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- Product code: FT16MLS64V6D
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What is Gaming Memory
"How much is enough?"
It is technically possible to run games on 4Gb of RAM, but that would be pushing it a little for some of the latest titles available. The rule of thumb in the laptop gaming world is that 8Gb of RAM will cope with pretty much everything required right now. A smaller number of gamers consider 16Gb of RAM a better amount to have, as the adage 'You can never have too much RAM' is certainly true in terms of future-proofing.
"What happens if I don't have enough?"
If the game that you are playing breaches the limit of available RAM, then performance can become a little choppy and your frame rates per second (fps) can drop through the floor. The inevitable disk swapping will produce a lag that can make some games unplayable.
Finding your current memory information
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Type 'RAM' in the windows search bar at the bottom left hand of the screen
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The settings box will open and you will be given an array of system info, including 'installed' and 'usable' RAM.
That's it. Easy as 1,2,3.
How do I find out my maximum gaming memory?
Unfortunately, all machines are limited as to the amount of memory that can be installed and Gaming PC's are no different. The maximum RAM that can be installed is determined by the motherboard that you have and also the operating system that it is using. A 32 bit system will only ever be able to support a maximum of 4GB of RAM, whereas a 64 bit system can support up to a much more impressive 128GB of RAM.
If you follow the steps shown in the previous paragraph for identifying your available memory, this also allows you to see the type of system you have. If you're running a 32 bit system and are considering doing some serious gaming, you might need to think about investing in a new motherboard.
The trend for gaming memory will always be on an upward trajectory, with co-op games across multiple streamed worlds becoming ever more popular. The prudent strategy does seem to be to expand your RAM capacity when you can, as it will keep your gaming experience smooth and lag free for years to come.
Specification of Acer AcerPower 8000-450b memory upgrade
Your system memory specification is listed below, most importantly your maximum memory capacity:
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|Acer AcerPower 8000-450b
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|3 Slots (3 Banks of 1)
|Standard Ram
|128MB (Removable)
|Maximum Memory
|Acer Tech Support
|Official Acer Support Link
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Hello everyone!
Welcome to another chock-filled episode of the Community Spotlight! We chose to not feature any LittleBigPlanet 2 and LittleBigPlanet 3 levels just yet because there are not enough levels yet on that side understandably. But fret not, those levels plus the other half of the Karting spotlight which isn't in this episode (there are so many levels!) will shine in all of their glory in the 150th Community Spotlight Episode!
Without furthur ado, enjoy portable levels on your vita and pick up your kart racing keys to play these amazing levels in this episode's spotlight!
THE DEVILS PIT eyecandy story level.
by scarybiscuit
A eyecandy platform level, about a sackboy who has lost his way until THE DEVILS PIT shows him his real destiny. This level has been designed to focus on graphics and test the vita to the limits. Thanks to smartysloan for your support and testing.
Get ready to feast your eyes on this simply stunning level made by the incredibly talented scarybiscuit! You'll make your way through many different layers and chapters, each with a unique style. This adventure truly pushes the Vita to its limit, and I ensure you'll love it. So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and enter the pit.
I've waited a long time to say this. Whoa!™ Not because there hasn't been "Whoa!™" worthy levels, because there has been quite a few, but because I've been out of the spotlight loop for a bit. But I'm back now and very happy to present to you a gorgeous smorgasbord for the eyes. Scary has once again outdone himself with a fantastic story, good gameplay and unique visuals. You won't be disappointed here. Play it.
Take voyage into the Devil's Lair where it is not demons scorching about around the firery pits of hell, but a unexpected journey that will leave you in awe with amazing lighting and glorious set design that pushes the visual limits of a walk-and-stare type of level that leaves me breathless once again.
Nano bugs - isometric adventure
by scarybiscuit
Can you guide a lost bug and find his away home, a isometric eyecandy level. Thanks goes to smartysloan for testing.
Ok, what? Man! Scary is a level building machine! How does he do it? He cranks these levels out like he has level printing press in his basement or something! And they're not these little small cookie cutter levels either. These are full blown, amaze your senses visuals and unique gameplay levels that will leave you sitting with your mouth hung open. Well shoot, guess it wouldn't be "bio" review iffin it wasn't long winded. Guess I should say something about the gameplay of this level. Take control of a little bug and traverse a dangerous landscape in order to find your way home. Very cool level. Give it a go will ya.
Here we endue the experience of nano-technology as you play as a bug in somewhat top-down adventure expect in a tiled glory where you can see more of the amazing detail put into the adventure of helping this little guy find is way home. Avoid obstacles along your way that are proven lethal but not your typical bug exterminator more like engineered mechanical thingys of death, but hey that works too.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Noooo! It's a-me the nano-bug! Close enough. Scary keeps producing these amazing levels at a vertiginous speed, each of them packed with awesomeness, graphical awesomeness, gameplay awesomeness, story awesomeness, ok I think you got it now. Get some tape for your socks as they might blow off just by playing some of his levels, and guide this cute lost bug to his family before it's too late!
Blue Lagoon
by Sandro8708
I present a underwater level called Blue Lagoon. Explore the deep underwater world of the beach and get to the scoreboard. As always try get a highscore. I also hide some special bubbles and a easter egg. Enjoy it :D Pls report me bugs, if you can find some.
I've never been too excited about water levels but sometimes one comes along where I just go, "That. Was. Awesome!" This is one such level. What I loved most about this endeavor was the clever gameplay. There were several spots where I was in awe of the unique way in which Sandro had me moving from one area to the next. There are lots of places to explore too and plenty of hidden points for you score hounds out there. Great level that is a must play.
Water in the world of LBP is tricky to manage. Even in Story Levels, its usage usually means slow gameplay and not too much action. Not in here folks. All those thoughts will be left behing once you are inmersed in the incredibly clever gameplay Sandro developed in his level. The use of layering rocks and so does the scenery. A beautiful, clever and original adventure awaits you in Blue Lagoon!
Also from the Showcase...
Played everything in the Spotlight and still looking for more?
These levels stand out from the crowd for a variety of reasons, so be sure to check them out!
- [LBPV] Ensue a nifty platformer at the carnival looking for secret places a long the way in Marcus Madness by PlusMember54
- [LBPV]Travel a beautiful sci-fi world as a robot searching for living entities known as The OTHERS - a 3D adventure by scarybiscuit
- [LBPV] You wish to become immortal, but all wishes come a price when you confront the grim reaper in The Forever Man by HouseQuake
Thread: Community Spotlight Episode 149
12-07-2014 #1
Community Spotlight Episode 149
Last edited by hyperdude95; 12-07-2014 at 05:25 PM.
12-07-2014 #2
Coming home trial JPN
by Karamenluv
« This level is one person » FPS level
Welp, I couldn't finish it. Yes, I'll just say it right now and get it out og my chest. I went halfway in the level and then I chickened out. I was afraid something would pop up among the silent ambiance and the creepy gate swinging and make me take a dump in my own pants. But wow, did it achieve was a horror/thriller experience in a first person view making me feel like a racer isn't the only genre that can get your heart pumping!
Electro Dome
by panda_bear_party
Face your opponents in the Electro Dome! Take use of both floors for full domination in the dome! And not to forget the center kill switch which only opens to the skilled player!
The first thing that into mind when I entered this dome-shaped arena was the T.A.R.D.I.S From Doctor Who. I don't why but all Domes are like that to me This Dome is full of color and has many sections to make this arena one of the biggest I ever had a battle in. Dodge colored balls which exploring the vast dome while achieving to become number one in this amazingly designed arena.
Enter the Dome and challenge your friends to a battle royale! This is one of my favorite arena levels, hands down. The track looks great while also being really fun to play. Watch out for trap doors though and be sure to maneuver in and around the glowing balls, they'll really slow you down. Well, what are you waiting for? Go play this awesome level!
Creepy Hollow
by Atlus
A spooky halloween-ish racer.
Like the name suggest, this track is quite creepy. The entire level sent chills to my bone. Creepy or not, this level is very nice and well put together. Along with the awesome custom weapons and secret paths this track never grows old. Go and play if you want a creepy treat.
Like fire I got the chills racing down this spooky track. Admist the atmospheric yellow alert feeling where I have to looks at every corner for some sort of creature planning to pop right in front of me, I managed to admire the set work this track has to offer, Race through underground tracks shooting customized weapons like crawling spiders and prepare for a frightful race.
PLM School:Student Center
by dericobanjo
A level based on the school I was going to, I worked more on the graphic than the track.
Get ready to head back to school, I can assure you, there will be no homework. All you have to do is be the best at karting! Easy, right? Of course it is, I bet you're the best in class! Race in and around chair legs and tables, don't let them get in your way. Try really hard, win the race, and get a big A+ from me.
Wow, i have never felt so small in a massive classroom? It's like it's time for recess and we were put into tiny toy cars pretend to blow ourselves up in a creative area. Steer through massive chairs and desks that incorporates large detail that you can notice when you bounce over them. The whole building is rich with vibe details and the hallways are alive as you steer across lockers that probably aren't that big to fit your backpack. If the only assignment we had was to enjoy our recess time, then school would be a piece of cake.
by shakutori
A 1 vs 1 vs 1 mech fighting level.
Get ready to fight against robots in this awesome battle filled level. Of course you get a robot of your very own. The controls are very easy to learn and use. My favorite function is deffinetly the knife, it's really cool to use. You did a great job shakutori, a very fun and unique level indeed.
Welp, I am officially throwing down the towel. Who needs a transformers game or titan fall, when you got this baby to control? Take control of a full movement mech of awesomeness and pure destruction as you enter a third person match blowing other mechs up with bullets and rockets, making it on the most suspenseful and enjoyable fighting levels I have ever played. Pure masterpiece of fun!
by panda_bear_party
Battle in this arena which has the power to change layout! You just need to find out how!
Fighting time, ah yes, another awesome arena that leaves me wondering, "How did they do that?" Hats off to you panda_bear_party you definitely deserve it. The way that the level is always changing will keep you on the edge of your seats. You'll find something new every time you play, so be sure to hit that replay button.
If you ever wanted an action packed space where you will never dare to press the brakes once in terms of advancement then you may look no further. This is professionally done arena where you will encounter moving platformers and will never feel the sense of being in a static type of field. Major props to the result of keeping us entertained from start to finish and try not to fall!
Cyclon City: Zone1N
by panda_bear_party
Cyclon City is opening up Zone1N. However before population of Zone1N, an Analysis needs to check everything is up to scratch. You are that Analysis. Explore Zone1N and leave via the underground when finished.
Start off in a futuristic Subway tunnel, you can tell from the start that the level is going to be unique. Did I mention that it's first person? Awesome, I know. Head outside to truly be impressed. You'll quickly see that all the stops have been pulled in this beautiful futuristic level. Be sure to give this level the love that it deserves and go check it out.
I SO DIBS the opportunity to review this level. Oh my gosh, think I can't remember when my jaw dropped so low when seeing a mind-blowing creation. No it's not a racer or a battle, but an exploitable city with extreme amount of detail including living things like little droids moving about. Enter a futuristic city named Cyclon City as you get to have the pleasure to explore Zone 1N as you have to go analyzing the area which is a perfect fit to witness the true potential this city has to offer. Simply amazing!
Salón de juegos
by Totavier
I present another "Top-down view" track inspired by the old videogame (and toy brand) Micro Machines, this time the track is based inside of a Game's room, also this track feature a new addition of "Hidden Challenges", complete them for get all the prizes!
This level truly is quite the treat, I would even put it down as one of my favorite levels of all time! It is SO well made, and it has secret paths, what more could you ask for? The level masterfully captures the look of a Billiards room. The top down look is hard to maneuver with at first, but after a while you'll have it mastered like a pro.
I appreciate when creators actually take the time to pour their efforts into their levels and this one is like no other. Approaching the method of being a top-down racer, I hope you enjoy the 8-ball because you are racing in a billiards theme track which is a tribute to a game called Mircomachines. Think you got what it takes besides winning the race? If so, prepare to tackle challenges at the same time as well as exploring smart-ly implemented secret passages making this more than a racer.
It was four years ago, I did a presentation about Amsterdam. No, I did not know anything about it besides being located in the Netherlands but after doing the project and extensive learning of really interesting facts, Amsterdam is a beautiful place enriched with unique culture. This level is something I wished to use as visual aid in my presentation as it is a wonderfully created city that suits a vacation wish list any time.
by xX_Its_Me_Yo_Xx
Race thru the world of CANDYLAND , insipired by the board game . Reach King Candys castle, which is loaded with prize bubbles, before time runs out Be careful traps are everywhere to try to slow you down. Mega prize pack for those who finish!
So much sugar... so much treats... how much will I have before they get enough of me? From the classic board game that I admit that I still play from time to time recreated in a 3D wonderplane which a hunch of me was waiting to see somewhere, and it was well put together here in Karting. From living through a bit of Nostalgia to trying to go to your cabinet and having another Halloween phase. this is a sweet served racer that should be played especially when you reach King Candy's Castle for one special treat.
Played everything in the Spotlight and still looking for more?
These levels stand out from the crowd for a variety of reasons, so be sure to check them out!
- [LBPK] Full of castle structures and the norm of the envoirnement, feel like a kind racing though the one-way passage of Castle Road by Tibco
- [LBPK] Siege the day while admiring the setting with fire bridges, medevil nicks and nacks like knights.Castle Siege by ConanUltimate
- [LBPK] A tribute to the wonderful Disney series with cannons, ships, alligators and a race-friendly island in Pirates of the Caribbean by arie2014
- [LBP2] Escalate the Karts through a deep mine structure in Mine Kart Mountain by skj2011
- [LBPK] You can never ever dream of going to space if you do not make plans of racing on the moon by TehUberCheezCatz
- [LBPK] Race in a circular formation where action happens any corner you look surpassing through DIMENSIONI PARALLELE. by lucchetto73
- [LBPK]Taking a dive? Why not bring your wheels with you and explore the sea-like life in Aventura Marina by lucchetto73
- [LBPK] Mutliple paths and horses stand in your way in the fields of Farmers rounds by hellogameworld
- [LBPK] Voyage across a sandy terrain in a beach-like setting when ever you plan on going on a Island Run by panda_bear_party
- [LBPK] Where the master creatures of whom the fire breath lies, is a race amongst the valiant and the fearsome in Dragon Kingdom by Froggyeater
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12-08-2014 #3
- JustinArt
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Congrats to both the Vita and Karting spotlights. Shame that we don't have anything LBP2 and LBP3 in this episode, but next episode will be awesome.
12-08-2014 #4
Member of the LBPC Spotlight CrewMember of the LBN Picks TeamMain Co-ordinator for the LittleBigPlanet MashupCo-ordinator for Creation Marathon 3: Re-CreatedCo-host of the LittleBigPlanet Playstation Home MeetsCo-oridnator of the Christmas Card and Wishlist ProjectsParticipant in the first LittleBigPlanet Hunger GamesJudge for many LBPC Fan-made Community Contests
12-08-2014 #5
- rialrees
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- CuriousSack
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Yeah! Enough stuff to fill the time till Christmas! Thanks a lot and congrats to all spotlighted creators!
Many greetings, Jürgen^^
02-18-2015 #8
Hooray LBPCentral is back! Just going to pop in and say keep up with recommending levels for LBP2, LBP3, Karting, and Vita in their according general showcase threads! We are working on bringing the next episode of the spotlight as soon as we can, we look forward to play more awesome levels!
Member of the LBPC Spotlight CrewMember of the LBN Picks TeamMain Co-ordinator for the LittleBigPlanet MashupCo-ordinator for Creation Marathon 3: Re-CreatedCo-host of the LittleBigPlanet Playstation Home MeetsCo-oridnator of the Christmas Card and Wishlist ProjectsParticipant in the first LittleBigPlanet Hunger GamesJudge for many LBPC Fan-made Community Contests
02-19-2015 #9
- Woutery
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How about my Wouter's Music level i suggested on Skype when the site went down?
I'll make sure to finish Vasa Aeris before Sunday so you guys can play it[FONT=Arial]-PSP Levels-
Patchin' Yo Patchwork ~ Basicus ~ Cow Land ~ The White Den ~ Iced Memory ~ Iced Recovery
-Vita Levels-
Woutery's Factory ~ The Mysterious Forest ~ Wouter's Music ~ Wouter's Music Compact ~ Purple Platformer ~ Red Racer ~ Wouter's Music Super Compact ~ Jingle Bombs ~ Scary Platformer ~ Salad Bowl
-LBP2 Levels-
Wouter's Music ~ The Night ~ Some 8 Bit Music Teaser
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"One of them had the clerk and one of them was at the front cash register," Lt. Rob Schoonover of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office told Jacksonville.com.
The customer, who has a concealed weapon permit, shot and killed one of the intruders, FirstCoastNews.com reported.
"There was a citizen who had a concealed firearms permit that was inside the store as a customer," Lt. Schoonover told WOKV.com. "He fired at the suspect, striking him and killing him."
The man was found dead when police arrived at the scene. No charges are pending against the shooter, WOKV.com said.
"He's always been a marksman," the man's wife told Jacksonville.com. "He shoots in competitions, but this is the first time he's ever killed anyone and I don't know how he'll handle that."
The second suspect fled the scene in a small SUV, FirstCoastNews.com reported. Police say the man is about 6 feet tall man and was wearing khaki pants, a blue bandana and black gloves, ActionNewsJax.com reported.
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Michael Johansson obviously likes things. The Swedish artist finds the 'material' for his overloaded installations – randomly selected objects – at flea markets. In terms of the way he uses them, it seems he doesn't expect them to function or to be useful; the main requirement is they match the arrangement. He meticulously stacks and interlaces them to create highly composed, compact volumes and narrative assemblages.
Some of Michael Johansson's works are currently showcased within the group exhibition 'Meaning of Void' at Galleri Christoffer Egelund in Copenhagen (May 21 – June 19, 2010).


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Courteney Cox and Johnny McDaid could get married soon, according to Ed Sheeran.
The pair, who started dating in December after Ed introduced them, have been living together after the Snow Patrol guitarist moved into the actress' Malibu mansion.
Ed told the Daily Mirror: "I'm not sure that it's public knowledge, so maybe I shouldn't have said anything - but, yes, t hey're already living together. Things are moving fast. He moved in and, judging by the last time I saw them, they couldn't be happier.
"They get on really well and are genuinely good friends, pardon the pun."
When asked if the couple could tie the knot soon, the Lego House singer said: "I wouldn't be surprised but it's still early days. They certainly enjoy each other's company and feel very comfortable with each other."
Former Friends star Courteney and the Northern Irish musician, 37, enjoyed a break in Venice on Valentine's Day, and have been seen attending events in and around LA.
The 49-year-old actress, who also starred in Cougar Town, was previously married to her Scream co-star David Arquette, who is the father of her nine-year-old daughter Coco, but their 11-year marriage ended last May.


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Cook the Book: Blowtorch Prime Rib Roast with Horseradish Cream
I consider myself very lucky to have a butcher who not only knows his meat but gets as exited about my purchases as I do. When I was picking up the meat to make the Blowtorch Prime Rib Roast from Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller, my butcher was absolutely beaming. "Is it a special occasion?" he asked. Indeed it was, but anytime I invest serious bucks on a nice piece of steak it is a special occasion. This was going to be a great dinner.
As luck would have it, the day I chose to make this prime rib just happened to coincide with a big snow storm. Being holed up in the house with a beautiful roast wasn't a bad place to be. However, the snow prevented me from having a blowtorch—I was planning on going out and purchasing one, but the snowfall was prohibitive. Improvisation would have to suffice.
After some careful thinking and plotting I realized the flame from the broiler was about as close as I was going to get to a blow torch. I heated it up and sat on the kitchen floor in front of the oven. With tongs in hand I placed the prime rib, fat side up, directly under the flame of the broiler. Within seconds the fat began rendering and browning. Sure, there was a little smoke and the whole operation was slightly dangerous, but the results were spot on and the smell was incredible.
After the initial browning the roast is seasoned aggressively with salt and pepper and roasted for an hour and a half at 275°F until the internal temperature reaches 128°F. Some might worry that cooking for such an extended period of time is a recipe for overdone meat, but the low temperature ensures juicy, medium rare goodness. Once the roast came up to temperature I took it out and let it rest for half an hour. Slicing into the meat revealed a perfect pink center and a golden and crisp crust.
Steak this good doesn't really need any accompaniment, but Keller's Horseradish Cream was too good to pass up. It's basically whipped cream mixed with spicy horseradish and a few spoonfuls of sherry vinegar for a hit of acidity.
Blowtorch or not, this was a dinner that I'm sure my butcher would be proud of, and I'll be sure to tell him about it next time I see him.
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- One 2-bone center-cut rib roast (about 4 1/2 pounds), trimmed of excess fat
- Kosher salt
- Coarsely ground black pepper
- Gray salt or coarse sea salt
- Horseradish Cream (recipe follows)
- 1/2 cup very cold heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
- About 1/4 cup drained prepared horseradish
- 1/2 teaspoon fleur de sel, or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or to taste
Position an oven rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat the oven to 275°F.
Put the roast on a roasting rack in a roasting pan. Hold a blowtorch about 1 inch from the roast and turn to lightly brown the fat on all sides; the idea is to start the fat rendering and to torch the meat just until the surface begins to turn gray. Season the roast generously with salt and pepper.
Transfer to the oven, with the meat toward the back of the oven, and cook until the roast registers 128°F in the center. The total cooking time will be about 2 hours, but begin to check the temperature after 1 1/2 hours. Remove from the oven and let rest in a warm spot for at least 30 minutes for medium-rare.
To carve, cut the meat away from the bones. Separate the bones and put them on a serving platter. Cut the roast in half through the center, turn each piece cut side down, and slice straight down into slices that are about 1/2 inch thick. Arrange the meat on the platter and sprinkle with gray salt and pepper. Serve with the horseradish cream on the side.
Horseradish Cream
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Put the heavy cream and vinegar in a medium bowl and whisk until the cream holds a soft shape. Whisk in the horseradish, salt, and pepper. Refrigerate in a covered container for up to 1 week.
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German author; lived between 1420 and 1450. Of his life few details are known. Jacob Weil (Responsa, No. 133) speaks of him as a great and prominent scholar; and he is mentioned also by Judah Minz, and by Solomon Luria in his commentary on the Talmud. Both of them identify him with Menahem Meïl Ẓedeḳ, while Azulai distinguishes between the two Menahems. According to Jacob Weil's allusions, Menahem must have lived in the first half of the fifteenth century.
Menahem wrote a collection of halakic notes ("nimuḳim"), which forms an appendix to Weil's responsa. This work, which was regarded as authoritative in all the communities in Saxony, deals with the rabbinical marriage laws, the civil code, and the taxation of the communities. In contrast to the meager scientific contributions of the German Jews of the period, who discussed little besides petty liturgical questions, Menahem's book shows his lively interest in all matters that concern Judaism. Of great practical importance was his ruling in reference to the "mi'un," or the decision that if a girl has been married during minority at the instance of her mother or brothers but not at the command of her father, she has the right, when she attains her majority, to dissolve the union without a bill of divorce. Menahem, considering this immoral, repealed the law by virtue of his authority; but in the following century his ruling was set aside, and the Talmudic law again went into force.
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Saint Sabbas the Sanctified
The unknown village of Mutalaska, in the province of Cappadocia, became famous through this great luminary of the Orthodox Church. Sava was born there of his parents John and Sophia. At the age of eight, he left the home of his parents and was tonsured a monk in a nearby monastic community called Flavian's. After ten years, he moved to the monasteries of Palestine and remained longest in the Monastery of St. Euthymius the Great (January 20) and Theoctistus. The clairvoyant Euthymius prophesied of Sava that he would become a famous monk and a teacher of monks and that he would establish a lavra greater than all the lavras of that time. After the death of Euthymius, Sava withdrew to the desert, where he lived for five years as a hermit in a cave shown to him by an angel of God.
Afterward, when he had been perfected in the monastic life, he began by divine providence to gather around him many who were desirous of the spiritual life. Soon, such a large number gathered that Sava had to build a church and many cells. Some Armenians also came to him, and for them he provided a cave where they would be able to celebrate services in the Armenian language. When his father died, his aged mother Sophia came to him, and he tonsured her a nun. He gave her a cell located at a distance from his monastery, where she lived a life of asceticism until her death. This holy father endured many assaults from all sides: from those who were close to him, from heretics, and from demons. But he triumphed over them all: those close to him, by kindness and indulgence; the heretics, by his unwavering confession of the Orthodox Faith; the demons, by the sign of the Cross and calling upon God for help. He had a particularly great struggle with demons on Mount Castellium, where he established his second monastery. In all, Sava established seven monasteries. He and Theodosius the Great, his neighbor, are considered to be the greatest lights and pillars of Orthodoxy in the East. They corrected emperors and patriarchs in matters of the Faith, and to everyone they served as an example of saintly humility and the miraculous power of God. After a toilsome and very fruitful life, St. Sava entered into rest in the year 532, at the age of ninety-four. Among his many wondrous and good works, let it at least be mentioned that he was the first to compile the Order of Services for use in monasteries, now known as the Jerusalem Typicon.
A man may be great in some skill, as a statesman or a military leader, but no one among men is greater than a man who is great in faith, hope and love. How great St. Sava the Sanctified was in faith and hope in God is best shown by the following incident: One day, the steward of the monastery came to Sava and informed him that the following Saturday and Sunday he would be unable to strike the semantron, according to tradition, to summon the brethren to the communal service and meal because there was not a trace of flour in the monastery nor anything at all to eat or drink. For this same reason, even the Divine Liturgy was not possible. The saint replied without hesitation: "I shall not cancel the Divine Liturgy because of the lack of flour; faithful is He Who commanded us not to be concerned about bodily things, and mighty is He to feed us in time of hunger." And he placed all his hope in God. In this extremity, he was prepared to send some of the ecclesiastical vessels or vestments to be sold in the city so that neither the divine services nor the brother's customary meal would be omitted. However, before Saturday some men, moved by divine providence, brought thirty mules laden with wheat, wine and oil to the monastery. "What do you say now, Brother?" Sava asked the steward. "Shall we not strike the semantron and assemble the fathers?" The steward was ashamed because of his lack of faith and begged the abbot for forgiveness. Sava's biographer describes this saint as "severe with demons but mild toward men." Once, some monks rebelled against St. Sava, and for this they were driven from the monastery by order of Patriarch Elias. They built themselves huts by the river Thekoa, where they endured privation in all things. Hearing that they were starving, St. Sava loaded mules with flour and brought it to them personally. Seeing that they had no church, he built one for them. At first, the monks received him with hatred, but afterward they responded to his love with love and repented of their former misdeeds toward him.
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For the last few years, Sarah and I have established a very simple goal. We live entirely on the larger of our two incomes and sock the entirety of the other salary into savings. So far, we've basically been able to pull this off.
Why do this? There are three big reasons.
First, it establishes a very clear baseline for our savings for the future. We know that one of our income streams is going entirely to savings, which means we can essentially exclude that from our living budget. There's no questions about how much we should save and how big of an element it should be in our budget. Instead, our budget involves a very tiny amount for savings (mostly just growing our emergency fund).
Second, it means we're saving a lot for the future. We decided long ago that we were going to strive to "retire" as early as possible, which essentially meant that we would follow some life goals that didn't revolve around earning income.
We want to spend quite a few years doing volunteer work while we're still physically able and mentally sharp. I'd like to spend some significant time focusing on fiction writing, which isn't a real lucrative path if you're needing a strong income stream. Our savings plan enables us to work toward this goal very effectively.
On top of that, this type of savings is going to make our dream of being able to travel internationally with our children when they're older much, much easier. We would like to go on several international trips with our children during their teen years, which is going to be pricy. We now know we will be able to swing this dream.
Third, it keeps us frugal. We don't have tons of excess money to spend, even if we wanted to. It doesn't even go into our main checking account. Frankly, we don't need that excess money to enjoy life. I'm sure we could find ways to spend the income we're saving, but that spending really wouldn't add to our quality of life in any significant way.
Our current budget does reward us for active day-to-day frugality. We still have financial motivation to buy generic items, to look for ways to use less energy, and so on. We see the rewards for this much more directly than if we were earning a lot more and didn't have to think nearly as much about our bills.
The question then becomes whether you could do this. If you're in a dual-income household, could you make ends meet if one of you simply deposited your entire paycheck into savings and investments for the future?
Even if it seems mighty challenging or even impossible, I encourage you to at least sit down and check as to whether or not you could do this. A few tips if you're considering this kind of approach:
First, assume that you're going to cut back on the frills of your lifestyle to make this work. Some of the more unnecessary expenditures in your life will have to go. Everyone has different routines and different expenditures, but we all have things that are less necessary and important than other things. Likely, you'll have to make some big decisions to make this work – cutting back on frills and probably even cutting some big things, like downsizing your home.
Second, your lifestyle often expands – and shrinks – to fit your income level. If your "income" is just the amount coming home from one wage earner, then your lifestyle will shrink to fit it. The shrinkage might be a bit uncomfortable, but it will become natural over time.
Third, the entire process becomes easier if you have some big goals in mind. Whenever I think about our future plans, I picture two things. I picture our daughter at the Eiffel Tower (something she's already obsessed with, even in her early childhood), and I picture Sarah and myself on an Appalachian service project. Those two pictures in my mind help me to keep moving forward.
Finally, it can really push you to increase your income. Whenever your income feels tight, you feel a lot more motivation to get out there and find new ways to earn money. It's a lot easier to run faster if you can feel the wolves nipping at your heels.
This kind of move is the kind of big, audacious step that can make a life-changing difference for you and your family.


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The Best Way to Attract and Keep Great People
Most of my consulting time is spent putting together wealth transfer plans for successful business owners. Invariably, about half of my clients bring up two critical and related operational problems: "How do I keep my top executives? "(The headhunters—usually working for a competitor —are always circling.) And, "How do I attract new quality people?"
No, the problem is not new. It's been a problem in the past and, more than likely, will get worse in the future as the bidding war for talented people escalates. What to do? Almost 20 years ago, after struggling with the problem for about a year, we decided to develop an organized plan to find the answers. We interviewed our few client/owners who did not have the two problems; we also interviewed their key management people. Then came the hard part: getting permission to interview the key people at clients that were suffering with the problem.
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What quickly became clear was that almost 100% of the best key people have the soul of an entrepreneur. But for various reasons they do not want to strike out on their own or couldn't (usually because they cannot raise the required capital).
Solving the top-executive problem turned out to be simple. "Mimic ownership…"give 'em the same challenges as an owner and, if successful, most of the rewards. Additional interviews just kept reconfirming the original solution. The top (non-owner) executives wanted four core benefits of ownership: (1) A piece of the action (a share of company profits); (2) get paid when they are sick or become disabled; (3) receive adequate retirement pay when it's time to leave the company and (4) death benefits for their family ("Like my piece of the equity if I get hit by a bus" or similar words, is the way most executives put it.)
Over the years we have created hundreds of contracts (the technical name is a "non-qualified deferred compensation agreement"—the non-technical name is a "golden handcuff agreement") that attract and keep the kind of key people you want in your organization.
Let's take a closer look at each of the four desired benefits:
1. A piece-of-the-action plan. Typically, this is a percentage of the profits in excess of a specific dollar amount. Often, the percentage grows as the business and profits grow. For example, Sam Topgun will get 4% of all before-tax profits in excess of $200,000 per year. Profits in excess of $400,000 will be entitled to 6%. Say the amount earned under the plan for year one (or any subsequent year) is $21,000. Usually, Sam will get about one-third ($7,000) in cash and the balance ($14,000) is deferred. The deferred portion is invested for Sam's benefit. When does Sam gets the deferred portion and the accumulated earnings (usually called the side fund)? When the employee becomes disabled, dies or reaches retirement age (the age is usually set around 58 for younger key employees and in the 65-age range for older key people). When the key employee becomes entitled to collect the side fund (say it is $500,000), it usually is paid out in equal annual installments (say 10 years) or $50,000 per year plus the additional investment earnings for that year.
2. Disability. The employee gets paid when sick or disabled…whether for a day or for a lifetime. This benefit is covered by long-term disability insurance. It is essential that "disability" is defined "word for word" in your agreement… the same as it is defined in the disability insurance contract.
3. Retirement. The side fund (described in 1 above) supplements any regular retirement program (like a 401(k) or profit-sharing plan). Typically, the executive is allowed to direct the investment of the side-fund, which remains an asset of the employer.
Following are the tax consequences of the arrangement: The side-fund earnings are taxable to the employer. When the employee receives a distribution, the company gets a deduction for the exact amount distributed and the employee must report the identical amount as taxable income.
If the employee leaves for any reason—except because of disability, death or retirement—the entire side fund is forfeited by the employee and remains the property of the company. Hence, the name, "Golden handcuffs."
4. A set amount of money at death. When an owner dies, the family can sell the business (assuming it is not transferred to the kids). A similar benefit (really a death benefit) should be given to the employee. Of course, this benefit should be insurance funded.
We have been doing these non-qualified plans for years. Done right, they work. Often, when an owner does not have a family member to pass the business to, the side fund serves as the down payment by one or more of the key people to buy the business from the owner.
Two warnings: (1) This article does not attempt to cover every detail and the endless variations for tailoring an agreement that is perfect for your company. Always, and we mean always, work with an experienced advisor. Years of experience has proved that the right agreement will make your good people even better; (2) but sadly, there is no agreement we have ever seen that will make a bad employee even a little bit better.
In a way this getting-and-keeping good people is a frustrating subject. The reason— we have never been able to develop a cookie-cutter solution. Yes, the four core benefits are almost always the same or similar. But the bells, whistles and unique requirements of each situation make it impossible to write a complete report—much less a book—on the subject.


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Greg has presented work at venues and institutions including EYEO Festival (Minneapolis), the Western Front (Vancouver), DIY Citizenship (Toronto), Medialab-Prado (Madrid) and Postopolis! LA. He is an adjunct instructor in the CCIT program (University of Toronto/Sheridan College) and has taught courses for CSMM (McMaster University) and OCAD University.
Greg has presented work at venues and institutions including EYEO Festival (Minneapolis), the Western Front (Vancouver), DIY Citizenship (Toronto), Medialab-Prado (Madrid) and Postopolis! LA. He is an adjunct instructor in the CCIT program (University of Toronto/Sheridan College) and has taught courses for CSMM (McMaster University) and OCAD University.
digital mapping performance
a live performance illustrating the digital mapping process normally occuring within a computer.
an ASCII version of Marcel Proust's novel A la Recherche du Temps Perdu is recoded into zeros & ones & then read by 2 performers alternately (one is reading the zeros, the other one the ones). the 3rd person is a CPU, as she interprets the zeros & ones with the aid of an ASCII allocation table, cuts out the corresponding letter from the prepared sheets & turns it over to Display, who sticks it onto the wall panel. after 8 hours of performance about 250 characters are processed.
[link: khjeron.de|via we-make-money-not-art.com]
Electric Sheep Project (Spot at Santa Cruz)
Scott Draves (aka Spot) gave a great talk on the Electric Sheep project yesterday to the Digital Arts and New Media program at UC Santa Cruz. Spot is well known for his algorithmic artwork based on cellular automata (CA) and fractals. When I knew him at CMU in 1996-1997, he had been working for several years on a CA-based screen saver called Bomb.
Electric Sheep combines the concepts of screensaver-based massively parallel supercomputers (ala SETI@Home), genetic algorithms, and fractal generated art (using recursive set functions that employ non-linear rather than the standard linear transfer functions) to generate morphing fractal animations that breed and reproduce. Scott's server now contains thousands of these sheep, both the ones that were popular (received many votes while running on screensavers, and thus reproduced) and ones that weren't. He has recently teamed up with the famous UCSC chaos theoretician Ralph Abraham to statistically analyze the properties of the sheep stored on his server, looking for correlations between formal properties of the sheep and aesthetic judgments (based on the popularity votes that drive the evolution of the sheep). They are currently focusing on fractal dimension as the correlate.
presidential speech tagcloud
An interactive tagcloud of the words that US presidents used frequently in their speeches, showing which issues they deemed important over time. the dataset consists of over 360 documents, from speeches, official documents, declarations, & letters written by the Presidents of the US between 1776 - 2006 AD. a timeline slider allows users to animate the tagcloud over the years.
see also parsing the state of the union & power of words & state of the union visualization.
[links: chir.ag|via boingboing.net & datapacifica.blogspot.com|thnkx Mart!n]
Will Wright in The New Yorker
Continuing the recent trend of feature articles about games and game designers in highbrow magazines (1 2 3), Will Wright is profiled in The New Yorker by one the magazine's tech-friendly writers, John Seabrook, and accompanied by a sweet illustration by Istvan Banyai (one of my favorite contemporary illustrators).
While the material on Spore, E3, etc. will be very familiar to GTxA readers, the piece does delve into Will's background and personal life more than anything else I've read on him.
brian eno music paintings
a collection of computer-generated art works that combines & layers Brian Eno's hand-made slides based on parameters from his ambient music. the program can generate 77 million different artworks automatically. Eno said: "I think of these things as visual music ... intended to occupy television downtime so that, instead of having a dead hole in the wall, you have a living picture."
[links: allsaintsrecords.com & sean.co.uk & amazon.com]


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I don't know if you are aware of this, but in addition to my career writing Dan's Papers, I've also made a career being a movie star and a rock star. I am not making this up.
Not long ago I had a speaking role in a made for TV movie. It's a small role, but it's a role nevertheless.
It's also true that my talents as a rock star are limited to being part of a backup band. For 10 years now, I've been part of the backup band on stage for Melissa Levis, when needed, and also, just this past month, a dancer in a music video she has just made that is premiering next week.
I suppose I should start by describing my film career. Three years ago, my wife said we should fly to Sofia, Bulgaria for the weekend. Why? Because her son Scoop, who had gotten an internship as an assistant to the famous film director Roger Corman, and was now in Bulgaria looking after one of his boss's interests, the new movie he was producing on a set in that city for the SciFi Network. It was, and is, called Cyclops, starring Eric Roberts. It takes place in ancient Roman times. [expand]
As sometimes happen, before we got there, there had been a break in the case. A man who had a part in the film got sick and Scoop was asked to step in. Didn't we want to see Scoop perform? We sure did.
"They've got a big scene they're filming in a replica of the Roman Colloseum in Sofia and he's in it. Let's go!"
We went. We watched Scoop perform. And then, suddenly, they had a scene where they needed extras. They dressed me up as a senator, they dressed my wife up as a senator's wife, they dressed Scoop's sister and brother up as Roman citizens—I forgot to tell you the whole group of us went—and we sat in the stands of the Colloseum for a scene where a slave was going to fight the Cyclops to the death out on the AstroTurf playing field, or whatever it was back in Roman times.
A Master of Ceremonies introduced this "entertainment," standing on the playing field. He droned on and on. The crowd in the stands was getting antsy. Then comes my big line. I stand up, wave an arm at the Master of Ceremonies dismissively and shout, in English, "Get on with it!" And indeed, the M.C. gets on with it.
I say that this was in English because, in fact, we were the only four in those stands in the replica Roman Colloseum who spoke English. Everyone else in the stands, all the other extras, were shouting in Bulgarian. But as I said, this was for American TV.
You can rent Cyclops on Netflix. You can get it at Blockbuster. You can dial it up on your cable TV. And so now, on the Internet, where you go to see the film careers of all the famous actors, you find ME! That's my one role. So far. No Academy Awards yet. Call my agent.
Okay, so that disposes of my film career.
Now we come to my rock star career. In the late 1990s, singer Melissa Levis, who I did not know at the time, called me up out of the blue at the paper to ask if I would like to be in a rock band called Melissa and the Moguls. I said sure, what do I have to do?
Melissa had written eight wonderful songs about the beautiful life in the Hamptons in rock and roll style. We'd perform them at The Steven Talkhouse in Amagansett. Over the next two years, we performed there several times and also at some other venues, including a nightclub on West 67th Street in Manhattan.
One of my greatest memories sitting in the "green room" on the second floor of The Steven Talkhouse with my fellow moguls late on a Saturday night, waiting to start our first set. Below, the place was packed. Up here there were pictures on the walls of the famous and fabulous who had been up there, tuning their instruments, mumbling their songs, getting ready—Paul Simon, Jimmy Buffet, Billy Joel and Jon Bon Jovi. This place was, and is, famous.
We clattered down the stairs when the time came—myself, New York socialite and department store heir Jonathan Farkas, industrialist and environmentalist Andy Sabin, banker Pat Malloy (he of the 220-foot yacht) and clothing mogul Alan Frank. Melissa, in spangles, looked fabulous. The crowd cheered. We played: me on the kazoo, Malloy on the maracas, Sabin on the tambourine, Frank and Farkas on guitar. Melissa sang the songs she wrote. We sang the choruses. The people gave us a standing ovation. What an evening that was.
And then there was more. There was a reunion in Miami Beach, another in Aspen, then a recording session back at The Steven Talkhouse with a new member of the group, comedian Robert Klein, singing some of the choruses.
What a CD that was. And still is. Some of the tunes from that CD were used in the film King of the Hamptons, a documentary made by Dennis Lynch that came out in 2009 and in which I had a role. (Film appearance, Part 2.)
Now, it is 10 years after Melissa and the Moguls, and Melissa calls me again and can she come over to our house in East Hampton and film part of a new music video there? I ask—can I be in it? And she says only if you agree to learn this dance we are all doing in the video and only if you agree to allow three beautiful girls in matching flowered dresses to pile into the backseat of your 50-year-old sports car (1959 Triumph TR-3) and go roaring off while the cameras whir, or whatever they do these days. I say yes.
And also, she says, I will be showing up with a professional ballet dancer from Brazil who performs in the video.
Do I have to dance with him? I ask. You have to dance alongside of him, she says, facing the camera, doing the dance moves. Try not to make a fool of yourself.
Since the days of Melissa and the Moguls, Melissa has gone on to do Off Broadway, private parties, clubs, children's shows, gotten married, produced a son and, well, what the hell is this?
"It's one of the songs I wrote 10 years ago," she tells me on the phone. "It's called 'Ooh La La Hamptons,' and the group performing it, which now will include you, is called the Ooh La Las. But instead of a rock beat, we are doing it in Hip Hop."
This is the 21st century, she says.
Oh, say I.
Melissa shows up in her flowered dress, along with two other beautiful flowered Go-Go-dressed girls, the male dancer from Brazil, a secretary, a make-up person, a dresser, a cameraman, a sound man, a clothes rack, two cars and a truck.
We rehearse and then perform our part of the video, both out by our pool and on the front deck with the boats in the background for about two hours. Then we drive down to Indian Wells Beach and I watch her film a segment there. Then we all go back to our house, she drops us off, then she and her entourage go off to film down on Main Street and also, I later learn, at the home of "Mr. Broadway" Stewart Lane and his wife Bonnie. The bit downtown has total strangers doing the dance and singing, the bit at the Lane house has the Lanes in the pool, singing.
A week later, an e-mail arrives. The whole thing, three minutes and forty-two seconds long, is now online. Go watch it. It's GREAT!
Can I post it on www.danshamptons.com? I ask her.
Put it up, she tells me. A pre-launch sneak peek. Then we'll set up an official launch.
Until the official launch, go see three minutes and forty-two seconds of pure gold at www.danshamptons.com and click either on Videos or Dan's Daily. Both routes lead to it. Enjoy.
Here's a few of the naughty, nifty lyrics:
Welcome to Nirvana
Home to Spenser and Madonna
Mega mansions gone insane
Driving in your Porsche down Further Lane
Share homes packed with gorgeous models
Clubs with $300 bottles
Girls so hot your lips are smackin'
How many houseguests can you pack in?
It's Royal Pains if you get my gist
Are you on Peggy Siegal's list?
If your bonus bombed and you're feeling poor
Summer with Snooki at the Jersey Shore! [/expand]


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Silver Linings Playbook director David O Russell and producer Donna Gigliotti tell Jeremy Kay about developing the emotional source material into an award-winning package.
The range of elements that went into the production of Silver Linings Playbook is as appropriately heartfelt as the film itself.
The project started with Matthew Quick's novel of the same name, first published in 2008. Renee Witt, a former executive at The Weinstein Company (TWC), had read the manuscript and convinced Harvey Weinstein to option the film rights. Around the same time as Witt was championing the book, Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella had been mulling over the same project. The late producing partners had a deal with Weinstein through their Mirage Enterprises and it was decided Pollack and Minghella would take on the challenge.
By terrible coincidence both Mirage co-founders died within three months of each other in the first half of 2008. "They hadn't got very far down the road with the project," says Donna Gigliotti, the film's producer and a former Miramax executive who served briefly as TWC president of production until she left in early 2012 to produce full-time. "The only thing that happened that everybody was agreed upon was that David [O Russell] should write the screenplay."
"About five years ago Sydney Pollack showed me the novel," Russell says. "It was a dream to me. I was looking for a story that would make my son feel like he was part of the world, because he has grappled with OCD and bipolar issues."
The film stars Bradley Cooper as a man released from a mental institution who pines for his estranged wife and is pursued by a quirky, alarmingly frank young woman played by Jennifer Lawrence. "It was about people who understand each other without lying to each other," Russell adds. "I wanted it to be a story that could show my son he could go to a good place [in life].
"High-functioning people with mental issues are all different - they're like fingerprints and you can never say any two are the same. I would sometimes meet parents and be very worried about my son's behaviour and parents told me they had suffered the same maladies.
"Robert De Niro's character [a superstitious sports gambler and the father to Cooper's character] was very on the edge, like my father. He had some very rigid behaviours and some of them might almost be diagnosable."
Witt and former Miramax executive Michelle Raimo - who has since taken the top job at Sony Pictures Animation - developed the screenplay with Russell. However once they finished the script, it sat on the shelf "languishing", as Gigliotti puts it.
Russell could not wait around for the Weinsteins to commit to production and in the summer of 2009 he went off to shoot The Fighter in Philadelphia. By that time, Gigliotti had come on board at the behest of Witt.
"I saw an early cut of The Fighter and was out of my mind because I loved it so much," says Gigliotti. "In a lot of ways I felt Silver Linings Playbook was a companion piece to The Fighter and that's also how David sees it. The Weinstein Company had foreign rights on The Fighter and loved it. We began to get Silver Linings up and running." Witt inadvertently threw a spanner in the works when she left TWC in early 2010. "Renee had been the person in there, pushing and pushing," says Gigliotti. "When she left we thought, 'How are we going to get this made?' We started to talk about budget [Silver Linings Playbook ended up being made for around $21m] and locations. It took us a while to get all the pieces together. But we did it.
"I was in post in New York on I Don't Know How She Does It. We decided [to shoot in] Philadelphia, which is where the book takes place. David said he could do it in the same timeframe as The Fighter - a remarkable 33 days."
In late summer 2011, five weeks from the start of production, Gigliotti brought on fellow producers Bruce Cohen - "The most organised human being I know," she says - and Jonathan Gordon, who had been the Miramax executive in charge of production on Russell's 1996 movie Flirting With Disaster.
The film-makers wanted Jennifer Lawrence but the actress was shooting The Hunger Games and could not make it to either New York or Los Angeles to meet Russell. They arranged for the actress to audition via Skype. "It was the only time I had done that," says Russell, who recorded the audition on his computer screen. "I thought she was probably too young and inexperienced to play such a role but I did it as a courtesy.
"She stunned us all. She came in and had a quality that's very hard to name. She could have been 20 or 40. She's very confident and frank and very vulnerable and human. It was a real bit of kismet that we got her. She had prepared the lines and put on black eyeliner and black nail polish and was doing it in her father's study."
Opposite Lawrence would be Bradley Cooper, a choice Russell was excited about since the actor knew Robert De Niro from Limitless and the two had become fond of one another. However Cooper and Lawrence did not know each other.
"They met two weeks before the start of production," says Gigliotti. "She was coming off The Hunger Games and he was coming off The Place Beyond The Pines. They bonded quickly because they had to go into dance practice for two weeks before the shoot [for the film's climactic dance contest sequence]."
Russell delivered Silver Linings on time and on budget. "He is extremely unconventional," says Gigliotti. "It would appear on any given day to be chaotic but the trick is he is so well prepared. On set he has this ability to allow actors a tremendous amount of freedom, to literally move around as they see fit. We lit that house 360 degrees so the actors could move anywhere they felt they ought to be."
Russell says he loved the process. "I feel this is a different phase of my career. I went through a sort of weird time when I wasn't as clear on the work. As a writer or director there's nothing worse than that, because even if you are clear it's hard enough to accomplish it.
"This period began with the writing of this script. I thought I was making it then it got to be on the shelf, as often happens. The Fighter came and once I hit this stride I felt very excited and felt this was a wheelhouse I could work in because I think I have a good feel for it.
"This could be a territory for me. The next film is cut from similar cloth and it's another companion piece because it's about a specific place with similar emotions. It's about a group of people in New York who went through very different situations and come from very different walks of life."
Silver Linings Playbook had its world premiere at Toronto this year, where it won the festival's People's Choice Award. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave the film four Golden Globe nominations including best motion picture - comedy or musical, best screenplay for Russell and nominations for both Lawrence and Cooper. The film also has four nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
"It is nice when you're recognised by your peers," says Russell, "but what's really gratifying is how you hear that audiences responded emotionally. I have had many stars see the movie and come up to me and tell me they have people like this in their family. It's something people don't talk about."
Russell and Harvey Weinstein, on the other hand, talked about pretty much everything. "Yes, he interferes and yes, he lets us do what we need to do," says the director. "I love the guy and I love working with him. It's certainly challenging at times but many great people you get to work with are challenging at times. He has passion, taste and is a gambler - that's a rare thing in the world of cinema."


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Melanie and Phillip Reinhardt
Melanie and Phillip Reinhardt think they probably met for the first time during a game of midnight euchre in a Lincoln Residence Hall lounge during the first week of school at the University of Illinois Springfield.
"A group of us played euchre every night at midnight in one of the lounges, and we were both in that group," Melanie wrote in an email.
The two were part of the first class of 116 freshmen Capital Scholars at UIS in 2001. Prior to then the University served only juniors and seniors. Melanie, whose maiden name is Cain, remembers her time at UIS with fondness. "It was an incredible experience, and it was just so cool to be part of something so historic and significant as the first freshmen class at the university. One of the best parts about it was how close we all became during that first year," she writes.
She and Phillip started dating during their sophomore year. They were in a couple of classes together, they became close with their classmates, and they bonded over their love of sports. In fact, the pair sites a game of basketball as one of their best memories as a couple at UIS. "When we first started dating, we went to the Rec Center to play some one-on-one basketball, and even though it got a little competitive, we had a blast. We played a lot of pick-up games with other people during our time at UIS, but we still both remember that first one-on-one game," Melanie says.
Another one of their favorite memories is Springfest from their sophomore year. Their friends "put together a Springfest team, and we called ourselves the Teenage Mutant Ninja Cappies," Melanie explained. She said they took part in all the activities of the week, competed in the various games and their team ended up "winning the whole thing."
The couple graduated from UIS in 2005; Melanie earned two bachelor's degrees, one in Business Administration and one in Communication, and a minor in Accounting. Phillip earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Science. They married in 2006 and have a daughter, Alexis, who was born in December 2009.
Melanie and Phillip say they keep in touch with several of their Capital Scholar classmates, and that a few of them were in the couple's wedding party. "Facebook makes keeping in touch with everyone a lot easier, but we still manage to see these friends a fair amount. We also really enjoyed seeing everyone at the recent Capital Scholar reunion," Phillip says.
Besides meeting some of their closest friends at UIS (and meeting each other), Melanie says UIS has had a positive effect on their lives in other ways, too. She said the opportunity to play intercollegiate sports was an incredible experience for her, and their degrees have helped them in their careers. Melanie works as a Communication Specialist in the Public Information and Marketing department at Southwestern Illinois College, and Phillip works as an Information Technology Specialist for DISA CONUS at Scott Air Force Base.
When asked what advice they'd give to new students at UIS, the couple says, "Get involved! Take advantage of all of the programs, events and opportunities the college offers. You will get a chance to meet some great people, experience new things and create memories that will last a lifetime."


text: Didn't have time to post this last week (was finishing up final exams for my MBA program) but I wanted to make sure I posted this. Nice piece from Rob Demovsky talking about how Packers practice squad WR Tony Gurley turned down an offer from the Vikings – one that would have allowed him real NFL snaps right away – to stick with the Packers on the practice squad. Pretty powerful stuff – check it out.


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Resources from the earth have been used since the dawn of man for technological advancement. Goldman Sachs, an investment firm, predicted that in 2013 there will be a rare earth surplus. Even though there are experts who refute this analysis, exploration and mining companies have set out to exploit these resources. Products can be developed utilizing these resources, thus satisfying both customers, and investors.
The Toyota Prius uses the resource neodymium. This mineral is increasing in demand because it is a metal used for building strength magnets. Analysts project that neodymium will have a significant value in the following years. Since many industries are switching to renewable energy sources, the demand for permanent magnets is increasing. These magnets are used in applications such as wind turbines, electric vehicles and electric motors. To supplement the research of these minerals, the U.S. Department of Energy is willing to offer $30 million for research in alternatives to earth elements. These alternatives are vital to securing the supply of materials and cost savings.
Dr. Chen Zhanheng who serves as a central figure in The Chinese Society of Rare Earths as Director of the Academic Department states that demand for NeFeB, or neodymium-iron-boron, will increase by 259,026 tons in the next decade, and 176,289 metric tons within the next few years. These neodymium-iron-boron magnets will primarily be utilized for the operation of wind turbines. A single wind turbine uses a ton of neodymium for each megawatt of generating capacity. With the demand for renewable sources increasing, the expected demand for neodymium will also increase.
As mentioned before, Toyota needs these minerals when constructing green cars such as the Prius. Toyota analyzed the high price of neodymium and decided to seek an alternative metal to be used in their motor vehicles. This company is currently constructing the RAV4 EV which is a pure electric vehicle; this car gets its energy from being plugged into a power source. This is Toyota's first step in escaping the use of rare earth materials. This company is also designing a new car with a new partner, Tesla Motors who is an electric sports car manufacturer.
The Tesla motor is special because it does not require the need for magnets to power up. Instead, the motor utilizes stacked steel laminations when an electric current is produced. The laminations create a magnetic field that rotates, thus pushing the motor. The motors are able to recycle energy when the driver brakes. The regenerative braking system is used on hybrids, making the partnership between Toyota and Tesla, that much more convenient.
Toyota is making a great strategic business move. Not only have they diversified their resources, but their ambition to ensure the future developments of different vehicles is admirable. By slowly easing away from a necessary resource before the value increases, they will save on manufacturing costs in the future. Toyota's project to develop an all-electric vehicle that is purely plug-in will attract consumers. Many drivers are slowly going green by taking the necessary steps to save our planet; soon, we may all be driving all-electric vehicles.
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Back in February this year, Nokia did the unthinkable and ditched Symbian for Microsoft's Windows Phone. In a letter to its employees, Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop, mentioned Symbian as "the burning platform." Nokia made it clear that going forward it is going to focus only on WP based phone, and that users should not expect Symbian phones from the company anymore. The company did, however, promise software updates for Symbian handsets until 2016 so as to provide some peace of mind to the owners of its last Symbian handset, the Pure View 808.
The company did release quite a few firmware and Symbian updates for its Symbian^3 devices, including the Belle update for the N8 and the Belle FP1 update for the Nokia 701. Today, however Nokia has started rolling out a firmware update for a nearly forgotten Symbian S60v3 running handset, the Nokia E5.
The firmware update does not bring any major changes or features, but does bring with it some performance and stability improvements. In addition to this, it also includes an updated Web Browser and Email client, which should hopefully improve the speed of these apps.
The firmware update (V101) is already live in certain regions of the world, and can be installed on the E5 either via OTA or by using Nokia's PC Suite app.
Via – AllAboutSymbian


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Glad to have you aboard, Lyricasylum! (can I call you Lyric? )
All that talk about a time limit earlier was when we were just in the 'tossing ideas around' phase. It's not a part of this contest, but when it is (for the 3 hour Ectocomp we do in October, etc.) then yes, we generally do just go by the honor system.


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On Sunday April 28th, 2019 at 6:56 p.m. Aurora Police Officers responded to a reported stabbing in the 14800 block of East Kentucky Drive.
Upon officers arrival they located an adult male victim suffering from a stab wound. The male was transported to an area hospital where tragically he succumbed to his injuries.
All involved parties have been identified, and no one is in custody at this time. This was an isolated incident, and we are not looking for any suspects. No further information is known at this time as the investigation is still active and ongoing.
Positive identification of the victim will be made by the Arapahoe County Coroner's Office after the next-of-kin has been notified.
This is being investigated by the Aurora Police Major Crimes/Homicide Unit. We ask anyone who may be a witness, or has information about this homicide, to please call Aurora Police Agent Jamie Krieger at 303.739.6113. Tipsters can also remain anonymous, and be eligible for a reward of up to $2,000 by contacting Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at (720) 913- STOP (7867).
Officer Crystal McCoy
Public Information Officer
Aurora Police Department
On April 8th, 2019, at about 12:39 A.M., Aurora Police Officers responded to an automobile versus pedestrian accident at the intersection of Colfax Avenue and Kenton Street.
A passerby initially called and told 911 dispatchers that a male was laying unresponsive on the side of the road by the light pole. The Investigation revealed an adult male was crossing Colfax Avenue from north to south just west of the crosswalk when he was struck by a vehicle traveling eastbound in the far-right lane. The victim was thrown about 30 yards and came to rest on the southeast corner of the intersection. It was determined from area surveillance video that the victim was not discovered for approximately 20 minutes after the collision, Aurora Fire Rescue transported the adult male victim to University Hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries. The adult driver of the vehicle initially left the scene of the accident, however after talking to his family he decided after about 30 minutes to return to the original accident scene.
Traffic Investigators believe speed and alcohol are factors in this accident. None of the identities of any of the involved parties are being released at this time. The driver was arrested for hit and run resulting in death, additional charges may be added once the toxicology results are determined. If you were a witness to this accident or know anything about what happened please call Detective Steve Chinn at 303-739-6342.
This will be the 7th fatal accident in Aurora since January 1st, the Aurora Police Department reminds drivers not to drive if they have been drinking.
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