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20. Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Directed by Peter Jackson
Starring Elijah Wood, Sam Astin, Ian McKellan, Viggo Mortensen
“Do they, Gandalf?”
I read the Lord of the Rings when I was eleven because my uncle lent it to me, saying I’d love it, and I didn’t want to let him down. Maybe I was too young for it, but I still think it’s a bad book. It’s incredibly tedious and awfully paced. The only volume that’s decent is the first one, which is just about a bunch of guys on a quest through a fantastic world. In the second two books Tolkien starts masturbating with all his elf languages and regal dynasties and topographical maps and my mind just switched off.
While the second and third movies are far more watchable than their corresponding books were readable, the first is by far the best. It’s surprisingly easy to separate them for a trilogy that’s so closely bound; Fellowship of the Ring has a group of nine people travelling across snowbound mountains and through orc-infested dungeons, and the other two have people running every which way and kings sticking their noses into shit and Frodo and Sam doing basically nothing for two movies except trudge through a wasteland. Yeah, Fellowship is definitely the best.
19. United 93 (2006)
Directed by Paul Greengrass
Starring Christian Clemenson, David Alan Basche, Cheyenne Jackson
“What the fuck good is it gonna do if we get up there and we can’t fly the plane?”
Forget the Iraq War, forget Bin Laden, forget George Bush, forget Dick Cheney, forget extraordinary renditions, forget the conveniently worded PATRIOT Act, forget weapons of mass destruction, forget Guantanamo Bay, forget the United States’ use of torture, forget the War on Terror. Forget the development of the phrase “nineleven” as a cheap political get-out-of-jail-free card. Forget the entire geopolitical clusterfuck that followed September 11, the invasions of two countries, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
Take yourself back to the day when it happened. When innocent people on planes were suddenly swept up into shocking violence, into world-shattering events, into tests of courage. A sudden intrusion of animal instincts into the ordinary, civilised world. Push versus shove. Time to make a stand.
This is not a poltical movie. This is a painstakingly recreated version of what happened on United Airlines Flight 93, the plane with passengers who fought against their hijackers and in doing so probably saved hundreds of lives. It takes place in realtime, intercutting scenes on the plane with scenes in varous air traffic control and military centres. It is a fly-on-the-wall documentary; we know nothing about the characters, not even their names. This is why it is so powerfully effective – because it feels like we’re right there with them, sitting in the seat across the aisle. Their dialogue and mannerisms are so convincingly real that it feels like a documentary, something that I mistook for a low budget when I first saw this on TV.
I often watch television out the corner of my eye when I’m on the computer. The moment in United 93 when I swivelled my chair around was when the terrorists make their move, stabbing a passenger and a flight attendent, taking control of the plane. It is a chaotic and terrifying moment, disrupting the casual normalcy that has been built up in the way that a horror film would build suspense. As the film progressed I moved over to the couch, and as it concluded I was sweating and my heart was pounding. The scenes are filmed with shocking clarity and realism. We know how this turns out, and yet we scream inside our heads anyway for the passengers to prevail – because it feels as if we too are on that plane, our own lives dependent on their success. No other movie has ever wrenched my emotions as much as this one did.
This could have been a very different film. It could have been a typical Hollywood film, with chiselled-jaw heroes and speeches about the glory of America and personal romantic subplots. It is not, and for that I am eternally grateful. To watch this film is to be taken back to that shocking, gut-wrenching day in 2001, when thousands of people were murdered and the brave actions of a few ordinary men earned them a place in history. United 93 is a masterful piece of cinema, and a fitting tribute to their heroism.
18. Signs (2002)
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Starring Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin
“I can’t hear my children.”
Everybody knows this movie is about aliens, but when it first arrived on screens the trailers and advertising were ambiguous. There’s a good reason for that. Even without aliens, this is a suspenseful and disquieting film. Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) is a former priest living on a corn farm with his brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix). His wife died in a recent car accident, causing him to lose his faith, and it is implied that Merrill moved in to help Graham take care of the children, Morgan (Rory Culkin) and Bo (Abigail Breslin).
Graham is clearly discontent with his life, frightened and angry with the world in the absence of God. His inner torment is reflected in the outer world, which is full of disturbing portents. His daughter screams out in the cornfields. One of his dogs attacks his children, and Morgan kills it with a barbecue fork. Wind chimes tingle and Graham stands on the porch of his dilapidated farmhouse staring out over those vast fields. Something is wrong. We can feel it, even before the crop circles show up.
This is Shyamalan’s natural talent: not the plot twists for which he is renowned, but rather the ability to create eerie anxiety as powerful as that in any Hitchcock film. He went wrong in The Village by giving an explanation when none was needed; he went (appallingly) wrong in The Happening by amplifying this breathless fear to the point where it became laughable. Signs strikes the perfect balance. When the aliens do show up, it is gradually, and with a low-key dread. It’s often said, but rarely heeded, that what we can’t see is scarier than what we can. Obviously it doesn’t get said enough, since Shyamalan is one of few filmmakers who abides by this rule. We see a leg in a cornfield. A reflection in the blade of a knife. Grainy TV news footage, aided immensely in its impact by Phoenix’s acting and James Newton Howard’s brilliant score. He pushes the envelope a little too far in the climax, with CGI that became quickly dated, but the rest of the film is so perfect that I will easily forgive him that.
People who complain about the plot holes in this film miss the point entirely. Signs is not a science fiction movie, to be niggled and prodded and poked to see if it stands up under light. It is a horror, a suspense and a character drama. It creates an atmosphere humid with apprehension and delivers some of the best jump-out shock moments in cinema history, moments so well crafted they almost feel like a wholly original technique. This was the last good film Shyamalan made this decade, possibly the last one he’ll ever make, but it’s a greater film than many directors can ever dream of.
17. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Directed by Danny Boyle
Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal
“What can a slumdog possibly know?”
The word that comes to mind about Slumdog Millionaire is “colourful,” but that does not even begin to do it justice. My vocabulary is insufficient to describe this movie because my vocabulary is insufficient to describe India. That’s the word for it – “India,” a gigantic portrait of India in all her beauty and all her squalor, strengths and sores laid open for the world to see. I think I first described this movie as a biopic of India, which is obviously stretching the definition a bit, but you can see what I mean metaphorically.
Slumdog Millionaire is a rags-to-riches story about how Jamal Malik, an orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is close to winning twenty million rupees on the local version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. He is getting the crap kicked out of him by the police, who believe he has been cheating, because a slumdog could never know the answers to such difficult questions. Through a series of flashbacks, we see the story of Jamal’s life, and understand why he knows the answers – because he remembers everything he learns.
Boyle uses a rushing soundtrack, energetic cinematography and the momentum of Malik’s personal tale to make this movie erupt with dazzling colour on the screen. It’s a whirlwind story of all the kinds Bollywood loves to make: romance, crime, drama and mystery. A triumph of craft.
16. The Dark Knight (2008)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman
“The bandit. In Burma. Did you catch him?”
“We burned the forest down.”
IMDB’s user-generated ranking list currently rates The Dark Knight as the eighth-greatest film of all time, scoring higher than movies like Star Wars, Casablanca, Goodfellas and Fight Club. This is clearly wrong, but it does serve as an example of the wide appeal this film has. This superhero comic book film.
I never got into the superhero mythos, not even as a kid, because I found it to be fundamentally silly. There’s no other word for it, except perhaps “cheesy.” The idea of people dressing up in tights and capes to “fight crime” never struck me as particularly cool, and as I grew older the ideas of “vigilantism” and “accountability” became relevant. BADGES NOT MASKS, as the protestors in Alan Moore’s Watchmen put it.
So the brilliant thing about Christopher Nolan’s Batman films is how mature they are, how they do away with the campiness and replace it with a view into the dark abyss of evil. “The Dark Knight plays more along the lines of a psychological horror film like Seven or a fast-paced action thriller like Heat,” I wrote last year.”This is a movie for adults, not children, leaving behind the familiar world inspired by childhood fantasies and venturing into the rugged territory of artistic merit.”
While the thing people will remember most about The Dark Knight is Heath Ledger’s swansong perfomance as the Joker, a twisted and haunted soul wreaking havoc across Gotham City in his disgusting fungal makeup, the rest of the film should not be forgotten. It’s a superbly cast and acted movie with an excellent script and a gifted director, and easily the greatest superhero movie ever made.
15. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Starring Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez i Ayats, Doug Jones
“Please, Ofelia, call him father. It’s just a word.”
One of my favourite books is Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which tells of two magicians living in England at a time when a fairy realm exists alongside it – not fairies with pink wings who twinkle in buttercups, but traditional fairies, fairies who live in hill-forts and castles in gloomy forests at the edge of stormy seas, who kidnap human children and use them as slaves, fairies of immense beauty but capable of horrific cruelty. “If cats looked like toads,” Terry Pratchett wrote in a similar book, Lords and Ladies, “we’d see them for the cruel bastards they are.”
Pan’s Labyrinth is a fantasy story in the same vein, relating the tale of Ofelia, a girl living in 1940’s Spain with her mother and horrible military stepfather. She escapes from a world of partisan battles and facsism by exploring the ancient fantasy world within the crumbling stone labyrinth near their mansion. The world she discovers may be fantastic, but it is no less frightening and dangerous than the real one.
del Toro has made a beautiful film, where special effects and costumes meld seamlessly with brilliant cinematography to create a fantasy world of spellbinding horrors and delights. It’s also a powerfully thematic work of art, dealing with issues such as freedom and choice in the face of fascism. But I am a fantasy/sci-fi geek at heart, and I would be lying if I didn’t say that what I dig most about this movie is the Pale Man: one of the greatest monsters ever created in cinema, a disgusting creature with detached eyes, hanging folds of skin and disturbingly bent legs, sitting at his banquet table and waiting, waiting, waiting for a child to break the rules.
14. Moon (2009)
Directed by Duncan Jones
Starring Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey
“Gerty… is there someone else in the room?”
Moon is a very sparse film. There is, strictly speaking, a single character. It takes place in a single location (spoiler: on the moon) and features a minimum of special effects. Yet it is not sparse in the way “2001: A Space Odyssey” is, marvelling the audience with the incomprehensible grandeur of space. It is a human story, intensely personal and moving.
Sam Rockwell plays Sam Bell, an American astronaut and sole crew member of a lunar mining station owned by a Korean corporation. He’s approaching the end of a three-year contract, and with only pre-recorded videos from Earth (with a hint of something not quite right with his wife) and his robotic companion Gerty (Kevin Spacey) for company, he’s starting to go a little stir-crazy. Having also worked an unreasonably long contract for a heartless Korean corporation, I can sympathise. Sam’s cabin fever is starting to have serious effects: he sees someone sitting in his chair while pouring coffee and badly burns himself, and while driving a rover out to inspect some mining machinery, he has another ghostly hallucination and crashes. Waking up safe and sound with Gerty tending to him in the medical bay, he finds one spacesuit and one rover missing. Taking the spares out, he drives back to the crash site and finds… himself, comatose inside a wrecked rover.
I’m going to stop there, because Jones intends the viewer to be as confused as Sam is. It works quite well, and the movie shifts gears from a psychological suspense film into a profound experience. It’s very lonely and very sad, brimming with sterile environments and existential misery. It contains one of the most human moments in cinema – coming from a robot. By the end of the film you’re pouring sympathy out onto the screen for this poor, wretched, miserable man who just wants to go home. It’s a triumph of science fiction.
You’ll also notice that unlike every film critic on the planet, I got through this without mentioning that the director is David Bowie’s son, because it is fucking irrelevant.
13. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Directed by Gore Verbinski
Starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush
“Now… bring me that horizon.”
WHAT THE FLYING FUCK HAPPENED TO MY PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN IMAGE?
I’m in two minds about the Pirates films, with this one having spawned two corpulent sequels universally condemnded for their needlessly complex double-crossing plots, and with a fourth in the works. Dead Man’s Chest and At World’s End are huge, loud, messy films that take everything about the original and crank it up to full volume, blowing the speakers out and ruining what we loved in the first place. But they also contain some of the most fantastic (in the classical sense) elements of the world: Davy Jones the squid-mouthed captain, the dry salt plains of the Locker, the deadly Kraken, a Caribbean calypso goddess and the barnacle-encrusted sea monsters of the Flying Dutchman. Compared to these colourful outings, the first film almost seems pedestrian, merely boasting undead skeletal pirates.
But it also has a logical plot, which I think we can agree is vital to a good film. Popcorn movies are funny things. All the special effects and big set pieces won’t save you if you don’t have loveable characters and a script that is, at the very least, tolerable. (This is why The Mummy is an objectively great film and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is not). In any case, I’m now on two paragraphs and all I’ve done is talk about the sequels to this movie. I guess they grind my gears.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl is an awesome movie. It’s swashbuckling in the extreme. It has Johnny Depp being a hilarious semi-drunken pirate, Geoffrey Rush being typically brilliant, and lots of awesome battles and fights and adventures. You don’t need me to tell you any of this. We’ve all seen it. Good old Pirates of the Caribbean. You warm my heart, you do.
12. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Starring Jean Simmons, Christian Bale, Billy Crystal (English translation)
“The best part of that spell is that you can’t tell anyone about it. My regards to Howl.”
This is not the greatest of Miyazaki’s films by objective standards, but it is far and away my personal favourite. It reaches deep inside me and tugs at my childhood spirit of adventure. Based on a book by Diana Wynne Jones, the sequel of which I greatly enjoyed as a youngster, Howl’s Moving Castle tells the tale of Sophie, a young woman who works in a hat shop in a fantasy world reminiscent of 19th century Europe. A chance encounter with the flirtatious Wizard Howl leads to another encounter with one of Howl’s jealous, unrequited loves – a witch, who transforms Sophie into a rickety old woman. Fleeing her hometown, Sophie finds Howl’s Moving Castle in the wilderness, and is taken onboard as a cleaning lady, becoming part of Howl’s close circle of friends and associates.
It doesn’t have the tight narrative of Spirited Away, or the classic timelessness of My Neighbour Totoro, or even the wonderful visuals of Ponyo, but Howl’s Moving Castle provides me with a Ghibli film that slots neatly into the category of “assembling an oddball crew on a strange vehicle” (see also: Cowboy Beboy, Firefly, #2 on this list). And for that I cherish it. It’s a movie about a gigantic, wheezing, creaking steampunk castle that roams the countryside on its claw-like legs, powered by a magical fire voiced by Billy Crystal and ruled by a charismatic and dashing young wizard voiced by Christian Bale. How can you not love it?
11. Atonement (2007)
Directed by Joe Wright
Starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan
“Atonement begins on joyous gossamer wings,” Roger Ebert writes, “and descends into an abyss of tragedy and loss.” There is certainly something enchanting about the film’s first act, set on a hot summer day in an English country manor. Something palpable about the heat, the refreshing coolness of the fountain, the verdant shadows by the forested brook. By the day’s end, something horrific has happened and an innocent man (Robbie, played by James McAvoy) is on his way to prison based on the testimony of a child – a girl named Briony (Saoirse Ronan) who is wrong, clearly wrong, but who knows she is right with the absolute surety only a child can command.
The film is no less powerful as it goes on, following Robbie as he drifts through the wreckage of World War II, British forces in rout after their defeat on the French border. There is one absolutely stunning shot, a single take of nearly five minutes length, that details the messy chaos at Dunkirk as troops await evacuation – the shooting of horses, the burning of documents, the sabotage of equipment, half the soldiers doing their jobs and the other half singing and brawling and drinking. The cinematography throughout this movie is unparalleled: every shot is perfectly composed, every character in the right place and every scene beautifully or originally filmed.
It also has a shocking plot twist at the end, one that forces us to question everything that went before and leaves us with a deep question on the nature of atonement. At first I thought the ending was supposed to reveal the atonement that Briony has finally achieved. The more I consider it the less I’m sure. It may be that, even in the final scenes as she makes her confession to an interviewer, she is still digging herself deeper into that pit of betrayal and selfishness.


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We Play Through The Evil Within 2's Creepy Opening
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In today's video, I'm joined by Andrew Reiner on the sticks, and Leo Vader in the control room. We get a look at Sebastien Castellanos' frayed mind, which is still in tatters after the loss of his family and a brush with the experimental (and sinister) STEM technology. You can see just how weird it gets in the video below.
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‘A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD’
Online PR News – 11-September-2014 – San Diego, California – MOXIE THEATRE BEGINS 10TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON CELEBRATION WITH
THE SAN DIEGO PREMIERE OF
‘A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD’
MOXIE THEATRE’s 2014-2015 Season begins with the San Diego Premiere of A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD by award-winning playwright Liz Duffy Adams. Directed by MOXIE Executive Artistic Director, Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, previews start Thursday, September 18th with Opening Night on Saturday, September 20th at 8PM, and will continue through Sunday, October 12th, 2014.
Abigail Williams, the young girl whose visions of demons and witches initiated the Salem Witch Trials, returns to the outskirts of Salem ten years later seeking answers from fellow witch-hunter Mercy Lewis. However, with war threatening northern New England yet again, Mercy and her fellow townspeople are in no mood for Abigail’s doubts. Just as tensions reach the boiling point, the Devil himself shows up…
Liz Duffy Adams (playwright) is a New Dramatists alumna and has received a Women of Achievement Award, Lillian Hellman Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Will Glickman Award, Weston Playhouse Music-Theater Award, and MacDowell Colony residencies.
Her work has also been produced or developed at the Contemporary American Theater Festival, Humana Festival, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, Cutting Ball, Shotgun Players, and Crowded Fire, among others. Other plays include Or; Buccaneers; Dog Act; Wet or, Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitude; The Listener; The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge of It or, The Train Play; and One Big Lie.
Publications include Poodle With Guitar And Dark Glasses in Applause’s “Best American Short Plays 2000-2001,” Or, in Smith & Kraus’ “Best Plays Of 2010,” and several plays in acting editions by Playscripts, Inc. and Dramatists Play Service. Adams has a BFA from New York University and an MFA from Yale School of Drama, and was the 2012–2013 Briggs-Copeland Visiting Lecturer in Playwriting at Harvard University. She has dual Irish and American citizenship, is originally from the northern coast of Massachusetts, and divides her time between western Massachusetts and New York City. More about Liz at: www.lizduffyadams.com
Delicia Turner Sonnenberg (Director) is the founding Artistic Director of MOXIE Theatre, where she has directed many award winning productions. Other San Diego directing credits include plays for: Mo`oelo, ion Theatre, San Diego REP, Cygnet Theatre, New Village Arts, Diversionary, SDSU, Eveoke Dance Theatre and The Playwrights Project. Honors: TCG’s New Generations Program: Future Leaders, San Diego REP; SD Theatre Critics Circle’s Des McAnuff New Visions Award and “Craig Noel” awards; Patte awards; Women's International Center Living Legacy Award; Van Lier Directing Fellowship, Second Stage Theatre, NY; Drama League’s Directors Program, NY; and a Small Business Leader of the Year awarded by Senator Christine Kehoe. Delicia is married to designer Jerry Sonnenberg and proud mama of August and Zoë.
She will direct: Jo Anne Glover (Abigail Williams), Olivia Hicks (Rebekkah), Chrisopher Murphy (Judah), Jorge Rodriguez (man in the tall black hat), Wendy Waddell (Mercy Lewis) and Nick Young (Reverend Peck).
The creative team for A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD includes Robin Sanford Roberts (Scenic Designer), Christopher Loren Renda (Lighting Design), Jennifer Brawn Gittings (Costume Designer), Emily Jankowski (Sound Design), Angelica Ynfante (Properties Master), Adam Lindsay (Technical Director) ; with James Ramirez as Stage Manager. Assistant Stage Manager: Kari Arrasmith and Assitant Director: Lydia Munroe.
Previews for A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD begin Thursday, September 18th. Opening Night on Saturday, September 20th at 8PM includes a Post-show reception.
It will play Thursdays at 7PM, through Sundays at 8PM, with Sunday matinees at 2PM, through October 12th, 2014.
Sunday September 28th 2:00pm Second Sunday Q & A:
Join the director and actors for a post-show discussion, learn more about the play and enrich your theatre going experience.
MOXIE Theatre is located at 6663 El Cajon Blvd Suite N, San Diego, CA 92115. Tickets: Opening Night – $40; Previews–$20; General Admission –$27; Seniors (65+)receive $2 off general admission. Military, AASD and Students –$5 off general admission. Group rates available: 10 or more $20, 15 or more $15, special pricing available for student groups. Call 858-598-7620 or visit www.moxietheatre.com/DISCOURSE to purchase tickets.
Olivia Hicks (Rebekkah) is very excited to appear in her first performance with Moxie Theatre. Olivia is a veteran of several youth theatre troupes including Pacific Children’s Theatre in San Diego where she played Sarah in Sarah Plain and Tall and Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins. She also appeared in Once On This Island, Annie and Newsies. Olivia is 12 years old and is in 7th grade at High Tech Middle School.
Jo Anne Glover (Abigail Williams) Founder and Managing Director of MOXIE Theatre. She has worked on- and Off-Broadway, in Los Angeles, and regionally. San Diego credits include Mud Blue Sky, Maple & Vine, Skinless, Hickorydickory, Our Town, Or, The Norman Conquests, The Receptionist (SDCC Best Supp. Actress), Summer and Smoke, Expecting Isabel, Drink Me, Rabbit Hole, Bleeding Kansas, Off The Ground, The Listener, Bluebonnet Court, Devil Dog Six, WET, Miss Witherspoon, Dog Act, Limonades Tous les Jours (Patte award, Best Actress), Pulp, Kimberly Akimbo, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hamlet, Stop Kiss, and Othello. In addition to her work as an actress, she has worked as a producer in New York and Los Angeles. She is also an acting and certified yoga instructor.
Christopher Murphy (Judah) is excited to be part of A Discourse into the Wonders of the Invisible World with Moxie Theater! A recent graduate of California State University San Marcos, Christopher would like to pursue his teaching credentials next year and continue his education with an MFA in Acting -one day-. Previous credits include the MSJC’s The Glass Menagerie (Jim O’Connor), Inland Stage Company’s The Rocky Horror Show (Rocky), Isis Theatre Company’s productions of Our Town (George Gibbs) and Political Suicide (Dory Devane), CSUSM’s Spring Awakening (Melchior Gabor), and he was last seen in Playwrights Project’s production of A Day in the Life (He).
Jorge Rodriguez (man in the tall black hat): Moxie: References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot. La Jolla Playhouse: Sideways, El Henry, A Willow Grows Aslant. Ion Theatre: Julia, "reasons to be pretty". New Village Arts: Much Ado About Nothing. UPCOMING Ion Theatre: Workshop production of Claudio Raygoza's World Premiere of "Six". San Diego Rep: Oedipus El Rey.TV/FILM Terriers and various pilots. Numerous independent films. Has been cast in over 40 commercials. Proud member of Ion Theatre Company. Member of SAG/AFTRA. Studied with World Renowned Master Teacher Larry Moss for 3 years.
Nick Young (Reverend Peck): Theatre: Scripps Ranch: Ray’s Last Case, Point Loma Actor’s: Kimberly Akimbo, POWPAC: The Sugar Bean Sisters, Onstage Theatre: The Sugar Witch, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead, The Diary of Anne Frank, Pride and Prejudice.
Nick is a member of SAG/Aftra and has many Film/TV/Industrial and Commercial credits
Wendy Waddell (Mercy Lewis) was most recently seen in The Full Monty at New Village Arts. Select San Diego theatre credits: Time Flies, Off the Ground, Three Sisters, Crimes of the Heart (New Village Arts, Ensemble Member ); All My Sons, Hamlet, Richard II, King John, Taming of the Shrew (Intrepid Shakespeare Company, Associate Artist); Brave Smiles…, Bunbury, Speech and Debate (Diversionary Theatre, Associate Artist); Bluebonnet Court (Moxie Theatre/Diversionary Theatre); The Butcher of Baraboo (Moxie
Theatre); Company (Cygnet Theatre); The Miser, The Car Plays (La Jolla Playhouse); and Othello (Women’s Rep). She received her BFA in Theatre from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute. She is also a Teaching Artist with Playwrights Project and Junior Theatre. Wendy is elated to be back with the Moxie crew working on such a wickedly cool show. Many thanks!!
ROBIN SANFORD ROBERTS (Scenic Designer) Moxie Debut!!!!!
BROADWAY: It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues.
Old Globe Theatre: over 25 productions including: Alive and Well, The Price. Fiction, Bus Stop, Blue/Orange, Rounding Third, Betrayal , Da, Art, Sylvia.
San Diego REP: Venus in Fur, Federal Jazz Project, Clybourne Park, Superior Donuts, The Seafarer, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Restless Spirits, Fire on the Mountain, Working, The Merchant of Venice, Shylock, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Avenue X, It Ain’t Nothin But the Blues.
REGIONAL: Denver Centre Theatre, San Jose’ Repertory, Portland Center Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Sacramento Theatre Company and Swine Palace Productions
Miss. Roberts holds a degree in Architecture from LSU and a MFA in Scenic Design from UCSD. She designs and teaches in the Theatre Department at University of San Diego.
MOXIE Theatre is a professional non-profit theatre founded by the critically acclaimed group of performers and directors; Jo Anne Glover, Liv Kellgren, Delicia Turner Sonnenberg and Jennifer Eve Thorn in 2005. MOXIE's mission is to create more diverse and honest images of women for our culture using the art of theatre. Through the production of primarily female playwrights and the special attention given to plays which defy the stereotypes of what women are writing about, MOXIE expands the idea of what is feminine.
Our dedication to finding work that is under-produced means we're discovering the classics of the future.
MOXIE fans know that each distinct MOXIE production will always share one similar quality – Moxie. Defined as “courage, pluck, gumption, perseverance, guts." It may be the hero of a play who embodies the term moxie, or a challenging subject matter. Perhaps a playwright has invented an original world for audiences to explore, or actors are asked to stretch to new heights and break new ground in story-telling. In whatever way it is revealed, moxie is the unifying quality that defines all of our productions.
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WHAT: A Discourse on The Wonders of the Invisible World
WHERE: MOXIE Theatre
6663 El Cajon Blvd Suite N, San Diego, CA 92115
SCHEDULE: Thursdays @ 7pm; Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 2pm
TICKET PRICES: Opening Night $40.00
General Admission $27.00
DISCOUNTS: Seniors (65+) receive $2 off General Admission
Military, Students and AASD receive $5 of general admission
Groups of 10 or more receive $20 tickets.
Groups of 15 or more receive $15 tickets
BOX OFFICE: 858-598-7620 or www.moxietheatre.com
The 2014-2015 Season is made possible by generous support from
The City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture
and Council-member Marti Emerald, District Nine

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Compared with DC and AC, everyone has heard of it, but most of the household refrigerators use AC, and DC is rarely used, but DC freezer is an application of DC.
The DC transmission adopts a two-wire system with earth or seawater as the return line. Compared with the three-wire three-phase AC transmission, under the same conditions of the same cross-sectional area of the transmission line and the same current density, it can be transmitted even without considering the skin effect. The same electric power, while the transmission line and insulation materials can save 1/3.
A steady direct current does not produce electromagnetic radiation. Because it only produces electric fields and does not produce alternating magnetic fields, even ultra-high voltage direct currents are only strong enough to ionize the air and emit light. At this time, optical radiation is emitted by air ionization, not Wire does not generate electromagnetic waves.
Many big size freezer uses direct current, which has its own unique advantages. Therefore, although most electrical appliances use alternating current, the use of direct current still has its own characteristics.


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Travel plans? Shiny new devices ready to load? Grab these four free audiobooks from publishers sharing the holiday spirit of giving!
Nothing with Strings by Bailey White, narrated by Lorna Raver, is the perfect listen for the holiday season – a compilation of over a decade of White’s Thanksgiving stories on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Here’s the download link, your gift from Tantor Media: http://beta.tantor.com/nothing-with-strings-dl-download.html
The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum’s classic narrated by Brooke Shields, is Random House Audio’s gift to you – perfect for family holiday travel! Here’s the download link: http://www.tryaudiobooks.com/family.php
The Gray Man is the first in a political thriller series from author Mark Greaney, narrated by Jay Snyder. At over ten hours, this freebie will get you to grandma’s house and home again. Click this download link from gift-giver Audible to grab your freebie.
Three Shots Rang Out – The JFK Assassination 50 Years Later, written by Darren Reynolds and narrated by Diane Sawyer, will keep history buffs happy while waiting for that delayed flight. Another freebie from Audible available at this download link.
So whether you’re heading out for a family gathering armed with great listening to make those miles fly by, or heading home with shopping bags full of gadgets ready to load with audiobooks for the gift recipient, happy listening to all!


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Visit Albany’s historic Mansion Neighborhood, home of the New York State Governor’s Mansion. Explore our narrow streets of charming rowhouses from the 1800s to the 1900s, visit our many fine restaurants and the recently-restored historic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Located just south of downtown Albany, the Mansion Neighborhood is a stones throw from the NYS Museum, and the Empire State Plaza, with its world-class collection of contemporary art.
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Shimano's Claris 8-Speed Rear Deraileur features smooth 11-tooth pulleys, a light-action spring, and a wide outer-pivot design that increases rigidity for precision shifts every time.
One rear derailleur to rule them all. The SRAM Force eTap AXS rear derailleur is designed for both 1x and 2x systems. It capitalizes on X-Range gearing technology for enhanced range and chain management and features larger pulleys for improved durability and efficiency. Strong, smooth, quiet and AXS enabled. - SRAM AXS enabled, allowing easy personalization - Orbit chain management technology keeps the drivetrain quiet and secure - A single rear derailleur for all gearing combinations, including 1x and 2x - Larger X-SYNC pulleys for increased durability and efficiency - NOTE: Does not include eTap battery. Compatible with existing eTap batteries.
SRAM's GX 2x10 rear derailleur provides incredible shifting speed and precision. Exact Actuation technology eliminates slop and shifting variation. Roller Bearing Clutch technology delivers maximum drivetrain stability—even through the most punishing terrain. And with Cage Lock technology, wheel removal and installation are easier than ever.
Optimized for Shimano compatible 9-speed road drivetrains, R9 front derailleurs feature metal construction and rapid shifting response. - Cold-forged aluminum body
$38.00 - $49.99
Sleek, balanced and consistent. Shimano's Tiagra 4700 series front derailleur provides serious entry-level riding performance with trickle-down technology from the top shelf Dura Ace line. - Model Number: FD-4700 - Series: Tiagra - Cassette Compatibility: 10-speed - Top Gear Teeth: 53T - Maximum Capacity: 16T - Chain Stay Angle: 61-66 - Chain Line: 43.5 - Band Mount: 28.6 / 31.8 (w/AdapterS) 34.9
Shimano's Tiagra Front Derailleur (3x10-speed) is sleek, balanced and consistent. The Tiagra 4700 series provides serious entry-level riding performance with cascaded technology from the top shelf Dura Ace line. - Model Number: FD-4703 - Series: Tiagra - Cassette Compatibility: 10 - Top Gear Teeth: 50T - Maximum Capacity: 20T - Chain Stay Angle: 63-66 - Chain Line: 45 - Band Mount: 28.6mm / 31.8mm (w/AdapterS) 34.9mm
Shimano Tourney TX is a basic 8-speed rear derailleur for entry-level sport bikes and riders. Enjoy durable, trouble free, and stable performance. - Maximum cog size: 34t - Total capacity: 43t
$60.00 - $75.00
Shimano's 105 Rear Derailleur delivers high-end function with upscale looks. With a body of light, durable cold-forged aluminum in Shimano's wide-pivot design with their light-action spring, rear shifting is practically effortless and always super smooth. The top pulley stays a uniform distance from each cassette cog ensuring that every shift resonates with the plunk of exact gear engagement.
$50.00 - $59.00
The Shimano FD-R7000 11-speed front derailleur offers lighter front shifting with a natural stroke feel. The derailleur's cage design is optimized to perform with disc brake road bikes, while multiple cable routing options and integrated cable tension adjustment allow for precise setup and easy adjustments. As part of Shimano's 105 R7000 series, this front derailleur is ideal for beginner road cyclists, combining great value with trickle-down technology from Shimano's top-tier groups. - Cage is optimized for disc brake road bikes - Integrated cable tension adjustment for precise and easy adjustments - More frame cable routing options
Full metal construction provides stiffness and durability in this Shimano 9-speed road compatible front derailleur. - Full aluminum construction - Compatible with 9-speed Shimano road drivetrains - Designed for use with 52/42/30T chainrings
Shimano's Dura-Ace Rear Derailleur boasts a light and reliable cold-forged-aluminum body with a carbon cage and a wide pivot design that boosts rigidity for smooth, speedy shifts. Fluorine-coated pivots minimize friction for nearly effortless shifting. And, the oversize sealed-bearing pulleys are silky smooth, ultra quiet, and keep out dirt and water. Plus, the 7900 accepts up to a 28-tooth cassette cog for even greater gearing possibilities.
For smooth downshifts and fast upshifts, SRAM's Apex Front Derailleur is engineered for success. Its aluminum body is light as a feather while its steel cage is stiff for precision shifts everytime. The Apex Front Derailleur shifts great on standard and compact cranksets, too.
$49.99 - $51.95
Shimano's groundbreaking 6800-series front derailleur delivers a shorter stroke at the lever and substantially lighter action for lightning fast shifts with just a flick of your finger. The redesigned pull arm offers more direct tactile feedback during shifts. The derailleur support bolt creates more solid contact to the frame, stiffening the derailleur and stabilizing it for faster, smoother shifts.
SRAM's X3 Rear Derailleur is ready for adventure. Its composite and steel construction is tough, while SRAM's 1:1 actuation ratio and direct cable routing provide quick, reliable shifts. This derailleur is compatible with 7- or 8-speed drivetrains.
Claris R2000 series offers reliable functionality at a price point for new riders. Designed for easy rides around town with the durability to handle a long tour, Claris R2000 has a sporty design and promises the opportunity of comfortable and casual riding.
On any surface you can imagine, in any drivetrain configuration, the Rival eTap AXS rear derailleur will handle it. Secure chain management and fast, precise shifting make for a smooth and quiet ride, every time. - Wireless electronic eTap shift logic for intuitive shifting, easy setup, and reliability - Compatible with both 1x and 2x drivetrains - 36T cog max derailleur works with 10-28T, 10-30T, 10-33T, and 10-36T cassettes - SRAM AXS-enabled, allowing easy personalization - Spring clutch keeps the drivetrain quiet and secure - X-SYNC pulleys for increased durability and efficiency - 36T max rear cog - Battery Not Included
$279.00 - $299.00
Shimano Ultegra Di2 Shadow rear derailleur. - Sleek integrated appearance - New low-profile design - Shimano Shadow RD - Race endurance - Optimized slant angle - Maintain race concentration with more intuitive shift control - System communication with front derailleur - Shimano Synchronized Shift - Wide compatibility - Short cage covers: 11-25T to 11-30T - Medium cage covers: 11-28T to 11-34T - Average Weight: 242 grams (SS type), 249 grams (GS type)
SRAM's X5 9-Speed Rear Derailleur provides precise, dependable shifting along with long-term durability. Its aluminum construction keeps the weight down, while SRAM's 1:1 actuation ratio and direct cable routing provide quick, reliable shifts.
Shimano's electric-shifting 11-speed Ultegra Di2 Rear Derailleur is driven by battery power and a servo motor, so shifts are fast, precise, and perfect every time. It's made of light, tough cold-forged aluminum while mid-cage and short-cage models give you your choice of cassette. Since there aren't any cables or housing to stretch or fail, maintenance is dramatically reduced and shifting accuracy is unprecedented. This high-tech derailleur is even designed to move inward under impact to reduce the potential for damage in a crash.
Shimano's Ultegra Rear Derailleur delivers category-defining 11-speed shifting. At the heart of the derailleur is a light, tough, cold-forged-aluminum body with a wide, rigid pivot design that maximizes shifting speed and equalizes shift effort across the cassette. Smooth-spinning pulleys use sealed bearing to keep out the dirt and ensure quiet running in the miles to come.
SRAM's X9 Front Derailleur sports a forged-aluminum cage and a cutout design for exceptional durability with minimal weight. It provides, crisp, precise action for fast, smooth and reliable shifting season in and season out.
SRAM's Chain Spotter fits on your seat tube beneath your front derailleur to keep the chain from coming off, which keeps you riding and prevents chain and frame damage, too. It's made of lightweight aluminum and includes all mounting hardware. Just bolt it on and go. No front derailleur fine-tuning needed.
- Model Number: FD-R3000 - Series: SORA - Top Gear Teeth: 46-52T - Chain Stay Angle: 61-66 - Chain Line: 43.5 - Models: Braze-on and band clamp available - Band clamp model includes shims for 31.8/28.6mm seat tubes
SRAM's Force Front Derailleur is made of light, yet rugged materials to shift like a champ mile after mile. It also lets you trim your shifting for flawless gear changes and it boasts easily accessed limit screws for simple adjustments. Plus, the Force shifts perfectly with both standard and compact cranksets.
SRAM's X01 Rear Derailleur packs a massive amount of technology into its compact, lightweight body. This 11-speed gear changer uses a “horizontal parallelogram” design that limits all movement to the horizontal axis, reducing the force it takes to shift. The Type 2 clutch is brilliant. This self-lubricating, one-way roller clutch controls your chain tension to eliminate chain slap and give you smooth, consistent shifts over any terrain. For quicker, smoother, more exact shifting, the large upper pulley's offset design maintains a consistent chain gap across all gears.
- Rider Tuned For Sharp And Silky Shifts - 20% Light Shifting Operation - New Shadow Design With Optimized Slant Angle - Optislick New Shift Cable With New Hyper Low-Friction Coating Technology - Chain Stability Improved - New Shadow Design With Optimized Slant Angle For Stable Gear Position - Efficient Shifting And Smoother Driving - Efficient Pulley Teeth Design - Increased Traction Range For Long-Travel And Active Rear Suspension - Series : SLX: SLX - Maximum Sprocket : 42T(2x11-speed) or 46T(1x11-speed) - Minimum Sprocket : 11T: 34-38T - Front Difference : 10T: 48.8 - Total Capacity : 41T: 66-69 - Average Weight : 323g: 145.6g
$30.00 - $35.99
Shimano's Claris rear derailleur is a perfect replacement part or upgrade for 8-speed road drivetrains. HyperGlide technology results in smoother, faster shifting. - Maximum cog size: 32t (SS) / 34t (GS) - Total capacity: 37t (SS) / 43t (GS) - Pulleys: 11t - Chain compatibility: HG 8-speed
It's an all-new derailleur that's specifically designed and optimized to be motor-driven instead of cable-actuated. AXS powered components enable customization and scale to an individual rider's liking via the AXS App. It features a shorter cage for 10mm more ground clearance, with more chain wrap on the cassette to sit slightly further forward, and further inboard from mechanical Eagle. The Eagle AXS derailleur is smart enough to protect itself thanks to its incredibly resilient Overload Clutch. In the event of an impact, the motor gearbox disengages, giving the derailleur freedom to move, and instantly returns back to its position for a seamless experience for the rider. The system is tested to IP69K water and dust proofing standard for creek crossings, mud splatterings and the resulting post-ride pressure washings. - Enduro focus and trail ready - Forged aluminum cage - Stainless hardware - Black/Polar colorways - Eagle technology - Overload Clutch protection - AXS enabled componentry software that makes it possible to both program and personalize new SRAM and RockShox components - System is completely water and dust proof to IP69K - Eagle AXS is designed to work with X-DOME Eagle cassettes only, providing the most precise, silent, and reliable shift performance available.
Campagnolo's Veloce Front Derailleur features an aluminum body and chrome-plated cage for low weight, durability and smooth shifting. And, it's compatible with both standard and compact cranks.
The Shimano Deore M618 series front derailleurs provide reliable, accurate 2x10 speed shifting. They are available in a variety of mounting formats to suit most mountain bike frames.
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The centrist’s simple but emotionally profound Zionism could lead to an Israel less at war with itself
When Yair Lapid’s father, the well-known journalist and politician Tommy Lapid, was on his deathbed, he said to his son: I’m leaving you the state of Israel.
Tommy, a Holocaust survivor, meant that metaphorically; the generation of survivors was entrusting the gift of a Jewish state to its children. But with the rise of Yair Lapid, head of Yesh Atid (There Is a Future), which emerged from nowhere to become Israel’s second-largest party in yesterday’s election, Yair’s “inheritence” could become literal. More than any other politician aside from Prime Minister Netanyahu himself, Yair may now determine the next phase of Israeli politics.
“Yair,” not Lapid: We call our politicians Bibi and Shelly and Tzipi with a misleading intimacy, when in fact we can’t bear most of them. But even Israelis who wrongly dismiss him as a lightweight—a former TV talk show host and heart-throb, with no government or combat experience—tend to like Yair.
That’s because he is frankly, unapologetically, in love with the state of Israel. There is nothing complicated about Yair’s Israeliness. He is not a hyphenated Israeli, whose loyalty to the state depends on its fulfillment of an ideological agenda. Yair conveys the impression of a man comfortable in all parts of Israel. He is a secular Israeli who has shown increasing interest in Judaism. He supports a two-state solution and opposes settlement construction outside the large settlement blocs. Yet he launched his campaign from the West Bank city of Ariel, sending the message that settlers are part of Israel too. He opposes the wholesale draft exemption of ultra-Orthodox young men, but he advocates a gradualist approach and has an ultra-Orthodox rabbi on his Knesset list. He emerged as the voice of middle class disaffection, yet included in his list two Ethiopians, representatives of one of the country’s poorest constituencies. (Other parties tend to include a token Ethiopian.)

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Column – Citizen-A
On Citizen-A this week Auckland Central MP Nikki Kaye & Deputy Mayor of the Auckland SuperCity, Penny Hulse, join Bomber to debate the Bedget impact on Auckland; National’s get tough on crime policy; who is to blame for the Auckland supercity failures?
Bomber Bradbury’s – Citizen-A!
Martyn “Bomber” Bradbury delivers his weekly current affairs programme Citizen-A!
This week on Citizen A: Auckland Central MP Nikki Kaye and Deputy Mayor of the Auckland SuperCity, Penny Hulse.
Issue one: What does the budget mean for Aucklanders and what does Labour’s suggested policies from their conference last weekend mean for Auckland as well?
Issue two: We have a massive private prison sitting next to the Auckland motorway, Bill English in his budget notes says the get tough on crime prison policy has been a moral and fiscal failure. How will introducing a profit motive to lock up more NZers make that moral and fiscal failure any better?
Issue three: John Banks of all people has attacked the Super City as a disaster and that it lacks leadership, is the Super City failing and if it is, who is to blame?.
Citizen-A broadcasts on Sky channel 89 & Freeview channel 21 on Thursday and Sunday evenings. Also, check out Bomber on Facebook…
The show broadcasts weekly on Triangle/Stratos TV and on Scoop. Bomber also posts on the Tumeke! blog: www.tumeke.blogspot.com.

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A spacious bus station will open Monday in the median of Highway 520, at Evergreen Point just east of the floating bridge.
Riders will reach the boarding platforms by descending a stairway or elevator to the road level, similar to how riders descend at the Mountlake Terrace flyer station on Interstate 5.
Formerly, the bus stop was little more than a clearing and a sign by the side of the road.
King County Metro and Sound Transit ridership is growing along with jobs and population, as well as the desire of commuters to avoid bridge tolls that began in late 2011.
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An estimated 19,000 trips per weekday were made on Highway 520 buses as of late 2012, said the Washington State Department of Transportation. Last fall there were 730 boardings a day at Evergreen Point, according to Metro.
For several weeks, a shuttle van will carry transit users between 92nd Avenue Northeast and the new Evergreen Point station.
At the same time, a large roundabout will open Monday at the 84th Avenue Northeast interchange, alongside Hunts Point.
Later this year, a 92nd Avenue overpass and a smaller roundabout will be finished at Yarrow Point, where it was opposed by Mayor Dicker Cahill, for its large diameter and for bringing traffic closer to homes.
The Highway 520 floating bridge remained open over the weekend, to help people reach graduation ceremonies at the University of Washington and other schools — but will close again the next two weekends for construction.
Mike Lindblom: 206-515-5631 or firstname.lastname@example.org. On Twitter @mikelindblom


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These 11th-century tales have been read and studied through the years. This work is a translation of the Arabic text into English, from the story of the creation of the world to the time just before the coming of the Prophet Muhammad and the revelation of Islam. more...
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Both a dictionary and a glossary of terms that attempts to cover the entire field of Islam. Also included are brief biographies of eminent Muslims and Islamic scholars throughout the ages, providing a ready reference to authorities normally cited. more...
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This survey of more than one century of inner-Islamic ecumenical activities in modern times concentrates on the role of the Cairo-based Azhar University and its relations to Shiite scholars. Particular emphasis is laid on the mutual dependency of theology and politics in the modern Islamic discourse. more...
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Islam's Predicament with Modernity presents an in-depth cultural and political analysis of the issue of political Islam as a potential source of tensions and conflict, and how this might be peacefully resolved. Looking at the issue of modernity from an Islamic point of view, the author examines the role of culture and religion in Muslim society... more...
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In an effort to explain this often misunderstood religion, The Everything Understanding Islam Book covers everything from basic beliefs and practices to Islamic influence on Western civilization. The Everything Understanding Islam Book provides you with a complete and easy-to-read introduction to Islam, including: The life of Muhammad the Prophet;... more...
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"Inside Islam" - is a guidebook that has been structured into a Q&A format. Written in chapters with specific headings, it enables readers to find the answers to their queries on different aspects of Islam. Muslims and non-Muslims alike can easily learn about and understand the origins of Islam, its fundamental philosophy and basic religious... more...
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This week I’m putting the photo app Stackables through its paces on my Spanish abstract image of the Reina Sofia in Madrid.
I like all three of these results equally and can’t pick just one so here they are.
‘Winter Blues’ Formula.
‘Asylum’ Formula. ‘Sky Glow’ Formula. More of Robyn G’s One Four Challenge.

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Calls have been made for borders to be tightened, as the US passed a motion to suspend its intake of Syrian refugees.
Abaaoud had travelled to Syria and back at least twice without authorities spotting him, despite his active status as a plotter of four foiled, and now one successful, terror atrocities.
Another Paris attacker, Ahmed Al-Mohammed, is thought to have been a refugee who left Syria during the migrant crisis and gained entry to Europe through Greece.
Abaaoud joined ISIS in Syria in January, 2014, but was back in home country Belgium 12 months later when police smashed a plot to kill officers in Verviers, near Liege.
He then returned to Syria, starring in a propaganda video in February, before returning to Europe, and being killed in a siege in Paris on Wednesday after orchestrating the Friday the 13th attacks.
“These individuals took advantage of the refugee crisis… of the chaos, perhaps, for some of them to slip in”Manuel Valls
French prime minister Manuel Valls said the brutal terrorists were able to get in through Europe’s passport-free zone.
He also fears sick ISIS militants or individual jihadis could still be active in the country.
Mr Valls said it is vital for Europe to immediately tighten security at its external borders.
He said: "These individuals took advantage of the refugee crisis… of the chaos, perhaps, for some of them to slip in.
"The external borders of the European Union must be strengthened.”
Savage Abaaoud, 27, had boasted of moving freely between Syria and Belgium despite being flagged up by intelligence agencies.
The brutal ISIS militant was killed alongside his cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen, who blew herself up with a suicide vest.
John Reid, former UK Home Secretary, has called for Schengen to be temporarily suspended.
He told the BBC's Today programme this morning that the Schengen area is "not an iron curtain nor a ring of steel, it's a sieve".
Mr Valls admitted authorities "do not know" how Abaaoud entered France before the vicious attacks on Paris which left 129 people dead.
It is also believed the extremists were about to carry out a second barbaric attack.
They were reportedly targeting Charles de Gaulle airport and the city's financial district La Defense before the police raid.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said the intelligence "led us to believe that, considering their armaments, the structured organisation and their determination, they were ready to act".


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Visiting forest is also a kind of adventure. But it’s really harmful when you don’t know how to survive in complicated conditions. The Amazon is a huge rainforest, the largest jungle on the earth, includes a widespread system of rivers that swathe above half of Brazil, and occupy great region of its neighboring countries. The Amazon River and its tributary mutually make about 30,888 square miles 80,000 sq km of traversable river systems. Large areas of the Amazon forest still remain unexplored, however, and tens of thousands of rare and unknown species of animals, birds, insects, fish and plants are sheltered in and beneath the thick tree canopies. You find here 20 amazing and breath taking nature beauty of this amazing and largest rainforest on the planet.
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When Opening the pc in the morning and then a pretty nature screen appear from the eyes then its give calm to our minds and also relax it, If you really busy in your works and not have little time to go outside and see nature beauty then watching beautiful nature photography on the computer is good idea because different types of natures photography should inpirare you and motivate you to go outside and see from own eyes, nature photography is the best subject that we can put on it. Nature often supervises to provide designer with beautiful eye-catching outlook they would never have explored otherwise. In this post we would like to collect photography which gives emphasis to the variety and beauty of nature and we have collected new nature photography to take your breath away.

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YouTube has taken the exclusive rights to an animated series from the production arm of toyco Mattel for the first time.
New episodes of Monster High: The Adventures of the Ghoul Squad (10×11′) will be made available on YouTube and the YouTube Kids app weekly later this year.
Produced by Mattel Creations, the series will be supported by a 44-minute special that will be available to broadcasters and SVoD platforms.
The show follows an elite squad of talented ghouls who make a pact to always be there for each other and their fellow monsters, no matter the odds against them.
It will be available in English, French, German, Lat Am Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian.
YouTube Kids is currently available in 26 countries and earlier this week the video-sharing platform revealed four original children’s productions for its subscription service YouTube Red.
“At Mattel Creations we have a clear understanding of where our audience are most likely to engage with our content, and by creating content specifically for YouTube and YouTube Kids, we are recognising that series content is not just for linear or SVoD,” said Mattel chief content officer Catherine Balsam-Schwaber.
“YouTube Kids is a leader in reaching children aged six to 11 so, it’s the right platform for the Monster High content and fans.”


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Published: October 7th 2015
Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement
Murray River cruise on the Paddlesteamer Pyap
After an early morning coffee in Deni, we drove firstly to Barham and then across the bridge to Koondrook in Victoria. Victoria is where Lenny was born (and we will get down to Gippsland soon). Kerang is on the Murray River (west of Koondrook) and has a variety of small lakes and other bodies of water which make it ideal for irrigating (and bird-watching). We spent some time looking for (and at) birds and they spent time looking at us before flying off!We came across several monuments relating to the Burke and Wills expedition and wondered how the explorers could have performed such travelling feats. They travelled over 3,000 kilometres (from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria) in less than six months.Upon entering Swan Hill, we saw a large sign advertising the Regional Art Gallery so we thought we'd take a look. No photos as the art was all avant garde movies and new art which really isn't art. But there was a nice coffee stop / restaurant over the road and we had a pleasant time there.We checked in to the Caravan Park next door to the Pioneer Settlement so we could walk rather than drive and even decided to
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attend the sound and light show. The early show was fully booked so we decided to book the early one tomorrow night (which meant two nights in the Caravan Park but more about that later).Next day we were down at the Pioneer Settlement early but it was very quiet. We found the entrance and explained that we had booked our tickets at the Caravan Park so that was all good. I decided to check out the coffee at the cafe while Georgi took the camera and wandered. There were very few people visiting and it soon became apparent why - most of the exhibits had now become static (nobody providing any commentary and nobody running anything or doing anything). Seemed like the Pioneer Settlement was in decline. Luckily for us, we had also purchased tickets to travel on the PS Pyap, a restored paddlesteamer. After coffee and a quick wander around, it was time to go aboard the Pyap and cruise the Murray. Just about everyone that was at at the Pioneers Settlement boarded the Pyap - the Pyap was full and the town was empty as we cast off the ropes and headed down the river.After a pleasant hour
A parrot looks down from its lofty perch before flying away.
on the river it was time to re-visit the Pioneer Settlement and see what they might offer for lunch. And, after lunch and a memorable tour of the blacksmiths (where the lady 'smithy cracked a few jokes and was fun to be with) we decided it was time to head home. We couldn't recommend a visit (other than the PS Pyap which was excellent).We had tickets to go back that evening and do the sound and light show. We went, but it was a disappointing show that only went for thirty minutes. Save your money for something else. We should point out that the State Government has recently committed over $3M to upgrade the sound and light show at Swan Hill (utilising laser lights and a screen of water pumped from the river). Let's hope that this large investment generates some new excitement at the Pioneer Settlement.
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Rodolphe Salis, the grandiose owner of Le Chat Noir, declared
“The Chat Noir is the most extraordinary cabaret in the world. You rub shoulders with the most famous men of Paris, meeting there with foreigners from every corner of the world.”
The thing is Salis wasn’t entirely wrong.
Continue reading “Experiments, Spectacles, and Parody at Le Chat Noir”
A few weeks ago I went to the Harry Ransom Center in Austin. They have an excellent section dedicated to new acquisitions. (And boy does it acquire.) I saw an Aubrey Beardsley piece from afar and went to look at it. But it wasn’t Beardsley’s.
It was William Faulkner’s.
Continue reading “William Faulkner Illustrated”
How did Montmartre become the destination for café-concerts? How did it influence Rodolphe Salis to make a cabaret? What makes Le Chat Noir cabaret unique?
Continue reading “Le Chat Noir, Montmartre, and Café-concerts”
Ah, this one takes me back. My favourite professor got in touch with me recently and inspired me to revisit this subject. Also, I’m going to see Theophile Steinlen’s cats in Richmond soon. You know the sign by Steinlein. But do you know it’s history? It’s vast, it’s strange, and it’s often overlooked.
Continue reading “Le Chat Noir Cabaret”
Maybe you’ve stumbled upon one of these ancient and colossal lamassu at a museum. They’re stunning massive mythological protective genies originating from Assyrian. And they’re full of surprises.
Continue reading “Illusionist Lamassu”
In my case, it’s a resounding yes. Truth be told I cry in almost every animated movie, so it’s not exactly hard to move me. But I have felt like a bit of a weirdo when I’m crying at a gallery.
Continue reading “Does Art Make You Cry?”
The winds in Arles can blow up to 80 kilometres an hour (or 50 mph). These ferocious winds are known as le mistral. Some people say it drove Vincent van Gogh to cut off his own ear.
Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother, Theo, about Le Mistral and how it affected his work. Continue reading “Arles: Vincent van Gogh and a Villanelle”


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By John Victor D. Ordoñez, Reporter
A SUPREME COURT (SC) ruling prohibiting water concession holders from recovering their corporate income tax by passing on the cost to customers closes the door on practices introduced in the early days of public-private partnerships (PPPs), analysts said.
“The Supreme Court was correct to reverse one of the most glaring excesses of early public-private partnerships projects, in which the government negotiated away the public interest to secure actual, unjust gains for its private partners,” Terry L. Ridon, convenor of public policy think tank Infrawatch PH, said in a Facebook Messenger chat.
In a Dec. 7, 2021 decision received by former Bayan Muna legislators on May 17, the High Court declared Maynilad Water Services, Inc. and Manila Water Co., Inc. to be public utilities providing basic services, barring them from recovering their income tax as operating expenses.
Under Republic Act No. 6234 or the law establishing the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS), the water concessionaires and the MWSS are allowed a rate of net return not exceeding 12% of the rate base of its assets in operation.
Former Bayan Representatives Neri J. Colmenares and Carlos Isagani T. Zarate, who filed the petition in 2015, sought to void the arbitration clause in the 1997 concession agreements between the water companies and the MWSS.
The provision the plaintiffs challenged allowed Maynilad and Manila Water to recover their income taxes by classifying them as operating expenses.
Under the concession agreements, the water companies were required to pay MWSS “concession fees” in exchange for the exclusive right to operate waterworks and sewerage operations in the east and west service areas of Metro Manila.
Through the provision in the agreements, the water companies were allowed to bill water consumers above “standard rates,” which would also be subject to the 12% rate limit.
Citing 2002 SC jurisprudence, the court said public utilities are prohibited from including these income taxes in rates chargeable to consumers.
“Though it did not grant a refund, ruling that Maynilad and Manila Water cannot pass on the 12% corporate income tax to the consumer will benefit the people since it should result in lower water rates,” Ephraim B. Cortez, president of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers, said in a Viber message.
“There is no question that, though they are private entities, they are subject to the stricter requirements of the Public Service Act.”
Under the Public Service Act, companies classified as public utilities are regulated and supervised by administrative agencies, which in the case of the water concessionaires is the MWSS.
The MWSS is authorized by law to periodically fix water rates and sewerage services fees at levels deemed to be fair and equitable.
Jennifer C. Rufo, Maynilad’s head of corporate communications, told BusinessWorld on Sunday that the revised concession agreement between the water distributors prohibited water companies from passing on their corporate income tax to consumers.
Maynilad and Manila Water announced in separate disclosures on May 11 that the amended agreements were signed on May 10, to retroactively take effect on July 1, 2022.
“The payment of corporate income taxes should never be subject to private sector cost recovery under any circumstance, as it subjects the public to additional burdens while expanding private partner gains for essentially the same service,” Mr. Ridon said.

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GAO criticizes Fed's handling of AIG bailout
The Federal Reserve failed to adequately address conflicts of interest or the reasons behind its actions when the central bank bailed out insurer American International Group (AIG) in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the Government Accountability Office said Tuesday. The GAO analyzed numerous AIG documents from the Fed and interviewed officials from the Fed and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as well as AIG executives, credit rating agencies and other parties. The financial deterioration of the insurer in 2008, prompted the Fed and the Treasury Department to authorize the injection of $182.3 billion into AIG. "While the Federal Reserve board exercised broad emergency lending authority to assist AIG, it was not required to, nor did it, fully document its interpretation of its authority or the basis of its decisions," according to the GAO report. The government study goes on to say the handling of the deal led to the development of complex relationships and conflicts of interest that may expose the New York Fed "to greater risk that it would not fully identify and appropriately manage conflict of issues and relationships." The GAO says after studying the AIG bailout, Federal Reserve officials should focus on finding ways to identify private sector solutions to crisis situations sooner to ease stress. In addition, the investigative arm on Congress said information should be compiled in advance before making major moves and stress tests should focus foremost on the interconnectedness of institutions to evaluate their impact on the entire financial system. Write to Kerri Panchuk.


There are a couple of new features on the WhatsApp Beta channel: one for desktop and one for mobile. Respectively, we talk about the possibility of filtering chats based on those containing unread messages and distributing the 2 GB limit for sent files to a larger number of users. Here are some more details.
As you can see from the screenshot above shared by XDA-Developers colleagues, the filter can be applied using a button to the right of the search box, located at the top left. The source reports that there are no options or parameters to configure: the filter does only one thing – switch from all chats to only those with unread messages. When the filter is active, a message appears in the column where chats appears to disable it if the list is empty. Seeing it this way it is easy to imagine that the filter has the potential to be expanded and expanded in the future, but for the moment this is.
Gizchina News of the week
The unread message filter and 2 GB files arrive to WhatsApp
In March 2022, WhatsApp was testing a feature that lets people in Argentina share media files up to 2GB; so some lucky users were finally able to send larger documents. Last month, WhatsApp started to release the same feature to a few more people outside of Argentina; but it still was a small test. Today, after installing the new WhatsApp beta for Android 126.96.36.199 update; more users are finally able to share documents up to 2GB since the rollout is really wider now!
The version of the client showing the novelty is 2.2221.1; at this stage, it is unclear whether it appears to everyone who has upgraded or to a subset of users; a sort of A / B test as is often taking place in the industry.
The ability to send larger documents has been rolling out to more people today (even some people on certain previous versions); and more activations are in plans over the coming weeks.
The functionality had been officially official a few weeks ago in conjunction; with the arrival of the reactions but so far we have saw it a little. The guys from WABetaInfo, who follow every story related to the Meta super messaging client closely; say that so far the new limit (remember that at the moment the maximum is 100 MB); had appeared to a small number of users in Argentina; but now apparently the roll-out is global. For the moment there are feedback on the Beta version 188.8.131.52 for Android which is available on the Play Store.


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Title: The Initiation
Series: SOS Series #1
Author: Kailee Reese Samuels
Genre: N/A Coming of Age/Dark Romance
Published: April 20, 2015
Five years ago, Sal Raniero stood a loyal son and responsible friend. Giving everything he had to his family and friends, Sal continued on his way to becoming the man everyone expected. But he harbored a dark secret.
He needed pain… A lot of pain.
When the offer is put before him to push further, he cannot resist his masochistic cravings. Praying and playing on his knees, he is confronted with the last thing he expects.
Torn between being the golden boy of Juliet and just another guy with a fetish streak, he makes a decision that will chart the course for the rest of his life. Will Sal survive his initiation into the deep waters of Juliet?
Hold on tight and get ready to ride.
THE INITIATION book 1 is set within the Juliet world and provides further glimpses into Salvatore Raniero’s character and history.
JULIET is Kailee Reese Samuels full-length debut novel.
Kailee Reese Samuels writes romantic suspense with an erotic flair. Let her words whisk you away, escaping with delicious guys, toe-curling kisses, and addictive stories.
WARNING: This book contains graphic BDSM, strong sexual situations, and explicit language. Contents intended for MATURE readers 18+ ONLY.
"Keep a lookout for this series!" ~ Natasha Anne, Amazon Reviewer
"Kailee really knows how to write these people and they all seem very real. We learn more and more with each book and begin to figure each one out as we go. I think it'll be a long ride, but I'm in baby!" ~ JWM, Amazon Reviewer
Embracing diversity. Coffee addict. Mango lover. Blueberry fetishist. Sweet peach tea crazy. Red wine devout. Whiskey deviant. Tattooed & pierced. Loves shoes. Collects rosaries. Fanatical organizer/cleaner/list-maker. Never sleeps. Hermit and recluse.
KAILEE REESE SAMUELS has been spinning tales since she can remember. Her books are contemporary fiction with a no-holds-barred attitude. She adores listening to her character’s ramble and putting them into situations that push the boundaries.
Creativity is the way to change.

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ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is bringing a greater level of control, security and flexibility to cloud-based application development and delivery with a single-tenant version of Bluemix, IBM's platform-as-a-service. The new platform enables developers to build ap...
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TEMECULA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/13/13 -- Industrial automation manufacturer Opto 22 has announced groov, a new way to build, deploy, and view simple, effective, and scalable operator interfaces to monitor and control systems and equipment using computers and mobile devices. Using only a modern web browser, groov securely lets industrial automation end-users, system integrators, machine OEMs, building managers, technicians, or any authorized person quickly build and deploy browser-based interfaces for automation, monitoring, and control applications. These operator interfaces can then be viewed on almost any computer or mobile device regardless of its manufacturer or operating system, including PCs, tablets, smartphones, and even smart high-definition televisions. groov is intended to augment traditional human-machine interfaces (HMIs) by making important information available at any time and in any location.
groov reduces the time, complexity, and cost usually associated with mobile HMI development by operating completely within a modern web browser and running on a secure and industrially hardened network appliance. groov offers a simple yet flexible environment for developing operator interfaces with zero programming, and requires no per-seat runtime or viewing licenses. Overcoming the biggest challenge in developing for multiple screen sizes, groov automatically and gracefully scales all screens, page objects, and gadgets, allowing groov HMIs to be viewed and manipulated from virtually any device of any screen size.
groov works with modern web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Opera running on operating systems including iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. groov benefits from the capabilities of these browsers by using the latest web standards like HTML5, CSS3, and SVG. And while many competing technologies depend on additional software or browser plug-ins like Flash, Silverlight, or Java to work, groov requires no additional software or plug-ins, simplifying deployment.
Networking and Interface Development
The heart of the groov system is a secure industrial appliance called the groov Box, which runs groov software. All network communication between a web browser and the groov Box uses an encrypted secure sockets layer (SSL) over an HTTPS connection. The groov Box does not respond to any other communication methods on any other ports.
groov connects to Opto 22 SNAP PAC automation systems and OptoEMU energy monitoring products over a separate and segmented wired or wireless Ethernet network, adding a secure barrier for control systems. Support for the OPC-UA protocol is planned in 2013 and will allow groov to communicate with systems from other manufacturers that offer an OPC-UA server.
The simple and flexible development environment, groov Build, dramatically reduces the time needed to build interfaces when compared to traditional HMI screen building tools. groov Build includes a library of scalable, touchscreen-ready gadgets: gauges, buttons, range indicators, text entry, sliders, and trends. Images and real-time video from network IP cameras -- also fully scalable -- can also be added. Designed to support HMI best practices, groov Build includes the tools necessary to build high-performance, intelligible information and control screens like those defined by the High Performance HMI Handbook (Hollifield et al.) and the ASM (Abnormal Situation Management) Consortium Guidelines, Effective Operator Display Design.
The groov system includes the groov Box, groov Build, groov View, and the optional apps groov View for iOS and groov View for Android.
- groov Box is a small-footprint network appliance designed for industrial environments; it interfaces with control systems and runs the groov software. The groov Box includes three separate, independent network interfaces: two 1-Gbps Ethernet interfaces and one 802.11b/g/n wireless interface.
- groov Build is the software used to create an interface in a browser.
- groov View is the software used to run an interface in a browser.
- groov View for iOS and groov View for Android are optional free apps that display the operator interface full screen and without browser menus. These apps make an interface look like a native app for the device, and are ideal for mobile devices used in kiosk applications.
Pricing and Availability
Opto 22's groov will be available in April 2013 at a suggested list price of $1995 USD. To pre-order, contact Opto 22 Pre-Sales at 951-695-3000 or toll free at 1-800-321-6786. For additional information, visit groov.com.
About Opto 22
Opto 22 develops and manufactures hardware and software for applications involving industrial automation and control, energy management, remote monitoring, and data acquisition. Designed and made in the U.S.A., Opto 22 products have an established reputation worldwide for ease of use, innovation, quality, and reliability. Opto 22 products, which use standard, commercially available networking and computer technologies, are used by automation end-users, OEMs, and information technology and operations personnel in over 10,000 installations worldwide. The company was founded in 1974 and is privately held in Temecula, California, U.S.A. Opto 22 products are available through a global network of distributors and system integrators. For more information, contact Opto 22 headquarters at +1-951-695-3000 or visit www.opto22.com.
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Building low-cost wearable devices can enhance the quality of our lives. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Sai Yamanoor, Embedded Software Engineer at Altschool, provided an example of putting together a small keychain within a $50 budget that educates the user about the air quality in their surroundings. He also provided examples such as building a wearable device that provides transit or recreational information. He then reviewed the resources available to build wearable devices at home including open source hardware, the raw materials required and the options available to power s...
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The Internet of Things promises to transform businesses (and lives), but navigating the business and technical path to success can be difficult to understand. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Sean Lorenz, Technical Product Manager for Xively at LogMeIn, demonstrated how to approach creating broadly successful connected customer solutions using real world business transformation studies including New England BioLabs and more.
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Since 2008 and for the first time in history, more than half of humans live in urban areas, urging cities to become “smart.” Today, cities can leverage the wide availability of smartphones combined with new technologies such as Beacons or NFC to connect their urban furniture and environment to create citizen-first services that improve transportation, way-finding and information delivery. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Laetitia Gazel-Anthoine, CEO of Connecthings, will focus on successful use cases.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled ‘Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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The Internet of Things is a misnomer. That implies that everything is on the Internet, and that simply should not be - especially for things that are blurring the line between medical devices that stimulate like a pacemaker and quantified self-sensors like a pedometer or pulse tracker. The mesh of things that we manage must be segmented into zones of trust for sensing data, transmitting data, receiving command and control administrative changes, and peer-to-peer mesh messaging. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ryan Bagnulo, Solution Architect / Software Engineer at SOA Software, focused on desi...
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"For over 25 years we have been working with a lot of enterprise customers and we have seen how companies create applications. And now that we have moved to cloud computing, mobile, social and the Internet of Things, we see that the market needs a new way of creating applications," stated Jesse Shiah, CEO, President and Co-Founder of AgilePoint Inc., in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 15th Cloud Expo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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The Industrial Internet revolution is now underway, enabled by connected machines and billions of devices that communicate and collaborate. The massive amounts of Big Data requiring real-time analysis is flooding legacy IT systems and giving way to cloud environments that can handle the unpredictable workloads. Yet many barriers remain until we can fully realize the opportunities and benefits from the convergence of machines and devices with Big Data and the cloud, including interoperability, data security and privacy.
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The industrial software market has treated data with the mentality of “collect everything now, worry about how to use it later.” We now find ourselves buried in data, with the pervasive connectivity of the (Industrial) Internet of Things only piling on more numbers. There’s too much data and not enough information. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Bob Gates, Global Marketing Director, GE’s Intelligent Platforms business, to discuss how realizing the power of IoT, software developers are now focused on understanding how industrial data can create intelligence for industrial operations. Imagine ...
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There is no doubt that Big Data is here and getting bigger every day. Building a Big Data infrastructure today is no easy task. There are an enormous number of choices for database engines and technologies. To make things even more challenging, requirements are getting more sophisticated, and the standard paradigm of supporting historical analytics queries is often just one facet of what is needed. As Big Data growth continues, organizations are demanding real-time access to data, allowing immediate and actionable interpretation of events as they happen. Another aspect concerns how to deliver ...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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Very Good Minus in Good jacket. As told in letters to Richard Halliburton's mother and father. Boards worn around the edges, map endpapers. Binding tight, pages unmarked. Black & white photographs. Jacket worn and torn around the edges, especially at corners.
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