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First of all, thank you for all of the kind comments, emails, and beautiful cards regarding the passing of our dog Cinnie girl. You all touched my heart and your kindness has been overwhelming. Yes, 'just a dog' but never the less, a member of our family and daily life.
It has been a little difficult to get back into the kitchen . . .
she was a 'food-driven' dog, and always my companion while I prepped, cooked and baked.
But, there were boundaries. Our cooktop is on a center island, which opens to the great/family room. She was not allowed to come on "the working side" of the island counter, and she knew her boundaries well. However, she always kept me company on the 'other' side of the island. Nose and ears alert in case some 'goodie' happened to hit the floor.
Whenever I 'chop' on the cutting board I expect to see her sitting up attentively just waiting for me to say "Ooops", that was her signal to come and do 'floor duty" for some scrap that had gone astray.
Gosh I miss her. Thank you again friends, for your kind thoughts and compassion while we're healing.
Each day it becomes a little easier.
Like much of the Northwest coast of North America we received an unusual summer downpour a day or so ago. Instead of the usual light summer sprinkle, this storm brought over an inch of rain to our area. Yikes!
So these seemed like a fair alternative, and it was the perfect opportunity to try out my new mini-doughnut pans.
Big plus... they are baked, not fried. :)
Most mini-doughnut recipes yield between 24 to 48 mini-doughnuts, so I bought two pans and they have worked out perfectly.
If you like cake stye doughnuts, I think you will like these and recommend that you give them a try.
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Can I rotate lossily compressed photos that I view in Windows Photo Viewer without worrying about losing even more information to compression?
If the dimensions of the image are multiples of 8 (or 16 if chroma subsampling is used) then the rotations are lossless. Otherwise it is not possible to rotate the image without recomputing the blocks i.e. recompressing the image, which is lossy.
The reason for this is that jpeg images are broken up into a series of 8x8 or 16x16 blocks which are compressed individually. Incomplete blocks are only allowed on the right edge and bottom edge. Thus is your image is not an exact multiple of 8/16 it will contain incomplete blocks, which will end up on the wrong edge after rotation.
I verified the above assertion using the version of Windows Photo Viewer that ships with Windows 7. I used two images of colour noise. One image was 256x256 i.e. both sizes multiples of 8. The other image was the same but cropped to 253x253 i.e. neither size was a multiple of 8. Here are the images:
I then performed four anti-clockwise rotations, closing photo viewer after each rotation to ensure the image was saved in it's rotated state.
There's no need to perform a subtraction to see the difference with the 253 pixel image, it's noticeably darker and muddier!
A diff on the other image looks like this:
i.e. the images are identical, the rotations were lossless.

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Apple vs. Samsung: Feuding tech giants return to court in epic patent battle
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For The Oakland Press
SAN JOSE -- With a $1 billion verdict hanging in the balance, feuding tech titans Apple and Samsung return to federal court this week armed with the latest legal ammunition in their global smartphone and tablet war.
This duel, which unfolds before U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh on Thursday, centers on Samsung's bid to overturn a jury's stunning verdict in August that found the South Korean tech giant "willfully" copied Apple's iPhone and iPad in its own increasingly popular smartphones and tablets.
But Thursday's hearing is also very much about Apple's attempt to exact even more punishment against Samsung, its chief rival with products such as the Android-driven Galaxy line of smartphones. Apple has asked Koh to permanently ban the sale of more than two dozen Samsung devices in the United States, all of them older versions, as well as add more than $500 million to the $1 billion judgment under provisions for increasing damages for willful patent infringement.
If the judge sides with Apple, experts predict it could fuel a push by Apple to expand any injunction to cover some of Samsung's newer smartphones and tablets, already the target of a second pending federal patent lawsuit.
For Samsung, the post-trial sparring is considered a prelude to an anticipated appeal to the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the Washington, D.C.-based court that hears patent cases and has thus far appeared more receptive to Samsung's legal arguments than Koh has. For the most part, legal experts do not expect Samsung to gain much relief from the San Jose federal judge, although some speculate she may be willing to pare the damages.
"I think Samsung faces an uphill battle in persuading Judge Koh to reverse the jury verdict," said Mark Lemley, a Stanford University law professor and patent expert. "The jury obviously took its job very seriously, and even if Samsung could prevail on a few points it would need to persuade Judge Koh that the jury was wrong on multiple grounds to have much effect on the ultimate award."
The jury concluded Samsung's older line of products, such as the Fascinate, Epic 4G and Galaxy SII smartphones, trampled on Apple's design and technology patents. These patents ranged from the shape of an iPhone to its "pinch and zoom" features. The jury also rejected Samsung's counterclaims against Apple, which alleged the Cupertino company infringed on some of its wireless technology patents.
Samsung and Apple did not respond to requests for interviews. But both companies' lawyers have filed stacks of legal arguments in recent months outlining their competing positions.
Among other arguments, Samsung alleges the jury's verdict was tainted by the jury foreman's misconduct, particularly his alleged failure to disclose that he'd been sued in the past by his former employer, Seagate Technology. Samsung, a large stakeholder in Seagate, accuses Velvin Hogan, the foreman, of deliberately omitting the information to get on the jury, and also alleges that his comments to media outlets after the verdict, including to this newspaper, showed bias against Samsung.
Hogan declined to comment, but told this newspaper after Samsung first raised the argument that "there was no jury misconduct." Apple also refutes Samsung's argument that Hogan's conduct tarnished the deliberations.
Legal experts say such arguments are a long shot.
"I don't expect Judge Koh to rule in Samsung's favor on the jury misconduct issue," said Brian Love, a Santa Clara University law professor. "The rules of evidence make it quite hard for a court to reverse a verdict on this basis."
Samsung relies on other arguments to set aside the verdict, including the "manifest unfairness" of Koh's restrictions on the amount of time each side could use to present evidence. Samsung also opposes Apple's bid to block the sales of the products, calling it a ploy to "bully Samsung and third parties in an effort to stifle lawful, fair competition."
Apple, however, argues Samsung deserves stiff punishment.
"Samsung copied this intellectual property in a calculated effort to wrest market share from Apple," Apple's lawyers wrote.
In fact, the most recent data shows Samsung's smartphones, led by its Galaxy SIII, continue to lead Apple's iPhone in worldwide sales, while Samsung is also putting a dent in Apple's tablet lead.
As a result, a second pending court case between the two companies promises to be the next battleground, even as Koh weighs the recent jury verdict. That case, filed earlier this year by Apple, centers on the newer line of products from both Apple and Samsung, including Samsung's Galaxy SIII phone and Apple's iPhone 5.
Koh has set trial in that case for 2014. The question in the short-term is whether Apple will be able to persuade the judge to use the jury verdict to expand its request for injunctions to Samsung's more recent devices.
"She has the authority to enjoin (the older products) and others that are not substantially different from them in the use of (Apple's) patented technology," Lemley said. "(Apple and Samsung) may well fight over whether current generation products met that definition."
Howard Mintz covers legal affairs. Contact him at 408-286-0236. Follow him at Twitter.com/hmintz


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Innovations in Education
The Intergenerational School, Cleveland
School Profile: Selected Variables a
|Year First Chartered
|Grades Served
|Student Ethnicity b
|86% African-American, 4% White, 1% Asian, 9% Multiracial
|Special Education
|Free or Reduced-price Lunch b
|Annual Cost per Student
a Unless otherwise indicated, these data are reported by the school and are for the
school year 2006–07.
b These data are drawn from the Intergenerational School school report card for 2005–06 posted on Ohio Department of Education Web site.
c Includes aftercare, summer camp, summer school.
Mission and Founding
On the second floor of a building that houses services aimed at successful aging, the Intergenerational School (TIS) is bringing new meaning to lifelong learning. Purposefully located in Cleveland's Fairhill Center for the Aging, a community resource center which houses physician's offices, services for seniors, and a Meals on Wheels Association of America program, the school matches its students with local seniors, engaging these elders as partners in the learning process.
The idea for the school was born during conversations between the husband-and-wife team of Catherine Whitehouse, an educator and child development psychologist specializing in reading and learning disabilities, and Peter Whitehouse, a geriatric neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist. Ohio's 1998 decision to allow charter schools provided the Whitehouses with the opportunity to put their ideas into practice. The couple spent a year working with Stephanie FallCreek, executive director of Fairhill Center, to devise a plan for a developmentally based school for low-income inner-city students. "Healthy aging is a life-span process that starts when you are born," says Catherine Whitehouse, who now serves as the principal of TIS. The school's philosophy, she adds, is grounded in the work of developmental theorists, such as Piaget, Kohlberg, Vygotsky, and Dewey.
In 2000, TIS opened with 30 students, a staff of two teachers, and a commitment to placing students in classrooms by their developmental stage rather than chronological age. That first year revealed how much these students had missed in their early development. "We really were not adequately prepared for how unprepared the children would be," Whitehouse recalls. "[Students] came in and didn't recognize their name, didn't know a single letter, and didn't know how to hold a pair of scissors to cut paper. They didn't know how to ask for something. I think it is because they have not had early educational experiences, such as preschool."
Since then, TIS has added one developmental stage each year, which is similar to adding a grade level, except that the school organizes students by developmental stage rather than grade level. TIS currently has 114 students enrolled across six developmental stages that correspond to the sequencing of learning from kindergarten through seventh grade. Each grouping includes children from two to three years apart in age. The school expects to add an additional developmental stage in the next two years, once it has the funding base to expand its operations.
School Operations and Educational Program
The school's structure follows these stages of developmental learning: emerging (grade K–1), beginning (grades 1–2), developing (grade 3), refining (grade 4), applying (grades 5–6), and leadership (grade 7). The school places students into each of the flexible, multiage groupings based on their developmental needs. Within a given classroom, older and younger students work both cooperatively and independently and progress through the stages at their own pace. "I try to instill in the age group that I work with that they can be thinkers and learners," one teacher explains.
The school curriculum, designed collaboratively by the principal and teachers, is aligned to state benchmarks and Ohio content standards. While it deviates from the grade-level structure employed by the state, TIS created an educational program that measures student progress and identifies areas for further instruction so students are academically prepared for high school by the completion of the leadership stage. Individual learning experiences are a hallmark of TIS. According to the annual report, an "individually tailored education address[es] each child's unique needs and capabilities." No class has more than 16 students per teacher, and all students develop one-on-one relationships with adult reading and math mentors, as well as with the assisted living and nursing home residents they visit regularly. Some stages are designed to take more than one school year to complete, and the range of ages among students in every class ensures that students do not stand out, whether they advance quickly or more slowly through a stage.
In this model, teachers use multisensory, differentiated instruction to build on students' strengths and meet their developmental learning needs. Students progress from one stage to the next when they have mastered 90 percent of the math, reading, and writing objectives at a 90 percent level and demonstrate proficiency on state assessments. Students can move up to the next developmental stage at any time during the school year if they are ready, and TIS trimester report cards are organized to assess student mastery of skills, values, and standards within a given developmental stage.
Literacy is a major focus within the school. Students engage in 30 minutes of sustained silent reading (SSR) daily in class and are required to complete another 30 minutes of reading at home every night. In addition to SSR, most classes have an additional half hour of sustained silent writing once the students are able to do this independently. The principal trains senior volunteers from the community to serve as mentors and to work with students on reading and math. For students who are struggling, there are several intervention strategies available, including afterschool tutoring by a teacher and support from the Title I instructor during the school day. TIS also contracts with special education teachers to assess and create individual education plans for students and with a part-time speech and language pathologist as necessary.
The Montessori-like classrooms are filled with colorful displays of student projects, vocabulary words, and signs enumerating community values. One classroom, for example, has cloudshaped cutouts reading, "We are: thoughtful, cooperative, truthful, caring, kind, self-controlled, happy, loving, sharers, friends, respectful, listeners, playful, workers." In another classroom, a student selects a "sharing song" for the group to sing; a teacher plays the song on a tape recorder and the class sings along, verbally reinforcing the value of sharing and positive behavior. One board member remarks, "It is unusual to find this type of a school for inner-city kids," and the annual report describes TIS as an oasis of vibrant learning, uncommon in its poor eastside Cleveland neighborhood.
"It is our belief that learning cannot take place in chaos," says principal Whitehouse. "School should be a calm, peaceful, respectful, and exciting place to learn. 'High expectations' does not mean regimentation, but it does mean that what every student is expected to do and to learn is made very clear." The school dress code of dark pants, jumper, or skirt and a plain, colored shirt also helps create a calm climate. "Students are accountable for their choices both behaviorally and academically and learn to make good choices by experiencing the natural consequences, both the good and bad," Whitehouse says. Four schoolwide rules set high expectations for behavior: (1) Be respectful (of yourself, others, and school materials such as books); (2) Be where you are supposed to be at all times; (3) Keep your hands, feet, and objects to yourself; and (4) Remember that one person speaks at a time. Many teachers use classroom incentive programs, quotations from famous individuals, and music, such as the sharing song, to help students develop positive on-task behavior norms.
The students—86 percent African-American and 9 percent multi-racial—attend school from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. An after-care program that ends at 6 p.m. is available to help working families. Even though the school lacks the resources to provide transportation, it maintains a 96 percent attendance rate and a 90 percent average retention rate from year to year. Beginning in January, there is a six-week open enrollment period in which any student in the state of Ohio may enroll in TIS. Returning students are guaranteed a space, and preference is given to siblings and residents of Cleveland. If the school receives more applicants than there are spaces available, TIS uses a lottery to select new students.
TIS created its own internal authentic assessments to evaluate student progress throughout the school year. In conjunction with the Ohio state tests, which include a beginning-of-year diagnostic screening and achievement test, the school can determine if students are making adequate progress and can intervene or make referrals as necessary. The school's assessment allows the staff to closely monitor academic progress in between state benchmarks.
External Partnerships
TIS works closely with parents, families, and the community to support students. By providing flexible meeting times for parent-teacher conferences, the school has consistently enjoyed a 100 percent participation rate. The school reaches out to parents in other ways: The school newsletter, TIS Community News, which provides families with information regularly; notices sent home by teachers in homework folders; and school events, such as family math night, when teachers model working with children on math assignments. TIS also runs a six-week summer school for students who need additional academic help and assists families in applying for other summer programs and scholarships. The school would like to continue to increase its outreach to parents. "The best intergenerational programs have kid-only time, adult-only time, and time together," Whitehouse says. "What we don't really have well developed is the adultonly part, and that's where that would include parent education. I would love to have a GED program available here for parents who have not completed a high school degree."
In interviews for this guide, parents raved about the individual attention their children receive at TIS and point to the principal's approachability as a key factor in making the school atmosphere warm and welcoming. One parent explained that for her child, a special education student, "the piece of paper that is the [individualized education plan] has turned into something real in that classroom." Another parent commented that her daughter used to hate to go to school prior to coming to TIS. "We had to fight about it every day," she recalls. "There was no one-on-one attention at that school." TIS has transformed her daughter's relationship to school, she continues, "Now, she can't get enough of this school. I love the atmosphere in the classrooms, the communication, and the high academic standards." A third parent chimed in, saying, "TIS has been the answer for us. The process of education is incredible here because every child is treated as an individual."
Community partnerships are critical to TIS fulfilling its intergenerational mission. Teachers work with nursing home facility coordinators to plan meaningful exchanges between students and residents during monthly (and, for older students, weekly) visits. The school and the partner facilities have found that the visits benefit both the children, who often internalize a sense of worth and belonging, and the seniors, who more frequently engage mentally and emotionally with children than with staff.
The location of TIS within Fairhill Center helps sustain local collaborations. Within Fairhill, the Senior Adult Resource Center recruits volunteer tutors and mentors from its population. The center facilitates an after-school museum explorer program, in which seniors and students together visit the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and a Cleveland Orchestra music program, in which seniors and students attend performances and learn about instruments. Volunteers from the National Council of Jewish Women come to the school monthly to meet with the parents of younger students, loaning books and discussing ways to read to their children.
Other external partnerships have included Groundworks, a contemporary dance company that worked with older TIS students and seniors to create a dance piece based on science concepts, and Case Western Reserve University, whose nursing students observe classes, plan nutrition lessons, and staff a family health fair during parent-teacher conferences.
Governing for Accountability
Sponsored by the Lucas County Education Service Center, TIS is a nonprofit organization operating under a charter from the state of Ohio. It has been rated excellent for three consecutive years by the Ohio Department of Education, the only charter school in the state to achieve this distinction. TIS recently was recognized by the national Schools That Can network as a high-performing urban school.
A seven-member board of directors oversees TIS's executive director and chief educator. Executive Director Brooke King manages budgets and finance, compliance, community relations, marketing, fund-raising, facilities, and development and coordination of volunteer programs, as well as hiring and supervising nonteaching staff. Principal Whitehouse is the school's chief educator. She hires and supervises teaching staff, classroom aides, and special education staff, and oversees curriculum, assessment, student learning and behavior, special education compliance, and volunteer training. The board meets monthly to review school governance, finances, and policy, and it strategizes about future growth and fund-raising capacity. In addition to the board, there is a national advisory council comprising experts in medicine, geriatrics, and education with whom TIS consults.
The nine full-time teaching staff are fully certified and rated as highly qualified according to No Child Left Behind guidelines. There is a one-hour staff meeting every other Monday and regular professional development days for working on curriculum development and projects, such as redesigning the school report card. In addition to scheduled training time, teachers highlight their extensive informal collaboration. New teachers are paired with veteran teachers who serve as mentors, and the principal observes and coaches teachers frequently. "It's my job to help the teacher figure out how to make each child succeed," Whitehouse says. "When a teacher is having difficulty figuring out what to do for a child, we will sit down and brainstorm together." A new teacher's experience at TIS illustrates the principal's commitment to helping her staff blossom. "The best thing about this school is Cathy Whitehouse," the teacher says. "My first year of teaching, she was there every single step of the way. She held my hand through the entire process."
Funding is TIS's biggest challenge. On average, teachers at TIS earn $10,000 less than other teachers in the Cleveland public school district. Where most school districts can rely on local funding sources for 47 percent of their total income and do not pay for any of their facility costs, TIS does not get any money from local taxes or levies and must use 13 percent of its limited budget to meet facility costs. The per-pupil cost of the school is $8,820, which includes all intergenerational programs, summer school, and meal programs, but TIS receives only $7,616 per pupil from the state. As a result, TIS must raise about $1,204 per student on an annual basis.


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It's not only good but It's very very cool boat
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Contratulations Greenpeace,
she indeed IS beautiful. I can't wait to see her in action!!
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Is just like a dream!! TNX for such a great work
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If I don't remember incorrectly, before these four (or at the moment I'm reading this blog entry, four :)) was previously a question posted by someone...
If I don't remember incorrectly, before these four (or at the moment I'm reading this blog entry, four :)) was previously a question posted by someone, but now that seems to be gone, or maybe I'm mistaken and it was on some other GP ship blog entry. Can't be that sure.
Anyhow, it was/is a good question: as campaigning with Move Beyond Oil theme, I, like that someone who made the original question, would be interested to hear what plans to renew or alter diesel using ships Greenpeace now uses (Arctic Sunrise etc.) to more enviromentally friendly direction or options? RW 2 and this upcoming here have sails to drop down diesel usage of the vessel, but how's that with other ships?
I guess it all comes down to practice what you preach vs. practivalities vs. money vs. convenient choices. But I hope to see less diesel based sailing and more innovative bases used withing GP next years!
You know, it's a bit like when I go to a GP voluntary meeting and they pass on coffee and stuff styrofoam cups or when someone at a very nearby Europian office started to book flights to COP15, as a night train seemed to be too slow method of travelling for some. Yup - fly from one Nordic country to another to criticize the bad climate politics.
It's details like this that convince me that if something doesn't happen soon, within the green movement, it's a lost game. "Raising awareness" just does not equal to actual, real and concrete achievements.
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Good points Hannah. I too sometimes find that the devil is in the details and sometimes those details do not always follow the big picture of what GP ...
Good points Hannah. I too sometimes find that the devil is in the details and sometimes those details do not always follow the big picture of what GP is preaching in public. To me this comes down to a management issue. From top down GP management have to demonstrate that they are always trying to use the proper "green" alternative so that when it is not possible (like for example using a diesel ship to protest Arctic Oil Drilling) GP comes off less like a hypocrite. This is not lost on a vast majority of people who work for the organization and it is something often brought up and argued, sorry debated about constantly.
They certainly do a fair amount behind the scenes to ensure that they practice what they preach (I am thinking of the green design choices used in the refurbishing of the Canadian and US offices as well as their commitment to have all their IT operations powered by green energy worldwide by 2014) and I believe they have done as much as possible to mitigate the effects that their diesel ships have on the environment but little things like serving coffee in styrofoam cups or relying too much on air travel when not neccessary sends the kind of signals that opponents of GP like to pounce on.
I don't think it is done maliciously but it is something that should be audited and checked on internally and incorporated in best practices kind of regime so that they are always learning from their mistakes.
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the new hope ship has come .. good works ..
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It really looks super nice!.. Good work!,.
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When the globalists are sick of your "I feel bad about the environment cuz my mom fed me flouridated formula" kick, they are going to simply...
When the globalists are sick of your "I feel bad about the environment cuz my mom fed me flouridated formula" kick, they are going to simply sink you. The only reason your organization exists is to further THEIR purposes. They will create a disaster and use you to bring more attention to it, then people get scared and want to hand over their freedoms even more quickly to these fascist clowns who you profess to be against, but are blindly helping.
Shame on you for your lack of ability to see that. The entire environmental movement is a scam perpetuated by the very ones who you think you are against.
This shocks and annoys you, and that is a normal reaction you've been trained to have. Again, shake your heads, there's bigger issues at stake, like peoples' souls!
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I Thunderflukes the sperm whale, am appreciative that some humans will go to so much trouble to protect my ocean home. There is so much plastic and ot...
I Thunderflukes the sperm whale, am appreciative that some humans will go to so much trouble to protect my ocean home. There is so much plastic and other pollution spoiling my oceans these days and my fellow ocean creatures cannot understand why our oceans were so pristine for so many millions of years but suddenly have been horribly sullied just in the last hundred years. It is the humans I tell them but they do not all undeerstand that. Meanwhile they sicken and die from ingesting chemicals and waste pouring out from the land. I'm looking forward to meeting your new ship face to face sometime in my southern ocean home. Give me a toot when you catch sight of my blow and watch my vapours drifting on the winds of the screaming sixties.
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Just because he's a champion bowler means he can say anything he wants and is above criticism? Not very logical.Originally Posted by benchmark00
Just because he's a champion bowler means he can say anything he wants and is above criticism? Not very logical.Originally Posted by benchmark00
He's just confident in himself and his team for ****s sake. He should be, he's playing test cricket.
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Never mind McGrath. What about Gatting's piece this morning as reported on Cricketweb's front page?
Apparently, because Kim Hughes (last played tests 1984-85) and Greg Ritchie (most famous for a pitch invasion in the West Indies in 1995 rather than anything he accomplished at the highest level) have come out and made comments about certain current Aussie players and their coach, there is disunity in the Australian camp!
What a load of BS. If current squad members were coming out and saying those things, well and good, but please. This is ridiculous - I think he's still getting over Old Trafford 1993.
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Andrew Flintoff's the world's greatest player but you don't hear him making such sweeping statements - he obviously has the right to going by the logic that McGrath does. I know it's tongue-in-cheek, but really, it's quite boring. I doubt idiotic Aussie comments will act as motivation to England, because our players will probably not be listening. Yawn, snore, zzzz.
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Within reason and within the sections he has control over, yes. I'm not saying he can come out and say, for example, racist comments, that's just stupid. This sort of thing works for McGrath, and until it stops working, he can say whatever he wants. Look forward to him naming his bunnys for this series.Originally Posted by Dasa
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You know it.Originally Posted by Dasa
Pretty funny by Pidge to be honest.
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Is Cam White, Is Good.
About Gatting - former players pontificate all the time(earlier this year Terry Alderman said McGrath was finished) but the difference is they don't have to "walk the walk" - and it was Warne who moaned at Australia's coach(upset because the boot camp meant he missed some Hampshire matches?)
Is he?Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero
It's a big call to make given that he dominated one series (in which he played magnificently), has been injured almost the whole time since, is about to come back as a batsman and is yet to play at a level comensurate with his 2005 Ashes form for a lengthy period of time. Wouldn't he have to play for a reasonable period at a level consistent with his 05 form to be regarded as the world's greatest player? Not necessarily get those results, but at least play to that level?
It would be like saying that in 2001 VVS Laxman was the greatest player in the world because he had a dominant sries at home against Australia.
Mind you, Fred's a fine player and a great sportsman as he demonstrated last year after Edgbaston.
I'm not prepard to say he's the greatest player in the world yet, but I still wish he was an Aussie!!!
Not the worlds greatest, but he could be labeled MVP in the world.
Yeah. Happy to run with that. He's so great to watch, apart from what he brings to the team.Originally Posted by UncleTheOne
Why even bother with McGrath and his predictions? They are the same every series, "I think we will win all of the Tests, bar rain"
"I am going to target blah, blah, I have noticed a weakness"
"The other team, have a lot of problems"
As soon as I see the headline in the paper "McGrath predicts" I skip straight to the footy section.
You know it makes sense.
One could argue that he was only continuing his past form during the Ashes - seeing as he's averagin about 40-27 over the last 40 Tests...Originally Posted by Burgey
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That still doesn't make him the greatest player. I'd much rather have a player just average 80 with the bat (like Hussey) or 18 with the ball. The thing that makes Freddie so good is the same thing that makes the Indian team so bad: clutch performances. Come up big when you need it the most.
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Finally arriving on disc from Olive Films, the buoyant 1948 comedy One Touch of Venus derives its story from the ages-old myth of the mortal man falling in love with a beautiful statue that transforms into a real live woman - Venus, Goddess of Love. The movie itself is strictly in the mold of escapist post-WWII American comedy, yet its basic concept is durable enough to have been revived, again and again (most obviously in the 1987 romp Mannequin). This lady's got legs, all right.
One Touch of Venus counts as an odd example of a Broadway musical that wound up getting stripped of most of its tuneage in its journey to film. The stage edition starred Mary Martin and ran for two seasons, buoyed by a score with music by Kurt Weill (a long way from his Threepenny Opera days) and lyrics by the humorist poet Ogden Nash. At some point, silent screen legend Mary Pickford bought the rights to the musical, intending to bring the production intact to the screen. That fell through, however - the final product ends up being a more conventional, yet still enjoyable, bonbon of a flick. Universal Picture's well-mounted, mostly music-free edition concentrates on the sexy, escapist parts of the story with an appealing cast headed by Robert Walker (typecast but terrific) and Ava Gardner (looking fabulous, and unexpectedly overcoming the limitations of the role with flying colors).
As in Mannequin, the action in One Touch of Venus mostly takes place within the walls of a swanky department store, the consumerist fantasy playground. At Savory's, Walker's Eddie Hatch toils away as a put-upon clerk. His mundane life is about to change, however, on the eve of an important event revealing the latest acquisition of the store's pompous owner, Whitfield Savory II (Tom Conway). While busily making arrangements for the grand reveal with his loyal secretary, Molly (Eve Arden), Whitfield assigns Eddie with the task of repairing the faulty curtain surrounding the life-sized statue of the Greek goddess Venus he recently purchased. While doing the deed, Eddie impulsively kisses the beautiful statue, lightning strikes, and bam - she becomes Ava Gardner. As is Venus's usual practice, her beauty and charm has an immediate effect on the alarmed but smitten Eddie. After Eddie conceals Venus at his apartment, the curious beauty inadvertently creates havoc for Eddie's landlady, his co-worker girlfriend, Gloria (Olga San Juan), and his friend, Joe (Dick Haymes). With his unveiling ruined, Whitfield employs a mob of detectives to track down Eddie, whose explanation on what really happened falls on deaf ears. Eddie manages to elude capture and place Venus in the store's high-tech model home display. When the sleeping beauty is found the next morning by Molly, Whitfield is brought to the scene and becomes entranced by her (upsetting Molly, who carries a torch for her boss). Meanwhile, Venus has also cast a siren spell on Eddie's pal Joe, causing him to fall for Eddie's girl, Gloria. Despite his best girl getting stolen from him, Eddie's main concern is trying to figure out how Venus can stay a mortal so that they can remain together, forever.
The fact that much of the musical score was obliterated from the movie version of One Touch of Venus might imply a shoddy, ill-conceived mess, but in all actuality the film is a smoothly done, lightweight treat. It works pretty well as escapist comedy, and the sections where the Broadway score is used are well integrated with the action. Its best-known song, the standard "Speak Low," is performed twice in the film by Gardner's alluring Venus and Dick Haymes' Joe. Although Gardner's singing voice is obviously dubbed in by a studio vocalist (Eileen Wilson), her miming is perfectly adequate. Gardner also contributes to a couple of less memorable but equally charming numbers with Walker, San Juan and Arden (all of whom appear to be doing their own singing, despite their vocal imperfections). Along with some lovely cinematography from cameraman Franz Planer, the staging of the musical numbers contribute a lot to the film's dreamy, fantasy-on-earth mood.
The casting in One Touch may be somewhat by-the-book, but each performer brings his or her own uniqueness to the project. You have Robert Walker firmly in his gawky See Here, Private Hargrove stage, bringing out the humanity in a character that might have been played as a shallow dolt in less capable hands. Eve Arden plays her usual wisecracking, lovelorn type here, but her real feelings for Tom Conway are sensitively done. There's some unexpectedly good work here from Conway, best known for taking over the Falcon detective series from his better-known (and more charismatic) brother George Sanders. I also enjoyed Olga San Juan, a petite, likable Puerto Rican actress doing an odd Americanized role. And Ava Gardner is something of a revelation, taking the ugly sexist undertones of this project and turning them on their head. While Venus could have been done as a dippy sexpot, Gardner takes the same approach that Barbara Eden would later do on TV's I Dream of Jeannie. She effectively channels her obvious sex appeal into the character's childlike enthrallment with this new and wonderful world she's now a part of. It's a tricky thing to pull off, and she's enchanting.
Note: images do not reflect the contents of One Touch of Venus' Blu Ray edition.
The Blu Ray:
For the Blu Ray edition of One Touch of Venus, Olive has secured a pristine looking print which sports only a few scattered specks and flaws on this 1.37:1 picture. Mastering is somewhat keyed towards the dark side in this overall clean and professional disc.
As with other Olive reissues of vintage flicks, the film's serviceable original mono soundtrack is the sole audio option. The track is pleasantly mixed with clear audio and a somewhat obtrusive but nicely modulated musical score. No subtitles are included.
Kurt Weill's indignant letters to wife Lotte Leyna registering his disgust with the picture are included as an intriguing extra. Just kidding; there are no extras.
Final Thoughts:
She's got it, yeah baby she's got it. In telling the story of an ordinary doofus who falls head-over-heels for the physical incarnation of an ancient goddess, One Touch of Venus scores despite aspiring to nothing more than feather-light, sexed-up comedy (indeed, its humor can get lowbrow and sitcom-ish). The production is slick, the tunes are enjoyable, and the cast is effervescent - especially Venus as personified by the alluring Ava Gardner. Recommended.


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Same-Sex Prom Couple Has Unexpected Street Encounter with 'Bros'
When "Good Morning America" segment producer Michael Del Moro saw that a teenage same-sex prom couple was about to wander into the sights of a group of young men yelling bawdy things at passersby, he worried that ugliness was about to erupt. What happened next prompted Moreno to take to Twitter for a "short thread" of surprising messages, Buzzfeed reports.
Moreno, who is openly gay, was out with his boyfriend and other family members after an early Mother's Day outing on Friday evening, May 11. His "short thread" commenced with the observation that the locale from which he was posting - Seaside Heights, New Jersey - was the sort of place "where - not so long ago - young men would shout the word 'f****t' out their car window as we'd stroll along the boardwalk."
A short thread from here in Seaside Heights, NJ, where-not so long ago-young men would shout the word "f****t" out their car window as we'd stroll along the boardwalk.- Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) May 12, 2018
Moreno took note of "a group of rowdy bros gathered on a rooftop bar obnoxiously yelling "KISS HER!" in unison at every apparent couple that passed by."
It being "prom season," Moreno's tweets noted, there were plenty of "apparent couples" for the group of young men to cheer. But then "an adorable teenage gay couple" dressed in tuxedoes appeared, and Moreno felt a reflexive twinge of concern for their safety. Moreno and his family were walking by the bar at the same moment the two boys were, and, Moreno tweeted, he and those with him "stopped to make sure the couple was okay as they walked by" because they were "worried that something might happen."
And something did:
"The rooftop crew quickly switched from 'KISS HER!' to 'KISS HIM!' "
I looked at Alec (my boyfriend), my mom, my sister, and stopped to make sure the couple was okay as they walked by... worried that something might happen. The rooftop crew quickly switched from "KISS HER!" To "KISS HIM!"- Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) May 12, 2018
The young couple obliged and, Moreno tweeted, "both the rooftop crew and everyone else on the boardwalk just went absolutely wild for them and we all breathed a sigh of relief."
Buzzfeed shared information on the couple, as well, a pair of high schoolers named Theodore Vidal and Colin Beyers. They, too, were surprised by the warm response they got from the rooftop of "bros," having experienced bullying in their lives.
"After coming out to his friends and family in eighth grade, Vidal said his classmates bullied, attacked, and ignored him, telling him to 'end my life' and that 'he didn't belong here,' " Buzzfeed reported.
Beyers, by contrast, told the media that when he came out, he "got a positive reaction from family and close friends."
Love being love, things are better for the pair now they have found one another. "My life has changed because of him," Vidal told the media of Beyers. "He helps me live life to my fullest and that's what I am doing right now."
Beyers called the moment of support from the guys on the rooftop "one of those small victories that make the hard times worth it."
Buzzfeed posted a number of the couple's photos and reported that the two plan to travel to Greece together over the summer break.


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TORONTO — Knowlton Nash, a veteran CBC broadcaster best known as long-time anchor of The National, is dead. He was 86.
Former CBC anchor Knowlton Nash dead at age 86
TORONTO — Knowlton Nash, a veteran CBC broadcaster best known as long-time anchor of The National, is dead. He was 86.
The CBC reported Saturday that Nash had been battling Parkinson's for some years.
Nash, who had a 37-year career with Canada's public broadcaster, including spending a decade behind the anchor desk of The National, CBC's flagship news program before the creation of Prime Time News.
It was there that the broadcaster whose warm eyes appeared magnified behind his oversized glasses earned the unofficial title Uncle Knowlty. It was a reflection of his steady, easy-going style and earnest, scholarly delivery.
Ironically, his dedication to the craft led Nash to walk away from perhaps the most influential spot in Canadian television news in April of 1988.
It was the strongest enticement Nash could offer Peter Mansbridge, then a national correspondent for CBC-TV, to stay in Canada.
Mansbridge had reportedly been offered a $1-million salary to co-anchor a morning show on the U.S. network CBS.
But he agreed to stay over a late-night cup of hot chocolate after Nash volunteered to move to The National's weekend desk.
His departure — marked by a telephone call by then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney — marked the end of one of the most important decades in the history of the CBC's television news division.
Nash had been a key player in transforming an ailing news show into a major ratings success. From 1969 when he retired his correspondent's trenchcoat to 1978 when he took over anchoring The National, Nash was director of news and current affairs for the English network of the CBC.
It was under his steady guidance that The National moved to a then-unheard-of 10 p.m. time and was paired with his risky creation, The Journal.
The National/Journal hour became an unassailable jewel in the network's crown until anchor Barbara Frum's death in 1992 brought the Journal to a halt and CBC executives took another gamble with the creation of a 9 p.m. news show, Prime Time News.
Born Nov. 18, 1927, Nash was the son of a promotions manager. His mother, 20 years his father's junior, was the first woman to fly over Hamilton, he once bragged in an interview.
Except for a brief spell when Nash wanted to be a jockey, he always said he would be a newsman.
As a lad of less than 10, he put out several editions of his own weekly newspaper — six laboriously typed pages — which he sold for less than a nickel. He understood the business well enough to sell ad space in exchange for bubble gum and chocolate to local merchants.
By the Second World War, Nash was hawking the Toronto Star and Telegram on a Toronto street corner.
And before leaving his Forest Hill high school he was selling stories about collegiate football to the Globe and Mail.
After attending the University of Toronto, Nash was hired in 1947 for $18-a-week by the wire service British United Press. But before that he tried his hand writing for the magazine True Confessions and edited prisoners' letters for True Crime.
In 1951, he began a handful of years in Washington as head of public relations for the International Federation of Agricultural Producers, representing about 35 million farmers in some 40 countries.
Later, during a lengthy stint as a freelancer for the CBC, MacLeans magazine and anyone else who would pay him, Nash covered everything from police courts to presidents. He followed John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and got the last lengthy interview given by Robert Kennedy before he was assassinated.
He has written books about his career: History on the Run in 1984 and Prime Time At Ten in 1987. He is also the author of Kennedy and Deifenbaker (1990), Visions of Canada (1991).


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Wireless Carriers' Veto Over How Phones Work Hampers Innovation
One reason the American high-tech industry has been able to create so many innovative products is that it was able to maintain a close, direct relationship with the individuals and companies that used its products. High-tech companies could quickly determine whether their software, hardware and online services were meeting user needs, and they could revise and improve these products rapidly and continuously.
This direct feedback loop between the high-tech industry and its user base became even better and faster in the past decade because of the Internet. The Net created both an electronic-commerce system where products could be directly purchased, and electronic forums where user comments and complaints could be better heard.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has called this Internet-aided feedback loop "frictionless" because it minimizes the distorting and masking effects of the middleman. It is one of the purest examples in history of the benefits of free-market capitalism.
But in recent years, as the high-tech industry has begun to offer wireless-phone products, this connection between technology producers and users has been blocked by huge, powerful middlemen. In the U.S., the wireless phone carriers have used their ownership of networks to sharply restrict what technologies can actually reach users.
I call these cellphone companies the new Soviet ministries, because they are reminiscent of the Communist bureaucracies in Russia that stood athwart the free market for decades. Like the real Soviet ministries, these technology middlemen too often believe they can decide better than the market what goods consumers need.
Of course, the cellphone carriers aren't Communists, and they aren't evil. They spent billions of dollars to acquire and build their networks. They have every right to want to manage these networks carefully and to earn a fair return on their investments on behalf of their shareholders.
Also, these companies often subsidize the cost of the phones consumers buy, so they feel they have a right to decide what products reach consumers.
However, I believe that, in the name of valid business goals, the U.S. carriers are exercising far too much control over the flow of new technologies into users' hands. In an ideal world, any tech company with a new cellphone, or with software to run on cellphones, should be able to sell it directly to users. These customers would then separately buy plans from the cellphone companies allowing those devices to work on the networks.
But that isn't how it works. In most cases, manufacturers must get the network operators' approval to sell hardware that runs on their networks, and carriers don't allow downloading of software onto phones unless they supply it themselves. I once saw a sign at the offices of a big cellphone carrier that said, "It isn't a phone until 'Harry' says it's a phone." But why should it be up to Harry (a real carrier employee whose name I have changed)? Why shouldn't the market decide whether a device is a good phone?
Verizon Wireless didn't agree to offer its customers the innovative Treo smart phone until thousands of its customers signed an online petition demanding it do so. I'm not saying there was a cause and effect, but clearly some Verizon customers wanted a Treo that worked on the Verizon network and couldn't buy one even though the Treo's maker was eager to supply a Verizon model.
When AT&T Wireless brought out the first U.S. cellphone using Microsoft's smart phone software, it hobbled the phone's user interface so that an icon for its online store would always be visible. And several carriers have crippled phones' Bluetooth wireless functionality so they can't be used as laptop modems or to synchronize with a PC.
More recently, unidentified cellphone carriers are reported to have balked at allowing customers to buy a new phone, jointly designed by Motorola and Apple Computer, that would let users synchronize and play back music from Apple's iTunes computer program. One possible reason: They want to sell music themselves.
At last month's D: All Things Digital technology conference, which I co-produce for The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said he was wary of producing an Apple cellphone because, instead of selling it directly to the public, he would have to offer it through what he called the "four orifices" — the four big U.S. cellphone carriers.
Cellphone carriers say one reason they keep tight control over what phones run on their networks is to protect the networks from harm and assure service quality for their subscribers.
But we've heard that before, and it wasn't true then. Until the 1970s, when the government forced open the market, the old AT&T phone monopoly refused to let consumers buy phones and plug them into their home phone lines. You could only rent phones, and they had to be models made by an AT&T subsidiary. AT&T said the restriction protected the quality of the wired phone network. But, lo and behold, when the ban was lifted the phone network was just fine, even though consumers were plugging in millions of less expensive, more innovative phones.
Just as consumers benefited from that change, I believe they would benefit if the new Soviet ministries loosened their grip.
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Luxe Cinema Experience at Embassy Diplomat Screens, Bangkok
You think your home movie theater system is so awesome that you don't even need to go to the cinema anymore? Well, what if we introduced you to a whole new cinema experience, on a new level of luxury and comfort? Check out the recently opened Embassy Diplomat Screens in Bangkok!
The new deluxe theater is part of the Thai capital's Central Embassy luxury mall, and it pampers its guests with all-you-can-drink minibars, cozy blankets and pillows, snacks and an on-call butler. Obviously, the state-of-the-art seats are amazing, super comfortable and they even have a phone charger outlet.
Just take your seat, adjust your personal light to your preference, safely hang your bag on the hanger and enjoy the experience. With this kind of treatment, the movie itself almost becomes irrelevant. One ticket is 900THB ($28), but something tells us you won't regret spending that money on a film.
Movie goers will also have the chance to choose from a number of seating options (cozy couches, cocoon-style seats, or reclining daybeds). Oh, and did we mention that designers Rockwell Group Europe make the extra effort to install a fireplace in the lounge?


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Fairchild Garden's Butterfly Dreams/
Butterfly dreams do come true if you are Martin Feather. Martin is the curator and exhibit manager for the new Butterfly Conservatory at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. After 10 years of planning and two years of construction, the "Wings of the Tropics" Clinton Family Conservatory opened its doors on December 1st to around 1500 enthusiastic guest.
For Martin, a Northern England native, it's been a long, wonder trip to his dream. His butterfly dream started while working in London at the world's first commercial butterfly exhibit, he then became manager at the Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World in Scotland, he met his American wife in Costa Rica (both were at a butterfly conference, naturally), moved to Hawaii with her (where there are plenty of butterflies to study), then to Kentucky (to curate the butterfly exhibit at the Louisville Zoo), then to Texas (as curator of Horticulture and Entomology for the San Antonio Zoo). Then Fairchild Garden asked him to be a consultant on their young project. Soon thereafter, Feather negotiated to run the conservatory and has since moved to South Florida where, according to him, "his dream is now complete."
The dream is a 40-foot high containment structure that houses 2500 butterflies from around 45 species in what can only be describe as a screen-enclosed Garden of Eden. The mostly Asian, Central American and South American butterflies flutter amongst guests and are joined by six playful hummingbirds that dart through the lush plant life and drink nectar from the abundant flowers. To add to the natural bliss, a crystal clear stream, complete with waterfall, runs the entire length of the space.
"What I hear from people as they walk through the door is WOW," gushes Feather. "We're thrilled with this and the guests are absolutely blown away." I can attest to the feeling of awe once inside. There is nothing quite like being surrounded by these colorful flying critters by the hundreds.
On average, butterflies only live about three weeks. So, to keep the numbers up, Martin imports about 1000 pupae-stage winged guests from foreign breeders. Once at Fairchild, the chrysalis are cared for inside the Vollmer Metamorphosis Lab. in specialized cages where guests can watch the butterflies emerge.
Twice a day, the staff releases the newly hatched butterflies into the conservatory to the thrill and delight of onlookers. At first, they just crawl out of the netted cage. But, when the temperature gets above 75 degrees and the sun hits these brand new baby butterflies they start to fly. It's an amazing sight to see.
Around the grounds, there are fruit feeding stations where sliced mango attracts some butterflies.
The exotic imported flowers, laden with pollen, attract the others. Martin can name each, such as heliconids, morphos and owl butterflies. I just look at the diverse beauty that sometimes lands right on your hand or shoulder to say hello.
Interactivity is key. Martin explains, "We want to engage the children because these are the people who are our next generation of scientists…the people who can move us forward. And this is a great way to get them enthused about nature and science."
There is no doubt this is a family affair. Bring your cameras and get ready to snap a lot of shots because, while incredibly beautiful, catching butterflies in flight is no easy task.
The butterfly conservatory is just one part of the brand new $6 million Paul and Swanee DiMare Science Village. With four cutting-edge educational labs, a ton of Ph.D. scientists and other resources, the partnership between Fairchild Gardens and Miami-Dade County will allow for multiple teaching and classroom opportunities at all levels of education.
For Martin Feather, that's just another feather in his cap. For now he is delighted to say, "We're instantly popular and that's the way we'd love it to stay."


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SUPER's Rainn Wilson Gets Philosophical (Again)/
Rainn gives back in a big way. I am a bit in awe in how generative and generous this man is. There's a reason why he has over 2 million twitter followers and it's not just because he's really funny. He cares about things. He cares about people. He cares about process. He's thoughtful. And he's one of the folks I am thankful for getting to know in this past year.
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