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Julie's first Summer 2018 Sweater Club sold out soon after its release this month, but if you missed your opportunity to join you have another chance! Julie will be bringing her club to Spun for one weekend, and we'll kick things off with a happy hour July 6 at 4pm.
Club membership is $30, includes both patterns (both of which is knit in Shibui Fern and Silk Cloud), and requires that yarn for one or both of the patterns be purchased at Spun. As always, Julie's Sweater Club is an exclusive offer: Only Sweater Club members will enjoy access to these patterns, and access is limited to just five shops around the country.
See details on the patterns below. Spun has just ten memberships available. Starting Friday, July 6, at 4pm they may be purchased at the shop or over the phone (734.780.7867) for pickup or to be shipped.
A simple boxy pullover with a few thoughtful details, Solis is the summer sweater you will reach for time after time. The pattern is written for Fern held single or Fern and Silk Cloud held double (shown above), depending on the fabric you wish you create. The front and back pieces are worked from the bottom up, and the sleeves are picked up across the armholes so you can easily adjust the length to suit your personal taste.
41¼ (45¼, 49¼, 53¼, 57¼, 61¼)"
Recommended +8-12" ease
6 (6, 7, 8, 9, 10) skeins Shibui Fern
4 (5, 5, 6, 6, 7) skeins Shibui Silk Cloud (optional)
Skill level: 3 of 5
Nothing says summer more than a breezy shawl collar cardigan with a few wow-factor stripes. Ronin is worked in pieces from the bottom up in minimal stockinette fabric with beautiful shaping details. The main fabric is Fern held single, but the stripes are worked with Fern and Silk Cloud held double for a subtle change in texture and little extra luxury.
43 (47, 51¼, 55¼, 59¾, 64)"
Recommended +11-15" ease
5 (5, 6, 7, 8, 8) skeins Shibui Fern for Main Color
2 (3, 3, 3, 3, 3) skeins Shibui Fern for Stripes
2 skeins Shibui Silk Cloud for Stripes
Skill level: 3 of 5


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"We know what it means to serve" is more than a slogan. USAA respects and honors the men and women in our nation's military and their families who support them. That's why we are committed to:
Maintaining a 30% military and military spouse hiring goal and achieving 25% military employee representation by 2020
Offering military and military spouses a first look from our recruiters
Providing a wide variety of programs to attract, support and develop military talent
What's it like here?
USAA is unlike any other financial services organization. When you join us, you'll become part of a thriving community committed to going above for those who have gone beyond: the men and women of the U.S. military, their associates and their families. In order to play a role on our team, you don't have to be connected to the military yourself – you just need to share our passion for serving our members.
Diverse Career Opportunities
With more than 30,000 employees, USAA is an exciting place to be. Stable and growing, we are an organization with opportunities in almost every discipline you can imagine in career areas such as:
- Customer Service & Sales Careers
- Insurance (Auto and Property claims) Careers
- Information and Technology Careers
- Design Careers
Learn more from just a few people who have continued their careers at USAA share their thoughts in the slideshow below.
Assistance Programs and Military Outreach
Our desire to assist the military community runs deep – and we've implemented many programs to achieve our goals:
Combat to Claims
We hire recently separated veterans as a cohort to participate in a two-month training program to become auto claims adjusters
Employer Support of the Guard & Reserve (ESGR)
We support events and offer hiring consideration to the guard and reserve
Veteran Transition Leadership Development (VetsLeaD)
This 12-month program develops military veterans whose backgrounds suggest potential as future business leaders; positions are full-time, permanent hires
Enterprise Veteran Sponsor Program
Experienced veteran employees sponsor and mentor recently hired veterans by sharing experiences and advice about making the transition
This program helps recently separated veterans with nominal IT experience and trains them to become disciplined IT employees
This employee resource group is an internal social networking platform that allows vets and spouses to share information, ideas, events and support.
Our Awards
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Best for Vets Employer, Military Times
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Best Company for Veterans, Monster/Military.com
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text: If you thought a guitar restringing just consisted of putting new strings on your guitar after you take off the old strings you were totally mistaken! We will show students how to properly take off old strings and replace new strings. We will also go over some other techniques such as polishing frets, cleaning the guitar, and cleaning the fretboard. We will tune our guitars back to standard tuning when we are finished with that. Please bring your own guitar because you will get your guitar restrung and cleaned for free in this workshop. We will also touch on how to restring and tie classical nylon guitar strings as this is a totally different process which you can also use when restringing your ukulele nylon strings. Everyone will get a free guitar string winder for attending this workshop. Hope to see you all take advantage of this fun event. Call to sign up for this workshop at (817) 584-5818. Cost to attend this workshop is only $49.


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June 10, 2018 | Kyle Brenon | Galatians 2:11-21 (1 - 10 for context)
Community Group Questions
This week we continue in our sermon series "No other Gospel" as we look at Galatians 2:11-21. Here Paul is reminding the churches in Galatia, and us, that it is not by OUR works that we are counted as righteous, but rather it is through the work of Jesus Christ that we have been set free.
It is often more difficult than we think to fully wrap our heads around the concept of grace, yet it is so important for us to take hold of. It is because of this grace, that we are drawn to Him as we serve our heavenly Father out of love, in freedom not as slaves, but as children!
Galatians 2:16
"We know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified."
Read: Galatians 2:11-21
1. In Galalatians 2:11-14, Peter seems to succumb to the pressure put on him by certain Jews who followed Jesus (come on Peter!). What was he being pressured to do, and what caused him to cave?
How might this apply to us? Are there times we compromise the supremacy of the gospel in our life in order to please people?
2. What does it mean to be "justified by faith in Jesus Christ"? Why do we so often think justification (to be counted as righteous) requires works as well?
3. Paul says in 2:21 "I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness (or justification) were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose."
- What does this say of the all sufficient power of the cross?
- What does this say of God's grace?
4. Knowing justification comes from faith in Christ alone, and not from works, how should this effect our every day lives?
Memorize/Meditate: John 6:44 "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day."


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WVWC MFA Summer Residency and Visiting Writers/
Summer can be a busy and exciting time for the students and faculty of the West Virginia Wesleyan MFA program, and this summer is no exception. Every other year, students have the option to participate in the Ireland residency instead of or in addition to the summer residency held on the WVWC Buckhannon campus. The 2018 Ireland residency just wrapped up and was led by Devon McNamara (Poetry Faculty). Students who participated in the sightseeing, tours, shows, and workshops were Billy Davis (Fiction '19), Brigid Clare Hokana (Nonfiction '20), Amber Milstead (Fiction '19), Phill Provance (Poetry '19), Semein Washington (Poetry '19), Chad MacDonald (Nonfiction '20), and Andrew Raines (Fiction '19).
Billy (Fiction '19), who found a four-leaf clover on Inisheer, the smallest of the three Aran Islands in Galway Bay, was impressed by the architectural details and the way history holds importance in the Irish way of life. He tells us: "There's respect for their history. Monuments to and statues of revolutionaries are prominently displayed on key streets, and sleek modern buildings are perfectly at ease beside grey granite churches, built centuries ago."
Brigid (Nonfiction '20), who had less luck on Inisheer and twisted her ankle, enjoyed her first trip to Ireland and hopes it isn't her last. She shares many of the photos in the slide show below and apparently has a fondness for photographing her meals, according to Amber (Fiction '19), who also shares many photos and hopped across the pond before the rest of the group to get in some extra sightseeing. The students all have more to share at a later date, but as of now, they are all recuperating from a long flight preceded by a great time. Enjoy their photos from the trip in the slideshow below. To read memories from the 2016 Ireland residency, visit our post from earlier this year.
Kudos to Andrew Raines (Fiction '19), who shared some good news during the Ireland trip: he got an Honorable Mention for his poem "Satiety" in the WV Writers 2018 Annual Writing Contest.
Those attending the summer residency on the Buckhannon campus, which kicks off in just a few weeks, can expect some fantastic visiting writers. The readings held during the residency are free and open to the public, and they are presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The schedule for the public readings is listed below, along with a bio for each of the writers:
MARY IMO-STIKE & LARA LILLIBRIDGE, July 7 at 7 p.m.
Mary Imo-Stike (Poetry '15) worked nontraditional jobs as a rail worker, construction plumber, boiler operator and gas company Compliance Officer. When retired from work-life, she obtained an MFA in Poetry from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 2015 and was the poetry co-editor of HeartWood Literary Magazine for two years. Her debut chapbook, In and Out of the Horse Latitudes, is available from Finishing Line Press. Mary lives in Scott Depot, West Virginia.
Lara Lillibridge (Nonfiction '16) sings off-beat and dances off-key. Her childhood memoir, Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home, is out with Skyhorse Publishing. Lara is a graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. In 2016 she won Slippery Elm Literary Journal's Prose Contest, and The American Literary Review's Contest in Nonfiction. She and Andrea Fekete are co-editors of the anthology Feminine Rising slated for release in 2019 with Cynren Press.
MESHA MAREN & MATT RANDAL O'WAIN, July 8 at 7 p.m.
Mesha Maren's debut novel Sugar Run is forthcoming from Algonquin Books in January 2019. She is the 2018-2019 Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and her short stories and essays appear in Tin House, Oxford American, Crazyhorse, Hobart, Southern Cultures, and Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Ucross Foundation, and she currently serves as a National Endowment of the Arts Writing Fellow at the Beckley Federal Correctional Institution.
Matt Randal O'Wain holds an MFA from Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program. Currently, he teaches creative writing at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. O'Wain is the author of "Superman Dam[n] Fool: family, loss, and coming of age in the working class south" (American Lives Series, Bison Books, 2019) and Hallelujah Station and other stories (Autumn House Press, 2020). His essays and short stories have appeared in Oxford American, Guernica, Booth, Hotel Amerika, Zone 3, among others.
JONATHAN CORCORAN, July 9 at 7 p.m.
Jonathan Corcoran is the author of the story collection, The Rope Swing, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and long-listed for The Story Prize. He received a BA in Literary Arts from Brown University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Rutgers University-Newark, where he teaches writing. He was born and raised in a small town in West Virginia and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
REMICA BINGHAM-RISHER, July 11 at 7 p.m.
Remica Bingham-Risher, author of Starlight & Error, winner of the Diode Editions Book Award, What We Ask of Flesh, shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Conversion, winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. She is the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University. She resides in Norfolk, Virginia, with her husband and children.
NATHAN POOLE, July 12 at 7 p.m.
Nathan Poole is the author of two books of fiction: Father Brother Keeper, a collection of stories selected by Edith Pearlman for the 2013 Mary McCarthy Prize and long listed for the Frank O'Connor Award, and Pathkiller as the Holy Ghost, selected by Benjamin Percy as the winner of the 2014 Quarterly West Novella Contest. He is a recipient of the Narrative Prize, a Milton Fellowship at Seattle Pacific University, and Joan Beebe Fellowship at Warren Wilson College. His work has appeared in various journals, including The Kenyon Review, Ecotone, Narrative Magazine, Image, Quarterly West, and The Chattahoochee Review.


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singer songwriters janet croteau, billy buckman, darrel louis, jim rintoul, jill faragher, and elana vollen join together to share their songs and support survivor girl ukulele band project.
if you are anywhere near santa cruz on february 17th, the broadway playhouse is the place to be.
all proceeds support survivor girl ukulele band project: bringing restoration and hope to survivors of human trafficking through the healing power of music and love!
thank you thank you thank you, janet and friends, for joining the baaand!!


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Day 1 Mérida
Reception at the airport or bus terminal of Merida and transfer to your hotel. Arrival and accommodation. The rest of the day is free.
Day 2 Merida
Breakfast at the hotel and later you´ll take a panoramic tour of the city on a streetcar, where you´ll see the most interesting places such as: The Cathedral, Montejo house, the government palace, etc. The rest of the day is free.
Day 3 Mérida – Uxmal - Merida
Breakfast at the hotel and departure to Uxmal, Puuc route header, known for its magnificent façades and wainscots. We will visit the impressive Cuadrángulo de las Monjas, a beautiful ceremonial series, the Governor`s Palace (considered the most beautiful in the Mayan world). The Adivino Temple, one of the biggest and most impressive Mayan pyramid. The tour includes a visit to Kabah, significant ceremonial center located at 22km southwest from Uxmal. Meal included. Return to hotel
Day 4 Merida – Celestun - Merida
Breakfast at the hotel and departure to Celestún, one of the most striking ecological reserves in the Yucatan shore, explore through the mangroves on a boat and admire hundreds of pink flamingos in their natural environment, also you'll be able to watch other species of sea birds. This will be a wonderful touch with nature. Meal included. Return to hotel.
Day 5 Merida – Chichén Itza
Breakfast at the hotel and departure to Chichen Itza, founded in the year 514 of our era, Chichen Itza is the most visited archeological site in the Yucatan peninsula due to its beauty and geographic situation and it is considered by archeologists and historians as the most important one the southwest of Mexico. We will visit the Kukulkàn temple, Ball game, Temple of the Tigers, Temple of the Warriors, the Sacred Cenote, the 1000 Columns and other interesting sites. Meal included. Return to hotel.
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- 5 nights of accommodation in Merida in a 4 stars hotel
- 1 meal in Uxmal, 1 meal in Celestún and 1 meal in Chichen Itza
- Panoramic tour through the city of Merida
- Visit to Uxmal
- Visit to Celestun
- Visit to Chichen Itza
- Transportation during the tours (except city tours)


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Vavuniya District
Vavuniya District is positioned in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. As the district is located in the center of the island, it serves as a connecting hub between Northern & Southern part o the country. According recent census results the ethnic ratio says that Tamils occupy more percentage and the rest filled by Sinhalese & Moors. Cultivation is the main source of income while other industries provide job industries for the livelihood. As the all religion lives in, the district is filled with famous historical religious architectural structures.


text: 036 -- Kingsman: The Golden Circle / The Disaster Artist Back to your regularly scheduled Movie Babies #MuBaes. Movie Babies is a trailer review podcast, reviewing the latest & greatest trailers. Snatched from the sands of time, it's the episode we feared was lost forever! This episode was recorded months ago, but due to a hard drive crash we feared it was lost. NO MORE! Join us as we review Kingsman: The Golden Circle & The Disaster Artist!Episode 36 In which we get a legit Celebrity Guest. Not a joke, Regal Cinema's 2016 Member of the Year, Sir Jed Bailey joins the show as we break down the sequel to The Kingsman. With the recent release of The Disaster Artist listen to our initial thoughts on the teaser rooftop scene as Jed recounts his experience playing catch with the real Tommy Wiseau. All of that and we officially crown the Movie Baby of the Year! Somewhere in between we discuss the actual trailers for the movies and rate them with the patented Movie Babies Rating System.SHOWNOTESIntro: Sleep Fart BonerReview 1: Kingsman: The Golden Circle (7:15)Review 2: The Disaster Artist (45:50)Outro: OMG! Sean Actually Cursed This Episode! (1:24:32)Spoiler Alert(s): Kingsman 1MacGruberWe recommend watching the trailers first at our Youtube. Movie Babies releases new episodes every Thursday (or so). Suggest a trailer for us to review at our Facebook & Twitter Subscribing, Rating & Reviewing are the best ways to support the show! Leave a review and we'll read it on the air! Devin will even mispronounce your name. We're giving away free mini movie posters for those who leave a review! Not sure how to leave a review? Follow this link! Find us on iTunes -- Stitcher -- Google Play -- Youtube -- Tunein -- Direct DownloadWhen you don't have time to watch a 2 minute trailer but do have time to listen to an hour long podcast: It's the Movie Babies!www.moviebabies.com Comedy, Trailers, TV & FilmDevin SpencerDecember 7, 2017Movies, Movie Babies, MuBaes, Trailers, Teasers, Feature Film, Film, New Releases, Comedy, Podcast, Reviews, Kingsman, The Golden Circle, The Disaster Artist, James Franco, Seth Rogan, The Room, Tommy Wiseau, Jed Baily, Jed Bailey, Regal CinemasComment Facebook0 Twitter LinkedIn0 StumbleUpon Reddit Tumblr Pinterest0 0 Likes


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Happy Monday
Good Afternoon,
I apologize for not posting last week. Some events took place that threw everything off.
Today students had time in class to work on their math and most completed it. We are taking a look at the scientific method. Both classes have finished the first chapter in social studies. We are halfway through our current novel, Close to Famous. We have started a first draft on a writing assignment.
I will hand out progress reports tomorrow. The end of the marking period is Friday, October 31.
Don't forget the Pittsford Prowling is Wednesday, October 29. Candy can be sent in at any time.
Have a great evening.
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Esther 7
So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, "What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled." Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request. For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king." Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who has dared to do this?" And Esther said, "A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!" Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king. And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?" As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face. Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, "Moreover, the gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman's house, fifty cubits high." And the king said, "Hang him on that." So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.
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Romans 2
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality.
For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."
For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law. For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.
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Romans 2: If we ever find ourselves feeling as if we've accomplished or achieved a higher level of spirituality than others, we've lost sight of the gospel. Paul warns that we need to be cautious of setting ourselves up as the judges of God's standard. We must certainly not approve of the sinfulness of others, but we aren't to look down on others either in a way that magnifies their sin while minimizing ours.
When we condemn others, we are expressing our awareness of the wrongness in their certain behaviors. So then, when we go and do these same things, we are basically admitting that we know its wrong, but we're going to do it anyway. It's one thing to act wrongly. It's a greater thing to show acute awareness of what's wrong (by condemning others) and then go and do it anyway.
In Paul's day, there were many Jewish people who falsely assumed that their covenant relationship with God would shield them from final judgment. They thought that blessings such as God's kindness, forbearance, and patience towards them proved obedience to His standard and so they condemned those who failed to look and act like they did.
Today, there are many of us in the church who make the same false assumptions. We assume that since life is going well we must be right with God, and others should be more like us. We think "Surely, we aren't going to have to worry about the wrath of God. That's only for the really bad and irreligious people like the type of people Paul described in chapter one."
Relying on our obedience to God for salvation is the same kind of self-centeredness and rejection of the gospel as utterly ignoring obedience to God at all.
The Jews of Paul's day were morally decent and religiously active, but Paul makes clear that neither of these things makes us righteous. We may call ourselves Christians and study our Bibles and have strong feelings for God and memorize verses and know answers to tough questions and lead others to Jesus through Bible studies that we lead and yet still find ourselves misplacing our hope and worship in the idolatry of our own morality and goodness.
Hearing the gospel doesn't save the Christian moralist and never hearing the gospel doesn't excuse the immoral secularist. If you've heard the gospel, be thankful that you have! The Rescuer has extended His hand to you; let go of your goodness and embrace His grace. Jesus is the only Way of escaping the judgement and wrath of God. We need the gospel more than we need our goodness.


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The infant market for Internet set-top boxes for TVs may never grow up.
As the convergence between television and the Internet develops, some analysts and industry observers say a set-top box is just a small stepping stone to the day when all TVs will be Internet-ready straight from the factory. That shift could wipe out the development of set-top boxes just as the market starts to heat up.
Sanyo Electric, for one, already is introducing its version of an Internet-ready TV at Comdex this week. In addition, analysts say, television manufacturers like Sony, Thomson Consumer Electronics, and Philips Electronics are likely to be the first to ship Internet-ready television sets.
Even in the face of this seemingly daunting competition, the company that developed the technology for the set-top box says it's not fretting.
Bill Keating, vice president of worldwide field operations for WebTV, said that, even when Internet-ready TVs are ready for the mainstream, consumers who want the latest and greatest technology for television connectivity will still need frequent upgrades.
This presents a glitch in the theory that all TVs eventually will be Internet-ready. Because it is unlikely that consumers will buy a
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WebTV (Microsoft)
Acorn Computer Group
Curtis Mathes
Sun Microsystems
Keating said the future of the set-top box market nevertheless lies in the hands of manufacturers that can make Net-ready television sets. The other winners will be those that create content that will give consumers a more interactive television experience.
For now, players in the Internet-TV arena include more than 25 manufacturers of set-top boxes, a handful of companies that make the technology that goes inside the devices, and a smaller number of Internet service providers. Analysts say it will be difficult to assess the market share of these companies until next year, because many products went into the channel only in the past six months.
As the set-top market grows, one of the companies to benefit inevitably will be WebTV parent company Microsoft (MSFT), said Will Strauss, president and principal analyst at Forward Concepts, an electronics market research firm. He predicted that the software giant eventually will make its WebTV Network service available to all set-top box makers.
"The service is what [Microsoft] wants to sell," Strauss said. "You can make money in the hardware now, but eventually the content will make the money."
Keating agreed. He predicted that once TVs are shipped Internet-ready, WebTV's
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"The box is like the America Online disks. You probably have a drawer full of them," Keating said. "The goal is to have subscribers, and we are fairly indifferent about which way the subscriber comes on to the network."
In the near term, box makers like Philips, Sony, Mitsubishi, Thomson, Boca Research, and Teknema will benefit from the opportunity to sell the boxes to consumers who can't wait for Internet-ready television sets. The companies also will benefit from teaming up with ISPs.
Teknema, for example, signed up 100 ISPs to offer its product to consumers and enlisted a small army of marketing representatives to promote its product, said Sean Kaldor, director of consumer device research at International Data Corporation.
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That leaves the likes of Sony, Phillips, and Thomson, which owns RCA, on top, analysts said.
Sony's product, based on WebTV technology, and RCA's NC1020 and NC1010, based on technology from Oracle subsidiary Network Computer Incorporated, were designed for use with conventional televisions. These boxes are targeted primarily at baby-boomers, technophobes, and gadget-lovers.
"People will be interested in buying things that make their TVs more interesting, but just Internet access isn't going to excite that many people," said Joshua Bernoff, an analyst at Forrester Research.
Kaldor agreed that today's set-top box market is limited. "The focus today is not on entertainment," he said. "It is on information."
Bernoff pointed out that, even though information is their focus, set-top boxes should not be seen as an alternative to a personal computer.
"To think of it as a PC replacer is ludicrous," he said. "But think of it as an enhancement. You end up with an interactive enhancement for your television."
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"Mental Things are alone Real; what is call'd Corporeal, Nobody knows of its Dwelling Place: it is in Fallacy, & its Existence an Imposture. . . I assert for My Self that I do not behold the outward Creation that to me it is hindrance & not Action; it is as the Dirt upon my feet, No part of Me.. "What," it will be Question'd,
"When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea?" 0 no, no, I see an
Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty." I question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would Question a Window concerning a Sight. I look thro' it & not with it."
With the eye or through the eye?
Blake was about imagination. He believed that there isn't anything except what we envision in our minds. Your vision may be vastly different from mine, but they're both legitimate. We are different. Why should we see the same thing?
From the chaotic input of the five sense we must create our reality, our own system. Otherwise we may simply choose someone else's reality, his system and become a part of his tribe, seeing only what he tells us to see.
Blake was an individual, and you may be, too, if you have the guts to stand against the stream of mediocre convention, to look through the eye as well as with it.
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Crikey, where has the week disappeared to? July is out and we're full steam ahead into August here at The Promise. Just to let you all know, things will soon be changing around these parts, we're concocting plans that are very exciting and we hope you will love them! And as it's Friday, we're feeling all kinds of wonderful happy feelings and want to say a big, huge, mega thank you! Yes, you, each and every reader who stops by and has supported us in what has been six crazy busy and fulfilling months, we couldn't do it without knowing our pages are helping you plan the wedding of your dream in good old norn' Ireland!
Now, back to todays inspirational wedding; Katie and Ryan are surfers which they obviously wanted reflected in their day. Ryan is also a self-proclaimed vintage loving petrol head so a quirky mode of vintage transport was essential! Their beautiful day was captured by Paula Gillespie.
"Ryan and I first met through a mutual friend; I had just moved back home to Derry from Edinburgh after finishing my degree and I met up with a friend who was a keen surfer. She told me she was going surfing with a friend of hers and asked if I wanted to come along. We drove to Ryan's house to meet him before going to the beach and I actually met him in his driveway!" explained Katie.
"In August 2012 during a trip to Edinburgh, Ryan proposed. We had taken a weekend trip to Scotland to play a gig. We met up with some of my friends in Edinburgh and enjoyed a bit of the Fringe Festival which was on at the same time. On the Saturday afternoon we were making our way back from a foodie festival and sat down to enjoy some music in Princes Street gardens. After sitting for a little while we decided to get up and go to the car, only Ryan didn't get up. He got onto one knee and proposed under Edinburgh castle. I think I was that much in shock that he didn't get an answer for a full five minutes!"
The creative couple wanted their day to reflect themselves so after taking plenty of inspiration from wedding blogs, the settled on a surfing theme holding their reception in Ballyliffin Hotel, County Donegal, a stones throw from the beach they spent lots of time surfing. Katie's very creative brother designed their wedding invitations which featured a picture of a bride and groom with their surfboards. On the day each table was named after one of their favourite beaches, with Katie's dad designing a huge table plan covered in pictures of sea creatures and things associated with the ocean. The wedding was a joint family effort with everyone helping out with their own little touches; Ryan's mum made little sea theme signs that decorated the function suite.
Katie and Ryan kept their wedding fashion elegant with vintage touches, with Katie's glorious illusion neckline wedding gown stealing the show.
"I had been in and out of bridal shops for a long time and couldn't seem to find what I was looking for. I loved Claire Pettibone designs and wanted something similar and eventually found it in Pronuptia, Belfast. It was everything I wanted and more, I especially loved the cap sleeves and deep V back details. On the day I chose it the designer was in the store. He gave me a personal drawing of me wearing the dress, which made it extra special," added Katie.
The couple travelled to a very special venue to have their wedding portraits taken. The gate lodge of this majestic building was where Katie spent a lot of her childhood as it was her Grandparents house.
"Our day was so enjoyable, both Ryan and myself particularly loved heading out of the ceremony and into the spilt screen Campervan and popping a bottle of champagne! The ceremony had went so fast it was nice to sit in the car together and take it all in," said Katie.
"I would advise other couples to do what makes them happy. We didn't go for the traditional wedding cake and some things we did a bit differently to the usual wedding. You have to stay true to yourselves and do what you want! Also enjoy every minute of the day and the moments leading up to it. The day goes by so fast and all the planning and prep is part and parcel. It's a time when your families come together, it helps put things into perspective so don't wish it away!"
Great advice, Katie!
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Venue: Ballyliffin Hotel, Co. Donegal.
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Bridal headpiece: Couture Bridal Accessories, L'derry.
Bridesmaids dresses: Coast Online.
Groomswear: H&M.
Wedding cake: Funky Cakes, L'derry.
Bridal cars: Cool Classics Car Hire.
Flowers: Patricia McCormack Flowers, L'derry, tel: 028 7135 4606.
Entertainment: Pure Fresh, L'derry.
Thanks to Katie and Ryan for sharing their awesome wedding day!
To view more of Paula's work visit www.paulagillespie.com.


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In the designing and construction of the house, the first challenge faced by the designer was the issue of limited space at the entrance of the home. The clients wanted a shoe storage area, however due to the narrow entrance space, standard sized cabinets were impossible. As a result, the designers came up with a clever mix of aesthetics and function with a narrow full height cabinet to the right, and a triangular shelving unit to the left, visually leading the eye into the living area.
The entrance, with full height storage cabinet and the unique triangular shelving unit which guides the visitor into the apartment.
To maintain cohesiveness throughout the house, the same light ash and oak timbers were used throughout the apartment, in cabinetry and wall paneling. The clever storage design with linear detailing and concealed lighting create a clean and contemporary space. The use of natural finishes such as timber and leather creates warmth in this family home.
The living and dining area with touches of leather and timber detailing, feels warm yet contemporary.
The open plan for the living and dining areas are also join the study. Nonetheless, sliding glass doors are in placed to separate both areas if necessary.
The study area with custom cabinets and glass, fold away, sliding doors.
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News, awards, entertainment, iPhone Film Festival, judges, smartmoviemaking, submissions, video — September 19, 2011 15:18 — 0 Comments
Jury announced for this year's iPhone Film Festival
With just under two weeks before submissions close to the second iPhone Film Festival (IFF2), organisers have announced a
Producer, director and actor Adi Spektor studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater after moving to Los Angeles in 1999 from his native Israel. As well as theatre, Adi has appeared in independent films and TV pilots and is an accomplished cello and piano player.
Attila Árpa is a
Hungarian Peter Engert moved to the US in 1998 to write screenplays. In 2005, he produced and directed his first feature The Valley of Tears, which was later sold to Sony Pictures. He is founder of production company Stone Bridge Films with his partner Daniel Popa.
They are joined on the panel by Jimmy Borto, a Hollywood producer, writer and director and Val Tasso, A
Organisers say that so far there have been over 200 submissions to IFF2 and winners will be chosen from three categories with top prizes up for grabs.
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A male tortoise, apparently angry that National Geographic expedition leader Paul Rose interrupted his mating session, attempted to chase the interloper and his producer away in a viral video shot at Assumption Island in the Seychelles.
But "chase" might be too generous: A giant tortoise "will hit a cruising speed of about 1/6 mph," the National Wildlife Federation writes.
We'll give the tortoise one thing: He's determined. He pursued Rose for about 400 yards before the reporter bid adieu, according to the YouTube video.
"There was no doubt that he would not stop until he had seen me off the island, preferably with significant pieces missing from my legs," Rose wrote at nationalgeographic.com. "And so we began a ludicrous, disconcerting, low-speed chase that took us across the low grass stubble and the adjacent concrete runway and alongside the bushes."
According to Seychelles News Agency, male Aldabra tortoises "can be aggressive and territorial creatures not to be interfered with, particularly during the mating season."
Their breeding season generally lasts between February and May, the National Zoo notes.
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I asking this question here as I am sure there are good interior designers or even people that are good at spotting a good living/dinning room design.
We currently have a brown carpet and a brown dinning table as well as cream colour wall paper. We would like to buy a new sofa and kind of redecorate it as the sofa we currently have is getting really old and it is a maroon colour. We were thinking of maybe putting a small fluffy carpet on top of the carpet that we currently have so it would match the sofa and the curtains. What would you suggest would suit the brown carpet. It also has a cream design on it ( Little spots). Don't want to make the room look small. Was thinking of Grey or Black but not really sure.
I was think of grey and purple cushions, vases and all ? Would it go well with brown carpet? and then get a purple curtain ?
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When I announced on Facebook that I would be starting this school I also mentioned that hopefully I will not cry when I screw up someone's nails like I cried when I screwed up someone's tattoos when I was apprenticing. I mean, I was learning and all, and I fully warned every willing body that donated their flesh to a (at the time) good cause, but it was still taxing and horrible when I made a mistake. I will start this blog out on a positive note, though. Below is the picture of the last tattoo I completed on my husband's leg. It is a nautilus.
The only tattoo that I only cried about ten times over and didn't turn out to look like complete dog shit.
Is dog shit one word or two? Spell check says two.
Anyway, the beginning of my tattoo apprenticeship was rough. That's kinda putting it nicely. I started out on pigskin, which, first of all, was really weird. Pigskin is as close to human skin as it gets for practicing and every time I would go into the butcher's shop they would ask if I was making chicharrones, because that, apparently is a thing.
Chicharrones is fried pig skin fat. Otherwise known as Pork Rinds.
I was not making pork rinds, though. I was going to mutilate the dead skin of a pig for artistic purposes. Here is just the initial set up.
Not very pleasing to the eye, huh? Believe me, it was less appealing to the nose...
So, after months of practicing on pigskin and on my poor husband, I started taking willing participants a.k.a. lifelong victims. Some tattoos turned out great, some... not so much...
My husband, for instance, is scarred for life. And, not in a good way. I am showing you what no man, woman, or child will probably ever see in person ever again... My husband's poor thighs.
This was my first tattoo on human skin!! I cried for thirty minutes.
And, of course, who can live their life properly without a narwhal tattoo?? I know I sure can't and maybe that's why things have gone so wrong. I'm making my appointment today.
So, I guess the whole point of this thing is that maybe nail tech school is safer than apprenticing to do tattoos. I mean, if I screw up a nail, I can remove it with acetone. If you screw up a tattoo, that shit lasts forever. And, believe me, acetone does not remove a tattoo... Even if you think really positive thoughts about it.


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They tell me the first lines are the most important part of any story; hopefully these will do:
Most days pass in a fog. I sit in a white room, watching the sun track across the sky; I watch the light rise and fall. A gentle aide, smiling, whispers in my ear. He tells me stories that begin 'Once upon a time…' or 'Back when the world was new…'. He whispers words from some fairy-tale, a child's story about vanquished dragons and valiant knights and beautiful princes and princess, their bodies wreathed in fine cloth, their fingers adorned with jewels. Sometimes these stories have Gods, just and vengeful creatures. Sometimes they end with a wedding, with all gone right in the world. Sometimes they end in tragedy; a hero boldly sacrificing themselves so that those they love, or Earth itself, may survive. These are the tales I like best; they remind me of what someone told me—my father perhaps—in another life:
"No true victory comes without cost. No true King ascends to his throne unscathed. No day passes in this world without those whom you rule, whom you serve, taking from you. They take and they take… until nothing remains. Nothing but what they demand you become.
"This is what it means to be King."
Sometimes the fog lifts briefly, and I can see this white room, this sterile building, clearly for what it really is. A hospital… and a prison. On these days, I notice what each passing moment takes from me, bearing me down a river whose current beats me further and further into the future, further and further from my glorious past.
I was… I was…
Winds blow in my room as my suborned self returns in flashes. Perhaps my feet even leave the ground. In the distance I hear thunder, and in my hands crackle lightning. My eyes become dark and deep. My old name dances on the tip of my tongue. I taste its power, and with it, on the precipice, flirts a glut of lost memories. But the gentle voiced aide rushes in; calms me with his whispers; feeds me pills with his soft hands. There is kindness in his eyes, I see, but also fire. Sympathy, but also fear. He guides me with surprising strength, until my feet again touch the floor.
"There, there," He whispers, leading me back to my bed, tightly restraining me, watching until my eyes fade back to white. "It doesn't do to get so stressed. Let me read you a story, you like those right?"
Back in the thrall of the fog, I can do nothing but mutely nod.
And so passes time, be it weeks, months or years, to me the distinction no longer matters. Deep within me, something remembers, long withered roots grow stronger. Dreams of my past become clearer. With each remembrance I go stronger; my jailor must wait longer for my fits of reassumed kinghood to subside. The doses of whatever they use to subdue my powers, I suspect, get larger yet still more inefficient. The others in white rooms, they who once ignored me, now gaze at me openly with fear or awe or some mixture of both in their eyes. At night, in fitful sleep, I begin to mutter the same refrain, speaking it still as I wake.
I will cast down my usurpers. I will stamp their names from history. They will be undone as I was undone. They will know fear. They will hear me resurrected, and all their hopes will die on the vine.
Once I was king, and will be so again…


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Newspaper that started idea of Hall of Fame in Canton in 1959 is 'official newspaper of the Pro Football Hall of Fame,' after new three-year agreement.
CANTON The Canton Repository and the Pro Football Hall of Fame have entered into a business partnership for the next three years that makes the Repository the official newspaper of the Hall of Fame.
The partnership was announced in a joint release Thursday morning. The three-year agreement also calls for enhanced marketing and advertising opportunities by the Hall, as well as special content generated by the museum.
Editorial content in the newspaper and on CantonRep.com will not be affected.
The Hall and the Repository have had a long-standing relationship, actually before the Hall was built here. It was a 1959 story in the Repository headlined, "Pro Football Needs a Hall of Fame and Logical Site is Here," that spearheaded a community-wide effort to convince the NFL the Hall of Fame should be located in Canton.
"It is a great honor to announce this heightened partnership with the Pro Football Hall of Fame," said Jim Porter, publisher of the Repository and president of GateHouse Ohio Media. "We are incredibly proud to partner with an organization of excellence like the Hall, and we look forward to working together during this exciting time for the Hall and our region."
Also as part of the agreement, the Repository will be distributed to Hall of Fame guests on a daily basis. The newspaper will be wrapped in a specially created four-page section that shares the latest information about Hall of Fame news, events, and interesting features about the game.
Agreements such as this are increasingly more common for newspapers, according to Florida-based Poynter Institute, a global leader in journalistic ethics and standards.
"Relationships like this are increasingly becoming more common," said Kelly McBride, a vice president at Poynter and a media ethicist. "As advertising revenue declines, newspapers are finding ways to bring in new revenue and unique partnerships like this make a lot of sense. These are mutually beneficial to both organizations and you are providing a genuine value. It makes sense.
"In a similar way that you've always had the protection of your editorial content from the influence of advertisers, your staff is still going to cover the football Hall of Fame in the same way they would cover any local business."
Readers of both the newspaper and the website will receive specially created content from the Pro Football Hall of Fame provided to, and vetted by, the Repository. A daily feature — ranging from trivia to peeks inside the Hall's vast collection — will be featured on the newspaper's front page. A new daily video series, "Pro Football Hall of Fame Today" that highlights happenings with the Hall will be posted on CantonRep.com each day.
The newspaper will continue to update readers and the community through its annual special section highlighting progress on Hall of Fame Village, a $500 million development taking place on the Hall's campus. That content will be provided to media outlets across GateHouse Media's network of newspapers. GateHouse Media is the parent company of the Repository.
"The Canton Repository has provided great support and coverage of the Pro Football Hall of Fame for more than a half-century. The Repository and the Hall of Fame both stand for excellence," Hall of Fame President David Baker said. "We are excited to partner with the dedicated team at The Canton Repository who share the Hall's commitment, passion and vision."
According to the agreement, the Hall and the Repository will work on joint advertising opportunities. There will be a sweepstakes and promotion built around enshrinement weekend or the Hall's "Selection Saturday" at the Super Bowl every year when the new class is elected. The sweepstakes, which will take place across GateHouse Media properties, will treat winners to special access to "A Game for Life," a holographic theater expected to open in mid-July.
Another part of the deal includes the Pro Football Hall of Fame co-sponsoring the "Best of Stark Preps" event created by GateHouse Media that will recognize the top athlete from each sport at every high school in the county. The Pro Football Hall of Fame also will establish a "Celebrating Excellence EVERYWHERE Award" to be presented to one selected student. This year's event on Tuesday will include Baker as the master of ceremonies and Hall of Famer Michael Irvin as the keynote speaker.
The Hall will also provide support and consultation on the production of the event. In addition, the Hall of Fame helped secure Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino for a "Best of Preps" event in Rockford, Ill., on June 20.
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Woodstock Film Festival attendees might remember Oren Moverman's writing from last year's Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There." He returns for the festival's 10-year anniversary with the opening-night film "The Messenger," a film about a combat soldier who spends his last three months of service as part of a Casualty Notification Team, informing the next of kin of a soldier's death. The film stars Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton. It's Moverman's directing debut.
Woodstock Film Festival attendees might remember Oren Moverman's writing from last year's Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There." He returns for the festival's 10-year anniversary with the opening-night film "The Messenger," a film about a combat soldier who spends his last three months of service as part of a Casualty Notification Team, informing the next of kin of a soldier's death. The film stars Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton. It's Moverman's directing debut.
Q. Why this film as your directing debut?
A. It started off with a casual conversation with my co-writer, Alessandro Camon, who said that he saw the idea of a casualty notification movie as dramatic and would shine a light on all the stuff that is not being talked about. I thought it was a great idea and we ended up writing it together. I was working on it as a screenwriter for the first few years. We had other directors attached to it, and when the last one fell out, they offered it to me. At first I was hesitant and I thought we should get someone with more experience, get a great humanist to really understand the nature of this material. I was told to just shut up and do it. I went for it.
How lucky am I?
This was written during the Writers Guild of America strike?
We were working with our second director, Roger Michell — British and great and really collaborative. We were really happy about him directing the film and then the writers' strike came and everything came to a stop. The climate changed after the strike for this particular piece and who would be able to do it.
You were in the Israeli army? How did that play into the writing?
Yeah, I'm talking a lot about this these days. ... It played into it a lot, though when it was happening I wasn't really aware of it. It was a movie about a combat soldier (the Ben Foster character) who's just back from war ... who's been to that "planet of the battlefield" that nobody talks about. I saw as I was working that I could contribute by setting up that world for Ben as an actor on top of his own research. I really felt, without much patting on the back, that I knew the emotional world of the combat soldier in a general way. I could come from what those experiences were and just sort of play him closer to reality in the movie.
Did you have battle experience yourself?
Define battle ... Yeah, I was shot at. Most of my service was in Lebanon in the 1980s, so it was an occupation, not the war itself, and we were facing everyday situations that have to do with combat. It was much like Iraq now. It wasn't conventional war where you have very clear missions and a particular piece of land you have to take over.
It was the day-to-day grind as it was at that time in the occupied territories in Israel.
Did you do a lot of interviews with soldiers or notification teams in the course of researching for this film? Did you go out with notification teams to see the reactions and how the men brace themselves to do this job?
We didn't go out with an actual team to do a notification because that would have been a real breach of protocol, and also that would have been, on our part, invasive of a very, very private moment. We did do some research and talked to some people who did notifications, but did not talk with families. There was a lot of stuff starting to appear on the Internet — soldiers' blogs or family pages and various places where you could find people talking about it. I think one of the things that works with these notifications on a universal level is that it's not really hard for us ... you, me, those who are not in the military ... it's not hard for us to understand this. All of us have to face that kind of news or give that kind of news at some point or other. The mechanical element of it from a creative perspective was "How does the Army do it? How do we do it close to the way the Army does it?" It's portrayed in a cinematic way but there's some reality in it. Those are the mechanics, but the gist of it, the meat of the drama, is something all of us can tap into very easily. Unfortunately, it's part of life.
Tell me about directing for the first time. Were there surprises?
Not so much. I've been lucky that the films I've worked on have all had directors who were very friendly to me, and I spent time on sets since I started in the film world as a production assistant, so I knew the world of actual filmmaking and knew the director's role. I interviewed directors when I was a journalist. I was editor-at-large for a book publisher I was doing film books for, so I'm not "22 out of film school." I'm in my early 40s and have had a long time to prepare.
My biggest surprise was how much I enjoyed working with the actors.
Not because I feared them or thought we'd have a terrible time. As a director, working with the actors was the one key communication that I was not experienced in. Something directors wonder is about the correct way to work with an actor's process: Tap into it, feed it, nurture it and make it work for the piece. That, in theory, sounds like a lot of hard work and a lot of head-scratching dilemmas, but because of the level of talent from these actors, it was really pleasurable.
Can you tell me a little bit about casting for this film?
We went through a pretty normal process. For the Will Montgomery character, we needed a guy to be someone in his 20s, pull it off emotionally but also have the stature. I talked to a few actors on the list, but Ben Foster was someone who just came in, sat down, looked me in the eye and I knew that he'd gotten it. Unlike a lot of actors of his generation, he doesn't hold onto his boyhood. He's a man and he explores that in the way that maybe actors of the 1970s were like, that where they may have been wild, but they may have had life experiences that kept them in a more mature place that they could bring into their craft as actors, and Ben reminds me of that kind of actor. He's strong. He has a strong personality and is sensitive and it just fit perfectly.
Woody Harrelson was offered another role in the script as the commander — this guy Dorsett, who was in charge of them all. Woody read the script and we met for dinner and he said that we got it wrong and that he should be Tony. The more we talked about it the more I realized that he was right. He can play Tony. He was going to be great at it, so we offered it to him and he said, "Of course."
Samantha I knew from a movie I worked on as a co-writer called "Jesus' Son." We sent her the script and she just knew that world. She had experience with family members who were soldiers and she really tapped into the emotional universe of this character.
What did you discover about the use of words when actors often do so much without words?
I'm very flexible about that. It was essential that I approached this as the director and not as the screenwriter, so I didn't hold on to the script in that way. The actors would come up with a lot on their own. There was a lot of improvisation that made its way into the movie. Overall it was a very actor-friendly approach to making it because ultimately what was going to work about the film or not work was the engagement of the performances. It's not a very fancy film.
There's not a lot of action. It's emotional. It's an emotional ride.
It was important that the characters connect with the audience and they could do that only by my allowing the actors the freedom and to trust that they could take what's on the page and make it their own.
What do you want people to take out of this movie? Where are you taking them with this emotional ride?
That's a really good question. I think there are a bunch of things I would love to have come out of this. The intention behind the script that Alessandro and I wrote was always to shine a light on the part of the war that is not being talked about or being seen: the people who live with the consequences of the decision to go to war. ... If you open the paper and you read about five of our soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan and you see this movie, you can imagine five families being notified of this horrible thing. And that these scenes, one way or another, are happening today.
What I would hope is that it would contribute to people's consideration of what it means to make the decision to go to war. What does it entail? We always talk — and the Woody Harrelson character talks about it in the movie — we talk about strategy and political things to do and what the right thing to do is in terms of world power and domination and American influence and interests. This is a legitimate conversation. But we cannot divorce the human part of these decisions to go to war. If viewers thought about that, it would be the biggest thing we could hope for. Honestly, when I go to the movie and talk to people after, I think also that if you could just go home and tell people that you loved them, that would be a great side effect, too.


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I am in the USA seeing friends, but will be back home in Barcelona 25th and will then photograph the items and attempt to post them here or send then to anyone who is interested.
I have 2 EM5s, the other one is silver and is with me now, it is my favourite camera and the one I use mostly when travelling, or for personal work, the black one I am selling is more for the paid gigs and actually gets treated a lot better than the one with me, so I can confidently say that it, the battery grip and the lens are in excellent condition, all the little extra plastic bits, etc, are all available, as are the books and warranty cards (no boxes though).
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Man in custody for Forensic Science Center break-in
Wichita police arrested a 33-year-old man suspected of breaking into the Sedgwick County Regional Forensic Science Center today.
Officers chased the man on foot, then took him into custody after using a Taser on him, police said.
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