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2 Oct 2013 09:42:40 AM
Shill 'Em All, Part 3: The 'Almost Famous' Fanboys of MMA Media
("Jose Rosenberg, MMAFloorTurd.com. My question is for Johny Hendricks: Johny, will you please accept my friend request on Facebook?")
To see the first two installments of Shill 'Em All, click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2.
All serious music aficionados know the true-life origins of Cameron Crowe's 2000 movie Almost Famous: Like the young protagonist of the movie, Crowe worked for Rolling Stone magazine, spending three weeks on the road with the Allman Brothers Band at the age of 18.
The ongoing theme of Almost Famous has to do with the loss of focus and objectivity 15-year old music journalist William Miller experiences when he gets up close and personal with fictional rock band Stillwater.
"Just make us look cool" the band tells Miller as they attempt to coerce favorable coverage that will further enhance their music career. This raises the question of personal bias in journalism — in our case, what happens when MMA reporters get too close to their subjects?
The first time I met Georges St-Pierre at the Tristar Gym in 2008, I was so in awe of his stature as a champion that I overlooked red flags concerning his management. I wrote a good story — a 2,000-word profile for a Canadian men's magazine about his arc from bullied schoolboy to UFC champion. While I may have even elicited several good quotes about his childhood and time working as a garbage man, there were many grisly details that lay beneath the surface that I would discover in the coming years.
It's easy for media members to project themselves onto MMA fighters. It starts with a delusion ("I could be him!") and escalates into other false premises ("I am special, too!"). Numerous reporters have courted love affairs with fighters — both figurative and literal — and astute fans can spot the signs of favoritism from miles away: reporters using their platform to name-drop, rationalize a fighter's flaws, or minimize criticism of said fighter.Read More DIGG THIS


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Helpful advice from Homeland Security and TSO
Wonderfully helpful article today at the NY Post:
WASHINGTON — Is your workplace getting shot up by a crazed gunman?
No problem — just grab a pair of scissors and fight back!
That's some of the helpful advice in a new instructional video from the Department of Homeland Security that was posted on the agency's Web site just a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
"If you are caught out in the open and cannot conceal yourself or take cover, you might consider trying to overpower the shooter with whatever means are available," says the narrator in the video, which shows an office worker pulling scissors out of a desk drawer.
Great advice that, but the problem is you can't run with scissors.
I have helpfully take pictures of some items in my office I intend to use to twart a prospective murderer.
I will brain him with the Buddha lamp. Alternately I could ask him to consider the implications of what the great Buddha taught. Or, lastly, I could throw my coffee at the perp, and then make him hold the lamp. He might get electrocuted if lightening strikes.
2: Creamy Peanut Butter:
I've never seen anyone so overwraught with hostility he wouldn't stop for peanut butter. Also, it will keep his insane ramblings to a minimum if it sticks to the roof of his mouth.
3: Ranger Up crossed rifles:
"You see that crazy person? You know what that means? I went through a week of hand to hand training at Basic, and I am not afraid to use it."
Unfortunately the thing is semi-permanently affixed to my office wall.
I hope you found this useful.
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TABLE OF CONTENTSCollection Summary
Organization of the Collection
John William Hurrell Watts fonds:
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Biographical Sketch
John William Hurrell Watts was born on September 16, 1850, in Teignmouth, England, the son of John Watts, a ship's purser, and Susan Hurrell. In 1867, at age seventeen, Watts was elected member of the Architectural Association in London, England, where he trained at its school and in an architectural firm until early 1871. He subsequently worked as a draftsmen, surveyor, and evaluator in the city until 1873. Watts married Elizabeth Blanche Morris (b. April 21, 1847, in Guernsey, England) on July 16, 1872 and the following year immigrated to Canada, settling in Janeville (now part of Vanier), Ontario. Over the next several years, the couple had five daughters, Florence (b. 1873), Flora Mary (b. 1875), Ida Mary (1879-1946), Bellis Blanche (1881-1896), and Dora Hurrell (b. 1885); and three sons, Wilfred F. (b. 1878), Harold Hurrell (1882-1938), and Lawrence Homer (b. 1887). Florence, Flora, and Lawrence died in infancy.
Watts began working immediately upon arriving in Canada, producing illustrations for magazines such as Canadian Illustrated News, where he published, in the July 19, 1873 issue, an engraving of a post office designed by the architect Walter Chesterton (1845-1931). Soon afterwards, Watts was hired as a draftsman by Thomas Seaton Scott (1826-1895), who was chief architect for the Department of Public Works in Ottawa. As Watts's first project for the department, he prepared drawings for the interior fittings of the Library of Parliament, including the desks surrounding a statue of Queen Victoria. Other early works include the Gasometer at Rideau Hall and a 50-foot Civil Service Arch at Parliament Square in Ottawa to mark the arrival in Canada of the Marquis of Lorne (1845-1914), Canada's fourth Governor General, in 1878.
In 1880 Lorne established the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA). In his opening remarks at the first official exhibition, Lorne recommended that artists submit a diploma work upon election to the RCA and that these works form the nucleus of a national collection administered by the Department of Public Works. Watts was elected associate member of the RCA in the design category in 1880 and promoted to full academician the following year, when he submitted his diploma work, a pen-and-ink drawing for a stairway. Watts regularly exhibited his designs for furniture, interiors, and buildings, as well as oil paintings, etchings, and watercolours with the RCA. He also exhibited with the Art Association of Montreal and the Ontario Society of Artists. His design skills were recognized in competitions sponsored by the American Architect and Building News (Boston) in 1881 and 1882, and he was awarded a prize of fifty dollars for The Deuce in the Fourth American Architect Competition. In 1882, in addition to his post as draftsman, Watts was appointed curator of the National Gallery, in charge of diploma submissions and the acquisitions budget, and began developing plans for a print room in the old Supreme Court building. Watts acquired more than 100 works of art as curator of the national collection until 1897, when a change in government led to his dismissal from the Department of the Public Works.
After leaving the public service, Watts started a new career as an architect in private practice, mainly designing churches. The design for St. Matthew's Anglican Church, a wooden structure which stood at 217 First Avenue in the Glebe neighbourhood of Ottawa (demolished in 1930) is believed to be one of Watts's first commissions, built in 1898. In 1901 he designed St. Augustine's Anglican Church at 100 Huxley Street in Galetta, Ontario (completed 1902), and in 1904 the Adath Jeshrun Synagogue at 375 King Edward Avenue in Ottawa (the Ottawa French Seventh-day Adventist Church since 1999). Also in 1904 Watts painted an altarpiece and designed the ceiling of the chancel for St. Margaret's Anglican Church, where he served as first people's warden. In 1909 he made alterations and designed a new Sunday school for Zion Presbyterian Church on Albert Street in Carleton Place, Ontario.
Watts also specialized in houses for wealthy residents of Ottawa, including the following: John Mather (1828-1907), a lumberman, at 453 Laurier Avenue East in 1878 (now Le Cordon Bleu Ottawa Culinary Arts Institute); John Frederick Booth, son of J.R. Booth (1827-1925), at 285 Charlotte Street (the Embassy of Russia since 1942); Andrew Walker Fleck (1848-1924), at 500 Wilbrod Street (now the Algerian Embassy); and William Davis, at 407 Wilbrod Street (now Australia House). Other notable designs by Watts include the Men Wah Tay lodge, a summer railway hotel at Rock Lake in Algonquin Park in 1900 (acquired by the Crown and dismantled in 1955), and the studio residence of the Canadian painter John Charles Pinhey (1860-1912) in Hudson Heights, Quebec, in 1903. Watts remained involved in the architectural community for most of his life. In 1906 he became the first president of the Ottawa chapter of the Ontario Association of Architects, and the following year he was appointed treasurer of the newly founded Architectural Institute of Canada. Watts exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy for the last time in 1913. He died at his home at 62 Robert Street in Ottawa on August 26, 1917, and was buried in Beechwood Cemetery.
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Scope and Content
Fonds consists of personal photographs and documents related to Watts's association with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Photographs include three portraits of Watts taken in Canada, one family portrait, and one Royal Canadian Academy of Arts photograph from 1897. There are negatives for two of the Watts portraits, the family photograph, as well as a negative showing portraits of Watts and his wife Elizabeth taken in England. Also included in the fonds is a notebook containing pictorial and print newspaper clipping related to the 1882 Royal Canadian Academy of Arts exhibition.
Source of supplied title proper: Title based on contents of fonds.
Immediate source of acquisition: The collection was acquired by the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives from Crowther & Brayley Ltd, Waverley, Nova Scotia, 2009.
Terms governing use and reproductions: Permission to reproduce or publish material from the John William Hurrell Watts fonds must be obtained from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives.
Associated materials: The National Gallery of Canada owns six drawings by John William Hurrell Watts, including "Design for a Stairway," his diploma work submitted to the Royal Academy of the Arts in 1881.
Related groups of records: The National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives collection includes Watts's specifications book from the Department of Public Works, Chief Architect's office. The Homer Watson fonds includes correspondence between Watts and Homer Watson and two photographs of Watts. Two books in the Library collection, Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini (London: Harry G. Bohn, 1850) and Clara Erskine Clement, Naples: The City of Parthenope and Environs (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1894), were formerly owned by Watts and include his bookplate.
Finding aids: Series level descriptions and box list available.
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Administrative Information
Processing Information
Collection processed and finding aid prepared by Kira A. Brown in 2011.
Preferred Citation
[Title of item], John William Hurrell Watts fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives.
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Contact Information
Cyndie Campbell
Head, Archives, Documentation and Visual Resources
Library and Archives
National Gallery of Canada
380 Sussex Drive
P.O. Box 427, Station A
Ottawa, Ontario
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FOX Business: Capitalism Lives Here
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Wall Street cheered news that Larry Summers will be bowing out of the race to become the next Fed chief. However, tumbling Apple shares restricted the Street's gains.
Today's Markets
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 119 points, or 0.77%, to 15495, the S&P 500 jumped 9.6 points, or 0.57%, to 1678 and the Nasdaq Composite fell 4.3 points, or 0.12%, to 3718.
The Dow posted its best biggest gains since early January last week as worries cooled about Syria and the Federal Reserve's plans to pare back its vast bond-buying program. The focus was expected to center around the Fed this week.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers took his hat out of the ring for consideration to be the next Fed chairman Sunday amid concerns over a potentially caustic confirmation fight. The move almost immediately ricocheted through financial markets.
Summers' sudden withdrawal "opens the door for (Fed Vice Chairman) Janet Yellen to take over the top spot," said Todd Schoenberger, managing partner at LandColt Capital in New York. Analysts at Potomac Research Group, a Washington-based political consultancy, echoed that thinking, writing to clients that Yellen is now the "clear favorite."
"Wall Street will praise the idea that a decision on Yellen is imminent, and that she is most likely to continue to stay with the current Bernanke thesis," Schoenberger said, pointing to the aggressive easing program the central bank has embarked on.
However, Shoenberger noted that what's good for Wall Street might not be good for the economy, questioning whether more asset purchases will make a material change in the economic trajectory.
The central bank kicks off its critical September policy-setting meeting on Tuesday. Analysts expect the Fed to taper its bond purchases down by $10 billion a month to $75 billion, and potentially adjust the mix of assets it buys.
Also on the economic front, the New York Federal Reserve's gauge of manufacturing activity in the Empire State region dropped to 6.3 in September from 8.2 in August, widely missing expectations the measure would rise to 9.2. Readings above 0 point to expansion, while those below indicate contraction.
Elsewhere, in corporate news, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares came under heavy selling pressure on worries that its popular iPhone is losing its edge. The movement put the tech-heavy Nasdaq under pressure and also weighed on the more well-balanced S&P 500.
In commodities, U.S. crude oil futures dropped $1.60, or 1.5%, to $106.60 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline slid 1.8% to $2.72 a gallon. Gold rose $3.60, or 0.28%, to $1,312 a troy ounce.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 jumped 0.92% to 2894, the English FTSE 100 rallied 0.93% to 6645 and the German DAX surged 12% to 8615.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 edged up by 0.12% to 14405 and the Chinese Hang Seng rallied 1.5% to 23252.


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Third in a series of posts on preparing for the annual trade event
by Julie Livingston, director, business development and accounts, Child's Play Communications, New York City
With Toy Fair less than a month away, how will you engage the media to ensure coverage for your toys or youth entertainment products? Here at Child's Play, we've been working overtime to fine-tune our media lists and pitches on behalf of clients. This week's post will include some of our tried and true strategies and tactics for pitching the press.
Think Like a Journalist
With less space for toy coverage and so many exhibitors to see—more than 1,000 at the Javits Center alone, as well as those in private showrooms across New York City—reporters are pressed for time. So, when choosing media channels to pitch, focus on the "why"/reason an outlet would be interested, to determine the "where"/ specific outlets to concentrate on.
Prior to Toy Fair, many journalists will do an online search, hunting for toys that are a match for the following themes, so post your press release on all company social media platforms incorporating the following key themes and key words.
- Tech, "connected" toys and apps, especially those that are a) highly demonstrable, b) skill-focused, c) related to a video game or viral sensation
- Noted character or entertainment brands celebrating special milestones
- Celebrity or pop culture-inspired
- Interesting business, cause-marketing, or quirky entrepreneurial angles.
- Stories with a hometown connection (of interest to regional press representatives)
Create a Toy Fair Media List
Typically, the media outlets that cover Toy Fair include: regional and local media, and national broadcast and print publications. Reporters covering the following beats will be of key importance: lifestyle, entertainment (particularly those who cover celebrities or licensing news), family/parenting and youth reporters and business. The toy and licensing trade publications will most certainly have a presence at the show as well.
"Cherry pick" the individual reporters you wish to pitch. Be selective and avoid sending press materials to everyone on the staff; this can be more of an annoyance and a hindrance.
If you don't have a subscription to a professional media database service, you may want to consider buying a list for one-time use from a service like Burrelles/Luce. To bolster press release distribution for Toy Fair, enlist a service such as PR Web. A Google search for recent toy news coverage can also uncover additional media outlets.
If your company was a 2011 Toy Fair exhibitor and/or a current Toy Industry Association member, you can request a 2011 Toy Fair media list. Although a year old, this list is a good starting point. Note that for companies in the tech toy sector, media coverage of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, which took place in January, can provide additional media contacts.
Niche Media Coverage
It can be extremely challenging to get your little-known (but creative) product featured in a top-tier media outlet like The New York Times or USA Today. However, there are many opportunities in niche media and popular blogs which are specific to the theme or trend you are promoting. Examples include: technology (Wired, Popular Science, Fast Company); fashion or celebrity dolls (Women's Wear Daily, In Style, People).
Connect with the Media on Social Networks
The importance of social media to increase visibility before, during, or after Toy Fair can't be emphasized enough. Be sure to post your press releases, and even "teaser" announcements, on all company social media platforms so they come up in search. If you or your company has a robust following on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, or LinkedIn, ask your followers if they are going to or covering Toy Fair. This is an easy way to set up appointments with journalists and bloggers, too.
Although your website is still important and necessary, research indicates a shift to Facebook as the "go-to" information source. That said, make sure basic facts about your company, brand, and driver products are posted.
Draw attention to the visual qualities of toys or entertainment products by maximizing Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube to post videos (including sizzle reels) and photos. Populate these platforms to showcase what makes your product stand out from the rest.
On Twitter, follow key journalists, writers, and producers who are tweeting about Toy Fair. Additionally, watch for trends by doing an "active search" and create a Toy Fair journalist list, which will naturally draw more attention to your company's Twitter page.
Follow Up
Once your press materials go out, make follow up calls. Practice beforehand (I often refer to a short script) so your message is clear and succinct. If leaving a voicemail, be sure to speak slowly and clearly, and leave your contact information.
Ignite Visual Electricity
Camera crews walking through the aisles at Toy Fair will be scoping out the most exciting visual displays. If you have a friendly, colorful costumed character, live demonstrator (particularly effective with "performance" toys, such as juggling balls), a larger-than-life version of your product (which should be at least six feet tall) or one with moving parts; an engaging environment (such as a cool-looking child's bedroom) that can serve as a backdrop for a live remote or b-roll footage from the show floor, your exhibit may attract additional attention. For years, the humongous Radio Flyer wagon display, strategically positioned at the entrance to the company's exhibit space, acted as a Toy Fair landmark and subsequently appeared in hoards of media photos and broadcast segments.
Coming next week: Tips for working with toy industry experts and bloggers.
About the author
A strategic communications expert, Julie Livingston has spent the past decade immersed in the toy and youth entertainment sectors. Before joining Child's Play Communications, specialists in reaching moms, she was senior director of public relations for the Toy Industry Association, and earlier served as director, corporate communications for Scholastic, Inc, the global children's publishing, education, and media company.
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Ólöf Arnalds was born and raised in Iceland, and has been part of its experimental rock scene for years. That's what makes her new EP, Ólöf Sings, so surprising: It's a collection of English-language covers — songs originally performed by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Neil Diamond.
Arnalds tells Weekend Edition Saturday's Scott Simon that she got interested in rock and pop during her childhood, after some unsatisfying years training as a classical violinist.
"I had a really hard time learning notation," Arnalds says. "I had been learning violin for three years when they discovered that I didn't read notes — I was just very good at following. And then I started teaching myself guitar as a teenager, which was a little bit to make up for all those horrible years of learning violin.
"That was very important for me, because nobody could tell me how to approach the instrument or how to understand what I was doing," she adds. "I could just go from my own inner understanding of music."
We're going to talk about a singer from Iceland now with a distinctive voice. Not the one you're thinking of. This one is Olof Arnalds, whose new collection of five EPs includes some surprising covers.
OLOF ARNALDS: (Singing) Melinda was mine till the time that I found her holding Jim and loving him. Then Sue came along, loved me strong, and that's what I thought. Me and Sue. But that died too. Don't know that I will, but until life can find me a girl who will stay and won't play games behind me, I'll be what I am. A solitary man.
SIMON: First, that's "Solitary Man" an old Neil Diamond song off the new collection "Olof Sings." Ms. Arnalds and her distinctive voice have been a part of Iceland's experimental rock scene for a good number of years. She joins us now from our studios in New York. Thanks so much for being with us.
ARNALDS: Thank you. It's an honor.
SIMON: I've got to ask â Neil Diamond? What did you like about the two?
ARNALDS: I think sort of maybe the loneliness and I also thought that it was a little bit, you know, humorous for a girl to be singing it.
ARNALDS: So I was always singing it in parties when I was younger.
SIMON: I've read you're a classically-trained violinist.
ARNALDS: That's correct.
SIMON: So how did you get from that to rock?
ARNALDS: Well, I had a really hard time learning notation when I was in classical music school.
SIMON: Mm-hmm.
ARNALDS: So I had been learning violin for three years when I discovered that I didn't read notes and that I was just very good at following. And then I started teaching myself guitar as a teenager, which was a little bit sort of to make up for, you know, all these horrible years of learning violin because it's such a horrible, terrible beginner's instrument, you know, so painful.
And so I taught myself guitar and that was very important for me because nobody could tell me how to approach the instrument or how to understand what I was doing. I could just go from my own inner understanding of music.
SIMON: When did you find out you had that voice?
ARNALDS: My voice?
SIMON: Yeah. Your singing voice.
ARNALDS: I think that I found out about it when I was very young. I think I remember sort of I had this fantasy about being a famous singer when I would grow up when I was a kid. And so I would walk around my neighborhood and be singing and didn't understand why I wasn't just being picked up by someone and put on stage.
SIMON: Let's listen, and this is a song, your interpretation of one of the great names in musical history, of course. Here's your version of "She Belongs to Me."
ARNALDS: (Singing) She's got everything she needs. She's an artist. She don't look back. She's got everything she needs. She's an artist. She don't look back.
SIMON: Of course, that's a Bob Dylan song, "She Belongs to Me." What drew you to this song?
ARNALDS: Actually, one very funny thing. In my family car there was a cassette that was sort of stuck in the player, in the cassette player, that was Bob Dylan, Best of. And so for many, many years that is the only thing...
ARNALDS: ...that would play in the car.
ARNALDS: (Singing) She wears an Egyptian ring that sparkles before she speaks. She wears an Egyptian ring that sparkles before she speaks. She's a hypnotist collector. You are a walking antique.
When I learned it, I learned it to sing it to a friend of mine. It was her birthday and I sang it for her because we were in high school and I thought that she was a great artist.
SIMON: Another song we want to talk to you about. You sing it here in English but its origins are Portuguese, by the great Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso, a song about his sister.
ARNALDS: (Singing) Everybody knows that cities were built to be destroyed. Everybody knows that cities were built to be destroyed. You get annoyed. You buy a flat. You hide behind your mat. But I know she was born to do everything wrong with all of that. But I know she was born to do everything wrong with all of that. Maria Bethania.
SIMON: As I don't have to tell you, getting rarer to hear just a voice and a guitar these days.
ARNALDS: I wouldn't know.
SIMON: Because that's what you do. Yeah.
ARNALDS: That's what I do. But I guess that, you know, I think that â yeah, I'm really glad that I sort of stuck to that for this EP and all of it is recorded in two days. And it's all just whole takes of voice and guitar. So it's very, you know, stripped down. So I like it. It's sort of like a snapshot.
SIMON: You know what's very big in music now are collaborations.
ARNALDS: That's sort of interesting that you mention that because I feel very strongly about collaborations and I think that collaboration has to come from a mutual ground that is friendship or similar passion for certain things in music to be organic. Collaborations are being fabricated too much. You know, there's something in me that just sort of really gets offended by this.
ARNALDS: (Singing) It was more like a dream than reality. I must have thought it was a dream while he was here with me. When he was near I didn't think he would leave. When he was gone it was too much to believe.
SIMON: We want to listen to one more of your songs if we could. This is a medley with "Tomorrow" by the late Gene Clark who's a founding member of The Birds and Bruce Springsteen's "I'm on Fire."
ARNALDS: (Singing) Hey, little girl is your daddy home? Did he go and leave you all alone? A-ha. Got a bad desire. Oh, I'm on fire.
SIMON: What do you think we might get to know about you with this selection of songs?
ARNALDS: What I wanted to express there was some sort of weird combination of fragility and strength because that's a little bit how I play. You know, it's sort of shifts between being fragile and strong.
SIMON: Well, Ms. Arnalds, very nice to talk to you. Thanks so much.
ARNALDS: Thank you too. Thank you. It was very lovely.
SIMON: Speaking with us from New York, Olof Arnalds. Her new collection of covers is called "Olof Sings."
ARNALDS: (Singing) Sometimes it feels like you took a knife... Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Devon Aoki & James Bailey Welcome Baby Girl Alessandra!
Devon Aoki and her hubby James Bailey have just welcomed a newborn baby girl named Alessandra Linville Bailey into the world, Us Weekly confirms.
The 30-year-old supermodel and actress gave birth today (February 12) to the 7 pounds 11 ounce bundle of joy.
Devon and James are already the parents to a baby boy named Hunter, who is 20-months old.
The couple announced Devon's pregnancy back in November when she was spotted out and about with her baby bump.
Congratulations to the happy couple on the new addition to their family!


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CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival is missing one of its biggest stars of this year's festival: Ryan Gosling.
The 32-year-old Canadian actor was unable to attend the premiere Wednesday of director Nicolas Winding Refn's film "Only God Forgives." Gosling stars in the Bangkok noir about a boxing club owner pressured by his mother to his avenge his brother's murder.
At a press conference Wednesday, Cannes director Thierry Fremaux read a letter from Gosling apologizing for his absence. The actor is currently in Detroit shooting his directorial debut, "How to Catch a Monster."
"Can't believe I'm not In Cannes," Gosling wrote. "I was hoping to come but I'm on week three shooting my film in Detroit. Miss you all. Nicolas, my friend, we really are the same persons in different dimensions. I'm sending you good vibrations."
His absence is a blow to the festival, which depends on top stars like Gosling to walk its red carpet and draw the world's media attention to the annual French Riviera extravaganza.
Fremaux said he was sad that Gosling couldn't make it.
"He is not with us physically, but as he stated, his thoughts are with us," said Fremaux.
"Only God Forgives" was screened for the media early Wednesday at Cannes, where it drew mixed reviews for its extreme violence and nightmarish Greek tragedy. Refn, who also directed Gosling in 2011's "Drive," said he understood Gosling needing to stay with his production.
"I would never even do it if I was in his situation," said Refn. "One thing is being an actor. When you're directing, it's another arena.
"But I speak to him every day on the phone. In a way, he is here."
Follow AP Entertainment Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jake_coyle


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Playing for change
Various Artists (Hear Music, 2009)
And they do mean various! This CD/DVD release includes artists from India to Ireland, South Africa to Russia, Israel to California, and practically all points in between. There is even a posthumous appearance from reggae prophet Bob Marley. Some of the Playing for Change musicians are famous (Bono of U2) or semi-famous (American bluesman Keb Mo). Others are barely known outside their hometowns. They are all united by producer Mark Johnson's vision of music as a unifying force for peace and progress.
Most of these musicians never met during the recording. Johnson filmed and recorded them in their home environments, usually outdoors in the countryside or on the streets. He then wove the pieces together into a tapestry of genuinely global music. Johnson says he got the idea for the project when he encountered a group of Asian monks singing in a New York subway station while 200 New Yorkers watched and listened-and even missed their trains.
The roots of world popular music are African, and the children of Africa and its diaspora carry most of the load on Playing for Change. In fact, reggae rhythms are really the glue holding this production together. So it is appropriate that two Marley tunes are included, "War/No More Trouble" and "One Love," an anthem of spiritual unity on which a Nepalese sitarist trades licks with a steel guitar player.
One of Johnson's great unknowns is Roger Ridley, an L.A. street singer who kicks off the album by leading a worldwide sing-along of Ben E. King's classic "Stand By Me." The song started as a boy-girl love song. But here it becomes a moving statement of human solidarity.
The profits for the various Playing for Change projects are going to fund the construction of centers for music and education in impoverished corners of the world. The first one, the Ntonga Music School, is already up and running in South Africa.


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Todd Bersnoozi wrote: None taken son. It's all good fun. Like I said before, if u want to take some shots @ someone, just be prepared to take it back.
My God, Bersnoozi that whole post was littered with terrible spelling.
It's "shoughts", Todd... Strangelove should be prepared to take some shoughts back.


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The reconstruction of the face of King Richard III has taken place and it's fascinating!
For those who haven't been following the story, a skeleton found buried under a car park in Leicester has been proven to be that of the King. DNA and a Canadian descendant of Richard's sister were the keys to unravelling the mystery.
And now the facial reconstruction based only on the skull, has confirmed that an earlier painting of the King was indeed based on real life and not imagination.
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To commemorate the 40th anniversary of "A Clockwork Orange," the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is screening the film tonight at a sold-out tribute to Malcolm McDowell.
Stanley Kubrick's transgressive vision has influenced many of today's top filmmakers, including Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton, but McDowell told Hero Complex's Geoff Boucher that he's only recently begun to appreciate the "revolutionary" film in which he starred.
Boucher is hosting tonight's tribute. Hero Complex readers can watch the onstage discussion with McDowell at 7:30 p.m. PDT. Tune in to the livestream video below. [UPDATE: Here's footage from the sold-out event.]Vodpod videos no longer available.
McDowell finally appreciates "A Clockwork Orange"
Spielberg: "Stanley Kubrick never really leaves"
McDowell: Kirk deserved a better death scene
Tim Burton's "Clockwork Orange" vomit memory
"Black Swan": Taking a page from Kubrick
Ford: Today's special-effects films are soulless
Francis Ford Coppola: Vampires, loss and superfandom
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The Beaumont Police Department is investigating a fatal accident that left one man dead last night.
A single-vehicle motorcycle accident proved fatal for a Port Arthur resident on March 2.
Two motorists were hospitalized Friday, April 19 about 10 a.m. after a motorcycle/passenger vehicle collision at the intersection of Liberty and MLK Parkway in Beaumont.
Galveston Island hosted the 11th annual Lone Star Rally with free concerts on three stages, hundreds of vendors, celebrity guest appearances, and the nation's hottest bike builders the weekend of Nov 1-4.
Much like the late Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda went looking for America 42 years ago in "Easy Rider," motorcycle clubs across the state of Texas are looking for a little respect as they promote motorcycle safety awareness.
While we harbor no disrespect for the Wall Street Journal who called us "that scrappy little paper from Southeast Texas," we prefer to think of ourselves as simple seekers of the truth. We're of the opinion that headlines and sound bites never tell the whole story. Our readers demand all the facts, facets and flavors of every story or event. And, they expect to be informed, educated and stirred to action.
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The St. Petersburg Times reports the Tampa Bay Rays are bringing 22 of their most promising prospects, including P Jeremy Hellickson and OF Desmond Jennings, to St. Petersburg next week for a four-day winter development program. Players will work out at Tropicana Field, and also undergo media training, make community relations appearances and attend a Lightning game. The invited players are C Luke Bailey, P Nick Barnese, SS Tim Beckham, P Alex Colome, P Joseph Cruz, P Devin Fuller, OF Todd Glaesmann, Hellickson, P Kevin James, C Jake Jefferies, Jennings, P Kyle Lobstein, P Jake McGee, P Matthew Moore, P David Newmann, 1B Jeff Malm, SS Juniel Querecuto, OF Cody Rogers, P Scott Shuman, 3B Matthew Sweeney, P Albert Suarez, and P Alexander Torres.
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Marc Lancaster, of The Tampa Tribune, reports the Tampa Bay Rays agreed to terms with fourth-round pick C Luke Bailey Friday, Aug. 14. He received a $750,000 signing bonus.
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A reading by a diverse group of younger Dutch poets representing a cross-section of new poetic practices and dynamic literary theory.
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PETERBOROUGH — Police are searching for four people they say robbed a jewelry store at gunpoint Tuesday evening.
Police said the group went into the Hobbs Jewelers store about 5:15 p.m. Tuesday. One of them showed a gun and ordered the cashier and her son to the floor while all four loaded bags with jewelry and left the store, police said. The cashier and her son were not injured, police said.
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Working with Spindlicity has been an education and an adventure, particularly back in its heyday when it was a quarterly magazine, but the time has come for Spindlicity to be retired. Back when I started Spindlicity, I saw an opportunity for a web-based spinning publication and a chance to teach and learn about spinning. But in the years since, many more spinning resources have become available on the internet and Spindlicity is no longer a needed resource, nor do I have the time to maintain it.
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A Pepperell, MA native, Mutnansky went to UConn, where, during his junior year he interned on WEEI's Big Show. Upon graduation, Mutnansky met Marty Tirrell, who hired him to be a co-host/flash guy on the 5000-watt 1590-AM WSMN in Nashua, NH. The station was sold in early 2004. Later that year, Tirrell and Mutnansky were hired by AM 900to do a similar show. In 2005, while still working in NH, Mutnansky began filling in on flashes for WEEI.
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Funeral services will be 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 10, at Gillett United Methodist Church, 301 W. Leslie, with burial at Gillett Cemetery by Essex Funeral Home of DeWitt.
Ethel Mae Smith, age 80, passed away in Stuttgart on Nov. 7, 2012. She was born in Carlisle on May 8, 1922, to parents Jacob Marion and Jennie L. Johnson. She lived her childhood years there and became a graduate of Carlisle High School in 1940. She attended Arkansas State Teachers College in Conway during 1941 and 1942. Following this she was employed by Haverty's Furniture Store in Little Rock until her marriage to Keneth Smith, who had served in the Air Force beginning in 1942 and until the end of World War II where he was stationed in India. Their marriage on Dec. 1, 1946 in Carlisle was officiated by Richard Perry.
Her family wants you to know they received from this great lady all that God can give because that is what she was to everyone she met. Ethel Mae is preceded in death by her husband, Keneth Smith. She is survived by two sons, Phil and wife Debby, of Stuttgart; Larry and wife Wendy, of Tichnor. There are seven grandchildren and their families, Allison Smith and husband Chad and children Emma and Jennie of Bentonville; Melissa Smith and husband Jason and children Ryan and Layne of Watson; Jennifer Ferguson and husband Adam and children Grace, Eli and Jacob of Tillar; Jessica Westerman and husband Adam and children Adison and Mackenzie of Bryant; Abby Gray and husband Brad and son Max of Light; Daniel Smith and wife Haley and daughter Kenlie of Tichnor; and Alex Smith of Maumelle. Other survivors include a sister-in-law, Frances Smith of Carlisle, nephews, nieces, and cousins.
Keneth and Ethel Mae moved to Tichnor to operate a family farm beginning in 1946. In addition to being a devoted wife and mother during the years Ethel Mae was also involved in civic and church offices and committees. She was an office holder in the Gillett Schools Parent Teacher Association, Campshed Methodist Church as chair of the Pastor Parish Committee, Cub Scout Mom for many a pack and a member of the Little Prairie Home Demonstration Club, an organization responsible for the cooking of barbeque rice for the annual Gillett Coon Supper. Her skills in the kitchen were legendary around the expanding Smith family. Over the years there have been "many a good meal served on the farm." Specialty items that are something of a family recipe were chocolate chip cookies, her homemade sweet pickles (delicious) and vanilla cream pie. Sunday after church was a meal of fried chicken, personally cut into the proper pieces and portions by none other, and ALL the trimmings. So if you were invited to put your feet under her table you no doubt showed up to be fed.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 10, at Gillett United Methodist Church, 301 W. Leslie, with burial at Gillett Cemetery by Essex Funeral Home of DeWitt. Each one of the family members are sharing special memories with the wonderful lady we call Mom, Meme, Grandmommy and certainly friend. Memorials may be made to Gillett United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 88, Gillett, AR 72055 or Gillett Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 124, Gillett, AR 72055.


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IMAN TOLOUI is an accessories project from California based designer Saman Iman Toloui. The line is designed and produced in California with an emphasis on classic quality and subtle sartorial idiosyncrasies.
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Food52 Review: 52scoops' ice cream is a little crazy, but not totally off the map. The ice cream itself has a lovely mango flavor and a nice and creamy texture without being too rich. The addition of just a little bit of the chili salt adds just the right amount of spice and salt to the sweet and tart mango for a fun and different treat. The crunch of the salt is great, as is the heat of the chile. —Stephanie Bourgeois
Makes: about 1 l
Ice Cream
3 to 4
ripe Ataulfo mangoes (enough to yield 2 cups of puree)
lime, juiced
cup white sugar
cup honey
cups half and half cream
Chili Sea Salt
tablespoons sea salt
Thai red chilis
- Peel and cut the mangoes. Place the mango flesh and the lime juice into a blender and puree until smooth. If you are using a more fibrous mango variety (e.g. Tommy Atkins), or if your blender is not super powerful, pass the puree through a fine sieve to remove any fibres. You should have about 2 cups of silky mango puree.
- In a heavy saucepan, lightly whisk together the eggs and sugar.
- Add the honey and 2 cups of the half-and-half cream.
- Cook the mixture over medium-low heat stirring constantly, until the mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon (170 degrees F / 77 degrees C).
- Remove from heat immediately and add the remaining half-and-half to stop the cooking. Place the saucepan into an ice bath to cool the custard rapidly.
- When cool, whisk in the mango puree.
- Cool and chill overnight in the fridge.
- Pour the custard into an ice cream maker and prepare according to the manufacturer's instructions.
- While the ice cream is chilling, prepare the chili sea salt. Place the sea salt and the chilis into a small food processor and blitz until the chilies are well combined with the salt.
- To serve, use your favourite ice cream scooper to scoop the ice cream into a chilled serving dish. Top with a sprinkle of chili sea salt. (Note: You will have leftover chili sea salt. Store in a small jar and use for dipping fruit or for cooking.)
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Regina Spektor has performed in Chicago numerous times, including a Lollapalooza stint in 2007, but while she's in town you won't find her at the clubs favored by the Rihanna-Katy Perry-Ke$ha set. Instead, before her performance Wednesday at the Chicago Theatre, Spektor was most excited to spend time with an elderly family friend who ran the first fertility clinic in Russia.
"Every time I go to Chicago, I always go to her house and we hang out, so I'm super excited about that," she said by phone from New York last month ahead of a months-long tour to promote her latest album, "What We Saw From the Cheap Seats."
It's not difficult to see that Spektor, 32, doesn't much resemble the vast majority of female solo artists hitting the airwaves--though her songs have been featured on TV shows like "90210" and "Grey's Anatomy," and in movies like "(500) Days of Summer" and "Friends with Kids." She began her classical piano training at age 6 and emigrated with her family from the Soviet Union at 9 to escape religious discrimination, she told NPR in August. Her European roots are apparent on this album—she sings in English, Russian and French—and Spektor returned to Russia to perform this summer, her first visit in 23 years.
This year also saw Spektor opening for Tom Petty during his U.S. tour. The two artists spent time discussing the face of the musical world, with Petty lamenting the sense of division in radio and mainstream music.
"It's hard to know where you fit into the landscape when you don't even know what the landscape is," Spektor said.
She cited Fiona Apple, Tom Waits and Beck as artists who are taking their own paths and marveled at people who can tick off the names of tiny bands she's never even heard of.
"In one way it's like I participate in whatever popular culture, in a way, where occasionally I'll have my music in a show or a film," she said, "And then other times, I feel like, when I sort of see kind of the 'mainstream music world' that is popular culture, it almost feels like a different planet to me."
When the average listener thinks about the way an album is composed, they probably see an artist sitting down with an instrument and a notebook, pounding out song after song. "Cheap Seats" didn't happen that way. "I don't really ... 'write' a new album," she said. "When it's time to make a record, I usually just kind of start somewhere, and then [compose] through sheer power of memory associations and sounds triggering certain ideas. ... I guess everybody works in their own way, and I happen to work in a more...haphazardous if [you're describing it as] negative, and spontaneous if it's a positive way."
The sounds Spektor refers to trickle down into the core construction of many of her songs. They come in trills, booms, frog-gulps, chirps, whoops, gasps and just about every other odd noise you can imagine. But she says they're not improvisations—everything from the lyrics to the arrangements to the production is written before she hits the studio. It's just that sometimes creative magic happens.
On "The Party," Spektor says she used her voice to hold the place for a trumpet in the final section of the song and assumed it would be replaced with an instrument during final production. "Then Mike Elizondo, who co-produced [the album], he was just like, 'No, no, we should keep it,'" she said. Spektor's mouth-trumpeting remains, and it's easy to imagine how much less cool the piece would sound without her unique take.
"That's the whole fun of the studio because I could take any of my songs and literally produce them endless amounts of ways, and they will have inherent properties that are their actual property from their DNA, and then they'll have all these other things that are just kind of like their outfits," she said.
While Spektor enjoys the process, she also likened the emotions involved to the way women are able to forget the pain of childbirth.
"I think I definitely dealt [with] a certain amount of euphoria in order to be able to sit in a studio for 20 hours working on the same two measures, moving the kick drum a tiny bit to the left and talking about all these crazy filters and just being a nerd," she said. "I love working in that kind of crazy, super absorbed, micromanaged way."
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and im guessing your a popular guy.. since u get angry when people mail u xD
only popular people get like that when they get mail..
let me guess... 10-40 mails/d in your inbox? xD
well anyway.. my current problem is that i cant convert the mkv. vfr using my old methods because the software crashes..
for AlltoAvi "AllToAVI_v4_r5394_Setup.exe"
its mencoder.exe crash..
for MeGUI
its xvid_encraw.exe or something.. xD - CRASH..
well.. atm... i want 2 learn how to use.. the
because thats what seems to be what other people are using...
and im open 2 suggestions of other programs...
<-- really a newbie in this whole encoding business..
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you wanted to remove the subtitles but otherwise keep the video/audio as it is, did you not? in that case the only program you need to use is mkvmerge. nothing else is needed. try that checkbox I hinted about, it's really magic.
also, jesus fuck learn to google up solutions that are actually relevant to your problem instead of going off on retarded wild goose chases.
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Sometimes I forget which one.
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well.. anyway mr.godlyFluff xD
im looking forward 2 asking you lots of questions in the future xD lol xD
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Thanks for answer.
Anyway, is there a way to extract timecodes from .mp4 container that contains VFR frame rate and encode it with subs to make a hardsubs video? (Just asking for timecodes extraction)
Again... sorry for my unawareness... I'm newbie in encoding...
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Install AviSynth, its ffmpegsource plugin, then save the following using a text editor as e.g. "whatever.avs":
AssRender (also an AviSynth plug-in) to hardcode, while you're at it.
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There's something I need to understand in doing pattern guidance in YATTA...
that is how to know that my *.ts anime source is VFR or CFR?
the pattern guidance description here said that for VFR sources you enable all c and other stuff while in CFR sources it's better to disable "us c" (I guess)..
so how can thins be recognized?
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You look at the source and see if there are sections that aren't telecined and don't have dupe frames. That is, look for fully progressive sections (no 3:2 combing pattern) with motion on every frame, or truly interlaced sections with combing on every frame.
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So if I have a ".Ts" source, should I use this then. And, this may seem like a dumb question, but should I also type the path to the file?
I.e: c:/my document/blah, ect.
I'm still quite lost. I'm sure this was gone over in older posts, but I didn't see it. How should I load my mpeg.ts source into MeGUI, then what do I need to put into the script for it 'accidentally' time codes?
So far what I've been doing is loading my source into the AVS Script creator, then it asks how I want to load the source. I pick Direct Show Source, then it loads the preview clip just fine. I change the resolution and DAR from 1440x1080/4:3 to 1280x720/16:9, still no issue. I go to the filters and click Dss2 of Direct show source like usual, source is anime and interlaced via top field. I select the TDient filter with Bob preset and use the bicubic sharp resize filter, still no problem. Now when I go to script, I try to edit it so I can put the time codes part into the command line so I can make a VFR file.
Part of the command line:
dss2("C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\One Piece 521.ts", fps=29.970,timecodes="One Piece 521.txt").AssumeFPS(30000,1001)
I then click save, My computer goes fuck....
The error code stated that I needed an "," or an '')" on line 2 in column 90.
Where was DreGons fuck up??
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Skip to comments.Pulsars: The universe's gift to physics
Posted on 03/28/2012 8:26:40 PM PDT by U-238
Pulsars, superdense neutron stars, are perhaps the most extraordinary physics laboratories in the universe. Research on these extreme and exotic objects already has produced two Nobel Prizes. Pulsar researchers now are poised to learn otherwise-unavailable details of nuclear physics to test general relativity in conditions of extremely strong gravity, and to directly detect gravitational waves with a telescope nearly the size of our galaxy.
Neutron stars are the remnants of massive stars that exploded as supernovae. They pack more than the mass of the Sun into a sphere no larger than a medium-sized city, making them the densest objects in the universe, except for black holes, for which the concept of density is theoretically irrelevant. Pulsars are neutron stars that emit beams of radio waves outward from the poles of their magnetic fields. When their rotation spins a beam across Earth, radio telescopes detect that as a pulse of radio waves.
By precisely measuring the timing of such pulses, astronomers can use pulsars for unique experiments at the frontiers of modern physics.
Pulsars are at the forefront of research on gravity. Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity in 1916, and his description of the nature of gravity has, so far, withstood numerous experimental tests. However, there are competing theories.
Many of these alternate theories do just as good a job as general relativity of predicting behavior within our solar system. One area where they differ, though, is in the extremely dense environment of a neutron star, said Ingrid Stairs from the University of British Columbia in Canada
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Praise The LORD, He certainly meant for us to be able to study His creation. He gives us what we need.
I had forgotten that so little time elapsed from discovery of neutron star/pulsar and the Nobel Prize for it in 1974. Seven years is pretty darned fast.
Thanks for posting. I've always been intrigued with neutron stars, I think the most fascinating objects in the universe
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Today I fulfilled my old dream --- I just created my first book! Here is how it looks like:
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Here is the source code of the book: http://github.com/certik/theoretical-physics, the repository contains a branch 'master' with the code and 'gh-pages' with the generated html pages, that are hosted at github, at the url theoretical-physics.net.
Then I published the book at Lulu: http://www.lulu.com/product/hardcover/theoretical-physics-reference/11612144, I wanted a hardcover book, so I setup a project at Lulu, used some Lulu templates for the cover and that was it. Lulu's price for the book is $19.20 (166 black & white pages, hardcover), then I can set my own price and the rest of the money probably goes to me. I set the price to $20, because Lulu has free shipping for orders $20 or more. You can also download the pdf (for free) at the above link (or just use my git repository). So far this didn't cost me anything.
I have then ordered the book myself (just like anybody else would, at the above address) and it arrived today. It's a regular hardcover book. Beautiful, you can browse the pictures above. It smells deliciously (that you have to believe me). And all that it cost me was $19.20.
As for the contents itself, you can browse it online at theoretical-physics.net, essentially it's most of my physics notes, that I collected over the years. I'd like to treat books like software --- release early release often. This is my first release and I would call it beta. The main purpose of it was to see if everything goes through, how long it takes (the date inside the book is July 4, 2010, I created and ordered it on July 5, got the physical book on July 19) and what the quality is (excellent). I also wanted to see how the pages correspond to the pdf (you can see for yourself on the photos, click on the picasa link above).
Now I need to improve the first pages a bit, as well as the last pages, improve the index, write some foreword and so on. I also need to think how to better organize the contents itself and generally improve it. I also need to figure out some versioning scheme, so far this is version 0.1. I think I'll do edition 1, edition 2, edition 3, and so on. And whenever I feel that I have added enough new content, I'll just publish it as a new edition. So if you want to buy it, I suggest to wait for my 1.0 version, that will have the mentioned improvements.
It'd be also cool to have all the editions online somehow and create nice webpages for it (currently theoretical-physics.net points directly to the book html itself).
So far the book is just text. I still need to figure out how to handle pictures and also whether or not to use program examples (in Python, using sympy, scipy, etc.). So far I am inclining not to put there any program codes, as then I don't need to maintain them.
Overall I am very pleased with the quality, up to some minor issues that I mentioned above, everything else end up just fine. I think we have come a long way from the discovery of the printing press. Anybody can now create a book for free, and if you want to hold the hardcopy in your hands, it costs around $20. You don't need to order certain amounts of books, nor partner with some publisher etc. I think that's just awesome.
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You do not have to be a sports fan to love this pretty unbelievable 360-degree panorama of Wembley Stadium during the FA Cup final. First, go check it out, wheel around, zoom in and out, and then we'll discuss:
Jeffrey Martin of 360Cities.net, who's done panoramas of things like the London skyline, took a DSLR camera on a robotic mount and snapped over 1,000 high-resolution images that have been stitched together and processed on a Fujitsu Technology Solutions Celsius R670 workstation with 192 gigabytes of RAM and 24 CPU cores. The result: a 10-gigapixel panorama that's about as amazing as any sports venue photo you'll find. You can zoom in to any section of the stadium and see faces of individual fans, and they want people who were there to tag themselves in the photo. The details on how he did it are here.
But the process isn't finished, so there are a few glitches. And the result is that there are some disturbingly mutated people in the shot.
Which way are they looking? Any way they want. And they don't even have to move their necks. The guy with the glasses on top of his head looks especially robotic, almost like the Android mascot.
In this section, the action has positively melted people's faces right off. You don't think of soccer as capable of doing that, but this is incontrovertible evidence.
And this security guy's head has migrated a little. I hate when that happens.
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O.K. Without posting too much detail for the visiting uber skiddies, I ran into a client that managed to get their tcp stack COMPLETELY HOSED. I think it was one of phishphreek80's users because they stated that they didn't do anything -
Anyway, while looking for the media to re install it hit me. If ISA uses winsock, shouldn't it stand to reason that the XP firewall would also. I know reason and Microsoft is an oxymoron, like Military Intelligence. But Hey - IT WORKED.
"Netsh winsock reset" At the command reset the firewall to it's default settings. For those of you that used to program and/or dink with the winsock.dll will realize the flaw here.
Another banner moment for Microsoft's development team!
The malware used to corrupt the stack in the first place looks like it was designed to open ports on the firewall but the code was missing a command and subsequently hosed the stack. I fixed the code and reset my home firewall, from work, to allow all traffic.
There is a system log detailing the change, but nothing in the firewall detail logs.


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The differences between a sports car and a GT car are subtle but undeniable. In the way it looks, the way it sounds, and the way it feels, a sports car telegraphs a message of outright performance. If you drive a car to its absolute limit down a challenging road and find yourself grinning from ear to ear, chances are you're in a sports car, something like a Lotus Elise or a Ferrari F430. A GT car's mission, on the other hand, is to provide effortless performance, driving pleasure, and comfort over long journeys driven at triple-digit speeds. During a drive from, say, London to the south of France, you should be able to remain relaxed yet inspired behind the wheel, while your passenger should feel pampered and at ease. Aston Martin does GT cars as well as any automaker. Its DB9 coupe features a powerful twelve-cylinder engine, a cosseting cabin, and gorgeous, understated styling. But now Aston has a new top-of-the-line model, the DBS. So, is it a GT, or is it a sports car?
When you first glance at the DBS–and at its spec sheet–you might think that it's a full-on sports car. After all, the DBS is adorned with all the typical sports car styling cues, including scoops and vents and a carbon-fiber front splitter and rear diffuser. European buyers can even specify sport seats with a carbon-fiber shell that help the car shed an additional 44 pounds. The DBS's V-12 sends 510 hp–60 hp more than the DB9–through a six-speed manual gearbox. To help stop it from its nearly 200-mph top speed, the DBS gets carbon-ceramic brake rotors, a first for a roadgoing Aston. At the Frankfurt auto show in September, Aston Martin CEO Ulrich Bez bragged about the DBS's lap times around the Nrburgring. Despite all the exotic hardware, however, when we saw the new DBS at Frankfurt, we couldn't stop thinking that it looks pretty much like a DB9 with a body kit. A rather good-looking and superbly executed body kit, to be sure. But perhaps our first drive of the top Aston would dispel such notions.
Slide the DBS's substantial sapphire and stainless steel key–sorry, the Emotion Control Unit, as Aston Martin insists on calling it–into the slot above the radio and hold it in for what seems like an eternity. The V-12 lights up, and you're greeted with an intoxicating exhaust note–part deep bass, part metallic riff–that makes you want to search out every tunnel within 100 miles just to hear the sound reverberate against the walls. Blip the throttle a few more times, and you'll be hooked. Dip the light clutch, notch the comically large shift knob into first gear, and pull away. As you ease into a pace where you're driving at seven- or eight-tenths, the sound of the V-12, the incredibly strong and responsive brakes, and the precise gearbox tell you that this is one impressive car. But when you really push the DBS on twisty and bumpy roads, the Aston shows that it's not the true sports car you were led to believe it would be. Sure, the twenty-inch Pirellis provide massive amounts of grip, but no matter what setting you choose for the adjustable dampers–another first for Aston–body control is lacking. The DBS feels big and heavy, not light and lithe, when you really hammer it.
Our disappointment with the DBS's behavior on France's back roads was just settling in when we came upon the entrance to the autoroute. This is where the Aston comes into its own: at 130 mph and beyond through the smooth sweepers of the French highway system, the DBS's V-12 calls on gloriously deep torque reserves yet revs freely to its 6800-rpm fuel cutoff. The steering and chassis both feel perfectly calibrated for such conditions, and it becomes evident that the DBS is an extremely good GT car. But so is the DB9, which costs a cool hundred grand less than the DBS, and therein lies the rub. If you need more proof of the DBS's GT character, look no further than the fact that Aston Martin will offer the DB9's smooth automatic transmission as an option later this year.
If we could build the ultimate Aston Martin, we'd plug the engine and the exhaust system from the DBS into a standard DB9, a car whose subtle, elegant styling perfectly reflects the character of an Aston. But there are surely some Aston Martin buyers who want a car that is more extroverted, and the DBS fits the bill. There also is no doubt that the DBS is a good (read: profitable) short-term business move for an automaker that is now independent of Ford. We're all for Aston Martin's future profitability, we just wish the DBS were less of a bejeweled DB9 and more of a true flagship for the British company, especially for $265,000.
Q&A : Marek Reichman, Aston Martin design director
What are your favorite details on the DBS?
My favorite view of the DBS is the rear-three-quarter view, because the car looks so powerful. The car's width is accentuated by the carbon-fiber rear diffuser. Your eye is drawn to the corners and to the track and width of the car. Looking at it from the front-three-quarter view, you can see the crease line of the fender, which accentuates the tire and wheel size and shows the DBS to be very muscular. It has the definition of an athlete or a race horse at full speed.
It seems as if you're moving away from the DB9 shape. Do you want a new design direction for Aston?
An Aston Martin will always look like an Aston Martin, because the grille shape is so prominent and the face of Aston Martin is so prominent. But you're right, we are taking evolutionary steps toward a different shape. This [the DBS] is the first time we've shown the car's overt power. It's not quite brutal, but it's not all about elegance anymore; it's actually portraying the powerful state of an Aston Martin. I think this is the first time that's really happened since the DB4 GT Zagato.
What is the significance of your new design studio?
It's huge. We've always been in rented accommodations. Although it's fabulous to be in someone else's house, you can't put the furniture where you want it or paint it the color you want. This is our own studio. It's confirmation from the new shareholders that they believe in design, and Aston Martin is all about design. Aston Martin is organized so that we can do things very quickly and very efficiently. It says to everyone on the team that they [the new owners] believe in the future of Aston Martin. I'm over the moon, I'm so excited.
How does the Rapide fit into all this? Will it be a true four-seater?
It's a four-door sports car. I can fit in the back of the car, although I'm not sure whether I would want to be there for a five-hour journey. But it's not a sedan, it's a sports car. And, yes, there are compromises, but it will be more usable than our DB9. You can fold the rear seats down and actually carry more luggage. We've been in the studio refining and developing it. When the production car finally comes out, you'll see a difference from the show car. You'll see that it is the next generation of Aston Martin.


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Skip to comments.Drunken Rampage Causes 17 Crashes, 1 Death in Georgia
Posted on 01/27/2013 6:24:55 AM PST by IbJensen
Michael Owen Snider
Michael Owen Snider, 70, of Stone Mountain, Ga., was arrested on January 24, 2013, after allegedly going on an alcohol-fueled hit-and-run rampage that spanned two counties, left 17 vehicles smashed in 15 separate accidents and 1 person dead. Witnesses say they were rammed repeatedly and intentionally, and are thankful to be alive.
Snider had started in DeKalb County, driving down Highway 78 allegedly hitting cars in his 2006 Ford Super Duty pickup truck when he nearly collided with a police cruiser in Gwinnett County that happened to be in the area late on January 23. Witnesses said that Snider was intentionally ramming other vehicles on the road as he drove by. Witness Dennis Brown told 11 Alive, I was at the light over there and I looked in my rear view and I saw this big pickup truck, like a Ford F-350 or something like that, he intentionally tried to hit me, so thats when he chased me, literally he chased me, on the road. It was like a video game. Really, I couldnt believe he was trying to do that. Other witnesses corroborated Browns statement that Snider was intentionally hitting the other drivers on the road. Victims Jenetta and Manuel Johnson were terrified by what sounded more like attempted vehicular homicide than simple drunken driving. Describing the encounter for reporters, Jenneta Johnson said she feared for her life, I just thought we were going to die. I just knew he was going to kill us. He would not stop hitting us. He was just ramming us and ramming us, and then he hit the gas and went around. Police are still piecing together the events of that night, trying to figure out just how many collisions Snider may have caused.
Sniders spree came to a tragic end in Snellville when he reportedly hit a Toyota Camry so hard that it hit the stopped car in front of it and kept going, getting wedged under the trailer of a tractor trailer, while the stopped car hit another car. Snider lost control of his pickup and crashed into a John Boys Restaurant.
Snider was stopped trying to flee the scene, and then, complaining of minor injuries, was examined at a hospital before being booked by Snellville police for driving under the influence, vehicular homicide, serious injury by vehicle, following too closely and reckless driving. Police say there are more charges on the way.
Sadly a grandmother riding in the Camry, Mintiwab Woldeyhans, 69, of Loganville, was killed in the crash. The driver of the Camry sustained life-threatening injuries and is in critical condition. Snider, who is being held without bond, was told what had happened when he sobered up, and reportedly required counseling at that time.
Sounds like we need some "common sense" liquor law (whoops...)
Its an assault pickup.
Nobody needs more than a Nissan Leaf to go where they need to go.
Ban assault trucks.
Having just driven thru Hot'Lanta last night on I-85 (around 9pm)...there's not a lot of difference between this guy and the Peaches on the road at that hour.
It was barely controlled chaos. Atlanta traffic will have it's own chapter in the history books.
Some of these killing machines have multiple fuel tanks and carry 60 gallons of fuel or more.
Nobody needs that.
Would hate to be accused of 'profiling' BUT this boy ain't turned down many drinks in his illustrious career.
Wonder how many trees would have to die in order to publish his driving record? -
Hell, he probably has a rap sheet bigger than that -
There is that nasty profiling BUT
"A picture IS worth a thousand worlds".
This SOB needs to be EXECUTED....he deliberately murdered somone with his drunk spree
If you read the article you should realize that what he needs is more counseling.
Then I drove in Denver.
I walk to work here in Buckhead. Crossing Piedmont rd, at the cross walk, is a dare.
At the very least, he dyed his hair...
A co-worker has had Caddies his whole life and recently got a Nissan leaf due to economics. He says his wife is about blind and hates it because when they are passed by a semi on the interstate, it feels like the car is going to blow around like a leaf in a storm (don't know if she or he got the pun). He's been a hard-core Democrat his whole life, but I think I'm having an effect. He recently carped about Obama's recent "we're all created equal so love them homosexuals real good" speech. He also said he never believed he would see the day when the People would need to rise up against a government gone rogue, but can now envision seeing blood in the streets during his lifetime 9(he's 60).
Sumbitch. Where's Burt Reynolds?
The boys are thirsty in Atlanta
and there's beer in Texarkana,
and we'll bring it back no matter what it takes!
East bound and down, loaded up and truckin',
a'we gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go, and a short time to get there,
I'm east bound just watch ol'Bandit run!
Check out Seattle at 5:00 p.m. on a Friday afternoon on a sunny summer day! Place is a total lunatic of a madhouse. I'd rather walk. We passed a guy doing 70 MPH on I-5, reading a newspaper spread out over the steering wheel.
1. Jack up jail
2. Shove this jerk as far underneath as you possibly can
Looking at the bend in his nose, he's angered someone enough at some point in his life that their right hook pushed his nose over a bit.
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As it is implemented, the RAND() function in SQL Server doesn't let you return a different random number per row in your SELECT statement. For example, if you execute this:
SELECT Rand() as RandomNumber, *
FROM Northwind..Customers
You will see the same number over and over. However, sometimes, you may want to return a randomly generated number per line in your SELECT. Here's one way to do that, in SQL Server 2000, using a UDF.
First, we need to create a View that returns a single random number:
CREATE VIEW vRandNumber
SELECT RAND() as RandNumber
The view is necessary because normally in a UDF we cannot use the rand() function, because that would make the function non-determistic. We can trick the UDF to accepting a random number by using a View.
Once that is set up, we can then create our function:
CREATE FUNCTION RandNumber()
RETURNS float
RETURN (SELECT RandNumber FROM vRandNumber)
Finally, you can use this function in any SELECT to now return a random number between 0 and 1 per row:
SELECT dbo.RandNumber(), *
FROM Northwind..Customers
You can get even fancier in your RandNumber function by accepting a seed if you like, or allowing for range parameters like this:
CREATE FUNCTION RandNumber2(@Min int, @Max int)
RETURNS float
RETURN @Min + (select RandNumber from RetRandNumber) * (@Max-@Min)
Do whatever you need to do, depending on your needs. If you have existing code that needs to generate random values per row in a table, you may have been forced to write it using cursors or an outside language like VB. Hopefully, you will find this useful and may be able to re-write some of that using set-based operations in pure T-SQL.
I was surprised, to be honest, that SQL Server executed the function over and over for each line in the SELECT; a UDF is supposed to be deterministic by definition, and since no parameters are being passed on each call, in theory SQL Server should only need to execute the UDF once per SELECT. However, SQL Server calls UDF over and over for each row, and that allows us to implement our custom RAND() function successfully.
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