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Are you looking to add more diversity for your website content to better arouse the interests of common visitors? In addition to the traditional textual posts and images, videos are surely engaging. As researched, 89% of the first-time readers will stay on your webpage if they find a video on it.
At present, among various video platforms, YouTube is the largest one that shares millions of TV shows, movies and videos with a high level of user engagement. In this case, more and more WordPress users choose to showcase some YouTube videos on their websites to achieve different purchases.
In the following, we have come out the top 8 YouTube tips and tricks to help you better leverage this platform for the optimization of WordPress sites.
Tip 1 – Use the Eye-Catching Thumbnail for Videos
Just like the post thumbnail, the video thumbnail is the special image that gives people a quick snapshot of your video content. As readers rely on it largely to decide whether to click the play button or not, you need to try your best to make it as eye-catching and attractive as possible.
By default, YouTube gives you three thumbnail options after you uploading your videos, so you can choose one that satisfies you the most. However, if none of them are great, you can go for the Custom Thumbnail section to upload your custom image that can make you stand out from the crowd.
Only in this way, you can get the best results after sharing the videos on your website.
Tip 2 – Add Videos into Blog Posts
It is possible that you want to showcase some contents that are in the video format. This means you will upload the videos into your pages or blog posts to better explain what you are talking about. If you are in this situation, you'd better notice the following two aspects.
Insert Videos via URL instead of the Direct Uploads
When inserting the media files into your blog posts, you have two options – upload files directly and insert from URL. Here, it is recommended to choose the second option for it helps you save a lot of disk storages and boosts the loading speed of your shared videos greatly.
- If you want to share the videos from YouTube directly, you need to click the Add Media button in the post editing page, click the Insert From URL option, copy and paste the video URL, enter some words to explain the video briefly, and click the Insert Into Post button.
- If you want to share a self-made video, you need to upload it to YouTube firstly, and then, repeat the above-mentioned steps.
Match Post Featured Images with Video Thumbnails
The featured image is a critical component used to represent the main content of a blog post. If you want to publish a video post, you'd better make the featured images and video thumbnails totally identical.
If the main contents of your site are the video posts, matching these two images manually can be time-consuming. Here, we sincerely recommend you to try the Video Thumbnail plugin, which automatically searches for the thumbnails of your videos from YouTube server, downloads them to your site and sets them as the featured images of your video posts.
Tip 3 – Showcase the Video Channel of YouTube on Sidebar
If you have multiple high-quality YouTube videos to be showcased on your website, displaying the video channel in your sidebar brings more attractions than publishing the video posts. Generally, it just looks like the below screenshot.
For this, you can consider the YouTube Channel Gallery plugin. After installing it, you simply need to go to the Widgets section in your admin panel and drag the newly-added widget into your preferred sidebar location. Then, you should enter your YouTube API key and ID correctly, as well as setting up some configurations for the proper display.
Tip 4 – Make the Displayed YouTube Videos 100% Responsive
It is a common sense that you need to make your website 100% responsive, adapting to different devices automatically. However, the truth is that your displayed videos are not responsive by default. The video containers might stretch and look weird with the changes of screen sizes.
To make your videos responsive, you can consider installing Fitvids, which is a light-weight and jQuery plugin, allowing you to easily achieve this goal without many configurations.
Tip 5 – Add the Overlay Sharing Button on Your Videos
Sharing your displayed videos can be regarded as the call-to-action you want your readers to make. Especially, if the video is original that is recorded by you to better promote your website or to market some items on your site, you'd better try your best to offer great convenience for people to carry out the sharing.
Here, one of the best methods is to create the social sharing buttons that overlay on your videos. You can check the example in the following.
If you are not the WordPress developer, we highly recommend you to use the YouTube Share Overlay Buttons plugin, with which you can add the share button as an overlay on your videos. These buttons appear automatically when readers hovering the mouse on the YouTube videos. No configurations are required for this plugin.
Tip 6 – Disable Related YouTube Videos
If you always watch videos on YouTube, you must find that YouTube will showcase the recommendation of some related videos when the current video is done for playing. This is great for readers, as they can get more relevant information. For website owners, however, this feature may result in a bad result. After all, these recommendations might be shared by your competitors. Or, these videos might hold a contrary opinion against yours.
In this case, you'd better turn off the feature for showcasing the related YouTube videos thoroughly. To achieve this, you have two options.
Turn Off One by One
If you only have a few videos displayed on your site, you just need to add a special tag in your video URL. This means "?rel=0" should be at the end of the video URL.
Turn Off using a Plugin
If you want to do this in a massive manner, you can use the Hide YouTube Related Videos plugin. After installing it, you do not need to modify any settings, but can prevent YouTube from showing the related videos automatically.
Tip 7 – Connect Your YouTube Account with Your WordPress Site
It is possible that you upload the videos on YouTube regularly and want to showcase them on your WordPress site timely to better diverse the website contents. In this case, it is highly recommended to use the IFTTT to connect your YouTube Account with the website tightly.
With the recipe of "YouTube to WordPress", each time you upload a video on this public platform, your WordPress site simply generates a video post automatically and gets it published at once.
Tip 8 – Pay Attention to the Width and Height of Your Uploaded Videos
Last but not the least, you need to make sure that your uploaded videos are coming with the proper width and height, without affecting the overall design of your webpages negatively. A video that is of small size can hardly arouse people to make a click. In the contrary, if you make your video showcased with a large size for better attraction, your readers may ignore some other contents on the same page with the equal importance.


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Artillery Street
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Does anyone have any memories of the Bonnot family/families living in Artillery Street from the late 1930's until the residents were moved out as part of the slum clearance in the mid 50's?
My family moved into number 25 Artillery Street at the end of 1956 until some time in 1957. It was unknown to us, a condemned property. My uncle worked in Tamplin's brewery at the bottom of the street, his mother, Mrs Clewes, lived in the next street: Canon Place or Road.
Re the comment by Richard Norman - I remember Mrs Clews. I lived in Cannon Street. What was your Uncle's name, Norman?
I remember the Bonnot family from when I lived on the corner of Artillery / Cannon Street. I was friends with Jeanette Bonnot and I remember going to her house to watch TV (Elvis was all the rage), at that time they were the only family to have a television that I knew of. Jeanette lived with her mum and sister at the top of Artillery Street, her dad, Mr Bonnot, lived a few doors away from me at the bottom of the street. I lost contact with all my friends when famlies were relocated to different parts of Brighton in the 1950s, when all the local area was demolished to make way for the Churchill Square develoment.
To Elizabeth Byrne. Mrs Clewes' son was Bill Clewes, he was a commando during the war, after his training in Scotland. It was there he met my mother's sister, Marie. Their son Lawrence (known as Mac) lives in Telscombe Cliffs.
I worked with Bill Clewes at Tamplins Brewery 1963 to 1964. I was his drivers mate on vehicle 45. He then lived at Denton Drive, he was great fun, he had worked at the brewery for many years on inside jobs and it was his first year as a driver. He told me he had been an unarmed combat instructer in the war, he used to wear a SAS badge in his lapel. He smoked senior service or players cigarets, we used to have drinking competitions together, which he always won. Once on a delivery to the Quadrant Pub in Queens Rd, opposite the Regent he dropped a wooden barrel (a firkin = 9 gallon) it rolled down Queens Rd, passed the clock tower and ended up in Horne's doorway at the top of North St, cars and people going in all directions trying to aviod it. It was one of the funniest things I ever saw. Many years later I went to Denton Drive to look him up but was told he had moved on and later died. I only worked with him a year and it was one of the best years of my life. Every Friday we had a pint of mussels at the shellfish shop in Church St and after work a pint or three in the Free Butts outside the brewery. God bless you Bill for all the happy days we had.
Bette Lade nee Keefe, are you related to Shirley Keefe? I lived at 2 Artillery Street and knew Shirley, my dad worked in the brewery. I was Margaret Collins then.
My great great great grandparents James and Jane Pullinger lived at 19 Artillerty Street in 1891, and were still there in 1901. They moved round the corner to 6 Upper Russell Street by 1911. My ggg grandmother was a boarding house keeper with five boarders, four of whom were chauffeurs and one was a mechanic. Does anyone know if there was some sort of car/ garage business there?
Hi Margaret, l do remember you and your lovely dad Frank. My cousin Betty and myself lived with Nan and Grandad Jack Keefe and my mum Pat at 30 Cannon Street. Of course I should have said at the beginning my name was Shirley Keefe. I love to remember the lovely days spent on the street with Paul Palmer doing his funny show and just being silly. Good days but poor. Love to hear from you as I have just found out how to use this site.
The Brighton Punch and Judy man, Professor Carcass, along with his family, lived at 17 Artillery Street. He was certainly living there in the 1930's as his booth advertised the fact.
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Brad DeLong
- This is a go-faster do-more course
- You are guinea pigs
- Because I am writing a textbook
- Thus I am interested in your views not just on the subject but on what is pedagogically effective
- Macroeconomics an interesting piece of economics to try to teach if only because it is so unsettled--and yet also so central to policy, to journalism, et cetera...
- Having lots of discussion in the main lecture makes it much more interesting, and you are collectively smart and articulate enough to make it work...
- Each week: two lectures, two sections
- We will run all the way up through the end of "dead week"--last class on Thursday, December 2
- But I have to cancel two classes--September 2 and October 19
- Sections meet MW 4-5, Wheeler 210; MW 5-6, Evans 47; Jean-Philippe
- Nine problem sets, one midterm (October 14), one final (December 9)
- Point allocation: each problem set can get you up to two points, thirty points for the midterm, sixty points for the final
- That adds up to 108 points, you say. Yes. Practically everyone here could take Econ 100b and be in the top tenth of the class
- Hence the curve here will take account of the fact that this is a go-faster do-more course
- Distributing the draft textbook. First two chapters for free (on the web); rest will be on sale at Copy Central
- If you want another textbook...
- Go down to the ASUC store and get Mankiw (or order Mankiw from amazon or someplace else)
- Go order Blanchard from amazon
- Course website: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Econ_101b_F99/Econ_101b_F99.html
- Course e-mail list:
The Subject
- Earlier today, the Federal Reserve...
- Consequences: short-term interest rates
- Consequences: long-term interest rates
- Consequences: stock market
- Consequences, production, employment, and prices
- This is the main concern of macroeconomics: the business cycle
- Maladies: high unemployment
- Maladies: inflation
- Macroeconomics is how to understand--and hopefully prevent--them
- Maladies: slow growth
- Economic growth is a more important subject, but receives less space in macroeconomics courses
- We are going to be spending a significant amount of time on economic growth in this course--up until about September 23.
- We will spend the rest of our time on fluctuations
- History of macroeconomic thought
- Nineteenth century macroeconomics
- Malthus and the possibility of a "general glut"
- Say's law--excess supply of one product must mean excess demand for some other, hence the problem is one of adjustment rather than demand
- technological unemployment: the plight of the handloom weavers
- Marx and the crisis of capitalism
- Turn of the century macroeconomics
- Free silver
- The gold standard
- "Austrian" theories
- Fisher and Keynes
- Their error (from today's standpoint: focusing too much on prices and not enough on spending)
- The Keynesian Revolution and after
- The Keynesian Revolution: theory
- The Keynesian Revolution: policy
- The Monetarist Counterrevolution
- New Classicals
- New Keynesians
Next Time
- Drop the historical development (once is enough)
- Instead, develop the subject in a way that I think makes it easiest to understand:
- Macroeconomics as trying to answer six questions:
- How much richer are we than our parents were when they were our age?
- How much richer will our children be than our grandparents were?
- Will we find it easy to change jobs in five years? Or will we find it hard to change jobs, and feel pretty much trapped doing whatever we are doing?
- Will the businesses we work for suddenly vanish?
- Will inflation impoverish us as higher prices erode the real purchasing power of savings?
- Or will inflation enrich us as higher prices erode the real value of our debts?
- What Is Macroeconomics?
- Business cycles, Unemployment, Inflation, and Growth
- Why They Matter
- The Two Branches of Economics
- Why Learn About Macroeconomics?
- What Is the Macroeconomy Doing?
- Economic Statistics and Economic Activity
- Six Key Variables
- Real GDP
- The Unemployment Rate
- The Inflation Rate
- The Interest Rate
- The Stock Market
- The Exchange Rate
- The Current Situation
- United States
- Europe (and Japan)
- Emerging Markets
Analytic Geometry
- From equations to curves and back again
- Solutions to systems of equations are "where the curves cross"
- Slopes
- Comparative statics: what happens when curves shift depends on their slopes
- A line is a special case of a curve
Simple Algebra
- Solving two equations with two unknowns
- Equations that implicitly define Y as a function of X
- Derivatives of power functions
- Derivative of a product
- Derivative of a quotient
- Rates of change and growth rates
- Integrals of power functions
- Derivatives as slopes
- Implicit functions
- Chain rule
Differential equations
- It's an integral: if dx/dt = q(t), what is x(t)?
- exponential functions: if dx/dt = x(t), what is x(t)?
Questions that Macroeconomics Tries to Answer
- How much richer are we than our parents were when they were our age?
- How much richer will our children be than our grandparents were?
- Will we find it easy to change jobs in five years? Or will we find it hard to change jobs, and feel pretty much trapped doing whatever we are doing?
- Will the businesses we work for suddenly vanish?
- Will inflation impoverish us as higher prices erode the real purchasing power of savings?
- Or will inflation enrich us as higher prices erode the real value of our debts?
To answer these questions, we study macroeconomics.
- subject: the economy-in-the-large
- the total value of all production in the economy in-the-large
- the total number of people employed
- the total number of people unemployed
- the overall level of consumer prices
- how rapidly these prices are changing--the inflation rate.
- Macroeconomics also studies variables that have major effects on the overall level of production and employment.
- interest rates
- stock market index prices
- exchange rates
Why Do We Care?
- A first important reason is that the macroeconomy matters to us.
- What happens to the macroeconomy shapes all of our lives
- It is much easier to get a job during a high-employment boom than a recession.
- Real incomes rise faster when government policies accelerate long-run growth.
- If you are unlucky enough to lose your job during a deep recession, you have a high chance of staying unemployed for a long time and seeing your income fall by a lot when you do find another job.
- There is a second important reason to care about the macroeconomy.
- We can make the answers to these macroeconomic questions better. We elect a government.
- The government has a macroeconomic policy.
- Macroeconomic policy matters because
- it can accelerate (or decelerate) long-run economic growth
- it can stabilize (or destabilize) the course of the macroeconomy.
The State of the Economy and Political Popularity
Politicians strongly believe that their success at reelection depends on the economy doing well when they are in office. They think that--fairly and unfairly--they get the credit when the economy does well, and suffer the blame when the economy does badly.
The political leader who was most outspoken about this was American politician Richard M. Nixon, who blamed his defeat in the 1960 American presidential election on an economic slump and on the Eisenhower administration's unwillingness to take preemptive action:
Economic historians continue to dispute the degree to which the "stagflation"--the combination of relatively high inflation and relatively high unemployment--was the result of Richard Nixon's determination, as president, never again to run for office in a recession year.
Growth policy
- In the long run few things matter more
- Think of a country like Argentina--one of the most prosperous nations in the world in 1929, ranking perhaps fifth among all nations in the number of automobiles per capita
- Now ranked well down, among the "developing" countries, because of nearly half a century of economic policies destructive of growth.
- Think of countries like Norway and Sweden
- relatively poor at the start of the twentieth century
- where economic policies supportive of growth throughout the century have led to extraordinary prosperity.
Source: Angus Maddison (1995), Monitoring the
World Economy (Paris: OECD), as updated.
Stabilization policy
- the historical record does not show a steady, stable, smooth upward march as higher production, better technology, and higher employment make all of us better-off.
- The levels of production and employment (and the rate of unemployment) fluctuate above and below their long-run trends.
- Production can easily rise several percent above, or fall five percent or more below its long-run trend.
- These fluctuations about trend have long been called business cycles.
- Periods in which production grows and unemployment falls are booms, or macroeconomic expansions.
- Periods in which production falls and unemployment rises are recessions, or--worse--depressions.
- Booms are to be welcomed; recessions are to be feared.
- Today's governments have powerful abilities to improve economic growth or reduce the size of the business cycle.
- Good macroeconomic policy can make almost everyone's life better.
- Bad macroeconomic policy can make almost everyone's life much worse.
- Thus the stakes at risk in the study of macroeconomics can be high.
- Bad doctrines and ways of thinking--for example, excessive attachment to the gold standard as an international monetary system in the years of the Great Depression--can be the source of enormous human catastrophe.
[Possible Photo: bread lines during the Great Depression]
- Inflation and deflation
- Interest rates, the level of the stock market, and other economic variables as well rise and fall roughly in phase with the principal business cycle fluctuations about trend in production and employment.
The Two Branches of Economics
- Macroeconomics examines the economy in-the-large
- focuses on feedback from one component of the economy to another
- studies what determines the total level of production and employment.
- By contrast microeconomics, which was (probably) the subject of your last economics course, deals with the economy in-the-small.
- Microeconomics studies markets for single commodities.
- It examines the behavior of individual households and businesses.
- It focuses on how competitive markets work to efficiently allocate resources and create producer and consumer surplus, and on how markets can go wrong.
The Two Branches of Economics
|Focuses on the economy as a whole.
|Focuses on markets for individual commodities, and on the decisions of single economic agents.
|Considers the possibility that decision makers might change the quantities they produce before they change the prices they charge.
|Assumes that economic adjustment occurs first through prices: prices move to restore equilibrium by balancing supply and demand, and only afterwards do producers and consumers react to the changed prices by changing the quantities they make, buy, or sell.
|Spends much time analyzing how total incomes change, and how changes in income cause changes in other modes of economic behavior.
|Holds total incomes constant.
|Spends a great deal of time and energy investigating how expectations are formed and change over time.
|Doesn't worry too much about how decision makers form their expectations.
- Microeconomics assumes that imbalances between demand and supply are resolved by changes in prices. Rises in prices bring forth additional supply and falls in prices that bring forth additional demand until they are once again in balance. Macroeconomics considers the possibility that imbalances between supply and demand can be resolved by changes in quantities rather than in prices. Businesses may be slow to change the prices they charge, and faster to expand or contract production until supply balances demand.
- This difference means that less may carry over from micro to macro than one might expect or hope. Be careful when you try to apply principles and conclusions gained in micro to macro questions--and vice versa! Every generation of economists attempts to integrate microeconomics and macroeconomics. Every generation tries to provide "microfoundations" for macroeconomic topics of inflation, business cycles, and long-run growth.
- No one believes that the bridge between microeconomics and macroeconomics has been soundly built. Economists are divided--roughly evenly--between those who think that the failure (so far) to successfully integrate microeconomics and macroeconomics is a horrible flaw that needs to be corrected as rapidly as possible, and those who think it is regrettable but not terribly relevant.
Lecture notes are here
Lecture notes are here
Chapter 4: The Theory of Economic Growth (html version).
Chapter 4: The Theory of Economic Growth (html version).


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Heavenly Cakes are a good company and do you know what all good companies do??? They practice the philosophy of Kaizen :-) Kaizen!? What the devil is Kaizen young Jim!? Please ... allow Wiki:
'Kaizen (改善?), Japanese for "improvement", or "change for the better" refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement' ...
Indeed at it's basic principles Kaizen is all about companies maintaining a competitive advantage by constantly improving on what they already do - thus creating effencies and/or a better product/service. If I haven't bored you tears already please bare with me on this one as I believe this highly relevant to the reviews today. Heavenly Cakes Lavender Shortbread and Heavenly Cakes Smartie Pants Brownie - Were these cakes to be Kaizen successes or Kaizen squibs!? Let's find out shall we :-) ...
Heavenly Cakes Lavender Shortbread
I've come across lavender flavourings in confectionery products before and I have to say my experiences have not been successful. The two that stick out in my memory are the Lindt and Hotel Chocolat chocolates which frankly I remember being ruined by the said flower. Suffice to say I thought this had all the makings for the first ever Heavenly Cakes failure - a Kaizen squib so I should say. Well colour me totally and utterly wrong, this not only exceeded my expectations, but well and truly took my expectations, gave them a good stamping on and then threw them back in my face and made me feel like I don't know what I'm talking about :-) This shortbread was wonderful, and the lavender influence was expertly integrated both visually and in flavour. Small lavender bud heads were dispersed among the biscuit giving a great visual impact and aesthetic standout with what looked like little purple seeds. Taste wise a small amount of lavender oil purely enhanced the gorgeous buttery shortbread and created the most subtle of sweet floral, blossom honey like flavours. The older generation of my family (thats a nice way of saying the old geezers haha!) thought this shortbread was epically good and said they preferred it to the plain Heavenly Cakes Shortbread they had tried previously.
8.8 out of 10
Heavenly Cakes Smartie Pants Brownie
Whilst I was a little unsure about the Lavender Shortbread before trying it, I had no qualms with the philosophy behind this Smatie Pants Brownie whatsoever. The prospect of 'Milk Chocolate Brownie mixed with naturally coloured Smarties' had the philosophy of Kaizen written all over it - Heavenly had in effect taken their fantastic brownie from before and made a subtle tweak to make it even better. It sounds very simple, and sure it was! Again as I thought above in the shortbread review, I thought enhancements had been made to the aesthetic presentation and of course the taste. The Smarties employed on the top of the brownie gave the cake greater visual standout. It still wasn't up there with some of the 'food-porn' visuals of say a Billionaire Shortbread, but the multi-coloured pieces on top certainly added a little interest and colour. Taste wise things also felt like they had me taken on a notch with the maturation of the sweet, sugary candy shells to the richer, chocolatey cake brownie providing just another layer of variability to the overall experience. Smartie Pants or just plain smart? Decide for yourselves but take note - not many products ever reach the JCM 9.0 mark!
9.0 out of 10
Overall from my opening load of waffle you probably tell I was exceedingly happy with both of the cakes featured today and was in favour of both the minor enhancements that had been made on the originals. Whether or not the shortbread is suitable for a younger audience is up for debate - explaining to little Timmy what the purple bits in his biscuit are is probably more hassle than it's worth, however for mature audiences I think you would be on to a winner. The Smartie Pants Brownie gets all round thumbs up from me. Simple, if you don't like Smarties then pick them off :-D I'm sure the rest of us will happily eat them for you. One of these days these guys are going to send me a cake I don't think is all that special, it's got to happen eventually. For the minute I'll continue to be wax lyrical over the excellence they continuously deliver - I can't say anything other than the truth now!


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Stores enjoyed their fastest July growth since the last prolonged heatwave in 2006.
Sales were up 2.2 per cent on a like-for-like basis compared with last year as beer and burgers together with swimwear, sun cream and sandals buoyed consumer spending.
It was the third consecutive month of improvement after a fall in April when shops were hit by the freezing weather, according to the British Retail Consortium data.
The rise was attributed to the "feel good factor" fuelled by a string of sporting triumphs and the arrival of the royal baby, though deep discounting also helped reel shoppers into stores.
Meanwhile, online sales growth was 7.9 per cent, a relatively slow improvement for the burgeoning sector as the weather encouraged consumers to get out from behind their computer screens.
BRC director general Helen Dickinson said it was a "very solid" sales performance driven by the warm weather as well as deep discounts and offers.
She said summer barbecue ingredients and "feel-good foods" had done well during a month when the Wimbledon winner Andy Murray, Tour de France champion Chris Froome and the start of The Ashes all contributed to positive feeling.
Clothing sales had been boosted by discounting and summer fashion buys, she added.
"While we know that the picture is still variable and the high street in particular continues to face considerable challenges, these positive results will be welcomed in town centres around the country that depend so much on retailers performing well," she said.
Food and drink saw the best growth performance since November 2009, with champagne, beer and other drinks as well as burgers, baps, summer fruits and ice cream all seeing significant increases.
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Woody Allen's BLUE JASMINE is a good movie with a great, Oscar worthy performance by Cate Blanchett who stars as a Park Avenue wife who's reduced to poverty when it turns out her rich wall street husband is a con man and a crook.
BLUE JASMINE is not a comedy. It's more like a tragedy with small touches of almost painful humor. The movie made me cringe a lot--it's hard to watch a woman coming undone.
Jasmine (to her seat mate on a plane): "He met me at a party and swept me off my feet."
Numerous flashbacks show Jasmine when she was married to a Bernie Madoff type played by Alec Baldwin. Now she has nothing and moves to San Francisco to stay with her working class sister who's played by Sally Hawkins.
Sister: Jasmine. Oh my god.
Jasmine: Look at you. Your place is homey. The flight was bumpy. The food was awful; I mean you'd think, first class.
Sister: I thought you were tapped out.
Jasmine: I'm dead broke. The government took everything.
Sister: All I can say is you look great.
Jasmine: Now, who's lying.
Jasmine is depressed, desperate and afraid. She lies to everyone including herself. She drinks too much and pops too many Xanax. On top of it all, she's a snob who talks too much.
And yet I cared about her and wished for an end to her pain though I knew that wasn't likely.
Jasmine to her sister's two young boys: "Anxiety, nightmares, and a nervous breakdown. There's only so much trauma a person can stand before they take to the streets and start screaming."
Watching BLUE JASMINE is an unsettling experience, but I'm glad I saw it, because Cate Blanchett has created a character I will never forget.
Matt Damon stars as max in ELYSIUM, a so so science fiction film from the director of DISTRICT 9.
The year is 2154. Earth is an urban ruin full of poor people, a police state where the cops are robots.
Robot: Immediate extension of parole duration.
Max: No, no, no!
Robot: Elevation of heart rate detected. would you like a pill?
Max (making his voice sound mechanical): No, I am OK. Thank you.
Robot: Are you being sarcastic and/or abusive?
Max: Negative.
The privileged people live on a giant space station, a 19 minute shuttle ride from earth.
I like the setup and the concept of ELYSIUM, and the two worlds it creates are rich with vivid details.
But the plot of this film is standard issue action film with too many logical holes, too much sentimentality, and way too many poorly shot and edited fight scenes.
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GREENSBORO - Since the departure of Jordan Crawford to the New Orleans Pelicans, the Grand Rapids Drive (22-22) have relied heavily on Ray McCallum, Kevin Murphy and the recently-acquired Lorenzo Brown. The three combined for 77 points on Saturday night as the Drive held off the Greensboro Swarm (16-29) on the road by a 108-103 final score.
The Drive led for the majority of the game, but the Swarm made it interesting by outscoring Grand Rapids 26-19 to open the fourth quarter to pull within two points twice during the final minute, but Cat Barber was unable to draw the foul or convert the field goal attempt with three seconds remaining, Brown got the rebound and Murphy sank the ensuing technical free throw.
Murphy lived at the line on Saturday night for a Drive team that has struggled to draw free-throw attempts for the majority of the season. He scored 30 points with seven rebounds on 15-of-17 shooting from the line, picking up over half of the Drive's 26 attempts at the charity stripe. The 15 makes was a season high for a Grand Rapids player. Brown excelled for a fifth straight game since getting signed from China, scoring 26 points with nine rebounds and six assists. McCallum added 21 points.
Grand Rapids struggled for the second consecutive game to get any offense from their bench, as their bench scored 12 points after the Erie BayHawks outscored the Drive bench 78-7 in Grand Rapids' previous game. Aside from the Drive's big three, Ramon Harris was the only other player in double figures.
The Swarm, meanwhile, got 28 points, 17 rebounds and five assists from Damien Wilkins off their bench. Wilkins stayed hot after pouring in 36 points off the bench in the team's last game, a win over the Canton Charge. Rasheed Sulaimon also chipped in 26 points and six assists for Greensboro and Perry Ellis had 23 points.
Holding a 56-49 halftime lead and a 29-20 first quarter lead, the Drive came out rested after a week-long break thanks to the rescheduling due to weather of their last game against the Maine Red Claws. They have now won two of three after previously struggling through a four-game losing streak.
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By Simon Cambers
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Andy Murray eased into the Australian Open quarter-finals on Monday but said his expectations were still lower than usual as he continues his comeback from back surgery.
The Scot smashed a racket in frustration as he dropped his first set of the tournament but was still far too good for Stephane Robert, the world number 119, beating the Frenchman 6-1 6-2 6-7(6) 6-2.
Three times runner-up in Melbourne and fourth seed this year, Murray played only two competitive matches before the tournament and says he still feels under-cooked going into a last-eight clash with four-times champion Roger Federer or Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France.
"I said at the start of the tournament, I can't honestly say my expectations are as high as if I'd been playing for the last four months," Murray told reporters.
"It's been a good effort so far to get to the quarter-finals of a slam this soon after back surgery, so I'm happy with that.
"But I'm not far away from winning the event. Anyone's that's in the quarters is close. I just look forward to that match and hopefully play a good one."
Murray raced through the opening two sets against Robert, a lucky loser who was appearing in the fourth round of a grand slam for the first time.
The match looked over when Murray served for victory at 5-4 in the third set but Robert saved two match points and two more at 6-4 in the tiebreak before taking it 8-6.
Murray's frustration boiled over as he smashed his racket in anger but he shrugged off the disappointment quickly, breaking for 3-1 in the fourth and easing to victory.
"Sometimes it's necessary (to break a racket)," Murray said. "Losing that set was frustrating because it obviously means you're out there another 30, 40 minutes at least, when I would preferably have been in the locker room.
"My racket bit the dust. Unfortunate for it. But I was glad I managed to start well in the fourth."
Murray said that despite his lack of match practice, he still believed he has a chance of making the last four.
"It just depends on the day," he said. "I need to play a great match.
"If I strike the ball like I did for the first two and a half sets today, I'll give myself an opportunity in the match."
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MULTIPLEX:transNATURAL Exhibition | lectures | workshops Where technology and nature initially were opposed to each other, more often they appear to be mergeing now. TransNatural is a fascinating art and design exhibition with workshops and lectures for the youth and adults. exhibition dates: Friday 19 February till Friday 19 March Open: Wed., Thur., Fri. 14.00h 20.00h, Sat. 14.00h 22.00h and Sun. 14.00h 20.00h TransNatural symposium: Saturday 13 March Location: de Verdieping/ TrouwAmsterdam/ Wibautstraat 127/ 1091 GL Amsterdam More information: www.multiplexart.nl / Artists/designers/scientists: Thomas Gerhardt (USA), Joan Healy (IR), Aaron Koblin/ Daniel Massey (USA), Lucy McRae (NL), Ralf Schreiber (GER), Sander Veenhof (NL), Maarten Vanden Eynde (BE), Jelle Feringa (NL), 2012Architecten (NL), Daniela Bershan (GER/NL), Julius Popp (GER), Elio Caccavale (UK), Tobie Kerridge (UK), Rachel Armstrong (UK) TransNatural theme The most brilliant role that 'Technology' played was his way to escape the restrictions of Nature. Nonetheless, Technology also liked to play the role of the stupid, crude brother of 'Nature' constantly destroying Natures' toys with his clumsy dirty knuckles. It is high time to get used to the idea that together technology and nature form a new, less dysfunctional family whose family name has not yet been established. The 21st century is the century where technology and nature have finally become viable children who in turn have children of their own. Does this mean an evolutionary progress or above all, a changing perception about ourselves? Is this the end of the huge detour to the conclusion that the distinction between nature and technology never really existed? In transNatural we demonstrate the most interesting attempts in art, design and science to this new reality merged to a level of experience that helps us find a space to live in this new merged world. More information on http://www.multiplexart.nl Register on the website for regular updates and invitations -- tom¹artvark¹jaspers ?just rummaging through art, and serving it¹ schoolmeesterstraat 109 1053 mb amsterdam m. 06 - 22 234567 t. 020 683 63 54 f. 084 72 99 125 e. tom {AT} artvarkprojects.nl http://www.linkedin.com/in/artvark ______________________________________________________ * Verspreid via nettime-nl. Commercieel gebruik niet * toegestaan zonder toestemming. <nettime-nl> is een * open en ongemodereerde mailinglist over net-kritiek. * Meer info, archief & anderstalige edities: * http://www.nettime.org/. * Contact: Menno Grootveld (rabotnik {AT} xs4all.nl).


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- 1/2 pound chicken feet (about 6-8 feet, depending on size)
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup kalamansi juice, or the juice of one lime
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1-2 tsp. sambal oelek (chili-garlic paste) to taste
- 6 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- 1-inch piece of ginger, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- Wash and rinse the chicken feet under cold running water. Place the feet in a pot and fill the pot with enough cold water to cover the chicken by an inch. Place the pot over high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and continue to simmer for 20 minutes.
- While the chicken feet are simmering, combine the soy sauce, kalamansi juice, oil, sambal, garlic, ginger, and brown sugar in a medium bowl. Whisk well to combine.
- After the chicken feet have simmered for 20 minutes, drain the chicken feet into a large colander. Rinse the chicken feet with cold water until cool enough to handle.
- Using a sharp knife, chop off the tips of each claw and discard. If there are any black spots or overly-scaly patches of skin on the "palms" of the chicken feet, remove those with a knife as well.
- Place the chicken feet in a shallow dish and pour the marinade over the feet. Cover the chicken feet and allow to marinate in the refrigerator for 2 to 4 hours.
- Remove chicken feet from the marinade and place on a well-oiled grill over medium heat. Grill chicken feet for 8-10 minutes total, brushing with reserved marinade, and making sure to turn the feet every couple of minutes. Serve immediately.
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To use sections in a table view that's powered by Core Data and a fetched results controller, we need to specify a property called sectionNameKeyPath. It's the key to making those header titles show up. Reading Apple's ever so colourful documentation however doesn't give us a clue what this means in human terms.
Here's how to implement those with a simple example.
Starting out from the Master/Detail template in Xcode, create a new project and choose Core Data. This will setup the fetched results controller along with the rest of the Core Data stack. We'll also get one handy Event entity with a single attribute: an NSDate called timeStamp. Run the app, click the plus button at the top and we'll see a new date is inserted into the table.
But the table has no sections. Let's assume we'd like to create a new section for every minute that has been logged in the database. So 18:07 would have a section, 18:08, and whatever else is available.
Creating Managed Object Subclasses
First we'll create a managed object subclass from our model so that we can write some code for this. Choose the .xcdatamodeld file in Xcode and select Editor – Create NSManagedObject Subclass. Stash the two resulting files in your project folder.
In Event.h, add another property. It won't be saved, it'll be calculated on the fly. We already have the timeStamp property for the date object, so let's call the new property minuteSection. Here's the Even.h file:
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h> #import <CoreData/CoreData.> @interface Event : NSManagedObject @property (nonatomic, retain) NSDate * timeStamp; @property (nonatomic, retain) NSString *minuteSection; @end
In the Event.m file we'll create a custom initialiser, which will turn our timeStamp into time string. Since this is a Core Data property we'll have to mark it as dynamic, much like all the other Core Data properties in managed object subclasses:
#import "Event.h" @implementation Event @dynamic timeStamp; @dynamic minuteSection; - (NSString *)minuteSection { NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init]; formatter.timeStyle = NSDateFormatterShortStyle; NSString *sectionTitle = [formatter stringFromDate:self.timeStamp]; return sectionTitle; } @end
Here we use an NSDateFormatter that turns the long date object into something like 18:07. Every event in our database logged at 18:07 for example will get its own section with that title.
Tweaking the Fetched Results Controller
Next, let's turn our attention to the NSFetchedResultsController. In the Xcode template it's in MasterViewController.m. There's a custom initialiser with a method that by default looks like this:
// Edit the section name key path and cache name if appropriate. // nil for section name key path means "no sections". NSFetchedResultsController *aFetchedResultsController = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:fetchRequest managedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext sectionNameKeyPath:nil cacheName:@"Master"];
Take a look at the sectionNameKeyPath property here: it's set to nil, meaning we're not displaying any sections. To tell the controller which property we want to use as section criteria, all we have to do is provide the string of the property we'd like to use. In our case, that's minuteSection. Quick modification:
NSFetchedResultsController *aFetchedResultsController = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:fetchRequest managedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext sectionNameKeyPath:@"minuteSection" cacheName:nil];
I've also taken the liberty to remove the cache and set it to nil, we don't really need it here.
Showing the Section Titles
Right now the app will run as usual, but we still won't see any new sections. Even though they are displayed, we don't see them separated from the cells. What we need to do is add a method to our table view delegate and make those sections show up with the right titles.
In MasterViewController.m, hunt for a pragma mark called Table View. You'll find methods to show how many rows and sections there are, both of which are being read from the fetched results controller. Examine the code to spot some similarities to what we're doing next.
Add a method called titleForHeaderInSection, it comes up as part of the automatic code completion as soon as you type "- table" (it's a long list). Here's what we need to add to it for those section headers to show up:
- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section { id sectionInfo = [self.fetchedResultsController.sections objectAtIndex:section]; return [sectionInfo name]; }
It's only two lines of code, but they're rather long. Here we grab the controller's current section and call it's name method, which returns the string we're looking for (i.e. 18:07, the hour and minute we'd like to use).
Run the app and add a few values to it. On every new minute, a new section is created. When you remove values, empty sections are automatically removed as well.
Further Reading
- https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreData/Reference/NSFetchedResultsController_Class/
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15883892/custom-core-data-sectionnamekeypath
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Effective Use of a Limited Antiviral Stockpile for Pandemic Influenza
Arinaminpathy, Nimalan
Savulescu, J.
McLean, Angela R.
Bibliographic Citation
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 2009 June; 6(2): 171-179
Just allocation of resources for control of infectious diseases can be profoundly influenced by the dynamics of those diseases. In this paper we discuss the use of antiviral drugs for treatment of pandemic influenza. While the primary effect of such drugs is to alleviate and shorten the duration of symptoms for treated individuals, they can have a secondary effect of reducing transmission in the community. However, existing stockpiles may be insufficient for all clinical cases. Here we use simple mathematical models to present scenarios where the optimum policies to minimise morbidity and mortality, with a limited drug stockpile, are not always the most intuitively obvious and may conflict with theories of justice. We discuss ethical implications of these findings.
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For the Good of Us All: Ethically Rationing Health Resources in Minnesota in a Severe Influenza Pandemic. Preliminary Report Vawter, Dorothy E.; Garrett, J. Eline; Gervais, Karen G.; Prehn, Angela Witt; DeBruin, Debra A.; Tauer, Carol A.; Parilla, Elizabeth; Liaschenko, Joan; Marshall, Mary Faith (2009-01-30)


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It's been hot this week, and we live above a garage – without air conditioning. At 4pm today it was 90º inside, and today's a cooler than it has been for a while. SO, we've not only been eating outside, but only cooking meals that can be "cooked" on the grill because the last thing we want to do right now is use the stove. And the oven? Since our apartment spends most of the day being an oven, we can hardly even imagine turning the actual oven on – but when I do imagine it, the picture I see is the paint actually melting off our walls.
This weekend we found a delicious way to make pizza using the grill (we also found a definite way not to make pizza on the grill, but that's another, much sadder, story.) I got the idea here. For the dough, I used my artisan bread dough, with a little whole wheat flour. I'll share my pizza since Z's pizza involves the sadder story already mentioned.
- I put some olive oil in the bottom of a disposable cake pan, just enough oil to cover the bottom of the pan.
- I broke off ½ pound of the dough and rolled it out to fit in the pan.
- Once the dough was in the pan, I spread some crushed garlic over the dough, and then started in on my toppings:
- basil leaves, grown on our patio
- chopped prosciutto
- sliced kalamata olives (made one with and one without, both were good)
- slices of fresh tomato
- topped with Brie goat cheese from Trader Joe's – yummy and lactose-intolerant-friendly.
- Then I drizzled the top with olive oil and let it sit in the hot apartment for 20-30 minutes
Our grill gets very hot, changing the setting from "high" to "low" doesn't seem to effect the flame at all – it's just hot everywhere these days. So I didn't pre-heat our grill much before sliding the pie pan right onto the grill. Even though it was set on low, it cooked in about 15 minutes. And when I slid it out of the pan, I had a deep-dish-focaccia-style pizza. One edge was a little blackened on the bottom, so next time I'm going to try to turn the pan once or twice while it's cooking. I'd also like to try the olive oil dough recipe the next time around.
It was a delicious pizza, and we're happy that we don't have to give up our weekly pizza because of the heat. Yay!


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I confess that one of my biggest fears has been that any work I do on my MSc project will be lost in some sort of catastrophic computer disk crash.
Git – and the various free services available, such as github, offered a good way of backing the work up. But given that the project is based on the Linux kernel which is bigger than the official maximum size of a github project, it looked less than hopeful.
(That was not helped by their support staff – one of whom appeared to tell me I should delete the binaries in the kernel and I should be ok.)
So I have gone for unfuddle. It's not free – $24 a month for a 2 GB repo – but it should do the job with no problem.
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In April of 2016 I was hired to shoot promotional work for a restaurant in Dunedin, New Zealand.
In September of 2015 I was hired by Leap Trampoline Park to shoot promotional work for their website. Leap is located in Dunedin, New Zealand.
*note: not all images on their site were taken by me.
I had the opportunity to photograph the April 2014 Portland Fashion Week with Clark College's Independent. The event, which took place at the Memorial Coliseum, benefited Doernbecher Children's Hospital.
Rugby Oregon hosted the Great Northwest Challenge rugby tournament in Portland, Oregon June 2014. I was asked to document the event, along with one other photographer, throughout the weekend. All-star rugby players travelled from Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, California and Montana to compete in the two-day tournament.


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The City is pleased to offer free conceptual development review meetings for prospective developers. Please click the link below for details.
Conceptual Development Review Meetings
Please review the City's Online Guide to Development to learn about various processes for development projects within the City, as well as information ranging from Certificates of Occupancy to pulling permits for residential projects.
If you took part in the development review process, plesae click the following link to participate in a very brief survey of your experience:
Development Review Customer Survey
Please see the following priority redevelopment sites as identified in the 2016 Master Plan Update:
Potential Incentives and Resources
Brownfield Tax Increment Financing
Michigan Community Revitalization Program
Other Important Links
Michigan Economic Development Corporation
Macomb County Small Business Development Center
Macomb County Planning & Economic Development Department
Macomb County Chamber of Commerce
Mount Clemens Downtown Development Authority