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Store beans in a dark cupboard or cool dry place. Light and air will affect the freshness, so a glass jar with a tight lid or an air-tight container is recommended. Do not store in a refrigerator or freezer.
Lasting Freshness
It is best to consume roasted coffee within 30 days and use ground coffee within three days. Brewed coffee is best enjoyed within 30 minutes.
When to Grind
Always grind coffee just before brewing. Fresh ground coffee is an excellent way to optimize your tasting experience. So if you don't have a grinder, consider purchasing one. Grinders are relatively inexpensive and worth every penny.
Using a French Press
Allow the water to come off the boil for a minute or so then add the hot water to the carafe. Use a spoon to mix together the water and ground coffee. Then place the plunger into the carafe and allow to steep for a few minutes. Press down carefully and enjoy.
Using great water helps you to end up with a great tasting cup of coffee, and to protect your brewer from damaging scale build-up. An easy way to do this without investing in expensive water treatment gear is to buy spring water, and distilled or reverse osmosis water from your grocery store and mix them 50-50. This will reduce the hardness of the spring water providing great taste for your coffee. The ideal hardness for coffee brewers is 150 ppm total dissolved solids (TDS), while for espresso machines, 80 ppm is best. Spring water sold in Canada lists the TDS on the label.


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Disney Infant Prestige Minnie Mouse Halloween Costume
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Disney Infant Prestige Minnie Mouse Halloween Costume. Polka dots, buttons, bows, and frills! Baby girls will look dainty and adorable in this Pink Minnie Prestige Infant Costume. The ear headband really completes the whole look. Minnie had better watch out, because there's now a newer, cuter, and way younger version of her. The Disney Pink Prestige Minnie Mouse Halloween Costume features: Bodysuit: 92% polyester 8 inch spandex; remainder of costume, 100% polyester Bodysuit fastens with VELCRO® at center back & at crotch for easy diapering Sheer polka-dotted puffed sleeves & skirt overlay Satin collar & waistline bow Foam mouse ears & polka-dotted bow sewn to fabric-covered plastic headband Minnie Mouse is sweet and always stylish! Her passion for fashion and polka dot prints can be found in our selection of games, toys, accessories, and more right here ! Toys > Category > Holiday Shops > Halloween Store > Infant & Baby Costumes. Apparel & Accessories > Costumes & Accessories > Costumes.
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- Senior advisor at the management and company director levels
- Employee coach and sounding board
- Solid support for complex processes
- Strategic accommodation consulting aimed at creating offices that work
- Advising on the interface between workplace consultancy and interior design
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- Always has a feeling for a company's people
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About Ank
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Three Rome women were arrested this week for allegedly having sex with an underage teen boy, who authorities say impregnated one of the women.
Three Rome women were arrested this week for allegedly having sex with an underage teen boy, who authorities say impregnated one of the women.
Amy L. Grass, 25, of Henry Street, was charged with third-degree rape for having a sexual relationship several months ago with the boy, who was 14 at the time, according to officials with the Oneida County Child Advocacy Center.
Grass – who was previously charged with assault last July for allegedly biting, choking and pushing her 5-year-old daughter onto the pavement – is believed to now be pregnant with the boy's child, officials said.
Grass was arrested Wednesday following an investigation by state police Investigator Todd Grant and Oneida County sheriff's Investigator Dan Brown, who both are assigned to the Child Advocacy Center. Grass is currently in the county jail in lieu of $5,000 bail.
Jamie Thompson, 37, and Jamie Jarvis, 36, were then arrested Thursday afternoon following an investigation that determined both women allegedly engaged in various sexual acts recently with the same boy, who is now 15, officials said.
Their case was investigated by Grant, who alleges the two women took advantage of the underage boy after all three ingested some kind of pill drugs, officials said.
Thompson and Jarvis were each charged with second-degree rape and second-degree criminal sexual act, officials said. Both were awaiting arraignment in Rome City Court Friday morning.
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British prop designer beats the Lucasfilm Empire, can still make Stormtrooper helmets
Posted by Aubrey Sitterson on
Way back in the mid-1970s, before "The Phantom Menace" was even a twinkle in George Lucas' eye, Andrew Ainsworth made the headgear that would become the legendary Stormtrooper helmets in the very first "Star Wars" film. Now, over 30 years later, he's secured his rights to keep making replicas of the helmets in his native United Kingdom.
Ainsworth had earlier been sued for violating copyright law in the United States, losing a $20 million dollar lawsuit to Lucasfilm. But as copyright and intellectual property laws contain notorious gray areas that vary from country to country, a similar lawsuit in the UK produced a very different result.
Reuters has picked up that the country's Supreme Court has "ruled that the replicas were not covered by copyright law because they were not works of art." This ruling comes after similar ones in both the UK Court of Appeal and the High Court. Interestingly though, the court did recognize that Lucasfilm's copyright had been violated in the United States, due to differences in intellectual property laws.
While Ainsworth is barred from exporting his replicas to the United States, he is free to make and sell them in the United Kingdom as well as ship them off to a number of other locales, including Australia and Singapore. If you ever thought about becoming a greymarket "Star Wars" replica dealer, now looks like it might be a good time.
Lucasfilm had announced a commitment "to aggressively protecting its intellectual property rights relating to Star Wars in the UK and around the globe through any and all means available to it, including copyright, trademark, design patents and other protections afforded by law." Their suit stands in contrast to the countless "Star Wars" fan films produced over the years, although the company reportedly keeps a hands-off approach to those as long as they aren't commercial.
What do you think about the UK ruling? Should Ainsworth be allowed to profit off the Stormtrooper helmets he originally designed, or should that right be reserved only for Lucasfilm? Let us know below or on Facebook or Twitter.


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A Large Aperture (e.g..f/2) will result in one thing being in focus and the rest of the image will be blurred. This is known as a Minimum Depth of Field (for information on Maximum Depth of Field click here). This image above is by August Sander (Young Farmers, Westerwald 1914) shows the three figures clearly but the background is a blurred haze due to the use of a Minimum Depth of Field.
In this black & white image by Linda McCartney 'Through a Glass Teapot' 1996 the tree is projected upside down in the water of a glass teapot (like a lens or a camera obscura). She has focussed our eye by using a shallow depth of field to blur the back ground and keep us focussed on the projected tree. Her use of burnt edges frames the image beutifully.
Penn is an interesting photographer who combined commercial success with his own artistic projects. His portfolio includes high class fashion photography, intimate portraits of key figures and beautiful close up shots of cigarette butts and old containers. Penn was able to mix glamourous high fashion photographs with more thoughtful personal work.
Rinko Kawauchi is a contemporary Japanese photographer who creates beautiful and elegant images that find the beauty in the everyday. Kawauchi uses a Minimum Depth of Field (for example f/2 – a large hole) which results in only a fraction of the image being in focus – these images have a shallow depth.
Kawauchi explores the poetry of the common place – a dead wasp on a window sill, a brief glance of the eye and a piece of chicken hanging over a table. These are none events – the kind of thing we may notice briefly and possibly dismiss or contemplate in a day dream.
The everyday has been a fascination for many artists – the things they immediately experience as part of their existence. Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin worked in the 18th Century. His images were often simple and focussed on the remains of a meal left on a table. This humble scene became poignant in Chardin's hands.
With this series the Starn's were interested in Moths who are the ugly cousin to the beautiful, colourful, flower loving butterflies. Moths in comparison are monochrome, dull and are mainly seen at night attracted to light – and if it is a candle it can lead to their own death. The Starn Twins believe this makes moths more like humans – imperfect and craving things that will lead to our demise. To reflect the fragile quality of a moth they print the image on thin photographic paper that seems like it will crumble if touched like a moth's wing. Their use of reproducing the same image again and again comments on Photography's ability to be endlessly reproduced.
Further reading -
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" by Walter Benjamin
an example of 'tilt-shift' Kris Kros photography
At first glance these images seen like toy models. In this image above the horses seem plastic where in reality they are actual horses. They have been created using a tilt shift lens - this involves tilting the camera lens to distort the plane of focus and shifting the lens to distort the perspective. Today, most photographers simply take a digital photograph and apply the tilt-shift distortions via software. Ronaldo Fonseca uses the traditional method to create tilt-shift images with no digital manipulation.
Ronaldo Fonseca
These images do what art does best - reflect the real world back to us and allows us to see it in a new light. The eye is drawn to the focused center of the image and creates the illusion of scenes from a dream. Here is a fascinating video using time-lapse and the tilt and shift effect - 'The Sand Pit' by Sam O'Hare. It creates a moving surreal dream.
Thomas Allen has taken an old pulp fiction book and cut into the front cover - creating a three dimensional image. These mini sculptures are then rephotographed from a particular angle for added drama. In this above image one man punches another who then falls backwards. It has all the drama of a pulp novel or film noir. Allen has used a minimum depth of field to blur out the punching man and draw our eyes to the falling man. Are these works book art, sculpture or photography?'Thomas Allen, in essence, is a still life artist who through a very creative process disrupts the stillness. By carefully selecting from primarily vintage paperback novels and science journals, he brings two-dimensional images forward into three dimensional space. With simple lightning and the use of simple tools (i.e., scissors and razor-sharp knives), figures are cut out, bent and juxtapose in ways that present the tension and dynamics of staged drama. Other techniques are applied in achieving a pure sense of humor that also defy the original use of these materials and their ultimate destiny of being read once and retiring for eternity on the nearest bookshelf.'


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House & 1.1 Acres at Absolute Auction
3970 Slate Branch Rd. ~ Somerset, Ky 42503
Friday August 17th, 2018 at 5:30 p.m.
Preview Date: Friday August 10th, 2018 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m.
This beautiful brick home sports 3 bedrooms, two bathrooms,kitchen, and living room on the main floor while the walkout basement includes three bedroom, a bathroom, kitchen, and living room as well. All this sitting on a little over 1 acre. The personal property is Outdoors man's dreams with lots of fishing equipment with many of them being brand new. Also included in the personal property will be a wood splitter large air compressor multiple ATV sprayers as well as a carport. And many many more items too numerous to mention.
Personal Property : couch & lovseat * end tables* dressers * beds* wood burning stove* generators * air compressors * chains * dolly * ladders * weed eaters * refrigerator * stove* pressure cooker * 7 x 20 utility trailer * 2 smaller trailers * sprayer * 2- ATV sprayers * rod -n-reels * sewing machine * wood splitter * welder * fishing bait * meat grinder * electric grinder * Coleman lanterns * prints * pressure washer * microwave * pots * dehydrator * dehumidifier * electric heater * mason jars *
*Carport to be Sold separately
TERMS: Real Estate: 20% down the day of the auction with the balance due in full within 30 days.
Note: There will be a ten percent buyer's premium added to the last bid to determine the final sales price.
Note: The purchaser of a single-family residence built before 1978 has a period of ten days to inspect the property for the presence of lead based paint. The inspection period is July 18th, 2018 through July 27th, 2018. The successful bidder must sign a waiver of the 10-day post-inspection period.
AUCTIONEER/BROKER/SELLER DISCLAIMER: The information contained herein is believed to be correct to the best of the auctioneer's knowledge. The information is being provided for the bidder's convenience and it is the bidder's responsibility to determine the information contained herein is accurate and complete. The property is selling in its as-is condition with no warranties expressed or implied.
Announcements made the day of the auction take precedence over printed matter.
For additional information or appointment to see the property, contact the auctioneers at 606-679-2212.


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Invasion Agents Annual: Resurrection and Faith
You think you know the Invasion Agents? So far we've only seen one corner of their world. There's more to this universe than simple Capital City, Missouri. The Invasion Agents Annual #1 tells a story located in another part of the world, not far away, in Black Foot, Kansas.
What appears to be a simple case of arson leads to demon possession and mass murder in the span of a few hours, and that's only the beginning.
There's a new hero in town, one with a familiar name, and he's on a mission. First, how can he learn to control his situation in the wake of a whole new revelation in time to be of assistance?
It's chaos in Kansas as demons destroy, atrocities abound, and the fate of the world lies in the hands of one hero who has no idea what he's doing.


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HIPAA 4010 to 5010 migration? Is your EHR Ready?
HIPAA 4010 to 5010 migration, is your EHR and practice management software ready?
The 5010 standards replace the existing 4010/4010A1 version of HIPAA transactions, which go back nearly a decade—an eternity in the tech world and address many of the shortcomings in the current version, including the fact that 4010 does not support ICD-10 coding.
Make sure that your EHR and practice management software has made the move to 5010.
As of this month the drchrono platform has been moved over to 5010, so when the medical industry is ready to move from ICD-9 to ICD-10 we are ready.
(The ICD-9 codes have ~16,000 diagnosis codes and ICD-10 has ~64,000 diagnosis codes.)
CMS will be forcing the US healthcare system to fully move over to ICD-10 October 2013.
The switch to ICD-10 and 5010 facilitates more accurate coding, billing, and reimbursement.


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Efforts to save the lives of victims of the 7/7 bombings were hampered by a shortage of first aid equipment, firefighters said today.
The fire crews sent to the tube train bombing at Aldgate station in east London lacked stretchers and ran out of basic medical supplies such as bandages, the inquest for the 52 victims of the attacks heard.
One firefighter recalled how he "watched a young man die" before medics reached the devastated carriage.
Neil Walker said he believed Richard Ellery was less in need of help than other seriously injured passengers because the 21-year-old shopworker was able to tell him his name.
But Ellery, from Ipswich, Suffolk, died shortly afterwards while rescuers were waiting for a stretcher to remove him from the train, the inquest heard.
Walker said: "I was pretty shocked about that because I had recently spoken to him. It was quite an awful moment, as you can imagine."
Suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer detonated his device on an eastbound Circle line train at Aldgate at about 8.50am on 7 July 2005, killing Ellery and six others.
Walker, who was on duty at Bethnal Green fire station in east London that morning, said he and his colleagues were "very under-equipped", having only small first aid kits containing a "minimal amount" of bandages, which were used up "very, very quickly". He had to use his breathing apparatus, designed for entering smoke-filled buildings, to give oxygen to severely wounded passenger Kira Mason because no resuscitator was available.
Also giving evidence at the inquest today was a retired firefighter who launched an attack on the health and safety culture of the fire service.
Stephen Foster, who in 2005 was a firefighter at Dockhead fire station in south-east London with 25 years experience, had to wait to go into the tube tunnel at Aldgate because of rules about ensuring the power to the tracks was switched off.
He said: "The majority of firefighters have been brought up in a health and safety environment. If we go against that health and safety, we could actually be cutting our own throats, we could be charged. The powers that be that run the fire service set down plans, we don't tend to bend from those plans.
"There are others, mavericks, of which I would classify myself as one, who just turned around at the end of it and said, 'Oh, stuff this, let's get on and do the job we get paid for'. It wasn't long before I got the hump and walked along the track with my crew."
Christopher Coltart, counsel for seven of the bereaved families, asked him: "To what extent did you feel that you were hampered in your actions on that day by the lack of equipment available to you?"
Foster replied: "I wouldn't say it would have saved some people.
"But having the right equipment or having the equipment which should have been available, and having it in your hands to use, may have saved some distress."
The co-ordinated attacks on three tube trains and a bus launched on 7 July 2005 by four suicide bombers were the worst single terrorist atrocity on British soil.
The hearing at the royal courts of justice in central London continues.


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British army motorcyclists are put through their paces over a rough course near Aldershot in Hampshire.
Short Summary
Item title reads - Aldershot District.
British Army cyclists trials. Hampshire.
M/S as a motorcyclist sets off. M/S as another has his card punched and officers stand by. Various shots as they ride over the rough course. M/S of one riding through the woods. M/S as one rider falls off, another bumps over rough territory. M/S of a motorcycle covered in mud, it is stuck with its wheels spinning.
M/S as the teams ride up to a table to have their card stamped whilst people stand and watch. M/S as they ride through the river Borden, M/S as one is pushed through. M/S of winners in front of a table full of Cups. C/U of one Cup. M/S as one rider's motorcycle is pulled on a rope by two men. M/S of another mud covered one on its side being dragged back.
- Film ID:
- 987.31
- Media URN:
- 18166
- Group:
- Pathe newsreels
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 31/10/1938
- Sound:
- Sound
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:01:10:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:26:41:00 / 01:27:51:00
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After pulling my thumb out of my arse and getting through to the council about getting a disability bus pass (A bit useless since I last got a bus on the 14th of June, but it WILL give me cheap access to the local pool) I also got a phone call from the Nurse Practitioner at RL. Firstly, they've not got the physio pack, so are going to chase up London for that, and secondly, the Pudsey physio can't treat me, and they want to get Rheumatology to make a properly co-ordinated care plan for me, that covers physio, CBT, investigations and everything. This will probably also cover what I need prescribing, will get me the pre-advice for A+E for when I arrive, and will get me back on track for getting to Stanmore in about a year.
So effectively, currently the person who has the most grip on what's going on and how it really affects me is my local Nurse Practitioner. She's brilliant.
The remains of today are going to be spent rewriting my PIP form. Wish me luck.


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Dear Russell & Friends,
I've cc:ed you on my open letter to Dr. Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church Dallas, Texas. For point of reference, I'm responding to his sermon here:
Dear Dr. Jeffress,
My name is Pascal and I am a follower of Christ. I have done so since I was a child, trained by imperfect but godly parents who loved me and taught me to to love scripture. I had not heard your name or seen your face before you chose to address the world in the guise of addressing your congregation. My first impression was that you must be a Republican politician. Red tie. Dark suit. Dour expression with forced smiles. When I searched your name, most posts were from Fox News. First impressions can be illuminating. Malcolm Gladwell would call it a blink. That was type 1 thinking – – a heuristic reflex that recoiled and said – – this man is a Pharisee. In this open letter, let me return to type 2 and carefully respond to what you carelessly constructed.
"As Christians we follow the Bible. We follow the New Testament specifically. You cannot find a verse anywhere in the New Testament that commands us to kill unbelievers." Jeffress, above: 1:50-
Your polemic was actually very short on the scripture that I love. Let's go to that scripture to evaluate your words. First:
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. James 3:1
Jesus' brother James is talking to both of us. We both teach. You teach the scripture as a vocation and presumably well for you were called to teach at a powerful church in one of America's largest cities. By posting on YouTube you are teaching more people than could ever crowd that building and reaching those who would never darken its doors. What about scripture? What does scripture say about itself? Second:
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17
Your assertion that Christians follow the New Testament specifically is constructed in a way that dismisses the Old Testament. As a debater, I understand why you did it. The Old Testament is rife with verses that say exactly what you assert the Qu'ran says. As a believer, I must remind you that our whole story of redemption – – creation, fall, chosen tribe to bless the earth, saviour and much of what we learn about government comes from the Hebrew scriptures – – our Old Testament. Paul, who wrote the precious verses to his young pastor mentee Timothy above, loved scripture and said that it was useful. Christians follow all of scripture. What is scripture useful for? It is useful for one thing I've honestly never used it for before – – rebuking error, even from a pastor-politician.
You said that God does not intend man to live without borders and that securing borders is the God-given priority of government. Be careful. Using God's name in vain does not only mean swearing. It means speaking for him without sufficient study and respect. A false prophet uses God's name in vain. In support of your argument you quoted this:
From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. Acts 17:26
Paul was speaking in Athens on Mars Hill to believers in all current faiths, including those who believed in no God. To read the words in context belies your thesis. What does scripture say that God intends for the people of the world?
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. Rev 7:9
At the outset of your speech, a version of which I expect to see at the Republican National Convention for which you were auditioning, Christ-following was constrained – – even reduced – – to the New Testament. False. Scripture rebukes you. That allowed you to conclude that Donald Trump was right. Shame on you. What does scripture say about refugees and immigrants? Again and again – – it says this:
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Lev 19:33-34
I realize your position. You are an elder. I recognize that scripture warns me to take accusations against an elder very seriously and to do so only in the presence of other mature believers. That is why this letter is as open as the video that you posted.
You are wrong. You have misrepresented scripture and handled it poorly. You have used your pulpit for politics. Change. Bring back the prophecy of truth telling, not punditry. Go back to the full counsel of scripture. Repent (turn around) and pray for God to humble your heart. He will if you ask. I've been there and he's forgiven me of my foolish pride too.
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 2 Tim 2:15
Deeply grieved,
Pascal – – 1:16


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San Diego residents should check their smoke alarms as soon as possible. Walter Kidde Portable Equipment Inc. is recalling 3.6 million NightHawk combination smoke/carbon monoxide (CO) alarms.
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the alarm can fail to continue to chirp when it reaches its seven-year end of life if the batteries are replaced, leading consumers to believe it is still working. Due to the defect, consumers may not be alerted to a fire or CO incident in their home.
The CPSC reports that Kidde has received eight reports of incidents with the recalled smoke alarms. Thankfully, no injuries have been reported.
For consumer who are concerned that their smoke alarms may be defective, the recalled products were sold at electrical distributors and home centers nationwide and online at Amazon.com from June 2004 through December 2010. They cost between $40 and $65.
The recall specifically involves Kidde NightHawk talking combo smoke/CO alarm with model number KN-COSM-IB and manufacture dates between June 1, 2004 and December 31, 2010. The alarms are hard-wired into a home's electric power. The unit has a compartment on the back for the installation of a replaceable 9V backup battery. The alarm is white, round and measures about 5 to 6 inches in diameter. "Kidde" is engraved on the front of the alarm. "Kidde," the model number and manufacture dates are printed on a label on the back on the alarm.
Due to the serious risk of injury and death, consumers are advised to immediately stop using the recalled alarms. They can then contact Kidde directly for a free replacement alarm based on date of manufacture or a discount on a new alarm.
If you or someone you love has suffered serious harm due to a defective smoke alarm or other unsafe product, you may be entitled to compensation. For more information, please contact a San Diego product liability attorney at the Law Offices of Robert Vaage for a free consultation.


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I started this lovely morning feel so prickly. That turned into being pounced on, verbally. A tried and true favorite of us all, I'm sure. That transferred a few solid hours of puke-y. Very much so. Followed by being generally perturbed. And while I wait, hoping to get to "pooped," I'm both panicked and put-off. Please please let a new month start already.
I'm just a girl. A girl who thinks she's been everywhere and beyond, but is always left with proof she hasn't. Cathartically charistmatic inspirations segueway into my this. Enjoy!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Meet Joey J. My cousin originally from Queens and now residing in Long Island. I took these shots back when it was warm enough to eat outside. Oh, how I vaguely remember those few many months ago! It was such a treat to be able to spend some quality time with him for a weekend, for the first time ever.
Joe was born an old soul, not like thirty old, but like 65 old. At three, he was asking people what roads they drove on to get to his house. By four, he could give people directions to his house from any major highway in every NYC borough and two states. By six, he would curse in agreement of people's travel frustrations chiming in "Oh my freakin' GAWD!" when we would arrive with news of a crash on the Long Island Expressway. It's amazing to see him grow into his personality.
Quote Of The Day
Me: "Listen to some DMB on your way home."
Will: "I will. But only because I want to go home and self-mutilate myself."
Quote Of The Day
Me: "Listen to some DMB on your way home."
Will: "I will. But only because I want to go home and self-mutilate myself."
Friday, January 29, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Mike: "I just had the worst mental image. I need to go pour hand sanitizer on my brain."
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Quote Of The Day
In reference to Julia procreating with a good looking vacant guy named, um, Tray:
Me: "You guys would make great babies. They would be little Julia's, but with blue eyes and blank expressions."
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Aftermath
This was taken right after I beat Marley. No no, actually, right after I yelled at her. Wait, I am remembering this clearly now. This picture was taken after absolutely nothing happened. You know how Beagles have sad eyes? Well, Puggles have "Please don't beat me" eyes.
Quote Of The Day
Aly: "I saw a poll, it said women get paid 30% less than men."
Alex: "Come on, I saw a pole, too, the other night, at the strip joint."
Monday, January 25, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Brian: "Just call my cell and let me know."
Me: "I'll call if you need me."
Brian: "Hahaha. Call if you need me."
Me: "Oh. Yeah, that's better."
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Quote Of The Day
After seeing Taylor Lautner...
Clare: "He's a lil' too white teeth-y for me. Like, his teeth, they are too white."
Friday, January 15, 2010
31 Places To Go in 2010
The New York Times has put together this striking photo gallery of beautiful places to visit in 2010. The gallery is HERE.
This picture, of Norway, was taken by Chris Ramirez of The New York Times. I wish I could have been with you, Chris!
In a nutshell, thank you NYT, for making me feel like my year can never be close to where it "should" be.
Mystery Seeker
Looking for a little mystery and suspense without actually risking yourself to any real mystery or suspense? Welcome to my world! I kid, kind of. There is this fun little site I found called mysterygoogle where there appears to be an average google search bar, but when you hit search, your query disappears and the previous seeker's search results are displayed. It is a cool little concept. It's actually a little bit of pressure to put something worthy or shocking for the following seeker. Note: Two days ago, my searches were wild and exciting. Now, they are spammy. Thanks, personal promoters!
Me and Jack Dylan on the last day of last year. (Two very long and distant weeks ago.) He lives two-ish long and distant towns away. I need to start harassing his mother a whole lot more. These two month check-ins aren't doing it for me.
Quote Of The Day
Lynne: "Eating an orange is like filling your mouth with over-saturated paper strands."
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
This is what I call a bad hair day. Mojo looking wild and Marley sporting an entirely white goatee. I'm thinking that maybe one had something to do with the other...
Quote Of The Day
Me: "You can be out of the ordinary sometimes."
Julia: "I'll take that as a compliment, vegemite!"
(Was this the start of the most random nickname ever?)
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Show Us Your Dogs
Everyone can upload their dog photos and videos here. I thought about putting up a sweet and calm video, where people would think my dogs were mentally stable, but I quickly realized no such videos exist. Because when they seem mentally stable, there is no chance I would risk reaching for my camera and waking them up!
Share yours here: Show Us Your Dogs
Do you see how hyped up the promoters were at this Knicks game? The ones up by section 333 were definitely not that "hyped" naturally, if you get my snort, I mean drift.
Quote Of The Day
Julia: "I'm experiencing my own personal hell: They are playing Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas Album!"
*This falls on the hells of a recent conversation I had with my friend Shaun through text as he had taken his kids to see Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeaquel.*
Me: "How is the movie?"
Shaun: "I want to burn my eyes out every second I am in here."
I guess squeaking really has its shelf life in the grocery store of our lives.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Superficial.... Literally
Heidi Montag has released her first album. And dare I say the last? We can hope! I don't want to bash the girl, everyone can do that on their own. Your bleeding ears will force you to say unpleasant things, as it will be an only too natural response to her- the cause of your audio discomfort.
I will merely state that the lyrics were both horrifying and hilarious. People.com has shared a song preview of Superficial's single "I'll Do It" (of which I admittedly only made it through half of) and some choice lyrics. I thought this was an elaborate hoax. I was wrong.
Is it okay to take your hair down? Up into your dungin? Is that like a dungeon but higher? Eat my panties? SERIOUSLY?!?Pick me, take me, off up into ya dunginI brought some treatsI know that you gon love emCome eat m panties off of meDo whatever you feel comes naturally(PRE CHORUS)Cuz I wanna let my hair downIs that alrightIs that okay (eh eh)Cuz i wanna let my hair downIs that alright is that okay (eh eh)
Heidi, you have clearly arrived as an artist among artists.
Quote Of The Day
Brian: (After the light was accidentally switched off) "I thought the power went out, like it was the end of the world completely, apocalypse stuff. I got really excited. I love that!"
Monday, January 11, 2010
World Of An Intern
A Crispin Porter and Bogusky summer intern-made music video. It's really incredible!
Quote Of The Day
Maureen: "I feel like I went to bed at 19 years old and woke up at 33."
Tristan: "I know what you mean, mommy. I feel like I went to bed at four and woke up at seven."
Friday, January 8, 2010
Year In Review
And a really great decade-long breakdown here: Picturing The Past Ten Years
Remember flag pins? Like yesterday? Try seven years ago. I may come back to this point later on. Ten years is a lot to swallow.
Death Bear
This could be the greatest thing I have seen all week: Death Bear
For anyone living in Brooklyn, contact the Death Bear this weekend, via text, all information here:
Saturday, January 9th, 2010
and Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Serving all Brooklyn only
Text 347-742-2293 for an appointment
You can be fortunate enough to have a seven foot black bear come to your Brooklyn apartment and take from you any leftover items from bad break ups. Where is the Jersey Bear?
To all of you wine connoisseurs "tasting" wines and spitting them out, know that love knows no etiquette.
Quote Of The Day
After two consecutive gym days:
A.H.: "You can't ruin this trainers body right now."
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Quote Of The Day
Aly: "For every tree I kill, I save a branch."
Brian: "We don't save a branch, I just hoard all that paper on my desk."
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Amazing Animal Shots
HERE are some amazing animal pictures that were sent over to me. What made this series stand out to me especially was the front picture:
That's actually not my dog. But I only knew that because I know if someone did throw him in some water, he would be mouth agape gasping for air and dear life, not holding a tennis ball at all.
And while I am talking about animals, here is an incredibly graphic elephant birth. My coworker and I literally could.not.look.away.
Besides just being graphic, though, it's incredible to see the strides something can make so quickly in life. Time to get moving!
My brother locking my grandmother out on her balcony...
Quote Of The Day
Jordan: "Don't take pics if they aren't gonna be put to good use. It's bad luck in India."
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Emergency: Sad Bird
I love when real life reads like a manuscript for an SNL skit. I'm reading "A Big Little Life" by Dean Koontz right now, one of his non-fictional works, and in it he talks about how the truth is always scarier than fiction. Case in point.
The real emergency: This is why I volunteer.
Quote Of The Day
Aaron: "Results are overrated."
Monday, January 4, 2010
Lipstick Lover
This is an uncomfortable ad bringing to light how much make-up an average woman ingests over the course of a lifetime. And while I love the ad, I walk away with many images and none of them a company logo. You?
Are words really necessary here?
Because I have a few. For instance, this product should be tracked. And anyone purchasing this item should be locked up.
Quote Of The Day
Jordan: "You know, I try every now and then to think of something that could be more annoying, more outrageously breathtakingly obnoxious than you - and you know what? Do you, Aly?... I can't! It's just nothing has been invented, created, birthed that has surpassed your level of uncomfortability."
Me: "Umm, thanks?"
Saturday, January 2, 2010
2010 will be a year of honesty, kicking off a new decade. So what came first, the conspiracy theory or the goader?
Side note: 2 words in the past 2 sentences were not approved by my spell checking. Apparently, 2010 will be the year to confound Microsoft Office. Sweet!
Quote Of The Day
Me: "Guess where we're going?"
Tristan: "Your moms?"
Me: "How did you guess?"
Tristan: "'Cuz she loves me, and it's okay with me if she has gifts for me, 'cuz I'm spoiled and I think that's fine."
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It is almost that time of year again! From November 9, 2019 to January 6, 2020, the Disneyland® Resort transforms into the Merriest Place on Earth! Here is just some of the holiday fun you can expect this year at the Disneyland® Resort. We'll keep you updated on any future holiday announcements!
At Disneyland® Park:
- Sleeping Beauty's Winter Castle and "Believe… in Holiday Magic" fireworks spectacular return to the holiday lineup.
- Also returning is "A Christmas Fantasy" parade, "it's a small world" Holiday, and Haunted Mansion Holiday!
At Disney California Adventure® Park:
- Santa and his elves will greet guests at the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail.
- Residents of Cars Land get into the spirit of the holidays with special decorations and holiday overlay turning two of the land's popular attractions into Luigi's Joy to the Whirl and Mater's Jingle Jamboree.
- Festival of the Holidays returns as a showcase of diverse cultural holiday celebrations like Christmas/Navidad, Hanukkah, Diwali, Kwanzaa and Three Kings Day. In addition to the always popular Disney ¡Viva Navidad! offerings, the festival will feature marketplaces serving internationally-inspired food and beverage.
- As an ending to a perfect day in the park, "World of Color – Season of Light" will wow guests with this holiday-themed show.
Start planning your escape to the Disneyland® Resort for the holidays!
Attractions and entertainment are subject to change without notice.


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|Ahmed Mohamed, 14, being arrested at his school
for bringing a homemade clock into the building.
Because anything a Muslim builds is a bomb,
if you want to believe the morons running the school.
Well, the school doesn't like him, and his town's police department isn't thrilled with him, either, but Ahmed Mohamed seems to be rocking the rest of the world.
Police dropped the idea of charging Mohamed with bringing a "hoax bomb" to school, when it was onl a clock he made that he wanted to show off.
I guess Irving, Texas police and the community's school district are not afraid of bullying a 14 year old kid because he's Muslim and likes to tinker, but are deathly afraid of bad pubicity, which they got big time.
President Obama doesn't seem too afraid of Mohamed and his clock, inviting him to the White House to show it off. Hilary Clinton Tweeted her support.
Huffington Post reported that Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn carried a clock around Capitol Hill Wednesday in support of Mohamed. Ellison is the first Muslim member of Congress.
And, while Mohamed was being interviewed by MSNBC's Hayes, another guest appeared on the show. It was MIT astrophysicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who told Mohamed that he was exactly the "kind of student we want at places like MIT and Harvard."
By the way, the more news that comes out about how the school and police treated this kid, the worse it gets. The Daily Beast said Mohamed was denied access to his parents while being questioned, which violates Texas law.
School officials, including the principal, tried to coerce Mohamed into signing a statement that would easily have led to terrorism charges had he complied. He ended up writing. "I built a clock. The police think it's a bomb." Smart kid for writing his statement exactly that way.
So, the Irving School District really isn't into encouraging kids to succeed, especially if they're not white, most of the rest of the world is ahead of the game and does encourage bright young kids like Mohamed, who we are sure to need desperately in the future.
A 14 year old kid in Irving, Texas likes to tinker and build things, and was proud of one little invention. It was a digital clock he made by himself.
For his ambition and effort, the kid was arrested. The leading theory as to why he was arrested is his name: Ahmed Mohamed.
Because as you know, anytime a kid with an Arabic name brings anything to school, especially if it's unusual, it' a bomb. Because all Arabs and Muslims want to launch terrorist attacks on this great nation, don't you know.
There, he said, police officers interrogated him, and said he could not call his father until they finished questioning him.
Says the Dallas Morning News:
"So the 14-year-old missed the student council meeting and took a trip in handcuffs to juvenile detention. His clock now sits in an evidence room. Police say they may yet charge him with making a hoax bomb - though they acknowledge he told everyone who would listen that it's a clock."
That's the incredible part right there: He told everyone his device is a clock. Anyone who looks at it can see it's a clock. But they still might charge him with making a "hoax bomb"
And he's been suspended from school for three days. All because he was proud of learning something. What a way to encourage a kid, huh?
Sorry, but if this were a white kid, this would have completely gone away by now.
Yes, I get it. Schools, and everyone else need to be careful. It wouldnt' have been a problem at all if somebody at the school asked to see Mohamed's clock to make sure it wasn't anything weird. Even get a cop to look at it.
The clock isn't elaborate to begin with. Mohamed threw it together in 20 minutes. It's a circuit board wired to a digital display, all inside a case with a tiger hologram in the front, Dallas Morning News reports.
But the fact this is dragging on, and it seems the school and police aren't acknowledging they made a mistake, means something more is going than just caution.
The Dallas Morning News says there's more than a whiff of anti-Islamic sentiment in Irving, Texas anyway. Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne fueled rumors in speeches that Muslims are plotting to usurp American laws,
This whole thing has become a cause celebre now.
Mohamed has got a fast rising number of suppoers. The hashtag #StandWithAhmed was a top trending topic on Twitter this morning.
Rallies are planned at the school.
Still, this is yet another example of an American school system that, instead of encouraging a smart kid to do great things, makes sure instead that he is reluctant to achieve.
And you wonder why America is falling behind in achievement and scientific advancement?


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Second Thursday.
Month is November.
A New Podcast awaits you!
Episode Nine of the Chilldown Period is here folks, and more great music awaits your listening pleasure. We're staying mostly in the downtempo range with some midtempo insertions.
And, of course, it isn't a Chilldown Period without the great tune "Albania" by the Ambienteer. Follow him on twitter... don't argue, just DO IT!
The weather is turning cooler (today, the 12th here in my part of Idaho it snowed again - I don't always know why that makes me happy), keeping up with the chillness of the tunes.
Correction: Liquid Stranger's album is actually called "
I don't have much more to add, but here's a listing of the music for this Episode:
Parachutes Fail - Slow Death of a Custodian - (demo)
"Cross the Ocean" (mp3)
from "Unleft"
(Circle Into Square Records)
Buy at iTunes Music Store
"Two Dots" (mp3)
from "A Certain Distance"
(Ghostly International)
Buy at iTunes Music Store
Liquid Stranger
"Lotus" (mp3)
from "The Intergalactic Slapstick"
(Interchill Records)
Buy at iTunes Music Store
Repeat Customer - Eastern Gate - Slackers Unite EP - CC
Emily in Love - Half a Chance - Let's Pretend We're In Love - CC
dustmotes - ferdowsi - Beats for the Subverted (Flac)
Bulimic Orgy - Sawmill Gang Anthems - Sawmill Gang Anthems EP - CC
"Honeythief" (mp3)
from "Wholeness & Separation"
Buy at iTunes Music Store
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I haven't posted a "Things I Love Thursday" in a little while so I thought I would share this one...
I am a home body of sorts. I love being home and doing things around the house, in the garden, amongst the flowers. Don't get me wrong, I love the chances I get to be out and about also, but I am not the type of person who likes to be on the run ALL THE TIME....just not for me.
I LOVE lazy days of just milling about the yard and playing with the kids, the dogs, and the cats. Caleb is such an animal LOVER!! I was able to grab of couple of pics of him just laying around on the grass with the dogs. This pic is my favorite the dogs are actually hugging each other...you can see their paws are interlocked with each other..funny huh? They are great dogs and let the kids just do anything to them! Caleb loves to lay on the ground with them while they love on him with their kisses and nudging.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Things I LOVE Thursday!
I haven't posted a "Things I Love Thursday" in a little while so I thought I would share this one...
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I'm with you. I love being home. Sweet picture.
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The Arizona Diamondbacks have been a .500 or better team in four of the past six seasons, yet they haven't exactly made a name for themselves as MLB betting favorites just yet. Would a successful 2013 campaign, anchored by breakout MVP candidate Paul Goldschmidt, be enough to get them there?
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If Goldschmidt and company are to truly change the franchise's fortunes, they'll have to start from the ground up. A third-straight .500 season and a second postseason berth in three years seem to be as good a place as any.
The D-Backs have found themselves an All-Star of tomorrow in Goldschmidt (batting .324/.407/.595). He, along with youngsters Gerardo Parra (.307/.372/.460) and Didi Gregorious (.324/.385/.541), has re-ignited the organization.
Get a taste of what to expect out of Arizona in the long-run when they hit the road against the Chicago Cubs this weekend.


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Prospecting is to a broker what free throws are to an NBA star, or what the gas pedal is to a race car driver. Simply put: it's the foundation of your success.
And yet, the Massimo Blog revealed that over 80% of respondents in a national survey prospected only sporadically or when they could. What's more, 7% of these respondents suggested that they do not prospect at all.
Just like getting enough sleep and exercising, prospecting seems to be one of those things we know we should do more of but probably don't. And we get it: often it's because there's a lot going on in a broker's day, and a lot of it happens to be more urgent (though not necessarily more important).
But there's a problem with that: if you're prioritizing your to-do list based on urgency, then prospecting won't get your attention until it becomes an actual emergency! If you wait until your pipeline is dry, you're already too late. The truth is that you should be prospecting when times are good, not when they start looking desperate.
Top brokers, of course, already know this—and it shows in their earnings. As the Massimo revelations taught us, those with higher income levels were also those who were more likely to prospect consistently.
How much should you prospect?
We've said before that each quarter, brokers should aim to connect between 600-800 prospects by phone. Let's do the math on that: if you need to reach 600-800 people per quarter, that breaks down to 10-13 people per day. (John Highman puts this number higher, at 40 outbound calls per day, during which you'd only realistically reach 15-20 people).
So how do you pull this off? Here are seven prospecting recommendations:
- Calculate the cost of NOT prospecting. Look back at your past year of deals. How many were the direct result of your prospecting activities? Now ask yourself how much time you spent prospecting to get to those deals. Ballpark it. If you spent 250 hours prospecting and earned $100,000 in commissions, then the dollar value of a single hour of prospecting is effectively $400. Once you know what each hour of prospecting is "worth" it's a lot harder to put it off. It's also fun to think about what would happen if you doubled your efforts—could you double your commissions, as well?
- Follow the Gandhi rule. It is said that Gandhi meditated for one hour each day. But one day his backers told him, "Oh, you can't do that, you're too busy today." His response? "Well then, now I need to set aside two hours for meditation." Remember this when you find yourself too "busy" to prospect. Gandhi understood that meditation was the foundation of his success, and he made extra time for it especially during his busiest moments. What would happen if you adopted the same philosophy?
- Put it on the calendar. If it's not on the calendar, it won't happen. And since prospecting is the basic building block of your business, it needs to be the very first thing on your calendar each day. Before emails. Before requests from colleagues. Start with at least one hour dedicated to prospecting each day (you can always scale up). If you can do all your prospecting at the same time each day, even better: that's how it becomes a habit.
- Squeeze everything you can out of that time. Calling ten numbers isn't the same thing as calling a specific set of ten numbers. Now that you've blocked prospecting time on your calendar, you want to squeeze the most value out of that time. The best way to do that? Do your research ahead of time. Know who you're calling and what to say to pique their interest. (And by the way, Apto can help you do that much faster).
- Keep that call list handy. You'll find yourself with a spare 5-10 minutes here and there throughout the day. It happens: you have a few moments before a meeting, or before another call, or before lunch. It's not enough time to do anything major, but it may just be enough time for a quick 10-minute phone call. Keep a list of numbers on hand and get in the habit of calling them whenever you find yourself with a little pocket of free time. These extra moments, carved from existing gaps in your schedule, can make a huge difference.
- Mix it up. You phone calls should be to a mix of people you've spoken to before and completely new prospects. That way, you're always staying on top of leads and keeping yourself top of mind for when opportunities do arise. At the same time, you're actively creating new connections. Pro tip: Call every property owner or major tenant in your market at least once per quarter.
- Never wonder about what to say. We've outlined 23 conversation starters you can use to warm up your prospects from the first call. And don't forget—the goal isn't just to have a nice conversation. It's to get a meeting!
By now you know that prospecting is definitely not optional: each phone call you make represents a potential future deal, and the more phone calls you make the more your potential earnings grow.
What will you do to make prospecting a part of your day today?


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The Africa First short film program is sponsored by Focus Features, and will award five (5) emerging African filmmakers $10,000.00 (ten thousand U.S. dollars) each towards pre-production, production, or post-production of their short film. Applications must be fully completed and RECEIVED BY September 3rd, 2010; recipients will be notified by October 2010.
Advisory Board
Filmmakers who receive funding are also granted the unique opportunity to network with the Focus Features Africa First Advisory Board, an international panel of experts in African Cinema. Selected filmmakers will attend an intensive workshop with the Advisors in New York City.
The Board members are:
Mahen Bonetti
Mahen Bonetti is the founder and Executive Director of African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF), a non-profit arts organization founded in 1990. AFF showcases works of African filmmakers and develops ways to share the vision and culture of African film with American and international audiences. In her role as film liaison, she contributes to an interdisciplinary mix of panels and programs, including those established by the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ougadougou (FESPACO), the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York State Council of the Arts, UNDP, Africa's US diplomatic offices and the Rolex Arts Initiative Awards. AFF collaborates each year with the Film Society of Lincoln Center and BAMcinématek to produce the annual New York African Film Festival. Additionally, the organization curates a series of other film programs with a host of national and international partners. Ms. Bonetti lives in Manhattan with her husband and their daughter.
Jihan El-Tahri
Jihan El-Tahri is an award winning writer, documentary film director and producer. El- Tahri, an Egyptian and French national, started her working career as a journalist. Between 1984 and 1990 she worked as a news agency correspondent and TV researcher covering Middle East politics. In 1990 she began directing and producing documentaries for French television, The BBC and other international broadcasters. El-Tahri has directed more than a dozen films including the Emmy nominated The House of Saud, which explores the Saudi/ US relations through the portraits of the Kingdom's monarchs. The Price of Aid, which won the European Media prize in 2004, examined who really benefits from system of International food aid. Her most recent documentary Cuba: An African Odyssey, which recounts the untold story of Cuba's support for African revolutions, has received awards in France and Canada. El-Tahri has also written 2 books titled "The 9 Lives of Yasser Arafat" and "Israel and the Arabs: the 50 years war" published by Penguin.
Jihan El-Tahri is also engaged in various associations and institutions working with African cinema. She is currently the treasurer of the Guild of African filmmakers in the Diaspora and she was elected in 2004 as one of the regional secretaries of the Federation of Pan African Cinema (FEPACI).
June Givanni
June has worked in film and broadcasting for many years and is regarded as a knowledgeable resource person for Black and African cinema. She worked at the British Film Institute for 8 years where she ran the African Caribbean Unit from the mid 1980s to the mid-1990s and launched the quarterly Black Film Bulletin, tracking and reviewing the development of black film. She also edited the book Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema, which reported on the major African cinema conference held as part of the Screen Griot programme of 10 projects celebrating African cinema, organized by the Unit in 1995. More generally, June worked as a film and television programme consultant for over 20 years specializing in African and black film internationally, working with festivals, and events and writing about film and television. She was one of the team of programmers of the Toronto International Film Festival for four years, programming Planet Africa. Her programming work has necessarily involved introducing new film talent to the industry and to audiences. She has worked in production, including A Dry White Season, directed by Euzhan Palcy and assisted recently on the shoot of Palcy's latest film, Les Mariees de l'isle Bourbon. June has been involved in selecting film projects for development awards both in the UK (Arts Council, B3 Media) and the USA (Rockefeller Foundation). She has recently worked with'Break Out', and'The Feature Lab', in the UK to identify potential writing and directing talent for these script development projects. June also worked in television programme regulation in the UK for 7 years.
Clarence Hamilton
Clarence trained as a filmmaker at Ryerson Polytechnic (now University), the premier training institute for filmmakers and broadcast journalists in Toronto, Canada, and graduated with a Bachelor in Applied Arts (Film) in 1990. Since his return to SA in 1992, Clarence has gained extensive experience as a writer, director, and executive producer in the film and television industry. Clarence also worked as head-writer on the first season of TAKALANI SESAME, a South African adaptation of the US-originated Sesame Street. He was co-creator of the first GAZLAM, a thirteen part HIV drama and worked as head writer for season 3 of SOUL BUDDYZ, an educational family drama series conceived by Soul City. In 2005 Clarence became co-project leader with Alby James and Philip Roberts in Sediba, a feature film and television script development program of the NFVF. During this period he has mentored script editor trainees and supervised the development of four feature scripts to first draft and five ground-breaking mini-series, among them adaptations of Shakespeare, all commissioned by the SABC. In 2007 Clarence joined the National Film and Video Foundation and in April 2009 was appointed head of Production and Development. Clarence continues his work in Sediba.
Sharifa Johka
Sharifa Johka is an independent producer with a strong background in feature film development, acquisitions, and co-production financing. Johka began her professional career working in Acquisitions & Co-Productions at New Line Cinema/Fine Line Features. She was responsible for tracking film projects in all stages of development and production for financing and worldwide distribution consideration.
As an independent producer, Johka has credits that span the mediums of both film and broadcast television, including the charming romantic comedy, THE SEAT FILLER, directed by Nick Castle (DENNIS THE MENACE, MAJOR PAYNE) and executive produced by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. Additional television credits include TEEN SUMMIT, LYRIC CAFÉ, and DADDY'S GIRL.
Johka is also the Founder of AFRICAN VOICES Cinema Series (AVCS), a media arts organization that is dedicated to the promotion and advancement of African and African-American films as well as filmmakers of the African Diaspora. In this role, Johka has produced programs in the US, Nigeria, and South Africa. Most recent, AFRICAN VOICES presented AFRICANA!, a television series for BET, for which Johka served as the Executive Producer.
Ms. Johka is a highly sought after lecturer who has conducted production and screenwriting workshops around the world. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where she attended the prestigious School of Cinematic Arts and received a Student Academy Award for her compelling documentary THE MIRROR LIED. In addition, she is a J. Paul Getty Arts Fellowship recipient, a working member of Film Independent (FIND) and serves on the Advisory Board for their mentoring program, Project: Involve.
Pedro Pimenta
Pedro has become one of the major players in film co-production in Southern Africa. He started his film career with the National Film Institute of Mozambique in 1977, and co-founded EBANO Multimedia, the first independent production company in Mozambique, which established itself as a significant entity in audio-visual production in the region. Between 1997 and 2003, Pedro was the Chief Technical Adviser of the UNESCO Zimbabwe Film & Video Training Project for Southern Africa in Harare. As part of his role he conceived and managed various training programs in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zambia. He is one of the founders of AVEA (Audio Visual Entrepreneurs of Africa), which runs an annual professional training program for producers in Southern Africa. He is currently the Director of DOCKANEMA - The Maputo Documentary Film Festival.
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Keith Shiri is the Zimbabwean founder/director of Africa at the Pictures, a festival of African cinema based in London. He has taught African cinema at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and the American University in Richmond. He has served on a number of international film festival juries including the Tampere Film Festival in Finland, the Pan African Film Festival in California, the Fespaco Festival in Burkina Faso, the Cape Town World Film Festival, Festival Cinema Africano in Milan and the Berlin International Film Festival. He currently sits on the steering committee of the Independent Film Parliament (UK) and Vertigo Magazine. He is a program advisor to the Times London Film Festival, and served in that position to the Venice Film Festival from 2004 - 2005. He was also a member of the jury of the Berlin World Cinema Fund from 2004 - 2007. Publications include Africa on Film (BBC Publications 1991) and Directory of African Films and Filmmakers (Flicks Books 1993).
Edouard Bamporiki is an award-winning filmmaker, actor and poet. As young Rwandan artist, Edouard has received national and international attention for his stories of hope, unity and reconciliation. Edouard was born in a small village in the Western province, educated in Rwandan schools, and lives in the capitol city of Kigali. He wrote, directed, acted, and produced Long Coat.
Jenna Bass is a graduate (2007) of AFDA film school, Cape Town. At 22 years old she has worked as a director, writer, cinematographer, photographer and magician. She has directed over ten short films, and seven music videos. Her video, Hold The Sorrow, was accepted into the 2008 ViMus International Music Video Festival. Her 25min film, The Tunnel, was selected for the Focus Features Africa First Program and was completed this year. Her work has run the spectrum of sci-fi (So Long to the City), experimental (Jellyfish), teenage coming of age (Already Gone) and historical magical realism (The Tunnel). She is currently developing her first feature length projects: 5.6 Second of White Noise (a multi-narrative following a group of teenagers in the 1994 club scene of Durban), Tok Tokkie (a supernatural thriller about ghost-welfare inspectors) and Flat Land (a surreal Karoo-set western). Jenna's singular ambition is to make movies: to create the magic that glows in darkened theaters before blazing out into the real world.
Jan-Hendrik Beetge started his film career by writing and directing his first short-film,'Triomfeer', in 2001. Winning multiple local and international awards for this poignant work, Jan-Hendrik went on to become a television commercials director at several top production companies and has been working as a director and writer ever since. Currently focusing on his love for cinematic narrative, Jan-Hendrik is busy developing several films and has just completed his second short-film called'The Abyss Boys', a beautiful and compelling film about two brothers caught in a world from which they cannot escape. Born out of the simplicity of photography, his strengths lie in his innovative and unique cinematic visuals combined with original but truthful characters within a powerful narrative setting. He describes his style as Cinephotographic Narrative.
Dyana Gaye was born in Paris in 1975. She majored in Film Studies at Paris 8 - St Denis University in 1998. In 1999, she won the Louis Lumiere-Villa Medicis grant for her script A woman for Souleymane which she directed the following year. Finalist of the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative in 2004, she directed a musical one shot sequence film, Remembering Paris, for the project Paris, la metisse in 2005. In 2006, her film Ousmane received numerous distinctions all over the world and was nominated at the Cesar 2008 (French Academy Awards) for Best Short Film.
In 2008, Wanuri completed her first feature film From A Whisper based on the real life events surrounding the August 7, twin bombings of US Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998. The film recently won awards at the Africa Movie Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Picture, the Golden Dhow award for Best East African Picture at Zanzibar International Film Festival and Best Film at Kalasha, Kenya Film and TV awards. Shortly after she completed a documentary about the life of Nobel peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai entitled For Our Land (2009) for M-Net'Great Africans' Series. She has recently completed a short Science Fiction Film Pumzi (2009) that was partially funded by Focus Features (part of NBC universal), Goethe Institut and Changa Moto Fund in Kenya.
Stephen Abbott is a writer, director, photographer and editor. He likes travel, coffee, stories, mountains, movies, music, and some other things.
Matt Bishanga aims to transform Ugandan filmmakers into great international filmmakers. He speaks excellent English and Dutch and some local languages in Uganda. He's a former student at Makerere University in the school of architecture, which he attended for four years but dropped it in favor for film, which he embarked on in the Netherlands. Matt returned to Uganda in 2005 after 8 years in Holland to set up a media production company that today has produced numerous television commercials, music videos, documentaries and a feature film. He's currently lecturing filmmakers and actors around the country on how to improve their skills. Matt is producing his first feature film, "Battle of the Souls". He assembled an amateur cast and crew to produce what happens to be Uganda's first feature film entirely done by Ugandans. The film has gone on to win very many accolades some of which include, Best East African Film, Best editing, Best achievement in Visual Effects, Best supporting actor etc. This has fueled many Ugandans to start filmmaking which is Matt's goal to ensure that the industry grows so we can tell our stories and improve on tourism.
Daouda Coulibaly is a Malian-French director. He started his career in audiovisual editing. Inspired by a traditional tale, A HISTORY OF INDEPENDENCE/IL ETAIT UNE FOIS L'INDEPENDANCE is his first short film.
Matthew Jankes is an aspiring filmmaker born and raised in South Africa. He studied film through the University of Cape Town and the South African School of Motion Picture Medium (AFDA), training in writing, directing and cinematography. In between making short films he directs, shoots and edits music videos. He is currently doing a re-write on a feature length script, with a view to hopefully direct it in mid 2011. He is a big sports fan and his second love, other than movie making, is too argue about politics with anyone who'll listen.
Rungano Nyoni was born in Lusaka Zambia, Rungano meaning Story or Storyteller in the Shona Tribe. Coming from a theatre background she only started directing films in 2006. Her first film was called'Yande' (My Great Happiness in Bemba), a film she wrote and shot on black and white super 8mm that dealt with the fashion for African Women who westernised their appearance and mannerisms in order to conform to an'ideal'. The narrative was taken from the writings of French philosopher, Michel de Montaigne, from his extract,'On the Cannibals'. She draws heavily from Docu-Drama style of Directing and is very actor driven in the way she approaches her filmmaking using a lot of devising and improvisational techniques in her films. Her influences include Shane Meadows, Danny Boyle, Coppolla and Isabelle Huppert. Her favourite films include Festen, The Fall and La Pianiste (the Piano Teacher).
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Has anyone tried the new Axis P32 Series (P3228-LVE)?
January 2018
Has anyone tried the Axis P32 Series (P3228-LVE)? Axis calls it a "streamlined outdoor-ready 4K fixed dome for any light conditions." It looks like it was released in mid-2017. Here's the link:
The purpose is outdoor surveillance, specifically license plate capture after an instance of theft and vandalism in our neighborhood last week. My Hikvision camera (4MP) mounted on the garage and aimed at the street 100' away identified the color, make, and model of the vehicle but not, alas, the license plate. So it's time to add a camera at the *end* of the driveway by the street. Also the Axis is about twice the resolution (though at about twice the price). I already have one IR floodlight illuminating the front yard and can add another aimed at the street.
I'm confident that it will work fine with SecuritySpy. But has anyone tried it and used it for license plate capture? Is the resolution and quality really worth the money? Thanks!
January 2018
I don't have any direct experience with this camera, but it does look great and will certainly work well with SecuritySpy. Please post back with your experiences if you do decide to go for this camera.
January 2018
Thanks, Ben! I just ordered two of the Axis P32 cameras and the Bosch IR Illuminator 5000 SR (850nm).
I have one of the Bosch UFLED95-8BD AEGIS illuminators already, which works pretty well, but the only one B&H has in stock is the 5000 SR. Looks like the AEGIS may have been discontinued. Anyway, I'm going to try to do the wiring this weekend and, if all goes well, can let you know how the setup works...
January 2018
Update: The Axis P32 arrived today and it's a beautiful camera. Solid metal frame and a lot more features than the existing Axis and Hikvision cameras that I have. Of course it costs 2x-3x as much! I guess you get what you pay for. SecuritySpy recognized it right away.
I haven't installed it yet so don't know how good it will perform with license plates, especially at night even with the external IR emitter...
January 2018
Sounds great! Thanks for reporting back. Yes, Axis cameras are more expensive than others, but you can be assured of a high-quality product when you buy one.
January 2018
So I now have the Cat6 run to the end of the driveway and to this amazing new top-of-the-line Axis P32 camera, and the results are... not good.
Here's a video:
To be fair, it's rainy, it's getting late in the day, and the camera is zoomed out. Zooming in should help it a little because there would be (as one of my neighbors suggested) more pixels per radian.
But the real problem seems to be the shutter speed or the frame rate? It sure looks likes motion blur to me. The still images are also blurry:
The settings on the camera seem normal:
SecuritySpy says the camera is sending images at 30fps. But it sure doesn't look like 30fps.
Could the problem be that the late-2013 2.7 GhZ Intel Core i5 iMac that SecuritySpy is running on is overloaded? It's also handling five other lower-res Hikvision and Axis cameras. The 'uptime' command from the shell gives me a load average of ~3.0, up from ~2.1 before the new Axis was added. Activity Monitor reports ~18% system, ~26% user, and ~56% idle. That doesn't seem like it should be a problem, but something is very not right here.
Any suggestions, anyone?
January 2018
Lens cover looks wet. Might take some time tweak the settings just right. No doubt it's a nice camera and your system does not look over taxed. Maybe make a rain shield. It does look like water blur.
January 2018
I agree with
- it looks like the camera's dome is wet or dirty. To really see the true quality, make sure to clean and dry it thoroughly (and check the inside of the dome too in case any water/dirt got in there).
If this is an ongoing problem, some kind of shield/cover would be the way to go.
I would also comment that 30fps is excessively high for normal CCTV purposes, and this would be unnecessarily loading your Mac's CPU for little benefit. I would recommend 10fps as a starting point.
I would be interested to see new pictures after you have cleaned/dried the dome!
January 2018
Ben, meatsuit: Thanks for your replies. My first thought was that 30fps on this Axis camera just isn't fast enough for license plate reading. But I checked and there are commercial LPR products that use only 30fps Axis cameras.
For instance, here's one that uses the Axis Q1604 camera to capture license plates (apparently at only 10fps!) at up to 40mph:
http://www.ipconfigure.com/pdf - main/datasheets/Backup-Datasheet-LPR.pdf
The now-discontinued Axis Q1604 camera is only 1.4 megapixels and with a maximum of 30fps:
So it seems like either the dome is wet and dirty, as you folks pointed out (there is a shield that I have not installed yet--the install remains a work in progress). Or cars are going faster than 40mph. I just did a quick search and many of the less expensive LPR products seem to support maximum speeds of only 35mph to 40mph...
January 2018
I figured out my problem--user error. I've been conflating frame rate with shutter speed. For license plate capture, you need a fast shutter speed, something like 1/500th a second.
The camera's shutter speed had been set to factory settings of 1/30th a second. It *can* go up to 1/62,500th of a second if you're, say, capturing the Red Baron diving out of the sun.
I've increased the shutter speed, adjusted the angle, zoomed in, installed the shield, and now it seems to work acceptably well. It's not quite as good as I'd like, but I think it will be enough to give the sheriff's deputies a lead, at least in daylight.
Here's a still image:
In terms of night vision, the electricians have encountered a literal snag inside the second conduit and haven't been able to run 120V for the IR emitter yet.
Maybe I won't need this PoE Bosch camera after all!
PS: Think the Bosch will work with SecuritySpy?
January 2018
Good to hear things are working better now. The faster the shutter speed the less motion blur, so this will indeed help to capture car license plates better. But note that faster shutter speeds provide the sensor with less light per frame, which will increase the amount of noise in the image. 1/500th sounds very short - see if you can reduce this a little (perhaps 1/250?) and still get reasonable resistance to motion blur.
Bosch cameras all support ONVIF so I don't think you'll have any problems with these and SecuritySpy.
February 2018
An update: The Axis camera is able to capture license plates at night. No need to spend 2x as much for the Bosch! Here are two photos, including one front and one rear plate:
I think this is primarily via the on-camera IR. I unclogged the second 2" conduit and now have 120V run to the street for the Bosch IR emitter. But I still need to fine-tune the direction and add the factory diffuser to widen the beam.
November 2018
has this continued to be good? Did you add the IR emitter?
March 2019
caseyd: Yep, the Axis camera + Bosch IR emitter continue to work well at night. I'd recommend them with SecuritySpy. Here's a capture from a few minutes ago:
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The Revolt of Islam: the Middle East in turmoil (10. 3. 2015)
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Ali Tarrak was a female Nami who became the leader of her species during the Galactic Civil War. Under her leadership, the Nami captured a prototype of the TIE/D Defender from the Galactic Empire around 3 ABY. She was eventually captured and sent to Coruscant.
Tarrak's leadership had the benefit of excellent timing. The Empire was locked in a secret, but brutal, struggle against a rogue Grand Admiral, Demetrius Zaarin, who had developed a deadly new starfighter that outperformed even Lord Vader's TIE Advanced model. Zaarin had fled to the Outer Rim after destroying most of the Empire's TIE Advanced and TIE Defender production facilities, such as factory station ZA-13. The Empire's loyalist forces were fully engaged in recovering single starfighters from the attacks as best they could, which provided Tarrak the perfect opportunity to steal a specimen.
Tarrak's raid actually piggybacked off the actions of a separate group of pirates, the Rneekii, who were somehow able to snare loyalist forces in an elaborate ion cannon trap. It is implied, though not stated, that Zaarin supplied the Rneekii with information needed to set up the trap. Regardless, Nami raiders boarded and captured Imperial craft carrying a single TIE Defender unit, and hyperspace to safety with it.
Tarrak also acquired the TIE Defender project's lead scientist after the Rneekii pirates ransomed him to the highest bidder near the Kiilimaar system. Tarrak knew the Empire would be the highest bidder, so she devised a plan with Imperial traitors under Zaarin's command. When the Empire went to Kiilimaar to pick up the scientist, Tarrak's forces attacked the Immobilizer 418 cruiser Red Claw carrying the scientist, disabling its hyperdrive using electromagnetic pulse technology.
The Red Claw's commander called in two Imperial corvettes for reinforcements. The first was to take the scientist to safety, the second would bring a team to repair the Red Claw. However, Zaarin sent in one of his own corvettes masquerading as the first, there to pick up the scientist, and claiming the second was delayed. One of Zaarin's strike cruisers provided cover for the corvette as it escaped with the scientist.
Zaarin then handed the scientist over to Tarrak, presumably under the assumption that she would produce TIE Defenders to use against the loyalist Imperial forces. Exactly what he stood to gain from this is uncertain—it is possible that Zaarin did not have factory facilities in the Outer Rim, and the Nami's factories could help compensate for that shortcoming.
Whatever the agreement between them, it is clear the Nami began construction of TIE Defenders, and it is likely that Tarrak reneged on it. She planned to sell some to the Rebel Alliance, a move that would almost certainly have outraged Zaarin, who continued to be staunchly anti-Rebel even during his own coup. However, it appears Zaarin was either powerless or unwilling to cross Tarrak's will, as he takes no further steps to stop her sale.
The Emperor, seeing the significance of the situation, and hoping to stop proliferation of the powerful starfighter, dispatched one of his best commanders to disrupt the deal, Grand Admiral Thrawn. Thrawn oversaw the development of a new Imperial assault craft, the Missile Boat, which was specifically developed to counter the TIE Defender. The Missile Boat was still an experimental craft, relying on a powerful tractor beam and a heavy warhead payload to immobilize and destroy enemies. It was a dramatic break away from the pattern of simply increasing the speed, cannons, and maneuverability - as seen in TIE Interceptor, Advanced, and Defender development.
Thrawn's forces captured Tarrak's Strike Cruiser before it could send any TIE Defenders to a Rebel Carrack-class light cruiser. Admiral Thrawn's Star Destroyer, the Grey Wolf, followed fleeing Nami forces to Tarrak's TIE Defender factory space station, whereupon he gave the now-famous order to Ace pilot Maarek Stele: "For the greater glory of the Empire, destroy everything!" The new Missile Boat took out the remaining Nami TIE Defenders, and the Star Destroyer Grey Wolf's TIE/sa bomber destroyed the factory. All Nami structures, down to the last mine, were destroyed.
During the final assault on the factory, Tarrak made a bold escape attempt, leaving the factory in a Corellian Transport with the lead scientist as a hostage. She even dared to threaten Thrawn, sending the message "Cease your attack or your precious scientist dies!" However, Thrawn successfully called her bluff, assuring Tarrak that such an action would guarantee her own death.
Ultimately, Tarrak spared the life of the scientist, as Assault Gunboats came out of hyperspace in her path and immediately disabled her vessel. After her capture, Tarrak was sent to Coruscant, where she would be trained to serve the Emperor. Deprived of their production centers and their leader, the Nami species sank back into obscurity, and Thrawn's later triumph over Zaarin ensured Imperial supremacy in the region. The Emperor gave Thrawn Zaarin's former place in his Inner Circle shortly after his victory over Tarrak, and the successful containment of a potentially uncontrollable TIE Defender proliferation.
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