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Microsoft has updated its Bing for Mobile apps for iPhone and Android with a bigger focus on streamlining how mobile users discover relevant local information. Separately, the software giant has updated m.bing.com with "the latest HTML5 technologies."
For the iPhone, Bing has received a cleaner homepage as well as faster Voice Search, which allows you to fine-tune your existing search using your voice without having to repeat the entire search. Bing's AutoSuggest feature now also lets you refine searches on the fly: touch to find the perfect restaurant with the cuisine, price, location, and atmosphere you want. The Reminder feature lets you know when you're close to a location so you can do your chores when you're close by.
Bing Streetside, which provides a multistreet level panorama of a location, has been added; it seamlessly constructs the view of the sidewalk as you move, including an overlay of business listings, street names, and store fronts. Real-time transit updates that show if a bus is early, on schedule, or delayed are now available for Boston, San Francisco, and Seattle, with more cities to come. If you can live without predictions for when the bus will arrive, there are standard transit routes for 11 cities, also with more to come.
Once you've arrived at your destination, you can now check-in with Bing to simultaneously update your Facebook, Foursquare, and Windows Live Messenger status. Speaking of Facebook, there's also a new Plan feature that lets you post local search results directly to your Facebook Wall or see what your friends have done on a night out by searching their Facebook likes and comments.
Last but not least, Bing Vision lets you search by taking a picture with your phone's camera. Bing Vision will detect text and let you select words for a search, as well as recognize a barcode and return results for books, CD, DVDs, and video games.
For Android, the update is much smaller. There's only one new feature that is available on both platforms: you can reserve a table on OpenTable or order takeout from Grubhub directly from the Bing app. Other than that, the Android version has three more improvements: dynamic category search pages for what's nearby, the ability to bookmark Bing's homepage images, and the option to search third party apps (with registered data), in addition to contacts, audio files, and the Web.
You can download the updated Bing for Mobile iPhone App from the App Store. The Bing for Mobile Android App is available for download on all major US mobile operators through the Android Market.
Microsoft says its mobile search strategy does not simply consist of directly porting the PC product. For example, Bing now has device intelligence: signals that shape the results (like location on mobile or time of day on the desktop), dynamic presentation of results based on a device's capabilities, and recognition of typical user behavior patterns on certain devices. Microsoft's search engine also takes into consideration the fact that on mobile devices, people's queries are more locally focused and much shorter in duration than on the desktop.


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Aiming to get people into the innovative mindset for improving services and saving money, cities are turning to competitions.
In this series of columns, I have been exploring the concept of "ideation" — a fancy word for the process of developing and testing new ideas. For cities, this requires both fostering creativity and gaining different perspectives, and while that might sound simple, it can actually be quite disruptive. Idea generation and development demands that everyone involved get out of his or her comfort zone to see and discuss things afresh. There is a powerful tool for engendering this kind of mindset: competition.
This is not about sports-team rivalries or battles for corporate headquarters. This is the kind of competition that can spark creativity, generate energy and bring rigor and discipline to the policymaking process. A few cities have a lot to tell us about it.
In Louisville, Ky., for example, when Mayor Greg Fischer received a Bloomberg Philanthropies Innovation Delivery Team grant to improve municipal customer service, he used competition to kick-start the process.
To build a stockpile of suggestions, Fischer and his Innovation Delivery Team director, Margaret Handmaker, decided to hold an all-agency contest seeking grand-yet-feasible reforms from every corner of city government. The winning agencies would get to participate in the city's new customer-service initiative and work directly with the mayor's newly formed innovation team. A memo was sent out asking agency directors to come to a half-day idea session and to bring at least three proposals apiece — either original thoughts or best practices from other cities.
The directors arrived with a slew of ideas, and fought hard for them. The process sparked fresh approaches and pushed the agencies to put their best thinking forward. Louisville's customer-service initiatives — which range from improving animal services to revamping the rezoning process — are now ready to go. And while the process had many other facets, the goals the city chose to pursue grew directly out of the competitive brainstorming session.
Baltimore and Chicago are taking a different approach: creating sustained, ongoing competitions through their dedicated innovation funds. Each city awards loans to agencies proposing ideas that would improve services and cut costs.
In Baltimore, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was frustrated with her city's persistent budget shortfalls and the lack of money for new ideas, so her budget chief, Andrew Kleine, proposed that, rather than simply continuing to subtract dollars, they add them where they would do the most good, through an innovation fund.
As part of a much larger performance-budgeting initiative, the city set aside $2 million and asked agencies to pitch ideas that they thought would both enhance services and save money. Accepted projects would be funded with loans, to be paid back within five years, and agencies would be expected to provide business plans showing how they expected to meet their obligations. Each proposal would be judged by a panel of leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and nonprofit directors, who would focus on the potential for return on investment.
The competition for the funds has proved to be a real catalyst. In just two budget cycles, more than 30 ideas have poured in, and three have made it through the process. One proposal was for the Bureau of Environmental Health to go paperless, and now all restaurant and other inspections are conducted via iPads — which means no more inspectors lugging their notes back to the office and handing them off to data-entry workers. The agency is on target not only to pay back its loan but also to gross more than $500,000 through increased revenue.
Another proposal was for electronic conversion for all construction plans. Before the conversion, developers would have to wheel large bins full of architectural plans and permit requests to multiple agencies. Now they can send the information electronically in a single file. This effort has already led to savings and has cut turnaround time for project approvals by more than 20 percent.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel initiated a similar cascade of new agency ideas when he created his own innovation loan fund this past year. The city has set aside $20 million for efficiency and customer improvements, with the first $2 million committed to projects that will cut red tape for businesses and make it easier for citizens to access city services.
Lack of competition is a commonly cited barrier to innovation in government. These three cities are early pioneers in showing the concrete improvements gained from turning business as usual into a healthy fight for the best that city government can do.
This is part of a series of monthly dispatches by New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service examining the Innovation Delivery Teams initiative. The next post, in September, will coincide with a report on the way ideation has guided the work of Bloomberg Philanthropies' grantee cities.


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A recent study found 35 percent of people will break their resolutions by the end of January and only 23 percent will achieve their goals. How can you be successful?
As Marjorie Appenzeller ate her vegetable soup-chicken salad sandwich combo, she couldn't decide whether the low-fat lunch would count toward her 2008 or 2009 New Year's resolution.
"I don't know if I'm working on last year's resolution or this year's resolution early," Appenzeller said with a laugh.
Over the last 20 years, Appenzeller said she has religiously resolved to do many things in the New Year: travel more, help out the less fortunate, keep her basement organized and lose weight.
Sometimes she has been successful. She and a group of friends drove an RV across Europe, and this year, she has made a concerted effort to help more people.
But one perennial resolution — weight loss — has eluded her, and Appenzeller, 80 of Springfield, Ill., is not alone.
A recent study found 35 percent of people will break their resolutions by the end of January and only 23 percent will achieve their goals.
Some people see New Year resolutions as a waste of time. Teri McGhee, 42 of Sherman, Ill., said she doesn't bother setting resolutions.
"I know I'm not going to keep them, so I'm not going to make them," she said.
But most people habitually set resolutions at the turn of the year, said Dr. Ray Redick, a therapist with Memorial Counseling Associations.
"People want to be optimistic about their futures, and making New Year's resolutions is a way of believing that things can get better," he said.
So how can people avoid using their treadmills as a place to hang clothes — or keep making progress toward those other resolutions?
Redick said people who resolve to make a change also must implement a plan with accountability and support.
"We need to focus on what we want to be, not who we are," he said.
After setting a resolution, write down the plan and share it with your support system.
"Writing it down takes it out of our heads," Redick said.
After 18 years as a fitness professional, Cindy Kropid has seen a lot of resolutions broken. But Kropid, fitness coordinator at a YMCA, said accountability is the best way to make a resolution stick.
"We all have to be accountable to someone," she said. "Find someone in the same boat, with the same set of goals."
Redick said because resolutions are often about breaking a bad habit or starting a new, good one, people must practice doing the new behavior. He said people already do this regularly by going to work even when they might not feel like it.
"If you want something to happen, you have to make space for it," he said.
Kropid said changing a habit also depends on a person's state of mind.
"Think of it as more of a healthy lifestyle change," Kropid said of resolutions involving exercise or weight loss.
Redick warns that while a strict plan may be necessary to achieve results, people also should be flexible. If the gym is closed, find another way to exercise, he said.
"Remain flexible; life happens," Redick said.
Kropid agreed, reminding people to not get discouraged too early because a habit can take 21 days to take hold.
Once those habits stick and the mountain of debt begins to dwindle, the weight starts to fall off, you cut down your tobacco use or you make progress toward reading more books and fooling around on the Internet less, Redick said it is important for people to reward themselves.
And even if a resolution is derailed a few months later, he said people could always start again. You don't have to wait until the following New Year to make changes in your life.
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Why don't we keep those New Year's resolutions
* We set unrealistic expectations.
* Our resolutions depend on actions of others (i.e. "to get engaged").
* We drift away from a resolution at the first sign of a setback.
* We dictate actions based on feelings, not goals.
How to keep this year's resolutions
* Create a plan tailored to fit you, and write it down so it seems more tangible.
* Set a realistic deadline.
* Identify obstacles — determine who or what may stand in the way of achieving your resolution.
* Build a support system, and make sure your supporters know your goals and have a printed copy of your plan.
* Reward progress.
* If you break your resolution, you can always start again at any time.
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Rev. Sylvanus wrote:Let me see if I can wade through the bad grammar. What I'm speaking against--please go reread my post--is the sudden wanker measuring contest that has risen up on these last couple of pages. Talk to Warhead, Natalya, ROC, and other MOC greats on this forum if you want to brag about force size and capability.
I've got to disagree on this one from a policy standpoint. Proper shit-talking depends on both sides adhering to certain protocols: one side grossly overinflates the epicness of their accomplishments, so that the other side is properly set up to take the piss out of them, and they alternate roles as appropriate. I almost feel sorry for Natalya et al. for having MOCed themselves out of the opportunity to really take part in the exaggeration half of this exchange.


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Canadian rapper JD Era is quickly becoming a household name here in the U.S. But the Toronto emcee is no freshman to the rap game. With his last release Th1rte3n available on I-Tunes and a well-earned reputation as one of Canada's best freestylers, the award-winning emcee is the marquee artist to represent Raekwon's Ice H20 Records, making Era's American debut a defining moment for Canadian Hip Hop.
Recently JD Era spoke to DXnext about healthy competition with his Wu-Tang mentor and his "No Handouts" approach to releasing six successful mixtapes.
Verbal Intercourse: "I come from a battle background, so lyrics have always been really important to me. I listened to guys like Canibus, Mos Def, [Jay-Z], Nas, and [The Notorious B.I.G.]. They all have bars so growing up I was trying to emulate that. It evolved into my own style and I just try to keep it fresh for my generation. I think that lyricism is missing in some of the new artists. I'm not focused on trying to get a number one hit right now; I'm just focused on making music I enjoy. To have someone like Raekwon who is one of the more lyrical people in Hip Hop supporting me, I have no choice but to represent that lyrical authentic Hip Hop."
On His Relationship With Ice H20 CEO Raekwon: "It's a little bit of both a partnership and a mentorship. When we're on records, it's competition because that's the emcee in us both. Being able to be competitive with Raekwon, I got no choice but to keep my sword sharp. It's like a constant training, and that's ill. On top of it all, he's like an ill reference point, He's seen people come and go. So to have him critique [me], obviously I'm gonna be better. I'm just trying to soak it up and represent for my town.
People underestimate Rae's ear for music; he got a crazy ear. I'm trying to get him to do [Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…Pt. III]. To me, that's being part of something crazy, something historic. That's what I care about."
Canada Eh!: "The idea of a Canadian rapper was 'new' to a lot of people. To me, it's just Hip-Hop growing. Hip-Hop is becoming global because the music and culture is getting older. If you get enough nice emcees from (Canada) people are going to accept it and not trip on where you are from.
Growing up, guys like Maestro Fresh Wes influenced me. I always got to see him and Kardinal Offishall locally, even while they were enjoying mainstream success.
Infinite was always ill to me as well as Choclair, Saukrates. They are all like big brothers to. Before I was focused on getting my music to the U.S., these were the dudes I was trying to impress."
Freshman Magazine Covers & Mainstream Acceptance: "It's nice to be recognized by your peers but for me it's about progression. As long as I'm getting closer to where I want to be I'm satisfied. My fans have been loyal so far and I really believe in the organic approach. It will build properly if you set it up right. I don't trip on not being on any lists."
On Working With Rapper Mac Miller And Producers 9th Wonder And Lex Luger: "Lex [Luger] is a good friend of one of my homies and he wanted to send me some music. I sent back 'Yoga Flame' and he was feeling it. He sent me that 'Smoking Good' record and we shot a video for that that's doing well. Mac Miller came through in the clutch; most of my tape was pretty much done. A lot of people came through at the end. This next project I'm doing I'm looking forward to being able to retell my memories of being able to sit down with people and work. I want to leave with those memories. 9th Wonder was through Rae. He heard my stuff when he came to Toronto and we connected from there. He is mad cool. 9th is one of the realest dudes to just sit and chop it up with. His music knowledge is crazy!"
On Being A New Artist: "It feels good to know that my country and the US are checking for me. I feel good to feel the love at all 35 shows I performed in the US, even from diehard Wu-Tang [Clan] crowds. I needed the process of paying dues. I feel like a lot of people get ahead of themselves. It's not so much that the opportunity came so fast. This is exactly how I would map it out and I feel like I am at a perfect stride right now. It feels good and as much work as I've done in Canada, I feel like a new artist in the US. It's a good energy. It keeps me hungry. It's good to have people paying attention to my project because I worked with several new Canadian artists and producers. My project is my perspective on Hip Hop. I listen to music from all over and that's my vibe. I can make a song like 'Yoga Flame' and still rock to some 9th Wonder shit and nothing feels out of place. That's what I like about my mixtape; everyone I play it for likes a different record. And I think that's how I intended it to be that way."
The Motto: "Over the years since we been grinding, my philosophy has always been for my immediate team is that if we don't do it ourselves it will not get done. I hope people feel that energy when they listen. There are no handouts in this game. I'm trying to take that energy and bring it back to my country and city and show them that it doesn't stop locally. If you want to take it to the next level you have to put the work in. Th1rte3n was more about me being a lyricist; No Handouts is about me being able to show I could make good songs. I wanted to put out a project that was versatile and that you could listen to front to back."
Older Gods: "Yes Wu-Tang is definitely a musical influence. In terms of my business decision, it was a great decision. But on a personal level, Rae and I just connected on a different level. I had the chance to chop it up with a lot of artists, talk face to face and it was a no-brainer for me. I'd rather work with someone who has my back rather than work with someone who doesn't make the time for me because they don't want to make the time for me. He did everything he said he was going to do and I feel good because I'm comfortable. He wants to see me win more than anything. It's crazy to have a legend care so much about my career. It's also dope for me because I get to watch Rae reinvent himself again. I know what he's done as an artist and everyone knows what Wu-Tang has done as a group but it's special for me to watch him grow on a business level and for me to be a part of it. That's priceless in itself."


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As a foreigner, I'm tempted to feel like the problems I've had with maids just don't happen to locals. However, as this series, "Maids from House-to-House," (in Arabic) illustrates, locals do seem to have just as many problems with their maids as foreigners do.
At the moment, I'm lucky to have a good maid. The other day my maid told me that about 80 percent of people she had worked for were bad; I replied that 80 percent of the maids I'd had were not good, either.
It's difficult having someone in your house to cook or clean. Aside from obvious risks such as stealing, you really bring a person with all of their personal problems into your home. When one recent maid we had did not do the work correctly and I asked her to do many things again, she told us that the reason she went to work was to get away from her mother who was always telling her that she wasn't doing things properly. She complained that she expected us not to do the same thing! We worked with her quite a while, with little improvement, and finally had to let her go.
One of the biggest problems is in trying to train someone to do tasks in the way you want, and not the way they may be used to. Some maids cannot understand what is wrong with using a hand to flip water from a bucket all over the room (getting the legs of your expensive wooden furniture wet). Others cannot understand why you don't want your expensive wooden furniture wiped down with a wet rag (completely destroys the finish). Others apparently wash the dishes as if they were wearing a blindfold, either don't get them clean, or chip all your cups and plates because they are not careful, or don't follow the procedures that you demonstrate and request. Most waste cleaning materials such as cleanser, soap, or steel wool pads; most destroy equipment such as brooms–after all they are not paying for it. Others lie all the time about work they claim to have done, but didn't. Others never wash their hands before working in the kitchen (except while you are watching).
Some maids do not keep themselves clean and even smell bad. When I told my North African sister-in-law that we want someone with personal hygiene, she told me that many women actually want to employ maids who are dirty and smelly, in order to keep their husbands from chasing after them!
Apparently there are quite a few maids who attempt to "steal away" the wife's husband, sometimes by using witchcraft. Many say, "An attractive maid could steal your husband." Some maids are believed to practice witchcraft. One foreign friend's Moroccan in-laws visited her home while she was traveling outside of the country, and found that her maid had put some kind of witchcraft object in the kitchen cupboard specifically designed to steal away her Moroccan husband. The in-laws fired the maid immediately.
Most maids have to be constantly supervised, either to make sure they are following the procedures you requested, and not doing as they please the minute you turn your back, or because they want to do as little work as possible. Finding someone who can look around and see what needs to be done, learn to do it the way you want it done, and who can do it without being supervised is a rare find.
On the humorous Arabic TV series about maids, some maids who try to help but who make terrible decisions on their own. Most maids gossip with other maids about their employers. Some maids are even crazy (and sometimes employers who are crazy).
So why have a maid? Life here is not organized to be able to work and take care of children on your own. It is assumed that people either have maids or plenty of unemployed family members who can do necessary tasks such as picking up children for lunch and taking them back to school, cooking the maid meal for the family at midday, or running errands to places that are only open normal working hours, such as paying a telephone or electric bill. A maid is supposed to buy you some time, but often it buys as much headache as anything else. If you are lucky enough to find a good maid, you want to hang on to her.
Maids, for Middle-Easterners, are also a status symbol. Many families who grow up not being able to afford a maid get one the very minute they reach the lower-middle class (especially in the cities). It's a way to announce that you have reached the middle class. In addition, the life of a middle-class working woman is not easy. Generally, many women do all the raising of the children and keeping of the house, IN ADDITION to working full-time, while their husband spends his time at his job, but has plenty of leisure time at the cafe or with friends. Middle-class working women have very little, or no, leisure time, and it's a way for them to get some time to themselves, or to spend with their children.
Upper-class women generally have two or three maids, a chauffeur, a gardener, and a guardian. It is the lifestyle everyone respects and aspires to.
–Lynne Diligent
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Spider-Man 3 Preview
Plopping down with the Xbox 360 version alongside a member of the game's staff, I was led through a variety of missions showcasing the multiple gameplay mechanics within Spider-Man 3. Among the first was a supposedly simple stealth-based mission, the goal of which was to obtain a photo of cash changing hands and prove the existence of corruption within the police department. A little cursor floating off in the distance showed the location of the deal, leaving me to sling my way across New York City.
As in Treyarch's home console versions of Spider-Man 2, there is something intrinsically satisfying about swinging around the large, open-structured city, jumping off the roof of a high structure, pulling the right trigger to shoot a web strand onto a nearby building and waiting until the height of Spider-Man's arc to place the next strand even higher.
Upon reaching my objective, the target marker was replaced by a "hot or cold" meter that shifted left or right depending on how close I came to my intended location. After briefly struggling with this imprecise mechanic, I made it to the site of the mission, where a quick cinematic ran me through the specifics of my next objective. Using Spider-Man's spider-sense ability--which acts like thermal vision, allowing players to see the shapes of foes through walls--I snuck past them to a designated location, brought up Spidey's camera with a quick button press, framed the shot, and then snapped a picture of the dirty money changing hands as it occurred.
At least, that is how it was supposed to go. In reality, my guide and I spent a significant chunk of time replaying the mission. The angle of the camera while crawling along the walls made it extremely difficult to discern Spider-Man's position relative to the nearby guards, and we would either get caught in our rush towards one of the designated spots or run out of time with the slower, more methodical approach. To be honest, the only reason I know of the mission's resolution is because I leaned back in my chair and watched a representative at another station complete it.
Another mission, which I experienced on the PlayStation 3 version, involves the classic villain Scorpion and highlights a mix of several different gameplay styles. It begins as Spider-Man infiltrates a heavily guarded facility where Scorpion is being held, leading to an all-out brawl against many security guards. Though Spider-Man 3's combat system consists of only two main attacks--heavy and light--a series of simple commands can translate to an elaborate on-screen combo. For example, a series of alternating right-left punches sways enemies from side to side, then a somersault kick puts them down for good. Part of the satisfaction here is due to the implementation of simulated weight--when I was playing, one defeated foe toppled backwards onto a slanted display case, after which the pull of gravity slowly brought his knees to the floor before pivoting the rest of his body forward and slamming it against the hard surface.
A brief stealth segment follows the skirmish, requiring players to crawl through a hallway filled with laser sensors. As with the previous wall-crawling segment, I had some issues due to the camera angle, making it difficult to properly judge my surroundings.
The next section, in which Scorpion enters the picture, came as a complete surprise to me. In the story, researchers at the facility where Scorpion is being held have been attempting experiments involving remote mind control, and at the point when this mission takes place Spider-Man himself is controlling Scorpion remotely, meaning the player essentially gets to fight as Scorpion. Activating a nearby console triggers a brief mini-game, in which the villain defends himself against an ever-increasing number of security guards. Combat has a feeling of great power to it, a single button press causing Scorpion's metallic tail to lash from side to side and knock down all those within range. After tackling a certain number of guards, control returns to Spider-Man.
At that point, a hallway of laser sensors stands between Spider-Man and Scorpion. Eschewing the manual wall-crawling mechanics, the game presents Spider-Man's laser-dodging as an interactive cutscene. While Spidey jumps from wall to wall, a series of directions or buttons quickly appears on screen. The proper input activates a series of increasingly spectacular stunts, beginning with wall hops and finishing with narrow aerial twists through two very close lasers, a move quite reminiscent of the Spider-Man films. The game's development teams noted that they studied the camera movements and cinematography of the movies to capture their feel and replicate it within the game. Meanwhile, hitting the wrong input, as I often did, causes Spider-Man to fail and try again.
Turn the page for more on Spider-Man 3._PAGE_BREAK_ When Spider-Man finally comes face to face with Scorpion, a multi-stage boss fight begins. Due to Scorpion's speed, most of Spidey's attacks are useless, forcing a reliance on counterattacks instead. A yellow streak appears on screen alongside Scorpion's action to indicate they can be blocked and countered with a well-timed series of button presses--a tap of the block button upon sighting the streak, then a quick press of the button indicated above the enemy's head. The resulting counterattack matches the rest of the combat system, its simple input activating an elaborate maneuver.
Once Scorpion sustains sufficient damage, the battling duo bursts through a wall and plummets to the streets below in an interactive cutscenes, trading blows in mid-air. The transition from an interior environment to the wide open city sets up the next phase of battle, in which Spider-Man must chase after the now-free Scorpion. Just as I drew close enough to think I had him my sights, he would slam his tail into the ground with such force that it sent cars flying in Spidey's general direction, the resulting interactive cutscene rewarding players with either impressive acrobatics or a not-so-satisfying splat. Unfortunately, my time with the game drew to a close before I could finish the fight.
The Wii version of Spider-Man 3, developed by Vicarious Visions, also incorporates similiar interactive cutscenes. Utilizing the Wii Remote and Nunchuck's motion-sensing capabilites, they instead require players to perform the movements indicated on-screen, as seen by tilting the remote left to dodge an oncoming punch from Harry Osborne or trusting it upwards to avoid a low kick while Peter Parker and Harry battled on a narrow hoverglider platform.
Like its film counterpart, the Spider-Man 3 game introduces Spider-Man's black suit. While in the black suit, a result of his pairing with the symbiote Venom, Spidey's attacks become more aggressive and more brutal as the symbiote threatens to overtake him. The Wii version allows the player to switch between Spider-Man's traditional red and blue outfit and his new black suit at any time by hitting left on the d-pad and following certain on-screen motions. Staying in black suit form confers great additional power and combat effectiveness, but choosing to stay in it for too long will start to have a detrimental effect Spider-Man's health. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions do not provide manual control over the costume, instead assigning the proper suit based on the mission at hand. According to an Activision representative, around 60% of the PS3 and 360 missions take place while wearing the traditional Spider-Man costume with the remaining 40% featuring the black suit variant.
Web-slinging in the Wii version makes use of the motion sensitivity of the Wii remote and nunchuk. By holding down the B trigger on the remote and flicking it to the right, players can shoot out webbing from Spider-Man's right wrist, attaching it to the side of a building. Performing a similar motion with the Nunchuck results in a strand of webbing emerging from Spider-Man's left hand. The end result is that players end up literally swinging their way through the city. The web strands shoot off in the direction that the controller is flicked, which can lead to some aiming frustrations before the system is learned.
As for combat, those that have played the Wii version of Raven Software and Vicarious Visions' Marvel: Ultimate Alliance will find that the execution of Spider-Man 3's two-level attack system borrows heavily from it. Shaking the Wii remote triggers Spider-Man's normal assaults, and a press of the A button activates a stronger attack. Unlike in Marvel, this strong attack can also be carried out by moving the nunchuck downards. Mixing normal and strong attacks into combos produces the most effective results--a few normal hits daze an enemy while a few heavy attacks help take him down.
However, there are also signs that the Wii version of Spider-Man 3 may suffer the same pitfalls as the system's version of Ultimate Alliance, as such sporadic movements can be rather imprecise. As a representative urged me to execute a heavy attack, I struggled as Spider-Man kept performing regular attacks, perhaps due to my previous motions or inadvertantly caused by some slight movements on my end. Furthermore, there appeared to be a rather large disconnect between the Remote's movement and the actions Spider-Man actually performed--I was merely shaking the controller to activate a preset animation, not performing the move itself.
Though I encountered some decidedly rough spots in my time with Treyarch's PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Spider-Man 3, they were fortunately accompanied by some solid enhancements over previous Spider-Man games. Compared to Spider-Man 2, the variety of in-games missions appears to have been significantly increased and the combat system revised, all while retaining the enjoyable web swinging--a series of improvements that should delight Spider-Man fans. The control problems of the Wii are a bit more concerning, but the foundation is there--especially with motion-based web swinging--for a rather unique Spider-Man experience. Hopefully Vicarious Visions can get the kinks worked out by the simultaneous release of the games and film on May 4th.
Spider-Man 3 is being developed by Treyarch for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, by Beenox Studios for PC, and by Vicarious Visions for Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS (preview), PSP, and Game Boy Advance.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today issued the following statement on The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009 Trial Urban District Assessment, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) at Grades 4 and 8:
"Today's results show that our nation's biggest cities are continuing to make progress. Since NAEP first started reporting results for urban districts six years ago, most participating cities have produced significant gains in one or both grades assessed. This is good news.
"But the rate of change isn't fast enough to prepare urban children to succeed in college and the workplace. President Obama has committed unprecedented resources for reform. We are working to get great teachers in classrooms and great leaders in schools. We're supporting states' work to create standards and assessments that measure whether students are prepared for success in colleges and careers. We're helping states build data systems to track whether students are meeting those standards. And we're turning around our lowest-performing schools.
"Today's results remind us that our urban schools need to accelerate student achievement. But we know from state-by-state NAEP results all of our schools need to improve. People across the country need to work together to create the schools that all of America's children deserve, regardless of their income, race, religion, or zip code."


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News & Notes: Game 48 & 49, again
Saturday, May 28, 2011 (Game 1: 1:05 p.m.) – Coca-Cola Field
Radio: WWKB AM 1520, bisons.com
Buffalo Bisons (20-27, 5th(-9.0), North)
G1: RHP D.J. Carrasco (1-2, 4.85) vs.
G2: RHP Josh Stinson (2-4, 6.02)
Gwinnett Braves (24-21, 2nd(-1.0), South)
G1: RHP Erik Cordier (NR)
G2: LHP Yohan Flande (2-0, 4.26)
TODAY'S GAME: This afternoon, the Bisons take on the Gwinnet Braves in the first two games of a four-game series from Coca-Cola Field (G1: 1:05 p.m.). With rainouts on Thursday and Friday night, the Herd and Braves will play back-to-back doubleheaders this weekend. Buffalo is 13-13 at home this season, having split all four series they've played at Coca-Cola Field.
VS. THE BRAVES: Today's games are the Bisons first contests against the Gwinnett this season. Buffalo won the season series, 5-3, last year and is 7-3 in their last 10 games against the Braves dating back to 2009. Buffalo has a win and three splits over Gwinnett in the two years of the franchise's existence.
FOUR INTO TWO: The last time the Bisons had back-to-back doubleheaders on their schedule was August 20-21, 2009 against Syracuse. The Herd and Chiefs split each twinbill, highlighted by the shortest game in Coca-Cola Field history on August 20(2) -Bisons' LHP KEN TAKAHASHI complete-game 2-0 win in one hour and 21 minutes. When all four games to begin the 2007 season between the Bisons and Richmond Braves were snowed out, the teams played back-to-back doubleheaders on June 9-10 at The Diamond with Richmond winning three of four over Buffalo.
HEY MR D.J.: RHP D.J. CARRASCO will be making his sixth start with the Bisons tonight. The veteran has not allowed more than three earned runs in any of his previous five outings. Carrasco is coming off a loss on May 20 in Indianapolis in a game he allowed just three runs in six innings of work. Carrasco has worked six innings in each of his past two outings.
ROSTER SHUFFLE: There was plenty of action yesterday despite no games being played. The Bisons welcomed OF LUCAS DUDA off the disabled list. The slugger missed 14 games with a mid back strain. The Mets selected the contract of RHP DALE THAYER and activated OF ANGEL PAGAN off his MLB injury rehab assignment. The Mets also announced they have optioned OF FERNANDO MARTINEZ to the Bisons with the outfielder expected to join the Herd in the next few days.
METS UPDATE: The Mets (23-27) lost to Philadelphia last night, 6-4, despite taking a 3-2 lead into the eighth inning. Former Bisons INF JUSTIN TURNER had his first career four-hit game in the majors as New York outhit the Phillies, 14-11. The Mets will host the Phillies again tonight at 7:10 p.m.


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If you are reading this, Dan Patrick, let's clear the air on this interview nonsense right away. To put it bluntly, last year you snubbed me. You were the only player at the Lake Tahoe American Century Golf Championship to do so — I even talked with Mike Schmidt. Mike freakin' Schimdt.
So as you know, this year's event begins on Thursday, and I'll be there once again. And so will you; and for once you'll actually have something substantial to talk about. So let's agree to meet on the practice tees on Thursday, say, 10-ish? I'll bring the notepad, you bring the dry wit. Then we can finally put this ugly incident behind us.
Unless of course Lucas Black happens to show up then.
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Paul McCartney Is On A Roll This Week
A day after performing at a New York City high school, the ex-Beatle surprised fans Thursday with an impromptu concert in Times Square.
McCartney announced the concert on Twitter and then arrived by taxi at the "Crossroads of the World" an hour later.
Despite the short notice, thousands of fans flocked to the busy midtown-Manhattan intersection for the lunchtime concert.
The 71-year-old rocker sang four songs from his latest album "New" from a trailer parked on West 46th Street and Broadway.
He joked: "Let's do this the same time tomorrow."
On Wednesday, McCartney performed and took questions from students at the Frank Sinatra High School in Queens. He was also celebrating his second wedding anniversary with Nancy Shevell.


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If you're thinking about using Pinterest for the first time, it's always good to have an idea of what you want to collect. Are you trying to lose weight and need some fitness tips? Are you planning a wedding and need some ideas? Are you about to have a baby and don't know how to design your nursery? All these are reasons to start browsing Pinterest and adding things to your "Board" - or basically your page.
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Everybody knows what a console application is like: Sparse. Unfriendly. Terse. Mute. Spartan. It's part of the code of console applications. If it has a drop-down menu or a configuration dialogue, you're being spoiled. If it has some sort of splash screen, then you need to pinch yourself and make sure you're not dreaming. If it is managable without an rc file, you should rub your eyes and make sure you're not using Gnome.
It has to be this way. It is the law of the jungle. Console applications cannot take the time to help the user catch up. Console applications slice through the visual and reach the core of the matter, and if you can't figure out how to configure or use them through experimentation, intuition or telepathy, then you're better off going back to your GUI.
That's why we, as computer users, can no longer allow a program like calcurse to exist.
What is this? A cleanly divided, clearly arranged user interface? A colorful, intuitive and attractive startup screen? Logical one-key commands and configuration options accessible through a dialogue menu?
This will never do. It is because of renegades and nonbelievers such as calcurse that computer users are becoming duller and insipid-er, less intuitive and more automatonic, less geeky and more funky.
No, no, no. calcurse is too easily configured for the average console program. It is too easy to arrange its options as you like, while you use it. It is too attractive, and has too many adjustable points — like color schemes! — to allow it to continue to propagate.
Disseminating a program like calcurse means other programs, like the immensely complex and hideously intricated oleo, will be cast aside in favor of colorful, adjustable, efficient and friendly alternatives. From there, it is a slippery slope. More dimwitted and ill-mannered users will demand console applications that are "pretty" and "fun to use." Soon everyone will be using console applications, even junior high school boys.
And this can only lead to a mass-dumbing-down of computer users on the whole. Regular, everyday, average people will use console applications. Console applications will be available and accessible at every corner store, and in faraway lands where they do not have the most expensive and high-end systems available at inflated prices.
Friends, I implore you, as geeks, pseudogeeks, geek wannabes and educated computer enthusiasts: Eschew calcurse. Do not install it. Remove it from your ports tree or your /var/cache/apt/archives. Leave disparaging remarks about it on icanhascheezburger.com. Post lewd videos of it on YouTube. It threatens the future of computing, the future of console application superiority — and even the human race. 👿
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P.P.S.: Yes, I do actually try the applications you suggest, as this should prove. Now, where's my working port for abook … ?


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Daytona Beach, FL – Paint Sprayer Mag has announced the launch of its online reviews guide for paint spraying products and techniques. The online paint sprayer magazine offers blog posts on how to find the best paint sprayer for particular needs and as well as the top 5 of 50 relevant equipment recommended for paint spraying enthusiasts.
"To put it in short, our mission is to help you master your paint sprayer without having to go through a long learning curve," said a company representative, James Ikner. The paint spraying magazine provides how to's, news, and reviews of the newest models on the market to help match paint spraying lovers with the best options for their projects. "On this site you will find reviews, buying guides, and other tips that will help you make an informed decision when choosing the right paint spraying equipment for you," he said.
Paint Sprayer Mag (https://paintsprayermag.com/) publishes a range of paint spraying how to videos, articles, news, tutorials, and reviews that spray paint enthusiasts need to know in planning their future projects. Tutorial videos and articles can be found on the website, including topics like how to prepare a wall for painting, the pros and cons of using HVLP Paint Sprayer & Airless Paint Sprayer, tips on using paint rollers like a pro, common paint spraying mistakes, etc. The reviews and buying guides are written by paint spraying enthusiasts. Paint Sprayer Mag is part of Amazon Services' Associates Program, an advertising program that allows sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.
Paint Sprayer Mag provides reviews of standard paint sprayers, airless paint sprayers, HVLP paint sprayers, indoor paint sprayers, latex paint sprayers, paint sprayers for kitchen cabinets, and other latest equipment. High Volume Low Pressure Paint Sprayers, HVLP, are very efficient in getting the job done. They use less paint and leave less of a mess, saving money and time. The Fuji 2203G Semi-PRO 2 is the number 1 HVLP paint sprayer reviewed on their website.
Paint Sprayer Mag is an online paint spraying review site with its office located at 3503 Willis Ave. Daytona Beach, FL. For information about publishing or marketing concerns, interested personnel may contact them via phone at 386-271-2456, or by email at email@example.com. For paint spray how-tos and reviews, visit them at https://paintsprayermag.com/.
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The Library is located in the Administration & Research Center of The Morton Arboretum, southwest of the Visitor Center (a short walk). Library patron parking is available in the parking lot adjacent to the Administration & Research Center.
The Morton Arboretum will be temporarily closed through May 31 as an additional measure to slow the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The proactive, full closure of the Arboretum's site is to ensure social distancing in support of public health. The safety and wellbeing of Arboretum visitors and employees are top priority.
The Sterling Morton Library is temporarily closed and staff are working offsite. We are available by email and ready to help with your research questions. Please send your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com or call 630-719-2429. We look forward to hearing from you!
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The Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Company (ADWEC) has been using @RISK from Palisade Corporation for several years to help forecast water demand until 2030.
Abu Dhabi relies almost completely on desalinated seawater for its potable water requirements. The desalination process is challenging in terms of operation, costs, and environmental impact. ADWEC must forecast as accurately as possible the demand for water and electricity across the Emirate in order to plan for the optimum expansion as well as the efficient and effective use of water production plants.
Required by the Regulation and Supervision Bureau, the regulatory body of Abu Dhabi, to use a risk-based methodology to assess the water demand and required capacity, ADWEC selected @RISK from Palisade in 2006. The program has enabled ADWEC to model all feasible uncertainties in the variables that determine the quantity of water required over specific timescales, such as per capita water consumption rates and the rate of population growth.
The variables input into the model are based on the water demand categories such as domestic, agricultural and industrial. Factors with inherent uncertainties that affect the demand forecast outcome and must be modeled include: seasonal variation, distillers' unplanned outages, water losses, population growth rates and demand for housing.
By undertaking risk analysis of the variables involved in assessing demand and supply, ADWEC minimizes the potential for water production capacity to be over- or under-deployed. While over-production capacity is expensive, at the other end of the scale it is essential that Abu Dhabi has sufficient water production capacity to support the Abu Dhabi government development plan (Abu Dhabi Plan 2030).
Mohammad Al-Hajjiri, head of the Water Forecasting section in ADWEC's Planning and Studies Directorate, explains: "In Abu Dhabi, potable water is a scarce resource and we depend on seawater desalination for producing it. So we need to plan its production carefully. @RISK, which is easy to use and provides us with a comprehensive set of tools, enables us to be confident in our forecasts. The high degree of accuracy it enables ensures that we provide a reliable and cost-effective source of potable water over a wide range of demand scenarios."


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The curve is a form that exists in nature but can also be manipulated to be abstract. I was fascinated by the different effects you could achieve with a simple curve. — Ellsworth Kelly
Throughout his fifty-year career, Ellsworth Kelly's art reflects his fascination with form as it presents itself to him on a daily basis, whether it be the shape of a shadow, an architectural detail, the curve of a hill, or the edge of a leaf. During the early 1960s, Kelly was particularly intrigued by the character of curved forms, leading him to explore the transformational qualities of various curves, using both color and edge to divide the ground of the canvas. Of critical importance to Kelly was that the curved form not appear as a figure sitting on or against a background, but rather be an integral segment of the surface of the image as a whole. Curved Red on Blue consists of an enigmatic red curve dividing an otherwise blue canvas. The canvas barely contains the red form, which pushes against all four edges of the canvas. Although the form initially appears as a question mark without its dot, and it relates to the various plant stems the artist would draw around the same time, it is difficult to identify the exact source of the curve. Kelly has acknowledged Curved Red on Blue as a seminal work that opened up a career-long investigation of the curve and its transformational possibilities.


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Because, until now, I never thought I'd find a candidate I could support.
You may remember last week, when I ranted about those damn election signs and ended with this comment:
"On a side note, I strongly believe in the political theory proposed in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" that anyone who actually wants to be President/Prime Minister/Chief Goombah so badly to run for the office is automatically too insane to hold the job. We need to find a way to identify the person who is least interested in the job, and then put them in charge. Just don't let them figure out what they're really doing."
When I wrote that I had no idea such a being existed. And then, yesterday afternoon, I realized one did. And therefore, I openly declare my support for Paul (no, not Ron Paul).
Yes, Paul the Octopus.
Now, some of you may be questioning the wisdom of an invertebrate mollusk taking charge of things, but lets face it: how much worse could he do?
Paul has a remarkable track record, especially considering he's only 2 years old. In this year's World Cup he predicted 7 matches with 100% accuracy. Overall, his lifetime accuracy is 86%. In that regard he's beaten all of his competitors, including Mani the parakeet and Petty the hippo. You also have to consider that Paul hasn't been wrong since June 29, 2008- how many politicians can make that claim?
Paul has shown a remarkable knack for guessing the correct solutions to international disputes- without any military force involved. Isn't it time we had a leader like this?
Paul fits the key criteria for someone who doesn't want the job. As far as I can tell from detailed research (okay, 10 minutes on Wikipedia) Paul's main ambitions in life are food and a female octopus: not money, fame, or a book deal.
Some may express concerns over Paul being from Germany, given the events of the last century. But it should be noted that Paul was hatched in England, and has voted against Germany in some soccer matches. He has no innate prejudices against any race or ethnicity (except for snails, crabs, and clams, which he eats).
So I hereby express my support to elect Paul the Octopus as Leader of the World. I suggest some slogans:
Don't be shellfish! Vote for Paul!
The true centrist (right in 4 limbs, left in 4 limbs, body in the center).
His hearts (all 3) are in the right place.
Support Paul! An invertebrate with backbone!


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Dell's Linux Engineering team, based in Austin, TX, is hiring a Senior Principal Engineer. This role is one I've previously held and enjoyed greatly – ensuring that Linux (all flavors) "just works" on all Dell PowerEdge servers. It is as much a relationship role (working closely with Dell and partner hardware teams, OS vendors and developers, internal teams, and the greater open source community) as it is technical (device driver work, OS kernel and userspace work). If you're a "jack of all trades" in Linux and looking for a very senior technical role to continue the outstanding work that ranks Dell at the top of charts for Linux servers, we'd love to speak with you.
The formal job description is on Dell's job site. If you'd like to speak with me personally about it, drop me a line.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 25, 2009) - The ETSU volleyball team will look to its third straight conference match as the Bucs host Campbell Friday at 7 p.m. in Brooks Gym.
The Bucs (5-8, 4-1 A-Sun) dropped a heart breaker to Appalachian State after picking up two big conference wins this past weekend defeating Kennesaw State 3-1 and Mercer 3-0 on the road. The Bucs are led by Amanda Youell (Middleburg, Fla.) who is second in the A-Sun with 450 assists.
ETSU is 5-1 all-time against Campbell as the Bucs have won five-straight against the Camels including two wins in 2008.
Campbell (8-5, 3-1 A-Sun) comes into the match having won its last three conference matches against Stetson, Mercer and Kennesaw State. The Camels dropped a non-conference match to East Carolina earlier in the week, 3-1. Campbell is led by Emily Werner who has 126 kills on the season.
The match can be seen live on ASun.TV by clicking the link above. For more information on Buccaneer volleyball and all other athletic news, please visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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Everyone wants the latest version of what already works. We had The Web (let's call it Web 1.0), but it wasn't good enough, so we came up with Web 2.0. SEO has been successful and continues to be successful for those who understand it, but it's apparently not good enough. So now we have "SEO 2.0" being pushed, which is supposed to be to SEO what Web 2.0 was to The Web.
Isn't SEO a part of Web 1.0 and by default a part of Web 2.0? Many would say that several components of Web 2.0 would be classified as advanced SEO strategies, yet some would say they are SEM strategies. Maybe that's the problem; we don't know SEO (optimization of the site) from SEM - all of the other related search marketing components, including Web 2.0 strategies such as blogging & Social Media Marketing, or maybe its because the lines are often crossed or confused by many (i.e. discussing the SEO of a blog which is a Web 2.0 component).
Is it time for a true standards organizing body for the SEM industry? Sure we can all agree as to what are good SEO/SEM practices, but I am speaking of something formal (perhaps the W3C will adopt SEO standards? - kidding). We, in the industry, use lots of terms coined by industry experts, pseudo experts, any anyone who wants to make an impact on the industry and has a voice, and now we have SEM 2.0 in the air as it hasn't fully caught in the mainstream.
I recently read an article written by one of the biggest proponents of SEO 2.0 who stated, "Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as we know and detest it is obsolete in this day and age". Here is my problem with this statement. If we look at SEO as an evolving standard or best practices for building search engine friendly websites, then is isn't dead or obsolete; at least not as long as we have web sites. In fact, if we can agree that SEO is about best practices, then as the practices evolve, we can have new versions, but is it the practice of SEO that is evolving, as in a new way to optimize web sites for search engines? I don't think so. Lastly, if we truly detest SEO (and those that know its value and how to use it don't), why do we want a version 2.0 of it?
That's my 2.0 cents on the topic, I'd love to hear yours.


text: Consider your mirror image. It can move. You can see it eat. It reacts to being poked with a stick. It can reproduce with other people's mirror image. If anything else did these things, we would say it was alive. Yet, we call our mirror image dead. What do you think? And no appeals to "commons sense" or other silliness.


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The Society for Acupuncture Research seeks abstracts for their 2010 conference
The Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR), in which Dr. Jongbae J. Park, a faculty member of the Dept. of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, serves as a Board of Directors, invites researchers and practitioners to submit abstracts to their 2010 Conference by August 1, 2009, and register to attend
By creating dynamic bridges between laboratory experiments, clinical trials and "real world" clinical practice, the primary goal of translational research is to speed the application of basic and clinical research findings to patient care. This conference will explore effective strategies for advancing translational research as it applies to acupuncture and will focus on addressing paradoxes emerging from the research evidence to date.
- Leading researchers in the field from the U.S. and abroad will be invited to give keynote and panel presentations assessing recent progress, challenges and opportunities for future research
- Members of the national and international acupuncture research communities will also present original data in three major areas: clinical research, basic science and research methodology
- Key issues will be addressed in panel discussions, break-out sessions, and poster sessions
- Pre-conference workshops will focus on fundamentals of Oriental medicine (OM) research for practitioners, students, and educators new to this field.
Abstracts are solicited for presentations in the areas of clinical research, basic science and research methodology pertaining to acupuncture, as well as other components of OM including traditional herbs, tai qi, and qi gong.
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Dir/scr: Haider Rashid. Iraq-Italy-Kuwait-UAE. 2012. 107mins
Italy-set drama It's About To Rain (Sta Per Piovere) trawls familiar territory – an immigrant family fighting against authorities determined to expel them from the country they have lived in for years – with a certain well-meaning style, and while it is an oft-told story, writer-director Haider Rashid focuses on emotions rather than politics and delivers a subtly engrossing story.
Writer/director/producer Haider Rashid directs with a sure hand, never resorting to simplistic over-emotional moments and allowing his characters a real sense of dignity in amidst the awful events happening to them.
The film, which had its world premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival, features an impressive lead performance from newcomer Lorenzo Baglioni as a young man born in Florence, who works in a bakers, is a fanatical supporter of the Italy football team but whose life is torn apart when his father, an Algerian who has never sorted residency in the country, loses his job and is told he and his family will be expelled from Italy.
The story may well be a familiar one, but it is simply and empathetically told and builds nicely without resorting to any shrill melodrama, allowing the absurdity and sadness of the situation the family finds themselves in drive the drama.
Said Mahran (Baglioni) has a nice life. He enjoys his job and the banter with his co-workers, is in love with girlfriend Giulia (Giulia Rupi) and hopes to marry here, and is loyal to his father Hamid (Mohamed Hanifi) and brother Amir (Amir Ati). But life is turned upside down when his father loses his job at a leather factory.
For reasons never made clear to anyone, his father had never been granted residency, and despite the fact that his two sons had been born in Florence they have to apply for visas every few years. With Hamid's job gone the entire family is faced with having to leave for Algeria. Angry and upset Said initially tries to take his story to the media, but gradually starts to accept his plight
In a powerful scene Said paints his face with Italian colours to stand and watch the European Championship football final between Italy and Spain, with this sequence intercut with footage of the depressed managing director of his father's leather factory looking to commit suicide, driven by a pounding and evocative music track.
Writer/director/producer Haider Rashid directs with a sure hand, never resorting to simplistic over-emotional moments and allowing his characters a real sense of dignity in amidst the awful events happening to them.
Production companies: Radical Plans, Beyond Dreams Productions, Dubai Entertainment & Media Organisation
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Producer: Haider Rashid
Executive producers: Abdullah Boushahri, Donald Ranvaud
Cinematography: Alessio Valori
Editor: Haider Rashid
Music: Tom Donald
Main cast: Lorenzo Baglioni, Mohamed Hanifi, Giulia Rupi, Amir Ati, Michael Alexanian


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The latest issue of French History offers an illuminating article by the legal historian David Feutry on the difficulties of researching judicial cases from the Parlement of Paris, an important judicial appellate body during the Ancien Régime. The Parlement's defense of aristocratic privileges and corruption has influenced French thinking about the the proper role of the judicial branch since the French Revolution.
Feutry explains that the organization of the Parlement's documents and finding aids and the often labyrinthine procedural histories of the cases make researching the files a daunting task.
"It is a complex business to find a case or judgment in the registers of the Parlement. Not only is the date of a decision required, but the way in which the matter was decided; something brought for a hearing might have been through every stage, from hearing right through to a final decision by one of the chambers of Inquests. In that case different stages of its progress would be recorded separately in all the series of the Parlement's records." … "a case is unlikely to be found in a single user friendly archival unit."
In addition to the complexity of Parlement registers, the author reminds us that fires and deliberative destruction destroyed many valuable records.The article also provides an excellent diagram showing the many different paths a case could take through the chambers of the Parlement of Paris.
The Historian's Mountain of Paper: the Parlement of Paris and the Analysis of Civil Suits in the Eighteenth Century
David Feutry
translated by Bill Doyle
26 French History 277 (2012)


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