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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Something for the Weekend
Cecil Beaton
Elsa Martinelli, Henry Clark
Gloria Vanderbilt, Horst 1941
Not quite the weekend but nearly! Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Cecil and David
Peter Schlesinger
In 1969, David Hockney was asked by Vogue to do a drawing of Cecil Beaton, David went to stay with Cecil for three days at Reddish...
"To begin with I was utterly appalled, having remained in some romantic but extremely uncomfortable pose for a great deal too long, when I saw an outline in Indian ink of a bloated, squat, beefy businessman. He laughed. No it wasn't very good, and he embarked upon another which turned out to be just as bad"
"About eight horrors were perpetrated while the days advanced until, finally, something rather good emerged".
"It is always fascinating to see someone as remote as oneself working in the same field. I was intrigued to see him admiring things that I like from a completely different point of view. We could not be farther apart as human beings and yet I find myself completely at ease with him and stimulated by his enthusiasm. For he has this golden quality of being able to enjoy life".
"He is never blasé, never takes anything for granted. Life is a delightful wonderland for him; much of the time he is wreathed in smiles. He laughs aloud at television and radio. He is the best possible audience, though by no means simple. He is sophisticated in that he has complete purity. There is nothing pretentious about him; he never says anything he does not mean. In the world of art intrigue he is a complete natural".
"After dinner at Dickie Buckle's, David talked of the coming of the Golden Age. He had read many philosophers and has thought a great deal. In the next forty years all will change. The computer will do away with work; everyone will be an artist".
A recent photograph of David Hockney
Excerts from Cecil Beatons Diary, 1963-74 The Parting Years.
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Cecil in the Picture
Cecil, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, on the set of Performance, 1968
Cecil, Mick Jagger
Cecil, David Hockney at Reddish 1969, Peter Schlesinger
Cecil, Bianca Jagger 1978
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Fenella Fielding
Fenella Fielding in Carry On Screaming
"She wowed Noel Coward, fascinated Fellini and seemed destined to become a huge star. But after a vampish turn in 1966's 'Carry on Screaming', Fenella Fielding's film career never recovered".
Recently I watched an excellent documentary from BBC4's time shift series, 'Hotel Deluxe', all about the history of the deluxe hotel. What made it extra special was the narration, beautifully delivered in the unmistakable, seductive tones of Fenella Fielding. It was so good to hear that voice again, and what a voice, a perfect English cut-glass accent with a seductive huskiness that makes men melt and women envy, I am not aware that I have heard it in advertising but I would be very surprised if La Fielding has not had offers, it's the kind of voice that could persuade you to buy or do anything.
I first became aware of Fenella Fielding when as a child I watched her in 'Carry on Screaming', the film had a lasting effect on me, and is my favourite carry on, mainly due to Fenella, I have never forgotten her. I don't know how well known the carry on series was outside of Britain, they were a series of low budget comedy films, which relied on slapstick, farce and double entendres, usually featuring the same group of actors, who were poorly paid. The films were made between 1958 and 1978 and are as British as fish and chips, kiss me quick hats and Blackpool Rock and people either love them or loathe them. In carry on screaming, Fenella stole the show, even though career wise it was not her finest hour, her screen presence is undeniable.
After watching hotel deluxe, I got curious, I wanted to know what happened to Fenella, after a bit of rooting around I unearthed this interview by Robert Chalmers, from The Independant on Sunday, 24th February 2008, the interview is quite long so I have just included the most interesting bits...
Fenella Fielding, by Duffy for Vogue 1961
It's one of the mysteries of British life that Fenella Fielding, whose wit and distinctive stage presence captivated figures such as Kenneth Tynan, Noël Coward and Federico Fellini, should have drifted into obscurity rather than being celebrated – to use a phrase deservingly derided by Alan Bennett, but in this case the only one that will do – as a national treasure. Fielding pioneered the notion that a young British woman could write and perform stand-up comedy, with her solo shows and musical revues at places such as Peter Cook's Establishment club. Her Hedda Gabler was described by The Times as "one of the experiences of a lifetime". Yet she has somehow come to be remembered only as a sort of cartoon vamp. If there's a single image that defines her in the public's memory, it's the one in which Valeria, her character in Carry on Screaming, who is a member of the living dead, reclines on a chaise-longue and asks "Do you mind if I smoke?" Seconds later, clouds of dry ice appear, apparently rising from her generously exposed torso.
Shivering on the forecourt of the Dorchester are a group of photographers waiting for a Keira Knightley or a Johnny Depp. Seeing Fenella Fielding, who emerges from a taxi dressed modestly but elegantly in a charcoal leather raincoat and her trademark white-collared blouse, the entire group turns to look at her, as if instinctively sensing the presence of a true star.
Fielding, who is one of the industry's more retiring figures, had explained that she couldn't meet me at her west London flat because she was having building work done. We sit down for tea in the hotel bar. Her appearance has scarcely changed over the past 30 years: somehow – and by what strategies I don't ask her – she has retained her looks without developing the alarming skeletal appearance acquired by actresses
whose faces have had "work".
Her age has been the subject of some debate. She says she was 73 in November. Enemies, some of whom appear to have tampered with her Wikipedia entry, ungallantly ' assert that she has been with us slightly longer than that. There is, she tells me, a significant gap in years between herself and her brother Basil, otherwise known as Baron Feldman of Frognal. The baron, a former plastic-toy magnate whose business interests, according to one report, have included "Sindy dolls, aircraft kits and yo-yos", is an influential figure in the Conservative Party.
"It must be quite a gap," I suggest, "because Basil gives his age in Who's Who as 81."
"It is," she says. "But you'll have to be vague about that. Or I may never work again."
Quite why her age should be of concern to anyone, I'm not sure, given that she has lost nothing in terms of swiftness of thought or memory: there was no point during our several hours of conversation at which she had to pause to search for a name. She's sharp, engaging, and discusses the work of writers ranging from Stella Gibbons to Patrick Marber. Like her old friend Kenneth Williams, she maintains an exaggeratedly robust façade, which serves as a buffer against a potentially cruel and intrusive world. The tone of ironic seduction and improbable poshness that she brought to her two Carry on... films and movies such as Doctor in Clover, never fades. When Patrick McGoohan asked her to be the voice that hails the villagers in his 1967 television series, The Prisoner, she recalls, "He told me not to be too sexy. I mean," she adds, "such a thought would never have occurred to me."
Most performers who have spent over 50 years in showbusiness have generated a thick and colourful stack of newspaper cuttings. But this actress's file is slim, and contains almost nothing in terms of substantive information about her. She is not, as it turns out, an aristocrat; Fielding is a stage name and Basil, her only sibling, is a life peer whose sponsors, when he entered the Lords, were Margaret Thatcher and Cecil Parkinson.
"Daddy had a cinema," she says. "At Silvertown. In north London." "Did you go there, as a girl?" "Yes." "What did you see?" "I can't remember. I can remember what I ate. Coconut squares dipped in chocolate, wrapped in gold paper." Fielding laughs. "Lovely."
She admits to being the daughter of Philip Feldman, who arrived in Britain aged about three, from Russia, and his wife Tilly, who was Romanian. She concedes that she grew up in Lower Clapton, Hackney, and went to North London Collegiate School, but won't say which London drama school she attended.
"I think you're on record as saying it was Rada."
"I ... it's not important. I didn't complete the course. There were rows every morning."
"Because your parents didn't want you to act?" "I had to hide every morning, until Daddy had gone out to work. And then stay out late to try to avoid him in the evening. Because of these terrible rows. Mummy would come and try to get me to go back home in the middle of the day. After about a year the school said look, this cannot carry on. I had to leave."
She was dispatched to secretarial college. Concerning her ambition to act, she once said, "I think my parents had visions of me being found in the Thames with six illicit foetuses in my womb and needle marks up my arm."
Asking her questions, I tell her, I keep being reminded of what the southern Spanish say about the Catalans, namely that they are so secretive that if you meet them in a department-store lift, they won't tell you if they're going up or down. She has never married, something which – combined with the many friendships she has had with gay men, such as Francis Bacon, Kenneth Williams and author Daniel Farson – have led some to assume her to be lesbian.
"I suppose it's only natural, if you don't have prominent liaisons. But my closest lady friends, if they heard that, they would shriek with laughter."
"Have you lived your life alone?"
"I don't think that would be entirely true. Not really. Years ago, a woman asked me: 'Do you have a boyfriend?' I told her: 'I have two lovers.' She got very upset and said: 'What a terrible thing to say.' Why was that terrible? And later on, I repeated this to a man who was gay. He said: 'Well, that is terrible. It must only ever be one person.' I said: 'Oh. Right. Fine. I see. I'll remember that. Thank you for the tip.'"
With Tony Curtis in Drop Dead Darling 1966
Cecil Beaton, 1972
Was there one moment, I ask Fielding, where she might have broken away from the stereotype typified by Carry on Screaming? "I turned down the chance to work with Frederico Fellini in the late-1960s." The director of La Strada and La Dolce Vita, she adds, "had a big thing about me. He saw me on stage in the Sardou comedy, Let's Get a Divorce. He wanted me to do this film in which I'd play the incarnation of six different men's desires. Not a bad role." Fielding laughs. "You see, Fellini had never heard of Carry on... He just saw what he saw and thought: I like that. It was thrilling. I had to meet him at a hotel. It was a fascinating time; full of secret telegrams and so on. He was gorgeous. But I'd already said yes to a play at Chichester. I thought it would be dishonourable to let them down. I would say that's the thing that I really regret."
"What happened to the Fellini film?" "He never made it. He sold the script. What I did was really stupid, I know. But everybody does something really stupid. That was my one."
It's not as if she hasn't done outstanding work in recent years: Dearest Nancy, Darling Evelyn, her dramatised performance of the letters between Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, has toured to excellent reviews, but always in small venues. And she had a successful tour of Ireland in 2006 with The Vagina Monologues.
In 1996, at the tiny New End Theatre in Hampstead, the theatre director Andrew Visnevski gave Fielding a starring role in Maria, the life story of Polish poet Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska. (She was a truly great writer, often referred to as the Polish Oscar Wilde – just why has Ms Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska never become a household name?) Talking to Visnevski, I mentioned how many contemporary films I'd seen – mostly, but not exclusively, comedies – in which Fielding might have shone. The scarcity of her recent appearances on screen has, I suggested, been little short of tragic.
"There are so many parts she could have played," Visnevski said. "Her mind is crystal-clear, she does yoga every day, and she is still interested in everything. She judges films for Bafta. I cast her in that straight biographical play about a woman writer who dies of cancer partly because I wanted to see her shed that caricaturish Carry on... image that has haunted her for years. She was just phenomenal. She is an incredible, multi-faceted actor."
"So why isn't she working more?"
"Everybody sees Fenella through the image she's created. She is, let's face it, one of the last great stars in England. And every great star has an image. But hidden under there is a vigorous, highly intelligent, uniquely talented and sensitive artist who still has a great deal to offer."
Uniquely talented she may be, but the urgent question that faces Fenella Fielding is how long it may be before any contemporary casting directors notice. When we leave The Dorchester, the photographers turn to stare at her again. Fielding seems oblivious to them. She has to prepare for an audition the following day, she says, but she doesn't like to talk about prospective roles in case she doesn't get them. She picks her way across the forecourt, which is crowded with limousines and taxis, and boards a bus for Marble Arch, still dreaming of a less trivial kind of fame.
I for one would love to see Fenella back on our screens, casting directors take note
Dame Maggie, Dame
Eileen and Dame Judy are all fabulous but I am sure there is room for Fenella too, she is utterly wonderful.
To read the interview in full go
Fenella is currently appearing in Dearest Nancy, Darling Evelyn at various venues in Britain to find out more details and see what else she is up to visit her website
The role that damaged Fenellas career, carry on screaming 1966
Appearing with Britian's best loved comedy double act, Morecambe and Wise on their Christmas special show, 1969
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Friday, September 23, 2011
Blonde Geisha
Jean Shrimpton by Cecil Beaton 1964
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Reflections of The South
We have returned from our jaunt to France's Mediterranean coast and I am already missing it. They say people are; town people, country people, mountain people or coastal people, I am a bit of all of those, however whenever I am on or near the Mediterranean coast, I feel a sense of well being and contentment that I cannot explain, it runs deeper than just a holiday thing, my hairdresser, describes my hair as Mediterranean! Perhaps my early ancestors hailed from some place on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Now back in the foothills of the Pyrenees, the weather is growing colder and there is the distinct smell of Autumn in the air, the first dusting of snow appeared on the mountains the other morning. The Mediterranean won't really experience colder weather till around November.
I know some people who have moved from the Mediterranean coast to other parts of France because they miss the seasons, although there are seasons in that part of the world, they are less defined. There is a point in Southern France and I can tell you exactly where it is, it is just after Carcasonne, the landscape starts to change, green fields and deciduous trees decrease in numbers and are replaced by pines, cypresses and vineyards as you reach Narbonne you get your first glimpse of the sparkling blue Mediterranean and the further east you go, the landscape becomes increasingly Mediterranean, driving through towns you see Bougainvillea, Oleander and olive trees in abundance, the architecture changes, the colours change, tiles on roofs change, the style of the shutters on the buildings change and most significantly, the light changes...
I could not resist snapping this 2CV, they are getting rarer in France, you don't see this icon of France on the roads as often as you used to. Judging by the flowers, attached by a ribbon, I suspect this one has just been used for a wedding, possibly carrying the bride and groom. My friend Veronique over at
French Girl in Seattle
has just written a superb post about the 2CV, pop over and visit her, she has one of the most informative and interesting blogs regarding France and French life.
Most of these photos were taken in Antibes, we spent an afternoon there with Belle Mere, she had not been for quite a while, she reminisced about a restaurant, near an English bookshop, she used to frequent around 20 years ago, imagine her delight when she discovered the restaurant and bookshop still there. The restaurant was different to how she remembered it, much more modern and swanky now and the bookshop is larger, needless to say we had a delightful lunch and afterwards wandered round the bookshop.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Provenance...The Future
I have a bit of a mental block today, three posts in draft that are not quite right, so I leave you with this rather interesting article from The Sunday Times...
For anyone who has ever mused, "if only walls could talk", help could soon be at hand.
Scientists have created a way of linking objects to a specific web page allowing, for example, the buyer of a second hand car to watch a video left by the previous owner or access the recollections of people earlier inside a room.
The concept works by use of quick response (QR) codes, which resemble large bar codes. They are attached to objects and when scanned with a smartphone they link with a website specific to that item. Users can post their comments or memories of items to create a social network of things rather than people.
It was developed by Andrew Hudson-Smith, director of the Centre for Advanced Spacial Analysis at University College London, and a team of artists and scientists working on a project to build a social networking site of objects called Tales of Things.
"It is a mixture of facebook, the Antiques Roadshow and e Bay", he said. "For the first time the item can give you information about it's own history and background and new owners can continue to add to that story from the cradle to the grave.
I have heirlooms and I just wish I could point my mobile phone at them and see my grandmother talking about why she bought it or how she came to own it."
The technology has already been tested by the charity Oxfam and will be introduced at 20 shops next year.
Customers will be able to scan QR codes attached to second-hand clothes and hear audio tracks or watch videos recorded by previous owners.
The singer Annie Lennox was one of those involved in the trial. In a video attached to a silk dress she donated, Lennox explained how she wore it to Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday party in London's Hyde Park.
Sarah Farquhar, Oxfam's head of retail, said the additional personal messages had boosted sales by 41%.
"In our disposable society it makes people stop and think about the value of their things and the memories attached to them," she said.
The Tales of Things project is funded by a £1.4m research grant from the Digital Economy Research Councils UK.
As well as being used by Oxfam, the technology has been installed at 4,000 bus stops in Norway, where passengers can retrieve information from other commuters about delays.
"If you look at how the technology works, you could use it in a range of different ways," Hudson-Smith said.
"We could get to a stage where you can prove the geographic location of every object that has a tag on. That means an insurance firm would be able to prove what you owned and whether it was still in your home, which would cut down on fake claims. You could also trace stolen items.
"When it comes to food, you are more likely to buy something if you know where it comes from, for example, by having a tag on a box of eggs. If you see a video of the farmer talking and you see the hens running around free range, then you are more likely to buy the eggs and pay a higher price for them."
On the Tales of Things website, people have posted memories about treasured possessions, ranging from a Star Wars Yoda mug to the pier at Aberystwyth, north Wales.
Hudson-Smith said: "It's Like leaving a living museum. We're aiming to trace every object from the cradle to the grave to add life to objects so that our stories can live on in our things for future generations to find."
By Kate Mansey, from The Sunday Times 18/09/2011
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Lazy Sunday
Samantha Jones in Nina Ricci, by Gianni Penati, Vogue 1968
It's been one of those drizzly, damp weekends here in the Pyrenees, after a hectic couple of weeks, its very welcome, been extremely lazy, all cozied up, with plenty of red wine and nibbles at hand, messing about on the computer, reading and watching films. As I type this MG is busy in the kitchen, preparing his legendary roast chicken and roast potatoes. I spotted the above picture on my internet wanderings and almost had to reach for the smelling salts, I love it, this tunic is beautifully simple, classic, timeless and elegant. I am sorely tempted to send an e mail to my BF, who at this moment is somewhere in the garment district of Hong Kong, 'Ivory silk, please and you know my measurements'! I think it would look sublime teamed with black, silk, wide legged palazzo pants.
What else, more of the same really with chocolates, ready for tonight, when I will be firmly rooted to the sofa, watching the first hour and a half special of the much awaited, second series of the phenomenon known as....
Hope your all having a wonderful Sunday
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Never mind that Kim Kardashian has twice split from NFLer Reggie Bush -- she's still got his back.
In an interview with People mag, Kardashian weighed in on fallout from a NCAA investigation that concluded her ex and members of his family broke college basketball rules by accepting thousands in cash and housing and travel freebies when Bush was a star running back for the University of Southern California.
Kardashian said USC seriously erred in deciding Tuesday in responding to the controversy by voluntarily giving up its copy of the 2005 Heisman trophy which named Bush as that year's best college football player in the country.
"Reggie worked hard for that Heisman and deserves it," the reality star told People. "He earned it!I really don't think it's fair to give it back."
Bush, who now plays for the New Orleans Saints, has not been ordered to give up his prized trophy – yet.
The president of the Heisman Trust said this week the organization is weighing whether to strip him of the bronze statue and has not set a timetable for its decision, The Associated Press reported.
Meanwhile, USC has reportedly removed Bush's jerseys and all other tributes from its campus and the school's football team has been banned from all bowl games for the next two years and lost out on being able to award a number of scholarships, as a result of the scandal.
In addition, the school's athletic program has been put on probation for four years.
Kardashian, who has dated Bush on and off since 2007, last broke things off in March.
Since their split, Kardashian has reportedly begun dating another footballer, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Miles Austin.

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BOULDER, Colo., March 1 (UPI) -- The reason why Earth did not warm as much as expected between 2000 and 2010 could be down to dozens of volcanoes spewing sulfur dioxide, U.S. scientist say.
A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder said emissions from moderate volcanoes around the world might have masked some of the effects of global warming.
Sulfur dioxide emissions from Earth's surface eventually rise 12 to 20 miles into the stratospheric aerosol layer of the atmosphere, where chemical reactions create sulfuric acid and water particles that reflect sunlight back to space, cooling the planet, the researchers said.
Scientists have been blaming increases in stratospheric aerosols since 2000 on human greenhouse gas emissions, but volcanoes may have been responsible for as much as 25 percent of it, they said.
"This new study indicates it is emissions from small to moderate volcanoes that have been slowing the warming of the planet," CU-Boulder doctoral candidate Ryan Neely said.
The study suggests scientists need to pay more attention to volcanoes when trying to understand changes in Earth's climate, atmospheric and oceanic sciences Professor Brian Toon said.
"But overall these eruptions are not going to counter the greenhouse effect," he said. "Emissions of volcanic gases go up and down, helping to cool or heat the planet, while greenhouse gas emissions from human activity just continue to go up."


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The redingote (or redingotte, redingot)[2] is a type of coat that has had several forms over time. The name is derived from a French alteration of the English "riding coat", an example of reborrowing.
Women's redingote[edit]
The first form of the redingote was in the eighteenth century, when it was used for travel on horseback. This coat was a bulky, utilitarian garment. It would begin to evolve into a fashionable accessory in the last two decades of the eighteenth century, when women began wearing a perfectly tailored style of the redingote, which was inspired by men's fashion of the time. Italian fashion also picked it up (the redingotte), adapting it for more formal occasions.
The redingote à la Hussar was trimmed with parallel rows of horizontal braid in the fashion of Hussars' uniforms.
The style continued to evolve through the late nineteenth century, until it took a form similar to today's redingote. The newer form is marked by a close fit at the chest and waist, a belt, and a flare toward the hem.
Men's redingote[edit]
The men's redingote was an eighteenth century or early nineteenth century long coat or greatcoat, derived from the country garment with a wide, flat collar called a frock In French, redingote is the usual term for a fitted frock coat. The form a men's redingote took could be of the tightly fitting frock coat style, or the more voluminous, loose "great coat" style, replete with overlapping capes or collars, such as a "garrick" redingote.
See also[edit]
|This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. (September 2009)
- Cassin-Scott, Jack, Costume and Fashion in colour 1760–1920, Blandford press, ISBN 0-7137-0740-2
- Payne, Blanche: History of Costume from the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century, Harper & Row, 1965. No ISBN for this edition; ASIN B0006BMNFS
- Tozer, Jane and Sarah Levitt, Fabric of Society: A Century of People and their Clothes 1770–1870, Laura Ashley Press, ISBN 0-9508913-0-4
- Takeda,Sharon Sadako, and Kaye Durland Spilker, Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700–1915, LACMA/Prestel US 2010, ISBN 978-3-7913-5062-2
External links[edit]
- Redingote at the San Jose State University nineteenth Century Paris Project
|Look up redingote in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.


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At the end of June, MobileMe floats away to the great cloud-service graveyard in the sky, replaced by iCloud. But not every MobileMe customer can use iCloud just yet--specifically, those who chose to stick with Snow Leopard, rather than upgrade to Lion.
Earlier this month, however, Apple began informing MobileMe customers who hadn't yet transitioned to iCloud that they could, in fact, continue using their me.com or mac.com email addresses and calendar after the June 30 deadline passes.
As reported by Joe Kissell at TidBits, Apple's updated MobileMe Transition and iCloud page now includes this nugget:
As of May 1, you can choose to keep using your mail after MobileMe ends, even on devices that don't meet the iCloud system requirements. Just go to me.com/move and select the option to keep using your email after MobileMe ends. Once you have completed this short process, your mail will continue to work on devices that don't meet the iCloud requirements after MobileMe ends on June 30th, 2012.
When you visit that URL, Apple suggests that you'll access your MobileMe mail only via a Web interface after June 30. At TidBits, Kissell explains that you can still configure your email client of choice--including Mail--to point to your MobileMe account, even after June 30; you simply need to configure it as an IMAP account pointing to imap.mail.me.com. Of course, we won't know with certainty that Kissell's approach will continue to work after June 30 until, you guessed it, July 1.
Today's top stories:
Mid-month rumours: Macs, iOS 6, TV and iPhone latest
New MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac in June
New iPhone to have flexible display – report
Siri: Just Kidding, iPhone is Best Smartphone Ever
Apple best smartphone vendor for consumer satisfaction
Analyst says Apple doesn't have space for television
Foxconn denies 'working on Apple television' claims
Sell Apple, buy Facebook, report
Latest OS X update 'breaks' some Macs
Kaspersky denies working with Apple on Mac security
Apple Leopard security update includes Flashback remover
Apple to update iCloud at WWDC
Apple admits second iCloud mail outage
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside Jenny's Personal Turmoil — Closes School For Autistic Children Amidst Split From Jim Carrey
Jenny McCarthy has had the worst two months of her life — her school and her man have vanished within 60 days!
Not only has Jenny McCarthy just split from her long-term lover Jim Carrey, HollywoodLife.com has learned exclusively she has closed her state-of-the art and much-lauded school for young autistic children, Teach2Talk Academy, because of internal disagreements with her co-founder, Dr. Sarah Scheflen.
"Jenny and her partner at the Academy, Sarah Scheflen, had different visions for the school and made a decision to go their separate ways. Both intend to continue on in this important mission. Sarah and Jenny really enjoyed their time working at the Academy and feel honored that they were able to provide such high quality early intervention services to so many children with autism and other developmental disabilities," Jenny's rep told HollywoodLife.com in an exclusive statement, today, April 8.
The 37-year-old actress started the school after her son Evan, now seven, was diagnosed with autism in 2005, when he was two years-old. Jenny put considerable time and resources into the school, and, as recently as last winter, told KidsLA magazine how pleased she was with it: "I'm proud to say [Teach2Talk Academy] is an absolute success in terms of the amount of progress children with autism are making. We do have a goal to open more schools around the country. If I had Bill Gates' money, I would have them in every state."
Located in a renovated house in Sherman Oaks, Calif., Talk2Teach Academy worked with children under the age of nine and was heralded for its unique one-to-one teacher-student ratio and integrated techniques. As of today, the Teach2Talk Web site was still selling its self-branded line of educational materials, including DVDs and nutritional supplements.
It was Jenny's pet project — but, according to a source who knew the couple well, the school's demise may even have been an additional strain that contributed to the end of her five-year relationship with 48-year-old Jim Carrey.
"I don't know who broke up with whom, but I know that for a little bit before the school fell apart Jim was going to possibly buy out Jenny's partner so the school would be all Jenny's. Then, next thing I heard, [Jenny] was moving out [from Carrey's house]," an insider told us about the couple's April 4 split . "Jenny McCarthy has had…the worst two months of her life. Her school and her man all vanished in about 60 days."
Jim announced he and Jenny were splitting via Twitter April 6: "Jenny and I have just ended our 5yr relationship. I'm grateful 4 the many blessings we've shared and I wish her the very best! S'okay! ?;^>"
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About the Site and the Founder
How it came about
Hi! My name is Ian
Ippolito and I am the founder and creator of Planet Source Code.
The idea for this site came to me back in 1997, when I began
looking for Visual Basic source code on the Internet. I was frustrated by the lack
of quantity of source code, as well as the amount of time I had to spend downloading .zip
files which were of questionable quality and relevance to what I was looking for. I
thought it would be really useful if there was a site that allowed me to actually see the
code before I downloaded it, and maybe even let me copy and paste it from my browser to
VB, so I didn't have to go through the hassle of unzipping it.
Thus www.Planet-Source-Code.com
was born. Back then sites that had databases were VERY rare (maybe a handful of them
existed). To put it in context, this was before most browsers supported frames or
even tables. The prevailing web scripting technology at the time was CGI and Perl
which required alot of patience and time. However, when I heard of a
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I understand the circumstances of today. No matter what, don't take me out.After seven innings in Oakland, Tim Wakefield had thrown a mere 67 pitches, 50 of them for strikes. He was five outs away from being the second-oldest pitcher in baseball history to throw a no-hitter.
They were really aggressive early, and then something kind of clicked in the second or third inning. I'm not disappointed. Obviously [a no-hitter] is something that's great to try to get, but the most important thing was to preserve our bullpen.
Wakefield ended up allowing four hits and two runs, but finished with a complete game. A few people in the game thread said that if anyone on the Red Sox staff deserves to experience the joy of pitching a no-hitter -- and a no-hitter in the sunshine of a weekday afternoon -- it was Tim Wakefield.
It would be foolish to disagree. But the most important thing for me will always be that after 2003, this man -- this veteran of the Red Sox, who after loyally serving as a starter, closer, long man, and whatever other role he was asked to fill -- was terrified of being cursed as a villain, of spending the rest of his days hated by the fans he had pitched in front of for nearly a decade.
The following spring, Wakefield discovered that he had not been branded a pariah. If anything, he had truly become one of us, the suffering Nation. In the 2004 ALCS, he again put himself before the team, offering to eat innings in the Game 3 blowout so that the rest of the staff might be rested for however many games might still remain of the season. He ended up starting the first game of the 2004 World Series, at Fenway Park. And a week later, he was celebrating Boston's first World Series championship in 86 years.
Any type of win on Wednesday would have been welcome. But to watch Tim Wakefield flirt with perfection, to see him show such precision and economy for those first seven innings -- a performance that would have caused 1999Pedro to do a double take, let out a low whistle and mutter "God damn!" -- was extra special.
Wakefield's win today was his 165th as a Red Sox pitcher. He trails only Cy Young and Roger Clemens (who both have 192) in team history. I hope he can stick around for another 28 victories.


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The stereotype about role-players is they're overweight, still live with their parents, have no social skills, and take their fantasies far too seriously. So here's the trailer for Zero Charisma, which is about an overweight man who lives with his family, is completely devoid of social skills, and who takes role-playing so over-seriously he apparently attacks someone. ...yay?
What's weird about this is that the movie is produced by Chris Hardwick's Nerdist Industries, who I assume is targeting nerds audiences — audiences that might not be excited to have all the old stereotypes trotted out. I mean, I think most of us have seen a guy like the insane protagonist of Zero Charisma before, so maybe the movie is for us in that sense? To make fun of "that guy" we all know?
Still, I can't shake the feeling that most people who watch the movie will be laughing at nerds, not with nerds. The movie hits VOD and iTunes on October 8th, so I guess we'll find out then.


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Ireland went to the polls today to choose a new president from a colorful cast of candidates that includes a reality TV star, a former Irish Republican Army leader, and a gay rights campaigner.
Five men and two women are standing for what is, officially at least, the highest office in the land. But Ireland's presidency has no real power – something the public appears to understand only too well.Turnout was low according to reports from polling stations, averaging around 20 percent in some areas at 5 p.m. tonight.
Executive power in Ireland, a parliamentary republic, resides with the Cabinet in the lower house, the Dáil, but the presidency has symbolic power and this is being exploited for all it's worth by the candidates. Each claims to want to shine a light amid the economic gloom that pervades the nation.
The man to beat is an unlikely figure for political office: a farmer turned property developer and TV star: Seán Gallagher, a businessman and star of "Dragons' Den," a reality TV show about entrepreneurs.
"Seán Gallagher has surprised the Dublin media bubble but he has the common touch, something that can be seen in the numbers of his Facebook fans," says Ciarán McMahon, a psychologist at the Dublin Business School who has been studying the impact of social networks during the election campaign.
Many feel Mr. Gallagher represents Ireland's transformation in the past two decades, though supporters and opponents mean different things when they say that.
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Gallagher's candidacy came under a cloud Monday, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness, one of his opponents, claimed that Gallagher had fund-raised for the Fianna Fáil party.
Fianna Fáil, long the dominant political party in Irish life, failed to stand a candidate, such was the likelihood of humiliation at the polls. Many see Gallagher as a proxy candidate for a party that was trounced at the general election on February 25.
The allegations linking Gallagher to Fianna Fáil, along with questions about his business and accounting practices, were aired on a televised debate Monday. There hasn't been an opinion pol since, so it's difficult to tell if he has been damaged.
"I think the [real] winners, politically, will be Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin," said David Farrell, professor of politics at University College Dublin, saying many had written Fianna Fáil off and that a victory for Mr Gallagher would be a major coup for the party.
"[The] Labor [party] will come out pretty well, too," he said.
Gay Mitchell, candidate of the main governing party, the conservative Fine Gael, is trailing badly in opinion polls, likely to come fifth, a result that some feel could damage party morale.
Michael D. Higgins, candidate of the Labor party, a minority partner in government, is expected to do well and had been the front-runner before Gallagher surged ahead in opinion polls – a status he now hopes to recover in the actual vote.
Rounding out the field
Sinn Féin's McGuinness is tipped to come third, a showing that would be a major victory for the left-leaning party linked to the now disbanded IRA. Mr. McGuinness's record as a leader of the IRA has been the subject of much scrutiny during the campaign.
McGuinness is currently deputy first minister in the power-sharing assembly in Northern Ireland. His move into politics in the Republic of Ireland is seen as symbolic of the party's growing ambitions south of the border.
At the beginning of the campaign, opinion polls were led by David Norris, a noted gay rights campaigner who forced Ireland to decriminalize homosexuality, suing the country in the European Court of Human Rights.
But Mr. Norris's campaign faltered after it was revealed he had written letters to the Israeli judiciary, pleading leniency on behalf of his former lover Ezra Nawi, who had been convicted of the statutory rape of a Palestinian teenager.
Ireland, still reeling from a series of child abuse scandals involving the Catholic church, turned its back on Norris, a hitherto popular orator and public figure known more for his loud celebrations of James Joyce than for politics, despite having been a member of Ireland's upper house of parliament, the Seanad (senate), for 25 years.
Other candidates include Mary Davis, known for her work with the Special Olympics and "Dana" Rosemary Scallon, a conservative Catholic pop singer who holds dual US and Irish citizenship.
Ms. Scallon added some last-minute drama to the campaign when her husband, Damien Scallon, suggested that a near-miss on the highway may have been caused by someone intentionally slashing the tires of their car in an attempt to "injure us or murder us."
Experts say the damage was likely caused by driving on a flat tire and police have dismissed the possibility of foul play.
Jeff Colley, who lives in suburban Dublin, voted today at 2 p.m. local time.
"I don't really think it's important. I'm more voting against someone than for one. There's a sense that the president represents the country, so you don't want someone who's an embarrassment," he said.
On the same ballot, voters are also being given two referendum questions: should the government be able to lower judges' pay and should the parliament be given additional powers to hold inquires.
The governing Fine Gael and Labor parties have urged a 'yes' vote on both questions.
Polls close at 10 p.m. local time. Results are expected Saturday.


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1. Vanished civilisations of Southern Africa - Gold Mining Empire of the Anunnaki – Fossils of Giants and Extinct creatures.
Discover the largest collection of ancient stone ruins found on Earth to date in South Africa and Zimbabwe dating back over 300,000 years. More than 10 million stone ruins and 500 thousand square kilometres of agricultural terraces - The stone circles and Adam's Calendar – Discover their ancient advanced technology – tools and artefacts - stones that ring like bells – giant energy generating grid – Evidence of ancient Gold Mining and Anunnaki presence in this part of the world – AND the NEW discovery of fossils of giants and extinct creatures around the stone circles.
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What have we learned from the ancient technology - Discover the lies of modern science - Find out how these ancients used sound and resonance as tools and technology – How is sound and Magnetism connected to electricity - cone shaped tools of the past and present - and torus stones – toroidal fields – acoustic levitation – SASER beam technology – Electronic measurements in the ruins and Adam's Calendar - sound frequencies and EM waves – ancient silicon based technology – How this impacts on our understanding of science and physics today – The particle physics agenda of the elite education system – transmutation – mud fossils and geological anomalies – Is the MATRIX real – Can we see it – Did the ancients know about it – Did they Create it?
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What are the true origins of money? – Who controls it - The socio-economic structure of the world is broken – It cannot be fixed – What are the solutions? How did we get into this mess? How do we transition from this insane slavery system to a new reality – filled with prosperity and abundance for all - Is it possible? Success of the UBUNTU Movement's ONE SMALL TOWN – Can Change The World, strategy – Turning competition into cooperation and collaboration – new energy and a simple plan for a new social structure – free from all forms of slavery – allowing people to express their skills and talents for the benefit of everyone in their community and the world.


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Checking in on… the Pac-10Posted by rtmsf on December 31st, 2009
Ryan ZumMallen of LBPostSports is the RTC correspondent for the Pac-10 Conference.
Boy, that was a rough non-conference season, huh? Everybody and their mom jumped on the Pac-10 for underachieving, and there is certainly some merit to that. The teams that were expected to compete for Top 10 spots sometimes looked like they shouldn't be ranked at all. As a whole, the conference won very few quality games and for the most part waltzed through laughably easy opponents. Then, of course, there were the downright embarrassing losses that began to pile up one after another.
But don't think for a second that there aren't dangerous teams in the Pac-10 Conference. We expected California and Washington to be good, but the past few weeks have seen the impressive rise of Arizona State and USC, who now look like at-large bid candidates. And for as dreadful as we all made UCLA out to be, their losses came against good teams and the Bruins are still hovering around .500. In fact, they're the only sub-.500 team in the Pac-10, so how bad could the conference really be?
Things will get sorted out as conference play begins tonight, and as the weeks go on the cream will likely rise to the top. Let's catch up on how everyone has been doing, and analyze their chances at winning the league as we get started with play within the 'family.'
Player of the Week: Quincy Pondexter, Washington – The 6'6 forward scored 47 points in two wins this week to get the #16 Huskies on track heading into Pac-10 play, and is looking like one of the clear frontrunners for conference Player of the Year. Without a third scoring option to complement he and Isaiah Thomas, Washington will need everything Pondexter's got if they're going to win the conference.
Power Rankings
#16 Washington (9-2): You have to wonder about the Huskies heading into their conference opener tonight. They've played just two games away from home, their two biggest wins are against Wright State and Texas A&M and they still haven't found a suitable offensive weapon save Quincy Pondexter and Isaiah Thomas. They're talented enough to win the league, sure, but without really challenging themselves in the non-conference it's tough to know exactly what Washington is all about.
Arizona State (10-3): Similarly, the Sun Devils have played away from home just three times and dropped two of those games. Those losses to Duke and BYU came against good squads, but otherwise their schedule has been soft as cotton candy. They're riding a three-game winning streak that began with a big win over hot San Diego State, but that is literally Arizona State's only win of substance. WARNING: leading scorer Derek Glasser has gone cold in the past month after a very hot start.
California (8-4): The Golden Bears have rallied after a surprisingly rough start to win four out of their last five games; the one loss coming in a valiant effort against #1 Kansas and the four wins each coming by 19 points or more. With the return of 6'6 forward Theo Robertson – Cal was 3-3 during his absense – there's another wing threat to keep defenders honest and give stars Patrick Christopher and Jerome Randle a chance to do what they do. Heading into the conference schedule tonight, Cal still has a great chance at winning the Pac-10.
Washington State (10-2): It looked like the Cougars were a fluke thanks to an easy schedule, but they just kept on winning so you've got to give them credit for winning the games they should. Still – and this is a definite theme for the Pac-10 so far – they literally have no quality wins unless you count last Tuesday's overtime victory over a struggling LSU (I don't).
USC (8-4): Without a doubt, the Trojans are the most dangerous team in the entire conference right now. It looked like USC was off to a terrible season with a 2-4 start, but they're now riding a six-game winning streak that includes three quality, double-digit wins over Tennessee, St. Mary's and UNLV. Senior guard Mike Gerrity has become the team's leading scorer in just four games and lit a fire under the Trojans, who now boast a potent scoring attack to balance one of the conference's stingiest defenses.
Stanford (6-6): The Cardinal have faltered a little bit, dropping three of their last four games to Oklahoma State, Northwestern and Texas Tech. Shoot, at least they played somebody! You've gotta give Stanford credit for a tougher schedule than most. Senior forward Landry Fields leads the conference in scoring and has put up 20 points in each of the last eight games. Watch for Stanford to shock some Pac-10 opponents this season.
Oregon (8-4): The Ducks open their conference season tonight in what is actually one of the most compelling matchups in the Pac-10 against Washington State. Neither team boasts a difficult non-conference schedule and we'll get to see whether either of them is for real when they face off. Oregon rides a four-game winning streak that featured nary a quality win, so facing the 10-2 Cougars will be a good barometer for the progress of both teams. Leading scorer Tajuan Porter has battled an ankle injury but may finally be getting back into a rhythm after a recent five 3-pointer effort.
Oregon State (6-5): In all truthfulness, this should be a 9-2 Beaver team. I know what you're thinking, their offense is such a jumbled mess that they might as well just punt on most possessions. But their defense is stellar, even against excellent opposition, and if they get freshman guard Roberto Nelson back (currently ineligible) then Oregon State will be dangerous down the stretch. Still, there was that home loss to Sacramento State; shudder…
Arizona (6-6): You just don't know what to do with Arizona. Heading into the conference opener against streaking USC tonight, the Wildcats have suffered several losses to good teams – which is more than most of the Pac-10 can say – but still don't have a defining win and just gave up a 49-point effort to BYU's Jimmer Fredette. On the other hand, point guard Nic Wise is playing like a conference MVP contender and he makes 'Zona dangerous on any given night. Then again, a one-point home win over Lipscomb (in overtime!) doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
UCLA (5-7): The head-scratching continues in Westwood as Bruin faithful try to digest exactly what is going on. Yes, UCLA's losses have all come against quality teams, but the Bruins hardly put up a fight in any of them. They get a tough opener tonight hosting Arizona State. Let's see if Malcolm Lee and his merry band of underachievers can put up a better fight in the conference season.


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Kim Kardashian confirms: "Kanye and I are expecting a baby"
And the Oscar for year-ending baby news goes to Kim Kardashian. The reality fashion powerhouse has confirmed that she"s pregnant.
Kardashian, 32, took to her official site to post the following on New Year"s Eve: "It"s true!! Kanye (West) and I are expecting a baby. We feel so blessed and lucky and wish that in addition to both of our families, his mom and my dad could be here to celebrate this special time with us. Looking forward to great new beginnings in 2013 and to starting a family. Happy New Year!!! Xo"
She has spoken for years in interviews of her wish to be a mom. In September she said on ABC"sThe View: "Kids is definitely something I want, I think I wanted that before."
And the news comes as Kardashian is still battling to exit her brief marriage to NBA player Kris Humphries. She and Humphries were famously married for 72 days, following a lavish televised gala, and are now fighting to settle their divorce. They are due back in court mid-February to set a trial date to either dissolve or annul the marriage.
That didn"t stop Kardashian from stepping out with her long-time friend West, 35. They took their romance public in March.
And on Sunday night, the rapper announced at a concert that his girlfriend is with child. He told the crowd of more than 5,000 at Revel Resort"s Ovation Hall in song form: "Now you having my baby." Kardashian was in the audience and according to E!, which airs her family reality show, she"s about 12 weeks along.
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Our recent effort to compile a list of the most popular home theater components owned by Ars staffers and OpenForum users was more popular than we initially thought it would be, and it turned out that most of our audience wanted a chance to nominate their own gear. So today, we're opening up the nominations process to the general audience: welcome to the Ars Home Theater Guide: Audience Edition.
Go here and add your favorite home theater components, but keep the following basics in mind:
- Check the list before adding something. I've retained the previous nominations list from the earlier Staff and OpenForum Edition of the poll. (There's no need to have everyone re-enter all of that.) The list has multiple pages and is arranged alphabetically, so if you don't see your component on the first page, check the later ones. I've also added a search box at the top that you can use to query the list in order to determine if your item is already in there.
- Add only components that you own. We're more interested in learning what Ars readers are actually using than in what they might one day like to buy.
- Add only components that you're happy with. If something is complete junk, why add it?
- Add any gear that you consider to be part of your home theater. Previously, we had asked people not to add DVRs, displays, receivers, and the like, but people showed up in the comments to ask where those components were. Indeed, those same people have probably not read this far in this post, so I'm only putting this in to let those of you do read know that it's OK to nominate such things. It's also OK to nominate your smartphone, your netbook, or any other device that you consider to be core. (Please restrict the entries to "gadgets" and consumer electronics, though; if you nominate your kegerator, I'll delete it. And if you gripe in the comments that I deleted your kegerator, I'll ignore it.)
- Be specific. Knowing that lots of Ars readers have a universal remote isn't very interesting. But knowing just how popular the different universal remote models are with our audience is definitely interesting.
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Netflix launched in Britain and Ireland on Monday, taking on BSkyB's premium drama and movies offerings and prompting Amazon-owned rival Lovefilm to offer a new cut-price service.
In its first expansion outside the Americas, which the company has said will push it into a loss this year, Netflix said its prices and instant access to a broad range of online entertainment would attract new customers.
Lovefilm, which has 2 million customers in its core British market, immediately announced Lovefilm Instant — an internet streaming-only offer to undercut Netflix — in addition to its current offer that combines streaming and DVD rental by post.
Netflix shares rose 2.4 percent to $88.33 by 1516 GMT, while the Nasdaq was barely changed. Amazon shares fell 0.9 percent to $181.01.
"People are excited about the UK launch even though it had been in the works for some time," said Daniel Ernst, of Hudson Square Research.
Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings told Reuters in an interview that BSkyB would be its main competition.
"Lovefilm is not the enemy. When you talk about big entertainment businesses, Sky Atlantic and Sky Movies are huge, and our advantage is we are much lower priced than the Sky packages, and it is all on demand — click and watch," he said.
Netflix is trying to recover from the roughest patch in its history after alienating U.S. customers with a 60 percent price rise in the third quarter in an attempt to cover the increasing costs of buying TV and film content.
Co-founded by Hastings in 1997, Netflix created the U.S. market for DVD rental by post but has suffered more recently as it shifts to lower-margin instant online delivery.
Nonetheless, Hastings said Netflix had no option but to press ahead aggressively with the new delivery technology, describing DVD postal delivery as being "a little bit like travelling by horse and buggy."
"In the long term, Internet TV — the idea that you can click and watch anything you want — is such a powerful concept that we are investing heavily," he said.
Hastings said Netflix had begun to regain U.S. subscribers last quarter. "What we said a quarter ago was that it was going to turn up in the back half of Q4, and everything has been consistent with that," he said.
But he declined to say whether the company would turn profitable again during the course of 2012. "I cannot comment," he said. "We are really focused on this global expansion and it is expensive."
Netflix is offering unlimited online access to tens of thousands of hours of movies and drama for 5.99 pounds ($9.20) per month in Britain and 6.99 euros ($8.90) in Ireland, plus a month's free trial.
The new streaming-only package from Lovefilm, which said on Monday it had had a record number of subscribers signing up in the fourth quarter, will cost 4.99 pounds per month.
In the United States, cable and satellite TV providers are under pressure from streaming services such as those provided by Netflix, with many viewers giving up expensive subscriptions in favor of Internet-based content streamed to their PC or TV.
But so-called over-the-top providers such as Netflix struggle to compete with the quality of programs provided by Time Warner, CBS and Viacom. Netflix has said its U.S. content costs will almost double this year.
Hastings said, however, he did not expect to need to raise more capital this year, after raising $400 million in fresh capital in November. "No. We are doing great," he said.
BSkyB charges 20 pounds per month for an entertainment package that includes Sky Atlantic, a U.S.-focused drama channel launched a year ago that includes exclusive rights to HBO's back catalogue, including the popular Game of Thrones.
Europe's biggest satellite broadcaster demands that customers sign up for contracts, and have a set-top box and connection to a Sky dish. Sky Movies costs 16 pounds per month on top of the basic TV package.
Both Netflix and Lovefilm can deliver their content via a wide range of Internet-connected devices such as games consoles, tablets and Blu-ray players as well as computers and smart TVs.
Netflix said its personalized interface, in which viewers will be offered programs depending on their past viewing and can see what their friends like and are watching if they sign up via Facebook, could help give it an edge.
It will offer films and TV programs from such providers as the British broadcasters BBC, Channel 4 and ITV and movie studios including Disney, Viacom-owned Paramount, and Twentieth Century Fox.
Hastings said Netflix, which until now has been available in the United States, Canada and 43 countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, would not necessarily push into more markets this year.
"I am not sure about this year. For now we are focused on the UK and Ireland," he said.
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So, I finally went to see the new Les Miserables musical. I read the book some years ago, and I always knew there was a good share of religiosity in the story. I've seen some movie versions of it, and most of them don't slap you with a cross at every scene. As an atheist, I found it disturbing how religiosity is portrayed as the only source of 'moral' guidance. The musical also portraits how the religious 'moral' guidance can be twisted to fit once views, mostly seen in the character of Javert. We also see the somewhat secularism of the young revolutionary students.
Since Les Miserable has a world wide appeal, and it's a classic piece, what do you guys think? And, how would you guys review it based on its religious/moral messages?
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I'd say what I'm guessing the people involved at some level or another in the production said at some point. These are the tools at the characters' disposal, this is the world they were born into and the conditions that determine who and what they are. Furthermore, while I see portraying these characters' worldviews as potentially somewhat relateable can be a set-back, I see any portrayal of religion in the past, as a thing of the past, as satisfyingly appropriate.
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However i finally decided to join the 3rd one just to say i did it. Well just as i figured i was basically taken out of the games due to noobs going for bonuses when the cards were worth WAAAAAYYYYY more than the bonuses, i tried moving my troops out before they killed themselves and myself at the same time. Even tried talking to them in the chat before they did it... to no avail. Well this happened in both games.
turns out i won one of the free entries into the Conqueror's Cup IV and my first game finished with the EXACT same result. ....
My game had the trifecta of a bonus monkey, a deadbeat and that guy who moves waaayyyy to early and sets someone else (in this case the bonus monkey) up to win the game. Fun times.
I didn't even realize it until I was automatically joined into a "Round 2" game and had to come here to figure out what had happened then went back and realized I had lost Round 1.
My experience pretty much, except minus the deadbeat.
rdsrds2120 wrote:greenoaks wrote:AndyDufresne wrote:We are looking into ways to change the format of the Conquer Cup, and will take all suggestions under advisement.
how about making the next one an Assassin tourney. 640 players
Round 1 128 5-player games. winner advances to round 3, losers to round 2
Round 2 128 4-player games. winner advances to round 3, losers eliminated
Rounds 3 to 5 4-player games, winner advances to next round, losers eliminated
Final A 4-player game.
6 rounds of action with 2nd chances available to 1st round losers
Not a bad idea, but I don't know that there are enough people that would want to play in an Assassin tourney.
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MWC 15 Special
As WhatsApp announced on its blog, it just introduced "Voice Messages", a Push to Talk service for its messaging service. According to the WhatsApp blog, Voice Messages is released on all WhatsApp supported platforms simultaneously which means that it's now available for iPhone and Android, which is said to have perfectly working Voice Messages functionality, but the development team also put extra efforts into making sure that BlackBerry, Windows Phone 8 and even S40 users can enjoy the same rich and powerful Voice Messaging experience. Using WhatsApp Voice Messages couldn't be easier: right next to the text entry field you find a microphone icon. Press and hold it, dictate the message and after releasing the icon, the message is sent.
Receiving a Voice Message works the same as receiving texts, photos or videos. After a Voice Message is received, the play button indicates it's a playable voice message. Tapping the icon plays the message; on Android, iPhone and Windows Phone it's even possible to listen the Voice Message privately by holding the phone up to your ear to have the message play through your phone's speakers instead of the speakerphone.
WhatsApp Voice Messages as immediately available at no extra cost on Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Nokia S40 and Windows Phone. Windows Phone 7.8 smartphones can only receive Voice Messages but can't create them the way as introduced today.
UPDATE: Also Windows Phone 7.8 is now officially supported!
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Advent Magic awaits in Cochem - in the splendid Advent Magic tent on the medieval market square, at the romantic Christmas market in front of the Advent Magic tent and in the Rosenhof. One of the highlights of the season in Cochem is 'Christmas at the castle', when the Christmas story is re-enacted at Reichsburg Castle in a Nativity play featuring real farmyard animals. There are also lots of opportunities for bracing winter walks and trips on the Moselle. The Moselle's unique culinary highlights, which include Riesling Stollen and waffles with red vineyard peach mousse, are real delicacies. Give them a try! Children will have tonnes of fun on Cochem's enormous new 36-metre Christmas wavy slide and in the mobile fairytale houses.
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The Global Agribusiness Entrepreneur: Symposium Series in China
Throughout China today, the agricultural industry is transforming its traditional farming techniques towards modern mechanization. For all industry practitioners at every level of the agricultural supply chain, there is a need to learn practical knowledge about the latest techniques and technologies. China's agricultural businesses need to scale up in order to meet the demands of a growing and discerning customer base.
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new symposium series in China, specifically designed to address this need. In assembling this program, we've taken our signature approach: identifying key industry challenges nationally and globally, and providing hands-on education using sustainable learning techniques from world class experts who will present a practical information about core issues.
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This program has been designed to enable senior agribusiness executives to actively participate, learn, and put their new knowledge to use in their businesses. Each participant will complete a business "growth plan" that can be immediately applied to their business contexts.
Before, during and after the sessions, participants will be provided with background material to become familiar with the discussion topics, as well as the action plan templates that will allow them to implement what they've learned back at the office. Program topics will include:
- Global opportunities for trade in Chinese agricultural products and services
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Program content will be delivered by leading industry and agricultural faculty experts with practical knowledge and proven track records of success in their fields. These experts bring deep knowledge and insight about the China, U.S., and global market place to the table. Experts include Keith Schneller, Director of UC Agricultural Trade Office in Shanghai, Colin Carter, Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Economics at UC Davis, Wayne Batwin, President, Prime Market Access International, and Juergen Voegele, Director, Agriculture and Rural Development Department, Sustainable Development, World Bank.
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Language-Specific Enhancements
Modern IDEs for general-purpose programming do a very good job at error detection. This is especially true for statically typed languages, where many mistakes developers might make, are found as they type. There are type checks to ensure that expressions are compatible, and data flow analysis to detect null pointer exceptions. Xtext provides a convenient means to define these kinds of validation rules, too. A validation rule that ensures that the resetting events are not conflicting with the valid transitions of a state is only a matter of a single line of code. The detected issues will be displayed right in your editor in exactly the same way problems in Java files are reported. Xtext will underline the parts of the file that are erroneous, and you get the opportunity to fix them immediately. You can even go a step further and provide quick fixes for any issue that you detect. Because DSL-specific validation rules are executed as you type, your users get important feedback and guidance as soon as possible. Validation is also performed when the parser is used at the command line.
Another way to guide your users is with content assist. The workflow for many developers is often heavily based on smart content proposals, and for good reason. IDEs allow you to write new methods with a couple of keystrokes, and they offer suitable proposals at any given point in the source code. Xtext automatically suggests valid proposals based on the lexical structure of the DSL. Additionally, the scoping and linking rules are taken into account to provide suggestions for cross references. Writing code in an Xtext-based language is facilitated by the guidance that users receive from the editor. You can even define template proposals to create complete structures with a single keystroke. Template proposals can contain placeholders that will be populated by the framework, which allows the selection of valid values from drop down lists and the like. These advanced IDE features are based on the fact that the editor is aware of the grammar definition and the currently edited semantic model, which allows it to derive a great deal of helpful information; see Figure 2.
Validation and content assist are just two of many aspects you might want to specifically tailor for your DLS. Actually, with Xtext, there is no functionality that cannot be extended or replaced by your own implementation because the framework makes extensive use of dependency injection using Google Guice. This design allows for easy customization because nothing is hard-wired deep down in some internal implementation class. Even with this great flexibility, the defaults should not be underestimated. They address the most common use cases and are based on common language design patterns.
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There is much more to Xtext, including the ability to integrate with Java code and the reusable statically typed expression language that can be embedded arbitrarily within your DSL but these fall beyond the scope of this introduction. Beginning next month, we'll present a series of tutorials on using Xtext on Dr. Dobb's. Until then, go try it out at the main Xtext site. There, you'll see that Xtext is open source, documented in detail, and fun to use.
Sven Efftinge is the Lead on the Xtext project. Sebastian Zarnekow is a Committer.