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Evading Arrest or Detention
Evading Arrest by motor vehicle is a serious criminal offense in Texas. It often happens that a driver is unable to stop promptly when the police signal them to pull over, but unfortunately the police sometimes still arrest and charge the driver with a felony evading arrest.
If you were arrested for an evading arrest under these circumstances, it is very important that you contact the law firm of James G. Sullivan and Associates. Our experienced Harris County criminal defense attorneys may be able to persuade the grand jury or prosecutor to dismiss the felony charges because the police misunderstood your intentions or exaggerated what actually occurred.
If you have been charged with the criminal or juvenile offense of evading arrest in Harris county (Houston), or any of the surrounding counties in Texas, including Montgomery (Conroe), Waller (Hempstead), Liberty (City of Liberty), Fort Bend (Richmond), Brazoria (Angleton), Galveston (City of Galveston) or Washington (Brenham), contact James G. Sullivan and Associates for a free consultation at (281) 546-6428.
It is important that the criminal defense lawyer you hire has experience in successfully handling evading arrest cases. By obtaining and presenting the right evidence, the lawyer may be able to prove your innocence or raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors at trial. Regrettably, many drivers in these circumstances just assume that the court will believe their version of what happened and that their case will just be dismissed. As we all know, our criminal justice system is imperfect and even an innocent person may still face criminal liability.
Evading arrest is the criminal offense charged on those that the police claim did not willingly submit themselves to an arrest or detention. The allegations that the police put in the offense report and the evidence the government presents in court is not always true and correct.
In Texas, evading arrest by vehicle or watercraft is a third degree felony, and evading arrest on foot is a class A misdemeanor, however the charges are increased if there are prior convictions or if someone suffers death or serious bodily injuries as a direct result of the flight. No matter what charge was filed against you by the District Attorney, our experienced criminal defense lawyers can be by your side. We know how to effectively fight an evading arrest charge and can defend you in all stages of the case.
The law firm of James G. Sullivan and Associates has extensive criminal defense experience, which is necessary in defending evading arrest charges. Contact our Houston criminal attorneys at 281-546-6428 for a free initial consultation.


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Super 8 – you know, that 1980s Steven Spielberg film directed by J.J. Abrams in 2011 – hits theaters this weekend, but it's already getting overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics. (Look for our official review on Friday.)
To promote the film's release, Paramount held a super secret Super 8 screening last night in various cities all across the country – including New York City, which is where Screen Rant was in attendance.
The multitude of fans who lined up for the screening at the 34th Street AMC Loews were treated to free t-shirts, popcorn, fountain drinks, and a raffle for free DVDs courtesy of Jon Hein and Ralph Cirella (of Sirius Radio's Geek Time). One lucky fan who answered the trivia question "What was the first film written by J.J. Abrams, starring Harrison Ford?" – Regarding Henry – also won some free DVDs. Congrats, informed guy in the audience.
There was even a special message attached to the beginning of the film, from Abrams himself, where he basically just thanked everybody for attending the screening. Meanwhile, many in the theater chanted "Super 8, Super 8, Super 8!" in the style of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" It's likely these people were Lost fans at one point.
As for the film, the audience seemed to react as favorably to it as the critics have – and then some – especially whenever the awesome child actors were onscreen. These kids – Joel Courtney, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Gabriel Basso, and Elle Fanning – had such incredible chemistry together that they basically overshadowed the entirety of the science-fiction plot.
Indeed, rare is the film that captures that weird combination of innocence, jerkiness, raunchy immaturity, camaraderie, and so forth, which come with a pack of pre-teen boys. Off the top of my head, I can think of Stand by Me, The Monster Squad, and now – this.
The Hollywood Reporter recently reported on the somewhat soft box office expectations with regard to Super 8's opening weekend (predictions are saying $25 million to $30 million). Apparently, due to the incredibly mysterious nature of the trailers, your average Joe just doesn't have a clue as to what the film is actually about, so the film isn't tracking very well. Maybe it's because audiences are so used to trailers that coddle them and depict just about every major beat from every single film. It's a shame, if that's the really the case.
It has probably been said before, but it bears repeating – Super 8 isn't just an homage to J.J. Abrams' favorite films growing up. It's specifically his favorite Steven Spielberg films. There's Jaws (don't show the monster until the end!), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (I shouldn't have to explain this one), and E.T. (I really shouldn't have to explain this one), but there's also some Raiders of the Lost Ark in there with Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights) putting on his best Indiana Jones impression about halfway through the film.
Even though most of the people at the screening were obvious Abrams fans to begin with, it's worth noting that their comments after the credits (stay in your seats for the credits!) were universally glowing. Comments like "It was beautifully directed" and "Those kids were so good together!" were heard more than once. One comment that was impossible to disagree with: "That kid with the braces stole the show." If there's any justice in Hollywood, "That kid with the braces" — A.K.A. Ryan Lee — will have a long and prosperous acting career, because he absolutely stole the show.
After you see Super 8, tweet your reactions @Super8Movie with the hashtag #Super8Secret.
Super 8 hits theaters this Friday. Be sure to check back then for our official review.
If you want to learn more about the young actor J.J. Abrams discovered to play the lead in the film, check out our interview with Joel Courtney.
Follow me on Twitter @benandrewmoore.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Ben Moore blogs at Screen Rant.
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Here it is, readers in this area, your second notice about a first-time ever event that has some people who've heard about it excited.
Here it is, readers in this area, your second notice about a first-time ever event that has some people who've heard about it excited.
It is the 9th annual Collectors Day military display show, to be held in downtown Leavenworth on Saturday, March 23, at the Heritage Center. Although it will be the 9th annual for the Kansas City Military Collectors Club (KCMCC), host of the event, it will be the first time the display show has ever been in Leavenworth.
For eight years it was in Kansas City, but KC's loss is Leavenworth's gain, as collectors from all over KC, and as far away as Lawrence and St. Joseph will provide 40 tables filled with historic military relics for the public to see.
The door opens at 10 a.m., and for the next six hours interested visitors can walk through and see centuries of warfare on display. It is not a sales show, so nothing will be for sale. Nothing, that is, but delicious "New Zealand hotdogs" for those who are there during lunchtime.
And hold on to your hat for the best news: Going to the event and looking at the exhibits and talking to the displayers is absolutely free. That should fit everyone's budget, and eliminate any excuse not to go and see and talk.
The display is part of the club's educational outreach to the public, to instill a sense of pride in military history by sharing historical items for the public to see. Some club members will allow viewers to touch and perhaps pick up, but viewers should ask the displayer before touching anything.
Speaking of the relics that will be on display, just what will some of them be? Now that the 40 tables have been requested by club members who said what items will be shown, I can share some of them with you.
What to put on his table is up to each displayer, and most of the some 60 club members have different collecting interests. To whet your interest I can say that some items will include ancient warfare, with weapons from Greek and Roman soldiers, hand-made items from darkest Africa in the mid-1800s, flight helmets, bayonets from WW I, battlefield recovered items from battlefields around the world, rifles, pistols, and WW II medical items.
Also items from the U.S. Constabulary in Germany after WW II, the Berlin Airlift, international airborne insignia belonging to a former president of the 101st Airborne Division Veterans Association, trench art from several wars, the Great War infantryman, U.S. Navy items 1900-1970, 20th century U.S. crew-served weapons, WW II Japanese items, native-made weapons, and ammunition cans.
Two tables will have military razors. Interesting story about that one. Two years ago club member Ret. Lt. Col. Mike Sparks was mentioned in my column as having a shaving display. The day of the show a woman from Lansing showed up with a sack and handed it to him. It was a pristine shaving strop marked "US" that had been used by one of her military ancestors.
She inherited the strop, but had absolutely no use for it. Reading about the show, she drove to Kansas City to seek out Sparks and give it to him. It literally came out of the blue, and he appreciated it very much as he didn't have one. Want to bet that the strop will be on one of his tables on March 23?
And just to maintain a bit of an air of mystery, a couple of tables are not listed above, so you'll be surprised when you show up and see those secrets.
As an added treat, some WW II veterans have been invited and some plan to wear their vintage uniform. So for anyone with an interest in military history, the Heritage Center will be the place to be on Saturday March 23. Don't forget the free part. The club has bought a number counter to see how many show up, which will determine if there will be a show #2 in Leavenworth next year.
John Reichley is a retired Army officer and retired Department of the Army civilian employee.


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GENOA, Italy, April 12 (UPI) -- An Italian-made system that provides an all-direction view to helicopter crews has been selected for evaluation by Australia.
Selex ES has said the selection of its VigilX enhanced vision system was made by the Australian Defense Science & Technology Organization which is looking at an integrated visual solution for military helicopters operating in degraded visual environments.
"The Australian Defense Force sees the development of degraded visual environment capabilities as being crucial to increasing aircrew safety and survivability in the hazardous missions carried out by the military," said Maj. Ryan Maher of the Australian Department of Defense's Capability Development Group. "Additionally, this technology will provide aircrew with a distinct tactical advantage on the battlefield."
The VigilX system marries feeds from cameras – supplemented by 3D conformal symbology -- situated around an aircraft to create a single integrated panoramic image. The image can be viewed by aircraft crews on helmet- mounted displays.
The contract from DSTO will be primed by Rheinmetall Simulation Australia Pty Ltd, Selex said but additional details were not disclosed.


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A wall of storage is at your fingertips with this rustic entertainment center. The middle provides space for your TV and there's shelf space on the sides to store DVDs, videos, CDs, or books. The bottom cabinet with its ample shelving gives you space for audio and video equipment. The fine workmanship is evident in the extra-large bonnet top and distressed finish. The southwestern, rustic style goes well with many other types of decor.


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People love numbers. And they especially love numbers that would appear to support their preconceived notions. That's why Israel's detractors are so feverishly pointing out that while only three Jewish boys were abducted last week, Israel has responded by rounding up over 350 Palestinians.
When put like that, it certainly appears as though Israel is acting in an unfairly disproportionate, if not criminal, manner. But, of course, to put things like that ignores several important truths.
Israeli legal experts who spoke to The Times of Israel argued that Israel's arrests in its search for Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel simply cannot be labeled as collective punishment, and certainly not as a war crime.
Collective punishment, they pointed out, is arbitrary punitive action against a group of people. What Israel is doing is hardly arbitrary. It is arresting very specific people with the express intent of either pressuring Hamas or discovering new information that could lead to the rescue of the abducted teens.
This is Investigation 101, the very same kind of tactics that would, on a smaller scale, be used by police against an organized crime syndicate.
There is also anger over the fact that four Palestinians have been killed during the Israeli operation. Never mind that they were all engaged in violence against Israeli soldiers at the times of their deaths.
Even the Palestinian Authority demonstrated that Israel's response to these violent outbursts while Israel is trying to find kidnapped children is not unreasonable.
When Palestinian mobs turned on the PA itself for purportedly aiding the Israeli search, Palestinian police also responded with live fire. Interestingly, the violence the Palestinian police were responding to is typically referred to as "peaceful demonstration" when directed toward Israelis.
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Sandy Hook memorials at Town Hall go to storage
NEWTOWN -- Sandy Hook dad Charles Calderbank was deeply moved Saturday by the "outpouring of love and support" visible in the thousands of cards, posters and more on display in Newtown Town Hall.
The mementos were sent by well-wishers from across the world in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings that killed 20 first-graders and six educators on Dec. 14.
Saturday was the final day for the public to view the items propped on tables or hanging from the walls along either side of the wide, long main hall. Several mobiles hung from the ceiling.
Everything will be moved to storage, except for items marked with a green circle by the victims' families or Newtown residents indicating they would like the particular gift.
Saturday morning, Calderbank stood by a chain of more than 100 brightly colored origami cranes. It had been sent by students from Vicenza, Italy. Paper cranes are a sign of hope and peace.
"Both my children were at the school that day," Calderbank said. "I started feeling normal again around the end of January. But every time you think you're through the grief process, something comes up."
He reflected briefly on Adam Lanza, who opened fire at the school before killing himself. Earlier that morning he shot his mother in their Sandy Hook home.
"That young man, the shooter, he had problems that should have been dealt with," Calderbank said. "This brought home the fact that you have to make sure your children grow up to be good people."
Over the last few weeks, posters and cards were sorted and documented by volunteers at Town Hall. Some wrote thank-you notes to the senders when return addresses were available.
Lynn Kovack, a clerk in the Building Department, had sorted through cards and letters for weeks while at her desk.
"We did our work, and also read and sorted," Kovack said. "You would be so touched at times, you'd start crying and everyone around you would cry with you."
An envelope from Puerto Rico was addressed just "Condolence, Newtown, CT 06470."
A proclamation with the city of Tallahassee seal declared "Jan. 16, 2013, as Newtown Connecticut & Sandy Hook Elementary Remembrance Day."
"Whereas ... nearly 30 people lost their lives at the hands of another. ... Whereas, the entire nation has been deeply moved by this senseless and terrible event," it read.
Two months after the shootings, the exhibit at Town Hall was one of the last public displays. In the days following the tragedy, impromptu memorials grew at main intersections in town and the Sandy Hook section and were dismantled toward the end of the year.
Saturday, Kovack told of an "older couple" who had stopped by Town Hall on their way from West Virginia to Maine.
"They'd brought a dozen red roses," Kovack said. "They asked me to give it to someone deserving. I gave it to a family who came that day to pick up mementos."


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War Horse (US - BD)
Gabe rides into battle with Steven Spielberg on adorable horses...
At the onset of WWI an English farmer named Ted Narracott (Peter Mullen) brings home a feisty colt, which is named Joey and loved by his son, Albert (Jeremy Irvine). Joey and Albert are soon forced apart when the turnip crop is destroyed, and Ted is forced to sell Joey to the war effort. From here, Joey takes an extraordinary journey, changing and inspiring the lives of everyone he meets on both sides of the battle. No matter where they go or what they experience, both Albert and Joey keep forging ahead, driven by devotion and the hope of returning home.
Based on the trailers and word of mouth, War Horse sees Steven Spielberg getting back to a place of comfort following an experimental, first time animation experience ( The Adventures of Tintin), a half-assed favour to a friend ( Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), and a mature, adult oriented attempt at pseudo-reinvention ( Munich). The Beard is back to familiar, popular, and award winning territory with period settings, war, and adorable creatures with a vast array of human emotions. War Horse is based on a popular book and play, but doesn't carry the same predisposition for 'prestige' that Spielberg's other big war films have, ie: Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List, which I feel leaves the director a chance to have more fun with the subject matter. The PG-13 rating gives us a solid clue as to the director's intensions as well. At best War Horse should be a bridge between the director's best heavy-minded Oscar bait, and lighter hearted, emotional string pulling '80s work. That said, Steve certainly isn't sleepwalking through or half-assing this particular production (cough cough Crystal Skull cough).
First and obvious things first, War Horse is an achingly gorgeous film. Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski go for beauty, grandeur, and scope with just about every shot here, making War Horse a sort of anti- Adventures Tintin. Tintin reveled full-force in the possibilities of virtual cameras and digital characters, and War Horse gracefully captures every ounce of traditional, non-enhanced photographic beauty in the tradition of David Lean and John Ford. Even viewers that are overwhelmed with hatred for the film's occasionally childish tone will likely adore this photography. The battle sequences, which don't start until about the one hour mark, are properly spectacular, and another definitive highlight. There are at least a dozen images in both the preparation and execution of battle that easily sit among the director's most brain-searing and indelible, especially during that initial and ill-fated horse charge, which is reason alone enough to watch the nearly two and a half hour long film. Pains are taken to capture the ambiguous tone of WWI, where everyone had the capacity to be a hero or villain, unlike WWII, where the Nazis make easy target bad guys due to the whole first strike and mass-eradication of a race of people thing.
I have some pretty big problems with the screenplay, which is incredibly simplistic and predictable. Villains conspire just because they're villains, only to be thwarted when our hero horse defies the odds. But before anyone can celebrate too much, fate intervenes and the horse has to overcome more adversity. Rinse. Repeat. Hopefully the audience cries a bit during the higher emotional hills, etcetera. There are some pretty obvious ways Spielberg could've worked this script to his advantage. First off, he needs to decide if he's making a children's film, or a genuine, adult look at the first World War. I'd like to say the mix of elements works, but generally speaking this feels like two totally different films, and the serious war violence (despite being very well constructed) constantly shocked me out of my sense of disbelief, and made all the anthropomorphic horse stuff look kind of silly. There's also little reason for the film to be quite this long, despite the epic expanse of the story, and the use of multiple characters. The early scenes on the farm weigh the film down up front. Here, Spielberg calls upon his best boy and his dog (horse) skills, and sets the early, somewhat extraneous first act up with a mix of charming comedy and eye-rolling sentimentality. None of the critters here talk, but tonally Spielberg borrows a lot from Chris Noonan and George Miller's Babe. There's still plenty of cheap histrionic twaddle (my friend called it 'creepy, co-dependent beastiality romance'), but a lot of it works, and there are some unexpectedly quirky laughs peppered throughout. The Narracott farm's goose is a constant lark, though the alchemy of the Babe formula generally eludes the director. Things smooth over quite a bit as the third act rolls around, and Spielberg finds a proper balance between sap and war horror. Things even build to an incredibly touching crescendo that is so convoluted it should sink the entire film, but Spielberg spins his insane magic, and pulls it off. There's just so much unnecessary set-up on the road to this all too brief genuine magic.
The human characters are all a bit too traditional, and thus their emotions and arcs are a bit difficult to parse with any sense of realism, but Spielberg has to build a bit of early cartoon perspective to ensure we're treating Joey like a proper character. The unique and central idea of experiencing the war through Joey's varied human counterparts is certainly intact, but they never garner the same tender swells the horses do. Spielberg and the trainers deserve huge praise for humanizing these creatures so effectively, but it's sad that it's at the expense of the bipedal characters. Again, it comes down to balance, and there's a sense that the least rounded humans are actually the most vividly realized and affecting. I was more touched by the relatively brief vignettes featuring the war-deserting German brothers and the horse-loving German private than I was by the more substantial scenes of little Emilie and her grandfather, or even the reuniting of Joey with Albert. Perhaps even more emphasis should've been placed on the horse's side of the story.
Steven Spielberg has gone on record stating his affection for standard 35mm film time and time again, and despite the all digital influence of The Adventures of Tintin[I] he's back to his old tricks for [I]War Horse, which was shot on 35mm, using mostly Arriflex cameras. Spielberg also continues his long running collaboration with cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, and they make the right choice by framing the film in a nice, wide 2.35:1 aspect ratio. The bulk of the film is coded in either rich warm daytime vistas, or dreary, blue, rain soaked fogginess. You know, the usual image of Britain, no mater what era we're talking about. The darker scenes reveal a bit more detail and texture, but the warm skin tones, green fields, and golden skies – it's apparently always sunrise or sunset in this universe – are all quite clean, and feature brilliant gradation shifts. The perpetual sunrise/set thing keeps contrast levels harsh, and black levels deep during even the brightest scenes, with only a hint of edge enhancement over the hardest edges. Grain levels are quite fine, almost non-existent at times, and compression artifacts are minimal, even on the occasional poppy red highlight. Kaminski fills out the frame like Sergio Leone, juxtaposing deep-set vistas with extreme facial close-ups, allowing for dynamic detail extremes throughout. The realistic, cinema verite war sequences occasionally feature a jarring degree of smoke and smeared, foggy details, but even here everything remains smooth without blocking.
Spielberg's usual audio design partner Gary Rydstrom is up to his usual magic with War Horse, and this DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 captures every ounce of dynamic noise. Early on, the mix sets itself apart with a montage of Albert playing hide and seek with Joey, calling him from the stereo and surround channels with a bird call. From here the basic ins and outs of natural ambience fill things out with lots of rain, thunder, wind, and general farm sounds. The war sequences are an eclectic mix of thundering horse hooves, grinding vehicular gears, exploding artillery, clanging metal, and gunfire. Everything moves briskly throughout the channels, in the appropriate direction, and with heavy LFE impact. During the trench warfare sequences Rydstrom calls upon all his Saving Private Ryan lessons learned and creates a soundscape nearly as shell-shocking, and every bit as loud. Composer John Williams did double duty for Spielberg this year after a three year break from film music, creating the whimsical, jazz-infused score that helped set the tone for The Adventures of Tintin, and this more traditional score helps establish a bouncier tone earlier in the film, while sweeping things along more triumphantly later on. However, Williams might want to look into the possibility of suing himself for plagiarism at this point, because he's 'quoting' himself a lot here. The main title them is also awfully close to one of the songs from the Zelda: Ocarina of Time videogame soundtrack…
There is a sizable collection of extras in this two Blu-ray collection, starting on disc one with War Horse: The Journey Home (19:40, HD), a roundtable discussion featuring Spielberg, producer Kathleen Kennedy, and actors Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Tom Hiddleston and Tony Kebbell. Here, the participants somewhat fluffily talk up the themes and structure of the film, and, to a better effect, some of the behind the scenes anecdotes, mostly concerning the horse actors. Then cinematographer J a n u s z Kaminski, production designer Rick Carter, costume designer Johanna Johnston, screenwriter Lee Hall and editor Mike Kahn are brought in to discuss some of the technical aspects with Spielberg and Kennedy. The first disc also features An Extra's Point of View (3:10, HD), a brief look at 'background artist' Martin Lew's time on the giant production.
Disc two starts with A Filmmaking Journey (64:10, HD), a behind the scenes documentary featuring interviews with Spielberg, Kennedy, Kaminski, Carter, Kahn, novelist Michael Morpurgo, screenwriter Richard Curtis, producer Revel Guest, horse make-up artist Alexandra Bannister and Charlotte Rogers, horse trainer Bobby Lovgren, Human Society rep Barbara Carr, costume designer Johanna Johnston and consultant David Crossman, stunt coordinator Rob Inch, special effects supervisor Neil Corbould, master armor Simon Arherton, military advisor Andrew Robertshaw, cast members Jeremy Irvine, David Thewlis, Peter Mullen, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick Kennedy, David Kross, Celine Buckens, Niels Arestrup, Robert Emms, and Toby Kebbell. It covers the film's historical context, the writing of the original novel, the location shooting, characters, casting, horse decoration and training, production design, pre-viz, actor boot camp, props and machinery, and includes plenty of behind the scenes footage, pre-viz footage, and production artwork.
The disc is completed with Editing and Scoring (8:50, HD), which features Spielberg, Kahn and composer John Williams discussing the, um, editing and scoring of the film, The Sounds of War Horse (7:10, HD), which features sound designer Gary Rydstrom discussing his contributions, and Through the Producer's Lens (4:00, HD), which features Kathleen Kennedy discussing the photos she took on set (complete with the photos themselves). I'm disappointed by the lack of footage from the popular play that predated the film. I'm also disappointed that none of the extras featured Dethklok's immortal metal classic, 'Thunderhorse'.
I really, really wanted to love War Horse based on my affection for Steven Spielberg's films and the unique concept, but I'm left merely loving parts of it. With a solid 30 minutes edited out of the mix and a more consistent tone, I think it could've been a genuine classic. Of Spielberg's two 2011 films The Adventures of Tintin may have been the better best picture nomination option. This disc looks and sounds glourious though, and the looks and sounds are the definitively great pieces of the troubled film. Extras aren't quite as plentiful as the box art might promise, but cover most of the bases, and are generally satisfying.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
DirkToesfeld Member Join Date: November 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 110
Let's hope the horses won't mind being billed after David Kross.
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
Hey, I'm progressive. Most reviews don't credit the horses at all.
Jeremy S Member Join Date: October 2004 Location: United States Posts: 109
I just watched this tonight. By the time it was over I was wishing Peter Mullan had gone ahead and shot the horse.
mlcm Member Join Date: November 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 947
What in the world does "pseudo-reinvention" mean? That Spielberg was claiming to reinvent himself but behind closed door, was laughing dastardly at our gullibility?
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13
Disc Details
Release Date: 3rd April 2012
Discs: 4
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English, DTS-HD HR 7.1 French, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: War Horse: The Journey Home, An Extra's Point of View, A Filmmaker's Journey, Editing and Scoring, The Sounds of War Horse, Through the Producer's Lens, Trailers, DVD Copy, Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Eddie Marsan, Toby Kebbell, Niels Arestrup, David Kross, Horses
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama and War
Length: 146 minutes
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Right of Access to Personal Data
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- (c) a description of those to whom the data may be disclosed and
- (d) the source of the data unless this would be contrary to public interest
You are also obliged to explain to the data subject the logic used in any automated decision making process where the decision significantly affects the individual and the decision is solely based on the automated process. This "right of access" is subject to a limited number of exceptions, which are listed below.
An individual making an access request must:-
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- give any details which might be needed to help you identify him or her and locate all the information you may keep about him/her (e.g., previous addresses, customer account numbers).
- The individual must also pay you an access fee if you wish to charge one. You do not need to do so, but if you do it cannot exceed €6.35.
Every individual about whom a data controller keeps personal information on computer or in a relevant filing system, has a number of other rights under the Acts, in addition to the Right of Access. These include the right to have any inaccurate information rectified or erased, to have personal data taken off a direct marketing or direct mailing list and the right to complain to the Data Protection Commissioner. More details about the rights of individuals are given in the section of our website aimed at data subjects - click the link below.
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- Supply the information to the individual within 40 days of receiving the request. Note that, having received the access request, you cannot change or delete the personal data which you hold just because you do not wish the data subject to see it.
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If you do not keep any information on computer or in a relevant filing system about the individual making the request you should tell them so within the 40 days.
You are not obliged to refund any fee you may have charged for dealing with the access request should you find you do not, in fact, keep any data. However, the fee must be refunded if you do not comply with the request, or if you have to rectify, supplement or erase the personal data concerned.
Are there exceptions or limitations on the right of access to personal data?
Yes there are. The restrictions upon the right of access fall into five groups:
- Section 5 of the Data Protection Act provides that the right of access does not apply in a number of cases, in order to strike a balance between the rights of the individual, on the one hand, and some important needs of civil society, on the other hand, such as the need to investigate crime effectively, and the need to protect the international relations of the State.
- The right of access to medical data and social workers' data is also restricted in some very limited circumstances, to protect the individual from hearing anything about himself or herself which might cause serious harm to his or her physical or mental health or emotional well-being.
- The right of access to examination results is modified slightly.
- The right of access does not include a right to see personal data about another individual, without that other person's consent. This is necessary to protect the privacy rights of the other person. Where personal data consists of expressions of opinion about the data subject by another person, the data subject has a right to that expression of opinion except where that expression of opinion was given in confidence.
- The obligation to comply with an access request does not apply where it is impossible for the data controller to provide the data or where it involves a disproportionate effort.
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A man found asleep in his car on the A6 in the early hours of the morning was almost three times the drink-drive limit, a court heard.
Police were called to the scene at 3.10am on February 17 and arrived to find Spencer Michael Edmonds asleep in the driver's seat, with the keys in the ignition, the bonnet still warm, and a bottle of vodka in the passenger seat, prosecutor Jennifer Fitzgerald told High Peak Magistrates' Court.
He failed a roadside breath test and at the police station, he provided a reading of 108. The legal limit is 35.
In interview, he admitted driving the car after a row with his girlfriend and said he had pulled over to go to sleep on the A6 because of a problem with the clutch.
The 41-year-old, of Bingham Park Road, Sheffield, admitted being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle.
Kirsten Collings, defending, said he had a bottle of wine at his partner's address earlier in the evening. "He had been expecting to stay there," she added.
He was fined £300, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £30 surcharge and banned from driving for six months.


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TAMPA — A brawny crew hauls corpulent sacks of "pink gold" from the Master Daulton's freezer hold onto pallets at the Tampa Shrimp Docks.
John Donini runs the pallets of colossal Key West shrimp by forklift into the Superior Seafood packing house, where his cousin, Ernest "Ernie" Donini, weighs them, then logs them in.
In an average year, some 3.5 million to 4 million pounds of wild-caught shrimp rolls into this packing house off Causeway Boulevard, offered up by 25 to 30 shrimp boats. Next door, Versaggi Shrimp Corp. offloads about 800,000 pounds a year from its own six boats.
Despite slimmed-down fleets compared with years gone by, the local family-owned shrimp companies are keeping a Florida tradition alive, contributing to the massive amounts of shrimp consumed in this country each year.
Florida has typically been ranked the third-highest producer of domestic wild-caught shrimp, behind Louisiana and Texas, though Alabama shrimpers have gained an edge over Florida shrimpers just recently.
About 10 percent — or 125 million pounds — of the 1.32 billion pounds of shrimp consumed in the United States each year is wild-caught shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico and the south Atlantic Ocean. The rest — some 1.2 billion pounds — is pond-raised or wild-caught in places like China, Thailand and Vietnam.
The local business owners concede that imported shrimp — the shrimp that is feeding the masses — is a necessity to slake the appetite of this crustacean-crazed nation. But keeping the playing field level so the domestic shrimp industry can compete is a constant job.
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Superior Shrimp has been in operation since 1955, started by the fathers of company president Ernie Donini and vice president John Donini. Their fathers were brothers, and the sons carry on their fathers' names and the family business.
The operation landed at the newly constructed Tampa Shrimp Docks in 1981 and bustles during shrimp season, between November and June each year. Superior sells most of its shrimp — some offloaded from Ernie Donini's own three shrimp boats — to wholesale operators, who, in turn, package and deliver it to restaurants and grocery stores in Florida and elsewhere.
Versaggi's six boats and packing house supply a similar market. Both companies sell some of their shrimp retail, right from the docks.
Superior and Versaggi both once had boats shrimping off French Guyana and other areas of South America, but as times changed, the businesses divested their foreign operations and headed home to Tampa.
At one time, Ernie Donini said, there were 200 to 300 boats working out of Tampa. "Back then, there were 6,000 registered shrimp boats in the Gulf," he said. "Now, there are 1,500." Shrimping permits are limited and fishing grounds are monitored by both state and federal agencies to deter overfishing.
Versaggi went into business in 1912 and for a time was one of the largest distributors of fresh and frozen shrimp in the country.
"I started off when I graduated from college by entering the family business," Sal Versaggi said. "My first stint was in South America." He even explored the coast of Africa for shrimp beds. "Eventually, as my dad and his brothers retired, I and my brothers, Joe, John and Fred, bought their interest out." Like Superior, Versaggi eventually sold off its South American business and came home.
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The blue-collar shrimping industry got more political in the early 2000s, when importers flooded the market with cheap shrimp, causing the price of domestic shrimp to plummet. Shrimpers in eight states — Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas — formed the Southern Shrimp Alliance and sent a contingent to Washington, D.C.
"One of our biggest triumphs was that we won an anti-dumping case involving six countries that were dealing in unfair trade and bombarding the market with product and overloading the whole system," said Versaggi, past president of the alliance. "It had been coming on, and we knew we couldn't go on forever. We knew we had to unite."
The alliance worked hard getting duties imposed on a number of countries, making it more difficult for them to dump cheap shrimp on the United States market. "Those duties varied, depending on how egregious the cheating was," Versaggi said.
"We were successful to a point, but it's a cat-and-mouse game all the time," he said. "They (some importers) are always finding a way to circumvent the rules," including importing shrimp treated with banned antibiotics and other animal drugs.
"We went to the (Food and Drug Administration) and we alerted them to the fact that this was going on. About 80 percent of the seafood is coming in from elsewhere, they inspect 2 percent, and maybe 1 percent will go through a lab. In Europe and Japan, they inspect 20 percent. So, where are you going to send your product? Those are the things we try to tell Washington, D.C."
Some importers also circumvent the rules on duties by taking their shrimp to a country that doesn't have duties imposed on it and then shipping it to the United States from there, Versaggi said.
The good news for U.S. shrimpers is that consumers are more educated and are seeking out foods that don't contain chemicals and antibiotics, so they turn to ocean-caught shrimp.
And U.S. consumers want the taste that comes from wild-caught shrimp, John Donini said. "I used to think a shrimp was a shrimp, but ocean shrimp is much more flavorful and sweet than pond-raised. It's the difference between a prime rib and a round steak."
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Despite that change in consumer mindset, the issues with imports remain.
"We are a lot more proactive than we used to be," Ernie Donini said.
The Southern Shrimp Alliance grew out of that proactive stance. It remains the shrimpers' agent in the continuing struggle to keep the playing field level.
"There are always import issues," said John Williams, executive director of the alliance, based in Tarpon Springs. "One thing we try to make very clear is we are not against imports. We can't supply the market, but there has to be fair trade, and with some imports, there are these issues of food safety. We try to address those on a federal level."
The push is working, at least to some extent. In April, the FDA issued an alert stating that "the use of unapproved antibiotics or chemicals in aquaculture raises significant public health concerns," including cancer-producing effects.
The FDA reports that it continues to find residues of some banned animal drugs in shipments of farm-raised seafood products from China and has given its district inspectors the ability to detain and screen shipments from China if they come from companies other than those on its "green list."
A disease known as shrimp Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS), caused by a strain of a bacterium commonly found in brackish coastal waters, has during the past two years caused large-scale die-offs of cultivated shrimp in several Asian countries.
That loss of imported shrimp has actually helped businesses like Superior and Versaggi by keeping the price of domestically caught shrimp high, Ernie Donini said. Right now, he is selling his shrimp retail for $10 to $12 a pound. He said that same shrimp might sell at Publix for about $18 a pound.
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UPDATE: If you would like to see different circuit design, have a look at version 2.
I was poking around the internets on Labor day when I came across this. It is a wall switch intended to replace a boring old toggle switch in your arcade room. My single arcade machine does not warrant its own room, but I do like the idea of an arcade button light switch. So, in an effort to get up and do something I made this arcade button switch for switching an extension cord. I have it plugged into the magnifier with fluorescent lamp on my electronics bench.
Since it was a holiday, I wanted to use only parts I had on hand so that I could finish this project the same day. Fortunately, I have a pretty large selection of bits that included arcade buttons. Sadly, I had no triacs, though and settled for a relay instead.
There are quite a few ways that you could make a set/reset flipflop circuit for this purpose. I settled on a 555 timer setup with relay. The flipflop could have just as easily been two NPN transistors, but I felt like reminiscing with the venerable 555 timer.
Download the schematic here if you like...
I very slowly drilled two holes in a cover plate.
Circuit assembly began with the relay I had on hand. I soldered some leads to the normally open contacts on the relay and put heatshrink on the solder joints. The unused, normally closed, pin on the relay was snipped off flush and insulated with a dab of hot glue. Otherwise, this pin would have been an exposed hot leg of 110VAC. Not a huge deal as everything is inside a plastic box, but it is a good idea to do.
Circuit assembly continued on a piece of perf board and was hot glued to the top of the relay which, in turn, was hot glued betwixt the arcade push buttons.
In the picture below, you can see where the hot lead of the extension cord is interrupted by the normally open contacts on the relay. You can also see a knot tied into the extension cord in the top left of the picture as strain relief.
Below you can see everything fits into the box nicely. What isn't too apparent is a pair of black wires coming out of the box too. I chose to use a wall wart transformer to power my circuit instead of the 110VAC coming into the box as this is just a bench top installation and not an, in the wall, permanent fixture.
Here is a video of the switch in action. You can see the camera adjusting it's auto white balance as the lamp I have the switch plugged into is turning on and off.
This project was a fun way to spend the afternoon. It certainly adds some geek cred to my electronics bench. I think I am more interested in a monostable 555 circuit attached to the relay output, however. That way, I could turn things on for a period of time and have them turn off automatically, instead of returning a day or two later to find out I left my soldering station on again.


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May 22nd Dungeon Striker Developer's Patch Note - 05-24-2013, 07:01 PM
My name is Tae-yeon Kim, head designer of Spiral Studio. I'm posting this notice at the first public patch of Dungeon Striker. Since "Open information, better idea" is one of the value our Dungeon Striker teams are following, I'll try my best to announce update direction at every important update. Skipping our newly finished Tower of Ordeals and guild system, let's get into the point!
Debug errors on party and drop
Our team found a big error at the game based system, when we examined bugs related with Sword Master title . Combat and reward system haven't catch up to the data update in party system, and, as a result, some number of party members has been miscalculated
Symptoms of this error have been shown as below :
And proper difficulties and reward drop rate will be applied by the number of party members. And the second error was drop adjustment by level. Wrong drop correction has been applied and higher level character got less in certain items.
These two error debugging will vary game play experiences and rewards somewhat complex. Combat might become easier or harder. Reward might become more or less. I apologize for any inconvenience from these serious errors and the fact we couldn't haven found them before open beta service.
Besides, we understand many of you are questioning the efficiency of party itself. We're going to observe the changes after this update.
Our apologize for urgent error correction and the direction in balance tuning after this.
After open better service, a couple of debugging on combat system have been placed already. With this game service, our dev. team has a value:
"we respect the way users using game. Even if it takes advantage of system's weak point, we respect them as much as possible."
Sad to say, the combat system patches in last week are opposed to this value. Yes, the skill combination includes mage's "Norm-Arcane" is "the way user using DS" what users discovered and created. We decided, however, allowing this kind of high-weariness control as a base control would become "wrong first button" and made an unavoidable retouch. I apology about it.
Now the hottest potato in class balance is Beserker that inheritated wizard's 'Arcane Burst' skill, so called 'Arcane Beserker'. This combination has dominant efficiency, especially Boss combat in Nightmare dungeon.
In fact, we thought this combination would be the "public combination" from the dev period, it now shows much higher performance than we expected.
We, development team, finally decided this dominant position is not desirable and are planning to revise it step by step.
For one, 5.22 patch has revisions as below.
Needless to say, Acane Berserker is still powerful after this revision.
We don't want to hold back Acane Berserkers with excessive nerf. We're going to balance overall classes with upgrading other classes. And I also want to mention that class and skill combination will be varied more and more. Fast completion of boss monster is not all of this game, not all bosses are not single target and individual damage dealing is not all. Tower of Ordeals and other following contents will make variety situations. Either following general trend or focusing your own way can be way to enjoy the game. I hope you remember that your character keeps growing and enough skill points will be given to master all skills.
And others
Here I'd like to answer some of your questions.
Closing this post, I hope you to enjoy DS now and look forward upcoming progress of DS.
Thank you.
This is a translation from http://ds.hangame.com/xbbs/bbs/read....artclNo=105619 Translated by Baik Sun, who is also translating skills for the wiki along with Yeonsil Song.
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So that's what I been hearing. The berserker got nerfed already? Did they find the d3 equivalent of the Barbarian?
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SQL and PL/SQL Articles
How to send Email in Oracle using Gmail.
Email sending by using Oracle through Gmail:
BEGIN EMAIL_GMAIL.SEND ('firstname.lastname@example.com','firstname.lastname@example.com','Your email subject','Emaisaaasdasal Message body'); END;
I am fascinated by what I call "equal SQL": statements that are equivalent, in that they deliver the same result but may have hugely different performance characteristics. Here's a little case study.
Row Limiting Clause for Top-N Queries in Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1)
Related articles.
Developers who come to Oracle with a background in procedural languages sometimes do not understand how efficient SQL's set oriented processing can be. This little demonstration should convince them: never use PL/SQL when SQL will do.
We all know that using SELECT * is bad programming. One reason is that you cannot control the order in which columns are returned. Well, you can in release 12c.
Many developers find that their code fails with ORA-942, but when they test the failing statement from the SQL> prompt, it works. Why, and what can you do to fix it?
The CONNECT BY syntax provides a useful pseudocolumn, CONNECT_BY_ISLEAF, which identifies leaf nodes in the data: it's 1 when a row has no further children, 0 otherwise. In this post, I'll look at emulating this pseudocolumn using recursive WITH.
In my last post, I looked at using recursive WITH to implement simple recursive algorithms in SQL. One very common use of recursion is to traverse hierarchical data. I recently wrote a series of posts on hierarchical data, using Oracle's CONNECT BY syntax and a fun example. In this post, I'll be revisiting the same data using recursive WITH.
I recently had the opportunity to talk with Tom Kyte (!), and in the course of our conversation, he really made me face up to the fact that the SQL syntax I use every day is frozen in time: I'm not making much use of the analytic functions and other syntax that Oracle has introduced since 8i.
Why publishing this under SQL instead of RDBMS Server?
The necessaty to create supporting indexes for foreign keys has been explained in other articles.
However writing a foolproof query to identify missing FK indexes is not so straightforward as it might look. I used to do it PLSQL, but this has proven not to scale very well and taking quite some elapsed time and system resources in databases with many thousands of tables. The blog entry is about the challenge to get the job done with a well performing SQL statement.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 21, 2013) – The ETSU men's basketball team will begin a special stretch of games tonight, as the Buccaneers play their first of three contests inside Freedom Hall Civic Center as part of the First Bank and Trust Roundball Showcase.
The Bucs first opponent in the showcase will be future Southern Conference rival Samford, with tip is set for 7 p.m. Thursday evening. ETSU will also play Stephen F. Austin (Nov. 23) and Marshall (Nov. 30) over the next week and a half, while the ETSU women's basketball team will play one game inside Freedom Hall as part of a doubleheader tonight beginning at 4:45 against Morehead State.
Information regarding the Freedom Hall games can be found by clicking on the link to the right.
For more on tonight's game with Samford, read the game notes below or click on the game notebook link to the right. For more on ETSU men's basketball throughout the 2013-14 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's hoops link.
We are "ETSU"
The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Buccaneers, but Bucs is also acceptable.
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The ETSU men's basketball program was glad to see the 2012-13 campaign come to an end, following a season which saw the team face multiple obstacles and challenges -- such as a brutal schedule that featured the likes of North Carolina, Arizona, Ole Miss, Virginia Tech, Georgia and Hawaii ... Other issues for the team included senior post Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.) missing the season with ankle injury that he suffered in the preseason, senior guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis) being academically ineligible for the first two months of the year, and two other senior guards who were expected to be major contributors were dismissed from the team in early November for violations of team rules … This left head coach Murry Bartow and his coaching staff with a young, inexperienced group of underclassmen, several true freshmen, one redshirt freshman and a pair of junior college transfers … Those obstacles proved to be tough to overcome, as the Buccaneers posted a 10-22 record and finished 8-10 in Atlantic Sun Conference play … It was the toughest campaign in Bartow's 10 seasons at ETSU, a tenure that has produced many championships, postseason tournament appearances and 20-win campaigns … In all, Bartow's teams have earned three NCAA Tournament invitations (2004, 2009 and 2010), one NIT appearance (2007), and one CIT berth (2011), and the Bucs have eclipsed 20 wins five times. … This year, the Bucs will once again take to the floor with a young squad made up of several new faces … In fact, despite the return of the 6-fooot-9 Poderis, the Bucs have just five players back this season who played significant minutes a year ago.
The series vs. Samford
The Bucs are 2-0 all-time against Samford, but it's been 33 years since the teams have met ... Those two previous games were in 1979 and 1980 ... ETSU won the 1979 matchup 64-63, and the 1980 game 86-78.
The Bucs return to Freedom Hall
Over the next week and a half, the ETSU men's basketball team will play three games inside Johnson City's Freedom Hall as part of the First Bank and Trust Company Roundball Showcase ... The Bucs will play Samford (Nov.. 21), Stephen F. Austin (Nov. 23) and Marshall (Nov. 30) at the facility, and the women's team will play one game against Morehead State as part of a doubleheader on Dec. 21.
Last time out at Freedom Hall
While ETSU teams have played inside Freedom Hall from time to time over the 90-plus year history of the program, this will be the first game inside the building in nearly 12 years ... The last ETSU game at Freedom Hall occurred on Dec. 15, 2001, an 84-57 victory over James Madison ... In that game, senior guard Dimeco Childress (Columbia, Tenn.) scored 25 points and the Bucs forced 16 James Madison turnovers to cruise to the win.
Last time out
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 19, 2013) – ETSU head coach Murry Bartow says consistency is the key to his team's performance this season. Unfortunately for Bartow, his Buccaneers were once again unable to deliver a consistent effort Tuesday night against Winthrop. ... Despite a 15-0 offensive run that turned around a 48-34 deficit and gave the Bucs a 49-48 lead with 12:43 left in the game, the Eagles responded with their own 14-2 burst to pull back ahead and never relinquished that advantage in a 76-66 victory inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center. ... Winthrop was led by forward Joab Jerome with a game-high 18 points, while forward James Bourne pitched in 12, guard Keon Johnson netted 11, and guard Andre Smith added 10. For the Bucs, senior forwards Hunter Harris (Nashville) and Kinard Gadsden-Gilliard (Georgetown, S.C.) led the way with 18 points and 16 points, respectively, while junior guard Jalen Riley (Racine, Wisc.) collected 12. ... In looking at the final statistics, the Bucs inconsistency was obvious, as the team shot just 29.2 percent from the floor in the first half, but was an impressive 64 percent from the field in the second half. ETSU also scored just 25 points in the first half, compared to 41 in the second half. That poor offensive effort in the first half allowed Winthrop to build a lead of 35-25 at the intermission, and they extended that lead to 48-34 with 16:15 left in the game. ... At that point, Gadsden-Gilliard scored eight straight thanks to back-to-back 3-pointers and a field goal, helping power the Bucs' comeback that ended with a 3-pointer by senior guard Rashawn Rembert (Tampa, Fla.) that made it 49-48. From there, though, Winthrop outscored the Bucs 28-17. ... Again, the Bucs were out-rebounded 36-31 and committed 17 turnovers in the game. ETSU did shoot better from the floor with a 45.7 percent clip for the game, but Winthrop shot 49.2 percent on the night. The Eagles also shot 47.1 percent from beyond the 3-point arc.
Merriweather continues to shine, posts double-double
Freshman guard A.J. Merriweather (Jackson, Tenn.) has certainly made an impression in the early going this season, and he continued to make more news against Morehead State (11/12) ... The 6-2 guard collected his first career double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds, to go along with a pair of assists, a block and a steal in 35 minutes of play ... His current team ranks are first in rebounding (7.3 rpg) and second in steals (1.5 spg), fifth in scoring (8.0 ppg), and third in minutes played (27.8).
Bucs improve defensively, but inside game struggling
A year ago, ETSU allowed teams to shoot a high percentrage from the field and from the 3-point line ... This year, ETSU's defensive efforts have paid off as the Bucs have held teams to just 40 percent shooting from the field and 29 percent from 3-point range ... However, as the Bucs have improved on the perimeter, the team has struggled in the paint ... Currently, ETSU's rebound margin is -9.7, and the Bucs have been out-rebounded by a total of 169-30 ... Those numbers have led to more second chance points for opponents and the reason for two close losses for the team.
KGG, Merriweather enjoy strong debuts at Charlotte
With his career-high, 31-point effort in the loss at Charlotte (11/8), senior forward Kinard Gadsden-Gilliard (Georgetown, S.C.) certainly made an impression on those inside Halton Arena. ... Along with KGG's showing, freshman A.J. Merriweather (Jackson, Tenn.) did not shy away from the challenge of his first college game and the assignment of defending Charlotte guard Pierria Henry ... While KGG finished with career bests for points (31), field goals made (10) and 3-pointers made (4), Merriweather finished with 10 points to go along with team highs for rebounds (7) and steals (3) in 29 minutes of play.
Young Bucs still face obstacles with experience
The last two seasons, ETSU head coach Murry Bartow has faced the challenge of developing a roster with minimal experience ... As the 2013-14 Buccaneers begin play, Bartow is once again looking at a team with several new faces and limited playing time ... In all, the Bucs return just six players who saw time on the floor last sesaon, while there are a total of seven newcomers to the program ... When counting the entire 15-man roster, the Bucs have a total of just 11 varsity seasons between the team for an average of less than a season per player ... The most experienced player on the team is fifth-year senior Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.), but he is returning from an injury which made him miss the entire 2012-13 campaign.
Shuffling starters the "new normal" for Bucs
Last season, ETSU head coach Murry Bartow used 17 different starting lineups in the team's 32 games ... Injuries and dismissals left the ETSU's coaches searching for the right combination all season. ... Bartow hoped to find more stability with his rotation in 2013-14, however he has now used four different starting lineups in four games so far this season.
Rembert hoping to stay hot as 2013-14 season begins
Junior guard Rashawn Rembert (Tampa) has made the most of his increased playing time over the last two seasons, having made a 3-pointer in 33 straight games dating back to last season ... Last season, Rembert ranked fourth in the A-Sun in 3-point field goal percentage at 39.7 percent for the year. ... This year, Rembert has shown signs of expanding his offensive productivity, as he averaged 21.0 points per game in the Bucs' exhibitions against Milligan (10/29) and Mars Hill (11/2) ... In fact, he put up a stunning 33 points on nine made 3-pointers in the win over Milligan.
Bucs have tradition of postseason appearances, success
The ETSU men's basketball team has enjoyed its share of postseason success and ranks as one of the nation's most prestigious basketball programs ... The Buccaneers have earned berths to the NCAA Tournament nine times (1969, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010) and NIT twice (1983, 2007) ... In 2011, the Bucs made their first ever appearance in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, winning twice and advancing to the semifinals of that event ... It was the program's 12th postseason tournament appearance all-time.
Three-point streak for Bucs dates back nearly 20 years
Since Feb. 16, 1987 in a game against Davidson, the Bucs have made at least one 3-pointer in 798 consecutive games. ... ETSU was 0-for-8 in that 1987 game.
ESPN names Wilson to nation's Top 25 freshmen list
While circumstances forced the ETSU men's basketball team to struggle last season, talented redshirt freshman forward Lester Wilson (Knoxville) gave the Buccaneers reason for hope. ... Wilson, who is averaged 13.0 points per game, was listed as one of the Top 25 freshmen in college basketball by ESPN hoops writer John Gasaway. The list – which included players such as UNLV's Anthony Bennett, UCLA's Jordan Adams, Michigan's Nik Stauskas and Duke's Rasheed Sulaimon – had Wilson ranked at No. 25. ... Wilson has posted six 20-plus point games so far this season.
ETSU picked among nation's best "Prestige" programs
In the modern era for NCAA Division I-A basketball – marked by the expansion of the NCAA Tournament field to 64 teams in 1984-85 – the ETSU men's basketball program ranks in the Top 30 percent of the 300 programs that were eligible for the postseason at that time, this according to ESPN.com's "Prestige" ranking released back in 2008 ... Since that time, the Bucs have only added to their list of prestigious honors … The Bucs -- who have enjoyed nine NCAA trips, one NIT and one CIT berth, 14 20-win seasons, and a slew of conference regular season and tournament championships since 1984-85 -- ranked tied for 82nd out of 300 teams, meaning they were in the Top 27 percent of schools making the list. ETSU was ranked ahead of every current Atlantic Sun team, as well as former SoCon rivals Appalachian State, Western Carolina, Georgia Southern and UNC Greensboro. In addition, at that time the Bucs ranked ahead of SEC schools such as Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Georgia, Mississippi and Auburn, as well as programs such as Notre Dame, DePaul, Bradley, Clemson and Fla. State.


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DOE Awards PNNL Contract for Single-Molecule Studies of Enzymes
Contact: Eric Ackerman
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been awarded a 3-year, $1.5-million contract by the Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a first-of-its-kind, multidisciplinary approach for studying the molecular mechanisms of enzymes. Enzymes—the protein nanomachines of cells—have potential energy applications such as hydrogen production, fuel cell development, and high-efficiency lighting. However, to develop these applications, gaps in the fundamental understanding of enzymatic processes must be filled. The work is funded by DOE's Energy Biosciences program within the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, and according to Bruce Garrett, Director, PNNL's Chemical Sciences Division, "This success is particularly
noteworthy since it is PNNL's first project funded by DOE's Energy Biosciences in recent years."
Cyclic voltammetry coupled single-molecule spectroscopy being developed by PNNL is a 3-electrode platform to oxidize and reduce enzymes. The confined enzyme in nanomaterials will be spin-coated on a transparent indium tin oxide (ITO) working electrode surrounded by a hydrophobic tape. The working buffer will be deposited on the confined enzyme area to form a miniature electrochemical cell.
Redox enzymes, which catalyze electron transfer reaction cycles of reduction and oxidation (redox), are especially important because electron transfer reactions are essential to all life forms. Gaining a fundamental understanding of enzymes and their processes has been a long-standing scientific challenge because enzymes are typically unstable outside of their cellular environment, making them hard to study.
The PNNL researchers' novel approach is to couple cyclic voltammetry, an electrochemical method, with single-molecule spectroscopy to advance chemical imaging of enzymes that are of strategic significance in the research areas of energy biosciences, chemical energy, and chemical engineering. They will study the dynamics of oxidized and reduced enzymes confined in nano-environments. Selective mutation and attachment of fluorescent centers will enable accurate assessment of the nano-environment and degree of confinement of the individual redox enzyme under study by monitoring fluorescent changes during cyclic voltammetry.
Principal investigator is Eric Ackerman, and co-principal investigators are Chenghong Lei, Dehong Hu, and Chuck Windisch.


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SEATTLE, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hours, or even minutes, can mean the difference between life and death when someone is having a stroke. As part of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week from May 20-26, stroke survivors from King County will share their stories about how quick recognition of stroke symptoms and timely response and treatment through King County EMS helps patients survive and return to full health.
Stroke is the leading cause of disability in the United States, but there are many common early warning signs and symptoms that can help with quick identification, response and treatment of stroke, helping to prevent or reduce long-term health problems.
Common stroke symptoms include:
Calling 9-1-1 immediately upon recognition of these stroke warning signs is critical to the health of those suffering from a stroke. Professional dispatchers at EMS receive and triage calls to help determine the appropriate level of care needed, greatly improving the short and long-term outlook for stroke victims.
King County EMS continues to set the standard for pre-hospital emergency care. More than 4,000 paid and volunteer emergency medical personnel perform extraordinary acts of service and kindness every day, including those who work and volunteer as paramedics, emergency medical technicians, dispatchers and medical directors.
To improve awareness about how to deal with potential stroke symptoms and to illustrate the importance of EMS in first-response stroke care, several King County patients plan to share their sto ries with the public during the week of May 20. All of the survivors used King County EMS to quickly get the care they needed to address their symptoms.
EvergreenHealth: George Greenhalgh was only 59 years old when he suffered a stroke. He experienced sudden onset of right arm weakness and difficulty speaking. Because he is diabetic, his family thought that he might have low blood sugar. They offered him some juice to drink, and he had trouble swallowing it - that's when they knew something was wrong. They immediately called 9-1-1, and the Kirkland Fire Department arrived within minutes. The ambulance crew then alerted EvergreenHealth's stroke team. Once he arrived, it was quickly determined that he was suffering a left brain stroke. He was given clot-busting medication within 45 minutes of his arrival at the hospital. Greenhalgh and his wife said he was back to his normal self within just a few hours of receiving the medication and was able to go home a few days later. "I'm so grateful to my son-in-law for calling 9-1-1 so fast," he said. "The biggest lesson I learned is not to be afraid to call for help! Time is of the essence for the brain!"
Northwest Hospital: In April 2011, Daniel Griffin called 9-1-1 after falling on his right side. Griffith, 62, had a facial droop and difficulty speaking. He arrived at Northwest Hospital, and the stroke team was alerted. After critical tests were performed, it was determined that he was suffering from a stroke. He then received treatment to deal with the blood clot an hour after arriving. Less than two hours after his arrival, his symptoms resolved entirely. He subsequently received physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy and was discharged to home and was able to resume all his normal functions.
Swedish Medical Center, Cherry Hill Campus: Fran Sullivan is a 42-year-old Mill Cr eek resident, mother of two daughters (12 and 2), wife and commercial real estate specialist. In December 2011, she suddenly felt "a bolt of lightning" go up her neck. Everything then started spinning, her arms and legs became paralyzed, and she felt the right side of her face begin to droop. Sullivan knew enough about stroke symptoms to recognize them and acted quickly by having a friend call 9-1-1. Medic One professionals quickly responded and transported her to Swedish Cherry Hill, a Level 1, Comprehensive Stroke Center. A Code Stroke was immediately launched and she underwent advanced imaging to study the brain tissue and circulation, which concluded she was having a potentially deadly stroke. The stroke team acted quickly and administered the clot-busting medication. After a short stay in the Neuro Critical Care unit, she moved on to the rehabilitation unit where physical and occupational therapists worked with her to regain her independence. Eventually, she was able to return home and live independently with her husband and children.
Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington Medicine: Pamela Melendez, 56, of Bainbridge Island, was living a full life despite an accident that had left her a paraplegic. Then one day in 2009 she had the sudden onset of speech difficulties and her right arm went limp. Knowing something was very wrong, she immediately yelled out, and her daughter called 9-1-1. Melendez was having a stroke and was immediately airlifted to Harborview Medical Center. Quick action by her teenage daughter, skilled paramedics, Airlift Northwest and the UW Medicine medical teams at Harborview led to the administration of a clot-busting medication known to improve outcomes after stroke. Today, Melendez suffers no lasting effects of the stroke. Through the UW Medicine emphasis on research, she was also able to participate in a research study looking for the best way to prevent strokes that may be related to a sm all hole in the heart called a patent foramen ovale (PFO); her participation is helping identify best treatment for future stroke victims.
Valley Medical Center: Chris Matthews is a healthy and active 44-year-old father and a security guard at Valley Medical Center (VMC). In December 2011, after several days experiencing symptoms he thought were caffeine withdrawal or a pinched nerve, Matthews felt his left side go numb right before he lost consciousness. The paramedics rushed him to VMC's emergency department where tests revealed a blood clot in the right side of his brain. Within 45 minutes of arrival, he received a clot-busting treatment. Within five hours of treatment, he began to feel the first tingles of movement on his left side. He was able to go home just four days after his stroke and was approved to return to work full-time in just six weeks. "If Chris had not been treated at the hospital in time, about 25 percent of his brain would have been affected, likely leaving him severely disabled," says Dr. Don Thai, Matthews' neurologist. Instead, he is alive and likely will make a complete recovery from his stroke, allowing him to continue his life as an active father and husband.
Virginia Mason Medical Center: In 2011, John Bovee, 67, was driving to work with a terrible headache when he called his office. The receptionist didn't think he sounded right so she called 9-1-1. "Within minutes there were too many paramedics with me to count," said Bovee. He was transported to Virginia Mason Medical Center and treated immediately. "Initially, I couldn't pick up my left leg from my bed, I couldn't swallow, I lost peripheral vision and had the mother of all headaches," Bovee said. He spent the next two weeks in rehabilitation before being sent home to continue his recovery. "I am absolutely convinced that I have had the very fortunate outcome that I have ha d because I was in a place where there was immediate EMS response available to me."
To learn more about each patient's experience with stroke and the key role played by EMS and local medical center personnel, please call the media relations representative for each hospital from the list below. The patients and a stroke expert from each of the hospitals will be available to discuss the important role of EMS in the quick response to stroke symptoms, along with the profound positive health implications associated with early detection and treatment.
Media Contacts:
EvergreenHealth, Kristi Clough, email@example.com, (206) 443-9357.
Northwest Hospital, Nancy West, email@example.com, (206) 368-5987.
Swedish Medical Center - Cherry Hill Campus, Ed Boyle, email@example.com, (206) 386-2748.
Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington Medicine, Susan Gregg, firstname.lastname@example.com, (206) 616-6730.
Valley Medical Center, Kim Blakeley, firstname.lastname@example.com, (425) 228-3440, ext. 3341.
Virginia Mason Medical Center, John Gillespie, email@example.com, (206) 341-1509.
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The Miami Heat, for all their bluster last summer about the number of championships they were going to win and talk about assembling the "greatest team" in NBA history, have gone about this season – and postseason – in a workmanlike fashion.
They owned a 58-24 regular season record, securing the second seed in the NBA Eastern Conference, and handily dispatched the Philadelphia 76ers, Boston Celtics, and the Chicago Bulls, owners of the league's best record, in the the first three rounds of the playoffs. They are relatively young, and, rumors of an injury to Dwyane Wade's shoulder notwithstanding, are largely healthy.
On the other hand, the Dallas Mavericks, with an average player age of 33, are one of the oldest teams in the NBA, and have had to struggle through two post-season series against Portland and Oklahoma City – though along the way they completely humiliated the Los Angeles Lakers in four games in one of the most lopsided playoff sweeps in NBA history.
They have matured as a group to the point where they fight through double-digit deficits to win where previously they might not have. The Mavs, with a 57-25 regular season record, are nearly evenly matched with the Heat, though Dallas won the two regular season meetings between the two teams.
They've accomplished much, even without the services of one of their very strongest players, guard-forward Caron Butler, who is not expected to see any action in the Finals. Jason Terry, in an interview earlier this week, said the team is dedicating their pursuit of the NBA title to Butler.
The Heat largely play a perimeter game. They love head fakes, and drawing fouls near or beyond the arc. They also are very fast off the transition, where LeBron James and Dwyane Wade excel in an open path to the bucket with virtually unparalleled athleticism. They have not been as strong inside the paint, where the Mavericks tend to excel.
Dirk Nowitzki, the Mavericks strong forward/center, can score from anywhere, and he is particularly strong at drawing fouls after posting up his defenders. When the two teams met in Dallas last November, the Mavericks won 106-95 - largely through the 48 points they scored in the paint. They will need to keep that pace up this series.
Guard Jason Kidd, who has the second most assists in NBA history, will be instrumental in getting the ball inside to Nowitzki, where he can score from anywhere. On the other side of the ball, Mavericks' center Tyson Chandler will need to grab rebounds while staying out of his usual, chronic foul trouble.
Kidd, forward Shawn Marion and guard Jason Terry have to force the turnovers with the same efficiency they managed most recently against Oklahoma City. However, Dallas will have a much more difficult time guarding the Heat because of the three weapons they have. In Dallas's series against Oklahoma City, forward Kevin Durant, and to a lesser extent, guard Russell Wesbrook, could be double-teamed with effectiveness. But the scoring proficiency of Miami's Wade, James and Chris Bosh makes this strategy much riskier.
No one matches up with the Mavericks in their ability in making the extra pass to an open man. Ball handlers J.J. Barea, Jason Terry, and DeShawn Stevenson should get some good looks around the arc as a result, and if Dallas continues their solid pick-and-roll play, the speedy Barea may prove to be a factor.
But, in a playoff series, with all else being equal and everything on the line in the final few minutes, you've got to have clutch players. In Dallas's case, it's all about getting the ball to Nowitzki in the final ticks. As for Miami, one of the main reasons they assembled the triumvirate of James, Wade and Bosh was to give them extra options at crunch time, and they have performed extraordinarily well at this.
Dallas will have to hold Miami's transition points down by slowing the pace, and not only getting the ball in to Nowitzki, but by being patient on the perimeter so that Terry and forward Peja Stojakovic can make it into double figures, scoring.
Have no illusions, Miami has the greatest amount of pressure on them to win a title. Dallas is trying to avenge their humiliating 2006 Finals loss to Miami, and with the experienced team they've assembled, are fully capable of preventing the kind of embarrassing implosion they experienced in that series five years ago.
This Dallas team is probably the best ever assembled. They're patient and resilient - and with a successful veteran coach in Rick Carlisle, have demonstrated greater motivation down the stretch and unlike in past years, have generally avoided collapsing in the clutch. This is their best chance for winning over Miami's lofty expectations, and that's why Dallas takes the title in seven games.


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Not much to say here, but it's been a while that I've had the opportunity to open a thread. Are we really expecting to see much at C6? San Diego was such a bust that I hope something interesting materializes. Also, Is Hasbro doing a Q&A, or just displaying product?
I wonder if they'll be at NYCC?
Seems like a good place to unveil the Yoda branding for next year too...
So what's the deal with this Con? Does Hasbro have a booth, display cases, or what? Is there any likelihood of seeing/hearing about anything new prior to their presentation tomorrow?
Didn't Hasbro say they weren't even going to be at celebration, of was that somewhere else like NYCC?
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Anal Glands have been a bit of a pain in the bum to say the least.
We seemed to have resolved the problem with Molly by adding fibre to her food and she is now fine. Around 3 months ago, Dougall had an infection which we caught early on. We have gradually increased Fibre but once again today his glands were full. I have just read in a Magazine of a Cavalier suffering with Anal Gland problems and Colitis, the owner has switched food to Protexin pro- balance and this has resolved the problem. Has anyone heard of this? Dougall is normally fed on Ground Veg/Fruit chicken and fish plus he likes Royal Canin for CKSS.


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Trophy buck poached, authorities claim
ST. PAUL -- Troy Reinke may have killed a record-setting buck last month in southeastern Minnesota.
Goodhue County prosecutors on Thursday offered another description of the kill: poaching.
The Cannon Falls man was charged with 13 counts, including gross over-limits of wild animals, after allegedly shooting the deer without a license or tags. The charges carry a maximum penalty more than five years in a jail and a $19,000 fine.
Department of Natural Resources conservation officer Tyler Quandt said the eight-pointer had a gross score of 190 and five-eighths inches. He said the net score was an even 185 inches -- five inches larger than the next-closest eight-pointer on record.
"In the world of antlers, that's tremendous," Quandt said of the difference.
Hunters at first were excited after Internet rumors spread of a world-record buck being taken in Minnesota, Quandt said.
That didn't last long.
"As quickly as they found out it was illegal, their feelings turned to being quite angry," he said Thursday.
Quandt began investigating Reinke following several anonymous tips, some gleaned once tales and photos of the deer hit the Internet.
According to a criminal complaint, Reinke, 32, told DNR investigators on Nov. 5 that he shot three deer in October on private land, including the trophy buck.
But since his license only allowed for him to shoot one deer, authorities said it should have gone toward a doe -- the first deer Reinke said he shot.
The other two -- a smaller eight-pointer and the trophy buck -- were taken illegally, prosecutors allege.
Reinke allegedly admitted to shooting the first two without tagging or registering them. Prosecutors say he waited to fill the tag until after shooting the trophy buck, which Reinke said he killed Oct. 31 in rural Cannon Falls.
The trophy buck was shot at night; two others helped Reinke transport the deer into a truck, the complaint states. DNR Maj. Rod Smith said those people will not face charges.
Internet rumors that Reinke shot the buck with a rifle in bow season were unfounded, Quandt said, but added "that could be possible."
"We're not going to give up on that," he said.
The DNR seized two deer racks, the meat from the three deer and the trophy buck's hide. Reinke's bow also was confiscated.
Smith said the case is disappointing for the agency and for hunters who knew of the deer and had tracked it.
"It's tough when somebody allegedly sneaks in and does it illegally," Smith said at a press conference Thursday.
DNR officials were wowed by the sheer size of the deer.
Lou Cornicelli, big game coordinator for the DNR, called the buck "far more than one in a million." He said he has never seen one that big among the tens of thousands he has eyed at DNR checkpoints.
"The probability of harvesting one this large is infinitesimal," said Cornicelli, who estimated the buck at 5 or 6 years old.
If Reinke is convicted, the state will take possession of the deer. Quandt said it likely will join the DNR's traveling "Wall of Shame" display.
Among the charges are two other gross misdemeanors, both for transporting illegally taken big game.
The doe and the smaller eight-pointer each draw a restitution value of $500; the larger buck will require $1,000 since the state considers it a trophy.
Reinke has numerous convictions on his Minnesota record, including a 2006 guilty plea to fishing with extra lines in Dakota County and a 2003 written warning in Douglas County for no fishing license in possession, Smith said.
His first court appearance is Dec. 10.


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If you've ever used Picnik (review) before, you have an idea of how far online photo editing has come. Similarly, there's Fotoflexer, a user-friendly photo editor that offers one-click tweaks, along with some advanced tools on par with desktop class photo editing software. The service has been around since late last year, and is launching version two this morning.
Like several other online photo editors, Fotoflexer integrates major services like Flickr, MySpace, Picasa, and Facebookto pull your photos down for editing. Short of MySpace (which doesn't have an open API), you can send your edited photos back to all of them if you've plugged in your login credentials. Once you've found a photo you want to "flex," the app will jump you out to a full-screen editing canvas, where you have quick tabbed controls for all the usual editing goodies like rotation, a cropping tool and a resizer. You'll also find some fun distortion effects similar to the liquefy tool in Photoshop (as seen in the screenshot below). This is probably the most enjoyable of the bunch, since it processes the effect in real-time.
The real claim to fame however, is Fotoflexer's Smart Cutout and Recolor effects, which can help you cut out various pieces of a photo, or recolor them to match the tone of your choice. The cutout is the more useful of the two, and lets you cut people or objects out from a shot without having to trace their outline. If you've ever used Photoshop's magnetic lasso or masking tool, you'll know full well how tedious a process this can be. Instead, you use a small paintbrush to "tag" objects you'd like to keep or remove. One click later, and the app will do its best to single out those parts of the photo. If it makes slight mistakes, you can then go back in and remove or replace bits and pieces manually.
Once you've got a cutout, you can add it into another photo, or bring another shot in to the workspace. Fotoflexer lets you have as many layers as you want, and you can move them up and down, or merge them by simply right-clicking. Again, it's probably one of the few Web apps for photo editing that offers contextual menus.
Despite its beauty, there are a few snags here and there. For one thing, even in full screen, the editor remains the same size, which looks and feels very odd if you're using a wide screen monitor. The feature is being added as early as this week according to the Fotoflexer team, although in the meantime, if you're working with a landscape shot, things feel a bit cramped. There's also a lack of some of the advanced editing controls on the quick color effects. For example, clicking the "stamp" button will do its best to make your shot black and white shot with an excess of contrast, however there's no slider or option to tweak it. You either like it or you don't. Luckily, if you know what you're doing, you can achieve similar effects by using the advanced options to recreate each effect manually.
All in all, Fotoflexer is a really well put together app that could make a solid piece of standalone software. The fact that it's free and runs in your browser makes it even better.
See also: Picnik, Pikifx, Phixr, Wiredness, Fauxto, Snipshot, and Pixenate.


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Commemorating Indonesia's Independence Day on 17th August, the Indonesia Independence Festival 2013 (IDFest 13) will be held at the Tribeca Park, in Central Park, Jakarta from 12th to 18th August 2013. The festival is an expression of how Indonesia's young generation honors and wishes to contribute to the commemoration of Independence Day in their own unique ways.
The festival will act as media to showcase the creativity of today's young generation, as well as be a gathering place for creative communities in Jakarta and other parts of the country. The festival will feature music, dances, various art performances, competitions, a carnival, and other thrilling programs. Aside from the many colorful events, the occasion also urges the audience to give in-depth meaning to the word "Independence" through the phrase "Merdeka itu..." or "Independence is..." campaign. Through this campaign, each individual will be given the opportunity to express the meaning of true independence by lending a hand to those in need.
The festival will also highlight an Art & Photography Exhibition which will take place from 12th to 18th August 2013. The pinnacle of the festival will be on 17th August 2013 - Indonesia's Independence Day - with the performance of the "Each One for All" Project (EFA Project), the Barry Likumahuwa Project (BLP), Saykoji, and more. Performers will not only showcase their skills during the festival but each individual will express his or her vision of a better Indonesia of the future. They will also share their understanding of what Independence means for each one and how we all should go about continue building on it.
The 17th August festivities will come to a close with a grtner organizers aim to bring a different touch to the Independence Day commemorations from routine celebrations.
Through this event, Independence Day is viewed not only as a moment to be commemorated but moreover as momentum to inspire and galvanand firework display.
The Crew and Klovr as the associate parize the nation to keep on building for the future.
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'Our chef is not happy with the portion he has of duck," the waiter at strange new Mihoko's 21 Grams informed us 10 minutes after we'd ordered duck a l'orange. "So there will be none tonight."
Welcome to waning summer's most off-center new establishment, full of baffling pronouncements and mysterious rituals — but often empty of customers. Mihoko's 21 Grams — owned by Mihoko Kiyokawa, a restaurateur (10 places in Japan), art collector and ex-ballerina — has gone overlooked by the dining millions, despite its eye-popping size and globe-girdling ambition.
It aims to "bring together the best of French and Japanese cultures and cuisines . . . not only to stimulate the five senses but also the soul." The latter is said to weigh 21 grams. What your senses make of the place is less easily quantified.
Do you miss the goofy gimmicks that made Alain Ducasse's New York debut a howl? Mihoko's is for you. It presents your bill inside a be-ribboned wooden box. You untie the ribbon yourself.
But there's more! When the box returns with your credit card and the check to sign, you untie it a second time! You're fit to be tied yourself after $19 to $29 appetizers and entrees up to $48.
The long, mirrored, plushly upholstered dining room, anchored by a grand white marble bar, is supposed to evoke an "art warehouse." Aha! We thought the dough just ran out before they could finish the ceiling.
Vaguely Romantic-school paintings remind you of ones you've seen but can't quite place. Fabric panel screens separate tables equipped with shiny metal purse stools closely resembling trash cans.
Exotic cocktails run to $18. The bulk of the heavily French wine list is unprintably unaffordable. But a great sommelier, Julien Moreno, cheerfully guided us to a precious few fine choices under $100.
Moreno, the class of the house, also knows the oddly paired French and sushi menus better than the waiters, who maybe can't be blamed for confusion. The executive chef last spring was Robert Rubba. Last month they told me it was Andres Grundy.
Now they say it's been Mizuho Hirakawa all along. Plus, they're advised "by a very well-respected Michelin-starred chef in New York" whose name they won't reveal.
Oblivious to our growling stomachs, dark-suited waiters hovered, loomed and fussed with the silverware. Unrequested green tea and a type of rarefied sake were interminably prepared tableside while we waited nearly an hour for the first morsel of solid food.
For every successful dish there was a correspondingly awful one. Cold corn velouté with cooked langoustine evoked summer bliss. Chawan mushi with snap peas, a strained fusion effort, registered as thick pea soup with barely perceptible custard.
Mushroom dashi made amadai (tilefish) with trumpet mushrooms and snap peas come boldly alive. Yet lemon verbena did zilch for lobster cocotte in flavorless, orange-hued sauce and superfluous clams. Colorado lamb ordered medium-rare arrived near-raw, unseasoned and criminally fatty.
Sushi chef Wilson Yang's lineup was just as erratic — one week sparkling, the next approximating the factory-ship article of 1,000 neighborhood joints. Desserts you'd love for $10 were less lovable at $18.
While "fine dining" struggles to survive the no-reservations onslaught, Mihoko's 21 Grams does the gracious old style no favors. It might even be a plot to finish it off for good.


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