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Skype Goes SIP Tapping PBX Functionality to Bridge Old School and New School
Skype today announced the beta version of Skype For SIP for Business users. SIP, short for Session Initiation Protocol, is an open standard and the leading voice over Internet protocol used in businesses telephony networks at millions of locations globally.
This is an interesting announcement in the heated and competitive Unified Communications area. Over the year many have debated the role of the PBX. Many experts have been saying that it's not about the PBX per se, but instead the applications that PBXs provide. The question that I am asking myself is "Is this a Unified Communications game changer?".
Many people underestimate the Skype potential. As Skype becomes more independent under Ebay (and possibly spun out), you should see more aggressive moves by Skype. Here is a slideshare presentation on the story of Skype that Sten Tamkivi, Skype's Chief Evangelist, gave at Stanford on March 9, 2009.
Here are some details from the Skype announcement today.
Skype For SIP allows SIP PBX owners to benefit from Skype's low cost calls to fixed phones and mobiles around the world, and to receive calls from Skype users directly into their PBX system.
Businesses can now be reached by the community of over 405 million Skype registered users through click-to-call from their business Web sites. The calls will be received through their existing office system at no cost to the customer. At the same time, businesses can benefit from Skype's low-cost global calling rates when placing calls to landlines and mobiles worldwide from devices connected to their PBX systems. In addition, they can choose to purchase online Skype numbers available in over 20 countries to receive calls from business contacts and customers who are using traditional fixed lines or mobile phones.
Key Features
The beta version of Skype For SIP will enable business users to:
* Receive and manage inbound calls from Skype users worldwide on SIP-enabled PBX systems; connecting the company Web site to the PBX system via click-to-call
* Place calls with Skype to landlines and mobile phones worldwide from any connected SIP-enabled PBX; reducing costs with Skype's low-cost global rates
* Purchase Skype's online numbers, to receive calls to the corporate PBX from landlines or mobile phones
* Manage Skype calls using their existing hardware and system applications such as call routing, conferencing, phone menus and voicemail; no additional downloads or training are required
How to participate
The Skype For SIP beta program for business users opens today. SIP users, phone system administrators, developers and service partners are invited to apply at www.skypeforsip.com. Applicants will need to be businesses, have an installed SIP based IP-PBX system, as well as a level of technical competency to configure their own SIP-enabled PBX. The initial beta is available to a limited number of participants.
During the beta period all calls will be charged at standard Skype rates. Further pricing details will be announced when the product is fully launched later this year.
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Chris Ethridge (Director/Producer) has made over a dozen comedic and genre-based independent films, including the award winning films "Painted Love" and "The Spitting Image". His lifelong love of Stephen King led him to pursue the non-commercial rights to make a film from one of King's classic short stories, "Survivor Type". In addition to directing, Ethridge has worked as a Cinematographer and Producer on many other projects. Most recently, he was Co-Executive Producer on "Take Me Out", a short thriller starring Rob Pralgo (Vampire Diaries) that recently was awarded Runner-Up Short Film at the Action on Film Festival. Outside of his film work, Chris has a strong interest in green construction techniques and lives in a green house which he helped build. He lives in Atlanta with his wife Kimberly and their abundance of furry creatures.
Jayson Palmer (Writer/Producer) was born and raised in Northern New Jersey, where he developed his love of film writing. He now lives in Atlanta where he splits his time between running Lobster Boy Productions and teaching - his other love.
Toniet Gallego (Producer/Art Director) has been an Atlanta resident for 20 years. During that time, she has been widely involved with independent projects ranging from film, dance, theatre, art, and music. She provides a wealth of local creative resources and networks. She is half of the electronic music band duo, Fader Vixen, and is a core member of Blast-Off Burlesque.
Jeremy Frank (Producer) is a multifaceted artist who works in the field of architecture as a Designer and is a LEED(TM) Accredited Professional. He has a broad range of skills from architectural design to 3D visualizations/animation, graphic design, audio and video production. He has a deep passion for all types of creative projects, whether he's generating concepts for film/video or writing/performing electronic music for Fader Vixen.
Toby Sells (Special FS Makeup/Prosthetics) began making monster mask and crude make ups at the age of ten. He briefly worked in Los Angeles for Make up Effects artist Mark Shostrom. Toby is now based in Atlanta Georgia, running his own FX House "Toby Sells Creature Make up FX Shop LLC" and he was recently a featured guest on the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs.
Bryan Redding (Assistant Director)
Doug Davis, Jr. (Lighting)
Marsha Kermin (Production Assistant)
Michael Smith (Sound/Key Grip)
Dan Jordan (Sound/Key Grip)
Ashley McClain (Grip)
Barbara Hays (Costume Designer)
Ray Miller (Location Scout - New Jersey)
Amanda Knisely (On-Set Makeup Artist)
Seth Podowitz (Composer)
Mike Kazantkis (Graphic Designer/Poster Artist)
Astrid Lyons (Graphic Design Consultant)
Philip Nutman (Associate Producer)

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On tonight's Top 8 results show, American Idol season 5 alum, Katharine McPhee joined One Republic on stage to sing their latest single, "If I Lose Myself."
Katharine recently finished up work on the second season of the NBC musical drama, Smash, and is getting ready to record her next album. One Republic's Ryan Tedder will be one of the singer's collaborators.
Watch the performance below.
One Republic & Katharine McPhee – If I Lose… by IdolxMuzic


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It's all in the timing!
Let's take guest Joe Smith.
When he signed up, he used id email@example.com
His first sign-up was on May 5th. For whatever reason, the account was deactivated by an administrato on May 7th, at 12:00 PM.
The account switches from firstname.lastname@example.com to firstname.lastname@example.com
Joe is now free to again sign up with the same email@example.com user id since it is technically no longer in our system -- His second sign up was on May 7th at 10 pm at night.


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Marty Elkins is one of my favorite singers. If you know her work, you'll understand why. If she's new to you, prepare to be entranced:
For one thing, she swings without calling attention to it. Nothing in her style is written in capital letters; she doesn't dramatize. But the feeling she brings to each song comes through immediately. Her voice is pleasing in itself and she glides along next to the song, not trying to obliterate it so that we can admire her and her alone. And that voice is not an artifice — a mask she assumes to sing — it comes from her deepest self, whether she is being cheerful or permitting that little cry to come out. I think her approach to the songs on this CD is a beautifully mature one: not the shallow cheer of someone who's not lived . . . nor the bleakness of the world-weary. I hear in Marty's voice a kind of realistic optimism, a faith in the universe that also knows melancholy is possible. Gaze at the sky in blissful wonder but look out for that cab while crossing the street.
I know that such art is not easily mastered . . . ask any singer whether it's simply a matter of memorizing the notes and the words and standing up in front of the microphone — but Marty quietly has something to tell us, and we feel what she feels. Direct subtle transmission!
And she improvises. Her third chorus on any performance is not simply a repetition of the second. She doesn't obliterate the composer or the lyricist; rather she makes friends with the song and — as if she were a great designer — considers the approach that would show it off most truly.
I shelve my CDs alphabetically — so to the left of ELKINS there is ELDRIDGE, to the right ELLINGTON. Fast company, but neither Roy nor Duke has protested; in fact, were they booking gigs at the moment, Marty would be getting calls. But my ELKINS holdings have been — although choice — small in scope. Two CDs, to be precise: FUSE BLUES (Nagel-Heyer 062) finds her with Herb Pomeroy, Houston Person, Tardo Hammer, Greg Staff, Dennis Irwin, Mark Taylor. (The provocative title is Marty's own blues which has a great deal to do with the ministrations offered by her electrician.) IN ANOTHER LIFE (Nagel-Heyer 114), a duo-recital for Marty and Dave McKenna, is just gorgeous. Here's what I wrote about IN ANOTHER LIFE when it was released — not just about the CD, but about Marty's beautiful singing.
So it's delightful news that Marty has released her third CD, WALKIN' BY THE RIVER (Nagel-Heyer 119), and it is a treat.
Marty isn't a Diva or someone who demands to be a Star. When I've seen her in performance — sitting in or on her own gig — she is on equal, friendly terms with the instrumentalists, never demanding the spotlight. But quietly, subversively, her voice finds a place in our hearts: it is the closest thing to having someone you're fond of whisper something pleasing in your ear. And it's not just me, or my ear. Marty has things to tell us about love, about pleasure, about sadness. Many of the songs on this CD are familiar — but they take on new depth and feeling when she sings them. And Marty has a real feeling for the blues, so her offerings seem authentic rather than learned . . . with bluesy turns of phrase that are warm surprises in standard 32-bar songs.
Marty has consistently good musical taste. Her band: Jon-Erik Kellso, trumpet; Howard Alden, guitar; Steve Ash, piano; Joel Diamond, Hammond C3, Lee Hudson, string bass; Taro Okamoto, drums. This small group is priceless in itself — intense yet relaxed, with a light-hearted Basie feel on some numbers, a gritty soulful drive on others. But — with all respect to these musicians — I am always happy on a track when the band plays and Ms. Elkins returns for another chorus. She's their equal in keeping our attention.
Her songs: IF I COULD BE WITH YOU / RUNNIN' WILD / IS YOU IS OR IS YOU AIN'T MY BABY? / GARBAGE CAN BLUES / WHEN MY SUGAR WALKS DOWN THE STREET / DON'T LET THE SUN CATCH YOU CRYIN' / THERE'LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE / DOWN TO STEAMBOAT TENNESSEE / COMES LOVE / ILL WIND / I'LL NEVER BE THE SAME / BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA / WALKIN' BY THE RIVER. Song historians will note some nods to Lee Wiley, Una Mae Carlisle, and of course Billie. But this is living music, not a repertory project, thank goodness.
Marty, thank you! Now — let's have a regular gig for this remarkable singer?
I just found out that the CD will officially be out in September, which is nearly here. You can check out Marty's website, or find Marty at her regular Thursday-night gig Cenzino Restaurant in Oakland, New Jersey, where she performs with Bob Wylde, guitar, and Mike Richmond, string bass.
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Aksho Nurgeth Dh'Akh"
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Simply wonderful!ReplyDelete
Very interesting conversion. Beautifully sculpted.
She's got a sort of " talk to the hand" going on - don't know if thats intentional though...
Superb! I love this, Mikko.
Can we have a shot of her with her accomplice?
Fantastic stuff. I've been following this blog for some time now and it just keeps getting better.
Keep up the good work Mikko.
Great stuff again Mikko! What putty are you using there? Looks like Procreate?
Yup - Only Procreate nowadays, Fantastic stuffDelete
Thanks! Jeff - With femmes it's all about that pose really, so if you see little bit of that "talk to the hand attitude
there, then Im happy. The miniature is telling it's own story to the viewer;)
Fulgrim - I'll do it tomorrow!
Eve - thank you so much!
Just adding my voice to the general praise. :-) Beautifully sinister miniature, she looks great even without paint.ReplyDelete
Wonderful bog hag plaguette! Disgusting, cool, she really looks amazingReplyDelete
Added new "group shot" - Check it out!ReplyDelete
Mate that is fantastic. Really impressed with the hair you have sculpted.
Thanks! How to sculpt nice hair is something I have studied lately. Glad you like it.Delete
Haha excellent how you can take a pose that is so NOT Nurgle and still turn it into SO Nurgle :DReplyDelete
This is totally awesome! I just love all the little details, especially the seam on her skirt. :)ReplyDelete
These would be a blast to paint! So much character in these fellas!ReplyDelete


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Jackson Hole, Wyoming – Your guide to this week's events. WEDNESDAY, 7.2 Dowell hangs new work Amy Dowell's Grey Matter is a collection of 20 graphite works. Each piece is presented framed and pinned, just as you...
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June 30, 2008, - 4:04 pm
TMI: Unwanted Male Beauty Tips From the Obama Camp
By Debbie Schlussel
File this in the Too Much Info from Obamaniacs category:
Thank goodness John McCain doesn't have anyone endorsing him or making "Yes, We Can" videos who gives out disgusting, graphic manscaping beauty tips.
Remember, both these guys–Diddy and Jay-Z–are solidly in the Obama camp and have appeared at Obama events, rallies, and in videos for him. I guess we can expect this advice at the table at Obama State Dinners at the White House. Or from the Lincoln Bedroom.
Yes we can, but no, we don't want to know (from US Mag). As Ron Burgundy would say, "You Stay Classy, Obama Manscaping Team":
Yes. We. Can. Be. Guh-Ross.


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When you notice your child reversing letters or words, your initial suspicion might be that your child has dyslexia. The truth is, reversing letters is common when children are first learning to read and write. If you notice letter reversals in Kindergarten or first grade, there is no reason to be concerned, because reversing letters, confusing left with right, and mixing up words are normal behaviors in the learning and development process. If a child continues to reverse letters and struggle with reading in second grade and beyond, it is time to start paying closer attention to other signs and symptoms.
If you suspect dyslexia, have your child evaluated by a reading specialist and your family doctor, who may refer you to a cognitive psychologist or another professional for testing. There is not one simple test to diagnose dyslexia, but instead a series of comprehensive evaluations and the systematic elimination of other problems.
Visual processing skills deficiencies and oculomotor disorders are sometimes overlooked, because awareness about how closely their symptoms overlap with dyslexia is not as widespread as it should be.
Determining whether your child has dyslexia or a vision problem is critical for your child's well-being. Dyslexia cannot be cured, though many learn to cope with it well and succeed; however, learning-related vision deficiencies that have symptoms similar to dyslexia can be treated and even eliminated by developing skills through an individualized intensive vision therapy program.
Only an optometrist trained in developmental vision care can diagnose a learning-related vision problem through a comprehensive functional vision exam.
In both dyslexia and learning-related visual processing problems, children:
- May confuse left with right, while dyslexics might also be ambidextrous and just as often confuse over with under.
- Have difficulty with writing and messy handwriting; dyslexics may also grip their pencil in an unusual way and tend to have illegible writing.
- Have problems with depth perception and peripheral vision; but dyslexics are also known to have keen and observant vision skills.
- Tend to have trouble reading with little comprehension.
- Transpose, omit, substitute, and reverse words and letters when reading and writing.
- Have difficulty staying on task, paying attention, zoning out, and daydreaming.
- Complain of dizziness, clumsiness, nausea, and headaches while reading, playing sports, or while doing fine-motor visual tasks.
- Seem bright, articulate, and may have a high IQ, but they are unable to read, write, spell, or perform on standardized tests on grade level; those with vision problems will have trouble with other visual tasks that do not involve words or numbers.
- Tend to be called lazy, careless, or labeled with behavioral problems. Struggle with low self-esteem get emotional about testing and school; dyslexics are known to cope by covering their weaknesses and compensating or distracting with other talents and skills.
- Learn well through hands-on experiences; dyslexics tend to be helped by being able to observe and use visual aids, but those with visual deficiencies do better with oral coaching.
- Have difficulty with time — Dyslexics have trouble with sequences and time management; those with vision problems have trouble telling time on a clock dial.
As you can see, the signs and symptoms of dyslexia and learning-related vision problems practically mimic each other, with subtle differences. Even a professional trained to recognize dyslexia may not suspect a vision deficiency without proper awareness.
If you are in the Olney, MD or Silver Spring, MD area and suspect your child might have a learning-related vision problem that has similar symptoms to dyslexia, contact Dr. Philip Nicholson's Visual Learning Center to schedule an appointment.


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FTTC post, please click HERE, if you are looking for my WMS Blog Party post, please click HERE***
Hi there, again! Today I am being introduced on the Pink Paislee Blog and I would be delighted if you would come say Hi to me click HERE :) I'm very excited, needless to say, to be designing for Pink Paislee and to be part of such a talented Creative Team!
As many of you know, CHA is less than two weeks away and that is when NEW product is unveiled! SQUEAL! Samples need to be made, so I will be quite busy creating so if it's a little quiet around here, you will know that is what I am up to! If you are attending the show, you know where I will be so lets meet :)
I made a card to share with you today using beautiful papers from the new digital Pink Paislee Spellbound Paper Pack along with "old" stamps that debuted in 2009 from the Cupid collection! Still lovin' them!
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You have your elitists, roadies, pathletes, hipsters…and then there is us…. the other guys. We like to do a little of everything, but you won't see us at the front of the pack…in fact; you may not even see us. It may be that you already went home after the race before we get across the finish line. You may be so wrapped up in being fast that you won't even notice us having the best day ever…one spent outside riding, canoeing or running hiking. We may be the last to finish, but we will finish (or suffer a series of mechanicals and run out of parts for the bike). So what does all this mean? Who are we really?
The team thus far:
Jim Smith
Jim is one of the nicest guys you could ever meet, but don't let it fool you. As a highly trained government ninja agent spy assassin, he can change the face of time as he sees fit. Now I'll be dead soon since I told you all this…so it's been nice knowing you. Since I'm here and still alive, I'll tell you that if you want the sexiest custom titanium bike around, Jim is the guy to see.
Aaron Lackman
Aaron is the mastermind behind TOG, so this is all his fault. When his call to arms rang out across the realm for mediocre athletes willing to risk life and limb for back of the pack results, we answered. Whether it be cranking out 13 hours of Cedar Cross, jazzing a sweet ribbon (that's singletrack for all you hodads), or eating delicious animals, he's always up for a good time. Adhering to his paleo diet beliefs, his speed on the trails can be attributed to his massive consumption of Unicorn meat.
Justin Nemeth
I (Aaron) met Justin on my first century ever (see write up here courtesy of Team Virtus http://team-virtus.com/2012/05/03/34-year-old-virgin/). Justin is a hell of a guy, and quite fast on his cross bike. We had a great time that day and I knew that we had formed a solid friendship. When the idea for the team first entered my head, Justin was at the top of the list for teammates (there were only two on the list, but don't tell Justin). We are glad to have him aboard, his skills far surpass anyone else's in properly blowing stuff up.


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Gender: Feminine
Origin: Czech/Slovak/Polish
Meaning: "goddess"
This ancient Slavonic appellation, is comprised of the Slavonic element, bozy, meaning, "god" and the feminine suffix –ena.
The name is still currently very popular in Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
It is borne by famous Czech writer, Božena Nemcova (1820-1862). She is mainly known for her romanticized novels of Czech and Bohemian life and was apart of the Czech National Revival movement.
Polish and Czech-American Bozenas usually anglicized their name to Bonnie.
The designated name day is July 26.
Other forms are:
- Božena (Czech/Lithuanian/Slovak/Slovene)
- Bożana (Polish: obscure)
- Bożechna (Polish: obscure)
- Bozhena Божена (Russian)


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Chipotle's Honey Vinaigrette Dressing
Oh how I love Wednesday nights with my girlfriend, Angel. We started up our weekly cooking nights because I realized we haven't cooked together since….EASTER! It's been a busy past couple of months since I've spent the last two months training for my half marathon and this upcoming 10k that I have this weekend. We planned a fabulous meal of her husband's fave dish, Herb-Crusted Pork Tenderloin, paired along with our favorite side dish of Chipotle's Lime-Cilantro Rice and a simple salad with Chipotle's dressing. It's almost a Chipotle-themed meal you would say. She had been wanting to learn how to make this dressing ever since I told her that I had the recipe. We both love the salad dressing from Chipotle, and it's one of my favorite items to order whenever I visit them. I really enjoyed this salad dressing because the sweetness of the honey and tanginess of the red wine vinegar are a perfect melody together. Enjoy!
Chipotle Honey Vinaigrette Dressing
Adapted from Chipotle
Ingredients: 1/3 cup red wine vinegar 1/3 cup honey 2 teaspoons Grey Poupon Dijon mustard 1 1/4 teaspoon ground chipotle powder 1 teaspoon lime juice 3/4 teaspoon black pepper 3/4 teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon paprika 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder 1/4 teaspoon onion powder 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano ½ cup or more of extra virgin olive oil
1. Combine all ingredients except oil in food processor and blend on low speed for less than 15 seconds. 2. Slowly add extra virgin olive oil into food processor on low speed. 3. Chill for at least one hour. Yield: 1 ½ cups
Review: This was pretty darn close to the restaurant version, and I eat this salad all the time from Chipotle. There are a couple of different versions of this recipe where there is no lime or chipotle powder in the recipe, and they use adobe seasoning. We thought the kick from the chipotle spice was perfect to tame down the red wine vinegar. If you think it will be too spicy – just add less chipotle. This is a great dressing for any of your simple salads, and if you want to go the Chipotle route – add some grilled peppers, black beans, tomatoes, little bit of cheese, sour cream and top it off with some grilled chicken. Voilà, Chipotle Chicken salad at home!


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Happy 100th Birthday, Akira Kurosawa
With the centenary of Akira Kurosawa's birth shortly upon us—March 23, for all you film buffs—I'm for anything that mixes up the Japanese director's familiar mythology. His samurai epics still get the bulk of the critical ink—after all, who can turn swords and sandals into poetic agents like Kurosawa? And then there's his pop culture cred: try finding someone at a Comi-Con convention who can't rattle on about Hidden Fortress being an archetype for Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, a sci-fi double-whammy via feudal Japan.
Unfortunately, archetypes—and the attention they get—undermine some of the subtler points of Kurosawa's artistry. Sure, the outmanned-but-persevering band of virtuosos/heroes theme of Seven Samurai inspired The Magnificent Seven—and Inglourious Basterds, for that matter—while the semi-somnolent, cooler-than-thou ethos of Yojimbo was a virtual Ur-text for the spaghetti western movement. Western audiences have always liked the epic side of Kurosawa, but what of Kurosawa the humanist, the artist who could mine a single conversation or a single image for his galvanizing truths?
The quiet, quotidian aspect of Kurosawa's art gets a nice push in the impressively lavish—we're talking stacks of high-grade stills, notes, mockups—Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema (Rizzoli; $75), with a text by film historian Peter Cowie and the requisite foreword by Martin Scorsese, as true a fan of cinema as there ever was. There's no shortage of stills to suggest that Kurosawa could conduct an epic battlefield scene with D.W. Griffith-like élan, but it's the close-ups and three-quarter shots that mesmerize. Actor Toshiro Mifune—a Kurosawa stalwart who appeared in more than a dozen of his films—is everywhere, but never more arrestingly than in a still from The Quiet Duel, a neglected film with Mifune playing the part of a syphilis-stricken obstetrician. Clothed in surgical gear, his arms limply bent-upwards—as if pleading—and crossed by a lattice of shadow lines, Mifune is both ghostly and shredded, vague and not vague at once. It's also a shot you could hang on the wall at MOMA.
The Quiet Duel, significantly, dates from 1949. If you go through Kurosawa's filmography, you'll see that there were plenty of big, fairly bombastic films coming out at regular points throughout his career. The King Lear revamp, Ran, is from 1985; Seven Samurai from 1954, Yojimbo from 1961, Dersu Uzala—an eco-parable set in Siberia—from 1975. But it's in the first few years after World War II that Kurosawa set himself up as a master of miniatures.
Stray Dog—also from 1949—is one of cinema's most relentless works, as unmitigating, in its way, as Peckinpah's Straw Dogs or Polanski's Macbeth. There are loads of devils in these details. "The sense of suffocating heat is brought home in repeated shots of people fanning themselves, mopping their perspiring faces with grimy hankies, grasping at a tepid drink or a proffered Popsicle," Cowrie writes. The simple premise—a young detective sets off after a pickpocket who stole his gun, and flirts with criminality himself—results in a docudrama, urban travelogue of sorts. Tiny, person-specific details coalesce to create a portrait of an exceedingly ravaged country with busted-up people all around.
This is the Kurosawa I prefer—the director more in step with the Italian neo-realist movement rather than some of the bloated horse operas of the American Western, a form he loved. He also loved painting and drawing, and Master of Cinema shows that even in his large-scale epics, Kurosawa was in touch with the aesthetic that dominates his late 1940s work. An image drawn for Ran—in crayon, pencil, and pastel—of a warrior stuck with a couple dozen arrows, has the same gruesome grill work as the Quiet Duel still, but now the shadows have become physical objects. The lacerations are present either way, but there's more of the conjurer's art in the postwar films, and a stronger shading of reality too. That's one nifty party trick.


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Illusions of Grandeur started as a theme party company 35 years ago and it is still one of the things we truly enjoy. What we like most about a request for a theme is that not only does it lend itself to fun but it gives structure to an event ~ a vision, if you will.
Through the years our inventory has changed with the times and a lot of it has been fabricated with the Monterey Peninsula in mind. As you look through our inventory, you will probably see a hint at a theme ~ our living table, for example, is perfect for a Farm-to-Table event. Inspired by the ever popular Farm table, our Pier tables work well in a venue on the water. Have fun ~ we have!
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The 5-Minute Rule for Crimes And Ethics
The New Fuss About Crimes And Ethics
The right of a person to control their own life appears to mean very little if the person isn't permitted to end his life at one time of his own choosing. Please be aware, it's not free. It provides you time to focus and lets you take in your surrounding atmosphere. Though you'll be very busy, remember to learn more than only the info in a resident's chart. Perhaps, with time, a less agonizing method is going to be developed. Budgeting your time is vital. It took a while to narrow it all down since we could become so detailed an encyclopedia would be the outcome.
Sometimes you've got to believe before you're able to see. Now, a few of us might say hey, no shit, it is a scam, but when you're out of work, you're almost prepared to do anything it requires to receive a job. Their needs are satisfied at each encounter. The rising need for web material is turning into a huge phenomenon. Some people today think that the money utilized for cloning experiments ought to be used to solve social issues and help humans in need. The money goes into his private account-corruption in the greater order. Finally, in the event the luxury item is bought, the operator must earn more money as a way to offer an upkeep of the luxury.
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In the present global business environment by means of your business it's important to get some comprehension of the folks and the culture you have intentions of conducting business. The conflict perspective might view this as being unfair to people who do not meet certain qualifications because they may not have been in a position to accomplish a degree of education to get those requirements. It would be that everyone does not like a lot of rules because they feel that they are being controlled and no one wants to feel that way. It might view this as some people might not love their job and might not try to reach high quality performance when completing a task. The functionalist perspective is that in case you love your work, then you are going to perform better at it. The interactionist perspective is that everyone must have work to be able to reach some degree of succeeding in their lives.
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Irony is driving to Dundee to pick up an eighth of a grass fed and finished cow and stopping on the way for lunch at a vegan restaurant.
Oh, and do yourself a favor…
… make yourself some pumpkin ice cream and top it with a drizzle of maple balsamic vinegar. Seriously.
I know it's so boo-zhee, and I know you probably don't have maple balsamic laying around, but I do, and you should.


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Swissport will acquire the remaining 50 percent of Heathrow Cargo Handling Ltd. (HCH) it does not currently own from Air France (Euronext FR: AF.FP), its joint venture partner. Swissport announced the acquisition on February 11.
The acquisition will allow Swissport to make new investments in air freight operations at Heathrow Airport where it currently operates two warehouses with 165,000 square feet of total space. The acquisition is subject to approval by the U.K.'s antitrust agency, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The announcement said that CMA's decision on the acquisition is expected in early 2019.
Swissport, based in Opfikon, Switzerland, provides airport ground services and air freight handling. It handles 4.8 million tons of air freight annually at 300 airports in 50 countries. In 2017 Swissport generated EUR 2.8 billion ($3.1 billion) in revenue. (All currency values will be represented in U.S. dollars.) Swissport works with 850 client-companies, has 66,000 employees, and is owned by the HNA Group, which is based in Hǎikǒu, China.
HCH was founded in 1995 as a joint venture between Swissport and Air France to provide air freight handling services for airlines at Heathrow Airport. It handled more than 150,000 tons of air freight in 2018, an increase of seven percent from 2017 according to Swissport.
"We are very satisfied that we can strategically round off our global cargo business with this selective acquisition," said Luzius Wirth, Swissport executive vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa operations. "On the basis of over 20 years of successful business, jointly with Air France, Swissport now has the right setup to further develop and enhance its service offering at London's Heathrow Airport."
Heathrow is currently the fourth-largest air freight hub in Europe. The airport increased its air freight volume by three percent to 1.5 million tons in 2016 according to The Journal of Commerce.
According to PRNewswire, the airport ground and air freight handling industry is expected to grow six percent year-over-year from $22.5 billion in 2017 to $32 billion in 2023. Air freight volume is expected to grow by 3.7 percent (65.9 million tons) in 2019 according to Air Cargo News.


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In summertime it becomes difficult if suddenly your AC breaks. The professionals will check your AC thoroughly to give the ideal type of services at the earliest to prevent any further damage to your machine. Indoor air quality becomes extremely comfortable.
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If the refrigerant amount has lower down or the blades of these fans have broken then your AC might make unavoidable noises. Assess all these issues quite carefully and get it repaired.


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When it comes to providing heat in your home to ward off Old Man Winter, there are many different types of heaters and heating fuel on the market today. One of those heaters is known as a ventless gas heater. A gas heater that is vent free is a heater that is a completely self-contained unit that burns propane or natural gas in order to provide heat. The unit does not produce hazardous gases during the combustion process and therefore does not require the use of a vent. These heaters offer some major advantages over other types of heaters. Check out these top ten advantages for these types of heaters:
* Ventless gas heaters are extremely efficient and require much less fuel to operate. This makes using them more cost efficient than other types of heaters including wood burning fireplaces, electric heaters and vented gas heaters. Some of these heater types are so efficient that they burn up to 99% of the fuel placed into them, resulting in little to no waste.
* Because of their increased efficiency, gas heaters that are ventless cost less to operate, not only in terms of fuel but in incidental costs such as electricity and maintenance costs.
* They are 100% self-contained and do not produce hazardous carbon monoxide gas. This prevents accidental poisoning. There is also no soot or other combustion by-products to deal with, making them more user-friendly.
* They are often equipped with fans that force air circulation around the room, allowing the heaters to provide more uniform heat in larger areas. This is a major advantage over radiant heaters.
* Almost all vent free gas heaters operate completely silently, reducing noise pollution in your home.
* Most of these types of heaters are very affordable in terms of both initial start-up costs as well as long term operation costs, making them more affordable than most other heating solutions.
* Ventless gas heaters are available in different sizes and designs, ensuring that there is a solution to every heating need. They are extremely versatile and flexible.
*Many vent free gas heaters can operate on either propane or natural gas, allowing homeowners the ability to switch between heating fuels. The availability of heating fuels from year to year dictates the cost and having the ability to change between the two ensures that you can take advantage of natural price fluctuations. Natural gas is also more environmentally friendly.
* Heaters that are vent free are easy to install and remove.
* And lastly, gas heaters that are vent free are easy to use. In most cases, they can be turned on by simply flipping a switch.
With all these things to its advantage, it isn't hard to see why these types of gas heaters are a great choice for your home heating needs. These heaters are quickly becoming one of the most popular heaters in the market today and are in high demand. You can find them in most large retail outlets, hardware stores and in many online venues. While these heaters are inexpensive, purchasing one during the warmer summer months will not only ensure that you have a heater when winter sets in but that you secure the best price.
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In Maui County, there is currently a petition being circulated by the SHAKA Movement. If this petition gains enough signatures, the voters of Maui County will decide if GMO crops should be banned until they can be deemed safe by a "Joint Fact Finding Group".
In a recent Maui Now article from May 22, 2014, Mark Sheehan (one of 5 residents who started the petition) argues that, "you only have to dig a little bit to understand that GMOs are living organisms that stay alive in your gut; gut bacteria accounts for 70% of your immune system."
In response to this comment, Peter J. Davies (International Professor of Plant Sciences at Cornell University, previously a resident of Hawaii) sent the following letter:
In Maui Now (May 22nd), with regard to the anti-GMO petition, it was reported that "Sheehan's argument countered that claim [that the anti-GMO campaign would devastate our county's fragile agricultural economy] saying, "you only have to dig a little bit to understand that GMOs are living organisms that stay alive in your gut; gut bacteria accounts for 70% of your immune system"".
This is a surprising comment by a person claiming to have a PhD, as it shows a total ignorance of the biology of food and digestion. So let's innumerate the facts:
- Intestinal bacteria are indeed important for the functioning of the body. However they treat non-GMO and GMO food in a similar fashion.
- While food derived from GMO crops is "alive" (unless cooked), the same applies to all food. Food, GMO or not, does not remain alive when eaten: in the stomach and intestine it is rapidly degraded so that it is no longer "alive".
- All food contains DNA and, unless processed, protein as well. GMO food is no different.
- The DNA of similar non-GMO and GMO food differs by less than 0.001%.
- The body is equipped to break down DNA and protein in the intestine, regardless of the source.
- While a small amount of the added DNA in some GMO foods is derived from natural soil bacteria, people ingest millions of such bacteria daily on their normal or organic food, rendering the additional amount in any GMO food meaningless.
- There is not a single documented case, in over 17 years of GMO food consumption, where the DNA in the food has transferred to the intestinal bacteria.
- With regards to GMO papaya, the GMO papaya contains a very small non-viable piece of the DNA of the virus; if you have ever eaten a non-GMO papaya you have almost certainly consumed a thousand times more of the entire virus!
GMO food has been declared to be as safe as non-GMO food by every major reputable scientific body worldwide, including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the advancement of science, the American Medical Association and the European Food Safety Authority, amongst many others.
Peter J. Davies
International Professor of Plant Sciences at Cornell University, previously resident in Hawaii.
The author lectures at Cornell University on the role of gut bacteria in human health and immune system function.
It is best to take the word of an actual expert on a topic over that of an activist.


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If you've already repaired this feature using the technique discussed in the previous post, your new concern becomes obvious: users regularly attempt other names they assume to be administrator usernames as well and those guesses are pretty obvious. Programming for the majority of them should be fairly easy.
The most frequent guessed usernames I see are "www.username.com" and "username.domain.com" (where "username" is the guess). I'm not expecting you to be a RegEx expert here, but this is the easiest tool I know of to match both conditions. There are also a number of really obvious alternatives to "admin". "Admin" is an obvious choice since the downloaded WordPress setup offers it up as the default username when installation is first run. This also makes it the worst choice for an actual username. I explicitly forbid its use on my installs, and strongly urge you to do the same in yours.
As always, use these modifications at your own risk. Make backups of your site files before making these changes. It would be wise to backup your database before proceeding also. As before, if you make this change, you'll undo the change with every update to the iThemes plugin, so expect to have to follow these steps again.
File: wp-content/better-wp-security/core/modules/brute-force/class-itsec-brute-force.php
We'll modify the authenticate function in this file. Note: if the IP address you'll be logging in from is always whitelisted, you can safely add your own username as one that is blacklisted when we modify this function.
First, the oddest part is the RegEx. The one I'm using here will match anything after http:// or http://www. up to any character that is not a dash, letter or number. (example: http://www.this-is-a-match.com, http://so-is-this.domain.com, http://and-so-is-this.com) This specifically breaks down like this:
\d – any digit
a-z – any lowercase letter
A-Z – any uppercase letter
"-" – A dash.
The name you're looking for should be within that character set as I think this is necessary in order to be a valid domain name. Starting at or around line 39:
public function authenticate( $user, $username = '', $password = '' ) {
global $itsec_lockout, $itsec_logger;
$site_url = get_site_url();
$url_match = '/^https?:[?:www\.]?\/\/([\da-zA-Z-]+)/i';
$url_is_match = preg_match($url_match, $site_url, $the_match);
Side note: another attack I see is for sites with multiple parked domain names. Instead of using the true site's domain as a username, they'll use each of those, which could be quite numerous. I find it odd since… this data is unreliable at best, and is even spoof-able. However, the "referral" variable seems to always be set properly. You could use the same technique to check the referring address for a match against your banned username list.
At this pint, $the_match is an array loaded with matches. The first element is the entire string, the second is the piece we want ($the_match[1]). There is a very tiny chance the RegEx didn't work, or didn't work properly. Not sure, this should be a very tiny chance that some alteration in server configuration might change how our RegEx is evaluated, so I check to make certain a match was found before doing anything with the value. Anyway, the next part here, we'll just set up an array including all the names we want blacklisted:
$banned_names = array(
if ($url_is_match) { // in case something went wrong
$banned_names[] = $the_match[1];
I'm using an array here for your list of names primarily because the RegEx string becomes a nightmare to look at and to edit after you have about 3 names in the list. Now, we'll check those names against the username that was attempted during login:
$banned_user_names = "/^(".implode("|",$banned_names).")$/i";
$ban_match = preg_match($banned_user_names, $username);
This may seem a bit complex, but it's really not. We're just constructing the RegEx string with all this so that it looks like this: "/^(name1|name2|name3)$/i" … which matches any of the following names: "name1", "name2" or "name3". The ^ and $ ensures the name is matched as the whole word, the vertical bar (|) is RegEx code for "or", and the "i" after the forward slash (a delimiter) is just a flag that lets it know this should match any letter case. After these two lines of code run, $ban_match will either be NULL or a numeric value of how many matches were found (so NULL or 1).
Now look for this part (originally at or around line 43):
//Look for the "admin" user name and ban it if it is set to auto-ban
if ( isset( $this->settings['auto_ban_admin'] ) && $this->settings['auto_ban_admin'] === true && 'admin' === $username ) {
Modify to this:
//Look for the "admin" user name and ban it if it is set to auto-ban
if ( isset( $this->settings['auto_ban_admin'] ) && $this->settings['auto_ban_admin'] === true && $ban_match ) {
So we're just switching from if $username == 'admin' to if $username has a RegEx match with any number of blacklisted names. This – in combination to the previous fix to this feature means an immediate ban of any IP address attempting one of the names you specify.
To keep your installation even MORE secure, right now would be a great time to enable the Clef option to prevent logging in with a username and password for all users with Administrator access and add those administrator usernames to this ban array. At that point anyone trying to log in with your actual administrator usernames will be immediately banned from the site, but your administrators will still be able to use Clef to login without issue.
Now that you have a blacklist for admin names and immediate banning, wouldn't it be great if you had a file blacklist? So that you could bypass the typical 404 behavior and just immediately ban when certain – clearly malicious – files are attempted to be accessed? Tune in next time…


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DOHA – A leading international Muslim scholars union has criticized China's apparent ban on fasting the holy month of Ramadan in the Muslim dominant Xinjiang district, urging the Asian country to respect Muslim faith.
"Continuous religious and ethnic persecution over Muslims, especially in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is against Chinese and international law," the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) said in a statement.
The Union went on to condemn Chinese government policies in the district including forcing restaurants to sell food on Ramadan days as well as forcing parents to sign on banning their children from observing the fasting month.
The statement offered no explanation as to exactly what laws it was directly referring to.
It added that the policy "is also contrary to the fourth Geneva Convention in 1949 approved by China," and called the apparent ban "a clear violation of one of the most important principles of modern international law."
The Union called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and other international organizations to protect Muslims.
Moreover, the IUMS warned that China's failure to offer more freedoms to Uighur Muslims will give scholars a sign to spread news among Muslims worldwide which would result in severe effect on the Chinese economy.
Every year, Chinese authorities have repeatedly imposed restrictions on Uighur Muslim in the northwestern region of Xinjiang every Ramadan.
In Ramadan, adult Muslims, save the sick and those traveling, abstain from food, drink, smoking and sex between dawn and sunset.
In December 2014, China banned the wearing of Islamic veiled robes in public in Urumqi, the capital of the province of Xinjiang.
The law in the predominantly Muslim region came as Beijing intensified its so-called campaign against "religious extremism" that it blames for recent violence.
Earlier in 2014, Xinjiang banned the practicing of religion in government buildings, as well as wearing clothes or logos associated with religious extremism.
In May 2015, Muslim shops and restaurants in a Chinese village in northwestern Xinjiang have been ordered to sell cigarettes and alcohol or face closure.


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Recently I took a trip to Sacramento and was so glad to find a few Diamonds in the Ruff. Parts of Sacramento are a bit disheveled just like any city really. It reminded me of Baltimore in that way. You can find the Diamonds there too, just takes some intention to find what you want.
Funny enough the two places I found have been on my "to do list" for the last year now and I actually made it happen last month. The trip turned out even better than planned which is always a blessing.
My first point of interest was the lovely Green Boheme Restaurant nestled in Sacramento on Del Paso Boulevard.
I had been wanting to try the Raw Vegan French Toast ever since I came across it while searching the internet. Not only was there french toast on the menu but Crepes as well. Quelle Doucer! And I mean that literally..it was sweet and yummy and wow, wow, wow! Not only did I totally love the vibes of the place and the painting on the wall but also the radio station they were playing was reggae all day. They had all kinds of choices from sprouted rice dishes to Mexican Tostadas. The Dessert of the Day was a raw vegan ice cream cookie sandwich Are you kidding?! A small amount was plenty as this was a super rich and decadent treat. What a fun experience on a hot summer day.
The other place I wanted to check out in Sacramento was the Green's Hotel. The Greens Hotel was literally a block away from the Green Boheme, so just a fun stroll away. Unlike other hotels this unique and dynamic spot had hard wood floors in the room, a large private patio, an outside common area to hang out, play music, relax amidst tons of lively plants and flowers and plenty of funky art in the form of installations & wall hangings. With overall good vibes Jeff the groundsman was an artist and had a great down to earth presence. I was so stoked on the whole place and am happy to go back and bring friends next time. The patio was lined with unique desert cacti and gnarly looking succulents; a great spot to play our guitars on a warm summer's eve.
While staying at The Green's we also found some awesome trails that lined the river. I really enjoyed running those trails as they were covered with wild foliage and full of earthly energy. The bike path's around the college in Sacramento are pretty awesome too. As we left to head to Napa we stopped by the Sacramento Co-op for some yummy treats like cultured veggies, cultured cashew cheese and local blueberries. Good times & Great Vibes in Sacramento.


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Antibody testing places earliest Ohio coronavirus case in early January
The earliest coronavirus cases in Ohio now date back to January, indicating COVID-19 might have been in the state and spreading here earlier than initially thought.
Six people have reported feeling ill in January – as early as Jan. 7 – according to Ohio Department of Health data released Sunday. Few details about the patients were available Monday.
A department spokeswoman couldn't say Monday whether those people had traveled, were connected to another case or were infected through virus spread in the community. The patients were from Miami, Montgomery, Richland, Summit and Warren counties.
They were identified through antibody tests and COVID-19 symptoms, said Ohio Department of Health spokeswoman Melanie Amato. That means they are considered "probable" cases, confirmed without a polymerase chain reaction test.
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Amato said at least two of the patients traveled outside of Ohio but it's not known whether that was a factor.
"These cases were found through antibody testing and therefore a lot of it is going off of memory for the person who was sick," Amato said in an email. "They will also always remain under probable cases."
As of Monday, Ohio had 23,400 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 13,77 probable cases.
Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton said disease detectives are examining the cases to see if they were associated with travel.
"We are going to learn more and more about this disease, how long it was here in Ohio, how long it was spreading as we do more and more testing," Acton said Monday.
Antibody tests look back
Acton and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced the state's first test-confirmed cases of COVID-19 – three – on March 9. Those people had contracted the virus while traveling out of state.
On the same day they made that announcement, 262 people had already fallen ill, according to the latest reported cases. But those numbers wouldn't be known for several weeks or months.
That tally could grow as more Ohioans get antibody tests. Positive antibody tests are immediately reported to the state.
Ohio has had a shortage of tests that detect active infection throughout the pandemic. The state's first working test kits didn't arrive until March 5. Tests have been prioritized for specific populations of Ohioans, including health care workers, residents and staff at nursing homes and other congregate settings and people with underlying health conditions.
That's why Acton and local health officials have cautioned Ohio's case numbers are the tip of the iceberg of the virus' prevalence in the state.
Blood tests can detect the presence of COVID-19 antibodies. Doctors and researchers are cautiously optimistic: some test kits have produced high false-positive rates.


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Preparation of electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) from low grade manganese ores/residues
Biswal, A., Nayak, B., Dash, B., Sanjay, K., Subbaiah, T. and Mishra, B.K. (2011) Preparation of electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) from low grade manganese ores/residues. In: European Metallurgical Conference, EMC 2011, 26 - 29 June, Dusseldorf; German pp. 1323-1334.
A process flow sheet for processing low-grade manganese ores / residues has been developed to produce electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) as an end product that is suitable for battery industry. Maganese nodules leach residue having ∼ 25 % manganese and ∼ 8 % iron with other minor impurities such as Cu, Ni, Co and Zn was leached in H2SO4 medium using activated charcoal as reductant followed by purification and electrowinning of EMD. The leaching process was optimized for different parameters viz. pulp density, acid concentration and amount of charcoal. The optimal parameters for leaching of 20 % pulp density are 0.055 g charcoal per gram of Mn material with 2 M sulfuric acid at room temperature for 4 h showing ∼ 90 % Mn extraction. The leach liquor was purified in two stages - first step by addition of KMnO4 to oxidize ferrous to ferric and precipitation of iron by rising pH to 4 with addition of Ca(OH)2 followed by second step of addition of sodium sulphide for removal of Cu, Ni, Co and Zn. The purified liquor obtained after bringing down impurity levels was used for the preparation of EMD. The conditions for preparation of EMD, ie. concentration of Mn and acidity, temperature, current density have been optimized. The optimal parameters for EMD preparation are [Mn]: 48 g/L; [H2SO4]: 25 g/L; 90 °C at a current density of 200 A/m2. The deposited EMD was characterized for particle size and morphology by XRD & SEM. The EMD was of γ-varity with irregular and agglomerated particles having discharge capacity of 290 mAh/g.
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When it comes to maintaining the law, Papua New Guinea has a combination of traditional and introduced court systems. It is a three-tier system. The Supreme Court and the National Court have many formal rules and hold jurisdiction over both civil and criminal matters.
The Supreme Court of Justice is the highest court of the land; having its inherent powers and enabling jurisdiction established under the Papua New Guinea Constitution. It is the ultimate and final court of appeal which hears appeals from the National Court of Justice. The judiciary is headed by a Chief Justice and is augmented by several judges and numerous magistrates.
The National Court of Justice also has inherent powers and original jurisdiction. It hears or tries criminal cases and indictable offences. It deals with civil litigation cases involving K11,000 damages or compensation and above. This court of record reviews various administrative or executive decisions of government departments or statutory authorities and body. It is a Court of Appeal that hears appeals from the District Court.
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The Clifford report in the mid 1980's was critical of the National court system in the first ten years since independence. Conviction rates had fallen from 80% to 50% and court delays had escalated so that the average number of days from committal to verdict was 344. Police inefficiency, poor quality of prosecution work, lack of resources, including a short supply of court reporters and interpreters hampered the course of justice. In contrast the District courts were found to be working well and even getting better.
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On Friday, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey announced that the state legislature had reached a deal to raise teachers' pay 20 percent by 2020 and to restore public education funding that has been cut since the last recession. Arizona teachers, who have been on strike since Thursday, reacted with skepticism and expressed frustration at Ducey's refusal to meet with organizers and listen to their demands. The education groups are also seeking better pay for support staff and guaranteed annual raises, and have recently announced that they will push a ballot initiative to raise income taxes on the state's highest earners to fund public education.
As Columbia University's graduate students move to prolong their strike indefinitely, adjunct faculty at Loyola University Chicago ratified their first contract with the university on Friday following two years of negotiations. Under the agreement, which covers 360 non-tenure-track faculty, part-time instructors will receive a pay increase of up to 51 percent for each course taught, while full-time lecturers will receive an average pay increase of 5.2 percent. The contract will also give adjuncts some job security, with part-time instructors receiving renewable one and two-year appointments and full-time lecturers eventually receiving five-year appointments. The adjuncts have been represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 73 since 2016.
Meanwhile, teachers in Zimbabwe announced on Friday that they would go on strike beginning May 8. The Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (ZIMTA), which has 44,000 unionized members, stated that teachers were seeking higher salaries and allowances before the new term. Zimbabwe's teachers are the latest public sector employees to stage a strike. In the past month, doctors and nurses have also gone on strike, demanding better pay and working conditions ahead of the country's elections in July. The government responded by calling the strikers "politically motivated" and ordering the dismissal of over 16,000 nurses.
The New York Times reports on the difficulty of enforcing Governor Andrew Cuomo's new sexual harassment policies. The new laws effectively ban nondisclosure agreements and mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment complaints, and hold government employees personally financially liable for any payouts if they are found responsible for committing harassment. They also require both public and private sector employers to develop anti-harassment policies and training. Many have criticized the policies for failing to actually define sexual harassment and for neither creating nor appointing a single investigative body to enforce the new laws. According to the Times, in practice harassment complaints are referred to multiple government agencies that occasionally reach conflicting outcomes. Experts warn that the lack of procedural clarity may undermine public trust and institutional accountability.
According to the Department of Labor, private-sector employees in the United States received their biggest pay raise since 2007 in the first quarter of 2018. Wages for private sector workers have risen 2.9 percent in the past year, the largest such increase since the third quarter of 2008. Analysts speculate that the country's unemployment rate, which is currently at a 17-year low of 4.1 percent, is putting upward pressure on businesses' labor costs as they offer higher wages to attract scarce workers.


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Most of America likes to imagine Hollywood as a fantasy land where a pretty girl or a handsome young man came make it on their own merit. It is true to a certain extent, but it ignores the fact that the Movies mean big money, the sort of money that can't help but attract an undesirable element. The big studio moguls and mafia crime bosses came from a similar background, European Jews or Sicilians who had a history of protecting themselves from the outside world.
Like the most notorious Mafiosi, the Big Studio heads were a law unto themselves, with the ability to make problems "go away" for the stars working for them. How much money the Mob invested in Hollywood is hard to measure, but it is well known that organized crime wove its way into the very fabric of the Movie Colony.
Only two film stars were known to be mob insiders, Frank Sinatra, and George Raft. Raft was born to German immigrant parents, probably in 1901 (records are unclear). He grew up on the streets of New York's Hell's Kitchen and was childhood pals with Bugsy Siegel and Owney Madden. George was a talented dancer and a snappy dresser who would have made it in show business without mob connections.
As a young man, George danced in many of the same nightclubs frequented by Rudolph Valentino before Valentino became a movie star. Flamboyant speakeasy hostess Texas Guinan took Raft under her wing for a while during prohibition and helped to find him work on Broadway, but he had mostly chorus-boy roles. He made the move to Hollywood in 1929, and his big break came as Paul Muni's coin-flipping sidekick in the Howard Hughes production of Scarface (1932), which was loosely based on the life of Al Capone.
Raft went on to be one of the big three gangster actors of the Thirties, along with James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson. His mob affiliation became an open secret (when one of Gary Cooper's romantic indiscretions put him on a gangster's hit list, Raft supposedly made a phone call and got the contract canceled). It is said that Raft's fashionable Hollywood roles "taught the mob how to dress". He campaigned for Paramount to hire his friend Texas Guinan for Night After Night (1932), thinking that the film (which was based on Guinan's experience as a speakeasy operator) would launch her movie career. Instead, Mae West got the role, and her star began to rise.
George Raft topped Humphrey Bogart in box office clout through the Thirties, but when Raft turned down the lead in High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon in 1941, Bogey made the move from supporting player to major Hollywood force and Raft's star began to fade. There are rumors that Raft also turned down the role of Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1942), but internal Warner Bros memos fail to substantiate this.
In 1942, James Cagney was elected to head S.A.G., and he led the Guild's fight to get the mob out of the movie business. Cagney alleged that a contract was put out to eliminate him by dropping a heavy movie light on his head. Raft picked up the phone again, called in a few favors, and the hit was canceled. Although Raft still managed to fill leading man roles through the Forties, the quality of the films steadily declined. By 1950, he was reduced to working as a greeter in a mob owned casino in Havana.
During the summer of 1951, Raft stepped into the role of Rocky Jordan on CBS Radio. Jordan had a more than passing similarity to Casablanca's Rick Blaine. He was a nightclub owner in Cairo, and in each episode Rocky encounters a "crime, a mystery, a beautiful woman, or a combination of all three". Raft assumed the role created by radio veteran Jack Moyles in 1948. In 1952, Moyles began starring in Douglas of the World for AFRS. Raft was set for a comeback when he satirized his gangster image in Some Like It Hot (1959), but the comeback never materialized.
George Raft died from leukemia on November 24, 1980, in Los Angeles, he was 79 years old. Mae West had passed away two days earlier, and their bodies were stored together in the same mortuary. Raft's personal effects were sold in 1981 for $800 through a classified ad in Hemming's Motor News. Two Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are dedicated honoring George Raft, at 1500 Vine St for contributions to Television and at 6159 Hollywood Blvd for Motion Pictures.


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Making online waves with his intricate prints that make for awesome iPhone cases, Sharif El Fatatry is taking Egyptian art abroad.
In a time where art and design have become as essential as food and water, very few people stand out. We've become so bombarded with all these up and coming illustrators and designers, all touted as "the new Andy Warhol", it's become exhausting. However, one artist stands out with his work and is selling his prints, iPhone and iPad covers and more quirky accessories. Sharif El Fatatry took a bold initiative by selling his designs on Society6 and has got quite the cult following aborad. We talked to the budding designer about the trials and tribulations of selling his art online…
When did you start designing?
Well, it all started when I was a little kid. I used to draw when I was young and got very influenced by my mother who is a jewellery designer. I'd be doodling and sketching in school every day, practicing new methods and trying to fill the paper with any ideas that popped in my mind. I was still in Germany at the time so moving to Egypt and getting to know different cultures and living the revolution was a great experience and made me see life from a different perspective and changed and enhanced my interpersonal skills. But one little thing was missing: how could I share and exchange experiences? My answer to that was definitely art. I started communicating through my paintings. The revolution in Egypt developed a revolution in my mind. Even my style began to change; I started putting messages in my work and understanding different interpretations. Drawings and designs started to be more powerful than discussions.
Is there a specific person that inspires you?
I'm more inspired by music and unknown designers that post their amazing work online. However, two great role models for me are Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. On the spiritual side, I get the inspiration from the life and works of Alan Watts.
Why did you decide on selling your designs online?
It doesn't take much money to start this kind of online business. I pretty much started this with zero dollars. I think that as long as you got enough ambition, you'll find a way to make it happen. I started May 2013, so it's been three months now. I don't get caught up in that rat race so I'm not looking to necessarily make more money. It's just that I'm looking forward to grow the name and my customer base, and get more people to understand and pay for good quality products and design. Right now I get a few orders a month, mostly iPhone and iPad cases. However, most of my orders are from Germany and Canada since I'm unable to ship to Egypt. Recently, I've been working with the Alhambra Culture Club, which is a coffeehouse in Barcelona. My art prints are going to be delivered next month and will be displayed there. Very excited!
Do you plan on turning your business into a brand and how do you market your designs?YES! For now, social media is a way to share art. Instead of managing both a business page and a personal page, I simply allow subscribers on my personal Facebook page. Anyone who is interested in seeing my drawings can subscribe, which are made public. A website is in the making.
Which is your best selling design?
People like 'El Bandido' the smoking bulldog.
If you could get one celebrity to wear your designs, who would it be?
The band Fat Freddy's Drop!
If you had unlimited funds and could place one of your designs somewhere, where would it be?
Aerial banners carried by airplanes. When you hear an airplane, you look up and see the design! I would also float a large print on the surface of the Nile. I think that would be a good opportunity to transform the traffic jams into an art gallery.
If you could collaborate with one artist, who would it be and why?
Maybe I'm being naive and unrealistic here, but I feel a little overwhelmed by the title 'artist' as far as fame and recognition goes. I would love to meet all the anonymous low-profile artists who've made a fraction of the videos I've seen on YouTube, Vimeo and Tumblr that have inspired me infinitely. I think everybody alive is an artist therefore, I'd love to collaborate with the unrecognised people who prioritise substance over label and fame.
To see more of Sharif El Fatatry's designs, check out his Society6 store here.


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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Taste of the season ~ Butternut Squash Soup ~
I have been in a cooking mood lately. I have tried some new recipes, and also I have been experimenting with the pressure cooker. It is fun.
Several days ago, I made this butternut squash soup. I have been wanting to make a "fall soup", and when I was at the grocery store, I bought a butternut squash impulsively. Without knowing exactly what am I going to do with it.
I googled "Butternut Squash Soup" and read many recipes and reviews (well, I didn't want to waste the squash...). I found a recipe here. It sounded easy and tasty, also, it got so many positive reviews. I had to try it.
Mmmm... It turned out good. It was so yummy.
I tweaked the recipe a little, instead of cutting it small and boil it, I cut the squash in half and baked it. Also, I used sour cream instead of cream cheese, because I didn't have any. The soup was very thick. I think I am going to make it slightly runnier next time, but I loved the taste.
It is getting cold, what have you been cooking in your kitchen lately?
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Mmmmmm...this looks so yummy and perfect for Fall now that it has arrived :) You are so talented, Sachiko!ReplyDelete
I love using left over butternut for pumpkin pies, or pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! It has a richer flavor, and is a great way to avoid wasting squash! The soup sounds yummy!ReplyDelete
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