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zen fly fishing
Zen immerses you in the moment with total awareness of events. To fly fish effectively, your focus must be on the bite and every change in your fly's dynamics. You must get into this zone and stay there to consistently catch fish.
My first attempts to fly fish the surf were lessons in humility. I did catch one fish on my first trip - a small halibut. I also caught occasional perch on subsequent trips. By far though, my friend Jim was consistently hooking and landing perch while I was cluelessly trying to emulate him. I figure now that the occasional fish just hooked itself and that all the other fish just went unnoticed which gets me back to the Zen idea.
How many fish mouthed my fly in the course of all of those fishless days? Much of the time, I had too much slack and I wasn't connected to my fly to have the ability to feel a grab. Slack also puts more line out there for surf hydraulics to grab and cause your fly to sweep over the target area too fast. It was as if Jim was magnetically attracting fish and I was not. Clueless and distracted by worldly thoughts, I was there with potential for decent action but unaware of grabs. Awareness was missing. I could imagine a Zen master asking, what is the sound of perch laughing? intending to awaken me.
Anyway, in the course of a year's intensive fishing, I have learned Zen fly fishing. I can see beach structure. I can read water. I have line control, can feel grabs, catch a lot of fish and catch big fish. This picture shows the biggest so far - a 2 3/4 pound Barred Perch caught at a Santa Cruz California area beach in June 2002. And still I am learning and will always be learning.
We have had a fantastic year fishing Monterey Bay beaches this year. Our fishing last year in July and August 2001 was much better then we expected. Last year, a good day would have been 15 fish to 1 pound. We caught a few large ones to 2 1/2 pounds but not many. This year (2002) a good day got us into many tens of fish (30 and up) with the best days approaching 100 and many fish over 1 pound with quite a few over 2 pounds with the largest over 3 pounds. We have been surf fishing 1 to 3 times a week from April through August 2002.
Thoughts about the state of the perch fishery are like a Zen koan. I wonder if the fishery has really come back or if it has ever declined. It may be that the fish have always been around and we are just fishing differently to find them consistently. It also may be that by chance we have stumbled across the only magic spots around, and if others knew of them this would all soon just be memories. I suspect that the fish have always been around at most beaches in our area but that is my optimism showing.
I discuss Zen fly fishing techniques on other pages at this site. The emphasis is on how to think about finding fish and catching a lot of fish. I do believe that anyone who is willing to put in the time can learn to fish well and that those with less time that us can use information at this site to learn much faster. I've heard of some Zen fishermen who fish without a hook - the goal being the grab. I tried that one and it is not enough for me so I have to be content with catch and release (and being thankful as I free the fish).
Welcome to the Zen Fly Fishing site! I hope you are entertained and find interesting and useful information here. I plan to write and publish on a continuing basis. If you have any comments, questions or request for special topics to be covered, please feel free to write. Also, if you would like to be put on a mailing list to be notified of updates, send mail with that request.
Most of the information on this site results from a on-going collaboration with Jim T., I express my appreciation for the experiences (including the lessons in humility) that we have shared.
Glenn Yoshimoto
Los Gatos, California
zen fly fishing home
This page © Copyright 2002 Glenn Yoshimoto


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At the draw held in Cox's Steakhouse, Dromod, there was no Jackpot winner. The numbers drawn were 1, 6, 9, 12. The 150 euro winner was Ann Keville. The 50 euro winner was Paddy Donagher. The 25 euro winners were Clare Beirne, Jim and Ella Gannon, Peggy Beirne, Sean and Ella Faughnan, Helen McGuire, Jamie Dolan, Thomas Reynolds.
Congratulations to Paul and Inga Guckian, England and Derrywillow, Annaduff on the Christening of their little boy, Tony, in St. Mary's Church, Annaduff on December 29th. Congratulations also to the proud grandparents Myra and Des Guckian.
New Arrival
Congratulations to David and Angela O'Mahony on the birth of a baby boy, Daire, congratulations to the proud grandparents Chris and Mary O'Mahony and J.J and Margo Carley
Deepest sympathy is extended to the Campbell family on the death of Pat Joe Campbell, Clooncumber, Gortletteragh. May he rest in Peace.
Guitar Lessons
Guitar Lessons in the Market Yard, Carrick-on-Shannon on Fridays at 5pm. Contact Larry at 0866053838.
New Annaduff Managers
Annaduff G.A.A Managers for 2014 are Derek Kellegher ( Senior) and Micheal O'Dowd Snr. (Junior). Best of luck to both.
Leitrim win in Cloone
Sean Hagan got off to a winning start in Cloone. Annaduff's Ray Cox was in excellent form. Bornacoolas Damian Moran made his competitive debut and should be a great addition to the panel. Leitrim play Galway in Ballinasloe on Sunday next.
Drumsna Bingo
Bingo resumes on Thursday night next January 9th at 8.30.
80 Years Young
Congratulations to Stena Hackett, Gubagraphy, Dromod who celebrated her 80th birthday recently.
Tipperary/ Leitrim Marriage
Congratulations to former Annaduff manager/ physio and player John Russell and Annaduff and Leitrim footballer, Evie Guckian on their marriage in Drumsna Church with reception in Lough Rynn Castle Hotel. We wish them many years of happiness.
Rooskey/Dublin Marriage
Congratulations to Martina Feeney, Druminmore, Rooskey on her marriage to Shane Gavin, Dublin in Rooskey Church with reception in the Hudson Bay Hotel. We wish them many years of happiness.

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While Honolulu Community College does not offer on-campus housing, we have a listing of various housing options for students to pursue on their own. Please note that Honolulu CC does not investigate, endorse, nor guarantee the accuracy of any listing, the quality of the facility listed or the listed individuals. Any agreement you may enter into is solely between or amongst the involved parties. A listing on our website does not indicate University approval or endorsement of any kind.
The following is a list of various housing options:
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Student Housing
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Student Housing has limited space for community college students within the UH system after first accommodating all Mānoa applicants. Students must be enrolled in a degree or certificate program and be registered for a minimum of twelve credits hours while in residence.
Robello Suites
Robello Suites is next-door to our campus on Robello Lane, right behind Bldg. 14. Newly renovated, fully furnished (all new), and fully equipped kitchen/dining area, coin-operated washer/dryer, and WIFI Internet. Separate male/female floors, common kitchens and bathrooms. Double rooms start at $575/month. Limited private rooms start from $850/month plus tax. Fee includes all utilities such as electricity, water and WIFI. Daily rates available. Application and set up fee $50.00. Rent is payable monthly. A one month deposit is required. A one-time common area maintenance of $100 will be deducted from deposit when checking out. Reserved tenants qualify for airport pick up. Additional Fee required.
Near bus stops, restaurants, Costco, Best Buy, supermarkets, and the Liliha public library. Downtown Honolulu, Dole Theaters, Ward Center and Entertainment Complex, Ward Warehouse and Ala Moana Center are minutes away.
For further information, contact Ken Long at firstname.lastname@example.com or (808) 436-2646.
Hawaii Student Suites
Various housing sites in the Honolulu area. For more info, go to www.hawaiistudentsuites.com or call (808) 952-5377 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Hawaii Student Housing
Housing in the Waikiki area. Go to hawaiistudenthousing.org.
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It's Monday August 20, 2018
News From The Village Updated Almost Daily
December 28, 2012
New Years Eve in Oriental has a cast of thousands. But there is one key star of the show – The Dragon:
The Dragon has had many "keepers" over the years. Up until recently the Dragon Keepers were Perry & Susan Cheatham, a responsibility they have carried for 8 years. This year they have passed that responsibility on to Oriental residents Turtle Midyette and Keith Smith. Volunteers are lining up and the New Years Dragon runs are secure… New Years Eve will see Dragon Runs at 8p and 11:30p, and then the Croaker Drop at midnight.
One of The Dragon's challenges over its history has been finding a home for the rest of the year. That is being solved right now, and you can help. The Dragon has been housed in various sheds and barns over the years, sometimes suffering damage from the effects of weather over time.
This year The Dragon has a new home – his own 10 × 10 storage unit at Village Mini Storage on Broad Street. That storage unit costs $495 a year. The Oriental Tourism Board has agreed to pay for the first three months. But the Dragon's home needs to get paid for for the rest of the year.Become A Dragon PatronThis is where you can help. The Dragon needs 18 "Patrons". Patrons Of The Dragon, if you will. Each Dragon Patron pays $20 for a half month of storage. January through March are covered by the Tourism Board (Village Mini Storage donated December of this year). TownDock.net has agreed to pay for the first half of April. The Dragon doesn't want any Patron to pay for more than $20 – no heroism needed. Just sponsor a half month.That was quick – thank you to TownDock readers and supporters of The Dragon. All the 2013 Dragon Patron slots are now full.
There isn't any Dragon corporation or any Dragon bank account, and organizers like that simplicity. So to keep this simple, Patrons will simply send a $20 check to Village Mini Storage.
To become a Dragon Patron, just email in your contact info, and then we will email back confirmation and instructions on where to mail your Patron check. Your name, or your business name, can be listed as a Dragon Patron. The Dragon thanks you.
Month Dragon Patrons
December 2012 Village Mini Storage ✓
January 2013 Oriental Tourism Board ✓ February 2013 Oriental Tourism Board ✓ March 2013 Oriental Tourism Board ✓ April 2013 TownDock.net ✓ Earl & Sandra Evens ✓ May 2013 Dick & Dottie Osmun ✓ Linda & Walter Abercrombie ✓ June 2013 Lynn & Joe Mattea ✓ IBX Marine Construction ✓ July 2013 Wayne and Betty Henson ✓ Grace Evans ✓ August 2013 Barbara and Jim Pearson ✓ Andy & Mary Anton ✓ September 2013 Charlie and Sigrid Overcash ✓ Diane Midness ✓ October 2013 Liz & Tom Lathrop ✓ Bernie Harberts ✓ November 2013 Kathy Enzerink, in honor of Gerry Enzerink ✓ Doug & Mary Ann Sligh ✓ December 2013 Geri & Steve LaBreck ✓ Inland Waterway Provision Company ✓
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Upper Deck, one of the NHL's exclusive trading card manufacturers, is conducting a special promotion this month for 10 participating Los Angeles-area hobby shops that's built around the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. Prizes will include autographed hockey pucks from standouts on the Los Angeles Kings as well as a grand prize package where one lucky winner between the ages of 10 and 14 will be selected to serve as an official "2010 NHL Entry Draft Runner" and will assist one of the NHL teams during the actual draft proceedings. The winner will take part in NHL Entry Draft festivities from Thursday, June 24, through Saturday, June 26, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
"This will truly be a special opportunity for some lucky youngster," said Chris Carlin, Upper Deck's sports marketing manager. "It's not every day that you get called on to help out an NHL team with their draft-day activities. We're very excited to help make this dream a reality for a lucky child in the L.A. area."
Contest rules are easy: customers who purchase a box of 2009-10 Upper Deck NHL hockey cards from any of the 10 participating L.A.-based hobby shops will automatically be entered into random drawings for pucks autographed by L.A. Kings standouts Drew Doughty, Anze Kopitar or Jack Johnson. In addition, those customers can also invite a relative or friend between the ages of 10 and 14 to submit a one-paragraph explanation describing why they should be selected for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to serve as Upper Deck's NHL Entry Draft Runner.
The promotion is now underway and the Draft Runner will be selected by Upper Deck officials on Monday, June 14, so get your one-paragraph entries in today! Autographed pucks will be awarded by the individual shop owners at their discretion.
The 10 participating hobby shops taking part in Upper Deck's NHL Entry Draft contest include: 8-Ball in Torrance (310-965-0265); Baseball Card Co in Granada Hills (818-366-1473); Baseball Card Plus in Huntington Beach (714-898-5648); MVP Sportscards in Laguna Hills (949-837-7803); OC Dugout in Anaheim (714-318-1605); Santa Monica Sportscards (310-828-1777); South Bay Baseball Cards in Lomita (310-530-5818); Taylor's Baseball Cards in Buena Park (714-827-7746); The Upper Deck Store in Huntington Beach (714-898-8000); and Three J's in Anaheim (714-758-3803.


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SCOTT PADDOCK, South Plantation, scored 26 points to lead the Paladins to a 70-57 victory over Stranahan.
ROB BIASOTTI, St. Thomas Aquinas, scored 28 points to lead the Raiders to a 67-46 victory over Cadinal Gibbons, then scored 32 more during a 66-53 victory over McArthur.
GEORGE HARPER, Plantation, scored 14 points and led defensively as the Colonels defeated Chaminade 62-60.
BRIAN RODDENBERRY, Coral Springs, scored 15 points and led defensively as the Colts defeated Northeast 71-55, then scored 22 points to lead the Colts to a 63-46 victory over Miramar.
KEITH ROBINSON, American Heritage, led defensively with 16 rebounds to lead the Patriots to a 40-29 victory over Gold Coast Christian School.
DWAYNE HACKETT, Dillard, scored 15 points and led defensively as the Panthers defeated Boyd Anderson 75-66.
TYRONE MOBLEY, Boyd Anderson, scored 23 points in a losing effort to Dillard.
BOBBY RUSSELL, Nova, scored 23 points, pulled down 19 rebounds and had nine blocked shots to lead the Titans to an 80-40 victory over Chaminade.
RODERICK SMITH, McArthur, scored 24 points during a 66-53 loss to St. Thomas Aquinas.
CHRIS WIEGLEY, University School, scored 20 points to lead the Suns to a 49-43 victory over Lake Worth Christian.
AUDREY GISSENDANNER, Miramar, scored 28 points, had seven rebounds and five steals to lead the Patriots to a 50-27 victory over Hollywood Hills, then scored 18 more during a loss to Coral Springs.
MARGO ROSS, Taravella, scored 17 points and led defensively as the Trojans defeated Fort Lauderdale 55-31.
FRANCES SAVAGE, Piper, scored 35 points and had 15 rebounds to lead the Bengals to a 55-24 victory over Boyd Anderson, then scored 24 more during a 40-27 victory over Fort Lauderdale.
CHRISTY COWHERD, Taravella, scored 18 points to lead the Trojans to a 52-36 victory over South Broward.


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A very happy 2014 to you and yours. As always, there are a few 2013 movies I'd still like to catch up on (The Act of Killing, Fruitvale Station, The Great Beauty, The Grandmaster, Short Term 12) and a few others waiting to be watched on the Netflix machine (Warm Bodies, Kon-Tiki, Berberian Sound Studio.) Nonetheless, a new year means it's time for the annual GitM movie round-up, and 2013 isn't getting any closer in the rear-view.
Like last year, I've gone on longer than usual to make up for the lack of reviews throughout the year. Overall, I'd say that, in spite of a disconcertingly bland summer full of films that needed major rewrites, 2013 ended up yielding a surprisingly bumper crop at the movies, as good as last year's fare and arguably the deepest year since 2007. So without further ado, let's get to the…
With all due respect to Michael Fassbender's turn as the dissolute sadist Edwin Epps, the better performances in 12 Years a Slave are underplayed. As Solomon Northrop, Chiwetel Ejiofor — who first showed he had star wattage to spare ten years ago in Dirty Pretty Things — obviously carries the weight of the film, and he manages to subtly convey his character's determination losing out to despair. Sarah Paulson's work may not be as showy here as that of the Bender of Fass, but she is just as effective at illustrating the way antebellum slavery warped the mindset of the master class. (As the Cumber of Batch vignette points out, even a benevolent tyrant is still a tyrant.)
And, in a powerful cameo, moving about and berating his room of wares with a heartless dispatch, Paul Giamatti chillingly captures the cruelty and obscenity of the slave trade, in which children become commodities and family ties a nuisance to be overcome. (If the film's producer, Brad Pitt, really wanted to make a bold statement, he'd have switched roles with Giamatti — As it is, his white savior turn here is the only real misstep in the movie.)
Obviously, this film is a hard watch at times, but, doggone it, it should be. After decades of dancing around the topic in anything from Gone with the Wind to Gods and Generals — even last year's revenge fantasy, Django Unchained, mitigated the real horrors of slavery by giving its title character so much agency — 12 Years a Slave offers a steady, unblinking gaze at the underbelly of our republic, and underscores the grim reality so often obscured by our founding fictions: Only a century and a half ago, a great and terrible darkness festered in our erstwhile land of liberty, and its ramifications did not just disappear at Appomattox. If the audience ends up feeling like Pippen holding the palantir at more than a few moments throughout this tale, well that's the point. Our past is complicated, and it's time we did a better job of recognizing it.
True, the first hour of this movie can seem a little unfocused: I didn't mind spending all that time at a dinner party with characters we've never met, but it made the film feel a bit more like Linklater's Slacker or Waking Life, both of which are given to a lot of random philosophical musing at the expense of forward momentum. But when Jesse and Celine go off for a walk by themselves, the movie starts to click again. And the last forty minutes or so are absolutely electric, as [spoiler] our two former lovebirds, ostensibly spending a romantic evening at a couple's hotel, instead find themselves engaged in a knock-down, drag-out Airing of the Grievances that will ring all-too-true to anyone's who ever been in a long-term relationship, on the rocks or otherwise.
Instead of giving us anything like a feel-good rom-com this time around (and seemingly much to the horror of some of the dumbstruck-looking couples at my showing…oof, Date Night Fail) — Before Midnight opts for a much more realistic and unflinching portrayal of a romance that, over the years, has accumulated its share of fractures, bruises, and silences. I'm not sure where the story goes from here, but definitely count me in for Before Noon in 2022.
Even by Coen standards, the film has very little plot to speak of. We just follow Llewyn (Oscar Isaac, like Ejiofor another actor who's been turning in excellent character work over the years) a folk singer as talented as he is unlucky and self-defeating, as he shambles around New York — playing gigs at the Gaslight, herding cats, and generally trying to stay afloat in the pre-Dylan scene. This is partly like the story of Dave Van Ronk, whose autobiography the Coens began with, and partly another artist-adrift-in-the-world-of-commerce story akin to Barton Fink — except, this time, Llewyn probably actually deserves to make it.
Especially in the random escapade to Chicago in the middle of the film, you get the sense that the Coens had no real interest in telling a traditional story here. Carey Mulligan (who, as it happens, played Oscar Isaac's wife in Drive) starts out seeming like an important character and then just fades into that beautifully nostalgic freewheelin' mist that permeates the look of the film. Other actors — Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Adam Driver, F. Murray Abraham — appear for a few bars and move on.
I suppose the aimlessness of Llewyn could rankle. (One of my gradual school friends has a great theory about this – Llewyn Davis is folk-song as movie, with a deliberately elliptical structure and repeated refrains.) But I myself loved the look and feel of this film (the quality folk renditions don't hurt either), and I appreciated its basic folk-song conceit: Sometimes, Hard Times are just a fact of life. If Llewyn was operating only a year or two later, he'd be a beneficiary of the Dylan boom (or, at the very least, a Phil Ochs type figure.) As it is, he's just a unlucky soul, doing what he does best even while likely going under for the final time. I can't wait to see this movie again, and to see what the Coens have up their sleeves next.
Bilbo facing Smaug in a Game of Wits is the climactic confrontation of this entire story, but here its impact is diminished considerably by (a) the movie suddenly cutting to Legolas squaring off against a made-up end-boss Orc and (b) a long and contrived scheme, right out of Alien 3, whereby Thorin and the dwarves try to confuse the Old Wyrm with a large golden statue of Durin. This plan not only robs Smaug of menace by making him seem like a blind idiot. (Smaug the Terrible, the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities, can't manage to squash a single measly dwarf?) It's another setpiece, not unlike the barrel ride earlier in the film and the escape from the goblin tunnels in An Unexpected Journey, where video game physics have completely taken hold of the picture. (It's "The Desolation of Mario," as one wag put it.)
So why is this still way up at #5? Well, I still relish being in Middle Earth, the occasional cartoony antics notwithstanding, and there's a lot to like here, from Martin Freeman's Bilbo to the hallucinations and spiders of Mirkwood to Gandalf at Dol Guldur to the character design of Benny CumberSmaug. I could have done without the Team Legolas/Team Kili stuff, but Evangeline Lilly's Tauriel is otherwise a solid addition to the saga. And I just have a soft spot for these films — here's hoping the third film doesn't drift too far afield into fan fiction.
Unfortunately Gravity was also, let's face it, schmaltzy as all hell — I wish Cuaron had had enough trust in his story and audience to forego, for example, cornball conversations about Bullock's lost kid. And, even notwithstanding how close all the space stations are to each other here (a plot point I can forgive even though it too is absurd), the ultimate fate of Clooney's endlessly jabbering astronaut is just a gross violation of basic physics. (And moving from the impossible to the improbable, I'd have been less annoyed by the end if Bullock had splashed down in the middle of nowhere, instead of twenty feet from paradise.)
All that being said, did I mention this film is beautiful? The space walk stuff alone would put it in the top ten.
As per De Niro above, it's also good to see Tom Hanks giving a real performance here, and not just phoning it in or coasting on his star power. Apparently, he attributes it to his recent experience in last year's Cloud Atlas, which marks another way that film, an interesting failure, is underappreciated.
Did I love Catching Fire? No, not really – It hit at about the level of the later Harry Potter films. But much like the movie I have in the "most unfairly maligned" box below, I think you'd be hard-pressed to craft a better film from the source material, particularly given the constraint of continuing with the same actors from the first one. (I know Jennifer Lawrence is America's sweetheart or whatever, but imho she's still miscast here. Just because she was in Winter's Bone doesn't make her a perfect Katniss.) And, in any event, it's great fun to see pros like Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, and Amanda Plummer work their way into the Panem proceedings.
Still, with its storefront facades crumbling in luscious black-and-white, Nebraska works best as a gentle and elegaic reflection on the passing of a certain kind of small-town, 20th century America — this is probably the most sympathetic argument you'll find for the Tea Party vision of the USA — and a reminder, a la "That Was Your Mother", that your parents and grandparents had their own lives that you, as their kids, will never fully "get." And if nothing else, it's nice to see Bruce Dern, who's put in fifty years of solid character work now, get this kind of extended curtain call.
But as a love story? Er….not so much. Put aside the criticism that this is a movie about Joaquin Phoenix's Theodore in love with a box, although I can definitely see why that'd be a dealkiller for some. Even if you accept the science fiction here, and allow that Scarlett Johansson's Samantha is her own free-thinking entity, the vision of love being offered here is basically one never-ending phone call, where both people are constantly talking about their feelings. That's true love? That…sounds exhausting. (Ask anyone I've ever dated – I'm not one for the phone. I text or e-mail.)
Not to say that true romance has to have a physical component, although in my experience it definitely helps. (And speaking of Samantha constantly lamenting her lack of physical form, I call shenanigans on the idea that civilization will somehow develop true AI before creepy love robots, but I digress.) To me, romance is also about simply experiencing things together — movies, music, dinner, travel, in-jokes. I suppose there's some of that in Her – Theodore and his OS go to the beach and whatnot, but much more often it just seems to be a constant state-of-the-relationship phone call. No thanks.
Put another way, Her ends up being a lot like the fake letters that Theodore (rather improbably) writes for a living: An impeccably crafted simulacrum of romantic connection, Her relies on constant professions of feeling to cover up the fact that it's really just a well-made artifice.
Spring Breakers is undoubtedly inchoate and repetitive, and it can't seem to decide if it wants to revel in trashiness, send it up, or go dumpster-diving for the lost innocence underneath. (Watch James Franco and his muses croon Britney Spears' "Everytime" and tell me what you think.) But there still seems to be a method to the madness. Basically, this is Fear and Loathing in St. Petersburg, a savage and surreal journey into one of America's playgrounds of frenetic excess, and James Franco is our Raoul Duke. "Spreng brayyke, Spreng brAYYke, forever."
Like Primer, Upstream Color is mostly inscrutable the first time around — if it helps, I can tell you mindworms, acoustics, and pig daemons are involved — and I can see people just finding it pretentious and annoying. But, for what it's worth, I found segments of Upstream Color evocative and entrancing, even if I had no clue what was going on. Sometimes you just go along for the ride.
That being said, I got a bad feeling when, late in the movie, suitcases full of snakes suddenly enter the investigation. And, sure enough, soon thereafter, an individual who had only been conspicuously cast up to that point (a la Stellan Skarsgard in the Dragon Tattoo remake) suddenly starts chewing scenery like one of the redneck family from The X-Files, and what had seemed a thoughtful exercise about the agony of un-knowing suddenly becomes a half-baked retread of The Vanishing. Alas, until that last-minute lurch, Prisoners was quite a good film, with Hugh Jackman particularly memorable as a father whose berserker rage would make Wolverine blanch.
As with Green Lantern, I'm willing to give this movie a mulligan and hope DC rights the ship with Batman v. Superman v. Wonder Woman or whatever it's called. But right now, DC is lagging far behind Marvel in the world-building-on-film department. And, for now, Cavill is the second Supes in a row, after Brandon Routh, to deserve a better adventure.
As a result, Elysium, Blomkamp's calamitous sophomore effort after the promising District 9, was another movie in a summer full of them that made absolutely no sense at all. Since these magical cure-all health care machines seem to operate without cost, why weren't a few already sent down to Earth long ago? And if that MacGuffin-y station reboot code is so all-powerful, why didn't ruthless businessman William Fichtner, who was carrying it around the first third of the movie, just depose Jodie Foster (who's embarrassing here) and make himself Emperor of Elysium? Makes. No. Sense.
Honestly, it is bewildering to me that this film received such positive attention. All the saccharine dollops of It Gets Better here can't obscure the fact that, for two uninvolving hours, we're stuck on the Cape with a whiny, passive protagonist — who never does anything to suggest that Carell, however dickishly, didn't have him dead-to-rights in the first reel — and a bunch of hackneyed, one-dimensional characters out of an ABC afterschool special.
Why does the Girl Next Door (AnnaSophia Robb) seem to be interested in our hero? Why does Local Cool Guy Sam Rockwell (and you know it's a stinker when even Rockwell can't save your flick) take him under his wing? Well, mainly because these are the sorts of things that happen in movies like these. If you're hankering for a sweet coming-of-age "That One Summer It All Changed" type movie, rent Adventureland (or, if it has to be on the Cape, rent One Crazy Summer). But The Way, Way, Back is Not, Not It.
I just don't get it. It'd be one thing if the House of Polley's deep dark secret was something more interesting or world-historical than illegitimate parentage. (Nazis in the attic or somesuch.) But, as it is, Stories We Tell is just the documentary equivalent of a Selfie. It doesn't have anything particularly noteworthy to say, other than, ok, a lot of families have "lies mutually agreed upon," and I grew bored and eventually a bit disturbed by the egoism and exhibitionism of the whole enterprise. No shame if Polley wants to go digging in the family dirt, but I'm not sure why I really need to be involved.
Scorsese's Wolf would've been innocuous enough if it had been 90 minutes long or so: In fact, a first-act power lunch with DeCaprio and Matthew McConaughey gets all the "these guys are nihilistic, worthless wastes of space" points across fine enough, no need to belabor it. But at three ever-lovin' hours, the film wears out its welcome well before the end, and somewhere in that third hour — around the time DeCaprio is screaming at and gut-punching his second wife (Margot Robbie), so that we all leave knowing the asshat behavior we've witnessed for 180 minutes is actually not ok — I'd joined the douchebag train myself and was idly scrolling through my phone in the theater, waiting for somebody to give this dire Wolf the Grey Wind treatment, or at least throw him in the clink already.
Anyway, like all too many fratboy and/or Wall Street types, the film is not nearly as hilarious or as transgressive as it thinks it is — for example, the too-long-by-far traveling-on-Quaaludes scene was more funny and more concise (with ether) in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing. And, as I said up above, there were plenty of other movies mining this "grotesque excess is the new American independence" vein in 2013 — just go see Gatsby or Spring Breakers instead.
All that being said, if you're not inherently averse to all things Card at this point, I thought Gavin Hood's film was a surprisingly decent adaptation of the once-acclaimed novel (which I enjoyed enough in high school — I haven't read it since.) Despite being a bit long in the tooth for the part, Asa Butterfield made for a quality Ender, with the necessary streak of amoral darkness about him. (We could've used Butterfield for Anakin Skywalker back in the day — but even in that Phantom Menace era, the very similar Lucas Black was always available.) And, speaking of Star Wars, hey, Harrison Ford is alive here! Always good to see.
Was The Counselor actually a good movie? Well, that one's easy: No, no it wasn't. Was it terrible? Well, Counselor, I think so, but to be honest I'm not even entirely sure. Just as To the Wonder seemed like a Malick parody, this one reads and watches like a parody of Cormac McCarthy — We have the macho posturing, lots of misogyny of the madonna/whore and vagina dentata variety, no small amount of Old Testament speechifying, and plenty of cartoon nihilism, Texas-style. Of course, I think, No Country notwithstanding, most of McCarthy's stuff reads like parody — Blood Meridian was terrible; there, I said it — so your mileage may vary.
What I do know is that The Counselor was completely cuckoo-bananas, that it did linger in my mind for several days after watching it, and that, if nothing else, I remain sort of impressed that an A-list movie this strange, verbose, and relentlessly dark made it to the screen in this form. But am I recommending it? God, no, Counselor, you'll sue me…or worse.
In any event, there's too much Brick and far too little Baxter, but if you enjoyed the first one, this chapter — which has Ron and his crew taking their talents to CNN and the Big Apple, partying like Wolves of Wall Street, and learning the world a thing or two about car chases — hits at about the same level of hilarity: Maybe slot this somewhere in the late teens/early twenties? I dunno, I immediately regret this decision.
Worth Netflixing: Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2012), Don Jon, Europa Report, John Dies at the End, Monsters University, Oblivion, Pain and Gain, The Place Beyond the Pines, Side Effects, Stoker, Thor 2: The Dark World, West of Memphis
Don't Bother: Admission, The Bling Ring, Closed Circuit, Drinking Buddies, The Fifth Estate, Gangster Squad, Kick-Ass 2, Much Ado about Nothing, Oz the Great and Powerful, Pacific Rim.
Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave; Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis; Robert Redford, All is Lost, Christian Bale, American Hustle; Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Best Actress: Julie Delpy, Before Midnight; Sandra Bullock, Gravity; Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine; Amy Adams, American Hustle; Amy Seimetz, Upstream Color
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyer's Club; Jeffrey Wright, A Single Shot; Ben Nelson, Kill Your Darlings; James Franco, Spring Breakers; Ben Kingsley, Iron Man 3
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave; Sarah Paulson, 12 Years a Slave; June Squibb, Nebraska; Maria Bello, Prisoners; Amy Adams, Her
Unseen: 2 Guns, 21 and Over, 42, 47 Ronin, The Act of Killing, After Earth, Aftershock, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, August: Osage County, Austenland, Bad Grandpa, Baggage Claim, Beautiful Creatures, Berberian Sound Studio, Black Nativity, Blue is the Warmest Color, The Book Thief, Broken City, Bullet to the Head, The Butler, Byzantium, The Call, The Canyons, Carrie, CBGB, The Colony, The Company You Keep, The Croods, Dead Man Down, Delivery Man, Despicable Me 2, Diana, Epic, Escape Plan, Fast and Furious 6, Frozen, Fruitvale Station, Getaway, GI Joe: Retaliation, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan, A Good Day to Die Hard, The Grandmaster, The Great Beauty, Grown Ups 2, Grudge Match, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Hangover Part III, The Heat, Homefront, Identity Thief, In a World, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Insidious 2, The Internship, The Invisible Woman, Jack the Giant Slayer, Jobs, Kon-Tiki, The Last Stand, Last Vegas, Laurence Anyways, The Lone Ranger, Lone Survivor, Machete Kills, Mama, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Movie 43, Mud, Oldboy, Olympus Has Fallen, Out of the Furnace, Paranoia, Parker, Parkland, Percy Jackson 2, Philomena, Planes, Post Tenebras Lux, The Purge, Red 2, Redemption, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Riddick, R.I.P.D, Romeo and Juliet, Runner Runner, Rush, Saving Mr. Banks, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Smurfs 2, The Spectacular Now, Stand-Up Guys, Trance, Turbo, Twenty Feet From Stardom, Warm Bodies, We're the Millers, White House Down, The Wind Rises, Winnie Mandela, You're Next.
2014: 3 Days to Kill, 22 Jump Street, 300: Rise of an Empire, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day, The Amazing Spiderman 2, Annie, That Awkward Moment, Bad Words, Big Eyes, Birdman, Blended, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Chef, Child 44, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Divergent, Draft Day, Dumb and Dumber To, Edge of Tomorrow, Endless Love, Exodus, The Expendables 3, A Fantastic Fear of Everything, The Fault in Our Stars, Foxcatcher, Fury, The Giver, Godzilla, Gone Girl, Grace of Monaco, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hercules: The Thracian Wars, How to Catch a Monster, How to Train Your Dragon 2, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Pt. 1, I, Frankenstein, Inherent Vice, Interstellar, The Interview, Into the Woods, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Jane Got a Gun, Jersey Boys, The Judge, Jupiter Ascending, Labor Day, The Lego Movie, Lucy, Magic in the Moonlight, Maleficent, Million Dollar Arm, A Million Ways to Die in the West, The Monuments Men, A Most Wanted Man, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Muppets Most Wanted, Neighbors, Noah, Non-Stop, The Nut Job, Nymphomaniac, Paddington, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, Pompeii, The Purge 2, Ride Along, Rio 2, Robocop, Sabotage, Serena, Sex Tape, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, St. Vincent de Van Nuys, Tammy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, This is Where I Leave You, Transcendence, Transformers 4, Unbroken, Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters, Veronica Mars, Welcome to Yesterday, Walk of Shame, Winter's Tale, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Zero Theorem, and
As a short companion piece to Gravity, the film's co-writer (and director Alfonso Cuaron's son) Jonas Cuaron offers up the other side of the howling conversation with Aningaaq. Not terribly essential, but no harm, no foul.
Okkervil River at 9:30 Club: It Was My Season | On a Balcony | Black | For Real | Rider | Pink-Slips | John Allyn Smith Sails | Stay Young | Lido Pier Suicide Car | The Valley | Red | Kansas City | Where the Spirit Left Us | Down Down The Deep River | Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe | Lost Coastlines
Encore: Walking Without Frankie | A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene | Unless It's Kicks
I wasn't familiar with these guys at all before the show — Apparently, they've been at it for fifteen years — but they seemed to be a pretty solid alt-rock outfit out of Austin. The songs that had the biggest impression on me, live at least, were The Valley ("Fallen in the valley of the rock and roll dead!") and "Lost Coastlines" (buoyed by some very Morrissey-ish crooning by (iirc) the bassist.)
Atoms for Peace at Patriot Center: Before Your Very Eyes | Default | The Clock | Ingenue | Stuck Together Pieces | Unless | And It Rained All Night | Harrowdown Hill | Dropped | Cymbal Rush
Encore: The Eraser | Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses | Rabbit in Your Headlights | Paperbag Writer | Amok.
Encore 2: Atoms for Peace | Black Swan
Nor, being a movie more than a music guy, was I aware that Thom Yorke and Flea were taking time away from their respective SuperGroups to make Afrobeat albums as Atoms for Peace. Hard to pick a distinctive best moment from this show — Most of the songs ran together here (in a good way, if you enjoy more beat-intensive variations on that distinctive Yorke-shire croon.)
That being said, after watching Flea (Age 50) hop around like a madman half his age throughout this show — in the same week that Sandra Bullock (Age 49) braved the vicissitudes of Zero-G Ripley-style in Gravity, it sure seems like 50 is the new 30 these days. And that puts me solidly in my 20's – Woot.
It's a bad day in space in the powerful new trailer for Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. (And I expect it'll be even worse in IMAX 3-D.) Oh yes, this could well be the cure for my summermovietime blues.
Speaking of which, great line in the AICN comment thread on this: "After seeing this (and especially the first trailer) I have a theory that Gravity is actually set in the same universe as Man of Steel and these poor people are some of those left to die in the wake of Superman's destruction of orbiting satellites."
Update: So the trailer above was apparently just the beginning. The powers-that-be are releasing three different clips. The third one is up tomorrow — Here's Part 2.
Update 2: And Part 3…
Hello again, and a happy New Year's Eve to you and yours. Well, I thought this Best of the Decade would end up being four parts, but now it's looking like five. The recaps for this last twenty-five got so long that MT seems to be consuming the bottom of the entry as I write.
So, with that in mind, here's #'s 25-11 for the Oughts, with the top ten of the decade to follow in due course. If you're new to this overview, be sure to check out part 1, part 2, and part 3 before moving on to the…
|From the original review: "All in all, this is a marvelously genre-bending film with wonderful anchoring performances by the Gyllenhaals. I think I liked this movie much more for not knowing a lot about it going in, so I won't mention the particulars here. But it's definitely worth seeing. Extra points for the soundtrack, which with 'Head over Heels,' 'Love will Tear Us Apart,' and 'Under the Milky Way'…reminded me more of my own high school experience than any other film I can remember. (The Dukakis era setting helped, since that was my own eighth grade year.)"
I almost took this movie out of the top 25 on account of its association with Southland Tales and The Box, and even the director's cut of this film, which snuffs out a lot of this movie's weird magic by slathering it in needless Midichlorian-style exposition. As I said in my recent review of The Box, Donnie Darko seems to be a clear and undeniable case where studio intervention saved a movie.
Nevertheless, part Philip K. Dick, part John Hughes, Darko was a touching coming-of-age story (thanks in good part to Mary McDonnell and Holmes Osborne as Donnie's cranky but loving parents), a decently funny satire about the vagaries of small-town life (think Sparkle Motion, "sleep-golfing," and the Love-Fear axis), and a trippy sci-fi/psychological thriller. (Was Donnie really talking to a demon-rabbit from the future, or was he just off his meds? The original version muddles this question a lot better than the Kelly cut.)
Whether or not Richard Kelly just got struck by lightning here, everyone else involved clearly brought their A-game to this production. Two Gyllenhaals got on the Hollywood board with this flick, although Maggie would have to wait for Secretary to really break out. The Michael Andrews score contributed mightily to the proceedings, as did the Gary Jules cover of "Mad World," which got a lot of run in the Oughts, from Gears of War to American Idol. And there are plenty of quality performances in the margins, from the late Patrick Swayze riffing on his image, to Beth Grant typecasting herself for the decade, to Katharine Ross coming back for one more curtain call. Fluke or not, the original version of Donnie Darko was one strange and memorable bunny, alright.
|From the year-end list: "An excellent adaptation of a great book, even if I preferred the Elvis Costello britrock emphasis of Hornby's tome to the indie Subpop scene of the movie."
"Charlie, you f**king b**ch! Let's work it out!" Arguably John Cusack's finest hour (although 1999's Being John Malkovich is right up there, and I know many might cite the Lloyd Dobler of old), Stephen Frears' adaptation of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity has continued to grow on me over the years. If it counts as one of David Denby's slacker-striver romances (see the discussion of Knocked Up at #40), it's definitely the one that hits closest to home for me.
The first thing people usually remember about this movie is all the Jack Black/Todd Louiso banter in the record store. ("It's a Cosssssby sweater!") And it's true — All of that stuff is both really funny and all too telling about the elitism and obsessiveness inherent to the fanboy mentality — "Don't tell anyone you don't own 'Blonde on Blonde'! It's gonna be okay." Besides, let's face it, this entire end-of-the-decade list is really just an extended High Fidelity-style Top 5 (and I had a great time back in July organizing my history books chronologically, a la Rob's record collection.)
Still, as with the book, High Fidelity's killer app is really the dispatches filed from Rob's romantic life, as he ponders what went wrong with his Top 5 Crushes gone awry. ("We were frightened of being left alone for the rest of our lives. Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at the age of 26, and we were of that disposition.") There's a lot of truthiness throughout High Fidelity, from Rob's catastrophic hang-up on Charlie (Catherine Zeta Jones) to his eff-the-world rebound with an equally besotted Sarah (Lili Taylor), to his single-minded infatuation about whether his ex, Laura (Iben Hjejle), has slept with the loathsome new boyfriend, Ian (fellow Tapehead Tim Robbins in a great cameo) yet.
In short, I'd argue High Fidelity gets the inner-male monologue closer to right than any flick this side of Annie Hall. In the immortal words of Homer J. Simpson, it's funny because it's true.
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Chicago Public Schools officials said today that because of budget shortfalls, they could be forced to back away from promises not to cut classrooms and educational programs in the coming school year.
Schools chief Ron Huberman said that because of state budget cuts announced last week to specific programs, the district could lose an estimated $84 million, compounding an already massive budget deficit. The state included cuts to early childhood and bilingual education programs in an effort to address its own deficit.
"Given those actions, it is simply going to be very difficult to close this budget without impacting core education programs," said Huberman.


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$600K spent in bid to close injection site underscores Tory stubbornness
The Harper government spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in its unsuccessful legal battle against Insite, Vancouver's supervised injection site, according to newly released documents.
Between 2006 and 2011, the Conservatives spent $637,158 in a bid to shut down the Downtown Eastside clinic — funds that represented more than 20 per cent of Insite's annual $3-million operating budget.
The clinic, opened in 2003, has long been a burr under the saddle of a federal government that has fiercely resisted embracing the harm-reduction philosophy which underpins the clinic's operations.
The federal legal bill comes courtesy of a Justice Department reply to an access to information request, submitted last October by the Vancouver Sun. The request followed a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court in favour of keeping the clinic open.
In a unanimous decision, the judges ruled that not allowing the clinic to operate under an exemption from drug laws would violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The Harper regime between 2006 and 2008 reluctantly had granted the facility an exemption from drug laws, allowing it to operate. But between 2008 and last autumn's court ruling, it waged legal action to close down the clinic.
This, despite the fact Insite has had the long-standing support of both the Vancouver and B.C. governments. Polls show the clinic also has the support of about 70 per cent of Vancouverites.
And it has shown itself to be effective in reducing harm. In 2009, nearly 500 overdoses occurred at the clinic but no deaths. In 2010, 221 overdoses occurred with no deaths.
A 2011 study in the British medical journal The Lancet found overdose deaths have dropped 35 per cent in the area of the clinic since it opened.
However, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq has explained that her government prefers to focus its efforts on prevention and treatment.
Insite's main goal is neither of these. With 12 injection booths and a staff that includes nurses, counsellors and mental health and social workers, the clinic attempts to reduce harm that users do to themselves, particularly by way of overdosing.
The clinic does not supply any drugs; rather, it provides a safe, medically supervised location and clean needles for addicts to administer their drugs. Importantly, it also provides counselling for those wishing to get off drugs.
Last year, the clinic was responsible for 5,268 referrals to various social and health agencies and 458 drug users were admitted to detox programs. Surely, this is the most worthwhile part of what the clinic does.
As the clinic's website states: "Through Insite, clients develop trusting relationships with our health care and social workers, making them more likely to pursue withdrawal management, addiction counselling and other addiction treatment services."
The government's vigorous legal battle against the clinic — even in the face of community acceptance and research showing the centre's effectiveness in reducing fatalities — shows an unproductive stubborn streak. The same bull-headed approach was in evidence in the Conservatives' determination in 2010 to get rid of the long-form census, against widespread advice, and their refusal last fall to reconsider an expensive, punitive omnibus crime bill at a time when crime rates have been falling in Canada.
The Harper government certainly allowed its ideological leanings to get in the way of rational decision-making in the case of Insite. The result was an unnecessary expenditure of a bucket full of public cash at a time when Ottawa is working hard to reduce spending in order to balance the federal budget.
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Diversitay will help you to talk openly about dying and plan ahead so that you can make the right choices about end of life care. Many people find it hard to talk about death and dying. This could be because death may feel a long way off, or you may feel too young to talk about it. But we do need to talk about it and be prepared and share our plans so that the people around us know how we want to be cared for.
You don't have to be ill or dying to make plans for your future, but it is important to start thinking about your wishes. By making these choices clear to your family, carers or friends, they can ensure your preferences are followed when you reach the end of your life. Diversitay will help you think about all the options, such as where you would prefer to die, and will also help you to get support if you are on your own.
You may be looking to support an elderly parent with a life limiting illness terminal illness or are a family member who wants to make the last six months of a relative's life as special and pain free as possible. Diversitay will help you talk openly to that person about how they want to be cared for so that you can make sure their wishes are followed.
Having a family can change your outlook on life completely – and may well encourage you to think more about the future. Diversitay will help you to think about your options, such as who would care for your children and how you would ensure their financial security.
Handling the arrangements for someone who has died is an important responsibility which takes a lot of time and energy. Making those decisions without guidance – especially at a time when you are grieving – can be very demanding. Diversitay can give you help to make sure you have fulfilled all the legal requirements and can carry out their wishes.
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AWS services or capabilities described in AWS Documentation may vary by region/location. Click Getting Started with Amazon AWS to see specific differences applicable to the China (Beijing) Region.
Creates an X.509 certificate using the specified certificate signing request.
Note: The CSR must include a public key that is either an RSA key with a length of at least 2048 bits or an ECC key from NIST P-256 or NIST P-384 curves.
Note: Reusing the same certificate signing request (CSR) results in a distinct certificate.
You can create multiple certificates in a batch by creating a directory, copying multiple .csr files into that directory, and then specifying that directory on the command line. The following commands show how to create a batch of certificates given a batch of CSRs.
Assuming a set of CSRs are located inside of the directory my-csr-directory:
On Linux and OS X, the command is:
$ ls my-csr-directory/ | xargs -I {} aws iot create-certificate-from-csr --certificate-signing-request file://my-csr-directory/{}
This command lists all of the CSRs in my-csr-directory and pipes each CSR file name to the aws iot create-certificate-from-csr AWS CLI command to create a certificate for the corresponding CSR.
The aws iot create-certificate-from-csr part of the command can also be run in parallel to speed up the certificate creation process:
$ ls my-csr-directory/ | xargs -P 10 -I {} aws iot create-certificate-from-csr --certificate-signing-request file://my-csr-directory/{}
On Windows PowerShell, the command to create certificates for all CSRs in my-csr-directory is:
> ls -Name my-csr-directory | %{aws iot create-certificate-from-csr --certificate-signing-request file://my-csr-directory/$_}
On a Windows command prompt, the command to create certificates for all CSRs in my-csr-directory is:
> forfiles /p my-csr-directory /c "cmd /c aws iot create-certificate-from-csr --certificate-signing-request file://@path"
For .NET Core and PCL this operation is only available in asynchronous form. Please refer to CreateCertificateFromCsrAsync.
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public abstract CreateCertificateFromCsrResponse CreateCertificateFromCsr( String certificateSigningRequest )
The certificate signing request (CSR).
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I was born in 1969 in Havana, Cuba and began making photographs as a child. My father, a professional photographer, brought me to shoots and the darkroom, teaching me every aspect of the process of making a photograph.
During my teenager years, I worked as a photographer in several photo studios in Havana. I started as a photographer's assistant and then worked as a professional photographer.
Immediately after high school I began working for the Cuban Navy as a photographer documenting military maneuvers across Cuba.
In 1989, I was admitted as a photography student to the highly competitive Instituto Superior de Arte, Cuba's most prestigious art university. I started making short films and eventually switched my major to Motion Picture Directing. I graduated in 1994 with offers to direct some of the island's top talent.
I continue to photograph everything around me hoping to communicate my vision to those who like my work.


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SOURCE: OneFold
March 07, 2016 20:00 ET
Any Semi-Structured Data Source Now Capable of Being Queried in Google Cloud or Amazon Cloud Using SQL or Visualized Using FB React
Any Semi-Structured Data Source Now Capable of Being Queried in Google Cloud or Amazon Cloud Using SQL or Visualized Using FB React
BURLINGAME, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 7, 2016) - Open source analytics software company OneFold.io announced today that it has added support for MongoDB data being automatically ETL processed and loaded for SQL query into Google BigQuery.
"We have a vision that developers should have complete freedom of choice with respect to how they capture and store their semi-structured data and where they query and visualize it," said Jorge Chang, CTO of OneFold.
OneFold's product, Big Data Warehouse, leverages cloud computing and query engines like Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift to enable developers to analyze their data using SQL and visualization software without writing any code.
While closed source software companies charge for analytics based on data points captured, OneFold is free and developers simply have to pay for their own cloud computing costs.
"I am a big user of MongoDB and I really like Google BigQuery for its speed and scale," said Raghav Rastogi, a data scientist at GotIt!, a top edu marketplace app. "Since OneFold is open source and I was using it anyway, I decided to add support for ETL of MongoDB data into Google BigQuery."
For more information on Big Data Warehouse, go to http://ywincubator.wix.com/onefold for details.
About OneFold and YouWeb
OneFold is focused on Big Data generated by Mobile and Wearables. OneFold eliminates the burden on data scientists for 80% of analytical insights needed by Product Managers and Marketing organizations to optimize Mobile App revenues (projected to reach $200B yearly run rate by 2017 in m-commerce, travel, financial & gaming verticals). Companies in the big data space, but focused on other aspects of big data analytics are: Databricks (Funded by A16Z), Trifacta (funded by Greylock, Accel Partners), and ClearStory Data (funded by KPCB, Google Ventures, A16Z), and Origami (funded by Accel, Lightspeed and Jafco Partners).
Based in Menlo Park, California, OneFold is founded by engineer entrepreneurs from Oracle and Intuit, with 20+ years' experience building and growing mobile and enterprise software products in small and large Silicon Valley companies. OneFold has been accelerated at Studio 9+ accelerator (www.studio9plus.com). Learn more at http://ywincubator.wix.com/onefold
YouWeb, created by Peter Relan, a successful serial entrepreneur, Silicon Valley executive, angel investor and technology veteran for over 20 years, works with the best and brightest young technical talent in the industry to create new products and business models. YouWeb develops products and business models for companies in the consumer internet and mobile computing sectors.
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DD-WRT Goes Major Label with Buffalo Technology
November 19, 2007
With the release of the new Buffalo Technology WHR-HP-G54DD, DD-WRT becomes the first third-party-developed, open-source router firmware to be pre-installed on a major company's router.
When an indie rock band with a loyal and passionate following releases its major label debut, fans can get a little stirred up. There are the supporters, who cheer the groups success in "making it." And there are the doubters, who accuse the band of "selling out" and courting inevitable artistic decline. The same dynamic plays out in the world of software, where the products may not be as glamorous, but the fans are no less devoted.
In the case of popular open-source firmware DD-WRT, its big breakthe equivalent of major label distribution for an indie bandcame in the form of a partnership deal with Buffalo Technology, a worldwide vendor of routers and other wireless networking gear. Since the announcement last month, fan reaction has been enthusiastically mixed.
German company NewMedia-NET GmbH is the business face of "Brainslayer," primary coder of DD-WRT. Thanks to the deal, the new Buffalo WHR-HP-G54DD ships with DD-WRT pre-installed rather than Buffalos own stock firmware--a first for any third-party-developed, alternative open-source router firmware.
If you havent been following the wireless router scene with the fervor of emo kids downloading B-sides by My Chemical Romance, DD-WRT is a popular open-source replacement firmware for a variety of wireless routers.
The stock vendor firmware shipped with most consumer-grade wireless routers usually supports only a narrow range of network capabilities, like basic security and management. In contrast, DD-WRT enables a laundry list of networking features that allow sub-$100 routers to possess sophisticated and programmable capabilities usually only found in expensive enterprise gear. Among these newfound talents include bandwidth metering, QoS (quality of service), customized routing, support for public and private hotspots, client and bridge modes, and more--much more.
Like siblings, such as OpenWRT and Sveasoft Alchemy, DD-WRT was developed to take advantage of the seminal Linksys WRT54G router, which could be loaded with modified firmware based on Linksyss stock version. But Linksys never blessed the alternative software. If anything, their subsequent, restricted revisions to its model line suggested a lack of enthusiasm for third-party firmwares like DD-WRT.
In contrast, Buffalo and DD-WRT are enjoying more than a little mutual affection. Buffalo scored a big hit among the DD-WRT community with their WHR-HP-G54 router, highly regarded for its strong specs and good mating with DD-WRT. And DD-WRT has become the most popular alternative router firmware due to its combination of comprehensive features, mature interface, and active community.
Making it official
To anyone in the know, it seems logical and welcome that Buffalo has reached out to officially support DD-WRT. The new WHR-HP-G54DD is said to be the first result of their partnership with NewMedia-NET. Users who hope to see the partnership yield a router with beefed-up hardware specs custom-tailored to leverage DD-WRTs full capabilities (such as more RAM) will have to wait, though--the G54DD is just the WHR-HP-G54 hardware pre-loaded with DD-WRT "special edition," a pay-version of DD-WRT with support for features not available in the free version including PPPOE-Relay and a Per User Bandwidth Control.
With this first release, Buffalo hopes to gauge interest in what some see as commercialization of DD-WRT. Therein lies the rub among fans--some of whom are crying "sellout" at the relationship with Buffalo. There is fear and loathing that the end of a free, open DD-WRT is nigh, despite public reassurances by Brainslayer and NewMedia-NET that the Buffalo venture will have no impact on the continued development of open-source DD-WRT.
Patent (trouble) pending
But the whole affair may be overshadowed by outside forcesBuffalo Technologys entire wireless networking lineup, including the new G54DD, is currently unavailable in the U.S. due to a legal injunction against the company. Buffalo is the target of litigation by CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), Australias government-backed high-tech R&D incubator. CSIRO is alleging that virtually all wireless vendors are in violation of its 1992 patent on technology which eventually became part of the 802.11 b and g standards. The organization began its U.S.-based legal test case against Buffalo Tech in 2006 and has since won a series of legal decisions, including the injunction in June of this year that has prevented Buffalo Technology from importing any new stock into the U.S.
Of course, Buffalo hopes to have the injunction overturned. Their plight has received sympathetic support from virtually every technology vendor, who themselves sit within the crosshairs of CSIRO. But until then, Americans who want to buy DD-WRT pre-loaded on the G54DDor who want to load it themselves on the G54will need to look to foreign vendors or on the worlds global marketplace (read eBay). Just think of ordering Buffalo gear from overseas as having the same cool, insider panache as that import Pearl Jam CD that you can only order from Japan.
Aaron Weiss is a freelance writer and editor based in upstate New York.


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Our legacy features are changing
In the past, we've left it up to individual users to decide which new features they want to switch on or off. This means we've ended up retaining multiple versions of legacy features for users who prefer sticking with what they know.
As technology is changing, we'd like to help customers use all our new functions and keep the software fresh and slick. The new features include fresh icons, new visual themes, advanced functions and improved assessment plans. You'll be able to do everything you used to do; it'll just be easier and quicker than before.
There are two upgrades available for assessment plans – you must complete the first upgrade before you can move onto the next.
This new feature makes planning even quicker.
You can also:
- Set start and due dates for tasks
- Specify which user starts each task (includes employers)
- Create 'activity' tasks
- Future planned assessments have been removed
This update has a new design to help you create assessment plan tasks.
You can:
- Attach learning resources to tasks
- Pre-populate criteria on an assessment
- View learning resources on assessments created from the assessment plan
- Improved design of tasks on the assessment plan
The changes will happen automatically in August, so we recommend letting your staff know as soon as possible. You can even start updating your settings now.
Just go to your centre settings and enter the upgrade area to get started!
Help is on its way!
Our experts are hosting a series of webinars to help you update your centre – sign up here. Or check out our YouTube videos to see the updates in action.


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A man in his 20s is in custody, and Harvey police continue to search for a second suspect in the fatal shooting of a soldier home on furlough, a city spokeswoman said today.
Family members said Simeon Sanders, 21, escaped the violence of his old neighborhood by going to college and then joining the Army but was shot Thursday in the back after buying fries from a taco stand in his hometown.
"Here's somebody who made it out ... and then he comes home and he ended up getting shot for nothing," said Sanders' sister Meochia Thompson, 34, as her brother's crisp green uniform sat nearby.


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Eugene, Oregon (PRWEB) December 10, 2013
"Little Star," was originally written by Anthony DeStefano as a homework assignment for "Angela's Ashes" author Frank McCourt when DeStefano was a student at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. Thirty years later, the book has finally been published in a special edition by Harvest House Publishers, and has already become a holiday "classic."
In a retelling of the Nativity story, "Little Star" focuses on the star of Bethlehem—the smallest star in the heavens—who burns himself out to keep the newborn baby Jesus warm in his cold stable. It conveys the true meaning of Christmas, while at the same time emphasizes an extremely important message for all children, namely, that even if you are small or insecure or afraid, when you shine your brightest you have the power to achieve great things in life.
Anthony DeStefano is the bestselling author of the adult Christian books "A Travel Guide to Heaven," "Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To," "Angels All Around Us," as well as the gift book "I Just Can't Take It Anymore!" and the children's books "This Little Prayer of Mine" and "The Donkey That No One Could Ride." He has received prestigious awards from religious organizations worldwide for his efforts to advance Christian beliefs in modern culture.
Mr. DeStefano is available for interview throughout the month of December.


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Open Thread: Talk About What Matters Most to You
Discuss and debate the issues that mean the most to you.
I was in my car when a song by my favorite indie pop band, Rilo Kiley, started playing. My face lit up as I excitedly turned the volume all the way up, ready to sing along to this band that expressed itself with such powerful and exuberant femininity. I was shouting the lyrics at the top of my lungs.
I noticed that I was heading towards a red light, and it had always been protocol for me to turn the volume down and immediately stop singing. I was afraid that people in other cars would look over and judge me for being so openly feminine and flamboyant. But this time was different. This time, I didn't turn the volume down.
Five days earlier, I began therapy and started taking antidepressants. As a result, I had increased self-esteem and my brain was completely lucid for the first time in years. With a clear head, I thought to myself, "Why am I turning down the volume? I'm singing, I deserve to be happy."
I started singing even more loudly, not caring about who might have been looking. I was so full of life and unadulterated happiness.
And then the strangest thing happened.
I started getting goosebumps all over my body and began trembling. "Why have I been hiding this part of myself for so long?" I wondered. My entire life flashed before my eyes and old repressed memories began flooding in.
When I was five years old, I was at my cousin's house and saw a miniature pink carousel set that I desperately wanted to play with. The adults saw me excitedly heading towards the carousel so they angrily put it on top of the refrigerator where I couldn't reach it. They told me that this toy was not for boys. I was so confused why they were taking something away that would've made me so happy. I started crying.
My parents yelled, "Stop crying! Boys don't cry!" This, of course, made me cry more, because their lack of empathy devastated me before I knew how to articulate the words.
When I was 10 years old, I danced along to the 1996 Women's Gymnastics team from the Summer Olympics because I had the hugest crush on Dominique Moceanu. I would mimic her moves in the front lawn of our apartment complex and it was so freeing. The adults in my family were livid and told me to stop acting this way.
And then I started remembering all the times I let my female friends paint my fingernails, all the times I'd leave my makeup on in drama class long after the play was over, and all the times I'd get excited when my female friends asked me to hold their purses.
I parked the car and began hyperventilating. "Oh my god, it all makes sense," I thought. I had suppressed these memories of femininity, and instead, spent most of my life trying to "act like a man" and failing. I'd order pizza and watch football on Sundays and would begin crying around the fourth quarter, wishing that I loved doing this more. I bought UFC gloves and a punching bag to try and be tough like the MMA fighters I saw on TV. Everything I tried to do as a man made me miserable.
And here I was in the present, freely singing along to Rilo Kiley, and it just felt right. I was as happy as that five-year-old who first discovered the pink carousel before it got taken away.
I wanted to say it out loud, just to see how it felt, so I took a long deep breath and uttered the words, "I'm actually a woman..." and I began sobbing uncontrollably because nothing had ever felt righter. This was the most significant moment of my entire life.
I was ecstatic to finally discover who I am, but I became terrified about what this meant for my future. I was especially worried about telling my girlfriend because I had no idea how she'd respond.
I nervously messaged her, "Baby, I identify as a woman so much more than a man. Everything makes sense now. I love you." She instantly sent me a smiley face emoticon and told me she loved and supported me, and I felt so unbelievably relieved and lucky. For hours, I couldn't wipe the smile off my face, and everybody I talked to noticed that I had a radiant energy they never felt from me before. I was experiencing gender euphoria.
The euphoria lasted several hours before it began to subside and reality started sinking back in. I was overcome with a tremendous amount of guilt because I knew that I would be fundamentally changing the dynamics of all my relationships, and it felt so selfish. Since I had always been lying to myself about who I was, it meant that I'd been inadvertently lying to everyone I'd ever met.
I especially felt guilty that I was potentially risking my relationship with my girlfriend who I loved more than anybody in the world, all for the sake of my own happiness. I was making myself the most important person in my life, something I'd never done before, which meant that I had to make my girlfriend second place. I felt like a bad person for putting her second and felt like she deserved better. Even though she constantly reassured me that she still loved me and only wanted my happiness, I'd constantly apologized to her telling her that I know this isn't what she signed up for. I felt horrible for ruining the old idea of "us."
And I felt even guiltier knowing that if I had to do it all over again, I would do it in a heartbeat. As much as I love my friends, my family, and my girlfriend, I never knew what true happiness was until I was willing to throw it all away. When I felt like there was nothing left to lose, I finally experienced complete freedom.
When people ask me how I'm doing, I tell them that I'm finally happy with who I am, but I also tell them that this does not mean that things are easy. None of it is easy. I have to accept that most of my life and memories have been a huge lie, that some of my friends are going to abandon me, that I will never be able to walk into a grocery store again without getting dirty looks, and that certain family members would disapprove of and disown me.
When this all started, I had no idea that I would be the happiest I've ever been in my life, and I also had no idea that accepting myself for who I really am would be the hardest thing I'd ever have to do.
But through it all, I still feel like it's been all worth it, because I get to face these obstacles as who I really am instead of who I'd always pretended to be.


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The Doors Alive is quite simply THE most exciting, authentic, charismatic and (self proclaimed) sexually magnetic tribute band to pay homage to 1960's rock titans The Doors. The band have worked tirelessly to achieve the same fluid, dark and heady sounds as The Doors at their psychedelic peak. Their heavy and ever expanding touring schedule has included to date: The U.K, Dubai, The Middle East, The Netherlands, Ireland, Poland, Malta, Germany, France, Slovenia and Birmingham. In their wake, they leave thousands of Doors fans satisfied, yet hungry for their next fix! They have incited audiences to leave precisely 6 pairs of ladies knickers, 15 bras, 2 pairs of men's boxer shorts, 1 boob tube and an old scabby comb strewn over the world's stages.
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Man Continues to Learn From Design Features in Living Things
If God created all living things, and if He has used wisdom and intelligence
in the design of these living things, then man should be able to look at
the world around him and see things he can copy to meet the needs he has in
the physical world in which we live. If everything is the result of chance,
then survival is the only issue and the processes of genetic mutation and
natural selection will produce only what is necessary for survival, and there
will be no pattern of purpose or design in the living things around us.
As we learn more and more about living things, we find more and more ways
to do things to make our lives easier and more comfortable. In the Smithsonian
magazine (July 2002, pages 78-84) there is a list of things that man has
discovered by copying things that man saw in the world around him. Many
of these things are not survival issues, but what we see in nature shows
such wisdom and intelligence that we have used it to build the things that
make your life better in material ways. Consider these examples.
Barb Wire: Built by noticing the thorns of the osage orange tree by Michael Kelly in 1868.
Velcro: Built by George de Mestral in the 1940s by copying the cocklebur.
Entropy Carpet: Gets its color by refraction of light, not dye. Discovered by copying snake skin and the way some birds and reptiles have color.
Entropy Carpet: Gets its color by refraction of light, not dye. Discovered by copying snake skin and the way some birds and reptiles have color.
Multifrequency Echolocation: Copied from bats.
Torsion Tips on Wings of Airplanes: Discovered by Wilbur Wright by studying the flight of buzzards.
New Navy Weapon and Unexploded Ordinance Locator: Discovered by studying the small hairs on the antennules of spiny lobsters.
New Directional Hearing Aids: Examination of the ormia fly which uses directional microphones in locating food.
Reusable Adhesive Tape: Discovered by studying the microscopic hairs in the gecko.Use All Glue: Found by studying a protein in mussels that enables these creatures to stick to all kinds of rocks in all kinds of condition
Dirt Repelling Fabric Called Lotusan: Discovered by studying the surface of the lotus plant which grows in filthy places but has no dirt stick to it.
Water Based Lubricant: Found by studying the saliva of giraffes.
Romans 1:19-22 tells us we can know that there is a God through the things that He has made, but it is also true that we can gain great practical knowledge by studying the design features on what God has made and learn how to copy it to solve our problems here on earth. We would suggest that we can also solve our problems of how to live with one another if we will just follow God's plan for living. Following Christ's example and living the way He taught us to live can bring us the best in life. Timothy says it best: "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man (or woman) of God may be complete--totally furnished to all of life" (2 Timothy 3:16-17). God's wisdom surrounds us, and we need to allow him to be the guiding force in what we do and how we live.
--John N. Clayton
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