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April 2015 – Panama - Infrastructure sector is vital to Panama, as the road to development unavoidably involves the promotion of public works and the provision of services to the population. Numerous international groups have settled in Panama, foreseeing the promising future and the state interest in the development of infrastructure. One such company is IBT Group, offering comprehensive solutions ranging from engineering, research, design, and construction of public works to sales, delivery and installation of equipment and training.
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Virtual machine migration can be thought of as a special form of suspend/resume, in which the state file is immediately transferred and resumed on a different target machine. Migration is particularly attractive in the data center, where it allows the current workload to be balanced dynamically across available rack space.
However, although Xen's suspend/resume mechanism is very efficient, it may not be suitable for migrating latency-sensitive or high-availability applications. This is because the virtual machine cannot resume execution until its state file has been transferred to the target system, and this delay is largely determined by its memory size: a complex VM with a large memory allocation takes a correspondingly long time to transfer.
To avoid prolonged downtimes, Xen provides a migration engine that transfers a VM's configuration information and memory image while the VM is still executing. The goal of the migration engine is to stop execution of the VM only while its (relatively tiny) register state is transferred. The "fly in the ointment" is that this can lead to an inconsistent memory image at the target machine if the VM modifies a memory location after it's been copied. Xen avoids these inconsistencies by detecting when a memory page is updated after it is copied, and retransferring that page.
To do this without requiring OS modifications, Xen installs a shadow page table beneath the VM. In this mode of operation, the guest's page table is no longer registered with the MMU. Instead, regions of the guest page table are translated and copied into the shadow table on demand.
Shadow page tables are not new: they are used in fully-virtualizing machine monitors such as VMware's products to translate between a guest's view of a contiguous physical memory space and the reality that its memory pages are scattered across the real physical memory space.
Shadow page tables are not used by the migration engine for full translation, but for dirty logging. The page mappings in the shadow table are therefore identical to those in the guest table, except for pages that the migration engine has transferred to the target system. Transferred pages are always converted to read-only access when their mappings are copied into the shadow table, and any attempt to update such a page causes a page fault. When Xen observes a write-access fault on a transferred page, it marks the page as "dirtied," which informs the migration engine to schedule another transfer. Writable mappings of the page are again permitted until the page is retransferred (and again marked read-only).


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Hey bloggers, readers and friends...meet this beautiful couple; Chanda and Gregory!
It is a good thing I'm not a cake baker/designer, because if you know me, you know I love to eat cake. Here's the end result :0) No detail was overlooked...
The beautiful set up...
Our yummy Candy Buffet set up
Escort cards created by us at CSE/FYEP
The Gorgeous Cardholder by Marni at Creative Custom Cardboxes
Hair: Michelle LoConte
Makeup: Adhari Fullman at Gloss and Shadow
Photographer: Josh Lynn Photography
Planning/Coordination & Floral Design: Catherine Scerbo Events/For Your Event Planning / Anai
Ceremony: St. Al's Church, Jersey City, NJ
Reception: The Tides Estate, North Haledon, NJ
Entertainment: LJ Productions
Video: Touch of Class Video
Photobooth: Touch of Class
Uplighting: Touch of Class
Cake: Groom's Aunt
Candy Buffet: For Your Event Planning / NJ Candy Buffets
Cardbox: Creative Custom Cardboxes
Limo Service: Santos Limo
Bridesmaids Attire: Memories Bridal


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New Cover for Can't Buy Me Love
The book publishes in ebook March 2012! Ages ago I was runner up in The Harlequin Presents contest--many of you read the first chapter. I loved the characters SO MUCH that I decided to write their entire story.
Also...Join me the month of March for my Spring Into Romance blog series! My favorite authors--Megan Crane, Jane Porter, Julie James, Maisey Yates, Marilyn Brant, Eden Bradley, Lynne Marshall, and many many more--a different fantastic author will stop by each day to write about why they read and write romance. There will be give aways of books and prizes! All so exciting!


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Two weeks ago I escaped the dreary gray Northwest winter and traveled to Arizona. Four sun-filled days in the suburbs of the Sonoran Desert. My best friend and I rented a little one-bedroom apartment for the two of us, and another on the opposite side of the pool for our sons. That little apartment felt like the most perfect 'boat for two' in a sea of sunshine. A small carry-on bag ensured that I did not have too much 'stuff'. Having lived in my current house for 14 years now, I am familiar with a literal overabundance of 'stuff'. It weighs on me. I am sentimental, disorganized and tired. A cruise ship of clutter headed for the reef of chaos! Perhaps I'll tackle that another time. For now I want to focus on the feeling of weightlessness that came with being in such a small little 'boat', with just what I needed and no more. Simple. Sunshine. Son. Sister-friend. Sanity.
If you are feeling overwhelmed and weighed down, see if you can find a smaller boat to ride in for a little while. Pack a small bag and spend the night at a friend's house if you can't afford a hotel or vacation. Get away from your 'stuff'. When the weight of your usual full life is lifted you might be surprised at the 'You!' that is hiding under there. You may feel yourself breath deeper and stand taller if your boat's a little smaller and easier to control.
A previous co-worker, both wacky and wise (he reminded me of my dad) had a lifeboat theory. We are all riding through this world in our own emotional lifeboat. The capacity in your lifeboat is limited. Chances are, if you really had to live in a lifeboat, you would bring your immediate family on board. Probably some extended family and likely a dear friend or two. At some point we have to recognize when our lifeboat is full! If you let too many people on board we all know what will happen. If your boat doesn't sink, you will begin to run out of supplies. Everyone will suffer equally or you will be in the terrible position of choosing who goes without. You will feel responsible for this suffering. Perhaps you are a martyr and you will go without yourself. Be considerate and careful of how many people are in your lifeboat at a given time. Some may come and go and that's okay. But in the paraphrased words of my wise and wacky friend, "there are going to be times when some tragic soul is clinging to the side of the boat that you should not let on board. Then you have to be strong and pick up the oar and whack their hands until they let go."
And now a quote from this weekend's environmental studies.
There is a midrashic story: A man is on a boat. He is not alone, but acts as if he were. One night, he begins to cut a hole under his seat. His neighbors shriek: "Have you gone mad? Do you want to sink us all?" Calmly, he answered them, "What I'm doing is none of your business. I paid my way. I'm only cutting a hole under my seat." What the man will not accept, what you and I cannot forget, is that all of us are in the same boat.
- Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
With hopes for smooth sailing and sunshine in the coming week- Judy


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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Twinkling Color
This is a sneak peak into my "Mastering Twinks" online class which runs again in June 2012. For more information go here.
When it comes to colors, artists the world over organize their palettes based on the seven color of the rainbow. These colors are "Red", "Orange", "Yellow", "Green", "Blue", "Indigo", and "Violet". The color wheel and all color theory have its foundation in these seven colors. However, in reality these groups are extended to include 'natural', 'neutral', 'mono', and any number of iterations of colors that don't appear in the spectrum. There are so many beautiful colors in the Twinkling H2O range; it's often difficult to know what to choose.
Because of the shimmer in Twinkling H2O's, some colors aren't what they seem. The reds and violets, for example, cross the boundaries of each other and it's difficult to know where they belong. Violets also cross the boundaries of blues, as do greens, and the shimmer rather than the pigment can influence the exact hue of a color.
A great way to get to know twinkling colors is to prepare samples or swatches and divide them into color groups. The fun part is that there is no right or wrong when classifying your colors, it's for you to decide how you will group your colors. There's no science to twinkling color groups, it is simply a way to organize and understand them. After all, your choices of color are very personal and must work for you. When grouping my own colors, I began with the basic colors of the spectrum, "Red", "Orange", "Yellow", "Green", "Blue", and "Violet". I added a group called "Magenta", a black and white group for all the "Mono" colors, and a "Brown" or "Neutral" group.
When we group colors, we discover that each group has a profoundly different mood. Take this concept one-step further and you'll discover that even different shades and intensities of the same color evoke different emotions. Shimmer and sparkle are known to have an eye-catching response on most people, and when you combine intense color with shimmer, as Luminarte have done, you have a very powerful result.
The names given to each color in the Twinkling H2O range can also be misleading. The names alone elicit some kind of personal, and often emotional response. Whether it is mouth watering fruit; a romantic meal; or memories of a cold wintery day, the names can change the way we perceive them.
What do you think about when you hear names such as "Stargazer", "Wine & Roses", "Rainforest", "Dreams Bloom", or "Moonbeams"? These names don't give many clues about the actual shade, but they probably invoke images of candle lit rooms, romance, or sparkling skies. The names create 'situation identification', they help you identify with a state or situation, and that's what makes Twinks so personal and exciting to use. But it's not until you see these colors on paper with their exquisite shimmer that you begin to understand how unique working with "Twinks" can be.
If you want to learn more about "Twinkling Color", sign up for "Mastering Twinks" online class through joggles.com starting January 31st, 2012. And don't forget, Luminarte are having a great fun giveaway, so pop on over and check it out.


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Read up on Havok, and you'll quickly learn that they just might be the hardest working metal band to circle the planet! Buy one of their records and you'll learn why people are flocking to their shows. Catch a Havok show for a guaranteed great time, killer set, high energy vibes, and more than likely, a very stiff neck the following day! Watch a couple of interviews and you'll soon find out that the band is made up of highly talented, driven, intelligent people. Each member brings something special to the band, on and off stage. They are witty, well-informed, articulate and gracious.
I was stoked to have an opportunity to chat with Michael, David and Reece when they played Montreal this summer. It was great to catch up again. Only 8 months since our last interview and they had so much news and so many stories to share.
Next time we meet, we'll get Michael to give us a gear tour so we can learn a little more about what drives the bottom end of this incredibly quartet! I can hardly wait!
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|A fun surprise for us (and the police) when the meter died mid coin feeding.
This weekend Abby went home for the Viennese Ball! I was planning on staying in the cities to catch up on lots of work. But, surprise! At the spur of the moment I decided to go home as well. I didn't tell my mom so when we drove back with Dad, would couldn't let her know. (Keeping secrets like this are fun, aren't they?) When she came home from work, her surprised excitement was well worth the neglected work on my desk back in Minneapolis. I ended having tons of fun surprising friends and family who weren't expecting me. Not to mention, Abby and Alex looked gorgeous! I ate wonderful food that can only be found in my hometown and enjoyed Jacob's surprise when he ate an entire medium pizza. Woah!


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'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 After Suffering Heart Attack
Dec 27 2016, 1:07 pm ET
"Star Wars" has lost its most beloved princess.
Carrie Fisher, best known for her portrayal of the plucky Princess Leia in George Lucas' epic intergalactic movie series, died Tuesday, days after suffering a heart attack on a plane. She was 60 years old.
"It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 855 this morning," Simon Halls, a representative for Fisher's daughter, said in a statement to NBC News. "She was loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly."
Fisher, who had recently wrapped the filming of "Star Wars: Episode VIII," the second of three new "Star Wars" films, was in the midst of a tour to promote her eighth book, an autobiography called "The Princess Diarist," when she was suffered the medical emergency.
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In Downtown Fair Haven, A Tech Firm Grows
By John Burton |
FAIR HAVEN —Fair Haven's River Road might be a long way from Northern California's Silicon Valley, but with his expansion plans for his tech business and his vision for his employees, Michel Berger can see a day when the area could be a haven for this industry.
"This will be known as Silicon River," Berger said with his French accent and a chuckle, looking out at where the Navesink River flows, just a short distance from his current and future headquarters.
Berger is the founder, co-owner and president of ForeFront, 800 River Road, a cloud storage, custom software development and systems integration firm, currently operating in the borough's downtown area. Berger has begun construction on a new location for his business, literally a stone's throw from his current site.
Berger has spent about four years planning the construction of his new offices, which will cost approximately $4 million to build.
The proposed roughly 8,900-square foot facility, situated at 810 River Road, is being undertaken because, "We have opportunities to grow," his successful operation.
"We have a lot of marking possibilities," with the new site, he added.
For the technology-uninformed, Berger explained his firm provides for businesses to corral all the different pieces, the data, of the modern, digital world that are being used and collected. "At one point, you have to integrate all this stuff," that is being collected and generated by the various businesses' efforts, he said. In a way, he said, "It's putting together the puzzle."
Berger and his wife and co-owner, Ann Marie, have been running ForeFront for about 30 years, most of those years here in Fair Haven, having started their business in their home. And they now count as clients such heavyweight corporations as General Electric, Walmart, IBM, Ricoh and Bayer.
ForeFront now has offices in New York City; West Palm Beach, Florida; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Boston; and most recently in Krakow, Poland, which provides access to some area universities and its talented engineers, he noted.
The new facility project will incorporate one of the properties existing structures, an aging late-1800s building that had been used as a home and business location in the past. The intention, Berger explained, is to renovate and restore the building to preserve a piece of history for what is Fair Haven's historic district.
The new facility will offer employees a number of amenities, such as a yoga space, a nurturing and nursing room and a quiet room, along with other desirous benefits.
The idea is, he said, is to offer his young, talented and highly sought-after engineers some of the "work/life balance" attractions that have become expected in the high-tech field.
"We are competing in the technology industry to get the best of the best," he said.
And that brings the story to Fair Haven. Berger, 62, a Paris, France, native, has been the president of the Fair Haven Business Association for about a decade, and he and his wife have called the borough home for decades, raising their family here. When contemplating a new location, he gave thought to relocating either to the new Bell Works development at the site of the former Bell Labs, in Holmdel, or to the former Fort Monmouth. And the rising number of tech businesses relocating to these sites are contributing to making Monmouth County a burgeoning sort-of Silicon Valley east, he observed.
Ultimately, Berger decided to stay in the borough. The reason is because of many of the same reasons he and his family stay: the community atmosphere, along with the ability of employees to walk and enjoy the area, the local parks, to grab lunch or socialize afterhours. About 75 percent of his local employees live in Monmouth and Ocean counties, but others do commute, he said, but appreciate the closeness of New York City and what this area has to offer.
Berger had been working in France as an engineer, when he had a chance to work on a project in the U.S. more than three decades ago. That project took him to Akron, Ohio—culturally and literally a world away from his Parisian home, he acknowledged. But he came to like the region and its people and stayed when he had the opportunity. That led to a job in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he and his Ann Marie (who is originally from County Cork, Ireland) continued to become initiated into American life.
On a trip to New York City on business, Berger recalled looking at a regional map, discovering the peninsula area here in Monmouth County. He was first struck by the fact it is surrounded by water, not unlike Minneapolis, where he became interested in some of the outdoor activities that those residents enjoyed. And then a trip here, won over his wife, who was impressed by quality of the local schools and the area's quality of life, Berger remembered.
"It was the right decision," to move here, he believed. "It's a lot of positive stuff."
Berger anticipates the new facility to be completed by approximately March 2018.
This article was first published in the Aug. 31-Sept. 7, 2017 print edition of The Two River Times.
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The Green Kangaroo dares you to play along with us in our "Trick or Treat" giveaway! We'll randomly pick three winners — one will win a treat (a custom wedding hanger from Margaux Luen at Posh Hangers) and two will get tricked! To enter, simply comment on our blog, Between Designs, between now and 4pm on October 31st. We're keeping our tricks up our sleeves and you won't know what they are until you win them (don't worry, they're sweet too.)
For the next 3 days, Oct. 29-31, receive a mystery discount from TGK! Each day the discount will change. You never know what you'll get...but it's sure to be a treat! The discount is applicable on any order of Wedding Invitations, Save the Dates,Wedding Day Stationery, Birth Announcements or Holiday Cards from TGK.


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International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 373-378
On Fréchet theorem in the set of measure preserving functions over the unit interval
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green 43403-0221, Ohio, USA
Received 30 November 1988
Copyright © 1990 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In this paper, we study the Fréchet theorem in the set of measure preserving functions over the unit interval and show that any measure preserving function on can be approximated by a sequence of measure preserving piecewise linear continuous functions almost everywhere. Some application is included.


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Cosmetics can be cruelty-free, and without compromising on performance.
Did you know the average Australian woman spends more time in her life wearing makeup than not? Since we're spending so much time (and money!) on our faces, we should probably be paying more attention to the ingredients they're made with. Whether or not your go-to makeup is tested on animals is something else you may not have thought about.
What makes a beauty product vegan?
By definition, a product that's vegan is one containing zero animal byproducts, and which hasn't undergone any animal testing whatsoever.
Keen to get into vegan makeup but unsure which brands to seek out? We've done the research for you to make your job easier. Here are our three favourite vegan makeup brands that we're using and recommending right now.
With a long-standing commitment to making cruelty-free makeup, Jane Iredale's extensive Mineral Makeup range gets our tick of approval. Along with being PETA-certified, Jane Iredale now has cruelty-free certification by the reputable animal protection organisation CCIC (Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics).
All products with CCIC certification adhere to the specific, extensive and strict standards set by the international Leaping Bunny program – the only worldwide program for cruelty-free makeup. You can be assured that the Jane Iredale makeup range does not undergo third-party animal testing, a process which can occur in China during imported product registration.
For customers who are conscious about their cosmetics, Jane Iredale's website clearly lists which of their products are vegan. Jane Iredale is an American brand, but if you'd like to know where to buy Jane Iredale products in Australia, look no further than our online store!
Jane Iredale's Pure Gloss is one of our personal favourites, providing shine without stickiness. Naturally hydrating and soothing ingredients like avocado oil means you can skip your lip balm before applying. Pure Gloss is also petroleum-free, often not the case with this kind of product. Available in 10 gorgeous colours, there's something for every taste and skin tone. You'll be surprised how long it lasts before you need to reapply.
Available in 25 countries, INIKA cosmetics is a vegan and organic brand you can trust. Established in 2006, since then, INIKA has received 35 cosmetic awards, inclusive of open categories against the big commercial makeup brands. Having one of the highest safety ratings worldwide (awarded by the Environmental Working Group), INIKA's comprehensive 'Ingredients Promise' assures that their products are free from everything you don't want in your makeup, from animal-derived ingredients, to parabens, petrochemicals and synthetic colours and fragrances (the list goes on!).
INIKA makeup has got all bases covered, from primer and foundation, to lip liner, lipstick, and everything between. A brand worth investing in if you'd like everything in your cosmetics draw to be vegan, and everything that your skin is absorbing to be natural.
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Since the somewhat mixed reception to Halo 4, 343 Industries have been quietly working away to improve on everything fans disliked about their 2012 debut. From Halo 5: Guardians' showing at E3 this month though, you'd be hard-pressed to have noticed.
It's safe to say Halo 5: Guardians had something of an underwhelming gameplay debut at Microsoft's press conference. Our first glimpse at the game's single-player campaign – a tightly-scripted, explosion-filled six-minute jaunt through the narrow environs of the Covenant-held world Sunaion – wasn't quite the gameplay reveal fans were hoping for coming off the back of Halo 4. That game saw the franchise's trademark wide-open level design and huge set-piece battles scaled back noticeably in favour of a much shinier presentation – a move which became one of the major points of contention with 343's handling of the Halo IP, and a trend you could be forgiven for thinking they were continuing after Halo 5's E3 reveal.
Yet, as negative as some are towards 343's stewardship of the series, this kind of focused, scripted demo was actually somewhat unexpected for fans. Building up to E3, there had been plenty to get excited about; the Microsoft studio began ramping up their marketing campaign with early live action trailers, ARGs and magazine blowouts, setting the stage for what to expect from the next instalment in their premier exclusive franchise.
Halo 4 saw 343 extending Bungie's pre-existing fiction to support their own, creating a ton of new extended universe material to lead up to – and out of – their first Halo game. Halo 5, however, sees them drawing from the entire canon to create what they hope will be the biggest, most ambitious title in the franchise yet. Reaching right back to the birth of the extended universe in the run-up to Halo 5's reveal at E3, a thirteen-part audio drama called Hunt the Truth explored the origins of the Master Chief and his fellow Spartan IIs. It also laid down some foreshadowing, with vague mentions of deep space anomalies and mysterious events happening in the fiercely independent, neglected outer colonies. The series also dealt with the idea that the Master Chief had gone rogue – a plot element introduced just before the start of Hunt the Truth – with two excellent, opposing live-action trailers.
With Hunt the Truth underway, fans were also treated to a small-scale ARG that teased the cover art for the game, and revealed something of a megaton for followers of the extended universe: the cover art featured Blue Team. It was later confirmed in a Game Informer cover feature that Chief would not only be accompanied by Blue Team during the events of the game, but they'd be playable in drop-in/drop-out four-player co-op. Fans have wanted to see fellow Spartan IIs Fred, Linda and Kelly appear in a Halo game since reading the first extended universe novel, The Fall of Reach, back in 2001. Indeed, when Halo Reach first debuted at E3 in 2009 with the silhouettes of an entire squad of Spartans, many of us thought we'd finally see the in-game introduction of the Chief's closest comrades. We've had to wait a long time, but we're finally getting our wish. It's surely a surprise to some fans that it's actually 343 that's making it happen.
This four-person squad mechanic also feeds into the expanded sense of scale we can expect to see in Halo 5: Guardians. Those Game Informer features, echoed in previews from other media outlets, made mention of environments that offer multiple different routes, enabling players to tackle objectives in a number of ways. Combine this with the ability to order your teammates to attack specific targets, take up positions and activate objectives, and you can start to get some idea of the wider possibilities at play. If this all sounds just a little bit like Star Wars: Republic Commando, well, there's a reason for that; Tim Longo, creative director on that game, now fulfils that same role on Halo 5, his predecessor Josh Holmes stepping into the role of Studio Head. Halo has long been ripe with opportunity to take the base formula, which has at this point been polished to a perfect shine, and try to expand that in interesting ways – who remembers thinking Halo 4 might take some cues from Metroid Prime after 343 took on some ex-Retro staff? – and these squad mechanics, coupled with more intricate level design and some new movement abilities, feel like they should be a perfect fit for the series.
This also extends to Warzone, 343's new large-scale multiplayer mode that hopes to encompass all aspects of the Halo sandbox. Warzone stands in stark contrast to last December's Arena beta – if that four-map test suggested that 343 were focused on recapturing Halo's tight, competitive arena combat, Warzone is the developer pushing at the very boundaries of Halo's beautifully elastic sandbox. Played on environments four times larger than any previous Halo map, Warzone takes some cues from the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena genre. It sees two teams of 12 Spartans battle it out to control strategic points on the map in an effort to weaken the opponent's base, while also fighting off hostile AI. This includes spawning bosses that can either hold a spot on the map, forcing players to root them out to claim it for themselves, or roam about the map – even in vehicles like a banshee.
Players will also level up as the match progresses, gaining access to better weapons and vehicles as they go. The mayhem escalates until, by the end of the round, the enormous maps are crawling with players, AI, power weapons and fleets of vehicles. It sounds like it's throwing everything Halo, including the kitchen sink, into one insane, over the top, carnage-filled mode, and it looks like it'll be an absolute blast.
All of this makes their decision to show that tightly controlled, linear story segment as our first (and, so far, only!) glimpse at Halo 5's single-player mode a little odd. Surely it's the hardest of the hardcore that are going to watch E3 – the ones that have been following every little hint, every little breadcrumb, every cryptic tweet – the ones that are going to want to dive deep into the mechanics and systems at play? The reveal had the effect of feeling a little deflating after all the hype and build-up. To the casual observer, Halo 5 simply looked to be continuing 4's path towards a more linear experience.
It was, then, a surprisingly lightweight showing for what will be Microsoft's biggest game of the year. However, that's not to say there was nothing to glean from the six-minute segment. Right from the start, we're introduced to Jameson Locke, long since confirmed as a second playable protagonist, and his team of Spartan IVs, which includes everyone's favourite former ODST Eddie Buck. We know they're tracking the Chief on a Covenant-held world with the help of the Arbiter, who, embroiled in a civil war with his fellow Elites, is attempting to crush the remnants of that crumbling civilization. We learn that there are two new enemies – the Forerunner aerial Unit, called the Phaeton, and the agile new Promethean Soldier. We also see a new Covenant weapon in the Plasma Caster, and, perhaps most importantly of all, we learn that the grunts speak English again!
More difficult to pick out is the ability to order your squad around. In the demo we see Locke instruct comms specialist Vale to analyse a discarded MA5 rifle, and later tell Buck to fire on an attacking Phaeton, but if you didn't know you were able to manually issue orders in-game, it would be easy to assume these were simply scripted sequences. This is compounded by how narrow and scripted the demo is as a whole, and why it would have been so much more illustrative to have a developer on-stage to walk viewers through the various additions in Halo 5. Instead of giving the impression that we're in for Halo 4 Part 2, they could have amplified that pre-reveal excitement and ridden it all the way to release.
Of course, there are still a few months to go before launch, and those things that so excited fans prior to E3 are still there to look forward to. 343 Industries have been saying all the right things in the lead-up to the reveal, and we expected them to walk the walk at the biggest gaming event on the calendar. Gamescom is just around the corner, so here's hoping we get an extended look at the game then. How about it, Microsoft?


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It is critical to have a great heart and true compassion for the welfare of athletes.
It is critical to keep the concept of being a "steward of the sport" a constant priority.
It is necessary to have a passion for the pursuit and a compelling work ethic.
It is critical to understand the powerful impact athletes can have as role models and to counsel them to retrace their roots to the high school, collegiate and professional community and set up programs that enhance the quality of life. And it is critical to commit to preparing athletes for a second career and stimulate their non-athletic skills from the day they walk in your office.


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Hello, fair blog readers! My apologies for the late post today. Yesterday was probably the worst day ever. And by ever, I'm not sure I have experienced a worse day in all my 22 years of life. I thought I'd already had the worst day ever, but getting lost in Venice was at least something where I had control over the outcome. Yesterday was not one of those days.
But I survived yesterday and ended it by eating crepes and watching Downton Abbey with my little sister and my roommate/best friend, so that was all right.
Besides, I did not open this blog page to tell you about my Worst Day Ever. I opened it to tell you some NEWS: I finished my novel!!!
Specifically, I finished my first draft of "The Long Road Home," lovingly referred to as "that Irish novel." (Writers: do you also refer to books by things other than their titles, or just me? Mine are always "that French Revolution novel" or "that Irish novel" or "that London Blitz" novel.)
So, what now, you ask?
Well, my little sister is visiting me in Ithaca for the week, so I am taking the week off to hang out with her whenever I'm not at work. After that, I plan on trying my hand at writing a one-act play, because my aforementioned roommate/best friend is an actress currently without any acting to do, and also because why not give it a try?
And then of course there are the edits. So many edits. I'm not sure I've ever been so aware, immediately upon finishing a draft, just how much work needs to go into a piece to make it work the way it should. But I think this one could REALLY work if I get all the little jigsaw pieces to fit exactly as they should.
My new goal is to have it ready to send out into the world by the time many writers are gearing up for the madness that is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in November. That should give me plenty of time to do edits of my own, send it out to a beta reader or three, and do another round after that.
So... anybody want to beta read a rather dark fairytale about the Irish potato famine for me? :)
And writers - what is it that you do after you finish a project? Do you do a victory dance? Do you read a lot? Sleep a lot? Catch up on tv? Or do you dive immediately into your next project?


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As a card carrying Gold Rewards member at Starbucks, I get insights on upcoming events and product launches the company is rolling out.
One such email included an invitation to the launch party of Starbucks' new concept – Evenings – that offers customers beer, wine and small plates at select stores.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the evolving corporate vision of Starbucks. Starbucks' new Evenings concept is an interesting result of this evolution.
With a mission to "inspire and nurture the human spirit," Starbucks is giving consumers a place to enjoy their evenings.
You might think of Starbucks as the place where you enjoy your morning ritual, grabbing a coffee on your way into work. Or, you might associate Starbucks with meeting colleagues, small gatherings with friends, or with brief, quiet moments with The New York Times on Sundays.
But, you might also use Starbucks as that nebulous, neutral zone, where you meet friends before grabbing a bite to eat. It's likely that afternoon respite from running errands. Basically, it's an in-between place. A third place where you feel comfortable that isn't home or work.
With Starbucks Evenings, you have a new place to grab after work or pre-show drinks and nibbles. Instead of being a stop-off on your way to another destination, Starbucks is the destination.
This is an interesting evolution of the customer experience and the third place environment that Starbucks works so diligently to create for its customers.
Their website says it well:
"The place you love during the day now has more reasons to love it at night. We've always been your neighborhood spot where you can take a moment to unwind, grab a well-deserved treat, and meet up with friends. But sometimes, you just want a glass of wine and a delicious bite to eat without going to a bar or making a restaurant reservation."
Starbucks Evenings is a great example of a new service that fits perfectly within their business model. It's something that their customers want; it adds value to the customer experience. Kudos, Starbucks.


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OB appointment
I had an appointment with Dr. S. today. I thought it was going to be a post-partum physical exam, but I guess he just wanted to see how I was doing.
He asked if we were trying this month. I told him I'd gotten AF on August 26 and that we thought we'd try this month, but that I didn't think I'd ovulated yet. He told me not to keep track of anything, just for us to have sex whenever we feel like it, and as long as we feel like it at least 2-3 times a week, we couldn't miss ovulation.
Easy for him to say. Maybe I'm a giant control freak (OK, yes, I am) but I kind of feel like this isn't the time for just lackadaisically having sex whenever and figuring it would happen eventually. Maybe if we had never had a baby and we didn't really care how long it took to happen. Plus, even without charting or using OPKs or anything like that, there are pretty unmistakeable signs that it's the right time, and once you know them, you can't un-know them. (Plus, well, I can't believe I'm admitting this, but left to our own devices, we probably only feel like it 2-3 times a MONTH. We're lame.)


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A Sermon by the Rev. James P. Cooper
Mitchellville, MD, July 20, 2003
The LORD shall go forth like a mighty man; He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war. He shall cry out, yes, shout aloud; He shall prevail against His enemies. (Isaiah 42:13)
In the sermon last week the subject of zeal was introduced, and the general principles relating to it were discussed at some length. We saw how the Doctrines of the New Church tell us that zeal, regarded in itself, is "the fire of love blazing" (CL 358).
When someone, be it the Lord, or one of us, is zealous, it is love acting forcefully. However, anger is also love acting forcefully, although it in this case it is an evil love which acts. When we act from zeal to protect something we love, we do not appear loving to others, but rather we may appear ready to kill for the sake of what is precious to us because anger and zeal appear the same in our outward actions. We should note that because zeal involves emotional heat and activity that it is not the highest degree of love, but rather the effect of that love burning in the lower parts of the mind.
As we can note from our text and many other references in the Old Testament, it is often said of Jehovah in the Word that He is angry, or wrathful, that He avenges, punishes, and casts into hell. These are simply the ways the Lord's zeal for the salvation of the human race appeared to the writers of the Old Testament, for love can, and does, appear as anger when it burns brightly. (See CL 366)
As has said before, zeal is love protecting that which it loves with all the strength it possesses. It is useful for us to realize that love is not just a passive, warm and fuzzy feeling, but that it is capable of great deeds to protect what it regards to be of value. When we are speaking of the zeal to protect what is holy and delightful in marriage in particular, zeal is called jealousy.
Jealousy is one of those words that is so heavily loaded with connotations that today most people regard jealousy as something unhealthy, something that should be avoided. But the doctrines tell us that jealousy can be "just" when it is the love of protecting what is good in marriage, that is, when it is a spiritual love expressing itself. The jealousy that is to be shunned is that which comes from purely natural origins.
The Writings tell us that "just jealousy" is with married partners who love each other mutually. In such a marriage, jealousy is the just and prudent zeal that each has lest their heavenly state be harmed or violated by enemies of the marriage without or within; to protect what is precious and innocent in their relationship. On the other hand, unjust jealousy exists with those who are suspicious by nature and have a mind that is not entirely rational, but instead see threats where there are none.
But we find today that any kind of jealousy has a bad name. We are encouraged to get rid of such feelings in the interests of our mental health. But reflect for a moment about what is really being suggested: that we not respond to attacks on our marriages! In the interest of being "modern" and "forward thinking" we are encouraged to believe that a little judicious unfaithfulness can be helpful (!) to a marriage by introducing freshness and variety to replace boredom. How often do literature and the theatre show us the scene of the young man or woman contemplating their upcoming marriage and their horror as they realize that they will be evermore limited to just one partner – and we are supposed to feel sorry for them! Such ideas could come from no other place than the hell of adulteries.
Since zeal and jealousy are both forms of love defending themselves, it follows that each person's zeal or jealousy will vary according to the quality of his loves, that a person whose loves are for what is good and true will fight with justice and judgment to protect what is innocent, while those who have loves that are for what is evil and false will rather fight to defend their own loves of self and the world. (See CL 362)
The leading principle that helps us to distinguish between proper zeal and anger is that the zeal of a good love never attacks, but only defends, while anger will attack without warning.
The second principle is that the zeal of a good love dies down instantly and becomes mild once the attack against it is stopped; while the anger that comes from an evil love seethes on and does not stop when the attack does.
The Heavenly Doctrines of the New Church tell us, as mentioned above, that the zeal of conjugial love is called jealousy. (See CL 367) The zeal to protect the love between husband and wife burns more brightly than any other form of zeal, because Conjugial love, the lovely, mutual, spiritual, eternal love between a husband and wife, is the love of loves. It is the highest love because it binds the man and the woman together into a unity, a whole, where each contributes that which the other lacks and yearns for.
Marriage is the highest of human loves because it is an image of how the Divine Love land Divine Wisdom in God came together to create the universe. The Divine Love in God wanted someone to love, and the Divine Wisdom of God created a plan whereby, over billions of years, a universe was created to support human life. People were then put into that universe to learn truth and freely choose which of those truths to make their own, thus creating their own individual characters which would last to eternity. Once that work was done, the natural body was allowed to die, and they could begin their spiritual life to eternity in heaven with God.
Marriage is the greatest of human loves because it mirrors God's creation of the universe. The feminine represents Divine Love, the masculine Divine Wisdom, and when they come together in marriage, they "create" new life. The delights of procreation in marriage are the greatest of all delights because they correspond to the conjunction of the Divine Good with the Divine truth in the creation of the universe. Our delight in rearing children corresponds to the Lord's delight in helping the angels of heaven to grow spiritually to eternity. We have been created by God to share in His Divine work of creating a heaven from the human race, and therefore He has created us so that we also share in that delight.
Since marriage is so holy, and its delights so precious, the love that protects them from harm is, or should be, the strongest of all. It is certainly true in the marriages of angels, and we can work toward that goal in our own earthly marriages. In order to understand the church's teachings about just jealousy in marriage, we need to understand the difference between the natural love of a partner, and the spiritual love of a partner.
The doctrines teach that jealousy is just, and spiritual with monogamists, because only those who are monogamists can receive spiritual conjugial love — however, that does not mean that those who have only one married partner therefore have spiritual marriages; for in the Christian world, where only monogamous marriages are allowed, yet still spiritual marriage love exists with only a few.
When the Writings speak about marriage, they divide all of us into two groups: those who are monogamists, and those who are polygamists. When they do so, however, they are not necessarily making the distinction based upon the number of partners that a particular person has, but rather upon that person's attitude towards marriage. After all, how much difference is there between a person who regards marriage as a purely natural arrangement that may be ended upon the mutual agreement of the partners, with a new marriage to be entered into immediately, and someone who has all his partners at the same time? Is there any spiritual difference between polygamy and serial marriages? To take the point one step farther, how much difference is there between the person who has several partners all at once and the person who is married and has an adulterous relationship; or the person who has remained entirely faithful for the fear of the loss of reputation, but delights in fantasies of other partners? All these people have one thing in common: their view that marriage is a purely natural thing that is for the sake of their own natural delight; sexual gratification; production of heirs; effective management of the home. Such a person can be jealous in the protection of the marriage, but what is it that is protected? Possessions only, nothing of spiritual value.
On the other hand, a husband and wife who love each other spiritually know that there is far more to marriage than physical comforts and pleasures, and they are each looking to the Lord so that they can grow spiritually, and they know that as each individually works to shun evils as sins and draw closer to the Lord, they will inevitably be drawn closer and closer to each other as well. Such people have a great deal invested in their marriage. They share loves, they share memories, and in this world they begin the process of becoming one angel. As this new spiritual being is created, it brings delights unknown to the purely natural, and it takes on a life of its own, this angel-to-be, for it is made up of the common loves of each of the married partners. In such a case, when the marriage is brought under attack from without, that union of loves is threatened, and it draws on the power of both partners to defend its life.
It is a paradox that within every love is a fear, the fear that it may perish. The young father tenderly holding his newborn child for the first time feels both tremendous love, and tremendous fear that through his clumsy strength he may do something to harm this fragile new life. The married couple that tenderly loves one another also fear that their love may perish or be harmed, and if something does happen to cause their love to diminish they feel as much grief as if a human being had died. The fear that love may be harmed is called jealousy, but it is a just and sound zeal with partners who love each other, because it is a fear of the loss of eternal heavenly joy, and it is also just and proper because it acts as a guard and protection against the temptations of adultery. (See CL 371) From conjugial love comes the blessedness of their souls, the happiness of their minds, and the pleasure of their bodies; and because these remain with them to eternity, there is fear for each other's eternal happiness.
While with people who love each other dearly, jealousy is both an expression and protection of their love for each other, with married partners who do not love each other, jealousy is caused by many different circumstances, some of which are actually forms of mental illness. (See CL 373) The main reason why people who do not love each other are yet jealous is that their personal feelings are tied up with the image that they present to their family, friends, and business associates. Specifically, men identify sexual activity with their self-image of manliness, and if a man's wife is committing adultery, he may be jealous not for the sake of his marriage, but for the sake of his own reputation of manliness, his anger is from the implied criticism of his sexual ability. There are other, similar, reasons, such as the fear of bringing dishonor to the family name through scandal, and the fear of having ones domestic financial arrangements destroyed. With some people, both men and women, their jealousy arises from a tendency to be suspicious and to believe that their fantasies are reality. (See CL 374) They believe their partners to be unfaithful when they do no more than to speak with others of the opposite sex. If such fantasies are cherished for very long, they have the affect of inviting spirits of a like nature into the mind, and once invited in this way, they can be removed only with difficulty. This means, of course, that the hells have made a home in the mind, and that is a strong indication of what kind of spiritual company such a person will keep once he or she reaches the spiritual world.
On the opposite extreme is the equally sad case of the person who has no jealousy at all, no fire to protect what is good in his marriage. This, like inappropriate jealousy, is also from a variety of causes, for example the belief that marriage is nothing more than an arrangement to establish legal heirs which may be produced through the expression of natural desire, that in itself marriage is nothing more than a way of having sexual activity sanctioned by society. Those who have no regard for marriage, or their partner, cannot feel jealousy if either is threatened.
Another reason why some feel no jealousy is that they have come to the belief that since everyone eventually commits adultery, it only increases the hurt to watch the partner for signs of indiscretion; that it is better not to know. And so, such a person allows the love for the partner to die so that it cannot be threatened.
There are many other reasons why some people have no desire to protect their marriages enumerated in the work Conjugial Love, but the essential element in all of them is that such people do not wish to protect their marriages because they do not see that there is anything valuable or eternal in marriage, but they believe that marriage is entirely a matter of civil law.
We all experience the flame of anger from time to time. We are angry with our partners, our children, our friends, our business associates. We attack with words, or perhaps even strike out. And more often than not we regret our actions. We feel guilt and humiliation that we have lost control.
The teachings about zeal and jealousy that have been presented last Sunday and today may help us in such times, because we may be able to look at our anger and see if it is just or unjust, to see if we were in fact acting properly in defense of something good, or if we actually have done something wrong that must be set right. We do this by applying the two principles of zeal to the individual situation.
First of all, we have to ask ourselves if we struck out first, or if we were defending ourselves, for the first principle is that a good love never attacks, but only defends what is good. And if we pass the first test, we can then ask ourselves the second question: Did the anger die as soon as defense was no longer needed? Was there concern and charity towards the other? Or did the feeling continue to burn and smolder within for a long time? If it did, then the feeling was unjustified, and was from selfish motives that need to be sought out, repented of, and put off.
So let us be aware that the Lord has given us powerful tools to protect what is most precious to human life, the mutual, spiritual love of one man with one woman. Let us use the knowledge that He has given us in the Word to use these tools correctly, and to valiantly defend and protect that precious jewel of life, conjugial love. AMEN
First Lesson: Josh 24:14-28
"Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD! {15} "And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." {16} So the people answered and said: "Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods; {17} "for the LORD our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way that we went and among all the people through whom we passed. {18} "And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, including the Amorites who dwelt in the land. We also will serve the LORD, for He is our God." {19} But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve the LORD, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. {20} "If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after He has done you good." {21} And the people said to Joshua, "No, but we will serve the LORD!" {22} So Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD for yourselves, to serve Him." And they said, "We are witnesses!" {23} "Now therefore," he said, "put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD God of Israel." {24} And the people said to Joshua, "The LORD our God we will serve, and His voice we will obey!" {25} So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. {26} Then Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. {27} And Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD which He spoke to us. It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God." {28} So Joshua let the people depart, each to his own inheritance. Amen.
Second Lesson: John 2:13-22
Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. {14} And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers doing business. {15} When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overturned the tables. {16} And He said to those who sold doves, "Take these things away! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!" {17} Then His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up." {18} So the Jews answered and said to Him, "What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?" {19} Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." {20} Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?" {21} But He was speaking of the temple of His body. {22} Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said. Amen.
Third Lesson: Conjugial Love 375
There are, in addition, regional ethnic groups which suffer a jealous morbidity more than others. They imprison their wives, despotically keeping them from any converse with men, closing them off from the sight of men through the windows by covering these with hanging lattices, and terrifying them with threats of death if they should detect a reason for the suspicion they harbor. Likewise other hard things, which the wives there endure at the hands of their jealous husbands.
2) The reasons for this kind of jealousness, however, are of two types. One is an imprisonment and suffocation of their thoughts in regard to spiritual matters connected with the church. The other is an inbred lust for exercising vengeance.
As regards the first reason, namely, an imprisonment and suffocation of their thoughts in regard to spiritual matters connected with the church, what effect this has may be concluded from what we have shown previously, that everyone's conjugial love depends on the state of the church in him (no. 130), and because the church comes from the Lord, that that love comes solely from the Lord (no. 131). Consequently, when, instead of the Lord, people turn to men living and dead and call on them, it follows that their state is not a state of the church with which conjugial love can be allied; and still less so when their minds are terrorized into that worship by threats of a horrible incarceration. So it is that their thoughts are forcibly imprisoned and suffocated, and at the same time their speech; and when these are suffocated, ideas flow in that are either contrary to the church or imaginary substitutes for the church. These in turn give rise to nothing else but a state of heat for loose women and icy coldness towards having a partner. And when these two exist in the same person, from them flows such an ungoverned fire of jealousness as described.
3) As regards the second reason, namely, an inbred lust for exercising vengeance, this completely halts any influx of conjugial love, absorbs it and swallows it up, and turns its delight, which is a heavenly delight, into a delight in vengeance, which is hellish, and which is directed first of all at the wife. Amen.
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CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling attacked the Tory pledge to reverse part of the Government's planned National Insurance increase today - accusing the Conservatives of basing their plans on "fantasy" efficiency savings.
Addressing Labour's first press conference of the election campaign, Mr Darling said it was "not credible" for the Conservatives to claim they could save an additional £12 billion this year on top of the £15 billion the Government was cutting.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the Tories were basing their entire economic strategy on a "flimsy" four-page press release setting out their savings plan.
"What the people of this country need to ask themselves is this: do the British people really want to gamble your economic future on the basis of a back-of-envelope set of calculations like this?" he said.
Mr Darling said it was ``entirely wrong'' for Tory leader David Cameron to claim the Government was not acting to cut waste this year.
He said what the Conservatives were claiming was to be able to save £27 billion in one year - the equivalent of half the education budget.
He highlighted the comments of Standard Life chairman Gerry Grimstone - who is also a Treasury efficiency adviser - who said it was "just not credible".
"It is not credible because of their £12 billion additional savings, most are already being delivered, counted and banked and you cannot spend money twice," Mr Darling said.
"The rest cannot realistically be delivered in 2010-11, particularly three months into the financial year.
"The Tories have no credible means for achieving the scale of savings that their economic strategy requires."
He said if the Tories tried to make savings by scrapping IT projects or pulling out of leases, it would actually cost them more in penalty charges.
Mr Darling accused Mr Cameron and shadow chancellor George Osborne of abandoning their previous economic position and indulging in ``reckless opportunism''.
"Having spent the last year saying that cutting the deficit was their number one priority, the Tories have thrown caution to the winds and gone for broke," he said.
"The way they are going no one will be surprised if in the coming days these fantasy savings will be used again and again to bail out further Tory tax and spending promises.
"If I had announced such an uncosted giveaway in my Budget two weeks ago but was unable to show exactly how I would pay for it, people would rightly say the plan was not credible.
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Once again I've been busy with work that I can't show, in addition to much Thanksgiving partying; but here's a few sketches and a costumed drink 'n draw to keep the blog going. ^_^
And this one's a concept for a graphic novel I'm writing (and hopefully will be drawing in the near future). I definitely need more enviro work in my portfolio, so it's great practice too. The colors are still being worked on, but I'll update with those as soon as it's all done!
Till later!


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Piggy (2010)
|Directed By:
|Kieron Hawkes
|Written By:
|Kieron Hawkes
|Martin Compston
|Paul Anderson
|Neil Maskell
|Louise Dylan
Piggy starts off with a cheater's guide to scriptwriting; a startlingly on-the-nose narration by the Danny Dyer-esque Joe (Martin Compston), who kicks off the film in a warehouse, watching the titular Piggy kicking the living shit out of someone, whilst Joe narrates…
"That's me. Joe. And that's Piggy. Piggy was an avenger. He'd fix what I couldn't and he realigned everything. Piggy had a philosophy and confidence that carried me. Piggy gave me his version of freedom. If I have to tell my story I have to tell you Piggy's, and all the violence, and how I became part of it."
We then find out Joe has a job he hates, is scared of humans to an agoraphobic level and is – basically – a stoner's throw away from becoming a depressingly pointless absence of a man. Luckily his brother John (the always-watchable Neil Maskell) shows up and makes him less lonely… only to get stabbed to death by a bunch of low-level pub-dwelling douchebags.
Thrown back into his previous life of grey nothingness, all is looking bleak and pointless in Joe's world until one of John's old mates turns up at his door; a man called Piggy (Paul Anderson), who could or could not be Brad Pitt from Fight Club.
This encounter sets in motion a series of escalating events, each more violent than the next, leading the timid Joe into a realm of horror and atrocity he can't possibly comprehend.
Plot-wise Piggy is relatively pedestrian. It is a revenge flick with little surprises, focusing on the inner turmoil of our protagonist, who deflects his lust for vengeance onto another man more willing and capable of cruelty and violence. It rolls down the expected avenue of "resistance then acceptance then enjoyment then – finally – horrific realization" which all struggling revenge-seekers must embark upon. It is a film about consequences and its message is abundantly clear, from its opening narrative to the on-the-nose dialogue.
Despite the obviousness of the dialogue and story, writer / director Kieron Hawkes' script is well written, both evocative and thought-provoking, it's just a shame it doesn't provide anything vastly original or cunningly subtle.
Unfortunately Piggy is also incredibly slow at times – because of the relatively obvious storyline – and I was shocked to find that 45 minutes in I still had an hour left to watch… when I'd thought the end was nearing! Conversely, though, the performances of Martin Compston and Paul Anderson ensure you keep watching, wondering how far Joe will fall before truly destroying himself in the process.
Piggy is very well directed by Kieron Hawkes, bolstered by a hauntingly effective score by Bill Ryder-Jones. They create a bleak, unwelcome modern London swathed in darkness and dirt, and it's grittily effective.
Overall Piggy is a strange beast; both bloody, brutal, horrifying, intense and darkly compelling but also ridiculously unoriginal, dangerously unsubtle and far too long. Despite great work from all involved, the sum of its parts doesn't add up to genius and more to a mediocre (if well crafted) revenge drama whose twist is awkwardly uninspired.
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As surprising as this might be to some, the concepts of driving hard and owning a low car are not mutually exclusive. Although I do understand why some would have this preconception, as it's rare to see a car that has been lowered with proper consideration for the changed geometry and road compliance.
However, I feel that a lot of people who don't share my enthusiasm base their opinions on cars that are poorly lowered. And to be fair, there are a lot of them out there. But there are a lot of good ones out there too and these are the ones worth exploring and talking about.
This is one of the good ones.
I know this because I know the gentleman who built the car. I know his past, his level of experience and his genuine passion for making sure that everything is done right. I also know that to get to this particular photo location, he had to drive over 935 miles across several countries and almost infinite combinations and variations of road surfaces. He then had to drive back.
It would be criminal to describe this as being just a low Porsche. It's an exercise in subtle but choice modifications; a car where every change has resulted in an improvement. With 300hp from a glorious sounding flat-six, it's the perfect car for cruising across Europe to a place called Wörthersee…
From Passion To Career
I first met Rich at Ultimate Dubs in the UK several years back, where we arranged to shoot a particular supercharged Golf at his workshop a couple of days later. Since then, we've travelled to Austria together in 2013 before we met again at Wörthersee earlier this year. You might remember his red Cayman which has made an appearance on here a couple of times, but his real pride and joy is this 1993 911 Type 964.
To understand this car better, you have to know a little bit about Rich. With eight years at BMW, followed by 11 years at Porsche and counting as a senior technician, you might say he has a little bit of experience with Porsche platforms. Not to mention his time spent with the Carrera Cup GB cars and the Porsche Super Cup cars.
Around four years ago he established Milestone71, a Porsche and VW Group specialist tuning shop which deals with everything from classic air-cooled Porsches to Carrera GTs and the most recent models in the Porsche line-up. What Rich and in-turn Milestone71 are particularly fond of though, is researching and developing how to get the very best – from both a performance handling and safety aspect – from Porsche vehicles which are being run in an ultra-low setup.
It was through Milestone71's official role as an authorised KW Suspensions Ultra Low dealer and installer, that Rich was able to perfect the setup on his own 964.
Starting with KW's Variant 3 coil-over system, which in itself allows maximum damper travel whilst retaining a low driving height, Rich specifies a custom spring rate with KW for this application.
With the system installed, Rich has developed a geometry setup that completely eliminates bump steer, a symptom which typically plagues lowered 911s. Most will use a more solid suspension bushing for a more performance-orientated feel, but Rich chose to retain the factory bushes – refreshed with new items throughout of course – as he believes they give better road compliance. Another element is the use of modified Carrera 2 'rubber-type' top mounts at the front, again which result in better compliance on the road and a more comfortable drive.
So whilst the car may look like it's about to chew its own fenders off, the reality is that it simply doesn't. Correct wheel and tyre combinations also play a part in this, so the custom-built Rotiform STRs had to be a millimetre-perfect fit on this car. And they are.
If memory serves me correctly, the car used to be Guards Red, but after a couple of years Rich wanted something a little braver. Technically, the car is still a shade of red, that is, Rubystone Red to give it its proper title.
It's rare that we talk about paint finishes on Speedhunters, but the paint here is the epitome of flawless. Under the harsh sun, high in the Central Alps, everywhere the sun hit the paint showed not a single blemish, scuff or swirl mark.
For a car that's in regular use, I think that's an incredible accomplishment. Anyone who cares about their paintwork will acknowledge the amount of time and effort that goes into maintaining the perfect finish, which is usually overlooked by the majority of people. Honestly, I'm a little jealous.
Sophisticated Fun
I always flinch when I realise that I have to shoot the engine bay on a 911, as there's typically not much to see. The incredibly economical packaging that Porsche has perfected over the decades prohibits any sort of mechanical voyeurism.
That doesn't change the fact that there has been plenty of love and care put into this 3.6-litre flat-six. Rich completed the complete rebuild of the engine himself, which features lots of custom work and 964 Cup and 996 GT3 components. The pistons and con-rods have been balanced and weight-matched, whilst the barrels have been weight-matched too.
The cylinder heads have been mildly ported and polished. Rich says that it's key not to go overboard with this aspect or else it hinders heat dissipation.
The gearbox has also been rebuilt using modified 2nd and 3rd gear synchros from a GT3 and a 997 GT3 limited slip differential. The result of these rebuilds and extensive care result in around 300hp being transferred from the engine to the road.
The interior is pretty neat too and has been created specifically for the purpose of travelling long distances in comfort.
The lower half of the dashboard is from a 993 and the seats are adaptive sports items from a 997, the backs of which have been colour-coded to match the car's exterior.
As has the custom tachometer, which features a vertical drop needle and the Milestone71 logo. It's a small but nice detail that sums up the car.
The rear seats have been deleted with a 964 RS carpet set in their place. Rich was very enthusiastic about this carpet, probably a little bit too much so…
I quite liked the stealthy approach to the in-car entertainment setup. The simple Kenwood DAB head-unit feeds a Rockford Fosgate amplifier, two speakers and a subwoofer enclosure which is hidden in the glovebox. Again, it's tidy, unobtrusive and serves its purpose very well.
This car very much appeals to me. I like how it's low slung but still remains functional. I like that it's narrow-bodied and maintains the original silhouette. I like that it retains its original character with a few modern creature comforts and the benefits of years of research and development. It's sophisticated, it's fun and I can't imagine a situation where it would ever feel out of place.
Most of all, I like that it's a car that's built to be driven. And does it drive…


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