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School Bus Driver Saves Student From Being Struck by Car
Randy Kronick of Connecticut prevents the 9-year-old girl from crossing the street as he sees a speeding SUV run his stop arm.
The term "partnership" is tossed around a lot in the corporate world, often meaning little more than "doing business with each other."
But for First Student and Thomas Built Buses, their partnership hinges on a level of collaboration and transparency that goes far beyond a typical supplier relationship.
"We don't just buy buses and then hang up the phone till the next year," says Linda Burtwistle, president of Cincinnati-based First Student. "It's an ongoing relationship."
The partnership — which involves executive-level meetings, joint committees and sharing of confidential data with each other — is helping both companies to become more efficient and to make safety improvements that could benefit the entire industry.
"We share our best practices with one another, ask some tough questions and ultimately improve our relationship," says Kelley Platt, president and CEO of High Point, N.C.-based Thomas Built Buses.
New procurement strategy
In 2010, when First Student went out to bid for new school buses, the company decided to take a different approach than it had historically. The shift: focus on lowest total cost of ownership instead of lowest acquisition cost.
The company — which is the largest school bus contractor in North America — also decided to seek a procurement agreement that would integrate vehicles and parts.
"With 50,000 buses in our fleet, we spend millions on replacement parts," Burtwistle says. "This is about more than hammering down the initial price of a bus. This is about the entire cost of ownership."
First Student developed a matrix to determine the total cost of ownership of a bus, with factors including purchase price, warranty, fuel economy and financing terms.
Based on those factors, the contractor awarded its Type C school bus business to Thomas Built, which had already been supplying its Type D buses. Since then, First Student has also shifted its Type A business to Thomas Built.
"We wanted to standardize our fleet," says Kevin Middleton, First Student's executive vice president of engineering and fleet, citing the benefits of standardization in such areas as driver training and maintenance. "We have one manufacturer now that supplies our full range of vehicle requirements."
Middleton gives an example of a door switch that was located to the left of the driver, making the driver look away from the door when opening it. "By including team members from various disciplines, we identify and address improvements at a very early stage," he says.
Another key transparency in the companies' relationship: First Student shares its maintenance schedules and records with Thomas Built, which aids in efforts to increase parts longevity and to drive down maintenance costs.
The two companies are also combining their knowledge to come up with better models and processes for school bus replacement.
"We are looking at ways to help fleet managers better assess when their buses may need to be replaced," Platt says. "This will help fleet managers better manage their budget and future plans, but also help us to gain visibility into when new buses are needed in order to maximize the efficiency of the procurement cycle."
Making a better bus
One of the goals of the partnership is to find ways to make school buses safer and more efficient. Here again, communication comes into play. For instance, First Student gives Thomas Built an extra layer of "eyes and ears on the ground," as Platt puts it.
"First Student provides us with additional insight into what customers are saying, what they are asking for, major issues that are arising and overall trends in the industry," Platt says. "This insight, along with our own internal expertise, helps us pinpoint ways to improve and to ultimately provide even better, safer and more efficient buses."
In addition to executive-level meetings, Thomas Built and First Student collaborate on what they call a "cab committee," in which experts from both companies sit down and discuss vehicle issues, such as the ergonomics of the cabin and where the driver switches are positioned.
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Hey Sherry, I too work for First Student and have determined there strategy is to say one thing and do another. They are a private corporation that does everything they can to convince the public of their safe operations, but when it comes to budgeting, everything goes to the top. The bottom where we work is left wanting. The budget for the maintenance department is wholly underfunded and at our location in the West, a big show is made, but they don't even have a functional wash rack and we drive dirty buses. If a company is so about an image, you would think at least they would invest in keeping their buses clean. Instead they will pay us minimum wage up to an hour to wash our exteriors. Getting maintenance work done on our buses is like pulling teeth without anesthetic.
Randy Kronick of Connecticut prevents the 9-year-old girl from crossing the street as he sees a speeding SUV run his stop arm.
The latest winning entry comes from second grader Ruby Boula of Temescal Valley Elementary School. The bus company awards her school $1,000 for classroom supplies.
A new state law aims to accelerate the process of getting a commercial driver's license by enabling private vendors to conduct the knowledge and skills tests.
The new 10-year deal makes Duval County Public Schools the contractor's biggest customer.
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One bill would require seat belts on school buses in Tennessee. Other proposals aim to raise the state's minimum age for school bus drivers and increase oversight of pupil transportation.
Brad Miller, who works for Durham School Services' Indianapolis location, and Ian Moulaison at Stock Transportation in Halifax, Nova Scotia, earn the certification.
In a new report, the state panel finds that "compartmentalized seating and other occupant restraint usage … generally have met the safety needs of Louisiana's school bus passengers."
As chief of the Department of Transportation, Chao's purview includes two agencies that regulate pupil transportation: NHTSA and FMCSA.
To become Blue Seal certified, at least 75% of technicians performing diagnosis and repairs at the location must be ASE certified.
The presentation of the budget becomes one of the new president's first significant actions, as this gives insight into the priorities and initiatives of the new administration.
Metropolitan Transportation Network is transforming a 2-acre industrial property into a regional school bus operations hub, with 60 jobs to be filled.
Doug Martin is named president of TransPar, taking over for his father, Kyle Martin, a 35-year school transportation industry veteran.
Jan. 31 is the deadline for school transportation officials to apply for the third edition of the educational networking event.
In response to the state superintendent's plan to update South Carolina's aging school bus fleet, NSTA says that contracting could provide new buses while saving money.
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We'd like this test to start asap and run for as many days needed to see which one is giving us the lowest bounce rate. We'll file another bug when it's time to close the A/B test (by undoing this bug).
Just for the record, Jeremy did a similar A/B test implementation in bug 484283, if that's helpful info.
Important correction: the incoming URL (as specified above) should be 50/50 % split to the following 2 pages:
(We can't put +1 in the end of the second article because that would actually show up in the article title.)
Passing off to oremj but I don't know if this is something we can get wrapped up in under 8 hours.
Although it is oremj so who knows!
oremj, would it be better to move sumo to zeus and do this? how quickly can that get done?
There is already a bug to move SUMO to zeus and I think that should be done first. Can this wait until next Tuesday?
Yes it can. Thanks.
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Xuefei's latest solo CD showcases the rich and deep pool of Brazillian guitar music, & celebrates the musicians who shaped Brazilian music during the 20th century and some taking it into the 21st century.
"A few of the names are now internationally recognized but most, while celebrated in Brazil, remain little known outside. It's my desire to bring such music to a wide audience." Xuefei Yang.
It can be purchased here.
Following the critially acclaimed success of their recording of
Britten's "Songs from the Chinese," Ian Bostridge and Xuefei
have collaborated on the inaugral recording of the Globe Music
label. It was recorded in the intimate Sam Wanamaker Theatre on
the site of Shakespeare's Globe in London.
The music reflects the musical ancestry of tenor Ian Bostridge and Xuefei.
More details here.
Xuefei is the Artistic Director of the Changsha International FestIval in China.
Next year's festival takes place in July 15th-19th, and will
include concerts, classes, a guitar competition and a
composition competition.
The details of the 2017 festival will be announced later this year. Potential competitors may like to read more about getting to Changsha on Xuefei's 2016 festival page.
The winner of guitar competition will receive a prize of US$10,000 ; a handmade concert guitar ; & a six-concert tour in China during 2018. Entry details will be available on the website.
Xuefei's Heartstrings topped the classical charts in HK, for
five weeks over the summer 2015 !
A big thank-you to all of you who have bought the CD.
Heartstrings is available here.
Xuefei has a series of four repertoire books available, published by Doberman-Yppan.
There are separate books for :
- children ;
- beginners ;
- intermediate ;
- advanced.
Each book contains repertoire that Xuefei has selected from the Doberman catalogue, along with her own suggestions on how the player might want to approach each piece either musically, or technically.
The books are available from the publisher, Doberman, by following the links above.
A brand new video of Xuefei playing Bonfa's classic, "Manhã de Carnaval," (Morning of the Carnival)
This piece also features on her CD, Colours of Brazil.
A brand new video of Xuefei playing both parts of a duet version of Permanbuco's "Sons de Carrilhões" (Sound of Bells)
This piece also features on her CD, Colours of Brazil.
A video
of a traditional Chinese piece - a classic piece for the guzheng
(13 string zither). Xuefei has always loved this piece, and
took two months to work out an effective transcription for the 6
strings of the guitar.
This piece also features on her CD, Heartstrings.
In December 2015, Xuefei made the cover story on the Music Lover Magazine in China.
In June 2015, Xuefei made the cover story on the HK audio visual magazine, AV.
The UK newspaper "Independent" had an article on the collaboration between tenor Ian Bostridge and Xuefei.
Read the article online here.
By Stephen Goss for Xuefei. A musical impression of scenes from the Chinese classic, the Book of Songs - a collection of poems, many originally set to music which is now long lost. The poems give an insight to the lives of Xuefei's Chinese ancestors almost 4,000 years ago. Xuefei's name is taken from a poem in this book. Xuefei gave the world premiere at her recital at King's Place, London.
Xuefei has received a new piece from composer Phillip Cashian. It is a short nocturne inspired by a line from Dylan Thomas' radio drama, Under Milkwood. The piece was commissioned by IGF.
Xuefei gave the world premiere at her recital at King's Place, London.
Xuefei gave the Australian premiere of Tan Dun's Yi2 Concerto with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, in Melbourne's Hamer Hall.
The concerto was written for Sharon Isbin in 1996. Tan Dun is one of China's most well-known composers and conductors. He wrote the score for the movie Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, as well as the music for the medal ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics. Xuefei also performed Rodrigo's Aranjuez concerto at the same concert.
Xuefei gave the China premiere of Steven Goss' "The Albeniz Concerto" at the National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing, with the China National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hu Yongyan.
Xuefei received a new composition for guitar by Chinese composer Chen Yi - the first piece commissioned for Xuefei from a Chinese composer.
Xuefei gave the world premiere at Wigmore Hall, & the USA premiere in New York.
Chen Yi is the recipient of the prestigious Charles Ives Living Award.
The piece was commissioned for Xuefei by Wigmore Hall and Fondation Hoffman.
See Gramophone magazine's exclusive interview with Xuefei.
Julian Bream, tenor Ian Bostridge, & Xuefei at the Gramophone Award ceremony in London., where Julian Bream was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Ian and Xuefei were invited to perform a selection from their recent recording of Britten's Songs from the Chinese, as a tribute to Julian Bream (Britten wrote this music for Bream and tenor Peter Pears).
You can watch the performance (on You Tube) here.
More photos available here.
Xuefei received the great honour of being made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music - a title held by at most 300 people at any one time. Xuefei received her award at a ceremony in London from HRH The Duchess of Gloucester.
See more pictures here.
Click here for a free download of Xuefei's version "Malaguena" from Albeniz's "Espana," as recorded by Xuefei on her Rodrigo CD.
You can also enjoy an impromptu video of Xuefei performing this piece with flamenco dancer, Raquel de Luna on Xuefei's You Tube channel.
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Indianapolis, IN - During the recent Third Annual Dick Lugar Job Fair for Security, Defense, Nursing and First Responders, held in Indianapolis, Indiana, a U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recruitment team welcomed more than 500 candidates interested in federal employment.
OPM Acting Director Dan G. Blair said in regards to OPM's participation in the fair, "OPM has made an aggressive commitment to creating a federal work force that reflects the best and brightest America has to offer. The outreach teams are reaching out to prospective employees across the nation. With continued persistence and a resolve to make opportunities available to everyone, we will build a promising and secure future for the federal workforce."
In addition to providing federal job information, the OPM team demonstrated features on www.usajobs.gov, the federal government's main portal for job seekers. Job applicants also received information on how to write effective knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA) descriptions, and tips on interviewing, resume writing and the application process.
Senator Dick Lugar said, "I am pleased that OPM joined me in Indianapolis for the Third Annual Dick Lugar Job Fair this past weekend. OPM's attendance assisted Hoosiers as they continue to seek proactive ways to give back to their country and community through public service."
The recruitment teams continue to travel nationwide to highlight the federal government's many career opportunities and the varied fields of interest available to applicants. OPM teams also have showcased the government as an employer of first-choice and an equal opportunity employer.
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Fahari Academy Charter School first opened its doors in August of 2009 to serve Brooklyn's East Flatbush community. We are a public charter school, tuition free and with open enrollment determined by a lottery. We are a school that promises all children an excellent education that equips and empowers them to be successful in life and ready for college and beyond. Currently, Fahari Academy serves students in grades 5 through 8.
Fahari is from the Swahili word meaning pride.P.R.I.D.E encompasses the culture of our academy and defines our core values – Preparedness, Respect, Inquisitiveness, Determination and Excellence. Here at Fahari Academy, our students adhere to a standard of academic excellence and P.R.I.D.E. They take pleasure in working hard to exceed expectations and working to be an exemplary community member of their community.
The mission of Fahari Academy Charter School is to educate, support, challenge, and train scholars, in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood, for success in college and beyond.
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From grilled steaks to burgers to delicious roasts, consumers seek top-quality beef cuts and rely on local grocers to help them serve their favorite family meals. At this year's Certified Angus Beef ® Annual Conference, held in Tucson, Arizona, these retailers and distributors from around the globe were honored as beef leaders. The retailers and distributors gathered with family Angus cattle ranchers to nurture their focus on delivering premium beef.
"We are proud to partner with these companies and congratulate their ongoing successes," says John Stika, the beef brand's President. "Every time they recommend the Certified Angus Beef brand, they embrace our family ranching heritage and dedication to quality from farm to table."
Giant Eagle, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, earned the retailer of the year award. Through its focus on bringing top-quality beef to customers, Giant Eagle held a store-wide grilling event and featured roasts for the holidays. Promotions included social media, targeted e-mails and weekly recipes. Stores offer beef that's cut fresh in-store, as well as specialty burgers, beef kabobs and Certified Angus Beef brand prime cuts. Circular features also included buy-one, get-one opportunities. Giant Eagle's focus on premium beef earned loyal customers and the top retail sales volume increase award.
Price Chopper and Market 32, based in Schenectady, New York, earned the award for retail marketer of the year for a large chain. Creative promotions year-round feature the Certified Angus Beef brand, which anchors the meat case at all Price Chopper and Market 32 stores. For example, the summer grilling promotion included in-store, print, television and radio promotions leading customers to the meat case, where their beef can be cut to order. Collaboration between the meat team, marketing team and the brand's staff also introduced top-quality ground beef, helping Price Chopper to also receive a top five sales volume large-chain retailer award.
Foodland Super Markets, in Hawaii, was named the retail marketer of the year for a small chain. The retailer developed comprehensive marketing programs that made the Certified Angus Beef brand the focal point of the meat case and front-page features. Meat department staff were trained to approach customers to discuss beef cuts and meal solutions, which aligned with a campaign inviting customers to meet Foodland's in-house beef experts. Radio ads, coupons and social media also added sales, which led to a top five sales volume small-chain retailer award.
Meijer, Grand Rapids, Michigan, was named the retail value-added products marketer of the year. Meijer is an innovator in offering Certified Angus Beef brand products in all categories: fresh meats, convenience items, frozen foods and deli meats. The retailer regularly features them in the circular, store signage, advertising and social media. Training programs for meat department staff provide customers with meal solutions.
Reasor's in Tulsa, Oklahoma, received the retail brand extension marketer of the year award. Stores offer a selection of premium fresh cuts, including Certified Angus Beef brand prime and some dry-aged steaks. Deli and convenience meats also give customers more options for mealtime. Informed meat staff help customers choose beef cuts. Videos with cooking tips and the semi-annual "fill your freezer" sales also help customers enjoy great-tasting beef year-round.
DeMoulas Market Basket, Tewksbury, Massachusetts, was named the retail rising star. Custom marketing materials throughout stores and monthly cooking demonstrations with coupons and recipes lead customers to the meat case. DeMoulas has also been offering a wider selection of fresh beef cuts since introducing Certified Angus Beef brand products two years ago.
Hays Supermarkets, Wynne, Arkansas, received the retail rookie of the year award for its year-long focus on introducing Certified Angus Beef brand products to customers. Throughout the year, Hays stores featured the brand in promotions and focused on offering ground beef to shoppers as a quality advantage in the market.
Centro Cuesta Nacional in the Dominican Republic was recognized as the international retail marketer of the year. The single-store retailer uses a comprehensive marketing plan to offer a wide selection of Certified Angus Beef brand cuts. Billboards, print advertising in major publications, social media and in-store promotions explain beef quality and lead customers to the meat case.


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Isaiah 21New International Version (NIV)
A Prophecy Against Babylon
21 A prophecy against the Desert by the Sea:
Like whirlwinds sweeping through the southland,
2 A dire vision has been shown to me:
3 At this my body is racked with pain,
5 They set the tables,
6 This is what the Lord says to me:
"Go, post a lookout
8 And the lookout[a] shouted,
"Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower;
10 My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,
A Prophecy Against Edom
11 A prophecy against Dumah[b]:
Someone calls to me from Seir,
A Prophecy Against Arabia
13 A prophecy against Arabia:
You caravans of Dedanites,
16 This is what the Lord says to me: "Within one year, as a servant bound by contract would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end. 17 The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few." The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.
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Gravity mapping satellites launched into space
Posted: March 17, 2002
Liftoff of the joint NASA/German Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment mission, dubbed GRACE, took place aboard a Eurockot Rockot launcher at 0921:27 GMT (4:21:27 a.m. EST) from the snow-covered Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, one day later than planned because of strong upper level winds.
The two craft -- nicknamed "Tom" and "Jerry" -- were deployed from the Breeze-KM upper stage about 85 minutes after launch. The satellites, orbiting about 300 miles up, will be maneuvered to a distance of approximately 137 miles apart for the start of their tandem mission.
The 1,045-pound satellites will measure subtle changes in Earth's surface mass and the corresponding variations in the gravity field as they sail overhead. The data gathered will generate a global three-dimensional map that is irregular in shape, showing the small variations in mass and gravity around the planet.
The gravity maps produced during the GRACE mission are supposed to be 100 to 1,000 times better than the data currently available. This new accuracy is expected to allow scientists to better refine their instruments for studies in a broad range of scientific fields that include geodesy, oceanography, hydrology, geology and glaciology.
"We are using space technology for the benefit of all of us on the Earth," said Ralf Huber, head of the German Aerospace Center's Washington office.
"GRACE will provide us with a new view of our home planet and help us to better understand climate change and its global impacts such as changes in sea level and the availability of water resources," said Ghassem Asrar, NASA associate administrator for Earth Science.
Specific applications for the GRACE data include tracking water movement on and beneath Earth's surface, monitoring the movement and changes in ice sheets, studying ocean currents near the surface and far beneath waves and tracking changes in the structure of the solid Earth.
"This will be the first time in the history of U.S. civilian remote sensing that we will be able to practically examine every aspect of the Earth from space," Asrar said.
Gravity not only varies from place-to-place, but also over time due to changes in mass at certain locations. GRACE will study both the place and time aspects of gravity, completing a new gravity map for comparison every 30 days throughout its multi-year mission.
Regions of slightly stronger gravity will affect the lead satellite first, pulling it slightly away from the trailing satellite. By measuring the constantly changing distance between the two satellites and combining that data with precise positioning measurements from Global Positioning System instruments, scientists will be able to construct a precise Earth gravity map.
The joint U.S.-German mission costs a total of $127 million, with $97 million paid for by NASA and $30 million by the German team. Launch costs amount to around $8 million.
Next up for the Rockot launch vehicle, which is based upon a two-stage Russian SS-19 ICBM, with an added Breeze-KM upper stage, is the summertime launch of two Iridium mobile communications satellites.
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Launch date: March 17, 2002
Launch window: 0921-0931 GMT (4:21-4:31 a.m. EST)
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Hello, I am a college student currently majoring in Business and minoring in English and Digital Art!
I'm hoping to get in the producing business once I graduate but given my fickle mind that is subject to change.
Given my laziness, I spend most of my time at the computer watching anime. I started watching anime when I was in third or fourth grade (when I didn't even know what it was), but started watching it religiously in eighth grade. Given my busy schedule and my major, I don't actually have that much time at the computer, but when I am, well, I already explained that part.
The reason I don't watch more anime, is because I'm fickle. If I don't like something, I will drop it immediately. I just don't have the patience to continue on with a series in the hopes it will improve if I can just find a new one, that has the potential to be better. I usually stick to very similar types of anime, but I've been working on expanding my horizons and such.
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I also picked up a series recently called "Kino's Journey".
I don't know if you've ever seen it/heard of it, but it's an incredibly deep, and dark anime, surrounding a little traveling girl and her mechanical talking bike. I don't know, I"m on episode 3, and it's pretty phenomenal so far :]
You know what? I have actually had that suggested to me by several people already, and you are the final straw. I think I"ll go watch it! :D
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I also enjoy your top anime, but I had a question.
That Xam'd anime, I got like... perhaps 3 episodes into the series? And ended up stalling it because I wasn't interested, but I have literally heard NOTHING but good things from it. I know it sounds lame for a guy to say, but I enjoy anime that has a deeper meaning to it, if there is action, it can't be cheesy, goog dialogue (I want quality anime I guess) and I like a little romance as well :]. From what i've read in your about me, you seem to have similar feels for "accomplished" anime... Anyway, could you clear up the Xam'd for me? :D Does it start out slow, but gets better? Or if I didn't like the first 3, should I probably jsut call it quits? :[
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I want to start off this post by saying that I feel like I'm opening a can of worms on this topic but I'm very concerned about something and I really wanted to make sure I addressed where I stood on the issue.
When it comes to using coupons I have one main rule for redeeming coupons.
Will the Store Get Reimbursed for the Coupon?
I think in the long run if stores aren't getting reimbursed for the coupon then the money ends up coming out of the stores pocket which means in time the store will become more and more strict on the coupon policy and customers wishing to redeem coupons.
This guiding principle is typically not an issue, if you are redeeming coupons within the wording, size limitations, expiration dates and following all requirements on a coupon then you are typically fine using a coupon on a smaller size or lower priced item. There has been one exception to this rule that I have seen exploited lately that I felt like I needed to address.
The difference is between Manufacturer Branded Items and Licensed Products.
Most Coupons are issued by a Manufacturer for the Brands that the Manufacturer Controls. This is like P&G Issuing a coupon for Downy, the manufacturer owns the brand name.
The problem comes when you have a Licensed Name on a Product (Think Sponge Bob, Dora, Handy Manny, Disney and Others) there may be Multiple Manufacturers Using the Same Licensed Name.
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The problem is some people have taken this coupon and applied it to ANY Disney Licensed Item including Puzzles, Coloring Books, Sandwich Bags and more. In my Opinion this is wrong. Why? Because the Manufacturer will not be paying the retailer back for this coupon used on items other than their specific products.
In my opinion the difference between a Licensed Name and a Manufacturer Brand Name is HUGE In this case because when a store isn't paid back for a coupon it's basically like stealing from the store and in the long run it affects all of us.
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Ama's Lullaby - Prologue is an adventure game in the style of Westwood Studios' Blade Runner (1997), featuring a command-line based hacking system. The game is developed by me.
The target platforms are PC, Mac & Linux.
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After the announcement of a potential impact between Earth and an asteroid, a space mission of colonization lead by an AI brings a young computer-science prodigy called Ama to the 1st colony on another planet. This place was built by machines for human beings. Ama has designed this AI together with her father and is now an ambassador of the human race. Shes being protected by her artificial creature. But when she finds out the actual reason of her presence in this colony, and notices the strange behaviour of its inhabitants, her world suddenly falls apart.
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Ama's Lullaby is a point-and-click video game taking place in a cyberpunk environment. Playing the role of Ama, a high potential teenager who loves computer sciences, you will explore the colony, meet its human and non-human inhabitants, negociate with the AI and make decisions that will impact directly the course of events. Thanks to Amas programming talent, you will be able to hack any network of the city, gather information, steal confidential data to use them for your own purposes, disclose them or even blackmail people. But be careful : every action will have consequences on the story, and you will become an easy prey once you identity is unveiled.
The game development will focus mainly on high-quality visual atmospheres and soundscapes dialogues and interactions between characters, as well as on replayability: every new game session offering a (truly) different experience.
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Please stick to the Promotions subforum for, well, promoting your work or projects. Moved the corresponding posts to your already existing thread (i.e., here).
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He hurried away, leaving her looking after him, speaking words he lost in flight. He walked half a block. He was pleased. At least she had asked him. At least she had identified him as a man. He whistled a tune from sheer pleasure. Man about town has universal experience. Noted writer tells of night with woman of the streets. Arturo Bandini, famous writer, reveals experience with Los Angeles prostitute. Critics acclaim book finest written.
—John Fante, Ask the Dust (1939)
In writer-director Robert Towne's adaptation of John Fante's novel Ask the Dust, Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell) is an Italian-American from a small town in Colorado, where he grew up being called "Wop" and "Dago" and "Greaser," who arrives in Depression-era Los Angeles hoping to become a great writer. He pours his heart out to H.L. Mencken, editor of The American Mercury, both in his head and in submission letters accompanying short stories. (One letter is so stirring that Mencken removes the salutations and publishes it as fiction.) Arturo is dying for experiences he can write about but he's too diffident to go out and get them. He has exactly one bold move: he gives a signed copy of a magazine containing one of his stories to his landlady as a way of sweet-talking her into renting him a room despite the fact that he's unemployed; he gives another to Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek), an ember-eyed Mexican-American waitress at a local bar where he goes to spend his last buffalo nickel. (His valise is half full of copies of the magazine.)
Arturo is boyishly open-faced but so thin-skinned he's not in fact very nice, notwithstanding the fact that he declares himself a lover of man and beast alike. Ethnic prejudice has distorted his feelings — he wants to make a name for himself that he won't be ashamed of. In Los Angeles, Bandini is sometimes taken to be Mexican, which to Arturo is even "worse" than Italian. All the same, he can't get over his attraction to Camilla, who is almost as touchy as he is. She's not an intellectual (she can't read English; the story Arturo tries to impress her with is doubly wasted on her) and so her pride and susceptibility aren't as neurotic or morbid as Arturo's. She's positively fiery, but also down-to-earth; her temper seems to intensify the pleasure she promises, pleasure Arturo is too unsure to grab, though she's offering.
Camilla doesn't have Arturo's mean streak, but in some ways she's even more hesitant about him than he is about her. She'd like to sleep with him but is also holding out for an opportunity to make a better life. To her, the chief opportunity appears to be marriage to a blond American-American named Sammy White (Justin Kirk), although he occasionally hits her and has TB besides. When Camilla realizes she's in love with Arturo, she doesn't tell him as much but asks if he'd ever consider changing his name — she wouldn't want to raise her kids with the last name Bandini. (She has fancifully registered her car under the name "Camilla Lombard.") Arturo points out that he hasn't proposed.
It takes Arturo and Camilla three-quarters of the picture to get together because they're so bristly they can barely see each other without fighting. The text cues us that their problems arise from the difficulties of "ethnicity" in the pre-assimilation era, but the wonderful thing about the picture is that Towne plays the tension between them for comedy rather than pathos. The script makes ethnic prejudice in Southern California palpable (e.g., in Newport Beach, Arturo and Camilla sit down to watch the 1934 movie Dames — in which Ruby Keeler announces her independence with the old catchphrase, "I'm free, white, and 21" — and an Anglo girl moves away from Camilla) but it stops short of turning the lovers into victims. (The treatment of the immigrant subject, with its turbid mix of idealism and resentment, is reminiscent of some of Paul Muni's "accent" melodramas, Bordertown [1935] and Black Fury [1935], though it's much less heavy-handed.)
Arturo and Camilla have more stature than, say, Julianne Moore and Dennis Haysbert in Far From Heaven (2002) precisely because we see that they're primarily victims of their own reactiveness. Fante and Towne give them enough existence to make mistakes, and so we can identify with them without sinking into self-pity. Because they're trapped in their emotions, Arturo and Camilla can't see that they're romantic-comic sparring partners: every insult and outrage, every missed opportunity, binds them more tightly. (Arturo can't keep the ardor out of his voice when he's belittling Camilla for wearing huaraches.) Farrell and Hayek both get the joke, and understand that it can't be played too openly for laughs. Arturo and Camilla have to want to be in a grand romance that they helplessly shut themselves out of. The poor fools eye each other with tormented longing while from the outside they appear as married as they could get without a license or ceremony.
Colin Farrell is incredibly good, considering he's nobody's idea of a bashful or sexually inexperienced man. (This is the guy who made a sex video of himself in which he pauses while eating his girlfriend out to say, "Holy fuck! My breakfast, lunch, and dinner right here, I'm not even fucking joking.") Farrell is an unpredictable little bullet of a star. In Minority Report (2002), he nakedly enjoyed stealing scenes from Tom Cruise, as if acting were a competitive sport played one-on-one and aerobically fast, like racquetball. And in Intermission (2003), his ferociously physical hooliganism — swinging a shovel as he ran from a crime scene through traffic — embodied a certain sociopathological allure that has been central to movies since forever. He seemed born for the medium, as much as James Cagney.
I can see why these supporting performances would have made directors think Farrell can do anything, but he can't. In Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004), Terrence Malick's The New World (2005), and Michael Mann's Miami Vice (2006), his limitations became stunningly clear. He lacks the breadth of personality to play an epic hero, even a flawed one. And apart from The Recruit (2003), in which the role of a filial apprentice justified his junior quality, his physical assurance isn't all-purpose enough for action heroes. Even his suits in Miami Vice seemed bigger than he did. (There's more than one set in the game of stardom; Tom Cruise retakes the lead.) When Farrell experiences doubt while playing a commander of men, he suddenly seems puny; the walls of those big-budget movies collapse inward on him.
On the positive side, it may be that Farrell's face is too particularly expressive for a generic knight in such overblown productions. His Alexander was embarrassing but no more so than Clark Gable's performance as Parnell. Farrell isn't dismissible, he's simply less adaptable than we might have expected. He's resourceful enough, however, that miscasting per se isn't the worst thing that can happen to him. In A Home at the End of the World (2004), he actually benefited from being miscast. His role as a gayboy's dream of a bisexual best friend — a pure-hearted stud who never says no and is never put out by his lovers' complexes and tantrums — was a pink smoke ring. Farrell obviously had to hold back to play that utterly innocent, blocked manchild, but the obviousness made him amusing to watch. The confusions that played on his face were so clearly crafted that I was drawn to the working actor even though I rejected the character he was playing. Something similar is going on in Ask the Dust, except that I don't reject the character.
John Fante worked in the tradition of the expostulating modern bard, which includes Whitman, Henry Miller, and Charles Bukowski (who wrote the 1979 introduction to the copy I read). Consequently, the book centers more securely than the movie on Arturo's emergence as a published novelist. The love story feels secondary and is at times somewhat tiresome because Arturo and Camilla, who is masochistically in love with Arturo's rival, never seem as movie-ishly right-and-wrong for each other as Farrell and Hayek do.
This is the way in which the old-movie romantic Robert Towne brings so much to the project. As his script for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974) still shows, Towne does haunted nostalgia better than anybody. Ask the Dust is another Los Angeles story about doomed lovers in the '30s, and Towne has given the book's dialogue a brilliant polish for the screen (including an exchange between Arturo and Camilla about the color of his eyes that is the best on the subject I can remember, and no less romantic for being bitter). Towne's love of the era and his tough-guy jocularity give everything a dark shine, including the quietly anguished episodes involving Hellfrick (Donald Sutherland), a drunk who cadges nickels off Arturo, and the garrulously anguished ones involving Vera Rivken (Idina Menzel), a mad literary groupie who stalks him.
The old-Hollywood combination of "sultry" and "funny" could make otherwise unremarkable stories like To Have and Have Not (1944) and Gilda (1946) teasingly memorable. You know that the villains will be vanquished and the lovers will end up together, but the oddly heterogeneous tone gives the story suspense on a different level: you never know how any scene will play. The story may be a political melodrama, but the characters interact with the bantering suggestiveness of a burlesque show. The pretense that the moviemakers are primarily interested in telling the story is perhaps hypocritical, but you can't take it seriously enough to resent it.
Towne's coke-dealer redemption romance Tequila Sunrise (1988), starring Mel Gibson and Michelle Pfeiffer, runs more in this pop vein. By contrast, Ask the Dust, starting with Fante as its source, is a tragicomic romance that has both feet planted outside the world of movies, and fiction, too. In this movie, as we know from our family histories, the melting pot is not only an idealistic metaphor but a fact that is as hard to accommodate yourself to as any fact of life. Towne has a perhaps unique ability to make this ill-fated movie romance classically seductive while doing full justice to its authentic subject.
Towne's canniness as a writer and casual sophistication do wonders for the actors. Everything that can seem undersized about Farrell works for the role of Arturo, with whom we can empathize because of his bad behavior, which is both amusing and shocking — e.g., his spiteful gesture of pouring a complimentary beer into the cuspidor because Camilla lied when she said she'd read his story. Even Arturo's measliest qualities, the way his walk changes after he's maliciously poured a cup of bad coffee over the nickel he left on the table to pay for it, are charged with his bewildered emotionality, including the sexual drive he can't carry through on. Farrell's diminutiveness emphasizes the character as written here, and his eyes, which can seem beady with anxiety, or pleading under the circumflex brow, are just right for a man who's anxious that he won't be able to show the world what he's almost sure he has in him.
Farrell fuses his imagination with Arturo's pettiness and fearfulness, and the way they're knotted up inside with his ambition. Though this isn't made explicit in the movie, Towne and Farrell nail Fante's acuteness about the ambiguity of whether a man's ambition makes him a bigger or smaller person. In the book, Arturo soliloquizes: "War in Europe, a speech by Hitler, trouble in Poland, these were the topics of the day. What piffle! You warmongers, you old folks in the lobby of the Alta Loma Hotel, here is the news, here: this little paper with all the fancy legal writing, my book! To hell with that Hitler, this is more important than Hitler, this is about my book."
Hayek can be more relaxed than Farrell because she's better suited to her role, which is also less complex. She's luscious as hell, but Camilla's yearnings are touchingly ordinary, her self-seeking innocently transparent, and Hayek gives her a lovely, simple-hearted plaintiveness, and more gallantry than Arturo as well. She can be outright funny, when she accepts Arturo's invitation to Newport by saying, "It's your funeral!" But she's more distinctively memorable when she asks Arturo to come to bed. The weariness that cracks her voice resonates with the exasperation we've all felt with our lovers, ourselves, our absurdly complex entanglements — why can't this just be easy?
The characters brought in for contrast are a mixed bag. Justin Kirk has an indelible scene in which he advises Arturo how to "break" Camilla. (He displays a recognizable male authority but I can imagine women getting queasy at his horseman's gestures.) The episodes involving Vera Rivken, however, contain a floridly literary psychology that is both dank and obscure (same as in the book), and Menzel's performance is, perhaps inevitably, too self-conscious.
At the same time, Vera brings out different sides of Arturo in his confrontations with unromantic reality. Farrell tops himself when Arturo is in Vera's Long Beach apartment and the disturbed woman begs him not to hurt her. Arturo, trying to reason with unreason, argues, "Why would I hurt you? Why would I bother? I don't even love you!" That revealing syllogism (Towne's invention), which Farrell makes unself-consciously articulate in a way perfect for the angry wannabe Arturo, encapsulates everything I remember about being young, insensitive, and desperate for experience. It's the most perfectly horrible movie line I've ever identified so closely with.Powered by Sidelines


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