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Elissa, the Texas tall ship rescued from a scrap heap in a Greek port in the mid-1970s, then refitted and brought to Galveston in 1979, is facing her biggest challenge in three decades - hull corrosion.
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text: Mollie Z Hemingway at Get Religion reminds me that today is not only Halloween, it is also the 495th anniversary of the day that Martin Luther kicked off the Protestant Reformation by nailing his 95 Theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany. In her post, she links to an article on three films about Martin Luther that were produced in 1953, 1973 and 2003 — and, as it happens, I wrote an article on those same three films about eight years ago. I have re-posted it here. I also wrote a review of the 2003 film for BC Christian News, as well as a brief blog post for the CT Movies Blog (which deleted my byline, for some reason) on the 2009 death of Robert E.A. Lee, who produced the 1953 film.


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I thought I would start my first post back with a song of the week. This weeks song is by Foxes.
Foxes - Holding on to heaven
I think she has an amazing voice and has a different sounds to most artist out there at the moment. I love most of her songs to date that she has released and are hoping to get her album in the near future.
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The cold gripping much of the US this week was absent from the iOSphere which steamed with speculation over a mysterious metal frame that revealed Important Details of the iPhone 6.
The heat edged still higher with a New Report that the next iPhone would be 6mm thick; that Apple might refuse to upgrade the phone's camera from 8 to 13 megapixels; and that Pegatron was building a huge new plant in China where its worker bees would crank out half of all future iPhone 6′s, even though no one explained why that would matter.
iPhone 6 phablet is revealed in leaked photos of metal frame
Photos appearing on a Chinese website were copied throughout the iOSphere, even as the copiers often solemnly acknowledged that there was no way of knowing whether the photos actually showed anything to do with an iPhone.
Here's one of the two photos being replicated.
One line of postings started with Vlad Andrici at a site called GForGames, who assured his readers that "There is no way of being sure that this is indeed iPhone 6′s metal housing, but China is definitely the way to look for accurate Apple related leaks and rumors." Because… well, just because.
He sourced this accurate leak from this Chinese language blog on the social networking site Weibo.com (login is required). But that microblog seems to be simply a corporate site for CTech.cn.com (here's the Google Translate version of the home page), which is variously described by iOSpherians as a "Chinese news site," "prolific leaker," "Chinese site", and by GForGames as "renowned Apple leaker." We googled for a bit but couldn't come up with any more details, at least in English, about CTech or C Technology.
"Chinese news site C-Tech carries photos of a smartphone outer shell that is both a lot larger and much slimmer than the current iPhone 5S and the sizing shown in the blurry image marries up with recent rumours regarding the iPhone 6," Jamie Hinks confidently declares at ITPortal.com, even though it's not really an outer shell. Those not-so-recent rumours, for an iPhone with a bigger-than-four-inch diagonal screen, date from at least September 2012 when Apple released the four-inch iPhone 5.
At MacRumors, Eric Slivka took a close look at the "leaked" metal frame, and compared it to Apple's actual design changes. His conclusion: it may be a leaked smartphone frame but it's almost certainly not the iPhone 6.
"The part appears to be a midframe such as that found in earlier iPhone models, allowing components to be attached to both sides of the part before being enclosed in the device's shell," he observes. "Apple did away with midframe components as of the iPhone 5, opting for a unibody rear shell design that allows components to be mounted directly to the shell, yielding a thinner design. A return to a design requiring a midframe part would seem unlikely given Apple's emphasis on thinness."
Secondly, the "frame seems to show accommodation for a headphone jack at the same end of the device where a circular feature presumably corresponding to the device's rear camera is positioned, undoubtedly the top end. With the shift to the narrower Lightning connector in the iPhone 5, Apple shifted the location of the iPhone's headphone jack to the bottom edge of the device….Moving the headphone jack back to the top edge of the device for the iPhone 6 appears unlikely, though not impossible."
Perhaps we need to rethink the idea that China is definitely the way to look for accurate Apple related leaks and rumors.
iPhone 6 will be 6mm thick and be called iPhone Air
Compare that to the chunky iPhone 5S, which is a whopping 7.6mm. As ChannelPartners' Craig Galbraith assures us that a "new report" says this. Specifically, a "source not only spilled to Korea's ET News the width of the device, but also that it will be called the iPhone Air."
Checking the ETNews.com webpage, to which Galbraith links, and putting it through Google translate we end up with this: "Chinese IT media, digital tech (digi.tech.qq.com) to 5 (local time), citing sources, Apple's leading manufacturer of next-generation smart phones' iPhone Air (working title), so the thinner the thickness of 6mm reported that ."
So the original story, for ETNews, is actually the Chinese news site, digi.tech.qq.com, (here's the Google translation of the home page) and its apparently unidentified "sources." is part of Tencent Holdings, a big China-based internet services company.
The translation, on which Galbraith so blithely relies, continues with this gem: "Apple's next-generation iPhone to large screen display is used, the attention of people rea jimyeo news delivered equipment is collected, but there was no detailed information about the thickness. Recent leading online sources for the next generation of the Apple iPhone is the thickness of the experimental drug would be said about 6mm."
We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
iPhone 6 will stay with 8 megapixel camera instead of 13
Here's the starting point: a story on the English-language site of ChinaPost.com, about the sliding stock price of Largan Precision Co., a major supplier of camera lens modules for a range of mobile devices. The ChinaPost story says the stock price "tumbled dramatically during trading yesterday, bottoming out after a near 7-percent drop shortly after noon as disappointed investors reacted to rumors that Apple's upcoming iPhone 6 handset would not be upgraded with a 13 megapixel (MP) camera."
In fact, what investors were apparently reacting to was an investment note, published by Nomura Securities (referenced but not linked to by ChinaPost). In that note, the unnamed Nomura analys (or analysts) says that "Largan's recently lagging performance in the market is caused by rumors that Apple may adopt an 8 mega-pixel (MP) camera with improved optical image stabilization on its upcoming handset, instead of the 16 [apparently a typo for '13'] MP upgrade anticipated by industry observers."
In other words, the stock analyst read some Apple rumours, notified investors about them, and stepped away from the stampede. But the ChinaPost story goes on to say that "Apple's decision is based on the design requirement to retain the handset's more portable form factor, said Nomura Securities." That claim by Nomuro suggests more than a mere rumour, but again no source for the claim is offered.
It's also a claim that explains away rather than explains the alleged Apple decision. For years, Apple's iPhone evolution has been about constant refinement and improvement, all of which are viewed from a wholistic appreciation of the "user experience." That's why Apple can still have "only" a dual-core processor in the iPhone 5S while far less successful rivals keep touting their wondrous four-core processors.
BusinessInsider's Jay Yarrow buys into this conventional wisdom in his post about the Nomura claim: "Its top rival, Samsung, has a 13 megapixel camera on its top of the line phone, the Galaxy S4. So, it's a little surprising that Apple doesn't want to upgrade the megapixel count on the iPhone."
But Yarrow goes on to draw a more insightful conclusion. "The iPhone's camera is either the best or second best (depending on who you ask) for smart phones, even with an 8 megapixel lens. Apple has managed to improve camera performance through software, and other hardware engineering."
iPhone 6 will be built by Pegatron in addition to Foxconn
This is one of those rumourtoids that have no relevance to real life for 99 percent of the world's population. It's like knowing that "Travelling at the speed of light it would still take you over 4 years to reach the Sun's nearest neighbour star."
From what we can tell, Taiwan's Chinese-language Liberty Times (the parent also publishes the English-language Taipei Times) posted a story – based on a single anonymous source – claiming that contract manufacturer Pegatron was building a massive new plant in China where it would be building up to half of all future iPhone 6 units.
That post was picked up and rewritten by wire service Agence France-Presse (AFP), from which it was picked by outlets such as ChinaPost.com, and content syndicators like Repost.us. From there, it made its way into a blizzard of repostings in the iOSphere, like MacRumors, and from MacRumors to Ubergizmo.
Here's the core of the rumour, from the original AFP summary of the LibertyTimes post: "Taiwan's Pegatron Corp, an assembler of Apple's iPhone 5C, is expected to win half of the orders from the U.S. tech giant for its next smartphone model, a report said Thursday.
In order to meet the demand, Pegatron has started building a new plant at Kunshan, a satellite city near Shanghai where all its iPhones are assembled, the Liberty Times said without identifying its source.
The paper said the Kunshan plant is scheduled to become operational in the middle of the year and start mass production late this year, when Apple is expected to roll out its iPhone 6."
To us, and we freely admit to being non-expert in building large-scale manufacturing sites, if Pegatron is just now starting to build a massive new plant for the iPhone 6, it seems a bit of a stretch that it will be ready by June or July to cranking out phones in volume.
In any case, 1) the entire web of reposted and regurgitated speculation hinges on one anonymous source and 2) even if true, doesn't really tell us anything about the iPhone 6 that people might care about. Although Ubergizmo's Tyler Lee gives it his best shot: "It's odd that the report only mentions one device, the iPhone 6, because if the previous rumors have any credibility to them, Apple is said to launch two phones: one of the 4.7-inch variety, and one of the 5.7-inch variety."
Exactly: it's a mystery why one rumour about building the Next iPhone doesn't take into account all those other rumours about two Next iPhones.
By John Cox. Network World.


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2007-03-27 [Pillowthief]: Hmm. Possibly. Its an older poem- I switched up the wiki, now the new ones on on the top!
2007-04-21 [Rabid]: grrr. why you gotta trick me like that?
2007-04-22 [Pillowthief]: Meh, Im a very lazy person. It was making me scroll clear down to the bottom every time I want to write, so I spent half an hour trying to mirror my wiki upside-down so I wouldnt have to. Now that I think about it the cost effectiveness of such a move was more taxing in the short run, guess I can only be effecient and hard working when the result is making my life easier. *shrug*
2007-06-02 [Rabid]: ahahaa. well i guess it makes more sense having the new at top and the old at the bottom.
I haven't written in forever. makes me sad...
2007-06-03 [Pillowthief]: I havent worked on any poetry in a while. Makes me sad too.
2007-06-06 [White Wolf guardian of snow and ice]: Wow, Thief, you're really good! I love "Canadian Dreams"
2007-06-10 [Pillowthief]: Hurrah! My popularity went up 1/2 point!
But seriously, Im not sure about that one. My feelings at that time are not the same now, Im still trying to get over her.
2007-06-18 [White Wolf guardian of snow and ice]: -huggles- it's alright, Hopefully it'll pass without too much more pain ^__^.
And what??? I only count for HALF point!!!!????!
2007-06-18 [Pillowthief]: *straight-face lies*
I am a very popular person, and even those your big vote was registered, it was just a drop in the pond of my popularity.
2007-06-19 [White Wolf guardian of snow and ice]: -pokepoke- you're mean, and a bad lier!
2007-06-19 [Pillowthief]: Agh, what gave it away?
2007-06-19 [White Wolf guardian of snow and ice]: lol -shake head- nothing...you'
2007-06-19 [Pillowthief]: Hmmm. I told myself once. But then I hate lying to myself so I argued with the guy. He hit me so I started yelling at him. Mean fucker, I dont talk to him anymore.
2007-06-19 [White Wolf guardian of snow and ice]: ...ooookkkaaay
2007-06-19 [Pillowthief]: Hmm. Are you Stalking me?
2007-06-19 [White Wolf guardian of snow and ice]: nope, I don't get out enough ^.^
2007-06-19 [Pillowthief]: Ah. Good to get some air once in a while I suppose.
2007-06-19 [White Wolf guardian of snow and ice]: I guess so. I need to be more active, but I just don't feel motivated enough. Mainly because it's either really really hot, or really really cold. I don't like either so I stay in the house
2007-06-26 [Pillowthief]: I like cake...
2007-06-28 [White Wolf guardian of snow and ice]: I like pie
2007-06-28 [Pillowthief]: Cake! ...or Death.
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Europe offers something for every traveller. Whether it's Mediterranean beaches and tourist destinations or skiing and adventure holidays in the Alps and Pyrenees. Possibly we just want to explore the unspoiled historic Eastern European cities of Prague and Sofia, but whatever it is, it is all there waiting for us. Not only is this variety right on our doorstep but it is all so accessible. Within a couple of hours we could be walking the streets of Amsterdam, sitting in a business meeting in Brussels or snorkelling in Ibiza.


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Tomorrow, I'm off to Kent to partake in an archaeological dig and for the past forty-eight hours I've been packing and preparing like a maniac. But, lo and behold, the packing list is nowhere near as cool as what you'd expect. We don't have to pack a whip like Jones, or a pistol like Croft. These things aren't even on the recommended lists given to us. Instead the reality is far more average.
Equipment is one of the most important things. You need to make sure you have everything you could need as, with the exception of Richard III's grave, there isn't going to be a supermarket you can just pop into for supplies. If you miss an essential, you're in doom. The temple of doom. And you'll be in big trouble.
You're going to need bandages. Not because they're useful for when you get a poison blow-dart shot at your neck (although they probably are) but because there's a chance you'll cut your toe off with a mattock. Probably equally as painful, but nowhere near as exciting. These are an essential part of any packing list, with a basic first aid kit for any cuts and bruises, though most of them will only come from the rocks you accidentally hit with your hand and not from sword-fighting with a mobster.
Along similar lines hand cream is one of my essential items, and often if I don't make a reminder I don't remember to pack it. Archaeology is manual labour almost all the times and your hands get used constantly. Hand cream, I promise, will save you from a lot of woes.
And while we're still on the subject of pharmaceuticals, if you're a woman I urge you to bring some feminine hygiene. Myself, and my sister, can firmly tell you that there is nothing worse than being stuck on a trip with nothing to help. Even if you're nowhere near that time of month, take some anyway. Just to be safe.
You're going to want to bring a tent. It's really only in the movies that the archaeologist get luxury accommodation in a fancy hotel or prince's palace, and tents aren't provided for you. You're lucky if you have the money for a caravan or a room, but generally, a four-man tent for one person is as far as luxury goes.
Also, if you're going by car and not by public transport I urge you to pack your car with an air mattress, pillows and a duvet. You're going to be pleased to have a little bit of home and comfort with you after the first couple of nights.
In your tent it's going to be cold and, if you're in Britain, it's probably going to be wet too as it WILL rain and you WILL have to work in it. Pack appropriate clothes. I know, a cagoule is nowhere near as cool as Indiana Jones' jacket, but you're going to be grateful. You can have his hat though. You are working outside, after-all and you need to protect your head.
Also, make sure you have more appropriate clothes. I love fashion, and my wardrobe was not prepared for a week in the trenches. Yes, that means basic tee-shirts and shorts, not flashy ball-gowns or beaded dresses. Here's to looking at you, Willie.
After that, you'll want to pack a couple of books. Between the hours of six and midnight you'll need to kill some time and you'll be on a site with, most likely, zero wifi and nowhere to charge your tablet. Your survival skills will really kick in and, as a general rule, casual human sacrifices are frowned upon. I suggest you bring your favourite book so you don't mind reading it a few times if need be, and one boring book for if you can't sleep. Or, make it a community affair and bring ancient plays for your peers to perform.
You're also going to want a notebook. Why? It's not because you're going to want to want to write down all of your epic adventures, but because you'll want to remember the weather, your co-ordinates and more statistics, and the best way to remember is to write it down. You could write about your adventures, of course, but you will just be writing about how deep your trench is.
More miscellaneous items include loose change and money. Sometimes you need to buy a few things, a bus fare into the village or the fee for laundry and you're going to want to pay using loose change. You don't need to bring a gold-bar to bribe bandits with, and you don't want to be the idiot who has to break in a twenty.
Lastly, you should probably bring some crockery and cutlery, unless the dig has specifically mentioned that they'll supply it. There's nothing more barbaric than having to tuck into monkey-skulls without the proper utensils. I'm joking. There are no monkey skulls, but it's better to be safe than sorry. Make sure they're hardy pieces, metal or plastic, so that they don't break.
These are, perhaps, the bare-bone essentials of any archaeological dig and it's any surprise, really that Indiana Jones actually managed for so long. Sure, it's not as cool as anything he had, but at least you'll be comfortable.
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Private Class (Metaphor)
"This class was the color of my dreams." (11)
Nafisi introduces the private class she taught to select female students as fulfilling wishes that have grown in her as the political and social climate of Iran became more and more hostile to her way of life.
Azin (Simile)
"She would often bite the corner of her lower lip and launch into tirades about love, sex and men - like a child throwing a big stone into the pool; not to make a splash, but to wet the adults in the bargain." (52)
Nafisi here describes Azin, using a simile to color Azin's actions as childlike - a mix of playfulness and rebelliousness.
The Invasion of Memory (Simile)
"... with the sun still perched in the sky, you are drenched in a shower of rain. This is how memories invade me, abruptly and unexpectedly" (59)
Nafisi often uses metaphors to describe the way memory and novels can transport people away from their current realities. In this instance, she uses a paragraph-long, imagery-laden metaphor of being drenched by rain to describe the way her memories totally drenched her in an instant.
Dancing (Metaphor)
"The jailer invites Cincinnatus to a dance. They begin a waltz and move out into the hall... Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality. My students witnessed it in show trials on television and enacted it every time they went out into the streets dressed as they were told to dressed." (76)
Nafisi often uses the literature she and her students read and discussed to create extended metaphors for life as a woman in Iran. In this quote, she uses Nabokov's concept of a character literally dancing with his jailer to parallel the metaphorical dance women had do with the government and with the various men policing them in their daily lives.
The Seduction of Memory (Metaphor)
"One memory curls itself wantonly and imperceptibly around me, teasing me seductively." (90)
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State environmental officials say that Lake Erie's toxic algae blooms have never been worse and warn that fish and billions of dollars in tourism revenue are at risk.
The level of phosphorus, which feeds algae blooms, is above safe levels in nearly every section of the lake, according to a report presented yesterday by Roger Knight, Lake Erie program administrator for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
"The trends are moving in the wrong direction no matter where on the lake you go," Knight said at a meeting of the Lake Erie Commission in Columbus. "We are way above targets."
Analyses show numbers of walleye and yellow perch — the lake's most-lucrative sport-fish species — drop significantly as the level of algae rises.
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"People could set beer cans on the algae. It is that thick."
Blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, are common in most Ohio lakes but grow thick in water polluted with phosphorus from fertilizer, manure and sewage that rains wash into streams. The algae can excrete liver and nerve toxins that can sicken people, kill pets and threaten fish and wildlife.
Knight said one reason for the spike in phosphorus levels is greater runoff of farm fertilizer this year because of record rainfall.
Complicating matters is that much of the phosphorus in Lake Erie is dissolved in the water, which makes it immediately available to feed algae growth. Particulate phosphorus — phosphorus that has chemically bonded to dirt or plants — is less potent and accessible to algae.
"Dissolved phosphorus is the issue," said Scott Nally, director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, who added that his office will submit a proposal to counteract the Lake Erie pollution to Gov. John Kasich by February.
Algae warning signs were posted at public beaches in eight state parks, including along Lake Erie, this past summer.
"It used to be, years ago, that people would call and ask, 'Are the fish biting?' " said Dave Spangler, president of the Lake Erie Waterkeepers, a group advocating preservation of the watershed.
"Now, the first question is, 'How bad is the algae?' "
Spangler said waterfront business is down nearly 30 percent and that he'd like to see state officials tackle the problem with greater urgency.
The state spent $3.5 million this year to spray alum to counteract phosphorus in Grand Lake St. Marys, where algae grew so thick in 2010 that visitors were told not to touch the water.
"We had a bloom in October (in Lake Erie) that was so thick that it slowed our boats down," Spangler said. "We'd like an all-hands-on-deck effort like we saw at St. Marys."


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Girls Soccer
Sidney 2, B-G 0
BAINBRIDGE Sidney won a showdown of MAC Division One leaders blanking the Bobcats under the lights Wednesday.
Stephanie Meno scored both goals for Sidney, one after an indirect kick. We were just totally outplayed tonight we didnt seem to have it, said B-G coach George Williams.
(1-0 Sidney at half)
Goals-assists: Stephanie Meno, 2-0, Maria Mirabito, 0-1, Danielle Gravel, 0-1
Shots-corners: (S) 8-4, (B) 3-5.
Saves; (S) Nicole Philpott, 2. (BG) Anna Feltham, 5.
Greene 6, Walton 3
WALTON Blanked in the first half, Greenes offense erupted in the second half for six goals in a win at Walton Wednesday.
After trading goals the first 30 minutes of the second half, Haley Burns second tally with nine minutes left put the Trojans up for good. Jessie Bates and Autumn Layton added tallies just over a minute apart in the final four minutes both off Megan McDermott passes.
We were spectators in the first half, and we had trouble stopping their offense until the final 15 minutes, said Greene coach Randy Smith. We passed it better in the second half and had some nice breakaways. We finally broke the net down a little bit.
Greene (5-3, 7-5) hosts Bainbridge-Guilford Friday.
(1-0 Walton at half)
Goals-assists: (G) Haley Burns, 2-1, Shelby Averett, 1-1; Jessie Bates, 1-0, Autumn Layton, 2-0; Megan McDermott, 0-3. (W) Brittany oBrien, 2-1; Carly Hoyt, 1-1; Erin Boyd, 0-1.
Shots-corners: (G) 17-6, (W) 8-4.
Saves: (G) Aubrey Parrish, 3, (W) Jen Poulin, 8.
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NARRATOR: Take a look at LaToya Ruby Frazier's photographs. Frazier takes pictures of her family and her community, Braddock, Pennsylvania. Braddock is a small town near Pittsburgh that was once prosperous, with a steel mill that employed many people. The mill is now closed. Today, Braddock has high rates of poverty and unemployment.
Here, the artist talks about taking pictures of her mother and grandmother.
LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER: It's interesting to make these self-portraits, because I'm not photographing us as three separate women, I'm photographing us as one entity, one person.
And so, I often feel like my grandmother is the image, in my mind, of the past. And my mother would become the image of the present, and that I would embody the image of the future. And for me, it's about understanding who I need to be, or what I'm going to become. And so, how do I make these portraits and confront myself with these portraits to see or learn who I want to be in the future? It's always that constant question.
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The Beckwith Mansion & Estate
A little About Us – Lodging in Palmyra – We are classified as a Tourist Home. The Beckwith Mansion & Estate in Palmyra, NY, is not a bed and breakfast, hotel, motel, inn or boarding house, but a couple of empty-nesters with rooms to rent to weary travelers. A tourist home is a clean place to stay, with linens provided, but we cannot offer services (like breakfast, coffee, tea, turn-down, room-service, etc.). We're kind of like a hostel in many ways. However, because we do not offer services, we are a lower priced alternative, and we do not have to charge hotel taxes. The Beckwith Mansion offers lodging — rooms for rent.
A special note about Hill Cumorah Pageant: We are currently taking reservations for the 2018 Hill Cumorah Pageant as well as any other time. Remember, there is more to Palmyra than just the Pageant. Plan to stay long enough to visit such local sites and attractions as Watkins Glen, Glenn Curtis Museum, Museum of Play, Eastman House, and more.
Palmyra only has one inn, a couple of B&Bs, a couple of vacation rentals and The Beckwith Mansion & Estate. We offer 5 guest rooms. Four with a shared bathroom, and one with a private bath. There is also a shared guest washingroom on the first floor. What we have, that no other lodging in Palmyra has, is a beautiful park-like setting (as you can see from the photo above.)
Our guests are welcome to prepare their own meals in the kitchen, do their laundry here, enjoy the library, parlor, music room, children's playroom, and sitting room. A TV is available in the sitting room. While the owners are willing to share their WiFi with you, we cannot guarantee WiFi access in all areas of the house due to the lathe and plaster construction of the walls.
There is a lovely deck for backyard picnics with huge trees and friendly squirrels to watch while you enjoy the gardens. The gardens are especially beautiful in the Spring with thousands of bulbs and flowers blooming. Fall is also lovely with the turning of the leaves on the maples, oaks, walnut, chestnut and many other trees. Please note that we do not allow alcohol or tobacco anywhere on the grounds.
Our Location
Our location is close to the following area attractions:
LDS Attractions
Alvin Smith's Grave – about 600 feet (Church St & Main St).
Book of Mormon Publication Site (aka Grandin Press) – 0.25 miles east of the Mansion.
Martin Harris Farm – 2 miles (Maple St north of Route 31). Note: There are no tours here. The house on this property was built after the Harris' occupied the farm. There is a parking lot where you can stop, get out, and look around. Please do not disturb the residents who live in the house.
Joseph Smith Farm & Sacred Grove – 2 miles (Stafford Road south of Route 31).
New York Palmyra Temple – 2 miles (Temple Road across from Smith Farm).
Hill Cumorah – 5 miles (home of the Hill Cumorah Pageant – Route 21 south of Route 31).
Peter Whitmer Farm – 45 minute drive East via I-90 or NY ST Route 96.
Where to Eat in Palmyra
Happiness Garden – 212 E Main Street (1/4 mile).
Nima's Pizza – Corner of Main and Williams (1/4 mile).
Mark's Pizza – 240 E Main Street (1/3 mile).
Chill-n-Grill (seasonal April-September) – 616 E Main (1 mile).
Acropolis – 513 Canal Street (1 mile).
Special note to Palmyra Temple Patrons:
To our Latter-day Saint friends, winter months can be unpredictable. When you find yourself stuck in the area while attending the temple during the winter (i.e. too much snow to drive home), give us a call.
If you attend the temple regularly, and travel from a long distance, give us a call. If you are willing to set up a regularly scheduled stay, we can offer you a better rate.
Special note to college students:
Would you like to spend time in Palmyra? This fall/winter, we are offering room-and-board in exchange for 20 hours/week of work around the house and yard. That's right, 20 hours and we'll house and feed you. That leaves time for a social life, another job, school, etc. Certain terms apply. Applicants must agree to house rules.
213 W. Main St. Palmyra NY 14522
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Visit Brent's Blog at http://blog.beckwithmansion.com
About the owners of the Beckwith Mansion & Estate
Elizabethe is your hostess during your stay. She will take your reservations as well as give you a tour of the mansion and show you to your rooms. You can enjoy her quilling work and handmade cards in the downstairs foyer. They too are available for purchase.
D. Brent Walton is a Photographic Craftsman and Certified Professional Photographer. His studio is located on the Beckwith Mansion & Estate grounds. His work can be seen at http://www.dbwalton.com and http://www.FineArtbyDB.com . Those staying at the Beckwith Mansion qualify for package deals when enlisting photography by db walton to photograph their family (or individuals).
Brent's work can also be purchased in local shops and stores in the Village of Palmyra, as well as the front parlor of the Beckwith Mansion. For on-line purchases, visit http://FineArtbyDB.com. Available are postcards as well as fine art canvas prints in sizes up to 60 inches wide. Custom frame selections are also available. Brent's book, Palmyra, is available for purchase too. Those staying at the Beckwith Mansion & Estate may request a book signing with the purchase of your books.
We also offer photographic workshops, classes and photo walks. The schedule and rates can be found at http://palmyra-ny.com


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The project to build a new production hall and car body store for BMW in 2003 had to be completed by the end of the year without interruptions to the manufacturing process – a project that all outsiders initially considered unfeasible. General consultant Albert Weigl thought differently, however: the experienced architects and engineers from Bavaria even managed to finish the two buildings six weeks earlier than planned. The cooperation of the designers and the construction companies - Hönninger GmbH & Co. KG of Munich, Stahlbau Wendeler from Donzdorf in Swabia and Iso-Bau GmbH based in Amberg - was excellent. The BMW factory did not lose a single car body during the construction work, which is no easy task for a building project like this. After all, each body made in the factory was transported on a conveyor system through the production hall while construction workers were busy above the roof. With this project, the team of experts proved that even extremely complex tasks are possible. The two design companies were supported by field-proven AEC software from RIB.
The architect began working on the design as early as 2002. Construction work had to be completed by the end of 2003 – these were the specifications of the client. This relatively tight timeframe might seem an added challenge for two projects – a new hall plus a store over an already existing production building. Not for the architects and engineers from Munich and Gauting, who, thanks to the support of powerful software solutions by RIB, were able to concentrate on the main tasks.
Round-the-clock operations
"We were on site for about 14 hours every day, and additional checks often had to be done at weekends," remembers project manager Raimund Mika from Weigl Architects. Two large heating plants were also temporarily installed so that the BMW factory workers were not exposed to the winter weather.
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The new BMW component store consists of eight elements in all. The brief for the designers and construction companies was to complete this project within an extremely tight timeframe. To prevent interruptions to BMW's production schedule during the building work, the component store was built by the incremental launching method, i.e. by building an axial section of approx. 16.00 x 22.50 metres and then sliding it onto the existing roof of the old production hall, which was broken up when the new construction was finished.
Apart from all this, sudden changes of plan caused additional problems: the store had to be fitted with a ventilation penthouse and a drying oven for the car bodies. "Before the elements of the store can be slid into their proper position, they have to be fitted with the additional components," the project manager explains. "The only possibility we have is to slide an element as a whole including the façade, as the static structure of the building doesn't work if it is lifted in afterwards. Raimund Mika and his team of experts only had three weeks for this difficult job, but with inventive thinking and above-average effort they succeeded in solving this tricky problem, too.
Soil expert Ulrich Winkelvoß, D. Eng. of Lappersdorf supported the two planning companies with particularly innovative ideas and played a major role in the success of the project. The experienced engineer set himself a particularly unusual challenge with the construction of a continuous level going through the whole of the hall with a free-standing ceiling area that has to bear a total weight of two tons/m². The multi-storey stairwells alone have to ensure the reinforcement of this level, on which robots weld the BMW car bodies together. The structural engineers for the solid construction, Strohhäusl & Partners from Linz in Austria and the other members of the project team were impressed by his outstanding work.
Heaviest weight class
The Bavarian teams and the site managers Karl-Heinz Kieltsch and Klaus-Jürgen Ulbricht were already confronted with "heavyweight" work at the beginning of the project, when a 30-ton bridge had to be moved into position with an 850-ton mobile crane whose hook alone weighs eight tons. As building was not allowed to interrupt the production process, the architects and engineers only had one option: They had to do the work on a public holiday. Raimund Mika: "It takes a week just to set the crane up and another week to take it down, while the "heavyweight" was only in use for three days altogether."
Convenient data exchange
The engineers at Lenzer + Strutz have been using RIB software since 2001. The architect's firm Weigl also relies on the powerful AVA and project control software RIB Construction Suite. Using the RIB software solution, Eva-Maria Glück, who does the tendering at LEST, has several data exchange options at her disposal.
The RIB solution has a GAEB interface which has also been certified by the BVBS (National Association for Construction Software). This is an important factor for the two companies, as they save a great deal of time with the aid of digital data transmission and find it easier to adhere to the specifications.
Even faster data exchange is enabled by the RIB-specific RPA data format. As BMW AG, Weigl and LEST all work with the RIB solution, customer and contractor reap the same benefits. "The RPA format allows an exchange of all the price comparisons together instead of exchanging them individually as is the case with the GAEB interface," explains Eva-Maria Glück. "This saves time and also offers a basis for digital billing and entering measured quantities."
Focus on project planning
At the end of 2004 the last bills of the project at the Munich BMW factory were settled. The architects and engineers from Bavaria have done the almost impossible: due to the intelligent software support, project manager Raimund Mika and his team lost no time on the complex tendering process. The direct data exchange with BMW AG via RPA also saved the team valuable time. "For assignments as demanding as this it is important to be able to concentrate fully on the project planning," says Mika. "The less time we have to invest in other areas, the better."
Contract award management online
Besides AVA and project control software, BMW AG and the two Bavarian design companies have also been using the RIB-E Contract Award Management System since 2006. "We save a tremendous amount of time with ARRIBAnet*. It often used to take us a whole afternoon to do all the printing and mailing," explains the person responsible for tendering at Lenzer + Strutz. "With the online management system, the specifications of works are on the Net within 2-3 hours." The bidders are then automatically notified by the client per e-mail. And all contract award documents can be passed by RIB Construction Suite to the contract award platform simply by pressing a button. Using the E-contract Award Management System, all those involved in the project also save on paper and printing costs. "With the support of this reliable software, we will be able to meet "impossible" project specifications in future, too," the project manager sums up.
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Photos: Lenzer + Strutz Engineering


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Welcome to the Movie Poster Shop's list of
"The 50 Best Film Noir Movie Posters EVER!"
For the uninitiated, one might ask, "What is film noir?"
The simplest way to describe it would be not for us to attempt describing it at all and let you read a few online descriptions.
Dictionary.com describes the film noir genre as follows: "A motion picture with an often grim urban setting, photographed in somber tones and permeated by a feeling of disillusionment, pessimism, and despair."
OK, not bad...a good start.
Wikipedia said this about film noir: "Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940's to the late 1950's." That about nails it!
Read more Wikipedia on film noir here.
Always a contentious issue between true film noir fans is when, exactly, was the golden age of the genre. We agree with the time frame described by the Wikipedia entry. There have been numerous films produced since that could definitely be described as film noir. Typically if the movie was made after the late 1950's it could be described as "Neo Noir". More recent examples would be "Chinatown" (1974), "Body Heat" (1981), "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), and more recently the excellent "The Usual Suspects" (1995).
For us, movie poster fans the movie posters produced for these films are some the best designs ever done. Typical design elements of film noir movie posters are steamy images of gorgeous, sultry femme fatales and guys with fedoras and hand guns. Omnipresent were images of men and women smoking. In fact, one might say (running contrary to the folks who protest the images of actors smoking in films) that some of the best film noir movie posters have images of cigarettes dangling from mouths or nestled in the actors hands.
Original movie posters for film noir movies are highly sought after by collectors. Original film noir posters have garnered very high prices over the last ten years. Movie Poster Shop allows you to get the best looking film noir movie posters at an affordable and accessible price. We hope you enjoy our collection of
"The 50 Best Film Noir Movie Posters EVER!"
Our apologies go out to those aficionados who dont see the movie poster for their favorite film noir movie here. We admit to leaving out some great movies of the genre. Quite simply some movie posters for the great films sucked. Please remember this is a list of the best movie posters not movies.
11. Maltese Falcon
There are so many things to like about this movie, including the poster. Directed by John Huston and penned by Dashiell Hammett, this movie is a film noir heavyweight. The film stars Humphrey Bogart as the hard-nosed shamus, Sam Spade. A great supporting cast with Sidney Greenstreet in his Oscar winning role as Kasper Gutman and Peter Lorre as the smarmy Joel Cairo. Great lines abound, "The best goodbyes are short adieu, "When youre slapped, youll take it and like it". Another gem, "Youre a good man, sister". Great stuff! The movie poster has Bogart clutching two 45s with a stern, determined look on his face. Mary Astor is leaning or slouching provocatively on a coffee table in bottom right.
12. Laura
This Otto Preminger directed classic sees Dana Andrews playing police detective Mark McPherson. Clever screenplay is littered with all kinds of great lines like; "Yeah, "dames are always pulling a switch on you", "I can afford a blemish on my character, but not on my clothes" and the tell tale line delivered by Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) "You'd better watch out, McPherson, or you'll finish up in a psychiatric ward. I doubt they've ever had a patient who fell in love with a corpse." The movie poster is a classic film noir design. The use of the extended letter "L" in "Laura" is a nice touch.
13. Pickup
This movie may have won an award for best written low-budget films in 1951 but as this genre goes it has never been consider a great noir film. The two best things about it really were the taglines, "Murder was her mistake - marrying her was his! "and "A low down on a come on girl" and the movie poster. No better image said "bad girl than this one. Loose doesnt adequately describe.
14. Quai-des-Orfevres (Quay of the Goldsmiths)
Henri-Georges Clouzot directed this (often overlooked) classic thriller. Two faves of mine and brilliant films that Clouzot directed shortly after this were "The Wages of Fear" and "Daibloque". This little gem stars Suzy Delair as Jenny Lamour and Bernard Blier as Maurice Martineau as her jealous husband. The movie really ramps up after a murder and the arrival of Louis Jouvet as Detective Inspector Antoine.
The artwork for this French movie poster in a word is, "lustrous". The image of the imposing Louis Jouvet peering down on images of the central characters and the funky geometric line drawings is brilliant.
15. In a Lonely Place
In this film Bogart plays a screenwriter with a temper. A woman dies and he is the prime suspect. Enter Gloria Grahame as his next store neighbor and alibi. A relationship between the two follows and Bogarts character starts to reveal a very dangerous side that calls everything into question. The film was directed by Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause) and it was considered groundbreaking in that for the rather staid 50s it dealt with violence at home. The tagline read, "The Bogart suspense picture with a surprise finish". Surprise it was. The US movie poster like many others is a little lame. We chose the Italian poster for its exemplary artwork and design.
16. Double Indemnity
Another Billy Wilder directed classic from the James Cain classic novel. The tagline was "It's Love and Murder at First Sight!" Barbra Stanwyck is at her beguiling best as the attractive Phyllis Dietrichson. Fred McMurray plays William Neff the unsuspecting insurance salesman who gets duped into killing Stanwycks husband. Double crosses galore!
The Spanish movie poster has a great image of McMurray in his prison skivvies. There are some almost Dali-esque like images in the background behind McMurray. Stanwyck can be seen in the foreground with an alluring and conniving smile on her face. Beautiful European art work!
17. Calcutta
Probably the best thing about this stinker was the movie poster. This was definitely not considered to be one of Alan Ladds better roles. The film was directed by John Farrow who was married to Maureen Sullivan for 27 years until his death in 1963. A much better movie directed by Farrow (a year later) was "The Big Clock" which starred his wife. That was a great flick with Charles Laughton playing the heavy. His role was reprised in 1987 by Gene Hackman in the film "No Way Out". Despite that film being much better than "Calcutta" There is no comparing the movie posters. Check the movie poster for "The Big Clock" and decide for yourself which one is better.
18. Dark Passage
This was the third of four films that starred Bogart and Bacall. Good tagline that says, "Two of a Kind! Tough...Torrid...Terrific! The four "T"s. Bogart plays Vince Parry a prison escapee wrongly convicted of murdering his wife. The movie begins as we see the world through the camera lens as if we were Parrys own eyes after he has had plastic surgery. Very clever lensing. Bacall plays sympathetic supporter, Irene Jansen who helps Parry on his journey to find the real killer. The US movie poster is quite good. We fell for the Danish version for its stark, simple art deco-like lines. The telephone poles, the ghosted image of Bacall, the colors, the San Francisco skyline and the shadow cast of a guy with a gun who cant be seen in the bottom left of the movie poster. Very cool design indeed.
19. The Postman Always Rings Twice
This film is definitely considered a film noir classic. Adapted from the novel written by James Cain (Double Indemnity) in 1934, the content was considered far too racy to be filmed given the mores of the time. It took 12 years to be brought to the screen. The result was a tense film noir drama that saw John Garfield playing the drifter Frank Chambers, who hooks up with a dissatisfied wife played by the luminous Lana Turner. The tagline, "Their Love was a Flame that Destroyed!" says it all. The US movie poster is quite popular but the German is outstanding. The images of the two stars especially Lana Turner with the then ubiquitous cigarette hanging from her lips are beautiful.
20. Glass Key
Veronica Lake, what does a guy say? She was so attractive it hurts. Hot on the heels of great noir film "This Gun for Hire" here she plays another irresistible blonde bomber. Along for the ride was her previous co-star Alan Ladd who plays the sidekick for a newly repentant politician played by the film noir staple Brian Donlevy. The film was based on the Dashiell Hammett novel of the same name. Hammett considered this his best book.
A couple of great lines from the movie include," My first wife was the second cook at a third-rate joint on 4th Street", "I just met the swellest dame... She smacked me in the kisser." And "I get along very well with Paul because he's on the dead up-and-up. Why don't *you* try it sometime? It was a toss-up choosing the best movie poster for this film. Both the one-sheet and the three-sheet are great. We decide on the one-sheet because all the images fit inside a graphic of a key. We do like the image of Veronica on the three sheet though, check it out.


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Statistical Diagnosis
Lesson 10 of 12
Objective: SWBAT demonstrate their ability to target the standards for which they need intervention to obtain and retain conceptual understanding successfully.
Tailor Made Review
This lesson is one that has to be built by the individual teacher. I say this because only the teacher and the data can determine what should happen during a lesson such as this. For this reason, I am simply providing some insight as to the best method, that I have found, in regard to reviewing for an assessment.
Preparing to Review:
- At least two days before a unit assessment, I give my students a quiz that encompasses all the standards of the unit.
- After my students complete the quiz, I have them grade the quizzes by switching papers knowing that they will have an opportunity to correct their wrong answers to help keep anxiety at a minimum as it pertains to quiz grades, thereby increasing integrity of the reported scores.
- I then record which students missed each of the questions presented on the quiz.
Designing Tailor Made Review:
- After that, I design a review day that includes stations that cover the deficit areas that were uncovered by the quiz results
- I then prepare index cards that tell my students which stations that they have to visit during the station day making their review experience unique to their needs.
I create altered versions of the station for those of my students who are struggling. i do this to help cultivate independence and minimize the students' dependence on me, the teacher, and their higher achieving peers. When students are able to figure problems out on their own, it builds their confidence, making them more likely to "Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them," during this review day. Furthermore, in building their confidence, students will be more likely to attempt and be willing to struggle through problems that they encounter in the future.
Those who are higher achieving students will receive a challenging task of some sort to stretch their thinking and foster a deeper understanding of the concept.
During the Review:
- When the review day arrives, it is my job to facilitate engagement and successful completion of each station task, while observing and addressing any misconceptions that might appear.
- I will also spend time visiting with a small group of struggling students where I will utilize strategies to activate learning and bolster achievement levels. These strategies include but are not limited to; skill building, confidence building, modeling, strategic questioning, and generally filling in knowledge gaps as it pertains to the unit.
Ideas for Tailoring Review
Here are a few ideas to help you determine the best way to review the concepts presented in this unit:
Consider the standards of this unit. This unit includes the understanding of calculating data measures and using those measures to analyze the data set being measured. Decide upon ways that you can present the material of this unit in different ways that will help your students review for the upcoming assessment. For example...
Some stations that you could create to review this unit could include the following:
- Finding Measures of Central Tendency - At this station, you could have students figuring out mean, median, and mode.
- Note: It should be clarified that mode is not really a good measure of central tendency.
- Finding Measures of Variation - This station would have activities that would require students to figure out the range and interquartile range.
- Mean Absolute Deviation - While at this station, students would be provided an opportunity to calculate mean absolute deviation and articulate what the mean absolute deviation of a data set tells us about the data.
- The Shape the Data Makes - This would be a station where I would provide my students with several data measures and based upon what those measures say, the students should be able to come up with a data set that would fit those measures.
These are just some suggestions as to what can be done to set up stations for this unit. Understand that whatever you do should be based upon data that you have gathered about your students. This data should come from multiple sources (i.e. observation, discussion, homework, quizzes, tickets out the door, classwork... etc.).


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3ie at AIDS 2016
3ie is participating at the 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016), the world's largest conference on HIV and AIDS to be held in Durban, South Africa 18-22 July.
AIDS 2016 is organised by the International AIDS Society in partnership with governments, scientific and civil society partners in South Africa and international partners from civil society and the United Nations.
It will bring together people working in the field of HIV and AIDS, as well as policymakers, people living with HIV and others committed to ending the epidemic.
3ie-sponsored satellite sessions at AIDS 2016
Evaluation results on integrating HIV services with other health services
Thursday, 21 July, 7.00 - 8:30
Rigorous evidence for new approaches to address uptake and retention in care more efficiently and effectively is needed to achieve the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets by 2020. Integration of HIV services with other services shows promising potential. This session will present results from impact evaluations of five pilot interventions implemented in Côte d'Ivoire, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. These studies of under-researched HIV service integration programmes to improve linkage to care, adherence and retention were funded by 3ie. They contribute to understanding better what works, why, how and at what cost to maximise policy relevance and impact. The pilots include integration of the expanded programme for immunisation with early infant diagnosis, Option B+ with maternal and child health, the use of an appointment system within Option B+ and preliminary results for integrating within a chronic care model and into community health-worker services.
Evaluating the impact of HIV self-test availability on testing uptake: results from Kenya
Friday, 22 July, 7.00 - 8:30
HIV self-testing has the potential to help close the testing gap and achieve the 90 per cent testing target established by UNAIDS. HIV self-testing has been shown to be highly acceptable, but questions remain about how best to implement it and promote linkage to care. 3ie funded three studies in Kenya to pilot and evaluate the impact of HIV self-testing. Two studies distributed self-tests to women at antenatal care (ANC) clinics to take home and test with their partners, and one provided truck drivers at roadside wellness clinics the option of semi-supervised self-testing or taking a self-test kit with them for testing later. Results indicate that the availability of an HIV self-test substantially increases overall HIV testing rates. The session will present the results, provide recommendations and introduce four new studies in Uganda and Zambia that target families of women attending ANC clinics, female sex workers and households.
Oral Presentations
3ie grantees are participating in oral presentations and poster presentations of studies that are either partially or fully funded by 3ie.
Sunday 17 July, Global Village Session Room 1, 13:00-14:00
"Update from the HPTN 071 (PopART) Study"
Monday 18 July, Session Room 13, 14:45-16:45
Measuring progress against 90-90-90 targets in Zambia using routine data collected by community health workers
Monday 18 July, Session Room 12, 17:00-19:00
Overview of Social Science in HPTN 071 (PopART)
Tuesday 19 July, Session Room 12, 14:30-16:00
Stigma and the roll-out of ART regardless of CD4 count: initial insights from HPTN 071 (PopART)
Wednesday, 20 July, Session Room 2, 11:00-12:30
Adapting Global and National Guidelines in a Large Implementation Science Study HPTN 071 (PopART)
Wednesday, 20 July, Session Room 6, 11:00-12:30
Acceptability and preferences for HIV self-testing in Zambia: a population-based formative study using a discrete choice experiment.
Friday, 22 July, Session Room 12, 11:00-12:30
Promoting male partner and couples HIV testing through secondary distribution HIV self-tests: a randomized trial
The impact of universal test and treat on HIV incidence in a rural South African population: ANRS 12249 TasP trial, 2012-2016
Poster Presentations
Tuesday 19 July, Poster Exhibition Area
Healthcare worker reflections on the relationship between health facility space and HIV stigma in 21 South African and Zambian facilities - the elephant in the room of HIV service delivery?
Health care worker attitudes and behaviours towards key populations in South Africa and Zambia: a cross-country analysis within HPTN 071 (PopART) trial
Wednesday, 20 July
Program Number: WEPEC218
Provision of oral HIV self-test kits triples uptake of HIV testing among male partners of antenatal care clients: results of a randomised trial in Kenya
High levels of self-reported personal accomplishment amongst three cadres of healthcare workers: baseline findings from the first round of the HPTN 071 (PopART) stigma and ancillary study
Discrepancies between 'my address,' 'where I live,' and 'where you might find me' - qualitative lessons for HIV data capture in expanding HIV clinic services to community-based services
Talking sex and interpreting HIV risk in South Africa and Zambia: an analysis of the influence of colloquial discourse on conceptualisations of sex, HIV-related risk and stigma
Working evening and weekend schedules is effective in reaching more men for home-based HIV testing: findings from HPTN 071 (PopART) in South Africa
Taking on faith -- a narrative analysis of discussions about HIV used by participants as a platform for contesting faith in 9 high HIV-burden communities in the Western Cape, South Africa
Thursday 21 July, Poster Exhibition Area
An exploratory analysis to develop a conceptual model of 'patient-blame' in the context of the roll-out of 'Universal Test and Treat'
Measures to Assure Quality and Accuracy of Community-Based HIV Testing on a Large Scale - Lessons Learnt in the HPTN 071 (PopART) Trial in Zambia
Evaluating the acceptability of home-based testing as an approach towards achieving universal knowledge of HIV status -- findings from a case-control study nested within the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial


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A movie about nerds? Cool ones? With electronic music?! Hell ya. I'm happy to say that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' score for The Social Network received an "O" for Outstanding. Who cares if my grading scales reference Harry Potter? The fact of the matter is, Reznor and Ross' soundtrack did exactly what John Williams' did for Harry Potter. It created a musical flow of emotions that perfectly accompanied the world in which it was perceived.
When I asked my nerd-brother Matt what he thought of the pair's arrangements, he responded with, "It was very Trent Reznor-y". And as much as I would like to leave it at that, the score has achieved something that electronic scores been trying to for years: relevance. They have just as much credibility in studio features as classical, modern, or popular music. Matt's invented adjective, "Reznor-y" has opened a new door for how I think of electronic scores.
Firstly, David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin are fuckin' G's. The Social Network beautifully depicted a story that was close to impossible to portray in a cinematically intriguing way. It was able to tightly package the complicated and very tangled web that Mark Zukerburg wove and capture the attention of millions. My normally very short attention span was consistently captivated by the eclectic arrangements of Reznor and Ross. Without their score, the movie would have lost its fluidity to the striking alienation one feels towards such an incomprehensibly dense leading man.
The music complemented the visual components of the movie by aurally replicating themes of innovation and daring ambitions. When Mark (Jesse Eisenberg) first envisioned Facebook, a natural, fast-paced 8-bit piece begins to play, appropriately titled "In Motion". Equally fitting is what I like to call the "everything turns to shit" music. The composers deftly capture the anxiety of failure and heart-wrenching messiness in "Hand Covers Bruise" and it's subsequent reprise. The stimulating qualities of this arrangement are the mixture of classical instruments with computer-generated sounds. It's perfectly timed and the cues come and go where they should, the only difference is that their isn't your average swell of strings or visceral horns to velcro you to the uncomfortable chair you paid 10-15 dollars to sit in. Its the grungy, tonal beeps and drones that were perfect for a story about computer hacking, code writing, and their moral consequences.
The score might not leave you with the profound impact that films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, or even Marry Poppins did. But The Social Network presented a uniquely modern story in classical terms which the score highlighted shot by shot. With this, and Daft Punk's new score for Tron Legacy, I sincerely hope the term "Reznor-y" becomes something we hear more often.


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Two people were able to escape an early-morning house fire Tuesday in Pasco.
Fire crews were called around 5 a.m. to the house on the 900 block of South Lindsay, said Dave Hare, Pasco fire battalion chief. Flames were coming from the attic.
Firefighters were able to contain the fire to the attic and put it out in about 30 minutes, Hare said. The fire was most likely electrical.
There were two people home when the fire started, Hare said. Four children also live at the house but none of them were home during the fire.
No injuries were reported.
There was some fire and smoke damage to the attic, Hare said.
The Red Cross is assisting the displaced family.


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