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Rewriting short articles for YouTube video descriptions.
When you are producing a large quantity of videos like I do, you know it is really time consuming to compose good original content for the descriptions. It is crucial part of video SEO or VSEO to have well a written and original article so I use of an article spinner or automatic content rewriter.
There are several methods to do this and over time I have actually found two methods that work well using article spinners. One approach is a free one and works very. The other is a premium tool which is much quicker however does cost in the region of $55 annually.
I show you how both these article spinners work in this video.
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Fusion Applications Life Cycle Management organization with deliverables for Oracle Public Cloud (SaaS) offers opportunities to be part of a team testing critical software focused on enabling Fusion Applications inside the Cloud. The Fusion Applications Life Cycle Management team is responsible for creating test plan, specifications, execution, automation of various solutions to effectively manage the lifecycle of Fusion Applications, from enabling of low cost new deployments for cloud-based scenarios to efficiently managing existing deployments.
The focus of Fusion Apps System Testing team is to test all the lifecycle solutions before delivering to our Cloud customers in the following scenarios
Provisioning - This involves installing, configuring, deploying and removing application components. Given the number of Fusion Middleware components, as well as the number of dependencies in among Fusion application products, the provisioning framework's goal is to limit the need for a customer to install and configure these items on their own.
Patching - This involves validating the patching framework and different patches that are delivered to the fleet.
Upgrades - This involves upgrading the pod from one Fusion Apps release to another using the upgrade framework.
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In other words, Gration was the end user from hell for an understaffed IT team in a politically sensitive outpost. "He has willfully disregarded Department regulations on the use of commercial email for official government business," the IG report noted, "including a front channel instruction from the Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security against such practice, which he asserted to the OIG team that he had not seen"—because he never used his secure network account.The article has more.
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All Your Base Belong To Us
5 comments:
- Tony Tsquared said...
Now that I am retired from the Air Force I can reflect back on the many times I took INFOSEC and COMSEC classes and the many threats of time in Leavenworth for violations. I was in communications the entire 21 years and security was a very high priority.
I think it is time to fill the jails with these asswipes who think they are above the rules and laws that apply to everybody else.
- March 9, 2015 at 9:47 AM
- Aaron said...
It seems this administration from the top down to the middle management seem determined to avoid all data security best practices and keep their email away from FOIA.
Sadly, the official reaction seems to be, as the erstwhile head of the State Department has declared: "At this point what difference does it make?".
- March 9, 2015 at 11:14 AM
- Sherm said...
Of course, their reliance on public email may actually reflect just how important they actually are to the running of the government. As political appointees they come and go but the bureaucracy is forever.
- March 9, 2015 at 3:39 PM
- Old NFO said...
+1 on T-squared... sigh
- March 9, 2015 at 7:31 PM
- Guffaw in AZ said...
Clinton and Petraeus aren't alone!
There's a Loose Lips joke in here somewhere, but I won't proffer it!
- March 10, 2015 at 11:13 AM


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A Wyoming County man is facing nearly 200 violations for allegedly possessing an extensive collection of rare animals as well as protected birds that had gone through taxidermy.
John P. Volpe, 62, from Attica was arrested Thursday fry officers from the State Department of Conservation.
Volpe 's home was raided and officers found 100 live turtles, a live screech owl, a live red-tailed hawk and mounts of more than a dozen protected birds of prey. He was charged with 190 violations. It's illegal in New York to possess certain types of live or dead wildlife without a permit or license.
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Nudie Slim Jims or Average Joes perhaps? They do push £100, coming in at around £90 a pair, but the value is actually pretty good.
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I would have recommended Allsaints - Iggies and certain other fits are good examples of slim/straight looks at middle prices - but it seems they've almost completely phased those out in favour of skinnier legs this season, which I can't say I'm impressed with. Previous seasons have had the exact opposite problem; they just can't seem to get the balance right.
The other thing is this; if the H&M pairs fit you that well, buy one or two! As fantastic as quality jeans are I don't happen to think there's anything wrong with cheaper jeans either.
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In a good way, obviously. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted Spotify as one of the companies making best use of the social network's developer platform, during an on-stage interview at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco tonight.
"Spotify is killing it," he said, while also citing Airbnb, Nike and RunKeeper as good examples. But music was less of a theme in the 25-minute interview than mobile.
"A lot of the energy of the ecosystem is not going towards building desktop stuff any more, it's going towards building mobile stuff," said Zuckerberg. "That's the future."
He also pushed back at analyst suggestions that mobile is a big challenge for Facebook, in terms of making money from its rocketing app usage.
"It's easy for people to underestimate how fundamentally good mobile is for us right now… on a bunch of different levels," said Zuckerberg. "Mobile is… there are going to be more users, each user is going to spend more time, and per amount of time that they spend, we're going to be making more money."
Zuckerberg also announced during his interview that Instagram, the photo-sharing app that has just been acquired by Facebook, now has 100m registered users.
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My V-day consisted of family time and exploring Kansas City, MO. I didn't really do much after that because I had to work (which I'm perfectly fine with!) I was tweaking off of a caramel latte from Dunkin' Donuts, something that I never! When I finally got home, there was some BEAUTIFUL carnations sitting on the table for me! I always wanted flowers sent to me, it's the literally the perfect gift! I hope you guys had a really great V-Day! <3
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The Siena men's lacrosse team allowed nine second-half goals and fell to No. 4 Johns Hopkins 15-6 in the season opener for both teams in Baltimore.
Siena trailed 5-1 after one quarter, but outscored the hosts 3-1 in the second to cut the deficit to two goals, 6-4, at halftime. Saints sophomore Conor Prunty scored three of his four goals in the first half.
Johns Hopkins came out firing in the second half, scoring four consecutive goals to grab a 10-4 lead with 3:38 remaining in the third quarter.
Johns Hopkins outshot the Saints 58-26 and won 16 of 23 faceoffs.
Richie Hurley scored a goal and Nate Barry added a goal and an assist for the Saints. Brandon Benn and John Ranagan each recorded a hat trick for the Blue Jays.
Siena senior goalie Matt Sharp stopped a career-high 20 shots. It was the second year in a row a Saints goalie collected 20 saves in the season opener. Johns Hopkins goalies Pierce Bassett and Eric Schneider made 12 and two stops, respectively.


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Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing Guide > Design Registration, Opportunity Management, and Design Win > Process of Distributor Selling Components to OEM >
The distributor begins by meeting with an OEM to determine whether one of the supplier's components would be appropriate for one of the OEM's design programs and to determine projected sales for the planned product and prices for the component.
When the distributor finds a product that can use one of the supplier's components, the distributor attempts to register it. Registration protects distributors from competition during the period when they are collaborating with the OEM to get this component designed into the product. Typically, distributors are given a discount on components if the register the design and win the design. Other distributors would not get this discount, so they would not be able to offer the same low prices as the distributor holding the registration.
This task is part of Process of Distributor Selling Components to OEM.
To submit the registration through the Partner Portal, the distributor must enter:
There can be multiple design registration records for one design program record. For example, the distributors may want to use several different chips made by the supplier in one product that is planned by the OEM.
To submit a registration through the Partner Portal
Last Name
Enter the last name for the contact at the end-customer company.
Potential Value
Displays the roll-up of the potential value for all child design registrations or opportunities.
Prototype Date
Enter the start date for building of the prototype for the OEM product.
Production Date
Enter the start date for production of the OEM product.
Enter the vertical market that the OEM product belongs to.
Anyone who is on the program team will be able to view this design programs record and the associated information.
Displays the aggregation of revenues for all selected parts under Revenues.
Assigned To
Displays the manufacturer employee assigned to review the design registration. It is automatically set to the partner manager for this distributor as the first reviewer.
Field Application Engineer
Enter the name of the field application engineer (FAE) assigned to the design registration. This FAE automatically becomes a member of the sales team.
Sales Engineer
Enter the name of the sales engineer (SE) assigned to the design registration. This SE automatically becomes a member of the sales team.
Rep Firm
Enter the account name of the manufacturer representative working the opportunity.
Inside Sales Rep
Automatically filled out with the partner manager for this distributor.
Submitted Date
Displays the date the registration was submitted by the distributor or sales representative.
Renewal Date
Displays the date the registration needs to be renewed by the supplier.
Approved/Rejected Date
Displays the date the status of the registration was set to Approved or Rejected.
Identifies the part selected from a list of competing parts for the given socket.
Selected by the manufacturer to indicate to the distributor that the part is registered on distributor's behalf.
Contract manufacturer information is useful to track where the sales for this opportunity will come from.
The registration request is submitted to the supplier for approval. The revenue records become read-only. The Inside Sales Rep field is set to the partner manager for this distributor at the supplier company, so the registration is automatically assigned to that partner manager.
NOTE: If the distributor wants to make any changes to this design registration data, the distributor can select Recalled in the Status field to recall the submission.


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So, about NG+, first question: Do I retain all my guns, all my upgrades and everything else as I left it once I finished the game?
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- Hamarsneset (2.6km)
- Laksaneset (3.6km)
- Hordvikneset (3.7km)
- Langaneset (3.8km)
- Klauvneset (5km)
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- Ospholmen (4.4km)
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- area;
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- Nordhordland (4.8km)
- administrative division;
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- Hamre Herad (4.2km)
- hill;
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- a coastal indentation between two capes or headlands, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.
- Flatøyosen (4.1km)
- section of island;
- part of a larger island.
- Håøyni (4.4km)
- lake;
- a large inland body of standing water.
- Isdalsvatnet (2.5km)
- bank(s);
- an elevation, typically located on a shelf, over which the depth of water is relatively shallow but sufficient for most surface navigation.
- Sørfjordskallen (2.7km)
- stream;
- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Tellvikelvi (4.6km)
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- Alversund Bridge landmark bridge
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- Hjartås city city o
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- Kleppestø city city o
- Håkonshalle landmark hall
Airports close to Grottveit
Bergen flesland(BGO), Bergen, Norway (31.7km)
Soerstokken(SRP), Stord, Norway (90.8km)
Floro(FRO), Floro, Norway (122.4km)
Sogndal haukasen(SOG), Sogndal, Norway (126.8km)
Haugesund karmoy(HAU), Haugesund, Norway (144km)
Airfields or small airports close to Grottveit
Boemoen, Bomoen, Norway (69.8km)
Bringeland, Forde, Norway (102.1km)
Dagali, Dagli, Norway (187.8km)
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It was girls' weekend while Doug was out of town, so we spent it watching movies, eating ice cream, and sewing. My three-year-old has been very into sewing.
Lane comes running whenever she hears the sewing machine, and she wants to help with every "making something." It's nice when she sits on my lap to watch the machine whirring, and scary when she wields the fabric scissors. Her job is to cut the threads.
We started her off with some rainbow yarn, blunt needles, and plastic canvas (like what my granny's tissue box covers are made from). Burlap or wide-weave linen in a hoop work well too.
They are quick little activities that are easy to take with us, and later I just pull out the yarn for next time.
She practices with the sharp needles by stringing the buttons into necklaces.
What's more fun than the sewing is hearing her talk about it. Needles are called noodles, buttons are bun-duns, and every button necklace is going to be for the pirate party she's planning.
She's caught on to the idea that she can make the things that she sees at the store. Every finished thing makes her smile with pride so big that I think my heart is going to burst.
Most importantly, we don't take it too seriously. So when she wakes up at 6:30 in the morning wanting to sew a pink party hat like the one she saw the night before, I pull out the stapler and glue gun, and we call that sewing too. I don't want her to be so concerned about doing something the right way that she hesitates to start. So far, she's been ready to jump right in.
A few kid-friendly sewing project ideas:
Handmade Felt Food group on Flickr
Coloring Pasta and Making Necklaces from Make and Takes
Butterfly Mobile from the Long Thread
Festive Bunting and Many More Ideas from Sew, Mama, Sew
Wild West Gear and Fake Mustaches from Little Birdie Secrets


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Thursday, September 04, 2008
"you can't get to wonderful without passing through alright."
-Bill Withers
Wisdom the book.
I like the video.
I also LOVE that they got Bill Withers!!!! His song, Lean on me, changed the world as much as Ted Kennedy, and don't tell me any different.
hat tip to the blake, inspiring mere hours after returning from NOLA evacuation (impressed)
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How 'Obamacare' impacts eye health disparities
Take Home
Vision health disparities are a serious issue in the United States among minorities, and many are hoping provisions in the Affordable Care Act will be able to alleviate the issue.
Detroit—Disparities in vision and eye health-care opportunities among minorities is a big problem in the United States, according to M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS.
Furthermore, Dr. Wilson explained that these disparities have resulted in a high number of unnecessary vision loss among American minorities, as 6.9% of African Americans and 9.2% of Hispanics have impaired vision that could be easily remedied with eyeglasses.
'There are a number of ophthalmic diseases for which there are disparities based on either race, ethnicity, or socially economic status," said Dr. Wilson, president of Wayne State University, Detroit.
Though many physicians see the disparities problem as exclusively an access issue, Dr. Wilson said he believes there are more factors that play a role as well.
"There is lots of evidence that it's not just access," said Dr. Wilson, who is also the former deputy director for strategic scientific planning and program coordination at the National Institute on Minority and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "The problem is much more widespread."
That is where the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will come into play, Dr. Wilson said, as the health-care overhaul has the potential to reduce the dilemma greatly, while addressing its various causes.
ACA impact
There are four areas, Dr. Wilson explained, in which the ACA may have a significant impact on decreasing vision related disparities among minorities:
1. Infrastructure: The ACA has elevated the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities into the NIMHD. The act has given the newly formed agency overall responsibility for strategic planning and program coordination for all the health disparities related to research and training for the entire NIH.
The act also established the Office of Minority Health in the Health and Human Services Department, as well as in other government offices like the Centers for Disease Control and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.
2. Access: The health-care overhaul included many increased access provisions, including Medicaid expansion, insurance regulation/the American health benefit exchange, community health centers creation, as well as prevention and wellness additions.
These specific changes the ACA brings, Dr. Wilson said, could turn out to make a large impact on accessibility to health-care by minorities.
"Simply because more minorities (currently) have difficult with access," he added.
3. Health-care workforce and cultural competency: There are a number of provisions associated with this area, as its intent is to improve the diversity of the workforce.
4. Quality improvement: The ACA will increase data collection and research to improve the quality of health-care for minorities.
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In the start of my journey I googled natural hair and guess what popped up, Nappturality!. It was a gold mine of information. It was wonderful, I met some wonderful helpful women. Down the road I started to get to know this young lady because we shared a love of products and mixing. If she had questions she asked me and vice versa. When I tried out a concoction she was my first victim , lol. I wish she lived closer so I can experiment on her more
I just wanted to let her know and whomever comes across the site whether on purpose or not, she is my inspiration. Her hair has evolved into something spectacular. Whether she chooses to loc or not , her beauty is something to behold , the sparkle in her eye when she talks on her YouTube channel is so infectious!
You can catch her blogging http://www.mwatum.com/ ,
or reviewing here
She was gracious enough to allow me a couple of questions.
What your current hair status, Natural, transitioning, or thinking about it?
If you are natural, how long have you been?
Amina: I've been natural since September 2006
If you are not natural, would you ever try to transition?
If you are transitioning, how long do you think you will transition, and what methods are you using to help yourself while you transition?
If you are transitioning, how long do you think you will transition, and what methods are you using to help yourself while you transition?
Why did you go natural?
Why did you go natural?
Amina: I never thought that I would go natural. For me, natural hair was not an option because you were always expected to have a relaxer. I grew up with the belief that my hair was ugly and unmanageable. When I moved from Boston to a small town in Indiana, I had a hard time finding a hair salon. When I finally did, she told me that the nearest appointment for a relaxer was 3months away. I panicked! Eventually I found a woman who did relaxers but she kept changing jobs. At the end of the year, I knew I couldn't depend so much on stylists and had to make a drastic change. I wasn't sure which one it was going to be. When I went to Zimbabwe for the summer, reading many magazines from South Africa was eye-opening. So many women had locs, twists, shaved heads or twas. It is when I read an article written by Tanesha Smith "going natural" on Elle girl, I thought I was reading my own story. Those moments inspired me. A friend was also getting married and she sent me her wedding pictures where she sported a small fro and looked great. Even though today she went back to a relaxer, she really helped me so much by answering my 1000 questions and referring me to online resources.
In a nutshell, I went natural because I needed to learn how to take care of my hair and accept that there is nothing wrong with my natural hair.
Heres the article.
Do you ever feel the need to alter your hair to fit in better with family, peers or a loved one?
Amina:No. Doing the big chop changed me and I refused to alter my hair to please someone.
Did you have expectations of your hair looking a certain way when you made up your mind to go natural?
Amina: Not really. I had no idea what I was getting into. I didn't remember how my natural hair texture looked like. So I decided to have no expectations
What has been your consistent driving force to continue on with your natural journey?
Amina: The freedom. Going natural has been liberating and I compare myself less to others. It has also made me pay attention to what I put inside my body.
What does natural mean to you?
Amina:To me, natural means beautiful, liberating, self-love and self-acceptance
What was one of the hardest things that you have or are struggling with as you walk down this natural journey?
Amina:Finding the right products that worked for me. At first I bought all Carol's Daughter line and nothing worked for me. My hair was constantly dry and I had no idea how to take care of it. Right now, I am a struggling with a bald spot since I've been transitioning to a vegan diet and lately I've been under much stress. I am also always thinking about locking but can't commit
What if any thing can you share with someone going through transitioning their mind and hair to natural?
Amina:Be patient and enjoy each stage! When I big chopped, I wanted a huge fro right now. I didn't enjoy enough what each step had to offer because I was too busy getting obsessed about length.
What goals do you hope to achieve for yourself that you didn't have prior to becoming natural?
Amina:I want to have healthy hair. I want my edges to be more filled in and maybe one day I'll lock
Amina will be receiving a basketfull of natural goodies, which is the least we could do in return for her simply being herself.


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How To Dive Deeper Into Exciting Creative Revelations
The subject of diving deeper seems to be coming up a bit lately. Last week I spoke of it about the concept of the muse and this week I would like to pursue that subject a little further and night of what I am currently doing in my own art practice.
Recently a girlfriend and I were to talking together and we decided that we would like to begin a collaborative project to dive deeper into our own art practices. This collaboration centres around using the artist Georgia O'Keeffe as our Muse for the project.
We began by having a discussion on what appealed to us about Georgia O'Keeffe. We spoke about our vision for what we wanted to create. We decided the first thing we needed to do was study Georgia's methodology in more detail. We asked questions like, how did she arrive at her final images? What were her influences? Why did she decide to create in the way that she did?
Questions are always a good place to start. I began my exploration by reading several books on her life and her art practice. From this in-depth study, I have concluded that like everyone, Georgia had major turning points in her life. One of these occurred after she had spent much time drawing and painting in the traditional manner and was then exposed to the teaching of Arthur Leslie Dow.
Dow believed in what came to be known as the Modernist principle – that the subject of the artists' work should be their personal ideas and feelings. His solid background in Zen Buddhism influenced his teaching and he developed a new way of teaching art. This is why he taught his students to learn to see a subject in a completely different way, encouraging them to visualize effectively through the harmonious arrangement of line, colour, and NOTAN (the Japanese system of arranging lights and darks).
I bought Arthur Dow's book and I am currently studying it and working on some of his exercises, following in Georgia's footsteps. The link is below if you are interested in purchasing it.
He taught his students to above all appreciate the elegance of design that was based on nature but never replicate it.
When asked about the strongest influence on her work O'Keeffe replied,
"Some people say nature, but the way you see nature depends on whatever has influenced your way of seeing. I think it was Arthur W. Dow."
He became her most influential teacher and a strong mentor. This had a very large influence on her art practice, to the point where she destroyed all of her previous art work and began again from scratch.
O'Keeffe wanted to avoid replicating what she saw and chose instead to uncover the true Essence of a subject from nature itself. This is a view that is closely linked to what is at the heart of Zen Buddhism, of realising one's place in nature.
Georgia herself said, " Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things."
Other influences came from Symbolism and Romanticism. The romantic movement took artists from the academic structure followed in the past and allowed them to seek out and follow feeling and emotion above reason. The Symbolists also were searching for a deepening of the spirit and emotions and not just a representation of nature.
Like many of the modernists, O'Keeffe spent her life trying to paint the emotional truth—not the hills above Ghost Ranch but how it felt to look at the hills; or how a flower made her feel. In order to do this, she pared back and pared back the detail, all the while looking for the essence of colour, line and form to find that kernel she was looking for.
So why am I telling you all this? Because all this information relates to how we are going about working on the images for this exhibition, Paring back, and searching for that intrinsic beauty in the subjects we are choosing.
This Weeks Question: What would it take for you to dive deeper on your own creative journey?
Look For Next Week's Post: Continuing the unfolding of this journey.


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The Mambo Jazz Kings have been playing music for a remarkable 32 years.
They are a high energy dance band that can lay down every funky beat from
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Seven Amazing Christmas Reflection PhotosPosted by Katrina Kennedy on Dec 5, 2012 in Blog, DecemberDaily, Photography | 11 comments
Are you looking for a fun way to add a little extra to your December Daily photos?
Go on a hunt for a reflection. It might be yours. It might be the room. Or something else completely. The CY365 Community is filled with fun reflection of Christmas time!
Deb Moran filled a little tragedy with fun. I love how she's composed this on the thirds and left the little pieces of glass to fill the frame. Do you notice how your eye catches the irony of the J still remaining?
Diane captured a classic camera lens in the ornament photo. I love that you can see the room around her. And that one shiny ornament is so nicely balance between the others.
Carol grabbed one of those moments that I love. I imagine her walking down her hall and discovering the amazing angle of her tree. Add a little Christmas tree bokeh. It's such a great memory of her beautiful living room.
Christi has such talent. And with this photo she did not disappoint. I love the diagonal composition. The pop of red and that clean white background. THIS is what I love about photography.
Gabi's reflection against the floor is a twist on the reflection theme. The lights create such a great pattern as your eye is drawn down the string of lights. There is something so serene about her photo.
Jeannie proves once again she is the master of creativity. Why have one reflection when you can have three! I love her red sweater reflected in the silver bells. I love that she dared to show her entire self, not just her face covered by the lens. This is composed beautifully and one of my Christmas favorites.
Carol got her cat in on the reflection action. What a great moment right next to the Christmas tree.
Inspired yet? Why not grab your lens and see what reflection you can find!
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I have to say that I haven't seen a comic, much less a superhero comic, for a very, very long time now–years, probably almost a decade since I've really looked at one closely.
Does any of this stop him from opining about them, negatively, for paragraph after paragraph? If your answer is "yes" then you haven't been following Moore's interviews over the past few years.
His blanket dismissal of superhero comics in this long, fascinating interview with Wired's Adam Rogers echoes earlier comments he made about his distaste for the Hollywood mode of filmmaking; this time, however, he's expanded his beef with Tinseltown cinema to include the use of CGI, and indeed the entire medium of film:
One of my big objections to film as a medium is that it's much too immersive, and I think that it turns us into a population of lazy and unimaginative drones. The absurd lengths that modern cinema and its CGI capabilities will go in order to save the audience the bother of imagining anything themselves is probably having a crippling effect on the mass imagination. You don't have to do anything. With a comic, you're having to do quite a lot. Even though you've got pictures there for you, you're having to fill in all the gaps between the panels, you're having to imagine characters voices. You're having to do quite a lot of work. Not quite as much work as with a straight unillustrated book, but you're still going to do quite a lot of work.
I think the amount of work we contribute to our enjoyment of any piece of art is a huge component of that enjoyment. I think that we like the pieces that engage us, that enter into a kind of dialog with us, whereas with film you sit there in your seat and it washes over you. It tells you everything, and you really don't need to do a great deal of thinking. There are some films that are very, very good and that can engage the viewer in their narrative, in its mysteries, in its kind of misdirections. You can sometimes get films where a lot of it is happening in your head. Those are probably good films, but they're not made very much anymore.
There seems to be an audience that demands everything be explained to them, that everything be easy. And I don't think that's doing us any good as a culture. The ease with which we can accomplish or conjure any possible imaginable scenario through CGI is almost directly proportionate to how uninterested we're becoming in all of this. I can remember Ray Harryhausen's animated skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts. I can remember Willis O'Brien's King Kong. I can remember being awed at the artistry that had made those things possible. Yes, I knew how it was done. But it looked so wonderful. These days I can see half a million Orcs coming over a hill and I am bored. I am not impressed at all. Because, frankly, I could have gotten someone, a passerby on the street, who could have gotten the same effect if you'd given them half a million dollars to do it. It removes artistry and imagination and places money in the driver's seat, and I think it's a pretty straight equation—that there is an inverse relationship between money and imagination.
If you haven't got any money, you're going to need lots and lots of imagination. Which is why you'll get brilliant movies by people working upon a shoestring, like the early John Waters movies. People are pushed into innovation by the restrictions of their budget. The opposite is true if they have $100 million, say, pulling a figure out of the air, to spend upon their film, then they somehow don't see the need for giving it a decent story or decent storytelling. It seems like those values just go completely out the window. There's an inverse relationship there.
I wish this weren't so, but those statements are frankly embarrassing. If your dad started talking in this fashion at Thanksgiving dinner you'd get up to use the bathroom. If a fellow commuter started opining in this way on the train, you'd turn your iPod up. Moore has already copped to not watching much of this stuff–including the very adaptations of his comics that tend to set him off on these jeremiads, not that I think he's missing much–but even if these statements were offered after he was handcuffed to Harry Knowles for a year, they're still breathtakingly, willfully ignorant of and dismissive and insulting to everything from the skill required to pull off convincing computer effects, to their utility in telling an engaging and provocative story, to the intelligence or engagement level of the audience for film, to the ability of film to challenge and discomfit as well as dazzle and entertain. (As though the latter two are something to be ashamed of!)
This blog has already hosted some lively debate over Moore's frequently expressed disdain for aspects of culture he admittedly knows little about anymore, from film to television to superheroes and superhero comics to, if what he says above is to be believed, comics in general. Then as now, I want to make it perfectly clear that not only does Moore have every right to be upset about his shoddy treatment at the hands of his publisher, and his work's shoddy treatment at the hands of the studios and filmmakers who've adapted them, he is in fact right to be upset. I don't begrudge him that at all–hell, I cheer him on! It's when he uses this bitterness as a springboard for ill-considered write-offs of entire genres and methods and media that he comes across as a crank, even a fool.
That said, there's a lot of great stuff in that interview about how he's approaching the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and various other projects, so do read the whole thing.


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North West policeman arrested for murder
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A 26-year-old policeman based at the Potchefstroom Crime Combating Unit (CCU) was arrested in connection with the shooting of a man in Khuma, Stilfontein, the Independent Complaints Directorate said yesterday.
The policeman allegedly shot Tshepo Johannes Tau (23), on Sunday at a tavern in Khuma after an argument, ICD spokesman Moses Dlamini said in a statement.
"The argument apparently led to the Constable being assaulted by Tau.
"Then the Constable allegedly went home and returned with his service pistol after which he fired at Tau," he said.
Tau was shot in the stomach and cheek and his 28-year-old brother was shot in the left elbow. Both were admitted to hospital. Tau died yesterday morning.
The policeman opened a case of assault with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm. A case of attempted murder opened against the policeman had been converted to a murder charge.
Earlier yesterday North West police said the policeman was at his girlfriend's house at 6.30pm on Sunday when two men entered, dragged him outside and attacked him.
Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said the policeman went to report the incident at a nearby police station.
On his way home he was again attacked by a group of people.
"He allegedly used the firearm to save himself from the mob attack. He then shot at two of the attackers and went back again to Khuma police station to report the incident," Ngubane said.
The policeman is expected to appear in the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court tomorrow.


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Full Title: Adaptation: The Shooting Script
Authors: Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman
Publisher: Nick Hern Books (2002)
Number of Pages: 135
How long it took me to read: 1 day
Where I got this book: World of Books (Amazon Marketplace seller)
Like a Moth to a Flame
And so I venture on into the reading list for my next module, which is all about screenwriting. This is a massive departure for me: up until now, the course has concentrated on prose writing, and though I have experience of playscripts from my earlier education, I know from the samples I've already seen that screenwriting is a very different medium with very different objectives. There are many questions I need to answer before attempting to write one myself, such as: how much control can a screenplay exert over actors and directors?; how much authority can they claim over mechanics such as camera shots?; do screenwriters simply provide the set up for a scene, so that others can caress/hammer them into shape? I've chosen Adaptation as my first script to read, because it's the one film on the list I know well enough to visualise, which should allow me to make a reasonable comparison between the text and the end product. It's also a story that reveals more depth each time I watch it, so experiencing it in a different medium will hopefully be illuminating rather than monotonous.
Favorite Five
I propose that the top 5 quotes from this book are:
"You see that nectary all the way down there? Darwin hypothesized a moth with a nose twelve inches long to pollinate it. Everyone thought he was a loon. Then, sure enough, they found this moth with a twelve-inch proboscis. Proboscis means nose by the way."
"I know what proboscis means."
"Hey, let's not get off the subject. This isn't a pissing contest." (p.23)
"McKee is a genius! And hilarious. He just comes up with all these great jokes, and everybody laughs. But he's serious, too, Charles. You'd love him. He's all for originality, just like you. But he says we have to realize that we all write in a genre, and we must find our originality within that genre… My genre's thriller. What's yours?"
Kaufman sits. Donald waits for a response, heaving with excitement. No response from Kaufman.
"You and I share the same D.N.A. Is there anything more lonely than that?" (p.43)
"You want to make it into a movie?"
"Into a movie."
"Oh, God! Oh, that's really…"
"How does that sound?"
"That's very exciting."
"It's just comical. I mean, I hadn't thought of it. I've never written a screenplay before, so –"
"Oh, don't worry about that. We have screenwriters to write the screenplay. You needn't worry about that." (pp.48-9)
(calling to Kaufman)
"Hey, my script's going amazing! Right now I'm working out an Image System. Because of my multiple personality theme, I've chosen the motif of broken mirrors to show my protagonist's fragmented self. Bob says an Image System greatly increases the complexity of an aesthetic emotion. Bob says –"
"You sound like you're in a cult."
"No, it's just good writing technique. Oh, and I made you a copy of McKee's Ten Commandments!" (pp.51-2)
…and my pick for the No.1 quote is…
"Who am I kidding? This is not Susan Orlean's story. I have no connection with her. I can't even meet her. I can't meet anyone. I have no understanding of anything outside of my own panic and self-loathing and pathetic, little existence. It's like the only thing I'm actually qualified to write about is myself and my own self –"
His eyes light up. (p.58)
New Words
Words are wondrous creatures. Put them together and they paint a picture. Rearrange them and the scene changes. But to be able to see what they are saying, we must first know what they mean.
New Word: Seminole (noun)
Definition (Source: Dictionary.com): 1) a member of any of several groupings of North American Indians comprising emigrants from the Creek Confederacy territories to Florida or their descendants in Florida and Oklahoma, especially the culturally conservative present-day Florida Indians; 2) either of the Muskogean languages spoken by the Seminoles, comprising Mikasuki and the Florida or Seminole dialect of Creek
Origins: earlier Seminolie; Creek simanó·li; 'wild'; 'runaway'; alteration of earlier and dialect simaló·ni; American Spanish cimarrón
As in: "It was after reading a small article about a white man and three Seminole men arrested with rare orchids they'd stolen out of a place called the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve." (p.6)
Conversation with the Reader
While I read, I write, and as I write, I read. Here's some of what I wrote while I read this book:
"Charlie Kaufman's knack for externalising and distorting reality extends even to the authorship of the script: he lists Donald Kaufman, his fictional twin brother in the film and an extension of the naïve, rambunctious yet socially acceptable side of his own psyche, as co-writer. I find this disorientation comforting; I'm already at home with his writing style before opening the cover."
"One difference between prose and screenwriting that strikes me very early, on page 6, is the explicitness with which character can be revealed: 'We lose ourselves in her melancholy beauty.' Imagine such a direct description appearing in a novel or short story. It's the kind of statement modern prose writers strive to avoid, to reveal implicitly through action and dialogue, not overtly provide to the reader. Yet in a screenplay, perhaps, it is not only acceptable, but practical—it provides a template of the character for filmmakers and actors to work towards, that they might find their own means of framing when committing the moment to film. I don't know how long it will take me to adapt to this, or if in doing so I could damage some of the valuable understanding I've formed of prose writing. It's difficult, without yet having attended any classes and only having read half a textbook on short film writing, to know what is expected from a script compared to what Kaufman is attempting, but at the very least I am noticing differences and preparing myself for this change of style. If nothing else, it will absorb some of the shock that might await me in class."
"The script reads, for the most part, like a true blueprint for fiction. It provides the 'what' of the story, the 'why' of the plot, but not the full 'how' of the final film. There are few suggested camera shots, and only occasional references to audio. In prose, this 'how' would be the narrative form: the point of view, the tense, the structure. Some of this is still present: the scenes play out in their expected final order, rather than chronologically, with captions indicating time and location. 'We' (the point of view is always voyeuristic, that of the audience) are provided with basic scene setup (e.g. INT. L.A. BUSINESS LUNCH RESTAURANT – MIDDAY), dialogue, monologue, some very specific details of action: 'A rivulet of sweat slides down his forehead,' and even, occasionally, suggested motion: 'We move in until we are on the Earth's endlessly barren and lifeless surface'. In my current ignorance, I'd guess that the aim of the writer is to present any images in their imagination as efficiently as possible so these can be easily recreated; to communicate the key visual elements of their story without dictating the details of how to achieve it.
"Having already seen the film, I think I interpreted the camera movement of this evolution montage similarly to how the director, Spike Jonze, created it, but there is no reason why another director shouldn't interpret them differently. When Kaufman writes 'we move in', he doesn't determine whether it's a tracking shot, a zoom or even a series of freeze frames. The aim of this movement, in story terms, is to magnify the Earth to a microscopic level, presenting the miniscule origins of life and adaptation on its surface. It's a huge relief to find that this is indeed part of a screenwriter's purpose. The few ideas I have already formed for the start of my own screenplay hinge around the moving image, rather than dialogue or action."
"While I was struggling with notions of auteurship in screenwriting, I somehow overlooked the reason that this screenplay appears on the reading list: it's not just an excellent example of how to write a script, the story itself is all about screenwriting. The main character struggles with similar problems of isolationism vs. interaction, auteurship vs. negotiation, which collide with and reflect his personal life. I have no idea how that escaped me until now, but it shows my own inner-Donald is always capable of exerting his influence."
"A nauseating wave of vertigo just washed over me. I'm learning about writing screenplays from the screenplay of a film about a screenwriter writing the screenplay for a film that characterises both the author and subject of the book on which both real and fictional films and screenplays are based. It's a good job I was prescribed some strong antacids by my doctor last week."
"Somehow, reading the text energises the themes of the story far better than watching the film. Or maybe that's because I'm now earnestly searching for ideas about screenwriting, of which this story provides plenty in both its mechanics and its fiction. Or maybe it's because I find myself free from the constraints of time imposed when watching a film. I can more readily explore passages over and over again, than when forced to rewind and replay sections on a DVD. Writing is a uniquely flexible medium, particularly for the student. Imagery at one point can be directly married with dialogue at another with the slight flick of an eye or turn of a page. If I wanted to, I could read the entire screenplay backwards, one word at a time. Nowadays, with technology such as software movie players, film is easier to navigate in this way, but I know from painful experience just how sluggish and inadequate these can still be for finding specific moments. To experience the film laid out in text form is fascinating, particularly when the story is about screenwriting. This is probably why reading it feels even more deeply vertiginous, more layered, than watching the film.
"This is the raw material over which Kaufman struggles in the plot—the end product of that struggle. The film is just additional decoration. But perversely, another issue is that I adore the illusion of film too much, and engage more with it emotionally and physiologically than I ever could with writing. I have never been driven to tears by writing, but the right juxtaposition of music and image never fails to swell my throat and cause my eyes to strain. Having to break off in the middle of a film is upsetting, and the thought of dissecting that fantastic illusion, utterly distressing."
"A less fascinating aspect of reading this screenplay is the many typos. At one point (p.71), KAUFMAN'S BEDROOM 'hugs' Bob McKee and proclaims 'Oh, Mr. Mckee'. I have to hope that this is just an error with this particular edition, and not one that made its way to the director in the original script. If it did, then Jonze at least chose to overlook it. I don't remember any rooms getting their own dialogue in the film. Mind you, this is a Charlie Kaufman script, so I'm only assuming it's a typo from the context of the scene. You'll just have to take my word for it."
"Something really depressing just occurred to me. Somewhere out there, in the wilderness of modern-day human urbanity, someone probably watched this film and (without owning the language to know what they were doing) formed the value judgement that Laroche has to die because he is the 'baddie'; an orchid-smuggling drug addict. I'm willing to bet that happened. And then, as the credits rolled (if they made it that far), they probably turned to their partner/friend/drinking buddy and said 'What a dumb movie.' Because that's life: entirely subjective, entirely dependent on the machinery you're given to experience it and the environment in which your life plays out. Worse still, there's no satisfaction to be gained in judging them for this failure to comprehend, no higher ground to claim from having a broader understanding. All they are is different, and without difference, without diversity, the life that any of us experiences could not exist."
"I find myself so deeply engrossed in this screenplay's layered exploration of the definitions of 'adaptation', and how Kaufman's confessed subjectivity and 'need to survive' turns his experience of both the writing form and scientific theory into an exploitative thrill ride of sex and drugs, that I decide to watch the film again, for a true comparison. From the outset, I am shocked at how fast it moves from one scene to the next; how much meaning seems stripped out, or changed, with the emphasis placed firmly on the personal yearnings of Kaufman and Orleans. It took me seven hours to read through the screenplay, and though I'd been purposely taking it slowly, re-reading, comparing sections, and taking notes, I'd realised that the film would have to be pared down a little. The real shock is the extent to which my imagination had taken the visual memory of my previous viewings and reshaped them to the screenplay whilst reading. I'd been convinced I was recalling scenes and dialogue from the film that, in reality, hadn't made the cut at all. Even some of my favourite quotes (above) are fumbled or thrown away in the film, as if unimportant. Unlike the screenwriters of most films, I suspect Kaufman might have had a reasonable amount of input during production based on his own reputation (despite what the script itself suggests, when we see him ignored and belittled on the set of Being John Malkovich). It must take great strength of character for a writer to hand over their work to filmmakers, and trust them to interpret it with sensitivity.
"In the introduction to this edition of the screenplay, the real Susan Orleans, (author of The Orchid Thief, which Adaptation takes as its source material) writes 'I'm not tortured by the thought of someone handling my material. I'm a writer, not a moviemaker. I am not an unrequited screenwriter, director or actor.' But for the screenwriter, particularly one seasoned in other forms of writing, it must be a cruel labour to know their finished product is just the start of a process that will see them left out in the cold while their brainchild is ripped apart, muddled around and rebuilt by a gang of total strangers."


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Finally happened: the eye doctor says that I should get some OTC reading glasses. Getting old sucks. .
Marcello, Jim: Lose Cannon, Smooth Young Priest, and 11 other people liked this
Get them strong enough. Make sure you can read the street names on Google Maps and the little grey '@zeigen retweeted' labels on your Twitter client of choice.
Grab an item in the store with the smallest print and try reading it with whatever glasses you test out in the store. Some ingredients labels on cosmetics are perfect for this purpose. Also look for things that have long strings of numbers in small print and make sure you can easily tell the difference between 3, 6, 8, and 9. Some UPC codes are good for this purpose.
"Any year now" is what I keep hearing as well. The first time I was given the close up chart I didn't even realize what it was for. Didn't occur to me that I was getting older despite the leading 4 on my age.
I'm bringing my glucose meter with me to the pharmacy to get a new battery, so I'll have something with super small writing on it... That sentence just impressed on me how old I am. Ancient, I am.
I was always a little farsighted, which made me capable of great feats of distance vision even through most of my forties. But the reading-glasses thing began promptly on my 40th birthday. It was as if at 39 I could see a yellow dot that was 1/133 of an inch wide - I KNOW I could see one at 32 and 33, but sometime after that I stopped printing in town, so no more press checks - and the day I turned 40 I couldn't read the number on a tennis ball.


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Li Na crushes Radwanska
China's Li Na crushed second seed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2 6-1 on Saturday to secure her place in the semi-finals of the WTA Rogers Cup in Montreal
Several players were forced to play two matches in the day, with rain having severely affected the schedule at the Canadian hardcourt event, but Li made light of the heavy workload as she cruised to two straight-sets victories.
The 10th seed first overcame eighth-seeded Italian Sara Errani 6-4 6-2 in the delayed third-round clash and then saw off Poland's world number three Radwanska even more convincingly to advance to a last-four match-up with Lucie Safarova.
The 16th-seeded Czech, who on Friday knocked out US Open champion Samantha Stosur, continued her fine form with a comfortable 6-2 6-2 triumph over Italy's Roberta Vinci.
Vinci earlier ousted sixth-seeded German Angelique Kerber 6-2 7-6 (9/7). The second semi-final will pit 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova against former world number one Caroline Wozniacki.
Fifth-seeded Czech Kvitova advanced by breezing past Austria's Tamira Paszek 6-3 6-2 in their last-eight encounter.


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How refreshing is Tomato and Basil Bruschetta!
Notice my Title question about Tomato and Basil Bruschetta isn't a question; it's a statement. It's absolutely the truth. Only the finest Italian ingredients can pull this off, and I just so happen to have the ingredients to the best recipe on earth for you and your loved ones to personally enjoy what you already love, or what you thought was just an okay appetizer. My recipe is guaranteed to kick your opinion up a notch no matter what the case!
Bruschetta Essentials
First you need to understand that there are various recipes and different styles of Bruschetta; Mushroom Bruschetta, for example, but there is usually only one specific recipe on the menu at your local favorite Italian restaurant'e and that's Tomato and Basil Bruschetta. The secret to great Bruschetta, no matter which variation you choose, is fresh ingredients. The ones that make a difference anyway, and the one that makes the biggest difference is Basil. Never EVER use dried basil. Dried Oregano, Thyme, Rosemary, Majoram and Sage are all great examples of seasonings that taste wonderful when they are dehydrated. But, I'm telling you, Basil is not one of them. It doesn't even taste like the same ingredient side by side as a fresh Herb vs. the dried shaker style. It's such a difference for me, that I'm even offended by the thought of using dried Basil. So now that we've got that cleared up, let's dive into this recipe, shall we.
Tomato and Basil Bruschetta Ingredients:
2 Roma Tomatoes
1/4 Chopped Red Onion
1 Chopped Green Onion (Scallions)
1 Large Garlic Clove or 2 average 5 Large Chopped
Several FRESH Basil Leaves
1 tsp Italian Seasoning (Oregano, Thyme, Majoram, Sage, Rosemary, Basil)
1/4 tsp Margarita Salt or Kosher, Sea Salt if you prefer
1/4 tsp Black Pepper
1/4 cup Olive Oil
Chop all Veggies very small, especially the onion, but don't turn your tomatoes into soup. Combine all ingredients and serve your Tomato and Basil Bruschetta over the top of your favorite toasted Italian bread or French Baguette.


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Khirbat al-Mukhayyat - The Church of the Priest John
A church in the Wadi Afrit is now known as the Church of Amos and Kasiseus from the names of two benefactors carved on two chancel posts, but the original name of the structure is unknown. It was built in the Vth century and is the oldest in the village.
The plan of the main stone-paved church (18 m x 10.5 m) is clear, as is the location of its liturgical furnishings, including the synthronon in the raised and apsed sanctuary, the base of the altar and the base of a pulpit which protruded into the central nave from the chancel screen. Originally, the church had a northern annex with a lime floor; the annex was adjacent to a cistern hewn into the rock of the mountain.
Only a portion of the main part of the hall is preserved, and the mosaic has suffered considerable damage since its discovery in 1936. The square panels of the swastika motif surrounding the central carpet are decorated with birds. The central panels of the eastern and northern sides of the border, however, contain two portraits of unidentified benefactors, a lady and a priest.
An inner border encloses the composition of the central carpet which is divided into two main parts. The eastern part of the central carpet starts with a two-line dedicatory inscription: At the time of the most pious and most beloved by God, Bishop John, the holy place was renewed and finished, by the zeal of the priest, John. It was finished in the month of August in the 13th [A.D. 565] indiction for the salvation of, and as a present of, those who have made offerings and [those] who intend to make offerings. Amen.
In the panel to the west of the inscription, there is a tympanum supported by four small columns. The panel is decorated with trees, bushes, two peacocks, and two roosters, as well as two candlesticks. The area between the columns contains the following inscription: For the salvation of, and as a present of Your servant Sergius, [the son] of Stephen, and Procopius, [the son] of Porphyria, and Rome, and Mary, and Julian, the monk.
The main section of the carpet is decorated with acanthus scrolls and includes hunting, pastoral and agricultural scenes. The spaces between the scrolls contain baskets, fruit, fish and flowers.
Four rows of the scrolls survive in the eastern end of the nave. In the first row, a hunter who carries a sword and shield confronts a bear, while a lion reclines idly nearby. The second row contains a representation of the personification of the Earth with her two young karpoforoi at her sides receiving fruits in their baskets. Earth is depicted as a lady crowned with fruits and grain. She offers different kinds of fruit from a cloth she has in her hands. In the third row, a young shepherd with a slingshot in his hand, pursues a wild boar, apparently to defend a sheep which is shown in the panel next to him. In the fourth and final row, a country woman, who has a knife in her right hand, carries a basket of fruit; a dog crouches behind her.
After the mosaic floor of the northern chapel of the Church of Amos and Kasiseus was removed for restoration, an older mosaic floor was discovered. Subsequent excavations showed that in the second half of the Vth century, during the time of Bishop Fidus of Madaba, the nave of what later became the upper chapel had been two rooms joined by a step. There was a chapel to the east and another room adjacent to the mouth of the cistern to the west. The western area (3.5 m x 4.6 m) contains two small water basins on the south and north sides and a mosaic for which a Deacon Kaium was responsible. At the center of a plain white mosaic floor, there is a three-line inscription: O Lord, have mercy on Deacon Kaium.The chapel to the east is small (10 m x 4.6 m), and another step at its eastern end divides a square chancel from the hall. In the chancel, within a guilloche, grape vines issue from a vase to create five volutes which contain two lambs, a running hare, another beast, and a bird. Column bases for an altar were inserted later into the floor, partly destroying it.
The hall itself contains a mosaic in which the carpet is surrounded by a swastika motif in which the square panels are decorated with birds, a basket with grapes, and a small inscription, now unfortunately destroyed. The carpet is divided into four rows of vine scrolls formed by two vines extending from a vase which is set between two rampant lionesses.
At the eastern side of the inner carpet there is a dedicatory inscription: Good Health! At the time of the beloved and most holy Bishop Fidus, this holy place was renovated and finished. A second inscription is found in the central scroll of the first row between two horned stags: Good Health! Under the most pious Priest John, by care of the most pious Deacon Silanus. The following two rows of vine scrolls show a vintner cutting grapes and a peasant carrying the grapes on the back of a donkey. In the scroll adjacent to the peasant, a zebu with long horns is depicted. The left scroll has animals, including a dog in pursuit of prey and a stag. The chapel dates to the second half of the Vth century, making this mosaic floor one of the earliest known works of the mosaicists of the Madaba region.
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Astros use end of 2010 to prep for 2011 campaign
Astros get jump on 2011
Evaluation of players, needs for next season springs forward
Published 5:30 am, Tuesday, September 28, 2010
CINCINNATI — Despite their propensity for late-season runs, this is not the first time the Astros have been out of contention in September.
This is not even the first time in the 3-year-old Ed Wade era the Astros have been out of contention in September.
But it is the first time Wade has taken advantage of being out of contention in September.
That phrase can be hard to take. Nobody wants to play games that are meaningless in the standings as their division foes are chasing a title or resting players for a postseason run. But there are advantages to the Astros' position if they choose to take advantage of them. And this year they have been using September, and in the larger picture, the second half of the season, to evaluate players for 2011.
Jason Castro has stepped up to the plate 206 times and crouched behind the plate in 63 games. First baseman Brett Wallace, while his playing time has declined lately, has 145 plate appearances. Angel Sanchez has 259 plate appearances in what counts as his rookie season as he tries to impress with a potential battle with Tommy Manzella and/or a free agent looming next year at shortstop.
Low rankings
The Astros go into the offseason with a need to improve the offense, which ranks second-to-last in the National League in runs and on-base percentage and last in the power categories of home runs, slugging and the closely related category of walks.
How they go about that starts with what they know.
"The fact that we've seen a lot of the younger players perform at center stage in July and August and September, it gives us a better read on things," Wade said. "All that helps us formulate more definitive opinions on players, and I think it gives us a clearer idea or focus going into the offseason barring anything unforeseen happening."
Last year, they did not have that look, even the questionably fair look one sometimes gets in September against expanded rosters.
Manzella and Chris Johnson were on the roster as September call-ups, but they barely played. Miguel Tejada continued to get most of the time at shortstop and Geoff Blum and Jeff Keppinger got most of the ground balls at third base.
The Astros were forced to make decisions on those in the offseason with little in the way of a look at the big league level. They decided to give Manzella the starting job in 2010 and sign Pedro Feliz for $4.5 million to play third base. Johnson needed Lance Berkman's injury to make the team and mostly sit on the bench and play in Class AAA until June.
Free agency problematic
With the extended looks, the talks are starting. The Astros have been tight-lipped on their desires for the offseason, in part because they don't know what will be available on the free-agent market.
And there will be money to spend, should Drayton McLane's statement of keeping a relatively level payroll be something on which they follow through. Roy Oswalt will have a portion of his salary off the books, and the 2009 commitments to Berkman, Kaz Matsui and perhaps Brian Moehler, Blum and Jason Michaels come off the budget.
Offsetting that will be significant raises in the range of possible to likely for arbitration-eligible players including Wandy Rodriguez, Hunter Pence, Michael Bourn and Keppinger.
"As far as definitively formulating a plan, there's too much uncertainty out there with regard to what the market is going to be about," Wade said. "You look at a prospective free-agent list today, and it's markedly different than what actually exists once the filing period begins."
Decisions could be looming at shortstop and catcher if there is more offense available on the market from the two premium defensive positions. And by using the second half of the season to give Carlos Lee time at first base, the Astros could look at left-field options as well.
But what the second half also has shown is the pitching staff is stable.
Rotation solid
Four of the starters - Brett Myers (under contract), Rodriguez (arbitration-eligible), J.A. Happ and Bud Norris (both pre-arbitration, roughly minimum salary) - are likely to be kept as a group, as the unit has gotten better under the tutelage of pitching coach Brad Arnsberg, with an improving ERA every month from May to August.
Happ, a lefthander who has gone 5-3 with a 3.00 ERA since being acquired from the Phillies in the Oswalt deal, likes what he sees for 2011.
"The way Brett and Wandy have been throwing, and obviously Bud these last several starts, he's been real good. And Nelson (Figueroa) has done a good job as well," Happ said. "Definitely I feel like we can continue pitching the way we're capable of and keep us in ballgames."
There is room for a fifth, and there is no lack of candidates within the organization, including Jordan Lyles, 19.
"Figgy has done a great job stepping in, Wesley (Wright) has had a couple great starts for us," manager Brad Mills said. "Jordan Lyles as well. … There are pieces, but to go any farther than that, I don't want to do that. I don't want to play GM here."
The actual GM didn't get into specifics and cannot talk about potential free agents, but a rare look beyond just September at some young players ought to help as they head toward the first offseason of the rebuilding.


text: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:51:44AM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote: > On 10/29/07, Tuomo Valkonen <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > > There needs to be package systems, but decentralised ones that authors > > can easily use to provide their software in for various platforms, and > > not have to fall victim to centralised (megafreeze) distributions that > > couldn't give a rat's ass about the author's time, reputation, and vision > > for the project. That statement could easily be inverted, and be just as valid.... "package authors that don't care about an OS (or packaging system) authors' time, reputation, and vision for the project." An issue is that both the package's authors and the OS's authors feel like the user 'belongs to them'. The package authors want users to have the latest and greatest version, because the end-user is missing out (or vulnerable) if they're on an older version. The package authors also don't want to be burdened with support requests for old software, whose issues may already be addressed in a newer release. The OS authors don't want to be burdened with requests for fixes to dependency issues by users who just want to _use_ the system and the package, not _develop_ them. The anti-megafreeze dogma starts with the implicit assumption that all users absolutely want to be running the absolute latest code all the time. That's simply not true. Developers want that, but users do not. pkgsrc offers a reasonable tradeoff. One wants the cutting-edge package versions, one runs pkgsrc-current. One wants a stable set of packages, still protected against vulnerabilities by audit-packages, one runs a branch. I happen to agree with some of the previous comments, that 28 day update requirements are an unreasonable demand in a volunteer environment, but I think that only hurts uptake of the package in question. Packaging systems won't bother to include it, because the barrier is set too high, so fewer users will encounter it. Those who care can hand-build it. If a pkgsrc developer cares enough about this particular package, the license provides options to make it work - renaming, or clearly displaying a message. As soon as a solution to both parties' needs exists, (reliable builds from -current, or any release of any package) this will become a non-issue. -- David Maxwell, firstname.lastname@example.comemail@example.com --> Any sufficiently advanced Common Sense will seem like magic... - me