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function [ mixingData ] = mixLeds( leds, res, coeffs )
%UNTITLED8 Mix leds by brute force
%Syntax
%   mixingData = mixLeds(leds, res, coeffs)
%Input
%   leds := Column array Led objects
%   res  := Mixing resolution eg 0.01
%Output
%   mixingData := All mixtures. Each row contains one mixture, columns are
%                 [cct, led1C, led2C, ... , ledNC]

%{
if l < length(leds)
    mixLeds( leds, resolution, l + 1);
else
    maxC = min(leds(l).maxCoeff, 1-sum(coeffs));
    for c = maxC:-resolution:0
        spd = mixSpd(leds, [coeffs c]);
        cct = spdToCct(spd);
        mixingData(i, :) = [cct coeffs c];
        i = i + 1;
    end
end
%}

if ~exist('coeffs', 'var')
    coeffs = [];
end

mixingData = [];

% Last LED reached -> calculate data sample
if length(coeffs) == length(leds)
    % Do not add mixing coeffs that do not sum to 1 (avoids duplicates)
    if sum(coeffs) < 1
        mixingData = [];
        return
    end

    % Read spds from LEDs
    spds = zeros(length(leds), length(leds(1).spd));
    for i = 1:length(leds)
        spds(i, :) = leds(i).spd;
    end

    % Mix spds
    spd = mixSpd(spds, coeffs');

    % Calculate correlated color temperature
    cct = spdToCct(spd);

    % Add row to mixing data
    mixingData = [cct coeffs];

% Not yet last LED -> recursive call for all coefficients
else
    % Maximum coefficient for current LED is the smaller of LEDs internal
    % max coeff and whats left from other LED coeffs
    maxC = min(leds(length(coeffs) + 1).maxCoeff, 1-sum(coeffs));

    % Iterate all coefficients
    for c = maxC:-res:0
        mixingData = [mixingData; mixLeds(leds, res, [coeffs c])];
    end
end

end

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Nuschuri (Aussprache: [] Nus-chu-ri mit ch=; , in Nuschuri ) ist eine Art der georgischen Schrift. Es wird als zweite Entwicklungsstufe des georgischen Alphabets angesehen, die unmittelbar aus der ältesten Variante der georgischen Schrift Assomtawruli entwickelt wurde. Die Assomtawruli-Schrift diente als Großbuchstaben für die mit Nuschuri geschriebenen Texten. Aus diesem Grund wird Nuschuri von einigen georgischen Paläografen nicht als unabhängige Schriftart, sondern als Teil der Chuzuri-Schrift betrachtet, die die beiden ersten Stufen der georgischen Schrift als Groß- und Kleinbuchstaben umfasst.

Das Wort Nuschuri ist mit dem georgischen Wort  verbunden, das seinerseits aus dem arabischen Wort  stammt. Nach dem Wörterbuch des georgischen Schriftstellers Sulchan-Saba Orbeliani bedeutet das Wort Nuscha georgisch 'schnell geschrieben'. Außer dem Namen hat Nuschuri keine Gemeinsamkeit mit der arabischen Naschī-Schrift.

Für Nuschuri ist die unterschiedliche Höhe der Buchstaben, eckige Formen und Neigung nach Rechts charakteristisch. Wegen der besonderen Formen der Buchstaben ist es möglich, sie gebunden oder nicht gebunden zu schreiben. Es gibt auch die Tendenz, die komplexe Formen der Assomtawruli-Buchstaben zu vereinfachen. Durch die Verschmelzung der zwei Buchstaben (ო und ჳ) entstand im Nuschuri-Schrift ein neues Symbol  für den Laut . Dieses Symbol wurde nach und nach als unabhängiger Buchstabe entwickelt (in Mchedruli-Schrift hat er eine andere, aber auf der ursprünglichen basierende Form უ) und in die Buchstabenreihenfolge des georgischen Alphabets integriert.

Die ersten Belege der Nuschuri-Schrift stammen aus 9. Jahrhundert. Dabei wird die älteste Inschrift in der Ateni-Sioni-Kirche auf 835 datiert. Als Handschrift erscheint Nuschuri erstmals 864 im Manuskript Mrawaltawi von Sinai, wobei jedoch nur ein kleiner Teil in Nuschuri geschrieben wurde und der größte Teil noch mit Assomtawruli verfasst wurde. In den folgenden Jahrhunderten steigt die Anzahl der Handschriften, die mit Nuschuri geschrieben sind, zunehmend an. Im 12. Jahrhundert herrscht Nuschuri vor und die ältere Art der georgischen Schrift wurde von den georgischen Kalligrafen schon als "schwer zu lesen" gewertet.

Trotz der verringerten Verwendung der Assomtawruli-Schrift, hat sie ihre Rolle nie vollständig verloren. So sind auch bei mit Nuschuri geschriebenen Handschriften die Initialen und die Titel immer mit Assomtawruli geschrieben. Auch für die epigraphischen Inschriften wurden meistens nicht Nuschuri, sondern Assomtawruli benutzt. Historische von Klerikern ausgestellte Dokumente und kirchliche Handschriften wurden meistens ebenfalls in Nuschuri geschrieben, wobei Laien eher die neuere Mchedruli-Schrift bevorzugten. Die Georgische Orthodoxe Apostelkirche verwendet für ihre liturgischen Bücher immer wieder Nuschuri-Schrift.

Literatur
 E. Matschawariani: Georgische Sowjetenzyklopädie. Band 7, Tiflis 1984, S. 488.
 T. Gamqrelidze (): . Tiflis 1990.
 R. Pataridse (): . Tiflis 1980.
 I. Dschawachischili (): . Tiflis 1949.
 K. Danelia (), S. Sardschweladse (): . Tiflis 1997.

Weblinks

Georgisches Alphabet
Schriftart (Paläographie)
Kalligrafie

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Q: How to Generate Random Password in Codeigniter for forgot password Hello I am working with Codeigniter and I want to generate the random password.
I developed signup functionality using
crypt($password)

login functionality check password following.
if (crypt($password, $hashed_password) === $hashed_password)
{
    return $query->result();
}

I am developing Forgot functionality.
How to send random generated password to user mail When I am using crypt() login time.

A: You can try below function to generate random password.
function random_password()
{
    $alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890';
    $password = array();
    $alpha_length = strlen($alphabet) - 1;
    for ($i = 0; $i < 8; $i++)
    {
        $n = rand(0, $alpha_length);
        $password[] = $alphabet[$n];
    }
    return implode($password);
}
echo random_password();

A: We can do this without using array or for loop.
Using inbuilt function.
function random_password($length = 8) {
    $alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890!@#$%^&*()_+=-<>?/,.';
    $password = str_shuffle($alphabet);
    return substr($password, 0, $length);
}
echo random_password(10);

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The 2018 Blackett Report[1], the UK Government's study of critical dependencies on satellite-derived time and position, focused on improving the resilience of services that depend on Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT). It concentrates on Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) and seeks to support future applications. The recommendations of the review called, for inter alia: •	operators of CNI to make provision for the loss of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) by employing GNSS-independent back-up systems; and •	the specifying of consistent requirements that encompass the GNSS and PNT system parameters of accuracy, availability, integrity and continuity. A report sponsored by Innovate UK[2] estimated that a five-day total outage of GNSS would cause an economic loss to the UK of the order of £5.2 billion. Of this, 21% would be attributable to the maritime sector, including shipping, ports and supply-chain logistics. This maritime sector contains some of the foremost professional adopters of GNSS. It is one of the most GNSS-dependent sectors; however, it is also one of the most aware of GNSS vulnerabilities and their consequences, since extensive studies of GNSS resilience have focussed on maritime use. The MarRINav (Maritime Resilience and Integrity of Navigation) project encompasses the recommendations of these previous studies and those of the Blackett Report[1]. It lays the foundations for the UK's future CNI in respect of PNT resilience and integrity (R&I) . The work seeks to mitigate the effects on the maritime sector of GNSS denial, at the same time providing technical guidance for other sectors. To this end, a wide range of options for infrastructure and services to support UK ports and maritime operations have been investigated, each of which is complementary to GNSS. In this way, the project has identified improvements to PNT R&I in current and emerging applications. With GNSS remaining at the core of navigation and timing, the project investigated how these complementary systems can be integrated with GNSS and one another, the whole providing truly resilient PNT, not only for the maritime world but also potentially across multiple sectors of CNI. References: [1]	Government Office for Science, 'Satellite-derived time and position: A study of critical dependencies', HMG, London, UK, Jan. 2018. [2]	London Economics, 'The Economic impact on the UK of a disruption to GNSS', London, UK, Jun. 2017.
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There are no tribal or commercial casinos in Vermont. Live poker players will need to visit Upstate New York or Canada to find poker tables, although charity games and poker leagues are legal in Vermont. New Hampshire is also an option. That state has a $4 max bet that may not appeal to serious players. It does offer tournaments with reasonable buyins.
There are no laws in Vermont that cover online poker. It is not regulated and not specifically illegal. All online poker rooms that accept U.S. players allow Vermont residents to play.
Where Exactly Resident Play Online Poker in Vermont?
Our top pick for Vermont online poker players is Bovada. It is a member of the Bodog Poker Network and is the largest room that accepts U.S. players. New players earn a 100% up to $1,000 first deposit bonus that clears at a rate of about 30% rakeback. There is also more than $300,000 in weekly guaranteed tournaments.
Bovada is a unique online poker room. It aims at recreational players. In an attempt to equal the playing field Bovada does not have usernames at the table. All players in cash games and tournaments are anonymous. Full tables are not visible from the lobby either. This keeps players from sitting on waitlists trying to get into good games. Another feature that appeals to action players is Zone Poker. It allows folded players to move to another table without having to wait for their current hand to end. Zone Poker players will enjoy upwards of 300 hands per hour.
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Carbon Poker is our Merge Gaming pick. It offers a first deposit bonus of 200% up to $5,000. There is also a Royal Flush bonus where players win up to 100 times the big blind for making the big hand and a decent VIP program. There is a $150,000 guaranteed tournament every Sunday. All tournaments carry a guaranteed prize pool at Carbon Poker.
In addition to having a huge selection of cash game tables, Carbon also offers some of the best Sit n Go's for USA players. They took a page out of the Bovada playbook and made all SnG's "anonymous," so novice players couldn't be picked apart by HUD-using sharks and pros. The site also holds a regular tournament series called the Poker Maximus, which has guaranteed prize pools that exceed well over $1.5 Million.
Besides home poker games, charity events and bar leagues, there is no live poker in Vermont. Players must drive to New Hampshire, New York or Canada to play poker. Massachusetts will launch casinos in 2014 and 2015. That will give Vermont poker players another option.


Anatta is basically the belief of 'not-self.' Basically, it means there is no such thing as a consistent self. We are always changing. This also goes along with science and how we can train our minds in different ways and through that actually change our brain itself. While I know this whole concept, in general, is a bit confusing, it is quite interesting.
Now, according to Big Think Buddha himself did not teach anatta to lay, people, as he believed they would be too confused. Basically, we are always changing and never exactly the same as we have been. We are able to grow and through many different things in this world become different people all the while still remaining ourselves.
Buddhism in many ways is a very science-friendly religion whether you might realize it is or not. Even the 14th Dalai Lama himself has said "suppose that something is definitely proven through scientific investigation, that a certain hypothesis is verified or a certain fact emerges as a result of scientific investigation. And suppose, furthermore, that that fact is incompatible with Buddhist theory. There is no doubt that we must accept the result of the scientific research." Buddhist teachings, in general, seem to really correlate with a lot of science related things, the more you break them down the more prominent they become.
There is tremendous liberation in not identifying ourselves with thoughts or a set idea of who we are. It is then that we can grow and change, with the help of neuroplasticity. There is then hope that we can overcome our vices or bad habits (of mind and body), because if we aren't stuck with the self-limiting beliefs inherent with a consistent self, we may orient ourselves toward becoming more of who we want to be.
What do you think about all of this? I for one find it very interesting. There is much more to it than you'd think.


While the above quote is a wonderful sentiment and one which many people agree with, the reality is that there are many individuals who don't have this same sentiment or experience.
The Counseling Hub works with people from all walks of life, including all religious and spiritual orientations. Our speciality is in healing from religious or spiritual wounds, as well as in helping individuals develop a spiritual or religious identity.
One thing to note is that religion and spirituality are not the same thing. Yes, there are lots of overlap between the two, but they do not equal one another. Religion is usually accompanied by a body of followers, creed, specific practices, an institution of some sort, and a set of beliefs, or values that can serve as guidelines for living life.
Spirituality, on the other hand, is way more fluid, personalized, and independent. It doesn't have to have a body of followers, a leader, creed, or specific practices, and it usually doesn't take place in (nor is it affiliated with) an institution. Spirituality is significantly more open to interpretation and, again, highly personalized.
Not to make this more confusing, but one can be either a) religious and spiritual, b) religious but not spiritual, c) spiritual but not religious, or d) neither religious nor spiritual. We're not here to judge where you are, nor are we going to attempt to force you to believe any certain thing. If you come in and want to develop as a Lutheran, perfect! If you come in and want to explore Spiritual Naturalism, also perfect! We can and will meet you where you are and help you to reflect on how you want to develop within your set of beliefs. However, we are not preachers, pastors, ministers, rabbis, or religious leaders (or experts) of any kind. We cannot educate you on the specifics of a particular faith or practice, but we can help you to explore.
These are all reasons why one might seek out counseling in this area (and there are more).
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All winter we dream about what to do this summer in Colorado Springs. Once the weather warms up, we get distracted by life's little details and challenges and somehow forget to schedule those perfect summer events. Here is a summary of some well-known and lesser-known events so you can get them on your calendar before the summer slips away.
Colorado's largest multi-sport festival for athletes of all ages and athletic abilities, including those with physical disabilities or visual impairment. Premier venues include: Olympic Training Center, National Strength & Conditioning Association, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado College, Memorial Park and other venues in the Pikes Peak Region.
Created in 2010, this year marks the 9th consecutive year of The Broadmoor Pikes Peak Cycling Hill Climb, an annual event of the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation. This event attracts the top competitive and recreational cyclists from across the nation and around the world and gives cyclists of all abilities the chance to compete on Pikes Peak.
This event is not for the faint of heart. In fact, this race has some pretty steep competition to both qualify for the event as well as to become a participant. If you are up for the rigorous training, this event is not to be missed and you will never forget the experience..
Jon Stewart will host this year's games and a free concert will be performed by Kelly Clarkson during the opening ceremony. Approximately 300 wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans will participate in the competition. The athletes will represent the United States Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Special Operations Command. Athletes from the U.K. Armed Forces, Australian Defence Force and Canadian Armed Forces will also compete.
Can't make it to the Daytona 500? Have no fear, this may fill your need for speed. Enjoy a half mile side-by-side trap speed racing event presented by Revvolution and Shift-S3ctor right here at our very own Colorado Springs Airport. Airstrip Attack is a competition featuring more than two hundred of the fastest, most powerful street cars in the nation.
The 39th U.S. Senior Open will be the eighth USGA Championship contested at the Broadmoor in its rich history. Coinciding with the Centennial Celebration of the Broadmoor Hotel, the week will be a memorable event for the whole family, with celebrations worthy of 100 years of excellence. The championship will be hosted by John Elway, our Honorary Chair.
Old Colorado City's historic district between 23rd Street and 27th Street will come alive with music, food, fun and entertainment for the entire family. A huge craft vendor fair takes center stage with other activities such as pony rides, kids play area, petting zoo, Cowboy Church Service, toy train rides, gold panning, wild west gunfight re-enactments, live blacksmithing, period costumed characters, live birds of prey, native American dancers and two beer gardens with live music running all three days.
With music, a 5K fun run and tons of vendors, this is a quintessential summer activity. The weather will be great, and you can't get much more summer than this.
After the afternoon barbeque, head on over to Memorial Park for a fantastic performance from Wild Blue Country from United States Airforce Academy at 5:30 followed at 7:30 p.m. by The Colorado Springs Philharmonic and rounding out the evening at 9 pm with a thundering fireworks display.
Mark your calendar and set your alarm for early morning so you can join in on this fun, festive and family-friendly event that benefits local military and their families. The streets close and volunteers cook up a tasty, hot breakfast for you to devour while you listen to the renowned Flying W Wranglers as well as the country/rock band Exit West and the talented students from the Colorado Springs Conservatory.
Join us at Prospect Lake in Memorial Park for Chinese culture, sport, food, entertainment, and natural wonders at the 2018 Colorado Springs International Dragon Boat Festival. The world's fastest growing water sport is just another reason to get outside and enjoy the local sights and attractions.


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13 May 2019 Screen Zealots 2019 Film Reviews 12 comments
LOUISA:
With a funny women-driven premise and talented comedic cast, everything about the Netflix original film "Wine Country" would seem destined to be a slam dunk. The idea of "Sideways" meets "Bridesmaids" must've sounded great on paper, but this blunder of a hybrid version isn't sincere enough nor raunchy enough to be successful. Directed by and starring Amy Poehler, this story of a scenic Napa wine country getaway to celebrate a friend's 50th birthday is one of the very worst movies I've seen all year. It is a chore to sit through, and I couldn't wait for it to end.
The friends fit into the same old neat little stereotype boxes that you've seen a zillion times before. There's birthday girl Rebecca who's trapped in an unhappy marriage (Rachel Dratch), workaholic Catherine (Ana Gasteyer) who stays glued to her cell phone the entire trip instead of letting loose and enjoying life and her friends, cheery Val (Paula Pell) who provides most of the comic relief because she's not one of the skinny ones, homebody Jenny (Emily Spivey) who is little more than a body to fill in in the background, the type-A uber planner Abby (Poehler), and mom Naomi (Maya Rudolph) who is too afraid to call her doctor to find out the results of her breast cancer test. Learning about the characters in these vague, cookie-cutter descriptions actually provides enough information for you to figure out what happens in the story. It's that basic.
I can't stop lamenting what this film could've been. Instead of a celebration of decades of friendship and focusing on a group underrepresented on screen, the film takes the laziest route possible and gives us scene after scene of drinking and bickering. The comedic flops are downright agonizing, with a labored gag about cooking paella to the very worst: an extended bit at a millennial art show that I can only guess was included to show how "woke" these women are. There are so many scenes of the gals sitting in a van and singing along to 90s songs that you could walk away from the movie for twenty minutes, come back, and have missed nothing important to the plot. All of this feels like an excuse for Poehler to take her real-life friends along to Napa for a free trip.
The product placement is unintentionally funny here too, with every single bottle of onscreen wine being shown with its label out and facing the camera. (As my fellow vino aficionados can attest, most of the wines they're drinking are total junk). There are plenty of stale scenes of the ladies sitting around drinking wine, getting "day drunk" at wineries, and bickering about the dumbest things, all under the guise of accepting your age, loving your friends, and questioning your future. Too bad the spiritless character development and flat script are so tedious that nothing advances the story.
As a frequent visitor to Napa Valley, it was disappointing to see the setting mostly ignored. There are a couple of scenes at wineries, but there could be so much more. At least the gorgeous vineyard landscape is presented in intermittent sweeping shots. The worst sin is that the film encourages bad behavior, as the women lack even the most basic wine tasting etiquette. Call me a snob if you must, but these are exactly the type of women and groups that winery workers have a major hostility towards — and so do fellow visitors. If you want to sit around and get drunk rather than take the time to learn about the wine you're drinking, do it at home.
Glum rather than amusing, most of the intended jokes feel labored, forced, and thoroughly unfunny. It's so bad that the lack of laughs, especially from a cast like this, is shocking. This should be a trip to wine country that you'd like to be invited to join, a festive, good time with your group of besties, not one where you're ready to head back home after the first day.
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What a shame this movie didn't live up to it's potential.
hanspictures says:
I cant believe there are actually film critics saying wonderful things about the horrible movie.You nailed what this movie is, garbage !
Screen Zealots says:
It's astounding how many critics rated this movie positively.
Often Off Topic says:
This could have been so much better, especially with that amazing cast! I laughed a few times but got bored around halfway through.
Same here! Such an unfunny disappointment.
joel watches movies says:
ugh that's disappointing to hear! heard a few positive things so i might still give it a chance, but it certainly doesn't seem to be the next "bridesmaids" i was hoping for!
Oh, it is absolutely terrible. Give it a watch and let know what you think!
Sam Simon says:
Never cared much for Sideaways, don't care for this one… thanks for the heads up!
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Mary Lynn Henderson says:
You nailed it! With a cast like this, I was prepared for some belly laughs. I couldn't even watch to the halfway point. Very disappointing.
Consider yourself lucky that you bailed before the halfway point! This movie was so disappointing. Thanks for the comment.


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Here is the deal…we are looking to start the season the last week of March (30-31) and end the second weekend of June (8-9). Both weekends and week of April break will be off, so we are focusing on 9 weeks. It will be 90 minutes a week and we are working on finalizing the days for each division as soon as possible. We have done our best to work with Lax and both baseball leagues to avoid overlap but we understand there will be weeks that not everyone will be able to attend. We want to give kids an outlet to continue to play when it works while being respectful to the traditional spring sports!
The 90-minute format will be 30-45 minutes each week of drills and development followed by 45-60 minutes of a game/scrimmage.
Our goal is to let kids have fun and develop them to be ready for the upcoming fall season as well as introduce kids who have not played yet to our league and how much fun it can be. Teams will be a little mixed up from the fall due to coach availability and turnout, but it won't matter as there will be a lot more co-coaching and development across every level while having a ton of fun! We are hoping to lean on some of the coaches from the tackle program to assist in this development for kids who are hopefully looking to move to tackle come the fall.
The cost will be $150 to FYF (the town tacks on $25 field use fee) and players will get uniform, belt and some FYF swag. A $25 discount will be given to siblings in program.
Registration will close Wednesday, March 6th. Please reach out to your friends and push the word via social media since this is the first time we have done such a program. KINDERGARTEN parents we ESPECIALLY need your support now that you know the classmates in your child's grade, let them know what a great experience it was and that it is a great introduction to get ready for the Fall program as a 1stgrader!!!
As always, we would love to have any coaching support available as we know conflicts will exist.
Thank you for considering FYF and for playing football! As always please reach out with any questions. Brendan Sullivan, 203-940-1888, brendantsullivan17@gmail.com.


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Remember I said I had pictures that would help explain the start corral hilarity?
So. That race I was so busy preparing for that I didn't have time to blog? Yeah, it's over. Thank goodness.
Roundabout 2 years ago, I started a crazy (also, too, VERY LONG [and not remotely complete]) journey: to turn myself into a runner. It absolutely made no sense. Honestly, it still makes no sense, and I'm training for my 2nd half-marathon.


Saturday Night Live covered plenty of ground in the cold open take of Thursday's hearing over sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.
Two Arizona women were in the spotlight on SNL's season opener Saturday when comedian Aidy Bryant portrayed Rachel Mitchell, the prosecutor selected by Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans to interview Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford.
Mitchell is a Maricopa County prosecutor. Bryant is a Phoenix native.
"My name is Rachel Mitchell and I'm here mostly for Twitter," Bryant's Mitchell said. "And although everyone will constantly be referring to me as female prosecutor, you can really just call me straight up prosecutor."
The skit spoofed the male GOP members of the committee, portraying them as dismissive, misogynistic and disrespectful.
SNL comedian Alex Moffat, portraying Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, blurted out that Bryant's Mitchell was "hired as a human shield" for the Republican politicians.
The comedians called Mitchell a stewardess, a female prosecutor and a female assistant in the skit.
"OK, I cannot believe I flew here on Southwest for this," Bryant's Mitchell said.
Plenty of ground was covered in the Saturday Night Live cold open satirical take of what happened at Thursday's historic hearing over allegations of sexual assault against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh.
In the SNL comedic version of events, Kavanaugh (Matt Damon) was seething with "level 11" anger, Grassley (Moffat) had voted "yes" before the testimonies began, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Cecily Strong) asked a yes-or-no question but failed to get a straight answer.
Bryant's Mitchell could barely finish asking a single question, much less a train of thought.
It took about 30 seconds before Bryant's Mitchell was interrupted by the pounding of the gavel.
"I've got to make this quick so we can..."
SNL comedian Kyle Mooney, portraying GOP Sen. John Kennedy, called Mitchell "Ms. Frizzle," a fictional school teacher from "The Magic School Bus" series.
The GOP's sidelining of Mitchell in Saturday's skit mirrored much of what actually happened at Thursday's hearing after the prosecutor completed her questioning of Ford and turned to Kavanaugh.
Social media picked up on this dynamic, with some people even wondering if Mitchell had left partway through the hearing.
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Valdesantiago es una localidad de la provincia de Salamanca, Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla y León, España. Pertenece al término municipal de Villagonzalo de Tormes.

Localidad
Está formada por un reducido caserío y una pequeña capilla dedicada a San Antonio.

Geografía
Valdesantiago se halla situada al suroeste del término municipal, entre un bosque de encinas, apartada de las principales vías de comunicación.

Demografía
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FYI: Ill App Ct Holds Reverse Mortgage Borrower Had Mortgageable Interest Following Intestate Death of His Spouse
The Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, recently ruled that the mortgagee of a reverse mortgage loan held an interest in the secured property to the extent that the borrower inherited an interest in the property following the non-borrower's spouse's intestate death.
Accordingly, the Court reversed the trial court's dismissal of the reverse mortgagee's foreclosure complaint and remanded the matter for further determination of the borrower's inherited interest in the subject property.
The borrower and his spouse purchased the subject property as joint tenants. Some years later, the borrower quit claimed his interest to his spouse, but the couple continued to reside together at the subject property until the spouse's death. As noted by the Court on appeal, the trial court record appears to indicate that the spouse died intestate leaving the borrower and a daughter - the defendant heir in the foreclosure action - as the only heirs.
The quit claim deed from the borrower to the wife did not provide the complete legal description for the subject property, but did identify the property by the common address.
Subsequent to the death of the wife, the borrower entered into a reverse mortgage which was eventually assigned to the plaintiff mortgagee in the foreclosure action.
Following the borrower's death, the mortgagee initiated its foreclosure action. The defendant heir to the borrower and spouse moved to dismiss the foreclosure complaint arguing that at the time the reverse mortgage was executed the borrower had no interest in the subject property to convey due to the quit claim deed, and therefore, the reverse mortgage was void and the foreclosure complaint should be dismissed.
In response, the mortgagee argued that the quit claim deed failed for lack of a sufficient description of the property being conveyed, and alternatively, that even if the quit claim deed were valid, the borrower still had a mortgageable interest in the subject property due to the intestate death of his wife. In support of its position that the quit claim deed was insufficient, the mortgagee submitted an affidavit from an attorney with the title company who opined that the description in the quit claim deed was ambiguous on its face.
The trial court rejected the mortgagee's arguments - specifically determining that the quit claim deed was valid, and that the mortgagee's affidavit was "self-serving" - and granted the heir's motion to dismiss the foreclosure action with prejudice as to the mortgagee's claims for foreclosure, quit title, reformation and declaratory judgment.
The trial court also denied a request for sanctions filed by the heir pursuant to Illinois Supreme Court Rule 137 in which she argued that the foreclosure complaint was not well-grounded in fact or law.
The mortgagee appealed the dismissal and the heir appealed the denial of sanctions.
On appeal, the Appellate Court agreed with the lower court's determination that the quit claim deed sufficiently identified the subject property to validly convey the borrower's interest to the spouse. In doing so, the Court noted that Illinois courts presume that the grantor of a quit claim deed intends to convey the property he or she owns, but if the land cannot be located from the description in the deed, the deed is void for uncertainty.
However, the Court also noted that the "description is sufficient if it allows a competent surveyor to identify it with reasonable certainty." And, the deed will not be declared void for uncertainty "if it is possible, by any reasonable rules of construction, to ascertain from the description, aided by extrinsic evidence, what property it is intended to convey." Brunotte v. DeWitt, 360 Ill. 518, 528 (1935).
Here, the Appellate Court determined that although the legal description in the quitclaim deed was "truncated, it is not inaccurate." Despite omitting several lines of the correct legal description, the Court found that the record indicated that it was undisputed that the subject property existed at the time the quitclaim deed was executed and that the borrower owned it at that time.
Relying upon the presumption that the borrower intended convey the property he owned at that time, and extrinsic evidence which provided the full legal description for the subject property, the Court concluded that the quitclaim deed contained a sufficient legal description and was not void for uncertainty.
As an aside, the Appellate Court explained that the fact that the borrower continued to reside at the subject property with his spouse following the conveyance by quitclaim deed was not probative of his intent. Further, the Court noted, the fact that the borrower represented in his application for the reverse mortgage that he owned the subject property in fee simple was also not indicative of whether or not he intended to convey the subject property by quitclaim deed because it was plausible that the borrower - a layman - assumed he had inherited the property outright after his wife's death. The Court also found that the affidavit of the title attorney submitted by the mortgagee in support of its argument that the quitclaim deed was ambiguous added no substance to the analysis because the affiant had no personal knowledge of the making of either the quitclaim deed or reverse mortgage.
The Appellate Court did, however, agree with the mortgagee's alternative argument that the spouse died intestate, leaving the borrower with a mortgageable interest in the subject property at the time the reverse mortgage was executed.
As you may recall, under the intestacy laws of Illinois, the spouse's real and personal estate would be divided equally between the borrower and the heir, after payment of all just claims against the spouse's estate. Further, in Illinois "a cotenant can mortgage his or her interest in a jointly held property." Cadle Co. II v. Stauffenberg, 221 Ill. App. 3d 267, 269 (1991). If the cotenant attempts to mortgage more than his share, the mortgage "stays in force for the actual interest of the mortgagor." Thus, the Court held, the borrower owned a half-interest in the subject property which he had a right to mortgage to the extent of his interest.
The Court criticized the heir's prevarication on the issue of whether or not the spouse died with or without a will. As noted by the Court, that the heir's mere speculation that the spouse may have had a will at the time of her death is not well-taken considering that the heir "is in a good position to know whether her mother had a will, and certainly has an interest to know." The heir's failure to introduce any evidence to the contrary allowed the mortgagee to argue on information and belief that the spouse died intestate - it need not do anything further to prove a negative (the non-existence of a will). The Court also noted that the fact that the spouse's estate had never been fully sorted out was not the fault or in the control of the mortgagee.
Ultimately, the Court determined that factual issues existed as to whether the spouse died with or without a will, and as a consequence the interests in the subject property inherited by the borrower, which warranted further discovery. Accordingly, the Court held that the trial court's granting of the motion to dismiss was in error and remanded the case for further proceedings on the mortgagee's claims.
As to the trial court's denial of sanctions requested by the heir, the First District upheld the trial court's ruling that sanctions were not appropriate.
Illinois Supreme Court Rule 137 provides that an attorney's signature on a pleading indicates that to the best of the attorney's knowledge "after reasonable inquiry" the pleading is "well grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law." If a trial court finds that a violation of this rule occurred, the court may impose sanctions on the offending party including attorneys' fees.
Initially, the Appellate Court rejected the heir's argument that the trial court erred in not requiring the mortgagee to provide a written response to her petition for sanctions and for failing to provide a written explanation for its denial. In doing so, the Court noted that there are no such requirements provided for under Rule 137, and that the Court will not read these requirements into the rule.
Further, the Court rebuffed the heir's arguments that the case was an "open-and-shut case" either factually or legally, and that the multiple amended pleadings submitted by the mortgagee were not an abuse of the judicial process or vexatious and harassing.
Accordingly, the Appellate Court reversed the trial court's dismissal of the foreclosure complaint, upheld its denial of a sanctions award, and remanded the matter for further proceedings consistent with its opinion.
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Why does America's Got Talent have so many executive producers?
I was watching America's Got Talent last night, and during the opening credits was struck by the number of executive producers listed. It seems to grow longer each year.
They are (from the official NBC site):
Executive producers: Simon Cowell, Cecile Frot-Coutaz, Ken Warwick, Jason Raff, and Georgie Hurford-Jones
Co-executive producers: Nikki Boella, James McKinlay, Tabitha Hanson-Obtulowicz
Executive in Charge of Production: Tiffany Hoss, Charlie Krestul
Now I understand Simon Cowell and Ceicle Frot-Coutaz. He is head of the production company SYCO TV, and she is the CEO of FremantleMedia North America, which produce the show. And Ken Warwick is an executive producer and showrunner for American Idol. (Not clear if he is is also a showrunner at AGT.)
But who are all these other seven EPs? None of them have entries in Wikipedia.
The executive producer entry in Wikipedia indicates there can be several types of executive producer: traditional EPs (production executives, financiers, etc.), head writer(s), and showrunner(s).
I can't see how there could be more than one head writer -- host Nick Cannon is the only one that appears to have a script. AGT is making a ton of money, so it wouldn't seem there would need to be a lot of investors.
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"host Nick Cannon is the only one that appears to have a script" If you see anyone talking on any TV show, it's scripted. Even if it appears off-the-cuff, it isn't. Take a look at AGT again, and I'll bet you'll notice there are lots of things that were written. – user9657 May 18 '14 at 7:21
"the names and credits given to people in TV are often so wishy-washy that you could argue they are meaningless and just there to massage egos" - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7052368.stm – Tom77 May 18 '14 at 8:25
These days it is more common for people to 'buy' themselves a credit on TV and film productions through financial backing, sponsorship or other enabling methods.
Traditionally (at least on film), the executive producer(s) coughed up the money to get the production rolling - they generally wouldn't have any other impact on the production. Of course, there are a few horror stories about executive producers only providing finances on the proviso that their terrible niece got a role, or they could sit in on the set (and interfere).
In the case of AGT, I suspect that this roster of EPs is made up mostly of financial backers.
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Adding to Nobby's answer, anything with the executive in title don't normally have much to do with the actual physical production -- they are usually more in the financial/accounting management side of things. – Peter Grill Jul 6 '12 at 4:40
Using the Wayback Machine I was able to view the NBC AGT site from the second season. Of the eight EP's back then (more than I remembered there being), seven were the same as this season so it does seem likely many of them were financial backers. – tcrosley Jul 6 '12 at 12:04
Also note that America's Got Talent is an import from Britain; presumably all of the EPs from the British show are credited as EPs for the American shown plus people from US as well. – KutuluMike Mar 31 '16 at 23:44
Variety Television EPs actually are rarely backers, with the exception of the CEO's of the production Companies. Ken Warwick was the original show runner and one of the creators that brought the show to the US. Georgie and Jason are the current show runner who over see the creative elements of the show: set, casting, rundown, etc. The execs in charge create and manage the budget and logistics of the show. Co-EPs vary from show to show, on AGT I believe the breakdown is Nikki oversees all casting elements, James post Production and Tabitha the acts.
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A good source your these roles would really jazz up your answer. – Erik Mar 31 '16 at 22:17
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Q: Setting the width of the exponent field for an ostream linux/visual studio I need to run a program that will have a similar output both on Linux and visual studio.
Linux's default width of the exponent field is 2 and visual studio's is 3.
So for a number 3.40282e+38 Linux leaves it as it is, but visual studio pads it with an additional 0, 3.40282e+038
Anyone know how to configure the output in visual studio to remove the zero? (or add a zero in Linux)

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The exponent always contains at least two digits; if the value is
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So it looks like you can ask Microsoft's compiler not to add the zero. I don't know about asking gcc to add the zero, though.


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Q: systemd: how do I create a new .slice file? I'm struggling to understand how to set up a new slice on my debian 10 system. I have created a file, system-db.slice by copying system.slice and changing a couple of things:
#  This file is part of systemd.
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#  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
#  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
#  (at your option) any later version.

[Unit]
Description=System DB Slice
Documentation=man:systemd.special(7)
DefaultDependencies=no
Before=slices.target
Requires=system.slice
After=system.slice

This doesn't appear to do anything at all; it doesn't show up in systemd-cgls, for example. On the other hand, systemctl finds it:
# systemctl status system-db.slice
● system-db.slice - System DB Slice
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/system-db.slice; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:systemd.special(7)

Clearly there are some things I haven't done or done wrong. How should I have done this? And where can I learn more about this?

A: The slice is only started when a service that uses the slice is started. You do not start it manually. Rather, you add Slice=my.slice to the unit that you want to be restricted by this slice.


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Merry Turkey Day to all you forumites in Americaland!
Sadly, I'm spending it alone tonight. Add to that a "Gaah!" for the day which probably should go on the other thread, but I'm sure some of you will relate.
To make a long story short, they had about 5 police men guarding about 10 pallets of products, and everything else was inaccessible. This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. So if you're up for half price Wrangler jeans, Rubbermaid Tupperware or a flat screen TV, this is your day. If you want kitchen towels and a bar of soap, this is not your day.
One of these times you'll need to come down to Houston, Admiral. Bound to be a better job market down here, if for no other reason. And a belated Happy Thanksgiving to you and everybody else!


Southport Lifeboat was out in force as Hairy Bikers Dave Myers and Simon 'Si' King filmed part of their new series at the Crosby Road royal street party in Southport on Sunday (June 12).
Several crew members were present along with their lifeboat and two quad bikes as 650 guests toasted The Queen on her 90th birthday.
Among them was Southport Lifeboat crew member Scott Harrison, who captured these great pictures of a celebration on Britain's most royal street.
Scott said: "I thought it was a great atmosphere, I really enjoyed it."
The Hairy Bikers joined 650 party goers at Crosby Road, as they were filmed at the event for their new BBC TV series.
They made and handed out chicken sandwiches to guests, and judged a royal cake competition.
The celebration was organised by Jonathan Cunningham and saw hundreds of people turning the road red white and blue.
Hundreds of pounds was raised for the Southport Lifeboat charity.
Jonathan Cunningham said: "We have had offers from people to help from all over. Lots of people who couldn't make it today have made donations to Southport Lifeboat.


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Trump's Senate allies beg him to accept budget compromise to prevent economic collapse
"Chaos is not good . . . If you get a reasonable deal, take it," Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters
By Matthew Chapman
President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters during his 'Made In America' product showcase at the White House July 15, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)
This article originally appeared on Raw Story
On Thursday, Politico reported that Senate Republicans are desperate for President Donald Trump to approve the compromise budget agreement that also brokers an increase to the debt ceiling.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has reportedly warned Trump that "chaos is not good . . . If you get a reasonable deal, take it," told reporters, "It's in everybody's interest after this recent debacle to show you can actually govern the country. I think he got that . . . What we want is no chaos between now and October."
The "debacle" to which Graham is alluding is the 35-day government shutdown at the beginning of the year, triggered when the president unexpectedly rejected a funding resolution and tried to bully Congress into throwing in extra funding for his border wall. Trump and Senate Republicans emerged from that episode badly bruised amid public fury.
Another unnamed Senate Republican told Politico, "There's some pretty good optimism right now. But it could all blow up … If we get a deal, I'm going to call him immediately and tell him: 'Mr. President, this is brilliant.'"
For his part, Trump appears to be inclined toward approving the deal brokered between House and Senate Democratic leadership and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, but nothing is certain. He has also expressed displeasure that the deal requires domestic spending increases to reach parity with defense spending. It is also possible that Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, who has frequently proposed savage government cuts, will try to talk Trump into rejecting it.
The consequences of failing to reach a deal would be far more disastrous this time around than the January shutdown, as with the debt ceiling close to maxed out, it would trigger a default by the federal government and a destabilization of credit around the world.
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Despicable Cable Movie Channel! (not TCM)
By Tikisoo,
July 17, 2015 in General Discussions
Tikisoo
LocationSyracuse, NY
MrTiki has been home all week confined to the couch with a back injury, so he watched a lot of TV.
He saw his fave movie SERPICO was playing so he tuned in. He reported to me that it was unwatchable because the channel put their logo in the empty the black bars on the side of the picture!
Not a small ghost logo, like TCM, but a large distracting logo in color along the entire side of the screen!
Back when I had cable, I stuck a small square of dark tape over the spot where "animated" logos were, to block them out of my field of vision. But there is no ignoring this new aggressive obnoxiousness.
LornaHansonForbes
LocationDark City, USA
Well, what was the channel?
film lover 293
???--what channel?
Hope MrTiki is better.
More troubling than the logo is the fact that there were black bars on either side of the image. That means the film was being cropped, and that makes them far more despicable, to me.
Sepiatone
LocationLincoln Park, MI
I've seen that "side cropping" done on a couple of newer channels that show old TV episodes from the early '70's and such, and usually on older movies NOT shot in "panavision" or " Cinemascope". Both "H&I channel and COZI do some of this.
DownGoesFrazier
LocationPhiladelphia, PA
THIS-TV is the biggest violator with classic films
NipkowDisc
Locationzaygon hegemony
this tv does suck. not even their sunday nite 2 hours of the original outer limits interests me anymore.
I think this is done to approximate the original dimensions of the tv shows and non-widescreen movies, since most tvs today are elongated sideways, unlike the more nearly square screens of old. If you change the view to "Zoom", the whole screen will fill up, but might crop off the top and bottom of the image.
scsu1975
LocationEd Wood movie
I get the heebie-jeebies thinking of Tor Johnson cropped on both sides.
The side bars are normal for older television shows, because they were not widescreen. It would not be normal for most films made after 1953, like SERPICO, since they ARE widescreen.
Kid Dabb
LocationFlorida
If Tor gets cropped, he mustn't be wearing pants. I couldn't take Tor cropped in his pants.
ElCid
I think it has something to do with the multiple technologies going on now. I have an HD TV hooked to a cable box, a CRT TV hooked to a cable box and a CRT TV hooked to an antenna through a converter.
They all show pictures differently.
I think it is the process that is used to broadcast the old shows and then how the cable or dish companies send those signals. I know that I can go into the programming for my cable box and change the screen settings. Mostly size and whether or not sides are cropped to show a larger picture top to bottom.
My HD TV has no side bars on any of the "over the air" channels, but the CRT hooked to cable frequently does, especially on Cozi. The TV hooked to an antenna has no bars for a few stations and top and bottom bars for all others. The Cozi station and others from the same broadcaster has bars all around.
Regardless, I dislike the logos as well. Especially the large or colored ones.
Yes,it is, strictly how a channel broadcasts. THIS broadcasts in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 (old TV ratio). If they broadcast in the new TV ratios of 1:77:1, then the screen would be filled, side to side, by most films made after 1953, but would not by television shows produced prior to HDTV. Zooming is distorting the imagine or cropping it at the top and bottom.
HoldenIsHere
Yes, I'm happy when I see the bars used for pre-widescreen TV shows to preserve the 4:3 aspect ratio in which they were created, but the use of them makes no sense for widescreen movies such as SERPICO.
markfp2
LocationUpstate, New York
Actually, that's not always the case. If your watching something and it has a smaller picture with black on all four sides, chances are you're watching an HD signal that's been converted down to SD on a channel that either doesn't broadcast in HD or that your cable or satellite company doesn't carry in HD.
There's two ways to do that, one is to just chop off the sides and fill the whole standard 3:4 screen or keep the proper aspect ratio and make it smaller so nothing is lost. It seems more and more channels are choosing the latter. Usually, if that picture is shaped like a 16:9 screen, it's the whole thing just smaller.
What if he's wearing Toreador pants?
Yes, I'm happy when I see the bars used for pre-widescreen TV shows to reserve the 4:3 aspect ratio in which they were created, but the use of them makes no sense for widescreen movies such as SERPICO.
Not me. I'm never happy to see bars at the sides.
I keep my Akai wide screen tv settings so that the screen is always filled up side to side. The only time I don't get that is when a broadcast is done in window-box. In that event I simply watch something else - windowboxing p!sses me off.
As for movies, I stopped watching movies on tv a long time ago. I watch only TCM or DVD's for movies. If TCM ever changes it's onscreen policy to what other channels are doing, I'll go exclusively to DVD's.
Not much room for cropping in those pants. Might need an operation if he did.
I don't like it when the vertical of shows created in the 4:3 aspect ratio is cropped to create a faux widescreen.
The stretching of 4:3 shows and movies is even worse.
I understand your preference.
However, my tv does a reasonable job of making the picture acceptable. Leaving it at 4x3 is unbearable as it provides ugly greenish-grey borders at the sides. I can't hack it. Even if the borders were black, though - I'd still go for the widescreen adaption - which on my Akai is known as "Panorama" .
Each to their own.
FredCDobbs
LocationTampico. What a town.
The History channel has several shows called VIETNAM IN HD and WORLD WAR II IN HD, and both series are cropped top and bottom to make them look wide-screen.
The image quality is very good since they were dubbed from 16mm and 35mm to HD Video, but they were filmed in 4:3 and NOT in wide screen
There is an interesting way anyone with a 16:9 LCD TV can tell if the black bars belong to the TV or if they are being broadcast to us by the TV channel.
Change your BRIGHTNESS and CONTRAST controls on your TV. If the black bars remain solid black, then that is your black TV screen you are seeing. But if the black bars get brighter with the change in brightness, then that means those black bars are being broadcast to us by that TV channel.
For example, when TCM shows a very wide Cinemascope movie, the top and bottom black bars are being broadcast to us by TCM, and we are receiving only about half a picture of the movie (the center half), while the top 1/4 and bottom 1/4 are the black bars that TCM is broadcasting to us.
Yes, when TCM uses letterboxing for those CinemaScope movies, we are seeing the entire image as it was shown theatrically.
The letterbox bars are used to preserve the original widescreen format of the movie.
We are seeing half a film, half a picture, with the top and bottom missing. No sky, no grass, no lake, no mountains. It's just a querk of the incompatibility of the two formats.
The movies should have never left the old 4:3 format.
We didn't need wide screen for GONE WITH THE WIND, DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, THE THIRD MAN, OUT OF THE PAST, and all those beautiful 1940s Betty Grable Technicolor movies.
I think you are incorrect.
The purpose of letterboxing is to preseve the entire image of a film as seen in the cinema.
Letterboxing is used as an alternative to a full-screen, pan-and-scan transfer of a widescreen film image to videotape or videodisc. In pan-and-scan transfers, the original image is cropped to the narrower aspect ratio of the destination format, usually the 1.33:1 (4:3) ratio of the standard television screen, whereas letterboxing preserves the film's original image composition as seen in the cinema. Letterboxing was developed for use in 4:3 television displays before widescreen television screens were available, but it is also necessary to represent on a 16:9 widescreen display the unaltered original composition of a film with a wider aspect ratio, such as Panavision's 2.35:1 ratio.


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Nine years after relegation from the Football League, Cambridge found themselves promoted from the Conference as FA Trophy winners after a season to remember at the Abbey Stadium. A record-breaking 16 game unbeaten start set the tone for a successful campaign and although they eventually finished second to champions Luton, they beat Halifax in the playoff semi-finals before edging past Gateshead 2-1 at Wembley in the playoff final. They also reached their first ever FA Trophy final, seeing off Gosport Borough with relative ease 4-0.
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Stevenage rose to the top of the Blue Square Premier with a 4-1 home win over Cambridge in the last meeting between the two sides in January 2010. Goals from Lee Boylan (2), Yemi Odubade and Chris Beardsley did the damage for Boro with Danny Crow scoring for the U's, who later had Brian Saah sent off for two yellows. It means there has been at least one red card in each of the club's previous six meetings.
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A friend sent me this. So well done. And so true.
The film makers asked some children to pretend to be a salesman and a customer.
If you're comfortable, you're doing it wrong.
The last 20 seconds are the most important: when you want to stop—keep going because that's when you get stronger.
What other Spin-Spirations have you heard?
First broadcast on BBC Panorama on 1st April 1957, a very young Richard Dimbleby revealed the wonderful world of Swiss spaghetti production to millions of deprived and hungry post-war Brits.
Most of Britain were taken in. Even my dad - who is usually brilliant and smart - even the likes of he, totally fell for this gigantic April Fool's joke! Which just goes to show, if you have a serious and very important enough voice, you can hoodwink anyone.
What an inspiration to us all.
Ballet dancers can make floating in the air look easy, make balancing en pointe look effortless. But the only reason they only can do that is because they have spent hours and hours training, putting their body through torture. They can do it only through sacrifice and suffering.
Behind all that ease lies hard work. Maybe tears. Certainly pain.
Mastery it seems to me is making something incredibly hard look incredibly easy. Mastery hides the craft and the skill and the hours and hours that went into making it look that easy, so that all you see is the grace and the ease.
It's also true of writing. One thing I know about picture books is: if it looks easy, you've probably done your job. (Is that why so many people think anyone can write one?) If someone looks at your picture book and says: "WOW! That must have been SO HARD!" you've missed it. It should look easy. It should look as if anyone could do it.
In fact, if it looks like you worked on it, you probably need to work on it some more.
Years and years on a short picture book text?
Here's a great clip from Jerry Seinfeld on how to write a joke. This one took him 2 years.
Two years on a joke?
Yup. Working on this joke Seinfeld compares to writing a song. He could just as well have been talking about writing a picture book.
It takes hard work—to be simple. It takes longer—to be concise.
Short is not the same as quick.
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St David (seen here in a stained glass window from Jesus College, Oxford) is the Patron Saint of Wales. In the 6th century he helped spread Christianity among pagan Celtic tribes of western Britain and he only ate watercress and once stood in the middle of a lake up to his neck--but I don't remember why.
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I stepped out of my apartment—and into Narnia. Complete with lampposts.
Everywhere, everything was brimming with light. Beauty that catches in your throat. Sudden brightness—shining in the air, in the trees, in the skies, at your feet.
Every moment a new landscape. The early pink skies and the gentle light on the snow cushions on benches. The afternoon sunlight that turns trees to crystal, and a park into an enchanted forest.
Snow making everything beautiful. Covering over the ugliness, making everything look new. Almost as if the world has been made again and we are coming upon it for the first time.
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Children's eyes are new. They can see what we have become blind to.
I would like to live every day with the eyes of a child.
I would like to unlearn what I've learned.
I would like to step out of my apartment every day with new eyes to see what is always all around me, shining at my feet.
The last 20 seconds are the most important: when you want to stop because you can't go on—keep going because that's when you get stronger.
Dr David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) is the rock star of theologians, writers, thinkers (seen here wondrously on a horse). And I'm a total groupie.
I wish I could say I'd met him. Or heard him preach. Or had him as my great Uncle.
Sometimes I even wish (inappropriately) I could tell lies: "Ah yes! He used to dandle me on his knee of an evening. How well I remember him singing Welsh hymns to me! Oh yes—and the time he took me riding on his horse!"
Which for some reason I always follow with "sorry." I feel it is such a let down. I'm rather let down by the whole thing myself.
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Here's one entry (inspired by the good Doctor's great book, "Spiritual Depression".
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When you walk through Central Park you feel like you've have escaped out of the city into the countryside—you are surrounded by natural beauty.
The natural beauty of Central Park is completely designed—to seem as if it wasn't.
When the park was built, back in the 1850s, only wealthy New Yorkers could afford to go the Adirondaks. The designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, wanted to give those who couldn't afford to go, the experience of being in the Adirondacks, the same experience of beauty.
Central Park is a park designed for everyone.
Joshua Cohen wrote of two examples of the designer's obsessive attention to detail.
First, the park is 2 ½ miles long. The Central Park Commission said that there had to be four cross-streets connecting the east and west sides of Manhattan. To do that and still feel as if you're in the Adirondacks, Olmsted and Vaux put the cross-streets eight feet below—an innovation in park design.
"Second,… in … the Bethesda Terrace there's a fantastic ceiling made with more than 15000 tiles. They're encaustic tiles which means that the color and geometric design on the surface goes all they way through: it is not a glaze but multi-coloured clay. The ceiling was designed by British architect, Jacob Wrey Mould, based on his two-year-long study of the Alhambra. So this public park in New York City includes a structure with a ceiling based on one of the most beautiful works of architecture in the world."
I'm so grateful that Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux believed everything matters, that they went for excellence—down to the tiniest, most obsessive detail. And, as a result, gave us Central Park.
Excellence, it turns out, is not elitist. Excellence is the most inclusive thing. It is beauty and beauty reaches everyone. It's a bit like books that way. At least picture books. The best ones are completely designed to seem as if they aren't.
Truly great design is almost invisible, I think. It's there not to draw attention to itself—it's there to not get in the way of the story, the experience, the beauty.
Great art is a generosity. Because it's not about the creator or the designer—it's about the person looking at the painting, the reader opening the book, the New Yorker walking across the park.
PS: One last fact about Central Park you may not know. I didn't. It took more gunpowder to build Central Park than was used by both sides in the battle of Gettysburg.
One December, I found myself looking back over the year wondering, unhelpfully, in a businessy tax-ish counting sort of way: "Now let's see, what exactly did I do this year?" (I should have known by that "exactly" where this would go).
So I began counting up the number of picture book manuscripts I'd done that year—in a kind of awful picture book accounting.
It wasn't long before I realized there were none. I'd written no picture book manuscripts. I hadn't got a single picture book contract that year and no picture book published.
How could this have happened? I'd been working so hard. What had I been doing all that time?
The trouble was I was looking at picture books like an accountant—as if they were products you manufacture. But picture books aren't products you manufacture; they are seeds that you sow.
You can't force a picture book—any more than you can a seed.
They need time to take root. To grow. You have to wait for them. You can't make them come by force of will power. They come when they are ready. Like plants. You have to work hard: get down on your hands and knees in the dirt. You must till the soil, water and weed. One year, none will come up. The next, they may all come up at once.
So when you can't see anything and think you've got nothing to show--it's probably not that nothing is happening. It's probably just that what's happening is quiet, and hidden and secret.
It has a lot to do with trust. And a lot to do with waiting. And a lot to do with being on your knees.
And almost nothing to do with accounting.
If you'd told me a couple of years ago, I'd be appearing in a big cathedral with a full orchestra and choir and with a former Miss World—I'd have laughed. Don't be silly.
I never would have beleived you.
But then again, if you'd told me I'd be "Playing the Ryman" I wouldn't have beleived that either.
I'm learning what I expect or think or imagine is beside the point - and usually way too small.
So anyway, there I was, that Sunday morning last December, driving to The Crystal Catherdral to be interviewed by Bobby Schuller about my new book "Thoughts To Make Your Heart Sing" - in two services that are broadcast to millions.
I was driving along when suddenly I had to pull over. There, smiling out at me from the side of the road was a face in lights - a face I knew - me smiling back at me. Obviously I had to stop and take a photo.
Next I parked in the campus. Took some more photos. And then I met the friendliest, most generous people, who welcomed me and fed me and prayed for me. I had make up and hair done, trotted up some steps in between some pastors and out into the cathedral - and the service.
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