose each of them.
so I hope from both to accept my decision to close and remove this Post, and i hope from them to forget it and begin again as this not happen.
Ur Best Friend Ahmadmansoor
Always My Best Friend: Aaron & JMI & ZeNiX
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Dear Ahmadmansoor sir,
Just one point I woudl like to say if you would not mind..
"Pays relevant taxes" is not my words. Its Mr Exodia's words I quoted (Please see here - https://forum.exetools.com/showpost.php?p=112398&postcount=14).
Also, cracks arma apps - mrexodia himself said so in his post.Not me. Pls see here (https://forum.exetools.com/showpost.php?p=112398&postcount=14)
Anyway you are the administrator... I do not need to say this but please do delete whatever posts you see fit to ..
I agree that this thread got ugly, but I did not start the fight. Thats all I have to say ...
Thank you
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Mashable reports that Google unveiled Google+, a social network designed to go head-to-head with Facebook. A very limited test field was rolled out on Tuesday, June 28, and will become available to the entire public at an undisclosed date.
One of the biggest differences between Google+ and Facebook is Circles, in which users are able to sort their friends into different social circles, such as friends, family, co-workers, and more. Users are able to share photos, links, posts, and other content with multiple circles or just one circle. Facebook users are able to limit who can see what, but it is not as easy to manage, nor is it as central of a feature, as it is with Google+. Another significantly different aspect of Google+ is that it has a free, multi-user video chat feature, called Hangouts. Currently Facebook does not have anything similar to this. Within Hangouts, users and their friends are able to search for and watch YouTube videos together as a group. (Google owns YouTube.) All users in the chat are able to search, play, or pause a video.
Another crucial difference between Google+ and Facebook is Sparks, which is essentially a recommendation engine that helps users find interesting content based upon their interests. Sparks is a collection of articles, photos, videos, and other content that is recent and relevant and is grouped by interest, such as "Movies." Sparks is algorithmic, meaning it relies on information from other products from Google, such as Google Search, in addition to what is being shared by Google +1 buttons as well as within Google+ itself. Facebook users are able to become a fan or "Like" a product, place, etc., but users are not able to fully cultivate their interest. Sparks, in contrast, delivers content from across the web based upon terms a user enters, which are able to be returned to anytime to sort through new content. Users can also add Circles or individuals to an item to share with them. It appears as though Google+ will attempt to become the one-stop destination not only for sharing content, but also for finding it.
With the failure of Google Buzz and Google Wave, the search engine giant has been struggling to effectively battle Facebook. No doubt Google+ will be closely scrutinized once it becomes available to the entire public. While it remains to be seen how successful the new social networking site will be, once again we are reminded of the high value search engines like Google place upon content that is both relevant and interesting, in addition to its appeal to users.
Is your law firm blog/website full of content that is likely to be read and shared by users with their friends? As you can see, it is becoming more and more crucial that websites and blogs have content that is appealing, relevant, and interesting. If you have doubts about the effectiveness of your website or blog's content, contact SLS Consulting to learn more about legal content development.
Sources: http://mashable.com/2011/06/28/google-plus/; http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/266334/6-Things-Google+-Can-Do-That-Facebook-Can%27t


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Apple has announced the availability of iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 2 for developers to make sure that their apps are ready for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch when the WiFi only models of iPad are released in the last week of March. Members enrolled in the iPhone Developer Standard or Enterprise Program can access the development bits for iPhone OS 3.2 Beta 2 for iPad by signing into Apple Developer Connection.
We wont be able to list down the features new to this release as the SDK is still under the Apple's NDA. You will have to dig for yourself for now in order to see what's new in Beta 2 of SDK 3.2.
Download iPhone 3.2 Beta 2 SDK (Apple Developer Connection)
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RESONATOR! Frequency Shifting with Leeman Kessler0
RESONATOR: New Lovecraftian Tales From Beyond is in the world! We're preparing to ship out the fine quality prints of Nick Gucker's cover art to the lucky four winners of the Pre-Order Contest, and readers are beginning to receive their books in the mail! Can a wholesale dimensional breakdown and general apocalypse be far behind? Gosh, we hope so! While you're waiting for doom to rain down, though perhaps take a read through this insightful interview that anthology editor Scott R Jones did with RESONATOR author Leeman Kessler! (We'll be rolling out interviews with most of the contributors over the next two weeks or so, so check back often for added awesome.)
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Well, trust the man who reformats and reinterprets Lovecraft himself for the 21st Century to put a truly unique spin on From Beyond! It's all there in the title of your story, Deresonator: a machine to counter the effects of Tillinghast's original contraption. I especially enjoyed your narrator's voice; he's essentially an old-school grifter. So, do you come by this voice honestly? Any criminal history in your family?
No criminal history as far as I'm aware although there are an awful lot of pastors and preachers in my family tree and they employ similar showman-like qualities as your average flim-flam man so perhaps I've just hit on that racial memory of patter and rhetoric which both helps me as a performer and gave me a fun voice for our hapless narrator in this story.
It's safe to say you've had to steep yourself in Howard (the Man, the Myth, the Mythos) in order to do what you do for Ask Lovecraft. Also, you're one of the newer writers in this anthology. Have you found that playing a writer on TV has pushed you towards writing? More seriously, is Howie's phantom hand gently pressed to your writing arm(s)? Is this like a 'Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore in Ghost' thing going on? Be honest. We can take it.
Oh man, now I really want to find a way to film or photograph that image so everyone has to experience the horror along with me. I wonder how much Unchained Melody costs these days? Oops, got distracted there. Funnily enough, reading Lovecraft's fiction and his letters did not in any way give me any sort of writing itch. In truth, I blame the fact that Ask Lovecraft has widened the number of writers I now know and when you spend time with those people, you're bound to get infected with something. I'm just lucky that this time, I only came away with a mild case of literary inspiration and there are creams for that.
You're taking Ask Lovecraft on a bit of a festival circuit in 2015. Where will you be seen, and when? Do you have a favourite aspect of live performance?
This year will see me at Cthulhucon in Portland, Oregon this April and then back in Providence for NecronomiCon in August. Live performances are really my favourite part of this whole shebang. My background is in stage acting and while I don't really work off of a script for my live shows, that energy and immediate feedback one gets from having an audience right in front of you is still so gratifying. I also love being kept on my toes and having to come up with answers for questions on the spot. For the web-series, I mull and I ponder questions and it can take me forever to hone what I think is an acceptable reply but when you're staring face to face with your inquisitor, you really have to think fast. It's a completely different part of my brain, almost more muscle memory and reflex than conscious thought and I can't get enough of it.
RESONATOR! Frequency Shifting with Christopher Slatsky0
RESONATOR: New Lovecraftian Tales From Beyond drops today FRIDAY MARCH 13th! Today is the day we pull names from some kind of container to see which 4 of our pre-ordering Migraineers will be the lucky bastards to win the sweet original art by Nick Gucker that we used for the cover! That's later on… in the meantime read this swell interview that anthology editor Scott R Jones did with RESONATOR author Christopher Slatsky! (We'll be rolling out interviews with most of the contributors over the next two weeks or so, so check back often for added awesome.)
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Christopher, as I read your story, Film Maudit, I was put in mind of the urban legend that surrounds the 1895 showing of the Lumiere Brothers film, L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat: basically, viewers at the time were said to recoil in terror at the image of the train pulling in at speed, largely because no one at the time was used to the immediacy of the medium. Movies have always had this aspect of altered reality, and a good movie, shown in the black cavern of a theatre, can be completely transporting. Your titular film is of course anything but Good, and the addition of a Resonator-type spookshow gimmick machine makes of the film a portal into hell. You're clearly a film buff: what movies have had a profound effect on you, and why?
Of course there are dozens, but those that invariably rise to the surface are the usual dark fantasy and noir film suspects: Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, Dawn of the Dead, Kwaidan, Scarlet Street, John Carpenter's The Thing, The Spirit of the Beehive, anything by Maya Derren, specifically Meshes of the Afternoon. In fact Meshes was screening in my head the whole time I was writing Film Maudit.
I've seen you mention elsewhere that you're more interested in writing stories that chronicle the moment before an apocalypse than the moments that come after. Once the horror is revealed, do you think there is anything more to be said about, say, the human condition, or our place in the universe? Or is post-apocalyptic horror fiction just so much fantasy-fueled gilding of the lily?
I prefer the insinuation of Armageddon, the circumstances and emotions that accompany the descent to the End. There are some who can masterfully chronicle the lives of those after the Fall (McCarthy's The Road and Tim Lebbon's Naming of the Parts are two great examples of post-apocalyptic tales that gut-punched me), but for the most part I find such stories seem more concerned with inventories, stockpiling and survival preparation, rather than any meaningful examination.
Post-apocalyptic tales lean towards a literature of comfort, of celebrating the attempt to return to the status quo, or a semblance of some such. I prefer horror that unsettles so profoundly the reader is left wondering why they'd even settled into whatever complacent worldview they held before reading the tale. The plummet down the well is more interesting to me than what happens when they hit the bottom.
What's coming up for you in the next months, Christopher? Anything special we should be on the lookout for?
I have a tale in the premiere issue of the new weird journal Xnoybis, a story in The Summer of Lovecraft anthology coming up, and a collection in the works, tentatively scheduled to be released at the end of the year. And I also have the usual short stories in limbo and a novel in the works.
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RESONATOR! Frequency Shifting with Lyndsey Holder0
RESONATOR: New Lovecraftian Tales From Beyond drops officially at the end of this week! FRIDAY MARCH 13th! A day that will no doubt live in some kind of infamy, according to our recent tea leaf readings and repeated exposure to cosmic rays in our specially constructed ray-harvesting bunker! (Ahh, the things we get up to for fun here at MMP HQ! We can't even, not even.) Anyway, you can still PRE-ORDER the paperback edition of RESONATOR HERE (until Thursday, naturally — jeez! Tomorrow? Yes.) and not only save on shipping costs (anywhere in the world!) but be entered to win the sweet original art by Nick Gucker that we used for the cover! That's all kinds of pineal-stimulating win, right there. So, go do that, and then come back here to read this swell interview that anthology editor Scott R Jones did with RESONATOR author Lyndsey Holder! (We'll be rolling out interviews with most of the contributors over the next two weeks or so, so check back often for added awesome.)
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Lyndsey, your story, Parasitosis, has a remarkable crackling energy to it, largely due to the poetic choice of having your Resonator technology induce a synaesthetic response in the user. Colours you hear, language you feel on your skin, vignettes that impose themselves over reality the deeper one goes into the experience. Synaesthesia is a little known condition; what made you want to work with it?
I'm fascinated by the human body and its weirdness: all of the strange little things that some of us can spontaneously do that make us so different from any kind of artificial intelligence. I grew up in the 1980s, when the prevailing attitude was that technology would eventually outshine all of humanity. After having worked in an operating room for a while, I've come to believe that human bodies are far more complex and amazing than technology could ever be. Also, I personally have orgasms to colour synaesthesia.
Neat! The creatures your narrator encounters in the spaces Beyond are sentient, scheming things, with an active interest in using her for their own ends, which I found made a nice change from the usual run of mindless hungry blobs. It stands to reason that a Beyond ecosystem (or as I started to call it, an "eeek!-osystem") would have highly-evolved, thinking beings somewhere in it. Which would you find more horrific: consumed by an extra-dimensional jellyfish or enslaved by (for lack of a better term) a junkie demon?
Being eaten has an end point at least, though I can't imagine jellyfish, even extra-dimensional ones, being terribly quick eaters. They probably have lots of fun neurotoxins they'd hit me up with, though, so there's that to look forward to. Anyway, having stared into what I was fairly certain was my own impending doom more than once, there's something freeing about letting go when you're in that moment, when you see your own death looming immediately ahead of you and you are sure that there is nothing you can do to stop it. Most of us spend every waking moment running from our own mortality so there's a profound sense of relief when you feel that Death has finally caught up with you and you don't have to run any more. Being trapped by junkie demons is far more insidious, because your cage is something that is intangible. When you can't see the walls of your prison, how do you know where they begin and where they end? How do you tell your fellow inmates from your jailers?
You're fairly new to being published; Parisitosis is, I think, your second story published and the first in print. How are you finding the experience so far? Any writing goals you'd like to share?
I've been trying to be a lot more visceral with my writing lately, which is both liberating and terrifying. Putting a lot of myself into my work makes the process of writing a lot more of an adrenaline rush, but it also makes submitting it a lot more tense – I sometimes feel like I'm showing up naked on someone's doorstep and hoping they don't laugh at me.
No one's laughing, trust us! Where can we find more of your work in 2015, Lyndsey?
My story Chosen will appear in Innsmouth Free Press' upcoming anthology She Walks in Shadows in the fall. I'm also working on a project with some other incredibly talented women with collagen disorders, the proceeds of which will be used to help us all meet together in person in November this year. It's still in very early stages of planning, but I'm very excited about it.
Always a pleasure, Lyndsey! We're very happy to have you in RESONATOR and we look forward to watching you rise!


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That time I attended WWDC 2018
And Google i/o too
In the last few months I've been lucky enough to win a ticket to both WWDC and Google i/o, both held in Silicon Valley only a month apart.
Experiencing both conferences so close together does allow a good perceptive to compare the two events. Of course these are developer conferences but also both have design content. Getting access to Apple & Google engineers is a great opportunity not just for developers.
Basic Apples to Googles comparison, WWDC costs more than i/o, yet is longer. Google gives free devices (a Home Mini & Android things dev kit) while Apple gives out the Levi's jacket and the awesome pins. Both have a concert/festival night, however Apple did well in booking a name I'd heard of (the guy from Panic at the Disco).
Full disclosure, I've have been an Apple customer since getting a black & white Mac Classic 2. I've now nearly lost count on the number of Macs I've owned (not counting vintage or work machines). It's not about being a faithful fan boy, but owning a better designed product (even through the mid-90s). And I've watched numerous WWDC keynotes and product launches, so it was certainly a dream to attend.
For i/o I stayed surprisingly close to Apple Park; less luck and more slow on the booking left me staying in Santa Clara a short walk from one of the conference shuttles. It was also a short walk to Cupertino and the new Apple Campus. So the day before Google i/o I was picking up my badge, then rushing to visit both Campus stores before they closed. (Fun fact, there are better t-shirts at the One Infinite Loop store).
With WWDC located in San Jose, it's easier to stay nearer the venue and get around on foot (or Bird scooter). Mine was still a hike, or tram ride away. Google provides all meals & snacks at any time which is helpful given the remote location, while Apple provides some breakfasts, lunches and snacks at certain times and there are loads of dinner options around San Jose (hello first time at an In & Out).
Clockwise from top left: San Jose in the early morning (we'd been waiting over an hour before getting this close), conference signage at a San Jose tram stop, the vast line behind us waiting for the keynote, the keynote room filling up.
The talks
WWDC really excels at cramming a lot of information in their near one hour sessions. I've watched many of the videos on design and various technologies in the iOS SDK so I knew what to expect. Regular attendees suggest skipping many of these (watch the video later) and instead go network. Not needing to network, I instead took in a ton of sessions and learned a great deal, some of which is still in my brain. The design talks were especially brilliant and thought provoking — I had to corner one speaker outside to ask some followup questions.
For Google, the sessions are shorter and of the ones I attended, were lighter on in-depth specifics (slides of code). We were treated to a few guests including design leader John Maeda giving a mini state of design talk before interviewing Black Panther production designer Hannah Beachler on stage. I also found the Google sessions were almost advertisements for the given product since the short session and overview avoided deep details. However in my opinion this was less the case with the Material design and Flutter talks, though this perspective could be due to my design background).
Clockwise from top left: i/o branding on a session tent, wayfinding, big i/o installation for Instagramming selfies, a lunch menu, water wagon, experiments exhibition
Tents vs. the critique room
Each conference provided an opportunity to meet with their designers for two critiques, design and accessibility (more on that below). Google provides tents or exhibits for many of the technologies including design. It was easy to come and go from the design tent at any time even if you didn't have a critique appointment. At WWDC you can't get into the room without an appointment.
Google very cleverly held mini 'box' talks in a corner of their tent. The talks offered great insight into how Google designers work and how they applied the latest Material and Flutter technologies, including a few sessions on how the conference app was designed. The tent provided the space to talk with other designers, not just Google designers, and fostered some community.
In terms of the critiques, they were helpful and insightful, as well as validating to the direction I was taking with a recent project. Of course there's not much time especially when presenting a complex app, so highlighting a few key experiences and interactions yielded the best result. Each conference also has separate accessibility audit appointments which are very helpful in accessing an app and taking back to the office tangible actions. Since I was just beginning a new project, I was able to include accessibility from the start into designs as part of every deliverable.
Clockwise from top left: the near-empty lounge late in the day, the lounge packed after iOS12 beta was announced, attendees playing AR games, conference staff wishing us a goodbye (there was a chant), Thursday night concert in the park.
Something design related to announce
We're unlikely to see this repeated every year, but Google made several design specific announcements related to Material design. Made early on, this gave attendees time to drop by the Design & Accessibility tent and speak with designers (and Material developers).
There are no design specific announcements at WWDC, however they do host the Apple Design awards which are worth watching. Understanding the apps that Apple recongises for going above and beyond to create thoughtful & useful experiences is eye-opening, inspiring and humbling.
Clockwise from top left: the food tent, board with ever changing posters for daily events, alley between session tents, Hannah and John, Jelly Beans (afternoon snacks were either health or Android code-name treats
On site staff
WWDC is well staffed by Apple Store employees who bring an amazing energy to the conference. Just picture those opening day lineups at stores and you get a good picture. They are everywhere and very helpful. Bumping into engineers or product managers is less random (I did luck out speaking to a product team in the lounge), otherwise you go to the tech open hours or book an appointment. For Google, I didn't inquire where the event staff were from. Friendly and helpful, they weren't cheerleaders in the same way as at WWDC, except on concert night. However with the product tents it was far easier to get chatting with an engineer or product manager, even one working in a specific domain. For design, the tent was alway open and accessible.
Both conferences had spaces and times for groups to meet up, such as communities & regions of the world, interest groups around certain technology, leadership, and for Google, women & visible minorities. These are good safe spaces to bring together groups under represented in tech, so big kudos to Apple and Google for that. I know both companies go the extra mile to make their workplaces inclusive and safe, and they could bring some of that additional inclusion to conference with space for LGBT, disabled, and other visible minorities in the case of WWDC. And of course when providing space for 'game makers' or other interest groups, a get-together for design would have been useful in fostering the app design community. I recognise these are developer conferences, however both conferences make an effort to distribute tickets to designers. In the case of WWDC, a separate design event happens in San Jose at the same time which provides a great opportunity but it's impossible to attend both.
Left to right: me in the main hall waiting for a presentation, an AR demo with LEGO!, conference wayfinding
Final note
Both conferences bring their A-game with conference branding. The event is an experience, and both Apple & Google do an excellent job creating a consistent visual identity. There's also normally background music playing at both events powered through their respective services (and devices), though it was more obvious WWDC came from Apple Music. It didn't hurt that we received push notifications about the Apple Music playlist on the last day (and yes, I've listen to it a few times since)
Each conference also produces a helpful companion app, but this is where Google took the design crown and used their app to showcase some of the excellent new Material design components (bottom navigation, chips, animations).


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Long before today's announcement that the Siri Voice Assistant would be an integral part of iOS, Siri was a third-party app. It wasn't as pretty, and not nearly as well integrated, but it had one big advantage: it ran on just about any iOS device.
Then Apple bought Siri. It immediately became clear that Apple was making a push into voice — and yet, the app stayed on the store. It lived on un-updated, but it lived on nevertheless. Then Apple introduced Siri… exclusively for the iPhone 4S.
And with that, the life of Siri (the application) came to an end, making way for Siri (the feature).
For something that most would never notice, the pull down was masterfully choreographed: when Siri was first mentioned on stage, the application was still easily available. By the time the demonstration was over, the app was no where to be found — and unfortunately for the folks who might have already nabbed Siri in the past year or so (or worse yet, those who have come to consider Siri a part of their everyday lives), it appears as if the servers that Siri (the app) relies on were shut down at the same time.
Update: After a brief downtime, the servers came back up.. with a message of their impending demise: "I've been replaced! The new Siri is even smarter and better looking than me, and waiting for you on the iPhone 4S. I'll be leaving for home Oct 15th. Until then…how can I help you?"
So, why take it down? Two reasons come to mind. For one, it's pretty tough to up-sell current iPhone 4 owners to the iPhone 4S if one of the biggest features is already available (albeit to a limited extent) as a third-party app. Less nefariously, having a third-party app (especially one that hadn't been updated in around a year) available with the same name as a feature would be beyond confusing. If it were solely about avoiding confusion, though, why pull down the server for those who already have the app?


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Having lost three of its last six matches going into Friday's final tuneup at UC Santa Barbara, the CSUN men's volleyball team was able to accomplish a goal. Right before the postseason starts.
'We definitely accomplished what we wanted to do,' senior Eric Vance said following the Matadors' 3-0 sweep of the Gauchos at Robertson Gym. 'Everyone played phenomenal. That's how I know we can play and if we play like that, we are going to go very far in the playoffs.'
The No. 3 Matadors (23-6, 16-6 MPSF) did more than accomplish their goal against UCSB (8-19, 4-18 MPSF), hitting a season-high .598 thanks to their fabulous freshman Matt Stork, who had 44 assists. Vance and Tanner Nua added 20 and 14 kills respectively.
'It feels real good,' Stork said. ' It was a great match for us and we finished the regular season the way we wanted. We hit the best we have all year, and our ace-to-service-error ratio was really good tonight.'
The match began with the teams going back and forth through the first 36 points before the Matadors ran away with the frame, winning 12 of the next 16 points to take the first game, 30-22. Leading the way in the set were Nua with seven kills and junior Mike Gaudino, who added five.
The Matadors came out firing in the second set, getting out to an 11-5 advantage that forced Gaucho coach Rick McLaughlin to call a timeout. UCSB responded with a 7-2 spurt that got them within one point of the Matadors at 13-12.
But not even fans shouting obscenities could take the Matadors out of their game as they answered with a 10-4 run which was highlighted by Gaudino's service ace that hit a Gaucho player in the face.
'Plays like that always fire us up,' Nua said. 'Especially when someone on the other team gets hit in the face. We really enjoyed it. It sparked us and we started playing better.'
The Matadors went on to outscore the Gauchos 7-5 and took the set 30-21,
Northridge got in an early 8-2 hole in the third set, but slowly began to chip away at the Gaucho lead. Vance got the Matadors within two at 10-8 with back-to-back points.
However, on senior night, UCSB was not about to fold and managed to stretch its lead up to five (19-14). The Matadors rallied once more and tied the game at 20 thanks to another kill from Vance, and took the lead on the next point on a kill from Gaudino.


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PARIS — Warnings about an imminent terrorist attack had hung ominously in the air in the final weeks of the French presidential election. On Tuesday, police arrested two suspects in the southern city of Marseille after finding a cache of weapons and bomb-making ingredients in their apartment. But with the world focused on French politics like never before, that spectre of terrorism crashing into the political campaign became a disturbing reality last night in the French capital.
Already hit by two major terrorist attacks in the past three years, Paris was struck again — less than 72 hours before polls open Sunday. A gunman, possibly linked to terror group ISIS, shot dead a police officer and wounded two others on the iconic Champs Elysées shopping street. French newspaper Le Monde reported that the shooter, who was killed in a firefight with police, is Karim Cheurfi, a 39-year-old French citizen.
Le Parisien"s April 20 front page
Voters will now go to the polls on Sunday in a highly unpredictable race, with four of the 11 candidates within striking distance of making the two-person runoff in May. A Le Monde editorial this morning said the attack might benefit far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who has made the threat of Islamist extremism and immigration her main talking points. Last Monday, she even claimed there would have been no terror assaults in France under her watch. If history has shown any precedent, the far right may indeed get a boost. After terror attacks in and around Paris on Nov. 13, 2015, that killed 130 people, Le Pen's National Front party had its strongest ever showing in regional elections.
The fight against extremism cannot be won overnight.
Bruno Jeanbart, head of polling institute OpinionWay told French daily Le Figaro that last night's attack "reactivates themes on which Marine Le Pen is already well positioned." And though Jeanbart points out that the Nov. 13 attacks were "much more powerful" than the Champs Elysées one, the latter still "puts the end of the campaign back on national matters' — a development that could benefit rightwing contenders like Le Pen.
Le Pen, reacting to the attacks this morning, said that France needs to tighten its borders and deport all foreigners on the terror watchlist. Emmanuel Macron, a centrist candidate just ahead of her in the polls, cautioned against giving into fear and noted that the fight against extremism cannot be won overnight.Le Parisiendaily described the two reactions as "diametrically opposed."
It's hard to overstate how high the stakes are Sunday. But like with all elections, we can be sure that some in France will vote with their head, others with their heart.