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Weinstein in 2011
Born March 19, 1952 (age 65)
New York City, U.S.
Alma mater University at Buffalo
Occupation Filmmaker
a prime supporter of Miramax Films and The Weinstein Company
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Eve Chilton (1987– 2004)
Georgina Chapman (2007; isolated 2017)
Children 5
Relatives Bob Weinstein (sibling)
Harvey Weinstein (/ˈwaɪnstiːn/WYNE-steen), CBE (conceived March 19, 1952) is an American filmmaker and previous film studio official. He and his sibling Bob Weinstein helped to establish Miramax, which delivered a few mainstream free movies including Pulp Fiction, Clerks, The Crying Game, and Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Harvey won an Academy Award for creating Shakespeare in Love and gathered seven Tony Awards for delivering an assortment of winning plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County.
Weinstein and his sibling Bob were co-executives of The Weinstein Company from 2005 to 2017. In October 2017, after various claims of lewd behavior, rape and assault against him, Harvey Weinstein was terminated by his organization's leading body of directors and ousted from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Training and early profession
Weinstein was conceived in the Flushing area of the New York City ward of Queens, to a Jewish family. His folks were Max Weinstein, a precious stone cutter, and Miriam (née Postel). He grew up with his more youthful sibling, Bob Weinstein, in a lodging center named Electchester in New York City. He moved on from John Bowne High School and the University at Buffalo and got a privileged SUNY Doctorate of Humane Letters in a function at Buffalo in 2000. Weinstein, his sibling Bob, and Corky Burger freely created shake shows as Harvey and Corky Productions in Buffalo through a large portion of the 1970s.
Movie vocation
The 1970s: Early work and making of Miramax
Both Weinstein siblings had grown up with an energy for motion pictures, and they sustained a want to enter the film business. In the late 1970s, utilizing benefits from their show advancement business, the siblings made a little autonomous film appropriation organization named Miramax, named after their folks, Miriam and Max. The organization's initially discharges were principally music-arranged show movies, for example, Paul McCartney's Rockshow.
The 1980s: Success with arthouse and autonomous movies
In the mid-1980s, Miramax gained the rights to two British movies of advantage demonstrates recorded for the human rights association Amnesty International. Working intimately with Martin Lewis, the maker of the first movies, the Weinstein siblings altered the two movies into one film custom-made for the American market. The subsequent film was discharged as The Secret Policeman's Other Ball in May 1982, and it turned into Miramax's first hit. The motion picture raised significant aggregates for Amnesty International and was acknowledged by Amnesty for having brought its profile up in the United States.
Weinstein at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival
The Weinsteins gradually based upon this accomplishment all through the 1980s with arthouse films that accomplished basic consideration and humble business achievement. Harvey Weinstein and Miramax increased more extensive consideration in 1988 with the arrival of Errol Morris' narrative The Thin Blue Line, which nitty gritty the battle of Randall Adams, a wrongfully indicted prisoner condemned to death row. The reputation that soon encompassed the case brought about Adams' discharge and across the national exposure for Miramax. In 1989, their fruitful dispatch arrival of Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape impelled Miramax to end up noticeably the best autonomous studio in America.
Likewise in 1989, Miramax discharged two arthouse films, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, and executive Pedro Almodóvar's film Tie Me Up! Secure-Me!, both of which the MPAA rating board gave an X-rating, viably ceasing across the nation discharge for these movies. Weinstein sued the MPAA over the rating framework. His claim was later tossed out, yet the MPAA presented the NC-17 rating two months later.
1990s– 2000s: Further achievement, Disney proprietorship bargain
Miramax kept on developing its library of movies and chiefs until, in 1993, after the accomplishment of The Crying Game, Disney offered the Weinsteins $80 million for responsibility for The siblings consented to the arrangement that would bond their Hollywood clout and guarantee that they would stay at the leader of their organization, and the following year Miramax discharged their first blockbuster, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, and dispersed the well known free film Clerks.
Miramax won its first Academy Award for Best Picture in 1997 with the triumph of The English Patient. (Mash Fiction was assigned in 1995 however lost to Forrest Gump). This began a string of basic victories that included Good Will Hunting (1997) and Shakespeare in Love (1998), both of which won a few honors, including various Academy Awards.
2005– 2017: The Weinstein Company
Weinstein in 2010
The Weinstein siblings left Miramax on September 30, 2005, to frame their own particular generation organization, The Weinstein Company, with a few other media officials, executives Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, and Colin Vaines, who had effectively run the creation division at Miramax for ten years. In February 2011, movie producer Michael Moore made a legitimate move against the Weinstein siblings, guaranteeing he was owed $2.7 million in benefits for his narrative Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), which he said had been denied to him by "Hollywood bookkeeping tricks". In February 2012, Moore dropped the claim for an undisclosed settlement.
Administrative style and debates
While praised for opening up the free film market and making it monetarily practical, Weinstein has been reprimanded by some for the systems he has supposedly connected in his business dealings. Dwindle Biskind's book Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film points of interest feedback of Miramax's discharge history and altering of Asian movies, for example, Shaolin Soccer, Hero, and Princess Mononoke. There is gossip that when Harvey Weinstein was accused of taking care of the U.S. arrival of Princess Mononoke, executive Hayao Miyazaki sent him a samurai sword via the post office. Appended to the cutting edge was a stark message: "No cuts." Miyazaki remarked on the episode: "Really, my maker did that. Despite the fact that I went to New York to meet this man, this Harvey Weinstein, and I was assaulted with this forceful assault, every one of these requests for cuts. I vanquished him." Weinstein has dependably demanded that such altering was done in light of a legitimate concern for making the most fiscally suitable film. "I'm not cutting for no particular reason," Harvey Weinstein said in a meeting. "I'm slicing for the poop to work. All my life I served one ace: the film. I cherish movies."
Another illustration referred to by Biskind was Phillip Noyce's The Quiet American (2002), whose discharge Weinstein deferred following the September 11 assaults attributable to a group of onlookers response in test screenings to the film's basic tone towards America's past outside approach. In the wake of being advised the film would go straight to video, Noyce intended to screen the film in Toronto International Film Festival with a specific end goal to assemble pundits to weight Miramax to discharge it dramatically. Weinstein chose to screen the film at the Festival simply after he was campaigned by star Michael Caine, who debilitated to blacklist exposure for another film he had made for Miramax. The Quiet American got for the most part positive audits at the celebration, and Miramax, in the long run, discharged the film dramatically, yet it was charged that Miramax did not endeavor to advance the film for Academy Award thought, however, Caine was designated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Weinstein has additionally developed a notoriety for savagery and attacks of outrage. As per Biskind, Weinstein once put a New York Observer columnist in a wrestling hold while arranging him out of a gathering. On another event, Weinstein abraded chief Julie Taymor and her significant other amid a difference over a test screening of her film Frida.
In a 2004 daily paper article, in New York magazine, Weinstein showed up to some degree apologetic for his regularly forceful discourses with chiefs and producers. However, a Newsweek story on October 13, 2008, scrutinized Weinstein, who was blamed for "bothering Sydney Pollack on his deathbed" about the arrival of the film The Reader. After Weinstein offered $1 million to philanthropy if the allegation could be demonstrated, columnist Nikki Finke distributed an email sent by Scott Rudin on August 22 affirming that Weinstein "bugged" Anthony Minghella's dowager and a laid up Pollack until the point that Pollack's family asked him to stop.
In September 2009, Weinstein openly voiced restriction to endeavors to remove Roman Polanski from Switzerland to the U.S. with respect to 1977 charge that he had medicated and assaulted a 13-year-old, to which Polanski had confessed before escaping the country. Weinstein, whose organization had conveyed a film about the Polanski case, addressed whether Polanski carried out any crime, provoking Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley to demand that Polanski's liable supplication showed that his activity was a wrongdoing and that few different genuine allegations were pending.
In Oscar acknowledgment discourses since 1966, Weinstein has said thanks to a sum of 34 times by performing artists and on-screen characters – similarly the same number of times as God, and second just to Steven Spielberg with 43 mentions.


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How To Maintain A Happy & Healthy Relationship With Your Partner
If you want to have a happier and healthier relationship with your spouse, there are certain things you should make sure that you're doing regularly to keep the peace, communicate, and show affection to the one you love.
Whether you've been together for a few months or a couple of decades, there are plenty of ways to make sure that you're keeping your relationship alive, healthy, and going from strength to strength. Let's take a look at a few practical, powerful ways to make this happen…
Firstly, it's important to spend at least a short bit of time together each day, even if it is only 10-20 minutes before or after work. There are times when couples may have completely different schedules based on work and other things they need to do, so spending tons of quality time together each day may be nearly impossible. Don't beat yourself up about it, but put time for just the two of you on the agenda. Dedicating a small amount of time to your partner, whether you are both eating dinner or breakfast together, is a great way to spend a bit of quality time despite busy and conflicting schedules.
Do not get into the habit of arguing over pointless things. For example, you may feel like you are the only who does any dishes at home. However, you may be the one that does most of the dishes due to the different schedules you and your partner have. While there is nothing wrong with asking for a bit more help with work around the home, it is not worth fighting over, especially if your partner is unaware of the issue in the first place.
Make sure you are always being there for your partner. Your partner is going to need your support, guidance, love, and advice throughout your marriage. You are his or her person and vice versa. When those difficult times occur throughout your relationship, depend on one another and be there for each other instead of bickering back and forth and creating more problems according to Clarity Clinic.
Do not let go of the good times. Even if you feel like the spark has died and things are not as exciting as they used to be, you should try to look back on all the fun you were able to have with your partner over the years, especially when you two started dating. Remind yourself of all the different reasons you fell in love with your partner in the beginning. You may love his or her independence, sense of humour, and kind heart.
Go on dates with your partner from time to time. Marriage does not mean that you no longer have to go on date with the one you love. If you want to keep the spark alive and have a genuinely good time with your partner, you should make sure to go out to different places, including the movies, restaurants, and even comedy shows.
Never be afraid to get into some new things. Visit new places with your partner and try out new and exciting things. You will both get to bond over trying out new activities while having a great time and making some fantastic memories.
Maintaining a happy and healthy relationship isn't always easy. But it's absolutely worth it. Which of these ideas can you start working on today?


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The 2020 Tulsa Rosary Run & Rally will be Saturday, October 17, 2020. Mark your calendars!
Below are just a few of the images from the event. A big "Thank You" to the wonderful and talented Hollie Stokes for capturing most of these beautiful images!
If you were at the event, there's probably a photo of you here!


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Music tracks in FreeSpace are determined by the music tables. Mission designers can use the Mission Specs editor (Shift-N) to set the music track that the mission will play. In-mission music is dynamic: it changes depending on in-mission events. This is the list of such events:
- Arrival of enemy ships (can be disabled for certain ships in FRED)
- Arrival of friendly ships (can be disabled for certain ships in FRED)
- Completion of mission goals (can be disabled for certain mission goals in FRED)
- Player death
- Ambient (when enemy is either not present, or are well outside firing range)
- Battle
Apart from in-mission music are briefing music tracks that are played only in command and mission briefings. They can be set in FRED through the Briefing editor (Shift-B). Briefings are limited to one track per mission; command briefings share the same track as the briefing. In FRED 2 Open, the Fiction Viewer uses its own music.
Furthermore, there are three music tracks for debriefings: "Success", "Average", and "Failure". "Success" is played if all mission objectives are met and the player is allowed to progress in the campaign. "Failure" is played if the player is not allowed to progress in the campaign. "Average" is played if the player is allowed to progress, but has not satisfied all primary and secondary objectives. Recent builds of FRED 2 Open allow mission designers to select which tracks are played under each of these three circumstances through the Debriefing editor (Shift-D). The engine had been capable of this since at least 3.6.10, but FRED 2 had yet to integrate it into its GUI.
Lastly, each main hall has its own music track. These tracks can also be used in command and mission briefings.
FreeSpace Open supports much finer control of in-game music, allowing mission designers to specifically tailor musical scores to the events and tempo of a mission. Soundtracks can now be changed during the mission when desired, and any track can also be played at any time (including briefing and mainhall tracks, or any tracks placed in the music folder). This is possible through several new SEXPs:
Retail supports only *.wav files, but FreeSpace Open also supports *.ogg files.
List of tracks
Most tracks were created by Dan Wentz, who composed the majority of the music for both FreeSpace 1 and FreeSpace 2. Some FreeSpace 1 cutscene scores were collaborations with Steven von Kampen, a composer and sound designer from Noiz Audio who was hired for the project.
FreeSpace 1
(This list is based on the FreeSpace Port version of FreeSpace 1)
Main hall music: "Choco Mousse"
- 1. "Fortress"
- 2. "March"
- 3. "Chaser"
- Small Deadly Space
- First Strike
- A Failure to Communicate
- Secret Recovery (Silent Threat expansion pack)
- 4. "Worlds Apart"
- Avenging Angels
- The Aftermath
- Reaching the Zenith
- Cloak and Dagger (Silent Threat expansion pack)
- Exodus (Silent Threat expansion pack)
- 5. "Spook"
- 6. "Haunted"
- Pandora's Box
- La Ruota della Fortuna
- Black Omega
- Ghosts (Silent Threat expansion pack)
- 7. "Marauder"
- 8. "Strike"
- 9. "Monolith"
- This soundtrack may have been specifically designed for Good Luck; see note below.
- The Pursuit (Silent Threat expansion pack)
- 10. "Darkside"
- Silence All Voices (Silent Threat expansion pack)
- Hellfire (Silent Threat expansion pack)
- Secrets Revealed (Silent Threat expansion pack)
Note: The last mission, Good Luck, has no soundtrack. However, a CD of enhanced music tracks provided by Dan Wentz implies that this track was intended to be used in Good Luck. It would have been the only standard single-player FS1 mission with this music.
FreeSpace 2
Music tracks in FreeSpace 2 are named after books of the Bible.
Main hall music tracks: "Aquitaine", "Psampik" [sic] (Terran and Vasudan main halls, respectively)
- 1. "Genesis"
- 2. "Exodus"
- 3. "Leviticus"
- 4. "Numbers"
- 5. "Deuteronomy"
- 6. "Joshua"
- 7. "Revelation"
Some music that was created for the games but not included in the game files was released to the community in a music pack. The pack included some remastered versions of game tracks, as well as several unused outtakes, cutscene scores and trailer music. The pack also contained a humorous bonus track, "Bite Me".
The pack can be downloaded from this thread on Hard Light Productions.
In early 2012, composer Dan Wentz revisited his old work, creating remixed versions of many familiar tracks from both games. The remixes were published on the internet on audio distribution website SoundCloud. Dan Wentz himself also visited the Hard Light Productions forums and created a thread entitled FreeSpace Music Remixes dedicated to the subject. The remixes remain in progress, and plans have been announced to release the remixed tracks into a format suitable for in-game use.


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earthquake tremors start
rain falls on an autumn day
the scarecrow falls down
This poem is about a person with low blood sugar. Their blood sugar has dropped dangerously low.
As this happens, the person starts to shake (earthquake tremors start) and they start to sweat (rain falls), even though they feel cool (on an autumn day). Their condition worsens, and they collapse (the scarecrow falls down).
This poem is a 5-7-5 haiku.


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Quick and reliable, as always!
I had already brought the white in this top from the store and wear it all the time, so I went online and purchased the grey. As always, the parcel turned up super quick (1.5 days later). It's a great relaxed fit and goes with almost any outfit. I love it. I love it so much that I never want to put it in the wash and usually wear it for a few days! Its currently in the wash so no pic today!


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Warning: Contains mild spoilers to Spielberg's Ready Player One
I finally saw the world's biggest movie about VR -- I'm a late viewer, ironically, because when it premiered two weeks ago, I was busy preparing for a VR-based interview with the founder of VR -- so now I can say it's totally unsurprising that Spielberg's Ready Player One is not apparently increasing consumer interest in social VR.
To put bluntly, the movie makes the notion of living a second life in a VR-based metaverse totally unappealing to nearly everyone in nearly every possible way. Some hardcore gamers may find the OASIS appealing, but maybe not even much of them: As presented in the movie, it's more or less just a full VR-enabled version of Steam, which they're already using to jump between games with their friends and fellow gamers.
For everyone else who is not a gamer -- especially those who are seeing their first depiction of the metaverse in this movie, consider how repellent the concept must be:
- The metaverse is only popular because the real world is miserable -- or as the hero Wade Watts puts it, referring to society at large, "We just gave up trying to fix things."
- You can buy real items with metaverse money, but you are also more likely to go bankrupt in the real world. Wade's aunt plunges into further poverty because her loser boyfriend, addicted to the OASIS, blows her virtual cash on a game he loses.
- You can find real work in the metaverse, but it's drudgery and near-slavery for most people. Wade's friend Aech, a 3D content creator, seems to enjoy her widely-admired freelance work in the OASIS (though it's evidently not enough to get her out of real life poverty). But for most everyone else, work in the OASIS means paying off debts by creating virtual content in the horrific Loyalty Center.
And so on. Nearly every aspect of the OASIS as presented in the movie is meant to shore up its final thesis -- that the metaverse is actually dangerous, causing its users to lose their connection to the real world. I'm not exaggerated: That's literally the closing line of the movie:
The hero regulates the OASIS so people can't use it as much as they used to, and so they're forced to get back to reality more often.
I know much from the book was significantly changed for Spielberg's adaptation, but the basic, underlying premise remains the same: The metaverse is popular because the real world is miserable. Which is why I'm surprised so many people in the VR/MMO industry are fans of the book, and tout it as a model for the future of social VR -- or even use it in their elevator pitches. ("It's like that dystopic future that make you laugh and shudder a little, but for real life!")
All of which is to say we need a new analogy for social VR, one that's just as engaging as those we have now, but don't depend on the material world falling into disrepair all around it. (Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash, from where the term originated, is just as problematic a reference point, if not more so.)
I've brought this up to many VR leaders, and their answers suggest there's much more to talk about.
For instance, here's what Oculus chief scientist Michael Abrash told me a few years ago, when I asked him, "Why does building the metaverse inspire you -- particularly when, in Neal's book, the metaverse is a place people escape to because the real world's in so much trouble?" His reply:
"I don't see any contradiction between that and the fact that the real world's a mess in Snow Crash - the Metaverse didn't cause the world the be a mess in the book, and doesn't it seem like a good thing that people have a place to escape to? The world's a mess in Ready Player One too - but in both cases, that's because novels have to be interesting, not because it's integral to the concept of a shared virtual world. In Rainbows End, the world isn't really any more of a mess than it is now; in fact, arguably better -- although maybe it's relevant that the virtual world is overlaid on the real world in that case, not separate."
So Rainbows End from 2006 is one plausible alternative, but seeing as it didn't grab the public as much Snowcrash or Ready, we may need another. Abrash, by the way, also told me "building the Metaverse is not my personal specific goal with VR", but when he joined Oculus, the official announcement still read, "The Path to the Metaverse". Try as we might, our old, imperfect analogies aren't yet going away.


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The Ministry for the Environment, the Ministry of Fisheries and the Department of Conservation commissioned the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) to develop environmental classifications covering both New Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone and the Hauraki Gulf region collectively known as the Marine Environment Classification (MEC). The Ministry for the Environment was the lead agency responsible for coordinating the development of the classification. The purpose of these classifications is to provide spatial frameworks for structured and systematic management by subdividing the geographic domain into units having similar environmental and biological character.
Development of the Marine Environment Classification occurred in six specific phases over a four-year period from 2000 to 2004. The details of each of these phases have been fully documented in a number of reports that are listed in the references section of this report. The purpose of this report is to summarise those development phases in sufficient detail to provide future users of the Marine Environment Classification with a single source of documentation for it. The report overviews the development process, discusses the results of testing of the classification and describes the physical and biological characteristics of classes that are defined by the classifications.
The Marine Environment Classification has been defined using multivariate clustering of several spatially explicit data layers that describe the physical environment. This produces a classification that is hierarchal, enabling the user to delineate environmental variation at different levels of detail and a range of associated spatial scales. A physically based classification was chosen because data were available or could be modelled and because environmental pattern is a reasonable surrogate for biological pattern, particularly at larger spatial scales. Large biological datasets were used to tune the classification so that the physically based classes maximise discrimination of variation in biological composition at various levels of classification detail. The classification has not been optimised for a specific ecosystem component (e.g. fish communities or individual species) but has sought to provide a general classification that has relevance to a broad range of biological groups.
The Marine Environment Classification was developed at two levels of spatial resolution. First a broad scale classification was developed for the entire EEZ, covering the area below the mean high water line (but not including estuaries) from approximately 25 to 58 degrees South and 158 degrees East to 172 degrees West. This classification has a nominal spatial resolution of 1 km, allowing mapping at scales of 1:4,000,000 and above. While the classification can be mapped at finer scales, the 'grain' of the underlying data will become increasingly prominent as the scale is increased. A second classification was developed for the Hauraki Gulf region. This region encompasses waters below the mean high water line (but not including estuaries) and within a line drawn eastward from Bream Head (approximately 36 degrees South) to meet a line drawn from south to north and intersecting Cape Barrier on Great Barrier Island (approximately 176 degrees East). This classification has a nominal spatial resolution of 200 m (i.e. consistent with a maximum map scale of 1:250,000). The purpose of this regional classification was to assess the feasibility of producing higher resolution inshore classifications relevant to the more intensive management issues that frequently occur there.
Statistical tests determined that the Marine Environment Classification classes are biologically distinctive. Thus, the classifications provide managers with useful spatial frameworks for broad scale environmental and conservation management. However the full utility, and indeed limitations of the classifications will only become clear as the classifications are applied to management issues.
At the conclusion of this four-year development project the steering group was satisfied that the Marine Environment Classification provides a useful broad-scale classification of biotic and physical patterns in New Zealand's marine environments and supported its use as a spatial framework for analysis and management of marine conservation and resource management issues. It is important to recognise that a spatial framework is a tool to organise data, analyses and ideas and is only a component of the information that would be employed in any analysis. The steering group considered that the development of the Marine Environment Classification should now move into a phase where it is tested by application to management issues.


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Fairy Maze
You're a fairy and you help kids all the time. This time a very special kid asked for your help and you're on your way to his house. But something is wrong, it's dark and the gardens you need to pass are full of gnomes and statues! Memorize your path before it gets dark and reach the exit to help the kid!


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DERBY LINE — Looking for away to celebrate the season and start your holiday with a laugh and a song? Look no further than QNEK Productions original Bingle Jells.
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Conceived by Lynn Leimer, Bingle Jells takes audiences on a journey to an alternate universe North Pole, featuring a cast of elves singing, dancing, and romancing their way through the night.
Will Mrs. Claus be swept off her feet by Elvish Presley? Will one of the elves tap dance right off the stage? Will Santa be able to make all of his deliveries or will the flirtatious singing elves distract him? There's only one way to find out, so join QNEK for this delightful and delirious show.
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One always hears about the magic of Disney and sometimes it is readily apparent to the naked eye while there are times when one has to look for it. In Christopher Robin, it is plainly evident from the first scene to the last, a love letter to Winnie the Pooh and its creators A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard.
For those that are younger in age and still have that wonder of youth and innocence about them, the movie is sure to delight with perfect depictions of the characters that live in the Hundred Acre Wood, those being Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Owl. For those that are a little older in years, the film is like watching a fondly remembered act out of each person's life, one that they had left behind long ago except in this case, that being the life of Christopher Robin, he gets a chance to rediscover the wonder that he lost all those millions of years ago. Viewers would think that he would have all that he needed with a wife and daughter, a treasure worth more than all the world, but it would seem that a piece would go missing over time, one he would not even notice. So it is that it takes an old friend from the past, one Pooh for short, to reignite the spark and essentially bring Christopher back to life.
All the hallmarks of a good Disney film are present – friendship and love, something lost and something found, a quest, a hero and a villain, a lesson learned and a happy ending. It might seem a little paint-by-numbers at times, but one cannot help but be enchanted by all that they see upon the big screen, especially the childhood friends of the little boy grown up, who were brought to vivid life by those at Framestore and Method Studios. They hearken back to the animated Disney movies of the past, but given a new lease in film and though things have changed and Christopher Robin is now a man and not a boy, that magic is still there like it was just waiting to be rediscovered by a new generation, which it definitely was.
As for the cast, Ewan McGregor does a great job portraying the work-fraught husband and father, a man that is focused upon grown-up things with little worry for anything else, though he knows and recognises that those around him are hurting. When he finally starts to come out of his shell thanks to his childhood friend Pooh, he does so with just the right amount of confusion and awe, trying to balance that which is real and that which cannot be. Hayley Atwell fills the role of wife and mother well, lending just the right amount of charm to the role, though there is really little for her to do in the grand scheme of things while Bronte Carmichael who plays Madeline, daughter of Christopher and Evelyn, is also quite good in what little screen time she gets.
If there is one thing that the movie leaves the audience with, it is a smile upon their face at seeing old friends reunited and the knowledge that when a person grows up and now has to lead a life with adult responsibilities, they do not have to leave all that they were behind but can take it with them for the whole of their lives and forever be young at heart. Altogether, Christopher Robin is a true Disney classic in every sense of the word, a film well-worth visiting over and over again.
5 out of 5
Categories: Drama, Movies and Film


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I've fallen in love with Shannon and Suzette's skill from the very first time I visited UpSa Daisy salon about two years ago. This was the time I was having portrait sessions taken before my Wedding and needed some cute updo's and pretty makeup. Now, these are my go-to girls whenever I need to look my best!! They did the hair and makeup for my Wedding day and just recently for my brother and sis-in-laws Wedding last month as well. It's always so nice when I show up to photograph prep on a Wedding day and I see these two girls! Lots of my brides have booked them recently and I couldn't be happier. They have a natural hand at just accentuating beauty without being over the top.
So Shannon, the owner of UpSa Daisy contacted me about doing a session of the entire salon. I couldn't be more proud of her and her staff. She has accomplished so much at such a young age. What a beautiful representation of women business owners! Shannon and the girls had some ideas for their shoot. They wanted something indoors, something glam, and an atmosphere that reflected the Salon.
We headed to the International House downtown and took these! Thank you to my sister in law Jennifer for helping me with posing and lighting that afternoon. Couldn't have done it without her- this was a big group!!! Double dose of Jen Amato that day, HAHA!
Here are some of my favs from their shoot. A little different than my normal photography, but its always nice to step out of my comfort zone!!! We did a mix of group shots and then head shots of each one of the girls! And of course we always need a mix of smiling, serious and laughing photos :)
LOVE!!!So fierce.. huh!!? BEAUTIFUL GIRLS!!!!!!Time for head shots!!Shannon and Suzette…. SISTERS!! Love em!This picture gave me goosebumps while editing. What a group of girls, huh? How amazing is it that they all get to work together at the Salon. So full of life, style and attitude!! Love this pic!!


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Technology in District #61
Sep 07, 2017 10:54AM
By Ben Scott
By Jen Pena and Michele Goshko,
Technology Educators
District 61 anxiously began the start of the 2017-18 school year with each student in grades three and six being issued an Acer Chromebook to use during the school day and at home. The thin, lightweight Chromebooks use Internet-based programs instead of traditional computer software. The District introduced this model of chromebook at Lace School and Eisenhower Junior High School three years ago in a shared cart environment. The Chromebook carts have become an extremely popular instructional tool with teachers and students. This past year, the second grade students at Mark DeLay School began using a touch screen version of Chromebooks adding to our Chromebook fleet. District 61 teachers have been immersed in Google tools and Chromebooks for over three years now and are more than ready to take on the challenge of a 1:1 classroom setting and the increase of shared cart availability. The term 1:1 translates to one laptop per child. The district three-year technology plan is to have a ratio of 1:1 in grades three through eight and a 2:1 in grades K-2.
The District Technology team presented a three-year plan to the Board of Education beginning in April of 2016 proposing a tiered rollout approach leading to a 1:1 implementation. Each year for the next three years, the students in grades three and six will receive a Chromebook and protective stay-in bag. By the end of the 2019-2020 school year, all students in grades three through eight will have a Chromebook for use at school and at home. The students will turn in their devices each summer.
This learning approach is not about the technology. It is about enhancing the teaching and learning experience for our students. This opportunity provides teachers and students flexibility, individualized learning choices, and personalization. Combining these elements, we have the potential to yield increased student motivation, performance, efficiency, and effectiveness. The District is very excited to offer this kind of learning environment to our students.
The Chromebook uses the Chrome operating system allowing seamless integration with Google tools and accounts. Each student has a district issued Google account they will use for organizing their schoolwork, collaborating and communicating with their peers and teacher in real time, and creating projects.
The District teachers have been preparing for this initiative. Teachers have been encouraged to complete training and take an exam to become Google Certified Educators. Many staff members have taken advantage of this professional development opportunity and now have a Google Certified Educator endorsement.
Parents will had the opportunity to learn more about this initiative at an informational meeting held on August 23, at 7 PM in the EJH commons. Guidelines, release forms, and instructional videos were shared along with a chance to meet the tech team. Parents will also have a 1:1 web portal as a resource for all things Chromebook in the district.
Jen Pena and Michele Goshko are District 61 Technology Educators


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Raise a dram to Scotland on World Whisky Day on May 18
To celebrate World Whisky Day, on 18 May, VisitScotland is inviting all to raise a dram and discover more about Scotch whisky, Scotland's national drink and biggest export!
The practice of distilling whisky has been lovingly perfected throughout Scotland for centuries and began as a way of turning rain-soaked barley into a drinkable spirit, using the fresh water from Scotland's crystal-clear springs and streams.Looking towards 2020, as Scotland's Year of Coasts and Waters, it's not surprising thatwhisky will play a starring role alongside Scotland's fresh seafood, stunning islands, and rugged coastlines.
Today there are some 148 distilleries across Scotland, each producing wonderfully distinct whisky, dependent on everything from the source of the water to the wood of the cask. Paying a visit to a distillery lets you discover more about the environment and the people who shape the taste of the whisky you enjoy.
According to the Scotch Whisky Association, in 2018, the export value of Scotch whisky grew +7.8% by value, to a record £4.70bn. The number of 70cl bottles exported also reached record levels growing to the equivalent of 1.28bn. So why not come to Scotland and experience for yourself?
An important part of Scotland's heritage, whisky can be celebrated all year round with a host of events and openings across the country for whisky fans to enjoy.
Celebrate whisky at the following annual festivals…
Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival | 1-6 May | Aberdeenshire
Join whisky lovers from far and wide in Speyside for a unique whisky festival. The Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival is filled with special behind-the-scenes distillery tours, whisky and food pairings, whisky tours by train, whisky-themed walks and more, held across a huge range of iconic distilleries and local venues throughout the Speyside region.
Stirling Whisky Festival | 10-11 May | Stirling
Returning for its seventh year, this little festival has gone from strength to strength attracting most of top distilleries from across Scotland. Attendees will have access to over 100 malts, gaining first-hand knowledge from the makers themselves. Taking place in the iconic and historic city of Stirling, the festival's backdrop features the famous Stirling Castle which looms over head.
The Highland Whisky Festival | 10-17 May | Scottish Highlands
The Highland Whisky Festival is a brand-new whisky festival which celebrates the established Highland Whisky Trail. Taking place from 10 to 17 May, the Highland Whisky Festival is a celebration of the region's finest distilleries on the North Coast 500 route. Glenmorangie, Old Pulteney, The Dalmore, The Singleton of Glen Ord and Tomatin will each host visitors from around the world, showcasing their centuries of tradition, process and craft through exclusive tastings, tours and events.
World Whisky Day| 18 May | Global
World Whisky Day, first created by Scot student Blair Bowman, will see events take place from as far as Australia, China, and Columbia –and all paying tribute to one of Scotland's best exports.
Edinburgh Whisky Stramash | 18-19 May | Edinburgh
The Edinburgh Stramash has the ideology that whisky is for everyone. Visitors will have over 100 different whiskies from around the world to sample and a number of participatory "experiences" to get involved in. Wonderful food and tastings, all within one of the most iconic cities.
Experience the home of whisky…h
Scotch Whisky Experience | Edinburgh
Take a sensational whisky barrel ride through a replica distillery before your expert guide imparts the secrets of the whisky regions. Finally, you'll choose your perfect 'dram', and taste it in The World's Largest Whisky Collection.
Speyside Malt Whisky Trail | Aberdeenshire
Speyside is home to more than half of Scotland's distilleries, all situated amid beautiful coastline or amongst historical towns and villages. The likes of Benromach, Glenfiddich, and Glenlivet all reside within Speyside, making it the world's premium whisky making region! Visitors can also see the award-winning Speyside Cooperage in Craigellachie which provides the opportunity to view highly-skilled coopers practising their ancient craft.
Hebridean Whisky Trail | The Outer Hebrides
Explore the Spirit of the Isles with the brand new Hebridean Whisky Trail. Embark on a whisky tour by road and sea against the stunning backdrop of the Scottish Hebrides along the Atlantic coast. Discover the stories and the communities behind the whiskies as well as the histories and the landscapes that have influenced their productions.
Unmissable distilleries…
The Macallan Distillery | Aberdeenshire
The Macallan Distillery recently opened its doors to reveal a brand-new visitor experience and distillery, costing £140 million. The new distillery sits in the breath-taking north-east of Scotland, above the river Speyin the middle of the Easter Elchies House estate. The distillery, which is designed to reflect the surrounding landscape, offers visitors the chance to learn more about the whisky which was founded in 1824.
Glenmorangie Distillery|Scottish Highlands
Based in the Highlands, north of Inverness, Glenmorangie has been distilling whisky since 1843. The distillery has the tallest stills in Scotland, which were erected under the founder, William Matheson. With a wide range of whiskies to choose between, from the Glenmorangie Original to the exclusive Glenmorangie Signet, there is a dram to suit every taste. The tour allows visitors to see the warehouses and distillery, providing an insight into every stage of the process.
Bruichladdich Distillery | Isle of Islay
Bruichladdich Distillery was built in 1881 and was the last distillery to be built on Islay. It has structurally remained very much the same since then and some of the original equipment is still in use today. Bruichladdich are passionate about the ancient art of distilling, but believe that the past should not stand in the way of progress and innovation. Come to Bruichladdich for a whisky with real character.
Glengoyne Distillery | Killearn, Glasgow
Glengoyne Distillery, close to Loch Lomond, is open for tours year-round. The spectacular Sample Room allows visitors to take their whisky knowledge to new levels. After the fascinating tour you can even create your own, personalised bottle of malt whisky. Fill your own bottle from one of the casks and cork it yourself, completing the unique souvenir with a label that features your signature and the bottle number – a truly memorable whisky experience.
New distilleries…
Clutha Distillery | Glasgow
Opening autumn 2019
A new £10.7 million urban Whisky distillery and bottling complex is to be built on the banks of the River Clyde in the heart of Glasgow. The ambitious and innovative project is being masterminded by one of the country's fastest growing Scotch Whisky firms, Douglas Laing & Co. The 'Clutha Distillery', 'Clutha', meaning Clyde in Gaelic, reflects both the company's heritage and the location of the new distillery which will sit on the banks of the River Clyde in the heart of the city.
Holyrood Distillery | Edinburgh
Opening Summer 2019
Situated next to Holyrood Park, this city centre distillery will be located right in the heart of Edinburgh's distilling history, on St. Leonard's Lane. The 180-year-old Engine Shed building, steeped in railway history, will be thoughtfully renovated to suit the distilling needs, while making room for the visitors. Under the guidance of Head Distiller, Jack Mayo, the distillery will produce a range of single malts, gins, liqueurs and other spirits. Holyrood's progressive approach to playing with flavours, ingredients, distilling processes and maturation will set it apart.
Lagg Distillery | Isle of Arran
Opening Summer 2019
A brand new Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery will be opening on the Isle of Arran on the West Coast of Scotland. The new distillery is located near the village of Lagg, an area that was a hotbed of whisky production in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Lagg Single Malt will be heavily-peated in a style reminiscent of the original Arran whiskies, but none will be sold for the first 10 years of production. The distillery will open in summer 2019 along with a brand-new visitor centre.


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Kalloni Bay Hotel, Lesvos, Greece
Top 15 Species
|Kruper's NuthatchSitta krueperi
|All Year
|Cinereous BuntingEmberiza cineracea
|Sombre TitPoecile lugubris
|Cretzschmar's BuntingEmberiza caesia
|Middle Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos medius
|All Year
|Greater FlamingoPhoenicopterus roseus
|All Year
|European Bee-EaterMerops apiaster
|Little BitternIxobrychus minutus
|Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
|Western Rock NuthatchSitta neumayer
|All Year
|Olive-tree WarblerHippolais olivetorum
|Red-footed FalconFalco vespertinus
|Rufous-tailed Scrub RobinCercotrichas galactotes
|Spur-thighed TortoiseTestudo graeca
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|Long-eared OwlAsio otus
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Kalloni Bay Hotel
KALLONI BAY HOTEL is situated directly alongside the sandy beach that borders the Bay of Kalloni and is within a few minutes walk of the picturesque fishing village of Skala Kallonis. KALLONI BAY HOTEL was one of the first hotels in the region and it is still considered by many regular guests to be one of the most attractive hotels in the area due to its prime location and architecture.
KALLONI BAY HOTEL was built in Aegean style and is surrounded by a beautiful mixture of horticultural and natural landscape. KALLONI BAY HOTEL comprises of 53 en-suite rooms with simple, tasteful decor. Half of the rooms have a sea view, the other rooms look inland toward wooded hills and offer an attractive view of the island landscape, especially during sunset.
Walk to the fabulous sandy beach which is only a stone's throw away, or relax around the large swimming pool. From the pool's slightly elevated position you can admire the glorious play of the sea's colours and listen to the Aegean wind «Meltemi». Your children, meanwhile, will have fun in their own special children's pool. Go horseback riding, snorkelling, take a ride on a mountain-bike or go for a run later in the afternoon as the temperature allows for more comfortable activity. Alternatively, you might just want to hang-out and relax in the garden, or on your balcony while reading a good book.
Whatever you desire, you will soon understand the Greeks' mythical relationship with their islands and to the sea.
As well as sea views, KALLONI BAY HOTEL overlooks «Kalloni Pool», a small bird sanctuary (Natura 2000) were the constant comings and goings of birds provide a visual delight.
Ornithologists from all over the world have come to appreciate the bird life on the Kalloni Pool, straight in front of the hotel. In spring it is coloured luscious green and in summer it changes to strong ochre. Looking beyond the sanctuary, the skyline is dominated by the impressive 3000 feet high Mount Olympus in the distance. In the evening after dinner take a sundowner at the bar or by the pool or stroll through the vibrant Skala Kallonis.
The Wetland of Kallonis Gulf is one of the most significant parts of the ecologic assets of Lesvos. The coastal areas that stretch perimetrically to Kallonis Gulf consist a unified ecologic system, as this area is consisted of a mosaic of salt-pans, small rivers and estuaries, reedy-areas, pine-trees woods and olive groves.
So all these wetlands give natural shelter and become an ideal place for the reproduction of numerous rare and protected species, Particularly the wetland includes the whole coastal area of the Gulf and a great number of terrestrial areas:
The salt-pans of Kallonis and Polichnitos, the rivers Tsikneas, Vouvaris, Mylopotamos, Enea Kamares, Potamea, the lagoon of Meson, the marsh of Skala Kallonis, of Parakela, Nyphidas etc. These areas have been placed among the European Program "Special Areas of Nature's Preservation" of the net NATURA 2000.
In the last years, the activity of bird-watching at these particular wetlands has flourished. The best season for this activity is in spring or in autumn. It is an activity adored by many visitors-naturists - and this number is going to increase as a program of development is going to establish in the area all the necessary amenities including (installation of organized observatories, establishment of Environmental Information Center etc). Species like Stone-curlew, Avocet, Black-headed Bunting, White and Black Stork, Greater Flamingos, Little Egret, Grey Heron, Ruddy Shelduck, European Bee-eater, etc all inhabit this area.
The Orchids of Lesvos make for a great distraction for the birdwatcher, especially during the middle of the day if it's hot, and a fantastic holiday for the botanist.
There a number of particularly beautiful flowers on the island, including the very rare Himantoglossum comperianum (Komper's Orchid), although our particular favourite is Platanthera holmboei (Holmboei's Butterfly Orchid)
It's great fun finding them and for those like us, more fun trying to separate some of the species, especially the Ophrys family! Our advice is unless you're absolutely sure, take a photo just in case.


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BERKELEY — With stints at IBM, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Oracle (ORCL), James Kao is a tech guy to the core.
But what started out as a career of finding ways to sell new technology to consumers took a drastic shift in 2002 when he saw a PBS special on the toxic potential of electronic trash.
"I remember watching it and thinking, 'All these technology companies are turning out all these products as fast as they can, but no one is coming up with a solution on how to dispose of them,' " he said. "It was a real eye-opener for me."
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 2 million tons of electronics are tossed each year, with less than 20 percent being recycled. The rest typically ends up in landfills, the EPA says.
After extensive research on the problem, Kao started GreenCitizen in 2005 and opened his first electronic waste recycling center in Palo Alto.
In April, Kao opened up a Berkeley location — his fourth — along with the original one in Palo Alto, as well as sites in Burlingame and San Francisco.
His company currently brings in about $1.5 million in annual revenue and expects about 60 percent growth next year.
Kao, who lives in Burlingame, acknowledges there are other electronic waste recycling options, such as collection days hosted by schools or organizations.
As a result, he focuses on two areas in which he thinks he has an advantage over those other alternatives.
Each of his locations is staffed by an employee with a degree in environmental science. Kao says his company not only recycles its customers' products but tries to educate them about the issue of toxic electronic waste.
In addition, many of the larger items such as monitors, laptop computers and television sets are tracked to confirm that the products don't end up overseas or in landfills.
Recyclable parts are stripped out and forwarded to a company that can reuse them. Toxic material is sent to an EPA-approved waste-handling company.
Marissa LaMagna, founder of the nonprofit group Bay Area Green Tours, has taken several groups by the new Berkeley site and says they leave impressed.
"They are taking great responsibility in making the opportunity to recycle easy and accessible," she said.
For people who walk into the stores, only those that need hard-disk destruction or data erased pay fees. Also, if anyone has more than 20 large items to recycle, GreenCitizen will pick it up for free.
GreenCitizen generates its revenue from several sources, including computer repairs, renting recycling kiosks to business tenants and monthly fees charged to building owners.
When asked why he didn't set up GreenCitizen as a nonprofit organization, Kao says he's a believer in free enterprise and sees nothing wrong with making money at what he does.
"If you can create millionaires by selling french fries, why can't we create millionaires by creating a good thing?" Kao said.
Robert DeGenova works for GIC Real Estate, which has locations in San Francisco and Redwood City.
Because his company deals with often-sensitive real estate deals, finding a company that has strict guidelines on hard-drive destruction is very important.
"They were very responsive as they brought the hard-drive destruction equipment on site and I was able to watch them destroy each one," DeGenova said. "They made sure they talked to us about how the process was done, and even videotaped it so our IT people could see what was happening."
In the next two years, Kao hopes to open a second location in the East Bay and one in San Jose.
His long-term hope is to take his business model across the country.
"We see ourselves as professional recyclers trying to make a difference," he said.
Contact David Morrill at 925-977-8534.
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|27th Jan 2019, 1:01 pm
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Here is my completed radio. It is not perfect because there is some squeal/ motorboating around 900 kHz which I can't seem to get rid of, but then my signal generator is fixed at 455 kHz and the radio's IF is 465 kHz, so that might be the cause.
Overall I'm still quite happy with it and this set will probably outperform many portable AM radios on the market due to the low noise floor and very good sensitivity.
|27th Jan 2019, 5:04 pm
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Reading through this whole thread is a reminder that when building any superhet radio, be it a kit or a self designed one, when it is completed, all parts of the system need to be tested & checked.
Firstly the supply current to the audio & driver stages and the whole radio. At least one check with a 1kHz sine wave and audio into a dummy load, to check that the audio stages are basically distortion free and have around the correct output level.
Then a sweep of the IF (ideally with a signal generator and scope) to ensure the IF is stable, has about the correct bandwidth & gain.(if not the bypass and grounding arrangements and AGC system checked and modified if required) Then a check of the local oscillator level and frequency range. Then an overall radio sensitivity check.
There are a lot of variables which could sabotage the operation and performance of the radio kit, so these checks, on a newly built unit, are definitely required. If they are not done you end up with all the reports of bad performance or failure to operate, many a case it will just be one unsuitable part or component or something simple. Without the systematic tests, the faults will remain unsolved and elusive. A lot of the time you can "get lucky" and everything will appear to be ok first pop, but as shown by the remarks on this thread, it is a bit hit & miss.
|27th Jan 2019, 11:04 pm
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Mines all sorted as well, for some reason the 9018g that was used as the detector diode wouldnt detect unless it was prompted with my signal generator. I tried a silicon diode in place of it but that wouldnt work so I tried a BC377 and that worked fine. One of the electrolytic caps tested awful so I stuck one of my own in. Took quite a while to get all the stations to come in and to get them in their right places on the dial but its done and its picking up everything very well now including Absolute (fading in and out)whose transmitters were turned off near me a while back now. For less than a fiver delivered its been a good learning curve. 5 mins with a meter or a tester, testing components are in spec is recommended prior to installation of components.
|29th Jan 2019, 8:24 pm
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I built mine a few months ago and it was dead. I think the output transformer was defective. So I tossed it away.
Then I bought another more expensive and bigger superhet kit (about £16)from a Ham dealer in Thailand. It worked right away although there were a number of errors in the thai/English instruction and over current problem.
I ordered two weeks ago the same £5 Chinese superhet kit for the second time from a different dealer. This time it arrived quick and it has much clear and better instruction. I intend to use the oscillator and IF cans for IC NE612AN mixer/oscillator experiment.
I have also bought the Chinese 2P3 kit for £20. It is a very nice kit with very good instruction. Well-worth the money.
|13th Feb 2019, 3:52 pm
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I decided to have a go at making one of these radios, bought from a Singapore site as it was under £5 including postage and arrived quite quickly. It went together reasonably well, the red plastic aerial ferrite holder needed one screw hole countersinking as the screw wouldnt go into the tuner even after the edge was bevelled as it was hitting a couple of the solder joints and wouldnt lay flat. I tried a diode instead of the 9018G transistor as the detector, a BA219 as it was the only one I had, a 1N916 should also work here. Because the agc is taken from the anode of the diode via the last IF secondary the cathode connects to the volume control end, unlike a conventional pocket radio with npn transistors where the cathode connects to the last IF transformer.
The radio has only been temporary put together along with a temporary speaker to try it, and it worked straight away. Only the oscillator trimmer, the one nearest the edge of the case on the tuner, needed some adjustment to get the stations in roughly the right place, this will be improved once the dial is fitted. It still needs some final putting together but I am tempted to leave the speaker as it sounds very good, it was quite a revelation as I wasnt really expecting it to work all that well if at all. The quiescent current is around 20mA so would like to get this down a bit, possibly a larger value of base bias resistor or the output transistors emitter resistor added.
The 9018G transistors give plenty of gain in the IF stage, the IF transformers are spot on. The only components I used from my own parts was a 100uF capacitor instead of the one of the two supplied, and the 0.01uF mixer input coupling capacitor as, like others here, it was the only part missing. Orange sleeving was used on the resistor leads but they are so thin the sleeving wouldnt go around the curved part. The gaps in the printed board for current measuring had wire from the offcuts soldered across rather than just solder to bridge them.
|13th Feb 2019, 8:45 pm
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I had trouble with the ferrite/tuning cap mount, mine was cured with the stanley knife, also the vol wheel kept coming loose but a blob of nail varnish seems to have stopped that. Whilst I'm fairly happy with mine I find that small pocket radios are terrible for listening to music on.
regards poppydog
|13th Feb 2019, 9:38 pm
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|15th Feb 2019, 6:29 pm
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Finished the radio, a piece of white gauze was dyed black with printing ink, and after drying put in front of speaker to make a grill instead of leaving the speaker cone exposed. The wires are all to long so these might be shorted. The aerial ferrite is held in place with a piece of sticky tape, the speaker needs this or glue.
|15th Feb 2019, 9:40 pm
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The speaker cone protection is a very good idea. I might do this myself with some very light black fabric I have lying around. We sometimes forget that dust, humidity and smoke can eventually ruin our prized electronic possessions.
|21st Mar 2019, 4:33 pm
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Re: More Chinese AM radio kits
Having followed this thread with interest, I decided to take up the challenge and order a HX108-2 kit. Once the kit arrived my first action was to test every component and record the various measurements.
The doubtful components were the capacitors as others have found the electrolytics all had ESRs which were a little high, and the disc ceramics were out of spec, even applying the worst case tolerance of +80% -20%. I sourced suitable replacements from my stock.
The supplied transistors were 4x 9018G and 3x9013H, so no 9018H for V3, V4 and V5, again something which others seemed to have experienced. However the gain figure for the transistors was within that specified, so I decided to use them in the kit, using the highest gain 9018G for V1, and close matched 9013H's for the output pair V6 and V7. The diodes are all 1N4148 as supplied, and tested ok.
The oscillator and IF transformers all showed continuity and reasonable inductance measurements, and the Chinese letters on the schematic translated as B2 Red, B3 Yellow, B4 White, and B5 Black.
All resistors supplied were within the ±5% tolerance.
The audio transformers were identified as Driver Green, and Output Yellow, and primary and secondary windings checked for continuity both measured ok.
The kit went together well and once completed was powered and tested with a DMM across the five bridging points. All measurements agreed with the values shown on the schematic. The bridging points were then soldered with a wire link, and everything assembled into the case.
Switch-on resulted in a speaker hiss and tuning brought in a few stations. The frequency was a little high against the tuning scale, but adjustment of the ferrite rod antenna/coupling coil position, trimmer capacitors and oscillator transformer corrected that. The IF transformers were peaked for maximum audio output. I was surprised by the level of audio output - given a 3 volt supply voltage, and the sound quality was very acceptable from the tiny loudspeaker. Altogether very pleasing for a £5 investment.
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|29th Mar 2019, 3:05 pm
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Location: Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK.
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For the last year or so I've been steadily working my way through these cheap Chinese kits. At the moment my collection consists of:
FM Alarm Clock Radio with LCD display. Works OK except very tricky to tune without distortion due to stiff tuning knob. Frequency indication is almost correct. Clock keeps good time.
ZX921. If it wasn't for the whistling, howling and motorboating this might actually be a good sensitive radio. Once tuned in, volume level and sound quality is very acceptable.
HX108-2. Have built two of these. With the first one I messed up and got an output transistor the wrong way round which explained the awful distortion. After correcting my mistake the sound quality was no better so maybe the transistor was fried. The second one had a damaged speaker so I swapped it with the other one. Works quite well but sound quality still not great.
S66E. Have built three but only paid for one (long story). All work surprisingly well and sound is better than expected from the plastic speaker. Headphone socket is a bonus although the hole in the case doesn't line up with the PCB. As an experiment I built one of them with closer tolerance resistors and caps. Result: no noticeable difference.
210SP 'Paeansonic'. Good FM performance but AM very weak. Stiff tuning due to the horrible dial pointer method. Locks onto FM stations well, clean, clear sound from the tiny plastic speaker. Awkward to tweak as the batteries come out when you take the back off.
ZX2051. As with the 210SP, good FM performance but weak AM. LED tuning indicator actually works. The real speaker gives it an advantage.
ZX620 AM/FM in an ugly yellow case. The actual radio I received from Banggood was the AM/SW version ZX623 and got a full refund. SW is one band 15M, not very useful. AM performance is excellent as is the sound quality from the 'large' real speaker. I can quite happily live with this one, just a shame that's there's no FM. It appears that the ZX620 is no longer available.
Next on my list is the multiband EDT-2902 which could possible be a bit of a challenge.
|30th Mar 2019, 8:04 pm
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Location: Hull, East Yorkshire, UK.
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I have seen the ZX62X advertised that mentioned SW, thus being ZX623. Yet the image with the listing still showed the ZX620 FM version. I thought there was a typo and the listing was for FM/MW.
After all it does not seem like the SW band would be that useful.
|31st Mar 2019, 3:24 am
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One EDT-2902 now ordered. Thanks for the tip-off!
I do love these kits; I get my money's worth in the entertainment of building them, regardless of how they turn out.
|1st Apr 2019, 8:31 am
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There seems to be confusion amongst the sellers of these radios. Only Aliexpress has got it right as they are listing the ZX623 and the 620 as unavailable.
|4th Apr 2019, 11:34 am
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Location: Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK.
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Re: More Chinese AM radio kits
I just couldn't live with the ZX623's ugly and cheap looking yellow case so I decided to paint it black. Looks a lot better.
Assembly gave me a couple of problems. There's no indication which way round the tuning capacitor goes and I got it wrong. All the stations were reversed if that's the right word. Anyway, all the stations at the high end of the dial were at the low end and vice versa. I devil to desolder and make good.
The bracket for the ferrite rod has to be mounted under the tuning cap on the component side but I found the leads were then too short to solder. In the end I cut the bracket down and glued it to the PCB.
|12th Apr 2019, 11:30 am
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Location: Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK.
Posts: 24
Re: More Chinese AM radio kits
Another kit to add to the collection, the RW08-7B, one I haven't seen before.
The circuit looks like the HX108-2 but the addition of a headphone socket and power LED.
The case is similar to the ZX2051 with the batteries side by side rather than either side of the speaker.
|13th Apr 2019, 4:15 pm
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Cork, Ireland
Posts: 82
Re: More Chinese AM radio kits
realign to shift the IF up a bit ( or back up to 465 ? ) would at least clear it of BBC on 909kHz which I assume is being affected!
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|14th Apr 2019, 8:08 am
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Re: More Chinese AM radio kits
You will notice stages V2 and V5 with grounded emitters and base bias resistor to the power rail. Their circuit function and the collector currents are very dependent on the hfe of individual transistors that varies wildly among specimens. So the radio would work ok with transistors with just the right hfe, but if its too low or high then radio will not work or malfunction.
|29th Apr 2019, 1:41 pm
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Location: Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK.
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Re: More Chinese AM radio kits
I've now completed the RW08-7B and am happy to report that its performance is very satisfactory. Good sensitivity, pulls in distant BBC local radio stations during the daytime such as BBC Radio Derby which is about 35 miles from my location.
Sound quality is acceptable despite some minor shipping damage to the speaker.
|30th Apr 2019, 5:49 pm
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: Durness, Sutherland, UK.
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Re: More Chinese AM radio kits
Great thread. Just ordered a HX-6B and a X-921, I wish the boat from China wasn't so slow...
Has anyone come across a long-wave kit?
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"The genomics industry is no longer just about clinical precautions and general health. It's quickly touching all areas of our lives, from family planning, to nutrition, to ancestry," Helix CEO Robin Thurston said in a statement. "We're building a powerful platform for DNA discovery that enables anyone to connect with relevant, personalized applications from well-known consumer brands, trusted healthcare providers, innovative developers, and everything in between."
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The partnership with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai marks the company's entrée into healthcare in ways that put it on a new level unlike competitors like 23andMe. The first Mount Sinai application on the Helix platform will be only be available with a clinician's approval, and will allow prospective parents to learn about their risks of potentially passing on certain inheritable genetic disorders to their children. Additionally, genetic counseling will be offered.
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Digital Commerce Success Is A Click Away
by Adrian Lee | August 15, 2017 | 4 Comments
Since this is my first Gartner blog post, I want to write about something that I love. And nothing gives me more pleasure than discussing how to grow a successful digital commerce business with our clients.
The complex, sprawling world of digital commerce challenges many a business leader. Southeast Asia also presents itself as a particularly challenging geo-region, in terms of the potential and ease of digital commerce (see Figure 1).
Our clients are constantly on the frontline fighting a host of issues, from regulatory, to digital marketing, to payments, to merchant partnerships to fulfillment to warehouse management to delivery fleet problems. My response to hearing these issues? I normally ask them to pause for breath. And I tell them,
"Success (in digital commerce) is just a click away."
While it might be trite to characterize digital commerce in such simplistic terms, the stark reality is digital commerce has and will always be about getting customers to click on that item or service to purchase. Every function's sole purpose is in service of that.
Digital commerce business leaders can reduce their tension by focusing on 3 recommendations:
- Purpose-building your mobile app CX to present a consistent brand experience
- Fulfilling via optimized supply chain management solutions or with local partners
- Implementing hyperlocal methods of payment via collaboration with banks, mobile payments and COD
Based on industry estimates, the expected growth of consumer spending on digital commerce for the Southeast Asian region will exceed $88 billion by 2025. This comes from a low penetration of 1.5% of the total retail market, estimated to be worth $5 billion in 2016. While my inaugural article on Gartner does focus on the challenges in Asia for digital commerce, these are applicable for global business leaders too.
Until the next time, I wish you only good things for your digital business.
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Good one..!!
Thank you
Nicely written Adrian.
I agree on the challenge of payment gateways being critical to scale, especially in developing economies.
Keep blogging!
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Ok, so I finally managed to get my hubby to take that picture lol (I swear, he's the only person I know that hates being behind the camera and in front of it with equal passion )
Day 11/2 whichever....
The PJ pants I got:
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This week we talk about SDCC including the Glass Trailer, the Marvel Remastered variants, the Venom #4 fall out and so much more!
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Excuse me Mr 305…are you taking any Miami fans as a guest to your Vegas performance cause I know 2 people that are dying to go…hoping you show Miami folks some Pitbull Pitbullvengers Shirt. I don't understand why these dogs got such a bad rap, I had one and they are the most loving and loyal dogs there are, I still believe in its all how they are raised.
Pitbull Pitbullvengers Shirt, hoodie, tank top and sweater
Like the black man that was bound with shackles and beaten, the dog found himself in the same sick tournament's, greed of money and a Pitbull Pitbullvengers Shirt to one day be free, but like the men of old that found rest from the wounds of pleasure, the dog, will one day, be free.
To promote bad dogs! I was bitten by a vicious Jack Russell! Any dog can be trained in protective training and what you don't tell is that in this training it is only for dogs with common sense to stop when told to!!! Or you don't take on a Pitbull Pitbullvengers Shirt! Sorry but the most "badass" is a Rottie due to its trainability and if it comes to bit pressure then the Rottie will take it all day long over the pit and GSD. Not only that they are the stupidest dogs you'll ever find


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Composite-Expo 2020
13th edition of the International Specialized Exhibition on raw materials, equipment and technologies for composites' producing
Dear Exhibitors & Visitors!
Composite-Expo 2020 is postponed to September 8 - 10, 2020, Expocentre Fairgrounds, Moscow, Russia.
According to the Moscow authority order regarding COVID-19 situation, at the moment the staff members of COMPOSITE-EXPO work remotely.
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Date of event: September 8 - 10, 2020
Exhibitions opening hours: September 8 - 9 – 10.00-18.00; September 10 – 10.00-16.00
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During past few years composite materials have been gradually developed and spread in numerous fields of Industry. From the beginning composites were created as materials with specials features for aeronautical and military fields, but now they are widely spread in a number of civil applications such as automotive, marine, wind energy, construction, water treatment and many others.
13th Exhibition "Composite-Expo" is a unique exhibition event in Russia and is a platform for development and introduction of composite technologies and materials in different branches of industry. Many Russian and foreign companies participate in the event such as Technologiya ONPP, RT-Khimkompozit, Stupino Glass Reinforced Plastics Plant, Akzo Nobel N.V., Evonik, OCV Steklovolokno (OCV Reinforcements) are already exhibitors of the event.
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In 2019, on the space about 7000 sq. m. there situated 248 exhibitors, including 158 national (domestic) companies and 90 foreign ones from 18 countries. Over 15800 people visited the shows and 90% of them were specialists in different fields of industry. It witnesses growing demands of the Russian market to use modern innovation materials and technologies in different industries.
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Movable sheep pen, sheep and goats
It isn't the greatest design. A whole season of use has given it quite a beating.
Here's some pictures of it.
In the top picture you can see the truck on the opposite side. The pen can move in either direction and I had just gotten done moving it so the truck is still in position. The ewes are all on this side.
We have part of it covered with a tarp to give the sheep some protection from the sun and also from inclement weather like rain and snow. In this picture you can see that the tarp is quite tattered. It got that way in the same wind storm on the 30th which had turned over the chicken pens. I actually never finished the pen. I have several 16' sheets of steel roofing that I was going to mount on top rather than have a tarp. Tarps do not hold up in the winds that we get, so I was going to have a more permanent top.


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This was an interesting brief when I was working at Fox. Initially the creative team focused on pitching a large marketing campaign for the return of The Simpsons to the Fox channel in Finland. The rights to the series in Finland had for years been owned by another channel, so the feeling was that they were coming 'home'.
Unfortunately, all the ideas we pitched were turned down and in the end we were told we couldn't use the show logo, the characters, the music and pretty much anything. So, out of sheer frustration we wondered how can we market a show without mentioning anything about the show? I had this idea of using little block figures and I just rolled with that.
I produced the concept and final implementation in a few days. The funny thing is they didn't get used for another two years! I would have liked to have had time to do the whole family and more characters, but alas this is what we have for the moment!
The first part of the video is a quick edit with different copy in, then that is followed by the original idents. The language has been changed from Finnish to English for this video.
Software: After Effects, Illustrator.
Special thanks to Fox Nordics Creative Director Ricardo Galiot.
Some images below from the initial campaign.
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