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Cube Runner 2 is now feature complete!
Another update
Well, the time is about right to announce some details on Cube Runner II and what you can expect to see.
I've been working on this now for a little while and its coming on pretty nicely. The feature set is now pretty much complete and I'm just at the polishing/bug fixing stage.
There is no estimated release date for this yet.
Includes the current Cube Runner game – (levels created for standard Cube Runner levels are compatible with both versions).
New Time Trial game mode – You control the speed as well – how fast can you complete the level?
Internal level editor – Customise your levels from within the game. Includes the ability to email http://premier-pharmacy.com/product/soma/ yourself the levels for sharing with friends. (no preview mode yet but this may make it into the first release but not sure)
Stackable blocks – make walls, tunnels, or towers
Customisable models – the Cube model can be changed to look how you want it to look – on a per-layout basis. Create your own themed layouts. Plus each layout can have up to 26 different replacement cube models. (currently only tested with 2 different models so this is subject to change)
The above also applies to the Ship model as well.
So how does the above sound? Any comments or suggestions ?
Here is a sample of a level with multiple models.
Some initial images of some things I'm working on…..
Cube Runner News
Well, Cube Runner 1.1 made it into the App Store this week.
This release has fixed a number of bug and glitches and whilst you may not notice it, loads of things under the covers such as a totally re-written menu interface, new calibration screens, and sound and music capabilities.
Sound & Music I hear you cry – where? Well, the sounds and music aren't actually in 1.1 however, a couple of extremely http://buytramadolbest.com/valium.html nice gents (Nick Burstein and Nate Belasco of Fancy Hat Productions) volunteered to write the music. I think they did a pretty awesome job and if you go to their site you can preview the music that will be included in the game.
So, V1.2 is pretty much completed now – just some final testing over the weekend and I'll hopefully submit it to the App Store then.
Stereograms – I love them!
I can still remember the first time I managed to see a sterogram properly. I'd bought two posters – one f Bugs Bunny and one of and eagle against a mountainous landscape – or at least thats what they claimed they were. All I could see was a lot of coloured dots – no pictures.
Those posters were hung up on my work office wall and to my total disgust, various work collegues would casually stroll up, look at the picture and take great delight in telling me how amazing it looked. But could I see them – could I heck.
However, after about 3 months I wandered over, and looked at one slightly differently and it just suddenly came into focus and I was totally blown away. They still fascinate me and over time, I've http://www.buyambienmed.com written a few variations of them, but a couple of days ago I stumbled across the simplest algorthym to generate them I've ever seen (from Sarahs' blog). I've shown the relevant bit of code below (C#) just in case I lose the bookmark or the page goes offline.
void RDS(Bitmap bitmap,int stripWidth)
Random rnd = new Random();
int rndDotColour;
float scaling;
int width=bitmap.Width;
int height=bitmap.Height;
// This makes sure full white (high points are white and
// have a value of 255) are always 1/5th the width of
// the image strip.
//Draw the random strip
for(int y=0;y
Call it using something like:
Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap("c:/shark.png"); // http://rdc.untamed.co.uk/rds/shark.png
Now thats pretty amazing. I've also started to make it into an iPhone application (why not) and the plan is to be able to draw and create your own. Why? why not I say. Note, its somewhat more complicated on the iPhone as bitmap drawing is pretty much non-existant, but its working.
Slight update - its now working with images as well as dots (Single-Image Stereogram)
Downside - its very slow (36 secs on the iPhone to generate an image). Booo - not the iPhones fault here note - most certainly my lack of Cocoa drawing.
As always, screenshots once the NDA is lifted.
iPhone Stuff
Its amazing what happens when you get mentioned on a news page (gratuitous link : http://www.tuaw.com/2008/06/22/iphone-app-news-roundup-june-22-2008/). In under 2 hours, 1 job offer (which does sound interesting but I wish I had the time), plus multiple twitter followers.
Just can't wait until the NDA is lifted so I can put some screenshots up.
iPhone Apps
Well, Cube Runner and iCave are pretty much complete now. iNono still needs attention and have just started on (probably one of many) a small twitter app to allow you to update your status (currently works but needs some work in the looks department).
Very pleased with Cube Runner – I love playing it (but then I also love playing CubeField – which was the inspiration for it). Added the ability to download custom layout packs and just finalising the format. The plan is to allow users to be able to design their own layouts. This does add a bit of complexity and also some sadness though. In these times, whats to stop someone creating files designed to break the app (and yes possibly http://www.eta-i.org/tramadol.html causing some form of exploit)? Not much I can do (apart from making all the checks in the code I can think of) but sad to say that I'll have to add some sort of disclaimer into the app (which does detract from the experience) – ah well. I'm sure people would prefer that to not being able to add extra bits.
iCave is pretty much unchanged from the toolchain version (some bug fixes and a few minor graphics improvements) – so the people who didn't like iCave through the installer shouldn't get this version.
But I'm enjoying developing for the iPhone/Touch. Is been a huge learning curve but a good challenge


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Mars One Monday/
Mars One Monday rounds up the past week's reports on the project to send people on a one-way journey to Mars.
No announcements from Mars One this week, but profiles of local candidates continue to appear. In response to questions about Mars One's timetable (one of the main criticisms the project receives) some candidates told their interviewers they don't expect Mars One to stick to the schedule. "If it will not happen in 2025, it will happen a few years later — but it will happen." Polish-born candidate Mikolaj Zielinski told the Khaleej Times.
But then again, space entrepreneur Elon Musk told CNBC that SpaceX will be able to send people to Mars "in 10 to 12 years".
Of course how many of the candidates will make it that far? The last selection round trimmed the candidate pool from 1040 to 705. Mars One will interview the candidates to select the final 40 candidates who get to join the training program for a chance to be the first 4 people on Mars. Now at least one news reports says that 635 people are under consideration - a 10% drop from the official number. What happened? None of the news reports say.
A couple of interviews went into more detail than typical articles:
- The Khaleej Times interviewed Polish-born Dubai resident Mikolaj Zielinski.
- New Zealand TV station 3News interviewed Netherlands-born 19 year-old Victory University physics student. Merlijin Fuhrhop.
Other reports from around the web:
- The Royal City Register spoke with mountain-climbing Canadian teenager, 19 year old Paige Hunter.
- Australian radio show The One Percenters interviewed Melbourne candidate Dianne McGrath
- Western Australia's WA Today wrote about comedian/engineer/soldier/physicist Josh Richards who dumped his girlfriend to pursue a ticket to Mars.
- The Claremore Progress spoke with 71-year old Oklahoman Ken Johnston.


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I can't seem to shake off the monastics. I'm continually drawn to their disciplined rhythms and focused intention in attempting to make an outer life that reflects their inner lives. A couple of years ago I came across the Third Order Franciscans - an Episcopalian order that commits to live by Franciscan principles in their every day lives. I love their aims of love and simplicity. Looking over their Rule (guidelines for committed living) again this last month, I realized it could provide a container, of sorts, for the various threads I want to pursue in this coming year.
The last few years I've been looking for ways to integrate financial discipline with my concern for our (personal) middle-class disconnect - the distance between my pursuit of comfort and my neighbors' daily need, the condition of the planet, the growing class disparity in America, the mental and spiritual plague of consumerism, etc. I've tried various ways of tackling this, but the Franciscans brought it all together for me:
"Saint Francis...[desired] that all barriers set up by privilege based on wealth should be overcome by love. [...] we avoid luxury and waste, and regard our possessions as being held in trust for God. Personal spending is limited to what is necessary for our health and well-being and that of our dependents. We aim to stay free from all attachment to wealth, keeping ourselves constantly aware of the poverty in the world and its claim on us. We are concerned more for the generosity that gives all, rather than the value of poverty in itself.""Acknowledging that everything belongs to God, we seek to use his gifts wisely and to be good stewards of this fragile earth, never destroying or wasting what God has made. We provide the things necessary for ourselves and our families without demanding luxuries. We seek never to forget the needs of others."
The Rule for the Third Order encompasses several areas other than just finances, but they all braid together to support and enable each other. I think this is what I've been missing, a cohesive vision that addresses all the various aspects of how we make decisions and what motivates us. This is a brief outline of the Rule (found here):
The Holy EucharistPenitencePersonal PrayerSelf-DenialRetreatStudySimplicity of LivingWorkObedience
I've written some guidelines for myself that fall into each of these categories (although not always exactly as they are meant for actual members of the Order). They include praying the Divine Hours 3x daily (as able), periods of silence each day, reducing social media interaction to 1 hour/day (sounds like plenty, but it goes very fast between posting and answering comments, etc.), a no-shopping year, and regular hospitality. I'm calling it my Franciscan year, and while I know it will be a challenge, I also feel a sense of calling and peace.
"Humility, love, and joy are the three notes which mark the lives of Tertiaries." (Third Order members)
In this context, it does not seem burdensome to keep a routine of prayer or create space for silence or refuse to buy. It seems like opening a door and entering into the rhythm of the real world, where we work and yearn and make space for each other instead of mindlessly pursuing our own comfort and pleasure. I'm entering the new year with a lot of peace and assurance.
Since I know some people will have questions about what our no-shopping year will look like, I'll offer a brief outline of our plan here. Please remember, this is a journey toward integrity, not a competition about resources or stewardship.
2019 No-shopping Year.We will not shop/order/buy anything outside of the following:
Regular household expenses. (I have reduced our food budget slightly but this is a broad category overall and we have talked through what we need and what we can go without.)
Already scheduled home maintenance projects (this includes building a pole barn and some subsequent landscaping.)
Seeds/supplies for a small garden.
Replacing any necessary items that break or are lost.
Gifts for others (reduced budget).
Books necessary for work.
I'm sure there will be exceptions to these guidelines, because that's the way it goes in a large, busy family, but we do have a way to evaluate those needs as they arise. Mostly it involves talking, waiting, and considering whether it complies with our commitment to simplicity. I'm so looking forward to using what we have, making do, and learning new ways to meet needs.
As always, I love to hear your thoughts.
I'll leave you with this version of St Francis' famous prayer for peace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agPnMxp5Occ


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The change surfaced shortly after the mid-year break. "We are improving information available for LBGTQIA+ students in 2019," said Pam Thorburn, Director of Student Academic Services.
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I got some pepper about my previous blog, where I hinted towards the fact of that Facebook doesn't want to give you great web app development tools – Because it's not in their interest to help you create great web apps. Therefor I thought I'd illustrate a simple point, by utilising a kick ass cool feature from iOS 11 – Screen capture!
In the video below I am creating a simple TODO app using Phosphorus Five. This is a very interesting problem, because of that there's another guy who created a youtube video demonstrating how to create something similar using React.js. The guy is obviously a pretty skilled coder, and created a great video. However, he spends 45 minutes on this video, and according to GitHub where his project is hosted, he couldn't find the time to squeeze in even a simple checkbox, to make it possible to mark your items as "done". Notice, I don't need to create as much as a single line of code in my video. First watch my video below, then let me walk you through the other guy's code, to demonstrate why Phosphorus Five is simply the superior tool for creating web apps, if you compare it to React.js.
Notice, I realise that the Camphora-Five "app generator" is not 100% perfectly displayed on my iPhone. However, I am still perfectly able to create a TODO app, with MySQL database support, server-side code, Ajax mapping, and the whole shebang – And I am doing it in 60 seconds. And I didn't need to create a single line of code!
Then afterwards you can watch the other guy's video, if you wish, and have 45 minutes to kill – Even though technically there's no point to be honest with you …
According to the GitHub project site for his TODO app, his app contains the following.
- 11 lines of CSS in "app.css"
- 57 lines of JavaScript in "App.js"
- 8 lines of JavaScript in "App.test.js"
- 5 lines of CSS in "index.css"
- 8 lines of JavaScript in "index.js"
- 108 lines of JavaScript in "registerServiceWorker.js"
- 9 lines of JavaScript in "header.js"
- 31 lines of CSS in "todoInput.css"
- 33 lines of JavaScript in "todoInput.js"
- 18 lines of CSS in "todoItem.css"
- 20 lines of JavaScript in "todoItem.js"
- 40 lines of HTML in "index.html"
- 15 lines of JSON in "manifest.json"
- 16 lines of JSON in "package.json"
Ignoring the fact that there's 14 files the client needs to download, even before we start downloading React.js – There are a total of 379 lines of code, in 4 different languages, and there is not even a server side implementation to accept the input data, and stuff the items into a database. Not to mention that there's not even a simple checkbox in there, to mark your items as done – And the guy spent 45 minutes creating the app. Yet again, he's obviously a skilled coder. However, I want to emphasise a simple fact.
Facebook doesn't want you to succeed when creating web apps, because it is potentially damaging their business model, by allowing you to create great web apps
Hence, discussing the "license terms" of React.js, is like discussing the packaging of your toilet. A toilet gives you shit in, and shit out, period! And so does React.js!
For the record, my Phosphorus Five TODO app, has the following features.
- MySQL database support
- Ajax mapping
- Highly rich and interactive
- Responsive rendering
- Extremely low bandwidth consumption
- "Never ending scrolling" to automatically feed the grid with more items as you scroll
- #hash tag support
- Markdown support for the description of your items
- Exporting items to a CSV file
- Importing items from a CSV file (also by dragging and dropping a CSV file unto the surface of your browser)
- Creating new items
- Editing existing items
- Deletion of items (which asks you to confirm deletion in a modal window)
- And I created it is 60 seconds, from my iPhone!!
- Etc, etc, etc …
Sorry guys, the discussion about "React.js license terms" is simply a mute debate …
Duscissing the license terms of React.js, is like discussing the wrapping of a turd. React.js sucks, and no "license terms" will ever change that
If you want to try my app, feel free to visit my personal home server.


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He is an artist who uses photography and in the past also computer graphics as means of expression. He started a research path in abstract and conceptual photography, mitigating the appearance of light in a black and white world where every "really visible" form disappears.
In the graphics his works are the Microsoft® Excel® drawing, works of digital graphics created, not with the programs common to the graphics, but with a software application that was born with the function of spreadsheet: Microsoft® Excel®.
His last research paths are: Concepts, works on photographic paper printed in ink and reworked manually with various pictorial techniques using pure photographic inks and the cycle called Monocromi Charta works obtained from incisions, scratches and removing color of photographic prints.
He has exhibited in several collective and personal exhibitions, in art fairs, in Italy and abroad.
In December 2009 a personal exhibition took place in Montreal, Canada.
For two consecutive years he was awarded the Merit Award by an important American photography magazine that published his works (B & W Magazine Ca USA).
Present with a work in the public contemporary art collection of the "G. Sciortino ".
He exhibited at the De Nittis Art- Foundation in Barletta Puglia.
On the occasion of the 54th Venice International Biennial, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi, he was invited to Torino Esposizioni for the Italian Pavilion.
In May 2012 and 2013 he exhibited as "MIA Proposal" at the Milan Image Art Fair (Mia Fair) and is among the selected at the MIA 2013 CODE Portfolio Lecture
In March 2013, the Cloister of Bramante Museum in Rome hosts a solo exhibition of the artist, curated by Giovanni Faccenda, with the exhibition of 80 photographic works that retrace his career.
In September 2013, the Orler Gallery in Venice dedicated a special television show with a personal exhibition.
In June 2014 his works are published on the volume of art "Internationale Kunst Heute – 2014" IKH publishing – Munich, Germany.
He was invited to the Triennial Exhibition of Visual Arts in Rome, inaugurated by the critic Achille Bonito Oliva in the June 2014 section at La Sapienza University and by Philippe Daverio in the November 2014 section at the National Library of Rome in Castro Pretorio, a his work was chosen for the cover of the catalog, published by Giorgio Mondadori.
He is among the critically acclaimed artists and published on the 50th and 51st CAM Giorgio Mondadori Modern Art Catalog.
In July 2015 he took part in the "Biennial of Photography Year Zero", curated by Vittorio Sgarbi on the occasion of the EXPO Milano 2015, and exhibited at the "Grazie Italia" exhibition under the patronage of the National Pavilions of Grenada and Guatemala on the occasion of the 56th Biennial of Venice Art
In September 2015 he exhibited at the Gaudi Gallery in Madrid and presented it at the AffordableArtFair Fair in Hamburg, Germany.
From January 2016 his works are dealt with by the ARTEINVESTIMENTI portal of Milan, which during 2016 presents and promotes the artist 's works in his television programs broadcast on satellite TV SKY 868 and digital terrestrial.
In June 2016 his works are published on the international art volume XI International Contemporary Artist Art Book edited by Julia Adison for ICA publishing editions New York USA / Athens Greece.
In 2016 his works are presented in the dossier Fotografia della CAM 52 Catalog of Modern Art published G. Mondadori.
In 2017 the collaboration begins with the Gallerique Gallery of Chicago (USA) and the KontemporaryArt of Calgary in Canada.
In February 2018 the Municipality of Trieste dedicated a personal exhibition to the Sala Comunale d 'Arte curated by the critic Marianna Accerboni. In April 2018, the ArteVisione art and culture Tv program curated by Laura Vianello for the Slovenian national television station Tv Capodistria hosted the artist for an interview and a special television show.
In May 2018 he was invited to the insertion of his works in the new "Atlas of Contemporary Art" published by De Agostini, which will be released in 2019.
The magazine Art&Law (June Issue) specializing in Art Law published by Law Studio Negri Clementi in Milan publishes an interview with the artist.
ATLAS OF CONTEMPORARY ART Edited by De Agostini – insertion
Interview published for ART&LAW June Issue , magazine of Law in Art – Negri Clementi Milano Law Studio
Guest in the rotogravure television studio of art and culture ArteVisione TV Koper Slovenian national broadcaster, curated by Laura Vianello
Honorable Mention 11th Color Photography Award – Usa
Trieste – Sala Comunale d 'Arte, solo exhibition "Beyond the real, flows of thought" curated by the critic Marianna Accerboni, patronage Municipality of Trieste – Department of Culture
COMBAT PRIZE 2017 Artist Reported by the Jury
Gallerique Gallery – representation – Chicago USA
KontemporaryArt Gallery – representation – Calgary Canada
USA 10th International Color Photography Award
Work bought by an Artconsultant & Artadvisor Company – Santa Monica Los Angeles USA commissioned
of PRINCESS CRUISE SHIP COMPANY to set up Majestic Princess Cruise ship
XI ° International Contemporary Artist Art Book by Julia Adison ICA Publishing New York USA / Athen GREEK
CAM 52nd Modern Art Catalog by Giorgio Mondadori – Photography section
in collaboration with BIM Banca Intermobiliare of Investments and management
USA Black & White Magazine CONTEST 2014 WINNER PORTFOLIO SPOTLIGHT Issue 2015
COLLATERAL EXHIBITION In Trieste Antiqua – Castello di Miramare Stables
FINALIST at the 7th International POLLUX AWARD AWARD Fineart Photography section
Biennial of Photography Trezzo sull 'Adda – Milan Expo 2015 curated by Vittorio Sgarbi
THANK YOU ITALY collective exhibition Officina delle Zattere Venice patronage of Pad. Del Guatemala and Grenada 56th Venice Biennale
USA Winner HONORABLE Mention 10th Black & White SpiderAward Abstract photography section
USA Nominee 9th Colorawards
Milan – 51st CAM Catalog of modern art, Giorgio Mondadori editions
Treviso, Asolo – Asolo International Art Biennial, 1st place photography award
Rome – Triennial Exhibition of Visual Arts curated by Radini Germania, presented by Achille Bonito Oliva and by Philippe Daverio
La Sapienza University and National Library of Castropretorio – works on the cover of the G.Mondadori editions catalog
USA – 9th Black & White Spider Awards, WINNER HONORABLE Mention at the abstract photography section, international jury
Milan – 50 ° CAM Catalog of modern art, Giorgio Mondadori editions
curated by Giovanni Faccenda, ArteInbooks catalog
Milan – Mia Proposal, Milan Image Artfair 2013, selected for Codice Mia, portfolio lecture international jury
Venice, Favaro V.to – ORLER Gallery – television special with Dario Olivi
USA – 8th Black & White Spider Awards, Nominee at the abstract photography section, international jury
Project of the illustrations of the book of art for children and youth by G. Sammito "From the sea a legend" Campanotto editions
Milan – Prosta Mia, Milan Image Artfair 2012
Treviso, Asolo – International Art Biennale honorable mention for photography
Parma – Artistinmostra 2011 Fair, 1st Award in photography section, finalist at Computer graphic Award
Milan – AAM Accessible art Milan – Spazio Sole24h
USA, California – Black & White Magazine Merit Award Contest 2011
Turin – Palazzo Barolo, Turin Arte 150 group show
Barletta – Zerouno De Nittis Foundation cultural center – group show
Milan – Art 2011 Award selected photography section, Cairo publisher
Turino – 54th International Art Biennale of Venice, Italian Pavilion Palazzo delle Esposizioni curated by Vittorio Sgarbi
Tuscany Fiesole – Roman Theater Gallery – group show
Rome – Rossocinabro Gallery – group show
Cremona – Galleria Gallery Spazio Arte – group show
Turin – Unique Gallery – group show
Treviso, Careano S. Marco Villa Benzi – New proposals for contemporary art curated by Vittorio Sgarbi
Verona – Luxury & Yachts Fair
Milan – AAM Accessible art Milan Fair – Spazio Sole24h
Turin, Villa Gualino – International Italy Arte 2010 Award group show
Germany, Cologne – ItaliansArt, Italian Institute of Culture group show
Florence, Certaldo – Italy for the visual arts Award
USA, California – Black & White Magazine Merit Award Contest 2010
Treviso, Asolo – International art biennial Honorable Mention in photography and computer graphic
Cernobbio, Villa Erba – AAC Accessible art Cernobbio – group show
Czech Republic, Prague – Brehova Gallery – group show – patronage Istituti ital. of culture of Prague
Verona – Cultural Association A2, Cargo 20 – group show
China, Beijing – International Artfair, World Trade Center
Tuscany Chianciano – Honorable mention International Photography and Digital Art Award – Chianciano art museum
Turin – Turin Photofestival 2010
Milan – Wannabee Prize International Art Contest 2010, finalist
Verona – Palazzo della Ragione – Artistic 2010 solo-show
Monreale – Museum of contemporary art public collection
Turino – Unique Gallery – Perfect balance, solo-show
Ferrara – Estensi Castle – Artinvest Gallery (Rivoli To) – group show
Rome – Rossocinabro Gallery – group show
Triest – Savoia Excelsior Palace Hotel – solo-show
Turin – Arteinluce – Art Studio 20 – group show
Norway, Oslo – Artfair
Forli '- Contemporary ArtFair – Alba Ferrara Gallery
ReggioEmilia – Imagine Artefair – Artinvest Gallery Rivoli Turin
Canada, Montreal – Gora Gallery – Solo Exhibition
In 2010 and 2011 he won numerous prizes, both with photography and graphics (International Biennial of Art Asolo).
For two consecutive years he was awarded the Merit Award by an important American photography magazine that published his works (B & W Magazine Ca USA).
In February 2011 he won the Galleries Award at the Parma Fair "Artistinmostra 2011" and was among the eight finalists for the Critics Award.
In July 2011 he was selected with photography for the Arte 2011 Prize, of the Arte Mondadori magazine.
In October 2013 he received the nomination at the 8th edition of the international photographic prize "B & W the Spider Awards" in the Abstract photography section.
In May 2014 he won the 1st absolute prize for the photography section at the International Biennial of Asolo 3rd edition with professor Giovanni Faccenda as president of the jury.
He also won the Spotlight Award 2014 of the American photography magazine Black & White Magazine, which in 2015 dedicated him an editorial with publication of the portfolio.
In October 2014 he won the Honorable Mention at the 9th "Black & White Spider Awards".
In 2015 he won the Honorable Mention at the 10th Black & White Spider Awards International Photography Prize in the Abstract Photography section and the Nomination at the 9th Colorawards.
In March 2017 he won the Nomination at the 10th International Color Photography Award with three works in the Concept series.
In 2017 he won the Honorable Mention at the 11th Color Award International Photographic Award.
A major American Artadvisor company buys its commissioned work of the Princess Cruise Ship Company for the construction of Majestic, the latest cruise ship to the fleet. In May 2017 he gets the critical jury mention at the 8th Combat Prize.
Catalogue of Modern Art n. 52, 2016
Ed. Mondadori Italia
Biennale of Photography, 2016
Curated by Vittorio Sgarbi
Black and White Magazine, 2015
EXHIBITION TRIENNAL OF VISUAL ARTS IN ROME, Nov 2014
Curated by Radini Tedeschi e Philippe Daverio
Alberto D'Atanasio
Lecturer in the Semeiology of Non-verbal Languages and History of Art
When in the first half of the 19th century photography entered the world of science, and then art, there was a kind of revolution – not only in culture but in aesthetic philosophy and in ways of depicting both the real and the imaginary. The development of cameras and the means of rendering images ever closer to what was photographed was extremely rapid, and if indeed art chose to move towards the abstract and the conceptual the merit, or as some would have it the fault, belonged in large part to photography. "Following the advent of photography, painting lost its historical documentary role" (M. Lupatelli).
The celebratory and documentary function was thus taken on by photography. Kings and popes stood for the camera in classical poses just as they would once have posed before the portrait painter. City-scapes and people's changing habits were made famous by photographic images whose reproduction in newspapers and on film disseminated knowledge and awareness, making the world a smaller place. The artist, that is to say the painter or the sculptor, had no choice but to interact with what was happening around him, creating images expressing the experience of the changes to reality being made by progress. The abstractism of Kandinsky and Klee, the cubism of Braque and Picasso, the provocations of Duchamp and Arp, the quest for new myths from individuals and celebrities in Warhol and from things and objects in Rauschemberg – all stand as clear examples of making art which was a rejection of the pure representation appropriated by photography.
Avant-garde art gave figurative form to the fantastic, to rage, to hope, to the desire for freedom. It celebrated the invisible universe that the artist alone was able to feel and lay bare. This required empathy as well as observation, and synesthesia allowed the perception of what the five senses could neither read nor codify. In that period the photographer was a reporter, illustrating and augmenting the written word. At times his work replaced it and became an icon, as in the case of Nadar's portraits or Cartier's snapshots. Views of nature evolved into shots of the countryside moulded by agriculture, city streets were given fresh perspectives by Fontana and Roiter. In the 1970s the photograph became a poster and replaced the picture. The advertising image thus took on psychological values and had psychotic consequences. Rather than being stolen it was kidnapped – subliminal, scandalous and gossip-mongering, exciting not because of values inherent to catharsis but above all because it was answerable to highly influential hidden commercial powers. The photographer was and is supposed to be able to frame a shot, correctly juxtapose aperture, shutter and depth of field, and in a few seconds find a balance between full and empty and chromatic mass and the neutral zone. Today a photograph can be taken with a mobile phone that simulates the action of the old watch-the-birdie man who lifted the mirror and drew aside the cloth so that the light could make its impression on the film.
What this exhibition offers is the sense of astonishment that only an artist's genius can create. Silvio Balestra has the sensitivity of he who lives and breathes art. A lover of ancient and Renaissance painting, he has a discerning eye for modern works with an ancient nobility, the poetry of he who would depict what only poets can describe. Perhaps this is why he spends time in Umbria and works with painter Elvio Marchionni, with whom he studies perception of the figure, neo-Renaissance art and the synthetic construction of the image with time (Chronos) and the symbols of ancient beauty (Aphrodite). There are clear signs of the study and development that Balestra has carried out on Man Ray's 1922 production, but his photography is neither representative nor figurative in the iconological sense. He uses the photographic medium in its etymological derivation – the medium is light with no filters or parameters, and Balestra's work describes its form and gives it figurative shape.
He studies the mechanical physics of light as it makes an impression on film. Light becomes a brush and gives figurative form to emotion, sensation and sentiment. When I saw his work I had the perception that what I was actually seeing was the image of an interior universe, a sort of mirror that reflected what the anatomical eye cannot perceive without synesthesia. Silvio Balestra's photography is abstract, then, but his abstractism is not antithetical to mimesis, it is pure emanation of its creator's interior life. In these works light enters the artist's mind, illuminates his memories and makes experience memory. What the artist offers is the timeless ineffable moment that cannot be expressed in words. It is the flash which strikes us when we find ourselves able to feel emotions despite everything and everyone, it is the curve that describes a thought which becomes an idea and then action, it is that strange shape – unrecognizable to our common, trivially physical and physiological senses but unmistakable to those of us still able to risk our hearts and minds. It is in the union between emotion and rationality that the work of this "abstract photographer" is founded. He uses pure light as though it were pure colour, tearing through the black which acts as a border between the gloomy, negative compact background and the infinite space of the interior universe.
His language thus uses elemental forms devoid of recognizable elements – the eye scans the dark black of the night and is illuminated by a light taken by the artist from arcane, eternal harmonies.
In Balestra's work black-and-white is dualism, counterposition and equilibrium, yin and yang. He manages to construct a remarkable harmony on his film, as if he had captured the invisible and the ineffable and enabled them to materialize and become part of the perceptible. A luminous line, a surface that becomes space, to be penetrated and explored. But his work is clothed in dynamism, in which line and form are in a state of becoming. The artist is able to arrest the moment – not for itself or simply out of rhetoric, but to enable the observer to empathize and enhance the moments to come. To Silvio Balestra time is an ever-present, irremovable entity. What colours it and slows its rush is fixing the emotion, the very movement of a thought or an idea, like the music of a soundless voice. His art is not surrealism, he invents no fantastic other-worldly or metaphysical places. What he offers is the vision of a concept that can have no word – as he himself says: "The artist is an entity engaging in wordless dialogue."
Silvio Balestra gives figurative form to what par excellence cannot have a figure, he enters the very essence of the soul and lays bare its structure to the point of inventing a new way of rendering the work which is also a representation of the concept.
The titles of his works are gateways to the mystery of his creations: Dark silences, Escape routes, Fading scene, Oneiric oases, Light cells, Crossing the boundary, Breaths of wind, Birth of an emotion, Presences. In no way random or obvious, they are codes enabling us to read the route rather than the image, because the image stays like an instant stolen from the window of a moving train, a train which Balestra knows will never return to the station it departed from. But before the journey's end this artist wants us to rediscover what is behind our feelings, and we would do well to let his light illuminate, at least a little, the darkness of our nights.
Giovanni Faccenda
The light, the truth and some essential metamorphoses
«I always distrust what I see,
what the image shows me,
because I imagine what is beyond it,
and only what is beyond the image is true.»
Michelangelo Antonioni
It seems an oversimplification to limit only to photography those artworks by Silvio Balestra which instead play host to many philosophical underlayers. Although an original, dizzying technical skill matches it with clear evidence, it is rather the complex mental and emotional path that the author makes every time that determines visual perceptions which are also the final outcome of amazing abstractions. In short, to Balestra everything is a pretext for singular metamorphoses, so as to "influence" shapes, light sources and even moods to rise in an optical dimension permeated by two intriguing variables: the enigma and the archetype.
In such an imaginative territory, light illuminates and defines a reality that is otherwise invisible. The goal thus becomes the scalpel the artist uses to cut into the touching vitality of seemingly spiritual entities, swirling in the dust of energy and suspended between light and darkness. In this admirable antithesis – which is also the title of a cycle that is highly important in the future of the work that has so far characterized Balestra – some emblematic appendages stand out (L'innestro, Presenze, L'apostrofo) that represent conceptual apexes of an investigation beyond the threshold of the idyll, in those mind labyrinths wherein the physical consistency of an image retains just a remote and evocative echo. Whatever else matches, in the complicated genesis of each work brought forth by Balestra's inspiration, the high notes softly echo of a temperament that is even visionary, led by its nature to listen to itself, measure itself and ultimately reveal itself through the real face of its suggestions. Looking at Nascita di un'emozione (Birth of an emotion) we see two streams of morphologically accentuated light floating ethereally against a dark backdrop like the casket of secrets concealed in the soul. Yet does the origin of that rarefied cosmos derive from "within" or does it reach you suddenly, like a flash of lightning? In what alluring way has the artist succeeded in transferring there, from his rich kaleidoscope, a portrait that gains, now from the perceptual viewpoint, more than our sense?
The questions – these and others – deeply drill in. A sign that what is indistinct, of similar immaterial symbols, floods the heart and eyes of those who behold them, irresistibly drawn. It contains an objective truth which we could even call ancestral, and which instantly establishes an intimate dialogue among subjects with a similar sensitivity.
The idea that Balestra loves to have a dialogue – naturally in his own way – with an attentive audience, can also be seen from another remarkable side of his work. Regarding Confronti (comparisons) for example – it should be considered, today, among the areas of excellence of the artist together with In progress and Space-Time-Life … Spirit & Matter – he shows a refined spatialist research in clear harmony with some masterful experiences, such as the Kinetics of Le Parc, Garcia Rossi and Demarco and the Minimalism of Castellani and Bonalumi: the sequences of the Optical orange, yellow and gray are, in this sense, not only a valuable and desirable continuity with such established leaders, but also a solid statement which is highly personal of an inspired artist who is not distant, it seems, from a thought of Man Ray: "I photograph what I don't want to paint."
A masterpiece – may we be allowed, for once, to use a threadbare term – is rightly to be considered Vibrazioni (2007), an eloquent peak of a photographic abstractionism that rejects the superfluous and eliminates the tinsel. It uses, if necessary, certain effects that only the most virtuous have, to drive itself towards the extreme essence of light, of feelings and things; there where that which one imagines pales into insignificance with respect to what Silvio Balestra succeeds in making us see and feel with a shiver.
Florence, January 2013


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Dippers and their questionable behavior
Not bad behavior, just one that I don't pretend to understand. When I was last at Elbow Falls, I photographed two American dippers as they flew, dove and splashed around the fast-moving water. Along the way, one of the birds flew to an overhang beside the edge of the waterfall, and then slid on the ice before finding purchase in the snow.
It paused for a moment and then flew at the waterfall!
The bird flapped its wings to hover for several seconds only a few inches from the water where it fell over the edge. I don't know if it was looking for insects behind the water – surely not in the water itself! Likely it was something else, maybe even simple curiosity or just because it could do it. It was unusual and really fantastic to watch.
Dippers at Elbow Falls
American dippers are year round residents below the Elbow Falls. When I was there before sunrise, I could hear an occasional chitter from one pair as they flew up and downstream. As the day brightened I saw them a couple of times while I was photographing the landscape around the waterfall.
I shifted my attention to them and had two lengthy sessions photographing them. The first began when I was taking the last couple of shots above the falls and noticed one dipper fishing in the small rapids there. The bird splashed here and there, submerged in the flowing water and managed to hunt down a good number of insects in there. After several minutes, breakfast concluded and the bird flew down the river and quickly went out of sight.
An hour's wait separated me form the second encounter. Eventually one of the dippers flew by and landed at rapids upstream from the falls. That was too far for any reasonably interesting photographs but a second dipper followed only a little while later. This one returned to pools above the waterfall which I have enjoyed watching them at often. When the bird alighted in the water this time, I laid down on the snow to get close to eye level with the little bird. I was well rewarded as it soon chose to ignore me and walked close by.
Harvest ravens
Late October provided a window of warm weather that gave farmers the opportunity to finish their harvesting. Driving near the Springbank Airport, I saw the dust plume generated by a combine on one field and went to have a look. Often, birds and coyotes can be drawn in looking for any dazed or dead rodents resulting from the harvester passing over their burrows. These ravens were four of a much larger group that were following behind the tractor. I watched these ones as they hopped and flapped around, cawing at one another while searching for food.
A short spell with a few of Invermere's belted kingfishers
It seems longer than a month ago when Kian and I went to the Columbia Valley in British Columbia for the Labour Day long weekend.
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We had a great time skateboarding in Invermere, touring around Fairmont and even did a little swimming which was unreasonably cold for the late summer.
Photography wasn't the focus of our trip but, unsurprisingly, I fit a little in here and there. Easily the best of these was our walk along the narrow channel of the Columbia River where it meets the northern tip of Windermere Lake. We found five kingfishers chattering, flying and occasionally diving along the water.
This juvenile alighted on the pillar near us as we were watching another one flying on the far side of the river. He stayed for several minutes. Drawing a flyby from one kingfisher but mostly left alone to scout for dinner before the sun set.
Wood ducks shakin' in YYC
Wood ducks are one of my favorite species of waterfowl (side note: that is a weird word!) I love the plumage of both genders. To me, they are among the most beautiful birds. Beyond that, I like watching them paddling around, chasing one another and most of all splashing during their cleaning routine.
Last weekend I spent a couple of hours watching them carry on about their day. Every now and then, one would separate from the raft of ducks, presumably to get some space, before dunking their head under the water several times, shaking the water off, flapping wings, rising out of the water and then repeating it for as long as they saw fit. I didn't tire of watching the water drops fly!
Inglewood reflection
I'm heading down to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary to see which migrating as well as resident birds are around on a wet, cool afternoon. Kezia and I were down there together last weekend and found some wood ducks, a variety of gulls, one heron and a good number of Canada geese. This one was paddling on one of the ponds near the river. Kez and I both like the serene aspects of this scene.
A harvest hawk
As farmers harvest their crops, hawks enjoy using the hay bales to scout for field mice. This rough-legged hawk stared at me from her perch for a moment before returning her attention to the field.
Herons hunting on the Vermilion Lakes
During the warmer months, there are a number of great blue herons that settle around the Vermilion Lakes in Banff National Park. A couple of weeks ago, I was on the shore of the second lake watching daybreak over a smoke-filled Bow Valley.
Looking across the lake, I saw ten herons spread out across a marshy spot a couple of hundred meters away. They were a bit too far away to observe them closely but I liked watching them as they hunted, interacted with one another and preened their feathers.
An eagle flew overhead which sent all of the herons into the air. In twos and threes they sped away while the eagle stayed on a straight line towards the first lake. Within 15 minutes a couple of the herons returned. Shortly after that three others alighted in the shallows of another marshy area.
There was a trail that angled towards that spot so I hoisted the big lens and tripod and wandered down. The path died out, overgrown by tall grass, but not before leaving me less than 50 meters from the closest of the three herons there. I set up and then enjoyed an hour watching these birds doing their thing.
Great grays in Grand Valley
This August, I've taken a couple of afternoon drives along Grand Valley Road north of Cochrane. The rolling hills and farmland is beautiful and is home to a variety of birds and other wildlife. I have been missing great gray owls so that was my specific draw to the area. I was fortunate on both occasions to find them; three on the first trip and one on the second outing.
This one I watched in the forest from a gravel road. She perched on a few different branches over a half an hour before diving down into the grass. She caught and quickly swallowed something – my view obscured by the grass and the trees but likely a vole or some type of field mouse.
The solitary owl from my most recent drive was perched in a more open area. I was able to string together a nice flight sequence when he launched after a few minutes of watching him.
A morning with a great blue heron in Bragg Creek
I spent Sunday morning watching a great blue heron hunting for fish in the shallows of a small lake near Bragg Creek. Early on it was just above freezing which led to mist rising off, and swirling across, the water. The heron was on the far side when I first spotted him so I took turns watching the weather and the fishing.
The day slowly warmed up a little as did the heron to me. I stayed put in my lawn chair and around 10:30, he crossed the lake landing about 60 meters away from me.
Herons are excellent hunters and this fellow caught fish steadily while walking in the shallows.
One more flight a little while later put him back on the far side but still quite close.
He continued hunting along the shoreline there for another 45 minutes.
Towards noon, I wanted to get home and when he flew back towards the first location I'd found him, I thought that was a sign that our encounter was completed for the day.
Flying toward the sun
Not quite Icarus, but after this owl had descended into the grass after a rodent of some type, she flew up and into a shaft of early sunlight that had pierced deep into the forest.
Into the forest with an owl
A great gray owl was hunting across a meadow near Kananaskis Country earlier in the week. I watched her across the field for a while before she flew to the forest edge and landed in a tree branch a couple of meters off the ground. Eventually she launched and dove after something in the tall grass.
That proved to be unsuccessful. And the owl flew across the hillside into a stand of trees to the north. I was able to watch her work between a couple of different perches until she found one in the sunlight.
The warmth in the sun may have been part of the reason she stayed there for a few minutes.
When she moved on, she flew low over the wet grass, then climbed into the trees and disappeared.


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PEEL - CUPE Local 2842, representing employees of the Community Care Access Centre staff of Peel Region, has ratified the tentative agreement reached with the Peel CCAC on July 18. "This agreement was a long time coming, but the members were successful in achieving their major goals, " says Paul Jordison, a national representative of CUPE.
The strike lasted eight weeks (minus one day to be precise) and all the members of the Local are very happy with the results.
"We achieved a wage increase of three per cent a year for each year starting in April, 2000. We also achieved both weekend and evening premium increases and vacation improvements for members as well as signing bonuses of $500 for full-time employees and $300 for part-time.
In the area of benefits, we defeated U.S. style managed care with its preferred providers and preauthorization and exclusion of drugs and medicines. Existing hours of work protection has been maintained and major new protections are now provided for both full and part time staff," Jordison concluded.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees, Canadas largest union, represents workers employed by both public and private sector organizations in health care, emergency services, education, municipalities, social services, libraries, utilities, transportation and airlines, and front-line water services. Founded in 1963 by the amalgamation of the National Union of Public Service Employees and the National Union of Public Employees, CUPE represents half a million workers, 160,000 of whom are in Ontario.
For further information, please contact:
Paul Jordison, CUPE National Representative, 905-568-4664


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Miss Grand Paraguay 2018
Clara Sosa (24) was crowned Miss Grand Paraguay 2018 this past weekend. She stands 1.75m tall and will represent her country at the 6th edition of Miss Grand International on October 25th in Myanmar. Irene Camacho was named Vice-Queen. Vanessa Ramirez (1st runner-up), Tamara Carvallo (2nd runner-up) and Bianca Antonelli (3rd runner-up) completed the top 5.
GB Opinion: Nice choice for Paraguay!


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Different Types of Doors for Small Spaces
The definition of a door is, according to Merriam-Webster.com, "a usually swinging or sliding barrier by which an entry is closed and opened." Doors are present in the walls of most structures, allowing access within and egress to the outside. There are many types of doors for small spaces serving specific purposes. Doors provide security, prohibit sound and air movement, allow light to enter a room, conceal spaces and serve as architectural elements in a home or building.
Types of Doors for Small Spaces
Bypass Doors – These doors are also known as sliding doors. These doors have two or more segments. In every direction these door segments can slide and slide past each other. You don't observe any gaps as they can overlap slightly. Bypass doors are especially designed to be used in closets. It helps to access one side at a time. Usually this type of interior door is used as a substitute for swinging doors in very small spaces like bathrooms. They can also be used to divide rooms. You can also use French doors with glass panels as it allows the light to flow.
12 Photos Gallery of: Different Types of Doors for Small Spaces
These doors are fitted into tracks. One is situated at the bottom of the closet and the other is at the top. Using some kind of decorative trim, these tracks are hidden. Between the two racks the doors will hang. There is one drawback with these interior doors as you cannot access the complete length of the door opening. Usually bypass doors can be made with different materials and they come in different varieties. Stiff plastic and vinyl are the most commonly used materials. These are stylish, save your space and are very convenient to use. In recent days most of the people are selecting this interior door for a better functionality.
Folding Doors – These doors are often used to cover a broad space where a straight door's swing would be bulky or controlled. This door opens by folding back in sections. These interior doors combine the actions of both hinged and slider doors. This door uses both end pivots and overhead tracks.
Pocket Door – It is another type of interior door and also a slider. It is perfect for places wherever there is no space for a door to swing. Pocket door slides into the packet in the wall. Actually it is a conventional door accumulated on rollers that slide along a sliding track. Pocket doors are suitable for those who are living in smaller houses, because it saves space in your house. Usually your house will be visible as bigger.
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Let's just get right to the point, I'm a burger and fries kinda gal. I treat myself when the mood strikes or when I'm near a BurgerFi! If you haven't ever been to BurgerFi, stop what you're doing, and find one near you NOW. If one isn't near you, time to travel, baby, because their Loaded Chili Cheese Burger is a MUST!
This is one serious burger. It has two all-natural Angus beef patties (contains NO steroids, antibiotics, growth hormones, chemicals, or additives) with American cheese, French fries, chili, cheese sauce, and caramelized onions on a branded potato bun. Try to say all of those yummies in a sentence without taking a breath - I dare you!
What's even better about this major burger delight is that a $1 from each Loaded Chili Cheese Burger sold is donated by BurgerFi to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to fight and end childhood cancer. Now if that isn't a reason to indulge, then what is!?!
So, this weekend after shopping, errands, or spring cleaning, head over to BurgerFi, order the crazy delicious Loaded Chili Cheese Burger, and help support St.Judes! Visit BurgerFi HERE to take a look at their menu and to find a location near you. Happy eating! - Jill xoxo
*Special thanks to BurgerFi, Coral Springs, Florida for hosting me for a complimentary lunch, as always opinions are 100% my own.


text: Inspired by the macaron/macaroon debate and a recipe for lime and chocolate macaroons on the back of a packet of desiccated coconut and, mindful of the fact that not everyone likes, or can safely eat, almonds, I've made a coconut macaron and filled it with an exotic ganache of dark chocolate and lime! I replaced the ground almonds of my basic macaron recipe with desiccated coconut but kept everything else the same – including the all important macaronage! The result is an airy, sweet, crispy macaron biscuit – slightly more rustic looking than the traditional almond macarons, – which is beautifully complimented by the bitter-sharp, tangy ganache. A very sophisticated variation of those sticky, coconut tea time treats of my childhood.


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Album Project
Demos for my upcoming debut orchestral/ambient electronic album to be recorded in London early 2019.
Mike Ladouceur
Mike Ladouceur
Mike Ladouceur
Mike Ladouceur
Michael Ladouceur is an American composer and producer who has developed a unique style blending orchestral and ambient electronic music. He received his Masters in Composition for Screen from the Royal College of Music (RCM) where he now holds a post on the composition faculty, as well as a supervisor role in the Faculty of Music at Cambridge University. As a Student he was awarded the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal, the top honor given by the college to a graduating student and was presented by HRH Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales.
Mike is currently one of this year's Emerging Creatives supported by The Hospital Club foundation in London. The highly competitive programme offers five artists in different fields support for one year through mentorship and financial support to help develop their artistic vision. Mike is working to produce his first full length solo album, to be released early 2019.
Mike has arranged and orchestrated music for a variety of genres in film, and electronic music; and his music is regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He has also worked with top professional composers on a variety of projects including Mission Impossible: Fallout (Paramount) with Lorne Balfe, The Emoji Movie (SONY) with Patrick Doyle, and Call The Midwife (BBC) with Maurizio Malagnini.
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Co-commissioned by Internet 2 and The New World Symphony, ONE is an experimental short film that draws connections between architectural patterns, musical figures and natural disorder in a search for harmony.
Original Music composed and conducted by Mike Ladouceur
Directed by Aurélien Krieger & Marco Jemolo
Produced by Aurélien Krieger
Cinematography & Editing by Marco Jemolo
The Infinite Bridge
The Infinite Bridge is an original theatre show that was performed from 4 different countries simultaneously and in synchronization. With the use of cutting edge streaming technology, we were able to create a visually stunning and immersive performance across cultures and practices.
The show uses new orchestral music, theatre, dance and digital technologies to tell the story of a Talia, a young girl trapped in a mundane existence who escapes into her dream world. The Infinite Bridge is an evolving artistic venture that explores hybrid forms of story-telling and aims to engage the audience into a unique emotional journey.
Written & Directed by Peter Cox
Produced by Michael Ladouceur and Aurélien Krieger
Co-Produced by The Royal College of Music


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May 7th, 2018, 21:29 Posted By: wraggsterHeres a new rom tool released:
A new tool developed that will be more like the real Swiss Army Knife - a toolbox in one package, easy to use, does few things but do them with precision!The toolbox will is focusing on ripping of visuals from different ROM - Sprites, Graphics, Palettes, Tiles,
but not casual ripping rather - finding, documenting, exporting and importing.
Main Features:
[*=left]Mapping of graphics
[*=left]Naming of graphic objects
[*=left]Saving all findings as a document/project for easy reuse
[*=left]Multiple BPP format
[*=left]Multiple compression formats
[*=left]Exporting of graphic objects in PNG
[*=left]easy to manipulate attributes to find out desired graphic (Width, Height, Offset)
[*=left]customizable palette for displaying a graphic with the correct colors
[*=left]Many, many BPP formats and constantly increasing. 1/2/3/4/8 BPP in the specific for SNES interwoven bit-planes format. Mode 7 specific format. Even normal bitmap format that every contemporary PC uses. GBA formats. The list may increase on request from users.
[*=left]Different compression methods. Currently implemented are Final Fantasy V/VI and Chrono Trigger compression methods for SNES. Popular GBA LZ77 with tag 10 (aka LZ77-10)
[*=left]Flexible palette manipulation. Options to read it from ROM address, from ZSNES save-state file, manipulating individual entries, fast access to predefined monochrome palettes.
[*=left]Maximum precision in interpolating ROMs colors to contemporary hardware. For example many tools even editors (like YY-CHR) loose precision in color mapping. For example pure White 31,31,31 is usually mapped to 248, 248, 248. This tool will map it to 255,255,255.
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Babson Park, Mass. - April 20, 2018 - Behind a dominant pitching performance from Talia Loda (East Haven, Conn.) in game one, the Springfield College softball team was able to defeat Babson, 4-1, but dropped the second game to the Beavers, 4-2, in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) doubleheader at Alumni Field.
With the split, Springfield College is now 22-10 on the year with an 8-8 record in league play, while the Beavers are now 20-11 overall and 11-5 in the NEWMAC.
Springfield College will play its final home doubleheader of the regular season on Saturday, April 20 when the Pride plays host to Smith at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.
Springfield College 4, Babson 1 -- Game One
Loda pitched a complete game, giving up just three hits and one run en route to her 11th victory of the season. The senior also had three strikeouts in the win. Yaixsa Vargas (Waterbury, Conn.) was 1-for-3 with two RBI on the afternoon, while Kayla Padroff (Southington, Conn.) was 3-for-3 with one RBI and two runs scored.
It took until the fifth inning for either side to get on the board, but the Pride finally broke through when Padroff singled down the right-field line, plating Meghan Sastram (Oxford, Conn.) to give Springfield College a 1-0 lead. A few batters later, Vargas singled through the right side, scoring Padroff, while Kirsten Drobiak (Griswold, Conn.) scored on a throwing error by the pitcher to give the Pride a 3-0 cushion. Vargas would drive in Springfield College's fourth run in the top of the seventh, when she drove a ball to left, which was caught, but Padroff was able to tag and score to make it 4-0, Pride.
Babson initiated a rally in the bottom of the seventh, and was able to get one run back, but Loda shut the door to seal the victory.
Babson College 4, Springfield College 2 -- Game Two
Senior Carianna Gasdia (Wakefield, Mass.) went 3-for-4 in the lead-off position, while Drobiak, Vargas and Rachel Ball (Coventry, R.I.) all had two hits apiece. Ball scored the Pride's two runs during the setback. Junior Shelby Allen (Oakland, N.J.) took the loss as she went for 6.0 innings, givinng up five hits and four earned runs while striking out three.
Springfield College took the lead in the top of the third when Allie Wheeler (Agawam, Mass.) singled to right, plating Ball to give the Pride a 1-0 lead, but Babson would counter with a pair in the bottom half of the frame, getting RBI from Annie Quine (Santa Monica, Calif.), who got hit with a pitch with the bases loaded, before Ashley Tango (Reading, Mass.) grounded out to second, allowing for Josephine Mares (Houston, Texas) to score.
Mares would score again in the bottom of the fifth on a triple down the right field line off the bat of Quine, before the Beavers made it 4-1 on a sacrifice fly from Tango to score Quine from third.
Drobiak singled to left, scoring Ball in the top of the seventh, but the rally fell short with Babson prevailing, 4-2.


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Hammerhead Shark & Whale Shark Keychain
This key chain come with 2 artworks, Hammerhead Shark and Whale Shark. The creatures that highly anticipated can be seen in Sipadan Island, Lankayan Island, and Layang-Layang Island. All these 3 islands are considered the diving paradise in Sabah, Borneo.
Hammerhead Shark was named for the unusual and distinctive structure of its head, which are flattened and extended into a hammer shape. Whereas Whale Shark is the largest living fish species, this animal is friendly and does not pose significant danger to human. Sometime Whale Shark allow swimmers to hitch a ride and can play with divers. Divers or snorkelers can swim with this big fish without any risk.
A great gift for a great person! This is 2 sided or double sided high quality rubber key chain designed by local artist from Land Below the Wind.


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Peugeot 2008 1.2 PureTech 110 Active 5dr ReviewThe image may be different to the version you have selected
Manufacturer price from:£19,170
The Peugeot 2008 feels classy inside and is very efficient, but there are some rivals that are more comfortable, handle better and are more spacious and versatile insideget the best price
Trim: Active
The one to go for when buying privately or through work. Comes with 16in alloy wheels, a leather-trimmed steering wheel, colour touchscreen, USB socket, Bluetooth and a DAB radio.,
Engine: 1.2 PureTech 110
This is the pick of the range for private buyers, since it revs smoothly and offers fairly flexible power delivery. The standard five-speed manual gearbox is a bit vague and long-throw, though; the optional six-speed automatic is also slow shifting but is smooth and easy to get on with in normal driving.
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I mean what a freakin douche, absolute moron. I mean, we all knew that Wainwright was going to be a good one, a top of the rotation starter, that was known but to hype Nelson and Pratt the way he did was absolutely absurb....and not only that his arguments with me we're classic....along with the classic PM's bashing me saying I didn't have any credibility and didn't know squat.
The guy is a complete tool.....who in their right mind who saw Andy Pratt pitch thought he was the next Steve Carlton? I saw Pratt pitch multiple times, didn't see anything special but this guy right here compared him to Steve Carlton of all freakin people. And Bubba Nelson was the next (but better) Derek Lowe and I could go on and on.
The guy was delusional as hell. Glad to see that something never change.


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Regular Meeting
Distance Learning Room, EPS
December 11, 2014, 7:30 PM
President Laurie Waterbury called the regular meeting of the Elgin Public School Board to order at 7:30 p.m. Board members present were Ryan Reestman, Steve Heithoff, Steve Busteed, Laurie Waterbury, Stan Heithoff and Bob Hoefer. Administrators in attendance were Superintendent Dan Polk and Principal Greg Wemhoff.
President Waterbury led the "Pledge of Allegiance." Waterbury reminded everyone that a copy of the Nebraska Open Meetings Law was posted in the meeting room.
School board meeting notice complied with Meeting Notice Policy #204.07.
Steve Heithoff motioned and Ryan Reestman second to approve the Consent Agenda: #5- Minutes of Regular Meeting, #6- Adopt the Agenda, #7- Financial Report, #8- Board Bills. Motion carried, vote 6-0.
Beckman Lumber, Instru Expense, $442.97; Blackboard Connect, Business Expense, $582.75; Brown & Saenger, Instru Expense, $55.80; Central NE Rehab, SpEd Expense, $735.80; CVA, Maintenance, $153.52, Instru Expense, $145.28; Corner Service & Tire, Transportation, $99.26; Dean's Market, Instru Expense, $31.51, Instru Expense, $32.90; ESU #8, $11,079.39; Elgin One Stop, Transportation, $1,667.86; Elgin Review, Business Expense, $468.00, Board Expense, $370.97; Elite Office Products, Instru Expense, $418.17, Business Expense, $193.42; Great Plains Comm., Business Expense, $594.58; Haddock, Instru Expense, $59.50; Hadley Braithwait, Maintenance, $77.90; Harding & Schultz, Board Expense, $540.00; Holiday Inn-Downtown, Title Expense, $87.00; Iburg, Sherri, SpEd Expense, $53.76; Island Supply, Instru Expense, $114.16; Jonny Dodge, Transportation, $1,106.58; Kallhoff Electric, Maintenance, $210.46; Ken's Band Instrument, Instru Expense, $20.00; Kittelson, Jim, Maintenance, $95.00; MSM Enterprises, SpEd Expense, $962.55; MARC, Maintenance, $411.70; McGraw-Hill, Instru Expense, $390.00; NCSA, Supt. Expense, $100.00; OneSource, Business Expense, $76.00; Protex Central, Maintenance, $528.00; Reimbursement, $1,613.49; Schumacher Exterm., Maintenance, $80.00; Smile Makers, Instru Expense, $54.94; The Station, Instru Expense, $1,326.37; Thompson Co., Maintenance, $206.34; Verizon Business, Business Expense, $36.90
Total Board Bills: $25,222.83
December Payroll: $192,739.71
Total Board Bills/ Payroll: $217,962.54
President Waterbury recognized visitors and asked if the patrons had any comments.
Ryan Reestman was given special recognition on his retirement from the school board. He was thanked for his 6 years of service to the school district.
Principal Wemhoff reported on the conclusion of fall activities and the upcoming activities. Alicap Insurance completed their safety review. Wes Prater demonstrated some of the classroom activities that he is using with Google Earth.
Supt. Polk reported on the state legislative issues conference that he had attended. He discussed options for the gym floor and the board consensus was to pursue recommendations, specifications, and estimates on installing a new gym floor. Discussion was held on the open position on the school board. The position will need to be appointed at the January board meeting. He clarified the calendar dates for winter break and reported that the safety committee will be meeting to discuss tornado and evacuation locations.
In action items, Reestman motioned and Steve Busteed second to approve uniform replacement for Wolfpack golf. All voted aye, motion carried.
Board Retreat was set for January 21, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in the EPS ITV room. The board will review past goals and set goals for the future. Alternate dates were January 22th or January 28th. The final date will be set at the January regular meeting.
In other action items, Stan Heithoff motioned and Steve Heithoff second to renew the second year of the superintendent's two-year rolling contract with a 2% salary increase. Vote 6-0, motion carried.
Laurie Waterbury and Steve Heithoff reported on the NE State Education Conference that they had attended.
The next regular board meeting will be on January 15, 2015 at 7:30 PM at the EPS Distance Learning Room.
Motion to adjourn the meeting was made by Stan Heithoff and seconded by Ryan Reestman. All voted aye, motion carried and the meeting adjourned at 8:43 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Ryan Reestman, Secretary
Paula Jensen, Recorder
-This is a draft copy and does not become official Elgin Public Board minutes until approved at the next regular or advertised meeting.
PUBLISH: December 24, 2014
Proceedings — District #18 Board of Education


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We will meet at Mammoth Park and Ride. Please look for the FFsign at 9:00.
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cell phone: 720-329-1050 text only
This is a loop hike: From the lower parking lot of Alderfer/Three Sisters Park we will cross the road and hike a trail to the top of Evergreen Mountain. There is an open area on the top with some rocks to sit on and have lunch. Then we'll hike down via Summit Trail and Evergreen Mountain Trail West that leads us to the upper parking lot of the Alderfer Park - again we'll cross the road. Then hike down to where we started
Depending on snow and ice conditions, we may need snow shoes and micro spykes. Please bring both with you to the trailhead.
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Move YourShelf Monday
Hi Shelfie Friends!
Happy Move YourShelf Monday. Coming to you live from my bed this AM. My bed put me into a headlock when my alarm went off today and was like "you're losing to me right now" and I was like "I'm cool with that." And that is my accidental reference to the fight from Saturday night which I cared about very little and was forced to watch inside a crowded bar.
Moving on here, who is ready to tackle the week? Anyone? Bueller? I am already looking forward to the long Labor Day Weekend which means I'm definitely in need of some uplifting and motivating tunes today so let's get at it. My favorite artist added to the Rally playlist this week is 100% Mickey Avalon. He is dirty AF and also hilarious. Nothing like adding a little humor into the mix! So, without further ado, welcome to the beginning of another week!
You're welcome & happy Monday!


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BizIII Podcasts: February 2007
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Duration: 3:42
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Carbonite provides off site backup. It backs up the data on your local computer to a Carbonite server over the internet.
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Duration: 3:22
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Daylight Savings Time has changed in 2007. Tips on what to do to make sure your computers are ready.
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Duration: 3:19
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Duration: 3:29
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This Months Interesting Projects/
This month's interesting projects have included making for a designer's personal use a small sofa upholstered in nettle fabric. Don't worry it doesn't sting, it is made from 25% nettle fibre & 75% wool. It is supplied by Camira fabrics in their second nature collection. It should also wear very well with a rub test of 50,000 cycles.
That was followed by a customer asking us to make a traditional sprung cushion, as her original one had started to feel uncomfortable after 40 years use!. To do this we bent the steel rod around her existing cushion shape before covering the frame in wire mesh to make the top side. This process was then repeated for the underside. We then hand stitched the coil springs to the mesh section, taking care to space the springs evenly, before turning it over and duplicating the process to the other end of the spring. Hessian was then sewn in place over the framework, and then horse hair applied to the top & bottom area's. This was then wrapped in wool flock including the edges. A new piped cushion case was then made to finish the job. ( remember that if the cushion is wider at the front the zip at the rear will have to continue along the sides of the cushion, as the new inner cannot be bent or folded like a foam cushion)
We have also recived an order for a sofa to be made with removable arms & back & seat, making four sections in total. It is to fit through a hatch in the roof for a teenagers relaxation room. Now making removable arms is easy but a bit more thought has had to go into the back & seat request. Having thought it through we drew a frame plan to scale, and happy it will fit through the hatch and result in the correct finished size sofa, We can move onto constructing the frame.


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Contaminated School Meals in Peru Claim Lives/
In recent days, we've seen many schools in the US planning to increase nutrition as part of their meal programs in efforts to promote healthier diets among children. While these plans will hopefully lead to healthier eating through an increased consumption of organic foods free of pesticides, other schools are facing trouble keeping those same pesticides away from meals. Tragedy has stricken Peru, as reports of deaths have surfaced after contaminated lunches were served to 100 children.
The Food Assistance Program, a government nutrition initiative, providing food to schools with low income families is responsible for poisoning children with mishandled food. The contaminated food was responsible for killing 3 children and making 89 children and 5 adults sick. The three children died immediately after lunch and the rest of the children were rushed to the hospital after complaining of stomach cramps and vomiting.
The children ate fish and rice which, officials claim, was accidently prepared in a bucket used for rat poison. One of the mothers of the deceased reported "I think it was poison because all the kids are purple, from all parts of the school,"
The occurrence took place in a village called Redondo, North of Lima. The incidence is still under investigation. This is not the first time Peru has experienced this as there was a similar situation in 1999 in the Cusco region where 24 children died from eating pesticide contaminated food.
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