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Crossroads of Culture: Cristobál de Morales' Missarum Liber Primus and Early Music Printing in Europe
A book of polyphony written by a Spanish composer who worked in Rome, printed by an Italian living in France, inscribed with the ownership markings of a Portuguese monastery, sits in an American university library. The Missarum liber primus (First … Continue reading
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Damn Yankees update: Todd Graff to direct
Discuss other upcoming Jim Carrey movies (not confirmed/rumours).
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lol......you never know, he might do it, be critically acclaimed and finally win his long over-due Oscar.....
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Yupper, ya never know
It could happen
a friend of mine said
"if you can dream it, you can do it"
only problem is, I've dreamed of flying
but I don't think it'll happen until I cross over to
the other side, not quite ready for that, yet.
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I have different thoughts on that one. If there's a movie that's happening in the world of a certain sport, it doesn't necessarily means they are aiming for a sport-loving audiance. Not being a sports fan at all, I can think of many titles I wanted and still want to see and where the fact that it's about a sport is not the main reason of the movie's existence, on the contrary. The most recent example is 'Moneyball' (2011). I have sport-people in my group of friends, but I can't imagine one of them would go to the theatres and actually see that one. When a movie has quality names (Bennett Miller, Pitt, Seymour Hoffman) like this, you know it's more about the performances, the characters, the dialogues and the (in this case more financial managment-esque) story.
When George Clooney makes 'Leatherheads', a screwball comedy (not populair at all) about baseball in the 1920's (bye bye sportloving audiance), you know they are not aiming at them. Question is ... are they aiming at someone specific? I'm sure they don't. When greenlighting a project like this, you know it's not about the box office, it's about so much more.
Okay, I agree. There aren't that many musicals these days. But the ones out there that matter, do have a very interesting cast. And perhaps the most important fact is that almost every single one of them was doing good in every possible way. Just take a look at the Golden Globe nominations and wins, for example. Not kidding, every single one of them. And again, women and gay men (I know that's not what you said exactly) wouldn't be the audiance they are aiming for ... But every movie-loving person out there that's up for something you don't see every week. I know a lot of my straight male friends that would see it, just because of the talent.
What do they offer? An interesting cast in a original concept (these days). That's always doing good in general. And I'm not talking moneywise, although it would be nice. I'm talking about all other levels. I think that's much more important.
Most of the titles that are mentioned in the end of the year lists, awards worldwide and critics worldwide ... are the ones that are hard to sell. I think this is something Jim should do with Gyllenhaal, no doubt. It's such a unique chance to do a thing like this as an actor.
Now, the only thing I do have doubts about, is the director involved. That's not a unique talent or someone that has done interesting things ... This project requires a strong vision.
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lol............i guess we'll have to wait and see what happens........interestingly Moneyball nor Leatherheads did well in Britain but Mama Mia was HUGE..........
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Rock of Ages has bombed i see..........basically it backs up my argument that musicals are NOT going to do well unless aimed at the teenies......Whilst i LOVE Jim's singing voice i don't want him to have a bad experience with a musical flop, he deserves better.
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Acutally, this one movie doesn't back up your argument. The whole vibe was missing already in the trailers, there was no positive word on them. All the reviews I saw so far (European) were bad and it's missing the curious-making names. I mean, there's Tom Cruise and ... who ? This has nothing to do with the fact it's a musical not aimed at teenagers (neither was Mama Mia), it has to do with everything else and more. This is just not working ...
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But It had big stars in it......Alec Baldwin and Juliana Hough plus Russell Brand.......but we are actually agreeing on this one, the film bombed because it's not a teen flick and i reckon they predicted it would fail, so decided not to waste mega $ on promotion........ To be honest i don't think Tom Cruise was right for it, he can sing and he put his heart into the role but he lacked the humour and lightness of spirit, he was far too serious for it and the script was bloomin awful.
But I'd argue that Mama Mia was aimed at a female age cross section, with the main character being a young woman....Straight blokes don't go to musicals of their own volition unless with a female so that wipes out a huge target audience before they start........
Blokes might go though if someone makes 'Pearl Jammin' & 'Radioheadcase' the musicals.....
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It has OK-stars in it, not the curious-making kind. Overhere (for example) Russel Brand is a nobody ... he's not popular and most people don't know who the guy is. They didn't use Tom Cruise as much as they should in any sort of advertising. Everything else I explained in a previous post. Let's say I don't agree at all with the vision you have about musicals.
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lol......that's cool, we'll agree to disagree..... ...i DO love some older musicals though....Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar are fabulous.....and if they re-make the latter, Jim would make an incredible Jesus......
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If he did Jesus, he'd have to act the part
I wonder if he'd quit smoking for the part
I wonder
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lol.........well he IS a method actor so you never know........lol....
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Being Jesus is a very hard act to follow
I was thinking about how Jesus must have been
really beat up by the end of his ordeal if even
Mary didn't recognize him when he was resurrected
He may have had several teeth missing due to his
being so beaten from the guards, he must have
looked so unrecognizable in the end.
The amazing part about the Saviour is that he
was so focused on doing his Father's will and
humble at the same time,so mind boggling and amazing
I do "Stand All Amazed" I cry when I hear or sing this
song every time.
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It's a fabulous musical and Sir Andrew Loyd Webber is resurrecting it as i type. He's doing a show on UK TV called Superstar to bring it back to the West end.....they're looking for a new Jesus......so if it's a successful run (which it will be) he'll take it to Broadway and the next step will be a film re-make........watch this space.....
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Last week I was asked by a friend if I had an easy macaroni cheese recipe that I could pass on to them as it is one of their favourite meals. I also love macaroni cheese but haven't cooked it in a long time, probably due to the fact that Nicola doesn't see this as a proper meal. As luck would have it, Nicola has had to travel down to London for a few days with her work, leaving me in a position to cook whatever I want over the next few nights so after dropping Nicola off at the railway station, "Operation Macaroni" was put into place.
Ingredients (serves 2)
- 125g dried macaroni
- 1 leek, chopped
- 4 rashers smoked bacon, cut into 1cm wide strips
- 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
- 20g plain flour
- 20g butter
- 300ml milk
- 85g strong cheddar, grated
- 35g Grana Padano, grated
- 40g breadcrumbs
- Cook the macaroni to packet instructions then drain and set aside.
- Heat a little oil in a pan before adding the bacon and frying for a couple of minutes before adding the leek and garlic. Continue to fry the contents of the pan until the bacon begins to crisp and the leeks begin to soften. Remove from the heat and set aside.
- To make the cheese sauce, melt the butter in a pan and add the flour when the butter begins to bubble. Cook the roux for 2-3 minutes before adding the milk, remembering to whisk continuously to avoid lumps. Keep stirring the sauce until it thickens, this could take up to five minutes, then remove from the heat and stir in the grated cheddar and Grana Padano. Do not put your cheese sauce back on the heat as this will cause the sauce to become stringy.
- Mix the cooked macaroni, bacon, leeks and garlic into the cheese sauce then place in an ovenproof dish before sprinkling the breadcrumbs over the top.
- Place the dish in a preheated oven 180C, and heat through for 15-20 until the breadcrumbs are golden in colour.
The resulting dish was so more-ish. My cheese sauce was deliciously creamy and the bacon, leeks and breadcrumbs added a great mix of textures. The combination of flavours that you could add to the macaroni is endless, why not throw in some sun-dried tomatoes and torn basil leaves, or spicy chorizo? In fact, I'm already wondering what I'll add to my next batch, although I better cross my fingers that Nicola has another work trip scheduled soon!


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Week of 3/14/2010 through 3/21/10
* Meeting with Nichole Maher, Executive Director of the Native American Youth & Family Center (NAYA) and Marcus Mundy, President/CEO of the Urban League of Portland
* Meeting with Jim Francesconi, PCC President Preston Pulliams, and Kristin Watkins, VP, Institutional Advancement, regarding funding for scholarships at PCC
* Budget Work Sessions: Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. Wednesday afternoon's was canceled because Council ran long.
* Monthly Meeting, Keith Witcosky and Paul Slyman, Portland Development Commission
* Monthly Meeting with Dean Marriott, Director of the Bureau of Environmental Services
* Meeting with Sue Keil, Bureau of Transportation, regarding sewer-bike synergistic funding
* Basic Rights Oregon, Marriage Matters Campaign Video Interview
* West Portland Crossroads Meeting
* Interviews for new Scheduler
* Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods Meeting
* City Council sessions: Wednesday morning (ran to 3:30 p.m.) and Thursday afternoon
* NW Labor Council Breakfast. I hate breakfast meetings - I don't think clearly before 9, and I am always worried about my alarm not going off so I wake up multiple times during the night before early meetings. The same used to happen when I worked day shift in nursing. I am so much more an evening person. Still, the people at the NW Labor Council are really nice, and kind to someone struggling with such challenges. I promised to go back next year.
* Graffiti Summit
* David Olson, Office of Cable (etc.) Monthly Meeting
* Monthly meeting with Lisa Turley, Director of the Bureau of Emergency Communications
* Travel Portland's "Green Familiarization Tour" Reception
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Although the release of Hilary Duff's fifth studio album has taken a backseat to her current acting gig on TV Land's "Younger," don't think that she's forgotten about her musical endeavors altogether.
On Thursday (February 5), your once and forever Queen of the Butterfly Clip teased a new song on Instagram. The black and white video is almost sadistically short, but you can hear her sing three words: "like everybody else."
The "All About You" singer also captioned the clip, "Remember when I said I'd die for you," so maybe that's another lyric?
Anyway, Her Royal Duffness has been holed up in a recording studio somewhere in Sweden since the end of January, working with songwriters and producers like Jason "Ginni" Gill and Tove Lo. (Yep, that Tove Lo.) That bodes really well for Hilary's fifth album, if and when we ever get to hear it.


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Lip Tar 6 Packs Review/Swatch Post *LONG Picture Heavy*
I have finally received my OCC Lip tar 6 Packs. I blogged about them a couple of weeks ago, and said I might get all three of them… Well lo and behold I got all three of them. I think I am a bit of a shop-a-holic especially when it comes to super pigmented gloss/lipstick hybrids.
I was most excited about the Pastels pack, until I realized all the light colors look totally weird on me because I am so pale. I think they are probably reasonably hard to wear on anyone, I will save those for fashion/editorial shoots. I think they would really rock on an ebony beauty.
Anyway, I got the three 6 packs of lip tars OCC brought out again. The packs were themed, Not-of-this-earth-tones contained rich beige's, browns and red tones and specifically had Conquest, Petty Beige, Analog, Red Iron Oxide, Melange, and Uber
The Beyond Pastel Pack had … pastels, especially pinks and purples, though they did throw in cha-cha which is a light tangerine color, and Lo-Fi which is a bright neon pastel green. Specifically this pack contained Tone, Plum, Pageant, Vapid, Lo-Fi, and Cha Cha
The last pack is probably the most useful and has some of my favorite colors. The Primary Mix Masters pack, has everything you need to create any color of the rainbow. It has the primary colors, plus black, white and grey, Specifically this pack contains, Stalker, Traffic, RX, Tarred, Dangerous, and Feathered.
I am really used to ordering all of my makeup products from Camera Ready Cosmetics which has the worlds fastest shipping from any online store ever. Of course I didn't realize this, and when I ordered from OCC I expected my package to be here in 3 days like I was used to. I actually had quite a bit of problems regarding my order, the first time I ordered the payment didn't go through, and I wasn't aware until I emailed OCC a week later wondering why I hadn't gotten my shipping info. The bad thing about this was I had all ready thrown out the pre paid credit card I used to make the purchase so that morning was spent totally freaking out and looking through the garbage.
After I found the card, placed my order the second time, and was reassured by OCC that this time my order has indeed gone through. I waited another week before again asking where my shipping info was, this time one of the Lip Tars in the pastels pack had been sold out and they had to wait for it to come back before they could send my order out. Finally my order was shipped on the 27th of July! Only 2 weeks after I had initially attempted to order.
Now there I was, impatiently waiting for this wonderful package of goodies I had just dropped 165$ on to get here. I checked the tracking info every day, and after it first said it left NY, it never was updated again. I called USPS and asked them about this, Just a heads up for everyone international ordering from OCC or anywhere else… Unless you pay extra to make it by courier, when they ship orders internationally they downgrade the package from priority to first class, which basically means you don't get any shipping info, they have no time limit on how long it will take to get to you, and if it gets lost there is no insurance provided. The guy explaining this to me actually said " I am going to tell you something not many people know." To say the least I was pretty peeved.
Luckily, my package came today! after only 9 business days and 13 days total, which isn't horrible I suppose, but it's still a pretty long time, considering I only live in Canada, not anywhere over seas.
The above picture, shows the select lip tars I did swatches of, I also threw anime in their to show you the difference between it and pageant. Anime was NOT included in the 6 packs.
I am going to start with my favorites!
As I stated above I thought the pastels were going to be my favorites, matter of fact I had been pining for CHA-CHA for ever! I didn't expect to fall so in love with melange. But I really have! I might even take it and keep it for myself, instead of for my kit. The color is darker than I expected and not as orangey. It is just really flattering, if you have light skin like I do I suggest grabbing this one.
Stalker is another one of my favorites! I always have a hard time finding a perfect red for my skin tone. Most reds lip way too harsh on my skin tone. This however is beautiful! I would even say it is a little pinky. I think NSFW would be a better color to mix with, it seems more primary red then this one does. Luckily I have it, so I will try both out and see which one gets better results. Pale girls looking for a perfect red? Grab stalker, you wont be dissapointed I promise.
This Color I was more then a little dissapointed with. On the website it used to say pinked cantaloupe, but now says light creamy tangerine. It really is a light tangerine, but the color looks nothing like other swatches I have seen of it… maybe they changed the color/formula slightly? Who knows, needless to say it was more orange then I expected. But it will still be useful for shoots, though it is way too light and looks weird on me.
This color is crazy! My camera can't even handle Vapid, not even a little bit. This is an ultra pastel, the lightest purple you will ever find. OCC says bubblegum lavender, I'm gonna say it is purple tinged milk. I noticed the lighter colors seem a little thinner, then the darker colors. I had to use more to cover my lips when it came to Vapid, and Conquest barely covered my lips no matter how much I put on. I don't think my lips are overly pigmented either.
Petty Beige:
I am still on the fence about this color, I think if I added a little bit of white to it, it would make the best nude lip ever. It is once again darker than I expected. It's very beige, a little darker than that beige everyone paints the walls of renters apartments, and new houses. It's not really unflattering, but I am just unsure about it. It doesn't make me look like a corpse though, which I always think beige will… so that's a plus!
I am so in love with this color! Grey Grey every day! It inspires so many shoot ideas in me it's crazy, I very seriously want to do a shoot in color, but make it look black and white using makeup… Pleasantville style!
Pageant VS Anime:
This last swatch I did, I used anime on the top lip and pageant on the tip lip to show the differences. Pageant is gorgeous and very wearable but still bold. Anime was always a little too crazy for me, and it stained lips for weeks. Pageant came off a lot easier, and is just beautiful. Beauty Queen Pink/Fuchsia. YES PLEASE!
The very last thing I did with the pageant lip tar is I tested it out as a cheek stain/ cream blush. A little bird told me that these are amazing for cream blush, and I just had to try it out. Cream blushes are some of my favorite things. The lasting power of lip tars really make them an unbeatable cheek stain.
Here is a photo of pageant as a cream blush
All in all, I don't think you can beat the price. 18 lip tars for 150 bucks + shipping. That is a steal! Especially because they can double as cheek stains, you can use them to body paint. They really are the best, I use them every chance I get on shoots, because nothing and I mean NOTHING looks as good.


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centrotherm photovoltaics receives first upgrade order from Asia for its selective emitter technology
- Equipment sold to Taiwan, and advanced contract negotiations in Asia
- Sales potential in the triple-digit millions of Euros range
- Up to 0.5 percentage points higher cell efficiency through technology upgrades
centrotherm photovoltaics AG's evolutionary research and development strategy, which also allows its turnkey customers to benefit from solar cell development progress through technology and equipment upgrades, is reaping rewards: three turnkey production lines owned by a Taiwanese customer are currently being retrofitted with a selective emitter technology upgrade package. The photovoltaics specialist is engaged in advanced contract negotiations with renowned clients in Asia.
"Our strategy of upgrading existing production lines with selective emitter technology is proving highly successful. The market is showing great interest in such products," as Dr. Peter Fath, CTO at centrotherm photovoltaics, explained. He went on to add: "Both existing and new customers can produce even more efficiently with our upgrade packages. Last, but not least, electricity customers also benefit." The global sales potential for the upgrades lies in the triple-digit millions of Euros range.
Upgrade packages boost cell efficiency to a peak value of up to 18.5 percent, and cut module costs by three percent
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The space-saving basic design for a 60 MW line includes two laser islands, and improves cell efficiency by up to 0.3 percentage points according to information provided by the company. In the case of the premium product, featuring two laser islands, an oxidation furnace and wet process system, cell efficiency is up to 0.5 percentage points higher. The improved light yield offers a double benefit: module costs fall by around 3 percent, while electricity customers also benefit. A 0.5 percentage points higher efficiency results arithmetically in three cents lower production costs per Watt peak (Wp), according to a study produced by LBBW*.
centrotherm photovoltaics will also continue to back this evolutionary development strategy in the future: "The continuous optimization of production processes forms the centerpiece of our R&D roadmap," commented Dr. Fath. "This roadmap envisages an annual efficiency enhancement of 0.5 percent in the mono-crystalline cell area, and of 0.4 percent to 0.5 percent in the multi-crystalline cell area. This is the only way in which we will secure our position as pioneering thought leader and pace setters within the solar sector."
The potential for selective emitter technology
The emitter coating is the uppermost coating of a solar cell exposed to light. Conventional emitters exhibit a high phosphorus concentration. The share of light that the emitter absorbs is largely converted into heat, thereby generating no electricity within the solar cell. The selective emitter technology significantly diminishes this loss insofar as it imposes a high phosphorus concentration on only a partial area within the contact area where it is essential. Consequently, more light is converted into electricity.
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The Noir File: Dark treats from Preminger, Dassin and Lang
By Michael Wilmington & Mr E Man
The Noir File is FNB's guide to classic film noir, neo-noir and pre-noir on cable TV. All movies below are from the schedule of Turner Classic Movies (TCM), which broadcasts them uncut and uninterrupted. The times are Eastern Standard and (Pacific Standard).
"Where the Sidewalk Ends" (1950, Otto Preminger). Thursday, Dec. 27, 1:15 a.m. (10:15 p.m.).
While investigating a murder, a smart but sometimes savage Manhattan police detective named Mark Dixon (Dana Andrews) accidentally kills an innocent suspect (Craig Stevens). Dixon tries to cover it up, but his relentless new boss Lt. Thomas (Karl Malden) keeps pushing the evidence toward an affable cabbie named Jiggs (Tom Tully). And Dixon has fallen in love with Jiggs' daughter, model Morgan Taylor (Gene Tierney). Gary Merrill plays a crook/gambler.
Scripted by Ben Hecht from William Stuart's book "Night Cry." If you want to know what film noir is all about, check this one out.
Thursday, Dec. 27
8 p.m. (5 p.m.): "Black Widow" (1954, Nunnally Johnson). Crime among the Broadway elite, from one of Patrick Quentin's mystery novels. Not much style, but the cast includes Van Heflin, Ginger Rogers, Gene Tierney, George Raft and Peggy Ann Garner.
4:30 a.m. (1:30 a.m.): "Night and the City" (1950, Jules Dassin). In shadow-drenched, dangerous London, crooked fight promoter Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) double-crosses everyone he encounters as he tries to outrace the night. The night is faster. This is a top film noir, a masterpiece of style and suspense. From Gerald Kersh's novel; with Gene Tierney, Herbert Lom, Francis L. Sullivan and Googie Withers.
Sunday, Dec. 30
8:15 a.m. (5:15 a.m.): "Bunny Lake is Missing" (1965, Otto Preminger). Bunny Lake is an American child kidnapped in London, Carol Lynley her terrified mother, Keir Dullea her concerned uncle, Anna Massey her harassed teacher, Noel Coward her sleazy landlord, and Laurence Olivier the brainy police detective trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together. The most important of those pieces: Was Bunny ever really there at all? A neglected gem; based on Evelyn Piper's novel.
4 a.m. (1 a.m.): "Ministry of Fear" (1944, Fritz Lang). Ray Milland, just released from a British mental institution, wins the wrong cake at a charity raffle and becomes ensnared in a nightmarish web of espionage and murder. The source is one of novelist Graham Greene's "entertainments." Co-starring Marjorie Reynolds and Dan Duryea.


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Python Programming, news on the Voidspace Python Projects and all things techie.
Falling in Love with Sphinx (and redeeming doctest)
Sphinx 0.5 (half a Sphinx) has just been released. This is timely as one of the most valuable things that I learned at PyWorks (in the hallway track) was how to use Sphinx. Chris Perkins (who has some patches that will be integrated into the next release) showed me how to get started. My conclusion - Sphinx is frickin awesome!
Sphinx is the documentation system used to build the Python documentation. It takes reStructured Text source documents and can build HTML / Latex output, with reST directives for classes / functions / methods, cross-referencing between pages, auto-generation of indexes, online and offline search (very clever) for the HTML, syntax highlighting and more.
I think we can get a lot of benefit from Sphinx at Resolver Systems. We already use a homegrown tool (originally written by me one Christmas) that imports our spreadsheet object model from IronPython and builds reST documents from docstrings, which get turned into our API Documentation. Although Sphinx can do docstring extraction we'll probably still need to use our ApiDoc tool - both because we need it to work with IronPython code (that imports .NET classes) and because it gives us complete control over which methods and properties are documented as part of our public API (plus I don't think Sphinx extracts docstrings from properties).
Syntax highlighting, search and indexing are all things we'd like for our API docs though, we just need to change our tool to generate reST suitable for Sphinx. In order to get a feel for it, I've ported the Mock docs over in preparation for the forthcoming 0.5.0 release (still a few things to do before it's ready):
Getting started with Sphinx was made even easier by using virtualenv for creating clean development environments:
easy_install virtualenv virtual_env some_name cd some_name source bin/activate easy_install sphinx
By activating the new virtualenv environment, sphinx is then just installed for that environment (you will also need docutils installed which isn't picked up as a dependency by easy_install).
You can make some really cool workflows by also using virtualenvwrapper by Doug Hellmann. It provides useful commands like workon for automatically activating virtualenv environments.
You can then get started with the sphinx-quickstart command that will create source and build directories for your docs along with a configuration file based on your answers to its questions. After that you just need to learn the Sphinx specific directives! The source reST files for the Python docs are a good place to start for examples (or you can browse the sources of the mock docs).
Building the HTML output is amazingly easy: sphinx-build source output
Once I'd installed MacTex (nearly 1.2 GIGS to download - for goodness sake) then building the PDF was also trivially easy:
sphinx-build -b latex source latex-dir cd latex-dir make all-pdf
The -b switch to the sphinx-build tells Sphinx to use a builder other than the default HTML builder. As well as generating Latex output there is another really useful builder - the doctest builder.
A few weeks ago I wrote an ode to doctest: Doctest How I Loathe Thee. In my opinion doctest is a terrible unit testing tool, it does however excel at testing examples in documentation. Sphinx makes it brain-dead simple to do. Any literal blocks you include in your docs Sphinx will try to infer if they contain Python code, and if they do it provides syntax highlighting with Pygments (fully configurable of course). You can mark a block of code as a doctest instead with the following directive:
.. doctest:: >>> items = [1, 2, 3] >>> mock = Mock(magics='getitem contains', items=items) >>> 2 in mock True >>> 4 in mock False >>> mock[-1] 3
Not only will this be syntax highlighted, but you can run all of the doctests in your documentation with: sphinx-build -b doctest source output
Mock has been developed using Test Driven Development, so it has pretty full tests. Nonetheless, making sure that all the examples in the documentation are up to date and still work can be a major pain. Now it is trivially easy. I have a renewed love and respect for doctest.
Of course it would be nice to have Sphinx running under IronPython. That means that the components of Sphinx needs to run on IronPython. Jinja 2 has no C extension dependencies, so after easy installing it (and copying the package to somewhere importable for IronPython since it doesn't have fecking zlib or zipimport and so doesn't support easy install...) the simple example works fine:
IronPython 2.0 (188.8.131.52) on .NET 2.0.50727.3053
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from jinja2 import Template
>>> template = Template('Hello {{ name }}!')
>>> template.render(name='John Doe')
'Hello John Doe!'
What about docutils?
>>> docutils.core.publish_parts('hello')
{'version': '0.5', 'whole': u'<document source="<string>">\n <paragraph>\n
hello\n', 'encoding': 'utf-8'}
>>> docutils.core.publish_parts('hello\n=====\n\nodd')
{'version': '0.5', 'whole': u'<document ids="hello" names="hello" source="<strin
g>" title="hello">\n <title>\n hello\n <paragraph>\n odd\n',
'encoding': 'utf-8'}
OK, so that's a very shallow test, but its a good start.
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Categories: Python, IronPython, Work, Hacking, Projects Tags: sphinx, virtualenv, documentation, reStructured Text
Fun at PyWorks
Last week I returned from a fun time at the PyWorks Conference in Atlanta. PyWorks was a conference organised by the folks behind the Python Magazine (happy birthday by the way!), and was bolted alongside the already established PHP Works conference.
In total there were about 250 people present, the vast majority of whom were there for the PHP content. Whilst I'm interested in programming languages in general, there is very little about PHP that interests me (except perhaps how easy it is to get started with PHP), so I'm afraid to confess I didn't attend any of the PHP talks. There were some fantastic Python talks given, and it is a shame that so few people were there to hear them (perhaps 30-50 total people there primarily for the Python content). This was the first year for PyWorks and it will be interesting to see if they do it again.
In this picture from Saturday evening, Mark Ramm assists Chris Perkins in a visual demonstration of WSGI middleware...
The more refined gentleman to the right is Shane Caraveo from Activestate who gave a talk on GUI Applications with XULRunner and PyXPCOM from Python. For guaranteed fun at any conference invite Mark Ramm and ply him with tequila...
It was great to catch up with the Python folk I know from conferences and the blogosphere (Kevin Dangoor, Ed Leafe, Holger Krekel, Noah Gift, Doug Napoleone, Matthew Wilson, Jesse Noller and others). It was nice to meet new faces too, like Brandon Rhodes who roped a few of us into speaking at the local PyAtlanta User Group. There were about 30 people or so there, which was a great attendance for a regional user group. It was all the more poignant because that evening Noah officially handed the reigns for the PyAtlanta group over to Brandon, as Noah is leaving for a cushy new job in New Zealand. I gave a talk on Mock for testing. As I didn't prepare (well - I had three slides) I did it all with live coding and it didn't go horribly wrong!
Noteworthy talks (just the ones I can remember I'm afraid):
Matthew Wilson on decorators. Decorators are way cool.
Jesse Noller on multiprocessing
The API is really nice and it has some cool features. It will be nice when I do some CPython work and get a chance to use it.
Ed showing off some of the new features in the Dabo Framework.
Dabo is a framework for writing desktop applications using the wxPython UI toolkit [1]. Ed was showing off two of the new features - a seriously cool looking forms designer and a way of delivering desktop applications across the internet (with features like auto-update built-in). As any desktop application ought to whip a web application in terms of usability and features this is a nice way of getting some of the benefits of web applications for desktop apps.
Holger Krekel on py.test
I also spoke to Chris Perkins quite a bit about Nose. The more I see talks on these two unit testing frameworks, the more convinced I am that I like the unittest way of structuring tests (object oriented tests with assert methods). I'm also impressed with features like integrated coverage testing and particularly test auto-discovery. These should be easy to add to unittest (including getting them into the standard library version) and it is something that is on my list.
Noah Gift and Python for System Administration
Even better I managed to get the copy of his book Python for Unix and Linux System Administration that he gave away (just beating Jesse to it). I'm really enjoying it and have found the section on IPython the most useful so far.
Outside of the talks I learned about virtualenv, Sphinx and a bit about Paver. Once Paver supports 'sub-pavers' then we may be able to use it to replace MSBuild for some of our build scripts. Currently we call out into a lot of small CPython scripts from MSBuild - so Paver could bring them all together for us.
My talk was on IronPython and Silverlight. All the material is on my IronPython Pages, but I still desperately need to update the Silverlight Pages for the latest release of Silverlight.
Many thanks to those who organised PyWorks, and the people I spent time with who ensured I had a good time!
|And unlike other cross-platform toolkits it produces apps that look good on Mac OS X.
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Posted by Fuzzyman on 2008-11-24 22:35:45 | |
Categories: Life, Python Tags: pyworks, conference, Atlanta
My First Screencast: Column Level Formulae in Resolver One
I've finally created a screencast. It's 2mins36 seconds and is about using column level formulae (one of the new features of version 1.3) in Resolver One. (Bonus points for working out where the names come from - but not many because it's easy.)
Column level formulas are cool to avoid duplicating formulae, but you can use them to do some interesting things like data aggregation in combination with list comprehensions; which is the subject of this screencast.
It actually took me two days of work to create this screencast! About half a day to create the spreadsheets, half a day to write and practise the script, and then a day of recording the audio and video plus editing. The next one I do will take considerably less time. Surprisingly (to me) recording the audio and video separately, and then editing them to fit together, worked very well. The trick is to know the script well enough that you don't have to read it (and therefore don't sound like you're reading a script).
For the audio I used Audactiy, and for recording the video Camtasia. Camtasia is extremely simple to use, but pretty limited in the editing that you can do.
Needless to say, it isn't 'studio quality', but it was fun to make and hopefully informative. The docs have more information on Column Level Formulae, and Jonathan did a great screencast on the other new features in Resolver One 1.3.
Ian Ozsvald of Showmedo is also doing some screencasts for us. They're a lot better than the one I did! The one on Python Objects in the Spreadsheet Grid is particularly good.
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Posted by Fuzzyman on 2008-11-24 04:35:09 | |
Categories: Work, Fun Tags: resolverone, screencast, audio, video
Open Rights Group in the UK
I'm founding member 748 of the Open Rights Group in the UK. Probably my biggest claim to fame to date.
The ORG exists to "protect our bits" (and someone has to):
The Open Rights Group is a grassroots technology organisation which exists to protect civil liberties wherever they are threatened by the poor implementation and regulation of digital technology. We call these rights our "digital rights".
As an organisation they're three years old now, but the UK branch was only founded this year. They're supported by individuals like Neil Gaiman (who recently did a small talk for the ORG in Clerkenwell - which finally prompted me to pull my finger out and join up) and Charlie Stross.
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Check showtimes to see when Amanpour is on CNN where you are. Or watch online.
By Mick Krever, CNN
Who controls the Hermit Kingdom?
According to a North Korean defector – a former regime insider who was one of Kim Jong Il's favorite poet-propagandists – it is not the 31-year-old dictator Kim Jong Un.
"When Kim Jong Il died and Kim Jong Un succeeded him, people saw the transfer of power from father to son," Jang Jin-Sung told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in London. "What they did not see also was what happened to the apparatus of the totalitarian system that supported the rule of Kim Jong Il."
That apparatus, Jang said, is the Organization and Guidance Department, or OGD – it was Kim Jong Il's education as he rose through the ranks, and was full of his university friends.
It is an "old-boy's network" made into a massive surveillance organization.
"Kim Jong Il had the OGD as his old boys' network," Jang told Amanpour. "Kim Jong-un may have friends in his Swiss school, but he has no one inside North Korea."
Jang is the author of a new book, "Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee – A Look Inside North Korea."
"After the execution of Jang Song Thaek [Kim Jong Un's uncle], he has become an orphan – not just in terms of family connections, but in terms of politics."
"He's a political orphan."
Precious little is known about Kim Jong Un, who inherited the leadership of North Korea after his father's death in 2011.
Since that time, Jang said, Kim Jong Un has had to rely on his father's "old-boys network" to get anything done.
But because that group does not respect the younger Kim, who was educated in Switzerland, the way it did his father, Kim Jong Un has become nothing more than the symbolic head of North Korea.
Meeting Kim
"Until the day I met Kim Jong Il," Jang says, "I truly considered him divine, as someone more holy, like a sage – someone to be revered, someone who was better than us, who was sacrificing his own life for the people."
So effective was the regime propaganda machine, he told Amanpour, that he did not even believe that Kim the elder used the toilet.
But Jang, a poet, caught the dictator's eye, and was invited for a private audience with him.
"The man I saw standing in front of me was a man, he was a human being. He was not a holy man; he was not a saint; he was not a god. He was a man just like me, who did use the toilet."
In propaganda, Kim had used "perfectly composed, flowery language," Jang said, and was deeply reverential of "the people."
"But when I met him, he just spoke in slang like in a kind of commanding colloquial, working-class slang, even to his most senior men."
"And that was shocking to me."
He even, Jang told Amanpour, wore shoes to boost his height.
Shattering the myth
Once a North Korean has been admitted into the dictator's inner circle, Jang said – "after having spent more than twenty minutes with him behind closed doors, at his personal request" – the leader's "divinity" gets transferred onto that person.
"You become immune from all prosecution, all harm. You're protected by his divinity."
From that highest perch of North Korean society, Jang could clearly see for the first time all the lies he had been told.
The truth became even starker when he went back to visit his hometown of Sairwon, in the southwest of the country.
"That was when I really witnessed the devastating effects of the famine. That's where I saw the corpses in the station area just piling up and being taken away."
As many as 3.5 million people are estimated to have died during North Korea's severe famine of the 1990s, according to the South Korean NGO Good Friends Center for Peace, Human Rights, and Refugees. (Official North Korean numbers estimate that 220,000 people died.)
It is also, he told Amanpour, where he saw a public execution.
"It is not classified as a punishment in response to a crime. It's considered a method of moral education, of building up society's standards of morality. So that's why these executions happen in public places, such as market squares, where people watch it."
"It becomes a theater."
A decade ago Jang decided to flee the country. Not even his family knew he was planning to leave.
Had he told them, he told Amanpour, their innocence would have been compromised, and they would have been vulnerable to the wrath of the state security service.
Cracking the regime
The most closed country on earth continues to fascinate the world, and among the most discussed questions is if, and how, the brutal regime could fall.
"Currently, there are two classes in North Korea locked in battle with each other," Jang said.
"One I will call the loyal class. This is the class that is invested, that has a stake in this continuation of the status quo, of oppression and surveillance and control."
"The other class are the market classes," he said. "Their livelihoods are not sustained by the system, but actually oppressed by it."
Earlier this year, a PBS Frontline documentary featured stunning footage of ordinary North Koreans using free enterprise and challenging regime security officers.
North Koreans, the documentary showed, are increasingly exposed to the outside world, through smuggled DVDs and USB sticks containing Western and South Korean movies and TV shows.
"In the past, there was only one thing to belong to, one thing that sustained you, one thing that kept your family going…loyalty to the cult of Kim."
"But now people have realized finally, after the famine, that it is not loyalty that feeds them. It is money. It is work. It is owning something. It's individual property that feeds one."
"So loyalty to Kim Il Sung" – Kim Jong Un's grandfather – "has been trumped by, let's say, the portrait of Washington on a U.S. dollar note."
Change in North Korea will not come, Jang said, by negotiating with the regime. It will come through knowledge.
"Truth will set North Korea free. The people will set North Korea free. The erosion of control will set North Korea free, not engagement with the regime."
Why should any of this come as a surprise to anyone? Dictators (i.e. the front faces of terror) are always backed by a shadowy group that supports (and partially controls, and shares) their grip on power. No dictator alone could ever enslave an entire nation; no matter how charismatic, bloodthirsty, or even popular. Nothing new here, either!
You are right, in principle. But some dictators, like Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, 'Franco and Mao are extremely powerful, expecially when they established their own system of terror. Baby Kim formally took over an existing system his grandfather had created. The shadowy group behind him needed a frontman to keep the people at bay. NK is a communist monarchy.
Defector: Shadowy organization, not POPE, controls VATICAN
"NK is a communist monarchy" Come on that gives communism a bad name. North Korea is no more communist than South Korea! It is a dictatorship or a Oligarchy.
wow,truth-holder,i have a pic: oh,look those people, they are living in disaster,they are covered by lies, they have no food ,no water, no rights, no truth, what a pitty! so, why do not save them.why are you just sitting in you comfortable room, drinking you delicious tea, typing you words on you keyboard?! do it do, not say it ,say it, everybody could, just do it! man!
North Korea is hardly communist. No one seems to even know what that word means anymore, anyways.
North Korea is more similar to an extension of the Joseon Dynasty with a ruling/royal family and bureaucrats running the show in a famine-ridden country with no ties to the outside.
Fitting, that North Korea still calls itself "Joseon".
NK calls itself juche
Defector: Shadowy organization, not POPE, controls VATICAN
sir ,please give them hope,do it, koushui war, it means nothing,just like Obama,talking is more important than doing.
Shadowy organizations run the entire world. We are all slaves.
It would be a surprise to most of the people in N. Korea.
Which, of course, is the entire point of the cult of personality set up around the young fellow. Consider the most rabidly loyal adherents to any religion you care to name. Such people do not, as a general rule, rebel against the public face of that religion. North Korea simply created it "artificially" and positioned the young fellow as the object of that mindless devotion. Hence, the "faithful" accept whatever comes out of Big Brother's mouth, and those who question are labeled "heretic" or "infidel". To the inner circle, it is not enough (or too difficult) to set up a system that is intellectually impregnable; they have enslaved their population's hearts and minds.
yes yes, the same words, but,please leave your room, leave your keyboard, we have KEYBOARD POLITICIANS everywhere. do it ,my dear, just saying it means nothing, cursing can not killing, save them,KEYBOARD POLITICIAN.
Shadow government? Tyranny? Sound familiar????
It is not the dollar that Asians look up to, but Gold bars.
Modern mining technics can get you as much gold you want. You want 1 million ouces ? NO PROBLEM A billion ? NO PROBLEM ! You lust for 1 TRILLION ouces ? here you have it ! They can crush an entire mountain in 2 days to milk billions of ouces. That's why the prices is tumbling ! ITS NOT RARE ANYMORE ! HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT ?
This is exactly true about the US dollar not gold. Print a mountain, as much as you want.
"They can crush an entire mountain in 2 days to milk billions of ouces." – that's so much wrong in such a short sentence.
In all of human history we've only dug up around 170,000 tons of the stuff – around 5.4 billion ounces. Even in 2013 we only managed 2,700 tons GLOBALLY, with no country producing more than 420 tons.
As for demolishing an mountain...you've been watching too many superhero flicks.
you can mine 1 trillion tons of gold per hour but that doesnt change the fact that there is a limited supply of it on earth
I'm going to have to ask for your sources, on this one. Producing millions of ounces of gold every year? I don't think so.
This guy is obviously not a North Korean because he's too chubby. I have been reliably informed by CNN in the past the North Koreans are starving.
Don't be stupid, not all of them are fat. If you eat carbohydrates, which most poor people at, such as rice (which is a regular food in North Korea), you will maintain a normal weight. Also, this man has lived for quite some time outside of North Korea, so he has obviously increased his weight. Duh dont be so ignorant and stupid.
I am not ignorant. I get up-to-date information from CNN every day. But what you say does make sense. The starving North Koreans eat rice and get fat. This causes them to wear high heels because they are fat moma's boys.
I agree he's totally wrong. Kin Jong Il actually never uses the toilet.
Probably because he is now Kim Jong Dead
It's OBVIOUS to you that he can't be a North Korean? Shows how well you think.
You seem to have forgotten that he defected to the States ten years ago. Even Americans can get chubby in far less time than that!
You can bet he looks well fed, and that he makes sure he IS well fed. He's probably known hunger – the real thing – in his life somewhere along the line. If you've known real hunger, food gains a huge importance that it does not have for people who've never known a hungry day.
Maybe next time you should LISTEN a little better? Your comment just put a whole omelet on your face. Try to not repeat it.
Read the article. He left North Korea 10 years (a decade) ago!
He also doesn't have one of the official North Korean haircuts. The one he has was outlawed back in 1974 so nobody from North Korea would even know that it existed. They have one of only 7 official haircuts. They used to have about 12.
"This guy is obviously not a North Korean because he's too chubby." Omigod! Then he must be Hungarian!
so he really knows f#$k all, doesnt he? he left 10 years ago. he wasnt even around when Kim Jong Un took control.
How about so real news cnn? nah, forget, switching to bbc
Yeah, I have to agree – between a book he's pushing with content ten years not-new and the fact he actually believed Kim Jong-il did not produce human waste from his bowels and bladder sort of leaves me with a grave concern for both his sense of critical analysis and his motive.
So he knows nothing because he hasn't been home in 10 yrs!? Ridiculous on multiple levels.
Gaining knowledge, gives you power. Curtailing other peoples knowledge, gets you power. This is true, whether talking about North Korea, Russia, China, some little dictatorial state, or the USA.
Well this guy is an idiot himself. To believe that a dude would not need to pee because what, he is divine? If he believed that then he deserved to be whateverhisname's slave, seriously. As to his description of what is happening inside N Korea now, well, I will take it with a grain of salt. Time will tell who is in control and what will happen.
Do you believe Jesus was born of a virgin?
not difficult – the bible clearly states that mary was a virgen/maiden.if a person believes in a almighty creator surly it is possible for him to implant life into a human for it to grow. human doctors do it all the time.
Lots of people believe things that to outsiders seem nuts. Like every religion but your is whacky. Christianity and Islam both are less likely than a leader who is divine.
The guy in the story is also a poet and we might think he is speaking figuratively and did not literally believe it. I'm guessing he is more sophisticated them many who comment here (including myself) and he is speaking metaphorically
You are the idiot or a stupid who do not comprehend and sustain the info they just provided on the article. Hey dummy can't you see they have a huge propaganda machine to brain wash north koreans from their infancy into believing the ruler is a god. And they do it well. !!
Precisely Rodry. most Christians these people have been indoctrinated since birth.
You call him an idiot but did you really understand his metaphor? Reserve the word idiot to yourself.
If he doesn't say this he'd probably be killed or forced to work as a slave.
This is not surprising and I am in full agreement with the stated path to the end of the nightmare that is N. Korea. The best weapons that undermined the Soviet Union were; Levi's, Coca Cola and Rock esp irreverent punk. It is the clamour and desire of the masses that topple disconnected regimes. Bombs and bullets and sanctions are a waste of time. This time the weapons of choice will be satirical you-tube videos and exposure to the lifestyle in the west.
I had posted this here many times: Always when you see the younger Kim we see a group of older men standing in back as if Kim were pushed to the front. Kim always is shown looking away into the distance with these men in back of him. Then look at photos of REAL leaders. They are always facing someone, talking to some one or walking side by side with others never out in front alone.
Have you ever led a group? Every time I have I stand facing them, never facing in the same direction they are facing.
Kim's photos all have this "leader" faint the same direction as the group he leads. It looks very "fake"
I can imagine he has been pushed to the front and the old med are holding a (figurative) gun to his back.
this is the total opposite of what a communist nation state or communism is all about and all the communists and supporters of north Korea who do not realize that are idiots
This guy said nothing useful. Just the same babble that he thinks the western audience loves to hear. People from dictatorship all learned this survival skill to choose what to say. The info from him is of no executable value. If Kim is the orphan, then who is the guardian? Who should we deal with? I think this is just his informed logic plus some wild imagination like any TV fans.
I think you know nothing about the history of korean peninsular and the mordern history of korea.
And I guess you could not understand the stream of korean history since the korean war in 1950~1953 happened by North Korea. You have to view the all incident which NK bring about And ithey mean.
Please take into account many things before doing something. thank sir
It's like that in many ways in many situation. It's the awakening of the mind and the spirit that will give us freedom.
So North Korea is not run by Baby Kim. Fair enough. Under W. the US was not run by the President, but by a shadow group of evangelical fundamentalists, anti-communist and anti-islamist crusaders, and banksters.
This guy's book will still sell massively and make him rich. His poor family members were probably tortured or executed. Normally this is quite an effective way to stop N.Koreas from sneaking away and leaking information – concern for the family they would leave behind.
But not this guy – he is clearly a determined traitor – not so much to N. Korea as to his own family. "preserving their innocence" was such a poor excuse. If his family had any idea he was planning escape, he would not have succeeded because they would know the consequence to themselves once his was gone.
Christiane, why isn't this question asked?
If Kim Jun Un is truly NK army's commander, can he order them to kill the network?
Whoever controls the NK army controls the country. Who is in control of the army?
Probably the head hermit.
I think Kim Jun Un is a prisoner of this regime– nothing more than puppet.
This guy is very believable and likable. I can only hope his family isn't made to suffer, but they probably are and have been. They may not even be alive any more. So I feel very sorry for him, especially because he has no way of EVER knowing. That's GOT to hurt. Real bad.
He speaks clearly and with lucidity. Wouldn't it be great if ALL Koreans, north and south, could learn to be like him? Shoot, it'd be great for ALL people to learn that.
He's right, too. If the upper crust cared nothing for the famine, the people themselves DID. And that's when they learned that this "divine" system cares nothing for them. By letting its own people starve, the regime has issued its own death warrant. The people who saw its effects will NEVER forget it.
While it is usually wrong for other countries to step in, even to fix problems as heinous as those in N. Korea, it is indeed good to know that the PEOPLE of N. Korea will very likely take care of matters for themselves. It'll probably take many more years, but what with the new knowledge they're acquiring through smuggled data and information, it is sure to happen, and they WILL overthrow the regime. That's the best way for it to happen.
What worries me is what would come next. None of these people is fit to live in democracy. It's not their fault, of course. ALL they've ever known was the regime and a few snippets of information smuggled in to them. Even while hating the regime, though, they are still in a culture that is a product of that regime.
This bodes very ill for any prospect of them learning to rule themselves in a civil fashion. Unless they ask for external help – and really MEAN it – they'll probably just devolve into yet another Kim-style dynastic dictatorship.
I want to hope – and to dream, on their behalf – that they will somehow find a way to avoid that fate.
This gentleman is a prime example of just how fine, how wonderful, the N. Koreans COULD be, if only they decided to settle for nothing less.
Sadly Faster in countries like this one dictator is usually overthrown for a new one. Seldom do the leaders of these peoples movements relinquish power, it's just a trade off for a more palatable dictator.
"If there is hope, it lies in the proles" – George Orwell, from "1984"
it sounds like;"everybody should die one day",it's philosophy,man,meaning is nothing,
This makes sense and I had suspected this. You can't just pull an heir to the throne out of nowhere and expect him to wield the same influence as his predecessor. In the past, kings made sure their maturing heirs were visible and making connections to the network of elites who ran the country.
Interesting, but why doesn't he even takes into consideration, that China and Russia are the true masters controlling their 'human experiment of total control' – known as North Korea? Anyhow, the toilet thing is almost funny....
Interesting thought. I see more plausibility in Russia and China being the real masters of King Jong Un. Russia, for instance often sends her children to be educated in North Korea. And North Korea have benn doing the same since the early fifties. This shows some deep familiar links between these three countries ...
may i ask one qustion,how do you know that thing? form what? from where? tell me, please.
Hail Hydra!
If the theory that there is a network of his fathers friends calling the shots, it explains the execution of his uncle, perhaps he was too powerful and also killing him,isolates the boy.
Bogus. Jung-burger is running NK. That's why his belly button is getting bigger.
A shadow group also runs the United States of America. What's the difference? None as far as I can tell.
I am not interested in politics, it rather like a game with winner and loser, with ambition and scheme
DENNIS Should be doing more visit to the north Korea to just to look . crazy
what if her kills rodam whats next ??
madman on US HANDS . Me know you yeah so maybe make date with KIM JONG ILL . beep
More rubbish news dug up like a dragnet on the ocean floor gather old rotted ship wreckage material. CNN is rubbish and will create any fake news to fill it's Website up.
CNN = Comedy News Network
Really, genius? So why are you clicking-through to read the article?
Really? And how long did it take you people to figure this out? It's the same as in Lybia, in Russia and many other countries. D-oh.
thats would nt be a surprise .. who runs the state .. nor mr . obi neither the WH .
obi abd otger staff just employee for those with money n power.
Do not listen to Amanpour subjects because she tends to put words in guests mouth; and injects her own agenda in every discussion. She is one of CNN blow horns with a crusade agenda, anti-muslim; anti-korea, anti Russia...just monkey wearing makeup, a puppet who try 2 brainwashe audience into her CIA bosses ideas...
how the hell is killing amoral lesson surely?
I saw the show and I believe that person wouldn't be allowed to shine Kims shoes.
He has no clue what he's talking about.
The same type of shadow government that backs the NK government backs each and every western government.
Don't kid yourself...
Russia runs North Korea along with China
I agree he is just a figurehead, allowed to clown around to distract observers. Just a symbolic head of North Korea. The power is men in the secret system that parades noisy Kim Jong Un to keep the people and other nations fooled. He probably doesn't even realize it himself.
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The news headlines may be dominated by stories about President Trump, North Korea, trade wars and the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in U.S. elections, but budget expert Stan Collender points out in a new blog post that Congress and the White House still have a fairly long list of basic legislative responsibilities to tackle over the coming months — like the 12 appropriations bills for fiscal 2019 — and relatively little time to do it.
The result, given the political dynamics on Capitol Hill these days, is that another continuing resolution will likely be needed to fund the government and keep it from shutting down just weeks before the November elections. And the politics of such a funding bill are likely to get messy, Collender writes: "because CRs can be filibustered, that will give Senate Democrats influence over a short-term funding bill that, with their changes, isn't likely to be acceptable to the House Freedom Caucus or the White House."
Also, the president might view a continuing resolution as an opportunity to exert some leverage in his efforts to get funding for a border wall with Mexico. "Add to that the extreme displeasure from conservative commentators after he signed the 2018 omnibus appropriation in March and the fact that healthcare and immigration are hot button issues for the White House, congressional Republicans and Democrats, having a CR in place in time to prevent a government shutdown has to be considered anything but certain."
Bloomberg's Jonathan Bernstein says he'd be surprised if Congress doesn't pass a temporary funding bill to avoid any spending-bill drama until after the elections, but Collender may well be right that "even if a continuing resolution is enacted by October 1, the road to get there will be anything but smooth."


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Georg Hangers / 55 eur
Designed by Chris Liljenberg Halstrøm
Simplicity at its finest. The two Georg Hangers are connected with a leather strap and are made from the characteristic wooden poles in oak. You can easily adjust the length of the hangers by tying the knot differently in one or both ends.
- Details
- Oak
Leather / Black
LxWxH: 45x3x11 cm
Item no. S1930305
- Packaging
- WxDxH: 47x17x4 cm
Weight: 0,58 kg
- Material and care
Proper usage and maintenance
Proper usage and maintenance is vital for getting the most out of the valuable resources we have. Our designs are made to last for generations, but just like everything else, they need a little care to get there.
Oak grows in most temperate zones. The Skagerak oak comes from European forests and is either 100% FSC certified or FSC mix certified, supporting sustainable forest management. The selection of the wood is extremely careful and all processing is by hand, so that only the best and most durable pieces of wood are used in production.
Oak is a sturdy and hardwearing type of wood containing natural tannins that will protect against bacterial growth. Combined with its light, elegant colour and well-defined grains, this makes oak wood safe choice for high-quality interior.
The wood comes with no finish. If you choose not to treat it with soap or oil, use a suitable cleaning agent for wood.
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About the designer / Chris Liljenberg Halstrøm
With a Swedish mother and Danish father Chris Liljenberg Halstrøm shows her Nordic roots in her designs through a minimalistic approach and strong combinations of materials like wood, leather and wool. Function is her starting point and dictates the idiom of her beautiful designs. Chris is a curious and investigative woman. And it is in the investigation that she finds her biggest inspiration – an investigation of all possible angles of a design that draws her and broadens her perspective on the design process. Besides this, she is deeply fascinated by traditional Japanese architecture and design which focuses on the core function of the design.