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Every year Dan's mom hosts a Grandma Camp for grand kids going into Kindergarten through grand kids going into 7th grade. They enjoy VBS in the morning and various activities at her house in the afternoon. They love time with grandparents as well as time with cousins (who are also their friends). At the end of the week we enjoy watching their VBS program and anxiously await giving them hugs after they are done!!
Friday, June 27, 2014
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Music Camp
After a week away at music camp Dan and I drove up to the International Peace Gardens to pick up Josiah and another friend from school. While we were there we enjoyed listening to their concert (it was very impressive!!) and then we toured the Peace Gardens. Though the 5 hours there and 5 hours back in one day was not the most fun, it was great to see Josiah, listen to their concert and enjoy hearing about the fun they had at camp!
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Long wait for justice
TINSUKIA: After a long wait of 24 years, the Summary General Court Martial (SGCM) of the infamous Dangori Army encounter in which five youths were tortured and brutally killed, concluded on July 27. The SGCM had begun at Laipuli Army camp on July 16 under HQ 2 Mountain Division after CBI vide FIR no. RC-4/S/2000-CAL charge-sheeted the guilty Army personnel and survivors and witnesses disposed their statements. The All Assam Students' Union (AASU) expressed strong indignation over the delay in delivery of justice and demanded stringent punishment for the perpetrators and suitable compensation for all the victims.
According to records garnered, nine innocent persons- AASU leader Prabin Sonowal, Pradip Dutta, Debajit Biswas, Akhil Sonowal, Bhaben Moran, Maleswar Moran, Gunin Hazarika, Prakash Sarma and Manoranjan Das – were picked up by the Dholla-based 18 Punjab Regiment from different locations of Dangori in Tinsukia district between February 17 to February 19,1994 and detained at Dholla camp following killing of Rameswar Singh, General Manager of Assam Frontier Tea Company at Talap TE by ULFA militants.
On February 21, 1994, the Gauhati High Court asked the Army to produce the nine persons at the nearest police station following a habeas corpus filed by former AGP minister Jagadish Bhuyan. The State DGP, Chief Secretary and even ADC to the Governor were informed. Prabin Sonowal was then acting general secretary of the AASU. According to Bhuyan, five youths were brutally tortured in the Army camp in such a manner that they were not in a position to move and so the Army eliminated them. The Army left five bodies, identified as Prabin Sonowal, Pradip Dutta, Debojit Biswas, Akhil Sonowal and Bhaben Moran, at Doomdooma police station on February 22 after Dholla PS declined to accept the bodies and released the four others in different locations. The Army reportedly took five persons in two boats to Dibru-Saikhowa National Park after crossing Dangori river and mercilessly killed the youths. Since then, two boatmen- Moka Murra and Ratna Moran – also went missing.
There was State-wide uproar following the incident. Sarbananda Sonowal, the then president of the AASU, Samujjal Bhattacharyya, Atul Borah and Keshab Mahanta staged protests demanding adequate compensation for the families and declared them as 'Pancha Sahid'. Though the court in 2001 directed the government to pay Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the slain persons, even after 24 years the government failed to honour the court's directive, even as Sarbananda Sonowal himself is now heading the government.
Moleswar Moran, one among the survivors who gave his statement before the Summary General Court Martial (SGCM), recently told media persons that the Army picked up the youths based on the entry record of Talap TE as most of them were engaged as garden suppliers. Though he was very hopeful of getting justice, he was living in constant fear of the Army's harassment. He, along with other survivors, want the government and the Army should ensure their safety in future and to stop further harassment.
Meanwhile, Tinsukia district AASU general secretary Samar Jyoti Borgohain, while expressing deep anguish, demanded stringent punishment to all guilty Army personnel and suitable compensation for all nine families.

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The Focal Easy Guide to Combustion 4
by Gary M Davis
Publisher: Focal Press
Release Date: October 2012
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Software programs are complex, the books that explain them shouldn't be. This thoroughly illustrated, full-color guide explains everything you need to know to get up and running quickly with Combustion. Get a jump-start learning the major features or the software without bogging you down with unnecessary detail.
The author shares his professional insight and extensive training experience to ensure you'll get the most out of all the professional paint, animation, editing and 3D compositing tools Combustion offers. Also featured are many workflow tips which show how to tap into the full power of Combustion 4 in your effects and motion graphics work.
For useful tips and tutorials, visit the book's companion site at www.focalpress.com/companions/0240520106
Table of Contents
Half Title
Title Page
About this Book
About the Footage
About the Author
A Few Thanks
1. Preferences, UI, and Key Terms
And So It Begins
Quick Visit to the Preferences
Major Project Components
Main Interface Explained Graphically
Data Entry Conventions
2. Workflow Basics, Footage, and Viewports
RAM Cache and Caching
The Cache Meter
Display Quality and Caching
File Menu Options
The Thumbnail Browser
Working with Footage
Footage Controls (Source and Output Settings)
Working with Proxies
Missing Footage
The Workspace Panel
Working with Viewports
View Modes
3. Paint and Text Operators
Paint Preferences
Applying a Paint Operator
Non-destructive Paint
The Paint Operator Toolbar
Paint Object Pivot Points
Control Points
Two Types of Groups within Paint
Bezier and B-Splines Tools
Categories of the Paint Controls
Vector Paint, Raster Output
Working with Adobe Illustrator Files
Text and Character Generation
4. Compositing in 2D and 3D
2D Composites
Manipulating Layers
Transfer Modes
Layer View
Effect Operators
3D Compositing
Additional Notes about 3D Composites
… and Finally, Nested Composites
5. The Schematic View (Go with the Flow)
Accessing the Schematic View
Applying Operators
Notes on Nodes
Further Points on Schematic View
Schematic Hotkeys
Duplicating (aka Creating Instances)
Schematic Preferences
6. Selections and Masks
Shared Terminology
Selection Operators
Mask Operators and Alpha Channels
Stencil Layer
Preserve Alpha
7. Working with Color
Color Spaces
Color Channels and Bit Depth
Color Correction
The Discreet CC
Color Matching
The Store and Compare Features
8. Keying
Keyer Types in combustion
More than Just Making the Blue or Green Vanish
Two Keying Operators
Additional Keying Operators
One Keying Workflow
Additional Tips for Chroma Keying
Additional Resources for Chroma Keying
9. The Tracker
The Enigma Unveiled
Two Questions to Consider
Applications for the Tracker
Let's Make Tracks, Already!
Picking an Element to Track
The Tracker Interface in Depth
Image Stabilizing
Closing Tips
10. Animation and the Timeline
When and How Much?
Methods of Animating in combustion
Creating Simple Keyframe Animations
The Timeline
Animation Channels and Filtering
Object-Specific Channel Filters
Creating Custom Channel Filter Presets
Ease Curves
Math Operations
11. A/V Editing
The Filmstrip
The Edit Operator
Trimming Heads, Middles, and Tails
Simple Editing
Duplicating Segments
One- and Two-point Editing
Edit Markers
Split Layer
Additional Notes on Editing within combustion
12. Expressions
'Quick Pick' Link Options
Editing an Expression
Expression Browser
Converting Expressions to Keyframes
Ideas for Further Exploration
13. Integrated Particle System
Components of the Particle Operator
The Preview Window
Categories of the Particle Operator
Closing Tips for Particles
14. Rendering and Output
Output Format Considerations
Render Dialog Window
Output Settings
Global Settings
The Render to RAM Feature
Commit to Disk
Network Rendering with RenderQueue
Network Rendering with Backburner
Appendix I: File Sizes and Formats
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I have been working on using more metaphors in my poetry. So, I revised Winter Geese a bit. It was inspired by a dream, which is a challenging way to write. Dreams don't always translate well to the page.
I welcome feedback on the metaphors in the poem.
Thanks, in advance!
Winter Geese
I dreamt of a brother.
Long, long forgotten.
Memories jailed
like criminals.
He came, I'm sure when
I sent a missive.
I heard my sister's
sweet remembrance of
a father's love,
her white, laced dress,
tiny flowers in her
ringlet hair.
My soft voice
would only come
from heaven or
a dream.
I saw a strong man.
His eyes, tree-covered
mountains. His angst
an eagle's wings.
His hands a valley,
lush, vibrant
and green.
Where had he been
all this time?
Did my father
send him?
I wanted to ask him.
My words burnt ashes.
I wanted to hold him.
My hands, dead branches.
"Wait" he said.
I'll come for you.
But, he turned,
so I could no longer
see his eyes, star-filled
and midnight blue.
I couldn't see.
I could only hear
the trumpeting sound
of the Winter Geese
as my eyes opened
to the misty-gray sky
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Reaching a record breaking 35 days, the recent government shutdown began on December 22, 2018 and ended on January 25, 2019, which makes it the longest government shutdown in the history of the United States. With news of IRS employees not showing up for work amid salary freezes, the questions are mounting in the minds of taxpayers. As Read More
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Under the new tax laws, the rules for pass-through entities have made the climate a bit more favorable for these types of corporations. It's also a bit more complex. Pass through entities include sole proprietorships, partnerships, certain LLCs, and S-corporations. Knowing which type is best for your situation depends on several factors. New Income Deduction Read More
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There is a correlation between imprisonment and poverty anywhere in the world. An accused contracts legal services but has nothing to give except promises and a pitiful demeanor, he gets poor defense preparation. In the court of law, poor defense is no defense at all. As a matter of fact, given all the technical provisions of our judicial system, it is even fatal. And what happens is that when the side of the accused has not been properly covered by a defensive line in jurisprudence, not given an alert response even from the bench vis a vis charges, then it is as certain as day and night, conviction will follow.
This is not an exceptional situation. It is even presumed that this situation is more prevalent, more widespread and ubiquitous. And why not? Litigation is expensive. Attending a court hearing is even more depressing economically. It rubs salt to a wound. It is painful and dehumanizing, never mind humiliation. It is better to be convicted and get it on than maintain innocence without proper competent representation.
While there are always reliefs in the judiciary, the discovery of truth is excruciatingly slow and tedious. The number of acquittal stares a prison administrator in the eye. After years of serving time in prison, at times more than a decade or a summer less than a decade, cases of acquittal would disturb the headcount in the prison community. Somewhere within the community of convicts, one realizes, is someone without guilt at all.
Universe is bothered in such a situation. Humanity suddenly is reduced to anxiety. If it is indeed something that does not exempt an innocent to be lumped into a crowded place for the guilty, then God forbid what is in store for mankind in terms of acquiring justice. There is no guarantee is this life when truth should be understood as passport for freedom, let alone the basis for purity is measured through evidence. While evidence can be manufactured and bended, truth cannot. Yet evidence weighs more than any truth speculated.
The country's, or any country for that matter, legal system pales when confronted with an incident requiring appreciation of a case. At times, truth is nowhere unless volunteered. It is always evidence which is oftentimes at the behest of the resourceful and those with resources that is always invoked. The poor is usually at the bottom of a merciful round.
In prison, one cannot determine the guilty from innocent except in instances when the courts would issue a verdict on exoneration. It is only then that a prison officer is unsettled for treating everyone as a stereotype or statistic on criminality.
Verily, truth lies deep under the ground where poverty is lurking. Poverty buries the truth no matter what. Make poverty the main agenda to be eradicated and we have freed the truth. Truth will not make anyone free unless it is given a life of its own. Without concern for progress, good governance and a dedication for searching the truth, there one remaining act that must be done: construct more prisons.


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Saudi women got the right to drive, but here are 6 things they still can't do
Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday that women have the right to drive for the first time in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
In a royal decree signed by King Salman bin Abdulaziz, the order on the right to drive said it will be effective immediately, but the rollout will take months, according to the Saudi Press Agency.
The decree said that women would be allowed to drive "in accordance with the Islamic laws."
But here is a list of things Saudi women are still barred from doing:
1. Women are not allowed to travel without the permission of a male guardian — usually their father or husband.
2. They are not allowed to "dress for beauty" and must cover their hair and bodies in public under the law.
3. Women are required to limit the amount of time spent with men to whom they are not related.
4. A Saudi woman cannot open a bank account without her husband's permission.
5. Women cannot eat freely in public. They must eat under their face veil.
6. Women must limit physical closeness with other men and be segregated from the opposite sex in most offices, banks and universities.
More:Saudi Arabia says it will allow women to drive for first time
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Sri Lanka Wary of 'Unpredictable' Pakistan in Mahela Jayawardene's Final Series.
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Rusty Pakistan and overworked Sri Lanka are set for an enthralling contest when they open a two-Test series in Galle today, the last for the retiring Mahela Jayawardene.
The former Sri Lankan captain, whose elegant batting has seen him rise to sixth place in the all-time scorers' list with 11,671 runs in 147 Tests, is due to quit the longer format after the series.
But rival captains Misbah-ul Haq of Pakistan and Angelo Mathews of Sri Lanka will look to put aside the emotions of a farewell series as they find themselves battling contrasting worries.
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Located in the heart of Oxford, the Chapel of Exeter College was built 1856-59 by G.G. Scott and modeled after Paris' Sainte Chapelle. The "greater part of the mosaics" on the east end were the gift of Dr. George Ridding, Bishop of Southwell.
The arcaded Salviati mosaics in the apse feature familiar themes for such locations: the four Evangelists, Christ and angels, the Lamb of God and the Pelican in her Piety. An 1871 catalog called "Views of Oxford" already refers to a "mosaic altarpiece" and based upon a photograph located in the Cornell University archives, by 1885 they had all been installed.
Exeter College
Cornell University Archives
Pierrot Heritier Photos
richardr's flickr Photostream
Bach at Astoft
Taunt, Henry W. " 'A' List of of views of Oxford and the neighborhoods." Oxford Architectural Society, Third Ed. 1871. 9.
Stride, William Keatley. "Exeter College." London: F.E. Robinson and Company, 1900. 199.
Carr, William. "Oxford University College Histories." Psychology Press, 1902. 199.


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Deploy your site with git securely
This gist assumes:
- you have a local git repo
- you have an online remote repository (github)
- you have a server running Apache with git already installed
you should be able to do the same with Java, Perl, RoR, JSP etc. however you'll need to recreate the (rather simple) PHP script
1 - On your local machine
Here we add the deployment script and push it to the origin, the deployment script runs git commands to PULL from the origin thus updating your server
Grab a deployment script for your site
See deploy.php
Add, commit and push this to github
git add deploy.php
git commit -m 'Added the git deployment script'
git push -u origin master
2 - On GitHub
Set up service hook
- https://github.com/oodavid/server.com/settings/hooks
- Select Add webhook
- Enter the URL to your deployment script - http://server.com/deploy.php into Payload URL
- Generate a highly random string for the Secret
- You can keep the default for events that trigger the webhook (push event) or you can customize it yourself
- Click Add webhook
3 - On the Server
Here we clone the origin repo into a chmodded /var/www/html folder, you can change the path to your own path
Pull from origin
git clone firstname.lastname@example.com:you/server.git /var/www/html
You need to check that the permission for your deployment script is correct (644)
Now you're ready to go :-)
Some notes
- It would be trivial to setup another repo on your server for different branches (develop, release-candidate etc) - repeat most of the steps but checkout a branch after pulling the repo down
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SPOILER WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for Dark Days: The Forge #1, on sale now.
Don't call it a crisis; Scott Snyder tells CBR that the upcoming event series Dark Nights: Metal is going to be as big and as bad as events like Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis, but he's refraining from using the term because while the DC Universe is experiencing a Rebirth, it isn't in need of proper reset.
The New York Times best-selling writer believes that DC Rebirth has galvanized the comic book publisher's fan base (sales and critical acclaim support this belief too) and he wants readers to know that Dark Nights: Metal is about expanding the DCU and the Multiverse and finding new places to explore with superheroes and supervillains that don't need fixing.
RELATED: DC Comics' Dark Days: The Forge, Annotated - Part 1
The mega event from Snyder and his long-time Batman collaborator Greg Capullo, which begins in August, kicks off this week with the lead-in, one-shot Dark Days: The Forge #1, which is co-written by James Tynion IV and features an all-star team of artists including Jim Lee, Andy Kubert, John Romita, Jr., Scott Williams, Klaus Janson, Danny Miki and Alex Sinclair.
Snyder shared his thoughts on some of the main cast featured in Dark Days: The Forge including Duke Thomas, The Joker and Hawkman, as well as some fan favorite returning characters that haven't been active in the DCU for some time, like the original Outsiders and Plastic Man. Yes, Plastic Man!
Currently writing All Star Batman for DC Comics, Snyder also revealed how Dark Nights: Metal will run in parallel with some other major upcoming DCU storylines led by DC Comics Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns like 'Doomsday Clock' and 'Three Jokers.'
CBR: If there was ever any doubt, Dark Days: The Forge #1 shows us that Batman, not Superman, is the ultimate DC boy scout. [Laughs] The Dark Knight is always prepared. He has some big-ticket items hidden away in deep cold storage for the dark days and nights that are coming and one in particular warms my heart, if I'm right. That's obviously Plastic Man locked up like a Silly Putty egg in the Lunar Bat Cave... right?
Scott Snyder: Yeah, for sure. That's him. Plastic Man has a good role to play coming up. I don't want to say what it is, because it plays into Dark Nights: Metal as well, but you're going to see where we try to land him afterwards. We actually have quite big plans for him. We have big plans for Mister Terrific, too.
Really, we have big plans for every character featured in The Forge and The Casting (slated for July 12) either in Metal or the stuff spinning out of Metal. It's all part of one big tapestry that we have been planning to unveil for a while. Above all, what we wanted was for people to pick this up and realize the scope and the zany fun that we want Metal to be and what we want the projects spinning out of Metal to be. We're going to be announcing a lot of stuff between now and San Diego [Comic-Con International], and the goal is for us that if Rebirth has set us on a path that makes people happy with DC in terms of bringing back connective tissue between the characters, bringing back legacy, then now is the time for us to experiment with new directions, with new characters and to keep that spirit to make sure that we are true to core, making sure that we are not bending the characters, sometimes, like they got bent in The New 52, to far-right of center.
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With that in mind, we're trying to do daring and bold storytelling. A lot of stuff coming out of The Forge and The Casting hopefully speaks to that. We want people to be like, "That was as fun as everything in Rebirth, and yet, I did not expect to see that."
Batman also has something quite amazing hidden deep under the Fortress of Solitude and he needs, surprisingly, not Superman but Mister Miracle to unlock the door. It's an Anti-Monitor Tower... and Mister Miracle is not happy to find it there. Is Dark Nights: Metal a Crisis-level event for the DCU?
Metal is largely about the discovery of a Dark Multiverse, a place that is completely unknown. It's not what you think it is, which is a billion Earth-Threes or just evil versions of our characters. It is truly based on the concept of dark energy and dark matter, this idea that there is this reactive, boiling ocean of possibilities. The Multiverse as we know it very, very small. The same way that in the known universe, the positive and negative in the real world is quite small, compared to the amount of dark energy and dark matter that is all around us. It is almost unperceivable to us. In that way, the Dark Multiverse is this complete unknown and when they open the door to it, by mistake, and it comes to invade in its own way, you'll see that it is that level of event.
The only reason that I haven't leaned into that word, "crisis," at all is because those events are so particular in their function for the DC Universe. They're great. Infinite Crisis and Crisis on Infinite Earths are two of my favorite reads. Crisis being one of those things that I will never forget having read as a kid, when it came out, because it was so mind-blowing. But they were corrective, also. They did things to the Multiverse and continuity that straightened things out and cleaned things up in different ways, as well as giving brave, new, exciting stories. But where we're at with Rebirth right now, we don't need to straighten out our versions of those things. We don't need to fix a lot.
Geoff [Johns] has big plans for Doomsday Clock that will explain Rebirth and what Doctor Manhattan has done. All of the mysteries that were brought up in DC Universe: Rebirth are going to be answered there, so for us, with this, it's a chance to bring in a vast new area of the DC cosmology and to explore it and create new characters, new tracts and new allies. The characters that are really involved in this story -- Batman, Hawkman, the entire Justice League -- really are the stars, but everyone from Doctor Fate on is in it in one way or another, and the spirit of it is exploratory. It's meant to be about how the how the great torch of exploration has been carried through different heroes throughout time. Batman, even as a detective now, is about discovery and finding answers. Sometimes, you find answers to a mystery that you have been following that suddenly throw you backwards and make you feel terrified and yet you have to keep pushing through and seeing what's on the side. That's partly what Metal is about too. In that way, yes, we want it to signal that it's a story that spans the Multiverse, it explores the origins of the Multiverse, it explores the origins of everything, from the Monitors and the Anti-Monitors and so on. It's that big. But again, I've avoided the word "Crisis" because I didn't want people to think that we are about to reshuffle continuity again in any way.
The Forge, The Casting and Metal also serve as a continuation of the work you have been doing personally with Batman over the past six or seven years. The Forge teases that the Court of Owls have a role to play, we're going to get more Duke Thomas -- and he may possibly finally get his superhero name.
Yes, his name and his role are coming out. I was going to do it in All Star Batman and then they gave us the option of playing him harder into this, so I thought we should do it here. By the end of The Casting, you'll see his new role, you'll know about his new book, all of that stuff.
There is also a big reveal in the final pages of The Forge, which is that Batman has also been keeping The Joker on ice in the Batcave. You talked about all of the dark energy and dark matter in the Multiverse, and it doesn't get any darker than the Clown Prince.
That's the whole reason that we wanted to use him. Geoff was great about walking us through what the plan is for upcoming "Three Jokers" storyline and giving us the breathing room for what we wanted to do. Just to be clear to readers, this is not going to answer the "Three Jokers" question. That's really for Geoff -- he has a big story planned for that -- but what it will do is show us the way that The Joker, like he did during my entire time on Batman, is always there as the Greek chorus of the book, saying to Batman, in one way or another, "You're doing it wrong" or, "You're doing it right." "This is what needs to happen. This is who you are."
He featured in one way or another in every story that I did with Batman. He even made an appearance at the beginning of "The Court of Owls," and haunts the Court of Owls in different ways. He's always lurking, in one way or another. In that way, we felt there was nobody better to be the person that has more answers than anybody. Because The Joker has been there through all of it, and because he discovered bits of the mystery along with Batman that has to do with Metal about different sorts of metal across the DCU that radiate energy beyond any analysis, including the dionesium that we've used in our run. He would be the one who would sit there and I say, "I know what's coming. I know the answers and you don't want to go down this road." He provides an incredible source of information for Duke and Hal [Jordan] and yet, at the same time, because he's The Joker, he's lying. [Laughs]
He's always full of mystery, so you don't know if what he is saying is true or not. He remains a great menace to Batman and actually sets up part of the mystery. He's really fun. I don't want to lean into him too hard, because I have used him so much and I have had so much fun with him – and I have more stories planned for him – but he's always a special character that comes in. I like to use him in really calculated ways.
Finally, there was also a nod to The Outsiders in The Forge and it was the classic lineup of Metamorpho, Black Lightning, Katana, Halo and Geo-Force. Are we getting the return of The Outsiders too or we going to see a new all-star 'black ops' team for Batman that includes Plastic Man, Mister Terrific, Mister Miracle, Hal Jordan and Duke?
We definitely have plans for the [original] Outsiders. I wanted to actually re-introduce them about a year ago, honestly, but we couldn't due to other plans for certain characters. James Tynion has plans for those characters in Detective, and there are also plans for them beyond that. We are excited to integrate those characters back into the Bat-mythos and the DCU as a whole.
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Q&A: Kenny Rogers knows when and why to fold them
Just like the character of The Gambler he immortalized in his signature song, Kenny Rogers knows when to walk away.
The crossover country icon brings his final world tour, dubbed The Gambler's Last Deal, to the nation's capital Saturday, where he tops the marquee Saturday for the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival's opening weekend.
Rogers, 78, may be best-known for his signature 1978 hit, or for his collaborations with longtime friends Dolly Parton and Lionel Richie. But he never thought there was any mystery to his broad appeal, his hitmaking ability, or his talent for topping both country and pop charts.
"I guess it was that I went to places that country artists weren't going. I went to New York City, I went to Ottawa," he said. "And the great thing about country music is once you get in, you don't get out."
Rogers spoke with Postmedia about a career that has spanned six decades, his interests and passions outside of music, what keeps him going, and why it's time to hang up his spurs.
Q: This is the Gambler's Last Deal. Why now?
A: I have 12-year-old identical twin boys and I'm missing so much of their life, and I just decided that's more important to me. They asked me the other day, 'Dad, what are you going to do when you quit singing?' I said I thought I'd come home and spend all my time with them, and the both put their head in their hands and went, 'Oh my God.' So I don't think they're as happy about it as I am.
Q: What will you miss most about the road?
A: My band's been with me 40-something years, I'll miss all those guys, and the crew … I learned how to hire and I never learned how to fire. They're good people. I mean, I've seen them have children and I've seen their children grow up and have children, and so that gives you some sense of what that relationship is all about.
Q: Looking back on nearly six decades, what moments are you most proud of?
A: Working with Lionel Richie and Dolly Parton were the two things that really stood out for me, and I don't know why, but I guess it's because they're both such great talents, and we had such huge success with what we did together. That always makes it more fun.
Q: Is there a period of your career you're most fond of that might be overlooked?
A: I would say the period during We Are the World (the 1985 USA For Africa song Rogers still regularly performs). It was one of the least selfish times of music, people were doing things to help other people, and I was so thrilled and flattered to be a part of that.
I remember going into the studio that night feeling pretty cocky — I thought I would be the big star in there — and I walked in that room and it was a very humbling experience. You realize you're nothing compared to all those people, and that's what made the song so good. Everyone felt like they had to compete with other people who were at their best.
Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie wrote it. And I think it changed the landscape of music.
Q: You've tried acting, written a memoir and a novel. What other creative outlets keep you going?
A: From time to time it's good to push yourself and see what you can do. I played tennis for eight years, and I played with some of the best players in the world, and I developed a national ranking. That was fun, but then I couldn't do that any more because I couldn't move as well.
So then I took up photography and I'm going next week into the Smithsonian Institution for photography. So it's very rewarding, but I've always kinda been like that. I mean, I do one thing at a time, but I'm an impulsive obsessive. I impulsively get myself involved with something, and I obsess with it to see how good I can get. I've been really lucky to have good people to help me and teach me.
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I'm going to have to edit those down, but that's the fun of it: sitting down and saying, 'Wow, that's spectacular,' because 'good' doesn't make it in those books.


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Edmonton's downtown bike grid would be a well-connected series of protected bike paths in the core. This grid would give people on bikes a safe, comfortable way to get almost anywhere in the downtown core.
This project is similar to Calgary's new bike paths, installed as a grid in its downtown last year. Calgary's grid resulted in a dramatic increase in cycling, with thousands of people every day from all demographics riding on the protected paths.
The protected paths could be installed using relatively-inexpensive materials (concrete barriers, bollards, etc.) that could be adapted quickly as data and feedback are collected on the installations. The first iteration won't be perfect, so flexibility is key.
Stantec, which designed the Calgary network, has submitted a report on the bike grid to city council that will be made public in mid September of 2016. It will then be voted on by the Urban Planning Committee on September 28 and by council on October 11.
Here's a more detailed write up on the history and genesis of the Edmonton downtown protected bike lane grid initiative.
Update! The Stantec report has been released and will be discussed at City Hall on September 28.
frequently asked questions
The Stantec report contains direction on keeping the protected paths clear in winter. During the coldest months of the year, jurisdictions that remove snow from their paths retain about 25% of their summer ridership.
So there will still be a significant number of people using the paths in winter. However, Edmontonians have a history of supporting investment in seasonal infrastructure when they consider it important. City parks are probably the best example. They are used much less in winter, but there is near-unanimous agreement that they are important resources.
This grid of protected bike paths will increase the quality of life of those who choose to use them, with the added benefit that they will reduce collision injuries.
The 7km grid will cost in the $7 million range.
That is a lot of money, but it is a small number when compared to other transportation infrastructure projects. For example, $6 million will build approximately 0.13 kilometres of ring road. Or it will build 0.9 kilometres of arterial road.
Also, a significant portion of that money is to make signalling and other upgrades that would have had to be made anyway. We expect city council to be able to find the money without altering its 2014-2018 capital budget.
Only what are described as "strong and fearless" cyclists will use a road with no bike infrastructure. The wide, fast roads of the downtown core are just too intimidating for most people.
Protected bike paths are the safest type of bike infrastructure (they are 90% safer than open roads), and they have been shown to attract new riders everywhere they've been installed (Calgary being the latest example).
Riding on a wide busy street can be very intimidating for many people, so even if a single well-protected lane brings someone part of the way to their destination, they may still feel intimidated enough by the rest of the ride to leave the bike at home.
By building a whole network at once, like Calgary did, it opens up all of downtown at once. People will know that once they reach the core using relatively quiet residential streets, the river valley or the trail next to the street car track, they will feel safe the rest of the way.
There is no way to predict exactly how many riders the grid will get. However, the neighbourhoods around downtown have unusually low percentages of people who ride to work or school on their bikes, given their central location.
We would expect the percentages to rise to the 4% -5% mark at least (from the current 1%-2%). In Calgary some central neighbourhoods are all-of-a-sudden flirting with 10% of their residents biking to work/school now that the new cycle track grid is installed.
If you feel comfortable riding downtown, you probably belong to the 1% or so of people who classify themselves as "strong and fearless", often younger males who have a high tolerance for risk.
North American cities have found that not adding dedicated facilities for people on bikes has kept the ridership constrained to these strong and fearless riders.
The bike grid is for everyone else. It's for seniors, families, and everyone who doesn't feel comfortable sharing the road with cars (which is most of us).
This grid of protected bike paths will give clarity and certainty to all road users, which is good for everyone, including drivers. In fact, a recently-published paper showed that "most drivers reported greater comfort with more separation from bikes" (source).
People currently ride their bikes on the sidewalk a lot downtown due to the fear of mixing with vehicle traffic. Fortunately, protected bike paths drastically reduce the amount of sidewalk riding, providing a significant benefit to people walking downtown as well.
Finally, each person riding a bike in their own lane is someone who is not taking up space in a car in front of you. Reducing congestion is a significant benefit of increasing the number of people who ride bikes in our city.


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USA Opportunity for One Dancer Creates Scholarship Spot for Another25.11.2015
Arts Northern Rivers
An opportunity for one of the original recipients of the Dance Integrated Australia and Arts Northern Rivers Indigenous Residency Scholarship for The Corner Dance Lab 2016, Taree Sansbury, has lead to the announcement of Amrita Hepi as the new recipient of the scholarship.
Taree has taken up an opportunity to travel to Colorado, USA to work with the International Association of Blacks in Dance.
A descendant of the Ngapuhi tribe in Northern New Zealand and the Bundjulung people in Northern New South Wales, Amrita joins scholarship recipient Tyrel Dulvarie, a descendant of the Yirriganydji and Mamu people of Cairns and Innisfail.
Amrita is an emerging independent choreographer and performance artist who has performed at the Museum of Contemporary Arts alongside Tony Albert and Richard Bell for Blak Christmas and perform at Next Wave Festival in 2016.
She attends Macquarie University where she is studying a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Dance. Amrita also attended NAISDA in 2014 before travelling abroad to train independently in New York at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and Broadway Dance Centre.
Hepi said she wanted to focus on how to make work that is more broadly accessible and compelling.
'Working with the other amazing artists and teachers that are involved in The Corner will help realise this,' she said.
Dance Integrated Australia's Philip Channells said they were thrilled to be able to offer this opportunity to Amrita and wished Taree the best of luck with her project in America.
The Indigenous Residency Scholarship is a new initiative for The Corner Dance Lab, which celebrates and promotes diversity in Australian contemporary dance.
The two scholarships valued at $1500 each are funded by Arts Northern Rivers and cover travel, accommodation and registration fees for two emerging Indigenous artists in the first three years of their dance career to participate in the 9-day dance lab held on the NSW North Coast.
Tyrel Dulvarie, is currently starring along side Hugh Jackman in Broadway to Oz. He is an ACPA graduate training with the Sydney Dance Company Pre-Professional Year. He comes from a diverse cultural background with Malaysian, Aboriginal and German heritage.
Now in its third year,The Corner Dance Lab will return to the historic Federal village 30 minutes inland from Byron Bay from 15 – 23 January 2016.
Co-facilitators Philip Channells and Gavin Webber (The Farm Company) bring together an exciting line up of dance practitioners, musicians and visual artists from the local area, interstate and abroad for a practice-led dance laboratory at Jasper Corner (Federal Hall).
The Corner Dance Lab is a nine-day skills development and performance making intensive for emerging and established dance artists from diverse backgrounds, different embodiment and life experience wanting to challenge themselves physically, intellectually and artistically. There will be a final performance outcome of the week's work at Jasper Corner, Federal on Saturday evening 23 January 2016.
Expressions of Interest are open until 20 December 2015. Access the Expression of Interest form here. For more information, email: Sean Campbell email@example.com


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Yesterday I interviewed the amazing and hilarious Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg in my office at SFU Woodward's. Turns out we arrived in the city more or less at the same time, me to start grad school at UBC, and she to begin the dance program at SFU. Tara had come to Vancouver from the University of Calgary, where she had been in the theatre program, and she continued to work across both disciplines while at SFU--as, of course, she does today in her own creations, as well as the choreography she does for theatre (including this year's TUTS mounting of West Side Story, which is on my list of must-see shows next week).
Notwithstanding Tara's adeptness at, in her words, "working the system," her time at SFU was fortuitous in terms of the development of her own career: my colleague Judith Garay cast Tara in her very first Dancers Dancing show; Chick Snipper, who would later cede her company to Tara, created work on SFU students dancers while Tara was in the program; and she also performed in Judith Marcuse's States of Grace while at SFU. Coincidentally, Tara received her first commission to choreograph for the theatre when Mary Louise Albert, who was then a dancer in Judith Marcuse's company, said she didn't have the time to do it, and was Tara interested? Flash forward several years and Tara is presenting her first 11-minute solo, Frame, at the Chutzpah! Festival, which Mary Louise has overseen for the past decade or so. So once again we see how everything--and everyone--is connected in this community.
Having danced for Deborah Dunn, Conrad Alexandrowicz, Lola McLaughlin, and having worked with the folks at Radix Theatre and others, Tara took some time off "to find herself" in South America. Coming back from Chile after a few years away, she was eager to work and realized if she wanted to do so--and, moreover, to be in work that reflected her own hybrid interests in and talent for dance and theatre--she had best create the opportunities herself. Such was the beginnings of Tara Cheyenne Performance and Tara's trademark character-driven solos, which achieved a significant turning point when Tara premiered bANGER in 2006. For the permission to inhabit the psyche and physicality of a male character for the first time Tara credits working with mentor Denise Clarke (of One Yellow Rabbit fame) on a project "where the process was great, the product not so much," and also seeing Nigel Charnock perform in his solo Frank at the PuSh Festival. Before his untimely death, Charnock was to have been involved (as director) in the next big step in Tara's evolution as a choreographer: her first group piece, Highgate, which grew out of an invitation from Peter Bingham to "do something different" for his annual choreographic series at EDAM. You couldn't get much different than the mourning triplets that Tara sent out on stage in the wonderful group dress created by her mother, Alice Mansell. I still remember the impact of first seeing those three women (Jackie Collins, Barb Murray and Jane Osborne) bobbing back and forth to the chimes of Big Ben. Combined with my discovery of Tara's work at the BC Scene showcase in Ottawa in the spring of 2009, as well as the subsequent delight I took in the premiere of Goggles at The Cultch later the same year, that moment at EDAM confirmed to me that this was someone whose work I had to absolutely follow from now on.
Indeed, the interest that Tara and I share in the combustible performance possibilities of combining dance and theatre, text and movement, has meant that I have increasingly sought her out as a collaborator: first on a semi-private studio experiment involving research into the performance ethnography of humour (you can find the results on the web if you google assiduously); and hopefully in the near future on a more formal collaboration for which I will supply the words and Tara the movement (and the French accent). So it was only fitting that our conversation yesterday ended with Tara turning the tables and interviewing me for her "Talking Shit" series: chats, discussions, gossip-fests that she tapes with members of the Vancouver dance community on any number of topics.
That in Tara's estimation I am someone who merits inclusion in that community means a lot.
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The months of courtship were in vain. The Russian enterprises Gazprom and Sintez allowed the period prescribed for the privatization of Greek gas company Depa to expire.
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Wall Street is used to Deere & Co. delivering more than it promises. For five straight quarters, the company turned in higher-than-expected profit.
Is Deere jumping too high?
That may explain why analysts are ignoring Deere's forecast for flat sales and a profit decline next year. Convinced the Moline farm-equipment maker will benefit from rising demand for corn, they predict Deere's 2007 profit will be as much as 12% higher than the company estimates. Investors have bid the stock up 43% this year to record levels. It closed Friday at $97.07.
The exuberance centers on ethanol, the corn-derived alternative fuel getting a boost from high gasoline prices. "We're at an unprecedented period of time for corn," says John Kleist, senior analyst for Top Third Ag Marketing in Chicago. "Corn is the new energy darling."
Investors might do well to listen to the company. Although it's widely used in the Midwest, ethanol is difficult to transport, raising questions about how much of it will ever be consumed on the coasts. If construction of ethanol plants continues at an unchecked pace, a capacity glut could develop.
"The value of Deere stock reflects all the good things (about ethanol) and none of the risks associated with it," says Eli Lustgarten, an analyst for Longbow Research who rates Deere a "sell." "Deere is being honest. I don't think they're lowballing anybody."
Deere expects overall sales, which totaled $22.1 billion in 2006, to be flat next year. Net income is forecast to fall about 22% to $1.32 billion, or $5.75 to $5.95 a share. Analysts' consensus earnings estimate: $6.42 a share. Last year's profit included a $220-million gain on the sale of the company's health insurance business.
The company says farmers will be cautious about buying new equipment next year, fearing that corn prices, up 93% from a year ago to $3.50 a bushel, will retreat. Even if prices persist, farmers won't see benefits until next year's crop goes to market in the fall. "There's a period of time it takes for the farmers to react to having higher corn prices," a Deere spokesman says. "It doesn't come immediately."
If farmers do open their wallets for new machinery, their purchases are likely to be offset by a decline in sales of Deere's construction and forestry equipment, which accounts for 26% of business.
Contributing to the stock's mania last week was an analyst's claim that a private-equity buyer approached the company. Deere says it isn't for sale.
Despite the company's tepid outlook, some analysts point to Deere's fiscal fourth-quarter income $277.3 million, or $1.20 a share which was 39% above the company's forecast figure and 19% higher than in the year-earlier quarter. "We believe that Deere's guidance will likely prove conservative," analyst Andrew Casey of Wachovia Capital Markets says in a recent note to investors.
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In a previous article, I wrote about Akku.scm, a package manager for Scheme. It is far from being the first package manager or even the first for Scheme. There have been at least a dozen failed attempts at getting something going.
Dorodango is another package manager aimed at R6RS. It works more like a system package manager (apt, dpkg) in some sense. You point it at a repository and it can then install packages for you. It is not project-oriented and does not help you with locking specific dependencies for your project. It was later forked as Guildhall for GNU Guile. That one has also stopped moving (perhaps they moved to Guix).
Another package manager is Raven, which is targeted at Chez
Scheme. It wants to be installed by root into
/usr/local but can
then be used by unprivileged users. It's quite new and doesn't really
have a lot of features yet. It works and it can download some
packages. You can have a look at the code yourself, it's quite small.
There are a bunch of defunct package managers: Alex Shinn's Common-Scheme, Will Donnelly's UnCommon Lisp (UCL), Marc Feeley's Scheme Now! (the first Snow), Aaron Hsu's DeSCoT, Higepon Taro Minowa's spon and Manuel Serrano's ScmPkg.
Centrifugal vs. centripetal
The ScmPkg paper (Serrano and Galleiso, 2007) is interesting reading. They make the distinction between centrifugal and centripetal approaches. The centrifugal approach is to attract users to the language implementation by having a lot of libraries, so that a community forms around it, which then contributes more libraries to it. The centripetal approach is to create some common framework that, if used, lets unmodified Scheme code run in multiple implementations.
There are successful centrifugal projects. SchemeSpheres is, according to their site, like the batteries (as in batteries included) for the Gambit Scheme compiler. The site is a bit wonky at the moment and the blog was last updated in 2014, but they have around 150 libraries. Even more successful, I would say, is Eggs for Felix Winkelmann's Chicken Scheme. But the grand winner in this contest must be Racket Packages for Racket. You know you have a winner on your hand when they have four different sets of bindings for ØMQ. (Snide remarks aside, they are very popular).
There are centripetal approaches alive today, but they are not anywhere near as popular as Eggs or Racket Packages. Snow is the successor to the old Snow (Scheme Now). It's alive and in use by some Scheme implementers and a handful of other people. Eerily similar to Snow is Snow2 by Seth Alves. Some or all of this is the basis for a rather flawed R7RS package repository format.
My pointy analysis (the rant)
The centrifugal approaches are excellent for the implementations that they target. Chicken and Racket are themselves excellent implementations and better off for their package repositories. But it's not directly useful to Scheme as such. The packages are not portable between implementations. Not what I'm looking for.
Centripetal is no good either. In my opinion, Snow suffers from the
same problems as other centripetal approaches. The packages in ScmPkg
.spi files that defined an interface and did
include of some
code from regular naked
.scm files. Snow does the same but calls
those files
.sld and relies heavily on
cond-expand. Same kind of
animal. So every library is divided in two files and on top of that
it's #ifdef Hell all over again.
I don't think Akku falls directly into either centrifugal or centripetal, and neither should it. Something else is going on. As I wrote in Akku's README: It grabs hold of code and vigorously shakes it until it behaves properly.
Akku is built on the solid ground of R6RS Scheme. This provides a target that is well-specified and stable. Sure, some things are not specified, such as how libraries are stored in the file system, but that is where Akku comes in and bridges the gap between the code and the implementation. I think this is a better approach than, let's say, smugly not providing a REPL just because R6RS didn't specify the procedures necessary for it. (Such an implementation should, to be consistent with its ideals, not permit loading libraries from the file system either).
R6RS does not have
cond-expand. Instead there is a de facto standard
of loading
.<impl>.sls before
.sls that all R6RS implementations
support, as well as Akku. This works better than the
forms which tend to show up in every little library file. (Can you
find the typo'd SRFI number hidden in one of the cond-expands in Chibi
Scheme?). The
.<impl>.sls approach, on the other hand, results in a
few libraries where all the non-portable stuff goes. You end up
building reusable abstractions instead of clutter. That is just better.
And R6RS already supports libraries. ScmPkg had to target any number of module systems. I think it is rather telling that the centripetal approaches tend to expect implementers to write their own clients for the package system.
Minor R7RS rant
I can not write my software with R7RS as the target language. My critiques are too numerous and I don't even know how my name got into the standard.
However the library system in R7RS is quite alright, basically being a downgraded copy of that in R6RS, and a future Akku version is likely to support R7RS/Snow packages. They would be installed both for use directly in R7RS implementations and lightly converted for use in R6RS implementations. Going in the other direction is not possible in the general case (see the botched attempts at porting Industria to R7RS).
To me R7RS-large looks like the centrifugal approach, except applied directly to the language standard. Most of what it attempts to accomplish has been possible with R6RS all along. More progress would have been made in this if Scheme standardization had not been turned into an "Us vs. Them" game. It disillusioned and demotivated many schemers.
Besides, implementers who want access to many libraries can add R6RS support, which I think will be less effort than adding R7RS-large.
I stand in front of you. I'll take the force of the blow. Protection.
– Massive Attack – Protection
Am I the only one to see that the Snow repository format uses unpadded RSA signatures, to be verified by keys sent next to the signatures over plain http? As we say in Sweden: va?
The other package managers listed are not any more serious about security either, but at least they don't pretend to be either. Racket is again the best of the bunch.
I'm taking Akku's security seriously. That includes using standard cryptographic protocols and algorithms, independently verifiable signatures on the package index, message digests on all downloaded code, no arbitrary code execution on installation and manual reviews before code even shows up in the official index.
We are all friends here but let's not kid ourselves, the Internet is a wild place, and let's have some standards.


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