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A local teen band in Lawrence, Kansas, has kicked out one of its band members over allegations that he had masqueraded as a "non-binary" person to gain the trust of women, in order to elicit sexual intercourse from them. He would, allegedly, later go on to rape 3 of these women.
Kainen Spooner, the man behind the controversy, has admitted to two of the sexual assault allegations, but maintained that the third one was false. He said in an apology, that although the two cases of intercourse were consensual, they were still "statutory rape" because both of his victims, aged 18 and 16, were underage at the time. He said that he, too, had been raped by a girl.
He claims to have been banned from "every punk show" by his peers (He plays guitar for a group called "Drippies"), and said that he has no intentions of attending them ever again. Finally, he said he was glad that we was being called out, and that criticism of him was "appropriate".
"Hey y'all. Noah kicked me out of Drippies. I dont know if he's told you anything but I want to be honest about it anyway since tonight I learned it's not going away. When I was 20 years old me and my 18 year old partner had drunken sex. She later came out and said she felt raped and we broke up. That partner and l have talked in great length and laid it to rest, but it happened. Its important.
The other shitty thing i've done, and Jack knows this part Bennett, was that a year ago I hooked up with a 16 year old girl. It was consensual, but it was statutory rape and it
was gross and it was wrong. Sam Sayler accused me of a 3rd rape but wouldnt say
names and I truly believe its the girl who raped me because those are the 2 shitty things ive done. I dont know for sure, but Lauren and the girl who raped me are mutual friends,
so maybe. I will not repeat these mistakes. I havent. I will never.
but they're still mistakes that I have to pay for, and for whatever reason that time is now. The clique that confronted me warned me that theyd banish me from every punk show, so you probably wont see me a lot. I dont even know if you still want to be friends after this, but I want to be honest.
I thought I could run away from lawrence and be a good person and bury it but I can't. Tbh this reaction is completely appropriate. I probably need this"
A member of the band, Sam, made a post on Facebook to expose him to their peers and other people living in the city.
The post alleges that kainen often takes advantage of "non-binary" people, by pretending to be one of them and gaining their trust.
The band member commented that anyone who defended kainan was a "rape apologist".
KANSAS CITY AND LAWRENCE PEOPLE. It was recently brought to my attention that this person (Kainen Spooner) sexually assaulted 3 local women. Not only that, but is also taking advantage of non binary people by admitting to using they/them pronouns in order to "be more easily trusted by women." Not only is he a rapist but he has also been taking advantage of a marginalized group of people.
I as well as his former band mates (he has been kicked out of The Drippies) confronted him last Wednesday at a show at Snake Tank (which he has now been banned from). When I confronted him about the sexual assaults he admitted to 2 of them and proceeded to defend himself by saying that quote, "They were not violent or aggressive assaults so it has been resolved and is ok now." SEXUAL ASSAULT IS SEXUAL ASSAULT VIOLENT OR NOT. I have 50+ mutual friends with this person.
There is no room for garbage like this in KC. If you want to defend this person, you are a rape apologist and can go ahead and remove me. Please stay safe and be aware that he is a predator and didn't show any sort of remorse but rather defended his actions.
This isn't a witch hunt. This is about keeping people informed of an admitted abuser in order to keep spaces and people safe.
Although Kainan has admitted to two of the allegations, the other band members seem determined to ostracize him because he tried to defend himself, instead of simply accepting his guilt.


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We are, once again, taking critics to task over their collective disdain for Neill Blomkamp's third film, Chappie.
Featuring: Bethany Allen, Josh Porter, Patrick Porter, Peter Nikiforov, and Tyler Hanns.
Major Spoilers: District 9, Elysium, Chappie.
Minor & Abstract Spoilers: Panic Room, Mad Max: Fury Road, All Is Lost, Phone Booth, Buried, The Hills Have Eyes, Short Circuit (1 & 2), Interstellar, It Follows, Dredd, Bicentennial Man, and The A-Team.
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Winter migration of rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes c. chrysocome) breeding in the Southwest Atlantic: is utilisation of different foraging areas reflected in opposing population trends?
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Rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes chrysocome) breeding on Staten Island, Argentina, were satellite tracked in 2002 and 2003 during the onset of their winter migration. After their moult, the dispersal of 24 birds was monitored for a mean period of 50.0±40.3 days. Birds travelled at a mean velocity of 3.1±1.1 km/h. The mean minimum distance travelled was 1,640±1,425 km; the maximum distance to the colony was generally less than 1,000 km, although one bird travelled more than 2,000 km from the colony. The penguins dispersed over an area totalling about 1.3 million km², ranging from 50 to 62°S and from 49°W in the Atlantic to 92°W in the Pacific, and covering polar, sub-polar and temperate waters in oceanic regions as well as shelf waters. Despite the very wide dispersal, both temporally and spatially, two important wintering grounds for rockhopper penguins from Staten Island could be identified, both located over shelf regions: one extended from Staten Island to the north along the coast of Tierra del Fuego up to the Magellan Strait; the other was located over the Burdwood Bank, an isolated extension of the Patagonian Shelf to the south of the Falkland Islands. The Drake Passage also appeared to be an important area for wintering penguins, although dispersal was far more widely spread. Comparison with data obtained during winter from rockhopper penguins originating from the Falkland Islands showed that the area off the coast of Tierra del Fuego was used more or less exclusively by birds from Staten Island, whereas the Burdwood Bank was shared with penguins coming from southern colonies in the Falkland Islands. The implications of these findings are discussed with regard to (a) opposing population trends of rockhopper penguins in the Southwest Atlantic, and (b) the urgent need to establish adequate conservation measures for species and habitat protection.
KeywordsBreeding Pair Drake Passage South Shetland Island Falkland Island Transmission Period
The Antarctic Research Trust gratefully acknowledges the generous financial support of the passengers aboard MV World Discoverer. Special thanks are due to those who sponsored individual penguins, in particular Patricia Anderson, Lesley Baxter, Erika Bodmer, Kirsten and Wolfgang Berg, Maria Diamond, Winford Evans, Kay and Lois Gray Gilmour, Connie Graetz, Werner Jost, Elisabeth and Dieter Krause, Marianne and Greg Moser, Nora Neilson, Willis B. Snell, H. Snyder, Joseph Snyder, Denise and Whitney Solso, Anneliese Stremme, Peter Taylor and Susanne and Axel Wagner, and to those who sponsored satellite transmission times, in particular Sheila & Ed Braun, Ernesta Coray, Zita and Dominique Destraz, Hedi and Rudolf Engel, Stefanie Reischauer, Albert Sicker and Franz Thiele. The authors are very grateful to Lesley Baxter for language editing. This study was approved by the National Council of Scientific Research and the Natural Resources Agency of the province of Tierra del Fuego and complied with the legal requirements in Argentina.
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Synchronizing Django model definitions2018-02-25
This is about a small problem we faced with the models used for customers in YPlan, now Time Out Checkout.
Customers are stored in two models:
Customer for active customers, and
RemovedCustomer for inactive customers. When a customer closes their account,
a subset of the fields are copied to
RemovedCustomer, to comply with data
retention policies, and then the original
Customer is wiped. The two models
are defined something like this:
name and
RemovedCustomer.email is not unique, because the same
email address could be used for multiple accounts that get removed one after
The problem we faced was keeping the definitions of these fields synchronized,
differences like
unique asides. Initially the two model classes were declared
in the usual way, as above, with the field definitions copy-pasted. This meant
that changes to one model needed copying to the other. Unfortunately this got
forgotten when a field on
Customer had its
max_length extended, so it
wasn't copied to
RemovedCustomer, and the account close function broke for
customers using the new longer
max_length as their data couldn't be copied
The solution was obvious: we wanted a way to declare that this field should
be the same as that field, allowing for overrides like
unique for
Firstly, there is nothing special about constructing a field in a Django
model's class body. Python class bodies are code contexts like any other,
populating a
dict that goes on to become the class. Any model 'magic' from
Django happens after the class body finishes executing, when its Model
metaclass rearranges the fields in the class
dict and does other processing.
Therefore we don't need to use field classes to create field objects - we can
use a function that returns one instead, for example:
Secondly, Django fields are fairly easy to clone. They can't be copied with
copy.deepcopy(), because they get 'attached' to the model class by the
model meta 'magic'. However, they do have a handy method called
deconstruct(), used for serializing in migrations, which
returns a 4-tuple that describes how to reconstruct the field object. Using
this we can create a fresh clone of a field, doing something like:
In our code we created a simple function
clone_field based on this snippet.
Given a model class, the name of a field to clone from it, and any keyword-arg
overrides, it returns a clone of that field. Using it for our models above, it
looks like:
This elegantly declares what to copy with any differences. Because this happens
at class definition time, it can't affect any of the model meta 'magic', as the
fields 'look' as if they were normally constructed. And this prevents the bug
we saw - a change in, e.g.,
max_length for
Customer.name would be
synchronized to
RemovedCustomer.name automatically, and Django migrations
would detect it for both models equally.
Pretty neat!
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Boulder Mayor, Susan Osborne, puts away her B-cycle after an opening ride.
Boulder B-cycle is a community nonprofit formed to implement and operate a bike-share system in the City of Boulder.
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Albuquerque, NM Summer Maternity Photo Session at The Alameda Open Space
One of my favorite sessions (I know... I have a lot of them!) is Maternity! There is just something so magical about a woman carrying a growing child!
Some of you may know that when I was pregnant with my daughter (who is now three), I never had any maternity pictures taken, and it is now one of my biggest regrets... EVER! My excuse was always that I was huge and didn't "feel" pretty. While that may have been how I felt at the time, I didn't stop to think about what I would be missing out on and what I would later regret.
I want to stress to all you moms-to-be... YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL! And believe me, you will want to look back at your photos of your growing belly one day and admire and reminisce on this magical time in your life!
This sweet momma-to-be was just about 39 weeks pregnant with her second and she looked just as beautiful as ever! And big sister-to-be was so excited to have a baby brother on the way! Alameda Open Space was the perfect location for this Maternity Photo Session.


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Excerpts from "Lost Redux: Ummm...Did We Just Find Out What This Whole Show Is About?"
Will Sawyer Stay With Fake Locke? Or will he go back where he's "destined," on Team Jacob? I asked Josh Holloway himself whether his character is ultimately good or evil in the end, and he tells me: "Sawyer is both. He is good and evil. He walked most of his life towards evil, but now he more comfortably walks toward good. But he can always cross the line. It's a very interesting place to play this season, because of the loss of Juliet and the anger, frustration, sadness that's here has brought him back to his original personality of being angry at the world and keeping everyone at a distance." Still, I'm hearing rumblings from reliable sources that Sawyer probably will not be on the dark side of it all at the very end. Phew.
The Flash-Sideways Losties Will Start Getting Some Memories: You didn't think the "Safe 815"-ers would be left adrift forever without any consciousness of what's happened on the Island, did you? They all belong there, after all.
Casting Note: Sheila Kelley (the creator of celebrity strip workout S Factor and wife of Richard Schiff) was originally slated to appear in episodes eight, 10 and 11 of Lost's final season, but despite being—spoiler alert!—killed off at the end of that initial run, she's returning to the show. An insider tells us, "Sheila's role has been extended—she's doing at least one more episode than originally planned, maybe more. Her role was changed last minute. She flew to Hawaii again last week to film the added episode." So is she the zombie? Kidding.


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Chapter 4
Visiting hours were over. Thank goodness. I wanted to fall asleep, but I couldn't make myself close my eyes. It felt like I was in a horror movie, and as soon as I let my guard down I'd be taken.
Instead, I stared at the closed blinds. All day long as random people visited me, my eyes had been drawn to the closed blinds. Light had streamed through and I so badly wanted to be outside instead of locked in here. I had never liked running, but for some reason I felt like I had years of pent up energy. I wanted to run around campus with the wind in my hair. It was an unfamiliar sensation and it made me start to wonder if everyone was telling the truth. Because I certainly hated running. But what if time had morphed into this alternate reality where I loved jogging? I shook away the thought. It couldn't be true. I couldn't be missing seven years of my life. I just couldn't.
I continued to stare at the blinds. I knew it was nighttime, but there still seemed to be light streaming through them. How was that possible? And I knew I was in a hospital, but the night didn't sound right. Like the blanket of sleep hadn't reached anyone outside yet. It sounded like there were cars still honking. Like I was on Main Street during rush hour. What hospital was I in? Christiana, probably. That was the closest one to campus.
I slowly stood up. A nurse had unhooked me from everything earlier and said I was free to roam around the room. That it would be good for me to start moving again. That was probably why I felt the need to run. No one had told me how long I had been in here, but it must have been awhile because my legs felt weak as I walked over to the window.
The sounds of a busy street were even louder as I drew closer. I pushed aside the blinds to either side and stared down. And down. And down. To a city street far below. Yellow taxi cabs sped by, cutting off other cars, leaving so many horns blaring in their wake. New York City. There wasn't a doubt in my mind about my current location. What the fuck was I doing in NYC? I took a step back, letting the blinds fall into place.
It's just a bad dream. None of this is real. But when I reached out and opened up the blinds again, the same scene stretched out as far as I could see.
I hated New York. I hated the rude people and the lack of grass and fresh air. Even if everyone was telling the truth and I was 26 and married to an old man, I knew this couldn't be. I would never in a million years move to New York City. I hated it here. I'd never do this.
I put my hand on my forehead. I was losing my mind. None of this was real. None of it. I took a deep breath and walked back toward my bed. I needed to go to sleep. And then I'd wake up from this nightmare. Everything would go back to normal. I'd ace my sociology exam. I'd stand up to Austin. And I'd be happy, albeit alone. I'd much rather be alone for eternity than doomed to a life in NYC with a strange man and stranger friends. I was used to being on my own.
Before I reached the bed, my feet stopped. I looked over at the bathroom door. Looking in a mirror would help me confirm that no time had been lost. That I was still the 19 year old girl I knew that I was.
I felt my hands tremble as I pushed open the door and flipped on the light. I warily stepped in front of the sink and stared into the mirror. I barely recognized my reflection. Not that I looked that different. Just small things that made me not recognize the person staring back at me. My face looked thinner than I remembered, but that was probably just from my hospital stay. My hair looked shinier and fuller than usual. Which was odd because I had been lying in a hospital bed for God knows how long. How did it look so good still? It was also a little shorter. Maybe the hospital staff had cut it. That was something they probably did for patients, right?
I touched the side of my left eye. The small creases that cut through the skin by the corners of my eyes couldn't be as easily explained. I was probably just in desperate need of moisturizer. But really, my complexion looked great. I'd take the creases next to my eyes over the blackheads on my nose any day. I leaned closer to the mirror. My pores had never looked so clear.
Things like that didn't just change overnight. I swallowed hard and closed my eyes. I'm imagining this. It isn't real. I took a deep breath and opened my eyes, expecting my 19 year old self to be staring back at me once again.
But it wasn't. I wasn't the same. How was I not the same? I reached out and touched the mirror, like I was about to touch someone else's face. But all I felt was the cold glass. I stared at the tan line on my ring finger and removed my hand from my reflection. My fingers left smudges on the clean surface.
The tan line on my ring finger could be explained. I was terrible with self tanner. It always left streaks everywhere on my pale skin. This was just one of those instances. A classic Penny self-tanning faux pas. Nothing a little scrubbing wouldn't remove.
I looked down at my hands, arms, legs, and feet. Everything else looked familiar enough. Normal enough. I was still me.
I touched my stomach through my hospital gown and froze. My stomach felt bloated. Very bloated. It didn't feel like my stomach at all. I pulled up my hospital gown and stared in horror at the sight of myself.
I had a small beer belly. That was the only way to describe it. There was a horizontal line with stitches beneath the protrusion. And there were two other smaller lines with sutures on either side of my stomach.
What the hell had I been in here for? I put my hand on my stomach. For a second I thought maybe I looked this way because I was pregnant. But that couldn't be it. I'd feel different. I'd feel a baby inside of me. It was something I'd always wanted, way way in the future. And this was certainly not that time. Even thinking about carrying Austin's baby made me nauseous. No, it wasn't possible. Absolutely not. My parents would kill me.
Just the thought of disappointment on their faces made me know how impossible being pregnant was. I'd never get pregnant out of wedlock. I wouldn't be able to handle upsetting them. That was why I always followed the rules. And got good grades. And did everything I was supposed to do. It was also why I was on birth control and made Austin use a condom. No mistakes. I lowered my hospital gown back down over my stomach.
I must have had something wrong with my intestines or liver or something. Liver. It definitely had to be my liver. I'd drunk alcohol before I was 21 and this was my punishment. When was the last time I had something to drink? When was the last party Melissa dragged me to? I doubted I had more than one beer either way. Could that have made my liver fail? Or maybe it had been two beers. I couldn't remember. Either way, that was probably what did it. And my stomach was swollen because of whatever the doctors did to fix my failing liver. I was fine now. No one said I was dying so they probably didn't have to remove it. They had just opened me up and poked around a bit. Everything would go back to normal soon. How important could a liver be?
Or maybe all of this was a bad dream. A horrid dream and I'd wake up in the morning in my dorm room and everything would be okay. I was just stressed out over finals. Knowing me, I had probably fallen asleep in the library with my head in a book and was just dreaming away.
I stared at my reflection. The reflection I didn't believe. It's all in your head. I switched off the lights. It's all in your head. I climbed into bed and pulled the covers up to my chin. It's all in your head. But I couldn't erase the image of the city street below. Or ignore the sounds of the cars. Or the fact that a woman had stared back at me in the mirror. Not the girl that I knew.
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U.S. Olympic Museum organizers announced Monday that five firms with local, national and international experience will design and build the $60 million project in downtown Colorado Springs.
The team's creativity, ability to work together and to stay within budget will be crucial to the museum's success and the enhancement of the southwest downtown area where it will be built, said Dick Celeste, president of the nonprofit museum's board and former Colorado College president.
The museum is part of the $250.6 million City for Champions tourism initiative – four projects proposed by civic and business leaders designed to attract visitors to town and pump millions into the economy.
During a news conference Monday, Celeste said the museum's board had chosen:
– Diller, Scofidio + Renfro as design architect. The New York-based studio's design and redevelopment projects include the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York; Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art; and work in Brazil, Switzerland and Moscow.
– Anderson Mason Dale Architects of Denver as architect of record – making certain the project's various elements are correctly implemented. Its work includes the Lane Center at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Colorado College's Edith Kinney Gaylor Cornerstone Arts Center.
– G.E. Johnson Construction Co. of Colorado Springs as general contractor. The 47-year-old firm has built hundreds of offices, government buildings, hospitals and hotels throughout the Rocky Mountain West. It was the contractor on the Springs-based U.S. Olympic Committee's headquarters building downtown.
– Gallagher & Associates of Washington, D.C., as exhibit designer. Its work includes the White House Visitor Center and the National Museum of World War II Aviation at the Colorado Springs Airport.
– Pacific Studio of Portland, Ore., as exhibit fabricator. Its projects include the International Spy Museum and Seattle's Museum of History.
Olympic Museum officials had advertised for proposals locally and nationally, and assembled a selection committee of architects, engineers, development experts and others, Celeste said. As many as five candidates were interviewed in each design and construction team category – a "highly competitive" process, he said.
Some members of the local design community were critical weeks ago that museum officials appeared headed toward choosing an out-of-town design architect. While saying he wasn't denigrating the work of local firms, Celeste said some area architects didn't submit proposals.
"In the end, our responsibility to the donors and our responsibility to the USOC and to the athletes and eventually to the people who patronize the museum and the hall of fame is to choose the team that we think can do the best job," he said.
The museum is intended to showcase the Olympic and Paralympic movements through exhibits and artifacts; the museum board in July announced a 30-year deal with the USOC to display items. As envisioned, the museum would include a hall of fame, a theater, a 20,000-square-foot exhibit hall and retail space.
Celeste said museum officials are targeting an opening by Christmas 2017 – no later than the Winter Games scheduled for February 2018 in South Korea.
Despite early renderings shown by City for Champions backers, the museum's design is now a blank slate, said Liz Diller, a founding member of Diller, Scofidio + Renfro. She hopes the firm will have images to show the public by mid-2015.
The museum's $60 million design and construction cost will be funded by public and private sources; Celeste also wants another $10 million endowment for its operation.
The museum has received commitments of $10 million from the Springs-based El Pomar Foundation and $1 million from local philanthropist Margot Lane. Springs real estate firm Nor'wood Development Group has donated land in southwest downtown.
The museum also is scheduled to receive $19.4 million in state sales tax revenue as part of $120.5 million over 30 years that the Colorado Economic Development Commission earmarked last year for City for Champions.
Contact Rich Laden: 636-0228
Twitter: @richladen
Read more at https://gazette.com/who-will-design-and-build-colorado-springs-olympic-museum/article/1540320#ZoIxpHdx8xQPjmD0.99


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Nigeria has declared an end to the deadly meningitis outbreak that killed 1,166 people since it struck the northern parts of the country in November last year.
Health Minister Isaac Adewole confirmed on Wednesday the end to the outbreak three days after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control had announced on social media.
With data analysis in last few wks,we're pleased to announce the 16/17 #Meningitis outbreak in #Nigeria is over https://t.co/TdewwRRnDK pic.twitter.com/SkTp616nZ4— NCDC (@NCDCgov) June 25, 2017
At the end of the outbreak, a total of 14,518 suspected cases were reported from 25 states.
The health minister further stated that the country has not recorded any cases of polio in 2017 but seven cases of Lassa fever. The recent case of cholera outbreak in Kwara state has also ended, he added.
Meningitis is caused by different types of bacteria, six of which can cause epidemics.
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Leaves' Eyes are a symphonic metal band headed up by Liv Kristine and Mourning Tree is one of their slower tracks from the album Vinland Saga.
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The melody is haunting and there's a deep sense of sadness to this track which is most prominent with the lyric and supported by everything else.
I like that the band don't just limit themselves to the all out heaviness and power of metal, they appreciate the subtlety that a song like this can bring to an album. They're not afraid to vary their sound and, in this case, it has paid off.
It is pretty much a track full of melancholy but that is where the beauty of the song comes into it. Although it's sad there is a sense of hope, so it is also a tad uplifting.
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Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2010!!
5. True Grit (dir: Ethan and Joel Coen)
Grizzled U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) helps headstrong 14-year old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) track down her father's killer in this touching adventure. You read that right. The film is at once a coming-of-age movie and a Western, neither of which you'd expect from the Coen Brothers, and there's hardly anything Coen-like about its straightforward tone of sepia Americana. But dropping most of the sardonic, ironic shtick that characterized their career, they made one of their best movies.
What links this remake of a much-loved John Wayne feature to the Coens' oeuvre is a favorite and old-fashioned theme: murder and revenge—as well as stunning visuals of the Old West. The Coen's script was adapted from the novel by Charles Portis, and is largely faithful to its source; a gallows moment when an American Indian being hanged for murder has a bag thrown over his head before he can lament the plight of his people is one of the few Coen-like touches in the film. The Dude is the marquee star, and he redeems his drunken and semi-moral character in typical Hollywood fashion. But the film is told through the eyes of Mattie, the determined young woman looking back at the time she avenged her father's death. Steinfeld is pitch-perfect as a 14-year old wise and strong beyond her years. With a strong supporting cast that includes Matt Damon and undervalued character actor Barry Pepper, the Coens for once inhabit a film with real people, not just caricatures. The movie reaches its climax with a storybook race under the stars, a symbol of American idealism. Such idealism may well have been gone in 1968, when Portis wrote his novel; in 2010, the Coens suggested a glimmer of hope. – Pat Padua
4. Blue Valentine (dir: Derek Cianfrance)
"You always hurt/ The one you love/ The one/ You shouldn't hurt at all." Sung by a ukulele-strumming Ryan Gosling to a dancing Michelle Williams in the film's most memorable scene, that line from a 1957 Mills' Brothers song sums up the theme of Blue Valentine. Throughout the course of the film, we see a love affair bloom between pre-med student Cindy (Williams) and furniture mover Dean (Gosling), despite a pregnancy that is most likely caused by Cindy's ex-boyfriend. Intercut between their burgeoning romance (Dean doesn't care whose baby it is, he just wants to start a family with Cindy) are scenes of the couple five years later, married and at each other's' throats. What is meant as an escape from the daily grind, the couples' attempt at a steamy weekend away at a romantic motel goes awry when they fight during sex. Cindy is called away to her nursing job early the next morning and leaves without waking Dean. From there, tempers flare and the relationship comes apart at the seams, despite a little girl who loves them both.
By utilizing this back-and-forth between the dreamy courtship and ugly falling out, Blue Valentine may be one of the more realistic romantic dramas out there. Relationships aren't all singing and dancing on the sidewalk, after all, but the eventual hard times that are often bound to befall any long-term union only make those whimsical early moments all the more vibrant. Named after a Tom Waits album of the same name, Blue Valentine captures those moments when a new couple feels like the only two people in the world while also illustrating how love often fades. These themes are timeless, and in the last five years there may not have been a better showcase of the complexities of love. – Josh Goller
3. Toy Story 3 (dir: Lee Unkrich)
Animated features have long portrayed the specter of death. A hunter shot Bambi's mother. A stampede trampled Simba's father. A barracuda ate most of Nemo's family. But in Toy Story 3, maybe the finest installment of Pixar's flagship series, obsolescence haunts every character from the start. Andy, the toys' owner, is now a young adult heading off to college. Whether thrown to the curb or stowed in an attic, his playthings have few happy options. Though Woody and Buzz remain stubborn optimists, the rest of the toys, from Mr. Potato Head on down, fret about mortality. A diabolical pink bear may be Toy Story 3's villain, but even he isn't exempt from bouts of existential dread.
Matt Damon's astronaut in The Martian would be in good company with this motley gang. Our heroes treat every problem as a logistical puzzle with a clear solution. When, after a series of mishaps, the toys find themselves trapped in a totalitarian nightmare named Sunnyside Daycare, they concoct an elaborate escape plan. The stakes couldn't be higher with no happy ending in sight. Say they find their way back to Andy—what then? No amount of Mission: Impossible-style jujitsu can change the fundamental fact that their owner, a deity of sorts, has outgrown them. And yet, with sharp zingers and high spirits, the toys rage against the dying of the light. What else can they, or we, do?
Toy Story 3 of course finds a way to deliver a satisfying conclusion, one that always leaves me in emotional shambles. During its climatic scene, these beloved characters slide toward what looks like the fires of Mount Doom. With hands clasped, they face the end together. Before a claw plucks them from on high, they shut their eyes and confront death with grace. What a remarkable sequence, one that matches the elegance of a bicycle's silhouette gliding across a full moon. Hollywood rarely captures a sliver of such bravery with human actors. How funny that ones and zeros, shaped into childhood ephemera, can become timeless. And how sad that what's trotted out as Oscar bait, year after year, still hasn't caught up with Toy Story 3. – Peter Tabakis
2. Dogtooth (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos)
Yorgos Lanthimos's dark comedy Dogtooth is an incisive snapshot of a culture in crisis, a nihilistic and slyly structural parable about contemporary Greek society and the hallmark of the Greek Weird Wave, a vital collection of films that explore the country's economic and sociocultural upheaval. The film scored an unlikely Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film in 2010, and former Greek prime minister George Papandreou claimed the significance extended beyond cinema, saying "[i]t concerns the whole country, its people, the new generation of artists…during difficult times." Papandreou, of course, was talking about the nomination and the prestige it bestowed the local film industry, but inadvertently, he also described the film perfectly. It does concern the whole country and its people during difficult times, but the film's vision of these difficult times doesn't present Papandreou or really anyone in a flattering light. Though not outwardly political, Dogtooth is aggressively and hilariously polemic, a pointedly exaggerated account of traditional cultural systems failing in the light of casual corruption and arbitrary cruelty.
The story follows a nuclear family politely described as dysfunctional. A manipulative mother and father have successfully prevented their three adult-age children from leaving their remote home. Since birth, the children have had their worldviews meticulously molded by their parents, who shaped their perceptions of sex, language, behavior, and the outside world into cartoonish, unstable fantasies. Like Frankenstein's monster, they equally inspire sympathy and horror. Sometimes their naivete is endearing and absurdly funny, and Lanthimos masterfully mines the black humor from this nightmare scenario. But they're also adult infants, prone to emotional outbursts and fits of violence. The premise is held together by Lanthimos's subtle storytelling abilities. He forgoes virtually all manner of backstory and exposition and keeps characterizations ambiguous, ensuring the film's allegorical qualities while also creating a sort of suspended, dreamlike milieu. We don't fully get a sense of how this family came to be, and we never understand the parents' motivation beyond their apparent need to control, but Lanthimos ensures we're never in the dark. Indeed, the psychological burden passed down through generations—from parents, from governments, from a metaphysical cultural unconscious—tells us everything we need to know. — Drew Hunt
1. The Social Network (dir: David Fincher)
It's 12 Angry Men of the Internet age. Jesse Eisenberg stars as Mark Zuckerberg, the begrudged nerd who invented "Facemash" one drunken night in 2003. With his hoodie, Addidas flip-flops and physical tics, it's the role he was born to play. Script by Aaron Sorkin makes computer programming seem like a hotbed of wit, sex and money. Shedding the pathos of The Newsroom, Sorkin's barbs are cutthroat; tailor-made for the film's snobbish, Ivy League setting.
David Fincher's direction creates the foreboding atmosphere of a noir. The Harvard campus is full of shadows, the conference rooms are creepily clean and the Silicon Valley parties are depressing in a bleak, nihilistic way. Combined with Trent Reznor's masterful score, the whole film manages to evoke a Wagnerian sense of dread.
Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield give strong, supporting performances as Sean parker, the party-boy founder of Napster and Eduardo Saverin, Zuckerberg's Harvard chum and CFO. The Winklevoss twins (both played by Armie Hammer) are the Manga Cum Laude future presidents you love to hate. The only female of note is Rooney Mara, who breaks up with Zuckerberg in the now-famous opening scene, but it's no matter. She practically steals the show. Zuckerberg tells her, "You don't have to study…You go to B.U." and she responds by calling him in "asshole" in the cleverest way imaginable. Unlike The Wolf of Wall Street which is also about men behaving badly and making lots of money, Sorkin is smart enough to implicate his cast for their greed, boardroom treachery and rampant sexism. The Social Network is a modern Macbeth and anyone who doesn't agree isn't getting a friend request from me. – Erica Peplin
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Police have used controversial stop and search powers on nearly 300 toddlers over the last five years, new figures have disclosed.
The development is thought to reflect a trend for adult or teenage criminals to conceal illegal items such as guns, knives and drugs on young children in a bid to avoid detection.
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Forces across Britain confirmed they used the power on under-fives on 288 occasions.
It has previously emerged that police have used the tactics against children as young as two or three.
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The Metropolitan Police, Britain's largest force, confirmed it had used stop and search on 182 toddlers, the Sunday Times (£) newspaper reported.
It included at least two searches where officers cited "reasonable suspicion" that drugs were hidden on the child and three searches for weapons.
Some criminals mistakenly believe that if they force children under 10 - the age of criminal responsibility - to carry illegal items on their behalf that they cannot be prosecuted.
In fact, although charges cannot be levelled against the infant, the police are usually able to bring a prosecution against the person who imposed the items upon their child, sibling or friend.
• Child arrests by police 'unnecessary', says watchdog
Greater Manchester Police was the second most prolific user of the frisking powers, with cases recorded against 45 toddlers.
In addition, stop and search was deployed against 612 children aged less than 10, the age of criminal responsibility, across England and Wales.
Last year Theresa May, the Home Secretary, introduced new measures which scaled back the use of stop and search generally because of fears it was undermining relations between the police and ethnic minorities.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Stop and search is a legitimate power that is used by the Metropolitan Police to protect Londoners, tackle crime and keep our streets safe.
"The searching of children under 10 years old represents an extremely small percentage of the MPS' total search activity: 0.02 per cent in 2013/14."
• 'Lack of respect' between children and police
• Hundreds of children under 10 being subject to stop and search
He added: "It is very unusual for under 10 year olds to be stopped and searched, however there are occasions when young children are in fact concerned in crime or anti-social behaviour and it is necessary for officers to carry out a search to prove, or as may be the case disprove, their involvement without needing to arrest instead.
"In many cases, the young person has in fact been exploited by an adult and persuaded to carry or conceal items on their behalf, for example, some offenders hide items in pushchairs or in children's clothing in an attempt to avoid detection.
"In such cases the child would be considered to be vulnerable and in need of protection rather than dealt with under the criminal code."


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4. Your mother? Helpful
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6. Your favorite thing? Family
7. Your dream last night? Doctor :o) (are you curious?) Hee hee!
8. Your dream/goal? Health
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10. Your hobby? Photography
11. Your fear? Illness
12. What do you want to be in 6 years? Mother
13. Where were you last night? Dad's
14. What you're not? Quiet
16. One of your wish list items? Camcorder
17. Where you grew up? South
18. The last thing you did? Library
19. What are you wearing? Brown
21. Your TV? Off
22. Your pet? Dogs
23. Your computer? Broken
24. Your mood? Calm
25. Missing someone? Always
26. Your car? GAS!!!!
27. Something you're not wearing? Helmet :o)
28. Favorite store? Emily Austin
29. Your summer? over
30. Love someone? absolutely!
31. Your favorite color? changes
32. When is the last time you laughed? today
33. Last time you cried? yesterday
34. Who will resend this? nobody? :oD
Thursday, September 25, 2008
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We love how Aishwarya Rai Bachchan always gets her eye makeup right. Try these mascara hacks to create as much of a flutter as her.
Coat both sides of your lashes
Most of us just apply mascara on the front side of our lashes. But the trick is to apply mascara to both sides. Once you've applied it to the front of your lashes, coat the back as well. This thickens your lashes and makes your mascara look fabulous.
Soaking your bottle
Yes, you read that right. Do you often find that your mascara comes out clumpy, which ruins your whole look? An easy way to fix this is to dip your entire tube into a mug of hot water. The heat will melt the clumpy bits and your mascara will come out smooth. Genius, right?
Make a mascara cocktail
And by this, we definitely don't advocate drinking your makeup! Just don't stick to one trusty tube but mix-n-match to get divine lashes. Pick formulas that suit you. For instance, you can start with a volume adding formula and move on to a curl enhancing one. Throw on a lengthening one as well if that works for you. At the end of it, your lashes should look fabulous.
Photograph courtesy: Yogen Shah


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Fillmore Senior Center
By Gazette Staff Writer — Thursday, July 7th, 2016
I know everyone is waiting to hear "Bingo is Starting" Yes, that is correct, Bingo will be held on the "Second" and "Fourth" Friday of the Month, from 6:30 to 9:00 pm. So get ready and bring your friends, to the Fillmore Senior Center located at 330 Central Avenue, Suite C! Parking is "free" in the back and after 6:00 pm in front.
Please Note: "ALL" classes are held at 330 Central Avenue, Suite C! Our phone # is 524-4533
Mark your calendar for our upcoming events in July 2016
The next Board Meeting is in July and is scheduled for Monday July 25, 2016 at 1:00PM


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Austrian Illuminations Launch - May 10th at 7pm
Free Entry but booking suggested www.acflondon.org/events/austrian-illuminations/
Austrian Cultural Forum London - 28 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge, London SW7 1PQ, UK
Bringing together over 15 new literary artworks made by the artists and writers commissioned for Illuminations events celebrating Elfriede Jelinek, Erich Fried and Peter Handke, this beautifully designed limited-edition anthology will be launched in London with readings and performances from contributors. The anthology is issue 17 in the ACF's remarkable Occasions series, a publication project celebrating the groundbreaking work they do, and was designed by www.polimekanos.com in London.
Featuring live works by David Rickard, Iris Colomb, David Fried, Joshua Alexander, SJ Fowler and more. http://www.theenemiesproject.com/illuminations


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Before the next full length episode here is a little teaser of Adam talking about how he is preparing his clinic for the upcoming 'Drummers' Day Out'.
Adam is on for 45 minutes. Don't miss it. Trust me.
Recorded in Balmoral, 14th May 2018
Ladies & Gentlemen… Adam Tobeck.
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Jimmy Jacobs Custom Homes - Vintage Oaks
The master bath is peaceful with the neutral finishes and built in fireplace and coffee bar. The grand marble tub and counter tops brightens the dark room to create visual points.
What Houzzers are commenting on:
luv this bathrm. vanity arch area on the left. Exactly what i am looking to do in main level bathroom!
fireplace idea. Set back with TV above and doors on the side.
I like that there's a mantle above the fireplace that provides a shelf for items. And then the TV above the wall. Perhaps the mantle provides a barrier for the heat from the fireplace?
Since fireplace is 17" think rather than have anymore wall thicker - can we do this?
Master electrical work for wonderful bathroom.
built out fireplace with mantle and TV on wall


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Veteran Telugu film director and ex-Union minister Dasari Narayana Rao dies at 75
Telugu film director Dasari Narayana Rao has died at 75. He held the record for the most film directed by a person in India.regional-movies Updated: May 30, 2017 21:17 IST
Veteran Telugu film director and former union minister of state for coal and mines Dasari Narayana Rao died on Tuesday evening after prolonged illness.
Rest in Peace Dr Dasari Narayana Rao Garu. A huge loss to the Telugu Film Industry. Praying for strength to the family— Kalyanram Nandamuri (@NANDAMURIKALYAN) May 30, 2017
Big blow to Telugu filmdom. Veteran filmmaker Dasari Narayana Rao, who has over 120 films to his credit, is no more. Tragic.— Haricharan Pudipeddi (@pudiharicharan) May 30, 2017
Our industry has lost a guiding light. RIP Dasari Narayana Rao garu. pic.twitter.com/kNIbfinrwA— Allari Naresh (@allarinaresh) May 30, 2017
He was 75 and is survived by two sons and a daughter.
Dasari was admitted to a private hospital in Secunderabad four days ago with complaints of renal disorders and was operated upon. However, he suffered multiple organ failure on Tuesday. He breathed his last at 7 pm, after prolonged illness.
Dasari had been facing health-related issues since the past few months. He was admitted to KIMS Hospital in January this year. Following a surgery, he got discharged after undergoing treatment for two months.
Born on May 4, 1942, Dasari was born in Palakollu in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. He directed as many as 151 films, and produced 53 films in Telugu and a few in Hindi. He received two National Film Awards, nine state Nandi awards, and four Filmfare awards.
Dasari, who belongs to politically powerful Kapu community in Andhra, entered active politics in early '2000 through the Congress party. He was considered to be closer to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and was elected to Rajya Sabha. He became the minister of state for coal in Manmohan Singh government during the UPA-II regime. He faced allegations of irregularities in allotment of coal mines to private companies.
On 11 June 2013, the CBI booked Dasari Narayana Rao for receiving Rs. 2.25 crores from Naveen Jindal in the coal scam. The case is still under investigation.
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First Published: May 30, 2017 19:50 IST


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Job Description:This role is responsible for performing the functional duties in support of the delivery of in-house business and manufacturing systems. This includes the design, analysis and programming on schedule and in accordance with in-house customer requirements and company standards. The incumbent will work with all areas of the manufacturing and corporate operations to resolve process and operational issues. The incumbent will work on new system development as well as support current legacy systems.
Reports To:Application Development Manager
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- Able to develop solutions in object oriented design and web development using VB.NET, Visual C#.NET, Java, XML and ASP.NET.
- Report writing with SQL Reporting Services, COGNOS and Crystal Reports Business Objects
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Renowned South African artist and designer, finds the perfect synthesis between art and functionality in her distinctive work, these unique items draw their inspiration from both the human form and the beauty of the nature
Return & Exchanges
Carrol Boyes Returns Policy:
**PLEASE NOTE: some of the below returns and exchange policy is only applicable in South Africa. For more information please contact us.**
We do not offer refunds on items purchased on this website, unless the item is deemed to be faulty or damaged by our Quality Control team.
We do not offer refunds OR exchanges on any discontinued or special priced items, or items that are part of our "On Promotion" or "Sale" range. If a discontinued, special priced, "On Promotion" or "Sale" item is potentially faulty, our staff or Quality Control team will need to personally examine the item. Should this item be deemed to be faulty we will then offer to exchange the item.
For hygiene reasons we do not offer refunds OR exchanges on earrings under any circumstances, unless the earrings are deemed to be faulty.
Returns & exchanges on website exclusive items are allowed within 7 days of receipt of the item/s. Website exclusive items may be returned to a store within 7 days of receipt, the item must include all original packaging and must be in original, saleable condition (unless deemed to be faulty). The store will simply facilitate the return but an exchange or credit note/e-voucher may not be issued immediately. During office hours an e-voucher will be issued, outside of office hours the item will need to be left at the store and an e-voucher will be issued when our Head Office reopens. Website exclusive items may also be returned to our Head Office in Cape Town but at the senders cost, please contact us to arrange this return for you.
All refunds or exchanges are done at the discretion of our website team at our Head Office in Cape Town.
Should you change your mind about an item that you have purchased and received, and provided that you retain all paperwork and original packaging, you are welcome to return it to any Carrol Boyes dedicated store for an exchange or an in-store credit note (not applicable to 'On Promotion' or 'Online Exclusive' items). Should you be unable to go into a store, please contact us to arrange the return. We will organise collection of the item by courier. Please note that you will be charged for any postage or courier costs incurred when returning the item. We will reimburse you with a Carrol Boyes online Gift Voucher less the charge for the return shipping. When returning from an international location please be aware that DHL is the preferred courier and that any returns costs are at your expense.
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Bok Choy is another awesome item we get from the Farm Fresh to You people. This recipe makes for a very tasty side. I had less Bok Choy than the recipe mentions (though honestly, I didn't convert 300gm – darn metric) so I'll need to be more strict on the next attempt about the amount of water I put in – I ended up with too much liquid and had to boil it down a bit after the choy was done cooking. I would've preferred to caramelize the choy using much less liquid; I'll have to remember that next time. I plan to add some ginger and sesame oil to the recipe next time as well.
- 300g bok choy
- 2 tsp dark soy sauce
- 1 tsp brown sugar
- 2 tsp oil
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 tsp salt, or to taste
Soak whole pieces of bok choy in sink with sufficient water for about half an hour. As we are not going to cut off each stalk one by one, soaking makes dirt come out between leaves. Swish them in water and change water until clean. Give each bok choy the last rinse under running water if required.
Half each bok choy lengthwise, drain in a colander. If you have drained your vegetable to very dry, say more than an hour, you may need to increase the water amount from 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup for making the sauce.
Mix water, dark soy sauce, sugar and oil in a pot or wok. Bring it to the boil over medium heat.
Put halved bok choy in the boiling sauce, with stalks touching the sauce. Slightly press down the vegetable if required. Cover.
Turn to low flame and simmer for 5 to 7 minutes. My cast iron pot conducted and retained heat pretty well, so I checked the bok choy after it was simmered for 5 minutes. Add salt to taste and mix well (the boy choy are rather tender at this point, so be gentle if you do not want to break them). Dish up, with or without sauce, and serve hot.
–Recipe courtesy tastehongkong.com.
The choy while cooking:
Finished product (with more watery sauce than I would have liked, even after reducing):


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If You Want to be a Better Leader in 2018, here are three sure-fire tips to get you started.
I love working with women leaders. In part because the women leaders with whom I work–especially the very best–constantly strive to be "better." They know that when they are at the top of their leadership game, they are better equipped to build, lead and inspire high-performing teams that deliver results.
While every leader has her own unique leadership style, I've noticed that all the great leaders with whom I've worked have a similar mindset. Just below, I share how the "great ones" approach their leadership journey. I hope these insights will in turn inspire you on your own journey to becoming the leader you want (and need) to be in 2018.
1. Great Leaders Focus and Commit – and Relentlessly Invest in Themselves
Leadership Tip: While wanting to be a better leader is a good start…it's not enough.
- Action Plan:This is work. Every great leader is committed to, focused on and disciplined around becoming "greater."
- Schedule it. Want to be a great leader? Open your calendar right now and make a 2-hour date with yourself once/week for the next 90 days. Relentlessly commit to these dates.
- Create a leadership vision statement and plan. Begin your journey by documenting your response to one question: "One year from today, my boss/colleagues/direct reports will say I'm a great leader because …". Your response will serve as your leadership 'compass' for 2018.
2. Great Leaders Uncover and CELEBRATE Their Natural Leadership Strengths…then Leverage Them
Leadership Tip: What is your "natural" leadership style? Are you a pioneeringleader? A deliberative leader? A commanding leader? Whatever your 'natural' leadership style, uncover it, embrace it, celebrate it, then leverage it to get the results you want.
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Nikon EDG 8x42 DCF
- Well-balanced, and feel great in the hand
- Very good in low light – ED glass pays dividends
- Very sharp and very bright
- Beautifully smooth focussing – I like it!
- Hard to fault for a top-end binocular
They've been a long time coming, but Nikon's EDG binoculars, complete with eco-glass optics, have finally arrived. These are top end Nikons with top end prices that compete with the best that Zeiss, Leica and Swarovski can offer. There are five models in the EDG range, an 8x32 and 10x32, and a 7x42, 8x42 and 10x 42. I tested the 8x42. At almost £1600 these binoculars need to be very good. They are.
If you are familiar with Nikon's HGLs, you may know that their shape was not to everyone's taste. The EDG is different – its shape is closer to a classic roof-prism binocular, with unobtrusive thumb areas underneath. It felt very nice in the hand and I really liked the grippy feel of the rubber armouring. It is easy to hold 'conventionally' and while Nikon haven't gone for an open-bridge design, the short bridge leaves plenty of lens barrel exposed at the front end so a similar effect is achieved. Magnesium alloy lens barrels help to keep the weight down – at 785g their weight is reasonable and they didn't feel heavy when I was birding. They are a well-balanced binocular, and as you would expect, they are waterproof and nitrogen-filled. Build quality seemed very good.
Inside that lovely body there are some state of the art optics, with ED glass, dielectric prism coatings and field flattener lenses. The view was great, easy on the eye, sharp and bright. Low light performance was very good, though they failed to conjure up a Nightjar for me at first! All was not lost though and four days later I had one of my best Nightjar encounters ever, complete with close fly-bys. The brightness of these binoculars is hard to fault, as is their sharpness. There is a bit of edge softness if you start looking for it, but in normal use the view appears edge to edge sharp. There may have been just a tad of chromatic aberration, but I didn't notice any of any consequence. I also detected a slight yellow colour cast – this is just an observation, definitely not a criticism.
- Price: £1599.99
- Dimensions: (lengthxwidth) 148x141mm
- Weight: 785g
- Field of view: 7.7 degrees. 135m@1000m
- Close focus: 3m
- Warranty: 10 years.
- Contact: Nikon UK Limited, 380 Richmond Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT2 5PR, Tel: 0208 541 4440. Brochure line: 0800 230220.
- website: www.nikon.co.uk
Focusing action and precision is very good. More movement is possible than on my old HGs – the EDGs move moderately stiffly a bit over one turn (clockwise towards infinity). Focussing is beautifully smooth, and fast. If you have never experienced top end Nikon focussing, try it! Close-focus is quoted as three metres. I could focus down to around 2.5 metres, which is more respectable but not as good as what some of the competition offer. It is reasonably close though, so I don't think this is a deal breaker.
To adjust the dioptre, pull up the focussing wheel, turn it, and push it down again to lock it. I found that both the dioptre scale and the focuser moved when setting the dioptre – this was a bit disconcerting, but didn't cause any problems. The eyecups are rubber-covered and comfortable against the face, twisting up and down to one of four positions. I discovered a 'pseudo-fifth' position, with there being a little more movement beyond the outermost setting. The package also includes a case, tethered objective covers and a rainguard that worked well. The branded neoprene strap has quick-release length adjusters. This sounds a good idea, but I don't think I would use it often. And whereas my HGs used to hang at a funny angle – with the eyecups sticking out a little – these hang just fine!
I enjoyed using these binoculars. In terms of optical performance and ergonomics the EDG 8x42 is hard to fault, providing a gorgeous view and very nice handling. They are expensive. But they are not the only binoculars at this kind of price. You'll have to decide.


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Now that we know how to navigate the grade book, it's time to build your grading structure. Take a look at your syllabus – how do you break down student grades? Weighted categories such as participation, homework, tests, labs, etc.? Total points? Scores weighted by their maximum value? Having your grading policy laid out in front of you will make setting up your grade book easier.
As we learned in the Navigating the Grade Book page, setting up your grade book is accomplished through the grade book navigation drop-down menu. Let's go to the "Categories and Items" page.
If you have yet to work on this grade book, your page will look like the image below:
You will see one category (next to the folder icon) that corresponds to the title of your course. This is the top most level of your grade book structure and will help us define how grades are calculated. More to come on this.
Before we begin to build your grade book, let's define some terms that are essential to understand when working on the grade book.
Categories – Categories are essentially folders that are used to house grade items within a course. If your grading structure includes items such as participation, homework, tests, labs, etc., these are considered categories. In order to properly place grade items, we first need to create the categories into which they fall. Notice the top level course "category" in your grade book – this is there so we have a place to house all of our work categories and grade items.
Grade Items – Grade items are the actual assignments or activities that require grading. If you assign a homework, this is considered a grade item, as is a test or lab report. Basically, anything that is assigned a grade is considered a grade item. Grade items are placed within their appropriate category. There are two types of grade items in Moodle: 1. manual items – created by you to enter scores for work done outside of Moodle (class work) and 2. activity items – grade items auto-generated by Moodle-based activities completed by students (Moodle-based quizzes, forums, assignment submissions, etc.)
Aggregation – Aggregation is the mathematical formula by which Moodle will calculate grades. There are several aggregation options, and understanding how each one crunches the numbers is very important. Let's look at the four most used aggregation methods and how each one calculates scores:
Mean of Grades: The sum of all grades divided by the total number of grades. There is no weighting done – everything is worth the same and is simply averaged.
A1 70/100, A2 20/80, A3 10/10, category max 100: (0.7 + 0.25 + 1.0)/3 = 0.65 --> 65/100
Weighted Mean of Grades: Each grade item can be given a weight, which is then applied to calculate the category total. In simple terms, the category "total" will be equal to the sum of the scores in each grade item, these scores being multiplied by the grade items' weights, and that sum being finally divided by the sum of the weights, as shown in this example.
A1 70/100 weight 10, A2 20/80 weight 5, A3 10/10 weight 3, category max 100: (0.7*10 + 0.25*5 + 1.0*3)/18 = 0.625 --> 62.5/100
Simple Weighted Mean of Grades: The difference from Weighted Mean of Grades is that weights are determined by the maximum grade for each item. A 100 point assignment has a weight of 100, where a 10 point assignment has a weight of 10. This method uses the highest maximum score as the benchmark for determining weights within a category.
A1 70/100, A2 20/80, A3 10/10, category max 100: (0.7*100 + 0.25*80 + 1.0*10)/190 = 0.526 --> 52.6/100
Natural: The sum of all grade values. Scale grades are ignored. This is the only type that does not convert the grades to percentages internally. The Maximum grade of associated category item is calculated automatically as a sum of maximums from all aggregated items. *NOTE – this is exactly the same as simple weighted mean of gradeswith the exception that sum of grades willnot show a grade based on what has been completed. For example, if your course has 1000 total points possible, but you have only assigned 100, a student's score will still be shown based on the 1000 possible. So, if a student has scored a perfect 100/100 up to this point, his total course score is shown as a 100/1000 = 10.
It's important to note that you will need to select an aggregation method for each category you have in your grade book, and that you can have different aggregation methods for different categories. We will see how this works shortly.
Now that you are comfortable with the language and have your grading structure in front of you, let's learn how to add categories and manual grade items.


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Last week I had the opportunity of documenting Dylan's First Holy Communion. Dylan's mom Lauriette was planning this celebration for almost a year. Im glad she booked me early. A lot of anticipation, I am glad to had made it to this day. The event was celebrated with close family and friends. The venue was filled with so much lovely facade and beautiful table details. I was also drawn with their warm family and lovely guests. I could never ask for a better celebration.
I had known Lauriette's family for a long time. I had also been documenting her relatives important events before. I am so excited that it is her turn for me to capture such wonderful and memorable event.


text: Varsity and novice rowers and their parents are invited to an information session and dessert potluck . You will be able to hear from our new program director/head coach, so bring all your questions and ideas. The first session will be held at Northampton High School Cafeteria, 6pm-7:30pm, Wednesday, March 2nd. Additional information sessions will be scheduled at Williston-Northampton and Amherst High Schools. Current and interested athletes should make an effort to attend one of the information sessions.