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Malaga is an important tourist destination, due to its proximity to the Costa del Sol and being the birthplace of Pablo Picasso.
Sighisoara is considered to be one of the most beautiful fortresses in Europe. It has been kept almost intact, and it is one of the few places where medieval houses are inhabited.
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A GROUP of ladies are ready to get back in step in memory of a former Mayor of Charnwood.
Tracey Brown, the daughter of former borough councillor for Sileby Roy Brown, is heading the 'Roy's Angels' team that's once again taking part in the Twilightwalk for LOROS.
Coun Brown passed away aged 65 in April 2012 at the Leicestershire hospice after a battle with cancer.
Tracey has been fund raising for them since and now she, and some of those that work with her at the Sileby Day Nursery on Cossington Road along with a few of the children they look after's parents, are taking part in the 10km night walk on April 26.
Tracey said of founding Roy's Angels: "I just wanted to put something together in memory of dad and to promote LOROS.
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The Curse of 'Crash': The Narratives That Doom Oscar MoviesKevork Djansezian/AP Photo
There is an enduring story about the Academy Awards Best Picture race that goes like this: The best picture never wins. Every year, Oscar voters have enough temerity/foresight/integrity/discernment to nominate at least one movie on which the verdict of history would smile favorably if it were to take the prize. And every year, collective shortsightedness, envy, or a failure of appreciation turns that movie into an also-ran. This way of framing the Oscars is still embraced by some critics, whose astonishment that an organization of industry professionals does not share their taste blooms afresh every year. And it's almost as old as the awards themselves — it dates back at least as far as 1941, when How Green Was My Valley (a great movie) beat Citizen Kane (a greater movie) for top honors. But in the last 20 years — otherwise known as the Internet era, during which discussion and contention about movies has gotten faster, younger, and more belligerent — this narrative has gotten bound up in bizarre notions having to do with, of all odd things, courage. It is the Balls Argument: If Academy voters had any balls, they would give the Best Picture Oscar to "X." However, Academy voters have no balls. Therefore, they will give Best Picture to "Y."
"Y" — as in, "Why, God, why?" — is a symbol of mediocrity, compromise, and injustice. And that is a terrible thing to be anywhere, including in contemporary movie culture. There are Best Picture winners that seem to make people cringe almost as soon as the envelope is unsealed: for instance, Braveheart. But Braveheart is not a "Y," because for a "Y" to exist, there has to be an "X" — the slighted masterpiece that time will vindicate. The year Braveheart won, there was no "X" — no Monday-morning quarterback shook his fist and railed against the movie having beaten Il Postino or Sense and Sensibility. The presence of an "X" is what causes an undeserving Best Picture winner to be demonized for years to come. Robert Redford's Ordinary People was a "Y" because it beat Raging Bull, possibly the "X"-iest "X" since Kane, in 1980, sparking a "Scorsese is owed" narrative of grievance that took a full quarter-century to play out. During those decades, Ordinary People, which is actually a superbly put-together, beautifully acted, only slightly dated movie, was dismissed by generations of knowing critics as (roughly) bourgie complacent smug privileged middlebrow white-bread pandering suburban horseshit.1 But many of them hadn't really been looking at the movie; they'd been glowering at the voting body that had decided it was better than Raging Bull, and working backward from their contempt. That view turned Ordinary People into nothing more than comfort food cooked up by the collective unconscious of blind fools with lifetime memberships.
That's not a great way to understand the Oscars, a contest in which not one voter has ever hovered over his ballot thinking, How I wish I were bold enough to choose differently! It's also a bad way to think about the movies themselves. When people decide that a piece of culture — a film, a popular novel, a song — is The Enemy because those whose tastes differ from theirs enjoy it, they tend toward bullying condemnations that don't age well.2 Still, there's no avoiding it: Once a film gets rated "Y" and tagged as the repository of everything that is false or weak about establishment moviemaking, it can do nothing but ride out the years until someone attempts a spirited critical reevaluation. Or, as is more often the case, until a new "Y" comes along.
The first "Y" of the Internet era was Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump; it beat that year's "X," Pulp Fiction, and as a result, it served as the official What's Wrong With Hollywood whipping boy for a full decade, from 1994 to 2005. That year, Gump ceded its "Y" crown to Paul Haggis's Crash, which beat the putative If the Academy Had Balls choice, Brokeback Mountain, a movie for which an Oscar win would have been viewed by some as a kind of mea culpa for decades of Hollywood misdeeds. Crash was the "Y" for five years (and, like Gump, is still a long way from critical rehabilitation). Then, in early 2011, the Academy gave us a new "Y," one that still reigns: Tom Hooper's The King's Speech, which beat the last true "X," David Fincher's The Social Network.
For the record: Yeah, sure, if I were a voter, I would've done things differently, as would have many of you. I believe Pulp Fiction is more interesting than Forrest Gump and I was more challenged and excited by what The Social Network had to say about our world than I was by what The King's Speech had to say about somebody else's. But in the case of lesser movies, it's probably only fair to acknowledge that "X" over "Y" often represents nothing more than a taste hierarchy that's particular to a certain breed of young or youngish, primarily male, perpetually impassioned and infuriated moviegoer. They are, right now, the loudest voices in the conversation; they make the most categorical claims; they personalize every dispute. For "X" aficionados, "Y" movies — the apparently ball-less, soft-centered, complacent choices of past-it, anti-art AMPAS voters — embody a set of values that they find especially repellent: They're seen as bromidic, blandly messagey, or hopelessly anodyne (there's potential in all of us; you never know what might happen; everyone has something to overcome) — and when they're not telling you that everything will be OK, they're addressing important subjects with noncontroversial philosophical shrugs (racism is bad; if you repress emotions, they'll come back to hurt you; we're all connected). "Y" movies tend to be more written than directed, more interested in content than in form, humanist, sincere, "relatable," emotional, often optimistic. Those qualities are not, in themselves, inferior, lazy, or weak.
"X" movies, by contrast, tend to be dark, cynical, existential or nihilist, physically or emotionally violent, R-rated, and somewhat savage in outlook. They are often by, about, and for the alienated, the skeptical, and the enraged. The Dark Knight was an "X" movie (the Academy didn't even have the balls to nominate it!). Most of what David Fincher and Paul Thomas Anderson do counts as "X"; in this cosmology, Se7en, Fight Club, and Zodiac are so "X" they couldn't even get into the Best Picture contest, and There Will Be Blood would have been the ultimate Balls choice if it had lost to, say, Juno; instead, it lost to No Country for Old Men, an "X"-ish enough choice by the "X"-ish enough Coens so that at least we were spared a year of Internet rage. Steven Soderbergh, Darren Aronofsky, and Kathryn Bigelow are "X" filmmakers; Danny Boyle, because of Trainspotting, is such a lifetime "X" director that even when he makes a happy "Y" movie like Slumdog Millionaire, complaints tend to be muted. "X" movies are more to my personal taste than "Y" movies — but the least of them still reassure and flatter their target audience by congratulating it for its worldview in exactly the same way that "Y" movies do.
In the next few weeks, we are going to enter the Balls Argument phase of the Best Picture contest. As of this writing, five movies with at least some hope of a nomination — Birdman, Boyhood, Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Whiplash — have opened. In November, four more will join them: Bennett Miller's pitch-dark money/madness/murder drama Foxcatcher, Christopher Nolan's big swing Interstellar, and two movies about real-life British geniuses who strive to overcome adversity so they can do super-difficult things: The Imitation Game, with Benedict Cumberbatch as WWII code breaker Alan Turing, and The Theory of Everything, with Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking.
It's thanks to a movie that opened four years ago that those last two may be about to get roughed up. The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything both launched at fall film festivals, where Oscar prognosticators promptly put them on their short lists for both Picture and Actor. They are both audience pleasers driven by their stories and their stars more than by their efficient directors, and they both face the phenomenal misfortune of entering the race at a time when The King's Speech is still seen as the emblem of the Academy's propensity to reward the wrong movie. Technically, this shouldn't hurt them with voters: The Academy, after all, is still largely the same membership that gave Hooper's movie Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Original Screenplay. But The King's Speech had a depth of critical support that these two contenders may lack: On the aggregation site Metacritic, The King's Speech received a weighted-average score of 88 out of 100; The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything currently stand at a considerably less impressive 67 and 68, respectively.
The simplest explanation for that gap is that critics don't think either of these movies is nearly up to The King's Speech. The Imitation Game has been criticized as an overly tidy, tucked-in portrait of a complex and troubled man, and some are tagging The Theory of Everything as a conventional feel-good biopic that doesn't come close to living up to its subject.3
But I think both movies could also be caught in a backlash not of their making. I recently reread the reviews for The King's Speech. When it opened, a handful of critics, like New York's David Edelstein, complained that it "trivializes history for the sake of bogus scenarios of self-realization … a sleight-of-hand that wins Oscars." But many more took a different approach; they argued that the specific virtues of the movie overcame their reservations about the luxe Masterpiece Theatre vibe of its genre (and its PR campaign). Salon's Andrew O'Hehir wrote that he was "completely prepared to dig in and resist … a British period piece, suffused with noble nostalgia" but instead found the film "a warm, richly funny and highly enjoyable human story that takes an intriguing sideways glance at a crucial period." Stephanie Zacharek opened her review by asking if the word "middlebrow" always had to be a pejorative, even when it suited "a direct and heartfelt piece of work … conventional, maybe, in its sense of filmmaking decorum, but extraordinary in the way it cuts to the core of human frustration." Even J. Hoberman, as tough a customer as the profession has yielded, called it "a well-wrought, enjoyably amusing inspirational drama that successfully humanizes, even as it pokes fun at, the House of Windsor."
In other words, plenty of critics who liked The King's Speech made thoughtful cases that concerned the specific ways in which it was good rather than the theoretical ways in which it might be objectionable. They may not have liked that kind of movie, but they liked that movie. However, in "X" vs. "Y" Oscar talk, an undeserving winner is always, and only, a kind of movie, never anything more. When The King's Speech took the prize away from The Social Network, its particular merits receded; in this way of thinking, if the wrong film in the wrong genre won, it must have won with support from the wrong people who had the wrong reasons, and what was good about it therefore no longer mattered in the larger argument.
Few things hurt a movie's Oscar chances more than when the entire subgenre it belongs to is dismissed. Pulitzer or not, when August: Osage County opened, so many reviews described it with the phrase "dysfunctional family comedy" (or drama) that it felt like the title had already bypassed theaters and moved on to a Netflix-recommendation queue; the campaign was over before it started. The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything are both swiftly categorizable as King's Speech offshoots, and that is, in some ways, the playbook its distributors have chosen: After all, The King's Speech opened at exactly this time of year after exactly this kind of festival launch and made a ton of money. But in Oscar terms, the association could backfire. The awards cases these new films make are almost too identically pitched to voters: They're both efficient, well-made, fact-based British imports that announce their tragic and/or inspirational themes explicitly and repeatedly while relying on compelling central performances by London-born leading men in their thirties whom you've liked in other stuff and who seem about due for their first nominations.
But unlike The King's Speech — in fact, because of The King's Speech — these movies will have to overcome a perception that the genre they represent has recently been over-rewarded. And in addition to that hurdle, each film has to wrench itself apart from the other; if they're treated as conjoined twins in the campaign conversation, it could be fatal to their chances. (Last year American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street amassed a combined total of 15 nominations, only to end up in a kind of undercard bout to determine which was the better movie about greed culture; both went home empty-handed.) That would probably be fine with the portion of the Internet that drives the Oscar conversation via blogs and social media, because both The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything are potential "Y" movies to their marrow; I've already heard private grumbling about how "safe" they are, and I can't imagine it won't get louder.
But even if they're the target of attempted takedowns — as every Best Picture contender is sooner or later — that won't do much to clarify this year's field, because the Balls Argument has not yet found a 2014 movie on which to land. The mellow, reflective Boyhood is insufficiently bleak or angry to placate those who think an AMPAS voter's job is to summon up the personal courage to read Twitter and accordingly reward the grimmest and/or most technically audacious movie in the field. Birdman has "most technically audacious" honors all sewn up, just as Gravity did last year, but the Balls-driven crowd is still mad at Alejandro G. Iñárritu because he made Babel, which they dismiss as "pretentious" (a word that the critic Sam Adams has noted is, in movie discourse, the current equivalent of the nuclear option) — meaning, too much like Crash.
Christopher Nolan, as mentioned above, is a Balls Argument All-Star, but Interstellar is not only not dark, it's about feelings and dads and spirituality and hopefulness and stuff. Therefore, the Balls Argument for it will have to rest entirely on "If the Academy only had the balls to recognize sci-fi," and a mere year after the same Academy gave seven Oscars to Gravity isn't the moment to make that case. What about Gone Girl? Fincher is also on the Owed list, but the movie is written by a smart woman about a scary woman, which makes it a painfully difficult proposition for Balls advocates; it's a Balls constrictor. Whiplash is all Balls all the time, but so far, not nearly enough box office to start the groundswell it would need. The Grand Budapest Hotel is neither friend nor foe: Wes Anderson, respected and remote, cannot be placed anywhere on the big-balls-to-no-balls spectrum (unless there is a spot for carefully chosen, symmetrically photographed, handcrafted vintage balls). Into the Woods is a musical, so don't even ask. And Angelina Jolie's Unbroken, sight unseen, loses points for being about World War II and thus appealing to older voters who, in the Balls Argument universe, are always considered the problem.
What does that leave? Foxcatcher just unveiled a new poster that name-checks Citizen Kane, There Will Be Blood, and The Social Network, so it certainly knows what game it's playing. Paul Thomas Anderson's shaggy-drug story Inherent Vice is not likely to rouse the same kind of Balls fervor as The Master did: "X"-philes may sense that this isn't the year to go to the mat for PTA. Ava DuVernay's Selma, a civil-rights drama about 1965's voting-rights marches in Alabama, has not yet been shown, and may, for reasons too depressing to make explicit by typing them, be slightly hobbled by 12 Years a Slave's win last year. As for Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, a Navy SEALs story is a Balls subject, and Eastwood, even in his career late-autumn, is a Balls guy — even though he has not really made an If the Academy Had Balls movie since Letters From Iwo Jima and he needs to pray that voters are not sent any material that might remind them that he made Jersey Boys this year.
So no matter how tempting some may find it to cast every Oscar race as a Manichaean struggle between courage and cowardice, 2014 is not likely to be an "X" versus "Y" year. The passion of the Internet may, this year, flare more brightly in other categories; brace yourself for a lot of righteous fist-pounding and chest-thumping from all sides about probable Best Documentary contender Citizenfour, which would be a Balls Hall of Famer if it somehow sneaked into the Best Picture race. But when it comes to the top prize, there is, right now, no Integrity candidate, no overt Statement choice, no win that would right a wrong or insult people who should be insulted. Instead, Academy voters are, as usual, going to vote with some combination of their heads and their hearts. And either is a better way to go than trying to solve for "X."
Filed Under: Movies, Theory of Everything, 2014 Awards Season, The King's Speech, crash, Oscars, Academy Awards, The Social Network, David Fincher, gone girl, forrest gump, Pulp Fiction, american hustle, the wolf of wall street, best picture, Best Actor, Hollywood, Hollywood History, The Artist, Argo, Into The Woods, Angelina Jolie, birdman, boyhood, grand budapest hotel, Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, The Imitation Game, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kathryn Bigelow, Wes anderson
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Fortnite mobile daily revenue peaks at $1.8m since lifting invite-only requirement
Total revenue surpasses $15 million in less than a month
Fortnite's daily mobile revenue has spiked to $1.8 million since lifting the invite-only requirement earlier this week.
Surpassing the daily average revenue of $620,000 by 197%, player spending only continues to climb past its previous peak on March 28 of $1.2 million
According to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, Fortnite is one of the most successful mobile launches ever.
Since it began monetising on March 15, the total worldwide revenue for Fortnite mobile has exceeded $15 million gross, with about $10.5 million paid to Epic Games.
Global installs of Fortnite on iOS have topped 11 million since launch. It currently occupies a place in the top ten grossing iPhone games in 23 countries.
In the US alone, Fortnite has generated more than $6 million over the past seven days. This puts it above Candy Crush Saga ($5.8 million), Clash of clans ($4.1 million), and Pokémon Go ($2.7 million).
Fortnite also remains number one in more than 20 regions for iPhone downloads and its popularity should only increase now it is publicly available.
"Of course, the question on everyone's minds isn't how much Fortnite can earn, but how much more is it poised to make when it eventually arrives on Google Play," said Randy Nelson, head of mobile insights at Sensor Tower.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Google acquires Labpixies
Not everyone likes to start their day with just a search box and logo (no matter how cool it is!). Many users want email, videos, news, weather, games, and other information to be at their fingertips each time they open up a browser window. We launched iGoogle in 2005 to address this need by providing a truly personalized homepage with access to any RSS feed and well over a hundred thousand gadgets.
One of the first developers to create gadgets for iGoogle was Labpixies. Over the years, we worked closely together on a variety of projects, including the launch of a number of global OpenSocial based gadgets. Recently, we decided that we could do more if we were part of the same team, and as such, we're thrilled to announce the acquisition of Labpixies.
The team will be based in our ever-growing Tel Aviv office and will anchor our iGoogle efforts across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. We are looking forward to working with Labpixies to develop great web apps and leverage their knowledge and expertise to help developers and improve the ecosystem overall.
In the meantime, have fun trying to beat me at Flood-It!
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Good move. Congratulations for the future projects. :-)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4/27/2010 12:35 AM
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Great acquisition. It is always true that when some people work in a group they deliver more.ReplyDelete
google is in shopping spree now. :-)ReplyDelete
It smart move from GoogleReplyDelete
congrats to you both for the acquisition , that's a smart move from you google Guys.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4/27/2010 3:51 AM
Thz coooooooool...ReplyDelete
This is great, I just hope that the ipod games will be improved :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4/27/2010 3:59 AM
I play Flood-it on both Android and the iPod Touch. I didn't realize that it was originally a google gadget! They make fun games. I just hope this means they continue to make fun games--never thought of google as a games company!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4/27/2010 4:32 AM
Aren't you just competing with your ecosystem of gadgets?ReplyDelete
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anas - IN YOUR FACE!ReplyDelete
how much Labpixies will got for this deal?ReplyDelete
Anas. Leave your palastinian propaganda at home. As**oleReplyDelete
Congratulations.. I've used some nice Labpixies gadgets for quite some time.. Great stuff.ReplyDelete
Let's play again!ReplyDelete
Is this why my ToDo Lists have total fatal errors now?ReplyDelete
Can you puh-lease get it compatible with Opera browser! Right now the only way you can print "My ToDo List" is to switch to Firefox. It's maddening.ReplyDelete
TODO doesn't move to next page, nor main page in my igoogle!!!!! I need the information, tho. What's happening?ReplyDelete
so will you be able to sync to-do lists, etc across platforms?ReplyDelete
ie i add something to my android to-do list it is also in my igoogle to-do list?
you know, cloud it up guys
Lab Pixies 'Birthday Reminder' Gadget is rubbish ! It doesn't work, it loses your data and the year of birth doesn't function. Why did Google buy it ?ReplyDelete
I love the birthday reminder, all names and dates are at my fingertips. I hope google keeps it.ReplyDelete
marca muchos errores a veces no puedo capturar tareas saludosReplyDelete
I play Cinco all the time & the lAST TIME I PLAYED,IT JUST ALL THE SUDDEN LIKE RESET THE GAME ON ME A FEW TIMES.WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM/PROBLEMS COULD BE?! WOULD LOVE SOME HELP!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
I find it very usefulReplyDelete
really good for my organizationReplyDelete
The ToDo apps has continuous loading problems and is not always accesible when needed. Its a great gadget though and hope the loading problem is resolved ASAP.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4/06/2011 6:57 PM
I did not know this until now nice purchase.ReplyDelete
Wondering if this is a good buissness tool, if so how,'.ReplyDelete
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Thanks, I'm sure this will help me out, and it's cute to,ReplyDelete
Please add the ability to add tasks to todo lists from android, blackberry and SMS.ReplyDelete
Hi I am unable to open the custom expenses app...can you help me???ReplyDelete
Partnership sounds great but I can no longer challenge my friends in Trivia. What can you do to fix this?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/05/2011 1:12 PM
Wondering if this is a good buissness tool, if so how,'.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/10/2011 1:47 AM
I will try thisReplyDelete
Why has my Birthday Reminder not worked for two days?ReplyDelete
Google should sove the problem: ToDo "Sorry, can`t be seen" refreshes automaticly,ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/18/2011 2:34 AM
my birthday todayReplyDelete
how do I get my todo list back? It is very important. If I can't get it straigtened out now I will delete Google alltogether!ReplyDelete
Looking forward to an update.ReplyDelete
Thank you,
- Bill Morton
I need an elegant black and white version :)ReplyDelete
Can I get my birthday reminders back - they have disappeared.ReplyDelete
to whom it may concern..ReplyDelete
i've been using this gadget for quite sometime.. and i already updated a lot of my expenses. however I don't know i accidentally click on labpixies logo. then all my record are gone!!!!!!!!!!!! :((((( how to get back all my record? anybody know how to do it?
I haven't been using the expenses gadget for very long at all, but just a couple days ago, it deleted all my info from July, but let me put new info in from August. Today, I came back to add more, and all the information I previously entered in August was also completely gone! I love this gadget, so hopefully this can be remedied. I feel for you, naniesc. Help!ReplyDelete
Nice one..ReplyDelete
I have read many reports, as I always do before downloading anything, and it seems that 99% are negative for all the gadgets.ReplyDelete
It seems that the negative comments far outnumber the positive experiences with this gadget. I think I will not try it.ReplyDelete
LABPIXES IS MY FAVReplyDelete
LABPIXES is goodReplyDelete
Would be nice to be able to access the information in the Birthday Reminder gadget in an easily transportable way. My wife recently acquired a laptop and although I installed this gadget, it remains unpopulated because it's just a pain to have to re-enter all the info again.ReplyDelete
Would be great to be able to share "to do list" between computer and android phone, like the calendar app.ReplyDelete
This "labpixies" its a fun game but i can"t seem to win..nd its stressing me..plz help me out.!!!ReplyDelete
can you fix it so it can can switch between lists without expanding to the entire screen???ReplyDelete
bardzo dobryReplyDelete
Hey, Could someone who really knows, please post information about Flood-it!, like the pixie names, and at what point or requirement do we obtain these names? What is the last name or reward earning accomplishment possible? Is SuperPixie the last one?ReplyDelete
A very nice calendar. Thank you.ReplyDelete
Nagyon nagyszerű!!!ReplyDelete
I am using the Birthday Reminder...great tool. Is there a way to print this out? I entered all my data and now I don't know how to get a hard copy. thanks.ReplyDelete
Oh, can the Birthday Reminder with entered data be copied to a different account? thanks, ConReplyDelete
Why did you get rid of the Birthday Reminder. I was going to get it for my niece and couldn't find it.ReplyDelete
não consigo encontrar rádio para ouvir música.ReplyDelete
I have problem with the game Flood It: every other day everything resets! Earlier this day I had 1440 points and Expert pixie title, now I have nothing!!!ReplyDelete
My Birthday Reminder won't open either! Is this due to an incompatibility with all the new igoogle changes? Do you plan on updating Birthday Reminder to work in the near future or should I look for another birthday reminder calendar service?ReplyDelete
Google has messed up everything LabPixies created.ReplyDelete
Should have left it alone. Go to any LabPixie site and the comments are all the same..."it doesn't work anymore".
Google has some kind of random update or query going that resets the entire page and all the gadgets. I may switch back to yahoo. You would think that after a year since they stepped on LabPixies they would have it working again.
playing trio using windows. in the middle of a game, it resets/refreshes back to the beginning (zero) I have used chrome, firefox and explorer. I reset/refresh each time before starting a game and still it can happen midgame, especially with chrome and firefox. anybody else with this problem who has found a solution?ReplyDelete
I'm not a computer geek and I was dragged into the computer age kicking and screaming. Now that I've become comfortable with certain aspects, they are being gratuitouslly deleted. Does anyone out there really care what the consumer wants. I have tried to ignore the negative info being presented but, if my needs are being discarded on a whim by this organization, I have no choice but to look for an alternative site. Do my needs mean nothing to iGoogle?ReplyDelete
The Trivia game from lab pixie asks rude questions. Beware if your kids access it!ReplyDelete


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Another Cup of Tea, Professor… I'm Falling Asleep
HIGH Seeing more puzzles integrated into the story events.
LOW Buying all the clues to a puzzle and still not knowing how to solve it.
WTF Straightforward equations shouldn't count as puzzles.
When it comes to Professor Layton, his young assistant Luke, and the European café music of Level 5's wildly successful puzzle franchise, I'm a fan. The aesthetic and tone of the series is utterly charming to me, and the Layton games have been great fallbacks when I need a reliable time killer on the go. I'd been looking forward to getting another fix since wrapping the last one, but I have to agree with Sparky when he says that Last Specter is the weakest in the series. To say that this was a personal disappointment is putting it mildly.
Although the game still checks all the same boxes and offers more of the formula fans expect (and really, that's not a bad thing in this case) it feels as though the developers are running out of steam after four games in four years. The biggest example was that the flaccid plot isn't anywhere near the standard of the last three installments.
For the first eight hours or so, the story goes nowhere and I felt like the writers were wasting my time. In fact, the plot was so dull and flat, I had considerable difficulty just staying awake when playing Last Specter at night. There were just too many conversations that held little value, too few comical moments, and even less action. As Sparky suggests, the "mystery" can hardly be called one, and when I reached the final scene of the game, I was genuinely surprised—I thought there'd be far more intrigue and excitement before credits rolled.
As far as the puzzles go, they were a mixed bag. On the one hand, I did appreciate that the developers have finally started to more closely integrate them (at times, anyway) with events that are happening in the story. When Layton needs to unlock a door, the next puzzle has to do with a locked door of some sort, and so on. That was something I thought the series should have been doing more of since the very first game, and although it's still not happening to the degree that I would like to see, it was noticeably present here.
On the other hand, the variety and quality of the puzzles felt lacking. There were a handful of problems that relied on visually detecting very small details, and on the DS screen I found it difficult to tell whether what I was seeing was important information, or a side effect of the picture being so small. Some puzzles ended up being nothing more than algebra problems, and a few times I ran into puzzle instructions that were frustratingly vague. I wouldn't generally say that English translation is a problem with the Layton series, but the difficulty in a puzzle should come from the challenge of the problem itself, not from a slight misstatement of what is being asked. It was also disappointing to find that whenever I encountered any one particular sort of puzzle, I could count on seeing it repeated with a slight twist at least two or three more times.
At this point, I feel some obligation to mention the London Life mode, ironically excluded from UK versions of the game. In a bizarre twist, it's a fetchquesty mini-RPG with similarities to Nintendo's Animal Crossing instead of being puzzle-oriented. Even more bizarre, the player creates their own character instead of assuming the role of Professor Layton. Ostensibly it's a "value-add" to give players more content to burn through, but I put a little over an hour into it and felt no pull to continue. Talking to townsfolk taken from the Layton series and decorating my room aren't things that I see as especially engaging, so I quit the mode quickly and didn't feel like I was missing much. It might have been worthwhile if it was some sort of RPG mystery similar to the main game, but instead comes off as an odd, ill-fitting inclusion.
With a poorly-paced, dishwater-dull story and a collection of puzzles which fail to inspire must-solve compulsion, it may be time for Level 5 to take a step back and re-evaluate what they're going to do with the next installment—and make no mistake, there will be more Layton games. With that in mind, my hope would be for the devs to take their time and recapture the energetic whimsy of previous mysteries. The puzzles could do with an infusion of cleverness, as well… after all, there are few things more disappointing than seeing a beloved franchise being run into the ground, and as far as I'm concerned, Professor Layton and Luke could still have a very bright future ahead of them if they can avoid the creativity-killing grind of yearly iteration.
Disclosures: This game was obtained via retail store and reviewed on the DS. Approximately 12 hours of play were devoted to the single-player mode, and the game was completed. There are no multiplayer modes.
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My girls like almost all girls love to bask in pink stuff. It's their official color, don't you think? In our house alone, in the kids room, where we also sleep (because it's bigger and saving up on air con costs), splashes of pink and purple are everywhere. Oh yes even in the living room, where their toys, books and other art supplies are perched on some places. They even planned to dye our puppy pink. LOL!
Though that is the case, my husband didn't mind.
So when I found out that Sophie's Mom have branched out at McKinley Hill, I made sure to have my kids check it out. And boy, they were in for a treat!
As expected, come Sunday, before we attended the church service at New Life the Fort, we passed by The Piazza, but as the guards advised me that the shop is located at Tuscany, we don't have an option but to walk towards it.
But the walk towards the place was leisurely, my daughters even kept asking us, if the place really look like the ones in Italy. Which we suggested yes, somehow, "but the buildings in Italy are vintage and more classic," Daddy explained, well for one, they are centuries old. It was nice to bring back the memories of our trip years ago at Milan, seems like a piece of Italy in Manila was brought nearer to us.
PINK is how I would identify Sophie's Mom with! Why not? Pink is not only the color that girls, even my girls, love, it also denoted as a delicate color that means sweet, nice, playful, cute, romantic, charming, feminine, and tenderness, and mostly associated with bubble gum, flowers, babies, little girls, cotton candy, and sweetness.
One thing that's worth a mention is how these cupcakes sparked up her last birthday party. Read about it HERE...
The McKinley branch is actually the newest of the six pop up stores and bakeries and one she consider's another happy place.
When you come by, don't forget to leave some love, by writing some message on their guest board.
Yey, my girls had their posts up on the middle!
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Star Junior World Championship 2018, registration open
Registration to the first ever Star Junior World Championship is now open on the official Star Class website. The Junior World Championship will be organized by the International Star Class Yacht Racing Association and will take place in Miami, at the Coral Reef Yacht Club, from February 3rd to the 6th 2019. It is open to any skipper who hasn't reached his or her 31st birthday before the first race of the event. The skipper will be able to find a crew without age limitations, in order to being able to match some less experienced skippers, even coming from a non-Star background, to a more skilled crew capable of introducing the younger sailors to Star racing.
The event will start on February the 3rd with team registration, weigh in, and inspection of boats. Following on Monday, February the 4th, to Wednesday the 5th two races per day are scheduled on Biscayne Bay.
Registration opened on November the 19th and several teams have already entered: the runner ups at the 2018 Eastern Hemisphere Championship in Trieste, Thomas Allart (NED) and Kilian Weise (GER), Danny Cayard (USA) who might sail with his father Paul Cayard as crew just like they did at the Star Worlds in Denmark in 2017, the Argentinian born Thomas Hornos (USA), and local sailor Zachary Hansman (USA).
The Star World Champion, Jorge Zarif, is trying to fit the event in his busy Olympic calendar and so are the Scottish - Italian born - Laser Olympic sailor Lorenzo Brando Chiavarino, and Argentinian Finn sailor Facundo Olezza.
Eligible boats must enter by completing the on-line application by January 10, 2019, at https://2019jrworlds.starchampionships.org , after this deadline it will still be possible to enter the first Star Junior World Championship but with a late fee.


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Over the years Kentford (Newmarket) based steel stockholders AJN Steelstock has been happy with its fleet of Montracon trailers. In fact, over the period it has also worked with Montracon to continually fine-tune the specification of its trailers to meet operating requirements more precisely. Not surprisingly, therefore, when the company opened a major new depot in Somerset, to more than double its sales capacity to 150,000tonnes overall, it turned to Montracon to supply trailers to be based from there.
Fifteen flat platform trailers, including two that extend up to 20m, are destined to complement the Kentford operation by moving a wide range of steel and specialist machined/drilled/cut steel products from Somerset to civil engineering and construction sites up the eastern side of the country.
Delivery of the 2015 intake brings the AJN trailer fleet to 30 units, with all but one bearing the Montracon badge.
As transport manager Michael O'Brian will tell you that if Montracon and its trailers continue to perform as well as they do, it makes sense for AJN to stick with them.


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Anyone that lives in a country with socialised health care knows that they had better not get sick if they're not prepared to wait a long time for treatment. Milton Friedman got it absolutely right when he said that whenever the government funds something the cost goes up. Unfortunately, in the case of health care the cost not only goes up but the lack of competition drives service levels massively down, as this short (7 mins) video shows.
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
The non-miracle of socialised health care
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How can you be so clueful as to understand Milton Friedman, yet dismiss Ron Paul?
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Egyptians (including Muslim Brotherhood) Protesting Military Slowness in Change
Muslim Brotherhood
الإخوان المسلمون
Al-Ikhwān Al-Muslimūn
The situation with the Middle East and Egypt continues to be of prophetic interest:
Egyptian Protesters Turn Anger Toward Military
Wall Street Journal – Matt Bradley – 8 July 2011…
CAIRO—Tens of thousands of Egyptians on Friday mounted one of the country's largest demonstrations since protesters overthrew president Hosni Mubarak in February, as anger began to crystallize against what had been long been the unreproachable guarantor of the revolution—the country's military…
The Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups that have lately eschewed continuing demonstrations called out their numbers to press for a disparate set of economic and political reforms. "Ninety percent of the people just united together today," said Ayman Zaki, a print-store owner who said he is a Brotherhood member.
I have been reporting all year that I believed that the secular-type governments that the "Arab Spring" have been turning towards would not ultimately satisfy the Arab peoples and that ultimately they would realize that they want something else.
Of course, Egypt is not the only place with trouble currently brewing. Notice Libya, Syria, and Yemen, for three additional examples:
Libya: Gaddafi army attacks supply route as rebels make advance
Telegraph.co.uk – Ruth Sherlock – 8 July 2011
Voice of America – 8 July 2011
Saleh's speech ignites deadly protests
Aljazeera.net 8 July 2011
There are troubles in the Arab World. Of course, Jesus told of troubles as part of the beginning of sorrows:
8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows. (Mark 13:8)
The Muslim Brotherhood itself wants to establish a caliphate across North Africa and into the Middle East. It is possible that the Muslim Brotherhood may be the vehicle to help establish a pan-Arabic leader. This will not truly solve all the "troubles," but may seem to somewhat do so for a while.
The Bible tells of an end time King of the South that seems to rule over the much of the Arab world (Daniel 11:40-43; Psalm 83). The protests in the Middle East and North Africa apparently will be a factor that will encourage such a leader (who may well be Egyptian) to rise up.
Prophetic details concerning much of this can be found in the following articles:
Is There A Future King of the South? Some no longer believe there needs to be. Might Egypt, Islam, Iran, Arabs, or Ethiopia be involved? Might this King be called the Mahdi? What does the Bible say?
The Arab and Islamic World In the Bible, History, and Prophecy The Bible discusses the origins of the Arab world and discusses the Middle East in prophecy. What is ahead for the Middle East and those who follow Islam? What about the Imam Mahdi? What lies ahead for Turkey, Iran, and the other non-Arabic Muslims?
Africa: Its Biblical Past and Prophesied Future What does the Bible teach about Africa and its future? Did the early Church reach Africa? Will God call all the Africans?
Is There an Islamic Antichrist? Is Joel Richardson correct that the final Antichrist will be Islamic and not European? Find out.
Barack Obama in Islamic Prophecy? There is actually a 17th century Shiite prophecy that some believe that Barack Obama will fulfill that will lead to a rising up of Islam.
When Will the Great Tribulation Begin? 2011, 2012, or 2013? Can the Great Tribulation begin today? What happens before the Great Tribulation in the "beginning of sorrows"? What happens in the Great Tribulation and the Day of the Lord? Is this the time of the Gentiles? When is the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of the Lord? Who are the 144,000?


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Author: Liane Moriarty
Pan Macmillan RRP $32.99
Review: Monique Mulligan
It was all because of Twitter. A simple tweet: "I would suggest, bump this one up the pile". This one being The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty. I looked at the tweet and then at my sagging bookshelf. I really wanted to act on the advice and bump this book straight into my
grasping waiting hands (and discover the secret) … but, would that be fair? I mean, some of the other books were here first … I held the book, willing myself to wait. But thanks to Twitter, it was too late. The thought was in my mind and that was it. I simply had to read The Husband's Secret now. As it turned out, it was good advice – I started my week-long holiday with a fantastic read … and if it wasn't for that tweet, the book would still be waiting its turn.
What would you do if you found a letter addressed to you with the words: "To be opened in the event of my death"? If the writer was still alive, would you open it? Would you be able to put it in a safe place and forget about it? Or would its existence gnaw at you, an itch craving release? That's the dilemma Cecilia faces when she discovers a letter from her husband, John-Paul, in their attic. To the other mothers at her children's Catholic primary school, Cecilia is the envied "I don't know how she does it" woman; finding this letter puts a dent in that facade – her thoughts drift more and more to this letter until finally, curiosity wins out. What she reads is profoundly shocking; it hits her like a physical blow, crumpling her veneer of organisation and perfection, and revealing a scared and confused woman. Now that she knows the secret, she has to decide to do with it. Doing something will tear her family apart … but will keeping her husband's secret tear their marriage apart? Will it poison her, the way the secret, she finds, has poisoned her husband's mind? Sometimes knowing a secret can be worse than not knowing.
Two other women are grappling with secrets and their stories slowly fit together with Cecilia's like a jigsaw taking shape. Tess moves back to her mother's house in Sydney when her husband Will announces he's in love with her best friend and cousin Felicity. How did they fall for each other without Tess noticing? How did they keep that a secret? While Tess struggles to make sense of this, she meets an old flame, Conner, and begins a passionate affair with him. When her husband wants to try to work things out, Tess has a secret of her own. The third woman, Rachel, is consumed by grief and anger at the loss of her daughter twenty years earlier. She never found out what happened to Janie, but there's something about Conner that makes her uneasy. He knew Janie all those years ago and when Rachel finds a videotape linking the two, she is convinced that he's responsible for her daughter's death. Is bitterness and pain clouding her mind? Or is Conner hiding something, too?
There are so many secrets about our lives that we'll never know.
We never really know anyone completely, do we? We never really know "what if"? Moriarty explores this age-old question masterfully in this character-driven novel that effortlessly blends high tension with everyday moments. At first I wondered how the women were all connected, but I needn't have doubted – the pieces of the puzzle, apparently unconnected, all came together to form a whole. The secret is revealed about a third of the way through and the focus shifts away from the question of opening the letter to potentially explosive and life-changing impact. Even if the secret stays between Cecilia and John-Paul, the reader is painfully aware that it will eat at their marriage; their life will change even if they try to hide. One of the things I really liked about this novel was the tension created for the reader – as the characters stumble towards discovery, decisions and justifications, the reader is trying to second guess their moves, motives and place themselves in those same situations.
You're a mother. You'd do anything for your children, just like I'd do anything for mine.
Moriarty's characters are everyday women. They're the women living in our suburbs (maybe a little more affluent, but not overtly so), the women in That's Life magazines ('My daughter died and I know her killer' or 'My husband wants me to open this letter after he's dead'), the women we see at the school gate nudging their children into school. In this case, the three main characters are also mothers – one is a grandmother. Although "secrets" is the overt theme, underpinning this is an equally strong theme of motherhood/mothering. Moriarty explores a variety of relationships between the mother and another person, be it a son, daughter, daughter or son-in-law, grandchild, or even another mother. What comes across strongly is the protectiveness a mother feels towards her child – it's a feeling I can most definitely relate to. I admire how Moriarty examines this aspect of the female experience in a way that is authentic, heartfelt and perceptive. One relationship that stood out is that between Rachel and her son Rob, although this is really a small part of the story. Rachel adores her grandson, Jacob, (in her words, he makes life "endurable" and the thought of losing him like she did Janie) is unbearable) – she has transferred her reason for living onto Jacob. And yet, her son, Rob has always been there in the background, waiting for her to notice him, to live for him. I wanted her to notice Rob and when she did (sorry, tiny spoiler there), I was happy. It made sense.
The Husband's Secret is the second Moriarty book I have read – I read Three Wishes about a year ago and I remember liking it. The Husband's Secret for me, goes beyond "liked" it. I loved it. The pages turned as if they were in charge, not me. I had a hard time putting the book down because I became so engrossed in the narrative. It wasn't just the plot that was compelling. It was Moriarty's writing – brimming with intelligence and perception. She has a self-deprecating style, a wit that I can't quite define, but I understand. She knows when to inject that wit and when to hold back and let poignancy replace humour. I can't put it better than that right now. One other thing: sometimes I find that epilogues are too neat, almost a lazy way of tying up loose ends or a Where Are They Now story, yet the epilogue in this book worked. It tapped right into the "what if" part of my brain and left me wondering long after I'd closed the book. Clever.
This book was definitely worth bumping up the list! A brilliant read, one that I'll come back to again. Liane, I hope you won't make us wait too long for another one.
This book is available from Pan Macmillan Australia. This advance copy was courtesy of Pan Macmillan.
Bookish treat: You'll be so engrossed, I suggest you pack a ration kit before you start reading. Mine consists of chocolate. And hot chocolate.


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Hamstring injuries, pulls and tears to the muscles on the back of the thigh, are among the most common in sports, according to the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Even after rehabilitation, those problems tend to reoccur. Eccentric exercise is one type of conditioning that holds some promise for hamstring injury prevention, an injury that is a concern for professional athletes, dancers, weekend soccer players and people who lead a physically active life.
Hamstring Injuries
Three hamstring muscles run from the pelvis to just below the knee on the back of the thigh: the semitendinosus, the semimembranosis and the biceps femoris. They help you to bend your knee and extend your leg back. Most people have tight, shortened hamstrings as a result of an inactive lifestyle -- sitting in front of a computer all day, watching TV, driving a car. Sudden stress or stretching of tight hamstrings will strain them, resulting in a mild to extremely serious injury that can range from annoying to disabling. The damage happens when the muscle lengthens, or stretches, as it contracts; for example, the push-off from the back leg in a sprint can cause damage as the leg is supporting your body weight as it straightens and explosively propels you forward. When your hamstrings are tight, that eccentric contraction is enough to cause a strain.
Reducing Injury Risk
Eccentric exercise for the hamstrings lowers the risk for damage due to eccentric contractions. Studies published in the "Journal of Sports Medicine" and the "Journal of Athletic Training" found that eccentric conditioning significantly improved hamstring strength and reduced hamstring injuries. Exercises used to strengthen muscles and determine hamstring resilience include seated hamstring curls, in which the leg is flexed against a resistance band. Also effective are Nordic or Norwegian hamstring curls, in which a trainer holds the lower legs and the person leans forward with a straight back, using the upper legs to counter body weight as the torso is lowered toward the mat. The National Strength and Conditioning Association points out that bending and stretching at the hips, known as hip flexion, places great strain on the hamstrings. The Association recommends a plyometric exercise -- eccentric box drops in which you jump from a box, landing in a squat -- to strengthen hamstrings during hip flexion.
Running and Muscle Balance
Runners are especially susceptible to hamstring injury when the quads on the front of the thigh and the hamstrings are out of balance. Quadriceps are typically stronger than hamstrings and don't experience the same amount of eccentric contraction during sprints or any sports activity that requires explosive leg moves or control on a downhill grade. When the hamstrings are weak or tight, they become fatigued before the quads and that leads to hamstring injury and the danger of repeat injury. Increase flexibility and strength in the hamstrings with exercises such as bicycle leg swings that mimic running or cycling with one leg while standing on the supporting leg. Try pistol squats, a one-legged controlled squat to a chair seat and back to standing, for more challenge.
Eccentric Exercises
Eccentric hamstring exercises may be used to prevent injury or as part of rehabilitation. Hamstring strains can be serious and are prone to re-injury so consult your doctor if an activity causes pain or if you sustain an injury to the muscles on the back of your thighs. Rebuild your strength with moves like knee flexions -- standing and supine -- in which one knee bends so the heel comes up toward the glutes. Perform a bridge on a mat with your neck supported by a rolled towel, feet flat on the floor, hips raised to the ceiling and hamstrings engaged. Add intensity to the bridge by raising one leg off the mat. Separate legs, forward and back, while standing. Bend forward from the hips keeping a flat back and pick up a ball with both hands, working the hamstrings as they are stretched. Lower slowly into eccentric squats with heels raised on a foam roller as hamstrings, quads and glutes control the descent.
- Sports Injury Clinic: Strengthening Exercises for Hamstring Strains
- Sports Injury Clinic: Eccentric Squats
- National Strength and Conditioning Association:Eccentrics and Prevention of Hamstring Injuries in Sport
- Journal of Athletic Training:Concentric Versus Enhanced Eccentric Hamstring Strength Training: Clinical Implications
- Brian Mac: Hamstring Injury Treatment and Hamstring Stretching Exercises
Writer Bio
Benna Crawford has been a journalist and New York-based writer since 1997. Her work has appeared in USA Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, and in professional journals and trade publications. Crawford has a degree in theater, is a certified Prana Yoga instructor, and writes about fitness, performing and decorative arts, culture, sports, business and education .
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Most of us feel the negative effects of sleep deprivation almost every day at work, and while we all try to combat them by drinking who knows how many cups of coffee until the end of our working time, recently, experts recommend taking a short nap as the best way to energize and get back to work.
Sara C. Mednick, Ph.D., sleep expert and author of Take a Nap! Change Your Life aims that taking a nap for about 20 minutes will help you reset the system and boost your alertness and motor performance.
Sleep deprivation is a serious issue that can interfere with your mood, reaction time, mental clarity, stress levels, blood pressure, memory, and metabolism.
Some American workplaces have understood the power of short napping and encourage their employees to recharge their brains with a nap, such as NASA, Huffington Post, Mercedez-Benz Financial Services, White & Case, and many other brands.
Google employees are encouraged to take power naps at work, while David Radcliffe—Vice President, Real Estate and Workplace Services, claims that workplaces are incomplete without a nap pod.
In order to get the most out of your nap, follow these tips:
- Your nap should last no longer than 20 minutes
- Nap at the same time every day
- Have a blanket, as the warm temperature can help you fall asleep faster
- Don't try to sleep in a bright or noisy environment
- Don't take late naps, as they can interrupt your nighttime sleep cycle
- Don't get daytime power naps if you suffer from a sleep condition since they can aggravate it
Moreover, the invention by the Japanese retailer Thanko known as the "Lay Flat Office Chair", which looks like a standard wheeled office chair, actually converts into a completely perpendicular office bed, which can virtually change your napping experience at work!
It is sold for ¥49,800 (approximately $600), and the lay flat office chair is shipped unassembled. It weighs 48.5 lbs and measures 25.2 inches wide x 51.2 inches tall x 68.9 inches deep when fully put together.
Yet, note that you will need to venture through a Japanese website to purchase it, so it would be of great help if you have a Japanese speaking friend to help you with the purchase.
You also have another option to get such a chair, since there are similar models available on Amazon, such as XUERUI 360 Degree Swivel Chair which reclines to about 145 degrees, whose price starts from $600, and you can find it on Amazon and Happybuy Executive Swivel Office Chair, from $115 which can be also found on Amazon.


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Thermaltakeannounced the availability of the new Thermaltake View 91 Tempered Glass RGB Edition Super Tower Chassis at CES. Boasting the trio huge 5mm thick tempered glass panels for internal components show-off, the View 91 TG RGB delivers a sleek look to complement its excellent cooling.
Apart from the four built-in 140mm Riing Plus LED RGB Fans, which offer patented 16.8 million colors LED ring, 12 single controllable LEDs, and are digitally PWM controlled through the patented Riing Plus RGB Software, the View 91 TG RGB can accommodate up to two large 200mm fans on top, three 140mm fans at the bottom, while there is still space for up to six 200mm fans inside the enclosure.
Speaking of hardware support, this XL-ATX super tower is engineered as a high-end workstation to include a USB 3.1 Type-C port for extra data transfer speed, and has room for up to twelve 3.5"/2.5" HDDs plus "10+2" expansion slots. It supports CPU coolers up to 200mm in height, VGA lengths up to 600mm, and PSU sizes up to 220mm in length, and the latest AIO/DIY liquid cooling solutions. Other features that smooth out user gaming experience include the side panel swing-open design for easy and full access to the build, the quick-release bar design of the fan mount bracket for instant fan removal/reattachment, and the magnetic dust filters for clean air intake. The View 91 TG RGB is designed to pack performance and expandability into a 16.8 million-color RGB-beautifully-imbued case design to make PC enthusiasts' next rig like no other.


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United States Court of Appeals
At a stated Term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the United States Courthouse, Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the 8th day of May two thousand one,
Hon. Jon O. Newman,
Hon. Jose A. Cabranes,
Circuit Judges,
Hon. Alvin W. Thompson,
District Judge.
Universal City Studios, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation,
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Tristar Pictures, Inc.,
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Time Warner Entertainment
Company, L.P., Disney Enterprises Inc., Twentieth Century
Fox Film Corporation,
Eric Corley, also known as Emmanuel Goldstein and 2600
Enterprises Inc.,
Shawn C. Reimerdes, Roman Kazan,
United States of America,
The panel modifies the oral instruction for supplemental letter briefs in the captioned case, given at the close of the argument on May 1, 2001, by authorizing the parties and the Intervenor to augment their responses to no more than 25 pages, and inviting responses to the following questions:
Universal City v. Reimerdes
No. 00-9185
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Are the anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act content-neutral? See 111 F. Supp. 2d 294, 328-29 (S.D.N.Y. 2000).
Does DeCSS have both speech and non-speech elements?
Does the dissemination of DeCSS have both speech and non-speech elements?
Does the use of DeCSS to decrypt an encrypted DVD have both speech and non-speech elements?
Does the existence of non-speech elements, along with speech elements, in an activity sought to be regulated alone justify intermediate level scrutiny?
If DeCSS or its dissemination or its use to decrypt has both speech and non-speech elements and is not subject to intermediate level scrutiny simply because of the non-speech elements, is intermediate level scrutiny appropriate because of the close causal link between dissemination of DeCSS and its improper use? See 111 F. Supp. 2d at 331-32.
If the District Court is correct that the dissemination of DeCSS "carries very substantial risk of imminent harm," 111 F. Supp. 2d at 332, does that risk alone justify the injunction? In other words, does that risk satisfy the requirements for regulating speech under Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969), thereby rendering unnecessary an inquiry as to whether non-speech elements of DeCSS or its dissemination or its use (if such exists) may be regulated under United States v. O'Brien, 391 U.S. 367 (1968)?
Are the three criteria identified at 111 F. Supp. 2d 333 the correct criteria for determining the validity, under intermediate level scrutiny, of the use of DeCSS that has been enjoined?
If not, what modification or supplementation would be required to conform to First Amendment requirements?
Are the three criteria identified at 111 F. Supp. 2d 341 and the "clear and convincing evidence" standard the correct criteria and the correct standard of proof for testing the validity of the injunction's prohibition of posting on the defendant's website and of linking?
If not, what modification or supplementation would be required to conform to First Amendment requirements?
Universal City v. Reimerdes
No. 00-9185
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The references to the District Court's opinion are intended only to identify some passages that concern the question posed and not to imply that no other passages in the opinion are pertinent to the question. Responses need not be amplified if a "yes" or "no" will suffice.
The parties and Intervenor shall submit their supplemental letter briefs to this Court no later than Wednesday, May 30, 2001.
Rosennn B. MacKechnie, Clerk
By:_Lucille_ Carr_____________
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When parents decide to move forward with divorce, it can lead to significant upheaval and distress for the children. Even between two amicable Minnesota parents, it can be difficult to decide on the right choice for custody and visitation arrangements. In order to provide your kids with stability and lessen the chance for harmful disruption in their lives, it may be useful to learn as much as you can about custody and your parental rights.
For many families, joint custody is a reasonable solution to child custody concerns. This type of arrangement can allow the children to maintain close contact with both parents, which is beneficial for their mental and emotional health. Whether you are pursuing a joint custody arrangement or want sole custody, you will need to understand legal custody and physical custody, along with what they mean for you.
Two types of custody
No matter what type of custody goals you have, physical custody and legal custody should be important factors in your parenting and visitation plan. It may help to consider the differences between them as you work for a beneficial custody plan that will suit your kids for years to come. They are as follows:
- Legal custody — This is a parent's right to make important decisions on behalf of his or her kids. Legal custody affects your ability to make important decisions for your child, such as where he or she will go to school or the type of religious upbringing he or she will have.
- Physical custody — This involves the actual amount of time your children will be with you. Physical custody pertains to regular visitation schedules, but also things like summer vacation and holidays with families.
As you seek a custody plan that will be workable for you and your kids, it is smart to remember to keep your focus on what will be best in the future, not just what feels right now.
The best future for your family
Divorce is a complex, difficult process, but you can make choices that will provide your children with stability and continuity of lifestyle. No matter what type of custody plan you think will be most beneficial for your family, you will find it helpful to start with an explanation of your parental rights from an experienced family law attorney. Starting with the right guidance and support, you can fight for the best future for your kids and yourself as an involved, loving parent.


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Ronde Barber's iron will gave him a golden rep
Ronde Barber's retirement has drawn the appropriate comparisons to the best defensive backs of the modern era: Charles Woodson, Champ Bailey, Ed Reed, even Deion Sanders and Darrell Green.
There's another apt comparison group for Barber: Dick Butkus, Bronco Nagurski, Jack Lambert, Carl Eller.
To many fans, Barber is known for his skill, exemplified by his signature interception return for a touchdown in the NFC championship game in 2002 against the Philadelphia Eagles. To players, however, he's known for the kind of toughness usually reserved for end rushers and linebackers.
"That's the toughest guy I've ever been around," former Tampa Bay Bucs teammate Barrett Ruud, an eight-year NFL vet, told Yahoo! Sports in December. "Never misses a practice or a game. Every extra point attempt, he's laying out for it."
[Video: Ronde Barber on his defining NFL moment]
The toughness goes even beyond Barber's iron man streak, which started in 1999 and ends with his retirement from the game on Thursday. Barber's consecutive starts streak stands at 224 games, sixth all-time. The players ahead of him are all linemen, with the exception of the top man on the list, Brett Favre. Barber, now 38, is 5-10, 180 pounds – about the size of the average man walking down the street – and he never missed a game due to injury.
Barber always sought the physical challenges most people avoid. Even the most dedicated NFL players don't like training camp – Hall of Fame-bound tight end Tony Gonzalez returned for another season in part because he wouldn't have to deal with the drudgery of it – but Barber anticipated it. He said last year's camp, under new coach Greg Schiano, was exceedingly grueling. It even included tackling stations, which is the equivalent of using a month to teach hockey players how to block shots.
"It was the toughest camp I've been through, by far," Barber said of the preparation for his 16th season. "But I was all about that."
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Playing tough in the NFL usually comes with a downside. Maybe a player hovers so close to the edge that he behaves erratically. Maybe a player takes too many chances off the field because he's so accustomed to doing that on the field. The phrase "reckless abandon" is a compliment in football, even though "reckless" and "abandon" both indicate leaving smarts behind in favor of an admirable wildness.
Barber never cost the Bucs in that way. In addition to being so unafraid on the field, he was a perfect citizen off of it. He was a locker room leader. He was a coach's dream. He studied the game assiduously, never figuring he knew everything even though he could predict offensive plays even before they were called at the line of scrimmage. Barber was a ferocious nerd, a detail-obsessed student of the game who built shelves in his locker. How many other NFL players have made every single start for more than a decade and written eight children's books on the side?
For many years, there wasn't much acclaim for Barber. After he helped the Bucs to the Super Bowl in 2003, the team gradually faded from dominance and franchises in bigger markets took the headlines. Still, Barber went about his job, slipping from understated to underrated to underappreciated.
"I love football, I'll always love football," he said Thursday in a media conference announcing his retirement. "But football is just what I did, it's not who I am and I'm ready to move on. I'm ready to do what's next. You turn enough chapters in one book, you finally get to the end, you shut it, put it on the bookshelf and you pick up another book. That's what I'm going to do right now.''
Now, in retirement, there is a swell of love for the man. Even his more famous twin brother, Tiki, asked on a radio show this week why Ronde is so adored and he's not. That may be a question for New Yorkers to answer – at least that's what Ronde said – but the warmth for the quieter Barber comes from an appreciation of a fading part of football.
They simply don't make players like Ronde Barber much anymore. He started in one city, he worked fiercely every season and every offseason, he hit with the intensity of men twice his size, and he retired in the same city where he started without any drama. Ronde Barber was a football player's football player, even though there were parts of him that weren't much like a football player at all.
Should he be in the Hall of Fame? Yes. Absolutely yes. The Super Bowl and the streak are enough, then add the fact that he's the only player in league history with 40-plus interceptions and 25-plus sacks. But let's steer away from the debates that sully this sports era. The debates are what caused Barber to be overlooked for so long. He wasn't controversial. He wasn't buzzy. He wasn't a celebrity. So he wasn't discussed, and that's too bad.
When asked Thursday how he wanted to be remembered, Barber said, "I would like people to say I was the toughest player they ever saw."
Through his career, Barber played with more than 40 percent of all players who have ever suited up for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Here's betting they all are saying exactly that today.
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1 October 2019
"It's so important that the police family remembers those police officers we have lost across the years."
Thousands of police officers who have died while on duty have been honoured at the 16th annual National Police Memorial Day.
Members of the police family gathered at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow to honour the more than 4,000 officers who have lost their lives on duty. The names of those officers who have died in the past year were read out.
HRH The Prince of Wales, who is Patron of National Police Memorial Day, was among those attending the service, led by Canon David Wilbraham. He was joined by Home Secretary Priti Patel; Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, more than 40 Chief Constables and 1,500 police officers and family members.
Chairman of Sussex Police Federation Matt Webb - pictured with our Secretary Simon Steele - said the memorial service was a significant event in policing calendar to remember those the police family has lost.
Speaking after the service, he said "The significance of this event is for us being able to remember the families of those officers that we've lost and remember the officers themselves.
"The day allows the families to come together in a place where they will meet others who have gone through the same shared experience. That's something they probably don't find in day to day life.
"All people face grief at some point in their lives but when someone is snatched away from you so quickly, and in some cases so violently, it's very difficult to come to terms with. This event allows them to speak with other families who have gone through the same experience.
"The principles of the British Police Service are that the public are the police and the police are the public. Our day to day job is to support and protect our communities. When someone has to lay down their life in the line of duty, it really should be felt as a ripple across the whole of society. It's just important that we as an organisation, as a service, remember those individuals across the years."
In the commemorative brochure, HRH The Prince of Wales said: "Policing in the United Kingdom has enormous pressures to contend with, no more so than on the front line. As society changes, so must the way in which we support and protect our communities. Your job is one of the toughest there is, and all too often your efforts go unrecognised.
"I am proud to be with you today, and I particularly want you to know how very much I appreciate all that you do, and the sacrifices you make. You and your families have a very special place in the heart of this Nation."
During the service, candles were lit for officers in each of the four nations. Representing Scotland was Margaret Sinclair and her daughter Patricia, for PC Leslie Sinclair, who died in 1972 following a road traffic collision.
Representing England was Rumbie Mabuto and her children Kenny and Sophia, for DC Joe Mabuto, who died after suffering a heart attack on duty. Representing Wales was William Parker, son of PC Andy Parker, who was killed in a motorbike crash when travelling home after a night shift.
And representing Northern Ireland was Margo Hetherington, daughter of Reserve Constable Jacob Rankin, who was fatally shot in 1978 whilst on duty by terrorists.
Andrea MacDonald, Chair of the Scottish Police Federation, read the names of officers who have lost their lives during the past year: PC Joseph Robert Cooke and Sgt Colin Michael Fox, both of the Met; PC Daniel Clayton-Drabble, PC Kevin Flint and PC Andrew Harper, all of Thames Valley Police; and PC Roy Buggins, of Police Scotland. The service also paid tribute to US Special Agent Nole Remagen, who died while on duty in Scotland.
There was silence as petals of remembrance, representing all who have lost their lives, descended from the gallery as the Last Post was sounded.