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Get up-to-date information on Future Farm
Get up to date information on Future Farms Technologies
Future Farm is rapidly becoming a leading indoor plant growth technology company specializing in LED lighting and vertical farming solutions.
Future Farm's business model includes developing and acquiring technologies that will further its position as a leader in the evolving Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) market for the global production of various types of plants. Future Farm provides scalable, indoor CEA systems that utilize minimal land, water and energy regardless of climate, location or time of year and are customized to grow an abundance of crops close to consumers, therefore minimizing food miles and its impact to the environment. The Company holds a worldwide license to use a patented vertical farming technology that, when compared to traditional plant production methods, generate yields up to 10 times greater per square foot of land. The contained system provides many other benefits including seed to sale security, scalability, consistency due to year-round production, cost control, product safety and purity by eliminating environmental variability.
Future Farm is also in the business of developing and distributing LED based lighting solutions for both commercial and residential applications. The focus is on delivering cost efficient lighting to North America via advanced e-commerce sites that the Company owns and operates. Future LEDCanada.com website, which caters to all Canadian consumers as well as B2B customers via Contractor and Re-Seller login areas, attracts thousands of customers per month. The Company also owns and operates COBGrowlights.com, which caters to both large and small greenhouses and indoor cultivation individuals. The Company's Growthstar brand of LED lights have been top rated for almost 5 years and its newest COB and MCOB (Chip on Board and Multiple Chips on Board) technologies are proving to be game changers in the world of "LED Grow Lights" with 50% reduction in power use and many other benefits.


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I'm having trouble getting the visualizer to actually work. I bought the Audio-Visual pack and tried following the youtube tutorial to the letter, but when I set the audio input to the layer holding my music, the visualizer pops up but is just a line of dots and I can't figure out how to get it to respond to the audio. I'm pretty new to the software as a whole so it's probably something silly that isn't switched on or something.
Cheers for the reply man! Unfortunately this is the very tutorial I was talking about. I copied step for step as best I could, but at 1:31 where he sets the input to the song and you can clearly see the waveform pop up, when I do the same a line of dots pop up and no moving through the timeline gets the waveform to show up. I'm going to make sure I have the most updated version and all that jazz, but if anyone has any other ideas I'd be very grateful to hear them
I'm wondering if the height parameter is set to 0 in the colors section of the effect, or if it needs to be bumped up a bit.
No I dont think its that. I feel like I've messed with pretty much every parameter possible. Tried changing the height and colour and width, the type of line etc.
The music doesn't play in the composite shot either. I know that the song works because it plays in the trimmer section and in the editor window if i drag it in, but cant get it to play in the composite shot which I assume is very much linked to the issue.
Doesn't matter what audio I use, none work, both MP3 and WAV
Considering that no sound file works, it sounds like there might still be something missing in your setup of the effect that's preventing it from working. Can you post a screenshot of your HitFilm window with the effect open in the Controls tab, similar to the setup shown in Axel's demo? The forum can't host images, so you'll have to upload the image to another server (imgur.com works well) and add the image via its URL on that server.
Thanks. I tried setting up something similar matching your settings, and while it wasn't flatlined like yours appears to be, it did behave strangely, getting "stuck" in different patterns for an oddly long time. It could be that yours is sticking based on the start of the audio file, where it might be silent for a few milliseconds. One tweak that seemed to fix this was to change the Duration value to something much smaller, like the default 100ms. Try that and see if it makes a difference.
Doesn't make a difference I feel like there's just something really wrong happening, I've tried messing with pretty much every slider. Pretty annoying cause I dropped about $60 bucks on it and I can't get it to do the one thing it's meant to
Long shot: are your video card drivers up to date?
That aside, I suggest contacting support to see what they can do.

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Eastern Shore Harvest Directory
A project of the USRC, the Eastern Shore Harvest Directory is a free tool offered to businesses in Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne's Counties which encourages consumers to shop local and makes it easier for them to do so. The Harvest Directory was recently revamped by the GIS team, after last having been updated in 2005. The website is full of content ranging from videos from site visits to businesses, recipes, and area specialized searches. The Upper Shore Regional Councilhas teamed up with Washington College GIS to make this project a success.
In addition to the website, the Weyr Media team contracted help to produce an app to make finding businesses and farmers markets simple to do, even on the go. The app is currently available in the Android Market, and is coming soon to the iTunes App Store.


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Used Oil Certified Centers
Used Motor Oil and Filter Recycling
The City of Chino offers door-to-door pick up service for Used Motor Oil and Filters. To schedule a pick up, contact Waste Management at (800) 423-9986 at least 24 hours in advance of your regular trash collection day.
Used Motor Oil and Filters may also be taken to any of the following Certified Collection Centers:
5780 Riverside Drive
(909) 591-6529
12160 Central Avenue
(909) 548-6682
Big O Tires
14135 Pipeline Avenue
(909) 548-6682
Chino Hills Ford
4480 Chino Hills Parkway
(909) 203-5700
Jiffy Lube
4143 Riverside Drive
(909) 627-6873
O'Reilly Auto Parts
12516 Central Avenue
(909) 591-4878
Pep Boys
4046 Grand Avenue
(909) 590-7141
Pep Boys
11980 Central Avenue
(909) 627-3662
For more information on Certified Collection Centers, please contact the California Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) at
(916) 341-6457 or visit their website at www.calrecycle.ca.gov/UsedOil


text: photo: Robert & Mihaela Vicol at publicphoto.org The Dark Ages fascinate for many reasons. First of all, they were really, really dark. Imagine living without street lights to show your way or a lamp to read by–not to mention a computer screen. I once read a book about the dark and how it felt to […]...Dec 20, 2013 / More »


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Depending on one's political persuasion, the Endangered Species Act is either a glaring example of federal overreach or a critical safety net for scores of plants and animals that are at risk of extinction. Its impact is felt across the country in regulations that protect the spotted owl and salmon in the Pacific Northwest, the red-cockaded woodpecker in the Southeast, the Mojave Desert tortoise in the Southwest, and the whooping crane on the Gulf Coast.
Thanks to the act, over 220 species have avoided extinction and remain in the wild, including the bald eagle, brown pelican, American alligator, peregrine falcon, and northern right whale.
When Richard Nixon signed the law in 1973, few expected it to be as controversial as it eventually became. It was passed by Congress with little opposition, but by the 1990s, the Wise Use movement and extractive industries like forestry, mining, and oil and gas were bristling at the land use restrictions that accompanied federal decisions to list endangered species, while at the same time, environmental groups were filing lawsuits to force the federal government to use the law even more aggressively.
To varying degrees, the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations each adopted policies designed to reduce the conflicts between the warring sides and make it more appealing for private landowners to protect rare species. Those efforts were important, because 75% of endangered species occur on private land. Without the cooperation of landowners, their chances of rebounding were slim.
Because of incentive-based policies, over 130 conservation "banks" have been established on private lands to protect 70+ species, including the Florida panther, golden-cheeked warbler, American burying beetle, and gopher tortoise. Private investors, as well as ranchers, farmers, and forest owners, have invested millions of dollars in land management practices that help rare species in return for the right to sell "credits" to companies that destroy the species' habitat elsewhere. Regulated industries benefit from a streamlined permitting process.
The Obama Administration crafted policies to clarify and improve the incentives. It also worked with states, ranchers, industries, and conservation groups to formulate ambitious, large-scale conservation plans intended to preclude the need for federal protection altogether and give more flexibility to state governments. Unfortunately, the Trump Administration appears determined to undermine these efforts.
On March 28, 2017 President Trump signed an Executive Order on Energy and Climate Change that reversed key parts of the Obama Administration's agenda. The intent was to unleash fossil fuel development, especially on public lands, by relaxing environmental requirements applicable to oil, gas, and coal that were supposedly holding the industry back.
Among the several actions that the executive order rescinded was a relatively obscure Presidential Memorandum dated November 3, 2015 titled "Mitigating Impacts on Natural Resources from Development and Encouraging Related Private Investment." Unlike the other actions rescinded by the order (Power Sector Carbon Pollution Standards, Climate Change and National Security, and Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change), the 2015 Obama Memorandum did not address climate change or energy development.
Rather, it directed federal agencies to formulate policies that would encourage private investment in natural resource conservation, a goal that should be appealing to conservatives and liberals alike.
The 2015 Obama Presidential Memorandum had ordered agencies to refine their species mitigation programs, including conservation banking, to ensure they produced measurable outcomes. It required an increased level of transparency and consistency for the regulated industries and landowners. It was designed to level the playing field among conservation bankers and other providers of species mitigation. In short, it was intended to create conditions in which the free market could work efficiently for endangered species. It is hard to imagine a rational justification for abandoning this common sense policy; like a number of other environmental decisions by the Trump Administration, this one appears to be driven by the notion that, regardless of the merits, if the previous administration put the policy in place, it must be reversed.
The Endangered Species Act has become highly politicized, despite the fact that polls show a core of strong, unwavering public support for the law. Republicans in Congress have introduced dozens of bills in the last year that would undermine its protections. A far better approach, a win-win for private landowners and industry, would be to fine-tune the tools developed by previous administrations to harness the power of the marketplace and the willingness of private landowners to protect the nation's natural heritage.
Tags: Endangered species, Development, Land Executive orders, Trump administration
Energy | Land Use
John Milner's recent post on executive orders, memorandums, and proclamations taps into something that is quite new and different for environmental lawyers—a president who uses these and other "direct actions" to shape environmental policy from day one, and who is doing so largely by undoing his predecessor's direct actions.
I've recently completed two empirical studies of presidential direct actions from FDR through the first year of the Trump Administration. In one paper we look at what topics presidents have focused on overall through time and then drill down on environmental (and energy) policies. In the other paper we examine the practice of presidents revoking predecessor direct actions (through yet another direct action).
Despite what you may read in the media, President Trump is by no means unlike other presidents in using direct actions, and lots of them, to steer policy early in his term, or in revoking predecessor direct actions to get the job done. What sets him apart is how early in his term he focused on environmental and energy policy, and how aggressive he has been in revoking President Obama's direct actions in those fields. And then there's…the tweets. Let's take these one at a time.
Direct Actions and the Environment: There is a rich history of presidents using the big four direct actions—executive orders, memorandums, proclamations, and determinations—to shape policy straight from the White House, but environmental policy has not played a big role. Once you take out public lands policy, including the Antiquities Act, environmental policy has been a small component of direct action activity. Energy policy has been more prominent, however, and to the extent the two fields are increasingly merging, one does see more presidential attention going their way, but not usually concentrated at the beginning of a term. President Trump is quite different in this respect, using direct actions to dramatically change environmental and energy policy right out of the gate.
Revoking Direct Actions: Presidents have revoked predecessor direct actions throughout history, and with great frequency. Here President Trump is no different, except that he is the first to bear down so much on environmental and energy policy. Part of the reason, of course, is that President Obama used direct actions to shape much of his administration's environmental and energy policy, meaning President Trump could not advance his policies without negating President Obama's actions. But he has gone further than that. For example, while not completely unprecedented, his orders "shrinking" existing national monuments established by Presidents Clinton and Obama have, for the first time, called into question whether a president has the power to do so.
Tweets as Direct Actions: The rising use by politicians of social media as a channel of communication has raised questions regarding the status of President Trump's frequent "tweets" as official policy. If the pen is mightier than the sword, is a tweet from the President even mightier?
Until recently, no one could be blamed for thinking a tweet is just a tweet—but they warrant their own treatment (tweetment?) given how important a role they have come to play in the Trump Administration. For example, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer somewhat circularly explained the status of President Trump's tweets, stating that "The President is the President of the United States, so they're considered official statements by the President of the United States." CNNPolitics, White House: Trump's Tweets are "Official Statements." Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals apparently took him at his word when ruling on the so-called "travel ban," pointing to a Trump tweet as tantamount to an official presidential "assessment." Hawaii v. Trump, No. 17-15589, n. 14 (9th Cir., June 12, 2017). Indeed, the Department of Justice recently declared in litigation that Trump's tweets are "official statements of the President of the United States." James Madison Project v. Dep't of Justice. It's not entirely clear where we are supposed to go with that—are tweets truly direct actions, or just official statements, and what's the difference?
Presidents through time have shaped policy through direct actions, revoked predecessor direct actions, and, more recently, tweeted. For environmental lawyers, though, President Trump has done all three in ways that seem to be changing the rules of the game. Stay tuned for more? How can you not?
Tags: Trump Administration, Tweets, Executive Orders, Direct Action
Environmental Protection Agency | Legislation
On May 23, 2017, President Trump issued his Fiscal 2018 budget proposal. EPA's press release, issued the same day, declared: "EPA Budget Returns Focus to Core Statutory Mission." https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-budget-returns-focus-core-statutory-mission EPA made clear that "returning" to the "mission" means reducing the size of the agency. EPA's budget would be cut by 31 percent, compared to the Fiscal 2017 enacted budget, and its current workforce would be cut by 25 percent. The President proposes to cut 600 more positions than indicated in his March 16 budget proposal (which was abandoned with surprisingly little fanfare when the President signed the Fiscal 2017 enacted budget on May 5).
But there is at least one bright spot in the President's new budget proposal. Funding is to be preserved for programs "supporting the President's focus on the nation's infrastructure." "Infrastructure," according to EPA, includes improvements to drinking water systems. Toward that end, the budget includes $2.3 billion for State Revolving Funds and $20 million in additional appropriations for the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program.
The President is sticking by his campaign promise to help communities like Flint, Michigan finance improvements needed to reduce lead in drinking water, particularly in homes and schools. Providing funding for these particular programs stands in contrast to the overall tenor of the budget, and the campaign's promise to eliminate "wasteful" EPA grants.
Revelations in Flint triggered widespread and, as it turns out, legitimate concerns about the effectiveness of existing regulatory programs to protect against lead contamination in drinking water. http://www.goodwinlaw.com/-/media/files/publications/attorney-articles/2017/eba-winter-journal-2017flint-inspires-renewed-vigi.pdf It has been more than 30 years since Congress enacted the Safe Drinking Water Act, and more than 25 years since EPA adopted the Lead and Copper Rule ("LCR"). After Flint, increased lead testing in schools, and greater scrutiny of data already being collected by public water systems, revealed that elevated lead levels continue to be a pervasive problem in U.S. cities and school buildings (including more than half of the 300 public school buildings tested in 2016 in Massachusetts).
In October 2016, in the waning days of the Obama administration, EPA issued a white paper that announced that the LCR and its implementation are in urgent need of overhaul. The LCR is a protocol for testing and treatment, not a set of numerical standards. EPA stated that more prescriptive requirements that are more effective and readily enforceable need to be adopted. Notwithstanding the Trump administration's current war on environmental regulation, EPA has stated that it intends to formulate more stringent and clear requirements. Meanwhile, in December 2016, Congress actually succeeded in amending the Safe Drinking Water Act to replace the moribund school drinking water provision, which was declared unconstitutional in 1996, with a new provision that, among other things, established a voluntary school lead testing grant program.
It is apparent that, on the issue of safe drinking water at least, the Trump administration has accurately measured the political mood. Despite draconian cuts proposed to almost all of EPA's budget and staffing, the administration has recognized that improving the regulation, testing and treatment of drinking water in schools and public water systems is politically expedient, and may do more good than harm. It is good policy and good politics.
Tags: Safe Drinking Water Act, SDWA, EPA Budget, Trump Administration
When President Trump issued his energy-related Executive Order in March directing further review by the EPA Administrator of, among other things, the Clean Power Plan, it signaled the death knell for what was arguably President Obama's centerpiece domestic action on climate change. But while the Order's likely intent to neutralize this and other rules would have appeared to pave the way for a flurry of lawsuits filed by environmental groups and States particularly concerned about global warming, the federal dockets have thus far been somewhat quiet with respect to the Trump Administration's handling of prior climate change-related rulemaking.
A group of 10 states have begun to push back, though, by filing a petition in the Second Circuit. The rule that is requested to be reviewed? It doesn't involve coal-fired power plants. Nor wellpads or compressors. Rather, the petition involves rulemaking aimed at the ominous ... ceiling fan. The rule, enacted by the Department of Energy in January, establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for fans manufactured after January 2020 pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. According to the DOE, the rule is projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by over 200 million tons and methane emissions by 17 million tons through 2049. Some 12 days after the rule was finalized, DOE delayed the effective date by 60 days with the stated intent of conducting further review and consideration of new regulations, consistent with the Freeze Memo. In March, DOE subsequently pushed back the effective date even further until September, with the basis being that DOE Secretary Rick Perry was, perhaps unsurprisingly, unable to accomplish the review and consideration of the rule within the 60-day timeframe. Additional energy efficiency rulemakings finalized but not published under the Obama Administration currently remain unpublished.
The significance of the lawsuit is not so much about its substantive impact on climate change. After all, the projected GHG reductions under the ceiling fan rule are only a small fraction of those projected as part of the Clean Power Plan, which itself left some wondering whether it could meaningfully affect climate change on a global level. Further, the Clean Power Plan's vitality was already in question following the Supreme Court's stay. Rather, the petition carries broader implications for the Trump Administration's apparent strategy of stalling, as opposed to directly revising or withdrawing, environmental rulemaking that it fundamentally opposes. The strategy is not a wholly illogical one, especially considering the possible legal and practical limitations that some commentators have expressed the Administration might initially face if it were forced to provide, on-the-record, a definitive basis for full-fledged withdrawal of notable climate change regulations.
One of the key figures for the petitioners, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, has contended that the DOE's delays violate the Administrative Procedure Act in that they constitute a substantive revision to a final rule without going through proper notice and comment. He is joined by nine other states (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington) as well as New York City. If the petitioners prevail, it will likely force EPA and other agencies to confront existing rulemaking head-on, and would otherwise challenge the viability of President Trump's energy-related Executive Order, including associated OMB guidance for implementation of the rule review procedures. Further pressure could also come as a result of a challenge to the so-called "2-for-1" Executive Order, which environmental groups have claimed also directs arbitrary repeal of rulemakings. But until then, neither industry nor environmentalists should be surprised if climate change or other significant environmental regulations carried over from the Obama Administration remain in an infinite loop of administrative review.
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Eating a girl out is an art and most men can't do it, here is the right way!
People think you only have to go down and stick your tongue out while she will enjoy herself. WRONG!
If you would do it not properly, you might ruin a perfect scene or she herself will make you stop.
Eating a girl out doesn't just involves touching your tongue to her lower lips and move it to upside down, it takes a set of skills, practice in order to make her scream so she liked it.
You need to keep certain things in mind before going down to your girl's vagina.
Why eating a girl out is good?
Some people cannot see the actuality why this "Mouth Job" Or "Eating a girl out" is so much important.
Sexual intercourse for men brings too rapid stimulation so they can get orgasm faster than their partner had imagined.
It is not an easy task to satisfy a woman, in order to smoothen this process, you need to do something which makes her cum like a holy queen of Babylon.
Before going down to the business 'Sexual Intercourse" a woman needs to be pleased by many ways, such as foreplay, squeezing, kissing and eating her out.
This will take a longer time for you in bed, and after all, who doesn't like it longer in bed?
More: How to Get a Harder & a Bigger Penis?
How to make her scream by eating her out?
Eating a girl out requires some skills and practices which can easily be taught in no time.
Once you get mastered on this you can make any girl scream so harder than you have ever imagined. Let's get you some tips about it.
1. Eagerness is the key!
Build an anticipation, which means pre planning. Most women tend to get happy when they get a text from men about how he's going to rock their world, it's a fact and everyone knows it.
This little gesture can bring an impact psychologically, which will make you a real man in her eyes.
2. Go for every region of her body!
You are not a dog to go down instantly with your tongue, but you need to be relaxed and look at the whole body she's about to give you for the whole time.
Kiss her lips, neck, grab her buttocks and make her feel special. Murmur things which she likes, lift her up so she would know you are a big deal.
3. Down slowly to find the Clit!
As we said, going down instantly is not good for you. So start with kissing on the neck and keep going down while you are stroking her breast.
Move slowly by licking on belly until you finally reach the right place. Now it's the time for you to find her magic button and from that we meant Clitoris.
Some men fail to find it which is a big disappointment for women because you are freaking unable to provide her oral pleasure.
For the new comers, find a diagram of a woman's vagina and locate her magic button. Besides, it is never a hard task to find her clit, you will see it unless she's a virgin.
4. Rifling and pressing hard with your tongue! A…..
Once you reach there, now it's a show time. Women love vibrating movements in their clitoris area which makes them cum so hard.
So try to riffle and flick your tongue back and forth, up and down around it and she will go insane.
Not only this, but most women prefer a sort of pressure to get off, so just don't flick around, but show her how much power your tongue really is.
The continuous riffling and pressing thing will create a master blast in her vagina which she will never forget. Ever!
5. Use other parts of your mouth too!
Gently kiss that area where you have been licking, your tongue isn't the only thing in your mouth. Women like men who include kissing while giving them an oral sex, it's a sign that you are really loving that pussy of her.
A simultaneous action by tongue and lips usually gets her off way faster.
Suction is the best part you can do in this scenario, girls love the vigorous amount of pressure down there so you might have a chance to drive her clit crazy!
6. Fingering
Is an art! An oral sex consists mainly your mouth and lips in order to target the clit but there is more down.
G-Spot which upon stimulation cause great orgasm can only be touched by the fingers, oral sex doesn't restrict you not to use your fingers. You can finger her deeply to see her moaning face for a while.
Ask her if she liked it!
If she really liked it, she won't be answering because she's now gasping for air! Which means you have done everything we have told you just PERFECTLY!
More: Size Does Matter – How True This Myth Is
Eating a girl out isn't easy as it sounds, but requires a little bit of practice and some know how about her down region.
If you follow these important tips you will never leave a single chance of making her go nuts after you. But never use your teeth!
A strong oral sex can induce great orgasm and a very well induced orgasm will build up your relationship stronger.


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Malia, 25
UX Designer
I was raised in a Republican household
in Arizona, where most of the population is conservative. I was in high school during the 2008 election and most of my friends' families were conservative. So I followed suit.
My mother immigrated to the U.S.
from the Philippines in the early '80s. She fought relentlessly to earn her citizenship and for her nursing license to transfer so she could make a life for herself here. Other immigrants and women who come to America seeking the same kind of freedom and opportunity deserve for this process to be made available to them.
We don't need to stonewall immigrants
—we need to reform our process of welcoming them in to contribute to our society.
It's important that Americans recognize
our freedom to form our own opinions, rather than follow the trends of bipartisanship.
It's not about Hillary being a woman,
and I think that many females get stuck worrying that they will be perceived as an irrational feminist or someone who is just voting for the woman if they decide to vote to join her.
I have a lot of friends who are starkly conservative
, and have made me feel guilty for being more progressive. I also have a lot of friends who could care less about what's happening in this election. I have close girlfriends who do not value Hillary as a political figure or a strong woman.
Because we are women,
because we are human beings, we're worthy of a leader that doesn't make us feel marginalized, but empowered.
We are worthy of a leader who has our back—and I think we all know who that is at this point.


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Jan 28,2015
Magnolia International to release 'Results'
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Congratulations are in order to Brooklyn and the whole cast and crew from Results! Magnolia International adquires the rights to the movie and it will be released this summer.
Sundance: Magnolia swoops on Results
Magnolia has swooped on world rights to the Guy Pearce and Cobie Smulders comedy set to premiere in Park City on January 27. Meanwhile A24 was understood to be in advanced talks for US rights to The End Of The Tour.
Christina Rogers and her team at Magnolia International will commence sales on Results at the EFM in Berlin next month.
Magnolia svp of acquisitions Dori Begley and director of acquisitions John Von Thaden negotiated the worldwide rights deal with ICM Partners.
Results is earmarked for a summer theatrical release in the US and takes place in the world of fitness in Austin, Texas, as a wealthy client disrupts the lives of two personal trainers.
Andrew Bujalski, who scored a critical hit at Sundance 2013 with Computer Chess, directed from his screenplay.
Kevin Corrigan also stars alongside Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Michael Hall, Brooklyn Decker and Constance Zimmer.
Paul Bernon, Sam Slater and Houston King produced and the executive producers are David Bernon, Greg Stewart and Sev Ohanian.
A24 is in advanced talks for US rights to The End Of The Tour, the David Foster Wallace film directed by James Ponsoldt and starring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel. Kilburn Media fully financed the drama.
Fortitude International represents non-US rights and closed a major deal with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions in Berlin 2014 for all English-speaking territories as well as Latin America and select Europen territories.
The film receives its world premiere in the Premieres strand on January 23.


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The very real side effects of Chinese counterfeit cosmetics
Sometimes, paying full price for a product just because of the name behind it can be a complete waste of money, especially if there are no obvious differences between the brand name and knockoff items. But other times, as in the case of cosmetics, it can be foolish to buy a fake just to save a few dollars because the consequences of applying phony makeup to your skin can lead to some very serious problems you won't want to face.
Most of our necessities such as clothing, electronics, and almost everything in between have been manufactured in China for quite some time. For example, 60% of all the world's shoes and 70% of all mobile phones are made in China. In these cases, the billions of people across the globe who use them on a daily basis are satisfied with their utility and reasonable pricing. But besides all the real and legitimate products coming out of China, some are counterfeits,like fake designer bags or iPhones, which other than taking millions in profit away from the big brands they're copying, don't do direct harm to the consumers themselves.
But according to a warning from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, some fake products from China are actually very dangerous and should not be purchased at all. Through the internet, many women from around the world buy knockoff beauty products from China because of how cheap they are compared to the ones made by major brands such as MAC, Benefit, and Urban Decay. Whether it's mascara, lipstick, blush, or another skincare product, a recent study of counterfeit Chinese beauty products found them to contain mercury, lead, arsenic, cyanide, human urine, and even rat droppings. These products have reportedly caused very serious side effects and skin allergies, such as painful rashes and burns. In some cases, women had their faces disfigured, experienced an increase in blood pressure, and even became infertile.
If that's not enough to make a woman stop buying fake Chinese beauty products, I have no idea what will.


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Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare
Meet the author Gareth Porter
Monday, May 5. 7 – 9 p.m.
DePaul Art Museum, 935 W. Fullerton Ave.
Educated at the Unviersity of Illinois, University of Chicago, and Cornell, Gareth Porter, PhD, is an American historian, award-winning investigative journalist, author and policy analyst specializing in U.S. national security policy. He was active as a Vietnam specialist and anti-war activist.
This event is sponsored by Chicago Area Peace Action, DPAM, and Just World Books.
Free and open to the public.


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Sankey pays tribute to integration of SEC football
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey joins The Paul Finebaum Show to discuss milestones throughout the conference's history.
News and Video
SEC Network adds South Carolina alum Alyssa Lang
Pruitt changing the culture at Tennessee
Moorhead appreciative of his opportunities
SEC Nation kicks off 2018 campaign with two stops
Luke living out his dream at Ole Miss
Wildcats top San Lorenzo de Almagro 91-68
South Carolina looking like a top-tier SEC team
Morris: 'We're going to build it, we're going to win'
LSU looking to open up the passing game
How far can Kentucky football go this season?
Is it too early to talk College Football Playoff?


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NEW YORK -- From all over Manhattan -- Harlem and East Harlem, Chelsea and Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side and the Upper West Side -- thousands of New Yorkers in two columns, from north and south, streamed together Saturday on the Great Lawn of Central Park to chant their opposition to apartheid.
There were young and old, black and white, some blind, some in wheelchairs. There was a contingent from New Jersey and a sprinkling from other states. Estimates by the police placed the crowd at 35,000, but organizers said 90,000 attended.
Tuz Mende, 74, said she had planned her trip from San Francisco so she could be a part of the demonstration. Sounding a theme echoed by many at the rally, Mende said her presence was a statement not just to the government of South Africa, but to the U.S. government as well.
``The policy of the Reagan administration is very deceptive,`` she said. ``It does not fully condemn the policies of South Africa. Any decent- thinking person knows that pressure has to be put on the American government, on businesses and universities that do business with South Africa.``
About 11:45 a.m., more than an hour before several speakers were scheduled to mount a 60-foot-wide stage, the first marchers from Harlem massed on the grass, just north of the Delacorte Theater, pressing against the wooden barricades. Some carried photos of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress.
``Free Mandela,`` they chanted. ``Death to Apartheid.`` Draped across the stage was a red, yellow, green, black and blue banner that read: ``End Apartheid Now. Remember Soweto.`` Today is the 10th anniversary of the uprising in Soweto, outside of Johannesburg.
An official of the New York Anti-Apartheid Coordinating Council that sponsored the rally, Alexis DeVeau, greeted the marchers, saying: ``Believe me, the people of the world are listening to us today. The Reagan administration is listening to us today.``


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There's an interesting topic about advertising flexi disc records on 45.cat at the moment.
I was reminded of a flexi "Paper" record within a copy of "Radio Times". It was a full page advert with the record within which had to be cut out of the page before playing.
I remember it was a male narrator advertising a washing machine(?). To win a prize one had to guess who the narrator was.
The card must've been extremely thin as after a couple of plays on a typical mono record player it cut through into the paper in parts.
Anyone else remember this and can perhaps provide further details or even a scan, say a collector of old editions of RT? Think it was 1974 or 1975.


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The toughest part, about existing, in THIS place, is having the one, who was the MoST accepting, in such a tiny package, be watching now. Don't get me wrong, I am SO very grateful, for every single thing. Having gone through the motions, and still enduring them, the perspective, from before, inn some ways, is just no more.
But, in others, more daily, is given, a new vision. But be aware, that new vision, can very much disrupt the OLD. Especially, in a natural way, and sometimes it is VERY ODD. But, make no mistake, that it is God. His love, no one said would be easy. Not to mention, in this place and time, it can make us feel queasy.
I used to give WAY more credit, than was needed, to a place, of hurt. So many are living in the prison, of religion, and in it, there is ONLy one cure. Guess what it is? The real LOVE of Jesus. I always wanted a twin, and then came Sarah. She was this, ray of sunshine, that through Jesus I just began to adore. Yet, I admit, every day, I would secretly wonder, somewhere, is today the day? I don't think I have ever verbally admitted that, till now.
Because, I was taught, to put a smile on your face, and love in your heart, and just get through. But…Jesus Love, and His plans are so much MORE than just survival. ~


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Michigan Tech IT is working to bring improvements to the campus MultiDrive (M:) storage system. The new MultiDrive DFS system replaces an aging infrastructure that has been in use for the last few years. Several areas on campus have been using the new system as part of a staged roll-out. IT will be changing the remainder of campus workstations to connect to the new system on Wednesday, June 7.
There is no required action or change in behavior for standard, on-domain workstations. The new MultiDrive DFS system will connect to M: upon login. Note that the Admin domain is not affected by this change.
Mac users
Mac users with the self service app can log into self service and download the Multidrive app from the Core Applications tab. Mac users without the self service app can connect using the MacOS instructions.
As part of this change, the "Mac multidrive mounter" utility is being deprecated and will stop working at a future date.
Connecting remotely
Instructions are also available for connecting to the new MultiDrive DFS system from off campus or from a wifi connection. Instructions are here: Windows instructions or MacOS instructions.
If you have any questions about the new Multidrive system, please contact IT help at 906-487-1111 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I popped into M&S & got my favourite super food nutty salad its delicious, has a real nutty flavour. I also bought a seeded roll In M&S on its own toasted it & had some cream cheese on it. A lovely cup of tea & a small piece of coffee cake. I am trying to exercise control round sweeter things. I find that if I tell myself I cant have something I crave it even more. So am trying to be controlled & sensible
I tried my new make - up out too. They were doing if you spent over £12.00 you got a Bourjois blush pot free. My lipstick was £7.99 a lovely rouge colour to pucker those lips ups! A soft light gold eyeshadow £6.99, blush would have cost £7.49. Total was £14.98 for my 3 things. I have bought cheaper cosmetics before & found that the blushers just break up and crack. I love Aldi mascara. These will last me probably about a year!. I know there are cheaper cosmetics but I do like Bourjois. I like to be careful with money but equally I like to buy things that I like & will use. I go through stages where I spend nothing but equally sometimes I do like to buy a few things for myself. I bought Mr No Spend 2 packs of rice! I sometimes feel guilty buying myself things too! & I know I shouldn't!
Do you have an item or something you like to splurge on occasionally?! Please tell....!


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Restaurant Patrons Hungry for Experiential
Ready for an elevated dining experience? Diners are looking for a satisfying meal, but they're also looking for a unique experience. Restaurants are forced to be creative and have begun experimenting with adventurous forms of serving food to their patrons.
Roller Coaster Restaurants anyone? Probably not for everyone but Rogo's Roller Coaster Restaurant in Abu Dhabi spans 14,000 square foot and offers 30 individual roller coaster tracks that loop, spiral and spin around diners to deliver the menu and food to tables. Since the restaurant has no servers, diners place their orders through tablets at their tables. When the food is ready, the kitchen puts it in a covered pot and shoots it down one of the tracks to your table. The tracks range from multi-spiral to double-loop, reaching speeds of up to 12mph.
Every aspect of the customer experience adds up to overall satisfaction. Creating memorable, entertaining aspects is at the heart of brand experience. Campaigns come and go, but in today's world creating memories through experiences is what people care about, it's what people talk about.
What good is your brand if it doesn't evoke an experience?


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NYC Technovation Challenge: Inspiring Girls to Invent, Design, and Build
Over the last few months, a handful of the awesome and smart women of Knewton have been working as mentors and guest speakers with the NYC Technovation Challenge, a program run by a nonprofit organization called Iridescent. The program encourages high school girls to pursue careers combining technology and entrepreneurship. The goal is to inspire them to see themselves not just as users of technology, but as inventors, designers, builders, and entrepreneurs.
Over the course of 10 weeks, teams of high school girls have been learning the basics of programming and developing Android phone applications using App Inventor. They also have weekly meetings with mentors and guest speakers at Google's NYC headquarters; the meetings focus on entrepreneurship, marketing, and how to effectively pitch ideas to an audience.
This year, Hyunjin Kim and I (both of us are on the product development team here at Knewton) served as mentors in the program. We also had lots of other lady Knewtonians participate:
- VP of Business Development Katie Kurtz led a great session with the girls on identifying the needs of target users and marketing a product toward them
- Lead User Experience Designer Jen Cullem walked the girls through what it means to create prototypes of their apps and how to think about the user's perspective in the design process
- Even a former Knewtonian, front-end developer Ruxy Staicut, kicked off the guest speaker sessions by introducing the girls to mobile app development and what the current market looks like
We're currently in the 9th of 10 weeks of the program, and the girls are all making some great progress (a few are even committing to meet up and work during their school vacations!). On April 25th, they'll be making their final presentations at Google NYC to a panel of real venture capitalists who will choose a regional winning team from NYC to move on to the national competition in San Francisco.
Working with this program has been incredibly rewarding for all of us involved. And by the way, if you're interested in attending Pitch Night, tickets are available on Eventbrite. And if you're interested in learning more about the Technovation Challenge and Iridescent, here are a few other links to visit:
- a TechCrunch article about the 2010 pitch night event
- Huffington post article about their research-based approach
- a Forbes article about Iridescent's Stories of Leadership event at Andreessen Horowitz last fall
- short video from the Spring 2011 Technovation program
- the apps from Technovation 2011
- the Technovation curriculum


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"A world of respect for you and your discipline; day after day writing, expressing, telling and sharing your knowledge, which in someway will help someone! I scanned your profile as I saw you passed through mine and I will visit again, and hopefully read your hard work. To be able to bounce back is a gift, and with that gift, be able to produce something and leave it behind is a blessing from God. We are so lost in the material, the spiritual is forgotten, and the most important of realms treated with no respect and importance by many. Everything I have is on loan and I, too have been given the gift of giving. My inner is way stronger than my outer. My inner cries for the outer and it is a lonely place when your 3rd eye is open, and you are surrounded by people who are blind, but with capabilities of a perfect vision - yet too ignorant to see! Thanking God every now and again, my energy crosses with others and refreshes my senses. God bless you, I hope, further on your journey."
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Catalyzing Tech Transfer and Start-up Financing
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September 15, 2016
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CATTEC is going on the road to St. Louis! Join your MRUN colleagues at the first meeting held outside Chicago.
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I have a problem with my aunt. She hurts our family and especially my mother, her sisters. She refuses to get married (she is almost 40), she lives on her own and goes to haram parties and weddings, she dresses unislamically and behaves in an unislamic manner and mixes with non-mahram men. She is suspicious of my mother and does bad things to my mother or us children. She is infected with Hepatitis and she tries to give me her disease on purpose by eating from my food or drinking from my cup or using my lip gloss when I don't know about it. She tells me she doesn't like my mother but pretends to be happy when my mother is around. She tries to make me go to the haram places she goes when I visit her. She cut off ties from the whole family and said that she hates everyone except us children but she treats us bad. She is always working for the needs of other women who backbite and look down on her and she does more for them than her own sisters and then she makes us kids work on things for those women. Me and my mother don't know what to do?? We can't cut off relations but the more we are around her the more my eemaan goes down and the more she hurts us. What should we do?.
The command to uphold the ties of kinship is one of the first commands that were revealed in Islam. It is indicated in a number of proven saheeh ahaadeeth, such as the following:
The story of how 'Umar ibn 'Absah became Muslim. He asked the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him): With what were you sent? He (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "He has sent me to uphold the ties of kinship, to break the idols and to proclaim the Oneness of Allaah, not associating anything with Him." Narrated by Muslim (832).
The story of Abu Sufyaan and Heraclius when he sent for him and said: What does he – meaning the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) – enjoin upon you? He said: He enjoins us to pray, give charity, be chaste and uphold family ties." Narrated by al-Bukhaari (7) and Muslim (1773).
In many verses Allaah warns us against severing the ties of kinship, and states that there will be numerous punishments for the one who does so, which includes incurring the curse of Allaah and a bad end. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"And those who break the Covenant of Allaah, after its ratification, and sever that which Allaah has commanded to be joined (i.e. they sever the bond of kinship and are not good to their relatives), and work mischief in the land, on them is the curse (i.e. they will be far away from Allaah's Mercy), and for them is the unhappy (evil) home (i.e. Hell)"
[al-Ra'd 13:25]
Some relatives may cause the one who upholds ties with them to fall into sin, especially if he is unable to change the evil that they are doing. They may insist – for example – on listening to music and mixing and indulging in swearing, mocking and backbiting. Such people have an effect on their visitors and the one who seeks to uphold ties with them. The Muslim has to advise his relatives as much as he is able to. They are more entitled to this advice than others, but only if that will benefit them, whether he is certain of that or thinks it most likely. But if he sees that they are persisting in sin and especially major sins, and that is affecting his faith and religious commitment, then it is sufficient for him to uphold ties with them in the minimum fashion, so that he will not be severing the ties of kinship. So instead of visiting them, he can just call them on the phone, and if he visits them he does not have to stay for long, and so on.
But this should after trying his best to advise them and exhort them and bring them back to the right way, as well as turning to Allaah in du'aa', asking Him to guide them to the straight path.
And Allaah knows best.


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Paula Abdul Speaks on Recent BlunderMatt Richenthal at . Comments
Paula Abdul is difficult to read.
On one hand, she sounds quite laid back about the recent American Idol blunder, during which she judged a Jason Castro performance that hadn't happened yet.
"I have fun poking fun at a situation that's so ridiculous. I'm the queen of taking the seriousness out of [it] … I loved that people laughed, it was funny,†she said. "Honestly, it was a silly thing [that happened on Idol]. We were all confused … I did exactly what the producers told me to do … It's all good.â€
On the other hand, well, let's head what Abdul had to say about living in pain.
"Pain is very daunting — it creates isolation,†said said. "For me, the smile on my face oftentimes is not met with how I feel inside."
What's wrong, Paula?
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Effects of 6 weeks of periodized squat training with or without whole-body vibration on short-term adaptations in jump performance within recreationally resistance trained men
Abstract:The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a 6 week squat training with and without vibration on jump performance in recreationally resistance trained men. 36 men participated in this study. One of the three groups added the Power Plate® machine intervention within their squat training. All groups improved in jump performance after 6 weeks of training. A significant difference was seen between the Power Plate group and the squat training group in 20kg squat jump, where the Power Plate group performed better.Conclusion:The use of the Power Plate machine alongside conventional squat training seems to facilitate the maximal mean power in jump performance, although this was only significant in the 20kg squat jump.
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Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research/ Vol 22(6), pp: 1882-1893. 2008 Authors: Hugh S. Lamont, Joel T. Cramer, Debra A. Bemben, Randa L. Shehab, Mark A. Anderson, and Michael G. Bemben Affiliations: Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, Department of Health and Exercise Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; and Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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* "Red shirt" supporters of PM rally at anti-graft
* Yingluck does not attend, sends legal team instead
* U.S., U.N., EU call for restraint as four-month crisis
(Adds protest leader proposing television debate with PM)
* "Red shirt" supporters of PM rally at anti-graft
* Yingluck does not attend, sends legal team instead
* U.S., U.N., EU call for restraint as four-month crisis
(Adds protest leader proposing television debate with PM)
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Chaiwat Subprasom
BANGKOK, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Thailand's anti-corruption
agency brings charges of negligence against Prime Minister
Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday as anti-government protesters
demand her ouster in a standoff marred by violence that shows no
sign of coming to an end.
The charges relate to a disastrous rice subsidy scheme that
paid farmers above the market price and has run out of funds,
adding to the government's woes as farmers - normally the prime
minister's biggest supporters - demand their money.
More than 300 government supporters gathered outside the
National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) in north Bangkok
where the charges were due to be brought, as riot police stood
guard inside the three-storey complex.
Some of Yingluck's supporters threatened to seal off the
grounds with cement in a symbolic show of resistance to the
legal action against her.
The anti-government protesters elsewhere in the city, whose
disruption of a general election this month has left Thailand in
paralysis, want to topple Yingluck and erase the influence of
her brother, ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, seen by many as
the real power in the country.
Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban said he was willing to
appear in a live television debate with Yingluck after weeks of
refusing any form of talks.
"Just tell me when and where," he told supporters. "Give us
two chairs and a microphone and transmit it live on television
so the people can see."
Yingluck gave a guarded response to the proposal.
"If I talk to Suthep, will they stop protesting and will we
be able to hold elections?" she told reporters in the town of
Chiang Mai in the north, a Thaksin stronghold.
A general election this month was disrupted by the
protesters and is unlikely to be completed for many weeks.
The protesters want to set up a "people's council" of
unspecified worthy people to spearhead political reform before
new polls are held, hoping that will stop parties loyal to the
self-exiled Thaksin winning.
They have been on Bangkok's streets since November and have
blocked main intersections for weeks to press their case.
Intermittent bursts of gunfire and grenade blasts have
become routine at night in the political conflict, which has
taken a heavy toll on tourism in the capital, famous for its
golden temples and racy bars.
Rock guitarist Eric Clapton has pulled out of a Bangkok
concert scheduled for Sunday because of deteriorating security.
Yingluck was a no-show at the anti-corruption agency
hearing, sending her legal team instead.
The agency is investigating at least 15 cases against
Yingluck and her party members, ranging from allegations of
corruption in water projects to moves to make the Senate a fully
elected body, which a court ruled illegal.
It alleges Yingluck was negligent for not ending the rice
subsidy programme which it says was riddled with corruption. If
found guilty, she faces removal from office and a five-year ban
from politics.
"If her legal team hears the charges against her, she has 15
days to present evidence and after that the NACC will deliberate
the case further," Wittaya Arkompitak, deputy secretary of the
anti-graft commission, told Reuters.
Yingluck has denied negligence and accused the agency of
bias, noting that a rice corruption case involving the previous
administration had made no progress after more than four years.
The protests have triggered violence in which 21 people have
been killed and more than 700 wounded.
The United States and European Union called for restraint.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was ready to help
find a solution.
The crisis pits the mainly middle-class and southern
anti-government demonstrators, who are backed by the royalist
establishment, against the largely rural supporters of Yingluck
and Thaksin in the north and northeast.
Both sides have armed activists and some pro-government
leaders have called for Thailand to be divided in two, along
north-south political lines, prompting talk of a civil war.
"As of now, there is no clear sign that (civil war) will
happen," national security chief Paradorn Pattanathabutr told
"There are those who think differently and respect the law
who can no longer tolerate this ... The government must do
everything it can to avoid confrontation and to prevent each
side setting up stages or rallies near each other."
The standoff also raises the question of whether the
military will step in, as it has many times before, most
recently in 2006 to remove Thaksin, although the army chief has
ruled out intervention this time.
But it has stepped up its security presence in Bangkok after
two nights of violence.
"We have increased security checkpoints and bases for our
troops to 176 locations near protest sites and important state
buildings ... to look after security for all sides including
civilians, government officials and protesters," said Wara
Bunyasit, commander of the 1st Division King's Guard.
(Additional reporting by Aukkarapon Niyomyat, Pracha
Hariraksapitak and Pairat Temphairojana; Writing by Nick Macfie;
Editing by Alan Raybould and Robert Birsel)


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