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Back in fall 2010, it almost seemed like a foregone conclusion that Hans Zimmer would end up composing the Superman franchise reboot, Man of Steel. That film would mark the Oscar-winning composer's fifth collaboration with Christopher Nolan (after the filmmaker's Batman trilogy and Inception) - and the first live-action film directed by Zack Snyder to not feature musical accompaniment by Tyler Bates.
However, last winter, Zimmer revealed that he was not, in fact, onboard for Man of Steel (which Nolan produced and co-conceived the screen story for). At the time, Zimmer indicated that he might have to outright pass on Snyder's retooling of the Superman film series, due to a scheduling conflict.
Variety is reporting Warner Bros. have finally tapped Zimmer to score Man of Steel (apparently, his schedule cleared up). The acclaimed musician finds himself in a position similar to the time he signed on to collaborate with James Newton Howard on the score for Batman Begins. There, the pair had to re-imagine "the sound" of the Batman franchise - which, throughout the 1990s, was largely defined by Danny Elfman's iconic theme for Tim Burton's Batman (back in 1989).
John Williams' Oscar-nominated Superman theme has likewise cast an intimidating shadow on that movie franchise for over thirty years (since its premiere in 1978 with Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie). Here are some previous thoughts from Zimmer about following in Williams' footsteps with Man of Steel:
"It's a hard one, but I followed one of the most iconic things on 'Batman' with Chris [Nolan] as well, and it's the same thing. You are allowed to reinvent, but you have to try to be as good or at least as iconic and it has to resonate and it has to become a part of the zeitgeist. That's the job. On 'Gladiator' I remember people always talking about 'Spartacus' and I kept telling them, 'When you saw "Spartacus" and how it affected it you, that's how I want a modern audience to be affected by what we do now.'"
For the most part, this writer is a fan of Zimmer's work. His sequel soundtracks occasionally leave something to be desired (especially on the Pirates of the Caribbean series) and Zimmer has a tendency to repeat himself, as was partly the case with the central themes in Sherlock Holmes and Rango (again, in this writer's opinion). However, he has also produced some of the most memorable and recognizable blockbuster tunes in recent film history - including the main themes for Gladiator, Dark Knight, and Inception. Not to mention Zimmer's contributions to the great film scores for Rain Man, The Lion King, Prince of Egypt, Black Hawk Down, and numerous others.
That's all to say: there's good reason to believe that Zimmer can devise a fitting theme that'll help to redefine Superman for the 21st century in Man of Steel. He could therefore play a pivotal role in ushering in a new age of DC superhero movies in the process. Of course, feel free to voice your disagreement (or agreement) with that sentiment in the comments section.
Man of Steel will be released in theaters around the U.S. on June 14th, 2013.
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The world's most famous 41-year-old single woman taking on the part of a 40-year-old woman who gets pregnant by artificial insemination: Jennifer Aniston knew she was heading into a media storm when she took the part for "The Switch."
But the star admits she had to put that out of her mind to take the role alongside Jason Bateman.
"I usually try to stay away from making my career choices based on what the tabloids are saying," Aniston said at the film's press day. "I would be really screwed up if I did. That's just silly."
But the persistent stories have followed. During the press conference for the film she was asked repeatedly about possible pregnancies and whether she would undergo her own artificial insemination ("I don't have plans like that, no," she said when asked point blank). Aniston has also been thrust in a national debate with Bill O'Reilly over comments she made about having a child without a man.
This is par for the course for a modern celebrity and something Aniston cannot allow to dominate her choice of movie parts.
"She's a celebrity, but she's an actress first," co-director Josh Gordon tells PopcornBiz. "She related to the material and made the choice first. The celebrity implications have to come second in this."
Will Speck, the movie's other director, tells us that there was no issue convincing Aniston to come on, despite the tabloid-friendly built-in-story the movie's premise offers.
"What she really loved is the idea of the movie," he says. "I never felt it was a challenge to coax her into it."
Aniston did allow herself to take some shots at the tabloids ruling the entertainment industry. She laughed that she now has "13 children" by their count and called them "powerful reading material" in a sarcastic manner.
Her co-star Jason Bateman added they are like good comic books.
"It's all fiction," he said. "Sometimes they come up with interesting crap. Sometimes they come up with boring crap."

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Sebastian Mikael Performs Acoustic Version of 'Last Night' [Video]
If there's one thing to learn from a Sebastian Mikael listening experience it's that the Swedish-born singer is authentic. What you hear on his records is what you'll get when he performs live. Don't expect Auto-Tune-tinged vocals or crooning that doesn't meet its potential. Sebastian shows and proves why he's one of R&B's rising stars during an exclusive acoustic performance of 'Last Night,' the first single off his debut album, 'Speechless.'
The 25-year-old's smooth Lamb and Bigg D-produced ballad details his grown and sexy side — just imagine what happens with his lady when the lights go out. Fans may not have even heard this track if it wasn't for some added urging from his friends.
"I was basically in Miami for months just figuring out the right direction that I wanted to go in," Sebastian tells The Boombox. "'Last Night' was actually not even going to be picked for the single. It was just a good song that I personally liked because it has a throwback feel mixed with something current. I was just feeling the whole vibe and the whole sound of the record. It wasn't until other people started coming in [to the studio] and heard it like, 'This is dope'…"
So how did Wale get involved in the project? "Basically that same day we were like, 'Wale would sound dope on this record.' We sent it over to him and he sent it back that same day — his verses and all that. From there it was a go and we decided to go with that for the first single," the self-taught guitarist recalls.
The song will be featured on Sebastian's debut, 'Speechless,' due June 24. Clearly the title isn't at all literal considering he'll be quite loquacious on the effort.
"The title represents my journey, the whole album does, the whole album is my story and inspired by me moving from Sweden to the states," the '4 U' creator adds. "That whole time was really interesting. I left a long relationship that I was in when I was in Sweden just to pursue my dreams. And just the things that I had to go through to find my way. Just everything, the regular life drama stuff that you go through. 'Speechless' kinda just represents where I'm at today, seeing everything that I dreamt of doing, everything I saw it actually happened. It's my way of saying I'm thankful. Like I'm speechless."
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Recessions are about as appealing as a root canal; but they do force us to think differently. Now that the recession is official, it's an ideal time to explore how virtualization and cloud computing can help "recession-proof" IT by transforming yesterday's costly and rigid computing model to one that puts costs under control and sets applications free.
The National Bureau of Economic Research recently declared that the
1. Virtualize infrastructure to increase capacity utilization.
Traditional server infrastructure tightly couples applications to hardware, wasting computing capacity whenever applications utilize less than 100 percent of system resources. Virtualized infrastructure decouples applications from hardware, freeing excess capacity for use by other applications. A single virtualized server can often support 5X the workload of a non-virtualized server. This allows IT to consolidate server infrastructure, which reduces capital costs associated with server acquisition and datacenter infrastructure, as well as operating costs associated with management, maintenance, and energy consumption.
2. Use external clouds to offset capital infrastructure expense.
While virtualized infrastructure can reduce capital expenses, IT may have the opportunity to eliminate those expenses altogether by using the variable compute model of external clouds like Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). In this model, compute capacity becomes elastic, allowing lines of business to align the cost of application consumption to actual demand. Swapping traditional datacenter for external cloud provides infinitely scalable capacity and the ability to align cost to value received.
3. Virtualize applications to accelerate and simplify deployment.
Packaging and deploying application workloads as virtual images can close the "deployment gap" which adds cost and delay to the deployment of enterprise applications. The virtualized application is separated from its operating infrastructure and a self-contained unit that includes just enough operating system (JeOS), databases, and middleware required to run the software in production. These bits travel with the application package and allow it to run as an image in any virtualized or cloud-based execution environment without any manual setup, tuning, configuration, or certification. Suddenly, applications are set free and deployment cycles are compressed from months to minutes. This equates to cost savings and improved business agility.
4. Construct virtual applications for simplified management, automated maintenance.
The reality is that this new approach to application delivery can create new costs and risks. Taking the friction out of application deployment will lead to an onslaught of volume and demand, resulting in what is often called "VM sprawl." What organizations must recognize is that they may be exchanging one cost and management burden for another, as physical machines become virtual machines. In fact, virtual sprawl is likely to far outstrip any physical sprawl you've witnessed heretofore. As such, organizations need a scalable approach for managing and maintaining application images. Adding headcount isn't an option, so the answer is finding ways to do more with less. In this case, this means architecting application images for management and control, trading manual one-at-a-time updates for seamless changes that are implemented en masse. It also means complete lifecycle control and transparency wherever the application is being run — datacenter or cloud, internal or external.
Recessions are about as appealing as a root canal. But they do force us to think differently — to take an inventory of costs, retool, reinvent. The reality is that this recession is coincident with a fundamental inflection point in IT. The friction and the economics of traditional computing models no longer work. This is why organizations must embrace virtualization and cloud — both to weather the storm of a down economy and to transform yesterday's costly and rigid computing model to one that puts costs under control and sets applications free.
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The objective of the Classic Roulette is to predict which of the 37 numbers on the spinning wheel the ball will land on.
Roulette is somewhat unique amongst modern table games in that it employs a mechanical device as the key element of the game. This is the large and very distinct Roulette wheel, which is mounted horizontally on one end of the table. The hollow of the wheel has numbered pockets ranging from zero to thirty-six.


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It's true that most homes have a WiFi network. They allow everyone access to the Internet, no matter where they are in the house. Streaming stereos and devices that allow you to stream content from the Internet are becoming more and more popular, however this is a great hack to cheaply make your own.
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Normally used as an aide-mémoire for electroacoustic performance, a diffusion score is generally a high level visual representation of a piece, that notates, often in a highly personal fashion those salient aural details necessary for the performer's interpretation. Often hand-drawn and utilising symbols particular to the maker of the score, a common approach is to represent time on a horizontal axis and spectrum in the vertical. Sometimes high level or edited computer-based visualisations are used in diffusion. Diffusion scores are normally not of great assistance to an analyst except as an overall 'map' of a piece's structure.


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By NEIL DOWLING
AUSTRALIAN automotive engineering firm Premcar, previously known as Prodrive Automotive Technology Australia and for its role in developing cars for the Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV) brand, has formed a partnership with global engineering company RLE International.
While development on local vehicles has formed the bulk of Premcars workload in the past, the demise of Australian automotive manufacturing meant the engineering firm had to expand outside its usual scope, a moved helped by the alliance with RLE International.
Premcar engineering director Bernie Quinn said the financial tie-up that saw RLE buy a minority stake in Premcar reflected synergies between the two companies.
RLE is very strong in body design, electrical engineering, program management, roadster competence and lightweight engineering, while we are strong in other areas including powertrain, performance development and chassis development, he said.
Premcar was responsible for the majority of the development work for the FPV F6, GT and the GT F, as well as the special-edition Ford Falcon Sprint six- and eight-cylinder models.
We did the Miami 5.0-litre V8 from top to bottom, including the supercharger, engine internals, exhaust and so on, Mr Quinn said.
The FPV GT was a car that had tremendous engineering work done here and is a milestone for the achievements of Australian engineers.
It was done by us with a lot of unique parts and designs among them, it had a unique engine (the supercharged Miami V8), powertrain control system, suspension, wheels, brakes and bodykit.
Partnering with RLE is a rebound for Premcar founders who watched in 2012 as its main income source of FPV disappeared.
If you had asked me in 2012 what I thought about Premcars future, I would say the business had a hard road ahead of it, Mr Quinn said.
I would have given it, at best, 50:50 chance of surviving. We had a fantastic business. FPV produced some great vehicles and unique engines the Miami V8 particularly and components.
I would look at the turning point the upward part of the graph as 2015 when the currency shift was a trigger to sudden interest in our work.
We started to get more enquiries from around the world and we started to gain momentum.
Now, less than five years later, we can see that the loss of local manufacturing is not affecting us. We are flat out in product development and that is a growing industry in Australia.
The level of growth is crazy.
As GoAuto has reported, Premcar engineers have been involved in a variety of programs including significant chassis work on Geely vehicles such as the GC9 (Bo Rui) flagship large sedan.
Other work for Chinese manufacturers has included tuning the suspension of the controversial Landwind X7, which was roundly criticised for its design mimicry of the Range Rover Evoque.
RLE, which works with car-makers including BMW, Ford, McLaren and Aston Martin, is headquartered in Germany and has offices around the world, including the UK, China, the US, India and Spain.
It didnt have representation in Australia and it recognised that Premcar had some skills and capabilities that were complementary to its existing capabilities, Mr Quinn told GoAuto.
So, they contacted us and after six months, we formed a partnership.
Mr Quinn said it gives RLE a foothold into the Australian auto industry which, according to him, is expanding fast, while also giving Premcar a chance to work on the global stage to assist RLEs customers.
He said that for customers, the partnership means that Premcar can offer a 24-hour work cycle, with projects continuing uninterrupted on both sides of the globe to reduce development times.
The partnership has also branched into labour recruiting and contract supply, according to Mr Quinn.
Australia is expanding its design and engineering responsibilities which gives more opportunities for us, he said.
There is a strong demand for engineers in Australia and some, now work for Ford, GM Holden, Toyota and us.
So, we started a new business of labour leasing called RLE International Australia.
Its a second business division for us that allows companies to source engineers for their projects. For example, we can place engineers inside companies to work under their supervision to deliver engineering programs.
Mr Quinn also praised the local engineering workforce at brands including Holden, Ford and Toyota and that the partnership with RLE would allow for interchangeability on a global level.
Theres a rich source in Australia, he said. Working with RLE means we can also source engineers from RLEs 1800 staff around the world to work in Australia and vice versa, so we can supply engineers to or from any RLE office.
We have started discussions on exporting expertise into the UK to help RLE customers there.
Aside from the automotive sector, Premcar has also recently completed its first job for a customer in the aviation industry.
It is new ground for us, he said. We were approached by the company to apply auto product development disciplines to the aviation market.
The job took 18 months and the client was very happy with our work. We now expect a lot of work in the aviation field over the next five years.
The same processes and principles that we use in automotive, and now in aviation, can also be applied to marine and defence industries. It has led us to pick up some work with a defence supply company.
However, Mr Quinn remains strongly bonded to the performance-car market.
There are very strong chances of us working on more performance cars in the near future, he said.
We have expertise here. Its a part of the (auto) business that has small production volumes and that makes us think lean and agile.
We have become very efficient at making strong business cases and delivering engineering programs for small production volumes, sometimes less than 500 units.
The business case for performance cars is also very strong. These cars are loved by customers and they are prepared to pay a premium for the engineering quality.
Premcar comes from a solid line of automotive engineering companies in Australia, evolving from Tickford Vehicle Engineering that started in Australia in 1996, then to Prodrive Automotive Technology that began operations here in 2001.
Premcar came out of a 2012 management buyout of Prodrive and picked up most of the core staff and executives.
These are exciting times for Premcar and RLE, we are projecting sales growth in the region of 200 per cent over the next three years in Australia, Mr Quinn said.
RLE International managing director Robert Rupa said his company was excited about the collaboration.
For RLE International, we now have a partner in Premcar and RLE International Australia that will complement our global presence, he said.
Its great news for us, our customers, and the industry.


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IPL 2012 Final News, Teams, Players List, Pitch, Prediction, Interviews, Weather, Wallpapers, Concert, Tickets, Bets
Get the latest IPL 2012 Final News updates, Squads, Probable 1st XI, Pitch & Weather Report, Expert Prediction & Interviews, Cheap Tickets, Secret Betting rates & beautiful wallpapers & themes for your computer, laptop, mobile & smartphone.
Defending champions Chennai Super Kings and winner of the Qualifier 1 Kolkata Knight Riders go head to head in the IPL 5 Final at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai on Sunday, May 27.
Live IPL 2012 Final Match: Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders (Chennai v Kolkata)
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Date: Sunday, May 27, 2012
Live IPL 2012 Final Match Start Time around the World:
- 08:00 pm local/India/Sri Lanka
- 02:30 pm GMT/London/UK
- 08:30 pm Bangladesh
- 07:30 pm Pakistan
- 06:30 pm Middle-East/Dubai/UAE
- 04:30 pm South Africa
- 12:30 am midnight (May 28) Australia/New Zealand
- 10:00 am ET/USA/West Indies
Weather Condition Report for IPL 2012 Final – May 27:
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|Partly Cloudy
|From West South West
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Pitch Condition Report for IPL 2012 Final – May 27:
Pitch/wicket looks dry and has a few cracks as well which might open up as the game progresses. The spinners will get lot more purchase from the deck. Ground curator has done a great gardening in MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.
Squad Details – Chennai vs Kolkata – Final Players List for IPL 2012 Final – May 27
Chennai 1st XI (Probable):
M Vijay, MEK Hussey, SK Raina, MS Dhoni*† , DJ Bravo, RA Jadeja, JA Morkel, S Anirudha, R Ashwin, BW Hilfenhaus, VY Mahesh
Kolkata 1st XI (Probable):
BB McCullum†, G Gambhir* , JH Kallis, MK Tiwary, YK Pathan, DB Das, R Shukla, R Bhatia, Shakib Al Hasan, PJ Sangwan, SP Narine
IPL 2012 Final Preview (Chennai v Kolkata)
Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders clash in IPL 2012 Final in Chennai.
Chennai Super Kings' campaign, which had stuttered midway, was revived by making a place in the final by trashing Delhi Daredevils. The manner in which they brushed aside Delhi should cause shivers to Knight Riders, though they took their foot on the final dominating the season. Chennai Super Kings depends on a powerful batting order on the IPL 2012 final Chennai pitch that gave the seamers a lot of assistance.
Players to watch : Chennai v Kolkata – IPL 2012 Final
In a forgettable game with the ball for Knight Riders against Mumbai Indians, Shakib Al Hasanwas the lone wicket-taker and finished with the best economy rate – 6.75 – off his four overs. Shakib returned after nearly a month on the bench and enhanced his reputation by bowling 12 dot balls.
Ben Hilfenhaus was the standout performer for Super Kings against Daredevils with a match-defining 3 for 27, but Albie Morkel's contribution was also significant. He took a wicket but gave away just 15 runs off four overs. Morkel's overall economy rate for Super Kings over five seasons is a pricey 8.22. His returns on Saturday were a refreshing change.
Stats and trivia
- Ravindra Jadeja is Super Kings' leading wicket-taker with ten wickets and has bowled 29 overs. Dwayne Bravo is second with nine but has bowled 13 overs more.
- Sunil Narine has gone wicketless in an innings only twice in his ten games for Knight Riders.
IPL 2012 Final Prediction (Chennai v Kolkata)
IPL 2012 Final Team News (Chennai v Kolkata)
IPL 2012 Final Tickets (Chennai v Kolkata)
IPL 2012 Final Betting (Chennai v Kolkata)
IPL 2012 Final Wallpapers & Themes
IPL 2012 Final News Update
IPL 2012 Final Interviews
IPL 2012 Final Live TV Broadcasting Channels (Chennai v Kolkata)


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Tim Donaghy: Joey Crawford Is Proud of DAL Losses
Tim Donaghy, a former NBA referee and author of Personal Fouls, talked about Danny Crawford and his record officiating the Mavericks and how referees see Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
Donaghy says Crawford's record officiating games with the Mavericks is suspect and that Cuban still makes the Mavericks a target.
"I write about this a lot in the book 'Personal Foul' that Danny was pretty much proud of the fact that what his record was while refereeing Dallas Mavericks playoff games so I don't know that it is a streak that he wants to keep alive or what the story is with that, but I just think that it is almost humanly impossible a referee could have that record with one team during playoff games alone."


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About a year ago I posted: A Small Step For RMF, A Giant Leap For Self-Documenting Systems . A year on I've encountered some customer data that's made me go "huh?", related to this. In the referenced post I mentioned R744FLPN, the Coupling Facility's LPAR Number. For the first time I've seen data where the match - with SMF 70 Logical Partition Number (in Logical Partition Section) -... [More]
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I mentioned APAR OA21140 before - here . It's quite an old APAR and so it will (in all likelihood) be on your systems. I'd like to draw your attention to a subtle 1-byte field in the SMF 74 Subtype 4 (Coupling Facility Activity) record: R744FLPN. It's the partition number for the coupling facility. (If you've seen any one of several of my presentations I'll've talked about this field.) Here's... [More]
Minor Good News On Coupling Facility Performance Reporting
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In recent releases RMF have put the machine serial number into both SMF Type 74 Subtype 4 (Coupling Facility Activity) and SMF Type 70 Subtype 1 (CPU Activity). Actually we get two fields in each case: Plant Number and Sequence Number, which you can put together as eg "51-12345". Soon we'll get another piece of the jigsaw: Partition Number in 74-4. This is a small change but a nice useful one...... [More]
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In the same meeting with RMF Development as ERBSCAN / ERBSHOW was discussed we talked about Parallel Sysplex instrumentation. (Both XCF and Coupling Facility aspects.) One thing I hadn't noticed is the appearance of Subchannel Busy Percentage as a number in the following three places: In Monitor III In the Spreadsheet Reporter As Overview Condition ("SUBCHBP") I think you can do useful work with... [More]
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I'm not sure if anyone's done this before. Certainly I've not seen any results... We're beginning to write up some tests the "A Team" (Alain and Pierre) ran before their return to France. Which provides me with some test data. Fortunately I had a stab at mapping the new fields this data contains. One in particular is Stucture CPU (R744SETM)... So, I got to plotting CPU per request against request... [More]
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I had to eat a little bit of humble pie today - because I made an elementary mistake. I'm going to share it with you - to save you making it, too. :-) And I'm very sure I'm not going to make it in a customer situation. (Residencies are great for making mistakes in a safe environment.) :-) In CFLEVEL 15 and z/OS Release 9 RMF you get a new field at the structure level: R744SETM. This is the CPU... [More]
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The thread title cuts off at "Closing Ceremony cost.." on the front screen and so I thought Id guess what a high amount would be. I guessed $5 mill.
As you state it cost $750 000.
Life is too short to worry about such small figures. $750 000 is chump change in the grand scheme of a Government budget and there needs to be no dramas over such insignificant amounts.
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Closing ceremonies are so pointless IMO. Particularly in events that involve a 'final'
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Agreed with both Jono and Goughy.
-My beliefs summarized in words much more eloquent than I could come up with
How the Universe came from nothing
how much did the opening ceremony costs? they should have put this money there too because the opening ceremony was the best yet. No point of a closing ceremony just give the trophy to the winners and let them celebrate but i guess more people remember what happened last and not 1st so they government wanted to invest so they get more tourists.
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no they are not, the opening ceremony gives the host to show case their culture and get more tourists etc.
The opening and closing ceremonies for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games last year cost about 50 million (aud) combined, so the 750,000 here as Goughy said, really isn't all that much.
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I thought those big white long-limbed puppet things were groovy
i think that if it cant be afforded in that place...its money that could have gone elsewhere! It was a pointless ceremony!
Yeah, the WC was already in the red iirc, so why nor just scrap the closing ceremony and save some money.
I can't even recall the closing cermony, so i didn't miss out on a lot.
Anyway closing cermony should be scrapped away as there would only be 2 teams there to witness the closing cermony, which is basically a waste.
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AINU (Przemyslaw Goc) was born in 1967 in Poland. He started off in the blues scene, but as a sound engineer in the Poznan radio station he got so many musical impulses that he started with the realization of electronic suites and etudes. In 1988 Goc presented his first compositions "Anatomy of sin" which is a good example of his musically fresh contribution to the electronic music scene in Poland.
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AINU has created 8 art videoclips. The videoclip "Tisbia'" was nominated on "Yach Film Festival" Gdynia 2002 in the "New energy" category.
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Sophomores Amanda Deller (Aberdeen, Md./Aberdeen) and Trae Proctor (Brandywine, Md./Thomas Stone) won gold in the women's shot put and men's 110-meter hurdles, respectively. Deller's throw hit a mark of 14.38m (47'2.25"), while Proctor finished in a time of 14.46.
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In addition to gold in the shot put, Deller took home silver in the discus throw with a mark of 41.63m (136'7"). In the men's throws, junior Aaron Brooks (Upper Marlboro, Md./DeMatha) earned bronze in both the discus throw and the shot put with marks of 48.59m (159'5") and 15.38m (50'5.5"), respectively.
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Senior Britney Foreman (Pasadena, Md./Chesapeake) took home bronze in the women's 100-meter dash in 12.18, while junior Imani Colbert (Upper Marlboro, Md./C.H. Flowers) also earned bronze in the 100-meter hurdles in an ECAC-qualifying time of 14.22.
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A thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT LCD) is a variant of a liquid-crystal display (LCD) that uses thin-film-transistor (TFT) technology to improve image qualities such as addressability and contrast. A TFT LCD is an active matrix LCD, in contrast to passive matrix LCDs or simple, direct-driven LCDs with a few segments.
TFT LCDs are used in appliances including television sets, computer monitors, mobile phones, handheld devices, video game systems, personal digital assistants, navigation systems, projectors,[1] and car instrument clusters.[1]
- 1 History
- 2 Construction
- 3 Types
- 4 Display industry
- 5 Electrical interface
- 6 Safety
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- 8 References
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The liquid crystal displays used in calculators and other devices with similarly simple displays have direct-driven image elements, and therefore a voltage can be easily applied across just one segment of these types of displays without interfering with the other segments; this would be impractical for a large display, because it would have a large number of (color) picture elements (pixels), and thus it would require millions of connections, both top and bottom for each one of the three colors (red, green and blue) of every pixel. To avoid this issue, the pixels are addressed in rows and columns, reducing the connection count from millions down to thousands; the column and row wires attach to transistor switches, one for each pixel. The one-way current passing characteristic of the transistor prevents the charge that is being applied to each pixel from being drained between refreshes to a display's image; each pixel is a small capacitor with a layer of insulating liquid crystal sandwiched between transparent conductive ITO layers.
The circuit layout process of a TFT-LCD is very similar to that of semiconductor products. However, rather than fabricating the transistors from silicon, that is formed into a crystalline silicon wafer, they are made from a thin film of amorphous silicon that is deposited on a glass panel; the silicon layer for TFT-LCDs is typically deposited using the PECVD process.[2] Transistors take up only a small fraction of the area of each pixel and the rest of the silicon film is etched away to allow light to easily pass through it.
Polycrystalline silicon is sometimes used in displays requiring higher TFT performance. Examples include small high-resolution displays such as those found in projectors or viewfinders. Amorphous silicon-based TFTs are by far the most common, due to their lower production cost, whereas polycrystalline silicon TFTs are more costly and much more difficult to produce.[3]
Twisted nematic (TN)[edit]
The relatively inexpensive twisted nematic display is the most common consumer display type.[citation needed] The pixel response time on modern TN panels is sufficiently fast to avoid the shadow-trail and ghosting artifacts of earlier production.[citation needed] The more recent use of RTC (Response Time Compensation / Overdrive) technologies has allowed manufacturers to significantly reduce grey-to-grey (G2G) transitions, without significantly increasing the ISO response time.[citation needed] Response times are now quoted in G2G figures, with 4ms and 2ms now being commonplace for TN-based models.[citation needed]
TN displays suffer from limited viewing angles, especially in the vertical direction. Colors will shift when viewed off-perpendicular. In the vertical direction, colors will shift so much that they will invert past a certain angle.
Also, most TN panels represent colors using only six bits per RGB color, or 18 bit in total, and are unable to display the 16.7 million color shades (24-bit truecolor) that are available from graphics cards. Instead, these panels display interpolated 24-bit color using a dithering method that combines adjacent pixels to simulate the desired shade, they can also use a form of temporal dithering called Frame Rate Control (FRC), which cycles between different shades with each new frame to simulate an intermediate shade. Such 18 bit panels with dithering are sometimes advertised as having "16.2 million colors". These color simulation methods are noticeable to many people and highly bothersome to some.[4] FRC tends to be most noticeable in darker tones, while dithering appears to make the individual pixels of the LCD visible. Overall, color reproduction and linearity on TN panels is poor. Shortcomings in display color gamut (often referred to as a percentage of the NTSC 1953 color gamut) are also due to backlighting technology, it is not uncommon for displays with simple LED or CCFL-based lighting to range from 10% to 26% of the NTSC color gamut, whereas other kind of displays, utilizing more complicated CCFL or LED phosphor formulations or RGB LED backlights, may extend past 100% of the NTSC color gamut, a difference quite perceivable by the human eye.
The transmittance of a pixel of an LCD panel typically does not change linearly with the applied voltage,[5] and the sRGB standard for computer monitors requires a specific nonlinear dependence of the amount of emitted light as a function of the RGB value.
In-plane switching (IPS)[edit]
In-plane switching was developed by Hitachi Ltd. in 1996 to improve on the poor viewing angle and the poor color reproduction of TN panels at that time.[6][7] Its name comes from the main difference from TN panels, that the crystal molecules move parallel to the panel plane instead of perpendicular to it; this change reduces the amount of light scattering in the matrix, which gives IPS its characteristic wide viewing angles and good color reproduction.[8]
Initial iterations of IPS technology were characterised by slow response time and a low contrast ratio but later revisions have made marked improvements to these shortcomings; because of its wide viewing angle and accurate color reproduction (with almost no off-angle color shift), IPS is widely employed in high-end monitors aimed at professional graphic artists, although with the recent fall in price it has been seen in the mainstream market as well. IPS technology was sold to Panasonic by Hitachi.
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|Super TFT
|Wide viewing angle
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|Most panels also support true 8-bit per channel color. These improvements came at the cost of a higher response time, initially about 50 ms. IPS panels were also extremely expensive.
|Color shift free
|IPS has since been superseded by S-IPS (Super-IPS, Hitachi Ltd. in 1998), which has all the benefits of IPS technology with the addition of improved pixel refresh timing.[quantify]
|Advanced Super-IPS
|High transmittance
|AS-IPS, also developed by Hitachi Ltd. in 2002, improves substantially[quantify] on the contrast ratio of traditional S-IPS panels to the point where they are second only to some S-PVAs.[citation needed]
|High contrast ratio
|The latest panel from IPS Alpha Technology with a wider color gamut[quantify] and contrast ratio[quantify] matching PVA and ASV displays without off-angle glowing.[citation needed]
|IPS alpha
|High contrast ratio
|Next generation of IPS-Pro
|IPS alpha next gen
|High contrast ratio
|Horizontal IPS
|Improves[quantify] contrast ratio by twisting electrode plane layout. Also introduces an optional Advanced True White polarizing film from NEC, to make white look more natural[quantify]. This is used in professional/photography LCDs.[citation needed]
|Enhanced IPS
|Wider[quantify] aperture for light transmission, enabling the use of lower-power, cheaper backlights. Improves[quantify] diagonal viewing angle and further reduce response time to 5ms.[citation needed]
|Professional IPS
|Offer 1.07 billion colors (10-bit color depth).[citation needed] More possible orientations per sub-pixel (1024 as opposed to 256) and produces a better[quantify] true color depth.
|Advanced High Performance IPS
|Improved color accuracy, increased resolution and PPI, and greater light transmission for lower power consumption.[11]
Advanced fringe field switching (AFFS)[edit]
This is an LCD technology derived from the IPS by Boe-Hydis of Korea. Known as fringe field switching (FFS) until 2003,[12] advanced fringe field switching is a technology similar to IPS or S-IPS offering superior performance and color gamut with high luminosity. Color shift and deviation caused by light leakage is corrected by optimizing the white gamut, which also enhances white/grey reproduction. AFFS is developed by Hydis Technologies Co., Ltd, Korea (formally Hyundai Electronics, LCD Task Force).[13]
In 2004, Hydis Technologies Co., Ltd licensed its AFFS patent to Japan's Hitachi Displays. Hitachi is using AFFS to manufacture high end panels in their product line. In 2006, Hydis also licensed its AFFS to Sanyo Epson Imaging Devices Corporation.
Hydis introduced AFFS+ which improved outdoor readability in 2007.[citation needed]
Multi-domain vertical alignment (MVA)[edit]
It achieved pixel response which was fast for its time, wide viewing angles, and high contrast at the cost of brightness and color reproduction.[citation needed] Modern MVA panels can offer wide viewing angles (second only to S-IPS technology), good black depth, good color reproduction and depth, and fast response times due to the use of RTC (Response Time Compensation) technologies.[citation needed] When MVA panels are viewed off-perpendicular, colors will shift, but much less than for TN panels.[citation needed]
There are several "next-generation" technologies based on MVA, including AU Optronics' P-MVA and AMVA, as well as Chi Mei Optoelectronics' S-MVA.
Patterned vertical alignment (PVA)[edit]
Less expensive PVA panels often use dithering and FRC, whereas super-PVA (S-PVA) panels all use at least 8 bits per color component and do not use color simulation methods.[citation needed]S-PVA also largely eliminated off-angle glowing of solid blacks and reduced the off-angle gamma shift; some high-end Sony BRAVIA LCD TVs offer 10-bit and xvYCC color support, for example, the Bravia X4500 series. S-PVA also offers fast response times using modern RTC technologies.[citation needed]
Advanced super view (ASV)[edit]
Advanced super view, also called axially symmetric vertical alignment was developed by Sharp,[14] it is a VA mode where liquid crystal molecules orient perpendicular to the substrates in the off state. The bottom sub-pixel has continuously covered electrodes, while the upper one has a smaller area electrode in the center of the subpixel.
When the field is on, the liquid crystal molecules start to tilt towards the center of the sub-pixels because of the electric field; as a result, a continuous pinwheel alignment (CPA) is formed; the azimuthal angle rotates 360 degrees continuously resulting in an excellent viewing angle; the ASV mode is also called CPA mode.[15]
Plane line switching (PLS)[edit]
A technology developed by Samsung is Super PLS, which bears similarities to IPS panels and touts improved viewing angles and image quality, increased brightness and lower production costs. PLS technology debuted in the PC display market with the release of the Samsung S27A850 and S24A850 monitors in September 2011.[16]
TFT dual-transistor pixel (DTP) or cell technology[edit]
TFT dual-transistor pixel or cell technology is a reflective-display technology for use in very-low-power-consumption applications such as electronic shelf labels (ESL), digital watches, or metering. DTP involves adding a secondary transistor gate in the single TFT cell to maintain the display of a pixel during a period of 1s without loss of image or without degrading the TFT transistors over time. By slowing the refresh rate of the standard frequency from 60 Hz to 1 Hz, DTP claims to increase the power efficiency by multiple orders of magnitude.
Display industry[edit]
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Due to the very high cost of building TFT factories, there are few major OEM panel vendors for large display panels; the glass panel suppliers are as follows:
|LCD glass panel suppliers
|Panel type
|major TV makers
|Solely for LCD TV markets and known as IPS Alpha Technology Ltd.[17]
|Panasonic, Hitachi, Toshiba
|LG Display
|They also produce other type of TFT panels such as TN for OEM markets such as mobile, monitor, automotive, portable AV and industrial panels.
|LG, Philips, BenQ
|Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
|AU Optronics
|Chi Mei Optoelectronics
|S-LCD (Samsung/Sony joint venture)
|Samsung, Sony
|For small and medium size special projects.
|Sharp Corporation
|LCD TV and mobile markets
|Sharp, Sony
|Sharp Corporation
|Solely for LED LCD TV markets
|HVA and AMOLED
Electrical interface[edit]
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External consumer display devices like a TFT LCD feature one or more analog VGA, DVI, HDMI, or DisplayPort interface, with many featuring a selection of these interfaces. Inside external display devices there is a controller board that will convert the video signal using color mapping and image scaling usually employing the discrete cosine transform (DCT) in order to convert any video source like CVBS, VGA, DVI, HDMI, etc. into digital RGB at the native resolution of the display panel. In a laptop the graphics chip will directly produce a signal suitable for connection to the built-in TFT display. A control mechanism for the backlight is usually included on the same controller board.
The low level interface of STN, DSTN, or TFT display panels use either single ended TTL 5 V signal for older displays or TTL 3.3 V for slightly newer displays that transmits the pixel clock, horizontal sync, vertical sync, digital red, digital green, digital blue in parallel. Some models (for example the AT070TN92) also feature input/display enable, horizontal scan direction and vertical scan direction signals.
New and large (>15") TFT displays often use LVDS signaling that transmits the same contents as the parallel interface (Hsync, Vsync, RGB) but will put control and RGB bits into a number of serial transmission lines synchronized to a clock whose rate is equal to the pixel rate. LVDS transmits seven bits per clock per data line, with six bits being data and one bit used to signal if the other six bits need to be inverted in order to maintain DC balance. Low quality TFT displays often have three data lines and therefore only directly support 18 bits per pixel, while better ones have a fourth data line so they can support 24 bits per pixel, which delivers truecolor. Ultra high end models can support even more colors by adding more lanes, that's how 30-bit color can be supported by five data lanes. Panel manufacturers are slowly replacing LVDS with Internal DisplayPort and Embedded DisplayPort, which allow sixfold reduction of the number of differential pairs.[citation needed]
Backlight intensity is usually controlled by varying a few volts DC, or generating a PWM signal, or adjusting a potentiometer or simply fixed; this in turn controls a high-voltage (1.3 kV) DC-AC inverter or a matrix of LEDs. The method to control the intensity of LED is to pulse them with PWM which can be source of harmonic flicker.[citation needed]
The bare display panel will only accept a digital video signal at the resolution determined by the panel pixel matrix designed at manufacture; some screen panels will ignore the LSB bits of the color information to present a consistent interface (8 bit -> 6 bit/color x3).[citation needed]
With analogue signals like VGA, the display controller also needs to perform a high speed analog to digital conversion. With digital input signals like DVI or HDMI some simple reordering of the bits is needed before feeding it to the rescaler if the input resolution doesn't match the display panel resolution.
Liquid crystals are constantly subjected to toxicity and eco-toxicity testing for any hazard potential; the result is that:
- wastewater from manufacturing is acutely toxic to aquatic life,[19]
- but may have an irritant, corrosive or sensitizing effect in rare cases. Any effects can be avoided by using a limited concentration in mixtures,
- are not mutagenic – neither in bacteria (Ames test) nor in mammalian cells (mouse lymphoma assay or chromosome aberration test),
- are not suspected of being carcinogenic,[20]
- are hazardous to aquatic organisms (bacteria, algae, daphnia, fish),[19]
- do not possess any significant bioaccumulation potential,
- are not easily biodegradable.[20]
The statements are applicable to Merck KGaA as well as its competitors JNC Corporation (formerly Chisso Corporation) and DIC (formerly Dainippon Ink & Chemicals). All three manufacturers have agreed not to introduce any acutely toxic or mutagenic liquid crystals to the market, they cover more than 90 percent of the global liquid crystal market. The remaining market share of liquid crystals, produced primarily in China, consists of older, patent-free substances from the three leading world producers and have already been tested for toxicity by them; as a result, they can also be considered non-toxic.
The complete report is available from Merck KGaA online.[20]
The CCFL backlights used in many LCD monitors contain mercury, which is toxic.
See also[edit]
- Burst dimming
- Computer monitor
- Display examples
- LED display
- Liquid crystal
- Liquid crystal display television
- Transflective liquid crystal display, for adaptation to environment brightness
- ^ "LCD Panel Technology Explained". Pchardwarehelp.com. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
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Stress is difficult to define. It may come from one or many sources. It may be brief, or last a long time. It may be one thing, or a combination of many things. Work, family life, money, and even weather can make you feel anxious, tired, or even depressed.
Stress can cause physical changes as well. You may notice a change in sleep patterns or your appetite. It can cause stomach distress and headaches. Over time, it can even contribute to serious health issues like high blood pressure and heart disease.
Physical activity is one of the best ways to relieve stress. It is a fast way to set you on the right track to better overall health.
How Physical Fitness Helps You
Exercise is an opportunity to give your mind a break and help your body relax. Using physical activity to combat stress has been shown to:
- Boost your mood
- Boost your self-confidence
- Relieve anxiety and feelings of depression
- Improve alertness
- Give you a better night's sleep—which will also make you feel even better
The best thing about physical activity is that you can start at any age, in any condition, and see positive results.
How to Get Started
It's always a good idea to talk with your doctor before starting any exercise program. Getting good advice from the start is the place to start. Once that is done, the best thing is to find something you like doing. Start slowly and build up. You want to create a lifelong habit, not dropout after the first few weeks because of injuries or misery.
Remember, the trick is to reduce stress, not create more, so take your time and have fun! Here are some tips to start the process:
- Do something fun (alone or with a buddy).
- Listen to music that gets you pumped up and makes you feel good.
- Don't give up if you miss a few days. Accept it, move on, and get back out there. It will eventually become a habit.
Remember that exercise does not have to be structured. Any physical activity like dancing to music, a stroll at lunch, or playing with your kids can make you feel better. Moderate exercise for as little as 5 minutes can improve your mood.
Sticking With It
Now you're moving. How can you keep the momentum going? Daily life gets in the way of exercise. Time is always hard to come by, so find opportunities where you can. Here are some tips for sneaking in some extra exercise time:
- Keep walking or running shoes in the car or office. You may find time in the middle of the day to take a quick walk or run.
- Use the stairs. If you can avoid the elevator, do so. The extra steps always help and you will get better at them.
- Park farther away. When you have to park your car, do it farther from your destination and try to walk the distance.
- Involve your family or friends. Start a challenge and see what happens. If you exercise together, conversation is easier.
- Walk away from stressful situations. At work or at home, stand up on a regular basis and walk around. It clears your mind and may help you solve that pesky problem.
Physical activity is often thought of as something you'll get to when you have time. Instead, think of it as something you want to do and is an important part of your day. When you find activities you enjoy, you will soon find that physical activity is a regular treat in your hectic day.
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Given half a chance, New York interior designer Jennifer Flanders will veer toward the dramatic in her design. She seems to find rich, attention-grabbing colors and patterns irresistible. Yet, like any fist-rate designer, she knows that design is about her client, not her own personal preferences. That is why the tips that follow also include advice about neutral colors as well as words like "comfort" and "relaxation."
A couple years ago Flanders founded the New York chapter of Designs for Dignity, an organization that uses pro bono designer services along with materials and finishes donated by manufacturers, vendors, clients and showrooms to create beautiful, healing spaces for nonprofits and residences that serve people in need.
Whether you are looking for ways to add drama to your decorating or ideas for an extra measure of comfort, you'll find a dozen great tips here from Jennifer Flanders.
Decorate the Ceiling
In decorating your home, the ceiling is often a forgotten surface, resigned to white paint. While that's appropriate in many instances, the ceiling can present an opportunity to add an unexpected element to the room's design. Why not draw the eye up with a bright color applied in a high-gloss finish or even with a patterned wallpaper? Your particular choice of color or pattern will either make your ceiling feel taller or add warmth and coziness to an otherwise cavernous space.
Call Out Your Woodwork
Treat your woodwork as an extra opportunity for color and interest. There is no rule that states moldings and cabinets have to be white or even a pale color. You can create a great deal of interest if you paint your trim in a deep color that contrasts sharply with your walls. In this dining room, the orange cabinets and trim help the room feel warm and rich—white woodwork would've felt sterile and looked typical.
Disguise an Absence of Architecture
A large-scale print on the wall can make a nondescript space into one that pops. This foyer has a low ceiling and very little architectural detailing, but you forget all of that when you enter the apartment because your eye is immediately captivated by the dramatic walls. The deep aubergine ground color and the over-scaled gold pattern deliver a major "wow"—exactly what you want from the entry space of your home.
Design a Dining Room That Works
A dining room can be used for so much more than dining. With a little ingenuity and an interesting floor plan, a room that is usually reserved for holidays and formal occasions can be turned into a space that is called to duty on a daily basis. In this Park Avenue apartment, we placed the clients' prize game table in front of the window. It draws people into the room for more than just meals, and in a pinch it can double as extra seating for large dinner parties.
Continue Your Color Flow
When rooms open onto each other, you can create a seamless flow from one room to the next by being consistent with the use of at least one main color. This living room and foyer transition easily into each through the tones on the walls. The Venetian-plastered foyer walls are essentially a much more saturated shade of the textured walls in the living room.
Embrace a Room's Darkness
When dealing with a room lacking in natural light, create a warm and cozy space with a deep, saturated wall color instead of trying to make the room as light as possible with pale-colored walls. Then bring some brightness into the room with a pale rug and light-colored upholstery pieces.
Books Speak Volumes in Design
Not only do they look great as accessories, books reveal the personalities and tastes of their owners. In this age of the Kindle and Ipad, hardcover books are becoming far too rare in our homes. To counter this, I always begin the accessorizing stage by asking my clients to buy an obscene number of books if they don't already own them. Beautiful books add color, warmth and interest to any tabletop or shelf, and the titles say so much about the people who live among them.
Pump up a Neutral Palette
A neutral palette doesn't have to be boring or quiet. Showcase a variety of patterns and textures, as we've done in this Hamptons living room without straying from its neutral brown and ivory palette. The variety of textiles coupled with sculptural furniture shapes make for a room with a huge interest and little color.
Ensure Sitting in the Bedroom
Every bedroom needs at least one strategically placed chair. Even if your bedroom is small, it is worthwhile to integrate a chair into your floor plan. A chair connotes comfort and relaxation—perfect for any bedroom. When possible, avoid having that chair become a repository for discarded clothing!
Add Impact to Collectibles
Proudly display your collections in a thoughtful, organized manner. What we collect says who we are, so ensure that your collections reach their full potential to personalize your home by presenting them in the most eye-catching arrangements. Group all items from a collection on a single tabletop or series of shelves within a room for the most impact instead of scattering them hither and yon.
Weave Together Indoors and Outdoors
Pay attention to the dichotomy between the indoors and the outdoors when decorating your interior. In this living room, the carefully placed Chinese screen plays dramatically off the magnificent NYC skyline—they intensify each other and make each other even more breathtaking. No matter where you live, take the view outdoors into account in placing your furniture, art, and accessories in a room and choosing its palette.
Good Decorating Has a Sense of Humor
Have fun with your decorating and maintain a sense of humor. Look for opportunities for displaying sly wit, a quirky character or amusing whimsy. In this guest bedroom suite, we installed a "watchful" painting above the well-stocked bar cart—yes, those are eyes on that painting.
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Probably the first thing to put out there is to say that most of the complaints, worries, and fears about firearms are horsepucky. (Turned off yet?) Mother Jones attempts to put together the most common discussion point together in this article. At the root of the article is the discussion of whether or not more guns have made America more safe (attempting to debunk the claim "if more people had guns, fewer tragedies would have occurred!"). Pro-regulationists generally pull assorted statistics from a variety of sources to offer the image that there are more guns in America, and more gun deaths, and so on. As best as we call, though, the numbers don't support these claims. (The article has some of its own internal inconsistencies, but my goal is to discuss gun rights and whether or not they ought to change, rather than just pick apart a poorly-researched and written article.)
To start with, as a whole, homicide has been on the downward turn for a number of years. Just tracking 2007 through 2011, homicides went down 15%. Homicide by firearms, using the same table, also display roughly the same downward trend. More interestingly, homicide by rifles (a group which, ostensibly, includes a majority of "assault weapons") went down 28%. So, we should put to rest the myth-perception that "gun deaths are on the rise!".
Another argument offered by the Mother Jones article is that gun ownership is on the rise, which has led to more killings. Having dispensed with the "more killings" bit, we can at least look at the other half of the claim - are more Americans armed?
No, apparently. There have been more gun sales, so that implies that while fewer households own guns, those that do tend to own many of them.
So, to be clear, your odds of encountering someone who actually owns a firearm (of any sort) is lower now than it has been in three decades. If you do encounter someone who has one in their household, though, likely they own two or more. As someone who has fired guns for target practice off and on through the years, I can certainly see a reason that has nothing to do with fear or gun "lust" - different firearms present their own sets of challenges. A handgun is distinct from a rifle is distinct from a shotgun, and so on. And I suspect, much as with my disc golf collection, each model has its own nuances, joys and obstacles. It is outside my experience that people who own multiple firearms do so because they feel a "need" for multiple guns in their underground Bunker o' Doom®.
By the same token, I think it's necessary to cut through some of the bullshit on the side of gun owners as well. For starters, anyone whose reason for buying a firearm doesn't include the phrase "killing" is likely either lying to themselves or wasting their money. I'll grant that there may exist some subset of people who own guns strictly for target shooting and have no intent to kill either man or beast, but I would further have to extend that such people are so far and few between as to be inconsequential to the discussion. Whether you intend to buy a firearm to go hunting, for self-defense, or in case you need to repel invaders foreign or domestic from your soil, the sole intended purpose of a firearm is to kill. If you train in using a firearm for self-defense, you learn to aim for the center of mass. They're not going to teach you to "try and wing 'em a little" (and your odds of succeeding are less than the end of my Doogie Howser). You can't just wear it on your hip like an expensive piece of jewelry. A threat is only as good as the will to see it through, and that is no different if you're a military superpower or a little old lady on her porch in a rocking chair.
There's been a big flux of "if blacks had had the right to own firearms, slavery would have ended sooner". This is a stupid argument. Go sit in a corner and think about what you just said. While we wait, let's also dispense with the "if Jews had had guns, Hitler wouldn't have curbstomped them!". As Jon Stewart eloquently put it: ""I wish armed Jews in the ghetto could've stopped Hitler, but my feeling is: France couldn't, and I'm pretty sure they had guns. Russia has kind of a lot of guns, and then couldn't stop Hitler until you factored in the wind chill. It's an awful lot to put on an oppressed minority when it took the free world 5 to 6 years of all out total war to stop that motherfucker." If I can take a moment to harness my inner Stephen Colbert: "Exactly! The French couldn't have beaten the Nazis, so they shouldn't have had guns to begin with!".
So, lo and behold, terrible arguments exist all around. Yay for diversity?
The suggestions for bans on weapons have generally been poorly thought out and based on a gross misunderstanding (perhaps itself based on a gross misrepresentation) of just what has been involved in the killing. The first thing people want to ban are "assault weapons". Their arguments are generally two-fold: 1 - who really needs to fire that many rounds of ammunition anyways? and 2 - they're responsible for so much killing.
Our handy-dandy chart from above, however, tells a different story from point 2. Rifles (as a whole) amount to fewer than 1/20th of all firearm-homicides. While we can infer that "assault rifles" will be some group smaller than "rifles", it's helpful to note that hands and feet consistently rate about twice as many deaths per year as rifles. The usual rejoinder is "yeah, but that didn't happen all at the same time". This is where I feel like people stop seeing the larger picture. We're okay with twice as many people getting choked, kicked and beaten to death because we think "well, they probably really had it coming", and we assume that the number of people killed by rifles is tragic because surely they couldn't have all done something to piss someone off. But back to point 1 - who really needs to fire that many rounds?: people who miss. Or people who have a lot of killing to do. That's kind of what technology does - it gives people who aren't good at stuff more chances. When it's used to kill people we think need killing, we think it's grand. When it's used against people we don't think need killing, it's a tragedy. We don't really try and narrow in on the technology being used to do it. (Side note: the serious concerns for debate regarding the use of unmanned drones is focused on who gets killed, rather than that we're killing people at all.)
And I think that's what is at the root of the issue for me. As a society, we don't really have a problem with killing, so long as "the right people" are getting killed. We don't really have much issue with how many bad guys die, or how we go about killing them, as long as we feel that we are in the moral right to do so. It's the contention that death is morally justified that things start to get gray; we have to start parsing out who is in the moral right for each situation. "I was afraid for my life" is usually considered sufficient grounds for killing, even if no actual threat to life was manifest. As a people, we generally agree that there are times when killing is either morally-justifiable or in some sense a duty to your fellow man. We agree that defense by killing another is a fundamental right - we just don't want the wrong people killed in the process.
My feeling is that the discussion of reducing ammunition clips, or what types of guns people have, or who gets to have "The Guns" and who doesn't, misses the larger picture. People generally don't wander around shooting one another for no reason. The causes of violence are, if imperfectly, broadly understood. In simplest terms, it's bred out of competition for scarce resources, be they material like wealth, shelter, or food, or immaterial like love, pleasure, or safety. Sure, there are outliers to even that group - people we might term "crazies", but the overall culmination is that we generally feel it's easier, and therefore more desirable, to change how we let one another kill each other than it is to try and solve things like scarcity, insecurity, and mental stability. There's something to be said about the fact that the incidence of violence and even homicide is lower than it has been in thirty years, yet the fear of violence and homicide is greater than ever. We want to solve a problem that is actually going away on its own, because the reasons for it happening are less and less prevalent. We're focused on the wrong things, and spending time, energy and resources on flashy actions of grandeur that would, as far as I can tell, be better spent on actually solving problems.
I'm not claiming to have all the answers. I'm not really even claiming to have the right answers. But the ones being bandied about don't seem to want to look at what is actually happening in our world. Removing guns from an evidently less and less violent society seems an awful lot like painting a rusty bike. To paraphrase Randall Ballmer, I'm not interested in making weapons illegal. I'm interested in making them unthinkable, because the need for them ceases to exist.
Zombies are at an all time low level but the fear of zombies could be incredibly high. That doesn't mean we need to have government policies to deal with the fear of zombies. - Dara O'Briain


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Line up each version of Wipeout against a wall and, in all honesty, the only major difference is the platform it's appearing on. So what differentiates WipeOut 2048 on the PlayStation Vita?
It's not the system's guts, since they give us a game that looks disturbingly similar to the PS3 edition of the series. It's — what else — the thumbsticks.
As I've said before, for all the touch screens and 3D and online capabilities of this generation's handhelds, the battleground between Nintendo and Sony is being decided with thumbsticks.
For many games, it's the fact the Vita has two and the 3DS has one (well, two now). But in WipeOut's case, it's the design of the sticks themselves that's really helping the game.
Unlike the DualShock, with its large movement range and soft touch, the Vita's thumbsticks are small and stiff.
There are some games this may be a disadvantage with, but WipeOut shines with it, as the series' tough, slippery controls felt tighter and more responsive (without going too far and losing WipeOut's trademark "feel").
I played a few tracks at Sony's TGS event last night on Tokyo Bay, and aside from being visually stunning (on the Vita's big screen easily a match for the PS3 version's graphics) it was the most fun I've had controlling a WipeOut game in years.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After breaking his own school record for the second consecutive weekend, UMBC senior Trae Proctor (Brandywine, Md./Thomas Stone) has repeated as the America East Track Performer of the Week, the conference office announced on Tuesday afternoon.
In addition, the Retriever men's team kept its spot in the latest United States Track & Field and Cross Country Association (USTFCCCA) Mid-Atlantic Regional Poll, coming in at No. 9 in the second poll of the outdoor season.
Running at the Mason Spring Invitational on Saturday, Proctor breezed by the competition en route to winning the 110m hurdles. The senior qualified second in the prelims with a time of 14.23, but then he smashed his previous school record of 14.05 set last week at the Pepsi Florida Relays by winning the race with a time of 13.88.
Proctor, a two-time America East gold medalist in the event, not only leads the conference with his time, but ranks tied for 17th in the nation with Durell Busby from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The Retriever senior is .47 off of the lead pace of 13.41 set by Vanier Joseph from the University of Illinois.
Proctor and the Retriever track and field team return to action with the two-day Morgan State Legacy Meet beginning on Friday afternoon.


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The Rise Of Company Builders
Entrepreneur-turned-investor is a classic story arc in Silicon Valley but recently the plot has earned a twist. Certain operators are foregoing the traditional path of joining a traditional VC to instead create a studio-like holding operation. By doing so, they remain engaged with the grit and grassroots challenges of building a startup. They remain company builders.
Tags: Challenges, Company Builders, Entrepreneur, Investor, Silicon Valley, Startup Company, Story Arc, Traditional Path, Vc


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We are committed to selling quality branded products at best prices possible. Our main objective is to provide enjoyable, tension free and safe shopping experience.
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Revised: 12/18/06; 09/17/09; 06/10/13
Reference: 89 Ill. Adm. Code, Chapter IV, §50.130
The Department will recover overpayments from providers or parents and other relatives, as appropriate, through demand letters, referrals to the Comptroller's Office for withholding, referrals to collection agencies, reductions in future payments or public assistance benefits, or other means determined by the Department to be effective.
These procedures apply to all Site Contracted providers and CCR&Rs.
An overpayment includes, but is not limited to, a payment made that should not have been made, a payment for an ineligible recipient, any payment for an ineligible service, any duplicate payment, a payment for services not received, a payment for excess services, and any payment that does not account for applicable discounts.


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There's a lot of discussion at the moment about the future of opera, whether it's trending to a diminished state, with major companies economizing and falling back on a limited repertory of war horses, or thriving in new formats, new venues and new companies, in a post-Grand Opera sort of way. I'm in Santa Fe right now for the opera season, which is spectacular in the way I remember opera could be spectacular when I first fell in love with the art form: great repertoire, great singing, smart direction and passionate audiences. But I do fear we are entering an age in which the serious opera lover finds less and less to delight him, unless he goes to places such as Santa Fe or a handful of other companies where commitment to serious opera is pursued without embarrassment. I tackled some of these issues in a piece for Opera News, which the magazine has kindly posted online. Here's a nugget of my futurist musings:
Indeed, one can imagine both futures simultaneously, a two-tiered opera world in which the vast majority of the population knows the form only in its digital simulacrum, while an eccentric elite of antiquarians persists in the old ways.
Photo credit: Robert Reck (Courtesy Santa Fe Opera)


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Bonus Army on the Capitol lawn in 1932.
Bonus Army on the Capitol lawn in 1932.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
Responding to the Great Depression, 1932
The Great Depression devastated families and shattered lives. By 1933, one in four American workers was unemployed. People were desperate. Representative Wright Patman of Texas, a World War I veteran, introduced a bill for early payment of a $1,000 veterans' bonus, originally scheduled to be awarded in 1945.
Veterans rallied behind the idea. More than 20,000 of them marched on Washington to show their support. The House passed Patman's bill. The Senate did not. Standing on the Capitol plaza, Patman personally announced the results to the veterans. Most left Washington—but not all. A few weeks later, the U.S. Army forcibly removed the remaining "Bonus Marchers." Press photos and news-reels of their eviction turned many against the Hoover administration, which had ordered the action.
"He had just as well try to sweep back the waves of the ocean with a broom."
—Representative Wright Patman of Texas on President Hoover's dilemma with the Bonus Marchers, 1932