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AFI Conservatory Commencement Launches a Three-Year Anniversary Celebration
Aimed at Educating Today's Audiences and Tomorrow's Artists
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — June 1, 2017, Los Angeles, CA — It was 50 years ago that the American Film Institute began its mission — to preserve the heritage of the motion picture, to honor the artists and their work and to educate the next generation of storytellers. Established by Lyndon B. Johnson's presidential mandate in the White House Rose Garden, AFI will commemorate its golden milestone on June 5, 2017 — 50 years from the date of its official founding — at the AFI Conservatory Commencement on the grounds of the historic TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, CA. AFI will continue to celebrate through 2019, which will mark the 50th Anniversary of the Conservatory's 1969 inaugural class. Throughout this timeframe, AFI will announce activities and programs that promise to educate today's audiences and tomorrow's artists.
"AFI is hosting its Conservatory Commencement on the date of AFI's anniversary because we look to the art form's future through the eyes of these young filmmakers," said Bob Gazzale, AFI President and CEO. "AFI's founding promise was to nurture and support the young men and women wishing to pursue the art form as their life's work, and it is an ongoing mission we are proud to carry forward."
AFI's founding statement of purpose was to "elevate cinema to its fullest potential — to preserve, stimulate, enrich and nurture the art of film in America."
The American Film Institute has served the nation by advancing the art
of film, raising its importance so that it now lives among the fine arts
— and is appropriately recognized for its powerful global impact.
AFI's community of artists, industry leaders, scholars and members
across the nation has collectively contributed to cinema's rightful
place within American culture.
Here are some of AFI's milestones:
Preserving America's Precious Film Heritage
When film was in its infancy, movies were shot on volatile nitrate stock that disintegrated in short time. There are estimates that more than 50 percent of the films shot before 1950 are lost forever.
One of AFI's first acts was to rally the studios to donate copies of their highest quality prints, and now 60,000 films are secure in the AFI Collection at the Library of Congress.
In 1968, AFI launched a project of epic ambition — the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, which published its first volume of research in 1971. Never before had there been a singular scholarly resource for every American film. The Catalog is a historic record, and in 2017 AFI is proud to announce that the first 100 years of American film will have been documented.
"No other source of information is as complete and accurate," said director Martin Scorsese. "And no other source is produced with the scrupulous level of attention to scholarship and research as the AFI Catalog."
Educating the Next Generation of Storytellers
Inspired by words first spoken by President Johnson in the White House Rose Garden — "We will bring together leading artists of the film industry, outstanding educators and young men and women who wish to pursue the art form as their life's work" — AFI opened the Center for Advanced Film Studies (now the AFI Conservatory) in 1969. An elite and intimate MFA program that accepts only 140 Fellows a year, AFI boasts alumni that include Andrea Arnold, Darren Aronofsky, Julie Dash, Caleb Deschanel, Patty Jenkins, Janusz Kamiński, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Robert Richardson, Paul Schrader and many more film and television luminaries. The immersive training program focuses on learning by doing in an intensive production-based curriculum. AFI alumni have won every major award and boast an employment rate of 81%.
Addressing Gender Diversity in the Industry
In 1974, AFI recognized a dire imbalance in gender representation among the voices telling America's tales, and so it launched the AFI Directing Workshop for Women (DWW). AFI's leadership role continues to this day with this celebrated, tuition-free training program committed to increasing the number of women working professionally in screen directing.
Elevating Film Masters to Be Appreciated as Artists
In 1973, the Institute established the AFI Life Achievement Award to ensure that "great accomplishments of the past are recognized to the end that the masters of film may take their deserved place in history beside leaders in other arts."
The AFI Life Achievement has been broadcast around the world for 45 years.
All honorees are listed here.
In 2000, AFI created AFI AWARDS to honor the extraordinary screen stories of the year in a noncompetitive environment. AFI's unique format recognizes the collaborative nature of the art form by celebrating the creative ensembles in a private ceremony — with rationales that contextualize their contributions to America's cultural heritage.
Catalyzing a Global Dialogue About American Film
In 1998, AFI sparked a worldwide conversation that continues to this day by launching AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies — a countdown of the 100 greatest movies of all time revealed in a three-hour CBS television event.
With this first authoritative list of its kind, AFI's goal was to shift the conversation from box office or now-popular numerical scores for films toward public discussion about what makes a great movie and why.
These AFI specials spanned 11 years — and nearly 80 hours of television programming — and are still used as a reference today for film lovers and historians alike.
In 1975, when magazines were a primary source of information about the film arts, AFI launched American Film™ magazine to explore the past, present and future of the motion picture. AFI published the award-winning periodical for 17 years, with contributions from the nation's leading artists, writers and top scholars including Isaac Asimov, Vincent Canby, Larry McMurtry, Andrew Sarris and more.
Providing Access to Film's Finest
When AFI was founded, access to films was limited to theatrical venues. One of AFI's earliest goals was to establish an exhibition presence at L'Enfant Plaza in 1970 before taking up official residence in the Kennedy Center, unveiling premiere restorations, classic film prints and more. Today, that work continues at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in the Washington, DC, area.
Under an alliance with FILMEX, the Institute in 1987 launched the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival, which became AFI FEST presented by Audi — a weeklong extravaganza for master filmmakers and emerging artists to engage with audiences in the heart of the movie capital of the world. AFI FEST remains the first and only festival of its stature that is free to the public.
Convening America's Storytellers and the Nation's Leaders
Since 2003, AFI DOCS has celebrated the best in nonfiction filmmaking. Today, AFI headquarters the event in Washington, DC, with the goal to bring together artists who wish to change the world with men and women who have the power to do so. Attendees and participants include members of the Supreme Court, Congress and the President's Cabinet, as well as ambassadors from nations around the world, journalists and enthusiastic lovers of the art form.
About the American Film Institute
AFI is America's promise to educate today's audiences and tomorrow's storytellers. AFI programs include the AFI Catalog of Feature Films and the AFI Archive, which preserve film heritage for future generations; the AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film; AFI AWARDS, honoring the most outstanding movies and TV series of the year; AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies television events and movie reference lists, which have introduced and reintroduced classic American movies to millions of film lovers; year-round and special event exhibition through AFI FEST presented by Audi, AFI DOCS and the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center; and educating the next generation of storytellers at the world-renowned AFI Conservatory.
(In alphabetical order, not show order)
Carol Burnett, actress, AFI Honorary Degree recipient, with surprise guest
Jean Picker Firstenberg, AFI President Emerita
Bob Gazzale, AFI President and CEO
Marshall Herskovitz, filmmaker and AFI Honorary Degree recipient
George Stevens, Jr., AFI Founding Director
Edward Zwick, filmmaker and AFI Honorary Degree recipient
Click here on June 5 for a more detailed timeline of AFI's history.


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Simon Fraser, UVic, UNBC plan virtual start to university term as pandemic surges
Campus resources, including libraries, student housing and dining services will remain open
Omicron prompts University of British Columbia courses to go temporarily online
Instruction after the holiday break will be provided online until at least Jan. 24
Students concerns heard, exams will continue in-person: UBC
Spokesperson says school administration has worked closely with health officials to ensure students are safe
International students navigate numerous barriers as they look to begin fall classes
Some universities will require students living in residence to be vaccinated against COVID-19 come September
Alberta asks universities to report on links with Beijing and Communist Party
Universities have 90 days to submit a report to Alberta's Advanced Education Ministry
Some Canadian universities say no to proof of vaccination requirement
Dozens of universities in the United States have opted to require proof of vaccination
B.C. says student loan websites back up after hack with no private data leaked
Hack happened late Sunday night
COVID-19: B.C. tells universities, colleges to prepare for on-campus learning this fall
Safety top of mind for province, post-secondary institutions
University unions, students and faculty summon Ottawa for more education funding
The federal government said it's already providing significant support to universities and students
Winter championships canceled for B.C. university athletes
The decision was made with the unanimous support of U SPORTS' board of directors
COVID-19 could cost Canadian universities millions, even billions: Statistics Canada
In 2017-2018, foreign students alone paid about 40 per cent of all tuition fees
Canada provides exception for U.S. students planning to study north of border
Students coming from the U.S. may no longer need a study permit that was issued on or before March 18
Anxiety high as Canadian schools prepare for students from COVID-ravaged U.S.
Some U.S. parents are taking comfort in knowing their children are escaping the U.S.
Auditor finds $2.4B in unpaid student loans, calls for stronger recovery efforts
The Canada Revenue Agency was found to have its hands tied in recovering outstanding loans
Trudeau unveils details of grant to help post-secondary students, grads work this summer
Students, recent grads could get up to $5,000
Students, recent grads can apply for emergency benefit on Friday, Trudeau says
CESB is part of $9B fund to help students amid pandemic
Many B.C. post-secondary institutions say fall classes will be offered mostly online
Most campuses closed in March due to COVID-19
Commons approval sought for $9-billion emergency student aid package
Funds include between $1,250 and $1,750 for students and up to $5,000 in service grants
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Armand Bartos is a private dealer with over thirty years of experience dealing in significant 20th century art. He specializes in Post War and Contemporary Art, with a particular focus on Abstract Expressionism, early Pop and Minimal Art and in 20th Century European Art. Armand brokers works of art on behalf of private collectors in the United States and abroad. His sales have included important works by Calder, Chamberlain, de Kooning, Frankenthaler, Johns, Leger, Lewitt, Matisse, Mitchell, Motherwell, Nevelson, Picasso, Pollack and Warhol, among others. Armand also works with museums and has placed works at MoMA, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., LACMA, the Pompidou and The Ludwig Collection, among others. Armand works with a broad range of collectors to find the best possible works within their collecting interests and budget constraints. He works with experienced collectors to find specific works or to hone their collection, as well as with younger collectors to educate and advise them in the early stages of building a collection. Throughout his career Armand has been an important resource not only for collectors, but also for art advisors, private dealers and museum curators around the world. Click here for more ABOUT Armand Bartos.


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ISO comparison
Overall, the S4500's photo quality is good as long as you're willing to work within its limitations and you're not expecting dSLR quality just because it kind of looks like one. But, if you're the type to never leave auto or use a tripod, you might not be 100 percent happy with its photos.
Basically, like most lower-end to midrange compacts, the S4500 can take some nice photos below ISO 200 that can be used at reasonably large sizes. The more you have to go above ISO 200, however -- whether for shooting indoors, using the zoom lens, or both -- the less satisfied you might be with the results.
Without enough light, the camera will boost the ISO to keep shutter speeds fast enough to freeze movement (and this camera's lens needs a lot of light). However, increasing the ISO also increases noise and noise reduction that in turn softens details. Once the S4500 hits ISO 800, though, it will start to use slower shutter speeds to get the correct exposure. Depending on how slow it gets, if you're not on a tripod and your subject isn't still, you'll end up with soft, blurry photos. (You can see examples of this toward the end of this slideshow.)
This is common with this class of camera, not just the S4500. What is specific to the S4500 is the photo quality at ISO 800, which is OK for Web use at small sizes if you don't mind softness.
Something goes horribly wrong at ISO 1600 with color and subjects really are just too soft, so I would avoid using this or the higher ISO settings available at reduced resolutions. On the upside, Fujifilm doesn't use this setting when shooting in Auto; it will drop the shutter speed instead.


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text: If you work in finance or accounting and receive an email from your boss asking you to transfer some funds to an external account, you might want to think twice.That's because so-called "whaling" attacks -- a refined kind of phishing in which hackers use spoofed or similar-sounding domain names to make it look like the emails they send are from your CFO or CEO -- are on the rise, according to security firm Mimecast.In fact, 55 percent of the 442 IT professionals Mimecast surveyed this month said their organizations have seen an increase in the volume of whaling attacks over the last three months, the firm reported on Wednesday.Those organizations spanned the U.S., U.K., South Africa and Australia.Domain-spoofing is the most popular strategy, accounting for 70 percent of such attacks, Mimecast said; the majority pretend to be the CEO, but some 35 percent of organizations had seen whaling emails attributed to the CFO.\u201cWhaling emails can be more difficult to detect because they don\u2019t contain a hyperlink or malicious attachment, and rely solely on social engineering to trick their targets,\u201d said Orlando Scott-Cowley, a cybersecurity strategist with Mimecast.Often, sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter give attackers the details they need to execute whaling attacks, Mimecast said.So what's an accountant to do? Mimecast has a few suggestions.Educating senior management, key staff and finance teams is one of them; another is conducting tests on your own business through mock whaling attacks to see how vulnerable your staff are.Inbound email stationery that marks emails originating outside the corporate network can be another useful tool, as can domain name registration alert services, which will alert you when domains are created that closely resemble your company's.\u201cThe barriers to entry for whaling attacks are dangerously low," said Scott-Cowley. "As whaling becomes more successful for cybercriminals, we are likely to see a continued increase in their popularity."


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Business Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2023
Occupational Lead Annotations
Due to the lack of a clear grant of authority from Congress, as well as preemption based on federal law, the Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Fee is not applicable to Indian tribes operating casinos on Indian land. 1/8/96.
The fee is imposed on each employer who has 10 or more employees and is identified as a member of a specific Standard Industrial Code (SIC code) as established by the Department of Health Services. Liability for the fee is based on SIC code classes for businesses which have documented evidence of the potential for lead poisoning, not on the record of any particular business or whether any employees were exposed to lead. 4/10/95.


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When the weather outside undergoes extreme changes, having the insides as comfortable as possible with your HVAC systems is top priority. However, they are not always on their best condition as they can break down. Fortunately, this is where the skills of an HVAC Technician step in.
What Does an HVAC Technician Do?
HVAC technician is trained to deal with various problems revolving around various types of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Condition (HVAC) Units. After HVAC training, their work could include the inspection and diagnosis of HVAC units along with dealing various problems.
Due to the layout of HVAC units, the work of an HVAC tech will include the opening, replacement and disposal of containers with refrigerants and the installation of new units for various clients, residential, commercial, industrial and otherwise.
Those who are interested in becoming an HVAC professional would have to undergo formal training for several (usually two) years in an accredited schools. Please see our extensive HVAC school directory for details about training options and find schools in your state. Then, they have to pass licensure and certification before becoming a fully-pledged Technician. The Certification granted to them will dictate the scope of their work and how much they will expect to earn in the industry.
Career Prospects?
One of the well-known benefits of becoming a fully-licensed HVAC Technician is the multiple job opportunities being opened to fully licensed technicians. Due to the constant need of specialists who can deal with the complexities and the difficult work nature revolving around HVAC services, candidates who have undergone formal training, apprenticeship and certification have the best job opportunities as employers will clamor for their application.
How Much Is The Pay?
In truth, the lowest wage ever recorded for HVAC Technicians in 2015 was at $28,600 per year while higher-earning technicians can earn at least $67,000 every year. This only means that a single HVAC technician can earn enough to support himself and other people for an entire year.
Becoming an HVAC Technician is one of the finest career decisions a person can make in modern economy. If you are interested in becoming one, you are opening yourself to a job where career opportunities are abundant and pay is more than modest. With the right training and education, you too can turn into a full-pledged HVAC technician commanding a large pay rate.


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A great Japanese warrior named Nobunaga decided to attack the enemy although he had only one-tenth the number of men the opposition commanded. He knew that he would win, but his soldiers were in doubt.
On the way he stopped at a Shinto shrine and told his men: "After I visit the shrine I will toss a coin. If heads comes, we will win; if tails, we will lose. Destiny holds us in her hand."
Nobunaga entered the shrine and offered a silent prayer. He came forth and tossed a coin. Heads appeared. His soldiers were so eager to fight that they won their battle easily.
"No one can change the hand of destiny," his attendant told him after the battle.
"Indeed not," said Nobunaga, showing a coin which had been doubled, with heads facing either way.
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Switzerland, or the Swiss Confederation, was founded more than 700 years ago. The oldest traces though go back more than 150,000 years. Surrounded by Germany, France, Austria, Lichtenstein and Italy, no fewer than four languages and dozens of dialects are spoken in Switzerland. Switzerland is also considered one of the richest countries in the world as well as one of the countries with the highest quality of life. So, it is no wonder that Switzerland is a popular subject for a variety of poster products, including framed art and canvas prints.
Traditions and culture in Switzerland
The first things that people think of when hearing of Switzerland are often rich people, pocket knives, Heidi and cheese. But Switzerland is much more than that. Switzerland has a very rich cultural life. Opera, theater, festivals, museums, medieval castles, cathedrals, churches, monasteries and abbeys – there is something for every interest. If you are the more adventurous and sportive kind, Switzerland has a lot to offer too. You can go hiking, cycling, climbing and in winter enjoy skiing or snowboarding. A poster or art print of one of the many beautiful old churches and cathedrals would be a great way to represent Switzerland in your home. Or how about a poster of one the many mountains covered in snow?
Nature in Switzerland
Switzerland encompasses a great diversity of landscapes. In the North you find open and hilly landscapes, large forests, large lakes like Lake Geneva and the biggest cities like Lucern, Bern, Zurich and Basel. In the South, among the high valleys of the Swiss Alps many glaciers and waterfalls are found, from which also originate many rivers. Switzerland is also home to hundreds of mountain peaks, the most famous are surely the Matterhorn and Jungfrau and Eiger. So, if you are looking for works that are nature-based, posters, framed art and art prints of Switzerland are the best choice for you!


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A US guided-missile destroyer is en route to the Black Sea but naval officials said Thursday it was a "routine" deployment that was planned before the crisis unfolded in Ukraine.
The USS Truxtun departed the Greek port of Souda Bay Thursday to carry out joint training with Romanian and Bulgarian forces, the US Navy said in a statement.
"While in the Black Sea, the ship will conduct a port visit and routine, previously planned exercises with allies and partners in the region," it said.
The mission was "scheduled well in advance of her departure from the United States," it said.
Although portrayed as unrelated to tensions in Ukraine, where pro-Russian forces have taken de facto control over the Crimean peninsula, the presence of a US naval destroyer in the Black Sea sends a symbolic message to Moscow.
The move comes a day after the Pentagon sought to reassure anxious allies in Central and Eastern Europe over Russia's actions in Ukraine, announcing plans to send more F-15 fighter jets to patrol the skies over Baltic states and stepping up aviation training in Poland.
At the moment, the only US naval ship deployed in the Black Sea is the USS Taylor, a frigate undergoing repairs at the Turkish port of Samsun after having run aground last month.
The Truxton is part of the George HW Bush aircraft carrier strike group currently assigned to the US Navy's 6th fleet, which oversees operations in the Mediterranean.


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LOS ANGELES—Saying that it would likely be amusing and very popular, actor Macaulay Culkin told reporters Tuesday that he hopes staff writers at the website Funny Or Die are currently coming up with ideas for a parody video he could star in. "There has to be someone over there in his late 20s who loves making fun of the 1990s and has me in mind for something," said the 32-year-old former child star, adding that he imagines a video of no more than three minutes in length that would show viewers he isn't afraid to poke fun at his own career, but would also pay homage to his place in pop-culture history. "I'm sure they've batted my name around before, and maybe a few ideas have been bounced off producers. They could do something where I'm at home alone as an adult and Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci keep trying to break into my house—like it's just this annoying routine that's become part of my life. Or it's like a parody of My Girl where a swarm of angry bees attacks me at the end of every shot. But I'm just spitballing here—this is in their wheelhouse, so I'll let them come up with the ideas." At press time, Culkin said he would be open to lampooning the end of The Good Son where he falls off a cliff, but instead of plummeting to his death, his shirt becomes snagged on a tree branch and he's forced to make awkward conversation with Elijah Wood.
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Trends Transforming America's Urban Parks
NEW YORK — The extraordinary greening of New York City over the past decade is part of — and inspiration for — a nationwide urban parks revival that has been growing over the past two decades.
In a sign of the movement's strength, some 870 people from 200 cities and 21 countries gathered earlier this month for the Greater & Greener urban parks conference, co-sponsored by the City Parks Alliance and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
"Just about every city has one or more major park projects under way," said Peter Harnik, director of the Center for City Park Excellence at The Trust for Public Land, which researches park best practices and benefits, and maintains a database on U.S. city park systems.
Driving this momentum is an evolution in the way parks are viewed: Once relegated to the sidelines, an amenity that could be dispensed with in tough times, parks are now seen as central to a city's quality of life by public officials, civic leaders and citizens.
"It feels like parks have come into the public consciousness," said Catherine Nagel, executive director of the City Parks Alliance, the conference co-sponsor.
One measure of this, she said, is the diverse roster of people who attended the conference, the fourth presented by the alliance.
The previous events attracted mostly park professionals and advocates. But this year, there were mayors, real estate developers, health care professionals and advocates, corporations, philanthropists and landscape designers and planners.
Further evidence of the reach of the urban parks movement is a new commitment by the National Park Service to better connect inner-city residents with its urban national parks.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, in his keynote speech, used the occasion to announce the formalization of a partnership between the National Park Service and the city parks department to manage Jamaica Bay's 10,000 acres of city and federal parkland.
The concept of a park is broadening, too.
"Parks are less isolated pockets of greenery and more a part of the urban infrastructure," Nagel said.
Europeans have a much more expansive view of parks "as public spaces between buildings — the green glue that holds a city together," said Helle Soholt, co-founding partner and managing director of Gehl Architects in Copenhagen.
But you don't have to look further than Madison Square Park or Times Square, where pedestrian plazas have staked out turf formerly occupied by cars, to get a feel for that idea.
Here are four trends in urban parks from this year's conference:
With a growing body of research showing that access to outdoor open space and recreation improves physical and mental health, many sessions focused on ways parks can be designed or managed to fight obesity, improve education, and partner with social service agencies.
"Parks are as fundamental to health and well-being as a clinic or hospital," said Dr. Daphne Miller, of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Mickey Fearn, National Park Service deputy director for communications and community assistance, said parks are spaces for spontaneous outdoor play, as well as programs that connect young people to the outdoors and nature.
He also said they provide experiences that help young people, especially those living in disadvantaged inner city neighborhoods, succeed and participate in a "powerful way in their communities."
As an example, he cited Rocking the Boat, the South Bronx youth organization that teaches teenagers to build boats and involves them in conservation efforts along the waterfront in "an area where they didn't even know had water."
Space for new parks is scarce in many cities and neighborhoods. New parks are being built in unlikely places: elevated rail lines, reclaimed brownfields and even long-covered rivers that are "daylighted" and restored.
Conference participants got a look at some of New York City's solutions for shoehorning parks into a densely built cityscape, including the park-in-progress at Staten Island's former Fresh Kills landfill, the largest park to be built in New York City in more than 100 years, and one of the scores of schoolyards that have been transformed into student-designed community public space.
New York City, Philadelphia, and many other cities are making a major investment in designing green roofs, streetside swales, specially engineered tree pits and other natural systems to help address its sewage overflow problems after heavy rainstorms.
This green infrastructure soaks up and slows down runoff before it overwhelms the sewer system, while also adding more green space in the city.
Sessions on sustainable park design for creating parks that serve as buffers for climate change and for preserving biodiversity underscored a new focus on parks as ecological systems.
Even in a good economy, funding parks is a challenge. Finding innovative and equitable ways to pay for creating and maintaining parks was a major theme of the conference. Among the ideas explored were the establishment of conservancies and other forms of private funding, the role of developers in creating public space, partnerships with water and highway departments, and voter-approved dedicated funding.
Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett spoke about his city's investment of public funds for a multitude of civic and greening projects to breathe new life into a hollowed-out downtown, making it a place that attracts and keeps residents and businesses.
Since 1993, Oklahoma City voters have passed a series of penny sales-tax initiatives, the most recent to fund a new 70-acre central park, riverfront recreation, and biking trails, among other things.
In an interview in The Dirt, the blog of the American Society of Landscape Architects, he said: "We convinced people who live in the suburbs that the quality of life downtown is important….you can't be a suburb of nothing."
In his keynote speech, Mayor Bloomberg also stressed the economic growth that flows from investing in urban parks.
Speaking from a stage decorated to look like a pocket park — with the ubiquitous green portable cafe tables and chairs, a bench flanked by greenery, and a bicycle — he noted the attraction of good city parks to everyone from a young person starting a career to a family raising children in the city to a business leader deciding where to locate.
"In a tough economy, we know it's important to keep investing in what makes a city inviting to businesses and new residents," he said. "The time to make the investment is tough times. The city walked away from its future during the 70s. We did not do that this time."


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Workspace Status Service
The status service allows a client to query the usage data the service has collected about it.
Currently there are two operations, queryCurrentWorkspaces and queryUsedAndReserved.
queryCurrentWorkspaces returns some status information on all instantiated workspaces that the caller controls. It returns the schedule, network addresses, ID number, etc. for each.
queryUsedAndReserved returns the time (in minutes) used so far by the client as well as the currently reserved time.
The used time is measured from creation time to WSRF resource destruction time. Note that the end of the measurement is not when the workspace's running time is over. Thus if you have lengthy stage-out transfers or extend the resource termination time for no good reason (which ties up allocations, including networking addresses), you will still be charged for this time.
The reserved time is the aggregate of all your current deployments' requested durations. When a deployment ends, the used time for that deployment is added to 'used' and the appropriate time is substracted from 'reserved'.
Reserved time is tracked separately mainly for authorization purposes: the authorization policy can look at your past and current deployments together to render a decision. If 'used' were the only thing tracked and consulted during authorization, a client could conceivably "blast" the service with requests that would ultimately put it above its quota down the line because the current used tally would be low at creation time.
There is currently one resource property chargeGranularity. This is an integer that tells how running time is being "counted". If this value is one then anything between zero and one minute (inclusive) is counted as one minute. If this value is e.g. thirty, then anything between zero and thirty minutes (inclusive) is counted as thirty minutes.
Why would chargeGranularity ever be set differently than a value of one? There may be organizational accounting reasons, but the workspace service backend is usually the cause of this. For example, the alternative backend to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud would cause the chargeGranularity to be sixty. On this backend, the same amount of money is currently charged for any time used between zero and sixty minutes (inclusive), and so this parameter can be altered to accurately express a usage value that directly translates to the real charges.
The Status Service WSDL can be viewed online.


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Robert S. "Bob" Jacobson died Feb. 15, 2013, at his home in Palm Harbor, Fla., under the care of Hospice.
He was born Oct. 30, 1924, in Morgantown, the seventh son of Carl A. and Mary E. Metzger Jacobson.
On Dec. 26, 1947, he married Elisabeth Ann "Libby" Brown of Summersville.
They had one daughter, Mary Elizabeth Jacobson of Green Spring.
At West Virginia University, Bob was a member of the football and track teams, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Sigma Theta, YMCA and Wesley Foundation. He graduated from WVU in 1947 with a degree in chemical engineering. Bob and Libby then moved to Creed, and he worked in Charleston as assistant engineer of the Division of Sanitary Engineering for West Virginia Department of Health (1951/52). He then returned to WVU to attend law school.
Following graduation from law school, the family moved to Tappan, N.Y. For two years, he worked for a New York City law firm before returning to Franklin to serve as interim prosecuting attorney in Pendleton County. The family then moved to Marlinton where for 10 years, he maintained private practice and was prosecuting attorney (eight years) of Pocahontas County. In 1969, the family moved to Greenbrier County, Lewisburg, where he maintained private practice. Bob also practiced law in Florida for many years.
Bob was active in many civic, professional and philanthropic organizations. He was a member of Lewisburg United Methodist Church at Lewisburg. He was a former member of the board of governors of the West Virginia State Bar serving three years representing a six-county area. In Pocahontas and Greenbrier counties, he was a bank director and organizer.
Historical preservation and genealogy were two of his passions: Pocahontas County Historical Society and Museum, Pearl S. Buck Birthplace and Foundation, Hillsboro, historical societies in Greenbrier County, Pinellas County, Fla., and Burnett County, Wis. He secured placement of his paternal grandparent's home place (Jacobson House and Mill Site, Wood Lake, Wis.) on the National Register of Historical Places. The voyage of the Viking Ship Hjemkomst (1982) from Duluth, Minn., to Oslo, Norway, captured his interest and philanthropic generosity. Other passions were the arts, learning, cycling and architectural design. Many summers he spent at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, N.Y., taking classes and attending lectures and concerts.
Surviving are his daughter, Mary E. "Beth" Jacobson (Tim Bateman), of Green Spring; Betty Jo Morgan, loving friend and devoted caregiver, of Ronceverte; granddaughter, Sarah E. Russell Sanchez (Roy); two great-grandchildren, Addison and Silas Sanchez of Greensboro, N.C.; sisters-in-laws, Alice Brown Juergens of Morgantown and Gloria Jacobson of Northridge, Cailf.; and numerous nephews and nieces.
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MAD forum - sweet Jeezus titty fucking Christ!....
They remind me of legs on a YT classic ring disasters compilation - insofar they rarely should be allowed an even break.
I would go there and troll, but it would be just way too easy.... like shooting fist in a barrel, when the barrel is filled with liquid oxgen, the fish are dead anyway and you have a 50 cal MG with incendiary rounds at your disposal.
Been a while since I posted here. What a better way to come back than by bumping a thread that died two months ago? A jackass, I certainly am.
Just to prove that, despite what my posts may indicate, I am not actually retarded, I'll offer rebuttals to this asshole's "Unwritten Rules of MMA":
1.) You can't do this on the SOOPER DEADLY STREETZ either, unless you want your porky, dorky ass to get raped in jail for the next 20 years.
2.) Because finding a local hitman is as easy as finding a self proclaimed martial arts expert.
3.) You can. The reason no one actually does it is because there's a 0% chance of that working.
4.) See rebuttal to rule #1.
5.) And who the fuck do you plan on bribing in a street fight?
6.) Because normal people just walk around with ninja stars in their socks. At least I do.
7.) Wait, you mean all I have to do on the SOOPER DEADLY STREETZ is call time out? I guess that means I can take the ninja stars out of my socks now. Those things fucking hurt.
8.) The first question the drunk who grabbed my girlfriend's ass at a frat party last week asked me when I confronted him was "How much do you weigh?". Me being the street savvy badass that I am, I knew enough to say "150 lbs, sir" instead of 185.
9.) First of all, aren't there supposed to be no rules in a street fight? So what rules can your opponent be changing if there are none? Let's ignore this and assume "rules of engagement" means "change the way your opponent is attacking you". Which happens all the time in MMA. And boxing. And every other fucking fight in the God damn universe.
Forget my grandma, I need to figure out what my mom looks like after reading this.
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Just out of curiosity, but since everyones different I expect to have varying results.. How much weight have you lost and/or gained while doing yoga?
But if comparing your strip-mall karate to Lyoto Machida's were a character in a shounen anime, this blog post is a Super Saiyin 3 Fusion with the Kyuubi while going Bankai after eating the Baka-Baka fruit:
7.) Wait, you mean all I have to do on the SOOPER DEADLY STREETZ is call time out? I guess that means I can take the ninja stars out of my socks now. Those things fucking hurt.
This is just sad. This guy didn't even remember to look up Aldo on Wikipedia. Anybody who looks there will see that our "crane kick masta" is a well-versed MT fighter. The guy didn't even know that there was no "crane kick" in karate. This makes me wonder if he has anything to do with the MA in the first place.
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*If you are looking for a dairy free version - Here is the link to my cheese free cauliflower pizza crust!*
1 small to medium sized head of cauliflower - should yield 2 to 3 cups once processed
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon dried basil (crush it even more between your fingers)
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano (crust it even more between you fingers)
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
optional a few shakes of crushed red pepper
1/4 cup shredded parmesan cheese
1/4 cup mozzarella cheese
1 egg
optional 1 tablespoon almond meal
Desired amount of sauce, cheese for topping, and other toppings. Make your own 30 minute pizza sauce using my recipe!
Place a pizza stone in the oven, or baking sheet if you don't have a pizza stone. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. On a cutting board, place a large piece of parchment paper and spray it with nonstick cooking oil.
Wash and throughly dry a small head of cauliflower. Don't get one the size of your head unless you are planning on making 2 pizzas. Cut off the florets, you don't need much stem. Just stick with the florets. Pulse in your food processor for about 30 seconds, until you get powdery snow like cauliflower. See above photo. You should end up with 2 to 3 cups cauliflower "snow". Place the cauliflower in a microwave safe bowl and cover. Microwave for 4 minutes. Dump cooked cauliflower onto a clean tea towel and allow to cool for a bit before attempting the next step.
Once cauliflower is cool enough to handle, wrap it up in the dish towel and wring the heck out of it. You want to squeeze out as much water as possible. This will ensure you get a chewy pizza like crust instead of a crumbly mess.
Dumped cauliflower into a bowl. Now add 1/4 cup parmesan cheese, 1/4 cup mozzarella cheese, 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, 1/2 teaspoon dried basil (crush up the leaves even more between your fingers before adding), 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano (crush up the leaves even more between your fingers before adding), 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder (not garlic salt), and a dash of red pepper if you want. I also added 1 tablespoon almond meal because my cauliflower yielded closer to 2 cups of cauli snow, this is optional and I would not add the almond meal if you have closer to 3 cups of cauli snow. Now add your egg and mix away. Hands tend to work best.
*3/15 update - If you are using a larger sized cauliflower, up the eggs to 1 egg plus 1 egg white. You want your "dough" to be sticky. When I make a bigger sized pizza (using more cauliflower) I up the seasonings and the egg, but often leave the amount of cheese the same. Make sure you pat the dough tightly together when forming your crust. It really helps to place the crust (on an oiled sheet of parchment paper) on a HOT pizza stone or baking sheet. Make sure the crust is golden in color before topping it and baking it again. I truly believe cooking it the proper length before topping it helps keep the crust together.
Also I really like the addition of 1 to 2 tablespoons of almond meal to the crust mixture.
*Disclaimer - the slices will still be kinda floppy, but they shouldn't be crumbly.
***UPDATE - My new oven requires that I pre-cook the crust for closer to 15 to 20 minutes to get it a nice golden brown. Go off of looks rather than time! You want the edges to start to be crispy brown but not too much so that when you cook it again after adding toppings it will burn.
- Instead of microwaving you can steam the cauliflower just enough to get it slightly tender.
- Instead of a food processor you can use a cheese grater to grate the cauliflower.
- If you are looking for a dairy free version - Here is the link to my cheese free cauliflower pizza crust!
- I highly recommend parchment paper over tin foil. Don't use wax paper.
- Yes, you can do without the pizza stone and use a baking sheet.
- Yes, you can just wring out the cauliflower raw, but I recommend the cooking method and have had better success cooking the cauliflower before wringing it out.
- People have had success with using a juicer on the cauliflower and extracting the pulp to use. I have not tried this.
- The almond flower is optional. Coconut flour would be a good substitute, but both could be left out entirely with pretty much the same result.
DUE TO THE POPULARITY OF THIS RECIPE, I HAVE TO ASK PLEASE DO NOT POST THIS RECIPE IN FULL ON ANY OTHER BLOG OR WEBSITE WITHOUT PROPER ACCREDITATION, AS WITH ANY RECIPE ON THIS SITE. Thank you! :)


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TRENTON, NJ - New Jersey will receive more than $9.4 million federal grant to expand home visitation services to help at risk families with an array of health and social services, the commissioners of Children and Families and the Department of Health and Senior Services announced today.
The $9.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will support an expansion of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program in the Department of Children and Families (DCF).
In announcing the funding, U.S. HHS Secretary Sebelius said the grants were awarded to 10 states that "demonstrated a commitment to operating successful early childhood systems for pregnant women, parents, caregivers and children from birth to eight years of age." Oversight and implementation of the MIECHV grant in New Jersey is a collaborative effort between the two Departments. New Jersey received the largest grant.
The grant funding will allow New Jersey to expand its home visitation programs for perinatal screenings and risk assessments to promote earlier identification and coordination of services for families those who reside in at-risk communities. Currently, funding is provided to 35 evidence-based home visitation programs in New Jersey through DCF.
"New Jersey's Home Visiting Program has been proven to improve maternal and child health and through this investment in funding more families will have access to health screenings, education and counseling-the tools they need to succeed," said New Jersey Health and Senior Services Commissioner Mary E. O'Dowd. "Through this program, the Department of Health and Senior Services along with its sister agencies, are giving children a healthy start and building stronger families, which will ultimately lead to healthier communities in our state."
Children and Families Commissioner Allison Blake said DCF will expand its current network of nationally recognized, evidence-based home visiting models that strengthen families by providing individualized support to pregnant women, parents and/or other caregivers of families with children from birth to age 5. New Jersey's current home visiting models include Healthy Families, Nurse-Family Partnership, Parents as Teachers, Home Instruction to Parents of Preschool Youngsters and Early Head Start - Home-Based Option.
"These models promote infant/child health and development, nurture positive parent-child relationships, facilitate parent resilience, build social/community connections, and provide linkages to needed resources and supports," Blake said. "They have been shown to improve maternal and child health, family functioning and stability, child and family well-being, and prevent child abuse and neglect."
Blake said the home visiting program currently serves approximately 3,000 New Jersey families. The additional grant funds will expand home visiting programs in all 21 counties and service up to 5,000 families.
For more information on the Department of Health and Senior Services or the Department of Children and Families, visit www.state.nj.us.


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According to Jeffrey Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal, men's friendships aren't like women's friendships. Specifically, they involve more fishing. And poker.
Zaslow writes,
[T]hough I envy women's easy intimacy, I also know it wouldn't work for me and my friends.
I've played poker with the same guys every Thursday night for 18 years. We rarely talk about our lives. We talk about cards, betting, bluffing.
Apparently Zaslow's poker friends don't know his children's names, which is okay, because that kind of "emotional" friendship is women's work. Guys prefer "side-by-side" interaction like fishing and golf. Zaslow explains:
[I]t's a mistake to judge men's interactions by assuming we need to be like women. Research shows that men often open up about emotional issues to wives, mothers, sisters and platonic female friends. That's partly because they assume male friends will be of little help. It may also be due to fears of seeming effeminate or gay. But it's also an indication that men compartmentalize their needs; they'd rather turn to male friends to momentarily escape from their problems.
And he quotes one Larry Shulsinger, who says,
I wouldn't talk about my insecurities with the guys. All my real insecurities-about work, finances, the kids-those I share with my wife.
Being a guy's only emotional confidante can be difficult, and I wondered if Shulsinger's wife kind of wished he would bring up his insecurities with his bros. Isn't there a way we can honor people's different interaction styles while also examining the way these styles might be limited by stereotypes (like that "effeminate and gay" thing)? If we did that, maybe men could share some of the emotional heavy-lifting — and women could take off fishing from time to time.


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The essence of international financial governance consists of providing support to the international monetary system that is predictable and stable and that facilitates payments for international economic transactions. It also involves oversight of the international financial system with a view to protecting the interests of savers and investors around the world and allocate credit efficiently and fairly amongst all potential borrowers. This compact and self contained course will allow participants to gain a good understanding of the institutional arrangements underlying international financial governance by providing an understanding of the framework, general principles and arrangements for regulation of the global financial system. The latter part of the course will examine the question of reforming global financial governance and shed light on the current problems and challenges facing institutions of international financial governance. The practical online discussions, an integral part of this course, will allow participants to obtain a holistic understanding of the issue of global financial governance in a short span of time.
At the end of the course, the participants should be able to:
- Identify the key institutions involved in global financial governance and discuss their respective structures and regulatory functions within the global financial system;
- Recognize the challenges put forward to the international community by the current nomenclature of global financial governance;
- Examine the impact the current arrangements for international financial governance have on different categories of countries and on different regions;
- Identify an intellectual framework to evaluate the current arrangements for international financial governance and any proposals for changing these arrangements; and
- Propose reforms in the global financial governance.
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- Module 2: The Institutions in Global Financial Governance: Development Financing
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In order to ensure the best possible outreach, the course will be delivered through e-learning. Through a multiple-instructional setting, the goal is to achieve the learning objectives by means of learning technologies that match personal learning styles and by the inclusion of non-linear learning that aims at the development of just-in-time skills of adult learners. At the same time, in order to allow participants maximum flexibility of scheduling , the learning will be conducted in an asynchronous manner. Using a state-of-the-art training architecture, UNITAR will combine self-learning with assessments and online discussions. The pedagogy - adapted specifically to professionals in full-time work - will help train participants through various experiences: absorb (read); do (activity); interact (socialize); reflect (relate to one's own reality).
The intended audience includes includes public and private sector officials and policy makers from developing and developed countries.
A certificate of completion will be issued by UNITAR to all participants who complete the course-related assignments and assessments successfully. Course schedule is subject to change. Course fee is non-refundable but transferrable to another course or participant and subject to change as per UNITAR's policy on pricing.
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|Royal Television Society Awards judging pack 2011
Will she won't she? Will he do it? And the winner is... As the best of innovative British Television News prepares to honour its own, RTS Juror David Dunkley Gyimah peers ahead and gives an insight into his working methods.The pack arrived through the post today. The contents, the invitation letter and DVD of this year's nominees.
|David interviewing Sarah Abdelrahman
in Cairo for feature: Tahrir Memento
sarrahsworld Sarrah Abdelrahman
It's been a memorable eventful year in the News. The Arab Springs: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria have been the more visible whose events are still reverberating.
Japan's earthquake disaster from its Fukushima reactor meltdown brought us to the brink of a a nuclear nightmare, while in the summer the heat of London's riots raged.
In the European Union, meltdown of another kind as economy after economy ran aground e.g. Greece, Italy and Spain teeter. While in the US, the prelims for which republican will take on President Obama is set to change gear and Iraq as "welcome home (troops)"- has the semiotics for a political turf war.
We know these things and more because those events are packaged into News conveyed to us through multiple media and multimedia. This is where the most talented of practitioners work their craft to inform us the spectators.
Their legacy becomes a footprint for the viewer to marvel. TV, satellite, twitter, blogs, or the combination of such digital artifacts display these wonderment. Yet of the many news makers only a few can be chosen to represent their extraordinary trade.
RTS Judging
|RTS Judging panel (2009)
That task of selection falls to industry figures and those conversant and knowledgeable of this evolving communication discourse, particularly in a digital age of news.
For the fourth year running I'm humbled and delighted to be chosen as one of the jurors for the Innovation in Television News section for the Royal Television Society Awards.
For the non news aficionados, you could call it the Oscars or even EMMY's of British Television News, though quite rightly, the RTS is simply with no comparisons. It is the RTS.
Past victors have included: the Guardian Newspapers Sean Smith Videojournalism, BBC Newsnight's "10 Days to War" and more recently CNN's use of Twitter in South Africa's World Cup.
I reveal no secrets talking about these and no more in what I am about to say.
But judging the best of British television news is obviously a serious undertaking and one that I'm pleased allows me to exercise skills accrued over 25 years.
That includes working in Television News, Dotcoms, Videojournalism, Radio, to helping to set up news networks, advising groups and lecturing in the UK and abroad e.g. Egypt, Lebanon, US and winning the odd international award.
But while heuristics and experience have been invaluable, a skill I'm heavily reliant on is critiquing.
Critiquing not as a surface layer, an exchange of personal views and tastes, but one coalescing a systematic, mental process of seeking objective cues, replicable views using various theories of meaning-making.
Innovation makes it even more interesting. What constitutes innovation and how can it be measured are just a few of the reasonings which are resolved.
Learning to Critique
|Masters students in journalism at an editorial news meeting
In our last journalism session for Masters students this year and in subsequent documentary sessions next semester, I lecture in critiquing. The cause-effect of critiquing is that whilst not all critics make good programme makers, the art of good critiquing intrinsically leads to the ability to make good programmes.
Critiquing and thus learning from the masters makes for great television.
Because embedded in the art of critiquing is understanding how the programme maker serves their audience. Critiquing thus is not a self-indulgent pursuit, but one that involves understanding the intentions of the maker, the internal codes of the network, and the value of us - the audience.
If you can read past the referential or the explicit, then the nuances of deeper codes, textual and visuals, may make you a better judge of media analysis, one that puts you in tune with your intended audience, and potentially makes you a better film maker as well. The lessons of those great writers of Cahiers du Cinema turned film makers e.g Truffaut et al tell us that.
Many post structuralist now agree film is not a language, but language-like and cover a spectrum of theories to make good their point. Yet the act of good critiquing I believe involves choosing appropriate analytical methods that seek to remove the personalisation - however difficult that may seem for realists.
Thus whether it's the RTS, future journalists decoding the media, or the next generation of media flows, in a media world obeying Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle being grounded in the fundamentals in necessary, yet understanding and interpreting evolving theories for 21st century media is essential.
I'm about to approach my task of deconstructing the RTS nominees work with a humble hand. Something tells me as I open the pack, I'm truly going to enjoy this, immensely.
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John Mayer Earns Blogger Stripes Defending James Cameron from TMZ's Smear Campaign
Battle Studies, indeed! TMZ recently ran video of someone harassing James Cameron to sign an Avatar poster, the highlight of which: Cameron calling his "fan" a "fucking asshole." Typical TMZ. But Cameron's surprising public advocate nailed the story.
Introducing John Mayer: The Blogger.
And then TMZ followed it up with a post cutely titled "True Lies" (like the AWESOME James Cameron movie starring Tom Arnold and Tia Carrere) where, in some Avatar press interview footage, James Cameron notes that "he'd sign as many autographs as people will line up for."
Nice! James Cameron doesn't really seem like the kinda guy TMZ would go for, right? But Avatar posts are getting awesome traffic right now, so they're just astutely following the news cycle. And it just so happens that James Cameron called this guy a "fucking asshole" and they were there to get footage of it!
So why'd James Cameron, the fan-friendly director, freak out? Maybe it was because it was Christmas Eve, and he's normally signing things when his wife isn't with him. Or maybe it was because he had a turbulent flight! How the hell do you feel when you get off of airplanes? Or maybe it was something that happened between the relatively suspicious cuts on the TMZ game tape.
But most people know better. John Mayer, who probably deals with this kind of shit often, is one of them. And in an articulate posting to his Tumblr—John Mayer has a Tumblr! And it's not John Mayer Will Change Your Life! How 'bout that?—Mayer breaks down how this works, from his perspective.
First, he calls out the system: everyone's for sale, everywhere.
American Airlines has long been known to have at least one person in their organization selling flight manifests to the paparazzi. I'd imagine it's not hard to find a gate agent or a skycap willing to trade a well-known name or two for a couple hundred dollars..
Which, as this website knows, is totally correct. Money buys things, like scoops!
...The fact that passenger lists are not available to the general public means that anyone waiting at the airport with any more than the CD from the passenger seat of their car has gotten word of which celebrities will be traveling through the terminal in the same way the paparazzi do. In some cases, these "fans" are working in concert with them. After all, it's a great way to get a celebrity to interact with you on video if you can ask them impolite questions while they're stopping to sign a few items for someone. If they decline, it's time to switch to plan B: paint them as shallow Hollywood types that only care about the "little people" when it best serves them. This logic doesn't really hold water since everyone now knows that being videotaped at LAX is regarded as one of the most high profile appearances one can make, especially during the release of a film.
Also true! Most celebrities have to fly like normal people do: through airports. And if you've ever been to LAX, you know the hell that may or may not await them (and you!) as you shuffle through paps to find your friend giving you a ride home. And celebrities know to look good when they go through LAX, because, again, they'll be photographed. And often, asked to become part of the celebrity autograph moneymaking machine! Celebrities are wont to preserve autographing things for fans and charities and things like that; they don't like to sign the shoddy things scheme-people try to get them to.
Even some of TMZ's commenters know this, one of whom pointed out that this eBay seller is most likely the guy in the video, who screamed after Cameron "I'm an asshole because I ask someone I admire for their autograph that makes me an asshole? I make $15-an-hour at work to go see your film and I'm an asshole?"
That'd make sense, as the guy in the video's wearing the same hat he also got Jackie Earle Hayley to sign. Which I guess he keeps a good stock of. Or: was just smart enough to take it off his head and get it signed by Hayley at the time.
See! Scheme-people are quick-witted! And when they don't get what they want, which is money, sleazy scheme-people get angry. Then they try to get people like James Cameron to call them "fucking assholes." And John Mayer sees that part going something like this:
While I can't speak to what happened before the segment of video on TMZ, I can tell you that the man in the tiny hat with the Avatar poster had probably engaged with Cameron from at least 50 paces before the automatic doors. That's how it goes down; they walk alongside you. They bark requests at you, trying to get your pulse to quicken. If you give in and sign, the guy with the poster gets to sell it and make a few bucks. If you don't give in, as it gets harder to acquiesce with each successive yelp, then the stench of cash really starts to waft in as Video Camera Guy gets the goods while you explain in no uncertain terms to Obnoxious E-bay Poster Guy that he's not going to get what he's asking for tonight.
Pretty good, right? Mayer goes on to observe that Cameron isn't used to dealing with this kind of bullshit. Think about the last time James Cameron was doing serious press rounds. TMZ wasn't around then.
Mayer's entire blog post is here, and if you'll read through it, you'll note that it's not just "good for a rock star," but "good for a blog post." Not bad! Though the most interesting part is actually when he notes, of Cameron's media dealings:
He doesn't understand the media shuffle, and I'm glad he hasn't given any thought to it. It's actually a waste of brain matter, and a slippery slope of compromise.
Well, Mayer does speak from experience, and that experience clearly involves very little compromise, but also, clearly, an impressive regard for self-awareness (just as suspected). John, anytime you feel like taking to the blog, holler. We're a growing company, and I, for one, am impressed.


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Former Queens of the Stone Age bassist arrested after a police standoff
Bassist Nick Oliveri has been keeping busy lately -- and not necessarily in a good way.
The former Queens of the Stone Age member, who recently rejoined his former bandmates in Kyuss for a reunion tour under the moniker Kyuss Lives!, found himself on the wrong end of a standoff with a Los Angeles SWAT team earlier this week, after a neighbor called the police to report a domestic disturbance.
When police arrived, they reportedly discovered that Oliveri had locked himself and his girlfriend inside the house after she'd tried to leave following an altercation. According to TMZ, Oliveri refused to allow officers into the house, provoking a four-hour standoff.
Both Oliveri and his girlfriend eventually left the house unharmed, but TMZ's sources say a post-standoff search of the residence turned up a loaded rifle. In the end, Oliveri was booked for felony domestic violence.


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A group of malware experts from security companies Kaspersky Lab, CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks and the Honeynet Project, have worked together to disable the second version of the Kelihos botnet, which is significantly bigger than the one shut down by Microsoft and its partners in September 2011.
The Kelihos botnet, also known as Hlux, is considered the successor of the Waledac and Storm botnets. Like its predecessors, it has a peer-to-peer-like architecture and was primarily used for spam and launching DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks.
In September 2011, a coalition of companies that included Microsoft, Kaspersky Lab, SurfNET and Kyrus Tech, managed to take control of the original Kelihos botnet and disable its command-and-control infrastructure.
However, in January, Kaspersky Lab researchers discovered a new version of the botnet, which had an improved communication protocol and the ability to mine and steal Bitcoins, a type of virtual currency.
Last week, after analyzing the new botnet for the past several months, the new group of experts decided to launch a new takedown operation, said Stefan Ortloff of Kaspersky Lab in a blog post on Wednesday.
Disabling botnets with a decentralized architecture like Kelihos is more complicated than simply taking over a few command-and-control servers, because the botnet clients are also able to exchange instructions among themselves.
In order to prevent the botnet's authors from updating the botnet through the peer-to-peer infrastructure, the security companies had to set up rogue botnet clients around the world and use special techniques to trick all other infected machines to only connect to servers operated by Kaspersky Lab. This is known as sinkholing, said CrowdStrike researcher Tillmann Werner during a press conference Wednesday.
Once the majority of the botnet clients connected to the sinkhole servers, the researchers realized that the second Kelihos botnet was significantly larger than the one taken down in September 2011. It has almost 110,000 infected hosts compared to the first botnet's 40,000, said Kaspersky Lab's Marco Preuss during the same press conference.
Twenty-five percent of the new Kelihos bots were located in Poland and 10% were in the U.S. The high concentration of bots in Poland suggests that the cybercriminal gang behind Kelihos paid other botnet operators to have their malware distributed on computers from a country with cheaper pay-pay-install prices, Werner said.
The vast majority of Kelihos-infected computers -- over 90,000 -- run Windows XP. Around 10,000 run Windows 7 and 5,000 run Windows 7 with Service Pack 1.
Microsoft was not involved in the new takedown operation, but was informed about it, Werner said. During the September 2011 operation, the company's role was to disable the domain names the Kelihos gang could have used to take back control of the botnet.
However, this type of action was no longer necessary, because this fallback communication channel is only used by the Kelihos bots if the primary peer-to-peer-based channel is disrupted, which doesn't happen with sinkholing, Werner said.
Kaspersky will notify Internet service providers about the Internet Protocol addresses on their networks that display Kelihos activity, so that they can contact the subscribers who own the infected machines. The sinkhole will be kept operational for as long as it is necessary, PreuA said.
Various signs suggest that the Kelihos gang gave up on the botnet soon after it was sinkholed. However, given that this was their fifth botnet -- including the Storm and Waledac variants -- they're unlikely to give up and will most likely create a new one, Werner said.


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Hip disorder
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My views on continuing education for massage therapists
The role of Medical Massage in stress management, discovery of sexuality, and improvement of sexual satisfaction
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The role of Medical Massage in stress management, discovery of sexuality, and improvement of sexual satisfaction
The most common causes of male and female orgasmic disorders are both physiological and psychological in nature. Among other factors defining such disorders are: depression, feelings of guilt, anger, fear, low self-esteem, anxieties, etc. Since all of listed factors are either directly linked or caused by stress, we can generalize that one of the major detrimental factors in couples' inability to reach top sexual satisfaction, and discover the maximum of what sexual act can offer is stress.
According to many surveys today stress is responsible for pandemics of medical diseases, such as anxiety, tension headaches, essential hypertension, stomach aches, sleep disorders and more. Practically each of us to a certain degree suffers from anxieties, which is a result of higher than normal sympathetic activity.
It is impossible to get maximum satisfaction from intimacy, if to get satisfaction at all, at the time of high level of sympathetic activities. Sexual responses are regulated by the mutual activities of sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of nervous systems, but under domination influence of parasympathetic division as well as involvement of somatic innervations. Even considering the differences in female and male reflex pathways before intimacy, and at the time of sexual activities, the functions of autonomic nervous system are similar. That includes blood vessel dilation, which causes penis and clitoris erections, vaginal smooth muscles contractions at the time of orgasm, as well as smooth muscles constrictions at the time of ejaculations.
In addition, activities of parasympathetic division of autonomic nervous system regulate digestive system, pulmonary system, as well as sexual reproductive organs. At the same time, it is the main inhibitor of over active sympathetic activities. When most of the parasympathetic potentials are directed to inhibit over active sympathetic activity, it is impossible to expect normal parasympathetic function at a time of sexual act. While as only normal parasympathetic functioning is necessary for sexual satisfaction as well as for discovery of sexualities. Also it is important to mention that under stress our skeletal muscles demonstrate higher muscular tensions, which in turn limit the range of muscular constrictions. Contractions of the skeletal pelvic muscles are accompanied orgasm in both sexes, and unless these muscles are relaxed, it is hard to expect full sexual satisfactions.
As you can see, stress presents the number of serious challenges to a quality of sex and sexual satisfaction to its maximum extent. Many people try to manage stress by being sexually very active. Factually it doesn't work and causes trouble in personal relationship because in such cases and under stress no harmony can be achieved. The good news is… that it is clinically and scientifically proven, that massage can address and eliminate these challenges, but let me first tell you about another serious challenge to sexual relations.
Storing negative emotion in body parts.
Spending many years in a treatment room, at times, I witnessed patients' seemingly bizarre behavior. While massaging an absolutely healthy, with no signs of pain, part of a body, suddenly, a person starts crying, shaking or complaining about cold in a room with 75 degrees temperature. Often in the aftermath people feel embarrassed and even ask for an apology.
Although science doesn't have a well established explanation for this phenomenon, there is a working hypotheses described as "Body cells carrying emotional memory." Negative memories stored in body part that started to come up to the surface. Crying, shaking or complaining of cold – all is expression of emotional release, accompanied by muscular contractions, followed by a relaxation of a part or the entire body.
Notice, incidentally, that some additional well known psychological factors that cause male and female orgasmic disorders are: past history of traumatic sexual encounters such as sexual abuse, rape or incest, or having been raised in an atmosphere of strict sexual taboos. These and many other negative emotions that people couldn't deal with or chose not to deal with at the time they occurred consciously, or simply divert from our awareness without any conscious efforts, while coming to the surface at a much later time during massage session, case described above emotional outbursts.
Today many people in the scientific community are also skeptical of it. However this skepticism isn't based on any scientific research.
As for clinician, witnessing described above phenomena in the treatment room, year after year, brought a realization that this hypothesis is a true one. In my book "Simple Approach to Medical Massage" I presented an example of how a heavy weight boxer – a World champion, started to cry during the massage session, releasing emotions connected with events that have happened when he was 8 years old. To me this is already not a hypothesis, but a clinically proven phenomenon and until there is major scientific study disproving it, I will keep it as working theory.
Emotions stored in any part of the body, especially in the pelvic floor, if not released, will trigger a reaction to a touch such as a constriction of muscles. Harmony as well as top sexual satisfaction could not be achieved under these conditions. Imagine that at a time of a sexual act one of the partners touches a part of a body while this body part carrying an emotional memory or a psychological scar. At the time when this happen a person might pay no attention to such constriction. But will such a person get a complete satisfaction from such an act?
Therefore emotional scars must be eliminated. It is proven scientifically and, most importantly, clinically that massage therapy is the most powerful methodology in stress management. In addition it releases emotions stored in body parts.
The simplified protocols that address this condition give professional outcome from the point of view of stress management, improvement of sexuality, and in discovery of sexuality. Rather than offer you a complete medical protocols I will combine different protocols of stress management, sports massage or orthopedic massage.
Currently you can rent a $2.99 video, devoted to this topic."The role of Medical Massage in improvement of sexual satisfaction" To obtain results, fifty percent of massage should be spent on kneading. In this video I present a few easy to perform, various kneading techniques used in Medical Massage. But, as it was mentioned before, we alternate and Boris teaches a combination of different types of easy to perform massage techniques that include kneading.
Using these protocols you might not get results compared to what professional therapists would achieve when they perform kneading. Maybe it would take two or three treatments but in the end you would achieve desirable results in stress management and quality improvement of sexual life. I teach you how to prepare yourself for these emotional releases, how to hold hands on body parts that stores these emotional scars, and more.
One important advice if you are to provide therapy for your partners. When you perform a massage on your partner, try to conduct yourself professionally like therapy provider would. Your attraction to each another might compel you to do otherwise. It is very important that treatment wouldn't be interrupted. These 45 to 55 minutes must be dedicated to treatment, and treatment only. During this procedure your partner will get a sense of trust to your touch and for a long run releasing bad memories and healing emotional scars would do wonders to your sex life. Your sexual act in the future would be much more prolonged; you would be able to pick up sexual energy from each other and to bring this to the greatest sensation possible. By managing stress and releasing emotions quality of your life including sexual life will be improved tremendously. Undoubtedly, your clients' quality of life, including sexual life, would improve due to constantly receiving therapy for stress management. Just urge them to receive full body stress management massage on weekly basis.
You are also welcome to learn our free self-massage lessons. In the theoretical part, in details, I present a mechanism of stress debilitation of human body as well as explaining why massage therapy is the most powerful methodology in healthcare for stress management.
This link will take you to e-book where I demonstrate the full body stress management massage. You can also learn all 12 Medical Massage petrissage techniques.
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