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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos plans to meet with various groups on July 13 to discuss the issue of sexual assault on college campuses, but, before she does that, a group of 118 sexual assault survivors have a few things they would like the 59-year-old billionaire to know.
In a letter published on July 12 on TeenVogue.com, the dozens of sexual assault survivors from 25 states and Washington D.C. implore DeVos and the current administration to enforce Title IX protections and guard the civil rights of sexual assault survivors at colleges and universities that have been "failing" them for decades.
"Exactly who are you here to serve?" the letter asks DeVos directly.
Though Title IX is perhaps most widely known for enforcing equal treatment of male and female student athletes, the legislation dating back to 1972 more broadly prohibits discrimination at the federal level based on gender. According to KnowYourIX.org, Title IX states, "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
While in theory Title IX should protect survivors of sexual assault, it's often ignored by schools, leaving said survivors in an incredibly vulnerable position. As the letter explains, "As survivors of sexual violence, we've continually had to advocate for ourselves, often because no one would advocate for us. We have been forced to ask this question again and again, of all the institutions that are supposed to serve us: of our Title IX administrators, police officers, schools, teachers, deans, and now, our government."
Instead of rattling off troubling statistics — like RAINN's finding that 18-24-year-old women in college are three times more likely to be the victim of sexual violence — the missive takes a more intimate turn.
"For us, this is personal, and traumatizing. From the moment we were raped or assaulted, the question of who protects us has haunted us all," it continues. "Collectively, we represent thousands of instances of institutional failure at colleges, universities, and K-12 schools. We suffered immensely, as did our academics, relationships, and overall well-being. Institutional betrayal forced many of us, and countless others, to leave school."
According to a 2015 survey commissioned by the Association of American Universities, more than one in four female college students will experience sexual assault by the time they graduate, and the institutional betrayal mentioned in the letter is a real problem. Per The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights currently has 339 open investigations involving allegations that colleges and universities mishandled reports of campus sexual violence.
While the missive notes the 2011 Dear Colleague Letter — guidance put in place by the Obama administration stipulating educational institutions have a legal responsibility to protect their students from gender discrimination — aided sexual assault survivors, there's palpable fear DeVos could take such protections, and more, away.
"At every turn, Betsy DeVos has refused to commit to enforcing Title IX. This reluctance is escalating into a full blown threat to future enforcement of Title IX," the letter says, pointing out that the current administration has already rolled back Title IX protections for transgender students. "Now, the administration has signaled that it is seriously considering further dismantling protections for survivors of sexual violence by weakening the oversight and enforcement mechanisms of the federal government — enforcement that many vulnerable students and survivors need."
"We come forward with a simple request: Don't," the letter adds.
HuffPost reports the idea to write this letter came after DeVos's July 13 meetings were announced. In addition to meeting with sexual assault survivors for 90 minutes, Jess Davidson — managing director of the organization End Rape On Campus — tells the publication DeVos will also be meeting with people who wish to speak on behalf of the "wrongly accused" for the same amount of time. DeVos's final 90-minute session is scheduled to involve college and university legal teams.
Though DeVos deserves some credit for meeting with sexual assault survivors, the lack of time she's devoting to the issue coupled with her subsequent meeting regarding the "rights of the wrongly accused" is problematic.
As Davidson explains, "The fact that this is the first time, to our knowledge, that survivors are meeting with the secretary of education and that they're only being given 90 minutes is very frustrating."
Davidson also notes some people at DeVos's second meeting are members of the National Coalition for Men, which she described as a "hate group" with a penchant for harassing rape survivors online.
As the letter concludes, "To Betsy DeVos, President Trump and the rest of the Trump administration: Survivors of sexual assault have refused to be silent since this administration began its journey to the White House. We will not be silenced now."
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Three days ago, on October 8th, Adobe released a new copy of the Flash player, version 11.9.900.117 (see the Release Notes and Announcement). That same day Google announced that "We are updating Flash Player to version 11.9.900.117 on Windows and Mac via our component update system (i.e. there will not be a Chrome update)."
Yet, here I sit three (going on four by the time this was published) days later with Chrome on Windows 7 still using the old version (11.8.800.170) of Flash. This, despite the fact that Chrome reports that it is up to date (version 30.0.1599.69 m, below). Bill Clinton must have been right, there are multiple definitions of "is", because it certainly is not up to date.
Chrome considers Flash a "plugin" and Chrome users can see the version of installed plugins by entering either "chrome://plugins" or "about:plugins" in the address bar. All web browser users can check on the latest version of Flash, as well as their installed version, at two Adobe tester pages: adobe.com/software/flash/about and helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html
It used to be that invoking the "About Google Chrome" option on the Chrome menu bar forced the browser to check for updates. Obviously things are no longer that simple. So, I tried to force Chrome to update itself by running the scheduled Google updates.
Since the beginning, installing Chrome on Windows created two scheduled tasks. One task runs hourly, the other once a day.
I started with the daily task figuring that if the computer was not running at the scheduled time (which varies on each computer) perhaps the task didn't run. The Windows task scheduler can keep a history, but for whatever reason, the history was disabled on this particular copy of Windows 7.
The task is named " GoogleUpdateTaskUserS-1-5-21-3588425011-2520465083-2943838727-1004Core" and it runs program GoogleUpdate.exe with a parameter of "/c". I force it to run by right clicking on the task. No new Flash.
The hourly task is called "GoogleUpdateTaskUserS-1-5-21-3588425011-2520465182-2943837927-1004UA" and it runs the same GoogleUpdate.exe program only without any parameters. Manually running this task also failed to update Flash.
On another Windows 7 computer the history of scheduled tasks was enabled and it showed both tasks had been happily chugging along. Still, however, Chrome was using the old version of Flash.
Then I made the mistake of trusting Adobe.
An article on their web site, Flash Player with Google Chrome, says "If the built-in Flash Player in Chrome is disabled, Chrome uses the downloaded plug-in version of Flash Player if it is installed on the user's system".
So, I installed the latest Flash for Firefox and disabled Flash in Chrome. Adobe was wrong, Chrome does not fall back, it complains that Flash is disabled.
Since the Adobe article does not say when it was written, when it was last updated or when it was last reviewed, I can only assume that back in the 1970s Chrome did work that way. But no more.
Speaking of Firefox, it too had a problem installing Flash. I try to limit myself to a single copy of Flash, so the Firefox plugin and the Internet Explorer ActiveX editions are normally not installed.
To install Flash for Firefox I went to the main Adobe tester page, got the notice that the plugin was missing and let Firefox 24 automatically install it. The installation failed (this was on Oct 11th) and, it's a good thing it did, as Firefox tried to install the old version of Flash rather than the latest version. It seems both browsers are behind the times.
Update: Oct 12, 2013 3PM ET: Four days after the latest Flash was released, the Firefox auto-installation of the Flash Player still tries and fails to install the old version. Tested on Windows 7.
Back to the drawing board.
Someone who identified themselves as "Der Moloch" left a comment at Google's blog posting about updating Chrome to Flash version 11.9.900.117 that said "The component update system is very obscure. It seems the process cannot be started manually but checks on its own every five hours and requires Chrome to be running".
This made me re-read the Google announcement and notice that it says Flash will be updated with the "component update system". It turns out that Google's component updating system is separate and distinct from their legacy updating system (the two scheduled tasks). In "Manage Chrome browser updates on Windows" the company says:
Chrome Component Updater allows the Chrome engineering team to release small updates to parts of Chrome on a very rapid schedule. The Chrome component updater behaves as follows: Runs only when Chrome is running ...
Very rapid schedule? I think not. But at least there is a hint, Chrome has to be left running for the embedded copy of the Flash player to get updated. Ugh.
According to blogger Martin Brinkmann, in the future, Chrome users will be able to type "chrome://components" into the address bar and then click a button to force an update to the Flash player. In the mean time all we can do, apparently, is leave the browser running and hope.
Time was, the Chrome browser got updated copies of the Flash player before Adobe even announced they were available. Oh, the good old days.
Update: Oct. 13, 2013 5PM ET. Checked three Windows 7 computers: two still were using the older version of Flash, one had been updated. The Firefox v24 automatic installation of the Flash Player still wants to install the old version (11.8.800.168).


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MARMARTH, N.D. — Volunteers are sorely needed for a rural ambulance service that covers a swath of southwestern North Dakota and risks shutting down.
The roughly 20-year-old Marmarth Ambulance Service could dissolve in a few weeks if enough new volunteers don't lend a hand, according to founding member Hailey Dschaak and EMT Becca Bumgardner.
Bumgardner, who lives in nearby Baker, Mont., said the volunteer service has a "skeleton crew" of eight EMTs and drivers and hopes for about another eight people. Squad leader Erick Hartse said those would ideally be four to five EMTs and three to four drivers. An informational meeting is set for Tuesday night for anyone interested in volunteering.
"Not everybody is cut out to do that kind of work, but we are very, very hard up for volunteers," Bumgardner said.
The ambulance service had about 20 volunteers at its peak, serving western Slope and Bowman counties to the Montana and South Dakota borders, Dschaak said. It's a remote, rugged area, with some calls that require driving into South Dakota and back into North Dakota to reach the patient, she said.
Hartse couldn't estimate the population the ambulance squad serves in its 974-square-mile coverage area. Slope County Auditor Lori Buzalsky said it might be fewer than 300 people.
The Marmarth Ambulance Service could shut down by Aug. 1 if enough volunteers aren't found, Bumgardner said. Ambulances from Beach or Bowman would probably have to step up to fill the gap, Dschaak added.
Another squad absorbing Marmarth's ambulance coverage would lead to longer response times, perhaps double, Bumgardner said.
"And that's if they have the people themselves to be able to staff that," she added.
Marmarth's ambulance service sees 20 to 30 calls in a year, from vehicle crashes to recreational accidents to myriad medical situations. Hartse said the most recent call was in late June for a man who had fallen more than 30 feet.
Marmarth's call for volunteers is part of a greater trend across North Dakota of emergency services, mostly rural ones, facing a dire volunteer shortage. The North Dakota EMS Association doesn't track volunteers per squad, but President Kelly Dollinger said he often hears about services' struggles.
"I think especially with emergency services, ambulance in particular, volunteerism has become unfashionable, for lack of a better word," Dschaak said. "You're seeing volunteers drop off everywhere, I don't care what type of organization you're doing. If you're relying on unpaid volunteers, you're having trouble."
Hartse, 30, said the Marmarth squad serves a dwindling population with mostly older residents.
"You don't have numbers of people to pull from like you used to," he said.
Emergency responders often encounter stressful situations, Dschaak added. And in small communities, volunteers can find themselves assisting someone they know.
Bumgardner said new volunteers could be drivers for EMTs treating patients, which would free up valuable time for EMTs already doubled up on call. New volunteers would require training, depending on EMT or driver status.
"Whatever people are comfortable with doing and learning, we would be more than willing to take them on," Bumgardner said. The squad could help new volunteers arrange lodging for shifts, she added.
The informational meeting for the Marmarth Ambulance Service is set for 7 p.m. Mountain time Tuesday at the Community Center in Marmarth.


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My main reason for this blog was to share my recipes and my mama's recipes with my relatives but it has evolved since, i have now shared some of my "foodventures" and soon my arts and crafts.
Majority of my recipes are Filipino cuisines Bisaya/Cebuano recipes to be specific, which are mostly from my mama. I'm lucky to have some of my mama's handwritten recipes.
Foodventures... my family loves to travel. Aside from the wonderful sights, we make sure we venture on food and restaurants. And it's my "job" to document every restaurant adventure hence the word Foodventure.
My motto... Don't say no to a food/dish you haven't tried yet. How will you know if that food is good or not. Try it first then say no if you don't like it, at least you can say you've tasted it!!
I may not have the skills to draw, sketch or paint but i do have the "artsy" blood running through my veins hahaha!!!! My mom has been my inspiration. Give her something and she'll transform that stuff into something gorgeous and nope..it's not an exaggeration!
*My name is Pia and I am a taga-luto, a Filipino word for a cook/chef.
*I used to be a "drug dealer" ;) i push/deal Naprosyn, Anaprox, Toradol,
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pharmaceutical representative....
*I thought after 6 years of college, B.S.Business Adminstration and an Assosicates degree on Medical Office Administration, i would be done with school and all...Not!. Studied Culinary arts but didn't finish due to personal reasons, nope nothing to do with age! There is no such thing as "old" in the culinary world!
* Cooking has been a passion so from drug dealing i ventured to food dealing..hahaha! Went into catering business, my clients? can you guess?...yes, people from the medical field of course.
* I love the instant gratification i get from people who get to taste my "food creations".
* I now cook for 120 wonderful senior citizens at a retirement living facility.
* I am also a novice food photographer; self taught that is!
* I used a Canon PowershotA510...i know it's old but i love my camera. Sadly i have to retire my A510 and was forced to buy a new one. Because i love Canon i bought another one ELPH 100HS. That's all i can afford.
* I don't use any photo editing software...i wish i have one ;)
* I use my own photos but should i use photos that are not mine i will definitely give credit where credit is due. Same with the recipes, i make sure i give credit or link.
* If you want to use my photos or my recipes...sure you can, but i would like to be linked and give credit where credit is due.....please and thank you!!! ;)
Please check my blogs, and leave some comments...I love them!
Enjoy and Salamat(thank you)!!!!!


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If you've been reading this blog for a while, you know that the recipes and make-ahead knowledge I honed as a personal chef have allowed me to feed my family well... even on the busiest of days. For years, I have cooked ahead. And while I do love to cook, having a stocked freezer is really the only way that we can sit down to family dinners most every night during the school year! This is my step-by-step guide for stocking my freezer with deliciousness.
We all want to feed our families nourishing meals, but in the busy lives we lead, it is sometimes difficult to prioritize cooking. So, what if with a little effort {say, 4 manageable cook days spread over 4-weeks}, you could open your fridge or freezer each day, and know you were going to feed your family well?
Sounds like a kitchen fairy-- or maybe a personal chef-- stopped by doesn't it?
What if I told you that I had gone through my binders {yes, binders-- literally a bookshelf worth} of tried and true recipes... polled busy parents to find out their favorite kinds of family meals... made these family-friendly recipes as healthy as I could...then created done-for-you shopping lists... and planned out four balanced cook days for you so you'd end up with a variety of {totally amazing} family meals in your freezer? Sounds almost too good to be true?
Now it's your turn to learn the secrets of Stocking Your Freezer in a Snap!
- My tips for how to successfully freeze meals
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- An easy-to-follow cooking plan that divvies the recipes into 4 cook days spread over 4 weeks, so you end up with a fabulous variety of made-ahead meals at the end of the month
- Done-for-you shopping lists for each week of the program
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The battle of the Medak Pocket in the autumn of 1993 was, up to that point, the biggest military engagement participated in by Canadian soldiers since the Korean War. Though it was an almost day-long battle against Croatian forces bent on ethnic cleansing it was covered up by the Canadian government and still remains one of the least known episodes in Canadian military history
This episode was written by David Borys
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Art in the Park's Silent Auction is Underway, Benefits 3 Bellevue Schools
Art in the Park returns to Bellevue's Thomas J. Wiethorn Memorial Beach Park on Saturday, September 9.
Before the vendors show up to the park, there is an opportunity to participate in the annual silent auction, the proceeds of which benefit Bellevue High School, Grandview Elementary School, and Holy Trinity School.
The auction, which is currently on display at Frame & Hang Gallery and then moves to the Thomas J. Wiethorn Memorial Beach Park for Art in the Park, features items donated by the artists you'll see as you stroll the charming park nestled on the Ohio River.
From the 2016 Art in the Park donated funds, Bellevue High School students were able to do their first printmaking project. "This had been on their/our wish list for several years," said art teacher Lori Herring. "Now we can make it part of our annual curriculum!"
Teresa McHugh, art teacher at Holy Trinity's Elementary and Junior High school, used the money from last year's auction to repair their kiln, and purchase clay and glazes. Pottery, she says, would not have been an option if not for these donations.
Art in the Park runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday.
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I had read so many things about The Sea Ranch - but I've never been. It is a fascinating piece of Hong Kong history and I'm still hoping that one day I can walk over from Mui Wo or take a ferry from Cheung Chau, but so far all I've seen of the Sea Ranch,… Continue reading The Sea Ranch on Lantau
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Hiking from Tung Chung to Discovery Bay
I've already posted about a number of hikes in and out of Discovery Bay. By far the most popular one is the Mui Wo route, as it is easy to walk and only takes 1.5-2 hours. I've written about it in 2011, when I first came to Hong Kong, then in 2012 when I hiked… Continue reading Hiking from Tung Chung to Discovery Bay
Hiking: 3 Peaks to the Buddha
This was a very fun but also hard hike - together as a group we decided to tackle the three highest peaks on Lantau all in one go. We started at 8.30am in the morning in Tung Chung and immediately we were climbing up the steps to access the Lantau North Country Park, to reach… Continue reading Hiking: 3 Peaks to the Buddha
Moontrekker 2013 is over
What a fantastic night this was - Moontrekker is so much more than just a race, it really is a big event that is built around a great team of organisers and volunteers and racers that participate for so many different reasons. There are those that want to beat last year's time, others who are… Continue reading Moontrekker 2013 is over
The day has arrived: MoonTrekker 2013
Today is the big day - or better said, the big night! MoonTrekker 2013 will take place in Lantau tonight. The sunrise 40 race starts at 9pm and the moonlit 26 at 11.20pm from Mui Wo and will go all the way to the lower Cheung Sha Beach. There are four checkpoints during the course… Continue reading The day has arrived: MoonTrekker 2013
MoonTrekker 2013
It's the time of year again... the MoonTrekker event is coming up again (here's is last year's blog post about the event). I spent last Saturday supporting the organisers handing out the race kits and encouraging all the racers and hikers that they can do it. If you've not signed up - it's too late… Continue reading MoonTrekker 2013
Hiking: Tai O to Tung Chung
I've done this hike a few times in different directions, most recently from Tung Chung to Tai O (see this blog post here). It is a fairly easy hike as it is all very flat, just a little long with 13km. I started the hike by strolling through Tai O - I really like this… Continue reading Hiking: Tai O to Tung Chung


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This coming Tuesday night at 7:00 PM at Lansdale Borough Hall, there will be a public presentation of the updated Madison Parking Lot project that will include 170 apartments, 100 public parking spaces, a public plaza and a renovated Kugel Ball/Railroad Plaza. This is an immense project which will change downtown Lansdale, and it is important that the public attend. The Parking Authority which owns the Madison Parking Lot, will potentially make a motion to approve the concept plan as presented by Equus and authorize the Parking Authority to begin meetings on land development, planning commission, etc. While there are many steps ahead for Equus, a motion– if approved– effectively gets the ball rolling on the project.
I have expressed my concerns in an earlier blog in October 2015 titled the Madison Parking Lot, https://mayorszekely.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/madison-parking-lot/. Since then, Equus has changed the layout of the buildings a bit making for a more attractive public plaza, a much needed renovated Kugel Ball/Railroad Plaza and a more urban look to the facades of the apartment buildings themselves. To their credit, this is an improvement over their last proposal.
However, the concerns that I detailed in my previous blog still stand as the number of apartments is still the same at 170 and the number of public parking spaces is still the same at 100. Of course, the issue of parking rises to the forefront. "We want a parking problem" is the glib cliche that I have heard numerous times, but what exactly does that mean? "Parking is difficult in Ambler, Phoenixville, Doylestown and Philadelphia, but we go there and take the trouble find parking and then walk, in some cases, quite a distance to go to a restaurant or a show or for shopping." Again, this is what I have heard time and again.
Now let's look at this logically. We want Lansdale to become a destination. How does this happen? People need a reason to want to come to town and spend money; this is obvious. What's the recipe? Restaurants primarily because people need to eat every day followed by entertainment and then shops that may sell jewelry, clothes, art, etc. which people purchase less frequently. Unfortunately, towns like Lansdale, Ambler and Phoenxiville need their surrounding townships and municipalities to help support their businesses. When questioning the recently opened Stove & Tap about their demographics, I was told that a significant majority of their patrons drive to Lansdale.
Now here's the million dollar question: does adding 170 apartments and 17,500 square feet of retail space make Lansdale a destination? 170 apartments will equate to approximately 250-300 people which is helpful, but will that magically fill the retail space? Currently, there is 42,000 square feet of empty retail space on 300 block of Main Street alone (12,000 square feet in the old Woolworth's building next to Stove & Tap, 5,000 square feet in the old PEAK Center, 22,000 square feet in 311 West Main Street and 3,000 square feet in the end building where Tabora Cafe used to be). So a total of 42,000 and 17,500 square feet makes 59,500 square feet of retail with 100 spaces.
And here's the second million dollar question: if the 100 spaces are occupied, will patrons park in the SEPTA lot and then walk across the pedestrian bridge to the retail space in the Equus development or along Main Street? Also, keep in mind the SEPTA Lot will be occupied by commuters during the week (the potential for use of the SEPTA garage for Lansdale businesses is highest during the weekends).
If it is indeed true that additional restaurants and shops will need customers beyond Lansdale's borders, then limiting EASY, ACCESSIBLE parking may be a problem especially for the property owners listed above whose potential businesses invariably will want that parking for their customers.
My advice for the Parking Authority is to take the time to digest thoroughly the presentation made by Equus. There is no need to take action on Tuesday night as the construction of the SEPTA garage has everything on hold anyway. (Plus, there was the sense from the meeting that I attended that this process has gone on too long with a lot of time and money spent, and a decision just needs to be made. A decision just for a decision's sake is never good.)
Here are few other possibly relevant observations:
- As an example Station Square which has 250 apartments, which are 95% rented, also has retail space which is only 50% occupied.
- Lansdale may very well have two additional apartment complexes increasing the number of apartments by 200 possibly creating an increase in supply thus decreasing rents.
- While Doylestown is used as a comparison for parking issues, there is a lot more money in Doylestown which can be spent on restaurants and shops. An indicator is housing prices: Lansdale's average home price is $210,000 and Doylestown's average home price is $360,000.
- If a "parking problem" is a good thing to have, then why did SEPTA invest $25 million in creating a garage for an additional 300 spaces? And 175 spaces at the 9th Street Parking Lot? Because they wanted to ameliorate their parking problem. Think of it this way, SEPTA is taking care of their customers; they're not saying, parking is going to be a problem, just drive around until you find a space. Lansdale should be thinking the same way when it comes to our guests who come to visit and support our businesses.
- Also keep in mind, the Borough of Lansdale is still turning the Madison Parking Lot over to Equus for $1. Since this most recent proposal is a far cry from the original, I would recommend that the Parking Authority consider putting the project out to bid again as I have heard that since a parking garage is no longer required, many different developers are now interested which would offer different plans and ideas for the lot. Please see what's happening in Chalfont for their transit oriented development: http://articles.philly.com/2015-03-30/real_estate/60607022_1_j-g-petrucci-co-greg-rogerson-manayunk.
- And last but not least, as I mentioned in my previous blog about the Madison Parking Lot, let us not forget the successful events that occur there: Bike Night, the Farmers' Market, the Beer Fest, staging for car shows, etc.


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Most of the mobile applications come with hidden charges like that's how they earn money. Seems legit only. If you are looking for some free iPhone apps this year, then brace yourself as I am going to discuss some of my personal favorites here.
The Paid iPhone Apps That You Can Get for Free This February!
Before we get started, the apps which we are going to list out are free only for a limited time period. The offers might have ended by the time you read the post.
Metadata means 'additional data about a given data'. Coming to the Metadata application, this one's an image metadata viewer. You can select an image from the gallery, and the Metadata app will list out image details like the size, DPI value, device information, image location, and even image measurements.
Sleep Sounds
This is for those who want a sound, peaceful sleep at night. It offers many peaceful, natural sounds that have been recorded with high-quality stereo condensers and then uploaded for use. Along with the sounds, you also get an auto-off timer and a reliable alarm setting.
System Activity Monitors
This app is used for monitoring iOS activities like memory usage, free space, battery life, and many more device information. Here the information is displayed in the form of the speedometer, with the LED indicators, battery charging animation, 3D-bar charts. Something that you may have never seen before!
CALC Swift
You can replace all the complex math calculations and try them out on the CALC Swift. Get all the daily math done in your convenient way.
Alloy – Launcher & Automator
Are you tired of using multiple apps that do similar activities every day? Install the Alloy – Launcher using which you can automate many of the mobile functions. Apart from that, you can carry out almost all kinds of activity using this single application.
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Didn't get a chance to see any of the foreign-language movies nominated for an Academy Award this year? Better brush up before Sunday! We'll make it easy: Here's a synopsis of each of the five nominees, compiled by staff who attended the All Roads Film Project "Global Glimpses" screenings at National Geographic headquarters last weekend.
1. A Separation (Iran)
What it's about: After Simin moves out of the home, her husband, Nadar, tries to care for their young daughter and his own aging father, who has Alzheimer's. The nurse he hires to tend to his father is injured during an argument, and the two families must decide who is to blame. They struggle with the conflicting demands of doing what is right under the law, what is right for their family, and what is right under Islam.
What the title means: Simin has secured a visa for the family to leave Iran, but Nadar refuses to abandon his father. They separate while Nadar considers granting Simin's request for a divorce.
Iranian flavor: Women are frequently straightening their head coverings, and some key plot points hinge on the opinions of religious elders and swearing on a Koran.
Oscar-worthy moment: Any of the scenes that take place in the small office of the judge who is deciding the fates of these two families. Matters of life and death are debated with powerful, subtle performances.
Who'd star in Hollywood's remake? For Nadar, Bryan Cranston has shown in Breaking Bad that he can play a father willing to make sacrifices for his family. Gwyneth Paltrow has the poise to portray the determined Simin, and Dakota Fanning could pull off the role of their smart and observant daughter, Termeh.
–Brad Scriber
2. Bullhead (Belgium)
What it's about: You can't run from the past. The shady underworld of growth hormones in Belgium's cattle industry provides the backdrop (and apt metaphor) for this character sketch of a deeply damaged man. Jacky Vanmarsenille is an East Belgian farmer who, in making a shady deal for cattle hormones, reconnects with a childhood friend, Diederik. This sets off a chain-reaction through which Jacky's struggle with his traumatic youth and subsequent addiction spirals out of control.
What the title means: The sense of loss that comes from hurtling through life like a mindless beast, without family to care for or real responsibility. Also, Jacky's physique.
Belgian flavor:
a) Blue-and-white Club Brugge football scarf
b) Linguistic dissonance between Flemish and French
c) City views over the Meuse River
Oscar-Worthy Moment: Jacky confronts his childhood bully from his childhood—now crippled and living in a home. In a truly terrifying scene, he pulls himself back from the brink of a murderous rage.
Who'd star in Hollywood's remake? Vin Diesel as Jacky (though he'd have to gain about 30lbs of muscle.) Tony Hale as Diederik for that just-awkward-enough bit of comic relief combined with real acting chops. Marion Cotillard as Luisa, especially if they want to keep the French angle.
–Jennifer Pocock
3. Footnote (Israel)
What it's about: Old dad and middle-aged son are both Talmudic scholars. Dad is angry at not being recognized for decades of thorough research. Son gets big kudos. Dad is resentful. Tensions ensue, but are framed with absurdist whimsy—like the scene in which Talmudic scholars with bushy eyebrows meet in a room so small that they all have to rearrange their chairs every time someone wants to enter or exit.
What the title means: Dad's greatest accomplishment is being named in a footnote by another Talmudic scholar.
Israeli flavor:
a) Talmud jokes.
b) Security checkpoint jokes.
c) More Talmud jokes.
Oscar-worthy moment: There isn't one moment that stands out. Rather, this movie's great achievement is turning a movie about the Talmud into a fascinating exploration of family dynamics and introducing Hitchcockian suspense (why did the Ministry of Education mysteriously summon the son?) and Seinfeldian humor to dazzling effect.
Who'd star in Hollywood's remake? Since this is a movie about a book of rabbinic commentary on Jewish law, Hollywood needs maximum marketability. Let's cast Larry David as the brooding, curmudgeonly, running-shoe-clad dad and Jerry Seinfeld as the bemused and full-bearded son.
–Marc Silver
4. In Darkness (Poland)
What it's about: Doing the right thing can be its own reward. Based on a true story, Christian family man Leopold Socha is a sewer inspector who moonlights as a thief in Nazi-occupied Poland. Shortly before the liquidation of the town's Jewish ghetto, Socha cuts a deal with a desperate group of Jews to hide them in the sewers in exchange for steady payments. Over the next 14 months, Socha must confront personal danger and loss as he comes to terms with his own anti-Semitism and begins to see "his Jews" as humans like any others, with desires and failings and incredible resilience.
What the title means: It's literally how the characters must live in the city's underbelly, but it's also the state of mind for many in the war-torn world above.
Polish flavor:
a) Old World cobblestone roads
b) Plenty of vodka
c) Dialogue in a constant mix of Polish, German, Ukrainian, and Yiddish
Oscar-worthy moment: Socha and his partner watch dispassionately as ghostly, wailing forms appear at a distance in a dark forest. The shapes resolve into a group of naked Jewish women being chased and gunned down by soldiers. The two thieves turn and walk silently back home.
Who'd star in Hollywood's remake? Stellan Skarsgård as Socha, with a plumped-up Naomi Watts as his kind-hearted but cautious wife. Benedict Cumberbatch as Mundek, the de facto leader of the Jewish refugees, and a dark-haired Joey King as Krystyna Chiger, the young Jewish girl who went on to write her memoirs about life in the sewers.
—Victoria Jaggard
5. Monsieur Lazhar (Canada)
What it's about: A Canadian elementary school is in shock after a much-loved teacher commits suicide in her classroom. Her replacement, an Algerian refugee, must deal with both the students' trauma and the private, yet parallel, grief which has followed him from his troubled country. The film is packed with scenes exposing cultural differences, such as Monsieur Lazhar's first encounter with a Rice Krispie treat (a "Quebec-style baklava") or his confused exposure to an iPod on shuffle.
What the title means: It's the name of the teacher who becomes a target of cultural preconceptions as he struggles to help his students—and himself—leave the past behind.
Algerian flavor:
a) Memories of white houses and blue skies
b) Raï folk music
c) Lots of tea
Oscar-worthy moment: Simon, a troubled student who saw his former teacher's corpse hanging from a noose, admits to having spread a lie about her that he believes prompted her suicide. Monsieur Lazhar's reassurances release a torrent of pent-up emotion in the classroom. The breakdown brings closure to the tragedy, but also puts his job as a teacher at risk.
Who'd star in Hollywood's remake? Teach Tony Shalhoub French and he'd be the perfect candidate to play Monsieur Lazhar. Elle Fanning as the favorite student, Alice, and Preston Bailey as the troublemaker, Simon.
–Nicole Glass


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Sixties Sunday – black patent Clarks shoes
Ah, Paris.
Such fun we had, pounding the pavements of Le Marais in search of the perfect backdrop to shoot this week's Sixties Sunday. (And yes, I do think the fella in the background there may have stepped in a poo-poo – I always bring you real street style.)
It was pretty easy. Everything looks beautiful in Paris – in spite of the freezing temperatures – and thanks to my shiny, new patent shoes, I was fine to wander for miles, sans blisters.
The shoes in question are the Griffin Monty black flats from the current women's collection at Clarks and they are just so retro.
What's not to love about a pair of shiny T-bars that have cushion-soft layers underfoot to make them super comfy: just the thing a 60s-lover needs when she is gadding about the French capital in a mini dress, Welsh wool coat and knit mustard tights.
The dress in question is from Beyond Retro and the coat is a find from Boo to a Goose in Crystal Palace.
But the shoes really are are the star here, and I'll be wearing these babies with a host of 60s fashions through the spring. Bon!
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Getting started with oil paints Are you a new bee at this craft, and not certain how to get started? Well, sit back, I'm going to show you how to get started and what you will need. However, if you are already a painter, you probably do not have to read this whole page.
Here is a list of the basic items that you will need. For more detailed information of these you will want to refer to the various subject pages.
The Paint
Oil paint comes in three grades, the student grade, the middle grade, (most often referred to as artist or studio grade) and professional grade. If you are getting started with oil paints, I suggest you start out with the student or middle grade. The difference is that the cheaper grades have more fillers in them. You will not need many colors to start; six at most.
Titanium white, cadmium yellow medium, naphthol red, ultramarine blue, burnt umber, and sap green. If you want to add ivory black to this list, it's your choice. I personally do not use black. I consider black to be a dead color. I prefer to mix ultramarine blue and burnt umber to get the black color that I need.
You really will not need more than a half dozen brushes to get started. Choose a flat hog bristle or a combination hog and synthetic in sizes #2, #4, #6, and #10. You should also include a #6 round and a #2 rigger or (script liner) in red sable or taklon. However, the first four are the most important for now.
Your Palette
Your palette can be wood, plastic or metal. You might also consider instead, a disposable palette. These make for easy and quick clean up.
Other supplies
I suggest that you refer to the page on "Oils Mediums and Solvents" to determine what you will want for getting started with oil paints. As for the solvent, I use odorless mineral spirits. You will need a canvas or canvas panel. Start small. No larger than 14×18 . No need to be burdened, at the start, with the chore of trying to cover a larger canvas.
Eventually you will probably want to get an easel. Take your time in deciding what will suit your purpose.


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Assignment topic
Corporate collapse is a recent issue of concern in the business world. Discuss why high profile companies failed in the past ten years.
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- 1 pound green beans, trimmed and cut diagonally in half
- 1 medium summer squash, cut in matchsticks (about 2 cups)
- 6 radishes, thinly sliced
- 2 ounces prosciutto, thinly sliced and cut into thin strips
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Coarsely ground black pepper
- Steam beans in steamer basket over boiling water until crisp-tender, 6 to 8 minutes. Empty into a colander and cool under cold running water.
- Drain well, pat dry with paper towels and transfer to a large bowl. Add remaining ingredients and toss to combine.
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My wife dislikes … Kind of implies there's more … Specifically more to do … Needing to guess what's that … About.
I have been reading Juan Goytisolo's Don Juliàn. He looks ferocious. The book is. It's hard not to think this … Open, I guess. Open to the front, closed to the back. I don't know. Just guessing. Writing words. I'll need to get back at it. Find the thread. Use the needle. Knit a sock.
Gass brought me to Goytisolo. After Don Quixote it is the first book in Spanish I want to finish. It's a break from Finnegans Wake as well. Halfway through it, it kind of lost me (after the Russian revolution if I recall well). I'll get back to it. I consider it a …
altivo, gerifalte Poeta, ayùdame : a luz màs cierta, sùbeme : la patria no es la tierra, el hombre no es el àrbol : ayùdame a vivir sin suelo y sin raìces : móvil, móvil : sin otro alimento y sustancia que tu rica palabra : palabra sin historia, orden verbal autónomo, engañoso delirio : poema
Juan Goytisolo, Don Juliàn, p. 118
This bloody keyboard doesn't even let me put the accents in the right direction! Never mind. Let us stay a bit positive in this world which is fixed to its past and therefore closed to its future. Continue reading
Friday Afternoon Confessional: Finnegan's Slumber
If there's an -ist that applies to me it's pensivist. Maybe I should go cold turkey on thinking. I confess that the strategy of doing it moderately doesn't feel like the winning strategy. And what is a strategy if it is not winning. Isn't it all about winning? It is. It is. It is. Therefore I am. Whether I like it or not. Nobody asked me. Except myself. Precisely nobody, that is.
I'm reading Finnegans Wake. I confess to ambivalence about it. It's great but makes me feel little. What is the point?, is that the point? It is a snake; it is; it is; it is. But I was bitten long before. Now I'm just rattled. Ha. The beauty of it is: it is self-contained. I read it without trying to understand.
But let me think about the eternal recurrence of the eternal recurrence. I hate it but confess to loving those who seem to love it, or, at least, who love those who love those who seem to love it. The thing is that those who seem to love it are those who break the cycle and, methinks, Finnegans Wake breaks the cycle.
Thus –>
Sunday Stories: Full Gass on Being Open
I'm jealous. So jealous I'm too ashamed to write out all my a's. Who needs a's anyway when you're feeling a straight b? Flat, no capitals. Jealous of Gass, jealous of not letting the bile get out. I self-labeled myself the eternal cultural optimist and one must live up to one's label nowadays or find no place in society's shelves; shelf or be shelved, although that sounds better than it means. Such is the story of my life that I have self-censored what probably is my only real aptitude in it: a mild inclination to sarcasm, well-founded in an all-out hatred for 'the way things are'. I am a self-made man in being the bottle for my own bile – only releasing some of its steam at moments of social stress such as dinner parties or occasions where I'm forced to listen (to dumb people, I wanted to add but one only ever listens to dumb people because only dumb people have a tendency to speak on public occasions).
So, as a matter of self-preservation, I need to find a way to reconcile both bile and optimism, so as to avoid bliss-less eternity too. Here goes the argument. Its form is to neutralize -1 and +1 to leave just N.
Tuesday Hatred of prizes (& the prices thereof)
I hate that Thomas Pynchon did not win the Nobel Prize. It's not so much that I particularly care who gets it. But Pynchon not getting it means that my scarcely read dialogue with his masterpiece Gravity's Rainbow published here will remain just that: scarcely read. Nobody will discover my insights, nor the post-perfectionist style which I perfected precisely to be able to write them in, and be able to forward such discovery pointing out to the forwardees how I started this intriguing series of literary collage in tempore non suspecto (i.e. before any wide publication of Mr. Pynchon being hot as far as being a possible recipient of this most elusive of prizes).
Instead, they gave it to a Swede. Go figure. From looking at the possible candidates and recent winners, I would guess that the price to pay for winning the Nobel prize of literature is that one has to be prepared to live far longer than is healthy for the spirit. Maybe one should write a book about writers who have outlived their writing but are in a fierce competition to look as if they are about to die for as long as possible a time. On the one hand, you don't get the prize if the committee does not feel like you might not be around the next year to get it. On the other hand, there are at least ten people who might get it and who all look like they might not be around next year. Outliving those who are about to die therefore seems to be the key capacity to get the prize.
[The same cannot be said for other prizes such as those of Peace and Economics but, as we all know: it's more immediately apparent whether a certain action or research has advanced peace or the field of economics than it is whether a book or a poem has lasting value. The former is a matter of one to a couple of years whereas the latter normally would take a couple of centuries at least. One can only hope for the Nobel prize committee that the average life expectancy of writers goes up to 200 years or so soon.]
The essence of my today's hatred is a counter-factual. This means my hatred is of a purely academic nature. In fact, I hope Mr. Pynchon never gets the Nobel prize for if he never were to get it my dream will remain unchallenged meaning that I can die happily in the belief that it might have come true if only …
The upside of this is that I need to feel under no compulsion to live any longer than I really want to.
Take that, Tomas Gösta Tranströmer!
"…yet there is no avoiding time, the sea of time, the sea of memory and forgetfulness, the years of promise, gone and unrecoverable, of the land almost allowed to claim its better destiny, only to have the claim jumped by evildoers known all too well, and taken instead and held hostage to the future we must live in now forever. May we trust that this blessed ship is bound for some better shore, some undrowned Lemuria, risen and redeemed, where the American fate, mercifully, failed to transpire…" (Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice)
On Reading Infinite Jest
I read a quote once that said the only way you're going to be able to read Proust is if you want to be reading Proust. I think the same can be said for Infinite Jest. You don't read it because you want to see "what happens," but because you enjoy the book's voice and texture and the weird world it's creating.
I've dipped in and read some of the Infinite Summer posts when I've checked on the schedule, and this seems to be the difference between those who enjoy it and those who don't: the latter want some kind of payoff, either plotwise (in which case they're terminally disappointed) or, since the plot-based satisfaction so obviously isn't going to happen, morality-wise (the whole "read it because it will make you a better person" line). The morality aspect seems like a stretch to me, but it might serve a valuable purpose of motivating someone to keep reading until they learn to enjoy the type of novel Infinite Jest is.
And if they don't? Well, maybe it's just not their thing. I don't have any particular stake in whether big thick postmodern novels are people's thing or not — for me, the value of Infinite Summer is that it's exposing people to that kind of thing so that they can make an informed decision on whether it's their kind of thing (even if the conscious goal of the project is more ambitious and therefore dubious than the humble goal of figuring out a way to get people to try something because maybe they'll like it).
Small press success story
Via IMDB, I stumbled across the following fun fact: Shane Jones's Light Boxes, published by Publishing Genius, recently had its movie rights purchased by Spike Jonze. This is a huge deal for Publishing Genius, which my friend Adam Robinson founded a few years ago, and will hopefully give PG and small presses more generally closer to the amount of credibility they deserve.
Idea for a new book series
The series would cover notoriously confusing or strange topics and be called the "Seriously, WTF?" series. Titles might include David Lynch: Seriously, WTF? or Quantum Physics: Seriously, WTF?
These books would represent an advance over the "For Dummies" and "Idiot's Guide" series insofar as they recognize that the obstacle to understanding lies in the object being examined rather than in the reader.
Seed 'Em If You Got 'Em
This had to be one of the most tedious torrents ever to create. A friend of mine completed the download today, and near as he can tell they are all fully functional and complete.
For those without Demonoid access … pity.
The Great Books President
Reading this article on Obama's reading habits, I was struck by how traditional his choices were — and at the same time how enthusiastic he seemed to be about them, how deeply he seemed to engage. He seems like a true believer in the Great Books paradigm, and his rhetoric matches, with all his talk of meeting contemporary challenges with timeless truths.
In such an anti-intellectual country the impact is probably small, but I think the fact that he is so resolutely, traditionally, and apparently contentedly Western in his thinking was one aspect of the "normalization" process that made Americans able to swallow the idea of a man with such an unusual name and background as president.


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When looking for online creative writing programs, keep a few factors in mind. Look at the award level, program method, and the degree offerings, as all these vary widely by school.
How to Select an Online Creative Writing School
Online programs offer a variety of award levels to students interested in pursuing a career in writing. Online creative writing programs can be found through 4-year colleges and universities. Students should weigh the award level with program delivery.
Award Level
Online schools and colleges offer writing programs at the certificate, undergraduate and graduate levels. The required level of study varies on the industry and the student's individual goals; for example, a certificate in screenwriting may be a good option for creative writers looking to edit and market their screenplays more professionally. Students pursuing bachelor's degree in creative writing can improve their writing skills while receiving a strong liberal arts education. Those who want to work in literary publishing might pursue a master's degree in creative writing.
Program Delivery
Schools can offer students a variety of online enrollment options, such as full online immersion, self-paced study or low residency (hybrid) programs. Online immersion programs provide course instruction though video, voice and e-mail correspondence and generally don't require students to take classes on campus. These programs are well-suited for returning students and working professionals who want engaged feedback on their creative writing but prefer to work in their home or office. Some schools may provide students with the option for self-paced study, which may also be completed fully online, but allows students to turn in assignments at their own pace rather than follow a set course schedule.
Hybrid programs require students to spend at least part of their time on campus, such as one week at the beginning of each semester. This type of program may be beneficial for students who prefer a measure of face-to-face interaction with fellow writers and instructors but can't fit frequent on-campus attendance into their schedule.
List of Popular Online Creative Writing Programs
Online Certificate in Screenwriting
Screenwriters write and develop scripts for film, commercials and TV productions. The online certificate program is a professional program that teaches students how to write, edit and pitch a script. Some programs offer the certificate as a professional enrichment to candidates who hold a bachelor's degree prior to enrollment; other programs only require writing samples and a general interest in the field.
Discussing their work though video critiques, e-mail correspondence and live streaming conferences, students will typically meet online weekly to share their progress and receive feedback. Lasting anywhere from six months to a year, online certificate programs typically include courses in:
- Plot development
- Episodic and procedurals
- Screenwriting for the Web
- Film production
Online Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing
The bachelor's degree in creative writing can take from 3-4 years to complete. A typical curriculum includes as many as 60 core credits in the humanities and liberal arts, some of which can be completed prior to enrollment in the online program. New students are often required to complete a short residency, during which they can meet other students, share their work and pick advisers. While working online during the rest of the semester, students correspond closely with these advisors about their creative work.
Online students might follow course packets and video lectures for many of the core classes on the Web. Students in upper-level courses often analyze and write about works of literature in addition to working on their own writing.
Many programs require students to meet for critiques, where small groups of usually 8-15 students discuss and read their work online (or on campus in a hybrid program). Critiques and group discussions are often followed by instructor feedback though e-mail. Graduation from these programs usually requires the student to not only fulfill credit requirements but also develop a portfolio of original creative work in a chosen genre. Creative writing students in bachelor's degree programs also have a chance to pick a concentration, such as:
- Poetry
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Screenwriting
Online Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
An online master's degree in creative writing can take anywhere from 1-2 years to complete and often requires a strong background in English literature or a related field. Similar to other fine arts degrees, the online creative writing program focuses on developing and mastering a personal writing style while polishing a creative work that's ready for publication at the time of graduation.
Students in online creative writing programs share their individual work and participate in critiques though online correspondence with professors and classmates. Many graduate programs require a thesis that can take the form of a poetry chapbook, short story collection, novella or other creative work. A typical program combines a creative writing workshop with accelerated online courses in areas like:
- Film genres
- Literary theory
- Multicultural literature
- Composition pedagogy
Schools with Online Programs in Creative Writing
Southern New Hampshire University offers an online bachelor's degree in creative writing. Students have the option to take a general track or concentrate in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or screenwriting. The program can be finished at one's own pace over six 8-week terms per year.
An associate's degree in creative writing is offered from National University. The major focuses on three writing genres: contemporary fiction, poetry, and screenwriting. Students pursue two of those at an advanced level. To earn this degree, students must have completed 90 quarter units, nearly a third of which are taken on-campus. Certain courses can be taken online. A master's in creative writing is also available, which is done entirely online. To be eligible for the master's program, students must have completed their bachelor's in English with a concentration in creative writing.
Online programs in creative writing come in many forms, from various degree levels to multiple delivery modes. Programs typically have required or optional concentrations in the subject area, the overall objective being able to effectively produce your own work and critique other's.


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"Outlandish Parisians Dent de Cuir Cut Up a Cautionary Tale of Seduction
"It is about a girl, a bad one, who's too sexy for human beings," says wunderkind French producer Juan de Guillebon, AKA Dye, of his latest music video for, "She's Bad," a track featuring the vocal stylings of west-coast rap legend Egyptian Lover. The short sees temptress Aude Auffret saunter round a tiki bar setting, her face replaced with library footage cuttings of wildlife and fizzing volcanic springs, Altered States-style. "We were looking at John Stezaker's layered, peel-away collages, and referenced a book of tattoos and how they sit on the body," say filmmaking duo Jean-Philippe Chartrand and Benjamin Mege, who have created color-splashed animated works for Modeselektor and compatriot beat-freak Sebastian under their moniker Dent de Cuir. The last video made for Dye—Jérémie Périn's extremely NSFW sex-and-gore cartoon short for the 2011 release "Fantasy"—has racked up over 48-million hits on YouTube so far. "It was a difficult thing to follow up," says Guillebon. "I hope this one's crazy enough for people."
Dye's second album Cocktail Citronis is out now on Tigersushi."
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Ponychase – Ponychase (EP) (self-released)
When you think of Nashville chances are that post-punk and synth-pop don't spring to mind. On their debut self-titled 6-song mini-album, Nashville quartet Ponychase set out to change that.
The name Ponychase was the pseudonym given to a series of home demos recorded by Jordan Caress. A quick Google search of her name will show that prior to Ponychase, Caress had been associated with a number of country, folk, and rock projects including Americana band, Korean Is Asian. Through a serendipitous meeting Caress found Beth Cameron (singer/songwriter and guitarist) formerly of beloved Nashville rock band Forget Cassettes. The two exchanged demos with Cameron signing up soon after. Jordan then enlisted her brother Alex Caress to play synths and electronic drummer Brian Sinskind, thus Ponychase was born.
While a full-length album featuring the full band is due later this year, those original demos form what is Ponychase's debut release, which gratefully came to our attention thanks to its mention in a recent Rough Trade newsletter.
From the opening notes of "Cup of Hearts", the listener is lured in by its warm atmospheric synths, SDS 5 electronic drums, and lush and breathy vocals, which combine to forms a sound that harkens straight back to the early eighties. Its hooks are immediate, its chorus sublime, and mood evocative. Like a cross between Cocteau Twins and Beach House, "Cup of Hearts" is a mesmerising and stunning pop number of the highest calibre.
More experimental in arrangement, "Two Times" continues with the lush atmospheric Cocteau Twins-like template, at times sounding uncannily like Elizabeth Fraser. The uptempo "It's A Curse" follows and is characterized by chorus-driven guitar lines, ethereal double-tracked vocals, and layered by danceable synth rhythms. A brilliant track, which boasts melodies not unlike that of HAIM, which shouldn't really come as a surprise since both bands have a mutual admiration for 80's pop. On that note, Ponychase certainly deserve the level of acclaim that the aforementioned buzz band are currently enjoying.
Nashville is of course home to world-class singer-songwriters and on their debut release Ponychase clearly exhibit their appreciation of and talent for great songwriting. However, they also demonstrate that while they're able to create pop hooks aplenty, their songs have style and substance as shown in "Bad Seed", a dark and moody pop track that shows signs of Caress' country/folk roots in its melody, and the emotive closing track "Brainwasher".
"Believer" is another stunning uptempo number that invokes Stevie Nicks with a dash of melancholy; an absolute tour de force, which along with opening track "Cup of Hearts", you'll be hard pressed to find a better synth-pop track all year.
A stunning introduction to this exciting new band, the self-titled mini-album from Ponychase was released back on 8 November, 2012 and is available digitally via the Ponychase Bandcamp. The EP was also released in the U.K. earlier this month on 10″ vinyl with hand-cut sleeves, limited to just 200 units.
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The Art of Collaboration
April 2017
CapitaLand teamed up with Singaporean artist Baet Yeok Kuan to create a bespoke art installation for residential development, Sky Vue.
CapitaLand is a global company with employees spread over many countries and across several business sectors. In that sense, it is unsurprising that collaboration is second nature for the Group — its people often find strength in unity, not unlike seabirds that gain faster flying speeds and better energy efficiency when they embark on migratory journeys together.
This brings to mind an art sculpture titled Soaring Songs, installed at the residential development Sky Vue. Most sculptures built within CapitaLand properties are accompanied by a helpful information plate that states the name of the artist and often, a short description of the artwork. The information plate of Soaring Songsreads:
"Baet Yeok Kuan's sculpture is inspired by the migration trajectory of the Arctic tern - a seabird that annually travels the longest migratory distances known to man; from Arctic to Antarctica and back. The flock of coloured stainless steel birds in dynamic motion symbolises freedom, hope, exploration, and infinite quest."
A collaborative creation
From the onset, Soaring Songs was set to be a collaborative piece. It started during the design planning for Sky Vue, when the project team decided to introduce nature-themed artworks to complement the development's design themes of the sky and views. When they started sourcing for a light and contemporary sculptural installation for the entrance, they came across Baet Yeok Kuan and his work.
Born in Singapore in 1961, Baet graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art (Painting) from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and received his Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Central England, Birmingham. He was also the recipient of numerous awards, most notably the Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council Singapore (1995), the Grand Prize at the UOB Painting of the Year Competition (1987), as well as Area Prize and Judge Prize in the Third Tokyo Urbanart Competition (1994). In addition, Baet already has many public sculpture installations to his name.
Convinced that he would be a good fit for this project, the Sky Vue team got in touch and a collaboration was born!
The partnership began simply with the decision to adapt Baet's familiar bird form into a floor-mounted sculpture. Baet sent in samples, constructed to size, for the project team's review and colour selection.
The next step in the development process was the production of the maquette (a small-scale model of the sculpture). Since the artwork was to be installed in a landscape feature, the landscape architects were roped in to determine the location of the various elements before Baet submitted a draft maquette. The then-untitled sculpture took the form of seven clusters of birds in dynamic motion.
Once all parties were in agreement, it was time to fabricate the sculpture. This involved a metal foundry in Xiamen, China, that Baet regularly works with. The foundry was also where Baet and a design manager from CapitaLand Singapore made the final adjustments to each cluster of birds.
By this time, all that was needed was a layer of powder coat to go, and the sculpture was ready for delivery and installation!
A home to call its own
A few months later, the powder-coated sculpture arrived safely at Sky Vue. Each cluster of birds was created as a standalone piece, giving the team more flexibility in determining their precise placement. Baet and his logistics contractors, in collaboration with CapitaLand's design managers and Art Management Unit, worked together on the final positioning of each cluster. With the last bolt tightened, Soaring Songs found a home in Sky Vue! The sculpture, which was inspired by the migration of seabirds, is now perched magnificently at the entrance of Sky Vue, greeting residents as they go about their daily journeys.
This article was contributed by Richard Lim of CapitaLand's Art Management Unit.


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This page describes the network costs of running a VM on Compute Engine. To learn more about networking on Google Cloud, see the networking documentation.
General network pricing
|Traffic type
|Price (USD)
|No charge, unless there is a resource that is processing ingress traffic,such as a load balancer. Responses to requests count as egress and are charged.
|Egress* to the same zone
|No charge
|Egress to Google products (such as YouTube, Maps, Drive), whether from a VM in Google Cloud with an external IP address or an internal IP address
|No charge
|Egress to Double-click in the same region
|No charge
|Egress to a different Google Cloud service within the same region using an external IP address or an internal IP address, except for Memorystore for Redis, Filestore, and Cloud SQL
|No charge
|Egress between zones in the same region (per GB)
|Egress to Memorystore for Redis is charged at the rate of "Egress between zones in the same region"
|Egress to Filestore is charged at the rate of "Egress between zones in the same region"
|Egress to Cloud SQL is charged at the rates described in Traffic through external IP addresses
|Egress between regions within the US and Canada (per GB)
|Egress between regions within Europe (per GB)
|Egress between regions within Asia (per GB)
|Egress between regions within South America (per GB)
|Intercontinental egress (excludes Oceania) (per GB)
|Oceania† to or from any region (per GB)
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
Internet egress rates*
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
Packet Mirroring
You are charged for the amount of data processed by Packet Mirroring. You are not charged for packet mirroring forwarding rules. The costs for the data processed by Packet Mirroring are described in the following table.
Normal egress rates are charged for traffic outbound from a load balancer. There is no additional load balancer egress cost beyond normal egress rates.
Traffic through external IP addresses
When you send traffic between virtual machines through the external IP addresses, it is charged as follows:
- Traffic sent between the external IP addresses of two virtual machines in the same region is charged as Egress between zones in the same region, even if the virtual machines are in the same zone.
- Traffic sent between the external IP addresses of two virtual machines in different regions within the US are charged as Egress between regions within the US.
- Traffic sent between the external IP addresses of two virtual machines in different regions, not including traffic between US regions, is charged at Internet Egress pricing.
It is not possible to charge traffic through the external IP address of two virtual machine instances in the same zone as Egress to the same zone because Compute Engine cannot determine the zone of a virtual machine through the external IP address.
External IP address pricing
You are charged for static and ephemeral external IP addresses according to the following table.
If you reserve a static external IP address and do not assign it to a resource such as a VM instance or a forwarding rule, you are charged at a higher rate than for static and ephemeral external IP addresses that are in use.
You are not charged for static external IP addresses that are assigned to forwarding rules.
In use or not
Google Cloud considers a static external IP address as in use if it is associated with a VM instance whether the instance is running or stopped. If the instance is deleted or if the IP address is dissociated from the instance, Google Cloud considers the static IP address as not in use.
For an ephemeral IP address, Google Cloud considers the address as in use only when the associated VM instance is running. When the instance is stopped or deleted, Google Cloud releases the ephemeral IP address and no longer considers it as in use.
You can check whether a static external IP address is in use by making a
gcloud compute addresses list request. This command returns a list
of static external IP addresses and their statuses:
gcloud compute addresses list
address-1 18.104.22.168 IN_USE
address-2 18.104.22.168 RESERVED
In this example, IPv4
address-1 is in use
while IPv4
address-2 is reserved but not being used.
Both addresses are charged according to the External IP address pricing
table in this document.
Network Telemetry
Network logs generate charges. You are charged for the following products:
- VPC Flow Logs
- Firewall Rules Logging
- Cloud NAT logging
|Log generation
|Price (USD)
|0—10 TB per month
|10—30 TB per month
|30—50 TB per month
|>50 TB per month
Logs are sent to Cloud Logging. Logs can be further exported to Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, or BigQuery. Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, or BigQuery charges apply in addition to log generation charges. For more information on exporting logs, see Overview of logs export.
If you store your logs in Cloud Logging, logs generation charges are waived, and only Logging charges apply.
If you send and then exclude your logs from Cloud Logging, log generation charges apply.
Load balancing and forwarding rules
The following pricing applies to all types of load balancing other than Internal HTTP(S) Load Balancing. For Internal HTTP(S) Load Balancing, see the Internal HTTP(S) Load Balancing section.
Normal egress rates are charged for traffic outbound from a load balancer. There is no additional load balancer egress cost beyond normal egress rates.
Forwarding rules pricing examples
Google Cloud charges for forwarding rules whether they are created for load balancing or other uses, such as Packet Mirroring.
The following examples use US pricing:
You can create up to 5 forwarding rules for the price of $0.025/hour. For example, if you create one forwarding rule, you are charged $0.025/hour. If you have 3 forwarding rules, you are still charged $0.025/hour. However, if you have 10 forwarding rules, you are charged as follows:
- 5 forwarding rules = $0.025/hour
- Each additional forwarding rule = $0.01/hour
$0.025/hour for 5 rules + (5 additional rules * $0.01/hour) = $0.075/hour
For most load balancing use cases, you need only one forwarding rule per load balancer.
Google Cloud charges for global forwarding rules and regional forwarding rules separately, and also per project. For example, if you use one global forwarding and one regional forwarding rule in two separate projects (four rules total), you are charged $0.10/hour (4 x $0.025/hour).
Estimating load balancing charges
To estimate load balancing charges:
- Go to the Pricing Calculator.
- On the Compute Engine tab, search for Load Balancing.
- From the dropdown menu, select a region.
- Enter your estimated number of forwarding rules.
- Enter your monthly estimated amount of network traffic processed.
For example:
- Iowa
- Forwarding rules: 10
- Network ingress: 2,048 GB
- Total Estimated Cost: USD 71.13 per 1 month
This example doesn't include the egress cost of sending replies from the backends.
Internal HTTP(S) Load Balancing
To ensure optimal performance and reliability, each load balancer is
allocated at least one proxy per zone
in the load balancer's GCP region. For example, the
region has three zones:
us-west1-b, and
us-west1-c. The minimum hourly charge due to proxies in
us-west1 is calculated as follows:
1 proxy instance/zone * 3 zones * $0.025/hour = $0.075/hour
Internal HTTP(S) Load Balancing allocates additional proxies as needed to handle traffic. These proxies incur an additional hourly charge according to the table above.
User-defined request headers and Google Cloud Armor charges
If a backend service has a Google Cloud Armor policy associated with it, you can use the user-defined request headers feature with that backend service without any additional charge for the user-defined request headers feature.
If a backend service does not have a Google Cloud Armor policy associated with it, the charges are $0.75 per million HTTP(S) requests sent to those backend services that use the user-defined request headers feature.
Protocol forwarding
Protocol forwarding is charged at the same rates as the load balancing service. There is a charge for a forwarding rule and the ingress data processed by a target instance.
SSL certificates
There is no charge for self-managed and Google-managed SSL certificates.
See Cloud VPN Pricing for VPN pricing information.


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Lebala Camp
The renowned Kwando concession is over half a million acres but contains just two small camps that are 30 kilometers apart. Lebala has built its reputation on action packed game viewing, with dedicated tracking, tremendous guiding and making the pursuit of wildlife sightings the priority. Off road driving is allowed here and the Lebala guides put it to good use when tracking predators which allows guests the best chance to witness behavior.
Lebala received a needed refurbishment during 2008, restoring the simple elegance of this intimate camp of just eight tents. Each tent is built on a raised teak deck, laid out with comfort and privacy in mind. The tents have an entrance foyer with a reading and writing area, en-suite bathrooms with Victorian clawfoot bathtubs, "his and hers" washbasins and flush toilets. The bathrooms lead out to a reed enclosed open-air shower with hot and cold running water. Each tent has its own sundeck, and is set in the shade within the trees. The endless vistas from the large windows and decks across the vast plains illustrate the origin of the name Lebala, which in Setswana means wide open spaces.
There is a great lounge area to enjoy during the mid-day where you can observe wildlife wandering across the open plains. There is also a plunge pool to escape any mid-day heat. Food is hearty and the staff provides a very welcoming atmosphere at this camp.
Activities here focus almost entirely on game drives, which is appropriate because it is such a productive area and the guide/tracker system is a point of emphasis to deliver the maximum experience.
The full complement of predators can be found around Lebala. The are is particularly good for leopard, lion, and spotted hyena but wild dogs and cheetah also include the area as part of their range. Wildlife diversity is excellent in this area and special antelope like red lechwe and roan are seen with regularity. The serious focus on game viewing and tracking ensures guests have every opportunity to find special sightings.
- Guide and Tracker Team
- Bath and open air shower
- Plunge pool


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A fan in attendance at Monday night's edition of WWE Raw, known on social media as "Tye Dye Guy," has taken to his official Twitter page to state that he was apparently forced to change seats at Monday night's show. The fan claims that he was forced to do so because WWE officials thought that he "looked too much like Hulk Hogan." The fan being moved is what resulted in the "Hogan" chants that were heard on the television broadcast.
After posting this on his official Twitter page, Hogan himself responded, stating that he was sorry for what had taken place, and even joked that maybe WWE officials thought that maybe the fan would get into the ring and slam Braun Strowman. Below is the exchange that took place:
For all you fans that saw me get moved halfway through the show it's because @wwe officials thought I looked too much like @HulkHogan #RAW— Tye Dye Guy (@TyeDyeGuyWWE) January 3, 2017
@TyeDyeGuyWWE sorry about THAT my brother,they probably thought you might slam Strowman HH— Hulk Hogan (@HulkHogan) January 3, 2017


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Open XML links for 04-17-2008
Like a few other people, I've been taking a break from blogging since the Open XML vote was final, to deal with an overflowing email inbox and a few other things. Here are some posts that I've found interesting in the last couple of weeks:
SC34 plenary. The semi-annual SC34 meeting took place in Oslo last week, and it sounds like good progress was made on setting up the plans for future maintenance of IS29500. Brian Jones has an overview of what took place in the meeting, Alex Brown describes his role in SC34's plans to define IS29500 maintenance procedures, and Rick Jelliffe provides some great perspective from the other side of the planet.
Texas hearing on document formats. The Texas House of Representatives revisited last week the question of whether to mandate the use of ODF. Jason Matusow takes a look at the issues and concludes "I do hope that these studies take a long-look at what really matters, where the value is, and how interoperability will work in a multi-format world. The single format argument is a red herring argument." Andy Updegrove, who spoke at the session, has a different perspective: "the battle over document formats will continue to be waged at every level, in every statehouse and other political venue around the world for some time to come."
FAQs on ISO/IEC 29500. ISO has published answers to frequently asked questions about the ISO/IEC 29500 (Office Open XML) standards process.
Digging into the details. Jesper Lund Stocholm takes a close look at how embedded objects work in Office and Open XML (and contrasts some of the details with OpenOffice and ODF).
KML. Rick Jelliffe explains Google's KML standard and how it connects two other standards as a potential model for harmonization of document formats.
OpenXML4J. Julien Chable anounces a beta release.
Reusing Excel business logic. Maarten Balliauw covers how to use the PHPExcel library to build a web interface to business rules stored in a spreadsheet. (Hey Maarten, I think you're in that overflowing inbox ... I better get back to it. :-))


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The smartphone camera is now a feature that customers consider before buying a cell phone. Cell phone makers are continuing to improve the performance of their cameras. We've seen so many camera advances this year.
Samsung Galaxy S8+
Besides offering unmatched real money online casino gaming, the Samsung Galaxy S8+ has a great camera. It captures moments perfectly no matter what time it is. Most smartphone cameras have poor quality during the night but Samsung built a camera that works day and night. Both cameras are fine-tuned to produce clear images in an environment with little light. 8 MP of the front camera captures superb selfies. The smart auto focus tracks their faces for awesome quality. Moreover, improved multi-frame image processing makes all selfies come out crisp and clear. The rear camera is 12 MP and any darkness cannot stand its capabilities. It is fast and focused to capture good photos in motion. With Selective focus, you can choose whether to capture the foreground, background or both.
iPhone 7 plus
iPhone 7 Plus is amongst the top list of camera phones in 2017. This is due to its unique advanced new camera systems. You can also do online casino test using it to see if the uploaded images are clear. The dual 12 MP rear camera has face detection, autofocus, 2x optical zoom, and dual tone enables the smartphone to capture a crisp picture or videos. Rear cameras perform tasks for wide-angle and telephoto enables a perfect digital zoom without compromising the quality.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is designed with 12 mega pixels in the rear camera and 8 mega pixels in the front camera. It takes crisp and clear shots and supports 2x optical zoom to let you zoom in clearly. You never capture a hazy picture even if the phone shakes. The rear and front cameras have optical image stabilisation to capture quality pictures and beautifully steady even with camera shake.


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