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MEDIA ADVISORY, April 11, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- WHAT: NOT TODAY, a gripping film that puts a human face on the worldwide problem of human trafficking, opens in theaters Friday, April 12. In the inspiring film, a spoiled young American college student personally encounters trafficking of children among India's "untouchables" and is forever changed.WHO: NOT TODAY is produced by Friends Media, an arm of Friends Church of Yorba Linda, Calif. It features rising star Cody Longo (Hollywood Heights, Fame, Make It or Break It) John Schneider (OCTOBER BABY, Smallville, The Dukes of Hazzard), Shari Rigby (OCTOBER BABY, The Bold and the Beautiful), Cassie Scerbo (Make It or Break It, Hot in Cleveland) and Walid Amini (Veep, NCIS).WHEN:Premieres in theaters across the country Friday, April 12WHY:Film Echoes Real Need
India's Dalit population is among the world's most vulnerable to the global industry in human abuse:
SYNOPSIS Living as large as any 20-year-old could dream, Caden Welles' expectations of a never-ending party in India crash hard -- but not as hard as his conscience when he refuses to help a starving man and his little girl. Attempting to right his wrong, Caden's eyes are forced open to a world few Americans know exists: the thriving human-trafficking trade. Spurred by a true purpose, an unlikely friendship and the prayers of his mother and girlfriend, Caden leads an unlikely search for the girl.NOT TODAY is a powerful reminder that change is possible if we're willing to open our eyes . . . today. BACKGROUND/STORY ANGLES:A CHURCH TAKES ACTION: Using education to lift Dalit lives and prospects, Friends Church has committed $20 million to build 200 of 1,000 proposed schools for Dalit children in the coming decade. Friends already has funded more than 40 of the current 107 schools. Profits the church receives from NOT TODAY go toward building schools and freeing children. NOT TODAY premieres in major cities across the nation April 12 and in markets where trafficking is a big issue either because it's a problem there or anti-trafficking advocacy groups are headquartered in the region.For more information, visit: NotTodaytheMovie.comFor interviews, contact: Michael Conrad firstname.lastname@example.com 214-616-0320And visit Lovell-Fairchild.com for:


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Power In Reserve
Contributed by James May on Aug 27, 2006 (message contributor)
Summary: We have power in reserve, through the Lord Jesus Christ, to overcome every trial and persecution. God will see us through.
Power in Reserve
By Pastor Jim May
It seems that there is never a day when we do not hear of someone who is having some problems. Just this week we have seen several of our own church family who have had some hard times. Two of the ladies have had to have surgery. I'm glad to say that both are on their way to recovery. The Wheeless family suffered the loss of a father. Some of you here right now are suffering with pain, or sickness, and all of us know not what tomorrow will hold.
But isn't it good to know that, through it all, Jesus is still there. He's still there to lift you up and to bring you through everything that you are facing and give you victory.
As I was reading this morning and asking the Lord what He would have me say to you this morning, I was led to the Book of 2 Corinthians, chapter 4. I think that God wants to encourage you today. It is not His will that we should be overcome by the cares of life. He wants us to know that no matter what happens, it all has a purpose.
God wants you to know that even in your weakest moments, you are valuable to Him and He still desires to use you for His kingdom and His glory.
2 Corinthians 4:6-7, "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us."
Let us never forget that it is the same God who commanded the light to shine at the creation that gave us the light of the gospel and the knowledge of Jesus Christ. All through the Bible, "Light" is used as the emblem of knowledge, purity, and truth; and darkness is the emblem of ignorance, error, sin, and wretchedness.
God has been so good to those of us who know Him. By His mercy and grace, and through His love, he reached down to each of us, called us forth out of the darkness and brought us into His marvelous light.
He removed the darkness of ignorance, and poured a flood of light and truth into our hearts and minds
The natural mind is, by nature, ignorant and dark. The mind of a sinful man is just as dark and barren as Genesis described the earth in the beginning.
Genesis 1:2-4, "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness."
In the mind of sinful man there is deep ignorance of God. We did know of His Law, and His requirements. Because we were living in the darkness of sin, we could only farther from God and deeper into that darkness. Our road was going ever deeper into sin.
But God searched us out and chose to send His light into our minds. He helped us to see things as they really are.
That's why we have a different point of view about everything, compared to people of the world. We see everything differently. The worldly man doesn't see anything beautiful about going to church and serving the Lord. They don't see the beauty of our Lord and Savior. They don't understand what the gospel is all about. They don't see any value in sitting for an hour and listening to the Word of God. They don't place any confidence in the promises that God has given to us. And they certainly don't see any purpose in converting to Christianity, because they living in darkness and are spiritually blinded.
But thank God that He has helped us to see the truth. We understand more about what's important and we can set our priorities on things that are eternal. We can see the end of all things. We can know the promises of God, and we understand that we can put our trust in God to bring us home to Heaven when this life is over.
Why did God illuminate our minds? God allowed the light to shine upon us so that we might see His Glory. We can see the glory of God when we look upon Jesus, God's only Son. When we look upon the Redeemer we can see the glory of God in Him because Jesus reflects "the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person."
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These endorsements really don't fit the impression I had developed of Governor Dennis Daugaard. On one hand I'm thinking YES! Governor Dennis Daugaard is taking a stand, and he's showing people that he will put skin in the game. On the other hand, running for the legislature is an opportunity for people looking out for their constituents' best interest. That isn't always what's in the best interest of the Governor or his office. What he and his staff are doing indicates that if you are with him you will reap great rewards but if you are against him you may suffer severe retaliation.
I had an image of Daugaard as someone who could quell the conflict in our party by bringing people together. Taking sides and endorsing a challenger over an incumbant isn't the way to do that no matter how nice of a guy Val Rausch is.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard has endorsed House Speaker Val Rausch in his primary challenge to incumbent Republican Sen. Tim Begalka, R-Clear Lake.
Combined with another new endorsement, that of former Rep. Mike Buckingham in his battle with Rep. Phil Jensen for an open Senate seat in Rapid City, that makes five endorsements for Daugaard in Republican primaries this year.
The article mentions that Daugaard was inclined to support Rausch over Begalka because of Rausch's fiscal disipline, and the other key factor was that Rausch endorsed Daugaard for Governor in the 2010 primary.
Certainly there are many in the party who are absolutely unreasonable and maybe they are impossible to work with or incapable of being realistic. In that instince Daugaard might be right to take sides now rather than wasting his time attempting to bring a segment of people together who will never see eye to eye no matter how much effort is exhausted.
I am a big fan of returning loyalty, but I've also always had a tendancy to root for the underdog. The Governor of South Dakota has so much strength and financial backing compared to an individual legislator that an endorsement can be very powerful.
Endorsing in contested primaries especially against incumbants will only increase the animosity among alienated legislators or segments of the party. It's hard for me to understand why this is being done, especially when Republicans control such vast majorities in both legislative chambers.
This move could payoff for Daugaard in the short term while the GOP is fat and happy in numbers, but if Democrats ever make any real gains in the legislature over the next six years, Governor Daugaard might find himself reaching out to some of those individuals he chose not to support for key votes on important pieces of legislation.
In many ways I admire Dennis Daugaard for his endorsments, but at the same time I feel uneasy about the whole thing.


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Portfolio > For your bedrooms and guest rooms (14)
Large bed in figured maple and bloodwood, in the studio awaiting delivery
There probably is no piece of furniture in your home that can be so flexibly designed as a bed. While simple in concept - just a head board, foot board, rails and slats - how the bed is constructed makes all the difference for generations of enjoyment. The bed pictured here in the studio just before going to the customer is a good example. The head and foot board legs and cross supports are made from thick pieces of solid Oregon big leaf maple which offers great strength, yet is beautiful and never looks bulky. Mortise and tenon joints are use to connect each piece together so they will never loosen or rack. While the bed is very large, the open slats reduce the visual weight. The dark burgandy color of the African bloodwood adds an aura of excitement. The critical bed rails are not only strong and interestingly sculptured, they also are held from bowing either in or out by slats that fit into carfully cut dovetails. The slats can never move or bunch up under whatever you use for a matress and/or box springs and no matter how much your little ones might jump up and down for joy as they warm their way into your bed. When they are grown and have kids of their own, perhaps you will be ready to pass this beautiful piece on to the next generation, and they to the following one. Call or email to start the dialog on a unique bed design to fit your fondest desires.
Bed slats dovetailed to side rails
Here is a detailed shot of the dovetailed bed slats. Take a look at how beds are conventionally constructed. The bed slats simply sit on a ledge on the rails where they can bunch up or slide leaving you with non-uniform support for your bed. They also can twist and even fall out if there is much motion on or in the bed. Worst of all, if the bed rails bow out there is a danger that you and your bed may find the floor at the most unexpected or inoportun time! If you want your bed to really last, insist on dovetails to hold the slats properly to the rails.
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Here is an example of a library that is also a guest suite. To the right of the corner fireplace is a large bookcase featuring beveled, leded glass doors to keep the books neat and clean. To the left of the fireplace is a pull down Murphy bed unit that houses a queen size bed. In this case, the leather couch is also a queen sized hide-a-bed. The library table in the foreground is complimented by a roll top desk out of view to the far left. The Murphy bed, custom fireplace surround and bookcase unit are all made from Oregon black oak (named for the color of its bark) and Australian silky oak (called "lacewood" in this country).
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This interesting side table fits perfectly into bedrooms and guest suites. It features a unique, hidden shelf support using sliding dovetails. At the back and front are stacks of sliding dovetail segments that collectively are the height of the inside of the cabinet less the thickness of the shelf. By moving the segments up or down you can place the shelf where you want it, yet there is no visable shelf support hardware.
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If you look closely you can see the sliding dovetail segments.
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The beautifully figured maple lines the front to properly frame what is being displayed.
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Here it is in the customer's guest room. The perfect place for your guests to store their belongings and where you can supply interesting reading material while they are with you. The easily adjustable shelf means you can configure the unit to fit the needs of each guest individually.
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This chest has a granite top and features redwood burl panels to compliment the Oregon black walnut construction. It works well in nearly any room, but especially in a bedroom, library or guest suite where a spill is no big deal. No need for your guests to fret....
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Here it is just completed in my studio. You can see the nice, small scale that allows it to fit well even in smaller rooms.
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Sometimes it is the frivolous that makes a room special. Here a whimisical sculpture needed a special stand to show it off. The sculpture is a metal kenitic piece that moves as a crank is turned. The stand needed to place it at a comfortable viewing angle and one that made it easy to turn the crank handle. Since it is a "swimmer" I used bloodwood configured like waves to draw the eye from the floor upward. The highly figured Oregon big leaf maple adds just the right amount of spice.
Blanket chest in figured maple and bloodwood with Port Orford cedar insert
Blanket or hope chests offer great storage space in your bedroom or in a guest room. They can sit at the foot of the bed or along a wall where you can sit on them as you dress. What is inside is just as important at the outside. I build blanket chests with a removable bottom that can be crafted in your choice of Port Orford cedar for a rich, psice like smell, or the more traditional red aromatic cedar, or from other solid woods that complete the piece without imparting a smell.
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Here is an example of what you can do when you want a dresser that does not look like a conventional dresser. This one is photographed in the studio just before going to the customer. You have a top drawer plus additional storage (drawers or shelves as you wish) behind the striking lacewood panel doors. Note he handy side bookcase. What you don't see is a hidden compartment that only you know about where you can store special items when you travel. Call or email for details on the many options for hidden compartment furniture designs.
Foot of bed chest in maple and maple burl, open lid.
Maple burl is the perfect compliment for highly figured Oregon big leaf maple. In this design the lid stays are made from bubinga and slide in a narrow compartment on each side so they never snag your cloths or bedding stored in the chest. The top is subtly curved so it is really comfortable to sit upon. Note also the inlay detail that follows the contour of the legs.
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We love the latex topper you recommended. It made our new hard mattress luxurious.
Now we're in the market for an extra long twin mattress for a spare bedroom. Looking for quality with firm support and comfort at a reasonable price.
Doesn't have to be top of the line. Any recommendations?
Thanks, Cathy
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Earl Campbell to Have National College Football Award Named in His Honor
TYLER -- Pro Football Hall of Famer and Tyler native Earl Campbell will have a major college football award named in his honor.
The announcement was made Wednesday at the seventh annual East Texas Kick-Off Luncheon at UT Tyler's Herrington Patriot Center.
The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award will be presented yearly to the nation's most outstanding FBS college offensive player beginning at the conclusion of the 2013 season at an awards banquet in Tyler. The player must also classify as a senior academically.
"All my life all I wanted to do was be an athlete," Campbell said. "My family was in the rose business, but I wasn't in the rose business. I didn't like that. ... I always wanted to do something with a football. When I found out God had given me that talent to be something very special, all I had to do was put a little bit of my spices in there, and it wasn't very much."
The award's selection committee will be made up of journalists, broadcasters, commentators and former winners. In addition, five perent of the vote will consist of fan balloting.
According to SPORTyler, the award will go to the player who exhibits characteristics similar to those of Campbell: integrity, drive, determination, achievement in the face of adversity and tenacity to persist.
The award watch list, selected by the board from sports information director nominations submitted by all FBS college and university schools, will be announced the annual East Texas Kick-Off Luncheon every August.
The committee will narrow the field to 16 semifinalists in October and four finalists in November before being awarded in December.
Campbell, 57, led John Tyler to the 1973 Class 4A state championship. Former Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer once said Campbell was the only high school player he saw that could have made the jump from high school to the NFL.
"The Tyler Rose" decided to go anyway, enrolling at Texas. In 1977, Campbell led the nation in rushing with more than 1,700 yards, becoming the first Longhorns player to win the Heisman Trophy.
"He's a real gem for this community and you know it, and he was a real gem for the University of Texas and believe me we know it," said former Texas coach David Akers, who was a special guest speaker.
Not surprisingly, the Houston Oilers made Campbell the No. 1 overall pick in the 1978 NFL draft. He went on to have one of the best rookie seasons in league history. Campbell was named both the Offensive Rookie of the Year and Offensive Player of the Year.
Campbell became just the second player in NFL history to lead the league in rushing for three consecutive seasons, joining fellow Hall of Famer Jim Brown.
After more than nine years in the league, Campbell retired after the 1985 season and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1991.
The luncheon's other guest speaker at Wednesday's luncheon was former John Tyler High School, Baylor and NFL defensive back Gary Baxter.
There were 41 area schools represented at the luncheon. One high school athlete from each school was awarded a $250 scholarship.


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APPLE VALLEY � Southern California Edison will be performing maintenance on the electrical system in the area over the next two days, temporarily turning off power in different parts of town.
Power will be off Tuesday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. along Little Beaver Road west of Mesquite Road.
On Wednesday these outages are scheduled:
� From 8:45 a.m. to noon � North of Keokuk Way, east of Kootenay and west of Cabazon Street.
� From 8:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. � Kiowa Road south of Laguna Road, with 95 homes and one business affected.
� From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. � Amargosa Road south of Del Norte Drive.
Planned outages may not begin exactly at the stated start time, a press release from SCE said, and some conditions may cause this planned outage to be postponed. For current planned outage status, visit www.sce.com/outage. For more information call (800) 611-1911.
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Washington: The scale and implication of the 2010 WikiLeaks disclosures were overstated, according to a new research.
Analysis of the WikiLeaks debacle serves to highlight four key reasons why radical transparency is hard to achieve, and why a technological fix alone will not achieve it.
Some regard the WikiLeaks disclosures of 2010 as evidence that conventional mechanisms for controlling government-held information are breaking down, heralding a new world of 'radical transparency'.
However, Alasdair Roberts of Suffolk University Law School, Boston USA, argues that claims that old-style secrecy is over are an illusion, and that Wikileaks' advocates have overstated their scale and significance.
"They also overlook many ways in which the simple logic of radical transparency – leak, publish, and wait for the inevitable outrage –can be defeated in practice," Roberts said.
WikiLeaks' aim is to challenge 'increasing authoritarian tendencies' in government and the growth of unaccountable corporate power.
By the end of 2010, WikiLeaks and its editor in chief and founder, Julian Assange, were in the eye of a media storm, with few doubting the significance of the extensive leaked material.
Yet Roberts suggests that the 2010 leaks actually revealed the obstacles to achievement of increased transparency, even in the digital age.
The leaks' sheer size in terms of volume of pages was cited as proof of their significance - these were the largest set of confidential documents ever leaked to the public.
Yet in quantitative terms, the data's significance as a fraction of the total number of confidential documents is no greater than previous leaks during other eras.
The sheer quantity of this type of data held by governments is constantly increasing.
On the Internet, commercial and political considerations compromise the free flow of information, just as they did when we relied on earlier communications technologies.
When WikiLeaks released US State Department cables in November 2010, several companies that Wikileaks used, including Amazon Web Services, EveryDNS.net, PayPal and Apple, cut off their services, citing contractual violations or threats to their own businesses that would hinder other customers.
This complicated WikiLeaks' ability to distribute leaked information, and damaged it financially.
The radical transparency vision has a further difficulty, in that it neglects the significance of intermediation – organizing, interpreting, and drawing attention to information.
Skilled in the use of information technology, WikiLeaks' members were nonetheless daunted by the task of handling bulk data leaked from the Defence Department.
WikiLeaks released a series of US military counterinsurgency manuals in 2008, anticipating a strong reaction and press attention.
In reality it garnered little reaction because the material was too complex, and there was no clear story to grasp.
Wikileaks subsequently turned to a number of major media outlets to help with handling information releases.
However, this also meant that the media became gatekeepers for the information, taking their own decisions regarding which content should be published, and what was newsworthy or what they had the budget to investigate.
Wikileaks expected its leaks to spark outrage, shifting public opinion. But the American public, in general, did not react with the expected level of outrage: perceptions about the conduct of the war in Afghanistan actually improved after WikiLeaks' July 2010 disclosures.
"The incidents revealed by WikiLeaks might not even be construed as abuses of power at all. On the contrary, they might provide reassurance that the American government is willing to act ruthlessly in the pursuit of American interests, and that it actually has the capacity to act ruthlessly," Roberts said.
"There is no such thing, even in the age of the Internet, as the instantaneous and complete revelation of the truth. In its undigested form, information has no transformative power at all. Raw data must be distilled; the attention of a distracted audience must be captured; and that audience must accept the message that is put before it."
"A major difficulty with the WikiLeaks project is that it may delude us into believing otherwise," he added.
The study has been published in the International Review of Administrative Sciences by SAGE on behalf of the Institute for Administrative Sciences (IIAS).


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Ctrl-Shift-Click does NOT Run As Administrator for me
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad W530. Got it about three months ago, with Windows 7 Pro-64 installed. My issue is that the keyboard shortcut to Run As Administrator doesn't work, whether I use Ctrl-Shift-Click or Ctrl-Shift-Enter (where appropriate). Instead, the program just opens normally, with no UAC prompt. The only way I can find to Run As Administrator (without changing the program or shortcut properties) is through the context menu.
Any thoughts or suggestions on why the shortcut might not be working and how I can remedy it?
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You could try SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
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Thanks for the suggestion, but System File Checker didn't turn up any problems. BTW, I don't know if that shortcut is supposed to work in Safe Mode, but I tried and it's not working for me there either. Any other ideas?
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|24 Apr 2014
Doesn't work for me either on certain programs, but others it does. Strange. Just tried it.
You could do the other multiple ways of doing it:
Run as Administrator
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|24 Apr 2014
Doesn't work for me either on certain programs, but others it does. Strange. Just tried it.
You could do the other multiple ways of doing it:
Run as Administrator
Nonetheless my desire to use Ctrl-Shft is to have a minimal-keystroke/mouse approach to use on an *ad hoc* basis, and for ad-hoc none of those hints provide any improvement over context-menu "Run as Admin."
Anyone else have/had the same issue?
ETA: Meant to mention that for me it doesn't seem to be a "works on some programs but not others" issue. I've tried the keyboard shortcut on at least a dozen programs with no success.
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Spanish tile… I still think it's cool.
You don't see as much of this as you used to, it seems the Travertine craze kinda took over the trend… I have always loved the Spanish style look, maybe its because of my roots in Southern California and my many surf trips to Baja mexico growing up. Either way, I still think its cool….
Spanish style tile has long been a favorite of mine…..
These are called "Talevera" tiles, a ceramic tilemade in mexico. These tiles can be found throughout the world, but they were and are a staple in the "Spanish style" in California…. and of course Mexico 🙂
This is a great exaple of inserting Talevera tiles into A Salltillo tile floor.
This shows a cool expample of a sort of "vintage /spanish" combination…


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Toronto's public space is set to be redefined by a new exhibition location for architecture launching March 2008. Harbourfront Centre will establish the first public venue in Toronto devoted to presenting exhibitions which challenge, educate and question the prevailing thoughts, ideas and practices informing contemporary architecture. Quarterly exhibitions will present debates, dialogues and challenges between exhibiting firms – with each exhibition constructed specifically to investigate a proposed idea. Architects will present their ideas and speculations through constructed model forms/objects, printed images, new media and mixed media. This approach will encourage creative links within the architecture community while providing animated and educational public access. This space will also be used extensively with visiting school groups and the Urban Studies program in order to relate architectural practice to younger generations.
The first exhibition addresses ideas of public space from March 8 through April 20, 2008. Canada's North Design Studio, gh3 and the Office for Urbanism investigate the complexities of urban design in Toronto through their ideas and practices. The exhibition, entitled Public Space, is composed of three distinct installations all combining to create a visual dialogue on the differences and commonalities inherent in architecture's turning of common grounds into artistic fields. Public Space will also feature an essay by internationally known novelist Lewis DeSoto. This 2004 Booker Prize nominee has written an essay responding to his own public space reflections and to public space questions posed by this exhibition. Further exhibitions scheduled in 2008 include an exploration of what makes spaces sacred (May to September) while strategies and challenges for building upon existing structures and retaining facades will be the subject of the third exhibition (September through December). This new exhibition space is supported by the Toronto Society of Architects.
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The slumping sporting goods retail sector is taking a toll on brands. Feeling the pinch is Under Armour, which posted a quarterly sales decline of 5% on Tuesday, its first ever quarterly drop.
Under Armour's direct-to-consumer sales surged 15%, but results were dragged down by a 13% slide in wholesale sales to specialty sports and other retailers.
In a conference call on Tuesday, Chief Executive Kevin Plank noted the challenges faced by the retail sector, describing it as "pinned in a multi-year struggle to evolve past its legacy architecture."
And he was not optimistic about change in the near future. "As we look to close out 2017, we do not expect these conditions to improve," he said.
Under Armour isn't alone. Larger rival Nike recently also reported declining North America fiscal Q1 wholesale revenue that led to flat companywide revenue growth. Meanwhile, in other sectors, toymakers Mattel and Hasbro have also been hurt by the bankruptcy filing of Toys "R" Us.
While bankruptcy filings of retailers from the Sports Authority to Gander Mountain have translated to promotional closeout sales that hurt demand at other retailers and forced other chains to cut their prices, the specialty retail sector is also grappling with the bigger issue of declining store traffic and increased online competition. Dick's Sporting Goods, for instance, is beefing up its own ecommerce site and vows to be more price competitive. To diversify and put more control into their own hands, brands like Under Armour and Nike also are expanding their own online sales or striking new deals with retailers like Kohl's for Under Armour and Amazon for Nike.
However, it's not just struggling retail traffic and increased online competition that's been hurting both Under Armour and Nike. The so-called athleisure trend has led retailers and fashion labels across the board to unveil their own style-oriented athletic collections, which appear to have crimped demand for performance-focused products.


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Micro Restaurants In Portland
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Portland is nationally recognized for its food carts, selling everything from artisanal grilled cheese, sushi burritos, and Scandinavian soul food. Portland is also known for interesting, unique gourmet restaurants, such as Le Pigeon and Castagna, recipients of 4 and 5 star reviews on TripAdvisor and Yelp. Yet, Portland plays host to an interesting option in-between: the micro restaurant. With a full kitchen and plumbing, they have all the amenities of a full size restaurant, with less of the operation cost. Food carts tend to lose business in the winter due to Portland's chilly temperatures and lack of indoor seating, so a few inside tables allow them to stay open year round. It is also a safe space for chefs to try out new ideas without the risk of going bankrupt owning a full restaurant space.
The first example of a micro restaurant is 24th and Meatballs, which opened on Glisan in 2013. Whatever the dish, polenta, spaghetti or panini, the focus is always on meatballs. "Waffle Balls," a bowl of deep fried balls of waffle batter served with an array of different dipping sauces, was the only dish that strayed from the iconic meatballs, but is no longer available.
The 24th and Meatballs was the first of the Ocean mini-restaurant complex, a collection of restaurants serving tacos, vegan Indian food, and burgers, joined by a communal outdoor seating area. It is conveniently located on a bike route, making it easily accessible to commuters. The idea first came to developer Adam Berger in 2012 as a cart pod with a full bathroom, but it soon developed into its current incarnation. The next restaurant to open was Uno Más, a taqueria offering mini tacos stuffed with everything from classic carnitas to cactus and mushrooms and prawns with chiles. And then came Slowburger, a typical burger joint with classic hamburgers and onion rings and some more unique meats like catfish. The most recent restaurant to join the group was The Sudra, which takes a twist on normal Indian food by offering all vegan options, something that attracts a lot of business in an environmentally-conscious city like Portland.
Nong's Khao Man Gai is yet another micro restaurant in Portland, specializing in one-dish chicken, rice and broth soup, with cucumbers and sauce. The restaurant has been an enormous success in Portland, with two carts and a brick and mortar restaurant in southeast. The founder, Nong Poonsukwattana, moved to the United States in 2003 from Thailand with hopes of a better life, not knowing that she would soon become one of Portland's most celebrated chefs.
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Nong about the rising micro restaurant industry in Portland.
What do you think some of the advantages and disadvantages are of a micro restaurant versus a cart or full size restaurant?
The advantages of a micro restaurant is cheaper rent. The disadvantages of a micro restaurant is a smaller capacity which could mean smaller revenue.
Did you come to Portland with the hope of opening a restaurant or did you just stumble upon it?
When I first came to Portland, I did not hope to open a restaurant. I was just hoping for a better life than Thailand where I came from. But I always dreamed of owning my own business. Later in in the journey in the USA, I decided that owning a restaurant has potential for me to make it. And that's when I started.
What is your overall opinion on the micro restaurant industry in Portland?
Personally, I like it. It's similar to food courts in Thailand. It's casual and there's many choices for customers.
Have you heard of anything similar to your restaurant across the country or do you think it's a concept unique to Portland?
I think BBQ restaurants are similar to what I do. Specialize in few things.
Do you have any plans to expand to other cities? If so, where?
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Zaker Salehi Dehyagani
KDU University, Malaysia
Title: Monte Carlo simulation to detect the cancer cells at very early stages of breast cancer using CT images
Zaker Salehi Dehyagani is from KDU University, Malaysia. His research interest relays on Monte Carlo simulation, Carlo simulation, denser tissues, cancer cells and Micro-CT images.
Introduction: National Cancer Registry reported that breast cancer is 32% of all female known cancers where only 58% of this cancer can be detected at early stages. The purpose of this study was to develop an image display system to detect the micro-sized cancer cells using a new Monte Carlo simulation method. Methods: The CT creates was used to convert the Micro-CT images of a typical cancerous breast to its equivalent digitalized file. The converted file includes a database of numbers from 1 to 5 for air, muscle, water, soft fat and dense fat. There were also defined five numbers from 6 to 10 for denser tissues with higher CT numbers (Hounsfield Units) based on the passible densities of breast cancer. The voxel size for this breast phantom was 0.5×0.68×0.5 μm3. This image conversion was then repeated for the Micro-CT images of three different patients. The CT images of the patients were also observed by radiologists and the results of system's diagnosis were compared with the results of radiologist's observations. Results: There were 28 suspected locations of cancer cells found by this imaging system for the first breast Micro-CT images. But radiologists could observe only 18 of them with a normal observation. For the second patient, 29 locations were found by this model but 20 locations were found by radiologists and for the third patient, 37 locations were found by the system while just 15 of them were observed by radiologists. Conclusion: The imaging system of breast cancer was developed to diagnose the Micro-Sized cancer cells based on the conversion of Micro-CT images to a numeric database.


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Confirming the bleeding obvious, a Lowy Institute Poll has found that a majority of Australians do not believe the war in Iraq has reduced the threat of terrorism.
Click here to read the findings in full.
I think it also certain that the invasion of Iraq has further destabilised the Middle East in alarming ways, acting as a lightning rod for fundamentalist Jihadi Islamists who have seen Iraq as an opportunity to galvanize the Muslim 'street' against perceived US interests.


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PHOTOPAPER 20 – Jerome Ming nominated by Alec Soth
Jerome Ming was born in London and is currently based in Warsaw. He studied Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic (Nottingham, UK), Photojournalism at the London institute and received his MFA in Photography from the University of Hartford (USA). He works with photography and often involves aspects of sculpture, film-making and performance in his practice.
Alec Soth was born in 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he still lives, works and teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His photographs are in major public and private collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Walker Art Center. His first book, Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), gained him the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.


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The Economist: The Best Magazine in the World
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I normally hate to write uncritical posts which sound like commercials (unless they are about FON, of course), but I will this time. The Economist is simply the best magazine in the world.
My answer is yes (to the question if i was LOST in an uninhabited island and had only one magazine to read). And this would be the case even if I were lost with that hot babe from LOST. I still would want to read The Economist. Why? Here's a list of reasons.
I am an internet entrepreneur, and although I read all my news of the internet, The Economist is the only print media I read, mostly because it is the only paper that stands the test of time. The editors of The Economist understand that news is not news because it is "new", but because it is newsworthy and what they chose is worthwhile reading. Pick a 5 year old Business Week and a 5 year old Economist and see what I mean. Maybe it's the magazine's scope — so wide that it makes its writers excel in the craft of brevity, a skill us readers really appreciate.
Why can't Business Week, Fortune, Forbes not achieve the same? I can think of two reasons. One is that their writers and editors are less talented. But the other, which is more likely, is that those magazines main objective is to explain why some companies make it and others don't. The Economist's objective is to explain why humanity makes it…or fails. And they are very good at that in spite of their conservative leanings.
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Teacher: Hyler Class: Social Studies Hours: 2, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Please make sure your child has a 3-ring notebook that is just for social studies materials.
I will soon be handing out information about our field trip to the Truman Library and Museum for the White House Decision Center simulation on Nov. 16 or 17. The cost of the trip, materials, and simulation at the WHDC is $15. A letter will soon be given kids and parents in October. This money will be due by Monday, Oct. 26. Students will be given the WHDC manual. We will be doing four modules from this manual prior to our trip.
1-If needed, complete reviewing Article II and II.
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Two Features You Do Not Really Understand Pertaining To LASIK Eye Surgical TreatmentThe eye can be analyzed with relative ease regarding both its function and its structure. A practical assessment consists of the ability to move in the orbit and the response of the student to light and lodging.
The function of the eye may be tested in numerous ways. The client may be asked to recognize illuminated letter or items of differing sizes on exactly what is called the Snellen chart.
Alternatively, the assessment of the structural part of the eye might be made in numerous ways. Tension within the eyeball is determined by a "tonometer." In particular illness, specifically in glaucoma, the tension in the eyeball is increased noticeably.
Nevertheless, it needs to be well kept in mind that a client with an eye issue might have other issues as well. Frequently other physical conditions are main and impact the eye as a effect. The look of the eye can signal the patient and the physician to troubles in some disturbances of other parts of the body even prior to other signs provide themselves.
Consequently, one's dependence on sight is highlighted when one faces a momentary or possible irreversible loss of this important sense. When corrective measures are sought, specific types of vision correction such as contact lenses or spectacles are recommended.
On the other hand, some individuals are bothered with the truth that they have some framed lenses or contact lenses in front of their eyes.
For this factor, advanced surgical operations were developed to motivate decreased usage of contact lenses or glasses. Among which is the now popular LASIK eye surgery.
Essentially, LASIK eye surgery is the short-term for "Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis." Like its concrete equivalent, LASIK eye surgery is another type of vision correction. The only distinction is that with this kind of surgery, one's vision is fixed completely.
With LASIK eye surgery, the refractive errors in the cornea are permanently transformed. This can be site link done using an "excimer laser."
The main function of this surgical treatment is to develop a threadlike, rounded "flap" in the cornea using a blade called "microkeratome." In a series of unfolding and laser processing, the cornea is finally reformed, enabling better the eye to direct more light into the retina.
Popularity vs. Disadvantages
In the middle of the growing appeal of LASIK eye surgical treatment, there are still disadvantages that individuals should understand. Probably, the primary factor why this kind of eye surgery has actually become well accepted is since the majority of its cases had actually been effective.
Nevertheless, in spite of its success, there are still some drawbacks. Here is the list:
1. It is an operation applied to the most sensitive part of the eye
Since LASIK eye surgery involves the operation of the retina, which is among the most delicate portions of the eye, the majority of individuals say that the operation can be extremely dangerous.
In other words, a simple mistake might practically cause an person's life time loss of sight. It is important to think about many aspects prior to choosing whether LASIK eye surgery is the best restorative procedure one has to go through.
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LASIK eye surgery may fix your vision but it does not necessarily imply that it navigate to this site can give you a best vision. Even if analytical reports reveal that 70% of the clients may have 20/20 vision, this does not always indicate they have ideal vision also.
Offered all these things, it can be deduced that, in spite of the appeal of the operation, LASIK may not always be the ideal eye surgery the method the majority of people see it
Alternatively, the evaluation of the structural part of the eye may be made in numerous methods. It must be well remembered that a patient with an eye issue may have other problems. Frequently other physical visit site conditions are primary and affect the eye as a effect. The appearance of the eye can notify the patient and the physician to problems in some disturbances of other parts of the body even prior to other symptoms provide themselves.
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Home for christmas
I just booked my train tickets home, going up on the evening of tues 23rd, back on early eve sat 27th, fairly short, but better than two years ago (when I got 3 days). Don't know what we're doing, but it looks like some kind of family event (probably theatre, maybe cinema) on christmas eve, christmas day up in Derby at my sister's (first christmas in 22 years not in mappleborough green...), boxing day hopefully watching Villa vs Arsenal and various walks, drinking, arguments and face stuffing in between.
Yourselves? Any complete humbuggers? Looking forward to it? I love it personally.
I live in Shepherd's Bush
My parents live in Hackney. "Home" on Christmas Eve, then probably back to mine on Boxing Day, hopefully via Stamford Bridge for the West Brom game
In an effort to see my girlfriend on Christmas Day I'm doing something fairly silly:
I'm spending Christmas morning with my girlfriend's parents up here in the North, and then in the afternoon I'm driving down to my parents (2 hours away) to have a second helping of Christmas dinner and see my cousins. I'm about 70% sure this is a great idea.
my little sister's stressing about this
she wants to spend some time with her boyfriend's mum (who will be on her own, and won't come with us) which is fair enough. I can't see why she won't just drive down at 1 from derby, takes about an hour to get to redditch.
You can't drink until you've finished driving, but a 2 hour break in the middle isn't that bad is it?
lol @ Redditch
yeah, I don't think it'll be that big a deal. I've started making all sorts of terrible mental calculations about my drinking though - obviously I can have 2 units before I set off (so 1 can of beer then), but given they'll be fighting with a mountain of Christmas food inside me, would it be permissible to have a 'top-up' can on the way down too?
I hate Redditch
there are some lovely people though, despite the area's best efforts.
I'd say just be totally honest with yourself about the effect of drinking on yourself - I wouldn't bother at all, and then make up for lost time. Sorry to be boring, but it's just not worth it.
Yeah, I knew a few people at college from Redditch (I'm from Worcester)
none of them seemed to like the place much. Still, at least it's not... Droitwich? Is that worse? Probably.
I wasn't being too serious about that drinking thing by the way! I'll just do some shots in front of my mum and my entire extended family. It might end up being even better than the time my mum decided she liked the taste of After Shock (red) and left a bottle lying around at Christmas when I was 15.
Droitwich, redditch, bromsgrove, etc
they're all a bit rubbish really. My little sister went to StmAry's Convent in Worcester, i didn't go there much though. Had a few friends from Barnt Green mind. Kind poshville.
*Kinda, not kind
they were a bit up their own arses. Well, some of them.
I used to live near there!
That place completely freaked me out when I was younger, all those high walls and trees everywhere and big long drive - before I knew it was a school I remember thinking there must have been some sort of castle or huge, haunted mansion up there.
I was raised very near there
in a place called mappleborough green, near Studley. I played football at the Valley Stadium and got the train from and to Redditch train station every morning for high school. I worked in ravensbank industrial estate for 4 months in the middle-end of 2006. I hate the place. Love some of the people, but hate the place. Shit hole.
Hey, you should worry
I [still!] live in Kidderminster
Well... family still live there, I've managed to escape.
I love Kidderminster.
I may be alone in this point of view.
I think you are.
Very very much alone. What's to love?!
Being at Aggborough to see Jan Molby's Harriers side put 4 past hapless Yeovil.
Two of the pubs, whose names I really wish I could remember.
The night I got Robert Plant's autograph.
My ex-girlfriend's dad.
was one of them kinda grimy with a brilliant jukebox?
sorry, dukebox
One of them had an outside bit that was sort of inside
with like a cobbled floor? Then there was another lovely little one near to that one.
Then a nice one a bit out of town near a building-supply company.
That really is all I can remember.
I think I'm on about the cobbled floor one
we used to go there, it was near a subway underpass thing and also a wall with hedges near it.
Sounds like the Taphouse
Just near the big roundabout at the bottom of Station Hill, yeah? That's got an outside bit that's sort of inside
The Taphouse!
That REALLY rings a bell. i think it was that. I liked it (this was 10 years ago though)
Yeah, that sounds like the one. Lovely old place. I once sicked up in that subway. Thanks, Kiddie!
I won a tour round Aggborough stadium for designing a new kit. It was never used, obvs, but the comp was to design one. Then saw England's under 19s [or under 21s?] play there a few times.
Pubs... Only one really worth going to is the Taphouse, aka the Hog's Head I believe. Or the King and Castle at the train station, that's not too bad...
oneof my best mates lived there
so i actually kinda like it too, as I always had fun when i went there. Land of Carpets! and the steam train!
Home is
a 40 min tube ride.
I'm doing exactly the same dates!
back to North Yorkshire on 23rd afternoon and then going to Perth on the evening of the 27th for a trip to the far North of Scotland for new year
<3 <3 <3
I'm so going there this spring.
need to go Leeds soonish as well really.
Are you stopping in Edinburgh on the way up?
I'm living there now!
i'll bring my blood bowl board
I probably should, I love edinburgh.
maybe I'll have a week in scotland
this would have been the game to go to with Bamos:
Saturday, 24 January 2009 - Saints v Dunfermline Athletic
you KNOW it's all about saints - aberdeen next year
as long as you can stay up ;)
I look forward to it!
When are you actually coming for a footie match?
This is already looking like the highlight of my new year :)
I'll make it up to Scotland sometime March/April I expect
Will have a look and see if there are any good games that it can be tied in with.
flying to dublin on the evening of the 24th with my uncle
then back to london on the 29th, with my mum.
that's it. xmas day at mums, boxing day at dads.
much arguing and eating involved. emphasis on the arguing. mainly about other members of the family or politics. fuuuuntimes!
Not going home :-(
As my folks will be halfway round the world at my cousins wedding. So I've got to cook a turkey...
Anyway my mums birthday is on the 13th and she'll still be in this country...
so I'll go home for that and it can double as a fake christmas!
Not going home at all. Combination of having to work and not being that bothered that I've not booked the time off.
Going to the darts on the 23rd, which should be nice. The only day I'm annoyed I forgot to book off is the 2nd, when my hangover will HURT.
Then you should apply that dinner to every part of your person other than your mouth.
Could do.
I might be heading to my local but if I'm not I'll certainly let you know.
I have a mini-tradiiton of
going to the Retro Bar in Charing Cross for a few on Xmas Evebut we'll see. I LOVE Central London on the night before Xmas, it's so eerily quiet.
Invite me please!
I couldn't afford pre-Christmas flights home so I'm heading out on the 27th. Oh lonely old me at Christmas :(
Actually I'll probably love having the house to myself, watching DVDs and relaxing.
December 25th: TV Marathon!
...but what show? That is the question.
Last year I watched 9 episodes of The Wire
It began a love affair that has yet to end
I think then, it'll have to be a Wire-thon. Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-etc
not looking forward to it as much as in previous years
but it'll still be good to see the family, especially my neice & nephews & siblings who I don't see enough of.
Heading home on the 23rd, hopefully on the sleeper, and hopefully the journey isn't as horrific as last year. Back down to Edinburgh for Hogmanay and catching up with as many friends as possible, then back down south on the 4th, which will no doubt be in horrific cattle cart conditions.
because its unlikely that its going to have the normal festive mood
but i'm sure that we'll get there, and y'can't really avoid getting excited about Christmas with five kids under 6 running around.
Yeah Christmas was just starting to lose its wonder
when my little half-brothers came along, and with them you just can't help getting into the spirit of things :)
I'll always remember
breaking this news to my big sister
No that's when I had to tell her
that those wheelchair pictures in handicapped parking spaces don't mean that's where paraplegics are supposed to park their wheelchairs.
need to book my tickets
but i'm excited to be having 2.5 christmasses this year! one at my dads (the .5) on the 23-24th, the christmas day with my mum and grandparents as tradition dictates, then back up to london to welcome my special lady to the country and be a christmas host for the first time on the 27th. going to get a tree, do stockings, make lunch, record the queens speech and watch it again at 3pm on the 27th etc. should be ace!
I've booked the train back to Grimsby
I'm getting the train from Kings X mid-afternoon on Christmas Eve, and I'm coming back to London on the Sunday. Christmas Day at my Mum's, and Boxing Day at my Dad's.
Keeping it short this year.
Going home on Xmas eve
and coming back boxing day I think. Might pick up my gf on the way back up to the midlands. Really looking forward to seeing friends back at home xmas eve this year!
Only for Christmas day
It's not as good now two of my siblings are married as they don't always turn up, but it's still nice to see the old 'hood and thrash my relatives at boggle.
not going home
as it's a 24 hour, 2 planes and 4 figure journey for me.
woe, humbug etc.
Orphans' Christmas?
I can't cook though I warn you.
are you around as well then?
can we go out one night between christmas and new year? thanks. i'm working every day but have no intention to go into work without some form of hangover.
I fly out on the 27th I think
so it'll have to be Boxing Day pretty much - likely nothing will be open. Drinks at mine is a possibility though...
Oh wait just saw your dates
and checked mine - I'm actually out on the 28th so p'rhaps the eve of the 27th?
yes please.
i won't be back in London then. getting back into London on Boxing Day is pretty much impossible. ANECDOTE TIME: i tried it a few years ago and there was no train service from Bedford due to engineering works, but there was a replacement bus from Luton Airport. so my mother drove me there and i joined a large crowd of people waiting for a bus. no buses turned up. 90 minutes later we were told that the buses were going from the airport and not the train station. there's no way to walk from the train station to the airpot and, as the station was shut, there were no shuttle buses running. so we had to get a cab. it cost something like 70p each. then the bus driver took two hours to get into central London as he took the M25 all the way around London and the M4/westway into central london. END ANECDOTE.
i thought you'd be in oz by then?
It would have cost me about £700 more
to go pre-Chrissie. As it is I'm already spending almost a grand. Bleurgh.
Live in sheffield, across to manchester for weekend before, then down to bham to see friends, then down to devon on christmas eve and back up to bham boxing day.
Last year i spend christmas eve in birmingham to drink with friends then on the day drove to nantwich to see parents. Driving on the day is actually quite fun. The roads are quiet and it feels quite surreal. Plus the warm welcome you get when you arrive is pretty nice too!
I'm going to see the Krankies in pantomime in Wolverhampton
for the second consecutive year!
Probably nip home on the 24th on t' tube
Maybe visit before - my mum does make the house lovely and festive, and I haven't got the money to go to town on my flat
going home on the evening of christmas eve
coming back to london on the morning of the 27th.
nothing against my family but there's reallllllllllly no reason for me to be there any longer.
Not planned it yet,
but depending on the time I can get off work and when I finish uni, I'll hopefully be in Glasgow for a decent amount of time. But will probably be back in Dundee for New Year and possibly end up going back for my birthday on the seventh. Either that or having it here, but I might be alone as I dunno how long my flatmates will be home for.


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|A peacock at Blair Castle :) aw
Sometimes though, they make more of an impact left natural.
|I took this when I went on a school trip to the aisle of Eigg. Look at the big cow right there!
|This is from Eigg too. A big heard of Highland coos were following us!
And my beloved poochy-wooch, Angus, in the snow :) n'aww


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I met with my supervisor, Javier, this week having sent him through the first draft of the script that I will submit as part of my final MA project.
Javier was very encouraging about the shape and the energy of my script. I was expecting him to try to persuade me to spoon-feed the storyline to the audience but this was not the case. In fact he advised me that going into detail about the story would detract from the visceral and the visual impact of my work!
Through out the MA there has been a tension. Something about the way we've been taught hasn't felt right for me and I've not been able to pin down exactly what the problem has been. I'm not sure I will fully understand until after the course is over (its not meant to be fun after all) but at the moment I am experiencing a sense of clarity and freedom because I feel understood. Could it be that the mainstream aims of the course have jarred more significantly that I've allowed myself to contemplate? I've certainly been angry and frustrated at times when I've craved freedom and experimentation and what I've been faced with are format and convention and rules.
When I attended D&D North East this year I spoke of some of my frustrations to Phelim McDermott and he advised me to use my frustration and anger in my work. At the time it sounded like good advice but I didn't fully understand. Now I think I know exactly what Phelim was talking about.
Experiencing encouragement and understanding when I've produced something using only my gut instincts has been like rain clouds clearing. Now it feels like I'm open to vast possibilities and I can simply be myself in my writing and approach.
I feel like throwing all the 'how to' books out of the window!
I have two more drafts of my script to write. I'm not even going to refer to the initial draft when I write the next one. I'm going to take a deep breath, switch off my brain and dive in at the deep end. If there's anything worth retaining from the first draft it will be residual in my subconscious and make it through to draft two.
The next part of the submission is the almighty 8,000 word thesis that will explain the theoretical framework for my writing.
There is method in my madness.
The content is written from my gut, yes, but the frame for that content, the structure of the piece, the character development work and research have all been undertaken in a logical way and for logical (well to me anyway) reasons.
I have to explain my logic. This is what the 8,000 words are for and this is where the frustration comes in handy and can be used to drive my argument. I have to make myself understood! The play is complex and unintelligible so my explanation and justification have to be clear. And my desire to be understood is even stronger because I haven't been up till now.
I've decided that i'm going to blog (maybe a little, maybe a lot) about the process of writing my 8,000 words (thanks to Grace for the suggestion). What or how or why will become apparent as I write I think.
Ok, for starters I offer you this...
Our notion of past, present and future is 'a priori' which means learned without experience. Could it be that past, present and future is actually an ordering system that we apply to something more complex? Could past future and present help us make sense of our lives when really we exist in a non-linear chaos?
I'll leave you to ponder this for now...


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Progress Report: Week 4, 22-28 November, 2015
An interesting week, starting with a doctor's appointment and ending with a mild dose of sunburn, but a feeling of wellness I haven't had in a while. Exercise, folks, is more than worth the time you spend on it. Of course, this disrupted all routines and I didn't manage to maintain my writing, but I'll do better this week. I've flunked NaNo again this year, I think, but I learned a lot (see the post coming on Tuesday), and it was time well spent. My life is changing, but it's not without its challenges.
New words produced: 3,297
Old words revised: 0
Outlines and Notes: 1,314
Works completed: 0
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Works submitted: 5
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Bloggery: 4,492
University Prep and Assignments: 0
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Sakura leaves the drug store with a pregnancy test. As she stares at it, Rintaro approaches, so she quickly stashes it in her coat pocket. He thinks she's hiding condoms. They bicker all the way back to their building, and when Sakura starts searching for her key, Rintaro sees the pregnancy test.
At his place they discuss her possible future. He asks if she'll keep the baby, and she gets reeaal close to him to ask if she should. He then lectures her about not using contraception and asks if she'll marry Hiroto. Rintaro pushes her to go ahead and take the pregnancy test, because she doesn't want to see the results alone, but she promises that she'll do it later and runs away.
Sakura and Hiroto meet at the bar, and he asks about the trip to the onsen (hot spring) that Rintaro won for the salon team. He worries that Rintaro may have feelings for Sakura and that he might act on them, but she reassures him that Rintaro doesn't see her as a woman. Plus, he's just a friend. Barkeep overhears and laughs at that, then slinks away again.
Sakura asks Hiroto if he likes kids and is relieved when he says he does. She can't bring herself to tell him about possibly being pregnant, though, and he mistakes her fumbling attempt as an invitation to sleep over. (Classic case of putting the baby buggy before the horse.)
Sakura comes down with a fever the day of the work trip. Rintaro notices and takes her to the hospital. When they get back, he insists that she call Hiroto so he can come and baby her. She tells him she's fine, but he informs her that people need to feel like they're needed in their relationships. He leaves and she stares at the unused pregnancy test.
Kohei hangs out at the gym looking for Shima. When he sees her, he interrupts her flirting and forces her to talk to him. He tells her that adultery is wrong (unless it's with you? Yeah, I'm not convinced), and then gets excited when she tells him to meet her at the hotel, clearly thinking she has romance in mind. (There's a running gag of women hitting him in the face with stability balls throughout this scene. I wonder if that's intended to be symbolic? Hahaha!)
At the onsen, Rintaro has a hard time enjoying himself while everyone else parties—he's haunted by the spectre of Sakura.
Hiroto has a bad day biking and texts Sakura to see how she's enjoying the onsen. He also asks to go together next time.
Sakura falls out of bed to get to her phone, then stumbles outside to buy more supplies. She finds a bag full of everything she needs and realizes that Rintaro left it. He even thought to buy her a box of condoms. Hahaha!
At the hotel, Shima massages Kohei's foot while they discuss their ideas on marriage and divorce. He tries to justify the latter, while she admits that she's done with the former. But she thinks marriage and a family are a miracle. She talks sadly about couples becoming parents. I wonder if she has fertility issues and if that was the root of the problems in her marriage.
When Kohei gets home, Miki asks why he's been staying out so late. They have an argument in which she tries to explain that she needs him to come home earlier to relieve her of dealing with MIL, but they don't communicate well. MIL warns Miki to not complain to Kohei, or he'll never want to come home. Miki asks him about wearing his socks inside-out, and he tries several lies to explain it. Miki is suspicious.
Sakura feels better the next day, and gratefully accepts the gift Rintaro brings her from the onsen. He asks about the pregnancy test and she drags him inside to be with her. He asks why she's hesitating and she admits that she's worried it won't go well. (I think she means that she's worried she may not be pregnant.)
She finally takes the test, then can't make up her mind about whether she wants Rintaro to look at it first or not. She finally works up to it, but is disappointed when she sees that it's negative. She pretends that's what she wanted, though it's clear she was hoping she was pregnant.
Miki and Shima stop by the salon for girl talk and the three women discuss contraception, menopause, and other girly things, which is mortifying for the staff (especially the young guy, haha). Shima admits that she doesn't have to worry about getting pregnant, and her friends assume it's because of menopause, but I'm not so sure.
Rintaro hangs out at the bar with Kohei and Barkeep. They talk about developing old-man smell and "male menopause" and Kohei's still-undiagnosed ED.
Miki and Shima ask to meet Hiroto and talk Sakura into calling him. Of course, he's in bed with Naked Girl. He tells her that he's ended things with Naked Girl, as said girl drapes herself over his shoulders.
After he ends the call, he gets dressed and Naked Girl asks if they're really over. She asks if he's serious about Sakura (she calls her "that old woman"), and reminds him that he can't get serious with anyone.
Kohei has a meeting to sell a housewife insurance, and while he's there, her young son colors on his shirt with a red crayon. When he gets home, Miki finds the red mark that looks like lipstick and a receipt (for the hotel, maybe?).
Miki expresses her concerns to Sakura at the salon the next day and says that if Kohei is having an affair, she'll go in for the kill. Rintaro asks who she means—Kohei or the other woman. He explains that most women blame the other woman for affairs, and Miki says it's probably because they tend to think that the woman would initiate things.
Rintaro and Sakura dig at each other about wanting to get married so old, and finally Miki admits that she got married when they were 20 because she thought she needed to take advantage of the opportunity. But she's never had the thought or feeling that she was happy to be married. "That's why if he's cheating on me I can never forgive him." This talk shuts the other two up.
Sakura meets Hiroto at the bike park and tells him about not going to the onsen. She tells him about Rintaro taking her to the hospital, and he gets mad and tells her that he doesn't like her talking about another man. Especially not one she's so intimate with. He gets up angrily and goes back to practicing.
Miki gets a call that her daughter needs to come home from school early because she started her first period. Later, she discusses it with Kohei. When he leaves to take a bath, she searches his pockets and finds another receipt. (Also, there are seriously balls all over the place.)
Chiyoko waits for Rintaro like a stalker. She follows him to a baseball diamond and is upset to see Sakura there.
Rintaro asks Sakura why she's in his favorite spot. She asks about his dream of becoming a baseball star, and he reveals that in high school he missed his chance to go pro when a teammate was caught smoking and the whole team was punished by not being allowed to play in the championships.
He asks what her dream was and she reveals that she wanted to be a mom. But, she saw a doctor and found out that she missed her period due to a hormone imbalance. Rintaro reassures her that she can still have kids and then wonders about an ex who also had a pregnancy scare. He was hoping she was pregnant, but she didn't want a baby, so maybe that's why they didn't get married in the end.
As they talk, the kids hit a fly ball that heads straight to Sakura. Rintaro jumps in the way just in time and gets beaned by the ball. He falls to the ground unconscious, and Sakura tries to wake him. Finally, he tells her to stop shouting and she realizes that he was tricking her. They bicker some more and play with the kids while Chiyoko watches jealously.
Hiroto's game is still off at the bike park.
The three friends meet up at the only bar in town, which is where Rintaro is also eating. Shima explains to him that they're there to meet Hiroto. She starts flirting with Rintaro, but Sakura jumps in and separates them. Miki expresses her concerns that Kohei is cheating and asks Shima if she's noticed anything. Shima reassures her that he'd never cheat on Miki. (Sure, and what the two of you are doing is totally above board. Riiight.)
Hiroto heads to the bar with a bouquet, but at the door he gets a call from Chiyoko demanding that he come to her right now. "Or I don't know what might happen." He drops the flowers and runs to meet her.
Shima and Miki try to convince Rintaro to join them while Sakura tries calling Hiroto. She only gets voicemail, though. She heads back to the table and angrily pushes Rintaro out of her way.
Hiroto shows up at Chiyoko's house and confronts her about drinking. He tells her that she knows she can't drink, and they fight over the bottle of red wine. It flies across the room, smashes against the wall, and leaves a stain. Chiyoko chuckles and says that it reminds her of "that," by which I assume she means blood. She takes off her sweater and Hiroto stares at a large scar on her back.
She spins and yells at him that it's his fault she can't fall in love. She starts pushing him and screaming that it's all his fault, and he couldn't even get that woman to fall for him. He grabs her from behind and hugs her close, apologizing. He leans down and starts kissing down her scar.
Sakura vows to wait for Hiroto, since she was the one who stood him up last time. So she should be patient for whatever may have come up. Rintaro leaves and notices the bouquet on the steps outside.
Well, that was a surprising kiss.
Ah, the good old pregnancy scare. I saw that one coming 3 episodes ago.
I'm just going to come out and say it. It's probably a good idea to find out you're pregnant before telling your new and very young boyfriend that you are. But I guess that would leave fewer crazy and predictable twists for the plot of every romantic drama ever.
I had a lot more to say about this episode, and none of it was really positive, but I just got so annoyed, I gave up.
Yeah, my head hurts, too.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Last Cinderella Episode 4 Recap
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Yeah! I got the RSS feed to work. Of course I had to change my RSS feed fetcher. The end of this episode really creeped me out, but it makes me really wonder what is going on with HirotoReplyDelete
DeewaniforDrama told me that I finally fixed things on my end, too, so maybe that's part of it.ReplyDelete
Yeah, this episode has all the wrong kind of creepiness (aka NOT the kind where someone's going to die). Hiroto has some serious issues.
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I asked my mum what sort of sense of humour I have a few weeks ago and she described it as "dry quirky" and "witty". I definitely notice that the humour I use is not everyone's forte, as sometimes I'll meet someone and make a joke that I'd be used to my friends laughing at and this new person won't laugh, and its like...awkward....haha.
This is one of the main attractions to le garcon, our humour is very similar :/
So I googled types of humour just to see how they can be classified, and have discovered that my sense of humour is a mixture of these types:
- Sarcastic - I use sarcasm a LOT. If you know me well, you will be aware of this. Sometimes I even use sarcasm in text. This usually fails.
- Self-deprecating - I will often make fun of myself. And others, actually, but in a joking way. This sometimes comes back to bite me though if the other person doesn't realise I'm kidding...
- Witty/Highbrow - I like to think I'm a bit witty. I like to use puns :)
A sense of humour is a wonderful thing, and is so so so important. Cause your friends are those who not only are there for you through thick and thin but who also make you laugh lots (and thereby share a similar sense of humour). And personally, I love to laugh, and heartily appreciate those who can make me laugh :D
This is a photo of me laughing. I have no idea what Jess and I were laughing at, but any time spent with her involves many many laughs. I love this picture though, its so in-the-moment and candid <3


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Reading interviews with active footballers is like beach-combing with a blindfold on. The chances of stumbling on something worthwhile among the miles of sand and seaweed are as high as a player saying something interesting under the watchful auspices of their agents and club press officers. Very occasionally, though, you might come across a pearl, or at least a nice colourful cowrie.
|"If someone says football's the
only thing in my life, I
think that's stupid."
It's especially pleasing to hear from players who can look beyond the game. In the latest issue of German monthly 11 Freunde, the Hoffenheim striker Sandro Wagner talks about football's place in society. Wagner, who made his German international debut this past summer at the age of 29, is a feisty, physical player who, to say the least, has made himself unpopular down the years with opposing fans thanks to his robust style. He fouls a lot, and he gets fouled a lot.
I like him, though. Last season when he played for Hoffenheim at Eintracht Frankfurt he took a nasty, deliberate elbow to the face from Frankfurt's captain David Abraham, which went unseen and unpunished by the referees. Wagner got up, played on, and after the game made no fuss about it at all. In the 11 Freunde interview he says that Abraham apologised for the incident even as the game was still being played, and for him that was the end of the matter.
What I really like in the interview, though, is when he answers the question, "Do fans take football too seriously?" Wagner replies, "I see it like a lot of fans do - I love football, it's the greatest sport in the world. But many go over the top. If someone says to me, football's the only thing in my life, then I think that's stupid. To someone like that I
can only say, turn on the news. Then you can see what's really important."
can only say, turn on the news. Then you can see what's really important."
It's rare to hear this kind of perspective in player interviews. Wagner talks about football's "unbelievable power" to effect good, citing the 2006 World Cup as an example. "But at the moment," he says, "the climate's too negative. Football reflects society. And I feel that social co-operation has to some extent become brutalised. The stadium offers a platform for a lot of people to let out their rage. To vent their frustration. Too many clubs have just stood and watched that for too long. Especially with the Ultras. I think the Ultras have too much power."
The forward is by no means opposed to the Ultras because "for fan culture and atmosphere they are crucial, and the majority of Ultras are fine. But we can't let it get like in Italy where a few violent fans mean that no more families come to watch the games. Or like in England, where you can only watch games sitting down."
Meanwhile, Bayern Munich's goal factory Robert Lewandowski has gone rogue in the latest issue of Der Spiegel in an unauthorised interview that criticises his club for not spending enough cash on big money transfers, and in which he admits that he held back in games on the club's summer Asian tour because it didn't fit in with his pre-season preparation. Plus, from a marketing point of view, he reckons the tours are a waste of time. The Bundesliga would be much better off focusing on big name signings and having four or five teams compete for the title, instead of the current one (Bayern Munich).
"If you have more top games," he tells the weekly magazine, "you have more show, more razzmatazz, and you can increase TV coverage to the world beyond. Fans want to see the big showdowns, the stars of the league, the battles for the championship. That would make the Bundesliga more interesting outside of Germany." Those lines could have been taken from the business template for the 1970s North American Soccer League, not to mention the economic blueprint that drives modern sport.
Indeed, although Lewandowski believes that the game itself will always remain the most important thing, "the time around the 90 minutes will in future probably be more like a Hollywood film. That's something we can no longer prevent." In an honest assessment that caused some discomfort to Bayern's CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the player states that "football is pure capitalism, everyone involved wants to make money. That's not to condemn it, that's just the way that our whole western society functions. Still, the FAs have to find rules to stop the market completely over-flowing. When it's only ever the same top four or five teams winning all the titles because they have all the top players, then maybe the interest among average fans will ebb."
When the agents, clubs and media talk about football players as role models, they have in mind the following. They should never say or do anything interesting off the field. They should represent, market and sell the image of their clubs and the image of themselves. They should pose for photo-opps giving to politically neutral charities. When they express opinions, they threaten the brand, like American football's quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who's been effectively side-lined at the peak of his career by the NFL merely for exercising his democratic right not to stand up for the US national anthem.
|Müller: unaffected
So you get a player like Lewandowski's Bayern colleague Thomas Müller telling kicker magazine this week that the world outside of his privileged personal environment has "clearly become more crazy. At the moment there are extreme things going on, but I try not to let myself get too affected by that."
Müller's no fool - "If I fall down dead tomorrow then there will be a funeral, and then on Friday there will still be eleven players on the field," he says - but he, his fellow players, and all of us fans too need to take Sandro Wagner's advice to turn on the news. When hurricanes, plague and missiles come, the games stop. You can't say, "I only live for football" when there's no football left to live for.'
The Quiet Fan was published by Unbound in autumn 2018 and is available here.
The Quiet Fan was published by Unbound in autumn 2018 and is available here.


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Is there a "baseline" moisture level for plaster walls?
I've had to buy a moisture meter, shows %'age values from 0 to 2, in increments of 0.2%. Recorded ranges go from 0.2% to 1.6%. Most areas of the walls are around about 0.2 – 0.4%. So, what is an acceptable "baseline" value?
Should it be 0, although I would think there needs to be some moisture in the plaster?


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Is there any other place around Tokyo, I get a 1 LDK furnished house for the same price? or any other idea for cheap furnisher? (My contract is a roll over, cant plan for a long term)
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|Left hind solar day one
|Left hind solar plus 5 months
Putting the horse first
One of the things that will make/break a barefooter is the ability to take responsibility. The other is the wisdom to put the horse first.
The foot in the photos is attached to a horse cared for by the most wonderful person. The first thought when the horse was footy was:
'How can we make them better?' rather than:
'Damn I can't ride!'.
And I've seen for myself time and again how this approach leads to a sounder, happier horse and if the partnership chooses; more riding hours.
I hope you can see how the hoof in the 5 month photos is much healthier than at the start of this particular journey. Especially look at the solar view - the frog is no longer ragged with thrush, the white line is less stretched, the seedy toe is slowly growing out and the back of the foot is bulking out nicely. Note the horse lives out 24/7 in all weathers on grass.
When I first saw this horse it was suffering chronic hind leg lameness. So long as we maintain the roll, this is no longer an issue and the horse has been happily in work.
But the every journey has its downs as well as ups and today we found the horse a bit sore from thrush in a front foot. But as it is bare, the soreness is soon noticed and the problem can be more readily resolved.
Here is wishing a very special partnership all the best.