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7 July 2015 12:50 PM, PDT | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Bleecker Street to partner with Netflix to distribute Cary Fukunaga's Beasts Of No Nation theatrically.
Netflix has announced that the rollout of its original film initiative will begin with Beasts Of No Nation, the new film written and directed by Cary Fukunaga (True Detective, Sin Nombre) starring Idris Elba (Luther, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom).
The film will debut on October 16 worldwide on Netflix in all territories where the internet TV network is available and on the same day in select Us theatres.
Andrew Karpen's New York-based Bleecker Street will distribute the film theatrically. The deal builds on the relationship between Karpen and Fukunaga from the days when the former was co-ceo at Sin Nombre and Jane Eyre distributor Focus Features.
Bleecker Street, backed by 5-Hour Energy founder Manoj Bhargava, has established early ties with the entertainment world's digital titans. It will serve as theatrical distributor on Elvis & Nixon, which [link=co »
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Paul Reubens is bringing his famous 1980's Pee-wee Herman character into the digital age. Reubens released an Instagram selfie on April 17, 2015, taken from the set of Netflix's upcoming Judd Apatow-produced film Pee-wee's Big Holiday.
Reubens used the official Pee-wee Herman Instagram account to post the selfie of him as the childlike, fictional character with a characteristic wardrobe and laugh that was beloved by many children of the '80s. Alongside him was actor Joe Manganiello (of Magic Mike Xxl fame), who joined the Pee-wee's Big Holiday cast on April 8. The selfie reveals little of what's actually going on in the film's set, but clearly showcases Pee-wee's rather goofy smile.
Pee-wee's Big Holiday, all about the titular character taking his first vacation, was written by Reubens and Paul Rust, an actor from Inglorious Basterds and writer for a few Arrested Development episodes (another production »
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19 March 2015 1:37 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
With production underway on Pee-wee's Big Holiday, Paul Reubens has taken to his blog to post a first-look image from the Netflix original movie…
Speaking to EW, Reubens has also offered up some details on Pee-wee's third feature, stating that: "It's a road-trip movie across the country. It's very similar in style and tone to Pee-wee's Big Adventure. But it's not about a bicycle. I never really thought of Big Adventure as a family movie, but I didn't try to make an adult movie or a kid movie. We wanted to make something that appealed to a wide age range, and I think that's the case with this movie also."
Pee-wee's Big Holiday will mark the feature directorial debut of John Lee and is expected later this year.
- Gary Collinson
26 February 2015 2:45 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
We've known for a while that a new Pee-wee Herman film is in the works, and now the official site of Paul Reubens' iconic character has announced that production on the Judd Apatow-produced Netflix original movie Pee-wee's Big Holiday is set to get underway in March under first time feature director John Lee.
"Judd and I dreamt up this movie four years ago. The world was much different back then— Netflix was waiting by the mailbox for red envelopes to arrive. I've changed all that. The future is here. Get used to it. Bowtie is the new black," said 'Pee-wee', with Apatow adding that: "As a fan of Pee-wee Herman since he first appeared on The Dating Game, I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the brilliant Paul Reubens on this film. It is a dream come true."
The brief synopsis reads: "In Pee-wee's Big Holiday, »
- Gary Collinson
25 February 2015 12:28 PM, PST | Uinterview | See recent Uinterview news »
Pee-wee Herman's next big adventure, Pee-wee's Big Holiday, will be coming to Netflix with the help of producer Judd Apatow. 'Pee-wee's Big Holiday On Netflix Netflix announced the feature film Thursday in a press release. Apatow is producing the film alongside the movie's star Paul Reubens, who co-wrote the film with Paul Rust. John Lee will be making […]
The post Judd Apatow Teams Up With Netflix For 'Pee-wee's Big Holiday' appeared first on uInterview. »
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24 February 2015 7:12 AM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Pee-wee Herman is coming to Netflix, in a new film produced by Judd Apatow. The streaming video service announced today that "Pee-wee's Big Holiday," written by Paul Reubens and Paul Rust, and directed by Comedy Central vet John Lee in his feature debut, will begin production in March. The release describes the plot as "a fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to take his first-ever holiday in this epic story of friendship and destiny." "As a fan of Pee-wee Herman since he first appeared on The Dating Game," Apatow said in the statement, "I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the brilliant Paul Reubens on this film. It is a dream come true." "Judd and I dreamt up this movie four years ago," said Reubens. "The world was much different back then— Netflix was waiting by the mailbox for red envelopes to arrive. I've changed all that. »
- Alan Sepinwall
24 February 2015 5:17 AM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
We've been hearing about the return of Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman for some time now, and it looks like shit's finally getting real next month! The next Pee-Wee Herman film, Pee-wee's Big Holiday, goes into production in March and will premiere exclusively on Netflix. Judd Apatow, who has been working behind the scenes to bring this project to fruition, will be producing the flick. Reubens wrote the film with Paul Rust (Arrested Development) and John Lee will be making his »
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At about noon on Monday James Cameron returned from his solo dive into the Mariana Trench.
Describing what he'd seen, Cameron said, "It was bleak. It looked like the moon." He also said that he saw no fish and few signs of life aside from a few shrimplike amphipods.
Cameron's exploration was cut short after three hours due to a hydraulic fluid leak. This hampered his ability to move his craft around as well as his control over the robotic arms that were meant to pick up geological samples.
Cameron's excitement remained undiminshed by these setbacks. "Next dive," he said. "Gotta leave something for the next one."
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A six-run fourth and a three-run seventh were too much for the Mizzou baseball team to overcome as it fell to IPFW, 11-8, on Saturday morning (March 1) at Gary Hogan Field in Mizzou's first game of the UALR Invitational. Freshman Ryan Howard tallied his first career multi-hit game with three hits and a career-high four RBI and Mizzou walked 11 times, its most since March 5, 2011, against UIC. But Mizzou struggled to slow the Mastodon bats, surrendering 16 hits. The loss drops the Tigers to 3-6 on the season. Breckin Williams took the loss as he drops to 0-1 on the season and IPFW's Kevin Kimball earned the win. Kyle Sorensen earned his first save of the season.
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- Dribble the ball behind your back for a few seconds and try to draw the defence towards you.
- Dribble the ball vertically behind you and catch it between your calf and thigh.
- As you do this, fake over the defender's head with both hands.
- As they turn around, drop the ball and kick it at their back.
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Bynum crossover [Video Demonstration]
While not much to look at in isolation, this crossover can be beautiful when pulled off cleanly. Former Georgia Tech guard Will Bynum has broken it out frequently over the years, often using it to create space while caught in traffic. Simple to pick up but hard to perfect, it's a valuable addition to anyone's repertoire.Read More
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- Dribble the ball between your legs to your right hand.
- Cross the ball over to your left hand.
- With the ball on your left, straighten up as if to cross it back.
- Instead of dribbling the ball, simply drop it.
- Lean forward and catch the ball with your right hand.
- Pull it back to your right and continue from there.
See No Evil [Video Demonstration]
Move Type: Game
Tip: Hold the ball slightly behind your knees in order to conceal it from your defender.
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Baron Davis Spin [Video Demonstration]
If you want evidence of the efficacy of the move, you need look no further than Manu Ginobili, who found himself looking at thin air after Baron Davis turned him the wrong way with this one. Solid footwork and body control are required here, as well as good timing to ensure that the ball isn't exposed to the defender at any point.Read More
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- Dribble through your legs from back to front, from your left hand to your right.
- Cuff the ball in your right hand and fake across your body in the motion of an underarm pass.
- Do not release the ball, but pull it back across your body to your right side.
- Without dribbling, swing it back to your left side.
- Move your left leg forward and dribble the ball behind it (and through your legs).
- Regain control of the ball with your right hand.
Over and Back (Crossover) [Video Demonstration]
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Start with your right hand. Fake a fast start towards the right. At this point your defender believes you are driving to the basket with your right hand.
Block your start spinning clockwise at 180 degrees while bouncing the ball in your back from your right hand to your left hand.
The basket should be in your back when you catch the ball in your left hand.
As soon as your ball is in your right hand, continue spinning the remaining 180 degrees while bringing the ball back to your right hand between your legs.
As soon as the ball is in your right hand, fake another fast start towards the right and bring the ball back to the left hand by bouncing it behind your back.
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- As they lunge for it, reach across your body with your right hand and pull the ball back diagonally across your defender's body so that it bounces wide of your right side. This should leave them turned to their right while you slip easily past them on their left. Alternatively, you can dribble the ball between their legs (see the video for a demonstration).


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Crime on a Global Scale, One Gang at a Time
By Misha Glenny
Knopf, 375 pages, $27.95
Switch on a laptop or cellphone and you've used coltan, a mineral imbedded in electronic hardware; most of it is exported from Africa by criminals. Buy a cheap pack of cigarettes on a street corner and you may have fed a mob of black marketeers that stretches into Indian reservations or, in Europe, deep into the bloody misery of the Balkans. Wander outside the normal channels for caviar or tax-free migrant labor and you will have made bands of brigands ever more prosperous. And organized crime is the only winner from drugs, prostitutes and other illicit offerings not to be found at Wal-Mart or Costco.
As Misha Glenny shows in "McMafia," a vividly recounted journey through a dozen of the world's most potent gangs, cartels and transnational mafias, there is hardly any society or economic subculture that is not affected by global criminal networks. Naturally, criminal markets are not new, but in the late 1980s criminal business activity dramatically flourished with the collapse of communism, the loosening of authoritarian controls across the globe and, not least, the advent of anarchy in parts of Russia and the former Eastern bloc. Mr. Glenny's purpose is to describe the rise of this "shadow economy." He estimates that criminal business now amounts to 20% of global GDP.
The book's title, though clever, is misleading: The world's organized criminals are no homogenized franchise in the McDonald's mold. From place to place and region to region, they take all sorts of shapes and serve all sorts of purposes. In the Ukrainian port of Odessa, a "heroic gangster" named Karabas takes a tithe -- literally 10% -- from the local businesses in exchange for protection from outside criminal enterprises, until he's gunned down. ("Any firm, and there were a lot of them, considered it an honor to be under Karabas's protection," one business owner tells Mr. Glenny.) In Japan, yakuza syndicates eschew actual violence ("the credible threat of violence" is preferable, Mr. Glenny observes) as the mafia pursues its interests in everything from trafficking women to operating as "a de facto legal system" in resolving disputes over such matters as bankruptcy declarations, insurance claims and real-estate transactions. In India, gangs merge with sectarian politics -- "the gang wars of Bombay that exploded with renewed violence in the 1990s were in part a proxy conflict between the intelligence agencies of India and Pakistan," Mr. Glenny writes. But such mergers often self-destruct, he observes, in feuds worthy of Jacobean revenge tragedies. Meanwhile in Nigeria, the talented theatricality of Web-savvy fraudsters fuels "advance fee" scams over the Internet -- you probably have a few requests to help get money out of Africa in your inbox right now. A popular Nigerian song lauds such scams with the refrain: "White man! I go chop your dollar."
Nevertheless, common themes emerge. Organized crime usually steps in to replace state failure: It protects businesses and enforces contracts. Many syndicates move on to corner a monopoly in the supply of some illegal or highly taxed product or service. The two most lucrative fields are arms and drugs. Then come diamonds, energy, cigarettes, stolen cars and the trafficking of women. In one particularly harrowing episode, a duped woman from Moldova tells Mr. Glenny how a girlfriend called her up to tell her of a dream job abroad. She had no idea that a gun was being held to her friend's head. After a nightmarish journey that included the murder of a would-be escapee, the woman was forced under the Israeli border fence to work as a slave in the red-light district of Tel Aviv. Brothels throughout the world are supplied with workers in similar fashion.
Organizations follow patterns too. Criminal masterminds are rare, although Mr. Glenny finds one "merchant of death" in South Africa who buys a whole airport to supply arms to the continent's warring militias. Some mafias are based on families, as in Italy, tight-knit but vulnerable to blood feuds. Most are complex, self-perpetuating organisms, nurturing founding myths and forming shifting alliances with one another.
In later stages, some groups internationalize, seeking to launder money in "washing machines" like the Caribbean island of Aruba or the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai. Then comes the purchase of political influence. It is sometimes professionally done. Indeed, mafias like the Colombian cocaine cartels, which can turn a profit of $4 billion to $8 billion a year, begin to look like "good capitalists and entrepreneurs" -- micro-managing, looking into economies of scale, juggling supply and demand, and wielding MBAs.
Individuals in this underworld, Mr. Glenny finds, can be "fascinating characters of great intelligence, vitality, courage, wit and spirit." He tries and fails to avoid warming to a suave former Indian mobster who tells him that blowing the head off a victim makes him feel like a cricketer when he "hits the ball for six." One reason for such routinization of criminality is that people sometimes have no choice when a country or society collapses around them.
Far too often the criminal world overlaps with the one we think of as legal. If the elites in the West are so clean, why don't they shut down offshore banking centers? If Western countries really want to help backward countries mired in drug production, why don't they open up their own unfairly protected agricultural markets? If Americans want to smoke so many hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weed, are the peaceful-sounding Canadians of British Columbia evil to supply a good chunk of it? Or, as Mr. Glenny suggests, is it American drug prohibition itself that is spawning mafias, injustice and harm?
Mr. Glenny hops around the globe, noting everything from "the sewers of Nigeria's kleptocracy" to the "silent cacaphony of virtual chatter" in the parallel webs of Brazilian cybercrime. A book with such a wide scope inevitably raises more questions than it answers. The lack of historical comparisons and sourcing details leaves one wondering whether today's criminality is really, except for scale, much different from that of the past. But complacent foreign-affairs analysts have too long ignored the role of organized crime in guiding politics and perpetuating conflicts.
Mr. Glenny hopes that clearer-headed democracies can turn back the tide, but successes like the fight against "blood diamonds" are rare: It took government sanctions, a plucky NGO and an international publicity campaign to strangle the market for gems extracted in African war zones and sold to buy guns and supplies. The U.S. war on drugs has failed, he argues: Illicit drug prices have halved in the past decade as consumption and production have risen. In turn, he believes, this failure dooms the U.S. war against terrorism, "a primitive, small species" feeding in the same sea of criminality. He does, however, urge all to be brave. "Sharks only move in for the kill," a Russian mobster confides in him, "when they can taste the fear of their victims."
Mr. Pope, a senior analyst for International Crisis Group, is the author of "Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World" (Overlook Duckworth, 2005).


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Gary Shempp, owner of a bee rescue business, was called in to relocate the 30,000 bees that were found in a home in Cape May, N.J. Shempp moved the bees and extracted 25 pounds of honey from the home.
Good morning. I'm David Greene. Worldwide, the number of honey bees is on the decline. Don't tell that to homeowners in Cape May, New Jersey who found a honeycomb in their attic, along with 30,000 bees. Gary Shempp was called in. he owns Busy Bees, a bee rescue business. He relocated the insects and extracted 25 pounds of honey from the house. Shempp did get stung a few times, but he told the Philadelphia Inquiry he wasn't upset. In fact, he believes bees are underappreciated by humans. It's MORNING EDITION.
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With the following code, both items in the array are the same (the last item). What am I doing wrong that is causing this array to overwrite the values? I'm trying to use 1 object so I don't have to instantiate X number of objects.
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I took my family of 8 and we had a great time skiing here! None of our 6 kids had ever skiied but they all did well. The first day I had them take lessons and since it was early in the season there was nobody else learning so lots of attention. The lifts are really close to the lodge so easy to come and go and stay aware of where everyone was.
My wife and I hadn't skiied in over 20 years but we took back to it quickly and enjoyed green advanced and intermediate trails that were open. Because it was early in the season there weren't a lot of trails open but it was sufficient for us. Bretton Woods was also the only resort with beginner trails during most of the week we were in the area so it was our only real option, but we were thrilled with it.
I had previously only skiied at 3 places - Wisp (western Md), Liberty (southern PA), and Camelback (Poconos - PA) and Bretton Woods is more mountain than any of those. If you are used to better, then you might be disappointed with BW but I highly recommend it for beginning skiers and families.
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More recent work with Emily, mature and constructive comments and critiques encouraged and welcomed!
Great composition, lighting is fantastic and the countenance on the model is at once inviting and a bit mischievous. Great photo.
Lovely model...
i have never seen ever beauty like this great shot sir
oh my god! she's so gorgeous
DR0ck, Wow what a fantastic shot. I'm not skilled enough to offer true critique, but this is fantastic work. Love the blown-disheviled look of the model's hair. It gives the image a very natural and real look You've captured her eyes amazingly well.
The composition is excellent, inviting the viewer into the intimacy of her comfortable cozy-couch. The choice of lingerie accents her frame well.... although the detail of the lace in her bra seems to be lost in the blackness. I struggle with getting the details of black lingerie and "little black dresses".. can't ever seem to get them to show up well.
My only critique would be that the color of her eyes seems to be over brightened. But that's more of a personal taste issue.
Kudos on a fantastic image. Wish I could get such rich colors and detail! You've almost made me consider shooting Canon over Nikon.
Thank you very much for the detailed comment! Her eyes are just that bright! I didnt do anything to them lol. And I do love my Canon
Fabulous sexy, provocative shot. Beautiful model, a look of innocence and lust combined. Love it Thanks for sharing.
What an amazingly beautiful shot. Hair,eyes, face and bust are all incredible.
Emily is a true beauty. Those wonderful blue eyes...
A truly beautiful and sublime young woman. Please pass on my highest warmest and most profound respect and compliments.
Your composition and lighting truly brings out the very guest in this stunning model and the feelings in the shoot pin-sharp clear
She's cute love this shot
Beautiful composition, excellent use of depth of field, vibrant yet subdued background, and an expression that is captivating... Photographer and model working together to make a memorable photo.
Whoa......love the lighting and her look
WOW!!! I hope that is her actual eye color because they are dazzling...she's lovely!!!
Emily is just divine
She has eyes you can look in all day & night!
Great pic
The expression you were able to capture in her eyes is incredible. Excellent work.
Gorgeous shot!
A man could easily lose himself if he spent some time with Emily.
She is Mesmerizing.
She is Mesmerizing.
Just beauutiful!!!
Best shot of the whole series, great composition! It´s really provocative yet truly artistic. Her face can tell a story with that pose. Congrats!
Its like looking at the sun, look at it for to long and you go blind for the beauty is just that great.
a shame that shes already taken... lol.
great model and pose.
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Types of Numbers
Portion of the Whole
A percent is secretly just a fraction where the denominator is 100. However, we can also think of a percent as telling how much a part is of the whole. For example, if 75% of all charts used to demonstrate percents are in the form of pie charts, you could demonstrate that by filling in 3/4 of a pie chart. Ooh, we hope that doesn't skew our data.
To figure out what percent a is of b, write the fraction a/b and convert it into a decimal. Then change the decimal to a percent.
Sample Problem
What percent is 6 of 24?
6/24 = 1/4 = 0.25 = 25%
So if you watch Mad Men for 6 hours, that's 25% of your day you've spent watching TV. Oof.
The question could also be phrased, "What percent of 24 is 6?" The number after the word "of" is the whole, and the other number is the part. Don't always assume the bigger number is the whole, however. You might also be asked, "what percent of 6 is 24?" The answer to that one would be 400%. Which is definitely too much television.


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If you like Justified, you must read the four books Featuring Raylan Givens.
Riding the Rap
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Author Jim Harrison dead at 78
James O. Born Interviewed for Elmore Leonard Documentary
James W. Hall Interviewed for Elmore Leonard Documentary
Mike Sandy aka Max Cherry Interviewed for Elmore Leonard documentary
Japanese FU-GO Balloon Bombs in Michigan
The Pontiac Story of Progress & Promise
Tom Morwatts on Growing Up in Detroit
Detroit Punks: Mitch Ryder
Amazon 2015 Pilots Now Online – Including Point of Honor
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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
Viewing 1,301–1,310 out of 3,180 events
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Monday, August 22, 2016
Hallett Nature Sanctuary
at Hallett Nature Sanctuary (in Central Park), Manhattan
2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
During these limited hours, visitors can explore the normally-closed Hallett Sanctuary at their own pace along the rustic trail.
Category: Birding, Education, Nature, Hiking
Summer Sports Experience at Playground for all Children, Queens
at Playground for All Children (in Flushing Meadows Corona Park), Queens
3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks at the Playground for all Children Mondays- Fridays this summer to learn sports such as Wiffleball, Kickball, Ultimate Frisbee and Flag Football. All Levels appropriate.
Category: Best for Kids, Sports, Summer Sports Experience
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
at Lawn (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
5:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
"Khan" is considered by many to be the best movie of the cult sci-fi series. Playing the villainous Khan is Ricardo Montalban who originated the role on TV in 1967.
Category: Film, Free Summer Movies
Family Drumming: West African Drum and Dance
at Indian Road Lawn (in Inwood Hill Park), Manhattan
6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
All are welcome to learn the traditional dances unique to West Africa. You can also bring your own drum and follow the guidance of our professional drumming teachers.
Category: Dance, Fitness, Outdoor Fitness
Movies Under The Stars: The Good Dinosaur
at George Seuffert Bandshell (in Forest Park), Queens
7:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
Come and enjoy this exciting movie!
Category: Film, Best for Kids, Free Summer Movies, Movies Under the Stars
Movie Night: Inside Out
at Main Park House (in Cunningham Park), Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life, her emotions, Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness, conflict on how best to navigate.
Category: Film, Free Summer Movies
Central Astoria Movies on the Waterfront: Jaws
at Astoria Park Lawn (in Astoria Park), Queens
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist, and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.
Category: Film, Free Summer Movies, Waterfront
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Morning Fitness at Fort Tryon Park
at Heather Garden (in Fort Tryon Park), Manhattan
7:30 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
Come to Fort Tryon Park and try something new. Join us on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings for one hour of walking, stretching, and strengthening exercises.
Category: Fitness, Outdoor Fitness
Bryant Park Tai Chi
at Fountain Terrace (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
7:30 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
Enjoy free Tai Chi classes in the park. All ages and levels of experience are welcome.
Category: Fitness, Outdoor Fitness, Seniors
at 22nd Street Seating Steps (in The High Line), Manhattan
8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Join the Integral Yoga Institute, Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, and other guests for guided meditations. Open to people of all ages and experience levels.
Category: Fitness, Outdoor Fitness
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I don't think I can upgrade as I will loose the option to post to my twitter account all my new posts which i REALLY need!
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Small Outline Transistor (SOT) packages, widely used in consumer electronics, are very small, inexpensive surface-mount plastic molded packages. In order to maximize product throughput, the molded array matrix is employed for products fabrication, which leads to a potential critical wire sweep issue for SOT package during the transfer molding process. The unreasonably large wire sweep will extremely influence the package reliability, and even lead to failure of the product. In this study, both experimental and simulated works were resorted to analyze the wire sweep of SOT package array matrix mold. At the beginning, two different simulation methods, 3D analysis and Dual Domain analysis, were employed to predict the flow pattern and wire sweep during the transfer molding process with a hybrid finite-element/finite-difference method using commercial software Autodesk Moldflow Insight (AMI). It is found that both of the methods can obtain a well matched flow pattern but Dual Domain analysis acquire the more reasonable wire sweep distribution, compared with the experimental observation. Therefore, it can be concluded that the Dual Domain analysis is the more reasonable and recommended method to cope with wire sweep problem. Furthermore, according to the Dual Domain analysis result, it is also found that the sharply increased velocity is the key reason for the wire sweep issue in the vent side of the mold, due to the flow front concentration. In order to address the issue, the transfer mold process optimization with transfer profile was carried out. The simulation results reveal the transfer molding process optimization is an effective way to deal with this problem.
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While summer festivals keep Montréal buzzing non-stop with music and laughter, outdoor film screenings provide a short breather, whether right downtown or in a neighbourhood park – and all for free! Bring a cushion or a picnic blanket and settle in under the stars for a movie-going experience like no other. Just For Laughs has picked two Hollywood comedies to add to their impressive roster of stand-up stars this July: see Tim Burton's beloved Beetlejuice on July 13 and Mike Meyers spy sendup Austin Powers on July 22 at 9 pm at Place des Festivals. See the city in yet another light every Tuesday at 9 pm as the Quartier des spectacles hosts Downtown Screenings Under the Stars at Place de la Paix: Pop Montréal programs a 16 mm screening of 1980 Québec comedy Pinball Summer a.k.a. Pick-Up Summer on July 7 and Fantasia International Film Festival picks The Incredible Adventure of Jojo (And His Annoying Little Sister Avila) on July 21, while the Montréal First Peoples Festival presents Alanis Obomsawin's documentary Kanehsatake, 270 ans de résistance on August 4 and Festival International du Film sur l'Art screens Entre ciel et terre, quand le Hip-Hop devient art on August 25…. / Read More →
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Meet a Montrealer: Christiane Richard
Aires Libres is an annual public art event that unfolds from May to September on the pedestrian-only section of Sainte-Catherine Street East between Saint-Hubert and Papineau Streets. For the second consecutive year, a program of films focused on women will be screened this summer at Parc de l'Espoir (Hope Park). Job: Executive Assistant to the Executive Director and Membership Coordinator, Le Village Why did you decide to include outdoor movie nights in the Aires Libres program? The idea behind Aires Libres—bringing culture to street level—is for pedestrians take hold of the public space and collectively enjoy all sorts of experiences through art and entertainment. Outdoor screenings are rooted in this idea since people head to the park in droves to enjoy all that cinema has to offer. As soon as the screening begins, they embark upon a journey of emotions that they can share with the crowd. Why a program focused on women? Most gay neighbourhoods worldwide address men exclusively. Montréal's Gay Village has always seen the value in the diversity of the LGBTQ community—with all its letters—and invites women to occupy their own place in the neighbourhood. Also, the partnership with Lez Spread The Word, which connects an impressive… / Read More →
10 Great Montreal videos
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Aires Libres 2013 takes over the streets of Montreal's Gay Village
The mercury creeping up, patios rolling out and the shirts coming off means one thing: summer in Montreal's Gay Village. The 2013 edition of Aires Libres will soon be underway once the famous Boules Roses are strung up above the pedestrian-only paradise of Sainte-Catherine street…
The "Boules Roses" Are Returning to Montreal's Gay Village
After gaining international attention, Les Boules Roses are returning to Montreal's Gay Village for the 2013 edition of Aires Libres…
If you've been to the Gay Village in this past week, chances are you've noticed the jaw-dropping decorations of Aires Libres 2011 (unless you walk using your face). 170,000 pink resin balls create a dream-like canopy that stretches the 1.2 kilometers between Berri and Papineau. They provide the perfect ambiance to kicking back and relaxing on one of the many patios of the Gay Village…
Remember the saying "April showers bring May flowers"? Well we've stuck through the showers… so where are the flowers? Look no further than another summer of Aires Libres 2011 in Montreal's Gay Village starting May 18th!


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Well, i am subscribed to local ISP for 8 Mbps downstream for two computers at home managed by WAG120N broadband modem. it may not be enough when simultaneously watching a video at both computers. On the other hand, i imagine what internet connection speed is adequate for a cyber cafe consisting of 30-40 client computers considering this fact ?
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Definition of mud-coloured in English:
Of a dull brown colour like that of mud: all the mud-coloured fish in our small pond were dead
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A Message from Superintendent Kenneth R. Adkins
The Pike County Board of Education is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will beprovided to all children without charge and are the same for all children regardless of race,color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the courseof the meal service. Meals will be provided, at a first come, first serve basis, at the sites and timesas follows:
Office 365 Pro Plus Free for all Pike Co Staff!!!
Microsoft has recently made five free copies of Microsoft Office 365 Pro Plus products available to all Kentucky staff whose district participates in the Student Advantage Program. Pike County staff are now eligible! They can install the Office products on any type of device they wish: including laptops, smartphones, home computers and other mobile devices such as iPads and Androids. Both Mac and Windows versions of the products are available for download!
To get their free copy, staff simply need to sign in with a valid state e-mail address at www.office.com/teachers to get started. Once activated, staff can go back to the Software section at any time under Office 365 settings in their webmail to install the products on any device they choose. Pike County is proud to be able to make this offering and hope all staff take full advantage of this opportunity.
Note: At this time, staff can still take advantage of the HUP (Home Use Program) to get a personal copy of the Office 2013 products at a heavily discounted rate.
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Infuse app gains folder organization and background playback
Infuse, the popular video player app developed by FireCore, offers a great many features for consuming video content.
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Infuse video player app gets infused with new Trakt syncing feature
Infuse, the popular multiformat iOS video player app developed by FireCore, has just received another notable update.
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| January 2
FireCore's Infuse 3 features DTS audio, Wi-Fi hard drive support and lots more
The latest and presumably greatest version of Infuse, the popular multiformat iOS video player from FireCore, is here.
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| October 22
Infuse 2 Updated To Add Video Downloads, Improved Streaming And More
Infuse 2 has just received an update that regular users will appreciate.
Joe White
| February 7
FireCore Updates Seas0nPass To Add Untethered Jailbreak For Apple TV 5.3
FireCore has added support for Apple TV 5.3 firmware to its jailbreak applications.
Joe White
| January 5
Framed Gets A New Trailer, Promises Unique iOS Gameplay Set For 2014 Release
There's a new trailer for Loveshack Entertainment's Framed.
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| December 17
FireCore's Infuse Gets Gestures, Enhanced Grouping And More
FireCore has added a number of great features to its Infuse application.
Joe White
| October 8
FireCore Updates aTV Flash (Black), Adds Support For Apple TV 5.3 And More
FireCore has updated its popular jailbreak software, aTV Flash (black).
Joe White
| July 3
Popular Apple TV Jailbreak Software aTV Flash (Black) Goes On Sale
First- and second-generation Apple TV users can now "supercharge" their set-top box using FireCore's aTV Flash (black) at a cheaper price.
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| June 1
Multiformat iOS Video Player App Infuse Gets Infused With New Enhancements
The versatile iOS video player app Infuse has just gotten a significant update.
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| May 28
Seas0nPass Updated To Provide Tethered Jailbreak For Apple TV 5.2.1
Seas0nPass has recently been updated, and is now compatible with the Apple TV's 5.2.1 software.
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| April 21
FireCore Updates Seas0nPass: Adds Support For 5.0.2 Firmware
Not too long ago, Apple pushed out a new version of its Apple TV software: firmware 5.0.2. Though, in terms of new features, the software is somewhat lacking (so lacking, in fact, that Apple has yet to publish a change-log for the new firmware over on its support page), that doesn't mean the folks over at FireCore haven't bothered updating their Seas0nPass jailbreak tool accordingly.
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| June 7
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Absinthe 2.0 dropped this morning, providing an untethered solution for devices running iOS 5.1. Seas0nPass follows behind with an untethered jailbreak solution for the second generation Apple TV on 5.0.1.
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FireCore Updates aTV Flash (Black) To Version 1.5
FireCore has recently updated its Apple TV jailbreak software, aTV Flash (black), to version 1.5. Now, users of the software can enjoy a number of new features, including NFS streaming and a much-improved media player.
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The folks over at FireCore have launched a brand-new version of Seas0nPass, adding 5.0 (iOS 5.1) compatibility. This means fans of Seas0nPass can now update to the most recent version of the Apple TV OS (which adds a new interface, and a bunch of other new features), while still enjoying the many benefits FireCore's jailbreak software provides.
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FireCore has just updated its aTV Flash (black) jailbreak software to version 1.4, adding a number of features and making a whole load of bug fixes and performance improvements.
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| March 9
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| December 31
FireCore Updates aTV Flash - Enhances Media Player, Adds Cloud Backup
FireCore has released a major update to aTV Flash (black), its jailbreak software package that users can install on their second generation Apple TV. The package brings a number of features, and this latest update enhances the Media Player and adds a cloud backup option. The software update (beta 7) is currently available to download now.
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| September 8
Jailbreak Only: Seas0nPass Updated, Now Supports Apple TV 4.1.1
FireCore recently updated its Seas0nPass jailbreak tool. Now, the software can provide Mac owners with an untethered solution for their second generation set top box. While a Windows version is not currently available, FireCore notes that it will be "available soon."
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People will be getting their ballots in three weeks at the most. By the time you put out your endorsements in four weeks, a big chunk of folks will have voted.
I've been wishing for years that you guys would move your endorsement's up - but this isn't quite far enough up to make the difference....
OR ... you could think and vote for yourself.
Did you demand that each candidate bring back the Monorail? Don't give up the fight, Feit!
(You were utterly wrong, but that never stops you!)
If there's anything we need from our city leaders at this very moment in history, it's daring, vision, courage, gall. And yet we're getting just the opposite. If only these people could be forced to take injections of Michael Bloomberg NYC-grade testosterone.
I mean, I'm supporting Tim Burgess' challenge for David Della's City Council seat if only because I consider Della the evil of two lessers. So I make a contribution to Burgess' campaign and get a letter back in the mail signed by him outlining his vision. And I read this:
I will be a strong leader to make sure Seattle continues to be a leader in environmental stewardship and bus and bike-friendly transportation planning. And unlike my opponent, I'll make sure we don't rebuild a double-decker freeway in the sky along our central waterfront.
I mean it's great that he's anti-new-viaduct. But to say you're pro-bus and pro-bikes in Seattle is a bit like saying you're pro-motherhood and apple pie. It's essentially saying you're pro-transit without having to actually put your neck out in any way for transit.
Of course, Burgess and his campaign guru Christian Sinderman are just responding to the marketplace. Chalk it up to the demise of the monorail and the inability of any actual viaduct replacement plan to garner better than a plurality of support. And for this I blame our political leaders, our business leaders, activist organizations, the press, and let me not spare the voters themselves. Yeah, lot of blame to go around.
14th and Spring:
Josh, Did you demand that each candidate bring back the Monorail? Don't give up the fight, Feit! (You were utterly wrong, but that never stops you!)
14th and Spring, if you want to get into a historical monorail debate, I am more than happy to oblige you. The reality is that, because none of our leaders had the courage and foresight to follow through on building the monorail, we're stuck with:
A. What will likely be a surface+transit replacement for the viaduct where the transit component is sorely lacking.
B. Everybody talking about "bus rapid transit" when what they really mean is good-old, crappy conventional bus service, just with a pretty "bus rapid transit" label stuck on it. Because y'know, implementing actual bus rapid transit would actually inconvenience someone.
Suck it. I could tell you right now who I'm voting for - I've already done the research, etc - what I'm more worried about are The Strangers' younger readers - those folks who usually forget to vote. It's a big block of folks, and if they ever get motivated to vote, they could be quite a force. Oh, and the Stranger's endorsements usually line up pretty closely to what I was already going to do - so the earlier they get those endorsements out, the better chances my candidates fare.
Oh, and one more thing - Suck it! :-)
What about affordable housing and taking care of the homeless? Any candidates for those issues? You know people out on the edge.
BRT is no more of a real description than the tunnel was a hybrid. Seattle needs a transit service it controls like hmmmm Everett! Yes, Cressona it is curious that the same pols that didn't stand up for real grade separated transit now are touting BRT but really mean more buses (but since Metro controls them the city can't really do anything except give away hours to the South Lake Union Trolley [SLUT]) because we won't be building loading platforms etc. required for BRT as they did in Curitiba.
I can hardly think of a better slogan for the cowardice that pervades Seattle politics today than this line from council candidate Venus Velazquez: "Not mass transit. Bus rapid transit."
You could rephrase that, "Not rapid transit. Bus rapid transit."
Or better yet, "Not bus rapid transit. Something we just call 'bus rapid transit.'"
There was a meeting last year before Transit Now went to the ballot where an activist enumerated the common features of bus rapid transit and pointed out that "Rapid Ride" didn't meet those standards. And the one higher-up from Metro responded that what they're proposing is not "high-end bus rapid transit."
Yeah, as lame as bus rapid transit is to begin with, we don't have the political wherewithal in this city even to do that. And it's almost like nobody has enough of a clue to demand better.
Whatever @7: " give away hours to the South Lake Union Trolley [SLUT]) "
P.S. The South Lake Union Trolley is a great example of how we end up doing things in the crappiest way possible because nobody on the City Council has enough of a brain or a heart to know better. Either you demand that Paul Allen and crowd put up the money to do it right, or you don't do it at all. Instead we get a cute, little trolley that only comes every 15 minutes and is scarcely faster than walking.
I believe the reason the City Council is so clueless and cowardly is that we as Seattleites are ourselves too clueless and cowardly to demand better.
Cmon Cressona. So the SLU streetcar happened because nobody on the City Council has enough of a brain or a heart to know better, and because they are clueless and cowardly?
The streetcar vote was 7-2, not 9-0. Anyone following city politics can figure out who the two are.
BB, I don't consider just shooting down the streetcar proposal to be all that courageous. It's a lot easier to say no to something than it is to push for something worth saying yes to.
Nick Licata's scoring easy populist points with the lesser Seattle crowd shows about as little courage as other councilmembers' kowtowing to developers. I'd like to see Licata challenge his neighborhoods constituency just as I'd like to see other councilmembers challenge Paul Allen.
By the way, it's the very nature of political courage that the least courageous politicians are the ones who, in the moment, are always lauded as being the most courageous. See G.W. Bush pre-Iraq War.
Note to the SECB: Ask Burgess about his views on choice, marriage equality:
Bah, you seem to be presuming that Seattle voters are a bunch of knee-jerk idiots. So Burgess writes: "We don't like abortion."
This bit of nuance may be (willfully) lost on you, but not every pro-choice person believes that abortion is a totally cool and benign thing. Burgess goes on: "We recognize that not everyone agrees with us and we know the law isn't a good mechanism to resolve these issues, but moral persuasion is." Sounds pro-choice to me.
Let me also ask you, when does the City Council actually vote on issues like choice or marriage equality?
@1 - very very true.
You need to push up your Top Ten Endorsements so we can get your input.
Frequently, I just tell my friends to vote a straight Stranger ticket, or one with one minor exception.
and cressona, I still think Venus will be a better council member than the other ones, and she at least was willing to explain why she wants a different ADDED form of transit than the existing one.
More is still better. Especially if the BRT is plug-in bio-diesel hybrid bus service running on 100 percent green power.
Will, the real question though for Venus Velazquez and any other councilmember who hops on the BRT bandwagon (poor choice of phrase) is this: What do you mean by bus rapid transit?
Because if it's what King County Metro means by bus rapid transit, then it's not bus rapid transit.
@11, actually, maybe you should stop assuming that "person of faith"="right wing nutjob."
Burgess won a sole endorsement from the 34th District Democrats on Wednesday night. The motion was moved by Rep. Joe McDermott.
Burgess is also endorsed by Tina Podlodowski, formerly of Lifelong Aids Alliance and the City Council.
Well, I had a reasonably lengthy discussion with her one day, on this issue, about why she frequently rode the bus, but found it hard to get with her kids from her house to Seattle Center, due to all the transfers.
I think a good interviewer would ask her more questions. I just expect she will put the fire in the City Council's belly they've been lacking. I don't have to agree with her on everything.
I never said or implied that Tim Burgess was a "right-wing nutjob". I suggested that the Stranger ask him about his views on marriage equality and choice and then linked to his own words on the subject.
Plus, anyone who has met Burgess, and I have many times, knows he's not a "nut job". However, I was unclear from his writing how he feels aboutt these two issues, each of which are important to me.
These issues don't just point to policy, they point to values. Of course the city decides on issues of fairness and equality every day and those issues point to those values.
Plus, let's think big picture here: many governmental entities decide on issues like access to birth control or proper sex ed or whether an employee or landlord or government can discriminate against someone based on their sexuality. I'd like to know how Burgess feels about these issues before I would vote for him, and thus, furthering his political career, which could lead him to a position in which he could make a decision on these things.
Tim strikes me as thoughtful, but I'm not sure if he and I share the same core values.
bah: "However, I was unclear from his writing how he feels aboutt these two issues, each of which are important to me."
Here's what Burgess wrote:
Admittedly, we struggle with a lot of pressing issues. We don't like abortion. We value the sacredness of marriage between a woman and man. We recognize that not everyone agrees with us and we know the law isn't a good mechanism to resolve these issues, but moral persuasion is.
It doesn't take a whole lot of interpretation here to see that Burgess is pro-choice and, if not pro-gay marriage, at least pro-civil unions.
Cultural conservatives have gotten suckered into using these issues as a litmus test by right-wing politicians who want to advance their own agendas. So I guess I shouldn't be surprised if cultural liberals now get suckered into using these same issues as a litmus test by left-wing politicians who want to advance their own agendas. Hey, that could be David Della's salvation. He may be awful at his job and awful on the issues that actually come before the City Council, but hey, at least he shares your values.
God forbid (oh, maybe I shouldn't invoke God) that Tim Burgess is a real human being whose views can't be shoehorned into what's considered electable in the city of Seattle! And we wonder why good people don't run for elected office here.
Despite your pull-quoting his article, it is not obvious to me where he stands on these issues.
Of course, it's important not to be knee-jerk, but equality is a key one for me and that's what these two issues point to, thus I think it's fair to ask Mr. Burgess about them.
I agree that Burgess should be given a fair shake here. He's qualified for the job and is a serious candidate. After reading this and a few of his other articles, I'm just not sure if he's the person I'd want to vote for.
If Venus is traveling between West Seattle and the Seattle Center with two children, a car is a reasonable modal choice, but she should be prepared for paid parking. If they took transit, it would involve no more than one transfer. Routes 21, 22, and 56 in West Seattle are through routed with route 15 and 18 that serve Uptown. Routes 54 and 55 are through routed with Route 5. One could transfer on 3rd Avenue farside Virginia Street to many routes serving the Center (e.g., routes 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, and 16); almost no wait would be involved. She probably just took the car as it was convenient and assumed the bus was more difficult than it actually is.
Cressona at 8,
The council candidates are not transit mavens.
BRT and LRT can both be provided along continuums of capacity and reliability depending upon the degree of grade separation and service freqency they are provided. Those are both costly, so the quality is budget dependent.
BRT and LRT systems with less than complete grade separations can still be quite benefitial. Consider the routes 98B and 99B in Vancouver or the LA systems before the Orange line. They each had almost no grade seperation but still attracted significant increases in ridership. Link LRT along MLK Jr. Way South will not have complete grade separation, but will still provide good service.
Glad to read your criticism of the SLU streetcar; it is half-baked.
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The challenges facing federal agencies that develop their own wireless applications can leap beyond technical nuts-and-bolts issues into the wider world of everyday demands.
Yes, agencies have to decide between HTML5 and native device architecture. But more prosaically, they have to address questions such as: How do you use the app when you';re a couple hundred feet underground?
"We have a great opportunity to engage mine operators" with mobile labor applications, said Mike Pulsifer, manager of mobile programs at the Labor Department. "But there is no cell service at many mine locations."
Broadband wireless availability is just one of the many challenges federal agencies face in their quest to more efficiently provide government services and data, Pulsifer said during a Dec. 12 AFCEA panel discussion in Bethesda, Md. "People want answers quick," said Atiq Warraich, Web program director in the National Archives and Records Administration's Office of Innovation. The government's challenge is to meet that demand in a cash-strapped environment, he added, which requires understanding potential users and how they might use the available data.
NARA is making a vast amount of information available via its Citizen Archivist Dashboard, where volunteers electronically tag, transcribe and write articles about documents that NARA posts on the site. Warraich said making such raw data available to consumers can go a long way in developing better mobile applications. The "citizen workforce" accessing the dashboard could be extended to create a "mobile citizen workforce" that can develop its own set of apps more efficiently than NARA might be able to, he added.
That's not to say agencies don't face a series of basic technical questions. Keith Trippie executive director of the Enterprise System Development Office in the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the CIO, raised the question of whether it is better to use HTML5 or a native mobile operating platform to present information via mobile apps.
The responses showed that application development is closely tied to an individual agency's data. Jacob Parcell, manager of mobile programs at the General Services Administration's Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, said each approach has its advantages.
"The benefit for HTML5 [is] that it is platform agnostic," he said. "You don't have to worry about individual devices." On the other hand, you won't get the advantages of smartphones' inherent operating abilities.
"Ask yourself what you're doing," Parcell said. "Is it a mostly one-time information-based use, or is it a product or service that needs more connectivity?"
Trippie noted that cultural issues could also have an impact on mobile application development. For instance, the impulse for agencies to build their own apps could hamper them in the long run because they might reinvent something that other agencies have already put together.
He advocated using apps developed by agencies or bits and pieces from existing apps. He touted DHS' development of the "car wash" mobile app tester as an example of the resources agencies have at their disposal. DHS uses the tester to run new federal mobile apps through a series of security and accessibility checks before they are released.
Parcell said GSA launched the Mobile Code Catalog last summer as a clearinghouse of federal apps, commonly used coding and mobile frameworks. Using existing and tested coding and frameworks can take some of the hard work out of app development, he added.
The panelists called on industry to help agencies move through the technical aspects of developing mobile applications. Commercial app developers are sometimes better at exploiting the huge volumes of data flowing from federal agencies, and they can also help by allowing agencies to reuse existing code to develop new apps.
"Instead of building one app, build 10" based on code used in previous apps, Trippie said. "We don't have the cash" for one-off projects.
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On the role of simplicity in science
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Simple assumptions represent a decisive reason to prefer one theory to another in everyday scientific praxis. But this praxis has little philosophical justification, since there exist many notions of simplicity, and those that can be defined precisely strongly depend on the language in which the theory is formulated. The language dependence is a natural feature—to some extent—but it is also believed to be a fatal problem, because, according to a common general argument, the simplicity of a theory is always trivial in a suitably chosen language. But, this trivialization argument is typically either applied to toy-models of scientific theories or applied with little regard for the empirical content of the theory. This paper shows that the trivialization argument fails, when one considers realistic theories and requires their empirical content to be preserved. In fact, the concepts that enable a very simple formulation, are not necessarily measurable, in general. Moreover, the inspection of a theory describing a chaotic billiard shows that precisely those concepts that naturally make the theory extremely simple are provably not measurable. This suggests that—whenever a theory possesses sufficiently complex consequences—the constraint of measurability prevents too simple formulations in any language. This explains why the scientists often regard their assessments of simplicity as largely unambiguous. In order to reveal a cultural bias in the scientists' assessment, one should explicitly identify different characterizations of simplicity of the assumptions that lead to different theory selections. General arguments are not sufficient.
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Volume 190, Issue 14 , pp 2867-2895
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Even a die-hard foot fetishist would find this vid bewildering. With technical aspects that seem to have been executed by an original Woodstock attendee who ate several sheets of the brown acid (plus snatches of inappropriate, unconnected music that only support that theory), this is one hell of a mess. Mullet-haired Fritz the Cat is the only one here who gets naked, which in many cases is a blessing in disguise, considering some of the talent he's assembled. Each of the four scenes is very much the same: Fritz is assaulted by a group of female feet - interminably - until an arch-fucking sequence finally allows him to blow his load (which he often licks off the ladies peds). This is all well and good, but isn't the goal to find women who at least possess attractive feet? Are the close-ups of skin discolorations, bunions and corns really necessary? And check out that long-ass running time - 107 minutes of this shit. Oy.


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Deus Ex 3 development is going well, says Eidos Montreal
Eidos has tweeted that development is going well on Deus Ex 3 along with another interesting bit.
Here's the tweet from Eidos Montreal:
"Development on Deus Ex 3 is going well and the Thief 4 team is ramping up!"
Thief 4 was officially logoed and announced in May, and possible screens from Deus Ex 3 popped up in March.
Via That Videogame Blog.
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Pharrell and his hat injected some much needed fun into the usually stuffy Oscar's event on Sunday night, with a performance of "Happy", as heard on both the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack, and his new album G I R L, which is in stores today.
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