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All children aged between 5 and 16 are required by law to receive an education, and it is the duty of parents and carers to ensure that they are supported to do so.
Children sometimes have to miss school because of illness or if they have long term medical issues. If this is the case, parents should contact school the same day to let them know the reason that their child is not in school.
Please be assured that, whilst illness happens to us all, we can support and care for children with a slight cough, tiredness and general 'feeling under the weather'. School will always call you if we feel that a child needs to be at home but, usually, everyday school life and friendships will keep a child going and support learning and progress.
Every half term the class with the best attendance will get an 'Attendance Treat'. This half term the class with the best attendance will get the opportunity to go trampolining and have a dodgeball session down at St Cuthbert Mayne School.
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Overall the cabin is a very cute cabin! We go on vacation to have fun and spend with our family so we tried to overlook some things so our kids were happy. I am definitely over the top when it comes to cleanliness so I...More
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Thank you for your quick reply, Jason.
In response, I also noticed that the guest form element was posting to the cart page as well. Did you click the "checkout" button on the cart page after you used the guest form element (link)?
If not, this is where you will notice the 404 error when the cart page attempts to redirect to the checkout page. Its as if the checkout page does not recognize the guest session variable and returns the 404 error.
Please note that when I initially inserted the guest session variable to the cart page (even though there appeared to be no access restriction code) and uploaded the file to the server, the 404 error code was still popping up. This is what led me to reply back earlier.
So that you can see what I am talking about, let me insert the guest session variable as you recommended (to the cart page) and I will reply back with a notice to try guest login.
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I've been struggling with this one to get just the right added guitar part, guitar tone. At :50 you can hear the new part (I've also marked it on the soundcloud file). I'm playing two new chords over the existing parts and it seems to work really well harmonically.
Below is the previous version for reference. The guitar part at :50 is what to listen for in this older version. I may have also brought the drums down a pinch on the new mix. The felt a little loud coming in on this one.


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The opposition Congress party created an uproar in Rajya Sabha on Monday that there has been a delay in filling the positions in National commissions for minorities, SCs, STs and OBCs. Union Minister, Venkaiah Naidu said the vacancies in National commissions for backward, scheduled castes and minority groups will be filled ...Read More »
Telangana: Venkaiah Naidu seeks strong action on killing of Telugu techie in US
Naidu said that he spoke to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who gave appropriate instructions to the Indian High Commission. Hyderabad: Venkaiah Naidu Union Minister on Sunday condemned the killing of an Indian engineer at Kansas, saying that the US government should respond to such cases and take the "strongest ...Read More »
Venkaiah Naidu dares Opposition to expose NDA government
Previous UPA government did not take any steps to check black money, says M Venkaiah Naidu. Bengaluru: Holding the Congress, TMC and the Left parties are in-charge for Parliament logjam, Union urban development and poverty alleviation Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday dared the Opposition to come inside (Parliament) and ...Read More »
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Venkaiah Naidu predicted that foreign companies, institutions, and trade would come to Amaravati in the future. GUNTUR: The Union minister M. Venkaiah Naidu praised for the establishment of Amaravati as a global city, saying that it will help Andhra Pradesh to develop economically. He predicted that foreign companies, institutions, and ...Read More »


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Antonelli is located a short trip outside of Philadelphia, giving students access to "big city" culture with the safety and comfort of the suburbs. Our location provides our students with access to a variety of cultural opportunities, like theaters, museums, exhibits and concert venues. Philadelphia also boasts fine-dining, shopping and outdoor recreation.
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- Jason WoodyAsked on March 25, 2016 at 01:25 PM
When we finish a design I would like to attach the specification and drawing package to a form that the customer can approve with a e-signature before we start manufacturing. Can this be done with JotForm?
- JotForm SupportdavidAnswered on March 25, 2016 at 01:34 PM
It sounds like you would like to set up an approval workflow for your form. The following thread describes how to set up such a workflow:
Except instead of sending the form to managers for approval, you would send the form back to the user who filled it out for approval.


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We are Milhouse Hostel, and amazing place to meet travellers, the best acommodation, a lot of activities, and of course a lot of fun! Enjoy your stay at BA being a member of our team! We have different activities during the day and during the night, the best staff, and we would like you to join us and spend a unique experience! We offer working at the bar area in exchange for free acommodation, discounts in meals, beverages and our tours!
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On Monday September 21, 2009, the City of San Leandro will hold a community meeting to gather information on how to better integrate pedestrians and bicycles with the San Leandro BART station and the City's Transit-Oriented Development Strategy. Here is the text of the flyer sent out by the City:
We Need Your Ideas On Improved Pedestrian and Bike Access along San Leandro Blvd.
Please Join Us!
Monday, September 21, 2009 6:30-8:30 San Leandro Main Library-Karp Room 300 Estudillo Avenue, San Leandro
San Leandro-BART Pedestrian Study Community Meeting To Be Held September 21st
The City of San Leandro will host the first of several meetings to gather community input on the creation of a new plan for the San Leandro Boulevard-BART station area relative to pedestrian and bicycle safety and access.
The City has received a grant from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to study how the San Leandro Downtown BART station can be better integrated into the plans of the City's newly adopted Transit Oriented Development strategy. The goal of the study is to provide a transportation environment that contributes to increased ridership by emphasizing accessibility, safety, and a high quality environment for pedestrians, bicycles, public transit and automobiles. Other transportation options, such as utilizing LINKS, a free shuttle linking San Leandro BART and the West San Leandro business community, carpooling, and "kiss and ride" will be encouraged. Development within the station area will ensure that it is multi-modally connected to downtown and enhance opportunities for regional connections. This transportation environment will significantly reduce vehicle miles traveled by residents.
The first community meeting will emphasize design ideas needed to make pedestrian and bicycle access between the Downtown BART station and downtown San Leandro safer and more pedestrian friendly. We welcome your participation in this meeting
For more information please call Philip Millenbah, Senior Planner at 510/577-3327.


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It's a marvellous pictoral week-by-week guide to gardening, made of a collection of cartoons originally published in the Sunday Express in the 1940s. It's a rather lovely depiction of tasks that should be completed on a weekly basis and shows a surprising amount of detail. The grumpy gardener, Adam himself bustles about in what looks like a rather fetching panama hat and (Mr Garlic would approve) is so manly that he doesn't wear a coat even in the depths of winter. It's really quite inspiring (I feel rather chastised by his serious points about strawberries in this week's cartoon).
Title: Adam the Gardener
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This is a food-and-wine appointment that you cannot miss, since it celebrates the savours of the typical tradition from Ischia, so rich in unique and delicious dishes.
This is an itinerary in search of enjoyment which will last six days, with some days dedicated to the cooking based either on land products, or on sea products and to the tasting of the typical wines of this area.
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LONDON--BT Group PLC (BT.A.LN) Thursday said it is confident about its strategic direction as the U.K.-based telecom group recorded a rise in first-quarter earnings despite lower revenue, as demand for its fiber-optic broadband service and sports television channels boosted business.
BT said pretax profit in the three months to June 30 jumped 22% to 546 million pounds ($924 million) from the year-earlier period.
Revenue fell 2% year-over-year to GBP4.35 billion, higher than a FactSet-produced market consensus of GBP4.34 billion from a survey of four analysts. Revenue excluding transit operations, exceptional items, foreign exchange movements and the effect of acquisitions and disposals rose 0.5%, compared with a 1% fall in the same period last year.
The former telecoms incumbent confirmed its outlook for the full year.
The company said it has passed more than 20 million premises with its fiber rollout, as the operator fights in the competitive British "triple-play" market of fixed-line telephony, broadband and TV.
It has also paid billions of dollars to secure key exclusive live English and European soccer TV rights to bulk up its sports channels. BT's sports-broadcasting platform is a key play to lever its core broadband business and compensate for declining fixed-line telephony customers, while also bringing stiff competition to the pay-TV market.
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Remote monitoring of lynx and wolf
Recently, scientists have begun to study the behaviour of penguins in the Antarctic with the help of robots made to look like the birds. They plan to study the lives of Belovezhskaya Pushcha predators, specifically wolves and lynxes, with the help of mobile communication devices.
Lynxes have long settled in the Belovezhskaya PushchaThe Deputy Director General for Science at the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Vasily Arnolbik, said that photo snares are already being used to study the ecology of the wolf both in Poland and in Belarus. Tracking of movements, or remote monitoring of animals, is being worked on in the Belarusian part of the forest. In Germany, special GPS/GSM-transmitters are now being made. With the help of a network of mobile operators they will send information about the animals in the form of SMS messages. The most difficult thing with a project such as this is to trap the animals and fasten transmitters onto them.
Scientists discussed the development of cross-border researches into wolf and lynx ecology at an international working meeting in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha. The Mammal Research Institute at the Polish Academy of Science performed definitive research into wolves at the end of the last century, but there is a need to study the animal further. In particular, it will be interesting to discover how the number of large predators has changed with the increase in the protected zone of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha.
Oleg Shchitov, the forest's hunting expert, is convinced that our part of the forest is one of the most interesting territories for studying wolves. The numbers of this animal are actively regulated throughout the whole of the region, while in the protected zone of the National Park, which takes in almost 60,000 hectares, there is no hunting. In the Belovezhskaya Pushcha they impose a moratorium on the cull of wolves just like other areas.
Representatives at the meeting in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha also discussed the development of a common programme to study the lynx. Polish colleagues consider it a less resilient predator than the wolf, and are concerned that the development of forestry in unprotected areas is a threat. Specially protected nature areas are of key importance for the conservation of this rare beast. Work on the tracking of wolves and lynxes in the Belarusian part of the forest is part of the conservation programme, in this they co-operate with the National Park and APB-BirdLife Belarus non-governmental organisation. Rare photos taken with the help of camera snares can be seen on the 'Channel of the Wild Nature from the Belovezhskaya Pushcha', available on the website of the APB-BirdLife Belarus organisation and on social networks.
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The Lukewarm Church
Revelations 3:16, 17
"So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing'- and do not know that you are wretched, miserable poor, blind, and naked-"
Above Laodicea were hot springs which people traveled to for therapeutic purposes, and below the city were refreshing springs of cold water, but in the city they ran water down from the hot springs, and by the time it got there is was lukewarm and disgusting. This was symbolic of the spiritual condition of the Church; good for nothing and undesirable to Christ.
The biggest problem with this lukewarm Church is that they really did not see they had a problem. They seriously thought, "I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing", not realizing that Jesus saw them as wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked! That is a huge contrast!
Look at the Church today: we have fancy buildings, padded pews, air conditioning, big screens, nice sound systems, programs for finances and every other thing; we have every material thing under the sun, we say, "I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing". Yet Jesus looks at our hearts and sees a people who are consumed with comfort, pleasure, entertainment, careers, 401Ks, 5 year plans, the latest fashion; He sees our deep love for worldly entertainment which is full of violence, sex, murder and filth, all while the world around us is sinking into hell, never to escape the fierce wrath of God. Our hearts do not want to be burdened with the work of God to save the lost, for it would take too much of our time and would cause our flesh to suffer. Yet God is calling out, "who will go for Me, whom shall I send?" Do you hear His cry? Or is it drowned out by "your" life? Do you not remember that you have been bought with a price and your life is not your own? Are the cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches choking out the words of Christ?
This is the most dangerous place to be, when we cannot see our true state. There are over 150,000 people who die daily, most of which do not know Christ and will go to hell for eternity. What are you doing about it? About 60% of the world does not have Bibles, evangelists or Churches to go to; they live in darkness, poverty, and hopelessness, so how can any person who claims to love their neighbor as themself just live as though the world were fine? If that is you, how does the love of God dwell in you?
The Lord is speaking to you today, but will you listen? If God is calling you, do not hesitate; give up your life and follow Him; reach the lost, help the weak, be a light to a dying world! Pour out your life as an offering to Christ and do His bidding. Otherwise, how can you call Him Lord?
As many as Jesus loves, He rebukes and chastens, therefore be zealous and repent. You will stand before Him soon, and if you live as though He has not given you a command, He will vomit you out of His mouth, and out of His kingdom forever. Please, open your eyes America!
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Autocad Lisp Routine, block replace
Budget $10-30 AUD
I need a lisp routine or similar created that searches my project for Blocks in the same position based of insertion Point, then after the search is done and find 2 blocks in the same point, converts those blocks into 1 Single block taking the block names and separating them with a (+) symbol.
Search Project.
Find Blocks insertion points.
If 2 blocks have same insertion point then highlight.
Find block 1 name(ie block a), find block 2 name(ie block b).
Insert new block in place of the 2 blocks based of block 1 & 2's names.
New block inserted in place called Block A + Block B.dwg.
Remove 2 blocks that where just replaced.
repeat for all duplicates in project.
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Masters Program in Public Health,
Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia
Editor in Chief:
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Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia
Journal of Health Promotion and Behavior (JHPB) is an electronic, open-access, double-blind and peer-reviewed international journal, focusing on health promotion and health-related behaviors. It began its publication on May 21, 2015. The journal is published four times yearly. It seeks to understand factors at various layers associated with health behavior and health-impacting policy and find evidence-based social and behavioral strategies to improve population health status.
JHPB primarily publishes original research articles but also welcomes reviews covering applied, methodological and theoretical issues with an emphasis on studies using multidisciplinary or integrative approaches. The scope of JHPB includes the broader definition of health promotion involving a public policy that addresses broader health determinants such as income, housing, cigarette advertisement, food security, employment, and quality working conditions. It covers a broad range of topics in psychology, sociology, anthropology, communication, education, nursing, public health, and the allied health profession, as they are related to health promotion, health education, health-related behavior, and illness.
JHPB welcomes papers that describe theories and concepts, methodologies, policy formulation, organizational change, as well as social and environmental development, using quantitative or qualitative methods. We give special consideration to papers submitted from developing countries, as health promotion and behavior issues impacting populations in the developing world are currently under-documented and underreported in the existing international peer-reviewed journals.
All of the papers published are freely available as downloadable pdf files. JHPB is currently abstracted and indexed in Crossref (with DOI for each article), CABI's Global Health, BASE, Google Scholar, OAIster (OCLC/ WorldCat), GARUDA, ResearchGate, Index Copernicus International (ICI), Scientific Indexing Services (SIS), Directory of Research Journals Indexing (DRJI), Academic Resource Index, Eurasian Scientific Journal Index (ESJI), Indonesia One Search (IOS), Microsoft Academic Search, COSMOS IMPACT FACTOR, Neliti, Electronic Journals Library, PKP INDEX, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), Cite Factor, SINTA, and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). We are making efforts to get it indexed in even broader international databases.
This journal is accredited by the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education, Government of Indonesia, No. 21/E/KPT/2018, effective from July 9, 2018 to July 8, 2023.
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Yusniar Yusniar, Lita Andayani, Taufik Ashar
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The Effects of Multiple Sexual Partners and Condoms Use on the Incidence of HIV in Men Having Sex with Men
Evi Erlinda Wati, Rahayu Lubis, R. Kintoko Rochadi
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Determinants of Mobile Voluntary Counselling and Testing of HIV Use among Gay in Surakarta, Central Java
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Multilevel Analysis of the Effect of School and Peer Group on Smoking Behavior in Adolescents in Banjarnegara
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Several book bloggers I follow post Top Ten Tuesday lists from The Broke and the Bookish. The TTT for today, regarding the top ten new book series to start, is actually something I had been planning to write anyway. Not that long ago, I asked my sister to beta-read my story, Tangled Webs, and she asked me a very good question: What authors' work or other books is it most similar to? Unfortunately, I didn't have a good answer. The main reason is I haven't read much for fun for the past 3 (or 5… or 9) years since I've been focused on undergrad and then grad school reading.
So my Top Ten Books or Series I Want to Read is as follows. I'm mainly focusing on stories that sound similar to my own so I can one day answer my sister's question, although there are a few outliers. I guess they're supposed to be new series, but like I said I've been living under a rock for up to 9 years so my definition of 'new' is flexible.
1. The Clockwork Century Series by Cherie Priest
I'm actually in the process of reading Boneshaker (the first book) now. I've been wanting to read it since it came out, but at the time I was in Korea where few books were written in English. Books/series that creatively explore alternative timelines always catch my eye.
2. Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
I saw this at the library while picking up children's books on immigration for grad school research. This book's totally unrelated to that topic but the cover was interesting and the opening lines of its blurb hooked me:The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Also, I've been seeing this on a lot of people's To Read lists.
3. City of Dark Magic & City of Lost Dreams by Magnus Flyte
I saw these two on the same trip that I got Night Circus, and not gonna lie, I checked them out purely based on the shininess of the covers. But I read their summaries on the walk home and I have feeling I'll like them.
4. The Parasol Protectorate series by Gale Carriger
I've already read Soulless and Changeless, having check them out of the library. I ended up buying the series box set after reading Soulless. Based on my enjoyment of this series so far and Boneshaker, I apparently like Steampunk.
5. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
My sister recommended I read this. Unfortunately, curiosity got the better of me and I spoiled the ending for myself before I could get a copy… But I still plan to read it. I generally enjoy psychological thrillers. I'll probably follow it up with Gillian Flynn's other (but unrelated) stories, which also sound thrilling.
6. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
My sister also recommended this to me, and then a friend promptly reported that it was a book enjoyed by pretentious d-bags (or something to that effect). Of course, while writing this post I found my sister's review of the book on GoodReads- only two stars?! It's a massive book but apparently a whole chapter of it contains pages with only one word on it. It's an experiment in book and for that reason alone I want to read it.
7. The Network Series by Katie Cross
I can't remember how I found out about the first book, Miss Mabel's School for Girls, but it was only a few weeks ago and the desire to read it was nagging me so much that I ordered it off Amazon last night. Being a fan of both minimalist design and nature motifs, I LOVE its cover. On her blog, Katie Cross posted about the progression of that cover, which was an interesting and enlightening read.
8. The Ren Crown Series by Anne Zoelle
A few months ago, a beta reader of my story recommended I read the first book in the series, The Awakening of Ren Crown, and so I ordered it along with Miss Mabel's School for Girls. I'm actually really looking forward to reading a story from the POV of a college student. There aren't enough (to my knowledge) of those POVs out there.
9. The Tir Na Nog trilogy by Ali Isaac
I previously posted about what caught my eye with this series. Bottom line: disabled protagonists are unusual, but a series where the POV character is (pardon the un-PC term) a vegetable? Other than Johnny Got His Gun, I can't think of another book like that. Come to think of it, JGHG should be on this list, too.
10. The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
I mostly put this on here as tradition. Every birthday/Christmas for the past several years, I've asked for Discworld books. (Gotta catch 'em all!) Although I have almost every one (there are 40 last time I checked), I haven't actually read every one… yet.
Having finished my list, I see that 8 of the authors are women and several are indie authors. I am okay with this.


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- Confidence. I want more.
- Natural blonde hair. I think that it's the prettiest. Especially dark gold colors or like whitewhite Scandanavian blonde. So lovely. But only if it's real.
- Being dainty. NOTHING about me is even remotely close to being dainty. It sort of blows.
- Being small and cute. Being small and cute is similar to being dainty but not quite the same. I am not small and cute either. Laame.
- Musical talent. I wish I had one single ounce. Oh well.
- Backbone. I can't stick up for myself. It's terrible.
- A butt
- Or boobs
- okay, okay, BOTH
- Not having a constant case of word vomit
- assertiveness. There is a land called Passive Aggresiva and I am their Queen.
- Feet that are smaller than a size 10 (edit---Okay, lately I'm a 9?? Weird.
- Long, lovely necks.
- Pretty hands.
- The ability to act acceptably in social situations.
- being put together, mature, reasonable, normal, and not a freak
- ^i actually don't really mean this one. I like my creepy geek of a self.
I'm clearly in jealous mood today. Ughhh
listfully yours.
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Photos showing the alleged volume and power button flex cables for the upcoming iPhone 6 have recently appeared on the Internet. What is interesting about these flex cables is that they are separated. This indicates that the guys from Cupertino may indeed relocate the volume button, as it was rumored earlier. In case you don't know, some Asian insiders claim that the power button will be placed to the right hand side of the smartphone.
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Several photos showing something very similar to the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 front panel have surfaced online. Whether we can believe these images or not is still a question, nevertheless, you may take a look at them below.
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According to the latest report from Reuters, Apple's iWatch will be released in October. The mass-production of the device will start in July.
As to the smartwatch itself, it will reportedly feature a 2.5-inch display and a couple of sensors capable of tracking user's physical activity and monitoring his or her health. In particular, the device will be equipped with sensors measuring blood glucose, blood pressure, pulse etc. Apart from that, the iWatch will boast of wireless charging.
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As you probably know, Apple is expected to release its next-generation handset this fall. According to the rumor, which appeared on the Internet earlier today, the iPhone 6 will feature a larger screen, wireless charger and the support of near field communication technology (NFC) and LTE networks. Well, this is what VentureBeat reporters write.
iWatch to Feature Wireless Charger?
Apple's long-anticipated iWatch will reportedly feature a wireless charger. According to the latest reports from supply chain insiders, the guys from Cupertino have recently begun testing wireless charging coils manufactured on a Shenzen-based factory owned by Luxshare.
Mac Pro Ship Times Improve to 3-5 Business Days
Good news for all those who plan to buy a new Mac Pro. For the first time since its debut in December, the ship times have fallen to 3-5 business days. What this means is that if you purchase a completely redesigned Mac Pro now, it will be shipped to you in less than one week, not a month as it was earlier. Looks like the guys from Cupertino managed to overcome the manufacturing difficulties and now are working as were supposed to.
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- Snapshots of modern mathematics
- Diderot Mathematical Forum 2013: "Mathematics of Planet Earth"
- Pierre de Fermat and Andrew Wiles in Czech Republic stamps
- Stefan Banach (March 30, 1892 – August 8, 1945)
- Diderot Mathematical Forums
- Guessing the Numbers
- What is mathematics for Ehrhard Behrends
- What is mathematics for Krzysztof Ciesielski
- The Three Ducks Trick
- What is mathematics for Franka Brueckler
Plus Magazine Monthly Column – June 2017 – The ocellated lizard and other stories
Plus http://plus.maths.org is a free online magazine about mathematics aimed at a general audience. It is part of the Millennium Mathematics Project, based at the University of Cambridge and our aim is to open a door onto the world of maths for everyone. We run articles, videos and podcasts on all aspect of mathematics, from pure maths and theoretical physics to mathematical aspects of art, medicine, cosmology, sport and more. Plus has a news section, covering news from the world of maths as well as the maths behind the mainstream news, reviews of books, plays and films, as well as puzzles for you to sharpen your wits.
Beauty in the brain of the beholder
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty." Most mathematicians would agree with this statement by Bertrand Russell. There's something undeniably aesthetic about a succinct equation or elegant logical argument.
But how does mathematical beauty compare to the beauty we ascribe to, say, a work of art? In a recent Plus article Josefina Alvarez explores a study conducted by two neurobiologists and a mathematician that was designed to answer this question. The team used functional MRI to look at the brains of mathematicians while they were looking at mathematical formulas. It turns out that beautiful equations do indeed activate the same areas in the brain that have been associated with the appreciation of other kinds of visual, audio or moral beauty.
But is all mathematics equally beautiful? Obviously not! As part of the study participants were presented with sixty mathematical formulas and asked to rank them according to three categories; ugly, neutral and beautiful. The expression that was most consistently ranked as beautiful was Euler's equation,
$$\exp{i\pi} + 1= 0.$$
And the one most consistently ranked as ugly by the mathematicians was the following, extremely convoluted, formula representing the reciprocal of $\pi$ as an infinite sum:
$$\frac{1}{\pi} = \frac{2\sqrt{2}}{9801} \sum_{k=0}^{\infty} \frac{(4k)! (1103 + 26390k)}{(k)!^4 396^{4k}}.$$
It appears there is a connection between the simplicity of a mathematical expression and its perceived beauty.
Spotting lizards
Another thing that often amazes people is the "unreasonable effectiveness" of maths: the fact that it appears to describe nature better than any other language or formalism we have developed. This brings us swiftly to the subject of lizards.
The ocellated lizard is a beautiful creature. When it's young it's brown with white dots, but as it gets older its scales become black and green. Individual scales continue to switch colour, until the simple polka dot pattern turns into an intricate black-and-green labyrinth. It's an amazing transition — but how does the lizard do it?
The answer seems to come from some relatively straightforward maths. The lizard's scales are roughly hexagonal, so imagine a honeycomb pattern in which each individual hexagon is either black or green. Now imagine that periodically each hexagon looks at its six neighbours and changes its colour depending on what the colours of these neighbours are. For example, in the pictures below each hexagon changes its colour if four or more of its neighbours are not of its own colour. As time goes by, scales keep switching colours and new patterns evolve. In our example, which shows three time steps, small islands of one colour surrounded by the other colour gradually disappear, until only bands of colours remain.
This kind of set-up — a pattern in which cells update their colour at each time step depending on the colour of their neighbours at a previous time step — is called a cellular automaton. Because cellular automata are good at creating patterns, they've been used to simulate processes that happen in nature (see, for example, this article), but so far nobody has found a biological system that actually is a cellular automaton.
It seems like the ocellated lizard might provide the first example. In a recent study a team of mathematicians and geneticists (including the Fields medallist Stanislav Smirnov) watched three male lizards as they grew from little hatchlings into three to four-year-old adults. Carefully counting lizard spots, the team tried to find out whether a scale flipping colour at a particular time depends on the colours of its direct neighbours at a previous time step. Their work strongly suggests that it does, which means that the lizard's scales do indeed behave like a cellular automaton, albeit with a slight difference to our example above. Scales aren't sure to change colour as soon as their neighbours display a certain colour configuration. Instead, they change colour with a certain probability, which depends on the neighbouring colours: the more neighbours of a scale have the same colour as the original scale, the more likely the original scale is to change colour. The lizard's scales seem to form what's called a probabilistic cellular automaton.
But how do the scales do that? After all, individual skin cells don't know what scale they're part of, they don't have binoculars to see what colour a neighbouring scale is, or a mind to decide whether to switch colour or not. The authors of the study suggest that the lizard's cellular automaton arises from a well-known mechanism for creating skin patterns that was first suggested by the famous mathematician and code breaker Alan Turing in the 1950s. Although Turing's model has nothing to do with cellular automata, a cellular automaton can arise from it if the thickness of the lizard's scales varies. Find out more in this article.
Making history and mathematical magic!
The ocellated lizard might have made history with its cellular automoton decoration, but you too can make history without changing colour at all. Just shuffle a deck of cards – chances are you'll produce an order of cards that has never ever occurred before in the whole, long history of the Universe.
Although they can't guarantee that your shuffled pack is a universal first – Mathematician Ricardo Teixeira, and his daughter Gisele, use probabilities to explain why it is almost a certainly.
For a standard 52 pack of cards, there are 52 possibilities for the first card, 51 for the second, and so on. Hence the total number is:
$$52 \times 51 \times 50 \times 49 \dots \times 2 \times 1 = 8.07 \times 10^{67}.$$
Therefore, the probability of producing the order of your shuffled pack of cards is
$$\frac{1}{(8.07 \times 10^{67})}$$
To show just how incredibly small this probability is, imagine 10 billion people each with a pack of cards, each shuffling their pack once per second. Then after the first second they would have produced at most $$10^{10}$$ (10 billion) different combinations of cards (assuming each of the 10 billion people produced a different order of cards from their first shuffle). After the first minute, there would be 10 billion times 60 new combinations, that's $$10^{10}\times 60 = 6 \times 10^{11}$$. The pattern continues like this:
But this number is less than a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of 1 percent of the number of possible card sequences,$$52 \times 51 \times 50 \times 49 \dots \times 2 \times 1$$. Thus even after 14 billion years of 10 billion people shuffling a uniquely ordered pack every second, still only a tiny fraction of all the possible combinations of cards would have been produced!
This is why you can be pretty sure that any magician isn't using just dumb luck to guess your card in a magic trick. They probably aren't using magic either. To see more, including how to impress with the magic trick in the video below, read the full article.


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Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg finally struck back against his so-far dominant teammate, taking an easy Spanish Grand Prix win at the Circuit de Catalunya.
The German was never under threat after he converted pole-position to a good lead in the opening laps.
Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari tried to out-strategise Hamilton's side of the Mercedes garage but had to settle for third.
Daniel Ricciardo suffered a mostly-awful weekend, but things improved on Sunday for a points finish, albeit a lap down.
Nico Rosberg started the European leg of the season in a much better humour, heading practice sessions while Hamilton struggled, wiht a lurid spin in FP3 ruining a set of tyres.
Raikkonen also failed to get a good run in either practice or qualifying, his teammate getting a much better run.
Rosberg took pole to press home his advantage, with Hamilton second and Vettel third.
Red Bull handed their drivers a miserable Friday and Saturday, with Ricciardo barely running at all before qualifying tenth behind Massa and Kvyat.
The McLarens reached a milestone, both cars making it into Q2.
Sunny Spanish skies greeted the grid but Hamilton's start wasn't sweetness and light. The Brit got a poor start and was passed by Vettel's Ferrari before the braking zone.
Valtteri Bottas tried his luck but the Mercedes driver held him back to fourth.
Almost immediately, the Lotus of Grosjean was in trouble having made contact with Pastor Maldonado in an unintended nod to sponsor Mad Max: Fury Road.
Daniel Ricciardo, who had dropped a couple of places quickly capitalised and starting moving forward, picking up Maldonado and the two Toro Rossos into the bargain.
While the Red Bull B-team had done well in qualifying, they suffered in the race with too much tyre-saving downforce. Ricciardo's beleagured Red Bull was able to blow by the two younger drivers although a move on erstappen on lap 11 saw him re-passed by Verstappen.
Hamilton's pitwall, heeding their driver's complaints of not being able to stay close to the Ferrari, switched strategies from what was an expected two stop to three.
Rosberg's good start was working very well for the German, collecting fastest laps and reporting good balance.
Raikkonen settled in to fourth having passed the Williams of Bottas.
The first of the three-stoppers came in lap 12, Button and Hulkenberg. The three stop strategy was only marginally different to the two-stop timings, but for these two drivers it was unlikely to have a hugely positive effect.
Hamilton was informed by his team to pick up the pace on lap thirteen in preparation for a stop. The service took much longer than it should have with a sticky left rear. The delay dropped him behind Maldonado who he quickly passed.
Ricciardo pitted on the same lap and Hamilton's main competition, Vettel, came in a lap later, returning to the track in front of the Mercedes with an extended lead. Rosberg came in yet another lap later on lap fifteen.
The German's stop was faultless and he returned to the track behind Raikkonen and a long, long way ahead of Hamilton.
Maldonado pitted on lap sixteen to have a flapping chunk of rear wing removed, a result of the contact with Grosjean. He fell to eighteenth.
Hamilton and his pitwall conducted an extended conversation about their strategy options, with little to offer apart from a hard-fought second place.
The Mercedes driver began to close in on Vettel who began to go defensive. The Ferrari didn't have the overall grip of the Mercedes which was battling understeer.
Another explanation for the Toro Rosso's chronic lack of pace was being on the wrong tyre - the hard tyre may have had the longevity but it didn't have the grip.
Romain Grosjean had the beginnings of a really big problem - his team told him to lift when shifting from third to fourth, his pitwall describing that gear as "bad." He said he couldn't but Alan Permayne jumped on the radio and warned him that if he didn't, he'd "blow up the engine."
Daniil Kvyat was given an ultimatum by the Red Bull team - get by Verstappen or your race will unravel. The Russian agreed and dived down the inside of Verstappen who had tried to parry, but lost the place.
Unlike the Toro Rossos, Raikkonen's run on the hard tyres went very well indeed. The Finn was barely slower than his teammate who was on mediums and putting in a middle stint that had done him so well in Bahrain.
Fernando Alonso's home race ended on lap 28. His McLaren fired off the track at turn, his brakes just not up to the job. He came in to the pits but the rears all but failed, causing him to overshoot his pit box by almost the entire length.
The front jackman was already wide awake, leaping out of the way and the car was wheeled into the garage, a lucky escape for all. Button suffered the ignominy of being passed by Maldonado's very broken Lotus before pitting.
Rosberg continued to slowly extend his lead. Hamilton pleaded with his team for a better second stop as the hard tyre stint beckoned. The stop was better but hardly the fastest example, at 3.4 seconds.
Hamilton returned to the track behind Button's McLaren and then had Raikkonen to contend with. The Ferrari was on very old hard tyres and didn't bother putting up a fight, allowing Hamilton to pass easily along the main straight.
The Mercedes seemed happier than might have been expected on the hard tyre, with lap times that looked to seriously threaten Vettel's second place.
Ferrari left Vettel out, the Scuderia perhaps expecting Hamilton to have to stop again. Vettel stopped on lap 41 and fell behind both Hamilton and Bottas.
Another front jackman got a fright, this time at Lotus. Grosjean missed his marks, the man at the front gamely stayed where he was, the jack handle hoisting him into the air and dropping him on the concrete. He wasn't badly hurt but was later seen nursing a bag of ice over his nether regions.
Raikkonen pitted on the same lap, but there was far less drama in the red pit, the Finn heading out after a quick stop.
Grosjean wasn't flustered by the near-disaster of his stop, the French driver heading out and into battle with Kvyat, taking the Red Bull driver's ninth place with a brave move around the outside.
Rosber came in for his second and final planned stop of the race on lap 45, with Rosberg almost a pit-stop ahead of his teammate. The stop was clean but Hamilton swept by.
Rosberg was immediately assured Hamilton had to stop again, his tyres unable to make it to the finish.
Raikkonen's stop put him behind the Williams of Massa. The Finn shot by his former teammate at turn one as the lap counter clicked over to lap 47. Massa stopped a lap later.
Hamilton came in for his final stop on lap 51. Once again the stop was drama-free and he slotted in ahead of Vettel. The Ferrari driver communicated his displeasure over the radio, giving a short, sharp critique of the strategy.
Hamilton and his pitwall had another extended discussion about strategy. The Briton was keen for a win, but he was advised that Rosberg would speed up to get away and that Hamilton should concentrate on consolidating his position.
Hamilton basically ignored this and set about closing down the sixteen second gap with eight laps to go.
Raikkonen fought to get within striking distance of Valtteri Bottas, but the the Williams driver was implacbable and the Ferrari unable to get through the turbulent air, finishing fifth.
Rosberg took the win ahead of his teammate, the first time he has beaten hi this year. Vettel came home third - another podium but a long way behind the Mercedes cars.
Daniel Ricciardo came home seventh, his fourth - and last penalty-free - engine lasting the distance this time.
"I am more satisfied today as we achieved everything we could and seventh was the maximum I could get out of the car. There were some parts of the race that were encouraging but we're still further off than where we want to be, but we'll keep pushing," Ricciardo said.
"We came here with upgrades this weekend but they didn't give us what we were expecting, so that's something we'll keep working on. We're still a fair bit behind Williams at the moment but I think we have a good chance to close the gap a bit further in Monaco."
Formula 1 returns in two weeks for the Monaco Grand Prix.
- Nico Rosberg - Mercedes - 1h41m12.555s
- Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes +17.551s
- Sebastian Vettel - Ferrari +45.342s
- Valtteri Bottas - Williams/Mercedes +59.217s
- Kimi Raikkonen - Ferrari +1m00.002s
- Felipe Massa - Williams/Mercedes +1m21.314s
- Daniel Ricciardo - Red Bull/Renault +1 Lap
- Romain Grosjean - Lotus/Mercedes +1 Lap
- Carlos Sainz - Toro Rosso/Renault +1 Lap
- Daniil Kvyat - Red Bull/Renault +1 Lap
- Max Verstappen - Toro Rosso/Renault +1 Lap
- Felipe Nasr - Sauber/Ferrari +1 Lap
- Sergio Perez - Force India/Mercedes +1 Lap
- Marcus Ericsson - Sauber/Ferrari +1 Lap
- Nico Hulkenberg - Force India/Mercedes +1 Lap
- Jenson Button - McLaren/Honda +1 Lap
- Will Stevens - Marussia/Ferrari +3 Laps
- Roberto Merhi - Marussia/Ferrari +4 Laps
- Pastor Maldonado - Lotus/Mercedes Retirement
- Fernando Alonso - McLaren/Honda Brakes
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Jeweled Crop Top and Floral skirt: Charlotte Russe
Bracelet: antique find
Summer is coming to an end and Fall is approaching! This means pulling out sweaters and combat boots, which is great because I just love wearing my combat boots with almost any outfit. But while its still warm out, I'm trying to get the most wear out of all my skirts and sleeveless tops before I have to put them away.
Fall also means going back to school and I just finished my first week being back at college! What a week! I have a 7:45 AM class and I don't get out till 8:15 PM! I will definitely be busy this semester, but I'm excited to start all my new fashion classes. Majoring in fashion is challenging, learning the ins and outs of the industry and figuring out how to design on this new computer program that apparently is essential to this business. It's always rather irritating when someone will tell me that my major must be really easy, as if I just look shoes and go shopping all day.
Oh well, not everyone will understand your goals in life so I try not to let those comments bother me. I have so much to accomplish this semester and I'm thrilled to be on the road to doing it!


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The Morton Community Garden continues to thrive in spite of the intense heat and lack of rain that is troubling all of Chicagoland this summer. Garden organizer, Michele Mohr, reports that the zucchini crop is doing well and should be available soon.
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Monday, October 3
Linden is now in the final stages of clearing out the storage unit. A number of props – the Splat Spray game, the toad slicer, and the telephone, for example – and costumes have been set aside for use in promotional displays, and most of the make-up effects have been kept by the Burman Studio; what's left, it seems, Neil has been unable to sell or even give away (so much for my long-ago idea of donating our sets to a university), so everything left is up for grabs. Even though the vastly-deserving art department boys have already made off with a number of key pieces (Neil gave them first pick), I still manage enough booty to open my own Edge museum.7
Later in the day we receive a sample of the proposed typestyle for the film's credits, and find it's not what we'd hoped for. Part of the style is borrowed from the lettering found on 50s Cadillacs, and plans right now are to shoot the credits in simple white on black, something Tom feels could set the wrong tone for our silly, garish movie (in fact, I finally begin to understand why there are people who get paid large sums of money to do nothing but design opening credit sequences for movies). Tom begs Linden for the chance to research alternatives, suggesting he or Bari can provide the actual credits, and Pippa agrees to let him try – even though the credits must be done by Friday.
That's only one of his two crises: The other involves our matte shots, which have already photographed unsatisfactorily three times, and which we have one more try at before discarding them altogether. At the request of Tom, Rob Stromberg has touched up his paintings, taking them from blues and violets to the rust and green tones of the pumping station, but Tom thinks they still need something more – foreground miniatures, to give an illusion of depth and keep the eye from fastening on the paintings, which start to look like paintings under close scrutiny. Although Tom's foreground miniature theory is sound, there's just one big problem (a usual one for us by now): We have no one to build them. Although Mike Stuart could do them for free (also, as usual, we have no budget for this), he's putting in 15-hour days now on The Abyss. While I come from a modelmaking background, it's obvious that Tom has the clearest idea of what he wants – even if it means that he now must prepare both miniatures and credits by Friday (with all of Thursday taken up by ADR).
Tuesday, October 4
Tom, feeling obviously strangely excluded from crucial decisions like choice of credits and preparation of trailers, has had a blow-out with Linden since yesterday, although apparently (hopefully!) no permanent scars have been left on either side.
Now he buries himself in the work of credits and miniatures. He has begun to design individual titles, but it's painfully clear that at the meticulous speed he's working he'll never complete them by Friday.
But then it's Bari to the rescue! A new graphics/animation studio recently moved in next door to the Burmans, and Bari quickly makes a deal with them to prepare our opening credits. They set to work designing tubular letters, which they place on a computer that allows them to tilt the letters to any angle, or print out finished credits easily.
Thusly freed, Tom goes full speed on the miniatures. Mike drops by about 9 p.m., but is so impressed with Tom's models so far that he doesn't even need to offer assistance.
Wednesday, October 5
The one thing Mike did offer was a box of extra model parts and tubes, so this morning I drive out to Simi (almost an hour's drive, putting Mike in the big league of commuters) where the effects shop doing The Abyss is located. When I walk in, it's like a Life on the Edge mini-reunion, then it's back to the studio with the new parts.
That evening, Glenn Jordan drops by with a friend of his, former Saturday Night Live regular Gary Kroeger, who auditions for us as the voice of the chicken. We show him the footage, and he immediately comes up with a personality halfway between a chicken and his own parrot, with a healthy dose of James Brown thrown in. Pippa and Tom approve him instantly, and we agree to see him at 9 a.m. at the ADR stage tomorrow.
Tom finishes off the miniatures with a minor addition from me: I've purchased a new game called "Tuba Ruba", which consists of lengths of clear tubing that you snap in places around your body (tube games...hmm, life imitates art?). We wanted to place some transparent tubes in the foreground of the first matte shot, to suggest some continuity with the tube forest, and these tube should be just about the proper scale.
Other than that, Tom has had no help on the miniatures – and they're stunning. He confesses a secret desire to have been a modelmaker, and it shows, although strangely enough he's used some tricks of the make-up trade to really bring the models to life – i.e., using a hair tinting spray, "Streaks 'N' Tips", to provide a coating of rust.
While Tom has finished the miniatures, I've wrestled with what to do about the film's end speech. It seems now that, even though we've all agreed to do away with both an older version of Billy as narrator and the voice-over at the opening, it's generally felt that Billy should say something over the end. Tom has already written one short piece which he's not all that happy over, and Stanley Mieses' suggestiong was to add to Tom's material, "As for me, I just goooo with the flooooww," which sounds like a commercial for a bank or something to me. Tom would like to bring Joey's name up at the end to suggest another story (namely, a sequel), but he doesn't want anything too wordy. By the time we leave around 11 p.m., it's a puzzle we still haven't solved.
Thursday, October 6
I type up something for the end real quick this morning, then head over for another full day of ADR.
First up today is Gary Kroeger as the chicken, and he is truly hilarious. At one point, when the chicken glances at Cindy, Gary has it mutter some suggestion of incest, which has us all clapping hands to our mouths to stifle until the take is finished, even if we know we can't use it.
Next up is Nancy, who has the lion's share of looping today. Nancy proves to be as consummate a performer here as on stage, and when she asks to do a line once more, she's always right, because it's always the best reading. It's interesting, too, that she has to catch herself sometimes and raise the pitch of her voice to match Miriam's – none of us, her included, quite realized what a different voice she did for Miriam.
Nancy also spends a few minutes working with Glenn Jordan, who wants to replace Miriam's mindless humming in the kitchen with Miriam actually humming the theme from the movie. To accomplish this, Glenn has brought in a small portable keyboard, upon which he plays the theme for Nancy until she has it down. He then has her hum it into a Nagra tape recorder, since he plans to actually incorporate it into the score itself.
Once again listening closely to Jim Beshears, our ADR expert, I pick up some useful tips. When actors need to match an inhale or exhale, Jim tells them to watch not their mouths but their shoulders. Jim also fills Tom in on a couple of points to keep in mind on the next film. One is to always try to avoid having anyone read lines from off-camera while you're on a close-up of another actor, because the microphone will faintly pick up the off-camera lines, and you'll have to loop a close-up; and always allow about 5 seconds of time to elapse between the strike of the clapboard and when you call "Action!" – it gives ADR editors more room to work with.
We also see today Lee Arenberg (adding another line for the Head Reamer), Barney Burman (a line and a yell for the Young Reamer), Donovan Scott (a couple of laughs for his cop), Matt again (a few more lines, and 2 versions of the new end speech, one of which is what I typed out this morning), and Josh Miller, who, like Matt, has noticeably grown in the few months since we shot the film. Josh's approach to ADR is the one that actually makes the most sense to me: He doesn't use the headphone which relays the sound of the scene to the actor (and which confuses a number of them as well), but simply watches the scene carefully, waits for the three beeps preceding his line, and hits it right on almost every time (he's obviously done this before). In fact, when we ask him to lay in a scream as Joey and Billy flee Babblaxe, he notes wryly that for his last ADR session he was in this very same stage laying down hours of screams (for Near Dark).
The last ADR of the day involves what has been dubbed the "Group Linden Walla Walla", meaning that almost everyone from Linden, including Neil, Joe, Randy, Pippa and her assistant Hilary, have shown up to add various voices to the opening pipe montage and the pumping station. Sound effects editor Bruce Richardson has come with PVC pipes in hand, which we will talk though during the opening to convey the sound of the voices traveling through pipes. We then stand before the microphone, singly or in pairs, ad-libbing through pipes: Pippa does an operator, Neil and Joe do businessmen, Hilary does a girl jabbering about a party, Pippa and I resurrect Mrs. Lumbago and Mrs. Syzygy and do their dialogue, and the topper's gotta be me playing an obscene phone caller (I get to use a line I'd written for Crabneck about boys and their "tubes in tight clamps") to Randy's embarrassed and prim operator; when I'm done, I find I've raised the spectre of the Edge Hooker with the guys!
Lastly, we lay in various work conversations to echo through the pumping station, and shouts for the reamers. And my "Tuba Ruba" tubes get an interesting work-out: I brought them in because I thought we might be able to talk through them for a different pipe sound, and although they didn't work that way, the sound men love the sound they make when whirled around and record a few minutes of same.
After the party the last two hours of looping have become (with everyone taking their turns at the mike to see who can crack us up most), the day ends on a wonderful, final note: Our foreign sales reps have taken a full page ad in the Weekly Variety, which appeared on the newsstands today, and which marks not only the first time we all see our names in print, but also the first blurbs (albeit in this case they are based only on the script).
I confess that my initial reaction, after working ten years for this, is not flattery or even glee, but more like, "Well, it's about time."
Friday, October 7
Today we begin by paying a visit to the optical company that will be providing our credits, and we discuss the problems inherent in doing the credits the way Tom wants them – only to discover there are none.
That turns out to be meaningless, however, when we find that Linden has already made the decision to go with computer-generated lettering, in plain white. Tom is very disappointed.
A ride out to Santa Monica takes us to the studio of Frank Serafine, our "big-name" sound designer. His studio, set deceptively in an innocuous-appearing guesthouse in a quiet residential area, is extremely impressive – but no more so than the demonstration he gives us of what he's come up with so far. He has underscored the entire pumping station and a number of living room scenes with ambient noise, creating an atmospher of constant flowing, chugging noises. It takes the film one step farther out, and is almost exactly what Tom and I had in mind for our sound so long ago.
Then it's back to the valley for our last ADR session. Richard was called back for one last line, after our editors discovered, late last night, a bump in the production track over one of his lines. Richard literally bounces in his seat when we describe the ad in Variety, and he confesses his struggles to restrain his excitement about Life on the Edge.
The next few hours belong to Tom, as he dubs sounds for the tentacle, the eye and Spike. Spike and the eye are easy (he's been practicing for a while now to get just the right sounds for them), but the tentacle is a major problem, primarily because we never foresaw it having a voice (and I still don't think it should). Three of us take shots at it – Tom, Bruce Richardson and myself – but I sound too much like Miriam, and the men sound too much like Crabneck. We finally opt for Tom's comical, half-articulate throat rumblings, with Jim Beshears and Bruce promising to tweak it until it works.
John Chavez, sitting in on the ADR today, has a new credit list, upon which I discover that my acting credit now reads "EDGE SLUT". When I reproach the crudity of this, Tom and John both silence me with teasing about the appropriateness of the title.
I've heard of prostituting yourself for your art, but does the whole world have to see it in writing?
Monday, October 10
Tom has managed to schedule himself in two different places at the same time this morning, so I head to one, our optical effects house, to stall them while he goes to the other, our sound effects team in Glendale, to oversee creation of some crucial sounds. Meanwhile, Hollywood Optical (who are, incidentally, also blown away by Tom's miniatures) tells me that our matte painter isn't due in with the revised paintings for three hours yet, so Tom will be able to make it back to supervise the shooting of the mattes this afternoon.
I return from a meeting on another project this afternoon (which didn't go as well as I'd hoped - I'm about two weeks away from secretarial work) to receive a call from Joe, who says they'd like to figure out some clever way to say "To Be Continued" at the end of the movie. I tell him I'll give it some thought, but the only way to do it that makes sense to me is to print out, after the credits:
"That's the tale of the tube in one short squirt…or is it?," followed by one of Crabneck's barking laughs.
Tom's Foley work goes well today, as he sits in on the creation of sounds for doors and footsteps. The doors opening and closing end up being a combination of four sounds: A ratcheting noise, a scrape, a slide whistle and an old refrigerator door opening, with the front door being an intensified version of the other doors. For the footsteps during the edge walk, a variety of different surfaces are employed, including echoing metal, sloshing through shallow water, and gravel.
Unfortunately, shooting of the mattes doesn't proceed as well in the afternoon. Tom arrives at the stage to find virtually none of the equipment he and the effects cameraman requested has been supplied; where they requested "inkies" and other lights to light both the paintings and the miniatures, as well as gobos, barn doors, black Duvatyne, a white show card, etc., he's been given four old lights (only one with barn doors), a camera and one can of film. He and the cameraman manage to make due (with some materials they scrounge from old supplies laying around the stage), but he's unable to properly light both miniatures and matte paintings, and ends up being able to film only one of the three shots the way he'd planned.
Tuesday, October 11
Tom sits in on selection of credit style today, and wins a victory by convincing Pippa that no matter what style they choose, it must be on screen in vibrant colors. Only one color can be afforded, though, so green is picked (later, we find out it also costs extra to have the credits opaque, so instead our credits will be green and translucent).
When they see the dailies of yesterday's matte shots, they appear with none of the defects Tom expected, but are instead inexplicably misty and bluish. Although this is initially chalked up to a bad print, further investigation reveals it may be that the negative was damaged in processing. Tom actually hopes this is the case, since it would mean he'd be able to reshoot the mattes, hopefully better equipped this time.
Wednesday, October 12
Tom arrives on time for a screening today of the opening credits, only to find that they've started without him (this happened once in dailies, too).
This is one more example of an attitude often displayed towards Tom which continues to perplex me. Tom's decisions on various aspects of the film are sometimes ignored, and he's dismissed because "he's new". Although this treatment would doubtless be far worse in a studio environment, I still look forward to the day when we'll be able to do some dismissing of our own. Right now, however, the only consolation is the film itself, which continues to live and breathe and grow despite the occasional turmoil around it.
Thursday, October 13
A day distinguished primarily by another visit to Glenn Jordan's studio. He has now scored all but three scenes; in regards to one of those remaining scenes - the end, in fact - he's waiting for a decision to be made as to whether or not it will be editorially changed before he scores it.
Sunday, October 16 - Monday, October 17
Glenn records the last of the score these two days, this time in a full recording studio, with a real (as opposed to unreal and synthesized) four-piece woodwind section, which he is using both because it was stipulated in his contract that he must use at least 5 musicians, and because live players will break up the "perfect" sound of the synthesizers, and really bring the score to life.
In addition to having recorded pipe and tube noises, he's also got human voices run through his digital sampler, and the main title is a mix of the synthesized voices with synthesized bike horns!
While Glenn is finishing up the score on Monday, Tom and I are in Hollywood reshooting the mattes. It turned out the negative was damaged in processing, and so here we are again, in a 30' by 50' cinderblock mess of a stage, which it seems also doubles as living quarters for one of the company's employees (another example of high-tech moviemaking at its finest). We spend the morning getting all of our equipment together; fortunately, it ends up costing virtually nothing, with all the favors Neil is able to call in and negotiate. We've been provided with three effects camera and lighting guys, and we begin shooting about noon. The revised matte paintings are incredible - Rob Stromberg has added more "black" blacks and little flashes of fiery glow here and there. Tom carefully places the foreground miniatures himself (using half-apple boxes and sandbags), and then each matte is filmed at a number of different exposures, to make sure we're covered. We also shoot the paintings without the miniatures, and the miniatures without the paintings (against a plain white backdrop of foam core) to give the optical people wedges to work with if necessary.
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Ed Eyth drops by with a poster concept he'd done for fun, a delightful rendering of Henry and Crabneck, engaged in their struggles, Miriam and Billy all emerging from a tube. It would certainly behoove our eventual distributor to check out our very own production designer for the poster concept!
An interesting conversation with Tom during lunch: I ask him if he's thought about trying to get an agent (as a director) when the film opens. When I explain that my thinking on this is basically someone to weed through all the strange scripts he'll undoubtedly be offered, his response is simple: He doesn't even want to consider any other scripts, but is instead intent on making our projects. For myself, we've gotten this far without agents (even though an agent would no doubt argue that's why I'm flat broke right now), and I see no reason at this point to give anyone else 10% or more of my earnings.8
All the matte shots and the various separate elements are completed easily, and we wrap by late afternoon.
Tuesday, October 18
The film is definitely winding down; Tom is at his studio, looking a little lost, and I'm on my way to the print shop with my new resume, which I have no choice but to start sending out today.
I pick up today's Hollywood Reporter for the "Help Wanted" ads, then realize it's the Mifed issue, covering all the films being presented to foreign distributors at the Milan Film Festival. Sure enough, there's a mention and a photo of Life on the Edge. I'm looking at that while I circle the ads for 'Receptionist Wanted' and wondering if I dare ask for $350 a week.
The funny thing is, people always told me, "Oh, once you get that first script sold, the others always fall into place."
Any time something applies to everyone else, I always know it won't work for me.
Wednesday, October 19
A day tagging along with Tom.
First, it's out to Santa Monica to check out Frank Serafine's latest sound creations. He's transformed Gary Kroeger's chicken voice into an operatic warble of great range, has completed the ambient noises for reels 2 and 4 through 9 (leaving only 3 and, because of the opening pipe montage, the most difficult, reel 1), and he finishes today by recording chuggings, hissings and extremely flatulent noises produced by the ancient air compressor Tom brought along.
Then we hightail it into Hollywood, where Tom shows what he wants in the mattes by laying sheets of clear acetate over photos of the paintings, then sketches steam puffs, lights and lightning flashes where he wants them. Dave Hewitt of Hollywood Optical looks them over, approves, and promises to have them done by Monday, so they can be cut into the final print for mixing purposes.
Then it's back to the Burman Studio, where Tom gets a make-up case together, picks up Bari, and the three of us head out to Beverly Hills High School, where we are taping an appearnce tonight on - I love this! - Joshua Miller's very own talk show! Josh, now a high school freshman at B.H.H., takes over their incredibly-well equipped television studio (my colleges didn't have it this good!) every Wednesday night, and tapes a half-hour show which is actually being shown on a local cable channel. Tonight is the Halloween show, and so Josh has asked Tom to perform a make-up demonstration. I'm the victim as Tom and Bari apply a 10-minute miracle make-up (a zombie); the other twenty minutes are taken up by an interview with Tom, a "Hollywood Update", and film clips. Josh, who also writes and produces the show, has put together a helluva program, complete with video graphics and his own theme song, and we all leave duly impressed.
My favorite note of the evening, however, came when Josh asked us how the sequel was going, and obtained our assurance that Joey would not be written out halfway through next time.
By the way, it's also worth mentioning the name of Joshua's show: It really is called "On the Edge".
Thursday, October 20
We do our first magazine interview this morning.
Actually, it's conducted by my friend Ron, so it's almost more of a friendly chat - but it is tape recorded, and is conducted for an upcoming issue of Cinefantastique.9
I'm pleased to see that Tom, who yesterday said he planned to give no straight answers, has relented and is relaxed, funny and articulate. Paul Sammon, also present, tells us he's got more interviews and several convention appearances lined up in the near future.
I'm still concerned about my own near future, though, and spend the rest of the day making phone inquiries and job hunting.
Friday, October 21
The hunt is over, and I am immeasurably relieved to say it has not ended in a desk job. Instead, on Monday I'll be joining Mike and the others who have jumped from the Edge into The Abyss. I'll be working again as a modelmaker, and probably making more in six or eight weeks than I made in nearly seven months on Life on the Edge.10
The difference, of course - and the hard part - is that I didn't co-write and associate produce The Abyss.
Saturday, October 22
Re-recording sound mixer Mike Minkler is shown the film today, and promptly tells us that it may take longer than we had originally planned to do the mixing.
Is there anything on this movie that hasn't taken longer than originally planned?
Monday, October 24 - Tuesday, October 25
The mix begins with pre-dubs, the process whereby the final selections are made on which sound effects and which ADR takes will be used, and final adjustments are made to same. Pre-dubs are also where certain sound effects will be virtually created - for example, Crabneck's back burning is currently a combination of six different sounds (including bacon sizzling and animals squealing), and in pre-dubs they may elect to use any number of those six tracks.
For the next few days, they'll systematically go through ADR, Foley walking, Foley noises, Bruce Richardson's sound effects and Frank Serafine's effects; music, however, won't enter into it until the final mix, probably next week.
No news from Milan yet, where Life on the Edge is up for sale at the Mifed film festival to international distributors. However, Tom doesn't need any more reason to be ecstatic - he's having a ball working on the mix, as are Pippa, the various sound wizards and editors, and apparently all of the employees of the mixing studio. It's another case of work coming to a stop when Life on the Edge is being screened.
Wednesday, October 26
Tom, Rob and Barney are interviewed tonight for Fangoria magazine, while Bari, Paul Sammon and I sit in. I'm again relieved to see that Tom is treating the interviews seriously, although I laugh when both he and Bari deny that there's any blood in our movie.11
The good part, though, comes afterwards. Tom has just received the complete score on tape, although he has not receiving anything explaining what the cues are or what they correspond to, so we have to figure it out ourselves.
…which isn't too difficult, considering how perfectly this score fits. Tom is delighted with how "big" the music sounds, but to me that's like saying you like a Picasso because of the size of the canvas. This score would be phenomenal in any size movie. Needless to say, I copy the tapes for myself, and when listening to them at home I find myself struck dumb with the idea that I had a hand inspiring this score, which is genuinely unique.
The other good news of the day is from Milan, where the foreign distributors are apparently - to use our foreign sales reps' word - "barnstorming" the Life on the Edge display.
Monday, October 31
Last week, the pre-dubs on Foley, Foley props, dialogue and ADR were completed, leaving only sound effects and music. The pre-dubs should be finished tomorrow, at which point we move into the final stage, the re-recording mix (which is also where our stereo sound is broken down). We're currently looking at the entire mix being finished this Saturday. Then, provided the mix is finished, we will view the film on Monday (a week from today) a final time before it goes off to the lab for a composite print.
One more unforeseen thing has occurred: After finishing the dissolves, wipes and fades, our 92-minute film mysteriously shrank to 89 minutes and 47 seconds, which leaves us 13 seconds short of the 90 minutes required by certain foreign distributors. Fortunately, however, it's relatively easy to extend the credits for another 13 seconds.
While spending my days detailing foam rubber puppets for The Abyss12, I find myself thinking more and more about a sequel to Life on the Edge, especially when someone comes up near my workbench and asks where the crème hardener is. By late Halloween night (after spending a delightful evening with the Shakmans, who keep laughing at how they've become friends with the "perverts"), I've plotted huge chunks of the sequel, and can't wait to sit down with Tom and venture back into the world of the Edge.
7. The only two things I've kept over the years were Joey's cool shoes (my size) and one of the dining room chairs.
8. Obviously things have changed since, although I did get my next job, Adventures in Dinosaur City, without an agent as well.
9. Indeed, we had a nice little 2-page spread in the May 1989 issue of Cinefantastique.
10. Not only did I make considerably more, I also ended up working almost as long on The Abyss as I did on Life on the Edge.
11. This nice 4-page article appeared in Fangoria #81.
12. My connection to Tom came in very handy during The Abyss - sometimes it took a make-up effects genius to solve that one problem the modelmakers couldn't figure out!
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