July 23, 2014
Noel Black, director of the cult movie Pretty Poison as well as a number of television episodes and movies of the week, died on July 5 in Santa Barbara, according to his son, director and unit production manager Marco Black. He was 77.
Born in Chicago, Black was a graduate student at the UCLA film school at the same time as Carroll Ballard (who would work on Black’s breakthrough short) and Francis Ford Coppola. With producer Marshall Backlar, a UCLA classmate, Black used car- and tricycle-mounted cameras to shoot Skaterdater (1965), an exuberant, wordless pre-teen romance between skateboard boy and bicycle girl.
Laying a surf guitar score by Mike Curb over gorgeous, time capsule-worthy SoCal images, Black’s celluloid calling card won a prize at Cannes and got picked up by United Artists to accompany its feature A Thousand Clowns (an inspired pairing). Skaterdater also marked Black’s television debut, as the ambitious prime-time omnibus ABC Stage 67 showed it in March 1967 alongside two other short films it commissioned from Black (one shot in New York, the other in Louisiana), under the umbrella title “The American Boy.”
Pretty Poison, the mainstream feature that Black wrangled out of all this attention, was a troubled production in which the inexperienced director clashed with both his crew and his leading lady, Tuesday Weld (“neurotic as hell,” according to co-star John Randolph). (Weld: “Noel Black would come up to me before a scene and say, ‘Think about Coca-Cola.’ I finally said, ‘Look, just give the directions to Tony Perkins and he’ll interpret for me.'”) A very dark comedy about the bond between an arsonist (Perkins) and a budding psychopath (Weld), scripted by Lorenzo Semple, Jr., Pretty Poison was an important forerunner to the New Hollywood movement, not only in its flouting of conventional film morality and its New Wave influences (Andrew Sarris complained that Black had borrowed too conspicuously from Antonioni and Resnais) but in its conception via shotgun marriage between film-school talent and big-studio machinery.
The studio in question, Twentieth Century-Fox, tacked on a conventional ending, of which Black disapproved, and dumped the movie anyway. Some of the hipper critics, including Pauline Kael and Joe Morgenstern, made a cause célèbre out of it, echoing the more high-profile battle fought over Bonnie and Clyde a year earlier. In casting and subject matter, Pretty Poison itself plays like a companion piece to Bonnie and Clyde – Weld, having turned down the leading role in Arthur Penn’s masterpiece, gives us a hint of what shape her Bonnie Parker might have taken in Black’s movie – as well as to Psycho and George Axelrod’s deranged Weld vehicle Lord Love a Duck.
But as New Hollywood took off, it left Black behind. His next two features – Cover Me Babe (1970), about film students, and Jennifer On My Mind (1971), a druggie romance written by Love Story‘s Erich Segal – died at the box office and lacked critical champions. Ambitious projects planned in the wake of Pretty Poison collapsed, among them an adaptation of Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March and an Erich Segal-scripted biopic on Railroad Bill. Instead, Black’s only other theatrical features were Mirrors (1978), a New Orleans-lensed voodoo thriller with Peter Donat and The Exorcist‘s Kitty Winn that sat on the shelf for four years; the comic caper A Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979); and the Brat Pack sex comedy Private School (1983).
Turning to television, Black directed one-off episodes of McCloud, Kojak, Hawaii Five-O, Quincy, M.E., and the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone, as well as the pilot for the short-lived Mulligan’s Stew. His more literary work included adaptations of Sherwood Anderson’s “I’m a Fool” and Ring Lardner’s “The Golden Honeymoon” for PBS’s The American Short Story and Hortense Calisher’s “The Hollow Boy” for American Playhouse, as well as an Emmy-nominated version of Ray Bradbury’s “I Sing the Body Electric” (retitled “The Electric Grandmother,” with Maureen Stapleton and Edward Herrmann) for NBC’s Peacock Showcase. Black also directed a spate of mainstream movies of the week during their early eighties heyday, including The Other Victim (1981), with William Devane coming to grips with his wife’s rape; the Reginald Rose-scripted lesbian romance My Two Loves (1986); and Promises to Keep (1985), with Robert Mitchum acting opposite his son and grandson.
May 21, 2011
Charles F. Haas, a prolific television and film director, died on May 12 at the age of 97.
Haas began his career at Universal in 1935, through nepotism; his stepfather was a friend of studio chief Carl Laemmle. He rose from the production office and the cutting room to become, after the war, a producer and a screenwriter. Haas directed ten B-movies in the late fifties, some of which – Girls Town, The Beat Generation, Platinum High School – are now remembered as minor camp classics. But if Haas, whom Mamie Van Doren once proclaimed the best director she ever had, has any standing among cinephiles, it probably resides on Moonrise, the one feature he wrote (and also produced). A dangerous, dreamy melodrama, Moonrise was directed by the presently fashionable auteur Frank Borzage, after Haas’s original choice, William Wellman, dropped out.
After Moonrise, Haas found himself eminently employable as a screenwriter, work that he hated, and insisted on making a transition into directing (for which there was far less demand). The night before he was to throw in the towel and accept a writing job, following a six-month drought, his agent came up with a debut directing job in industrial films. Haas moved quickly into television and directed much of Big Town, a newspaper drama produced by the low-budget indie outfit Gross-Krasne.
Crossing over to the majors, Haas worked regularly for Warner Bros. (on their carbon-copied westerns and detective shows) and Disney (on Disneyland and The Mickey Mouse Club, among others). Haas moved up to direct for a number of A-list dramatic series, including Route 66, The Dick Powell Show, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E., but on all of them he tended to move on after one or two episodes. That peripatetic pattern led me to wonder if he had trouble delivering an above-par product. But Haas claimed that he didn’t like to stay in one place for too long, and also blamed his unwillingness to court the friendship of production managers (especially at Revue, but also on Bonanza and other shows) as a reason why he sometimes wasn’t hired back. In any case, it remains difficult to discern an authorial style in most of Haas’s television work, although there are high points. In The American Vein, Christopher Wicking and Tise Vahimagi describe Haas’s “Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog” as “one of the moodiest Hitchcock segments” I’m partial to “Cry of Silence,” the underrated “killer tumbleweed” episode of The Outer Limits, in which Haas conjured more tension and atmosphere than one would think possible on a soundstage facsimile of the nighttime desert.
When I interviewed Haas in 2007, he was 93 and retained a detailed memory. He told me wonderful stories about Borzage, John Ford, William Wyler, and other Hollywood giants, and discussed own his directing career. Never one to engage his actors in discussions of motivation and the like, Haas explained this theory of non-involvement with an example involving David Janssen, whose gifts he recognized:
In a picture at Universal [Showdown at Abilene], I had David Janssen. I had him with [Jock Mahoney], who . . . was basically a stuntman. Stunts were easy for him, but as an actor he lacked a certain energy. So I couldn’t afford to have David Janssen as his assistant, but he was under contract at Universal, and I had to [use] him. So I had him leaning against a door in every scene. He never understood why. The reason was, if I hadn’t had him leaning against a door in every scene that he was in, he would’ve outdone [Mahoney], who was the star. So it was a very indirect kind of thing. You have to keep in mind that these are all talented people, and what you want to do is furnish them with energy, not with your idea.
On The General Electric Theatre, Haas directed Ronald Reagan, and thought him rather strange:
It’s pretty hard to characterize Ron so that anybody can understand. He was very easy to work with. He was interesting and cooperative. We didn’t agree about anything, but we never fought about it. He was perfectly reasonable, but he was a total nut. Really. One time while they were lighting the set, he said to me, “Chuck, what do you think is the worst thing that ever happened to the United States?”
So I’m thinking and pondering, and I said, “Well, the Civil War.” He said no. “World War I?” No. I said, “Ronald, what?”
He said, “The graduated income tax.”
(Haas had another funny Reagan story, but I’m holding that one back until I have a place to publish the whole interview.)
Haas retired from directing in 1967, when he was only in his mid-fifties, and devoted much of his later life to overseeing the Oakwood School, a private school in the San Fernando Valley that he had co-founded when his children were young.
December 8, 2010
Leigh Chapman doesn’t look like any seventy year-old screenwriter you’ve ever seen. Auburn-haired and svelte, she arrives for coffee clad in tight jeans, a loose-fitting blouse with only one button fastened, and designer sunglasses. Two young women stop to admire her knee-length boots, which are black and metal-studded. “My Road Warrior boots,” she says.
It’s apt that Chapman would identify with Mad Max. Her resume reads like a long weekend at the New Beverly, as programmed by Quentin Tarantino. Chapman tackled just about every subgenre now enshrined in grindhouse nostalgia: beach parties (A Swingin’ Summer), bikers (How Come Nobody’s on Our Side?), car chases (Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry), martial arts (the Chuck Norris campfest The Octagon). She did an uncredited polish on Robert Aldrich’s lady wrestler opus, …All the Marbles, and a treatment about a caucasian bounty hunter that morphed into the blaxploitation howler Truck Turner.
“I wrote action-adventure,” Chapman says. “I couldn’t write a romantic comedy or a chick flick if my life depended on it. I could write a love story, but it would have to be a Casablanca type of love story, and some people would have to die.”
Chapman arrived in Hollywood at a time when women fought uphill to succeed as screenwriters, and rarely specialized in masculine genres like westerns and crime pictures. She fled her South Carolina hometown (“a humid, green version of The Last Picture Show”) after college and found work as a secretary at the William Morris Agency. Chapman had minored in theater, and the agency sent her out on auditions. She landed a recurring part as the spies’ Girl Friday on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Screen Gems signed her to a six-month contract and cast her as a guest ingenue in episodes of its television series, including The Monkees.
“They thought I was going to be the next Katharine Hepburn,” says Chapman. “Of course, they weren’t doing any sitcoms that had anything to do with Katharine Hepburn.”
Acting wasn’t her bag anyway. Congenitally nocturnal, she hated the 5 A.M. makeup calls, and recoiled at the notion of revealing her inner self on the screen. While moonlighting as a typist, Chapman decided she could write scripts as good as the ones she was transcribing. Television jobs came easily. Her favorite shows were those that let her think up clever ways to kill people, like Burke’s Law (an exploding tennis ball) and The Wild Wild West (a gatling gun in a church organ).
One of Chapman’s last casting calls was for the legendary movie director Howard Hawks. Hawks was instantly smitten. Only years later, after she caught up with Bringing Up Baby and Red River, did Chapman understand that Hawks had seen her as the living embodiment of his typical movie heroine: feminine and pretty, but also tough, fast-talking, and able to hold her own in an otherwise all-male world.
Hawks had a fetish for deep-voiced women, and he started Chapman on the same vocal exercises he had devised to give an earlier discovery, Lauren Bacall, her throaty purr. “I was supposed to press my stomach into an ironing board, to make my voice lower,” she remembers. “It only lasted as long as I was pushing myself into the ironing board.”
Hawks deemed Chapman hopeless as an actress, but liked the sample pages she gave him. He put her to work on a Vietnam War script (never produced), and for a while Chapman shuttled out to the director’s Palm Springs home for story conferences. Finally, Hawks made a tentative pass, and Chapman shied away. “That was the end of it. He had too much pride,” she believes, to persist.
Hawks wanted her to write Rio Lobo, the John Wayne western that would be his swan song. Instead, Chapman “dropped out” and moved to Hawaii, where she spent a year lying on the beach and taking acid. It was one of many impetuous, career-altering moves for Chapman. A self-described “adrenaline junkie,” she collected dangerous hobbies: motorcycles (Hawks taught her how to ride dirtbikes), fast cars, guns, skiing, and even momentum stock trading, which pummeled her portfolio when the dot-com bubble burst. In 1963, she spent her first paycheck as a professional writer on a Corvette.
Skeptical about commitment and children, Chapman favored passionate but brief affairs, some of them with Hollywood players. Her U.N.C.L.E. co-star Robert Vaughn and the science fiction writer Harlan Ellison are two that she will name for the record. Any time permanence loomed, Chapman bailed – a response more stereotypically associated with the male of the species. “My alter ego is male,” she says. It is a credo vital to her writing as well as her personal life. “I decided early on that guys got to have all the fun. Women don’t interest me.”
Today, Chapman keeps a low profile. She lives alone in a Sunset Boulevard high-rise, drives a vintage Jaguar, and burns off pent-up energy at the gym. It is the lifestyle of a professional assassin awaiting an assignment, although Chapman, at least so far as I know, has never killed anyone. Her final film credit, for the 1990 thriller Impulse (one of her only scripts to feature a female protagonist), preceded a decade of turnaround follies. She was attached briefly to Double Impact, the camp classic in which Jean-Claude Van Damme played butt-kicking twins. The Belgian kickboxer hired her to flesh out another idea (“Papillon, but with gladiatorial combat”), but that script was never made. Later Chapman rewrote the pilot for Walker, Texas Ranger, but she fell out with the showrunners and substituted her mother’s name for her own in the credits.
“One day,” says Chapman, “I woke up and just said, ‘If I write another script, I’ll puke.’”
Now she channels her energy into underwater photography, a hobby she took up about five years ago. She hopes to arrange a gallery showing of her photographs, which she alters digitally into exuberant, kaleidoscopic whatsits. Scuba diving began as another kind of thrill for Chapman, but what she loves about it now is the feeling of weightlessness that comes as she drifts among the reefs.
“It’s the most serene I will ever get,” Chapman muses. “Which is not very.”
Above: Leigh in her television debut, an episode of Ripcord (“Million Dollar Drop,” 1963). Top: Promotional still from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (courtesy Leigh Chapman). Photo captions and Ripcord image added on 10/31/13.
Author’s note: This piece was commissioned last year by LA Weekly, but spiked after a change in editorship. A longer question-and-answer transcript, focusing more on Chapman’s television work, will appear next year in the oral history area of my main site. Below are two of Leigh’s underwater photographs, with her titles (and the note that these images have minimal digital manipulation, relative to some of her other work).


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Thanks to the most recent Ubisoft Forward we now know that Watch Dogs Legion is still coming out this year!
It's been several days since I got to play Watch Dogs Legion before anyone else in the world did and I'm happy to announce that I was able to capture footage of my gameplay!
It's set in a futuristic London where your are part of a hacker group that's been framed for attacking the city of London and you get to play as any and EVERY character in the game.
You can see some of the gameplay we captured on the London Bridge as well as Kevin and I's reactions to the game below and get ready for Watch Dogs Legion to release on PS4, Xbox One, Google Stadia on October 29th!
You can also check out a trailer for the game with some different gameplay below!

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Restaurants Strive to Better Accommodate Food AllergiesRalph Santaniello knows something about dietary trends. And he knows the difference between temporary fads and changes that seem more permanent.
“When we opened nine years ago, the big thing was Atkins, no carbs,” said the co-owner of the Federal Restaurant in Agawam. “Today, it’s gluten-free. Back then, we heard someone had a gluten allergy or celiac disease probably once every two or three months. Now it’s at least once a night.”
Dawn LaRochelle has also seen a significant uptick in food allergies. She operates Perigee Restaurant and Apogee Catering in Lee, and says a full 30% of her catering clientele has restrictions based on celiac, a genetic disorder which typically manifests as intestinal sensitivity to gluten, a protein found in wheat and other grains.
“I have a tremendous interest in — and concern for — people who have food allergies, as well as with voluntary dietary restrictions, like kosher or vegetarian diets,” LaRochelle said. “I come from a family of physicians, and I’ve seen first-hand the effects of allergies on people and how devastating it is, feeling like they can’t go out, can’t do anything.”
But that’s changing, at least at some restaurants that put a priority on making people with food allergies of all types feel welcome and safe (more on that later). In the meantime, a state law that went into effect last year mandates a series of steps restaurants must take to educate their staff about the dangers of food allergies and avoiding reactions — which can be deadly — in patrons.
Dr. Jonathan Bayuk, an allergist and immunologist with Hampden County Physician Associates, founded the Western Mass. Food Allergy Network several years ago to help the food-allergic public navigate experiences like dining out. He noted that the Massachusetts law, in a way, follows up on federal guidelines for food packaging, which, in recent years, requires the presence of any of seven allergens — eggs, milk, wheat, fish, soy, peanuts, and tree nuts — to be prominently labeled; producers even warn consumers if a food product has been manufactured on shared equipment.
“Obviously, restaurant menus don’t come with that kind of packaging,” Bayuk said. “So the state has begun the process of making sure people know what’s in the dishes.”
This month, HCN examines what’s in the law, why it was implemented, and other ways in which restaurants are ensuring that guests’ experiences are safe, no matter what their allergy.
Something to Chew On
Ming Tsai, chef and owner of Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley and occasional television personality, worked with state Sen. Cynthia Stone Creem to craft the language of the bill and then lobbied on its behalf. A national spokesman for the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN), Tsai said he wanted the law to mandate simple, inexpensive measures that would be not only effective but realistic for restaurants of all types to implement.
“I’m so proud that Massachusetts is the first state to pass such comprehensive legislation,” Tsai noted in a statement on his Web site after Gov. Patrick signed the bill. “I’ve always said that, if you are in the restaurant industry, it’s your duty to serve everyone safe food.”
FAAN estimates that more than 12 million Americans, 3 million of them children, have food allergies, and that food-related anaphylaxis results in about 150 deaths and more than 50,000 emergency-room visits each year.
Such allergies are also on the rise, though doctors have not determined exactly why. One theory Bayuk has cited, known as the ‘hygeine hypothesis,’ posits that the immune system, which is designed to fight the parasites, worms, and other organisms humans encounter, has less to do these days and has become a bit, well, bored. The idea is that Americans — with their fixation on cleaning products, hand sanitizers, and reluctance to let kids play outside as much as in the past — have created an aseptic environment, and in the absence of those pathogens, our bodies have become oversentitized to allergens, typically proteins, that should pose no threat to humans.
Recognizing this sharp rise in food allergies and how such conditions could threaten diners, the state’s new law requires, among other things:
• The placement in restaurant kitchens of a poster providing general information on food allergies as they relate to food preparation;
• Menus to include a statement that the customer should inform the waitstaff of any food-allergy issue;
• Standard food-service courses to include the viewing of an approved food-allergy video; and
• The state Department of Public Health to develop a voluntary program for restaurants to be designated as ‘food-allergy friendly’ and to maintain a listing of restaurants receiving that designation on its Web site. In order to receive such a designation, restaurants would be required to make available to the public a master list of all the ingredients used in the preparation of each item on the menu. Tsai said this aspect of the law was inspired by the ‘Food Bible’ he keeps at Blue Ginger, detailing all the ingredients used in each menu item.
The year before the Massachusetts law was passed, FAAN produced a 60-page guide for restaurants that includes case studies, best practices, up-to-date research, food-labeling information, and practical strategies for avoiding cross-contamination of food items, as well as suggested procedures for keeping guests safe and steps to prepare for an allergic emergency. Restaurants are able to download and use the guide as a basis for their food-allergy-management programs.
“Studies show that reactions in restaurants are often caused by lack of staff education about food allergy,” said Anne Muñoz-Furlong, founder and CEO of FAAN. “In a number of situations, the guests did not inform the staff of their allergy. Serving guests with food allergies requires staff education and clear communication between guests and staff. This training program helps staff achieve those goals so everyone can have an enjoyable and safe restaurant meal.”
Bayuk sees the law as a good step forward, particularly considering that restaurants tend to vary widely in their treatment of the food-allergy issue.
“Most restaurants, I would say, are open to talking about it, but don’t want to give you any guarantees,” he said, adding that some national chains, like Chili’s, are diligent about posting all their ingredient information online, but other eateries have been slower to educate the public. “It depends on the server in back and the manager; it’s confusing if they don’t understand how foods can cross-react. Parents [of food-allergic children] are used to this, and if they don’t get the answers they want, they’ll just leave.”
But they don’t always have to leave. LaRochelle, for one, wants every patron at Perigee to feel welcome and safe, regardless of allergy or other dietary restriction.
She told HCN that she got into cooking when she was 15. She had decided to become a vegetarian, but her mother didn’t want to cook separate meals for her, so she learned how to cook for herself. As it turned out, her family liked her food so much that her mother and sister eventually turned vegetarian as well.
LaRochelle, who has since gone back to eating meat, remembers vividly what it was like to go to restaurants as a vegetarian. “My only option was was either pasta primavera — which might have chicken stock in it — or extras of the side vegetables everyone else was getting with their main course. Or I can have X, but without the Y,” she said. “No matter what I did, I always felt like a second-class citizen, like the dinners being prepared for me weren’t as good as everyone else’s.”
So she made a point of producing a menu at Perigee that offers numerous items — clearly marked on the menu as such — that are appropriate in their unaltered form for kosher, vegetarian, and gluten-allergic customers. She’s also willing to alter dishes for diners with other food allergies — her staff is allergy-trained — and the menu, based on what’s in season in the Berkshires, changes regularly, so customers can return again and again without having to repeat the same meal.
“As a patron of the restaurant, you want to feel comfortable. You can grill my servers about anything; I want you taken care of,” LaRochelle said. “I’m in hospitality because I want to be hospitable. At the end of the day, no matter how great the food is, one week later, people aren’t going to remember what they ate or drank, but they will remember how they felt at your restaurant, and if your response to their allergy made the meal something special.”
The Federal’s Santaniello said servers will direct customers to allergen-free options — including a ‘you be the chef’ section where diners can craft their own combination of entrée, sauce, and sides — and said the menu is extensive enough that chefs don’t have to alter many dishes. “We don’t want to take too many things from the entrée, because if we take too much away, you won’t enjoy it,” he said.
Still, “we’re a little different than some restaurants because we’re fine dining, and we make almost everything from scratch,” Santaniello said. “That doesn’t mean there aren’t still some sauces and bases made at a different time, with ingredients in them you can’t take out, but we can tailor entrees to what a person’s needs are. If it’s a gluten allergy, we can make an entrée without gluten. Nut allergy is another big one. The key is to make sure that guests, at the end of the day, have as good an experience as they can despite their allergy to gluten or any kind of food.”
Bayuk is gratified that many restaurants do go out of their way to provide options and reassurance to food-allergic patrons. But the dining-out experience, he said, can still be a minefield.
“I haven’t heard an overwhelming sigh of relief from parents,” he said of the restaurant law. “Every day, I see parents of kids with food allergies, and they still struggle with this. There’s so much more awareness at many places regardless of the state law, so I’m optimistic. But you still need to be careful.”
Joseph Bednar can be reached at [email protected]

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标题：Infinite horizon H∞control for nonlinear stochastic Markov jump systems with (x, u, v) -dependent noise via fuzzy approach
作者：Sheng, Li ;Gao, Ming ;Zhang, Weihai ;Chen, Bor-Sen
作者机构：[Sheng, Li ;Gao, Ming ] College of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao; 266580, China;[Chen, Bor- 更多
来源：Fuzzy Sets and Systems
摘要：In this paper, the H∞control problem is studied for nonlinear stochastic Markov jump systems with state, control and external disturbance-dependent noise ((x,u,v)-dependent noise for short). A sufficient condition is derived for the infinite horizon H∞control of such systems in terms of a set of coupled second-order Hamilton-Jacobi inequalities (HJIs). In general, it is difficult to solve these coupled HJIs. By using fuzzy approach, the infinite horizon H∞control design for nonlinear stochastic Markov jump systems is developed via solving a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) instead of HJIs. Two numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed design methods.
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Gionee launched its high-end full metal-body S6 Pro last month in India for Rs. 23,999. The smartphone was first announced in China earlier this year in June and it is essentially a slightly tweaked version of the recently launched Gionee S6s. The phone boasts of 97% metal body design and an octa-core MediaTek Helio P10 SoC with 4GB of RAM. Is it worth? Here’s our full review.
We recently unboxed the smartphone, check out the video below.
- Gionee S6 Pro smartphone in Golden color
- USB Type-A to USB Type-C Cable
- In-ear earphones with microphone
- 2-pin charger
- Clear cover
- Scratch guard
- SIM ejector tool
- User manual and warranty information
Design and Build
The design of Gionee S6 Pro is definitely appealing. The handset looks and feels premium. The chamfered edges are painted blue but unfortunately our review handset didn’t have linear highlighting and the colour peeled off from certain areas too. Other than that there is nothing new in terms of designing. We have seen more or less similar design in most Chinese smartphones.
Apart from the front glass display, the entire handset body is made of aluminum-magnesium alloy, which Gionee says is 97% of the complete body. The build quality is really nice and the phone feels solid in hands. The thickness of the S6 Pro is 7.6mm, but the phone doesn’t feel lightweight. The handset weighs 170 grams and measures at 153 × 75.26 × 7.6mm.
The display is slightly glossy and attracts a bit. The metal-back boats of brushed metal finish and doesn’t attract fingerprints or smudges at all. The Gionee S6 Pro comes in three colour variants – Silver, Gold and Rose Gold.
The top of the display features proximity and ambient light sensor followed by earpiece grill and front-facing 5-megapixel camera.
The bottom of the display has two capacitive touch buttons (Recent and Back) and a Samsung like physical home button with fingerprint sensor.
The right side of the smartphone features volume rocker key and the power/ lock key. The left edge only has hybrid dual Nano-SIM tray. The 3.5mm headphones jack and the secondary noise cancellation mic is on the back, on top of rear camera.
The Type C charging/ data port sandwiched between two speaker grills is located at the bottom edge. The left side grill has primary microphone and the right grill has a speaker in it.
The Gionee S6 Pro features a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) IPS 2.5D curved glass display, although it just feels like any other normal display and not like a 2.5D curved screen that we’ve seen on other smartphones. But having said that, the display colour reproduction is great. It is very sharp and super bright, so there will be no issues looking at it even under direct sunlight. The viewing angles are decent as well. Overall, we really liked the display.
Performance and Software
The S6 Pro packs an octa-core 1.8 GHz MediaTek Helio P10 (MT6755M) processor with Mali T860MP2 GPU and 4GB LPDDR3 RAM.
The internal storage is 64GB, but on first you’ll get about 50GB of free space. Also, the storage can be expanded via microSD card (up to 128GB) and phone also supports Type C USB-OTG and it works great.
Talking about the phone’s performance, it is average for a high-end smartphone. Usually you won’t have issues like hang or screen freezing, but if some apps starts behave a little weird then the phone might as well just need a reboot. We only had little issues with apps crashing sometimes, but otherwise the mutitasking was smooth. The games like Subway Surfer and Temple Run had no issues whatsoever, so was the case with heavy games like Asphalt 8. Also, the phone doesn’t heat much.
Coming to the software, the S6 Pro runs on company’s own Amigo OS 3.2 UI based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Like the other Chinese smartphones UI, all the apps are on the home screen and there is no app drawer like stock Android. Unlike Xiaomi phones, you can always install Google Now Launcher, if you like the app drawer.
To get to the quick settings menu, you need to swipe up and for usual notifications you’ll need to swipe down.
There are not many interesting settings otherwise, but few nifty features include some ‘Smart Gestures’, the option to interchange Menu and Back keys, and ‘Split screen’ option (divides home screen in two working areas).
Audio and Video
The Gionee S6 Pro boasts of DTS audio. There are two loudspeaker grills at the bottom, out-of-which right grill only has the speaker inside. The output is decent in quality and is loud enough too, but speaker grill location is such that it usually gets muffled, especially while watching videos.
The S6 Pro comes with bundled in-ear headphones. These are of no good quality and the output isn’t loud enough too, but we tried different pair of earphones and those work fine with the smartphone. The phone also has FM radio.
Gionee’s stock music player is really good. It has quite a few options/ settings that you’ll enjoy, such as different type of headphones selection for DTS output, some good preset options, equalizer settings, sleep timer for the app and more. Check screenshots below.
Talking about the video quality, the S6 Pro can play up to full-HD (1080p) and it is at par with any other good smartphone. So overall, the S6 Pro does a decent job in both audio and video departments.
The Gionee S6 Pro has a fingerprint scanner on the home button, similar to Samsung Galaxy smartphones. So you need to wake the phone first to unlock.
In our testing/ usage, we found that the fingerprint sensor is decently responsive and it worked 8 times out of 10. It can store up to 5 fingerprints at once.
There isn’t much that you can do with fingerprint sensor, except that swiping right to left or left to right on the home button slides out an edge bar with couple of apps similar to Samsung Galaxy S6 edge/ S7 edge. You can even customize apps in this by tapping on the top most icon of the row or by going to phone’s Settings > Advanced Settings > Edge Bar.
The S6 Pro features a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), Sony IMX258 sensor and f/2.0 aperture. The secondary front-facing camera is an 8-megapixel shooter screen flash and f/2.2 aperture.
The images taken from the rear camera in daylight were mostly disappointing. Most shots were faded or inconsistent. The HDR mode images were slightly better in comparison though, but not good enough. The shutter speed is decent and tap-to-focus is little slow, but works great. Talking about the low-light performance, the shots taken were grainy and had too much noise.
There is not much to talk about Gionee’s stock camera app. It has mostly standard features, but some of the good ones include – GIF, Text Scan (scans text from an image and lets you edit), Smart Scan (QR code scan), and Pic Note (scans documents).
Overall considering the price range of S6 Pro, the camera is a big let down in this handset.
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Connectivity and Battery
The Gionee S6 Pro is a hybrid dual-SIM 4G LTE device and it does support VoLTE out-of-the-box. The hybrid SIM tray sits on the left edge and it can either take two Nano-SIM cards or you can use one SIM and a microSD card. Other connectivity options are standard and includes WiFi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.1 and GPS/ A-GPS. We faced major issue with Wi-Fi connectivity. The Wi-Fi chip appears to be of poor quality and it had really bad connection range.
The phone comes with 64GB of built-in storage, out-of-which most of the space is occupied because of excess bloatware and you get about 50GB of free space on first boot. The storage is expanded via microSD card (up to 128GB) and external storage can be optionally used as internal storage. The phone also supports Type C USB-OTG.
The S6 Pro packs a non-removable 3130mAh battery, which will last you about 8-9 hours on average usage with two SIM cards installed and 4G data. For heavy use case, the battery won’t go beyond 4 hours on a single charge, with of course 4G running and dual-SIM standby.
Overall, we feel that the Gionee S6 Pro is a highly overpriced smartphone considering the competition. It boasts of solid build and a great display. But the overall performance of the handset is average and the camera is really poor compared to the competition in the market right now. We faced major issue with the Wi-Fi connectivity and that’s not acceptable for a smartphone.
- Build quality
- microSD card expansion up to 128GB
- Type C charging port and OTG support
- 4G VoLTE
- Poor Wi-Fi connectivity
- Below average camera
- Overpriced (in terms of value for money)
- No fast charging


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Hate Week is finally upon us. If you follow me, you may know that I live in Lansing. The Michigan State game (in any sport) has special meaning to me. It's very important. I love making wallpaper for this game. Last year, I outdid myself with the "Sparty is Fine" meme. Now, I have to try to top that. I'm not sure if I can.
But I'll give it my best shot.
Since this is a night game, I had an idea for Harbaugh blocking out the sun and casting a shadow over Michigan Stadium. I knew this would be a difficult thing to do since I would have to draw it all from scratch. Let's just say the "Improvement Week" came in handy for me, too.
I think this came out pretty good. It's not exactly what I pictured in my head, but that's what improvement is all about. Hopefullly you enjoy it.

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The book that I am currently reading is called Red Sails to Capri, written by Ann Weil. This book was awarded the Newberry Honor. The main character in this book is named Michele Pagano (Mee-shell) (Pa-gan-o). Michele is fourteen years old. He lives at home with his parents, Signor Pagano and Signora Pagano, on the mountain-island of Capri. His friends in the book include a man named Angelo (An-jel-o), who is forty, and his friend
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the three strange men. Michele wanted to make sure that these visitors stayed at the inn and not go to another one. He knew that his parents needed the money and this would help them.
As I said before, Michele is a helpful boy. He was concerned about helping his parents as well as the visitors at the inn. Michele is also a boy who gets easily excited when something out of the ordinary happens.

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Genetic variability and heterosis among rice genotypes for yield and yield associated traits
By: Muhammad Ismaeel, Syed Mehar Ali Shah, Akhtar Nawaz, Zakria Bacha, Aziz Ur Rehman, Said Suliman
Key Words: Rice, Genotypes, Genetic variability, Heterosis, Heritability
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The present research was performed to assess genetic variability and heterosis among 30 rice genotypes for yield and yield associated traits. Sixteen F1 hybrids and their 14 parents were planted in a randomized complete block design using two replications at The University of Agriculture Peshawar, during 2011 rice crop growing season. Highly significant differences among the parents and F1 hybrids were observed for all the traits studied. The parental genotypes Bas-370, Pakhal and IR-8 displayed maximum values for panicle length (32.5 cm), primary branches panicle-1 (15.1)and secondary branches panicle-1 (47.0), respectively. Among the F1 cross combinations, IR-8/Sugdesi manifested higher mean values for primary branches panicle-1 (15.0) and secondary branches panicle-1 (55.0) whereas Bas-6129/Bas-370 showed maximum value for panicle length (34.0cm). Moderate and low phenotypic coefficient of variation (PCV) and genotypic coefficient of variation (GCV) were observed for most of the traits. High broad sense heritability values were observed for all the studied traits except primary branches panicle-1.Bas-2008/Kashmir-Bas showed the highest positive values of mid and better parent heterosis for primary branches panicle-1 (33.3 and 19.0%) while Bas-2008/Kashmir-Bas and Dokri-Bas/Bas-6129 for secondary branches panicle-1(44.2% and 30.6%), respectively. On the basis of superior performance for yield and yield associated traits, the parental genotypes IR-8 and Pakhal whereas the F1 hybrids IR-8/Sugdesi and Bas-2008/Kashmir-Bas are recommended for onward use in rice hybridization programs.

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Caddyshack is one of the most beloved sports movies in American history. Nearly 35 years later, it's impossible to step onto a golf course without someone quoting the film. The film has garnered a large cult following and has been hailed by many publications, such as Time and ESPN, as one of the funniest sports movies of all time. CaddyShack Actress Cindy Morgan has personally hand-signed this 16X20 Photo from Caddyshack (w/ Bill Murray) and Inscribed it "Lacey ". Certificate of Authenticity Collectibles. Custom White Mat and Premium Mahogany Color Framed as shown
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Brake maintenance is important in helping ensure the safety of you and your passengers. There are a number of signs that indicate your brakes need attention and you want to give them the best attention there is. All brake repairs and brake shops are not the same and at Meineke, we know stellar service doesn’t have to exclude cost-effective solutions.
If your brakes are making a squealing sound or you hear grinding when your car comes to a stop, these may be signs that you need brake service immediately. Consult a certified technician for a brake inspection any time you notice any irregularities in your car’s braking performance.
There are common brake problems with common, well-known signs, such as a shaky steering wheel or a squeaky sound and we’ve all been there and know that’s an indicator for checking your brakes. However, there are many other - probably less obvious - signs your brakes may be showing which you don’t want to ignore.
Get a brake service inspection if:
Many brake pads today have a built-in metal component that creates a slight squeal. The squeal increases in volume over time to alert you of the need for service. If you begin to hear a loud squeal, make sure to bring your vehicle to your local Meineke for a full, 23-point inspection.
One thing you can do as a vehicle owner is better understand the different moving parts that make up your brake system. When you press your brake pedal the brake pads create friction; in turn, the brake rotor disperses heat throughout the vehicle to keep the brakes themselves from overheating. Both are essential to the proper functioning of your braking system. And both need proper inspection when servicing your brakes.
At Meineke, we offer and recommend a full, 23-point inspection that includes a comprehensive vehicle check, from brake function, belts, hoses and filters to suspensions, struts and shocks, motor mounts and fuel filters. Our brake assessment, however, will include:
Brakes are designed to wear out. The pads rub on the brake disk to stop your car, so worn pads are the first part to check if you are experiencing any braking problems. A full inspection though will show underlying problems, as well as what can be repaired and what needs replaced. Brake pad replacement is the most common repair job for automotive brake systems.
Since brake pads are only one possible problem with a brake system, there are other items to be included in a brake service. Depending on the results of the braking system evaluation, your vehicle brake service may include:
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Brakes are designed to counteract your vehicle’s movement. When you press down on your brake, a lever acts on the master cylinder to release hydraulic fluid. This fluid triggers a chain reaction in the hydraulic system moving from cylinder to cylinder to multiple the small force applied by your foot to bring your car to a stop.
Brake pads work with the brake caliper to stop the spinning motion of your wheels. The caliper squeezes the pads together, creating friction between the pads and the brake rotors. The pads and rotors then work together to stop your car’s wheels. When you apply pressure to your brakes and hear a squeak, it’s most likely your brake pads warning you they may need to be replaced.
Brake rotors, also called brake discs, are a key part of your car’s braking system, As the brake pads clamp down on them, the applied pressure will stop the spinning of your wheels.
Brake pads typically last between 30,000 and 70,000 miles. Brake rotors can last up to 3 times longer than the pads, but it depends greatly on driving habits and environment.
When you apply your brakes, they should feel firm throughout the process, and the harder you push, the firmer your brakes should feel. If your brakes feel spongy when pressure is applied, then you should have them evaluated by a professional mechanic. Spongy brakes could be a sign of a problem in the hydraulic system, such as failing calipers or a weak flex line.
The brake pedal feels spongy when brake fluid is not flowing properly. This means that air got into the lines, preventing the fluid’s proper flow. To get rid of the air, you’ll need to go through a process called “bleeding the brakes”.
A brake system flush is when existing brake fluid is removed and new fluid is added to the hydraulic system. This ensures proper performance and increased life span of your brakes.
Yes. Brake fluid affects the operation of your braking system, as the presence of water in the brake lines reduces the fluid’s boiling point, therefore the vehicle’s stopping ability is diminished in hard stops.
This is dependent on the make and model of your vehicle; refer to your manufacturer’s scheduled maintenance guide for best practices for your vehicle. A general rule of thumb is replacing brake fluid whenever your brake pads are replaced.
There are several reasons for hearing noises when braking. Squealing noises can be caused by rusted rotors, while squeaking noises usually indicate cheap brake pads or the indicator hitting the rotor. Grinding noise is caused by the contact of the rotor disc with part of the caliper.
Yes. This is a wake-up call to stop driving the car and have it checked out. The grinding noise usually indicates the lack of brake pad material, which means the pads are so worn out that the rotors and brake pads are now metal on metal.
The usual cause of the car pulling to the left or right when braking is contamination of the braking system. It can also happen if a caliper malfunctions.
The most common answer is that brake rotors are out of bound, in which case you’d also be able to feel it through the brake pedal. The vibration can also occur when a brake caliper sticks on, in which case the steering wheel will vibrate as well.


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Alvena visits Prof. Funderburgh's lab in Pittsburgh
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Alvena Kureshi has recently returned from a very fruitful visit to the laboratory of our collaborator, Prof Jim Funderburgh in the University of Pittsburgh. We are excited that this collaboration brings together our shared interests in furthering our understanding of the behavior of corneal stromal stem cells. We are currently investigating their potential use in the development of engineered corneal stromal equivalents.

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Turkey awaits local anti-tank missile
ANKARA - Anatolia News AgencyTurkey awaits the completion of its first domestically designed anti-tank missile, UMTAS, which has undergone several successful tests, hoping to add it to its portfolio of domestically produced defense industry products for export.
Roketsan, the missile manufacturer of Turkey, initiated the long-range anti-tank UMTAS missile project in the hopes of meeting the demand of the Turkish Armed Forces, but it has also been projected as Turkish product to be offered to international buyers.
Turkey has accelerated its efforts in the domestic design and development of arms systems, which were traditionally developed to eliminate an import dependency on defense. However, in recent years, as more sellable products have been manufactured, domestically produced defense systems have become a new, major export opportunity as well, thanks in particular to the interest of Arab countries.
UMTAS, with its infrared imaging and laser-seeker options, is an anti-tank missile with a range of 8 km to be used against armored targets, from air-to-ground as well as ground-to-ground operations. The system is now going through further tests for technical properties and compatibility with environmental conditions. Thus far, the system has completed ballistic missile tests and controlled missile tests, and its sub-system design has been finished.
UMTAS is also considered the official anti-tank system of the Turkish attack helicopter T - 129 (ANKA), currently in development, and can be integrated with various platforms including helicopters, UAV, land vehicles and naval platforms.
Roketsan also continues to study the development of an anti-tank missile with Laser Seeker Warheads (L – UMTAS) and missiles using high-explosive particles.
Last month, Roketsan finalized a deal to export its own laser-guided rocket system, known as the Cirit, to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a total of $196.2 million during a defense industry exhibition in Abu Dhabi. Turkey has been reportedly in talks with several Middle Eastern companies for the sale of Atal helicopters, Altay tanks and ANKA unmanned aerial vehicle systems.


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Coloring pages have always been a popular pastime for children, but did you know that they offer numerous benefits beyond just keeping your child entertained? In this blog post, we’ll explore the many ways that coloring pages can help boost your child’s creativity and imagination, and provide tips for incorporating coloring into your child’s daily routine.
Stimulating the Imagination
When kids color, they’re not just filling in shapes with colors – they’re creating their own world within the lines of the page. This imaginative play is essential for developing creativity and problem-solving skills. By allowing children to choose their own colors and designs, they are free to let their imaginations run wild and create a world that is uniquely their own.
🎨 Benefits for Creative Development
Encouraging children to engage in imaginative play is important for their creative development. By stimulating their imagination through coloring pages, they learn to think outside of the box and come up with unique ideas.
🧠 Benefits for Problem-Solving Skills
As children imagine and create their own worlds through coloring, they also learn to problem-solve. They develop skills such as critical thinking and decision-making that will benefit them in other areas of their lives.
Developing Fine Motor Skills
Holding a crayon or pencil and coloring within the lines of a page helps children develop their fine motor skills, which are essential for tasks like writing, drawing, and cutting with scissors. Coloring pages can help young children develop the necessary skills to perform these tasks with ease and precision.
✏ Benefits for Writing and Drawing
Fine motor skills are necessary for writing and drawing, and coloring pages can help children develop these skills in a fun and engaging way. By coloring within the lines of a page, they learn to control their movements and develop the necessary hand-eye coordination for writing and drawing.
✂ Benefits for Scissor Skills
Cutting with scissors requires a high level of fine motor control, and coloring pages can help young children develop the necessary skills. By coloring shapes and objects that they can later cut out, they can develop the necessary control and coordination for using scissors.
Coloring allows children to express their emotions and feelings in a safe and creative way. Encouraging them to choose their own colors and designs can boost their confidence and sense of autonomy. Coloring pages can help children explore their emotions and express themselves in a way that is safe and non-judgmental.
😬 Benefits for Emotional Development
By allowing children to express themselves through coloring, they can develop a better understanding of their emotions and feelings. This can help them better manage their emotions and build healthier relationships.
😊 Benefits for Confidence
Choosing their own colors and designs for coloring pages can help children develop a sense of autonomy and confidence in their decisions. This can help them build self-esteem and feel more empowered in other areas of their lives.
Improving Focus and Concentration
Coloring requires a level of focus and attention to detail, which can help children develop their concentration skills and ability to stay on task. By focusing on coloring within the lines and choosing colors that match the design, children can develop better concentration and attention to detail.
📚 Benefits for School Performance
Improved concentration and attention to detail can translate to better performance in school. By developing these skills through coloring pages, children can better focus on their studies and achieve better academic results
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TEN pages of summer fun. Sandcastles, turtles, gnomes & boats
Susi & Sawyer are twins who love to color. And when it rains or they need down time they love put crayon to paper with littleSonder coloring pages. ⛱….


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PNN-TV: Sisters in Solidarity/Hermanas in Solidarity: Celebrating Intl Wombyn's Day in Richmond
Sisters in Solidarity/Hermanas en solidaridad was held in Richmond, California to celebrate Intl Wombyns Day. It was a powerful event that celebrated multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-generational wombyn from all over Richmond.
The event included dancing, sharing, dialogue, poetry and speakers. POOR Magazine's own Lisa "Tiny Gray-Garcia was the keynote speaker.
The PNN-TV video shows only an excerpt from this beautiful day in resistance.


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20×24 in. mixed media. Don’t usually do this but people have asked before and I am at a stall with this piece, for the moment. Education is a big part of the theme, in case no one noticed 🙂 Just airing this out for general impression or feedback…maybe a light will come on and I will finish before the next post.
I am certainly no expert. I feel a bit disconnected looking at this and wonder how the symbols, faces etc. are tied together. Or maybe they are not together?
When i post the final piece i will talk about what it means to me…or at least why
teach me how to paint better o wise one
not sure i know what to say…it is a process
My first impression is about circles and how dominant they are as a shape. I think the two light bulbs (particularly the one on the far left) are so powerful they are drawing my eye constantly away from the other parts of the work. Do you see that too Ken?
Yes, i can see that…i also feel like the statue head/light color and the white reflective lighting of the woman have a similar effect too…i am fooling with the idea of white shaded boxes like window panes just left of center…thks for taking the time to comment i real appreciate it.
I like the idea of window frames. What about looking through the panes at the painting? i.e. a grid of window panes lightly floating above the whole thing. As if education gives you a perspective. that could tie it all together. Sometimes cutting such a thing out of paper and laying it on top will tell you if it will work. You could try lunch-wrap of something a bit translucent to approximate a thinly glazed layer hinting at a window frames/panes.
I am most curious as to what part of this piece you don’t feel is finished. Perhaps it lacks a signature….
Robert Burridge, however, would say that a painting is never finished, it just stops in interesting places.
Nice quote…i guess most pieces feel finished to me when they are. Something doesn’t feel finished yet, maybe its has to do with connecting the symbols or some detailing, not sure.

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Marshall, 62, was born in Birmingham, Ala., and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Marshall is known for his often large-format paintings and sculptures of black men, women and children and themes tied to slavery and the Civil Rights movement, as well as issues of poverty and class. His 1997 painting "Past Times," which shows a black family indulging in leisure sports such as golf, cricket and water skiing, sold at auction for $21.1 million earlier this year to Bad Boy boss Sean "Diddy" Combs, reportedly marking the highest price ever paid for a work by an African-American artist.
“I know that this work has found a home in a collection with purpose and an eye toward preserving legacy — that of Sean Combs, and that means a lot,” Marshall's longtime gallerist Jack Shainman told the New York Times of the landmark sale. Shainman said Combs was introduced to Marshall by friend producer Swizz Beatz, who is also an art collector. Marshall's work has been the subject of major retrospectives at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and former First Lady Michelle Obama was pictured visiting his "Mastry" exhibit at the MCA in Chicago in 2016.
It was not clear from West's posts why he was now honoring Marshall's work, but the 19 images he posted provided a broad introduction to the artist's work.
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|Behind the Scenes Baja: Episode 8|
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Our first episode about Tijuana focused on the unexpected: the city's little-known role as the home of the Caesar salad, and super-modern cooking at Mision 19, among other places. But of course, a trip to Tijuana is not complete without sampling some incredible street food!
Our taco crawl (with one unplanned stop at a tiny torta spot that we were told no one should miss) was one of our favorite days of the whole trip. From wood-grilled carne asada to griddled shrimp and cheese to some very unusual "queso tacos" with a layer of crunchy "cheese chicharron," we sampled the range of Tijuana's finest taco creations!


A man was arrested for allegedly raping and impregnating a teenage girl and throwing their newborn baby in a forest area, police said.
The 17-year-old survivor lodged a complaint at Deoband police station in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, alleging that she was raped several times by one Salman, who had promised to marry her.
The accused allegedly threw the girl born four days ago in a forest area and threatened the teen of dire consequences if she informed anyone about the act, Additional Superintendent of Police, Rural, Suraj Rai said.
An FIR has been registered against Salman under IPC section 376 (rape), 377 (sodomy) and POCSO Act, police said.
The newborn was recovered by a farmer and is now being treated at a hospital, Rai said.
The baby will be handed over to the child welfare committee, police said.


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Knock Out Roses
We have 2 knock out roses in containers and winter is approaching (northeast Illinois, west of Chicago). Should we move the containers into the garage or leave them out? Should we water the roses during the winter particularly if they are in the garage)? I plan on trimming them back in the spring but is there anything else I need to do? Thank you.
I would move them into the garage and place them up on some wooden blocks and not directly upon the concrete floor once they have gotten bitten by a cold night or two. They need that cold bite to give them the message that it is time for their winters nap. Then move them into the garage and yes keep an eye on the soils moisture. I use a moisture meter to check the soils at least once a week. When they do need water, just water them light so that the moisture meter shows the soils to be moist but not wet. We do not want them getting too wet and thinking it is time to grow again too soon. In the spring, wait until the rosebushes start to form leaf buds and then do just a shaping pruning and pruning out what is truly dead canes or broken canes.


The demand for corporate transparency is here to stay. Just last year, 390 investors representing more than $22 trillion assets signed a letter in support of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, advocating for a unified set of recommendations for corporate climate disclosure. So as financial markets increasingly recognize Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risks, and increasingly embrace ESG strategies, oil and gas companies failing to report on environmental risks, like methane emissions, will be at a disadvantage.
Yet despite the reputational and financial risks posed by methane emissions in the oil and gas sector, over 40 percent of oil and gas companies analyzed in a new EDF report fail to report even basic information on methane management. The report finds that the quality and quantity of methane risk management reporting has increased amongst nearly 60 percent of companies analyzed. But the overall improvement has not been enough.


Iran allocates $1 billion for Persian Gulf Star refinery
Azerbaijan, Baku, Jul.1 /Trend F.Milad/
Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi has ordered allocating $1 billion for continuing the construction of the Persian Gulf Star refinery, the Shana News Agency reported.
The project needs totally $3.5 billion to be completed. Some $350 million has so far been spent in the project.
"Construction of the Persian Gulf Star refinery, which is the largest gas condensates refinery in Iran, is now complete by over 50 percent and will become operational by the early months of the next calendar year," Qasemi said in April.
Iran will have the capacity to export gasoline in the next calendar year, once the Persian Gulf Star refinery comes on stream, he added, IRIB reported.
The next Iranian calendar year begins on March 21, 2013.
Once the refinery comes on stream, it will have the capacity to refine 360,000 barrels of oil per day. The refinery will be implemented in three 120,000-barrel phases and the first phase will be inaugurated within two and half years.
Construction operations of the refinery started in 2007. Once the project is inaugurated, the capacity of the country's oil products will rise more than 35 million liters of gasoline and 14 million liters of gas oil per day.
In addition, the refinery will produce 4 million liters of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), 3 million liters of jet fuel and 130 tons of sulfur.


The Soul EV is the result of almost 30 years of research and development by Kia into the feasibility of electric cars. Now, with battery technology having reached a mature stage and emissions-based taxation providing an incentive for consumers to ‘go electric’, the time is right for the Soul EV.
Kia’s goals with the Soul EV were not only that it should have a class-leading range, but that it should remain as close to the combustion-engined versions as possible. This allows it to be built on the same production line at the Gwangju plant in Korea, minimising manufacturing complexity and cost, which in turn makes it more affordable.
Outwardly, the only obvious differences between the Soul EV and the models powered by internal combustion engines are the front end devoid of a radiator grille, the absence of a fuel filler flap and the unique rear light clusters. Fresh, funky, original and bold, the Soul EV – like its combustion-engined counterparts – has its roots in the Track’ster concept from the 2012 Chicago Auto Show.
The Soul EV has the same proportions and dimensions as the combustion-engined versions, with an upright stance, square shoulders and distinctive bumper flares. The structural changes that have been made to accommodate the battery pack are hidden out of view, beneath the floor.
Luggage capacity is 281 litres – a reduction of 31 litres compared with other versions of the Soul because the luggage undertray is used to house both charging cables. With the 60:40 split rear seats lowered, luggage capacity is 891 litres. A tyre inflation kit is provided in case of a puncture.
The Soul EV’s batteries have an energy storage capacity of 27 kilowatt-hours – more than its competitors. They are mounted beneath the car in a special casing which protects them from stone or gravel damage and spray thrown up by the wheels. The ducts to heat and cool them are located beneath the rear passenger seats.
The remainder of the electric drive components are mounted beneath the bonnet, where the internal combustion engine would normally be located. Because an electric motor requires less cooling than a petrol or diesel engine, the front of the Soul EV has been blanked off where the radiator grille would normally be found. This brings aerodynamic benefits.
The charging ports are hidden behind a panel in this blanked-off section. Owners have the option of recharging the batteries from a standard domestic socket, via the Kia-branded wallbox supplied as standard with the Soul EV or at a public fast charger, or through a public rapid charger. Using a UK 230-volt domestic power supply, the Soul EV can be fully recharged in 10 to 13 hours. With the wallbox or at a public fast-charge point, the time is reduced to around five hours.
Standard EV features include an eight-inch touch-screen with European mapping, traffic messaging channel, reversing camera and charging point locator; automatic air conditioning with the driver-only function; heated front seats; a smart key with a motor start-stop button; projection headlights
with LED daytime running lamps; front foglamps; privacy glass on the rear windows and tailgate; 16-inch lightweight alloy wheels with super-low-rolling-resistance tyres; two charge points and the Heat Pump system. The car is also supplied with the wallbox charger and Virtual Engine Sound.
Also included in the standard specification are cruise control with a speed limiter, an electronic parking brake, front and rear electric windows, electrically folding adjustable heated door mirrors with LED indicators, solar glass for the windscreen and front windows, automatic light control with a follow-me-home function, LED rear combination and high-mounted brake lights, a 3.5-inch OLED supervision instrument cluster with specific EV information display, a trip computer, front speaker mood lights, driver’s seat height adjustment, a heated steering wheel, front and rear parking sensors and a luggage cargo screen plus retaining net.
In-car entertainment includes a DAB RDS radio with MP3 compatibility, steering wheel-mounted controls, USB and AUX ports and Bluetooth with voice recognition and music streaming. Safety is taken care of by Anti-lock Brakes with Emergency Brake Assist, Electronic Stability Control, Vehicle Stability Management, Hill-start Assist, Emergency Stop Signalling, a Tyre Pressure Monitoring system and six airbags.
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A red flag alert in December is highly unusual but reflects the fact that there has been very little rain this fall.
The combination of strong winds, low humidity, and dry vegetation makes for extremely dangerous conditions, city officials said.
The Park District will close 11 local parks from Sunday through Monday due to high winds and wildfire danger.
Update: District extends closure of 11 East Bay parks to Wednesday at 8 a.m. as forecast shows continuing high winds and therefore a high fire risk.
A red flag warning has been issued for the Berkeley Hills and several other Bay Area regions from 1 p.m. Thursday to Saturday at 6 a.m.
A red flag warning is in effect from Saturday night through Monday morning. Review evacuation routes, park off-street, pack a go-bag and sign up for emergency alerts.
‘The Forests of California’ is a gorgeously illustrated book featuring Kaufmann’s watercolors. It is also a primer on how to approach nature.
The concerns are at an all-time high during a historically destructive fire season.
Experts say hazy skies and poor air quality will continue if slow winds are unable to disperse the smoke and ash coming from dozens of wildfires.
Many homeless shelters have limited capacity during the pandemic, and most evening drop-in services are unavailable. This is one bridge option, says the city.
Smoke from multiple Northern California wildfires is mixing with the marine layer in the Bay Area, creating thick smog and blocking the sun. An air quality advisory is in effect in Alameda County.
The ominous, apocalyptic skies that greeted Berkeley today, caused by smoke from the August Complex fires, was captured by many in eerie, almost unbelievable photographs.


Following their opening league triumph on Wednesday night, the Volvo Cars Poole Pirates travel to Manchester on Monday knowing that victory would give them an early league double over the Belle Vue Aces.
Four of the special Yarmouth septet have been confirmed for Poole Speedway’s mouth-watering 70th Anniversary meeting, which will see low-cost admission prices applied.
Poole's visit to Leicester, which became another victim of a postponement last Monday has now been given a new date.
A faultless fifteen point maximum from Brady Kurtz and maiden race wins for all three of the Pirates' club debutants allowed Poole to become the first SGB Premiership to put some league points on the board.
A young motorsport fan has already nailed his colours to the mast - despite being just two weeks’ old!
Both the Volvo Cars Poole Pirates and visitors the Belle Vue Aces will be hoping to get their SGB Premiership seasons under way when the Manchester club visits Dorset tomorrow night (7.30pm).
Poole's season has suffered yet a further delay following this morning's announcement that their trip to Leicester has been postponed
The Volvo Cars Poole Pirates will mark the club’s milestone 70th birthday by lining up against historic opposition.
James Shanes overcame a first ride disqualification at Eastbourne to confirm his place in the British U21 Final.
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Avalon is a game of hidden loyalty. Players are either Loyal Servants of Arthur fighting for Goodness and honor or aligned with the Evil ways of Mordred. Good wins the game by successfully completing three Quests. Evil wins if three Quests end in failure. Evil can also win by assassinating Merlin at game's end or if a Quest cannot be undertaken.
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The career grieving process. When you lose your career, how to cope and recover.
One thing that doesn’t get enough attention is how it feels when you lose your career. Losing a job is hard, but I’m not talking about job loss here, I’m referring to outright loss of career, and the requirement to start again in another direction. Just like the death of a close loved one, your career is precious to you, and it comes with all kinds of gratifying benefits. Your career makes you feel purposeful, gives you professional and personal esteem, provides you with a circle of friends, and it’s what keeps you swimming in the stream of meaning, relevance, and value. When a person loses their career, often it’s because of reasons outside of their control, like a sudden accident or prolonged illness, either their own or a family member, which means they are forced out of the market for a period of time. Being away from your career for any length of time can mean falling behind or outright forgotten, with the only options being trying to climb back to where you ‘were’, or starting something else altogether. Either way, the loss of a career is the loss of identity, value and purpose. It’s a grieving process that must be acknowledged and addressed, the same way mourning the loss of a loved one must be processed. There are stages to career loss, too.
I was thinking a lot about this over the weekend after reading the story of Leslie Ash, who lost her acting career because of a superbug. Her long stay in the hospital took a huge toll on her health and her career. Having gone from ‘well known and on her way up’, Leslie Ash disappeared into obscurity. And once she was well again, she had trouble finding work, from the same community of producers and directors who once lauded her.
“I really feel like I’ve lost 10 years out of my life,” she tells the Guardian.
Her recovery following her illness saw her in physiotherapy, doing Pilates, and stopping alcohol, even while her doctors “kept upping the doses of painkillers until I actually felt like a bit of a zombie…. I thought: ‘God, this is terrible! What can I do?’ When you’re on those pills, they are antidepressants, you don’t feel any emotion at all.”
After years of recovery, learning to get her body back to its normal function, she found herself ignored by the industry that was the source of her career. She couldn’t find work, though she needed it badly, and despite her long illness, she was still a skilled actor with a following of fans. It was disorienting, she says, and demoralizing, and made her recovery harder. Why make a life comeback when there won’t be any career comeback?
Ash said to The Guardian: “In those days…if someone broke a leg during filming, the director would say: ‘Let’s shoot around it!’ But in fact, I was quite amazed at how I got dropped. Completely. It was just … it was quite suffocating…It’s like the rug being brought up from beneath your feet. No one wants to know you … I thought, I have to start again.”
She’s asked by interviewer Paula Cocozza, did your industry friends check on you, to see how you were? “Erm. No. Not really. I can count on one hand how many people checked in. No. I was quite remote. I think a lot of people thought: ‘Give her space to sort herself out’. And then years turned into a decade. You go through a grieving process when you’ve lost your career. You know. And it can catch you at moments where you just feel like shit.”
“You know what,” Ash continues, “no one likes to speak to people when they’re not doing well. When you’re not in the limelight anymore, it’s true. People don’t particularly care.”
After all she’s been through, Ash believes she is a better actor now. All she needs is a chance. “I am going to do it again,” she says. “Even if I have to make the shows myself.”
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I have mentioned "soundies" using the Panoram machines before and the whole concept evolved into the Scopitone machines.
Panoram was the trademark name of a visual jukebox that played music accompanied by a synched, filmed image (the effect being the equivalent of today's music videos) popular within the United States during the 1940s. The device consisted of a jukebox playing a closed-loop 16mm film reel projected onto a glass screen.
The Panoram is now best known for the vast library of short, three minute music videos that were created for it. Called soundies, these films featured most of the great musical stars of the period, including Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Cab Calloway. Many of the filmed interludes survive and are considered a priceless archive.
The Panoram was priced more than $10,000 in 2006 dollars. It was generally seen in bars, cafes, and upscale dancing establishments where they ran as a curiosity. Following World War II, the device never recovered its previous popularity due to competition from Television.
The Soundies were printed backwards (mirror image) so that they would appear in a correct orientation when played in a Panoram machine. A Panoram was the size of a refrigerator and employed a series of mirrors to reflect the image from a projector onto a 27-inch, rear-projection, etched-glass screen in a tight, enclosed cabinet. The popular machines were first produced in 1939 by the Mills Novelty Company of Chicago, Illinois, (which also made art-deco, fancy slot machines) and found their way into countless soda shops, taverns, bus and train stations and other public places across the nation. The specially-made 16mm films ran in a continuous loop and stopped when a notch cut in the film allowed a micro switch to engage a step-back relay at the end of a Soundie. The patron then put another dime in the machine to run the series of eight 2- to 3-minute films again. The Panoram mechanics were housed in an Art Deco, high quality wood cabinet, the Soundies being 3½ minute films that typically showed jazz and other musicians of the day, as well as dance troupes and other acts. With the beginning of World War II, production of the Soundies and Panoram machines was drastically reduced due to a wartime raw material shortage and the Mills Panoram's 1940 success quickly faded.
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Scopitone is a type of jukebox featuring a 16 mm film component. Scopitone films were a forerunner of music videos. The Italian Cinebox/Colorama and Color-Sonics were competing, lesser-known technologies of the time.
Based on Soundies technology developed during World War II, color 16 mm film clips with a magnetic soundtrack were designed to be shown in a specially designed jukebox.
Between 1940 and 1946, three-minute musical films called Soundies (produced in New York City, Chicago, and Hollywood) were displayed on a Panoram, the first coin-operated film jukebox or machine music. These were set up in nightclubs, bars, restaurants, and amusement centers.
The first Scopitones were made in France, by a company called Cameca on Blvd Saint Denis in Courbevoie near Paris, among them Serge Gainsbourg's Le poinçonneur des Lilas (filmed in 1958 in the Porte des Lilas Métro station), Johnny Hallyday's "Noir c'est noir" (a cover of Los Bravos' "Black Is Black") and the "Hully Gully" showing a dance around the edge of a French swimming pool.
Scopitones spread to West Germany, where the Kessler Sisters burst out of twin steamer trunks to sing "Quando Quando" on the dim screen that surmounted the jukebox. Scopitone went on to appear in bars in England, including a coffee bar in Swanage where Telstar was a favourite. By 1964, approximately 500 machines were installed in the USA.
The biggest musical stars of the 1960s were never released on the Scopitone. Several well-known acts of the 1960s appear in Scopitone films, however, ranging from the earlier part of the decade The Exciters ("Tell Him") and Neil Sedaka ("Calendar Girl") to Procol Harum ("A Whiter Shade of Pale") later on. In one Scopitone recording, Dionne Warwick lay on a white shag rug with an offstage fan urging her to sing "Walk On By". Another had Nancy Sinatra and a troupe of go-go girls shimmy to "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". Inspired by burlesque, blonde bombshell Joi Lansing performed "Web of Love" and "The Silencer", and Julie London sang "Daddy" against a backdrop of strippers.
By the end of the 1960s, the popularity of the Scopitone had faded. The last film for a Scopitone was made at the end of 1978. However, in 2006 the French singer Mareva Galanter released several videos which mimic the Scopitone style. Galenta's album Ukuyéyé features several songs in the French Yé-yé style. She also recently hosted a weekly French television program called "Do you do you Scopitone" on the Paris Première channel.
As of the mid-2000s, one of the few Scopitones not in a museum or private collection in the United States was located at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee. Many Scopitone films have been released on DVD or made available on the internet.
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It’s been a while for Chicago Bears fans.
Their head coach was fired. General Manager too. One of the best and most famous players of the team was traded, Start a rebuilding project. Although the new GM wouldn’t necessarily invite a rebuilding project. But this is neither here nor there. Free agency came and went without the Bears making an impressive addition to either side of the ball. The trade winds were all about the league, but Khalil Mac’s deal was the only one the Bears could push. And when the 2022 NFL Draft came, I left with the Bears pick Only one wide receiver With her 11 (!) picks.
The optics are not good. This will not help:
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The shortcomings of Chicago’s offseason when it comes to building around the fields is on full display in the piece above. It is too harsh on the margins, while at the same time losing many necessary nuances. But the big picture points remain – As they have done since March. Difficult to argue.
Even so… The opposite of Tannier’s argument is that this outsider was a show they really believed in in the fields.
This front office would probably believe so much in Fields’ overall skills and makeup that a bad year by the team wouldn’t hurt QB’s development. If that turns out to be the case, the Bears will turn into 2023 with a quarterback whose developmental arrow is pointing up, a Top 10 pick in the 2023 Draft class loaded with receivers, and improved minors who won’t cough offering them fields as they did against the Niners and Steelers. And the cherry on top is a $93,486,081 maximum available salary, according to OverTheCap.com. Having a top 10 pick and nearly $100 million in a workspace in it is very anomaly — and fields can be the beneficiary.
But it is clear that – for that to happen – he will need to prove it to the new system. And I don’t think there is anything wrong with that.
So, once again, we ask: Are bears holding back because they don’t believe in the fields? Or are they simply cleaning up a short-term mess in order to fully support the fields when the time is right? It is fair to ask. And it’s worth More exploration for the full scope of the situation. To be clear, I think it’s fair to question this off-season approach. But it may be unfair to announce the resignation of the concessionaire in the fields. After all, it doesn’t take much to make a show that cleaning up a depleted roster and capping a messy salary was a quicker move than putting together a reception room with potential draft arrivals and expensive free agents who might be dubious of their fits.
The Bears have been trying to fix huge problems with Zahi’s work and patchwork for years. Especially since the organization has just done so with its previous draft pick for the midfielder (and with mediocre results).
Publicly, the bears have been open in their support of the fields. GM Ryan Bowles was clear in his words It looks like he’s driving her home. Fields was on top of the introductory press conferences for the new head coach and general manager. A team that flirts with their commitment to a top-level midfielder probably won’t. Fields participated in the initial draft process, watching the tape with GM Ryan Poles that led to the weekend draft (h/t Chris Emma). However, the Bears did what they did off season. I wish they would have done more, but I don’t think the situation is as tragic as it can be portrayed.