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The 1995 Lesbian & Gay Freedom Festival logo prominently appeared around the city prior to an expanded series of events, promoting D.C.'s first downtown Pride celebration and exhorting community members to "Come Out Proud!"
(Editor's note: Washington Blade columnist Mark Lee recalls his experience as the producer of Washington, D.C.'s Pride festival on June 18, 1995.)
The 1995 annual Pride celebration in Washington was an exciting and challenging adventure that celebrated "20 Years of Pride" and gave birth to the modern era of local events continuing this weekend.
Sponsored for the first time by One In Ten, the June 1995 "Lesbian & Gay Freedom Festival" was an amazing success, expanding activities to include a series of political, social and cultural events spanning eight days and culminating in a parade route lined with throngs of spectators all the way from Dupont Circle through the downtown business district to Freedom Plaza and a festival on Pennsylvania Avenue which drew an estimated 200,000 participants.
It was a gigantic leap from the origins of Pride as a small block party begun in 1975 at the corner of 20th and S streets by Deacon Maccubbin and the staff of the original Lambda Rising outside the Dupont Circle bookstore townhouse location and its subsequent years on the dusty field behind Francis Junior High School at 24th and N streets. In those later early years the annual parade kicked off at Meridian Hill (aka Malcolm X) Park on 16th Street, winding its way through Adams Morgan before heading to the festival grounds.
In an effort to link the old with the new – and counter the stinging criticism from those initially opposed to the changes – the parade began at Francis Field before heading toward the new festival grounds on "America's Main Street."
Emblematic of D.C.'s celebration joining the ranks of the splashy events held in other cities, the parade featured a huge rainbow flag cut from the gigantic one used in New York City. And, thankfully, everyone knew to throw coins onto it!
Our community perused nearly 200 booths representing local organizations, businesses and vendors, ate and drank (each soda, bottled water, beer and "Freedom Cocktail" sold got us one step closer to paying the bills through the generous support of Budweiser and Absolut Vodka), and enjoyed enhanced day-long main stage entertainment by a wide range of local and regional performers and featuring headlining acts The Village People, musical trio Betty, and Martha Wash of The Weather Girls.
And, yes, as was the custom at public festivals in D.C. at the time, then-again Mayor Marion Barry was booed by the crowd when he appeared on stage. Ironically, the mayor and his staff were extremely helpful in paving the way for all the necessary permits and arrangements for the event and accommodating special requests that made the event financially viable and self-supporting.
After the festival, the party continued at another new addition – the "Field of Dreams" outdoor dance at dusk with DJ David Knapp and featuring a live performance by CeCe Peniston, held in Stead Park at 17th and P streets. This event was attended by several thousand and was produced by fellow long-time nightclub promoter Ed Bailey and generously underwritten as a critical festival funding source by Tracks nightclub.
This big and bold new approach to the annual D.C. festivities was the result of much hard work over a short period of time by many dedicated volunteers and the leadership of One In Ten. The organization's then-president Keith Clark, at the time a co-owner of Universal Gear, went so far as to privately guarantee a bank loan using his 15th Street rowhouse as collateral, in order to front the final costs of producing the festival.
We self-produced a first-ever glossy-cover promotional festival program guide that included sponsorship ads by local businesses and national advertisers. The Washington Blade donated full-page ads and we distributed fliers, posters and buttons, hoping that people would show up and support our efforts — both enthusiastically and financially.
Having the privilege of serving as the producer of this suddenly new and refreshed and expanded series of public events — the success of which took everyone by surprise and quieted the naysayers — I will never forget the universal sense of community pride and participant tears of joy as the parade contingents marched down the incline of the final stretch on 14th Street to Freedom Plaza.
Over and over again, each group erupted in cheers echoing against the downtown office and hotel buildings as the towering stage backdrop and blocks-long landscape of white tents spread out before marchers became visible. The enthusiastic response and broadened participation by the metropolitan area LGBT community and our friends was palpable — and no one, including us, expected or predicted such an overwhelming turnout.
It was a special moment in our local history and was a "coming out" for the LGBT community as the event transformed into a larger public arena with greater prominence and visibility. D.C. had previously hosted large national marches and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt, but this was a hometown effort.
And, importantly, the 1995 Lesbian & Gay Freedom Festival inaugurated an expansion of activities offering a robust schedule of public events held throughout the preceding week that has also continued through the years.
I was struck by 2011 Capital Pride board president Michael Lutz's commentary in this year's Pride Guide that "whenever someone asks me 'why is Pride still important?' I know I can answer, 'because it's always someone's first Pride'."
Although many of us living in an increasingly acclimated, accepted and geographically dispersed community less and less self-identify in a cohesive way and don't regard the annual Pride events with the same enthusiasm as in years past, Michael's words ring true. Not only is Pride a special tradition in our community life, for many it is an opportunity to connect with the LGBT community in all of its diversity for the very first time.
When participating in this weekend's Saturday evening parade and the festival on Sunday, take a moment to reflect on how these events have evolved alongside the community that commemorates the Stonewall Rebellion every June and the legacy sustained by the many volunteers and coordinators.
Remember to use the admission gates to enter the festival grounds – and when you do, ignore the suggested donation of $5 and contribute $10. It's a small price to pay to support this annual endeavor and its significant production costs.
And have fun!
Mark Lee is a local small business manager and long-time community business advocate. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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It was mid-November last year that I graduated from General Assembly's Ruby-on-Rails backend course. Since then, I've built and launched my first startup, a marketplace for conference videos, called Xavy.
Before joining the course, I had massive reservations about whether I would actually be able to code. I'd tried and failed to learn independently at least three times before. I have always studied humanities subjects and avoided logic or maths wherever possible. My family and friends thought I was joking when I told them what I planned on doing, the response generally being "but you're not remotely technical!"
Well, I took the course and succeeded in learning to code, so thank you GA for helping me learn the technical skills I needed to start executing on the vision I had for Xavy.
However, you can't learn everything in 8 weeks, so here are some of the technical lessons I've learned since graduating, which could prove useful to anyone else taking the course:
There's no substitute for hard work.
If you expect to turn up to class, do the 2 x 2 hour lessons each week and be a decent programmer 8 weeks later, you will probably not get the results you want. I put in a lot of additional hours between classes, and particularly in the early days, it's important to build your 'muscle memory' for the key concepts until they become second nature.
Don't rush.
Take the time to think through how relationships should be built between your models; don't just add in a gem because it seems like the fastest solution to your problem without thinking through all the alternatives; don't try to start and complete a task 10 minutes before bed or leaving for work. It will end in tears.
Learn by doing, and focus on a specific outcome.
For me, not having a natural grasp of logic or math, it's almost impossible to just 'get' programming concepts or read about it and understand how it can be applied. The only way for me to learn is to think of an outcome I want to achieve, read about how to achieve it, and apply it as I go.
Try to avoid gems where you can.
One of the main reasons I learned RoR was because I thought it was amazing that I could drop in huge bits of functionality developed by someone else with just a few lines of code. I added gems for everything in the beginning.
Over time though, I've realised there can be major drawbacks to this approach. They open up your code to a lot of dependencies that can crash your app; they can conflict with one another and your existing code; they're a pain to remove or alter if you want to evolve the behaviour of your app a few months down the line.
Learn JavaScript (and CSS and HTML) if you can.
Knowing a backend language is incredibly powerful, but it's still only one-half of the story. I increasingly find I need a better understanding of javascript/coffeescript to achieve some of the functionality I want Xavy to have.
If you have the time and money, I'd strongly urge you take the frontend course at GA as well, as it compliments the backend knowledge you'll develop and make you 10x the coder.
Git is a powerful tool.
Try to get into a good habit of creating new branches for each new feature you want to develop, and committing your work frequently. Read up on how git control works and use it to protect and preserve your working code base.
Get into the habit of TDD as soon as you can.
If you get used to coding without first writing tests, it's really hard to force yourself into the habit. There's rarely a day goes by that I don't wish I had a full test suite for my app, as it would now be saving me hours of time and a lot of anguish over whether a change I make in one part of my app is going to break another part of it.
As the code base has gotten larger, my need for tests has grown, but the pain of writing them all has also increased! That's why it is best to start from the very beginning.
Ruby is your friend, so get better acquainted.
Rails is an incredible framework, and provides the newbie developer a huge amount of magic to achieve things with only a little ruby, but the underlying language you'll be using is ruby, and the better you understand it, the more you'll be able to achieve with rails.
Logs are a treasure trove of information.
I never develop without having a tail of my developer logs open at the same time, as it tells you what's going on in the app, and will help you quickly understand why something isn't working or a particular error is being thrown.
Combined with a (recommended) gem called better_errors, and the logger.debug method, and you shouldn't have to sit there for hours scratching your head trying to figure out why things aren't working.
Ask for help.
Finally, don't be shy about asking for help! It's amazing how much help others are willing and able to provide a new developer. Most of the time, it's not that you need them to tell you the answers, but they will be able to point you in the right direction, or talk things through with you logically so you can better frame what you're trying to achieve.
Last but not least – enjoy your newfound skills!
The course I took at GA gave me all the core concepts I needed to become a competent programmer and build a fully functional video marketplace.
However it is only the beginning. If you really want to become a developer, you need to keep pushing yourself, keep learning, keep practicing, and most importantly, keep enjoying the challenge by building new things and revelling in the fact you can now build an entire website, when a few weeks ago blocks, arrays, hashes and variables were like a foreign language!
Interested in our Backend Web Development Course?
Mark Walker is the co-founder and CEO of Xavy, the destination for business videos, on demand, from the worlds best events. He is responsible for the product roadmap and content strategy. He was previously a Portfolio Director at Clarion Events where he led sales, marketing, content and operations with overall P&L responsibility for their Gaming Conference division.


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Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Obamacare was supposed to provide more Americans with more affordable health care. The result would be fewer Americans suffering budget-breaking medical expenses and more Americans living a healthy life. Three years later, more Americans are paying more — in many cases a lot more — for health insurance. Some are dying earlier than they should. The Obamacare bandwagon took a wrong left turn on the road to the promised land.
The Affordable Care Act open enrollment period started Nov. 1, and many Americans have come down with a bad case of sticker shock. Premiums for the middle-tier "silver" plans will rise by an average of 7.5 percent, according to calculations by The Wall Street Journal. A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that premiums in Alaska, Minnesota and Tennessee, for example, will jump by a third. Rates in Arizona, Nebraska and North Carolina, for other examples, will climb at least 20 percent, and by 10 percent in Iowa, Louisiana and South Carolina. In selling his health-care con, President Obama promised that the average family would save $2,500 a year on their premiums. So much for "affordable."
Perhaps it's affordable if you're a member of Congress or work at the White House. Even bailing out is hardly a viable option now. Starting next year, the penalty, which goes by the euphemism "individual shared responsibility payment," for having no health insurance will reach $695 per adult, or 2.5 percent of household income, whichever is higher. Some daring folks are trying to save money by buying a plan and figuring to drop it a few months shy of year's end. If they make it to Jan. 1 without illness or injury, they will have saved enough to pay for part of the next year's Obamacare without incurring the fine.
Just as the president's health-care plan is supposed to be providing "patient protection," Americans are puzzled by the movement away from previously recommended screenings. Earlier this year, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a scholar at the liberal Center for American Progress, urged in an op-ed in The New York Times that Americans should "skip your annual physical" because it's "basically worthless," and besides, "the checkups consume billions …"
In his role as a "bioethicist," Dr. Emanuel, who is 58, has written that life after 75 is not worth living, and the "public good" should trump longevity as the goal of health care policy.
Other deep thinkers in Washington might endorse the notion of a little more health care pain and a little less gain. In 2012, the routine health protocol for men was deemed overdone and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that doctors discontinue the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer screening, saying that the benefits of the test were too small to warrant further use. Last month, the American Cancer Society published new breast cancer screening guidelines recommending that routine mammograms for women should be delayed from beginning at age 40 to beginning at age 45.
Despite the miracles of medicine in the age of Obama, Americans are not necessarily healthier. A Princeton University study finds the death rate for whites aged 45 to 54 has risen a half-percent per year since 1998. Suicide and drug and alcohol overdoses are blamed.
Obamacare has sickened the body politic. A president who believes himself wise enough to re-engineer the American health care should have remembered the ancient proverb, "physician, heal thyself," and applied it to everybody.
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Is there anyone out there who has had experience of discharge from Neuro Rehab following a TBI? My son is 33 and has been in rehab since last March. His latest discharge date is mid April and up till now I havn't been able to find a nursing home in Somerset that isn't primarily for the elderly/dementia.
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Many scientists have spent many years attempting to find a carbon neutral or green fuel to use instead of gasoline. Some of the options that have been suggested over the years are simply not commercially viable as an alternative to gasoline, or are too expensive to be widely used, although biofuel and electric batteries have shown some promise. However, a fuel manufactured from water and carbon dioxide, by the car company Audi, has caused quite a stir and has turned the spotlight on the problem once again.
An innovative yet extremely simple laboratory technique was used to create the fuel, with the cooperation of the German company Sunfire. The first step was to use solar, wind, hydropower or another renewable energy source to heat water to temperatures of over 800 degrees C. Electrolysis was then used to decompose the steam into oxygen and hydrogen, and the carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide. Extreme pressure and temperatures were then used on the carbon monoxide and hydrogen to produce hydrocarbons, with the help of a reactor. Audi calls the resulting liquid blue crude, and e-diesel was produced by refining it in much the same way as standard crude oil.
E-diesel has an extremely low carbon footprint, according to the manufacturers, meaning that the amount of carbon consumed is the same as the amount created, a big contrast to regular diesel gas which when burned, adds just over 22 pounds of CO2. When e-diesel is manufactured, it absorbs some of the CO2 it needs from its surroundings, helping to reduce the greenhouse effect.
The Sunfire plant in Dresden, Germany is currently producing just 42 gallons of e-diesel each day, and that is one of the drawbacks to the carbon neutral fuel – it is very hard to scale. The British company, Air Fuel Synthesis experienced the same problem when they came up with a similar product in 2012.
However, Sunfire has announced plans to work together with car company Audi to build a larger plant capable of producing larger quantities of e-diesel, in an effort to get around the problem of scaling. Critics point out that e-diesel will still need a large amount of energy to be generated simply to create it. Once it is being manufactured on a larger scale, e-diesel will likely sell at between $1.14 and 1.70, or between 1 and 1.5 Euros per liter. Wind and solar technology is still relatively unsophisticated, meaning that most experts just don't think these technologies will be able to satisfy the demand.
The introduction of e-diesel can only be a positive thing when it comes to making carbon neutral fuel, and other similar solutions will no doubt follow. Germany's Minister of research and Education, Johanna Wanka, pointed out that an important contribution to protecting the climate can be realized if CO2 is widely used as a raw material. Wanka went on to say that the beginnings of a so- called green economy might be a reality once e-diesel is widely used.
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We've all heard that Texas is in the grips of a severe drought and that people and wildlife are having a hard time as a result. While we can't control the weather, there are things that we can do everyday in our homes and businesses to help conserve water and ensure there is enough for people and the environment during these dry times.
We have assembled some of our favorite tips below. Every drop of water saved is important and with no end in sight for this drought, it is necessary. It all comes down to using only what you need.
This list is by no means exhaustive. There are plenty more things that you can do to conserve water. Find out what methods work for you and your family and go for it!
Top 10 Tips to Conserve Water:
- Only run the dishwasher or washing machine with a full load. If it is time to replace either of these appliances, check in with your utility about rebates for water-conserving versions and purchase those instead.
- Water your lawn on the right day. Are you odd or even? Most Texas cities restrict outdoor water use to one or two days a week during times of drought. Save water and avoid fines by learning and following your city's schedule.
- Catch the condensation from your AC unit and use it in your yard. Depending on how your air conditioner is programmed, it can produce gallons of water per day. Catch that water in a bucket and put it on your garden, shrubs and trees.
- Turn the water off when you brush your teeth. This simple step can save up to 8 gallons of water per day.
- Fix leaky faucets. Leaky faucets can waste up to 7 gallons of water per day. To check for leaks at home, read your water meter and avoid using water for 2 hours. Read the meter again after this period. If the amount is different you have a leak.
- Fix running toilets. Running toilets can waste a lot of water. Fix these leaks as soon as you find them. Check with the manufacturer of your toilet for the proper replacement "flapper" to ensure maximum efficiency.
- Inspect your irrigation system. Have your system inspected by your water utility or a certified irrigator to make sure it is operating correctly, identify any problems and help you set it to run more efficiently. Many cities offer free inspections.
- Install faucet aerators and low-flow showerheads. These water saving devices are cheap and easy to install. Many utilities give them away to their customers. Check with your utility and pick up a few extras to share with your neighbors!
- Install a high efficiency toilet. Toilets account for about 25% of water used in the home. Depending on the age of your toilet, you can save up to 5 gallons per flush by replacing older models. Check with your city for possible rebates.
- Make water conservation a whole-family activity. Challenge your family members to think of new ways to save water and to be part of the solution
Want to learn more about water conservation?
- Water Saving Tips for Your Yard or Garden: http://www.texaswatermatters.org/pdfs/articles/making_every_drop_count.pdf
- Water IQ: Know Your Water (Info on your city's rebates and restrictions): http://www.wateriq.org/apps/wateriq/default.aspx
- 100 Ways to Conserve Water: http://www.wateruseitwisely.com/100-ways-to-conserve/index.php
Want to learn more about the drought?
- State Drought Monitor: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DM_state.htm?TX,S
- Office of the State Climatologist: http://atmo.tamu.edu/osc/
- National Drought Mitigation Center (Drought Basics): http://www.drought.unl.edu/DroughtBasics.aspx
Posted by: Jennifer Walker, Water Resources Specialist, Lone Star Chapter Sierra Club


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If 2016 was the year of hygge (the Danish way of living a cozy life), 2017 is all about lagom, the Swedish lifestyle. Discover more about the concept, and learn how to apply it to your everyday life.
What is lagom?
Pronounced "lah-gom", lagom means "enough, sufficient, adequate, just right"; it can be translated as "in moderation" or "in balance". The concept is often explained with one simple example: milk. In Sweden, 1.5 percent fat milk is the most popular choice. Why? Because it's not a super-lean skim, but also not a fatty whole. It's the perfect middle ground!
How can you make your life a little bit more lagom?
Work less, but more efficiently
Don't spend extra hours at work; leave the office when your work day is over. Take the initiative of planning a fika, the Swedish coffee break, to spend a moment with your colleagues, relax and recharge your batteries.
Spend more time at home
When the day is over, spend as much time as possible at home with your loved ones. Put on your sweatpants, gather your friends and family and have a simple home-cooked meal. Watch a movie, play a cardboard game or simply listen to music and talk about your day. Make time for hobbies, too, whether it is learning to play an instrument, painting or joining a sports team.
Make sustainable choices
Start a compost bin, or keep old vegetables to make broth or soups. Don't throw out food; be creative and make new dishes with what's already in your fridge instead. Go to the farmer's market instead of the grocery store, and follow the seasons when choosing which fruits and vegetables to buy. Use natural, non-chemical products to clean your home. Turn the lights off when you leave a room.
Be wise with your finances
Spend your money carefully: buy only what you need, and save up some money when you want to spoil yourself. Pay your bills and your credit cards on time. Keep track of all the money you spend. Make sure to save money for retirement, vacations and unforeseen events.
Make space
Declutter every room in your home; get rid of the unnecessary and keep only what you need. Use wall storage and shelves to put all books, decorations and other objects, and leave other surfaces clean and free of useless objects. Add candles to your decor to create a warm, cozy atmosphere.
Sources: Wikipedia, Elle UK, Well & Good, My Domaine, PopSugar, Vogue


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Children and adolescents face diverse challenges but each have unique capacities. Our speech language pathologists are keen to develop each young person's engagement in learning and communication.
Each child and adolescent is an individual who we treasure. Our occupational therapists work with you and your child's teacher to encourage each young person to participate with increased joy, confidence and skill in everyday activities.


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Watch RED's Short Film 'Tattoo,' Shot on EPIC at 5K and Screened at NAB
Around the back of RED's military-themed NAB booth, a 4K screening room was showcasing a film produced specifically for the tradeshow. The RED folks had decided a scant ten days before NAB that they wanted to create a dramatic short to show off their new 5K EPIC camera, and so they wrote, directed, shot, and edited this 9-minute film, entitled "Tattoo," on an accelerated schedule. Today they posted the short in full; here it is.
Presumably for quality considerations, RED has posted the short as a downloadable x.264 movie instead of as an embeddable video. I don't want to upload it against anyone's wishes, so instead of watching it here, click on the following image to download the x.264 zip (x.264 is a variant of h.264; if the video does not play correctly on your computer, try VLC).
UPDATED: The above link is for a 1K-resolution version; they've since also posted a 2K download.
What did you think? There's no shortage of resolution and dynamic range, and this low-resolution compressed web file actually has more saturated colors than I remember in the 4K theater (where I watched the short twice, along with a semi-secret end-of-day screening of a terrific short co-produced with Avid). It's hard to find fault with the EPIC, as you'd expect -- it's easier to evaluate DSLR footage with "oh, look, aliasing!" than it is to evaluate a full-featured, mature cinema camera. Things simply look as you'd expect them to: good.
The ending may not make a whole lot of sense if you don't know that at the show RED also "announced" their next generation sensor, named RED Dragon (thus the namesake tattoo at the film's conclusion). Unfortunately there was no official announcement, just a mention that they are, in fact, working on the sensor. Which is not really an announcement; more on this soon.
Digital Acquisition Supervisor Michael Cioni also wrote an in-depth entry about the accelerated post-process.
Link: TATTOO (REDUSER)
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that's about as filmic as i've seen a digital camera yet, and definitely the best of the epic footage I've seen so far
May 1, 2011 at 4:46PM, Edited September 4, 7:54AM
The pictures are pretty brilliant. Only a couple of brief times did I think the images looked "video-y".
Oh, to have a massive budget to shoot nine minutes.......sigh........
May 1, 2011 at 5:32PM, Edited September 4, 7:54AM
That Tattoo looked like the tramp stamp on a hookers lower back. Or something off a UFC fighters affliction shirt. Should have made it way more badass.....
May 1, 2011 at 9:34PM, Edited September 4, 7:54AM
I didn't have to install yet another codec to play the movie.
As I understand it, x.264 is just another way to create h.264. You don't need another player...
PS : As expected, the movie is just great... And this file is only 1K (1024 pixels).
May 2, 2011 at 1:06AM, Edited September 4, 7:54AM
Interesting, my feeling watching it was that it actually had quite a strong video-y feel to it. The resolution is great, the images are rich and detailed, but it's just too clean. One of the great characteristics of the RED one is that it has its own very unique, warm aesthetic that's actually very flattering to people, but the EPIC footage doesn't really have this. I'm actually slightly disappointed by it. The footage at the booth at NAB looked better as it was coming off the camera to the monitors. Could be all sorts of things, deep depth of field, dodgy grade, it just feels like it belongs on TV. Footage I've seen from the ALEXA has been far better, that I've seen so far. Jury's out, for me anyway.
May 2, 2011 at 8:37AM, Edited September 4, 7:54AM
see to me I've felt the opposite, that the RED One looked videoish, too much "white light" whereas epic has mostly turned that around, the one exception I've found is here: http://vimeo.com/23235603 , where to me this looks like RED one footage but was actually shot on the Epic. however, you can kind of tell immediately that the fault was also mostly with the cinematographer because the key light is too strong and obvious and the contrast and shadow are too exact
May 3, 2011 at 7:20PM, Edited September 4, 7:54AM
So I get this is just a marketing piece, and I for one am glad to see it. It's well produced (was that thee Bill Paxton credited?) and it's a welcome change to see the lead character played by a eurasian. Points off for using James Hong for the umpteenth time in a role that he should be allowed to move beyond.
However, there are a few things that scream out at me to be mentioned. Not the least of which is because the people reading this blog and possibly this comment need to take the good and improve upon it, while identifying the bad, and destroying it.
First. Keylights should not be treated like a dirty word. Moody lighting yes. Completelyunabletoreadsilhouette, No. Like me writing a series of words all in one go without proper spacing, things get muddled and lost.
Yes, Red's sensitivity and dynamic range allow "film" makers to shoot with available light. Light which in some ways is much truer and verisimilitudinous; but when the story is impacted, or a shot favors lights that are inconsequential (read fill lights & accent lights) this "advantage" becomes a disdvantage.
Take for example the relatively well shot scene where The Stranger walks up the flight of stairs. The first shot is all hallway stair lights, blooms & light wraps and we read his movement past them. That's fine, and kind of cool to see that range in both light sensitivity and artistic license. After all, we humans detect contract and motion first.
The second shot in the sequence, the shot where he reaches the top of the stairs, is all muddled. Yes, dark and moody, but no to muddled. Here The Stranger stops. Motion is not detected, and without motion, our eyes rely on contrast. Here the contrast is heaviest in the lower right, where the accent light from the hallway stairs is brightest. The second focus of contrast is strongest vaguely around something that looks like his torso? Who knows, because we can't see it properly.
The Stranger is supposed to be the focus of the viewers attention. It is the main character and his motivations about what he's about to do. Instead subconsciously, all I do as an audience member is view what's biggest and most contrasty in the scene as something that is telegraphing importance. From the framing, I think that someone else will be walking up the stairs, stealthily, as incognito as possible, illuminated only because the hall accent lights provide the reveal necessary. After all, the preceeding shots were of people taking long second glances at The Stranger. The main character himself looks over his shoulder paranoid, concerned.
So, is it a marketing "success"? Yes!
Good cinematography & lighting hurt due to an over-reliance on verisimilitudinous fill and accent lights which ultimately affects readability? Also Yes!
Composition & Framing which leads to confusion on the part of the audience, and ultimately a muddling of the scene's intention? Yes again!
Let's bear in mind one thing. These faults are a direct result of the "because you can" method of filmmaking. Just because you can get away without keylights, doesn't mean you should.
May 3, 2011 at 9:39AM, Edited September 4, 7:54AM
agree with most of what you said, but the errors that you pointed out seem to be the subjective decisions of how the crew chose to light the scene. Please believe me, I'm not jsut out to defend epic to the grave, but so far any criticisms of it have been somewhat misdirected, I believe
May 3, 2011 at 7:17PM, Edited September 4, 7:54AM
Oh my goodness...In my excitement to see this short film and share it with other Daniel Henney fans, I forgot to ask permission to link to you first. I'm an admin for Hermosa USA, a fan blog site for one of the actors in the short, Daniel Henney. I hope it's okay I shared this post and download link with the rest of his fans on Hermosa USA and Dan's Facebook. Please let me know if you wish me to pull the link. Have a wonderful day and congrats on winning Total Film's 2011 Best Creative Blog Award! -Marianne ^_^
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Well, before I headed out, I thought that maybe I should try to post on Facebook and see if anyone has an ironing board that they aren't using. [I am a firm believer that anything you need is probably just sitting around in your neighbors house, unused and wasting away...you just have to find the right neighbor ;)]
GUESS WHAT?? I was right :) Within a few minutes, one of my neighbors messaged me about her annoying, unused old ironing board :) Ta-Da!!! :D
I popped over and grabbed it :) It didn't have a cover anymore, so I needed to make one. No problem!


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Arada launches new Sharjah villa community project
SHARJAH, October 12, 2017
UAE's newest developer Arada has launched its new Anber Community project in Sharjah following the unprecedented sales at Aljada, a master-planned destination being built over a 2.2-sq-km area at an investment of Dh24 billion in the heart of the northern emirate.
Aljada is ideally situated on the last major plot of undeveloped land in the heart of Sharjah, with exceptional connectivity to surrounding areas, it stated.
A mixed-use development, Aljada comprising considerable retail, leisure and entertainment options, in addition to a wide range of residential and commercial offering.
Arada's debut appearance at the Cityscape Global real estate expo was a big hit among the investors with over 500 units in Aljada's Phase 1 sold at the event, thus making the project Sharjah's fastest-selling residential community, said the Emirati developer.
Following its success, Arada is releasing a total of 84 homes in Anber Community for sale at a special launch event featuring exclusive payment plans and incentives on October 14 at the Radisson Blu Resort in Sharjah.
The Anber Community features a selection of stylish and spacious villas and townhouses, all with extensive gardens and direct access to a lush and landscaped private park.
Buyers can choose from a wide variety of two, three and four-bedroom residences, positioned close to Aljada's leisure and entertainment destination, the Central Hub.
Arada's chairman Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed Al Qasimi said: "In just a few short weeks, Aljada has seen exceptional sales, thanks in no small part to the support that the project has received from the highest levels of the Government of Sharjah."
"We are delighted at the reception Aljada has witnessed from the local community, and look forward to delivering on our promise to create Sharjah's newest and most exciting destination," he noted.
To be delivered in phases starting in 2019, construction on Aljada will begin in the first quarter of next year and the entire project is expected to be completed by 2025, said Sheikh Sultan.
The Aljada masterplan is carefully designed with walkability and wide green spaces in mind, allowing residents, workers and visitors the ability to live, work, play and be entertained within an all-inclusive and self-sustained precinct, he added.
The development includes an extensive residential mix including standalone villas, semi-detached villas, townhouses, and apartments, complemented by generous open spaces and facilities including F&B (food and beverages) outlets, schools, healthcare clinics and mosques, said the statement from Arada.
A considerable portion of the masterplan is dedicated to green spaces and community facilities, creating an attractive opportunity for investors who want to buy in a new prime destination that perfectly captures the essence of Sharjah, it added.-TradeArabia News Service


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GOTit Connectの詳細情報
What is GOTit Social Shopping? GOTit is a Social Shopping marketplace mobile App, bringing together stores and products all shoppable from one place. It's the Instagram of shopping. For shoppers, it's a way to discover and buy products from stores both big and small. For merchants, GOTit is a place to market and sell your products to millions of users who come to do nothing but shop.
GOTit is the a leading social shopping market place. The mobile app is available on both Apple and Google Play App Stores (Look for GOTit - Social Shopping)
Listing products on GOTit presents the following three benefits:
- Product boost functionality to get in front of new audiences.
- Saves sellers investment into mobile app development and subsequent enhancements.
- No listing fee, no monthly fee, and no account fee. Sellers are charged only when sales happen.
What is GOTit Connect? GOTit Connect is our integration app that connects your Shopify store to GOTit Social Shopping App (GOTit) , and will help you sell on GOTit in an easy manner. You will get various features through which you can easily list your products on GOTit, perform changes in them and sync your orders on your Shopify store from GOTit Connect.
COMPELLING FEATURES: The app achieves complete automation of online sales-related operations. Some features are listed below:
Instant Order Management: GOTit Connect allows you manage all orders that are received through GOTit directly to your Shopify store. You can manage full order life cycle and communication with your buyer and in full synchronization
Real Time Synchronization: To achieve a seamless selling experience, you will find Real-Time Syncing Scenario in GOTit Connect. Your inventory level, pricing. shipping costs will be up to date with your Shopify store.
3.Manage Customer Interactions: As GOTit is a social shopping app, customers interact with sellers before, during and after they place an order. You can manage all of these interactions through GOTit connect, provide a great customer experience increase conversion and customer retention.
Who can sell on GOTit? Any store that offers products that are shipped to the US WITHIN 10 DAYS! can sell on the app. We have built over the last years a strong and reliable brand, and we provide a superb customer experience. We therefore have zero tolerance for low level of service to our customers. You will be required to keep a high level of service to sell on GOTit.
We hope you will enjoy your experience on GOTit and increase your sales. We would love to hear from you and get your thoughts and ideas. Feel free to contact us firstname.lastname@example.com.
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GOTit charges a 20% fee only on completed sales, (minimum $8, cap $100 per item sold). No installation or monthly fees.
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refund given for the unsuccessful sales. They responded quickly and took care of the issue.
If you have this app installed, check your billing.
Every other day I am getting asked "Please Complete store payment configurations". Another thing i noticed. It's 2 charges on 2 failed orders. Emailed support. Please refund and Fix. your fees are only when Something is sold. not when payment fail.
This should not happen. Now i have to check my other store. review will be updated once fixed Uninstalled app from both of my stores.
Keeps asking me again and again and again to "Please Complete store payment configurations"....I complete it and AGAIN the same...I then am allowed to publish products and then 2-3 days later I am asked again the same thing >> "Please Complete store payment configurations".....ALSO I MADE A SHOPIFY GURU EMAIL THEM TO ANSWER A QUESTION CONCERNING THE $2,500 MONTHLY CHARGE....Is this something I would be billed or is this the limit to how much I can sell on GOTit? They NEVER answered back
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***Update*** 1/8/2020 at 8:15 pm Est
After reaching out to the support email, I received a response. 2 hours later, they had a fix for the issue with the tags on the products getting deleted after the app applies a gotit tag. looks like it is no longer applying the tag to the products after publishing. Thank you again for the quick fix.
The app is really easy to use.
A warning to others when you install this app be prepared to re-add your tags. if your site uses tags for collections etc... i am forewarning you that you will lose all your tags once you install and publish your items. I have messaged support on this issue. Waiting for a response. Will change rating once this issue is corrected. Thought I write this review before anyone else installs.
Hey, thanks for taking the time to leaving a review. If you need anything or have ideas that can help us get better feel free to contact us. Good luck with GOTit and as a heads up all of the items that you sync with GOTit will be available for sale on the app starting Sunday next week. Good luck selling on the app and we hope that you will enjoy it


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Roosevelt Island Residents Forming Group To Improve Conditions At Sportspark Pool - Users Invited To Join And Share Your Concerns
Are you a user of the Roosevelt Island Sportspark pool with concerns about how it is operated?
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If yes, consider joining the newly organized Sportspark Users Group.
Roberta Kleiman and Fred Gautier are leading the organizing efforts for the Roosevelt Island Sportspark Users Group. Ms. Kleinman and Mr. Gautier report:
CONCERNS ABOUT SPORTSPARK POOLContact Sportspark Users Group here.
In conjuction with the Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) Island Services Commitee, a group of us brought our concerns about Sportspark to the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC). Thus far RIOC has addressed only a handful of these issues fully. The majority of concerns which we conveyed have not been clearly addressed, nor have we received any communication about a plan for remedy. This is particularly disconcerting as the initial list of concerns sent to RIOC are rather straight forward, for the benefit of the entire community, and not a matter of personal preference.
Our goal is to work together with RIOC to help improve conditions at Sportspark pool so that our community can continue to enjoy this facility that we are fortunate enough to have!
If you wish to join the Sportspark User's group, please email us at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Issues Awaiting Response from RIOC
Improved Sanitary Conditions in the Locker Rooms
The lockers rooms are consistently filthy and need to be cleaned daily. Many would like to know what the current schedule is.
Opening At Scheduled Time
This is of particular concern during weekday mornings.
Better Regulation of Air and Water Temperature
Do not keep windows and/or door open when it is cold enough for lifeguards to wear sweatpants and Jackets.
Do not backwash (adding a couple of hours worth of approximately 58 degree tap water while the pool is open).
Additional Issues
(These have not been forwarded directly to RIOC)
Pool Closure for Repairs during the Off-Season (sometime during the slowest months of December thru March, with a preference for December to cause the least amount of inconvenience)
Additional Heating Units in the Locker Rooms are needed for the coldest weather.
Rules Should be Enforced (for example coaching, particularly on the weekends leads to unsafe conditions and overcrowding, street shoes on the pool deck leads to water contamination), swim caps for all, etc.
Reconsideration of Pool Schedule (to accommodate increased Island population, particularly families)
Communication regarding whether RIOC plans to close Sportspark during exterior demolition of Goldwater Hospital (the temporary boiler is outside, accross the road from Goldwater)
Topics for Discussion:
Issues Addressed by RIOC
- What repairs are going to be done at the end of the year?
- Are there any plans for repairing, cleaning (industrial strength) or renovating the locker rooms?
- What are RIOC's plans for Sportspark during Cornell construction?
- Revisting the topic of overnight lockers.
Let's Make Sure We Have a Pool to Swim In
Charlene Indelicato explained RIOC's plan to heat Sportspark in "The RIOC Column" dated April 26th. Erica Spencer, RIOC's Community Relations specialist, added by email, one piece of important information. Ms. Spencer said, "Please note that the temporary broiler is in place until the permanent system is installed." Thank you Ms. Indelicato for making this information public and for all your efforts to keep Sportspark in continuous operation!


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Title : Cowboy Seduction Word Count :81 pgs
Genre : Paranormal Gay Romance
Blurb : Taylor fled Nebraska with his best friend, running from a monster that trapped Taylor into a life he wouldn't wish on his worst enemy. After settling down in Bear County, Taylor meets a man who is charming, his sense of humor something Taylor has never experienced before. When Sam invites Taylor over to watch a movie, Taylor isn't sure he's ready to get back into the dating pool. Sam spots a sexy little goth angel in the grocery store. He's taken with Taylor at once. The more time they spend together, the more Sam knows that Taylor is his mate. But winning Taylor's heart isn't easy. Not when the man has been obviously hurt. When Sam has to go off on an assignment, Taylor goes missing. Can he help save Taylor from his worst nightmare? Can Sam help Taylor heal his wounded soul and bring the man back into the light, or has Taylor's experiences broken the man beyond repair? ** A Siren Erotic Romance
My Review : From the moment Sam lays eyes on his beautiful goth angel in the grocery store, he knows he is his other half. Taylor is amazed that a sexy, sophisticated man is interested in getting to know him. He is a little bit fragile and considers himself to be broken after escaping an abusive relationship with a bear shifter. Sam invites Taylor to dinner and a movie at the ranch and he has no clue that Sam is also a bear shifter.
As soon as Taylor arrives, the date starts going south. Sam makes a wonderful shrimp bisque for dinner to impress Taylor, but Taylor is allergic to seafood. Sam realizes after they are settling in that Taylor is very skittish. As much as he would like to pounce, Sam gentles his approach and allows all his other shifter brothers to sit in on the movie when he notices that Taylor is more comfortable that way. Their second date doesn't fare much better when Sam falls off a horse trying to impress Taylor yet again. Poor Taylor is shaken up thinking about how Sam could have gotten seriously injured. Taylor makes the decision to start opening up a little more to Sam, when Sam gets an assignment from T-rex and has to go away.
Sam hates to leave Taylor unattended but he can't tell Taylor that he is so protective because they are mates . He wants to ease him into the idea gently. Taylor is enjoying Sam's flirty phone calls and he even starts to flirt back a little. This is until he gets a call from his abusive ex. His ex tears him down with just a few vindictive words, bringing Taylor to a depressing low that pushed Taylor into a bottle of tequila.
Taylor's best friend Cameron is worried when his friend doesn't come home. Cameron calls Sam and explains the situation. Sam is frantic, and comes home immediately. He finds Taylor hungover in his car. Sam knows that he can no longer put off telling Taylor he is a bear. Sam reveals his news after making passionate love to Taylor. Taylor is distraught and runs back to his apartment. Sam begs for a chance to prove himself. He needs to protect his mate desperately.
Taylor moves to the ranch to gain his mate's protection as well as getting to know Sam. It is only a matter of time before trouble comes knocking. Taylor's abusive ex shows up to try to take Taylor away and Sam ends up killing him. Taylor reclaims his life and take it one day at a time. They take their relationship slowly and they both come to a mutual decision that they are not ready for kids. I give this one my ratings of 3 – it was ok.


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Charity Hogg was born in Thornbury on 23rd November 1787 and baptised on 2nd January 1788. She was the child of Joseph and Sarah Gough who lived rather intriguingly at a place known as 'the Pest House' in Thornbury. Sarah was a member of the well known Cossham family.
Charity Gough married John Hagg, or more often Hogg, a cordwainer on 18th October 1818. Their children were Daniel baptised on 4th April 1819, William baptised 2nd May 1821 and Elizabeth baptised 6th January 1828.
John Hogg died aged 59 and was buried in St Mary's churchyard in Thornbury on 20th September 1829.
By 1833 Charity Hogg then aged 45 was supporting her family by taking in washing and selling nuts. She was living with her children and her two nieces Harriet and Hannah Davis.
From the few court records we have found it seems that on 8th July 1833 some coins were stolen from Sarah Gough. These were variously reported as 'ten sovereigns one guinea and four half guineas' or 'six sovereigns and a guinea'. Sarah must have informed the authorities and a warrant was issued to search Charity's house. Probably this was the job of the parish constable as the police force was not formed in Gloucestershire until 1839. The money was found there and Charity was charged with receiving stolen money. Her nieces were also charged. The trial took place in Gloucester on 10th August 1833. Harriet Davis was found guilty of receiving stolen money and sentenced to be transported for 14 years. Charity was also sentenced to 14 years transportation. Charity's other niece, Hannah Davis was acquitted of theft. After the trial it seems that Hannah confessed that she alone was guilty.
Apparently Hannah later made a statement that she 'went to her grandmothers house and got under the bed and then picked her grandmothers pocket of £13 13s 0d. and secreted the same ….unknown to any one and that no person whatever was in any way accessory thereto and to this she is ready and willing at any time to make an affidavit.'
Charity Hogg had even had an alibi for the time of the crime. Apparently she had called at The Ship in Alveston on 7 or 8 o'clock on the evening of the crime and only arrived home to find a group of people outside her home who told her about the theft. Charity was shocked when told and apparently exclaimed 'more damn shame on them'.
A petition for clemency or memorial was raised by local residents which cited the fact that she was a widow with three children (by this time Daniel was 11 years old, William was aged 6 and Elizabeth was 3). The petition was signed by 58 people from Thornbury and included Charity's mother, Sarah who had actually brought the charge. The petition is held at Kew and the records show that covering letters are also held with the petition and these are from the Honourable G F Berkeley, Bedford, and William Barlow, Thornbury. (HO 17/41/162)
Charity's sentence was reduced to two years' imprisonment. She was held in Gloucester County Gaol. Her niece Harriet Davis who must have been equally innocent was sentenced to be transported for 14 years and left England on the S.S. Numa in August 1833. Harriet made an application to marry Thomas Darcy in New South Wales in 1837.
The census of 1841 shows Charity Hogg was living in Monmouthshire at Trevethin, Pontypool. She was aged about 50 but no occupation was given. The household consisted of Daniel aged about 20, Elizabeth aged 10. In a separate household in the same property was Ann Williams aged about 30 with George Williams aged 1.
In 1842 Charity then aged 54 got into trouble again. This time she was tried at the Usk Quarter Sessions in Monmouthshire on 27th June 1842 with her son Daniel then aged 18. Daniel had stolen a pair of trousers (other reports says a cloak) from Abraham Abrahams. He was sentenced to 9 months imprisonment. Charity was sentenced to ten years transportation.
This time there was no reprieve and on 7th September 1842 (also 2nd October 1842) she sailed on the Garland Grove from Woolwich with another 190 prisoners. Her occupation was said to be a farm servant. She arrived in Van Diemen's Land on 20th January 1843.
She was said to be 5ft 4 inches tall with brown to grey hair, grey eyes and a round face. She had a cut on her left wrist and apparently she could read.
She applied to marry William Leman (or Lemon) in 1848 and they were married on 7th February 1848 in Hobart Tasmania. Charity Hogg was listed on 10th July 1852 in the Launceston Examiner as one of those convicts whose sentence had expired. Charity Hogg aged 63 died in Hobart on 18th August 1856. We cannot explain the discrepancy here in the surnames if she were a married woman.
In 1844 Charity's son Daniel then aged 30 was again convicted for theft and this time he was transported to Australia for seven years. We have no record of what became of him.


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Analyst Survey 2019: The Trump bump is over
Published 22 February 2019
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For the first time in the three years we have asked this question, the Trump administration's policies are expected to weigh on corporate performance globally over the next two years. Almost half of all analysts globally say Trump's policies will be a drag on their sector, up from only 13 per cent last year, and fewer than one in five thinks his policies will be a positive, down from 38 per cent.
Source: Fidelity Analyst Survey 2019.
But most significant is the shift among analysts covering North American companies, whose watchful optimism has entirely evaporated. It mirrors their views on protectionism, which more than two thirds say is a risk to business. In fact, only analysts covering emerging markets ex-Asia are more worried about protectionism.
*Pre-2019 Data shows only US analysts. Source: Fidelity Analyst Survey 2019.
Opinion sours
Two years ago, Donald Trump had just been elected President and media coverage was bursting with scare stories about his economic plans. Yet it seemed that managers, especially in the US, shrugged off the concerns and focussed on the potential benefits to their companies' bottom lines. The promise of lower corporate taxes, less regulation, more public spending and reduced international competition left them feeling more, not less, confident about their outlook.
Datastream US Total Market Index, Datastream I/B/E/S EPS estimates. Source: Refinitiv, Fidelity International, February 2019.
Corporate earnings have indeed seen bumper years in the US, boosted by lower taxation in particular. As that impetus has faded infrastructure spending has disappointed, while Trump's combative stance on international trade has started to raise costs for importers and has complicated sales for exporters.
This is why only a quarter of analysts covering North America predict fiscal policy will be supportive this year, still driven by tax cuts. Infrastructure spending is not predicted to be a significant factor and only one in six analysts predicts a further boost from deregulation. Nor do they think the war of words between Trump and his adversaries will pay off: the share of North America analysts who foresee a drag from geopolitics on investment plans has almost doubled to just under half of our sample.
Source: Fidelity Analyst Survey 2019.
Tariffs weigh on almost all sectors
The telecoms sector, with its domestically focussed businesses, is the only sector where our analysts report management teams are unconcerned. In utilities the aggregate effect is expected to be neutral, but some analysts report Trump's decision to leave the Paris Agreement will increase uncertainty around other countries' climate change policies, including Australia's, which is hurting confidence in investment decisions.
Consumer sector analysts report tariffs are the main reason for the negative swing. "Many consumer products from textiles to toasters to toys are sourced from China. Increased supply costs will mean decreasing margins or passing the extra costs on to consumers, which decrease aggregate demand as well as add to inflationary pressures. In the long term, retailers can reconfigure their supply chains, but in the short term, even switching to Southeast Asian suppliers outside China might not mitigate price rises completely due to competition from other North American firms attempting the same," a consumer credit analyst notes.
In addition, technology, energy, industrials and materials analysts all say companies are expecting a negative impact from protectionism this year. Energy analysts agree Trump is keen to keep oil prices low but warn that his trade war could curb global energy demand.
Source: Fidelity Analyst Survey 2019.
Auto tariffs and other trade restrictions are listed as key risks, with companies already blaming the trade war for falling consumer confidence. However, some of the effects may already have played out - some analysts suggest that sectors like autos were badly hit in 2018 and could bounce back if resolutions to the various trade conflicts, most importantly those with China, are found.
The chilling effect of Trump's policies is felt in far-flung places: our analysts say even Macau casino operators fear Trump's policies will weaken demand in China and depress their customers' spending, with little predictability for planning purposes.
More protection can also have indirect effects. While US consumers are expected to remain strong, and Trump's protectionism could indeed support sales for companies operating in the US - such as healthcare companies - analysts note there is a risk of the US closing to exporters and of higher costs due to lower labour availability if immigration falls.
Sectors with complex international supply and sales chains, especially technology but also materials, generally suffer the most from increasing trade friction, which explains some of the growing concern about the President's policies. Our analysts report tariffs are a headwind to revenues, and additional political uncertainty around technology transfers are a threat to IT business models.
Further stimulus before 2020 election is an outside chance
Still, some of this pain may be eased by the longer-lasting effects of tax reforms that have already been enacted, even if their impact will fade. It is also a relatively safe bet that President Trump will attempt some form of electoral sweetener in the next two years to bolster his chances of re-election in 2020. Giving the economy a boost of the same magnitude in the near future will be harder for Mr Trump to achieve after the Democrats took control of the House in the midterms. But even if he could, there are declining marginal gains to be made from further stoking the American economy.
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Solidarity With Cuba
A web site created in cooperation with the Lech Walesa Institute. The link will take you to the English version. In their own words:
The socio-political project of the socialistic Cuba of Fidel Castro has been so much out of reality that it can be interesting only from a historical point of view.
The democratic movement is emerging, new civil initiatives for democracy are coming out, the generation born after 1959 is presenting its own ideas and proposals to arrange the state that are radically different than the ones supported by the official media. The dissidents and oppositionists as well as the young, in a bloodless and non-violent way, hollow the new spaces in the rotting system of Cuban dictatorship. There are more and more groups appearing in Cuba that are not related to the ruling elite. They might be considered as a germ of a new political scene resembling, in their main ideological and political divisions, the Western European democracies.
The portal Solidarity with Cuba is dedicated to the civil society from the Island - to the society that is growing with hope for the better future despite the atmosphere of constant threat and the regime's reprisals.
We created this site as a media room for Cuban defenders of civic liberties and human rights so that they could be heard by Poles, and in return, so that Poles could take up the dialogue in solidarity with Cubans. One can read here about the social, political and economic situation in Cuba. Any visitor is also welcome to express its support for the peaceful activity of dissidents and oppositionists in the island.


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I could write about the historical political events of the day but I'll leave that to the rest of the Internet. To those who really know what they're talking about (& plenty who don't!).
It's Glastonbury time again!
Let's simulate our own festival vibe by drinking warm cider all day, glittering our regions, not having a shit for a week and listening to music we wouldn't usually entertain.
Did think about putting one of the tents (I have a selection) up in the garden, lighting the firebowl and camping out with the kids, but the eldest basically told me to stick that idea, and the weather forecast suggests thunder storms. So… I changed my mind. Think I'll just stick to the sofa with my Strongbow and wait for ZZ Top.
Keep getting messages from Shambala Festival announcing what's happening there in August. We're not going this year as we're Tenerifing en famille instead, but I'm a bit sorry about that now. A hall of mirrors area. What could go wrong there when the *acid kicks in? Lol.
My girls have both said they want to go to Glastonbury when they're older. Fine by me. They'll have a great time. They've been built up gently over the years, helping me crewing and have become immune to most things peculiar and unusual.
Bearded men in drag. Not bothered. Women in sequined nipple tassels. Barely batter an eyelid. Near-naked, rollerskating men in Mexican wrestling masks. Unfazed. Staying up way past bedtime, eating wood-fired pizza in the woods while mum sips tequila from a pink sparkly hipflask. On it!
So instead of going to Glasto or Shambala, I will share with you some of our adventures under canvas over the years via the medium of jpeg
You had to be there.
Maybe you should come along next year. Fancy dress optional. Leave inhibitions at home. BYO tequila.
*not me or the kids on acid obviously. I'm too old for that shit anymore & they're waaaaay too young.


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Zephyr Peacock to invest in potato seeds firm Utkal Tubers1 min read . Updated: 18 Oct 2016, 10:58 AM IST
The investment is one of several Zephyr plans to make in the food and beverages sector
The investment is one of several Zephyr plans to make in the food and beverages sector
Private equity (PE) fund Zephyr Peacock is investing in Utkal Tubers India Pvt. Ltd, an early-stage potato seeds company, a top fund executive said.
The investment is part of Zephyr Peacock's plans to make several investments in the food and beverages segment in order to help address the demand-supply mismatch for key commodities. Utkal Tubers aims to become one of India's largest potato seed companies.
"Food and beverages dominates consumer spending in India. With rising income levels, there is evidence of slow transition towards a non-cereal based diet, leading to an increase in consumption of vegetables for carbohydrate nutrition. More than 60% of the total arable land being used for growing cereals, potentially imply shortage of other food items in the next decade," said Zephyr Peacock vice-president Pankaj Raina.
Vegetable seeds, particularly potato seeds, are one of the most critical means to address the growing carbohydrate nutrition requirement. The segment is largely untapped and has the potential to demonstrate strong growth in the next decade.
Utkal Tubers is looking to produce high-quality mini-tubers in a tissue culture laboratory and multiply them in its own development farms and through supervised contract farming in different regions of the country, according to Zephyr Peacock.
In April this year, the firm also signed a memorandum of understanding with Odisha to set up a research lab for tissue culture development and development farms in rural areas for seed multiplication.
Utkal has recruited a core team comprising experienced professionals in the field of potato tissue culture and cultivation, and has retired experts from the Central Potato Research Institute on its panel of advisers for this project.
Last year, farm biotech giant Monsanto decided to expand its research and development facility for vegetable seeds near Bengaluru. Monsanto said India has great potential for the firm to grow its business on the increase in vegetable consumption led by population growth and greater affordability.
"Shortages in food items could be potentially addressed through imports, but in the long run, India will need to become self-sufficient. This can be addressed by improving yields of other commodities crops, establishing good supply chains to reduce food wastage, and finding other alternate ways to address carbohydrates and protein requirements," Raina said.
Zephyr Peacock is the India-focused PE fund of US-based Zephyr Management.
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Use the key below to identify Adelaide butterflies likely to visit your garden or native reserve.
The key is based on colour and size and two views of each butterfly is shown. The upper side and the under side. When butterflies are at rest you usually only see the underside and this is especially so for the blue butterflies some of which never open their wings when at rest.
Scientists organise butterflies and other animals into family groups according to their relationship between each other and their morphological similarities. For instance all of the skipper butterflies have 'hooked' antennae.
This series of butterfly identification sheets seeks to simplify identification of South Australian butterflies by using colour and size.
We have chosen four colour groups based on the upper side wing colours – mostly yellow or white, mostly orange or brown, mostly white or cream with black or brown and mostly blue.
We have also chosen three sizes based on open wing expanse:
Small, below 2.5cm
Medium, 2.5cm – 6cm
Large, more then 6cm
Mostly brown or orange, small size
Mostly brown or orange, medium size
Mostly brown or orange, large size
Mostly yellow and white, medium size
White, cream or yellow with black or brown, medium size
White, cream or yellow with black or brown, large size
In addition, there are A3 identification charts available on line in the Adelaide and Mt. Lofty NRM Education site which also use colour and size to identify local butterflies. There are some additional butterflies that occur in the South East of South Australia, on this site you will find other information on butterflies and teacher resources.
Click here to see the list of downloads
Thanks go the following people who have assisted with the preparation of these sheets: Roger Grund, Trevor Rowe, Lindsay Hunt, Leslie Richmond, Carolyn Prime, Rowan Moore, Andy Young and Jan Forrest


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A popular term for perianal and genital condylomas which may slow or alter the flow of sexual movement.


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Why Is My Vacuum Making A Funny Noise?
There could be several different reasons your vacuum is making a funny noise. Depending on the sound, it could be one of the following issues:
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- Often the bin is full and simply needs to be emptied.
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- This may indicate something caught in your brushbar, such as a small toy, but it may also indicate a clutch or brushbar issue, depending on the model.
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- If your vacuum is also producing a burning smell, this could be a potential motor failure. Please call us if you have this concern, and we can better help you diagnose the issue.
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Shree Minerals have officially opened the Nelson Bay River mine after a protracted process which saw court injunctions and protests levelled against the company.
Deputy Premier Bryan Green opened the mine yesterday, marking Shree's transition from a developer to an iron ore miner.
Mining is expected to commence in the coming days, just three months after the iron ore project was given the green light for the second time.
An earlier decision by former environmental minister Tony Burke was challenged in the federal Court by the Save the Tarkine group and found to be invalid.
"This is a defining moment for the mining industry in Tasmania and truly a humbling experience for us at Shree Minerals," chairman Sanjay Loyalka said.
"With the NBR DSO project commencing production, we believe that Shree Minerals is now at an inflection point in its objective to create shareholder wealth. The development of NBR at benchmark capital costs and time despite the adverse climate, reinforces our core values."
In its initial stage the mine in Tasmania's Tarkine region is expected to produce 400,000 tonnes of iron ore annually for the next two to three years.
The project will employ 120 people.
Circular Head mayor Daryl Quilliam said the mine is a welcome boost to a region.
"Some of these people have had machinery not doing much work for the past three years, so it's really good to see that actually happening again."
The Save the Tarkine group described the mine's opening as a shameful day.
The project has faced strong opposition from environmentalists who are concerned the mine has the potential to impact on the endangered Tasmanian Devils.
Anti-mining activists have vowed to fight any new mine approvals.


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Olympic bosses return fire in gun controversy
Olympic organisers have hit back at claims of hypocrisy over their decision to sanction swimmers Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk for posing with guns.
The olympic teammates posted pictures of themselves brandishing high-powered weapons in a US gun shop on social networking websites.
As punishment, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has ordered the pair return home from the London Games as soon as their events conclude.
But fellow teammate Eamon Sullivan said they boys hadn't done anything wrong.
He has questioned what the fuss is all about because in 2007 Swimming Australia took the team to a Canberra rifle range as part of a bonding session.
In a statement, AOC spokesman Mike Tancred said the two matters were unrelated, and Monk and D'Arcy had been sanctioned for "breaching their team agreement as members of the 2012 Australian Olympic Team".
"The Canberra gun range visit was an initiative of Swimming Australia," he said. "It had nothing to do with the AOC. It was 2007, they were not members of any Olympic Team at that time.
"It has absolutely no bearing on the decision taken by the AOC at the weekend."
D'Arcy and Monk returned to Australia on Friday and quickly apologised for the photos, which appeared on Facebook and Twitter before being pulled down by Swimming Australia.
The 24-year olds will meet with Swimming Australia officials this week.
D'Arcy is a medal hope in the 200m butterfly in London, while Monk is in the 4x200m freestyle relay team.
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Stepping away from your everyday life to find your new you
Welcome to 'Beach Fitness Retreat', a dedicated fitness bootcamp by Beach Box Gym, a fitness company from Spain.
Take time for you while you improve your overall fitness performance & health. The perfect fitness holidays for your mind, body & soul.
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