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Lähirohtola (Local Plant Pharmacy) is a community art project that aims at establishing a plant pharmacy where from the neighborhood residents can collect local plants and information of their use. The plants in the pharmacy are naturally growing in the area and can be foraged by anyone. Most of them are even familiar to many but not so many know about their features that ad to the well-being of humans. They are usually considered as unwanted weeds. The idea behind the project is to present plants as companions, collaborators and members of the community. This happens trough learning about them and establishing an empathic connection with them.
Lähirohtola is created together with the Kaarela neighbourhood in Helsinki, Finland. It starts with the work of local Kasvilähettiläät (Plant Ambassadors) who represent five different plants. The Ambassadors collect their plant from the neighborhood and store it for the later. They also spread information about their plant, use of it and how to collect and eg. dry it. The Ambassadors take part in the plant walks Mari Keski-Korsu organises in the area and they can organise their own walks as well. All the collected plants are then stored in the Plant Pharmacy, an art installation that is available for the neighborhood throughout the winter. If the neighborhood accepts the ownership of the Plant Pharmacy, it can continue for the next summer and be filled with new dried plants, maybe even added some new species.
The Plant Pharmacy has five plants at the moment: yarrow, dandelion, nettle, greater plantain and chickenweed. Folk healer and phytologist Maaria Alén is consulting the use of the plants.
Lähirohtola is a project in Taidekehä, a community art projects series organised by Helsinki Artist Society. Thank you coordinator and producer Anna Puhakka.
More information and walk dates for summer 2018 can be found in Facebook (in Finnish):
-> Lähirohtola was exhibited in Kanneltalo, Helsinki 6. – 27.12.2018.


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Here are more decorating tips for your outdoor room. Lighting can be very important – especially if you want to enjoy your outdoor space at twilight and after dark. The lighting aspect of your outdoor room can also be taken care of in an affordable yet stylish manner.
Use candles or torches for that elegant and peaceful atmosphere and if you are worried about safety you can go for solar lamps. If you want to create a festive mood, hang some holiday lights over the porch beam or on a nearby tree. You can even make luminaries by dropping a candle in a punched recycled can. My personal preferences are inexpensive, decorative paper lanterns with battery-powered lights that are sold at stores like Pier One. They add a calming, relaxing ambiance.
I'm also seeing more and more lamps that can withstand outdoor use – both floor lamps and table lamps. I've even seen outdoor chandeliers! I can't confirm how good these "outdoor" lights work without problems – so I recommend that you talk with one of the knowledgeable sales persons at the department store before you purchase them. I've even seen outdoor TVs!
Finally, add style and charisma to your outdoor room with creative accessories. You don't have to spend much to put together a bunch of accessories that blend with your outdoor room setting. Collect scrap lumber and paint some attractive signs or lean a used picket fence on one side of the porch wall. You can paint it or start growing some attractive flowering vines around it. Hang pretty bird houses or just place them in a corner to add character to your outdoor room. Add some pretty cushions and throw pillows to your chairs and some eye-catching napkins or placemats on the table to add color to your outdoor room. If you have an old ladder or bookcase, paint it and put plants or flowering plans on it for decoration.
Your new outdoor room will quickly become your sanctuary or your party room once you have it ready for summer. Please feel free to email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Greg Olsen had 'mixed feelings' about Panthers giving No. 88 to rookie Terrace Marshall Jr.
Greg Olsen is 16 months removed from the end of his Carolina Panthers career, but his jersey number is already on the move.
One season after Olsen's release from the Panthers, the team gave his No. 88 to rookie wide receiver Terrace Marshall Jr. at rookie minicamp. The team's announcement of the decision almost seemed to go out of its way to not mention Olsen, who retired after spending last season with the Seattle Seahawks:
Wide receiver Terrace Marshall Jr. will wear No. 88, the first Panthers wideout to sport that number since Karl Hankton wore it from 2000-06.
Marshall wore No. 88 in high school, then wore No. 6 in college at LSU. With that number already taken by back-up quarterback P.J. Walker, Marshall went back to his old number despite some recent history around it.
Olsen told Scott Fowler of the Charlotte Observer he was unsure about the Panthers giving away his number, but more for Marshall's sake than his own:
You know I'll be honest, I had mixed feelings about it. Donnie (Toner) in the (Panthers') equipment room texted me and kind of gave me a heads up.
My whole thing was I didn't want the kid to feel any pressure from me. That was his number. That's what he wanted. I've heard he's a great kid. I don't have any animosity. I'm glad he's going to wear it and hopefully he's a great player. I have no ill will.
I'll be honest, though — in the beginning I was like: I don't know. It seemed kind of quick.
But that's the way it goes. I wish nothing but the best for the kid. I was talking to Coach (Matt) Rhule at a golf outing and said, 'Hey, I hope he (Marshall) plays well. I hope he does great. Just let him know that there's a lot of balls that have been caught in that number. So you better go out and catch the ball.'
Olsen wore No. 88 for nine seasons in Carolina, racking up 6,463 receiving yards, a franchise record for a tight end. Whether or not that's grounds for a number retirement — or at least a cooling-off period — the Panthers are at least giving Olsen's number to a quality player.
The team selected Marshall in the second round with the 59th overall pick of the 2021 NFL draft. Yahoo Sports' Eric Edholm evaluated him as a quality deep threat with impressive measurables and production, with some additional development needed for the next level.
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With that in mind, the LEGO Sets of the Month are all from Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. The sets include Battle on Takodana, Rey's Speeder, and a First Order Battle Pack. So you get some heroes, some villains, a fun vehicle, and a major setting and scene from the movie.
Here's the thing about The Force Awakens. It's not the best movie. But I loved it. More than anything, I loved the new characters. These LEGO sets have my favorites: Rey, Finn, Maz Kanata, and Kylo Ren. I don't disagree with the criticisms that too many of the plot points were recycled (yet another, bigger, Death Starry superweapon that's a little too easy to blow up)(a sandy world a lot like Tatooine, which I've seen on the big screen one too many times), but I'm intrigued at the potential of these people in that faraway galaxy.
Finn's story as a disaffected First Order Stormtrooper should go interesting places in The Last Jedi. I love the idea of little Maz Kanata as someone who's a believer in the Force, and maybe has some Force sensitivities, but isn't a Jedi herself. Kylo Ren is someone who I didn't like at first (especially sans helmet), but I'm liking more with each viewing. He feels like a failure for not living up to his parents' (Han Solo and Princess/General Leia) heroics, but also feels like the greatness of his grandfather (Darth Vader) is beyond his reach. Above and beyond all of the new characters of the movie, we have Rey.
Rey is the center of the movie, and Daisy Ridley carries that weight well. The budding Jedi of unknown parentage is compassionate, is brave, and may be the galaxy's last hope. A strong heroine who doesn't need saving (don't try to hold her hand, dude), this character we've known for a scant 18 months is inspiring girls and women (and boys, and men) around the world.
The LEGO sets I'm giving away are good, and even though they're ones I wouldn't normally recommend for classroom use, it's the Quinnmas season, and I want to share. That said, here are a few ways I'd use The Force Awakens (or other Star Wars movies) with students.
One of the mysteries in The Force Awakens is the location of Luke Skywalker. In the final scene of the movie, Rey has ascended eight thousand stone steps to reach the Jedi, and we're left with her holding out his lightsaber to him. Roll credits. We as the audience don't get to see what happens next, so we're left with a cliffhanger. Have students write a dialogue between the two heroes -- what would Luke say when confronted with this stranger holding his lightsaber? R2-D2 and Chewbacca are parked at the bottom of those stairs with the Millennium Falcon -- what would their reunion be like? Why did Luke exile himself in the first place? How would Rey tell him about (spoilers) the death of his friend Han Solo?
The tiny yellow Maz Kanata is one of my favorite characters. Not just in this movie, but of all time. With a few lines of dialogue, this aged little alien won my heart. We see her in her castle, where she runs a bar of sorts, with questionable clientele. She's lived there for "hundreds of years," and she's got a lot of stories to tell. Have students choose an alien from the castle and tell their story. How did they end up coming to Takodana? How long will they stay? What would their interactions with Maz be like?
Finn is trained as a First Order Stormtrooper, and was taken from his family so young that he doesn't even have his own name -- "FN 2187" was his ID number with the First Order, and it's pilot Poe Dameron who gives him the (awesome) name Finn. He's been trained to be a killer, but when it comes down to it, can't kill the innocent villagers in the opening scenes of the movie. Have students put themselves in his shoes, telling his story. Has he always had these doubts about being in that armor? What were his interactions with Captain Phasma like before the events of the movie? In the scene featured in the LEGO set, Finn is called out as a traitor by one of his former comrades. Why is that particular Stormtrooper so angry at Finn? Are they former friends? Enemies? Have students explore these ideas.
Again, The Force Awakens isn't a perfect movie, but as with most of the Star Wars movies, the characters become more important than the events of the movie itself. Let your students explore these characters with writing, with art, with music. With The Last Jedi coming this December, it's going to be on their minds.
For more Star Wars lesson plans and ideas, be sure to check out Star Wars in the Classroom -- they're adding new stuff all the time, and you're sure to find something your students will love. Because they are nerds. And you love it.
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Mississippi once again leads the nation in poverty and lags in median household income.
According to U.S. Census Bureau figures released Thursday. Mississippi had a poverty rate of 22.6% in 2011, while its median household income came in at $36,919. Both were roughly the same as the year before.


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How To Relax Your Hair
Need a break from the kink? Try these easy steps to soften your strands and give them that soft, loose look.
- Step 1: If you are using sodium hydroxide, rinse it out with cool water for five minutes. If you are using ammonium thioglycolate, do not rinse the chemical out.
- Step 2: Leave the relaxer on for 15 minutes, occasionally checking the progress by running a wide-tooth comb through the hair and seeing how much of the curl comes back.
- Step 3: Shampoo twice only if you are using sodium hydroxide. It is important to make sure all chemical relaxer has been rinsed out.
- Step 4: Condition the hair, and do not rinse the conditioner out. This will soften your hair and nurture it from the serious alteration it just endured.
- FACT: The main bonds found in our hair are hydrogen and polypeptides; hair relaxers break down the polypeptide bonds.
- Step 5: Enjoy your new de-stressed do.
- : Make sure you do not apply relaxer where the roots meet the scalp -- leaving relaxer on the scalp for too long can burn and cause temporary hair loss.
- Step 6: Once you finish the entire head, go back and apply the relaxer to the roots.
- : Do not mix the two types of relaxing agents—sodium hydroxide-based and ammonium thioglycolate-based.
- Step 7: Choose your relaxing agent. For people with serious kink in their hair, sodium hydroxide is the way to go. It's stronger that ammonium thioglycolate, which should be used for hair that is fine and not super kinky.
- Step 8: Shampoo the hair with a high-alkaline shampoo. This will strip the hair of all natural oils and enable it to absorb the chemicals in your relaxing agent more easily.
- Step 9: Section your hair off into four parts with hair clips: the two sides, the crown to the back, and the front.
- TIP: Apply the relaxer from the roots to the tips, working in one-eighth-inch sections for each stroke.
- Step 10: Apply the relaxer with a color brush or comb while the hair is still wet. If you're using sodium hydroxide, start a half-inch from the scalp. If you're using ammoninum thioglycolate, start a quarter-inch inch from the scalp.
- : Don't relax your hair if it's been bleached, unless the bleach has grown out or been cut off.


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The on going financial problem has actually left behind companies around the world searching for means as well as implies to acquire top quality operate at lesser expenses. In such hard opportunities, delegating solutions software application growth has actually been actually guaranteed through several providers featuring Lot of money five hundred firms. Yet, there are actually couple of factors to consider to become brought in just before looking for companies offshore.
Reduce sets you back along with a restriction. When you enjoy harsh price cutting, it might represent inadequate job top quality. The opinion to become created for expense is actually very intricate. Business that provide companies at quite economical rates signify the hazard of poor quality job. A great source constantly requires decent wage which implies that the expense of service will definitely likewise reside in conformity along with the incomes of information. Really inexpensive suggests that excellent information might certainly not focus on your tasks. If you possess the dollars to pay for, decide on a firm along with Company and also image. Otherwise, you must adopt a halfway decent valued one. Various other elements may help in taking the correct selection regarding costs.
Provided that firms may earn a profit coming from foreign Outsource Web Development advancement, it is going to remain to be actually a practical option to in property programs. Because of legislations being actually various coming from nation to nation, several business are actually sparing cash through manipulating loophole gaps etc as well as delivering their job offshore. Foreign language obstacles nonetheless can easily induce large concerns when interacting standards as well as demands, this is actually specifically essential to providers being located within the customer care element. Certainly not managing to interact along with others may result in business to drop clients. Offshore growth works in some areas, yet except others.
Business that make use of overseas progression may reduce their yearly outbound because of lesser wage expenses and also lesser expenses including huge workplaces and also pc devices. They are going to additionally certainly not must pay for as a lot in income taxes as lots of nations provide firms tax obligation make providing tasks. Program advancement offshore has actually come to be incredibly popular because of the explanation discussed over. A growing number of firms are actually administering service overseas which implies that the global organisation spot is actually diminishing. As additional folks are actually dealing with staffs that reside in various other nations, the additional ventures that are actually being actually accomplished. This may profit everybody that works with the firm.
Offshore Software application Advancement is actually ending up being much more prominent along with numerous business that are actually aiming to conserve loan as well as assistance raise global service. Frequently delivering a task offshore can easily conserve funds as a result of more affordable growth expenses, at that point this conserving could be suggested various other progression jobs that could be attended be actually even more rewarding. This is actually an option since foreign laborers allow a smaller sized by the hour wage, there are actually extra program progression specialists, and also additional benefit are actually commonly reduced, i.e healthcare. Program growth offshore likewise perks nations that carried out certainly not possess adequate work just before firms began delegating job.


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How to Choose the Right Travel Containers for Toiletries
Given that toiletries are small in size and mainly liquid, you would think that they'd be the easiest to pack, but it's actually the opposite. They are, in fact, the hardest to pack and even frequent travelers face the toiletry-packing challenge every now and then. No matter how well made and downsized their containers are, they're still a pain to pack because there's just too many of them.
Travel Containers for Toiletries
You have your shampoo, toothpaste, conditioner, make-up, and other grooming products that come in their own little containers that were probably made through plastic injection molding in China. These so-called 'travel-sized' products aren't travel-sized at all. Sure, they're smaller than the ones you use at home, but not small enough to make packing easy, which is why we've whipped up this article here.
Through this, we'll teach you how to choose the right travel containers for your toiletries. By travel containers, we mean ones that are actually suitable for travel over air, sea or land, and by toiletries, we mean all your essentials from grooming items to beauty products.
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Used Prescription Bottles
The problem with storing toiletries or grooming items like shampoos and conditioners is that they're very likely to spill. If you don't want to find your suitcase covered in your grooming products, then we suggest that you transfer them into used prescription bottles. These are exactly the right size for travel as they can store a hefty amount and are small enough that you can put them in your carry-on. The best part is that these things are spill-proof so you won't have to worry about dirtying your luggage.
Stackable Pots
Here's another thing you can use to store your grooming products – stackable pots. Actually, you can store most of your necessities here – beauty products, skincare products, and even jewelry. Be aware, though, that you won't be able to carry much if you use these to store grooming products. At most, you will only have enough for an overnight or two-day trip. Any more than that and you're sure to run out. If it's the other things you plan to use this for, then you will be good for a relatively long amount of time.
Pill Organizers
Although mainly used and created for storage of medicine, pill organizers are also ideal travel containers for your toiletries. Think of the smaller versions of stackable pots. They're not very ideal for storing grooming or skincare products, but you can use them for your beauty products and jewelry. Each compartment can be filled with different shades of one product or with an entirely different combination of products. Using pill organizers is a much better way of traveling with your beauty products than having to lug all the containers around.
Okay, this may be a little risky as they have a great chance of spilling over and exploding in your bag, but if done right, you can save a whole lot of space without having to leave any products behind. The way to use straws to store your toiletries is to tape off one end and fill it with just enough product so that you have ample space to tape off the other end. It's not recommended that you store non-viscous products in a straw. Instead, fill it up with moisturizers, suntan lotions or toothpaste, so that it's less likely to spill.
Key Takeaway
The containers that travel-sized toiletries come in, which are usually made through plastic injection molding in China, aren't actually the best to travel with. So instead of buying them during every trip, just use the reusable containers we mentioned above. All of these, aside from the straw, can be washed and used over and over again and is sure to help you pack lighter for your trips!


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Fenix's FD series features zoomable – or focusable – flashlights that can adjust from spotlight to floodlight. Spotlight is a narrow, intense beam of light on one specific area, throwing light over 1,000 feet. Floodlight is a large, powerful beam of light that can brighten a wider area of space, allowing you to see beyond what is on your left and right peripherals. With a unique twist of the head, various output levels, 900 lumens, and strobe mode, these lights are designed for tactical and outdoor use.
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We have received some concerned questions from prospective students about last week's U.S. election results and what a Trump presidency means for students applying to SIPA. As a school of public and international affairs, SIPA has always been a place where students of different backgrounds can come together to peacefully and respectfully discuss their political views and challenge each other to expand their worldviews. We want to reassure everyone that SIPA will continue to encourage students to be open with each other and to advocate for what they believe in while respecting all members of our community.
As a current student, it is clear to me that SIPA strives to be a supportive community for all of its students. In the days since the election there have been several discussions and forums set up for students to express their reactions to the election results, and a tremendous out pour of support from SIPA faculty and peers. Professors have been available to share their views and reflect on what the election means for the SIPA community, and students have gathered together to strategize for the coming years. The election results may have come as a shock to many, but that hasn't gotten SIPA students down. This gives us the opportunity to use what we have learned here at SIPA and to unite together. I came to SIPA to advance my career in human rights advocacy, and this election cycle has only strengthened my resolve to achieve that goal.
Whether you are upset or happy with the results of the election, and in the wake of political events the world over, it is time for everyone to take a long hard look at what the political system has become and how we can make it better. SIPA is the place for you to do that. The coursework, along with the opportunities to interact with experts in their respective fields and peers from around the world, will give you the knowledge and tools to overcome the challenges our world faces today. It is our responsibility to challenge what we see as unjust and to advocate on the behalf of others that are unable to do so themselves. SIPA will be just one stepping stone towards the positive change we all want for ourselves and the world.


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The Villainess goes through a lot in her two hours of screen time. She goes through a lot in her first five minutes. By the opening scene's end a few dozen men lie dead or maimed at her hand. It's as though the audience has been dropped into the climactic endpoint of an action-revenge saga — which is precisely what it is — but as one story ends another begins and we're along for the ride.
The craft of action on film has progressed a great deal in recent years. The Protector had a camera operator follow Tony Jaa through five stories of unbroken mayhem and The Raid and The Raid 2 showed off inventive execution of physical camera moves by director Gareth Evans and team. Outside Asia there has been quality action experimentation in the b-movie action scene, such as the Undisputed series featuring Scott Adkins, while the more up-market John Wick and its sequel both prized clear shooting of tightly choreographed gunplay and grappling. Even TV has raised the bar, with both seasons of the Daredevil Netflix series sporting a standout single-take fight.
Even with all this eye-popping action candy to ingest, The Villainess feels fresh, expanding boundaries way outside the square. That opening scene kicks proceedings off with a bang in a video gamey POV shot. These shots have been done in film before. Notably, Doom (2005) riffed on its source game's perspective with a first person shooter sequence and recently Hardcore Henry (2015) riffed on video games as a whole, carrying the viewpoint through an entire feature. However, this is far from the only visual trick The Villainess has in its storehouse. Midway through the carnage, the camera is thrown out of the character's head and the scene seamlessly continues, with the camera now snaking around and through the action. It's a stunning way to open the movie.
Further action scenes display similar flair. With the first person view made familiar in the opening minutes, snippets from this angle are smoothly cut into later scenes. Long takes appear a few more times, but they are mixed up with other techniques. There's a sword fight typical of another strain of action shooting, all fast edits and chaotic framing, quickly followed by a rip-roaring motorbike sword-fight chase that drops in another spinning, sweeping single camera move as the combatants scream through a tunnel.
It's all so smoothly done, it's difficult to ascertain how it was put together. The camera operator is basically another stunt performer playing a part in the action, ensuring that even when things are getting seriously wild, real human performances are the focus. Director Jung Byung-gil is a stuntman himself, which goes some way to explaining the co-ordination required. With the camera swinging around there's surely some hidden edits tucked away in there and some moments would have been impossible without digital trickery, but even in slow motion it's hard to tell. Only one brief moment where the camera glides under a moving vehicle looks obviously CG. For the most part, the effect achieved feels like being there as opposed to watching a film, yet still being able to see what's happening without getting lost. By the film's end all the techniques are being used together for a display that's practically symphonic in the intricacy of its moving parts — and topped off with the best use of a bus since Police Story.
All this may make the action sound constant, which is not the case — it's just what grabs the mind (with a chokehold) when recalling the film. The action is supported by a promising story that serves the central character well, even though it combines numerous clichés. That astonishing opening demands explanation, which eventually arrives, but first we walk a while in the shoes of Sook-hee (Kim Ok-bin) as she is arrested and wakes up in a disorienting facility. A secretive government agency training program sees her already substantial skills sharpened further still, before she is released as an undercover agent with the promise of freedom after ten years of service.
The setting and story contained therein are intriguing, yet the overarching machinations of criminal gangs and government agencies are murky to the point of obscuring the plot rather than leaving the audience in suspense. Flashbacks reveal more of Sook-hee's traumatic past and relationships with first her father and later a rescuer (Shin Ha-kyun) of uncertain intentions, but these are not presented chronologically, so keeping track of who's who, who's currently good or bad and whose head has been violently reshaped gets tricky to track.
There's also a heavy dose of melodrama — unsurprising given this is a Korean movie. This pulls the pace back, while at least driving some solid emotional stakes into the story, giving Sook-hee a glimpse of an average life so foreign to her, but clearly desired. She has a flat, a job and her neighbour Hyun-soo (Bang Sung-jun), with his goofy grin and caring demeanour, could be ideal romance potential, but we already know it's not that simple. Sook-hee's life, and the film, begins to unravel in a manner which while surprising, takes the story down a convoluted path that robs the visually amazing climax of narrative clarity. Importantly though, Sook-hee's rampage is understandable as both she and we are aware of how much she has been manipulated. If she is a villainess, it's because the tragedy of her circumstances doesn't allow her to be anything else.
The film would fall flat without a strong performance in the title role and Kim Ok-bin clears the hurdle, shouldering action and drama with equal deftness. She has to play all over the emotional spectrum, both real and feigned and manages everything equally well. Sook-hee's one real-world skill is acting, which adds another layer to the character as she channels and processes her experiences through her roles on stage. With such a harrowing story from front to back, it's unsurprising Sook-hee is such a violent whirlwind when the action breaks out, but even then there's variation, from coldly robotic to anguished desperation. It's also a good move to have her nearly always fighting with a weapon, which lessens the disadvantage of her small build and slight stature.
While the tropes are as plentiful as the action camera angles, the overriding tone of The Villainess is, as the opening suggests, one of pitiless antagonism. Daytime is grey and washed out, while night is striking and dangerous. It's a dark, bleak world — pretty much all faces shown on screen for more than a passing moment belong to people of shadowy intent. Normal lives are repeatedly mentioned, but feel like they belong to a parallel reality. It's a wonder Sook-hee is functioning at all.
So, if you can stomach the arterial blood sprays and downbeat disposition, while committing enough thought to navigate the maze of character motivations, The Villainess is likely to leave you slack-jawed at the audacity of it all. If a 3D version of this film exists, I would not watch it. My head would probably explode.


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Nepali actress Nisha Adhikari is a very good actress and a nice and confident person. But, she hasn't been successful in the main task – acting. Nisha's first movie 'Mission Paisa' was successful. But, after that, she hasn't given any memorable impression in the movie industry. The success of 'First Love' wasn't attributed to Nisha.
Nisha's latest releases 'Dhunwaa Yo Nasha' and 'Padmini' were outright failure. Her role in 'Soongava' was appreciated but the film goers didn't like the movie. Now, it is the high time Nisha should be featured in a hit movie.
One more thing against Nisha is the sentiments of journalists towards her. She had gotten in trouble with some journalists and she has also made some enemies in media because of her nature. These negative vibes are also believed to be behind the recent gossips about her 'star value' in media.
Both, as an actress and as a person, Nisia is an awesome actress. We are sure, she will get through these time and rule the Nepali movie industry in future. Way to go Nisha !
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- NetofNepal – Nisha Adhikari, flops in row
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- Benisha Hamal and Saugat song in Nisha Adhikari production debut, Jhyanakuti
- Nisha Adhikari to marry Sharad Vesawakar on June 30
- Biography of Oshima Banu, the first Muslim actress of Nepal
- Father's Day special – Fathers of Nepali actresses
- Sonakshi Sinha and Malaika Arora rocked Amarpanchhi concert, Nepali actress weren't any less
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- Top 5 actresses of 2072
- How Funny trailer released on Priyanka Karki birthday, Malvika child and film at the same time
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Also, we have moved forward and got my husband's folks home on the market as of yesterday. The real estate agent had an open house and there were a number of inquiries. We worked really hard getting it ready to show. Thankfully the estate sale got all the furniture and stuff out. We had the carpet taken up. It was ages old and worn out...it wasn't pretty either. However, when the carpet came up there were some weird brown spots on the floor. From the pictures it looked like the carpet pad had come to pieces and stuck to the wood floor. When we got over there it turned out to be spots of dried mud. I spent the most of a day on the floor with a damp cloth getting it off. The only thing I can figure is my father in law "cleaned" the carpet in the traffic areas, and got it plenty wet. The wood wasn't warped, though. After a final cleaning with Bruce floor cleaner it looked pretty good.
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I knew this day would come, but I didn't know how soon. It's actually crazy to think that it was one year ago as of yesterday that we stepped off a plane with ten pieces of luggage at the Entebbe airport. I had little clue as to what was to come. I was terrified. I had been stripped of identity and comfort and "place." And here I am, one year later, celebrating a true milestone.
This home in Uganda has really become home. Our house provides all the comforts that we need. Trees tower in the huge yard around the house. The back porch and hammock have become quiet places where I rest. Enjoying long, lingering walks with my dog, working harder than I ever have before on new projects and designs with amazingly talented Ugandans, traveling and adventuring to new and unexpected places at every turn … these are the things that have become my new normal. And incredible new friends have entered my life, who have become welcome companions in the journey.
I feel so blessed that alongside my husband, I've been given the opportunity to live abroad. But I'd be lying if I said that it isn't hard every single day, and I can't tell you how many nights I climb into bed exhausted, homesick, frustrated with the culture and challenges that are so foreign. Yet, I wouldn't change a thing. The person I feel myself becoming — with a worldview, with patience, with eagerness and openness, living in the present, growing, always learning — is the person I've meant to be all along. And it's only year one.
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Community rating and the community-organiser-in-chief
The health-care bill gets the biggest incentive right
By The Economist
KEVIN DRUM wrote yesterday that, while many liberals think the public plan is the key to reforming health care, and Ezra Klein thinks the health exchanges are key, he remains convinced that the most important part of the reform is something that already exists: universal community rating.
Basically, this means that insurance companies have to take all comers at the same price. They're allowed to adjust premiums for things like age and gender, but they can't refuse you due to preexisting conditions. If your blood pressure is high or you have a family history of breast cancer, they still have to accept your business. This hardly solves every problem. In particular, it doesn't do much to rein in costs. But if you combine (a) Medicare, (b) our current employer-based insurance regime, and (c) community rating along with subsidies for low-income families, you've essentially institutionalized universal healthcare insurance....it's basically a statement that everyone in the country can and should be covered. And once that becomes a cultural norm, it will never go away. It will also, I suspect, eventually turn the private healthcare insurance industry on its head.
Mr Drum is right. There are a number of things that health-insurance reform needs to do, all at once, in order to guarantee universal coverage and control costs. But nationwide community rating is the single biggest one. And as he says, it turns the private health-insurance industry on its head—or, rather, sets it on its feet; on its head is where it is right now. Once you mandate that private insurers must take all comers and charge everyone the same rate, a lot of other things that seem impossible under the current system start to fall into place. (In fact the current bill allows insurers to charge more based on age, though not health, up to a 2-to-1 ratio; that may be a problem, but let's leave it aside for the moment.)
Take the once-controversial "mandate" issue—the question of whether everyone will be required by law to buy insurance. The problem this is meant to address is adverse selection: young, healthy people, who figure their odds of needing insurance are low, tend to drop out of the system. That drives costs up for everyone else, which leads more young, healthy people to drop out, leading to a downward spiral of rising costs and uninsured people. But Barack Obama has never made much of a priority of the mandate; he got into vicious debates with John Edwards because he didn't include a mandate in the health plan he campaigned on. Why not? Because there's no need to. Once you have nationwide community rating in the plan, guess who starts demanding a mandate? The private insurance companies. Currently, private insurers make a profit by charging high rates to sick people, or excluding them entirely, and pulling in healthy people with lower prices. If they have to charge everyone the same price, they lose their healthy customers and are stuck with the sick ones. If adverse selection becomes a problem in a system with community rating, the health-insurance lobby will come pounding on legislators' doors, screaming for a universal mandate. Mr Obama has never spent political capital convincing the broader public of the need for a mandate, because there's no need to do so.
The fundamental problem with the private health insurance industry as currently constituted in the United States is that companies can make money by avoiding coverage for people who are likely to get sick, and by denying payment for people when they do get sick. Take those perverse incentives out of the system, and many other problems vanish too.
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Hip-hop is going Hollywood -- or is it the other way around? On May 22, MTV2 will premiere "Hip Hop Squares", a fresh new take on the iconic tic-tac-toe game show "Hollywood Squares."
Nick Cannon, DJ Khaled, Fat Joe, Mac Miller and Machine Gun Kelly will be featured as contestants. "Jackass" crewmember Bam Margera, Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley and Wu-Tang's Ghostface Killah also will appear on the show, hosted by New York radio DJ Peter Rosenberg.
" 'Hip Hop Squares' is a great representation of MTV2's new brand filter to deliver smart, funny and relevant content that speaks directly to male Millennials, or 'Malennials,' as we call them," said Paul Ricci, head of programming for MTV2. "The show will refresh an iconic format and create a fun, dynamic series that's unpredictable, heavy on personality and much more 'party' than 'game show.' "
If the new incarnation of "Squares" stays true to the original, two contestants (one representing "X," and the other representing "O") will compete for prizes in a trivia-styled game where the show's stars are situated on a giant tic-tac-toe board.
The contestants strategically select which square they wish to capture and ask the star seated there a trivia question. After the question is answered, the contestant can choose whether to agree or disagree. If the contestant is right, they capture the square; if he or she is wrong, their opponent wins the square. The first contestant to line up three squares in a row wins the game.
"They cross the spectrum from musicians and celebrities to athletes and casual fans of hip-hop," Paul Ricci, MTV2's programming chief said. "The show will refresh an iconic format and create a fun, dynamic series that's unpredictable, heavy on personality and much more 'party' than 'game show'."
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Things I Read Off the Screen in "The Shining"
To Edinburgh Filmhouse (last week) to see ROOM 237: BEING AN INQUIRY INTO THE SHINING IN 9 PARTS. Rodney Ascher's essay film is a perpetual joy, cunningly assembled from (sometimes manipulated) bit of Kubrick movies and other (tangentially) related films. Six obsessives describe their theories about the "true" meaning of Kubrick's horrorshow, which range from "secret, encoded study of the Holocaust" to "secret, encoded meditation on the genocide of the American Indians" to "secret, encoded confession to a role in faking the Apollo moon landing footage." Despite the eccentricity of some of the claims, the evidence the offscreen voices cite is really there, and most of it seems to be there on purpose to signify something. My only problem was, "If THE SHINING is 'really' about the moon landings, why does it have all this stuff about the Holocaust? And if it's 'really' about the Holocaust, why does it have all this stuff about the Indians?"
Each of the film-analysts is focussing very selectively, and each of them is somewhat guilty of the intentional fallacy, assuming they can read Kubrick's intent, although one does helpfully acknowledge this fallacy and admit that what Kubrick may have intended is unknowable to critics and doesn't, ultimately, matter.
While one commentator was talking about the partially occluded Indian heads on the cans of Calumet baking soda in this scene, I started scanning the other containers in the b/g to see if I could find anything else of interest. I did!
All these references to "pieces" and "slices" are deliciously pointed, considering that Jack is working up to trying to dismember his family (which we already know because of the example of caretaker Grady before him). And that is likely the reason the Indian heads are all chopped up by the composition — think also of the spectral party guest with the split head — and rogue English accent. In fact, why are the 1920s flashback/visions populated with Englishmen (Grady himself is the very British Philip Stone)? Only Lloyd the bartender is a red-blooded American. Since Kubrick is shooting in England but dragging Albion up as Colorado, it seems odd that he should so nakedly display the falsity of the premise — but it's in keeping with the various ways in which the insistently real, textured banality of the hotel set is made to behave in an unreal, Escher-like way, folding in on itself with dream geography so that little Danny can cycle round a corner and find himself one story up.
One interesting lacuna not addressed by any of the commenters, but noted by the mighty Michel Ciment in his Kubrick book, is that Grady the waiter/caretaker has two names to go with his two jobs: we're told about a Charles Grady, but then he gives his name as Delbert Grady. Why? Maybe it's part of duality ("You know, the Jungian thing?") — two names, two jobs, two daughters…
The most obvious things to read in THE SHINING are the titles, in a typical Kubrick sans-serif font, but with a glowing, modern look that suggests sci-fi rather than Gothic (which is apt: the film's denial of dark shadows miffed Pauline Kael). And then there's the intertitles, which start explicatory and wind up pretty confusing, another random element hurled in to throw us off-balance — they more closely resemble the title cards of early Bunuel, which make perfectly sensible statements like "Sixteen years ago" and "In Spring," yet become darkly funny and absurd because of the context they're spliced into.
Then there's Jack's novel, which some poor bastard had to type up — it matters that this doesn't look photocopied, every page is different, complete with typos — "All work and no play makes Jack a dull bot." "All work and no play makes Jack a dull bog." "All work and no play makes Jack adult boy."
Students of the life of John Barrymore will recognize where Stephen King got the inspiration for this freaky revelation. It also reminds me of a plot point from Michael Moorcock's The Final Programme, which sadly never made it into Robert Fuest's tasty film. One of the novel's MacGuffins is a book written by the American astronaut who spent the longest time in space. When finally obtained, the voluminous manuscript turns out to consist of the single word "ha" repeated a great many times.
"That madman business" — Shelley Duvall is reading The Catcher in the Rye, favourite reading material of crazed loners. Also, the book, favoured by John Lennon's killer (and later by Ronald Reagan's attempted assassin) takes its title from a Mondegreen, the lead character's misapprehension of a song lyric. Stephen King took the title for The Shining from the lyric "And we all shine on" from the John Lennon song Instant Karma.
In the background of the Torrance kitchen we can see a bottle of Joy. The fact that advertisers chose to name a cleaning product "joy" displays baldly the sheer blistering contempt they held for housewives.
Off to the Overlook!
The KEEP THIS AREA CLEAN sign is darkly amusing, in context.
Oddly aggressive tone to this notice, don't you think? Why is my cup garbage?
During this scene, where the chair behind Jack playfully vanishes and returns between reverse angles, the scrapbook in front of Jack also executes a neat unseen page-turn, although it maintains perfect continuity during the vanishing chair sequence — which is intriguing, because if we try to explain the missing chair by suggesting one of those shots was a pick-up, filmed weeks later, it's hardly likely that the scrapbook continuity would match so perfectly. The scrapbook calmly bides its time until a wide shot gives it the opportunity to flip on a page or two.
The scrapbook is significant — Jack is researching the Overlook's past, and when he meets Grady he recognizes him from his picture. I think there's more of this in the book, whereas at least in the UK edit it's unlikely anybody would notice the book and understand what it was there for.
NEWSWATCH. 10 GLENN RINKER. WPLG Miami.
Kubrick filmed this shot with the newly developed "ScatCam."
Weirdly, the show is announced as "Newswatch 10" but the title just says "Newswatch." Then anchorman Glenn Rinker is introduced, and the caption says "10 Glenn Rinker" which is just weird. It does actually seem like a moronic mistake, as if the captions guy had a scrap of paper with "Newswatch 10 Glenn Rinker" scrawled on it and he decided to break it up in the wrong place. Although it may be a veiled reference to Professor Ten Brinken from Hanns Heinz Ewers' horror classic Alraune (filmed twice with Brigitte Helm).
The shorter UK edit (prepared by Kubrick himself after the American release) omits all the cartoons viewed by Danny, but we still have numerous cartoon characters in the form of stickers (with the vanishing Dopey), the Bugs Bunny-derived nicknamed "Doc," and the presence of Scatman Crothers — but everybody is too polite to say "Weren't you Hong Kong Fooey"?
In ROOM 237, much is made of Kubrick's slow dissolves, particularly an early crossfade from hotel exterior to interior in which a stepladder echoes the point of the hotel's roof. I agree that this is deliberate, and I think it may also be a tribute to Max Ophuls, who tracks past a stepladder in a hotel lobby at the start of THE RECKLESS MOMENT (another stepladder pops up earlier in Ophuls' DE MAYERLING A SARAJEVO — I think he liked stepladders). Kubrick admired Ophuls and dedicated a shot in PATHS OF GLORY to the German director, on the day he learned of his death.
Fiona pointed out that in a later dissolve, Jack on his writing "throne" seems to acquire a matching "crown," actually a light fitting bleeding through from the incoming scene. Again, this seems deliberate.
Kubrick insists, here and in EYES WIDE SHUT, that it is possible to perform oral sex through a full-face mask. "How much sex did Kubrick have?" pondered Fiona. Still, this is an impressive early appearance by "furries," those creepy sex fetishists who get off on dressing up like cartoon animals. But it's not the earliest!
This is SUPERBITCH, aka SI PUO ESSERE PIU BASTARDI DELL'ISPETTORE CLIFF? with Stephanie Beacham as a high-class escort giving the five-star treatment to a rich perv. I guess the furry fetish probably originated with fancy dress parties — alcohol, dancing, dressing up, can sex be far away? Then again, for some the connection may stem from early sexual fantasies being formed in childhood, while surrounded by cute imagery of talking chipmunks.
BTW, sorry my SHINING stills are 4:3. That's the format Kubrick insisted on when his films first had their DVD release. Perfectionist, my ass!
"I don't particularly like writing on the screen." ~ Stanley Kubrick.
15 Responses to "Things I Read Off the Screen in "The Shining""
Kubrick was a great admirer of Ophuls, but the film he liked most was La Ronde. One can sense its influence on both Paths of Glory and Lolita (Sarris called it it the "Look ma no walls!" style.
Kubrick read Schnitzler's "Traumnovelle" when he was young. Making it was what they call a "Passion Project." But by the time he did he decided not to go for period but make something contemporary instead. What's fascinating about Eyes Wide Shut is raw unfettered agression just beneath its "polite surface."
As for The Shining what fascinates is the way Kubrick took a Stephen King novel and made it entirely his own . King doesn't like the film at all. Thats why he undertook a made-for-TV remake. Obviously it didn't stand a chance next to Stanley.
Not that I buy any of those crackpot theories about THE SHINING, but they do connect up in obscure and roundabout ways. The massacre of the Native Americans was the USA's very own version of the Holocaust (one reason I find most Westerns impossible to watch) and the Nazis, like the Nixon administration, had a fixation with the conquest of space.
As for darling Stephanie, she's immune to embarrassment and looks set (at her tender age) for a glittering career on DYNASTY, THE COLBYS and CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER. If only Kubrick had cast her in EYES WIDE SHUT, she might have added a spark of fun to that dour and funereal affair!
Kubrick? Fun?! Never?
Even his alleged 'comedy' DR STRANGELOVE is oddly leaden in spirit. Ghastly man!
The thing that still freaks me out about the film is something you mention above, and which is off the screen — the unfortunate individual who had to type up that entire book. I was completely taken out of the movie by the terrifying drudgery of such a task…
I've had my share of soul-deadening paperwork, but this was a whole different level. And as you say, with Kubrick's rep it's not hard to imagine some poor minion being tasked with the entire assignment. I hope he didn't ask for too many takes.
Surely to God they could just type a page or two…then photocopy the rest!
Ah, I found an earlier, more appropriate discussion in which to spout off about "The Shining"; I would have felt churlish in any further hijacking the "Ox-Bow Incident" discussion with wild talk about Kubrick.
I like the joke you made there about "The Shining" being "a kind of blood-drenched Fawlty Towers" because it points to something curious about the movie that I think hasn't been much noted: for all of Jack Torrance's obsession with his "work" he's never seen doing any work of any description. Rather as Polly's the one who really keeps Fawlty Towers running, it's Wendy who's bustling about the kitchen and checking on the boilers while Jack's sleeping at all hours and throwing a ball around. So the ultimate form of Jack's madness is an especially bitter joke: clinging to the illusion of being the responsible and mature pants-wearer in the family he rants about how his worthless wife has no sense of "responsibility to his employers" or of "moral and ethical principle" even though Jack himself has shown scarcely a trace of concern for either responsibility or morality. Jack's not the first character either who values cold social contracts over real human feelings: I think of Philip Stone in "A Clockwork Orange" justifying his decision to kick his son out of his flat in favor of Joe the Lodger because Joe's doing a two-year contract and already paid his rent.
You noticed the disappearing chair, Mr. Cairns, yet you didn't note that Jack's Adler spontaneously generates paper in that same scene: Jack makes a dramatic point of ripping his typescript out on Wendy's approach but when Wendy goes he resumes typing without inserting another sheet. I'd like to believe that this was a deliberate touch of what H. P. Lovecraft called "the weird" but these days I don't buy into the notion of Kubrick as an utterly flawless perfectionist any more than you do; I think he just screwed up the continuity the same way he forgot to crop out the edge of the stage in all that moon-landing footage.
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N-D-P Leader Carole James has plugged some holes in her shadow cabinet, caused by the planned departure, of at least five M-L-A's, next year.
Corky Evans, David Chudnovsky and David Cubberley are among those who've decided they won't run in the next election.
Mr. Evans' old job in agriculture has been assumed, by Charlie Wyse and Mr. Chudnovky's post on the homeless goes to Jenny Kwan.
Norm Macdonald takes over the education responsibilities from Mr. Cubberley.
He and Mr. Chudnovsky represent Victoria and Vancouver ridings respectively and are the latest two party incumbents to announce their quitting.
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Christmas is less than a week away and we only have one Christmas stocking. Miss E has a lovely giant knitted sock, but ofcourse when I bought it Miss J was not even a distant twinkle in her parents eyes.
The question is will Miss J notice that her sock is a rather colourful pillowcase or do I need to do a last minute stocking DIY.
My gut feel is she won't notice, I think I have a years grace. But in a rather fraught search for Santa Sack DIY's I did come across a marvelous idea.
Each child should have two Santa sacks.
- One sock is put out on Christmas Eve and will magically fill with presents by dawn.
- Another the child fills with toys they no longer need, puts at the tree before bedtime, and is collected by Santa for other children who may need them more.
Lots of good lessons there. Our children need to understood how lucky they are, and that giving is just as much of a gift as receiving.
I wish I had this beautiful cranberry ginger fizz to fortify myself with while I am deciding to diy or not to diy. Ginger ale, gin, cranberries, lemon & orange slices sounds like a great combination.
Find the recipe at Creative Culinary. I think it will taste just as nice without the gin, a perfect drink for all on Christmas day.
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Designed by the renowned ISV Architects, this modern residence, consisting of two independent 6-bedroom sister villas with respective pool and outdoor areas, is an elegant statement of modern architecture and a prime option to privately accommodate a large, very discerning group of guests.
Offering a fabulous cosmopolitan location, only a 10-minute drive from picturesque Naoussa and at close proximity to small Santa Maria beach, the estate is tucked in a "wild" natural setting evoking a sense of complete freedom and remoteness, while the overall living experience, rank it among the few ultramodern properties on the island.
Made with extra love and care by a young couple with a big circle of family and friends and a passion for hosting, each of both properties is an equal luxurious abode and at the same time it is a warm contemporary summer home with a cultured approach to delivering over-the-top accommodation. All bedrooms are very spacious, equipped with beautiful bathrooms with marble sinks, pampering guests with hotel-style sheets and towels and an omnipresent feel of luxury.
The living areas are congenial and stylish, featuring wonderful pieces of art and fresh modern furniture harmonically combining wood, metal and stone. Amazing large kitchens invite guests to get together for joint cooking sessions, preparing memorable meals with a long dining table at their center, welcoming them for each degustation. The wonderful living experience here is further enhanced by the smart home installations like central air-conditioning and a state-of-the-art sound system allowing guests to play their own music in any room.
Outdoors, a wild, yet romantic setting unfolds, with a rough, indigenous Cycladic garden adding a twist to the peaceful sea vistas. Meticulously designed open-air spaces elevate the summer vibes, with a wonderful shaded dining area and separate shaded lounge extending the living spaces outdoors. At the core of the al fresco setting is a wonderful swimming pool with loungers, inviting guests to enjoy an invigorating dive at all hours in this marvelous Aegean heaven. Peacefully private and close to beautiful Naousa, this modern villa will charm you into the perfect Aegean summer dream.
This combined property is indeed a one-of-a-kind option to host a large group of guests in private, ultra-premium living spaces provided by the state-of the-art neighboring residences.
House I
Ground level
Open-plan living area including a large kitchen with indoor dining table & tv room with access to the pool terrace, guest bathroom, gym with access to an outdoor terrace, gym shower.
- 1 Twin bedroom en suite
- 1 Bedroom with two double & two single bunk beds (mostly suitable for children)
- 1 Double bedroom suitable for nannies/staff
Upper level
- 1 Master bedroom en suite with private balcony
- 2 Double bedrooms en suite each with private balcony
Infinity pool with outdoor terrace with sun loungers, pergola shaded dining area, separate shaded lounging area, barbecue area, outdoor shower, Mediterranean garden
House II
Ground level
Open-plan living area including a large kitchen and indoor dining table, tv room leading to an open-air court-yard with fluffy bean-bags, guest bathroom.
- 1 Double bedroom en suite
- 1 Twin/Double bedroom en suite
Staff room used by villa personnel
Upper level
- 1 Master bedroom en suite with private balcony
- 2 Double bedrooms en suite each with private balcony
Shaded dining area, separate shaded lounge area, barbecue area, swimming pool terrace with sun loungers, outdoor shower, Mediterranean garden
- Luxury Accommodation
- Daily Maid Service by resident staff (Change of linen twice a week)
- Travel assistance and Concierge service
- White Key Signature toiletries
For more information please visit our WK Services section
- Swimming pool: Standard, 16.7 x 5m.
- Air Conditioning: Everywhere.
- Internet: WiFi
- Satellite TV
- Access to the Villa: Easy, from paved road
- Closest airport: Paros (PAS), 35 min drive
- Closest port: Paroikia, 30 min drive
- Closest town: Naoussa, 10 min drive
- Closest beach: Small Santa Maria beach, 2 min drive (15 min walk)


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Hello all, I have been visiting S4GRU for quite some time, and one of the most common issues I see popping up is confusion from users--especially when they first get 4G LTE devices and/or LTE service--regarding their signal strengths. For some reason, the signal bars on many devices do not display what most users expect them to display. It seems strange that we have to enter special dialer codes just to see what our LTE signal is! With that in mind, I started creating an Android app from scratch. I had never created an app before, so it took a few months before it was ready for the public, but its time has come. Robert and a few others have been beta testing it for me since October, and I recently released it onto Google Play. Robert gave me the go-ahead to give it a mention here on S4GRU, so here goes.. It's called SignalCheck, and it is available on Google Play here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Blue+Line+Computing The "Lite" version is free; the "Pro" version has a small one-time fee but includes a bunch of extras, including signal bars in the notification area, a widget, the ability to alert a user when they pick up an LTE or 800 SMR signal, one-button instant connection reset, the street address of the connected 1X site, and menu shortcuts to some screens that are usually only accessible with dialer codes. I intend to offer S4GRU Premier Sponsors special benefits in the near future, as soon as I figure out a feasible way to do that. This is the first app I have ever developed, so I'd appreciate any and all feedback, both positive and negative. I have been trying to educate myself as much as possible regarding cellular technologies, as I didn't know much before I started this project. My goal is to make this app as accurate and useful as possible for all the "nerds" on here.. myself included! I intend to continue squashing bugs as they are reported, and adding features as they are requested. As I learn more about Android programming and cellular technology, I'll improve things. Please let me know what you would like to see, and I'll do what I can. My "Beta Crew" helps test out the app before public updates are pushed out. Membership is by invite only but anyone is welcome to join in our discussions or get a sneak peek at what is going on (see thread here). Links: SignalCheck Help / FAQ | Change Log | To-Do "Wish" List | Known Issues | SignalCheck on Google Play -Mike Here are some screen shots from a previous version.. there have been tweaks since this release, but this is basically what you get:
Pixel Gets Android Oreo 8.1Just installed the 8.1 update on my Pixel. Still no Sprint Wi-Fi / LTE calling But ... I did get the mandatory Google Search button added to my launcher.
danlodish345 posted a topic in General Topicshey guys i m curious what you guys think about rooting phones and the positives and negatives about it.... let the discussion begin!
Change 4G symbol on android devices?
Synovialbasher posted a topic in OS'es/ROM's & ThemesHi everyone, I've been using this site for a while now, and LTE is starting to pop up around me (still haven't connected to it personally yet though). I have a rooted galaxy s3, and from what I've heard, when you connect to LTE, the only sort of notification you get is that the 3G changes to the number 4G in the notifications bar. Since I don't often look there (and glancing up there I probably wouldn't catch sight of it unless all of a sudden my data was going a heck of a lot faster), I'm wondering if there is a way to change what it shows in the status bar as 4G. Maybe something obvious like YOUR_ON_4G or something like that? Or if that's too long I'd rather have it just say 4G LTE so it'll be a little different? Does anyone know how to do this? Right now I'm running stock but I'm considering cyanogenmod for all its themes. Thanks everyone, Joe
BlackBerry Venice (Rumored)
JDP121 posted a topic in BlackBerry/RIMSupposedly it will be released on all major carriers in Nov. We will def. see how this will play out. http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/08/18/blackberry-venice-android-phone-pops-up-in-a-few-more-promo-pics-courtesy-of-evleaks-allegedly-coming-to-all-carriers-in-november/
Hello, Can somebody test this fieldtest/netmonitor android app on LTE and tell how it works. Here is the link to Google Play: G-NetTrack Short description and screenshots: This is a fieldtest/netmonitor application for UMTS/GSM/LTE/CDMA/EVDO network. The application monitors the serving CELLID, LEVEL, QUAL, MCC, MNC, LAC, technology, cell serving time and neighbor cells CELLID/PSC and LEVEL.
Carrier Wide Unlocking policy
derrph posted a topic in General TopicsWith the FCC and Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon have agreed to this new unlocking policy. How does this effect sprint phones such as the IPhone. I have heard that Sprint can unlock your phone but you can not take it to other carriers such as Verizon and the IPhone can only be used overseas. (Correct me if I am wrong). I am glad that this has finally happened. But when it comes to Sprint how would this work?
When you get your Nexus 5, you can drastically speed up your apps with Android's new virtual machine in 4.4. They are calling it Android Runtime (ART) and it's replacing the old Dalvik runtime. Summary: Go to Settings->Developer options to change runtimes. With ART, apps may be up to twice as fast because it uses the Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) compiler rather than Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler. More info: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/11/06/meet-art-part-1-the-new-super-fast-android-runtime-google-has-been-working-on-in-secret-for-over-2-years-debuts-in-kitkat/
According to VR-Zone - Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie to come in late October, also optimized for older phones http://vr-zone.com/articles/exclusiveandroid-5-0-to-come-in-late-october-will-be-well-optimized/36950.html#ixzz2W62wle3s
Android phone with best signal . . ?
Bob Newhart posted a topic in General TopicsLooking to replace my Galaxy Nexus with a phone that has a much stronger signal strength for locations within buildings and in the outskirts of towns. Of these below, which phone has the best signal strength? Samsung Galaxy SIII, HTV EVO LTE, Motorola Photon, LG Optimus G or another.. I also want the 'disable roaming data' option to work, so I don't get hit with roaming charges in Canada. This option does not work on the GNex. It seems as though the SIII would the best bet right now, right? Even though I love bare Android, a working phone is more important to me. I have a Nexus4 for my work phone, that phone is amazing in every way. thanks very much
NV LTE Speeds
derrph posted a topic in General TopicsI do not know if there is already a thread for this but I left Sprint back in June due to the horrible speeds after 10 years with them I went to T-Mobile. I plan on switching back before the year is over once NV is more blanketed in Ohio more so Columbus OH. But for anyone who has a good amount of LTE in their state, How are you LTE speeds. Currently I am pulling in 30mbps on T-Mobile which is nice but I do not need all that. So how are Sprint's LTE speeds and how consistent are they?
The newest Android phones have insane - 2GB - amounts of RAM and 4 cores and most people - hopefully not the ones here - say "WOW! Android phones are SOOO much better than iPhones and Windows Phones cause they have WAYYY more memory and 4 cores! I'm buying an Android cause it's gonna be so much faster" But the reason why they have so much memory and cores is because apps are written in Java which needs a Virtual Machine which needs memory and more processing power compared to a native app. I'm sure there's caveats to above statement but that's the gist of it. And the sad part is that all the extra processing power still doesn't make up Java. Just compare the fluidity of Ookla's Speedtest app. The needle doesn't even stutter in Android; it updates at .2 frames/sec while in iOS it behaves like a needle, though this may be due to lazy use of the Android API. So given its inherent limitation and ESPECIALLY on a mobile platform, WTF did Google use Java as their framework? It's not as if people don't also know C++. If you want automatic memory management in C++ like Java, use boost's smart pointer. Done. [Chirp Chirp] If Apple and Microsoft can make a native SDK, why can't Google?
iPhone vs Android users visualized by geographic location
kckid posted a topic in General TopicsPretty cool Visual map by mapbox of iPhone vs Android twitter users. "More than 280 million Tweets posted from mobile phones reveal geographic usage patterns in unprecedented detail" http://www.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/brands/#4/37.37/-102.35
Sprint Unlimited Data
derrph posted a topic in General TopicsHonest opinion, once sprint is near complete with the Network Vision build out do you guys think that sprint will still offer unlimited data? I know with lte comes increased usage and because of that do you think sprint may turn to data limits to keep the network from being hit to hard?
List of HTC devices slated to receive Android 4.3"Keep in mind that this list is unofficial and Google has yet to formally unveil an Android 4.3 build. With that said, this list seems fairly accurate at first blush; newer, more popular models getting the latest release while others stay back." http://www.androidguys.com/2013/05/30/list-of-htc-devices-slated-to-receive-android-4-3-arrives-before-version-is-even-announced/
Sprint letting MVNOs custom brand Android smartphones
kckid posted a topic in General Topics"The Kansas-based carrier has announced that it would be allowing MVNOs to custom-brand select devices from Sprint's line of Android phones. The first three phones in the program are the LG Optimus G, the LG Mach, and the Sprint Flash." http://phandroid.com/2013/03/20/sprint-mvno-phones/
Why I switched from iPhone to Android
kckid posted a topic in General TopicsGreat Article by Andy Ihnatko, who is a noted author, columnist at The Chicago Sun Times and Macworld, apple guru, and apple fanboy!!!! http://www.techhive.com/article/2030042/why-i-switched-from-iphone-to-android.html
Key LIme Pie Rumored Launch in the Spring
kckid posted a topic in OS'es/ROM's & Themes"It seems that Android Police got hold of documents from Qualcomm (QCOM) earlier this week showing that next major version of Android, dubbed Key Lime Pie, will launch sometime this spring." http://bgr.com/2013/...ie-leak-314118/
EVO 4G LTE Android Jelly Bean Update 3.15.651.16
Samsung (Galaxy S3 or Note) or iPhone5?As of January 1st, I am eligible (finally) for my upgrade. I have read and researched exhaustively, and still am on the fence about which device to buy. I have had Samsung Android phones as my last two phones (the Moment, and then the Epic 4G Wimax, otherwise known as the Galaxy S1 on other carriers). On the plus side, I do love many aspects of Android, including the customization options and I've played with Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean phones and the improvements over Gingerbread (which my current phone will obviously be stuck with until hell freezes over) are impressive. Yet I've also played with the iPhone 4S quite a lot (my best friend has had one for some time now) and I love that it doesn't freeze up, hesitate, or have any error messages...and it feels good in the hand, hardware wise), and have owned an iPad for nearly 2 years...so I do like the idea of adding a device to the same ecosystem. Has anyone else upgraded to either of these devices recently, and if so, what are your impressions?
Consumer Reports rates Android best phone on all carriers
kckid posted a topic in General Topics"Consumer Reports gushed over the device (iPhone 5) and called it "the best iPhone yet." Apparently the best iPhone yet still isn't as good as top Android smartphones" If the HTC One S is a 77 at T-Mobile, then the EVO LTE should be tied with the LG phone at Sprint???!!! http://bgr.com/2013/...-rating-284502/
HTC upgrades it's devices faster than any other mfghttp://bgr.com/2012/12/21/android-updates-manufacturers-carriers-262823/#more-262823 HTC fared the best when it came to updating its devices, with an average time of 4.8 months, although Samsung's updating schedule dramatically improved with its Galaxy S III smartphone, which was updated in an average of four and a half months. On the carrier side of things, T-Mobile was found to be the most reliable with an average time of 5.8 months for updating devices. Sprint is the second best with an average of 6.5 months and unsurprisingly AT&T and Verizon are found at the bottom of the pack with average times of 7.8 months and 8 months, respectively.
Happy Holiday from Android Videos
kckid posted a topic in General TopicsSome cute holiday videos from the android team. Notice the Nexus 10 docking station!!!! in the 2nd video about the 1:14 mark.
Why Ice Cream is so much better than Gingerbread
rwhittaker13 posted a topic in OS'es/ROM's & ThemesSo, everyone wonders why android 4.0 is such a vast improvement over 2.3 gingerbread. Well, ill run everyone through why i think it is better. Performance: Gingerbread is and can be pretty snappy on some devices, but with gingerbread being a much larger operating system, more RAM and disk space is needed to store all the features and files that are in the operating system, which drastically slows down the execution of programs, as well as hindering the speeds of the device, depending on the hardware. Ice cream is a bit smaller in size for devices, which allows more memory to be available to the system, as well as allowing more RAM, and better RAM management for the said device. Productivity: Ice cream is just more functional than gingerbread is. With speed enhancements, GPU Acceleration, and better battery optimizations, Ice cream sandwitch is just a much more flavorful topping to the devices that are already sweet! I will finish the rest of this thread later, my time is limited at the moment. For now, comment away!
EVO still a good phone?Since all the issues the EVO has been having, is it still a recommended phone?


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Urban space is valuable real estate and too much of it is underused. UrbanEdge is a collection of landscape framing and furniture elements designed specifically to help designers make more effective use of under utilized space. Created in collaboration with award-winning landscape architects Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN,) the collection looks at the urban fabric with a fresh eye. Ollie is the small seating element in the UrbanEdge family. Like the other chairs in the collection, it has a welcoming oval-shaped seat and is available with a curved-band back or without. Ollie seats one, in conventional sitting posture or astraddle, and rotates 360º, so sitters can face the sun or the action, and turn away as the spirit moves. Seats can be installed side-by-side in a row, scattered throughout a site, or positioned around the low Stella table to create a residential-like setting in public space.
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GarminMk1 Descent™ is a new underwater computer/ clock. A full-featured multisport product, it combines Elevate™2 wristwatch cardio detection with multisport profiles, Smart Notification3, and automatic uploads via the Garmin Connect™ Mobile app to the online dive community.
Battery life: Up to 40 hours in dive mode and 20 hours in GPS4 mode, 10 days in smartwatch mode and 19 days in clock mode.
Incredibly complete and full of interesting features, it also has an extremely elegant, titanium grey design with a sapphire lens and black strap, and a bright 1.2" color screen.
The Garmin Descent™ Mk1 is the first dive computer with GPS1 surface navigation, TOPO color maps, and advanced multisport features, all in the size of a wristwatch. It has all the programs up to Rebreather and is equipped with GPS and GLONASS tracking that allows you to mark dive and emersion points for surface navigation. The new Garmin Descent Mk1 never lets you down, supporting a variety of dive modes: single gas, multi gas (including nitrox and trimix), freediving and freediving. With 16GB of internal memory, you can save and analyze data from 10,000 dives and share it online via Garmin Connect™ and the mobile app. Based on the Bühlmann ZHL-16c algorithm, the new Descent Mk1 gives you the option of choosing from three sets of pre-installed traditional settings or switching to Gradient Factors customization to suit your needs. The integrated 3-axis compass makes it easy to navigate underwater, and its convenient, intuitive buttons allow you to view it easily and at any time on the display.
Wrist Heart Rate Surveying - The Descent Mk1 dive computer features the latest Garmin Elevate™2 wrist heart rate tracking technology (when worn in contact with the skin, not over the wetsuit or watertight suit). The sensor measures your heart rate 24/7 without the need for a chest strap.
Descent Mk1 has also been designed with athletes in mind in their sports and outdoor activities. It has multisport profiles for running, cycling, swimming, trail running, rowing, indoor training, cross-country skiing as well as triathlon and recreational activities such as hiking, indoor and outdoor rowing, SUP, climbing, downhill skiing and much more. You can't do without your new Descent Mk1 anymore.
When paired with a compatible smartphone, it allows you to receive push notifications, SMS, incoming calls, and email alerts from your smartphone. It's of course compatible with the Garmin Connect IQ platform, which lets you customize your watch dials, data fields, widgets, and activities. The Descent Mk1, with its built-in Bluetooth module, features Smart Notification3. Whenever you receive a notification, SMS, call or email from your paired smartphone, the Descent Mk1 vibrates slightly and allows you to automatically view information on the watch display.
The Descent Mk1 has been designed to satisfy the passions of all sportsmen and women with its PVD-coated EXO™ antenna that ensures precise position data at all times. The high-resolution, anti-reflective colour Chroma™ screen with LED backlighting allows data to be accessed in all lighting conditions, ensuring optimum visibility even below water level.
Travel dynamics yes (with compatible accessory)
Oscillation and vertical ratio (the degree of "bounce" in the stroke movements and the advantage ratio for the pitch length) yes (with compatible accessory)
Ground contact time and balance (shows how long the foot stays on the ground and not in the air during the movements of the run and allows you to control the symmetry of the run) yes (with compatible accessory)
Step length (real time) yes (with compatible accessory)
Cadence (provides the number of steps in real time per minute)
Performance condition (after a 6-20 minute run, the device compares the condition in real time with average fitness levels)
Anaerobic threshold (through heart rate and pace analysis, the device assesses the point where muscles begin to tire quickly) yes (with compatible accessory)
Running Workouts
Race forecasts
Support for speed and cadence sensors (with sensor)
Preloaded with 41,000 courses worldwide
yardage measurement of the front, middle and rear of the green
yardage measurement of the distance to the layups/doglegs
Measures the distance of the shot (allows you to calculate the precise measurement in yards for shots from anywhere in the field) Automatic
Digital scoreboards
Statistics collection (shots, putts per round, greens and fairway hits)
Garmin AutoShot™
Automatic CourseView Updates
Green View with manual flag positioning
Obstacles and field targets
TruSwing™ compatible
Round Timer/Mileage Counter
Bike profiles available Hiking, Climbing, Mountain biking, Skiing, Snowboarding, Cross-country skiing, SUP, Rowing, Jumpmaster, Tactics
Trail marked in real time
Back to the beginning
UltraTrac mode
Around Me Mode
Quota profile
Distance to destination
Barometric trend indicator
Auto Climb for trail running
Vertical speed
Total ascent/descent
Expected elevation graph
Preloaded topographic maps
Support of downloadable maps
Compatible with BaseCamp™
GPS coordinates
Projected Waypoint
Point and go
Area calculation yes (via Connect IQ™)
Calendar for hunting and fishing yes (via Connect IQ™)
Ephemeris yes (via Connect IQ™)
Dual Grid Coordinates
In the event of out of stock, we inform you that delivery may be delayed by 10 working days