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Here's what's new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, video-on-demand, and other streaming services …
The hit of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, "Palm Springs" (2020, TV-MA) is a romantic comedy with a "Groundhog Day" twist: a cynical wedding guest (Andy Samberg) and a reluctant maid of honor Sarah (Cristin Milioti) fall in love as they relive the same day over and over. Director Max Barbakow and writer Andy Siara add wild twists to their journey while the comic energy and chemistry between the leads carries the audience along. Originally slated as a theatrical release, it makes its debut on Hulu.
Charlize Theron is back in bad-ass action mode at the world-weary leader of "The Old Guard" (2020, R), an immortal team of mercenaries who may have a traitor in their midst. The violent, action-packed feature, adapted by Greg Rucka from his graphic novel and directed by Gina Prince-Blythewood, is all but designed for a whole series of films to follow (Netflix).
The lean World War II thriller "Greyhound" (2020, PG-13) follows the newly-promoted Captain (Tom Hanks) of an American destroyer evading U-boats in stormy waters during the Battle of the Atlantic. Hanks also produces and scripts, adapting the C.S. Forster novel "The Good Shepard," and Stephen Graham and Elisabeth Shue costar (Apple TV+).
"First Cow" (2019, not rated), a frontier drama about a talented cook (John Magaro) and a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee) who joins forces to start their own business in 19th century Oregon Territory, brings filmmaker Kelly Reichardt back for her fifth film set and shot in Oregon. The film enjoyed a brief but acclaimed theatrical release before theaters shut down (Cable On Demand, VOD).
A mentally ill woman (Yvonne Strahovski) is unlawfully imprisoned in an immigration detention center in "Stateless: Season 1" (2020, not rated). It's one of the four stories explored in the Australian drama co-created by and costarring Cate Blanchett (Netflix).
Classic pick: Montgomery Clift is a poor boy reaching for the American Dream and slipping into a nightmare in the Oscar-winning "A Place in the Sun"(1951) costarring Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters (Amazon Prime Video).
Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand
The animated musical adventure "Trolls World Tour" (2020, PG) sends the brightly-colored dolls on an odyssey to meet other tribes and musical genres. Features the voices (speaking and singing) of Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, James Corden, Ozzy Osbourne, Rachel Bloom, and others. Also on DVD and at Redbox.
Also new: "Mighty Oak" (2020, PG-13), a musical drama about a ten-year-old guitar prodigy who may be the reincarnation of a one-time rising star.
Debuting direct to VOD is "Relic" (2020, R), a psychological thriller built on the strained relationships and suppressed emotions of three generations of women (Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, Robyn Nevin) in a spooky old family home that may be haunted. It premiered at Sundance 2019.
The documentary "Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado" (2020, not rated) chronicles the life and career of the flamboyant astrologer who became a huge TV personality on Latin American TV.
Tony Revolori and Jason Mantzoukas are odd couple travel mates in the road movie comedy "The Long Dumb Road" (2018, R).
"Down to Earth with Zac Efron: Season 1" sends the actor traveling around the world in search of healthy, sustainable ways to live.
Kid stuff: animated comedy "The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space: Season 1" is a new take whimsical children's books.
International TV: crime drama "The Twelve: Season 1" (Belgium, 2019, not rated, with subtitles) follows a jury through a sensational murder trial. Also new:
- romantic drama "Was It Love?: Season 1" (Japan, not rated, with subtitles);
- animated survival drama "Japan Sinks: 2020 – Season 1" (Japan, not rated, dubbed and subtitled versions);
- reality show "Dating Around: Brazil: Season 1" (Brazil, not rated, with subtitles);
- fantasy thriller "The Protector: Season 4" (Turkey, TV-MA, with subtitles).
More true stories: the documentary short "The Claudia Kishi Club" (2020, not rated) pays tribute to the stereotype-busting character in "The Baby-Sitters Club" books and series. Also new:
- "A Kid from Coney Island" (2019, not rated) on the rise and fall, and rebirth of former basketball star Stephon Marbury;
- "Born Racer" (2018, R) on IndyCar champion Scott Dixon.
Stand-up: "Jim Jeffries: Intolerant" (2020, not rated).
Amazon Prime Video
A pair of maverick detectives take on a crime syndicate in "Big Dogs: Season 1" (2020, not rated), a thriller set in the underground economy of an alternate reality New York City under financial collapse. Michael Rabe, Manny Perez, and Brett Cullen star. Eight episodes.
Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie star in "The Tourist" (2010, PG-13), a romantic action thriller that hops through beautiful European locations.
The "Star Trek" spoof "Galaxy Quest" (1999, PG) with Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver has become a cult comedy in its own right.
Classics: "Dodsworth" (1936), starring Walter Huston as an American industrialist with a failing marriage who finds a new love (Mary Astor) while vacationing in Europe, is one of the smartest and most adult dramas of the 1930s. It's directed by William Wyler as is "The Little Foxes" (1941), adapted from the Lillian Hellman play and featuring a ferocious, Oscar-nominated performance from Bette Davis.
Also new: Gus Van Sant's indie classic "Drugstore Cowboy" (1989, R) with Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch;
- Rob Zombie's cult horror films "House of 1,000 Corpses" (2003, R) and
- "The Devil's Rejects" (2005, R);
- offbeat low budget horror classic "White Zombie"(1932) with Bela Lugosi.
True stories: Ron Mann surveys the career of one of the great American maverick directors in "Altman" (2014, TV-PG).
Prime Video / Hulu
Streaming TV: "The Fosters: Complete Series" (2013-2018, TV-14) is a family drama built around same sex parents (Teri Polo and Sherri Saum) raising a mixed family. It ran for five seasons on ABC Family, which has since been rebranded Freeform (Prime Video and Hulu).
Jacques Audiard directs "Dheepan" (2016, R), a drama of three displaced people who pose as a family to immigrate to France.
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon bicker, banter, and offer dueling Michael Caine impressions while on comic culinary tours in "The Trip" (2011, not rated) and the sequel "The Trip to Italy" (2014, not rated).
HBO Max
"Expecting Amy" (2020, not rated) is a three-part documentary that follows comedian Amy Schumer as she prepares for a new comedy special while going through a difficulty pregnancy.
The surreal animated comedy "Close Enough: Season 1" (2020, not rated), from "Regular Show" creator JG Quintel, follows a young family living with roommates on the east side of Los Angeles, facing problems both down to earth and wildly fantastical.
Av available on all HBO services is the World War II spectacle "Midway" (2019, PG-13) from Roland Emmerich.
Alden Ehrenreich is a young Han Solo in "Solo: A Star Wars Story" (2018, PG-13), a prequel from a galaxy far, far away that is as much galactic heist adventure as space opera. It costars Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, and Donald Glover as young Lando Calrissian.
Showtime Anytime
The five-part docuseries "Outcry" (not rated), a five-part documentary series that digs into a high school football star convicted of sexual assault and the support of his community to question the investigation and the prosecution of the case; new episodes each Sunday. The full episode of the series premiere is available for free below.
Sundance Now
"Blinded: Season 1" (Sweden, not rated, with subtitles) is a thriller set in the world of high finance, where a journalist discovers her bank director lover may be hiding something in his books. All eight episodes available.
The indie horror film "The Beach House" (2019, not rated), starring Liana Liberato and Noah Le Gros as a college couple whose weekend getaway get seriously nightmarish, debuts on Shudder.
The Criterion Channel
Criterion Channel offers an offbeat festival of "Western Noir," a selection of classic westerns that are also dark, often shadowy dramas of crime and greed on the frontier, from the celebrated "Blood on the Moon" (1948) with Robert Mitchum to the mercenary "Lust for Gold" (1949) with Ida Lupino and Glenn Ford to the great snowbound hostage thriller "Day of the Outlaw" (1959) with Robert Ryan and Burl Ives. Also new:
- "A Dry White Season" (1989) Criterion Collection Edition #953
- documentaries "California Typewriter" (2016, not rated) and "Lenny Cooke" (2013, not rated) from Josh and Bennie Safdie;
- and a collection of New York indie films "Directed by Sara Driver"
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Women's Hockey World Cup: India Draw 1-1 Against England In Their Opening Encounter
Neha Goyal scored the first goal of the match in the 25th minute while Lily Owsley scored the equalizer for England in the 53rd minute.
- Neha Goyal scored the opening goal of the match.
- Lily Owsley scored the equalizer for England.
- England earned the 1st penalty corner in the opening minute of the game.
Indian women's hockey team started their World Cup 2018 campaign with a 1-1 draw against England at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre on Saturday. The match saw the Indian team take the lead in the 25th minute through Neha Goyal but a composed Lily Owsley scored the equalizer for the home team in the 54th minute helping the world number 2 team draw the first clash of the Pool B. England started off brilliantly in front of a packed stadium earning a penalty corner within the opening minute of the game. A brilliant save from goalkeeper Savita, which was cleared away by India's defenders, denied England with a lead at the start of the game.
The next few minutes saw India dominate possession and create a couple of circle entries, but could not take a shot at the goal. The second penalty corner for England was also scuffed by the defenders. World No. 10 India also tried to create pressure in the latter stages of the first quarter but neither team was able to take the lead.
The second quarter too saw brilliant attack from the English but goalkeeper Savita and defenders were up to the mark as well, saving three penalty corners in the opening ten minutes of the second quarter. The Indian team absorbed the pressure and looked to attack the English on the counter. The strategy finally worked for the team with Neha Goyal netting the ball in the 25th minute.
The England in dominated the third quarter as they looked to find the equaliser. The World No. 2 side made 11 circle entries in the third period, but could only take three shots, which were well kept out by a resolute Indian defence.
In the final quarter, India had a chance to extend their lead in the 52nd minute but forward Lalremsiami failed to deflect the ball into the net. In the 54th minute, England won back-to-back penalty corners and the second one was put into the back of the net by Lily Owsley to bring the scores level at 1-1. The final few moments of the match saw both the teams look for a winner, but a good performance from the defenders saw both teams settle for a draw.
India will lock horns with World No. 16 Ireland in their next encounter on 26th July.


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If you're still using an AGP motherboard and feel you've been getting the short end of the graphics card stick recently, Sapphire might have a few products of interest for you. The company known for making graphics cards and motherboards based on ATI technology (as well as ATI's own branded video cards) has announced X1300 Pro and X1600 Pro AGP models, much to the delight of cash-strapped gamers not wishing to part with their current hardware just yet.
The designs stray slightly from the ATI reference designs to make room for the PCI-E to AGP bridge chip which allows the natively PCI-E GPUs to communicate with the AGP bus. Aside from this difference the cards are essentially the same, sporting the same clock speeds and theoretically identical performance.
The AGP interface got a shot in the arm earlier this year with the introduction of NVIDIA's 7800 GS, an AGP only card which uses the same graphics technology of NVIDIA's high end 7800 GT and GTX, which are PCI-E exclusives.
While ATI's X1000 product lines don't officially include AGP support, it did not prohibit its card partners to develop their own cards. Consequently, Sapphire has not ruled out the possibility of higher end models coming to AGP in the future.
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Definition of Inflation
What does the term "inflation" mean? What is meant by the word "inflation"?
Inflation refers to the general rise in the price of goods and services. The opposite of inflation, as you can probably imagine, is deflation.
Inflation results in the decreased purchasing power of a dollar (because things cost more to buy). If wages don't increase at the same rate as inflation, then people will be able to buy less and less, even if their wages do increase. For instance, if the annual rate of inflation is 3% but workers are only making an average of 2% more each year, then their paychecks won't go as far and they will be able to buy less.
Economists favor a low and steady rate of inflation. The world is currently experiencing an uptick in inflation due to rising energy costs. This has an impact on nearly everything - food costs rise, transportation costs increase, etc.
A sharp uptick in the money supply can cause a sharp increase in inflation, as there are more dollars floating around that are chasing goods and services. The more there is of something (for instance, dollars), the less each individual one is "worth".
If the Federal Reserve, for instance, prints $2 trillion to buy US debt, then this will increase the money supply and inflation will likely soar.
Governments can control inflation through interest rates. By lowering interest rates, the government increases the money supply and spurs economic activity. By increasing interest rates, the government decreases the money supply. Governments want to avoid high inflation, which is why they will increase interest rates in order to keep inflation under control.
Davemanuel.com Articles That Mention Inflation:
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Ravens Sign Steve Smith
Today, the Baltimore Ravens announced that they have signed veteran wide receiver Steve Smith, formerly of the Carolina Panthers, to a three-year contract.
This three-year contract is worth a total of $11.5 million. This makes the average value per year of the contract $3.83 million. There was a signing bonus of $3.5 million. The total guaranteed money is currently unknown. When all of the contract information is available, a contract breakdown will be posted.
Since being drafted by the Panthers in the third round of the 2001 NFL Draft, the 34-year old had spent his entire NFL career there (13 seasons).
His best season came in 2005 where he caught 103 passes for 1,563 yards and 12 touchdowns. All of these are career-highs.
During his time in Carolina, he was a five-time Pro Bowl selection (2001, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2011) and a three-time All-Pro (2001 and 2005 first-team and 2008 second-team).
Last season he caught 64 passes for 745 yards and four touchdowns while playing in 15 games. As their number one receiver, he helped lead the Panthers to the playoffs number two seed in the NFC. They would lose in the Divisional Round to the San Francisco 49ers.
Back in the 2003 season, he helped lead the Panther to Super Bowl XXXVIII against the New England Patriots. The Panthers lost 32-29 in a thrilling game where he caught four passes for 80 yards and one touchdown.
An expressive player, he is known for being outspoken on and off the field. Last season, he and former Patriots––now Broncos––cornerback Aqib Talib got into it during a game. Tailb later left the game due to an injury. In a post game interview, a reporter asked Smith if he had anything to say to Talib. In response, Smith gave one of the best one-linners in history: "Ice up son."
Released by the Panthers a few days ago due to salary cap reasons––a high cap hit and old age never bode well for players––he will get to face the Panthers this season as the Ravens will host them this season.
He is the only free agent that the Ravens have signed so far that isn't one of their own. The Ravens tend to not be very active in free agency as they build through the draft. Since he was released, he won't count against the Ravens' compensatory picks in the 2015 NFL Draft. Currently, the Ravens would be getting three––the maximum is four––due to the losses of Arthur Jones, Corey Graham and Michael Oher.
With the addition of Smith, the Ravens top four wide receivers (in no particular order) are now him, Torrey Smith, Marlon Brown and Jacoby Jones. This is an improvement from last season and gives the team flexibility heading into the draft. Torrey Smith and Brown are young and Jones is experience, but a true veteran presence was lacking last season without Anquan Boldin. Steve Smith can fill that void.
Overall, this is a good signing for the Ravens. They got a veteran receiver for quarterback Joe Flacco at a reasonable price. At the end of the day, the Ravens' receiving corps is improved.


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August 7th, 2014
The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality announced yesterday that it will be rebranding itself as the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity (ATCSI), with NARTH functioning as a "separate Insitute" within ATCSI. According to an emailed announcement from NARTH President Christopher Rosik:
In recent years NARTH has been increasingly involved in legal and professional efforts to defend the rights of clients to pursue change-oriented psychological care as well as the rights of licensed mental health professionals to provide such care. In this context, it has been alarming to encounter frequent distortions and omissions pertaining to the scientific record regarding change in sexual orientation and the harms alleged to occur from professional assistance with such change.
In order to respond to these important developments more clearly in our mission, the NARTH board voted in January of this year to create a new organization, titled Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity (ATCSI). NARTH will remain and function within ATCSI as a separate Institute that will continue to focus on matters pertaining to the psychological care of clients with unwanted same-sex attractions and behaviors. Nothing in our mission changes, but we anticipate that our outreach will be significantly expanded.
You can see the ATSCI's new web site here. NARTH styles itself a professional organization, but the ATSCI has a specific section for with religious outreach.
Faced with more state legislatures considering bans on change orientation therapy for minors, NARTH has been unsuccessful in its campaigns to stop those drives. Earlier this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from newly-appointed NARTH board member David Pickup to overturn lower court rulings that upheld California's ban on ex-gay therapy for minors. NARTH co-founder Joseph Nicolosi admitted that about half of all clients are teens and they represent a growing customer base. NARTH has been operating for several years on a minuscule shoe-string budget. It's hard to see how this latest move will have much of an impact.
August 20th, 2007
A few weeks ago, the National Association For the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) posted its 2007 conference agenda (PDF: 108KB/3 pages). Through considerable detective work, Ex-Gay Watch's David Roberts suggests that one item may be a talk by Stanton Jones on the results of a secret five-year study on the outcomes of religiously-based change therapies.
Another item I noticed is a talk by Christopher Rosik called "A Proposal For the Development of Treatment Guidelines For Unwanted Same-Sex Attractions." This talk appears to be a response to Warren Throckmorton's and Mark Yarhouse's Sexual Identity Therapy Framework, which outgoing NARTH president Joseph Nicolosi has already rejected.
Rosik's previous stab at this subject is nothing more than a common Cameron-esque anti-gay tract which pulls medical science out of context to re-pathologize gays and lesbians. In fact, it is so Cameron-esque that he cites three separate papers by Paul Cameron, two to claim that gays and lesbians have a significantly shorter lifespan than anyone else, and another to claim that child sexual abuse "causes" homosexuality." I wonder if Rosik's talk at NARTH will be significantly different?
May 14th, 2007
Dr. Warren Throckmorton has also posted about Paul Cameron's disturbing views expressed in Cameron's article, "Gays in Nazi Germany." Dr. Throckmorton concludes:
Suffice to say that Dr. Cameron is not simply ideologically opposed to homosexuality, he is fixated on "solutions" that I find abhorrent. I call on fellow social conservatives who still refer to the Camerons' work to take a hard look at these posts and reflect on whether someone with such extreme animosity could possibly approach social science data with sufficient objectivity to be trusted.
When Ex-Gay Watch pointed out that Exodus was using Cameron's research, Exodus finally responded by removing those web pages from their web site. On the other hand, NARTH has so far failed to act.
I wonder how many of these individuals, organizations and publishers agree with Paul Cameron's Solution for those who live "parasitic lives"?
E-mail me or leave a comment if you find someone who is using Cameron's "science" and I'll add them to the list.
Let me know if you find any others.
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In this original BTB Investigation, we unveil the tragic story of Kirk Murphy, a four-year-old boy who was treated for "cross-gender disturbance" in 1970 by a young grad student by the name of George Rekers. This story is a stark reminder that there are severe and damaging consequences when therapists try to ensure that boys will be boys.
When we first reported on three American anti-gay activists traveling to Kampala for a three-day conference, we had no idea that it would be the first report of a long string of events leading to a proposal to institute the death penalty for LGBT people. But that is exactly what happened. In this report, we review our collection of more than 500 posts to tell the story of one nation's embrace of hatred toward gay people. This report will be updated continuously as events continue to unfold. Check here for the latest updates.
In 2005, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that "[Paul] Cameron's 'science' echoes Nazi Germany." What the SPLC didn"t know was Cameron doesn't just "echo" Nazi Germany. He quoted extensively from one of the Final Solution's architects. This puts his fascination with quarantines, mandatory tattoos, and extermination being a "plausible idea" in a whole new and deeply disturbing light.
On February 10, I attended an all-day "Love Won Out" ex-gay conference in Phoenix, put on by Focus on the Family and Exodus International. In this series of reports, I talk about what I learned there: the people who go to these conferences, the things that they hear, and what this all means for them, their families and for the rest of us.
Prologue: Why I Went To "Love Won Out"
Part 1: What's Love Got To Do With It?
Part 2: Parents Struggle With "No Exceptions"
Part 3: A Whole New Dialect
Part 4: It Depends On How The Meaning of the Word "Change" Changes
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Using the same research methods employed by most anti-gay political pressure groups, we examine the statistics and the case studies that dispel many of the myths about heterosexuality. Download your copy today!
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Anti-gay activists often charge that gay men and women pose a threat to children. In this report, we explore the supposed connection between homosexuality and child sexual abuse, the conclusions reached by the most knowledgeable professionals in the field, and how anti-gay activists continue to ignore their findings. This has tremendous consequences, not just for gay men and women, but more importantly for the safety of all our children.
Anti-gay activists often cite the "Dutch Study" to claim that gay unions last only about 1½ years and that the these men have an average of eight additional partners per year outside of their steady relationship. In this report, we will take you step by step into the study to see whether the claims are true.
Tony Perkins' Family Research Council submitted an Amicus Brief to the Maryland Court of Appeals as that court prepared to consider the issue of gay marriage. We examine just one small section of that brief to reveal the junk science and fraudulent claims of the Family "Research" Council.
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Recently I ran out of space on the consumer-focused cloud storage service Dropbox, which as of this morning is reportedly valued at $8 billion. Dropbox has been (cleverly) backing up all my photos every time I connect my phone to my laptop, encouraging me to fill up my allotted gigabytes and get me to the point that I need to pay for more.
But Dropbox has a problem: Some very big competitors want its business. And they are willing to offer absolutely anyone even more free cloud storage space than Dropbox to lure them away. For example, while Dropbox only offers 2 gigabytes of free storage, which isn't enough to store a single downloaded movie, much less the photo library of a life-logging phone photographer, Google offers users 15 gigabytes of free storage, or 100 gigabytes to those who buy a Chromebook.
Getting my library out of Dropbox and into Google Drive was as easy as installing Google Drive and dragging my photos folder from my Dropbox folder into Google Drive's folder. In the background, Google slurped up all my data, and after I deleted the same files from Dropbox, I was back to my old way of working: using Dropbox as a remote, real-time backup for my critical work files. It's safe to say I might never reach Dropbox's storage cap as long as the only thing I'm storing there are my drafts and research.
But let's say I run out of room for photos on Google Drive. There's always Microsoft's Sky Drive (7 more free gigabytes) and lesser-known cloud storage services like SugarSync (5 free gigabytes) and Bitcasa, which doesn't have a free plan but will charge you $99 for unlimited cloud storage. All are services that work well and require just a few minutes of effort to port my data to.
This doesn't mean Dropbox is doomed, or that the company isn't worth $8 billion. The company could still live up to that valuation by getting its army of subscribers—200 million at last count—to sneak Dropbox into the workplace, which they're doing already. At that point, the need to control and secure data could lock countless corporate IT managers into using Dropbox as their default cloud storage solution. And, as Microsoft's ongoing strength in enterprise IT (despite weakness in consumer electronics) demonstrates, that's a durable and lucrative business.


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Embedded Motion Control 2012
Guide towards the assignment
This course is about acquiring the knowledge that is necessary to be able to design and implement embedded software for real-time control systems. The book "Real-time concepts for embedded systems" by Li and Yao will be taken as a starting point. The participating students themselves will give lectures to their peers about parts of this book. The accompanying assignment is about applying this knowledge to a real-life robotics task in which ROS will be the standard software framework.
Course Schedule
Lectures will be given on Mondays from 10.45 - 12.30 in Gemini-Zuid 3A12. The course schedule is as follows:
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|May, 14th
|Chapter 5, 6
|Ch 5: Group 3, Ch 6: Group 4
|May, 21th
|Chapter 7, 8
|Ch 7: Group 5, Ch 8: Group 6
|May, 29th
|Chapter 9, 10
|Ch 9: Group 7, Ch 10: Group 8
|June, 4th
|Corridor competition
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|Chapter 11, 14
|Ch 11: Group 9, Ch 14: Group 10
|June, 18th
|Chapter 15
|Ch 15: Group 11
|June, 29th
|Final Contest
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Exam Schedule, Please fill in
The final contest will be held some day between June 25th and July 6th. In order for us to find a proper date and time which does not interfere with your exams, please add your exam dates and times to the table below. Deadline: May 13th
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|14:00 - 17:00
Pico test schedule, maze
In order to test your software on the Pico robot, each group has one one hour time slot a week available, on either Wednesday or Thursday. You can reserve your test slot in the table below. Make sure to keep at least one hour in between you slot and the previous and next ones, since Pico needs some time to recharge in between the time slots!
|Wednesday June, 13th
|09:00 - 10:00
|Group 9
|Wednesday June, 13th
|11:00 - 12:00
|Group 5
|Wednesday June, 13th
|13:00 - 14:00
|Group 3
|Wednesday June, 13th
|16:00 - 17:00
|Group 6
|Thursday June, 14th
|09.00 - 10.00
|Group 1
|Thursday June, 14th
|11.00 - 12.00
|Group 7
|Thursday June, 14th
|13.00 - 14.00
|Group 2
|Thursday June, 14th
|15.00 - 16.00
|Group 8
|Thursday June, 14th
|16.30 - 17.30
|Group 1
|Wednesday June, 20th
|10.00 - 11.00
|Group 5
|Wednesday June, 20th
|12.00 - 13.00
|Group 3
|Wednesday June, 20th
|14.00 - 15.00
|Group 6
|Wednesday June, 20th
|16.00 - 17.00
|Group 9
|Thursday June, 21st
|09.00 - 10.00
|Group 1
|Thursday June, 21th
|11.00 - 12.00
|Group 7
|Thursday June, 21st
|13.00 - 14.00
|Group 2
|Thursday June, 21st
|15.00 - 16.00
|Group 8
|Thursday June, 21st
|17.00 - 18.00
|Group 11
|Wednesday June, 27th
|15:00 - 16:00
|Group 6
|Wednesday June, 27th
|9:00 - 10:00
|Group 7
|Wednesday June, 27th
|11:00 - 12:00
|Group 9
|Wednesday June, 27th
|13:00 - 14:00
|Group 3
|Thursday June, 28th
|09.00 - 10.00
|Group 1
|Thursday June, 28th
|11.00 - 12.00
|Group 5
|Thursday June, 28th
|13.00 - 14.00
|Group 2
|Thursday June, 28th
|15.00 - 16.00
|Group 8
|Thursday June, 28th
|17.00 - 18.00
|Group 11
The slides from the first lecture (April 23th) can be found here:
The slides from the first lecture (May 7th) can be found here:
The slides from the second lecture (May 7th) can be found here:
The slides from the lecture of May 29th can be found here:
The goal of the assignment is to get the real-time concepts in embedded software design operational.
The concrete task that has to be solved is to let the Jazz robot find his way out of a maze. The final demonstration by each participating group of 4-5 students will be performed during a contest, the winner of which is the group that exits the maze in the shortest amount of time. To prepare for this competition the following guidelines have to be considered:
- to test with Jazz and to prepare for the final contest, a simulator will be made available that mimics the in and outputs to the real Jazz robot. Specifics of this simulator will be presented in the first lecture on September 4th
- the maze of the final competition will be constructed just before the competition. The maze presented in the simulator is therefore different from the real one used in the final contest.
- both on the real and simulated Jazz robot, three sources of sensor information will be available to perceive the environment and to derive the state of the robot:
- laserdata provided by the forward pointing laser scanner,
- images captured by the monocular camera,
- odometry provided by the base controller
- the robot can be actuated by sending information to the base controller
- during the final contest, it is highly imperative that the Jazz robot refrains from colliding with the walls in the maze. Colliding with the walls will result in severe time-penalties.
- the walls of the maze will contain several types of pointers to the exit, which can potentially help Jazz to speed up execution of the task. Click here for a pdf file containing the arrow we will use. Also, we have uploaded a zip file with multiple images of these arrows captured on the real PICO robot. Furthemore, we captured PICO's camera topics in a bag file while the robot was looking at the arrow. You can play this bag file as follows:
rosbag play pico_camera_arrow.bagThe topics /robot/body/head/camera/camera_info and /robot/body/head/camera/image_raw should then become available. For example, while playing the bag file, use
rosrun image_view image_view image:=/robot/body/head/camera/image_rawto view the camera images.
An intermediate review will be held on September 24th, during the corridor competition. During this challenge the students have to let the robot drive through a corridor and then take the first exit. The precise location of this exit will not be given in advance.
During the final contest, the groups are expected to give a short (5 minute) presentation about their progress and design decisions.
The moving Jazz robot with monocular camera and laser range finder with a working ROS interface. In addition, we provide a Jazz simulator for offline testing.
This manual describes how to the install the necessary and sufficient software to start programming the Jazz robot.
Go to The official Ubuntu site and download and install Ubuntu 12.04, which is the latest Long Term Support release. Make sure that you download the appropriate architecture i.e., 32- or 64-bit. Of course you can also bring your notebook to the ICT servicedesk and ask them to install Ubuntu. If you want to keep using Windows next to Ubuntu the most easy way is to have a dual-boot system, i.e., during startup you can choose to boot either Ubuntu or Windows.
Ubuntu Terminal
Most of your interaction with Ubuntu will be done through the terminal, the number-one way of interacting with Ubuntu using your keyboard. A terminal can be started as follows: Application -> Accessories -> Terminal, or by pressing ctrl-alt-t. It might be a good idea to drag the terminal icon in the menu to the Ubuntu panel, as you will be using it a lot.
Although the terminal commands may seem somewhat puzzling at first, you'll soon find out that the terminal is a nifty tool and allows for faster and more powerful access to all of Ubuntu's possibilities than the graphical interface and mouse. If you don't know your way around the terminal, have a look at this page.
A convenient tool to avoid having a large amount of terminals is Terminator, so you can have multiple terminals in one window. To make Terminator start up with some screen setup:
- 1. Open "Terminator"
- 2. Make the set-up to be saved: some split ups
- a. Right click
- b. Choose "split horizontally" or "split vertically"
- c. Continue the previous step, until you are happy
- 3. Right click
- 4. Choose "preferences"
- 5. Pick tab "layout"
- 6. Click "add"
- 7. Enter a name (= <your chosen name>)
- 8. Press "enter"
- 9. Click "close"
- 10. Right click the button to open "Terminator"
- 11. Choose "properties"
- 12. Enter in "command" : "terminator -l <your chosen name>"
- 13. Click close
- 14. To test: open "Terminator"
In this project we will use the Robotic Operating System (ROS) which aids the testing and development of robot software. ROS provides a nice open-source framework for dealing with the communication between and management of different modules, and comes with a large amount of software that can be used out of the box, including device drivers, libraries, low- and high-level software, visualizers and more. More information about ROS and its goals can be found here. The ROS tutorial can be found here.
To install ROS Fuerte under Ubuntu 12.04, do the following:
- Add the ROS Debian source to your sources.list such that Ubuntu knows where to download ROS from. Open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and enter:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu precise main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
- To be able to connect with the server, you need to add its public key to your keys:
wget http://packages.ros.org/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -
- Make sure you have re-indexed the ROS.org server such that you get the latest changes:
sudo apt-get update
- Then, install a ROS desktop:
sudo apt-get install ros-fuerte-desktop
If you ran into problems, be sure to check the installation guide on the ROS website.
In this project, an SVN will be used for sharing and versioning the software within your group. Every group has its own space on the SVN, and an account which has only permissions for that particular part.
To set up the directory to where the code is checked out from the SVN, open a terminal and do the following:
- First, create a directory in your home directory in which you will put all ROS-related code, files and data:
mkdir ~/ros
- Then, go to that folder
cd ~/rosand check out your group folder from the SVN. For example, for group 1:
svn co https://roboticssrv.wtb.tue.nl/svn/emc/2013/groups/emc01You will be prompted for your account name and password.
- Furthermore, check out the general folder, which contains the robot simulator:
svn co https://roboticssrv.wtb.tue.nl/svn/emc/2013/general
You now have the latest version of all the code that is available on your computer. If you make any changes or improvements, you can save these changes on your disk without interacting with the SVN.
Once you are done with your work, or if you want to save intermediate results on the SVN, you can commit your changes by going to the folder where you have made the changes and then typing:
svn ci -m 'a description of the changes you made' file_I_want_to_commit.cpp
Please note that this will only upload the changes of files that are already on the SVN. If you want to add new files to the SVN you first have to add them by typing:
svn add file_I_want_to_add.cpp
You can add a folder recursively (with all files included in the folder) by typing:
svn add folder_I_want_to_add
Note that after adding you still have to commit your changes in order to store them on the SVN. You can delete files on the same way by typing delete rather then add.
Note: make sure you do not add auto-generated files, such as executables, to your SVN.
Environment Set-up
So far we've installed ROS and created a local copy of the SVN. However, before you can start working, you need to do some additional set-ups to make sure Ubuntu knows where to find all ROS-related packages, scripts, etc. More specifically, every time you start up a terminal, the correct environment variables need to be set. The file .bashrc in your home directory is your friend: it's a script which runs every time a a new terminal is opened. We basically need to add some lines to this file, so open the file with a text editor:
gedit ~/.bashrc
Append the following text to the end of the file:
source /opt/ros/fuerte/setup.bash
This will set-up all ROS-related scripts etc. every time you open a terminal. Furthermore, ROS needs to known where your software is located. Therefore, also add the following command to ~/.bashrc:
export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=~/ros:$ROS_PACKAGE_PATH
That's it. Next time you open a terminal, .bashrc is executed, which will in turn execute the script and set the path specified above. Since the script only runs when a new terminal is opened, the changes are not active in your current terminal. If you want to see it working directly without starting a new terminal, explicitly source .bashrc from the terminal:
source ~/.bashrc
To see whether it worked, try one of commands that are now at your disposal. For example, change your directory to the roscpp package:
roscd roscpp
Integrated Development Environments
To keep the code in your packages clear and manageable, it is advised to use an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to edit your C++ code. Two editors that are commonly used are Qt Creator and Eclipse.
Qt Creator
- Download Qt Creator for Linux: 32-bit or 64-bit (Find out which one you need here 64_bit_or_32_bit ) (Visit the website here). Best is to go to the website and get the most current version. Don't use the software centrum to get Qt, then all this will not work properly
- Open a terminal, cd to the folder where you downloaded the file (probably ~/Downloads)
- Make the file executable:
chmod +x <INSTALL_FILE>
- Run the installation:
- Make sure Qt Creator launches with the ROS environment available:
- Open the launcher properties (right-click Applications -> Edit Menus -> Programming -> Qt Creator -> Properties
- In the 'Command' field, add bash -i -c in front of the existing command.
Now you can correctly launch Qt Creator from the menu.
Use with ROS
Creating a ROS package
To create a ROS package, follow the usual steps, i.e., use the roscreate-pkg command.
Open an existing ROS package
- Make sure your package is in the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH
- Start Qt Creator
- File -> Open File or Project
- Navigate to and open the CMakeLists.txt file of your package
- Change the build directory into <YOUR_PACKAGE_DIR>/build (that is: a / instead of a -). Click 'Next'.
- Click 'Run CMake'. This will automatically look for and include dependencies in the manifest.xml file, see which .cpp files you use, etc, based on your CMakeLists.txt.
- Click 'Finish'
Now you are ready to start developing your code. Pressing Ctrl-b will build the active project. If you change the manifest.xml or CMakeLists.txt file, you only have to run CMake again (Build -> Run CMake).
Show header files in the 'Projects View'
Qt Creator only shows your .cpp files in the 'Project View', which can be a bit of a nuisance. To also show your header files, perform the following trick:
- Open CMakeLists.txt
- Add the following line before rosbuild_add_executable:
file(GLOB_RECURSE HEADER_FILES include/*.h)This looks for all .h files in the include folder of your package, and stores them in the variable HEADER_FILES.
- Add ${HEADER_FILES} to your rosbuid_add_executable list. For example:
rosbuild_add_executable(my_program src/program.cpp ${HEADER_FILES})
- Within Qt Creator, run CMake (Build -> Run CMake)
You should now be able to see all .h files in the include folder of your package.
CMake Error
If you try to open your project in Qt Creator and you get the following message when running CMake:
CMake Error: The current CMakeCache.txt directory <YOUR_PACKAGE>/build/CMakeCache.txt is different than the directory <OTHER_DIR>/build where CMakeCache.txt was created. This may result in binaries being created in the wrong place. If you are not sure, reedit the CMakeCache.txt
you have probably moved your package without cleaning it (make clean). This means the absolute paths that where generated during building do not make sense anymore. To solve this, do the following:
- Clean your project, i.e., run make clean
- Make sure there is no CmakeLists.txt.user in your package (it is auto-generated by Qt Creator)
- Try to open your project again
Eclipse is an IDE widely used for Java, C, C++ and many more languages. This section explains how it can be configured to be easily used with ROS packages.
To install Eclipse, do the following:
- Go to the Eclipse download site
- Find Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers and select the appropriate version on the right (32-Bit or 64-Bit Linux).
- Extract Eclipse into a folder of your choice
- You can create a launcher to Eclipse to your panel by alt + right clicking the panel, choosing 'Add to panel' and selecting 'Custom Application Launcher'. Then browse to the Eclipse executable, and enter a name. If you want you can add the Eclipse icon by clicking the image on the left and browsing to the icon in the Eclipse folder.
Now, to make sure your package can be viewed properly in Eclipse, do the following:
- Create a custom package in your ~/ros directory with optional dependencies:
cd ~/ros
roscreate-pkg <package-name> [dependencies...]
- Enter in a terminal:
roscd <package name>
make eclipse-project
- Open Eclipse
- You will be prompted to select a path for the workspace. The default (/home/YOUR_NAME/workspace) is fine here. This folder will not contain the software (that is stored in ~/ros), but simply pointers to the software and some administration files for Eclipse.
- Go to "file" → "Import"
- Click "General"
- Then "Existing Projects into Workspace"
- Click "next"
- Browse for the package
All environment settings should be set automatically. You can build the package using ctrl-b. Note that you have to remake the eclipse-project in your package every time you change the manifest or if you switch to a new version of ROS. If you're having trouble or want to know more about the possibilities of using eclipse with ROS, check the ROS wiki.
Getting Started
To get started, please do the following tutorials:
- C++ tutorial
- ROS tutorial Note that you have already installed and configured your ROS environment, so you can skip the first tutorial. It is advised to work in your group folder, i.e., ~/ros/group_?.
- Getting started with the Jazz simulator
- Using Jazz
I installed Ubuntu, but my wireless internet is not working.
You're wireless card is not supported by Ubuntu 10.04. One possible fix is to download the latest wireless drivers here, see Where to download bleeding edge. This page also contains detailed info on how to install the drivers. This basically boils down to:
- Extract the tar ball into a folder
- Open a terminal, and cd to the directory
- Compile the driver against the kernel:
makeThis may take a while.
- Install the driver:
sudo make install
- After a reboot, your wireless should be working.
Note: Since you build the driver against the kernel, you need to rebuild it after every kernel update, i.e., you have to again do the compilation and installation step described above.
I installed Ubuntu, but my screen is flickering (IBM Lenovo T60).
The preinstalled Ubuntu driver seems not doing his job properly, please use this driver to solve the problem http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.2&product=184.108.40.206.9&lang=us&rev=9.3&ostype=Linux%20x86
The following command shows the supported packages:
sh ./ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run --listpkg
Result (among others):
Ubuntu Packages: Ubuntu/7.10 Ubuntu/8.04 Ubuntu/8.10 Ubuntu/9.04 Ubuntu/gutsy Ubuntu/hardy Ubuntu/intrepid Ubuntu/jaunty Ubuntu/source
Unfortunately, Ubuntu 10.04 is not supported by this driver and therefore, installing this driver will results in an error like this:
Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.32-41-generic; make sure that the version is being correctly set by --iscurrentdistro
Try to install the driver by using the following command:
./ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/9.04
The driver for Ubuntu 9.04 is runnning without problems on my T60 with Ubuntu 10.04.
Since this solution still caused some problems, I now installed Ubuntu 11.10 which seems to work well...
I try connect to the svn but I need the GNOME keyring password.
- Go to console
cd ~/.subversion
nano config
- Go to [auth] and enter below [auth] the following "password-stores =".
- Press ctrl+x and save the file with the same name (config).
- Open a new console and now it works fine.
I start the jazz_simulator but my maze is blinking very fast (HP Elitebook 8540w).
- Go to "System" --> "Administration" --> "Hardware Drivers".
- Remove the "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver" (Ubuntu recommended to install this)
- Restart Ubuntu
I cannot display odometry information in RViz
In order to visualize the odometry information, RViz needs a tf (transform) from /odom to /base_footprint which is not published by the simulated controller. Since this tf is not available on the real robot either, we will not add it to the simulator. If you really want to visualize the information, or need the transform for some other reason, you will have to publish the tf yourself. See http://ros.org/wiki/tf for more info.
I've got an error with RViz and it doesn't start
If the error looks like this:
The program 'rviz' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'. (Details: serial 22 error_code 9 request_code 136 minor_code 3) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) [rviz-6] process has died [pid 1978, exit code 1].
The following solutions can be tried:
In section 3.4 Segfault during startup from RViz troubleshooting page.
Open a terminal without Gazebo running and just type:
export OGRE_RTT_MODE=Copy
If this does not work, just follow the next steps:
1 rosrun rviz rviz --sync ( add the --sync it even says in the error message) 2 don't give up even with sync it will fail,maybe...try it 2-3 times 3 if it still fails do rosmake rviz rviz and repeat step 1
Graphics drivers issues
Using the wrong graphics drivers may cause Gazebo and/or rviz to crash. To solve this problem, please follow the following steps:
- First try installing/updating the graphics driver using Hardware Drivers (System->Administration->Hardware Drivers)
- When this does not solve the problem and you are using an ATI video card (for e.g. the 'shuttle' PC):
- If installed, uninstall the proprietary ATI driver in Ubuntu
- Download the Xorg ATI driver install script from http://www.2shared.com/file/meVhVXNB/ati-driver-installer-11-12-x86.html
- Install the driver with
- >> sudo ./http://www.2shared.com/file/meVhVXNB/ati-driver-installer-11-12-x86.run
- Select the default options
- Restart PC
You can test the driver from working properly by launching AMIGO in Gazebo and looking at the pointcloud data. This data should be refreshed when AMIGO for instance drives around or if you draw a big block in front of AMIGO.
Global Q&A
Group 2
Q: Can it be assumed that all corners are 90 degrees?
A: Yes, it can (but be aware that in practice it may be 88 or 92 degrees as well...).
Q: Do arrows insinuate driving direction only or do they provide information on next crossroads as well?
A: The camera can only look in front of the robot meaning that arrows to the left or right in a corridor are hard to recognize. They will be placed in spots where you drive towards them. They only give information about the driving direction at the location of the arrow.
Group Wiki Pages
Group 01 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Jos Elfring -
Group 02 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Rob Janssen -
Group 03 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Janno Lunenburg -
Group 04 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: - -
Group 05 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Sjoerd van den Dries -
Group 06 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: - -
Group 07 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Jos Elfring -
Group 08 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Rob Janssen -
Group 09 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Janno Lunenburg -
Group 10 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Sjoerd van den Dries -
Group 11 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Jos Elfring -
Contact Details
In case of questions related to working with the real Jazz robot or general ROS/C++ questions, please contact Yanick. For questions regarding the simulator or the svn, please contact Sjoerd.
Student Assistent
Yanick Douven - y dot g dot m dot douven at student dot tue dot nl
Sjoerd van den Dries - S dot v dot d dot Dries at tue dot nl
Luis Ferreira - L dot F dot Bento dot Ferreira at tue dot nl
Janno Lunenburg - J dot J dot M dot Lunenburg at tue dot nl
Group Wiki Pages
Group 01 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Jos Elfring - Ton Peters, Scott van Venrooij, Jeroen Graafmans, Rein Appeldoorn, Bart Peeters
Group 02 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Janno Lunenburg - D.H.J.M. Van den Hoogen, V.J.M. Holten, T.H.A. Dautzenberg, B. Sleegers
Group 03 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Rob Janssen - X. Luo, R.V. Bobiti, G.C. Rascanu, A.I. Pustianu
Group 04 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Sjoerd van den Dries - Sander Hoen, Marc Meijs, Adnien Stieniec, Mikdaj Kabaanski
Group 05 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Jos Elfring - Fabien Bruning, Yanick Douven, Joost Groenen, Luuk Mouton, Ramon Wijnands
Group 06 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Janno Lunenburg - Roel de Natris, Daniel Hilgersom, Daan Gerrits, Johan van Uden, A.J. van der Hoeven
Group 07 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Rob Janssen - Patrick Vaes, Siddhi Imming, Bart Moris, Roger Pouls
Group 08 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Sjoerd van den Dries - Alexandru Gabriel Dinu, Thomas Theunisse, Alejandro Morales Medina, Ambardeep Das
Group 09 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Jos Elfring - Harm Weerts, Dennis Klein, Ryvo Octaviano, Weitian Kou, Thomas Meerwaldt
Group 10 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Janno Lunenburg - Ziyang Li, Libo Zu, Juan Chen, Fengjiao Yang
Group 11 - Visit Wiki - Tutor: Sjoerd van den Dries - Christiaan Gootzen, Sander van Zundert
Contact Details
Sjoerd van den Dries - S dot v dot d dot Dries at tue dot nl
Jos Elfring - J dot Elfring at tue dot nl
Rob Janssen - R dot J dot M dot Janssen at tue dot nl
Janno Lunenburg - J dot J dot M dot Lunenburg at tue dot nl
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To capture the idealistic energy of Freddie Mercury and his future bandmates, Tom Sigel, ASC, used mostly a 40mm lens, with a special LUT for the Alexa SXT, to achieve the nostalgic look of the 70s.
Despite the mixed reviews, the inaccuracies of the story and time line, Bohemian Rhapsody, the film, can claim, at the end of the day "We are the champions!". At the 76th Golden Globe Awards, the film received numerous accolades, winning Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Actor – Drama, for Rami Malek for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury.
A series of other nominations for both the motion picture and Rami Malek suggest that the film, released last November in the United States, will not only receive multiple awards but will confirm its blockbuster category, against the opinion from some critics. The film, whose production budget was about 50 million dollars, is already a massive box office success, grossing close to 800 million dollars worldwide, and the recent awards and nominations will, no doubt, contribute to make it even more popular. At the moment, Bohemian Rhapsody is the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2018 worldwide and the highest-grossing musical biographical film of all time.
The Arriflex 35BL and a memorable moment
That's only part of the story, though, and while interesting, it does not reveal the whole picture. Let me add some more information to the story, as I believe it will be an element some of ProVideo Coalition readers will want to introduce into their conversation, when talking about Bohemian Rhapsody. There is even a another note of nostalgia about the whole production of the film: the camera used to shoot 'I Want To Break Free', using 16 and 35mm film, was an Arriflex 35BL, "the exact same camera that photographed Freddie's very last video, just before he passed away."
Tom Sigel, ASC mentioned the fact, referring to it as one of the "more memorable moments of shooting Bohemian Rhapsody" while explaining why he chose Vintage Cooke Speed Panchros for shooting the early years of Freddie Mercury and Queen. He decided to combine original glass with a special LUT to express the look of the period.
A 40mm Cooke lens for most of the first act
Sigel needed to capture the idealistic energy of Freddie Mercury and his future bandmates when he first came to London in 1970. To accomplish this, he made use of a full vintage set of Cooke Speed Panchros, with a very light net at the back of the lens and a special LUT for the Alexa SXT that was specifically designed for the period. This set-up was used for the entire first act of the film, with Sigel relying mostly on the 40mm lens, with the 25, 32 and 50 as secondary lenses.
"It is very golden and romantic, but also a little raw — hand-held and grainy," explains Sigel. "I had used the Cooke Speed Panchros in the past — when they weren't so vintage! — and was always fond of the look. We did tests with a number of lenses and camera systems to find the right recipe for the film. While we looked at a few other lenses, we just kept coming back to the Speed Panchros. Combined with the Alexa SXT, the custom LUT and light netting, it spoke to me for the look of the period. I wanted something to reflect the early days of the 70s… a romantic/nostalgic kind of look."
But Sigel would need to transition from those early days to a more modern look. To accomplish this transition, the film makes use of Queen's fourth appearance on the BBC's popular TV programme Top of the Pops in November 1974.
A passion for Cooke lenses
"Their appearance on Top of the Pops was a good way to make the transition," said Sigel. "I used an ARRI ALEXA 65 mixed with Sony Betacam [introduced in 1982] to shoot the 'Killer Queen' set and while there weren't a lot of cameras around, finding tape to record on was even more difficult. But this combination made the transition to Queen's rise to fame less abrupt."
"I have a long history with Cooke," said Sigel. "Back in the 1980s, I went to the factory in Leicester and picked out a 9-50 zoom lens for my documentary camera. Whether vintage or new, the quality of Cooke lenses is a constant."
Sigel's passion for Cooke lenses is shared with many other filmmakers. While cinematographers can still find the vintage Cooke Speed Panchros lenses available for rent, complete with updated housings and mechanics, the interest for the lenses led Cooke to design a more modern version of the same lens, which some prefer. The company says that "the growing demand for vintage Cooke Speed Panchro lenses from the 1920s to 1960s prompted us to introduce a modern redesign of the vintage classic", so they introduced the Cooke Panchro/i Classic, T2.2 to T3.2 Prime lenses.
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The continental US has more than 88,600 miles of shoreline, providing ample opportunity for inspiration for nautical bathroom decor. The coast of the US is a place of contrast: from the icy reaches of Maine in winter all the way down to the white sand beaches of Miami, this great nation has it all. Living on the coast of Connecticut, it is very popular to have a Nautical look in your home.
Nautical bathrooms have become more and more popular as a decorating style recently. At the very least, they should be evocative of the coast in general, feeling bright and open when you walk in with white, blue and yellow décor. But getting that real coastal feeling takes a little more than just color. It also has a lot to do with how you use accessories. Feeling inspired? Here's how to give your bathroom that nautical touch.
Install Porthole Mirrors
Mirrors are an essential part of every bathroom. But how do you make them feel more nautical? Easy, check out this for more mirror ideas. Just get rounded, porthole-style mirrors that look as if they should be on the side on an ancient, seafaring vessel. Round mirrors with screw-style fitting help to create the impression that you're looking out over the sea, especially if the rest of your bathroom is themed appropriately.
Use Pebble Tiles
Today's modern bathrooms are covered floor to ceiling in big, marble tiles designed to turn the entire space into a kind of wet room. But big slabs aren't particularly reminiscent of the sea. Fortunately, there are other options, including pebble tiles: tiles that look like versions of pebbles you'd find on the beach.
Pebbly beaches are common all over the country, and although they might not have the same appeal as white sand beaches for holidaymakers, they certainly look appealing when transported to your bathroom. Try setting up pebble tiles behind your sink or along by your bath.
Create A Bathroom With Miami Beach Vibe
Miami has gone from a beach town to one of the most stylish places in the world. As a result, a Miami-themed Nautical bathroom is brighter, more pimped-out versions of regular coastal-themed bathrooms. They often come with glossy finishes and bright aquatic colors as well as soft close doors, bathroom jargon meaning that hinges close slowly rather than quickly. If paint isn't vibrant enough for you, aqua-colored Lorca Coralie wallpaper over one of the walls should do the trick.
Go Beach Hut Chic
Beach huts are the symbol of summer. But because they're out in all seasons and have to survive raw winter weather, they end up looking chic. Beach houses evoke memories of childhood holidays spent on the beach with family, and so sometimes it's nice to recreate this atmosphere in your own home. A single layer of emulsion paint on the walls is common, as well as plenty of white furniture and wicker baskets for all your bathroom items.
No nautical bathroom is truly complete without a full complement of beautiful nautical accessories. The right accessories will help you complete the scene and find the perfect look. Things like shells in mason jars, driftwood beach signs and lanterns all look good.
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At the Foreign Service Institute it is common for instructors to ask their students to bring a short news article to discuss with the class. The article can be in whatever language you like, but you are required to discuss the article in the language being studied. In Spanish, we call these "Pequeñas Noticias."
Because this can get a bit repetitive, I like to select my articles from a number of sources, ranging from the credible (The Washington Post) to the incredulous (The Onion). Yesterday I chose an article from The Orlando Sentinel that talked about the recent glee "scandal." Three of the show's young actors posed for racy photos in this month's issue of GQ. Because the magazine is written with an adult male audience in mind, and because the actors portray high school students on television, some of the more conservative circles have chosen to view the images as something akin to pedophilia.
I tried to make the point that, because the actors are in their twenties and only portray teenagers on television, the photos are not really all that inappropriate.
I have consulted a friend on this matter (Thanks, Shalinn!) and now understand that what I wanted to say was:
"Los actores en 'glee' interpretan a estudiantes de la escuela secundaria."
What I actually said was:
"Los actores en 'glee' tocan estudiantes de la escuela secundaria. "
Tocan is the 3rd person plural form of the verb Tocar, meaning "to play."
Or...when used in this way, "to touch."
Yes, while discussing an article about the pedophilic implication of these photographs, I actually stated, rather confidently I might add, that the cast of glee likes to touch children.
Needless to say, I turned fire engine red and much laughter was had at my expense.


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TAGS are so much fun! I love taking part in these and often do them whether I am tagged by a fellow blogger or not! I think they are an awesome way of keeping my blog fresh especially when I am feeling a bit burned out.
Here are a few of my favourites:
- Tag: The Book Blogger Test
- A to Z Bookish Survey Tag
- Tag: Book Memory Challenge
- The Ten Book Challenge Tag
- Bucket List Tag


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Jake Paul vs. Tyron Woodley: Start time, how to watch or stream online, everything to know
The Jake Paul vs. Tyron Woodley event is live! Here's what you need to know...
Jake Paul vs. Tyron Woodley is now live! Who wins? This is a tough one to call.
2021 has been a huge one for both Jake and Logan Paul. Just a few months back, in June, Logan Paul fought boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr., in what was hardly the fight of the century.
But now Paul faces the former UFC welterweight champion Woodley in a hotly anticipated boxing match. Who wins? It's a difficult one to pick. Paul has more boxing experience on paper, but Woodley is an ex-champ and, unlike Paul's previous opponent Ben Askren, Woodley has power in his hands. Most of his most famous wins have come via spectacular knockout.
Here's everything you need to know...
When does the fight start?
Mark your calendars for Aug. 29 at 8 p.m ET/5 p.m. PT. The big event will be held in Paul's hometown of Cleveland, at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.
How can I watch?
The fight will air on Showtime pay-per-view, meaning you don't need to be a regular Showtime subscriber to pay for and watch the fight.
Showtime Sports President Stephen Espinoza told MMA Fighting on Aug. 2 that the fight will cost viewers $59.99. Not cheap.
"That reflects a couple of things," Espinoza said of the price. "It's in the ballpark of where similar fights have been. It is at a point below a lot of other higher priced PPVs, but in particular on this one, I think you've got a full boxing card of exciting young fighters. That was the key."
Showtime's fight page now is updated with how to buy the fight. Once you pay your $60, you can livestream the fight on a ton of supported devices. You can watch on your computer at Showtime.com, on your mobile phone or tablet, or on your TV and streaming devices, such as Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV (4th gen and up), Android TV and Xbox One.
You can also order the pay-per-view fight via such providers as Xfinity, Spectrum, Contour, Verizon Fios, Optimum, Vubiquity, DirecTV, U-Verse TV and Dish. Canadians can order it through Rogers, Bell, Shaw, SaskTel, and Telus. It also can be streamed via Sling, Sony's PlayStation Store, and Fite TV in the U.S. and Canada.
A statement from event organizers says that an exclusive UK broadcast partner will be announced soon. Fox Sports will carry it in Australia and Sky Sports in New Zealand.
There also will be a live audience at the Cleveland arena. Tickets start at $10 and went on sale to the general public on July 22.
Fight details
Fighters will weigh in at 190 pounds, which is what Paul weighed when he took down Ben Askren in April in a whopping two-minute-long fight. Woodley fought in the UFC at 170 pounds.
Paul stands at 6-foot-1, and Woodley at 5-foot-9. Paul is listed with a 76-inch reach to Woodley's 74-inch reach.
The fighters will wear 10-ounce gloves and fight in a 20x20 ring, ESPN reports. The fight is scheduled for eight rounds.
Full fight card
Jake Paul and Tyron Woodley aren't the only ones fighting on the card. Here are all the fights taking place...
- Jake Paul vs. Tyron Woodley
- Amanda Serrano vs. Yamileth Mercado
- Ivan Baranchyk vs. Montana Love
- Daniel Dubois vs. Joe Cusumano
- Tommy Fury vs. Anthony Taylor
Press conference chaos
The final press conference took place on Thursday and it devolved into a different type of chaos.
Scuffles and shoving matches are normal in boxing, particularly during press conferences, but today's staredown brought controversy after a member of Jake Paul's entourage appeared to get into an argument with Tyron Woodley's mother Deborah Woodley. Tyron Woodley's sister appeared to get upset and the situation escalated.
Tyron Woodley's mother Deborah Woodley, affectionately referred to as "Mama Woodley" is a well known figure in the MMA community. She's incredibly well regarded for congratulating and showing respect to her son's opponents win or lose.
The fact a member of Paul's entourage has verbally attacked one of the most loved figures in MMA has set a number of fighters off. Including Jake Paul's last opponent Ben Askren.
Time will tell if this has an impact on the fight itself. Either way, it's good promotion for the fight overall.
Tattoo bet
The two fighters have a creepy bet riding on the outcome. If Paul loses, he has to get "I love Tyron Woodley" tattooed on him somewhere, and if Woodley loses, he has to get "I love Jake Paul" as a tattoo. (Both fighters are already tattooed, so one more won't exactly be a novel concept.)
And, breaking news, it looks as though a tattoo artist is being flown in to the fight to take care of the bet immediately after the fight. Jake Paul confirmed this plan during an interview this week.
Tatu Baby, who once starred in the show Ink Master, is being flown in. She's already shared some potential designs for the tattoo.
Whoever gets the tattoo, you just know there'll be plenty of publicity about the actual tattooing itself, not to mention photos of the final embarrassing product. (Smart tattoo artists in the Paul-Woodley circle are probably already thinking about how to eventually cover up or disguise the message.)
Why is the fight happening?
The Paul brothers, Logan and Jake, are both YouTubers turned boxers, which seems like an odd career path, but it is what it is. For one thing, they're young. Jake Paul is 24, and Logan Paul is 26, so they've got youth on their side, plus their YouTube cash gives the option to do whatever they want with their free time. And what they want, apparently, is to beat people up and get beat up in return. These fights aren't always for the record books, but for the bank books. (Logan Paul's June bout with 44-year-old Mayweather was simply an exhibition.) While Jake Paul has fought three professional bouts, and won them all, his opponents weren't professional boxers at their prime. Paul beat YouTuber AnEsonGib, former professional basketball player Nate Robinson and retired MMA fighter Ben Askren. (That last one was quick.) And all of the Paul brothers' fights draw headlines and chatter, and add to their fame and bank balances.
Woodley talked some trash about Jake Paul at the Askren fight, and that led to the planned Paul-Woodley fight.
"Easiest fight of my career and biggest purse of my career all in one night," Woodley said of the Paul match, according to ESPN. "Basically, they brought me in to take out the trash."
Who is Jake Paul?
Jake Paul is the younger of the two Paul brothers, and in addition to his internet videos, he's known for playing Dirk Mann in the Disney Channel show Bizaardvark. He began his boxing career in 2018 and has won all three of his professional bouts.
Like his brother, he's controversial. In July 2020, he made headlines for throwing a giant party in Calabasas, California, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Asked about the party, he told a reporter for The Daily Beast that COVID-19 was a hoax, then later denied saying it, leading to the reporter posting audio proving Paul did make the hoax comments. In that same interview, Paul also claimed "98% of news is fake" and falsely claimed that "medical professionals" say masks do nothing to protect against the virus.
He doesn't just make headlines at his own events. Jake Paul's brother, Logan, fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. in June, and in May, at a promotional event for the fight, Jake Paul mouthed off at the fighter and snatched Mayweather's hat. He then started selling black baseball caps with the words "gotcha hat" printed on them.
Who is Tyron Woodley?
Woodley, 39, started in MMA back in 2009, became UFC welterweight champion in 2016 and defended his title four times, losing it in 2019.
Like Paul, he has an entertainment career as well. He's appeared in numerous movies in small roles, and has hosted a podcast and a TMZ web show.
Woodley says this may be his first boxing match, but it won't be his last.
"At the end of the day, I'm in boxing right now," he said, according to ESPN. "(Paul's) my first opponent. This is your first and everybody else's first chance to watch me box."
Co-main event and undercard
There's one other big fight on Showtime's card for the night, plus three smaller ones. Featherweight world champion Amanda Serrano (40-1-1) will take on super bantamweight world champion Yamileth Mercado, who's 18-2-0.
"Not too many people want to fight me. It's going to be a great fight," Serrano said, according to World Boxing News.
Mercado said she began her career at featherweight before going down to bantamweight and is excited to fight in her old weight class again.
"We're going to leave it all in the ring, and the ladies are going to be stealing the show," she said, according to the World Boxing News report.
While the Serrano-Mercado fight is being billed as a "co-main event," there are also three fights on the undercard. Ivan Barancyhk will fight Montana Love, Daniel Dubois will take on Juiseppe Cusumano, and Tommy Fury will fight Anthony Taylor.


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My name is Anna Falk. My journey into Jewish Education and Pardes began in the Siberian city of Krasnojasrsk, where I grew up. It was only when I was transferring to a new high school, that I saw that the nationality listed on my papers was Jewish. I met another Jewish girl in high school, who introduced me to Hebrew classes sponsored by the Jewish Agency. I had hoped to come on aliya after high school but my parents would not let me. Instead, I went to college and graduated from the Teacher Training University with a major in English. Upon graduation I worked for the Siberian branch of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (The Joint).
In 2000, after working for The Joint for 4 years, I decided to fulfill my dream and come on aliya. I studied and lived at Ulpan Etzion and continued to work for The Joint in Jerusalem. I had wanted to get my Masters Degree in Education at Hebrew University and heard about the Pardes Educators Program. I came to Pardes to study in 2002 and was accepted into Cohort 4 of the Educators Program ('03 -'05). My first teaching position was at the El Paso Jewish Academy. Currently, I am a Judaic studies teacher at the Brevard Jewish Community School, Melbourne, FL. I also teach at the Temple Beth Shalom Religious (Sunday) School.
In the coming months, in addition to the school-wide Pesach Seder, we are preparing for the first Communal Kabbalat Shabbat service at the neighboring Conservative Synagogue. With a student body of fifty, our biggest challenge is to bring the non-affiliated families to participate in the Friday night services at the Temple.
I teach "Jewish Family Living" at the Beth Shalom Religious School. This class is for fourth-seventh graders and focuses on Jewish holidays and traditions. The other class I teach is on Hebrew reading skills with the third graders.
I have been involved in the continuing education program in our synagogue for the past three years. I am currently teaching a 2-year long
course entitled "Basics of Judaism" for B'not Mitzvah.
and has just opened his own company. We are happy with our lives in Florida and the opportunity to be actively involved in the Jewish Community. I love my family, school and the amazing students I am privileged to have.
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Together with the fantastic design and strategy team at Purpose, we developed a custom wordpress plugin for MTV's Act Blog, helping move people towards collective action.
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Our custom plugin utilizes custom post types to allow MTV to build a directory of actions. The plugin also connects directly to the Social Actions database and gives the MTV bloggers access to a large set of actions to plug into their posts.
We also worked with the Gigya API – this particular piece encourages visitors to share their actions with their friends.
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Emerging Payments
Emerging payments is a term that is started to be banded around a lot by banks and other organisations. In Polymath's view emerging payments is just a simple 'catch' all phrase used by people much as they try to talk about all 'Card Payments'. Much as a Credit Card is very different from a 'Debit Card' as from Prepaid Card so are all the different area within Emerging Payments.
Interestingly enough Wikipedia does not even have a 'dedicated page' to the term Emerging Payments. So what areas fall into emerging payments or as other have termed it 'non traditional payment systems' most commentators would agree it covers:
- Wallets
- Mobile Wallets
- M-Payments
- Mobile Money Transfer
- P2P Payments
- MPos
- QR/Bar Code payment solutions
Others may also argue areas such as E-Vouchers, and even Prepaid Cards could be called emerging payments.
Having been involved in Prepaid Cards since the early days in Europe Polymath Consulting has considerable experience in this area and many of these new emerging ones.
We have undertaken projects for clients covering Wallets, Mobile Wallets, Mobile Money Transfer, P2P Payments and are currently involved in MPos work. If you would like to know more about our work in this area please do not hesitate to contact us: email@example.com
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Dominique Duroseau: BEING SEEN / HEARD Episode 4
a series of DRAMATIC EPISODIC PERFORMANCES
by Dominique Duroseau
Episode 4. VampGlam: Dissecting "Consensual" Urban Landscapes (2021)
Performance w/Michael Paul Britto & Zachary Fabri
Is presence permanent? What is Acceptance?
Erasure? Love? Power?
Does the process of healing need to be so ugly as you attempt to establish presence?
Is my healing journey from anger, frustration, rejection and pain political and does it need to be?
This four-part series of performances slowly and barely unpacks fears, exasperations, erasure and love. The feeling of navigating in the dark is portrayed through the camera's shifts/movements, the visual choppiness, the hesitations in thought process, and misspoken words. They serve as existential scaffoldings of one's healing process; messy, awkward and painful.
Being Seen / Heard is presented in conjunction with In Practice: You may go, but this will bring you back, the twenty-fifth iteration of our open call program. The exhibition is curated by 2021 In Practice Curatorial Fellow Katherine Simóne Reynolds and is on view through August 2, 2021.
Dominique Duroseau
performance, audio text, editor, videographer
Michael Paul Britto
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Aikido is a modern martial art that originated from the battlefields of feudal Japan. Aikido is a body mind art that uses the principles of the sword, but without the sword this is the beauty of aikido. Aikido makes the choice to dispense with the weapon and the need to finish conflict in a brutal, final way. For this reason it is a art studies by the worlds security forces as a means to subdue without injury.
The best place to find out more about aikido is in the dojo because feeling is believing.
Come to the Dojo
Start today, the dojo is really the best place to start learning aikido.


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NOTE: Willa of Dark Hollow is a stand-alone story that does not require reading any of the author's previous books Even though this is the case I would personally recommend at least the other Willa book. If you want the depth to the world read the Serafina books. The series arent connected. However, they run parallel to each other in an interesting way that bears putting reading the extra books if you have time.
Willa of Dark Hollow has already awarded a prestigious Kirkus Star. Kirkus has called it a captivating, stirring tale of family and friendship.
Thank you to NetGalley for the chance to read this wonderful book.
After going against her clan in the last book Willa is a Faeren girl with a foot in two worlds. By birth she's Faeren. The Faeren are an ancient race of forest people that have lived in the mountains since the beginning of time. But the Faeren put her out, and now she's living with a kind human Nathaniel who she considers her father and her sister and brothers.
They've peacefully made their home in the Great Smoky. But it's a new century and times are changing bringing loggers to their peaceful home. When human crews start cutting down great swaths of the forests she loves. Willa feels helpless to stop them, how can she stop such powerful destroyers of the forest and powerful machines.
When Willa discovers a mysterious dark hollow filled with strange and beautiful creatures. She soon realizes it contains a terrifying force. Is unleashing its dangerous spirits the key to stopping the loggers.
Willa must find a way to save the people and animals she loves and take a stand against the all-consuming darkness meant to destroy her world.
I'm a huge Robert Beatty fan. Its main themes deal with human and nature's interconnectivity. Willa is personally dealing with her past and her future. She has to deal with what humans mean for the forest, and what the forest fighting back might mean to her, she has to figure out who she truly cares about, human, animal, Faeren, and forest. And figure out the best way to save them all from potential destruction.
Not to mention the mysterious and deadly creatures that are now filling the forest. Willa has to figure out what is going on all with the help of her new friend Adelaide. A girl who seems strangely familiar, and who becomes a fast friend to Willa. But when the fight for the mountain comes to Willa, will she and her allies have enough to withstand the darkness of both the humans and mountain and finally have a chance at saving the place they love for good.


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"Can't Work With That Woman Anymore":• zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Adding insult to injury, one day after Germany's historic loss to Mexico (which resulted in a man-made earthquake in USA's southern neighbor), Europe's most important country is facing the "Destiny Day" to a political crisis like no other in its recent history.
For almost 13 years as chancellor, Handeslblatt writes this morning, Angela Merkel managed to outmaneuver all rivals, schemers and plotters.
"But her time could finally be up."
Two of her Christian-Democratic predecessors, Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard, fell from power not after losing the electorate, but after losing the support of their own parliamentary bloc. That may now be Merkel's fate, too.
Today, the top brass of her party, the CDU, and its Bavarian frenemies, the CSU, are meeting separately in Berlin and Munich, to agree on a common course about the coming days and weeks, however chances of a deal appear increasingly remote: according to Handelsblatt, Horst Seehofer, the CSU's boss, federal interior minister and perennial Merkel gadfly, told one newspaper that he "can't work with that woman anymore."


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Setting up our breakfast site
Last July my wife Pat, my brother in law Mike , sister in law Deb and I struck out of Belfast Harbor bright and early. It was a beautiful early morning on Penobscot Bay. Flat water, incoming tide, warm air. We headed over to Islesboro and trolled for mackerel down the eastern shore , not finding much luck. But by then we were ready for breakfast so decided to move on to Flat Island.
Deb Preping
The menu consited of coffee, cheeses, fruits, bread, Prosciutto, salami, homemade jellies,fruit and of course Mamosas. We lingered for sometime enjoying the companionship, the warm morning, the conversation and the basic joy of being on an island in Penobscot Bay.
So after a bit we decided to try our luck at more fishing and headed over to the mainland toward Lincolnville Beach and back up the coast to Belfast Harbor. We did hit a few fish off Northport with a spirited fishing contest ensuing between Deb and Mike. Mike hitting it large
It was one of those truly great days on the water. Hard to believe it was over 4 months ago. But we have already started our planning for next summer. Hopefully that morning will be warm and calm . And in the company of family, it will definitely be another great day on the bay.


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|"I said Katong laksa."
1) Instead of cooking meth amphetamines, Walter White would be cooking pork dumplings.
2) Instead of using Pollos Hermanos as a front, the drug cartel would be using Din Tai Fung.
3) Instead of Albuquerque, New Mexico, the plot would unfold in Woodlands.
4) There would be way more taxis and construction work going on.
5) Instead of rehab, Jessie Pinkman would have gone on a farm stay in Perth.
6) You wouldn't need to deal drugs to break the law, carrying a durian on a bus would suffice.
7) Instead of a drug lord, crazy gun-wielding Tuco Salamanca would be a landlord. One refusing to return your deposit.
8) Most of what Jessie Pinkman says would be censored.
9) Instead of: "Yo!" Jessie would be saying: "Aiyoh!"


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"Ball" in a Sentence (with Audio)
ball (n): any object in the shape of a sphere, especially one used as a toy by children or in various sports such as tennis and football
Use "ball" in a sentence
The boy kicked the ball to me.
The ball is in the net.
Let's get the ball rolling.
Roll the ball to me.
He threw a ball over the fence.
He kicked the ball into the goal.
The ball rolled down the hill.
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Jesse Carmichael, Steinway owner and keyboardist for Maroon 5.
Steinway Artist Sergio Salvatore celebrates a toast at his wedding.
Photo: Jeremy Saladyga
Steinway Artist Igor Levit interprets Bach's Goldberg Variations in Goldberg, an installation by Marina Abramović at the Park Avenue Armory.
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While schools take time off to celebrate Thanksgiving -- a holiday based on the supposed friendly relations between the Pilgrims and Mashpee Wampanoag Native American tribe -- they often fail to teach students about the hundreds of years of damage Americans inflicted on Native cultures.
Most K-12 textbooks gloss over or ignore some of the more tragic aspects of Native American history, according to research from Penn State Altoona professor Sarah Shear. Shear, who studies how state curriculum standards and textbooks explain Native American history, most recently found that textbooks do a poor job covering indigenous education policies and Native American boarding schools.
Shear looked at eight recently published K-12 textbooks to reach her conclusion. She found that the textbooks presented "Indigenous Education and the creation of boarding schools as a peaceful end to conflicts between Indigenous nations and the U.S. government." In truth, children were put in Native American boarding schools after being forcibly removed from their homes and family. These schools -- which were hotbeds for disease, abuse and neglect -- sought to rid Native children of their cultural connections.
"When the Indigenous education policies were included in textbooks -- many did not include this at all -- the narratives were still within that very carefully worded master narrative, primarily around the idea that the creation of the boarding schools was ultimately a peaceful way to end these 'Indian wars' and this was philanthropic," Shear told The Huffington Post.
"It is difficult, given the evidence, to see the implementation of Indigenous education policies in the United States as anything less than cultural genocide," Shear wrote in her chapter for the book Doing Race in Social Studies: Critical Perspectives.
Shear calls on classroom educators to find other resources to illuminate and teach this misrepresented part of history.
Shear, who teaches social studies education, previously conducted research that looked at the academic curriculum history standards for all 50 states to see how they covered Native American history. She found that most states failed to cover Native American history in a post-1900 context. Thus, it does not surprise her when students come into her classroom with little knowledge of accurate Native American history.
"My students come into class and we start talking about things and they start looking at me like, what are you talking about? They just have never heard it before," said Shear. "They're re-learning history. When we talk about Thanksgiving -- they're wrestling with these stories that they grew up with."
Many of Shear's students hope to become social studies teachers. She says they worry about what will happen in future places of employment if they stray from the typical narrative and present a more realistic version of Native American history.
When it comes to the history of Thanksgiving, "my students expressed fear about presenting something more complex and not so sweet in a way. It's not a feel-good story," said Shear.
Still, Shear says there is momentum behind the idea of teaching Native American history in more complex and sensitive ways.
"We need to keep the momentum going, but there's certainly resistance to teaching in these culturally relevant and accurate ways. But that shouldn't deter us from saying we need to change the way we teach Thanksgiving and Columbus day," said Shear.
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