VideoPropulsion® (OTC:VPTV) announces the addition of "CAMbrick", a high density Conditional Access Module (CAM) and smartcard array, into its line of digital television (DTV) headend components. The new CAMbrick consists of one to seven modules, each with four Common Interface (CI) slots, which can all be cabled to a single, short, low-profile PCIe interface. The modules are cleverly designed to fit in a standard, 3.5", hot-swap hard disk drive (HDD) canister for convenient mounting in a server. Each SI slot allows for the insertion of CAM and smart card for decryption of PayTV services. With 8 decrypts per CAM/Smartcard, a total of 208 channels can be simultaneously descrambled using seven available HDD canisters "hidden" in the drive bay and a single x1 PCIe slot. A single port PCIe interface is also available for operating one CAMbrick. PCIe interfaces with more than seven ports are also planned.
Now in its 42nd year of continuous operation, VideoPropulsion offers various appliance models with integrated satellite receivers, CAM arrays, transcoders, encrypters, and QAMs. For example, the company's flagship FloodGate® FG-5000 can now receive multiple MPEG programs via DVB-S2 satellite, decrypt the programs using the embedded CAMbrick, transcode the content from H.265 to MPEG2, re-encrypt the programs using various AES-128 encryptions, multiplex, then modulate output on QAM. The QAM output supports DVB-C standards for Annex A, B, or C. Outputs can also support IP multicast streams for delivery on IPTV networks. Virtually any standard AES-128 based encryption is supported, and the company supports several flavors including: Pro:Idiom®, SamsungLYNK®, Verimatrix®, NSTV®, Conax®, VSecure®, and other custom proprietary encryptions.
"For the past decade, we have been very successful in the North American DTV equipment markets with our FloodGate® turnaround appliances", said Tom Varghese, VP of Engineering at VideoPropulsion. "With integrated CAM/Smartcards in our products, we are now better positioned to capture additional market share for International DTV equipment".
The CAMbrick will be shown on VideoPropulsion's booth #5.C11 at the IBC show in Amsterdam, September 8-13. FloodGate® appliances with integrated high density CAM, DVB-S/S2, transcode, and QAM technology are available directly from VideoPropulsion.
software for high performance, low cost per stream, digital content manipulation, and has established a reputation for providing unique HDTV, VoD, and IPTV products. The Company offers revolutionary FloodGate satellite and CATV transcryption appliances as well as OEM computer modules for a variety of applications, including streaming, multiplexing, demultiplexing, modulation, demodulation, transcoding, encryption, and splicing MPEG formatted data.


Italy´s manufacturing confidence index fell to 106 in April 2019 from 100.8 in the previous month and below market expectations of 100.7. It was the lowest reading since February 2015, mostly due to a deterioration in both order levels (-11.8 from -11.1 in March) and inventories (4.3 from 4.9). Also, expectations regarding future production weakened (3.2 from 3.4). Italy's composite business morale index, combining surveys of the manufacturing, retail, construction and services sectors, dropped to 98.7 in April from a downwardly revised 99.1 in March. Business Confidence in Italy averaged 102.29 Index Points from 1991 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 121.52 Index Points in February of 1995 and a record low of 71.60 Index Points in March of 2009.
Business Confidence in Italy is expected to be 98.00 Index Points by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Business Confidence in Italy to stand at 102.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Italy Business Confidence is projected to trend around 104.00 Index Points in 2020, according to our econometric models.
In Italy, the Manufacturing Confidence Index covers 4,000 Italian companies. The questionnaire focuses on the current trend of order books, production and inventories, short-term forecasts on order books, production, prices and the general economic situation. The business confidence index is adjusted for seasonal effects and fixed to a base year of 2005. The value 100 indicates no evolution in business sentiment, a value over 100 shows increasing confidence and a value under 100 indicates low expectations. This page provides the latest reported value for - Italy Business Confidence - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Italy Business Confidence - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2019.


With our recent relaunch of our website Grid Connect Inc. has won an Interactive Media Award for Outstanding Achievement in the B2B category. Grid Connect was recognized through its partnership with Gorilla Commerce for "Modern, clean design elements showcase the brand and its array of highly technical products. Simplified product discovery, achieved through updated information architecture, guides customers to the exact product they need, and into the conversion funnel, faster. Accelerated site performance, with page load speeds across the site clocking just over 1 second, enhances the user experience throughout their online shopping process."


Today at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, NVIDIA is kicking off the conference by demonstrating an early release of Apex, an open-source PyTorch extension that helps users maximize deep learning training performance on NVIDIA Volta GPUs.
Inspired by state-of-the-art mixed precision training in translational networks, sentiment analysis, and image classification, NVIDIA PyTorch developers have created tools bringing these methods to all levels of PyTorch users. Mixed precision utilities in Apex are designed to improve training speed while maintaining the accuracy and stability of training in single precision. Specifically, Apex offers automatic execution of operations in either FP16 or FP32, automatic handling of master parameter conversion, and automatic loss scaling, all available with 4 or fewer line changes to the existing code.
Installation requires CUDA 9, PyTorch 0.4 or later, and Python 3. The modules and utilities are still under active development and we look forward to your feedback to make these utilities even better. Users can download the code and get started with documentation, tutorials, and examples on our GitHub page. You can also learn more about some of the technical details behind mixed precision in the GTC 2018 session: Training Neural Networks with Mixed Precision: Real Examples.


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Vygaudas Ušackas (born 16 December 1964 in Skuodas, Lithuania) is Member of the Board of Directors of a Lithuanian born European-American company Avia Solutions Group, which is a Leader in End-to-End Capacity Provider for Passenger and Cargo Airlines Worldwide.

Vygaudas Usackas is a former Lithuanian diplomat, from September 2013  to October 2017 he served as the European Union's Ambassador to Russia. Prior to that he served as the EU Special Representative for Afghanistan. Prior to heading Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ušackas was the Ambassador of Lithuania to the United States and Mexico from 2001 through 2006, then Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Founder of Mission Siberia.

Early life and education
Vygaudas Ušackas was born in 1964 in Skuodas, Lithuania.

In 1982 he finished Skuodas school and enrolled to the Vilnius University, there he received law degree in 1990. Later he continued his studies at the University of Oslo, Norway and the Aarhus University, Denmark, specializing in international politics and trade.

Diplomatic Service
Between 1992 and 1996 he worked as an adviser to Lithuania's mission to NATO and European Community, soon afterwards he assumed post Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 2000 and 2001 he was the chief negotiator of Lithuania's accession to the European Union.

After the 2008 election, Andrius Kubilius presented Vygaudas Ušackas as candidate for the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs to President Valdas Adamkus.

On 22 March 2010 he was appointed by Catherine Ashton as the European Union's special envoy for Afghanistan.

As of 1 September 2013 Vygaudas Ušackas serves as Ambassador, Head of the EU Delegation to the Russian Federation.

In 2019, Vygaudas Ušackas announced leaving politics to start a career in business.

Private life
He has two children: Raimundas, who was born in 1991, and Paula, born in 1993. In addition to the Lithuanian language, which is his native language, he is fluent in English, Russian and French. After leaving politics, Vygaudas Ušackas became Member of the Board of Directors at Avia Solutions Group.

References
Vygaudas Ušackas (Lithuanian Embassy, UK; retrieved on 2008-12-03)

Living people
1964 births
Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania
Lithuanian jurists
Vilnius University alumni
Ambassadors of Lithuania to the United States
Ambassadors of Lithuania to Mexico
Ambassadors of Lithuania to the United Kingdom
Ambassadors of the European Union to Afghanistan
Ambassadors of the European Union to Russia
People from Skuodas
Lithuanian officials of the European Union
Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 2nd Class

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Kim Hee-sun 'iconic woman' of 2012
At the ninth annual Cosmopolitan Asia Beauty Awards in Shanghai this year, actress Kim Hee-sun was recognized as the most iconic woman of 2012.
At the awards ceremony that took place on Thursday at Culture Square, Kim took to the stage? with Chinese actress Crystal Liu and Angelababy of Hong Kong, two candidates who were also picked as the top three iconic women of the year.
Kim, 35, trumped the two girls in their 20s and dazzled the crowd in her long black dress and shawl.
The Korean actress, who made her much-awaited comeback to the small screen this year, also showed her wit by complimenting the male host, calling him handsome.
Kim's agency said that after her six-year hiatus, Chinese fans are taking an active interest in Kim once again.
"As the drama 'Faith' will air in China, we expect her fan base to grow even more," said a spokesperson from Kim's agency.
The Cosmopolitan Asia Beauty Awards recognizes celebrities from Asia for their unique sense of style.

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This latest console table design has flared legs made from yakal. The top is Ipil with molave breadboards. Drawers are molave and keyed to the side rails. Drawer pulls are laminated molave and kamagong (ebony). The shelves are 1×1 Ipil wood skewered with molave dowels. All woods used are reclaimed as with all my projects.
damn benji,winner winner thurkey dinner! as usual you knocked it outa the park again.love your style and execution buddy.thank you for sharing your art and passion!
Yep… another winner… awesome design and workmanship!
OMG yet another dumster dive gem. Benji you have gotta tell me here this bin is I want some too!
That's a beautiful table, Benji. Wow!
This is a beautiful piece and it has a lot of character.
"Drawer pulls are laminated molave and kamagong…" and few layers of super skills and artistic design!
Benji, you tease too much!!!
Very nice. What's the finish?
Love seeing your projects here. Another beautiful one, as usual.
Torus nailed it…"and few layers of super skills and artistic design!". Such a beautiful piece made with a terrific selection of wood and lots of skill and love.
I have to think the Greene Bros would be ecstatic at your work.
This is another example of your wonderful expertise.


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Overbought McClellan Oscillator
As of June 15, 2012, the NYSE's McClellan A-D Oscillator has risen up to an overbought level. But not all overbought conditions are created equal. There is context to be found in the way that it is done.
There is a rule that we use when interpreting the Oscillator's structure: The complex side is the strong side. What I am referring to is a complex structure that is entirely above or below zero, with lots of chopping up and down but without a crossing of the zero line. When you see that, the message is that whichever side of zero it is forming on is the side that is in control. So a choppy complex structure above zero means that the bulls are in charge, whereas a complex structure below zero means that the bears are in charge.
A "simple" Oscillator structure is one where you see it move across the zero line and then turn straight around without building any complexity. Such a structure says that there is no control of the market by the side on which the simple structure forms.
So let's say, for example, that you see a complex structure above zero that gets interrupted by a quick dip below zero and then right back up again. The message would be that the bulls are in charge, even though the bears were able to put on a temporary disruption. In this example, the bulls should be presumed to still have control once the bears get done with their little dip.
If you see a description of the McClellan Oscillator on some other web sites, quite often it will refer to it as being overbought or oversold at some numerical level. This is an overly simplistic way of looking at what the Oscillator has to tell us. When my parents, Sherman and Marian McClellan, wrote their booklet Patterns For Profit in 1970, one of the big points that they addressed was that the pattern and structure of both the McClellan Oscillator and the McClellan Summation Index matter far more than just their mere numerical level.
The strong breadth numbers on the NYSE have produced a reading of +164.60 on June 15, 2012. That is above the +150 level that has been marking an overbought threshold in recent years, and thus it indicates an overbought condition. But at the same time, it also signals strong upward initiation for this new price uptrend. It does that because this overbought reading occurs within a complex structure above zero, which is a statement that the bulls are in charge.
Compare it, for example, to the peak at +263 on Aug. 31, 2011, visible at the left end of this week's chart. The Oscillator rose straight up into that peak, and came straight down to back below zero, never forming any complex structure while it was above zero. That was a statement that the bulls then were able to mount a big countertrend pop, but were not organized enough yet to start a sustained uptrend. The Oscillator then chopped back and forth across zero for the month of September 2011, with neither side taking charge.
That changed after the price bottom on Oct. 3, 2011, when the Oscillator finally started building a complex structure above zero to say that the bulls were in charge. And the bulls were furthermore able to demonstrate sustainable strength by posting a nice high reading well above +150.
By understanding the messages from simple and complex McClellan Oscillator structures, a chartist can get important information about who is in charge of the trend, the bulls or the bears. Seeing a complex structure above zero right now says that the bulls are in charge, and seeing it get up to well above +150 says that they are initiating a strong uptrend which should continue beyond this current overbought reading. This week's chart is updated and made available every day at our Market Breadth Data page.
Summation Index Promises Higher Highs After Correction Ends Jan 13, 2012
RASI Above +500 Says Bull Market Not Done Oct 21, 2011
McClellan Oscillator Confirms New Uptrend


There is a cold nip in the air and we can anticipate the approaching winter! I am conscious that in our small city there are many who are homeless, struggling with addictions, living in dysfunctional families, emerging from broken relationships, suffering the pain of ill health and struggling with the misery of poverty. How can we as a church express our gratitude to God for the many blessings we enjoy in this season of thanksgiving? If you have any ideas that are practical in terms of how we can be a blessing to others in the neighborhood. Please do let me know.
Our son Joshua is here for a few days having finished his final exams in his medical training. We decided to surprise his mother and so I booked his ticket without Chitra knowing about it. I took Chitra on the pretext that I had meetings to New York and she spent some time with our friends while I went to my "meeting" to JFK airport and meet Josh. When we walked in to our friends home the surprise was complete and it made Chitra's week. The gift of family is special. Both Chitra and I so miss our children and it is a wonderful blessing for us to have our son with us even if it is for a few days. Next week I will be flying to the UK over thanksgiving to preach at the Chapel Royal. Jolyn Walker will be preaching on Sunday the November 29th and I return onDecember 3.
The first thing that struck me was Paul's concern that the church was not guilty of being 'uninformed". This could be understood in terms of ignorance or being unaware but on a stronger note being led astray. The Church of Jesus Christ is Charismatic in the sense of it being a gifted community. It is important to recognize that these gifts have been given by God to his people for a purpose that is the benefit of others. Paul refers to this as being the "common good'. Gifts are given by God to be used to bless others, it is never given for selfish gain.
What is this "common good" for our faith community? Over these next few weeks it would be useful for us to explore together what is the common good for St. John's. I will explore some of these vital experiences in the light of the Biblical testimony within the Acts of the apostles. Clearly unity, the experience of salvation, the freedom from the law, the joy in knowing God's forgiveness and being set free by Jesus gripped the apostolic church. My prayer is that these experiences become our common experience here at St. John's.
You would have received our Church stewardship letter from Ruth Lively and Phil Coy encouraging you to prayerfully consider the many blessings we have received from the Lord and to thoughtfully respond to God's goodness by participating joyfully in the Mission of God through resourcing the local church by offering your time, your talents and your tithe. I want to encourage each of you to consider prayerfully how you can Pay, Pray, Promote and Participate in the ministry of our church. The Church is growing, People are coming to faith and the ministry of the church is responding to some needs. Please do get involved and do thank God for what he is doing in and through us. It is our privilege to be invited to share in the mission of God. I look forward to seeing each one of you during the week. Be assured of my love, friendship, support and prayers. God bless and keep each one of you.


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Leslie Shows @ SFAI
Tutela, 2015, acrylic, ink, sand, canvas, aluminum 56 x 120"
There is a magnificent loneliness to the work of Leslie Shows. It gives off an eerie, alien, inhuman beauty, signaling the vast space that exists beyond our everyday, self-centered experience. Her work reads as painting, but it's really painting and sculpture. Layers of aluminum, wood, synthetic rubber, Plexiglas, acrylic, ink and sand coalesce into splintered, contingent spectacles of geology, biology and time. Encountering her strongest work one feels alone in the cosmos, a solitary traveler witnessing colliding narratives of transformation and evolution.
Even before she was honored with a SECA award in 2006, Shows received attention for her innovative use of materials and landscape motifs influenced by Surrealism, science and technology. Now, at 38, with solo shows behind her at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and representation by Haines Gallery in San Francisco, Shows is steadily steaming into a productive mid-career,
K Drop/ In each beak, 2015, acrylic, ink, graphite, sand, canvas, polymer clay, aluminum 59 x 82"
on a parallel track with environmentally oriented artists such as photographer David Maisel and painters Kristin Baker and Mary Anne Kluth. She speaks of wanting to "make work that is so secret from myself that I would be seduced into making it." The nine works on view here continue her critique of landscape and the visceral histrionics of altered space and frozen time — mesmerizing, toxic, known and unknowable.
Working with scanned images of minerals, doodle drawings, and paint pours, Shows transforms the integration of these materials into what she calls "structures of narrative." Tutela is an epic expanse of poured acrylic, ink, sand and canvas layered over laser-cut aluminum. The largest piece in the show, it possesses both beauty and lonesome eternal dread — a bifurcated vision of yawning, primordial space. Cold sooty inks and watery ochres are left to impose their own order, creating empty canyons, signifying either the future or the primordial past. As with much of the work in this exhibition Tutela's power rests with its ability to compel viewers to let go of linear negotiations and traverse wormholes of shifting spatial and temporal mysteries.
Like many artists today who explore the demise of nature, Shows, who grew up in Alaska, acutely aware of the devastation wrought by mining, has long navigated the terrain between nature and techno-culture. Once bucolic and carrying an unassailable purity, landscape is now threatened or threatening. The chalky deposits and tarry slags of Shows' work speak to the fact of human intervention and a permanently altered earth. She illuminates both our geologic and industrial history, revealing subterranean chaos and multiple realities.
Serrated A/ the tail of another, 2015, acrylic, ink, sand, canvas, polymer clay, aluminum 60 x 95"
Works such as Serrated A/The tail of anotherand K Drop/In each beakdeftly manipulate notions of representation, idea and experience. Paying close attention to the intrinsic qualities of materials, Shows bypasses culturally inculcated meanings and lets "nature take its course." The granular sediment and metallic glaze function as skins over Shows' deeper ideas: of landscape as a construct, perched atop uncontrollable, unknowable forces that grow, erode and regenerate.
Smaller works, such as the left condition, the right condition and Isomere don't fare as well. They're compelling at a distance, but up-close their integration of drawing and facture feels over-studied, in sharp contrast to the larger works, where awe and confusion about our environment and the challenge it poses to our own relative importance loom large. As Robert Smithson so elegantly put it: "One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion … brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing."
–JULIA COUZENS
Leslie Shows @ San Francisco Art Institute, Walter and McBean Galleries, through December 12, 2016. Shows lectures on her work December 1 at 7 p.m.
Read Squarecylinder's review of Shows' previous exhibition @ Haines Gallery.
Julia Couzens is a Sacramento-based artist and writer whose work has been widely shown, most recently at the di Rosa Preserve. Her drawings and hybrid objects are in museum and public collections throughout the U.S. These include the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts; Berkeley Art Museum; Oakland Museum; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina; and Yale University. She lives and works on Merritt Island in the Sacramento River delta.


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Ibadan gears up for colourful Okebadan festival
by Bisi Oladele
in Southwest
The annual Okebadan festival promises to be full of fun this year as two business giants – Globacom Nigeria Limited and Gunness Nigeria PLC – have agreed to sponsor the 2015 edition tentatively slated for March.
The business organizations in backing the event said they were committed to the preservation and promotion of the Nigerian culture.
At the unveiling of the festival logo in Ibadan on Monday, the Zonal Business Coordinator, Globacom, Dare Oyewale, described the company's partnership with festival organisers, Kingsize Entertainment, as a way of celebrating the culture and tradition of Ibadan people.
The representative of Guinness PLc, Awolowo Adewumi also said that the company would continue to mark its presence in the heart of the people while the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Kingsize Entertainment, Lanre Alabi said the coming of the two companies into the festival would give it a global reckoning.
Also at the event, the Aboke of Okebadan, Ifasola Ifamapowa, prayed for the unity of Nigeria.
The Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Samuel Odulana, was represented at the event by the Ekerin Olubadan, High Chief Eddy Oyewole.
The Alaasa Olubadan, High Chief Lekan Alabi, enjoined the people not to throw away their culture and tradition because of foreign influence. He added that the Europeans progressed because they protected their own cultural heritage.
His words: "The Okebadan Festival is staged annually to pay homage to the founders of the city. Our ancestors prayed to God and He answered their prayers. This shows that they also believed in God. We thank God that Globacom and Guinness are coming to sponsor the festival this year after carefully taking a look at the proposal presented by the organizers."
While assuring that Globacom would continue to support genuine effort targeted at celebrating the people, Oyewale said: "Globacom fully understands the importance of the celebration of festivals to the culture and tradition of the people of our great country. This is precisely why we have consistently been supporting and sponsoring key festivals, thereby contributing to the admirable determination of the various tribes in the country to celebrate their roots."
The Olubadan prayed that those who will win election to represent Oyo State at the National Assembly in this month's election would take the creation of Ibadan State as a priority.
The monarch maintained that Ibadan State was long overdue, adding that people must rally round Ibadan indigenes to give them a state of their own.
He said: "From any parameter you use, Ibadan State was long overdue. We just pray that those to be elected in the forthcoming election would be nice enough to ensure the creation of Ibadan State."
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Houdini is a 1953 American Technicolor film biography from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal and Berman Swarttz, directed by George Marshall, that stars Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. The film's screenplay, based upon the life of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, was written by Philip Yordan, based on the book Houdini by Harold Kellock. The film's music score was by Roy Webb and the cinematography by Ernest Laszlo. The art direction was by Albert Nozaki and Hal Pereira, and the costume design by Edith Head.

The film's storyline is a fictionalized account of Houdini's life. It details his beginnings as a carnival performer, later as a worker in a safe factory, and finally his international success as a world-renowned escape artist and stage magician. Following the death of his mother, he exposes various fraudulent mediums in the spiritualist movement, while always hoping to make contact with her. The film also follows his love for his wife Bess Houdini and his most dangerous stunts and stage illusions.

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In the 1890s, young Harry Houdini (Tony Curtis) is performing with a Coney Island carnival as Bruto, the Wild Man, when Bess (Janet Leigh), a naive onlooker, tries to protect him from the blows of Schultz (Sig Ruman), his "trainer". Harry then appears as magician "The Great Houdini" and, spotting Bess in the audience, invites her on stage. Harry flirts with the unsuspecting Bess during his act, but she flees from him in a panic. When Bess shows up to watch Harry perform two more times, he finally is able to corner her. Bess admits her attraction, and soon after, the two appear at Harry's mother's house, newly married. Bess becomes Harry's onstage partner, touring the country with him, but soon grows tired of the low pay and grueling schedule.

After Bess convinces Harry to take a job in a locksmith factory, Harry works as a lock tester while fantasizing about escaping from one of the factory's large safes. On Halloween, Harry and Bess attend a special magicians' dinner at the Hotel Astor, during which magician Fante offers a prize to anyone who can free himself from a straitjacket. Harry accepts the challenge and, through intense concentration, extricates himself from the jacket, greatly impressing Fante. Afterward, however, Fante advises Harry to "drop it", noting that Johann Von Schweger, a German magician, retired at the height of his career after performing a similar feat, fearful of his own talents. Bess then persuades Harry to give her the prize, a single, round-trip boat ticket to Europe, so that she can cash it in for a down payment on a house.

Later at the factory, Harry locks himself inside one of the big safes, determined to make an escape. Before he can get out, however, the foreman orders the safe blown open, then fires Harry. That night, in front of his mother (Angela Clarke), Harry and Bess argue about their future, and frustrated by Bess's insistence that he quit magic, Harry walks out. Soon, a contrite Bess finds Harry performing with a carnival and presents him with two one-way tickets to Europe. Sometime later, at a London theater, Harry and Bess are concluding their magic act when a reporter named Dooley (Michael Pate) challenges Harry to break out of one of Scotland Yard's notoriously secure jail cells. Harry, who hired Dooley to issue the challenge, accepts, unaware that the cells do not have locks in the doors, but are mounted on the outside walls. Despite the added difficulty, the dexterous, determined Houdini picks his cell lock and appears on time for his next performance. Now billed as the "man who escaped from Scotland Yard", Harry begins a successful tour of Europe with Bess.

In Berlin Harry is joined by his mother and begins searching for the reclusive Von Schweger. While performing an impromptu levitation trick with Bess at a restaurant, Harry is arrested for fraud. During his trial, Harry denies that he ever made claims to supernatural powers, insisting that all his tricks are accomplished through physical means. To prove his point, Harry locks himself in a safe in the courtroom and breaks out a few minutes later, after which Bess explains to Harry's mother that safe locks are designed to keep thieves out, not in. Vindicated, Harry then goes to see Von Schweger, who finally has responded to his queries, but learns from Von Schweger's assistant, Otto (Torin Thatcher), that the magician died two days earlier. Otto reveals that Von Schweger summoned Harry to ask him the secret of "dematerialization", a feat he accomplished once but could not repeat. Although Harry demurs, Otto insists on becoming Harry's new assistant and travels with him to New York City.

There, Harry finds he is virtually unknown, so for publicity, he hangs upside down on a skyscraper flagpole, constrained by a straitjacket. Harry executes the escape and soon makes a name for himself in America.  To prepare to be submerged in a box in the cold Detroit River, Harry bathes in an ice-filled bathtub. During the trick, which takes place on Halloween, the chain holding the box breaks, and it drops upside down into an opening in the ice-covered river. Although Harry manages to escape from the box, the current drags him downstream, and he struggles to find air pockets under the ice and swim back to the opening. Above, Bess and the horrified audience assume Harry has drowned and proclaim his demise. To Bess's relief, Harry shows up later at their hotel, saying that he heard his mother's voice, directing him toward the opening. Just then, Harry receives word that his mother died at the exact time that he heard her voice call to him.

Two years later in New York, Harry, who has not performed since his mother's death, reveals to Simms (Douglas Spencer), a reporter, that he has been trying to contact his mother's spirit, without success. Harry invites Simms to attend a seance with him, and after the medium appears to have communicated with his mother, Harry and Otto expose her as a fake. After a public crusade against phony mediums, Harry decides to return to the stage and builds a watery torture cell for the occasion. Terrified, Bess threatens to leave Harry unless he drops the dangerous trick, and he agrees not to perform it. Before the show, Harry admits to Otto that his appendix is tender, but goes on, despite the pain. When the audience noisily demands that he perform the advertised "water torture" trick, Harry succumbs and is immersed, upside down, in a tank of water. Weak, Harry cannot execute the escape and loses consciousness. Otto breaks the tank's glass, and after reviving, the now-dying Harry vows to a weeping Bess that, if possible, he will come back.

Cast
 Tony Curtis as Harry Houdini
 Janet Leigh as Bess Houdini
 Torin Thatcher as Otto
 Angela Clarke as Harry's Mother
 Stefan Schnabel as German Prosecuting Attorney
 Ian Wolfe as Malue
 Sig Ruman as Schultz
 Michael Pate as Dooley
 Connie Gilchrist as Mrs. Shultz
 Malcolm Lee Beggs as British Jail Warden
 Frank Orth as Mr. Hunter
 Barry Bernard as Inspector Marlick
 Douglas Spencer as Simms
 Fred Aldrich as Waiter/Bouncer (uncredited)
 Lyle Latell as Calcott (uncredited)

Production
In September 1951, it was announced that Paramount had bought The Life of Houdini and that George Pal would produce. Hedda Hopper suggested Orson Welles, who was a magician, would be an ideal star. Pal said he would make it after War of the Worlds.

Barré Lyndon wrote the first screenplay then Philip Yordan wrote another version.  The distinguished magician, escapologist, and mentalist Joseph Dunninger, credited as "Dunninger", was technical adviser on the film. Dunninger was a good friend to many notables in the magic community including Houdini himself, Francis Martinka, and Tony Slydini.

In July 1952, Paramount announced that Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh would star under the direction of George Marshall. Curtis was borrowed from Universal, where he was under contract; he said he was delighted to make the film, as he had mainly been in action films up until that time. Leigh was borrowed from MGM. It would be the first time Curtis and Leigh, who were married, appeared together on screen. Leigh later said "Metro [MGM] was not very happy about the idea of loaning me to Paramount, but I was excited at the thought of doing it". Curtis wrote in his memoirs that he "wasn't sure if this was the best thing for my own career" as he did not always want to be associated with his wife.

To prepare for the role, Curtis trained with magician George Boston for one month. Joe Dunninger did the illusions. Leigh said she and Curtis learned the illusions "so that it wouldn't have to be done with camera trickery. When Tony levitated me, there were no cuts, and there were none during some of the other tricks — they were done "legit"." Leigh said, however, that the escape scenes were "fixed because Tony wasn't Houdini; he didn't have the ability to contort his body or to manipulate the locks like Houdini did. Houdini had tremendous spiritual energy. He could get his body into positions that were just [laughs] not human".

The film was originally meant to be shot in black-and-white, but the decision was made during pre-production to film it in color to take full advantage of the costumes and sets.

Leigh said Curtis received ice burns in the scene where he had to sit in a bathtub full of ice. She added that the last third of the film focused on Houdini seeing if he could contact his dead mother "rather than his wonderful ability and the love between the two of them. I agree that the last part of Houdini was much harder to pull off. Houdini was exposing the falsity of these charlatans [spiritualists], and I think it was more difficult for audiences to
accept that phase of the picture, especially at that time".

Leigh enjoyed working with Curtis, and they would go on to make four more feature films together.

Reception
Curtis said the film "was very successful. My secret hope, however, was that Houdini was going to propel me into a whole new kind of filmmaking, where I would be recognized as the serious actor I had always wanted to be. When that didn't happen I was terribly disappointed."

References

Bibliography

 Hickman, Gail Morgan. The Films of George Pal. South Brunswick, New Jersey:  A. S. Barnes and Company, Inc., 1977. .

External links

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Craig Jasienski joins World Shipping Council Board of Directors
The World Shipping Council represents approximately 90 percent of global liner capacity through its 19 members and works with governments and policy makers on solutions for some of the world's most challenging transportation problems. Now Wallenius Wilhelmsen's CEO Craig Jasienski has taken a seat among the Board of Directors.
We are delighted to announce that our CEO Craig Jasienski has joined the Board of Directors at the World Shipping Council (WSC).
The WSC plays an active role in the development of programmes to improve maritime security and promotes sound environmental stewardship through new international emissions standards.
We are continuously working towards zero-emission deep sea shipping, but this is not something any of us can do alone – partnerships are crucial to the industry's progress in this area.
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"That's why I very much look forward to being part of the WSC's Board of Directors. I will not only represent Wallenius Wilhelmsen but also look at the bigger picture for the whole industry and the organisation's members. Together we are stronger and able to raise the key challenges facing the liner shipping industry today," he adds.
As an association of liner shipping companies with offices in Brussels, Singapore and Washington, D.C., WSC's members carry approximately 90 percent of international containerised trade and a substantial share of the world's roll-on/roll-off cargoes. The Council's goal is to provide a coordinated voice for the industry through its work with policymakers and other groups interested in international transportation issues.
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"Why are you not pricing for a Christmas dinner?" This was the question posed to me a few weeks ago from one of our regular reporters that reports on Arizona Farm Bureau's quarterly marketbaskets and our annual Thanksgiving Day meal.
He had a good question; I had no answer. The more I thought about it, the more I realized, we need to be celebrating Christmas dinner too.
As of today's news release (information below), Arizona Farm Bureau will be annually reporting on the cost of a Christmas dinner for a family celebration of 10.
The biggest reason? Beef typically ranks as Arizona's number one commodity, though dairy beats it out for the top spot periodically. And, since so many families choose beef for the main course versus turkey, it only makes sense for us to devote our attention to the cost of this special meal.
Like one Arizona farming family, we have so many reasons to celebrate the family gathering around this holiday. "We choose beef over turkey because it's delicious and it's a special treat at Christmastime," says Mary Harman, in farming with her husband, Bryan, in Pinal county. "Christmas is a special occasion and on special occasions we eat beef." The Hartmans also ranch in southern Arizona and obviously advocate adding beef to a healthy diet, especially since it's one of the best sources for getting your protein and minerals, like iron.
Next year, we'll be able to compare prices to the 2017 Christmas Dinner marketbasket. In the meantime, Merry Christmas and remember to add some beef to your celebration dinner.
Launching an inaugural marketbasket in recognition of one of America's favorite holidays, as Arizonans sit down at their Christmas dinner table to dig into their once-a-year annual feast this year, the Christmas dinner with all the trimmings will cost $129.03 for an Arizona family of 10, or around $12.90 per person.
Without factoring in store coupons or specials, the cost of a 10-pound Standing Rib roast purchased in Arizona this year was $104.90, or $10.49 per pound.
The 2018 Arizona Christmas meal cost estimate is the result of the Arizona Farm Bureau's annual informal Christmas Dinner Price Survey of the prices of basic food items found on the Christmas dinner table.
The Arizona Farm Bureau survey shopping list includes Standing Rib roast, mashed potatoes, rolls with butter, green beans, cranberries, a relish tray including carrots and celery, pumpkin pie with whipped cream plus coffee and milk, all in quantities sufficient to serve a family of 10. To make a proper year-to-year comparison, these same items will be surveyed each year.
The average price of the remainder of the menu includes: 5-pound bag of potatoes, $2.30; a 16-ounce package of frozen green beans, $1.74; one gallon of whole milk, $1.95; a half-pint carton of whipping cream, $2.12; a package of two nine-inch pie shells, $2.19; a 12-ounce package of fresh cranberries, $2.50; a 14-ounce package of cubed stuffing, $1.93; a 30-ounce can of pumpkin pie mix, $3.23; miscellaneous items like eggs, sugar, flour and coffee, $3.01; one-half pound each of carrots and celery for a relish tray, $1.08; and a 12-ounce package of brown-and-serve rolls, $2.08.
The Farm Bureau Christmas Dinner Price Survey is unscientific, but serves as a gauge of actual price trends across the state. This survey is based on shelf price and does not reflect special prices and promotional gimmicks. Shoppers involved in this year's survey were asked to identify the best in-store price, excluding promotional coupons and special deals.
The Arizona Farm Bureau is a grassroots organization dedicated to preserving and improving the agriculture industry through member involvement in education, political activities, programs and services. As a member services organization, individuals can become a member by contacting the Farm Bureau. Go to www.azfb.org to learn more. For information on member benefits call 480.635.3609.
For beef recipes go to Arizona Farm Bureau's www.fillyourplate.org.
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Voting for Zeldin is a Vote for Protecting Us All - The Jewish Voice
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Voting for Zeldin is a Vote for Protecting Us All
By Sholom Schreirber
NYC Emergency Medical Service Capt. Alison Russo-Elling was randomly stabbed more than 20 times, murdered on her lunch break, allegedly by Peter Zisopoulos, 34, who was clearly suffering from mental illness. Credit: Courtesy of family
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A great New Yorker, Alison Russo-Elling who for over two decades saved and protected our health was let down by generations of Albany elected officials who cut hospital beds to save money for their pay-to-play campaign contributors. In her 24 years with the New York City Emergency Medical Service, Capt. Alison Russo-Elling conveyed thousands of ailing New Yorkers by ambulance. Russo-Elling often saved the lives of hundreds of heart attacks and serious accident victims. Yet the city and state she worked in, have failed to treat those suffering from serious mental illness, wondering our street attacking the innocent. The 25-year veteran was randomly stabbed more than 20 times, murdered on her lunch break, allegedly by Peter Zisopoulos, 34, who was clearly suffering from mental illness.
The official name for the state's strategy is the Transformation Plan, but in truth, the state has been on the same path on mental health policy for decades. In the 1950s, when mental health care in New York was almost exclusively an inpatient matter, patients in state facilities numbered 93,000. The census is now down to below 3,000, but the Cuomo administration thinks that it could stand to drop still lower. Since 2012, health department spending on correctional mental health services had not kept pace with the increasing number of inmates with mental health diagnoses. Since 2019 with the passage of the liberal bail law many of the mentally ill who commit crimes or disturbances like running through the street naked and pushing people are put back on the streets on the same day they are arrested.
Lee Zeldin is running to repeal the bail law, giving judges the right to put violent repeat criminals in jail and send the serious mentally ill to hospitals.
In recent years sadly the number of Jewish Voters showing up at the polls has decreased sharply, while crime has become out of control and other governmental services have deteriorated. The Jewish Voice is asking you to vote in this year's election for Lee Zeldin for Governor to protect you, your family, and your community from becoming future victims of Anti-Semitic. Governor Zeldin will change the bail law to lock up those who commit Anti-Semitic attacks and allow our families to walk safely on the streets again.
Voting by Mail is as Easy as 1-2-3
Rep. Lee Zeldin is running to repeal the bail law, giving judges the right to put violent repeat criminals in jail and send the serious mentally ill to hospitals. Photo Credit: AP
Fill out on line an absentee ballot application: https://nycabsentee.com/absentee
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Sport Taranaki has developed a regional coaching plan with a core belief that coaching is all about the participant or athlete receiving the support they need to enjoy their sport and fulfil their potential at whatever level that may be. To be able to deliver on this belief, Taranaki needs capable coaches at all stages of the participant and athlete pathway.
The Sport Taranaki Coaching Plan is designed primarily to outline and show case what the organisation provides in terms of regional leadership and additional generic coaching programmes.
The coaching plan also has great relevance to the wider community sport sector. It will prove of interest and provide guidance to the multitude of organisations and individuals that operate in the community sport coaching area including Regional Sports Organisations (RSOs), sports clubs, secondary and primary schools, territorial authorities and of course the thousands of community sport coaches who give up their time every week to help make sport happen in Taranaki.
Sport Taranaki's Workforce initiatives aim to identify administration, coaching and officiating needs of schools, clubs, and RSOs. The Workforce initiatives will increase the number and quality of administrators, coaches and officials and improve the quality of the education and support they receive. The Workforce initiative also aims to better connect schools with clubs, RSOs and other sport providers.
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Does metabolic compensation explain the majority of less-than-expected weight loss in obese adults during a short-term severe diet and exercise intervention?
N. M. Byrne*, R. E. Wood, Y. Schutz, A. P. Hills
Objective:We investigated to what extent changes in metabolic rate and composition of weight loss explained the less-than-expected weight loss in obese men and women during a diet-plus-exercise intervention.Design:In all, 16 obese men and women (41±9 years; body mass index (BMI) 39±6 kg m 2) were investigated in energy balance before, after and twice during a 12-week very-low-energy diet(565650 kcal per day) plus exercise (aerobic plus resistance training) intervention. The relative energy deficit (EDef) from baseline requirements was severe (74%87%). Body composition was measured by deuterium dilution and dual energy X-ray absorptiometry, and resting metabolic rate (RMR) was measured by indirect calorimetry. Fat mass (FM) and fat-free mass (FFM) were converted into energy equivalents using constants 9.45 kcal per g FM and 1.13 kcal per g FFM. Predicted weight loss was calculated from the EDef using the 7700 kcal kg 1 rule.Results:Changes in weight (18.6±5.0 kg), FM (15.5±4.3 kg) and FFM (3.1±1.9 kg) did not differ between genders. Measured weight loss was on average 67% of the predicted value, but ranged from 39% to 94%. Relative EDef was correlated with the decrease in RMR (R0.70, P0.01), and the decrease in RMR correlated with the difference between actual and expected weight loss (R0.51, P0.01). Changes in metabolic rate explained on average 67% of the less-than-expected weight loss, and variability in the proportion of weight lost as FM accounted for a further 5%. On average, after adjustment for changes in metabolic rate and body composition of weight lost, actual weight loss reached 90% of the predicted values.Conclusion:Although weight loss was 33% lower than predicted at baseline from standard energy equivalents, the majority of this differential was explained by physiological variables. Although lower-than-expected weight loss is often attributed to incomplete adherence to prescribed interventions, the influence of baseline calculation errors and metabolic downregulation should not be discounted.
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Byrne, N. M., Wood, R. E., Schutz, Y., & Hills, A. P. (2012). Does metabolic compensation explain the majority of less-than-expected weight loss in obese adults during a short-term severe diet and exercise intervention? International Journal of Obesity, 36(11), 1472-1478. https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2012.109
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Home » Analysis » Revealed: 1/3rd of UAE consumers will switch retailers if there are delays in online transaction
Revealed: 1/3rd of UAE consumers will switch retailers if there are delays in online transaction
August 23, 2021 | By RetailME Bureau
By Justina Eitzinger – RetailME Bureau
More than a third (37%) of UAE consumers would rather switch retailers or shop on another site (35%) than wait if there were delays in completing their online purchase, according to the 2021 'Stay Secure' consumer survey released by Visa, Dubai Police, and Dubai Economy (DED).
The survey indicates that as UAE consumers have become increasingly savvy about paying digitally, their expectations for both in-store and e-commerce payment experiences has skyrocketed. When shopping online, nearly one in two consumers abandon their shopping cart if they experience a delay or authentication error. E-commerce sites that offer customer reviews (51%), seamless refunds (42%) and a variety of payment options (41%) performed better in building high levels of consumer trust.
As consumer awareness of underlying security technology protecting digital payments has increased, a majority (57%) are also more open to store their card information on merchant sites if this helps to improve or speed up their shopping experience. The survey also showed that more than half of consumers surveyed (52%) continue to shop online with no signs of slowing down, while 43% said they are shopping less in stores despite the easing of restrictions.
"The findings of the study are in line with the ongoing efforts of Dubai Police, Dubai Economy and Visa in promoting the "Stay Secure" campaign to spread consumer awareness on safe digital payments and eCommerce practices. This is in line with Dubai Police's commitment to fight online fraud in collaboration with our strategic partners," said Brigadier Jamal Salem Al Jalaf, Director of Criminal Investigation Department in Dubai Police,
"Dubai Police is pleased to partner with Visa and Dubai Economy on the "Stay Secure" initiative, which will strengthen our efforts to combat fraud and cybercrime and further support the recently launched National Fraud Awareness Campaign," he added.
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Delta state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has sacked one of his aides, Friday Eluro, for allegedly ordering the assault of a woman who he claimed insulted him in Agbor, a community in the state where he is a high chief. A video of the attack went viral after an angry resident of the community posted it online.
The governor's office saw the video and brought it to his notice. Okowa immediately ordered the sack of Eluro and also a full scale investigation into the matter.
Friday is currently being detained at the State CID Asaba.
We arrived Agbor, Ika South LGA, Delta State. #TheVictim: Her name is Dada, mother of one, mentally, from Abavo, Delta state.
Her Abuser led by Hon. Friday Eluro, his SA to Delta State Governor and a high chief from Agbor Delta State.
He ordered the youths to stripped Dada naked, tied and abused her.
The video attach to this post shows where the woman lives her brother who is also mentally challeged.
Hon. Chief Friday Eluro is currently detained in State CID Asaba. Kudos to @Nigeria Police, Delta State Command.
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Teaching English and Living Like a Local in Small-Town Costa Rica
Like some of you, I've been reading International Living magazine for years, dreaming of the day I would find myself enjoying life in another country.
In September 2016, I found the courage to take that leap.
Barely one month after my 59th birthday, I traveled solo to Costa Rica. My plan was to try living there for a year…immerse myself in the culture…then decide what I would do next with my life.
Because I spoke no Spanish, I had arranged to spend the first few months living with a bi-lingual Costa Rican host family. Their home was in Barva, a small town located in the hills north of the country's capital of San José.
From the moment I arrived—in the middle of their typical Friday evening fiesta—I felt like part of the extended family. They welcomed me to sit with them and offered me a glass of wine. A short while later, I was laughing along with them as they joked and teased each other, as families everywhere do.
The next day began my initiation into daily Costa Rican life. My host family helped me get a local sim card for my phone and explained how to use the bus system. In no time at all I was able to navigate to wherever I wanted. Buses are cheap and go everywhere in Costa Rica, so I decided to make learning each new route a mini-adventure.
My host "mom" (we were the same age) loved to cook and introduced me to all the typical Costa Rican foods. One of my favorites was gallo pinto, a flavorful breakfast dish made with rice and beans, which she happily taught me how to make. She would also invite me along on walks up the steep roads above town, where we had wonderful views of the mountains surrounding the Central Valley.
I had found my host family though a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certification institute, whose four-week program I had registered to attend.
Becoming a teacher was a new experience for me. In my previous life, I had worked in IT for 25 years and spent 12 years in residential remodeling. Teaching English seemed like the best way for me to assimilate with the local culture and earn an income as well.
After finishing the program, I accepted a job teaching three English classes a week at a private school in the town of Santo Domingo de Heredia.
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My basic monthly expenses averaged $800 a month. Rent was $400, which included cable, internet, water, and trash. Electricity was $20, plus $15 for cooking-gas every other month. Groceries were about $200 a month. Dining out three to four times a week came to $120 a month. Transportation (buses, taxis, and the occasional Uber) averaged $40. And I spent another $10 a month on phone minutes.
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Columbus Circle. 59th Street and Broadway. New York City. Perhaps the only roundabout in the Borough of Manhattan. Overseen by the gaze of Christophero, "The First Italian-American," who spoke of a round world -round, like this circular roadway. An exceptional space, it conducts the passage from one distinct civic realm to another: from the workaday world of Midtown, to the bourgeois domestic blocks of the Upper West Side. It can appear confusing; this interconnection of too many avenues with a major street, but it has permission to be confusing. The wide entrance to the Central Park offers ample resting space, and essential vista, for reorientation. This circle is a true gateway: a valve. "I was looking for a place where everyone could come together and that was it- 59th Street and Broadway," says Ray Simmons, Director of Operation Prison Gap.
Each weekend his organization transforms Columbus Circle, seizing upon its predisposition to function as a gateway. The Circle is used as the dispatch point for more than forty buses, which run weekly from New York City to various facilities in the New York State prison archipelago. This is quite in keeping with the Columbus Circle's traditional role as an internal valve. Operation Prison Gap allows for non-driving urbanites to cover hundreds of miles to see loved ones. The frantic pace of prison construction over the past three decades resulted in a network of high-security housing projects, which, albeit separated by dozens or even hundreds of miles, are an integral part of the fabric of the metropolis.
Columbus Circle is a strange sort of spatial hyperlink, for journey to the abstract space of an abstract element of the city. Moving north along the coursing Hudson River. Past billions of years old rounded hills of Catskills, across clay flats and sand flats, to the younger, pointed Adirondacks - is it really travel? Through valleys cultivated for ten thousand years by the Five Nations. The buses branch: some head east towards Lake Erie, through the old sea level "Gateway to the West," to Auburn or Cayuga, or beyond. They soldier on to Niagara Falls in the land of the Tuscarora. Some head north, scaling and crossing Adirondack foothills, with their precious high catches of water - to Dannemora, the town built, medieval, in the shadow of a wall, where the sharpshooters will always have the best view of Lake Champlain. Or further, to the frigid winds of the St. Lawrence Plain, to Malone and her three sets of homogeneous boxes- her "prison cluster." What would we call this motion, where a body leaves New York City and arrives strangely within that same New York City?
The ghetto environ spreads across the landscape: equivalent to the seamless and homogeneous passage made by the business flyer from hotel to rental car to airport to office.
The Columbus Circle dispatch is proof that actual people with actual social needs can form a particular space and that such meaningful locations are expressions of collective will. A self-organized system, the dispatch bears much resemblance to a third-world bus depot. Nothing is set in stone, and while it may appear quite chaotic, the chaos is just that: appearance. The order is unwritten: fluid and human.
Fully encumbered with several bags and a small daughter, a young mother emerges from a taxicab. In a self- organized space, each body takes space and makes openings momentarily, for those bodies around it. Her visible urgency creates an opening around her path through the densely packed sidewalk. Momentary passages are created, not only around the running mother, but also for the hawkers who pace back and forth, selling batteries, socks, hats and gloves. There is a steady stream of theatergoers crossing the space. They are bound for stages a few blocks away. Some are knowing, curious or oblivious to the manifest purpose around them.
Most riders do not run so frantically. They have tickets, advance ordered, and know the departure time. Their only task at Columbus Circle is to ask the dispatchers which bus is their route. Beginning its trip out of town, the buses creep counterclockwise along the western arc of the circle. Dispatchers, clad in suits and coats, call out in singsong the viscous names of destinations:
Attica! Wende! Buffalo! Attica! Attica! Woodbourne-n-Sullivan! Woodbourne-n-Sullivan! Clinton-n-Altona! Clinton-n-Altona! Franklin-bare-hill-upstate! Franklin-bare-hill-upstate!
Round the circle the buses go, gaining momentum, shooting east to the FDR, or south along Broadway, a conduit to the distant extension of the city. The citizens inside will spend a day or a few hours with their confined loved-one. Conversations will cover a million different topics, business, to the Yankees and Jets, to relations, to love, to weather, to kisses, to interior decorating, to reports from the block, to stories of horrific incidents inside.
Returning to Columbus Circle, stepping out of the bus, the gateway announces homecoming to the solid city, the social city. There is a possibility that urban form can still be a social manifestation rather than a bureaucratic imposition.
When asked how he received permission to use Columbus Circle from the city, Mr. Simmons says, "There was never any need for permission. We just started, right from the beginning in August of 1975, from 59th Street and Broadway, and no one has ever hassled us for using it."
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by Martin Brinkmann on January 17, 2019 in Music and Video - Last Update: January 17, 2019 - 18 comments
Nuclear is a free Electron-based program for desktop operating systems such as Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X to stream music from popular free sources on the Internet.
The music app is not just another program to play streaming music; what sets it apart from dedicated music players like AIMP or Winamp is that it puts a lot of focus on presentation and information.
The program is available as a pre-alpha version at the time of writing; this means that you may encounter bugs when you run it and that some features, charts for instance, are not available yet.
The developer plans to integrate local playback capabilities at one point in time among other things.
You have a couple of options when you start the program. Use the built-in search to find artists or songs of interest, browse genres and suggested songs, or check out the news section which lists new or popular albums and artists.
The app taps into YouTube's, Bandcamp's and SoundClouds's vast music archive to deliver the music to the desktop system, and Discogs' and Last.fm's music databases that powers the informational part of the app.
Right-click on any song to add it to the queue. Playback starts with a click on the play button, and it is near instant. The usual options to repeat, loop, pause, or skip are available.
Songs may be saved as playlists to load them again at a later point in time.
Search may return artists and albums. A click on an artist displays photos, popular songs, tags, similar artists, and a list of released records.
Nuclear displays a list of popular genres, e.g. Pop, Jazz, 80s, or Hard Rock, that you may browse. Genres list popular artists and songs that you may look up in the app or add to playlists. You may notice that some songs are placed in a genre incorrectly, e.g. placing a Rihanna song in the Trance category or Lady Gaga in the Japanese genre listing. Most listings appear accurate, however.
Another issue that you may run into while using the app is that it is not possible to add multiple songs to the queue at a time. You cannot just click on an album and add all songs of it to the queue, nor can you do that in genre listings or search results.
An option to do so would certainly improve usability. The lack of a back button is another issue that exists right now. It is likely that these will be addressed at one point during development though.
One interesting feature of Nuclear is that you may change the source for a track that is in the queue. The default source is YouTube, but you may switch it to another source, e.g. Soundcloud.
Tip: you may change the default music source under Plugins.
The settings let you connect to Last.fm to enable scrobbling, and enable compact styles for the menu and queue.
Nuclear could become a free Spotify alternative for desktop systems; the pre-alpha version is promising and the developer has plans to expand the features of the application. Planned features include listening suggestions, country-specific top lists, browsing by popularity, and realtime lyric support.
The program has a couple of usability issues and artist/genre association issues. Playback works really well on the other hand.
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pd said on January 17, 2019 at 12:30 pm
Terrible name.
I don't want my music to be radioactive.
Jin said on January 19, 2019 at 12:44 am
sadly it doesn't work for me – Windows 10
Weilan said on January 27, 2019 at 6:54 am
Why? Are you Japanese? xD
Heimen Stoffels said on January 17, 2019 at 12:30 pm
So it taps into free music sources, yet it doesn't even include Jamendo? Fail.
Rorant said on January 17, 2019 at 6:46 pm
You can "tap into" Jamendo like the other services though. All the content offered by Jamendo is covered by a special license called "Jamendo license". Its not like youtube, Soundcloud or bandcamp.
crambie said on January 17, 2019 at 12:43 pm
Dark grey background a bit less grey sidebar text isn't too easy to read, had to turn by brightness up more. Tried it for Nancy Sinatra Bang Bang and there's a big difference in quality between youtube and soundcloud. I assume that's going to depend on the individual song. Would be nice for it to work out which was better quality and use that, as it is you select the source in settings. Even putting the toggle in the main interface would be an improvement.
Martin Brinkmann said on January 17, 2019 at 1:08 pm
Yes, usability improvements are needed to make this better.
Anonee said on January 17, 2019 at 1:30 pm
Sounds like a great idea… until I saw it is an Electron app!
Death to Electron!!
crambie said on January 17, 2019 at 2:35 pm
Whilst I don't like electron apps over much smaller and often faster native apps the other way of looking at it is would the app even have been created otherwise, or if it would have then been, would it have been cross platform. In most cases it probably wouldn't have been.
John Fenderson said on January 17, 2019 at 6:00 pm
@Anonee: I had the same reaction.
AxMi-24 said on January 17, 2019 at 6:49 pm
Fully agree. If it's electron it can go to hell. It's huge, slow, and security nightmare in one. Rather be without a program than have a messed up electron based one.
Amaury said on January 17, 2019 at 1:54 pm
I discover something similar but all online: tubeats https://tubeats.com/
It works seamlessly by aggregating music from different sources on the internet.
Mikhoul said on January 17, 2019 at 11:15 pm
You have also: http://www.noiseq.com
beergas said on January 17, 2019 at 5:06 pm
Still enjoying Spotify after having tried the individual apps online. Those never stuck w/ me.
That tubeats site mentioned by Amaury looks very promising since has the look-feel of Spotify.
Jamendo looks hipster from landing page vs tubeats. yrmv. Thanks for the Nuke review but given its "user test me" status that's a no for now.
Oh and here with Nuclear I found this like in review kinda symbolic of the app driven, no think, mental world out there. Likely Nuke's robo-search-apply thinker came across one of the many
recent news reports about Gaga being in Tokyo. Put 1 + 1 together and came up with 3.
You may notice that some songs are placed in a genre incorrectly, e.g. placing a Rihanna song in the Trance category or Lady Gaga in the Japanese genre listing. Most listings appear accurate, however.
ddk said on January 17, 2019 at 6:11 pm
OMG….Justin Bieber is in the "Black Metal" list.
Has he gone to the dark side now?
Khidreal said on January 21, 2019 at 12:02 am
"Nuclear is what iTunes could've had been – Steve Jobs, former apple CEO"
sounds so fking legit! (Nuclear website under testimonials)… the guy has literally been dead for like 7 years… but yeah, he came back from the dead to review Nuclear…
sounds like r/bullsh*t
Henry said on October 10, 2019 at 3:15 am
I still love Spotify best.
I use Allavsoft to download music from Spotify to MP3, FLAC etc for offline playback


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