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...And no, there's no clear-cut "yes" or "no" answer to that question. Just want to get that out of the way first.
Despite anyone left who's still really sore about the lack of definitive answers to the most literal question of Tony's mortality, this is really fascinating stuff, and definitely the most he's ever said on the matter. I always wished for a director's commentary on Made in America on the DVD sets, and well - as far as the last five minutes go - here it is. As tight-lipped as Chase usually is, I almost had a hard time believing these were his own words - and would've remained very skeptical, if not for the fact that the Director's Guild is as a reputable source as any.
It's interesting here that he confirms a lot of what's included in the infamous Master of Sopranos analysis, as far as the technical steps he took throughout the scene to build tension and suggest the death of Tony. This is the most Chase has ever said about a very concerted effort to invoke the image of Tony's death as a possibility through the end of the series. Where he parts ways with Master of Sopranos, though - and plenty of other fans who just want to know whether or not Tony's brains ended up all over his bowl of onion rings - is that Chase continues to maintain that that's really not the point. And I don't think that's a cop-out. I believe he speaks with complete, genuine earnestness about the larger philosophical conversation he would rather get at.
Quoting the article here for convenience:
It was my decision to direct the episode such that whenever Tony arrives someplace, he would see himself. He would get to the place and he would look and see where he was going. He had a conversation with his sister that went like this. And then he later had a conversation with Junior that went like this. I had him walk into his own POV every time. So the order of the shots would be Tony close-up, Tony POV, hold on the POV, and then Tony walks into the POV. And I shortened the POV every time. So that by the time he got to Holsten's, he wasn't even walking toward it anymore. He came in, he saw himself sitting at the table, and the next thing you knew he was at the table.
Alik Sakharov, the DP, and I saw the location and talked about it a lot. I had a vision in my head when I wrote it, but when you move into a place you have to figure out how to shoot in that location. We wanted to be in the middle of the room obviously, so we could be on either side of the booth. We didn't want to be shooting against a blank wall on one side of the booth; we wanted it to be in the middle to give it depth all around. But there was a radiator unit in the only place where we would really have the room, so we had to build a booth over that radiator unit. It was very difficult. And we did not have much room to dolly or track around. So a lot of what we did in this scene came about after going to Holsten's. The vision has to coalesce with the real physical location.
Tony's flipping through the jukebox; it's almost like the soundtrack of his life, because he sees various songs. No matter what song we picked, I wanted it to be a song that would have been from Tony's high school years, or his youth. That's what he would have played. When I wrote it, there were three songs in contention for this last song, and 'Don't Stop Believin'' was the one that seemed to work the best. I think it's a really good rock 'n' roll song. The music is very important to me in terms of the timing of the scene, the rhythm of the scene. The song dictates part of the pace. And having certain lyrics of the song, and certain instrumental flourishes happen in certain places, dictates what the cuts will be. I directed the scene to fit the song. The singing gets more and more strident and more invested as the song goes along. Musically it starts to build and build into something as it's just about to release. And when you look at the scene, you get that feeling.
I love the timing of the lyric when Carmela enters: 'Just a small town girl livin' in a lonely world, she took the midnight train goin' anywhere.' Then it talks about Tony: 'Just a city boy,' and we had to dim down the music so you didn't hear the line, 'born and raised in South Detroit.' The music cuts out a little bit there, and they're speaking over it. 'He took the midnight train goin' anywhere.' And that to me was [everything]. I felt that those two characters had taken the midnight train a long time ago. That is their life. It means that these people are looking for something inevitable. Something they couldn't find. I mean, they didn't become missionaries in Africa or go to college together or do anything like that. They took the midnight train going anywhere. And the midnight train, you know, is the dark train.
Tony hears the bell when the door opens and he's repeatedly looking up when he hears it throughout the scene. That rhythm is very important to the scene. The bell harkens back to the first episode [of the second part] of the final season called 'Sopranos Home Movies,' when Tony is out on a dock on this lake, and every once in a while a boat's bell dings and brings him out of himself and back to the present. So here's the bell again, and sure enough, he looks up, and then he gets distracted, and there's the bell again. In my mind, it's like a meditation bell. Not to be thinking about the past, not to be thinking about the future, only about now. It's like the song 'This Magic Moment.' I used that at the end of 'Sopranos Home Movies,' and it's one of the songs he sees on the jukebox in this episode.
My thinking about wanting to introduce A.J. and the guy together was that both the audience and Tony would not focus on the guy so much, they would focus on A.J. Tony would focus on his son, rather than the man who might be there to do him harm. A lot of the audience I gathered doesn't like A.J.; they think he's a useless, spoiled fool. But there's also something about him that is earnest. He's got his father's kind of questioning and kind of little boy innocence. When I see Tony reach across and grab his arm [when he arrives], it makes me feel really good. Not only that, I'll tell you who else is reaching across the table, that's Jim Gandolfini reaching across to Robert Iler in the last scene they're going to do together. I never talked about it with them, but I know for a fact.
Cutting to Meadow parking was my way of building up the tension and building up the suspense, but more than that I wanted to demonstrate the lyrics of the song, which is streetlights, people walking up and down the boulevard, because that's what the song is saying. 'Strangers waiting.' I wanted you to remember that is out there. That there are streetlights and people out there and strangers moving up and down. It's the stream of life, but not only that, it's the stream of life at night. There's that picture called History Is Made at Night [from 1937]. I love that title. And that kind of echoes in my head all the time.
I just wanted the guy to look over. I didn't want him to look particularly menacing. And he glances off Tony so quickly. We worked on that quite a bit so he wasn't staring at him. The guy was like looking around the place in general. Tony doesn't acknowledge that he sees him. Tony leads a very dangerous, suspicious life and he's always on guard. But he's in this old-fashioned American sweet shop with those round stools and the counter and the football hero pictures and Cub Scouts. Everything that should make him feel at ease, and yet there is a slight ill at ease feeling which we bring to it because we know who he is and what he's done. And he can never be sure that any enemy is completely gone. He always has to have eyes behind his head.


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Mourinho mocks United link
Jose Mourinho has mocked the suggestion he broke down in tears when overlooked by Manchester United, insisting Chelsea was always the preferred destination for his return to England.
Old Trafford is thought to have been Mourinho's desired choice for his second spell in the Barclays Premier League, only for Sir Alex Ferguson to recommend David Moyes as his successor.
In Diego Torres' book 'Prepare to Lose: The Mourinho Era', Mourinho is said to have sobbed when informed that Moyes would be taking over at United and viewed the decision as a betrayal by Ferguson.
The Premier League champions visit Stamford Bridge on Sunday and Mourinho insists he will be glad to take his seat in the Chelsea dug out.
"I think the person who wrote that book shouldn't write books. He should write books for kids using his imagination," Mourinho said.
"I am where I want to be. I want to go nowhere else. I have the job I want to have, I don't have another job.
"When I left Porto I wanted to come to England because at that time there was no Chelsea, I had no emotional connections with any club.
"When I left Chelsea I wanted only Italy or Spain, not another English club.
"After Real Madrid I wanted England and if possible, Chelsea. It's the only time I've said this country and this specific club.
"If not Chelsea then I'd have been in England at another club, but when the door at my club opened for me, I had the job I wanted to have."
Ferguson announced his retirement on May 8 last year with Moyes' appointment confirmed the following day, while Mourinho was named Chelsea manager for the second time on June 3.
"I knew a couple of weeks before the announcement because my friend (Ferguson) was very nice to me and trusted me completely," Mourinho said.
"He told me something really important before the press, he didn't want me to read it in the press. He told me you are one of my best players in football, I want you to know it from me.
"He was so nice to me, he gave me such a big reasonability to keep that.
"From me never, but I was afraid that somebody might leak it and the boss could think it came from me, so I was a little under pressure.
"In the same way he knew from me that I was coming back to Chelsea. It's just things between friends.
"I wasn't committed to Chelsea at the time, but I wanted to come and Chelsea had expressed the desire for me to come back."
United have struggled under Moyes and an 11-point gap has opened up between them and leaders Arsenal.
Asked if United would be seventh if he was in charge, Mourinho replied: "This is impossible to analyse. I'm not and because I'm not there is no point doing that.
"David is the right guy for the job. With the stability they are going to give him for sure, he will get results as a consequence of his quality and the club's stability."


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The ultimate surfing adventure, crossing the globe in search of the perfect wave. These California surfers accomplished in a few months what most never do in a lifetime...
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|They call it "The Endless Summer," the ultimate surfing adventure, crossing the globe in search of the perfect wave. From the uncharted waters of West Africa, to the shark-filled seas of Australia, to the tropical paradise of Tahiti and beyond, these California surfers accomplished in a few months what most never do in a lifetime...They live their dream.
Director Bruce Brown creates a film so powerful it has become a timeless masterpiece that continues to capture the imagination of every new generation. When it first played in theaters, audiences lined up to see it again and again, spellbound by its thrilling excitement and awesome photography. But in fact, what's most compelling about the film is the sport of surfing itself, and once you've seen it, you'll never forget why.
|Classic Surfing
|George Greenough, Nat Young, Butch Van Artsdalen, Paul Strauch, Fred Hemmings, Wayne Miyata, Lance Carson, Miki Dora, Corky Carroll, Robert August, Mike Hynson, John Whitmore, Max Wetteland, Harry Bold, Phil Edwards, Bernie Ross, Lord James Blears, Conrad Cunha, Mick Mcmanus, Rodney Sumpter, Greg Knoll, Bob Pike
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Development Resources/IP Log
The IP Log is a big part of the official release process. You are required to submit your project's IP Log prior to scheduling a release, or restructuring review. We encourage you to keep your IP log current rather than rushing at the end. The IP Log includes important information about your project that lets adopters know where all the code comes from, who owns the copyrights, and so forth. Specifically, the log tracks:
- Licenses;
- Past and present committers;
- Third-party libraries; and
- Contributions from outside the project (i.e. non-committers)
Note that a single IP Log can be generated for multiple, nested projects. A project might, for example, include one or more of its subprojects in a release. In that event, a single consolidated log for all contained projects can be provided (creation of consolidated logs is supported by the tools).
The Eclipse IP Policy document describes (in fairly broad terms) the requirement for an IP Log.
The existing Automatic IP Log Tool can help you build your IP Log. The key word here is "help"; ultimately, this is just a tool that gathers the information that is available. The generated output is only as good as the input provided. It is limited in its ability to--for example--attribute a contribution to more than one contributor. You can use the automatic tool to generate a baseline IP Log that you can modify if necessary.
The IP Contributions Review project tool can help you identify bugs that may contain IP contributions that should be noted in your log (this is generally useful only for contributions accepted by a project before adopting Git). Please see Handling Git Contributions.
The "license" section lists the licenses that the project itself is released under. For most projects, this should be the Eclipse Public License (EPL) only. Though, projects like JGit release under the Eclipse Distribution License (EDL); and EclipseLink releases under both the EPL and EDL. Normally, all other licenses are indicated in the "third-party libraries" sections.
The automated tools obtain this information from the Eclipse Foundation Database. If the information in the automated tools is not correct, please contact the EMO to resolve the issue.
Past and Present Committers
This section must include the identity of every committer (past and present) on the project. It is generally enough to record the name and affiliation of each committer; email addresses and personal information should generally not be recorded.
The automated tools obtain this information from a combination of sources. First, the Dash database is mined for the identity of anybody who has committed code into any of the project's listed repositories. This information is only as good as the data recorded about the project in the portal (Dash runs weekly, so you may have to wait for this information to be updated). It is worth noting that--as of August 2010--Dash does not gather commit activity for any Git repositories. Second, the automated tools gather information from the Eclipse Foundation Database, where records of all committers are recorded. The combination of information is used to determine the name and level of activity of each committer.
Third-Party Libraries
Any third-party libraries that the project uses must be recorded in the log. Furthermore, these libraries must have all been taken through the Eclipse IP Process. As part of that process, a contribution questionnaire (CQ) must have been created for each library.
The automated tools will populate this section of the IP Log with information taken from the CQs. If you are using the automated tools to generate this information, it is your responsibility to ensure that it is accurate. Report any problems to the EMO IP Team.
Some thoughts:
- Only actual contributions that end up in the code base (which may include code, configuration, images, etc.) need to be included in the IP Log;
- Ideas, pseudo-code, etc. do not belong in the IP Log (unless they are, for example, directly included in the code, perhaps as comments, or input into an automated process).
- Only contributions from non-committers need to be included in the IP Log;
- Contributions that come from a developer before they become a committer do need to be included in the IP Log; and
- All contributions in the current code base (as of the time of the creation of the log) need to be included in the log (regardless of whether or not they have been noted in previous logs).
While your committers can attach patches to bugs, they generally don't need to (so long as they are observing the IP Due Diligence process).
The IP Log tools provide a lot of help with contributions. But you need to do some work to leverage this help.
Contributions and Git
The automated IP Log will automatically pick up contributions made into a project's Git repository if the Git commit record's "author" field is set (the Git repository must be listed in the project's
sourcerepositories metadata). Specifically, the "author" fields should be set to the name and email address of the contributor. The "committer" fields should be set to the information for the committer (it will otherwise be rejected).
For more information, please see Handling Git Contributions.
Contributions and Bugzilla
In the good old days of CVS, all contributions needed to flow through Bugzilla. This is still true for projects using SVN. Even for projects using Git, some contributions will flow through Bugzilla.
Contributions should be attached to the Bugzilla record that defines the bug that the contribution addresses. Be sure the follow the process as documented in the IP Due Diligence process. In particular, the contributor (author) must provide a statement regarding the provenance, rights, and license of the code in a comment on the Bugzilla record, e.g.
I assert that I: 1. authored 100% the content they are contributing 2. have the rights to donate the content to Eclipse 3. contribute the content under the EPL
Mark patches and other attachments as contributions by turning on the iplog+ flag. There is more information on this below.
Note that the IP Contributions Review tool can help you to identify bugs and attachments that are potential IP contributions.
Contributions and CVS/SVN
CVS and SVN have no means of keeping track of author information separate from the committer, so we need to give the automated IP Log a little more help.
All contributions that end up in a CVS or SVN repository must be accepted through Bugzilla.
If you set the iplog flag on an attachment that contains a contribution (e.g. a patch), that contribution will appear in an automatically-generated log (note that, iplog+ marked contributions from existing committers will be skipped). This is probably the most natural way to use the flag. To set this flag, open the "Details" for the attachment, set the value to "+", and commit. That's it. Do this for any attachment that contains something that you've committed into an Eclipse source code repository. This includes things like code patches, image files, XML schemas, and pretty much anything else. Only mark those attachments that actually make it into the project's code repository; just leave any other attachments alone.
You can also set the iplog flag on an entire bug. You would do this if the bug's summary or one of the comments contains code, or some other valuable asset that you commit into the source code repository. Unfortunately, flagging the bug indicates to the automated tools that every comment on the bug is a potential contribution (sadly, there is no way to set a flag on an individual comment). When you set the flag on the entire bug, you have to manually go through the generated log and remove any comments that shouldn't be there. Yes, this can be painful. It's made more painful by the fact that any new comments added to the bug after you've done your clean up will appear the next time the log is generated. This is particularly troublesome in the current Automatic IP Log Tool, and only slightly less so with the new one.
The bottom line is that it is always easier if your contributions come in the form of an attachment.
Only those attachments and bugs that contain contributions from developers who are not committers on the project at the time need be flagged. This is time-sensitive. If the contributor eventually does become a committer, those patches they've contributed while they were not a committer still need to be accounted for in the log and must therefore be flagged. The tools are smart enough to check the dates. Make sure that each committer's Bugzilla email address matches the one in the Eclipse Foundation database, or you'll wind up with some extra stuff in your IP Log.
The IP Contribution Review Tool can help you identify bugs/attachments that need to be marked iplog+.
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Leeds Rhinos 24, Bradford Bulls 24
Jarrod Sammut and Brett Kearney grabbed two tries apiece but the Bulls were denied victory over rivals Leeds by Danny McGuire in his testimonial match today.
Sammut scored twice early on to put the Bulls in control and Kearney took a fine pass from Nick Scruton to stretch their lead to 18-0 midway through the first half.
Leeds hit back with two tries from new recruit Joe Vickery shortly before the interval but Kevin Sinfield failed to convert either of them, leaving the scores at 18-8 in Bradford's favour.
Rob Burrow crossed for Leeds shortly before the hour mark but five minutes later Kearney weaved his way over for his second and Jamie Foster's fourth conversion put the Bulls 24-14 up.
Leeds responded through England winger Ryan Hall with 12 minutes remaining but Francis Cummins was denied a winning return to Headingley when McGuire scampered clear in trademark fashion in the 70th minute.
The match also saw James Donaldson make a long-waited return to action after injury in front of a crowd of 6,106.
It was an evenly-fought contest from which Cummins could draw plenty of positives ahead of the Super League opener at home to Wakefield on February 3.


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Members of the International Submarine Band chose a name for their new group that practically ensured it would never rise above cult status, and sure enough, that band disappeared with barely a trace after making a handful of recordings in the mid-1960s.
But after ISB members Gram Parsons and Chris Ethridge teamed up with ex-Byrds singer and songwriter Chris Hillman and steel guitarist Pete Kleinow, the pioneering country-rock group the Flying Burrito Brothers was born and the ISB won permanent footnote status in the history of pop music.
Ethridge, who died at age 65 on Monday at a hospital in Meridian, Miss., of complications from pancreatic cancer, was the group's original bassist and co-wrote several songs with Parsons, widely lauded as one of the most innovative figures in the marriage of country and rock in the 1960s. Ethridge also spent about eight years in Willie Nelson's touring band, a gig during which he recorded one of Nelson's most famous anthems, "Whiskey River."
"Here's what people don't know or don't remember," Hillman told The Times on Monday. "Three of Gram's greatest songs were co-written by Chris: Those would be 'Hot Burrito #1,' 'Hot Burrito #2" and 'She.'
"I've always said Gram Parsons' greatest recorded vocals were those two ['Hot Burrito'] songs," Hillman said. "Maybe it's my opinion, but I was there and I know I never heard him sing better than he did on those two songs. He just nailed 'em."
"Chris is a big loss," said Booker T. Jones, the influential Memphis organist and bandleader of Booker T. & the MG's, who met Ethridge after both moved to Los Angeles. Jones, also a co-writer of "She," later drafted Ethridge to play in the group that backed Nelson on his massively successful 1978 pop standards album "Stardust."
"He was happy to be in the background," Jones said. "He supported Willie really well. He had an innate knowledge of music, and really understood what notes to play. He was one of those people that you didn't have to worry that he was going to play a wrong note. It wasn't going to happen."
John Christopher Ethridge II was born Feb. 10, 1947, and raised in Meridian — where the man known as the father of country music, Jimmie Rodgers, grew up — and moved to Los Angeles when he was 17. There he met Parsons and fell in with the burgeoning group of musicians who came of age listening to Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and other seminal rock artists while also cultivating their passion for traditional country, bluegrass and folk music.
Those strains were typically mutually exclusive in Nashville at the time, but in Los Angeles, they merged in the music of the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Linda Ronstadt, the Stone Poneys and other acts.
Hillman, who also has played bass in various groups, said Ethridge brought an R&B feel to his bass work, something that he learned playing in R&B and blues clubs in Mississippi in the early 1960s, a time when that was a rarity for a white musician.
Ethridge left the Burrito Brothers after the group recorded its first album, "The Gilded Palace of Sin," in 1969, and became a studio musician, playing with Ronstadt, Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, Jackson Browne and many others.
Ethridge is survived by his wife, Karen Sue; their daughter, Necia; their sons, John Christopher III and George; eight grandchildren; his mother and two brothers.


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As the star of "The Soupy Sales Show," he performed live on television for 13 years in Detroit, Los Angeles and New York before the program went into syndication in the United States and abroad.
Ostensibly for children, the show had broad appeal among adults who found Sales' puns, gags and pratfalls deliciously corny and camp. His cast consisted of goofy puppets with names like White Fang, Black Tooth and Pookie, and a host of off-camera characters, including the infamous naked girl.
The high point of every show came when a sidekick launched a pie into Sales' face. Sales once estimated that he was hit by more than 25,000 pies in his lifetime.
The gag became more than hilarious; it evolved into a hip badge of honor. Frank Sinatra was first in a long line of celebrities who clamored for the privilege to be cream-faced, including Tony Curtis, Mickey Rooney, Sammy Davis Jr., Dick Martin and Burt Lancaster.


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Happy new year 2011! I am delighted to be back in the blogging saddle after a manic December 2010 full of house history research for clients. As part of the research process I needed to visit The National Archives in Kew, and whilst there I found the time to look up just one or two little Clarendon Park history things. One of which was an index of trust deeds, containing five references to planned buildings in Clarendon Park. In case anyone else fancies looking them up, they are listed at the bottom of this article.
The one that particularly took my fancy was an 1893 conveyance of land adjoining Lorne Road and Clarendon Park Road, "together with the messuages thereupon," to the Trustees of Leicester Aged Pilgrims Homes. I hadn't heard of the Aged Pilgrims Homes but a little light googling revealed that it is an undenominational society founded in 1807 by evangelical christians. There is an Aged Pilgrims Home in Evington, which opened in 1954. The homes provide sheltered accommodation and home support for elderly christians. If only I had the time whilst making my last visit, I would have ordered the trust deed. Bah. When I get back to the NA in February, I will post here.
So, the 1901 census shows ten Aged Pilgrims Homes from number 115 Clarendon Park Road onwards. They were lived in by the "inmates of Aged Pilgrims Homes," and also by one of the people who helped to look after them; a nurse, Ellen Simms. The inmates were all women except for a gardener, Samuel Mathers, who lived with his wife at number ten. Their ages ranged from 66 to 88. Their names were Isabella Coleman, Sarah Ingram, Sarah Woolley (who still lived there in 1911), Sarah Yarrow, Elizabeth Davies, Ellen Holland, Rachel Orton, Mary Pallett and Charlotte Wash. All but one were widows and most of the women had been born in Leicestershire. Being an elderly widow in Victorian Leicester was not good in terms of material wealth or status, but living in almshouses like these women suggests that only their faith kept them out of the workhouse.
Not all the elderly people helped by the society lived in almshouses. Kelly's 1916 directory for Leicestershire informs us that "Aged Pilgrims' Friend Society (Leicester Branch) – to give pensions of 5, 7 & 10 guineas a year &c. to aged poor persons of every Evangelical denomination. During 1915 the 25 pensioners in this district received pensions amounting to £191, inclusive of gifts from the Morton Trustees. President A S Gimson; Hon Sec Wilfred Tyler. In 1891 ten almshouses were erected in Clarendon Park Road at the cost of J T Morton, a London merchant, as free homes for the pensioners in Leicester & district."
The 1911 census tells us that each of these "homes" consisted of just one room, perhaps with a fireplace for heating and cooking. They were occupied by Samuel Cheney Pebody, Sarah Woolley, Emma Ball and her daughter Sarah Ann who did sewing at home for money; Elizabeth Davis, Sarah Dalston, Jane Brice, Louisa Smallbones, Eliza Clarke and Maria Wills. Again, all were widows or in Samuel's case, a widower. Clarendon Park Road having been built up considerably since 1901, the address had changed to 200 Clarendon Park Road.
All this is really interesting and I promise to report back after I have been to the National Archives in February. But for now, here are the trust deeds I came across in December. No doubt they will inspire further research! Happy new year, Elizabeth.
1895 Trustees for the Wesleyan Methodists to build a chapel (PR84 M36 C54/19999)
1894 Trustees for the Baptists to build a hall or chapel to be called "The Clarendon Hall" (PR22 M27 C54/19835)
1893 Trustees of Leicester Aged Pilgrims Homes, conveyance of land adjoining Clarendon Park Road and Lorne Road (Pt38 M8 C54/19747)
1895 Peterborough Diocesan Trustees, conveyance of school (Pt81 M39 C54/199996)
1904 Trustees of the Clarendon Park Congregational Church, site for a school and outbuildings (Pt83 No 1048 J18/24)


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House of Scuba needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 78 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
House of Scuba
Business partners Mike and Jason created Unrealfind.com about 10 years ago. We sold anything and everything on the web. Since that time we have focused our products on Scuba, Snorkel, Sunglasses, Watches and other sport related items. We also opened a store front with lessons and rental gear. To meet this focus, we are changing our name to HOUSE OF SCUBA and we will be changing the look and feel of our current website which is now unrealfind.com.
Scuba diving is an expensive sport and snorkeling gear is usually for couples or family going on vacation. Most customers are middle aged or families who travel and like the ocean. They tend to be easy going but intelligent and very specific about what gear they want to wear.
We are looking for a logo represent our website House of Scuba.com.
We are open to any logo design you come up with. You can see our current logo at Unrealfind.com but would like a new feel and look. Here are a few things to think about:
1. When building our new website, we are going to use Patagonia.com as our primary example. We need a logo that will fit that type of site, clean and simple.
2. We are going for clean, professional, and original look.
3. Whatever direction you want to try.
4. Not cheap or childlike.
5. Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
6. You guys are the pros. We are excited to see what you have to offer and will be open to anything you come up with.
Please feel free to experiment with colors! We more than likely will have the same blue and orange colors that are on our current site. Unrealfind.com
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7. Have fun. Can't wait to see.
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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is going to have to pump a whole lot more money into lobbyists and campaign contributions if he ever wants to start selling Tesla vehicles directly from the company's Texas-based retail stores.
That's the conclusion from a new Texans for Public Justice report sizing up the influence machine that Musk, CEO of the electric-vehicle maker, employed against the deep-pocketed and well-entrenched state auto dealer network during the regular session.
Musk tried unsuccessfully to allow Tesla to sell its vehicles directly to customers in Texas by changing a state law that requires new cars to be sold exclusively through franchised dealerships. He even made a pair of appearances at the Capitol to personally lobby for passage, but resistance from auto dealers squashed the bill dead.
In the process, however, Musk spent up to $345,000 on hired guns to push his Tesla agenda. He dropped a total of $7,500 in campaign contributions before the session started (Musk is a big donor in federal elections and an Obama bundler but this marked his first-ever round of state contributions in Texas).
That's all well and good but it's basically peanuts compared to the money that auto dealers pump into state politics. According to TPJ, auto dealer interests dropped more than $2.5 million in campaign contributions during the 2012 elections. Auto dealers also spent up to $780,000 on lobbyists during the session, more than doubling the dollar figure Musk spent for hired lobby muscle.
"If Tesla and Elon Musk are serious about breaking Texas' powerful car dealer cartel they will need to drop a lot more political cash, perhaps over several sessions," the report reads. "Indeed, Musk may have better luck finding a friendly business climate in outer space."
On that note, Musk, who is also CEO of SpaceX, did have much more success during the regular session when it came to outer space endeavors. As the TPJ analysis notes, he was able to win approval of a pair of measures that SpaceX said were necessary to continue considering South Texas as a potential site for the company's first commercial spaceport: one to close a state beach for rocket launches and the other to provide legal cover for noise complaints.
That included spending up to $220,000 on lobbyists during the regular session to help get the SpaceX bills passed.
The Express-News in May reported on the Space X lobby push during the regular session, noting that Musk and his private space exploration firm have "assembled a growing influence machine this legislative session to lay the foundation for a blockbuster deal with the state."
Texas' plans to cement the deal with SpaceX are progressing, too. Federal regulators still have to give final approval to an environmental impact study for the site near Brownsville that SpaceX is considering.
But, in anticipation of a final federal decision approving the South Texas site, a group of lawmakers met with Gov. Rick Perry's staff last week to start getting their ducks in a row to hash out a final incentive package to lure SpaceX to the Lone Star State.


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Shark Week, the Discovery Channel's annual homage to great whites, hammerheads and other shark species came to an end Sunday, but not before it "got real" in Scituate Harbor. On Saturday, a fisherman brought in a 10-foot-long, female great white that was accidentally caught in a gill net. The big fish became big news and an instant tourist attraction, with people posing for photos next to it on the town pier and snapping shark selfies. Here are nine things to know about these little known marine predators.
1. Sharks come in many shapes and sizes. In fact there are more than 400 shark species — ranging in size from a few inches to upwards of 52 feet long — swimming around in our oceans. (Rivers, too – see #5)
2. Sharks see things in black and white. With only one type of cone photoreceptor (compared to three for humans) sharks are colorblind. So it's not the red color of your blood in the water that is attracting sharks, but watch out for their "sixth sense."
3. Sharks may not be able to see colors, but a sixth sense allows them to sense even the slightest pulses, like that of an electrical field, a muscle movement or a heartbeat. Tiny organs in their snouts enable them to detect these pulses. (It remains unclear if they also "see dead people.")
4. If you're not a fan of heavy metal, you'll want to keep shark meat off the menu. Mercury, arsenic and lead are found in high amounts in shark's tissue, mostly as a result of their diet. Shark meat has higher levels of heavy metal concentrations than any other fish in the sea.
5. The ocean is not their only turf. Sharks have been known to swim up stream into rivers all around the world. Bull sharks reportedly travel more than 100 miles up Nicaragua's Rio San Juan and into Lake Nicaragua, and others have made their way more than 2,600 miles up the Amazon River. In the U.S., a pair of fishermen in 1937 reeled in a bull shark in Alton, Illinois that had traveled some 1,160 miles up the Mississippi River. And as recently as 2017, a harbormaster on Massachusetts' South Shore said it's possible sharks could follow their seal prey into the North River.
6. Sharks use their heads, and tails when hunting prey. The hammerhead shark's cranium gives it twice the edge as a predator. It looks scary and is also used to bludgeon and pin down stingrays while feeding on them. Thresher sharks use their long tails to whip and whack their prey into submission at lightning speed, crippling or cutting the fish into easy-to-eat pieces.
7. Most shark attacks in the U.S. take place in Florida – specifically Volusia County, which includes Daytona Beach in the east-central part of the state. Abundant in shallow water where people swim, surf and fish, blacktip and spinner sharks are the species most likely to launch unprovoked attacks – not great whites or bull sharks.
8. More seals have brought more sharks to New England waters and sightings are on the rise. The booming seal population has been attributed to conservation efforts and the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act and in recent years, reported sightings of great white sharks have increased greatly. There have been more than a dozen shark sightings off Cape Cod and an unconfirmed sighting reporter just last week off Plymouth's Long Beach. While shark sightings have increased, the threat to humans is not necessarily any greater in New England, which has not seen a shark-related death in 81 years.
9. Sharks are both predator and prey. Orcas (killer whales) are known to attack and eat white sharks, especially in the waters off San Francisco. Farther north off British Columbia, packs of orcas gang up and tear apart Pacific sleeper sharks, one of the world's largest sharks at over 20 feet long. Smaller predators, including a variety of parasites, also attack sharks. But humans, by far, pose the greatest threat to sharks. While in a typical year sharks kill about six people worldwide, humans kill an estimated 100 million sharks annually, most of them for their fins, meat and oil.
Check out this interactive map by Casino.org illustrating your chances of being attacked by a shark in countries around the world.


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TransWorld x MAHFIA Shred 101 Ladies Industry Snowboarding Day
All photos: mahfia.tv
TransWorld x MAHFIA Shred 101 continued its ladies networking and learn-to-ride series with a snowboarding day this past Friday, February 8 at Mountain High Resort.
The event marked the largest attendance thus far for the series, with more than 70 women from 35-plus brands within the action sports and lifestyle industries coming out for a full day of snowboarding and networking with their peers.
The conditions couldn't have been better as more than eight inches of snow hit Mountain High Resort throughout the day. The ladies enjoyed free riding, rentals, lessons, lunch and tons of raffle prizes from industry brands. Check out the photo gallery above!


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Nicole Kidman: Jimmy Choo Campaign Photos & Video!
Nicole Kidman rocks a short red bob in her campaign for Jimmy Choo's Autumn/Winter 2013 campaign.
"I really enjoyed being able to play a role that was strong, sexy and in control," the 46-year-old actress said in a statement. "I got into a relationship with the photographer and Mikael [Jansson] is very intuitive, he knows what I am thinking and feeling and is able to translate it through the camera."
Nicole is also featured in a super sexy short film for the brand. Check it out below!
Nicole Kidman: Jimmy Choo Campaign Video


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X360 is the UK's best Xbox 360 magazine for any gamer that has an interest and passion for the world's most popular gaming console.
English | 116 pages | HQ PDF | 93.50 Mb
With integrity-driven and definitive reviews plus an entire section dedicated to the Xbox community, no area of the 360′s wide market is left untouched. Every issue comes packed with a free book, helping you to complete the biggest games, earn thousands of Achievement points and learn the history and secrets behind the Xbox 360's biggest titles. And there's also a free DVD, filled with over two hours of new and exclusive trailers along with team commentary, X360 is the finest Xbox 360 magazine on the market.
Release name: X360 Magazine UK – Issue 91, 2012
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- Farsi and Tamil are now available in Panoramio
- We just published a help article explaining how you can help making Panoramio available in your language
We had plenty of time two weeks ago during the Google Geo User Summit to discuss with our top users in Asia about localization of Panoramio. One of the topics we discussed was "Community Translations vs Professional Translations". That conversation proofed that we have followed the right direction by allowing Community Translations. When the product is translated professionally languages get prioritized following a criteria that is not always the one our users are interested in. When the product is translated by the community, it is the community who decides which languages are prioritized. This allows to have small languages available in Panoramio while this would be very difficult with professional translations, plus quality increases as the ones who use the product are the ones deciding the words to use on the interface.
It is for this reason that I wanted to write this post, to let you all know that we will continue our development with community translations. I want to thank the members of Panoramio that helped so far with this task. They are all listed in the Panoramio Team's page.
Another decision we took in the summit was to make Farsi available during a testing period to collect feedback from the Iranian community. Our UI is currently not ready to support Right to Left languages like Farsi, but we have agreed with the Iranian Community that we would try launching Farsi, a Right to Left language in our Left to Right UI to see how it looks. This is available as of now, so please let us know your thoughts regarding this language. Should we keep it or should we remove it?
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Our PRESTOcards.ca arrived in the mail on Monday. Hard to blame prestocard for taking 10 days to get them to us, more likely it's Canada Post's Dark Delivery regime… we are still getting Xmas cards. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Mail+delivery+dark+might+brightest+forward+Canada+Post/7673752/story.html
So Meaghan went to work with the Prestocard on Tuesday. It worked fine in the morning. Normal route is 16 or 151-westboro-95 to Bayview, O-train to Greenboro, and if the number 43 driver decides he is picking up passengers, she can avoid a dangerous walk along a usually snow covered non-existant sidewalk north on Bank Street, one stop.
Things went okay on the way. The presto card site noticed what stop she got on. She didn't swipe on the O-train. Should she? She got on the 43, and it saw that too. Curiously, it doesn't say what actual bus route she was on…
The trip home wasn't as good. It saw at location "15", which was the bus back to the O-Train, and then, 27 minutes later, it charged her another half fare (one ticket), at Bayview to come home. No idea why, we asked.
She had noticed this situation on the scanner, and so we checked that night, and everything looked okay last night, but when we looked today, the system had caught up to the extra fare.
We were checking because I tried to yesterday to see if my prestocard had been loaded correctly with my Feb. Bus pass. On Tuesday it gave me a red and told me to see customer service. Oh no, I think… will it work on Friday morning? Today, on my way home, using my paper January pass, I swiped my prestocard again… the machine happily announced that I had been charged a $2.60 fare.
Huh I think? Does it mean… I'm good for a $2.60 fare, or does it mean, that it's gonna try to deduct from me? So far, it hasn't done anything yet. I'll see tomorrow.
My opinion is that it should have simply said: "Your february bus pass will be valid 2013-02-01. See driver if you need to pay a fare"
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Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. I Corinthians 5:7 (ESV)
Friday, September 23, 2011
Rejoicing in God's Provision
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- richard said...
Can we do coffee next I'm in Calgary? I'd enjoy that!
- September 23, 2011 7:50 PM
- stauf46 said...
That would be great! Do you think we can find a coffee shop in Calgary?
- September 23, 2011 8:01 PM
- John K said...
Congratulations Pastor Terry. I am working my way out of Edson as well. Should be done by early October. Can we get together for coffee before then? I know a coffee shop in Edson.
PS: I was accepted for the Alpha position. Will be transitioning to full time over the next few months. Raven is paying me full time in the interim. God is Good!
- September 26, 2011 9:23 AM
I lost your website when our old puter went down, finally found it again and lo and behold you're moving on, closer too. Might see you more often.
Want to let you know that Myrna and I are still praying for you, Juanita and the kids. Enjoy the good memories, they are Jesus' blessings to us to keep us close to our loved ones til we meet again at His throne.
I sent a message to your address at the old church before I found your blog again. God bless you and keep you all. Keith and Myrna Porter firstname.lastname@example.com
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That same year, I began serving the youth of our parish, and i met a senior girl at mass. I had not seen her before, but here she was, sitting next to me, at her senior send off. She was about to go off to college, in Boston. After mass, i turned to her and said "who are you and where have you been?" Her reverence for the Lord was so apparent and it drew me to ask her about her faith. Her name was Nicole, and I shared how impressed i was with her..and then off she went, far away. We became friends on facebook, but with limited contact. I received a card from her after Cana died. She wrote the most beautiful words. I thought, i hardly know this girl. How beautiful she would take the time to write and share her heart with me. That she would pray for our family! What a gift she continued to be. I had no idea she would have a role in my latest blessing.
In January of this year, i gave a talk at the confirmation retreat. I was no longer working for the church, having been quite wounded during my pregnancy with Cana, feeling abandoned and alone. But I still had a heart for these teens, to continue fighting for THEIR hearts. On January 22, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, i received an email from a friend of a friend, looking for some consolation as the baby she was carrying had just been diagnosed with Trisomy 18. I tried to reach out to her, since she knew of my time with our Cana, and she denied my help. She told me they were terminating. I continued to reach out to her, pleading for her to wait. To let me share the gift of my daughter with her...but she wouldn't hear me. I was scheduled that night to give a talk to the teen girls at our confirmation retreat. i shared about femininity, gift of self, and Mary. I was able to share about Cana and her time with us. And felt God using me once again.
A few days later, I received a call from a friend, who shared that someone at our church wanted to send me to TOBI (theology of the body institute)! I had not mentioned it recently and was confused and shocked and thankful and broken and rejoicing! It was over a two week period during this time that i felt daily reminders from the Lord that He was still proud of me. I felt Cana interceding for me.
I celebrated on facebook that someone was anonymously sending me to TOBI. And a few days later, Nicole, the teen from Boston, wrote and asked what session i was going to be attending. I told her the summer tob1, and she simply said she had heard the presenter speak and loved him and was excited for me and she would be praying. Just a day after that, the friend who would be the "go between" for my benefactor and me, said that I had the option to go to the summer session or wait for next year, when Christopher West would be presenting again. I paused. I loved Christopher West! I had only heard him present this teaching. I had never heard of the presenter of the summer session. But Nicole JUST told me....that she loved him. I would stick with summer 1. I began to be filled with what i can only explain was a "holy expectation." I even shared with a few friends how i was TRYING to just LET God show me, without ANY expectation. I didn't want to expect anything. I just wanted to be present to what HE wanted me to experience. But i couldn't shake it!
I knew Cana would be a part of "my story" in sharing with the 65+ people attending. I knew I'd get to share about her, about how God showed us what it meant to truly give ourselves to Him in death of self, only to be renewed in His love and mercy and grace and hope. On the 3rd day, we were in morning session, reading about grace. Blessed Pope John Paul II says
"This is the dilemma of anyone who encounters the teaching of Christ: we don't have what it takes on our own to fulfill it. "Love and life according to the Gospel [are] beyond man's abilities. They are possible only as a result of a gift of God who heals, restores, and transforms the human heart by his grace." Living the Gospel, then, is "a possibility opened to man exclusively by grace, by the gift of God, by his love" (Veritatis Splendor 23, 24).
And this quote brought me to the memory of walking to Cana's room in the hospital, knowing we were getting ready to turn off her machines, and hand her back to the Lord. We were going to watch her die. I wanted to share this with Bill D, the presenter of the session at the institute. But i didn't want to be "that girl," needing to tell my story, etc. But I couldn't shake the push. So I asked Bill for a moment and he gladly pulled up a chair. I shared the quote first. *It was later that i realized how much "Grace" played a roll in the push from the holy spirit. It was the explanation on GRACE that brought CANA to my mind. I shared with Bill the memory...walking to turn off her machines, and stopping in the hallway with the words "I CAN'T DO THIS." Having to "love and live according to the Gospel" requires DEATH of self. And so the Lord replied to me with "NOT WITHOUT ME, YOU CAN'T." I shared with Bill that in 2008, we were told at 13 weeks that our baby girl was not going to live outside my womb. We were given a fatal diagnosis. He stopped me. He put his hand on my arm and said "Chris, so were we." I was shocked. I almost smiled at the words. My heart had it's answer. See, since our pregnancy and time and loss with Cana, i've been searching for another catholic couple who lived their pregnancy the same way. No amnio, no invasive testing, a full term pregnancy, a live birth. OF COURSE GOD WOULD GIVE THAT GIFT TO ME AT THEOLOGY OF THE BODY INSTITUTE! THIS is where my heart is!!!!
Bill shared that their daughter, GRACE ELIZABETH, was given a fatal diagnosis at 16 weeks. They did no amnio. She was born live and lived for 10 hours. Bill and his wife, Rebecca, were pregnant at the same time we were! Our daughters were born just 3 months apart. They have an older son, (as do we!) and a new subsequent little girl (as do we!!). They named their new little girl Clare Grace, her middle name in honor of their Gracie. We named our new little girl Elizabeth Hope, to remind us and point us to the hope God gave us in Cana..and in the promise new life.
SO MANY CONNECTIONS! So many seemingly small coincidences. So many little details that match up. It was what my heart had longed for..and long forgotten. And when I shared with Nicole, the former teen at Boston U, about Bill's story being so much like ours,..she simply shared that she knew. My heart leapt again at her gift to me. She could have very easily shared what she knew about Bill back in february. She chose to let God gift me! She knew it wasn't her gift to give. I am so proud of her!!!
I am still receiving daily blessings from my trip. A renewed desire and passion to teach TOB. An affirming sense that God HAS gifted me with an ability to teach it. But i've also found another renewed desire.
After we had Cana, within the first year of grief, another family in our parish tragically lost their daughter. She was the same age as my son, Travis. Mary was almost 3 years old at the time. *this week is the anniversary of her death. Pray for us, sweet Mary. I went to my former spiritual director, who was close with our pastor. I shared how i had been feeling called to form a support ministry for families/mothers of infant death, stillborn, miscarriage, etc. I wanted to make sure this family in particular, since they were new to our parish, and their home/support was far away. I wanted to make sure they weren't left alone, as we felt we were. I was told that this kind of grief was too private, and that all we need are prayers. I was wounded. But asked God to take that from me...to heal me, and to continue using me in whatever way was possible. I reached out to the family and was received completely, Praise God! But i still had this continued push and desire to start some form of support, to help bring recognition of life to those with empty arms. At TOBI, two different women shared with me about The Elizabeth Ministry. (I KNOW!, ELIZABETH!!!) http://www.elizabethministry.com/
I looked up the website and found that it was everything i had envisioned before! It included teachings and education on theology of the body, infertility and adoption, chastity and healing from past relationships, bereavement support...and especially, support DURING a fatal diagnosis pregnancy. Support for families who continue to live the pregnancy! WHAT?!!! Lord, you still surprise me!
I write this with the main purpose being to shower grace upon grace on the person who anonymously and generously sent me to The Theology of the Body Institute. I don't know that i can fully ever express my hearts gratitude and overflowing joy at the gift and opportunity. God's hand lead you to gift me..and I am thankful for you both! I am grateful for every hand that moved at God's leading in getting me to TOBI. I am humbled and in awe at how God placed people in my life years ago..that played a role in my time spent there. I know that I am not worthy to receive such graces from God. I know that He placed all these desires on my heart and that if He wills me to move forward with this passion and desire, then He will show me when and how. I just pray I am blessed and broken enough to continue hearing His call on my heart. My time at TOBI truly was "a result of a gift of God who heals, restores, and transforms the human heart by his grace." Cana Lynn, pray for us.
"This is the dilemma of anyone who encounters the teaching of Christ: we don't have what it takes on our own to fulfill it. "Love and life according to the Gospel [are] beyond man's abilities. They are possible only as a result of a gift of God who heals, restores, and transforms the human heart by his grace." Living the Gospel, then, is "a possibility opened to man exclusively by grace, by the gift of God, by his love" (Veritatis Splendor 23, 24).


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A post-Brexit windfall predicted by pro-Leave economists should be used to boost the NHS by an extra £350 million a week, prominent Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has said.
Launching a report by the Economists for Free Trade (EFT) group, Mr Rees-Mogg said he had not previously supported the health service pledge made by Leave campaigners during the referendum, but thought it was now essential to honour it.
With the EFT study predicting a £135 billion boost for the UK after withdrawal, the Tory MP called for a radical reduction in import tariffs to make basic items cheaper.
He said: "What I'm suggesting is that we have more money for the NHS, and that we have cheaper prices for food, clothing and footwear for the poorest in society.
"Although I did not want the £350 million figure used, it was used and the electors believe a promise was made."
The EFT report predicted Brexit would be "overwhelmingly positive" for the British economy provided the Government adopts the right policies.
The findings are sharply at odds with most mainstream economists who have warned the UK faces lower growth and more pressure on the public finances as a result of the vote to leave.
Mr Rees-Mogg said official forecasts were based on "false assumptions" of the Treasury and that the outlook for the public finances is "much better" than the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is predicting.
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Mr Rees-Mogg defended the Department for International Trade (DIT) for tweeting a link to a news report about the EFT study, which contained his comments on "false assumptions", after Labour MP Chuka Umunna criticised the move.
The Tory MP said the EFT was helping the Treasury as Chancellor Philip Hammond had asked for ideas before next week's Budget.
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Mr Rees-Mogg said Britain should refuse to make any payments to the EU after Brexit if it does not secure a trade deal.
The EFT – headed by Professor Patrick Minford – said the priority for the Government should be to bring down trade barriers with the rest of the world once Britain has left the EU, while reducing the burden of regulation and taxation on firms and individuals.
It argues a "dynamic stimulus from classic free trade" combined with continued restraint in public spending could provide "post-Brexit fiscal freedom" worth £135 billion between 2020 and 2025, with a further £40 billion a year from 2025 – including £10 billion a year saved by no longer having to pay into EU budgets.
Prof Minford dismissed forecasts of economic decline after Brexit as a "conspiracy of doom".
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