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Nosovitch Named PA Gatorade Player of the Year
Written by: Jeremy Varner on Thursday, December 2nd, 2010. Follow Jeremy Varner on Twitter.
CHICAGO (December 2, 2010) — In its third decade of honoring the nation's best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPN RISE, today announced Brendan Nosovitch of Allentown Central Catholic High School as its 2010-11 Gatorade Pennsylvania Football Player of the Year. Nosovitch is the first Gatorade Pennsylvania Football Player of the Year to be chosen from Allentown Central Catholic High School.
The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Nosovitch as Pennsylvania's best high school football player. Now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Football Player of the Year award announced in December, Nosovitch joins an elite alumni association of past state award-winners in 12 sports, including Mark Sanchez (2004-05, Mission Viejo HS, Calif.), Wes Welker (1999-00, Heritage Hall HS, Okla.), Terrell Suggs (1999-00, Hamilton HS, Ariz.), Anquan Boldin (1998-99, Pahokee HS, Fla.) and Jerome Bettis (1989-90, Mackenzie HS, Mich.).
The 6-foot-3, 190-pound junior quarterback led the Vikings to a 13-0 record entering in the Class AAA state quarterfinals against Clearfield High, scheduled for Dec. 3. At the time of his selection, Nosovitch had completed 148-of-252 attempts for 2,307 yards and 35 touchdowns. A returning Class AAA Second Team All-State selection as named by The Associated Press, he had also rushed for 1,283 yards and 18 touchdowns on 201 carries. As a sophomore in 2009, Nosovitch threw for 2,085 yards and 20 touchdowns while rushing for 1,007 yards and 19 touchdowns. He is the first quarterback in state history to eclipse 2,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards in consecutive seasons.
Nosovitch has maintained a 3.23 GPA in the classroom. A member of his school's student council, he has volunteered on behalf of the Best Friends Forever special needs mentoring program in addition to donating his time as a youth football and basketball instructor.
"He's a dual-threat quarterback, so he's real dangerous when he improvises," said Tony Trisciani, head coach of rival Whitehall High. "When he gets out of the pocket, he makes things happen. He runs like a running back; he doesn't run like a quarterback. He's a talented quarterback as well. He's got a strong arm. He's got a lot of weapons, and he's able to make the decisions that are necessary in their style of offense. He's got a lot of command when he's out there."
Nosovitch will begin his senior year of high school next fall.
The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. The selection process is administered by ESPN RISE and the Gatorade high school sports leadership team, which work with top sport-specific experts and a media advisory board of accomplished, veteran prep sports journalists to determine the state winners in each sport.
Nosovitch joins recent Gatorade Pennsylvania Football Players of the Year Kyle Smith (2009-10, Lancaster Catholic), Zach Barket (2008-09, Schuylkill Haven Area) and Brendan Beal (2007-08, Liberty) among the state's list of former award winners.
To keep up to date on the latest happenings, become a fan of Gatorade Player of the Year on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. For more on the Gatorade Player of the Year program, including nomination information, a complete list of past winners, and the announcement of the Gatorade National Player of the Year, visit playeroftheyear.gatorade.com.
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When I was pregnant I received a lot of those 'money off your first home supermarket delivery' coupons which people told me would be ever so handy with the baby. I never used them as I felt waddling to the supermarket was the least I could do while waiting and, once my world shrunk for a while after E was born, at least a trip to the shop wasn't too far beyond my capabilities.
Working compacted hours now means that I don't have time to get the shopping done except at weekends so the delivery system is now a viable option. (By the way, people who tell you you buy less with the delivery system because you don't do impulse purchases hasn't met me. I realised the delivery option often has the items my smaller Sainsbury's doesn't stock – bigger fruit selection, harissa paste, etc etc) But to get a delivery means that I have to be organised enough to place my order early enough to get the cheaper delivery option and, with us being away this weekend, I hadn't done it. So we'd no food in the house and E and I went to get some in.
S works on Mondays at an arboretum in Ashby so needs the car. And the supermarket is only 10 minutes walk away. Now, there are trollies for people in wheelchairs, trollies for people with 1 or 2 small babies and trollies for people with children. The lone, carless parent, however, who needs to get a week's worth of food to prepare before they go to work for the rest of the week, has no option but to try and maneouvre a trolley (I took a single person's one, the smaller kind) and a pushchair together.
I managed to put them alongside each other and, with a hand on each, push them along in tandem. But this only works in aisles where there are no other people. The rest of the time I pushed one then the other, or pushed one and pulled the other, all the time hoping I didn't ram someone's ankles or knock something over. All the while I did so, worrying that I was the embodiment of Middle England's idea of a single mother, not at work on a weekday, pushing her child around and knocking down respectable pensioners while she did so. I read somewhere the other day that I shouldn't worry so much about what other people think of me because most of the time they don't. I never remember this advice when I actually need it.
Anyway I was halfway round when a voice behind me said "Would you like some help?" A Sainsbury's worker who'd noticed me struggling had come over to push the trolley for me. How kind. "You think they'd have worked something out by now, wouldn't you?" she said. Well, do you have a staff suggestion scheme? Get in there.
Of course, help of this kind throws up all kinds of other problems. First up, my shopping style, which is haphazard at best, was thrown into the spotlight. I tend to make a list, give it a cursory glance as I go round and then have to go back for all the things I missed. Can't do that with someone patiently following me around with a trolley. Well, I could but it seems mean.
E had also taken the shopping list off me and was waving it around so if I wanted to check it we had to go through an adorable/ ridiculous charade of me asking to see it and then handing it back to her after I'd tried desperately to memorise at least three items.
The lady ran into a colleague as we were going round. "Are you putting things away?" the colleague asked. "No, I'm helping the lady," she replied. I never know whether to acknowledge people are talking about me in this kind of exchange so ended up finding the crisps and nuts snack selection very interesting. The colleague seemed surprised. It doesn't seem like this kind of customer service is usual. Not to her at least.
It was with relief that I landed at a checkout desk and said thank you. How I hate drawing attention to myself. And of course my bloody stupid stubborn independent streak. But really, in this day and age, it's hard to believe that someone hasn't thought about all the city-based lone parents who don't want to go shopping every day. We need our own trollies!

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The one scene depicts a Mexican workering in the sugar cane fields.
The man with the mustache is Rodolfo "Gorky" Gonzales, an activist who promoted justice and equality for the Mexican- American.
Above and to the left of the farmer is the calavera (skeleton) holding a book by Jose Posada. Posada who was instrumental in the creation of the calavera catrina shown on the left with the fancy hat on. (for more on Posada, see post dated July 21, 2010).
In the lower left corner is a melted clock, inspired by Salvador Dali showing how time flies. Above the clock is a mother hanging up her childrens's sports school uniforms from West High School. The pink structure is the beautiful 1920's St. Cajetan Catholic Church which is now part of the Auroria Campus. The big three-faced sun is symbolic of the Mestizo, one of Indian and Spanish blood.
The red building with the awning is the Buckhorn Exchange Steakhouse, Denver oldest restaurant at 10th and Osage dating back to 1893.
Above the window is the Buyers Denver Library built in 1918 on Santa fe Drive. I have always loved this building.
The big American flag has different colored hands on it portraying the many cultures. The yellow building is Tacos de Mexico which has some of the best breakfast burritos. Next door is El Noa Noa, another Mexican restaurant on Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe Theater.
A panoramic view of Denver's skyline with the large white building (republic Plaza), the Denver Art Musuem and the blue building knick-named the "Cash Register" building.
If you look closely, you will see a Calavera watering skiing!
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Salman Rushdie: from Mordor verse to Midnight's Children
He likes to blur the lines between fact and fiction, and if pushed he might recite some Tolkien in Elvish – this is not the type of conversation one associates with Rushdie
Salman Rushdie: 'If you don't have a pretty clear sense of who you are, you're not going to write good books.' Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images
Of all the things you don't expect to hear when you answer your phone, the words "it's Salman Rushdie here" must be pretty close to the top of the list. It's not as if I'm not expecting the call. The death sentence imposed on Rushdie by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 after the publication of his supposedly blasphemous novel The Satanic Verses has long been revoked, but the contact details of the most famous novelist in the world still aren't given out to strangers. You don't call Salman Rushdie: he calls you.
Rushdie is in Dublin for the Dalkey Book Festival this weekend. I've been warned that, during our phone conversation, he won't talk about the fatwa. Or about his personal life. Or global politics.
On top of all that, he has produced three of my favourite novels of all time in Midnight's Children, Shame and The Moor's Last Sigh. I'm so jittery with nerves that when the phone rings – at precisely the agreed moment – I nearly fall off the chair.
Rushdie has written two children's books. Haroun and the Sea of Stories appeared in 1990, and Luka and the Fire of Life was published in 2010. With 20 years between them, did he approach the pair very differently?
"The two were sort of opposites to write," he says. "In the case of Haroun, I knew the story – it was one of those rare occasions for me when the story arrived almost fully formed. The problem was how to tell it. In the case of Luka, I felt I knew how to tell it, but the story took a lot of working out. Whichever book I'm writing, there's always the question of finding the appropriate language for it. But once I've found that language and that tone, I just let rip really."
As a master of the fantastical, it's that very particular narrative tone of Rushdie's – innocent yet self-aware, veering from portentous to hilarious – that, when it succeeds, sweeps you up and carries you off, bobbing happily with the tide.
This is also how oral storytelling works, so it comes as no surprise to hear that as a young writer Rushdie was fascinated by the Indian storytelling tradition.
"Those narratives are constructed out of many inter-looping narratives, which are held together by the performance of the voice," he says. "I thought it would be interesting to see if I could find a written-down way of doing something like that."
The road to Midnight's Children
Fans of Midnight's Children, and there are many – this is the book that not only won the Booker Prize but was chosen as the Booker of Bookers on the prize's 40th anniversary – like to think that the author arrived on the literary scene fully formed, and produced an instant masterpiece. As he wryly explains, that is not the case.
"Midnight's Children came out 12½ years after I left Cambridge," he says. "I had a very difficult beginning, really. I have, somewhere, files of three unpublished manuscripts – and the first book that I did publish, Grimus, was not exactly greeted with loud cries."
Midnight's Children emerged after a long period of self-reflection and interrogation. So it was an internal process, rather than a question of literary technique?
"Of course, it doesn't hurt to have some technique," he says. "But if you don't have a pretty clear sense of who you are as a human being, you're not going to write any good books.
"I had been bouncing between three countries: India, England and Pakistan. During the time I was at Cambridge, my parents had moved from Bombay to Karachi, and I didn't want to live in Karachi. I was quite disoriented. I needed to orient myself, and it took quite a long time."
The historian in him
For the reader, one of the most striking aspects of Rushdie's books is the sheer amount of information they contain. This, he says, is because he's a historian by training. "So that dimension – what happened, and how, and why, and what did it do to people – has always been right there in the middle of almost everything I've written."
For his most recent novel, 2008's The Enchantress of Florence, Rushdie did an enormous amount of research. "Not just of the Mughal world and the world of the Renaissance, but of all the worlds in between. Because, after all, the heroine has to travel across the Ottoman world and she ends up in the New World.
"So I had to immerse myself in all of that. And there just is a point at which you have to think, 'Okay, I'm going to put the books away and make it up'."
And boy, does he make it up. Rushdie's mixing of truth and fiction is partly what got him into – well, you know what. He's a mixer and a stirrer. In his rock'n'roll novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet he made a motif out of misattributing famous songs to the wrong composers.
His most recent book, an account of the fatwa and what followed, Joseph Anton: A Memoir, has been criticised for its blend of clear-eyed reportage and uncharitable portraits of his four spouses.
Back at The Enchantress of Florence, this propensity for mischief led to a tart exchange of emails with Rushdie's French publisher, Ivan Nabokov.
"Ivan wrote to me about this incident when, travelling around the shores of the Black Sea, the heroine meets what I describe as 'potato witches'. Potato witches also crop up in Shalimar the Clown, by the way. It's a little motif of mine. But anyway, he wrote to me and said, 'Of course, you know that the potato was not introduced into the Black Sea area until 200 years later'."
A crackling noise emerges from the phone, which, after a moment of panic – has he been cut off? has he hung up? – I identify as laughter.
Rushdie was impressed by Nabokov's erudition, which is almost as comprehensive as that of his famous uncle Vladimir, but was reluctant to relinquish his vegetable-based joke.
"So I just thought, 'F*** it. It has now'." Another crackle. "I could have had aubergine witches but they're not as funny."
Emboldened by the note of levity, I ask the question I have already skipped over as simply too silly. Did Rushdie really go through a Lord of the Rings phase when he was at the English public school of Rugby?
"Yeah," he says. "I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses – which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor."
He might just do that when he comes to Dalkey. He will almost certainly speak about the importance of Irish writers to his development as a novelist.
"I can remember the moment at university, of discovering both Joyce and the novels of Beckett and being affected by them – probably more deeply than by anything else I read in my student years," he says.
Dalkey Book Festival starts on Thursday. Rushdie will take part in a debate on freedom of speech with Olivia O'Leary, Fintan O'Toole and Rory Sutherland on Saturday at 4.30pm; there will be a public interview with the author at 7.30pm; and he will appear with Amos Oz and Declan Kiberd in a session on the global novel on Sunday at 1.30pm. dalkeybookfestival.org


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Tyler the Creator arrested for vandalism
(CBS/AP) Tyler, the Creator was arrested on Thursday night after authorities say he got rowdy after a show at the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood.
Video footage shows the rapper appearing to get angry at a sound engineer while performing with his group, Odd Future.
Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Arthur Famble Jr. says the rapper was taken into custody after he destroyed the Sunset Strip nightclub's electronic soundboard.
The 20-year-old rapper, whose real name is Tyler Gregory Okonma, was booked for investigation of felony vandalism and released on $20,000 bail.
The sergeant says as Tyler was being led to a squad car, the crowd leaving the Roxy became angry and additional deputies were called in to disperse the crowd.
No one was hurt.
Tyler denied being arrested in a tweet. "Whoa, Its Stories On Me Being In Jail?" he wrote. "The [expletive]? I Wasnt In No Jail Or Arrested Or Nothing."
The rapper won the best new artist honor at this year's MTV Video Music Awards. He's expected to release a new album in 2012.


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Dave's 3-Word Review:
I prefer Jumanji.
Who doesn't like a game of Ouija, right?! I can't say I've ever played it, but when it comes to the world of board games…Ouija is unlike any other out there. I mean, while you can find it at Toys 'R' Us, you can't exactly consider it a family friendly game…no matter how much you make fun of it. I've heard a lot of stories about the Ouija board throughout my life that really fascinated me. Maybe they were just meant to scare – but true believers in paranormal folklore use this thing as a serious means to speak to demons or spirits. You don't see them using Monopoly the same way, do you? Anyways, I've always wanted people to make a horror film based on this game. Always. Was Ouija what I was expecting?…eh…they took things way too far.
So, after a good friend of hers unexpectantly dies, Laine Morris decides to group a few friends together and try to contact her through the means of a Ouija board. Only, the Ouija board was far more powerful and real than they ever imagined, and once they opened up that door to the spirit world…there wasn't a lot they could really do to stop it…so they had to keep playing to find more answers on how to end it once and for all.
First of all, I want to acknowledge others' anger with this film – I get it. It's a scary movie based on a board game. If you don't find the Ouija board fascinating at all, then the same is simply going to apply in the film. You really, really have to be interested in the paranormal in order for you to have any kind of entertainment from the film. I personally don't mind it being about a board game…I like that. Instead, I wanted to see something more realistic, because it is based on an actual, real-life game that people have played and have had experiences with. That's what I wanted to see.
Instead, what this movie did was it turned it into something of a joke. At first, they tell you the glass eye on the game piece is used to see to the other side…which is when you might see spirits. After that, it just flat out shows the ghosts to the naked eye, completely negating the rule in the beginning – and making it really really tacky. When people play the real board game, they get really paranoid, and their hairs stand on end and they think they hear or see things out of the corner of their eye….stuff that can be reasonably explained as paranoia. A movie should try to do something along those lines. Make it explainable as paranoia…or as a slight other possibility that it's truly something paranormal. Let the audience decide!!! Don't turn this into Final Destination and kill off characters. People don't die when they play the game. They freak out!
I don't dislike this movie because it's a board game. The name of Hasbro seems silly stamped onto a movie like this, but I dislike it because of the route it decided to take – which was really cheesy and predictable. It seems to have a decent production budget, because it looks very professional – and I happen to know that Olivia Cooke is actually a very good actress, but she just fades out in this film because it's not that special.
The Good:
I've always wanted a movie based off of the Ouija board. The concept is great, it's a very unique game all on its own, and there are plenty of people that swear they experience strange things with the game. To finally see a movie based on that has been long-awaited.
The Bad:
It's an expensive movie that plays out as cheap and predictable. It has plot holes and stops feeling like a smart horror movie about the Ouija board the second the first person dies – which is unfortunately very early on – as it's the foundation for the plot.


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Getting Your Car Towed In New York City: Questions and Resources
If you have not been towed, please see Avoiding Parking Tickets and Towing In New York City. If you were towed, please continue reading.
Who can pick up a towed vehicle in New York City?
The only people who can pick up a towed vehicle in New York City are:
- The registered owner
- The registered owner's spouse
- An authorized representative of the registered owner (authority must be granted via notarized letter)
Where do I pick up a towed vehicle in New York City?
You can see where New York City tow pounds are located here.
Locate vehicles towed in New York City here. You can also dial 311 within NYC. Outside NYC call (212) NEW-YORK (212-639-9675).
Should I rush to the tow pound to reclaim my vehicle as soon as I find out it has been towed?
Only if all your paperwork is in order. DO NOT GO TO THE TOW POUND IF YOUR PAPERWORK IS NOT IN ORDER. If you do, you'll waste massive amounts of time/energy and experience major aggravation.
Resolve ALL paperwork issues BEFORE visiting the tow pound. And don't forget, you will have to show them the documents to prove everything is in order.
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING MUST BE TRUE before you can reclaim your vehicle:
- Vehicle's registration is valid
- Vehicle's insurance is valid
- Your driving license is valid
- You do not owe more than $101 in parking judgments.
Today's not a good day to reclaim my towed car. I have to renew my registration and then go to yoga class. Tomorrow, my cat is having a bunion removed. Can I pick it up in a few days?
Of course. Take your time. But remember, they start charging storage fees after 24 hours.
My registration, insurance and license are fine, but I owe more than $101 in unpaid New York City parking judgments. Can I pay those parking judgments at the tow pound?
No. All overdue parking fines/judgments must be paid at a NYC Finance Dept. Business Service Center. While you're there, request and fill out a "Vehicle Release Form." You must present the "Vehicle Release Form" at the tow pound. If you owe more than $101 dollars in unpaid parking judgments, your car will not be released until all fines are paid in full.
I'm not sure if I have any unpaid New York City parking violations/judgments. How can I find out?
- Visit NYC's online Service Center.
- Click on "Parking" and then select "Plate Number."
- Press Go
What's the difference between a parking ticket and a parking judgment?
- Parking ticket= the paper you find on your windshield. It is an accusation of wrongdoing. You are innocent until proven guilty.
- Parking judgment= The city has officially determined you are guilty. You are told either in person or via official letter "pay X amount by X date or else."
Another way to think about it:
- Parking ticket= The city is saying, "We think you did this. We would like you to pay us this amount."
- Parking judgment= The city is saying, "We know you did this. You must pay us this amount."
You can be found guilty of a parking violation in 3 ways:
- You ignore the ticket. If you do not respond within 30 days, you are automatically guilty by default. Game over.
- You check the "guilty" box on the ticket and mail in your fine. This is what you do when you just want to get it over with.
- You attend your court date and/or "trial" and are found guilty of said violation by the powers that be.
What's the difference between a violation tow and a judgment tow?
- Violation tow= the New York City Police Department towed your vehicle for parking in the wrong place at the wrong time. For example, you are towed for parking in front of a "Do not park here" sign.
- Judgment tow= the City Sheriff or City Marshal towed your vehicle for owing more than $350 in unpaid parking judgments.
How do I know if I received a violation tow or judgment tow?
If you haven't received New York City parking tickets in the past, relax. You more than likely received a violation tow (i.e. your vehicle was parked at the wrong place at the wrong time).
If you have received parking tickets/judgments that you ignored or forgot about, better move fast. Find out immediately whether yours was a violation tow or judgment tow by checking the Locate Towed Vehicle page or calling 311 (within NYC). Outside NYC, dial (212) 639-9675.
Why the big hurry if it's a Sheriff's tow?
If you owe more than $350 in unpaid parking judgments, the City Sheriff or City Marshal can tow ANY vehicle registered in your name. For example, let's say you own two cars. Car A has $400 in unpaid parking judgments and car B has $0 in unpaid parking judgments. The City Sheriff or City Marshal can tow either car to recover the fines generated by Car A.
It gets worse. If the City Sheriff or City Marshal tows your car, you have 72 hours (3 days) to pay what you owe. If you don't pay, your vehicle will be auctioned. That's right, your sweet car becomes someone's sweet deal.
But wait. You're not done even after paying for the towing, the fines and the Sheriff Department's fees. You'll still have to visit a NYC Finance Dept. Business Service Center to file a document called a "Sale Hold." (Reminder: the Sale Hold applies only to judgment tows, not violation tows.)
You car can also be booted for unpaid judgments.
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MWC 15 Special
All right, looks like we are coming closer to the Palm Treo 750v launch, Palms first
UMTS Treo device which Vodafone plans to sell across Europe.
While neither Palm nor Vodafone has revealed too much information yet, except
that there is an announcement planned for September 12, the Palm Treo 750v
appeared now at Vodafone UK's business customer web shop.
The new Palm Treo smartphone is an industry first, using Vodafone's high-speed 3G network and
delivering Palm's ease of use on top of the Microsoft Window's Mobile operating
system – all backed up by Vodafone's dedicated service for business.
And Vodafone was even kind enough to provide a retail price with subscription
which is £127.66 - not bad at all.
Feature-wise, Vodafone has highlighted Windows Mobile 5.20, the 1.3 megapixel
digital camera, the full QWERTY keyboard and secure Push E-Mail while I wonder
what Windows Mobile 5.2 is? So far I was aware of Windows Mobile 5.0 only but
maybe it means Windows Mobile 5 + AKU 2 = Windows Mobile 5.2?
Indeed, I've received the word from Microsoft, that the Palm Treo 750v
isn't powered by Windows Mobile 5.2 but is using the well known Windows Mobile
5.0 instead. Looks like somebody at Vodafone was too excited to launch a Windows
Mobile device with AKU 2.
Still no updated photo except the previous leaks, so it looks like we have to wait until
September 12 to get a final image, how Palm's first UMTS Treo will really look like.
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When POTUS Trump announcement that his administration will not re-certify Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, the US president made lots of people very happy.
Neocons were celebrating. Saudi Arabia praised the decision. Fox News went on the offensive, pushing for tough sanctions on Iran, for violating the "spirit" of the agreement.
We are certain somewhere in a CIA camp in the Middle East, Al Qaeda jihadists were happy to see some pressure placed on the country currently working towards exterminating their radical ideology.
No one was happier with Trump's decision than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who joined Maria Bartiromo Sunday morning on Fox News to express his gratitude to US President Trump.
Netanyahu reminded Maria that the region's Arab States (liberal democracies like Saudi Arabia and UAE) also support President Trump's decision to decertify the Iranian nuclear deal.
PM Netanyahu: When Israel and the Arab States agree on something you all should pay attention. I think this is an historic moment.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Duran.


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Women of the Woods with Barb Breshock
- May 31, 2019 to Jun 02, 2019
This program is organized to give ladies a chance to be outdoors and learn about chainsaws, and how to use them safely and properly. For more information, please call Barb Breshock at 304.256.6775 Click to Read More
Pickin' on the Porch
- Jun 01, 2019 to Jun 01, 2019
We supply the porch, if you supply the music! Guests and local musicians are welcome to gather on the front porch of the Cass Company Store to play music every Saturday this summer from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Music is supplied by volunteers; anyone can join in on the fun! Saturdays... Click to Read More
National Trails Day @ Cass Scenic Railroad State Park
- Jun 01, 2019 to Jun 01, 2018
Take a hike on National Trails Day. American Hiking Society's National Trails Day is a celebration of America's magnificent trail system, occurring annually on the first Saturday in June. Cass Scenic Railroad State Park's interpreter will be leading a hike down the... Click to Read More
Star Lab Sunday @ Green Bank Observatory
- Jun 02, 2019 to Jun 02, 2019
Crawl into the Green Bank Observatory planetarium balloon for a fascinating night sky tour! Space is limited to 20 participants. Program lasts 45 minutes and includes a DIY star wheel kit upon request. Reservations recommended - call Green Bank Observatory for more information.... Click to Read More
Wanderlust @ Snowshoe Mountain Resort
- Jun 06, 2019 to Jun 09, 2019
Relax, rejuvenate, transform. Gift yourself this immersive mind, body and soul experience. You know you deserve it. Namaste. Click to Read More
Space Race Rumpus
- Jun 07, 2019 to Jun 09, 2019
Get ready to ride! Join the Green Bank Observatory for a weekend-long cycling festival, where local experts will guide you on a variety of fun rides! Whether you're an experienced mountain biker, or a complete novice, there will be rides, races and cycling clinics for all ages and... Click to Read More
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park Anniversary
- Jun 08, 2019 to Jun 08, 2019
Celebrate the anniversary of Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in the best way possible - in the town of Cass! Enjoy scenic train rides, take in the historic town and museum, or shop and enjoy goodies in the Cass Company Store and Last Run Restaurants. Check back for specific details on ... Click to Read More
Pickin' on the Porch
- Jun 08, 2019 to Jun 08, 2019
We will supply the porch if you supply the music. Guests and local musicians are welcome to gather on the front porch of the Cass Company Store to play music every Saturday from May-October from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Music is supplied by volunteers; anyone can join in on the fun!... Click to Read More
Casting Call! Learn to Fish @ Watoga State Park
- Jun 08, 2019 to Jun 08, 2019
For those who have wanted to learn how to fish, but never knew where to start, look no further. This workshop is open to all ages who have never been fishing, and will allow you to try it for free! For more information, or to reserve your spot, called 304.799.4087 Click to Read More


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"Drama Queen"
© David A. Ziser
Here is an image I made during our Sedona Experience seminar last month. I was reviewing some of the images on the plane while traveling to New Your this morning. This series of images are still some of my favorite from that shoot.
What I love about the image is the strong play of textures throughout the photograph. Those textures are created by the wall treatment, a faux painted Italian plaster that was just beautiful to both see and feel - it was sooooo smooth and silky along with the shadowing from the light fixtures. There seems to be a roughness implied in the wall textures by those shadows and it's those implied textures that add enhancement and drama to this image.
Lighting on my subject was supplied by my Z-Ray flashlight coming in from camera left. It's narrow cone of light let me direct the light just to her face thereby not affecting the strong shadows on the wall cast by the wall fixtures.
In order to tweak the image, I loaded it up into Snapseed, NIK Software's iPad app which is just a kick to play with. After adding a filter here and there and selectively tweaking densities regionally in the image I had the result I wanted. The expression on the young lady's face and the dramatic lighting I believe, fit the title perfectly.
Camera specs: Canon 7D fitted with 18-200mm ID lens at 18mm, F6.3 @ 1/30 second, ISO 1000. Enjoy! -David


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Students share move-in day experiences
First-year students and their families swarmed the sun-soaked Northwestern University campus for move-in day 2016, launching a week of activities for Wildcat Welcome week that came to a close Monday.
We spoke with three freshmen, a wise sophomore and a junior peer advisor during the day of heavy lifting, new roommates and parental goodbyes on Sept. 12.
Two of the first-years interviewed are from the nearby suburbs: Dana Pepowski is from Lake Forest and Angelica Garcia from Lyons. Drew Pomerantz hails from Kansas City.
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A Message from our CEO Brian Farragher
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Through no fault of their own, millions of children grow up in neglectful, abusive or traumatic environments, which inevitably shape the rest of their lives. One in six people—50 million Americans—have experienced significant childhood trauma and adversity, which turns out to be a leading cause of higher unemployment, violence, crime, incarceration, family dysfunction and, ultimately, societal burdens that we all bear.
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Please join us for Signs of Life, on exhibit now through September 2 at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
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Reports have it that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Sunday, August 13, agreed to embark on an indefinite strike across the nation.
Daily Post is reporting that the union, according to its President, Biodun Ogunyemi, took the decision to declare the strike after deliberations at its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at the University of Abuja during the weekend.
In a document titled: "Strike Bulletin No.1", which was signed and issued by Ogunyemi, ASUU said the strike action was to be a total, comprehensive and indefinite action whereby no form of academic activities including teaching, attendance of any meeting, conduct and supervision of any examination at any level, supervision of project or thesis at any level should take place at any of the nation's universities.
Vanguard had earlier reported that the union is expected to take a final decision today, August 14, on whether it will proceed on strike over unresolved issues with the Federal Government or not.
Yesterday, Daily Sun had said that majority of ASUU branches voted overwhelmingly for the indefinite strike in an attempt to make the Federal Government implement the union's demands which have been lingering since 2009.
ASUU members at the University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, Lagos State University, four from North East, South South and three from South East voted for the industrial action.
On Friday, ASUU branches nationwide had held a referendum in line with an earlier directive by the National Executive Council (NEC) to vote on whether the strike will be indefinite, one month, one week warning and no strike.
Some of the issues in contention include Federal Government breach of the 2009 FG/ASUU Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on financing grant to state universities, conditions of service, non-implementation of Earned Academic Allowance (EAA) and re-negotiation of the agreement.
Other outstanding issues are non provision of revitalization funds to public universities, non release of NUPEMCO operational licence, payment of half salaries to members and the outstanding N880 billion in intervention fund government owes universities.
The union recalled that it had to embark on a six month strike between July and December 2013 and the strike was suspended when government signed an MoU with the union.
"Of all the items contained in the MoU, only the N200b out of a total of N1.3tr of the Public Universities Revitalisation (Needs Assessment) fund was released.
"The union also embarked on a one week warning strike in November 2016 to press for the implementation of 2013 MoU. However government did not implement the understanding reach between the union and Federal Government base on the intervention by the leadership of Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
"The union has also met with the 2009 Agreement Implementation Monitoring Committee, IMC, and had written several letters press releases and communiqués on the outstanding issues to no avail.
"The National Executive Council, NEC, of ASUU then met at the University of Abuja on August 12 2017 to consider the result of a referendum from all branches in a bid to ascertain ways of convincing government to implement outstanding aspects of the 2009 and the MoU of 2013".


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LINCOLN, R.I. � Massachusetts is spinning the roulette wheel, and no matter into which pocket the ball falls, Rhode Island will lose bigtime. The financial hit could be $100 million.
LINCOLN, R.I. � Massachusetts is spinning the roulette wheel, and no matter into which pocket the ball falls, Rhode Island will lose big time.
The financial hit could be $100 million, maybe more, maybe less. The job losses, in the state with the nation�s highest unemployment rate, almost definitely will go beyond 200. Three times that number is not out of the realm of possibility.
How much money will be lost in the Ocean State and how soon it comes depend on where Massachusetts gaming officials decide to build a slots parlor, and later, three casinos.
Twin River Casino chairman John Taylor is not waiting to find out just how bad things will get. His job is to help the casino�s owners hedge their bets on the region�s gambling market.
To ensure its bottom line, Twin River is looking far beyond Rhode Island to boost its revenue. It�s already bought a casino in Mississippi, and it may introduce gambling to a racetrack it owns in Colorado.
The closer a Massachusetts gambling hall is to Twin River in Lincoln, the worse the financial effect. He estimates a slots parlor in Plainville, one of three contenders for that license, will be about 10 percent.
The hit from competing casinos worries him more, Taylor said.
A casino in Fall River could drain the most money from Twin River.
Also, any casino in Southeastern Massachusetts, will do no favors for the Newport Grand slots parlor. Newport Grand would be lucky to survive the arrival of casinos across the border.
Diane Hurley, chief executive officer of Newport Grand, did not return requests for comment.
�There�s absolutely going to be an impact,� Taylor says of the Massachusetts gambling push. �A lot of that is going to be driven by where these things get built.�
Twin River will survive, Taylor says, by focusing on fundamentals � customer service and smart money management.
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission will end the first part of its now two-year-long gambling review process Friday when it chooses the winner of the state�s slots-only gambling license.
The commission is considering three proposed locations that could have up to 1,250 slot machines, but no table games.
The bidders are:
Penn National Gaming, which wants to operate at the Plainridge Racecourse in Plainville.
Raynham Park LLC, a partnership between Greenwood Racing Inc. and Raynham Park owner George Carney, which wants to operate at Carney�s former Raynham greyhound track; and,
Cordish Cos., which proposes building a slots parlor in Leominster.
�It�s probably slightly worse for us at Plainridge than Raynham; obviously Leominster would be the most favorable for us,� Taylor says.
The winning firm will be the first venue licensed and almost certainly the first to open under the 2011 Massachusetts gambling law, perhaps by the end of 2014.
After the commission awards the slots license, it will turn its attention to the three casino licenses it expects to award � one in each of three regions. The first could open in 2015.
The casino competition breaks down this way:
Eastern: Everett � Wynn Resorts; Revere � Mohegan Sun.
Western: Springfield � MGM Resorts International.
Southeastern: New Bedford � KG Urban; Fall River � Foxwoods Resort Casino and Crossroads Massachusetts.
It�s unclear how Foxwoods� late pitch (three months past the deadline) for a Fall River location will factor into the commission�s decision. The panel hasn�t ruled on the issue.
In awarding the southeastern region license, commissioners also have to contend with efforts by the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, which waits for the federal government to clear the way for a casino it wants to build in Taunton.
A Twin River consultant estimates that once the slot parlor and three casinos are operating, they would cut Twin River�s revenue by 30 to 35 percent, Taylor says.
Such a cut would most certainly affect the work force at Twin River, which employs 1,550 people � 80 percent of them Rhode Islanders.
The owners of Twin River, a consortium of financial investment firms, aren�t waiting to see how the cards fall in Massachusetts.
�I don�t think people realize what�s happened over the last few years,� Taylor says.
Gambling revenue from Twin River and Newport Grand, lottery and Keno sales is the third-largest revenue source for Rhode Island.
Twin River annually contributes the largest share of that money.
The state will get $303.7 million from Twin River during fiscal year 2014, according to the R.I. Department of Revenue. That figure includes $293.3 million from VLTs and $10.4 million from table games.
Newport Grand will contribute $26.4 million to the state by the time fiscal 2014 ends June 30.
In contrast, traditional lottery offerings such as scratch tickets, Keno and other numbers games such as Powerball and Mega Millions will contribute a combined $64.1 million
The Lincoln gambling facility has survived serious financial challenges prior to the gambling expansion in Massachusetts. The latest came in 2009 when Twin River�s previous owners filed for federal bankruptcy protection. To survive, the gambling facility moved to around-the-clock gambling, realigned its food service and did away with greyhound racing.
A group of banks and financial firms took ownership of Twin River in November 2010, ending 17 months of uncertainty as the business moved through the bankruptcy process.
Within days, the financial group named Taylor, a Pawtucket native who lives in Vero Beach, Fla., as chairman of a three-member board of directors that oversees the Lincoln gambling venue.
He does not run the day-to-day operations, which are left to Twin River�s management team, but helps craft operating strategy.
The gambling hall straightened out its balance sheet, focused on customer service training and increased its marketing efforts.
Two years after Taylor arrived, Rhode Island voters approved the addition of table games at Twin River � roulette, blackjack and other such gambling.
Table gaming started there in July 2013. Those games are expected to boost the state�s share of the Twin River gambling action by an initial $10.4 million a year before any potential competitors open their doors in Massachusetts.
Twin River managers set about hiring more than 600 new workers to run the new table games and oversaw remodeling work needed to make room for the games � 66 at first and then another 14, for a total of 80 in all.
In the meantime, the number of video lottery terminals � what were once called slot machines � dropped to 4,540 from its peak of 4,752.
The state referendum that approved expanded gambling at Twin River also made the new games more profitable for the casino than VLTs. Under the new arrangement, the state gets 18 percent of table-game revenue, instead of the approximately 60 percent it gets from VLTs.
Wouldn�t it make financial sense for Twin River to replace more VLTs with table games? Taylor is asked.
Not particularly. Table games draw different gamblers than VLTs, meaning it�s wiser for a casino to have some mix of both types.
A 2011 study conducted for Twin River by a casino industry consultant recommended the casino, given its market, could support between 65 and 125 table games.
�We think we have the right number of table games,� Taylor said.
Since the two tribal-run resort casinos opened in Connecticut in the 1990s, a hotel has been thought to be a likely addition to the Lincoln gambling facilities.
The prospect was so worrisome to Providence hoteliers and Lincoln residents that they succeeded in getting a state law passed prohibiting the gambling hall�s owners from operating a hotel on the Lincoln property or �in close proximity� to the facility.
There are no plans to add a hotel or shopping center, Taylor says.
�Anything that happens with a hotel has got to be done with sensitivity and include [discussions with] the town,� Taylor says.
Rep. Robert Phillips, D-Woonsocket introduced a bill earlier this month to strike that provision and allow the casino to build a hotel.
Casino spokeswoman Patti Doyle says the casino did not request the bill be introduced.
In a 2011 interview with The Journal, a Twin River consultant said it would be risky for the gambling hall to add a hotel or expand resort-style amenities much beyond what already existed there.
�This is a drive-in market,� says Steven Rittvo, chairman of The Innovation Group of Companies. �You�ve got to be careful in a convenience market.�
Convenience in this case is a function of driving distance. Making it easier for Massachusetts gamblers to spend money is the goal for casino competitors.
Unlike Connecticut rivals Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun, Twin River decided against pursuing a Massachusetts gambling license.
Rhode Island officials would be none too pleased with Twin River venturing across the border as a way to hold on to the money it earns from Massachusetts residents � who account for about two-thirds of the Lincoln venue�s patrons.
Twin River�s gambling pact with Rhode Island �fences us into the state,� Taylor says.
According to Twin River spokeswoman Patti Doyle, any entity that owns 5 percent or more of Twin River cannot hold more than a 5-percent interest in a gaming venue in Connecticut, Massachusetts or New Hampshire without facing �potential equitable (e.g. injunction) and/or monetary consequences.�
The number of visitors from Massachusetts increased by 154 percent from 2006 to 2012, according to the Fourth Biennial New England Gaming Behavior Survey, according to the latest survey from the UMass-Dartmouth Center for Policy Analysis.
�We understand there could be some discomfort having your partner across the border,� Taylor says. �We�ve been very careful about the kinds of things we might be interested in.�
In an American casino game that � with the exception of Las Vegas � now consists of sets of sectional players, the parent company of Twin River instead looks for regional draws outside New England.
�We plan on building this company out of Lincoln,� Taylor says.
Twin River announced in December that it struck a deal to buy another gambling venue � the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Biloxi, Miss., � for $250 million. The deal is expected to close in July.
Orlando-based Hard Rock International has five casinos, 18 hotels and 134 cafes.
The Hard Rock in Biloxi is a joint venture between Premier Entertainment LLC and Hard Rock Hotel Licensing Inc. Premier owns and operates the hotel and casino under a license agreement with Hard Rock. Hard Rock owns and operates the Hard Rock Cafe within the property.
Hard Rock International badly wants into the Massachusetts market. But voters in West Springfield and Holyoke both rebuffed Hard Rock bids for a casino license.
Is it possible that Twin River will seek a Hard Rock franchise in Rhode Island? Taylor says it�s premature to consider this.
Twin River�s owners first have to prove to Hard Rock International that they can serve that brand well in Mississippi before advancing the idea.
Instead, its next play is likely to be in Colorado, where the company owns the Arapahoe Park horse race track and 11 off-track-betting parlors.
Colorado allows limited casino-style gambling in only three historic mining towns. A previous effort to loosen the restriction failed.
�We�re in the evaluation stage of what is possible there,� Taylor says, a process he expects will wrap up in early spring.
Back at home, Twin River will soon know what Massachusetts competition means for its bottom line.
They know people will try out those new venues. They hope many will decide Twin River is the better place.
�No one is going to be able to take away the convenience of this place,� Taylor says.
When asked if the owners will sell the casino, Taylor replies, �The time to flip Twin River to a new owner would have been in bankruptcy.�
If not at that time, then certainly before Massachusetts moved to expand gambling.
�There�s no discussion� about selling, Taylor says.


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The Four Temperaments
'Kick, wham, fast, hard, big'
The premiere of The Four Temperaments on 20 November 1946 is widely regarded as a significant turning point in the history of ballet. Balanchine's choreography was succinctly summarised as 'kick, wham, fast, hard, big' by dancer Tanaquil LeClercq, who created a role in 'Choleric'. Balanchine broke with convention, manipulating and expanding upon the classical vocabulary in a series of striking, unpredictable solos and ensembles that challenged dancers and audiences alike, and introduced new possibilities for ballet as an art form.
An Inspiring Score
Balanchine commissioned the score for The Four Temperaments from Paul Hindemith with the money he had earned working on Broadway musicals. The resulting work for piano and strings is a theme and four variations based on the medieval notion of the four temperaments, or personality types – Melancholic, Sanguinic, Phlegmatic and Choleric. Inspired by the composer's unusual approach, Balanchine responded with what he described as 'a kind of stereoscopic choreography for Hindemith's strong score' that evokes the attitudes and moods of the temperaments without being directly programmatic.
Introducing Hofesh Shechter…
Israeli-born, London-based choreographer and composer Hofesh Shechter is a leading voice in British contemporary dance. He's won widespread acclaim for his visceral, politically charged choreography and atmospheric musical scores. Winner of several awards, including the 2008 Critics' Circle for Best Choreography (Modern), he has been commissioned to create works for leading dance companies worldwide. Untouchable is his first piece for The Royal Ballet.
An Ocean of Dancers
The focus in Untouchable, as in the majority of Shechter's choreography, is on the tribal group, rather than on soloists. He's choreographed the work on what he describes as an 'ocean' of roughly twenty dancers, drawn mainly from the corps de ballet. Shechter's aim in Untouchable is to 'meet somewhere in the middle' between his own heavy, primal style and the dancers' ballet vocabulary, to create a piece that explores the group's unique energy.
Song of the Earth
Das Lied von der Erde
Gustav Mahler's 'song symphony' Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) was composed during a painful time in the composer's life, shortly after the death of his daughter Maria. The work is divided into six movements, the text for which is taken from Chinese poems of the eighth century T'ang dynasty – freely translated into German by Hans Bethge – that address themes of transience, parting and salvation. MacMillan fell in love with the piece and in 1965 used it as the score for his Song of the Earth, created for Stuttgart Ballet and brought into the repertory of The Royal Ballet six months later.
Man, Woman, Death
MacMillan worked a narrative into Song of the Earth, drawing on imagery from the translated poems. Focusing on a trio of dancers who perform a variety of solos, pas de deux and pas de trois, he created a ballet that, in his own words, depicts 'a man and a woman; death takes the man; they both return to her and at the end of the ballet, we find that in death there is the promise of renewal. It is a sort of revelation achieved through death'.


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Carlos Tevez has issued an unreserved apology "to everybody I have let down" at Manchester City following his five-month battle with the club and declared his hope that Roberto Mancini will now allow him to return to action.
The striker had a dramatic fallout with his manager after refusing to warm-up during a Champions League group game at Bayern Munich on 27 September and then went awol, returning to his homeland in Argentina without permission for three months. Although Mancini is yet to see Tevez since the latter returned to the club last week, the manager is said to be at ease with the development.
Tevez said: "I wish to apologise sincerely and unreservedly to everybody I have let down and to whom my actions over the last few months have caused offence. My wish is to concentrate on playing football for Manchester City."
It is understood that Tevez, who has been training in the afternoons away from the first-team squad as he regains fitness, met the director of football, Brian Marwood, at the club's Carrington complex and other members of staff on Tuesday afternoon. Mancini had already left when Tevez arrived at around 3.30pm for the session, that included a two-hour work-out before gym work, but was kept fully informed.
Earlier in the day, the manager had been asked about Tevez before Wednesday evening's Europa League last-32 second leg with Porto at the Etihad Stadium but, unaware that the striker was about to apologise, he refused to talk about the subject, saying: "We have another three months to talk about Carlos Tevez."
With Tevez's apology being unreserved and unconditional, the next issue is whether Mancini will consider selecting him as he seeks to guide City to a first championship since 1968. Immediately after the incident at Bayern the Italian declared Tevez as "finished" at City and on Monday last week, on the day before his return, Tevez gave an interview in which he accused the Italian of treating him "like a dog".
With Tevez also announcing he has withdrawn his appeal to the Premier League for the £1.2m fine – approximately six weeks' wages – for his decision to fly to Argentina, it remains to be decided whether the club will fine him for the outburst last week. If so, Tevez can expect to forfeit two weeks' wages, amounting to £400,000.
The striker would apparently be welcomed back into the dressing room by his team-mates – last week James Milner stated he "did not understand the difficulties" regarding Tevez's return to the club and hours before Tevez's apology Samir Nasri said: "I think he's an important player for us and any team in Europe because he has quality. I don't know what happened but if he has to apologise he has to do that because then he will be in the squad. We need someone with that quality to win the Europa League and the Premier League but it's up to Carlos and the club to deal with."


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ELIXIR Staff Exchange - Final Workshop
From the 16th to the 17th of April the Final Workshop of the ELIXIR Staff Exchange is taking place at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), and Instituto Tecnológico de Química e Biologia (ITQB) in Oeiras. ELIXIR PT organized the event and is represented by members from three of its partners. The invited guests were representing ELIXIR NL, ELIXIR FR and ELIXIR IT.
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God Damn are a duo hailing from the West Midlands - 'Horus' is their latest single which is due to be released through One Little Indian on October 27th.
We caught them at this year's 2000 Trees festival and have been hooked ever since. They are due to drop their debut album next year, ahead of which come tours with Turbowolf and Kagoule.
We like them...ALOT.
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Today's Post is by Uli Klumpp - Sr. Director, Engineering
Poser has had solid support for the COLLADA digital asset exchange format for a number of years now (a beta plugin for Poser 7 was revealed at SIGGRAPH 2007), COLLADA support has been steadily improved since. Getting access to the incredibly rich world of Poser content from Photoshop has always been a prime use for this integration path.
Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012 are about to take the next step in their soon-to-be-released service release 2 updater. Adobe just announced availability of a Photoshop CS6 public beta version, so we use the opportunity to show how both of these upcoming releases take integration to a new level.
The SR2 updater for Poser will enable export of bump and normal maps in Photoshop compatible fashion. We'll grab Poser's Dregon figure from the library (included with Poser 9 and Pro 2012), apply the Hunting Run pose, and export the result to COLLADA:
Then we'll open the exported file in Photoshop CS6:
The model comes in perfectly, all normal map detail preserved, ready to use in your illustration.
Full flexibility is retained during compositing, no need to re-render an image in Poser for changes to aspect ratio, camera angle or lighting.
There are a lot of reasons besides flexibility why you might want to take Poser 3D content into Photoshop CS - stereoscopic rendering is one of them. Here's an anaglyph example:
For this image I was trying to mimic Dain Fagerholm's amazing stereographic trick, but it's obviously hard to get right:
Poser Pro 2012 with SR2 applied will be your best solution, but if you want to try this now (with no strings attached), grab the Poser 9 Trial version here, and the Photoshop CS6 public beta here. Let us know about your successful projects!
Stay tuned for a follow-up post that shows how to add some bones and motion to get animated 3D characters from Poser into WebGL-enabled browsers like Chrome or Firefox.


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Interview with Mr. Suhermanto S, Director, Satellite Technology Center, National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), Indonesia, at APRSAF-19 in Kuala Lumpur (Dec 2012)
The APRSAF Secretariat interviewed Mr. Suhermanto S, Director, Satellite Technology Center, National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), Indonesia, at APRSAF-19 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in December 2012. He mainly talked about LAPAN's Automatic Identification System (AIS), or ship monitoring system, whose equipment will be carried on LAPAN's next satellite, LAPAN-A2. The AIS was one of the main topics at the APRSAF-19 Communication Satellite Applications Working Group (CSA WG).
Secretariat: Why did LAPAN decide to put an AIS payload on its next satellite, LAPAN-A2?
S: I heard the satellite itself will be built by LAPAN. What about the AIS payload?
We will simply integrate the subsystems. Regarding LAPAN-A2, we will focus on design and assembly, integration, and testing. Most of the components are not made by LAPAN. Sometimes we obtain them from a partner in another country. For example, we cooperate with our Norwegian partner, Kongsberg, which is known for space-borne AISs, AISSat-1 and NORAIS.
S: Within Indonesia, how do you cooperate with other governmental entities to make use of AIS?
Presently, in Indonesia, several institutions exist that have the authority to monitor Indonesian waters. Our government wants to integrate all systems with an AIS into a single surveillance system. The government is currently working to use coastal radars, AISs, and satellite data to create a network system for water territory monitoring. If we launch our satellite by 2013, we will be able to contribute to this system.
S: Do private shipping companies use AIS data?
Yes. Our responsibility at the moment is to submit the data to the Maritime Authority, which decides how to use the data. We will cooperate with it in developing the AIS system, and after the launch of the satellite, we intend to study how to use it together.
S: What about ground stations? Have they been developed by LAPAN or the Maritime Authority?
Right now, LAPAN has five ground station networks. We have decided which one should manage the AIS data, and a system to facilitate this has been set up. From this ground station, we will obtain relevant data and submit it to the Maritime Authority.
S: Do you have any plans for the future?
LAPAN-A3 is next on our agenda. The main mission of LAPAN-A3 is an imagery experiment involving earth observation. We intend to use our AIS for this mission so that we can obtain global coverage of AIS data. By combining these two types of data, we will obtain more valuable information on maritime traffic.
LAPAN-A2 and LAPAN-A3 are for technological demonstration purposes only. It is important to note this, because sometimes, the Maritime Authority decides to make a satellite fully operational. However, because LAPAN has limited opportunities to launch its satellites and conduct experiments with them, one satellite has to be used for many missions; so, having a fully operational satellite is not quite practical.
Next on our agenda are LAPAN-A4 and A5, which will be next-generation satellites. LAPAN-A4's mission will involve the validation of optical images. We also intend to develop a synthetic aperture radar (SAR).
Our missions involving the satellites tend to be piggyback ones owing to budget and facility constraints; microsatellites are quite suited to such missions. So, for LAPAN-A4 and A5, we intend to develop microsatellite class, and they would not be an experimental but fully operational satellite. We call them "transition" between experimental to fully operational. We intend to build a fully operational satellite, because we want our country to receive the full benefit of our research.
S: I see. Incidentally, what are your impressions of the APRSAF meeting?
I believe that APRSAF, we can discuss the progress and status of the development of our satellites with everyone. Also, it is a good place to obtain advice on our activities.
At APRSAF, information can be shared not only between governments or space agencies but also from governments to space agencies or the other way around. We also have information on the availability of products. We are likely to find solutions to our problems at APRSAF, because sometimes, problems similar to ours tend to have already been solved by other companies or institutions.
S: Especially within the working group, the CSA working group?
Yes. For APRSAF-19, we have a special topic pertaining to the AIS, and discussions on this topic are likely to be a learning experience. For instance, what we have done in Indonesia has been done in Japan as well, so perhaps Japan may have a solution to, for example, AIS data management problems. We are looking forward to a collaborative learning experience and to cooperation in the near future.
S: Thank you.


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Nevertheless, I'm a proud owner of such a slate, and I want to share with you some tips that could help you with the Slate 21. Some of those tips will require root privileges.
Please note: So far, it seems that HP is doing their best to block any rooting attempts. Their latest update includes security patches from Android 4.3 and 4.4 which prevents all known rooting methods from working (and I tried all of them so far). However, when it comes to a chase between HP and Android "hackers" - those "hackers" will win (there's not a single Android device that hasn't been rooted so far, other then this Slate). Remember - if you root it (or unlock it), your warranty is lost.
So here are my tips, some of them requires root, and when such a tip requires these privileges, it will be marked with root:
- Do you plan to do some serious typing and you're a fast typist? switch keyboards from the bundled one to a more professional one (Logitech and Microsoft got some serious keyboards). As a person who types 80+ WPM (Words Per Minute), I find the bundled keyboard useless for my needs.
- Want to use another keyboard and you're missing the Android shortcuts? you'll need a new app for that. You can try "external keyboard" (which is free), and if that doesn't suit you, try the External Keyboard Helper Pro (which costs around $3) - the latter will give you tons of options to configure any key to any Android action, it also let you select which keys to use to switch Layout and other nice features.
- root The Tegra 4 in the Slate 21 is clocked at 1.66 GHz, which is really slow (compare that to the Asus TF701 which is also a Tegra 4 based device and it's clocked at 1.9 GHz). There are some "mods" which envolve kernel modifications and recompile to achieve a serious speed boost (the nVidia Shield users/hackers at XDA reached 2.55 GHz!), but be careful with that! The nVidia shield got a fan, the Slate-21 doesn't, so you could easily fry your Tegra 4 (although you'll probably won't fry it, you'll get a very unstable machine).
- root 8GB Space is really, really a small place when you're installing games, downloading videos etc. Although it's not possible to completely move apps to any external storage to SD, you can move the apps+data with some apps that will do it for you. Check this video how it can be done (although this video is talking about Galaxy S4, it's the same app and same method with Slate 21). This will give you the space that you need so much. Before doing that, remember to get a Class 10 SD Card (and don't format it as exFAT or NTFS, the Slate's kernel doesn't support those file systems fully, only FAT32).
- USB ports are different! Don't ask me why, but it seems that the USB ports in the Slate 21 are working differently compared to other devices. Examples: if you plug a keyboard or a mouse to the USB port on the left, it won't recognize it, so if you're plugging any USB device and you don't see it being recognized, try to connect it to the ports behind the slate. (update: thanks to "COWA" from the HP support forum, this behavior happens when you enable USB debugging. Disable USB debugging and the side port should work as the other 2).
- Sluggish performance? sometimes when you switch between tons of apps, you'll get a slow performance (that's what happens when the vendors only install 1 GB of RAM). A simple solution would be to press the multi-box (on the bottom of the screen, the right button), and swipe down any app that you're not using. Android is doing it's best to manage the memory, but Android is not magic...
- root Hackers - Be careful with the Slate's boot loader! since HP rewrote the boot loader, you can easily damage the boot loader if you install wrong 3rd party recovery image (currently there aren't any, neither CWM or TWRP for the Slate 21). If you'll damage the boot loader, you'll be stuck in whats called "APX mode", which is a low level and it's being used to flash firmware to the nvflash. This is very tricky if you don't know what you're doing and could easily leave you in a hard-brick situation!


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You won't find better tunes under there love….
Joe from RANDOM CIRCUITS has dusted down his crates and done some deep digging pulling out 10 absolute gems! Here you go…
Joe's random look back for Feel My Bicep.
I've always found it important to look back when it comes to music, I mean there would'nt be a future without a past…
Seidensticker – Untitled B1 [Out To Lunch 2003] (Scribbled EP) http://www.sendspace.com/file/ngvk03
I'm a big fan of the basic groove be it classic Kerri Chandler or up to date grooves from Agnes & the rest of the Swiss house mafia. "Scribbled" EP by Seidensticker is a 9 track house EP of the finest & quite soulful Detroit house grooves. Perfect to start a set with.
N.Y House 'n Authority -Untitled A2 [Nu Groove Records 1989] (Apt EP) http://www.sendspace.com/file/21wqu5
Rheji & Ronald Burrell were very influential to deep house in the late 80's early 90's. With there own label, Nu Groove Records, the two brothers could release as they wanted, sometimes as a duo or on there own. N.Y House 'n Authority was one of Rheji's guises where he would bring his New Jersey style house & blend it with more Detroit sounding house. "Apt" EP is a perfect example of this as it features a whole range of sounds.
Q – "The Voice Of Q" [Philly World Records 1982] http://www.sendspace.com/file/5tef37
Way, way,way ahead of its time! The Voice of Q sounds as fresh as it did back in the day. Sweet & soulful vocals meets vocoder disco vocals on top of an funky electronic beat. Dont under-estimate Q!
Chez-Trent – "The Choice" (Windy City Club) [KMS 1993] http://www.sendspace.com/file/2b4z0o
Chez Damier & Ron Trent has to be one of the best house collaborations ever, I mean both extremely taleted in their own right so put them together and you get the ultimate force. The Windy City Club mix of "The Choice" is an awesome deep vocal house track that has the dance floor moving & grooving, with ease to this very day.
Round One – "I'm Your Brother" (Club Version) [Main Street Records 1994] http://www.sendspace.com/file/1v79lu
Mark Ernestus & Moritz Von Oswald first collaborated record together & what a record it was. Sublime & perfect for the end of the night record.
Kerri Chandler -"Climax 2" (Atmosphere EP) [157 Shelter Records 1993] http://www.sendspace.com/file/0n3c0t
Kerri Chandler is one of my favourite house producers & his Atmosphere EP(along with so many others) is a classic that still sounds fresh today. I could have chosen any of the 4 tracks from this EP as there all stellar. A excellent house EP that everyone should own!
Aaron Arce – "Pressure" [Duba Records 1997] (The Noize EP) http://www.sendspace.com/file/uhi0dj
I love this kind of house, sweet grooves garage like vocals and a up-beat tempo. "Pressure" by Aaron Arce has been lifted from the Noize EP which was (sadly) only released as a promo. Quality deep-garage house.
24Hour Experience "Together" (Part 2) [Nice 'N' Ripe 1994] http://www.sendspace.com/file/i3b9hs
I've recently brought this one back to life as it slots into a deep house set like a missing piece of a jigsaw. Possibly one of the all time greatest UK garage tracks from the by-gone era of 2-step & champagne style garage music. Absolute killer!
Barada "Sensation" [Definitive Recordings 1994](Glue EP) http://www.sendspace.com/file/3gskfm
"Sensation" is taken from the fabulous "Glue" EP which really is a fantastic EP. Rolling grooves meet soulful riffs & playful keys all of which are backed up by some "housey" vocals.This is my kind of house music.
Unknown – High Society. http://www.sendspace.com/file/mgsvmr
This one is as rare as rockin horse shit! I dont know anything about it apart from it kills it. I bought it at my local record store(Disc in Bradford) back in the day,& I reckon this is part of the reason why I have a massive love for piano influenced house. Just listen & see why.