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Ryan Hartman is entering this training camp with a much higher level of confidence. Having a spot on this roster, something he wasn't sure he'd have entering last fall, helps. But the confidence is a byproduct of his entire rookie season and every experience it brought with it.
"You get a full season under your belt and you're able to feel out the game, adjust your speed and your quickness to the pace of the NHL game," he said. "Last year was a big step for all of us, coming in here this year knowing what to expect, knowing how to play their game right and thinking of what to do on the ice."
As several of the Blackhawks embark on their second season in the NHL there's more certainty in their approach, whether they're already part of this roster (Hartman and Nick Schmaltz) or trying to get one of the few coveted spots remaining (John Hayden and Vinnie Hinostroza).
When Schmaltz entered camp last fall he was fresh out of college and admittedly apprehensive – "I was nervous coming in, didn't know if it was going to work," he said at the team's convention in July. There has been none of that this past week. A stronger, more confident Schmaltz has emerged, one that's approached coach Joel Quenneville enough to give him a shot at the second-line center role.
"Yeah, it's just familiarity with the coaching and the players," he said. "You just know what to expect, you kind of come in with a good mindset and start off on the right track right away."
Much like 2016, Hinostroza is on the bubble again this fall. But unlike last September he's not sweating what may or may not happen out of camp.
"This year I feel like I'm more mentally stronger, more mature," he said. "I don't feel pressure at all. Maybe a year ago I did, thinking, 'what are these guys going to do?' But this year… I'm trying to focus on myself and I'm confident where I'm at. I made some improvements. I'm just going to believe in myself and the rest will play out."
Hayden, on the same bubble as Hinostroza, got a taste of the NHL late last spring following his senior season at Yale. It was a small sample size but Hayden nevertheless got a good idea of what to work on entering the fall – improving his speed was a big focus – and what to expect overall.
"It's so fast at this level. So yeah, it definitely helped playing games at the end of the year. If anything, told myself I belong at this level. There are familiar faces at camp, and it's my job to prove I deserve to be on the team," he said. "No [pressure]; you just control what you can and that's my play. I put the work in for the offseason and now I have to play my game."
Hartman's biggest adjustment came with the speed, too – "it's a completely different level from Rockford to here, the pace of play and how quickly everything happens," he said. That, and being confident enough to know when to hold the puck and when to give it up.
"Right away I was getting the puck and wanting to get it to someone else just so I didn't make a mistake. Now I'm trying to make plays and trying to better the team," Hartman said. "I definitely feel pretty good this year."
For the Blackhawks who got their first taste here last season, the wide-eyed part of the NHL indoctrination is over. Now to keep building on the experience. And the confidence.


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The 50 Best X-Wing Pilots, Ranked
Sure, Star Wars fans might dream of igniting a lightsaber and calling on the force like a Jedi. But honestly, if we were in a galaxy far far away, we'd want to lock our S-Foils in attack position like the dashing X-Wing pilots of the Alliance and Republic. But who's the best of them all? We ranked them to find out.

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The future according to the world of sci-fi is really appealing—if you're a teenage boy.
In a wacky video for their new song, "These Aren't the Droids," singer Neko Case and her longtime collaborator Kelly Hogan slyly highlight the extent to which popular visions of the future are designed to appeal to teenage male fans. Case wears a Star Trek uniform and Princess Leia wig (probably just to make you angry about that combination), while Hogan sports a full-on Chewbacca costume. Ellie Kemper (The Office, Bridesmaids) also appears as a woman unfulfilled by her relationship with a Star Wars stormtrooper.
Case and Hogan's complaint is a pretty common one, given that imaginary universes such as Star Wars tend to have very few prominent female characters (though recent casting news might push against this trend). Still, this is probably the first time growing "dudes with boobs" in tubes has been proposed as a solution.
The video appears on a comedy-music compliation titled 2776: A Millenium of American Asskickery, which benefits OneKid OneWorld and includes work from Patton Oswalt, Yo La Tengo, Ed Helms, Andrew W.K., Ira Glass, Aimee Mann, Reggie Watts, Will Forte, Margaret Cho, Ashanti, Will Arnett, Samantha Bee, Colbie Smulders, and many more.


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Since suffering its update in 2016, the 2018 Ford Explorer has remained relatively unchanged. We expect this to remain the case as we enter the 2018 model year.
A new safe and intelligent package includes a number of active security features in one option. Includes Adaptive Cruise Control, Forward Collision Warning, Blind Spot Warning, Rear Traffic Warning, Maintenance Support Rail, Automatic Beams and Rain Sensor wipes all features that were previously broadcast via the 2018 Ford Explorer line and often require Expensive packages of options. We do not know what it will cost, but this package will be offered at XLT, Limited and Sport levels and will be delivered as standard on the Platinum model.
Since 2018 Ford Explorer has received a complete update for 2016, the 2018 model changes are relatively minor and include a slightly different design to the grille, a set of four exhaust tips for sporting equipment level, four new Color options and new wheel drawings by alignment. It does not detect any changes inside, but there is a new option available to a 4G modem that allows Wi-Fi access point 4G LTE hotspots as included as standard on many General Motors vehicles. It may be assumed that Ford will charge a subscription fee for data access, but has not yet disclosed the details.
The mechanical parts will probably continue unchanged in the new model year. The current 2018 Ford Explorer comes with a 3.5-liter V6 producing 290 horsepower and 255 pound-feet of torque. As an option, buyers can go with a four-cylinder 270-horsepower turbo 2.3-liter XLT or Limited, or a bi-turbo 3.5L V6 with 365 horsepower in sports or platinum trim. Both engines are front-wheel-drive lower and have all-wheel drive options. The bi-turbo V6 is equipped with four-wheel drive.
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A public commitment to diversity can help attract new board members from under-represented ethnic and racial groups. This commitment can be expressed in ways that emphasize how diversity will help the organization better serve its clients.
Start by collecting demographic information about your current board, as well as applicants to future openings. Some people worry this is illegal or discriminatory – it is not. Collecting information on racial and ethnic characteristics is permitted if it is to address the under-representation of visible minorities and other historically under-represented groups.
Diversity efforts are intended to strengthen the organization as a whole. The board must find the financial, legal and management skills it needs to do this. But it also shouldn't underestimate the importance of understanding and reflecting under-represented groups. Fortunately, finding both sets of skills is possible – there is a large and talented pool of immigrants and visible minorities in the region from which to draw.
An organization may determine that at least half of new board members should be from an under- represented group. It is important to build diversity into the entire recruitment process. For example, design a transparent application process and consider using non-traditional outreach methods such as DiverseCity onBoard. Also consider diversity in the screening methods and interview questions used.
Often boards think and act alike because members share similar life experiences. Valuing volunteer and work experience gained abroad, as well as leadership gained in ethnic organizations or small community groups is important. Also look at the volunteers and committees of your organization and whether they are diverse. If not, increase the diversity of these groups. These can be important training grounds for future board members.
Research has shown that there is strength in numbers. While there is debate in the literature about what the minimum threshold should be, it has been suggested that once there are three members on a board that share similar characteristics, these individuals will feel more comfortable sharing a dissenting opinion.
Organizations should ask new and diverse board members to sit on or lead special committees and projects. These opportunities should not be limited to those dealing with diversity issues. This inclusion will encourage full engagement and commitment to the organization, and will improve board retention.
Orientation, mentoring and training for board members is essential to a well-functioning board. This should include helping board members to better understand the various access points for providing input such as contacting senior staff, participating in events organized by the organization, and participating in board committees. It should also include training on the importance of diversity and on the skills required to achieve cultural competence.
A board should engage staff to align diversity efforts to the organization's mission, mandate and activities. All activities should be evaluated to determine how well they support diversity efforts. New programs and services can be evaluated using a diversity and equity lens.
Inclusion is about being sensitive to differences and transforming organizations to be more effective, responsive, transparent and accountable to the community. It is on this impact that the success of diversity efforts should be measured.


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There is an old lady, who every month or so, brings boxes of disposable cameras in to the store.
4x6. Matte. Singles.
And keep them in order.
Oh, and the thing is, all the pictures look the same.... cornfield. road. house. car. dog. flower. repeat. and repeat.
For a week or two it feels like we will never get through all her film - did you know, tonight Kassie and sat down and figured out, in the past 5 years, she's probably brought in around 2100 rolls of film?!
Sometimes, while we're processing, or scanning, or counting her pictures, we come up with different reasons why she might do this.
First, I thought , what if she frames every one of them and her walls are literally covered?
Yesterday I thought, maybe she has alzheimers and she's just trying to make sure she doesn't forget anything.
and then, today I suddenly thought... what if she just feels this hole inside of herself, and this is how she tries to fill it up?
I don't know, and I probably never will. As long as she brings them in, I'll keep developing them. And no matter why she takes them... I hope it makes her happy. All 2100 rolls.


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First launched in 1981, the Excel NE (non-electric) has long been the standard toilet for those living off the grid when a regular septic system is not available or not wanted. The success of the Excel design meant that a three chamber unit could be specifically designed for those with no continuous 120 volt supply.
The Excel NE has no fan or heater but composting happens above 60*F (warmer is better). Keeping this unit at room temperature is important for proper operation.
Odorless operation is achieved by a 4" vent mounted at the top rear of the unit which acts like a chimney on a wood stove. For good air movement the vent should be installed vertically and 2-3 feet above the peak of the roof.
Backwoods includes a free 12v fan kit. This fan draws 1.4 watts and can be powered by a 20 watt solar panel and a 12 volt marine battery.
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For those of us who orbit around the sun rather than live there:
There are two main commands for ZFS, "zfs" and "zpool"
"zpool list" - Show current usage on zfs pools "zpool iostat 5" - Display I/O stats for zfs pools "zpool vdevs" - Shows current mirror/pool device properties "zpool create pool c0t3d0 c1t1d0 c4t4d0 c5t2d0" - Creates a pool consisting of c0t3d0 c1t1d0, c4t4d0, c5t2d0 "zpool create -fv pool slice1 slice2" - Creates a pool consisting of slice1 and slice2 "zpool create pool mirror c1t0d0 c2t0d0" - Creates a mirror consisting of c2t0d0 and c2t0d0 "zpool add -f pool mirror c0t1d0s3 c0t1d0s4" - Adds mirror to pool
"zfs list" - Show current zfs filesystems "zfs create pool/filesystem" - Creates filesystem under pool "zfs create pool/filesystem /mountpoint" - Creates filesystem under pool and mounts it to mountpoint "zfs snapshot pool/filesystem@snapshotname" - Takes snapshot of filesystem "zfs mount pool/filesystem /mountpoint" - Mounts a zfs filesystem to mountpoint "zfs destroy pool/filesystem" - Deletes filesystem from pool "zfs destroy pool" - Deletes pool
Package Name: SUNWzfs
Older Solaris 10 u6 and below you cannot export and import the disks. So moving them to new hardware is not possible :(
There is never a need to fsck a ZFS filesystem.
NOTE BENE: I get a lot of traffic on this page and I'm sure some of you guys have cheatsheets and crib notes of your own for zfs. Please feel free to leave a comment with your favorite commands. We can all learn from each other.
About Jay Farschman - Jay currently works as a Senior Systems Administrator for an asset management company in Colorado where he works with companies that produce hardware, telecommunications software and financial services. Jay previously owned a consulting company and provided training and consulting services for three Fortune 500 companies and numerous small businesses where he leveraged Linux to provided exceptional value


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I am a character played by real-life coach and self-help author, Laura Berman Fortgang. She created me in a crazy moment that has taken on a momentum of its own and I will either catapult or threaten her career. I hope you enjoy these videos that my mentor (Laura) and I have created for you.


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2018 Kia Optima
LX 4dr Sedan (2.4L 4cyl 6A)
$431/mo est.
Price Analysis
96 Days on Lot
Selling slowly, this dealer is motivated to sell soon
Vehicle Details
Ext. Color:
Sparkling Silver
Int. Color:
Black Cloth cloth
Drive Type:
front wheel drive
All Features and Specs
Digital Audio Input
Audio system memory card slot
SiriusXM AM/FM/Satellite Radio
Radio Data System
SiriusXM Satellite Radio(TM)
Speed Sensitive Audio Volume Control
Total Number of Speakers: 6
Braking Assist
ABS and Driveline Traction Control
Stability control
Privacy glass: Light
Silver aluminum rims
Wheel Diameter: 16
Wheel Width: 6.5
Driver knee airbags
Urethane steering wheel trim
Urethane shift knob trim
Video Monitor Location: Front
Trip computer
External temperature display
Manufacturer's 0-60mph acceleration time (seconds): 8.1 s
Power remote driver mirror adjustment
Heated driver mirror
Heated passenger mirror
Power remote passenger mirror adjustment
Turn signal in mirrors
Dual illuminated vanity mirrors
Audio controls on steering wheel
Integrated mobile satellite communications device
Power remote trunk release
Front reading lights
Anti-theft alarm system
Premium cloth seat upholstery
Bucket front seats
Rear bench
Fold forward seatback rear seats
Rear seats center armrest
Tilt and telescopic steering wheel
Speed-proportional electric power steering
Suspension class: Regular
Interior air filtration
Manual front air conditioning
Tire Pressure Monitoring System: Tire specific
Remote activated exterior entry lights
Cargo area light
Max cargo capacity: 16 cu.ft.
Vehicle Emissions: LEV3-SULEV30
Fuel Type: Regular unleaded
Fuel Capacity: 18.5 gal.
Instrumentation: Low fuel level
Clock: In-radio display
Headlights off auto delay
Dusk sensing headlights
Driver Seat Head Restraint Whiplash Protection
Head Restraint Whiplash Protection with Passenger Seat
Coil front spring
Regular front stabilizer bar
Independent front suspension classification
Strut front suspension
Four-wheel Independent Suspension
Coil rear spring
Rear Stabilizer Bar: Regular
Independent rear suspension
Multi-link rear suspension
Front and rear suspension stabilizer bars
Variable intermittent front wipers
Black grille w/chrome surround
Center Console: Full with covered storage
Overhead console: Mini with storage
Curb weight: 3,219 lbs.
Gross vehicle weight: 4,541 lbs.
Overall Length: 191.1"
Overall Width: 73.2"
Overall height: 57.7"
Wheelbase: 110.4"
Front Head Room: 39.8"
Rear Head Room: 37.8"
Front Leg Room: 45.5"
Rear Leg Room: 35.6"
Front Shoulder Room: 58.1"
Rear Shoulder Room: 56.4"
Front Hip Room: 56.0"
Rear Hip Room: 56.0"
Two 12V DC power outlets
Transmission hill holder
Seatbelt pretensioners: Front
Rear center seatbelt: 3-point belt
Door reinforcement: Side-impact door beam
Cupholders: Front and rear
Door pockets: Driver, passenger and rear
Seatback storage: 2
Tires: Width: 205 mm
Tires: Profile: 65
Tires: Speed Rating: H
Diameter of tires: 16.0"
Type of tires: AS
Tires: Prefix: P
Left rear passenger door type: Conventional
Rear door type: Trunk
Right rear passenger door type: Conventional
Body-colored bumpers
Window grid antenna
4 Door
Driver airbag
Manual child safety locks
Rear View Camera
Rear Collision Warning: Rear Cross Traffic Alert
1 USB port
Apple CarPlay & Android Auto mirroring
Rear reverse sensing system
Halogen projector beam headlights
SiriusXM Satellite Radio
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People often ask me what I am reading. Lately I've been doing a lot of non-fiction reading for a book I'm working on (and am not able to talk about yet) but I also mentioned in a previous post the new biography of Agatha Christie (fairly interesting) ---and I should tell everyone who doesn't already know, about Stieg Larsson. He has, sadly, died (heart attack, age 50) so we are not going to see many more books by him---but oh my, his first one, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, is soooo good; and recently I stopped into Bridgton Books and there was the sequel, The Girl Who Played with Fire. Justin Ward, who owns BB and reads everything, told me it was better than the first---hard to believe---but it is true. There will be a third coming, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. But right now I am in the middle of the second and savoring every page. These books are translated from the Swedish, and set in Sweden, but very different from the Henning Mankell books, the Kurt Wallender series, which I have also enjoyed.
After his death, Larsson left the manuscripts of three completed but unpublished novels in a series. He wrote them for his own pleasure after returning home from his job in the evening, making no attempt to get them published until shortly before his death. The first of these novels was published in Sweden in 2005 as Män som hatar kvinnor, published in English as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It was awarded the prestigious Glass Key award as the best Nordic crime novel in 2005. His second novel, Flickan som lekte med elden (The Girl Who Played with Fire), received the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in 2006. At his death, as well as the third completed novel, he left the unfinished manuscript of part of the fourth novel as well as synopses of the fifth and sixth in the series which was intended to contain an eventual total of ten books.
A television series based on the three completed books is in production by Yellow Bird Films of Ystad. Each book will be covered in two episodes (making a total of six 90-minute episodes). The first two episodes were released as a motion picture in February 2009, while the subsequent episodes will be released directly on DVD in December 2009. The series will be broadcast on Swedish television in 2010.


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"Your ally badge ... you give it back at the end of every day. You give it back, and you earn it the next day."
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Daily Action: Read Five Political Articles, and Then Read Something Not Political
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I suspect you've already read this, but maybe others haven't.ReplyDelete
From Heather Richardson, professor of History at Boston College:
"I don't like to talk about politics on Facebook-- political history is my job, after all, and you are my friends-- but there is an important non-partisan point to make today.
What Bannon is doing, most dramatically with last night's ban on immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries-- is creating what is known as a "shock event."
Such an event is unexpected and confusing and throws a society into chaos. People scramble to react to the event, usually along some fault line that those responsible for the event can widen by claiming that they alone know how to restore order.
When opponents speak out, the authors of the shock event call them enemies. As society reels and tempers run high, those responsible for the shock event perform a sleight of hand to achieve their real goal, a goal they know to be hugely unpopular, but from which everyone has been distracted as they fight over the initial event.
There is no longer concerted opposition to the real goal; opposition divides along the partisan lines established by the shock event.
Last night's Executive Order has all the hallmarks of a shock event. It was not reviewed by any governmental agencies or lawyers before it was released, and counterterrorism experts insist they did not ask for it. People charged with enforcing it got no instructions about how to do so. Courts immediately have declared parts of it unconstitutional, but border police in some airports are refusing to stop enforcing it.
Predictably, chaos has followed and tempers are hot.
My point today is this: unless you are the person setting it up, it is in no one's interest to play the shock event game. It is designed explicitly to divide people who might otherwise come together so they cannot stand against something its authors think they won't like.
I don't know what Bannon is up to-- although I have some guesses-- but because I know Bannon's ideas well, I am positive that there is not a single person whom I consider a friend on either side of the aisle-- and my friends range pretty widely-- who will benefit from whatever it is.
If the shock event strategy works, though, many of you will blame each other, rather than Bannon, for the fallout. And the country will have been tricked into accepting their real goal.
But because shock events destabilize a society, they can also be used positively. We do not have to respond along old fault lines. We could just as easily reorganize into a different pattern that threatens the people who sparked the event.
A successful shock event depends on speed and chaos because it requires knee-jerk reactions so that people divide along established lines. This, for example, is how Confederate leaders railroaded the initial southern states out of the Union.
If people realize they are being played, though, they can reach across old lines and reorganize to challenge the leaders who are pulling the strings. This was Lincoln's strategy when he joined together Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers, anti-Nebraska voters, and nativists into the new Republican Party to stand against the Slave Power.
Five years before, such a coalition would have been unimaginable. Members of those groups agreed on very little other than that they wanted all Americans to have equal economic opportunity. Once they began to work together to promote a fair economic system, though, they found much common ground. They ended up rededicating the nation to a "government of the people, by the people, and for the people."
Confederate leaders and Lincoln both knew about the political potential of a shock event. As we are in the midst of one, it seems worth noting that Lincoln seemed to have the better idea about how to use it."Replies
PS, that was sent to me by a friend.Delete
I want to offer a single suggestion for both political and non-political reading and action to take all rolled into one...ReplyDelete
Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail...which includes this paragraph
"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.
The "action"...There is a free course on line (which I have yet to take) that asks you to get together in small groups and talk about the letter It's called Readings that Matter http://plusacumen.org/courses/readings-matter-martin-luther-kings-letter-birmingham-jail/ just a suggestion


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Pulse, a specially commissioned work of public art created by internationally recognized artist Janet Echelman will be integrated into the programmable fountain at Dilworth Park and will trace the path of trains traveling on the three lines below the park in real time, coded to the colors associated with each transit line. Thin columns of dry mist will emanate from the fountain, evoking the steam that rose from the city's first water- pumping station that was located on this site as well as the steam from the trains at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station that was located across the street. Echelman's use of dry mist enables people to walk through the installation without getting wet. A description of the installation, including a simulation of this work of art, entitled Pulse, can be found by clicking here.
Alexander Milne Calder was commissioned to produce the more than 250 architectural sculptures in marble and bronze which adorn Philadelphia's City Hall, including the 36 foot tall bronze statue of William Penn that crowns the building's tower.
For more information about Philadelphia's City Hall visit the City Hall Tour Information Center in Room 121 or phila.gov. For architectural walking tours presented by the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, visit preservationalliance.com.


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North Carolina Zoo director to retire in 2016
Zoo hires expected replacement director
North Carolina Zoo director to retire in 2016
Zoo hires expected replacement director
The director of the North Carolina Zoo will retire in 2016, Zoo officials announced Tuesday.
Dr. David Jones, 67, will retire in March of that year. He has been the zoo's director since 1994.
Patricia "Pat" Simmons will succeed Jones after his retirement, zoo officials said. Simmons, who has been at the Akron Zoo for more than 30 years, will join the North Carolina Zoo in September as its deputy director and chief operating officer.
In a statement, zoo officials said Simmons' hiring is "part of a long-range strategic plan which includes a master plan and strategic growth opportunities for the Asheboro facility."
The Akron Zoo saw a record 389,000 visitors last year. The North Carolina Zoo averages more than 700,000 visitors a year.


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Los Angeles: Former `Friends` star Jennifer Aniston is reportedly planning a sunset wedding to Justin Theroux at their mansion in Bel Air.
The 44-year-old actress and her fiance can`t wait to get married and are planning to hold a low-key ceremony at their new home as soon as their home`s renovations are completed, reported OK! magazine.
"Jen`s got an amazing plateau-like area in the back that faces west so think sunset wedding. You can see the plush, highly landscaped and fragrant hills. You can see the city below. It`s spectacular," a source said.
Aniston has also been looking at wedding rings with Theroux and wants something simple, so it doesn`t overshadow her enormous engagement ring.
"They`re exchanging simple gold wedding bands. Jen`s will be very slim and delicate as it has to sit alongside that whopper of an engagement rock and Justin is insisting there is space for a special engraved message he is working on," the source added.


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Once the footing is dry, plan ahead for the corners and section them off for easier setting. Once the footing is set up, begin by placing the mortar down on the surface. Exercise care as you place the blocks down on the mortar setting, and always begin at the corners to guide the future placements. Apply mortar to the sides of the block and then set the following one tightly against it. Continue until satisfied with the results.Learn more about Carpentry


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ALABANG came away with an impressive victory in Class A and finished second in Class B while Tagaytay Highlands and Forest Hills hacked out scrambling wins in their respective divisions in the fourth leg of the 2012 Champion Infinity WGAP Circuit presented by Pacsports recently at the Orchard Golf and Country Club.
Marilyn Reyes shot 42 points under the Modified Stableford scoring system while Rita Horan, Vids Torralba and Finina Gorres backed her up with 41, 40 and 38 points, respectively, as the Alabang ladies pooled a 161 to beat Sta. Elena by 10 points for the Class A crown.
With Erika Morihiro firing 41 points, Sta. Elena assembled a 151 while host Orchard scored 147 to finish third in the premier class of the 10-to-play, four-to-count format event organized by Women's Golf Association of the Philippines.
Tagaytay Highlands came in fourth with a 144 followed by Canlubang (141), Forest Hills (132), Aguinaldo (130), and Riviera (128).
The Highlanders, on the other hand, turned in a 152 as Rosalie Heo made 43 points and Marlene Varua, Marissa Vergara and Rosario Dimson added 42, 34 and 33, respectively, for a four-point win over Alabang, which had a 148.
Sta. Elena scored 146 and nipped Canlubang in the countback for third while Villamor placed fifth with 140 followed by Orchard (133) and Forest Hills (130).
Forest Hills drew a pair of 41s from Mary Ang and Eleanor Leung, while Anil Wu and Evelyn Alcantara added 40 and 33 points, respectively, to cop the Class C crown with a 155, four points ahead of Highlands, which had a 151.
Aguinaldo finished third with a 148 while Villamor made a 137 and nipped Alabang in the countback for fourth followed by Orchard (130), Sta. Elena (129), Canlubang (117) and Valley Golf (112).
Christine Lava of Forest Hills churned out a 42-point output and took the individual crown in Class A while Alabang's Minerva Castillo bagged the Class B crown with 39 points and Aguinaldo's Janet Agreepa sizzled with 49 points to win the Class C plum.
Action in the event featuring the leading golfing ladies of the country's top clubs resumes on Aug. 22 for the fifth leg in Canlubang.


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"We believe that to ignite the digital manufacturing revolution, we need to provide free access to these important 3D carving tools to as many people as possible," said Inventables CEO Zach Kaplan. "We hope that access to a free 3D carving machine and free software will help reboot American manufacturing education, and allow people to start their own small-scale manufacturing businesses in the United States."
3D carving, also known as a CNC milling, is a powerful technology capable of creating precision parts and designs from materials like wood and metal. Unlike consumer-grade 3D printers, which can only use strands of plastic to create objects, 3D carving enables users to physically make a product or project on a computer controlled (CNC) milling machine using real materials. The 3D carving machines work with Inventables' free software Easel to enable users to go from idea to design to running the machine in five minutes without any specialized knowledge or training.
Inventables is providing the Shapeoko 2, an open source, low-cost desktop 3D Carver known by the technical community as a computer numerical control (CNC) mill, to 50 publicly-accessible locations. Libraries and hackerspaces interested in receiving one of the free 3D carving machines should apply at inventables.com/3dcarver
In addition to libraries, Inventables is partnering with "Hackerspaces" across the United States, which are community gathering places where people with an interest in learning and technology can gather to work on projects while sharing ideas, equipment, and knowledge.
In Austin, Texas, Inventables is partnering with ATX Hackerspace. ATX Hackerspace has recently added a Startup Incubator program, where members can rent office space to turn the ideas they've been building into small business.
ATX Hackerspace Founder Martin Bogomolni: "The rise of these types of community hackerspaces is unprecedented in history. Our members openly share their knowledge and expertise on a whole host of subjects and some of those ideas are being turned into viable small businesses in emerging technology fields. It's a very exciting time to have ideas and make real things."
About Inventables
Founded in 2002, Inventables' mission is to ignite the digital manufacturing revolution by simplifying the path from idea to finished product. Recognized as the hardware store for designers, Inventables sells desktop manufacturing machines and thousands of materials in small quantities. Small manufacturing businesses purchase raw materials and machines from Inventables' online store daily to use in manufacturing their own products from jewelry to eyeglasses to sell to customers. When a material from the site is needed in a large volume, Inventables assists in making connections to the manufacturer or supplier.
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MakerCon connects individuals at the forefront of the maker movement in a two-day conference and workshop, from experts in digital manufacturing, to technology and tools providers, to accelerators that facilitate taking a prototype to market, and a broad swath of makers. The event will kick off with a number of three-hour workshops Tuesday morning followed by our stellar speaker lineup.


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SECAmb (ambulance) crews were also called out.
On arrival firefighters discovered there was a fire in a kitchen on the first floor.
They used breathing apparatus and a hose reel to tackle the fire.
A baby was given medical treatment by paramedics and then the baby and a woman were taken to hospital as a precaution.


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MSCG's Mark Friedman on Ads with Animals
What is it about the animal kingdom that makes it such a compelling place for creative thinkers to turn to often for inspiration? For starters, animals are an easy way to bring a brand's character or benefits to life. They represent everything from power and speed to wisdom and memory, to danger and instinct, and so much more.
While I didn't have the space to share work that features snakes, fish, spiders, rhinos, and birds of all varieties, we creative types will continue to go on inspirational safaris in search of that next big idea that has tremendous legs (or hooves). Somewhere out there, the next big animal idea is just waiting to be herd.
Mark Friedman is chief creative officer at Medical Specialists Communications Group, which includes Harrison and Star and Biolumina.
See also: Marvel creates superheroes suffering from bowel disease for Takeda campaign
Brand: Lotemax Gel
Company: Bausch & Lomb
Who knew that postoperative ocular pain and inflammation was a Revenant-sized problem? Nonetheless, this well-executed ad for Lotemax Gel powerfully dramatizes the plight of surgeons. Sadly, the brand promise isn't fully brought to bear.
Brand: Cosimprel
Company: Servier Laboratories
This ad doubles down on the beastly metaphors — literally. But who am I to argue? I myself have never been in a dark alley where cardiovascular hoodlums deface the walls so maybe you really do need both a lion and a tiger. Perhaps one day they'll create a triple therapy, and then you-know-who from the previous ad might join the party. Oh, my.
Brand: Oslif Breezhaler
Company: Pierre Fabre Laboratories
Nothing says "speed" and "endurance" like that rare beast, the Chamel. Straight from The Island of Dr. Moreau, this creature and the ad it graces are truly freaks of nature. The random old guy on the beach was inelegantly added to the layout for yet another layer of confusion. I do wonder how much Bordeaux was consumed in the making of this one.
Brand: Spiriva HandiHaler
Company: Boehringer Ingelheim
Here's an oldie but still a goodie. Unlike Oslif, Spiriva sells its attributes by demonstrating the feeling of breathlessness in an evocative and emotional way. Using the massiveness of an elephant to illustrate a symptom is truly effective — and clearly based on a meaningful patient insight. This idea was successfully pulled through on television and in HCP materials proving that COPD is no walk in the zoo.
Campaign: Gout
Company: AstraZeneca
Agency: AgencyRX
No animal suggests a threat from below better than a shark. It's the iceberg of animal metaphors and this ad, for the underappreciated dangers of gout, is a great catch. Fantastic computer-generated imagery brings the danger lurking beneath the surface to life in a very visceral way. We don't even need to see the actual animal itself to know the story; work this stunning may drive the need for a bigger boat to carry all the awards.
Brand: Alca Luftal Antacid
Company: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Agency: Lew'Lara\TBWA, Brazil
This ad takes one of the oldest tropes in the book (literally) and turns it into a fresh and delicious piece of creative. Demonstrating a 3 a.m. reminder of the pork-fest one may have consumed the night before, this idea is ingenious in its simplicity: a potent metaphor that needs no copy to tell its story. No doubt that — come awards season — this Trojan Piggie will go to market.


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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
tongue on rye
Horror is about transgression. The blurring of boundaries. Or maybe its just about a three-hundred year old monster sucking people's brains out through the back of their necks with his razor sharp forked tongue.
I first saw clips of this little Mexican dandy on USA Network's divine Reel Wild Cinema, a show I sorely miss. I still have my fan club card. Sandra Bernhard hosted clips of Z-grade treats wearing tight leopard print numbers or lime-green pleather. Suffice to say every element of that show made a big impression on my teen-age psyche. El Baron del Terror (or the American release title of The Brainiac, cause, ya know, he eats brains) was one of the stranger flavors introduced.
Note: I tried to set this up as a download so you could have the whole film for your own. Couldn't get it to work, though. You can watch the movie on youtube at least.
now go get that tongue action!
suffer for a world of silence.....
I had been entertaining the idea of starting a blog. And this album is as good a one to start with as any. Its one I listen to all the time. Any time.
BALZAC have become one of the most musically dynamic and prolific bands operating today. But back in the early '90s they were struggling to make a name for themselves in Osaka's punk rock underground. The Last Men On Earth was their first full length album. It was recorded in only a few days and for not much money and released in 1995 by Alchemy Records. It has been out of print for a while and is hard to find. And expensive. Last Men displays a culmination of their early sound, which was strongly influenced by SAMHAIN and early GASTUNK. And yeah, orginal bassist Anti did try his damnedest to look like Jerry Only. However in these songs you can already hear lead singer Hirosuke's unique sensibilities at work. The fusion of pop melodies and hooks with bleak death punk drive. Although most of the songs are named after B-grade horror films, lyrically we are in far different waters:
Psycho in 308
"It's coming down.....
Millions in the black
Lose sight of the road that's ahead
Psycho in 308
Black or white?
Suffer for a world of silence
Is home a world of chaos?
Everybody's lost their own way
Is home a world of sadness?
Everybody's lost their own way
Thousands of tears
Take in your tears"
All the lyrics to this album were first written in Japanese and then translated into English by some Canadian guy in another Osaka hardcore band. The original Japanese has a different nuance to it, but the akward English all over this album has an abstract beauty all its own. BALZAC still play a few of these songs live. I've seen them three times when I've been in Japan and the crowd always goes fucking apeshit when the guys launch into any Last Men material. Yeah, I like this album a lot.
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Christmas is coming to Pennsburg, so things have a little more sparkle than usual in that brick-red, unassuming borough. Some of the porches are crowded with inflatable Santas. Others are decorated more modestly with evergreen garland and window candles.
At Bradley Stone's house, half of a brick twin on Fourth Street, a green wreath hangs on a window frame, next to a tiny blue birdhouse that looks like it might have been made and painted by a child.
The front door is gone, replaced with a sheet of particle board. Someone had tucked an envelope underneath. It said "To My Neighbors" on the front, and looked to be a sympathy card, though it seems the only person who could derive any comfort from such a card at this point is Stone's wife — that is to say, his widow.
She and her infant child are away somewhere, casualties too of the Monday morning rampage in which Stone, authorities say, methodically exterminated his ex-wife and much of her family before retreating to a patch of woods and killing himself.
Killed in the attack were Stone's ex-wife, Nicole Hill, 33, of Lower Salford; and Hill's mother and grandmother, Joanne T. Gilbert, 57, and Patricia Hill, 75, both of Lansdale.
In Souderton, police said, Stone murdered Hill's sister, Patricia Flick, brother-in-law Aaron Flick, and their 14-year-old daughter Nina. The couple's son, Anthony, 17, survived but is hospitalized with a skull fracture and severed fingers.
It was a sickening 90-minute spree across Montgomery County. It began and ended before the sun rose. And it spurred a mammoth police response — especially in Pennsburg, where Stone was last seen leaving his daughters with a neighbor. A custody dispute with his ex-wife over these girls, age 7 and 5, was apparently the root cause of the massacre, and they are surely too young to understand it.
Pennsburg hardly had the worst of things. The killings were in Souderton, Lansdale and Lower Salford. But it was the focal point of the manhunt.
"It was a lot of cops cars and a lot of people staring," said Emily Ruth, 23, walking with her friend Lauren Krchnavi on Thursday through streets once more returned to placidity.
"Everybody's over it," she said.
For all of the week's fireworks, Stone's house looked more like it had been foreclosed on by a bank than assaulted by tactical units, which is what actually happened and why the doors and windows were boarded up.
The other side of the twin, richly adorned with the reds and greens of Christmas cheer, was intact and looked quite inviting. I almost knocked on the door but thought better of it, imagining the people who live there have had quite enough of trauma and reporters.
I stopped into Bibs and Britches, Terry Place's consignment shop near Stone's house. She watched and listened Monday as the police shouted surrender commands through bullhorns and tossed flash-bang grenades through the windows to flush out Stone, who was not there.
"Someone asked me if I was scared," Place said. "But we were totally surrounded by police, SWAT teams and snipers. If that guy was around, he would never have made it to me."
On reflection, though, Place rather wishes she'd had a chance to make it to Stone before things took the turn they did. He was her neighbor, and she didn't really know him.
"Now I want to know all my neighbors," she said, mentioning how she is now making a point of saying hello to people when she walks her dog.
"We need to know each other as neighbors so we can really help each other," she said.
This is not to say Stone had no opportunities to help himself. It seems he tried. He was in court-ordered counseling after being arrested for drunken driving. He had remarried and had a baby, which doesn't seem like something a man treading the knife edge of homicidal impulses would do.
But, as Place's friend and co-worker Robert Schultz pointed out, "He was in Iraq. Who knows what he saw over there?"
This is worth pondering. Maybe the part of the man that restrained his worst impulses died in the desert. Stone had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, severe enough to put him on permanent disability. You can't know what kind of seed will sprout in that kind of soil.
On the other hand, a psychiatrist with the Department of Veterans Affairs examined Stone this month and concluded he was "without any suicidal or homicidal ideation."
Anyway, Christmas is coming to Pennsburg. It might be a good year to go caroling, house to house through the quiet streets.


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Scottish Borders Council seeks community gritting effort
Communities in the Borders are being invited to "help themselves" when it comes to gritting areas of their towns of villages.
Scottish Borders Council has agreed to provide salt bins to community councils who have signed up for the authority's Resilient Communities Initiative.
Cuts to the region's "primary network" led to concerns in some rural areas.
Councillor Gordon Edgar said the grit bin strategy could pay off for areas willing to get involved.
"It is part of the resilience plan, if you like, that communities can become involved and take part in their own safety," he explained.
"The provision of equipment is from the council and within their resilience plan they will have set up a procedure so they can use the equipment to their best benefit.
"Some of the community councils are very active in providing services for their communities and these are the ones we are targeting to begin with."


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Carousel Reviews
Michael Coveney
'The singing throughout is excellent…Yvonne Howard's Nettie Flower releasing all the joy and glee of June is Bustin' Out All Over as well as the anthemic grandeur of You'll Never Walk Alone… it's worth saying that the sound balance at the Barbican is perfect, unaffected by the crude amplification that blights so many musical theatre performances these days… A great evening.'
Tom Wicker
Time Out
'Opera North's revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most operatic musical is richly orchestrated and vibrant…It blazes into life with each well-choreographed chorus number: hearing the music sung by such talented singers and played by a full-strength orchestra is a pleasure. Yvonne Howard's gorgeous rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone rescues it from football stadium banality and will have you choking back tears.'
Michael Billington
'Easily the best Carousel since Nicholas Hytner's National Theatre revival nearly 20 years ago.'
Libby Purves
The Times
'If there is one classic musical that deserves an opera company - strong voices, full orchestra, swarming chorus, James Holmes on the baton - it is this. Rodgers and Hammerstein's darkest story has as much spoken dialogue as any theatre musical but is essentially made of songs fully operatic in their close, sensitive following of each character's emotional pulse… Davies and Ward are right to eschew gimmicky updating… The task, therefore, is not to fiddle around, but to serve the material, and this it does. Michael Todd Simpson has a surly bad-boy charm as Billy, and Katherine Manley is a Julie Jordan who from the start lives up to Carrie's description "quieter 'n' deeper than a well"… Got me hook, line and sinker, as the fishermen would say.'
Sarah Hemming
Financial Times
'Julie (a lovely, warm performance from Katherine Manley) falls for the roguish Billy Bigelow. Michael Todd Simpson's Billy, with his hair curling over his collar, has the right touch of sexy danger, but also projects his character's volatility and vulnerability. All four interpret the songs with great subtlety and, as opera singers, are able to unleash real power.'
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By Harriet McLeod
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - First-term Republican U.S. Representative Tim Scott will fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by arch-conservative Jim DeMint of South Carolina, becoming the only African-American in the Senate and the first since President Barack Obama.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on Monday chose Scott to replace their fellow Republican and become the first black senator from the South since the late 1800s.
Speculation had centered on Scott, 47, as the likely replacement since DeMint announced on December 6 that he was stepping down from the Senate in order to head the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
But Scott's departure from the House, coupled with the defeat of fellow conservative Allen West of Florida on November 6, will leave the Republicans without a black representative in the lower chamber of Congress.
More than nine out of 10 African-American voters supported the Democrat Obama in the November 6 election, but it is a Republican who becomes the only black in the Senate, the first black Republican since Edward W. Brooke III of Massachusetts lost his seat in 1978.
Scott won his House seat in 2010 by defeating Paul Thurmond, the son of Strom Thurmond, the long-serving South Carolina Republican Senator who ran on a segregationist ticket for president in 1948.
Scott will serve through 2014, when a special election will be held two years earlier than would have been required had DeMint decided to serve out his term. Haley predicted Scott would "sail through" the 2014 election.
A special election will be held in May to fill Scott's House of Representatives seat.
Scott's appointment keeps DeMint's seat in Republican hands, but Democrats will hold control 55-45 when the new Senate meets in January.
Attending the announcement by Haley at the state Capitol in Columbia along with DeMint, Scott said: "Our nation needs some backbone."
Questioning where the country is going fiscally, Scott said that his work would center on tax reform and spending controls.
"We have a spending problem in America ... You could take all the revenue from the top 2 percent and you simply could not close the annual deficit. That's a challenge," he added.
DeMint congratulated Haley on her choice, describing Scott as "a principled leader" who "will make an outstanding senator for the people of South Carolina and an important voice for conservatives across the nation."
DeMint, 61, said Scott has inspired him since the first time he heard him speak in public. "There is a way out of this quagmire we've got in Washington, and you've got great ideas," DeMint said to Scott. "What the federal government is doing is likely to end up with some kind of meltdown."
Scott was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010 with support from the fiscally conservative Tea Party movement that also helped Haley win the governor's office that year for the Republican party.
A real estate company owner prior to being elected to Congress, Scott served on the Charleston County Council for 13 years, and in the South Carolina House of Representatives for two years.
Scott, who represents a coastal district that includes Charleston, has been one of the most conservative members of Congress. He sponsored legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, known as "Obamacare," opposed raising the nation's debt limit and supported DeMint's fiscal "cut, cap and balance" pledge.
DeMint, a leading voice in the modern American conservative movement who has riled fellow Republicans as well as Democrats, surprised both parties when he announced his retirement.
First elected to the Senate in 2004 after six years in the House of Representatives, DeMint was re-elected in 2010 by a wide margin.
Last year, DeMint was a founder of the Senate Tea Party Caucus, which now has four members. Three more Tea Party favorites were elected to the Senate.
His resignation came only two days after he won praise from hard-liners by ripping into one of the top Republicans, Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner.
The 61-year-old South Carolinian, who preaches the value of small government and freely criticizes fellow Republicans, blasted Boehner for violating a long-time Party taboo: proposing increased revenue as part of a deficit-reduction plan.
DeMint's small-government views became especially popular in recent years with the rise of the fiscally conservative Tea Party movement.
That movement suffered some big losses in last month's election, however, when Obama won a second term as president and the Republicans failed to win back the Senate.
"The reason I'm leaving the Senate is I believe that this idea of taking the case to the American people is something that I can do much more effectively from the Heritage Foundation knowing that my seat is filled by someone who's going to take the stands that we need to in the Senate," DeMint said.
Founded in 1973, the Heritage Foundation, a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol, is one of the nation's leading think tanks. With 700,000 members, it has helped shape the debate in Washington for years.
(Additional reporting by Samuel P. Jacobs in Washington; Editing By David Adams, Eric Walsh, Alden Bentley and Gunna Dickson)


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The World Health Organization warns the risk of developing potentially life-threatening deep-vein thrombosis doubles after plane and other forms of travel lasting four hours or more. But, it says the risks remain relatively low. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva where WHO has just released a study based on extensive examinations of tens of thousands of travelers.
The World Health Organization says travelers who remain immobile for four or more hours are at greater risk of developing blood clots in their veins, which could lead to death.
It says those taking multiple flights over a short period of time are also at higher risk. It says the risk does not go away completely after a flight is over, but remains elevated for about four weeks.
But, WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases, Catherine Le Gales-Camus says the chance of developing deep vein thrombosis is only one in 6,000
"The risk increases due to a stagnation of blood in the veins caused by prolonged immobility, which can promote blood clot formation," said Catherine Le Gales-Camus. "The risk is higher not only after flights, but also in any mode of transport where the passenger is seated and immobile for long periods of time."
Dr. Gales-Camus says air travelers are not the only ones at risk. She says people who remain seated and immobile in a car, a bus or a train for more than four hours also are flirting with danger.
Deep vein thrombosis is a condition in which a blood clot develops in a deep vein. Problems set in when a blood clot in a vein breaks off, travels to the lung where it becomes lodged and blocks blood flow. Symptoms of what is known as pulmonary embolism include chest pain and breathing difficulties. If left untreated, it can lead to death.
The report shows people who are very fat, very tall or very short are at increased risk of getting deep vein thrombosis during travel. WHO explains people who are very tall and travel in a confined space do not have enough legroom. And, very short people, it says may not be able to reach the floor and exercise their legs.
Other factors that can increase the risk, says WHO, include the use of oral contraceptives and inherited blood disorders leading to increased clotting tendency.
WHO Senior Adviser in Cardiovascular Diseases, Shanthi Mendis says to decrease the risks, people have to move.
"We know that exercises at the ankle depend on movement of the feet and will improve the blood circulation in the calves," said Shanthi Mendis. "Other commonsense measures would be, for example, you would want people to wear not very tight clothing and also people should not be taking sedative drugs and too much alcohol because that could promote immobility and not promote movement."
The study also cautions long-haul travelers not to take anti-thrombotic medicines, such as aspirin, because they can have side effects and lead to hemorrhaging.


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Live at Paradiso: ARLING's BOMBAY CONNECTION SITAR BAND
Arling's Bombay Connection Band revives the amazingly funky grooves of the background music from Hindi films of the 1970's. For the first time in 30 years these grooves are performed live since they were recorded while the films were projected at the walls in legendary Bombay studios such as MEHBOOB and FAMOUS.
These Bollywood grooves are married to the tradition of the SITAR JAZZ. The funky grooves of the 1970s Bollywood scores, their unexpected turns and twists, and the hard-rocking psychedelic sitar explorations form the new soundtrack to the 1979 cult classic SURAKKSHA. It draws the audience into the adventures of GUNMASTER G-9, the Indian Bruce Lee-John Travolta-James Bond-in-one, filled to the brim with Bombay chases, fake-moustached villains, underwater headquarters, cheesy dances, atomic explosions and cheap special effects.
The music for the film is especially arranged by composer and arranger GERRY ARLING, of the well-known duo ARLING & CAMERON. His keen cinematic ears were instantly triggered by the unconventional, genre-crossing, energetic and sometimes outrageous Hindi film instrumentals, and led him to revive this sound on stage with a full fledged band. Performed in its original form, yet contemporising it with fresh arrangements and blending in his own compositions.
For the repertoire of the Band Edo Bouman from Bombay Connection Records dug up the most exciting slices of Bollywood funk from the vaults of Bombay, often from long forgotten B-films like CHOR POLICE, DIL DIWANA and BOMBAY TO GOA. The band also revives the closely related music of the sitar psych funk legend ANANDA SHANKAR, the cousin of RAVI SHANKAR whom married Western rock with the classical Indian sitar tradition.
GUNMASTER G-9 in SURAKKSHA (1979)
The concept for the 1979 thriller SURAKKSHA (safety) was to make a film on a story line of James Bond, with a hero who fights like Bruce Lee and dances like John Travolta, Indian style. Indeed they did, and the result is a extremely colourful, wide angle funky film soaked with karate fights, motorbike chases and underseas headquarters. The film, originally 2 hours and 20 minutes long, has been brought back to 70 minutes for the show and functions as something between a feature film and a action filled trailer, compiling all best action scenes from the film at breathtaking speed.
SITAR: Tammo Heikens, Ashok Pathak
TABLAS: Sandip Bhattacharya / Sathyam Sheoratan
TURNTABLES: Kypski
FLUTE-SAX-THEREMIN: Jan Klug
KEYBOARDS: Hans Kaldeway
DRUMS: Harry Arling
BASS: Gerry Arling
The dancers SUJATA GOEL and TAREK HALABY perform the piece DISCO DANCER, a choreography made after a dance in the similar titled Bollywood movie from 1982. The piece is both celebrating and commenting on the exploitation disco Bollywood films of the 1980s, making for a colorful, hilarious deconstruction with the gracious movements of refined, thoroughly trained modern dancers. Also the famous hard rocking Bollywood surf JAN PEHACHAN HO from the murder mystery GUMNAAM (1966, featured in Ghost World), is given a similar treatment by Goel and Halaby. The piece DISCO DANCER was received very well in the dance world, and has been performed in many places, among others in France (Lille3000) and the UK (Tate Gallery London). The collaboration with Bombay Connection marks the beginning of a research into the history of Bollywood dance from the 40s into the early 90s culminating in different projects.
Sujata Goel (India/USA) is schooled thoroughly in the south Indian tradition of Bharatanatyam under her teachers V.P. and Shantha Dhananjayan and at the Kalakshetra; Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts. She worked with Madras based choreographer Padmini Chettur for 4 years and then moved to Brussels to study at Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker' contemporary dance school PARTS in Brussels. TAREK HALABY is an American-Palestinian dancer who got his dance training at the The University of Iowa. For three years he lived and worked in New York dancing with various companies and independent choreographers, after which Tarek took Brussels as his base and studied at de KEERSMAEKER's PARTS.


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How it is changing the world we live in. Social Media What is it? Where did it start? 1971 - ARPANET first major network of computers Today's Social Media 2005 "Social media refers to the means of
interactions among people in which
they create, share, exchange and comment
contents among themselves in virtual
communities and networks." Ahlqvist, Toni; Bäck, A., Halonen, M., Heinonen, S (2008). 1971 - First "real" email is sent 1982 - The word "Internet" is used for the first time. 1989 -The World (world.std.com) debuts as the first provider of dial-up Internet access for consumers. Dawn of the modern era 1994 - Student Justin Hall creates first blog 1995 - Classmates.com and Yahoo are launched 1997 - AOL announces AIM [Instant messenger] "Blog" A Web site on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis. Gives everybody the power to blog 2003 2004 2006 1997 Occupy Movement Egypt uprising Invisible Children, INC. Social Media's Role in Politics Marketing Cons of Social Media Conclusion In 2008 election Obama dominated social media More than 450,000 Facebook users have joined Occupy Wall Street pages to date. Personal information can be stolen or misused.
Online interaction can be a substitute for actual meeting
Require time / loss of productivity
Make it easy to spread rumors
Allows for misrepresentation and false news
Once posted information does not go away
Regrettable information can your employment Benefits of Social Media Allows for easier socialization
Provide an easy alternative to create social connections
Makes it easy to connect and converse
Allows for simpler networking
Easy to share information
Provides a method for inexpensive marketing
Allows an easy means for political causes to organize, recruit and spread their message Closing Remarks 1997 - Term "blog" is coined Nearly 2 million supporters on MySpace
Around 6.5 million supports Facebook
And 1.7 million supporters on Twitter In 2012 election Obama is still the victor in the social media battle Obama had 22.7 million followers and 32.2 million likes
Romney had 1.8 million followers and 12.1 million likes http://knowledge.insead.edu/innovation/how-obama-used-social-networking-tools-to-win-1600
http://blog.hootsuite.com/election-tracker-results/ "If you want to liberate a country, give them the internet" -Ghonim Social Media allows the movement to circumvent traditional media. Many celebrities tweeted about the video including Oprah and Justin Bieber. Within a few days 58% of American adults age 18-30 had heard of KONY 2012 http://edudemic.com/2012/04/understanding-how-social-media-fueled-the-kony-2012-craze/ Creates community Market research User-generated communication Promotions and discounts Loyalty programs Big Data "This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone GPS signals to name a few. This data is big data." Ibm what is big data?. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/bigdata/ Sources Foulger, M. (7, November 2012). Social media's role in the 2012 us election: Obama breaks twitter records. Retrieved from http://blog.hootsuite.com/election-tracker-results/
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The Best Trolling Motor Battery in the Market
The battery is the most vital part of a trolling motor. A trolling motor would not work without a battery. It supplies the required power to the trolling motor. If one loves fishing, one must always buy the best battery for the trolling motor.
Trolling motor batteries are fully rechargeable. Some important factors must be considered when buying a battery for the trolling motor.
- Type of battery
- Amp-hour ratings
- Vibration Resistance
- Spill-proof
- Thrust of trolling motor
- Fishing conditions
- Boat weight and size
- Weather conditions
- Price of the battery
- Volt system of trolling motor
Type of battery
Batteries for trolling motors are designed differently specially for the trolling motor use. One cannot just use any type of battery for running a trolling motor. For trolling motor, the mostly used and preferred batteries are the AGM batteries and the marine wet acid batteries.
Flooded or wet acid batteries are designed especially for trolling motor use, deep discharging and recharging. These batteries last for two to two and half years and are cheap in cost. One can purchase a flooded deep cycle standard battery for 100$, which is an ideal deal for that much use.
AGM batteries are not flooded type. These batteries contain absorbed glass mat between the plates and the battery is not filled with liquid acid, which make it different from a standard wet cell deep cycle marine batteries. The lives of the AGM batteries are longer than that of the wet acid batteries that are the batteries live for three to four years. The AGM batteries are costly, but it can be considered as these batteries don't require extra maintenance or service and don't have the risks of acid leaking or gas leak. If one has a high budget, then an AGM battery is the best choice for a trolling motor. However, deep cycle batteries are the best batteries for a trolling motor.
Amp-hour rating
Before getting a battery for trolling, one must look for the amp-hour rating that is written at the sole of the battery. if the amp-hour rate of the battery is given 200 amp-hour, the battery will give 200 amp-hour, say one is running a trolling motor in a low speed and using 5 amps, than the battery will last for 40 hours, but if one is running the battery in full speed and using 50 amps, than the battery will last 4 hours. An ideal battery for the trolling motor must have at least 100 amp-hour rating. The more is the rating, the longer will the battery run.
Vibration resistance
While running an engine boat as well as the trolling motor, it is obvious that the base of the boat is going to vibrate, so is the battery going to vibrate too. The battery has plates placed in a specific manner, and the plates decide the life of a particular battery. When the battery is prone to vibration and regularly gets this, the plates inside the battery get displaced and slowly the battery starts getting damaged, the battery becomes unable to hold that much charge like it did earlier, the battery will get heated very fast and definitely make the battery dead and there will be the need to get a new battery. So one must always go for the trolling motor battery that is resistant to vibration and are designed in a special manner to face the vibrations, else the battery won't last long, no matter what the cost or the estimated lifespan is.
For the wet acid cell or the flooded batteries, spilling and leaking of the acids is a very common and concerning problem. The acids might spill and may cause a permanent damage to the boat in which the trolling motor is mounted, or it may also damage the wires that connect the trolling motor, and can also hurt the person who is handling the batteries. In the modern market with the advanced technologies, new things are being invented and innovated. Some flooded batteries come with sealed cases that are spill proof and some are sealed with in the batteries, like the gelled batteries. So in case, one is buying a flooded battery, the battery must be completely sealed and must be spill proof.
Thrust of trolling motor
Thrust of a trolling motor is very important in a trolling motor. Thrust is the power in other words. So, the power required from the battery depends on the thrust the trolling motor needs. If more thrust is needed then the amp-hour rating should be more.
Fishing conditions
One can fish in two conditions usually, shallow water and deep water. For shallow water, the power is not required much, but in deep water fishing, the power requirement is high and one must also keep in mind that due to battery shortage one doesn't get stuck in the middle of the more water. So it is best to select a battery for trolling motor that has a high amperage hour rating.
Boat weight and size
Boat weight and size is one important factor to be noted while selecting a battery for trolling motor. The more is the size of the boat, the more thrust is needed and so is the power, but this doesn't mean that the battery needs to be heavy and large.
One must measure the space on the boat for the battery, if there is no much space then one must buy a small size battery. If the boat is already heavy, one would not want to add an extra heavy weight to the boat, as it could slow down the speed of the boat.
AGM batteries are not a good choice for small size boats with less space, as this type of batteries requires permanent mounting on the boat. So it is no use if the mounting is not possible. For small size boats standard deep cycle marine batteries are the best.
Weather conditions
The conditions of weather are a necessary condition to be considered. The water and the weather can very possibly affect the performance and the run time of the battery. A trolling motor that draws 30 amps at a normal speed in a good weather condition may draw 40 amperages in a bad and stormy weather for the same applied speed on the same boat. So if one has plans to fish regularly on the stormy weather conditions, then this factor must also be calculated before buying a battery for trolling motor, else it might create an unwanted issue in the business.
Volt system of trolling motor
Volt system is one of the most important factors that decide the battery needed. In a trolling motor with 12 volt system, only one battery is required, but for higher thrusts, volt systems increases, like 24 volt system, 36 volt system and so on. Now, with the increasing volt systems, the number of batteries also increases, for 24 volt system, two 12 volt batteries are required and for 36 volt system, three 12 volt batteries are required. One can use a 12 volt battery in a 24 volt system; one would not get the desired power and the thrust, so it is better to go by the rules as it might also damage the trolling motor system.
It is best to buy the same type of batteries for a single trolling motor, and should never connect the old and the new batteries in the same circuit. The negative terminal of a battery should always be connected to the positive terminal of the other battery. One should never connect the positive to the positive or the negative to the negative, as it will cause damage to the motor. Simple rules must be remembered and followed if one doesn't want to lose the life of the battery before time.
Price of the battery
Price or cost of the battery is an important factor. It is not true that cheap is good, the truth is, cheap can be disastrous as these batteries could leak acids and gas that might cause damage to the boat. In the other hand, too much expensive is also not good. The cost must be medium and must give a sufficient result and lifespan. A premium battery costing 100$ is a perfect choice as it may be costly but has a long durability and power, which worth the cost.
Considering all of the factors, before getting a battery, one must be sure about maintaining the battery;
- The batteries must be charged after every use, as leaving the batteries simply in discharged conditions will decrease the life span as well as the performance of the battery.
- In case the battery is a flooded type, the water level must be regularly checked as if the water dries out, the battery might die.
- The terminals must be cleaned and checked for corrosion.
- During off seasons, when there is no use of the trolling motor and the battery needs to be sat for a long time, the battery must be placed at a dry and cool place and must be charged at times.
One should look for the best and buy even better than the best. A good research is very necessary before getting a battery for the trolling motor.


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