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App Information Samurai Fight of Kungfu Combat
- App NameSamurai Fight of Kungfu Combat
- Package Namecom.bagxtimer.samuraifight
- UpdatedDecember 23, 2015
- File SizeUndefined
- Requires AndroidAndroid 2.3 and up
- Developerhou jujing
- Installs10,000 - 50,000
- Google Play Link
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Samurai Fight of Kungfu Combat 1.1 APK FilePublish Date: 2016 /3/19Requires Android: Android 2.3+ (Gingerbread, API: 9)File Size: 27.1 MBTested on: Android 2.3 (Gingerbread, API: 9)File Sha1: 6c8dd3d2c9522482a877c221cd071de0816acf9f
Samurai Fight of Kungfu Combat 1.1 APK
A fast-paced Ninja fighting arcade game.Newstyle of sword combat but addictive fighting Coin-operatedarcadegame!Features of Action Fighting, Stage Complete and Role Playing areallcombined in this samurai fight game.Game has distinctive battle strategy, allows you controlyourcompanions attack or defense in real time.Control your role, prepare for the Fight and build up yourownskills and props, in mortal combat, against enemies in thearenasand on battlefields!Variety of enemies, each of them have their own unique attackmode.Attack first, wipe them out before they hurt you！40+ levels are included in this fight battles.Collect the money and upgrade the skills.Much fun andTotallyFREE!Features of Game:- Great fighting effects in the fighting!- Upgrading skills comes with unbelievable changes!- Varieties of combination attack skills!- Multiple levels to challenge!- Arrest BOSS, let them fight for you!- Incredible new swipe based control! Easy to learn, hardtomaster- Beat your opponents on many awesome locations!- A cool mobile fighting game in the style of Street FighterandTekken- All is Free to playAny advices, please email to us to improve the game!If you like our game, please give us a 5 star! Thank you foryourappreciate!
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Below you will find the third essay in my new book, Wisdom: Life’s Great Treasure. It explains the relationship between wisdom and our pursuit of happiness.
What do you want most out of life?
What do you want most out of life? If you were to conduct street interviews in any city and ask this question, the answer you would overwhelmingly hear is “happiness .” It seems to be the universal response in all countries, at all times.
Going back to the early Greek philosophers, a group of men in search of wisdom journeyed to discover how individuals could live a good and happy life. Aristotle called happiness “the highest good,” reflecting that an enlightened society would be ordered with the goal of helping its citizens become happy. The problem is, the Greeks could never land on a unified answer of how to find it.
Also on a quest for the root of happiness, Blaise Pascal addressed these words in his 1660 classic book, “Pensées”: “All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions. However different the means they may employ, they all strive toward this goal!”
Ironically, Pascal saw nothing but unhappiness all around him. He writes, “as unhappy as we are … we have an idea of happiness, but we cannot obtain it.” He concludes that instead of being happy, we struggle with “inconstancy, boredom and anxiety.”
Fast forward to 1930 when Sigmund Freud published his book, “Civilization and Its Discontent.” Freud originally planned to title it “Unhappiness in Civilization,” but was convinced otherwise. The book’s central theme is the frustration one experiences in the perennial search for happiness. Freud recognized this as the driving force of all people. He perceived our desire for happiness to be insatiable. However, what most people don’t know, is that happiness eluded Freud his entire life. In fact, he referred to life as being joyless and full of misery.
Happiness and the Social Sciences
Over the last 20 years, social scientists have performed research at the University of Chicago, Princeton, Harvard and Yale to better understand personal happiness and its relationship with rising prosperity. The results were baffling. Researchers learned that as prosperity rises in the western world, our sense of well-being does not move toward happiness; rather, it retreats.
Princeton professor Dr. Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002, spent two decades observing the “subjective well-being”–a common phrase social scientists use to describe happiness–in people’s lives, and eventually abandoned his work. During this 20-year period, Dr. Kahneman was unable to summarize conclusive insights regarding a person’s happiness.
Gregg Easterbrook is a popular journalist and a contributing editor at The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly. His 2003 book, “The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse,” asserts that almost all aspects of western civilization have vastly improved in the last 100 years, while men and women of today are not as happy as in previous generations. Easterbrook cites this riveting observation:
How many of us feel positive about our moment, or even believe that life is getting better? Today, Americans tell pollsters that the country is going downhill; that their parents had it better; that they feel unbearably stressed out; that their children face a declining future– and Americans were telling pollsters this even during the unprecedented boom that preceded the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
Far from feeling better about their lives, many are feeling worse. Throughout the United States and the European Union, incidence of clinical melancholy has been rising in eerie synchronization with rising prosperity: Adjusting for population growth, “unipolar” depression, the condition in which a person simply always feels blue, is ten times as prevalent today as it was half a century ago.
There is increasing evidence by other sources to support Easterbrook’s claim.
In their 2003 book, “Healing Anxiety and Depression,” Drs. Daniel Amen and Lisa Routh claim, “Anxiety and depression are major public health problems reaching epidemic levels in the United States.”
Dr. Martin Seligman, a psychologist who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the bestselling book, “Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Wellbeing,” spent his entire career studying human happiness. Dr. Seligman highlights in his research that the baby boomer generation has experienced a significant increase in depression compared to earlier generations. This rise can only lead to one conclusion–an epidemic in modern culture, which explains the explosion of our suicide rate.
Joining the quest for the source of happiness, philosopher Deal Hudson presented his argument on psychological happiness:
[Psychological happiness] has become an unquestioned first principle of the present age. As a result, the cultivation of satisfaction, pleasure and emotion now takes precedence over the nurturing of moral and institutional character.
We have gone from a time when self-restraint was a cardinal virtue, to one where self-gratification is the driving force in people’s lives.
Finding the Right Path
Although these findings appear grim, the purpose of this book is to help people understand why they are coming up short in their pursuit of happiness, offering insight for change. It is indeed a great paradox. We live in such prosperity, a country where we are free to pursue our dreams. Yet, disappointment and despair surrounds us as we continue down the wrong path. Perhaps it is time to be open to the possibility that our ideas about happiness may, in fact, be wrong.
Dr. Seligman provides a thoughtful view on what has occurred. He suggests we no longer exist as our ancestors, who lived for a cause much bigger than themselves: God, family and country. In the past, people tied happiness to the right ordering of the soul. It was considered a reward for living wisely.
C.S. Lewis makes a shrewd observation about living wisely in his book, The Abolition of Man. He states that ancient wisdom recognized that man’s chief problem was how to conform his or her soul to reality. The answer to this is by acquiring wisdom. In other words, wisdom is the answer to the cardinal problem of life. Lewis says here is life, and I need to see and understand how it works, and then seek to live in harmony with it. This is wisdom and this is what leads to our ultimate well-being.
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Prajāpati reflected on mankind; from it, the reflected,
issued forth the threefold knowledge; he reflected on it; from it, the reflected,
proceeded the [three] letters, Bhu, Bhuva and Sva!
On them, he reflected; from them, the reflected, issued forth Om.
As leaves are attached to their stalks, so is speech connected with Om.
Verily all this is Om! Verily all this is Om!
Translated in English for a series of Academic Editions of Classics 'BIBLIOTHECA INDICA'in 1861
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Dr. Jason A. Renz is from Plymouth, Indiana, where he attended Plymouth High School. He was a three-sport athlete and a state champion in basketball, where he won the Arthur L. Trester Mental Attitude Award. Following graduation, Dr. Renz attended Indiana University in Bloomington. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology with minors in both chemistry and psychology. Dr. Renz graduated from IU School of Dentistry in 2015 and has furthered his dental knowledge through many hours of continuing education courses.
Dr. Renz and his wife, Jessica, have a busy family. They have a 5 year old daughter, Elliana, a 3 year old son, Benjamin, and a 1 year old son Lucas. Together, they enjoy spending time with family, friends, and their Yorkie, Wrigley. Dr. Renz enjoys golfing and traveling with his young family. He looks forward to treating his patients with the highest standard of care while providing a relaxing experienceView Our 3Cs

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The benefits of an intranet to business
What is Intranet?
Intranet is a network based on the Internet that is accessed by the employees of an organization. An Intranet provides easy access to internal files and documents to the various employees of the organization, from their individual workstations. Sharing of data, made possible through the Intranet, not only helps in saving time of employees, but also allows employees from various levels to access data. It also contributes to a paperless office.
Benefits of Intranet
Most of today’s modern businesses are adopting intranet technology due its competitive advantages in dealing with the corporate information essential for any business.
Communication: Intranet is extremely useful for communication and collaboration between the employees for successful functioning of any business organization. Intranet provides this to businesses in the form of tools like discussion groups, Intranet forms, and bulletin boards. Using intranet tools help in conveying and distributing necessary information or documents among the employees of an organization. This results in easy communication and sound relationship between the employees and top level management. Today, many business houses working on projects use intranet tools, discussion forms, chats, emails, electronic bulletin boards, etc. that help in communicating between different departments of an organization.


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There are legitimate differences in line tapers, and that the more you learn about them and match the right line to your own style and interests, the better you will cast and the better you will fish.
When I look at the amount of time and energy devoted on this very site (with good reason) to topics related to cartridges for rifles, or shells for shotguns, or arrows for bows, I cannot help but wonder why so few fly anglers carefully consider the line they use. Seriously, if anglers thought half as much about what line to use on their 5-weight as a shooter does about whether to fire 165-grain or 180-grain bullets through a 30.06, most questions about how to effectively cast would answer themselves. And a good fly line can make a budget rod dance, while crappy line will knock the performance straight out of the most expensive, next-generation graphite rod.
It’s one thing to decide whether you want a double-taper (say, for delicate dry-fly presentations) or a weight-forward line (a good all-around option), or a sink tip (for fishing streamers)—that’s the easy part. But even if you are looking at the most common line (the WF5F) it’s …Read the Rest
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When there was a new HVAC contractor in town, my wife said we had to go to this place.
The building was absolutely huge and the whole space was occupied by this one contractor.
They were a huge HVAC supplier providing all sorts of things like, window AC units, gas fireplaces, central HVAC systems, all sorts of cooling systems, and more! When we were walking through this place, I felt like I was in a trance. I just couldn’t believe all the heat and AC products that were surrounding me. I felt like I could use all of these things but there was no way I could afford everything. When an HVAC expert came to help us out, I told him I didn’t know the first thing to ask about what we needed. He said he could help us with all our HVAC needs including heating and cooling system repairs, replacements, and they could get us hooked up with the most modern HVAC installs. He told us about some of his preferred HVAC systems like radiant heated floors and geothermal HVAC systems. He said the ductless options were fantastic as well. Eventually, we agreed to have a consultation at our home to see what would work best for us. The good thing is that the consultation was free and the HVAC expert was very helpful in finding us exactly what we needed. We wanted some sort of HVAC system that provided excellent air purification and was energy efficient. We ended up getting a ductless multi-split system installed. This system has built-in air purification and we also have zoned comfort now with customized temperature control settings in each zone.


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For weeks, hundreds of Canadian truckers have parked their 18-wheelers causing gridlock around Ottawa in protest of vaccine mandates. Trucks part of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” have blocked important bridges that connect the U.S. and its northern neighbor and caused traffic jams across the capital. But try as they might, authorities have been unable to move the trucks. Now, Canadian police are threatening mass arrests in the hopes of dispersing the truckers.
In a sternly worded letter released Wednesday, police tried to lay down the law, the New York Post reported.
“The unlawful act of blocking streets in the downtown core is resulting in people being denied the lawful use, enjoyment, and operation of their property,” police said. “You must immediately cease further unlawful activity or you may face charges.”
Police have arrested at least 23 people and written more than 1,300 tickets, the Post notes.
So far, the trucks are staying put. The truckers have spent weeks in the cold to demand that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lift Canada’s cross-border vaccine mandate. Under that rule, any trucker that crosses into the United States must show proof of vaccination or face a lengthy quarantine to return to Canada. The truckers want that and other COVID-19 mandates lifted before they will leave, the NY Post said. Their stance has sparked similar protests around the world.
Police have threatened to seize the vehicles of anyone who doesn’t comply with their new order. But even if they arrest every trucker, authorities would still be left with a serious problem.
“If you know anything about truck air brakes, once you pull that button, all 18 wheels are locked,” one truck driver involved in the Freedom Convoy told CBC. “Nothing can move it, except maybe a big wrecker. And no wrecker worth his salt is going to come anywhere near this, because they’re on our side.”
Third Major Bridge, Factory Closes Over Freedom Convoy Blocka
As part of the Freedom Convoy, truckers are blocking major thoroughfares between the United States and Canada. On Thursday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued a statement demanding Canada do something to break up the blockades, Fox News reported.
“The blockade is having a significant impact on Michigan’s working families who are just trying to do their jobs. Our communities and automotive, manufacturing, and agriculture businesses are feeling the effects. It’s hitting paychecks and production lines. That is unacceptable,” the governor said.
The Freedom Convoy has partially blocked three major bridges that connect the countries and slowed trade and commerce, Fox said. Ford announced this week it would temporarily close its Windsor, Ontario, engine factory because it can’t get the parts it needs.
PM Trudeau tweeted on Wednesday that the blockades must end, but it’s unclear what the Canadian government can do to stop them. Officials could arrest the truckers, though that could cause problems. Or they could call in the military to force them to move. But Trudeau said he would not consider that option. The quickest outcome will be if the government sits down and works out a compromise with the Freedom Convoy leaders, the CBC said. Though, it’s unclear if the Canadian government is willing to budge on the mandate.

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The Greensboro City Council is scheduled to discuss the “Community Heroes Homebuyer Program” at the work session on Thursday, Oct. 27.
According to the presentation, just about anyone who makes between 80.01 percent and 120 percent of the area median income (AMI) and isn’t employed by a for-profit business qualifies for the program.
The list of those considered “Community Heroes” and qualify for the program is:
- City of Greensboro, Guilford County, State of North Carolina, and federal government employees
- Guilford County public school teachers and administrators
- University and college faculty and staff
- Non-profit organization employees
- Military (Active duty, Reservists, National Guard members and Coast Guard Personnel)
- Military Veterans
- Other first responders (i.e. EMS/paramedics, healthcare workers)
The income range for a one-person household to qualify for up to $25,000 in down payment and closing cost assistance with “no minimum investment from the buyer” is from $40,901 to $61,300. The loan of up to $25,000 is forgiven at the end of the loan term. Forgiven means that it doesn’t have to be paid back.
The income range for a two-person household is $46,751 to $70,100.
The income range for a four-person household is from $58,400 to $87,600.
Home buyers who qualify for the program would also be eligible for an additional $5,000 in assistance for buying a home in reinvestment and redevelopment areas. So the maximum assistance in those areas would be $30,000.
According to the presentation the Community Heroes Program will foster wealth building opportunities for moderate-income residents serving the community, enable the workforce to live in the place they serve, encourage stability in Greensboro neighborhoods, promote the affordable homeownership goals of Housing GSO and will strengthen Greensboro as an employer of choice.
The funding for the program will come from the 2022 bonds.
Under the proposed program no minimum investment from the homebuyer is required and they can receive up to $2,500 back at closing.


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Dean Football Defeats Hudson Valley on Family Day to Improve Record to 3-1September 22, 2012
The Dean College football team set the tone for Family Day as they defeated the Hudson Valley Vikings by a score of 41-6 on Saturday, September 22. After suffering a tough loss in their opener, the Dean Bulldogs are now red hot and riding a three game win streak; all three wins coming at home in Franklin. Next week, the Bulldogs will hit the road and head to Louisburg, North Carolina to take on the Louisburg Hurricanes.


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National curriculum content
- Compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the bases of their appearance and simple physical properties.
- Describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock.
- Recognise soils are made from rocks and organic matter.
- Sort rocks on appearance
- Describe how fossils are formed
- Observe that soils are made from rocks and organic matter
- Identify types rocks
- Identify types of rocks and explain how they are made
What we want children to know
- How to classify rocks according to their properties
- How metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks are made
- Sort and classify soil and say that soil is made from bits of rock and plants
- Soil is in layers and is made up of bits of rock and plants
- Know that foils represent an animal or plant that lived millions of years ago
- How plants and animals can be fossilised in ice and amber
What skills we want children to develop
- Classify rocks using a given criteria
- Apply what they know and use scientific language to describe how rocks are made
- Use question stems to ask questions and answer them
- Carry out comparative tests and measure using standard measures
- Report and present findings from enquiries
- Communicate their own explanations from questions that they have asked and answered
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Original Accept frontman Udo Dirkschneider has reunited with fellow former members of the band Stefan Kaufmann and Peter Baltes for a brand-new song and music video.
Udo, Peter and Stefan reunited under the banner of Dirkschneider & The Old Gang to record the new track, that is entitled "Where The Angels Fly", and video for the song was released late last week.
The U.D.O. Facebook page also noted about the track, "It also contains another aspect of the 'We Are One' philosophy: for the first time for ages, Udo Dirkschneider and Peter Baltes are singing together again on one song!
"Next to them, also Stefan Kaufmann is involved in the song and in the songwriting." Watch the video below:


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On August 25, Assembly Member Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, released a statement protesting Assembly Bill 131, the second part of the California DREAM Act that has passed the Senate Appropriations Committee and is headed for Governor Jerry Brown’s desk for his signature. Brown already signed the first part, AB 130, which authorizes the use by aliens of private funds if they are accepted into California’s universities and colleges.
In the same statement, Donnelly urged citizens to call Brown’s office to encourage him to veto not only AB 131 but also AB 1081, a separate bill that permits cities to adopt sanctuary policies that gives safe haven from law enforcement officers to criminal aliens.
Donnelly called the two bills nightmares. The DREAM Act ignores the financial needs of struggling citizen students who are hard pressed to meet the ever increasing California university system tuition rates while it gives aliens access to $40 million in state funded Cal Grants. Analysts estimate the cost to taxpayers of this extravagance will reach into the tens of millions annually and predict it will increase over the years as the lure of cheap but high quality education lures more illegal immigration to California.
Donnelly is convinced that Brown knows that the state can ill afford to further subsidize aliens’ educations and also that the governor knows that continuing to ignore the considerable public safety risks that sanctuary cities create is shortsighted. When he was attorney general, Brown warned against sanctuary cites.
Donnelly promised to file a referendum if Brown signs the DREAM Act.
In the meantime, the pressure on Brown to pass AB 131 has intensified. Late last week in Los Angeles, Illegal alien activists including the Association of Raza Educators demonstrated. Chanting "Keep your promise Jerry Brown," a reference to Brown’s repeated campaign pledges that he would sign the DREAM Act after he was elected, the demonstrators recognize AB 131 as their best chance for financial aid—a possible now or never situation. Former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed similar bills.
Some aliens’ arguments reveal a greater sense of entitlement than financial need. For example, Roman Morales, a Cal State L.A. business management student, currently pays his tuition with income from a daily janitorial job. But said Morales, aid would alleviate his "tremendous stress." [Advocates Push Public Aid for Undocumented Students, by Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, August 24, 2011]
As long time observers of the illegal immigration movement know too well, nothing is ever enough. Morales benefited from a free K-12 education, attends a university and holds a job he is not legally entitled to. Instead of being thankful, Morales wants more.


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FESTIVALS: San Fran Fest's Wild Ride: Crescendo or New Beginning?
by Carl Russo
(indieWIRE/ 05.07.01) — Open a film festival in Frisco with two nights of pornography and the town will beat a path to the front row. Yet the premieres of “The Center of the World” and “Baise-Moi” put the sizzle on a pretty tough steak: fifteen days worth of worldwide chaos courtesy of Peter Scarlet, the Artistic Director of the San Francisco International Film Festival. Fortunately, almost every film Scarlet screens these days is a sellout.
The 44th installment of the Americas’ oldest film festival — which ran April 19 through May 3 — marked the end of an era. Call them the Scarlet Years. An unabashed Francophile equally at home translating Gerard Depardieu‘s words at a press conference or smoking with the volunteers during intermission, Scarlet bids adieu to his post as the fest’s chief programmer. His next assignment is a natural: directorship of the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris. His successor has not been announced.
Scarlet’s heavy stamp was obvious on this year’s catalog: French features outnumbered American ones. But more telling was the subject matter. Documentaries exploring the most incendiary conflicts of the here-and-now played alongside narratives infused with harrowing realism. To wit, three North American premieres:
Adi Barash‘s all-too-real documentary “Diamonds and Rust” (Israel) proves that apartheid is alive and well on the deck of a trawler sucking the resources, not to mention the soul, out of the Namibian coast. The white ship officers’ hostility to the crew of color extends to the filmmakers, who endured a hellish season on board. Issa Serge Coleo‘s “Daresalem” (France/ Burkina Faso) opens with a spear to the neck of a military tax collector in 1970 Chad, followed by a civil war story fraught with particular inhumanities.
And for real button pushing, there’s no beating the image of a US flag sown to an Israeli flag, set aflame by a mob of students in Khaled Youssef‘s “The Storm” (Egypt). The political melodrama finds two brothers fighting from opposite sides of a Gulf War skirmish between Egypt and Iraq, but when the cast suddenly bursts into song mid-movie, we’re endeared to the mushy love story.
Depictions of a dystopic Europe are always guaranteed a slot at SFIFF, and the latest works were a thrill to behold. Nicolas Klotz exploits the verite urgency of digital video in “Pariah,” which begins with a New Year’s Eve sweep of homeless Parisians, then flashes back a day to plot the downfall of a teenage bullshit artist. Slicker, but no less explosive is Michael Haneke‘s “Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys,” which uses an incident of police brutality on an African transplant named to unravel modern Paris. Dito Tsintsadze‘s “Lost Killers” pairs a large Haitian street performer with a squat Vietnamese hooker, each deciding that selling organs and enduring gangbangs are their tickets out of a wretched Mannheim, Germany.
Carmen Maura seems to have stepped out of an Almodovar romp and into “The Harem of Mme. Osmane,” Nadir Mokneche‘s outrageous ensemble piece that reveals the colonial hangover suffered by bickering women in 1993 Algeria. Reversing the situation, as well as the mood, is Philippe Faucon‘s “Samia,” the name of an Algerian girl in Marseilles oppressed by members of her immigrant Muslim family, who in turn are victims of French racism.
Bleaker still are two taxicab tales that also focus on multicultural dislocation in France. Robert Guediguian‘s Marseilles-set Venice favorite “The Town is Quiet,” and “Save Me,” in which Roschdy Zem plays Mehdi, a cabby of African descent hustling fares in a nondescript French city. His dull routine is broken by the arrival of a capricious Romanian woman searching for a past lover. Director Christian Vincent exhibits a free-spirited style as his characters form makeshift families to survive a corrupt employment system.
Shaken fest-goers were offered a much smoother ride — in a big, yellow Checker Marathon to be precise. The vintage 1980 taxi made a run from New York to Los Angeles in “American Saint,” an independent DV feature which had its world premiere at the Kabuki Theater. A Brooklyn hack (character actor Vincent Schiavelli) agrees to drive a Kerouac-struck actor (indie perennial Kevin Corrigan) to the Coast for a Milos Forman casting call in this refreshing twist on the road trip genre.
“The original idea came to me when I was actually in the back seat of a New York City cab, and I just felt like I wanted to take this cab from New York to L.A.,” writer/director Joseph Castelo told indieWIRE. “The fare is something like $9,713.” The Columbia University film student caught the attention of producers Michael Hausman (“The People vs. Larry Flynt“) and Jeff Levy-Hinte (“High Art“) with a 30-page treatment. Aside from a few location snafus with the police, the improvised joyride was completed without a hitch, costing about $250,000 including 35mm transfer.
“American Saint” refers to the character of Dean Moriarty in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and Castelo admits that he is devotee of the late author. Commenting on an indie film tradition of beatnik-wannabe characters, Castelo said, “The way I avoided cliches was just keeping it real. As long as everything was truthful, I wasn’t pandering to the audience.”
Moments that ring true outshine a few bad improvs. “We would show up somewhere and people didn’t know we were coming. I’d say, ‘This guy is really interesting. Let’s get something going.'” The film coalesces when the principals meet Joe Light, a funky “outsider” artist discovered during the course of the shoot, whose presence gave cast, crew and the San Fran audience a dose of authentic Americana.
The distributor-less “American Saint” was one of the few highlights on the domestic front this year as a record number of studio films crept into the program just weeks or days before opening wide.
A strong slate of Iranian features and shorts were artistically satisfying, if a bit depressing (add Mehdi Sabaghzadeh‘s “Maral” to the list of recent works attacking Islamic patriarchy with pizzazz).
Consider the Japanese for comic relief. 90-year-old director Kon Ichikawa dusted off an old Kurosawa script about a maverick commissioner sent to rid a town of vice. At once mannered and reckless, “Dora-Heita” points up the absurdities of samurai bureaucracy with a boss who would rather gambol than report to the office. Makoto Shinozaki‘s “Not Forgotten” takes the bittersweet premise of a WWII soldier reunion and slaps on a wicked subplot: a corporate mind-control cult recruits youngsters to swindle geriatrics out of their benefits. Rounding out the quirk factor were two dark comedies: Takeshi Kitano‘s upcoming yakuza-in La-la-land actioner “Brother” and Junji Sakamoto‘s “Face,” which debuted at this year’s New Directors/New Films.
Celeb spotters hoping for a glimpse of Clint Eastwood or Stockard Channing — each of whom received awards at sold-out tributes — might have missed one of Johnny Depp‘s latest leading ladies dashing about in a spiky red ‘do. According to German actress Franka Potente, few people realize that the star of Tom Tykwer‘s “Run Lola Run” also played the cocaine moll in Ted Demme‘s “Blow.” “It was probably because I was convincing as an American,” Potente told indieWIRE in telltale German accent. “Two months of hard work on every little sentence.” Potente came to the festival with Sony Pictures Classics‘ “The Princess and the Warrior,” her second collaboration with Tykwer. Dreamy and disturbing with a cool, haunting score, the film is a web of providence and coincidence. Later in the fest, Potente hopped a bus and rode seven miles out to visit the San Francisco Zoo. And nobody recognized her.
Change is in the air for the festival, and a big question mark hovers over 2002. A new Artistic Director and possible changes of venue and season are being discussed. Was this the last of a really good thing, or just another wild ride at SFIFF?
[Carl Russo is a radio producer and freelance writer living in San Francisco.]

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The new wildflower garden at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary is just spectacular! The wildflower species are numerous and the butterflies are everywhere! There are even walking paths through the garden so you can get “up close and personal” with the flowers and get that perfect photo-op of a Monarch butterfly.
If you haven’t been to the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary lately, it’s well worth the stop. Not only are the wildflowers and butterflies gorgeous, the shore birds are abundant out on the beach at low tide.

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Xiaomi is expected to launch a new smartphone in the Chinese market called as the Xiaomi Mi 6C. The Mi 6C will be a new variant of the Xiaomi Mi 6 which was launched in China back in April 2017.
Xiaomi every year launches some new variants for the major flagship phones like there is Xiaomi Mi 5C and Mi5X for the Xiaomi Mi5 and now they are expected to launch the Xiaomi Mi 6C.
The Xiaomi Mi 6C will be the successor to the Xiaomi Mi 5C. Notably, the Xiaomi Mi 5C was the first smartphone to come with the Xiaomi made Surge S1 processor. The Xiaomi Mi 6C is expected to launch with the new Surge S2 Processor.
The news and images of the upcoming Xiaomi Mi6C was shared on the Chinese microblogging website Weibo.
The Surge S1 came with Cortex A53 Octa-Core architecture and was made using 28 Nm process and had a clock speed of 2.2 GHz.
Performance wise the Surge S1 was slightly faster when compared to the Snapdragon 625 Processor but not as energy efficient as the SD 625.
Surge S2 Processor Details
This year the alleged Surge S2 to be used in the Xiaomi Mi 6C is expected to come with Cortex A73 Cores clocked at 2.2 GHz and Cortex A53 Cores clocked at 1.8 GHz.
The Surge S2 Processor will be manufactured using the more advanced 16 Nm process and will make it more energy efficient as well. As per the grape wine, the processor can deliver performance close to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 or 660 which is really an upgrade compared to the Surge S1.
Xiaomi Mi 5C
Xiaomi Mi 6C Specs and Price
The above image for the Xiaomi Mi 6C was also shared on Chinese social media website and by the looks of it the smartphone seems to be either 5.2 inch or 5.5 inches in screen size and may come with Full HD display.
There is no headphone jack at the bottom but there is a dual speaker grill on each side of a USB Type C port.
The smartphone is going to have a premium metallic design, despite it looks a bit pale in the rendered leaked image and will also have a single rear camera.
As per the leaks, the smartphone will come with a single 12 Megapixel rear camera and there is a 5 Mega pixel front selfie shooter.
The Xiaomi Mi 6C will come in two variants:
- Xiaomi Mi 6C 4 GB RAM + 64 GB storage
- Xiaomi Mi 6C 6 GB RAM + 128 GB storage
The price for the MI 6C in China can be 2499 Yuan or Rs. 24,400 for the higher variant and the lower variant can be priced at 2199 YUAN or Rs. 21400 in terms of Indian Rupee.
The Xiaomi Mi 6C can launch in September 2017 in China and is unlikely to reach Indian market. Xiaomi can launch the Mi 6 in the Indian market and they have recently launched the Xiaomi Mi Max 2 here.
That’s all the details available for the upcoming Xiaomi Mi 6C, will keep you posted as more leaks emerge for the upcoming Xiaomi smartphone.
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R Kelly already released a statement through his lawyer denying the latest round of allegations against him, that he’s holding several woman in an “abusive cult.” Now he’s made a video statement himself, via TMZ, referring to the allegations as “a bunch of crap” and saying he’ll be playing scheduled shows this weekend anyway. In the video, which you can watch below, Kelly says, “despite all of the crap y’all hearing I will be coming to the East Coast to do my show, and believe me ya’ll, it’s a bunch of crap.”
The “cult” allegations come from veteran reporter and critic Jim DeRogatis, who has been covering Kelly’s alleged misdeeds for 16 years. His extensive report prompted another woman who claims to have been involved with Kelly to speak out, detailing experiences similar to those described DeRogatis’ report. Kelly is alleged to control every aspect of the lives of a group of women who live with him, including what they wear, who they speak to, and all aspects of their sexual encounters with him and each other, which he records.
Kelly’s is no stranger to legal problems; he was indicted on child pornography charges in 2002, later acquitted, and has made numerous out-of-court settlements. In the wake of the “cult” allegations, he’s most recently reported to have hired Bill Cosby’s former lawyer, Monique Pressley. Pressley stepped down from Cosby’s legal team in August, after working to defend him against, among other things, three felony charges of second-degree aggravated indecent assault. (Cosby’s case has since been declared a mistrial.)
East Coast…see U this weekend 4 #TheAfterPartyTour ! VIRGINIA BEACH yall got next! BALTIMORE & WHITE PLAINS, NY see u soon#KellzInTown pic.twitter.com/4NuAffwqgq
— R. Kelly (@rkelly) July 28, 2017


A world-famous urbanist says New York is becoming a “gated suburb”
“This ‘back to the city’ movement of the creative class has a dark side,” [Richard] Florida said. “Within those urban superstars, we also have a winner-take-all system. So, we have neighborhoods that are priced through the roof and other neighborhoods and other communities that are falling behind.”
Florida argues that strong city leaders would need to fight inequality and encourage diversity to help nurture cities.
By Max de Haldevang (via Quartz)
From Amy Kraft (The Week, 9 April 2015), renovations designed to make the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City a better building and habitat led to a significant decrease in direct bird collisions and deaths.
As far as bird deaths go, [Dr. Susan] Elbin, [NYC Audubon’s director of conservation and science], said that her data shows a 90 percent decrease in collisions with the Javits Center as a result of the renovations.
How A Giant Manhattan Building Learned To Stop Murdering Birds
2,500 feet looks like the proper elevation to view New York City’s Central Park.
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Jordan leads PAC-6 after winter sports
Jordan, Chapel Hill and Carrboro lead their respective conferences in the combined fall/winter sports categories of the Wells Fargo Conference Cup competition, which is coordinated with the N.C. High School Athletic Association.
The Wells Fargo Cup recognizes the high schools that achieve the best overall interscholastic athletic performance within each of the state’s four attendance classifications — 1-A, 2-A, 3-A and 4-A. The conference cup is awarded within the individual conferences.
Points are awarded based on participation and final conference standings in each sport.
The conference cup winners will not be determined until after the completion of the spring sports season.
Here is how area programs stack up.
Championships in boys’ basketball and wrestling along with second-place finishes in boys’ and girls’ swimming put Jordan in the top spot in the conference. East Chapel Hill dropped one spot to second, despite conference crowns in boys’ and girls’ swimming. Riverside remains in third, only one point ahead of fourth-place Northern.
STANDINGS — Jordan 63, East Chapel Hill 55, Riverside 45, Northern 44, Hillside 29, Southern 27, Roxboro Person 24.
Carolina 6 3-A
Chapel Hill dominated the winter season with top finishes in girls’ basketball, boys’ basketball and girls’ swimming and second-place showings in wrestling and boys’ swimming. Fall conference leader Cardinal Gibbons dropped to second, despite finishing first in boys’ swimming and second in girls’ basketball and swimming. Orange remained in third after winning a league title in wrestling.
STANDINGS — Chapel Hill 58, Cardinal Gibbons 55.5, Orange 39, Southern Vance 26.5, Northern Vance 24, Oxford Webb 24.
Carolina 12 1A/2A
The combined 12-team 1A/2A conference saw 2-A Carrboro in first place heading into the spring sports. Conference championships in boys’ basketball and swimming and a second-place finish in girls’ swimming did the trick for the Jaguars. Northwood, also 2-A, moved from fourth to second after its conference girls’ basketball title and runner-up performances in boys’ basketball and wrestling.
STANDINGS — Carrboro (2-A) 100.5, Northwood (2-A) 82.5, Cedar Ridge (2-A) 81, N.C. School of Science and Mathematics (1-A) 76.5, Durham School of the Arts (2-A) 65, Raleigh Charter (1-A) 62.5, Voyager Academy (1-A) 48, South Granville (2-A) 46, Franklin Academy (1-A) 39.5, Granville Central (2-A) 31, River Mill Academy (1-A) 29, Roxboro Community School (1-A) 21.5.

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The letter is the latest revelation in the ongoing dialog between the affected residents, local officials, the contractor and the regulatory community.
The EPA stated that the promotional literature's statements and use of the EPA logo implied their endorsement of the product, but the EPA said the following:
"The U.S. EPA does not certify, endorse, promote or recommend any coal tar based asphalt sealants or rejuventors. Accordingly, the statements and logo images included in your literature are false and misleading. As a result, if the statements and U.S. EPA logos are not removed, we will refer the matter to the Federal Trade Commission."
A local paper, the Norwich Bulletin, quoted the area's local elected official Pomfret First Selectman Craig Baldwin.
"We have not received the (EPA's) letter yet, but I anticipate getting in touch with Surtreat and K.A.E to find out why this information was given to us and, if necessary, consult with our lawyer," he said. "We never had any intention of redistributing the fliers."
Earlier this week an interview with a representative of the affected residents, John Dilorio, spoke with a local radio station about the letter and the issue. Here's a link to the discussion on WINY.
Among other things they asked if Pomfret will be part of a flash point for a national discourse on coal tar products. Let's hope so.

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Launch of the orchestra
Baroque & Beyond
Baroque & Beyond was founded in 2017 by Tomasz Aleksander Plusa.
We are a group of eager and dynamic musicians who strive to rediscover rarely performed repertoire and to breathe fresh life into known and established works.
Our team consists of:
Tomasz Aleksander Plusa - violin & artistic direction, Aleksandra Kwiatkowska - violin,
Clara Sawada - violin, Pietro Battistoni - violin, Imke Jansen - viola, Nina Hitz - cello,
Mattia Corso - double bass, Earl Christy - theorbo.
We are based in The Netherlands, but originate from diverse countries throughout the world: Poland, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United States, Brazil.
The name Baroque & Beyond encapsulates our desire to bring to life the spirit and sound of baroque music and also to venture beyond its confines. We enjoy the opportunity to include the music of our own time in our repertoire and to work in close collaboration with living composers, exploring and creating new musical languages together.
Baroque & Beyond is a highly adaptible group, we are equally comfortable on the concert stage as we are in more specific or unusual contexts, for example participation in the theatrical productions as accompanists or playing with elements of acting.
We strive for dynamism, high energy and enthusiasm, which we relish the oppotunity to share.


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Matthew posted about Rick Porcello’s excellent outing yesterday and about how scouts from several teams took it on the assumption that Porcello is trade bait. One team at least is doing more than watching:
The Texas Rangers, still trying to determine a No. 5 starter for their rotation, inquired Monday about Detroit Tigers right-hander Rick Porcello, a source told ESPNNewYork.com’s Adam Rubin.
With Martin Perez breaking his arm over the weekend and uncertainty on the back end of their rotation, the Rangers could use a guy like Porcello. And Porcello, one figures, could use a better set of infielders behind him in order to take advantage of his sinking stuff. For their part the Tigers could use relief help.
Red Sox DH Hanley Ramirez announced via Twitter on Tuesday that he underwent surgery — left shoulder arthroscopy and debridement, per Tim Britton of the Providence Journal. Evan Drellich of NBC Sports Boston reports that the operation is considered relatively minor.
Ramirez, 33, has been dealing with shoulder issues for a while, which explains his lackluster regular season numbers. He hit .242/.320/.429 with 23 home runs, 62 RBI, and 58 runs scored in 553 plate appearances. He turned things on in the postseason, though, racking up eight hits in 15 trips to the plate in the ALDS against the Astros.
Ramirez should be good to go heading into spring training. He has one more guaranteed year left on his contract at $22 million and has a vesting option for the 2019 season worth another $22 million.
Pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez also had surgery, Britton reports. The procedure was right knee patellofemoral ligament reconstruction and it was performed by Dr. James Andrews. Rodriguez has a six-month timetable, which Britton estimates will allow him to make his 2018 regular season debut around the All-Star break.
Rodriguez, 24, posted a 4.19 ERA with a 150/50 K/BB ratio in 137 1/3 innings this past season. He’ll be entering his first of four years of arbitration eligibility this offseason.


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Recent transformations in the global economy have sparked renewed interest in the role of the state in capital accumulation. Such transformations include a ‘return’ to various forms of state-led development across the global South since the early 2000s (in China, Russia, and other large emerging economies), extensive state intervention following the 2008 global financial crisis in the global North, and the multiplication of various forms of state-capital entanglements such as sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). For instance, the number of SWFs increased from 50 to 92 between 2005 and 2017, while assets under management grew to over $7.5 trillion worth of assets, which is more than hedge funds and private equity firms combined. According to a recent study, ‘SOEs generate approximately one tenth of world gross domestic product and represent approximately 20% of global equity market value’. SOEs now dwarf even the largest privately-owned transnational corporations, with PetroChina currently leading the list with a market value of more than $1 trillion. Three of the top five companies in the 2018 Fortune Global 500 are Chinese SOEs (State Grid, Sinopec Group, and China National Petroleum Corp). Significantly, these state-capital hybrids have also become increasingly integrated into transnational circuits of capital, including global networks of production, trade, finance, infrastructure and corporate ownership. Does this renewed state activism – and its remarkably outward orientation – indicate a changing role of the state in capital accumulation and the emergence of new political geographies of capital?
For many commentators, this polymorphism of state intervention signals the resurgence of ‘state capitalism’ under a new form. Despite the widespread mobilisation of the concept for both categorisation and explanation, there is neither consensus about what it exactly means, nor about its implications. Scholars have deployed the concept to designate a national variant of capitalism, a new brand of SOE and/or state-sponsored investment fund, a particular type of state-business relation, a threat or an alternative to (Western-dominated) (neo)liberal capitalism, a reconfiguration of the global ‘state-capital nexus’, and the use of market mechanisms for the promotion of geo-economic and geopolitical goals. Hence, the term not only lacks a unified definition, it refers to an extremely wide array of practices, policy instruments and vehicles, institutional forms, relations, and networks that involve the state to different degrees and at a variety of levels, time frames, and geographical scales.
While this proliferation of competing definitions and loose conceptualisations is not necessarily problematic, it nonetheless warrants a heightened level of reflexive scrutiny. Indeed, despite its capaciousness and wide circulation, the term state capitalism has not been subjected to the same level of reflexive scrutiny that other widely used categories of political economic analysis have been subjected to, such as globalisation, financialisation, and neoliberalism. I fill this gap in a co-authored article with Adam Dixon in an (open access) article recently published in Competition & Change. We propose to assess the concept’s analytical value as well as the contribution of state capitalism as a research agenda. In particular, we critically engage with the key arguments made about the new state capitalism in three bodies of literature: (1) strategic management and corporate governance, (2) comparative capitalism, and (3) global political economy. Our analysis reveals their underlying set of assumptions, common principles, theoretical underpinnings, points of disagreement, and emphasizes the blind spots, tensions, and questions left unanswered by the literature.
Our main contention is the following: the loose, if not imprecise, conceptualisations of the category state capitalism have allowed it to become some sort of ‘banner to unite under’ for a number of commentators with extremely different theoretical outlooks, methods, and objects of inquiry. As such, it has opened the possibility for a critical dialogue that could lead to a more holistic account of the changing role of the capitalist state and the new political geographies of capital. Nevertheless, our analysis shows that state capitalism, as it is currently deployed in much of the literature, does not bring recognisability, even less clarity, to the seemingly more visible role of the state across the world capitalist economy. Furthermore, its use does not offer ready-made analytical expedience and insight, and as a whole, its critical properties have not been sufficiently established. Consequently, we submit that, at this stage, the analytical value of the concept is weak.
However, we do not argue that the concept of state capitalism should be discarded altogether. Rather, we wager that its analytical value can be bolstered. In that spirit, we identify three interrelated issues that research on state capitalism must further grapple with for the term to be analytically meaningful, or more precisely, capable of rendering (state)capitalist diversity amenable to analysis and critique. These are: (1) the ‘missing link’ of a theory of the capitalist state, (2) the time horizons of state capitalism, or the question of ‘periodisation’, and (3) territorial considerations, or the question of ‘locating’ state capitalism within dynamics of uneven geographical development and of politically mediated capitalist competition.
In the article, we examine these three issues in turn, and unpack their implications for theorising the new state capitalism. We also make the case that the concept of ‘state-capital hybrids’, which we define as the concrete historically and geographically specific organisational, institutional, legal, and spatial forms that mediate the relationships between state and capital, is well positioned to refocus the study of state capitalism on the aforementioned issues. This concept starts from the idea that the capital relation is always political, and that political and economic power are always entangled. But it does not stop there. It prompts us to reflect upon how specific organisational and governance arrangements (as discussed in the strategic management literature), particular institutions and forms of state-business relations (as discussed in the comparative capitalism literature), and transnational state capitalist practices (as discussed in the global political economy literature) contribute to a multifaceted process of reconfiguration of political and economic power in relation to broader dynamics of accumulation, and who (what social group or social force) benefits from them.
To conclude, state capitalism as a research agenda in its current form has provided valuable insights into configurations of capitalism where the state plays a particularly strong role in organising the economy and society, in supervising and administering capital accumulation, or in directly owning and controlling capital. Nonetheless, much work remains to turn state capitalism from an umbrella term – harsher commentators might even say a mere buzzword or slogan – into a powerful heuristic tool capable of helping us make sense of the changing political geographies of capital and of the polymorphism of state intervention. Our hope is that our critical engagement with the concept contributes to this important task.

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