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Virtue and Romance: Allan Bloom on Jane Austen and Aristotelian Ethics
Garbitelli, Mary Beth, Kries, Douglas, Modern Age
Within Allan Bloom's last book, Love and Friendship, stands a chapter on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. (1) The chapter is short--just over seventeen pages in length--but that it exists at all in a volume that features Plato and Rousseau may be surprising to many. Nevertheless, Bloom offers an incisive if unorthodox interpretation of Austen's novel, ultimately suggesting that Austen advances a position that features a unique combination of modern romantic love and ancient friendship. That the translator of Emile sees echoes of modern romanticism in Austen's books is hardly to be wondered at, for her works display many themes that are reminiscent of Rousseau: marriage is the foundation of society and for most, the source of meaning and purpose in life; social barriers such as class often present themselves as unjust obstacles to romantic desire; chastity is the prerequisite of strong romantic attachment; differences between males and females are augmented rather than minimized: the rural is superior to the urban; sentiment tends to be predominant. What is perhaps unexpected, though, is Bloom's insistence on "Austen's classical preferences," on her appearance "as a partisan of Aristotelian rationalism against the dominant principles of modernity," and on her desire "to celebrate classical friendship as the core of romantic love." (2)
Without claiming that Austen actually read Aristotle, we may accept and even extend Bloom's claim that there is a strong Aristotelian element in her work. Indeed, Bloom attributes to Austen a unique and daring synthesis between modern marriage and classical friendship, but does not think that her attempt to reconcile these elements wholly succeeds. Nevertheless, his refutation does not take into account that Austen has anticipated and answered his objections in her fiction. We may, therefore, accept Bloom's interpretation of Austen while rejecting his evaluation.
Smallness and Happiness
Aristotle is of course famous for his comment in the first book of the Politics that man is a political animal. The polis, however, is a city of limited size--one in which there is a good chance that any given citizen will know any other given citizen, or at least have some reasonably reliable knowledge about any other citizen. In his discussion of the life of the polls, Aristotle seems only indirectly interested in how such a city relates to other cities or nations, especially if they are far away. It is not that lie completely ignores foreign affairs, but what makes a polls an important and natural feature of human life is how it promotes human happiness by advancing the virtues of the citizens; this means that Aristotle is principally concerned with how the citizens themselves relate to each other.
This restricted horizon within which human beings work toward their happiness is further limited when one turns from Aristotle's Politics to his Ethics. Certainly, Aristotle advocates the study of the city in the Ethics, but in Books VIII and IX of the work he explains that a circle of friends within a city is actually the very best situation that human beings can hope for. These friends, sharing a noble conception of the good, will practice virtue toward each other, thereby improving each other and leading each other into the true happiness that comes with genuine virtue. It seems that the justice provided by the polls is indeed the natural social horizon for human beings, but within the polls there is an even smaller social circle that provides the context for the best life for the best human beings. "When men are friends,"' Aristotle says, "they have no need of justice, while when they are just they need friendship as well." (3)
Jane Austen's novels share the Aristotelian focus on small social arrangements. If Aristotle prefers a small circle of friends living within a city of restricted size, Austen prefers a small circle of families living within a village of modest size: both, however, emphasize situations in which a handful of people share together a life in which their happiness is intertwined. …


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7 Non-Traditional Bundt Cake Pans
Growing up, bundt cakes were a dessert staple in my house. These days, bundt cake pans have come a long way from the traditional shape we all know and love. Here are seven beautiful bundt cake pans that are not in any way traditional.
Bake your bundt cake in the shape of a rose! This rose bundt pan is non-stick for easy release of your cake. It is perfect for special occasions!
This Heritage Bundt Pan by Nordic Ware draws all the attention with its tucked in spirals. Draw frosting on the edges of this bundt cake for an even more dramatic finished look.
This heart-shaped bundt cake pan is perfect for anniversaries or Valentine's Day. Or just to say I love you.
This bundt pan creates an elegant cake with cascading ripples down the sides. It is so pretty that it doesn't need much decoration once the cake is baked!
Who wants to build a sand castle? With this castle bundt cake pan, you can create your own sand castle cake! This bundt cake pan is perfect for children's birthday parties, too.
Create a snowy pine forest look with this pine tree bundt cake pan by sprinkling powdered sugar over the cake.
This bundt cake pan creates a gorgeous dramatic look with its multi-dimension mold.

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Swimmer's ear occurs due to the sensitivity of the ear epithelium in a wet medium. At humidity the skin pores open and the ear skin changes like the skin of the washing hands.
Swimmer's ear is the ear long-held under water (bath, shower). Cleaned up it removes the protective layer of the skin and weakens protection against bacteria which will cause an inflammation.
Swimmer's ear – symptoms
Itching is usually the onset of swimmer's ear and then may occur ear pain, from mild to very strong. Because of the bacteria that multiply there can appear an infection that requires disclosure to the doctor and treatment with antibiotics.
Treatments for ear pain and itching
- For itching in the ear and wet sensation in the ear you can take ear drops from pharmacies that will dry it.
- It is important if you swim, to keep your head to the surface.
- Silicone or wax plugs are important to plug your ears when entering in the water, even in the shower, to protect them from a worsening situation.
- Heat gives ameliorates earache.
- Beware to remove ear wax , which has a protective role against moisture and also has a bacteria culture that helps.
- If missing, the wax can be replaced successfully with Vaseline. You can put vaseline on a wool plug and will take over the role of ear wax: to heat, to dry and to protect wet ear.
- White vinegar and/or medicinal alcohol play a role in killing bad bacteria. It won't help you get rid of the infection but will protect you. It is important if you have a perforated eardrum to not drip anything in any way in the ear! If you have a healthy eardrum the medicinal alcohol or the vinegar is dripped in the ill ear that stands up while you are lying on the side and move to help the fluid to penetrate better. Then you change the side to drain the fluid. You can also put baby oil and with the same method and warnings, recommended before you enter in swimming pools.
- Of course be sure to swim in clean water and without hearing aid in the ear if you are a carrier, elementary to remove the risk of symptoms (pain, itching of the ears ) for swimmer's ear.


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Erin Go Bragh camogie Team Reach Final
On Saturday the Erin Go Bragh girls set off for Na Fianna Collinstown to take part in the 2016 Division 5 Camogie Feile Division 5. With only had 14 players it would be a difficult challenge with tough 3 group matches in store at the very least.
the girls started their Group A campaign with a match v Round Towers Clondalkin where they dominated restricting Towers to a single score with the final scoreline reading 7-2 to 1-0. Their second game was against Kevins but again the EGB girls rose to the challenge and apart from a few lapses of concentration ran out comfortable winners on a scoreline of 6-4 to 2-0.
The girls went into the last game of the group against Kilmacud Crokes knowing that they were through to the semi finals, but a win would guarantee top spot. The girls were on top early on and got some early scores but Kilmacud came back strongly and but for some fine defensive work the halftime score would have been closer. The girls started to show some tiredness but battled hard leading at halftime by 3-2 to 2-0. They dug deep and produced a strong second half performance to keep Kilmacud scoreless and win 6-4 to 2-0. Unbeaten and top ofntheir group the girls were to face hosts Na Fianna in their semi final.
The first half was keenly contested with EGB the better team leading at halftime by 2-1 to 1-0. However the girls were clearly beginning to show the signs of tiredness and Na Fianna had played 30 minutes less hurling. In a frantic last 10 minutes Na Fianna came strong and some heroic defending and a break away goal for the super EGB girls meant a place in the final place on a final score 4-3 to 3-1.
Erin Go Bragh were originally scheduled to play Crumlin in the final in O'Toole Park at 9 on Sunday morning. However an objection against a Crumlin player was lodged by both Na Fianna and the other loosing semi finalists. It had been originally hoped that the matter would be resolved in time for the final to take place but this was not to be the case. The final will now take place on a later date to be confirmed.
The Erin Go Bragh feile team would like to thank Monica Flanagan and Jackie Maher who helped organise the team and attend to injuries, to Niamh Maher and Amy Flanagan who kept the water flowing, to Martin Carroll and George Burke for great umpiring, to chairman Linda Cullen for her support all day and lastly to all the supporters on the day and well wishers.
Team : Top row Katie Kearney Jade Omotayo Leah Ivory Rachel Murray Keri Redmond Ellen Gribben Anna Omotayo Aoibhe Kearney Bottom row Amy Carroll Ellie Manning Megan Owens Aoife O'Sullivan (Capt) Aoibhinn Burke (Vice Capt) Gemma Padden
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Nivea Lovely Lips Pink Smoothie and Glamorous Gloss Pink Sugar Lip balm Review
February 5, 2015 | Lip Balm | No Comments|
I bought these when I went to grocery shopping a month ago. I saw them on promotion and bought it for fun. Originally, Nivea sells lip balm and lip gloss separately. But lately, they are doing some promotion for their lip care products and sell these tinted lipbalm and lip gloss together for one lipbalm price, which is around 3$ U.S.D.
There have about 3 flavors. Mine is 'Pink Smoothie', which smells strawberry, a moisturizing sheer tinted lipbalm. The texture is abit thick and really moisturizing. But I feel like the smell is quite strong. Maybe i am not a fan of cosmetics with fragrance.
So, the lipgloss is a gift for buying the lipbalm. But they came in together in promotional packs. The lipgloss is 8.5 ml little pink tube. It says ' Glamorous Gloss ', maybe because of its shimmery pink lipgloss. The name of my gloss is Pink Sugar. It smells lychee fruit smell. It is a lovely lipgloss.
To sum it up, I love Nivea lipgloss more than Nivea tinted lipbalm. But I really like their original lipcare balms. I will buy more Nivea lip gloss in the future but not for tinted lip balm as I don't like the smell. It is a lovely purchase and cute products to use after all.
Have you tried them? What do you think of them?


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What is the maximum number of partitions that can be made on a hard drive?
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Can anyone tell how many partitions we can create on a hard disk? While alphabet no are 26 then how we will assign drive letter for more than 24 partition.


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What will it take to make New Jersey and New York less vulnerable to future storms like Sandy? The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development hopes close to a billion dollars will help. That's how much officials say they'll spend on a series of large-scale flood protection projects in both states, as part of a competition by planners, environmentalists, designers, and engineers.
The purpose of the Rebuild by Design contest was to come up with regional solutions to make the area more resilient. It received more than 140 entries, ranging from the creation of a financing model to fund coastal protection in Asbury Park to a pie-in-the-sky plan to construct artificial barrier islands 10 miles off the Jersey Shore. The ideas were narrowed through two rounds of competition, and yesterday, half a dozen winners were announced, including two in New Jersey.
A proposal by a Dutch engineering team to build sea walls and other measures to protect Hoboken and parts of Weehawken and Jersey City was awarded $230 million. Another plan created by MIT in partnership with two European design firms will receive $150 million to restore wetlands in the Meadowlands and build a berm to reduce flooding in nearby communities.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Hudson, the feds will fund four projects totaling $540 million, including a plan to build a 19-foot high berm along Manhattan's Lower East Side and a project to fortify the Hunts Point section of the Bronx, the hub of the region's food distribution system.
The New Jersey winners were announced yesterday afternoon by HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan at a news conference in Little Ferry.
"These winning proposals are truly transformative and serve as blueprints for how we can safeguard the region and make it more environmentally and economically resilient," he said. "I believe they will be models throughout this country of the way that we can rebuild smarter and stronger after devastating storms."
Donovan added that implementing the plans will not only save lives, but also makes economic sense in the long run. "By investing in these proposals, we're going to ensure that when that next storm comes, New Jersey will be safer and better prepared."
Speaking with reporters after the event, Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer called it a historic opportunity for her flood-prone city. A few months ago, Zimmer had been battling with the state and Gov. Chris Christie, charging her city was being denied recovery funding due to politics. But yesterday, she just wanted to focus on the good news of what this announcement means for Hoboken.
"I'm very excited to be a part of this," she said. "I think that we really have a great proposal that can be a model for urban resiliency."
The plan calls for a variety of approaches, including holding back flood waters with sea walls, delaying water from entering the city, storing flood water underground, and better drainage. It's based on techniques developed in the Netherlands, a country that was originally covered with swampland and where two-thirds of the modern-day population is vulnerable to flooding.
"What we're talking about is being able to live with water," Zimmer said. "We're going to demonstrate that it can be done."
While $230 million won't cover the entire cost of the project, Zimmer said Hoboken is currently exploring a variety of funding sources to come up with the rest, such as public-private partnerships and use of the city's open-space trust fund.
Secretary Donovan said the timeline for when ground will be broken on all these projects is uncertain, but he noted that the federal government would move as quickly as possible to get the ball rolling now that it's chosen the winners.
Asked why none of the chosen New Jersey projects focused on the Jersey Shore, he said the winners were determined to be the best proposals that were submitted, and he emphasized that this competition is merely one part of HUD's response to Sandy. Much of the attention up until now has already focused on areas further down the coast, he said.
The funding for New Jersey's two Rebuild by Design projects comes from the state's third — and likely final — batch of Community Development Block Grant Sandy aid. Even after all the money is spent, state officials estimate that nearly $17 billion will remain in unmet needs for housing, economic development, and infrastructure. But Donovan said he's not terribly worried, since the federal aid will be enough to ensure that all residents on waiting lists for housing assistance will get the help they need.
"I think when you talk about billions of dollars of needs, what you're talking about is if we were to rebuild every piece of infrastructure in the region — even ones that weren't hit by Sandy — to make them more resilient," he said. "You're talking about billions and billions of dollars of investment. That's not necessarily what the Sandy supplemental was meant to fund. We have to find other creative ways to come up with that money."


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Two recitals at Bath Spa University
Peter Donohoe will give two special recitals at Bath Spa University: on Wednesday, October 17 and again one week later on Wednesday, October 24. These recitals celebrate two anniversaries. Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 2 was composed 100 years ago, in 1912. This sonata will be part of the programme of the first recital. Secondly the first complete performance of Shostakovich's Preludes & Fugues was given 60 years ago. These works will be part of both recitals. Both concerts will start at 7.30 p.m. and be played at the Michael Tippett Centre.


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We have re-entered the world of apartment renting.
"Why?" you might ask…
We spent the better part of the past few years weighing the pros and cons of continuing to live in (and maintain, and pay $$$$ for) our 3,000 sf suburban home. Mr. HG has been warming up to the idea of renting temporarily until we become closer to our solid FI goals and possible eventual relocation.
Pros of Continuing to Own:
Lovely house; we built it and choose everything
Nice neighborhood, private backyard
Avoids the pain of moving
Unsure of our long term plans, so inertia
Cons of Continuing to Own:
Waaaaaaay more house than we need
Cost of maintenance
Cost of heating/cooling
Potential upcoming recession, in which we would have large amount of $ in illiquid asset (house equity)
We are considering moving to a lower cost of living area, closer to family, so renting now short term makes sense
Spring 2019 – The housing market in Portland Metro area always picks up in the spring, and all signs were pointing that it would again be a seller's market. Other economic indicators demonstrate that there might be some future recessionary trend (inverted yield curve, trade wars). We figured that now would be a good time to sell, and that if we waited due to inertia, we might have some future difficulty with selling.
We decided to put our house as FSBO (for sale by owner) on Zillow, with courtesy to buyer's agent. We figured we had nothing to lose by trying, (we are frugal DIY weirdos, after all) and saving the listing agent fee would be worth it.
I am a Zillow and Realtor.com troll, with a fascination about everything real estate. We knew we had that right pricing based on comps in the area. After snapping some photos, we put the home up on Zillow in early May. We stuck a sign in the front yard, and I pushed some posts thru on social media to help get the word out. Luck was in our favor, as the next day another house down the street went on the market. This encouraged some lookers to come see our house too. We had an open house on the first weekend, and a week later received 2 offers. After some back and forth, we went under contract, and with a close date end of June.
Ok, Great. So, now what???
Priority 1: Find a place to rent
Priority 2: Purge rooms of useless stuff to prep to downsize
Priority 3: Secure movers and plan a moving timeline
Rental location priorities:
Pet-friendly for our 2 little dogs
Nicely landscaped
Close to Mr. HG's work, and quick freeway access for me
Walkable to parks and shops
Gym and pool would be nice perks
We toured a handful of places, and decided on one that we thought would be perfect. 2 bedroom, 2 bath 950 sf apartment in a complex with a nice gym and outdoor pool. It is 2 miles to Mr. HG's work, and very convenient to the highway for mine. The rent is reasonable for the area. The complex is 20 years old, and they are slowly updating all of their units, but we chose an apartment with the old "classic" design. Privacy is afforded from trees screening the balcony and windows, and an added bonus is the rent is cheaper since the unit has not been remodeled. It is quite nice, and light and bright with southern exposure.
The apartment was available right away, so that we could begin moving some things over. (How in the WORLD do people accomplish this in one weekend?!?!?). I knew that we needed extra time to be able to sell and purge 2 decades of useless stuff that had been reproducing in the cabinets and cupboards, plus lots of furniture and yard equipment. I will outline how we accomplished this in a future post: Purging and Downsizing.
Our house has since closed, and the proceeds (for now) are sitting in a high(er) interest savings account. We have now resided in the apartment for exactly one month and are really enjoying it!
Apartment living pros:
The dogs are settling in nicely
I love the 1 level living (after the stairs to get in – we are on 3rd level)
So quick and easy to clean
Quiet – much quieter than I/we thought it would be
There are miles of trails/bike paths right outside our door
Love the gym and the pool
No yardwork or maintenance – the gift of time
The cost of our rent + utilities is = just the property taxes/insurance/utilities and upkeep of our previous clown house – cue in JL Collins Why your house is a terrible investment
Huge savings on a monthly basis – we can funnel that extra money into our post tax account.
Apartment living cons: (and I had to dig deep here)
No garage to store the cars
Carrying groceries up the stairs to third floor
All in all, we are thrilled with our new place! And ready to funnel the cost saving to future freedom from the daily grind.
In good times, happiness, and health.


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IIIRBR PUNKIII posted a topic in Equipas & ClãsO RBR – Reality Brasil – (primeiro clã a ser criado para a prática do mod Project Reality no Brasil), foi fundado no dia 29/07/2006 com os os propósitos de reunir amigos, divulgar o Mod, multiplicar o conhecimento básico necessário à pratica do PR e massificar a cultura do teamplay e fair play. Com tais valores, a visão e a missão do clã sempre estiveram bem definidas: Missão: Reunir – num grupo coeso, no qual a amizade impere – jogadores que tenham predileção por FPS Tático, para treiná-los na eficiência tática e estratégica, no teamplay e no fair-play e torná-los responsáveis por fazerem dos servidores (que frequentem) ambientes diferenciados, proporcionadores de divertimento a todos os demais frequentadores. Visão: Ser um clã exemplar. Visando ter suas fileiras integradas por jogadores com boa índole e fácil relacionamento interpessoal, o RBR recrutou e formou mais de 150 bons (em todos os sentidos da palavra) jogadores no Project Reality e foi transformado por tais jogadores numa família seleta a família RBRana. Esta família cresceu e se ramificou em diversos jogos. Os RBRanos são liderados pelos valores do clã, numa democracia que faculta à liderança qualquer um de seus membros que seja reconhecido como líder pelos demais, independentemente do tempo de clã cada membro tenha. Na funcional democracia RBRana, são donos do clã todos os RBRanos que sejam ativos e participativos. Nossa hierarquia é natural e não imposta, cada RBRano é – para o RBR – exatamente aquilo que prove ser. Após mantermos nosso recrutamento aberto durante algum tempo, voltamos ao procedimento adotado desde a fundação do clã, que é manter nosso recrutamento num processo semi-fechado, num incentivo à criação e crescimento de novos clãs. Atualmente, o procedimento consiste de ações mais intimistas e – temporariamente – recrutando quem tem o RBRanismo nas veias através de convites. Pouco nos importa se a sua técnica de jogo já é apurada, pois somos partidários do conceito de que técnica qualquer um é capaz de adquirir praticando. O que valorizamos, antes de qualquer outra característica, é o que cada um já traz consigo como pessoa. Interessa-nos o seu caráter, a sua capacidade de conviver harmoniosamente em comunidade, o seu dom natural de ser uma boa companhia in game, no TeamSpeak e nos Fóruns. Buscamos o seu potencial para usar a especial tag IIIRBR, se divertir conosco e representar dignamente o nosso clã onde a ostentar. Recrutamento: Atualmente o recrutamento do clã está aberto apenas para convidados por meio de recomendações de membros internos do IIIRBR. Caso queria fazer parte da família RealityBrasil, procure um membro do clã informando que tem interesse em ser recrutado. Após isso, cadastra-se no nosso fórum. Gosta de jogar com muito teamwork, diversão e em boa companhia?! Entre no DISCORD e junte-se a nós! https://discord.me/realitybrasil Informações Regimentais do Clã: Comissão de Coordenadores: Almeidabilly RafaelMoes FalaRafa ch0wn VooDoo Pedro_leo N!ght BodySnatcher Kasfir Central de Inteligência: SubZeroBR hirohd IIIPUNKIII Comissão de Conselheiros: Hfett Marzinetti OSVAS 1973 GusMano LeandroHunter Destro IIIMARCIOIII Composição do Clã: IIIRBR Hfett, IIIRBR Profeta, IIIRBR Pedro|_eo, IIIRBR Severloh, IIIRBR Be_Quick, IIIRBR IIIPUNKIII, IIIRBR TuFFGoNG, IIIRBR Gusmano, IIIRBR CASE, IIIRBR ch0wn, IIIRBR XxxxSoloNxxxX, IIIRBR RukI, IIIRBR TIAOGAVIAO, IIIRBR chantal2007, IIIRBR RICARDO, IIIRBR Osvas1973, IIIRBR piquibr, IIIRBR adi_campers, IIIRBR LeandroHunte, IIIRBR BodySnatcher, IIIRBR DESTRO,IIIRBR Miague, IIIRBR WoODoo, IIIRBR SlackBR, IIIRBR Spanickman, IIIRBR Marzinetti, IIIRBR Thanathos, IIIRBR alvez, IIIRBR _Marlooon_, IIIRBR Vyctor, IIIRBR ChuckxD, IIIRBR falarafa, IIIRBR Razen, IIIRBR Nakata, IIIRBR_Soldado2102, IIIRBR RoZeMbRiQuE, IIIRBR NiGhT, IIIRBR MEDS, IIIRBR HotVailller, IIIRBR SoldadoRyaN, IIIRBR Luksleon, IIIRBR HIROhd, IIIRBR kassfir, IIIRBR Buyu171, IIIRBR ThiagoHeringer, IIIRBR Mustang, IIIRBR lordleex, IIIRBR Almeidabilly, IIIRBR Kabeça, IIIRBR LT_Kobalsky, IIIRBR IIIMARCIOIII, IIIRBR EdBr1to, IIIRBR Marviei, IIIRBR TonyGordo, IIIRBR Zé_Floripa, IIIRBR blindeco, IIIRBR SubZeroBR123, IIIRBR Anderson269, IIIRBR rafaelmoes, IIIRBR TrueZeus, IIIRBR kid, IIIRBR Pizza_Rus, IIIRBR SShadowFox, IIIRBR Victor_A1999, IIIRBR BoinaVerde, IIIRBR BRUNO QUADROS, IIIRBR MAX NOBRE, IIIRBR PhillippeBZ, IIIRBR Coveirinho, IIIRBR Oiregor, iiiRBR Bellenus.


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Quick, which one of these is your favorite?
The Polka King; 6 Balloons; Amateur; Love Per Square Foot; Game Over, Man!; The Outsider; Come Sunday; Mute; Irreplaceable You; Happy Anniversary; Roxanne Roxanne; Dude; First Blush; Seeing Allred; The Open House; I Am Not an Easy Man; Benji; A Futile and Stupid Gesture; Step Sisters; Take Your Pills; Blockbuster; First Match; When We First Met; Mercury 13; The Cloverfield Paradox; Kodachrome.
Those are the 25 original films released by Netflix in 2018. How many have you seen? How many do you recognize? Can you spot the one I made up?
The streaming service has ramped up its film division in recent years, with a tripartite strategy focused on everything the rest of the movie business is not doing, and then doing that thing at scale. It began in 2016 with green-lighting, funding, and releasing midlevel, prestige-seeking, movie-star-toplined dramas like War Machine, The Meyerowitz Stories, and Mudbound and would-be blockbusters like Will Smith's woeful Bright; simultaneously, Netflix began aggressively scooping up or premiering scads of films at festivals like Sundance. This created headlines, goodwill, and new opportunity for frustrated filmmakers. To the creators stifled by the rise of Hollywood's all-or-nothing focus on franchise films, Netflix felt like a salve on an open wound. Concurrently, the company began developing its own slate of low-budget comedies, dramas, and documentaries in-house, teaming up with nimble production companies and lesser-known talent that would have had difficulty getting a major studio movie off the ground.
The third strand of Netflix's movie strategy has been in saving the distressed assets of struggling major studios in an effort to capitalize on an industry in flux. On Super Bowl Sunday, Netflix was applauded for its thunderclap promo campaign announcing the acquisition and imminent postgame drop of The Cloverfield Paradox—the one title I suspect most immediately identified from the above list—from Paramount. The movie was a fiasco, but no matter—attention spans were captured. Shortly thereafter, Netflix touted a deal for the international distribution rights to Paramount's dazzling but "not commercial" Annihilation and the worldwide rights to Universal's thought-to-be-troubled Extinction, a sci-fi thriller starring Lizzy Caplan and Michael Peña. The thinking here is simple: The studios receive an injection of cash and get to save face on difficult projects, while Netflix picks up a shiny new product to plunge into its algorithmic stew. It's a hostile takeover masquerading as a low-interest loan.
Through the first 16 weeks of 2018, the number of films released by Netflix—25—is nearly half the number of films the service premiered all of last year. It's also the exact number of films released by the six major studios this year so far.
2018 Releases by Major Studios Through 16 Weeks
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Netflix has at least 32 more lined up this year that we know about. Some of those titles are far less anonymous than the batch that have come thus far. This slate includes Paul Greengrass's Norway; Hell or High Water director David Mackenzie's follow-up, Outlaw King; and Alfonso Cuarón's eagerly awaited Roma, the Mexican master's first film since 2013's Gravity. In just five days, Netflix will release Yeon Sang-ho's Psychokinesis, his latest after 2016's hugely successful, hugely fun Korean zombie thriller Train to Busan(currently available to stream on Netflix). Noah Baumbach has another film with the company coming in the fall. Susanne Bier is teaming with Sandra Bullock for a thriller called Bird Box this winter. These titles are part of a coordinated strategy, too.
The push that began in 2016, before the company's first Oscar win for The White Helmets, a short doc about a brave Syrian rescue crew, is metastasizing. In March, one of its longform docs, the doping saga Icarus, won an Oscar. Mudbound received four nominations, but no wins. So the ambitions are expanding. By the end of this year, Netflix will be the single biggest original movie producer in America, far outpacing Disney, Warner Bros., and the rest in terms of sheer quantity. Maybe one will even compete for Best Picture next year. But does it matter if no one has ever heard of most of these movies?
In the past year, Netflix's public-facing persona around its film division has been pugnacious and charmingly preening. Earlier this month, the company pulled its films from the Cannes Film Festival after a tiff at the 2017 fest spun up into a scuffle over the concept of artistic equality. The officials at Cannes set new rules preventing films without theatrical distribution in France from competing for the festival's prizes. Netflix balked and removed all of its films, including the long-awaited premiere of Orson Welles's thought-to-be-lost final film, The Other Side of the Wind. This decision made a lot of noise.
"We want our films to be on fair ground with every other filmmaker," Ted Sarandos, Netflix's chief content officer, toldVariety. "There's a risk in us going in this way and having our films and filmmakers treated disrespectfully at the festival. They've set the tone. I don't think it would be good for us to be there."
The arcane rules around when a film is allowed to appear on home platforms in France made this a specific, localized issue, but Sarandos and Netflix were able to transform it into a mount upon which it could martyr itself, with a frisson of melodramatic grandeur. "[T]he festival has chosen to celebrate distribution rather than the art of cinema," Sarandos said. "We are 100% about the art of cinema. And by the way, every other festival in the world is too."
This is high-level trolling, and sort of admirable on Sarandos's part. There's more. This week, the Los Angeles Times reportedthat Netflix is now pursuing the purchase of the L.A.-based Landmark Theatres, a chain of movie houses owned by Mark Cuban, to bolster its ability to qualify for awards. It's a kind of self-owned means of distribution, like Carnegie Steel buying every car on the transcontinental railroad. A Best Picture Oscar is the best branding in the world for a content company, an old-school validation for a new-school "disruptor."
But this isn't all Netflix wants. It needs other kinds of films, like the lunkheaded Bright, or Okja, Bong Joon-ho's madcap porcine eco-fable from 2017, to draw attention internationally and among the film press. It also needs a relationship with figures like Adam Sandler to boost interest and grow the subscriber base, something it was able to accomplish in the first quarter of this year, adding nearly 7.41 million more users. Noisemakers raise stock prices, a boon for a business that from a distance can look like a ponzi scheme when you consider the reported $20 billion in debt that the company is carrying and its $8 billion 2018 content budget. But Netflix is growing at a rate that seems unfathomable to analysts. Its market capitalization was valued north of $140 billion this week. Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw recently noted that "Netflix sales are growing at the fastest pace in history thanks to subscriber growth and higher prices." While Netflix's CFO said, "We've outperformed the business in a way we didn't predict." To grow, it needs to keep adding, ballooning the value proposition. Here's a new free thing! makes you feel great about subscribing to anything.
That's swell for the business, but it doesn't quite square the torrent of meh that dots the service. Wedged between the prestige plays and the "for the fans" popcorn movies sits all this middle-ground mulch. This week, there are three new films added to the service: the teen sex dramedy Dude; the midlife crisis dramedy Kodachrome with Ed Harris and Jason Sudeikis; and Mercury 13, a sincere, zippy documentary about a secret all-female space race mission. It has been noted that there is a dark irony in Kodachrome, which was produced independently but debuted wide on Netflix, never running in theaters. "Despite a credit noting that the movie was shot (to little effect) on 35-millimeter Kodak film," Ben Kenigsberg wrote in a review in The New York Times, "'Kodachrome' will mostly be seen on the streaming platform, whose current business model hastens the destruction of physical media."
Kodachrome is emblematic of the morass of Netflix movie offerings. Neither comedy nor drama, neither special nor terrible, neither quotable nor truly forgettable, it is the embodiment of so much we consume in 2018; it's just sort of … there. In theory, this makes for a convenient experience and a low-stakes bet. There's no $17 ticket, no $6 popcorn, no parking structure, no babysitter, no emotional gamble, no accessibility issues at all. Ostensibly, this approach works incredibly well for TV series, where the chance to binge leads to satisfying, controlled consumption patterns for subscribers and extended periods on the service. It's mutually beneficial. Movies are different. They're immersive, designed as a single-serving experience. But the vast number of films I listed above are the very definition of "Lemme see what's happening on my phone" movies: second screens for second screens. Is that a diminution of their quality or a comment on the limited power of Netflix? Both and neither.
Netflix's pursuit—to be everything, the machine and the mind, the farmer and the chef—is difficult to conceive. We've never seen an ambition quite this large, with quite this much power to appear before 125 million people instantaneously. For me, it can feel like a personal affront to something I care about, even if I appreciate the inherent convenience doubling as artistic beneficence. Bong Joon-ho's chance to make bizarre corporate satire with a $50 million budget is a blessing, as is Adam Sandler's opportunity to follow his fart-joke bliss right to the bottom of the emotional abyss. But there are consequences. Every week, I talk to filmmakers, many of whom have projects that premiere on the service, who are deeply ambivalent about the company. Last year one director told me he was devastated when his film was sold to Netflix. Just this week, the director Jay Chandrasekhar openly defied the company's desire to take the movie world out of theaters. Some have the chance to show the world their movie in a way that could never otherwise happen. Dee Rees's Mudboundmight not have happened at a studio. The White Helmets, a short documentary, would not have had 1/100th of its audience if the company did not exist. But then there's all the other stuff.
Movies are sacred. It feels haughty, even delusional to say that. But their power is unique among cultural experiences. Not just the sanctity of an iconic, life-changing film, like Singin' in the Rainor Raging Bull. But the idea of how a film finds us, in what way and where. Netflix's chicken coop structure—with content in close quarters pecking itself to death—feels devaluing for a movie like Okja. In that environment, it is made equal to Kodachromeand The Cloverfield Paradox. You could say the same for Blockbuster Video or a visit to the multiplex in decades past. But the elimination of those same barriers to entry—the price and research and planning that went into the choice—that Netflix celebrates are the very things that could make them special. They've also removed themselves from the mythologizing that movies need. In some cases, that's tracking box-office reports; in others it's the conversation over dinner with friends after a Friday-night screening. The dialogue I observed about The Cloverfield Paradox was the positive retweets Netflix surfaced in support of a movie most people understood to be lousy.
So what to do? Nothing. Netflix is a cruiseliner; once you've boarded, you can feel safe in knowing that it is as unsinkable as it is inescapable. Sure, I'll try it is the maxim by which the service operates. Most movies, as a matter of course, don't work and are soon ignored.
It's one of the tenets of the business, too, which dispatches with problem children quickly and painlessly. Netflix's structure, however, surfaces them routinely with a new power. If Paramount wants to disappear Annihilation, all it needs to do is reduce the number of screens it appears on to zero. In Europe, however, you can find Annihilation at the top of several of Netflix's recommendation buckets.
It's neither banished nor properly celebrated. It's just around, started by millions of people shortly before they drift off to sleep. Some might have even finished it. Only Netflix knows for sure. A year ago, in a column, I asked, "How will we know when we have our first streaming masterpiece?" I think we can answer my question with another question: Who cares?
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House parties in Los Angeles can be hit or miss. More often misses, than hits. At Toddchella, I discovered what it takes to make a house party a sure-fire hit (i) have the house party at a really cool location, (ii) have fully stocked bars with bartenders, (iii) have vending machines that dispense party essentialsContinue reading "Toddchella | Part I | Tijuana Tears"
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Wednesday night I attended the 1st of 2 Messiah performances by American Bach Soloists in Grace Cathedral. The setting was made even more stunning by seasonal decorations of long, shimmering ribbons hanging in the interior. There was a feeling of a special event. The Rt. Rev. Marc Andrus, Episcopal Bishop of California, introduced the program, praised the musicians & conductor Jeffrey Thomas, & urged us to act in solidarity with the poor.
The performance was immaculate & had the manner of a well-prepared ritual. My concert companion declared it "flawless." The cathedral's long reverberation time gave the music a gauzy halo. The orchestra often played softly to minimize sounding muddy. The overture was pianissimo, creating an eerie & expectant atmosphere. Tempos were measured, with occasional brief rubatos. "He shall feed his flock" had a slightly indulgent pace. Maestro Thomas liked to make clear dynamic contrasts between phrases, & the ends of numbers were always meticulously executed.
The soloists stood in the middle of the orchestra rather than out front. Soprano Shawnette Sulker sang with a high, bright & tight voice. Countertenor Eric Jurenas had a focused, narrow sound & was assigned "But who may abide the day of his coming," "Thou art gone up on high" & "If God is for us," besides the traditional alto arias & may have gotten slightly fatigued. Tenor Aaron Sheehan was wonderfully consistent. His clear, bell-like voice carried well. I enjoyed hearing baritone Mischa Bouvier's warm, furry & comforting sound. John Thiessen accompanied him in "The Trumpet shall sound" on a mellow-sounding Baroque trumpet which he played with impressive accuracy. The chorus of 35 singers was split, with sopranos & tenors on the left of the orchestra, altos & basses on the right. They sang with precision & had a transparent texture. Because of the stereophonic separation, phrases bounced from one side to the other in fugal passages.
The serious-minded audience was as focused as the performers. The attentive silence throughout was palpable. Even though a couple at the end of my row slipped out after the Hallelujah Chorus, this was among the quietest audiences I've ever been in. Despite a program note debunking the origin story of the tradition of standing for the Hallelulah Chorus, the audience rose without hesitation for a "Hallelulah!" with a perfectly smooth & even surface.
§ Handel's MESSIAH
American Bach Soloists
Jeffrey Thomas, music director
Shawnette Sulker, soprano
Eric Jurenas, countertenor
Aaron Sheehan, tenor
Mischa Bouvier, baritone
with the American Bach Choir
Wednesday, December 11 2013, 7:30 pm
Grace Cathedral


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The Promise Series by Kate Benson
Just a little note here. I started this series with the latest one The Commitment and that was a big mistake. I am rectifying that error now. I purchased the first three from Amazon for my Kindle and I am reviewing them here and revising my review of that latest installment in the series, based on reading order.
I will be putting these up one at a time because these books flow into one another and I don't want to spoil one.
The Promise – Book 1 of the Promise Series
Publication Date: December 5, 2013
Blurb from Amazon:
Devastated by circumstances beyond her control, Sophie Ryan's life rips her from the arms of her first love, Jack. With only memories of their lost love, she's forced to start over in a new town; surviving on her own for the first time since he left. Trying to begin her new life, fate decides a different direction for her, causing her to make a choice she never thought she'd have to.
Unsure of commitment after his failed engagement, Chase Mitchell finds himself stuck on a path of failed conquests and late nights at the bar. That is until he finds a pair of mesmerizing green eyes sitting in his usual spot. Something about this quiet girl forces him to question everything he has ever thought about love.
As Sophie looks down at the fork that's presented in her path, will she choose the right direction? Will she be able to move towards the arms of the man who stands in front of her? Or will she choose to keep her promise to the one life forced her to leave behind?
My Review:
Ana and Sophie have reached the decision to leave their hometown and Ana's childhood home. This is an attempt at moving on after Ana's brother and Sophie's fiancé Jack died in Afghanistan. That doesn't mean that saying goodbye is going to be easy. I started sniffling as Sophie visits all the special spots she and Jack had around town and downright sobbed when she reached the cemetery. When she screams in her sleep, I continued to sob even as I read Ana waking her up.
We learn a lot about Jack through memory & dream sequences from Sophie, throughout the book.
Ana meets Drake Mitchell by bumping into him literally (not with her car) at a gas station, and Chase Mitchell (his cousin) sees the woman of his dreams singing in a pickup truck shortly after this encounter.
When Chase and Drake get off work they head to their favorite bar for a couple of beers before heading home. Imagine Chase's surprise when he gets to save the "woman of his dreams" (Sophie)from being hit on by a nasty drunk and Drake's surprise to find that Ana is the new bartender.
Getting to know Sophie isn't an easy thing to do. The walls she has erected are hard to penetrate but Chase is determined. Drake and Ana have hit it off well and since Sophie is Ana's roommate the possibility of meeting up frequently is definitely in the cards.
Ana and Drake get off to a very steamy start, with panty melting scenes almost from the start. Chase on the other hand has to go slow with Sophie.
One of my favorite scenes is the morning after Chase and Sophie's first date which ended with just a kiss. Drake has spent the night with Ana and the three of them are in the kitchen. Ana and Sophie in robes and Drake in just a towel.
Sophie's POV
"Knock, knock!" I hear Chase's booming voice traveling through the apartment. "Sorry, the door was open so I just let ,,," He stops dead in his racks when he sees the three of us in the kitchen, all of us silent and gripping our coffee mugs. I turn to see his eyes on Drake's towel. "Why is everyone naked in your kitchen, Sophie?"
Chase and Sophie have a rough time of becoming a couple, first by her not being open about Jack and then with Lauren ( Chase's ex )doing as much as she can to break them up.
I laughed a lot and cried a lot. Wanted to smack all the characters at least once during this read. Although it is a cliff-hanger I don't mind so much since I already have the next three books.
Aside from some editing errors, wrong tense, the occasional letter just hanging out by itself and what may be format conversion issues, really enjoyed this read.
I give this book 5 contented purrs for content and 1 hiss for editing.
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The Kranua is a BIONICLE combiner model introduced in 2004. It can be built with the pieces of 8614 Nuurakh, 8616 Vorzakh and 8618 Rorzakh. The instructions were included in the instructions of these sets.
The Kranua was designed in secret by Nuparu and built by a select team of Po-Matoran engineers.
On their journey back to Metru Nui from the island of Mata Nui, the Toa Metru encountered a Kranua. The Vahki was first spotted in its sand form by Whenua, who slipped and remarked on the presence of sand on the floor of the tunnel they were traveling through. The coating of sand then transformed into a sand cyclone, and threw Whenua and Matau into the tunnel walls.
The Vahki then reformed into its normal, robotic form. Matau recovered, and fought against the Kranua, which turned itself back into sand during the battle. Using the opportunity, Matau blasted the coating of sand away using his Air powers, and revived Whenua. The two then quickly made their way back to the other Toa, who were behind them, but was stopped when the Kranua formed itself into a wall of sand in front of them.
The Vahki then formed itself into a tidal wave of sand, and attempted to suffocate the two Toa. Matau retaliated, only for the wave to form a sandstorm. Luckily, Nuju arrived in time and transported Matau and Whenua out of the storm using his Kanohi Matatu. Onewa, under Vakama's instructions, then attempted to force the Vahki, which had reformed into its robotic form, into its sand form once more by attacking it with his Stone powers. As it was transforming, Vakama unleashed a blast of fire, and turned it into a statue of glass. Matau later tipped it over and smashed it.
All the other Kranua have been destroyed by either the Great Cataclysm or the Visorak hordes.
Abilities and Traits
The Kranua was powerful and bulky, but could also transform itself into animated grains of Protodermis. It could then flow through narrow cracks or vanish into the pavement, before reforming somewhere else. This made the Kranua highly effective at pursuing lawbreakers into tiny spaces or confusing rampaging Rahi with its sudden disappearances and reappearances. It was particularly ideal for crowd control and mass Rahi breakouts from the Archives.
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That is a massive increase in anyone's books, and Labour Assembly Member Murad Qureshi (pictured left) has jumped on the findings to demand that all statutory authorities in London adopt the London Living Wage (as opposed to the Minimum Wage) to lead the way in closing the gap faced by the poorest paid between their wage packets and their bills.
Mr Qureshi said:
"The London Living Wage has been successful in ensuring thousands of workers in London receive a fair days pay for a fair days work. Today's report shows that introducing a statutory living wage could lead to an increase in jobs rather than a reduction. I am delighted that there are now plans to introduce measures to encourage more employers to pay a Living Wage through tax incentives.
"The Mayor must do more to encourage employers to pay the London Living Wage and he can start by making the institutions he is responsible for accredited London Living Wage employers. At the current rate of progress it will take 450 years for all workers to be paid a living wage in London. Londoners are struggling and the Mayor's inflation-busting fare increases mean that residents earning the National Minimum Wage and travelling to work in zone one have to spend an estimated 12.41 per cent of their pay on travel, and 74.6 per cent on rent".It was announced that the LLW will rise next year to £8.80 from its current rate of £8.55 compared to £6.31 which is the National Minimum Wage.
But there is good news in our borough too - it turns out that our Council pays well in excess of the LLW, with a Council spokesman telling me this afternoon:
"The Council offers its employees a minimum wage of £9.21 per hour, hence going beyond the minimum set down as the London Living Wage."Regular readers will know I have lots of disagreements with this Council - but they really do deserve serious credit for this. By setting this sort of example it becomes very difficult for others, particularly in the public sector, not to follow. I would be interested to know, for example, whether the workers sweeping our streets for Serco are paid this amount or others who work for outsourced firms. I plan on finding out. But in the meantime full marks to the Council.


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We live in a totally off-grid solar powered home - no electricity from any utility. Just panels, an inverter and batteries.
We decided we wanted to put a pool in our yard. But how can it be done without switching over to that electrical utility. Pool pumps and filter systems are power hungry. Well, why not solar?
Time to do some research! Pool suppliers and local pool contractors are no help. Okay, onto the internet.
Search for solar powered pumps. There's lots of them but they are just regular type pumps reconfigured, and they are expensive. The pump ist the most critical part, you have to keep the water circulating or it stagnates and you get that nasty green algae. But you don't need 1500 watts of power usage to circulate water. Then I found it. A company called Laing Thermotech makes a small circulating pump designed for direct connection to a photovoltaic cell (solar panel) When the sun shines the pump runs.
Next, a filter. We opted for an ultraviolet light system. Runs on AC power and that meant we would need to install an inverter. UV lights kill many nasty water borne things and reduces the dependency on chemicals, but it does nothing for dirt and small particles which are removed by the traditional pool filter. So that was only half a solution. The other half came later.
Nothing special about the pool construction. We decided on cement filled hollow block and lots of rebar. (Nicaragua is very seismically active.) Beside the pool we built a block 'box' to contain the plumbing connections, the pump, the UV light, and the inverter plus a solar charge controller and a single deep cycle 12 volt battery. The roof of the box is a 200 watt solar panel.
Electrical connections :
- the solar panel is connected to the charge controller
- the charge controller is connected to the inverter and the battery
- the inverter is connected to the battery
- the UV light is plugged into the inverter and, with a small timer, runs 5 hours per day
This configuration allows the pump to run constantly 24 hours a day. The panel is charging the battery and the battery is powering the pump - and the UV light.
In Part 2 :
- the filter system
- maintenance


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While President Obama and Congress struggle to avoid immense automatic budget cuts set to take effect March 1, a simpler solution to our nation's debt crisis is literally at our fingertips.
As with everything else, there's an app for that.
Wait. Can an app really help reduce the national debt? It can if it promises to solve a big enough problem: medical waste.
A recent report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimates that our health care system squanders $750 billion a year – roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar – through unneeded care, Byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste. Medicare and Medicaid together account for at least $266 billion of that total. Spread over the eight-year span of the "sequester" cuts confronting Congress, the tab for taxpayers comes to $2.1 trillion.
To reduce medical waste, the IOM report made 10 recommendations, including embracing mobile technology to share data at the point of care, educating patients to be more savvy consumers and better coordinating their care between multiple providers.
Each of these tasks can be accomplished by letting consumers carry their medical records wherever they go so caregivers can review their histories on the spot, whether in their primary care doctor's office, on vacation or in the ER.
And what better way to accomplish that than to put our medical records on the one device Americans keep closest, their smartphones.
Study after study has shown patients receive safer, better care when an up-to-date medical history is available at the point of care. The IOM has estimated that nearly 100,000 Americans die each year from preventable medical errors, many of them the result of caregivers not having access to such basic information as what medications their patients are taking.
It's easy to see how this might happen. Medicare patients see an average of seven physicians every year, including five specialists in four different practices. Yet the vast majority of caregivers must rely on their patients to tell them what care they received elsewhere.
Imagine building a house where the carpenters, electricians and plumbers all worked from different and incomplete blueprints. That's been the state of modern health care in the U.S.
In an attempt to draw a standard medical blueprint for everyone, public and private entities have spent billions erecting data hubs called health information exchanges (HIEs) to transfer digital records between providers. Unfortunately, HIEs have been stymied by legal, technological and cost barriers that limit their impact to a handful of Americans.
It's time to make a fundamental shift by giving patients a chance to solve this problem. The ubiquitous use of mobile phones presents the best opportunity yet to connect our doctors and solve the $750 billion problem. The analyst firm IDC predicts that global downloads of apps will reach 76.9 billion in 2014. Many of those will help consumers manage or monitor their own health.
For instance, a new app called iBlueButton is the first to enable consumers to securely exchange their health records with their providers via iPhone, iPad or Android smartphones. Doctors can see three years' worth of a Medicare patient's medical history, Veterans Affairs medical records and a growing number of records held by private insurance companies. They can view all of a patient's problems, medications, prior labs and tests in plain English, helping to avoid unnecessary services that cost Americans $210 billion a year.
Farzad Mostashari, an M.D. and President Obama's national coordinator of health information technology, recently recounted how iBlueButton helped his father get the right emergency care 500 miles from home on the day after Thanksgiving.
"When he showed up at the doctor's office and they said, 'tell us about all your history, your prior surgeries, who your doctor is,' (he) was able to say 'here you go, here it is,'" Mostashari said, holding up his iPhone at a Bipartisan Policy Center meeting in Washington, D.C., last December. "And now I'm going everywhere since Thanksgiving saying 'Look at this,' telling everybody, 'you've got to see this!' Because it's that good."
There are 38 million Americans on Medicare who could be having the same experience.
Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, won't you let us help you solve this problem?


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Our plan is to host another film festival at the 2019 festival.
Stay tuned for an announcement in early 2019.
Details below relate to the 2018 festival we hosted at Falls Creek:
The inaugural Australian backcountry film festival (2018)
Its time for our own festival! This set of short films comes from a number of different producers and features some lovely stories and stunning scenes from some of our grandest skiing and riding terrain.
Saturday September 1, 2018.
7pm – 10pm
Falls Creek resort
The evening will be introduced by film maker Stephen Curtain, who made the great Australian telemark film Winter Dreaming.
Aside from revealing a few of the behind the scenes and back stories to the film, Stephen explores the connection of the Australian Alps to Antarctica where he has worked as a polar videographer. Supporting alpine and polar science and research, Stephen discusses the role we can all play to protect our winters.
Matt O'Keeffe, head of Falls Creek ski patrol, will talk about backcountry safety.
Tamara Hutchins from Melbourne Girls Outside, one of the fastest growing female adventure groups in the country, will be speaking about breaking down barriers to adventure, and empowering women in the outdoors to realise that adventure is an attitude, not an age group or aptitude.
As someone who is quite new to the adventure space she truly believes that we need to redefine ADVENTURE by empowering every woman to be an ADVENTURER.
Two-time Olympic skier and Hotham skier Katya Crema will share her experiences of transitioning from Olympic ski cross racing to being a backcountry enthusiast.
She mostly skis backcountry now in Australia, Japan and Canada.
We will be showing the following films:
Mount Townsend 2209 – Australian Freeride Story
Film maker Lachlan Humphreys says
With the Australian ski season coming to the end, I joined Australian sisters and pro skiers, Anna and Nat Segal, for one last push for the hills. Filmed in October last year, Mount Townsend 2209 follows Anna and Nat as they spend five days camping and touring together under the peak of Mount Townsend, together with their American/Canadian skier friend, Holly Walker.
NSW Snowy Mountains Main Range (4 mins)
Hunt for White October III 2017
The third instalment in Mike Garrett's end of winter films. No dogs were harmed in the making of this film (and it was taken outside the national park boundaries).
Mt Hotham resort. 5 mins.
Out of Reach
Winter – Perisher Thredbo and Charlotte's Pass New South Wales Australia 2016
Richard Snowdon
6 mins 30 secs
On top of Australia
The video was shot and edited by Tim Eddy when he was 18 years old. The spots in the video are the Ramsheads, Mt Townsend into lake Albina, up around the Whites River corridor, Blue Lake and Mt Stillwell. The Whites stuff was taken in July ish with nice dry powder. The main range content was in spring. All in 2015. Tim travelled with a full size gimble, a drone and a motorised dolly set up and a sony a7s camera with a few lenses. Probably about 20Kg.
2 mins 14 secs
Here for the Long Run.
Is there such a thing as sustainable travel?
Adventure Junky's Fuchsia Claire Sims ventured to Patagonia to find out. The short film 'Here for the long run' follows her journey into Torres del Paine National Park to visit the Patagonia EcoCamp – the world's first geodesic hotel and member of The Long Run.
Nigel Malone/ Adventure Junky
Patagonia. 5 mins.
Feathertop – the Queen of the Vic Alps
Anyone who has seen Stephen Curtain's wonderful telemark ski film Winter Dreaming will remember the scenes of skiing the eastern face of Feathertop. This short film will be a re-cut of this segment.
Mt Feathertop area.
My Wild Home.
'We ventured deep into the Aussie backcountry with pro skier Coen Bennie-Faull to discover what fuels his fire'. It is a lovely homage to Coen's dad.
Produced by Hayden Griffith (haydengriffith.com)/ We Are Explorers
Hotham area and western slopes of the Main Range, NSW. 5 mins.
As of August 9, there are only 3 tickets left. You can get one here.
Tickets are $10 each.
All funds generated will be donated to a mountain pygmy possum breeding program and the Friends of the Earth climate change campaign. Check here for details.
The location of the event is the Falls Creek Resort Management boardroom.
It's located directly above Foodworks at the base of the QT Falls Creek Hotel in the Falls Creek village.
We are looking into a 'Plan B' for people who can't get a ticket.
Got a film?
There is still room in the program for one or two films. If you have one, please check the blurb below and get in touch asap. Thanks.
There are no guidelines for submitting films, beyond the request to keep under the maximum length. They don't need to be professionally produced but need to be engaging and suitable for an all age audience. We would love to get films made by women.
If you have questions, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com
[IMAGE: skier – Graham Hammond. Stephen Curtain collection]


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Monthly Archives: June 2013
As you all know, I am a Bridal Pro Artist for Eye Do Makeup and Hair LLC. I am very proud and honored to announce that we won Wedding Wire Bride's Choice Awards 2013, which means we are in the 5% of wedding pros NATIONWIDE!!! Thank you all so much, and way to go team!
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Ne vidiÜ Üumnikov? Uredi pesem!
Una Palabra
[ Closer Than Veins ]
This ain't a story 'bout race, color or creed
It's a story 'bout hate, envy and greed
Talk about ambitions but don't want us to progress
Ya talk about assistance but all we get is the stress
U don?t really wanna see me grow
Hating on me choking on my flow
U say we rude, don't like our attitude
We crude, ain't got no gratitude
But I wasn't born to be low, I was born to rise
Wasn't born to pretend or keep my faith in disguise
Ain't got no freedom of speech
No freedom to teach - make our kids out of reach
Wanna break ties - alienated in their own land
Running riot in the streets, day by day getting out of hand
U don't want me to be an inspiration
U wanna blame me for agitation
How can u tell me 'bout participation
When all u really want is segregation
Una palabra no dice nada
Y al mismo tiempo
Lo esconde todo
Como aquel viento que esconde el agua
Como las flores que esconde el lodo
One word contains nothing
And at the same time
It contains everything
Like the air contains water
Like the flowers contain the mire
Is it my religion - u keep seeing as a threat
U think it's all about - murder, violence and death
But do u care to find - find the truth
Or is it easier to keep fronting and oppressing our youth
Is this why I'm a be awestruck?
Damn these lies just make us stuck
Bow down to something greater
Nah forget that maybe later
Really must be joking, deceits and lies is all I see
Should I be your enemy or should I trust your lies
Should your treatment of my peeps make us forge them ties
Got to tell me the truth as it is
Or we'll be keeping coming back right here to this
Second class citizen in my own home
Been 30 years gone - and still no dome, still gotta stay strong
Thinking I'm thick trying to sell me this hypocrisy
Heard it before, u must be kidding me!
Wanna dictate who I marry
And even what my sis? should wear
Then prevent her from a job
Stuck on welfare - seems
To provoke and oppress us is ok - seems
Racism is cool - despite what u say
Wanna blame us for ya shortcomings
Just want a scapegoat
Still seeing us like a problem
Like we just off the boat
Guess u wanted cheap labour to build ya home
Una palabra no dice nada
Y al mismo tiempo
Lo esconde todo
Como aquel viento que esconde el agua
Como las flores que esconde el lodo
Una Mirada no dice nada
Y al mismo tiempo
Lo dice todo
Como la lluvia sobre tu cara
O el Viejo mapa de alg?n tesoro
One word contains nothing
And at the same time
It contains everything
Like the air contains water
Like the flowers contain the mire
One look contains nothing
And at the same time
It contains everything
Like the rain on your face
Or an old map leading you to some treasure
Where the next Abu Dharr at?
Where the next Khalid Ibn Walid aka Sayf-Allah at?
Tell us how we fuel this crime
Everyday statistics, everyday media - plenty of us doing time
Why should I take the blame or shame
When I know u just looking for someone to frame
My individual freedom; abused
Redicule of my deen, my beliefs, guess I be the new jew
I've become the new ni**a of the world
Product of your society, adopted your values in their entirety
Wasn't born like this, I was made this way
U like it or not, player - I'm here to stay
We walk the same streets, breathe the same air
Add to this state, but do u even care?
Guess u gotta reciprocate
Want us to be people of faith or people of hate?
U got your deen, I got mine - okay?
Pesem smo zapeli ×e 88 krat.


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Contact and Directions
You can now call us on the studio landline 02083651999
Or if there's no answer try Nick on 07745138283 or Keith on 07988014721 or Matt on 07717470220
Or use this form to send us an email.
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551a High Road
How to get to the studio:
The studio is close to Seven Sisters on the Victoria line or Bruce Grove overground rail station. From Seven Sisters, exit via the High Road exit (follow the signs for buses), take the first left out of the barriers for Exit 1, and take any one of a number of buses from there. It is a five minute walk or about four stops on the bus to Bruce Grove. You can use the 243, 349, 259, 279, 149, 341 or W4 buses (there may be a few more!)
From Bruce Grove station, continue up the high road towards Edmonton (i.e. away from Seven Sisters). You will soon see a Barclays Bank on your left. Take the small road immediately after it. This is the view of the bank and the road:
The man leaning out of the car window is our very own Matt. He is more usually found in our control room
Go up the alleyway and turn right at the top. This is your view as you turn right:
Proceed into the car park:
It is not always this wet! Go to the main door:
Go through the door – buzz us (unit 1) if the door is locked and we will let you in. Then you will see this view:
Go down the stairs and turn around to your left (there's plenty of signs, you can't go wrong):
Go down these stairs and turn right at the bottom:
Congratulations! You are at DSI! (Normally this door will not be locked!) This door is stiff, push (and keep pushing) where it says "Push" and pull the other part. Once you're in, there is a doorbell, press it and someone will let you in.
As you will have seen from the pictures, there is a car park at Morrison Yard. It is free to park here but please note that you will need to get and display a permit from the studio between 8am and 6pm Monday to Friday (we don't charge to provide these but you must return them before leaving!). The car park is not restricted at other times and there is usually plenty of space.


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N787BA arrived from Boeing Field, waited for Garuda 737 YQ044 to do a touch and go, then went back to Seattle.
The 787 came back in the evening....
......landed on 16R, taxied to 34L and departed for Boeing Field.
Air India 787 VT-ANE was moved from the flightline to the 40-51 apron this morning.
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The Networking of Groups by Neil Cole
The created world has natural boundaries held in place by gravity. The oceans are held in place by the shores. The atmosphere is contained by the weight of earth's gravity. Gravity keeps the solar system contained in orbit around the sun. In a similar way people have natural boundaries in the way that we function best. We are pulled into social groupings of certain sizes by a spiritual gravity inherent with the function of the group.
Jesus, too, consciously stayed in the boundaries of social gravity. Jesus invested most in an inner circle made up of Peter, James, and John, while he lived with a spiritual family of the 12 disciples. He personally trained and deployed the 70. When he ascended into heaven, he left behind 120 disciples. While these groupings were the main focus of his life and ministry in order of priority, he also healed, taught, and fed the multitudes, while appearing to more than 500 followers at the same time after his resurrection.
Starting Small
Jesus also describes the kingdom of God with the parable of the mustard seed, which starts small and then eventually grows very large. He said: "How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil, yet when it is sown, grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that the birds of the air can nest under its shade."(1) The growth of the kingdom of God must start at the smallest of social groupings. Jesus is instructing us that the kingdom of God must start small and grow via multiplication to have great and expansive influence.
If we cannot multiply house churches, we will never see a movement. If we cannot multiply leaders we will never multiply house churches. If we cannot multiply disciples, we will never multiply leaders. The way to see a true house church multiplication movement is to multiply healthy disciples, then leaders, then churches, and finally movements—in that order.(2) Trying to multiply large, highly complex "macro" organisms without first multiplying and networking on the "micro" level is impossible.
Therefore, we would suggest that there are five natural sizes for social groupings that should be multiplied and networked together into today's house church movements.
The Inner Circle: 2 or 3 People
The beginning of every family starts here at this size. The Bible often elevates a group of two or three to significance. Both the Old and New Testaments mention the phrase "two or three." It is interesting that at least 10 times "two or three" is suggested as an ideal size at which to conduct ministry. The Bible does not say "two or more" or " three or less" but always "two or three." Perhaps it is good to have some flexibility without too many options. There are several reasons why this may be the ideal size for effective fellowship and ministry that will penetrate the rest of the church and ultimately the kingdom of God:
The Family: 12 to 15 People
This is the natural size in which an extended family opperates. It is small enough that all parts can intimately know one another, yet large enough to have significant diversity and group dynamics. Across the world, this represents the size of house churches everywhere. It is a natural sized grouping to opperate naturally as a family.
The Team: 70 to 75 People
When it comes to training and deploying leaders as part of a team, this grouping represents the most efficient size to get across pertinent information, skills, and relationship, while still maintaining quality. When it comes to training leaders in a region through, say, monthly leadership meetings, this is the size of group that is best.
The Network: 120 to 150 People
Malcolm Gladwell, in his book The Tipping Point, writes almost spiritually about the significance of the number 150 in the development of movements throughout history.(3) We, too, have found by experience that a house church network will very rarely grow beyond 15 house churches (or 150 people). This boundary is natural. The kingdom does not stop at this boundary. What is necessary beyond this boundary is to reproduce more networks, rather than trying to add more house churches to an existing network. Of course, we should always look for opportuinities to start new churches, but we will also find that other churches stop meeting and a network of approximately 15 churches will usually remain constant. The key to multiplying networks is to raise up leaders from within who can start and lead new emerging churches in an entirely new network.
The Masses
Beyond the above numbers are the masses. This is a more relative grouping, but in reality, it is a gathering together of the other smaller groups for the purposes of annual conferences, occasional "worship and teaching" celebrations, saturation of cities with the gospel, broader impact on a culture, etc.
(1) Mark 4:30–32 (NASB)
(2) Neil Cole (2007), Search and Rescue, Baker Books. This book expands on principles necessary to multiply disciples and presents Life Transformation Groups, a simple reproducible system that is working all over the world.
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© 2007 Neil Cole
See also the article
The Power of Two or Three
Hanging Great Weight on Thin Wires: Can Small Groups Become Missional and Make Disciples? by Neil Cole
Multiplying on the Micro Level
Discipleship: Copies of the Original
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DescriptionPachinko Paradise 2 is the second title in Irem's long-running pachinko simulation series. It features reproductions of four pachinko machines made by Sanyo Bussan: CR Umi Monogatari 3R, CR Umi Monogatari 3, CR Umi Monogatari 6, and CR Umi Monogatari. There are two modes available: Tsūjō (Normal) mode allows the player to modify a wide range of settings for each machine, while Jissen (Battle) mode challenges the player to win as many balls as possible on the default settings with a limited starting pool and time limit. There is also a View mode where the various animations that play on the in-game display can be freely viewed. Unlike the previous title, there is no story mode.
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Public Affairs
European Public Affairs
As a European association EPPA represents the interests of the European profile manufacturing industry to the European policy maker. However, its work is not limited to this but also includes the taking into account of the European consumer's opinion.
What is EPPA's relationship to the consumer?
Consumer protection is one of the key elements of our work. In trying to make window profiles as environmentally and health friendly as possible our manufacturers do their share of this work. It is EPPA's task to support the corresponding legal conditions on a European stage. Furthermore, EPPA attempts to inform the consumer on the activities of the industry and the products it makes.
What is EPPA's relationship to the manufacturer?
European window profile manufacturers need to comply with European legislation. This complex and vast field of law is in constant change and not always easy to understand. It is our task to translate European requirements into concrete requirements for our members. In this context, EPPA understand itself as the connector of the technical and practical experience of our members to the legal reality on the European level. Hence, issues and problems encountered by the industry also need to be translated onto the political stage in Brussels.
What is EPPA's relationship to the regional/national/European politician?
EPPA works together with the European institutions to improve and unite environmental protection with economic competitiveness. The association invests into scientific studies and assembles knowledge that should serve policy makers to understand the industry and allow them to take informed decisions.


text: MUSIC Two New Breakthroughs Aim at Easy Music Publishing Solutions 1:59 PM PDT 5/1/2014 by Roy Trakin FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME AP Images SongLily offers easy sync licensing to game and app developers, while the termination and reversion calculator helps you figure out just that. Technology is once again helping the music industry eliminate the middle man, with new online ways to facilitate game and app music licensing and solve of termination and reversion issues. SongLily, co-founded by industry vet Les Borsai and partner Jodi Chall, offers a "frictionless marketplace" for game and app developers where they can quickly and easily get a sync license to use major label music. The app, aimed at curtailing music piracy, makes familiar music available for immediate use, cutting down significantly on both the length and cost of such transactions. PHOTO: Petty Fest 2012: Musicians Celebrate the Songs of Tom Petty "The music-licensing process can be confusing to companies that are not in the sync business," explains Borsai. "We wanted to simplify that." The app enables the record industry to market their catalogs for games and apps, while continuing to focus on their core sync licensing businesses -- TV, film and advertising. It marks the first time major labels and publishers have allowed a third party vendor to license pre-cleared content. "To be able to mock up new apps with music from the start, knowing the music is available and the costs up front is a huge benefit for development teams." The user-friendly termination and reversion calculator is the brainchild of Wixen Music Publishing vp copyright and licensing Jason Rys, and can be accessed on the company's website (www.wixenmusic.com). STORY: BMG in $150 Million Deal for Music Publishing Assets of U.S. Indie Primary Wave Rys explains: "Due to the number of variables involved and the complexity of domestic and foreign copyright laws, songwriters and their heirs sometimes struggle to understand what termination and reversionary rights they are entitled to. In many cases, failure to exercise these rights during a certain time period causes them to be forfeited for good. The termination and reversion calculator aims to simplify and take the guesswork out of determining what termination and reversion rights are available. You simply answer a few questions about the song, the songwriters, and the grant of rights in question and the calculator returns the termination and reversionary rights available to your particular situation. We tried to make it as user-friendly as possible and present the information in plain English with examples so you don't have to be a lawyer to understand it. There is a helpful FAQ page for some of the more complicated concepts and terms." With offices in L.A. and London, Wixen Music Publishing administers the song catalogs of artists including George Harrison, The Doors, Neil Young, Tom Petty, the Black Keys, Andrew Byrd and Fitz & the Tantrums. Company founder Randall Wixen is the author of The Plain and Simple Guide to Music Publishing (Hal Leonard), now in its third printing, featuring a forward by Petty. "Termination and reversion are among the most complex and difficult areas of copyright law," says Wixen. "It requires many intricate and detailed factors. This calculator helps cut through all that with an easy solution." FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Roy Trakin email@example.com roytrakin


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The Global Computing Initiative shall apply for TedX with talks about the
Denigma Vision.
There is a big difference between international TED and local TEDx-es as it is not so hard to apply to the latter ones.
The TEDx application deadlines in specific countries (like Germany and UK) need to be identified. The one for Kyiv is 8th of March where the TEDx itself will be in the end of May.