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Permits are renewed annually at a fee of $150 for all use permits and $100 for storage. Written verification that the applicant is bonded is required to properly obtain a use permit. A separate magazine is required to store explosives and detonators for all storage permits.
In those localities where the State Fire Marshal's Office has enforcement authority, a separate application to use explosives is required for each city or county in which the applicant plans or intends to use explosives. If an applicant operates in multiple jurisdictions, multiple applications and permits are required. An application fee of $150 is required for each permit. Photocopies of applications are acceptable.
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Steven Spielberg's classic gets a glorious Blu-ray release
A scene from E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.
For all the talk about physical media coughing up blood - metaphorically, at least - the Blu-ray format seems awfully robust right now. New films are arriving in increasingly complex special editions (the supplements on Fox's Prometheus BD are more interesting than the movie, frankly) and studios are digging into their catalogues for some spectacular high-def packages. And this week's release slate includes some fine examples of what's possible when a studio treats an existing property as a treasure rather than an obligation.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has been doing some fine work in celebration of its 100th anniversary; August's long-awaited Blu-ray of Jaws was one of the best discs I've seen this year, combining a host of previously extant supplements with new goodies and a glorious HD restoration of Steven Spielberg's 1975 masterpiece. (Their Abbott & Costello remasters have been pretty nifty, too.)
This week, Universal brings another Spielberg classic to Blu-ray: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial gets a 30th anniversary edition, constructed along the same lines as Jaws. In addition to a splendid new high-definition master of the original 1982 theatrical version - and not the ill-considered 2002 reissue, which infamously replaced FBI agents' shotguns with walkie-talkies in crucial moments - the E.T. BD includes the excellent supplements produced for earlier laserdisc and DVD releases and ups the ante with excellent new materials. The E.T. Journals uses production footage to reconstruct the creation of the film, and Steven Spielberg & E.T. digs into the development of Melissa Mathison's screenplay.
The movie's still the star, of course; Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark (released in its own lovely Blu-ray disc last month by Paramount) are at the top of my own personal Spielberg pantheon, but E.T. has its own special place, separate from his other accomplishments. It's Spielberg's softest and most heartfelt work, situated entirely within a child's state of mind. The emotional highs and lows play out as crescendos in John Williams' score (and the powerhouse DTS Master Audio soundtrack nicely matched my own first encounter with the film, seated too close to the screen at Toronto's Hyland 1 cinema on opening day), and the perpetually underrated leading performance by Henry Thomas as E.T.'s young protector, Elliott, gives every scene a humanity and a gravity that's doubly amazing when you step out of the movie and realize he's acting opposite an animatronic puppet. Of course, Spielberg and Thomas make E.T. so real and so believable that we'd never even think to step out.
And thirty years later, I've realized another wonderful thing about E.T: It doesn't have any villains, just people whose purposes are initially misunderstood by Elliott and his family - just as Elliott himself is first frightened by E.T.
By placing us at a child's point of view (often literally; cinematographer Allen Daviau frames many shots a foot or so lower than we'd expect), Spielberg plugs us directly into his young hero's head, letting us comprehend his first glimpse of the world - and the universe - beyond his subdivision. Just consider the way Peter Coyote's character, whom we know only as "Keys," is allowed to mature and expand over the course of that amazing third act. It's an incredibly compassionate screenplay, with Mathison and Spielberg giving full standing to even the smallest roles. What a remarkable film.
Now, if you balk at calling a 30-year-old movie a "classic" - or if your idea of a bona fide studio auteur is a little more starched - Warner Home Entertainment has a couple of BDs discs you might want to grab: Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train and Dial M for Murder. Originally scheduled to arrive alongside a massive Hitchcock collection Universal was supposed to release last month, they now serve as a teaser for that set, which was bumped to a Halloween release date at the last minute.
Strangers on a Train, one of Hitchcock's most unnervingly genteel thrillers, comes with HD transfers of both versions of the film - the theatrical release and the slightly longer "preview" cut - while Dial M for Murder offers both 2D and 3D presentations of the director's 1954 venture into the third dimension. The twist here is that the 3D version is not the original red-blue presentation seen in earlier theatrical runs, but a new digital 3D master reverse-engineered from a 2D print - the same master currently screening at TIFF Cinematheque in Toronto.
Both discs retain all the extras of the most recent DVD editions; I would have suggested Warner forget to include M. Night Shyamalan's pompous ode to Strangers on a Train, but that's why they don't consult me on these things.
This week's additional Warner special editions were unavailable for preview - a 50th anniversary edition of the kitsch-horror classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and the long-awaited restoration of Frank Oz's 1986 musical Little Shop of Horrors, featuring the film's original ending in its entirety for the first time on home video. (The ending appeared in an unfinished version on Warner's 1997 DVD, which was immediately yanked from stores.)
Both of these titles have devoted cult followings, but only one of them is a musical about the love-hate relationship between a meek florist and his bloodthirsty plant. I know which one I'll spin up first.
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There wont be any major changes from what was uploaded to FFNet - but these chapters have been slightly reworked.
Harry strolled around the neighbourhood that afternoon, not caring where his feet took him particularly. Several girls he passed thought he was something to stare at as he bought a coke from the corner shop and continued on. Their eyes followed him as if he were their prey, and it was starting to make Harry feel very nervous, but he shook it off and hurried away. He was starting to wonder whether Tonks was right and that he was getting more handsome when he returned to Privet drive to find Dudley and his friends lounging outside in the back garden. Gina made an excuse and left when she saw Harry through the conservatory doors and caught him before he could get into his room.
"Hey, Harry," she said, taking in his appearance and catching her breath. "Whoa... you've changed a lot since Diagon Alley," she said, and Harry smiled a little.
"Yeah," he said, running a hand through his long hair. When he had it in a ponytail - as it was now - he left the bangs at the front so that they covered his scar, and it framed the top of his face to make him look even more mysterious. "Did you guys get home ok from Diagon Alley?" she nodded, shivering suddenly.
"Yeah, and I wanted to thank you for saving us," she said, looking at the floor. "We never would have survived if you hadn't stopped that curse." She stepped forward and hugged him. Tensing for a few seconds while he overcame his shock (he still wasn't used to this sort of contact - Hermione was pretty much the only girl who had ever hugged him) and finally relaxing, he hugged back. For a few moments they stayed that way, and then Harry got the feeling that they were being watched. He opened his eyes and saw Piers Polkis standing at the top of the stairs and looking at Harry as if he wanted to kill him - which he did. Harry released Gina and she turned to see what Harry was looking at.
"You dumped me for this freak?!" Piers spat at her, and she rolled her eyes, turning to look at her 'ex' fully.
"One, you and I snogged twice, so it was hardly dumping you, and two, Harry and I are friends." Piers was shaking with rage, and looked ready to hit her, and Harry stepped forward to make it plain that the other boy wouldn't get close enough to harm her. Piers looked at Gina and shook his head.
"You're a slut," he spat, looking her up and down with a look of disgust. "A worthless whore. Don't ever talk to me again, bitch!" and he stomped off back downstairs. Gina sighed and pretended to be nonchalant, but for some reason those words had cut deep. She was trembling. Harry pulled her into a hug and she collapsed against him.
"I'm sorry, Harry," she said finally, looking up. Her eyes were tearful and slightly bloodshot. "I just hate being called those sort of things, it hurts a lot, whoever it is that's saying it." Harry smiled and sighed.
"It's not true, so don't feel bad," he said into her hair. "You know it's not, and so does he, he just likes being someone that causes pain and misery." Harry heard rising voices outside and remembered that Gina's sister was out there. He released Gina and went down the stairs, two at a time, and entered the conservatory to see Piers and Dee shouting at one another at the tops of their voices.
"Calm down, Piers," Dudley warned, standing beside Dee in a surprising attempt at defending the girl. "She's just a girl, and whatever her sister's done, it isn't her fault, so just leave her alone." Piers fumed but nodded and sat down again - between the two of them, Dudley had the clear advantage in a fight, being of equal height but holding much more weight and muscle than the much leaner Piers. Dee thanked Dudley with a kiss on the cheek, making the large boy blush violently before Dee stormed through the house and left through the front door and Harry retreated, unseen, upstairs. He smiled at Gina and stood outside his room for a moment, silent.
"Dee's left already," Harry said, and she nodded.
"Hey, come over to our place for a bit," she said, pulling him by his arm. "It'll be more fun than staying in here with that lot," she added when Harry made to argue. He realised she was probably right, and agreed, casting some magical locks on his door and made it indestructible before leaving number four and heading to the corner of Privet Drive, across the road from which was the Mathews' new home. Gina slipped her key through the lock and let them in, taking Harry into the kitchen where her mother was making some sandwiches for her and Dee.
"Hey mom," Gina said, pulling Harry through the door. "This is Harry Potter." Her mother smiled down at him and stopped what she was doing. She was a slim woman that had her bright blonde hair pulled into a bun.
"Hello, Harry dear," she said, sounding remarkably like Mrs Weasley. "I'd like to thank you for saving my daughters from the death eaters in Diagon Alley. I'm sorry I wasn't there to help. Would you like something to eat? I was just making lunch..." Harry was about to say no but Gina answered for him.
"He'd love to have lunch with us," she said, looking pointedly at Harry. Harry, taking the cue, nodded.
She pulled him into the living room where Dee was watching TV and they sat down on the couch, watching some movie Dee had pulled out of her collection called "Snatch".
"Oh, hey Harry!" Dee said when she noticed who it was that had joined her. "Gina, Piers is completely pissed at you; he even had a go at me." Gina sighed, rolling her eyes.
"He saw me hugging Harry and now thinks he and I are dating," she said to her sister. They laughed at the movie as Dee smirked.
"So," she said, looking at her twin sister, "you and Harry aren't dating?" Gina shot her a warning glance and Dee smiled sweetly. Harry knew that smile - it was the sort of smile a Hungarian Horntail gave a lamb. Instantly, Harry knew something was about to happen, and he wasn't sure it wouldn't involve some wand play.
"No," Gina said. Dee stood up and walked over to Harry, slid into his lap and gave him a big kiss.
"That's good," she said, before heading back to her original seat. Gina looked really angry now and Harry was left blushing slightly. "You would /really /be pissed at me for that if you were, huh?"
/Orion said, exasperatedly, /Orion said, sounding disappointed.
/'Well, this is ok for now - I can actually see things fine,' /he said, testing his eyesight - things were a little blurry at a distance, but otherwise fine - much better than his eyes were before, that's for sure. Orion started teaching him to use his shadow abilities to the best advantage possible - he explained that when he was shadow, using magic wasn't possible, and for a couple of seconds after returning to human form, this would remain true.
/ /Harry nodded and conjured some knives that Orion told him about - the shape was double edged and simple, and the balance was as perfect as possible. Orion taught Harry to hide them discreetly in his clothes, like up his sleeves - and how to draw them out quickly. Throwing them came to Harry quickly with Orion's natural skill with them and Harry's excellent Hand/eye coordination. He transfigured a book into a dummy and practised throwing his knives at it as he came out of shadow, and soon learned how to do it almost lazily. Orion transferred memories of learning how to do it originally helped a lot, and Orion decided his eyes could now be corrected with a potion, being so close to perfect, so Harry made the potion under Orion's supervision and soon had 20:20 vision again, only without his glasses on. He continued his lessons in using his abilities and their drawbacks. All injuries sustained during physical form would be gone when in shadow, but return equally bad when he shifted back to human. It was harder to transform when in light, but at night he was able to do it with a mere thought. Transforming got easier the more he did it, and he quickly mastered everything Orion taught him.
He was constantly scanning the country at night, looking for Death Eaters and Voldemort himself, trying to find where they were and what they were doing, but never came up with anything - their apparating to meetings was probably the cause of his difficulty in finding where they were and what they were doing. He retreated at sunrise, always sighing at his failure, but never wavering in his search.
He spent more and more time with Gina and Dee - watching movies, going to the cinema for the first time, going out for food and so on. They introduced him to some Muggle friends of theirs (mainly girls) that they had met, and he was not surprised that he recognised some of them, and they recognised his name as the boy that was always getting bullied way back when, but they barely believed he was the same person, being more confident and looking very different from the way he had.
Hanging out with Muggle friends was fun when Gina and Dee were there - they shared a secret world away from their friends, and it was kind of a thrill to have that knowledge. They went to gatherings of friends like the ones Gina and Dee had with Dudley and Piers, only with more people. It was at the first of these that Harry first got drunk. It was a night of many firsts.
He had tipped back a large amount of alcohol, and several people had just passed out on the floor of the living room they were in (Gina and Dee fell into in this group). The girl whose house they were at, Kat, had told them her parents had gone away to stay with friends, and she was supposed to be staying at someone else's house. She was rather drunk herself when she jumped onto Harry's lap and started whispering suggestive things into his ears that he was sure he wouldn't forget when he sobered up, and she made sure of it by licking and nibbling his ear in between comments, and in her position, Kat could feel the effect she was having on him.
True to his word, Orion taught Harry how to "play the game", when Kat pulled Harry up to her room and locked the door behind them. Harry let Orion take over and felt everything Kat did to him, and was sure she enjoyed what Orion did to her as much as he enjoyed what she did to him - which was a /lot/. Harry felt everything still, and it was, put simply, the best feeling in the world he had ever had, and he soon discovered that pleasuring a partner was almost as much fun as receiving it, as the gasps of pleasure and moans that elicited from Kat's mouth excited him almost to breaking point.
Orion hadn't been lying when he suggested he knew how to satisfy a woman, and as Harry lost his virginity, Kat nearly lost her mind to the pleasure. Harry was glad he had the memories to use for next time, and they lay in her bed for a while, Orion receding back to his mind and Harry, now much less nervous about holding a girl in an intimate way, back in complete control of his own body.
They had kept what they did a secret from everyone - Kat said she wasn't looking for a boyfriend and didn't want to lose friends because of a (great) shag, which Harry was glad about - he hadn't thought of that while they were going at it, but it made sense - he was off to boarding school and wouldn't see her for a year anyway. They snuck into the living room at about six in the morning, and Kat quickly kissed Harry before going to doze on the couch. Harry - who was much too excited to sleep, even if he needed it - stared at the ceiling for a long while, marvelling at the fact that by no means was he a /boy /anymore!
Several more gatherings like this took place - one almost every other night, in fact, although Harry managed to contain himself and neither he nor Kat said anything about it, even though, they would often lock eyes and grin at each other when the subject of conversation turned to sex. Sobering up became easier when Harry brewed a potion for hangovers and took a little with him wherever he went, disguised in a tiny bottle that had once held tobasco sauce.
On the following Monday since his time with Kat, Harry decided that it was time to put Vernon in his place when he started shouting at Harry because he had not got to his chores in three days. The first he was given was to clean out the garage, which had started to overflow with junk. Harry insisted that he be shown to the task, and once in the garage, Harry waved his wand and the junk disappeared. Vernon, who suddenly went pale as Harry conjured a glass of lemonade after this feat, fainted when Harry decided to fix Dudley's old bike in the corner with magic. Harry had laughed his head off for half an hour before he used /enervate /on his uncle (who, consequently, never asked Harry to do a chore again).
His departure to Grimmauld place loomed ever closer, and Gina seemed annoyed that her parents wouldn't let her and Dee stay with Harry for the rest of the summer holiday's, and got a little more depressed as each day went and got closer to Harry's departure. Harry still checked for his enemies through the darkness, but came up empty every time.
Except one night.
It was the night before he would be leaving for Grimmauld Place, and Harry was searching just as the sun was setting, first around the shadows cast by the houses in Privet Drive - Mundungus was on duty again, sitting on a wall across the road from number 4 - and then further and further out, and as he reached the country side somewhere West of London, he saw something through the ground floor window of a modest, two story house that made his blood run cold.
The death eaters were in a living room, and had a wizarding couple in front of them. The man was dead already, by the killing curse, and the woman was naked with a death eater on top of her. One was asking who was next, and another responded, "You are, I'm holdin' out for the daughter!" to which the rest laughed. Harry extended his senses in a sense of panic, looking for the daughter - there she was, in the back garden, scrambling away from some pursuers. She was blond and had a semi athletic body, a deep gash in her thigh and covered in glass, and her ankle appeared to be twisted. She was trying to run away, but the death eater came out of the house and fired a leg locker curse at her.
Harry now knew what he was to do - he was /not /going to sit by and let this happen, he was going to /do /something about it, and they were not going to get away with it. And he was pissed - this anger went beyond rage, beyond /reason/, and he felt so angry he doubted Voldemort himself could have stopped him now.
// Orion said grimly. Harry, wearing black jeans and a black hoody, quickly conjured a plain black mask to wear and slid it on before shifting to the house, where the girl had just been dragged back into the house.


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Built from the legendary DNA of its award-winning predecessor, Far Cry® 4 delivers the most expansive and immersive Far Cry® experience ever in an entirely new and massive open world, with integrated drop-in/drop-out, open world, co-op play. Hidden in the towering Himalayas lies Kyrat, a country steeped in tradition and violence. You are Ajay Ghale. Travelling to Kyrat to fulfill your mother's dying wish, you find yourself caught up in a civil war to overthrow the oppressive regime of dictator Pagan Min.
Explore and navigate this vast open world, where danger and unpredictability lurk around every corner. Here, every decision counts, and every second is a story. Welcome to Kyrat. Far Cry® 4 - KYRAT EDITION is designed for any fans who want to immerse themselves in the world of Kyrat.
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It consists in 60 minutes of gameplay including, 3 extra missions and 1 exclusive weapon.Three action-packed single-player missions featuring your PAL Hurk (20 mins each): Mission 1: Fight dangerous enemies in the ice caves of snow-capped mountains to retrieve a rare artifact. Mission 2: Fight waves of enemies while riding an unusual vehicle with Hurk by your side. Mission 3: In this epic bro-tastic conclusion, chase down an enemy convoy and save Hurk from certain death.


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August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City in 1949. He is the author of eleven books of poems and a memoir, Cutty, One Rock. His collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep was awarded the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize, and Sleeping It Off in Rapid City won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. That same year he received a Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Francisco. (Author photo by Laura Wilson)
His work is a modernist swirl of sex, surrealism, urban life and melancholy with a jazzy backbeat. That praise appeared in the pages of The New York Times in 2005, but it applies no less to August Kleinzahlers newest collection.
Kleinzahlers poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: Voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, all mingle together in verses that always ring true. Whether the poem is three lines long or spans several pages; whether the voice embodied is that of an adult male of late middle age, // about to weep among the avocados and citrus fruits / in a vast, overlit room next to a bosomy Cuban grandma as in Whitney Houston, or that of the title character in Hootie Bill Do Polonius, who is bidding adios compadre // To a most galuptious scene KidKleinzahler finds the throbbing human heart at the core of experience.
[August Kleinzahler] might be the best poet in America, I don't knowI can't trust my judgment after I finish one of his too infrequent collections, high on its cartoon-jazz fumes. It's been five years since the astonishment of Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry in 2008 (and should have won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer), and, well, he's back . . . If youre unfamiliar with his work . . . start somewhere, for Gods sakeyoure missing out on one hell of a racket.
Michael Robbins, Chicago Tribune
Kleinzahlers poetry, like his name, is verbally lush, veritably cornucopian and always promising more . . . If theres a unifying characteristic to this teeming, verbally high-octane poetry, its its ability to lean toward sentimentality without indulging in it. Memory, in August Kleinzahlers poetry, becomes a resource for reveling in words and proper nouns that might otherwise seem lostfor revivifying the dead both within and without the poet. And the poetry itself delivers bouquet after bouquet of lovely phrases, profusion(s) of violets, turtles, snakes and cranes, so that even if readers can't quite remember the lost world Kleinzahler is recovering, they can enjoy his skill, which is considerable.
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The blaze known as the Hare Fire, which was part of the Kirk Complex started as a result of a severe lightning storm Sept. 8, 1999, and wasnt declared out until it was almost time to turn over the October page on the calendar. Lightning striking the ground during central Californias dry season, which runs from about May through November, ignited several individual blazes that combined to form a major forest fire.
Before it was extinguished, the fire scorched more than 86,700 acres of the Ventana Wilderness, located in the Los Padres National Forest about 65 miles south of Monterey, Calif., near the Pacific Ocean. The Kirk Complex fire was declared the ninth-largest U.S. fire in 1999 and cost more $80 million to combat. (See www.nifc.gov/fireinfo/1999/top10list.html for more information.)
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An online article by Chief Learning Officer magazine hails the leadership of Boise State's Department of Educational Technology (EdTech) in quest-based education. Titled "3D GameLab Takes Learners on 'Quests,'" the article reports
that "there is something fascinating going on" at Boise State and EdTech. What is fascinating is the online 3D GameLab platform that is shifting the thinking about learning.
Ed Tech professor Lisa Dawley and special lecturer Chris Haskell developed 3D GameLab to help teachers turn their classrooms into a living adventure that challenges students with motivating quests, engaging projects, exciting games and interesting activities.
"With 3D GameLab teachers can tie innovative learning activities to the educational standards they want to achieve," Dawley said. "The lab allows teachers to create an exciting personalized curriculum of quests that provide students choices based on their interests. Teachers are reporting significantly higher levels of student engagement during and after school, higher overall course grades and persistence with the quests even after the class is 'won.'"
In March, 3D GameLab won a $150,000 award in the national Digital Media and Learning Badges for Life Competition. The 3D GameLab also earned a place in the 2012 Horizon Report, which predicts trends over the next five years in educational technology in higher education.
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Police: Arson in horse barn fireMarch 23,2013MONKTON A 31-year-old Vermont man is being charged with setting fire to a horse barn in Monkton that he owned with his wife.
Police say Dennis White was cited into court on Monday to answer the charge of first-degree arson in connection with the Feb. 24 fire at the barn with attached indoor riding ring.
The barn was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived after a resident reported seeing an orange glow in the area of the barn.
There were no injuries and none of the 14 horses being kept at the barn at the time were hurt.
Damage to the barn and its contents was estimated at more than $220,000.MORE IN This Just InStaff Report Full StoryBENNINGTON — A local man was killed in a one-car accident Saturday. Full StoryMONTPELIER Drivers who use hand-held cellphones and other electronic devices while driving... Full Story
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Urushi Bamboo Spoons by Mori Kowa from Ashes and Milk
The technique of lacquer can be traced back to as early as the Neolithic period in China and the Jomon period in Japan. Practices for lacquer vary from region to region and country to country; the traditional Japanese technique of Urushi, for example, uses the sap of a lacquer tree which is handpainted in thin layers using a paint brush made of women's hair. In many instances powdered gold was added to create intricate designs.
lacquer tree image via UniProt
Housewares, furniture, jewellery and even armor were popular lacquered objects in Japan, and there are still people practicing this ancient art in inventive and inspiring ways. Let's take a look at some examples of lacquerware, both old and new.
Japanese Lacquer Tea Set image courtesy of Greentea Design
The Japanese tea set pictured above is an excellent example of the sorts of household objects that were often lacquered. This set exhibits the traditional colours of black, red, and gold as well as a traditional vine motif.
19th Century Japanese Combs from the Victoria and Albert Museum
How lovely are these Japanese combs? Such beautiful colours and impeccable workmanship. The delicate paintings on these combs show the level of artistic skill that the masters of lacquerware were capable of. These particular combs are part of the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection.
Classicon Brick Screen by Eileen Gray via Private
The Brick Screen by Eileen Gray is an example of how the art of lacquerware has been adopted outside of Asia. Gray designed the Brick screen from 1922-1925 after learning the art of lacquer from a Japanese artisan, and this work is still an iconic piece of art deco design.
Urushi box by Kuroda Tatsuaki via architonic
Kuroda Tatsuaki's magnificent red Urushi box is a textural and visual masterpiece. The flowing lines of this piece are accentuated by the way light is reflected off the lacquer surface.
Lacquered Paper Objects by nendo
These lacquered boxes by nendo show how the old and new can be blended. The small boxes are made out of paper using a 3D printer and then hand finished with lacquer. The rolled paper and thin layers of lacquer almost give the impression of wood grain.
And finally, this stunning dining room is of course not lacquered in the traditional sense, but the high gloss of the walls and the black and gold tones throughout the space give the impression of Japanese lacquerware, don't you think?
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totally appropriate music for cranking out wedding proposals.
have had the opportunity to meet with some truly amazing brides lately and i am extremely excited about this next set of weddings i am about to embark on. also, i have a few posts from recent weddings coming up, so stay tuned.
met with a bride on friday who met her husband while two-stepping at the broken spoke. they both happened to have been there by themselves, which i am thinking sounds like a much better idea than it ever has before.
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Beste Arslan 10+Nov 15 2011: no,i dont think it matters if we are good or not at the escape we occupy ourselves with.What matters the most is the question-does this make me happy? if the answer is yes,then our talents on it shouldnt really matter at all.Singing is also a way of escape for me although i totally suck at it,it makes me happy(not the people around me though :D)
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The Daily and Monthly achievements now give you jugs of Karma worth 4.5k (1 for daily 10 for monthly). They're account bound so you can use it on any char.
TOP TIP: the jugs are affected by karma boosters, so grab a guild karma boost banner, a karma booster if you have one etc etc, and anything else that adds to your karma gain, then use the jugs. I got 72k karma from the monthly jugs, as opposed to the base 45k, which is a nifty difference.


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Deadmau5 Accuses Disney of Pirating His Music
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You don't have an innate right to anything, however you have innate desires for rights like control over your property up to and including your own body. Society has organised such that we have set aside a portion of our resources to defend these "rights" collectively and make them a notional fact of life in that society.
We pay taxes to defend our "rights" from our neighbours. In your erstwhile sharing economies, it was still collective contributions to the good of the whole and people that didn't want to contribute were removed from the group.
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Definition of foul ball in English:
foul ballLine breaks: foul ball
A ball struck so that it falls outside the lines drawn from home plate down to the first and third bases.
More example sentences
- My dad caught a foul ball in the third inning, and my dad's friend later took my brother down to the Yankees' dugout and had the ball autographed by the team.
- With one out in the ninth and the strikeout total at 25, the next batter hit a high foul ball between first and home plate.
- White Sox hitters were consistently late on the fastball, hitting four foul balls in the inning.
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So, I didn't abandon this blog, I just started a new show recently and obsessively watched it until I caught up. Tomorrow I shall continue my gif making, so feel free to send me any requests you may have. Whether it be a specific scene or just a character. Send away!
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Laying off George
George Oates is responsible for much of what is great about Flickr. George Oates is the last person a sane company would lay off. I don't know what to think about Yahoo after reading how they laid off George Oates.
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44 Responses to "Laying off George"
jeremy_jackson said on 16 December 2008 at 1:58 pm:
Damn. That's just cold. Hard to believe that a higher-profile figure, with proven success, could be cut so quickly and harshly. Bad form, Yahoo!. Bad form indeed.
Nick Brown said on 16 December 2008 at 2:30 pm:
Laying someone off is one thing, but this is just cutting someone loose. Not even giving him time to transition the Commons over? Ridiculous.
Oh well, just another bullet in my already long list of reasons to use Picasa over Flickr.
MojoMark said on 16 December 2008 at 2:47 pm:
Personally dealing with a layoff is difficult – shock, denial, depression, anger, then recovery. Lay offs were at one time a way to trim "mediocre" staff. Today, it seems a lot more random. But what I have learned is that nobody is immune. Now more than ever, it's time to step it up, demonstrate the value you provide to the organization.
Neal G said on 16 December 2008 at 2:51 pm:
I suppose Yahoo! did just lay off a couple thousand employees didn't they?
Tyson said on 16 December 2008 at 3:10 pm:
stunningly bad form….
I've been through more than a few layoffs, and can say that Yahoo! handled that horribly…
Regardless of his position, he should have at the very least deserved to be told while back at home, not while on assignment in another country, promoting the company…
From all I've read about him, and about his hard work and enthusiasm, I shouldn't be surprised to see him snapped up in a hurry by the competition..never mind a recession/depression…good companies are always interested in people of value..maybe even more so now….
My hat's off to George…what could have easily (and quite understandably) turned into an expletive riddled posting, he took the highroad, and simply described how humiliating and devastating an experience getting laid off truly is.
Best wishes dude, and big thanks to Jeffery for posting this…
Nicole said on 16 December 2008 at 3:10 pm:
I think if George Oates's layoff proves anything it's that you can be let go from a job regardless of the value you provide the organization.
Pete said on 16 December 2008 at 3:41 pm:
It was done poorly but done that way for a reason, for many people.
I don't think it was bad form, the company is in serious financial trouble and quite frankly I doubt Flickr is a real big money maker. I wouldn't be supprised if they announced a deal to sell the whole thing (or close it) within six months. (not that flickr COULDN'T make money, I just don't think it does)
This economic down turn should tidily solve the stupidity that is the web 2.0 bubble. I haven't seen this many companies with no real business model since oh the spring of 2000
Shelley said on 16 December 2008 at 3:42 pm:
Wrote on this myself and linked your writing.
I must admit to being preternaturally sensitive about women in positions of influence in the tech community, and have been through the complete crash and burn in a startup myself, but Yahoo might as well have come out and said, "We don't trust you not to try and screw us so we're dumping you off our computers now." People don't deserve to be treated with such suspicion, especially when they've given so much to the company.
PS I like your use of tags–slam by tag ;-)
Brian Artka said on 16 December 2008 at 4:17 pm:
Just goes to show you how big companies are continuing to fail….at an EPIC rate.
Carolyn said on 16 December 2008 at 4:25 pm:
What I've seen in a couple of places (not web-related) is that companies, in a panic, aren't laying off the least experienced people, or the least valuable. They're laying off the most "expensive" person to them within a particular department, even if that person is the most valuable to them. So, out go the geniuses, and the people who stay are the ones who aren't paid much and can just barely keep the wheels turning. Incredibly shortsighted, or perhaps these ships are sinking faster than we know, and we're seeing a last, mad scramble.
John Allsopp said on 16 December 2008 at 6:06 pm:
knowing George professionally quite well, and her work veery well, when I saw the news, I was literally shaking my head. For some time now I've been strongly of the opinion that Yahoo! has many excellent, world leading people and projects, but apparently little if any business intelligence Just one more sad example.
George's leaving was the point at which I really did start to wonder about the ongoing viability of Yahoo :-/
ben said on 16 December 2008 at 6:32 pm:
I get into these places where I feel guilty for not selling more and thus not making more. The inevitable consequence is that I wonder if I ought to get all up in the FTE thing.
And then I read stories like that.
Since George had the good taste not to cuss a blue streak, I won't either.
Between that event and the various factors (known to me) that made it possible, I'm at a loss to make sense of things. So I just walk away more jaded.
This is about Web 2.0 nonsense AND Yahoo AND Google AND the execrable state of the economy. What all of those things have in common is that somebody thinks they have the winning formula, or thought they did, only to be proven disastrously wrong. (It might take a while, but Google's no less immune.)
No single person, no single management team, has all the answers. If that were the case this'd be utopia (and don't forget what THAT word really means).
"Not in our stars but in ourselves" indeed. Pshaw.
Jesse Gardner said on 16 December 2008 at 6:33 pm:
♬ "Nearer my God to thee, nearer to thee…" ♬
Nate said on 16 December 2008 at 7:46 pm:
I guess we shouldn't be as shocked as we all are (myself included). We've all seen how Yahoo! has been run for the last few years. Should we really have expected more in a time of crisis?
On the bright side, when some time passes and all the dust settles, I can't wait to see what George is up to next. I'm sure it'll be fantastic.
Robert said on 16 December 2008 at 8:58 pm:
Wow, I know anyone can be laid off at any time no matter their stature. However to do it without any professionalism or class is just low. Shame on yahoo.
Robert said on 16 December 2008 at 10:27 pm:
I'm reposting this from A Beautiful Web, with the exception of "guy" to "gal" since I didn't know until 3 seconds ago that George was a gal…
I've never been fired, and George wasn't either, despite my want to say I was (and hers). It's called being laid off. At least, that's what we call it in the US. "Fired" vs "laid off" is the difference between it being your fault (and not getting unemployment) and it not being your fault (and being able to draw unemployment).
It sucks that a girl who worked hard for a company got laid off. But, in the past, I've worked hard for a company and got laid off the day before (my final) pay day. My severance package was a Bible Track and a pat on the back. Them's the breaks.
It's hard times for everyone — and apparently a lot of Yahoo employees are having hard times — but there is no nice way of saying, "We don't need you anymore." I just don't see why this particular guy is getting mentioned a lot when a lot of good, hard-working, smart people are getting the axe.
Maybe someone blogging about this gal (not pointing fingers) should hire this gal.
George Girton said on 16 December 2008 at 10:29 pm:
A couple of years we've been getting together in Santa Monica in Yahoo Center, on Saturdays. They opened a company store, selling Yahoo gear. Then not too long after, they closed it. Hundreds of cubicles were built on the 1st floor, 2nd floor, no doubt floors above. Then they were empty, then they were gone, just concrete floor and aluminum struts, bare flooring and would-be walls, waiting to be filled in again. It could be a little while now. Sorry to hear about George Oates, of course, though I never knew him nor the places he's been.
Alan said on 17 December 2008 at 12:03 am:
Harsh, brutal, unfair? All true, and tragically so. Random? Not really.
The politics of any large organization are layers and layers deep, often abstracted away from the day-to-day realities of whatever it is the large organization does. The politics of web-advertising/web-content/Web 2.0 are particularly rough and tumble, where the opposite of good work brings in "easy" money.
George managed to accomplish things within the hierarchy of a large company. You don't do that without making enemies; The kind of enemies who are insecure in their own position, and base their power on playing the game, forgetting that the game is only a means to an end.
HR is notified, and because you're busy doing good work and not playing the game, you end up on the list. Not because HR is evil, but because HR is there to protect the company, and the insecure have identified you as a troublemaker and there's no one there to say otherwise. Tough times hit, the lists come out, and you're shown the door.
This is, a decade or two in, our industry. So desperate to tap the potential the medium offered we mortgaged our future to the shysters, hucksters, and the timid people willing to prop them up.
What to do now that that party's over? We could learn the game; put our goals, dreams, and even ethics aside to pay the mortgage, fund our retirements, and live in comfort.
We could consider the medium. A medium where, for $10 a month you can have a global voice. A medium where, ultimately, if you provide something compelling you'll find an audience. A medium that, at least for now, is still as free and as open as it ever was …
m said on 17 December 2008 at 12:04 am:
Yahoo management apologist here:
The layoffs were announced 3 months before they happened. Employees knew full well when the day was (as did every blog/newspaper out there) and it was made clear that cuts would be happening all at once. By firing everyone at once, they avoid the long drawn out weeks of rolling layoffs were nobody knows what day might be there last. While I've never been laid off, I have been through multiple days like the one Yahoo had last week, where people are told and asked to leave within a few hours. I think it makes the most sense for employees, allowing them to move forward and not be the 'dead man walking' around the office until their final day comes. Also, it provides some sense of security against the stealing of proprietary information. While I don't doubt George one bit, I wouldn't be surprised if someone else fired from Yahoo (15k+ employees?) would decide to try and save off their work, or internal data. As such, the company has to have a ubiquitous policy, which unfortunately affected George as well.
It's sad to see Yahoo have to let go a great employee, but when laying off 1000+ people, there have to be policies that affect everyone.
Wil said on 17 December 2008 at 1:40 am:
m: So let me get this straight… Yahoo! employees knew for 3 months that they might be laid off, and thus would NOT be inclined to "save off their work or internal data" until AFTER the layoff day actually came, thus the need to lock everyone out then. Right.
deyes said on 17 December 2008 at 1:53 am:
Absurd. Smells political. Yahoo! cuts one head from Flickr and it's hers? Completely absurd.
Sesh said on 17 December 2008 at 6:01 am:
I was always impressed with Flickr since the time it first came up and got eventually brought by Yahoo. But never knew about George. Times like these are the best opportunity for anyone to takeout their grudge. I guess George (or actually her talent) might have really frightened someone at Yahoo. What is sad this happens to someone who can call herself "Georgeous Ludicrous" :)
Winslow said on 17 December 2008 at 8:32 am:
>> stayed up until about 2:30am that night, chain smoking
Gross. I stopped reading right then and there. Why do people who smoke always wonder why bad things happen to them? Blows my mind…
joe gannon said on 17 December 2008 at 8:46 am:
Granted it's cold. But it sounds like employees knew it coming. And anyone who believes they are indispensible think again. If you work for a company, don't be lulled into job security. Always look for a new gig while you are employed. As a side note, the last time I got laid off [as opposed to being out of a job with no contract], I was fully prepared. I had heard about the threat of layoffs. Over the course of a month or so, I had decided to be proactive and started removing all my personal belongings. When they asked me to leave, they brought a box for my "belongings." I told them, I just have my baseball cap. My desk had n othing on it. All project material was filed away. No pictures, or books. Period. Somehow I felt a bit of justice in the whole manner. I got to them before they got to me.
Live and let live said on 17 December 2008 at 9:38 am:
Dear Winslow:
>> Gross. I stopped reading right then and there. Why do people who smoke always wonder why bad things happen to them? Blows my mind?
Does this affect your life so much that you have to stop reading because of this? Damn, that second hand smoke is powerful stuff to get through the tubes. Great things happen to people regardless of their decision to smoke or not. Look at Obama. He smoke(s|ed) and is going to be president. Hitler abstained from everything and killed millions. Don't let the popularist view of demonizing another's choice rule your life so much, you're missing out.
Josh Stodola said on 17 December 2008 at 10:43 am:
In the eyes of an executive, anyone is replaceable. What a shame.
Skitten said on 17 December 2008 at 11:33 am:
Hopefully nobody is foolish enough to think that stature in the world of Internets is a guarantee of employment? Yahoo needs money, and I doubt flying George around to conferences is generating much of it. Likewise the Brickhouse place in SF whose main purpose seemed to be hosting parties.
Sure if Yahoo had better management and long-term planning these would be luxuries they could afford and ultimately benefit from, but I think it's too late for them now.
Greg Bulmash said on 17 December 2008 at 2:06 pm:
Winslow, you're supposed to hate the sin, not the sinner. Refusing to read on because the author admitted to smoking in a time of great stress? You've never had a bad habit?
On the topic of George's dismissal. I see Yahoo's point. It's like the debate between whether to take off a band-aid slowly or rip it off quickly. OTOH, when someone is out shmoozing members of a foreign government, laying them off in the midst of that is a bridge-burner. I'm sure that the manager in charge of Yahoo!'s relations with the Taiwan gov't is thanking his/her lucky stars George declined the invitations to go out after the layoff. She could have torpedoed months or years of relationship building without even trying.
Not just bad timing, but stupid timing.
anon said on 17 December 2008 at 2:36 pm:
@live and let live
Actually, Hitler was a tweaker (methamphetamine delivered by IV daily). If you know your drugs, then, ah, it all makes so much sense.
I'm not too fond of cigarettes or second hand smoke either, but your response is even more disgusting.
George « Clyde Street said on
17 December 2008 at 10:29 pm:
[...] moral hazard when I received Stephen Downes' OLDaily with a link to Jefrey Zeldman's post about Yahoo laying off George Oates. This is George's post about Not quite what I had in [...]
Darrin said on 18 December 2008 at 1:46 am:
A good friend of mine was laid off from Yahoo SoCal last Wednesday, and my wife was laid off from a non-profit job last Thursday. I felt very insulated from the piss-poor economic conditions until these happened, now nothing surprises me.
While layoffs are a difficult thing, what might help is having it executed properly. In both the cases I've discussed, they were handled poorly, making the event more traumatic that it already was.
Alan Bristow said on 18 December 2008 at 8:49 am:
Thanks Jeffrey for highlighting this.
George's treatment was appalling and likely she was not the only one treated that way, and so to George and others, from someone who was once not treated well by 'colleagues' / 'management', sorry for your pain.
The take-away for me is that I remember my role and my satisfaction at a job well done and my actions, actions that my parents would have been proud of; those that do bad, unless conscience free, have their low behaviour to remember. Fitting.
Go George! _Certain_ you will do brilliantly, wherever you invest yourself.
Jason Kratz said on 18 December 2008 at 9:58 am:
Is there a good way to handle giving someone they news they're getting laid off? I've seen almost every way under the sun described and *none* of them come off as sounding good. Firing someone sucks for both parties. There is no way to be nice about it. I'm actually surprised they didn't cut off access completely before her manager made the call.
That being said very good people in the tech industry won't have issues finding good work to do. I'm sure George will land on her feet doing great work elsewhere and I'm thankful for her work at Flickr.
Jon K. said on 18 December 2008 at 10:37 am:
There may not be a good way to let someone go, but there is a humane way. I think we all know that dealing with 1000 layoffs, sure you have to have a bulk policy in place. I'm sure a VP might've garnered a better send off. Oh wait, none of them were laid off.
I'd like to point out as well, what kind of idiot policy doesn't allow any sort of succession plan?
We're also talking about a public face of Yahoo/Flickr, one that is well respected (otherwise Zeldman would be unlikely to blog about) and well liked. You'd think they would use the good PR for something?
Mike T. said on 18 December 2008 at 11:35 am:
I myself got laid off a few weeks ago from Travelocity–5 minutes before I was heading out the door. As crappy as that was, it doesn't come close to the robotic policies of Yahoo!
These times suck. My heart goes out to George and others.
T.C. said on 18 December 2008 at 5:02 pm:
Harsh, sad and unfair, and I'm sure George Oates is one very special guy at what he does, but nothing about the way he was laid off is anything special. This is the way it's done, everywhere, every day, to thousands of people, regardless of their skill or value. It's about the bottom line, and it suck, but that's the reality of the corporate world. There's nothing to be outraged about; if you work at a corporate organization, you basically sign up for being subject to this kind of treatment. Not blaming the victim here — I'm signed up too — just saying it's, unfortunately, the way it works.
These are how layoffs are done. In the vast majority of cases, people are allowed enough time to collect their things, then escorted out of the building and cut off from all access.
I certainly feel for Oates, very much so, but his situation is nothing special. It's a sign of the times.
Jason Kratz said on 18 December 2008 at 10:53 pm:
"I'd like to point out as well, what kind of idiot policy doesn't allow any sort of succession plan?"
The same type of idiot policy that doesn't allow a "succession plan" when an employee gets fired. No offense Jon but Yahoo has to worry about *their* property. I'm not saying that Oates would have done anything nasty but Yahoo (or any company laying off an employee) isn't going to take a chance. That's why people are escorted out of the building, etc. It's not pretty but they have to do it.
And based on my experiences seeing executives being let go don't be so sure a VP would have had a better send off. I've seen senior execs escorted out the door just like the bottom-feeders.
"We're also talking about a public face of Yahoo/Flickr, one that is well respected (otherwise Zeldman would be unlikely to blog about) and well liked. You'd think they would use the good PR for something?"
Actually no I don't. It should have been handled like any of the other 1000 employees who were probably important to the company. Layoffs suck no matter who they happen to. It isn't good for anyone.
DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » Blog Archive » Link Drop for the Week Ending in Friday the 19th (December 2008) said on
19 December 2008 at 6:35 am:
[...] Laying off George Jeffrey Zeldman wrote "George Oates is responsible for much of what is great about Flickr. George Oates is the last person a sane company would lay off. I don't know what to think about Yahoo after reading how they laid off George Oates." [...]
The Bat said on 19 December 2008 at 11:51 pm:
So… Winslow. If George Oates just happened to be in the same room with me right now, I'd offer her a good Honduran stogie. And a double shot of Macallan's single malt scotch. Why chain smoke ciggies when a good double corona or churchill can last for a couple of hours?
Anyway, I have a feeling that someone with her talent and vision will still be forging ahead, innovating, and coming up with great ideas with or without Yahoo and with or without the idle tiresome fussing about other people's personal habits.
Karen Anderson said on 20 December 2008 at 6:14 am:
This is a good example of what happens when a small, innovative company is acquired by a big entity interested in market dominance rather than quality product. When your goal is to "win" rather than to provide value to users (dare we even say, to society), evangelists like George are out the door, and numbers crunchers and sales people remain on board. Until the ship actually sinks, and which time the executives take the severance lifeboats and row off to scuttle some other company.
Archivalia: Tragedy at Flickr Commons said on
30 April 2009 at 5:52 pm:
[...] to whoever is to take it over: "A week should do it," I said. It was denied. Worth to read more. http://www.zeldman.com/2008/12/16/laying-off-george/ "George Oates is the last person a sane company would lay off." UPDATE: [...]
The BFF: 08_12 said on
8 May 2009 at 9:50 pm:
[...] George Oates has been let go at Flickr. That feels all wrong' a few days ago. Jeffrey Zeldman is as dumbfounded as I am of the move. If you visit the Flickr home page You will even see George. Totally weird. She [...]
Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen: design + web Archives said on
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[...] and Jeffrey both weigh in on George getting laid off. by Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen on Mon December 15, 2008 [...]
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