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ReviewFor this assignment I had to create a website for people who want to travel to Australia, the websitewas for a company who is giving information on pack backer’s travel and showing the differentplaces that they can go to and also the hostels that they can stay in while they are down there. I hadto use software called flash in order to create the website in flash I had to use the different tool tomake this website. To create about 5 different pages for this website home, map, hostels,information and a contact us page, each page having something different on it, but before I hadcreated it I had to plan out everything in different stages in order to get this website created, I firstresearched different types of traveling website to give me ideas of what to do for my website, Ilooked at the layout of a few website seeing if I like them the way the information was displayed onthe website etc. about 4 different pages before I started to plan and storyboard my own website.After the research I then had some sort of idea of what my website was going to look like and once Ihad that Idea in my head I then start on my proposal which was detailing how many pages I wasgoing to have what the page was going to look like the colour theme I was going to use if I hadvideos or images the font, size of text etc. until I had a very detailed proposal which then it was timeto move on to creating the storyboards. I did storyboards for each page that I had showing wherethe images where going to go what the layout would look like the navigation bar and the buttonswhat where they going to be, as I did my proposal it was more easier to do the storyboards as it wasin good detail in the proposal and I could follow it when I was doing each page. Got started increating the website I tried to stick to my storyboards as much as I can and It’s looks just like what Iplanned out form the storyboards and from the proposal where one or two changes this would havebeen because it didn’t work when I tried it out on the website or it looked more better with the textor image in a different place form what my storyboard has it in.When I was planning I made sure that my time was well spent and that I kept on top of this so whenI hit the deadline for the planning then I could just hand in what I have done and then make a starton creating the website when I needed to. And I made sure that each lessons I knew what I wasgoing to be doing and by the end of the lesson that it was done so next time I could move on to thenext part so I could have it all finished by the time I hit the deadline. For the planning part of theassignment I was good at keeping my planning time sorted and I made sure that all the planning wasall done time it came to the deadline. When I did come to creating the website I used flash to createthe website and within flash I used different tools in order to create the website and I documentedeach tool I used and how I used them in a dairy. But when it came to using these tool such as text,importing, linking etc. I found where quite easy to do there was really no bit that I got stuck one as itwas pretty much simple to go through and do each website. I made sure when creating the website Iused as much stuff as I could in order to create what I have done. But there was one part which Ifound was quite hard to do not because it was hard to it was because it didn’t work, it was importinga video into flash I found one and then tried to import it form YouTube but that didn’t work so Idownloaded the video so I could save it in a folder and then import that into flash but that still didn’twork so I tried converting the video but I was unable to convert the video.When creating the website I had to make sure that I had a really good work flow so I could get thiswebsite done by the deadline came to be. So I did plan out when I was going to do each page andwhen I was going to be done by as this was in my dairy, at first I had a good work flow I was gettingthe stuff created for when I said I was going to do it by but there was a turning point which was
when I had two days off from doing this because of work reason and then I started to fall behind andthen slowing lose the flow as I had more days off for work reason as well when it came to thedeadline I was rushing with what I was doing I was forgetting about what I was doing and what theplan was and then I found it harder to keep on track of what I was doing and when by, but then I gotback on track with some of the pages but was unable to fully finish the website time the finaldeadline came to be. I kept checking each page once it was done to make sure that everything wasworking and making sure it looked like how it was meant to be I did this on a day to day bases andwhen it came to finding a problem I made sure that I sorted it out before I went on to the next partof my creation.Once it was all done (time the deadline came) the website was pretty much good as it did everythingit was meant to do on the pages and the buttons worked and the images would load up and thatpeople could read the text once it loaded up on the website and also it meet what the brief set outto wanting, which was a website for pack baggers who want to travel to Australiaand also givinginformation on the different places and the hostels where people can stay once they start theirtravels to Australia. My final overview of the website is that I think it’s good I what I had created butI’m not happy about it at all. If I could go back and re do the whole planning and creating the websitethen I would go back and change everything because I don’t think that it’s good and the colourtheme that I went with is not so great and I think that I could of done a lot better to what I havefinally created as my website.

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text: The story of Jacob of Skelltingdon The story of Jacob of Skelltingdon -Father how could you leave our family air loom, all that our proud and noble family have ever fought for and nourished to your sisterâ€™s son, my cousin Thomas? The boy is a dull wit, he has no education, no connections, his father were a common soldier, with no noble ancestors, and his only pleasure is drinking and entertaining himself with questionable women. -Son what ever young Thomas faults are, he is my closest male relative. He is still in the direct line of the Skelltingdons. And his father was a great general, not a common soldier, although he admittedly was not of noble breed. -But father, I am your son. Why do you discharge me from inheritance? -YOU ARE NO LONGER MY SON. I have put you through education. I have trusted in your own judgment. How do you return this trust? By learning to raise the dead, by disturbing the peace of the grave, by selling your soul to the evil forces, that are already massing up close to our lands. I say, I want nothing to do with you. Had you just died in birth along with your mother, bless her poor soul you would have broken her hart. -Father I swear this on my mothers grave: I have not sold my soul to evil. The great evil that rises can only be conquered by knowing the enemy. I do not disturb the final peace of righteous people. I only make the servants of the evil who are attacking me, repay for their actions, by letting them serve me. I am willing to prove myself to you, by fighting evil, and I will meet Diablo or Baal them self if it comes to that, but I will prove that I am not their slave. I will be true to my calling. On this venture I will not use the weapons of iron I were taught to use as your son, my wand and bow will be enough. I will go alone, only taking the help that are willingly given me. I will leave money, things, title and name. Henceforth I will be Jack Skellington, the necromancer. Goodbye Father. And with that he left his fathers castle, leaving the old grey-haired man looking thoughtful behind. After a long and tiresome journey he arrived at a camp of rouges. They asked him for help, as their homelands had been swarmed with evil. His mission had finally begun. This is my first atempt on a necromancer. He is going to be a fichymancer, untwinked, keeping the act 1 mercenay and SC.

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I thought it might have been earlier, you know, like Donkey Kong, but its the first that has a Guiness World Record.
01 JULY 1993
Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr A. Serebrov (b. 15 February 1944) became the first person to play a videogame in space when he packed a Game Boy and his personal copy of Tetris (Nintendo, 1989) for his trip to the MIR Space Station in 1993.
The game left Earth on 1 July 1993 aboard the Soyuz TM-17 rocket and was played during Serebrov's off-time while orbiting the planet.
"Like all cosmonauts, I love sport. My particular favorites are football and swimming. During flight, in rare minutes of leisure, I enjoyed playing Game Boy," wrote Serebrov in an autographed note that accompanied the game, and the Game Boy, in a 2011 auction.
Nintendo of America Senior Vice President, Howard Lincoln, met Alexey Pazhitnov, who created the game in 1985 on the Soviet Electronics-60 computer, in Moscow while securing the Tetris rights for home video game systems.
Lincoln also presented a Game Boy system with Tetris to Mr. A. A. Serebrov, a Cosmonaut and a big celebrity in the Soviet Union.
To demonstrate that Game Boy is the ultimate in portable video game systems, Serebrov will take it into orbit, and we believe that even in the absence of gravity, the Tetris block patterns will still fall into place.

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Republican Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on Wednesday questioned whether or not it’s safe for foreigners to live in or even visit NATO ally Turkey due to arbitrary detentions arising from the persecution of government opponents after a failed coup last year.
Speaking during a hearing titled “Priorities and Challenges in the U.S.-Turkey Relationship” in the US Senate on Wednesday, Corker criticized the detention of tens of thousands of people over their alleged links to the failed coup through decrees issued by the government as part of an ongoing state of emergency.
Corker said an American pastor, Andrew Brunson, has been jailed in Turkey for 334 days and added that “his continued mistreatment has raised questions as to whether or not it’s safe to live in or even visit Turkey.”
Brunson was jailed in Turkey in October 2016 due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, with acquiring secret political and military information, attempting to destroy constitutional order and overthrow the Turkish Parliament.
Several other foreigners and Turks with dual citizenship were put behind bars following the failed coup over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, which is accused by the Turkish government of being behind the attempted coup. The movement strongly denies any involvement.
Also speaking during the hearing, Ranking Member Senator Ben Cardin criticized Turkey over a referendum on April 16, saying it was not a free and transparent one.
Pointing out that Turkey is a democracy, Cardin, however, said that “Turkey doesn’t meet the standards of a democratic country.”
During the hearing Dr. Steven A. Cook, Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Dr. Amanda Sloat, fellow for the Democracy In Hard Places Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, presented their papers (Cook, Sloat) on Turkey.


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More recently, on April 29, 2019, the Tele2 operator managed to create a stir in the Russian telecommunications environment by starting the sale of so-called electronic SIM cards, or more simply eSIM.
Taking into account the peculiarities of the legal field in Russia, it was necessary to use crutches in the form of an initial connection by purchasing a traditional physical medium – an ordinary SIM card, followed by its re-issuance to the electronic version of eSIM, and the previously purchased physical medium had to be handed over to the operator.
This holiday did not last long, literally the next day after the unexpected start of sales, sales were also suddenly stopped.
The operator explained this with great excitement. However, later there was information that the sale was suspended due to the request of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications.
According to a Tele2 representative, it was only a pilot project, not a full-fledged launch. The operator is said to have gained the necessary subscriber base to test the technology and suspended the sale.
At the same time, information from the department contradicts the operator's version – a representative of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications said that before making a decision it is necessary to hold additional consultations on the safety of using such technology.
All Russian operators will take part in the discussion of the issue (which previously were actively against the introduction of this technology, fearing costs and financial losses).
But more on that below, and now – a little history.
At the dawn of the development of cellular networks, mobile phones (not GSM) did not have SIM cards at all, and the number and all the necessary information were literally soldered into the device itself (later programmed) in the operator's service center.
That is, in order to connect a new device to the network, the owner had to bring it to the operator's office and leave it there for two or three days. Usually, this was exactly what was required for the procedure of inserting the number into the phone. I remember how I myself waited for three days while the number was soldered into my phone.
In addition, the service in most cases was not free. After that, the owner received his phone with a number sewn into it, which could be changed in exactly the same way.
Then, with the advent of the GSM standard, everything became much easier – the usual SIM cards appeared. Well, as usual, the first phones supporting SIM cards had a rather large cutout at the base, into which a SIM card the size of a current bank card was inserted.
This was not a problem exactly until the moment when the devices began to lose dramatically in size, and the entire industry took a course towards miniaturization.
The struggle for the internal space began, and one of the first to sacrifice was the extra plastic of the SIM-card, which became much smaller.
That is why the so-called 'regular' SIM-card familiar to many is actually a mini-SIM-card.
Actually, all subsequent metamorphoses are dictated primarily by a decrease in the size of devices, which means increased requirements for free space inside for electronic components.
This is how Micro-SIM first appeared, and then from the filing Apple and Nano-SIM.
Despite this, the engineers did not abandon the idea of completely getting rid of the physical carrier by making the subscriber ID (which is the SIM card) completely digital.
Thanks to the development of cryptography and the increased computing power, this is not only easy, but very simple. Moreover, in many countries the technology is implemented and used. Among the pioneers of the practical use of this technology are countries such as Austria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, India, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic and about a dozen other countries, and now, thanks to Tele2, Russia.
However, in Russia, the introduction of this technology has faced active opposition from both the controlling authorities in the person of the FSB, where they prefer to either control everything or simply prohibit what they cannot or cannot control, and from the Big Three operators who saw the introduction of electronic SIM cards are a threat to their traditional business with
blackjack … Communication salons and sales consultants.
FSB fears are connected with the impossibility at the moment to apply Russian methods of cryptographic encryption to electronic SIM-cards.
And if the feds with a certain amount of assumptions and 'but' can be understood, their job is to watch and prevent, then the position of accepting this technology with hostility on the part of cellular operators is seen as a banal fear of losing the subscriber base due to the simplification of the procedure for changing the operator and the need to revise some business processes that will simplify the life of an ordinary subscriber and give him more freedom.
Time will show how far-sighted such a position of denial and reinsurance on the part of the Big Three operators will be, however, despite their desire to slow down progress, permission from the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications to implement the scheme of selling electronic SIM-cards tested by Tele2 has been received, which means that soon it will be possible to test this technology on yourself.
There is little left to do – to prepare a regulatory framework for remote identification of subscribers, which will allow us to get out of the intermediate stage in the form of buying a physical carrier and then exchanging it for an electronic version of a SIM card.
As a result, everything should come down to completely remote registration and downloading a new number to the device in the same way as today we download a package of mobile Internet settings or license keys for software products.
Instead of a conclusion
The question of the need to introduce this technology is not worth it – electronic SIM cards are already needed today, and in the context of the development of the Internet of things and the launch of fifth generation networks, they will become an urgent need.
In addition to increasing human mobility, with the introduction of full-fledged and widespread support for this technology, the problem of an additional slot for a SIM card will cease to exist, as well as the risk of failure of this very SIM card.
The only question is how soon it will happen and what (or who) can get in the way of this process. Do you, dear readers, need this technology?


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Valvona & Crolla Caffè Bar
- Telephone 0131 556 6066
- Opening times Mon–Sat 9am–6.30pm; closed Sun.
- Bar open Shop: Mon–Thu 8.30am–6pm; Fri/Sat 8am–9pm; Sun 10am–5pm.
- Food served Mon–Thu 8.30am–5.30pm; Fri/Sat 8am–9pm; Sun 10am–4.30pm.
- Pre-theatre times Fri/Sat 3–6.30pm
- Pre-theatre price £16
- Website www.valvonacrolla.co.uk
2 meter social distancing between tables, limited customers, hand sanitiser, full risk assessment in place and under regular review. Booking advised.
Last updated: 30 July 2020
Scotland's oldest deli also has a caffè which is now also open for evening meals - a good spot for a relaxed or pre-theatre meal, with quality ingredients, big Italian flavours and hand-picked wines.
If you don’t have much of an appetite when you arrive at Valvona & Crolla, you definitely will do by the time you arrive at their caffè. To reach it, you must first walk through the shop – which is stacked to the rafters with delicious Italian artisan produce including pasta, chocolate, cheeses and cured meats. There’s an impressive Italian wine section too and you can select a bottle from the shop to accompany your meal for £4 corkage. Valvona & Crolla only started opening for evening meals recently, and the café’s laid-back, informal atmosphere continues through to dinner service. Dishes are light and fresh, with ingredients sourced almost exclusively from the handsome larder next door. The signature antipasto board has delicately delicious arrangements of cheese, meats and marinated or roasted vegetables. There’s also a selection of main meals available; mostly traditional Italian pasta and meat dishes following simple, but exquisitely executed recipes. Taglierini siciliana runs pistachio pesto, Parmigiano Reggiano and lemon zest through fresh egg pasta, while the bistecca di manzo is served with an Italian rocket and tomato salad. It’s all fad-free and full of flavour and the emphasis throughout is on the quality of the food - a simple recipe for success.
Delicious seasonal classic Italian menu using the finest Scottish and Italian ingredients. Open for breakfast, lunch and supper. Choose from over 500 wines in our shop with only £6 corkage.
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- Provides: Vegetarian options (at least ¼ main courses), Gluten-free options, Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Wheelchair access, Pre-theatre menu, Free wi-fi
- Music on stereo: Classical music
- Capacity: 60
- Largest group: 80
- Open since: 1996
- Number of wines sold by the glass: 10
- House wine: £13 per bottle
- BYOB: £4 corkage (£4 corkage on any wine from the shop only)
Reviews & features
Christmas Food Q&A: Philip Contini – Valvona & Crolla17 Nov 2015
Valvona & Crolla's head honcho discusses his favourite seasonal treats
I'm planning a Christmas meal and want to offer a couple of unusual twists. What would you suggest? A panettone warmed in the oven and served with homemade crème Anglaise (or thin custard) with a bottle of ice-cold, slightly fizzy Moscato d’Asti.
Ice cream days: growing up in an old school ice cream parlour1 May 2009
Mary Contini of Valvonna & Crolla describes her enviable upbringing
It took two men, my father and Tommy Dougal, to lift up each milk churn and tip it into the stainless-steel vat. It could be four or five churns at a time – even more in July and August when the factory was working at full capacity. Once the 20-gallon…
Take Three: Delis-cum-Cafés19 Jun 2008
Valvona & Crolla Caffè Bar, Grassroots Café and Herbie of Edinburgh.

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After opening the 2019 preseason with a 30-28 defeat in Pittsburgh, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers return home for a week 2 matchup with the Miami Dolphins.
New Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians and his staff got their first look at offensive and defensive starters in game action on Friday night against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now, the team looks ahead to a familiar preseason opponent in Week 2.
Bucs and Dolphins have extensive preseason history
Since Tampa Bay began play in 1976, they have faced the Miami Dolphins 31 times in the preseason, including 16 consecutive seasons from 2000-2015. Of those 31 games, Miami holds a 17-14 advantage. The most recent contest was a 26-24 Bucs win at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami during the 2018 preseason. This will mark the Dolphins first preseason trip to Raymond James Stadium since the 2014 season.
Expect more of the same from starting units
This week, starters are likely to see limited playing time just as they did against Pittsburgh in week 1. During that contest, the Bucs elected to receive and start on offense. Jameis Winston engineered an effective opening drive that was capped off by a 9-yard touchdown pass to Chris Godwin. Should Tampa Bay start fast again and score on their first drive, the starters will likely be finished. However, a 3 and out or otherwise short series could lead them back out for a second drive in an effort to gain live game reps. Defensively, the starters will be limited to 1-2 series as well before the shuffling will start. Bruce Arians stated before the Steelers game that there is not much he needs to see from his starters. It won’t be until Week 3, the typical dress rehearsal game, that starters will play beyond the first quarter.
Defensive tackle Vita Vea will continue to sit as he nurses a sprain in his LCL (lateral collateral ligament). He will not see any action in the preseason. While his status for week 1 of the regular season remains in jeopardy, an MRI revealed that Vea will not need surgery. Linebacker Lavonte David is expected to be out again for Week 2 following a procedure to repair a torn meniscus. According to Bruce Arians, this injury will not keep David out for the regular season opener against San Francisco. Deone Bucannon filled in nicely for David in Week 1, logging a sack and tackle for loss against the Steelers.
Safety Mike Edwards will also be out against Miami. The third round pick out of Kentucky suffered a pulled hamstring against Pittsburgh in Week 1. His injury does not put him at risk of missing long term playing time, but the team should be airing on the side of caution and letting him rest this week. Wide Receiver Bryant Mitchell was not as lucky in Pittsburgh, however. Mitchell left the game after an injury in the third quarter and it was later revealed to be a torn achilles. This is a major blow to a receiver who was competing for a 5th WR spot.
The Bucs and Dolphins will kick off at 7:30 p.m. at Raymond James Stadium – Friday 8/16/2019.
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As the nation’s largest property owner, the federal government owns or leases 1.2 million real estate assets, encompassing over 830 million square feet of buildings. And many of those facilities are underused, outdated or abandoned. Additionally, just like any land or building owner, the government has been hit hard by the recession and has pledged to evaluate its real estate holdings and consolidate where it can.
Although many would like to forget this recent economic crisis, most agree that this is the beginning of an important and fundamental shift in the way we do business and where we do business. Particularly in the government sector, everybody is wondering, “how can we do things differently and better than what we were doing before?”

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American Rapper cardi B reacts after being accused of insinuating that women get their bodies done to please a man.
Cardi B who didn’t agree with a Twitter user who stated that the teeth should be done before BBl (Brazilian butt lift) chipped in her thoughts.
Cardi B stated that the butt surgery should be done before fixing the teeth as men will prefer following a girl with a nice butt before looking at a girl with a nice smile.
A Twitter user who wasn’t enjoying this conversation accused the rapper of insinuating that girls get their bodies done just because of men.
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Skip to comments.Gangsta Rap’s Grim Legacy for Comptons Everywhere
Posted on 08/26/2015 7:17:57 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Gangsta Raps Grim Legacy for Comptons Everywhere A hit movie about the rap group N.W.A. is a reminder: Glorified thuggery poisoned poor black communities.
By Jason L. Riley Aug. 25, 2015 6:39 p.m. ET 242 COMMENTS
For two weeks the top box-office draw has been Straight Outta Compton, a meandering biopic about the rise and disintegration of the Los Angeles-area rap group N.W.A., or Niggaz With Attitude. N.W.A. helped popularize gangsta rap in the late 1980s, and even this hagiography cant hide the fact that its legacy has endured to the detriment of poor black communities.
The most prominent members of the quintet were Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Eazy-E, and they distinguished themselves from other rap acts mainly through relentless, jarring profanity. Materialism and braggadocio were already rap staples, but N.W.A. added heavy doses of sadistic sex, misogyny, gun violence and all-round thuggery. Typical are the lyrics to a song on their second album that invoke gang rape of a 14-year-old preachers daughter.
Straight Outta Compton not only doesnt dwell on N.W.A.s glorification of self-destructive behavior, anyone appalled by it is portrayed as a racist or a square. The film is more interested in presenting the rappers as authentic voices of decent young black men in poor communities who are regularly victimized by police. Still, the viewer cant help but notice that our protagonists regularly engage in criminal behavior, dress like gang members in areas infested by ruffians and defy the police who suspect them of being up to no good. Their problem is not that the cops harass them but that the cops interfere with their lawbreaking.
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Mr. Riley, a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and Journal contributor, is the author of Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed (Encounter Books, 2014).
First African-American music not to originate in the south.
It was white kids in the suburbs who actually bought the records/CDs.
Go copy and paste the lyrics to the top 5 rap songs today to this thread.
Your post will get pulled. Possible suspension.
I remember 2 Live Crew out of Florida. They hit the first nerve as I recall.
“This Is President Obamas Favorite Rap Song Right Now
The Pres is cooler than a polar bear’s toenail.:
The frat I was in (mostly white engineering college) used to listen to Eazy E’s solo album.
“woke up quick at about noon, just thought that I had to be in Compton soon.” “gotta get drunk before the day begins, before my mother starts bitchin about my friends.” lol
Who’d a thought it would lead to this much decline.
Side note: When a group opines for supposed equality, yet only people with a certain skin color are allowed to say one of the words from their group name aloud, we have a problem.
One of many.
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Yep. Amazing how we are supposed to say this movie is the history of the group NWA, but we aren’t allowed to say what NWA stands for.
Rappers are America’s retarded children.
We allow them to get away acting like fools and saying really stupid and ridiculous things, simply because they are “different” and people do not expect much from them anyway.
In all the fawning media coverage, nobody has the guts to talk about the bad influence of rap. The media are afraid to touch that subject. But the whole rap culture/gang culture/ghetto culture is what drives ghetto problems. But people in the media will never tell us that, otherwise be accused of racism and be banished from TV and public life forever.
Well, white kids certainly made them rich, but plenty of black kids bought them too. Were it not for the Beastie's first album making the genre palatable to white kids, gangsta rap may have never made the jump into mainstream.
I liked "The Crusher"
Oh plenty tried. The warnings were countered with similar previous warnings about how Rock and Roll was going to lead to ruin.
Murder, misogyny and mutilation, at least it’s sharia compliant!
Fathers were once harsh by today's standards. They would speak their mind in their homes. Their children would receive an 'education' about culture often times pointing out negative aspects of other cultures while using derogatory and demeaning terms. Children would in turn take those terms to school and the playground, despite being told not to use such language. Their friends at school would hear the same things at home. The odd kid out that listened to such crap would be teased by fellow schoolmates. I suspect many teachers overlooked this because they either agreed or didn't want to deal with angry parents.
Certainly there is more to this cultural problem, such as a lack of decency in the record industry. The fact remains, family and home should have the biggest influence on children's development of tastes, values and culture.
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The ideal career for most bands it to achieve success by playing their own songs, but some bands have very successfully performed as backing bands for other well-known artists. Here are six bands who did just that.
1. The Eagles
Before the Eagles formed in 1971, the four original members (Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Randy Meisner, and Bernie Leadon) played in their own bands and as session musicians around Los Angeles in the late '60s, until all four of them were recruited to tour with singer Linda Ronstadt and perform on her third album. Though all four members played together live just once with Ronstadt, this was enough time for them to realize that they should start their own band, and the Eagles were born.
2. Sunny Day Real Estate
The Foo Fighter's eponymous debut album was recorded entirely by Dave Grohl, but when the album became an unexpected chart success, he needed to put together a band to perform the songs live. Former Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear was recruited as a second guitarist, but the rhythm section was taken from another successful Seattle band: Sunny Day Real Estate. Bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith joined Foo Fighters after Sunny Day Real Estate disbanded, and though Goldsmith would quit the band in 1996, Mendel remains a member to this day.
According to the new (and incredible) documentary Breadcrumb Trail, the indie rock scene in Louisville, Kentucky during the late '80s and early '90s was a tight-knit but totally bizarre place. Two of the most famous artists to come out of this scene were Slint and Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. Oldham was good friends with Slint, taking the cover photo for the band's album Spiderland, and when Oldham recorded his debut album There is No-One What Will Take Care of You under the name Palace Brothers, three of the four members of Slint played as his backing band.
4. Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention is widely considered to be one of the most important bands in English folk rock, and though the band recorded classic albums on its own, it would also contribute to classic albums by another English folk artist, Nick Drake. Drake's first two albums Five Leaves Left and Bryter Layter feature performance by members of Fairport Convention. Despite these albums not being commercially successful, they're widely regarded as some of the finest folk albums ever recorded.
5. Crazy Horse
Neil Young typically records two types of albums: acoustic country/folk albums, and fierce, explosive rock albums, and when Young records one of his rock albums, most famously 1969's Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, he recruits Los Angeles country-rock band Crazy Horse to play with him. Though Crazy Horse has recorded five albums on its own, the classic albums it made with Neil Young are the most famous in its catalog.
6. The Band
When Bob Dylan made his controversial decision to start playing rock music instead of acoustic folk, he hired a Canadian band known as the Hawks to go on tour with him in 1965 and 1966, where Dylan was famously heckled by his own fans for his "betrayal" to the folk scene. After the tours with Dylan, the Hawks would rename themselves as simply "The Band" and begin recording classic albums such as The Basement Tapes with Bob Dylan, and Music from Big Pink.


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Incisively capturing the oddities of our logic and the whimsies of our reason, the poems in Whereas show there is always another side to a story. With graceful rhythm and equal parts humor and seriousness, Stephen Dunn considers the superstition and sophistry embedded in everyday life: household objects that seem to turn against us, the search for meaning in the barrage of daily news, the surprising confessions between neighbors across a row of hedges. Finding beauty in the ordinary, this collection affirms the absurdity of making affirmations, allowing room for more rethinking, reflection, revision, prayer, and magic in the world.
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Making a Splash
Vampires bare their fangs in the Carolinas, bayadères besiege Boston, and you can’t make a move without encountering a ballet set to Carmina Burana. The dancescape this autumn looks promising. At home, ballet companies favor narratives, some traditional, others original. The touring slate includes major expeditions from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Sankai Juku, and, as it celebrates its 30th anniversary, the Mark Morris Dance Group.
What’s different this autumn? American Ballet Theatre is missing from the boards (in order to concentrate on its new Nutcracker), but New Yorkers will have the opportunity to enjoy a fall season with New York City Ballet, the company’s first (at Lincoln Center, Sept. 14–Oct. 10). The Oct. 7 gala features a local premiere by the prolific Benjamin Millepied, and the fall run includes a revival of Peter Martins’ charming 1981 production of The Magic Flute. Several of the “Architecture of Dance” commissions (see “Reviews,” page 62) will be reprised.
A national rundown of the always popular story ballets must begin with Swan Lake. You can find our feathered friends at the Nashville Ballet Oct. 29. The Sleeping Beauty has inspired a new version (based on the Petipa original) from Oregon Ballet Theatre’s artistic director Christopher Stowell, completing his triptych of full-length Tchaikovsky ballets; the company unveils the production in Portland Oct. 9. More Petipa is due Nov. 4 from Boston Ballet in the guise of the exotic 1877 hit, La Bayadère. Former Paris Opéra Ballet étoile Florence Clerc assumes choreographic duties.
For Cinderella, you get a choice. In Toronto, The National Ballet of Canada reprises James Kudelka’s widely seen version Nov. 11. Texas Ballet Theater goes to the ball in Ben Stevenson’s version, set for both Dallas and Fort Worth. No fall season is complete without a Romeo and Juliet. For that, head to the Kennedy Center, where Septime Webre’s Washington Ballet staging receives a revival Nov. 3. At Ballet Arizona, Ib Andersen celebrates his 10th anniversary as artistic director with a revival of his Midsummer Night’s Dream; it opens in Phoenix Nov. 5.
Nobody living knows what Perrot’s original steps for the 1844 Esmeralda looked like, a fact that hasn’t stopped choreographers from attempting their own productions. The latest artistic director to take the plunge is the Milwaukee Ballet’s Michael Pink, whose staging of Esmeralda (inspired by Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) will recruit additional dancers from Milwaukee’s junior company for its premiere Oct. 28. Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre opens its season Oct. 22 with a revival of André Prokovsky’s The Three Musketeers, with plot adapted from the Dumas novel and music borrowed from Verdi.
For the Halloween season, vampires are giving regional companies a transfusion at the box office. Mark Godden’s Dracula, an erstwhile hit at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, arrives at North Carolina Dance Theatre with music by Mahler. The piece launches the 40th-anniversary season Oct. 8 in Charlotte. In Raleigh on Oct. 14, Carolina Ballet serves up a premiere of its own romantic bloodsucker with choreography by Lynne Taylor-Corbett. Dracula will be preceded by artistic director Robert Weiss’ staging of Firebird, which opens the season in tandem with a premiere by principal dancer Timour Bourtasenkov. Also in Raleigh, Bruce Wells’ Pinocchio opens Nov. 24. Michael Pink’s Dracula will be imported by the Colorado Ballet in Denver starting Oct. 15, a highlight of the company’s 50th-anniversary season.
In the category of one-act narratives, few are as compelling or as enduring as Roland Petit’s Carmen. It forms the centerpiece of Pennsylvania Ballet’s season opener Oct. 21 in Philadelphia. Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco and a premiere by resident choreographer Matthew Neenan complete the evening. As for Carmina Burana, John Butler’s version of Carl Orff’s scenic cantata, which has achieved near-classic status, will be revived by Ballet West for its season opener in Salt Lake City Oct. 29. (Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments completes the program.) Not to be topped, Stephen Mills, the artistic director of Ballet Austin, offers his own take on the piece Sept. 24, partnered by the choreographer’s Kai, to music by John Cage.
The fall also abounds in major choreographer tributes. At the Kennedy Center Nov. 17, the resident Suzanne Farrell Ballet offers the former dancer’s stagings of Balanchine’s La Sonnambula and Monumentum Pro Gesualdo & Movements for Piano and Orchestra, as well as Robbins’ In Memory of… . Seattle’s Pacific Northwest Ballet delivers an all-Tharp bill (Opus 111, Afternoon Ball, Waterbaby Bagatelles) Nov. 5. Company premieres by Balanchine and Wheeldon fill the Joffrey Ballet’s opening bill Oct. 13 in Chicago.
Dancemakers will continue to seek outside inspiration for their work. For the bicentennial of the Ballets Russes, Alonzo King prepared his own version of Fokine’s Schéhérazade, not set to the original Rimsky-Korsakov, but to a reinterpretation of the music by classical Indian music legend Zakir Hussain. After performing it at the Monaco Dance Forum (see “Dance Matters,” July), LINES Ballet brings it to San Francisco Oct. 14.
Premieres and debuts are sprouting all over the map this fall. Start with Ralph Lemon’s full-evening creation, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? Described as a “speculative fiction epic,” and danced by Lemon’s Cross Performance troupe, this project involves a collaboration with Walter Carter, a 102-year-old ex-sharecropper, and references Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Solaris. The work opens in San Francisco Oct. 7 and moves to the Brooklyn Academy of Music Oct. 13. Also coming to BAM are Angelin Preljocaj’s Cunningham-esque Empty moves Oct. 27; and—their first trip to the U.S. after Pina Bausch’s death—Tanztheater Wuppertal Sept. 29, with the U.S. premiere of Vollmond (Full Moon). (See more about Bausch’s company on the next page.)
The Mark Morris Dance Group promises a world premiere for the Celebrity Series of Boston Oct. 14. MMDG will also offer three West Coast premieres (Behemoth, Looky, Socrates) when it launches the Cal Performances dance programming in Berkeley Sept. 30.
The expanded Dance at the Music Center series in Los Angeles hosts the West Coast debut of Corella Ballet Castilla y León, which opens the season Nov. 5 with dances by Welch, Tippet, Wheeldon, and María Pagés’ charming duet for the Corella siblings Ángel and Carmen.
Substantial touring schedules loom this fall. The Paul Taylor Dance Company will be performing its glorious repertory in more than a dozen cities in October and November, including Philadelphia Oct. 21 and Minneapolis Nov. 30. Lucinda Childs takes the revival of her classic DANCE to White Bird in Portland, OR, Oct. 7. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has announced an extensive traveling schedule; stops include Berkeley (Oct. 29), Cleveland (Nov. 6), Washington, DC (Nov. 12), Dallas (Nov. 19), and Miami (Dec. 11). The dances are by Duato, Kylián, and resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo.
Among the most illustrious visitors this fall is the Japanese butoh troupe Sankai Juku, who will be touring with a pair of the slow-moving epics that have riveted audiences for decades. New York’s Joyce Theater (Oct. 5) gets director Ushio Amagatsu’s recent work Tobari. Most other places, which include Montreal (Sept. 30), Chicago (Oct. 20), and San Francisco (Nov. 11) will see the 1998 Hibiki—Resonance from Far Away. Less familiar to American audiences will be Mexico City’s visually stunning modernist Tania Pérez-Salas, who makes a major tour with her company this month. The troupe opens the Northrop dance season in Minneapolis Sept. 24, then launches the contemporary dance series at the Kennedy Center Sept. 28 before making a Miami debut Oct. 2.
Of all the touring events the next three months, perhaps the most unusual and unmissable may be “FLY: Five First Ladies of Dance.” They are Germaine Acogny, Carmen deLavallade, Dianne McIntyre, Bebe Miller, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar—all instrumental in shaping the modern dance landscape and all presenting solo work here. In their own way, they’re all legends. Catch “FLY” Nov. 2 at the Kennedy Center and Dec. 3 at Oberlin College, OH.
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A sign-up gift will be provided to all members registered from Jan. 15 to April 15, it added.
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Efforts on to encourage female education: Wardak
KABUL CITY (PAN): Education Minister Ghulam Farooq Wardak, citing various factors behind low literacy rate among females in the country, on Tuesday said his ministry planned to encourage families into sending their daughters to schools.
Addressing a two-day conference "Annual Review of Education Sector" in Kabul, Wardak cited insecurity the main challenge hindering efforts at promoting women’s education, besides cultural restrictions, economic hardships and lack of schools.
However, he recalled less than a million students, most of them males, were enrolled to schools a decade ago and their current number stood at six million, including three million girls, across the country.
He continued the education ministry was trying to increase the number of girls in schools despite the fact that about three million children lacked access to education institutes.
The minister described a shortage of teaching staff, insecurity, poor financial resources and increasing number of new comers to schools and higher education institutions as key challenges the education ministry had to deal with over next nine years.
Wardak asked the international community to continue supporting Afghanistan in its efforts to strengthen the country's education sector.
Officials from ministries of women affairs, labour, social affairs, martyrs and disabled, higher education minister, representatives from local and international organisations attended the conference.
A decade ago, Wardak said about 900,000 children had access to education and the number would be increased to 1.4 million in next nine years. He added the number of high school graduates appearing in university entrance test was 65,000 a decade ago, but the number would be increased to 350,000 during upcoming nine years.
He said currently15, 000 schools were operational across the country, compared to 4,000 nine years ago. Of 200,000 schoolteachers, including 30 percent females, only 50 percent were professional, he added.
According to the Ministry of Education, more than 77,000 students are getting education in higher education universities and the figures are expected to be increased to 617,000 until 2020.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) deputy head in Afghanistan, Kyan Tang, said there had been many achievements in various Afghan sectors, especially education, over the past decade.
He said the conference discussed challenges, achievements and requirements of Afghanistan in areas of education and higher education.
Tang said UNESCO was ready to continue supporting the Afghan education sector, with more focus on capacity building of teachers and increasing literary rate.


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The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung extends birthday wishes to: Melanie Schulze, Jo Ann tolle, Jose Vega, Tom Kiesling, Kathy Faulkner, Kris! Bier (belated), Edward Alan Campos Sr., Amanda Medrano and Patti Westbrook.
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Comal River —335 cubic feet per second Monday, up 5 from Friday.
Edwards Aquifer Panther Canyon Wed — 625.97 feet above sea level Monday, up .04 from Friday.
Canyon Dam discharge — 212 cfs Canyon Lake inflow —160 cfs Canyon Lake level — 906.79 feet above sea level Tuesday.
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Rain chances don’t "tpyrTri* until woofcond Today — Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s to near 70. Tonight, partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 30s to 40s.
Waffnasffoy — Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s to near 60. Wednesday night, mostly cloudy. Lows mainly in the 30s.
Thursday — Partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s.
Friday — Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 40s. Highs in the 60s
Saturday — Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers or thunderstorms. Lows in the 40s to near 50 south central. Highs in the 50s to around 60.
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The Holiday River of Lights Sharing the Spirit organization chosen for today was Lone Star Girl Scout Council, New Braunfels Unit.
This non-profit organization will supply two workers to staff the display from 6 to 9.30 p.m. today and hand out information. In return, the organization will receive 50 cents per vehicle that passes through Cypress Bend Park tonight.
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It’s not too late to give to the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung’s Cheer Fund, which is used to buy food baskets for the needy.
Make your donations at the Herald-Zeitung offices, 707 Landa St., during regular business hours or mail them. Checks should be made payable to the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung Cheer Fund
Recent contributions include:
■ Carmetta Horan — $25
■ Ruth Alford-Stee — $30
■ Mona B. Kron — $10
■ Claude W. Dickens — $25
■ Arthur A Gladys Stearns -$50
■ Larry & Joan Crowell — $50
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by SUSAN FLYNT ENGLAND
The business of learning proceeded as usual at New Braunfels High School Monday.
Football players ambled in the halls, talked to girls and sat in classrooms. Their faces showed grins, not tears.
Some emotion might come to the surface (today), though.
“They’re planning a short pep rally (today),” said asistant principal Bob Rodriguez, “from 11:45 to noon.” School officials are planning a three-sport victory dance in January, Rodriguez said The dance will cele-
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brate the achievements of not only the Unicom football team but the girls cross country and volleyball as well.
Unicorns laughed and joked as they cleaned their football lockers.
Asked what they would be doing post-season, a few said, “Rehab!” Even though they lost Saturday’s game against Alief Hastings,, the players did not look sad The camaraderie they had built was not ending.
Head coach Tim Kingsbury said he would remember the season as a suc
“I enjoyed evey moment — practices and games. It was enjoyable to see how the whole town backed us,” he said
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“We believe” turned into messages of “Great season!”
Assistant principal Mike Reimer showed some regret.
“I would have like to have seen it go on for another week,” he said. “Everything has to end.”
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Search for robber continues
String of robberies now up to eight
From staff reports
A man wanted for a string of robberies in New Braunfels is still on the loose and struck again as recently as last week, according to New Braunfels •police.
The alleged gunman entered Planet Video, 549 Landa St., at approximately 7 p.m. Dec. 8, showed a gun and escaped with an undisclosed amount I
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It was the second robbery committed in less than a month at Planet Video, and the robber in both crimes was described as an Hispanic male, 16-19 years old, weighing between 130 and 160 pounds. The suspect is cleanshaven, has short, black hair, and is between 5-foot 8 and 5-foot IO, according to police reports.
“He hasn’t hit anymore since Planet Video,” said Osborne. “We’ve gotten a few other leads, but at this point, it looks like it is only one person.”
The same description fit a man who entered Planet Video Nov. 22, wearing a black T-shirt with a handgun tucked into the waistband of his baggy blue jeans.
A man fitting the same description robbed Lee’s Conoco Station at 1691 N. Business 35 on Oct. 24, Nov. 8 and Nov. 14. Police believe the same man approached the Conoco Food Mart at 1410 Huisache Ave. on Nov. 26 and robbed the store after showing a gun.
That same day, he attempted to rob the Oakwood Inn near Interstate 35 but was unsuccessful. Several days later, the man tried to rob the Budget Inn, also near the interstate, but fled motel premises when a clerk on duty refused to hand over the money.
The suspect has robbed establishments with no surveillance equipment, and many of the establishments had only one employee (Mi duty, Osborne said. The suspect apparently waits for similar circumstances before entering a place of business.
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BY SUSAN JAKOBSEN
A fire producing billows of whitish-brown smoke visible from miles away brought New Braunfels, Canyon Lake, Bulverde and Bracken firefighters to a ranch off Texas 46 Monday afternoon.
The fire, approximately six miles west of New Braunfels city limits, was believed to have burned out of control, according to city and county response teams, and area units were dispatched to contain it.
Information from the official report was not available by press time. County Fire Marshal Milton Will-man was unavailable for commemt.
Much to their surprise, area firefighters were sent back to their respective posts after property owners confirmed that the fire was controlled.
“It was a lot of ruckus for nothing,” said John Berber, NBFD Central station battalion chief.
The New Braunfels Fire Department sent a pumper and a brush truck to the controlled bum, said Phillip Baker, NBFD fire chief. At that time, it was not evident that the fire was controlled, he said.
“It sure put up a lot of smoke,” Baker said.
The two NBFD units did not attempt to fight the fire, because confirmation was made that the bum was attended and controlled.
Controlled burning can become dangerous when weather conditions are dry, according to authonties. In fact, hazard warnings soon might be in effect if moisture is inadequate, according to one official.
“lf we don’t get significant moisture in the next couple of weeks, it could start getting dangerous to bum,” said Baker.
Although the ground was moist, a recent freeze in South Texas killed a large amount of area vegetation, and (by bundles of leaves and dead grass could bum quickly, he said.
County residents were allowed to set controlled bums when no hazard warnings were in effect. They were “strongly recommended” for safety purposes to contact county authonties with notification about the area planned for burning, according to Elroy Fnesenhahn, city of New Braunfels fire marshal
“Any grass fire that we would have (under the current weather conditions) could be a potentially bad one,” said Friesenhahn
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Donations can be made through Friday
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The New Braunfels Jaycees Toys for Tots campaign deadline has been extended so more residents can participate in a program kilt helps area families give gifts and put food on their tables during the holidays.
“Two years ago, we gave a family Christmas who was living in a car,” said Sue Kolath, past president of New Braunfels Jaycees. “It’s a real eye-opener.”
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Local organizations are getting behind the campaign. TCI Cable is accepting a new toy in lieu of installation fees, and the Remote Control Car Club recently conducted a race and made a donation of entry fees to the Toys for Tots program, among others.
In its 14th year, Toys for Tots provides food to more than 125 families and toy* for 300 to 350 children, according to Kolath The families are selected through the Community Service Center, 132 Caddell Ln.
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The Boreal Peonies family farm was established in Two Rivers, Alaska in 2012 as both a production and a research farm. Peonies grown in the production fields are cut and sold to floral wholesalers and retailers around the world.
As members of the Alaskan Peony Growers Association, our data from the research trials will be provided to the Alaskan peony farming community in an effort to provide advantageous information that will yield the best stems/buds for the Alaskan cut flower industry.
About 5,700 peonies were planted in the first production fields in 2013, and more peonies have been added annually with a total of approximately 15,000 peonies in production, 1,000 peonies in research testing and 200 in trial/specialty rows.
We are a proud member of the Certified American Grown Flowers program. This means you can be assured 100% of the flowers we sell were grown in the United States and meet the standards of the American flower industry. This program is “committed to a unified promotional and advocacy effort that establishes an identifiable and iconic brand that communicates to the public the domestic origins as well as the high quality, freshness and consistency of American Grown Flowers.”

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SHOPPERS queuing round the block in snow, ice and freezing temperatures may sound like something from Communist-era Eastern Europe.
Customers lined the Stockbridge street for more than an hour as the thermometer showed minus three degrees C.
John Black, 63, travelled all the way from Joppa on the other side of the city to get the traditional ingredients for his festive dinner.
The taxi driver said: “I’ve been coming here for 15 years and every year it’s the same. People queue up because it’s the best – simple as that.”
Victoria Watson, 27, an administration assistant from Stockbridge, said: “We got the choice of day to come and collect our orders.
“I think queuing is all part of the atmosphere – this is the first time I’ve used this place so I’m expecting a lot.”


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Posted on Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 by Russ Fischer
When you hear that Robert Zemeckis is producing a film featuring a mix of animated and live-action characters — that is, the animated characters are explicitly animated within the world of the film — what do you think of? If you said Cool World, you’re close. Since Robert Zemeckis has steadily talked about a Roger Rabbit sequel over the years, this announcement of another film in a very similar vein seems awfully strange. More details after the break.
Badass Digest pointed me towards a Variety article that says Rob Edwards (The Princess and the Frog screenwriter) is writing Animated American for producers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Cooper. The film is about “an animated baby raised by a live-action family until his 18th birthday, when he decides to find his real family with the help of his friend and her jealous boyfriend.”
As BD notes, it seems really weird that Robert Zemeckis might work on this and a Roger Rabbit sequel — two different films with very similar conceits? Devin goes so far as to muse about this being the Roger Rabbit sequel in disguise. As we have no more info than what is in the trade break, I really can’t add anything to that guess. But I can add some questions: could this be what became of the Roger Rabbit sequel, or is it an idea that was originally considered for use in that world? Again: strange stuff. Animated American is at Disney, while RR was partially a Disney thing, other business developments may prevent a sequel from really happening. And what position is Zemeckis in with Disney after Mars Needs Moms tanked hard?
Meanwhile, Rob Edwards is also adapting the graphic novel series Amulet, by Kazu Kibuishi, for Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment. The trade sums that up as following “a teenage boy and his sister, who are pulled into a mystical world of demons, monsters and talking animals and discover that they are the last in a line of gatekeepers who must quickly learn to control a powerful amulet to save the world.” Will and Jaden Smith have been attached to star, but as we know from watching Will Smith attach himself to projects over the years, that doesn’t necessarily mean anything.Cool Posts From Around the Web:


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Digital Manufacturing or Industry 4.0 is changing manufacturing through exponential levels of information and connectivity. Business models are growing, driven by the initiation of smart manufacturing and operations. Systems and networks are proficient of independently exchanging and reacting to information in order to manage industrial production processes. In the heat of becoming industry leaders, organizations are competing to figure out the right approach for adopting technologies that jointly outline digital manufacturing. Companies are conscious of the advantage that these technologies can deliver to an organization, but are often ingenious when it comes to the embracing and implementation of such technologies.
Digital manufacturing focuses on realising the assured benefits of the end-to-end digitization of all physical assets, as well as mixing into the digital ecosystem with value chain partners. The proven model encompasses assessing an organization’s willingness in categories such as technology, infrastructure, people, and culture and then choosing a key business case with which to start.
Manufacturing organizations, though aware of the benefits that digital manufacturing technologies can deliver, struggle to effectively adopt and implement digital technologies. According to that same BCG study, almost half of the organizations in the U.S. are not yet prepared for the arrival of new technologies for digital manufacturing. From a manufacturing perspective, less than 40% of U.S. manufacturers have either applied or planned to apply new technologies.
For asset-intensive organizations, the journey to digital manufacturing begins by selecting a key business case, conceptualizing it, running a pilot, analysing results and adapting the model’s goal to scale. The assessment of expected financial and non-financial benefits can help organizations to select the priority use case for implementation. Typical steps an organization should follow to embark their digital journey are outlined below (Figure 1):
For asset-intensive companies such as metals and paper mills, mines, and chemicals plants, predictive maintenance often represents the highest value area. Predictive maintenance addresses key business challenges on the factory floor—unplanned machine breakdown or a lack of asset visibility—and delivers the highest returns. The predictive maintenance case, upon successful implementation, creates substantial infrastructure and expertise for widening the digital footprint across the organization.
The major challenge faced on the factory floor is the breakdown of equipment that occurs due to machine degradation, component wear, and other factors invisible to operators. These machine breakdowns have direct implications on the organization’s finances, productivity, and reputation. Other challenges include difficulty in manual monitoring of equipment health, a lack of asset visibility, and a lack of standardization in efficient maintenance planning processes.
The predictive maintenance approach helps to monitor and assess equipment health based on the analysis of various parameters, including temperature, pressure, and vibration, RPM, and flow rate. Various data processing systems capture this data using sources like OPC, Historian, and SQL. They then perform data analysis, where the streamed equipment data is compared with pre-identified failure patterns, captured and stored using historical data. Machine learning processes enable the system to analyse and store machine failure patterns that iteratively learn from data, allowing systems to find hidden signs without any explicit conditions. A match in the streamed equipment data with pre-identified failure patterns triggers alarms and notifications indicating a deterioration of machine health and the potential for equipment failure.
Predictive Maintenance Design
The predictive maintenance approach varies across industries and largely depends on the types of industry-specific machines and equipment in use. It is essential to have a master list of all the equipment on the plant floor so as to ascertain which machines require continuous monitoring for seamless operations. The equipment list needs to be reviewed for completeness to ensure no critical equipment is ignored.
Once the equipment list has been created, the next step is to evaluate just how indispensable the equipment is with respect to overall operations and maintainability. There are various factors that influence the equipment criticality evaluation and a few critical factors are shown in the graphs below. All factors should be considered collectively when evaluating criticality.
The key benefits that Predictive Maintenance approach brings to the organization are categorized as strategic benefits and operational benefits as shown below:
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The real-time flow of in¬formation, and the ability to analyse it can allow for greater operational efficiencies and more nimble performance by using digital data to drive physical action in the form of maintenance and upkeep. This flow and analysis embody the characteristics of the DSN as detailed below.
The constant flow of data from connected physical assets and related systems enables “always-on” agility, in which unforeseen situations and changing conditions in machinery can be illuminated in real time, mitigating potential damage. A connected community of assets and systems can provide a greater scale and scope of data to enable more accurate predictive analysis, enabling organizations to intelligently optimize decision making and use of machinery. Further, aggregating the data of sensors on connected machinery throughout the production process can allow for end-to-end transparency while choosing the right analytics and algorithms to make sense of those data can enable holistic decision making about approaches to maintaining assets, to optimize their performance based on their role within the network as a whole.


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text: Sigma-Aldrich ( SIAL) agreed to invest $5 million in U.K. biotech Oxford BioMedica and to commercialize Oxford's LentiVector technology for the reagent and research tool market. Oxford, which identifies itself as a leading gene therapy company, didn't disclose financial terms. But the company, which was spun off from Oxford University 10 years ago, said St. Louis-based Sigma-Aldrich will become its global partner in the marketing of research products based on the LentiVector. Oxford BioMedica will receive an upfront payment, annual minimum payments and royalties on sales. In addition, Sigma-Aldrich has first rights to negotiate for a license to develop a new range of products, the companies said. Oxford BioMedica said LentiVector is a lentivirus-based gene delivery technology that "is one of the most powerful technologies for the delivery of genes to a wide range of cell and tissue types." It has applications both in therapeutic products and as a drug discovery tool for target validation and the creation of targeted disease models, Oxford BioMedica said. Early Thursday, Sigma-Aldrich was flat at $62.71.


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Let alone the media, the lyricist-writer made chief guest Lata Mangeshkar wait as well. Lata didi had arrived half an hour early and made an early exit. Looks like Javed saab had no time for his own book and even rushed through the interviews for his own publicity!
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Live! Giants FanFest Media Day
Are you ready for some baseball?
Two weeks before pitchers and catchers report for spring training, the Giants are holding their annual FanFest media day in advance of Saturday’s all-day event. Gone is Pablo Sandoval, but plenty of intrigue remains.
Among the tidbits so far:
And good news on the Matt Cain front. Cain is scheduled to throw his second bullpen session today and expects to be pretty close to normal schedule when pitchers report on Feb. 19.
Says Cain: “I feel like I’m 18 again. I feel as good as I did when I first signed with these guys.”


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Tragedy is a depressant, often leading people overcome by emotions to the wrong and often very hasty resolutions. Like all observers of the aftermath of last week’s presidential elections in Nigeria, I was saddened by the loss of innocent lives in the north as a result of a mad frenzy of sadistic unemployed youths convinced that their candidate won. In the process, many lives were lost, including a current serving member of the NYSC Ukeoma Aikfavour whose last status update on April 17 reads as follows:
Na wao! This CPC suporters would hv killed me yesterday, no see threat oooo. Even after forcing underaged voters on me they wanted me to give them the remaining ballot paper to thiumb print. Thank God for the police and am happy i could stand for God and my nation. To all corps members who stood despite these threats esp. In the north bravo! Nigeria! Our change has come.
The exact details of his death is not yet known, and it doesn’t make it less sad, or less a grave indictment on the supporters and leaders of CPC who wanted to win the election by do-or-die. Ukeoma paid the ultimate sacrifice which by now we have resolved to make sure was never in vain. (I’m aware of Facebook pages now calling for a rally in his honour on May 29, as well as calls for the government of Goodluck Jonathan to reward his family, and immortalize his name – all very good, very important steps to offer support and solidarity to those ordinary people who do extraordinary things everyday on behalf of all of us.)
Then there are also the cynics whose only lesson from this unfortunate event is that the NYSC has outlived its usefulness and should be scrapped, or that corp members should be deployed only to their home states. Here is one of such recent examples. Nothing could be more unfortunate than a thought process that finds this as the best alternative to a system that has allowed us to understand each other more than any other in the country. In civilized countries, the lessons from tragedy is not usually an about turn with tails between one’s legs, but a courageous pushing on with a resolve to tackle the problems that makes the tragedy happen in the first place. Nobody can quantify the loss of a human life. But attacking the structure that has – for over thirty years – moved people around the country in order to learn and to contribute at the grassroot level is a bad idea. It is like trying to cure a boil with an invasive laser surgery.
The National Youth Service Corps needs a lot of changes, one of which is the amount of stipend that each corp member gets every month. Another one is that they should be well protected and should never be left to their devices in situations when their security is at risk. Like soldiers defending the country from attack, each corp member is a representative of all of us, and we owe it to them to make sure that they return home safely. But to suggest that they should not be given the chance to experience that diversity that their country is made of is, again, a bad idea that we should never encourage. If they need to live in police or soldier barracks to make them safer, we should encourage that. Not that they should go and serve in their home towns. All that would bring is a future Nigeria where all everyone knows about the country is all they see within miles of their own home. And what good is that for nation-building or for a safer future based on understanding?
The new president, Goodluck Jonathan has such tasks on his hands, to unite the country again, and make such situations unlikely where the call for dividing the country will be a better alternative to working to find safer and more challenging ways to forge a future based on respect and understanding. Meanwhile, people like Aikfavour Ukeoma make me proud to have been an NYSC corper. May his sacrifice remind us of the high price of integrity, the frailness of our current national experiment, the futility of violence, and encourage us to work for a better, more secure future for ourselves.

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