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Brand Name: Winstrol
Also Known As: Strombafort, Strombadject Aqua, Stanover, Stanol, Stanabol, Stanos, Stromba, Winnie,Winny
Active Ingredient: Stanozolol
Active Life: Winstrol tablets 7-10 hours; Winstrol Injection - around 48 hours
Drug Class: Anabolic/Androgenic Steroid
Effective Winstrol Dose: Oral Stanozolol: Women 5-10 mg/day; Men 30-100 mg/day
Stanozolol Injection: Men 50-100mg/EOD
Acne: Low-probability side effect
High Blood Pressure: Rarely
Water Retention: No
Liver Toxic: Tabs - Yes, being 17alfa-alkylated anabolic. Toxicity is low to medium, due to low doses
Injection - None
DHT Conversion: None
Aromatization: No, it is a DHT derivative
Decrease HPTA function: Low
Cycle: Cutting
Average Winstrol Price: $0.4-$0.8 for 10mg tablet, $6-$15 for 1ml
Stanozolol has been developed by Winthrop Laboratories and has been approved by the FDA for human use.
Winstrol is the common trade name for the active ingredient and reactant as Stanozolol, which is called Winnie or Winny V for short.
Stanozolol has become a very widespread and popular steroid among sportsmen for cutting cycles. Winstrol is a derivative of dihydrotestosterone, although Stanozolol activity is much milder and with adorable quality muscle growth result.
Anabolic properties of Winstrol steroids could even be close to Dianabol, but Winny V does not have the same inclination for fluid retention. It is great for fat losing and muscle growth. Winnie V assists to increase the strength and boost the physical endurance of athletes, especially during exhausting daily workouts. But Winnie part in bulking cycles is quite unnoticeable, because it does not lead to water retention.
Stanozolol is an anabolic steroid with low androgenic (30 % of testosterone) and high anabolic (320% of testosterone) proprieties. Winstrol steroids do not have propensity to aromatize. Also Winny V does not convert to estrogen and does not lead to water retention and this makes Winstrol tabs or injection an awesome drug to use in cutting cycles. Winstrol Stanozolol is also very wide used among athletes to increase strength and speed without any mass gain. Winstrol effects help users to obtain nice terrific muscles which look tight and well-defined, if your keep high-protein and at the same time low-caloric diet.
Being 17alfa-alkylated drug, Winstrol tabs have high bioavailability and drug resistance. This is why oral form of Stanozolol is not destroyed by liver but it makes it quite toxic for liver and besides, it is one of the most hepatotoxic steroids. If you take Winstrol tablets in wrong way or overdose, a cardiac hypertrophy is also may occur. Injectable Stanozolol 50 does not possess this feature.
Winstrol steroids do not turn into estrogen and it means you do not have to take anti-estrogen during your cycle and Post Cycle Therapy. Using Winnie strength is increasing without weight gain, so athletes usually take Winstrol steroids during the pre-competition preparation or being on the diet periods.
Other Winstrol results as fat burning, appetite rising are also pretty characteristics of this drug. The weight and muscles gained with Stanozolol 10 mg is going to stay for a long time.
Women and men can use Winstrol steroids for muscle building. It is one of the few anabolics, which can be used by female athletes for cutting cycles. However in this case Winstrol dose must be reduced to 5-10mg/day. Winnie is produced in both forms, oral and injectable. Pills are more preferred by bodybuilders, because daily Winny V injecting can bring some discomfort. However, Stanozolol injections are considered to be quite more efficient.
Female athletes have to take Winny tablets over day and 5-10mg is the best dose because it permits to avoid virilization. Women, using more than 10 mg of oral Stanozolol daily, may face with some negative side effects.
The most spread Winstrol dosage for men is 30-60 mg daily, either 50mg of injectable form each other day for period of 4 - 8 weeks. As half-life of oral Winstrol is too short, the dose should be divided in two and taken before or at least during the meal. Please, do not take Winstrol tablets for more than 8weeks, due to its hepatotoxic influence on your liver.
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For men 30 - 60 mg of oral Stanozolol or 25 - 50 mg per day of Winstrol Depot injection are the most effective dosages and at the same time the safest ones not to face some side effects. Experienced athletes take 50 - 75 mg of injectable Winstrol every day or 100-150 mg/EOD. As for oral form, regular dose is 40-80 mg/day. However, in this case due to high Stanozolol dose the risk of the side effects is extremely high.
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In 2005, WWE offered Terry Funk a contract to work the One Night Stand pay per view, which was an ECW reunion show, but the legendary performer opted to reject that deal, in order to work Hardcore Homecoming, an independent wrestling show held by Shane Douglas.
Prior to becoming a WWE star, Charlie Haas worked as a stockbrocker.
Kurt Angle wasn't involved in a match at Great American Bash 2004, but he still played a role at the WWE pay per view. His first appearance of the evening was accompanying his new protege, Luther Reigns, and guiding him to a victory over Charlie Haas.
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Cover & Synopsis: THE RETURN OF THE DISCONTINUED MAN by Mark Hodder (Plus: Cover Gallery)
Amazon has the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming novel The Return of the Discontinued Man, the upcoming Burton & Swinburne Adventure by Mark Hodder. Jon Sullivan is the cover artist. The designer is Jacqueline Nasso Cooke.
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Moores law says you get a doubling every 18 months
So 5 years of progress should make the systems slightly over 10 times faster, so they are behind schedule on that (about 4GFLOPS looked to be the target). Since 2009 they should be 4 times faster, so about 2.8GFLOPS, so slightly ahead of schedule there.
Re: Moores law says you get a doubling every 18 months
Nope, Moores (original) "law" was the number of components (or tansistors) doubling every year (and not computing power), when he realised his prediction was wrong (10 years later), he changed it do doubling every two years, which of course (because of hindsight) was moore accurate (pun intended), it's now drifting again and approaching every three years.
Moore is an accidental hero, never really that accurate, but held up by many as a visionary, cant really be blamed for that, not his fault, to answer El Reg's question, yes it fits in with the law, if you want it to.
If you want to look to a real visionary, Alan Turing, he made proper verifiable predictions regarding memory capacity, and he was pretty accurate, he predicted computers would have 128Mb memory by the year 2000, which, given the prediction was made 50 years before, was amazingly accurate.
Moore's law
The question is slightly disingenuous because of the power limit. If that has been constant at 26 amps throughout the history then you need significant changes in architecture for boosts. Might be better to plot FLOPs/Watt over time for a better comparison. If the cap has been in place all the time and the improvements have been gained by the move to GPUs then Intel should start to worry.
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DT Nick Fairley named Chuck Hughes Most Improved PlayerPosted by on January 11, 2013 – 4:01 pm
Nick Fairley showed why he was the No. 13 overall pick in the 2011 draft this past season for the Detroit Lions.
The second-year defensive tackle was simply dominant at times and was voted the Chuck Hughes Most Improved Player by his teammates.
Fairley recorded 34 tackles, 5.5 sacks and forced two fumbled in 13 games. He missed the final three games of the season with a shoulder injury.
He showed flashes of talent during his rookie season in 2011, but a broken foot suffered in training camp lingered throughout the season, preventing him from truly showing what he could do.
This season he proved to be a force. He and Ndamukong Suh have quickly become one of the best defensive-tackle tandems in the league.
The Chuck Hughes Award is presented to the player who, because of hard work and determination, showed significant development and improvement during the past year. This award is given in memory of Chuck Hughes, a Lions' reserve wide receiver who played two seasons with the Lions (1970-71). Hughes is the only NFL player to have died during action on a football field, having suffered a fatal heart attack during Detroit's game against Chicago on October 24, 1971.
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Lions place DT Nick Fairley on IR; sign Ogemdi NwagbuoPosted by on December 19, 2012 – 12:34 pm
The Lions ended the season of second-year defensive tackle Nick Fairley Wednesday by placing him on injured reserve.
Fairley injured his shoulder in the fourth quarter of the Lions' 27-20 loss to the Packers Dec. 9. He missed last week's game in Arizona due to the injury.
It's unclear if he'll need surgery at this point.
Fairley was coming into his own in his second season after being hampered by a foot injury as a rookie. The Lions took him No. 13 overall in the 2011 NFL Draft. He had earned a starting role and finishes with 34 tackles, 5.5 sacks and two forced fumbles this season.
The Lions signed former Michigan State Spartan defensive tackle Ogemdi Nwagbuo to fill Fairley's roster spot.
Nwagbuo was signed by the Giants as an undrafted rookie free agent in 2008. He didn't make the Giants roster that season, but earned a spot on the Chargers' practice squad.
He made the active roster for San Diego in 2009 and spent the next three seasons with the team.
Nwagbuo played in four games (one start) for the Panthers last season.
He has 44 career tackles and 1.5 sacks.
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CB Jacob Lacey suffers 'significant' knee injuryPosted by on December 17, 2012 – 4:53 pm
Lions head coach Jim Schwartz said Monday that cornerback Jacob Lacey suffered a 'significant' knee injury in Sunday's 38-10 loss at Arizona that could spell the end of the his season.
Lacey was injured making a tackle on the games opening series. He immediately grabbed at his left knee, but did eventually walk off the field under his own power.
He went to the locker room for tests and was cleared to return to the field at one point, but Schwartz said after the game that Lacey couldn't run well enough for him to have confidence enough to put him back into the game.
"It's not ligament or anything like that, but there's potential it could keep him out the rest of the season," Schwartz said Monday.
Add Lacey to a mounting list of injured members to the secondary this season. Rookie cornerback Bill Bentley has already been lost for the year following shoulder surgery. Louis Delmas has missed eight games with a knee and Amari Spievey is on injured reserve with a concussion. Drayton Florence missed a significant portion of the season, too, after breaking his forearm Week 2 at San Francisco.
Schwartz did speak positively about the possible return of defensive tackle Nick Fairley and tight end Brandon Pettigrew vs. Atlanta Saturday night.
"Well we haven't put them on IR and if we don't put them on IR than I think there's still a hope in our mind that we'll get them back or at least a chance that we'll get them back," he said. "And we'll just have to see how they continue to respond to treatment. Neither guy was available to play last week and even though they both worked really hard to try to get to that spot, they just weren't ready."
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Pettigrew and Fairley out; Delmas will startPosted by on December 16, 2012 – 3:38 pm
The Lions will be without starters Brandon Pettigrew (ankle) and Nick Fairley (Shoulder) today vs. Arizona.
Neither practiced all this week after leaving last week's game in Green Bay with the injuries.
Tony Scheffler and Will Heller will pick up the slack in two tight end sets for Pettigrew.
The team will start Sammie Hill in place of Fairley. Andre Fluellen, who signed with the team earlier this week, is active and will be in the defensive tackle rotation.
Louis Delmas is active and will start at safety. Delmas has missed eight games with a left knee injury and has left two other games.
"What we try to do when he's been out there … he wasn't able to go last week, but the weeks before that … I think it was the Houston game that he went and played every snap and then had to come out I think midway through the fourth quarter," Lions head coach Jim Schwartz said this week when asked how the Lions might use Delmas the rest of the year.
"So we changed it around a little bit and tried to spot him. He still played three quarters or 80 percent of our snaps but just tried to limit him a little bit early and try to keep his availability throughout the game. It's really not necessarily a pitch count as much as it is just trying to conserve his reps. There's not a specific number in there, but if we can keep him particularly for the fourth quarter, then that's beneficial for us."
Joining Pettigrew and Fairley on the inactive list are: tackles Jason Fox and Corey Hilliard, quarterback Kellen Moore, defensive end Ronnell Lewis and safety Ricardo Silva.
Kris Durham will make his second consecutive start at receiver and Don Carey will start opposite Delmas at strong safety.
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Pettigrew and Fairley doubtful to play SundayPosted by on December 14, 2012 – 5:00 pm
It looks like the Lions could be without tight end Brandon Pettigrew and defensive tackle Nick Fairley Sunday when the team travels to Arizona to take on the Cardinals (4-9).
Both players missed practice all week and are listed as doubtful for Sunday on the injury report.
Pettigrew hurt an ankle in the first quarter of last week's game at Green Bay. Fairley injured a shoulder in the fourth quarter. Both players did not return to the game.
The Lions have a few different options if Pettigrew is unable to play. Tony Scheffler and Will Heller would be the primary tight ends. Rookie offensive tackle Riley Reiff, who played some tight end in high school, could serve as the third tight end. The Lions also promoted fullback Shaun Chapas from the practice squad. Chapas could also play the third tight end role.
The Lions released receiver Lance Long to make room for Chapas on the active roster.
"(T) Riley (Reiff) has played that," Lions head coach Jim Schwartz said Friday. "We also have extra wide receivers. We could go a lot of different places.
"And I don't want to rule Brandon out also. Brandon's a tough guy and he's played through a lot. Even though he hasn't been on the practice field, he doesn't really need that to be able to get out there on Sunday.
"So we'll just see where that goes. We'll have a lot of different groups to be able to bail us out if we have any tight end issues. We went through the whole game basically last time without him."
The team has listed safety Louis Delmas as questionable with that sore left knee. Delmas played limited snaps two weeks ago against the Colts, but was inactive last week. He's missed eight games total this season because of the injury.
"What we try to do when he's been out there … he wasn't able to go last week, but the weeks before that … I think it was the Houston game that he went and played every snap and then had to come out I think midway through the fourth quarter," Schwartz said.
"So we changed it around a little bit and tried to spot him. He still played three quarters or 80 percent of our snaps but just tried to limit him a little bit early and try to keep his availability throughout the game."
Safety Don Carey (knee), cornerback Chris Houston (hamstring), receiver Calvin Johnson (knee), cornerback Jacob Lacey (foot, Achilles) and tackle Corey Hilliard (knee) are all listed as probable.
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Pettigrew and Fairley miss practice againPosted by on December 14, 2012 – 12:57 pm
Tight end Brandon Pettigrew and defensive tackle Nick Fairley missed practice for a third consecutive time this week, putting into question their availability for Sunday's game at Arizona.
The Lions will release their official game designations at 4 p.m. today on detroitlions.com.
Pettigrew left last week's game in Green Bay in the first quarter with an ankle injury and did not return. He's been wearing a protective boot for most of the week.
Fairley left in the fourth quarter with a shoulder injury and didn't return. He spoke to reporters earlier in the week and was hopeful he could play Sunday.
The Lions could be in a situation where they have to make a roster transaction to add depth to the tight end group if it's determined Pettigrew can't play. The Lions have only Tony Scheffler and Will Heller healthy at this point. They usually have three tight ends active on the game-day roster.
Safety Louis Delmas was also absent from the portion of practice open to the media after being a limited participant in practice on Thursday. Delmas did not play in Green Bay last week.
The team was also without defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch at practice, who was likely getting a day of rest.
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Delmas returns to practice; Pettigrew and Fairley still outPosted by on December 13, 2012 – 1:07 pm
The Lions got three-fourths of their starting secondary back on the practice field Thursday as they continued preparations for Sunday's game in Arizona.
Cornerbacks Chris Houston (ankle) and Jacob Lacey (foot/Achilles) and safety Louis Delmas (knee) returned to the portion of practice open to the media.
Delmas hasn't played since Indianapolis because of that sore left knee, and has missed eight games total this year.
It's no surprise all three players are eager to play Sunday. The Cardinals have the league's 32nd-ranked offense and the No. 28 passing offense (190.9 ypg).
The Lions were still without tight end Brandon Pettigrew (ankle) and defensive tackle Nick Fairley (shoulder), who both missed their second consecutive day of practice. Both players left Sunday's game in Green Bay and did not return.
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Lions without five starters at practicePosted by on December 12, 2012 – 1:06 pm
The Lions were without five starters at practice today – four on defense – as they get ready to face the Cardinals in Arizona Sunday.
The team was without cornerbacks Chris Houston and Jacob Lacey, safety Louis Delmas, defensive tackle Nick Fairley and tight end Brandon Pettigrew for the portion of practice open to the media.
Pettigrew left Sunday's game in Green Bay early in the first quarter with an ankle injury and did not return.
Fairley left in the fourth quarter with a shoulder injury and didn't return.
Lions head coach Jim Schwartz said during his Monday press conference that both players were being evaluated on Monday and they would be monitored this week.
Houston and Lacey have been dealing with ankle and foot injuries for the past few weeks.
Delmas missed the Packers game – his eighth missed game this season – with that sore left knee that's been bothering him all year.
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Williams, Fairley, Delmas and others questionable for SundayPosted by on December 7, 2012 – 5:00 pm
The Lions could potentially have their full compliment of players available to them Sunday in Green Bay.
The team's Friday injury report is out and no player has been ruled out or are doubtful for Sunday.
Defensive tackle Corey Williams is probably the biggest question mark having missed all three practices this week with a knee injury. He's officially listed as questionable. The knee has bothered Williams since September, and he's missed a total of five games this year with the injury.
He only practiced once last week and still played against the Colts.
Safety Louis Delmas (knee) and defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch (non injury related, rest) missed practice Friday. Delmas is listed as questionable. Vanden Bosch will play.
Joining Williams and Delmas as questionable are: tackle Jeff Backus (hamstring), defensive tackle Nick Fairley (quad), cornerback Chris Houston (ankle), and cornerback Jacob Lacey (foot/Achilles).
Tackle Gosder Cherilus (knees), defensive end Lawrence Jackson (concussion), receiver Kassim Osgood (finger) and linebacker Ashlee Palmer (thumb) are probable.
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Lions without Williams, Delmas and Vanden Bosch at practicePosted by on December 7, 2012 – 1:05 pm
Defensive tackle Corey Williams missed his third straight day of practice Friday as the Lions continue to prepare for Sunday's game in Green Bay.
Williams hasn't practiced all week because of a sore knee. He's been bothered by the knee since September, and has missed a total of five games this year with the injury. Williams only practiced once last week, though, and still played vs. the Colts.
The team will release their game designations for Sunday at 4 p.m. today on Detroitlions.com.
Safety Louis Delmas (knee) and defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch (neck) also missed practice. That's also been the routine for both players in recent weeks and they've still been able to play on Sunday.
Defensive tackle Nick Fairley returned to practice after sitting out Thursday with a quad injury. He was still favoring that leg a bit.
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In the guise of Dr. Joshua Trem, he insinuates himself into Helen's life. The fact that she is one of a few not of his race to whom he can send his thoughts complicates his mission. When Helen is injured, Josh accepts that he cannot bring himself to harm her. Now he must devise a plan that will save both his sister and Helen. To do so, he feels he must bring Helen to his home on Tanvieraand to the year 3005.
All Our Tomorrows takes you on a strongly sensual journey to the future. The heroine's acceptance of her unusual experiences is quite believable. Though I didn't really find this to be a riveting story, I will certainly be on the lookout for more stories about the secondary characters introduced here. (dl $5.50, dk $5.99)
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Gertz department store was one of the top of the line places to go for a wedding dress. The best thing about Gertz was going there as a kid to see Santa!!! It was better than Macy's in Manhattan is now! I'm talking about the mid to late 1950's when I was taken there. The line would go all around the place with all kinds of things to see. The smaller childred would be able to walk on a raised walkway while the bigger kids and the adults walked along with you on the floor level. I took your mind off of the endless line until to got to see the big guy himself. :–)
June 1982. I lived in Laurelton and took the Q5 bus along Merrick Ave to Hillside Ave for 6 years ( including 3 yrs on my way to Ryan Junior High in Fresh Meadows via transfer to the Utopia Pkwy Q17A bus) from 1976 until 1982. I passed the opposing marquees of the RKO Alden and Loew's Valencia Theatres just about every weekday during the school year. Saw the Valencia marquee changeover from movie theater to church. Observed the elevated J train tracks come down and recede into the distance to the west as it was dismantled from its terminus at Merrick Ave (I can recall the lower portions of the supporting stanchions remained along the curb of Jamaica Ave for several years before finally being ripped out). Passed by the Long Island Press sign (which remained in place on the facade of their former headquarters for years after the paper shut down). Watched as the Alden went from single screen to twin and then quartet.
As bustling a shopping district as Jamaica Avenue always was, that period was certainly of darker times for the area. I remember not to far from Jamaica Avenue there was an old pre-war SRO apartment building known as the Bristol Hotel. I remember driving by several times and the corner where it was located (somewhere along 89th Avenue, I believe) was busy with drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes and cars slowing down for the solicitation of one illicit service or another. Believe it or not, an English teacher that I had while at Jamaica High was taking up residence at the Bristol around this time! He was a troubled man with a littany of personal problems – and looking back, it's amazing he was able to hold on to his job as a teacher of impressionable young teens! Oh the wonders of tenure – the Union is very strong in NYC!
The Gertz department store is still there, but sub-divided into a "shopping mall." I would not describe Gertz as a second-rate Macy's, except that Gertz's premises dated back to the 1920s and Macy's occupied a modern store built in the 1950s. The Macy's store suffered the same fate as Gertz and is now also sub-divided into a "mall." I would't call them that, since they're more like arcades, with merchants selling from stalls and counters instead of actual stores like you would find in a mall.
Jack Tomai, good to read you back on this site again !
I remember those Woolworth's chicken chow mein sandwiches well, but in Ridgewood, Queens, not Jamaica. My family and I liked them so much that we made our own at home, from take-out chicken chow mein, and buns from the grocery store.
I also remember eating at A & S on Fulton St. in downtown Brooklyn, 1962-66, both the cafeteria in the basement, and the fancier restaurant on the 4th floor. When I had the shrimp creole at the restaurant, I thought I was in heaven !
The Gertz Dept. Store in Jamaica was, if I remember it correctly, sort of like a 2nd rate Macy's yet still a very nice department store. I remember it well because my sister-in-law Regina Murphy worked there in the coffee shop in Gertz as a waitress in the late 60s/early 70s.
Does anyone remember the odd but very tasty chicken chow mein sandwiches on a hamburger bun you could get at the Woolworth's counter in Jamaica?
I remember when I was a child, my grandmother taking me shopping with her and we would always eat lunch in a dept. store restaurant or coffee shop. It seemed so many stores had them back "in the day". What a terrific convenience for shoppers!
Thanks, Ed Solero. Did you graduated from Jamaica High School in June 1983 ?
The Gertz was to the west on Jamaica at New York Blvd, wasn't it? That street is now known as Guy R. Brewer Blvd. Mays was another department store I remember in the area, further to the east on Jamaica Ave around 170th Street. Mays lasted at least into the early 1980's when I graduated from Jamaica High School.
I don't recall a Gimbel's in Jamaica, but there was a Macy's on 165th Street opposite the bus terminal. I think that the Gertz department store was always known as Gertz. It certainly was when it closed in 1980, at which time Gertz stores in other areas (including Flushing and Douglaston) switched to the Stern's banner. Gertz had been a division of Allied Stores, which also owned Stern's.
Thanks for all the comments about the 9/14/52 movies at the Valencia. I also took the 1st commentor's suggestion to check the NY Times microfilm @ the library & found that they were Iindeed "20 Million Miles to Earth" & "The 27th Day" Relative to another issue there was a Gimbels on the south side of Jamaica Ave. near the theater & before it was a Gimbels it was a Gertz.
Loew's Triboro was first-run for Astoria, but second-run for Queens overall, until the introduction of saturation bookings in the 1960s. In the days when the Triboro followed the Valencia by a week, the Triboro's programs were exclusive for that week and not shown elsewhere in Queens. After a week at the Triboro, the programs moved on simultaneously to the remaining Loew's theatres in Queens— the Woodside, Plaza, Prospect, Hillside, and Willard. After they had finished their Loew's runs, the movies would start turning up at other Queens theatres.
I notice in the ad that it's the last day at the Valencia for "Beau James" and "Rumble on the Docks" and that they both would be playing the next day at the Loew's Triboro in Astoria. So I guess the Triboro was a send-run move-over house, even though it was a pretty opulent place itself. /theaters/1542/
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Thanks, saps.
Their good points ? Yes, two each, I would say.
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saps, whose chest do you prefer, King Kong's or Jayne Mansfield's ? How about Fay Wray ?
Yes, Lost Memory, you may attend a service at the Tabernacle Of Prayer. Now, how do we get you back in time 30 or more years ?
Some creature running amok, Jayne Mansfield ? How about "Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman" ? She went looking for Harry inside the Valencia, and damaged the El in so doing !
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How did you cheat? Did you look it up somewhere?
The answer, for when Warren's link is taken down, is "20 Million Miles to Earth" and "The 27th Day."
and I was almost right — there WAS a Jayne Mansfield picture playing in Jamaica that date, but not with the ad line "Not Since 'King Kong' Has The Screen Seen Anything Like It!" although both pictures had stars with prominent chests.
Interesting, Warren, that it would have been fight FILMS, then, rather than closed-circuit TV coverage of the fight.
P.S. Though it's not mentioned in the ad, Loew's Valencia was also showing "blow-by-blow" film coverage of the recent Patterson-Rademacher heavyweight match. On 9/14/57, which happened to be a Saturday, the last complete program started at 10:23 PM with the fight films, followed by the second feature at 10:44 and the main at 12:03 AM. Exit time would have been in the vicinity of 1:30 AM.
Excuse me, "Quatermass And The Pit" was the British title of the 1967 film released as "Five Million Years To Earth" in the USA. The second, 1957 Quatermass film, again with Brian Donlevy in the title role, was titled simply "Quatermass 2".
There was also a TV series titled "Quatermass And The Pit".
Thanks, Warren.
Which two films were Columbia releases ?
Both were Columbia releases. Also showing in Jamaica on 9/14/57 were revivals of "The Thing" & "Mighty Joe Young" at the RKO Alden; "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" & "The Third Key" at the Skouras Merrick; "Sweet Smell of Success" & "The Ride Back" at the Hillside (no longer Loew's); and a triple bill of "Escape to Burma" & "The Americano" & "Creature With the Atom Brain" at the Savoy: www.i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/val957.jpg
You're welcome, Ed. It's million of years, instead of millions of miles. I saw all three Quatermass films at Film Forum in lower Manhattan in August 1987, my first time to one of their summer sci fi film festivals. The line I remember from "Quatermass And The Pit" was Quatermass saying, "Those pipes are full of human pulp !" and seeing some monstrous bell-shaped thing, like The Addams' Family's Cousin Itt, sloshing around in dark liquid goo inside of some huge septic tank.


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About Us
Stop Look Listen is a live music event held every month in London.
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Venue address: The Finsbury, 336 Green Lanes, N4 1BY. (View on map)
Live Music for Music Lovers
For an in-depth look at what it's all about check out this inteview:
Zoe Konez and Will Connor run Stop Look Listen, a monthly live music night. We caught up with them to ask a few probing questions about what lies behind Stop Look Listen.
We got chatting to them about their lives as musicians, discussed the merits of working within a creative collective, and found out about the perils of getting locked inside your own house just before a gig.
NT: Hi guys, let's talk a bit about Stop Look Listen. Where did the idea come from?
Will: It has evolved, more-or-less, from Listen Acoustic night which took one band from the local area and one band from out of town or on tour and put them together for a great night of live music hosted by Zoe.
NT: Is that the format for Stop Look Listen too?
Zoe: It's a similar format. We have at least one London-based act and at least one from another town or from abroad – we think it's quite important to have the mix. Stop Look Listen is bigger than its predecessor with 4 or 5 bands at each show and it's got more emphasis on bands adapting their set exclusively for the night.
NT: Adapting their set? How?
Will: It could be a re-interpretation of their songs, or collaborating with another artist or musician they don't normally work with, or changing the instrumentation around. In these days of a billion genres it's increasingly difficult to classify styles of music and put bands into neat little boxes, so in our small way we're celebrating this cross-fertilisation.
NT: And what's your story? I mean, what's your background as musicians?
Zoe: We've played in bands a long time, toured quite a bit, and have done all sorts of gigs. We play together in the band called 'Zoe Konez' – we're a 2-piece band influenced by a wide variety of genres which is probably why we enjoy hosting such a diverse range of bands.
Will: Zoe writes edgy lyrics and great catchy melodies. She uses altered tunings and irregular rhythms quite often. I play a variety of percussive setups ranging from full drum kit to busking kit to odd percussion like a particularly musical camping kettle.
Zoe: We moved to London last year from the south coast after recording the Home From Home album, although we spent quite a big chunk of last year on tour in Australia and various places.
NT: How has your past experience playing gigs shaped your vision for Stop Look Listen?
Will: Aha..! Well, as a band it's amazing what a mixed set of experiences you have going from gig to gig, in terms of the way you get treated by the promoter and the venue. We've certainly noticed how much better we play when we feel welcomed and wanted. And that positive vibe rubs off on the audience too.
Zoe: Yes it's really important that everyone, band and audience, feels engaged and up for it. So with Stop Look Listen, we are taking all the positive experiences we've had as gigging musicians and injecting those into making the night a great thing for bands to play and a brilliant night of entertainment for the audience too.
NT: Cool. So talking about the audience, what kind of people come to Stop Look Listen?
Zoe: I guess the crowd is always going to be an eclectic mix of people. We have purposefully left the definition of the genre of music quite loose – we didn't want to label Stop Look Listen as an acoustic night. I'd say most people who come to the shows are fairly weary of labels and genres, but open-minded to hearing bands in a format they probably won't hear anywhere else. I think we expected to attract mainly other musicians and arty-types, but it turns out people from all walks of life come to the shows.
NT: And what about the bands – how do you go about booking them?
Will: Erm, well, to be honest, we haven't got a rigid system. It's a combination of knowing and liking a band so we approach them, or us being approached by bands who want to play. For the headline acts it's all about them being the kind of band that doesn't always play an unplugged or 'acoustic' set.
NT: I noticed you've talked about putting on a show rather than describing Stop Look Listen as a gig. Is that intentional?
Will: I hadn't meant to do that on purpose. We don't want what we're doing to come across as pretentious – because it's not – it's a lovely relaxed and entertaining gig. Although having said that, yes, I guess we do have certain production values we want to convey. So, thinking of Stop Look Listen as a show gives the night a sense of unity and conveys the fact that a lot of thought has gone into programming the acts on the line-up. It's not just a random gig.
NT: I see – that's great! Turning the question around then, how do you see it developing as a show?
Zoe: In future Stop Look Listens we'd like to draw a bit more out of the 'Look' part of the name – and get visual artists involved in some of the performances. Actually, we have already been doing this… At the first Stop Look Listen night we had the wonderful shadow puppetry of Matthew Robins projected onto the walls behind the stage whilst Matthew and his band played.
Will: The walls of Native Tongue seem to lend themselves rather well to having projectors pointed at them! We're not talking crazy light shows or trippy art videos – I don't think that would gel with the 'unplugged' vibe. Artists and animators interested in perhaps showing a short film or doing something creative in collaboration with one of the bands should get in touch with us…
NT: How do bands and artists get in touch with you?
Will: The best place to start is to visit our website or Facebook page and get connected to the Collective. We like it when bands come down to a Stop Look Listen night and introduce themselves to us personally and do it the old-fashioned way, handing us a CD and having a chat.
NT: Does it have to be a band that doesn't usually play acoustic?
Zoe: That's for the headliners at least. The support bands are likely to be acoustic acts – soloists or duos. The headline band can be quite the opposite of what you'd expect to hear at an acoustic or mellow gig – any band can put themselves forward to play Stop Look Listen as long as they are seeing the potential for them to strip their usual setup to play an unplugged or near-acoustic set.
NT: Why choose Native Tongue as the venue for Stop Look Listen?
Zoe: We love that Native Tongue is run as a collective - the team is fantastic. And the space inside is very decent size yet it retains an intimate feel. There's a great stage and sound setup. What more could we want?
NT: You mentioned the word 'collective' a couple of times. I know you guys are the main organisers of the night, but who else is involved in the collective?
Will: We have a whole cast of collaborators who are involved in the many tasks involved in putting on the night.
Zoe: Jennifer Boulter designed artwork and posters, we have a DJ playing between sets, help with promoting and publicity, and an extended network of artists and musicians. Will and I work on the bulk of booking, liasing, and organising, beyond this we see Native Tongue, the audience and the acts all as equally important segments of the collective which come together to make the event such a successful and enjoyable night.
NT: Have there been any funny stories or rock 'n roll misadventures you can spill the beans about?
Will: Nothing terribly crazy we can reveal any juicy gossip about, unfortunately, no. There was a slight mis-hap on the very first Stop Look Listen night when immediately before setting off from home there was a major front-door malfunction and Zoe got locked inside the house! That added to the excitement for the first show. It went supremely well as it turned out.
NT: Yes – it sure did. I love the atmosphere at Stop Look Listen.
Will: It's a great atmosphere. It's the right balance of a sit-down-and-watch show combined with a friendly informal and relaxed gig.
Zoe: I think the audience gets that. We do want people to listen and watch whilst the acts are on stage but it happens automatically rather than having to be imposed or enforced.
NT: I guess the name of the night Stop Look Listen implies that it's the kind of gig where the audience should, err, stop look and listen…
Zoe: Yes for sure! That's pretty much sums up what it's all about.
NT: Excellent… I think it's a brilliant idea and a great format. Thanks for coming down to tell us more about it.
STOP LOOK LISTEN is held on the first Tuesday of every month. Check out the Stop Look Listen website for details of the next event, view archives from past shows, and reserve (free) tickets for future events – www.stop-look-listen.co.uk. For more information about Zoe Konez see www.zoekonez.co.uk.
Reviews / Press coverage
"Stop Look and Listen is a musical treat …and the incessant chatter that you hear at so many gigs, didn't seem to exist… People were actually sitting and listening to and enjoying the music."
London Is Cool http://londoniscool.com/stop-look-and-listen-%E2%80%93-live-music-at-the-native-tongue
"Rhythm Circus' verdict: Stop, Look, Go, Listen."
Rhythm Circus http://www.rhythmcircus.co.uk/music/stop-look-listen-music-stripped-bare/
"Verdict: do Stop, Look and Listen."
A Blogger Blogs http://www.abloggerblogs.org/2012/06/zoe-konez-presents-stop-look-listen.html


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Long-time Cleveland radio personality Bruce Ryan, who was at WKRQ-FM in the 1970s, died Friday at a Cleveland area hospice.
WGRR-FM's Chris O'Brien passes this along. He says Ryan was hired at Q102 in 1975, and did mornings until O'Brien returned to the Q from Chicago to do mornings. Ryan "then went to Cleveland, where he's apparently been ever since. His wife, Carol, was in the biz, too. She did news on the Q for awhile and maybe WKRC-AM."
Here's a link to the Cleveland Plain Dealer obit. Ryan worked on Cleveland's WGAR-AM and the old WLTF-FM (LITE ROCK 106.5), and ran the Ohio Center for Broadcasting.
A memorial service is 10 a.m. Saturday the Luthern Church of the Good Shepherd in Brooklyn, Ohio.
Did you know Bruce Ryan? Share your remembrances here.
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Photoshop Lady
Your Favourite Photoshop Tutorials in One Place
Making a Spectacular Natural Scene
In this tutorial it will cover the process of editing your landscape photos in Photoshop to give an epic, almost fantasy style appearance with bright colours, high contrast and lots of fine detail.
Create an Awesome Dancing Poster
Learn how to create this abstract Dance night poster with Photoshop. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create abstract atmospheric. Throughout the tutorial, you'll learn how to use dodge and burn tool to do basic and simple painting, smudging, masking, color adjustment, lightning and some more.
Making a Colorfully irregular Ribbon for your Image
In this tutorial, it shows how he got stuck into creating one of his stylish images, starting from a basic model shot. It shares his tips on tricky cut-outs, seamless compositing, and blending of vector images so that they complement, rather than clash with, your composition.
Work Through of Making a Funny Goggle Scene
Simple photo manipulation can allow you to do many interesting scene. This is going to show you making a funny diving scene and filled with water inside the goggle.
Making a Dramatic Icy Background for a Heroine
In this tutorial, we will be learning how to create a rock formation from scratch using Photoshop. You can make any shape or word for your ice as a background to stand out your artwork.
Simple Work Through for Drawing a Cartoon Wolf
Most of animals have their own fur. Learning to draw animal's fur is always useful to your artworks. This will show you the work through for drawing a cartoon wolf, then you will have an idea to initiate your drawing.
Create a Realistic Underwater Scene in Photoshop
Underwater scenes can be quite challenging to create in a realistic way. In this tutorial, we will explain how to create an Underwater scene in Photoshop using several stock photographs.
Making an Animated Interface GIF in Adobe Photoshop
In this tutorial, we will design a simple news iPhone app, and then animate it for client presentation and export it as a GIF file. You'll learn everything you need to go from idea to animated demo, all inside any recent version of Photoshop.
Create an Amazingly 3D Colorful Text Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will learn how to bring a simple text to life and place everything in fantastic, colored and glowing 3D space. Some neat techniques covered here will allow you to bring your art to the next level.
Making a Beautiful Transparent Wing for a Fairy
Learn how to make this eerie photo manipulation with fairy and dragonflies flying around her. It will show you, how to make amazing depth of field on your manipulation by simple steps. You will see, how to use different blurs and blending modes on your work.


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News Release
Magnitude 6.3 TAIWAN REGION
Monday, November 08, 2004 at 15:55:01 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
The following is a revised REPEAT revised release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: A strong earthquake occurred 150 km (95 miles) SE of T'AI-PEI, Taiwan at 8:55 AM MST, Nov 8, 2004 (11:55 PM local time in Taiwan). The magnitude and location may be revised when additional data and further analysis results are available. There have been no reports of damage.
Felt on Taiwan. Rock slides at I-lan. Recorded (4 TAP) in I-lan; (3 TAP) in Chang-hua, Hua-lien, Hsin-chu, Miao-li, Nan-t'ou, T'ai-pei and T'ao-yuan; (2 TAP) in Chia-i, T'ai-chung, T'ai-nan, T'ai- tung and Yun-lin Counties. Also recorded (2 JMA) on Iriomote-jima, Ishigaki-jima and Yonaguni-jima; (1 JMA) on Tarama-shima, Ryukyu Islands.


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Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
The game is designed to change the way players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment; similar to how Half-Life® 2's Gravity Gun innovated new ways to leverage an object in any given situation.
Players must solve physical puzzles and challenges by opening portals to maneuvering objects, and themselves, through space.
Customer reviews
Short, sweet, and almost perfectmidgetjacks | Oct. 4, 2014 | See all midgetjacks's reviews »
Man, who could've seen this one coming? The tiny little puzzle game squeezed in among the heavy hitters of Half Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 became the star of the package and has endured while Half Life has withered away, and Team Fortress 2 has leaned in hard to embracing the insanity and hats. You start slow, as in any good puzzle game, and just keep ramping up. Nothing outstays its welcome, because by the time something is starting to grow stale, you're already on to the next thing. Sure, maybe the ending gameplay is just so-so, but it's still fun, start to finish.
Wow...darkhorse441 | Sept. 20, 2014 | See all darkhorse441's reviews »
What can be said about Portal that hasn't been said a thousand times; the gameplay is probably the most innovative of the generation, the story is engaging and witty, and the graphics are top-notch (for a 2007 game) and still hold up today. The only real compaint is the very short nature of the game; an average player could finish it in three hours, though I guarantee it will be some of the best moments you've ever spent gaming. Journey through one of the greatest and most original of Valve games, and get ready to play a game that defined this generation of gaming.
Brilliant GameImSoAw3some | Sept. 20, 2014 | See all ImSoAw3some's reviews »
Portal is definitely in my top 5 all time favorite games. This innovative first person puzzle platformer took a bold step with new mechanics and an engaging story. The puzzles are genius. They are challenging, yet not overly hard to where you'd ragequit. They feel rewarding to complete, and the main antagonist, GLaDOS, is a humorous robot who enjoys torturing you between your test chambers. I mean, what's better than fun puzzles and a psychotic robot? Get this game. It's an experience no gamer should be without. It is short, but well worth every penny. Advanced maps and challenges will keep you occupied for many hours after the main story.
Puzzle Geniusadboyum | Sept. 15, 2014 | See all adboyum's reviews »
This game is amazing for anyone who enjoys puzzles and likes a good laugh. Portal has perfectly mixed comedy with thought. The game is hilarious and will have you busting a gut while also hurting your brain with puzzle rooms that give you a great feeling when you're finally able to figure it out and advance to the next mind bending room. Gameplay is awesome, characters are awesome and it's just so different than anything else that's been made. Definitely recommend this game.
Haven't you played this already?LautaroCompleX | Aug. 25, 2014 | See all LautaroCompleX's reviews »
If the answer is no, then hurry up and get to it! This is one of the most iconic games in the history of both FPS and strategy. This is a fun game, intense, makes you think and reason a lot, and it also has an amazing backstory which gets to you straight away. It can be hard, but the fun is almost limitless. Also, the community is huge, so be a part of it, you know you want to.


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Monitor the QObject Tree of a Qt App
Because it is still reported that the ownCloud Client has an increasing memory footprint when running for long time I am trying to monitor the QObject tree of the client. Valgrind does not report any memory problems with it so my suspicion was that somewhere QObjects are created with valid parent pointers referencing a long living object. These objects might accumulate unexpectedly over time and waste memory.
So I tried to investigate the app with Qt Inspector of Robert Knight. That's a great tool, but it does not yet completely do what I need because it only shows QWidget based objects. But Robert was kind enough to put me on the right track, thanks a lot for that!
I tried this naive approach:
In the clients main.cpp, I implemented these both callback functions:
QSet<QObject*> mObjects; extern "C" Q_DECL_EXPORT void qt_addObject(QObject *obj) { mObjects.insert(obj); } extern "C" Q_DECL_EXPORT void qt_removeObject(QObject *obj) { mObjects.remove(obj); }
Qt calls these callbacks whenever a QObject is created or deleted respectively. When the object is created I add it's pointer to the QSet mObjects, and if it is deleted, it is removed from the QSet. My idea was that after the QApp::exec() call returns, I would have to see which QObjects are still in the mObjects QSet. After a longer run of the client, I hoped to see an artificial amount of objects being left over.
Well, what should I say… No success so far: After first tests, it seems that the amount of left-over objects is pretty constant. Also, I don't see any objects that I would not kind of expect.
So this little experiment left more questions than answer: Is the suspicion correct that QObjects with a valid parent pointer can cause the memory growth? Is my test code as I did it so far able to detect that at all? Is it correct to do the analysis after the app.exec() call returned?
If you have any hints for me, please let me know! How would you tackle the problem?
This is the link to my modified main.cpp:
Let's party!
Yesterday, we released ownCloud 7. You might have read that somewhere on the internet – it was widely announced and broadly picked up. If you do not have ownCloud yet, you really should try it now, and if you are one of the people happily using ownCloud for a while, update soon!
In my opinion, ownCloud 7 is a real step ahead. So much work went into it from the brave server guys, and the result is simply impressive: It is fast, beautiful and fully focused on what it is supposed to be and do: File sync and share, even though you still have of course all the other useful stuff like calendaring and such.
Apart from the wellknown features ownCloud 7 also brings some things that you do not see on the first look. Some of these things relate to syncing and as a guy working mainly on the sync client I am especially happy about that: Already with the current released clients you will see a performance win in syncing, because ownCloud 7 handles parallel HTTP requests way better. Moreover, ownCloud 7 sends some interesting information about it's files, and the next generation of sync clients will for example know which files are shared and their permissions. We are currently working on some exciting stuff on the client side, stay tuned.
That all should be reason enough to celebrate together, because ownCloud is done by all of us in the community.
On Tuesday, august 5th, we will do a Release Party in Nuremberg, Germany. As last time, the Coworkingspace Nürnberg is hosting us. We will start at 18:00.
Everybody who is interested in ownCloud for whatever reason is very welcome to show up. We will probably have a short informal demonstration or two, but of course plenty room for questions, discussions, meet and greet with all kind of FOSS people, some core ownCloud people, nice beer and big fun.
You really should come! And don't forget to tell your friends, thanks!
ownCloud Client 1.6.1
End of last week, we have released version 1.6.1 of the ownCloud Client, the desktop tool that does file syncing with your ownCloud. Read on the Desktop Client page how to get and install it.
The recommendation is to update your installation to this version. The previous version 1.6.0 had great new features, first and foremost the parallel up- and download of files and a way more performant handling of the local sync journal. That required a lot of code changes. Unfortunately that also brought in some bugs which are now fixed with the 1.6.1 release.
On the windows platforms, we experienced a memory leak that over time let the memory consumption of the client grow. Also, a problem in the Qt5 library that we ship for windows caused the problem that under some circumstances the wrong encryption lib was loaded, so that some people saw SSL problems on Windows.
And there were crashes. Users kept on reporting that the client was crashing after some time on windows, without a special reason. None of the developers was able to reproduce that or ever saw that. We asked for backtraces, which also can be produced on windows. Even though the backtraces looked similar, we did not find an obvious reason for the crashes. Finally, by reading through all involved code levels again and again, Olivier was able to spot some code in libneon that, again under special circumstances, could cause crashes on win.
It was a one line fix, we quickly built test packages, people tested, and finally the crashes were gone (the patch to libneon is on its way to upstream of course).
All that is now fixed in 1.6.1.
What does that show?
There not very much little "easy" bug findings any more. That is similar to the soccer world championship, where the coaches keep telling that there are no "easy opponents" any more nowadays, which is also true. These tricky problems we face in the client are hard to find, require time, often special setups if they are reproduceable at all, and advanced debugging skills. Very challenging, very much fun. But that also requires very much patience from the people who suffer from that bugs. We keep on asking questions,
ask to test new daily builds and need time to investigate stuff, and more time to release once we have the fix.
Thank you all for helping in this situation, not giving up, for again testing another daily build, reporting back, trying again. That is really big.
Kraft Release 0.55
Herewith I announce the availability of the new Kraft release 0.55.
It was finished today and fixes two issues that came up after the release of the previous version: A compile fix for compiling Kraft against the latest version of ctemplate, which did not work out of the box with Kraft 0.54. The other fix is a fail in generating PDF documents which is a pretty severe problem for Kraft. Both is now working well with the new version 0.55 which can be downloaded here.
Thanks a lot to the Kraft community for testing!
If you find other problems, want to give feedback or seek help, please see here how to proceed. Thanks!
New Kraft Release 0.54
I am happy to tell about the new release 0.54 of Kraft which was released a couple of days ago.
It is not only a maintenance release but also comes with a couple of new features, the most outstandig is the ability to handle a new document type, the delivery note which prints no prices. That closes a gap for interesting use cases. Here is a more detailed log of what was added to this release.
Kraft is KDE software to help people driving a small business. Emphasis is on small and business. We are not talking CMS, ERP or any other monster. Kraft is about a handy alternative for people who wrote their first 25 invoices using Libre Office and now start to think of how they could could be more efficient in doing that: Using structured templates, being able to create an invoice based on a quote that was done before, no need to fiddle around with slipping paragraphs, a proper address book, such stuff. Software for people who have other things to do than sit in front of their computer. Hard to understand for geeks like us who enjoy this technology, but yes, there are a lot of people who do not, who just use computers because they must, because they have a business.
I started to work on Kraft in 2006, and worked on similar software before, well, we all have our dark history. I always enjoyed doing software for people who would prefer to not use the computer. And the more I got involved into KDE the more obvious it became to me how perfectly KDE is able to help with that. High level classes, components to reuse, other projects aiming the same direction, and a community of helpful, friendly and open minded people. Also I think software like Kraft is a good addition to the KDE family as it has potential to bring more and different users to KDE.
However, if measured by the number of known users of Kraft, this idea failed completely. Compared to other KDE software, Kraft has disappointing little (known) users. Also contributors: Apart from very few brave developers who spent some time on Kraft, I am the only contributor. The reasons for that can be discussed in another thread.
What still keeps me motivated to work on Kraft is that the few users often tell how happy they are with it. And that Kraft really helps them to drive their business and save time. Also that they found with Linux and KDE a computer "environment" that really helps them reliably instead of facing them with scary stuff. That is really cool, and the best is that this recently happened more often than the years before.
That is what keeps me around with Kraft.
For the future, there are enough ideas: "Combined Kraft" which means using one instance of Kraft from distributed home offices, with ownCloud as sync hub, or an easy to use project management and of course a port to KDE Frameworks 5 to be able to ship for Mac and and and…
Well, it's a pet project, and my day unfortunately does not leave very much energy behind for that currently, so don't expect big movement, but be sure that there will be small steps.
ownCloud @ Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2014
Last weekend Daniel, Arthur, Morris and me were in Chemnitz where the Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2014 took place. We drove a booth during the two days, the CLT host around 60 boothes of companies and FOSS projects. I like to go to the CLT because it is perfectly organized with great enthusiasm of everybody involved from the organisation team. Food, schedules, the venue, everything is perfect.
Even on saturday morning, short after opening of the event, somebody from the orga team was showing up on the booth with chocolate for the volunteers, saying hello and asking if everything is in place for a successful weekend. A small detail, which shows how much effort is put into organization of the event.
As a result, visitors come to visit the event. It's mostly a community centric event: Exhibitors are mostly representing FOSS projects such as openstreetmap.org, distributions like Fedora or openSUSE or companies from the free software market.The majority of visitors are mostly interested in private use of the software. But, no rule without exception, we also had a remarkable number of people from companies, either executives or people working in the IT departments, who were interested in ownCloud.
Speaking about ownCloud, I want to say that it's amazing to represent our project. People know it, people like it, people use it. In private, but also in professional space people work with ownCloud already or are planing to start with ownCloud. ownCloud already is the accepted solution for the problems that became so practical with the NSA scandal last year.
My talk with title A private Cloud with ownCloud on Saturday morning was very well received and went smooth. The room was too small, lots of people had to stand or sit on the stairs. It was a very positive atmosphere.
Something that changed compared to last year and the year before: Most discussions were around how ownCloud can be installed, integrated and used and not any more about which features are still missing or maybe also bugs.
So it were two very exhausting days, but big fun! Thanks to Daniel, Arthur and Morris for the work and fun we had on the booth, and thanks to the CLT team for CLT.
ownCloud 6 Releaseparty in Nuremberg
The ownCloud community released ownCloud 6 a couple of days ago. That was another big release and we want to celebrate!
Please, everybody who is interested in ownCloud, like to learn more, give feedback or just want to meet other people from the community, you are invited to show up at Coworking Space in Nuremberg, Josephsplatz 8, on december 18th, 6pm.
We will have a relaxed evening with a little discussion, maybe short demos, cakes and stuff, and fun. No heavy talks and serious faces!
We are looking forward to meeting you.