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With Sundance all done I want to begin to wrap things up. While I will be running some reviews past this I want to take tie to say a few things and mention some films not getting full reviews
I had a good time covering Sundance remotely. It was a kind of return to the festival going since because of the way things were done I got to talk to friends about the same films about the same time we all were watching them.
I may have questions as to how they did things, forgive me I am a dinosaur in some regards, but I once I got things going and I understood how everything worked I was fine.
Also had I known going in that I know now I would have taken the days off to cover instead of trying to multitask. I think it would have gone better- largely because I could have slotted more films.
As this posts I'm still working on the last bunch of full reviews but there are still some films I need to mention in passing or as capsule reviews
I want to note some films I started but stepped away from for one reason or another
For example I tried the film FLEE about an Afghani refugee in Denmark after seeing three of the best films of the festival in rapid succession. Not long after starting the film I realized that what I was seeing was very good but it was paling in comparison so I stepped away. Since the film has been picked up for regular release I'll try it again down the road.
PINK MANSIONS lost me early. This has the feel of the off beat inde films from the 1980's and early 1990's that I never really liked. Those films always seemed to be trying to be clever than they were. I couldn't give myself over to the film so I stopped.
By the time I hit MASS I was winding down in the day. An incredibly intense film (expect Oscar nominations for the performances) I was not in a place to handle it emotionally. Its a tough film at times. And I had to step away and try it on another day when I could give it my fullest attention.
And then there were other films that I just am not up to writing up as full reviews:
PASSING was one of my must sees at Sundance and I couldn't connect to it. I kept seeing the hand of the filmmaker instead of the film. Worse I kept wondering what an African American writer/director would have done with it.
THE SPARKS BROTHERS is good. I dare say it is my favorite Edgar Wright film, but there is zero need for it to run almost two and a half hours.
TAMING THE GARDEN is nominally about the moving of a giant tree and other things. However the only thing that remains are the images of the tree on a barge traveling across the ocean. The rest faded.
BLAZING WORLD is a mess. The story of a young woman seemingly breaking apart mentally has some incredible moments but never pulls it together. yea the sound design and craft can soar but the story never amounts to much and reminded me of other films.
PLEASURE is a look at the adult film industry and while it is a good film, and wonderfully not like Hollywood's portrayal of the industry, it doesn't do anything unexpected. On the other hand its frank handling of the material and refusal to paint things as purely black or white has left me still pondering the film and unable to write more than this little bit (for now). This one is worth a look.
THE DOG WHO WOULDNT BE QUIET is an off kilter film that starts off about a man and his dog and then it turns left into the story of a pandemic where to be safe you can't be higher than four feet off the ground. You either click with the quirky nature or you don't. I didn't and while I could appreciate what it is it just didn't work for me.
MAYDAY is a weird tale of a young lady thrown through dimensions to a time full of war being fought by an feminist army. It's a film that felt like a strange Off Broadway play turned into a film that couldn't shake the constraints of the stage. I was fighting with it, waiting for it to seem like it was more than a mannered theater piece.
And now to finish up the remaining full reviews and look forward to next year,
And a big THANK YOU to the people at Sundance for letting me cover the fest this year.


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Almaty. May 12. KazTAG - Two quakes have been registered in Almaty region, reports Seismological test-methodological expedition of the committee of science of the Ministry of Science and Education.
3.9 points quake was registered on May 11 at 11.29. The epicenter was located 68 km to the north from Almaty at the territoryof Kazakhstan. Another 3.9 points quake was registered on May 12 at 05.15. The epicenter was located 233 km to the south-east from Almaty.
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text: When a pure droplet evaporates inside an elastic medium, two instabilities are typically observed. As the droplet shrinks, the elastic medium needs to deform and elastic tension builds up. At a critical strain, accumulated tension at the gel–droplet interface is released by developing creases. The droplet keeps shrinking beyond this point, pulling the elastic network and therefore decreasing the pressure in the liquid phase. This drives the liquid phase into a metastable state, and leads to the second instability: the nucleation of a vapour bubble in the liquid phase by cavitation. These instabilities consistently occur in the described order whenever a pure liquid (water, in this case) is used. The presence of colloidal particles inside droplets is common both in vitro and in natural environments, and they can change such phenomenology significantly by stimulating cavitation events before any creasing instability. In this work, we study the role of colloidal particle size and concentration on the early inception of cavitation in water droplets in an elastic medium. Our results reveal an unexpected dependence with the particle size and with the size distribution of the colloidal particles. Given the simplicity and reliability of the system and preparation, the method described here could be eventually used to measure tensile strengths of particle solutions with accuracy.

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The Board of Admissions decides on the admission of applicants to individual Master’s programmes after advices from the programme committees.
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- Prof. dr. Han A.B. Wösten (Faculty of Science, Biosciences/ Science and Business)
- Gönül Dilaver, PhD (Faculty of Medicine, Biomedical sciences)
- Shirrinka Goubitz, PhD (Faculty of Science, Biosciences)
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- S. Inge The, PhD (Faculty of Science, Biosciences)
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Hundreds of protesters marched through London, demanding justice for an unarmed Black man after his fatal shooting by a firearms officer in South London on Saturday. However, the Black Lives Matter rally was incorrectly reported by Sky News as a gathering of people mourning the death of the queen.
The faux pas revealed the reality of two Englands. While the majority mourned the longest-reigning monarch’s legacy, those that are disenfranchised by the royal family’s dark history of racism, colonization, and imperialism are still fighting.
According to BBC, On Sept. 5, Chris Kaba, an up-and-coming UK drill rapper known as Mad Itch, was driving a vehicle that was stopped after the activation of an automatic number-plate recognition camera indicated that the car had been linked to a firearms offence in the previous days.
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In a statement released through the charity Inquest, Kaba’s family demanded a homicide investigation.
“We are devastated; we need answers, and we need accountability. We are worried that if Chris had not been Black, he would have been arrested on Monday evening and not had his life cut short,” the statement added.
The Black Brits took to the south London streets to protest. Much of their protest language mirrors the protest chants of Black Americans, like “Justice for Chris Kaba,” “Abolish the Met,” and “no justice, no peace.”
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Commander Alexis Boon, from the Met, said: “I understand that this incident is extremely concerning, and I would like to reassure the community that the Met is co-operating fully with the IOPC as they carry out a thorough and independent investigation.”
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Jon Rahm is having himself one helluva week in Augusta and the Tournament hasn’t even started yet.
Yes that’s his second consecutive Ace in as many days and on his birthday to boot.
Sounds great, right? He’s really rounding in to form.
Jon Rahm is peaking way too soon.
Listen folks it’s a scientific fact that a person only has a finite amount of great golf shots in them each week. And Rahm just used up two of them before the real match has even begun. This does not bode well for Long John’s prospects for the rest of the week.
Rahm had an epic blowup at last year’s Masters.
Chasing Tiger will do that to a guy.
I’m sure these two Aces will have Rahm feeling like a million bucks but for a pro golfer a million bucks won’t even fill up the private jet.
Jon Rahm is HARD NO this year folks. The ghosts of last year can’t be erased by a couple of practice round shots. It’s a whole nother ballgame once it’s for real. The worst thing that could have happened to Rahm is for his confidence to be sky high two days before the Opening Round. If there was ever a guy that needed to come in to The Masters humbled it was Long Jon. Over confidence will not be the hot blooded Spaniards friend.
Take it from your friendly neighborhood pup, Jon Rahm used up all his good luck too soon. Maybe next year Long Jon, maybe next year.


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In the last 12 months …
We have seen repeated enunciations of a compelling logic chain: electricity generated by wind-based and photovoltaic systems is manifesting ever-more competitive economics; the greater the share of electricity generated by intermittently active resources, the greater will be the need for complementary energy storage systems; chemical forms of “X” in the power-to-X (P2X) stored-electricity construct will surely have a role to play in long-term, large-scale energy storage; ammonia may be the most advantageous chemical for such storage.
This logic chain was directly stated or clearly implied in several Ammonia Energy stories throughout the year. A key story on a comparative survey by the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization in Australia noted that ammonia has a higher round-trip energy efficiency than liquid hydrogen or methanol. Several other posts cited potential deployment situations, such as offshore wind farms, where ammonia could link a remote generating resource with distant markets.
The stampede to renewable generation, already underway, will only accelerate as more sophisticated systems are conceived and implemented. Ammonia seems destined to become an integral element of the renewables-based electricity sector.
Ammonia Energy reporting since last year
- September 6, 2018: Siemens Gamesa investigating green ammonia pilot plant in Denmark
- June 7, 2018: The Offshore-Wind / Ammonia Nexus
- April 19, 2018: P2X, Ammonia Highlighted for Long-Haul Road Transport, Shipping
- March 22, 2018: Ammonia Tagged as Storage Medium for Wind Energy
- March 15, 2018: Renewable ammonia energy, harvesting large-scale wind
- January 25, 2018: Ammonia from Offshore Wind: a techno-economic review on the US East Coast
- January 10, 2018: Sustainable Energy for Wales: Tidal and Wind with Ammonia Storage
- December 7, 2017: Ammonia-Hydrogen Energy Storage Highlighted in Australia
- October 20, 2017: Round-trip Efficiency of Ammonia as a Renewable Energy Transportation Media
A year in review
To mark the second anniversary of Ammonia Energy, we are reviewing the most important stories from the last 12 months. This “top ten” list spans two areas: five are significant advances that build on activities that were already underway in 2017, and five are new developments that emerged decisively this year.
- Ammonia as a Grid-Supporting Energy Storage Solution
- Ammonia as a Hydrogen Carrier for Hydrogen Fuel Cells
- Maritime Industry Quantifies Potential of Ammonia Fuel to Decarbonize Shipping
- Ammonia as a Direct Fuel for Alkaline and Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
- Great Strides in NH3 Commitment and Progress in Australia
- Green Ammonia Plants, Commercially Available Today
- Ammonia Is Taken Up by Wide-Circulation Media
- Targets, Limits, Pledges, Bans: Enforcing the Transition to Sustainable Energy
- Affiliated NH3 Groups Become a Force for Advocacy
- Fossil Energy Companies Turn to Ammonia


Yesterday amidst a discussion on the Mueller probe, Lindsey Graham makes a great point about the Chinese spy who worked for Dianne Feinstein almost two-decades.
Watch (It’s cued up to 2:42):
Graham wants to know why the FBI didn’t do for Trump what they did for Dianne Feinstein:
I’m gonna send a letter to Director Wray next week and ask him what is the policy? Why didn’t you tell president Trump that you had concerns about Carter Page? Is there a double standard here?
If this was a counter-intelligence investigation and not a criminal investigation, the FBI should have told President Trump they had concerns about Papadopoulos and Page. Why didn’t they do for Trump what they did for Feinstein?
When asked if Graham believes there should be more investigation on this, he replied:
You better believe it! I’m saying what the hell is going on at the FBI? Why do you tell a Democrat when they hire somebody connected to China – it could happen to anybody’s office. When the FBI finds out that somebody’s working for us that may have connections to a foreign government, they should tell us…
When it comes to the Trump campaign, why didn’t they tell him about Papadopoulos and Cater Page? And at the end of the day, what has Carter Page done wrong? He’s still walking around a free man.
Here’s the point. A counter-intelligence investigation is designed to protect American institutions from infiltration. The right thing for the FBI to do is if they find somebody working for a political campaign, a bank, or any part of the government, is to inform the people in charge that this person you hired has got unsavory connections. That’s what they did for Feinstein. Why did they not do that when it came to Manafort, Gates and Papadopoulos?
Wow. Great point. I think he said it all, and I look forward to hearing how the FBI justifies their decision not to tell Trump about his ‘spies’.


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Not every client who walks through your door will be one you want to represent. Just because somebody is willing to pay for your services doesn’t mean it’s in your best interest to take their case.
In fact, your decision to decline a client may save you money (and a lot of trouble) down the line. From the high maintenance client to the truly malicious one, some people are just not worth the added stress and risk of a legal malpractice claim.
The Case for Vetting
Especially when you’re just starting out, it can be tempting to take on whatever clients come your way. However, there are important reasons to be more cautious. Not every client is going to enhance your experience, reputation, and income, and some can cause big problems.
- Bad clients know how to work the system, so you lose money on billing. You likely won’t be able to bill for every hour of your time they waste, and you can’t bill for high stress and poor sleep.
- Bad clients take your time and effort away from good clients. When you are stressed out and frustrated with bad clients, you may miss opportunities with good ones. Bad clients also can cloud your judgment and may cause you to pass over a better opportunity.
- Bad clients don’t get better. Truthfully, a bad client is more likely to get worse than better. What started as a small annoyance (like being late for appointments) may evolve into something much bigger (like no-shows and last-minute rescheduling).
It is acceptable to screen clients before taking a case. Even if you’re just starting out or going through a slow patch, it’s good practice to carefully vet your potential clients for warnings signs.
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- The Over-sharer will overload your inbox with emails and documents before you even meet.
- The Canceler makes appointments then no-shows or reschedules multiple times.
- The Researcher tries to explain to you how the law works based on research they’ve done on the internet.
- The Cheapskate starts out trying to negotiate your rates or explaining why they’re too high.
- The Serial Client tells you they previously hired another attorney but that they’re willing to give you a chance.
- The Bait and Switcher tells one tale of woe over the phone and an entirely different story in your office.
- The Lonely Heart is a little too interested in your personal life and wants to hang out after work.
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