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To support the Governors urgings for people to stay home and maintain safe social distancing, Powder Mountain will be closing for skinning and hiking effective immediately for the next two weeks.
We will evaluate reopening at the end of this critical two week period. This includes any and all types of recreation on mountain.
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
Powder Mountain operates on and is surrounded entirely by private property and reserves the right to restrict terrain access at its own discretion. Terrain access is regulated through a series of signs, rope lines, gates and points of entry; all erected and maintained in the interest of public safety. Violating Powder Mountain boundary lines can result in long, strenuous, cold and dark search and rescue efforts in areas that most often do not have cell service. Traveling beyond the marked area boundary or going under any rope at any time is a violation of the Powder Mountain Boundary Policy and will not be tolerated. Violators may lose lift privileges and may be turned over to the Weber County Sheriff.
The Powder Mountain Snow Safety Department is responsible for controlling access to avalanche terrain and actively reducing avalanche danger. Avalanche mitigation within the area boundary reduces, but does not eliminate, the possibility of avalanches occurring. Access to avalanche terrain is regulated through a series of rope lines, signs and gates. Travel into avalanche terrain is only permissible through open avalanche gates. At times of elevated or increasing avalanche hazard these gates will be closed. When the hazard decreases or is actively mitigated gates may be reopened at the discretion of the Snow Safety Team. Travel into closed avalanche terrain is a violation of Weber County Ordinances Chapter 22 § 109-22-01 and Chapter 4, §14-3-5 through §14-3-10. Violators will lose lift privileges and/or will be turned over to the Weber County Sheriff.
Powder Mountain road is steep and can be a challenge to drive. Please do not pass vehicles on the road. When attempting to drive the road in snowy conditions, it is required that you have 4-wheel drive and snow tires. While descending the road, downshift into low gears to control your speed and avoid overheating your vehicles brakes. Always bear in mind that we provide bus service in conjunction with UTA so consider leaving the driving to a professional.
Powder Mountain does not permit skiing or riding with child carriers.
Powder Mountain requires all packs be removed prior to loading a lift and carried on the riders lap.
Powder Mountain only allows uphill travel in designated areas and along approved routes. Uphill travel is permitted in the Lefty's Ski and Skin area, along the cat track for Lightning Ridge, up to the peak of James Peak and up the cat track in Raintree. Terrain must be open for skiing and riding and may not be accessed when closed or outside resort operating hours. A lift ticket or season pass is required when skiing or riding on any Powder Mountain property regardless of whether you intend to ride a lift.
When our winter resort operations end, uphill traffic is now allowed on Powder Mountain property during the shoulder season. Please respect Powder Mountain property and be wary of resort vehicles. This is a backcountry experience at your own risk, with no patrol or avalanche mitigation services offered. Avalanche training and gear are encouraged. Do not interfere with or load ski lifts. In the event of an emergency, call 911. For more information see Utah Recreation Code 57-14-2.
Recreational drone and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle use by any guest or member of the public, for any reason, is not permitted on or over any Powder Mountain property. Commercial drone Unmanned Aerial Vehicle use is by permission only and must receive prior written consent from Powder Mountain management. All requests for approval of commercial drone use should be directed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Equipment: Equipment used will be designed for and fit for the intended purpose.
• Equipment should be designed for or fit for use by people on the snow.
• Skis or boards must have appropriate construction including metal edges.
• Attachments, pivots, connections must all be engineered solutions.
• An anti-runaway device (Leash) or restraint attached between the device and the rider (either with a breakaway link or removable when on chair lifts) must be present.
• An anti-drop device or restraint attached between the device and the chairlift (not attached to the rider) must be present for use on chairlifts where applicable (i.e. where the device can physically
become separated from the rider and the chair and potentially be dropped).
* Chairlift safety bar must be used when transporting skibikes
No cut off skis with exposed square ends, unfinished fabrication or unnecessary protrusions.
• The device design should accommodate an acceptable rider solution for use on common ski lift types without impeding on the normal operation of the facility. The riders must be able to self-load and unload without slowing the lift down. The rider must sit on an outside position on the chair and must be able to slide/ride off the lift at the same pace as other customers, not walk off the ramp and not interfere with other guests. Foot traffic is not allowed on Powder Mountain lifts.
• The device must not be motorized for use with traditional ski/snowboard users.
Rider Skills: Just like our ski and snowboard riding customers, snowbike riders must obey the NSAA Responsibility Code.
1. People ahead of you have the right of way. It is your responsibility to avoid them.
2. You must not stop where you obstruct a trail or are not visible from above.
3. Whenever starting downhill or merging into a trail, look uphill and yield to others.
4. Always use devices to help prevent runaway equipment.
5. Observe all posted signs and warnings. Keep off closed trails and out of closed areas.
6. Prior to using any lift, you must have the knowledge and ability to load, ride and unload safely.
The rider must also be able to demonstrate a safe and acceptable solution for ski lift loading and
unloading that is within the parameters of the ski lift design and operating standards which does
not impede on other users. Rider must slide down the offloading ramp, not walk when getting off the lift.
Area Limitations: No skibikes or other non-traditional equipment on the Timberline lift, Powder Country Shuttle or Snow Cats.
Rider Knowledge: The rider will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the resorts normal safe
skiing/riding policy for ski/snow bike use specific to the Powder Mountain.
• The rider must understand the resorts usual safe skiing and riding policy.
• The rider must know any and all safe use requirements specific to their equipment.
• The rider should demonstrate safe riding practices and awareness of other mountain users in
their immediate vicinity at all times.
A violation of this policy will result in your ski/snow bike riding privileges being revoked with no refund issued.
Powder Mountain Ski Patrol reserves the right to stop the activity that they deem dangerous to the customer or other customers. You must always obey their directions.
Powder Mountain loves dogs but for the safety of our guests we do not permit them to ride the lifts or use the ski trails. Dogs are allowed in other outdoor public areas but must be on a leash and owners are required to clean up after their dogs.
Test your backcountry skills near the entrance of Powder Country with the BCA Beacon Park.


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text: Law Office This project was developed simultaneously with the construction of the building in which the office is located. Thanks to this, we were able to fully customize the space for future use. The owner of the company wanted to make commercial space from his residential unit – a law office. It was very important to create a space that reflected the company's respect for the right values, in which the clients will feel comfortable and employees will enjoy working. Bearing this in mind, the whole space is decorated in a classic style, in a warm oak color, which at the same time emphasizes the seriousness of the company and provides a welcoming sense. The space consists of an entrance hall turned into a waiting room with two chairs and a lovely coffee table, dominated by a decoratively coated pillar with the logo of the office. There are places for three persons in the trainee office and a large case cabinet. Two law offices are equipped with comfortable furniture for both employees and clients. Ergonomically designed armchairs in a brown leather fit perfectly into the room. The office of the director was very challenging to solve because of the large construction column in the space. Instead of trying to hide it, we designed it as a central motif, decorated with plaques and diplomas that confirm the competence of the entire team. Opposite the column is a cabinet in the niche. There is also a library with a TV and a specially designed conference table for 4 persons connected to the director's table. The kitchen, combined with wood and a bright MDF follows the waiting room in the same style. Equipped with two rings, a sink and a built-in refrigerator which provides a place for a break for the team during busy hours. Offices are equipped with luxurious solid oak furniture, wooden wall coverings and elements with a lot of space for storage and archiving objects. Project detailsLike:0Date:04/17/201902/10/2020Categories:Architecture & InteriorAuthor:Branka


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Distract what? Mueller? he's the only one that would matter right now. So what is being distracted, exactly?
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After "Strike Back" and "Banshee," Cinemax is making a real attempt at high profile original content with "The Knick." Created and written by Jack Amiel and Michael Bengler and, most importantly, directed by Steven Soderbergh, "The Knick" tries to be a definitive Tortured Anti-Hero show, but the most interesting developments are with the tortured heroes.
The Knickerbocker Hospital, located in Harlem at the turn of the 20th century, houses all of the soap opera-esque drama of "The Knick." Clive Owen returns to television after a long absence to play brilliant but troubled (and cocaine addicted) Chief Surgeon John Thackery. As we are often told but rarely shown, Dr. Thackery is the best. Even the best doctor in the city cannot save the hospital from financial woes, however, so to appease the hospital's most generous benefactor – an African-American doctor named Dr. Edwards (Andre Holland) – is made Assistant Chief Surgeon. This sets everything off.
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"The Knick," both the show and the location, sprawls in every direction. Unfortunately, Dr. Thackery isn't compelling enough to hold everything together. Clive Owen sells the Hell out of him, but he feels assembled to fit the standard Tortured Genius mold. He will be an asshole for nearly an entire episode or, as in the pilot, afflicted with cocaine withdrawl. When the time comes for him to be the hero at the end of the episode he's there, exactly like we knew he would. Once he gets out of the way the more interesting aspects of "The Knick" come to light. Not all of the myriad of plots are riveting, but Sister Harriet's B-story of her being an abortionist during such volatile times is compelling, and Dr.Edwards' experiences in the racially charged New York of the1900s is fantastic and sickening to witness.
Many period dramas address the racism of the past, but "The Knick" stands as the best representation so far. Often characters will be too forward-thinking to stave off the overwhelming racism; think of Freddie Lyons (Ben Wishaw) on "The Hour" or Stanley Mitchell (Matthew Goode) in "Dancing on the Edge." "The Knick" has no such character. No one is too forward or backward thinking for the sake of plot. Everyone's a racist, in ways both big and small, and one of the main points of "The Knick" is to tease out every racial slight and reflect it back to us.
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"The Knick" most resembles HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," which was supposed to be their grandest foray into the Tortured Anti-Hero genre. Both shows feature astounding production design that brings out the nuance of the past. The Harlem streets are constantly buzzing, and sweeping exterior shots show that Cinemax threw a lot of money at "The Knick." Unfortunately, similar to "Boardwalk Empire" all of that cash hasn't brought out the viewers, with "The Knick" hovering around .4 million viewers per episode. The detail in the medical scenes is incredible as well, and at times downright nasty. The opening scene of an experimental caesarean section nearly made me faint, and several shots in the most recent episode "Where is the Dignity" of a woman recovering from nasal reconstructive surgery forced me to stop eating. Gore is one thing, but "The Knick" gets to the core of what made pre-modern medicine so brutal in order to create some truly disturbing scenes.
Whereas "Boardwalk Empire" had Martin Scorsese for the pilot, "The Knick" has Steven Soderbergh for the entire run, and he proves to be the series' saving grace. His distinctly modern touch livens up the show, and creates a nifty parallel to Thackery, as the doctor tries to use the newest medical inventions to solve the problems of the past. It may be disconcerting at first to hear Soderbergh-regular Cliff Martinez's ambient electronic score over scenes of horse drawn carriages ferrying those in top hats, but it ensures that "The Knick" looks like nothing else you will ever see.
"From such humble beginnings to the astonishing modern world in which we now live."
Soderbergh and his intimate avant-garde aesthetic is enough to keep "The Knick" interesting, but the show still falters on many fronts. Without Dr. Thackery at the center it could be a much better show, perhaps with Dr. Algernon as the main character. The whole Tortured Anti-Hero genre has been slowly dying for some time now, and "The Knick" represents the latest show to offer increasingly diminutive returns.


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While the production of Star Wars movies are usually shrouded in secrecy, the controversial firing of Han Solo spinoff directors Christopher Miller and Phil Lord last month led to much speculation about trouble behind-the-scenes.
Replacement director Ron Howard has been a lot more open since he took over, posting a steady stream of on-set images. While they haven't revealed much, his latest does feature a very familiar Star Wars character checking out a video monitor. Check it out below:
In addition, some eagle-eyed fans have speculated that the image on screen is of two Wookiees getting close to each other. Click here for a zoomed-in version.
Chewbacca is played by Joonas Suotamo in the upcoming movie. Suotamo already played Chewie in 2015's The Force Awakens, standing in for longtime actor Peter Mayhew during action scenes.
Last week, some unofficial behind-the-scenes images from the Han Solo movie were released. They featured Alden Ehrenreich as Solo, Woody Harrelson as a character called Beckett, and an unknown woman, who could be Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke.
The film also stars Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Michael Kenneth Williams. TMZ caught up with Disney CEO Bob Iger recently, and he didn't say one way or the other if the movie will be delayed as a result of the directorial changes. Officially, the Han Solo film is scheduled to come out on May 25, 2018.
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Man, I love Tremors. I'm a professed B-movie geek who grew up on the particularly cheesy Wes Craven and John Carpenter films of the seventies and eighties, who has always harboured a soft spot for playful monster movies, so I reckon I'm the film's target audience. Tremors is one of those affectionate throwbacks, those movies that don't just aim to evoke a particular genre and time period (as The Expendables was a generis eighties action movie produced twenty-five years too later) so much as offer an up-to-date and self-aware reinvention of them (as Spielberg produced a thirties adventure serial with modern sensibilities in Raiders of the Lost Ark, or Rodriguez offered a brutally hilarious modern-day Mex-ploitation film in Machete). Tremors is basically a fifties B-movie produced with late eighties A-list talent and self-awareness.
That isn't to say that Tremors is anything more than a really, really well-made creature feature, or that it ever dares to move beyond the classic monster movie formula. Indeed, Ron Underwood's film adheres relatively faithfully to the genre conventions we've come to expect. The characters are still trapped by the plot in a confined location, with circumstance and plot contrivance conspiring to keep our two plucky heroes in the region, against their desire to leave. "I mean, is there some higher force at work here?" Earl Basset loudly laments when bad luck continues to ensure that he and his partner Val are unable to depart their desert community despite several attempts. The movie uses all these classic and forced plot devices, but it's always aware of how classic and forced they might be, making it refreshing in its candor and wit.
Indeed, Underwood is certainly less than subtle about the movie's influences, as he documents a small town under siege from gigantic worm-like monsters traveling through the soil. His music cues evoke Jaws, as if conceding he's constructing a playful land-based version of the classic shark movie…. but on land. Indeed, the script concedes the influence, acknowledging that the mysterious monsters (nicknamed "graboids" by fans), are basically sea monsters that can travel on land. "I thought eels lived in the water,"one character remarks.
There's a sense that Underwood and his team are playing with the audience's conventions and expectations, knowing that they'll deliver everything that's expected, even if toying with us a bit along the way. For example, as is requisite in a B-movie like this, we're treated to a plucky female scientist who provides exposition on the monsters. Here instead of being the traditional glasses-wearing-model-turned-actress sort of beauty, we're treated to a still-quite-hot but not-unbelievably-hot scientist – and the movie still makes a point of stripping her down to her undies during the big chase sequence.
Tremors works so well not because any of its ideas are especially innovative, but because the execution is top-notch. That execution includes a superb cast (headlined by Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon), fantastic direction by Underwood and an impressive script by S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock. Maddock and Wilson are able to spoof the sorts of clichés and plot devices we expect in films like this, while still using them effectively. One of the best moments in the film sees the three leads each postulate alternative backgrounds for the monsters.
Val suggests, "I got it. They're mutations caused by radiation," even before he can finish rhyming off that cliché, he has a better one. "Or, no – the government built 'em. Big surprise for the Russians." Rhonda pieces together her own theory, "There's nothing like them in the fossil record. I'm sure. Okay, so, they predate the fossil record. That would make 'em a couple billion years old. And we've just never seen one 'til now." Getting in the spirit of the game, Earl's guess is short and sweet. "I vote for outer space," he remarks. "No way these are local boys."
A lesser movie might have offered a concrete origin for the creatures, but the movie is smart enough to know, as Earl points out, it "doesn't matter where they come from." It makes no different from a plot point of view – the monsters just need to provide a threat to the characters in a film like this, and an origin is secondary at best. At worst, it robs the creatures of some mystery and makes them seem less threatening. In fact, the script cleverly leaves it to the audience to make up their own minds on the matter.
As a director, Underwood is able to give the film a warm sense of humour, but without undercutting any of the thrills or suspense. Despite the fact that a lot of the film is silly and ridiculous (including the survivalist couple Burt and Heather, or the money-hungry antics of various characters in the midst of all this), Underwood knows that the film has to be able to thrill the audience. Underwood has quite an eye for suspense, with some wonderful fakeouts early on, but some nicer moments later.
In particular, Underwood grasps the uneasy power of repetitive action to unnerve the audience in a film like this. He knows that showing characters doing the same thing over and over again opens up the possibility that they could be attacked this time or the next time or the time after that. As such, he can draw a large amount of suspense from something as simple as a pogo stick, or a bouncing ball. After all, one would imagine that there's only so many possible ways to scare an audience using underground monsters, and it's only until a certain point that they are effective, but Underwood manages to carry the film effortlessly.
He's helped by the cast. Bacon and Ward are able to provide the film's requisite bro-mantic machismo with enough character and charisma to set it apart from the more standard version you generally see in films like this. Indeed, the pair work perfectly well together, even during the mandatory "self-sacrifice" sequence. ("Good luck, sh!thead." "Don't worry about me, jerk-off.") Looking at how perfectly all the elements balance, I'll admit to being a bit disappointed that any sequel was ever greenlighted without being able to bring all the key players on board.
Tremors is a fun film, a silly film, and a hugely enjoyable film. It's an ashamed creature feature, of the kind we don't see too often, but it tempers the limits of the genre with a wit and intelligence that is too rarely seen. I can't help but wish that the monster movie revival in the late nineties might have learned a thing or two from it.
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I am greatly honored to be endorsed by numerous judges and community leaders.
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The following is a partial list of endorsements for my candidacy for Los Angeles Country Superior Court Judge.
Elected State and Local Officials
Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles County District Attorney
Anthony Rendon, California Speaker of the Assembly
Steve Cooley, Los Angeles County District Attorney (2000 – 2012, Retired)
Robert Philibosian, Los Angeles County District Attorney (1981 – 1984)
Aide Castr, Mayor Pro-Tem, City of Lynwood
Alex Saab, Mayor, City of Downey
Ana Guerrero, Chief of Staff, City of Los Angeles
Andre Quintero, Mayor, City of El Monte
Bob Henderson, Councilmember, City of Whittier
Fernando Vasquez, Mayor Pro-Tem, City of Downey
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Ensure fast web-site browsing experience with Magento 2 Full Page Cache Warmer. Provide users a flawless store performance to top search rankings and attract more visitors.
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Magento 2 is fast and well optimized for high loads. However, there are still a lot of things to be done to make your store as fast as possible. The store cache is frequently cleared due to numerous reasons, from page content updates to cache lifetime expiration. Therefore, to timely cache all necessary pages and provide customers with improved experience, you need a tool that automatically warms the cache and ensures fast pages load.
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Prioritize pages for warming
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- Set custom delay interval for crawler requests
- Limit max cache warming queue size
- Compatibility with Magento 2 Varnish Cache and default File Cache
- Enable/disable certificate verification
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- Go to Stores → Settings → Configuration → Advanced → System.
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- Log in to your admin panel and go to System → Tools → Cache Management.
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- Improvement we added the functionality that allows you to avoid the '301 Moved Permanently' status in Warmer Log.
- Fix we fixed the issue with URLs for warming when the setting 'Use Categories Path for Products URL' is enabled
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- New now the extension is able to warm up pages separately for mobile theme.
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Thanks for your question Herb, I get this one quite a bit.
"Who is your favorite author?" "What are your favorite books?"
Avid readers such as yourself will be horrified by the answer!
I have read three books in my entire life!
I do not read books. I've simply never enjoyed reading. (Though I love writing! More on that later) I never read books growing up and made it all of the way through school without ever having read a single assigned book. How you ask? Because I'm a good listener. School (at least the one I went to) is really all about listening to what the teacher is trying to teach you and then proving that you understood it by repeating it all back to him or her in the form of a test. When reading was assigned, I simply never did it. The next day in class, anything that was of import was discussed. And anything that was going to be on the test would be covered. I LOVE discussions, that part was never a problem. In fact, I was always vey much involved in the discussions and I have an incredible memory for certain things so I generally aced all of my tests.
Well, what about book reports? I mean, they're not covering those in class right? So how did I get away with writing reports for books I never read? In 8th grade I had to do a book report on Catcher in the Rye. It had to be about twenty pages long. I started reading the book. I read half of the first chapter before I wanted to cut my head off with a dull knife. Then I began my report. It went something like this...
..."In Catcher in the Rye, the protagonist Holden Caulfield finds himself at a crossroads in his life. I know exactly how he feels..." and then the next twenty pages were about an experience I had. I got an A+ and the teacher wrote me a note saying that she was really impressed by how the book had effected me and caused me to relate it to my own life. I'm not saying this is good, mind you. I'm just answering your question.
There are those who believe that reading makes you intelligent. Maybe that's true. But everything I know I learned from life, by observing and by doing. At this point, I feel it's important that I point out that I graduated from high school a year early as a junior and that I've been a college professor for 19 years. Just saying.
So what are the three books I've read?
A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony: When I was about 13, somewhere around 1980, I saw this book in a store. The cover absolutely captured my imagination! I remember it had a Chimera on it, some kind of weird composite monster made up of a lion, snake, maybe Griffin, etc... It looked "bad ass!". And some part of me really wanted to try to understand why people loved reading books, so with this cover looking as amazing as it did, I figured this was the book that I would try to discover the joy of reading with. I found the story interesting enough. I liked the protagonist and there were definitely moments where I couldn't put the book down, but physically, it's always been a struggle for me to read. It makes me tired. And anyway, what was going on in my real world at that time made the events in the book, as magical as they were, seem kind of tame.
An Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice: I read this around 1988 after my then girlfriend had kicked me out. I was staying in the parlor (not really a private room) of an apartment the animation company I worked for (Broadcast Arts) kept for visiting clients. It overlooked 2nd ave in the East Village of NYC, between 9th and 10th streets. It was summer in NYC and incredibly hot! The events that took place in that apartment while I was reading the book are probably more interesting (at least to me) than what happens in this novel.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut: Around 1993 or so, I met an older German woman who offered me a 13-thousand dollar "art" grant. It's a long story and pretty damn colorful, but all I have time for right now is that I used almost all of the money to make my 45-second-long film Rakthavira (because I'm an idiot). Part of the deal was that I would have an exhibition at the opera house in Frankfurt, Germany where I would show my film and my animation models and have dinner with the mayor of Frankfurt, the German finance minister and other dignitaries. Before getting on the plane to Frankfurt, a friend of mine, horrified by the fact that I'd only read two books in my entire life, handed me a copy of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and assured me that I'd love it. I did! It really spoke to me. In fact it spoke to me in a voice that I found so familiar that I thought to myself, "This sounds exactly like the way I speak. I guess I could write a book, too!" And so I did. Shortly thereafter I started writing a horror/metaphysical novel called The Nothing. I got about half way through it before I made a decision to shift gears and work on what would become the Chi-chian comic book series (which seemed at the time to be a more productive use of my time... and it was.) In any case, Vonnegut's book communicated to me that I was probably better off writing books than reading them.
Since then I have written many, many comic books and two non-fiction books, "What is Goth?" and "Paint it Black- A Guide to Gothic Homemaking". If I write one more book, I will have written as many books as I've read. ; )
I am bursting at the seems to write. I'm not sure where I will find the time. But I have a half-finished novel called The Nothing and I'm DYING to write a Chi-chian novel as well as a novelization of my "Call of the Jersey Devil" screenplay. The fact is, I've never liked reading, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE writing.
Lastly, I must confess that in truth I've read a couple of other books. Once while on vacation in the British Virgin Islands, a hurricane hit and I was stuck with my then girlfriend and our newborn son in a hut, nervously waiting out the storm. There wasn't much to do in there but panic and pray. There was a bookshelf full of books though so after 12 hours of doing nothing, I eventually caved and went through it and picked the only book that seemed to be about monsters. It was called, "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson. It was an entertaining enough read while thinking we were all going to die.
On another trip, maybe to Belize, that same girlfriend bought me a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel that she found in a gift shop as a joke. I read it. I'm still not sure why.
And I also read a werewolf book called The Sticks by my good friend Andy Deane, the lead singer of Bella Morte. I was on tour and so were they and at some point we crossed paths. I saw that he had written a book and was selling it at his merch table. It intrigued me so I bought a copy. I found it very entertaining and it inspired me further to write.
So why do I tell people, that i've only read three books in my whole life? Because three is funnier than six.


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An attack ad is being rolled out ahead of five by-elections on July 28 and parliament debating the Turnbull government's tax cut draft laws this week.
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In the South Australian seat of Mayo, only one in four voters back the cut, while in Queensland's Longman one in three voters are in favour.
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Does anyone have experience how to get a finance job in Beijing? Any advice? It seems to me that no matter how many applications I sent that it's really hard to even be invited for an interview. I hold B.Sc. and have few years accounting experience. How about Big 4? Do they have 'high standard' when it comes to hiring?
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I guess they rather hire in your home country and send you abroad afterwards. China is for Chinese intake. You would probably need an accountant's qualification already.
But let me know if you figure out a way.
ALL the international companies i have applied to, at least as recently as 2008, only hire in their head quarters. They do not hire locally, which is often frustrating for the local regional managers who often times see particular talent locally (speaks Chinese, has good connections) but that are completely irrelevant in the eyes of the HR people in central headquarters.
Thanks guys.. @Guilin, Isn't the most of headquarters in Beijing? I just don't know is it about me or they (big 4) really have big expectations.. ?! If someone works for big4, I could use some advice how to get their attention. Bsc and couple of years in accounting should be enough for entry level, isn't it?
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Be jealous all you want, but we don't want to hear about it. There are thousands of planes and dozens of highways that will bring you to California for the Pomona Swap Meet so you can experience it yourself. And if it is on your "Bucket List" or your "Someday" list, then you are missing out and that's a shame. Do it. At the next one. Don't wait, or you might not get another chance. Who knows what life has in store, and it would be a shame to miss out on all this. But we don't need to tell you just how iconic the Pomona Swap Meet is, because everyone knows it is one of THE places to go for any car guy. Parts, cars, beer, bbq and awesome people make this a great event and one that is amazingly huge for just one day. It is hard to believe that this many people converge on the LA County Fairgrounds to sell for less than 12 hours, but man it's fun. We went out and walked the isles, bought a few small parts and some tools, drank beer with friends, and walked a ton of the car corral. Many of the cars on site were just there to show as opposed to being for sale, but there were some pretty cool deals to be had none the less. We had a hard time not trying to give some of our money away in order to gather up another project.
Fortunately our common sense and thin wallet kept us smart and on the straight and narrow. But that didn't mean we weren't drooling over tons of cool stuff. And here is our first gallery of photos to show you some of the stuff we're talking about.


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Thames, Ella; born 6/5/1867 in MS. Died 11/4/1958 in MS.
Married Leggett, John in 1881. Cannot find ANYTHING regarding her parents, siblings (whether or not she had any). Not sure if she was adopted or if Ella was a nickname. I've been searching for any information for several years now on Ancestry.com. While married, she lived in and around Sumrall and Seminary, MS. I can't even locate a marriage record. Although not a common name, there are many Thames' in southern Mississippi. I hate to give up, but I am getting close!
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I got nothing. Had an actual friend come over. I'm starting to see why so many gamers have no life. It seems to be a prerequisite for having the time to play.
I'm barely going to have time to make my BHBEBB* before I go on vacation.
Hey….is there a BHBEBB in this? IS THERE? We've established there's hot Krogan. You sent a screencap of your potential love interest. Help me out, here!
I mean, I'm cool knowing that Chloe (Frazier) is waiting for me next month, but still. Why wait?
Oh, and not playing much today because I'm being a good dad and taking the brood to see sailboats. I expect, nay, require them to belt out Lowlands Away.
That is going to be SO. AWESOME.
I should demand that you get video for the blog. I can see it now: white sails against the sky, the calling of gulls, and three fresh-faced youngsters serenading the sea with "Lowlands Away."
Bring a hat to pass around.
I'm afraid I have yet to meet a BHBEBB in MEA, but it's early days yet.
Well, then I'll just have to make my own.
Life's hard.
As for the hat-passing, we'd make a mint.
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All three of author Kim Nelson's books. Kim Nelson is the owner of Raff and Friends and will personally sign the books if you choose.
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Raff's Magic Touch is about a chameleon that learns that his vibrant colors are actually a gift rather than a disability.
Raff and the Magical Tour is the sequel to "Raff's Magic Touch". In the book, Raff and Max are going to visit other zoos.
Snowmen at Youth Rally Day encompasses friendship, values, courage, trends, respect, self-pride, and relationships. Young people, like the characters, have much in common. Growing up looks good, but getting there is another story.


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Selie Anderson Interviewed By Irene Robertson
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson
Person interviewed: Selie Anderson, Holly Grove, Arkansas
Age: 78
"I was born near Decatur, Alabama and lived there till I was fifteen
years old. Course I members hearin' em talk bout Mars Newt. I named fur
my ma's old mistress--Miss Selie Thompson and Mars Newt Thompson. Pa
died when I was three years old. He was a soldier. Ma had seven
children. They have bigger families then than they have now. Ma name
Emmaline Thompson. Pa name Sam Adair. I can't tell you about him. I
heard em say his pa was a white man. He was light skinned. Old folks
didn't talk much foe children so I don't know well nough to tell you
bout him. Ma was a cook and a licensed midwife in Alabama. She waited on
both black and white. Ma never staid at home much. She worked out. I
come to Mississippi after I married and had one child. Ma and all come.
Ma went to Tom McGehee's to cook after freedom. She married old man
named Lewis Chase and they worked on where he had been raised. His name
was Lewis Sprangle. He looked after the stock and drove the carriage.
Daniel Sprangle had a store and a big farm. He had three girls and three
boys, I was their house girl. Mama lived on the place and give me to em
cause they could do better part by me than she could. I was six years
old when she give me to em. They lernt me to sweep, knit, crochet, piece
quilts. She lernt her children thater way sometimes. Miss Nancy Sprangle
didn't treat me no different from her own girls. Miss Dora married Mr.
Pitt Loney and I was dressed up and held up her train (long dress and
veil). I stayed with Miss Dora after she married. One of the girls
married Mr. John Galbreth. I married and went home then come to
Mississippi. Mrs. Gables, Mr. Gables was old people but they had two
adopted boys. I took them boys to the field to work wid my children. She
sewed for me and my children. Her girls cooked all we et in busy times.
They done work at the house but they didn't work in the field.
"I been married five times. Every time I married I married at home.
Mighty little marryin' goin' on now--mighty little. Mama stayed wid Mr.
Sprangle till we all got grown. Miss Nancy's girls married so that all
the way I knowd how to do. I had a good time. I danced every chance I
got. I been well blessed all my life till I'm gettin' feeble now.
"Papa run the gin on Mr. Sprangle's place, then he went to war, come
back foe he died. I recken he come home sick cause he died pretty soon.
"I jess can member this Ku Klux broke down our door wid hatchets. It
scared us all to death. They didn't do nuthin' to us. They was huntin'
Uncle Jeff. He wasn't bout our house. He was ox driver fer Mr. Sprangle.
Him and a family of pore white folks got to fussin' bout a bridle. Some
of em was dressed up when they come to our house ma said. After that Mr.
Kirby killed him close to his home startin' out one mornin' to work. His
name was Uncle Jeff Saxon. Ma knowd it was some of the men right on Mr.
Sprangle's place whut come to our house.
"I live wid my daughter. I get $8 from the Welfare.
"If they vote for better it be all right. I never seen no poles. I don't
know how they vote. I'm too old to start up votin'.
"Lawd you got me now. The times changed and got so fast. It all beyond
me. I jes' listens. I don't know whut goner happen to this young
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Mike used my old shoes..
..for an art project.
The cover was really cool
As is the back.
The contents? You guessed it..
These were taken from the Mercury..
And Gemini familiarization guides
This is how you close it
I missed the good clouds..
Behold! The Physics Stapler!
A column of mist in the liquid nitrogen bottle
My pencil's cooler than yours
Now it's even colder
Frozen origami
I love this stuff
I told you origami is cool
If you put a cap on it it explodes! :D
I guess that's the official end of winter..
These are from a drawing game..
I'll explain when I put up the page specifically for them.
Read it left to right, then go down, and read it right to left.
I never put a page up for these
But basically you read the sentence, then draw a picture based on it
Then the next person writes a sentence based on the picture, without seeing the previous sentence
And the next person draws a picture based on the new sentence
And so on
You get some pretty crazy responses
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text: 12/14/1860Francis Wilkinson Pickens was elected on the seventh ballot of the South Carolina Legislature as the 69th governor of the state. He replaced W. H. Gist, who was finishing his term. Pickens was a former congressman who had made his name with a forceful speech in the House denying the right of the federal government to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. He had recently returned from the post of ambassador to Russia. Within days he would be the head of the newly independent South Carolina. He served until 1862. (By John Osborne)Source Citation: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861 (New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1887), 79. TabsRecord DataDate Certainty: ExactType: Campaigns/Elections Major TopicsSecession People Pickens, Francis Wilkinson PlacesColumbia, SCSouth Carolina Documents


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The Results of the All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) 2017 have been declared by National Law University (NLU) Delhi on May 24. The exam has been topped by a female law aspirant, Dhanistha Mukesh Mittal, who also achieved the rare distinction of being the only candidate to score 100 marks this year. It must be noted that AILET offers admissions to BA LLB (Hons.), LLM and PhD programmes at NLU Delhi and the results declared on May 24 are only for the undergraduate law programme. Candidates will be able to check the category wise results and the merit list for AILET 2017 through the links given on this page.
Conducted on May 7, AILET 2017 saw as many as 17,054 applicants applying for admissions to the 83 seats (10 for foreign nationals) offered in the Five Year Integrated BA LLB (Hons.) programme, as per AILET 2017 Convener, Dr. GS Bajpai. The exam was held in an offline mode and the question paper was set out of a total of 150 marks, with candidates being awarded one mark for each right answer. There was no negative marking. While AILET has developed a reputation for being one of the country's tougher law entrance exams, candidates found this year's paper to be considerably tougher than those of preceding years. This is also reflected in the scores achieved by the candidates. While last year's topper, Karan Dhalla scored 119 marks, only one candidate was able to attain the three figure mark this year and subsequently topped the exam.
Earlier, the declaration of AILET 2017 Result had been postponed by NLU Delhi from May 17 to May 24.
Candidates can find below further details about AILET 2017 Result including the steps to check, the AILET 2017 Cut Offs and the list of AILET 2017 toppers.
Steps to check Result of AILET 2017
1. Candidates should click on the official link of AILET 2017 given below.
2. They can download the given pdfs for AILET 2017 results as per their choice of category. To check for all candidates, they may download the AILET 2017 Roll Number wise pdf.
3. They must then search the downloaded pdf by exercising the Ctrl+F option and searching for name or roll number
4. The given marks will be displayed next to the candidate's name
5. The candidate can see their qualifying position in the given merit list of candidates who cleared AILET 2017.
Apart from the AILET 2017 Merit List which displays only the names of the Indian nationals who have qualified for the 73 available seats across all categories, NLU Delhi has also released separate result list as per category and place of origin, all of which can be checked at the link given below.
To check the Results of the All India Law Entrance Test 2017, candidates can Click Here.
AILET 2017 Cut Off details
NLU Delhi has also released the cut off data for AILET 2017 which shows the scores that candidates would have to clear category-wise in the AILET 2017 Result in order to be eligible for admissions. The AILET 2017 Cut Off scores can be seen by candidates in the table below.
AILET 2017 Toppers
The top ten scorers in AILET 2017 in the General Category as reflected in the AILET 2017 Merit List can be seen by candidates in the table below
As notified by NLU Delhi, out of the 73 seats available in the BA LLB (Hons.) programmes, 52 will be for General Category candidates, 11 will be for Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates, 5 for Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates and 2 for Persons with Disabilities (PwD). There will also be 3 seats for candidates who are either Kashmiri Migrants or Residents of Jammu and Kashmir. In addition to the 73 seats, 10 more seats will be made available for Foreign Nationals.
The University has begin to dispatch individual admission letters which the qualified candidates will need to confirm and use to pay their fees within the specified last date. AILET 2017 LLM and PhD Results will be declared on July 1 and July 15 respectively.


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Frozen dessert may contain bacillus cereus.
The New Zealand Dessert Company is recalling a batch of its Everyday Entertainer Chocolate Bavarian dessert as they may contain bacillus cereus, which can make people sick.
The recalled products have a best before date of 03/01/2017 and batch numbers BN10485 and BN10486. They were sold in Countdown supermarkets.
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Automatic As-built Digital Twin
Key to effective facilities management and visions like Smart Cities or Digital Britain is the availability of reliable Digital Twins of built environment assets (buildings, infrastructure industrial complexes). Such semantically-rich 3D models are important to support Operations and Maintenance activities, particularly when robots are to be deployed (e.g. to operate a valve or simply navigate some environments during dangerous or emergency operations).
However, while these assets may be designed with care and detail, their actual construction often results in changes that must be recorded in the Digital Twin that then reflects the as-built state of the facility. Detecting such variations is a challenge and recording them is often not done at all or requires significant work and capital. Some methods (and commercial software) have been proposed to process point cloud data of as-built assets to generate digital twins, but these are very limited in capacity and level of automation.
Method: the project will aim to interpret coloured point clouds of a facility given a design model to identify and correct small and large discrepancies. This will be achieved by integrating Scan-to-BIM [1] and Scan-vs-BIM [2]. In particular, the approach shall uniquely integrate geometry, topological, and wider semantic analysis.
Evaluation: We have access to a number of case study point clouds that can be provided by the company Scan&BIM in Ireland (that works in this area), as well as other interested construction organisations, such as Laing O'Rourke, Jacobs and AECOM (who demand such services).
[1] Murali S., Speciale P., Oswald M. R., Pollefeys M. (2017), "Indoor Scan2BIM: Building Information Models of House Interiors", IEEE/RSJ Proceedings of IROS, 2017. [pdf]
[2] Bosché F., Ahmed, M., Turkan, Y., Haas, C., Haas, R. (2015), "The value of integrating Scan-to-BIM and Scan-vs-BIM techniques for construction monitoring using laser scanning and BIM: The case of cylindrical MEP components", Automation in Construction, Vol. 49, pp. 201-213. [pdf]