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Connor McDavid will probably set a bunch of records before his career in the NHL is over. While he may never top some Wayne Gretzky's all-time scoring records, the young phenom is arguably already the best player on the planet. On Tuesday night, he earned himself another impressive record when he became the first player to have a hand in the first nine goals of a season for his team.
Sure, it's a bit of a cherry-picked stat, but McDavid either scored or assisted in every single one the Edmonton Oilers goals this year until they bagged an OT winner (scored by Darnell Nurse) against the Jets on Tuesday. However, McDavid wasn't about to start celebrating the feat, telling reporters after the game that he wasn't particularly proud of it.
"You know what? It's whatever," McDavid told Sportsnet's Mark Spector. "I'm not overly proud of it. I don't think it's a stat we should be proud of either. And we found a way to get a goal there at the end, so we don't ever have to talk about it again."
He's sort of right, too. McDavid is great, and the Oilers need him to continue being great in order for them to win hockey games. But he's also only one man, and if other players don't step up and offer some offense of their own, the Oilers could be doomed to another disappointing season.
"What do you want me to say?" said head coach Todd McLellan after the game. "He's the best player on earth."
Best player on earth aside, Edmonton have only started the season with a 2-2-0 record.


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Returning home from the weekend the fridge is pretty empty other than a box of mushrooms from the vegebox , I could eulogise forever about how different these babies are to anything you find in a supermarket instead of going slimey to indicate they are reaching the end of their lives delicate gills release gentle black spores this means they are perfect for soup.
Mushroom soup has a rich earthy taste though I have made it with wild mushrooms but so far the fungi season has been a little disappointing this was just for lunch
Mushroom Soup
a box of mushrooms
1/2 pint of vegetable stock
1/2 pint of milk
1 clove of chopped garlic – finely chopped
- Roughly chop the mushrooms , simmer them with garlic in the stock for 10 minutes on a low heat
- Puree add the milk and warm through
- Season with salt and pepper
- Eat with warm bread.
I don't think its really grey food its more charcoal flecked like George Clooneys beard…. ok I prefer Alan Rickman .. it just made a bad day slightly better .
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Granny is one of the most efficient and versatile animation tool-sets in the industry. The 2.9 version has a new features, but you should realize, that even though the engine is over 10 years old, it continues to have several updates a year, including currently in 2014 when this post is written.
Granny has constantly made life simple for developers. Whether you work in Max, Maya, or others, Granny makes it a easy to export, process, and animate anything that the modellers created. Granny3D has an asset conversion pipeline that has been battle-hardened, and works on every platform.
New Animation Studio
There is a new Animation Studio, and artists and animators like that the fact Rad is moving animation blending and transition functionality out of code and into an environment where they can data-drive it. On the code side, the studio and its underlying runtime have been designed to keep the traditional benefits of Granny, speed and customize-ability.
Although Unity and Unreal Engine get a lot of press, Granny has been around, and used in more than 3,000 games. Some recent titles are well known, such as Guild Wars 2, Forza Horison, Halo 4, Dungeons & Dragons online, Elder Scrolls IV:Oblivion, Even Online, Civilization V, Tropico 4, and Destiny.
And the upcoming new Talking Moose, which is graphically amazing and completely Gaussian-random-number controlled life-like movements, is built on top of Granny. As explained by Dr. Halls, the Moose's underlying coding needed direct access to everything in memory concerning the model, and it's real-time orientation of joints, so that sophisticated eye-gaze aiming and morph blending could be handled. It was something like re-creating all the 3D transformations code that 3DSmax or Maya would do internally, and Granny made it feasible to actually do that, relatively easily.


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Farming the Progress Factory
Rahul Gandhi recently made a stupid statement. Another one. He said that we need to promote agriculture by higher food prices, and we need to go slow on business and industry. He made Suit-Boot a symbol of the wrong way to go for India.
Agriculture sector is sick in India. Most people in the sector are agricultural workers who don't own land. Those who do, usually own so little that they hardly have surplus. All countries should aim to aim to reduce these numbers as much as possible. The only way is creating industrial jobs.
Can you trace the line of logic here? Push for manufacturing and large scale services is the way out of poverty for the poorest, the most vulnerable. Pushing for higher food prices to artificially support farmers helps the rich farmers at the cost of the rest of the country. Including the poor farmers who have to buy their food.
Some people believe that Rahul Gandhi is a well intentioned idiot. I agree with the last word, but what well intentioned guy deliberately ignores the reality and wants the poor to remain poor and dependent? Socialism is the default of all economically illiterate people who want to seem well intentioned. Who doesn't like the image of government helping the poor? But real help comes from jobs, not doles.
Look at the sprawling slums of our metros. Think about the people there. They are real, rational people who have decided that living at the mercy of goons, policemen, and surrounded by squalor, disease and poverty is a better life than that in their villages. Think how bad their villages must be. M K Gandhi has created an illusion of ideal villages with happy pre-industrial people. The reality is that everyone in villages who can escape, does. And few ever go back. Promoting that lifestyle is as fool-hardy as promoting poverty. Let's try and make a better, more technology friendly, more business friendly India.
I'd love a Suit-Boot ka India. And so would the farmers whom this rich, lazy, incompetent fool is pretending to protect
The Difficult Modi Coalition
When Modi was contesting elections, those who liked him kept comparing him to Reagan and Thatcher. They are both thought of by Indians as leaders who brought their countries out of slowdown and onto the highway for growth. But many also remember them as leaders that invigorated the Religious factions and gave them power in Politics.
This is a difficult coalition to maintain. The republicans have been struggling with it for decades, swinging from more libertarianism (capitalistic) to conservative (religious). That is what BJP has been dealing with since its inception and what the current government has to deal with at an even higher scale.
What a libertarian like me wants is for this govt to be a plumber. Remove the clogs that have jammed the pipes of free markets and make it easier for people both Indians and foreigners to set up business. That's what the whole Gujarat Model talk is about.
Then there are the religiously inclined. BJP campaign was all about development. It was all about progress. But people already knew Modi. The same way that a lot of Muslims will never vote for Modi, a lot of Hindus will ALWAYS vote for him. He is a symbol of Hindutva, whether he likes it or not. And the Hindutva supporters are always going to keep demanding a Hindu Rashtra. If it is anti-Muslim, so much the better. This is also a faction that fears and detests the outsider. MNCs, goods from abroad, foreigners trading and investing in India are all source of unease and mistrust. These, unfortunately, are all essential for growth according to libertarians.
So far, it's hard to judge which way the balance will tilt. There is movement on de clogging, and there is a lot of talk of India as a cultural entity, which inevitably leads to that entity and identity being tied to what we now call a Hindu religion. That's problematic for a country as diverse as ours.
Tomorrow is another test as Modi makes a seminal speech. He will do well to remember where he is standing. Lal Qila was built by Shahjahan. It is a problematic symbol of an emperor's ambition to leave a mark. His spending on monuments left the state weak, and led to rise of extremism in the next generation. Modi is ambitious. He wants to leave a mark in history. He wants to be remembered as a leader the way he remembers Patel. That is a good news. He is also very sharp. That is another good news, because he hopefully knows that it's all about how well india does.
So embrace Reagan & Thatcher, Mr Prime Minister, but remember that they are celebrated for growth and de clogging, not for religious extremism. And for all the talk about Patel being a Hindu Nationalist, he is loved for bringing India together. Remember to keep us together, and move us forward.
What does AAP mean for the BJP? Initial thoughts
We are headed to an interesting election. And the outcome is still up for grabs. Onlu one thing is certain: Congress will fare poorly. AAP will be a confounding factor. A lot of BJP supporters are worried about AAP. AAP is perceived as another upper middle class phenomenon, sweeping people who are dissatisfied with congress and would have been a ripe pick for the BJP. There has been a lot of hand wringing about AAP stealing votes away. How much do they really need to worry?
Let's look at what AAP believes in (beyond Lokpal & Swaraj, but those are not the topics today). It proclaims that it is pragmatist. Looking at solutions. But they ignore that fact that every problem has many solutions, and you need to choose the appropriate one based on your ideology. Some times it's not even clear that a problem exists, forget what is the appropriate solution. eg the issue of inequality in the US. A debate is raging over whether it needs to be addressed at all.
So saying you have no ideology is a copout. Paying lip service to capitalism in front of capitalists is a copout too. What is he going to say, please shut shop and let govt do it? Who will fill its coffers then? The best way to determine the ideology is to look at what they did in power, but that was too short to evaluate.
So I look at the people. Who are the people making this party? There are a bunch of people ranging from left of centre to much further on the left. And who is being promoted? The people firmly on the left. For this we need to look at the people being declared candidates. (By the way, this was as much of
a top down process as congress. No input of the local workers at all)
So who are these people? There are several social activists. Which is a code for people who were political but against both congress and BJP. The people working for some specific cause dear to them, or some specific people: like Adivasis. All leftists. All believe in government intervention to solve problems. None view business as anything but evil. At best a necessary evil. You won't ever catch them saying profit is a valid motive. All claim to work in grass roots but are actually wedded to top down intervention. Leftist, statist, elitist.
Medha Patkar, Anjali Damania, Meera Sanyal, Soni Sori et al are names firmly to the left of Indian politics. So are names like the Bhushans and Yogendra Yadav. The only other people in AAP are people famous for being famous. Like the guy who does standup + poetry in college festivals and the guy who threw a shoe at Chidambaram.
If you have no ideological leanings, where are the people on the right? Are they not joining the party or being shunned by the party? Aam Aadmi Party is the communist party for non-keralite non-bengali people. In India even the communists are pro investment these days. These guys are the same.
In other words, if the people look really hard at the party and the platform, no BJP supporter will defect to this party. But that is a big "if". Wishful thinking and blindness are all around us. Those are the curtains BJP should work to lift. Also, AAP may bring a lot of people to polls who were not voting earlier. If Modi can mobilize the base enough that he brings a lot of new voters, BJP can neutralize this.
Can BJP pull this off? Who knows? All I can say is that this is the most interesting election in my memory.
Naxals, Agitators and democracy
Chakravyuh is the latest localized adaptation of a Hollywood film by Prakash Jha. (see Avatar/Pocahontas, even Namak Haram for earlier versions of the same theme). At a time when our national morale is low again after the highs of India Shining, this is supposed to be a reminder to urban India that the poor are suffering. India is riddled with problems. Poverty is rampant, the powerful are corrupt and the enforcers are either impotent or unwilling to enforce change. Surprised? I thought not.
One doesn't have to live in a village to know that there are huge problems in our country. Hell, there are Babas and activists on fasts all over the country and media reminding us that the ruling class is robbing us blind. We also know that when oppressed, people are prime to be taken advantage of, as the Naxals have been doing to the poor villagers and forest dwellers trapped between two forces.
Because Naxalism is not the answer. Nor is agitation/fasting. The answer is for the so called elites who rink they know better to go to the people who are being oppressed and teach them to vote right. in a democracy, the value of you as a citizen is determined by the number of votes you influence.
If you don't even vote, or vote for the person most people in your community vote for, you have zero influence. If you convince a few to vote according to their interests, you have a certain influence. By the way, Facebook doesn't count, and blogs count even less. The bulk of voters are poor, and they need to understand what their votes bring them.
That's why Kejriwal is right, we need to use democracy to bring about change, and that's harder than either agitation or violence. We also need to curtail the power the government wields and make it more transparent. We need to allow local governments to have a say in what happens there, but also need to incentivize them to industrialize. We need fair, market based compensation for the displaced, and we need companies to fight for the lands.
Only when there is true participation, fewer discretionary powers and more transparency will we progress. We also need a social safety net that support those who can't earn enough for their needs, and helps them not just by handouts but by making them fit into the marketplace.
For all this to happen, the first step is to actively campaign for the candidates/party you care for. How many are willing to put their money where their mouth is and go sweat it out on street? I can only answer for myself: Not me. And that, friends, is the real problem with India. Any solutions for that?
Paralysis, slippage, decline: India losing the sheen
The spectacle of the breast-beating over the underachiever article is so predictable, I'm angry at myself for getting riled up. But it's so relevant right now to the direction of our country that it seemed a personal affront.
India's balance of payments hangs by a thread. The theoretical 300 billion dollar reserves of RBI are not available to ensure that we will be able to pay the rising foreign currency bills. The Rupee is in a slide. Admittedly this is not entirely our fault. Its also due to Europeans taking their own economy to the brink of disaster, leading to a rising dollar.
The particular problem with India, however is that we don't run an export surplus as most of our fellow emerging economies do. If we did, we would see our exports looking attractive to others, and lead to a growth in manufacturing. China has been keeping its currency low for several years to boost industry. We, however, still import more than we export. Singur nano plant controversy showed us all that investment in manufacturing is not very welcome, even from a brand as respectable as the Tatas. There is a huge maoist Red Belt across the belly of Mother India that would make anyone reluctant to invest there. Reform of Labour laws, infrastructure, power, all these things are not yet in place to attract investment in manufacturing. That leaves services.
Most of us think services, and think IT and outsourcing. That's one part, but not even close to the whole story. One major way to improve things for farmers, producers & consumers, generate large scale employment, and get investment in infrastructure and logistics is via large scale retail. That's a great place to attract investments to. Oh wait.
See? The few places where people want to put in money, we don't want them to. So a huge hunk of overseas money in India is short term investments. What we call FIIs, the foreign institutional investors. Now the thing is, they calculate their return on investment in dollars, so every slight fall in rupee means that their returns fall by that much. In the last 3 months, rupee has fallen by 16%. So their returns ought to be be really great for them to even break even. And now we understand why they are taking money out of India.
It gets better. When they take money out, the rupee falls further, as they sell their rupees to buy dollars. Yes, that prompts even more people to take their money out!! Now we get to a slow downward spiral that leads to falling currency and fleeing dollars. That's exactly where we are.
Which brings us to the politics. The duo of Manmohan & Montek, who are supposedly in charge of the economy, understand all this way too well. They could probably have predicted this path several months ago. Why are we in this position now? The obvious answer is their impotence to act. The deeper answer in my view is the inability of any political party to bring change.
That's because of several reasons, but the most important in my view is the disinterest of our electorate in engaging with the issues. Even the recent Anna-inspired mobilization was focused on punishment as deterrent. The answer to corruption of the powerful is not to punish them, satisfying as that may be, it's to reduce their power. No one is talking about a smaller government, we are all for increasing the power of Babus, by a different name of Lokpal.
This means that BJP/local parties are happy to oppose any progress just for the sake of opposing, and Congress will do the same when in opposition. And every election confirms the sad truth that corruption is no bar to winning, provided money/caste/power equations are in your favor.
All this has led to a tirade of articles in thoughtful magazines about the decline in India. There have even been suggestions to place Indonesia as the 'I' in BRIC. But we woke when Time magazine put our MMS on the cover and put a one word description of his lack of achievements. Subtlety gayi tel lene.
The wrath of congress loyalists over one article is infuriating, but sadly predictable. Even more infantile was Outlook magazine taking out a cover of Obama with underachiever written next to it. Really? This is the level our public discourse has descended to?
That makes me sad. And angry.


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A month in Africa taught me a lot about what I like and dislike about my Nikon D7000. It also taught me some valuable lessons.
About the Trip
My wife Lesa and I spent most of the first two weeks of our trip in Lesotho. As a volunteer board member of a Canadian charity that supports people living with HIV/AIDs and/or with its effects, Lesa wanted to visit some of the projects and people funded by Bracelet of Hope. My "job" was to take photos and videos to help promote the charity.
What I liked about the D7000
Low-light capability – ISO values of up to 3200 produced usable results, especially with High ISO Noise Reduction on High – values above that started to generate a lot of noise. Here's a shot at ISO 2500 during an evening game drive at Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve (70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G lens; f/6.3; 1/60s; High ISO NR: ON (normal); Active D-Lighting: Auto.)
For some better wildlife shots, take a look at my south african wildlife gallery.
User settings – The D7000 provides two sets of camera settings (U1 and U2) that let you save and then recall a ton of pre-sets that you can use to suit the conditions. I defined U2 for videos, being sure to include setting the Focus Mode to AF-S, along with some other less critical settings, and U1 for stills. Once you set up the camera the way you want, you can save the settings from the Setup Menu and then recall them quickly using the mode dial.
Recent Settings menu – This is very handy if you are changing settings that are buried deep in the menu tree, e.g., High ISO Noise Reduction, Set Picture Control, etc. When you choose this option from the default My Menu, you have quick access to the 20 most recent settings you have changed. Note that the manual is not very clear about how to make the switch from My Menu to Recent Settings.
Virtual Horizon – This lets you easily determine if the camera is level, even if you orient the camera for portrait shots, i.e., turned 90 degrees - Pretty cool. I assign this to the Fn (Function) button on the front of the camera for quick access.
What I didn't like
Built-in microphone – The D7000 manual does note that the microphone "may record lens noise during autofocus or vibration reduction". In addition, outdoors if it's windy, noise can be a huge problem (as of course it is with the mics on many other cameras). Also, unless I was within a few feet of the people I was filming during interviews, the playback volume was way too low, even with the Microphone volume set to High Sensitivity. A particular challenge for me was that many of Basotho interviewees were extremely soft-spoken so we had to keep asking them to speak louder.
One time that the mic really did work well, even though it was too dark for the video, was when two white rhinos charged out of the bush late in the game drive. The driver had to boot it in reverse for a minute or so (it seemed quite a bit longer at the time) until they gave up the chase. You can listen to the audio here.
By the way, I checked Vistek's site yesterday and it looks like you can pick up a really good external mic for about $250 CAD.
Qual button – This button lets you define the file format (RAW and/or JPEG) and the JPEG quality. I think it's too close to the ISO button which I tend to use a lot. Only once in a month did I intend to change the quality. Several times I must have pressed Qual by mistake and found that I had switched from my standard RAW+Fine to another setting. While writing this though I realized that, in at least one instance, the change in quality setting probably wasn't the fault of the camera's design. More likely it was one of the children at the Zulufadder day orphanage who simply couldn't resist playing with the buttons.
Mode dial – I would like to have a lock on this like the one for the Release-mode dial, or perhaps have it be harder to turn. I was continually putting the camera in the bag and pulling it out again throughout the day, either to protect it or just hide it. Many times after pulling it out and shooting for a while, I found that I had accidentally turned it to a different mode. With the camera slung over my shoulder, or just carried with my hand on the grip (which, incidentally I love), this was less of an issue.
Lessons Learned:
- For anything new, e.g., shooting video, figure out how it works BEFORE trying to use it for anything important.
- Every time I pick up the camera, check the mode dial to make sure it's set to what I want, along with other critical settings, e.g., image quality.
- Whenever possible, particularly for videos, use a tripod. Vibration reduction or holding the camera on my knee just doesn't cut it.


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More photos from the Joonas Suotamo panel at MegaCon 2018 in Orlando, Florida (part 7).
Due to health issues, Peter Mayhew isn't really up to the rigors of playing Chewbacca anymore. Joonas Suotamo has been chosen as his successor. Joonas Suotamo played a smaller role in The Force Awakens but took over the role completely in The Last Jedi and Solo.
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The weather was never going to cooperate with University of Louisville football program for the home opener of the 2018 season. The local forecasters finally getting one right, with the last breath of Hurricane Gordon dumping its massive leftovers on Cardinal Stadium.
The day getting off to a decent start, with the rain waiting until UofL fans were finding their parking spots. But the clouds would begin to leak as fans were setting up their tailgating canopies, soaking the fans and their food, determined to make life miserable for the Cardinal faithful. The rain would continue well into the night and long after the football game had finally ended.
The inclement weather interruptions long ago having ceased to be fun or novel for Louisville fans. This day among the most irritable ever, interrupting the football game four different times, sending fans to the concourses and the players back to the dressing room.
No cooperation, admiration or respect from Mother Nature for what should have been a glorious unveiling of the North end zone expansion.
No cooperation, admiration or respect from Mother Nature for what should have been a glorious unveiling of the North end zone expansion. The game would start at 7 p.m. and end five hours and 35 minutes later.
As for the football, what could one expect from a game that had been interrupted so often, with delays lasting from 30 to 45-minute increments. Halftime finally arriving a couple of hours later, the team mired in a 7-7 tie. Some welcome signs of life for the UofL offense with the entrance of backup quarterback Malik Cunningham late in their third quarter.
Cunningham would quickly unveil some amazing speed with a 19-yard run on his first play from scrimmage. The first real sign of a running game this season. Making it look relatively easy, with his team chewing up 85 yards in 11 plays and Cunningham making the go-ahead touchdown.
Mekhi Beckton providing another welcome highlight a few minutes later as the 350-pound offensive tackle lept over and through the offensive line for a one-yard touchdown. Wide receiver Jaylen Smith would make the final score 31-7 on a 34-yard touchdown pass from Cunningham.
By then, however, most of the people in the crowd of 44,420 had given up on seeing any highlights, weary of the seemingly unnecessary interruptions, wanting to get dry, wanting to get out of there. Their introduction to the 2018 football season the equivalent of serving as a volunteer in the dunking booth.
An extra treat was in store for drivers as they exited onto Floyd Street, where all the the ditches beside the road were overflowing and water pooling at least 10 inches deep in spots. Once drivers had committed to Floyd Street, they were own their own, desperately hoping they could make it to the distant intersection. Not much help from the cops or the blinding blue lights, the occupants of the police cars seemingly only concerned about staying dry.


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The main purpose of the study is to determine strategies for retaining valuable current customers and acquiring attractive new customers for Corobrik; therefore, the problem to be investigated is the reason for Corobrik's inability to gain significant market share in the brick market over the last five years. Although there has been tremendous growth in the building industry, Corobrik has not been able to fully capitalise on the situation despite increasing its own capacity. A competitive-strength evaluation will form the basis of this study in order to determine customer preferences, as well as competitor performance relating to these preferences. The study will be limited to the Gauteng Province owing to the enormous number of customers in South Africa as well as to time constraints. The market in Gauteng is substantial enough to yield a fair representation of what is to be achieved with the study. A questionnaire will be distributed to Architects, Contractors and Distributors, which represent the different market segments, and the data will be collected by means of telephonic interviews. McDonald & Dunbar (2004) expounded on a method of competitive-strength evaluation, entailing a method of understanding the customers' preferences and understanding their views of competitor performance in relation to the customers' own preferences. Based on this method, a questionnaire was drafted which will be distributed to role players in the market in order to collect the required data. This research study can be seen as exploratory, since future research tasks could be discovered during the study. This study will be a 'snapshot in time' because of time constraints, and could possibly yield different results if repeated at any other time. The questionnaire is such that the data could be analysed and certain propositions could be compared with the ratings. Therefore, a semi-quantitative study is possible, i.e. people's perceptions can be measured. It is important that the study be done in a 'field setting' to reflect what would occur under actual conditions. In addition, exactly the same questionnaire was used for all respondents, minimising the possibility of the respondents or the researcher manipulating the ratings reflected in the survey. The main findings revealed that sales to Distributors and Contractors constitute approximately 85 per cent of the total product sales of Corobrik and that Distributors and Contractors perceived Corobrik as expensive, Price being rated as their most important DBC. Architects rated Quality and Aesthetics as the most important DBCs and they rated Corobrik the best performer in these categories. This finding implies that Corobrik manages to satisfy Architects' most important needs; however, Price was also Corobrik's worst performing DBC in terms of the Architect ratings. Corobrik does satisfy the needs of Architects fairly well; however, this study was limited to the brick industry and did not attempt to compare face bricks with rival materials such as glass, aluminium, wood, plaster and paint and others. Consequently, Corobrik's performance was not compared with that of the manufacturers of these rival products with regard to the relevant DBCs. It is, therefore, recommended that such a study be conducted in order to determine how well Corobrik performs in comparison with the rival companies. In addition, Corobrik should consider a marketing objective of developing new products for existing market segments (Architects), i.e. products that are able to compete with glass, aluminium and other rival materials, or that could even be used to compliment one another. This initiative could lead to increased market share, not only in the brick market but also in the bigger construction market. It appears that Corobrik has to date followed the marketing strategy of supplying existing products to new segments such as the residential market, and the researcher's impression is that this new segment does not really want the product because of its affordability. Therefore, Corobrik needs to consider developing new products for the relatively new residential market, but with the emphasis on affordability.
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by Drew Sarver
The first half of Sunday's home between the New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons looked much like the Big Blue disaster that were weeks one and two. The defensive line was bulldozed, resulting in no pressure on quarterback Matt Ryan and the Atlanta running game big chunks of yardage at a time. The offense was ineffective, but the Giants only found themselves down 13-10 at halftime and mounted a second half comeback for a 30-20 win.
After the Falcons' second possession it didn't seem the Giants would be extending their two game winning streak. What appeared to be a harmless screen pass almost turned into a back breaker. From their own 26-yard line, Ryan went into a deep drop and connected with running back Antone Smith at the line of scrimmage. Giants' safety Antrel Rolle missed a bad angle tackle and there was no one there to back him up. The speedy Smith outraced Dominique Rogers-Cromartie, who had initially stopped pursuit on the play, to the end zone for a 74-yard touchdown and a 20-10 Falcons lead.
But as if someone had suddenly flipped the switch, the game turned in the Giants favor and they answered the Falcons touchdown with one of their own. A 9-play, 81-yard drive culminated with rookie running back Andre Williams finding the end zone on a 3-yard run. The drive featured receptions by Williams, Victor Cruz, rookie Odell Beckham Jr. and Rueben Randle, and two third down conversions. (One on an Atlanta penalty.)
Then the Giants defense stepped up their game. They only sacked Ryan once on the day, but continually got in his face and/or flushed him out of the pocket. A quick three and out by the Falcons, gave the Giants the ball back with 24 seconds left in the third quarter. Now it was time for the Giants offensive line to do some bullying, giving Manning time to throw and opening holes for Williams, who took over as the featured back when Rashad Jennings sprained his knee. Manning and Beckham hooked up on a 14-yard completion and Cruz pulled in a 12-yard pass on a third and eight. Facing a third and three at the Falcons' 15, Beckham outmuscled Robert Alford and got in front of the cornerback in the end zone for his career TD reception.
A second straight three and out led to a Josh Brown 50-yard FG to give the Giants a 27-20 lead. The Giants iced the victory after a questionable decision by Atlanta head coach Mike Smith. The Falcons faced fourth and one on their own 29-yard line with 4:48 remaining in regulation, all three timeouts remaining, plus the 2-minute warning. But instead of punting, Smith showed no faith in his defense, which in fairness had been dominated in the second half, and went for it. The decision backfired when Giants' defensive tackle Jonathan Hankins dropped Ryan for a nine yard loss. With 2:11 remaining in the game, Brown booted througha 26-yard FG for the game's final scoring play.
Ryan was missing 2/5 of his starting offensive line, but it didn't seem to matter through the first 30 minutes of the game. Trailing 7-0 after a first quarter TD pass from Eli Manning and Randle, the Falcons drove 80 yards in nine plays that culminated with running back Stephen Jackson practically walking into the end zone for a game tying 10 yard touchdown. The drive, which took 4:43, featured 22- , 11-, and 12-yard completions from Ryan to receiver Julio Jones. Each time, Jones was wide open. Stephen Jackson also reeled off an 11-yard run before he scored his second touchdown of the season.
Atlanta got the ball back immediately when return man Preston Parker was stripped of the football on the ensuing kickoff. The Falcons' Eric Weems recovered the pigskin on the Giants 21-yard line. The six-play drive crossed into the second quarter and ended with a Matt Bryant 22-yard field goal for a 10-7 Atlanta lead.
The Giants went three plays and out and the Falcons had the ball back yet again in less than two minutes. This time the Giants defense stopped the Falcons after they marched 37 yards to the Giants 38 yard line. 21 yards rushing by Jennings and an 18 yard completion to Randle helped the Giants get to the Falcons' 34, but on second and nine, former teammate Osi Umenyiora sacked Manning for a seven-yard loss. The Giants eventually settled for a Brown 49-yard FG.
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The Giants rookies came up big and will have to continue to in the coming weeks with Philadelphia and Dallas next on the schedule. Williams finished the game with 65 yards on 20 carries and two receptions for 18 yards. Beckham wasn't on the field for a large number of snaps, but there appears to be a solid comfort level between he and Manning despite missing the pre-season and the first four regular season games with an injured hamstring. He was targeted five times and finished with four receptions for 44 yards.
With a lingering foot injury keeping middle linebacker Jon Beason out of the lineup, six-year veteran Jameel McClain also turned in a strong game. The 29-year old free agent signee – after six season with the Baltimore Ravens – recorded seven tackles and defended two passes.
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The lovely Hetty Los is a Jungian psychotherapist and counselor and member of the Guild of Analytical Psychology and Spirituality where she teaches regularly. She has been working with clients for more than 10 years and has gained a lot of experience working with women in all stages of their lives. She is also one of the founder members of Mamaheaven.
Pregnancy, childbirth, menopause and aging sometimes bring emotional challenges with them. Challenges also arise when women encounter problems with infertility, post-partum depression, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or a range of sexuality and relationship concerns.
Jung defined psychological wellness as the balance between the demands of an outer life of family and relationships, work and social obligations, and an inner life of spiritual values and personal meaning.
He observed that in the course of living these two essential aspects of who we are couldn't help but diverge and fall out of workable balance. This imbalance is often at the root of psychological suffering and distress.
The idea is to help you, as a mother, as a partner and as a woman, to live from your centre. In this somewhat chaotic world, the centre needs to hold no matter the circumstances, so that you and your family have a place of wellness within and without.
Other interest and practices are yoga, martial arts, cooking and meditation; I also like a good laugh and enjoy spending time with babies in the crèche.
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Feud of the Week: Ambrose, Mears come out swinging
Sorry Matt Kenseth and Brad Keselowski, your late-race contact and postrace spat after Saturday's race doesn't qualify for "feud of the week" status.
Typically it would. But Marcos Ambrose and Casey Mears did you one better Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway.
MORE: Mears: He 'got me good' | Pockrass: NASCAR must react to punch | Kes-Kenseth spat | Winners & Losers
As Mears said himself, typical NASCAR fights include more slapping and fly-swatting than punches actually connecting. But Ambrose connected with his fist to Mears' face.
Mears, talking to NASCAR.com, noted that such an incident is not exactly something one just forgets.
And Ambrose likely won't forget it as well, especially if NASCAR penalizes him. He reacted to being pushed and shoved by Mears, and if he gets penalized, would be somewhat justified in blaming Mears for instigating the brouhaha.
PHOTOS: NASCAR fights | Richmond drama | Feuds from 2013
What makes this feud interesting is that both drivers are having pretty good years for them, and both in some ways need to prove their worth. Ambrose is in a contract year with Richard Petty Motorsports, while Mears is signed through 2015 with Germain Racing. If they don't get the job done in their current situations, their NASCAR careers could be over.
Ambrose is 16th in the standings and Mears is 23rd. With a win, either of them could make the Chase, an achievement that could lead to a contract extension.
Ambrose is relatively close to challenging to get into the Chase on points. With only two drivers outside the top 16 currently with a win, Ambrose is just three points behind Denny Hamlin, who currently holds on to the final Chase spot at 14th in the standings.
So this isn't a story about two drivers frustrated with their seasons, as it might look at first glance. It is a story of two drivers whose organizations have been showing improvement and much better consistency. When you're running better, every spot you lose hurts more. And that tends to bring out emotion.
It would be easy for Ambrose and Mears to say, "oh well, we were racing for 18th," and not get too carried away. But the fact that they were fighting over what some might consider a mediocre spot in the standings just shows their passion and their commitment.
Ambrose and Mears can expect to be racing each other for position often in the weeks to come. They will have opportunities to give each other a break. They will have opportunities to cut off each other on restarts and perhaps make contact on the track.
These guys are going to fight for every spot. They are not going to give an inch. They are racing for their livelihoods.
That was never more evident than in the competitive spirit they showed postrace at Richmond. That competitive spirit will continue to flow into future races. The only question is if and/or when it will boil over again.


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I know it's not the easiest question to answer all the time but it's the only one that matters, so start practicing. Do it right now. Close your eyes and ask yourself what you want. It could be anything from what you want to eat to your biggest career dreams to what you want to do with that cute waiter from the other day. Great. Now, that wasn't so hard, was it? Not so fast, though. The tricky part is when what you want affects or includes another person. Most of us have gotten really good at managing our desire, manipulating it so it looks and sounds good, justifying it, rationalizing it, and figuring out the best way to approach it without making waves.
Desire is vulnerable. No wonder we try to dress it up, change it, ignore it. We fear judgment, we fear rejection, we fear disappointment. Sometimes the risk just doesn't seem worth it.
The good news and the bad news is that what you want never goes away.
You might change the way you feel about it, it may get overshadowed by another desire, or you might ignore it, but the raw desire at the instant it first hit you, never goes anywhere.
Ever been on a first date and not revealed what you actually want because you're afraid you'll seem strange, pushy, needy, bossy? You barely know this person, and you're sure as hell not going to tell them how you're dying to have really amazing sex or you'd rather be watching Mad Men than having this safe *yawn* first date conversation.
It's the same story when you're in a relationship. How often do you not *gulp* say what you want because you're afraid the other person will flip out? Or thought, if you really love this person, why would you tell them about wanting a completely new kind of sex life or how you'd rather spend the weekend alone than with their parents? Exposing what you want is scary. We've been shut down and disappointed in the past so we've learned to hide our desire to keep things comfortable and keep ourselves likable.
I'm not saying that you have to go after every single thing that you want like a crazed animal. I'm not even saying that you have to reveal your desires to everyone. I am saying that your desires are yours and they're valuable so treat them well, acknowledge them, listen to them as much as you can. What you want in one moment will inform you about who you are in the next and slowly but surely you will build the muscle of knowing what you want, then working to have what you want, then having what you want. Your desires will grow. You will inspire and surprise yourself. You'll go on dates and you won't have to pretend or you'll be in a relationship and won't have to lie. You'll know who you are and you'll know where you want to go.
The first step to working with your desire is to figure out what you actually want.
You don't have to do anything about your desires right away so don't worry about what they are, how you could possibly have them, or what other people will think about them. Just start listening to yourself. Ask yourself what you want as much as possible. Put a reminder in your phone, write yourself a post it, tell a friend to text you "what do you want?" every day for a week. Want to share them with someone? Email them to me unedited.
First, we talk about how she wants the power, drive, confidence, and inspiration to attack her daily to-do's alongside accomplishing her moneymaking and purpose-filled dreams, the dreams she's been working towards all her life. She wants to wake up happy and ready to go. She wants to change the world and make money. She wants to create and make a difference. Great!
Then, I ask her, "What else do you want?" She gets quiet, a bit shy, and then our eyes meet and I know what she's going to say. She wants a man. She wants someone to celebrate all these future accomplishments with. She wants someone to cuddle with. She wants someone to take to her new meditation class as well as thanksgiving dinner. And she doesn't want any man, she wants a great man. She describes him in detail. Our eyes meet again, we smile, we breathe a little easier. She wants it all and now she's admitted it.
You are allowed to want it all but you have to be willing to do the work to get it.
So, if these women are turned-on and clear about what they want, what's stopping them from having the relationship they want? A woman like this usually fears 2 scenarios:
These women fear wasting time. They fear settling. They fear losing their independence. But they also fear…I'm just going to say it…dying alone. Essentially, they are on a fear seesaw ride that makes them caaarrrrazzzzzy. Plus that f-ing clock is ticking! That's why they come to me. They don't want to waste any more time.
Let the work begin! So how in the heck do you get off the seesaw and start walking toward having it all?
This is where you start. Once you know the convincing excuses and old beliefs that are stopping you, the fireworks will be right around the corner.


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LONDON – What can I say that hasn't already been said about Borough market? It's a phenomenal, tourist-packed food market that never fails to deliver some of the best foods from around Britain and the world to the heart of London. It's not just for amateur cooks like you and I, but a good many professional chefs hob nob here in order to source great ingredients for their culinary dishes. So as you walk around Borough, you feel like you're in the right place.
On a whim I headed there this Easter weekend and it was nuts. Wall-to-wall people who were on the look out for great food. Well, we all found it.
Lately, I've become obsessed with tomatoes and I particularly love roasting them in the oven with olive oil and rosemary. There was this enormous table of tomatoes from around the world with some unusual shapes and colours that I ogled.
What's not to love about cheese? There was plenty to choose from. One of the things that I liked about the market was that it felt that there was a lot of variety and few vendors mirroring each other. It increased the curiosity factor as you waded through.
These hot cross buns looked amazing. Just perfect for the Easter weekend.
There were plenty of meat vendors too.
This one had a diverse offering. He sold venison and rabbit burgers.
"What does rabbit taste like," I asked the butcher inquisitively. He laughed as did some people behind me. Had I asked the wrong question, I thought suddenly.
"What does rabbit taste like?" he repeated. And then I suddenly regretted asking the question because he didn't hesitate to give me the chicken line. You know the one.
"Oh, tastes like chicken," he said with a laugh. I faked a smile back but I was annoyed. I mean come on. What does rabbit taste like? Simple question. I kept on looking at him, hoping for an answer and he finally said: "Rabbit is a lot like chicken. And it's a lot like beef. So, it's somewhere in between chicken and beef." And after hearing his final answer, I smiled, said thanks, and moved on.
I didn't purchase any meat, but instead made my way to a favourite food group…cakes. The first time I headed to Borough market I was so impressed by the cake selections. Today they were selling fast.
I bought this carrot cake with lemon & mascarpone cheese icing from a vender called Cakehole. I'm a bit of a cake snob. I like cakes to be moist and generously iced. This cake was phenomenal! Didn't waste a crumb…
I'll be sure to head to Borough market again soon. Perhaps when there are fewer crowds. They didn't have any this time, but I'm hoping I can buy some ostrich burgers at my next visit.


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On May 1, 2017, Dr. Ehsan Kattoula, Assistant Superintendent Accountability Division, and Dr. Greg Barfield, Dual Language Immersion Program Specialist, presented information about Dual Language Immersion (DLI). at a meeting of the King Springs staff. Afterwards, Drs. Kattoula and Barfield responded to questions from the staff.
On May 9, 2017, Dr. Kattoula and Dr. Barfield presented this same information at a meeting of parents of incoming King Springs kindergarten students, parents of current King Springs students, and King Springs Staff. After the presentation, Drs. Kattoula and Barfield responded to questions from the audience.
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I've been playing Champions Online a bit lately, partly because I've felt a bigger need to get my MMO fix and partly because I have a Lifetime subscription. One of the things that I find particularly about the game is how they do instanced zones.
Cryptic has always been big on instancing, City of Heroes was one of the first games to really get the instancing fully integrated. Anarchy Online was really the first, but CoH took it to a whole new level. Basically, when a particular zone became too congested, another instance of that zone would be created, and when future players tried to enter the zone they'd be given the choice, oftentimes removing previous instances as they fill up. Every zone in the game was instanced, and to take it a step further, all dungeons were instanced specifically for the group entering them. Most games since CoH has done instancing dungeons at the very least to some degree, EQ2 had its dungeons instanced, both to the world and to the group.
Champions Online took it a step further. First, they allow for bigger populations in bigger zones at any particular time, this was natural progression. However, they also allowed for players to turn off their ability to select. Basically allowing the servers to make the selection for you. This really took a lot of the instancing out of the player's eyes in my mind. Personally, I'd rather they would have left this done as default so that only if a player was wanting to select zones, they would have the ability to turn it on. (For instance, you could at any time click on a box in the map to switch zones if you wanted.)
This really makes me wonder about the concept in a larger scale. I for one am not a fan of zoned games like City of Heroes or Everquest. I would much prefer a game be without zones entirely like Asheron's Call or Ultima Online. These games seem fewer and far between these days, though I do appreciate World of Warcraft's Psuedo-Zones which don't actually feel like zones but still are.
Seamless worlds aren't much different than WoW's psuedo zones realistically. The world is always split up into several zones. I know both UO and AC had these boundaries which cause lag spikes and dupe bugs when crossed that were the zone boundaries. WoW is really just a little more blatant on these zones.
The point I am getting at is, why can't we just instance these seamless boundaries thus lowering the amount of people in one particular seamless zone? The player doesn't even really need to be that aware that it is even happening, it would just happen behind the scenes.
The real trick is making it so the player doesn't notice as much. The first trick is easy, just have players enter the same zone as other players in the same group. After this, I think you could institute other tricks. For instance, when you zone in it could look at where your guild mates are or where people on your friends list are. This way making it more likely for you to enter an area with people you know. This would get rid of the awkward talking to your friend and trying to meet them only to find that you are in a different instance. Also, just the ever expanding ability to have more and more in the same area would help alleviate the issue as well.
Today it seems you can have 100-150 easily in the same area, maybe tomorrow it will be 500 and with 500, you will likely have more than enough for any given location. Major cities would really be the only areas that would need more than 100 anyway. Wilderness areas and even dungeons would probably cap at significantly less, maybe 50. And more serious areas, you could instance to the group like most other major MMOs do, just seamlessly.
There of course would always be complications, and it is with these that you would need to give the player the option to switch servers at will, like they allow on City of Heroes and Champions Online. However, I could see this being a rare problem that wouldn't detract from the experience greatly. Maybe just at launch time, after all, I think the population spreads out enough once launch periods are over that most worlds could probably do fairly well without multiple instance.


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Only about a month before its official wide-release in the US and Australia (mainly through home release formats… more on that shortly), we're finally getting a look at The Mule's official trailer. NineMSN's Movie Fix got the "exclusive" bragging rights, though nothing is ever exclusive on the internet for more than 30 seconds or so. I'm going to try a straight embed here and hope it works, because the video won't stream on all browsers at the site of origin… Google Chrome and Firefox in particular have issues, though it will play via IE and RealPlayer.
I do have to say I'm relieved, and that it's very hard not making juvenile puns involving the words "release", "streaming" and "relief" with the content on hand… I doubt many media sites will be able to resist the obvious jokes either. Fortunately the film doesn't look least-common-denominator at all, and the quease-making plot elements seem to be dealt with in a sly, more subtle manner than might be expected. I have no doubt the film will be more graphic in places, but I've always thought any film more effectively ratchets up the tension by showing less and implying more. (Nicely creepy sound effects, by the way.) One can already tell Hugo Weaving's character will be a lot of fun to watch… I hope he isn't the sort of cartoon-villain-who'll-get-a-messy-and/or-humiliating-comeuppance that we've seen in The Tender Hook, Reckless Kelly or any of Hugo's American films. I suspect that's exactly what we'll get, but one can still hope. 😉 But the film looks like it balances comedic and tense elements effectively and without being too broad. Not crazy about the cut-and-paste poster or the snarky use of Hugo in it (that's very least-common-denominator) but marketing is often like that… even some great dramatic films have lousy posters. I'll embed it below anyhow, so people can decide for themselves, followed by a selection of screencaps I took of Hugo's best moments in the trailer. Already finding the balloon bit a highlight and expect Tumblr to be awash in animated GIFs of that shortly. 😉
No, this is NOT what it looks like. If find out anyone has used these to illustrate slashfic… ;P
"I swear, all of these poo jokes are driving me to drink!"
As I mentioned earlier, The Mule's makers and distributors have elected to focus on an immediate VOD release (including iTunes, not that that's how I'll be seeing it) with DVD/Blu-Ray to follow shortly thereafter. The film will likely be available for paid on-demand streaming via US cable a well. There will be cinema screenings in Sydney and Melbourne featuring Hugo Weaving with Leigh Whannell and Angus Samson (the co-writers, co-stars and in Sampson's case co-director). Hugo has been very enthusiastic about the film (without giving away too much about it) in promoting his other work, and did a prominent photo session in a Mule t-shirt last fall. So it'll be fun to see him participate in the promotion. No word yet on any US or other international cinema distribution… the filmmakers have been pretty blunt about not wanting to take the risk of a wide opening that loses money, which seems to be the fate of too many promising Australian films lately, even in their home country. US distributors have similarly resigned themselves to releasing most low-budget indie or foreign films direct to DVD/VOD/OnDemand. While this does make the films much more widely available than any arthouse release– and I think simultaneous releases across countries and formats is a great idea– I always want the option of seeing films in a cinema. I know not everyone would want to see someone in intestinal distress– and the attendant consequences of that distress- blown up on an IMAX screen, but this would be a great film to see in a crowded theatre, if only to hear the reactions of one's fellow patrons. It might be a potential midnight movie option, though I sometimes get annoyed with the "stoner" reputation such films draw. (For the record, I saw 2001, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Big Lebowski and the complete oeuvre of David Lynch without needing any alcohol or other mind-altering substances, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD movies don't need chemical assistance. Only bad ones.) 😉
Anyhow… you can read more details about The Mule's projected distribution at Inside Film, Spotlight Report, Cinema Australia and The Sydney Morning Herald. Of course, the film's Facebook and Twitter accounts remain your best sources. (They also have an Instagram account, which shared hilariously unrevealing images during the film's production.) No official website yet, but they'll probably have one up soon. I sort of like the delayed-gratification of waiting this long for the trailer, and knowing I'll have the option of seeing the film before every single plot detail has been divulged by reviewers or online in every country that got distribution before mine did. Australians routinely complain about having to wait a month or more for prominent Hollywood films (like The Hobbit)… well, I hated waiting two years to see Last Ride and another year after THAT for it to get minuscule US distribution. Films should be available to anyone willing to pay to see them, anywhere. That'll cut down on piracy and increase the bottom line. ideally, one should be able to see films in a cinema, but I know in this era where Marvel, Disney and supernatural tween romance films seem to have most American screens locked up, this is a tall order. [Insert shameless plug for supporting one's local arthouse, college theater, library and whoever the hell else plays films the MallPlexes shun.] The Mule opens/begins explosive streaming (sorry again) 21 November in Australia with those special Q&A's in Sydney and Melbourne beforehand… I'll share specifics as soon as I know any. The Australian DVD follows in early December. The US release (probably mostly via streaming) is slated for 30 October.
You can read reviews of The Mule's recent Fantasy Film Fest screenings (some in German) at Leinwandreporter.com, and BFI's Festival page. The Mule screens at BFI next month, along with Tim Winton's The Turning… though not at the same time. (Wouldn't that be a double feature…) Tickets are still available for both films.
In Other Hugo Weaving News:
There's an interview with Mystery Road's production designer Matt Putland at Junsui Films Limited. Yes, there was actually one aspect of that film's production NOT undertaken by multihyphenate wonder Ivan Sen. 😉
Campaign Brief explores the Sydney Theatre Co's marketing campaign and promotional brochure for their 2015 season, which will feature Hugo Weaving in Beckett's Endgame, Roxburgh and Blanchett in Chekhov's The Present (Platonov) and Geoffrey Rush as King Lear. STC themselves have added a few new and vintage articles to their Endgame page.
Harry Greenwood adds another impressive credit to his resume by appearing as the Gentleman Caller in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie at Bevoir this month. The production features Hugo Weaving's frequent costar Pamela Rabe (Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Much Ado About Nothing, God of Carnage) as Amanda and Luke Mullins (who's had a career-breakthrough year on Sydney stage over the past year, including in STC's Waiting For Godot) as Tom. For more, including Rabe's impression on meeting Williams as a young actress, go to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Things have been pretty quiet on the Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies front since the release of their promo banner earlier this month. Stephen Fry (The Master of Laketown) noted that VO work/dubbing is ongoing on Twitter last week.
Archive Additions:
I've added a promotional brochure for Mystery Road (front/back, centerspread) over at Flickr, and a lovely promo postcard for the Australian release of Anand Gandhi's Ship of Theseus.
New Photobucket Hugonuts Archive Additions:
Nicholas Harding's Drawing Godot, May 2014
The Wolfman, 2 February 2010 Moscow Premiere
The Wolfman, 9 February 2010 LA Premiere
The Mule Stills, Caps and Posters
Finally, a selection of new fan photos taken during the run of STC's Macbeth, complete with original captions:
"#HugoWeaving " Photo: JakeTGNTEL via Twitter, along with next photo)
"The man himself!!! Wow! #stc #macbeth #hugoweaving" Photo: Daniel Yaxley via Instagram
"I've never seen this girl so excited. just gave her the best bridesmaid gift ever. #hugoweaving #starstruck #speechless" Photo: mel_erin via Instagram
"nice to see u again#hugoweaving #macbeth see u next year:)if there is any possibility I will definitely go there to see u and Rox~love #waitingforgodot soooo much~"
Photo: Joyce Ruan via Instagram
"No words could describe my ecstasy right now. Thank you for the confirmation!!! See you next June! #holidaymode #HugoWeaving #Macbeth"
Photo: Our very own Sydney correspondent Yvette, via Instagram


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The Evil Genius
The evil genius as he's called in the background has been known as many names from blacktag, illu to Ksinner he is one of the longest-serving member of the twisted edge community and has worked for this publication and many other magazine eventually coming back to bring his surreal and mad cap ideas to the table as a photographer, creator illustrator and media expert with his 12 years of working via the alternative publication.
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The mad Scotsman and project and events manager
Our newest member north of the wall and an amazing photographer Jon is an expert in photography, projects and events management and the jewel that brings us together. His talent is second to none and is a great addition to our lil team. dont lets him fool you with his accent this guy may sound like someone out of braveheart but his skills is a worthy part to our team.
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Filed under: American Liver Foundation, Beer, Food, Goofy, Liver Life Challenge
So I was supposed to run the Goofy Challenge with the Liver Life Challenge Team, but my stress fracture took me out of the race. The good news is I will be doing it next year, but I still need to raise my money by January 31. Boy have I got a great way to raise money that's not going to cost you anymore than the meal you want to eat at McNulty's Bier Markt. On Monday January 16th if you eat there and tell your server that you want are participating in my fundraiser for the American Liver Foundation, 15% of your bill will be donated to the Liver Life Challenge team. That means for every beer you drink, you will be offsetting any damage to your liver with the donation being made to support liver health. It's a Win-Win Situation!
So please come out to the Bier Markt on Monday January 16th at 1948 West 25th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44113 and enjoy great food and drinks. And don't forget to tell your server you are participating.
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I was planning to go there, anyway. So, this is definitely a win-win!


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June 12, 2019, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM @ Sammons Community Center
Just keep movin'! Join these extremely popular exercise sessions designed especially for those with mobility issues or who have difficulty standing while exercising. Slow stretches and comfortable balance exercises, while seated or in contact with a chair, will help tone and strengthen muscles to increase mobility and flexibility. gradual use of hand weights and stretch bands is also incorporated. Easily adaptable for those with physical limitations.
June 12, 2019, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM @ Sammons Community Center
Capture spring on canvas! Join our creative, motivational instructor in this progressive art workshop. This long-running, ever-popular class is designed to allow students of all levels to paint and draw or just improve their skills. Individual instruction based upon skill levels. All mediums can be taught. Students must choose to attend on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday of each week. Instructor Barbara Wilson, of Wilson School of Art, has over 35 years of experience.
June 12, 2019, 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM @ Sammons Community Center
"Dancing letters" are a delight to the eye and an inspiration to the spirit. This lost art of beautiful writing is making a comeback; yet no artistic talent is required to enroll. The Modern Calligraphy style is very trendy now and lots lets rigid than the more formal styles. This art can be applied to so many uses in your everyday life. Advanced materials for returning students.
June 12, 2019, 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM @ Sammons Community Center
Express your life's experiences in a quick and simple way. Learn how to shorten your long ideas or thoughts by keeping them interesting. Discover how to easily sketch around your words to bring action and color to your pages. Become comfortable with your handwriting with easy techniques. This is a great, fun way to pass down parts of your life experiences.
June 10, 2019, 9:00 AM - June 13, 2019, 12:00 PM @ Temple College, Berry Hall
Fans of Fortnite, we need you! Instead of playing the game, design your own. Using a professional 3D game development software, build levels and assets inspired by popular battle royale games like Fortnite. This course includes cartoonish action and battle sequences. Student-created games will be available on a password protected Black Rocket website to share with friends and family.
June 10, 2019, 9:00 AM - June 14, 2019, 11:30 AM @ Gober Party House
This is going to be a "dog gone" good mini-camp! Bring your pooch and teach them fun agility skills and tricks. Student and dog teams will practice their skills by playing a variety of games. Building a good relationship and being a responsible pet owner will be stressed.
June 10, 2019, 1:00 PM - June 13, 2019, 4:00 PM @ Temple College, Berry Hall
June 10, 2019, 1:00 PM - June 14, 2019, 4:00 PM @ Blackmon Community Center
Sauté, simmer, slice, bake, and blend to create delicious foods! Campers will create an assortment of dishes and desserts, as well as learn all about cooking safety and reading recipes. Space is extremely limited - only 12 campers per session! June 10th session will be All American Classics.


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Matt Simmons, energy insider who issued wake-up call, dies at 67
Energy insider issued wake-up call
Financier believed world was near peak oil production
Investment banker Matt Simmons, who died suddenly over the weekend, was an energy industry insider and presidential adviser whose profile soared when he wrote that Saudi Arabia is running out of oil and world production is peaking.
Simmons, 67, died on Sunday at his vacation home in Maine. An autopsy by the state medical examiner's office concluded Monday that he died from accidental drowning "with heart disease as a contributing factor."
Simmons was highly recognized in the industry for his success providing financial services to the oil and gas industry as the founder of Simmons & Co. He helped arrange billions of dollars in mergers, had a thick Rolodex of international contacts and served as an energy advisor the President George W. Bush.
But it was his 2005 best-selling book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, that brought him a wider audience.
The book argued that Saudi Arabia vastly overstated the size of its oil reserves and that the world was on the verge of a severe oil shortage as the largest oil fields become depleted. The book came from his personal research into the oil field data.
The book gave new life to the theory called peak oil, which holds that global oil production either has peaked or is about to, and drew new attention to Simmons as the boom in consumption in China and India drove oil prices to record highs in 2008.
"Single-handedly Matt set out on a crusade not to change the world but to wake us all up," said Lad Handelman, a longtime friend who helped found offshore energy firms Cal Dive International and Oceaneering International.
But Simmons' zeal for his beliefs could come with a bite. He once referred to a top oil executive as "a flake" in a Texas Monthly article. In a Forbes interview, he said he was supporting then-Sen. Barack Obama, the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate, because Sen. John McCain, the GOP nominee, was "just witless" about energy issues.
More recently, he said that BP was about to file for bankruptcy following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and that the well was actually gushing from a location several miles from the charted site — neither of which proved true.
"I know Matt took on some controversial positions in his last few months," Handelman said. "But that's Matt. If he believed in something he would not hold back on it."
Drawn to Houston
Simmons was raised in Utah, in a Mormon family steeped in the banking business. After attending Harvard Business School he started a side business as a money manager for wealthy individuals while doing case studies for professors.
An introduction to Handelman in the 1970s led him to help the commercial diver raise funds to expand his business in the booming offshore oil industry. The success of that deal drew him to Houston to set up shop with his brother, L.E. Simmons.
When the energy business in the U.S. collapsed with oil prices in the 1980s, Simmons didn't diversify but stuck with the industry.
"He was entrepreneurial enough to see he could work with clients in bad times too, helping them restructure their debt and find transactions where they could do mergers that would allow the businesses to survive," said Howard Wolf, an Austin attorney who started representing Simmons & Co. in 1976 and still sits on the board.
Founded institute
In 2007 Simmons founded the Ocean Energy Research Institute, a combination think-tank and venture capital fund aimed at developing ocean energy systems, from power generation projects to storage and transmission.
Dan Pickering, a former Simmons employee who is now principal with investment bank Tudor Pickering & Holt, said Simmons cared deeply about getting energy companies to look beyond short-term issues.
"Matt started his energy career as an investment banker, but for this past decade he has been an energy thinker," Pickering said. "His transaction focus at the inception moved to more conceptual ideas. You could see that with the ocean energy institute, which was not about the energy of today but the energy of the future."
Simmons was small in stature but seemed to vibrate with enthusiasm and energy, his friends said. "He looked like a little red nosed cherub with a twinkle in his eye, but he didn't like that comparison," Handelman said. "His absolute joy and enthusiasm for whatever it was he was doing was contagious."
He was a voracious reader and researcher, which in part explains his ability to take on the task of analyzing reams of oil field data for Twilight in the Desert.
The book challenged conventional thinking in the industry, but it was typical of Simmons, said Bill White, the former energy executive and Houston mayor now running for Texas governor.
"He was an original and he enjoyed playing that role," White said. "But at the same time he could explain the oil and gas industry to people better than almost anyone else at a time when the industry needed more friends."
Simmons is survived by his wife, Ellen, and their five daughters.
Details of the services are pending. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Ocean Energy Research Institute.


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Cartoon Network Italy And Boomerang Italy June 2016 Highlights
Cartoon Network Italy June 2016 Highlights
New Episodes
Steven Universe
Airs every Tuesday during June at 6pm.
The Powerpuff Girls
New episodes start Tuesday 14th June, airs every Tuesday at 6.50pm.
Good Morning Cartoon Network Programming Block
Starts Monday 13th June, airs daily at 8.30am.
Features episodes of Adventure Time, We Bare Bears, The Powerpuff Girls and Steven Universe.
Boomerang Italy June 2016 Highlights
New Episodes
Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production
New episodes air everyday at 7pm.
Dreamworks Dragons: Race to the Edge
New episodes air every morning at 9am.
Animated Sports Programming Stunt
Starts Friday 10th June and airs every day at 1.15pm.
To celebrate the Euro 2016 football championships and the upcoming Rio 2016 Olympics, Boomerang Italy will air a selection of sport themed episodes from various shows including The Tom and Jerry Show, Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! and The Looney Tunes Show.


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Job the Prophet
The righteous Job (whose name means "persecuted"), God's faithful servant, was the perfect image of every virtue. The son of Zarah and Bossorha (Job 42), Job was a fifth-generation descendent of Abraham. He was a truthful, righteous, patient, and pious man who abstained from every evil thing. Job was very rich and blessed by God in all things, as was no other son of Ausis (his country, which lay between Idoumea and Arabia). However, divine condescension permitted him to be tested.
Job lost his children, his wealth, his glory, and every consolation all at once. His entire body became a terrible wound covered with boils. Yet he remained steadfast and patient in the face of his misfortune for seven years, always giving thanks to God.
Later, God restored his former prosperity, and he had twice as much as before. Job lived for 170 years after his misfortune, completing his earthly life in 1350 B.C. at the age of 240. Some authorities say that Job's afflictions lasted only one year, and that afterwards he lived for 140 years, reaching the age of 210.
Job's explanations are among the most poetic writings in the Old Testament book, which bears his name. It is one of the most edifying portions of Holy Scripture. Job teaches us that we must endure life's adversities patiently and with trust in God. As St Anthony the Great (commemorated January 17) says, without temptations, it is impossible for the faithful to be saved.
The Orthodox Church reads the book of Job, the first of the seven wisdom books of the Old Testament, during Holy Week, drawing a parallel between Job and Christ as righteous men who suffered through no fault of their own. God allowed Satan to afflict Job so that his faithfulness would be proven. Christ, the only sinless one, suffered voluntarily for our sins. The Septuagint text of Job 42:17 says that Job "will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up". This passage is read on Great and Holy Friday, when the composite Gospel at Vespers speaks of the tombs being opened at the moment the Saviour died on the Cross, and the bodies of the saints were raised, and they appeared to many after Christ's Resurrection (Matt 27:52).
Dismissal (First Tone)
On beholding the riches of Job's virtues, the enemy of the righteous contrived to ruin them; and though he cast down the tower of the Saint's body, he could not plunder the wealth of his spirit, for he found the soul of that blameless one to be fully armed; but as for me, he hath stripped me and led me captive away. Hasten, then, before the end, rescue me from the wily one, O Saviour, and save me.
Kontakion (Plagal of the Fourth Tone)
You were shown forth as blameless, true, God-fearing, just, and sanctified, O you much-suffering Prophet, all-glorious servant of God, most righteous Job; by your valiant endurance and your patience you gave instruction to the world. For this cause we all honour and praise your all-holy memory.
We Also Celebrate Today:
Our Holy Father Seraphim the Struggler of Mt. Domvu
Sophia of Kleisoura


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Treaty with the Miamis (1818)
On October 6, 1818, the Miami agreed to relinquish much of their land in Indiana and Ohio. In exchange, the United States government agreed to provide the Miami with six reservations in Indiana. These reservations were relatively small, averaging less than ten square miles in size. The government also gave the Miami a yearly annuity consisting of fifteen thousand dollars and 160 bushels of salt. In addition, the federal government agreed to construct one gristmill and one sawmill for Miami use. This agreement became known as the Treaty with the Miami.
The Treaty with the Miami, along with several other treaties between Indian tribes and the United States government during the first decades of the nineteenth century, marked ramping up of calculated U.S. government efforts to strategically and forcibly remove the old Northwest Territory's American Indian peoples to land west of the Mississippi River.
See Also
- Anson, Bert. The Miami Indians. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.
- Hurt, R. Douglas. The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.


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Kandarappam is a deep fried sweet pancake made with rice, dhal, cardamom, jaggery and coconut. This is a traditional Chettinadu sweet dish made for all festival occasions. Here I used palm jaggery for sweetness. Appam really taste good when it is served hot, it is crispy on outside and sponge on inside. Also it tastes good on next day. Try this delicious sweet and here is the recipe.
1/2 Cup of Raw Rice
1/4 Cup of Urad Dal
3/4 Cup of Jaggery, I used Palm Jaggery (Karupaati)
Pinch of Salt
3 Tbsp of Grated Coconut
2 Cardamom, Powdered
3 Cups of Oil for Frying
- Soak the rice and urad dal in water for 2 hrs. Drain the water and wash it in tap water for 2 times. Leave it aside.
- Put it in a blender(mixie) and grind it to a fine, thick batter. Add cardamom, pinch of salt, jaggery and coconut, grind it for another 10 mins.
- Transfer the batter to a bowl, the batter should be in dosa batter consistency.
- Heat oil in a shallow pan, once it is hot, keep the flame in medium, slowly pour in spoonful of batter to the oil, when the appam rises to the top, turn it over, cook it for another 1 min and remove it from pan. Drain it in paper towel. It should be in brown color and got curled/wavy borders.
- Make the remaining kandarappam in the same way and serve hot.
- If your batter is watery, leave the batter in refrigerator for 30 mins and then start cooking.
- Adjust the amount of sweetness according to your taste.
- Always cook appam in a medium flame and fry one appam at a time to get a nice shape and taste.
- If you are in diet, don't want to deep fry ? then you can cook the appam in non stick paniyaram pan with less oil, I tried with this batter, it tastes yummy.
Health Benefits of Rice and Urad Dal
- Rice are rich in carbs, provides energy and good for brain.
- Urad dal provides energy to the body.
- Rich in protein.
- Enhances digestion because of high in fiber content in dal.
- Boost heart health because of high in magnesium level in dal.