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SUU Brand Style Guide
What's Inside
- Message from the President
- Style Guide Usage
- Color
- Typography
- The Wordmark
- Secondary Marks for Colleges & Departments
- Athletic Style Guide
- SUU Heraldry
- Historic Marks
If you have questions not answered in this guide, please contact:
Chelsea Howells, Creative Director
(435) 586-5400
A Message from Scott Wyatt and Marvin Dodge
Welcome to the SUU Brand Style Guide. This is an exciting time to be a T-bird. Campus is growing in new and significant ways, and now more than ever, communicating clearly and cohesively is critical to our institutional success and identity.
This style guide is compiled by the SUU Marketing Communication office to provide you with the tools and guidelines necessary to visually represent SUU and your area of campus.
Please carefully review these pages and become familiar with the campus guidelines for use of logos, colors and typography. Consider how you might apply its principles, bookmark this page in your browser, and refer back to it when using the SUU name.
Moving forward, it is important that we work together to clearly articulate and represent the image of this outstanding University.
I invite you to join me in becoming a brand ambassador for SUU.
Thank you for your dedication and support of this important initiative,
Scott L Wyatt, President, Southern Utah University
Marvin Dodge, Vice President, Finance & Administration
SUU Style Guide Usage
As campus employees, we are all charged with the task of shaping our brand. Consider how the best brands stick with us because they are defined by consistency and repetition of logos, fonts, and colors. Through consistency, brands become instantly recognizable offering reliability and credibility for the organizations they represent.
This style guide is designed to provide you with the tools you need to professionally represent Southern Utah University in all of your communications, and to assist in building the university brand.
SUU Color
Color is a powerful brand tool and is essential in establishing the University's identity. Beyond the wordmark, color is the most recognizable element of the brand. The SUU color palette must be used consistently throughout all University-related print and web materials. SUU Red is CMYK 0C 100M 90Y 20K. In spot color, it is Pantone 200. Institutional marks should only appear in SUU Red, black or white.
SUU Typography
The "SUU" logotype uses a custom version of ITC Fenice.
"Southern Utah University" appears in Fira Sans, medium.
Fira Sans is a readily available typeface and can be used in other University publications if desired. ITC Fenice may NOT be used in University publications. Always use authorized versions of the wordmark; do not attempt to recreate it.
The default typeface for the SUU website is Roboto.
SUU Wordmark
The wordmark is the defining icon of Southern Utah University and visually represents the institution's brand. It is designed to give the impression of modern academic excellence and should always be considered first when representing the University. Use this mark in all situations where size, placement and usage permit, and for all University publications.
Download official wordmark files
The wordmark is available in two versions. The first uses the SUU logotype with the University name spelled out to the right. The second includes a line as an additional design element and is referred to as the line underneath version. Both versions are acceptable. One-color versions in black or red are also acceptable.
Alternate Wordmark
The alternate wordmark is for use where design requirements do not allow use of the preferred horizontal wordmark.
One-color versions in black or red are also acceptable.
Reverse Color Wordmark
The wordmark and alternate wordmark are available in reverse color versions for use in layouts with red or dark backgrounds.
Wordmark Usage Standards
The wordmark is the primary representation of the University and must appear on all campus publications. As a standard, it should appear on the back cover of a multi-page publication near the bottom margin. On a one-page design, the mark must be included.
Clear Space
Always give the wordmark room to breathe. To ensure legibility and brand integrity, the wordmark must be surrounded by a minimum amount of clear space. To achieve proper clear space, surround the wordmark with an amount of space equal to at least half the height of the SUU logotype.
The wordmark should not appear too small,
nor too large to be overpowering. To ensure readability, please adhere to the following minimum sizes for the wordmarks:
Standard Wordmark: 1.75" minimum width
Alternate Wordmark: 1.25" minimum width
Be sure to size the wordmark proportionally. Do not stretch the wordmark out of its original shape. Do not extend, condense, italicize, bend, twist, skew, curve or distort the wordmark in any way.
The University uses a primary, approved color palette (link). Colors of the wordmark may not be altered. To ensure consistency, do not add or alter elements to the wordmark for the purpose of personalization, or for any other reason. Redrawn or hand drawn versions of the mark are not authorized.
Colored Backgrounds
Backgrounds must not interfere with the integrity of the wordmark. It is acceptable for the wordmark to appear on lightly colored backgrounds with no more than approximately 40 percent color density/saturation.
Reverse color wordmarks are acceptable if background colors are sufficiently dark (approximately 40 percent color density or more). In such instances reverse color versions should appear in white.
On a solid black background, reverse color versions are acceptable in solid SUU Red (Pantone 200) or with the SUU logotype in red and the University name in white.
Photo Backgrounds
When placing the wordmark over a background photo, the wordmark must remain clearly visible and its colors distinguishable. Acceptable photographs offer a clear or safe space around the mark equal to about half the height of the SUU logotype. It is best to avoid busy images with too much detail. Marketing Communication is available to take photo requests. (email link)
If the photo background is sufficiently dark, reverse versions of the wordmarks may be used.
The wordmark may not be rotated.
EXCEPTION: When used as a design element, the SUU logotype may be rotated with some limitations; see below.
The SUU Logotype as a Design Element
The SUU logotype may be used as a design element in a layout, as long as an unaltered version of the wordmark appears elsewhere on the page (if it is a single-side, single-page document) or on the back of a multi-page publication, such as a brochure.
When used as a design element, the SUU logotype can be rotated horizontally up to 90 degrees left or right. It must never appear upside down.
Use of the SUU logotype as a design element must be approved by Marketing Communication. (email link)
The SUU wordmark may not be used as a watermark in documents.
To ensure integrity, design effects may not be applied to the wordmark including: outlines, drop shadows or glows, 3D effects, and software filters.
EXCEPTION: Screen-printed apparel, as long the proportions of the mark are maintained and legible, may include a wordmark that appears distressed, or one that is created from lines, dots, etc.
Video Applications
In video production only, SUU marks may be distorted, moved or otherwise manipulated from original form for up to three seconds for the purpose of animation. Marks must return to their official form and remain intact when animation resolves.
Secondary Marks: Colleges, Departments, Programs
Secondary marks are created to identify specific campus units. Secondary marks are primarily for internal, on-campus use only. Please order secondary marks for your college, program or department from the Office of Marketing Communication (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Secondary Mark Guidelines
On materials intended for internal or on-campus use only, secondary marks may stand alone.
On materials designed for off-campus distribution, the SUU wordmark must accompany secondary logos. For example, on a recruitment brochure, the secondary logo may appear alone on the front if the SUU wordmark appears on the back.
Secondary marks offer one alternate version for use in layouts where the primary version is unsuitable.
Alternate Mark for Apparel
The alternate department mark without the SUU logotype was created specifically for apparel uses, such as a crest design on a shirt. It may appear in black, red or white, depending on the shirt color.
Athletic Style Guide
Thor is the visual representation of the SUU Thunderbirds mascot. Thor should always be represented on any SUU Athletics branded medium. For internal Athletics use this mark can appear as a standalone, provided the layout also contains one of the following: SUU, Southern Utah University, Thunderbirds, or Southern Utah.
A reverse version of Thor is required for one-color printing on a dark background, such as printing a white mark on a red shirt, or a gray mark on a black shirt.
(NOTE: A version of the Thor mark combined with "SUU" is currently in development.)
On occasion, and with Marketing Communication permission, Thor may be used for student-spirit or recruitment applications. In such applications the name of the University (or its acronym) must also appear in the layout.
Athletic Fonts
The primary font of SUU Athletics is Aachen Bold. No other variation of this font may be used. This font should only be used for spelling out our trademarked names and sports.
The secondary font of SUU Athletics is Avenir Next. This typeface may be used with our four trademarked word (SUU, Southern Utah University, Thunderbirds, Southern Utah), as well as copy, subheads, titles and other instances that can provide stability to the brand.
SUU Heraldry
NOTE: The SUU Heraldry and Historic Marks require specific permission to use. Please submit your request to the Office of Marketing Communication (email@example.com).
The University heraldry is reserved for formal communications. It should be used with discretion and only on official documents including diplomas, certificates, functions associated with the Office of the President, and publications such as the commencement program.
College Versions
Each college also has its own coat of arms, which fall under the same usage restrictions as the University Heraldry.


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Daily C++11: Rvalue references and move constructors
Probably one of the most important reasons that makes C programmers run away from C++ is the gross inefficiency of having temporaries. The problem was that the language encouraged unnecessary copies; someone who wanted to keep performance as a priority would have avoided code like:
[code language="cpp"]#include <cstdio>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
vector<int> getSequence (int start, int end)
vector<int>; result;
for (int i=start; i<=end; i++)
result.push_back (i);
return result;
int main ()
auto seq = getSequence (10, 20);
for (auto i : seq)
printf ("Value: %d\n", i);
return 0;
Here one would traditionally expect to have a vector created in the getSequence call, then that vector to be copied into the seq vector. Also, this would be a deep copy – which means that nothing gets reused from the temporary rvalue. Most of the times, the compiler is able to trick the code into not creating copies; however, in certain situations, such optimizations are not possible.
The answer in C++11 is to create move constructors. Such a move constructor allows the seq object from our example to steal the content of the result of getSequence, and no unnecessary copy to be performed. This gives new life to containers, for example, because now you can safely use standard containers in conjunction with complex classes with less of a performance penalty.
One can declare an rvalue reference by using the &&. An rvalue reference is a reference to data that can be moved; this makes it clear that that reference is a temporary vessel for data. This is what is used to denominate a move constructor:
[code language="cpp"]#include <cstdio>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
class C {
C(){puts ("Creation");}
C(const C&) {puts ("Copy was made");}
// C++11 only
C(C&&) {puts ("Move was made");}
int main ()
puts ("Hello");
vector<C> v;
v.insert(v.begin(), C());
return 0;
If the C++11 only line is removed, the code can be compiled the output of the code is desastrous:
Copy was made
Copy was made
Copy was made
Copy was made
Copy was made
Copy was made[/code]
But just by adding the new move constructor, what we'll see is completely different.
Move was made
Move was made
Move was made
Move was made
Move was made
Move was made[/code]
This means that while only three objects are fully constructed, the rest are copied in the first case, and moved in the second case. This means that the equivalent of a shallow copy is done in the second case, and a full deep copy is made in the first case. This can be tremendously costly, especially if memory allocations need to be made.
One might say that one can use pointers to pass to the standard containers. But this is not always the most efficient: in our example, the class instances are created on the stack, which is many times faster than doing memory allocation.
If I was to name one performance improvement that would make you move from C++03 to C++11, this would be it. The standard containers suddenly have super-powers, and the performance improvements are through the roof.
2 Replies to "Daily C++11: Rvalue references and move constructors"
Yes, I saw this in the c++ presentation by Sutter you linked to a while back. It's a really nice feature.
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Non-Vanity Plastic Surgeries That Benefit Your Health
Plastic surgery is usually and unfortunately demonized as a vanity project by many people who do not understand that, when performed correctly, it can help the patient psychologically and even strengthen the relevant parts of the body. There are several such surgeries that actually benefit your health and can help correct congenital defects. Here are some of them:
Reforming the Eye Lid
Some people develop a weak upper lid in the eye due to age, genetics, or fat deposits where it causes the eye lid to droop and cover the eye, thus obstructing vision. Ptosis surgery can be performed to correct this condition. The plastic surgeon will affix a thread or construct to open the eye lid in accordance with the contour of your eye. This can be done surgically or non-invasively and can be discussed with your surgeon. Make sure the surgeon is fully qualified and take care of your eye properly once the surgery is over to ensure proper and full recovery.
Smoothing Over the Skin
Acne is not considered a medically threatening condition, however over time; it can develop into a health-threatening condition especially if you regularly use makeup to cover up the scars. The makeup can attract bacteria that make the skin condition worse so it would be good if you can have the acne laser treatment to reduce acne scars and close wide pores. Use herbal creams and other natural products that won't irritate your skin so that your skin will heal soon after the treatment.
Curing Nasal Congestion
Some people experience growths inside the nose that cause problems in breathing such extra cartilage or muscle. These can be surgically removed in a procedure known as rhinoplasty where the nose is reshaped. This is performed for aesthetic purposes as well, where plump and rounded noses can be changed to be aquiline and more defined. However, the same surgery is used to help unobstructed airflow through the nose too.
Sculpting the Perfect Mouth
Lip surgery is one of the commonest plastic surgeries that are done by women in order to get fuller lips, however a similar surgery is done medically when a person has a cleft lip or cleft palate. These conditions are usually congenital and can be repaired through surgery or other corrective methods. Surgery will join the gap in the two halves of the lips or palate while using moulding or retainer usually makes the body adjust to it and join together on its own, while the child is young. If left untreated, cleft lip/palate can cause speech impediments and breathing problems.


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Take an intimate look at wildlife, through the eyes of 'The Invisible Wildlife Photographer' Bence Máté. Then navigate the waters of the world, with action photojournalist Jody MacDonald. Before, joining adventurer Adrian Foster on a 4000km cycling journey across Australia. These stories and many more including: a meaningful message from UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina Jolie - can be found in this issue of Bare Essentials 'adventure lifestyle and wildlife conservation' magazine.
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I first read about Carcassonne when doing my OE in 1999. I had plans to visit on the way to Bordeaux before returning to Paris to head back to Dublin where I was based. Unfortunately in 1999 all my plans went awry when I ended up in the back of an ambulance in Rome and cut my travels short by about 10 days on discharge. Carcassonne sounded like a fairy tale. So when I knew we were going to be staying in the South of France I put this destination back on the itinerary. The whole whanau that had gathered in Cerbere ended up joining me on this venture so we went on a train trip! I have so many photos of Carcassonne, it's hard to choose which ones to put up, so they're in a gallery to scroll through.
Carcassonne is a medieval city within a city! The majority of the city was built around 1067, however it's due to the restoration projects from the 1850s through to the end of that century that the city remains.
It was a fabulous day out.


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Why I prefer to collect comic books rather than download digitally
by rick olivares
Paper or digital?
That discussion or even debate frequently crops up in comic shops or fora talk these days and that concern is also relatable to many print publications today.
It is entirely possible that digital will eventually take over x number of years from now depending on the availability of paper but for now let's dissect to the heart of the matter.
I prefer to collect print comics because…
I like to physically have them in my collection.
I like to be able to hold what I buy. I like having the feel of a page underneath my fingertips. I like having things in my collection. Reading a print comic book is like going to the museum; you get to admire everything about the book. Plus, there's something about the smell of newly printed books.
I like getting the full experience.
Let me get this out of the way. I have purchased a few comics online just to check it out for myself. I will have to admit that the colors are more vibrant and they make for cool wallpapers for my laptop. Storing it is easy and you can pull it out anywhere handily. However, there's something incomplete about reading a comic digitally. I feel like you don't get the full experience.
In the 32-pages of a comic book (including all the other pages), aside from the story, there is a sense of community from the comic book ads to related paraphernalia such as comic book themed shirts to the letters section where fans got to interact with the creators or the editorial staff. Conversely, there isn't anything fun or intelligent discussing matters with fans in various fora where they hide behind alternicks and can wreak havoc with malicious and senseless diatribes.
I like buying a comic book in a shop where I get to interact with the proprietors and other patrons. I love the exchange of ideas and opinions. And that rush of excitement! Remember when X-Men #1, Crisis On Infinite Earths, or Kingdom Come was first released? There's that sense of anticipation. A wave of excitement that engulfs you as you and everyone else waits outside. Then when you hold the book in your hands, the wonder you feel is beyond words.
It's like going to a live sporting match where you see everything and feel the atmosphere around you. You get no such feeling watching it digitally. Being physically present at the Great Lawn on September 24, 2003 for the live recording of the Dave Matthews Bands' The Central Park Concert was an exhilarating feeling. I was able to interact with many of the fans who sang along, clapped, and roared with every song. On the way home, it was like we were all a part of something historic. We lived that moment.
I love the thrill of the hunt.
I always thought that hunting down back issues or titles that ran out (before it was okay to reserve comics) was a sign of getting one's hands dirty for grunt work. When you finally laid hands on that issue that you missed there was this sense of relief where I'd go: "Aha! I got it. Finally!" And you treasured it and still do (unless you've changed your habits).
I equate that to journalistic practices where I physically go out and hunt for a story as opposed to stealing other people's works online (and there are many). Maybe it's because I am from an older generation that was taught to research and use my brain to think on how best to get answers to questions.
I would like to be very clear. I am not saying that everyone stop downloading now and go rush to the shop. No. It's really up to you.
However there are also questions that beg to be answered.
Are digital devices really environmentally safe as opposed to comic books that further cut down on our trees?
In an article by Simon Hill in androidauthority.com, He wrote: "The vast majority of our smartphones and tablets are manufactured from parts made in the Far East. Mining the raw materials and the manufacturing process use up a great deal of energy, and most of it is produced by burning fossil fuels."
Furthermore, these gadgets actually require a lot more power to maintain.
Hill ended by saying that "If you're really concerned about staying green when it comes to your mobile tech then the most effective action you can take is to avoid upgrading when you don't need to. If you do upgrade, then you could choose a more eco-friendly smartphone, and you should always at least make sure that you recycle your old phone. Don't just throw it in the bin. You can re-sell it, hand it down to a friend or relative, or send it to a recycling facility."
"To be honest the mobile industry is far from green right now. The only thing that's really likely to encourage it in the right direction is buying decisions from consumers, but are you willing to trade a big touchscreen and the latest zippy specs for something that's more ethically sound?"
Lastly, I want to the creators and the companies to earn their monies. Downloads, illegal ones do not help the industry one bit and only put creators and companies out of work.
Do I think the paper comic book go away?
Nope. Everyone thought the vinyl record and compact disc will have gone the way of the dinosaur but they remain and are still a strong industry (just not what it once was). So I figure comic books and its paperback and magazine siblings will still be around. And that suits me just fine.
In a few years' time, I'd probably not have a collection but a library.


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BBC - Culture - Ten films to watch this December
Little Women
Do we need another film of Louisa May Alcott's 19th-Century coming-of-age novel? There have already been seven – including Gillian Armstrong's 1994 adaptation – and the most recent of those, a modern-day retelling, came out just last year. Still, the new Little Women, written and directed by Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) could be big. Chris Hunneysett at the Daily Mirror enthuses that "this joyous, moving and funny adaptation of the much-loved literary classic bursts with wit, warmth, beauty and intelligence". The four March sisters are played by Saoirse Ronan (as Jo), Emma Watson (as Meg), Eliza Scanlen (as Beth), and Florence Pugh (as Amy), and the supporting cast numbers Meryl Streep, Laura Dern and Timothée Chalamet.
Released on 25 December in the US, Canada and Spain, on 26 December in the UK and Brazil
One day, Hollywood is sure to make a film about its own recent sexual-harassment scandals. In the meantime, Jay Roach's snappy docudrama shines a spotlight on similar wrongdoings in the television industry. Charlize Theron stars as Megyn Kelly, a Fox News anchor who was bombarded by misogynistic abuse after she hosted a town-hall debate with Donald Trump, alongside Nicole Kidman as her colleague Gretchen Carlson, and Margot Robbie as a fictionalised Fox recruit. All three women are subjected to the wheedling advances of their slimy boss Roger Ailes (a fat-suited John Lithgow), but they soon learn how difficult it is to be a whistleblower – and how easy it is for everyone else to ignore their claims.
Released on 20 December in the US and Canada
Spies in Disguise
In this 007-spoofing children's cartoon from the studio behind Ice Age and Robots, Will Smith provides the voice of Lance Sterling, a James Bond-alike secret agent, and Tom Holland is Walter Beckett, the Q-alike gadget specialist whose experimental "bio-dynamic concealment" technology goes too far. How far? Well, it turns Lance into a pigeon. He isn't too pleased about his new identity, but Walter sees the upside: pigeons can fly at 90mph, and they can go anywhere without being noticed, so they're perfect for world-saving espionage. Fair enough – but what would happen if Lance flew anywhere near the cast of Cats?
On general release from 25 December
Uncut Gems
Fancy a nice, relaxing, feel-good film? Then avoid Uncut Gems at all costs. Everyone else, though, should take this hectic ride down New York's scuzziest mean streets, courtesy of the writer-directors of 2017's Good Time, Josh and Benny Safdie. Adam Sandler gives his best-ever performance as a jeweller who might just make a fortune if he can avoid a pack of violent debt collectors. The spiralling plot, relentless pacing, pounding music and woozy visuals may bring on an anxiety attack, but Luke Channell at HeyUGuys says that this "heart-pounding, nerve-shredding, deceptively funny masterpiece... should catapult the Safdie brothers into the mainstream as experts in high-octane cinema".
Released on 25 December in the US
A Hidden Life
Terrence Malick's last couple of films have involved actors wandering around for hours on end, unsure of where to go and what to say. But there is a renewed sense of purpose in the great writer-director's spiritual period drama, A Hidden Life. A biopic of Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), an Austrian farmer who refused to sign an oath of loyalty to Hitler during World War Two, Malick's three-hour return to form is a meditation on the sustaining power of faith, love and nature, as well as an angry rallying cry which should be heard everywhere today. It also features some of the most rapturously beautiful Alpine vistas since Julie Andrews was trilling The Sound of Music. David Sexton at London's Evening Standard says that A Hidden Life is "a work of genius" and a "justification of Malick's late style".
Released on 11 December in France and 13 December in the US
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Whether you class it as the third episode in the third Star Wars trilogy or the ninth episode in an over-arching ennealogy, the trailers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker promise that "the saga will end", which means that we'll be seeing the last of Rey, Finn, Poe, and the other regulars. At least... we'll be seeing the last of them until they inevitably come back for another saga in a few years from now. Before that, Episode IX boasts the fan-pleasing return of Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) and Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), and the introduction of a new character played – much to his glee – by Richard E Grant. Princess Leia will be in it, too, in archive footage of the late Carrie Fisher.
On general release from 18 December
When the first Cats trailer was released in July, internet commentators were united in horror at the sight of James Corden, Judi Dench, Idris Elba, Ian McKellen, Taylor Swift and Rebel Wilson coated in computer-generated fur. Stuart Heritage at the Guardian even confessed that the "footage of screaming, digitally augmented, uncanny valley feline hell-mutants... made me vomit, and wet myself". But Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, adapted from a book of poems by TS Eliot, has been packing out theatres around the world since 1981, so don't be surprised if Tom Hooper (The King's Speech, Les Misérables) has cinema audiences purring this Christmas. If nothing else, you can bet that Jennifer Hudson will be belting out Memory at the Oscars in February.
On general release from 19 December
British directors of a certain age like to have a bash at prestigious war epics. In 2017, there was Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk and Joe Wright's Darkest Hour. And now Sam Mendes follows his Bond movies, Skyfall and Spectre, with a stunning World War One drama based on a true story he heard from his novelist grandfather. George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman play two young soldiers who have to race through enemy territory to deliver a message that could stop 1,600 of their fellow Brits being massacred. The most impressive aspect of 1917 is that the whole film appears to be shot in one, long continuous take. Todd McCarthy at The Hollywood Reporter says that Mendes has made an "exemplary panorama of the horrors of war designed as an inescapable immersion in the unrelieved pressure and sheer wretchedness of the battlefront."
Released on 25 December in the US and 26 December in Israel
Citizen K
Citizen K tells a tale that would be unbelievable if it wasn't true. Alex Gibney, the prolific director of the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side and the Oscar-nominated Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, explores today's Russia with the help of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oligarch who spent a decade in a Siberian prison at Putin's behest. Ed Gibbs at Little White Lies calls it: "Gibney's best documentary in years", a "political thriller" which is also "a wildly entertaining and timely picture of a global issue".
Released on 13 December in the UK and Ireland
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The latest film from Céline Sciamma (Tomboy, Girlhood), Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a high-toned 18th-Century romance, full of repressed longing and elegant velvet dresses. Peter Bradshaw at The Guardian says: "I was on the edge of my seat. Portrait of a Lady on Fire has something of Alfred Hitchcock". An artist, Marianne (Noémie Merlant), is hired to paint the portrait of an heiress, Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), for her prospective husband. But when the two women are left alone together in a seaside chateau, they realise that the marriage won't make Héloïse happy. Sciamma won the best screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival in May – and many critics felt that she deserved more prizes than that.
Released on 6 December in the US, 13 December in Sweden, 19 December in Italy and 26 December in Australia
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The San Jose Sharks have officially signed franchise icon Patrick Marleau to a one-year contract, the team announced Wednesday.
The deal is worth the league minimum of $700,000, according to TSN's Darren Dreger.
The 40-year-old inked a three-year contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs ahead of the 2017-18 campaign after 19 seasons with the Sharks. In June 2019, he was traded to the Carolina Hurricanes, who bought out the final year of his deal days later.
Marleau recorded 16 goals and 37 points in 82 games for the Maple Leafs last season.
Despite his age, the 6-foot-2 Marleau has been one of the league's most durable players, suiting up in 788 consecutive contests over 10 campaigns.
The Saskatchewan native is the Sharks' all-time leader in games played (1,493), points (1,082), and goals (508). He ranks second in assists with 574.
San Jose selected Marleau with the second overall pick in the 1997 NHL Draft.


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Big big day for the Reds. Liverpool defeated Manchester City in what was an electric game. The first half came to a close with the teams locked at a 1-1 draw. The second half was all Liverpool though. They looked as though they were atop the table, not City.
In a role reversal, it was Liverpool that was swarming on defense. It was Liverpool who set the tone and pace. Manchester City could not match the speed of Liverpool. The ever steady Kevin De Bruyne was no where to be found. City lacked pace and creativity. What they didn't lack was defensive mistakes. Otamendi and Stones gave performances reminiscent of last year. Its very trick or treat with them. Otamendi turned the ball over, Stones wasn't strong on the ball, both gave way to goals for Liverpool. The final goal Liverpool scored was caused by a turnover from City goalkeeper Ederson. He came out to play a ball that ended up being directed right into Salah (68′)who chipped it in from 50-60 yards.
The Salah goal was important as City tried unsuccessfully to tie the game. City scored 2 late goals (Silva 84′ & Gundogan 90'+1′) but it wasn't enough. The game ended 4-3 with Liverpool hanging on. The unbeaten streak for Man City is over. Do I think this means the 15 point lead will diminish? No. City are still going to win the league. There's no other team that can beat City with pace like Liverpool. Its just a dent in the armor.


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When starting from scratch and renovating your garden, you might think it is going to cost you an arm and a leg; however, it doesn't have to. There are a few ways to go about saving on the project.
Contact professional help –
Call landscapers. Have them assess your home, or commercial garden, determine what can and can't be done, and ask for their professional opinion. A company which is honest is not only going to provide you in depth analysis and plans, but will also help you find money saving projects which can be done when you are on a budget.
Even if you eventually hire landscapers, whatever you can do on your own, tackle those projects. It will cost less, allows you to add some personal touches you like, and it is something simple you can do to truly customize and design the space in a manner you are going to appreciate and enjoy spending time in.
Hardscape –
Rocks, planter boxes, decorative pieces and garden ornaments. These are a few of the "hard" scape items you can add to your garden area; and, they are usually the costliest. So shop, compare, and find items which aren't as expensive as the higher end items. You can find items which are used, there are some you can even put together yourself rather than buy them already completed, so you can save a bit.
In addition to this, make smart choices as it pertains to plans and floral arrangements. Rather than the most lavish, look for items which flourish. Choose bold colors, go with volume over price, and make sure you shop (locally as well as online), so you can find the best deals possible. If you would like some help designing your garden then hire a gardener. Think strategically and plan ahead, this will usually result in more savings than you might have anticipated when renovating your garden space.


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♦ A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir, " said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
♦ "He had delusions of adequacy ." -Walter Kerr
♦ "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." – Winston Churchill
♦ "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." -Clarence Darrow
♦ "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." -William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
♦ "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." -Moses Hadas
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♦ "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." -Oscar Wilde
♦ "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one." -George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
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♦ "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." -Stephen Bishop
♦ "He is a self-made man and worships his creator." -John Bright
♦ "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." -Irvin S. Cobb
♦ "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." -Samuel Johnson
♦ "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." – Paul Keating
♦ "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." -Charles, Count Talleyrand
♦ "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." Forrest Tucker
♦ "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" -Mark Twain
♦ "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." -Mae West
♦ "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde
♦ "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination." -Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
♦ "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." -Billy Wilder
♦ "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it." -Groucho Marx


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ThePalladium Plunge
In many areas, these days, the available space for a swimming pools becoming limited. Smaller building blocks and larger homes are squeezing the space for a pool.
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Alright, maybe to you this amazing "Digital Circlism" portrait is pretty freaking awesome, but it gives me the willies. There's something weird about having Steve Jobs blast me with his death stare in a mosaic-esque picture. Like he's God or something. Maybe he is. Regardless of whether it's creepy or straight up bomb diggity, we think think this portrait of Steve Jobs is actually pretty rad.
Its creator, Ben Heine, has created a series of portraits like this one using a technique he calls Digital Circlism. It's a synthesis of Pop Art and Pointillism that uses digital tools and flat circles to recreate celebrity portraits.
Ben has been making portraits for over 15 years now but this original technique wasn't developed until around 2010 when he started playing with digital tools. Ben takes inspiration from several photographs then fuses them together to create a brand new photomontage or a rough digital painting and he finally begins the long process of placing circles on a black background using image editing software and using his digital sketches as references (it requires between 100 and 180 hours of work for one portrait). You can check out more of his cool portraits on his website.
So what do you think of the Digital Circlism Steve Jobs portrait? Neat-o-riffic? Or Creepy? Let us know in the comments.


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The debate on process automation and "robot armies" are beginning to flood 21th-century workplaces and tech-savvy Enterprise, but does this extra muscle come with a whiff of science fiction.
Let's look at the fact.
Continue reading "#BQs – I keep hearing RPA won't cut it, so what "automation" must do's come first?"


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Sometimes people are utterly surprised that I don't express as much shock as they do when such events as the Dallas shootings or black men being killed happen around the United States. That's not to say that I don't have legitimate and true feelings about the loss of life and the breakdown of society, but "shocked" implies "surprised," and, as it stands, "surprised" is something I am not.
There are many particular theories on as to why such violence is occurring. The arguments range from socio-economic conditions to denials of any impropriety whatsoever.i This is rather typical of the modern, materialistic worldview which tends to reduce most problems to economic formulae. Competing models demand application — demand an opportunity to test themselves in the arena of the democratic market. However, much like in the domain of homosexuality that I discussed in my previous post, the various "solutions" seem to miss more fundamental considerations.
The first consideration to ponder is the question of multiculturalism. Taken a step deeper, this question is really about how one resolves "differentiation." How does one find "peace" between different peoples, cultures, etc. Often the solution is presented as "checks and balances" or "compromise." However, in practice, this is rarely the case. For the most part, the mode of resolution taken on by modernism is that of "mixture." It is the annihilation of individual differentiation in order to achieve unity. To better understand this, an extended analogy is necessary:
In order to illustrate the three ways of "neutralisation" of binaries, the "coloured body" of the German scientist Wilhelm Ostwald (cf. Die Farbenfibel, Leipzig, 1916) will serve us as an example. Ostwald's coloured body is formed by two cones.
This body therefore has a "north pole," a "south pole" and an "equator."
The "north pole" is the white point which is the synthesis of all colours. It is this white light which is more and more differentiated as it progressively descends towards the "equator." There the colours attain their maximum differentiation and individual intensity. … The "equator" therefore consists of seven colours (the seven colours of the visible spectrum) at their maximum intensity.
These same colours, in continuing their descent from the "equator" towards the "south pole," gradually lose their chromatic light and become darker. When they reach the "south pole" they lose all distinction and become equally black. … The "white point" is the synthesis of all the colours; it is their "neutralisation above," in the light. The "equator" is the region of maximum distinction between the colours. It is there that the transition from one colour to another can be established. It is the region where "horizontal neutralization" can be effected. The "black point," lastly, is that of the confusion of all colours, where they are lost in darkness. It is the region of "neutralisation below."ii
It is not so difficult to imagine that the modern world which is so obsessed with "equality" takes on the role of the black point: the point where differentiation ends as one descends and loses the light of what makes each person different. Is this not, after all, the various conclusions of individuals who seek to deny the existence of races between humans?iii Is this not the expression of a culture that wishes to deny anything higher — anything sacred and, thus, that we are all the same stardust?
Some might argue that what they are attempting to achieve is the "white point" of "synthesis." However, the fantasy of a Utopian, progressive society replaces "synthesis" with "syntheticism." It is the dream of an economic-technological marvel where humanity is flattened into sameness. Humanity is made to act based on a completely synthetic alternative; it is not uplifted towards the fullness of every race's potentiality.
Even optimistic Western depictions of a "united" society in popular culture adhere to the same bland aesthetics while covertly fetishizing the individuated man and segregated cultures.iv This focus on a materialist basis for homogenizing society — the bourgeois dream of providing material excess in order to assimilate cultures into a "progressive" ideology and a singular "popular culture" — is clearly the replacement of an organic, human essence with a mechanical, synthetic one. It is the abdication of the light of human individuality and passion for the cold collectivity of artificial superstructures. This is the black singularity of modern multiculturalism.
Is it also no wonder, therefore, that the gun and the bomb are the iconic modes of conflict resolution in the modern world? Even when "diplomacy" is utilized, is it not the gun and the bomb which preserve the peace through strength in any negotiation? Both these items carried by police and world police respectively betray the underlying modality of modernism to "reduce" and "flatten." The bomb, after all, literally levels cities and indiscriminately targets children, innocents, and soldiers alike with its greatest expression in the atomic variety which not only destroys entire populations and civilizations, but also reduces the very elements by splitting them. By reducing everything to the same, defeated ash heap, it is the ultimate expression of "Death is the great equalizer."
Guns perform this "equalizing" and deadly role in a more personal setting. The "equality" gained by guns is that of a reduction of combat and war to a mechanical and calculating consideration. There is little (though some) elan necessary in wielding a firearm, but the consideration of efficiency and effectiveness is the overriding thought in the modern world. In essence, the goal is to win — to kill. It does not matter if the shooter is superior or inferior, he "equalizes" himself with his target; their interior disposition which would determine will, grace, and passion no longer factors into their combat.
It is interesting to note that when the Tokugawa shogunate banned firearms, "the samurai did not mind."v In fact:
While American pioneers considered their guns a symbolic "badge of honor," the Samurai revered swords as the true symbol of knighthood. For combat, Samurai disdained guns because they allowed fighting from a distance, rather than face to face, and required the combatant to assume an undignified crouching position.vi
In other words, there was no consideration to be made of combat as art — or as a means of transcending one's interior life through facing one's opponent.vii "The inner jihad" as Julius Evola would have put it. For the firearm, any peasant can kill any lord if the consideration was only death. Thus, firearm use against humans as a modern invention, is intimately tied to notions of "equality" and "equality" of the downward variety; approaching the black singularity of utilitarianism.
Is it no wonder, therefore, that there is such a fetishism for guns as it projects an external power that does not require an internal disposition to possess. This is not only true in the gangster culture as well as the NRA culture, but even in mainstream video games from Fallout: New Vegas to Halo. Unlike a sword which requires discipline of the soul, peace of the spirit, and respect of the body to master, a firearm only requires the simulation of these things in order to achieve potency. One need only mimic discipline of the soul by steadying one's hands, one need only pretend to have peace of spirit by slowing one's breathing, and one need only have a medical understanding of the critical points to shoot at in order to kill.
Therefore, firearms are the weapons of "cunning" since their aping of power and inner strength is the same logic behind the "cunning"viii of the serpent. The serpent promised that one would not be gods but one will be like gods.ix Similarly, the gun promises equality with others without ever inducing an interior change. The gun promises gangsters power and potency without ever making the inner man worthy of it. The gun promises authority and policing without ever giving the inner man true legitimacy to wield lethal force.
Conversely, this is also the reason why possession of a firearm is not, in itself, a danger for the man who has already mastered himself. To him it is inferior to the sword and he is not seduced by it. This completes the meditation on the gun as the "cunning" weapon since it does not represent a moral evil, but a morally neutral one in the same way that the forbidden fruit was that of the knowledge of "good and evil" rather than only "evil."x
With such tools as bombs and gunsxi enforcing a bland and assimilative policy, it is no wonder that peace cannot be achieved in the "melting pot" of America. The demands to have every race — even the so called whitesxii — act in a certain manner (could you ever be called "American," for example, if you believed in monarchy?) and live in close proximity is a graphic example of the descent into the "black pole."
If this is true, then, what of the other two modes of "neutralisation"? Can peace be achieved in the equator of the colour spectrum or the white light of potentiality? As for the light of synthesis, this is a transcendent goal which would require a radical transformation of society to an end point — the LOGOS of Teilhard de Chardin, for example, who brings everything to Himself. To such a level, I have no clear view and have no legitimacy to speak. Even to the "equatorial" position, it is difficult to discern proper examples or practical considerations.
It can be intelligible as an idea to be meditated upon: a society which differentiates is the happiest. This was the ideal of the Holy Roman Empire in its de-centralized statexiii. The unity of the Empire was in its transcendent, vertical orientation of its subjects while the material, or horizontal privileges and identities such as race and individuality were preserved. This is the converse of the modern, centralized nation-state or superstate like the European Union. The last vestiges of these ideas remain somewhat viable in Switzerland which had preserved the notion of separating peoples according to creed, language, etc. The cantons of Switzerland have remained peaceful (while having the fourth largest gun ownership per capitaxiv) for decades and violence in the country has remained very low.
Unfortunately, for the United States, separation on this level — into various peaceful cantons — is no longer viable without extreme violence which threatens to kill the crop along with the weeds. Similarly, to have legitimate authority that the various nations-within-the-state could look upon as their uniting factor has never existed in American society. There is no executive power that all look upon as truly wielding the authority to take a man's life.xv
The president and the government, after all, are more like the ghosts of a dead body rather than the soul of a living thing — they are an egregore or "a force generated by a powerful spiritual current and then nourished at regular intervals."xvi If people are so surprised that there is such a sensible resistance to centralized power both among the "Libertarian" and the Black Lives Matter movement should be reminded that, "the confusion of the soul and the phantom is a sufficiently serious error."xvii In other words, phantoms are animated by the corpses while souls animate bodies. With no soul animating the nation, only "the American spirit" resides in the government. Since the flow of animation is reversed, the government is helpless to fix these ills. By granting power through "leveling" means (democracy), there is no elevation of the authority structure that endows those in power with the authority to touch the sacred — the sanctity of justice.
The irony is that the same obsession with economic progress is at the root of the American malaise. If it wasn't for the expediency and efficiency of slavery (again, another "cunning" tactic by modern economists by simulating productivity without truly enlivening the society), then there would be no question of whether or not police have the authority to shoot black people. There would be no conflict of being ruled by one who was not their local lord — or, in modern terms, "community policing."
At the end, is one merely left with pessimism? What is left to do when one recognizes the negative orientation of the modern world's "compromise" and solutions? Short of resurrecting the Empire or acquiring the Mandate of Heaven,xviii it starts with people of a certain type meditating on the proper residence of peace in the world which resides between the poles of white and black — in the rainbow of true diversity. It starts with rejecting the present solutions as untenable and infernal. For every loaf of bread requires yeast to raise it and it is those who act who first must learn for themselves or be informed by those who contemplate on the real and true state of their surroundings.
i. I don't want to bother citing any particular sources for these; any cursory search online will yield sufficient proof for the reader on the prevalence of these theories among pundits and researchers.
ii. Meditations on the Tarot, pp. 222.
iv. One can even look at Star Trek after Gene Roddenberry died where the writers found it necessary to inject more individual majesty to personalities and realpolitik into the Federation. One can look at the "utopia" of the Mass Effect franchise and recognize that, in reality, it subverts itself by accepting the differentiation between species — a classically allegorical depiction of race. It shows alien races living homogenously on their own worlds. This is the same for other depictions in popular culture such as Babylon 5.
vi. Ibid.
vii. Compare this, for example, with the way in which the Dallas sniper chose to perpetrate his acts.
viii. Genesis III, 1.
ix. Genesis III, 5.
x. cf. Meditations on the Tarot, pp. 217.
xi. It's quite interesting that they found bomb materials in the home of the Dallas shooter as it seems to reinforce the same underlying mentality as the rest of the calculus-driven modes of conflict resolution.
xii. The usage of the term "white" for people of European descent is about as laughable as calling the moon the sun.
xiii. Not to mention the ideal of the Chrysanthemum throne which sought to have local lords and local concerns rather than centralized, universal edicts of the later Meiji (and western inspired) Revolution.
xv. Is it no wonder, therefore, that the death penalty is so vehemently opposed? And rightly so — since true legitimate authority has been so long absent from the political world.
xvi. La Kabbale Pratique, Robert Ambelain, pp. 175.
xvii. Meditations on the Tarot, pp. 140.
xviii. Compare this with the "mandates" acquired by populist politicians who derive their authority from something above humanity, but from the great mass of humanity; the vox populi.


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Hey Guys!
Its Sunday and you know what that means. It's time for another book review! today it is time for a book that I have been wanting to read ever since I first heard about it, and that book is Optimists Die First by Susin Nielsen. Let's do this.
I am actually pretty disappointed in this book. It had so much potential to be a really brilliant book full of mental health representation, but it ended up just being a pretty standard love story with a bit of grief.
Don't get me wrong, I did like the love story. Petula and Jacob are pretty cute together and do seem to make a pretty good couple. They really seem to help each other and pull one another back into the light. But for the most part, it just felt like a fairly standard love story. boy meets girl, both been through some shit, boy and girl get together. Simple. and pretty disappointing.
This book had the potential to be incredible. It had three characters dealing with grief and guilt, an alcoholic/drug addict and an openly gay character who had been disowned. There was so much that this book could have covered, but it didn't. none of these stories where truly explored. You saw a little bit of Petula and Jacob dealing with their grief and a little of the other characters trying to handle their situations. But not a lot and not that well. The main character also suffered with anxiety and panic attacks and this wasn't really explored either. It was just said to be 'a fainting spell'. And it is casually mentioned that a another character was on suicide watch for months, but then also not explored any further then that one brief mention.
There was just so much more that this book could have done that it didn't. it focused way too heavily on the romance side of the story and not enough on everything else. I wish Nielsen had either just stuck to a simple romance story or actually focused on the important elements of this story.
2 out of 5
I had such high hoped for this book and it just fell so short. It could have been so much. Have you read this one? What did you think about it? I hope that you have enjoyed todays post and I will see you all again very soon.


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|Start point
|Talk to Arianwyn in Lletya.
|Member requirement
|Members only
|Official difficulty
|Official length
|Skill requirements are not boostable unless marked with a [B] for boostable.
|Items required
|Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added.
To enter the death altar, you will also need:
These items can also be obtained during the quest, but it's possible you already have them in the bank. However, you will need to bring them with you:
|Enemies to defeat
Trouble in the temple
Items needed: Two sets of mourner gear, new key, tarnished key, blank teleport crystal
- You must talk to Arianwyn BEFORE you obtain a second set of mourner gear before you can give it to him, or else it will not allow you to give it to him.
- Talk to Arianwyn in the large building in Lletya.
- To get to Lletya easily, use a Crystal teleport seed a Tirannwn quiver 1, or pass through the forest from Tirannwn lodestone.
- Use a piece of mourner gear on him to give him a set.
- Kill another mourner south of Eagle's Peak to obtain another set of mourner gear.
- With your mourner gear equipped, enter the Mourner Headquarters in the north-east of West Ardougne and climb down the trapdoor.
- Search the Head Mourner's desk for the tarnished and new key if you don't already have either.
- Talk to the gnome.
- Enter the tunnels with the new key and approach the Temple of Light.
- Remove your gas mask and chant-to the blank teleport crystal by standing south-east of the first slave on the square directly north of the jutting out part of the south rock wall.
- After the cutscene, return to Lletya.
- Bank for food to fend against shadows.
- Equip your gas mask again and talk to Arianwyn.
The Death Altar
Items needed: Crystal trinket, Death talisman
- Proceed to Thorgel in the temple, do not teleport as door will be locked on return!
- Go up the stairs, up the southern ladder, down the central stairs, down again, walk through the light door, rotate mirror and enter the west room with the Death Altar and Thorgel.
- Talk to Thorgel immediately before the teleport to the death altar. He is near the mysterious ruins.
- Talk to Arianwyn.
- Investigate the energised pillar.
- Talk to Arianwyn.
- Use the crystal trinket on the energised pillar.
- Talk to Arianwyn.
- Enter the mysterious ruins.
- Remember these steps and do them quickly, or you'll have to try again:
|Talk to Thorgel to become energised.
|Exit the altar.
|Pass the door of light.
|Rotate the first pillar of light mirror by the stairs.
|Go up and use the stairs to the north.
|Run all the way east then south to the large crystal and touch it.
|Run back down the stairs and touch the energized pillar.
Within the light itself
- Once inside, search the dead slave on the ground.
- Chop, then fix the eastern tree with the blue beam.
- Solve the puzzles by reflecting the beams to the opposite coloured receivers (i.e. blue to yellow, blue+red to green, green+blue to red, all three to black). You'll need to direct all beams to the newest receiver. Due to how mirrors reflect, you often have to reroute, just keep trying different paths for quickest solution. Refer to the full guide if you can't figure it out.
- Exit using the ladder in the southeast. (Not the Portal!)
If you die, your grave will appear behind the energised pillar. To get there, teleport to the death altar through the Abyss or the wicked hood if the door to the altar is unlocked. You will have to repeat the energisation process again to re-enter the platform puzzle area. Progress of the light puzzle will also be saved.
- Reach the platform with the ballista avoiding the spikes.
- Shoot it at the right time to hit the target.
The passage to Prifddinas
- Go back and jump to the ladder.
- Go-through the large stone door on the west wall.
- Search the Elf messenger.
- Read the report.
- Return to Arianwyn in Lletya.
- Quest complete!
- 2 quest points
- 35,000 experience
- 20,000 experience
- 20,000 experience
- 20,000 experience
- 2 Treasure Hunter keys and 2 Hearts of Ice
- Additional rewards/activities
- The ability to add a choice of destination to your crystal teleport seeds. Talk to Eluned in Isafdar during or after the quest with one fully charged crystal teleport seed in inventory. The teleport can't be added if you are carrying more than one crystal teleport seed. The crystal teleport seed will acquire the ability to teleport to a safe area in front of the Temple of Light, in addition to its original Lletya teleport.
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Benson Wu, the lead designer of the displayed design CHI Office - Office by Benson Wu explicates, It is CHI Design office where is renovated old house. It faced some problems such as uneven ceilings and floors, and disorderly compartments. After the redesign, and applying the advantage of four side windows, the office environment is full of natural sunlight, in addition, the space blends elements such as metals, stones, and artesian cement floor, also the concept of the pattern set on penetration. With the changes of seasons and differences between day and night, people can feel the infinite vitality of the space that ignites the passion for creation. .
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The MRT- No Place For An Able Bodied Male.
- At April 12, 2008
- By Insane Polygons
- In Life, Rants
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Our SMRT is supposed to have won some kind of international award for being fabulous and all kinds of shit. The kind of awards which are usually given out by a panel of old guys and old women.
So its understandable.
But if you're like me, an abled bodied male whose age can be anything from 20-49, then I'd say the MRT is no place for you.
I never take the MRT if I have a choice. These days, its always packed and it doesn't matter which direction you go or at which time you take it. Rush hour is no different from normal hours which is no different from after hours. Its always crowded and there's always a fat, hairy smelly guy standing too close to you. I hate it when people invades into my private space. But with the SMRT all out bid to make as much profit as possible, its not a choice anyone has. If you're going to take the MRT, you will have to accept the fact that someone will be stepping into that private space. Someone who is usually fat, hairy and smelly.
I remember a time when you could actually take the MRT for pleasure. Back when there's a 60 percent chance you will actually be able to sit from the time you get on to the time you get off. These days, if you're like me, the only time you'd get to sit, if there's a sarin gas alert on the MRT and you really don't mind holding your breath from Pasir Ris to Jurong. Or you could pretend to sleep and see your pretend-sleep face plastered all over stomp.sg the next day and outraged strangers tracking you down on Facebook and Friendster.
2 weeks ago, I had the unfortunate experience of taking the MRT from Tiong Bahru all the way to Pasir Ris. Not one time in the entire trip did I actually get a chance to sit down. Being able bodied doesn't make me superman. I still get tired. But what choice do I have? It was only slightly better than rush hour- so instead of the fat, hairy smelly man staring right in your face, he's far enough so the stench is bearly endurable. I am not saying in between stops there wasn't people getting off and vacating the seats, but its just that you know sooner or later, there always, ALWAYS someone who needs the seat more than you.
Being an able bodied male means I am right at the bottom of the seat totem pole. The only thing lower on the totem pole is shopping bags- sometimes. There's always some kid, mother carry some kid or mother who is going to have some kid soon, or old people boarding the train. You couldn't sit down for 5 minutes without the need to give up the seat to someone. So in the end, why bother. Might as well stand.
The MRT is really no place for the able bodied male.


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Once in a while, a group of musicians sits down to play together and something magical happens. When North Carolinians Harry Tueting and Rik McDuffee met Englishman Kevin Bingley, it was just such a magical moment, and Mister Mustard was born.
Tueting and McDuffie, who hail from Wilmington, have known each other and played together since they met each other in a civics class at John T. Hoggard High School in the early 70's.. As musical partners, they have had the opportunity to share the stage with national acts like The Charlie Daniels Band, The Kentucky Headhunters and Exile. McDuffie is well-known in the Raleigh area as a jazz musician, and Tueting was a founding member of the Chapel Hill-based rock band Rain Dance.
Bingley is a native of Leicester, England, and has been performing since the early 70's. He worked with many bands during the 70's including Elton John, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, The Who, Dr. Hook, and Supertramp, and was a bandmate of Ric Grech - who, along with Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, comprised Blind Faith- widely recognized as the world's first "Supergroup".
The guys had been considering adding a percussionsit to round out the mix when Tueting called up Robert Hudson his bandmate from Rain Dance. From the very first song they played together it seemd like Mister Mustard had always been a quartet. Hudson, from South Carolina, has been playing in bands since the early 1960s that have opened for The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Asleep At The Wheel, Rare Earth and Uriah Heep.
Featuring strong vocals, tight harmonies, blistering instrumental work and solid songwriting, Mister Mustard pays tribute to influences like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elton John, CCR, The Band, etc., but also serves up a plateful of hot, spicy new material. All four members sing lead and harmony, play a variety of instruments, and write. Mister Mustard's gigs are remarkable mostly because they're just fun - Harry, Rik, Robert and Kevin really are good buddies, and they revel in sharing good music with their friends. The onstage comraderie and chemistry is contagious!
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This article was published 12/6/2019 (389 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
As six theology students receive their degrees from University of Winnipeg this week, their graduation signifies the end of an era.
The convocation ceremony on Friday will be the last for the theology program that educated Christian ministers, chaplains and church workers for the last 136 years.
"Theology kind of carries the story of the University of Winnipeg," said Widney Pervil, who graduates with a master of divinity, and also carries the dubious honour of being the last student admitted into the program.
"For the university to lose that, they are losing a big part of their history."
Originally from Haiti, the 34-year-old Pervil is one of six students — four graduate, and two undergraduates — who completed their divinity degrees during a concentrated "teach-out" of the program.
The university closed the program due to declining enrolment and a funding cut from the United Church of Canada, senior executive officer Chris Minaker said via email.
Theological education at the University of Winnipeg dates to 1883 with the creation of a department of theology at Manitoba College to train Presbyterian ministers. Manitoba College merged with Methodist-run Wesley College in 1938 to become United College, and then the University of Winnipeg in 1967.
The faculty of theology prepared students for ministry in the United Church until the early 1970s.
For the last five decades, theology courses at U of W attracted students preparing for the ministry for a variety of Christian denominations, as well as training spiritual directors and chaplains, recalled Rev. Mac Watts, dean of theology from 1978 to 1985.
"When I came in 1978, there was already an ecumenical student body," said Watts, who previously taught religious studies at the University of Manitoba.
He said the main difference between the theology and religious studies was theological study assumes a religious commitment instead of being purely academic.
"It's like you're in the faculty of law and you're preparing for a profession," said Watt. "You're within the (faith) community and you're preparing for a career in it."
In 2013, the U of W dissolved the faculty and replaced it with the United Centre for Theological Studies, after the United Church cut all funding. Several students are still completing master of arts degrees in theology though the centre, James Currie, vice-president academic, said in an email message.
United Church officials understood theological education would continue at the University of Winnipeg with the transition from the faculty to the centre, said John H. Young, executive minister of theological leadership.
"Certainly, the United Church in 2013 agreed the faculty of theology could end and it would be replaced by the centre and that would be a way for theology to continue," he said in a telephone interview, referring to the University of Winnipeg Act which required the United Church to agree to the dissolution of the faculty.
"It was clear it was passed with certain conditions."
Minaker said in an email message the "university is in compliance with the act."
Whatever the politics around the cutting of theology courses, students mourn the loss of a program that attracted a diverse student body and promoted interaction with many faith traditions, said Michael Thibert, a permanent deacon in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Winnipeg who works as a spiritual and cultural care provider.
"You start seeing God in a wider context," said Thibert, who will graduate with a bachelor of theology and previously obtained a diploma in Indigenous spiritual and pastoral care.
"The peripheral vision is expanded to take in things you ordinarily wouldn't look at."
That wider perspective attracted Rev. Ji-Yung Jennifer Choi to transfer from a denominational school to the University of Winnipeg to complete her divinity degree.
"I think I was really stretched out during these courses and discussion with colleagues," said Choi, 47, who fit in her courses between working part-time as assistant minister at the Korean Fellowship at Portage Avenue Church and running her immigration business. She was ordained to the ministry in 2017.
For Pervil, who completed his degree in three years while working full-time as a chaplain, theological studies broadened his understanding of the world.
"It has changed me in terms of being able to find theology in everything around me," said Pervil, who plans to complete a doctorate and return to Haiti to teach. "Theology is not just in the Bible, It's all around us."
Brenda Suderman
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The Barack Obama campaign matched McCain's Joe the Plumber bet by seeing a retired war general's endorsement. Colin Powell today endorsed Obama.
Mark Halperin of Time called it "one of the most important symbolic moments of the campaign."
Sources say Obama courted Powell's support for well over a year, with private discussions that have largely involved policy consultations, but also some explicit pleas for support. Powell's neutrality up until now had worried some Republicans, and a possible nod for Obama has been rumored and discussed for months. Whenever he has been asked in public about Obama, Powell has had nothing but kind words but, before his appearnace on Meet the Press, always stopped short of a full endorsement.
The Powell endorsement comes as influential newspapers are beginning a week of endorsements. The Star Tribune, for example, today urged a "no" vote on the sales tax increase for outdoors and cultural programs. The Pioneer Press editorial board followed suit.
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T.I., who recently reconciled with Xscape singer Tameka "Tiny" Harris, always wanted another baby girl after Heiress and it appears that the ATL actor got his wish.
Last night, Xscape composed of Kandi Burruss, her good friend, Tiny, and sisters LaTocha Scott and Tamika Scott along with many celebrities attended a BET event that was raising awareness for breast cancer.
The divas showed up and owned the red carpet in their perfectly color-coordinated outfits.
All the ladies looked amazing in soft colors like pink, white, and a splash of gold. Tiny wore a tight dress that made her fans go wild.
While her stunning curves and assets were on full display, people seem to be sure that Tiny is pregnant with her 5th child.
Most supporters, who have seen the videos, believe that T.I. and Tiny's children — Clifford "King" Joseph Harris III, Major Philant, and baby Heiress — are going to have a sibling.
Since dumping Bernice Burgos and getting back with Tiny, T.I. has been asking for another child.
A source said: "Tiny and T.I. have had a lot of romantic nights in the past couple of months. Their sex life is better than it has been in years.Things have gotten very wild, and they have not exactly been careful, and you know what that means. Tiny gets pregnant very easily, and last week she was convinced it had happened again.."
The person went on to reveal: "…she is definitely open to having another baby with T.I."
BET Goes Pink is a campaign that seeks to educate African-American women about breast cancer and empower them to take control of their health. BET has partnered with the Susan G. Komen Foundation, American Cancer Society and the Sister's Network to bring information and resources on breast cancer prevention, treatment and survivor support groups.
The singer recently explained how deep her love for her man is by saying: "For us, I think that it is all in love. We just have a lot of love for each other and a lot of years in it, too. It brings us back to being on a certain page that we just can't keep running from. We can run from it for a minute and be like, 'I am through with him, I do not care nothing about it.' Then love just comes back and we are like, 'You know what, come back over here, let me talk to you about this.'"
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Composer/Lyricist Stephen Schwartz to Speak at Theatre Royal, Sydney, Feb 13
Stephen Schwartz's has won three academy awards, four Grammys, four Drama Desk Awards and a special Tony Award for his work on Broadway hits including Godspell, Pippin and Wicked as well as the Disney movies Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Enchanted.
Leigh Sales is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and author. She anchor's ABC's national flagship current affair program 7.30 Report and in 2005 won a Walkley award for her coverage of issues surrounding Guantamo Bay. She won another Walkley in 2012 for best interviews for her work on 7.30. She has interviewed numerous World Leaders, including Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Produced by Enda Markey, Stephen Schwartz in conversation with Leigh Sales will also feature performances from some of Australia's leading musical theatre performers: Stephen Mahy, Elise McCann, Christy Sullivan as well as Broadway performer Michael McCorry Rose.
Stephen Mahy has starred in the Australian productions of Jersey Boys, Grease and The Rocky Horror Show; Elise McCann is currently starring as Miss Honey in the hit musical Matilda; Christy Sullivan recently played Linda in Blood Brothers and has appeared in Next To Normal (MTC) and Spring Awakening (STC); Michael McCorry Rose was most recently seen on Broadway in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, prior to which he was seen as Fiyero in Wicked.
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ in conversation with LEIGH SALES
THEATRE ROYAL, MLC Centre, 108 King Street, Sydney
13 February 2016
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? Understand the essentials of quantitative research, especially survey research
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As part of its continued push into the AI sector, Google has just revealed that it has purchased a new deep learning startup. The Indian-based Halli Labs are the latest addition to Google's Next Billion Users team, joining the world-leading tech company less than two months after the startup's first public appearance. The young company has described its mission statement at Google as "to help get more technology and information into more people's hands around the world." Halli announced the news itself in a brief post on Medium, and Caesar Sengupta, a VP at Google, confirmed the purchase shortly afterwards on Twitter.
Welcome @Pankaj and the team at @halli_labs to Google. Looking forward to building some cool stuff together. https://t.co/wiBP1aQxE9— Caesar Sengupta (@caesars) July 12, 2017


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"We don't celebrate accumulation at a funeral. We celebrate generosity and selflessness."
Andy Stanley shared this thought at LeaderCast one year. Think about every funeral you have attended. You hear stories of unknown kindness, sacrifices made so others wouldn't have to, integrity in the face of temptation. But this is not a reminder to live your life for the sake of your obituary one day. We could all find something in our past to fill the few lines in the newspaper. How you raise your kids, where you volunteer on the weekends, something you did for a friend when you were young. That's old that. I want to speak to your today.
In a few months it will be the 2-year anniversary of my wife's grandfather passing away. It was a hard day for the family, but not as hard as it might have been. Here's why; her and her brother went up to Virginia just one week before he passed to spend time with her family. Her grandfather made beer sausage, cooked up some mushrooms, and hung out with them when they went downtown. She will forever hold on to those last moments with joy. Looking back at this and other examples, I have come to one conclusion. Each day we live, we are writing our obituary.
No one wants to be remembered only for what they did 10-20-30 years ago. We do not want to leave a dated legacy for those in the wake of our life. That may sound morbid, but it should be exhilarating. We must make each day count for something. That's the beauty of each new sunrise. Last week might have stunk. You may have literally wasted every moment of every day for seven consecutive days. But then you woke up. You may not do something life changing or world changing, but then again you might. You have to make the conscious decision to not waste what is left. Don't worry, you can do it.
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