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Very nice work Furio and thanks for the vids !
Very nice work Furio and thanks for the vids !
Thx for the vids ...wonderful..they really helped
I really like your sketch, make me want to do more like this.
I love how you handle hard stuff.
Great work!
Thx for the comments guys
Been working on this guy again ...was inspired by Ced66 with the mass of detail he adds.......not really quick ...quite slow actually ...
still need to finish back of the head and extra bits ...and dam tubes
I just pee my pants.... awesome, good job
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so cool , man , like your work
Really cool design for the mechanical parts! Love it
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ALL this is going into the your folder on my HDD. lol, I wasn't lying when i said i made one. Great work, really loved that hardsurface sculpt vid too.
Nice work!
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Gorgeous Foo!
Thanks for posting the video.
So I'm guessing you are using the pinch brush to create those hard edges and cut lines. What other brushes are you using?
Great work!
man i think your work is a real inspiration ...thanx for sharing some knowledge and sharing your great works .
btw..your "action hero" entry totally kicked a** dude!
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British savers are shifting billions of pounds into the stock market on the hope of cashing in on a rally that is already in full swing.
A so-called "great rotation" in the global economy – a movement from bonds to shares - has spurred the sudden rush with investors keen not to miss out on further gains.
The FTSE 100 closed up more than 70 points on Friday at 6347, its highest level in more than five years, adding to a powerful surge that has seen the index rise from 6027 at the start of the year.
One million shareholders in BT, one of Britain's most widely held stocks, saw a 6 per cent rise in a day, making it the Footsie's top riser.
Investors who ignored warnings of another turbulent year for markets and invested £10,000 in the Footsie at the start of the year would have made a profit of £640 in just one month.
The rally will also have added billions of pounds to the value of company and private pension funds held by eight million Britons.
Analysts have called the shift "the great rotation" where investors sell bonds, safer assets that were popular in the financial turbulence of recent years, to buy shares, which are regarded as higher risk.
Investors have been emboldened by an unusually prolonged lull in the debt crises that have dogged the eurozone over recent years and the US in recent months.
Investment companies have been shocked by the sudden rise in demand. Fidelity, one of the UK's largest fund companies, said sales of stock market funds in January were up by 160 per cent on a year ago. "It's been an exceptional start to the year," said Mark Till, head of personal investing. "If I'm honest, it's surprised me. It's the most money we've taken in seven years, which is as far back as our records go."
TD Direct, a stockbroker, said demand for shares was up 23 per cent on the previous week with Lloyds, Vodafone and Barclays popular with individual traders.
America's Dow Jones index pushed through 14,000 points for the first time since 2007.
Some analysts were last night urging caution. James Butterfull, equity strategist at Coutts, said: "Investors shouldn't get too carried away and should bear in mind that there will be volatility."
But James Bartholomew, author of the Daily Telegraph's Diary of a Private Investor column, said: "Frankly, I feel it does not matter so much right now which shares one owns. The important thing is to be in shares at all.
"It would not be surprising to see the index challenging its all-time high of almost 7,000 by the end of the year."
>> Read James Bartholomew's full column in Your Money in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday.

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Gifts for Horse Lovers: Books About Horses
By Bianca Schulze, The Children's Book Review
Published: December 10, 2010
This is our "Horse Lovers" fictional book list, hand selected for young horse enthusiasts.
An excerpt from My Pony by Susan Jeffers:
I want a pony.
I want a pony more than anything in the world.
Dust Devil
by Anne Isaacs (Author), Paul Zelinsky (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 5-9
Hardcover: 48 pages
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade (September 14, 2010)
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Pompe Prevalence Study in Patients With Muscle Weakness Without Diagnosis (POPS)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00830583
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 28, 2009
Last Update Posted : December 8, 2011
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An international consensual group recommends confirming the diagnosis of the Pompe disease after a dried blood spot (DBS) with a dosage of the enzymatic activity in other tissue. This strategy is currently used in the usual practice.
The aim is evaluate the prevalence of the Pompe disease among patients with progressive limb girdle muscular weakness and/or axial deficiency, and/or respiratory insufficiency. The diagnosis will be confirmed using DBS.
|Condition or disease
|Pompe's Disease
|Procedure: blood test
|Not Applicable
In Pompe disease, deficiency of the enzyme acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA) results in accumulation of glycogen within the lyososomes of numerous tissues and cell types especially in muscular cells.
Pompe disease is pan ethnic (but with increased prevalence in the afro-American and Chinese population). Pompe disease is rare with an estimated incidence of 1 in 40,000 births. In France so far, a hundred patients have been diagnosed. The difference of results between the epidemiologic studies published and the number of French patients diagnosed is caused by an under-diagnostic of this pathology, very rare and unknown.
The late onset type of the disease (from childhood to adult) is revealed by progressive muscle weakness generally beginning in proximal muscles of the legs. Respiratory muscle weakness is often the cause of death among patients having respiratory insufficiency.
Recognizing Pompe disease can be challenging, as signs and symptoms may be shared with other disorders (limb girdle muscular dystrophy, dystrophinopathy or inflammatory myopathy).
Muscle biopsies are often used to measure GAA activity and for histology in patients with muscle weakness. But glycogen accumulation in the muscles of patients varies with biopsy site, so the diagnosis of Pompe disease can be missed by using only a muscle biopsy. Fibroblasts can also serve as a source of material for research but cell culture facilities are not easy for clinicians and it takes several weeks to obtain confluent cultures. Then, assays that use blood to diagnose Pompe disease were developed. Therefore, a group of international clinicians and biologists met together in London in December 2006 and established an agreement concerning the various methods of this enzyme dosage. Recently, a test on a DBS (dried blood spot) has been developed. This test is not invasive, easy to collect and transport, requires small sample volume and provides rapid results. This international consensual group recommends confirming the diagnosis of the Pompe disease after a DBS with a dosage of the enzymatic activity in other tissue. This strategy is currently used in the usual practice.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|400 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Pompe Prevalence Study in Patients With Muscle Weakness Without Diagnosis
|Study Start Date :
|January 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|October 2011
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|October 2011
pompe's disease suspected patient
Procedure: blood test
There is only a blood test at the beginning.
- Evaluate the prevalence of the Pompe disease among patients with progressive limb girdle muscular weakness and/or axial deficiency, and/or respiratory insufficiency. The diagnosis will be confirmed using DBS. [ Time Frame: during the first and the only visit ]
- Evaluate the relative sensibility of the diagnosis in the Pompe disease by muscular biopsy with histological methods (PAS and acid phosphatase). [ Time Frame: during the first and the only visit ]
- Define the various methods of diagnosis for the Pompe Disease. [ Time Frame: during the first and the only visit ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|8 Years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥ 8 years
- The patient and/or the patient's legal representative has given their informed consent in writing before any study procedure is initiated
- Patient with :
Limb girdle muscle weakness or axial weakness And/Or Respiratory insufficiency,With unknown etiology
- Sporadic or familial case compatible with a autosomal recessive disorder
- Patient with muscular biopsy (and specific immunologic analyses) without diagnosis.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient with a confirmed and documented diagnosis of an etiologic muscular disease determined by the histological analysis (described in appendix 6) that must have been performed on muscle biopsy.
- Patient familial background known with a X-link or a dominant transmission
- Patient who have had confirmation of a Pompe disease by biochemical analysis and/or by molecular biology
- Patient for whom an GAA enzymatic activity has already been performed and for which the result was normal.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00830583
|Claude Desnuelle
|Nice, France
|Principal Investigator:
|Claude Desnuelle
|Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice
|Responsible Party:
|Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00830583 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|January 28, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|December 8, 2011
|Last Verified:
|January 2009
Glycogen Storage Disease Type II
Lysosomal Storage Diseases, Nervous System
Brain Diseases, Metabolic, Inborn
Brain Diseases, Metabolic
Brain Diseases
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Nervous System Diseases
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Glycogen Storage Disease
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Musculoskeletal Diseases
Muscle Weakness
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Carbohydrate Metabolism, Inborn Errors
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The Cousins Bellic
A nice easy introduction toGTA's driving. Drive to Roman's place with your drunk cousin in tow. If you fail this, you've got a long road ahead.
It's your Call
Another simple mission, and your first chance to use your mobile phone. Just watch out for the loan sharks and phone Roman when they arrive. Get back to the depot. Easy.
Three's A Crowd
Pick up Mallorie and Michelleat the subway, then takeMichelle back to her apartment. Call Roman and he'll tell you to buy some clothes - just don't spend too much, because money's tight at the moment.
First Date
Here you need to take Michelle bowling. We're not sure if you need to win, but she's so hopeless at bowling that you probably will anyway. Then just take her home. After this, you can call her anytime to set up another date.
Bleed Out
Go and find Roman on the basketball court. You're going to have to fight the people beating him up, but try to only take on one at a time, or you'll get surrounded. Use the disarm on Darden to take his knife away and then stab him.
Easy Fare
This is your first cab mission for Roman. Pick up Jermaine, take him where he wants, then lose the cops. After this, you'll be able to take on taxi missions to earn extra money.
Jamaican Heat
Pick up Little Jacob and take him where he wants. Go to the vantage point and wait - if you stay where you're told, there's no chance of enemies hitting you. Shoot them all, then get back to Jacob's house. Another easy mission.
Concrete Jungle
This is your first chance to do some in-car shooting, but it's just as easy to runyour targetsover. After that's done, take Jacob to the house marked on your map and let him keep the enemies busy while you shoot everyone. This mission introduces cover shooting if you haven't done it yet.
Bull In A China Shop
Go to the shop indicated on your map, and throw a brick through window to convince them to pay up. This brick trick's handy for causing a distraction in situations when pulling a gun might be considered going a bit far.
Hung Out To Dry
You'll want to pick a fairly chunky car to ram the man you're chasing off the road - if you hit him directly from behind you might go through the windshield. There's a car out the back you can hotwire, but a Patriot might be a better choice.
Clean Getaway
Here you just need to catch the subway, then punch out the two guys there. If you've got a gun, just shoot them. Then it's off to the car wash and then to the garage to finish the mission.
Ivan The Not So Terrible
Your chase target here is a pretty ropey driver, so the tough bit of this mission's chasing him across the rooftops.
Chase him in car, across rooftops, stamp on his hands or let him go. This might affect what happens later, though…
Uncle Vlad
Head to Comrades but park your car out back and equip a shotgun. Pop the bodyguards, sprint through the doors, drive out front and make sure you pick up Roman, then follow your target. You need to be quick, but the end of the mission will introduce you to the game's first execution sequence.
Crime and Punishment
This is the first mission where you need to get a cop car: to do it, either call 911 - although this means one guy will stay in the car and need to be dealt with - or fire into the air to attract police attention. This way both cops will leave their car to investigate, and you can steal it without getting a wanted rating. Now all you have to do is pull over vans - but make sure you've got a shotgun equipped for when things inevitably go wrong.
Do You Have Protection?
Drive to the Sex shop, then kneecap the guy you've been told to. Head back to the gun shop and you'll be rewarded with an SMG.
Final Destination
Here, you're heading to the subway to whack a guy. Have a gun ready, because one of his bodyguards has an SMG and you need to take him out fast. After that's done, sprint across the tracks and pop your target before he gets in a car. Or shoot out his tyres and kill him when he crashes.
No Love Lost
This is one of the first missions where there's no point in shooting at your target - you just need to be careful you don't fall off your bike and chase him at a distance. When his gang turns up in the park, dismount at a distance from them, and use trees as cover while you shoot them all. There's no rush for this.
Rigged To Blow
Here you've been given a truck rigged with a bomb. Drive carefully, because one or two knocks will make it explode. Just take it to the destination, and watch it blow from a distance. Easy.


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The CCIE Routing & Switching Advanced Troubleshooting video course download is a combination of lectures focused on a structured troubleshooting approach and advanced hands-on troubleshooting lab scenarios. The class is designed for students who want to solidify their troubleshooting skills, master a structured troubleshooting approach, and identify their weak areas. This is the only product on the market targeted exclusively at CCIE Routing & Switching troubleshooting topics. The lecture portion of the class covers topics from structured troubleshooting strategies and their application to isolating issues found at different layers of the seven-level OSI model. The lab strategy portion of the class covers such topics as what to expect the day of your lab, how to prioritize tasks, and how to manage your time.


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Kids. They're like adults, just innocent and excited about everything in the world. Like this kid who appears to have some sort of awakening to the temple of horsepower in a Ferrari F430.
This ride shows off the power of a Ferrari, even at low speeds, to a young fan. Sure, he thinks he's going fast, but speed is always accentuated for the passenger.
His moaning and excitement clearly shows that he has become a child possessed by the F430's charms and will now be fully engulfed with every aspect of it for the rest of his life.
Better than being possessed by a Lincoln.
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"Only in America do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage." –Anonymous.
- First step (and this is for the ambitious), put all your junk in the driveway and promise to put nothing back in unless it's of use and has a designated spot.
- Give your garage a good scrubbing. Cover oil spills with cat litter overnight to absorb oil. Sweep up the cat litter and scrub remaining oil stains with laundry or dishwasher detergent. Rinse with water and you've got a shiny new concrete floor.
- Now it's time to start organizing. Delegate sections of the garage to different categories like tools, kids, and recreation equipment. Use bungee cords to corral sporting goods.
- Utilize vertical space as much as possible by hanging large items like brooms, golf clubs and ladders. Cover up shelves and hanging items with long drapes to give your garage a polished look.
- Use old jars to store small items like nails or sidewalk chalk. Screw corresponding lids onto the underside of shelves to free up some top shelf real estate.
What to do with all the junk left in your driveway?
- Properly dispose of hazardous materials like paint, batteries, oil and cleaning solutions. Check your local waste management company's policy on hazardous materials. Usually they will direct you to a drop-off site in your area.
- Donate furniture, tools, building materials and other home improvement related items to one of the 825 Habitat for Humanity's ReStores.
- If you feel like you've got a lot of treasures left, host a garage sale. Ask neighbors if they'd like to have a joint sale to increase your customer base.
Final tip: Many waste management companies offer customers a once or twice a year big item pickup. Now's the time to capitalize on this service if you've still got junk left and you feel it's not worth donating or selling.


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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — At the end of a historic night, the Olympic debut of women's ski jumping, the pioneer looked to the future.
"In four years this sport is going to be at a high level," Lindsey Van said. She motioned toward the two ski jumps in the distance. "Hopefully we'll be on the big one."
At the RusSki Gorki Jumping Center, there are two jumps — the 95-meter one (normal hill) and the 125-meter one (large hill). The big one is still off limits in competition.
HISTORIC: Carina Vogt wins ski jump gold
BRENNAN: No shame for U.S. jumpers
After the first Olympic gold medal was awarded to Germany's Carina Vogt on Tuesday night, the next fight began.
"Now we have to work on 2018 getting women on the large hill and a team event," said DeeDee Corradini. president of Women's Ski Jumping USA. "As soon as Sochi is over we start working on that."
HALFPIPE: No medal this time for Shaun White
WILL LEITCH: The crushed tomato
"I want to be on the big hill very much," said Van, who was the face of the 10-year fight for Olympic inclusion. "Of course we want to be there. I want to catch up with the boys."
At 19, Sarah Hendrickson is the present and the future of her sport. In 2012, the inaugural World Cup season for women's ski jumping, Hendrickson won nine out of 13 World Cups to secure the overall title. In 2013, she won the world championship.
If she didn't tear the ACL and MCL in her right knee last August, she would have likely left Sochi with a medal. Instead, she finished 21st, behind Jessica Jerome who was 10th and Van at 15th.
After extensive rehab, Hendrickson took her first jump last month, but her training has been limited. In the weeks prior, her goal was take as few as possible jumps — three or four each day, three days a week — at the team's base in Park City, Utah.
"I could blame it on that I guess," Hendrickson said about her performance. "I try not to think of that way. I wanted to have no regrets. But I guess I would blame it more on not having enough training jumps at home."
The 2018 Games in PyeongChang now become the goal for Hendrickson. Her father, Bill, said Tuesday that there's "a preconceived notion that men are braver than women."
"It takes a lot of guts to go of these jumps," he said. "Now we are here we have to work on the 2018 Games."
VIDEO: Daily Olympics wrap-up
Medals abound for American athletes on Tuesday in Sochi, but one of the country's most famous stars was left without hardware.
The International Olympic Committee aims for gender equality but falls one sport short in the Winter Games. Nordic combined remains the only winter sport in which women don't compete.
IOC sports director Christophe Dubi said the program will be reviewed, as it always is after each Games, and also struck a hopeful note of inclusion. "You remember the debate regarding women's ski jumping and at the time it was considered that we didn't have the depth and number of jumpers for Vancouver. We don't need to go back to these arguments," he said. If depth continues to improve, inclusion presumably would follow.
Nordic combined athletes will likely look to this group of ski jumpers for guidance. Though Tuesday night's event was as much about equality as it was about sport, it was also about a collective fight.
"There's a special camaraderie all the girls have, from all the countries, and I really felt it tonight," Jerome said. "I don't want to seem complacent. I know if I had done what I was doing a week and a half ago, I would be up there on the medals. It just didn't happen for me today. But just be here to share this with all my friends and competitors is a really awesome consolation prize."
"We have arrived."
PHOTOS: The best images from women's ski jumping


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BlackBerry's Chen Is the Right Guy, but at the Wrong Price
Turning around a company, any company, that's undergone the trials and tribulations that BlackBerry has is a tall order. Declining market share, underwhelming sales of new devices, and mounting competition mean incoming CEO John Chen faces a monumental task.
Chen's background would appear to be ideally suited for the challenge he's about to face, and that's great for BlackBerry bulls. But even with his pedigree -- what he accomplished after taking the reins at Sybase was nothing short of spectacular -- it's difficult to reconcile Chen's staggering compensation package with the BlackBerry of today.
BlackBerry's woes
The steady decline of BlackBerry's OS market share continued last quarter, despite a host of newly released phones. Not long ago the notion that Microsoft's Windows Phone OS would actually catch on seemed wildly optimistic, even for the most ardent of fans. However, according to the latest data from analytics firm IDC, Windows Phone has rocketed past BlackBerry.
As of the end of the third quarter of 2013, Windows Phone shipped more than twice the number of units globally than BlackBerry. Last year at this time, BlackBerry sat in third -- behind the usual suspects, Android and Apple iOS -- with 4.1% of the worldwide smartphone OS pie, while Windows Phone owned a meager 2% share. The third quarter of this year is a stark reminder of just how far BlackBerry has fallen.
With 9.5 million units shipped in 2013's third quarter and 3.6% market share, Windows Phone has firmly established itself as the world's third most popular OS. BlackBerry? The folks in Waterloo moved 4.5 million smartphones in the same period, down from last year's 7.7 million. At 1.7%, BlackBerry's latest OS, BB10, is hardly making a dent.
In addition to its disappearing market share, one of BlackBerry's saving graces -- its strong cash position coupled with no debt -- is no longer worth bragging about. Last quarter alone BlackBerry ate through about $500 million to keep the lights on, and you can expect that trend to continue when it announces fiscal third-quarter results on Dec. 20, 2013.
As for its lack of debt, that's about to change, too. Some saw BlackBerry's $1 billion debentures agreement with former suitor Fairfax Financial and friends as a sign of confidence. But when you consider the way BlackBerry's burning through its cash, the debentures look more like a lifeline than an act of faith.
All of this makes Chen's job a mighty one and, like any good CEO with an outstanding track record and a daunting task in front of him, he deserves to get paid handsomely. But when is enough, enough?
Chen, the $100 million man
Chen certainly negotiated himself a sweet deal, which is valued today at $87 million. Most of Chen's pay comes in the form of restricted BlackBerry stock -- 13 million shares -- that will vest over the next five years. Chen can sell 25% after the third year, another 25% after the fourth, and then the balance becomes vested after his fifth year.
In addition to the stock, Chen will collect a $1 million base salary and a $2 million performance bonus. A compensation package consisting primarily of stock makes sense, of course, as now Chen certainly has an incentive to get BlackBerry up and running again. But when you add it all up and get $87 million, not to mention the additional $3 million per year (salary and bonus) over the next four years, Chen becomes a $100 million man overnight. And that's assuming no other stock is awarded nor pay is increased.
Chen's stint at Sybase put him on the map, and deservedly so. He saw the potential in mobile and smartphones, and positioned Sybase to take advantage of it. By the time Sybase was acquired by SAP in 2010 for $5.8 billion, Chen had increased the company's value over six times. Obviously, that's what BlackBerry fans are hoping for.
Desperate times require desperate measures, but considering the financial position BlackBerry has found itself in, and the likelihood of continued deterioration, Chen's pay package doesn't sit well. And based on its flat stock price since announcing the debentures, management changes, and Chen's compensation on Nov. 4, BlackBerry shareholders don't appear to be too comfortable, either.
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The Really Good Things In The Indie Film Biz 2012/
Last year I wrote out 15 really good things about the indie film biz (2011). My first instincts at looking at the list, are that the 15 from last year are still in process this year. Maybe I was a bit ahead of the curve. Maybe I should hold this post until 2013. But I don't think so -- we have much to celebrate this year too.
So what are the new developments that are now taking hold? Unfortunately, my mind hasn't found the answers as quickly as others have (and here too) even if I do consider myself quite the optimist. Okay, make that a pessmistic optimist, but an optimist nonetheless. I have struggled to hit the same number as last year, but I did it, and even exceeded it -- and hopefully you'll continue to fill in the list with what I forgot.
- Direct distribution is really working. We did it on DARK HORSE. They are also doing it on I AM NOT A HIPSTER (opening January 15 nationwide). The list on the doc side is pretty huge: Stacy Perata and team did it on BONES BRIGADE. Jeff Orlowski is doing it on CHASING ICE. As INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE: THE CASE STUDY ( http://bit.ly/105pigj) shows, they did it there too. Add Eugene Jarecki and THE HOUSE I LIVE IN team to the list too.
- Hollywood is taking more creative risks. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/movies/films-dispense-with-storytelling-conventions.html As Ben Affleck noted about this year in film, ", "movies that involve taking risks by the filmmakers and the financiers have been successful."
- The film industry is moving towards proportional gender representation in front of and behind the camera. The NY Times did a good job of pointing the work women are doing done in front of the camera, and that Hollywood is doing producing tales of female heroines. Additionally, Indieland -- the traditional leader of the cultural space -- has for the first time, shown some balance behind the camera too. Sundance has an equal number of female directors as men in the narrative competition. That shouldn't be a surprise, but it has taken us a long time to get here, and we do need to address why there are not more women in power in the entertainment business.
- There is an appetite for acquisition from the distributors. 73 titles were acquired at Sundance in 2012. The question of whether they were acquired for a fair price may not unfortunately be part of the general discussion, but at least there was the option of licensing your work again this year. And I will bring up the lack of a fair price in my upcoming "The Things That Really Sucked In The Indie Film Biz 2012". Stay tuned...
- Worldwide, the industry is asking questions if there is a better way. Just recently I was invited to Paris and Austin to discuss different perspectives on how we can serve audiences better and improve the business. This is not the same as launching initiatives, but it is a start. Last year, I mentioned that the conversation on the Future Of Film took off, but this year it seems to be on a global basis.
- Technology is confronting the problem of our transition from an entertainment economy based on scarcity and control of content, to one recognizing the abundance of, total access to, and full distraction from that content. We have launched an app that does this well. And we have a good number of competitors in the space. Readers of this blog have been following the weekly peek into the start-up KinoNation that Roger Jackson has been chronicling -- another example of technology coming to the rescue (hopefully). And we have media innovation incubator/accelerators starting to blossom.
- There has never been a better time to both preserve and advance the film culture I dearly love. That's why I chose to change my life and focus not on project producing but on producing infrastructure and change. I am not going to be able to do it alone, but working with the support of the organization that launched the oldest running film festival, should hopefully prove far more fruitful than from proclaiming on high from my private soap box.
- New financing options are both here and on the horizon for independent & documentary film. We've witnessed the launch of Slated and seen films get funded as a result. Britdoc's impressive GoodPitch funding forum has funneled and support to doc projects and inspired many in the process. How awesome is that? Further, we now are seeing other evidence of a second generation of funding mechanisms, as entities like Seed & Spark are combining crowdfunding elements with distribution, marketing, and audience aggregation aspects. If that was not enough for you, additionally the JOBS Act was passed in the USA, allowing for equity-based crowdfunding for films of under $1M. We now can give people backend on the films they fund. There remains a lot to work out on the legal side, but here's hoping that it is used both well and for good.
- Transactional VOD Players hit the flashpoint. VHX.tv, Vimeo PPV, Dynamo player, and many more. Whether you want an aggregator or prefer to sell on your own, it is easy and painless to do now. Just ask Louis C.K.
- We have our first VOD Superstar. You want big numbers on VOD? Just cast Kirsten Dunst. Bachelorette. Melancholia. All Good Things. She's beautiful. She's a good actor. She's fascinating to watch. She's funny. She's scary. And she doesn't have too many letters in her name, but just enough to stand out. Hell, if Elizabethtown premiered on Ultra VOD today, it would set records. Okay, this isn't really the GOOD thing but just an aspect of a Good Thing. The Good Thing is that VOD is becoming more marketable and people are not treating as a lesser product. Once all media outlets start covering VOD premieres that will be an Awesome thing.
- Tech and film are talking to each other. Soon they may even speak the same language. Film Independent held a hackathon. Marc Schiller did on the same day on the opposite coast. BAVC Producer University put filmmakers together with tech folks, and in less than a week new apps were born. And not only are they talking, they are getting in bed together -- okay maybe not film yet but media & tech are sleeping together.
- The dominance of the feature film form is starting to wain. Whether it is great webisodes, a tremendous number of wonderful shorts, transmedia experiments, or just cross-platform experiments, cinema is evolving beyond it's historic constraints.Okay, I did say this one last year, but I still feel it starting to happen. I can put things on this list two years in a row can't I? And then I will put it on the negative on the 3rd year, if it hasn't happened yet.
- The two films that I helped produce this year, DARK HORSE and STARLET got great reviews in the New York Times. They also got great reviews many other places too. I can only state this here as a personal positive though. Stay tuned, as this exact same fact will also be on my "What sucked in 2012" list too.
- While I am on that double list tip, here's another that will repeat on tomorrows list of the big and the bad. To quote A.O. Scott of the NY Times: "By the end of this year, The New York Times will have reviewed more than 800 movies, establishing 2012, at least by one measure, as a new benchmark in the annals of cinematic abundance." From the point of view of the audience, right now this is a beautiful thing. Conceptually speaking, we should be able to match audiences with the film that is most right for them. Audiences don't have to compromise. There are more better movies than ever before. Unfortunately, we have to build an infrastructure to support this, but that is a rant for another day (like tomorrow).
- There is a lot of real & meaningful support for indie writers, directors, and producers working in the genres & realms traditionally supported by indie film support organizations. When I look at the various labs that are run by Sundance, IFP, Film Independent, & Tribeca, or the the financial & other support provided by the San Francisco Film Society (ahem...), Cinereach, Austin Film Society and other entities I am very impressed. Granted there is a specific type of movie that seems to most appeal to this sort of thing, but I am impressed at how many programs they are and the good work that they do. It ain't easy and our culture -- at least a very specific part of it -- really depends on it. I hope all of you support the organizations that support the culture you love. Vote with your dollars for the culture you want.
- The online community that supports the effort to advance a sustainable culture where the artist & their supportors benefit by the work they create, works to both preserve and advance the vibrant & diverse work that ambitiously reaches further, is committed to transparency, openness, opportunity, & our communal well-being, and knows that it is a team that builds the future and thus gives back in so many ways including posting, commenting, pointing, liking, and financial contributions. I know this as I am experiencing it daily. Thank you.
Stay tuned for next week: The Really Bad Things In Indie Film 2012
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Miss Saigon
The journey of an Asian woman left behind in her country by her American lover is based on Puccini's famous "Madame Butterfly," but relocated to '70s era Vietnam, in a splashy, visually and emotionally arresting show. Nearly three decades old, the musical was a follow up to 1985's "Les Miserables," written by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil and was a huge success in its initial run as well as many revivals.
"Miss Saigon" kicked off a brand new North American tour at the Providence Performing Arts Center and it shouldn't be missed. The tale of an ill-fated love affair between Kim (Emily Bautista) and Chris (Anthony Festa) resonates with audiences willing to invest in a longer but incredible engaging show. Kim works for the Engineer (Red Concepcion) during the Vietnam war; she is sold nightly to the delight of several American soldiers. But at 17, she's frightened by the prospect of such slavery until she falls for one particular man who promises her a life in his home country. Separated by time and geography, she'll look everywhere for him, and he shall not forget her.
Chris' friend and fellow soldier John (J. Daughtry) is the one to find Kim, and also the one to tell Chris about her son, apparently the result of a single night with him. Now married to Ellen (Stacie Bono), Chris has to make a choice when confronted by Kim and her son; since promised to someone else, he cannot be with Kim but she wishes for him and Ellen to take their child and care for him. It must be noted that original Producer Cameron Mackintosh is very much a part of this revival, and it shows incredibly well throughout the evening. Director Laurence Connor shows local audiences what it must have been like to witness the spectacle of such an experience nearly thirty years ago in London.
The voices belonging to our cast carry the weight and power of such an emotionally driven work; both Bautista and Festa sell their pain in such numbers as "The Last Night of the World" and "I'd Give My Life For You." Even Bono's number as she discovers Kim's declaration of love for Chris "Maybe" packs a wallop. But as the Engineer, Concepcion steals his scenes with a flamboyant flair and eye popping backup visuals and choreography, "The American Dream" and we cannot take our eyes off him. The supporting cast is no less talented and in such a slick production, the seamless transition between scenes make for a colorful night, as well as a host of set pieces that must be seen to be believed, including a helicopter taking away our American soldiers.
"Saigon" won a host of awards during its initial run, breaking box office records in its wake. While here in Rhode Island, those wishing for a taste of true Broadway can see a show locally for its limited run. Get your tickets, and bring your theatre friends with you, none will be disappointed.
"Miss Saigon" ran through September 30th at the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) 220 Weybosset Street, Providence, RI 02903. For upcoming shows at PPAC, visit visit the PPAC website.
For more on the national tour of "Miss Saigon," visit the show's website.


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"We know that the White House possesses documents that contain evidence of an attempt by senior administration officials to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming and minimize the potential danger"
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GOP anti-tax policy goes over the cliff
Read their lips: Republicans just voted for higher taxes.
Granted, it was with a large helping of Democratic aid in the House, where Speaker John Boehner and his GOP leadership spent a turbulent New Year's Day and night dealing with a near insurrection by rank-and-file lawmakers. Many House Republicans loathed the bill passed in the wee hours of New Year's morning by the Senate, which raised taxes on Americans earning over $400,000 a year and lacked corresponding spending cuts.
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( Also on POLITICO: The eight senators who voted 'no' on cliff deal)
But given the lopsided Senate vote in favor of the tax-hiking measure, as well as the 85 GOP House members who voted yes (151 voted no), members of the GOP have violated the party's no-new-taxes orthodoxy for the first time in two decades. It's a significant concession in the aftermath of Mitt Romney's November defeat and a potentially existential moment for a party that has prided itself on a defiant and dogmatic dislike of tax increases.
What remains to be seen is whether that is merely a tactical retreat — bowing to the unique circumstances of the fiscal cliff — or a more meaningful cave-in on the part of Republicans who believe that their anti-tax platform has become politically unsustainable, particularly after a presidential cycle in which the party found itself caricatured as the puppets of the rich and powerful.
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Among top party leaders and strategists, there's a grudging recognition that the politics of taxation just aren't what they used to be. In an age of fiscal anxiety, looming deficits and a potential entitlement meltdown, Americans aren't flatly opposed to increasing taxes — at least, not for the wealthiest taxpayers.
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Prominent figures on the right split Tuesday between those resigned to losing this round of the tax and spending fight and others who called for deeper entrenchment, mirroring the split within the ranks of congressional Republicans.
( Also on POLITICO: Crisis averted: Fiscal cliff bill clears Congress)
"We're in this impossible, upside-down position where if you do nothing, taxes go up. That's what we got saved from. That goes away now," said anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, who heads Americans for Tax Reform and supported the fiscal deal. "Obama had the leverage that the tax cuts are disappearing. The leverage is all his. I'm surprised we did as well as we did."
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich took a harder line, calling the cliff compromise "a bad bill written in a terrible process and worthy of defeat" and predicting: "It will lead to a profound fight in the GOP."


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'Since your recent changes to online historical indexes, the mother's maiden surname has disappeared from many death index entries. Why is that, and will the matter be rectified in the future?'
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Umm... WRONG!
Example 1 (death of Frederick William STEVENS, 1882):
Queensland Registrar-General's Pioneers Index 1829-1889 (on CD-ROM) shows the mother's maiden surname (GIBSON), but the online index at www.bdm.qld.gov.au does not.
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Queensland Registrar-General's Federation Index 1890-1914 (on CD-ROM) shows the mother's maiden surname (BERBACCI), but the online index at www.bdm.qld.gov.au does not.
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A year ago, when Glenn Maurer, his wife Joan and two other couples were planning their 14-week, multi-destination RV excursion, they decided to make the host city for Super Bowl 2013 their first stop. Planning way ahead, they booked three sites at the French Quarter RV Resort, which over the next few days will experience its second busiest weekend on record. Here's to planning ahead.
The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, reported that the retired Los Angeles firefighter and his group secured a coveted spot at the RV park located less than a mile from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
"I'm from California, I'll be rooting for the 49ers," Maurer said as he prepared for a bicycle ride through the city.
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Housing styles have changed from year to year. Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and other interior designs dominated a large amount of time. People filled the space of their homes to their liking. Someone used carved objects in furniture. Often in the styles met excessive maximalism. Time passed and the mighty wooden fittings are replaced with practical furniture elements. Arts and crafts gave way to simplicity and elegance. All this is embodied in the new modern furniture legs.
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This past Saturday – April 10, 2010 – I presented They're Alive – Searching for Living Persons for members of the California Genealogical Society and Library (CGSL) in Oakland, CA. The neat thing is I was able to do this from the comfort of my home here in Chicago, IL using webinar technology.
When I started High-Definition Genealogy, I decided one of the offerings which would be of value to the genealogy community is distance education. What does this entail? Here's a list of components and advantages made available to not only genealogical societies but individuals as well:
- Technology rules. I purchased a WebEx subscription earlier this year and I couldn't be happier! I can meet with colleagues at a moments notice and it doesn't cost them a thing to connect! I've actually been able to meet with genealogy vendors on short notice to discuss issues and demo applications on screen.
- Easy setup. CGSL set up a laptop with a screen and projector in the middle of their board room. They called me from their conference phone so I could speak to the audience and they could answer questions. I was not only able to display my PowerPoint slides, but I also could share my computer desktop and demo searches in real time. Plus, I used my web cam to let the audience know that there was a real person running this workshop!
- Lower costs. Instead of CGSL having to pay for my travel expenses or for me to pay my own way, using distance education we both were able to keep our costs down.
So what does the future hold? Well, soon I'll be posting a list of offerings including a new workshop on how to become a genealogy speaker as well as one on how to obtain writing gigs for genealogy magazines and journals. I will be able to offer this to individuals at a very reasonable price with folks connecting from the comfort of their own home.
In addition, I'll be expanding my offerings to genealogy societies by allowing them to hire me as a speaker for their next meeting or special workshop at a very reasonable price compared to my "live in-person" speaking fee. In addition, at the discretion of the genealogy society, they could allow their members to connect from their home computers.
Stay tuned!
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Messing With Indices
One of the things that makes Python so awesome is its list indexing system (and the fact that this often applies to other things than lists). I know this has been mentioned elsewhere but I havn't seen a proper tut on it yet so here goes.
IMPORTANT - while everything you see in here uses lists as the example datastructure you can use these exact techniques on strings as well (extract single characters/chunks of strings/reverse strings)
As you are probably aware, lists in Python are indexed using square brackets ('[]'), usually with a number inside them. What you may not be aware of is that you can perform much more jiggery pokery than retrieving a single list element using the square brackets, ie
mylist = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] print 'Indices' print mylist[0] print mylist[-1] print mylist[-2] print '' print 'Ranges' print mylist[:] print mylist[0:2] print mylist[:2] print mylist[-2:] print mylist[5:-1] print '' print 'Complex Ranges' print mylist[::-1] print mylist[8:3:-2] print mylist[5:0:-1] print mylist[5::-1] print mylist[0:5:2] print mylist[-3:5:-1] #OUTPUT: #>>> #Indices #0 #9 #8 # #Ranges #[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] #[0, 1] #[0, 1] #[8, 9] #[5, 6, 7, 8] # #Complex Ranges #[9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0] #[8, 6, 4] #[5, 4, 3, 2, 1] #[5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0] #[0, 2, 4] #[7, 6] #>>>
Hopefully you can figure out what's going on here fairly easily, try copying the code into a console of your own and have a play with it.
You can 'reverse index' a list by simply whacking a negative number in the brackets, starting with '-1' for the last entry - think of it as 'mylist[len(mylist)-x]' where 'x' is any integer.
To extract a range of values out you specify the index at which you want to start, add a ':', then specify the EXCLUSIVE index at which you want to finish (ie mylist[4:6] will return mylist[4] and mylist[5]). As you can see from the examples the negative indices will work here as well. If you want to start at index '0' or finish at the last element (inclusive) then you can leave that part of the range expression blank, ie '[0:5]' = '[:5]' and '[5:len(mylist)]' = '[5:]'
To extract a slightly more complicated range of values you can use what is effectively a compact 'for' loop in the brackets using the format [a:b:c] where:
- a is the start index
- b is the exclusive end index
- c is the step size
If you want to iterate backwards (ie reverse the list) then use a negative number for 'c'. You will need to update 'a' and 'b' to reflect this as well, obviously if you are iterating backwards then you will start at a higher index and finish at a lower one, as a general rule:
a > b where c > 0
a < b where c < 0
There is a particular trick you will want to remember with this method and it has particular significance when c < 0. If you have a negative 'c' and you want to move down through your list to the beginning you can't set 'b' to 0 ([4:0:-1]) because that will iterate through your list and IGNORE the '0' index (remember 'b' is an EXCLUSIVE bound). The way you get around this is to leave 'b' blank as we discussed with the ranges scenario above, ie [4::-1]. Python will assume that because 'c' < 0, the blank 'b' should refer to the beginning of the array, not the end and everything should work as expected, returning [3,2,1,0].
That's pretty much the end of this tutorial, I'll try and get the next one out soon where I will be showcasing inline-ifs and will introduce some handy hints for File I/O. Feel free to ask questions below.


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Our own worst enemy
Steve Thompson
October 10, 2011
Thompson on the rampage against France © Getty Images
Saturday's result was tough to take and I am still really gutted. Defeat is a little easier to take when the opposition has played really well against you on but on this occasion we beat ourselves. This was a major missed opportunity.
A couple of missed tackles and some dropped passes really cost us and that is so frustrating. France may have played some good rugby and kicked well but we had several chances to score and with no pressure on the boys were still dropping balls.
Our scrum was outstanding at times against one of the best scrimmaging outfits around but they defended exceptionally well at the lineout. Our plan was to attack lock Lionel Nallet because some of our homework suggested he didn't normally jump but all of a sudden he was jumping like a salmon. We managed to straighten things out after the first couple of throws but you have to give credit to France for the way they were able to disrupt us there in the first few minutes.
A couple of missed tackles let them in for tries which was really disappointing but we never felt out of the contest. We knew that we just needed to get a score ourselves and the pattern of the match would change but a couple of tries went begging and we went into the break still chasing the game. But the effort was clearly taking its toll on France because we could see that they were on their knees. With ten minutes to go in the first half they were clearly gone - we had given ourselves a mountain to climb but were confident of turning it around.
There was no panic at half time and we were still full of belief and convinced that the game was still there to be won. We raised our game after the break knowing that we had to take it to them and we did just that. Suddenly France were going down every couple of minutes with injuries desperately trying to get a break of some kind.
Ben Foden's try fuelled our belief and the comeback was on when Marc Cueto scored but left it just a little bit too late. If only we had scored - just once - in that first half. It's strange how a team's psyche changes through a game. The longer you manage to deny a team any kind of score, the stronger you get and it is easy to defend, defend and defend. But when your defence has been breached and someone has crossed that line thing change psychologically and suddenly you feel more vulnerable. I don't know why, but it does.
It will be no surprise that everyone was gutted at the final whistle and the changing room was a very quiet place. We had been under so much from the outside that we were determined to reach the semi-finals at least but it was not to be. The reality only starts to hit you a day or so later and when you see sides like Australia and Wales booking their place in the semis you are kicking yourself. It could have been us and I cannot stress enough how much of a disappointment our exit is.
The inquest has already begun into where things may have gone wrong but as far as I am concerned Martin Johnson is still the man to guide England. He has done so much with this side since he took charge - you just have to look at where we were before he took over. We won the Six Nations this year and while we may have chucked the game away against France we have shown we can deliver in other big games and there is some great talent coming through.
I don't know what Johnno is going to do but I think when he sits down he will realise that we have achieved a lot in the last few years and there is more to come from this group of players. There have been some great performances, we are on an upward curve and there are still some players coming through.
We also have to be careful we don't over react. I remember after we won the World Cup in 2003 there was a bit of a cull and a lot of the old boys were axed only for the form of the side to suffer a bit of a dip. Naturally there will be players coming to the end of their international careers but this is a building process and it is all about striking the right balance. It is all about finding a blend between experience and youth and carrying it through to the next World Cup in England.
As for my own international career, I'd love to keep playing for England if they think I can still offer something to the team on the field and with my experience. If I want to do that then I have to go back to Wasps and keep playing well and then hope for the best. And there is nothing like the excitement a new club and the need to prove yourself to keep you on your game.
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Steve Thompson will be writing direct from the England camp for ESPNscrum each week during the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
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